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MONDAY, JULY 26, "1807.
McKinley's Watermelon.
President McKinley’s seventy-eight
pound Georgia watermelon, presented on
Wednesday with fitting ceremonies, in
cluding a speech by Congressman Livlng
aton, has been the subject of comment by
various, newspapers. One of the most sen
sible of these which we have Seen is that
of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, as fol
lows: “The 78-pound watermelon sent to
President McKinley is something that the
atate of Georgia should be more proud of
than of her gold mines. There is more
wealth in the surface soil of a state that
ean produce such vegetables than there is
under it, and Georgia will find her profit
In cultivating this branch of industry.
Bhe came to this way of thinking, how
ever, a number of years ago, and now the
northern markets are largely supplied in
the early season by Georgia vegetables
and Georgia fruits. Still there Is room for
b much greater development of the same
industry between the Savannah and the
Potomac."
It Is needless to say that Georgia Is
proud of her watermelon products. They
have captured the couhtry. The Georgia
watermelon is the standard. It is the most
delightful fruit of the vine, and its fame
Is as wide as the continent. The Public
Ledger will please take note that we de
nominate It a fruit, and not a vegetable.
The cucumber and the squash may grow
on vines, after the manner of the water
melon, and still be vegetables; but the
watermelon itself is a fruit, a most delec
table and appreciated fruit, to which
poets sing and epicures give reverence.
As to the value of the soli which will
produce such crops, our contemporary Is
wealth in the sur-
however. Is only one of the thousand and
one products of the soil which Georgia
can grow In perfection and abundance.
There are no finer peaches to be had any
where than Georgia produces; her straw
berries are the equal of any in size, color
and flavor; her grapes, pears and plums
ore not surpassed by those of any other
section of the country; her vegetables are
perfect in every necessary characteristic.
Almost any fruit or vegetable that can be
produced in the temperate sone grows and
thrives in Georgia. This fact is becoming
snore appreciated each year, and addition
al acres are being brought under cultiva
tion by natives or immigrants. Still there
sire thousands of acres available for culti
vation, and the markets are awaiting the
products. Georgia is a garden spot, and
there Is room in the state for hundreds of
thousands of white immigrants.
To Prospective Gold Seekers.
The gold fever seems to be spreading all
©ver the country. It hits reached the east,
©nd may come south. It Is stated that
ti number of New Yorkers wl.l depart for
the Klondike at the earliest opportunity.
The tales which are being brought from
the new Eldorado are very attractive, and
ore well calculated to excite an Impression
able mind. However, our advice to those
l>ersons in the south who may harbor an
idea of wooing fortune in the frozen north
is, Don’t!
No gold diggings that we can recall have
ever been surrounded with a greater num
ber of hardships and dangers. The great
alkali plains which separated the argo
nauts of ’49 from the object of their search
were not more formidable than the barriers
between civl.lxation and the Klondike gold;
bvsides, there was away to go around the
plains. The Alaskan diggings are “a
thousand miles from anywhere," almost
within the Arctic circle. The cold is in
tense during the greater part of the year,
tind all mining operations must be carried
on under the most adverse circumstances.
There is, furthermore, a prospect that the
Canadian authorities will shortly be en
forcing their alien labor law. passed by a
recent parliament in retaliation for our
•Hen labor law, thus increasing the
troub<es of Americans who seek the gold
fields.
Where a hundred will go to the diggings,
not ten will be heard from thereafter, and
probably not one In the ten will have
•’struck it rich." In this game of gold,
there are always many, more losers than
winners; and the losers are never heard
from. As a contemporary puts it. "about
one man in a thousand is fitted to be a
pioneer," and possibly one out of a thou
sand pioneers wins success. The man
who sets out for the gold fields of Alaska
plays against fearful odds.
There is no good reason why any man
should go away from thia section of the
country to seek his fortune in the far,
frosen north. The man possessed of the
requisite qua.lficationa to win success tn
the gold fields can make a fortune in
Georgia without the risks which prospec
tors and miners must take. There is a
surer return for intelligent efforts in the
soil of Georgia than there is in any gold
mine ever discovered, or that ever will be
discovered. Fruit raising, stock and cat
tle raising, trucking and farming, are not
so romantic as gold seeking, but when
they are given the same amount of atten
tion and hard work that must be employ
ed in mining, they never fail, in Georgia,
to yield profits. These lines of endeavor,
however, are not the only ones which
Georgia holds out to energetic persons.
There are a thousand and one ways to
make money, even to get rich, in this state,
and the native young man who neglects
these home opportunities to run off after
a pot of gold at the foot of an Alaskan
rainbow does himself and his state an in
justice.
Rucker Am An Example,
President McKinley has vindicated him
self, the’colored brother and the grand
old party. Some persons had charged
him with ingratitude, and a purpose. to
give the colored brother “the marble
heart,” as they say in political circles.
They said he would cater to that alleged
“new element” in southern republican
ism, and give the offices which might
have gone to the black men to white men
whose friendship he wished to cultivate.
Editor T. Thomas Fortune, colored, only
the other day printed a lengthy and quite
warm article, ,n which he roasted the ad
ministration for its lack of consideration
for the faithful black troops, which
fought nobly in the last campaign.
Now the President has proved to For
tune and the world that he has been mis
judged; that he is the friend of the color
ed, man. He has selected one of them for
office! He has chosen a negro barber for
the important and profitable position of
internal revenue collector of Georgia.
Thus Rucker is set upon a pedestal, to
be pointed to whenever anybody
shall have the temerity to suggest that
nothing has been done for the black man,
Why should the President have chosen
Georgia as the state in which to set up
his shining example of the party’s love
for the black race? The President knows
that there is in this state a strong feel
ing against the elevation of black men to
important offices. In some other states—
In Ohio for instance—we haVe been led to
believe that this feeling does not exist so
strongly; would it not. therefore, have
been better for the President to give a
black man a big office in Ohio? Os course
neither the President, nqr Senator Hanna,
nor Senator Foraker would object to hav
ing a negro internal revenue collector in
Ohio. Probably there would not be any
objection to one in that office in Massa
chusetts. But there is in Georgia a sen
timent against such things. However, pro
tests would probably be useless. It is
said the President is fully determined to
set up his example somewhere, and since
Georgia Is not a McKinley state, a little
humiliation for her is probably deemed
to be about the proper thing. It is to be
hoped, now that Rucker has been select
ed, that the probabilities of negroes be
ing put into big postoffices and port col
lectorships have been diminished.
Southern Farmers.
We venture to say that the farmers of
the south know very little from experience
of hard times and of the bufinee « dftpres
"tof of whJ< Jk said in news
papers, though it is safe to assert that
nine out of of them have, heard so
much about the lack of prosperity that
they believe their material condition is
steadily growing worse, instead of better.
They do not compare their material condi
tion of ten years ago, or even a year ago,
with that of to-day. In fact, they do not
Inquire of themselves as to whether they
are freeing themselves of debt or are in
creasing their debts. They accept the pop
ular opinion that the country Is not pros
perous, and that hence they are not pros
pering. If they, and many engaged in
other occupations, were to scan the facts
closely as to what their material condi
tion was, and what it is, their talk in re
spect to the hard times would have a
wholly different tone.
This view of the case was strongly pre
sented a few days ago by a banker of
Charlotte, N. C. He said that the talk of
a prominent farmer, who resides a few
miles from Charlotte, attracted his atten
tion recently. The fftrmer was discuss
ing the condition of the country with a
merchant of the town. They were in the
bank, and the banker overheard their con
versation. The farmer declared that the
times were so hard that the farmers were
becoming disheartened, that the condition
of the country was deplorable, and that
unless times got better soon everybody
would be a candidate for the poor house.
The fartner had been a customer of the
bank for a dozen years, and the banker
had noticed that the amount he borrowed
each year steadily decreased, and that he
had borrowed nothing the present year.
A few days after he had heard the talk
of the farmer and merchant in his bank
he met the farmer and engaged him in
conversation. He said to him: “You
have been a borrower at our bank for
quite a number of years. I notice that
you borrowed a smaller amount each suc
ceeding year, and that you borrowed noth
ing this year. Tell me, are you bet I r or
worse off than you were ten years ago."
The farmer, not suspecting the object
of the banker, said: “I am much better
off. Ten years ago I had to borrow money
to make my crop. Now I have the means
to make my crop and am out of debt.”
The banker made another inquiry. It was
this: “Run over in your mind the list of
your farmer acquaintances within a ra
dius of ten miles of your home, and tel)
me if they are better or worse off than
they were ten years ago.” The farmer
said: “They are much better off." "Why
then." said the banker, "did you make
such an outcry about hard times In my
bank a few days ago?” The farmer said
he ha»l not considered how much his ma
terial condition had improved during the
past few years; that everybody was talk
ing about the lack of prosperity and that
therefore he had believed that times were
bad and everybody was becoming poorer."
We don’t know much about the materia)
condition of the farmers in other sections
of the country, but we are confident that
southern farmers are more prosperous
than they have been at any previous times
since the war. They are practically out
of debt, and to a greater extent than eter
before, and to a greater extent than It was
ever thought they would they are raising ;
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK): MONDAY, JULY 26, 1897.
their own fond supplies. Ten years hence
they w;ll be independent virtually of the
rest of the world. They will have money
in bank and to invest, and they will in
vest it in the south. The south then will
have a marvelous growth.
The business of the country is depress
ed. Business men are complaining, but
southern farmers have no reason to com
plain, and southern business men will soon
have no reason to complain if the south
ern farmers continue to prosper.
Mrs. Lease recently called on Gov.
Leedy, so the governor says, and asked
him to resign in her favor. The governor
very gallantly told her that in case she
could best cement and unite the opposi
tion to the republican party he would sup
port her cordially. To some of his friends
he remarked, “She would make a good
dark—here he stammered, but finally
finished—” horse candiate.” There
was nothing the matter with the
governor’s figure of speech except the
doubtfulness of its applicability. What
Mrs. Lease wants is the unanimous nom
ination on the first ballot.
The people of Augusta will no doubt con
gratulate themselves now upon the chance
of escaping Judson Lyons as postmaster
because of the appointment of Rucker as
internal revenue collector for Georgia. The
opinion will no doubt be expressed that
this should be enough to appease the col
ored political appetite, at least in this sec
tion.
Following his editorial obituary of the
populist party, Thomas E. Watson now
says that Senator Marion Butler ought to
resign the national chairmanship in favor
of Washburn or Reed. What need is there
of that, when according to his first an
nouncement, Butler must necessarily be
"functus officio?” It is difficult to see how
there can be a national chairman without
a party.
It is worthy of note that there has been
nothing like even the expression of a de
sire on the part of any Savannahians to
chase that bright wlll-’o-the-wisp, Alaskan
gold. The fever is carrying off many from
other sections to an ice-bound grave, but
Savannahians are content to remain at
home and enjoy the liberal share of pros
perity which is available here.
The fact that the reports from the tax
receivers of the state, so far as they have
been heard from, show largely increased
tax returns In a great majority of in
stances, would make an interesting head
ing for the report to the legislature of
Chairman Blalock’s investigating commit
tee. The committee was appointed and
sent out with a view to stirring things up.
It is not likely that the 'North Georgia
cracker will change the color of his moun
tain Juice now that Rucker will be col
lector. Indeed, there has been a sugges
tion that the kettle and the worm will be
worked over time.
BRIGHT BITS.
—Carrie—For mercy's sake, turn the tie
of your neck ribbon around front. Don’t
yoii know that it is no longer good form
to wear the bow behind?
Maude—4 suppose they still make an ex
ception of the beau on a tandem, don’t
they?—Boston Transcript. x
Crimson Here’s
North Carolina a
an open car window vJasrTnrown out of
the window* by the shock and escaped in
jury.”
Mr. Crimsonbeak—How in the world do
you suppose they ever managed to get the
window open?—Yonkers Statesman.
—Flagging a Scandal—Mrs. Wilkus—
That blond woman is flirting outrageously
with the gentleman who arrived to-day.
Mr. Wilkus—So I observe.
Mrs. Wilkus—And they say he’s married,
too.
Mr. Wilkus—He is. So is she.
Mrs. Wilkus—The brazen hussy!
Mr. Wilkus (quietly)—ln fact, they’re
man and wife.—Philadelphia North Amer
ican.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A Duty of the Hour.
New York Journal of Commerce (Ind.).
All newspapers and public men ought to
exert themselves to allay International Ir
ritation and discountenance anticipations
of war. All men in responsible positions
are doing this; other public men are not
quiet so prudent, and too many newspapers
imagine that it is “newsy” to exaggerate
national irritation, and to speculate on
the probabilities of war and the nature of
military and naval operations.
That Georgia Watermelon.
From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).
The President need not have been so
much afraid that his big Georgia water
melon would bring him a fresh horde of
officeseekers, if he had adopted the policy
of treating them as he would the melon
cut them.
From the Chicago Times-Herald (Ind.).
President McKinley received the largest
watermelon that the state of Georgia pro
duced tihs year. If he believes in reciproc
ity now, how about a few plums in return?
Trade With Latin America.
From the Nashville American (Dem.).
• ——
The desire for reciprocity on the part of
the United States has a queer way of man
ifesting itself that renders any practical
arrangement impossible. Latin America
lies close to our doors. Its people buy
millions of dollars’ worth of goods every
year, but they will continue to buy them
from Europe, where trade relations are
more advantageous. They can’t buy from
us because we shut out their goods, and
ships going from our country to theirs
would have no return cargoes. The Latin
Americans, we hope, have enjoyed their
visit to the United States, but the talk
of establishing reciprocal trade relations,
they will tell their people when they re
turn, was all a farce.
A Rival of Falataff.
From the New York Post (Ind.).
That currency message of the President’s
has been so many times declared by him
in a loud, firm voice to be surely going to
congress the next day, and so many timeh
cruelly thrust back into his desk by con
gressmen who go to give him his orders,
that both it and he have become a laugh
ing-stock. His congressional tyrants have
not the slightest regard for his sensibili
ties any longer. They say to each other.
"What, have we got to go and stop that
message again? Well, Dingley, you go
and do it to-day. Quay will do it to-mor.
row." The situation is one full of delight to
them. Whatever the country or the Pres
ident may think of it; it Is such an agree
able novelty to have a President who rivals
Falstaff in the possession of a remarkable
"alacrity la sinking."
She Got n Job.
She was as beautiful as a dream and as
fresh as the dawn, says the Cleveland
Leader.
But Horatio Evfiringham was not in- a
genial mood He had arisen with a head
ache, and everything had seemed to go
wrong at the store that morning. Only
five minutes before the sweet young wo
man entered one of the firm’s oldest cus
tomers had left in anger, and declared
that he would in future buy all his goods
from a rival house;
“Well,” said the old gentleman as she
stood with downcast eyes before him. “I
suppose you’ve called in answer to my ad
vertisement for a typewriter, have you?”
“Yes, sir,’’.she demurely replied.
“I’ve already engaged one,” he went on.
“Sorry you didn’t get here a little earlier.
The fact is I hired the first applicant that
came, for I concluded that a person who
would not get here early enough to beat
the others who might want the place
wouldn’t be likely to be very prompt in
getting around if I were to employ her.”
"I should have been here earlier,” she
said, “if I had not first gone to see Mr.
Bullion, the banker. He also advertised
for a typewriter. I am sorry now that I
didn’t come here first. Then I should prob
ably have beaten all the others.”
While she had talked Horiatio Evering
ham had taken his first good look at her,
and he, too, was sorry that she had gone
to see Bullion first. But there was no use
regretting what had been done. He didn’t
need her now; so there was nothing to do
but let her go. He arose to show her out of
the private office, but she hesitated.
“You don’t think you’d need two type
writers, do you?” she said, at last.
“No,” the merchant prince replied rath
er impatiently. “One can do the work
very easily. Good morning.”
“Well, then,” she murmured, half to her
self. "I suppose I shall have to accept Mr.
Bullion’s offer. I’m sorry, for I’d rather
work here.”
“What!” exclaimed Mr. Everingham,
“you’re going to work for Bullion?”
“Yes. I told him I’d come back if you
didn’t want me.”
“Stay here, my girl, stay here,” said the
old gentleman, while beads of cold sweat
stood out upon his brow. “I’ll make room
for you some way. Great Caesar, what a
narrow escape! Why, all my money is in
Bullion’s bank!”
He Whs Too Trusting.
“I was a newspaper man for six weeks,”
admitted the bronzed and bearded man
who had just returned from twenty years’
sojourn in Mexico, according to the De
troit Free Press. “But for that brief ex
perience as a reporter I presume I should
have lived all this time in my native city.
As it is I never mention its name and my
own in the same connection. I was as am
bitious a scribe as ever drew a note-book
and allowed myself only three years in
which to own a metropolitan newspaper
of my own.
“One day I was stopped on the street by
a young lawyer who told
me to meet him that evening and get the
most sensational piece of news that had
been sprung since the place was found
ed. I was there on the minute and he
gave me elaborate details of how John
Hager Smith had gained legal title to land
that was then in the business center of the
city and worth at least $300,000,000. The ti
tle was still good and Smith’s heirs could
recover every cent of its value.
“The story appeared the next morning
with a half column of head-lines and
shook the town. In the same issue my in
formant advertised for the heirs of John
Hager Smith, referring them to my high
ly-fqvored article. They flocked to him
and his retainers made hLn rich in an in
credibly brief time. Other piners denied,
but my lawyer kept me going while he
was raking down fat fees. Mr. Smith
seemed to have more descendants than
any other man of history except Adam.
“But either and more experienced news- 1
paptti hoLl of the matter find
IgSB' — I '*’&£!_.
10ky such Hager Smith, WH
that his army heirs were inr"
Impostors. There wasn’t a leaven of truth
in the whole high-priced yarn. The law
yer skipped, but didn’t have the grace to
pay my way out of town, though he knew
there were several hundred Smiths on my
trail. I met him ten years later in Mexico
and they tell me that he has been a crip- le
ever since.”
Too Emotional.
If the men who become the objects of
hero worship could see the evidence of
the feeling they inspire they would possi
bly be even more reconciled to leaving
this sphere for any other, better or worse.
Sometimes they do know, says the Youth’s
Companion, and then need to exercise
abundant charity.
An American who has lived much
abroad says that he was present on one
occasion when a countrywoman of his own
met a famous poet. She saw the object
of her idolatry. She rushed forward and
struck an attitude.
“And is it possible,” she cried, dramati
cally, "that I look upon Browning?”
One feels that Dr. Johnson, in the same
circumstances, would have remarked
gruffly, “Don’t be a fool, madam.”
Again, there are times when pathos is
showered only upon tae dead. T. F. 811-
leck says that on one of his holiday ex
cursions he visited \ J ount Vernon, and
there, in the he came upon a
middle-aged lady kne<p.ng before a build
ing at some distance from the monument.
She was bathed in tears. Mr. Silleck walk
ed up to her and asked if she were In
trouble.
“No, sir,” said she, “thank you very
much. I am not in trouble, but my patri
otic feelings overcome me when I gaze
upon the tomb of the Father of His
Country.”
“I quite understand,” said Mr. Silleck,
gently, “but, my dear madam, you have
made a mistake. This is not the tomb of
Washington. It is over yonder. This is the
ice house.”
And, drying her tears, the lady moved
quietly away.
♦ .
Man of Rigid Views.
The play of the evening was one of
those hilarious adaptations from the
French, where a staid householder of ma
ture years takes a night off and makes
the most of it in an atmosphere of cham
pagne and general revelry, says the Kan
sas City Journal. As the performance
progressed and the fun grew faster and
more furious the other members of the
party looked at the man of rigid views
with considerable solicitation. How would
he take it? Would he get up and go out?
Might he not even rise from his seat and
denounce the performance? But no; he sat
there quietly enough, his face fixed in a
look of frozen intentions and his eyes glar
ing through his glasses at the spectacle
beyond the footlights. However else he
might regard the performance, he certain
ly wasn’t amused. Not a ghost of a smile
crossed his face. The others might laugh
and nudge each other, but he sat stolidly
through it all to the very fall of the cur
tain.
When theywere all going down the stairs
one of the party had the temerity to ask
him how he liked the show, and all the
others waited with bated breath to hear
his withering denunciation.
“Why.” he pleasantly answered, “it was
the funniest thing I ever saw in my life."
"B-but,” stammered the astonished ques
tioner. “you didn’t laugh—you didn’t even
smile.”
"No," answered the other, 'I didn't
laugh because I was afraid I might lose
some of it.”
And the laughter that followed that
sally was far more enjoyable than any
thing the play brought forth. *
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—lt is shown by the annual report of
one of the largest mining companies in
Colorado that since the organization of
the company the average cost of produc
ing $1 in gold has been 37 cents.
—Monday with the ancient Greeks was
the day of rest. The Persians set apart
Tuesday as the day for public worship,
the Assyrians Wednesday, the Egyptians
Thursday, while the Moslems hold Fri
day as the most sacred day of the week.
—A Birmingham workingman made use
of the parcel post recently to send his
3-year-cfld boy home by mail. The post
office, under the rule regulating the con
veyance of live animals, was obliged to
accept the child, and charged 9 pence for
the service.
—“lt is possible,” said a well-known den
tist, “for a medical man to tell more of
the disposition and constitution of a per
son by the teeth than by any other part
of the body,” according to Answers. “The
first thing that an army doctor does when
a man is brought up for enlistment is to
look at his teeth. If they show any signs
of decay it is evident that the man’s con
stitution is delicate, and his services as a
soldier are immediately declined, even
though he be in every other respect a
perfect specimen of manhood. If the teeth
showed but little signs of decay the man
would be eligible for English service, but
for foreign service perfectly useless. Men
with irregular teeth—teeth uneven and
imperfect—are declined by medical men
where there are arduous duties to perform.
It is said to be a sign of bodily weakness.
Another peculiarity noticeable in many
persons is a spotted tooth. This is a tooth
covered with dark specks, and is usually
found among persons of weak intellect; it
is, in fact, a sign of insanity. Large teeth
show braininess, more especially if they
be regular. A set of perfect teeth is the
surest sign of a good constitution.”
—A curiosity in the way of coffins is on
view in an establishment in Liverpool,
where it was constructed according to the
design and order of, so it is said, an ad
miral of the British fleet, in view of the
time when he shall follow the lofty ex
ample of the gallant Tom Bowling, says
♦he London Telegraph. The prevoyant old
tar is still hale and hearty, but, as a sailor
never knows when the summons to enter
Davy Jones’ locker may reach him, he
thinks it right to see that everything un
der hatches is in proper trim for that im
portant occasion. Instead of the ordinary
landsman’s oblong black cercueil, the ad
miral’s last mooring-place is In the form
of painted trim-built wherry. It
ai» respects
on ot an ordinary
double-ended lifebotW, without, perhaps,
quite as much shear as is usually found
in such craft. This boat-coffin is carvel
built, and seven feet long, and will be
painted, like an old man-of-war, with
black and white portholes. Life lines will
be fixed around her, and when completed
she will present a very tidy, seaworthy
appearance. Two oars are to be supplied,
and rudder and tiller will be duly fitted.
The wood used is pine, West African ma
hogany, oak and elm. The internal “get
up” is to be left for the undertaking fur
nisher, and will no doubt be of a fitting
character. This is supposed to be the
first clipper-built coffin ever constructed.
—Joseph Rheinhardt of St. Louis, aged
50 years, a cook by occupation, was as
good as dead for about twenty-five min
utes last evening, but is now alive, and
hopes of his recovery are entertained.
Rheinhardt was prostrated by the heat in
a boarding house on First street and St.
Clair avenue, East St. Louis, says the
Chicago Chronicle. His friends did all in
their power to revive him, but without
success. His pulse beats were very faint,
and at last ceased. No motion of the heart
could be detected. The patrol wagon was
summoned and Rheinhardt was hurried to
St. Mary’s hospital. The attending phy
sician examined him and was puzzled.
There was no sign of life, yet the body
was very warm. Thinking there was still
life in the body, the physician used all
means within his power to restore the
man. It was some time before the heart
began to beat, Rheinhardt drew his breath
in gasps for a few minutes, then he be
gan to breathe regularly. The work of
taking him to the hospital took about fif
teen minutes, and it was fully ten minutes
after he reached there before he began to
breathe. Rheinhardt was prostrated by
the heat in St. Louis several days ago,
and was taken to the city hospital. He
was discharged yesterday and went to his
boarding house, in East St. Louis. The
sun proved too much for his already
weakened condition, and upon reaching
the house he sank to the floor prostrated
Some of the friends of Rheinhardt say
that on several occasions when he has
been ill his heart has stopped beating fo~
a remarkably long time.
—The relative value of cowry money va
ries. In British India and Siam about
4.000 pass for a shilling, says the Round
Table. The ordinary gradation in Central
and Western Africa, the true home of
cowry-trading, is a s follows: Forty cow
ries make a string; two and one-half
strings equal a penny; fifty strings a head
and ten heads, one bag. A bag of 20 000
cowries just before the founding of the
Congo Free State was worth 17s ad. Eng
lish money. Yet this value was not uni
form. varying slightly according to local
ity. Slaves and elephant tusks, however
have always been settled for in bar
ter, not in cowries. Prints and
cotton cloth, iron spikes, and brass
wire have proved the most accept
able oayments for such articles of mer
chandise. But with a few exceptions of
this kind, which belong to export com
merce, cowries have for ages furnished
the money medium. Barth, the traveler,
tells us that in Mumyoma, Western Afri
ca. the king s revenue was reckoned at
30,000.000 shells, each male adult being as
sessed so many shells poll tax, and so
many for every slave and pack animal.
There was no evading the tax collector,
either. It was either prompt payment, or
else the headsman collected a poll-tax in
his fashion, and the victim’s property was
confiscated. The establishment of the Con
go Free State, with its railways, steam
boats, trading posts and the opening up of
this enormous territory to commerce on a
great scale will probably, before many
years, exterminate cowry currency in all
but the remoter regions. Such money
ceases to be of use with the coming of
Civilized usages.
1
GEORGIA.
Thomas C. Healy, one of Atlanta’s
wealthiest citizens, is critically ill.
During- the week there was shipped
from the port of Darien, coastwise and
foreign, 1,229,536 feet of timber and lum
ber, valued at $12,400.
The Baptists of Zebulon have purchased
a lot nearer the business part of the town
upon which they will begin at once to
erect a church- to cost about $2,000.
More than $50,000 has been expended in
improvements of one kind and another
in Hartwell during the last three years.
This does not include the cotton factory,
which would add many thousands more to
the sum.
Some of the good women of Macon have
been agitating the question of having the
children that are now in the houses of
ill fame in the city removed to some place
where they will not be subjected to the
evil influences that exist there.
It was rumored that the warehouse, cot
ton sheds and vacant land back of the
Hamilton store house at the foot of Broad
street, at Rome, has been sold for $35,000.
The reorganized Chattanooga, Rome and
Southern railway is said to be the pur
chaser.
A man named Harrell stabbed his
brother in the wrist during a general
fight at Hall’s mill -pond, near Cecil Thurs
day. The brother who did the cutting
was in a difficulty with another man, and
his brother tried to prevent the fight and
was accidentally cut. The wound will
probably maim him for life.
At Athens as few nights ago
vandals entered the residence
of H. F. Jarrell, while the family
were absent and committed a great deal of
depredation. A quantity of pickles were
scattered over a fine sofa; a can of kero
sene was emptied over a bed; two bottles
of jam were smeared over a table cloth
and over two ladies’ hats, and articles of
all descriptions scattered over the house.
The police thus far have no clew to the
guilty parties.
James O. Horton, a well-known citizen
of Campbell county, suddenly became a
dangerous maniac Wednesday night at
his horn- 1 two miles from Fairburn. Armed
with a butcher knife, he attempted to kill
everv saw, and for awhile kept his
communal in a state of terror. , Sheriff ,
Adderhold, assisted by ChwufeT Milam,
finally succeeded in capturing him before
any harm was done. He was lodged in
the county jail and will probably be sent
to the asylum.
FLORIDA.
The fresh water bass of the St. Johns
river often swallow small water snakes.
Eugene Loundes has been appointed
postmaster at Crescent City, and'received
his commission last Friday. He will take
charge of the office on Aug. 1.
The Orlando Star calls at'tention to the
fact that in Florida a boy of 14 and a girl
of 12 years may marry, with or without a
license or the consent of parents.
Os the fifty odd thousand dollars collect
ed in Volusia county every year for coun
ty and state taxes, the railroads, land
companies and telegraph company pay
over one-third.
Very few venomous spiders are found
outside the towns of Florida. The proba
bility is that most of them have come
from other countries in fruit, or in furni
ture, hay, etc.
The young of the Florida snake bird
is of a beautiful cream color. It takea
to the water before it can fly, and is
killed in large numbers by catfish and
the large-mouthed bass.
The largest shipment of flsh made from
Titusville of late was that of Wednesday,
when the aggregate of four flsh dealers
there reached ninety-six barrels. The ship
ments of Thursday were nearly as large.
The rookeries of the plumed birds in
Florida are nearly all deserted. The birds
have been disturbed so often that they
have left the old breeding places. Many
species arc nearly extinct—even the white
egret is becoming scarce.
An ant glues together the tops of the
same consistency and character as that of
grasses in the Everglades, and makes a
nest supported by these very much of the
the wasp. This ant is very small and
black.
There is a woodrat in South Florida
which builds a house several stories high.
The floors are connected by staircases. In
the center of the structure is a storeroom
often filled with supplies, which seem to
be common property to the whole commu
nity.
The large electric bug so common about
electric lights along the St. Johns river
spends nearly all its life in the water,
where a number of them often attack
fishes. It is at home in the water, in the
air, and on land. The common idea that
it is venomous is without foundation.
An insect belonging to the same order
as the dragon fly is found in the marshes
of the St. Johns with mandibles as huge
in proportion as those of the stag beetle,
which it snaps together when excited. It
has 20.000 eyes, flies only by night, and is
attracted by a light. It can inflict quite
a savage wound.
The Mexican vulture, quite common on
the borders of the Everglades during sum
mer, kills large numbers of the fresh wat
er terrapin. The bird watches till the
terrapin comes out to make its nest,
catches it by the leg.tums it over, and then
picks the flesh out of the shell while the
terrapin helplessly sprawls on the sand.
Ocala Star: W. D. Condon, in a late
visit to his timber lands on the St. Johns
river, in Marlon county, slew a green soft
shell sea turtle that measured two feet
and seven inches across its back, from
which twenty-five pounds of steak were
cut, and from the remains soup enough
was made to feed several dozen people two
days.
There were shipped to A. (t Bacon, Day
tona ’ via Pala tka, from Dflayton Island,
in 1 , !lurs<^ay > 2,790 pounds of fig preserves,
wii h r / W ° r unflnis hed state. The fruit
hi« l ™t£ repa P red for use by Mr - Bacon at
his canning factory. $
The cocoanut tree is one of the most
valuable of plants. Its wood furnishes
beams, rafters and planks; its leaves um
brellas and clothing; its fruit food, oil,
intoxicants and sugar; its shells, domestic
tffig SllS ’ lt3 flbers r °P es . sails and mat-
J. M. Bryan of Osceola county purchas
ed a flock of sheep for $350, put them on
the range and took very little or no care
of them for nearly two years, save to clip
and sell the wool, which reimbursed him
for the amount expended, and then he sold
the flock for $1,200 cash.
Camp Bros., who have sawed several
million feet of lumber at Wade, have sold
the same to a firm at Campville, who will
nave it dressed for novelty sidings, ceiling,
flooring, etc. The company recently made
another survey of their lands near Wade,
apd find that by a misunderstanding they
failed to cut the timber from over 300
acres.
Tampa Tribune: The 5-year-old son
of S. Schwam, while in New York city
some five months ago, got something in
one of his ears that has given him a good
deal of trouble and caused his parents
considerable anxiety. The boy was tak
en to a physician, who, after administer
ing an anaesthetic, removed the obstruc
tion. The object extracted in this man
ner turned out to be a large Rhinestone,
which in some mysterious manner had
been introduced into the boy’s ear. The
stone was cut after the style commonly
seen in diamonds, and its sharp facets and
angles must have caused the child Intol
erable suffering.
Westville Advocate: Old man Ell
Wright was carried to the Asylum for the
Insane on the 9th Inst. Before leaving,
he had addressed a letter to Col. Chipley,
requesting him to forward at once a “high
top buggy and a critter.” The old man
is said to be 115 years old, and has been in
a state of semi-lunacy for some time. One
of his hobbies was that Coi. Chipley was
to send him a horse and buggy through
the CQH.iI. Hie was -iofi nam/seSa ~
a fgw days ago, whetr he attempted
to cut Mr. Clark and his wife, and suc
ceeded in w’jundlng Mr. Clark in two
places. It tvas thought best to put him
under treatment.
About two years ago a negro named
Swain, who lived in South Dunnellon, was
arrested and convicted for forging C. A.
Pine’s pay checks, and sentenced to four
years’ imprisonment. Some time previous
to the arrest Swain's wife disappeared,
and to all who asked about her he said
he had sent her to Texas. Swain’.s little
boy, after his father’s arrest, said that he
(Swain) had killed his mother and burled
her under the doorsteps, but no one paid
any attention to the matter, and the boy
drifted into Tampa recently, and told the
same story there. A colored woman from
Tampa arr*7ed at Dunnellon Wednesday
and repeated the story the boy had told.
This led to some colored meri investigat
ing the matter, and resulted in the find
ing of the body. Swain is among some
convicts who are being worked in Citrus
county.
Pensacola Times: A marriage license
was issued by the county judge last Mon
day to William Lynch and Miss Mary
West, but up to the present writ
ing no marriage ceremony had bound
them man and wife. Lynch was sent to
the poorhouse two months ago to work
out a fine on a sentence of sixty days for
assault and battery. While working
around the noor house he became ac
quainted with Miss Mary West and a
strong friendship sprang up between the
two, resulting In an engagement to marry.
At the expiration of his sentence, Lynch
lost no time in securing a marriage license.
Showing that document to Miss West as
an evidence of his good Intentions, he se
cured all the money she had and, coming
back to the city, he invested in a hand
some suit of clothes and skipped the coun
ty. At this writing he has not been heard
from. Miss West, who Is said to be a
good woman, now mourns the loss of her
money and a husband.
The Bottom of the Sea.
The bottom of the deep sea is, indeed,
entirely screened from the warmth and
light of the sun by the intervening mas*
of water, says Chamber’s Journal. On
land we often experience that the inter
vention of clouds, which are simply steam,
or divided masses of water, results in
gloom and a fall of temperature. This ef
fect is infinitely more intense at the bot
tom of the ocean, between which and the
sun there is interposed, not only for a day
or two, a layer of cloud, but for ever, a
volume of water often several miles thick,
Even at fifteen fathoms from the surface
the light is much subdued, producing more
the appearance of pale moonlight than of
sunlight, and experiments made with very
sensitive photographic plates in the clear
water of the Lake of Geneva have shown
that sunlight does no’t penetrate to a
greater depth there than 155 fathoms. In
the ocean and in the tropics, where sun
shine is most intense, no light penetrates
beyond a depth of 200 fathoms. Below
this all is dark. The stfn’s heat, like its
light, is also cut off from the ocean depths
in the same manner. A cousin of the
writer iound that in the bay of Bengal
there is a fall of temperature amounting
to about 1 degree Fahr, for every ten fath
oms from the surface that the thermom
eter sinks. At 200 fathoms he has found
that the thermometer stands all the year
round at 55 degrees Fahr.; and at at 2,000
fathoms it constantly registeres about 35
degrees Fahr., or close upon freezing
point. It is curious to note that as we
rise In the air, in balloons or on moun
tain slopes, the temperature falls as we
rise, and the same occurs as we dive into
the depths of the ocean. But In mine*
the heat increases as we descend.