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THE DANDELIONS,
Oh! there's something so ecstatio
In the springtime of the year,
When the sunbeams and the showers
Make this dead leaves disappear;
W hen the bluebird and the robin
And the saucy little wren
Teli us with their chirp and chatter
. That tbe world’s awake again—
But there's something more inspiring
Than an instrumental tune.
Brighter than the crimson roaea
In the lovely month of June.
You ms y differ, but I tell you
That it snakes my old heart whirl
Worsen any sidelong glances
From the blue eyes of a girl;
And it makes me fee! like yellin’
Same as when I flew my kite,
Pullin’ on the string and yankin’
Till it traveled out of sight,
bo it makes no bit of difTrenca
What is in my heart, there’s room
For to love the dandelions
When they just begin to bloom.
Ob! you needn’t turn your nose up
(Passing proud and scornful by>
At this little star of yellow
Gleaming in an emerald sky;
He’s an angel of the grasses,
W ith about a million wings,
And I guess he’s necessary
To complete our happy springs.
Then we know that nature’s rising
From a cold and cheerless tomb,
And we always feel some better
4V hen the dandelions bloom.
Don’t we know the good Lord loves ua
When He trims our path like this?
Don’t we know these flower prophets
Tell us of a brighter bliss?
i h in king so, our tears and mourning
Turn to dew and melody,
And we tune each voice for singing
To the heavenly harmony.
Glorious God! wi ll meet and praise Theo
In the land without a tomb,
And we'll wander by the river
Where the dandelions bloom.
/ —Chicago News.
MY MISADVENTURE,
i
nv \t irv r rr
t On the shrine
of a bad cold, t, Rudolph
nu Corduroy, had offered up quinine,
lemon juice, aconite, iron, onions, hot
water, cold water, camphor, cod-liver
oil, my time, temper, teeth, digestive up-
« jmratiis, cure. and.good Evidently looks without affecting
I should have to write
and toil Rosalie Redfern that I found my-
self too ill to go to the theatre with her on
Friday evening. Would she care or
would she compare me disparagingly
wit>\ Biceps, of the Athletic Club, who
never took cold? Very likely she would
send Biceps word that he might call. I
put on a fresh mustard plaster* swallowed
half a pint of iron gargle and a quinine
pill. Then, I said to myself, “Du Cor¬
duroy, what a lack of mental calibre is
this! To curse fate because you cannot
meet an engagement with au eighteen-
year-old girl whom you have known for
six weeks, and instead of considering the
influence of colds upon humanity in gen¬
eral, to be intent upon such petty ramifi¬
cations of the subject as your own per¬
sonal ague, rheumatism and toothache!”
These reflections, which might have re*-
suited in a mind-cure or valuable ethical
conclusions, in the were interrupted by a voice
ball, which announced “A note for
Number 17.” Ila! “Number 17” was
myself, A year of camping out in a
boarding-house had accustomed me to
fietU' myself mentioned as “the third floor
front,” or “No. 17,” or “the single young
man with the eye-glasses and the striped
pants.” At first 1 objected to
“pants.” But I learned to
necept the truth that “trousers”
is an exotic not to be found iu the vo¬
cabulary of the denizens of a boarding¬
house. Possibly this was a note from
Rosalie, and I smiled and feit for a dime
ns the messenger handed it to me. “Mr.
Trencher said I was to call again in au
hour aud a half,” he remarked, and im¬
mediately disappeared, having probably
learned from experience that his com¬
munications were not productive of
dimes. Mr. Bleu Plume Trencher was
the editor of the Weekly Philistine. His
note read:
“Mr. Ii. Du Corduroy:
i “Dear Sir.—Y our copy was expected this
forenoon. Please send as soon as possible, and
•obligo. B. P. Trencher.”
; I sat dowu at my desk. Reader, I
must be frank with you, and if in conse¬
quence you omit the rest of this tale, I
cannot help it. I confess that I was
writing a serial story for the Weekly
Philistine —a journal which rejoiced in
supernatural wood-cuts and sensational
novelettes. I had conducted a happy
family of a detective in citizen's dress,
an escaped maniac, a nobleman incognito,
an enigmatical widow, her three daugh¬
ters, a rich old bachelor, his house¬
keeper, his dissipated nephew, his false
friend, a poor but beautiful orphan girl,
and, as a theatre programme might add,
soldiers,servants, bandits and the populace,
through eighteen chapters. Having in¬
troduced such incidents as the maniac’s
suicide, the apparent abduction of one
of the daughters, the clandestine marriage
of another daughter with the disguised
nobleman and a mysterious robbery, I
had the story well in hand—also the cash
payments for the same. Drawing oc¬
casional inspiration from my carbolic acid
inhaler, 1 hastened my characters through
four unusually troublous chapters before
the messenger called again. Theii I
looked in the mirror and saw that my
nose was red and swollen, my eyes were
half closed and my throat had been
blistered by a hot-water bandage. I
tried to smile tenderly, and the glass re¬
flected an imbecile squint. I attempted
to murmur gracefully: “Good-evening
Miss Rosalie," and the only audible re-
suit a huskv o-urffle, completed dak mv de-
pair', and caused informing me to her that off I my note too
to Rosalie Fridov* was
m to Mil on I delivered it with
the me manuscript manuscript to iu 'the nc messenger, & turned
out the on^vridh the'nairarive
° ° n k of the
consequences o. nf that that pvenino-’s » work *1 let
me describe an incident which was after-
ward told me in explanation of the sud-
den advent of one of mv visitors on the
followin'- Saturdav evening, of which
formal reception e^iag more anSn. The 6:15
Saturday throng^af -in for^reUed residents,
cellaneous suburban
laden with the Sunday dinner, ’ the Satnr-
“ silv«- cilvpr
day , pagers, teundry , , pacL^, +hp
trimmed .lligator-tfan hand-bag, and the
market-baske um:o - - .
filled with cabbage and com-beef.
look“°-m::n'w‘ho T S took their scats in treat
.S'wererKdring cirefu! att'enfion from
the stout matron who shared her seat.
After reading the Weekly Philistine,
they whispered together for a moment,
and then, growing excited, the following
fragments have of their conversation might
been overheard: “It is a mighty
queer had story. It looks like the voung feller
eloped w ith the girl. Hia disappear- “rF
SI Ortoht l:r.d 8 ^IS n p\T
kilW^I S, tr don t see how eD that turning crazy up one as s
empper as ever is going to be explained.
10 which the other replied: “Explained,
man. it cant be explained. There
funeral. was a long account of that lunatic's
That Rudolph du Corduroy has
done something which he won't be able
to acccount for. Now I say—” What
he said was heard only by his companion,
as they gathered up their papers and got
out at Briggsville. A pretty shop-girl
and thirty a flashily dressed woman of about
took their places. They also had
been reading the Weekly Philistine, and
the elder remarked, as she folded the paper:
“I’ve no doubt he is a swell in disguise,
He has married her, I suppose. It has
all been very interesting so far, but I do
not like the latest developments. How is
Du Corduroy going to get out of it killing
that poor fool, and then pretending so
calmly not to have done it at all?” “Well,”
returned her companion, enthusiastically,
“I have liked him all along; I think it is
lovely. He will make it all right. It is
all the more interesting for being kind of
mixed \lp and queer now.” Only oc-
casional phrases of their conversation were
audible after that, and at Chestnut Park
a policeman and a fast-looking young man
in a suit of ready-made clothes took
their seats as they left. “You see,”
said the young man, absently
scanning the Weekly Philistine ,
dom notice that sort of thing, but I
happened to keep track of this, and it
strikes me as an impossible piece of busi-
ness. Why, I could figure out something
better than that myself.” “He’ll have to
explain,” said the policeman. “I have to
stop an hour in Sparta, and when I go
back to the city I shall go and see him
and ask him what it means. I can get his
address from the Weekly Philistine.’' “Oh,
what's the use?” said the other, con-
lemptuously; “that De Colisseum, or De
Colorado, or whatever his name is, has
made a mistake. He can't explain. He
was crazy and committed suicide.” And
they went into the smoking car. An
aristocratic young woman in a green
tailor made gown staggered off the train
at Sparta, declined the smelling salts of-
fered by an observant fellow traveler,
and took the train, which happened to be'
waiting, back to the city.
To return to my own fortunes. On
Friday I narrowly escaped brain fever,
and the doctor, my friend Brown, hinted
that the diet of potash, carbolic acid
vapor, quinine, and the literary effort to
which 1 subjected myself on Thursday,
might have killed me but for the cod
liver oil. On Saturday I grew well fast;
life seemed worth living; I even felt
friendly toward Biceps; and as I heard
the newsboys calling the Weekly Philistine
beneath my window, I planned out my
next serial story, and even had misty
ideas of a novel of which Rosalie should
be the heroine. I would call on Rosalie
to-morrow. Had she missed me? Per-
haps she would not show it if she had. I
thought of her frequently throughout the
day, and even hoped for a note from her.
My ufternoon mail was unusually large—
a bill or two, a letter from my brother in
the West, and the rest in unfamiliar
handwriting, forwarded, as I noticed,
from the Weekly Philistine office, I copy
here a few samples of these surprising
communications:
“Mr. Du Corduroy:
“Sir —What do you mean by a killing of
him, _ and then passing him off again live
as a
man? Do you take the reading public for
fools? Maybe you was drunk when you got
things so mixed; but you had better stop that
sort of nonsense and explain, if you do not
want to be boycotted. Yours, etc.,
“Hiram Stone.”
“AIv DEAF Mr Du Corduroy _-What
does it mean? I was so relieved when that un-
fortunate insane individual killed himself!
4V as it not an actual suicide? Pray do not
have him come to life again. He was so
weird! I can hardly wait for the next num-
be,-, and enclose a stamp, hoping that you
will let me know the meaning of your last
four sider chapters. Hoping that you will not con-
my note an intrusion, for I am aware
that literary men have lots on then-minds, I
remain, your constant Estelle reader,
“Miriam Sprig gins. ”
“Mr. II. Du Mr.—I Corduroy: sells Weekly
“Dear the Phil., and
my customers is making inquiries, and I
think I could write a better story myself, and
if there is any sense in the last edition of that
of yours we fail to see it, and will feel obliged
if you will point It out. Yours as a friend,
“Bill Timmins.”
There were others, signed and un¬
signed, coherent and otherwise, written
in evident good faith, and written iu a
satirical vein. Gradually the truth forced
itself upon me. I consulted the back
numbers of the Philistine, and discovered
tuat , after „ , having . my maniac . kill himself
in the most horrible and detailed manner
in chapter 13, I had introduced him again
m the last paper, in chapter 19 m a
particularly vigorous condition, without a
word of explantiou. I collapsed on the
bed, but aroused myself sufficiently to
direct the hall boy to admit no callers for
me. After an hour or more the boy au-
nounceu: “There s been texera e ows
here, sir-a queer lot—but I told them
you was ill. This one insisted on coming
up, and says—”
The poor boy rtev er got any fui thei in
that remark. An unseen force sent him
half-way down the hall, and Mr. B. P.
Trencher entered. The revised and ex¬
purgated version of his remarks which I
feel const-uined to give is comparatively
inadequate and lacking in point.
“I would not have had this haopen for
a thousand dollars. We are the laugh-
ing-stock of the town, Du Corduroy.
Are you in the habit of getting drank, or
are you subject to fits of mental aberra-
tion *?*> ?
“Mr. Trencher, I replied, .. , “I forgot—
I entirely forgot the fact that 1 hadkiHed
that man m a preceding chapter. I was
in. I w® seriously ill. It ™
tmfortunste result ot » state ot mind due
indisnorition ”
“Well, sir. will you make up what you
are pleased to call your this mind as to what
i« is to to be be done done aooui about mis matter’ maner. Whr nny. I i
have edited thut paper tueutv years and
never had such a thing happen before.
Vou say I ought to have read over your
copy. I took it im' granted that yon
J™™*
made the greatest mistake of mylifein
supposing that yon were capable of re-
membering membe g from one week to the next,
^
P ^ ^ ^
^ propose & to sav in the next
'
t meMr
Above this verbal cyclone I heard a
in a green tailor-made gown, who threw
herself into my arms and exclaimed,
**Oh, Rudolph! have you committed sui¬
cide or gone crazy, or—or—married any
one? What have you done? Two hor-
rid-looking men on the cars said that
you had eloped, and had gone crazy, and
that a detective had discovered vou. And
: two women, very odd-looking women.
t0 kD °d VOU V and t0 - tO like r
*
; very much; h and a policeman and l another
man thought that you could not explain
yourself. L very one is talk mg about you.
hat is the Weekly Philistine? Is it an
anarchist club or something? Oh dear!”
j It was Rosalie. She was weeping on my
shoulder. She let me kiss her and tell
her again and again that I loved her too
much to do any of those things. And
j when at last she looked up for a minute I
j ceased to fear the rivalry of Biceps or
anyone else. A little later Mr. Trencher
finished his observation of the scenery
from the window, Rosalie seated herself
, primly on the edge of a chair, and we
; discussed the matter of the story.
“Now,” said Rosalie, Mr. Trencher
having been introduced to her, and my
mishap and the nature of the Weekly Phil-
iatine having been explained to her, “you
will insert in the next paper a notice,
signed by you, Mr. Trencher, saying that
if the public—
“ The discriminating publtf, I sug-
gested.
“Y if the discriminating . . public will
es.
restrain its impatience
“Natural impatience,” I suggested
again,
“Natural impatience, it will soon
understand—”
“The recent startling developments in
Mr. Du Corduroy’s tale,” sadly from
me.
“Which more than usually illustrates
peculiarly attractive style,” from
Trencher.
“And original conceptions of plot and
character,” triumphantly, from Rosalie,
“Very good,” said Trencher. “On
the whole, it will be a fine advertisement.
But how r will you explain it?” he asked
me, but he looked at Rosalie,
“Oh, he can do it,” she replied, “I
will help him.”
Between us we managed to concoct an
an explanation of the resuscitation of my
suicide. It spoiled the story from an ar¬
tistic point of view, but Trencher says that
he never published a more popular serial.
Now I am a member of the firm of Red-
fern & Du Corduroy, bankers, and the
only stories I compose are for a listener
who is not over-critical if I confess the
plot—my little daughter Rosalie.— llar-
per's Weekly .
Gems .and Their Composition,
“No,” said the chemist, “the ruby is
not called a ruby because it is red, for
the topaz, which may be yellow or a deli¬
cate wine color, and the sapphire, which
is blue, are both rubies. The humble
toiler consoling himself with his clay to¬
bacco pipe, the potter molding the plastic
clay into shape upon his magic wheel, or
the delver in damp slate quarries, proba¬
bly does not know that his pipe and his
clay and his brittle slate are of the very
substance from which the flaming Orien¬
tal ruby, the mellow torpaz and the rich
sapphire are evolved; but such is the
fact. They are among the most beautiful
of gems, yet are but simple crystals of a
sillaceous earth—mere cits of alumina.
The glorious blue light that lurks within
the sapphire is the chemical action of one
grain of iron on every 100 grains of
alumina. The red ruby owes its bright¬
ness and hue to a mingling of chromic
acid with the parent clay*.
“Different from the Oriental topaz is
the topaz from Brazil, w T hich, beautiful
as it is, is nothing but a compound of
silica, or flint, and alumina, -which also
make the garnet, and largely compose the
Occidental emerald and the beryl stone.
These two stones also contain an earth
known as glucina, so called because of
the sweetness of the salts discovered in it.
“The diamond is the king of gems, a
monarch blazin £ like the sun > and the
opal is its moonlight queen. Yet, as every
one knows, the diamond is only a chip of
coal, and the opal, as every one does not
, Kno "’ “Simply s ; Tlirilv a mingling tn imrlimr ol nf silica silica and anct
water. But the diamond is the spiritual
evolution of coal, the realization of its
highest .° being. ° Ten parts 1 of water and
. parts . of . silica, ... combined , . , . the
nineiy in
mystic crucible of nature, form the opal,
the water giving to the gem that shifting,
changeable, irridescent coloring which is
the opal's peculiar charm. Who would
imagine that the fire in the opal is not
fire at all, but, of all things, water! And
yet the silica that holds the radiant
moisture captive is the common flint from
which our forefathers struck the igniting
j sparks into their tinder boxes.
“But the opal is not the only precious
! stone that owes its being to flint. The
amethyst, the cat's-eye, the Egyptian
l jasper—all are idealizations of the ulti-
' mate efforts of natural chemistry acting 1
QQ silica What is the lapLs r lazuli?
. bit of common earth painte d throughout
. sul huret of sodium A nd the
| turquoi5e _ wh , t forms it? and . how did it
j receive it soft , pale blue color? Tlle tur-
ige is f hosphate 4 of alumina, and eop-
Chrysolite in th( eai it its lovely hue.
is pure silicate of magnesia,
| of the rare decorative stones and marbleSi
, jj tbe re were no carbonate of copper the
; seeker after malach it e would find his
search fruitless, and the sculptor would
sigh in vain for the matchless Carrara
. marb i e jf there was no carbonate of lime,
—New York Sun.
Waltzing Ostriches.
“Ostriches, like cattle, are liable to
stampede,” said a Cape Town man now
at the Palace Hotel, “but the funniest
thing they do is to waltz.”
“How, pray, is that done?”
“The leader of the herd, generally an
male ostrich, evidently thinks that
his followers should have some diversion
on a long march from one pasture to an-
........
j fully turning round and round. in tne
,
the tvholcfioc-k ,s domg th« ,am P ,
.it B quite » s.ght; then long plumes
waving m the wind until they conclude
^ quit and go on their way. Music, of
course, has nothing to do with their
dancing ."—San Francisco Call.
An Intellectual Infant.
There . , Fort r , \ alley, „ Ga., . . ,. the
is m in
pemon of htt e Belli. Hams aged s.x-
p“d^' £
ticnlates well but knows the infant cate-
ehrsm by heart: also dte county sue was
bom in (Crawford), '„ ; the town she live* m,
the c01m rite th e Dames of the Presi .
dmt and Vice-President, the Governor,
and the Mayor of Port Valley: can count
up to fit, T , and says the alphabet with
great rapidity. Beside all this she is
hear her talk— CaeinneU JS*prinr,
SOUTHERN FARMERS
I
CAN Gl T SOME INTERESTING
NEWS BY READING THIS.
_
J ^ vox so ha, bad addressed a let-
ter t0 tbe Atlanta, Ga., Constitution ,
saving . “I notice in vour issue of a re-
C ent dite an . r icle headed, ‘Corput’,
Grapes Have Been Attacked bv ’to Bi ght or
Phvloxera.” This w. s news me. 1
have 18, COO vines, and if there is the
least sign of blight among tinra, I have
never seen it. There is no decay to either
vine or fruit a 3 stated, and at present
the only fear I have of losing my very
full crop of grapes is from excessive
bearing, luded hail or wind. The insects al-
to did not come from my vioeynrd,
but from my cellar, as I informed Dr.
Clifton, giving h m a detailed account of
their appearance, and my ineffectual ef-
forts to destroy them with the fumes of
sulphur- Every vineyardist who makes
hiB business a study is well pos ed on the
appearance cf the phylloxera, an nows
^ " \ ‘
’
whi b tent Dr . C ifton were
kd ^harp-headed, eight-legged, horny-bod-
devoid of antenna?. I inclose a
rough sketch of both the phylloxera from
TOC mory, and the insect in my cellai
from actual observation through a mi
croscope.
Insect in my cellar—Eight legs, no antennae.
Specimens of these insects have also been
sent to Prof. C. V. Riley, at Washington,
D. C., and Prof. 'White,at the University
of Georgia. The only resemblance to the
phylloxera is its size and perhaps a slight
n semblance as to color.
Phyloxera—Six legs and antenna.
The cultivation of grapes is a new
paratively industiy iu the South, in in fact, com¬
speaking, America; and,
fearing that the article in question
might have a tendency to work an injury
to what a few of us are trying to success¬
fully build up in Geo-gia, I ask that you
give this communication a like promi¬
nence to that occupied by the article iu
Satuiday’s paper.”
In a second letter, Maj. Corput says:
“1 fear grape growers have been given an
unnecessary phylloxera in scare. I it, have
written Dr. Clifton regard to but
thinking the matter had better be set at
rest at once, will give tj*e following as
the fruits of my researches,—Prof. W.
O. Coner, of the deaf and dumb insti¬
tute, and myself have been investigating
the matter for some time, but until to¬
day had never satisfactorily located these
insects "NVe now believe them to be sugar
mites (Tyroglysphus Sacchari) and
to belong The to the spider is family (aeari-
dea). phy loxera louse known to be¬
long to the p'aut family (hemip-
tera) and is entirely different in appear¬
ance to the mites sent Dr. Clifton. For
sixty days after pressing my wine I al¬
lowed the p mace to remain packed in
barrels in the cellar, and I now have no
doubt this is where they originated. Nc
grape vines of any kind have ever been in
the cellar. I send this communication
ns a supplement to mine of the 27th, and
in the interest of those who might feel
scared up on the question. I further
desire to assure the grape growers of
Georgia that the phylloxera business, so
far as vines in this section are concerned,
is a groundless scare.”
THE MELON CHOP.
Last year according to the statistics ol
the Albany, Ga., convention of melon
growers, the net return to growers aver¬
aged $48 on melons in ventilated and $7
on those in box cars. It is a desideratum
this year to use as few box cars as possi¬
ble. Last year about twenty-five pei
cent of the crop was shipped in box cars.
This year the roads propose to do much
better in this respect. The East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail¬
road say they will beat everything
they have done heretofore by using ven-j
tilated cars and fast schedules. Thera
are new* lines which will compete as out-*
lets for the Georgia business. The Ma*
con and Covington will take melons
from Macon to Athens and there deliver
them to tho Richmond and Danville.
The melons from the new teritory on the
Georgia Southern and Florida will largely
go that way, Tt is thought. Those from
the Atlanta and Florida can go out by
any of the lines from Atlanta east or west.
The additional crop on the 1,000 acres
mew territory between Macon and Coch¬
ran has been sold ahead in Boston. It is a
special crop, and Mr. Griffin thinks will
turn out from 500 to 600 cars of select
fruit. The East Tennessee line, of course,
will carry that business as far as Nor¬
folk. The Savannah, Florida and
Western trains to Albany will also con¬
nect with fast freight schedules of about
ten hours to Atlanta, and there with
twenty n.iles an hour schedules over
the Wcs’ern and Atlantic railroad
to Chattanooga and the West.
The Chattanooga, Rome & Columbus
road proposes to do some business by a
connection with the Central by way of
Carrollton. Its road bed and motive
power will be good hut it is not known
how* many ventilated cars it has at its
disposal. The drought in South Geor¬
gia is threatening the crop in that yield part
of the state and may reduce the
below what has been anticipated. Rail¬
road est’mates of the melon crop of
Georgia are now about as follows:
From the line of the East Tennessee
road.......................... 600 cars
From the line of the Savannah. Flor¬
ida and Western road........... 2,000 cars
From the line of the Georgia South¬
ern and Florida road........... 1,000 cars
From the line of the Atlanta and
Flo ida road................... 1.100 cars
From the line of tl e Central road... 273UO cars
From the line of the Georgia road.. 250 cats
Total 7,250 c&- s
This is abou f 2,000 cars more than last
vear’s crop, The rates are in the hands
of the railroads, and tbe following are
the freights to some of the leading
points:
RATES FEE CAB OF 24,000 POUNDS. .$31
Atlanta to Chicago... ...............
Atlanta to Buffalo, N Y...............
Atlanta to Cinci >r,ali.................. 45
Atlanta to Cleveland. Ohio.:.......... 76
Atlanta o De rot'. Mich............... TO
Atlanta to Evan-vi !e, Ind............. 45
Atlanta to LonisvilD, Ky....
Atlanta to Indianapolis, Ind 67
Atlanta Atlanta to Pittsburg, Louis, Mo........ Ta........ 76 CO
to St, .....64 X
Atlanta to Memphis, Tenn...... 45 <©
Vtianta to Nashville. Tenn...... .. 28 CD
,
* ' ‘ ' '
^ 1 Alliance men of Coweta
:ounty, Georgia, . agreed to operate a
“
warehou-e of Powell & Russell for the
^re year three ending September 1st, 1889. There
warehouses in Newnan con-
trolled by Powell & Russell. Arnold Jc
Burdett and the other bv Brown & Pow-
ell. The Allianccmen have just learned
that these warehouses have all been
rented for the next year, J therebv leaving
*
tluni . without . . , 'warehouse x to . , handle
auj
their year's crop. Therefore they are now
cmsu ting as to the best plan to be indc-
pendent of tho warehousemen who are
not Allisncem.u. t ii: They ti.o,. propose as „„ „„„ one
plan to fjuud a warehouse of their own
by assessing each member twenty-five
cents a bale of cotton he raises this'vear,
to weighers, put tip the necessary and building, draymen, employ
markers all of
whom are to be members of the Alliance,
thereby running the warehiftise on tbe
most economical basis. Niewnan cener-
a .. handles __r___it from 14,0 non l 0 to It m non 000 bales „
-
annually, and a majority of the farmers
belong to the Alliance. They think they
can put 1 up ^ a warehouse and handle thesr
crop this season for about $5,00 >, and by
*»e»$ing each man according to the num¬
ber of bales raised, they would equal ze
the expenses upon a fair and equituble
basis. By this arrangement they s y
they can save money, give employment
only to their members, and hire their
own watchmen, bookkeepers, and other
offict rs. They proprose to put in several
scales so as to weigh their cotton with
dispatch, and have their own sworn
weighers. This plan is meeting with
general approval among all the Wheel in
the county.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
MOVEMENTS OF TIIE PRESIDENT
AND I1IS ADVISERS.
AFPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Admiral Kimberly reports to the War
Department that, the Samoan natives arc
disbanding and that peace prevails.
The Indian Defence Association, com¬
posed mostly of Eastern people, and Sec¬
retary Noble of the Interior Department
are liaviDg a warm quarrel. The trouble
is caused by the Sioux Reservation
schools, and the will endeavor to protect
the Indians by inducing President Harri¬
son to influence and overrule Noble’s
action.
The monitor Puritan, which for ytars
has been a monitor only in name—never
having been supplied transformed with turrets or
guns—will soon be into an
armored vessel of modern type of great
power, and her recent trip from Norfolk
to New York was ordered by S. cretary
Tracy with the view to placing the vessel
in the yard where important work yet to
be done can bo most speedily executed
and to the best advantage.
The recent change in station of two
artillery regiments is giving rise to nu¬
merous protests, and it is said that a
strong effort is being made to have the
details of the Fourth artillery from Fort
Adams, Newport harbor, to Atlanta,
Ga., revoked. Atlanta is the new army
post, aud the objection to occupjing it
on account of its being unhealthy, lias
been suggested, but the health authori¬
ties of the city have filed affidavits at the
War Department a9 to its salubrity.
The belief that Congress will be called
together before December, is expressed
by every prominent politician of either
party who is, or has been, in Washington
within the last six weeks. It is the gen¬
eral belief also that the special session
nliich is to follow will be marked by
some of the fiercest political struggles in
which have taken place in Congress the a
dozen years or more. In the House
Republican majority, according to the
certificates on file in the office of the
is three.
Fourth Auditor Lynch, who has the
distinction of being the only colored bu-i
rcau officer in the service of the govern¬
ment, has performed an act which caus< i
some comment, in the selection of Miss
Fommerville as confidential secretary, an
office entirely within his own jurisdic¬
tion. There are three features of this
appointment which make it particularly
notewoithy. In the first place the ap-
pointe is a woman; in the second she is
colored, and in the third she is a near
relative, being the auditor’s sister-in-law.
A committee representing the surviv¬
ing members of the Philadelphia brigade,
on Monday presented a new silk flag of
the regulation size, and containing forty-
two stars, to Gen. Pickett’s division, of
Virginia. The two commands frequently
faced each other in battle during the late
War, and fought bravely against each
other at Gettysburg. After a brief
speech by John W. Frazier, chairman of
the Philadelphia brigade’s committee,
narrating the purposes of their meeting,
Col. Reilly made a formal address, pre¬
senting the flag to his former foemen.
Col. B. B. Berkeley received the flug on
behalf of the Pickett camp. Postmaster
General Wanamaker and Corporal Tan¬
ner were present, and made short
speeches.
It is reported to the Navy Department
that tbe United States steamer Yantic,
Commander J. C. Rockwell, arrived at
New York Saturday. On May 21, in
latitude 38, longitude 68, while on spe
cial duty destroying wrecks, she wa*
struck bv a hurricane from the south,
which lasted three hours. She was
thrown on her beam ends, and lay in
that conditiou for one hour. To right
the ship, the launch, which was full ol
water,* was cut away. This proved un
successful however, and the foremast
had to be cutaway. Three small boats
also were lost, and the main and mizzer.
topmasts and part of the bowsprit wert
carried away. Some of tbe crew wer<
slightly injured. The Yantic had bet r,
running away from a southeastern cy¬
clone for two days previous.
News of what is claimed to be a most
important discovery, destined to revo-
lutionize matters in the world of metals
and benefit the world in general, cornea
to us from Europe. It is asserted that
a German scientist has discovered a pro¬
cess by which aluminum can be made at
about the cost of first-class steel. Alum¬
inum is a pure white metal, one-third
the weight of steel, ab^ollately it incorros- would
ive, and of such tenacity that
almost entirely supplant building, not only the
heavier metals used in but
could also bs utilized for countless do¬
mestic purposes. Vehicles, engines, ar¬
tillery, ships, from kee: to topmast, al¬
most anything in fact, could be most ad¬
vantageously constructed of it. In Let,
if the dreams of its inven’or become re¬
alized, tbe iron age, like the bronze and
stone which have prvcided infinitely i', thus, now
give plaoe to something ‘pre.le more
useful and beautiful than its
oessor.
PRIMITIVE PATRIOTS.
The safety and strength of our nation must*
ever rest in the home-t of its people. .
In the log cabins of early days our fathers*
lived. Simple homes they were, bat frotnl
within their mud-chmked w&! s there sprang ai
Sfi,"" OI to " tor hom * *“*
Strong in body and mind, they laid tbeToun-
dation of America's greatness. Well was thrift
work performed, for up m that solid rock lia“
grown, as years have passed, the imposing
structure of cherished indep nd enee.
Stately and grand, it is worthy of its des gn-t
ers.
Though the heroes of that time have long,
•in e passed away, th *y have left us rich by in4
heritanao.
Whilst our fathers were planning America’^
moth< ^ 8 0
for in their ever-tnmdful care fer the wei*artf
their loved ones, they discovered some ot
the best remedial agents known for the relief of
the sick.
000(1 ®I<i-fadiioned home-cures, prepared
, from roots ani herbs—they have ever been
standards of excellency.
Though lost for a time has been the prepara^
tion of the.-e old-time ‘’home-cures,” they are
ȣ*in revived, and are known to tho S^S public as
the bc-t of the old-time blood purifiers,
In those times tvery family was its own doc-
tor, and th* lisroes and heroines of early day^
w erc wond rfully healthful and long-iived.
Amenci owes its freedom to the rugged
bodies and healthy minds of our fathers,andsd
long ns the spirit of freedom they instilled pre¬
vails and a true appreciation of our grand in¬
•htutions remains, there is no dauger of thd
dowufall of tho Republic.
Pigeons a Success.
Superintendent Given, of the Rock Is¬
land Road, in Iowa, is making experi¬
ments with carrier pigeons, with a view
graph to using them to supplement the tcle-<
tervice. lie sent thirty-four pig¬
eons by express from his home to Brook¬
lyn, a station on the Rock Island, seven¬
ty miles east, and they were released by
the station agent there. The birds first
rose in the air and made a circuit of thd
town as if to get their bearings, and
then to. k a bee-line straight west toward
home. They made the seventy miles
back in less than two hoars, and all but
three reached Superintendent Given’s
house in good condition. Wind storms
often render the telegraph line useless,
even if the wires are not blown down,
a.-.u a set of carrier pigeons at each siation
might be made very s rviceable iu such
an emergency.
A Rich WidoM.
The subscription raised for Mrs. Gar¬
field aggregated, when invested in gov 1
eminent bonds, ahout $312,000. Gen.
Garfield’s life was iusured for $50,000,
the payment of which the companies
promptly made. Congress also voteit
Mrs. Garfield the remainder of the salary
which would have been due Gen. Gar 1
field for the first year of service as presi-*
dent, which amounted to $40,000. The
little estate which Garfield left aggre¬
gated some 130,000. This was all that
he had been able to accumulate after a
life of unnsual activity. This makes her
total estate, in round numbers, about
$450,000 in money well invested. From
this an income of probably $16,000 it)
derived. In addition to that, she has
from Congress an annual pension ol
$5,000.
Public and Private Morals.
Pulitics ought to be conceived of as a
branch of ethics. “Tbe discussion ol
virtue is the province of political
science.” The end of the social organ¬
ism, like the end of the individual or¬
ganism, is freedom. freedom And the only in¬
strument of is the moral law.
The public conscience should dominata
customs, legislation, diplomacy, just al
the personal conscience should dominate
the thoughts, words, and works of every
man.— Forum.
If disease has entered the system the only
way to drive it out is to purify and enrich the
blood. To this end. as is acknowledged by all
medical men, nothing is better adapted than
iron. The fault hitherto has b en that iron
could not be 60 prep tied as to be absolntely
harmless to the teeth. Thisdifflcu ty has been
overcome by tho Brown Chemical Company of
Bitters Baltimore, Md., faultless who offer their Brown’s Iron
as a dyspepsia. Iron preparation, Indigestion, kidney a posi¬
tive euro for
troubles, etc.
Prince Bismarck inaugurated a scheme to
hurt Boulanger through English newspapers.
What is sweeter than roses
That bloom in the beamy of June?
Or 1 he stately and fragrant lilies
Whose bells ring a summer tune?
Ah, sweeter the roses blowing
On the cheeks of those we love,
And the lily of health that's glowing
The cheeks’ red rose above. in
But how soon the lily and the rose w (her
the fares of our American women. Why is it?
Simply because so many of them are victims
of weaknesses, irregularities and functional
derangements incidental to the sex. If they
would use Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
all these beauty and health-destroying ni tt -
ments might be warded off, and we wou
hear less about women “growing old before
their time.”
To regulate the stomach, liver and bowels,
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets excel. One a dose.
Austria lias sent a special commissions
to the U. S. to study agricultural methods.
Bad Habits.
Habitual constipation gives rise to plies and
to other dangerous and painful affections, all
of which may be cured by the use of Hamburg
Figs, a fruit laxative which even children like.
26 cents. Dose one Fig. Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
Ftud enis. Teachers (male or female), I’lergy-
men and should others in need write of change of employ-
ment, not fail to to B. F. Johnson
& t o., 1000 Main St., Richmond. Va. Then*
grea ideas success about shows lliat they have got tho
show true how making odd money. hours They can
you toemploy profitably.
Oregon, ilie Paradise of Farmers.
Mild, equable c’imate, certain and abundant
crops. in nest the fruit, world. grain, Full information grass and stocM
country free;
Addre s Dreg. Iin’igr’t’n Board, Portland, Ore.
N/YCity*TcauTttlntPn fc?th-(r adv banker^ heS
fle.d’s Female Regulator, bold by druggists.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp¬
son’s Eye-water. Druggists rellat25c.per bottle
Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
of Piso’s Cure for < on : umpiion. 25c.
All T-r.-il tlutfiom tin depres’mz effect of the
ch«r>zint; sea-on, <r by bard work and worry-yoq
r.e-d the to.dug, bui'ding op, i erve--trengiheiiinft
off clot Hood’s Srirsapai :ila to g you a feeing ol
Health ai.d strength ag ue. Siid by a l druggists.
3 sure to get H od’s.
for so diersand
f-ss, no fee. S. WARD
Washington, D. C.
EARACHE DROPS
easii. C. C. KRAEMER , CfU Marion St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
ri g 'oSSndny. iSampiee worth 88.15 Free.
L.ofch^ not under ^eet.^ Wme Brevr-
AN EXCELLENT INVESTMENT
FOR EVERYBODY.
SAFE AND SECURE.
\T * T MTII WHITE $2 CROSS SECURE YOB CAN BOND, A
HOLLAND
THBEEDISTRIBt THAV-E. E■ v V v v 11 ?
EVERV-BONDMCsr^BE redeemed.
The redemptions take plaes on
APRIL 1, AUG. 1 AND DEC, 1
of each and every year.
The following enormous Premiums are distributed!
Floriitf. Florin*.
1 Premiam a 200,000 — ‘200,000
2 Premiums n 50.000 — 100.000
1 Premiii ni a .5.000- .5.000
2 Premiums a -..500— .5.000
2 Premiums a *2.000— 4.000
2 Premiums a 1.000 — 2.000
2 Premiums a 500 — 1.000
2 Premiums a 250 — 500
10 Premiums a 100 — 1.000
40 Premiums a 50 — 2.300
.5(1 Premiums a 25 — 1.250
>80 PreniiumsR 14— TO.020
Making a Grand Total of 332.07 0 Florins T>. C.,
distributed this year. Any one of these premiums
you may get If you hold such a bond. Every bond¬
holder must receive at least 14—75 florins wlica hll
bond is redeemed if ho does not receive a larger
premium. We herewith repeat what wo have said
before—EVERY BOND MI ST RE REDEEMED.
These bonds were issued iu the rich aud nourish¬
ing country in of Holland and approved by ROYAL
DECREE, addition to which a SPECIAL GUAR¬
ANTEE and RESERVE FUND amounting to 7.45d.d»
HOLLAND FLORINS are deposited GOVERNMENT in the Bank BANK of
tn« he Netherlands (which is the
OF HOLLAND) to secure the redemption of the loan
and the p ayment of the premiums,
We otTe rthese bonds to yon at the exceedingly
low price of Eight ($5.00) Dollars cash, upon receipt
of which we will immediately forward to > ou the
bond, or. If purchased upon monthly instalments,
ws will allow vou to pay for the same at the rate of
Two ($2.0'1 Dollars a month for five months, allow¬
ing you the same rights and privileges as you would
have if you paid the full price down at once.
Mon ev can best be sent either by DRAFTS on New
York. POSTOFFICE or EXPRESS MONEY ORDERS
or Iu REGISTERED LETTERS to the following ad¬
dress: INTERNATIONAL BANKING CO.,
Established SI and SS Broadway,
1874 . New York Cl ty-
N. B.—These Bonds a re not to be compared v.-i til
any kind of Lottery Lo or Lottery scheme prohibited by
law, as decided by the Court of Appeals of N. V.
State, by the Circuit Court of the V. S. District of
N. Y., by the Criminal Court of St. Louis. Mo., and
by the Superior Court of San Frauclsco. Cal. They
are therefore legally transmitted through the
malls and a legitimate article for commerce. Wo
refer by permission to
Messrs. J. * W.Seligman * Co.,Mills Bldg.,S.Y.( •tty.
Messrs. Kessler It Co.. 54 Wall St.. N. Y. City-
Anglo-Austrlan Bank. Vicuna, Austria.
Austrian-Laender Bank, Vienna. Austria.
AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE.
Mention this paper.
isia
Sold bv all druggists. Information furnished.
SO HEN MINERAL SPRINGS C’O. (Limited),
Sole Agents, 15 CEDAR ST., NEW YORK.
l:iaA2SABL3 CAC3.
For two years I had
rheumatism so bad that
it disabled me for work
and confined me to my
bed for a whole year,
could during which tin:o I
not even raise my
hands to my head, and
for 3 months could not
move myselfin bcd.was
reduced in fl.-fh from
192 to Sd lbs. Was treat¬
ed by best physicians,
Finally I took Swift’s ->=- Specific, only and to grow worse.
Improve. After while soon began ta
a was at my work, and for tho
past five months have been as well as I ever was—all
from the effects of Swift’s Specific.
Jan. 18SD. Joiin Ray,
8, Ft. Wayne, lud.
Books on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
Swift Specific Co.. Atlanta, Ga.
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Cures all Diseases Peculiar to Women!
Book to “Woman” Mailed Fuel.
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341 roond 14 Pills.
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CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes druggists. good. Use
in time. Sold by
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jggSr ffifcAM.*. d..
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tds Hrd only by tbs We have sold Big G ior
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