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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.
Mr. Turner and the Silver Question.
It vras to be expected that the silverites
■would attack Representative Turner’s
position in respect to silver. There is
not the least possibility, however, that
they will attack it successfully. Mr.
Turner’s position is impregnable. All
the assertions, which are intended for
arguments, that are made against it will
make no impression upon it.
Mr. Turner’s position is that of the na
tional Democratic party and the Demp
cratic party of Georgia. It is that of the
Democratic party of every southern state,
with the exception of the Carolinas, and
the majority of the democrats in
those two states are not far removed
from the populists.
The National Democratic party calls
for sound money, and so does the demo
cratic platform of Georgia. The Georgia
democratic platform says the purchasing
power bf a silver dollar must be kept
equal to that of a gold dollar. If Georgia
democrats had meant that they favored
the free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1 they would have
had the courage to say so. They ‘didn’t
say so, and why? Not because they have
any hostility to silver, but because they
believe that the free and unlimited coin
age of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, would
result in a debased currency. Any why
do«they oelieve so? Because no country
that has its mints open to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at
any ratio has beon able to keep its silver
money on a parity with gold money. India
tried to keep her rupees on a parity with
gold and failed. She was compelled to
Close her mints. France and Germany
closed their mints long ago because they
saw that their silvecurrency was in
danger of becoming debased currency on
account of the enormous annual increase
Jn the production of silver. Mexico’s
mints are open to the free coinage of
silver, and two of her silver dollars can
be purchased for one gold dollar. In all
the South American states where there is
free coinage of silver one gold dollar has
the value of two silver dollars.
This country thought the market price of
silver could be kept up by purchasing about
all the product of its own silver mines and
storing it in its treasury vaults. It was
mistaken. The price of silver steadily
declined and a financial panic was threat
ened. Congress was forced by public
sentiment to stop the purchase of
silver. The treasury notes that were
paid out for the silver bullion
were, in fact, the silver put into circula
tion in the shape of paper money. The
country had got all the silver money it
could stand, if the silver dollar was to be
kept on a parity with the gold dollar. The
silver money was kept on a parity with
gold money by the credit of the govern
ment, that is, by the belief in the ability
6t the government to redeem the silver
with gold, and that is all that keeps it on
a parity with gold money now.
Congress, when it stooped the purchase
of silver bullion, virtually said that the
limit of confidence in the ability of the
government to keep cheap silver
dollars on a parity with gold
dollars had about been reached—that
if the mints were opened to the free coin
age of silver, or if the silver were pur
chased and treasury notes issued for it,
silver money would become debased
money. It would circulate only at its
bullion value.
And what have the silverites to say
against this position which congress took
when it stopped the purchase of silver,
and which, if we understand him, is tbe
position which Mr. Turner now occupies?
They have nothing, absolutely nothing, to
•ay. except to make the bold assertion
that the amount of silver money which
the government can keep at par with gold
is unlimited.
Mr. Atkinson says that France, with a
smaller population, keeps more silver
currency on a parity with gold than this
country. He virtually admits that there
is a limit to the amount of silver which
the government can keep on a parity with
gold, and when he makes that admission
he knocks the props from under the sil
verites, who assert that there is no
limit to the amount, of silver which the
government can keep on a parity with
gold. They have not, of course, any ar
gument to support this assertion. They
•earn to think their assertion is sufficient,
notwithstanding the fact that the whole
financial world holds a contrary opinion,
and the'further fact that in all free sil
ver coinage countries silver coin circu
lates at only about half its face value.
Mr. Turner is dealing frankly with the
people. He tells them the truth. He is
tor sound money, and they are for sound
money, too, though some of them have
been led into the mistake of believing
that silver would continue to be sound
money under a free silver coinage policy.
The Melons in Danger.
' If what Dr. Erwin F. Smith of this
atate says in respect to a disease, which,
it is alleged, threatens watermelons, is
correct the South Georgia farmers have
reason to believe they are particularly
unfortunate. The blight has badly hurt
the LeConte pear crops for two or three
seasons, and now Dr. Smith says the
watermelons are in danger from a disease
which attacks the stems of the vines.
In a paper which he read before the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science entitled “Watermelon
Disease in the South,” the statement is
made that such a disease exists, and that
it has vast destructive possibilities. The
doctor stated that he had observed one
patch of melons that contained 1,500 hills,
where the entire crop disappeared in four
weeks. It seems from the doctor’s ac
count the fungus gets into the stem from
beneath the surface and closes the water
ducts. The result is the vines wither
and die. ~
The melon growers of South Georgia
have made no general complaint of this
disease, and hence their melon crops
cannot have suffered greatly from it as
yet. In his paper Dr. Smith did not sug
gest any remedy, for the reason, prob
ably, that he knows of none. If
the melon growers are at all ap
prehensive about it they should at
once apply to the agricultural depart
ment at Washington for- a scientist to
make a thorough examination of the dis
ease with the view of suggesting a rem
edy. There should be no delay in having
an investigation. The nature of the evil
may be such that once it gets a firm foot
hold in any part of the melon section it
would spread rapidly. Such things can
not be attended to too soon.
Wheat as Food, for Stock.
A great deal of wheat was for the first
time fed to cattle and hogs in the west
last year, because of the superabundance
of the wheat crop. Such use of wheat,
however, was regarded as exceptional,
the grain having theretofore been used al
most exclusively for food for human be
ings. It was thought’by the farmers that
there would be no occasion in the future
to again employ wheat as stock feed,
hence they paid but little attention to its
value for such use as compared with that
of corn. Tbe current harvest, however,
finds not only a great wheat crop but a
small corn crop in the meat producing
section of the country, sending the price
of wheat down and of corn up until, as a
matter of economy, the nroducers are
under the necessity of using wheat, as
the cheaper grain, for stock feed.
While the farmers and stock raisers
who fed wheat last year made no data
for comparisons of its value as a stock
food with that of corn, the agricultural
department at Washington and the agri
cultural department of the state of Kan
sas have been studying the matter. The
results of the Washington department's
inquiries have just been made public in
a bulletin. They are to the effect that
wheat is equally as good as corn for all
stock, and is much better than corn for
growing stock. “When wheat and corn
are the same price per bushel,” says the
bulletin, “it is preferable to sell corn
and feed wheat; first, because wheat
weighs 7 per cent, per bushel heavier than
corn; second, because wheat is weight
for weight an equally good grain
for fattening animdls and better for grow
ing animals, and third, because there is
much less value in fertilizing elements
removed from the farm in corn than
wheat.” The bulletin urges that the pro
ducers would find it to their advantage,
not only but hereafter, to feed all
their inferior wheat to animals and put
only their best grades on the market.
Advices from Topeka are to the effect
that the Kansas investigations will show
that beef and bacon from wheat-fed stock
can be put upon the market as cheaply as
from com-fed stock, even when there is a
difference in prices in favor of wheat. If
this should prove correct, the fact would
probably have important bearing upon
determining future crop distributions and
prices.
French Anarchists Active.
The people of Paris are not disturbed
by apprehensions of anarchist plots, but
the French officials are. They are confi
dent that it is the purpose of the anar
chists to make a demonstration of some
sort that will startle the whole world.
They are therefore constantly on tbe
watch for clues that might lead to the
discovery of plots. The leading officials
of the government receive daily numbers
of threatening letters. It is impossible
to discover the source from which these
letters come, and there are so many of
them add they contain so many different
kinds of threats as to what the anar
chists will do that it is impossible to de
termine whether or not any of the clues
that come into the possession of »the police
are genuine. It appears to be the plan of
the anarchists to confuse the police by
sending letters to the police department
giving information of alleged conspiracies
and plots.
That the government is greatly alarmed
there is no doubt. The officers whose
duty it is to look out for the general
safety, are at their wits’ end. There is a
growing belief that it is the purpose of
the anarchists to establish a reign of ter
ror in Paris sometime in October. On
what this belief is based is not known.
The greatest precautions are taken for
the safety of President Casimir-Perier.
When he is in the country, his home is
guarded by a largo force of detectives,
who assume the disguise of farm laborers
and mechanics. When he is at his official
residence in Paris, he is always in sight
of detectives. Ke seldom appears in pub
lic, and when he does, care is taken that
he is not exposed to assassination. His po
sition can hardly be a pleasant one. With
a feeling that he may be assassinated at
any moment, life cannot have much
brightness for him. Unless he is a man
of exceptionally strong nerves he must
soon break down from the strain which
he is under. Under existing conditions
the presidency of the republic can hardly
have many attractions.
The democrats of the fourth district of
Texas, refused to give up Congressman
Culberson because the democrats of the
state wanted his son for governor. The
elder Culberson withdrew from the race
for congress in order that he might not
embarrass his son’s prospects. But his
district wouldn’t have it so. The con
vention balloted 5,599 times with two or
three candidates in the field, then turned
them all adrift and nominated Judge Cul
berson on the 5,600th ballot.
Women do not read tariff bills. They
do read advertisements. The new tariff
bill touches thousands of articles that are
in daily demand by women. The clever
advertiser will make a note of the fact
that women appreciate tariff reductions
quite as much as men do.
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1894.
PERSONAL.
Henry Ibsen is said to be one of the very
few writers whose conversation comes up to
the expectation of his readers.
In a published caid. denying the truth of
recent statements to thp effect that Otto Lil
ienthal had met with an accident while op
erating his flying apparatus, J. R. Zu
berbuhler asserts that * the world will
see men traveling thro gh the air ‘by
steam’ long before the end o. another twelve
month. ”
Sarah Bernhardt's “mysterious corner.”
where she spends her holidays, is said to be
Audierne, in B-lttany. It is on the Bay of Bis
cay. about ten miles from Boint du Raz—the
Land's End of France. The favorite seat of
the “great Sarah” is stated to be a rock
which .“can be reached by admirers willing to
run the risk of a broken neck.”
The Rev. Isaac Tapper, vicar of St. An
drew's London, has Raised a cry against the
Salvation army. He denounces its Sunday
processions as having a bad influence upon
the attendance of children at Sunday schools,
and, speaking generally, as “bringing religion
into contempt.” Mr. Tapper picturesquely
describes the army as a “gigantic sham.”
Louise Lease, the U-year-old daughter of
Aunt Mary Lease,-shows that she has in
herited many of the traits of her mother,
says the New York Sun. In Topeka, the
other day, she gathered HO boys of the reform
school under the trees and lectured them,
telling them they ought to behave. At the
conclusion she announced she would be a can
didate for President some day and wanted
them to vote for her.
Sir Isaac Holden, M. P., has an odd taste.
One half of the week he is a vegetarian, dur
ing the rest of the week he seeks sustenance
in the flesh pits. Be downs his claret in
aerated water, will make a night journey on
the Thames without an overcoat, will walk
six miles, and can manage four big cigars af
ter dinner without flinching, He is the old
est man but cne in the House, and Mr. Glad
stone s sbn-ior by four years.
William C. Howells, father of W. D. How
ells, the author, died at Jefferson. 0., last
Wednesday, at the age of 88 years. For
twenty-fivd years-Mr. Howells was editor ot
the Ashtabula (O.) Sentinel, and for ten
years had charge of the Hamilton (O.) Intel
ligencer. He served in the Ohio Senate in
1864 and 1865. In 1814 he became consul at
Quebec, and four years later he occupied the
same office at Toronto, where he. remained
five years. He then retired to private life.
Dr. Be’dloe of Philadelphia, who used to be
the United States consul at Amoy, and Capt.
Marthon of the United States navy once took
.tiffin with Li Hung Chang. “The etiquette of
a tiffin with a viceroy,” says the Philadelphia
Press, -‘would have been embarrassing to a
stranger guest were it not for the exceeding
courtesy and kindness of the host. The invi
tation was a thick sheet of pink and gray
paper, about eight inches wide and fifteen
inches long. It was inclosed in a much larger
envelope, with the viceroy’s card, and
brought by a secretary, whose sedan chair
was carried by four coolies. Were the Chi
nese official himself to visit you, pis retinue
would be proportionately larger. When Li
Hung Chang called on the Ts’ng-Li-\ amen,
or Imperial Cabinet, his retinue numbered
.’5,000 souls, and included 1.000 musicians and
50,030 soldiers of his private army, who ars
equipped with modern weapons. The Toatal
costume worn by Li stows three coats, of
which the outer one is of tine silk, blue in
color, reachin? from neck to ankles, while
the inner one is snow white. The silk vest is
embroidered in dark blue olive or old gold.”
BRIGHT BITS.
Insurance Item.—lnsurance Agent (to
widow)—l will send you a check for the $5,000
insurance on your late husband.
Widow—Ah. if my poor husband had only
jived to see this djiy.— Texas Siftings.
Weary Watkins—What do you think of
that? This here paper says that you oughtn't
to eat when you aretired.
Hungry Higgins—l think it is a scheme put
up to starve us fellers to death.—lndianapolis
Journal.
Book Agent—Here is that book, ma’am,
“How to Play the Piano.”
Lady of the House—What book? I didn't
order any book.
Book Agent—No'm. but the neighbors told
me to bring it to you.—Harlem Life.
Little Miss Freckles—l notice a clothes bas
ket goln’ back and forth between your house
and Scrubbines' every evening.
Little Miss Mugg—What of it!
Little Miss Freckles—Do you wash for
them or does they wash for you?—Good
News.
Chicago Always Ahead—New Yorker—l
saw a man fall from a tenth-story window
this morning/ He was killed instantly.
Chicagoan—That's nothing. I once saw a
man fall from a twentieth-story window in
Chicago and the doctors said he was deaa
before he reached the ground.—Truth.
“How do you get along without a summer
outing?” •
“First-class, i just go out by the woodshed
back of the house, sit down in a sunny spot,
but out a plate of something to attract the
flies, shut my eyes and imagine I'm paying $lO
at a summer resort.’’—Chicago Record.
Little Jamesy—l wisht de soup wus so hot
dat it ud burn our tongues.
Mr. Nicoman (who is paying attention to
Jp.mesy’s sister)—Why Jalnes?
Little Jamsey—Cos I heard pop say’dat
youse didn’t know enough to blow hot soup,
an’ I wanted to see if it was so.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Jinks (on the rail)—l was talking with an
eminent physician, in the smoker.
Mrs. Jinks—What Is his naroe?
"He didn't mention it, and I did not like to
ask it."
"Then why do you think he is an eminent
physician!”
“I asked him what was the best cure for
consumption, and. he said he didn't know.”
Puck.
It was a perfect day.
Fleecy clouds floated lazily across the azure
depths of th^'heavens.
We are certainly discovered,” exclaimed
the first sea serpent, in much agitation-
The second saurian of the deep was at no
pains to conceal his irritation.
••I felt sure something of the kind would
occur,” he observed, "If they didn't quit mak
ing such strong juleps at the hotel.—Deficit
Tribune.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Anxious to be Ruined.
From Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Tnd.).
Wade s Fiber and Fabric notes a particu
larly strong demand for woolen mill pioper
ties. This eagerness to te ruined by the new
tariff is surprising.
r
Recovering: From McKinleyism.
From the Philadelphia Record (Dem.l.
Once again the receipts of the federal treas
ury are in mrcess of expenditures. The pa
tient. dosed and debilitated with too much
McKinley ism, is on the load to recovery.
From every part of the country comes the in
telligence of renewed and improved business
activity.
Danger Wholly Imaginary.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
Tbe old lady who crossed the equator with’
a nervous clutch on the ship's rail, to brace
herself against the expected jar. was in a
mental attitude not unlike that of some
American manufacturers as they came up to
the date when the new tariff was to go into
effect. They* had been so often told that that
clay would mean ruin to them that they half
expected to be ruined on Aug. 28, no matter
how prosperous the sea through which they
had teen sailing on Aug. 27. But they have
now got over the imaginary line without a
bump, and it is not strange that thev are be
ginning to think that all the evils which lies
beyond may also prove imaginary.
What Free Wool Means.
From the Chicago Herald (Dem.).
Monopoly of the woolen industries in tbe
United states has teen dealt a fatal blow.
Not only cheaper but belter clothing for all
classes will result from the change. We
have never teen able to produce enough wool
in this country to meet the demand bf one
hundreath part of its population. As a conse
quence Americans have been forced by the
Republican party to wear shoddy and cotton.
Needful and natural clothing for a cold cli
mate has been made a luxury oy tariff legis
lation. Free trade iij wool will also give an
impetus to woolen manufacturing in the
United States, even to the production of
American wool. It is a well established fact
that the domestic material is used to best
advantage when mixed with the higher grade |
foreign wool. Obviously the more we import
of the latter the better it will t e for the few .
she«p raisers of Texas and Ohio who have
been almost protected out of existence by
McKinleyism. In short, untaxed wool will
establish the industries dependent upon it on
a stable and flourishing basis, insure to con
sumers better and cheaper clothing, and cre
ate an ever increasing demand for American
wobl. ■’->
Irish Bulls in the German Steichstag’.
Herr Szafranski, a German journalist, has
, published under the title of “Humors of the
Reichstag,” a few utteiarices of German
deputies. Here are some of them:
Herr von Ludwig—The people, the masses
know well enough that it is extremely diffi
cult to become rich suddenly by honest toil,
excepting always in the case of inheritance
or marriage.
Herr Liebnecht—Yes, I Should say the case
is tragic, if It were not so sad.
Herr Rikcrt (taunting the ministry)—Upon
the ministerial benches we hear nothing,
nothing but profound silence.
Baron de Nordeck de Racenan (speaking of
the taxes on wine) —If I were to define bot
tled wines I should say that all wines that
are in bottle are bottled wines.
Herr Westphal—To squeeze the juice out of
a lemon, and then give it a kick—no,, it is not
too much. . 1
Herr von Schalscha—lf you were to take
twenty members of this chamber, I do not
think jrou could fix the limits of immorality.
Dr. Greve—ls there a more .burning ques
tion than that of cremation?
A Story Told on Him.
Nineteen times has Representative Holman
run for congress, and when' he goes from
Washington to his home this week it will be
to begin his twentieth race, He has been
elected fifteen times, and will probably add
another term to his record in. November.
This is a long time tor a man to be in con
gressional life, and yet sats a Washington
special, if one of the capitol guides is to be
believed, Mr. Holman was in congress away
back at the beginning of the century. The
story is a good one. and is vouched for
by Vice President Stevenson, ih "whose room
the incident occurred, and in whose presence
it happened. "I was sitting in . my room,”
said the Vice President, “when one
of the guides brought in a party
of visitors. He pointed out to
them this mirrbr which you See here and told
them its story. He said it had been pur
chased in Paris by *the sergeant-at-arms of
the Senate in the time of Washington, when
Adams was Vice President; that its cost was
S4O. and that there had been a long discussion
in the Senate over the extravagance of the
purchase. All this was true enough, but the
guide went further. -And.’ he said, ‘ladies
and gentlemen, that bill has never yet been
paid. They tried to get it through congress,
but Mr. Holman objected.’ And the funny
part of it was," said Mr. Stevenson, “that the
guide was thoroughly in earnest, and cer
tainly no one in the party seemed to suspect
that there was anything wrong about the
dates.”
Napoleon on Love,
M. Frederic Masson, says the correspon
dent of the London News, is about to publish
a long dialogue on “Love,” written by Bona
parte at Valence, when he was serving • there
in i 791 as a lieutenant of artillery. It is a
somewhat commonplace syppc sad dialogue
between the writer and a college friend, Des
Mazis. Thp latter begins:
“You ask, monsieur, what is love? Do you
mean that you are not made of the same stuff
as other men?’,
Bonaparte—“l do not ask you for a defini
tion of love. 1 was formerly in love, and I
remember what it was well enough not to
need any of those metaphysical definitions
which only contuse. Ido more than deny its
existence. I believe it imurious to society,
and to the happiness ■of individual men.
Finally. I believe that love is an evil, and
that it would be a blessing if a protect
ingdivinity could delivpt the world from it.
Do not misjudge ybar triend. Do not regard
me with indignation, -but answer me. “Why
is it that since this passion overmasters you
one no longer meets you in society? You
neglect your business, you neglect your
parents and your friends. While days are
spent in monotonous rambles, and you mope
about until you have an opportunity of seeing
Adelaide.”
Des Mazis retorts: “What stuff you talk.
To be candid, you make me hate you.”
Bonaparte in return delivers himself of a
long tirade to show that love is a curse; that
there is no more fatal malady;, that it is death
to friendship, to reason: that it kills the sense
of duty: that it is selfishness in disguise, a
horrible tyrant, and the-worst slavery. •
Why the Show Busted.
“I once had an idea,” said the showman to
the Buffalo Express. “It was brand new and
a corker. I wont to see a three-ring circus
one day, and while I was there it struck me
that if I would put a variety show on the
road, with two separate and distinct turns go
ing on at the same time the people would be
tickled with it and I Would make money. I
figured it out that the rb are-many times when
a man goes to a variety show and yawns
through a turn because he has Seen' it before
or something of that kind. Now if there were
two turns going on the man could look at the
other one, you know, and would come away
saying it was a great show. It would oe only
occasionally we -would strike a man who
would be bored by the two turns at the same
time.
“The plan seemed a tip-topper, and I got a
partner who had money, and we started to
put it into execution. We hired a lot of peo
ple and put on a show that was a pretty good
one. We had eighteen turns an< we ran
them two at a time. For instance, if there
was a serio-comic on the stage we would have
a trapeze act from the dome of the theater,
and things went along as if they had been
greased.
“The partner I had was a man who had
never been in the show business before, and
he didn’t know a great deal about it, as a
matter of course. Seeing that he had put up
the money I let him have a few words to say
about the front of the house. On the fifth
night out we had a row and the show busted
then and there. Since then I have never
found any one who wogM go into, the scheme.”
“What was the row about?" asked the pro
ducer.
"Oh. my partner was in the box office and
he tried to make a cross eyed man pay dou
ble, claiming that he could see both turns at
once ana would got twice his money's worth.
The cross-eyed man wouldn’t have it, and
there was a fight. That fight marked the
death of the greatest idea in the show busi
ness since the tank was invented for my part
ner pulled out and bought an interest in a
church-furniture concern.”
To —.
I gave him life, through God—.
(And his sweet mother),
That joy.ous little creature there.
Does it seem strange to you
That he is fair?
Aye, wondrous fair.
I seem to realize, somehow, the words
“Made in His image.” almost divine.
When the sweet face, with all its childish
beauty.
Turns to mine.
Smile not in scornful way. oh, churlish one,
At childish beauty, it is true;
Look straight into those eyes—
Are you
Able to meet them fully, frankly, without
fear?
Does nothing hurt you’
Does no sense oi unrest tear
Hard at your heart-strings?—
Plaintive eyes
Are looking through and through you,
And your spirit cries -
Out, in despite your forced, seeming repose;
The child reads all your heart
And knows , •
Thy inner truth orfalsehood.
Aye, he is fair.
That little creature, star-eyed, like his
mother
Over there:
Fair with the reflex of some Inner grace
That slvnes resplendent in the pure child
face;
Fair with a beauty that his pure child-soul
Sheds, radiant,-over all the perfect mold
Os chiseled features,
Gentle eyes (wistful and deep).
Thin, quivering lips, ,
Curved with the perfect curve of promise,
ever true.
And sweet as perfect rose-buds bathed in
dew—
Aye, he is fair.
Ghost of some memory buried in my heart,
Awake to life.’
Throw of the cerements of Death and speak
Ere doubt, now rife
within me, makes me lose myself,
And tell
Me what it is in this chila-face that I forget.
Yet seem to know so well. i
Did not some one once say,
••I dreamed I had a noble boy?"
This is no dream,
’Tie real.
Although so full of perfect joy
That it doth seem •'
’Twould be more natural if it were a dream.
Isn’t this that haunts me:
Rest buried in the past, forgot, disdained.
Uneasy thought.’
Naught but a living love
Too fond, distraught
W.th its own happiness, too fair for earth.
Could to thy cruel terrors give new birth—
And yet.-l live in fear—such treasure-trove
May need some fairer shelter than a father’s I
love H. |
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The supreme court at Buffalo has handed
down a decision in an interesting life insur
aace cas ®- says a New York letter. Levi J.
Waters, in 1847, had his life insured in the
Connecticut Mutual life for $2,5(X), the policy
being made payable to his wife, and Tn the
event of her death to his children. In 1867
Mrs. Waters assigned the policy to Mrs.
Mary Ann Rowley as security for a debt, the
consenting. The d-bt was not paid,
ap*!" l rs f - kept the policy and assign
-18/z Mrs. Waters died, and in June
Waters died. Mrs. Rowley at
tempted to collect the amount of the policy,
Y alldlt y °f the assignme it was dis-
Mr ?’ be l® n Ford, o ily cnijd of Mr.
and Mrs. Waters. Judge Ward held that a
wu P° lic y was not assignable by a
during <.he life time of her bust and, and
as entered in favor of Mrs. Ford
for the full amount of the policy, to whom the
: I ‘»5TO anCe compaa y ?’ as ordered to pay the
No man is kept- busier in the month of
August than the: peach grower of Maryland
t u e P ela w a re peninsula, says the New
Fl '°m hreak of day until the last
, be ’® a hroad with his men, filling
baskets with fruit, which, if allowed to re
an tr ,?? s another day, will prove un-
Phou sands of laborers are en
gaged in the harvest, and as many as 100,000
*? a ® kha Y£ been siai PP e d by water in one
,i “ J he . easte rn shore of Maryland.
Bi ery kind o, craft, in addition to the rail
caP 8, is brought into requisition to
carry, the crop to centers of distribu
tion. it is no uncommon sight to see
a string of schooners laden with peach baskets
a^?, w ed northward by a sea-going tug.
After all his care and labor the grower is
often out of pocket at the end of the season,
sometimes his crop is unexpectedly large,
and he is obliged to rush it to the market at
prices which leave him a very scant margin
or proht..and again, when it is ravaged by
the yellows.!’ or. suffers from a protracted
wrought, he is una.oie, to meet the demand and
must be content with returns so slender that
“hey do not meet his outlay. If the Maryland
peach-grower can be believed, the outlcox
•P r biSTfidustry is very sombre, for he asserts
that the "yellows” are working into the very
heart or the peach belt, and that the cultiva
tion oi this fruit is doomed.
The two American bicyclers, Allen and
Sachtieben, tell in the September Century of
their meeting with a Chinaman in the heart
of the Flowery Kingdom who electrified them
by addressing them in the purest English.
9 ne lba,t P art y of mandarins' sons
Which had been sent over to our country some
years ago. as an experiment by the Chinese
government, to receive a thorough American
training. We cannot here give the historv of
thafexperiment. as Mr. Woo related it—how
fbey were subsequently accused of cutting off
their queues and becoming denationalized;
how, in consequence, they were recalled to
their native land, and degraded rather than
elevated, both by the people and the govern
ment, because they were foreign in their sen
timents and habits: and how. at last, they
gradually began to force recognition through
the power of merit alone. He had now been
sent out by the government <b engineer the
extension of the telegraph line from Su-chou
to Urumtsi, for it was feared by the govern
ment that the employment of a foreigner in
this capacity would only increase the power for
evil which, the natives already attributed to
this foreign innovation. The similarity in
the phrases telegraph. pole and dry heaven
had inspired the common belief that the line
or poles then s retching the country was
responsible for the long.-existing drought. In
one night several miles of poles were sawed
short off by the secret order of a banded con
spiracy. After several decapitations, the
poles were now being restored, and labellad
with the words, ‘Fut up by order of the em
peror.”
How long will seeds preserve .their vitality?
So many fables have been and are still being
promulgated on this subject, says S'eice for
All, that a lew facts may not be unacceptable.
The seeds of the willow will not germinate
after having once been dry, ar.d their germi
nating power is ’ost in two weeks, even if
during the interval they have been kept
fresh. i’he seeds of coffee and various other
plants do not germinate after having been
kept for .any considerable length of time.
Ine grains of wheat usually lose their power
of growth after a lapse of seven years, though
wheat over two centuries old has been o md
quite capable of being used for food. The
stories of “mt mmy wheat” sprouting after
having lain dormant in Egyptian tombs for
thousands of years are. to say the least of
them, very dubious. No well authenti
cated instances of such finds are extant,
while among other articles so d by the
Arabs to cred’, lous travelers, as coming
out of the same tomb as the ancient
wheat, have been dahlia bulbs and maize, the
deposition of which in the receptacle from
which they were said to be extracted necessi
tates the belief that 3.000 years ago the sub
jects of the Pharaohs were engaged in com
merce with America. Rye and wheat only
185 years old could not be induced to germi
nate, the place of the embryo being occupied
by a slimy, putrefying fluid. If, however,
excluded from light and air. and, above all,
from damp, seeds have been known to keep
tor lengthened periods. Seeds of the bean
and pea order have sprouted after 100 years’
storage in an herbarium, and many similar
instances have bden recorded. Seeds disin
terred from the soil taken from under very
ancient buildings and other situations have
, also sprouted, though the estimates of their
age hrve been all the way from 500 to 2,000
years They cannot, however, be considered
beyond the range of skepticism.
In man the manner in which death is re
vealed his been described by hundreds of
clairvoyant persons, who agree in saying that
the spirit leaves its earyily envelope by the
top of the cranium, says the Berlin Spiritual
istic Magazine. They observe, immediately
after, that a kind of vaporous mass rises from
the head. and. taking human form, condenses
more and more, and finally becomes a faithful
portrait of the dying person. When the com
plete form has left the body they have seen
that the spiritual elements still remain at
tached by a kind of fluidic ligament, originat
ing in the region of the brain and heart. This
bond endures for five or six hours, and after
it is severed the man feels no more. We
should not break out in lamentations beside a
death bed. nor speak of the dying person, nor
attempt to retain the life which is* escaping
Outbursts of grief always produce a disagree
able impression on a person who is passing
away, because, although internal sensations
are blunted, the impressions are nevertheless
made. Death itself is nothing, but there are
difficulties in dying just as in being born.
Some people die fully conscious: others
are half-conscious that life is abandoning
them, and each comprehends and hears what
is passing around. For all, death is similar
to a d.earn produced by narcotics. To those
who die in full consciousness the interruption
of life appears like a sudden swoon. Those
who arc only partially conscious are speedily
insensible to pain: feel, in general, pretty
well, and fall asleep like a man after a hard
day’s work. The latter circumstance ac
counts for the fact that manv spirits, on
awakening?fancy themselves, for a moment,
still iq the flesh, until the sight of (heir own
body stietched out before them firings the
conviction that they have just entered the
world of spirits. By death no man suffers
Change of form, or of organization*, or of char
acter. He ia neither better nor worse; knows
neither more nor less; has neither gained nor
lost in anv point, nor in any aptitude. He
has only aejuired conditions more favorable
for his ultimate development. The object of
spiritualism is to call attention to these facts.
Death is simply -a grogresslve evolution,
under the denomination of natural laws, it
is a blessed liberator which frees man from
the slavery of earth, dissipates the fogs
which here obsecure his vision, and gives a
clear field to all his aptitudes.
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THE NEWS IN GEORGIA.
Gathered From Correspondents and
Exchanges.
The Phoenix gold mine at Dahlonega has
been attached by eight different parties for
labor. A constable made the levy Wednes
day.
A new order has been started in Atlanta,
that of the Golden Union. It is a fraternal,
beneficiary order, and has sor t officers some or
the best citizens of that city.
Roswell Banner: Several parties have
promised to send in the largest melon. Let
them come—they are mighty nice about a
printing office, and you may get your home
paper for one melon. t
Friday afternoon Mr. Buchanan, a miller in
Oak Grove district, shot and seriously
wounded Hell Barnes. Barnes was up in a
muscadine vine gathering the fruit, when
Buchanan saw his hand, mistook it fora
squirrel, and tired. Alling Barnes full of shot.
Miss Nellie Rec s’. of While Oak happened
to a very serious accident Saturday, she
was driving a young horse to a road cart
when the hcrse became frightened. Miss
Nellie sprang oi.t of the cart, struck on the
side of an embankment and dislocated her
ankle. The dislocation was a bad one.
A large n?ad dog killed a small dog at
Capt. Conley’s and severely wounded a half a
dozen other dogs in East Point, on Thursday
morning last, before any one could put a stop
to his ravages oy killing him. One young
gentleman followed the dog in the dim dis
tance for miles to get a shot, and when the
opportunity was offered he discovered that
he had no powder or balls, and not even a
cap.
Lee County Enterprise:. Twe or three
weeks ago Miss Pauline Tanner, a prettv
young lady of the enterprising little town of
Leslie, was secretly married to Frank Minor.
Judge Freeman performed the ceremony, and
all parties agreed to profound secrecy. Some
one, however, gave the secret away a few
days ago and the happy couple had to make
a confession. Parental forgiveness was ex
tended them.
A negro boy in Oglethorpe county had a
bullet shot into his brain last Thanksgiving
day. j, he pul Sition of the brain can be dis
tinctly seen in the hole made by the bullet.
The boy has worked nearly all the year on
the farm, and says his memory and £rain
power are as good as ever, also that he has
never felt the slightest pain from the wound.
Brickbats and bullets have no terrors for the
Georgia negro.
Walter, the little son of Mr. Theodore Kelly
who lives on Broad way. Augusta, was pain
fully wounded Saturday afternoon by the ac
cidental discharge of a parlor riiie in the
hands of ms sister, w.io is a few years his
junior. They were playing in a room where
a parlor ririe was lying, loaded and cocked.
The girl picked up the weapm and fired it.
not meaning to hurt her brother, but the ball
struck him in the thigh.
A movement is on to annex the Kell Rifles
of Statesboro and the Green Rifles of Greens
boro to the Sixth regiment. At a recent
meeting of the officers of tins regiment the
matter was discussed, and each officer
pledge d himself to use his influence to the de
sired end. Should the two companies mentioned
•join the regiment it will necessitate the elec
tion of another major, and make the Sixth the
largest and best of the state's forces.
Mary Kemp brought suit Saturday against
the receivers of the Richmond qnd Danville
railroad for the death of her son, Merritt
Kemp. The petition claims that he was
working 'for the receivers of the railroad,
and while putting on a brake was thrown
to the ground and killed. She claims that
he was killed by reason of a defective link
in the brake chain, which had been broken
a long time and left there by the carelessness
of inspectors of the company. Her suit is
for $10,030, and was filed by Smith & Pendle
ton.
At Washington last Monday afternoon one
of the boys at the Catholic orphanage climbed
from a back window of the principal building
to the root to get some pigeons. The ladder
was not fixed securely and he fell fully thirty
feet. He was terribly injured, his skull be
ing badly fractured. He was not, however,
killed outright, but a doctor was sent for at
once. He did all he could for the boy, but
it was of no avail. Ihe boy died the same
night at 12 o’clock, and was buried on Tues
day. He was from Savannah, was 14 years
old and an orphan.
The Cordele barrel factory burned down
Tuesday morning at 3 o clook. The flames
were i eyond c ntrol when discovered, and
the roof was tailing in. The tire Comp iny re
sponded to the alarm, and were soon on hand
with the hose reel, but could render no ser
vice whatever, as the hose would reach larnly
half tne distance from the nearest water
plug. Cordele owns 1.10 > feet of hose, but
having only one reel, only half of it can be
han.lie). Four box cars on the sidetrack
were burned. They were loaded with barrels
and ready for shipment. The barrels were
removed from cne of them, however, and
saved. The factory vas valued at $2,500, but
was covered by insurance te the amount of
11,500. It is stp nosed that sparks from the
engine of one of the passenger trains fell
ajnong shavings and started the fire.
There is a curiosity in Dooly county. It is a
little girl, 6 years old. who possesses the larg
est head on record. She is the daughter of
J. F. Tombley, who Hies about tworoilis
above Vienna. Ee-head is thirty-six inches
around, or one foot in diameter; is soft on top
and weighs more than all the rest of her tody.
She has a remarkable brain and memory, uses
correct language and converses in a bright
and intelligent manner. She is totally blind,
but never fails to recognize her friends
and acquaintances. If sue on.ee hears a voice
she will recognize it when hoard months after
wards, and can tel', tn whom it belongs. If a
song is sun? in her presence, she can repro
duce it in perfect harmony, repeating word
for word. Within the last year her r.eik,
which has been verv small, has lerome
strong • enough to erat e her to move her
head about, and it is getting stronger every
day.
A tew days ago out on the road to Tignall.
S. E. Millar of Greenwood. S. C., drove into
the branch just beyond Bobo’s, but the stream
was so swollen that it. came very-near drown
ing Miler and his horse. His grin sack was
washed out and lost.
The outlook is that Athens will roll up the
largest cotton receipts this season ever re
ceived in the history of the city. The crop is
a very large one. and Athens will afford the
farmer better prices for his staple than any
point in Northeast Georgia.
While on the way to the funeral of
Dave Fields last week, in Henry county, in
going down a hill Q. A. Dickson’s horse
stumbled and fell, turning the road cart over
and throwing Mr. and Mrs. Dickson quite a
distance over the horse’s head.
The fastest time ever made between Way
cross and Jacksonville was made Saturday
night by Engineer Burns. The run was made
at the rate of 61 miles an hour, beating the
record. The Plant System has beat the
record twice this week on fast time.
A negro woman employed on Will Chap
pell’s place, ten miles west of Americus, tell
dead Thersday while at work in the kitchen.
She had bedh at work in the field all morning
and was apparently in good health, but had
scarcely entered the house when she fell and
expired.
The Brunswick police court broke the
record during the month of August. There
were 70 cases before Mayor Dunwody, and the
fines amounted to $909. The police pay roll
of the city amounts to $520. The department
is thus seen.to be self-sustaining, with a good
balance left over.
Senoia Enterprise: The prospect for a big
corn crop was never better. There will be
no market for western corn in this country
next year. That is the direction to prosperity
and independence for the farmers. The gov
ernment cannot make them rich, and it would
not do so if It could.
Madison Advertiser: Morgan county will
make one of the largest corn crops this year
ever gathered from her fertile fields. Many
predict that the crops, if used economically,
would amply supply all the demands of the
county for two years. Our farmers should
save their corn. They may not make such
another crop next year.
Lumpkin Independent: Thirteen feet
across! That’s a, big ground pea vine, sure;
but that is the exact size. On Wednesday
George Usher sent one side of the vine to
this office measuring six and one-half feet ;
long. It is of the Spanish variety, and wanted '
to spread over the earth Nearly one and
one-haif gallons of peas were picked from it. ■
Saturday night one week ago. a burglar ;
made a clean sweep of the Malone boot and |
shoe store, a large establishment in Birming
ham. Over fifty pairs of shoes, several I
valises and other articles were taken away. '•
Saturday morning the burglar was captured f
in Atlanta, most of the goods recovered, and ■
the Birmingham authorities wired to come
for the man.
Miss Jennie J. Buford, one of the most i
widely known teachers of Virginia, arrives in ;
Atlanta this week to take charge of the de- ;
partment of literature, English and Latin in '
Capital Female College. Miss Beck was for- }
tunate in indeed to secure so noted a teacher, t
who brings the experience and admirable |
methods of her twenty years’ successful work
to this popular institution of Atlanta.
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
'
The News of the State Told in
Paragraphs.
A white boy snatched a handkerchief con
taining 90 cents from a colored woman at the
Palatka postoffice Saturday and escaped.
State Health Officer Porter has granted a
permit to the authorities of Madison to allow
the construction of the water works at their
pleasure, and the work will be pushed rap
idly.
One who was probably the oldest man in Or
lando. was burled yesterday. Isaac Chap
man. a colored man, 10? years of age, died
during the previous night and was buried by
hs people in the city cemeteiy.
The Pensacola convent of Mercy on Pala
fox street is being thoroughly renovated, and
is also receiving a new coat of paint prepara
tory to the opening of the convent school
next Monday for the session of 1894-95.
There has been a marked increase in the
business of the port of Jacksonville the past
month o ver the preceding one. Coastwise en
trances comprise eleven steam vessels and
eighteen sailing craft, while from foreign
pons there were four schooners.
At Anthony on August 31, some one en
te-ed the store of J. Q. Boyd, stole several
suits of clothes, and scattered several more
through the streets. The thief used a large
hammer to break open the window, through
which he made entrance. On the counter
were left in distinct butline the barefoot
trucks of a man-
The Pensacola News is informed that Mal
lory Kennedy of New Orleans has challenged
Dan Shepard for a bicvcle race of 103 yards
to take place during Mr. Kennedy’s stay in
Pensacola, which will be about two weeks
longer. Mr. Shepard declined this race, but
signified his willingness to meet Mr. Ken
nedy in a quarter mile race. Mr. Kennedy is
willing to run the lilO-yard race, and then fol
low with a quarter mile race. Probably a
race will yes. be arranged.
At Arcadia, on Aug. 31. Albert S. Burges
was arrested by Sheriff Bethea charged with
forgery. Burges went to Punta Gorda two
yeais ago from Scotland and got a position as
waiter at the Hotel Punta Gorda There he
met a wealthy lady of Philadelphia, who
went there tor the winter, and with slick
tongue and winning ways he soon won her
affections. They were married, and after a
short time she found out that she had mar
ried a fraud and left him. Burges went to
Arcadia about three months ago and forged
the name of Otis Harris to a 8303-note and got
the money for it; he forged James Hinzson &
lons’ name to a S2OO-note and got the inonev,
and bought goods from several merchants
here and presented checks on Drexel Bros,
for payment, but the checks were refused
payment. Burges is now looking through the
bars awaiting trial. It is thought that he
will chop turpentine for a good many years.
A large rattlesnake has been at work thin
tbing the herd of hogs of Samuel Ellison of
Madison county, and he reports the loss of
several that were verv fir e from that cause.
A search for those miss ng revealed the fact
that they had keen killed oy the rattler, as it
was found in close iroximity to one of them.
It was dead also, and it is supposed from the
evidence of a battle that existed at the spot
that the hegs nave fignt and were themselves
successful in killing the
Prof. Dan Daly, the Jacksonville boxer,
through his manager, received the following
reply from Prof. Luby of Charleston. S. C.,
Saturday night, in reply to a telegram sent
him late last night requesting an acceptance
or back down of his (Daly’s) challenge to
fight: ’’Yes: will fight Daley, but not before
the middle of October.” Articles of agree
ment will be drawn up at once and signed by
the men for the bout, which will be for a lim
ited number of rounds—probably twenty.
The contest will take place either in Jack
sonville or Charleston for a purse and gate
money.
A half grown deer was captured at Burn
side beacn, near Jacksonville, in the surf on
Wednesday by. a young man named Drake,
who lives not far from Mayport. Drake had
been out hunting, and had given the deer a
long chase through the swamp. The animal
broke from the swamo and took to the beaoh.
After running about 200 yards on the oeach it
suddenly took to the water, and headed out
to sea. Drake followed and waded up to the
deer, which appeared to be exhausted. He
caught it by the tail at hrst, but not having
very much tail to hold to, he got around to
its head, and, after repeatedly dipplug its
head under the water, he led it out on the
beach. Several persons saw the queer .tight
and capture of the deer, and one had a rope
ready when ijhe deer was brought out of the
water. The - rope was fastened around its
neck. and. after a few- vain attempts to get
away, the deer appeared to give up all hope
or escape and followed quietly behind a
wagon, to which it was tied.
St. Augustine wants a free mail delivery
and is entitled to that system, so far as the
business of the postoffice is concerned, out
there are two other requirements which must
first be obtained before the carrier system is
adopted. They are the numbering of the
houses of the city and building sidewalks
along one or two of the streets on the out
skiits of the city.
Patrons of the St. Augustine opera houso
the coming season will be pleased to gaze
upon an entire new set of scenery, which has
just arrived from Chicago, where it was
painted by’ a celebrated firm. It includes
parlor wood, street and kiteken scenes, -
everything in fact, required in a well con
ducted theater, and all of the old scenery
will be dispensed with.
The Flor da supreme court has decided that
the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad
must be sold. The bonded debt of the road is
over $1,000,000: the value of the property is
estimated at about $>.(300,030. The date of sale
has not yet been set. Alter tne bonds and
floating debt have teen paid the Macon Con
struction Company, which built the road,
will, if the property brings anything like its
value, realize a good sum.
The St, Augustine Press has received a
copy of thp sixth special report of the com
missioner of labor. The report is devoted
entirely to the phosphate industry of the
United States, and particularly to Florida
and South Carolina. It is full of the most
valuable information on- this topic and was
compiled by Capt. James F. Tucker of this
state, assisted by Capt. H. H. Colquitt of
Georgia, and B. C. Taliaferro of Washington,
both well known in this city, together with
several other experts
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Bam’Herg Herald: Bamberg is up to date on ,
everyth a?. She has her cotton mills, wagon
factories., schools, saw mills, and last but not
least, she has two good bands, one white and
one colored.
The Coosaw Mining Company are removing
everything from Chisolm’s Island to a point
near Beaufort. The employes are coming
over every day. looking tor houses to rent.
Such a move*wiil i>e a sood thing for Beau
fort, but quite a loss to the Kean’s Neck
country. .
Rock Hill Herald: The largest ear of corn
we have seen recently was from the farm of
R. E. Sadler. It measured II inches in length.
9*4 in circumference at the big end and 7*4
inches at the small end. It had twenty-two
rows oi fittv grains each, and the grains
measured flve-efgths of an inch long.
The secretary of state Saturday issued a
commission to the Charleston Electro-Elat
ing and Bicycle Repair Company of Charles
ton. Tne corporators are Noman S. Lea and
Henry J. Welsh. The o iject of the company
is roily expla ned in «tne title. The capital
stock is $1,090. divided into thirty-two shares.
On Thursiay T. R. Moore of Fernandina
had the m sfortur.e to lose in some mysteri
ous manner a consileraole sum of money he ■
had placed in his pocket for th# purpose of
paying some Mils. The roll contained be
tween $155 and si's. all of which, with the ex
cention of a silver certificate for ts,.was in
bills issued by the First National bank of
this city. In conversation with a reporter
Mr. Moore said that he drew the money
Wednesday and had paid but one bill out of
it at the time he discovered his loss.
Orangeburg Times-Democrat: Messrs. C. ■
J. Rast and W. A. Rast of the Haigler sec
tion, while en route one day to Cameron, on
the Manchester and Augusta railroad, killed
a monster rattlesnake. The snake is on ex
hibition in This city. It is the largest ever
seen in th' s j parts. It had fourteen rattles
and abi tton. and was seven feet long. Old
citizens say it was between 15 and Its years
old.
Chief Engineer Gardner of the Manchester
and Augusta Railroad is in Orangeburg.
When asked what had trecome of the pro
posed new road from Charleston to Augusta,
which his been in contemplation for some
time, be said it had been reported that the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
had bought the South Carolina and Georgia
road. It this is true, he »aid, the new road
would not be built. He said the Louisville
and Nashville system was the road which
had the new route in contemplation. When
asked how many fast through passenger
trains would be put on the Manchester and
Augusta road on Sept. 3. fie <aid two more,
and added that the present mixed trains
would be run also until the new road was
completely surfaced. This will take several
weeks yet.