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SUFFERING IN CHINA.
Flood and Fire Play Fearfnl
Havoc in the Celestial Empire.
A letter from Shanghai gives the de¬
tails of terrible floods and famine which
have prevailed recently in the interior
districts of uorthern China. The gov¬
ernor that general of Li-Hang-Chang have suffered reports
the people of Schuan
terribly by flo d, which destroyed tem-
pies,bridges and city walls in no less than
ten districts. In Wen-Chuan the loss of
life will reach fully 1,000. Immediately
following the flood nt Pol Chang a fire
broke out and destroyed thirty-five
houses. In three other places
houses were burned to the nura-
ber of 200. The suffering among the
poor is somith’ng terrible. The roads
everywhere at e difficult of pass ige, and
crowds of starving wretches on their way
to Shanghai, and how to deal with them
will be an anxious and difficult problem
for those in power to solve. Corn has
risen to double the usual price, and ka-
oiiang stalks for fuel cmnot be had at
any price, and for building purposes they
bring 80 cash (4 cents) per stalk. Cot-
ton, one of the staple products, is an en-
tire failure this year, thus bringing up
the price bjyond the purchase of the
poor.
*Kie Big Whistle,
And deeply bellowed the engine,
^JA n grow a r d sped the train;
Athwart my window, in showers •
The sparks to rearward sped—•
The fiery breath of the monster
Of steam and steel ahead.
Anon we neared a highway,
And the hollow of the night
Was stirred by the voice of the demon
And I shuddered in affright;
And anon we neared a village,
And the whistle’s terrible roar
Proclaimed the power of the engine
And the speed at which we tore.
With a steed so strong and mighty,
(Conductor said, “Old No. 4’’;,
I knew that we were flying
A hundred miles an hour!
And I grasped the seat before me,
And braced my feet for a crash,
With that whistle at crossroads bawling
In our mad, impetuous dash.
I clinched my teeth at the danger,
And ray heart like a plummet dropt;
When, after an hour of terror,
The train at a station stopt;
Then I found to my consternation,
That only ten miles we had gone—
The demon, a “pony” engine
With a great big whistle on !
RESUME.
The steam at that whistle wasted,
Might have yielded far more speed;
A. man’s imagination
Is an easy thing to mislead;
And there are engines human
On a very similar plan.
Who are blowing too much whistle,
And showing too little man.
—[A. A, Bellaw, in Detroit Free Press.
A FOREST KING.
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.
fn the early 50‘s I myself saw the
grizzlies feeding in numbers together
under the trees far up the Sacramento
Valley, as tranquilly as a flock of
sheep. A serene, dignified and very-
decent old beast was the full-grown
grizzly as Fremont and others found
him here at home. I think it not well,
therefore, that he should be permitted
to pass entirely away along with the
vulgar herd of American bear family
without some fair mention of his most
notable features. This king of the
continent, who is quietly abdicating
his throne, has never been understood.
The grizzly was not only every inch a
king, but he liad in his undisputed
dominion a pretty fair sense of justice.
He was never a roaring lion. He was
never a man-eater. He is indebted for
his character for ferocity almost en¬
tirely to tradition, but in some degree
to the female bear when seeking to
protect her young. Of course, the
grizzlies are good fighters when forced
to it. But as for lying in wait for
any one, like the lion, or creeping cat¬
like, as the tiger does, into camp to
carry off some one for supper, such a
thing was never heard of in connec¬
tion with the grizzly.
The grizzly went out as the Ameri¬
can rifle came in. I do not thin! he
retreated. He was a lover of 1 o:n)
and family, and so fell where he was
born. For he is still found here and
there all up and down the land, as the
Indian is still found, but he is no
longer the majestic and serene king of
the world. His whole life has been
disturbed, broken up; and his temper
rained. He is a cattle thief now, and
even a sheep tiiief. In old age he
keeps close to his canon by clay, deep
in the impenetrable chapparal, and at
night shuffles down hill to some hog
pen, perfectly careless of dogs and
pistol shots, and, tearing out a whole
side of the pen, feeds his fill on the
inmates.
One of the interior counties kept a
standing reward for the capture of au
oldgiizzlyof this character for sev¬
eral years. But he defied everything;
and he escaped everything but old age.
Some hunters finally crept into where
the old king lay, nearly blind and
dying of old age, and dispatched him
with a volley from several Winchester
rifles.
It was found that he was almost
toothless, both his fore paws bad been
terribly mutilated by numerous steel
traps, and it is said that his kingly old
carcass had received nearly lead
enough to sink a small ship, There
was no meaus of ascertaining his ex¬
act weight, hot it was claimed that
skin, bono and bullets, as he was
found, would have weighed well ou to
ft ton.
And yet we are letting this king of
two continents pass into oblivion
without e\en so much as an epitaph or
•ven a respectable character.
I know an old Indian who was ter-
ribl\ frightened by an old monster
frizzl% and her half-grown cub one
autumn white out gathering manzineta
berries. But badly as be was fright-
ened, be was not even scratched.
It seems that while he had his head
raised and was busy gathering and eat-
ing berries he almost stumbled over
an old bear and her cub. They had
eaten their fill and fallen asleep in the
trail on the wooded hillside. The old
Indian had only time to turn on his
heel and throw himself headlong in
the large end of a log which luckily
lay at hand. This, however, was only
a temporary refuge. He saw to his
delight that the log was open at the
other end, and corkscrewing his way
along toward the other end where he
saw a largo opening before him, he
was about to emerge when, to his dis¬
may, he saw the old mother sitting
down quietly waiting for him. The
poor Indian contrived to turn about
by great labor.
After recovering his breath as best
he could in his hot and contracted
quarters, he elbowed and corkscrewed
himself back to the placo by which he
first entered. But lol the bear was
there, sitting down, half smiling, and
waiting to receive him warmly. This,
the old Indian said, was repeated time
after time, till ho had no longer
strength to struggle further, and lay
on his face to die, when she put her
head in, took a step or two forward,
touched the end of his head gently
with her nose and then drew back,
took her cub with her and shuffled on
down the hill.
I went to the spot with the Indian a
day or so afterward, and am convinced
that his story was exactly as narrated.
And when you understand that the beat
could easily have entered the hollow
log and killed the Indian at any time,
you will see that she had at least a
faint sense of fun in that “cat and-
mouse” amusement with the frightened
Indian.
Not long ago, about the time a party
of Americans were setting out for
India to hunt the tiger, a young banker
from New York came to California to
hunt what he rightly considered the
nobler beast.
He chartered a small steamer in San
Francisco bay, and taking with him a
small party of friends, as well as a
great grandson of Daniel Boone, who
is a famous hunter, for a guide, he
sailed up the coast to the red-wood
wilderness of Humboldt. Here he
camped on the banks of a small stream
in a madrona thicket, and proceeded
to hunt for his bear. He found
his bear, an old female with
young cubs. As Boone was nat¬
urally in advance when the beast was
suddenly stumbled upon, he had to do
the fighting, and this gave the banker
from the Slates a chance to scramble
up a small madrona. Of course he
dropped his gun.
They always do drop their guns by
some singularly sad combination of
accidents, when they start up a tree
with two rows of big white teeth in
the rear, and it is hardly fair to ex¬
pect the young bear-hunter from New
York to prove an exception. Poor
Boone was severely maltreated by the
savago old mother grizzly in defense
of her young. There wa9 a crashing
of brush and a crashing of bones, and
then all was still.
Suddenly the bear seemed to re¬
member that there was a second party
who had been in earnest search for a
bear. Coming forward she reared up
under the tree and began to claw for
the capitalist. He told me that she
seemed to him as she stood there to
be about fifty feet high.
Fortunately this madrona tree is of
a hard and unyielding nature, and
with all her strength she could neither
break nor bend it. But she kept
thrusting up her long nose and longer
claws, laying hold first of one garment
and then another till the man of
money had hardly a shred, and his long
legs were streaming with blood.
Fearing that he should faint from
the loss of blood he lashed himself to
the small truhk of the tree by his belt
and then began to scream with all his
might for his friends.
When the bear became weary of
clawing up and chewing at the dang¬
ling legs she went back and began to
turn poor Boone over to see if he
showed any signs of life. Then she
came back and clawed awhile at the
screaming man up the madrona tree.
It was great fun for the bear!
To cut a thrilling story short, the
party in camp on the other side of the
creek finally came in hail, when the
old bear gathered up her babies and
made safe exit up a gulch. Boone
was s0 bad]y crushed and bitten that
j dg jj£ e wag ] on g. despaired of. But
(he bear> he informed me> gll0wed no
disposition to eat him while turning
b - im overj and tapping him with her
foot and thrusting her nose into his
bleeding face to see if he still breathed.
Story after story of this character
cou ] d be told to prove that the grizzly
a t hont^is birfjYather- not entirely brutal and sav-
a g e . a goocl-natured lover
0 f ] ds f a ] y and f ond 0 f bis sly joke.
. Let him uS prq^erved to coming gen-
erations.—[Courier-Journal,
An Edinburgh doctor has discovered
the cancer parasite and is ready to
wage war upon and destroy it.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER FROM
ALL SECTIONS.
Items of Interest to Alliance-
men Everywhere.
The state se eretary's books show that
the first Alliance in Georgia was the An¬
tioch Alliance in Troup county, organized
March 31st, 1887, and that Mrs. Lord, of
Antioch, was the first lady in Georgia to
join the order.
** *
The Farmers’ Alliance warehouse iu
Athens, Ga., is building up a fine busi¬
ness. Hon. James M. Smith, of Ogle¬
thorpe, sent it one shipment of 350 bales,
and will supplement it with 1.060 more.
Col. Smith is the kind of men who build
up Alliance institutions.
*
The Industrial Advocate (Kansas) says
it would like to see the work of the Alli¬
ance take that a it little more of an agricultural
turn; would be a good plau to
have meetings of neighborhood Alliances
with subjects of discussion already out¬
lined, and bring out all there is in it
that would be of benefit to the farming
class.
** *
The Spalding County Alliance met at
Griffin, Ga., a few days ago. The man¬
ager of the Alliance warehouse made a
report which wa9 highly encouraging.
The report showed that 13,307 bales of
cotton had been weighed, and that there
was a nice little purse, aggregat'ng
nearly $5,000, in bank, which will go
back to patrons in the way of dividends
in a few weeks.
* *
*
One hundred million of the govern¬
ment credit to be loaned to a syndicate
to dig a ditch in Nicaragua is constitu¬
tional with John Sherman; but to loan
the farmer credit on his wheat, oats and
other crops that go to keep the human
family alive is unconstitutional. There
is a great deal of difference between
tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum .—National
Citizens' Alliance.
5k
* *
“in unity thebe is strength.”
The Alliance organization is a protest
against the economic, financial and polit¬
ical delusions of the times. The farmers
have struggled against these wrongs and
influences year after year, only to wear
themselves out with their mortgages, cy¬
clones and floods; and yet they have fed
65,000,000 of people with the products of
their work. The question with them is,
“Shall we submit to those conditions any
longer, or shall we rise up and assert our
rights and obtain justice and fair play?” To
the latter they have returned an affirma¬
tive answer. Upon this hypothesis they
are union now working, believing that “in
there is strength.” Following out
this idea, they propose to unite wi h the
independent its party, the people’s party by
representatives, the late federal and
confederate soldiers by their representa¬
tives, the Farmers’ Alliance, the Farmers’
Mutual Benefit Association, the Citizens’
Alliance, the Knights of Labor, the
Colored Farmers’ Alliance, and all other
industrial organizations that support the
principles of the St. Louis agreement of
December, 1889.
*
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FOR THE TWITTY BILL.
The following resolutions were passed
a few days ago by the Bethlehem, Ga.,
Alliance:
Whereas, There is a bill before the
gem ral assembly of Georgia known as
the Twitty bill; and,
Whereas, We understand said bill has
been postponed the said until body the adjourned ses¬
sion of for the purpose of
knowing the wish of the people in regard
to the passage of the same; and,
Whereas, We believe said bill to be
just and right; therefore be it
Resolved, 1. That we endorse the
same, and recommend that it be amended
so as to nulify the following clauses often
found in notes given for guano, etc., to
wit: “And no payment is to be allowed
on this note unless it is entered on the
note and signed by the maker.” And
again: “We agree land to hold all crops
growing upon the fertilized with
this fertilizer in trust for the said A. B.
& Co. until this note is fully paid.”
2. That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the author of the said bill, and
that they be published.
3. That we ask other citizens through¬
out the State to give their opinion in
regard to said matter.
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A SPLENDID SCHEME.
The Alliance of Hart county, Ga., is
no t troubling itself about local or na¬
tional politics, but has gone to work in
earnest and in a business way, to benefit
its membership. Last year nearly evei y sub •
Alliance in the county borrowed money
enough to run its membership for cash, bas¬
ing the estimate on an economical admin¬
istration of each man’s family government
The money \f.'& obtained ia the following
manner: Five or six of the best men in
each sub-Alliance would make a note for
enough money for all. The cash was
then distributed to each member accord¬
ing to his estimated ne ds. "When the
crop brought was gathered the money accorJance was
in by each man in
with the talents he had received, and
turned over to the makers of the bank
note, who in turn paid off the note
in bank. In this way mm who were en¬
tirely unable to get money from the bank,
got money and paid the merchant cash
for his meat and corn. This arrangement,
instead of damaging, helps the local m r-
chant. He gets a fair profit and gets the
money as he sells the goods, and can af¬
ford to sell for shorter profits because
he can use his cash several tim< s the
same season. The most of the gu ino
was bought on joint note in the same
way and at very short profi's to the
dealer. The scheme altogether is a com¬
mendable one. and its general adoption
would be a great benefit to sub-Alliances.
***
DANGER TO THE ALLIANCE.
As soon as the Alliance approaches the
development possibility of strength principles which indi¬
cates of its becom¬
ing dominate in the government, the tre¬
mendous power of wealth and political
influence will be exerted to modi y the
policy of its leaders. When a man be-
NUMBER 6.
conies prominent and powerful by virtue
of the votes back of him, he is brought
face to ft.ee with new neccssiti s.
The pow. r to talk and reason now be¬
comes the power to act. The coinage to
talk and write of vast reforms for the
welfare of humanity, and the courage to
act in the same line arc two wholly dis¬
tinct developments in human nature.
It is like the difference between urg¬
ing the troops to death and destruction
behind the breastworks—and leading
them in the charge after the breastworks
have been cleared.
Few men have the power within them
to face the to dayism of thirty-one bil¬
lion dollais of capital, with all that it
implies! Few men, indeed, in a s ngle
state have the name heroism to stand be¬
fore the polished and cultured prince¬
lings of an old civilization, and proclaim
the truths involved at the hearthstone of
a desolate home.
Here is the danger. We have reached
it. The Alliance is now' a power, and
already we find men who have posed their as
the leaders of revolution, making
peace with the money power. The he¬
roism of the platform becomes the con¬
servatism of ihe lobby.
The hour demands men! It demands
iron wills and genuine courage. It de¬
mands the snirit'of the Master—men who
in statecraft can pierce the present ciouds
into the future beyond—men who can
make pathways as well as tread these al¬
ready beaten. Watch
The hour of trial comes. ye
who wavers—who trenches—who falters
and prepare to search anew for those who
are equal to the wondrous times which
dawn upon us.— The Great West.
BUSINESS REVIEW
Of Past Week as Reported by
R. G. Dunn & Co.
R. G. Dunn & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Though at a higher level of
prices, business continues to exceed last
year’s on the whole, and is in character
more healthy and conservative than usual,
with less speculative excitement and with
a sense of uncertainty, making buyers
cautious in nearly all lines, so that pur¬
chases are closely confined to the actual
demand for consumption.
The volume of business transacted is,
nevertheless, much greater than a year
ago iu some of the most important
branches, and in scarcely any is there a
material decrease. The money markets
are everywhere easy, confidence is
still affected, to some extent by
the possibility of monetary legislation,
but the impression grows stronger that
no important action will occur at this
session of congress and that an extra ses¬
sion will be avoided.
This stock market has been irregular,
but the disposition to invest surplus
funds is strengthened by the progress of
the railroad presidents toward an effect¬
ive regulation of traffic and by the large
earnings The reported. prices of commodities
average for
advanced nearly half of 1 per cent
the past week, but the advance is almost
exclusively in products of which the crops
were short.
Reports of Friday from all parts of the
country indicate a fair volume of trade
for the season, easy money, any collec¬
tions generally fair, though at a few
western points and in the grocery trade
at Philadelphia, rather embarrassment slow. of
The south has the a
further decline in the price of cotton, but
receipts are large and the general trade is
somewhat better at New Orleans, though
receipts of sugar are light; trade is im¬
proved at Atlanta; a fair volume but
quite cautious at Memphis, and dull at
present, but with bright prospects at
Savannah.
The resumption of work by some Ala¬
bama iron furnaces increases the excess of
production. Buyers hesitate to take rails
at the price fixed by the combination.
The coal trade is still congested, the
January out-put having been 2,525,000
tons, a quarter more than last year, and
some mines are stopping. and
Wheat has advanced 1^ cents corn
and oats nearly a cent on moderate sales;
lard and hogs being also 10 cents per 100
pounds stronger, and oil 2$ cents, but
cotton is a sixteenth lower.
Exports from New York are now fall¬
ing below last year’s, especially in bread-
stuffs.
Money on call has dropped exchange off from 2^
to 2 per cent, and foreign re¬
mains steady at $4.87. number 261.
Failures for the week
For the corresponding week of last year
265.
FRIDAY’S BLAZES.
Destructive Fires at Various
Points.
Friday morning fire was discovered in
the Willingham building, responded Macon, and G:». by
The firemen promptly
hard work prevented a serious conflagra¬
tion. Conservative judges place the loss
at about $20,000, covered by insurance.
The fire originated in the second story
of the building in the rooms occupied by
the Bradycrotine Company as a factory
and packing department. It is thought
to have been caused by rats.
CAR snops DESTROYED.
A fire in the Pullman car shops at St.
Louis, destroyed the shops and their
contents, including eleven cars, together
with a number of small dwelling estimated homes
near by. The aggregate loss is
at $250,000, partly insured. About 400
men are thrown out of work as a result
of the fire. The burned propetty was
owned by George M. Pullman, of Chicago.
NUT AND BOLT FACTORY BURNED.
The nut and bolt works of J. Ilenry
Sternberg & Son, at Pittsburg, Pa., were
destroyed by fire Friday. Loss $275,000;
insurance probably two-third?.
A NORFOLK BLAZE.
At Norfolk, Ya., fire dcstioyed a budd¬
ing on Hillstreet, until tecently occupied
as a peanut factory, but at this time
empty except for a small amount of
patent fence. During the late war the
building was occupied he by northern
troops as a bakery. '1 loss is about
$5,000: fully insured.
SODA WORKS DESTROYED.
Church & Co’s soda works, in Green
Point, were burned early Friday. Loss,
$200,000. The night force of 125 men
were at work when the fire occu rred
I escaped without difficulty.