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WHEN SHE WAS NEAR*
Jfr mother’s heart was lior,«y,
Her kies was sweetest balm.
An ! though the world was full of storm
Her lap was full of calm.
Iler arms ami V>rerv»t wero filled with rest,
H»r smile was fail of joy,
An ! life was dear when she was near
And I a little boy.
The world Is full of golden gifts,
And yet my spirit sighs
B 'tween the gracious long-agos
An 1 happy by-and-hyes.
I am n-weary of the cares
That fill the lives of men {
I would I w *re a little ebtl l
Within those arms again.
For my mother’s heart w.us honey,
And her kiss was sweetest halm.
And though the world was full of storm
Her lap was full of calm.
B«r arms an l breast were fllie 1 with rest,
Her smile was full of joy,
And life was dear when she was near,
And I a little boy.
—Nix on Waterman.
“Is Life Worth Living?”
** ORMAM BRO
** knw stood at
m liiH study win-
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Professor was
not thinking of tho sunset. His finely
moulded features woro an expression
of weariness and hia intellectual blue
eyes looked out from under his luxu¬
riant brown curls with a settled mel¬
ancholy.
Ho was young—in fact, just twenty
six—but his dross gave him tho look
of a much older man. His coat did
not fit him and his whole attire was
careless and old fashioned.
Behind him stood his desk, from
which ho had just risen, covered with
papers, pencils and ponderous volumes
in many languages. In his hand lie
still held the last sheets of a thesis lie
had been writing when the sunlight
had deserted him. It tv as entitled,
“Is Life Worth Living?” and was de¬
signed for a popular magazine that
had requested something from his
pen. In it ho had proved conclusively,
quoting freely from classic and Ger¬
man authors, that this lifo of ours,
taken nil in all, is decidedly not worth
tho living.
llofelt quite satisfied with his effort.
His arguments seemed to him soundly
drawn and unanswerable. Ho read
the last sentence over twice with evi¬
dent approval; “Andlove, tho fairest
bubble mortals chase, the soonest
bursts and turns to nothing but a
vain deceit.”
Ho flattered himself that that was
rather well put, and ho jotted down
some ideas in cont^Miaaco of the
thought, which In* ./mid elaboraj
that evening. T*r hastihykgB
his overcoat, aud™as it "
rain, grasped a n ^
ably largo an ■lit
Ho ate his dinner in solitary silence,
unheeding tho laughter and jests of ir
repress! hie students at tables all about
him. They observed him with a re
speetful stare, ior they knew that this
young Professor was already famous
in the intellectual world and they felt
a personal pride in the honorary de
grees that other people wrote after
his name, although he never did.
They knew that liis pamphlet on
‘Thenonienality of Spirit" had been
translated into fourteen different Ian
guages and had revolutionized modern
thought on that subject.
The Professor sat idly drumming
with his fingers on the table, waiting
for his dessert. Ho felt a half pity,
half contempt, for people who could
laugh foolishly iu such an empty
world. Strange sentiment for a young
man ! But Normau Brokaw’s life had
been a strange one. Early deprived
of father and mother, ho had been
brought up by an uncle, a man di¬
vorced from his wife.
Proud of Norman’s bright intellect
his undo had lavished money on his
education, but the love and cherishing
that are the inherent rights of
IioolI the boy had never known. After
graduating and taking a master’s
groe at Harvard ho had gone abroad
and spent two years at a German uni
versity. His life had been destitute of
social pleasures. He had scarcely
known a womau, save the old house
keeper.
His uncle, embittered by his own
sad experience, bad warned him against
tho whole sox as foes to man’s happi
ness.
On his return to America ho had
been tendered a professorship in the
large university where he now was.
Ilis nude s death while he was abroad
had leit him au independent fortune,
and now, at twenty-six, rich,
and in perfect health, he found life
only an immense an unnecessary afiiie
tK, “’
ite nmshed _ .. Ins dinner and strode
out again into the chill November
night, his line figure and firm tread
followed with admiring eyes by would
be aspirants for college athletic lion
ors. His abused muscles pleaded for
exercise to-night, and he struck out
iuto a brisk walk down one of the
quiet streets. Clouds had been gather
jug while he was at dinner, and soon
big rain drops began to fall. He bur
richly opened ins wide spreading um
brellti. Just then an exclamation of
dismay fell on his ears.
He turned and saw, crossing the
stroet, in the full glare of the eleeftic
H - onu " lady in the prettiest
of fall costumes. Che had no umbrella
and the ratu was beating ruthlessly
down ou her large velvet hat with its
mass ot waving plumes. As she caught
eight of the rrotessor her face bright
ened, and with an impulsive bound
she stood beside him under the um
brella.
She raised appealingly a face £0
captivating in its girlish freshness
that even the Professor’s grave
features, shaded by the umbrella,soft
eued into a smile. Long lashes veiled
a pair of the loveliest hazel eyes that
ever lighted up a veritable rosebud
lace. Perhaps the features were not
<jputc regular—the nose had a little
THE MONROE ADVERTISER, FORSYTH, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1894. -EIGHT PAGES
independent style of its own, bat tho
lips were very red, an i the little
anhnrn carls just showing under tho
wide hat brim completed a tout en¬
semble that was bewitching.
The Proiessor suddenly recollected
himself and stammered:
“Certainly—of course-—I shall be
very glad.” kind,”
“Thanks awfully; yon’re so
returned the young lady, walking
aloug beside him. “I did hate to
rum my new dress and hat. I just got
them from homo yesterday. I’m a
university student,” she explained,
“but I live in New York. I suppose
anybody else would have got com¬
pletely drenched before they’d have
a keel to share you umbrella without
being introduced, but I thought you
wouldn’t mind. Y'oa’re sure you
don’t?”
“Quite sure,” said the Professor,
laughing. This was rather amusing.
Liftingtho umbrella a little more over
her, ho asked, with fatherly patron
age:
“May I ask what work you are pur¬
suing at the university?”
“I? Oh, I pursue Greek and Eng¬
lish and history and French, etc.
I’m going to take philosophy next
term.”
“Under whom?” queried tho Pro¬
fessor, with interest.
“Under Professor Brokaw. He’s
awfully clever, but they say he’s just
as cranky as he can be.”
“Indeed!” was all the astounded
Professor could ejaculate.
“Yes; gets himself up like a scare¬
crow. It’s a pity, too, for he’d bo
real handsome if ho only knew it. I
watched him in chapel yesterday. He
has beautiful eyes, so large and
dreamy, and the loveliest hair! But
lie always looks us if he’d lost his last
friend. Perhaps you know him?”
“►Slightly,” replied tho Professor,
for the first time in his honorable
career stooping to dissimulation.
“They say ho hates women,” she
continued. “He’s never had any in
his classes, but some of us are going
to beard the lion next term. Well,
here wo are at my house. I’m so
much obliged to you. Good night.”
And before the Professor could re¬
gain his senses eho had slipped from
under the umbrella and was gone.
Divided between indignation and
amusement, the young professor strode
home. Ho that was wliat people said
of him—lie was a crank and ho hated
women. It was s new experience hav¬
ing such things said to him, and he
didn’t like it. But “his eyes were
lovely, ” were they ? He had actually
blushed iu the darkness when she said
that, and he found it sootkiug now to
his wounded vanity.
Would it bo believed that the first
thing the learned professor did on
reaching liis rooms was to walk
straight to the mirror over the grate
and study himself with all the interest
of a freshman ? For the first time he
noted that liis coat was shabby, and a
firm resolve shone in his eyes. His
hair wasn’t bad, perhaps, and his eyes
—again the swi it uolor came into his
face and with a boyish laugh he
tunic ', away from the mirror.
thesis still lay on his desk.
Htlon’t feel like that any more to-
51 ” he sai.l, and he thrust it into n
Irawer and threw himsolf into
tabuDorcad.
his FrofcHKIH^kawhaj^Jii^^g lecture oH^flBBjllflHH^next ; 11
term when t in
walked six very demure young ladies,
headed by his acquaintance of the rain
storm. They seated themselves sa¬
(lately near tho door, uukeediug the
chairs placed at the r disposal by rs
many gallant young men. Fore
warned is forearmed. The Professor
merely included them in a general
bow of recogbition and proceeded
with his discourse,
At tho close of the hour tho stu¬
dents came forward for enrollment.
As the Professor took the card from
tho fair sharer of his umbrella he
looked her bravely in the face, won¬
dering if she would recognize him,but
she only blushed slightly and dropped
her eyes.
“Grace—what is the last name?” he
asked, scrawling her name in his book.
“Hamilton,” she said, and he
thought that a pretty name for such a
cruel young woman.
The Professor had apprehended dire
and dreadful things from that class iu
philosophy, but he was, happily, not
doomed to experience them. He was
a gentleman and he treated the young all
ladies courteously. That being
they wanted, they smiled on him ami
ably iu return and said he was “quite
nice.”
There -were, nevertheless, not want
iug revelations for him. He at first
charitably refrained from “quizzing”
the young ladies, under the impres
siou that their mimls were unadapted
to grapple with tho abstractions of
philosophy. What was his amaze
ment to discover 011 the firstexamiua
tion, that one of the two candidates
for highest marks was a young wo
man, and that one Grace Hamilton,
He was none the less gratified and
the next time he met her he stopped
and told her how pleased he was with
her work. And he was glad that he
had done so when he sajjr the pretty
flush of pleasure it brought to her
face.
So interested did the Professor be
come in this bright pupil of his that
he would frequently bring her books
from his private library to shed light
ou dark problems, au l he was sur
prised to find how quickly an hour or
two would slip away while he was ex
plaining things to her.
Daring those winter months the
young Professor was passing through
some strange phases of life. He was be
ginning discover that with all his
knowledge some things -iia nad yet to
learn.
Not Kant nor Schopenhauer had
ever told him what a charming thing
a -weet-young woman can be, nor had
all his mathematics taught him to es
timate the face value of a smile. He
seemed to be entering into a new
world in thesg latter days. He won
dered that he had never noticed before
how bright the sun shone and how
blue the sky was.
V> ith all this revolution taking place
under the Professor’s brown curls
> there had come about a complete met
amorphosis in his external appearance,
J j He no longer wore shabby clothes,
but walked the streets iu the most
styl sh suits that u city tailor could
devise.
He had never, with all his erudi¬
tion, taken a coarse in the science o!
love, and it was long before he could
interpret to himself these new sensa¬
tions of his. When at length it
it dawned upon him that he was ac¬
tually in love with Grace Hamilton ho
was appalled at his audacity.
All this time the weeks were slip¬
ping by one by one and at last there
came a bright day in June when the
Professor realized that commence
ment waa only two days away. He
wandered about aimlessly all day try¬
ing to face the misery of not seeing
Grace Hamilton all summer. By
evening he could endure it no longer.
He yielded to the promptings of his
heart and turned into the street that
led to her house.
He found her alone on the vine-cov¬
ered side veranda, looking like a pic¬
ture in a dainty white dress, with a
blue tringed scarf thrown over her
shoulders.
“I know I am selfish to take up
your time in these last days, Miss
Hamilton,” began the Professor apol¬
ogetically, “You have so many other
friends who have a better “claim on
you.”
“Ob, no, indeed,” declared the
young lady. “I think dragging me
safely through the profundities of
philosophy all winter ought to con¬
stitute a claim if anything coul i. We
girls wero saying to-day wo thought
you’d been wonderfully good to us.”
“You didn’t find mo a3 bad as you
expected, did you?” said the Professor,
smiling.
“Why, we didn’t expect—” she be¬
gan, and then stopped in confusion.
“Ob, yes, pardon me, but you did
expect to encounter something terri¬
ble when you ventured into Professor
Brokaw’s class. I had it from your
own lips.”
“From mine!”
“Yes. Let me tell yon something.
Do you lemember being caught in a
rainstorm one night last fall and walk¬
ing home under a stranger’s uinbrel
la? You will recall that you said
some very plain and uncomfortable
things about Professor Brokaw. Well,
do you know who that stranger was?”
Grace Hamilton’s face had grown
scarlet while he was speaking.
“Oh, Professor Brokaw !” she stam¬
mered, penitently. “I was in hopes
you’d never know! I knew you when
I heard you speak in class, but I
thought you didn’t know me. It was
so dark that night. I’ve always felt
so sorry about it.”
“You said I was cranky and that I
hated women,” ho continued, teas
ingly.
“Please don’t!” she begged, “I
didn’t know you, or I couldn’t have
said such things. I take them all
back. ”
“But you said I had beautiful eyes.
Do you take that back, too?”
She looked up and met
in the beautiful eyes tj
drop her own ^nd bill
lessor blushed a little, q
both “No, laughed. I won’t take tin TT'
said audaciously. “Th
tiful.”
Something in the downcast,
ing face inspired the Professor with*
sudden boldness. or
“Grace,” he said, impulsively, “X
know it’s a great deal to ask you, but
.do you think you cotrid ever come to
care enough for your stupid Professor
to make his whole life glad for him?
Could you ever think of being my
wife, Grace?”
The long lashes ^gjffivered as they
drooped over tho hazel eyes, and tho
little fluttering leaves of tho wood¬
bine and the trumpet-creeper near
stood still, waiting, with the Profes¬
sor’s heart, for the answer, that came
in a low, tremulous voice :
“I might if—you asked me.”
Two hours later Professor Brokaw
came dashing up the stairs to his rooms,
two steps at a time, humming a lively
tune. He turned up the gas and be¬
gan hastily to finish packing the con¬
tents of his desk, for he was to leave
day after to-morrow. The grate was
already filled high with waste papers,
to which he added others, and touched
a match to them.
Opening one drawer he came
across a partly finished manuscript.
Looking at the first page he saw that
it was that old thesis he had once
written on “Is Life "Worth Living?”
and he sat down on the table and
read it through.
He finished and sat looking out into
the moonlight for a moment, with a
dreamy look in his eyes.
“What a fool I was!” he said, at
last, with a happy laugh, and he
tossed the thesis into the grate.—
Chicago News.
Mirage on the "Western Plains.
Probably but a small proportion of
those who read of the wonderful sand¬
storms and mirages of the African
deserts are aware that the same phe
nomena, on almost as largeascale, can
be seen in our own country. Along
the borders of some of the streams
of Oklahoma, on the plains of Eastern
Washington and Oregon, on the Gila
Desert iu Arizona, and in the Pecos
Valley of New Mexico, the sand dunes
change their forms with every passing
wind; and the dry and shimmering
plains of Kansas and Nebraska, as well
as those near Laramie and on the up
per portions of the Rio Grande, fnr
umli miragie views which astonish and
charm the beholder.
Widespreading lakes tantalize the
unsophisticated traveler or hunter; a
buffalo skull with a raven p^ched
upon it becomes a white steed bearing
sable rider; the coyote sneaking
across the field of vision a mile away
assumes the proportions of a lion, and,
ha the days of the buffalo, a herd
seemed often aerialnondescripts.de
sustenance from the air in
which they were apparently floating,
—Recreation.
7 ~ *
* ouna a „ Fortune.
Good luck does not often fall as ap
propriately as it did the other day to
a poor old Polish woman, who has
long been working as a rug sorter at
the paper mills at Plover, Wis. Among
the rags 6ho found a tattered vest.
She put her hands into the pocket
and to her great surprise drew out a
roll of bills, amounting to £530. The
proprietor of the mill told her he had
no claim ou the money, and she will
buy a small farm with it, from which
she can make a much better living for
herself and children than she no*
gets.—New Orleans Picayune,
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
FEEDING PUMPKINS TO COWS.
Pumpkins are more nutritious than
is commonly thought, and the
color of the flesh adds to the color of
the butter of cows fed reasonably on
them. A single pumpkin of twenty
pounds, chopped into slices with a
sharp-edged spade in a shallow box,
will not be too much for a cow in
milk. It is not worth while borrowing
trouble about the seeds; they are
doubtless a goo.1 remedy for tape¬
worm, and if the cow is so troubled, a
pumpkin with the seeds once a day j
may be useful, but the seeds will not
hurt a cow if she has no tapeworms to ;
trouble her. The seeds and stringy
stuff about them are very rich in fat.
—New York ”
Times.
PRESERVING NUT SEEDS.
It is not necessary for such seeds as
hickory, walnut, chestnut, etc., to be
sown in the fall, as is generally sup¬
posed. It is better to sow in spring,
as the fall plantings have to run many
risks, such as vermin and frosty soils.
A good way to preserve the nuts for
seed is to gather up the good nuts as
soon as they fall; the goo.I ones are
always the last to drop. Remove all
the hulls, then put in boxes or barrels,
mixing nearly dry earth with them,
and place in a cool cellar, free from
frost. If a slightly damp cellar is
used no earth will be needed, as the
only function of 4*^ dirt is to keep the
nuts from drying losing weight.
Nearly dry earth is best, inasmuch as
it excludes the air better.—Farm,
Stock and Home.
NOTHING BEATS PLAIN GRAFTING WAX.
A tree healer (so called) is a good
thing for the man who sells it at a
large profit, writes J.' W. Kerr. I
have used various preparations for
covering wounds and bruises on trees,
and have settled down to jfiaiu graft¬
ing wax, believing, from comparative
tests, that it is the equal of the be3t.
Why cover a wound or bruise?
Simply to exclude air and water. This
done, a little extra feed and careful
culture for a year or two, seldom fail
to overcome such injuries. The prepa¬
rations that are “always ready for
use,” such as shellac, paint, etc., have
to be repeatedly applied to effect the
same purpose that a good coating of
grafting wax does. In order thor¬
oughly to rid peach, plum, quince and
other trees of borers, the earth must
be removed from the collar of the
tree to a depth of three to four inches;
before this is returned (and it should
not be left too late in spring), I some¬
times apphyyjvg^^rUlime, with eight
‘T1 date of potash to
ash, and enough
at the odor. This
Iber brushes, lib
tom of the basin
pal of the earth
p^na about the eurfack tref^ to a height of a
foot above the level, helps to
heal the borer wou£ f q S) only by ex¬
bolic cluding acid air odor therefrom. j anjpHH^HBge- "■grh|YVWnar
.as
places pellont to to deposit in.seegfl^^^^HMag Jy
its Hereatrer^^Lsliair . . Z ’
strained belief.
use lime alone for this purpose. With
borers, ns with other vermin, preven¬
tion is better and easier than care, all
things considered. It is scarcely
practical to prevent the deposit of
eggs at the collars of trees in large
orchards, but it is practical to remove
the “grubs” hatched therefrom, be¬
fore they do much injury ; this is ail
that is implied by prevention as used
above.—Bural New Yorker.
WILD LETTUCE.
This weed has a wide distribution,
and in many sections of the country
threatens to become a serious pest.
It has already spread so greatly in
Ohio, Iowa and Illinois, that the agri¬
cultural sections of those States have
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WILD LETTUCE.
issued bulletins and’ advising° warning farmers of
it s presence them to de
s troy, mow or otherwise cut out the
nlan’ts before tb^v rinen the seeds
which are produced inlarge numbers
anc \ are readily carried by the wind,
As many as 25,000 seed may be pro¬
dueed oil a square foot of ground,
The wild or prickly lettuce (iaetuea
Scariola) is one of the most couspicu
0 us weeds, having foar° a single or^mcre stem of
from one to feet high,
The leaves of the plant are six to eight
inches long and an inch and a half
wide, with irregular "vanities prickly edges,
resembling some of culti
va ted lettuce. Cutting before the
seeds form, or prevent* better, cutting its bios
soms, will spread. Twice
cutting will be sufficient. As the
plant is either annual or biennual, its
destruction would be easy were not
its seeds carried long distausea by the
wind. In localities were the plant is
still rare its spread can be prevented
vrith little effort.—New York World,
A QUICKLY MADE STABLE PEN.
It frequently happens that oue de
sires to make use, for an emergency,
of a stall or pen in the stable which is
not at hand, and for which there may
not be convenient room as a pet
manent structure. Our illustration
shows how such a pen may be made ut
a moment’s time, in a c-orner tbit or
dmarily may be used for other pur-
poses. Two gates are made and hinged
against the walls in the manner shown.
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CHEAP STABLE PEN.
Ordinarily they are .olded back snugly
a o a ^ n6 “ either wall, but when a pen or
“Lox stall is suddenly needed the
^ 0 eu - uS are swung together and
locked with hooks, and the needed ac
commodation is secured. Such gates
should have slats quite near together,
and should be of good height to ac¬
commodate both large and small ani¬
mals. —American Agriculturist.
CRUELTY OP BARS WIRE.
We are aware that there are a few
stockmen who by some fortuitous
concourse of circumstance have es¬
caped having their animals mutilated
by the barbs. One correspondent
even wrote us taking the position
that a colt that hadn’t sense enough
to keep out of the wire hadn’t sense
enough to live and ought to be killed
in the fence. But we could never ap¬
preciate the force of such logic. Tho
best of colts—and young folks—are
sometimes a bit foolish under stress
of excitement. It comes not far from
being a characteristic of the adolescent
age. But they outgrow it. The point
is merely to keep as far from them as
can be the temptations and possi¬
bilities for bad when they are r,t that
age. When an animal once learns
what barb wire is there is compara¬
tively little danger of injury from it
except in the dark, but the trouble is
that it comes away from its first
lesson on the subject a wiser but not
handsomer animal. It may be “still
iu the ring,” but it is ordinarily more
than “somewhat disfigured.” o
Of course a barb wire fence that is
kept perfectly tight at all times is far
less harmful than one in which the
wires are loose or broken away from
tho posts. A loose barb wire fence on
a farm with live stock is simply an
offense against humaneness. It is a
wicked trap. We have never wasted a
bit of sympathy on the men we have
seen caught in the wires of a fence
which their indolence or ignorance or
neglect had permitted to get loose.
Carelessness in fence building and re¬
pairing is doubtless the. cause of much
of Abe. damage- done to live stock by
the cruel barbs, but a barb per se is
dangerous. Some farmers carefully
round off with jack-plane the edges
and corners of stalls and boxes in the
barn lest an animal should accidentally
come to ferief by a bump against
them, and then fence their paddocks
with barb wire! This is very like
straining at a gnat and swallowing a
camel. The record the barbs have
written for themselves in blood all
over the country is too patent to be
laughed or argued out of^court. An
ounce of subh experience
several tons of theory.—Breeders’
Gazette.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Clover is a food for hens which one
must not overlook.
High bred animals give better re¬
turns for feed consumed than ordinary
or scrub stock.
Even an extra amount fed to poor
cattle will fail to bring that superior
quality which is desirable.
Only cultivated crops should be al¬
lowed iu orchards early in the season.
Grain and liay should never be grown.
The tillage should b9 repeated as
often as once in ten days throughout
the growing season, which extends
from spring until July or August.
If the value of the corn fed to hogs
is figured we would like to know how
much more profit there is in pork as
usually made than in mutton. Did
you ever stop to figure this?
Tillage should not exist for the pur¬
pose of killing weeds. Weeds have
taught the most important lesson in
agriculture, to be sure, but the school¬
master should now be able to retire.
Clover is abundant, bulk y, and rich
in lime and nitrogen. Cut, scald and
mix with, a little ground grass for the
poultry in the morning, and save
more expensive material, as clover is
very wholesome.
Fall plowing may be advisable for
farm crops, but it should generally be
discouraged in orchards. The land in
orchards should be left compact in
the fall, and it is advisable to cover it
with some close herbage.
The very day you hear of a garbage
crematory near you, go and see what
you can get the ashes for. Bend a
sample te the State experiment station
for analysis. You never will have s
better chance to obtain a cheap fertili¬
zer.
Unless you live too f ir North plant
onion sets in the garden now for early
use next spring, sow lettuce anl
radish seed ior early vegetables
and pansy ior early Dooming.
i rotec-t these ->eds by heavy mulching
Mtn manure as soon as tue ground be
gins to freeze.
Lite cultivation may be injurious
by inducing a late growth. At all
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tne begins to mature and rains become
frequent. This season of respite gives
the grower the opportunity of raising
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farrows. I his system gives thorough
surface drainage and admits of early
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I; the currant bushes are not pro
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A SUBSTITUTE
FOR CARLISLE’S CURRENCY BILL
MAY BE PRESENTED.
The Secretary and Chairman Springer
Hold a Conference.
A conference was held at the treas¬
ury department Thursday hfetvreen
Secretary Carljakr and" Chairman
-Springer, of the house committee on
banking and currency, relative to
amending the Carlisle currency bill
now before the house. The subject
was gone over fully and as a result of
the talk, Mr. Springer will propose a
number of amendments designated to
remove soma of the objections ad¬
vanced against the bill. One objec¬
tion is that under section seven some
banks may be permitted to take a cir¬
culation of 90 per cent of their capital
stock, while the bill limits circulation
to 5 per cent to the capital stock.
This would be remedied by req,wring
the excess, !f any, to" be retired
by deposit of greenbacks under ex¬
isting provisions of law. The time
in which the banks will be required to
comply with the new law may be ex¬
tended for two years, and the house
may fix by amendment the time at a
more remote date.
The bill will be made to make clear
that bill holders of national bank
notes will be protected during the time
the old banks are conforming to the
law.
Another amendment will provide
that the government will receive the
old notes for internal taxes and cancel
them and issue notes under the new
law.
SUBSTITUTE MAY BE OFFERED.
It is possible that these and other
amendments that the democratic ma¬
jority of the banking committee may
agree upon may be embraced in a sub¬
stitute which can be presented before
the five minute debate begins. Huch a
substitute embodying all amendments
and improvements suggested by tuo
debate is thought to be more desirable
than having the original bill patched
from end to end with amendments.
The conference did not bring out
any consideration of the three impor¬
tant amendments which have been
urged on the floor of the house, viz.:
The issue of bonds to retire outstand¬
ing greenbacks, the elimination of
state banks, and the limiting of a
hank’s liability for the losses to other
banks to 1 per cent.
SOME POSSIBLE CHANGES.
As to a bond issue to retire the
greenbacks, this will probably he
offered as an amendment, but it is be¬
lieved that the feeling against bond
issues will defeat the amendment.
The elimination of state banks and the
limiting of bank liability will also be
presented as independent amendments.
The Czar’s Coronation.
A St. Petersburg dispatch states that
according to the present arrangements
the coronation of Czar Nicholas II will
take place in April, 1896. After the
coronation the czar and czarina will
proceed to Nijni Novgorod, where
they will open the national exhibition,
It is understood that extensive changes
^r 0 y eramen t officers will be made at
Beginning of the Russian new year,
Moving South to Raise Fruit.
Southern Pines, N. C., is attracting
the attention of western Pennsylvani a
and western New York fruit men. A
syndicate, headed by E. H. Butler,
'
fe ditor cf t p e Bradford Era, and J. N.
Perrine, business manager of the Oil
City Derrick, has purchased a tract of
1,500 acres of land at Southern Pines,
and will go into the fruit industry on
a large scale,
The Parson Was a Counterfeiter.
The treasury department is in
formed of the arrest in the Lookout
mountains of Alabama of W. J. Mor¬
ris, a preacher, charged with manu¬
facturing counterfeit silver coin. Sev
eral sets of plates ami a large quantity
of coin were captured.
A Missouri Bank Goes to the Wall.
The Citizens’ Stock bank, of Slater,
M >., made an assignment Monday.
The doors of the savings hank arc also
cl ised. The latter, it is said, is safe,
and as soon as collections are made ii
will be optce/i.
WORTH $1,000.
Testimony of Hon. Thos. Paulk, of
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Thomas Paulk.
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acute and chronic invalids of all kinds.
PBICES.
Rooms, board and lodging included in
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charged $1 per day; fever and syphaletic
cases will be charged a reasonable price
extra for extra attention. Nurses will be
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every hour in the day and night if neces¬
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for bathing two sheets, four towels, two
blankets, two quilts or two coverlets and
three yards cloth.
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