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THURSDAY. JUNE 14, 1894.
Why the Tariff Bill la Delayed.
' Less than a month ago it was freely
predicted, that the tariff bill would pass
the Senate by June 15. A sugar schedule
<h«d been agreed upon by the finance com
mittee, and that was the occasion of the
. prediction. The sugar duty had given the
finance committee a great deal of trouble.
At one time it looked as if it would, not be
possible to reach an agreement in respect
to it that would be acceptable to a
majority of the Senate. The republican
Senators were so sure that the democrats
■ would never get together on the sugar
duty that they talked confidently Os de
feating the bill.
Therefore, when an agreement was
reached the prediction was made that
> the end was near, and that by the middle
•of-June the bill would be through the
’ Senate.
The prediction has failed because the
republicans have persisted, and still per
sist, in hindering the progress of the bill
in every possible way. They no longer
hope to defeat the bill, and it looks as if
they were delaying it for the purpose
of continuing the hard tir.os as long
as possible in order to influence the con
gressional elections in favor of the repub
licans.
It is now conceded on all
hands that just as soon as the
tariff bill becomes a law there will
be a great improvement in business.
All the great industries and other busi
ness interests are waiting for the settle
ment of the tariff question. The country
is bare of manufactured goods of all
kinds, and the demand for them will be
immense as soon as the pew conditions
upon which manufacturing is to be con
ducted are known. With the starting up
ot the la'-tories i Qy lifq would bo infused
into all kinds* of business. There
would be a demand for the monay
that is now idle and the ex
isting business depression would
,be a thing of the past.
The republicans understand this, and
they know that with the return of good
times the dissatisfaction with the Demo
cratic party would disappear, and that,
in all probability, the democrats would
again carry the House by an overwhelm--
ing majority.
It looks, therefore, as if they were de
laying the tariff bill with the view of
preventing the return of business pros
perity until it would be too late for the
democrats to profit’by it. Are the demo
crats in congress- going to permit such
tactics to succeed? The democratic sena
tors would deserve the condemnation of
their party if they should allow them
selves to be outgeneraled in such away.
A Question That Bothers Dr. Depew.
Dr. Chauncey M. Depew delivered an
address before the students of the Uni
versity of Virginia yesterday, and a very
good address It was, as the short extract
from it which we publish this morning
shows. He is the first northern republi
can who has been asked to take part in
the commencement exercises of that in
stitution, and the compliment is one that
he doubless appreciates.
Dr. Depew is being strongly argued hy
his political friends in New York to be
come the republican candidate for gover
nor of the state, it is regarded as cer
tain that he could have the nomination.
The argument used to induce
him to accept it is that if he should be
elected he would have an excellent chance
of getting the republican nomination for
President in 1896.
Dr. Depew is considering the matter.
He declares he is not in the hands of his
friends and has not made up his mind as
to the course he will pursue. He realizes
that if he goes into politics he will have
to sever his connection with the two
great railroads of which he is president,
and give up a salary of $50,000. He has
been connected with the New York Cen
tral railroad system a long time, and his
services to it are regarded very .highly.
He has a life position and his duties;
and fiis relations to the owners of
the great properties are in every respect
pleasant. If he should give up what he
has he might not get the political honors.
Dr. Depew can afford, of course, to go
into politics because he is a rich man, but ■
he wpifid not like to enter politics and
fail to secure the objects of his ambition.
As a defeated and disappointed politician
he would not be nearly so interesting a
person as he is as the head of the greatest
railroad sys eji in the country.
And it is by no means certain that he
would succeed in politics. There is no
doubt that he is a very popular man. He
has aimed to be popular, and he has sue- ,
needed without any loss of dignity or
self respect; but because he is popular ;
as a private citizen and a railroad presi- ,
dent, it doesn't follow that he would ]
have the kind of popularity in politics •
that would induce people to follow hiiu. .
It is no J always the ease that intellectual
brilliancy and agreeable manners make a
man strong with the people. Those who !
make their way in politics have, as a rule,
possessed the qualities of a leader. Dr. '
Depew may have those qualities. He has
not had many opportunities to show
whether he has or not.
During the summer he will make up his
mind whether or not he will enter vol
ities. The question is not one that he can
determine quickly because it involves a
great deal. In fact, he himself says that
j to wholly sever his relations with the
great railroad system with which he has
been connected for thirty years would
amountito a tragedy.
Lawlessness in Alabama.
Our dispatches this morning contain
the announcement of the firing of another
railroad bridge by persons believed to be
coal mine strikers. There have been
seven railroad bridges either destroyed
or partly destroyed in the last six days.
Gov. Jones, of Alabama, has offered a
very large reward for the arrest and con
viction of each bridge burner. The re
ward may Induce some of those who know
who the guilty parties are to become in
formers.
The situation in the coal section of Ala
bama is becoming daily more serious.
The burning of bridges is not helping the
cause of the strikers. It is making an
adjustment of the trouble more difficult.
The lawless acts are uniting all interests
against the strikers, and the mine opera-,
tors, instead of making concessions, will
become firmer in their resistance of the
demands of the strikers.
The bridge burners may not be caught
immediately, but the railroads that have
suffered from their lawlessness will see
to it that they are caught and punished.
They will not find it safe to remain at
the Alabama coal mines. Means will be
found to discover them and bring them
to justice.
The burning of bridges not only inter
rupts travel and traffic, but endangers
human life. The trains are in danger of
being wrecked on bridges partly burned
and thus weakened. Men who would ex
pose a train load of passengers to-the hor
rors of a railroad disaster would commit
almost any crime. It is doubtful if among
such men there are.any Americans. They
must be imported cheap laborers who
have no regard for either life or prop
erty. They must be taught to respect
life and property. If they are not it will
not be long before, becoming bolder from
their ability to escape detection, they will
lay violent hands upon all kinds of
property.
Dr. Edward Everett Hale, the distin
guished author and Unitarian preacher, in
an interview at Pittsburg, Pa., a few days
ago, said his belief was the solution of the
labor troubles was to be found in the
southern states. “If, instead of import
ing foreign pauper labor to work in our
mills and along ©ur great enterprises of
all sorts, we would seek laborers among
the thousands of unemployed negroes
down south a most beneficial change
would be Instituted in the United
States.” This plan, as the reverend gen
tleman said, would keep out thousands of
undesirable immigrants, to the great
benefit of the country, and many colored
citizens who now find it difficult to obtain
employment would be given something to
do. There is no class of day labor more
satisfactory than the negro, as the Penn
sylvania and Ohio people would discover
If they, -would give him a trial. Dr.
Hale’s idea carried out would be of
inestimable benefit to tH» seuth x * and
would have southern co-opera tioO. The
south has too many blacks and the north
and west too few. The south needs
another class of working people than the
blacks. It needs white farmers and
tradesmen to develop its resources. The
black man is not much of a developer on
his own hook. He must have somebody
to direct him and keep him at the work.
Dr. Hale’s plan, furthermore, would do a
great deal toward settling the so-called
race problem. If it were possible to dis
tribute the black population of the south
evenly all over the United States to-mor
row, nobody would talk of a race proolem
five years hence.
Gov. MpKinley, of Ohio, is in an em
barrassing position. Thousands of miners
in his state are on a strike, and he has
found it necessary to respond to the de
mand of the mine owners and call out
every military command in his state,
with one exception, to hold strikers in
check. Now, these strikers have votes.
Indeed, it is probable that there are
enough of them to constitute a balance of
power in Ohio. Mr. McKinley knows
this, and is loth to do anything to dis
please them; he Wants their friendship—
and votes—badly, and at the same time
he wants the support of the mine owners.
He was in an uneasy frame of mind about
the matter last week when a happy idea,
as he thought, struck him. The idea was
to make himself solid with both the oper
ators and the strikers: so while he called
out troops to please the one party, he put
a $lO bill in a letter expressing sympathy,
and sent it to the other party. Day be
fore yesterday he received the strikers'
reply. Tbe£ sent back his $lO, refusing
to touch it as it “would contaminate”
them, and wound up their letter with the
sarcastic observation: “Your ambition
in a political way. so far as the miners
are concerned, is sure to be gratified
henceforth.” .
They are having great “fun” over in the
Kentucky district that Breckinridge still
claims. Desha Breckinridge has
"branded” Candidate Owens as a coward
and a whole string of other uncompli
mentary things, and oneof Owens’friends
wishes satisfaction at ten paces. And
, again, several prominent society women
have been informed *by an anonymous
Breckinridge partisan that unless they
desist from harping on the Washington
; trial and its antecedents, the doors of
their several family closets will be un
locked and the world given a view of an
• array of skeletons that will make the
world's hair stand on end. These are
j merely the incidents of a day in the cam
i paign, and other days are nearly as fruit
ful of sensations. Under such circurn
stances, the Ashland district ought to
■ poll a full vote.
It is a matter of the utmost importance
that the next legislature shall be an im-
I provement upon the last. The legislators
peed to be carefully looked after. The
j governor does not make laws; the legisla
’ tors do. It would be of little benefit to j
I the state if the very best man in it were
! made go\ ernor if a light-weight legisla
i ture should be chosen along with him.
I We have already had enough of the light
i Weights, the people owe it to themselves
! to bring forward and send to the legisla
j ture men who are competent to perform
’ good and intelligent work at lawmaking.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1894.
PERSONAL
Lord William Cecil, rector of Hatfield,
England, provides a room in his church where
worshippers may get their bicycles checked
during services.
Miss Peel, a granddaughter of, the great Sir
Robert Peel, has recently published an addi
tion to Arctic literature in a volume en titled
"Polar Gleams.” It is a journal ot her ex
periences on a yacht voyage around the
northern coasts of Norway and Siberia.
The memorial to Phillips Brooks has been
placed in the wall along the south aisje of
St. M argaret s church. Westminster. England.
It symbolizes the command. "Feed My
Sheep. ’’ The Archbishop of Canterbury com
posed the Latin quatrain, inscribed ’under
neath.
Lincoln University,, the school for colored
men. at Oxford. Fa., graduated forty-two
students this year, the largest outgoing class
in its history. Os these eight were from
Maryland, nine from Virginia and eight from
North Carolina. The valedictorian’ was Wm.
Davis of Texas.
Sir George Gray, ex-premier of New Zea
land and governor of Cape Colony, proposes,
in a London journal, a close federative alli
ance between this country and Great Britain,
including an agreement that neither will
make wav’ without the consent of the other,
and prophesies, its accomplishment.
Albert E. Redstone, of who ran.
or rather took, a gentle stroll for the Presi
\dency. and lately turned up in Washington
as the advance agent of Coxey’s army, has
become a claimant before congress. He says
the government seized some of his property
for a park, and he wants $2,800 for it.
Brother Joseph, who is voluntarily spend
ing his life at Molokai, and devoting it to the
lepers in that settlement, is Ira P Dutton, a
native of Vermont, who adjudicated ivar
claims .in the border states after the civil
war for the federal government. He began
his services in Molokai under the heroic
Damien. /
Mr, Louis Stevenson, son of the Vice Presi
dent, who has teen abroad with his bride
since their marriage •at Bloomington last
year. Is expected to return in about a week.
President Cleveland,recently appointed Mr.
Stevenson assistant paymaster in the army,
and on pis arrival he will be detailed to duty
in-Washington.
BRIGHT BITS.
Doctor—Did you apply a mustard plaster to
your spine:
Patient—Yes.
Doctor—Didn’t you .find it a great help?
Patient—No: 1 felt that it was a great
drawback.—Fashions.
Grandma—l see that the locusts with a “W”
on their wings are out again. It means war
whenever thej’ appear.
Miss Laura—Not this time, grandma. It
means "woman.” This is the era of her
emancipation.—lndianapolis Journal.
He (having nothing better to say)—Do you
approve of short courtships?
She—Yes; but not too short. I have only
. known you but a week—but. after all. what
does it matter? Speak to mother, and I guess
it will be all right.—New York Press.
"I saw your name in print the other day,”
said one man to another who was very fond of
notoriety.
"Where?” asked the other, in pleased ex
citement.
"In the directory.”—Philadelphia Record.
“No,” said Chawles. “I shall nevah speak to
him again. “His conversation is unendura
ble, you know.” “Why. does he lack gram
mar?” “Gwammah, deah boy? It s fah
worse than a mattah of gwammah. He we
ferred to my walking-stick as a cane, don’t
you know.”—Washington Star.
“I'm humiliated disgusted—disgraced!”
said the snob, as he threw down the paper.
"What's up now?”
"See there, fifteen horses and a man slaugh
tered in publicin Madrid. even in the pres
ence of women and children, and all for
sport—"
"Well, let ’em go: what is it to us?”
. “To us? Why, that’s the crowd that dis
covered us?” —Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Elies—What is that yop say? Bryce mar
ried? Well, I will never believe In men
again.
Edith—Why?
EHse—The vows of love that man made to
mo!
Edith—Well, but you threw him over.
You’ve been married tour months. <
Eftee—l don’t care; he was so devoted to
me. He might have been decent about it. He
might have kept single for six months, any
way.—Brooklyn Life.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Talking of Carlton for Congress.
From the Madison (Ga.) Madisonian (Dem.).
It is said that Hon. H. H. Carlton is out of
the race for governor and will be in the race
for congress against Judge Lawson and Judge
McWhorter.
Turn About Is Fair Play.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
A legislative candidate in Georgia expects
his canvass to be helped forward by the ac
quaintances he made while running a hotel
elevator. He extests, no doubt, that the
many to whom he gave a lift will now give
him one.
Big Men for a Big Office.
From the Sylvania (Ga!) Telephone (Dem.)
Turner, Bacon and Garrard—that is a splen
did trio in the race tor United States sena
tor. They are all safe and large-brained men
and any one of them would illustrate Georgia
right nobly in the Senate. Happy, indeed,
the state that can put forth three such candi
dates for her highest national office.
Liberty for the Correspondent!
From the Washington Post (Ind.).
We fully agree with the New York Mail
and Express, the New York America, the
Arizona Kicker, and the Bungtown Blister
and ail the rest of them, in insisting that the
free and soaring Correspondent shall not be
muzzled, and that cheap romance shall still
be fed to the hungry millions. But we also
bold that congress need not ha’t anti shiver
before men in buckram on Gad s Hill, and
that business at the capltol should go right
along without reference to the fakir’s chir
rup or the whangdoodle's plaintive moan.
~ Before and After.
From the Valdosta (Ga.) Times (Dem.).
A few months ago the. Times, and a few
other newspapers, stood almost alone in the
breech defending Cleveland and his adminis
tration against a tide of abuse and misrepre
sentation which threatened to sweep this
state and the south. It is a cause for con
gratulation to see how the current sweeps
back as soon as the people begin to meet in
primaries and express their views. It is
amusing to see how those who led the on
slaught are now trying to prove that they
never opposed the President, and only dif
fered with him on a "minor” point—only one.
How-tame a fellow gets after you have licked
.him?,
A West Georgia Opinion.
From the Talbotton (Ga.) News (Dem.).
The populists are anxious to have Col. At
kinson nominated. They think they can de
feat Col. Atkinson with Judge Hines. In the
event Gen. Evans is not nominated, they ex
pect a large soldier element, and another ele
ment rendered discontent because, of the
general’s rejection for the sake qf his voca
tion, either to remain indifferent or to pass
over to their side, it papers like the Tele
graph persist tn calling such talk as the above
mere rot.” they have only to wait and see
If Evans is nominated he will be elected. If
Atkinson is nominated, the populists have a
good fighting chance. Mr. Atkinson cannot
do now what and as he did two vears ago. '
We need a conciliatory candidate, and Evans '
is the man. The present is not the time for
Mr. Atkinson’s style. The people of Georgia
will not be driven.
The Passing of Pennoyer.
Frotai the New York Times (Dem.).
The disappearance of Pennoyer from the
American political horizon is 'a matter for’
congratulation beyond the confines of Oregon.
Pennoyer is. in sooth, a horrid hoodlum. He
calls himself a democrat, and he was elected I
as a democrat, but essentially he is a popup s:
in the most offensive sense of lbe term. He
has made, himself conspicuous Vy insulting,
in the crudest and grossest way. two suc
cessive Presidents of the United States -of
opposed political faiths.” Also he has been
appealing to the ignorance of his people in
Oregon with a simplicity that might have
been attractive if it had not been mischievous.
He wrote a ridiculous review article not long
ago to show that the prosperity and import
ance of historical nations had been (directly
as the amount of currency, preferably silver
that was in circulation among them "per '
capita.” In fact, there could not-well be a 1
worse kind of a man than Pennoyer. It is
gratifying to remark that the people of Ore
gon have come to appreciate him. i
t* .Tv / t • /■* -
: THE OLD FRIEND
with red Zon every package It's the Kiqg
or Liver Medicines, is better than njlls. and
takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. Take
nothing-offered you as a'substitute. J. H.
ZEILIN & CO„ proprietors, Philadelphia.
Terrible Tragedy Averted.
The boys in the barn were performing an
iihtromptu but highly realistic ' and blood
curdling drama of border life In the far west,
which they called "ThS Arizona Regulators,”
says the Chicago Tribune. The Regulators
had captured a horse thief and were prepar
ing to hang him. - ■
"Dick Deadshot,” said the leader of the
avengers, solemnly, "you ve got just five min
utes to live.' Say yfef prayers!”
The boy who stood on the barrel, with the
rope aroupd his neck, temporarily forgot his
part. ... . ..
“I—l don’t know how. Shorty.".'he said,
with spme .irritatiOTi. ./"Gimtay somethin’
easierj’ , .... J ‘
"You don't kHow’ lidW** exclaimed the
leader in a terrible Wdef ••
"No I,don’t.” ■<
“Can’t’s&y vet ‘Now ilay me?’ ”.
“No. 1 can’t, honest.” ’ -
“Fellers, ’ sajd the.leader of the Regulators,
‘“aloaeoi deep disgust, "cut de kid down.
We 11 stop a may right here. It wouldn't
be right,to hang a poor, igner ht, dog’-oned
heathen,”
A Mbnhey’s Good Wanners,.
“I was-ambsed as an act ot politeness I once
witnessed on the part of - a monk’ey that had a
very peculiar, effect bn my dog.” said Stephen
L. Warner, of Beatrice. Neo.,rdcent-ly. “One
day an Italian organ grinder, accompanied by
a trained monkey, wandered into our town
and the unan. stopped before my house to
plhy. The monkey w’as an intelligent little
tfri ®,"’’ was attired in a jacket and a cap;
While his .master was grinding out the music
the monkey hopped down from tho organ
where he had been sitting, and, jumping the
fence, came up into my yard. He was at once
spied by a fox terrier of mine, and the dog
made a rush, at him, The monkey aWaited
the onset with such undisturbed tranquility
that the dog halted within a few feet of him
to reconnoiter. Both animals took a long,
steady stare at each other, when suddenly
the monkey raised his paw and gracefully
saiuted his enemy by raising his hat. The
effect was magical. The dog’s head and tail
dropped, and he sneaked off into *the house
and would not leave it until satisfied that his
polite but mysterious guest had departed.”
Jim’# Advantage.
A young man stood at the foot of Griswold
street gazing steadily into the river, says the
Detroit Free Press, when a policeman who
happened along Inquired;
Looking for anything in particular out
there?”
“Well, no,” replied the gazer. “I was just
a-thinkiu’. It is almost three years ago to a
day since my brother Jim was drowned right
here.”
‘ And you thought you might see his hat
floating around?”
“Oh, no. I was thiAkin’ how curious ft all
came about. Jim went right off the wharf
here. They said he just gave one yell before
he struck the water.”
“It was a case of suicide, then?”
“Straight ease. You see, Jim and me were
both in love with tne same girl. Jim was the
best looking, but I had the most land.”
And the girl preferred'you?”
"She did. . Jim and me didn’t have no fuss
about it. but as soon as he founfl out bow
< ihiugs was be com eta/,o Detroit and walked
down here dud jiontM.jff. Poor old Jiin!”
■There are many sad things in our lives.”
said the p< hcernan as he tapped the head of
a pile with his baton.
“You bet. and this is one of them, though
Jim can’t complain.”
“Complain of what?”
“Why, he suicided because he couldn’t git
the girl, and now I want to suicide because I
did git her. On the whole. I think Jim is
about a year and a half ahead of me."
Retributive Justice.
The trees have taken off their clothes and
gone to sleep, writes Fredrick Stansbury in
Donahoe s. In the midst of a deep wood,
that might appear somber btit for the fliterd
rays of the setting sun. a hunter sits upon the
lichen-covered irutik of a faljen oak. At his
feet is carelessly thrown the day's bag—squir
rels and rabbits and other pretty denizens of
the forest, now forming a most pathetic
picture of still life.
, The hunter’s bronzed face 18 tinted with the
glory of the dying day. Contentment is writ
ten oh his attitude and in the expression of
his eyes. He has had a good day. Game has
been plentiful and the air bracing and de
lightful.
The stock of his gun leans against the pros
trate oak, the barrel at an angle pointing to
ward him. . His thoughts are pleasant, and
the grim finger of destiny has no meaning for
him. 1 , ' _. ~
He takes out his pipa, gazing the while
amid the
“Hare ruined choirs
Where late the sweet bird sang.”
Slowly and peacefully he strikes a match
on his russet boot, and applies it to the fra
grant contents of the mellow briar bowl,-
As the clouas ’of aromatic incense arise,
they are shot through with the golden shafts
of sunlight, and disappear among the groined
arches of the grand old trees.
Motionless, statuesque, the hunter falls
into a reverie.
Thd dead monarch on which the hunter sits
is honeycombed withjsylvan caverns. It forms
a tenement house for strange and diverse
little creatures whose home is the forest.
And now. from one of the apertures Os its
many hollows, a little red squirrel appears.
Its movements are quick and nervous, and it
throws its little body and brush into pretty
waves as it advances. The hunter moves not.
The patter of the tiny feet of the little red and
brown midget bn the leaves is not heard.
Halting momentarily to raise itself on its
haunches and look acout. it approaches the
gun stock. In a spirit of frolic it attempts
to flash through the steel circle that guards
the lock.
Click:
A shot rings out through tjm forest, and the
hunter lies amid Ms gatae;
Picnic Time.
,-From the Chicago Ke cord.
It’s June again, an’ in my soul 1 feel the filling
joy
That's sure to come this time.o’ year to every
little boy:
For, every June, the Sunday schools at pic
nics may be seen,
Where ’Helds beyond the swellin’ floods
stand dressed in livin’ green :”
Where little girls are skeered to death with’
spiders, bugs an’ ants, ,
An’ little boys get grass stains on their go-to
meetln pants.
It’s June again, an’ with it all what-happiness
is mine—
There's goin' to be a picnic an’ I’m goin’ to
jine:
One year I jined the Baptists, an' goodness!
how it rained'
■ (But grampa says that’s the way “baptizo”
is explained). - ■•'
And once I jined the ’Ptscoptls an’ had a heap
o’ fun— .
But the bosSxof all the picnics was the Presby
ter! un:-: ' . i ■■ ■' ■■■■ -•
They had so many pudditi's. sallids, sand
widges an Mate • .;! ''
That a feller wisht his stummick was as hun
gry as his eyes:
Oh. yes. theeatin’PresbyteTiuns give ver is
so tine
That when they have a picnic, you bet I’m
goin tojine:
But at this time the Methodists have special
claims on me. • ’
For they’re goin’ to give a picnic on the 21st.
D. V.:
Why should a liberal Universalist like me ob
ject ,
To share the joys of fellowship with every
friendly sect-?’
However het’rodox their articles of faith else
wise may be.
i Their doctrine of fried cblck'n ii a savin’
grace to me.’
So on the 21st of June, the weather bein’ fine.
They re goin' to give a picnic, an’ I’m goin’ to
I jinei
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mr. Walter Wellman, now on an Arctic
expedition, writes the following from Norway
about the aluminium boats built in Baltimore*
"The Norwegian boatmen were delighted
with the aluminium boats. They rowed them
to and fro and smiled as the shells glided so
easily over the water. They tried in vain to
tip one of them over, half a dozen men throw
ing their weight upon the gunwale of.the
Lockwood. The Norwegian boatmen cut qp
all sorts of capsrs-with these little craft, and
' finally gave their opinion as experts-—and
’ there are no t etter boatmen in the world—
that they Would do the work for which they
had been built; that they were splendid -Sea
. boats; that they could bebeached through a
roaring Surf: and that they- would do every
; thing a small boat ought to do. except sail to
windward. ThitTwe already knew, and it is a
point without importance.in our scheme. We
were, therefore, much relieved to learn that
the verdict of the jury of grizzled boatmen
and fishermen was m our favor.”
The growth of new words in our existing
languages is the safest gidde to the origin of
language in general. Such new words are
continually arising from day to day' in bur
midst. Just at first they are usually immita-
, five or onomatopoeic, and more or less inarti
culate, They are deficient in vowels. The
steam engine seems to say to us, “P’s. p’s,
. p’s : ” the cat seems to say to us, “p’rrr, p’rrr,
p’rrr;” the sound of a cannon ball, as it
strikes the ground, we represent by ‘Th'd:”
the sound of a gun we represent by “B’ng.”
But when we come to use these sounds fami
liarly as parts of language we soon grow totyo-
' calize them. We say. puff, puff, puff: purr, thud
bang. In proportion as we use such words in
composition do they become more and more,
articulate and- less and less onomatopoeic,
while at the same time they tend to become
widened and conventionalized jn meaning. At
. last, when we talk of whizzing wheels, of a
banging door, of giving a friend a puff in the
paper, or dexterfously booming a new inven
tion,. we have almost lost sight of onomatopeia
altogether. Even when we remark that the
cat purrs, or that we distinctly heard a loud
thud ata distance,, we are scarcely conscious
of the imitative.intention.
In the earliest times of’purohase, a woman
was bartered, fpr useful goods or for services
rendered to her father, says the Westmins
ter Review.- In this latter way. Jacob pur
chased Rachel and her sister Leah. This was
a Beena marriage, where a man. as in Gene
sis. leaves his father and his mother and
cleaves unto his wife, and they become One
flesh or ktn—the woman’s. The pricb of a
bride in British Columbia and Vancouver
island varies from to £4O worth of arti
: cles. In Oregon, an Indian gives for her,
horses, t lankets, or buffalo robes? in Califor
nia, Shell-money or horses; in Africa, cattle.
A poor Damara will sell a daughterfor a cow;
a richer Kaffir expect* from three to thirty.
With the, Banyai, if nothing be given,
her family claim her children. in
Uganda, where no marriage recently existed,
she may he obtained for half a dozen needles,
or a coat, or a pair of. shoes. An ordinrry
price is a box of nercussion caps. ♦ln other
parts a goat or a couple of buckskins Will
buy a girl. Passing to Asia we fitjd her price
is sometimes 5 to 50 rubles, or at others a
cartload ot wood or hay. A princess may be
purchased for 3,000 rubles, in Taratry a
woman can be obtained for a few pounds of
butter, or where a rich man gives twenty
small oxen a poor man may succeed with a
pig. In Fiji her equivalent is a -whale’s tooth
or a musket. These, and similar prices else
where, are eloquent testimonj’ to the little
value a savage sets on his wife. Her charms
vanish with- her girlhood. She is usually
murned while a child, and through her cruel
slavery and bitter life she often becomes old
■ and repulsive at 2£. ,
Why is it that’the colors of a soap bubble
change as the film gradually alters in thick
ness? Another cause of color is here in
volved—that of interference, says Longman’s
Magazine. If a stone be thrown into a smooth
pond a circular wave is produced, gradually
widening toward the edge of the pond. If a
second stone be thrown into the pond a sec
ond wave will be produced, which will influ
ence the first. If the stones be dropped In
simultaneously at the same spot, the wave
will just be doubled in hight: and if the sec
ond stqne be thrown in exactly a wave-length
behind the first, the same effect would be ob
served. If. however, the second stone be
thrown into the water exactly half a wave
length behind the first, the motion of the
water will be destroyed. Similarly
wjth light; when light impinges
on the soap bubble, part of it is reflected from
the exterior surface, and part enters the film
and is reflected from the interior surface,
’this latter nortion traverses the we ter
medium between the two surfacM twice, .rwo
is. therefore, kept behind the first refifwtc.d
ray. The two sets of waves interfere with
each other, and produce a colored light, in
stead of a white light. Other waves, again,
may destroy each other and extinguish the
light. Some of the constituent colors of the
impinging white light-so med by their pass
age through the fllpi—interfere so as to
destroy each other, while others remain un
affected. As the film diminishes in thickness,
the colors must necessarily vary. In this
way is accounted for the marvelous variety
of beauty of colors in the soap bubble, the
iridescence of- oil upon water, the changing
color of steel when being tempered, and the
gaudiness of some insects’ wings.
The Telegraph, of Hong Kong, China, says
that the native merchants are beginning to
understand the importance of the press and
the advantages of advertising. ’I here are
three papers printed in the Chinese language
in Canton alone. The Figaro, of Paris, men
tions the following as the most prominent
periodicals at present published in China:
Chen-Pao (Shanghai News). Hu-Pao (News
of Hu. another name for Shanghai), Tsing-
Pao (News.of the Capital. Peking). Che Pao
(Daily News, Tlen-Cjfln), Kwong-Pao (Canton
News), Ling-namje*Pao (News of Lingnam,
old name for Canton). All these papers reg
ularly contain leaders discussing questions of
international interest, telegrams from Pe
king and abroad and the usual news found in
European journals. The Osta Asiatische
Lloyd, of Shanghai, a German paper repre
senting in particular the commercial inter
ests of the Fatherland..in the east and re
plete with interesting notes of mercantile
and ethnological character, in a recent
number gives a few editorial com
ments translated from the native Chinese
press: “It is sad to see how short is the life
of man. In Europe they invent remedies
against death, but they don’t work. The rice
harvest promises to fall out very good this
year. It is to be hopefl that the great exami
nations in Li-Whah will be just as good.'
They will take place during the harvest. A
murder has been committed near the seventh
tower of the great wall. Two Peking
merchants were killed there. It is a blessing
that they were not Mandarins. As the
emreror was being carried through the
Yellow street recently blows were given to
the multitude to make room. The mighty
Son of Heaven laughed heartily over <his.
During a recent review at Manking, Prince
Ho-Tu-Lin-Sab (the second son of the late
emperor) swore at the soldiers because the
cannons were not polished.”
With all the improvements that have been
made in fire-extinguishing apparatus, the
fact remains that the simple pail of water is.
even at this day, one of the most efficient
pieces of apparatus of this class that has yet
been in use. Insurance statistics, indeed,
show that more fires -are put out by water
pails than by all other appliances put to
gether. the only point that can well be raised
against them being that, while they are gen- ■
erally provided abundantly enough in places
where they are likely to be of service, the
water is very apt tobe wanting. It is true,
also, in a meosure, that, even if the pails
were kept full, they are often borrowed for
some purpose and not returned, so tbat when
most needed tney are unavailable. As
away out of this difficulty It
has been proposed.- says Cassler’s
Magazine. to use pails with round
or conical bottoms, which will not stand on a >
floor, and are not.; therefore, likely to be
taken off for some me for which they were
not intended, but this form seriously dimin -
ishes the value ot -the pail as a tire extin
guisher. since a man with two of them in his
hands. Arriving at tjie scene of action, cannot
use either without setlipg the other on the
floor and losing all its contents. As an im
provement on this a superintendent in one of
the large New England mills, who had found
it difficult to keep the tire pails full and in
good order, some time ago adopted the follow
ing interesting expedient: The hooks carry
ing the pails were fitted up with
pieces of spring steej_ strong enough
io lift the pail when nearly empty,
but not sufficiently ”sor- to lift
a full pail. Just ovtet each Spring in such
a position to te out ot the way of the handle
of the pail was set a metal point connected
with a wire from an-open circuit battery. So
long as the pails were full their weight, when
hung on their hooks kept the springs down,
but as soon as one was removed or lost a con
siderable fortion of its contents by evapora
tion. the spring on its hook would rise,
coming in contact with the metal point, thus
closing the battery circuit and ringing the
bell in the manager's office, at the sameXime
showing on an annunciator where the trouble
was. as the bell continued to ring until the
weight of the delinquent pail was
restored it was impossible to disregard
the summons, and no more reason was found
to complain of the condition of the Are
buckets.
LIFE OF THE SOLDIER.
The South Georgia Companies Keep
ing Up Their Record.
Griffin, Ga., June 11.—To-day has been
devoted to routine work in camp. It has
been very dusty and warm.
The Waycross Rifles broke camp at 4
o’clock this afternoon. During their
seven days itl camp they have had the
honor of furnishing the orderly daily.
To-day they furnished both the senior
and junior orderlies. Sergt. James Syd
boten was awarded the gold medal for
the most-perfect accouterments.
The Valdosta Videttes are nutting up
some beautiful drills under command of
Capt. Cassey.
Commandant J. O. Varheaoe is an ex
cellent officer, and is the admiration of
the camp.
Capt. Cassey is feting adjutant of the
Fourth battalion.
Lieut. Louis Jerger, commanding the
Thomasville Guards, is an efficient
officer.
Capt. Hansell of the Guards is acting ,
post adjutant. Everybody admires Lieut.
McCants of the Guards.
Capt. Simmons of the Brunswick Rifles
has made a name for himself as a com
mander of a virtually new company.
Capt. Wooten of the Albany Guards,
very ably commanded the battalion, at
dress parade.
CAMP NOTES.- '
It is very warm in camp: all tlje boys
are getting sunburnt. They- are doing
their, duty regardless of the heat. '
The health in camp continues to be
remarkably good, all have become aceli
mated and no.complaints are heard.
The Way cross Rifles left at fl o'clock
for home. It was with much
-regret that they left their
fellow soldiers in camp.- They
have made a remarkable showing in
camp and have received compliment after
compliment. AU will break campon June
14. ■ ■'.
FLAGLER’S TAXES.
The Statements Made by Maj. Abrams
Seem to Be Erroneous.
St. Augustine, Fla., June ll.—That part
of Maj. St- Clair Abrams! speech repro*
duced in your Sunday edition, touching
the amount of taxes paid by Henry M.
Flagler in St. Johns county, needs correc
tion. Mr. Flagler’s county assessment is
$533,840, on which he pays a tax of over
SIO,OOO. His personal property tax and
his railroad property tax Within the
county limits, city licenses and realty
taxes amount annually to nearly $30,000,
with a steady increase. . Such is the low
estimate of the amount of cash Mr. '
Flagler pays annually to the city
and county collectors. His railroad
property is assessed and the taxes paid to
the state controller, except where the
railroad is taxed by entering the corpora
tion’s -‘city” limits. No information, it
is claimed, was given Maj. Abrams speci
fying the amount of the assessment of
Mr. Flagler’s property other than the
personal property by the county assessor.
Maj. St. Clair Abrams is in error for
that reason. Mr. Flagler pays about one
third of the whole city taxes, and in
addition when his shops, hotels and rail
roads are in full operation, gives St,
Augustine its main support.
THE MELON PROF.
Shipments Will Begin To-day—The
Crop a Good One.
Dixie, Ga., June 11. —The watermelon
crop is maturing quite rapidly. Shipping
will begin here to-morrow, three days
later than last season. Possibly ten or a
dozen cars will be loaded 9 here this week.
After that the shipments will greatly in
crease for the next mouth. The crop is
better than was expected it would be a
few weeks since. Our railroar' agent in
forms us that the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad has made suitable ar
rangements for hanfiling the ctbp
promptly, and every shipment will go
forward without delay.
Mrs. R. B. Talley, of Corsicana, Tex.,
the aged mother of our esteemed towns
man, Rev. William R. Talley, arrived
here safely a day or two since on a visit
to her son, and her many friends will cel
ebrate her 80th anniversary in Dixie this
year.
Miss Annie N. Alford, a young lady of
Sulkirk, S. C., is on. a visit to the family
of Maj. James N. McLean at Dixie.
QUIIMaN TO ISSUE BONDS.
Electric Lights and Water Works to
Be Put In.
Quitman, Ga., June 11.—Quitman voted
to-day on issuing $20,000 in 6 per cent,
bonds for putting in electric lights and
water works. The vote stood 177 for
bonds to 6 against, out/>f a total registra
tion list of 222. The town already has
contracts with the General Electric Com
pany for the lights and the Stillwell-
Bierce-Smith-Veile Company for the
waterworks. The bonds will be sold at,
once, and the work of putting in the sys
tems is to commence when the town has
given tbe contracting companies thirty
days’ notice. Quiiman is one of the solid
towns of Georgia, is out of debt and her
bonds should bring a good price.
LITTLE RESIGNS.
He Has No Time to Devote to the
Western and Atlantic.
Atlanta. Ga., June 11.—Col. W. A. Lit
tle, of Columbus, appointed special attor
ney for the state in the Western and At
lantic railroad litigation at a salary of
$2,000 a year, under a resolution of the
legislature of 1893. resigned his position
to-day. Gov. Northen accepted the res
ignation and will leave the case in the
hands of Col. W. A. Wimbush, of Colum
bus, who was recently associated with
Col. Little. Col. Little gives as his rea- <
son for throwing up his state job that his '
private business Remands all his time. 1
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A Railroad Cutting Down.
Paducah, Ky., June 11.—The Chesa- '
peak, Ohio and Southwestern shops here 1
have shut down, throwing over 300 men )
out of work. Eight trains have been •
taken off one end of the road and six off j
the other. Scarcity of coal and falling i
off of business is the cause. 1—
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Fatal Earthquake in Spain.
Madrid, June 11.—An earthquake shock I1
occurred to-day in the towns of Granada ; 1
and Almeria. Many houses were de- : J
stroyed and several persons killed. In ■
Nacunento a few houses were ruined, but t
nobody was injured severely.
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RIOT AT GILES’ STILL.
Blacks Resist Arrest and Threaten to
Kill the Whites.
Lyons, Ga., June 11.—It is reported
here to-day that there has been, and still
is. trouble at Giles’ still, about seven
miles from here, between negro turpen
tine hands and the whites, caused by the
arrest of a negro there last Friday. Af
ter his arrest he was forcibly taken from
the sheriff by an armed mob of negroes.
This caused considerable excitement at
the time, which was renewed yesterday
by a large body of armed negroes assemb
ling at the still and cursing
and threatening to kill all the
whites on the place. The
three white families living on the place
were so terrorized that they left yester
day. To-day a posse has been raised and
gone there to enforce the \rrest of the
negro arrested Friday, and also seventeen
of the leaders of the riot. Trouble is ex
pected, as the negroes are said to be
heavily armed, and defy arrest.
Crops and gardens are suffering from
dry weather.
BITTEN BY A MAD DOG.
Severn persons Attacked at Dallas and
Thres Expected to Die.
Dallas. Tex., June 11.-—A mad dog. a
huge specimen of the St. Bernard breed,
yesterday bit seven persons, three con
sidered fatally, besides killing two cats
and three dogs. Albert Adams; a negro
boy, was bitten so badly that he cannot
live. • ■ ■
Mrs. Mary Arthur, an invalid, was at
tacked jn her bed and so badly lacerated
that her life is despaired of.
Jennings Moore had his arms, legs and
body badly torn, and George Young, Mrs.
Word on and Nick Powers were severely
bitten. • .
’ It js feared that hydrophobia will re
sult in a number of cases. Doctors are
applying mad stones, but they will not
stick. - - . -
LUOY COBB COMMENCEMENT.
"T" ' . ' 1 ‘
Lucy Bloodworth Takes First Honor
With a High Average.
Athens. Ga., June 11—Seney Stovall
chapel was opened this morning to the
public to witness the opening exercises of
Lucy Cobb commencement. The pro
gramme was an elocution contest between
young ladies of the lo.ver classes. The
exercises were far above the a verge. and
reflected much credit upon the institute
and Mrs. Lipscomb, the elocution teacher.
Although the honors have not been
licly announced, Lucy Bloodworth,
daughter of F. D. Bloodworth, formerly
of Savannah.has.taken first honor with an
average of 99.72. Other Savannah young
ladies will take prominent parts in the
commencement. The exercise to-night
was the annual musical concert.
A Mill Bun by Electricity.
Columbia, S. C.,June 11—The Columbia
mill, manufacturing cotton duck fabrics,
30,000 spindles, commenced operations to
day. The opening of the mill is interest
ing from the fact that the machinery is
run entirely by electricity generated by
the Columbia canal water newer.
A BRIDGE TO COST 940,000,000.
It Must Span the River Within Ten
Years.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, June B.—The President has
just signed the New York and New Jer
sey bridge bill, and the next step to ba
taken by the promoters of the enterprise
is to submit the plans, which have al
ready been drawn, for the approval of tha
Secretary of War. The company must
com pie r-e the br id»» within ten years
from its beginning, speiffiingl on its con
struction at' least S26O,(XX) the first year
sind $1,000,000 a year until its
The work will be begun, officers of tha
company say, as soon as-Secretary
Lamont approves the plans.
The bridge will be a suspended canti
lever bridge, and will cost, including ap
proaches, in the neighborhood of $40,000,-
000. Its promoters say it probably will
be completed in four years. At the cen
ter it will te fifteen feet higher than tha
Brooklyn bridge.
The bridge will be purely a railway
bridge, with six tracks, for trains of ail
the railroad systems now terminating on
the Jersey shore, including the Pennsyl
vania, Jersey Central, Erie, Lackawanna,
West Shore, Ontario and Western and
others. It has been reckoned that 790
trains can pass over the bridge in a day.
The project looks toward the erection of
a union station on the west side to pro
vide a terminus for all these railroads.
According to the company’s plans it is
proposed to take two city blocks, each
200x800 feet, and bounded by Forty
second. Forty-third and Forty
seventh street, by Seventh avenue and
Broadway and Eighth avenue, giving an
area or nearly four acres. On this will
be erected two buildings, each 200x800
feet, connected by a footbridge over
Forty-third street.
These will contain the usual watting
and other rooms and ticket offices, an ar
rival platform and a departure platform,
each of twentry tracks, a terminal hotel,
a general receiving and distributing post
office for the city, and a house for ex
press and perishable freight; also eighteen
stores, with their cellars, and about 180
business offices for the railway and for
rental.
The bridge over the Hudson river will
be connected with the station at Broad
way and Forty-Second street by a steel
viaduct, the average hight of which will
be sixty feet, and the total length about
10,680 feet.
Republicans and the Income Tax.
From Springfield (Mass.,) Republican (Ind.l.
It is a curious and' significant fact that not.
one of the republican s.ate conventions •so
far held has had a word to say against the
proposed income tax. Volleys have been fired
at all other conspicuous points in the demo
cratic armor, but the income tax question is
carefully avoided. It has been true of the
western.conventions held in Indiana, Ohio
and. Kansas, no less emphatically than of the *
party gatherings in the eastern states of ‘
Pennsylvania and Maine. Poor old New-
York The more its organs have raged
against the tax the more popular it seems to
become elsewhere. Indeed, we cannot but
think that the intemperate attack upon this
tax which has teen made by the New York
Sun, Evening Post. Trinune and other metro
politan journals—based as it has been on the
utterly barbarous and unheard of principle
that taxes should be levied per capita, and
that those assessed upon faculty or income
are “socialistio”—has done more to insure the
adoption of this new feature in federal taxa
tion than all the favoraole influences com
bined.- /