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VOLUME A SLEEP SONG, "Willow, where the rushes grow Softly swishing, softly swaying Sing a music sweet and low, While the breez -s round you playin] Gently come—gently go. Wind that in the trees doth blow With a sweet seductive sighing. Sing a lullaby you know, Dreamful as the shadows flying, Something soft—something slow. River, as you onward flow Crooning songs of no man’s making, Lvt me ever seawards go With no thought of sa l awaking, Even now—even so. —Irene Noble, in Good Words. IN THE DEFILE. N adventure which I shall never forget oc¬ curred during the cam¬ paign of Bosnia and -IS Herzegovina, iu 1877- tm. 78. then, I and was consequently very young ■ r full of enthusiasm and m ‘ exaggerated colonel the which When “duty my the received husbind of regiment woman.” ideas was its of of marching orders, the wife of the lieutenant-colonel, Count X., nud myself obtained, not without a good deal of trouble, permission to follow the regiment to the field of war. We argued that, protected by the Red Cross badge of the “Convention de Geneve,” we would really run no danger, and that as far as privations were concerned we did not mind that one bit. This extrordinary declaration, coming from two spoiled children like ourselves, who had been brought up in the very lap of luxury, and who had not the faintest idea of what privations really meant, caused our friends to smile at our simplicity. But ns, after all, we were in perfect health and firmly resolved to gain our point, we dually succeeded. Our first week of “campaigning” were devoted to nursing the sick and tending the wounded. In spite of ail that may be said to the contrary by idealists, it is not a pleasant task, and many a time have I cried very bitter tears at the sight of some strong young soldier crippled for life by the bullets of the enemy. Habit, however, is the great master, and with time I became so well used to life in camp ambulances that I really considered myself as cool and collected in the ac¬ complishment of my self imposed duties as any hardened army surgeon among us. No country on the face of our unfor¬ tunate planet has been ofteuer ravaged, no land oftener soaked with the blood of its inhabitants than the portion of the Balkan Peninsula which our troops were occupying. Everything around us had been desolated by fire and bloodshed as severely as during the first invasions of the barbarians, hundreds of years before. Very grand, but very dreary aud sad, was the landscape with its wonderful de files, its high mountains enclosing rush¬ ing streams. The sandstone rocks, worn by erosion into fantastic forms worthy of Gustave Dore, took in the twilight the shapes of huge dragons, lions or other equally territlic looking objects. Then came great deserted plains with here and there cottages built of clay on a founda¬ tion of dry stones aud covered with pieces of wood, from which the inhab¬ itants had fled iu terror. It was difficult to procure food for the army. The cul¬ ture is always poor in this wild land, and now everything had been pillaged. For the first time iu my life I knew what hunger meant. In after years an experience of that kind makes one feel very charitably inclined toward the un¬ fortunates who claim oue’s mercy on the plea of starvation. Strauge as it may appear, I had never felt better iu my life than during these mouths of priva¬ tion and fatigue. Many a time after being a whole day iu the saddle I slept on the bare ground with nothing to pro¬ tect me from the sharp night air but a rough military cloak or a horse blanket, aud slept far better than under the vel¬ vet and lace canopy ot my soft bed at home. Just in the same manner did I relish a crust of soldier's hard bread and a mess of more tliau questionable soup eaten be¬ side the bivouac fires with a ravenous hunger as appetizer. Everybody was so courteous and considerate. These un¬ educated men of our regiment, harlened by the adventurous life of soldiers iu active service, were always ready to give up their own scant comforts in order to add to mine, had I been disposed to al¬ low them to do so. As it was, I had many a hard fight with my patients in the ambulance, so anxious were they to share with me the thin beef-tea, or sip of wine which it was so difficult to pro¬ cure for them. But enough of this, or my reminiscences will carry me so far that I shall never come to the adventure which I am about to relate. It happened shortly after the defeat of the Bosnians by our forces, between Zepce and Maglai. Our brigade was camping at the foot of some high and precipitous cliffs some miies from Zepce, our regiment being separated from the army corps by a superb defile of steep rocks. It was the most romantic site imaginable, plentifully wooded with oaks, beeches and elms; but the very narrow road winding between the cliffs was gruesome in the extreme in its lone¬ liness and awe-inspiring grandeur. One alternoon I had ridden over from our camp, a distance of ten miles or so, to the other side of the defile, where Countess X. was visiting her uncle, the general in command of the brigade. It was getting toward dusk when I ordered my horse with a view to riding back to our camp before night. I retused the escort which the general rnoet kinuly pressed me to accept, for I knew that I would be far safer alone than when ac¬ companied by soldiers wearing the hated uniform of the army of occupation. Be¬ sides, this, as I have said before, I was very romantic in those days, and I pre¬ ferred sot to expose any fellow-emtum THE TOCCOA NEWS AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL. to the bullets and yatagans of the dreaded Montenegrins, who wers known to be always in ambush in the mountain passes. After having suoceeded in persuading the general of my perfect safety, I mounted my black charger, “Dare Devil,” and was about to start off at a brisk canter, when the dear sld gentleman, putting his hand on the pommel sf my saddle and coming close to me, whpt- pered, “Take care, my child. It would never do for you to be caught carrying dispatches.” I laughed gaylv to reas¬ sure him, but nevertheless I knew full well how true his words were, for, in¬ deed, it would very likely mean death to me. The fact was, that seeing me de¬ termined to ride back to camp alone, the general, who felt certain that a woman protectsd by the “brassard” of the Red Cross stood a better chance of passing unharmed through the defile than any member of his staff, had intrusted to me a dispatch of the utmost importance. It was written in cipher on a tiny scrap of flimsy paper, and rolling it tightly, I had inserted it in the woodcock quill which was so jauntly stuck in the band of my military cap. As • I rode along in the gathering gloom, I glanced once or twice at the two revolvers in my holsters with a feel¬ ing of confidence, for I was a neat, shot and I knew that l was perfectly capable of defending myself if attacked, The trouble, however, was that those terrible Montenegrins lay in hiding behind jut¬ ting rocks, and that their mode of pro¬ cedure consisted in shooting the un¬ suspecting travelers who ventured through the mountain passes like so many rabbits in a warren, or sometimes in swiftly pouncing upon them from their places of concealment and making them prisoners before they had time to defend themselves. The road was frightfully rough and uneven, for it was nothing else than the dried-up bed of a mountain torrent, full of sharp stones and bits of yellow quartz. I picked my way carefully in the fast de¬ creasing evening light, much to the dis¬ gust of my fretful young horse, who curvetted from side to side in a most un¬ comfortable manner. Fortunately, as I reached the beginning of the defile, the moon, like a huge silver lamp, rose from behind the mountains, lighting up the path with dazzling brilliancy, but leav¬ ing the steep rock walls and densely wooded precipitous slopes on both sides in inky darkness. The road was less difficult now, but I could not take avail of this favorable circumstance to give my impatient horse his head, for I realized that should any Montenegrins be lying in wait behind these dark ramparts any¬ thing like flight on my part would surely hasten my fate. I had reached the middle of the pass, which was very narrow at that point,and I -was beginning to think that nothing was likely to happen to me after all, when, without the slightest warning, four gigantic figures rushed upon me, two from each side of the pass, and be¬ fore I could even dream of seizing my revolvers Dare Devil had been brought to a sudden and most disagreeable stand¬ still by an iron grip, and I myself lelt that both my hands were being dexter¬ ously tied behind ray back. This was shame, indeed, for so brave a little soldier in petticoats as I fondly imagined myself to be, and at the consciousness of the indignity to which I was being sub¬ jected all my courage revived. Luckily I spoke have a dozen dialects of this part of the w'orld well enough to make my¬ self understood. “What do you mean by making a wo¬ man prisoner?” cried I. Then, as it flashed upon me that my address was hardly of a conciliatory nature, I added more gently “Since when have the brave sous of Montenegro sunk so low as to go to war with girls?” The moon shone so brightly that I could see a smile flicker on the superbly haucsome bronzed features of the huge fellow who was holding on to Dare Devil’s bridle. “We do not wish to harm you,” he replied very softly, “provided you mean uo tricks.” “Tricks!” exclaimed I indignantly. “Fine tricks I am able to play when you have begun by putting me ‘hors de combat.’ Shame on you! Don’t you see the Red Cross on my arm? I am—” Here I slightly hesitated. “I am a sort of Sister of Mercy—do you understand? And many are the men of your race whom I have nursed back to health du¬ ring the last few months.” “We know it well, an I also that you are Priucess F., wife of the commander of these White Lancers, down yonder. We are not pugrateful for what youve ha done, and if you are ready to swear that you are carrying uo dispatches we will take your word for it and let you go free; otherwise,” continued the man, who seemed, judging by his gorgeous costume, to be a c tie", * wilt make you prisoner in good eir and—” he finished his sentence with a gesture by no means reassuring. This was a pretty mess, forsooth! I collected my wits as best I could, and, glaring furiously at him, I replied, draw¬ ing myself up so far as my pinnioned arms would allow me to do: “I refuse to answer your impudent question. If you think that I am a likely object to be entrusted with dispatches, execute your threats, make me a prisoner; it will be an easy job and a glorious victory 1”— this was a derisive laugh. “Search me I kill me! if so be your pleasure, but pray put an end to this disgraceful sceue.” A queer little ereature I must have looked on my struggling steed; with my icarlet kilt, spurred boots, white dolman and dashing military cap, through which the ominous woodcock’s quill seemed to burn a hole into my thick crop of short curls! My captors looked at me for a moment, then at each other. They were a long time making up their mind—at least it appeared so to me. Finally, at a sign from my interlocutor, one of them untied my hands. “You are right, Princess, we do not fight women,” said be, baking bis head, “and especially not when they are brave like you. Go "in peace. Had you been afraid ol us, things would have turned out difftrtntlj; but admire a virtue TOCCOA, GEORGIA SATURDAY. AUGUST 13, 1892. of which, above all others, we prids our¬ selves. This pass is not safe, as you hav8 had reason to find out to your cost, and we shall accompany you until you are within hearing of your sentries, but believe me, do not tempt Providence thus again.” As he said this, the hand¬ some chief let go of Dare Devil’s bridle, a circumstance of which this well-named animal immediately availed himself by bolting with lightning rapidity. It was no easy task to rein him in, but I did so, not wishing to look as if I meant to run away. In silence we proceeded on our way, my stalwart bodyguards keeping pace with me all the time, At the end of the pass, which we reached some twenty minutes later, the camp fires be¬ came discernible, glittering like over¬ grown glow-worms on the dark plain. I stopped my horse, and, beckoning to the chief, I said, not without. emotion: “You have been very generous, 1 shall not forget it. Pray accept this as a lit¬ tle token of my gratitude,” and I hand¬ ed him my two revolvers, which were jewels of their kind. With a bow worthy of a throne-room, the young man thrust them in his broad belt, which bristled already with -weapons of the most forbid¬ ding aspect, then pressing most deferen¬ tially to his lips the hand I extended to him, he turned on his heel and followed by his imperturable subordinates, he vanished as he had come in the dark¬ ness. Within a very few minutes I answered the sentry's challenge, and rode at a hand- gallop into camp. I could not easily have analyzed my somewhat mingled feelings, but until the end of the cam¬ paign I repaid the wounded Montene¬ grins who fell in our hands by extra care and extra devotion for the chivalrous conduct of the unknown chief who had proved to me a friend indeed, as well as a friend in need. Two years later I was staying with ray husband at the house of the Austrian En- voy at Cettinje. On the eve of my de¬ parture, a great dinner, to which sev¬ eral Montenegrin dignitaries were invited, was given in our honor. Shortly be¬ fore we entered the dining-room, a tall and remarkably handsome Montene¬ grin made hU entrance into the draw- room. Where I had seen this superb specimen of manhood? These great, dark-blue eyes, fringed with abnormally long lashes? This firmly chiseled chin? This beautifully curved mouth, shaded by a long, silky mustache? Suddenly I remembered my captor of the C— Pass. On the impulse of the moment I started to my feet, and, much to the amazement of my hosfis, I rushed up to the hero of my adventure, and, extend¬ ing both hands to him, I exclaimed: “How happy I am to see you—” A puzzled expression on his face urged me to add, stupidly: “Surely you caunot have forgotton me!” “No, I have not,” said he, while a decided blush fell over his dark skin, “but remember, Princess, that when I last saw you you were a little soldier, while now—” His sentence remained unfinished, much to my satisfaction. There was a slightly awkward pause, and then, pointing to the silken, pearl- studded belt which encircled his slim waist, he showed me my two little jeweled revolvers. “I have worn them ever since,” said he “in remembrance.”—New York Tribune. What Brushes Are Made Of. “Did you ever see a brush of spun glass?” asked a professor of physical science of a Washington Star reporter. “Here is one. It is for use where acids are employed that would eat up any other substance. Bless you! the materials of which brushes are made are innumerable. Among other things they are manufac¬ tured out of whalebone, horn, wire and the quills of feathers. The quills and the whalebone are split for the purpose, and the horn is softened, rolled out flat and broken into threads. Ever so many animals contribute their hair for brushes. Bears’ fur, being coarse and stiff, makes the best varnishing brushes; brushes for gilding and graining are made out of badgers’ hair and a part of the hair in- side of every cow’s ear is utilized for lettering brushes. “The squirrel, the goat, the horse, the bear, the camel, the sable aud even the polecat supply material for brushes, Some of it is very valuable, three or four ounces of selected camel’s or sable’s hair being worth $100. For artists’ ‘pencils’ the hair of the ichneumon and the finest of that which grows within the cow s ear are employed, but the best and most costly of such exquisite brushes are manufactured from the long hairs of the sable s tail. However, not all of these beasts put together contribute so impor- tantly to the brush making industry as does the hog. The hogs of Russia and Poland afford the chief market supply of bristles for the world, the crop being gathered .-t regular intervals. Of the product the whitest and best bristles are utilized for tooth brushes and paint brashes. “la the manufacture of artists’ pea- cils the delicate hairs employed are first washed, dried, combed, sorted and ar¬ ranged in bunches off the desired sizes. Each bunch must be formed so as to have a sharp point when it is wet. Very deli¬ cate manipulation is required in this work, which is always performed by wo¬ men and children. Each bunch is fas¬ tened together and drawn through the large end of a quill until the hairs pro¬ ject sufficiently ironi the other end. The quill, having been soaked beforehand ia the hot water to enlarge it, shrinks enough on drying to hold the brush se¬ curely. For this purpose quills from geese, turkeys, ducks, pigeons, quails, larks and other birds are used. “Among the vegetable materials used for making brushes are cocoanut fiber, old rope and the roots and fibers of many tropical plants; also ‘broom corn,’ rat¬ tan and rushes.” A man in Georgia bougiit a pig tne otiler ‘-ay and took it home. It did not relish its new quarters and returned to itj former owner, “swimming half a milt twoM * P oad in ** journey." TARIFF TROTHS. SENATOR CARLISLE FORCIBLY REFUTES THE ARGUMENTS OF THE REPUBLI¬ CANS—EVILS OF THE m’kIXLEY LAW PLAINLY SET FORTH. Senator Carlisle made a masterly reply to Senator Aldrich’s fallacious protec¬ tive arguments in the United States Sen- aie. Step by step he analyzed the speech of Mr. Aldrich, which is to be the Republican keynote, and showed conclusively that no warrant existed for the assertions contained in it. Mr. Aldrich had declared, for in¬ stance, that through operations of the McKinley law $325,000,000 had been saved to the people of the United States. Mr. Carlisle showed by figures that, on the contrary, in the period of the inves¬ tigation by members of the Senate Finance Committee of the effect of the McKinley law upon prices, the cost of living in this country increased just $2S5,000,000. The calculations on which Mr. Aldrich laid so much stress, he said, were based on prices which pre¬ vailed on the very last day of the inves¬ tigation. No conclusion that was either just or valuable could be drawn from such manifestly unfair calculations. Mr. Carlisle said that he ought, per¬ haps, to apologize for attempting at such a late period of the session to oc¬ cupy a portion of the Senate’s time in the discussion of a subject which could not be disposed of at the present session. But the recent report of the Committee on Finance had been so thoroughly mis¬ understood, or so grossly misrepresented, in the public press, that he felt it the duty of some one on the Democratic side of the chamber, who had assisted in making the investigation, to state their view. It has been the unanimous opinion of economists and statisticians that for many years, in all the great industrial countries of the world, the prices of commodities were decreasing aud the wages of the working people were in¬ creasing. If all disturbing influences could be removed (as they ought to be removed), the universal rule in all the most highly civilized and enlightened countries would be undoubtedly as he had stated it. The tendency toward a decline in the prices of commodities and an increase in the rate of wages wa3, in his judgment, the necessary result of improved methods of production, trans¬ portation and exchange. He had never been able to appreciate the proposition that people could be made happy and prosperous by taxation, whether to defray extravagant expend¬ itures on the part of the Government, or to increase the prices which people pay for what they ate, drank and wore. Any one who contended (as Mr. Stewart had done) that high prices of commodities were beneficial to the community at large was at war with the spirit of the age, at war with the genius of discovery and invention, which had, within the last fifty years, as never in any other equal period of history, ameliorated the condition of mankind by bringing all the necessaries of life and many of its lux¬ uries within the reach of every man who was willing to work. If high prices were conducive to the general welfare, then steam and electricity ought to be dispensed with, stage coaches and dirt roads again adopted, and the most prim¬ itive methods of production and distribu¬ tion resorted to. That would produce high prices. Every shackle on com¬ merce, every restriction on honest trade, every interference with the free exchange of products in the markets of the world increased prices and deprived the people of the benefits which they had a right to enjoy, and which they otherwise would enjoy, resulting from improved commer¬ cial and industrial methods. In a passing allusion to the McKinley act, Mr. Carlisle said that in November, 1890, its author and supporters had been swept from the House of Representatives b y a majority of more than 860,000 votes. Never in the history of the eountry had there been such a storm of popular indignation against a single act 0 f legislation as that which overwhelmed t h e advocates of that measure in 1890. And now, as a result of that storm, the Senator from Rhode Island and the other f r i eE ds of the protective system were confessing that higher prices were not beneficial to the people, and that ho original avowed purpose of the McKinley ac t wa s wrong. In other avoids, they -were contending that that act had* been a succe s 3 because it had failed to accpm- plish what it was intended to accomplish, lf higher prices were injurious to the community at large, and if low prices -were beneficial, then everything which interfered with and arrested the natural tendency toward a decline in the prices 0 f commodities and a rise in the wages G f labor, anything that tended to make it harder aud more expensive for the masses of the people to live (whether it were war, pestilence, famine, or a Mc- Kinley act) was a public calamity to be deplored by every man who loved his country. The Senator from Rhode Island had laid down four propositions. The first was that the prices of commodities and the cost of living had decreased during the period covered by the investigation, which meant (according to that Sena¬ tor’s conclusion) a saving to the people of the United States of $325,000,000 per annum. The second was that the ratio of wages had increased during the period covered by the investigation. The third was that the cost of living in Eng¬ land had increased 1 9-10 per cent, dur¬ ing that period, and tha fourth was that decline in the prices of commodities and that increase in the rate of wages in the United States were the result of the Republican policy of protection. Mr. Carlisle admitted that on a single day—after the passage of the McKinley act, and during the period covered by the investigation—the retail prices of 215 articles embraced in that list given by the committee (taking them all to- gather and giving to «ash one aam« importance) were 84 100 of 1 per cent, lower than they had been at the begin¬ ning of the period; and that on a single day, which was the last day included in the investigation, the cost of living iu the United States, including rent, had fallen 44-100 of 1 per cent, from the rate prevailing at the beginning of the investigation. He submitted that: no just or valuable conclusion for any pur¬ pose whatever could be drawn from cal¬ culations based upon the prices which prevailed on a single day during twenty- seven months, and that the very last day on which the investigation was made. Referring to Mr. Aldrich’s statement that the committee had found that ths cost during of living had increased In England the period covered by the investi¬ gation 9-10 per cent., Mr. Carlisle stated that the committee had made no investi¬ gation whatever concerning the cost of living in England, and had made no re¬ port on the subject. The committee had caused the retail prices ora certain nst or articles to be taken in England on the 1st of June, 1889, and on the 1st of September, 1891; but it had caused no investigation to be made as to the pro¬ portions in which those articles entered into the consumption of the people. As to Mr. Aldrich’s statement that prices had been found to hare declined in three cities of the United States, Fall River, Chicago and Dubuque—Mr. Car¬ lisle stated that, so far as he knew, no such investigation had been made. He had learned of it for the first time when he had seen the statement in print. Coming back to the chief line of his argument, Mr. Carlisle said that he would endeavor to show that the prices of commodities in the United States, whether by wholesale or retail, had been enormously increased by the passage of the McKinley act and by the agitation which had preceded it, and that the cost of living in the United States had in¬ creased (during the period covered by the investigation) more than $385,000,- 000. He proposed to show, in the sec¬ ond place, that the rates of wages in fifteen unprotected industries in the United States had increased during the period covered by the investigation, while the rate of wages in fifteen of the highly protected indu3tiesof the United States had fallen since the passage of the McKinley act. The fit teen general occupations in un¬ protected industries were bakers, black¬ smiths, bricklayers, cabinetmakers, car¬ penters, common laborers, farm laborers, machinists, masons, iron molders, paint¬ ers, plumbers, stonecutters, tailors and tinsmiths. The average increase of wages in these occupations had been .75 per cent. The fifteen highly protected occupations were bar iron, boots and shoes, cotton goods, cotton and woolen goods, crucible steel, flint glass, green glass, lumber, machinery, pig iron, steel ingots, steel blooms, steel rails, window glass and woolen goods. In these occu¬ pations the rates of wages had fallen (since the McKinley act) an average of .89 per cent, as against a rise of .75 per cent, in the fifteen unprotected indus¬ tries. Mr. Carlisle then went into a detailed statement as to the co3t of imported goods and as to tin plate. On the latter points he quoted Mr. Aldrich as saying that the people of the United States had paid to the Welsh tin plate manufactur¬ ers in 1891 seventy-six cents per box more than they had been paying before that time. That was undoubtedly too true. The McKinley act had been a bon¬ anza to the Welsh tin plate manufactur¬ ers. It had enabled them to take from the people of the United States many millions over and above their normal profits. The McKinley act had paid, not to the importer, not to the Govern¬ ment, not to the dealers, but directly to the Welsh tin plate manufacturers $4,- 620,750, or more than half the value of the 508 tin plate works of Wales. The McKinley act, as to tin plate, had proven to be, not for the benefit of the American consumer, but of the Welsh manufac¬ turers. Mr. Carlisle closed his speech with some specific statements as to woolen goods, and with the assertion that Ameri¬ can wool manufacturers would be will¬ ing to give up the tariff on imported woolen goods if Congress would only give them free wool. Protection Paradoxes. That taxing an article makes it cheaper. That making an article cheaper en¬ ables its manufacturer to pay higher wanes. That taxing raw material cheapens cost to manufacturers and lowers prices to consumers. That a tariff paying $175,000,000 a year into the public treasury does not increase the prices of the things taxed to produce this sum. That foreigners pay the duties, and so largely support our Government, but that out of mercy to them the Reed- MeKinley Congress spent only $1,000,- 000 , 000 . That the price of farm produce has gone up under McKinleyism while the cost of living has gone down. The untaxing foreigners only is “re¬ ciprocity.” in That high tariffs make high wages the United States, b at leave wages in every protectionist country in Europe lower thaaia fx^e-tradet England. Jay Gould’s Conclusion. The general effect of the McKinley tariff is well summed up in a statement made by Mr. Jay Gould over his signa¬ ture to the New York World, and printed in its issue of October 6tb, 189'J: “I cannot see that the new tariff o! itself will be a disadvantage to the country. If it increases the cost of some articles people will simply use less of them. Take wool, for instance, F the tariff on wool makes clothing cost more, a pc r-on will get aloDg with one suit where he would otherwise have two. “J\t Gould.” A special room in tbs Hainamnn Ho - pital teiwwomen. of New York City is lilted up tor .... _ _ The Farmers’ Sufferings. Congressman Hatch, from the Com- mittee on Agricultnre, submitted to th« House of Representatives a report pre¬ pared bv the committee on the effect ol the present tariff law upon agriculture, which will specially interest farmers throughout the country. The report says that careful compari¬ son shows that there has been a steady decline in the prices of farm property and products under the several tariffs in force since the war, while for a corre¬ sponding period, and under the same laws, other interests have beeen more prosperous and remunerative. The report insists that under the low tariff of 1846 agriculture enjoyed its greatest prosperity, and holds that the more restrictive and prohibitive the trade with other countries has been the worse has agriculture fared. The result of the prohibitive tariff has been to prejudice European Nations (our best buyers) against the United States, and in the retaliation which followed agriculture was dealt an irreparable injury. The American farmer is now compelled to sell his products in direct competition with the pauper and slave labor of Asia and Africa, labor which manages to sub¬ sist on wages averaging less than $3 per month. The report presents statistics showing the decrease in the values of farm lands in the United States between 1870 and 1S80 and the decrease in the values of farm products from 1870 to 1888, not¬ withstanding the increased area under cultivation, and, by way of contrast, gives figures showing the large increase in banking capital and surplus from 1870 to 1891 and the increase in railroad and telegraph earnings. The opinion of a Government official is quoted to the effect that the ceusus of 1890 will show that manufacturing interests have in¬ creased more than 100 per cent, in capital and production during the past decade*. Although the volume of crops has very largely increased, the report says the depression in prices has stripped the busiuess ot all profit. The report con¬ tinues : “A review of the prices of wool shows that the tariff imposed upon imports has been of no practical benefit and that the prices of wool in foreign markets are usually as high, and at times have been higher, than in American markets. Another reason for the low price of wool in the United States lies in the fact that more than sixty-seven per cent, of all the clothes manufactured here aud pass¬ ing for woolen goods is composed of shoddy, which comes in direct competi¬ tion with raw wool, and which is pro¬ tected by an almosi prohibitive tariff. As in tue case of wool, so has it been with all other farm products upon which an import duty has been imposed, In no instance, except upon products which could not bear long transportation, has there been any benefit or appreciable ad¬ vance iu price to the producer, Note particularly the decline in the prices of barley and wheat, although subject to increased duties upon importation by the law of 1890.” Dealing with the subject of reciprocal trade relations, the report says: “Perhaps the fliiniest and boldest at¬ tempt to deceive the farmers is the scheme of reciprocity as meant to be put in force between Central and South American countries. It argues that qgarly all these countries being agricul¬ tural, reciprocal interchange with them cannot be of advantage to American farmers. Our trade in wheat with coun¬ tries with which it is not proposed to open reciprocal relations amouted during the ten months ended April 30, 1892, to more than 460 times as much as with those with which it is proposed to place our agricultural products by this system of reciprocity, so called. The great bulk of the agricultural exports now finds a market in Europe, notwithstanding the policy of the tariff to break up all trade relation with this country, If it is meant to advance the interest of agri¬ culture by reciprocal arrangement, the test of sincerity would be to include European countries in the arrangement, these being the natural consumers of agricultural products.” The report presents the following statement to show the increase of in¬ debtedness of. farms and homes in the States from 1880 to 1890: Alabama, $10,798,537; Iowa, $21,996,897; Ill¬ inois, $84,485,527; Kansas, $37,356,- 960; Tennessee, $13,534,664. In con¬ clusion, the report says: “It will be seen that while other in¬ terests have profited by and prospered under the protective system, agriculture has suffered a decline. Prices of farm lands have been greatly reduced, and farms in some of the older States have been abandoned because the owners could no longer afford to till them. Prices for grain, stock and other farm products have seriously declined, and the statement of increased mortgage in¬ debtedness upon homes and farm3, so far as made known by the Census Bu¬ reau, conclusively establishes the fact that the occupation of farming has, under the present system of so-called protec¬ tion, been dealt an injury almost, if not quite, beyond repair. The committee believes that the present law for the col¬ lection of revenue by means of duties upon imports is most unjust, and, if persisted in, will prove ruinous to that greatest of all interests, that foundation of all wealth—agriculture.” White, Representative of Iowa, a mem¬ ber of the committee* prepared a papet which deals particularly with the effect of the nrotective tariff on live stock. II was submitted to the House accompany¬ ing tho views of the majority. In this report Mr. White says: “There is probaoly no class of our citizens who are so thoroughly handi¬ capped by the protective system in the prosecution of their business as the far¬ mers of the Mississippi Valley who are engaged in the raising of hogs and cattle. However profuse the prophesies and promises of a ‘home market,* thi3 happy condition has not as yet material¬ ized, and the prospect that this point may be reached is more remote than aver.” NUMBER 32. COMPLIMENTING CRISP. Ths New York World Has Good Things to Say of Him. The New York World of Saturday, iu a review of congress, says of Speaker Crisp: “No democrat in congress, in speaking of the record of the present house, fails to pav a warm tribute to Speaker Crisp. It was claimed for Judge Crisp by his friends at the time of his election that he possesstdall of the qual¬ ities necessary to success in that responsi¬ ble « ffice, and it is the general judgment now that he has justified in hist high place the most generous things said of him. He has been, indeed, a most model presiding office, prompt, courteous, entirely fair to both sides, and resolute whenever th ? occasion de¬ manded. His decisions have always been ratified by the house, and his private counsels to his party friends have always been to promote an intelligent and praiseworthy dispatch of business. In the m>>st turbulent times of the session he has never been betrayed into word or deed reflecting in the slightest degree on the dignity of his situation, or his well- e-tablished reputation for good temper and self-possession. The most experienc¬ ed of the men in congress unite id say¬ ing that no speaker to early in his ser¬ vice in that office ever won for himself more deserved uraise than Mr. Crisp. VALUABLE FREIGHT. Twenty Millions in Gold Shipped Front Sau Franscisco to New York. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says: A train b ariug tweuty millions in gold, from San Francisco to New York, ar¬ rived :?und <y night and after a short stop proceeded eastward. A Pullman and t-ix coaches were guarded by a company of soldiers with Springfield rifles and two Gatlings. The guards stood on the plat- forma with loaded r.fles while the stop was made and no one was allowed to ap- prcacb. RICHMOND & DANVILLE R-R. Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. In Effect May 15th, 1892. NOR I’H BOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. 72 EASTERN" TIKE. Daily. Daily. Daily Lv. Atlanta (K.T.) 1 40 pm 8 50 pm 8 05am Chamblee..... ........ 9 24 pm 8 40am Norcross....... ........ 9 35 pm 8 52am Duluth........ ........ 9 47 pm 9 04am Suwanee....... ........ 9 57 pm 9 15am Buford........ ........10 10 pm 9 28am Flow ry Branch ........ 10 24 pm 9 4. 'am Gainesville..... 3 08 pm j0 45 pm 10 03aid Lula.......... ........ ll 13 pin 10 27am Bellton........ ........ll 15 pm 10 30am Cornelia....... ........ll 42 pm 10 51am Mt. Airy....... ........ll 16 pm 10 55am Toccoa......... ........ i2 20 am 11 19am Westminster... ........i2 57 am 11 56am Seneca ........ ....... 1 17 am 12 15pm Central........ ,....... 1 50 am 1 20pm Easleys........ ........ 2 18 am 1 46pm Greenville..... 6 08 pm 2 44 am 2 H um Greers......... ....... 3 14 am 2 42pnl Weilford....... ........ 3 33 am 3 OOiun 8 partanburg... 7 04 pm 3 54 am 3 :3pm Clifton........ ........ 4 13 am 3 40pm Cowpens ...... ....... 4 18 am 3 44pm Gaffney....... Blacksburg..... ....... 4 40 am 4 09pm ....... 5 01 am 4 27pm Grover......... ....... 5 11am 4 37pm King’s Mount’ll ....... 5 2S am 4 55pm Gastonia....... ........ 5 52 am 5 20pm Lowell........ ....... 6 05 am 5 31pm Bellemont..... ....... 6 16 am 5 39pm Ar. Charlotte...... 9 10 pm 6 40 am 6 00pm SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. 11. No. 9. Daily. Daily. Daily. Lv. Charlotte.. 9 45 am ^OOOCOtOPPCOOOODOO^MCJCiCnCn^^^l^WWCCWMtOWH 1111111111111111111111111111111 PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP cScdriaScsedridc'jrjjco'iaacdiScssflcSuJiocdaaajacdcdiGCXrtfldCL rSaEESSc Bellemont . Lowell..... Gastonia............. Krag’s Mount’n...... Grover........ Gaffney...... Blacksburg ... Cowpeua..... Clifton....... = Ar. Easleys........ Spartauburg.. Greenville..... Toccoa....... Weilford.,..... Greers........ Westminster... Bellton....... Central....... Seneca........ Mt. Cornelia...... Lula......... Flowery Norcroes...... Chamblee...... Gainesville.... Buford........ Duluth........ Suwanee....... Atlanta Airy...... (E. Branch T.) . 11 12 3 5 43 36 41 05 pm pm am pm P P PC P P D_P p p p OOO 8ES'S3B3SSEasaS3SSSSSSS Additional trains Nos. 17 anl 18—Lula ac¬ commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬ lanta 615 pm, arrives Lula 9 00 pm. Return¬ ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives Atlanta 8 50 am. Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex¬ cept Sundav, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 15 p m, and 9 35 a m, arrive Athens 10 00 p ro and 1120 am. Returning leave Athens, No. 10 daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 6 15 p m and 7 07 a m, arrive Lula 7 55 p m and 8 50 a m. Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai- lv; except Sundav, leave Toccoa 11 40 a m arrive Elberton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60 daily, except Sunday, leaves Elberton 5 00 a m and arrives Toccoa 8 30 am. Nos. 9 an 1 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬ tween Atlanta and New York. Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬ ern Yestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and Washington, 'lbrough Pu'lman Sleepers be¬ tween New York and New Orleans, al-o between Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and Birmingham. Observation car between Wash¬ ington and New Orleans. Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Buffet Sleeper be¬ tween Washington und Atlanta. and For detailed information as to local through time table-, rates and Pullman agents, Sleep¬ ing car reservations, confer with local or address. TURK, JAS. L. TAYLOR. W. A. Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. G nl. Pass. Ag’t. Atlanta. Ga. Charlotte N. C. C. P. HAMMOND, Ga. Superintendent Atlanta, W. H. GREEN. rOL. HASS, Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager, Ga. Atlanta. Ga. Atlanta. LEWIS DAVIS, ATTORNEY AT LAW TOCCOA CITY, 8A., Will practise iu the counties of Haber¬ sham and Rabun of the Northwestern Circuit, and Franklin and Banks of the Western Circuit. Prompt attention wiT be given to all business entrusted'to him The collection of debts will have spec ial att«'*tteri.