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A Washington newspaper contains this
Item of news: "The colored ladies of Dan
ville, Va., have called a meeting for the
purpose of organizing a lodge of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.”
The colored race is famous for imitation,
if it is not for originality.
The suggestion that Spain might be
willing to make Maximo Gomez the head
or an autonomous government for Cuba
probably comes too late. It is within the
range of probabilities that Maximo Go
mez will be the head of an independent
government in Cuba before a great while
longer.
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For some unaceountable renson the news
gatherers seem to have paid very little
attention to Senator Hanna as a factor
in our present foreign relations. How
ever, one reporter has had the sagaciiy to
sk his opinion, and the senator has said
that there will be no war. That is en
couraging.
An Indianapolis preacher had the beam
removed from his own eye in a novel
manner the other day. In his sermon he
inveighed against the wearing of orna
ments and Jewelry, and warned his con
gregation against the sin of pride. When
tie got home after service he found that
a burglar had entered his premises and
slolen two gold rings, a diamond pin, a
pair of goldi-rimmed spectacles and other
Jewel ry.
A Kansas City minister, in a reeent at
tack upon Gen. Booth, of the Salvation
Army, charged that the former was a
despot, and the latter the most absolute
despotism on earth. He further inveigh
ed against Americans going to England,
or elsewhere for their religious opinions.
The Kansas City preacher evidently fav
ors an American religion as vYell as an
American money system without con
sulting any foreign country about it.
The Massachusetts Legislature has be
fore it a bill to prohibit the disfiguring of
parks, roads and highways with advertis
ing bill boards, with exceptions whlcn will
permit of the moderate use of bill boards
not larger than ten feet square on streets
end roads. The parks, however, are not
to contain advertisements under any cir
cumstances. Anything which tends to con
fine advertisements within the legitimate
scope far them is a movement In the right
direction.
It appears that at last the machinery
of tile law is moving, slowly it Is
true but moving, in the Versailles, Ind.,
lynching case. This, it will be remember
ed, is the case in which a "Job lot” of live
suspected robbers were killed. Two men
have been arrested upon the charge of
complicity in the crime. One of them is
the suiierintendcnt of the county infirma
ry, and the other an ex-bartender. It is
promised that other arresis will follow,
and that the prosecution will be as vig
orous as the Governor and the other offi
cers of the law can make It.
Judge Atkinson** Platform.
Judge Atkinson is one of the best known
as well as one of the most |*opular tnen
in the state. He has ability of a high or
der and his public record is a clean one.
lie is in harmony with his party apon all
important public questions, and he i3 in
sympathy with the people upon all purely
state matters. There is every reason for
thinking therefore that he will have a very
hearty support in all parts of the state,
and particularly in South Georgia, for
the guticrnatorial domination of his party.
There are some things in his letter
announcing his candidacy which are cer
tain to have very hearty approval. One
of them is his declaration respecting the
salaries of school teachers. He thinks the
teachers ought to be paid at the end of
each month, and every fair-minded per
son agrees with him. At present the school
teachers, in many instances, have to sell
their vouchers to money lenders at a
heavy discount, in order to get money to
pay current expenses. Why should school
teachers have to wait for months for their
salaries, while Ihe Governor and other
slate officers get their salaries promptly?
The salaries of the school teachers In the
rural districts are very small, and there Is
no good reason why they should not be
paid monthly. Why the legislature has
not provided for their prompt payment
long before this is one of the things not
easily explained., It is certain that the
members of the legislature would never
submit to a condition of affairs that placed
them in the clutches of the money lend
ers. They are quick enough to look out
for their compensation, but they seem to
think the school teachers ought to be sat
isfied If they get their money at all, no
matter how long they have to wait for it.
Another of Judge Atkinson's declarations
that is worthy of special notice is that
which relates to taxatiop. He practically
admits that there is no probability of a
reduction in the appropriations. In fact,
he says that ho is against withholding
Ins ions from ex-Confederate soldiers, and
the widows of ex-Confederate soldiers, and
is opiKjsed to any backward step in the
matter of education. He believes in low
ering the tax rate by taxing property
which now escapes taxation. There Is,
undoubtedly, a great deal of such prop
erty, and if Judge Atkinson can suggest
a sure way of finding it? and getting it on
the tax books, he will show himself to be
superior, in at least one respect, to the
law makers and tax assessors of this or
any other state.
What Judge Atkinson says about the
slate agricultural department and the ad
ministration of our penal system is just
about what any level headed man who
had given these matters consideration,
would say. His statement that he is not
embarrassed by promises or pledges, that
he is not the candidate of a clique or fac
tion, and that he has no political griev
ances will be accepted without question.
The people haven't any fault to find with
him now, and they would not have any
if the Democratic party should nominate
him for Governor and elect him. It is
doubtful even if he would lx? generally
criticised if, refusing to follow Col. Can
dler's example, he should not resign the
office he now holds before it is determined
whether or not his candidacy for the gu
bernatorial nomination is successful.
Croker anil Silver.
The belief is gaining ground In New
York that Richard Croker, the head of
Tammany, will come out very soon in an
interview, or an article over his own sig
nature, in which he will favor the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
No one seems to have authoriy to say he
will pursue that course,but there have been
intimations since Senator Murphy voted
for the Teller resolution, and particularly
since the Democratic members of the New
York Legislature approved Senator Mur
phy’s action, that Mr. Croker intends to
have the next state convention of the
Democratic party indorse the Chicago
platform. It is well known, of course, that
Mr. Croker does not believe that free sil
ver coinage would be for the best inter
ests of the country, but he thinks the only
chance for the success of the Democratic
party in New Y'ork is for It to be in har
mony with the. National Democratic party.
It Is not acrtaln, of course, that Mr.
Croker can c&ntrol his party in New York.
He can control it in New York city. It Is
doubtful if he has the confidence of it in
the rural districts. If he hasn't the con
fidence of the rural Democracy he couldn’t
of course ehaiie the policy of the party.
Senator Murphy has considerable influ
ence in the rural districts, but even his
help would not be sufficient to enable him
to control the state convention.
Ex-Senator Hill has given no intimation
of what course he will pursue in respect
to the Chicago platform when the time for
action comes. In the rural districts he
has much moi'o influence than Mr. Croker,
and if he should oppose Mr. Croker
there would lx- in all probability a divided
Democratic party in New York state. How
ever. nothing definite is yet known of the
political plans and purposes of either. Ex-
Senator Hill may decide also that it would
be wise for him to indorse the Chicago
platform. In that event, Messrs. Croker
and Hill might work together. If they
should unite their forces they woald car
ry tluqstate, in all probability, even though
the party should Indorse the Chicago plat
form. A different result might be reached
in the Presidential campaign in 1900, but
in a purely state campaign about all the
Democrats would support their state ticket
If their leaders were agreed on the plat
form and the ticket. Interesting politi
cal developments In New York politics
may be looked for in the very near future.
It seems that the “yellow journals’* of
New York are not entirely without Influ
ence, sfter all. The other day a number
of school boys in knickerbockers, who had
been reading the blood and thunder stories
of Cuba and Spain in the World and th%
Journal, attacked their teacher of Spanish
and threw books and chalk at him. The
teacher was an American, but the small
boys concluded that their patriotism de
manded that something should be done
against something or anything Spanish,
hence their outbreak.
THE MORNING NEWS: FBI DAY, FEB HU ARY 25. 1898.
Wlint War Won 111 Mean.
Houston, Tex., Feb. 23.—1 tls reported
from Brenham that the McFad
den Bros, of Philadelphia, one of ihe
world's largest cotton firms, had been
Instructed to stop buying cotton. The
tame notification Is said to have been sent
to all their hundred or more agents in
Texas. Inquiries are said to have brought
the answer that it was because of the
Cuban complication. This has caused a
considerable flurry among local cotton
men.
The foregoing, taken from our news
dispatches of yesterday, presents food
for sober thought on the part of all
Americans, and particularly of the people
of the South. It Indicates what may be
expected In Ihe event of the situation be
tween Spain and the United States becom
ing more strained, and possibly ruptured.
It means that business on the Gulf and
Southern seaboard would be seriously im
peded, if it did not virtually come to a
standstill, thousands of persons would be
thrown out of employment, and families
would want for bread, even if the possi
ble war were short-lived, and victory
quickly perched upon the banners of the
United States. It means that trade would
be paralyzed and commerce discontinued.
The railroads would quit bringing in cot
ton, naval stores and other products.
There would be no demand for them. Cap
ital is timid in war times, or even when
there is a strong probability of war. The
lumber mills would stop work, the steam
ers would reduce or cease their trips, and
traffic would halt, in suspense. These
things would occur, to a greater or less
degree, whether the scene of conflict were
upon the high seas, in Havana harbor or
elsewhere, and whether or not a hostile
fleet came wjthin sight of the American
shore.
The South Atlantic and Gulf sections
would be the sufferers. Far interior
states and communities would be exempt
from danger, by reason of thtir geograph
ical position, which may be called an effi
cient bomb-proof. The Northeastern
section would lx? in a measure
protected, since It is the only section of
the country on this coast whioh is even in
a measure defended by fortifications
worthy the name. But the Southern coun
try, being closest to the enemy’s territory,
and being partfoularly vulnerable, would
bear the brunt of whatever untoward
conditions resulted from the upheaval.
The South yields to no other section In
patriotism. It is ever ready to defend the
flag and its honor. It could be depended
upon to give an account of itself secqnd
to none in time of need. But the South
insists that there shall not be war except
upon provocation demanding war. It in
sists that the purblind and perfervid
"statesmen” and "patriots” of the far in
terior sections, who would never get with
in smelling distance of gunpowder in the
event of war, and the sensational news
papers of New York city, which care
for nothing except to sell their wares,
shall not force this count-ry into a war,
at the cost of suffering itnd stagnation,
and possibly bloodshed and death by
wholesale.
The Output of Gold.
The argument that the world does not
produce enough gold to permit of gold be
ing the monetary standard does not appear
to be sustained by the facts. The increase
in the production of gold during the pres
ent century is remarkable.
Between 1801 and 1810 the annual output
of gold was about 571,563 ounces. That was
not more than one-fiftieth of the weight
of the silver output. When the gold dis
coveries in California and Australia were
made there was, of course, a tremendous
increase in the gold output. While the
output from IS4J-5 was only 1,760,502 ounces
a year. It was nearly 6,250,000 a year frem
1851 to 1875. After that time there was a
falling off until 1883, when it was not
more than 4,614,588 ounces. From that
year until the present time there has been
a pretty steady increase in it. In 1595 it
reached 9,641.337 ounces, and last year it
was pretty" close on to 11,500,000 ounces.
From 571,563 ounces in 1810 to 11,500,000 in
1897, is such an enormous increase in li e
gold output as to Justify the conclusion
that if let alone the silver question will
settle itself in the course of another de
cade. The increase in the output of silver
has also been very great—much greater,
in fact, than that of gold—but, while there
is enormous quantities of silver in sight
in the mires, the output of that metal has
fallen off somewhat within the last two
years, owing, no doubt, to the low price
which it commands—the low price being
caused by over-production.
During his remarks on the Drayton
street paving question in Council on
Wednesday night, Alderman Hull gave in
condensed form the plan of campaign
which the people must sometimes resort
to in order to get what they want. Said
he: "It Is a crying necessity. The people
who want It paved are making life a bur
den for us with their demands for Ihe
pavement.” The drainage of the outly
ing territory around the city is even more
a "crying necessity” than the paving of
Drayton street. Possibly if a similar plan
of campaign were tried upon the County
Commissioners it would prove equally ef
fective.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York is being
severely criticised for his breach of good
manners In failing to speak to Copt. Eu
late of the Vizcaya, when the latter paid
an official call upon him the other day.
The Evening Poet says tfie Mayor “stared
at the visitor for a moment or two, and
bowed without saying a word. A silence
followed * • * and the Captain made
his way out of the office.” The .Mayor
may have strong convictions with regard
to the Cuban question, still he represented
the city of New Y’ork during the visit,
and should not have forgotten the dignity
of his position so for as to be boorish.
An amusing incident illustrating the se
verity of the press censorship in Havana
occurred the other day. A local paper
finding it impossible to please the press
censor with its editorials, printed in its edi
torial columns several verses from the Bi
ble. The censor declared that the verses
were inimical to the interests of the gov
ernment, and ordered them cut out of the
publication.
The New York Journal of Commerce and
Commercial Bulletin gives some striking
facts with regard to the growth of the
number qf trusts and monopolies in this
country during the past few years. A com
putation of the various combinations
created with B view to controlling produc
tion and prices in one way and another,
it aays, rnude by art 1-xpert for the Com
mercial Year Book, enumerates 200 of these
organizations, with a total of capital stock
and bonds aggregating $2,662,000,000. This
total is equal to 56 per cent, of the entire
capital credited to the manufactures of the
United States in Ihe census of IS9O. Since
the advent of the McKinley administra
tion, and esiiecially since the passage of
the Dlngley tariff law. there has been re
markable activity in the formation of
trusts and combinations. There are anti
trust laws on the federal statute books,
but they seem to be worse than useless.
The bright young men who are forced to
earn their living on some of the big New
Y’ork newspapers are really to be pitied.
They are compelled to manufacture sensa
tionalism nt the order of the guiding gen
ius, or lose their Jobs. The New Y’ork cor
respondent of an out-of-town paper met
a worker for one of the “yellow journals"
on the street the other evening, and ask
ed him, “Are you not going on duty a little
early, to-night?” "Yes,” replied the un
willing disciple o-f the “yellow kid,” "un
der circumstances such as exist at pres
ent, you see, we go each into ills padded
cell and throw fits until 2 a. m. That's
what you see in the paper the next morn
ing.” IF war is delayed much longer,
these young men will probably be held re
sponsible for it, and get fired anyway. It
is their business to get "war news” by way
of the Broadway cable.
The Canadian authorities seem to have
awakened to the fact that it might be
l>oor policy to enact law* inimical to Amer
ican interests in the Klondike, as such leg
islation might prove a boomerang. The
only practical and reliable route to the
Klondike is by way of the Yukon river,
which flows through American territory
from its mouth almost to Dawson City,
and the United States would, of course,
take steps to control the traffic of the river
to the advantage of their own people.
PERSONAL. '
—Prof. Hamilton King, the new minis
ter to Korea, took out his citizenship pa
pers in Detroit on Monday. His father
was naturalized in Maine more than thirty
years ago, and so Jje has been a citizen
of the United States by virtue of that
tact since his majority. But as he was
unable to show his father's papers he was
obliged to be naturalized before passports
could be issued to him.
—Count Castellano, whose wife was Miss
Anna Gould, has hired a villa at Cannes,
but he and his family are not expected
to stay there much this season, for they
will make a yachting excursion to Algiers
and Tunis. After* their return to Cannes
the Count will go to the town of Castel
lane, where he has already been announc
ed as a candidate for election to the
Chamber of Deputies. He will stay there
till the election. .
BRIGHT BITS.
—Wisdom—An Eastern scientist says
that if a flea were as large as a man, he
could jump from Pittsburg to Cleveland.
And he probably wbtild.—Cleveland Plain-
Dealer.
—Neither is Boss—Kelliher—"Oi hear thot
Hogan an' his woife don't git along very
well t’gither at all, at all.”
Flannery—"Oi t’ink at's bekase they're
too avenly matched.”—Puck.
—Social Joys—" Our wrangle-jangle eu
chre club has had to rent a room."
"Why?"
“Well, we have had so many quarrels
over the prizes that none of the women
will go to the other’s house?.”—Detroit
Free Press.
CTHHENT COMMENT.
Keep Cool,
From the Chicago Times-Herald (Ind.).
As soon as the truth about the destruc
tion of the Maine is established it will be
known in Washington, and as soon as it
is known there the American people will
lx - fully advised of the facts. In the mean
time keep cool and let the sensational post
er sheets have a monopoly of the war
excitement.
Our First Duty.
From the Chattanooga Times (Dcm.).
Of course, humanity and Us rights are
above all constitutions, treaties, laws an.',
regulations, made by men, but the United
States not only have more in the human
itarian line to do at home than they ever
did attend to thoroughly, but the home
obligations, in iliat rtgfiid. grow more
numerous and onerous, yearly. We must
mind our own business, first oif all.
We Hnve All We Want.
From the New Orleans States (Dcm.).
There is no need for this government
to annex Hawaii, for the reason that we
now exercise a proteefo-ate over the is
lands anti have done so for more than
fifty years. We have a concession for a
coaling and naval station in Pearl harbor
and that Is all wq riqsirp. This concession
will give us the right to land a cable line
on the islands whenever we see fit to lay
one from San Francisco to Japan.
To flic President's Credit.
From the New York Times (Dem.).
No Latin race, we imagine, would have
kept its head as well as the American
people have kept theirs during the dis
turbing events of the past two weeks. In
Spain or France or Italy there would have
been tumultuous assemblages, much out
cry in the streets, and incitements to riot.
Outside of the reckless newspapers there
has been no raving here.
But the President has furnished the most
conspicuous instance of sanity and wis
dom. His ixrfect calmness has not been
for a moment disturbed. His judgment
lias been t'autless. He has made no mis
take.
Mr. McKinley has shown no desire to
make personal or political capital out of
the graw matters with which he has had
to deal. He has done no posing. He has
not invited the attention of Ihe nation, but
has performed his high duties with as lit
tle fuss and ostentation as he would have
exhibited in labors of the dullest routine.
Such a President Is the despair of Jin
goes, but he inspires thie country- with a
feeling of confidence.
Literary Fetiche*.
Charles Dickens had a curious caprice,
says London Tid Bits. He professed that
he could not write with ease and pleasure
unless certain quaint little bronzes were
u|>on his desk. When they were there the
shuttles in the wonderful web of iietion
flew with magical rapidity. He needed
three things, blue ink, quill pens, ar.d
his fetiches.
A lady who has visited the Norwegian
dramatist, Henrik Ibsen, at home, has in
formed the world that in precisely the
same manner he uses a queer collection of
copper animals. They crowd upon his ta
ble-grotesque cats and rabbits and other
bits of clever modeling. Ibsen finds in
their companionship a help and spur, and
he 4s emphatic in saying that if they van
ished he should produce no plays.
Jules Michelet, the French historian, a
tremendous toiler through a long lifetime,
had a strange love for the coarse boxes in
which he kept his papers. He preserved
them with him unchanged in his study
for forty years. However damaged and
begrimed they might become, and this
was inevitable, he would not have them
changed. Possibly their presence seemed
to assist his flow of ideas. He was equal
ly faithful to an old, dilapidated table
cover. Holes and ink stains were not det
rimental to its value in Michelet’s eyes.
In the case Haydn, the composer, a
ring was the fetich. If he had it upon
his finger he could think brilliantly; if he
missed it all his skill was gone. He often
declared that without this trinket he was
curiously dull. He might sit down to an
instrument, but all creative power, he
would find, had'departed from him.
fongremman Takes a Header.
A Massachusetts member was asked over
a teacup the other day how it feels to be a
Congressman, says the Washington Post.
“It s purely a question of geography,”
said he. “On his native heath a Congress
man is, as one may tersely express it,
the whole thing.’ In Washington he is
only an infinitesimal fraction. A few weeks
ago I was called home to attend to some
important business. I was too much occu
pied for a few days to find time to read
the papers, but when I did begin to. read
them again I saw that the country was
passing through an important crisis—sev
eral crises, in fact. The Cuban question,
the Hawaiian question, finance. Affairs
were serious. I felt that my country need
ed me. My absence had crippled my party
in the House. I felt that I was shrinking
a sacred duty. My constituents whom i
met eyed me reproachfully. The nation
was in danger and I not at my pqst. 1
was ashamed to be seen in the street, so
deeply did I feel that I was shirking. I
hurried through my business and came
to Washington. I went to the Capitol di
rect from the station and hurried into the
House, determined to save the country,
even at the eleventh hour. I put a ques
tion to a fellow member I met—a man I
know well.
“ ‘Why, have you been away?’ he asked.
“I xvas a trifle pained, but I answered
that I had.
“ ’Oh, well,’ said he, ’you couldn’t have
chosen a better time to be away. Every
thing's stagnating here. Nothing has been
done, nothing ’ has been said. Why, it's
been the dullest fortnight of the whole
session. You were lucky to be away.’ ”
A “Drummer’s” Story.
A "drummer” had just finished reading
a story of a train hold-up and let his
newspaper fall into his lap, says the Syra
cuse Standard.
“I had a rather romantic experience
once with train robbers,” he said, “which
I think I won't ever forget. I had been
laid up sick for a week at a tavern in a
Kansas town, and my attendant had been
a very sweet and gentle girl, who was a
relative of the landlord’s. She was such
a nice girl that I was in no hurry to get
well, and while I was putting it off all
1 could I was as industriously putting on
the chains of love. At the end of ten
days I was able to take up my sample
case again, and when I left town my gen
tle nurse was on the same train, in my
charge, bound for Kansas City, where she
was to be met by friends. I had never
talked love to her, and I fancy she didn’t
suspect me of anything except a desire to
flirt a little, but I had made up my mind
to talk seriously to her before I let her
friends take her away from me.
“I fooled along, as most men do under
the same circumstances, waiting for a
real good chance to come in, but before
I reached the proper condition the train
came to a sudden stop in a lonely place,
and by the time we had asked what the
trouble was a half-masked train robber
stood in the aisle of the ear with a revol
ver covering the contents. The girl turn
ed as white as a sheet, and I thought she
would faint, but I told her she wouldn't
be hurt, and she sat staring as if she
had turned to stone. As it happened, I
kept my wits, and when a shot and a
shout rose on the air outside and at
tracted the robber's attention for a mo
ment, I whipped my revolver out of my
overcoat pockei and would have got him
sure, but as I brought the gun around the
girl at my side caught my arm and stop
ped me. I looked at her In amazement.
“ ‘Don’t she gasped, ‘it's my father,’
and then she fell in a faint, while the
robber hurried out in response to the calls
from his partners.
"As for me,’’ concluded the drummer, “I
thought probably it would be just as well
for me not to add to the poor girl’s
troubles by trying to get into her family.”
A Veteran's View of War.
On every wailing, bristling breeze
That fills the land or sweeps the seas,
Resounding far—
As in those ante-bellum years
That some who live recall with tears—
Ring notes of War!
The crimson clouds of morning seem
But to reflect some direful dream
Beneath the star
That regnaut is when men delight
To arm them for ensanguined fight
And cruel war.
Then all the day some think to die
On bloody fields should cause no sigh;
That those who dare
Their fellows slay in onen fight
Are heroes in the good Lord’s sight—
And such is War!
War is a curse! The old, the young
Are called to suffer more than tongue
■Can ever tell;
And manhood in Its earliest prime
Must sacrifice its aims sublime
For those of hell!
War Is a crime! At one fell blow
The Law’s proud sway meet overthrow
And Justice sleeps.
The weak must yield them to the strong,
Majestic truth to brutal wrong,
’Till heaven weeps!
Oh brothers, they who take the sword
Shall perish by it—'tis the word
We know’ is true—
But seek the good of all mankind
And ye shall great abundance find
Of blessings too.
Let Christian nations all unite
T’establlsh peace, foul wrongs requite;
Thus shall the car
Of Progress onward ever run
With fruits of victories nobly won
From Death and War!
• -Oscar B. Smith.
St. Augustine, Feb. 20, 1898.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
—A writer in Science describes a curious
monstrosity which has come under his ob
servation. This Is a cock with no signs
of spurs ut>on the tarsi, but with a couple
of well-developed spurs upon the head, on
either side of the comb, giving the crea
ture the appearance of being horned.
These- mock spurs are not attached to th*
skull, whatever they may originally have
been, but are loose. Instances are on rec
ord of spurs being grafted on to combs,
but, so far. no similar case is known to
have occurred in nature.
—The French government, having been
unsuccessful in its endeavors to purchase
the chateau- of Bagatelle, in the Bois de
Boulogne, at what it considers to be a
reasonable price for use in connection with
the entertainment of the royal and im
perial personages who are expected to
visit Paris during the exhibition of 1905,
has decided to devote to that purpose the
so-called pavilion de Flore, which is the
only part of the palace of the Tuileries
that escaped destruction by the In
surgents during the commune of 187i.
The paviilon de Flore is a very handsome
building, with a high roof and chimneys,
and looks onto the Seine. During the
days of the empire it was used almost ex
clusively by the Empress Eftgenie, who
had her apartments there. There is plenty
of room both for the royal and imperial
visitors and their suites. But a consid
erable amount of money will have to be
devoted to adapting the interior arrange
ments to modern requirements. Just at
present the pavilion de Flore is being oc
cupied by the minister of the colonies and
by the officials of his department.
—lnvestigations recently made for the
British Medical Journal by two leading
scientists on the household filtration of
water for domestic use have just been
made public. In a long series of experi
ments the experts tested practically all
the filtering media and better known fil
ters as to their power of arresting cholera
and typhoid bacilli when present in water.
These experiments show that the only
efficient media for filtration are forms of
porcelain and different compressed silicl
ous earths and natural porous stones, and
that carbon in its various forms, either
alone or compounded with sillcious or
manganiferous material, whether in
blocks, powdered, or granular, asbestos in
different forms, spongy iron, compressed
celulose, etc., are all unreliable, and in
most cases worse than useless. The best
results were obtained with some of the
pressure filters, made of porcelain, com
pressed sillcious earth, etc., which are ar
ranged for fitting on the taps in use in
most houses, and several of these on the
market not only give practically sterile
water, but filter sufficiently rapidly to
make them of practical utility for every
day use.
—The first railroad running to a port on
the Arctic sea is the continuation of the
Vologdo Railway, in Russia, which is now
finished to the port of Archangel, on the
southeastern corner of the White sea, and
at the mouth of the River Dvina. This
new line, which was opened some weeks
ago, is nearly 400 miles in length. The
Vologda-Archangel Railway passes for
the most part through deserted or sparse
ly populated regions, or across "tundras”
and marshes, which are sometimes fifty
feet in depth. The whole nature of the
country through which the new line passes
was unfavorable to’ its construction.
Marshes and patches of bog and swamp
had to be filled in; the newly made em
bankments were continually giving way,
and had again to be built up until the
necessary stability had.been obtained. Six
iron bridges and numerous bridges of wood
were required. The wooden bridges are
built upon piles driven in some cases to
a great depth beneath the surface. The
new line is of military as well as com
mercial Importance, for it must play a
leading part in the opening of the north
ern provinces of Russia. It will furnish
an outlet, for instance, for the deposits
of petroleum which exist in Northern
Russia, but have not been worked on ac
count of the lack of transportation.
—Some interesting experiments have re
cently been carried out in France by M.
Pagnoul on the much-debated question of
the value of nitrogen in the form of ni
trates, as compared with that in sulphate
of ammonia, on different crops. The ex
periments with beets, clover, and oats
were made in large pots, sterilized sand
being used as soil; the results obtained
showed the sulphate of ammonia to be
distinctly superior to the nitrate of soda.
The yield of the crops in all cases was
nearly double w r hen the same equivalent
of nitrogen was added in the form of
sulphate of ammonia as compared with
the nitrate of soda. M. Pagnoul concluded
from his experiments that nitrogen ap
plied in the form of sulphate of ammo
nia was directly assimilated by the plant,
and more rapidly taken up than the ni
trate. Under the conditions of the experi
ments there is no doubt that this was tho
case, and it is very probable that the
same results might be obtained in many
cases in actual practice and in field ex
periments, but these results are known to
be very largely modified by the composi
tion and physical condition of the soil,
and before they can be accepted as uni
versally true generally they would have
to bo confirmed by a series of field exper
iments under varying conditions, as quite
as good results have been obtained with
nitrates as with ammonia salts.
—Appreciating the fact that the’
high chalk cliffs of Eng
land are no protection against
the sea, the Dutch engineers did not at
tempt to place an artificial vertical wall
against the wave and the storm tides, hut
coaxed the sea to deposit its sands on.the
shore and so build it up, rather than throw
them inland and then, hungry for more,
eat into the shore, says the
Magazine. They believed it best to sat
isfy its appetite, but induced it to toy with
the sands which its own flood-currents
and waves bring from other shores and
from the offing depths. The sand thus de
posited blows, in the gales, over the in
land country. Tho engineers induced It
to stop and build a barrier for them
against the sea. One of the heaviest dikes
along the coast was built by the winds
themselves. The sand formed between the
jetties becomes dry in sunny weather, erd
the surface is blown ashore when the wind
is In that direction. It was desired to
build a strong dike to connect with the
sand dunes. This was accomplished by
setting in the sand, in rows about a foot
apart, tufts of dune sea grass near by.
The tufts were placed about a foot apart
—simply little handfuls oE grass. The
place for each tuft was dug out with the
hands, the tuft set into it and the sand
pressed around it. The whole surface cf
the dry, sandy beach above high tide was
covered with this plantation, and just back
of it. at the highest point of the existing
sandy area, one or two rows of reeds were
set into the sand, thvir tops cut off, and
the stalks left standing about four feet
above the sand. The sand, drifting along
over the surface, catches and in one windy
day will almost bury the tufts of grass
and stand up a foot along the rows of
reeds. Then another plantation was made,
and another, until a massive dike was
built up to the hight of the adjoining dike.
In high storm tides the waves will cat
Into the toe of the slope and pull down
the sand, but by the si,me process of build
ing. tho dike is again restored to its for
mer sl*e.
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Tho winter season at these well-known and
wonderful resorts la now opening and the
many improvements in hotel facilities and
railroad service will draw a larger number
and more enthusiastic Dleasure and haal’n
seekers titan ever before.
The schedules and service of ths
SOUTHERN RAILWAY
to each and all of them will be nnequalel
ft ft M ii Florin [Hit]
will again be operated, commencing
January 17. 1898.
WINTER TOURIST TICKETS
at low rates from and through Ohio River
Gateways go on sale Oct. 15, 1897. From
other points Nov. 1, 1897.
SIDE TRIPS
ate made a feature by the Southern
Railway. Tourists and all patrons nf
the Southern Railway have most care
ful attention at the hands of its many
representatives, who are fully lt>-
formed on all subjects Incident to
travel.
B. b. Neal, f. P. Millard.
President Vice President.
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Vegetables of every variety In season.
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