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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
A JOURNALDEVOTED TO HOME RULE, TARIFF REFORM AND BOURDON DEMOCRACY. $! .00 CASH, $1.50 ON SPACE : AND WORTH IT.
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OtX 'U. II arvey 1 vunk.l
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commmlnted either by ctn’ingon ™ **' J"
son or addressing ine thru®?** ’ .
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
Geo W. Bryan j P’CKM.
ItnVAiti A IHCMIIN.
attorneys at law,
McDonoUOH, Ga.
WYU v met ice in the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme (.our
Cf Georgia and the United States District
Court. a P ,27 - lv
| AM. 11. TI!K*KK,
attorney at law,
McDonough,
Will practice in the counties composing
lie Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court ot
Georgia, and the United States District
C ourt. I » ar|l ’-‘ i
jt .1. bkaua.h,
ATTORNEY AT LA\V.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all Hie Courts ol Georgia
■Special attention given to commercial and
*thercollections. Wilt attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
j F. MAM.,
attorney AT law,
McDosouon, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
givrn to collections. octft-79
A. lcuowx
’ ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MoDonouoh, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court, of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-ly
DUNCAN l CAMP.
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WHOLESALE GROCERS AND DEALERS IN
Flour, Lsat, Larfl, Sngars, cffees, ToUaccos, iprs etc.
ALSO, HAY, BRAN, OATS, CORN
and all 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. Wc also call your attention to
our TOBACCOS,
•'GOLDEN SPARKS,”
“HENRY COUNTY 9in.s’s,”
AND “HOE CAKE.”
These goods we guarantee to give satisfaction. Sam
ples sent free on application.
We have also a fine line ot
New Orleans Syrups,
which we 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., ALANTA, CA.
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>OERiS k>iZa\CJ- \ 00.„ BUFFALO* W. V.
■ | A. Fl F.fi.r.S,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hami ton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties eoutposlug
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court of the
United Stales. Special ami prompt iitten
tiou given to Collections, OetB,IBBB
no. D. tergK'AEf. j It. T. Daniel.
iTKWAICT A ItAAIJi.,
attorneys at law,
GaiEFix, Ga.
y jK. U. JT. abmoi.il
Hampton. Ga.
I hereby tender niv professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal’s night and
day.
| Oll.Mi 1,. TVU.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gate City Natioal Bank Building,
Atlanta. Ga,
Practices in the State and Federal Courts.
GRIFFIS FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
\\fe announce to the Public thftt we are
t t prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers ; will take orders for all kinds of Boil
ers. We arc prepared to do all kinds ot
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
fittings of all’ kinds; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Sluain Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OKBtIUM A WAM OIT,
g |S M and Whiskey Habits
1 H ly? tleiL.rs sp^iTfukE.
B. M. WOOLLJCV ,M.H
Atlanta, CJu, Office 1U4% Whitehall S/
McDONOUGH, GA., FRIDAY. JANUARY, %
REST.
Beet will be sweet in the evening, when the day's
long labor is done—
Now, I must be up and doing, for my work la
scarce begunl
Pence may be dear to the veteran, grown weary
of war’s alarms
r,j» p™ lodging for battle. Die clash and lb*
clang of arms I
Death by and by will be welcome If 1 hare beeu
faithful and true—
Now, there is life to be lived, and I have ao much
to do?
Onee In the early moruiug. when the dews were
not yet dry,
In the misty summer morning, or ever the «un
w as high.
As l looked aloug the road whereby l roust prea
ently go,
And saw bow was the journey, how fiercely
the noon would glow,
life felt too heavy a burden, aud 1 so weary and
worn,
Weary before f had labored, and louging for night
*4 juon*
Weary before I had labored, but labor has brough?
me rest,
And now f am only eager to do my work with the
best
VVhat right have I to be weary when my work U
scarce begun?
What right have I to be weary while aught re
mains to be done?
I shall be weary at even, and rest will the sweet
er be;
And blcssod will peace be tp them thst hav° won
the victory!
But now is the time for battle—now I would strive
w ith the best;
Now Is tho time for labor; hereafter remaineth
rest.
—Mary A. Hopper Jo New York Witness
“Excuse Me for Being Allye.i*
There is n little druggist iu Brooklyn,
but although little lie is full of pluck.
The other day he got on a horse car
and dropped down into a comer seat
and began reading a paper.
Other passepgprs got aboard and
sooni tho vehicle was crowded. Still
the serenity of the druggist was undis
turbed. Suddenly there came a change.
It was pronounced and startling.
“Oud)!” exclaimed the druggist, with
a frown and a glare at a stout utan
who had stepped upon his foot and
sunt shooting pains through his most
favored com. “Iley, thero!” he added,
“you are standing on my foot."
The man then rempved his pressure,
but the druggist failed to hear his in
coherent apology.
“Say!” tie shouted to the big bear,
“please excuse me.”
“Oh no,” returned the other, “it’s
my fault; please excuse me.”
“J beg your pardon, sir,” quickly re
sponded the little map, “I am at fault,
please excuse me for being alivo,” and
amid a roar of laughter ho resumed the
perusal of his [taper. —New York Her
aid.
Piliwion Strong in Death.
An extraordinary incident occurred
during a run with the hounds of Sir
Watkins Williams-Wynn. In passing
a cottage the fox suddenly found him
self among a lot of fowls. Self pres
ervation is generally understood to be
the first law of nature. Not so with
Reynard. The temptation of the situa
tion was too strong for hiit). and UJ»
own peculiar nature instantly asserted
itself. Absolutely regardless of poasi
bio consequences, lie snatched up one
of t!ie birds, and. with a tenacity of
purpose to be admired, actually carried
the fow| in li|s mouth to the end of the
run. Then, the bird being of course
already dead, the fox also paid the
death penalty. —London Telegraph.
Public* Clnvernation.
In the trial of a case recently in oue
of the Middlesex courts a witness was
asked to repent a conversation that she
had witli tier husband Objection YYftP
made that the question should not be
answered because the conversation was
private in its nature. The judge tiien
asked the witness whether anybody ex
cept herself and husband were present
Blie replied that her mother and the
husband’s mother were, whereupon the
judge remarked, “It appears that both
mothers in law were present; I shall
therefore rule that the conversation
was public.”—Boston Letter.
“Cultivate tiie habit of wearing
gloves whenever there is an excuse for
it,” says an authority on men’s dress.
“They keep the hands clean and add
to one’s comfort, and to the appear
ance of comfort in winter. A man
witli his hands stuck into the sides of
his overcoat, or into his trousers’ pock
ets, looks more or less wretched or
parsimonious.”
The introduction of the custom of
blessing water before the principal
mass on Sunday and sprinkling the
people with it is commonly attributed
to Pope St. Leo IV (847 855), but there
are learned writers who trace it to a
lar more remote antiquity, and regard
the words “f that pontiff as referring to
on an existing custom.
Senator-elect Gordon, at the battle
of Seven Pines, received three bullet
wounds, ami at Antietam he got two
bullets in the leg, one in the arm, one
in the shoulder and one in the right
cheek. He also had a horse killed
under him, the butt of his pistol smash
ed, his canteen pierced and his coat
torn with bufiets.
It is calculated that the bail from an
Armstrong 100-pounder quits the gun
witli the speed of about 400 yards per
second. Now, if this velocity could be
kept up, it would require no fewer than
100,000,000 years before the ball could
reach Sirius.
A celebrated French artist said that
if you would find the expression of lib
erty and courage in a child’s face, you
must not go to seek it among tbs
“gamins” of the street, but among the
children of the well to da
Aro ■Sou r.lkt tho. F**rrya?
Do any of the |roc.dera know the
Parry family f Tboy live on a farm,
the soil of which Is tuiu.and full of
bowlders. Notlilng would’induce them
to go to rich ground.
“It is the Parry turn,. We alias plow
round them rocks. VwoUike ’em."
Squire Parry has womitho same kind
of hat. sat in the tome uncomfortablo
chair, and gone to sloop in it after su[>-
per, for twenty years. Ho never has
gone into the choreh since an organ
was introduced. **l believe in praisin'
God with tho voice,” he says. “I may
be wrong, but tliat'a nty way.”
Some of the farmers near hitu buy
most of their bread daring harvust time.
“It gives the baker a chance," they
say. “Wo like a ohango, and it light
ens the load on our wives,”
‘The Parrys never eat Lough ten
bread. It’s not their way," he replied.
The more selfish oB disagreeable tho
habit may bo the more resolutojy dq
the Parrya cling to It, on tlte grotmd
tliat It is “their way " No other rea
son is needed. The f;uttthat It was “a
way” of the Parrys would justify can
nibalism in their eyes.
The family to whom the name of
Parry is here unjustly given is innu
merable. Thero is (a member of it in
almost every household, especially In
retired and quiet districts. Indeed, the
reader of these words tnay have been
one of them all of hir life without sus
pecting it.—Youth’s Companion.
No Wonder flo Fainted.
I have often wondered how largo a
delegation of ticket agents there was
in the asylum. The tortures wltich
the unfortunate man at the depot win
dow endures are many, and as varied
as the phantasmagoria! conceptions of
Dante.
A gray bearded man as deaf as a
post limped up to the ticket ofllee in
the Union depot, and worried the man
in the cage with:
“How much is tho ticket to Nash
way?"
"Which way do you want to go?"
queried the ticket man.
“Wassay?” asked the graybeard, with
his hand to his ear.
“Which way do you want to go?"
fairly howled the agent.
"Wassay?"
“Which way do you want to go?”
shrieked he in despair.
“Oh, I’m pretty well,” said the old
man, smiling. “How much to Nash
way ?"
The ticket man crawled half way
through the window and howled the
fare into the man’s
“Well,” said he, “I don’t want to go
jest yet,” and walked away.
Then tiie ticket man was pulled lit
by ills colleagues and dashed with cold
water and laid on tho table until he re
covered.—Albany Argus.
Ho Slapped the l'rlnee of Wales’ Face.
Pittsburg boasts of a man who slapped
the Prince of Wales in tiie face. He
lives op fhu South Ri<jo and {of itinny
years has worked for the Monongahela
Water company us a laboring boss. The
circumstances of the adventure as told
by himself nro as follows:
In my early life I was asoldier in tiie
British army, and once my regiment
woe reviewed by Quoeq Victoria, who
held by the band the youthful Prince
of Wales. When tiie mother’s back
was turned the Roy playfully pxp’eto
rated on my red coat, and l resented
the insult to the British flag by skip
ping him in the face witli my open
palm. Ho told his mother, and very
soon the colonel liaud of it and came
danehtg along to wp ak vengeance on
the man who dared lift his hand to a
son of the queen.
“The queen sought me out and
graciously askixi mo what my name was.
‘William Dickson, sergeant, your ma
jesty,’ said I, and she commended my
sense of propriety in- administering a
timely rehuko to the heir apparent of
the English throne, and recommended
me for the promotion which never
came.” —South Side News.
False Teeth Lengthen Life.
Very few people realize ho\y unioli
the dentist has done for mankind. To
mention one filing only, the |>erfectioii
to which the manufacture of false teeth
lias been carried has practically abol
ished old age—that is, old age in tiie
sense that I used to know it. You see
none of the helpless, mumbling old
men and women that you formerly did.
This is not because people do not at
tain the ago their parents and grand
parents reached, but because the den
tist lias prevented souio of the most un
pleasant consequences of advancing
years. Men of 70 no longer either look
or feel old because they are not de
prived of nourishing food at the time
when they need it most. Estimates
have been made showing that the aver
age length of life Ims boon increased
from four to six years by the general
uso of false teeth.—lnterview with a
Dentist.
Maoeac b uset t*.
The name Massachusetts first ap
peared iu print in Capt. Smith’s “De
scription of New Engbuid” in IGIG.
In his narrative he omits tiie final s
when lie means the place, but uses it
when he refers to tiie inhabitants. Tiie
best authorities on the subject say that
the name means “a frill in tlje form of
an arrow's head.”—St. Louis Republic.
Tbe Logical Outcome.
Son—Father, I am 21 and I want a
silk hat
Father—But you haven't a dress suit
yet
Son —No, Imt I would have .v/:nve
one if I had a silk hat.—Clothie.’' <:
Furnisher. '
THE EARL lEST AMERICAN COINAGE.
Tl.o r«.n, j, Bos Money Succeed. tt„.
_ t’ uuv . MTiakct Kails and Tobacco.
The*earliest ooinage for America was
tJiatmnule in KU2for tho Virginia com
pany at the Somers islands now called
Bermudna The coin was of brass,
with tiie legend, “Sotners Island,” and
a “hogge on one side, in memory of
the abundance of hogges which wero
found on their first landing.” This
was tiie famous “hog money."
The earliest colonial ootuago was in
Mtissachusetts in 1652, “mint Uovrse”
being established at Boston, and toe
quomos' being a shilling, sixpence
and threepenny pieces. Before this
the currency of tho colonists was a very
mixed one. Musket balls passed for
change at a farthing-Apiece, and were
legal tender for sums under a touting.
Tobacco and tobacco receipts wero
legal tender; porn and tleans and cod
fish were also employed. Wampum,
howeverj was the commonest currency
of all. It was tho shell bend money of
the Indians, and was soon accepted by
the colonists as a convenient token.
There were two kinds of wampum—
wampumeag, which was white and
made from the conch of tho periwinkle;
and snekanhock, which was dark pur
ple and made from tho hard shell clam.
Tho purple was worth twice as much as
the white. The shell was broken In
pieces, rubbed smooth on a stone till
abqut tho thickness of a pipestem, then
pierced with a drill and strung into
necklaces, bracelets and lielta
The English, French anil Dutch set
tlers all used wampum, the value be
ing Hied in 1010 at six beads for a
penny. The strings wore called fathoms,
and varied In value from flvo to ten
shillings. Shell money has played quite
an Important (Mirt in the world’s com
merce. The small, hard shell known
as the cowry is still used in India, the
Indian islands and Africa In the place
of subsidiary coin.
In 1851 more than 1,000 tons of theso
shells wore brought from India to Liver
pool, to be exported to the coast of
Africa in exchange for palin oil. In
Bengal they are worth 32.00 Q to the
rupee (forty-six cents), or about seventy
to the cant. Tho cowry is a gastero
pod inollusk, Is beautifully marked,
and Is strung on a tougli grass string
for convenience of transi>ortution.
The British Columbia Indians still
use a variety of wampum limdo of ha
iqua shells. Theso they string up and
use os an ornamental border to drosses,
their currency value being one string
for a beaver’s skin.
Looking back to tho pra-sflunpuin
days, it is learned that of the aboriginal
money of tho American continent, the
mounds in and adjoining the valley of
the Mississippi have produced spec)
mens of lignite, poal, bone, term cotta,
mica, pearl, cornelian, chalcedony,
agate, jasper, gold, silver, copper, lead
and iren, which were fashioned Into
forms evincing considerable skill and
art- According to Prescott, the money
of the Aztecs and the nations In kin
consisted of quills (Hied with gold dust
and bags of chocolate grains. Choco
late is still used In the interior of South
America for tho same purpose, as are
cocoanuts and eggs.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Moon'ii Queer Freak,
Mariners are noted tor tlielr supersti
tions and the queer tales they tell of
phantoms of the sea, the land arid tho
sky. Marblehead, Mass., according to
the records of that ancient village, has
been a spot rich in the siqierstitions of
its fisher inhabitants. Among other
remarkable stories they tell of a lislier
(iiaii who once went out at night to look
over his right shoulder at the new moon
for luck, when instead ho saw a dark,
angry looking cloud that soon changed
to tlie perfect form of a soldier standing
with legs wide apart and Ids pike rest
ing on hLs breast. Tho knapsack and
gun strapped to tho soldier’s back wero
plainly to be seen, as were the pike and
tho general outlines of the figure.
Presently the figure seemed to grow
in size, and to have a hat or cap hi its
right hand. This was more than the
old mariner could stand. lie called his
wife and children to view the appari
tion. All now began to fade except
the object in the figure’s hand, which
soon assumed monstrous proportions,
presenting the spectacle of a full rigged
ship, the figure of the soldier having
faded entirely from sight hi tho mean
time. For fully an hour the white
sails of the phantom vessel were visi
ble, clearly outlined iu strange contrast
to tho black hull of the vessel itself.
“This queer sight," says tho old ac
count, “was viewed by divers others of
ye same towne.” —St. Louis Uepubiic.
Telegraph Offices and Messages.
There are two telegraph offices to
every 10,000 of the population In Great
Britain; in Tasinaida there are eleven
telegraph offices to each 10,000 of tho
population. In Great Britain thero aro
231 miles of wire to every 1,000 square
miles of area; in Denmark there are
602 miles of wire to each 1,000 square
miles of area. In Great Britain there
are 143 messages per head per year of
the people; in West Australia there are
7.5 messages per head.—New York Tel
egram.
A Western Romance.
Titled Foreigner (en route toward tho
setting sun) —Me boy, shall we never
get past that paling fence? It’s a boah,
you know; this thing of traveling along
a fence all day.
American Traveling Companion—
Paling fence! That’s nothing of the
kind. Those are tho telegraph poles.
Bometimes tho trains go so fast that
♦hey look like a comb.
; T. F.—Fawncyl—Pittsburg Bulletin.
Tim Hr,,., Av; „f Rn AraiJ . om „ r
““counters botweon
the United States troops and toe In
(huns, a correspondent of the Boston
I ranscrqit mentions on act of bravery
performed some yearn ago by Lieut
Powhatan Clark, a Virginian. Tho
troops were having a terrible timo with
toe hostiJcs, When young Clark saw
one of his sergeauts—a black man, by
the way—wounded and fighting des
perately and surrounded by Indians.
In an Distant young Clark dashed Into
the thick of the fray, fottght oil his
assailants and selling tlte sergeant about
the body lifted him liodily from tjm
horse that was staggering under a dozon
wounds and brought him oil In safety.
It was a feat that required not only
amazing courage, but great liodily
strength and prosenoo of mind. When
Oen. Miles made his report of tho
campaign to tho dep;irtmont, lie sold it
was difficult to select especial cason for
commendation among officers and men
where nil showed the most splendid
courage, but that this iustunco of
young Clark s, and that of a certain
private soldier, ho could not forbear
calling to tlui attention of tho depart
ment. Yet how many people, knowing
nothing of the army, and caring toss,
mmgino that such a thing could, occur
In what they consider times of pro
found peace?
Th«» Stago Hero’* Boot*.
Tho stage hero ulftays vvr.ir.i patent
leather boots, and they arc always
spotlessly clean. Sometimes he is rich,
and lives In a room with seven doors to
it, and at other times he is starving in
a garret; but in cither event ho still
wears brand new [intent leathor boots.
Ho might raise at least three and six
pence on those hoots, and when the
baby Is crying for food it occurs to us
tliat It would be better if instead of
praying to heaven ho took off his boots
tuid pawned them, but this doos not
occur to him. Ho crosses tho African
desert in patent leather (loots, does tho
stage hero, lie takes a supply with
him when lie is wrecked on an un
inhabited island. He arrives from
long and trying journeys; his clothes
are ragged and torn, but his boots
are new and shiny. He puts on
patent leather boots to trampthrough
tho Australian bush, to fight in
Egypt, to discover tho North Polo.
Ho goes boating In patent leather
boots, ho plays cricket in them, he
got» fishing and shooting in them.
Sometimes lie is a gold digger, some
times a dock laborer, sometimes a
soldier, sometimes a sailor, but what
ever ho is ho wours patent loather
boots.—Jerome K. Jeromo in Stage
Land,
To Aid IIIn Memory.
Herr Lehman had u very short mem
ory, and he never dared to leave tho
railway carriage at an Intervening sta
tion because he would not have been
able to remember the number of his
car. Ono day he compluined of this to
an intelligent traveling business man
who sat opjMisite to him In the coupe.
In sympathy his fellow traveler gave
him a clow by which Jio might remem
ber. “You must remember tho num
ber of the railway carriage by a date In
history. For instance, today, ns you
See, we are traveling in the car num
bered 141)2, winch is the date of the
discovery of America. Do not forget."
Overjoyed at this newly acquired re
minder, 1/'hiniui left tho car at the
next station to refresh himself. At the
ringing of tho second bell he hurried
onto the platform to look for his car,
but Ills memory had again failed him,
and in his fear ho turned to tho first
passenger ho saw witli this pitiful ques
tion: "Toll me, for heaven’s sake, when
was America discovered 7”—Exchange.
Care of the Kye».
Bald on oculist: “If you arc troubled
with your eyes it wiii not bo sufficient
for you to have your eyes cure fully ex
amined by a specialist, and then get
your glasses and think that you are all
right. You may bo careful to wear
glasses whenover you aro using your
eyes, but tills is not enough. You
must, in older to keep them in good
condition and to bo nblo to rely upon
them, have them examined as often as
you do your teeth.
“No sensible man thinks tliat when
a good dentist lias put his teeth in or
der he has nothing more to fear. He
goes to his dentist once every year, per
haps oftener. And so witli Ids oculist.
Ho should consult him at regular in
tervals. If his eyes have not grown
weaker, or if they havo not changed in
other ways, he is assured of tho fact,
and may use them accordingly. If the
slightest change in glasses is required
he is warned of this, and is able to nip
a new evil in tho bud.” —Now York
Tribune.
How Madam Met Her Waterloo.
The late Duke of Wellington got a
letter once from a lady saying tliat she
was soliciting subscriptions for a cer
tain chureb In which she was much in
terested, and had taken the liberty to
put liis name down for £2OO and hoped
he would promptly send her a check
for that amount. Ho forthwith replied
that he was glad she thought so well of
I him. Certainly, he would respond to
; the call, but he, too, was interested in
a certain church which needed sub
scriptions, and, coanting upon liis cor
respondent's well known liberality, he
liad put her name down for £2OO, “and
so,” he concluded, "no money need
pass between us.”—Exchange.
Do not imagine that you save time
by working late into the night, for you
wifi be too tired in the morning to do
your work properly, and tho time you
saved was lost for sleep.
SUICIDAL FRATERNITY.
Expert Parisian Swimmers Hake a IJT
by Rescuing Koch Other.
A new method of raising the wind
Was recently resorted to in Paris by a
conplo of precious scamps, which should
liavo succeeded if ingenuity of this kind
were entitled to any reward. The
sharpest Jeremy Diddler would not be
ashamed of the trick hit upon by these
Parisian gamins. At 10 o’clock in tho
morning tho passers along tho Qual du
Marche aux Fleurs noticed a young
man with a very melancholy and sui
cidal look standing near one of tho
bridges alone.
Suddenly he cast his eyes upward, os
if to take a Inst view of the skies, mut
tered apparently as if in prayer for a
moment, and then plunged headlong
into the river. While all stopped para
>zed at tliia attornpt a young man
eiuno up aiwl with great simplicity
asked what was tho matter. Tho indi
vidual who was llouudering in tho tur
bid current,of the Seine and who had
just risen to tho- surface was pointed
out to him, when, at once striding ofl
Ids blouse and ejneulating-that he would
save tlio unfortunate or perish in the
attempt, hoipluugod in.after him.
The bystanders watched with breath
less anxiety as tho heroic youth dived,
eumo up. to the surface and again wont
under In his endeavors to savo tho
wretch who had attciiqited his own do
st, uctlon, and finally, when hope was
nearly losi, tho crowd was rejoiood to
seo the,suicide brought ashore with life
stiil in him.
Close by was a house or station where
half drowned persons are restored and
where those who rescue them receive
the municipal reward of twonty-flvo
francs. Thither tho rescued and tho
i escuer were homo by tho crowd which
had assembled, tiro latter overwhelmed
with tho admiration and praise his gal
lantry called forth on all skies; but
unfortunately, just qs the reward was
about to lie given him, and while a
subscription for an additional sum was
being raised, a policeman stepped up
who know them 1 kith. They wero
brothers, were two of the best swim
mers in Paris anil made it a business to
go about saving each other's lives for a
living.—London Tit-Bits.
II« I&omo to Auk for I’rayor.
I ioaeon B , one of tho oldest anil
most respected church members in
Beattie, lias a young grandson who is
generally accounted the worst scape
grace in tho whole congregation. Tho
boy, who Is 10 years of age, has at
tended prayer meeting a numbor of
times, and has apparently taken a
great deal of interest therein.
week ho attended tho prayer
meetings. Tho boy arose to Ids feet.
Everybody looked at him in surprise.
110 wore a very sorrowful countenance,
and many thought that ho was truly
repentant for his wrong doings. Every
ono listened while he opened his lips to
speak.
“I would like,” said the youngster
solemnly, “to ask tho prayers of those
assembled for my poor old grand
father!”
Tho boy sat down, and there was a
constrained silenco for a moment, after
which some ono suggested a soug, and
the meeting closed in tile usual form.
It is needless to add tliat that young
ster's jacket received a much needed
tanning before ho retired to rest tliat
night.—Seattle Press.
Stai-trul 111. Fortune In Conj-resn.
I have been told that a few years
ago there was a westerner in Congress
whoso wife kept a boarding house dur-
Ing tho two years ho served hero as a
representative. When he was elected
it was known that ho was not worth a
dollar, and that the pittance ho had to
spend for campaign expenses was con
tributed by friends. When ho returned
home, at the expiration of ins term, ho
hud $15,000. This he invested in real
estato in a thriving town. His prop
erty rapidly enhanced in value, and
his successor hi congress tells me that
this thrifty statesman is ui a fair way
to become a millionaire. Probably ho
will return here some day as a con
gressman, livo upon the income of his
ample fortune and donate Ids salary to
some charitable object.—Washington
Cor. New York Telegram.
Troublesome Chilblains.
A man once wrote to a friend; “I
could not write you a longer letter as I
am troubled with chilblains. You had
better come and see me yourself, when
I can explain the matter more fully
than in writing.”
The friend wrote in reply:
"If the chilblains prevent your writ
ing a long letter, I, too, am. unable to
call upon you, as this morning I cut
one of tho fingers of my left hand, and
cannot waik so far.” Strenno del
Fiscliietto.
Divining Her Weakness.
Henpekt—That new doctor you in
troduced mo to, Bowler, isagreatsymp
tomotologist—great student of human
nature.
Bowler—Suits you, does he?
Henpekt—To a dot. Had him in
last night to treat my wife for a cold;
said she didn’t need any medicine, but
that she must be particular, above all
things, to keep her mouth shut and
breathe through her nose.—Boston
Courier.
Senator Evarts takes no physical ex
ercise, but his apparently frail body
never gets tired or shows signs of wear
ing not It has been said of him that
he is the only lawyer living who can
eat a big public dinner, washed down
with two or tliree bottles of wine, and
then pore over law books till daybreak
with/wt sjrrn« of wrvrriness.
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