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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY
VOL. XVIII.
Voting Wives
Who are for the first time to
undergo woman’s severest trial
we offer
“Mothers Friend”
A remedy which, if used as directed a fen
weeks before confinement, robs it of its
PAIN, HORROR AND RISK TO LIFE
of both mother and child, as thousands who
have used it testify,
“ I used two bottles of Mothfrs Friend with
marvelous results, and wish every woman
>,',o has to pass through the ordeal of child-birth to
know if they will use Mothers Friend for a few
weeks it will rob confinement of fain and suffering,
and insure safety to life of mother and child ■”
Mrs. Sam Hamilton, Montgomery City,Mo.
Foot bv express, charges pro "’aid, on receipt of
price, $1.50 per bottle Soldbye-'.l druggists, book
To Mothers mailed free.
liKADFiELD REGULATOR Co., Atlanta, Ga.
rjCRATCHEDTEH MONTHS.
’JSfoTI A troublesome skin disease
J caused me to scratch for ten
fffrgff months, and has been KsEES
cared by a few days’ use of
M. H. Wolff, Upper Marlboro, Md*
swift’Bpecific
I was cured several years ago of white swelling
in my leg by using VSKSSfI and have had no
symptoms of re turn of the dis
ease. Many prominent physicians attended me
and all failed, but S. S. 8. did the work.
I’AUL TV. Kirkpatrick, Johnson City, Tenn.
Treatise on Bicod and Skin Dis-I
eases mailed free.
Swift Specific Co., J
Atlanta, Ga.
rno mssios a l ca j: i>s.
i l 810. W. If St V AN,
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
V ill practice in Hie counties comprising
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and the United States
District Court.
vy.n. t. oicKiiv,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit,the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. apr‘27-1 y
Y ••• K«SA«AN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Georgia
Special attention given to commercial and
other collect ions. Will attend all the Courts
At Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly office.
A. (titOWN.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia .and the Uniteu States District
Court. janl-ly
jOIIN I„ I VH.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Gale City Natioal Hank Building,
Atlanta, Ga,
Practices in the Slate and Federal Courts.
J J A. IMiEPI.IIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ol the
United States. Special and prompt mteu
tion given to Collections, Oct 8, trt h
||lt. «. I*. ( A.HPnill.l,,
DENTI ST,
McDonough C»a.
Any one desiring work done cr.«i l>c ac
commodated either by calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise made.
H PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanse* and heautifie* the hair.
Promote* a luxuriant growth.
Never Fails to Sestore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cures scalp diseases & hair tailing.
50c, and fI.UU&t Druggist*
lse Parker’s Ginger Tonic. It cure* the worst Cough,
■\Veak Lungs, Debility, Indigestion, Pain, Take in tUiie. 50eta.
MINDERCORNS. The only sure cure for Coma.
h\ jpt all pair. 15c. at Druggists, or ll&COX 4c CO., N. Y.
inside, outside, and all the way through,
by drinking a
HIRES’K
This great Temperance drink:
iri as healthful, as it is pleasant. Try it.
WORTH SENDING FOR
DR. J. H, BCHCNCK
has published a book on diseases of the
LBKGS, LIVER AND STOMACH,
which he will mail free post paid to a! 1 applicants.
Address, DR. J. H. BCHENCK A SON, Phila., P>
A CTLinii Jfc T>E. TAFT’S ASTKMALFW*
MO I nVwl A-p|jnrn .t
a: Ircss, we will mail trial liUIiCU tTTL* PDC
THE D 8 TAFT BROS. M. CO., ROCHESTER, N.Y r KSLB
TIPS AND HAPPENINGS.
Visitors already arriving s* as to
be present at the commencement exer
cises next week.
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Mr. James M Cochrane, of Barnes
ville, lias entered the journalistic arena,
having recently accepted a position as
cfly editor of the Bartlesville Home
Journal, and its local columns are al
ready fairly glistening with bright
l paragraphs from his trenchant pen
We predict and wish for friend Jim a
successful career in his recently chosen
avocation.
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Ilev. M. F. Duncan has given up the
pastorate of the Prefbyterian church.
He will continue to serve Fellowship.
McDonough aud oue other church tu
Henry county, and devote the ISuuday
heretofore used in Jackson to helpiug
other pastors in the Presbytery in pro
traded meetings. He has made many
friends in Jackson who very much re
gret his leaving us.—Jackson Argus.
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Only one more week until the school
boy shall he turned loose to roam as
fancy dictates —taking fiendish delight
in all the mischief his mind can plan
or his hand find to do. Hunting for
and robbing birds’ nests, going in swim
ming, “plugging” watermelons, and
annoying every person and thing pos
sible will be his chief occupation dur
ing vacation ; in fact lie is in for a
“grand, glorious picnic” generally.
Boys will be boys, and we are gald of it.
About the only reason the fast trains
stop in McDonough is to get water,
and on account of the danger of run
ning rapidly over the weeds at that
cross roads.—Jackson Argus.
Brother Thaxton very clearly makes
a cry of “sour grapes” through the
above paragraph. Living in a vißage
such a short distance from this city,
and being continually “load'd” with a
free pass makes his ignoring our termi
nal facilities not the outcome of ignor
ance but a “premeditated affair,” as
the average politician would express it.
McDonough is not so large, we
'acknowledge, brother, as some of our
neighboring towns, but she can compett
with the most of them iu pure air.
water aud railroad facilities.
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Ordinary Nelsou informs us that the
matrimonial market is very dull just at
present, judging from the limited num
ber of license being issued.
***
A charming recitation by little Janie
Lou Hightower was much enjoyed by
those iu attendance at the M. E. Sab
bath school last Sunday afternoon. It
was a sweet lesson most sweetly told.
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The farmers who are successful are
those who never lose sight of the fact
that the farm is a home ; that every
thing done toward beautifying and im
proving the place is etihauciug its
value.
**»
Alex Lemon placed three hundred
young carp in his fish pond last week.
He intends having it well stocked with
this exceptionally fine fish.
**.
Last Saturday this editor laid aside
his pen, commended dull care to the
wind, and proceeded to take a “day
j off.” Iu company with several gentle
| men from this place we left at an early
! hour for the model country home of
j our whole souled friend, John D. Row
j an, where we spent the day—the ap
! preciative recipients of his and his
j good lady’s unbounded hospitality.
The morning was spent in drawing
off his fish pond, aud it was fiue sport
I to see the efforts made by the boys in
i heir endeavors to capture the mauy fine
i fish with which the water was teeming.
An occasional shout would proclaim
the victory of some member of the
party after an exciting tussle with a
four, six or eight pouud carp—one of
the gamest fishes «e have ever seen.
About one o’clock p. m., having
surfeited in the above fine sport until
thoroughly exhausted, the entire party
refuged to the house, where they were
shortly feasting on a most bouutiful
repait prepared for them by our delight
ful hostess. Our appetites were thor
oughly whetted and the viands were
so appetizing that we ate and enjoyed
and enjoyed and ate until it is now a
question in oar minds which we did ihe
most of—eating or enjoying
The afternoon was delightfully spent
by the party out on the cool, well
shaded, spacious verandah, where per
Bonal reminiscences, sparkliog Hashes of
wit, sc tilling repartee and social small
talk was indulged in until the lengthen
.McDonough, ga., Friday, .june k;. isdb.
: ng shadows from the west spoke the
hour of departure.
We join all present in returning
: thanks to Mr. aud Mis Rowan for this
(lay of such rare enjoyment.
***
Vegetarians are just wallowing all
over in glory uow.
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The best way in the wot Id to make
local business good is to buy all your
necessities ai home, pay your bids
promptly and talk in a cheerful mood.
If everybody would adhere strictly to
this plan, hard times would be be rele
gate I to the rear.
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the schools over th<- county are
about all closed—and children are hap
pier than parents over the fact.
***
Here is something for the children
to try: Fasten a nail to a string ; sus
pend it from your thumb and finger,
and the nail will oscillate like a pendu
lum. Let some one place his baud
under the nail and it will change to a
rotary. Let a third person place his
hand on your shoulder, and the nail
will become stationary.
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If you have a bad habit, quit it.
With God’B help, an honest purpose to
reform is stronger than the strongest
of bad habits, truthfully says an ex
change.
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Next Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday the spring terra of McDonough
Institue will close. No effort will
he spared to make the exercises
pleasant aud profitable to all who at
tend. Every citizen of McDonough
especially should give the occasion the
encouragement of their preseuce, while
all visitor* arc warmly welcomed to
our delightful little city.
**.
Town is a had place for boys after
night—a very had place. To wise
mothers this simple statement is suf
ficient.
Mr. 15. 15. Caimichael, McDonough’s
clever furniture dealer and undertaker,
is a live business man, and richly de
serves 'the permaneur, substantial pa
trouage he has built up. His son Lem,
his affable assistant, is also an excellent
young bu-iness mau, and anything en
trusted to them in their lines will be
promptly and correctly attended to.
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The berry brigade now lias the un
disputed right ol way.
***
During the the prevalence of the
recent rains crab grass made a wonder
ful growth. Fields which were clean
at the beginning of the wet spell de
veloped into a luxuriant green condition.
Many have already been nicely re
cleaned, however, and with only a few
more days of dry, hot weather, our in
dustrious farmers will have their crops
iu as good condition as ever again.
Gardens at this writing are magntfi
nificent, and come in for their full share
of attention.
Owing to the excessive moisture,
pcazhes of some varieties have rotted
badly on the trees. It is probable,
however, that much of this fruit would
have been imperfect even if the weath
er had been more favorable, owing to
the attacks of the insects on the fruit
while young.
Grape growers report the prospect
not so good as at first, but there will
doubtless be a fair yield yet. Mr. An
drew Dailey’s vineyard presents a beau
tiful appearance, with the vines as full
perhaps as they should be.
Grass and weeds are not the only
forms of vegetable life that have eu
joyed the fruitful and refreshing show
ere. Corn and cotton, trees, vegetables,
vines and flowers have made wonderful
growth, and the prospect at present for
a good harvest in general is a subject
for gratitude.
The Weekly will not close this
short article without giving expression
to ; U gratitude over ihe fact that our
community and county have escaped
visitation by the destructive winds
which attended the rainfall in some
other sections.
May all the hopes of our farmer
friends be abundantly realized.
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Now iu order tfte green corn
dauce.
j
It is said that Georgia is to lie rein
forced by a colony of Mobamedans,
they having secured, through an agent,
twenty five thousand acres of land,
with ail option on as much more. -May
the good Lord deliver us.
BLACK-DRAUGHT tea cures Constipation
I ~ LAND PLASTER.
A Talk In Which It la Eiplslnol TVhnt It
Is antl What It Dock.
There is probably as much plaster used
now as ever, but the common uso Of it
and familiarity with it makes it less
talked about. There nro several popular
errors in regard to land plaster that
ought to be corrected, says Rural New
Yorker, authority for the following:
First, there is no vegetable or organic
matter in it. It is solely mineral and
contains 82) per cent of lime, 46A of sul
phuric acid and ill of water loosely coin
bitied as water of crystallization.
It is often said that plaster takes wate;
from the air aud thus supplies the crop
iu a dry time. This is not the ease. 1
is not absorbent of water any more :!iu.
sand is, aud the small quantity used ~
an acre, generally less than 100 pounds
would lie quite opposed to the possibili
ty tliut it could be of any ’service, even
if it absorbed several times its weight ol
water. When plaster is heated or cal
cined, the water contained in it is driven
off, and it is then able to combine wit-1
this water again as plaster for the ma
son's use, and make a soft stony sub
stance. But it costs something to burn
the plaster, and this is never done for its
use for the land, or if it is it is a mis
take and a waste of labor.
Tltird, it has been said that plaster
should be applied to the crops when the
leaves are wet with dew or rain, be
cause tiien it will be dissolved and taken
in by tlie leaves, and thus do great good
to the plants. Now, it is perfectly cer
tain that plants do not take any solid
matter or even water or vapor of water,
in the leaves; only air is thus taken in
by them, and the truth is that the pies
ter is dissolved in the water of the soil,
of which 400 parts dissolve one of gyp
sum, and is then taken in by the roots,
and thus its effect is often perceived iu
the darker green color of the leaves, 24
hours after the application of it.
Another reason why plaster may not
be so much used now is that superphos
phate of lime has a Injure proportion of
sulphate of lime in It, and this is pre
cisely the same as the plaster, which is
natural su’phate of lime. South Caro
lina rock is a phosphate of lime inix«d
with carbonate in the form of shells and
is only slowly soluble in tlie soil. But it
is more soluble when it is finely ground,
in which state it is called “floats,” and
is then cheaper than when it is dissolved
by acid as superphosphate, and if a large
quantity—as much as a ton to the ucre—
is used it '. as been found useful and a
permanent benefit to tlie land. Be ,v, g
insoluble, it is not of any apparent ben
efit when used in email quantities
Cultivation After Ruins.
Here is some timely advice from the
Wisconsin agricultural experiment sta
tion’s annual report:. Unless the ground !
is already too Wet,'the Stirring of the
surface soil, whenever practicable, 1
should follow just as soon after a con- j
sicierable rainfall as the tools will work
well. The cultivation should, as a rule, J
be shallow, leaving a thin stratum of the
surface soil finely pulverized and com
pletely cut off from tlie ground below.
If this is not done, the extremely rapid
evaporation which takes place from un
disturbed wet soil on hot, clear days
may even in a few hours not wily dissi
pate that which has just fallen, but also
a part of that which the rain has caused
to be drawn toward the surface from
lower levels, and thus leave the grounds
actually drier, as a whole,- than before
the rain, even though it may look more
moist at the surface.
When a succession of showers follow [
one another at just the right intervals j
and are of the right ante .tuts to strength- i
en the capillary flow into the upper
Stratum from below each time, without
any percolation taking place, it is evi
dent that such soils, left to themselves I
under these conditions, may lose not 1
only the water which falls directly ujxiu
them, but a considerable portion of that
stored below, down at least to five feet.
On the other hand, If each shower is
promptly followed by cultivation, then
will ho at first a movement of water up*
ward, and finally the same rains, which
under other conditions would leave the
lower strata drier than he.ore they fell
may contribute a considerable amount ,
by percolation to the deeper layers.
Handling Fowls.
A Wisconsin farmer called attention j
at a farmers’ club to the important point l
of handling fowls. He illustrated his
meaning a« follows:
If you catch a bird, leaving its wings j
free, a desperate struggle will result, !
likely to injure the plumage, and in the
case of a setting L>n to distract her
from her vocatiou. My plan is as fol- I
lows: Approach the bird from behind,
place both hands firmly and quickly
right over the wing points, then slip the
right hand down and secure the legs j
firmly. All fluttering will thus be avoid
ed, and the bird, held by the legs, with !
the left hand under the breast, will not
offer resistance. Night is the time to I
catch and handle birds, for then one can i
slip up from behind and proceed as has
been described without annoyance to the
bird or loss of time and worry to the
owner.
Thing* That Are Told.
Soda moistened with water and up
plied directly to the bee sting will allay
the pain almost immediately and coun
teract the poison. If stung in the field,
take some earth, moisten it so it will ad
here to the surface and lay it on, and the
effect will be like magic. A bee sting 1
should be treated as soon as possible or
the remedies will prove ineffectual.
In a bulletin issued from the New '
York experiment station it is recoin
mended that the treatment with bor
deaux mixture on celery plants be con
tinued from transplanting time to blanch
Ing time if there is reason to anticipate
attacks of leaf spot.
Statistics prove farmers to average
longer life than most other workers, a
fact due to the even lives they lead and
steady employment the year round.
Of the seven different kinds of aspara
gus on trial at the Rural grounds,
Drcer’s Eclipse and the old Conover ,
were the first this year to give cuitiuga.
Why Not Take Two or Three?
CoL Colo Hoyle (to daughter)—Yea,
Libby; while you have been oral i van ting
around Europe getlin’ your cdication,
your old Pops have been pog-gin’ away
until lie has grown rich as mud. We
have finished our new works anil are
just maltin' tilings hump. Yes, in
doedy; we can take the crude oil in one
end of the buildin' and when it reaches
the ether, it comes out thoroughly re
fined.
Libby (languidly)—Dear father,won’t
you try to find time to take a trip
through the works yourself, the first
thing in the morning?—l’uek.
Noth',nl a change.
When a man alters the cut of his
whiskers all his friends notice a differ
ence in him, but many of them are at
a loss how to account for it. “What
have you been doing?” they say. “You
look like another person."
Something like tills happened, ac
cording to an exchange, when a woman
returned home after a few days’ ab
sence and heard her daughter playing on
the piano.
“Where did you learn that new piece,
Maria?” the mother asked.
“It isn’t a new piece, mother. The
piano has been tuned.”
Not HI. l.lno.
Grocer —What have you boon doing in
the cellar so long?
Grocer’s Apprentice—l have been
cleaning out the molasses measure; it
was so clogged up that it didn't hold
mere'n half a quart.
Grocer—O, that’s what you've been
doing! Well, you take your hat and go
homo and tell your father to send you
to the theological school. You ain’t
fitted for the grocery business. —N. Y.
Press.
One Way of Getting Rich.
Jack —Say, Bill, we’ve been in hard
luck lately, ain’t we?
Bill—We have, old man.
Jack—l’ll tell you what we’ll do. You
insure your life in my favor for ten
thousand dollars, and I’ll do tho same
for you.
Bill—Well, what good'll that do us?
Jack —Why, we’ll just load up our
guns and step off thirty paces Bome
where and see who gets the money.—
Life.
Tattle* l)in a er.
Dealer —Here, madam, Is a horse I
can recommend, sound, kind—
Old Lady—Oh, I don’t want that sort
of a horse. He holds his head high.
Dealer—Eh?
Old Lady—l like u horse that holds
his nose close to the ground so he can
see where he’s goin’. —N. Y. Weekly.
Consternattou.
Casual Acquaintance—Horrible acci
dent on your road, wasn’t it? I sup
pose you feel terribly over such a loss
of life.
Railroad President - Should say I did.
Killed a Better pup I was having sent
down to me that I wouldn’t have taken
five hundred dollars for. —Truth.
A FAIR COMPROMISE.
Boy—l say, Dutehy, you mustn’t toot
aroun’ here. There’s an ole woman a
(lyin' in that house!
Itinerant —Vat’s der matter of you il
I blay Angel’s Voices, ain’t it? —Life.
Just the Other Way.
Adonis—There’s one thing I couldn’t
stand, and that’s a wife who would be
eternally putting her hair in curl par
pers.
Matronly Friend—Have no fears, Mr.
Adonis. Girls don’t go to any such
trouble after they are married.—Des
Moines Argonaut.
A Different Name.
"Where are you living now?"
“I’m boarding.”
"Good house?"
“Pretty.”
"Ever have hash?"
“My, no; croquettes.”—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Personal Magnetism.
Jeweler—Your watch is magnetized.
Have you been near a dynamo or rid
ing on the electric cars recently?
Jim Hickey—No; but I’ve l>een —er—
calling a good deal on a very attractive
young lady.—Puck.
In the Might Place.
Mrs. Stevens —John,’ I do believe I
hear a man under the bed.
John —For Heaven's sake, keep still.
Hester, and maybe I can get him to
make a fire in the morning.—Chicago
Daily Inter Ocean.
The Clever Floorwalker.
Mr. Bigfoot—lwould like to look at e
pair of slippers.
Floorwalker —Yes, sir; you’ll find
them in the long-felt want department.
—Truth.
A New Itemecty.
Gussie —My, what a cold you have,
Cholly; are you taking anything for it?
Cholly—Ya-a-as; four pocket hand
kerchiefs a day.—Brooklyn Life.
• The Only Alternative.
Acquaintance —So you have detet*
mined to marry?
Girl of the Period (sadly)—Yes; I see
nothing else before me.—Texas Siftings.
Hearsay.
Jones —Wish you joy, old chap; I hoar
it’s a boy.
Bones—Thanks. I hear It, too Morn
ing, noon and might.—Puck
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U S. Gov’t Report.
Rofol BaKi 1 #
l\ me® Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Assassins of Character.
In Madison, as in every other city
of any size, there are a few scandal mon
gers. We are glad to say that we do
not believe there are many of these vul
tures of social scandal among us. But
there are a few, and that few is very
much too many, so to say. The scan
dal monger is a gossip of the higher, or
rather lower, order. They are assas
sins of character and the weapon they
employ is the deadly poison of the
tongne, weilded iu obedience to the
vile promptings of an abandoned and
dissolute brain and malignant heart. I
The gossip is had enough, but the
scandal-monger is still lower.
The man or woman who stabs the
fair name of another in a sinister man
ner, from behind, pollutes his or her
own soul, and ought to have but little
hope of forgiveness iu the final reekon
omng to which all must come. The
infamous poltroon who would defame
a good character for no just cause, and
by insinuation, iu speech or action, re
flect upon the previous stainless char
acter of another, simply puts himself
in a position to be spit upon and de
spised by all right thinking people.
Such as these are nothing more than
social scabs, and are more to be de
spised than the venomous adder that
leaves death and destruction in its
patli Honest men abhor them, as a
vile leper reeking with fatal pollution.
—Madisonian.
An Kxciteiiig Time.
Mr. Z. 'l'. Huguley, who lives a few
miles east of town, was subjected to
considerable annoyance and made lia
ble to a duiigerous lisk on Tuesday af
ternoon last, lie and his wife were
driving into town with a young colt
trotting besides its dam that he was
driving. As he passed tho residence
of Mr. YV. A. Harp a vicious horse
that contrary to ordinance, was graz
ing in the streets, attacked the colt and
after chasing it to the top of the lull
near the Jones place and back, Mr.
Huguley unharnessed his mare from
the buggy in order that she might bet
ter protect the colt. Then mure, colt
aud horse took a wild run through
town, the horse viciously biting at the
colt and the dam us viciously kicking
the lioise and defending her young. It
was a mad and dangerous run, some
times on the sidewalk aud sometimes
in the street. Fortunately the horse
was secured after being almost knocked
down and the colt rescued from its
dangerous situation. It is a violation,
not only of the town ordinances but of
the county law as well, for stock to
run at large upon the streets. Some
body is responsible for this and it
should not be allowed to occur agaiu.
Ihe consequences might have been
ver) serious under other circumstances.
—Thomaston Times.
Are You Nervous,
Are you all tired out, do you have
that tired feeling, or sick headache ?
You can be relieved of all these symp
toms by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
which gives nerve, mental and bodily
strength, and thoroughly purifies the
blood. It also creates a good appe
tite, curt s indigestion, heartburn and
dyspepsia.
Hood’s Fills arc easy to take, easy
lin action and sure in effect. 2d cents
| a box.
When doing a person a favor always
take particular pains to impress ou lii»
I mind the value of the service. This
will make him wish the favor had not
; been conferred.
Npeciiurn Cases.
S. If. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis., wi c
troubled with Neuralgia and Klicuniaf Ism,
bis Stomach was disored, his Liver *.n af
fected to an alarming degree, apatite fill
awr.v, and he "is bi-rib 1 ed d I flesh
and strength. brae b■ tt of Electric
[ Bitters cured hi i.
I air. nxl -luphcrd, Harrisburg, 111., had a
| miming *»re 1,11 his leg of eight years’
• landing. l'-id three hollies of Electric
Itillcs and seven boxes of I’uclflen's
ArniM S :tv- , and his leg is sound and
• ill. John Speaker, Catwaba, 0., had tiv,
large Fuel sores on his leg, doctors said
lie *>s incurable One bottle Electric
Bitters and one box Buckleu’s Arnica
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The Case Was Won.
In the early years of this eeuiury-
I’liillip Doddridge was the leading law
yer in Northwestern Virginia. Dodd
ridge county was named for him. He
resided in Wellsburg, ou the Ohio river,
but his practice extended well into
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and he after
wards represented his district in Con
gress.
On one occasion Mr. Doddridge was
called to Washington to defend a man
accused of horse stealing. It was a
clear case. The principal witness was
an accomplice who turned State’s evi
dence, but this testimony was amply
corroborated by that of other people.
Mr. Doddridge was not expected to
make a very forcible address, and he
did not try. lie talked in a desultory
manner to the jury for fifteen or twen
ty minutes, andAhen added :
“I have very little more to say, but
with the permission of the court I will
relate an incident which seems t« me
to bear on this case. In the older por
tion of this state it is the custom now,
as it was some years ago, for the
Judges to travel over their circuits
and hold court. With the Judges went
the lawyers. In a certain district I
have in mind the Nestor of the bar was
a precise gentleman of the old school,
who wore ruflled shirt fronts and cuffs
and prided himself on bis iuyariablc
attendance upon diviue service at the
towns in which court was being held.
Ho insisted upon a similar attendance
ou the part of the lawyers, and made
it his business to see that they went
with him in a body. On Sunday morn*
ing they found themselves at a town
with no church except oue belonging
to the Methodists, and although this
Nestor was an Episcopalian bo notified
the young attorneys that they would
be expected to go to church as usual.
They were late iu getting ready, and
when the dignified old lawyer appeared
in church and marched up the middle
aisle, followed by all the lawyers in
the district, the minister was well on
in the Bermon. He stopped ir. his dis
course, however, gazed at the leader of
the file a second, and then said :
“My friend, if you had uot stopped
to primp and to arrange those ruflles so
carefully you could have got to church
iu time. As it is you come in at this
hour and disturb the worshippers by
your entrance. 1 give you warning
now,’ the preacher added solemnly,
raising bis huger to make the words
more impressive, “that at the judge,
ment day I shall appear to testify
against you.’
“The old lawyer had stopped when
the minister began to address him, and
stood waiting iu the aisle. When the
preacher was through the lawyer said :
“Sir, I have been practicing at the
bar for forty years, and much experi
ence has shown me that the greatest
rogue always turns State’s evidence.’ ”
At this point Mr. Doddridge left his
case with the jury. The entire court
room was convulsed with laughter, and
it was some time before order was
restored. Then the jury announced a
verdict of not guilty and Doddridge’s
client was released.
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