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CORRESPONDENCE Correspondence solicited; but to receive at tention letters must be accompanied by a responsible name, not for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.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. 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. ____ b/k.ng powder. Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair.’ Dit CREAM MOST \ pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Frig iom Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant,* 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. I 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.