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10 PER CT. INCREASE. The Cotton Acreage Has Increased Alarmingly. Indications for a Fine Fruit Crop This Year. The first weather crop r.port of the | year is issued this morning by the weather bureau. Crop reports from nil but lour coun ties Clii.vi >n, Mclntosh, t'ido !i- and. Twiggs are incorporate I in ibc report, w hioli ■ a valuable guide to every sen •ible . riuer iu the state. | This is only the e.-ond year of the crop report idea, and the thorough ar ringeii/eiit of every detail speaks volumes tor Mr. Park Morrill and b- efficient! corps of nssislauls. • iya I'lie Constitu-1 tion Last year an effort was made be-, fore the legislature to get. the slate to, take » part-to lend u helping hand ns the department foiled it dillicull to j secure appropriations from congress to get the necessary printing done. I lie legislature paid but little attention to, the effort ol Mr. Morrill, as it doubtless, f illed to realize the good such a report does. In many states, however, this | lethargy does not exist, and appropna- j Hons are made to assist the weather bu reau especially where its work chimes in so closely with the people of the state. There are 450 crop reports in the con solidated reports, and throughout the entire state a splendid showing is made, and especially is one deplorable fact brought forward. The cotton acreage, instead of decreas ing, has increased, and the actual in crease is 10 per cent. The southern pa pers, and the northern ones, too for that matter, have attempted to show for the last two years where such an exist ing state of affairs would be harmful, and the danger signal was hung out. 'l’he farmer was told also not to take it for granted that every other num was going to cut down his cotton crop by half, and thus by jdanting more cotton than usual, be would make a pile of money. But it appears that each man was determined to take advantage of the cutting down in acreage of cotton, and the result is that a larger crop than ever before is anticipated. 'rhe cold kept the fruit trees from blooming so early, and the indications are that this will be a most prosperous year for fruit growers, and that there will be fruit in abundance. The truck farms were slightly damaged by the late frosts, but to no appreciable extent. All in all. everything is flourishing, and the outlook, except for those who planted cotton, is most encouraging. MR. MORRILL’S REPORT. With the opening of the growing son son in the northerly section of the state, the weekly issue of the weather crop bulletin of the Georgia weather service is resumed. We commence under the most encouraging conditions. Each of the 137 counties of the stnte is repre sented by one or more correspondents, with the exception of only sou ton. Mclntosh. I’ictens and Twigg* Already 4511 able gentlemen have signi fied their desire to co-operate in this «er vice, so I think we may feel sure of re deeming our promise to make the Georgia crop service second to none in the country. If we had the recognition of the legislature and the aid of the state in the way of better facilities for print ing and distributing reports as is con templated in a bill which awaits con sideration at the next session of the gen eral assembly. I think we could have a weather ami crop service in Georgia as good as the best. A large number of states have already taken action, ami it is beyond question that the advantages of such service nre greater in the south than in most sections At this time it may be well to make a brief explanation of the method uses! in the collection and compilation of these reports. Publie spirited persons who appreciate the advantage to farmers and to all honest business monos re liable information upon the condition of crops, have volunteered to furnish to this office a weekly report. As noted above 450 such gentlemen have signified their willingness to perform this duty. For more ready digestion of the great mass of information thus received, the state is divided into nine geographical districts, after the plan used by the postofliee department. As n rule crop conditions will be considered with ref erence to these sections. Oftimes the n port given for a section will differ from that made by any individual reporter. This divergance will be readily under stood by the latter upon remembering that the report is the average of some fifty reports. Sometimes, even in county reports, there will be similar divergence, especially in the case of very large coun ties. some of which contain eight or ten reporters. The unusual cold, since the beginning of the year, while having the effect of rendering the opening of the sea son a few days later than usual, is not without compensation. By hold ing back the buds of fruit trees until the sudden coming of really warm weath er. gives good assurance of the escape of serious damage by frost, a better prospect of a good yield of peaches, pears, apples and minor fruits was never had at this season. Other crops, also, while planted a little later than usual, will very likely attain a sturdier growth and more perfect development by reason of the favorable conditions under which they will germinate. The chief injury done by the cold seems to have been to the earlier sowing of oats, and to early vegetables and garden crops. Special inquiry was instituted for this report into the increase in the acreage of cotton. of which much has been said in the public press of late. It will, of course, be understood that tn the north ern sections of the state this is a pro posed rather than an actual increase at this time: and. perhaps, the publication of the deplorable fact that a consider able increase is certain, may lead some to wisely reconsider the matter before entering on a new experience of low priced cotton. The results arrived at are ns follows: There is an estimated in crease in cotton acreage in the north west section of 14 per cent.; northeast. 5 per cent: west. 10 per cent.: central. 11 per cent.: east, 11 per cent,; south west. 10 per cent.; south. 7 per cent.: southeast. 9 per cent. For the entire state the estimated in crease is 10 per cent. An encouraging feature is an accompanying slight in crease in the acreage of wheat and oats, except in the south and southeast dis tricts. The acreage of corn has also kept np to that of last year in the cen tral belt of the state, but elsewhere is diminished from sto 10 per cent. The increased consumption of guano seems to have been in part for use on corn as well as cotton. The weather of the nast week has been favorable to most farming operations. The rainfall has been confined to occa sional showers, which were very light except in the three southern seetipns. Although there is no serious need’ of rain, a few showers would be beneficial to sprouting seeds and tender plants in many northerly districts. For the first time this year the temperature is up to its normal point for the season. Corn planting is about finished except in the northern sections, and there it is well undir way on uplands. Cotton planting is well in hand ar southerly points. The reports of the condition of fruit orchards are universally encour aging. In the melon districts extensive -reparations have been made for the next crop. In several western counties much attention has been given to the setting of vines this spring, and some ex tensive vineyards will come into bearing thio year. The truck farmers of I 8 the southeast section report peas nearly ready for shipment. Except from some damage from late rains and cold to spring oats, the out crop iu iu u fair condition. Wheat Jins stood the cold rather better tlinn outs. If no lute frosts should come, the season of 181)3 will have opened most satisfactorily. EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS BY COUNTIES. Bartow—Farm work is ton days later Il in last season. Corn planting i* com uieneed on uplands. Cotton planting will begin this week. Wheal d outs are doing well, but are late. Some early plumed ••urn is np. < Turke The sermon i- bile. Very lit tle •i is up. mid nm all planted. Acre r.-e .'il.i.Ht ilie same f.r corn, h-ss for ■ •wing to ivei. weather, and slightly luvrc.i-od for cotton. Farmers show a si-oirg disposition to raise supplier. Franklin—Corn is about half planted; no cotton as yet. The fruit crop was injured by cold during March. Owing to the prb’o of cottiei seed every bushel that could be spared was sold, ami guano will b„ used in its place. I’uwctn Wo had a good rain on the 29ili, and the remainder of the week bus been ex, client for f irm Work. Farmers are a little behind. Upland corn is about all planted and some coming up. Colton planting commenced today Small griiui has a good stand and looks well. Bibb -The weather Ims been favorable for planting. C »r:t is coming up with the promise of good stands. Some have bi'gim planting cotton and melons. There will probably be n slight increase in the acreage of both those crops. Burke The Increased use of fertii zers is largely for corn, farmers having sold nearly nil their cotton seed. Corn planting is about completed, anti cotton planting begun. There is a fair pros pect for fruit. Cluy—Farming operations are well ad vanced; corn generally planted, and much of it up. Small grain is looking well. Farmers are turning their nttent'on to food crops and stock raising. Acreage of cotton is increased 5 per cent, over last year. Planting lias begun. Cotton seed was add and the proceeds invested in fertilizers. Brooks—While the acreage of cotton will be considerably increased, then is n greater interest in food crops. There is n large acreage of oats, rice and melons. Crops are in good growing con dition. Cotton planting is iu progress. • hatham--The latter part of the week has been beautiful growing weather. A sni.'ill amount of cot.ton is being planted. Food crops are increased 20 per cent. Irish potatoes are up six or eight inches, mid doing well; beaus up; peas nearly ready to ship. The cabbage crop is hot up to the general average. Atlanta, Ga., April 4, 1893. THE SOUTH CAROLINA WAY. Ilio Joint Debate In Postmaster Bissell’s < nio-. The News and Courier's account of the meeting of Senator Butler and ex Representatives Hemphill and Johnstone with Senator Irby and Congressmen Strait, Latimer and Talbert, is as fol lows: Washington, April 5. —(Special.)—There was a sensational discussion in the of fice of the postmaster genera) this after Jiopn between the rival political factions in South Carolina. As has been already stated in these dispatches, the president designated Postmaster General Bissell to act as arbitrator between the Tillman and anti-Tillmau factions in congress, who are hopelessly divided on the sub ject of federal patronage. A joint discussion of the subject, was arranged for this afternoon, and- the hearing took place in the office of the postmaster general. Senator Butler and ex-Representatives J. J. Hemphill and George Johnstone represented the con servatives or anti-Tillrnan faction, and Senator Irby, with Representatives-elect Strait. Latimer and Talbert represented the Tillmanites. Messrs. Strait and Latimer were charged with being third party men, and therefore not entitled to control the patronage in their respective districts. They protested, and asked to have an op portunity to face their accusers. As soon as the conference assembled the bad blood ou both sides began to boil vigo rously, and several times it appeared as though the rival leaders would come to blows. Senator Butler denounced Messrs. Strait. McLaurin and Latimer as third party men, and insisted that they bad no right, after their conduct previous to the nomination at Chicago, to claim re cognition as democrats. He then went into a long discussion of the local troubles in the state, aud indulged quite freely in personalities reflecting more or less upon the entire Tillman contingent. Ho was inspired by the fact that Governor Tillman has declared his intention to capture the seat now occupied by Sen ator Butler in the senate. Senator Irby took the floor, and was equally as vigorous in his attack upon Butler and the faction he represents. He said that only Butler's age and infirmi ties prevented him from responding in a more appropriate manner to the state ments that he (Butler) had just made. Postmaster General Bissell was fre quently called upon to restrain the im petuous South Carolinians, for they evi dently imagined they were on the stump at home engaged in one of the joint de bates which rendered their last cam paign notorious. Senator Irby called attention to the fact that he had been informed that Sen ator Butler stated that be intended to attend the conference then in session with a pistol and a walking stick. That charge was afterwards proved to be in correct. For more than an hour there was cross firing from both sides, and Postmaster General Bissell found it difficult to de termine which side had the better of the argument. Personalities flew thick and fast from one side to the other, and the dramatic climax was reached when Senator Irby declared that he was re sponsible for every statement he made, "here and elsewhere.” Ex-Representatives Hemphill and Johnstohe. who were defeated by Messrs Strait and Latimer, took part in the dis cussion, and proceeded to show that their successors were not pure democrats. In their reply Messrs. Strait and Latimer declared that they were elected on the same ticket with Cleveland and Steven son. and were voted for by their oppo nents at the primaries. It was the intention of the president and the postmaster general to bring about a reconciliation between the con tending factions, but today’s proceed ings widened the breach, and it is diffi cult to tell what the outcome will be. A stenographic report of the speeches was made, and when the speeches are writ ten out they will be submitted to the president for final decision. R. M. L. Make a note of It—Twenty-five cents buvs the best liniment out. Salvation Oil. THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, APRIL 12, 1893. FARM AND HOME. "Don’t tell me or tomorrow Give me the man who'll Bay That when a good deed's to be done, Let’s do the deed todayl We may command the present, If we act und never wait, But repentance is the phantom Os the past that comes too late,” COW PEAS. The cow pea has been termed the south ern clover as a renovator of the soil. Like the clover It draws from the atmosphere a large proportion of the elements re quired in Its production, and does not ex haust the soil like the cereals, tobacco, cotton, and those plants whose production can only be iiiulntalucd by a continuous application of manure. Since the war mil lions of dollars have been spent by Geor gia farmers for commercial fertilizers that In DIOS' eases tthe good they were ’o do never materialized) left the soil Iu u poorer condition than before their appli cation. They Impau'd no humus or veget able matter to the soil but exhausted v but little there was already In. Had their use been accompanied by peas as a reno vator to Impart vegetable matter, with a Judicious rotation of crops, the land In stead of being Impoverished would have In creased iu fertility. Forty years ago there were lauds In Maryland and Vir ginia, as poor as any In Georgia, that would not produce three bushels of wheat to the acre, but now produce thirty and forty bushels to the acre, and their fertil ity has been developed by clover uud prop er rotation of crops. Mr. P. J. Berekmans, In an essay on cow peus, read at the Agricultural Conven tion In Milledgeville, In 1877, refers to this plant as a renovator of the soil In the following language: “When, for a succession of years, the plants of the exhausting class have been cultivated upon the same soil. It becomes impoverished In the elements necessary to their production. If we plant corn after and oats after corn, It Is only a question of time, after this system has been practiced for some years, to find our crops dw.ndled down to small proportion*. To remedy this, and return to the soli the elements required to perfect grain or cotton crops, we have the cow pea as a renovator and nourishing plant tor our exhausted soli. Even if we are unwilling to return to mother earth n portion of the elements of fertility she has been robbed of In producing our cereals, by plow ing In a whole crop of pea vines, we will find that the roots which rema.n after the -re moval of Ihe crop have returned a con siderable portion of potash to it; and by following a regular system of rotation from grain to cotton, and from cotton to peas, our lauds will retain the necessary elements of fertl. ty with little loss." “Aside from the value of the cow pea as a renovator of soils, when used by it self, it is the most valuable plant we have In producing manure—making mate rial. We need ammonia in our lands; this cannot be produced by using green plants us a crop for plowing .n, but we have It in the manure produced by our cotton. We have been too much dependent upon commercial fertilizers containing ammonia and forgett.ng that the fertilizer Is pro duced by cattle fed upon grain and hay. Too little hay Is produced to feed cattle during winter, thus losing the recuperating elements of abundant supply of stable manure, not mention.ng the barren re sults of Illy fed and l.ly sheltered stock. With the cultivation of hay producing plants in sufflc.ent quantities, we gain an ainp.e supply of nourishing food for our stock, an abundance of fertlliz.ng material from the manure derived from their winter feeding, all the element required to keep our soil In good producing capacity and the satisfaction of being freed from the shameful necessity of depending upon Maine and Vermont for the food of bar stock." HORTICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE. Orleanders, which at oue time could be had of the rose color only, now exist In very many varieties, besides In both single and double forms. Requiring but cellar room In winter they are deservedly popular. After attaining a year or two’s growth they can be relied ou to bloom every summer thereafter. The Best Pear. —The Bartlett pear is the best of all for general use, and pays growers for market the best of all. Its white flesh when used for preserving is very much in Its favor. Those who like a bright red colored preserve think a good .deal of the Lawrence as the say it can hardly be told from the quince. Japanese Anemones are unsurpassed for fine display iu the lute fall months. There are purple, white and other colors, allowing of their blendlug in a bed to good advantage. The plants like a deep, moist soil. Should the place they occupy be wanted for the planting of bulbs they may- be dug up and housed iu the cellar until t\e spring. Give Them Air.—Plants recently taken to cellars for the winter need ail the air they can get now. There Is decay of the foli age, and the moisture from them tends to breed fungus ou unripe wood. A great many old leaves ou the plants can be cut oft to advantage. Without air partly ripened wood will rot. This is noticeable in hydrangeas, which often lose their wood in damp cellars when first housed. A Mistake.—A writer In a floral maga zine says that public opinion has decided that the woodo f the cross was made of a species of holly, di ex vertlcillata. As this is the deciduous holly of our swamps, a shrub, which bears bright scarlet berries in the fall, aud which is known as swamp alder, either public opinion or the corres pondent will have to try again. Window Flowers.—lt is very- often the case that flowering plants in windows are set there that they may afford a pleasing picture to passers by. In this case the plant’s should not be turned around occa sionally as they should be where the in side picture is of the most consequence- Turning the pot around halt way, presents the plants showing too much to one side. Young Pansy Plants can be left out of doors all winter if they are not wanted for winter blooming. Even It they are they can be left out and lifted and potted towards spring. The slightest covering of forest leaves Is sufficient in winter, in deed were it not that frost Is apt to trow them out of the ground towards spring no covering would be required. The Residue of Wine Grapes.—ln the wine making districts of France the resi due of the grapes after being pressed is preserved in cement cisterns for cattle feeding. A little salt is added to It, form ing a mass which cattle relish very much. We arc less economical in these matters than Europeans are, but as wine making is getting to be such a large industry with us, what to do with the refuse may be worth considering. GREEN SEEDS AND EARLY FRUIT. Correspondents of Garden and Forest re mark upon rhe evidence afforded by re cent experiments that seeds from Imma ture fruit will give a product requiting less than the usual time to ripen, and that the earliuess thus gained can be Increased by continuing the selection. This has been ob served. according to Dr. E. Lewis Sturte vant, at the New York Experiment Sta tion, in the varieties of corn, turnip aud cabbage. At Purdue University, Indiana, a gain of from fifteen to twenty days has been obtained by early selection. Prof. Arthur, of Purdue University, has ob served further that the plant as well as the fruit thus cultivated tends to early ripeness, and hence the period of frultful- ncR«, or the time between the first and the last ripe fruit, is much shortened. With the Increase In amount of fruit, according to Prof. Arthur, there is also a correspond ing decrease In the size of the vegetable parts of the plant—that Is. the stems aud foliage. A tomato plant grown from green seed Iu the fourth generation was found to bear three and a fourth times as much fruit us top or stems and leaves together, while a similar plant from ripe seed had only one and an eighth times as much fruit as tops. It follows that, while earli nes* may be considered ns a usual condi tion In all crops from unripe seed, an In crease In the amount of the crop occurs only when the true fruit Is the pint har vested, us In fomutoen nnd pm*, and a de crease In the nniOimt of the crops wtieu any part licslde* the fruit Is bui vi -ted, as in turnips ami potatoes.—Popular Science Monthly. TO GET AT THE FACTS. Regarding Hood'* Sarsaparilla, ask the people who take the medicine, or read the testimonials often published in this paper. They will certainly convince you that flood’s Sarsaparilla possesses unequalled merit, and tl.at Mood’s cures. Hood’s Pills cure constipation by re storing the appetite action of the ali mentary canal. They are the best family cathartic. MEWS FROM LEXINGTON. The Blue Granite Company Reorganized— Farm Work in Oglethorpe, Lexington, Ga., April 6.—The Lexing ton Blue Granite Company was reor ganized on Saturday last at a meeting of the stockholders in Athens, Ga. Col. John 11. Winder, the superintendent of the Georgia, Carolina aud Northern railroad was elected president of the company. Official tests at Washington City praise this granite to be the best in the United States. Rev. I). L. Anderson, a missionary to China ami who is now on a visit to Georgia has been in Lexington since Sntiirady last. He preached at the Methodist church here on Sunday morn ing and at night at the same church gave an interesting and entertaining talk on China and missionary works in China. He has two very bright ami hinqlsome little sous with him. He preached hero tonight. lie is a son of Mr. J. H. An derson who lived a number of years in Augusta and is no doubt well known in your city. The Lexington Skating Club had a brilliant carnival at their hall on Friday night lust. The costumes were decided ly attractive, and the hull was filled to overflowing and every availbte place occupied by spectators. Quite a lot of business was disposed of in the Court of Ordinary here on Monday last. The County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday despatched much country business. The pauper farm, under their supervision is well managed and is almost self-sustaining and costs the county very little to take cure of the paupers. The farm has over three hun dred acres of land and is well improved. 'i’he only property sold on Tuesday was the lands of the estate of the late W. B. Brightwell. Almost all of it was wild lands scattered in different parts of Georgia, and it sold very low, inas much as very few care to own these hinds which are generally involved in litigation and desperate titles . Farmers here on Tuesday report large acreages in wheat, outs and corn in this county. Oglethorpe is doing its best to raise its own supplies. Large crops of grain were raised here hist year and the hog crops very much increased, and the result now is that less corn and meat have been bought in this county this year than any year since the war. The farmers are well up with their werk, although they were compelled by wet and cold weather to be late in com mencing work on their lands. The County Alliance will meet here ou Wednesday next. Their purpose is tc reorganize in its first fundamental principles, and let politics alone. They wish now to got the people interested in agriculture and the best plans of sus taining themselves ami improving their condition. Our big farmer. Col. James M. Smith. sustained quite a loss a few days ago in having a large number of excellent outbuildings burned. His loss is $2,000 or more dollars. The fire was accidental. OGLETHORPE. A $2,500,000 COTTON MILL. A Big Cotton Factory Soon to Be Erected in New Orleans. New Orleans. April 7.—lt is rumored, and the rumor is believed by responsible parties to be based upon substantial facts, that New Orleans is soon to pos sess another cotton factory. The report is to the effect that the plant will be a very large one and that the immense sum of $2,500,000 is to be invested iu the enterprise. Very naturally the people interested i in so important and considerable an un dertaking are not prepared to speak of their plans until all their arrangements have been perfected and the site for the factory secured, but there arc excellent indications that efforts to procure the necessary site are being made. Another cotton mill of the proportions that so large an investment, of capital would warrant would be a great addi tion to the manufacturing facilities of this city and would afford employment to a large number of people, besides add ing substantially to the consumption of Southern cotton in the South itself. For some time past it has been rumor ed that certain New England cotton manufacturers were considering the ad visability of establishing plants in New Orleans, because of the facilities possess ed by this city for securing cheap sup plies of raw cotton and for shipping the manufactured cotton cloth. The new en terprise referred to. however, is believed to be mainly backed by local capitalists. SCHOONER GROUNDED. Washington, April 11.—Superintendent Kimball, of the life saving service, has received a telegram from the keeper of False Cape station. Virginia. stating that the schooner Charles E. Balch, of New York, bound for Norfolk, came ashore at that point this monring. The crew of nine men are still on board the vessel, which is in good condition, the wind strong aud the sea running high. JOHNSON CRASS AND Alelilotxi© ©eccl. We have a good supply of choice, well cleaned Johnson Grass and Melilotus Seed for sale. Correspondence solicited. C. YOUNG & BRO., Selma, Ala. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report. SHADOW ON THE SUN. “■ '■ The Wonders of a Total Eclipse Will Be Visible April 16. Extensive Preparations are Beinff Made for Photographing the Beautiful Corona. Astronomers, on Their Way to Southern Countries to Obtain a Good View. Princeton, N. J.. April 10.—Just now the interest for astronomers is very much taken up with the total eclipse of the sun, which is to occur on April 10. The shadow which, like a long black tail, extends nearly 250,<M)0 miles beyond the moon, will then brush its tip across the face of mother earth, first touching the I’aeifie ocean off the coast of Chili, traversing the whole w’dtii of South America, crossing the Atlantic, ami finally leaving the globe in the middle of the "Dark Continent.” Wherever it touches there will boa circle of dark ness, varying in width from 80 to 120 miles, and it will move with a speed exceeding that of a cannon ball, occupy ing from three minutes to four aud three' quarters in passing over any spot which is upon the centre of its track. The fortunate observers so situated will, it the weather is clear, witness the wonders of a total eclipse. The moon will appear to first strike tie surface of the sun. und little by little will encroach upon it until the whole oi the blazing, disk is covered. Then, while the shadow is passing the scarlet chro mosphere, the so-called “prominences, and above all the mysterious corona, the most beautiful of all celestial ob jects will become visible for a fewt brie, moments, until the sunlight again bursts forth. On such occasions the exact moments when the moon’s edge first touches anu finally leaves the sun,- and when "totali ty” begins and ends, are carefully noted, since .such observations, made at known stations, are of great value iu deter mining the moon’s place and motion. But at present still greater interest attaches to the "astro-physical” observations which are possible only during the few seconds of total obscuration —observa- tions with tsp i-troscopes. photometers, polariscopes, and especially with photo graphic apparatus of various kinds. With the spectroscope the will try to study the peculiar phenomena which accompany the beginning and close of totality, when for an instant the fa miliar dark-lined .spectrum of the sun is transformed, and is filled with line* that are bright instead of dark; lines which, thoroughly observed and identi fied. would yield a most instructive recora of the constitution of the solar surface, and settle instantly a long docket of disputed questions. But the visual observations are nec essarily hurried and difficult, and afford great scope for personal bias; if the pho tographic plate can be made to registe* the fleeting facts—and the attempt w> be made on this occasion with better prospects of success than ever before— then the record, if less complete than that, given by ocular observations, will be more certain and trustworthy. Hith erto, it is true, photography has not been very successful in dealing with this ph nomenon, but since the last attempt the instruments and plates which are to be used have been greatly improved. During the three or ftfur minutes be tween* the critical instants at the be ginning anil ending of the totality, the spectroscopists will be busy with the prominences and the eOrona, seeking to utilize the advantageous circumstances to obtain some new information as to their constitution and physical condition, and in this deliberate work there is no question that photography will be most successfully employed. There are a number of problems con nected with the absolute and relative brightness of the different parts of the corona, aud polarization of it’s light, am.' these will occupy the photometers anu polariscopee. But the most prominent part by sat in the observation of the eclipse will b, taken by photography. As already in dicated, many of the spectroscopes wi! work photographically; but besides this there will be a multitude of cameras ot various construction designed to obtain pictures of the corona and prominences; Some of them use reflecting telescopes, some refracting telescopes of the ordi nary construction, nnd soimf are large cameras, with specially constructed com binations of lenses. Some of them employ plates sensitive only to the invisible vio let ultra rays which are peculiarly abun dant in the light of the corona, while others will use iso-chroma tic plates, giving a picture more nearly resembling what Is seen by the human eye. At present the study of the corona consti tutes distinctly the main object of eclipse observations, because the phenom enon in itself Is so beautiful nnd wonder ful, *S so imperfectly understood, and be cause, while other solar phenomena are at all times more or less accessible to mod ern methods of observation, this alone can be observed only while the sun is hidden by the moon. A large number of parties are now on their way to observe the eclipse at var- I ions points in South America aud As ! riea. There is no government expedition from the United States, but two small parties go from this country to Chili, one of them is under the charge of Prof. Schaeberle, of the Lick Observatory, and takes an outfit almost wholly pho tographic. devoted entirely to the' study of the corona.’ The observations are to be made fifty or' sixty miles inland and at an elevation of 4,000 or 5.000 feet, so as to avoid the haze which in the early morning usually envelopes the coast in this season of the year. Another party, hailing from Harvard observatory, is iu charge of Mr. Bailey, who has had a long experience in astronomical photog raphy in California nnd Perue. It is quite possible that his party may be ; joined by Prof. IV. H. Pickering (broth ; er of the . director of the Cambridge ob servatory.) from Arequipa, where the new Boyden Fund observatory is being erected. The writer does not know cer tainly of any other parties which will observe in Chili, though it is under stood that the Chilian government has taken measures to secure observations. Mr. Thome, the successor of Dr. Gould in the directorship of the National ob servatory of the Argentine Republic at Cordova, will occupy a station at Ros ario de la Froutora. a little northeast of Tucuman So fa' - us we can learn there will be no other observers in nil the in terior of the vast continent; the <M>u iry is iuii'-'oesslble, ami the weather <ondi lions are unfavorable. Ou the Atlautie coast, where the eclipse track passea into the ocean not far from Ceara, tlieti will b<- at I’ar.-i ('lira a thoroughly equip pod party of Lnglisli observers under the charge of A. Taylor, who. ns I’rof. Lock- 1 .ver's assistant at South Keusiug tou. has had an cxiensive experience iu spectrum pliotography. Jlic Brazilian National Observatory of Rio Janeiro is also expected to send a party to that neighborhood, nnd the Brazilian government has offered to put n gunboat at. the disposal of foreign as tronomers who may wish to reach .he station from Pernambuco. It has been reporti-d that Prof. 11. S. St. Louis would take a small pprty to this station, but we have seen no sUi e meiit that he has actually gone. At Para Cura the eclipse wilt nnve a dura tion of four minutes aud forty-four sec onds—unusually long—with the sun nearly overhead; but the weather pros pects are rather doubtful, as April is in the rainy season. The line of total eclipse after crossing the Atlantic strikes the African const at Senegambiti, «l little south of Cape Verde. More two large parities, one French and one English, will be esta r lished. The French party, sent out by the bureau des longitudes under H" charge of M. Deslandres and M. Bigour dan. will be on the coast very near .loal. Count de In Baume Plnvinel will aho have a small private party in the vicinity. Their observations will be botn spectroscopic and photgraphic. The English party, in charge of Prof. Thorpe, will ascend the Salem river for some distance in a gunboat to a place called Fundium. a station put at their disposal by the French governraeno This party is the largest nnd most per fectly equipped of all that have coni" to our knowledge. It consists of four principal observers, all of them men or eclipse experience, with a number o. assistants, aud they take with them a verv complete outfit of appajatus. in cluding photometers and polariscopes, a* l well as spectroscopes and camera< me chances of fine weather are regarded as almost amounting to certainty, and the duration of the eclipse will be about four minutes eight seconds. There is everv reason therefore to hope tor teresting and important results from African parties. 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