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4 Tie Augusta Ctaide. Published Every Day in the Year. ESTABLISHED 1785. THE CimONTCLE will bn delivered by carrier nr by mall at the following rater Ono Week » 20 Ono .Monti „ J l6 I Three Month 2 Six Month.. .J® Ono Year .. .. .. 10 00 Sunday Chronic’ll* One Year 2 J 1 ® Weekly Chronlnle One Year 1 w [ ADVERTISING RATES. Ordinary ndverllHeiurnl.i. !•> centa per line; Special. 12 1-2 centa per line; Atnnav- i incut* anil Auction Salos, 15 etinla per Hue; Rualneaa Noflcaa, 20 centa per line; Double Column Advertisements, nn<! Ad vertisements requiring apeelal poultlon*, ; will bo charged 25 per cent, itildlt lone!. Special copi -H gent true. Address nil communication* to THE CHRONICLE, AUGUSTA, GA. PATRICK WALSH, President. Mr. S. B. Vreeland is the special adver- ' lining agent of The Augusta Chronicle— , Office, 150 Nassau street, New York. Al . advertising burlneaa in the Middle ami New England States will be managed by him. The DuehosH of Veragua w;u Queen of the May. Savannah always makes May week a , most interesting period. The new Liberty Bell will be the greatest mix lure of the age. The President has returned and is doing business nt the same old stand. A glance at the World’s Fair buildings will show that the American flag is on ' top. It is by no means too early to begin ■ speaking a good word for the coming j exposition. If you tiliiuk the Nine are no longer in-1 npiriug. just listen a minute to the base-; ball crunk Among the endearing terms for her husband, does the Countess of Craven “call him Early?” '['he new Cnnardw, t'anipanui, has broken the nwril of all maiden trips. She promises to lie very fast. The war vessels have recovered from their dissipation and one by one are slipping out of New. York harbor. The Mississippi is on a liootn, but it is needlees to say that, the value of real oslaito is not enhanced by Lite rise. Il is a pity that Paderewski shouldn’t have been satisfied at having ent his hair without cutting the World's Fair direc tors. Unless the variegated eilitbr of The Morning Advertiser is a political Unita rian he had better be thinking of bow to mend his ways. The Vassar girls are to present “Anti gone” iti Greek, but fortunately Artigone has a previous engagement with anti quity, and can't, attend. There is a probability that the glass bottle mnnufimt.urers will form a trust, but it is hoped that the people will see through it and turn it. down. / AH Europe is said to lie laughing at the Kaiser’s having blessed the I’qpe on taking leave of His Holiness. It was like serenading Verdi with a Jew’s harp. Governor Northen is for Georgia's in dustrial advajitage first, last ami all the time. His contribution to the Columbia Liberty Bell is iron ore from Georgia mines. Paris has an insurance company that refuses to issue policies on the lives of any people who use hair dye. They very naturally suppose that It dying man will soon be dead. Near Tranquebar, on the southeastern const of India, fherf* is a species of fish which not only is able to walk on level ground but can elitnb trees. Who will go us one bettor? Mr. McKinley will speak in Boston on “The Future of the Ilepulilie.au Party.” but unless the speech is much brighter than tlie future, how the Lord who "giveth His beloved sleep" will bless that congregation! Speaking of the corruption of the Illi nois Babylon, Mr. Ingalls says, “If the authorities do not know these conditions they are alone in their ignorance. The only alternative is between collusion and imbecility.” Mr. Ingalls evidently got in with the boys. Rose Hartwick Thorpe will be sur prised to learn from The Courier-Jour nal's answer to a correspondent that "the author of 'Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight’ is not known.” The Courier- Journal's Bureau of Misinformation seems to be flourishing. Ilortensius, the Roman ova tor, had a memory so wonderful that, on a wager, he spent a whole day at an auction and at night repeated all the sales, the prices and the names of the buyers. But he never attempted to memorize the slang which belongs to one game of baseball. A French newspaper a tributes the origin of the word “restaurant” to the humor of a Parisian innkeeper, who dis played a sign bearing the invitation in Latin: “Come all ye hungry and I will restore you” (restaurabo vos). Wrong. Bayard Taylor gave it correctly: Res, a thing; taurus, a bull; hence a bully thing. _____ Some very amusing things occur. One of the latest is to the effect that Camille ITaminarion. the great French writer and astronomer, stole his “Omega, or the End of the World,” from reporters of the New York World. The authority could no doubt prove that Harvey stole his theory of the circulation of the blood from the subscription list of the same paper. “This is a funny, funny World.” 1 Gen. Hampton’s Appointment. I Captain M. P. Carroll Introduced res lolntions at the meeting of the Confed erate Survivors Association of Augusta yesterday congratulating Gen. Wade Humpton on Ids appointment by Presi dent Cleveland us Railroad Commis sioner. Os all ihe appointments made by President Cleveland the one nearest to the hearts of the Southern people is that 'of Wade Hampton, lie is the one man . who represents in bls character the highest ideal of the Southern gentleman | and who svniboliz.es the most exalted | type of the Confederate soldier. Gen. I Hampton was a great soldier and no living Confederate stands higher in the affection and esteem of the Southern people. Who Is Responsible? It is it favorite trick of the republi- I can editor to muddy the waters arid j cloud the issues before the people so lliut in the general discussion of existing trouble the public will lose sight of who ; is responsible for the trouble. A great | hue and cry is just now being made | over the financial problem which con- I fronts the administration, and anyone not acquainted with the facts would ! suppose from the cool effrontery of they republican editors that, the democratic i party had brought all this trouble on ' the country, and the people were al- I ready repenting their folly in putting I the democrats in power, and were just eager for the time to come when they can reverse their verdict. It is well enough however as we go along to remind the people that when the democrats went out of power four years ago they turned over to President Har rison not oulv the $100,000,000 of gold reserve, but. in round numbers another $100,0004)00 of surnlus. and that it was during only four years of republican extravagance that nil this surplus was swept; awav and the treasury bank runted. It is well enough to remind the public that the present embarrassments are not of democratic making, but the adminis tration is simply contending with the situation which they found on resuming the government which four years ago they left in such splendid financial con dition. And lastly it is only just to remind the public that the silver purchasing act which is creating all this trouble bears the name of Senator Sherman, the great apostle of republican financier ing, and is not a democratic measure. President Cleveland's administration will smooth out matters just as rapidly as possible, and in the meantime just let the anxious sit steady in the boat, remembering that the troubled waters through which they are passing were found by the republican helmsman and not our’s. Open the Way. There are a variety of interests in volved liti itibe proposition now under j consideration by the grand jury to iur-; prove and widen the old water way i known ns Beaver Dam ditch, extending' southward from the city to the swamps' below. The matter has been brought' to the attention of the grand jury by a number of citizens interested in the I public roads and Ihe farming lands of that part of the county. The city hat ■ a partial interest in it also as a channel i for the discharge of freshet, water that in the present and past condition of; things fills and overflows the ditches along Gwinnett street, overflowing the] eastern corner of the Commons, and eventually floods the county road knowni as Foster's lane* and renders that thor- i oughfare impassable for many days ati a time. The county authorities have expended a good deal of labor and ms-; tori al from time to time in keeping Fos ter's lane in order, which may be saved hereafter if the Beaver Dam ditch is kept open. We are informed that the grand jury is giving favorable consideration to the work. It is regarded as a proper un dertaking for the county authorities t.c be accomplished chiefly by the labor of the convicts and involving no extra ex pense or special appropriation. At such times as the labor can be snared from the road work they' can be put upon this. We are further informed that the city; will lend a hand in it and will pay tb« expenses of a supervising engineer be sides furnishing a portion of the labor. If all interests combine, as it now seems they will, the work can be mainly done this summer. His honor. Judge Eve, who has done so much in the way of improvement to roads and thoroughfares in Richmond county will give groat, sat isfaction to the citizens of that section by taking care of the freshet water that now floods all the public and private roads leading to the fertile farms south of Augusta. Valuable to Augusta. The placing of the entire line of the Port Royal road under control of Re ceiver Averill, both the Port Royal and the Western Carolina ends, and operat ing it as an indepondont road in the best interest of its owners and patrons means a great deal for Port Royal, for Augusta and for the railroad. It was a great mistake when the people of Augusta lost the active ser vice and of this line. Had it ' been operated from the beginning in the I nO<>rewt nV thllt pm-t !”*d th" emitribu tary territory, as we believe it is going to be in the future, Augusta would to day show the same splendid advance ment commercially that it does in man ufacturing development. That port and railroad operated in connection with the I Georgia railroad and its connections 1 would have commanded a great volume THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE. MAY 3, 1893. of biwluess in Georgia, Alabama. Caro lina and Tennessee and lieyoud, and Augusta would have .been Abe commer cial centre of it all. We in a measure slept over our opportunities, and have lout some good years in the development of our ci(y as u commercial centra; but It is not too late to make amends, and we believe we are at U>c beginning of » new era of development. Pont Royal itself has some assurances of development which were lacking when the railroad was first built, and has fa vorably attracted the attention of the government sufficiently to have estate lished there huge dry docks for over hauling the government's ships. It will also probably become an important coal ing station, and the more its superb natural harbor is used the more atten. tiou will be attracted to its great ad vantages and the greater will be the development. In addition to these things in its favor the town of Port Royal now has actively interested in its development men who can command auy amount of money that can be used advantageously for that purpose; ami in addition to all this both the town of Port Royal, the Port Royal railroad, and the City of Augusta have had the lienefit of u great deal of experience pvhieh will prevent bad mistakes in the future. The court was fortunate in the selec tion of Col. J. H. Averill <as receiver for the line, for he will bring to the operation of the road wide experience and recognized ability ns G practical railroad manager. We believe that schedules will be established on the road which are convenient 4 and useful to the patrons of the line, rather than such as are a nuisance to the people | living along it, and are operated only for the convenience of the Central rail- ; road's through sleeper to Asheville, and to discourage instead of inducing Port Royal traffic. We believe that a day of renewed life is dawning for the Port Royal railroad and for Port Royal ami Augusta will come in for a liberal share of the new prosperity. The Country is Safe. The New York linkers are making a hard fight to force the government to j issue bonds. Their position, whether avowedly so or not, is numifestly one of cold-blooded business, and not patriotic sentiment. They are "out for the stuff so to speak, and don’t care how much 1 they embarrass the government so they ; can force the secretary of the treasury to give them interest bearing govern tueut bonds for their non-interest bear ing gold. Then too, it is evident that the national banks are initerewted in the bond issue, for the declared policy of the Democratic party is against national banks, and whale tho issue of more bonds does not necessarily mean the prolonging of the life of the national j banks, it is u< vertlieless an unmistak able leverage. They tit* least occupy ; the position of parties who have every thing to gain and nothing to lose bj the issue o£ bonds. The action of Secretary Carlisle in paying out of the $100,000,0(t0 gold re serve, and ordering the continuance of this policy has been a serious blow to the bankers who were trying to force the issue of bonds. They had confl- I deutly hoped that when they exlialisted the free gold in the treasury, over and above the hundred millions reserve, the government would issue bonds, but now that the administration (has declared that it will puy out the hundred millions too, if necessary, it makes the contract , for coercing the government one of very i much larger dimensions. It is a matter of interest to note the diverse views which are entertained on this subject. They probably grow out. j of the fact that the question of national iiuanee is a subject which uo<t five men in a hundred have studied sufficiently to know anything about; and those five have studied it, like most people study the Bible—to fit it to their already ac cepted creed, instead of studying it to get at the truth, and then let their pre conceived thi'ories stand or fall accord ing as they measure up to the truth. But all the editors do not come in the five per cent, who have studied finance even to make it fit and accepted theory, ; and as the ninety-five per cent have as ■ much right to air their views as the five ' per cent, it is not to be wondered that some are unique and many are diverse. Lot us note a few, leaving the public to say whether they come within the elect ; five per cent., or the great majority, j The St. Louis Globe-Democrat says; “Wall street will be unable to force bond sales yet. In fact, when bonds are sold Wall street ought not. to get a chance at them. They should be sold in Europe, so us to bring gold from that section, or to keep gold here which would otherwise go to that section.” The New York Evening Post says: "One of the prevailing ami wide spread fallacies of the day is the idea that if the government sells bonds now to replenish its gold supply, it must sell them abroad in order to accomplish the object. Those who hold this doctrine do not mention the existence of any ap paratus to prevent the bonds so sold abroad from coming back by the next steamer, as they surely would if the market were one-half per cent, 'better here than there. Nor do they propose any such apparatus as. for example, a law prohibiting the importation of United Stiles bonds sold abroad, prior to their maturity. Every other kind of security goes back and forth with the utmost freedom. The arbitrage brokers live by that trade. The mere statement of the case shows how absurd is the notion that the place where the bonds are sold is of any importance." The New York Tribune quotes “a well known banker" as saying: "There have been government bonds negotiated abroad in such away as to prevent their immediate precipitation back upon us, in case the price rose here and what was done once may be done again. Secretary Sherman sold ; Itonds almost, payable in monthly instal j mentis. Upon each payment to the agent of the United States abroad the amount wa« nt once credited to the truasuiy, i but the liondai were not delivered to I the purchaser until the installments , were all paid, any, not for ten or twelve month. In fact, when Secrtary Foster was considering the subject <>f an issue of bonds, arrangepient.s had been made for the artabH"hmeut of a foreign credit, and if the issue hud been made $lO,- 000,000 gold would have been brought at once to this country from abroad.” The Springfield (Mass.) Republican aayg; “Either those bankers should stop their talk about the dire financial evils that threaten them from the depletion of the government's gold reserves or they should begin to supply a little of the metal for export themselves. It is their business to do this quite as much as it is the governments. But they have refused to pay out gold for the i efiecks and government currency pre -1 sented by the exportetw and so driven I the latter to tho subtreasury. And now they seek to force the administration into a bond issue.” The Washington Post says: "It is highly probable, however, that the government will be able to pull through, not only without the aid of Wall street, but in spite of it. It would be more than gratifying to be assured that the secretary of the treasury can get along without dickers of any Hott with the liankers of Wall street, or the bankers of anywhere else. So great a government as this, with unlimited ccedit, with practically ineiihnustable resources, with gold enough already in the treasury to much more than meet any demands that are likely to be made upon it. is ciTtaiidy in no danger of bankruptcy. Nor is it read'ly conceiv able that any necessity exists for ap pealing to the patriotism of the people to come t<> the rescue." A local financier of wide experience to whom wc talked on this subject, ad vanced the following: .“I take little stock in all this alleged scare of government bankruptcy. There is SI(H),(MX)JMIO of gold in the treasury subject to any demand* on the govern ment, and it cannot be gotten out ex cept on the presentation of sl<Kl.<hmi,(MK'i of claims on the government which are redeemable in gold. Who has these hundred millions of securities to pre sent at once, or in an alarmingly short time? It will take a long time to pro duce them, and before that time can ar rive congress will have convened and ended nil the trouble by repealing the Sherman law.” We leave this interesting batch of opinions with our readers to pay their money and take their choice. In the meantime we again advise them to sjt steady in the boat, and rest satisfied in the belief that the country, is safe until there is better reason to believe to the contrary than has yet been advanced by the Ingalls on Blaine. The syndicate letters which the Hon. John James Ingalls is now furnishing tire among the very best work of the or ignisl! staitesman out of a job." He is a close observer of men, a shrewd critic and a most entertaining writer Among the most interesting of his let ters is his recent review of the careen and character of Blaine. Mr. Ingalls thinks the decadence. of the Republican part} - liegan with the Blaine and Conkling acrimonious delxite in Congress, or as he more picturesquely exuresses it: The duel in the House between Blaine and Colliding will have no place in our annals, except l»s a nfeturesque and eii tertaming incident., but it. was the head waters of the Mississippi of our woes Blaine could not resist, the temptation to satarize the turkey-gobbler .strut ano the Hyperian curl of Conkling. It was an amusing thrust, but it was never for gotten or forgiven. It aroused the inex ora.blo Toseiitmeiit of a haughty, sensi tive and implacable spirit. The joke was not bad. but it was expensive. Il cost Blaine the presidency. But forth fatal jest be would have bt-en nominated in INTO. He was defeatist by the indom itable hoiitil'.ty of Conklhig and his friends. Senator Ingalls does not. regard Blaine ns a great statesman or a great orator. He declares, “his parfiamentary orbit was meteoric rather than planetary,” and that his marvellous hold on men was due to that undefinable characteristic which is cflled personal magnetism. He says: On the platform or the "stump" he was irresistible. He carried his audiences not by logic or highly wrought rhetorical periods, but by the indescribable aim pervasive magic of his personality. His triumphs were more like those of a great singer or popular actor, due t«. his own attributes and faculties, and the responsive sensibilities of his hearers, more than to his theme or its treatment. These cannot be transmitted to posteri ty. The types cannot record them. They perish and disappear with the occasion of their origin. We read the orations of Webster, find can understand why he is great. The verdict of mankind is inrell-igible. bur we follow the reported speeches of Pitt and Clay with disappointment. They de not account for the infatuation of their worshippers. They seem common place in sentiment and construction. The dis ' erepaincy is irreconcilable. The spell is absent. The charm has vanished. Tim ; wand of the enchanter is broken. And ' *o the reported utterances of Blaine will ■not convey to posterity an adequate impression. They will not explain his relations to the constituencies he repre sented, the audiences he swayed, the con ventions he controlled, and to the party of which he was so long the uncrowned king. It was not ns an orator that Blaine triumphed especially, but along the rush line of debate. In d free for all parlia mentary or political scrimmage he was at his best. Mr. Ingalls says: “He seldom made formal speeches, and those were not remarkably effective, but ; he was a debater of unrivalled force alertness and power. In the sharp hand-to-hand contests of the House and ; Senate he never had a superior.” In searching for the quality which made Blaine Mr. Ingalls does not find it in his capacity or his record as a legislator, for Ite says: "As a constructive legislator his name ! is not inseparably associated with any of the great measures of finance and re construction during his service in Con gress. He had no capacity for items nor for plodding. His temperament was I dramatic, ills parliament ary orbit was meteoric rather than planetary. He shone with a light brilliant, startling ! and dazzling like the lightning's flash : across a tempestuous and cloudy firma ! ment. and not the changeless blaze of I the beacon. burning upon the headland ; to warn and direct the mariner through the storm with beneficent and steady ray. There was a theatrical element in ; his character, a tendency toward sen sations. surprises and spectacles, a dis position to capture position by sudden ( and impetuous assault rather than by I elaborate investment and approach. He is In popular estimation the repre sentative of the theory of protection to American labor, but Hamilton and Clay were his prototypes. Reciprocity was tbe dream of Douglas and many others of onr statesmen be fore and since. The Congerss of Amer ican Republics was a logical inference from the Monro* do*-#nirie, mid Mix Clay as Secretary of State, had organized the Congress of Panama with the saim ß purpose fifty years before. But it was reserved for Blaine to reassemble these fundamental principles from the past and emphasize their importance to his own epoch.” Most graphic and entertaining is the description of the knight in the heyday of his glory. The descrip tion glows with color and is vibrant with the striking personality of the man. It is a bit of word painting worthy of the subject. He says: "I ciune first to know him well in the ; preliminary campaign of 187(1. He seem ed then ui the summit of earthly felicity, witli an illimitable prospect .of glory spread out liefore him. His rise nat been rapid and prophetic of greater tri umphs yet to come. His ca’-eer was un unbroken succession of victories. t M ma ample resources that enabled him to dispeu<‘e generous hospitality, ami pe,- solial qualities that disarmed partisan animosity he was the central figure in social and official life nt tin* capital. "Blaine was radiant with hope. His cmiversution was electric and exlulurat ing. It flashed and scintillated with in tellectual brilliancy. It was not a shal low splendor that glittered and coruscat ed suporticinlly but an interior ibuminn tiou that glowed wijh ims-ssant flame. His address was captivating and his demeanor engaging. He was familiar without flippancy, anil possessml I ‘i:it faehe flexibility of adaptation whichi is one of the rarest social traits. His knowledge of men anil events was broad, though not profound, and it seemed tn;n there was no elevation which he might not justly anticipate.” "As speaker of the House In* had ex hibited ideal characterisities, and no ex igency hud not arisen to whidb he had not shown instant superiority. He was fortunate in stature, features and bear ing; in dress neither a flop nor a sloven, ami in conduct clearly without priggish ness or asi-eti<*isni. His years wen* in the prime, his sun at ait its meridian, iitnl the sky without a cloud. In an instant the fatal liolt dese-etlded and he lay unconscious on the threshhold of tho sanctuary. From that moment his pathway sloped downward to the grave. "Every ambition was thwarted, every hope was blasted. Thrice defeated, as a candidate for the presidential nomina tion. once nominated and nnsuecessfu at the i< ».ls. his health steadily declined, and a succession of iifllicti-ms follow'd!, such as have befallen few of the human race.” The Kansas eritic does not think Blaine will be as big a man in history as he was during life when he exerted an extarordinary and phenomenal in fluence over his contemporaries, which according to Mr. Ingalls it will be diffi cult for the historian to account for. lie says: . , . , , “He was the object of irrational idola try and adulation; and of equally inex plicable malediction, but in both there was a singular reservation, for bis polit ical associates never gave him their full confidence, and his political enemies, even in their most fervid indictrmmts amt latniMKius. felt for him a sentiment of personal kindness. His place in history therefore, cannot l>e now certainly' pre dieted, but it seems orobable that tbe historic Blaine will not have the propor tions of tho “Blaine of Maine whose name, with its explosive detonating rhythm, was idianted by millions as they marched under his glittering stand ard’ and folUwed his fn.len fortunes with unwavering constancy through nt. nniiroken succession of fatal disasters, culniitm-tinix in defeat ihat involved lean er and followers in irremediable havpo and destruction.” That Blaine was a great man even his enemies will freely coueisle, and bis fail ure to achieve the success which hit* abilities made possible, may be accountwl for by tbe historian, even if he should be at a loss to account for tho immediate faculty or quality which so captivated his contemporaries. It is only hinted at by ex-Senator Ingalls, but in the last quotation above from his sketch it is tr> be found, "rffs political associates never gave*him their full confidence.” There in lies the secret of the failure of Blaine s career. And why did hi* not have theii confidence? He never proved bis right to it. It was that shortcoming which made it possible for Conkling to square up his bitter account with Blaine by his memorable answer to the request to make speeches for Blaine in his presi dential campaign, when he declared: "I am not practicing on the criminal side of the court.” A Gloomy View. We nre sorry to see our esteemed Savannah contemporary, tbe Morning News, taking such a gloomy view of (the future of Port Royal. We do not think the facts justify it. and we dis like to see our friends of the News who nre generally so even tempered and clear headed, displaying evidences of pique and a condition of things which we believe means great things for Port Royal and Augusta, wtihout offering any menace to Savannah. Under the caption. “SIGN’S OF LIFE in Augusta, the Morning News says; “Augusta is showing new signs of life at the idea of having a seaport of her own. She claims Port Royal as her seaport, and now that the Port Royal railroad Ims got back into the hands of a few Augusta speculators, it wH be in teresting to see how long’it will remain so. The Augusta and Port Royal railroad when it was bought by the Central, eon sisted of two streaks of rust and great expectations. The Central put it in good physical condition and made it one o L the best, roads in South Carolina. It was managed economically. Lot us'see how long it will remain in go>xl condi tion. Augusta wants cheap freights, but it can get them cheaper only nt . the exjiense of the railroads. It ' will be well to remember that all this Port Roval boom business has been going on for a very long time, lit had an existence before Charleston and Savannah were settled. "Deep water may help a city; it doesn't make one. The price of lots in Port Royal wilt dotsbtlest advance for a tune. Means will be taken to force them up. but it is hardly probable they will stay up long. As soon as a little money is made in speculating on them and the railroad ,is run ilown the road will have to go into the courts for reroganization.” Now our Savannah friends must con fess that -this is a gloomy view of the ; situation, and a rather uncomplimentary estimate of our executive Ability. Though i when they remember the great opportun- ity whWi we let slip through our fingers some years ago when we permitted the Port Royal t» go into the hands of tho Centeai, we must confess they liave reason to disparage our judgment. But they should give us credit for learning something by experience, and they must admit we an* in a distinctly better poui tion now titan we were then by their own statement; for if the Central has put our road into fine condition we now have our great expectations and n first clpss railroad instead of two streaks o* rust, if our Siivatmah friends are cruel enough to believe tint with this great limiprovement in our coiuiitiona. rein forced by the monkey-nnd-parrot-time ex perienct* which we have had for the past dozen year* while in th<* hands of the Central, still leaves us incompetent to work out sticee*s. we are indeed to be pitied. We shall retaliate by not allow ing Savannah's baseball dub to win a single game when it comes to play our boys this week. There is no need either to cry out your punishment is greater than you can bear, for we see no other opportunity for adequate retaliation against .the seven* reflection which Sa vannah Im* wantonly put upon our rail road sagacitv. The World’s Fair. The international exposition which opened yesterday in Chicago will prove the greatest display of its kind ever thrown open to the people of the world. It will not be an American Centennial nor a Paris Exposition, but just what its name implies, the World's Fair. The buildings are more numerous more cost ly, aud more artistically laid off, em bracing both land and water and thus heightening the landscape effect; the dis plays from foreign nations will be more elaborate and comprehensive, and the interchange and intercourse between nations will bo more cordial am) mutual ly instructive than ever before. Tin* World’s Fair will boa liberal ed ucation to the man or woman who goes there to study its exhibits in an intel ligent and systematic way. The longer the time that one can affora to spend there the greater the benefit to be de rived, provided of course that the time is spent in Intelligent observation and systematic study of the different depart ments of education, industry, art and literature, religion, civil law aud gov ernment, moral aud social reforms, phil anthropy and charity. It is not probable that any one visitor will be specially in terested in all these branches or will have time to pursue all of them through their various ramifications, but tbe spec ialist iu either will find there all the latest discoveries, achievement.*, theories and practice of the leading nations of the world in his chosen field. No one who can go should hesitate a moment in making up his mind to do so. It is not probable that the fair will be complete for weeks to come, and parties who will be able to make but one trip, and spend but a limited time will see the exhibition in its entirety by postponing their visit until later in tbe season, though there is enough in the grounds and buildings to repay a visit if it is more convenient to make it now'. Parties Xvho are able to make more than one trip to Chicago would probably profit more by a trip now, and a careful study of what is now in place, supple mented by another trip later on, than by the one trip later on. The first would familiarize tliem with the grounds and buildings, and the general arrangement of the exhibits. They could get a good outline of what they wanted especially to study, and then during their stay at home read up on the subjects in tbe light of what they had seen. Then on the second trip they could devote their time especially to the line they were in terested in. and knowing just where to find whai they wanted to examine there would be no no time lost in aimless wan dering around the grounds and build ings. « Os course all the stuff about the san itary condition of Chicago, the bad wa ter, the inadequate accommodations and the wretchi'd police regulations, is only stuff. Chicago is a great city and has expended millions of good money in this enterprise, and it is nonsense to sup pose that after it, all she would sac rifice the hope of financial success by ; leaving undone the most important and ■ necessary of all preparations for the ' comfort, health and protection of ' the ; public. Chicago’s sanitary regulations ; sfre no doubt commensurate with the ; demands of the occasion, and expert I and official testimony is not wanting las to the general health fulness of the l city, aud tbe purity of the water supply. ■ Os course there will be hotels at which the charges will be high, but it is equal ly true that all will be able to find ac comodations suited to their means, if they will take the trouble to look for them. It is not to be expected that in! such crowds one cats escape all inconven ience and discomfort, but it is safe to say that Chicago will go as far as any city under the sun towards furnishing all the comforts of home. BILIOUSNESS Is an affection of the Liver, and can bd» ti oronghl•*’ cured by that grand regu lator oi the Liver and biliary organs, I SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR, “I was affected for several years with ■ disordered Liver, which resulted in a ! severe attack of Jaundice*. I had good medl i cal attendance hut it failed !o restore me ■to the enjoyment of my former health. I J then tried the favorite prescription of one I of the most renowned pnyid dans of Louis ; vide, Ky., bin to no purpose, whereupon I ■ was induced to try Simmons Liver Regu- ■ lator. 1 found immediaie benefit from its j use, and it u'.rima r ( *'.y restored me to the ! full enjoyment of hea th.’—A. H. Shirley, i Richitioud. Ky. i See that you _«t the Genuine, wi.h the | stamp in red, on iruat of vu-apper*