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FAm ENQUIRE!-. • SUN: 0OLUMTUS, GEORGIA SUM-AY MORNING. AUGUST
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The Habits Jnd Customs of {he Pro*in.?
of Victoria.
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Special Correspondence Eniauiivr-$iuft.
MELSotnm, Australia, July _v _ p
tc the excellent wail facilities n this d;>-
tart shore. 1 have airv-;\d\ perused eec i -
of the EXQmuoHSrs forwarded to me
t is ; ink a? a hungry tt..
sh well prepared viands, so did I feast
up. n their newsy contents. It made :r.e
sorrowful, however, to read of the con
flicts now rife between capital and lab r
in one of t he fhirest and nit enter] i_
cities of Georgia, i will therefore. intt.T
my first letter from this section, discuss
::...<t perplexing of social problems:
the peaceable readjustment of the un
friendly relations which now exist be
tween capital and labor.
IT IS EXCEEDINGLY UNFORTUNATE
for both capital and labor that they should
assume an attitude of antagonism to each
other, for their interests' are identical.
They are, in fact, but different forms of
the same thing. Labor is undeveloped
capital, and capital is erystalized labor.
Having their interests thus interblended
and inseparable, mutual concessions should
be the rule in their dealings each with the
other, and sentiments of good fellowship
should always prevail between them.
There should be no distrust, no separate
plottings, but they should counsel together
in the most open, fair and candid wav.
In the adjustment of differences much
depends upon the mere manner of pro
cedure. A demand is an implied declara
tion of war. unless its terms be complied
with and the tendency upon the part of
high-spirited men with hot southern
blood coursing through their veins is to re
sent a demand as an affront, and to accept
at once the gauntlet of war so inconsider
ately thrown down.
On the other hand, supplication engen
ders contempt for the suppliant, weakens
his own self respect, puts him in an atti
tude of servility and subjects his requests
to be treated with indifference.
If the employer l'ecls an interest in the
well fa re of his employes he will lmd a way
to manifest it, whieh'will beget in the em
ploye a mutuality of respect and good will
for his employer.
MUTUAL GOOD-WILL
instinctively gives the proper direction to
all business intercourse. A feeling that
we are, in a measure, our brother's keeper,
begets an application of the golden rule
to business affairs, and makes of mankind
a common brotherhood. The proud, the
haughty and the reckless may scout Un
wisdom of the ages as expressed in the
above sentiments, but their folly will And
them out and bring upon them irreparable
mischief. Antagonism tends to make all
men Ishmaelites—every man’s hand
against that of his fellow—the fruits of
which are anarchy and deeds of savage ,
ferocity. Conciliation is born of the gos- j
pel of love and is the perfection of wis
dom, the fruits of which are peace, pros
perity and happiness. Labor contends
that it does not receive
ITS LEGITIMATE SHARE
of the profits arising from its union with
capital. It utters its protests in the form
of strikes, but hitherto with doubtful suc
cess. Having thus signally failed to obtain
a redress of its real or fancied grievances,
it has learned to combine, and has become
aggressive and defiant. Happy will it be
if capital takes timely warning and averts
the threatened conflict. First there comes
the mutterings ofthe distant thunder; after
that, the thunder bolt.
On the other hand, what laboring man—
though he stands ready to serve with his
toil, and though his children cry for food-
will any more gather fruit from the dried
and withered branches of that tree, which
having received the thunder-bolt, stands
■shattered, ruined and lifeless.
Much wisdom is there for all in that old
fable ofthe goose and golden egg. To de
stroy is easy; to build up takes toil, time
and patience. Samson of old, in blind
fury, pulled down the house of his ene
mies, but himself was crushed beneath the
falling timbers.
CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES IN
VICTORIA.
Probably there is no country in the
world in which the condition of the work
ingman is more favorable than it is in the
colony of Victoria. The climate is such
that tnose who pursue out of door occupa
tions do not probably on an average lose
more than ten days in the year, and then
it is owing to heavy rains. In the winter
months the thermometer rarely falls be
low 32 degrees; when it does,.it is after
night-fail, and it will probably register 70
degrees in the sun at noon. The heat of
the summer months is a dry and stimula
ting heat, und not enervating and op
pressive. _ I
The eight-hour system, with the
Saturday half holiday is a prevalent one.
For eight months in the year a house-
bolder requires no fuel except to cook
with, and his outlay for clothing is of i
course very much less than it is in coun
tries subject to a severe climate. Mem- |
bers of the artisan classes occupy neat ,
suburban cottages containing from four to
six rooms, each surrounded by a small ;
garden plat. !
The skilled laborer lives generously and
has a substantial meal, with meat, three
times a day. The state supplies his chil
dren with education gratuitously; public
libraries and free reading rooms furnish
him with the means of instruction and in
tellectual improvement; public parks are
provided for bis recreation, while a large
annual expenditure by the government on
railways and other public works maintain
wages at an unnaturally high level. On
the whole
THE MORAL AND PHYSICAL CONDITION
of the people is sound and healthy. In a
bright and exhilarating climate, with free
access to libraries and museums, and with
a great fondness for public holidays and
out-of-door sports, the influences surround
ing the population of Victoria are of a
cheerful and beneficial character. There
is'probably no country in the world, it we
except the United States, that offers ■
greater attractions to the working man
than Victoria. That habits of
ECONOMY AND THRIFT
prevail to a great extent is evident from
the fact that in a population ot 900,000, ot
whom 330,000 arc under fifteen years of
age, there are 1—5S1 who are depositors
in savings banks with an aggregate amount
of -*15,600,000 standing to their credit. 1 lie
various trlendly societies have an income,
in round numbers of rl.-'MO.UOO, and rJ.000.-
000 invested; the building societies have
an income of .*7,000,600 beside ^,000.000 on
deposit. Of the .*33,000,000 _ of deposits
bearing interest in the various savings
banks of the colony a portion is
deposited by the working classes.
Whatever there is of poverty is occasioned
mostly bv intemperance or other miscon
duct. ‘ Tile fact that a community of less
than a million of inhabitants expends not
less than .*15,000,000 per annum upon intox
icating liquors is quite sufficient to exnlain
why a certain amount of misery and desti
tution exists. The feeling which prevails
between
EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYES |
in the colony of Victoria is, generally
speaking, of a friendly character. A fru
gal, sober and enterprising operative wilt
often succeed after a few years of patient
and persevering toil in raising himself to
the position of foreman, overseer, con- :
tractor, or employer of labor himself. As
such, he feels a certain amount of sympa-
THEC- PPER S GH0S’
' Wonderful V sion Tba: U-serteJ j
Cipt H.
The speaker was a seaman of tie A :
school, who had. with e;-aeuUtiv~-s :' ,
o’.ine a: Telegraph hill ::-.:he sura.-; . at wi;
the writer, and had for several m -
been goring through the big telescc-v of
the tower.
"S.tv. sonny." continued tie old ww
addressing the boy in attendance, as ;
took mv place at the glass, -how air.v
toot of cable have you got out?"
"None." retorted the youth, sullenly.
"What?" exclaimed the old marriner.
iooking around as the building shook and
creaked under the strong west wind.
"It always creaks and groans." said the
bov.
"Oh. it do. do it?" responded the sailor.
''Well, you keep clear o' that hatch,
'cause in ease anything gives I may want to
make a break for it. What do you see.
mate?" turning to me.
I saw nothing, and -aid so.
‘‘Don’t ye see a kinder dim outline across
the bay?"
I shifted the glass slightly, and made
out a faint something that might have
been in the deepening mist a large, ship
beating out of the Golden Gate.
"Ye see her?" asked the old man again.
"I see something." I answered.
"Well." he said, looking around suspi
ciously, then drawing near and speak
in a sc; ulehral tone, “it’s—not tit
"Nothing," I repeated—"what do you
mean, man?"
"What 1 mean is this: You reckon you
clapped your eyes on a fuii-rigge d ship: but
it was nothin’but a ghost, a ghost th
old clipper ship Tennessee. You think
I'm a nocuspocusin'." he added, "but I
ain't. Drop in here, and I'll tell ye how I
came to think so. Ye see." he continued,
as we took seats near a window, "some
years ago I shipped from a port in the
Malay peninsula for the China coast, and
so on to 'Frisco. On the way up the China
sea we had bad luck: got caught in a ty
phoon and nearly foundered, and in the
gale the skipper got ugly and laid
a man out with a belayin' pin:
the man died, and from that day
all luck left us. I didn't say nothin',
but I knew we was in for it; l*ut the old
man owed me a pile, so I had to keep* to
her, and stick I did.
“We left the China coast with a load of
tea. bound for 'Frisco, and it was my
watch. I was a-standin' on the fo'castle.
near the weather cathead, jest as sober as
I am now. when what I am going to spin
you took place. It was Mowin' a good ten
knot breeze, and everything except the
royals was drawin' and we were makin' for
home so that I'd a-swore my old woman
had holt o' the painter. It was as fine a
night as you want to see. when all at once
I clapped my eye on a big clipp*er ship
headin' right’ for us. She wasn’t a hundred
yards away, and. as God is my witness,
she was cornin' with everything’a-drawin’.
dead against the wind. I see her jest as
plain as I see you settin' there, mate. I
heard the reef-pointson her fo'sail singing;
I see the foam a-biliu' and sloshin' under
her cutwater, and her sails was that
white and blight that they shone out like
tire.
“I took all this in in a second, and then
I sings out: ‘Hard a port'. Up with her,
lad!’ The watch come a-tumblin' up the
hatch, the ship fell away, end then, like a
shot, she was on us. ’Ship ahoy!'I sings
out; ‘ship ahoy!' I was hangin' iu the
shrouds then. 'Port your helm, for God's
sake, ship ahoy!’ On she come, and I
tur e 1 to sing out to the men, and I was
ready to take her chains. I see her flyin'
bibboom over mv head. I heard the roar,
and just then I 'felt a grip on my shoul
ders and turnin' I see the skipper. 'What's
the matter with ye?’ he said. I could not
speak, so help me! for the ship was gone,
and there we were a’bowin’ along just as
if nothin' had happened. 'We was
about run down by a ship.' says I, finally.
‘You're drunk,' says the skipper. I began
to think I was,mate,anddidn tsay nothin.’
I s’pose you’ve heard of folks gittin' drunk
from bein’ thirsty? Well. I thought mebby
I had done that, for as true as sailin' I had
not had a drop o' rum for a month. But
when I came to talk it over the hull watch
see her; every man of ’em. and you've seen
her to-day. ’ That's her ye just clapped
your eves on through the glass; the same
identical old craft, and nothin’ but the
double of the ship. Short, that’s what she
were, and when the mate let on to the i
skipper that he see her the old man swore
that he'd clap him in irons the next time ,
he mentioned it, But it wasn’t no use
fightin' solid facts. Four nights afterward
it was my trick at the wheel, and the skip
per was walking up and down the quarter
deck eussin' and swearin' about the wind
that was a-fallin’ |off land on, and kept a-
takin’ us back. All at once 1 see a sail
astern and sings out, 'Sail oh! *\\ hat d'ye
mean, you old swab?’ says the skipper.
‘Swab or no swab, there she is,' says I. and
she was haulin’ up onus that fast that in
a second she was almost aboard. The
skipper made a jump for the rail, and
sings out, 'Shipahoy! bear away!"
-You could aboard him half way to the
Sandwich islands; but on she come, and
when she boarded us lie fell back in a dead
tit like, and I saw bis eyes sot in the light
of the binnacle jest like a madman's."
"And the ship?" I asked.
"Well. 1 see she went right over us,
or We went right through her. like a
cloud-like, and that was the last we saw of
her for a week; then she sailed abreast on
us for an hum* or so; that fixed tile old
man: he went ravin' mad and tried to
heave himself overboard, so we lashed
him in the. cabin, and the mate took
charge, and that was the best of her.
-What do I think of it? Well. I ain't
no philosopher," answered the .>H sailor,
• •hut. mate, the hands from the gallery up
thought that that 'ere craft was the oid
Tennessee s double and her skipper was the
mail our mad skipper killed by lappin’
him over the bead. , . ]
-What is she doin here? W ell, the skip
per came ashore here and went east by
rail and got cured, and I bear lie s back
now, lookin’ out for another ship. If you
see a mail short and thick, with i red face :
and billycock eye and wearin’ a glazed hat,
a man what is always dodgin’ your eye
and lookin' 'round a watchin' and spyin’
for somethin’ that ain't never found, if
vou see such a chap along the docks some i
mornin’, that’s him; and what’s more, this
’ere double is a-lyin 1 off and on the Golden
Gate to chase him out, and she 11 foller .
him, mate, till be goes on board. Perhaps ;
you'll think I’m off my soundin s, but I )
ain’t ” and the old man looked around as i
a terrific gust struck the tower and made
f or the hatch that led down the building, i
m! h i a.
ri..i ;
: A\G MONE N
gather about the how, s:n. every rep*
varei e.v-t s shadow upon deck, as the
- f trees do under the electric light.
With ah this seen:iug rro > Ugh.: :
cut heat, a seeming combustion without
loss of matter, a phenomenon that occurs
in the animal, vegetable and mineral king
doms, in life and death, in growth and in
decay. Dead fishes often gleam with a
pale light. Living ones front'the deap sea
are provided with luminous organs upon
their head and sides to illuminate the dark
caverns they inhabit. The dead fibre of
wood gleams with a soft glow, while tte'.ar
Sal: Lake a limestone cannot be touched
without giving out a sc*ft light, much to
the astonishment of the workers in it.
*tar fishes and sea urchins are often him- j
inous. The marigold of the garden, the
oriental poppy, various toadstools and 1
ferns emit light: in fact this curious phe
nomena is found everywhere, and even the j
worm is said to be" phe*sphoroseent by '
some.
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List of unclaimed letters remaining in the Co
lumbus, Ga.. post office for the week ending Aug.
15th. If not called for within thirty days will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office:
Acee mrs M
Alexander mrs $
Aids J
Anderson mrs F
Raley mrs $ C
Barber E
Barnes C
Bedell F W
Beuet S
Blakely J J
Bower J W
Burnet mrs V
Boynton, miss M
Buchanan miss T
Caldwell E
Cameron H
Carter B C
Cary miss L
Combs L
Coob mrs J
Cruse E
Culpepper J C
Davis \V col
Dearing miss L A
Denis J
Diges M
Dowdell \V col
Doil C
Dowdell miss J
Evans E
Evans A A
Farley R P
Ford L
Frazer S
Guinett miss A
Grim J
Griffin mrs B F
Griggs miss F
Hammond miss E
Harris M
Harris miss M col
Hobos mrs D J V
Hawkins C
Heath C col
Hix miss S J
Howard .1
Hoover \V F
Hughes mrs J
Irvin miss A
Jackson J C
Jones miss A
Jackson miss M
Jacob miss A col
Johnson mrs M
Johnson miss C
When calling for these letters, please say they
are advertised, giving date.
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“CHICK-ESTER S ENGLISH
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Johnson mrs M L
Jones S
Jones X
Jones mrs P
Jones miss D
Jones n iss M
Kimbell mrs M
Lewis mrs J
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McClellan G
McGee miss G
McClenic G
McLendon L
Madenden mrs P
Mallerv mrs S col
Madden W
Matthews D C
Mil burn D
Morgan miss R
Mooney G H
Murphay J A
Nelson mrs X
Odom mrs B
Owanagan J
Park ham miss L
Parker mrs
Peed miss M
Perreiuan miss F
Perry J
Phelps miss S G
Prairee E
Reed R
Rhvines M
Rowel J
Roberson miss J
Robinson L
Roberson mrs M col
Rogers J B
Rogers mrs G W
Runel T
Sanford H
Smith L I’
Smith F col
Smith C C
Sect miss M E
Shorter mrs F
Shearer P S
Taut I
Tyler S s
I’psher TJ
Well J C
West W
White B
Willis J P
•axing the above complaints, and
rfiganttc sales in the face of tYe:u.ie\l opposition
and would-be money monopolist*.
Letters from all points where introduced are
pouring in upon ns. speaking m the loudest pr.us<
Some soy they receive more benefit from one bot
tle of B. B. R. than they have from twenty, thirty
and fifty, and even one huudrtsl Ivttles of a
boasted decoction of inert and non-me\iicinal
n.x'ts, and branches of common forest trees. We
hold the prvsyf in black and white, and we also
hold the fort.
l*o I ice in t lewv
Mrs. M. M. Priuce, living at Js West F.vir street.
Atlanta. Ga.. has been troubled for seveml
months with an ugly form of catarrh, attended
with a copious and offensive discharge frvnu both
nostrils.
Her system became so affected and irdnctM that
she was confined to boil at my house for some
time, and received the attention of three
physicians, and used a dozen bottles yf an exten
sively ad\*ertise\l blood remedy, all without the
least benefit.
She finally commenced the use of R. B. B.. with
a divided improvement at once, and when ten
bottles had been use\l. she was entire ly cured of
all symptoms of catarrh.
It gave her an apivtite. and increased her
strength rapidly, and l cheerftiUy recommend it
as a quick and cheap tonic and Blood Purifier.
J. W. Giokk.
Policeman.
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All who desire full information about the cause
and cure of Blood Poisons.Scrotula and Scrofulous
Swellings. Ulcers. Sores. Rheumatism. Kidney
Complaints. Catarrh, etc., can secure by mail,
free, a copy of our S3-page Illustrated Book of
Wonders, filled with the most womierthl and
startling proof ever before known.
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N. 1>.—(>nr stock of WroiiLiht Iron. Pipe, Fittings ami
Machinery is the largest in this part ofthe country.
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