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'■ i~ J ' r <r/T t«lfe r C’TAO -v' ' We solicit articles for this department. The name of the writer should accompany the letter or article, not necessarily for publication, but as an evidence of good faith. • and communications relative to agricultural and horticultural subjects, if addressed to Agiy. Editor, Drawer N, Milledgeville, Ga., will receive immediate attention. Bones; What to Do With Them. I have accumulated about two wagon loads of bones from here and there, cost ing only the picking up'and hauling home. - I know they are worth something as manure, but I would be glad to have you say the best use I could make of them and the best way to prepare them for use. B. F. J 4 Bones, when ground up into a fine con dition, constitutes an almost unequalled fertilizer; but it depends upon how they * have been preserved since the death of the animals as to how much value they possess. When exposed to the air and rain, they lose much of the {nitrogen that they originally contained. jWe presume you have no acct ss to a bon<A*mill. If you have, we should advise you'to have them ground Into “meal,” or “dust,” and then it can be used for anything. As a rule, however, it is more profitable to use bone meal on crops that are somewhat of a permanent character, such as fruit trees, grape vines, etc., and any crops that occupythe soil even two years. Even finely ground bone, as a rule, will have very little effect on crops that hold the land only a few months; crops such as Irish potatoes, and sala’d crops of all kinds. By tar the best thing you could do with your small quantity of bones is to break them into small pieces and apply them to any fruit trees or grape vines that may be growing on your place. Doubtless you have something of the kind under way. It not, you should make the start this ff.ll. In the case of fruit trees or grape vines, scatter a bushel of the broken bones about the trees out as far as six or eight feet, and dig the pieces well into the soil-three or four inches at least. That is, broadcast the broken bone all about the tree, out to that distance. If done now, you will observe a marked ef fect on the growth of the tree next year. There are thousands of loads of bones go ing to waste in the south to day that ought to be made to produce fruit. SEPTEMBER NOTES.. What Can a Parmer Do Now-What Oan a Trucker Do P Besides gathering his ripened crops, there are not many things that the farmer-man can do just now. But the few things that he can do are very im portant. It is unfortunate that the great mass of southern farmers still hold to the Idea that there is little or nothing to do for the next four or five months beyond gathering the two or three crops they have been working on for the past six months. Certainly anywhere south of Tennessee every farmer who pretends to be one should sow at least five acres of oats to the mule. This is the minimum. The wise farmer will sow twenty; the Very wise one will sow more; that is if he has the land that he can devote to such a cheaply raised crop, which, as a rule, per haps pays him more clear profit to the acre than either his corn or cotton, and especially the latter in the past two or three years. We are not afraid of having this statement disputed by any intelligent farmer who understands the matter; sowing two bushels of oats on rich land, three on medium, with a cost of from 82 to 83 per acre, it is possible to get any where from seventy-five bushels down to twenty bushels of oats per acre; on very poor land possibly twelve or fifteen bush els may be the output. There are eases where less thhn twelve bushels would be profitable to the backwoods farmer of southern Georgia. ,**»* « * » « Any farmer who has fair land—land, - •ay, that will make ten bushels of corn Without artificial fertilizing—should sow two bushels of oats add fifteen pounds of . red clover seed in October'or early in November. After cutting the oats in May or early, June, the land should not be plowed again until fall or the follow ing spring. If by any chance the clover fails to take possession of the land after the grain is cut off, tho weedd will do it, and will thereby enrich the land. It will be very poor land though when the clover will fail to grow and enrich it. It is a source of regret to every intelli gent observer who Understands the situa tion that our farmers do not recognize the value of the several varieties ofclover that suit our soils, as well as any varieties used In other sections of the country. The day Is not far off when our views will be accepted that the south can grow clover, one kind or another, as wed as New York or Ohio. The clovers are bet ter enrichers of worn soil than are peas, chiefly from the fact that they are winter growers instead of summer growers. We can sow clover in the fall and it will grow during the winter, whereas peas will grow onlv in the summer time. This makes a great difference. , A crop of bur clqver. or crimson clover, is more economical, in fact, than two • crops of peas, when we look at it aright, simply from the fact that the latter de mands the soil when we can be growing qur chief money crops, cotton and corn. Clover of the several kinds that we can grow to best advantage are winter grown exclusively. They grow at a time when peas will not grow, and allow of the land being planted to corn or cotton the fol lowing season in the majority of cases, if so desired. The southern farmer that fails to grow oats and set aside a reasonable area in clover, certainly does not avail himself of the enviable privilege that is his, and should not oomplain if his farming ven ture falls short of hi» early expectations. Now that corn is worth something - more probably than has been the case in several years-it would seem, that more than usual efforts would be made to raise such crop-s as could be used in its stead for stock feeding. Good winter pastures and an early crop of oats would subserve the purpose to the fullest extent. Why not resort to them t • The southern trucker, or market gar dener. cannot obtain the best results with out due regard for those crops that are most appropriately started in the fall (September and October}. Are there three more profitable crops, year in and year out, then those of onion, cabbage a d spinach t Tho earliest crops of these re grown from sowing of seed in Sep tember and October, and even as late as November, in sections lower down. These are three great crops, and when intelli gently grown, pay the grower a very satisfactory profit. Then, too, there are strawberries, a most profitable crop when properly grswn. Now is the time to make new plantings. Set out rightly, with suitable variety, a small crop of berries may be gathered next spring; but the profits will not come until the following year and tho year following that. Tho fall of the year is the proper time to start nearly all the fruits. Are you thinking of starting an aspara gus bed? Now is the time to find out when you will get your plants to set out a little latter on. While asparagus is rather a tedious vegetable to marker, still it will pay for all the labor expended upon it. The man of means will buy it in season at almost any price, and it is a crop that ordinarily pays -the intelligent grower. Do you know how to grow it? It is not a difficult crop to grow. Besides any work suggested it is always in order to apply manure and do a certain amount of preparation with plows during the fall. Save and market, every dime’s worth of the made ffrop, and then go ahead with a light heart to start another. How pleasant indeed, is the life of the true farmer. It is one of constant toil and care, but it need not be one of drudg ery and discontent. The Eijf—lts Value and Possibilities. It is strange that this delicious fruit is not more extensively planted, says the Farmer and Fruit Grower. The hardy varieties, if given winter protection, have a wider geographical ranee than is gen erally supposed, the Celestial fruiting as far north as North Carolina and Virginia. They have certain features that should strongly recommend them to all who value fruit for food, or as a money crop. The tree has no insect enemies, and those who plant figs will have at least one kind of fruit tree that will be sure to yield them something to eat, and not the usual annual crop of disappointment, that is the tod common fruitage of those brightly pictured trees so glowingly described and so temptingly illustrated by the travelling fruit-tree man. Speaking of the fig in Middle Florida, I can state that I cannot recall a single failure of this crop during the thirty odd years over which I can look back. A dozen trees-planted near the house can be depended upon to supply a family with an abundance of fresh figs, besides all that are needed for preserves and marmalades. The mocking birds will levy a small tax upon the fruit, which they more than re pay by the destruction of insect pests in the garden. Plant a few extra trees to off-set the loss by the birds; do not shoot them by the hundred, as a erape grower boasted that he had done, some years since in your journal. Such a utilitarian spirit is, I hope, exotic in Florida. After a fig tree has arrived at the bear ing age it will stand a very low tempera ture without any injury whatever, and will stand any amount of neglect. It is a common sight to find an old fig tree in perfect health and vigor standing alone in an old field, the surviving witness of a former settlement. One cause of a great deal of misapprehension as to the hardi ness of the fig lies in the fact that it is very tender while young, and even in Florida must be protected every winter until it is four or five years old, or is fully grown or in full bearing. After this it needs no protection whatever, and is a good and permanent investment. I know trees in Monticello that are certainly thirty years old, and which, with total neglect, have borne an annual crop of at least three or four bushels of figs. The trees often set a crop of fruit the first year, but they must be four or five years old before they are at their best. The fruit begins to ripen early in J uly, and the aeason lasts till late in August. It is eaten usually fresh from the trees, some tastes preferring an addition of cream and sugar. It makes excellent preserves and marmalades, and is easily evaporated, in which form there is no reason why it should not become a val uable article of commerce. There are no fig orchards in Florida, a dozen trees being about the maximum number on one place. 'I know of no reason why they could not be extensively plant ed, and the fruit evaporated, and find a ready market. With its many advantages, it is strange that the fig is not more extensively planted and its possibilities developed, ana it is with a view of calling attention to these facts that this article is written. Corn and Olover. The importance of the corn crop is be coming more apparent every year, in view of the many uses which can be made of it to advantage to absorb the largest sur plus which can be produced. Large quan tities are exported for bread and for stock feeding. It is converted into glucose sugar and starch in large quantities. It is made into high wines for mechanical purposes and to set on fire the brains and stomachs of silly' men. It furnishes the principal food for the production of the beef and pork necessary to feed the world. As hogs are now and have been for some time ■ the best paying farm product, and as corn and clover are the great fabtors in its production, and as these two crops rotate admira bly and to the great successor both crons, their importance is apparent at once. Mr. D. B. Nitas, tho lowa seed corn man, says: “It has been proven that clover sod is as good to produce corn as the vir gin soil. Farmers are just awakening to the importance of sowing all small grain fields to clover. It is the only wholesome fertilizer wo. have discovered. We be lieve we can keep our land in clover two or three years and then raise three crops of corn and realize more net profit on i ; three crops of corn than if we had kept ■ raising corn all the years. We are i'n , i dined to believe that the yield of corn . will be greater if the clover is pastured ’ instead of being cut for hay. We be l lieve that the importance of clover in a rotation of crops is not half appreciated. As to seed, we think a great deal de pends on good seed. When we say good seed we mean that it must not only grow, but grow strong and even. Seed should be of a variety suited to the locality. It has been proven at the' experiment sta -1 tion that the medium, early-maturing | varieties give greater yields than either ■ the early or late varieties. Every corn-* ’ grower ought to have a clear conception I of what constitutes a model ear of corn. I He should have a high ideal, one that • : embraces the most good qualities in one variety. Earliness, productive ness and large yield of net corn to cob are essentials. To properly culti vate a crop of corn means first, thor i oughly prepare the ground for planting by I plowing well, and the use of a disc or smoothing harrow until the ground is in ' fine tilth, the proper cultivation of corn . would keep a philosopher busy. We cul i tivate deep the first time, and close to the I corn. The second time not quite so deep I and a little further off, and the third time J plow just as lightly as we can, and make I the cultivator scour and cover the remain i ing weeus. While plowing com we should i study the habits of the corn plant.” DeOonte and Kieffer Pears. The Tjeeonte and Kieffer are two pears of value to the average orchardist, and I they do well in all our temperate , climates, especially in the south, where ; fruit growers look upon them as their j best friends in this line, says the Ameri i i can Cultivator. There are very few I pears that can adapt themselves to the soil and climate of the sunnj’ south, but the LeConte and Kieffer are almost ideal in this respect. Their fruits are not the best sent to market, but they are good THE WEEKLY NEWS ITWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1894. enough in their season to command high prices. Both of these pears are derived from the Chinese pear, and they exhibit many qualities that are very similar. The common Chinese Sand pear produced a very poor fruit that had little to recom mend itself, and very few cared to raise it except for ornament and curiosity. Yet from this poor specimen of pear the Kieffer seedling was produced. It is an excellent fruit for canning, but very few comparatively know how to ripen it, and hence many condemn it as a poor eating fruit. So it is, if not properly grown and ripened. It is a heavy and prolific bearer, and a good tree produces more fruit than any other good pear tree growing in any of ourchards. An acre planted with these trees yield an enormous crop of good fruit for the market. If- comes into bearing rather late in the season—at a time when many other pears are out of the market. It reaches its perfect ma turity in October and November, and sometimes its fruiting is prolonged, so that good specimens can very easily be preserved until the midwinter holidays, when fancy prices are paid for the fruit’ In many respects the Le Conte is supe rior to the Kieffer, although of the same origin. The pear has not received the at tention it deserves in the north, for it thrives there as well as in the south. Originally this pear was produced by a New York state grower, but it was only popularized in the south. It is now going back to its native state again, and is being recommended generally for its merits. It is also a very heavy cropper, and its fruit is very firm and excellent, making fine market pears. It is not a rough-sainned fruit, as the Kief fer, but larger and longer. When prop erly ripened it is a very pretty and at tractive fruit. It is very similar in shape to the famous Clapp’s Favorite, but larger than this pear. When ripe the green skin turns to a light yellow, and it comes into maturity early in the fall, a month or two earlier than the Kieffer. When plucked it should be put away in a dark room for a few days, where it will ripen up beautifully, and be ready for eating. The flesh is fine grained, juicy and not coarse. They make excellent pre serves, as w’ell as marketable fruit for hand and table eating. Dime and Gypsum as fertilizers.. For somq years past the agricultural papers have contained many articles con cerning the utility or non-utility of lime and gypsum, when applied to land for the purpose of benefiting growing crops, says the Practical Farmer. These articles taken together show a pretty general con currence of experience to the effect that applications of lime and gypsum, as such, do not now show the very marked results they once did. From thirty to forty years ago the practice of liming land was very general in this section, but it gradually declined and has appar ently nearly ceased. Before liming came into fashion, the use of gypsum or land plaster was very general among our best farmers, notwithstanding the fact that it cost theta from 810 to 815 per ton in large lumps, and not less than 82 per ton addi tional to get it ground. Yet they thought it paid them well to buy and use it at this cost. This was New York gypsum,which is less pure than the Nova Scotia. After the laud has been limed, 50 to 60 bushels per acre being the usual dressing, appli cation of gypsum ceased to show any very marked results, and its use was very gen erally discontinued. For twenty years past very little lime or gypsum, as such,* have been used by our farmers. But, of course, as many of them now buy pretty largely of the various “phosphates” in the market, they necessarily also buy and apply large amounts of lime, in the form of gypsum, which all these phos phates contain. Sometimes, and on some soils, these phosphates, even when they are compounded with little or no nitrogen qr potash, show a very efficient action in increasing tjteyield of crops. Now I have Often w’ondered whether part of the good results they give, is not due to the gyp sum they contain, which, however, never gets any credit for it. So I determined this year, to.try some experiments for my own satisfaction. I wished to make an experiment with scarlet or crimson clovpr, sowing it in corn at the last working; and so five acres were selected for this purpose. And, by the way, I consider clover to be the only proper plant with which to test the util ity of lime or gypsum; because if this plant does not respond to such applica tion, it may be assumed that no other will. One acre was limed early in the spring, fifty bushels to the acre, the lime carefully slacked and spread evenly and well harrowed in. No application of any sort was made on the remaining four acres, until at the last working of the corn, July 11, one acre was sown with gypsum, about 500 pounds, and the whole plot of five acres seeded to scar let olover and then cultivated shallow for the last time. Now for results as far as they show to date. lam writing Aug. 16. On the part that had neither lime nor gypsum, the clover has not made a very good catch. The seed was good and it started all right, but the season so far has been unfavor able, hot and dry, showers light and far apart. A considerable percentage of the clover plants, on the part referred to, have evinently failed to pass safely through the critical periods of germination and early infancy. The plants that have survived, gen erally show only the seed leaves, with one and sometimes two other leaves be sides Where the gypsum was sown there are two or three times as many plants growing. Many of them show three and four leaves besides the seed leaves, and they now alffiost cover the ground with their foliage; while on the p.iece having neither lime nor g-ypsum you carnot see the plants at all, ht a dis tance of three or four rods. Where the land was limed the clover has also made a good catch and is doing well, and is only a little behind that on the gypsum plat. I shall watch this experiment carefully to the end, and when the final results appear shall have more to say about it. But if, by the use of lime and gypsum in my clover, some in corn, I have Secured a much better catch and a more vigorous growth so far, I am in little doubt as to what the outcome will be. Lime costs from 5 cents to 8 cents per bushel, unslacked, at the kiln, and Nova Scotia gypsum, delivered in small lots, about 89 per ton. The Bamboo. An effort is being made by Mr. J. L. Normand of Louisiana to popularize the cultivation of the bamboo in the United States, says the Farm and Fireside. The thousand and one uses to which it is put in China and Japan, as well as other Asiatic and semi-tropical countries, are well known to all who have traveled and to many who have kept pace with modern travel and commerce by reading the re ports of consular agents and books of travel. At first sight the cultivation of bam boo in the United States will strike the reader as an ephemeral effort of little available and less practical value, and of no moment whatever to the hard-working, illy-paid farmer. But we are of those who, when they overtake a fellow way farer bn his travels, love to ask and answer questions, to get and give infor i mation, to talk of habits, the manners and customs of the country from which he hails and we came, and generally to keep our minds quickened and a ready receptacle for all hints of a practical and possibly profitable character. Bamboo is not to be scoffed at. either as an impractical crop or an unprofitable one.' It will bear looking at and thinking over. True, it is raised by a cheap peo ple and where labor costs but little, is made of immense value because available for service in so many ways and for so many diametrically opposite practical purposes. But other plants indigneous to foreign countries and soils, fruits and veg etables, birds and animals, have been in troduced into the Christian world appar ently to advantage, and we see no reason why this should not be added to the list. ‘•The bamboo," says a writer, “is a plant of incredible tenacity of life, and grows with wonderful rapidity—the fast est growing plant in the world. It ex tends its roots in all directions and comes larger, stouter and with increased vigor every year, until the plant attains a growth of eight to nine inches in diam eter. The usefulness of this grand plant is here unknown. The time will soon . come, however, when our timber becomes scarcer, we will turn to the baniboo as a substitute for fences, trellis work, vine stakes, hop poles, bean poles, telegraph poles, rustic- seats for the lawn, chairs, bedsteads, picture frames, summer - houses, flower pots, etc., etc. It makes a splen did roof for houses and sheds that will not leak. A flat roof can be made of it and do away with rafters, laths, etc., and save much work. Large sheds cm be built of it in less time and cost than with lumber and will last as long. T believe it will grow as far north as our common wild cane, which it greatly resembles, but a giant by the side of it. when fairly started. For the lawn a group of bam boos is unsurpassed in grace and beauty. It forms the best wind break possible, and grows so dense and tall that it forms the best protection from wind of any thing that grows from the ground.” A M’KINLEY “INFANT.” Tack Trust That Squeezes 93,000.000 a Year Out of the People. From the Philadelphia Press (Rep.). New York, Sept. 14.—The Atlas Tack Corporation has become a trust. It con trols 90 per cent, of the tack and shoe nail product of this country. This monopoly was formed originally ten years ago. Its \plan of operation then was to take in competing interests and pay premiums of profits; also to pay the expenses of men unemployed because of being laid off by the trust. The annual profits then were about #1,000,000. But some 40 per cent, went for “dead wood,” or idle men. January 1, last, the corporation sent out a new price list, prices bding advanced an average of 10 to 12 per cent. Jan. 24, a second list showed an additional in crease of a similar per centage. It was not until April 14, though, that the Bos ton corporation showed its hand in full by making an additional increase, which has been figured out by an expert in this city at 33% to 85 per cent, over the other two increases. This makes a total in crease over the prices before Jan. 1 last of from 60 to 65 per cent. While the profits tinder the old combi nation were #1,000,000, of which 40 per cent, went for premiums, etc., Treasurer Parks is declared, on good authority, to have said that the present profits are from #2,000,000 to #3,000,000 a year, with nothing to be paid for premiums or “dead wood.” DISCUSSION DECLINED. Hines Gives His Reasons for Refus ing to Meet Atkinson. Atlanta, Ga., Sept, id.— Judge Hines, the populist candidate, refuses to meet Col. Atkinson in joint debate, and what otherwise promised to be a series of in teresting discussions is at an end. Judge Hines’ letter is as follows: Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 15,—Hon. W. Y. Atkin son. Newnan, Ga.—Dear Sir: On my return to Atlanta to-day. I find your letter of the 12th instant, mailed at Newnan on the 13th, inviting me to jointly discuss with you the Issues of the present campaign. In view of the fact that the executive committee of your party has refused to recommend a divi sion of managers of the noils between the democrats and populists at the approaching election, and it late <i;Ue>of your invitation, the acceptance of which would compel me to cancel my appointments made before vour letter was received, 1 decline your invitation. Joint discussion of these issues ' will do no good, if the means of having the judgment of the voters fairly expressed upon them are denied. Had your committee granted the request of our committee, and had, your invitation come earlier, it would have afforded me pleasure to discuss with you the issues of the campaign. Yours most respectfully, • - James K. Hines. HANDLED WITHOUT GLOVES. That is the Way 'Judge Atkinson Treated the Populists. Waycross, Ga.,Sept. 16.—Hon. Leon A. Wilson, democratic nominee for state sen ator, and Judge Spencer R. Atkinson, who is prominently mentioned for the supreme court, addressed 400 persons Fri day at Nichols. A large number of ladies were present, and they paid close attention to the speoches. A few populists were in the crowd, and some of them were brought back to the Democratic party by the speeches. Mr. Atkinson’s speech appealed to the people's reason and showed that the pop ulist party platfofm would not bear in spection. He said that it was not be lieved in by a populist in Coffep county. He declared that there was not a populist in the county that indorsed, the land and government ownership of railroads ques tions in the populistic platform. The populistic claims of Jeffersonian democracy, he declared, were fallacious. Mr. Jefferson had no such views. He said that in Kansas, where all the new isms came from, the populists are called by themselves Lincolntonian republicans, and that here they claim to be Jefferso nian democrats. Col. Wilson reviewed the work of the populists in the county and showed the absurdity’ of the bills introduced by them. Much credit is due to Mr. George W. Dean, for the success of the speaking and barbecue. DEMOCRATS AT MANOR. Waycross. Ga., Sept. 16.—About 600 people assembled at Manor yesterday to hear pure democracy expounded. Col. John C. McDonald made an eloquent ad dress. He spoke earnestly in behalf of Hon. Leon A. Wilson, the nominee for state senator, and asked the people to support him. Col. McDonald was fre quently cheered. Cant. J. F. Stone made a forceful speech against populism. His humorous anec dotes were highly appreciated by every body. - ■ A magnificent dinner was served. After dinner Col. W. A. McDonald, the nomi nee for representative from this county, made a speech. It was a strong plea for pure democracy. Col- McDonald referred to Dr. S. W. Johnson, populistic candidate for congress from this district, saying that Johnson’s chances for election were most discouraging. * UNDISTURBED PEACE. Emperor Francis Joseph Expresses His Views on the Situation. Buda-Pesth, Sept. 16.—Emperor Francis Joseph received- the Austro-Hungarian j delegations here to-day. Addrersing them he congratulated them upon the fact that the confidence expressed that peace would be preserved and consolidated had been confirmed by the establishment of a still more peaceful situation throughout Europe and the existence of the most amicable relations among the powers. “We hope.'’ he said, “that in the future we shall be able to devote our selves undisturbed to the well being of our people; nevertheless, it will be neces sary. equally with the other powers, to continue to develop our military forces.” Charlie—You're awfully polite: but your company manners and that hat don’t go well together. Maude—Which shall 1 take off:.—Harper s Weekly. A PRINCELY PAPER MAKER J Bismarck Actively Engaged in Its Manufacture at Varsin. 1 Our Weekly Budget Krom Berlin—A Sharp Trick of the Emperor—Bail roads Ordered to Advertise Cheap Excursions to Swell the Crowds at the Army Maneuvers—Disposition of Ironclads Consolidating the Triple Alliance- Berlin, Sept. 16. —The newspapers have found little room for accounts of the great natal review off Swinemunde, al though they devoted columns to the East Prussian military maneuvers. The dis-- play of warships, however, had the more political significance of the two. It was in fact a grand semi-political function for the benefit of the gaping crowds which special trains took to the coast from all parts of the empire. CHEAP EXCURSIONS ORDERED. At first the official mind did not grasp the emperor’s reasons for ordering the railway authorities to advertise popular excursions to the scene of the review. It now recognizes the fact that the emperor was practicing one of his clever schemes preliminary to an important act of gov ernment. The royal railways carried northward thousands from Leipsic, Halle, Dresden, Breslau, Frankfort, Brun swick and Madgeburg. Their ex cursion trains frpm Berlin were filled to the standing room. At Swinemunde Jhe tourists found coast ing .steamers waiting to convey them to the fleet. As the Berlin, Halle and, Leip sic steamers passed the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, the emperor commanded his band to play popular airs, while he stood on the upper deck saluting them. These courtesies were intended to make the navy popular. In the last session of the reischstag the deputies declined to appropriate • 4,500,000 marks for new naval expenses.’ In the coming session they will be asked to grant new items amounting to 10,000,- 000. By stirring the pride of the electors the emperor hopes to induce those who repudiated the smaller grant to look with favor on the larger one. He has already succeeded in giving 10,000 inlanders who never before saw a war ship a most splendid naval spectacle. DISPOSITION OF IRONCLADS. During the winter the navy will have two new formations. A reserve division of five ironclads will be stationed at Dant zig and another at Ocaliel. Both divisions are intended for the special protection of the Baltic and North sea ports. The naval programme for this week’s maneuvers in cludes a night attack by the torpedo flotilla to-morrow and a bombardment of the Kurischehaff coast works by the first squadron. Hostilities will cease’ on Thursday. On Friday the emperor, Ad miral von der Goltz and other comman ders will meet in Swinemunde to criticise the work of the fleet. THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME. The Nordeusche Allgemeine Zeitung, which is inspired from the Wilhelm Strausse, is publishing a series of articles under the caption: “The Government’s Programme of Action and the Criticisms of its Opponents.” The writer’s purpose evidently is to throw light on the future policy of the emperor and chancellor Von Caprivi. As the articles are worued in the foggiest style of the new editor, Dr. Griesman. nothing definite can be learned from them except that the government wishes all the parties of law and order to combine against the social democrats. Griessrpann hints that the emperor has new legislative plans to soften the lot of the working man, but does not tell whether the government proposes Return ing to the old repressive laws. The Koelnische Zeitung maintains these laws will not be revived. CONSOLIDATE THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. The increase of the Austro-Hungarian budgets for army and navy in harmony with Germany’s previous action has given rise to much sarcastic comment on the general assurances of peace. In opening the Buda-Pesth delegation on Fri day Freiherr Von Chlomuky said: “Al though we recognize Count Kalnoky’s wise and efficient policy in consolidating the triple alliance and developing the treaties of commerce, although we feel that by such means he has afforded us new pledges of the peace of Europe, we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that when all European states are forming to augment their military strength, the day of a general disarma ment must still be far off. Austria- Hungary cannot enter the path of peace alone. She cannot degrease her arma ment while others increase theirs. We must rely upon the delegation not to fol low the dictates of mere hope, but rather to develop the resources of our army and navy in accordance with the needs of the existing situation. V □ Unprejudiced opinion is that, with all the references to increased armaments and war. Chlomuky’s speech was noted for its pacific tone. HERR VON PLOETZ’S REPLIES’ Herr von Ploetz continues to justify his reputation of chief agitator of the agra rian league. He has written a reply to the emperor’s Koenigsberg speech, in or der to prove the nobility’s right to oppose the emperor’s policy, without being charged with disloyally. Despite his re-’ peated declarations, however, Ploetz gives signs that he may climb down. For instance, he closes his last open let ter with the words: “Our king ought not to be left for a moment without the assur ance of our confidence in him. He ought to remain unweakened and steadfast in his power and high prerogatives. The landlords and noblemen of Prussia will always be firmlj’ loyal to him in every danger that may threaten the throne.” The Deutsche Zeitung, a new agrarian organ in Berlin, harps on the theme that monarchic sentiment is dying out iti Ger many. The quickness and number of the loyal responses which the emperor's Koenigsberg speech has elicited seems to disprove its argument completely. AFTER THE SPIRITUALISTS. The Saxon authorities have begun a : campaign against the spirit mediums and i ! societies of spiritualists. The societies i i are suppressed on the ground that they ' A JKJhtLORII . - °f cur ® B such *5? as n o other medicine can CIK>I h boast of, has gfry-ffS&T been won by OyßasS 'a. Wv Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi t aOwilfiHiMifiiWlß cal Discovery. The worst Scrofula, Salt-rheum, Tetter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Enlarged Glands, Tu mors and Swellings, are cured by it. 1 Mrs. John G. Fos- ter. of 33 Chapin St., -*7? tLx J i i Canandaigua, N. 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He employs 200 men at his Hammermuehle works and 100 more at Kampfmuehle in making paper. He exports much of the product to foreign firms who make a specialty of their trade in Bismarck paper. Although he has 20,000 square meters of timber at Varsin, the prince is obliged to import from Russia the wood used in his factories. As ever, the prince takes a a deep interest in the condition of his workingmen. Every one of them are well housed and well fed. Formerly the Varsin workmen were paid on Saturday. When the prince learned that they spent too much of their money in the public houses on Sunday and were unfit for work on Monday, he changed pay day to Tues day with their consent. VANITY OB’ WOMEN, CONVICTS. The Ruling Passion Strong in a Con dition Worse Than Death. From the Philadelphia Press. One would think that the female con vict would be tho last person in the world to think of personal adornment, but this, it seems, is not so. The majority of con victs are pronounced, by some one who has looked into the matter; to be the vain est of the vain daughters of Mother Eve. A writer in an English paper says that our hapless countrywoman, Mrs. May brick, set the fashion in Woking Prison of wearing the skirt long, that is, with a train, as she was wearing such when she entered the prison. The dresses served out to the convicts are constant sources of annoyance to them, and many an hour is spent in touch ing up and altering. At Millbank, another English prison, some years since, a female convict was discovered to be in possession of three tallow candles, which, if they had not been missed, would no doubt have been used as pomade! Periodically the hinges' of the cell doors are oiled, and strange as it may seem convicts have been detected wiping the oil and putting it on their hair. One woman created quite a sensation among the female convicts in Woking prison by reason of the brilliancy of the color of her cheeks and lips. Many of her fellow-prisoners became most envi ous, and exercised every kind of blandish ment in order to induce the fortunate one to part with her secret—but in vain. At last one day she became quite friendly with a young convict to whom she took a fancy, and during the ten minutes’ chat (female convicts are al lowed to converse with each other for this allotted time) she confided the secret. It was soon all over the prison, and very soon on most ot the checks of the women could be found traces of color. The “paint” was obtained in the following ingenious manner: In the aprons that the women were wearing there was, run ning through the pattern, a bright-red stripe, and this was carefully drawn out. W’hen unraveled and chewed in the mouth the color or dye was released, and thus the paint was obtained which decorated their faces and lips. In the same prison a convict had re peated fainting fits without any cause discoverable by the medical officer. One day she was attacked in chapel, and, upon her removal to the infirmary, she was undressed, when to their astonish ment the authorities found the fits pro ceeded from tight lacing, and from the effects produced by the pieces of wood and wire which the convict had managed to force into her stays in order to make her waist slender. The prison authorities in their wisdom have not deemed it necessary to supply the female convicts with that ever-ready and indispensable article so dear to the feminine gender—tho -hairpin—but ne cessity, the mother of invention. Is ever at work, and the convict will spend hours in tearing out bits of wire from the win dow guard and afterward bending them into the required shape. Leaves from the Bible are often torn out to make the old-fashioned “cracker” curls, but this practice, if found out. in- ' volves a very serious punishment. Even the “life” prisoners are not ex empt from this desire to make the best possible appearance, and they will scheme, plot and plan for months together inorder to become possessed of a piece of broken window pane in order to make a looking glass. While out in the exercise yard a convict will rapidly scan the ground in the hope of coining across a piece of glass. Once possessed of it, she will run the risk of solitary confinement on a breadrand-water ; diet in order to get it into her cell. A piece of black cloth at the back of the piece of glass makes an excellent mirror. Here it will be hidden in all conceivable places, and many a violent woman, ill favored by nature, has been known to be come subdued after being able to admire her features by means of the mirror. BANKER OLEWB’ VIEWS. The Financial Outlook as Seen From Wall Street. New York, Sept. 15.—There has been some reaction from the activity on the stock exchange immediately following the ending of tariff legislation; but neverthe less, the improved tone of the market and the increased strength of values are fully maintained. The extraordinary ease in money has brought into the market an unusually large amount of funds for em ployment in stocks so soon as the con ditions become ripe for a general and ma terial rise in values; and, at a later stage, the purchases of this class of operators are likely to develop a very active campaign. In the meantime, however, is a good basis for purchases on the breaks in prices, and tne policy of quick turns for moderate profits is likely to bring satis factory results. Wall street is already beginning to oc- cupy itself with the prospects of the com ing congressional elections. The main matter around which interest centers is the currency question. It is taken for granted that that issue must come up for settlement, even though the session of congress be the short one; and much in terest turns on the question—how far the disposition of the next congress may be changed on the currency question? The possibility that both parties, owing to party competition, may bid for the votes of the populists is the main cause of any uneasiness on this account. It is, how ever, very possible that the influence of any mere populist theories may be thwarted by congress taking up the question next December ana putting it through before March 4. There has been no congressional action to show very clearly how congressional opinion stands upon the currency issue I but among members of the House who hate been best situated to form a judg ment, there is a strong hope that it may be found possible to carry through, be fore next March, a measure that will set at rest the silver and the fiat money crazes through putting our bank currency system upon a broader and more liberal, and yet absolutely secure basis, and by substituting it for the $500,000,000 of government notes which now consti tute the weak feature of our monetary system. If this can be done, the mone tary complexion of the new congress will be a matter of secondary importance. It rests very much with the men of finance, whose experience affords the best qualifi cations for guiding opinion on this ques tion, to show the way toward an early and wise settlement of this vexed ques tion. There are ways in which they can make their guidance influential; and in proportion as they discreetly’ use their power will be the chances of 'a final placing of the currency settlement be yond the reach of both silver maniacs and populists. POLITICS IN TWO STATES. Comments on Affairs in Georgia and South Carolina. GEORGIA. Athens Banner: Gen. Evans is re deeming in the most effective way pos sible, his promise to the people to .stump the state in thq interest of the nominee of the Democratic party for governor. And he is doing good work, too. Tattnall Journal: Watson says much about depreciation of property values in Georgia. Cause —dishonest pops and dis honest returns. A prominent third party leader in Franklin county returned his land this spring at SI,BOO and sold it a few days ago for $3,450 cash. This ex plains all. Valdosta Telescope: For the first tlma in an age South Georgia asks the people of the state for one of the senators. She presents a man the peer of any in Amer ica, a statesman, honest, bold and true, around whose splendid record every dem ocrat can join hands. Now, if North Georgia wants to "tote fair” let them aid in sending Hon. fjenry G. Turner to the Senate. Hartwell Bee: “This certifies that 1 have been with the Third party for three years; have done what I could ia my humble way for its success, but hav ing been convinced that there is nothing in it for anybody but the office seekers I now propose to renew my allegiance to the Democratic party, and vote the democratic ticket as long as it con tinues in the future as it has been in the past, the party for all the people. Thomas Bailby.” Valdosta Times (Editor Pendleton’s paper): Editors Pendleton and Howell were members of the state platform com mittee, at the last state convention. Edi tor Pendleton, and those who thought like him on that committee, framed the financial plank which was adopted unani mously by the convention. Editor Howell and his kind on that committee fought to the end, and voted against it in the committee room. Now, does that plank represent Editor Pendleton’s views, or does it represent Editor Howell’s? Oglethorpe Echo: When the Demo cratic party took control of Georgia there was not a public school in the state. Now there are public free schools for both races on almost every hill top, where all the .youths of the land may be thoroughly instructed in the elementary branches of an English education without any charge whatever. The state of Georgia under the control and movement of the Demo cratic party has brought these blessings to the youths of our great state, and. while the third party speakers proclaim that they will do greater things in the way of education than have ever been done heretofore, their assertions are de ceptive and unwarranted by their party platform. They have an educational plank in their platform, but it is "strad dle,” and does not pledge the govern ment to pay anything for educational pur- , poses. SOUTH CAROLINA. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: T. Larry Gantt, along with his two sons, having been thoroughly thrashed on a street of the South Carolina town where he now lives, admitted before the police court that all the fault was his and paid th a fine of everybody concerned. Col. Gantt, as his old acquaintances in Georgia know, is about the easiest man in the world to satisfy after he has been whipped. Unde? such circumstances he is ever generous and forgiving. Newberry Herald and News: If & ticket is put in the field defeat is inevita ble. Without a ticket we see no good to be accomplished by organization at this time. On the other hand, we can sea much harm that may result from making a hopeless fight. The time for making the fight this year has passed. * * * The best thing that we can do now is to let things rock. An enthusiastic and ear nest position of masterly inactivity would be about the best thing we could do. That is the way we feel, and we would be very glad to see Newberry take no part in tha call for a convention to be held in Colum bia on the 17th. Prominent- Physician Praises Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. The celebra ted J. Francis Bourns. M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., who has for many years been connected with the Orphanage Corporation of that city, says with reference to AYERS Sarsaparilla “Having thoroughly tested, in jny practice as a physician, the alterative action of Ayer’s Sar saparilla, I view it as of une qualed excellence.”—J Francis Bourns, 1035 Walnut St., Phila, Highest Awards at . World’s Fair. 3