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THE TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. VOLUME XIX. The railro#s own 211,000,000 acres of land, which is in area larger than six States the size of Iowa, Since 1861 no lefhthan 181,000,000 acre* of land hav oeen given to the railroads. "____J The cost of warships is as follows per ton: England, $151.25; France. $232.. 2.>; Russia, $436.25; The price per in¬ dicated horse power is England, $151; France, $280, and the United States, $335.50,, “Keep an eye on Africa,” exclaims the Atlanta Constitution. “There some of th« greatest battles and problems of the next •century will be fought and solved. England an l France may clash there with a result far different from the meet¬ ing between Clives and Dupleixin India. France and Germany, too, will some day cross swords on the Dark Continent. In thi3 age of steam and electricity it will not take long to build up powerful white colonics in Africa.” Newspapers flourish in all Spanish- -American countries. Mexico and Central America arc full of them, and it is the same way in .South America. Uruguay k&s more newspapers in proportion to its population than any country on the globe. The. city of Montevideo has more daily papers than London, and three times as many as New York. Buenos Ayres has fourteen or fifteen dailies, a large num¬ ber of weeklies aud several monthly maga¬ zines o/ high literary character. “The Jewish labor organizations of this city,” observes the New York Sun , “which have an enormous membership and represent many trades, are the most compact bodies of the kind in this country. The officers are powerful and enforce the rules with vigor. The .’members are easily subjected to discip¬ line, respect authority, and watch the proceedings closely. There is but little wrangling in them. Nearly all of them have been organized within the past few years.” “The music of the future,” says a •composer of comic operas, “will be a •blending of German and Italian, not one, but both. Harmony is what the public demauds. "We have not at present any distinctive American music or school of music. The only school we have are the wainstrel melodies, the great composer of which was Stephen Foster. These melo¬ dies embrace the ‘Suwanee River,’ ‘Old Falks at Home,’ ‘Gentlo Annie,’ and lotlicr well-known tunes. Beyond these •we have developed no separate music. Our music, like our race, must be com¬ posite.” The Chinese who are now in Canada, and who desire to get back to their na¬ tive country, are working a shrewd game on the Unitci\ States Government, by t which they get free transportation to China. They get themselves smuggled iiuto the Uuitod States, reveals the New sOrleans Delta, and then have some one to cause them to be arrested for coming into the country contrary to the Chinese Exclusion act. Of course the charge is proven, and they are sent back, under provisions of the act, to China. They thus beat the Government out of a free passage home. Au old man iu Manchester, England, goes by the name of Gagadig Gigadab. His original name was John Smith, but many years ago be bagau to brood over the possibilities of a mistaken identity involved in such a common name, At last what he feared so much actually happened. One day the papers recorded the capture of an accountant in a bank for embezzlement, and through some blunder of the reporter, the identity of the embezzler was confused with the sub¬ ject of this paragraph, who was also a bank accountant. Then and there he determined to assume a name like unto no other ever borne by mortal man. And in Gagadig Gigadab most people will agree that he has done so. According to W. J. J. McGee, in the Forum, every-day experience shows that floods are not confined to greater rivers. They affect as well the smaller ones aad their tributaries, down to mill streams aud even to storm runuels; aud the smaller streams are so many that the Aggregate effect of their floods is large. Once or oftener during each decade a cry of distress comes from Cincinnati, for the basements of business houses built -upon the flood plain are inundated, aad the residents of the'city front are driven from their homes by the prodigious floods of the Ohio; once or twice iu each, decade East St. Louis and the part of St. Louis standing on the Mississippi al¬ luvium are flooded; from three to five times in each decade the trails-Mississippi traffic at Dubuque is stopped because the flood waters submerge the railway tracks and extinguish the locomotive fires, and no year passes without records of dis¬ aster in dozens of towns and villages built on the flood plains of smaller streams. And the flood not only works j destruction directly; it sows the germs of malarial and enteric disorder? by which | human life is shortened. IF WE COULD KNOW, Whither do oar footsteps tend? More and more we yam to know, As life’s shadows longer grow, And the evening hoars descend; And before ns lies the end. When the door shall open wide, And behind us softly close. What to our expectant eyes .Will the future life disclose? Shall we see a morning break, Fair and fragrant and serene, Seeming like the blessed dream Of some unforgotten eve. Shall we walk in gladness on, Under smiling skies of blue, Through an ever-deepening dawn, Into wide fields, fresh and new, Meeting those who came before, Knowing each familiar look And each well remembered tone, Though so many years had flown, Since each other’s hands we took, Saying farewells oler and o’er. Shall we talk of earthly days, Speaking low, with bated breath, Of the awful mystery Of our human life, and death; Shall we wonder to recall, How our hearts were prone to fear, How wo scarcely dared to hope, In any heaven, so fair, so near? Ah! if we could only know, As the shadows deeper grow, Whither our swift footsteps tend, As th ay surely near the end! —Katherine S. Mason, in Boston Courier. A PAIR OF DUCKS. r.Y W. II. ATKINSON. Four years ago my father indulged in the luxury of a summer residence upon the shores of Lake Erie, and, wind and weather permitting, it was my daily cus¬ tom, soon after breakfast, to swim out to the waterworks “crib,” about one mile from our house. At the crib—a soiid stone structure encased in stout wooden piles—I generally rested for a few mo¬ ments prior to starting on the return trip. One morning, as usual, I was sitting upon the low, convenient ledge formed by the ring of wooden piles, dangling my bare feet into the warm water, which was as still and smooth as a mill pond. The lake was so quiet that not so much as a tiny ripple washed the water-worn crib, aud for all there was the harbor of a great city only three or four miles dis¬ tant, the stillness was perfect. Suddenly I heard the sound of much splashing, followed by the previous still¬ ness, broken only by the trickling of water. I knew in a moment that some cne had joined me at the crib, and that on the other side of the octagonal structure a swimmer, equally as hardy as myself, was resting and cooling his heels. I thought I should like to see the fellow who could swim a couple of miles alone just for the fun of it, so I plunged into the water and propelled myself half way round the crib. “IIow—dy!” I said, as I hoisted my¬ self beside the pair of bare legs, which I soused considerably, owing to losing my hold of the slippery timbers. My mind was centered for the moment in the ef¬ fort to gain a firm seat, but as I received no reply to my salutation, I thought to myself that the fellow must be surly, or shy, or tired. “Tuckered out are you?” I inquired in that cheery, free and easy style which oDe is apt to adopt when the bounds of conventionality have been passed, and the individuality and social status which go hand in hand with a suit of clothes and terra finna have beeu temporarily aban¬ doned. “Have I the honor of your acquaint¬ ance, sir?” came the reply in the form of a counter question, uttered in a voice as rich aud clear as a silver bell but also as cold and cuttiug as a blast from Hudson Bay. Great Scott! By this time I was comfortably and safely seated, and I turned my head to behold a girl perhaps niueteea or twenty years old. I will not attempt to describe that girl: I should only disappoint my¬ self and weary the reader; but as she sat there in that fresh summer morning, her wealth of hair coiled into a knot upon her uncovered head, her shapely neck and arms glistening in the sunlight, sbe seemed to me more thau beautiful. In the whole course of my existence I have never been accused of bashfulness, but I think I may be pardoned that for some moments I felt completely 'flabber- gasted.’ Gradually, however, my senses returned, and it slowly dawned upon me that I ought to say something. “Pardon me,” I stammered, “I never expected—thatistosay—well,vou ‘here know, this is a surprise. I come oul every day, myself, but this is the first time J ever met anybody—and a lady, don't you see—er, pardon me, I hope I aui not in _trudino?” “Oh,”°ishe said, as she kicked up an extra large shower of spray with her foot, “pray don't burden me with your apologies. Y*ou addressed me so famil- iarly that I thought we must have been acquainted, and if that were so I had forgotten the act.” “No. unfortunately, I cannot lay claim to a previous acquaintance,” said I, but added, as my normal cheek .asserted it- self, “though I do not see why it should not date from to-day. If you do not ob- ject I am certain I shall not. My name is Dilwvn John Dilwvu ” “But I do object,”'she said, quickly. “I ought not to have come so far, but having got here I am a little afraid to start for the shore without a rest. I saw you coming, and. at first, thought of taking to the water. But I argued that I had as good a right to this side of the crib as tdu, and as I had ub reason to ieave. I stayed. But I kuow nothing of you, sir, and you know nothing of me, rnd I object to such informal introduc¬ tions—indeed, I shall not introduce my- •elf at all. Now if you are a gentleman. you will return to your side of the crib.” “Then you will not allow me to ac¬ company you to the shore?” “Certainly not!” “You might need assistance—you say that you are tired.” TOCCOA. GEORGIA, MAY 9, 1891 “Thank you, I shall do very well. Of course after that I could stay no longer, so splashed into the water and paddled back to my old perch. I had certainly received a set back and been richly snubbed, but I resolved to follow Miss Propriety, and, if possible, identify her. So when live minutes later I heard her dive into the water, I al¬ lowed her to gain about thirty yards of headway and then started in pursuit. The gill was a good swimmer, but I was a better one. It was very ea3v for me to keep up with her, which I did, although I could tell she was making for a point on the shore nearly a mile above my father's house, Presently I noticed that she was slack - ening her speed, and once she merely floated for a minute or two, evidently that she might rest her limbs. But she went on again, though she proceeded quite slowly, and I judged that she was very tired. She was still nearly half a mile from land when she stopped again, and raising her head slightly above the water, called out, iu what was intended for a shout, but which was in reality a very feeble vocil effort—“Mr. Dilwyn!” It was evident that the girl was com¬ pletely exhausted, so I made a spurt, and a few rapid strokes placed me at her side. “Did you really hear me ?” she almost whispered. “I fear I cannot make it alone.” “Can you keep afloat if you throw your arms over ray back ? 1 can carry you easily enough that way.** “I think I can,” she replied. “Then do so,” I said. It cost me very little extra effort to swim with the girl resting only a part of her weight upon me. The arrangement evidently relieved lier, for, when we had gone about half the distance, she saidi “It is very good of you, Mr. Dilwyn. I think I can swim now.” “Better not try,” I answered curtly. “Tell me, then, when we reach shal¬ low water.” When we were within fifty yards of the shore uud in not more than four feet of water, I said: “You are not like¬ ly to drown now, even if you should have to walk.” She loosened her hold of me, and, floating on tier side, proceeded to thank me profusely. But I was in a contrary humor and borrowing the words which she herself had used at the crib, I said: “Pray do not burden me with thanks,” and added, “you know I would have done as mueh for one of the small boys from the city—it is no particular credit to be commonly humane.” “Well,'’she said, iu a disappointed tone, “let me at least tell you my name. It is Lucile—” But I gave her no chance to finish. I considered it a good opportunity to “get even,” so exclaimed loudly, “No, do not tell me. I object to such informal in¬ troductions.” And, with that, I swam away toward my home. More than two years passed away,dur¬ ing which period I did not again meet Miss Lucile, although I speedily discov¬ ered her patronymic. At the end of that time I saw the young lady at a neigbor- hood rqpsicale and was formally intro¬ duced. Alas! within half an hour I put my awkward loot iu it, by referring (inno¬ cently enough) to the more than informal reception which she had accorded me at the crib. She was especially angry in that a local wag stood sufficiently near to overhear and drink in every word which I uttered, so that much to the dis¬ gust of both of us, we were, thanks to him, ever afterwards known along a few miles of the Lake Front as the “pair of ducks.” It took my fair would-be despot a month to recover from her huff, by which time I was “huffy” myself. So it has been—the same old story ever since. Whenever I have felt good and gracious, Lucile has invariably been angry or sulky; while, whenever the young woman has been disposed to smile, I have persistently refused to bask iu the sun¬ shine of her kindly glances. For two steady years we have played at cross pur¬ poses—a big but rather tiresome game of bluff and huff, and yet (strange paradox!) I have loved Lucile, I have ever been the girl’s ardent admirer and willing slave. That is to say, I would have beeu her willing slave had she permitted such a state of affairs when I happened to be iu the humor. V wecK s ago I seriously offended '(‘he other duck. I was certainly in *he wrong and behavea like a perfect hrute. It took about nine days for me to discover this fact, and I then wrote a u °I e profuse apologies, tender re- grots, etc. The note ' n ' as returned to me unopened, as I half expected it would be. But, three or four days afterward, I received a Penitential letter from Lucile, which m y state of mind just then would per- “it me to look upon as nothing less than feminine hypocrisy of the basest sort, ^ took my heavy stub pen and dipped it , deep down into my red ink. Across the first page of Lucile s letter I scrawled "Too late. Lpoa the second page I wrote “Rats.”—Over the third I scrib- h*ed •■Cuestnuts And upon the fourth *nd last page I printed, m neavy Old English text “Farewell, then I returned her letter to Lucile. ' T a3 s ‘ raw - I i;vas morally certain . that I “A-number-one was, au foo ‘5 ar, d I felt tolerably sure that Lucile ' vas uot far behind me ia the same ca t a g°ry- Between Lucile and the temperature ( Jt was Ju ;- V :md the thermometer stood at eighty-three degrees, about two a. m.) I passed a wretched, sleepless night. When I walked down to the lake at six o'clock I had arrived at a very logical conclusion, namely: I could not live with Lucile; I could not live without Lucile; ergo—I had better die right off. Down in our little bathing house we kept, for prudential reasons only, a large bottle of brandy. I took this bottle and deliberately emptied its contents on the pebbly beach. Then I tore from my note book a fly leaf, and with my pencil wrote as follows: “I have live! a fool’s life: I will die a fool's SaSSSS swim 1 s to as far as my strength will carry me, when I shall sink to rise no more. John Dilwyn.” “6.35 a. m., July 10th.” This document I thrust into the empty bottle, corked it up and fluuj it as far as I could into the lake—morbidly im- aginmg, as I did so, the head lines ol tne newspapers when that bottle should be recovered : “A story from the dee Pi The mys- tery of John Dilwayn at last Solved, e ^ c -” I donned my bathing suit, but sat in the hut, perhaps half an hour, buried in deep meditation, before I entered the water and struck out. I had left the shore nearly a mile be¬ hind me, and, I must confess, was be¬ ginning to wish that I had not launched that bottle with its despondent declara¬ tion. In fact I faltered so cdnsiderably in my suicidal resolve, that I deter¬ mined to halt at the waterworks crib and . reconsider ., the ,, situation. .. .. o So T I shaped my strokes accordingly. I was very near to the low, clumsy structure, when an intensely familiar voice shouted to me across the few yards df water: “Don’t you do it, you great stupid.” I straightened up in the water aad gazei toward the crib, and what do you suppose I saw? Weil, I beheld the ‘other duck’ perched on the top of one ingly of those old piles; grinning a distract- aggravating feminine grin. Worst of all, in one hand she held that bottle, while with the other she displayed the scrap of paper containing my startling statement. But I positively refused to change my written programme Unless Lucile would then and there promise to be my wife, and furthermore, agree to remain in an amiable frame of mind to the end of the honeymoon. She made both promises and kept them to the letter. We returned home to-day, and lire minutes before I com¬ menced this fragment of autobiography, I left that ‘other duck’ in the first stages of a three weeks’ sulk—simply because I want to keep house in a flat while she insists on boarding at a hotel. But as we are not very near Lake Erie, I cannot, at present, foresee a speedy solution of this latest difficulty .—-Yankee Blade . To Summer in Death Valley. J. H. Clery, a mild-mannered, blond- moustached young man who has been on United States Signal Officer Connor’s staff in the Rialto building, has left the city to become a desert-dwelling her¬ mit. Mr. Clery goes to California—to Deatli valley—and in Death valley he will dwell six months in solitude abso¬ lute. Death valley is in the southwestern portion of the California desert. A more utterly desolate spot there is not on earth. It is the bed of a dried sand lake forty miles long and twenty miles wide and surrouuded by steep hills. There is absolutely nothing there except sand and alkali and blistering heat; for Death valley is said to be the hottest place in the land. Shade there is none, the sky never clouds, and the mercury seldom or never goes belov/ 100 degree. Even the breezes come like furnace blasts, laden with scorching bits of sand. If there is any water to be found in the valley where once was a great lake far below the ocean level, it is strongly im¬ pregnated with alkali, and there is not a living creature in the district save rattle¬ snakes and scorpions. Sixty miles fro-n the railway terminus at Keeler the signal service hermit will journey into this blistering desolation and set up his tfmt. Here for six months or more he will observe the phenomena of the desert now unknown to man. He will study the sand blasts, keep record of the temperature, ascertain the exact level of the valley below the sea, watch for rainfall—not a drop has fallen, they say, in twelve years—and tabulate all these things for the benefit of scientists. In the same desert, but practically as far removed from one another as if in the Sahara, will be three other solitary investigators. The signal service hai long desired to collect facts concerning this region unknown and unpeopled, but has not wished to order any one to un¬ dergo the dismal task of exploring it. The present investigators are volunteers. Mr. Clery goes about his task as cheerfully as if he were going on a sum¬ mer outiug. He knows nothing of the details of the arrangement except that food will be brought him from Keeler. “And what will you do for water?” asked a reporter as Mr. Clery prepared to set out for the depot. “Indeed I haven't the slightest idea,” was the reply. “I suppose they will see to that for me .”—Kansas City Times. Influenza aud Children’s Growth. A systematic course of observation of the growth iu weight of the children ia the Deaf Mute Instititution at Copen¬ hagen has been kept up for seven years. Among the most striking results is the fact that the principal increase takes place in the fall months. Last fall (1889) the influenza appeared in Copenhagen toward the end of November. Six ol the professors of the institution were attacked, while no pronounced cases were developed among the pupils, At the same time, for four weeks after the 23d of November, the weight of the boys increased only two-filths as rapidly as it had done in the corresponding weeks of the previous year, while the girls gained nothing. It is supposed that the vita- force that usually went to increase of weight was for this occasion used up in relisting the germs of the disease.— Popular Science Monthly. Bore Three Names in Twelve Hours. At Springfield, Ohio, Lizzie Ryder, sweet sixteen, loved Barton Tavenner. Being under age, she was adopted by Mr. Osborn, with whom she had lived from babyhood, and her name was changed to Osborn. In the evening she became Mrs. Tavenner—bearing three distinct family names in twelve hours .—New York Wit- GEORGIA BRIEFS. Interesting? Paragraphs from all Over the State. } fr . A . 1T . St toI co , ]cclor of Fan . n in counts, is short with the state and county about $2,000. His bondsmen will make good the deficit. Carrollton will soon hav 3 a cotton seed oil mill and guano factory; $29,000 ha* been raised for it, and the remainder, $20,000, will be subscribed at once. The wheat crop of Carroll county is re¬ ported to be fine, better than for "several years past. Farmers are lip with their work, notwithstanding the bad winter. cided A ferro-manganese furnace has been de¬ upon for Rome. A number of cap¬ italists have the matter under serious con¬ tabhshed templation, and the furnace date. will be es- at an early The Gtbrgia Pacific is arranging a schedu’e to go % into effect on May 10th, by which th time from Atlanta MettU phig will be - the sbortest ever made . In _ stead of nineteen hours, as at present, but fifteen hours will be required for the trip, Governor Northern has offered a reward of $100 for the capture of Eli Napier, tvho murdered Joel M. Holmes in Clay county recently. The county officers wrote the governor that Napier had escaped into dll Alabama, but a reward of $100 would in probability lead to his arrest. Forsyth goes for public schools by a vote of 136 to 26. The citizens are re- joiced beyond measure. They feel that Forsyth has at last placed itself in the line of progressive and increasing pros¬ perity. citizens They look for an influx of solid that will before long double the population of the town. Colonel Tip Harrison is still tugging away at the applications for -widows’ pensions, which arrive in increasing numbers daily. There are 1,800 appli¬ cations in up to date, and it is now quite certain the total number will not stop short of 4,000, and then the legislature; which only provided for the payment of 600, will have to provide some means by which all can be paid, or there will be a long and loud cry of disapproval from one end of the state to the other. State Chemist G. F. Payne makes pub¬ lic the following card through the At¬ lanta Constitution: “I have had recent inquiries from a distance in regard to the gypsum deposits in this state. Know¬ ing that your valuable paper stands ever ready to give the heartiest aid in any de¬ velopment of the resources of the state, I respectfully kind request that you will be so as to call the attention of the own¬ ers of be such deposits to this their matter, that I may able to secure names and addresses.” No definite decision has been reached as yet as to the disposition of the female Convicts of the penitentiary. Some time ago, it will be remembered, the lessees went to the governor and talked over with him the matter of the disposition of these convicts. They all agreed with the governor’s idea of the necessity of the separation of the sexes in the peni¬ tentiary; but, as stated at the time, those lessees, who have operated the broom factory, have lost money by it— $2,000 the first year and $1,900 the second year; and they are iu something of a quandary as to what they shall do. There is a spot in Haralson county over which the shadow of an evil angel seems to rest, and which is blackened by the curse of Cain. On this spot, six trage¬ dies have, from time to time, been com : mitted—six human lives have been blot¬ ted out forever. It is remarkable that these tragedies all occurred within a ra¬ dius of a mile and a half, near the old Piney Woods Hardshell church, which was built about sixty years ago. Elder Robert Speight dedicated the church, and has been pastor sixty years. The cemetery at Piney Woods is the largest in Haralson or adjoining counties, and the graves of the six murdered men and all who were killed accidentally can be found there. Atlanta merchants are kicking against the enforcement of an ordinance passed at a recent meeting of the city council. The ordinance, which is to prevent the obstruction of sidewalks, provides: “That no person occupying any store, stall, shop or other place of business, shall obstruct the sidewalk in front of the place the so occupied by him, or the view from street to or across the sidewalk by .placing .goods of any kind on or over the sidewalk, or allowing such goods to remain on or over such sidewalk longer than is really necessary to get the goods or other articles into or away from such places of business in receiving or deliv¬ ering such goods or articles. ” Hope for tlie Macon and Atlantic. The light of hope dawns on the Ma¬ con and Atlantic railroad, and this line may soon be out of the hands of the receiver. This is one of the roads that the Macon Construction Company under¬ took to build, and spent about $1,000,000 on the work of construction. It was proposed to run it deal from Macon has to Savan¬ nah. A great of work been done on it, and if Macon now subscribes only $180,000 the road wil be completed at a near day. The Macon and Savannah Construction Company was organized with a capital stock of $1,000,000, of which the Macon Construction Company agreed to pay $500,000. The ballance of stock was subscribed in Savannah, New York and other northern points. Quite a Difference. Captain I. Hermann has in his posses¬ sion an interesting relic of twenty-five years ago. It is the bi l of sale of five bales of cotton made by Guilmartin & Co., of Savannah, for I. Hermann & Co. Four of these bales weighed 1,807 pounds, and sold at 41 cents, making a “mixed.” total ot $740.87. The fifth bale was It weighed 495 pounds and was sold at 35 cent", $178.25. The five bales brought $194.12. Ihe internal revenue tax was 2 cents per pound, or $46.04, and the storage, weighing, insurance, commis¬ sion, etc., added to the revenue, amounted to $77.44, leaving a net balance of $836.68 for the five bales. The cotton was sold on the 28th of September, 1805. and Quite a difference in the price then sow. The Alliance Lectnrers. The district lecturer-! of the Farmers Alliance will be selected May 6th. On E, !»„ SIMPSOW 9 TOCCOA, CEORCIA r. i Ml And Machinery Supplies, Also, Repairs All Kinds of Machinery. Peerlkss Engines 9 BOTH PORTABLE & TRACT Geiser Senarators & ShiHe Mills farmers anti others in want of either Engines or separators, wm SAVE MONEY by using the above machines. ] am alw> prepared to give Lowest Prices and Best Terms on the celebrated °<ESTEY ORGANS .!* 1 Cardwell Hydraulic Cotton Presses, Corn and Saw Mills, Syrup Mills and Eva porators. Will have in by early Spring a Full Stock of White Sewing Machines, McOnnick Reapers, Mowers and Self-Binders Which need only a trial their Superiority. Call and see me be- ore you biky. Duplicate parts of machinery constantly on hand# that day, district, fci Some representatives point in each cohgrefl^ all sional from the county Alliances in the district will meet and choose a lecturer for the dis¬ trict. On the 13th the district lecturers will hold a meeting in Atlanta, to form¬ ulate plans for their work and to advise with each other, in brdet that all the county Alliances may be instructed in the same way and unanimity of thought and purpose prevail throughout the state. “Never before in the history of the Alli¬ ance has it been so thoroughly orghhntetV’ i snjrs Colonel organization Livingston, that “and kuoiv of ho in all its branches is so perfectly con¬ nected. Ah uie lecturers, Irons tile 8;»t«s lecturer to the sub-alliance lec urer, in¬ struct the members in the purposes of the order, without any jar or conflict of opinion. Durirg the iutotner grand rallies in will be held at a number of plaoea the state. The rallies will embrace nine or ten counties; prominent alliance- men from the eavt and west will be pres¬ ent and deliver addresses. Among them will be Jere Simpson, of Kansas. Harry Tracy, of Texas; Dr. C. W. Macune, of Pi cS dent Polk, from the east—perhaps both—and other noted alliancemen. The good to be accomplished will be real'V-e that southern members will better that their fellow alliancemen of the east and west are working with them to accomplish a common purpose.” The Georgia Mfelsta Grower*. The recent meeting of the Georgia Mel¬ on Growers’ Association at Albany, was one of the largest ever held. Delegates were on hand from all parts of the melon belt, from Macon to Quitman. The crop is so much larger than ever before, that the growers are anxious to perfect question means of for its distribution. The rates is already settled on last years’ basis of 8 mill per ton mile to Ohio river points, and all that remains to be done is to grow the crop and market it. A committee was appointed by suggestion from the different shipping points. This committee meets in two -week. It was stated that the southern railroads had been notified by those north of the Ohio river that unless the growers stopped shipping unmarketable melons,the freight rates Would be raised. In aome cases railroads have to dump the melons and lose the freight charges, consequently they would have to raise the rates to cover that loss. It was the sense of the melon growers present that a rigid inspection of melons by the rail- roa ds at shipping points would keep bad melons out of the northern cities, and do much to prevent the markets from being glutted. By a rising vote, the associa¬ tion pledged itself to ship no melons under eighteen pounds, and adopted a resolution requesting railroads not to r ac- cept for shipment melons under eighteen pounds, deformtd, sunburnt, green or overripe, without the prepayment of freight charges. The convention ad- Hurned to meet in Albany on the 3d of June, just before the shipping season opens. DISBURSING THE CASH. The Amounts Paid Under the Direct Tax Law. The following payments have been made by the treasury dep rtment up to April 30th,under the act of March 2,1891, to reimburse to states and territories, the amount of direct tax levied under the act of August 5, 1861: Arkansas, $156,272; California, $208,247; Colorado, $22,190; Delaware, $70,722; Illinois, $956,761; Iudiana, $719,144; Kansas, $60,982; Maine, $357,602; Massachusetts. $696,- 180; Michigan, $420,865; Minnesota, $86,924: Missouri, $546,958; New Hamp¬ shire, $181,891; New Jenwy, $382,615; New York, $2,213,331; North Carolina, $377,836; Oh o, $1,332,026; Tennessee, $892,012. Total, $9,282,636. Caleb Andebsok, of High Bridge, Hunterdon county, N. J., is the fmherof an infant girl who promises to develop into a profitable dime museum freak. When she wa* born she seemed much like other babies, except that her little pink ears were covered with a very fine fuzzy growth of hair. Since then this hair hanf has grown until the long, silky locks down nearly to her shoulders, The hair is of a golden brown, and is very soft and fine. Nowhere else on the child's body is any similar the growth. Her of head is covered only with amount hair usual with so vouncr a babe. Iowa Indians don’t want to accept cattle an l farm implements in pay for their iands. They say they thought they were to receive cash when they agreed to the treaty. NUMBER 18. £JR5. STARKEY & PALEH'S TREATMENT BY INHALATION. TRADE Mlffi/JkrM MARK ^ REOISTEREIH Tips.ST tKf \ v; Tf? r A3B O 1629 Aroh Stroet, FTillad’a. Pa- mr fon«nnpilon, Ailbna, Brenrh!tl»»l>y*« pepkiu, Catarrh, Hajr Fever* Headache, Debility, llbeamatiom, Neuralgia, aud all Chronic and Nervous Disorders. ‘•The treatment,'’ original and only genn ne A Palen compound have oxygen Dr*. Starkey been using for the last twenty years, of is a scien- and tifl; adjustment of the element* oxygen uitrogon magnetized, an l the compound is bo condensed and made portable that it i* amt all over the world. Dra. Starkey A Pa’en have the liberty to re¬ fer to the following named well known pexaona who have tried tneir treatment: Hon. Wm. D. Kelley, member of Congress, Philadelphia. Victor L. Conrad, Ed. Luth’n Ob*erver, ILv. Philadelphia. llev. OhaileaW. Cushing, D. D., Rochester, New York. „, Hon. Wm. Penn Nixon, Ed. Inter-Ooean,Chi¬ cago, Ill. W. H. Worthington, Editor New South, . „ New foik. Judge H. P. Vrooman, Qu r nemo, Kan. Mrs. Mary A Liretmord, Melrose, Massachu- letts. Mr. E. C. Knight, S:ddall, Philadelphia. Phil*. Mr. Frank merchant, E. Hon. W. W. Schuyler, Broadway, Easton, N. Pa. Y.,Ed.Phila# L. Wilson, 833 Photo. Fidelia M. Lyon, Waimea, Hawaii, Sandwich . Islinda. Alexander Iiitchie. Inverness, Scotland. Mrs. Manuel V. Ortega, Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico. Mrs. Emma Cooper, Utilla, Spanish Hondu¬ ras, O. A. J. Cobb, ex-Vice Consul, Casablanca, Mo¬ rocco M. V. Asbbrook, Red Bluff, Cal. J. Moore, Sup’t Polioe, Blandford, Donat# shire. Eng. Jacob Ward, BowraJ^ New South Wales. And thousands of others in every part of ths United States. “Compound Oxygen—Its Mode of Action and Results," is the title of a new brochure of 200 pages, published by Drs. S’arkey A Palen, which gives to all inquirers full infounation as to this remarkable curative agent and a record of teveral hundred surprising cures in a wide range of chronic cases—many of them after be- ing abandoned to die by other physicians. Will be mailed free to any address on application. Read the brochure 1 DBS. STARKEY & PALEN, Ko. 1529 Arch St., Philadelphia^ Pa, Please mention tfcis paper when you order Com¬ pound *Oxygen. 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