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CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence solicited; but to receive, at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All letters should be addressed to '' MORNING NEWS, Savannah. Ga. REGISTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE IN SAVAN NAH AS SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894. Showing Their Disappointment. Ttye republican papers, having failed in heir (efforts to prevent the passage of a ariff bill, are now showing their disap pointment by attacking the President. The New York Press, the most offensive of all the republican papers, because of its practice of purposely ignoring facts, speaking of the action of the House in deciding to accept the Senate bill, says: Mr. Cleveland’s course is more than a humiliating surrender. It is an unmis takable admission that his lofty pretenses of solicitude for ‘'principle” were sham and humbug. It is a confession that his sonorous platitudes which were echoed with enthusiastic plaudits by the cuckoo press had behind them nothing whatever except the plan to frighten the Senate if possible, and if not to throw down his arms, drop the standard he had raised with such a flourish of trumpets and igno miniously run away from the men whom he had denounced publicly as rascals and traitors. It was expected that the republican papers would make a display of their wrath by trying to make It appear that the President played a double part in the tariff business. He -is a shining njark. rind they hope to make political by aiming their Venomous shafts at him. And the fact that the people pay no at tention to their utterances increases their vyrath. The President has the confidence of the country in a remarkable degree. Nothing his political enemies say of him does him any barm. He did not, as alleged, favor the Sen ate bill. No one of the senators who were called upon by Senator Gorman when the latter delivered his remarkable speech attacking the President—a speech from which all unkind allusions to the President were eliminated before it was printed in the Record—said he did. Sen ators, uninvited, went to tw white house to consult with him, but he did not tell them he favored the bill. When the Senate had passed the bill he condemned It. because it was not the kind of a tariff bill the democrats were pledged to pass. The whole conntry agreed with him and ap plauded his letter to Chairman Wilson. The charge that the President directed the House to accept the Senate bill is un true. The leader of the House, Mr. Wil son, stated that the President did not in terfere, with the conferees on the tariff bill and did not express any opinion as to the course the House should pursue when it became evident that the conference would not result in an agreement. The best information is that the President did not privately attempt to influence either House In respect to the bill. He openly condemned the bill passed by the Senate and he hoped the Senate could be induced to recede from some of the amendments it had tacked on the bill. It is not known that he approves of the action of the House in accepting the Senate amendments. It is reasonable, however, to Suppose he does. The democrats could not have made a greater mistake than to have adjourned congress without having passed a tariff bill of some kind. The agitation in behalf of tariff reform will go on until the country gets the kind of tariff It wants. This congress may not put sugar aind coal and iron ore on the free Hit, .but the people will elect a con gress that will take away the means the sugar trust has of robbing thp people and will give manufacturers free iron ore and coal. Mr. Cleveland has been consistent throughout the tariff contest, doing what he could to lessen the burdens of the peo pie and they will continue to have con? fidence in him. Why Change the Ratio P The following questions have been sub mitted to the Morning News from Abbe ville, Ga.: Up to 1873, the ratio between gold and silver was 16 to 1, and everybody was sat isfied, or, at least, a majority were. Will you kindly answer through your valuable paper why it is now necessary to raise the ratio to 20 to 1, more or less? Current creeds are that the price of gold has gone up. If this is true, will you state what was the true cause of its advancement? I ask for information and trust vou will find time for reply. R. E. Bradt. In the foregoing communication consid erable is assumed to be true which is not true. As a matter of fact everybody was not satisfied with the free coinage of sil ver at the ratio of 16 to lup to 1873. No body was satisfied. The evidence that no body was satisfied is the fact that in that year silver Was demonetized without op position, because the silver in a silver dollar was worth S cents more than the gold in a gold dollar. No silver was taken to the mint so be coined into silver dol lars. because it was too valuable to be coined into money. Silver was demon etized because the silver dollar, being worth more chan the gold dollar, was a disturbing factor in the currency. The reason why there is not now free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is because the silver in the silver dollar, measured by the standard of all the great commercial nations, is worth less than fifty cents. While in 1873 the silver in a sjver dollar was worth 3 cents more than tne gold in a gold dollar it is now worth only half as much as the gold in a gold dollar. The reason of this is not, as some would have it believed, because gold bas become scarcer and thei'efore dearer, but because silver has become much more plentiful and therefore cheaper. That this is true can be readily seen by consulting the re ports of the annual production of silver during the last four years. The production of silver has been enormous, owing to the finding of new and immense deposits of silver and to the cheaper pro cesses for extracting the silver from the ore. The production' of gold has been about normal. These are not simply as sertions. They are facts. It is true, that the silverites say that gold has advanced in value, but they have not been able to show it has. They point to the low prices of wheat and cotton as evi dences that it has. It is true that the prices of these articles are exceedingly low, but are not the low prices of these articles due to overproduction? More cotton and wheat are produced than tjie world needs. The prices of watermelons are high in the beginning of the melon season, but low when the sea son advances ‘ and the markets become overstocked. Again, if the low prices of wheat and cotton were due to an increase in the value of gold we should expect the price of corn to be low, and also wages. As a matter of fact, the price of corn is higher than it has been for years, and wages are higher than when the sil ver in a silver dollar was worth more than the gold in a gold dollar. There is> therefore, nothing to show that there has been an advance in the value of gold, but a great deal to show that there has been a very great decline in the value of silver. The. reason why it is necessary to raise the ratio between gold and silver from 16 to 1 to 20 or more to 1, if the free coinage of silver is entered upon, is that in order to make a silver dollar circulate on a parity with a gold dollar—that is, have the same purchasing power as a gold dollar—it must contain a dollar’s worth of silver. It is true that it now has the same purchasing power as a gold dollar, and it. does not contain a dollar's worth of silver. The reason of this is that the government gives a gold dollar in ex change for a silver dollar. The people could not be made to believe that the gov ernment could continue to do this if the coinage of silver were made free. The government could not get the gold to do it, and as soon as the people lost confi dence in the ability of the government to pay out gold for silver, they would refuse to take a silver dollar except at its real value, which is less than 50 cents. In all the countries in which there is free coinage of silver the silver coins are worth in gold only about half their face value. If we should have free silver coinage our silver dollars would occupy the same place in our currency, in relation to gold, that the silver currency of the free silver coinage countries occupies in the currency of those countries. This silver question is playing an im portant part in the campaign in this state and we have therefore given considera ble space to answering our correspon dent’s questions. They Created the Trust. The New York Tribune calls the tariff bill, which was sent to the Presidentyes teMay, “an infamous Bill of Sale to the Sugar Trust.” The Tribune has overlooked the fact tliit the Republican party, of which it is the leading organ, practically created the sugar trust. There was not much of a sugar trust Before the McKinley tariff was enacted. That tariff gave life to it. It provided it with raw sugar and gate it protection to the extent of 60 cents per 100 pounds. As soon as the McKinley tariff went into operatfon the sugar refiners got to gether and formed the trust. All compe tition was prevented by the combination. The refineries that were not needed were closed, and only as many were operated as were required to meet the demand for refined sugar. The price of sugar was put just as nigh as it was possible to put it without permitting refined sugar to be imported. The bill that the democratic congress has passed reduces the protection for fae trust from 60 cents per 100 pounds to 42fa" cents. That is a very great reduction. It will reduce the pi-otits of the trust sev eral millions of dollars a year. What an amount of gall the Tribune must have in the face of such facts as these to designate the democratic tariff, bill as “an infamous Bill of Sale to the Sugar Trust.” But, then, the republican papers never have any regard for the facts when discussing political questions. The Atlanta papers have heard of the formation by the populists in South Geor gia of secret organizations pf ignorant ‘ colored voters under the name of the “Cniored League.” The members are said to be oath bound, among other things, to ■ vote the populist tieket. In -return for the political fealty of the oath-bound' blacks, the populists promise to keep them out of the chain-gang in case they develop any moral obliquities. The Jour nal got some of the details of the organi zation through a letter from a South Georgia gentleman. If there is any such thing as what is suggested going on in South Georgia the promoters are keeping it very quiet. And they must be operat ing among the most ignorant class of blacks. The colored people are fond of secret societies, grips and passwords. But it is pretty safe to say that very few, if any, of them, are going into a “colored league” and pledging themselves to vote with the populists. Generally speaking, the average black regards the contest betwee* the democrats and the populists as strictly a white man's fight, and keeps himself out of the muddle. The more in telligent black has better sense than to go into any such “colored league.” The report published a day or so ago that Somdetch Phra Paraminda Maha Chulalongkorn Patindir Debia Maha Mongkut Purusiraatue Raja Ra Wongse Warut Mabrongse Parabut Warahhat tiara. Raja Nikaro Tama Chaturanta Parama Maha Chak Rubai' Tira Gasang kas Parumadharm Mika Maha Rujad Hiraja Para Manrth Pabite Phra Chula Chomklau Chau Yu Hua, King of Siam, was dead, is believed now to have been an error. He has for some time been in ill health, probably from the depressing effect of his name: but the last authentic advices from him were to the effect that ho had left it all off but Chulalongkorn for the warm season, and was expected to pull through. THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1894. PERSONAL. Emma Nevada, the American prima donna, has just left Parts to begin a concert tour through Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Eight aged men were pallbearers at the funeral of Judge Hughes, of Richmond, Mo. Their combined ages amounted to 597 years. Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas, the new minister to Russia, expects to sail from New York for St. Petersburg about Sept. 15, M. Janyschew, the Russian priest who was sent to Darmstadt to conduct the conversion of the Princess Alix, the bride of the Czar owitz of Russia, performed the same office tor the present czarina. He. has been the cohfessor of the imperial family for many years. The oldest living soldier is said to be Nic olas De Savin, who has just celebrated his 126th birthday,, and who was born in Paris on April 17, 1768, and in 1798 enlisted m the army formed at Havre by Napoleon for an expedi . tion against the English. He is now living in Russia. Mme. Pherore LangraVia, an East Indian lady, Is attracting much attention in London as a singer She is a'pupil of Sims Reeves, and her specialty is the performance of Per sian melodies., So far as known, she is the first Indian woman to attain distinction as a public singer. It may be interesting to know that Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, was treated differently from ordinary criminals By arti cle 86 of tne penal code, his offense dknked with parricide, rind he had > to walk to the scaffold with veiled face, bare feet and only clothed in, his shirt. It is said that Lady Gwendolen Cecil, the youngest daughter of Lord Salisbury, is en gaged upon a political novel, into which sev eral well known personages will te intro duced. A sketch of rather romantic charac ter also is expected to be shortly forthcoming from the same author. Simon Ingersoll, the inventor of the Inger soll rock drill, died at his home in Glenbrook, Conn.. recently, at the age of 76. He had lived in retirement for some years, and was a plain and unassuming man. He died poor, although others made fortunes, by their efforts and business skill, out of his inven tions. BRIGHT BITS. Venus—Hello. Cupid! What are you idling away your time for? Why aren't you at the summer resorts? Cupid—No use, ma. I've been there and they guyed the life out of me.—Chicago Record. ‘ Will you have some of the Saratoga chips?” said the hostess. • Well.” said the young man from Arizona, “I don’t know anything about Saratoga, but I'll play it a fpsy..dollars’ worth ’’—Washing ton Star. A little 4-year-old Phillips girl, on being asked if she knew what held the stars in the sky. replied promptly, and with the uimost confidence: “Oh. yes, God puts his arm around them and holds them there. ’’—Kenne bec Journal. Emigrant Inspector (tc new arrival from the old sodd-rM/. man. are you an American citizen? New Arrival—Not just yet„ r sur, but I don!t moled tellin.’.yer.that I’m a candidate for ai derman. —South Boston News. “Is this the Senate chamber?’’ asked the stranger In Washington of one of the attend ants. ; "Yes, sir.” “Indeed,” said the stranger, “and which is Mr Havemej'er’s.seat?”—Chicago Herald. Anita—Do you know, I like appearing in Lhe living pictures better than any other kind of show I was ever in. Etta—Why's that?, Anita—We aon’t have to have any dress re hearsals, you know.—South Boston News. Waterson—Don’t you think it’s quite the right thing to keep liquor dealers out of our society? Beerson—l don’t know 'about that. Sup posing the liquor dealers should retaliate by keeping us out of their saloons?—South Bos ton News. Wife—What in the name of the town dump is that? Husband (from the next room)— What? What are you looking at? , <•£ don’t know what it is. It looks some like a sunburnt shingle, but smells more like a rotten cabbage ” , ‘Now. see here. You fool women can never Understand straight sense. We men came home from camp as hardy as mountain eers. f was the cook and I wanted to show you what good, healthy hoecake was like ” “Well, never mind, pet, we can use it all right ” “Ah! Os course you can ” “Yes. we can patch a hole in the washboiler with it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. CURRENT COMMENT. Georgia Always in Front. From the Valdosta (Ga.) Times (Dem.), Toombs and Stephens in the ante-bellum days were the leaders in the Louse of Repre sentatives. Now it Is Turner and Crisp. Geor gia is always in it at Washington. Works Well in Kentucky. From t,he Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.). The democrats of Georgia have become sensible of the inconvenience of extending the task of appointing delegaie; to a state convention over a series of weeks, by which plan voters may be colonized and outside in fiences L rought to bear in other ways. The re.ent state convention adopted a resolution that hereafter all the delegates shall be ap pointed on the same day. This nlan has been In operation in Kentucky for a number of years and has been found to work well. Tho Free Sugar “Pop-Gun.” From the New Orleans Picayune (Dem.). Although it is possible that a majority of the senators might favor free sugar, should the hill come up for a final vote in the near future, the rules of the Senate afford every facility for preventing a vote before full op portunity-for debate has been allowed. The longer the debate is protracted, the greater will be the difficulty experienced in passing’ a free sugar bill, because the needs of the government Will become more apparent, and it will be generally recognized that the tariff bill, without the sugar duty, would utterly fh.il toprovide the needed revenue tor the gov ernment; which is Its mam purpose. After the Fight Is Over. From Springfield (Maas.) Republican (Ind.).. The party organ now hunteth up opinions on the effect of the new tariff law on business. The protectionist republican organ goes to managers of highly protected industries and to stalwart party mein, and learns from them that utter and unavoidable ruin is to come at once, ’the democratic organ goes to free trade, tariff reform democrats and gets only the most rose-colored of rose colored views of the future. It would not do to print opinions which run counter to the lamenting or the re joicing of the editorial page. It is only the independent newspaper which feels perfectly comfortable when printing everybody's opin ion, whether agreeing with its own or not. Was It Really Whipped f From the Columbia (S’. C.) Register' (Dem.). The alliance whipned the jute trust very thoroughly several years ago, but it looks as if the tight will have to be fought all over again, i'he trust Jjas been raising the prices of bagging, by degrees, until it has atout reached the sqeezing point. It may be ques tioned if the trust is not now in a stronger condition than the alliance. The alliance has one method at hand of effectually squelching the jute trust, and that is to get the farmers to ship their cotton to market covered with strong cotton cloth, which will create an ad ditional demand for cotton. There is no sense in sending to foreign countries for the material to cover Our cotton with when we have the best of materials right at hand. An Income Tax Contention. From the Philadelphia Record (Deni.). The income tax will furnish matter for ar gument and legal definition in the courts. The act reads that “from and after Jan. 1.1895. and until Jan. 1, 1900. there shall be assessed, levied, collected and paid annually a tax of 2 per centum on the amount of income over and aoove #4,000; that this tax shall be assessed by the commissioner of internal revenue, and paid upon the gains, profits and income for the year ending Dec. 31 next preceding the time for levying, collecting and paying such tax.” It is contended that this must be con strued to apply to incomes accruing after the act becomes operative, on the ground that otherwise the operation of the law would be ret’-oact.ve. This seems a strained construc tion. If the courts could find some flaw in the act that would make it altogether inoper ative ft would be a matter of rejoicing. Taxes thatMiannot be collected with equal certainty from honest and dishonest property-holders ought not to ba A Narrow Escape. One cool September dav, says a writer in the Washington Star, a small party of confed erates could be seen wending their way down thedustv road that leads into the little town of Warrenton. And from the tired look of the men and the steaming sides of the horses, one could plainly seathap the cavalcade had ridden fast and tar. ’’ The company were a party of the rangers, and at theft .hehdrbde their chief. Mosby, on a black steed-,-. .while thorrestuof. the men trotted on behind in a 'lofrhuwly manner and made the air ring with their -jests and gay songs. It was . true tliat the .'enemy might come in sight at any moment, or , that some stray bullet from a foe hidden in a bush .might cut short the laughing wotds on the merry lips, but familiarity with the horrors of war had bred an easy.indlfference. and these men. though daily .facing death, thought no more of their danger. than if they were riding to a picnic in fame nefahbriringg’-bvc. It was juSt'about noon when the party dis mounted at a farmhouse". And in an instant the jolly confederates were the center of an, admiring group that crowded a bout .them .and the eager host hastened to bring out for tbeir entertainment all the' good things that his larder afforded. The men were. Hungry, arid, seated beneath the huge oaks, triey were soon discussing the relative merits of the butter milk and fried chicken with which they were plentifully supplied. But time wore en. and the men. forgetful of its passing, sought re freshment In a doze on the grass beneath the trees. ..... , A sudden cry of ‘the yankecs are criming” rang out on the still afternoon air, and the confederates sprang to their r arses just as a porty of Union troops dashed in sight around a bend in the road. In a moment the rangers had leaped op their steeds and galloped oat of sight down a narrow woody lane that ran near the brim and partially concealed them from view, in fact, their escape would have been successful, had not one man’s- restive nag delayed the fellow so long in mounting that the approaching squad caught a glimpse of the gray jacket as it vanished in a cloud of dust in the distance. Ari of the rangers.had gotten out of danger except their leader. Mosby, who was in the house when the alarm was given and had not heard the warning cry. So when he looked up from the book which he was reading, while resting in the cool of the hallway, he saw the union troops charging in at the gate, which was. only a few hundred yards away. It was too late now to escape, and while the tederals did-ndt yet know of his presence they would search the house, and it was only a matter of afew.jnoments before he.would be a prisoner.ip their hands- m the parlor which -opened into the hall, a young, lady sat sewing and her quick 'wit toou in tbe situation at a glance. “Here, step in this clock case,” she hur riedly wnispered, as she threw open faedoor of an immense old clock that stood ticking in one cornet' of the hall. And in a moment Mosby had squeezed himself into its dusty recess. By this time the union men were dismount ing. but before they entered the house the lady had seated herself and was quietly sewing. * - .. .. The. union officer strode into the room and looked anxiously about. ' . "Are there any rebels concealed in this house,” he demanded in a loud voice. "Mosby's men were here, a while ago,” she replied, ‘but they afi .escaped aS your troop came in sight.”- Ihe officer glanced about the-room and his quick eye caught sight of a man's grist felt hat thrown carelessly on a chair.- ..< . ' “Search the house,” he ordered of three men who were wafting his commands. t In a moment fae men in blue were swarm ing over the hoifse and poking into e very nook and corner. They commenced at the garret,. searching, each room closely as they de scended, and the rattle of their sabers could be hqard distinctly in. the hall below, as they tramped about, throwing open closets arid up setting beds.- -'■■■■ ■- i Presently all gathered in the hall and were discussing in a disappointed tope their fruit less search. '■ r.. Every moment seemed an eternity to the rauger shut up in the hot. dusty depth of trie old clock, and the warm air had grown almost unbearable. Yet he. dare not move, for pnly a few feet away he could plainly hear the angry tones of the yankee-officer, and the least motion meant capture or death. Slowly the moments fragged on, and still the men lingered. i ! ‘ Finally, the occupant of the clock felt an uncontrollable desire to sneeze. And as he realized the fact he broke out in a cold pers piration at.the horrible thought. To prevent it was something beyond his control, but a sneeze would surely be answered by a bullet through the clock case, and the ranger felt he would prefer the danger of facing his foes in an open light. ...» . * Suddenly a bright idea came into bis mind, and fast W shetezeiSe gave a pull oa the pendulum that sent ail the wheels whirling in a loud confusion. The union men glanced suspiciously ut the noisy timepiece. "I am afraid that clock needs mending,” remarked the lady, carelessly, as she turned down a new hem in the liuen oh which site was sewing, and her quiet voice disarmed suspicion. With a sigh of relief Mosby heard the offi cer command bls men to mount, and pres ently the gallop of their departing horse boofs fell on his delighted ear. ana scarcely had tbe echo died away, when the clock flew open and the exhausted prisoner struggled out in an almost suffocated condition. A merry laugh bad the ranger over his nar row escape, but ail the dangers that he faced during four years of bloodshed there were none that tried his. nerves like the terrible half-hour spent in the old clock case. Where Uobh “Was At.” Representative Brosius, speaking to a Post reporter for the Washington Post, of some odd literary idioms that have become quite standard in our language, said: “Judge Cobb of Alabama, a genial and able gentleman, who has been the butt of a good deal of harmless fun on account of the odd expression ‘ft here am I at?'—now become a household one—used by him one afternoon in a debate in the House,has quite the advantage of his critics, for he did not use the expres sion under authority that is absolutely classi cal. The judge evidently knew where he was at fa the literary point of view, tor he has no less an authority than Ibomas. Carlyle. In his life of Cromwelr, commenting upon some act of the English government, Carlyle says: ‘What are we arriving at?’ "A good many odd and perhaps umgram matical expressions have tec-pine standard because of the authority of a great name. After all. there is no more authorlive stan dard in matters.relating to language thaji the use of the best speakers and writers, and Judge Cobb hast not transgressed any literary canon by following so distinguished a loader as Thomas Carlyle,” . Like Blackburns Whisky Story. “Away back fa thfe ‘sd's,“ said Judge Amos Rivers of Vifainia; Who was holding forth to the crowd that nightly .occupy fate curb in - front of the Natibnal, according to fae Wash-?, ington Post. -‘ I was down in Texas, kinder,' roamin' 'tound loose, and if I had been pos sessed es any practical turn of mind, or the least bit of prudent foresight, I would have stuck to that country and have been a sight bigger millionaire than George Gould by this time. Land! Why. sir, .you Could buy land that was richer than cream for a song. Plenty of waxey, black prairie land could be had for two bits an acre that is now worth 8200. and you could have a life time to pay it in. “It’s the one regret of my life, that I failed to make a trade with a feller who approached me in Austin one day and offered to sell me a league—they measured land by the league down there—of the finest Colorado river bot tom for a pair of boots.' The finest piece of land that a crow ever flew over. ’ ' “And why didn t you take him up?’’ asked three listeners in the same breath. “Oh. h quoted the judge, “I didn't have the boots.” My Rival. From Life. I have just returned, and. peeping in. I see my wife and my rival there.. His dark hair touches her velvet cheek. And their eyes bum love in the firelight's flare. • Oh, why do I not. like the men in the books. Creep back down the stairs and into the night. And take my pain and hated self Forever out of my darling s sight? Or why not fling the door wide open. Confront this villain with smiling face, Disown this wife whose heart is another's, And live alone with my deep disgrace? What was that sound? A kiss I vow! Yet. would you belive it? I smile with joy, And now 1 am kissing them both myself— For you see. he s my litUe baby boy. Prof. Spencer bas read a paper before the Royal Society ©f London on the age of the Niagara F alls. After considering the whole geological and other antecedents of the lake country, he arrived at the conclusion that the years of the falls are 31,1)00, to which must be added another thousand years as the age of the river before the nativity of the great cat aract. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Says tbe New York Commercial ? dvertiser: . “That popular society correspondent. Mr. Ward McAllister, finds much to write about himself in England, but he hasn't a word to say about the Goulds, who are now hobnob bing with the emperors, princes and dukes. Mr. McAllister only sees these gay things through a crack tn the fence, as it were, and he ignores them in his simple, Jeemes Yellow plush way. ■ Haymakers are at work in. not on, the Chesapeake and Ohio < anal,' between Han cock and Williamsport says the New York Tribune. They are cutting the grass under water on the bottom and sides of the canal. The growth is’ dense, rind not only impedes boats, but keeps the water back frona the levtels. An ordinary harvesting mower, with closed wheels, to prevent the giasS from clog ging them, is attached to the rear of a scow, drawn by a heavy team, and is managed by two men who ride on it. It is rallied and low ered by means of a .block and tackle. »The cleats on the wheels are long and sharp, to give the machine a good grip oh the rriiry bot tom.-and the machine cuts a wide swath, sending tons of long, floating grass, to the surface. . Here is a recipe which, says the New Or leans Picayune. oyer the-iake fishermen may find useful to avold-the nuisance of the mos quitoes. which make fishing In the bayous sometimes almost impossible; Three ounces ot pine tar. two ounce§ of castor oil and one ounce of oil of ptennyroyal, simmered to gether over a fire, make a sort of varnish, which, when spread liberally over the skin, forms a glaze that mosquitoes cannot' do business through. The glaze should not be washed off while the insects are around. The mixture does no harm to the skin, and will heal the bites already received.: A two ounce vial of it will f irpifa a man with a sort of armor plate for several weeks. and ena le him to enjoy himself in the worst mosquito infested-hole in creation It -is interesting to know that! the burning lamp or the flame of any tire is still largely used throughout the Orient in confirmation ofcovenants or agreements. It is one of the most ancient modes of ratifying covenants, and is mentioned in several peaces in the Bible as having been in vogue in the time of the patriachs. In Corea, Farther India, Hindoostan and in parts of China and Japan it is the custom, when making a solemn promise, especially should the other doubt sincerity, for the one making the promise to point to the flame and say: “The flame is my witness. ’ On oc casions of greater importance, when several join in a compact, where the fidelity of one or more is questioned, the company repair to some mosque or temple, form in a circle around the “lamp of the temple,” and in the presence of a mandarin or priest each sol en nly agrees With the other, pointing each time to the flame us a witness. The'tartars, in taking oaths or making covenants, use the liver of a sheep, goat or horse, rub their lin gers in the blood, and then make circles on their foreheads, the wpoie proceeding having the same symbolic meaning that the flame has in the Orient. Recent experiments indicate that the nor mal eye can discriminate 165 pep irate tints in the spectrum. The leg of a perfectly formed man should te as long as the distance from the end of his nose to the tip of his fingers. The liver, like the heart, is never idle, though its period of greatest activity is several hours after digestion has, begun. 'l'he chemical com position of the epidermis cf fae Jieel is nearly the same as that of the matter of nail , horns and hoofs. The normal temperature of the stomach is about l)8°: Food has to be raised to this temperature before it can be digested. I'he average hight of the men in the the union army in 1863. was 5 feet 7 inches. Tbe natives-fa this country average a greater hight than.that of any other. The three small bones stretched in a chain across the middle ear are. named the mallet, the anvil and the stirrup, from real or fancied re semblances. Frankish wofaten have onlv pne pomade, a greose proceeding from the skin of sheep and clinging to its wool. It had a nau seous odor, but was singularly efficacious in giving smoothness to the skin. The test for symmetry is to turn a man with his face to the wall. If he is perfectly formed his chest will touch it, his nose will' be four inches away, his thighs five, the tips of his toes three. John is the negro porter who has charge of a car on which the officials of one of the big railroad systems that center in Chicago take their business ana pleasure trips abroad. John has hada very uncomfortable birthfora good while. When he took charge of the car he found that his predecessor, fa revenge for having to give up a good berth, had portrayed many weird picturesfof dragons and hobgon lins on the ceilfag and walls of the kitchen, and John felt sure that the car was-‘hoo dooed,” The first trip he made resulted in an accident, which confirmed" him in his impression, and many troubles of greater or less magnitude followed which made him certain. A. few days ago the cur left the track up in Wisconsin and rolled down a steep embankment, and when Jonn, covered wjth cuts and bruises, managed to crawl out through a broken win dow, he declared ir most emphatic tones that he would make no more trips in that car. In repairing the car at the shops after the acci dent the workmen found fastened between the walls of the kitchen a curious fish like monster, or the remains of it. which was pretty well all head arid tail. It was put into a cottie and sent to John, who is greatly elated, and declares that it is the identical hoodoo which has given him so much trouble and anxiety. He says that now everything will be all right, and there will be no more accidents Fertile last two or three days? says the Philadelphia Record of Aug. 17, efforts have teen made to jacket the nickel-steel gun at the Washington navy yard, but as yet success bas not rewarded the work in that direction. Several excuses have been offered as to why the Sellers system of jacketing has not been satisfactory. It has not teen fully deter mined yet, however, as to whether the system is at fault, ihe process of jacketing is to lower the tube of the gun into a pit. in which is also a furnace. The jacket is heated, and after having reached a proper temperature, and hence a proper expansion,’ it Is lowered down over the tube, A stream of cold water is shot up through the tube, which cools it off. and the jacket shrinks to the tube. The most important part of the work is to heat the jacket with a certain degree of uniformity, and for this purpose various methods of heat ing are usually tried, ifamettmes coal is used and sometimes wood. For the nickel-steel gun. however, naptha has been used, it being claimed that a greater degtee of uniformity would res ilt. An atfarnpt was made Friday to shrink the jacket on. 'ihe tute was put into the pit and the 'jacket heated, but when it was lowered on the tube it was noticed that a little part stuck-. If the jacket had re mained on the tube Jong enough for the cold water to have been tbrnfed on. great difficulty would have resulted to get it off, but immedi ately the uneven- part -zas discovered it was gotten off.and ah investigation commenced, •j he Sellers people claimed that the tuue was not standing plum a. To' remedy this the pit where tbe tube stands is being repaired, and on Mopday it is expected to again commence the operation of jacketing the gun. A Novelty in Butterfliea. Puck has in its lithographing department a German who is an amateur naturalist, says the New York Sun. .He is a constant delight to the editorial department, or rather he was until Managing Editor Gibson hurt his feel ings last week. Schmidt—that Isn t his name, but it will do—carries part of his natu ral history collection around with him. Mr. Gitson doesn't know anything about those things, and he doesn t want to. Mr. Gitson was pinching the creases in his trousers one waini day when an unusually large cockroach crawled upon his desk and looKed at him. “Too bad Butmer has given his circus." said Mr. Gibson, “but he may be happy yet." He captured the cockroach and boxed him up. Then he cut a pair of large wings out of tissue paper and persuaded Artist C- J. Tay lor to paint them in colors. When they were neatly fastened on the cockroach's back he placed the animal on his desk and summoned Schmidt. The amateur natunst is near sighted and wears glasses. ‘ schnridt," said Mr. Gitson. “here s a new butterfly for your bug collector. It new into the office just now.” By this time the cockroach was crawling up the wall, handicapped by his paper wings Schmidt approached it closely, and, peering through his glasses. exclaimed: "Gott in Himmel, Ml GeebsOn! Das Ist Ungeheuer!" "Yah: so I thought," returned Mr. Gibson. “Yah.” said tchmidt, still squinting through his glasses. “Vate a minute for my glass.” Off dashed Schmidt, and when he returned he had a large magnifying glass. Be focussed it on the strange butterfly and peered again. For a moment he was perplexed. He gently took a wing between his thumb and first finger and off it came. He squinted narder, and a look of disgust settled on his features. He brushed the cockroach off the wall. and. withan explosive “Donnerwetter!” he left the office. “You can’t suit some men,” said Mr. Gib son thoughts lly, again ptuching the creases in his trousers. THE NEWS IN GEORGIA. Gathered From Correspondents and Exchanges. A rattlesnake measuring seven 'feet was recently killed in Btyan county. It had thir teen rattles. Waycross Herald: Watermelons two for a nickel in Waycross. We are already feeling the effects of the tariff bill. The new Columbus city hospital, when com pleted, will be a building to oe proud of. The wor ,^. is prosecuted with wonderful rapidity. Seven Americus gentlemen met the other ?, a o y y.. ho weighed respe .lively 208. 213, 21?, /IS, 220, 214 and 235 pounds—a grand total or l,uc4 pounds. A ,?V, tle girl in Twiggs county caught a small live rattlesnake and carried it to the nouse. She had gripped the reptile around the neck and sustained po/harm. While cow hunting in the woods. Mr. James of Clinch county found -a rattlesnake sup posed to have been run out of the island of Cone creek wy a freshet. He killed it, and it measured 13 feet and 9 inches in length. A negro had a streak of. luck while Ashing m the Flint river, near Albany. -His line be came tangled in something, which proved to be a lady's gold necklace, which had evident ly lain at the bottom of the river for many years. W. B. Gibson of Dawson has invented a well tackle, which, it is said, will prove to be the best thing ever known for drawing water. He has applied for a patent, and says that a company, with SIO,OOO, will be behind his in vention. V Wrightsville is full of school teachers this week on this occasion of the teacher's insti tute now in session, conducted by Prof. Mc- Nab ot Adel. Tne exercises are being held in the college chapel, and there arc quite a num ber of teachers in attendance. The session will hold for Ave days. The only business transacted at the state alliance meeting at Dublin on Wednesday was that of the exchange. The principal action was the appointment of S. L. Ledbetter to wind up the affairs of the exchange. Marlon Butler, who was to have delivered the annual address at 10 o’clock this morning, did not ar rive. Wednesday night at Vimba some one entered a tent at the campground while all the occupants were asleep and rifled the gockets of Mr. Brady of Oglethorpe, securing is gold watch and a purse containing sls in money and some valuable papers. Mr. Brady was left entirely penniless, having no money to defray his traveling expenses home. There was a lively smash up in the Georgia railroad yard at Augugita Tuesday afternoon. One of the engines was coming at a pretty lively rate from the direction of the ice fac tory and the other was steaming up toward the elevator. They came together with a frightful crash. Both were wrecked, the rear end of one and the front end of the other being badly smashed. Herald: Waycross seems to have keen the center of several electric currents recently. A short time after Mr- Knight's, house was struck on Elizabeth street, a dwelling belong ing to Prof. Snelson, near Reedsville, was also visited with a stroke. One of the front columns was torn into kindling wood and considerable Other dart age was done. A family occupied the house, but in this as in the case of Mr. Knight’s' family no one was injured. A large cypress tree not far from the Snelson house was also struck during the storm. Times-Recorder: A pilgrim at Americus, who is making his way through life under weight of the name of Mullins, was ’touched'' for three silver dollars at the mayor's mati nee performance Tuesday morning. It ap pears that ©ol. Mullins took an overdose of spiritus frumenti the night before, and, ere the effects wore off. imagined himself Buffalo Bull or some other hero of the plains. At the Central depot he flourished a pocket howitzer to the terror of all about him, and while the crowd scattered Officer Cob > swiped the ama teur border hero, and. after a struggle, towed him to Port Lamar. He was charged with being drunk and disorderly and carry ing concealed weapons. A thief got into the home of J. McDaniel, at the corner of Jackson and Hopkins streets, Augusta, about 3:30 o’clock Wednesday morn ing. Ingropingwtout the house he invaded the room in which Mr. McDaniel's daughter was sleeping. He. evidently, in feeling his way, there being no light in the room, placed his hand on, the young lady. When she awoke she saw the'form of a man near her, and screamed to her father for help. The man jumped over the bed and through the closed window, making good his escape. Having re covered from her fright, the young lady gave chase and jumped through the window to <he ground below in pursuit of the robber. The burglar, however, had gotten out ot sight. The young lady cannot say whether he was white or black, but thinks he was a negro. In a jaunt through the southwest part of Cobb county almost to the Douglas line the Marietta Journal man had a good opportunity to observe the crops, and says he never saw liner crops in that county. The corn, the cotton, the peas, the sugar cane, the sweet potatoes, etc., are as good as man can desire, unless he is an extremely seltish ani greedy man. The Lord has certainly smned upon the farmer this year. It shows that elbow greese and good seasons, under the blessings ot Providence, will do more for the farmer than parties or politics. If the people grum ble this year, then they are the most ungrate ful set in existence. But the farmers are cheerful. They are bragging on their “cham pion held of corn” or their ‘ champion patch of cotton” as if they felt good, and they do. Times-Enterprise: The court house at Thomasville was crowded Tuesday morning, principally by country people, at the prelimi nary trial of Dolly Barrow, the voting woman who was put in jail a few days ago, charged with killing her new-born babe. The'alleged crime, was committed in the Chastlan neigh borhood July 18. The bate was found in an old well partially Ailed with water on Aug. 6. The coroner held aninquestover the body, and the verdict of the jury was that it came to its death at the hands of its mother, and they-’pconounced it murder. The coroner is sued a warrant for her and she was ar rested and locked up as soon as her condition would permit. At a preliminary trial 1 etore Judge Alexander, it transpired that the unfortunate woman, who belongs to a good family and is unmar ried, gave birth to the child in an old field some distance from her home and ih order to conceal her shame threw the babe in an old well. She testified that the child was born dead and that its father was a young man by the name of Culpepper living in the same neighborhood. She also stated that Culpepper threatened. a short while before the birth of the'child, to kill her if she gave him away. At the conclusion of the evidence speeches were made by Col. Mclntyre add Capt. Hansell, after which the judge decided that the evidence was not. suf ficient to justify him in binding the woman over for murder, but held that she had com mitted a crime in concealing a birth, which is a misdemeanor, and fixed her bond at SSOO, which was given. Mrs. Eliza Pritchard, an aged and good lady living near Swainsboro, died suddenly a few days ago. Americus banks show an increase over 1893, the returns this year being $390',000 as against $334.0C0 last year. Herald: A new census ot Waycross would show that the population of city had in creased more than 500 during the past two years. An election for major will be held at Macon on Aug. 29 for the vacant office in the Second Georgia regiment, there being now only two majors in the regiment. William Hogan of Grover, Wilcox county, aged 80 years, and a veteran of the Seminole Indian war. was one of the guards who es corted the Seminole chief. Billy Bowlegs, to the reservation, in the then far west. The project of securing to Athens a through line of railroad to the west by the building of thirty-seven miles of railroad from Lula to Ball Ground, and the consolidation of the Marietta and North Georgia railroads, are matters urged by the Athens Banner. Prof. Bass of Atlanta has teen elected pres ident of Douglasville College. He is a son of Prof. Bass of Atlanta, who is assistant super intendent of the city schools. He .graduated at the Boys' high school of Atlanta, Emory College and the University of Virginia. The stockade on the Lee Jordan Stewart plantation at Leesburg was struck by light ning Thursday, shattering the upper part of stables into kindling wood. There were thir ty-two mules, besides a number of hogs, in the stockade. Fortunately but one mule and one hog were killed. An Augusta youth, who spends his time when out of school looking after his chickens, of which he raises a number of broods every year, had a singular experience last spring. One of his favorite hens came off the nest with only one little chick; this one soon died, and about the same time a pigeon was noticed in the yard with a broken wing. >he be reaved hen immediately assumed the care of the disabled bird, which, strange to say, at oijce accepted the guardianship of the hen and remained under her care until its wing was well again, when it resumed its former way of living. ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA. The lews of the State Told in Paragraphs. 1 ..111. . |.. .. ,■■■>!■ J. M. Barco has assumed the duties of reg ister of the United States land office at Gainesville. John R. Scott, the Jacksonville architect, is preparing plans for a handsome two-stdry brick residence for Blair Burwell. The walls of the new stable that Pensacola is having built for the police patrol wagon and horses afe nearly ready for the roof. The hotel building that was commenced some time ago at Melbourne is to be finished up at once and nut in first-class order for next winter's tourists. - Morey & Co. of Tampa have increased their force to twenty-five cigarmakers. Their or ders are increasing steadily and they are now shipping 15,000 to w.OCP cigars per week. Aird & Adams of Jacksonville are having.a warehouse erected in the rear of their block at the corner of Main and Forsyth streets. The structure will be occupied by Felch & Henry, the grocers. R. M. Strickland has ordered machinery and will erect and operate a cedar mill at Ellzey, near Bronson, giving employment to about twenty-five hands. The mill will get out lead pencil material. , Police Officer Williams of Jacksonville had a very peculiar accident happen to him re cently. He was chewing b, toothpick, when in some manner ft became lodged in his throat, and he found that he could hot speak a word. J. D. Cromwell has the following advertise ment in the Gainesville Sun: “Until Aug. 25,1894.1 will pay SIOO each for polecats and $230 cash for native salamanders, delivered alive-in Gainesville. No imoortea stock will be paid for.” An accidental gathering of six of Orlando's heavyweight citizens recently led to a reckon ing up of their respective weights, when it was found that the combined weight of the group was 1,268 pounds, only one c* the party ■falling below the 200-nound notch. S. F. Hanford, W. J. Wilson of Green Cove Springs, and a Mr. Ingersol. who is a practi cal mill man and one of the best, have pur chased the interest in the steam mill prop erty belonging to the estate ot the late Judge Copeland, at Orange Park, and will soon com mence active operations. During the progress of a thunder storm W. T. Allen, living near pittman. two miles north of Altoona, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Mr. Alien, who was at work in a flelld, took shelter in a small building, and at the time of his death sat in the door holding a mule by the bridle. A little grand son, who was also in the building, was unin jured, and the mule was unharmed. Tampa Times: The steamer Tarpon was caught in that heavy’ blow which wrecked the bark Catherine at Pensacola. She was only twenty miles from the Catherine when the gale struck them. She hove to for five hours, then ran before the wind, which blew stiff at sea for twelve hours. The rain came down in torrents, making the sea calmer, but at the same time it drowned about 150 ch ckens, of which the steamer had a heavy deckload. At Ellinger’s cigar factory in West Tampa Wednesday, two cigarmakers were playing about a fancy scarfpin that one of them. Ed ward Contraras. was wearing. The other one, called “Ereneht,” snatched it and ran. Calling several times and not being heeded, Contyaras picked up his cigar knife, a thin piece of steel about four inches long and two inches wide throwing it at his fleeing com rade. all in playfulness, hs asserts. It struck “Frenchy” under the right shounder blade, inflicting a very painful and possibly a seri ous wound. Contra ras was immediately ar rested, and in lieu of bond was placed In jail. Florida Citizen: ' There is more secrecy ob served by the present city officials in regard to the city’s finances than there is around the movements of the Czar of Russia. A Citizen reporter has on several different occasions sought information from theelty treasurer in regard to the city's finances, but every time has been repulsed by being referred to the chairman of the finance committee or some other individual connected with the city gov ernment. When this individual or individuals were found, they either would not have the statement with them, or would remark that they would show it, but it must not be pub lished. Florida Citizen: During several months of last winter there was in Oriando a man named Bishop. His business was selling shoe black ing. xn order to attract a crowd, he would frequently drive through the streets with a pet monkey in his arms and a number pt snakes fcoiled--<the»»t his neck. ’T!t5 had eral rattlers, and while nere obtained one or ’ two enormous diamond-backs,which he added to his collection. The diamond-back is the largest and most deadly of the rattler family. He handled these reptiles tn the most fearless manner, but in spite of his apparent pdwer over them, he was recently bitten by one of his pets at Griffin, Ga., and died inside of an hour from the effect ot the poison. Aftei an existence of only five months, the Capital Cit5 T Business College, at Tallahassee, announces that it will receive no more pupils, and that as soon as those who are now en tered have completed their studies, its doors will be closed. The greatest rivalry ever known between Middle Florida resorts is now on between St. Teresa and Lanark, two beautifully situated, and popular seaside resorts. During the winter season they have been vieing with each other to see which could furnish the most attractions for visitors. Dr. C. C- Cpllins of Jacksonville has se* cured possession of the Belleview Phosphate Company's plant and business. This prop erty is in Marion county, and is considered one of the most valuable in the state, and has been l successfully operated. Dr. Collins is considered not only an expert in phosphate mining and operating, but a very shrewd financier. An accident occurred to Conductor Lou ’ Temple of Fernandina Sunday night, about 11:30 o’clock, which came near costing that gentleman his life. He was standing on the top of a box car while the train was b e-ing backed up in answer to a sig nal given from the ground, when the, engineer applied the air-brakes. Mr. Temple was car ried off his feet, falling between the cars, with the result above stated. Jacksonville Citizen: It has been decided that the encampment Os the Fifth battalion, composed of the Indian River Guards of Titusville, the De Soto Rifles of Arcadia, the Island City Guards of Key West and the Tampa Rifles are to be called into camp at Tampa, dr rather at Ballast Point, on Sept. -6, to continue under military discipline until Sept. 15. both inclusive. The official orders are now speeding through the mails. An odd-looklng object was dug up at Pensa cola recently, in the shape of a stone club about 20 inches in length, and to 2 inches in Thickness, round, and partly hollow at either end, and capering slightly frdffi the ends to the center, around which were two carved rings. The material is a heavy, close grained stone, of a dark brown color outside, and inside rather lighter, like a seythe stone, whefp a blow from the pick ax struck it. .It is supposed to be an ancient Indian club, originally ot wood, but petrified into solid stone. There were three ethers similar in ap pearance in the same spot. About. Oct. I a new line of steamers will be gin weekly trips between Jacksonville and Philadelphia, and Florida will have another outlet for her fruit and Philadelphia a new market tor bar goods. The new company is. the Philadelphia Steamship Company, prac tically a union of the Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company and the Ericsson Companv of Philadelphia. F. S. Groves, agent of the Ericsson tqmpany, is general manager of the line, with headquarters at Philadelphia, and J. C. Whitney, traffic man ager of the Merchants and Miners’ Companv, assumes the same position in the new con cern, with headquarters at Baltimore. Mr. C. B. smith, secretary of the Jackson ville Board of Trade, relates a wonderful story of a bird's instinct, which he vouches for. it Is to the following effect: Some time in April last Mrs. Meserole of Chicago, who was visiting them, she taking Mrs. Smith a niece, purchased two nonpareils. On the 10th of that month as she was getting ready to go home, by some means the cage door was opened and the female bird escaped. Mrs. Meserole did not desire to take one bird with her. and she left the male bird in the cage at Mr. Smith's. Last Thursday morn ing, as Mrs. Smith was m the room where the cage containing the single bird was. another bird flew through the open window and began circling around the room, and finally perched itself near the cage. Mrs. Smith looked at it at tentively, and then said to her servant, who stood near by,/hat this bird was the one that, had flown off four months ago. lhe servant was incredulous, but Mrs. Smith went up to the strange bird and held out her hand. With a little flutter it settled on her finger. She opened the cage and the bird hopped in, seem ingly pleased at being back again. Its mate was at first rather shy of the stranger, tut within an hour the two were chattering away in bird language at a great rate. • Japan says she proposes to demolish China.” saia Mr. Blynk'ns. • She ought to have our servant girl,” re plied his wile wearily. -Washington star. .