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THE TOCCOA NEWS
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
VOLUME XIX.
E.LIM-IN-AH-DO. - : r ~
*Tw«a in the bazars of the Smyrniote*
That we heard the lingering call,
With its mellow, musical, bell-like notes,
And its rhythmic rise and fall.
It soared o’er the camel-driver’s shout,
And tb ® bale-bent porter’s angry flout—
“ 0—0
E-lim-in-ah-doP'
There were the figs of Omoorloo,
Large and luscious and bursting ripe;
And from a cafe near there blew
The tempting scent of the water-pipe;
But Tireh’s grapes would have hung in vain
Upon the vines had we heard that strain—
“ 0—0
t E-Hm-in-ah-doP’
Amber, clear as a prisoned ray
Of the morning sunlight, was forgot;
Lugs, rich with the hues of dying day.
From the looms of Persia, lured us not.
Whfle the motley Smyrna world swept by,
Wo hung on the sound of the witching cry—
“ 0—0
E-lim-in-ah doP 1
Then out of the jostling crowd he came
With his crook-necke 1 flask and his clink
of glass;
As keen of eye and supple of frame
As a Lydian pard we saw him pass—
8aw him pass, and above the roar
Caught the lilt of his call once more-
“ 0-0
E-lim-in-ah-doP ’
Who can measure melody’s power?
It sways the soul with the same strange
spell
On lovely lips in a lady’s bower,
Or those of a vagrant Ishtnael.
And still floats back, with its thrilling bars,
The strain from the Sinyrniote bazars—•
“ 0—0
“ E-lim-in-ah-doP ’
Clinton Scollard , in Atlantic Monthly,
DOROTHY’S DIAMONDS.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
“You can’t be iu earnest, Dotty!” said
Ralph Imray. ‘
“But I am in earnest,” protested
Dorothy, his wife. “Why shouldn’t I
be in earnest?”
Mr. Imray laid down the pen with
which he had been folio wing a long
column of figures, lie was a bank ao-
countant, and sometimes eked out his
small salary by bringing home the
books of neighboring firms to post after
his regular day’s work was over.
He looked intently at Dorothy. Nor
was she by any means a disagreeable
object to behold, as she sat by the
shaded lamp, stitching away at a piece
of yellow China silk which emphasized
her purple-black masses of silky hair and
the jetty light of her long-lashed eyes.
Some people, to judge by appearances,
nro born kitchen-maids; others are
princesses. And Dorothy Imray, albeit
her father was a master carpenter and
her husband a bank cleric, was one ol
nature’s aristocrats—slim, taper-fingered
and swa j-throated, with a delicate com-
plexion and a profile that reminded one
of a Romau cameo.
“Why shouldn’t you be in earnest?”
repeated Ralph. “Because, Dotty,
there’s a fitness iu all tilings. A poor
man’s wife lias no busiuess to wear
diamonds.”
“Mrs. Clifford wears them!” petulant-
ly retorted Dorothy. “And Job Clif-
ford doesn't get any higher salary than
you do.”
“Butlicr father is a man of menus,
Dotty.”
“And Luella Dixon has the loveliest
lace-bar! She showed it to me yester¬
day.”
, “Dixon aud I differ materially in our
financial ideas,” observed Imray, shrug-
ging Iiis shoulders. “If a man owes
money, I, for one, don’t regard it as a
very smart thing for his wife to be
flaunting around iu costly jewels. Come,
Dot, give up the idea. Twenty years
from now 1 may be able to give you
diamonds.”
Dorothy pouted. She sewed away
with little, swift jerks of the needle.
“Twenty years from now - I shall be an
old woman,” she uttered. -
Mr. Imray laughed.
“I’llrisk that,” said he. “No, Dotty,
if my wife were to come out in a pair of
diamond ear-rings, my employers would
be quite justified in scrutinizing my ac-
counts. The topaz ornaments I gave
you at our wedding were good enough
for you then. Why cau’t you be con-
tented with them now?”
Dorothy answered not a word. The
needle seemed like a scimetar in the
lamplight; the rose-red lips were tightly
compressed; and Ralph resumed his pen,
with a sigh.
Dotty had “got into society” lately,
and the little home had never recovered
its pleasant old-time aspect since. *
Mrs. Job Clifford and Luella Dixon
were her models now, instead of kind
Aunt Rhoda aud the rector's pretty
young wife.
The next day Mrs. Dixon called,
dressed in a fantastic combination suit,
with a French hat, and a real lace scarf
twisted loosely around her neck.
“Well, Dorothy,” begau she, “What
did he say?” Mrs. Imray’s pretty face
gloomed over.
“Just what I expected,’” said she.
«‘Of course he won’t give me the dia¬
monds. I might have known that be¬
forehand.”
“Don’t be discouraged, dear,” said
Mrs. Dixon, with a furtive glance. “I
can suggest a plan. Are we quite
alone?”
Dorothy looked surprised.
“Yes,” said she. “Bridget has gone
to market, and there is no one else ou
this floor.”
Mrs. *Dixon drew her dyiirtclose to
Dorothy’s sofa.
“Listen!” she whispered. “How
much money have you?”
> “Twenty dollars of my own,” Dor¬
othy answered, “and forty that Ralph
left to pay the agent our rent. That’s
sixty. And there's fifteen that Aunt
Rhoda sent me to match her old broc¬
aded silk with.”
41 Seventy-five!” said Mrs. Dixon, ex-
ultingly. “Dorothy, you shall have
your diamonds I”
“It’e impossible! ’ breathed Dorothy.
“But it is possible, and I’ll tell you
how. Come closer, dear; not a soul
must know of this. Dixon has helped
a his shipping merchant on the docks to get
cargo in—Dixon knows a man in the
custom house, you see—and he has given
us a poiut. There was a Brazil
■schooner came in last night, laden with
bananas. The captain has friends in the
diamond mines up among the moun-
'• ains ‘,
“\ou don i t mean—”
Mrs. Dixon laughed—a shrill, excited
laugh.
“It’s really quite interesting to visit
those odd little foreign vessels,” said
she. “I il take you there, dear, if you’d
like?”
“Is that the way you got your dia-
monds, Luella?”
“Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell
you no lies,” merrily retorted Mrs. Dixon,
“You have the same chance that I did.
It's the duties on these luxuries that
makes the cost. Captain Sazeda is iu a
hurry to get back to Rio Janerio. If we
go at all we’ll have to go to-night.”
“But it's Ralph’s late night at the
bank!'’ hesitated Dorothy.
“All the better, lie mustn't know a
word of it- Men are so ridiculous about
such thiugs. I never would have breathed
a word to you if I had supposed you
would betray me!”
“I won’t! I won’t!” cried Dorothy,
her cheeks flushed, her dark eyes spar-
kliog. “Oh, Luella, do you think ray
poor little seventy-five dollars will buy
anything fit to look at?
“Great bargains are sometimes ob-
tained in that way,” nodded Mis. Dixon.
“But, good gracious, is that eleven
striking? And me due at my dressmak¬
er's at half-past ten. I must go, Dor-
othv. Remember 1’il call for you at
seven. Not a minute before dark, you
know. Sazeda will send up the cabin
boy to show you the way. Put ou your
waterproof, and wear your oldest hat and
veil , and make some excuse to Bridget.
Mind, sharp seven!”
All day Dorothy Imray went about
‘ iei ’ occupations like one in a dream,
1 ae strange, fantastic nature of the ad-
venture appealed to the romantic side of
^ ier being.
.
She longed for diamonds as a desert
wanderer longs for cooling fountains,
She could tell Ralph that she had hired
them, that some of their relations up in
Canada had bequeathed them—she could
make up any sort of a story to pacify
him. The rent must wait. Aunt
Rhoda would surely be in no haste about
tier black brocaded gown!
And Dorothy fell to thinking in what
shape the stones—precious sparklers
from far Southern mines—should be set.
Seven o’clock came—a raw, smoky
twilight, filled with tine, drizzling rain
—and Dorothy and Mrs. Dixon were
pickiug their way along the narrow,
half-lighted streets ou the edge of the
wharves, where the wind was full of
saline odors, and the crowded masts and
smoke-stacks seemed to overshadow
them like some outlandish sort of forest,
A stunted lad in tattered garments
trotted along in front of them, whistling
as he went, and now aud then casting a
backwack glance to make sure that they
had not lost their way.
Presently he plunged into a crazy old
house which seemed to balance itself on
the black tides below,
Mrs. Dixon followed—so did Dorothy
Imray, after one startled glance around.
They descended a flight of ruinous
stairs, crossed a rude gangplank, and
found themselves on a stupenduousiy
dirty vessel, smelling of tar aud onions,
and rockiug back and forth with the
swell produced by the ferry-boats that
came aud went at intervals.,
A humpbacked little man in tarnished
velveteen sat ou a bucket turned upside
down, holding a lantern which he swung
toward a cabin door beyond,
“Ha, Giacome!” he uttered, “Ze sig-
uora she come to see ze parrot an’ ze
cockatoo! She is welcome. Walk zat
way, pkease.”
And Dorothy and her friend descend-
ed iuto a low-celled, dirty place lined
with cages of numberless shriekiug
foreign birds, and a jocund-looking
young man with a mandolin slung around
his neck was leisurely picking out a tune
by the light of a smoke-blackened lamp,
He looked at Mrs. Dixon, who nodded
her head, while Dorothy stood trembling
and a little sea-sick at her side,
He laid down the mandolin, bowed
not ungracefully, to Dorothy, and clos-
ing the doors with vigilant care, opened
a shallow cigar box which lay on the
table,
All at once the air seemed to flash into
scintillations of light. Dorothy started
back with a slight exclamation.
Not a loud word was spoken as, guid¬
ed by Mrs. Dixou’s advice, Dorothy
selected five maDy-faceted stones and
laid down her little roll of bankbills.
Her heart beat loudly, her pulses seemed
to race in a mad scamper through her
veins as she thrust the diamonds into the
bosom of her dress. She did not hear
what Sazeda was saying—the murky
cabin swam before her eyes.
“I’m afraid you feel the swell of the
waves, dear,” whispered Mrs. Dixon.
“Let us get out as quick as we can.”
In the same instant a curious expres¬
sion passed across Sazeda's handsome
sardonic face. The cigar box vanished
as if by magic—the captain disappeared
also.
“A custom house fellow,” whispered
the little hunchback, madly swinging
his lantern to and fro. “All ashore!
Quick, signoras!”
He thrust the cage of a drooping white
macaw. into Mrs. Dixon’s hands. She
nodded shrewdly, aud pushed Dorothy
across the plank toward the stairs. In
her haste, however, the young woman
stumbled.
“Quick,” cried Luella — “quick!
What’s the matter with you?”
“I’m—I’m afraid I have sprained my
ankle,” wailed poor Dorothy, growing
white and sick. “Oh, Luella, wait—”
And that was all she remembered.
* * * * * *
“Diamonds, my dear — diamonds?"
echoed Aunt Rhoda. “Just cut glass,
TOCCOA. GEORGIA,. DECEMBER 5, 1891.
an&^Htfthing more. Bright pebbles that
one can pick up anywhere. ”
“But Mrs. Dixon—” stammered Dor-
! i otby.
“Don’t talk, dear,” said Aunt Rhoda,
with a wave of her hand. “Ralph made
me promise not to let you "to get excited,
But I think it’s best tell you the
whole story at once. They’ve cut and
: run, the lot of 'em-Dixon“and his wife,
that Sazeda fellow and all. They palmed
off a lot of those false jewels on people
who supposed they were buying smug-
gled diamonds, and the ship was found
deserted the next day. Where did we
find you? Why, fainting away all alone
on the dock steps. I had followed you.
I had come in that morning, and was in
the next bedroom all the time that wo-
maa throat. was putting her falsehoods down
your
“And I knew, in Ralph's absence,
that it was my business to look after you.
Bridget was with me, and together we
K ot y° u home. Much that other woman
cm-ed whether you lived or died! She
has left you to your fate. No, Dotty,
no; don’t look so grieved! It was a
false step, but the Lord has mercifully
preserved you, and now we’ll wipe oil
the old scores and begin again.”
And Dorothy had just enough strength
left to press her lips to Aunt Rhoda’s
withered hand.
“Ralph,” she said, when she was quite
recovered, “if ever you are able to buy
me an y jewels—”
“Which I certainly shall do, dot, one
of these days.” he gaily interrupted,
“Don’t let them be diamonds. I hate
diamonds-! I never want to see one again,
Turquoises, amethysts, whatever else
y° u please, but not diamonds!”
“Well, it shall be as you please,” said
Ralph, t l Your bright eyes, love, are all
the diamonds I want!”
‘Oh, Ralph,” sobbed Dorothy, “how
good you are to me! Howl love you!”
What Becomes of All Old Hats J
What becomes of all old hats ? “ Wt
have about 200 old hats strewed along
under the counters aud in the back
room,” said a South Clark street hatter,
“From ten to twenty-five tramps come
daily and ask for a hat, yet our
refuse supply seems undiminished. The
tramps are glad to see cool or rainy
weather at this time of the year. They
know that it will drive in the straw bats,
and they will fall heir to them. Aftei
these straw hats have done service all
summer the tramps we ir them all winter,
For a summer hat the tramp gets the
cast-off winter hat. He reserves the
fashion. A great majority, however,
take their old hats home and lay them
up for a rainy or a snowy day. Some
people will wear a straw hat two sea-
sous, but the great majority give them
to the poor. We send a large number
to the charitable institutions, A great
many hats are left to be called for. If
not callel for within thirty days we give
them away. Sometimes sharpers attempt
their little games ou us. A small man
left his hat here, buying a cut-off crown
hat. The one lie left was out of shape,
had lost its gloss and color, and wms
worthless. He did not say that he would
return for it, nor did he say that he
would not. We put it aside, but when
he called for it we could not find it at
the moment. He then claimed that it
was a good hat and demanded $5 for it.
We made a thorough search, found the
battered tile and handed it to him.
Seeing that his scheme had failed hr
threw the old hat into the
Chicago Times.
Providers of Free Lunches.
The free lunches of upward of 80(^
saloons in New York are furnished
one concern, A lunch of ham sand-
wic lies,herrings, baked beans and crack-
ers and cheese is furnished at $1 per
r
soup, cold lamb, roast beef and corned
beef,four or five big baked
clam, oyster, sardine or Brie cheese
sandwicnes, varied daily; lobster and
chicken salad,and olives,pickles, lettuce,
etc. Everything is of the best. It
teu cooks the better part of the night to
get the lunches ready for fifteen wagon*
to distribute early iu the morning. The*
solids are placed in baskets and
liquids in earthen jars. When the r
lunch is delivered at a saloon the at-
tendant hands back what is left of the
previous day’s delivery. That is part of
the contract. The “cold pieces” are
sold to keepers of cheap boarding'
houses. The average price paid daily
by the customers of this firm is $15. It
pavs both tho caterers and the saloon-
keeners keepers. A A first lirst class class saloon saloon cannot cannot he be
run now without an appetizing and well-
seived free lunch. An elegant establish-
ment not far from where I live nevei
made any money until a few months ago,
when a couple of enterprising young fel-
lows took hold of it and set out a free
lunch lit for an epicure. Business picked
up with, a rush and the new proprietors
are getting rich fast.— 2Few Orleans Pic•
ayune.
Curiosities About Gold.
Gold is so very tenacious that a piece
of it drawn into wire one-twentieth of au
inch in diameter will sustain a weight of
500 pounds without breaking.
Its malleability is so great that a single
grain may be divided into 2,000,000
parts and a cubic inch into 9,523,809,
523 parts, each of which may be dis¬
tinctly seen by the naked eye.
A grain and a half of gold may be
beaten into leaves of one inch square,
which if intersected by parallel lines
drawn at right angles to each other and
distance only the one-hundredth part of
an inch, will produce 25,000,000 little
squares, each of which may be distinctly
seen without the use of a glass.
The surface of any given quantity of
gold, according to the best authorities,
may be extended by the hammer 310,184
times. The thickness of the metal thus
extended appears to be no more than the
568.020th of an inch. Eight ounces of
this wonderful metal would gild a silver
wire of sufficient length to extend en¬
tirely around the globe .—Behoboth Sun¬
day Herald.
ALLIANCE TALKS.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS
Reform Press Comment and Items of
Interest to Alliancemen Everywhere.
It is said that the independent vote in
Kansas this year was larger by 15,000
than it was last tear,
* *
*
It will only take a change of 1,700
votes to give South Dakota to the Alli¬
ance, and theii organ says that this can
be done in a day.
*
There if: lit
i9 talk of builidug an Alliance
tobacco factory at Greensboro, N. C. A
meeting was held a few days ago and
the idea discussed.
Andrew ***
Jackson said that the national
chance banking system should give them a
to make money scarce or plenty
at pleasure. That is one reason you sold
your cotton at 7 cents this fall.
*
Tne , * *
farmers should look after the in¬
terests of their organizations. Upon
them depends the success or the failure
of the great reforms for which they are
laboring.—Standard Farmer.
In of ***
one pondent, our exhanges we notice that
a cones ic giving his many
reasons for why he is an Alliauceman, says
one, that he is opposed to men buy¬
ing wind and calling it cotton, wheat,
pork or tobacco.
The * *
farmer’s average net income, with
which he must support his family and
pay his taxes and interest, is $373. This
estimate is based on figures given by the
siatistician of the agricultural depart¬
ment.—Industrial Educator.
/. . * *
The « *
peqpltTs *tbe** . -party will contlnne to
puncture Mllot’s plutocratic money power
with theif until the monsters
will be forced to make a concession that
will perfnit labor to receive its just re¬
ward.— Washington Republican,
• *
«• sk Jk
A higher range of legitimate prices is
the salvation of the masses. Too much
labor and products in the dollar now.
Takes too much sweat to pay a dollar of
interest, a dollar of taxes, a dollar of
railroad charges.—Industrial Educator.
5k *
An *
about exchange? says: We pay annually
$525,0( 0,000 tariff tax. We pay
annually $1,400,000,000 in interest on
bonds and otherwise for the money we
use. Don’t it look like seven hundred
and odd millions of Interest in excess of
tariff tax ought to demand more atten¬
tion than the tariff?
The V
S uthern Mercury says the mer¬
chants of Texas are falling into line
with the farmers and will aid them in
every iness legitimate undertaking. The bus¬
men now see that the success of the
farmers means their success. The failure
of the farmers means their failure and a
general collapse.
An exchange says: The greatest nee 1
we can now think of is an active, effi¬
cient and aggressive working force. To
overcome the obstacles that we are bound
to encounter in our onward march to
victory will rt quire a stronger effort than
has yet been put forth. We hope the
verv 1 besy.ale^tjvf '7<afinn rvilll
of C. B. Wei born of Athenf
,
bit best girl here on Sunday.
has There was a lively singing
^ aToret ^ Duncans Sunday^night.
Rev. G. W. Carroll preaebt
arbor last Sunday.
adage W- J. Looney is going to
p ranoh t | ug w i n ter.
zZ way chri9tm the young ** mufitb people ? comi are ? ha g
Hunting ' rabbit* and other
. . „ ur , ier f t ,,e d»y just now
Suuday school at Cros
you cver y Sunday morning,
l 0 o a llon y e gcr ib e visited Uis best
Proba- time since.
faith IFish the News much sue
() H and Old
,
r J muc ^
<
fair thattei*. This sentiment
= 'niong tbte alliancemen has been largely
w’orked up by the constant agitation of
necessit y by the Florida press.
The * *
^ 11,an “ F “ rmer . Tf ITrr 8re
n0W S ettln S the true Action Returns
from the westem states, and thev are in-
deed cncoUraging . The Alliance has
gained strength everywhere. The leturns
published in the daily papers were lies
ra ade out of whole cloth. The alliance
vote f-hows an increase in nearly every
county. In South Dakota the alliance
cu t down a republican majority of 50,000
to less than 2,000? And yet a partisan
press says the farmers’ moveme it is
dead.”
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NATIONAL OFFICERS.
President—L. L. Polk, North Caro¬
lina. Address, 344 D. St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.
Vice President—B. H. Clover, Cam¬
bridge, Kansas.
Secretary-Treasurer—J. H. Turner,
Georgia. Address, 239 North Capitol
St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
Lecturer—J. H. Willetts, Kansas.
Executive Board—C. W. Macune.
Washington, Alonzo D. C.
Wardall, Huron, South Dakota;
J. F. Tillman, Palmetto, Tennessee.
Judiciary—H. C. Demming, Ark. Chirman;
Isaac McCracken, Ozone, ; A. E.
Cole, Fowlerville, Mich.
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The presidents of all the State organi¬
zations with L. L. Polk, Ex-officio Chair¬
man.
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THE PARTY.
Under the above heading the Progres¬
sive Farmer says: 4 ‘It is all right for men
to be patriotic, take interest in their
party, to defend it if it is worthy of it.
But there is an end to such things. The
farmer who will work himself, makes his
wife and children work to raise a crop of
cotton or tobacco and sell it at prices
that these products are now bringing, or
who knows what a crisis the country is
himself now passing thro •gh, and still not stir
to seek a remedy or aid those
who are earnestly striving to effect this
end, is no man at all. Many sit down
and say, “Ohl if you will vote for my
party aud work for it all will be well.”
But unless these parties have a p'an to
bring relief and refoim what can you ex¬
pect? Don’t be satisfied wiih a party
that has nothing to bring reform. Make
your party what it ought to be, or make
it surrender its charter.”
***
DAVE GOOD ALLIANCE LITERATURE.
The Alliance Farmer (Atlanta, Ga.,)
says: If our members will read Alliance
literature, the they will find an antidote for
poison scattered broadcast by the
partisan press in the way of lies against
our order and its leaders. You may take
th ■ best Christian in Georgia, deprive
him of his Bible, and let him rend noth¬
ing but Tom Payne, Voltaire and other
works of infidelity, and you will even¬
tually uudermine his faith in the Gospel.
It is the same way with the Alliance. If
our members read papers which stigma¬
tize the older, they will soon be
convinced that the Farmers’ Alliance
movement was ronceived by sin and
brought forth iu iniquity. Let them take
a counteractant in the form of some good
alliance paper, and read the answers to
these slauders against our organization,
and they will then discover that this bit¬
ter and venomous fight against the nlli-
ance is waged in the interest of the pluto-
eiat-J, in order to crush the movement of
the laboring people for freedom and pros¬
perity; that the partisan press of Georgia
a'e but the tools of Wall street, and use 1
as an instrument to crush and enslave the
toiling masses.
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MOKE MONEY.
The Faulkner county Wheel says: A
farmer takes five bales oi cotton to mar¬
ket. He is offered Scents, which amounts
to $200. He thinks he ought to get 9
cents for it, so he puts it in the g >vern-
ment warehouse and borrows $160 for
one year, if he needs it that long, at 1
per cent. He insures it at the rate of £
of 1 per cent, per month and the storage
is 1^ cents per month. The $200 the
merchant had to give for the cotton was
already in circulation. The $160 bor¬
rowed of the government was added to
the circulation and increased the circu¬
lation $16C. Some party papers say that
the storing of the cotton and drawing
money of the government contracts the
currency. We make this statement to
t-how that they are wilfully mr king false
statements to their readers, 'lhc storage
of cotton prevents speculators from
manipulating tho market. In three
months the mills begin to want
cotton. The farmers demand a
fair price and say we will hold our
cotton for one year and stop your mills
unless we can get 10 cents for middling
cotton. The mills say well that is nearly
as the cheap as we ever get it, and they take
cotton at 10 cen s. The farmer gets
$250 for his five bales of cotton. He
pays $1.12-$ for storage and $1.50 for in
surance and $1.00 for interest, loss in
weight fered). per In bale $3.20 (what he was of¬
gain the farmer all $8,024. Gain $50. Net
to on'five bales $41.97$,
or $8 30$ per bale. This is a fair state¬
ment. Middling cotton is cheap at ten
cents. The man that can make money at
less than ten cents per pound by his own
labor does not live. To make a fair
profit for his labor, middling cotton
should be 12$ cents, and when the Peo¬
ple’s Party gets into power, they will see
to it that the laavs are so that the pro¬
ducers who feed and support the world
are paid a fair price for their labor.
***
THE ELECTION IN KANSA8.
that Apropos of the oft published statement
the Alliance has fallen (ff in mem¬
bership the past year from 140,000 to
60,000, the Topeka Advance says of the
late elections in KanSas: “We have
made a large actuil gain in our vote over
that of last year. In a few counties the
actual vote s less than last year, but fully
equal to it in comparison with the total
vote diminished cast. Taking into consideration the
total vote in those counties,it
will be found that We ha^e retained Onr
full per cent, of it and in many instances
more than this. Of course all apparent
losses are seized with the greatest avidity
by the opposition press wherever they oc¬
cur; and without making any analysis
of the vote, or instituting any compar¬
isons to determine how our per cent, of
loss corresponds with the decreased per
cent, of the total vote, such apparent
loss, insignificant though it may be, is
paraded under flaming head-lines as an
infallible indication of the total disinte¬
gration and utter annihilation of the
People’s party in Kansas. Rational peo-
p e recognize in all this bluster and crow¬
ing of political roosters the whistle of
cowards approaching a political graveyard
in which their polluted carcasses will
soon be biiried in oblivion. Placing the
most Conservative estimate upon the re¬
sults of the election, it may be regarded
as absolutely certain that, in this “off
year” in politics, without any systematic
campaign such as we conducted last
year, work relying of solely upon the educational
the past, and the limited local
campaigns conducted by the several
counties, and in the face of a campaign
against us seldom surpassed even in a
presidential year, we have still fully held
our own in the aggregate, while our per
cent, has unquestionably been largely in¬
creased. that only We are of the opinion also
not our per cent., but our act-
tual vote cast will be found larger in the
aggrega'e than it was last year.
*%
THE PRINCIPLE OF THE SUB-TREASURY
DEFENDED.
Govenor Sylvester Pennoyer, of Ore¬
gon, contributes an interesting and able
argument in the last number of The
North American Review in defense of
the Alliance principle of government
loans to the people. Some of his best
points are contained in the following ex
tracts:
The mutteringsof discontent, although
heretofore disregarded, have been uni¬
versal. They could find no expression in
the platform of any existing politicial
party, and therefore have been contemned
as well as unheeded. These m tteiings
have at length found voice in a new
political organization, and their long
pent up expression will undoubtedly be
the great slogan of the coming presitjen-
-iai contest. Hence it is of
most vital concern to
party itself, as well as to the people
whose intcre<’8 it would subserve, that
its financial policy should be one that can
be defended upon the grounds of justice,
of public necessity and of business prin¬
ciples. If such a policy can be formu¬
lated the young stripling of a party will
win to its followmg the honest hearted
yeomanry of the whole country, and may
achieve a political victory uurivaled in
this country for more than a half century
pist. In the first place, therefore, the
currency which is proposed to be issued
sbou'd be based upon a perfectly secure
and imperishable foundation, and should
be a legal tender for all debts, public
md private. Such a basis can only be
furnished by the real property of the
country. Tb accept personal iecu-
nfy, or any other security than
’he improved real property of the cmin-
ry, would be to hazard the loan, which
tha govirnment, in the interest of the
whole people, poor as well as rich, can¬
not do. There can be no safer secur ty
for a government loan than the real
property of the nation. If the loan is
placed third upon such property at one half or
one of its realvulue, it is as secure
ns the government itself, and the cur-
ency based upon such a loan is as good
is a government bond or gold or silver.
The main argument against such a
policy is baspd upou its supposed im¬
practicability. by This has been answered
stubborn facts.
The next question of importance
evolved by the proposed financial system
is: H>w shall the money be procured by
the government for making such a loan.
If required it could and would be pro¬
cured as it whs in order to carry on the
iate war, but the amount to be provided
would to a great extent depend upon the
exact conditions of the fiscal policy to
be established.
If the loans were made to the people
upou unimproved real property at a rate
not exceeding 4 per cent., and the cur -
rency for su^h loans, as well as gold and
silver, was changeable at will into gov¬
ernment treasury notes or bonds bearing
interest not exceeding 3 per cent., the
result would undoubtedly be that the is¬
suance of not nearly so much currency
would be required as would be if no such
provision for funding it was made, inas-
mucQ as investors In government securi¬
ties would largely furnish the required
amount.
If a policy be adopted of changing the
currency into bonds and the bonds into
currency, at the will of the holder of
either, under the necessary restrictions,
the whole financial business of the coun¬
try could be adjusted to the proposed
system without any greater enlargement
of the volume of the currency of the
country than its actual business require¬
ments demand. Such a policy would
place the currency of the nation upon
the safest foundation possible, and would
entirely preclude those extremes of con¬
traction nnd expansion so hurtful to
business interests; for if there should be
in circulation more money than could be
advantageously used it would seek in¬
vestment in government securities, while,
if there should be an urgent need for
more, the bonds would be changed into
Currency.
The loaning of money by the govern¬
ment at 4 per cent, would at once fix that
other rate throughout the country without any
or further legislation, and the capi
tal now employed at ruinous rates of in¬
terest as leeches upon the people, thereby
exhausting industrial the life-blood from all of our
tions pursuits, would, by the condi¬
large confronting it, be invested to a
extent in government securities
thereby furnishing a portion of the cur¬
rency required, or, if not so invested, it
would be compelled to seek out ttetir en¬
terprises for its employment. Thus the
accumulated wealth of our plethoric
capitalists, now overburdening ruinous our na¬
tional industries with its exac¬
tions, checked in its unlicensed powef,
would patiently and effectively subserve
the common weal.
BRADSTREET SUED
For $35,000 Damages by a Merchant
of New Orleans.
A New Orleans dispatch of Friday
says: John G. Grant, furniture dealer,
who a short time ago fisked his creditors
for a respite, filed a suit against claiming Brad-
street’s Commercial Agency,
$35,000 damages. Petitioner alleges
that the defendant company on Juf^ 14,
1891, Dublished a report regarding follow¬
ilaintiff’s standing ifl which the
ing words occurred:
“It is unfavorably regarded by the
local trade, who do not think it advisa¬
ble to grant him the extension asked for.
His methods have been criticised ever
since he has been here, and those consult¬
ed now claim to have never had any con-
fidence in him. Thefe wai an article in
a local paper charging him with hypo¬
crisy, dishonesty an 1 immorality. Up been to
this time the charges have not
refuted.”
Plaintiff alleges that said statement is
malicious and slanderous, and was made
with a view and for the purpose of injur¬
ing him and preventing his creditors
from granting him the respite asked for.
HEAVY SNOW FALL
All Along the Atlantic Coast—Eight
Inches at Norfolk.
A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., says:
A blizzard, of severity almost unknown
in this section, struck the city, beginning
at about S o’clock Sunday morning, ac¬
companied by slee’t, which later turned
into heavy snow, which now lies seven
or fight inches deep on a level, and has
drifted much deeper in places. Street
car travel has been interrupted, and a
semblance of a schedule D only kept up
by clearing the way with snow plows.
This is the earliest snowstorm in Norfolk
since the signal < ffice was established
there in 1871, and the heaviest ever
known to take place before New Year.
The worst snowstorm in years also
prevailed at Fortress Monroe.
Qui e a heavy snowstorm is reported
from Wilmington, N. C. At Weldon
seven inches of snow fell. At Battle-
boro six inches; Rocky Mount, five
inches Snow fell all along the line of
the Wilmington and Weldon railioad.
General J. B. Gordon, Commander-in-
chief of the United Confederate Veterans,
order in the Northern States.
NUMBER 48.
A Barometer of Finance. v 4
There are not so many diamonds wora
In New Yoik now, writes a Gotham cor¬
respondent, as there were a few yean
ago. have Probably been the farmers out West
who raising such tremendous
crops have been buying them up with
their surplus cash, or it may be that
the pawnbrokers have them. At any
rate, there are fewer diamonds tc be
seen now than for some time. The dia¬
mond is always a barometer of finance.
If money is plentiful overybodv is wear-
ing them. When there is' a stringency
in the money market the diamonds are
sold. The New York money market has
been iu a state of stringency for some
time, and I guess that accounts for the
scarcity of diamonds. They are good
things to invest in, arc diamonds, because
tboy can nearly always tho* realize their full
value. Next to diamond the most
popular tine color stone is next. the ruby; Opals emeralds of brilliant of
are
lustre are always in demand aud a good
many The people prefer them to diamonds.
old-timo superstition about the opal
is rapidly disappearing and they are
considered as desirablo for purposes of
ornamentation as any other stone worn.
The cat’s eye is another popular stone,
although hard to get. The turquoise
and garnet, except they bo of the first
quality, are not so popular as they used
to bo. Fine pearls are in demand, but
the average do not sell as readily as they
did once. You remember a few years
ago men used to wear pearls in studs You
aud in their gold sleeve links.
rarely see a scarf-pin. man wearing pearls now,
except in a and these are not
numerous. Their use is almost entirely
confined to women. Sapphires are not
in such great demand as they were a few
years ago, and thoso that aro worn
figure in combination The pieces the affected popular by
women. agate is most
cheap stone.—[iSt. Louis Globo-Demo-
Brat.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R- R.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Nov. iSth, 1891.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 12.
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm 8 50pm 10 10 am
Chamblee..... ....... 9 27 pm 10 48 am
Norcross....... ....... 9 39 pm 11 Oi am
Duluth........ ....... 9 51 pm 1115 am
Suwanee....... ....... 10 03 pm 11 26 am
Buford........ .......10 17 pm 11 40 am
Flowery Branch .......10 31 pm 11 53 am
Gainesville..... 2 59 pm 10 51 pm 12 14 pm
Lula.......... ....... 11 18 pm 12 42 pm
Bellton........ .......11 21 pm 12 41 am
Cornelia....... .......11 45 pm
Mt. Airy....... .......ill 50pm
Toccoa......... ....... 12 20 am
Westminster ... ....... 12 58 am
Seneca...... ....... 17 am
Central........
Easleys........ am
Greenville..... 6 05 pm am
Greers......... am
Wellford.......
Spartanburg... Clifton........ 6 57 pm am
Cowpens......
Gaffney am
Blacksb urg am
Grover......... am
King’s Mount’11
Gastonia.......
Lowell........
Bellemont.....
Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm «m an
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. II. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 20 am
Bellemont............. 2 12 pm 2 42 am
Well................. 2 22 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia................ 2 35 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’n ... < t ... 3 00 pm 3 27 am
Grover................< 3 16 pm 3 43 am
Blacksburg............ 3 ^6 pm 3 53 am
Gaffney............... 3 45 pm 4 10 am
CO'wnens .............. 110 pm 4 42 am
Clifton ................ 4 13pm 4 35 am
Spartanburg... 11 43 am 4 27 pm 5 00 am
Wellford................ 5 5£0pm, 09 5 5 42 23 am
Greers................. 5 pm 6 10 am
Greenville...... 12 36 pm 34 pm am
Easleys................. 6 07 pm 6 38 am
Cehttal..,,,........... 6 55pm 7 30 am
Westminster.... Seneca.......... ^ <41 22 pm 7 8 57 15 am am
8 pm 8 52
Toccoa................ 19 pm am
Mt Airv............ 3 48 pm 9 18 am
Cornelia.’.."............ 8 916 52 pm 9 45 23. am
BeNton................ pm 9 am
Ltila .......... 9 18 pm 9 47 am
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 9 42 pm ,0 12 am
Floweri Branch........ 10 00 pm 10 32 am
Buford ........... I® 17 pmi 10 4o am
Suwanee............. .. 10 ® p«BjlO 58'ana
Duluth ...............40 45pm II 15 am
Norcross..............'0 Chamblee..............B ®fP JI H ‘28 am
m am
Ar. Atlanta IE. T. 1 5 05 pm 11 4a pm 12 20 pm
Additional iraifls Ties. 17 an 1 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily elc«pt 8nnday 1l^ves At¬
lanta 5 30 p m, arrives Lula #12 p Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50
a m.
m! and II50 a m, arrive Athens leave Athens, 10 15 p m No. and 10
1 30 pm. Returning No. 12daily, 6 1
daily . except Sunday, and -j vn
and 6 45 a m, amte Lula 8 00 p m and 8 39
s & ?:
and arrives TOCcotaS SO a id. be¬
Nos. 11 an 1 12 carrv Pullman Sleepers
tween Washington andKwitws City
ham tad Memphis and ^ x-^wi? PuU
“sfirfftfsars x
mi 38* Washington *“<.aJSS’SS
Washington. On this train an
charged on firat-ca«8 tickets only- local ana
For detailed information as to
through lllruuK a time table*, v—,----and rates I’ullmau Sleep¬
ing car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, TAYLOR, W. A. TURK,
JAS. L. Div. Pass. Ag’t.
Gen’l Pass. Ag t. Charlotte N. C.
Atlanta. Ga. •
C. P. HAMMOND,
Superintendent SOL. Atlanta, HASS, eta.
W. H. GREEN. Traffic Manager,
Gen’l Manager. Atlanta, G$.
Atlanta, Ga.
LEWIS DAVIS,
attorney at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in th« countiei ©f Haber
u d Rabun of th* Nc»rthw«s *r*>
Qtrcuit, •&$ Frank! a a»4 Banka of tm
Western (Xrouit Prompt att««^‘»n w41
h* given to all buslu*** eatotstoft to Yam
Th* collection *f debts wffl have
ini sttosUoa.