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AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
The Field, Farm and Garden.
We soi:-i‘ articles for this department.
The ua " writer .should iceonipany
Uie letter o. .n ;,i it-, not neve >nrily for pub
lication, i ut a s an evidence of good faith.
Bananas for Profit.
Mr. Baugh, of Orauge comity, Fla., some
time ago gave the Orlando Reporter an ac
count of his success with bananas. He said:
There is no particular secret about the mat
ter. I take care of my plants, feed them
well and it pays me. Now, you can set out
the common horse banana and let it grow
pretty much as it pleases. Near the place
where this fruit was grown is a clump of
horse bananas which ■ havo been growing
and fruiting on the same ground for fifteen
years, and the only attention they ever re
ceived was when someone came along and
cut the heads. But with the Cavendish va
riety it is different; it requires constant
cultivation and good treatment. Being of
decidedly “noble blood,” it is more fastidi
ous than other kinds, but it well repays all
care bestowed upon it. The Cavendish is
the very king of the banana species and I
prefer it to all others for eating and for
marketing.
My plants are on hammock land, which
was cleared four years ago. It had a very
heavy growth of palm and oak trees on it,
and in clearing it I did not burn the stuff
but piled it in windrows 30 feet apart. That
has all rotted dowu and has been spread
over the ground. I put the plants about
eight feet apart, but considering the way
they spread and the nutriment they draw
from the soil, I should now place them at
least ten feet apart. For fertilizer I used
bright cotton-seed meal and have found
nothing better. Bone meal woD’t do. The
banana is a quick growing plant and needs
Stimulation. The Cavendish being of dwarf
habit, does not reacii a height of more than
six or seven feet before it begins to bear.
In the summer the fruit should begin to
ripen within three months from the time of
blooming, but as autumn advances the time
is lengthened to four months. Were it not
for the frosts there would be no end to the
banana season and ripe fruit could be cut
frbm the plantation every day in the year.
If that were the case the banana business
here would overshadow everything else.
As it is, there is money in it.
A plantation of Cavendish bananas, when
given the best care and cultivation, on suit
able soil, w-ith proper climate, ought toyeld
an annual income of SI,OOO per acre. That
might be considered the best figure, but a
plantation in South Florida ought to pro
duce 1,000 heads to the acre, which would
bring an average of 50, . apiece.
Care of Eorses’ Shoulders.
The New York Star, in an interesting and
valuable article on the “Care of Horses’
Slioa! l*n,” says that there is no more dis
graceful sight, whether at work iu the fields
or wagouiug on the roads, than to see horses
with their collars swathed in bandages, an
almost invariable sign that the poor beasts
are suffering from galled shoulders. It is,
as a rule, caused by the grossest negligence
and carelessness on the part of their owners
and an utter indifference to the comfort of
the poor animals who happen to be so un
fortunate as to be placed under his control.
This clumsy attempt to remedy an evil, or
rather to enable the animal, who has been
mutilated by careless handling, to do his
work, is not infrequently the cause of still
further extending the evil, for although the
pressure is to a great extent relieved from
the affected parts,the uneven pressure caused
thereby on other parts of the shoulder fre
quently rubs them into sores also. The
commonest humanity, as well as the inter
est of the farmer, should prompt him to
take the measures necessary to prevent the
collars and other parts of the harness from
galling.
Many a good horse has been spoiled by
having a sore shoulder arid become a con
firmed balker; for, having acquired an in
disposition to pull on the affected part, the
habit frequently clings to him after a cure
lias been effected. The prevention of galls
is very simple. In the first place, see that
the collar fits well, that it is neither too
tight nor loose, and, secondly, the shoulders
of the auimal should be well washed every
night when he is unhitched; and last, but
by no means least, the collar should he
thoroughly freed from the encrustation cf
perspiration, dust and hair which is to be
found invariably on the inside, and which
will most assuredly, if left to get bard, rub
the shoulder into sores A few drops of oil
rubbed . on the collar will keep the leather
pliable, and not only add to the comfort of
the animal but cause the collar to last much
longer, keeping the leather from cracking
end the stitches from starting. An excel
lent mode of treating galls is to wash the
affected parts with pure water and castile
soap; and the application of a little olive
oil will not only assist the healing process,
but will prevent the hair, if the injury is
not of too long standing, growing in white
patches over the wound.
Deterioration in Small Fruits.
In a paper read before the American Po
xnological Society, on the subject of deteri
oration in small fruits, Mr. J. M. Smith
disputes the necessity for deterioration.
The wild strawberry of the woods is proba
bly not worse than it was 2.000 years ago.
Wild fruits do not deteriorate or become
extinct. The tendency of an improved
sfrawberry is to revert to its original type;
this can be prevented, however, by holding
up its Character by highest cultivation, etc.
The fancy berries, petted under highest cul
ture, give good results, but fail in the hands
of the common cultivator. The Wilson
flhed to be the queen of strawberries. Now
it is failing in many sections. Why? Ail
improved varieties, in order to succeed,
should have th > same conditions under
which they originated. The Wilson needs
good soil and frequent renewal. Changes
of soil may be needed also. These condi
tions are absolutely necessary. Plants have
to be sold Jtoo cheap; hence are often poorly
grown and poorly racked. Poor plants, set
in poor and poorly cared for soil, unpro
tected, struggle along for a few years, but
finally result in almost utter failure. The
runners of these poor, sickly, starved plants
are planted again. This has been going on
fcr about thirty years and everybody cries:
“The Wilson is no longer a success!” Un
der the circumstances it is a wonder only
that it has stood so long. Our ignoranoe,
our carelessness, our stupidity and neglect
have caused its deterioration. Now let us
try another treatment. Take young, vig
orous runners from healthy plants, pick off
the first blossoms, give highest cultivation,
gather one crop and replant on some other
place. Under this treatment the Wilson
does not “run out,” but seems to improve,
(five each variety of small fruits such soil,
food, core and protection as it requires or
suffer the consequences.
The Kelaey Plum.
In the Gardener's Monthly there is an in
; teresting article on the Kelsey plum from
the pen of Prof. H. E. Van Daman, United
States Pomologist Ha says: I have seen
the Kelsey plum treos growing in the South
ern part of the United States and have seen
and eaten the fruit, and have specimens of
it iu my office here at this time. If there is
a difference between P. ehieasa aud P.
Americana, then there is a difference be
tween P. domestic* and the species to which
the Kelsey belongs, although there is doubt
as to its name. The flowers of all these
species are not widely different, but their
other characteristics are enough so to make
many species. And so it is with the Kel
sey, for the leaves, bark, fruit and form of
the tree are decidedly peculiar.
It has been my privilege to frequently
alk about Japanese plums with Mr. Ta
niari, who is a thoaough student of botany
and practical horticulture, and a native of
Japan; and he stated plainly that this plum
is a variety of a native species, and that it
did not belong to P. domesuca, but to a
species which he thought should be called
P. hattan or hadan. He said it was hardy
only in Southern Japan, and we know that
it has repeatedly winter-killed even in
Northern Texas and similar latitudes in the
United States.
Mr. Tamari told me of other species of
Prunus only native of Japan, to which va
rieties belong that arg not only scientific ally
distinct, but bearing fruit of sweet and de
licious flavor. One such variety has been
this year fruited by Luther Burbank, at
Santa Rosa, Cal., which is red to the stone.
All the varieties of P. mume are only fit
for pickling and, as is well known, we have
native species here of this genus that are
equally bad.
Saving Sweet Potato Vines.
A Mississippi farmer, writing to the
Southern Lire Stock Journal, says: I no
ticed in your last issue an article headed
“Use of Sweet Potato Vines and Leaves.”
I have used sweet potato vines for several
years and the main trouble I had in saving
it was to get it in some place where my
mules and cattle couldn’t break into it and
consume it faster than I wished to give it
to them; for indeed it makes most excellent
hay. I have saved it in two ways. First,
I pulled the vines off the ground w-ith a
bull-tongue plow, hauled them up and hung
them on poles, under shelter, being careful
not to get them in too large a bulk.
In a short while they w-ouid be perfectly
dry. Of course, as they are under shelter
there is no danger of spoiling. The next
w-ay is, though only a little different from
the first, I think the best way. Pull them
off, as in the first case, spread them out in
thesun;ths oau be done before they are
carried from the field. Let them sun about
one day; this is sufficient to cure them.
Then I put them away as I do any other
hay. I noticed this difference: While those
under an open shelter would get very dry
and stay so, those in a barn or loft all
bulked together seem to retain just enough
moisture to make them easily masticated
and digested, while in the first case they
get so dry and hard it makes them hard to
masticate. It is well to shake off the dirt
that adheres to the vines while pulling them
off beforo putting away. Never let the
frost fall on them before pulling. My ex
perience is that as food for milch cows the
potato vine parallels the most of our grasses
Bran on the Farm.
Prof. Brown, of the Ontario Agricultural
College at Guelph, Can , says the Herald,
recently summed up the usefulness of bran
to farmers, after having carefully consid
ered its chemical composition:
1. Bran is a concentrated food which,
though variable in composition, possesses
high nutritive value.
2. .Holier process bran is, on the average,
richer than old process bran.
3. Its excess of ash or mineral matters
eminently fits it for bone building in grow
ing animals aud for supplementing the lack
of mineral matters in roots.
4. Its chemical composition points to the
conclusion that it is somewhat better adapt
ed to the formation of fat and production
of heat than to the formation of muscle or
milk.
5. Both its chemical composition and its
physical form adapt it admirably to the
supplementary food to be used in connection
with poor aud bulky fodder, such as straw
and roots.
Tobacco in Florida.
A writer in the Florida Disj>atch says he
firmly believes that in spite of all opposi
tion tobacco culture will becomo in Florida
what it has become in every other tobacco
growing section where the soil was adapted
for its cultivation, the most profitable pro
duct ever raised in that or any other State.
Not only is the soil in many sections of the
State particularly well adapted for the cul
tivation of the finer grades of tobacco, but
the people enjoy other advantages of equal
if not greater importance. He has seen
whole crops of tobacco destroyed in one
single day by frost and hail storms in the
Northern States, two of the most formida
ble enemies to the plant, which the farmers
of Florida need never fear to encounter.
Considering the short time that Florida
farmers have been engaged in the cultiva
tion of tobacco, they have demonstrated
very positively that the soil will produce a
superior article to any other State, and that
they can improve the plant by experience.
Household.
Corn Fritters.—Take two cups of
canned corn, add three eggs well beaten, a
tablespoonful of milk, enough flour to make
the batter just drop from a spoon, then fry
in boiling lard.
Creole Orange Cookies.—lnto two ta
blespoonfuls of butter rub one large cup of
brown sugar and two quarts of flour. Sea
son with a great deal of orange peel, well
grated and mix with molasses enough to
roll thin. Cut in fancy shapes aud bake in
quick oven.
Meat Salad. —Chop fine oue or two
pounds of corned beef, then take two-thirds
of a cup ei vinegar, oue tablespoonful of
sugar aud one egg. Beat all together and
pour into the frying pan and lot boi', then
pour into a dish to mold. Serve in slices
when cold.
Poverty Cake.—Put one-half teacup of
warm lard in the pan with one-and-a-balf
cup of sugar, one half cup of water, a little
flour, stir well or until the sugar is dis
solved, add one-half cup of water, two eggs,
a little nutmeg or essence of lemon, baking
powder one teaspoon ful and flour enough to
suit, stir well; this will make drop cases if
flour enough is added, and sheet cake if left
thin.
Woodford Pudding.—Three eggs, one
teacup sugar, one-half teacup butter, one
half teacup flour, oue teacup jam or pre
serves, scant teaspoon soda dissolved in
throe teaspoons sour milk, mix well and
bake slowly. Sauce: One egg, one large
cup sugar, one small cup butter, mix well;
put on stove and stir until melted, add ta
blespoon wine, brandy or whisky, and pour
on immediately.
Canadian Apple .Pudding.—One pint
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flour; a cupful milk; one egg; three table
spoonfuls butter; one tablespoonful baking
powder; one cupful sugar; half a cupful
water; two quarts pared and quartered ap
ples; half a tea,spoonful salt. Put the pared
and quartered apples with the sugar—except
two tablespoonfuls—into a deep pudding
dish. Grate a little nutmeg over tneni and
set in a moderate oven for twenty minutes.
Sieve the flour, baking powder, salt and the
two tables|ioo!ifuls sugar. Add the milk
and beaten eggs, and stir with a spoon into
a smooth dough; then add the butter, melt
ed. Take the dish out of the oveu and
spread the dough over the top of the upples.
Return to the oven and bake twenty min
utes, increasing the beat. Serve the pud
ding in the dish it was baked in, or turn
out the crust on a flat dish, w-ith the apples
on top. Lemon or nutmeg sugar sauce cau
be added.
Farm and Stock Notes.
Wheat straw, cut flue aud moistened with
water slightly salted, then sprinkled with
ccrn-meal, will lie eaten by sheep, and will
answer for them if they be also fed liberally
on grain.
Parsnips and salsify (oyster plant) are
perfectly hardy, so that only enough for a
winter supply need be dug up and housed
in the fall. Those left iu the ground will
come out fresh and sound in the spring.
A good full stock of bees, say 20,000, should
have at least 20 pounds of good honey and
plenty of good dry combs to insure suc
cessful wintering, and be placed in a dark,
dry cellar or some other properly arranged
place for them.
Dry sleeping places are indispensable to
sheep. If compelled to remain on damp
locations the wool wfll dry very slowly and
the animals will often contract lung trou
bles. Sheep are liable to more diseases than
any other class of farm stock, aud for that
reason should be more carefully protected.
Horse troughs should be thoroughly
washed with warm water occasionally, as
there is more or less food left over, w hich
in time will become filthy. Shotil 1 moist
ened ground food remain in the trough and
the weather become somewhat warm it will
partially ferment, and in that manner ren
der other food nn wholesome.
The government experiments this year in
making sugar from sorghum are said to be
very successful On fair soil the yield of
cane was an average of twelve tons. The
average yield of sugar per aci-e was about
1,500 pounds and of syrup 130 gallons. It
is claimed that at this rate, even at the
present low prioe of sugar, the business of
making sugar from sorghum will be very
profitable.
A good way of wintering cabbage is to
pull it up by the roots on a dry day, wrap
up the outside leavos cai efully and snugly
around the heads and place them in a row,
roots up. Then cover with soil lightly at
first , adding more as the season advances.
In order to secure free access to the supply
in midwinter the ridges may be protected
from freezing solid by some litter being
thrown over it.
The value of stable dung, says Prof.
W yatt, must not be estimated upon actual
richness in ammonia or phosphoric acid
within a short period of its production, but
must be calculated on its wonderful physi
cal and chemical action on the elements of
the soil and the air, and upon its merits as
a vehicle or conductor into which complet
ing quantities of outside substances can be
introduced, decomposed aud rapidly made
available.
The wastes of the garden will be highly
enjoyed by the porkers. Cabbage leaves
and stalks, with the small sweet potatoes
and other things not valuable for family
use and that cannot be stored for the pigs
in the cold days, had better be fed to them
now than allowed to decay. Ordinarily
these things are not considered of much
value, but when vegetation is scarce, as it
is now it is well to make use of what we
often look upon as trifles.
The value of barley meal as a feed for
hogs is not half appreciated. Trials at the
Wisconsin experiment station show that 589
pounds of uncooked barley meal were re
quired to produce 100 pounds of pork, live
weight, while of qorn meal 403 pounds were
required, of corn meal and shorts half and
half 574 pounds, and of whole corn and
shorts halt and half 434 pounds were re
quired. This is not a very striking show
ing in favor of barley meal, but it demon
strates most conclusively that pork can be
profitably produced on barley in Northern
regions where corn cannot he grown at a
profit.
It is important no w to see that good drain
age is provided, especially with newly set
trees or plants. It will not answer to allow
the water to stand around the roots to freeze
and thaw. If a good tile drain should be
laid between each row of fruit trees, this,
of course, would be the best. But wherd
this cannot be done good surface drainage
can be made to answer, provided care lie
taken to do the work properly. Usually
whatever mulching is needed in the straw
berry bod should be applied at least by the
latter part of this mouth. See that what
ever material may be used will be spread
evenly between the rows.
Iu discussing ways and means for the im
provement of highways it should never be
lost sight of that the roadbed can never be
satisfactory as long as it is not thoroughly
drained. In a majority of cases this cau lie
done by grading up—i-utting ditches along
the sides. But the tendency is toward the
hollowing out of the centre of the grade;
and, as the ground is somewhat compacted
water lahcld for some time to the great in
jury of the road bed. Every few weeks,
when the weather will permit, the grade
should be dressed, filling up the depressed
paths made by the animals. When thor
ough drainage cannot bo secured in a ,y
other way, underdrain. The same princi
ples apply as in the draining of laud for
crops,
Popular Science.
The fact is noted by the Metal Worker
that a house hidden by trees is too often in
a reservoir of damp stagnant air (as may
be shown with a wet and dry bulb ther
mometer)—a condition anything but favor
able to health.
An English writer urges the importance
of thoroughly airing rooms and flushing all
waste-pipes on the return of a family after
a considerable absence from home. The
shut-up house is often filled with noisoe
gas, through the evaporation of he water
which keeps the sewer-traps operative, and
this is not necessarily revealed by an odor.
Many cases of sore thro it have been traced
to a neglect of the precautions mentioned.
The common raising faint ng
persons to a sitting or upright position is
olten sufficient to destroy tne spark of life
which remains. The death of au eminent
English statesman a short time ago gave
opportunity to the coroner for emphasizing
tins fact, and of pointing out how much
more reasonable and aouna it is to keep such
persons in the prone position while restora
tives and local means are adopted to enuble
them, if possible, to regain consciousness.
A sure way to test the quality of silk is to
take ten fibres of the filling in any silk, and
if, on breaking, they shall show a feathery,
dry and lack-lustre condition, discoloring
the fingers in handling, you may at once be
sure of the presence of dye aud artificial
weighting; or take a portion of the fi I ires
between the thmnbuud forefinger, and very
gentiy roll them over and over, and you
will soon detect the gum, mineral, soap and
other ingredients in the one, and the ab
sence of them in the other. A simple but
effective test of purity is to burn a small
quantity of the fibres; pure silk will in
stantly crisp, leaving only a pure charcoal;
heavily dyed silk will smolder, leaving a
yellow, greasy ash. If. on the contrary,
you cannot break the ten strands, and they
are of a natural lustre and brilliancy, and
fail to discolor the fingers at the point of
contact, you may lie well gssured that you
have a pure silk that is honest in its make
and durable in its wear.
Hick and billious headache, and all de
rangements of stomach and bowels, cured
by Dr. Pierce’s “Pellets”—or anti bilious
granules. 35 cents a viaL No cheap boxes
to allow waste of virtues. By druggists.
THE BIG METAL BOOM.
Wild Gambling in Copper That Is At
tracting Attention.
New York, Dec. 17.—The wild gambling
in copper in New York and London is at
tracting more and more attention as the
price mounts higher and higher under the
manipulations of the French clique, com
posed partly of I’aris bankers, who control
the situation. Ingot copper usual sells at 10
to 12c. a pound, hut it is now 17; a c., a rise
of $l4O a ton, bringing the price up to $350
a tou. A year ago copper was worth in
Loudon a little less than s2ooa ton, now it
commands $305. The principal bull point
on the market is that the consumption has
overtaken and now exceeds the production.
It Was on this point that a French syndicate,
said to represent the capital of $50,000,000,
took hold of the market. The tire last
spring in the Calumet and Hecla mine in
the Lake Superior region, hail a very im
portant bearing on the speculation for the
reason that it is the largest copper mine in
the country and this accident reduced the
supply. The mine is capitalized at $2,500,-
o<Hl, has 100,000 shares of the [tar value of
$25, but the stock sells at about, $190: at
different periods it has assess,'(l the stock
holders $1,200,000, but has put in dividends
within some twenty-five years of existence
$29,350,000, the last dividend being $5 a
share, last July, It is a pet stock in Boston,
that hot lied of copper stock gamblers, but
New Yorkers seldom meddle with it. The
Frenchmen have rubbed their hands with
satisfaction at the repeated fires and acci
dents at the Calumet mine within the past
year, for the reason that they seem to leave
them a clearer field for their campaign
acainst the bears in London and New York.
Yet the Michigan mines, nevertheless, make
a very good exhibit of production for the
year, and it is worth while to note a few
lacts which it is needless to say the corner
makers would like to have kept as quiet as
possible. Tle Calumet and Hecla mine in the
eleven months of this year produced
27,048 tons of ore—7s per cent, copper—
which shows a decrease compared with
the same period last year of only 2,000 tons,
and is less thau 000 tons behind the same
period in 1885. The production of the seven
principal mines of , Michigan, the chief
source of supply, for eleven months of this
year was 41,4:50 tons, or only 1,300 tons less
than for the same period last year and act
ually nearly 4,000 tons more thuu in the same
period two years ago.
EVERY EFFORT IS MADE TO BRING IN OUT
SIDERS,
and Wall street operators and people in
Boston and elsewhere in New England are
interested in the speculation. The syndicate
have a littie Frenchman here uajrted Men
del, who is primed to the eyes with bull
points, acts as their broker, discourses volu
bly iu bad English of the merits of the
situation, aud of course denies that there is
any corner. It recalls the fact that P. D.
Armour never knew anything about a
corner, even when he was squeezing
the shorts till their tongues ran out.
There was simply a “good demand for the
stuff.”
The rise in copper threatens to have a very
serious effect on manufacturing interests.
Manufacturers have slopped the manufac
ture of many useful articles composed of
that metal. It is one of the most useful
that we have, as well as one of the oldest,
deriving its name from Cyprus, where it
was first obtained by the Greeks. It is pro
duced very largely in Chili, and iu London
the standurd quotation is for Chili bars. It
is also found to some extent iu Cuba and
Australia, but their production does not in
fluence the markets. It is abundant in the
Lake Superior region and in some places the
vein is 2 feet in thickness. It is of interest
to ol serve that the mines of that region
were worked long before the arrival of
Europeans on this continent, as scientists
have discovered, but in dern operations
there were not begun till about forty years
ago.
A BROKKRIN SPEAKING OF THE EFFECT
of the rise in copper on manufactures, said:
“There will I e no sugar pans made for the
refineries at these prices, no whisky stills or
boilers and the effect in the manufacture of
other articles will be quite as marked. An
other thiug, the manufacturers have lieen
caught in a trap. W hen copper began to
rise so rapidly they thought they would
be smart and sell out their surplus supply
at the Metal Exchange, and trust te the re
sumption of full operations at the Calumet
mine to secure all tiiey wanted at lower
prices. They have unloaded, the price keeps
going up and they are caught."
Perhaps even more important is the big
advance in pig tin which within a short time
has risen 14c. a pound. Early in the present,
year the price was $550 a ton in London.
Now it is SBSO all owingto the thimble rig
ging of the same French clique which con
trols copper and which in this case also pro
ceeds on ihe point that the production has
lagged behind the consumption, The tin
supply of the world is derived mostly from
Malacca in the Malayan peninsula aud
Cornwall, Eng., where the mines have been
known to traders from remote ages. Ptneni
ician navigators took tin from Cornwall to
Tyre and tSidon, the Loudon and New York
ol the ancient trading world. Australia
also has largo mines and in the far west a
little seems to have been found, though it
counts for noihing as a factor in the mar
kets. The effect of the rise in pig tin on
vurious manufactures is be inning to be se
riously felt. The manufacturers of Britan
nia wait are now doing nothing and are
calling in their drummers. They cannot
afford to pay the present prices. The can
nars of lruits, meats and vegetables are
likely to feel tue pinch later on. One of the
largest consumers of tin iu the West is
Philip D. Armour, who is said to use an
nually nearly 100,000 boxes of tin plate,
weighing from 112 to 406 pounds to each
box. The tin is used in his business in can
ned meats, and he bus a broker in New Yortc
who attends to all his buying. Tin plate
has not r.sen so markedly as the pig tin, of
which it is largely composed. Still a rise
of 50c. a box within a short time is an
item important enough to have a serious
effect.
the standard oil monopoly
uses considerable tin plate and is likely to
get a little of its favorite medicine, before
the deal is over, though Charles Pratt, a
prominent member of the Standard corpo
ration is quite a large importer of tin plute
to be used in the canning of the netroieum
which is exported from New York to Eu
rope, Asia and Africa. The largest impor
ters, however, are the historic house of
Phelps, Dodge & Cos., all (he members of
which are many times millionaires. The
fortunes of tho house wore laid early in the
present century, when it secured practically
a monopoly oi tho trade in Russia sheet iron,
u-sed so extensively for stove pipes, and
which is manufactured by a process kept a
profound secret iu Russia. The late Wil
liam E. Dodge was President of the Cham
ber of Commerce and his statue stauds in
Thirty-third street squa:e. Another son
was in Congress. Their importations of the
plute this year have exceeded halt a million
boxes. It comes from England and Wales.
One of the effects of the rise in pig tin was
the recent failure of tiie Gl.yn works in
Wales. The proprietor had sold tin plate
for future delivery and the big advuuce iu
the block tiucompel! si them to till their
co itraebs at a loss, which ruined them. Al
ready the Britannia manufacturers of this
country have lost very heavily. Home time
a;o they took large orders for the holiday
trade, and they have been obliged to pay
the sharp advance in pig tin and execute
their orders at a serious loss. The manu
facturers of solder have also felt the pinch
of the tigot boot of the speculative inquisi
tion, as also have the manuuicturers of bab
bitt-metal, which is used extensively in ma
chinery aud iu axle and car bearings on the
railroads.
THE FRENCH SYNDICATE LIKE AN
enormous octopus has stretched its wide i
reaching tentacles and grasped lead, zinc, ;
antimony, and even it is said quicksilver, i
Patti it up the price of lead affects the
manufacture of shot, type metal, pewter,
Britannia metal aud paiiivs. Considerable
lead is produced in lii.uois and Mis ouri,
aud Hpain furnishes a largo supply. An ad-
vanco in zinc effects the braes manufacture
and a rise in antimony tends to raise the cost
of type metal, Britannia, pewter and bells
which become stronger and more
musical with the alloy of anti
mony. The recent marked advance
in quicksilver may be due solely to
the manipulations by the Rothschilds
who own or control all the Hpanish mines—
including the famous Almoda, which was
worked IKK! years before the opening of the
Christian era—but it is attributed largely
to the schemes of the French clique. It is
used extensively in smelting gold and silver
ores, in manufacturing mirrors, scientific
instniments, in dentistry, in mercurials, in
medical practice aud in the making of ver
milion paint. Surely the your 1887 has beeu
a year of speculative booms, among which
the metal boom is by no means the least.
OSCAK W ILI.OUOHBY RIOOS.
SHE CHARMS REPUBLICANS.
Mrs. Cleveland’s Recent Visit to Phila
delphia Results in Winning 'iheir
Support For Her Husband.
FYom the New York Graph ir.
Philadelphia, Nov. 80.—Democratic
Cleveland the choice of Republican Phila
delphia) ■"
“Society” lias said so, and what society
says not only goes, but is usually more than
three-quarters right, and is generally u win
ner.
And why does society say so)
The reason is obvious. Society has been
captured and taken into camp by clever
Mrs. Cleveland. Willing captives enough
to be sure, because there was something so
winsome, so magnetic, so taking, in u
double sense, in tins fair captor, that so
ciety held out all its hands, and submitted
eagerly to the silken bonds, and there are
more hands waiting.
Politicians of the Republican party are
already beginning to view with alarm, even
in this Republican stronghold, the rare
piece of strategy accomplished by the wife
of the President, and to tell the truth they
are only beginning to see it after the mis
chief is done.
Imprimis —When Mrs. Cleveland visited
the country seat of Mr. Childsat Woo ton and
met there a host of buds aunfull blown sov
cietv flowers, she impressed each aud all of
them with her charming manner, her clear
good sense and her attractive face. Pretty
women are apt to be jealous of pretty
women, and a mutual hauteur prevents any
thing approaching familiarity, but with
Mrs. Cleveland there was such a snontanicty
of cordial feeling, such a womanly magnet
ism for women, that society went into
ecstasies over her. At the following recep
tion at the house of a fashionable family in
Germantown the impression first made was
deepened and society was simply wild.
What a delightful tiling, thought society,
it would lie to visit this lovely woman at
the White House!
Aud then, just for the novelty of the
thing, society began to think. Husbands,
brothers and sweethearts were consulted.
Husbands, brothers and sweethearts said
that it was just possible that he wouldn’t go
back to Washington. Of course, they said
if Philadelphia should go Democratic then
his chances would be very good—in fact,
the old and untruthful axiom, “As Pennsyl
vania goes so goes the Union,” was quoted
at regular intervals.
Instantly and without parley the feminine
portion of the F. F. P.’s decreed that Penn
sylvania should go Democratic!
The majority was not settled upon,
although the fair tyrants wanted it largo
enough to insure victory beyond periul
venture.
“But,'’ said husbands, brothers and sweet
hearts.
“No ifs or bnts: up and be doing.” And
the mandate was obeyed.
Thus it comes that even the stanchest of
Republicans, if he happen to tie classed as
a society man, has been cleverly captured.
Ho must maintain his position. His wife
ami daughters must not be put in the back
ground. If Mrs. So-and-so is to be a guest
at the White House, and so come in contact
with the best people in the national capital,
surely he is not going to let the two girls be
mortified to death. Surely, his politics can
have nothing to do with the hapniness of his
children! This from inater-familias.
But the Republican candidate may have
a beautiful and accomplished wife, and in
that event —
Nonsense! A bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush! Didn’t Mrs. Cleveland
take especial notice of the girls and ask
them to call? If papa is any
kind or a man at all and loves his wife he
will order that Mr. Cleveland be elected.
Oh, papa!
In every instance recorded up to this time
he lias gone back on his political faith and
will work for Mrs. Cleveland’s husband.
Secretary Faiuti-ild gave dinner to gen
tlemen friends on Saturday evening.
CUTICURA REM EDIKS.
A CHILD S LIFE SAVED!
AI7HEjJ six months old his left hand began
▼ f to swell and had every appearance
of a large boil. We poulticed it, but all to no
purpose. About five months after it became a
running sore. Soon other,sores formed. He
then had two of them on each hand, and as bis
blood became more and more impure it took
less t ime lor them td_> break out. A sore came
on the chin, beneath the under lip, w hich was
very offensive. His head was one solid scab,
discharging a great deal. This was bis condi
tion at twenty-two months old, when 1 under
took the care of him, his mother having died
when lie was a little more than a year old, of
consumption (scrofula <f course). He could
walk a little, hut could not get up if he fell
down, and could not move when in ned, having
no use of nis hands. 1 immediately commenced
with the Ccticcra Remedies, using the Cun
oiTßA and CuTicrßA Soap freely, and when he
had taken one bottle of the CtmcintA Resol
vent, his head was completely cured, and he
was improved in every way. We were very
much encouraged, and continued the use of the
remedies for a year and a half. One sore after
another healed, a bony matter forming in each
one of these five deep ones just before healing,
which would finally grow loose and wen? taken
out ; then they would heal rapidly. One of these
ugly* hone formations I preserved. After taking
a dozen andii half bottles be was completely
cured, and is now, at the age of six years, a
strong and healthy child. The scars on his
huuds must always remain; his hands are
strong, though we once f*nred he would never
lie able to use them. All that physicians did for
him did him no good All who saw the child
before lining the CJcticuiia Remedies and see the
child now consider it a wonderful cure. If the
above facts are of any use to you, you are at
lilierty to use them. MRS. E. 8. D RIGGS,
May 0, IKK'. 612 E. Clay St., Bloomington, 111.
The child was iraliy in a worse condition t han
he appeared to hi., grandmother, w ho, being
with him every day, became accustomed to the
disease. MAGGIE HOPPING.
Cunct RA. the great skin cure, and CmcuftA
Soap, prepared trom it, externally, and Ctrri
ci ha Resolvent, the new blood purifier, inter
nally, arc a positive cure for every form of skin
and blood duMnuie from pimples to scrofftla.
Sold everywhere. Price, CirrirußA. 50c.; Soap,
25c.; Resolvent. 81. Prepared by the Potter
Haro and Chemical Ca, Poston. Mass.
for “How to Cure Skin Diseases," 64
pages, 50 ii Just rations, and 100 testimonials.
I) A ffV’O Skltj and S-alp preserved and beautl-
HAll l . ra [Df( ;
EVERY MUSCLE ACRES.
AwZm y Sharp Aches, Dull Pains, Strains
and Weakness relieved in one minute
I by the CVthuia Anti -Pa in Planter.
perfect antidote to pain and weak
ness. The Tirst and only pain-killing plaster. 25c.
FRUIT AND GROCERIES.
O (v Eg.
Fine Florida Oranges for Christmas pres
ents shipped to any i>art of the country.
Cocoanuts, Lemons, Apples, Turnips,
Onions, Potatoes, Cabbaqe, Mal
aga Grapes, Cow Peas.
bushel* CLAY PEAS. 800 bushels RED RIP
PERK, *X>bush"l* WHIPPOORWILLS.
‘ BLACK EYE aud BLACK.
ZEEay <Sc G-x*a±n.
Usual close figures on large lots.
W. D. SIMKINS & CO.,
XOO BAY.
MEDICAL.
f SIMMONS]
fREGUjiATORj
A Valuable Resource for the Sick.
Among the many resources which medical
skill has made available for the sick and de
bllitated, none rank higher than Simmons Liver
Regulator, a comprehensive remedy for
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Constipation,
Chills and Fever, Debility, Nervousness,
Sick Headache, and other ailments
attributed to Biliousness.
PURELY VEGETABLE.
It relaxes the boweln without griping, purifies
a bilious breath and completely relieves the
many indescribable symptoms which torment
sufferers from Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint and
Kidney troubles. It also effectually removes
those nervous symptoms felt when bile is im
perfectly secreted or is misdirected.
I vr"Demand the GENUINE, which has our Z
Trade Mark in red on front of Wrapper.
J. H. ZKILIN & CO.,
Solo Proprietors. Philadelphia, Pa.
CUREaDEAF
OECK’S PATENT IMPROVED CUSHIONED
I EAR DRUMS perfectly restore the hearing
and perform the work of the natural dram. In
visible, comfortable and always In position, all
conversation and even whisjiers heard distinct
ly. Send for illustrated hook with testimonials
FREE. Address or call on F. HIiSCOX, 853
Broadway, New- York.
Mention this paper.
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HYGIENIC, INFALLIBLE & PRESERVATIVE.
Cum promptly, without additional treatment, all
recent or chronic diecharrea of the Urinary omruL
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Bold by druftf lata throughout the United Htatea.
GRO( ER Ud.
O. DA Via. M. A DAVIS.
<l. DAVIS <te SON,
WHOLESALE GROCERS,
Provisions, (rrain nncl Hay.
\I,SO, FEED STUFF. Rif'E FLOUR, WHEAT
BRAN, BLACK COW PEAS, BLACK-EYE
rEAH, GEORGIA CROWDERS. CLAY BANK
PEAS, VIRGINIA and GEORGIA PEANUTS.
Orders by mall solicited. G. DAVIS & SON,
IdOiind IBS Hay street, Savannah, Cm.
GEO W. TIED EM AN,
WHOLESALE
Grocer, Provision Dealer k Coni’n Merchant,
NO. 161 BAY BT., SAVANNAH, QA.
Jas. E. Grady. Jso. C. DkEihtbi.
Jam. E, Grady, Jr.
GRADY, DeLETTRE & CO.,
Successors to Holoombr. Grady & Cos.,
WHOLESALE GROCERS, and dealers In
\\ PROVISIONS. CORN, HAY, FEED, Etc.
Old Stand, corner Bay and Atiercorn streets,
SAVANNAH, GA.
BROKERS.
AT L II A ItTK I L)Gt Jb£
SECURITY BROKER
RUTS AND SELLS on commission all classes
of Stocks and Bonds
Negotiates loans on marketable securities.
New York quotations furnished by private
ticker every fifteen minutes.
TH. T. WILLIAMS. W. CUMMINO.
W. T. WILLIAMS & CO.,
ZBurolfcex’s.
ORDERS EXECUTED on the New York, Chi
cago and Liverpool Exchanges. Private
direct w ire to our office. Constant quotations
fjoin Chicago and New York.
COTTON EXCHANGE.
' FISH AN 1J OYSTERS
ESTABLISHED 1858.
M. M. SULLIVAN,
Wholesale Fish and Oyster Dealer,
150 Bryan st. and 152 Bay lane, Savnmfeh, Ga.
Fish orders for ( talar Keys received here have
prompt attention.
(ON TRACTORS.
P. J. FALLON,’
BUILDER m CONTRACTOR,
32 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH.
I ESTIMATES promptly furnished for building
U of any clafc.
PLUMBER.
l a McCarthy,
Successor to Chae. E. Wakefield,
PLUMBER, GAS and STEAM FITTER,
4fi Barnard street, SAVANNAH, UA
Telephone 373.
Pi: 11 Lll ATIOSH,
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vertisement.
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Proclamation!
I have Established My Head
quarters at LINDSAY & MOR
GAN’S, as there I find the best
assortment of CHRISTMAS
PRESENTS in the City, which
are both useful and ornamental,
Read Over the List:
Bedroom Suits.
Parlor Suits,
Wardrobes,
Chiffoniers,
Sideboards,
Hat Racks,
Writing Desks,
Music Cabinets
Rockers in Plush,
Rockers in Leather.
Rockers of Rattan.
Reception Chairs.
Easy Chairs,
Hall Chairs, and many others,
all of which can be found in all
the latest designs and coverings.
For the children can be had
Bicycles and Tricycles, Veloci
pedes, Doll Carriages, Wagons,
Etc.
NUF SAID, RUM IN AND SEE US.
lifaj i Morgan.
ASIMIALT PAVEMENT.
Warren-Schart* Asphalt Paving Ca,
114 JOHN STREET. *EW YORK.
CONSTRUCT
Genuine Trinidad Asphalt
PAVEMENTS.
This Pavement has been thor
oughly tested in actual ser
vice and is found to possess
the following points of su
periority:
Ist. Cheaper than stone blocks equally well
laid.
3d. Durability; the company guarantees It
for a period of years.
3d. Almost noiseless under traffic.
41 h. Tbe cleanest pavement made.
stb A iierfect sanitary pavement. Being im
pervious to water and filth, it cannot exhale in
fectious gases.
6th. Easily and perfectly repaired when opened
to lay pitas, etc.
7th. Saves wear and tear of horses and
vehicles.
(e b. Being smoother, less power is required to
haul over it than any other pavement.
flth. It enhances the value of übuttlng prop
erty more than any other pavement.
)oth. It is therefore, all things considered, the
best and most economical pavement that can be
laid on any street, whether the traffic is light or
heavy.
STOVES.
VICTORS OVER ALL COMPETITfiRS
—AT THE—
ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
epHE first, premium awarded to our GRAND
J TIMES COOK BROADWAY and FOR
TUNE RANGE. Call and see the prize winners.
The best goods and c st less than any offered in
this market. The 1 orgeat stock and twit se
lections of Cook and Heating Stoves in this city.
Cornwell & Chipman,
PAINTS AND OlLs.
JOHN g. butler;
WHITE LEADS, COLORS, OILS, GLASS,
V\ VARNISH, ETC’E READY MIXED
PAINTS; RAILROAD, STEAMER AND MILL
SUPPLIES, SASHES. DOORS, BLINDS AND
BUILDERS’ HARDWARE Sole Agent for
GEORGIA LIME. CALCINED PLASTER. CE
MENT, HAIR and LAND PLASTER.
6 Whitaker Street, Savannah. Georgia.
IKON PIPE. ~
RUSTLESS IRON PIPE.
EQUAL TO GALVANIZED PIPE, AT
MUCH LiaS PRICE.
J. D. WEED & CO:
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