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CARTES HEABTSELL. PFODRIETOBS.
VOLUME XI.
PHOSPHATE WEALTH
T ’8 GREATER THAN THAT OF ALL
THE GOLD OF CALIFORNIA.
A Seleotlst's Survey of thoJPtelrt—Bis Im¬
pressions of the Phosphate Situation lu
Florida Alter a Complete Tour at the
Regi-mg Where the Deposits Exist—
owners Should Hold On.
Leesburg, Fla., Sept. 29.—1 have just
closed an inspection of the phosphate
fields of Florida. I began in Leon coun¬
ty, passed through the rock phosphate
mines, and then passed south, closing
with the placer or pebble phosphates. It
took three months of hard work to make
this inspection.
For twenty-five years I have been
studying the geology of Florida. Hith¬
erto I have been confined to observations
of the surface or to strata disclosed by
railroad cuts, wells or the borings from
artesian wells. The phosphate mines
furnished a new and very interesting
field for observation and study. I shall
have much more to write later, and, I
think, some new things to disclose. The
object of this letter is to say some things
that need lo be said now, lest so magtiif
ieent a fortune as is laid by in store for
you and the generations to follow, be
out to the present holders.
MINKS OF WEALTH.
Large as were my views of the mineral
wealth of Florida; my recent observa¬
tions have greatly enlarged those views.
I do not now hesitate to say that the
phosphate mines of Florida have now in
them more of value in dollars than have
yet been taken from all the mines of
California. The intrinsic .value to the
world will lie far greater than the gold
of California The phosphates of FTor¬
ida furnish the safest remunerative in¬
vestment ever offered to the commercial
world. These are bold statements, but
the facts wifi justify them. They are
niade after a careful weighing of natu¬
ral and commercial law. The world’s
population is increasing as never Imforc.
The great economic questions of the fu¬
ture will he food and raiment—more im¬
portant than coal for artificial heat.
These things fie at the base of fife, hut
rest upon agriouRure ; agriculture rests
upon manure ; and the latter upon the
phosphates. To make the matter short,
human life (and emphatically brain-life)
is dependent upon the amount of phos¬
phorous that Providence has stored up
from the waste of the past, or may save
from the payment of the future. The
phosphates then are more valuable than
oal, gold or iron.
The value of these phosphates will In¬
crease as the ages advance ; so that the
anmitied wealth wifi he worth more
each succeeding generation. Unlike the
wal fields, it is in no danger of taking
fire and burning up. Like the diamond
rether, which, while bidden away, pays
a good interest by increasing value. The
safety and increaJng value of such an
investment must commend itself to men
who have capital so laige that they can¬
not spend the interest. In this case na¬
ture compounds ihe interest without giv-
ng to the holders the trouble of collect¬
ing annual’y or s« mi annually.
A kind Piovidenoe has stored this
wealth m Florida in aoceasi bio quantities
as nowhere else in the world. “The
how’’ this was done I leave for another
paper.
IN OUR OWN IIANDS
Another thing surprised me. Nearly
all this vast wealth is in the hands of
Southern men, or men who have been so
long with us as to lie now fully identi¬
fied with the South. 1 think there to a
kind Providence in this also. In 1886 we
hud what was considered a disastrous
frost. Twice since we have suffered
from what appeared to ho untimely frost,
affecting seriously what we deemed our
most important interests. Have not
these proven blessings in disguise ? At
any rate it had the effect of ridding
Florida of all the speculators who were
left with money enough to get out of the
“unfortunate State”—just in time to
keep these merciless maws fram swal¬
lowing up wealth that would enrich an
empire. I say 1 believe this tobe a kind
Providence—kind net once to the South,
but to the North likewise. It is a part
of a plan to readjust the finances of the
country. Since the war the South has
been borrowing money at ruinous inter¬
est—from 10 to 20 per cent. Nowhere In
the South has this rate been so heavy as
in F’lorida. No other country could have
survived such rates. The phosphate dis¬
covery is a special boon for the relief of
the oppressed and the rebuke of the ex¬
tortioner. I hopo that our people wifi
have wisdom for the occasion.
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
“The price of rock has fallen.” Hence
this paper and the following suggestions:
There are two causes for this, the one
natural, the other artificial. The nat¬
ural cause to this; The unusual output
upon the market. It has been so great
as to flush the market, notwithstanding
the failing supply from the bones from
SPRING PLACE, GA„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1891.
the western plains and the phosphates
from the Pacific islands. The artificial
cause is the l&te well learned game of
capital to strangle with a gold cord all
individual and minor combined enter¬
prises. To meet this emergency you
will have to be wise and patient.
I should, perhaps, add another cause
to the fail in the price of phosphates.
Manufacturers of commercial fertilizers
have been asking too large prices for
then goods, and have forced the plant-
tens to undue economy in their use.
When this fault is remedied the demand
will be equal to all your industry can
supply in putting your phosphates upon
theunarket. It will not be long before
Florida alone will consume your phos¬
phates at a greater rate than you have
up to now been able to mine them. The
owners of the phosphate in Florida have
the remedy for all this trouble in their
own hands.
GET OUT OF DEBT.
My first suggestion is keep out of fur¬
ther debt. A mortgage is the knife that
a hard Shyloc.k would put to the breast
of any generous Antonio, And every
hard pressed Antonio does not find a
Portia to plead his cause. If now in
debt, sell a min of interest to pay indebt¬
edness and then rest easy until this de¬
pression of the market is passed; or else
follow the suggestion Inflow to manipu¬
late your own phosphates and put them
on the market at a price beneficial both
to and the
My second suggestion is, that instead
of depending solely upon foreign mar¬
kets and manufacturers for your output,
you prepare your material for the use of
the planter and sell directly to him.
Much of this material to already In con¬
dition to be used. And others can be
manufactured at little cost. Put them
to the planter at as low a rate as possi¬
ble till he learns their value. Much of
the soft phosphate Is already soluble. It
can be rend rrd further soluble by
sprinkling and then mixing with a small
per cent of the flower of sulphur. The
general manufacturer is careful to econ¬
omize space and time, hence he must
have the quick acting sulphuric acid.
The farmer has plenty of space and he
can give his compost heap a little time.
The sulphur diffused through the phos¬
phate will oxidize and so become sul¬
phuric acid. Moisture wifi dilute it and
so cause ft to attack the lime, convert¬
ing it into a sulphate and liberating the
phosphorous for the use of the plant.
Muck would serve a double purpose in
furnishing additional plant food and
also by dividing the phosphate and sul¬
phur that the atmosphere could pen¬
etrate and so hasten the oxidation. The
addition of potash would make a com¬
plete manure equal to the best commer¬
cial manure and at lees than one-third
the cast. When this is done FTorida
planters can afford to take your phos¬
phate much faster than you have been
bringing them to the surface.
DON’T BELL OUT.
Should the present holders sell their
phosphate lands to large combinations,
the result wifi be to put commercial
manures to so high a price as to continue
to grind tho planter to a bare existence,
or to force him to sell his impoverished
lands to the manufacturers of commer¬
cial manures. It would be as effective
in diverting the lands of the South from
the small farmer to monopolies as were
the years of plenty and famine in lodg¬
ing the lands of Egypt in the hands of
Pharoah, The present holders of phos¬
phates in F’lorida can save themselves
and the planters of the South by con-
sinuing to hold their present interest.
Be patient. Your investment, at least,
is 'safe. Its Increase and value will
come to you and your country a little
later.
Another suggestion: I have seen, and
especially in the pebble phosphate re¬
gion, that the custom is to boro artesian
wells and discharge the wastewater into
the river containing the pebhleB. Now
so soon as the sulphur in the water is
oxidized, it begins to liberate the phos¬
phorous, and all so liberated flaws off in
the water of tlie river to the detriment
of the mine. I know that the artesian
water, diluted as it to by the water in
the river, is enfeebled in its power for
mischief, and further, that the quantity
of phosphate is immense, but time will
balance against both of them.
T.-W, Moohe.
STIFF OFFERS BEING REFUSED.
Ocala, Fla., September 20.—Capt. L.
M. Thayer, late general manager of the
Peninsula Phosphate Company of An¬
thony and now a leading member of the
Stronothon Phosphate Company of the
same place, has just ref used $40,000 cash
for forty acres of land near Anthony.
This is a bona fide offer and a flat-footed
refusal—no “wind” in this.
Mr. C. C. Priest, who owns eighty
acres near the Stronothon property,
refused $8,000 for forty acres, and $4,000
for forty mote, which has scarcely been
prospected. Wno says that the bottom
has dropped out of phosphate?
Again, Professor Baker, who over a
year ago bought sixteen acres of land
ft TELL THE TRUTH.”
just north of Anthony, paying for the
same $25 an acre, and put up works chi
the property, was offered $15,000 for
this property, with permission to move
off every piece of his machinery.
WOMAN'S WORK. AND WORLD.
Professor Mary E. Byrd, of Smith Col¬
lege, has been elected a member of the
British Astronomical Association.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer announces
from the platform that there are to-day
49,000 girls in the colleges of America.
The widow of Richard Proctor, the
great astronomer, is to be curator of the
Proctor Memorial Observatory at San
Diego, Cal.
Mm. Grover Cleveland to vice president
of the New York Free Kindergarten As¬
sociation, and to much interested In the
education of poor children.
Miss Grace Dodge, the founder of the
working women’s clubs of New York, to
tall and commanding of appearance and
has the action of a trained athlete.
■ Marie Dietarle, the daughter of the late
Emile von Marcke, the cattle painter,
follows her father’s profession and
specialty. She receives good prices for
her work.
j Mm. Oscar Wilde to said to be a great
contrast to her husband. She to very
quiet, while he to rather loud; she to in¬
clined to be commonplace, while he to
brilliant in conversation,
j Mrs. Alexander Bremer, one of the
deputy factory inspectors of New York,
knows as much about machinery, eleva-
tora, hoating, plumbing, ventilating, and
sanitary improvements as any man on
the force.
Each year of Chief Justice Fuller’s reef*
donee in Washington has witnessed the
debut of one of his seven charming
daughters. This year Miss# Mary Fuller
returns from her long stay in Berlin to
enter society at the capital.
Rev. Edward Beecher’s adopted daugh¬
ter received at her baptism the name of
Voice Adams. She waa one of a family
of 15 children, whom her father, a great
grandson of John Quincy Adams, sup¬
ported by lecturing on “The Voiceof Nat¬
ure. ”
Miss Jennie Chamberlain, now Mrs,
Naylor Ley land, lives in “a splendid pal¬
ace at Albert Gate, London, whose marble
staircase and many priceless works of
art" are sights. It isn't always the
American girls who marry titles wh*
have the beet times abroad,
t Countess Tolstoi, wife of the author,
recently made a successful business trip
to St Petersburg. She secured an audi¬
ence with the emperor, who was ex¬
tremely kind to her, and promised to
protect her husband from all the annoy¬
ances to whioh the committee of censors
has been subjecting him.
A directory of women’s work of In¬
dianapolis shows them holding the po¬
sitions of pianists, violinists, elocution¬
ists, orators, physicians, artists, evangel¬
ists, commercial travelers, woodcarvers,
teachers, stenographers, typewriters,
bookkeepers, and manicures, to say noth¬
ing of dressmakers, milliners and store¬
keepers.
Mrs. Lease, of Alliance fame, says that
she has gained more divorce suits than
any other lawyer in Kansas. She did
not begin the study of law until after the
birth of her fourth child, who to now 9
years old. She used to read Rlackstone
while busy about the household work,
with a crying baby in her arms.
1 The Countess of Caithness, (tie new
high priestess of theosophy, to the exact
antithesis of her predecessor, Blavatsky.
Her figure to slender, her manners ele¬
gant, and her tastes refined. She dresses
in grerit taste. Her only resemblance to
Blavatsky lies in her fondness for dia¬
monds, but that to a pardonable womanly
weakness.
The Queen of the Belgians, who learned
sleight of hand fronrj Hermann, the Euro¬
pean, not the American, to fond of trav¬
eling incog. Not long ago she and Prin¬
cess Clementine were run out of a rail¬
way compartment near Ostende by a fat
woman, who declared she didn't believe
“such plain people had first doss tickets,
anyhow."
Lady Dufferin, in her notes on India,
says: The Burmese women are great
personages, and play a great part In their
households. They choose their own hus¬
bands and divoree them when they liko,
retaining their own property and all they
have earned; they are at liberty to marry
again, whether as widows or divorcees.
Mr. Barnard told me that when the last
census came in he thought the number of
women who said they could read and
write was small, so he made Inquiries,
and from all parts of the country young
ladies replied that they did not like to
say they could read, lest young gentle¬
men, learning the fact, should write to
them,
*
GRAINS OP GOLD.
Wisdom at once saith little and salth
much.
Obstinacy arises from firmness without
learning.
Personal force never goes out of fash¬
ion.—Etnerson.
A false report does not last long, and
the life one leads to always the best apol¬
ogy for that which one has led,—St.
Jorome.
Believe me, the talent of success to
nothing more than doing what you can
do well, and doing well whatever you da
—H. W. Longfellow.
Borne people spend so much time la¬
menting that they do not have their life
to live over again that they do not have
time to begin living bettor late in life.
SPARE THE FAMILY.
Palatka Herald.
The first cry of a caught rascal mi,
“Think of my family.” The man ia
public office may for years lead a double
life, may make beautiful pretentions in
public and be robbing the i tate in pri¬
vate. may profess one thing and carry
on this shameful fife to his own personal
profit aad enrichment without for a sin¬
gle moment considering the heinous
wrong he is committing against his fel¬
low-men. But the instant he is caught
the tears gather in his eyes, his hands
are drawn out of the treasury and
appealing held up as he prays that his
crime may be condoned or lightly passed
upon, not on account of himself, hut lie
cause,of his family I
A woman disgraced by the canducc of
a husband, or a mother worn m sorrow
because of a treacherous and wicked ton
muBt become an object of deepest pity
and commiseration. The heart bleeds
for any so all lie ted, An innocent, pure
woman robbed of all the joys and sweet¬
ness of life by a self-dishonored husband
or son strains the sympathies of all but
the heartless, Yet must justice yield to
pity and crime triumph because inno¬
cent ones suffer in the punishment of
the wrongdoer? If we spared the family
what use would laws be ? If the offend¬
er against the law were set free because
of a mother's plea or a wife’s prayer why
should the guilty man not blessed with
a tender or a loving wife be punished ?
The homoless man, almost or alto¬
gether an outcast, who commits a crime
may excite sympathy because of his for¬
lorn state and the absence of strengthen¬
ing and helpful surroundings. But the
man of family who falls should appeal
for no such sympathy. He joins with
wrong when purity should be his fireside
companion. He delights m wickedness
when the pleasant ways of virtue invite
him. He refuses the luscious fruit of
domestic life to pluck the ash apple of
deception.
The man who will not himself spare
his family when he has the opportunity
has no right to appeal to others to do it
when he has them.
FREE COINAGE POSTULATES.
Many newpaper readers are at a loss
to understand, except)in a general way,
the proper definition of the terms used
in the discussion of the silver question,
such as mono metallism, bi-metallism,
free coinage, etc For tho information
of our readers wo reproduce the defini¬
tions laid down in a pamphlet entitled
“The Great Metallic Powers,” published
a few years ago by M. Henri Cernusehi,
tho great French authority on coinage.
They are as plain as postulates and are
as follows:
Coinage is said to be free, if every per¬
son has a right of bringing to the Mint and
any quantity it back of metal for coins. coinage
of In getting India and Mexico cut into silver alone is
en¬
titled to free coinage; gold is merely
merchandise, mono-metafism. which is bought and sold.
This is silver
In China silver is not coined,but it has
money jiower and circulates by weight
in ingots (cycees) and fragments of in¬
gots. Gold is merely merchandise,
which to bought and sold. This is also
silver mono-metallism. *
In England gold alone is entitled to
free coinage; silver is merely merchan¬
dise, which to bought and sold. This is
gold mono-metallism.
In France, in Gtrmany, in tho United
States, gold alone is entitled to free coin¬
age; silver is bought and sold. countries But there
exists in each of these three an
enormous mass of silver coins, the legal
tender of which is not limited like that
of small change to a certain amount,but
is unlimited like that of gold. This is
hump-backed mono-metallism. F’rench Silver, hump,
five-franc pieces are the
thalers the German hump, silver dollars
the American hump.
Bi-metallism was the simultaneously
opqn mint for liberty of coinage of the
two metals. Neither gold nor silver was
merchandise: they wore not bought nor
sold. Bi-metallism is no longer in force
in any country of the world.
It is proper to state in this connection
that, while M. Cernusehi is in favor of
the free coinage of both the precious
metals he takes the position that not an¬
other silver dollar should be coined in
the United States and not another silver
.franc piece m France unless England
and Germany agree to enter into an
international bi-metallic treaty by
which both metals will bo placed ud-
on an equal footing.
The Grand Duke of Baden seems to be
a more talented man ;in making indis¬
creet speeches than his relative and su¬
perior officer, the German emperor.
There is a French report that credits
him with this remark to Baden troops;
“The sacrifices which Germany has un¬
dergone in order to guarantee peace will
not be hindered by the culpable pro¬
ceedings of our neighbors, who are only
awaiting a propitious occasion to again
open an era of bloody conspiracy. We
must regard the future with energy and
resolution. The time is near when Ger¬
many must again unsheath her sword in
defense of her independence against an
enemy who has not learned prudence
by a bloody defeat,”
Cider is of fine quality and cheap,
UNDER THE HILL.
c. h BHBrrmu.v
Down in the valley uniter the hill
I.ieth a city strange and still;
Never the anvil’s cheerful bent
Ruhoes along the silent street;
Never the roar of mill and oar
Fretting the day with noisy Jar;
Never on zephyrs murmurous sighs
beautiful music swells and dies.
Solemn and sweet as sinless prayer
liroodetH the stillness everywhere—
finder the gloaming aroh of God,
Over the ltloom-liesprlnkled god;
Here whero tho roses bud and blow
Blossom the lilies white as snow;
Blossom tht starlets, rayed and whito,
Jessamine hangs on her verdurous night.
Hero do the buckeyes rarely sweet
Nod to tho violets at their feet,
Delicate odors and beautiful bloom
Shimmer and die in the golden noon;
Shimmer and die and melt away
Into tho brightness of the day;
Never a fair hand lingering nigh
Gathers and garners tho sweets that die.
Columus arise In tills valley alone.
Slilres and arches ua<l tables of stone;
Never a cheer or burst of alee
Speaks to their marbled symmetry.
8weetly tho song bird pipes In the sky,
Softly the leallots murmur and nigh,
Softly tho honey bee hums In the flowers,
Only these wood notes mark the hours;
Only these wood notes break the spell.
Guarding this silent olty well,
lnttnite oolm enfolds the hills,
Infinite peace the valley mis.
—Times- Democrat.
THE FREIGHT SHIP OF THE FU-
1URE.
St. Petersburg Mall.
The freight carrying steamship of the
future is to be the whale-back steel
ship, of which the pioneers have already
been put in commission and have earned
& reputation for general excellence that
but few innovations from any estab¬
lished order of things, have ever ob¬
tained in the length of time that the
whale-back ships have been in actual
use The whale-back ship is the inven¬
tion of Gapt. Alex. McDougall, an old
time lake cap'ain who twenty years ago
proposed the building of steamships on
this plan, and was called a crank and a
fool. But after all these long years he
has at length got capitalists interested
and the American Steel Burge Com-
panv. whose great steel shipyard at
Wost Superior, Wis., is capable of turn¬
ing out a full-fledged steamship per
week is the result.
Tho peculiarity of these ships is in
their form and general appearance. We
will take the Charleb W. Wetmore, one
of the latest of the whale-back fleet,
and a description of this ship wifi an¬
swer for all, as they are all alike. The
Wetmore is 265 feet in length, 88 feet
feet beam and 24 feet depth of hold.
The bow and stern are both conoidal in
form which, viewed from the side, give
the appearance of a long, swelling over¬
hang. The sides, in place of rising per
pendicularly from tho load line to the
level of the deck, begin to curve
inward from just above the load fine,
and this curve is continued until they
have dropped to the horizontal, and the
two joining together form the deck.
It is this rounding in of the sides that
give this class of ship its name of whale-
back. The only upper works that the
ship has are three small circular turrets
above tho deck alt, on the top of which
the cabm and pilot house are placed.
The outer edge of the cabin which pro¬
jects over and beyond the diameter of
the turrets, are supported by steel
stanchions. A fourth turret, placed far
forward, covers the companion way to
the forward compartment of the hold.
Of the three turrets aft the forward one
holds the smokestack; the second holds
the engines, and the third hold the after
companionway. The only bulwarks
that the ship has along tho main deck is
a steel open rail.
These points form the chief differ¬
ences in the whale-back ships from
those of the old type of steamship. With
no towering perpendicular side crowned
with a heavy cabin to catch the wind
and sea, these ships can force thoir way
through heavy seas that would drive an
ordinary ship inti shelter if it could be
reached, aad it not, she would have to
be slowed down to mere steerage-way.
They are built entirely of steel, so that
thoir destruction by Are is an impossi¬
bility. They can be built for less than
one-half the cost of the old type of
freighter, and can be run for about ono-
half the expense of the ordinary ship of
the same tonnage. Their dead weight
capacity per ton to far in excess of that
of any other type of ship.
The Wetmore has a gross tonnage of
1399.85 and a net of 1075, ana a dead
weight capacity of 3,000 tons, and
draws 151 feet loaded. The ship when
burning a half ton of coal per hour has a
speed of fourteen knots an hour. Tho
cost of these ships is hut from $40 to
$45 per ton, and they will carry a dead
weight of 8i tons for each ton of ma¬
terial in their displacement. The cost
of running them to, as compared with
other steamships, as 800 to 1500; or in
other words, one of these ships of 1500
tons is no mre expensive to run than an
old type ship of 800 tons.
The Wetmore made the run
Osb Dollar a Year.
NO 36.
Montreal to Liverpool, a distance of
3033 nautical miles, on 195 tons of fuel,
From Liverpool to Hew York the con¬
sumption was 180 tons, and on this trip
the ship had 630 tons of coal on deck,
and not a pound in the hold, and one of
these steamships can be built in 90 days
and a barge in 60 days. The Wetmor
carried 88,000 bushels of wheat from
Montreal to Liverpool, and when the
hatches were taken off in the latter port
the tracks of the grain trimmers were
plainly to be seen in the wheat in the
hold.
That the ocean carrying trade will be
revolutionized by these ships, there is
but little doubt. Heavy freights espec¬
ially will seek for carriage in th»se ships
for the reason that they are less liable to
injury from straining than any other
class of ship. The immense quantities
of phosphate which will, within the
next two years, be shipped from the
ports of Florida will probably in part
be carried in the se vessels.
The lessened cost of construction, and
the greatly reduced cost in running ex¬
penses, will enable these ships to trans¬
port the output of Florida’s phosphate
mines at lower rates than it has hereto
fore been carried for, consequently a
larger per cent of profit will accrue to
the mine owners, and at the same time
a larger profit will be made by the trans¬
portation companies than can bemade
with the old style of ship. With the
new system of refrigeration introduced
into these vessels, they will beat the
world in the transportation of tropical
fruits, whistles and then our Gulf ports will echo
the and their waters be broken
into ri pples by the blunt noses of the
fleet of whale-back steamships that will
throng of our coast laden with t ie prod¬
ucts Spanish America.
"A Hull In a Crockery Store ”
John Reddick, of Brooksville, tells a
good story on himself, and no one has
reason to doubt him.
Tom Broome went with Reddick into
a crockery store in New York to buy a
bill of goods. As soon as Reddick saw
the dazzling china and brilliant brass
lamps, his eyes became blurred, when he
reeled and sat down in a basket of china.
He had no sooner gained his feel, than
he fell against a long string of costly
parlor lumps, which fell over like so
many ten-pins in a bowling alley. The
crash attracted a large orowd, but the
irrepressible could not be downed
hgain, and offered to pay for the dam¬
age, which was refused. He then made
for the street In hones of finding fresn
air, and a half hour later John Reddick
was wearing a pair of blue goggles, in
hopes that the tint would relieve'his
weak eyes of color blindness.—Palatka
Herald.
The difficulties in the way of believing
the “tale of woe” of the •'castaways,’’
Mr. Samuel W. Thornton and Miss Eva
Jewell, increase. The story was not
abovo the level of dime novel invention.
There was the mystery of the sudden
wave, the violent rush from the shore,
tho floating log, the strange ship, name¬
less; the transfer from one Spanish or
Portuguaee ship to another, the lonely
landing, the walk through burning sand,
the telegram, the safe combination that
was identification. This did not a««m
absolutely impossible, and it is the best
way to hold on to as much faith in poor,
frail human nature as we can. But
here come three troubles: First, the
tide at the hour of the day of disap¬
pearance was running in—not oat. How
could the wanderers have been swept
out to sea? The second obstacle is that
there were no Spanish or Portuguese
ships going out on that day to answer
the purposes of the adventurous voy¬
agers, and such vessels as did take their
departure were pulled by tugs beyond
the spot whero the rescue of the insen¬
sible man and the girl took
place. These circumstances seemed to
cast a halo of romance over the narra¬
tive. Last and largest of the imped¬
iments to acceptance of the tale of the
sea is the journey in the sleeping car
from New Orleans to Jacksonville, and
that was in full bloom when the parties
left for Brooklyn. The hero and heroine
of the story of navigating the great deep
in % sleeping car would prove attractive
if they want to lecture or go on the
stage.
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The Philadelphia Press remarks that
it was William L. Scott who drilled
President Cleveland into tariff reform
principles, and that the stand taken by
President Cleveland in his seepnd cam¬
paign was dictated by Mr. Scott. There
is no doubt that Mr. Scott stood high in
the counsels of the White House during
the Cleveland; administration, but there
to good reason to question the state¬
ment that “ha drilled the President into
tariff reform principles,” or that he dic¬
tated anything on the subject. Pres¬
ident Cleveland was a pretty good tariff
reformer from the start, and what coax¬
ing waa undertaken waa rather on the
aide of consernatiam on this subject.—
Boston Herald.
Ten torpedoes, costing $16,000, were
lost in the late British maneuvres.