Newspaper Page Text
HIGH ART IN DESIGNS
THE NEW SUMMER FABRICS SHOW
MORE THAN USUAL TALENT.
Silks Over Which Flowers Appear to Have
Been Scattered by Baby Hunds —Palm
Leaf Patterns on Swiss —A Silk Trimmed
Gown That Can Bo Laundered.
[Copyright, 1803. by American Press Associa
tion.}
i
H. -p. I*■A'-*£ jf,“j 1
frtiuded of their just due, for the de
signs aro more than designs this season.
They are so inauy perfect pictures, each
after its kind. I liavo seen pictures paint
ed by artists which were not nearly so
artistic and true to nature as are some of
these. There is a dark ground—some
times black iudia silk—with the most
perfect flowers scattered over it, as if
thrown by a baby’s liands, some of them
crushed and faded a little, as though they
had been held too close in the loving
grasp and had wilted under the warm
caress. The tiny daisies, cowslips or
violets are marvels of delicacy, and then
there aro others where there are broken
off blossoms of the pink wax begonia,
tiny sprigs of parsley leaf pattern and
broken fronds of maidenhair fern, rus
«et and reddened under too bright a sun.
There are others with small branches
of pussy willows in bud and bloom, and
perfect orchids in their gorgeous color
ing. and pale, brittle leaves. Tiny rose-;
buds lying on a rose geranium leaf that :
is partly green and partly faded yellow
are seen in one pattern, and pink pirn-'
pernel makes another. So do the deli
cate white chickweed and apple blos
soms and clover blossoms both white
and red. and a few velvety pansies. But
the taste of the artists seems to have
turned rather toward the despised and
overlooked beauties that lie about us.
One beautiful pattern of a gray green
ground has pine needles strewn over it.
some of them singly and others in
bunches of five or six all in a heap.
There is no set figure, or if there is it is
not repeated often enough to permit the
whole to appear at one view.
One most exquisite pattern had a pearl
gray ground, with irregular pale pur
plish blue leaves in two shades and moss|
rosebuds with short broken stems in i
pink and purplish bine woven in the.
cheney pattern, so that it looked like the I
colors of mountains seen through the j
misty haze of distance. Some other pat- i
terns have disks of one color or another
ou the background, and lying partly on
the disk and partly on the solid color
half opened pink daisies or some other
small flower, which makes an artistic
contrast and pleasing -whole. A few
have geometrical figures alternating
with a pattern of broken twigs, the pret
tiest being a black ground with very
■pale green rhomboids and twigs of the ’
wild chicory, also in palo green, with a
blue flower on each one. But there are
hundreds of varying patterns, all exquis
itely lovely, so that it is hard to choose
from them.
To suit the matter to every purse these
patterns are aH reproduced in sateen,
fine cambrics and chailies. Tho dark
grounds are likely to appear clean longer
than the others, but those with the light
er grounds are far prettier and more
lummery.
How aro they to bo made? Well, hero
is a picture that will show you. One
has a ground of French gray, with pim
pernel blossoms and leaves for a pattern.
The skirt is gored and without ruffle or
ornament around the bottom. Over it
is a quaint cape, which, after encircling
the shoulders, forms a sort of waist dra
pery easily understood by the illustra
tion, and this then forms sash panels
which reach to the bottom. This is of
faille in dull blue.
A lovely pink batiste was made up as
if it was the most extravagant silk, with
six gathered flounces, each headed by a
band of bias silk, changeable old rose !
and gold, the capo revers and stole ends
all of the same. These bands are sewn
over stiff muslin and then loosely cat;
stitched on so that they can be removed !
if necessary to have the #own washed, \
but it could, barring accidents, be worn
one season at least without requiring it.
Among the other lovely new springI
and summer cotton fabrics one finds i
empire brocades, satin striped and plaid ;
ginghams, French twills, rayonette. i
figured and hemstitched; chintz, two :
toned figures; gloria foulard and a num-i
<1 & I
’w®
Saw
* ■-
' f
PRETTY SPRING DRESSES.
ber of styles in fancy French muslins
with -woven spots, both white and col
ored, many of them in imitation of the i
unique straw embroidery from Fayal.
where the natives embroider beautiful
patterns with straw on net and thin
muslins.
There are also Irish lawns, crinkled;
ginghams and Havana cloth. As if ;
these were not enough in the way of
wash fabrics, there are many pretty pat
terns of fine Madras and man-o’-war
suitings, printed check lawns, where the
pattern is very delicate and pleasing
with its soft tones and semitransparent ,
fabric, and there is a broche Swiss. This
latter is a Swiss muslin, which all worn
en know means a stiff one, and on it art 1
printed the old broche and palm leafi
patterns, which gain a new softness and
tuauit.v on account of the sheerness of I
me musun. nns puuern rues aiways
been used on woolen goods, and some
times on sateen, bnt never until now has
it been successfully produced on thin
cotton goods.
I also noticed a line of striped seer
suckers and another of pampas cloth,
and theso two will bo largely employed
in making tennis suits and such gowns
as will receive tho hardest wear.
Velvet trimmings on gowns will bo
worn all the season through wherever
they can be put. Private information
tells mo that plush is to bo worn in tho
fall to an extent never before dreamed
of. 1 am not sorry, for it is a superb
material and becoming to all. the only
drawback being its cost.
Henriette Rousseau.
New York.
AN INTERESTING GROUP.
The Family of Mott Smith, the Hawaiian
Minister.
One December evening a little over
eight years ago the literary society of
Washington met at tho residence of
Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander,aquaintold
fashioned white frame house not far from
the capitol. General Hawley presided,
and many other distinguished men and
women were present. To mo one of
the most interesting was a plump little
woman with a bright, attractive face,
crowned with wavy gray hair combed
yk w x
MYRA MOTT SMITH. MRS. SMITH.
back from a broad, low forehead. This
was Mott Smith. I sat beside her
for some time and listened with delight
to her pleasant voice telling me about
her home in Honolulu. It all seemed
very wonderful and new, and such a
long way off! And now we are talking
about annexation, and the young Princess
Kaiulani is protesting against it.
Dr. Mott Smith was then a special
commissioner from Hawaii. I don’t re
member whether he and Mrs. Smith kept
house in Washington that winter or not,
but they did the next winter in a large,
plain house on I street. This agreeable
family attracted the best people in the
city and the distinguished stranger with
in her gates, so that one was sure, even
at the least formal evening at this house,
to meet more than one personage of po
litical or literary distinction.
An interesting feature of that big,
pleasant parlor was a “Hawaiian cor
ner.” with a fine collection of photo
graphs of the royal family and many
points of interest. There Were instru
ments of various kinds, specimens of na
tive handiwork, some of the beautiful
feather work, strings of the loveliest
shells and man}’ things which I cannot
now describe.
Dr. Mott Smith, a native of New York,
went when quite young to Hawaii. His
wife was born in Honolulu of New Eng
land parents. She received most of her
education in this country and has made
the trip to and from Hawaii many times.
Her children were born in her native
city, and there was a houseful when they
were all at home —four girls and three
boys. Then this charming family went
away in pursuit of knowledge, which
to them was a pastime, not a hardship.
The eldest two girls spent two years in
O THE men or
women who de- j
sign the figures
and flowers seen
on the new silks,
sateens und chai
lies come under
the name of art
ists, or are they
only “designers?"
If they are not
called artists, 1 j
think they are de-
OKUbI,
■ f / jfy' "**
ww
sd&.
••>.<: If >•
IDA MOTT SMITH. MAY MOTT SMITH.
Dresden studying German and music,
and the rest were scattered Mr awhile.
About four years ago they got together
in Boston and set up a home there, where
the younger members pursue their stud
ies, while the elders come and go as busi
ness or pleasure calls.
Mrs. Mott Smith is now very much of
an invalid, and her social duties are dis
charged by her second daughter, Myra,
a pretty girl, with soft, golden brown
hair, dark, golden brown eyes and fair
complexion. She is as bright and clever
as she is good looking, and as natural and
unaffected as the schoolgirl of seven years
ago.
Ida, the third daughter, who might
easily be taken for Myra, so
she resemble her, graduated with ...lany
honors from the Harvard annex some
time ago. Iler knowledge of mathe
matics especially is something quite won
derful for a girl, but she does not con
sider her education finished and is now
taking a “post-post” course.
May, about 14, is following close in the
footsteps of her sister and promises to
rival her in mental attainments and good
looks.
Os the boys, Harold, just of age, is
studying architecture. Ernest, two years
younger, is still at Harvard. Morton,
who was one of the little ones I remem
ber, has a decided taste for electricity.
Juliette M. Babbitt.
Prize Money Well Spent.
When the wealthy and talented Mrs.
Sears of Boston won the SSOO prize with
her “Romola” at the water color exhibi
tion, there was much quoting of the Bib
lical “To him that hath more shall be
given.” But the gracious prize winner
has bestowed the entire amount, together
with no inconsiderable sum from her own
purse, upon a teacher in Boston, who has
not had a vacation for 15 years, to enable
her to make a trip to Europe.
Miss Mabel McElheny has won the first
prize of §2OO offered by the New York
Mail and Express for the best tariff essay.
The judges were Governor McKinley
and Senators Aldrich and Kiscock.
The fair or sale of today is usually
conducted on business principles, and
good value is given for every price paid,
which is another small way of attesting
the progress of woman.
THE AUGUSTA WEEKLY CHRONICLE. APRIL 12, 1893.
WOMAN’S WORLD.
SOROSIS CELEBRATES HER TWENTY
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.
Alive Mitchell In the Aaylum —Women In
the School* —Mrg. Croker In Waaiynffton.
Athletic Training at a Woman’s College.
What Does It Mean?
The painted loves in the onyx ceiling
of tho Savoy hotel leaned down wonder
ingly over their rose wreaths above a
brilliant company of notable women as
sembled to celebrate with feasting and
oratory and music the twenty-fifth anni
versary—the silver “singlehood”—of So
rosis. About the long tables festooned
with garlands of smilax and spring blos
soms were seated women savants in
medicine and philosophy, women spe
cialists in education and sociology, wom
en celebrities in literature and art, wom
en of the stage and women of the pulpit,
women reformers and women society
leaders. At tho center of the officers’
table Mrs. Lozier, the thrice elected ex
ecutive officer of the club, presided with
gracious tact and dignity. Julia Ward
Howe, a tiny woman with snow white
hair, small in stature to bear so great a
weight of honor and fame, was at her
right.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president of
the National Council of Women, a state
ly and handsome woman, sat at her left.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, the sweet faced
poet laureate of Sorosis; Jane Mead
Welch, tho historian; Charlotto Emmer
son Brown, the president of the Federa
tion of Clubs; Jean Kincaid, the jour
nalist from Boston; Dr. 11. S. Densmore,
Mrs. E. B. Grannis, Mrs. Richard F.
Avery, Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols,
Miss Eunice Fry, Mrs. C. C. Bartol, Mrs.
Theodore Seward, Mrs. Amelia Knight,
all were among the famous women
crowded about the officers’ table as
guests of tho club. The Princess Vic
toria Kaiulani of Hawaii, accompanied
by Mrs. Theodors Davis and Miss Davis,
was among the most prominent of the
guests.
"We welcome you heartily to our
twenty-fifth anniversary breakfast,” said
Mrs. Lozier when the time for speaking
came. “Our advanced aged gives us
ample reason for maintaining that the
club for women is an institution that
was not born to die and make no sign,
but is bound to diffuse itself wherever
women individualize themselves and to
grow vigorously so long as it shall be
helpful to the woman, to the home and
to the family.”
Mrs. E. M. Merrill (Jean Kincaid)
spoke first for the women of tho east. “1
would like to present to you today,” she
said, “a composite photograph of the
women of New England in tho past. I
would like to flood it with light; I would
add to it the charm of color; I would
give it voice and gesture. And there
should be reproduced the face of the first
woman that set foot on Plymouth Rock,
after her the pioneer woman who felled
the trees and tilled the soil and cared
for her children in her cabin in the wil
derness, and then the brave face of Han
nah Dunton, who released herself from
Indian captivity. This should bo fol
lowed by Abigail Adams, who wrote
what is called the first declaration of in
dependence and signed it with a wom
an's name, and tho heroism of Ida Lew
is, the sweetness of Lucretia Mott, the
faithfulness of Dorothy Dix, the friend
of prisoners and the insane, all these
should form and influence the picture.
“Among literary women there should
be Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Ful
ler. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Louisa
M. Olcott. The educators should in
clude Eliza Peabody of tho kindergar
tens, Mary Lyon, Sophia Smith, tho
woman who had tho good sense and the
good heart to leave Iter money to a col
lege for women. There should be Har
riet Hossmer, the sculptor, and the far
seeing eyes of Maria Mitchell, the astron
omer. After all, I think the great
characteristic of the New England wom
an is her appreciation of all that is best
and greatest in the world.”
Mrs. Sewall responded with a plea for
the women of the west, happily worded
and most eloquently delivered, convinc
ing her hearers that tho gift of oratory
is not denied to woman.
Mrs. Croly gave a resume of the pro
gress and influence of Sorosis since its
founding in 1863. “It was the first ex
clusively woman’s club in the world,
formed by women for women wholly and
wholly sustained by women. From the
beginning it has been self developing.”
The highest insignia of honor in Sorosis
is the diamond set badge of the club in
the form of an S, and this coveted deco
ration was conferred at this meeting upon
three women—Mrs. Lozier, the president
of the club; Mrs. Croly, the honorary
president for life, and Mrs. Bergholtz,
the chairman of custodians.—New York
Sun.
Alice Mitchell In an Asylum.
When tho legislative visiting com
mittee went through the west Tennes
see asylum for the insane at Bolivar,
their attention was naturally directed
more to Alice Mitchell than to all the
other patients. They found tho slayer
of her girl friend in fine physical condi
tion. She has never been ill a day in
the nine months of her confinement.
She has gained 20 pounds in weight and
is as handsome a girl as one could wish
to see. Mentally, however, she shows
no improvement. She seems content
with her lot and has very little to say
about the outside world.
When the name of Freda Ward is
mentioned, she seems subdued by sad rec
ollections for the moment, but the in
fluence soon passes away, leaving her as
joyous as ever. Her favorite diversion
is playing the harmonica, which she does
frequently for the entertainment of the
other patients, all of whom have the
greatest affection for her. Before the
tragedy of 12 months ago sho was a skill
ful performer on the piano, but she is un
able to stretch an octave now, owing to
having severed the leaders in two fingers
of her right hand in handling the razor
with which she cut her victim’s throat.
The hand is not deformed, but the in
jured fingershave lost their former flexi
bility. She is frequently visited by
members of her family and seems glad
to see them, but shows no grief at their
departure.
The most skeptical are now convinced
that the girl's malady is genuine, and the
asylum physicians have no hope of her re
covery.—Cor. Louisville Courier-J ournaL
Women In the School..
Tho present superintendent of public
instruction, tho Hon. Henry Raab,'has
often given expression to sentiments on
tho subject of education that tho most
enlightened educators can hardly in
dorse. A conspicuous example of this
was found in a speech which ho made a
year or two ago in southern Illinois, in
which he expressed contempt for the
display of tho national flag on the school
houses and for the singing of patriotic
songs in tho schools as a moans of
awakening the sentiment of patriotism.
He was much criticised for this at the
time, but of late not much has been
heard about it. In his late report on the
schools of the stato he has taken occas
ion to express his belief that women
should bo excluded from positions as
teachers in the ungraded schools.
We undertake to say that this is
against the’judgment of tho great body
of educators in his and other states.
Men may have some advantages in a few
respects over women as teachers, but in
tho main women are by far tho better
teachers and bring to their work a high
er zeal and devotion. There can be no
doubt whatever that the mass of the
people aro against his view of the case.
It may bo that it would bo better if as
a whole the teachers in the public schools
were more equally divided between the
sexes, but the idea of excluding the
women from teaching in tho ungraded
schools is so ridiculous as to provoke
sneers rather than acquiescence and ap
probation.—Champaign Gazette.
Mr.. Croker In Washington.
While most attention has been paid
the men who have been in Washington
during inauguration season, it has not
been because they were the only people
worth talking about. There have been
many clever and 'veil known women in
the city from all over the country.
Probably about none have questions
been asked more frequently than about
the wife of Richard Croker. Mrs. Cro
ker is a tall, robust woman of fine pres
ence, and she is bright. She had her
first real view of the sights of Washing
ton, and Mr. Croker showed them all to
her. He took her to the house of repre
sentatives, and Mrs. Croker’s views on
the deliberations of that body are char
acteristic.
She objected to the style of the mem
bers. “Why, they all were reading pa
pers or writing. Did they know what
was being done? The speaker there—
Mr. Crisp—must be wonderful to know
are saying. He pounds and
pounds, but it didn’t make them pay at
tention. That’s a great way to do busi
ness. If I were speaker and ran that
house, I’d seo that they paid attention.
It isn’t respectful.”
Mr. Croker explained that the whole
thing was arranged beforehand and the
speaker knew just what was coming,
but Mrs. Croker would not yield her
point, but if everything was arranged
beforehand she thought that altogether
congress was a very useless body.—Wash
ingt?n Post.
Athletic Training at a Woman’s College.
AU the class boating crews at Welles
ley have gone into the gymnasium for
regular training preparatory to the sum
mer poat race on the lake within tho col
lege grounds. The first attempt at scien
tificdrainlng in oarsmanship was made on
the lake last autumn and with marked
success. It was not until tho fall of 1891
that physical training was made a full
and regular course in the college. Now
every freshman that enters Wellesley re
ceives a thorough physical examination,
including measurements and strength
tests, and from each three hours’ work
are required each week. The result of
the experiment shows a gratifying de
velopment of physique, improvement in
the vigor and carriage, and also an in
creased capacity for mental application.
It is an interesting fact that while the
records show an increase in strength of
100 or 150 pounds in the back in six
months, the strength of the legs some
times declines rather than increases, in
dicating that the young women were ac
customed to walking more before they
entered college than to exercising other
members of the body than the locomo
tive extremities. A woman examiner
and a woman instructor have charge of
this department.—Wellesley Letter.
What Does It Mean?
In the inaugural address of tho presi
dent he said:
“Loyalty to the principles upon which
our government rests positively demands
that the equality before the law which it
guarantees to every citizen should be
justly and in good faith conceded in all
parts of the laud. The enjoyment of this
right follows tho badge of citizenship
wherever found, and unimpaired by race
or color it appeals for recognition to
American manliness and fairness.”
Now, women are citizens. On the pass
port of every woman of this country to a
foreign country she is called “a citizen
of the United States.” If the president
is right, that citizenship implies “equal
ity before the law,” and if those who
elected President Cleveland agree with
him, there should not only be a large ac
cession of Democrats to the ranks of the
woman suffragists, but the Democratic
administration itself should be a power
on the side of equality before the law for
the one class which is now denied equal
ity.—Boston Woman’s Journal.
A Mignonette Wedding.
Portland is on the qui vive over matri
monial speculations. I have heard of a
bride who is planning her wedding and
the gifts she will give her bridesmaids.
The wedding is to boa mignonette af
fair, and the maids will all wear green
gowns with low necks and short sleeves
and carry huge bouquets of mignonette
and roses. Their hats will be of pink
straw trimmed with mignonette roses.
When Mrs. Cleveland Drives Out.
Mrs. Cleveland has been driving about
town for the past few days in the most
stylish turnout which ever belonged to
the White House stables. She handled
the ribbons over a pair of handsome,
clean limbed, dock tailed bay horse.-
drawing a low phaeton or victoria, wit'
a ramble behind, in which sits bolt up
right a very black tiger in very white
livery. Mrs. Cleveland sits on a driver':
cushion, and when she has a gentlema i
with her, which is generally the case. b<
is compelled to look up to the handsoim
woman by his side, who holds the win;
and reins like a true jockey. —Washing
ton Letter.
BULLETIN NO. 2<k
Editors Chronicle: —At. the regular
meeting of the Bee:eh Island Farmer’s
Club today, I was instructed as corres
ponding secretary to call yaur atten
tion to the following paragraph, page 28.
Bulletin No. 20, Georgia Experiment
Station, Feb. 1893:
“Think of it. Wo have shown that 88
worth of a well balanced fertilizer may bo
expected to increase tho yield of seed cotton
on ouoacro 1,000 pounds, with 11 aro worth
830, leaving $22 of profit.”
This estimate of tho value of 1,000 pounds
of seed cotton is a conservative one, as things
are going. Thoro would be 347 pounds of
lint, value say Bc. per pound, making $27.70,
and 053 pounds of seed worth, at some recent
quotations 34 cents per bushel, for tho man
, ufactnre of oil, $7.01. Total, $35.37.
The result is startling. A profit of $27.37
| per acre in cotton growing, over and above
I any profit that may accrue from tho actual
I and unaided .productiveness of the soil, with
|no additional cost of culture. But even be
yond this golden promise the Bulletin re
ferred to states that money expended in
fertilizers is to be regarded in tho nature of
an investment (p. 28). repaying tho cost,
and a profit of 100 to 500 per cent. The
larger tho investment tho larger the basis it
furnishes for tho per eentago of profit, and
the correspondingly larger tho amount of
fertilizer loft in tho soil for tho use of tho
succeeding crop (p. 22).
The computation of theso surplus profits
is not given in this Bulletin. Doubtless they
will be furnished in succeeding issues should
it bo deemed advisable. Meanwhile a vista
of fabulous wealth is unfolded by tho experi
ments and calculations detailed in Bulletin
No. 20. It is demonstrated by the highest
authorities of scientific agriculture in the
great state of Georgia that seed cotton can
bo produced at a cost of less than sl6 a ton.
Or, if we prefer to dispose of tho seed to oil
factories at recent quotations, lint cotton can
grown bo at a cost of less than SO.OOIB
(eighteen one-hundredths) of a cent pet
pound.
| In the face of such a demonstration as
| this, it is difficult to find terms in which to
characterize the folly of those who have so
strenuously advised the reduction of the cot
ton acreage. Its mere announcement should
have sufficed to disperse the convention re
cently met in New Orleans to recommend
moderation in cotton planting. Perhaps it
did cause that oonventiou to dwindle down i
to a few disheartened planters of the Louis- ,
iana, Mississippi and Arkansas bottoms, who,
knowing nothing of the multiplying powers
of Georgia fertilizers, have been stupidly re
lying on the natural produetiveuoss of
the soil.
I regret to say that I am further instructed
by the Beech Island Farmers’ Club, to ex
press to you their serious fears, after many
trials during many years, that they have not
tho ability to realize in their practice the
profits demonstrated by the agricultural
scientists of your state. They are moreover I
deeply discouraged by seeing in the same I
Bulletin that fertilizers do not increase the
profits of corn culture (p. 5), nor does sub
soiling, or intercultural fertilizing (p. 7), or
deep or shallow plowing (p. 11), avail for j
tins staple food crop for man and beast.
Nothing seems to answer to thoir great needs,
but cotton culture, and $8 worth of fertili
zers or more to tho acre, and to this they
feel incompetent.
I feel very sorry for my neighbors. Per
haps you can kindly and wisely say some
thing to encourage them. I have tried to
console them. 1 have advised thorn to sei I
out their farms at once. The investment of
a very small part of the proceeds in a resi
dential lot in a farming village, would se
cure to them the numerous comforts and
| conveniences of city life. The residue put
up in margins to cover sales in cotton futures
could not fail to provide them with a hand
some income. It cannot be doubted that
these discoveries of the Georgia Experiment
Station must become known to all mon, and
that everybody will set in to buy fertilizers
and make cotton. Under these conditions
the staple must continue go down and
down, as it has been doing ever since these
agricultural departmens were established.
Under the new light shed from Bulletin No.
20, a wide margin of profit is revealed to cot
ton growers. But wide as this margin is.
there must always remain a wider, and more
secure one, for the seller of cotton futures.
Harry Hammond.
Beech Island Farmers’ Club House, April
Ist. 1893.
BULLETIN NO. 20.
From the Georgia Experiment Station.
Modestly Defended.
Editor Chronicle:—A friend has called
my attention to an article in your issue
of the Bth instant, in which —according
to tlm headlines —Bulletin No. 20 is
“sharply criticised.” On a careful read
ing I am unable to see that Mr. Harry
Hammond has found -a vulnerable point
in that Bulletin, ami were I not aware !
of the recent spirited contention between ,
him and Dr. H. C. White on the subject i
of “Farm Villages and Intensive Farm- '
ing,” I should be at a loss to divine the :
'nature that inspired the “sharp criti- I
cism.” It is not unusual for a lawyer
to attack the credibility of a witness
i when the evidence bears heavily against
his side of the case.
I can but admire the very fine and in
sinuating sarcasm that pointed the pen
of the scholarly gentleman. But as 1 .
was not trained in that school in early !
life, it would be the rashest temerity i
to enter the lists against such an adept j
in that style of argument (?). Facts
are very stubborn things, and often butt
heavily against preconceived ideas ami
long Intrenched prejudices. Garbled ex
tracts may serve, for the moment, Jo
point a sarcasm; but they are not edi
fying to those who are seeking for the
whole truth. Mr. Hammond does me
gross injustice in quoting Bulletin No.
20 as authority for his own statement—
“Or if we prefer to dispose of the seed
to oil factories at recent quotations, lint ;
cotton can lie grown at a cost of less ■
than SO.OOIB (eighteen one hundredths) I
of a cent) per pound.” Now I read 0.0018
as eighteen l.emthousandtbs, instead of
eighteen hundredths, as Mr. Hammond
enumerates <)f course he is not. re
sponsible for this glaring discrepancy, as
he was writing under instructions, and
it is possible that the Beech Islanders
are using a “revised ami corrected” edi
tion of old Smith’s Arithmetic. But
where did he get the eighteen hundredths
of a cent on the cost of a pound of lint?
Not in Bulletin 20. but in his excite:!
fancy, or the revised arithmetic.
If the reported allusions to Bulletin
No. 20,50 graciously and gratuitously
made by Mr. Hammond, shall result in
calling the attention of the farmers to
the fact that copies of tho same arc
still in good supply- and will be sent
free to at.y f’rmt'T, the writer will ac
knowledge ' a debt of gratitude to the
’learned but too sarcastic critic. These
bulletins are intended to benefit those
’’sinners who are not wedded to liift #»d
plantation ideas of farming, and whose
minds are therefore in a receptive state.
1 Have not the time —life is too short—
to whste in unprofitable discussion. Mr.
Hnmniond’s criticism does not impress ;
me as that of an honest seeker after i
the truth, but rather of one who is after
a victim to his withering sarcasm.(?)
The writer of this short note (which
indeed, may be considered tis depreca
tory of further thrusts from tho Major’s
keen blade,) does not. write under "in
structions.” Had a wise instructor whis
pered in his ear. perhaps this had not
been written. Very rcspectfullv.
It .1. Bedding.
Experiment, Gn., April JO, 1,893.
UNJUST TAXATION.
It Is mijust to tax the stomach with
burthens tie,it It. cannot bear. Matty silly
people Ilins tyrannize that faithful sur
vitor until it rebels ami punishes them as
they deserve. Dyspepsia is usually the
child of gastronomic folly, but whether this
or Ihe natural assoelnte of inherent feeble
ness from childhood: it s surely and pleas
antly remediable with Hostetler’s Stomach
Hitters, the finest and most highly sanc
tioned gastric tonic In existence. As a re
sult. of the tone Imparted to the stotnaeh,
and the increased activity of its digestive
and assimilative action. Insured by the
persistent use of this benign iuvogorant,
general stamina is augmented, the
nerves strengthened and tranquillzed, and
a tendency to Insomnia ami bypoehonon
drasls defeated, bjllousuoss. chills and fever
rheumatism and kidney troubles are con
quered by this admirable medicine.
CAUGHT THE THIEF.
tie Had Been Stealing Systematically for
Sonin Time.
Millen, Ga., April 10.—Special.)-C. Par
ker, of our town has been missing goods
from ills store for some time. The stealing
has been small and nearly every night.
Last, night he. with two of Ills clerks, de
termined to try and capture the thief.
They secreted themselves bi different
parts of tile store and awaited the thief.
It was a long wait, for it was fully three
o’clock this morning before he entered the
store. He proceeded to empty th money
drawer when he was ordered to “hands
up,” which he did and submitted quietly
to arrest.
Two darkey damsels, paramours of his,
were arrested early this morning and
their rooms searched where was found
several hundred dollars worth of goods.
The thief is John Usher, a white man
who has been employed by Daniel Sons &
Palmer and C. Parker for a year or more
as night watchman. Flo lias also been
stealing from Daniel, Sons A- Palmer, as
part of the goods recovered liave been
identified by them as belonging to them.
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup has
beer, used for children teething. It
soothe: the child, softens the gums, al
leys all pain, cures wind colic, and Is
the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty
five cents a bottle.
A WRECK.
Bartow, Fla.. April 7.—Early this morn
lug the southbound freight on the Florida
Southern road was thrown off the track
near here. Three ears and the engine
were overturned and badly damaged. En
gineer H. A. Fish was seriously, though
not fatally injured. The wreck was
caused by a rail being taken up. Officers
are after the miscreants.
Sufferers from Coughs. Sore Throat, etc.,
should try "Brown’s Broneliial Troches,”
a simple but. sure remedy. Sold only in
boxes. Price 25 cents.
REPUBLICANS TO CONTEST.
St. Louis, April 7.—The Republican City
Central Committee after comparing the
notes of a searching investigation made
witli reference to the ballot box stuffing,
repeating, bulldozing, etc., at the polls has
decided to contest the election of Auditor
Brown, who was returned as elected over
Geo. W. Fishbaek, the republican nominee.
The committee has been assured that ah
money necessary for a vigorous prosecu
tion of the contest will be forthcoming,
and it is the intention to make the fight to
the bitter end. The committee claims all
sorts of frauds have been committed.
THE FATHER OF MANY ILLS.
Constipation leads to a multitude of phys
ical troubles. It is generally tile .[■•■suit of
carelessness or indifference to the simplest
rule of liealt.li. Eugene MeKay, of Brant
ford. Ont., writes:
“I had for several years been a sufferer
from constipation, hud taken a great many
different remedies, some of which did me
good for a time but only for - a time, then
my trouble came back worse than ever.
I was induced by a friend, whom Braiul
retli’s Pills had benefited, to try them.
Took two each night for a week, then
every night for about, six weeks. Since
that time I have not experienced the
slightest difficulty whatever, and my
bowels move regularly every day. I believe
firmly that for sluggishness of "the bowels
and biliousness Brandreth’s Pills are far
superior to any other.”
DR. TUPPER RESIGNS.
Atlanta, April 7.—Rev. Tullius Tupper,
rector of St. Phillip’s Episcopal <'liur< > li
has resigned and his resignation lias been
accepted. Dr. Tupper came here from the
west nearly two years ago. He performed
a marriage ceremony in Lent contrary to
the express orders of Bishop Nelson which
is said to have pecipitated the trouble.
FOR DYSPEPSIA
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
Dr. J. J. McWilliams, Denison, la., s-tys:
“I have used it largely in nervousness and
dyspepsia, and 1 consider that It stands
unrivalled as a remedy in cases of sleep
lessuess, with gratifying results.”
ANA RCHI ST CAPT 1' RED.
Mailrirl. April 8.- The government dis
cvered aai alarming conspiracy of An
archist at Xeres, evidently having for
its object an insurrection against the
authorities. A. raid was made on a farm
house near Xeres and the conspirators
captured. They were armed with rifles
and large knives. Documents captured
showed that preparations had been made
for another outrage in revenge for the
executions of February, 1892.
OEMs
READTHIS!
Valuable Real Estate to Be
Given Away!
From March 10th to April 10th, 1833,
The Biscayne Bay Company
will absolutely give to any Applicant of
Good Character,
One Building Lot in The New Town, “Bis
cayne City,” on Beautiful Biscayne
Bay, East Coast, South Florida,
The company having decided for th.-
more rapid developmen of their property,
to give away every alternate lot on ili. ;
beautiful boulevards of that new city,
without consideration. Write at once to
Biscayne Bay Co., Tampa Fla.,
And make your application for a lot.
These lots are valuable now, and un
doubtedly will rapidly be enhanced.
Where can you find a better investment’.’
—one that costs you nothing', and by
which you gain a lot in the midst of the
most fertile and productive region on
the continent; and the best spot in the
world to build a winter home.
3