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THE NEWS.
TOCQPA, GEORGIA.
The effort to have the constitutional
cenaus of 1890 furnish a complete list of
the survivors of the late war met with
such opposition that it was abandoned
A peculiarly novel letter has just been
sent by an inhabitant of Bath, Eng and,
to a friend at Trowbridge. It was written
in shorthand on the back of a postage
stamp, the address being in ordinary
writing. The missive was dropped into
tbe letter-box at the General Postoftice,
and was duly.delivered at the deatiaa-
tion.
_
The almost incredible statement is
made that Honolulu, in the Sandwich
Islands, has more telephones in use in
proportion to her population than any
other cit y.
London is likely to have an interna¬
tional exhibition in 18Stl at the Crystal
Palace, the very building which was
originally set up in Hyde Dark for the
first exhibition in 1351.
A London paper says there arc still
twenty-three islands in the Pacific Ocean
which no nation has set up a claim to,
and it advises John Bull to lose no time
in taking them in and filing his claim.
There are so few doctors in Russi®
that forty per cent, of the population
never have any medical attendance, and
yet the Russians enjoy good health and
HVe as long as their much doctorea
neighbor^._
A British surveying steamer of 520
tons has been launched ready, for duty
■with engines aboard complete. It was
remarked that within a few years the
launch of finished ships would be the
rule, instead of the exception.
London Truth says that the art of
the working goldsmith is disappearing,
owing to the cheapness of diamonds.
Every one who buys an ornament insists
now upon precious stones, and estimates
it rather by the value of the stones than
by the beauty of the workmanship.
The New York Sun. says: “There is
no hall in New York large enough to
hold the men and women who are pay-
ing black mail.” But the city of New
York, adds the Cincinnati Enquirer , is
not singular in that respect. The levy¬
ing of black-mail has long since become
a business in this country, and employs
some Very fine tHlcnt.
The Philadelphia Inquirer editorially
remarks: “It is noted that, during 1884
and 1885, more than 9000 lives were lost
in the battles around that wretched
town in the Soudan which the Mahdi is
now besieging, Hundreds more have
been lost since then, and yet nobody
seems to know whether the town is
named Suakim or Stiakin.”
The population of Illinois is actually
decreasing outside the cities, The
school census of 1888 showed that while
there were in the State in 1880 789,670
males under twenty-one, in July of that
year there were 843,976. This is a gain
of 54,300 hut the gain in Cook County
was 83,217, showing that tbe loss iu the
rest of the State was 28,917.
Three years ago tho Kingdom of Samoa
was happy and prosperous To-day its
King is in exile and its people plunged
into the horrors of civil war, and all
this, the ( hicago Herald charges, has
been brought about in the name of civili¬
zation and i hristianity. Germany isthe
chief marplot, but the skirts of England
and-tho United Slates are not clear.
The Agricultural Department at Wash¬
ington is about to send a man to Chicago
'to write up the methods of preparing
beef and pork for foreign and home cou-
sumption. Ilis literary effort, states the
Chicago Mice, will be printed in
pamphlet form and distributed at the
Paris Exposition with a view to tempting
European appetites to call for American
meats.
Arbor Day, which originated in
Nebraska, has been the means of causing
the planting ol nearly a million acres of
forest land in that State alone. The
importance of forest culture is illustrated
by the fact that the value of the annual
forest product of the United states is
$300,000,000, or nearly double that of
our wheat crop, and ten times more than
the yield of our gold and silver mines.
It is a surprise to learn that the Eng¬
lish universities of Oxford and Cam¬
bridge, with all their arts and glorious
history, are poor. Cambridge, says the
tSfc. James Gazette, is especially crippled
in discharging its proper functions
through the lack of money. It is a ques¬
tion whether learning is not more care¬
fully nurtured in America to-day than in
the older land of the Anglo-Saxons.
The latest official appointment at
Washington, according to the Chicago
Herald , is a Congressional bootblack.
The office is a new one, and was created
out of hand by its present occupant. A
ten-year-old chap of Minneapolis worked
his way to Washington and started for
the Capitol, where he called out Con¬
gressman Nelson, of whom he had heard
as a good fellow and friend of the work-
mgmen. “I am Dan Appletop,” said
the boy from Minnesota, “and I want the
privilege uf blacking Congressmen’s
boots in this building.” Nelson took
him to Architect Clark, wiio gave him
the desired permit. The boy installed
himself in office without an inaugural
and is making money. It is a case of
genuine Western Yankeeinm. The boy
has in him the making of a President oi
better.
QUESTIONING.
If th« bird
Had no litt’nor, wrapt, adoring)
If its songs in joyous soaring
Fell upon the air unheard;
If no flower-lipa entranced
Where the golden sunbeam glanced,
Drank the song the bird was flinging,
What would be tbe use of singing?
If the flower,
Lifting up its netaled crown
Where the sun comes flit’ring down,
Never felt the summer shower—
If no’ busy, vagrant bees
Came to woo it with the breeze—
If no golden light was flooding
What would be the use of budding?
If the heart
Never felt tbe quick pulsation.
Never knew tbe sweet elation
That of faithful love is part —
If lips lacked the warmth pf kissing,
If the tender words were missing
That true hearts delight in giving,
What would be the use of living?
—Cora Fabbri, in Mail and Express.
THE BLACK RHINOCEROS
If li I i were were asked a-ivca to to name name the tde most most
dangerous should animal known to. man I
Africa tlie give the black rhinoceros of
further proud distinction. I could
go and declare him a more dan-
gerou. foe ,h.» lion, tiger or any
of the serpent family, As a shark is al-
f”i' ways huogry, roi, the black rhinoceros
iear is. m ^-wo”d tie would, c'Sr charge e n . <, into »to«rrm, an army t
as be soon defeated as at onlv a single bvheino-killed hunter. He can
Whi“.sentfor
Hamburg I captured captured,auto.ia,se^ven alltold sevenspeci speci
mens of f the rhinoceros family, of which
five were black, and they were got at
! such cost and 3 Q trnnhle tr ° ubIe that taat the ‘J* 1 ® “ honsn ouse r rn e-
fused . for several years to fill any more
orde-s for this snenes A linn titrer
zebra, when made giraffe captive or elephant soon give? in
and secured on ship-
board, but the black rhinoceros never
"P: »• Jtop‘1 «»'tdo it Nature
made him defiant, and he remains m
(ini ?°K- d L tl0 n evef y da y of hl3
Une which I T captured for the ., Fans
cardens in 1857 was nlarrd in An nn
closure, the toof of which was supported
at one pole, by a heavy rtone
as as turned rurnea info^the into tlie eMlosurTwd enclosure, ana Tas was
knocked down and considerably hurt;
but for the next two years he repeated
his foolishness at least once u day,
knocking off his horns and bruising
.h“'foA mem 7on if e - Y '° S ° me
Wherever there » wild rice swamp
in South ufrioa a tne therp I? y° von u wmima will tho the
11 I U- oTangeTnc^Eimno^o
Itivers plemv along Hie
and iheir tributaries, numbed and there is
no fear that their have been
greatly thinned out by kil? sportsmen since,
Every hunter wants to one as a matter
of course, but he has no desire for a fuss
with a second.
On un me the occasion occas’on of or wmcll which T 1 write write T i
went up the Eimpopo from i.ustenburg,
havinga three besides^myself party of sixteen men, of whom
had were white. We
two hancp hnatH R111 i ,, hanro il,,.
latter fitted un as feSmur. a nri«nn for thp’ rhi
irnceri wcDntDosed engaootf thf Thethree e.vnf
Dutch hunters I for di-
Z J LI
80 d bv touothsm'rips ho ha^ an bppn°tr^a
ofThe someverv
black then? snecies I did did not not take take much mm h
stock in
Thmn nameTweh^lJ^^horP Hni cto *i,„ ... ( t, aL rn^p r n
town / wlnl S
our camn n a w ff ri,
above the stream )on» Th ! * bhiff wn« ahnnt
fortv SSa"U'SS rods a“ and grc°,f on the l tmf land S siMp ,d ,y it
s „ r
field The rirp ctonrl nn civ nr o„„ Dn
feethich d?v while the <rrounrl w« nerferti
It was a na S ,T/nt^
for if the rhino ^ir^ pro - rl there w°rp
s rns h ? h d - Wes
to make one genera! camp about midway
on the bluff, but one of the tree State
natives in my train beckoned me aside
ana saia:
y0 dJ v f y0U lG v® f • If rhl '
noceios chaige v into - camp he break , every-
th“cImp. with SLl o'fVe I tootTht
centre the Dutchmen, and the na¬
tives encamped on each side and about
fifteen rods away. As we intended to re-
t! ?V! tbin 8* were m ' lde
pretty secure After Alter our our camps camps were were
finished, “..osh, as 1 cal e . the native
who had warned me, gathered a lot of
stout creepers and vines and made a de-
fence m front of each cemp by attach-
mg them to stakes and trees and wi av-
ing an obstruction about three feet high
\Ye laughed at him, but events proved
that his head was level. It was about 2
o clock when we landed, nnd at 4 we
were comfortably fixed. I was rubbing
own my eg bore rifle when two or
three natives came running up with tie
information that a rhinoce;o3 was in
sight directly be.ow my camp.. A quar-
ter of a mile away was a knoll rising out
of tliG rice swamp. This knoii was bare,
and as I rv.u out iu response to the alarm I
saw a double hornecTrhinoceros standing
on the knoll with his head toward us.
rle had got our wind, and pethap3 heard
the cries of the natives. Tiiese animals
ate neat have sighted, told and this lellow could
not at that distance what was
in front of him. He did not care, how-
ever. M ith a snort and a grunt he low—
ered his head and charged up the rising
ground like a wild locomotive
“Kook out! Everybody climb a tree?”
shouted “Josh.” and in a minute we
were among the limbs.
It was a good move and yet a poor one.
Had I been on my feet at just the right
moment, I could have made a valuable
capture without danger. The old fellow
held direct for my camp, and I guess he
would have gone through it and into the
river, but for the defence erected by
“Josh.” He struck the vines with *a
great crash, and was sprung back and
rolled off his feet by the rebound. He
lay as if stunned fora full minute, and
had I been on the ground I could have
made passed him a rope around one of his legs and
fast to a tree. When he got
up his eyes fell upon a hat which one of
the natives had dropped, and he charged
it. The charge took him back toward the
swamp, and he kept going on till out of
our We sight. passed the
rest of the day in erect-
ing defences about our camps, and next
day I was ready with a new idea in rhi-
noceros hunting. Indeed, I had two of
them. The natives scattered through
the swamp to investigate, and when they
returned they reported trails leading in
every direction. Three black rhinoceri
had been evident seen that but not disturbed, and it
was “old game” would be
on hand whenever wanted. I returned
to the swamp with them, and selecting a
spot where a wide, beaten trail ran in a
straight line for about fifty rods, we dug
a pit twelve deep. feet long, six feet wide, and
four feet We lined the edges with
stakes to prevent the earth caving in,
and then made a neat job of covering it
over. At the end of the pit toward
camp I planted a red flag and covered
the staff with a straw hat.
Wh le the black rhinoceros has no fear
and will charge an elephant as soon as a
doer if once aroused, he is very suspicious
and crafty when not excited. We
knew that it was vain to hope one would
charge if in the flag and thus fall into the pit
pprsuit of one of the men, and af¬
ter dinner I called up all the blacks and
^ f< L rthe best
„i ° ei u fo strip h.mself „ of ,
j a Clot ?‘“?' Lu ° fc n ? *
D> anU * s P ee< *; % madea
Wtinn Th e man removed - greased bus
h j ° eaTt1 }
and ammal fat to limber himself, f and
started on his mission
The four of us white men took our
guns and made our way to the bare knoll.
“!*been ®. n a ^ an ‘-^ ^- It thrown up by the
ne was six or seven
feet , . high, ten feet and
l0 and ! across io twenty ho
n *; was s 0 P 2 llke / ™ e
roof on „ all sides. T It w«s a good post of t
observation, but we could see nothing
anywhere in the b’g swamp to show that
a rhmof eros vs-as on the move.
e couid follow the movements of the
native as he roamed about. He knew,
it bein<r midday that the b"tr fon- beast
would be asleen fdUcoverT and it was not be-
fore he made o? I He n7 was then
IV£ to the Z$£ east %£? us and iSXfta o mrter «££ a mile
pas Eand, t our mound He carried ,h?s\ a ave°abovc fla^ in his
and »hcn we saw
been hegr “lra T that < l‘ e sam \ had
it sighted. A moment . later we knew
more certainly 5 bv the me ®. shrill notes V of T
.. n '? j rh • blr4 wh, , h , .
i DOC !f os ’ 5 .»
U oud4 ln tb ) company of the
beast. i . It is a-serted that this bird con-
stitutes himself the sentinel of thelum-
bering ”, behemoth e in.auuinac and that its us cries cries are are
uttered , to warn him that danger is near.
The bird is found 1 with buffaloes ouiiaioes, eie e!e-
t ^ect^Flii
horses/ He ksimply mosqSitoi after all
g nats , and gather about
animals in f«„ great numbers ’ and - the bird
„ there to on them He is wary,
an d if disturbed utters shrill cries to
prove his annoyance. This is the ‘warn-
infr” heeives R 6 ’ and it 1 is 1S :., taken lKenas as a a warn- ^ ra
awaken^the u sound^Jt iT- r. sl^pw ,
‘"'V“L t^fVS among
SColdm 7 a ^ a -\ and presently caught the
grunt of the rhinoceros as he staggered
to his feet. The black showed himself.
waved his flag, and next moment he had
the old fellow in tow.
Nature made the rhinoceros in the
m °*‘ .olumky Tak” manner and evidently fine for
game iaKen him mon ,ma a slight srraignt line and ana
n he is • a runner not to be scorned. A
ha " "°t t° 8u ref< ; otad andlla 7 e
f halbmil^dask fett tht .t^° ^'he^ative 1 had^bolit ^
tWHy
passed T our mound he had lost five feet
of that although running like greased
lightning ofe The v^black rhinoceros was ^an a bi"
® ne > unusual pnusuany Dtac*, md and he He ran with with
snout down and tail erect. iiim We cheered
thf the native fwe to encourage u»”hefi!uhad and awav tS
™^cd went
1 with
^ ad , tbe . been ten yards . longer,
race
* ho nat l ve would have had to leave the
P? tb , *° h™ 14 dcatb - A a j 18 ” e j >rcd tbe
, ,
s Si
let «° of solid earth atld Pitted him
bead first into the pit. We heard him
gnlnt fro m we stood, and it was
p]ain that h is tumble had knocked the
breath out of him. As he struck he
rol!ed °™onh\* right side, and when
we reached tbe P ifc ‘ hc f va3 helpless.
When he got it through his thick head
that he had been fooled he was the mad-
'» 811 ™ *“>
late for action*
^ e bad coni e prepared for just such a
job a, we now had on hand. The monster
mnst be ^ ot ab card the barge, but we
We got our
and chains ashore, drove stout
stakes where they would be wanted, and
S moved the tSime ban?e''to the Uwidark^id lower end of the
By we
tied the old fellow’s hind legs together
and left him. It was a mighty uncom-
f nr f, ab le nnsitinn for him. hut we counted
He was
then the of to the > bout lions angered him.
roars
and he kept us awake with lrs yells and
squeals. about* t 3 We found day" tracks ,, tv of lions all „
the pit next but the king of
beasts had simply come there out of
cu curiosity. ,i os ity. The The hungriest hungriest lion lion on on the the
)ark Continent could not be indurfcd
to atta ck a rhinoceros alive nor attempt dead.'
to make a mea \ 0 f b im if he was
After breakfast next morning we be-
g an WO rk. We first hobbled our pris-
oner, and then hoisted lUm ou t of the
pit The first thing he did was to make
a rus h, but it was a failure. We got
purchase tackles on him and led them
away to trees and s t ap les, and by their
m eans we checked him up or warned
Rim along as we willed. All we had to
do was to keep clear of his wicked horns,
noon we had him safe aboard the
barge, one half of which was given up
to him. ^Ve had managed .his capture
without inflicting an iniury. He was
i an aed in Hamburg without a piece of
gk j n rubbed off, and is no doubt alive
a ^ tbis writing. His age was estimated
thirty years when captured, and he
was consid ered good for fifty or sixty
years longer.
\y e bad captured one rhinoceros so
easily that we expected to secure another
a dav or two by the same means.
Therefore, great was our surprise next
da y find the swamp entirely deserted
by the animals. All the signs went to
show that it was a rich feeding ground,
an( j that at least twenty of the fellows
bad been roaming about, but they had
taken the alarm and made off. The
|) u tch hunters assured me that we had
only to hang on and they would return,
an d SU ch proved to be the case. We
took good care of the one we had secured
and kept as quiet as possible, and on the
afternoon of the eighth day ws got a
surprise. je 8ome of us were asleep and
sou lolling about, when a black rhinoc- edge
e ros, who had skulked up to the?
0 f the swamp apd surveyed U3 for how
} on g no one could say, uttered his
“woof.” and charged a’hundred the center camp,
He was within feet of the ab-
batis when the alarm was given, and he
struck it just as I turned out. It had
stopped the other, but this fellow went
through it with a great crash, holding
straight for mv tent.
We ran right and left field, to'give the charg-
j n g monster a clear but he had bis
eye on that tent alone. He struck and
knocked it flat. The edge and of the bluff
was only six feet away, before
could check himself he went over. He
could swim, of course, but he would
hava plenty to think of, and every man
of us, acting on the sr.me impulse, seized
a rope or some other ob ect to make his
capture. All the-nati splashing es leaped and shouting into the
water, and their
so confused the beast that they got the
ropes around his legs and steered him
down to a spot where he could land,
The rest of us were ready for him, and
before he could figure out what was go-
ing on we had him tight and fast, and
before dark he had been hauled into the
barge. He was not as large nor as old
as the other, but, nevertheless, a valuable
creature, and we lost no time in getting
the pair down to a point whence they
could started for the seacoast .—New
York Sun .
The Hot-Water Cure.
J. H. Salisbury claims that il
human beings will keep their stomachs
in good condition thev can avoid all ills
T^tSving^ce
country and in England, is inexpensive
hot water. Americans are the most
dyspeptic m^eutable people on the face of the
garth, a fact not due to
climate but to hot breads and griddle- f
cakes £ pies candies and the in8ai e use of
ice _ wa r while ^ting. The poor
stomarh j 8 uneqU ual to the task put
upon it and leaves much of the food un¬
digested . This f00 d ferments, and
from fermentations arises all the horrors
of dyspepsia !i ; . g uch digestive ° organs \megai Dr.
Salisb r likens to n old
barrel, '
and, like this barrel,
they ‘hing require frequent and thorough
was out before any fermentable
f nrL- onn ran can he be taken takea in la without disaster faster,
Joking J hia , was ^ hot 1D S water out at sbould about be 110 d degrees ? ne b *
* ahrenheit > and sbould take P lace lon S
11 n 1 wa ® hlD ? 3 tot t0 ieave “tf^T tlia s Y m
StSSors’.UsTu^LTfhatd.S , T
hTwl““w»should°ot to ne^“
th „ meal tha than . on nn f p h hmir ® ur > an<1 and lt; it ia often otten
better to set back the time two hours.
The water should be slowly sloped, so
that the stomach may not be uncom-
Sinkiifo- f orta birr riiotp n ripd The nhieet of this
a,lakl,, &> ar-rues ar gues Dr. Dr -alisburv k.alisbury, is is ‘‘tc tc
was b ou t a dirty, yeasty, slimy, sour
stomac h before re eatinff eaUn o ana and sleen-no- sleeping, it It
should i be taken , on retiring, not only for
cleaasin ^ Deposes, but to prevent fer-
TS t, ai<i P nra £ m > £ eart aaa laa r 3 »
s 'V'" iSipo'" 0 “he “3
i n £ „ and circulation This wash-
in should snoulcl be ] lent ' e P c ur> U P nersistentlv persistently
for months, and even years,
bcf ,? re digestive apparatus becomes
\ digciion, I7llf unfided “3 *S
Q allow normal by
hot hot water ^‘ lter * Hot Hot water water is is best best taken taken in,
the morning while in bed, or if up, it is
well to lie down on the left side after
tion taking it. It is not alone iu consump-
J™*’VCin tkat this nrartice of drmking e»«iSetag hot
.11di S
f ! rom r0m d the . 8lec , fermentation tive d lBestive of processes foods. Even and
rn mimrativplv hpalthv i.prsons find it of
much benefit It excites downward per-
w tala «. dd “ tea ^ ro Py secretions of the
®“ Ustanc ® s tuat may do pSSnTi" present n thJ
™ ion' foTfte
!l° tb ^ough a * “ treatment supplies a of tounaation all chronic lortne dis-
easeg b .f„ y an inside bath which refreshes
ttlp wh system. ^tem < Lola old water water cannot c t
Pl«o. ^ » was at first tried m
co^ec .oa with food exper.mcntj, and
found to cause pain and colic. It does
not excite downward peristalsis, as does
water at is 110 to led in drinking degrees Fahrenheit, and
“ lihed tea cof-
and ereesaive use of
the syltem and ^MeJ^S the animal heat
wastes
m the'effort to restore the temperature
of the economy which is sensibly low-
e .ed by it, and the nerve force needed
by the various organs, of which we have
none too much at any time, is draughted
off to repair our error. When we ice out
water we intensify this error a h indred-
fold and sacrifice the well-being tempera?, of all in-
teraal organ, for the cooling
of mouth and throat. If these surfaces
were in perfectly normal condition we
should not crave this* coolkig. Luke-
warm water has also been peristalsis tried, but was
found to excite upward and
to make the users sick.”
Mi^ouri's Bald Knobbers.
Since the conviction of their leaders
who were either condemned to death oi
sentenced to long terms in the peniten-
H ar y> Hie Missouri Bald Knobbers have
*“*“? have been 0, “ greatly « f exaggerated Their at crimes a dis¬
f aa ^ e *
The __________________ Bald Knobbers were _______ organized ______ in
the first place for a good purpose In
the lower counties of the southwestern
part part of of the the State State there there was was so so much much law- law-
lessness that the officers of the law were
unable to cope with it .and the leading
citizens of these counties organized a
law and order league which took the
name of Bald Knobbers. Like most oi
such organizations it went to extremes
and was ruled by pre udice. Finally the
organization was used to settle grudges,
The crime for which the leaders were
convicted was the triple murder of 5V Bl¬
iam EdeDS, his son and son-in-law,
Charles Green, The Knobbers held theii
meetings in a deserted lead smeitei
which was located in a romantic looking
spot. It was from here they proceeded,
intending to carry out the sense ot.the
meeting by hogging the L.dens. A man
named Evans, an associate of young
Edens, had, some time previously, mis-
behaved at the church at which Larson
Simmons, one of the Knobber chiefs, was
preaching. Lor this the Knobbers took
Livans out and flogged him, but by a rais¬
take young Edens a so received four
lashes.
Thi 3 was the beginning of a feud be-
tween the Edens and the Knobbers. The
Edens were new settlers and the Knob-
bers hated new comers. The Knobbers
concluded to flog the Edens. In the
little log cabin were the elder and
younger Edens and their wives, and in
another room was Green and his wife,
When they heard the cry in the night
for them to come out they knew it was
from the Knobbers, so they got theii
guns and prepared to defend followed themselves.
During the shooting that they
lost their lives, although the Knobbers
did not escape without injury. The
scene in the cabiu was a frightful one.
There lay the two Edens and Green
dead, with their wives and little ones
about them. At the trial it was shown
that some of the Knobbers proposed tc
muider the women. One thing that did
not come out at the trial, and therefore
was never printed, wgs that at the funeral
Parson Simmons, one of the murderers,
preached the sermon at the grave of his
victims .—New York Star.
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The Oldest Aeronaut.
Among the residents of Baltimore is
'
George Elliott, probably the oldest
aeronaut in the world. He began bal-
looning in 1834, and has made 127 as-
cents in all, in only one of which was he
seriously injured. His thigh was broken
oa this occasion, putting a check to his
aerial adventures for nineteen ye»rs. Mr.
Elliott retired in 1858, and has mad<
only one ascent since then. He ii
eighty-four years old,and practises shoe-
making, the trade he learned when 8
boy.— Harper's Weekly .
CANADA.
ITS PEOPLE, AREA, RESOURCES
AND RATE OP GROWTH.
A Country Settled Sooner Than
the United States, But Much
Slower In Growth —Timely
. Facts and Figaros.
Since the political Union of Canada i 3
to be discussed as a possibility, well
informed persons affirming that it is no
longer dian clear that the majority of Cana-
voters may not favor the change, it
is timely for the people of this country
to the gather information regarding the area,
of population and the different elements
the provinces composing the domin¬
ion. The enthusiastic Canadian is in the
habit of saying that the territory is
greater than that of the United States,
but in no sense is this true. Some
standard works^ut the area of Canada
&t 3,200,000 square miles and others at
3,500,000, it is true, but the census re¬
port makes the area of the United States
a little over 3,500,f 0J square miles.
The one statement includes.Alaska, but
the other includes two or three times as
much territory less inhabited now, and
so far as is known less Ut for human
habitation. An enormous portion of the
Canadian area is covered with water,
and the extent of the laud surface, though
not even approximately known, must be
very much less than that of the United
States.
State Eight years ago there were in the
of Illinois alone more land occu¬
pied than in all the Dominion of Canada,
and probably there is now. * In Dakota
alone, not yet a State, the public land
sales within the past eight years have
exceeded 30,000,000 ac;e<, and with the
sales of corporations, probably exceed
the entire present occupied acreage iu
the Dominion of t auada.
Of the resources of (he Canadian
Provinces, in timber, in fertile land, iu
fisheries, m ning and salt, it is not neces¬
sary here to speak; they are eno mous,
and so little has been done to define or
develop them that they may greatly ex¬
ceed any estimate. But resources without
men, resources which human energy and
enterprise have failed so far to develop,
may not be found of much practical
value for the future. Therefore it is to
Americans a fact which needs explana¬
tion, that the Canadian Provinces have
developed older so slowly. For Canada is
than the rich and powerful states
comprising the Union. Quebec was
founded by Champlain five years before
the first huts were built on Manhattan
Island. Ontario was settled four years
before the Ohio Company started down
the river in fiat-boats to make its first
settlement in Marietta. But in and
west of Ontario to the Pacific ( oast the
inhabitants of Canada are now not more
than 3,000,000; in and west of Ohio the
inhabitants are more than 30,000,000.
The dntire Province of Quebec has only
about the population of ihe city of'New
York alone, in the absence of explana¬
tion, men are liable to suppose that this
slowness of growth must be due to in¬
superable institutions obstacles of nature, or else to
But Canada yet more rigorous.
is essentially a free coun¬
try, and the institutions and govern¬
ments have done much to invite and
diversified encourage immigration, industry. and to develop
In spite of all these
ellorts, there were 65,00b people from
this country living in Canada'in 1881,
while there are now about 1,000,000
Canadians lining in the United States.
A fifth of the entire present population
of Canada has sought Letter' opportuni¬
ties in this country; about a thousandth
part of the population 'of the United
States has removed to Canada - a id some
of these have migrated only becauss extra¬
dition treaties are defective. The con¬
trast is startling. And yet a paper read
by Mr. Blue, Secretary of the Ontario
Board of Industry, about a year ago,
showed that this province would actu¬
ally have lost population during the
previous seven years bm for immigra¬
tion. With 208,000 immigiants, and"
the 000 natural in all, the increase of 2,0,6(10, or 442,-
‘-the lamentable province only gained 145,-
000; truth is that we are
growing men for the United States,” Mr.
Blue remarks.
Ontario is nevertheless the most progres¬
sive of the older provinces, and much the
most populous and productive. More
than two-thirds of the occupied acreage
in the entire Dominion are within irs
limits. Quebec, the next province in
population and area cultivated, gained
in the ten years 1871-1881 only 167,500
in population, about twelve per cent, in
ten years. The provinces of New Bruns¬
wick and Nova Scotia gained in the
same ten years only thirteen per cent. The
population of the entire Dominion in 1881
was 4,324,810, audit is supposed to Lave
since increased to 5,000 0)0 or more.
But the growth of the United States in
ten years ending with 1880 was over
increase 11,000,000, in or thirty percent, and its
three the population has been nearly
times present population of the
Dominion.
The elements composing the popula¬
tion of the Dominion were officially
stated for 1871 as follows: Of French
Canadians, 1,082,910; of Irish,.850,000;
of English, 700,000; of Scotch, 550,000:
of Germans and Dutch, 28 ),<;0') } and of
Americans, 65,000. While ihe Catholic
Church has the largest number of adher¬
ents, they are less than half the popula¬
tion. In 1881 those cla-sed as Roman
Catholics numbered 1,788,250, against
2,536,560 of all other denominations.
Should political union take place, and
the several provinces of Canada be ad¬
mitted' as States, they would be entitled
to fourteen Senators. Assuming that
the ratio for a Representative a:ter the
next be about apportionment in this country will
ably be 200,000, Ontario would prob¬
entitled to ten or eleven, Quebec
to i-even, Nova Scotia and New Bruns¬
wick to two each, Prince Edward Island,
Manitoba and British Columbia to one
each. The new territory would speedily
be so far settled by people from this
country, in the rapid development of re¬
sources which would follow, that the
population of Ontario and all the west¬
ern provinces, at least, would be readily
assimiiated with that of. the Western
States. Probably the maritime pro¬
vinces would also be largely occupied
from New England and other Eastern
States. But how far Quebec could retain
its present peculiaAies and the privi¬
Church leges now en eyed by the Catholic
would depend upon the terms of
union .—New York Tribune.
Haymaking In Winter.
that Passengers along the lines of railroad
Palisades, run along the meadows back of the
between New Durham and
Little Ferry, could during last December
see farmers at work making hay with all
the appliances used in midsummer on
higher mowing ground. The grass is cut with
machines, gathered with horse-
rakes, and cocked up in the usual hay-
making method. This grass is marsh
Sfr$ss, and it can be gathered because of
the softness of the soil, only after the
jrohnd aedding is and frozen. The hay little is used for
ihe higher ground packing. A of it on
can be used as fodder,
•—New York Post.
Thf. fiis^st Man in China.
Frank G. Carpenter says that Viceroy
Li Hung Chantr, whose picture we give
below, is by all odds the greatest man in
the Chinese Umpire. He was called by
General ( rant the Bismarck of China,
and in statesmanship he ranks wdh the
greatest minds of the European nations.
He is practically the Premier of the Im¬
perial Government, is the Chief Secre¬
tary of Foreign Affairs, and during the
past few years has been the medium of
communication between forerun nations
and the Celestials. It was he who was
Commauder-in-Chief of the Imperial
forces during the groat laipiug rebch on,
which cost China 10,000,000 lives an
which resulted iu the overthrow tie
rebels. It was he who settled the dil -
cult.es with Kussia in 1361, and it is o
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who is called in to advise the Emperor
when any crisis takes place in the affairs
of the nation.
Li Hung Chang carried on all the ne-
gotiatious with Mitkiewicz and granted
the charter to the Wharton Barker syn-
dicate, which fell through by reason of
Mitkicwiez’s indiscretion and bad char-
acter. It was he who introduced the
telegraph into China about seven years
ago^ and it is he who China is now adopt doing railroads all in
his power to have
and develop its natural resources. Li
Hung Cheng i3 the Viceroy of Chili, the
northern province of China, wh'ch in¬
cludes Peking and Tientsin, and which
has a population of 3 ,000,^00, or nearly
as many as Great Britain. Over these
people the iceroy has more power than
ha- the t ueen of i nglar.d. northern He is also
Superintendent of the trade of
China, and it is said that ths money he
receives yearly amounts to over $3,0)0,-
000 .
Dogs that are caught on 1 taken to
the New York Pound and are not claimed
by their owners and consequently are
couth rnned to death for vagrancy, have
be n the subject of considerable discus¬
sion by the health officers and some of
the officers of Air. Burgh’s society re-
cently. Such dogs have heretofore been
drowned by putting them in an iron
cage and letting the cage down into the
water. Some experiments have recent-
ly been tried of killing them by gas.
Th y are placed in an air-tight box, ten
fee t long, four feet wide and three feet
high, and the gas is turned on from a
number of pipes running into the box.
It is thought that this is a less painful
death even than drowning. Shortly
after the gas is turned on, the animals
become dizzy and fall over as though
intoxicated. Their eyes close and they
seem to die a painless death. Another
experiment is to be tried with chloro-
form in a few days. After the box has
been closed up the air will be strongly
permated with chloroform until the
animals are dead. It has not been de¬
cided whether tfio new device will be
adopted permanently or not. The only
objection to it thus far is its cost; the
drowning thing. apparatus costs little or no-
The United States Geological Survey
something gives some mining statistics that show
of tho wonderful wealth of
mineral this country, judged for by the immense
output the past year. The
total value of all minerals mined in 1887
was $538,000,000. This is $70,000,000
more than the output for 1886, and over
$100,000 greater than that of 1885. The
year's produced yield is this not country, only the greatest ever
in but is at least
$100,0»0,*000 greater than the output of
any other country, and, leaving out
England, is greater Ilian that of all
Europe.
There is less drunkenness in the pro¬
fessions nowadays than ever before in
the world’s history Tliero arc fewer
drinking fewer clergymen, fewer drinking law¬
drinking yers, physicians, drinking journalists, fewei
fewer drinking
statesmen. Temperance is recognized
not only as a virtue but as an elenu nl
of success in professional ‘life, The
young man who tries to accelerate his
progress mistake by alcohol life. makes the greatest
ot' his
■THAT-
JONN E. REDMOND
WILL SELL YOU PATTERNS TO
©o Your Owij Yairitir^,
In any Size wanted, from Two Inches up to Sixty four.
Write to Him and get an Estimate of All Kinds of Graining,
Sign and House Painting, Varnishing, at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
He gives Agents an article with which they can make more money than they
sver made in all their lives. With these goods Agents can make from $5 to $8 a
day. This is no Northern humbug. Inclose a two-cent stamp for postage, and
you will receive by return mail free samples and full particulars of the business.
I a’so furnish Gold and Gilded letters, Emblems and Graining Ccmbs,
Mortars and Pestles for Druggists. I furnish Wire Banner Signs, and make a
specialty of Post Boards for the country.* Address
JOHN E. REDMOND,
ZFXCIKIElSrS, s. o.
TOCCOA MARBLE WORKS.
The Undersigned is Prepared to Furnish MARBLE,
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Of All Kinds and Styles from the
plainest and lowest prices, up to the
*= % most elaborate and costly. All work
delivered, set up and satisfaction guar¬
§m / •a anteed. Call at my yard, examine
P OFi chasing samples and elsewhere. learn prices Address, before pur¬
L. COOK,
TOCCOA, CA.
The Advantages of Education.
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BLACKSMITHING !
HORSESHOEING !
Manufacturing and Repairing
WAGONS, BUGGIES
—AND—
FARM IMPLEMENTS
Of all kinds.
JARRETT & SON,
I'OCCOA, GEORGIA.
A.
ROBERTS HOUSE,
TOCCOA CITY, GA-,
MRS. E. W. ROBERTS, Prop
Mrs. Roberts als has ch.rgeof th« ,
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Railroad Eating II vise at Bowersvillq
Ga. Good acomini' •ations, good board,
at usual rates in firs 1 :-class houses.
LEWIS DAVIS,
attopney at law.
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practice in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Franklin and Biuiks of tho
,, Western r , Circuit .. Prompt ... attention .. will
be g*ven to all business entrusted to him.
The collection of debts will have spec-
Ja * attention,
REAL - ESTATE.
CITY LOTS,
Farm and Mineral Lands
In the Piedmont R. gion. Georgia. Also
Or,nge Farm! Groves, Fruit and Vegetable
for sale in Florida. Address
J. W. rVcLAURY,
TOCCOA, GEORGIA.
Don’t Fail to Call On
W. A. MiTHESON,
Who has Special Bargains in Various
Lines of Goods.
FINE DRESS GOODS 1
NOTIONS, HATS, ETC.
—ALSO—
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Farmers’ Tools, Wagon and Buggy Ma¬
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Locks, Bolts, Doors and Sash.
—EVERYTHING IN THE—
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COOK STOVES STOVE PIPE
AND WOODWARE >
--ALSO —
DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES.
TOOCOA. CA.