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THE MORNING NE"WS, l
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■J J. H. EBTILL, President. )
READY for the census.
PORTER'S LITTLE ARMY TO TAKE
THE WAR PATH AT ONCE.
Telegrams From the Supervisors An
nounce That All the Preparations
Are Complete for Beginning the
Work this Morning—No Serious
Trouble Apprehended—Punishment
Prospects.
Washington, Jane L —Robert P. Porter,
superintendent of the census, has received
telegrams from about 100 supervisors
stating that they are thoroughly prepared
to eater upon the work of taking the census
to-morrow, and that everything is in readi
ness to push the work forward with accu
racy and rapidity. The telegrams were in
response to messages sent out from Wash
ington yesterday. All the supervisors
beard from reported that no trouble had
yet occurred and that no serious difficulties
were apprehended.
TO BE WINKED AT.
Supt. Porter intimated very plainly this
evening that so far as the “chronic
diseases” question were concerned, it was
not the intention of the office to endeavor to
bring to “punishment” those who were re
luctant to make answer, but as to the
“mortgage” question he had language not
quite so cheering for those who have deter
mined not to answer this part of the sched
ule, though the probability is strong that
nothing will be done with recalcitrants on
this.
WHEN PUNISHMENT WILL BE CERTAIN.
He expressed himself very earnestly,
however, with regard to bringing the law
to bear upon those who wilfully refuse to
answer any and all questions put to them
by the enumerators. They will be com
pelled to answer, he said, or to take the
consequences of their refusal. He thought
there was a possibility that the members of
the criminal class s might take advantage
of the fight made against the diseases and
mortgage questions to refuse any informa
tion whatever to the enumerators, and he
stated that tiiis would not be tolerated under
any circumstances.
PACIFIC RAILROAD BILLS.
The Refunding Measures Not Likely
to Pass at This Session.
Washington, June 1. —The chances for
the passage of the bill to refund the debts
of the Pacific railroad has disappeared for
this session. The feeling against the roads
has grown more intense, and has assumed
much more activity of late. It is stronger
than it was at the opening of the session,
and is becoming intensified as the various
anti-corporation movements in the country
make themselves felt by congressmen about
to appeal to their constituents for a re-elec
tion. It seems to go without saying that
anything the railroads want or are willing
to take ought to be defeated.
THE ORIGINAL INTENTION.
It certainly was arranged to pass these
bills when the House was organized, and
the Senate committee have completed their
work, but it does not seem probable that
the Senate will push the bill before it iu
view of the hitch iu the programme in the
House. In the meantime the two commit
tees have their outside lobby on the wntch,
and names are freely mentioned as their in
side lobby on the floor of the House. Cer
tain it is that the known lobby agent of one
of the roads does not hesitato to call out
members in the corridor of the capital, who
answer the calls with alacrity and unblush
lngly parade in public with apparent indif
ference to what is said about them.
QUAY’S SCHEMES FOB ’92.
The Richmond Demonstration to Be
Worked for all It is Worth.
Washington, June 1. —Senator Quay’s
national committee having decided Friday
night that a national election bill must be
pressed if not passed, although the judg
ment of Senator Quay, Gen. Clarkson and
Col. Dudley is that such a law would be
practically a nullity, Speaker Reed has
called a caucus of the House republicans
for to-morrow night, when the whole south
ern question is to be discussed, or at least so
much of it as falls within the purview of
Senator Quay’s committee. The national
election bill and the reports in favor of
republican contestants are both to be used,
to fire the northern heart with hatred of
the south.
HOPE TO SHAKE OUT MORE VICTORIES.
Senator Quay, Gen. Clarkson and Col.
Dudley believe that there are more repub
lican victories in the “bloody shirt,” or at
least in the “rebel flag,” and they propose
to make the most of it. They rejoice over
the Richmond celebration as* being a great
help to them In this patriotic endeavor.
The republican contestants will bo seated,
but it is not certain that any of the national
election bills will become a law.
FRANCE’S DEEBY.
A Flyer Owned by Baron Rothschild
Carries Off the Money.
Paris, June L—The race for the Jockey
Club prize (French derby) was run to-day
at Chantilly, and was won by Baron
Rothschild’s chosnut colt Heaume, by
Hermit out of Bella, by one length.
P• Aumont’s chestnut oolt Mirabeau, by
Saxifrage out of Mariannette, was second,
and Baron A. do SUickler’s bay colt Fitz-
Roya, by Atlantic out of Perplexite, was
third. The last betting was five to four
against Heaume, four to one against Mira
beau, and six to one against Fitz-Roya.
A PANAMA CANAL. MISSION.
He Will Go to Colombia After Visiting
the Big pitch.
Paris, June I.—M. Wyse has sailed from
Southampton on a mission oonneoted with
tbe Panama canal. M. Mouchicour, liqui
dator of the Panama Canal Company, in
structed M. Wyse, after visiting the canal
Colon, to proceed to Carthagena
and Bogota to negotiate with the Colom
bian government for prolongation of the
canal concession. It is expected that M.
vv y se will return to Paris in the autumn.
A HURRICANE AT SOFIA.
Several Lives Lost and the Northern
Part of the City Wrecked.
Sofia, June I.—The northern part of this
city has been wrecked by a hurricane. The
k'ss of life is considerable. Among the
soldiers the killed and wounded number
® * u D ‘ l° s3 among the inhabitants has
not been ascertained yet. The damage to
the palace amounts to $300,000.
Copper Operators Appeal.
. Haris, June I.—MM. Secreian, Laveis
siere and Hentsch have appealed from the
sentences passed agairat them on account
w the questionable operations of the copper
syndicate.
A Wreath on Lafayette’s Tomb.
si * a ?l K| June I.—Col. Gourand placed a
r eath on the tomb of Lafayette yesterday.
gflje JKofnina fftetari.
KANSAS CITY’S DRILL.
Preparations Made for the Attendance
,of 2,100 Men.
Kansas City, June L —The interstate
military and competitive drill begins here
to-morrow. The numerous prizes have at
tracted many of the crack companies from
all over the country and preparations have
been made for the attendance of 2,100 man.
The parade ground has been prepared
directly in front of a grand stand on a
spacious lawn of the trotting association,
and the oompetive drills will all occur
there.
ALREADY ON THE GROUND.
The National Invincible* of Washington,
D. C., are here, and the LaGrange Rifles
of LaGrange, Ga. They were met at the
station by a detachment of the local militia,
and escorted to the camp.
Among the companies and organizations
which will arrive to-morrow are the Busch
Zouaves of St. Louis; Merchant Zouaves of
Memphis, Tenn.; Atlanta Rifles and At
lanta Zouaves of Atlanta. Ga.; Jackson
ville Rifles of Jacksonville, Fla.;
Paris Pickets of Paris, Tex.; Dallas
Light Artillery; battery from St. Paul,
Minn.; Chicago Zouaves; Aurora Zouaves;
Phoenix Rifles of Dayton, O.; Evanston
Zouaves; Denver Light Guards; Indian
apolis batterv; Rockville battery of Rock
ville, Ind.; Danville battery of Danville,
111.; Branch Guards of St. Louis; Linek
Zouaves of Nashville, Tenn.
ARREST OF THE NIHILISTS.
The Attempt on the Life of the Czar
Well Planned.
Paris, June L—The investigation into
the case of the arrested nihilists shows that
Reinchstein, the leader, manufactured the
bombs, and was the only one who charged
the bom ba with explosives. It is stated that
several of the prisoners cannot be convicted
on a charge of manufacturing explosives,
but that they will be expelled from the
country.
It is reported that Demski had summoned
a meeting for to-day to concert an attempt
on the life of the czar and a simultaneous
rising in different parts of Russia, and that
twenty nihilists with infernal machines had
already started for Russia.
EXPELLED FROM SWITZERLAND.
London, June L —A dispatch from Berne
to the Timex says that several of the nihil
ists arrested in Paris were expelled from
Switzerland a year ago, and that they took
away with thorn a number of bombs.
The Swiss government warned the
French authorities that the nihilists were
going to France. The bombs manufact
ured by these men are not a very dangerous
kind. Demski, one of the men arrested in
Paris, is a fanatic and terrorist.
MRS. PARSON’S LOUD MOUTH.
She Ventilates Her Views on Dyna
mite’s Mission in the Labor War.
Chicago June I.—Mrs. Parsons in a
speech to-day at a meeting of the “Arbeiter
Bund” said that dynamite was to be the
liberator of the human race, not that peo
ple would go round with bombs and destroy
human life, but that as gun powder had
abolished the power of feu lal barons, so
would dynamite In the hands of the work
ing classes render the armies of the capi
talists useless in a street fight.
Resolutions prepared by Mrs. Parsons
were adoptecb.doelaring the “finding” of
dynamite at the Haymarket monument to
be an attempt upon the part of the police
to raise an anarchist hue and cry for pur
poses of their own, particularly to nrejudice
the cases of Fielden, Schwab and Neebe.
B’NAI BRITH.
The Quinquennial Convention to Meet
at Richmond.
Richmond, Va., June I. —The quinquen
nial convention of the Independent Order
B’nai Brith assembled here to-day, all the
states in the union and Germany and Rou
mania being represented by some eighty
delegates. Senator William Lovenstem of
Richmond was chosen permanent chairman.
The message of Julian Bien, president of
the order, occupied the principal part of the
session. The convention will meet to-mor
row in the House of Delegates aud continue
in session several days. Many important
subjects will occupy its attention.
UWANGA AGAIN IN POWER.
Dr. Peters Took the African Oath and
Helped the King.
Zanzibar, Judo I. —Advices from the
French missionaries in Uganda, under date
of March 6, are to the effect that Kalema
had been defeated and had fled, and
that Uwauga was in complete possession
of the kingdom. Dr. Peters had been
Uwanga’s adviser and assistant. He had
taken the “Blood of .the Brotherhood” oath,
and had been of great service to the king.
Iu return for these services Dr. Peters had
secured valuable treaties and monopolies in
favor of Germany.
HELD UP AS A BORGIA.
Step-Sons Charge a Woman With
Poisoning Her Husband.
Vineland, N. J., June 1. —This town is
greatly excited over an alleged case of
poisoning. The wife of Daniel Lockwood,
a well-to-do farmer, residing on the Vine
road, has been arrested on a charge of try
ing to poison her husband, and is now in
the lockup. She will be given a hearing
to-morrow morning. She is his second
wife and came from Virginia. Her step
sons make the charge.
A BIG SCORE AT BILLIARDS.
Schafer Runs 1,000 Points on Three
Consecutive Nights.
San Francisco, Cal., June I.— The
billiard contest between Schafer and
McClery closed last night. Schafer scored
another run of 1,000 points, which made a
continuous run of 3,000 points for three
nights. McClery had no opportunity to
use his cue after the first night of the con
test when he scored fifteen points. The
score at the close was: Schafer 3,004,
McClery 15.
A Sunday School Convention.
Pittsburg, June 1. —Tbe sixth interna
tional Sunday school convention of the
United States and the British North Ameri
can provinces will open here June 24, and
remain in session all the week. At least
two thousand delegates are expected to be
in attendance.
A Letter From the Czar.
London, June L —A letter from the czar,
written in reply to one from the Queen of
Denmark, is published.!ln hisletter the czar
promises strict inquiry into the Siberian
scandals, aud says he will punish heavily
excesses of severity on the part of officials.
Lastly he promised to instruct his ministers
to draft measures of amelioration.
An Earl s Son Dead.
London, June I.— Edward Nugent Lee,
son of the Earl of Milltowu, is dead. He
was born in 1835.
FORCED TO QUIT A UNION.
Beading Road Conductors Given Warn
ing by the Company.
Philadelphia, June L—A rumor that
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company had ordered its conductors to
withdraw from the brotherhood of con
ductors or leave the employ of the company
was confirmed to-day by Assistant Superin
tendent Bozano of this city. The action
was resolved upon by the officials of the
company, 6aid Mr. Bozano, after the last
convention of the brotherh'Xjd of conduc
tors, which assembled at Rochester, N. Y. f
on May 15.
CAUSE OF THE ACTION.
Previous to this convention the brother
hood had an anti-striking clause in its con
stitution.
At this last convention this clause was re
pealed, and shortly after this action notice
was issued to the conductors that they must
either leave the brotherhood or the railroad
company’s service. Mr. Bozano says they
have all promised to leave the brotherhood,
and some have already done so. “We hove
had enough of labor organizations,” said
Mr. Bdzano. “We want no more union men.
All the conductors, engineers, brakemen
and firemen on the Reading road are now
non-union men. Unions are bad for the
oompany.”
DYING OF CONSUMPTION.
Several Deaths Among the Negroes of
Morgan County.
Madison, Ga., June L — This week’s issue
of the Madisonian says: Before the war it
was a very rare thing to hear of a negro
dying of consumption, only a few cases
being upon record in this county. Of late
years the disease seems to have seized upon
the race with a death grip, and numbers
of them have been its victims. During
the past week four deaths have occurred in
Morgan county among the darkies, under
the eye of the Madisonian, all caused by
consumption. In the Appalachea neighbor
hood three negro boys, or men, Henry and
Johnson Bell (brothers) and Major Thrasher,
all died last week. Simon Lucas died in
this city of consumption. Last fall Billy
Harris died of consumption.
These are cases which we know of, and
perhaps there are others. It is supposed
tiiat three of the above deaths were caused
by itnprude job and exposure, and lack of
proper medical attention.
In aute-bellum days the darkies were
compelled to remain at home at night, and
the result was their health was always
good. Now, the younger generation is up
all night, or at least a greater part of the
night, and many are dying from revelry,
exposure and intemperance.
DUEL TALK AT QUITMAN.
John Brooks Sends G. M. Badger a
Fiery-Worded Challenge.
Quitman, Ga., June I.—John Brooks has
challenged G. M. Badger to fight a duel.
The challenge is the outgrowth of the
trouble between them reported a few weekß
ago. Yesterday S. M. Young and J. T.
Thrasher called on Mr. Badger at his office,
saying they wanted to bring about a recon
ciliation between the gentlemen iuvolved in
the quarrel, and to that end brought a note
from Mr. Brooks. Mr. Badger opened it,
and here is what it contained':
Quitman, Ga., May 31, 1890.
G. M. Badger :
Sib—Your cowardly, murderous assault on
the 10th inst. reminds me that I must seek sat
isfaction. Now, if you have one spark of man
hood and bravery about your carcass you will
speedily designate some place where we can
meet and settle this matter like honorable gen
tlemen. Awaiting a favorable reply, I remain,
yours truly, John Brooks.
When it was read Messrs, Thrasher and
Young explained surprise, and said they
were entirely unacquainted with its con
tents when they delivered it.
What the end of the trouble will be is un
known.
Mr. Badger refuses to talk.
EDITOR C. B. ATWOOD DEAD.
Insanity Ends In His Demise at the
Btate Insane Asylum.
Atlanta, Ga., Juue I.—News reaches
here of the death of Editor C. 8. Atwood at
the Miiiedgeville lunatic asylum this morn
ing. His body will be brought to Atlanta
for burial. Col. Atwood was born in New
London, Conn., where he has a mother and
sister still living. He entered southern
journalism at Nasnville some years ago, and
came to Atlanta soon after, and became
part owner of the Journal. In
company with CoL I. W. Avery
ho started the afternoon Capitol ,
which failed in 1888. During the winter
following Col. Atwood develops! syinpt ins
of insanity. He was tried by a jury, who
failed to return a verdict, and the ex-editor
was discharged. He returned to the north,
where he spent a time in an asylum. Last
fall he came again to this city and worked
as an insurance solicitor until his malady
broke out afresh, and he was again tried,
adjudged a lunatic and committed to the
asylum.
TOOK GOLD AND A GIRL.
A Bad Negro Landed in Jail In Morgan
County.
Madison, Ga., June 1. —A negro named
Turner, who has been traveling through
the state organizing branches of the United
States Golden Star Society, is under arrest
for kidnaping a negro girl and compelling
her to travel with him. He “arrested” her
for a violation of one of the rules of
the alleged society. He will also
be charged with all the offenses
common to dead beats of his stripe.
In his “lectures” he told the negroes that
they were to send men of their own color to
congress and the state legislature. He of
course collected the invariable small fee as
he meandered. Turner’s board won’t cost
him any thiug for some time to come, and
he is a good man to have behind the bars,
as some of his utterances were of a very in
cendiary character.
NEWTON COUNTY’S KILLING.
The Wife of the Dead Man Claims
That it Is a Case of Murder.
Covington, GA.,June I.—Boyce John
son (colored), who shot and killed his oousin,
Charlie Smith (colored) in this county day
before yesterday is held for trial on a
charge of murder. Johnson claimed that
tbe shooting was accidental and surren
dered to the sheriff. Smith’s wife claims
that the shooting was premeditated, and
was the outgrowth of a quarrel over a
pistol. The coroner’s jury believes it is a
case of murder.
CoL Humber’s Resignation.
Milledgeville, Ga., June I.—Col. R.
C. Humber’s resignation as steward of the
state insane asylum has been accepted. Lu
cius J. Lamar Is his successor. Arthur J.
Carr succeeds Mr. Lamar as treasurer.
Death in Brooks County.
Quitman, Ga, June I.—Mrs. T. A.
Groover died at hor home near here yester
day. She was related to a large circle of
people in tbe county and was highly
esteemed.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1890.
THIS WEEK IX CONGRESS.
THE HOUSE TO BE OCCUPIED
WITH SILVER AND POLITICS.
The Alabama Election Case to be Con
sidered—An Effort to Consider the
Bankruptcy Bill—The Senate to be
Engaged on the Silver Question—
The Anti-Trust Bill.
Washington, June I.— Silver and poli
tics are likely to be the topics for discussion
and action in the House this week. Mon
day is suspension day under the rules, and
on the following day either the silver bill
or the postponed McDuffie vs. Turpin Ala
bama election case is to come up. The order
has not yet been finally determined,
but if the leaders who are canvassing the
republican representatives have progressed
far enough In their count to secure the ad
herence of the majority to the main features
of the caucus silver bill they will coll it up
Tuesday under a special rule, which will
limit the time for discussion and final
action to a period probably not exceeding
two days.
The Alabama election oase is expected to
arouse a good deal of partisan feeling, and
also may occupy two days.
There is an effort making to secure con
sideration for the bankruptcy bill, and as
the leaders are disposed to test public feel
ing in the matter, one day during the week
may be allotted for its consideration.
The postoffioe appropriation bill is also
among the probable subjects for early
action.
In the Senate.
In the Senate also the silver question
promises to be the principal topic for dis
cussion. Senator Pugh is booked for the
opening speech this week, and Senator
Jones, in charge of the pending bill, ex
pect* that Senators Morrill and Hiscock of
the finance committee and several demo
cratic senators will speak in the course of
the week.
The progress of the debate on silver is
likely to be interrupted by the presentation
of the conference reports on several meas
ures. Senator Allison will oall up to
morrow the report on the army appropria
tion bill, and some discussion may ensue
upon the canteen clause.
The conference report upon the anti-trust
bill is also ready for presentation, and mav
possibly be brought before congress for
action this week.
POINTS FOR THE TOURIST.
How to Dress, Eat, Drink and Exer
cise for Health.
( Copyright .)
New York, May 31.—The season is com
ing on when holiday makers will troop
from the cities to court and win the goddess
Health in her country domain. Some of us
will tako to the woods, glad to exchange
the streets for the groves and tbe rattle of
traffic for the songs of tbe birds and zephy rs.
Others of us will hie to the imitation cities
by the sea, less to air ourselves than our
new-gotten Parisian and London toggery.
And others will crawl to the valetudina
rian hotels to guzzle on nasty waters and
swap scandals with the saintly sisterhood.
Better to roam the fields for health unbought
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught;
Tne wise for cure on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend.
But we want to know how best to dodge
the doctor, how to keep malarias, liver
troubles, lamenesses and all the evil tribe of
ailments at arm’s length while we are be
yond pill-shot of the medical fraternity.
They come in handy at times, that’s sure,
yet we cannot all afford to pack a live sur
geon in our valises. Here is where we may
pick up some useful points from tbe
manuals which regulate the various exer
cises, marchings, campings, dietings and
doctorings in the great armies of the world.
The army surgeon is a wide-awake fellow,
sees all sorts of service in all sorts of cli
mates, places and conditions, knows just
what host suits the man who goes out on
health tramps or trips. Wo will glance at
some of the results of this experience.
First, as to clothing. Texture has nothing
to do with protection from the sun’s rays.
This entirely depends on oolor. The whiter
the material the oooler the suit. Wool has
more than double tbe power to absorb per
spiration than cotton or linen. It is also a
much better protection from oold thuu linen
or cotton, therefore, wooien clothing is
safest and healthiest. The present
writer has worn loose woolen shirts for
about thirty years, making no difference
between midwinter and midsummer in
either quality or quantity. His experience
has been in all respects more enviable than
the experiences of the average man who
clothes himself to gratify conventional fad
dishness. It is wise for those who camp out
to carry a wide strip of flannel for use as a
cholera belt and to ward off a chill.
Fop roughing it nothing is so serviceable
os tbe Norfolk jacket, as It is called, a loose
tunic, buttoned up the front, with a band
or belt, worn loose, but w .ich can be tight
ened on occasion. The knickerbocker
breeches, with coarse knitted stockings, go
well with this jacket, and give a freo and
easy artistic air to the wearer. Thin-legged
men with tender susceptibilities should get
their tailor to make them a pair of peg-top
trousers, baggy from the waist to below due
the knees, aud as tight round the
ankle as they like. These give all
necessary freedom of motion with
a comfortable sense of liberation from tbe
bondage of straight-legged pants. The best
headwear is a light-col'>red, roomy, woolen
cloth knockabout hat. It will not jam the
hair tieht on tbe head, it gives off perspira
tion and it does not resist the wind like a
straw or felt-rimmed hat. Thera are plenty
of so-called health and comfort shoes in
ttie market. If wise, you will choose a pair
with thick soles, plenty of toe room and
fastened with laces. The writer prefers
high to low shoes for holiday wear.
The second, perhaps more truly It is the
first thiug to consider, is tbe meat and drink
question. There are two points important
to keep in view; eat enough to keep you
healthy, don’t eat too much to spoil your
health. Commonplace, no doubt, but ofteu
neglected rules. Wi.en camping out or
pedestrianizing far from hotel dining-rooms,
nothing is easier than to miss a meal at the
right time, or to forget or to spoil the par
ticular item which your system most needs,
and the probability is that, when you next
strike a square meal you will make up for
the previous deficiency by laying in a sur
plus and surpluses are mischiefs in pleasing
disgui e. If you are on tramp, or camping
out in tent or boats, you will do
well to pick up a few hints from the prac
tical experience of others who have been
there before you. When not very sure
where your next meal is to oome from be
sure and carry some good raisins in your
pockets and a few nuts, any kind will da
You can do five hours hard work in any
weather on a few nuts with raisins, the
latter stimulate like wine, the former are
food like cracker*. A pot of Lieheg, or any
extract of beef, is a handy stand-by at a
pinch. It is easy to get a cup of hot water
and by adding your own meat you get a
restorative dish. These are emergency
hints, there is no necessity to offer sug
gestions for ordinary die.ing.
Perhaps the question of drinks and drink
ing deserves a fuller consideration thau is
here possible. Whether alcoholic stimu
lants are advisable in holiday outing each j
will decide in his own way. While the
writer is a moderate user of beers, he holds
that the lees the pedestrian or oarsman
relies on drinks, and more on air and exer
ci-e the better for the health-seeker. Still,
thus e who use alcoholic at home should not
go unprovided with a bottle of sound
spirit* to be used medicinally.
Beyond this it is unwise to go, as in a chill
or when over-exhausted. But a good
draught of honest ale at the eud of a morn
ing’s row or tramp Is a mighty reviver of
energy, and a pleasant recreation. To
some it may be heresy to say that on no
account should water from wells, rivers or
even springs be drunk unboiled. Country
water, however pure to the eve, is liable to
sow the seeds of ailments which, months
after a ard, are ascribed to quite the wrong
causes, nitration by no means always
purifies it. Let it be boiled first, aud thon
it matters little whether its flavor is that of
hops, tea, coffee, spirit, red pepper or the iron
kettle A few lemons are good things to
have on hand—better than all the druggists’
concoctions that less suoccssf illy imitate
their qualities. They are splondid revivors,
delicacies and regulators. Diarrhoea aud
dysentry not infrequently pay their unwel
come oompliments to the too easy going
camper-out. Impure water, the impure air
from river vegetation or other decaying
matter may bring it on, aud also improper
food or proper food improperly eaten. As
prevention is better than cure, it should r.ot
be beneath a sensible person’s consideration
to take ordinary care in watching over his
unwonted surroundings.
Malaria is a convenient term for impurity
of the atmosphere, which, when inhaled by
us, sets up a general derangement of the
system. The air of marshy places is always
dangerous, and some day our learned me a
will perhaps be able to agree upon the pre
cise way the poison enters our bodies and
what it does when it gets inside. At present
we can only be sure of one great fact,
namely, whatover malaria may tie we aro
tietter off without it. Nostrums for its
cure invite our patronage at every street
corner. It is not our province to dis
cuss remedies, but it is in order to
quote the following from the “travels"
of the famous Silliman, now somewhere in
the neighborhood of a century old. He
writes: "The Dutch, though not a drunken
people, drink raw gin and recommend it to
strangers to repel the fever and ague.
They have very great faith in its efficacy.”
When you voyage to Holland, where the
land lies six fnit below the level of the sea,
you will find a swamp or a dyke every
quarter mile you go, yet you never saw a
healthier people, thanks, they still say, to
their favorite schnapps. There may be a
moral to this. When we camp out in a
malarious district we mean to find the
moral out.
Henry M. Stanley finds time to tell us all
about the minor details of his great feat in
Africa. It will be useful to learn how be fed
his European companions so as to get the
most hard work out of them, in a tropical
climate, without injuring their health. Dr.
Livingstone found that each man did better
on an allowance of two pounds of meat per
day than on any amount of cereal
food. They needed a good deal
of fat, and boiled was preferred to
roast. Walking on a level surface is
equal to raising one-twentieth part of the
weight of the body through the distance
walked. In other words, a man weighing,
with his clothes, 150 pounds who walks ono
mile on the level, does work equal to liftiug
17.07 tons one foot high. If he walks twenty
miles he has lifted 353.4 tons a foot The
peddler whose ordinary day’s work was the
carrying of a 28-pound load twenty miles,
did a task equal to lifting 419 tons a
foot from the ground. A young
man in ordinary health and of average ac
tivity ought to put in as his daily holiday
exercise the equivalent of not less than 150
tons lifted one foot. The writer, though
neither a trained pedestrian n r a gymnast,
has frequently walked over thirty miles
as a holiday’s exercise without special
preparation, and at least half a dozen
times has done over fifty miles between
early morning and night. Nothing is
pleasanter; the art of easy going is soon
acquired. In my walks 1 found that a
good diet was breakfast, tea, bread and
butter, fish and fruit; lunch at the half
distance, a good juicy beefsteak and pint of
ale; a cup or two of tea, with bread and
butter and lettuce or spring onions; and at
the journey’s end a comforting bowl of
soup, followed by whatever kind of fish or
fowl might be tempting, and a nightcap of
hot toddy. Wake next morning as hungry
as a hunter and as lissome as a weasel.
Pan.
ORANGE PARK POINTERS.
The New College—An Artesian Well
Being Dug.
Orange Park, Fla., June I.—The back
bone of the winter is now well broken, and
there is a wonderful difference in the ap
pearance of our fields, truck patches and
gardens.
The grounds for the college buildings have
been staked off. and the building material
is now being placed on the ground.
The 8-inch artesian well is now well under
way, and Mr. Hefwright, an experienced
Pennsylvania man, has it in charge.
With four artesian wells in the Park,
there need bo no scarcity of water in the
future.
The Park is now very much in need of a
canning factory to take care of our fruits.
A beautiful picket fence has been put
around the hotel grounds and handsomely
painted.
A stranger had occasion to visit this place
last week and was loud in his praises of the
beauty of its location and thought be had
seen no place in the state with so many
natural advantage*. ,The health of the
Park continues good.
ORLANDO’S NEW RAILROAD.
The Line to Lake Jesup Will be Put
In Operation To-day.
Orlando, Fla., June I.—To-morrow the
Orlando and Winter Park railroad will
begin operating tho Orlando and Lake Jesup
railroad by running trains to Gebrella. The
Orlando and Lake Jesup road is an extension
of the Orlando and Winter Park. The offi
cers of tbe road hope to have trains running
to Oviedo weeks. At that point they
will counectVitb tbe Oveido, Lake Jesup
and Lake Charm railroad, which will
be widened to standard gauge, and thus
give Orlando an opening to the St. Johns
river independent of the South Florida and
giving the Clyde line of steamers to Lake
Jesup an opening to the south. This will
be of incalculable benefit to Orlando and
all of Orange county east of tae South
Florida and south of Lake Jesup.
Brunswick’s Bond Election.
Brunswick, Ga, June L—Tbe bond
election is all the talk in Brunswick at
present. An election for the issuance of
$300,009 thirty year bends will be held next
Saturday. An enthusiastic meeting of citi
zen* will be hold in the board of trade
room* tomorrow night to agitate tbe sub
ject _/
Atlanta’s Hibernian Hall.
Atlanta, Ga., June L —The Hibernian
society of this city will bnild a ball to cost
$20,000, exclusive of tbe lot, which will cost
$4,000. Tbe building will contain a library,
billiard room, and everything to make "it
pleasant for the members of the society.
MIBS WINNIE DAVIS.
Thoughts la a Letter Which Illus
trate Her Character.
A Richmond (Va.) special to the Galves
ton iVeics says Wharton H. Green, ex
congressman from the Wilmington (N. C.)
district, who is an intimate friend of the
family of the late ex-President Davis, has
written the following letter in referonoe to
the coming marriage of Miss Winnie Davis:
Rumor has it that she is soon to wed, and
so I aui prepared to believe. God grant
that the man of her choice will be worthy
of her. A more winning, winsome girl
have I never met. Intellectual she is
bound to bo by inheritance on both sides of
the bouse. Cultivated and read she is be
yond any of her ago of my present or past
acquaintance. Competent to adorn any
court in Christendom, her aspirations soared
to higher planes—the adornment of tho
quiet country home of her immortal father,
and like a princess born did she do it.
Methinks it was old Kit North who said.
“The laugh is indicative of the man.” If
so be, the smile is no less so in woman. And
suen a smile as that child has. It won an
old man’s heart and made him a boy again
as sho advanced to greet him, and such she
wore to all to her father’s guess, and they
were frequent and oft of unpretentious
sort. Nothing stereotyped, nothing of the
salon, but a kind, gentle nature was indexed
in it. Some have said that she is not beau
tiful, but they are no judges. No girl with
that smile, a sweotsoft voice, unpretentious
demeanor and simple attire can avoid being
beautiful. There is nothing of the baß blue
in this little lady of the gulf, but she shines
effulgent in every department < f literature.
None the less in repartee which scintillates
but wounds not. Such are a few of her
attractions, in addition to being a linguist,
artist, musician. But considerate devotion
to her old father was the most beautiful of
all.
"Good morning, father, how did yon
sleep!” was the usual ropty to his loving
kiss. “Good night, and Uixi blosa yourdear
old heart,” or words to that effect.
In a game of cards one night, her parents
being our competitors, I asked her if she
liked cards.
"No,” she replied, but lowering her voice,
“don’t tell him.”
But n break to rhapsodies, or another
good lady near homo may objeot to my
going to the wedding. God bless our
Winnie, and if that lucky dog who has won
tho capital prize doesn’t show due apprecia
tion there’ll be another re ellion; that’s all.
His having stood tho fastidious require
ments of the chief issue is evidence that he
is brave and honest and true, and that’s a
good bank stock for any girl.
I was about to close, but cannot resist the
temptation of making public an excerpt
from one of her letters to her mother, writ
ton from the gay French capital, and writ
ten two short months after her own and a
people’s great grief. I trust no confidence
is infringed in thus exhibiting this most fair
picture of a most fair mind:
“The society of ordinary people is very
tiresome to me. I think you and our
darlings have spoiled me for the little talk
and aims of the world. Somehow it is all
talk and no conversation. I remember how
we used to discuss tho things that were
worth thinking about—things and thought*
that would helj) me to live better and think
higher, but I don’t find that atmosphere of
pure thinking and living out in society. Do
you suppose that political expediency has
permeated all tho inner world of ideas, or
that we are really fallen into a decadence?
X have to believe that perhaps it is the old
order giving place to the new and before
the socialism of the next century.
The overdeveloped individualism and
selfishness is necessary to make smooth the
road for the new political gospel. It can
not lie a healthy development when the
poor are starving at every corner and the
luxury of the rich is eating into their lives
until the family relation and with it all
spirituality is crushed out by pure force or
unbridled excess of comfort. It may be
part of that puritanism of which you accuse
me, but I do not think it is
half as easy $o lead a high life in
the midst of such luxury of comfort as
N invited in the modern interior as it was
in the old-fashioned houses where the Bible
was the chief ornament of the parlor.
Not that I mean to say that ornamentation
is exactly evil, or simplicity is alone neces
sary, or luxury and religion antagonistic,
only somehow one grows to put faLe values
on things and to be too bound by wants of
tho body. The soul gathers spiritual dust
as the bric-a-brac does the actual dust. The
fact is, lam just in the framoof mind tosee
more heroic sacrifice in the life of Daniel
than that of St. John. I don’t wonder the
great prophet wont up three time.* a (lav to
pray toward Jerusalem. He mult have
been glad to leave the corruption of the
court."
Well may she to whom it was written say:
“Commend me to a letter like that from
Paris.”
Blessed are tho pure in heart, for they
shall she God. Ave, gentle maiden, your
people are proud of you as was your im
mortal father. Go where you list, under
whatever suns or surroundings, they feel
that you will take a rank with the best and
purest os a typical woman of your race, and
that they can ever point with pride to you
and say: “Sho is Jeff Davis’daughter and
the child of the confederacy.”
ROLLINS COMMENCEMENT.
A Fuller Account of the Exercißes at
Winter Park.
Orlando, Fla, May 31.—The regular
commencement exercises of Rollins College
occurred Thursday at the Congregational
church. Tho exercises opened with prayer
by the President, E. P. Hooker. The pro
gramme was intersporsed with excellent
music by Miglionico’s band.
Tho first essay read was on “Caroline
Hersohel,” by Miss Millie G. Hooker, and the
second was on “Myths," by Alice A. Mo-
Duffee. These, with Mr. Raymond M.
Aiden, form the class iu the preparatory
department, which will be the freshman
college class next year. They were fol
lowed by Miss Fidelia Fisk, graduate of the
academio course, with an essay on “Scott’s
Sublime Struggle With Debt.”
A “Literary Conference," written by
Raym nd M. Aiden, 17-vear-old son of G.
R. Aiden, a id his wile, better known to
the world as “Pansy.” was rendered in a
highly humorous style by Misses Hooker,
McDuffee and Fisk. Mr. Aiden was una
voidably absent, hut the original manner of
handling literary criticism snowed remark
able talent for one so young.
A dissertation on “Elements of Weakness
in our Republic” was read by Miss Clara
Louisa Guild.
Miss Ida May Missildine read a disquisi
tion on “The Coral Polyp: The Builder of
South Florida.”
All t e young people did well and were
applaude 1 liberally, and each received gen
erous gifts of flowers.
The degrees were conferred by the presi
dent, and the benodiction pronounced by
Dr. Crawford of Tampa.
A banquet followed, and Friday evening
a reception was given at Kuowel’e hail,
with which the college year ended.
Stabbed to Death by a Negress.
Jasper, Fla., June I.—ln a row last
night about 0 o'clock between Arena Price
aud Pink Simmons, two notoriously tad
women of color. Pink Simmons was fatally
stabbed, dying in about two minutes. Arena
was arrested.
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MISSION OF THE SWORD.
BEY. TALMAGE PREACHES TO THIS
THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. 4
Arbitration Will Eventually Seal the
Doom of the Blade—The Blade of the
Milita, However, Should Alwaya be
Bright and Sharp—Militiamen the
Reliance of the Country.
Brooklyn, N. Y., June I.—Chaplain T.
Do Witt Talinage this evening preached the
annual sermon before the Thirteenth Regi
ment, in the Academy of Music. The staff
officers and members of the regiment were
immediately In front of the platform, and
their friends thronged the galleries. The
hymn sung was the National Air:
My country, ’tts of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.
Tho subject of the sermon was: “The
Sword—lt* Mission and its Doom.” The
text, Isaiah xxxiv, 5: “My sword shall be
bathed In heaven.”
Three hundred and fifty-one times does
the Bible speak of that sharp, keen, curved,
inexorable weapon which Hashes upon us
from the text—the sword. Sometimes the
mention is applaudatory and sometimes
damnatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes
as sheathed. In the Bible, and in much
secular literature, the sword represents all
javelins, all muskets, all can due*, all guns,
all police clubs, all battle-axes, all weaponry
for physical defense or attack. It would hie
an Interesting thing to give the history of
the plow and follow its furrow all down
through the ages, from the first crop In
Chaldea to the last crop In Minnesota.
It would be interesting to follow
the pen as it has tracked it* way on down
through tho literature of nations, from it*
first word in the first book to the last word
which some author last night wrote as be
dosed bis manuscript. It would be an inter
esting thing to count tho echoes of the
hammer from the first nail driven, down
through all tne mechanism of centuries to
the lost stroke in the carjieiiter’s shop yee
terday. But in this, my annual sermon os
chaplain of the Thirteenth regiment, 1 pro
pose taking up a weapon that bus done a
a work that neither plow nor pen nor
hammer ever accomplished. My theme 1*
tho sword—it* mission and it* doom.
The sword of tho text was bathed in
heaven; that is, it was a sword of right
eousness, as another sword may bu bathed
in hell, and tho sword of cruelty and wrong.
There is a great difference between the
sword of Wiuklereid and the sword of
Ca' aline, between the sword of Ixonldas
and the sword of Benedict Arnold. In our
effort to hasten tho end of war wo have
bung the sword with abuses and execra
tions, when it has had a divine mission, and
when in many crises of the world’s history
it has swung for liberty and jus
tice, civilization and righteous n ess aud God.
At the very opening of the Bible, and on
east side of the Garden of Edou, God placed
a flaming sword to defend the tree of life.
Of the officer of tbe law, St. Paul .declares:
“He beareth not the sword in vain.”
Through Moses God commanded: "Put
every man his sword by his side.” David,
in his prayer, says: “Gird thy sword upon
thy thigh, O most mighty.” One of tho
old battle shouts of tho Old Testament was,
“The sword of the Lord and of
Gideon.” Christ, in a great exigency,
said that such a weapon wits
more important than a coat, for he de
clared: “He that hath no sword, let him
sell his garment an.l buy one.” Again ho
declared: “I come not to send peace but a
sword.” Of Curist’s second coming it is
said: “Out of his mouth went a sharp, two
edged sword." Thus, sometimes figuratively,
but ofiener literally, the divine mission of
the sword is announced.
What more consecrated thing in tho
world than Joshua’s sword, or Caleb’s
sword, or Gideon’s sword, or David’s
sword, or Washington’s sword, or Marion’s
sword, or Lafayette’s sword, or Welling
ton’* sword, or Kosciusko's sword, or Gari
baldi’s sword, or hundreds of thousands of
American swords that have again and
again been bathed in heaven. Swords of
that kind have been the best friends of tho
human race. They have slain tyrannies,
Fried open dungeons, and cleared the way
or nations in their march upward. It was
l etter for them to take the sword and be
free, than lie under tbe oppressor’s heel
and suffer. There is something worse than
death, aud that is life if it must cringe and
crouch before the wrong. Turn over tho
leave* of the world’s history, and find that
there lias never been a tyranny stopped or
a nation liberated except by the sword. I
am not talking to you about the way things
ought to be, hut about the way they have
been. W hat force drove back the Saracens
at Tours, aud kept Europe from being
overwhelmed by Mohammedanism, and,
subsequently, all America given over to
Mohammedanism? Tbe sword of Charles
Martel and bis men. Who can deal enough
in infinities to tell what was accomplished
for the world’s good by the sword of Joan
of Aro? In December last I looked off and
saw in the distance the battlefield of Mara
thon, and 1 asked myself what was it that,
on that most tremendous day in history,
stopped the Persian hosts, representing not
only Persia, but Egypt, and Tripoli, and
Afghanistan, and Belo'chistan, and Ar
menia; a host that had Asia under foot and
proposed to put Europe under foot, and.
if successful in that battle, would
have submerged by Asiatic barbarism,
European civilization, and. as a conse
quence in after time, American civilization!
'l be swords of Miltiade*, and Theiuistocles,
and Aristides. At tbe waving of these
swords, tbe eleven thousand lancers of
Athens on the run. dashed against the one
hundred thousand ins lent Persians, and
trampled them down or pushed them back
into the sea. The sword of that day saved
the best part of the hemispheres, a trinity
of keen steel flashed in the two lights— ths
light of the setting sun of barbarism, the
light of tho risiug sun of civilization.
Hail to these three great swords bathed in
heaven 1
What put an end to infamous Louis
XVl.’s plan of universal conquest by whiob
England would have been made to kneel oa
the step* of the Tuilleries aud the Anglo-
H .xon race would have been halte 1 and all
Europe paralvzed? The sword of Marl
borough at Blenheim. Time came when
the Roman war eagles, whose beaks had
been punched into the heart of nations
must be brought down from their eyries.
All other attempts had disgracefully
failed, but the Germans, the mightiest
nation for brawn and brain, undertook the
work, and, under God, succeeded. What
drove back the Roman cavalry till the
h >rses, wounded, flung their riders and the
last rider perished, aud the Hercynian
forest became the scene of Rome’s humilia
tion? Tne sword, the brave sword, the
triumphant sword of Armiuius. While
passing through France last January my
nerves tinged with excitement and I rose in
the car, the better to see the battlefield of
Chalons, the mounds and breastworks still
visible, though nearly 1,500 years ago they
were shoveled up. Here, Attiil.s,
the heathen monster, called
by himself the “Scourge of
G and, for the punishment of Christians,*’ his
lile a massacre of nations, came to igno
minious defeat, and he put into one great
pile tbe wooden saddles of his cavalry, and
the spoils of the cities and kingdoms he had
sacked, and placed op top of this holocaust
the women who had accompanied him jjj
