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THE TOCCOA NEWS
VOLUME XX.
TH REE KISSES OF FAREWELL,
Three, only three, my darling',
Separate, solemn, slow;
Not like the Swift and joyous oner
We used to know
When we kis.-e 1 because we loVed each other,
•Simply to taste love’s sweets.
And lavish 'd our kis-es as summer
Lavish*-* heats;
Rut as they kiss whose hearts are wruD’
■ When hope and fear are spent,
Aud nothing is left to give, except
A sacrament!
First of the three, my darling,
Is sacred unto pain;
We have hurt each other often,
We shall again,
IV hen we pine because we miss each other.
And do not Understan l
How tha written words are so much colder
Than eye an 1 hand,
IAissthee, dear: for any such pain
Which we may give or take;
Buried, forgiven, before it comes,
For our love’s sake.
The second kis--, my darlin?,
lull of joy’s sweet thrill;
Y\ e have blessed each other always,
4Ve always will.
We shall reach until we fm l each othar
Past all of time an l space;
4' o shall listen till we hear each other
in every place.
7 he earth is full of messengers
i Which love sen !s to an 1 fro;
* kiss thee, darling, for all joy
Which we shall know!
The last kiss, O my darlin r,
My love—I cannot see
Through my tears as l remember
M hat it may be,
We may die and never see each other,
Die with no time to give
-Any sign that our hearts are faithful
To die, as live.
Token of what they will notseo
W ho see our parting breath,
I his one la-'t kiss, my darling,
t cals the seal of death.
—Saxe Holm.
Prince Karinval’s Waeer.
X OWARD the end of
r the second Empire,
I’rince Edmond de
K Karinval was one of
' the most brilliant
i • t i'.w v frequenters of the
Boulevard des Ital-
** iens.
\ eiy blond, pale, tall and slender, im-
peiturbably phlegmatic — a temperament
touching zero—with the aid of his
enormous fortune he amused society by
his freaks and fancies, even condescend¬
ing occasionally to astound the pop.
ulace.
One evening he gave a grand dinner
at his own mansion; the cheer was ex¬
quisite, and desert was served in a whirl
of gayety.
“Very well; let us wager,” cried the
prince suddenly, replying to a challenge
from the opposite end of the table,
“that without having stolen, murdered,
injured my fellow beings in «dj way,
without having committed any sort of
crime, broken any law or regulation, 1
get myself arrested when I please and
dragged to a station like a vagabond, a
thief, an assassin!”
lie spoke in the icy tone from which
he never departed, even when making
the most extraord'nary statements or
propositions, and his words cut clearly
through the laughter and conversation.
Every one turned Howard him in sur¬
prise. During the silence which fol¬
lowed he added:
“1 wager two thousand louis who
will take it up?
I here were w ealthy men around the
board, well used to heavy stakes; but
the magnitude ot the sum startled them.
Betore taking up the wager they wished
to determine the conditions clearly.
‘•There is no double meaning? no
play on words, or anything like that?”
queried the I at Duke de Morvella.
“Not in the least, replied the prince;
“1 give you my word as a gentleman.”
“But, suggested another, “you will
probably proceed to do one of those ac-
tions which, without being classed as
offences, yet arouse the police. As, for
exam;-f*«,yon "'ill show yourself in pub-
lie in'SMVii an extravagant or remarkable
costume that you will be followed by a
crowd of jeering urchins, and, to put a
stop to the disorder, an officer will be
obliged to conduct you to a station,
where lie will lend you less eouspicuous
attire.”
“You are quite wrong,” replied de
Krrnval; “for if I should get myself
taken up for wearing so—e extraordiu-
ary costume, the officer would know
very well tlmt he had only to deal with
an eccentric character, an oddity other¬
wise inoffensive. No; I tell you they
will grasp me by the collar and drag me
to the station, believing they are con-
ducting a malefactor, while I shall be
perfectly innocent of any fault or mis-
demeanor, transgressing no enactment."
“Well, then, how will you go about
it?” exclaimed Gastambide, the banker,
who was very nervous aud excitable.
“Ah, that—is my secret! You can
understand that if I told you that tefore-
hand—”
“Of course!” interrupted Gastambide;
“but I have it now! You will tap a
policeman on the shoulder, saying, “Old
fellow. I’m your man. I have killed all
my family in a moment of frenzy. Re¬
morse is choking me. Take me up, old
fellow, let the law do its worst!”
They shouted with iaughter. The
idea of the Prince de Karinval tapping a
policeman on the shoulder, calling him
“old fellow,” and begging relief for his
remorse awoke the wildest merriment,
The prince alone preserved his cool
gravity. He explained quiety to the
impetuous banker that his intention was
not only to abstaiu from evil-doing, but
even to avoid any words or actions cana-
ble of provoking his arrest. And he
repeated: the thousand
“Who take3 up two
louis?” -
“I do!” cried Gastambide with an
exuberant gesture.
The seat day, about seven o’clock m
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL
the evening, when the bdut&uards
swarmed with people and the restau¬
rants begun bis fill up, a shabby wretch
made way through the crowd with
bent bead and watchful gaze, picking
up, here and there, ihe cigar-ends that
others threw away.
The man was still young, and had
evidently fallen from a higher rank, to
judge from the distinction of his pale,
refined face, his patrician hands, his gen¬
eral bearing. Very tall and thin, he
must once have been an elegant figure m
society, Now he was reduce 1—by what
vice or misfortune?—to old shoes with
broken elastics, down at the heel and
patched on the toe I to trousers down at
the knees, and frayed around the hems;
to ft wretched coat, faded and worn,
which was buttoned to the throat
to conceal the lack of linen. An old
felt hat, which looked as if it
might have been fished
from a rubbish-heab, slouched over his
head, and perhaps to give himself the
illusion of a shirt collar, or maybe under
the influence of old habit, he had tied
around his neck an old black silk cravat
which looked as if it might have been
worried by a family of playful puppies.
Still, it was evident that this unfor¬
tunate man was not discouraged or des¬
pairing, for in all his misery there was a
certain care and cleanliness not usually
apparent in men of his class.
As he passed before Vigneron, a res¬
taurant very fashionable, he stopped for
a few seconds to look in at the clear win¬
dows with their guipure hangings,
through which he could see the diners
seated opposite to richly-dressed ladies,
and dividing their attentions between
the exquisite viands and their fair com
panions. At this moment a gentleman
and lady got out of a carriage and
entered the dining room. Through the
open door the shabby man could see a
centre table laden with fruits and
early vegetables, while toward him
wafted that odor of repast, so dis¬
agreeable to those who have just dined,
so delectable to the hungry.
He advanced, and before the door
closed, entered and timidly placed him¬
self at the first empty table.
But he was scarcely seated when the
head waiter, a very distinguished and
stylish looking individual, perceived him
aud hurried toward him with an expres¬
sion of annoyance.
“What are you doing there, you?”
“Why,” replied the unfortunate, point¬
ing to the other guests, “I come to eat,
like all the people.”
He spoke so seriously that it was im¬
possible to think he had been drinking.
The head waiter concluded that he must
be weak minded, and said sarcastically:
“You have mistaken the hour and the
door, my good man; the soup kitchen is
around the corner, aud the soup is dis¬
pensed in the morning.” He shook
his napkin at the intruder to
chase him off, as one would a
troublesome fly. His appearance cer¬
tainly did not grace the establishment.
But the other did not seem disposed to
quit his place.
“1 don’t care much for soup,” he an¬
swered, “and the food given out in the
morning would not suit me.”
The head-waiter was struck with the
purity of his accent and the refinement
of his tone. “This is no born vaga¬
bond,” he thought; “it is some man of
position, ruined by gambling.”
“And,” continued the shabby one,
“there is no reason why you should not
serve me a dinner when I am ready to
pay foi it. There—if you have any
doubt—there is my pocket-book.” He
opened his old coat, and from an inside
pocket drew out a pocket-book stuffed
with bank-notes. Selecting one, he
handed it to the waiter,
“You may look at it closely; you will
see that it is not a counterfeit.”
It was a note for a thousand francs;
and there were at least fifty others in tiie
purse, to judge from its volume. The
waiter took it, and scrutinized it for
several instants, with wide nostrils and
meditative frown. Then abruptly rais-
ing his head, like a mau who makes a
prudent resolution, he returned the batik-
no p e to its owner.
The latter made a movement as if to
r j se> saving;
“Now if you refuse to seive me, I will
j* 0 elsewhere.”
But the head waiter quickly bggge 1
him to remain,
“No, no; stay. Give your order.”
Then calling one of his subordinateq lie
pointed to the mau. “T.ake this geutie-
man’s order,” adding rapidly in a low
tone, “Do not lose sight of him. Do
not let him go out.” He presently dis-
appeared.
Five minutes later, he returned, ac-
companied by a policemau.
All of the occupants of the restaurant
had opened their eyes wide when the
vagabond installed himself at the table,
and had watched him since then with
marked disapproval. No one doubted
that it was he whom the officer had come
to seek, and every head was turned to
see what was going to happen,
Sure enough, the officer went directly
toward him. He continued to enjoy a
savory slice without seeming to notice
the sensation lie had created, He even
started, like one suddenly awakened,
when the officer in uniform touched his
shoulder.
“Eh! What? Is anything the mat-
ter?” He did not seem to understand,
They explained. Brink-notes for a
thousand francs were not usually pro-
duced from such pockets as his. To
have them he must have stolen them!
He defended himself energetically;
but his protestations were in vain.
“I doubt if you cau show a single
paper or certificate of character!” ob•
served the agent,
“It is true; I canno.t. Bit probably
none of these people present can imme-
diatelv produce passports or proofs for
identification.”
“No certificates. You have least a
name. Come then, who are you?”
“I am the Prince Edmond de
Karinval.”
“Why not the King of England?’’
sneered the officer.
“England is governed by a queen,” be-
gas the mau.
TOCCOA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 2 1 1892;
“Enough, enough! no need for further
explanations. Follow me!”
And grasping his shoulder with his
large hand, the policeman forced him to
rise and conducted him to the station.
The wager was won.
TheD, from the lower end of the res¬
taurant, the fat Duke de Morvella, the
lively Gastarabide, and the others; rose;
followed; find interposed; explaining the
adventures tb thb policeman.
He was so overcome with astonish¬
ment, so eager to apologize, aud so con¬
fused, that in haste to bow them out, he
thrust his cocked hat through a pane of
glass, while bending iow and murmur¬
ing indistinctly: “Prince!—Prince! !”
—From the French in Romance.
A Japanese Garden.
Mr. Lafcadio Hearn, in an article ir.
the July Atlantic devoted to a Japanese
garden, writes thus of his own garden
and some of its inhabitansss
Those antique garden walls, high-
mossed below their ruined coping of
tiles seem to shut out even the murmur
of the city’s life. There are no sounds
but the voices of birds, the shrilling of
semi, or, at long, lazy intervals, the sol¬
itary plash of a diving frog. Nay, those
walls seclude me from much more than
city streets. Outside them hums toe
changed Japan of telegraphs and news¬
papers and steamships; within dwell the
all reposing peace of nature and the
dreams of the sixteenth century. There
is a charm of quaintness in the very air,
a faint sense of something viewless and
sweet all about one; perhaps the gentle
liauntiug of dead ladies who looked like
the ladies of the old picture books, and
who lived here when all his was new\
Even in the summer light—touching the
gray, strange shapes of stone, thrilling
through the foliage of the long loved
trees—thre is the tenderness of a phan¬
tom caress. ‘These are the gardens of
the past. The future will know them
only as dreams, creations of a forgotten
art, whose charm no genius may repro¬
duce.
Of the human teuants here no creature
seems to be afraid. The little frogs rest¬
ing upon the lotus leaves scarcely shrink
from ray touch; the lizards sun them¬
selves within easy reach of my hand;
the water snakes glide across my shadow
without fear; bands of semi establish
their deafening orchestra on a plum
branch just above my head, aud a pray¬
ing mantis insolently poses on my knee.
Swallows and sparrows not only build
their nests on my roof, but even enter
my rooms without concern—one swallow
has actually built its nest in the ceiling of
the bath room—and the weasel purloins
fish under my very eyes without any scru¬
ples of conscience. A wild uguisu
perches on a cedar by the window, and
in a burst of savage sweetness challenges
my caged pet to a contest in song; and al¬
ways through the golden air, from the
green twilight of the mountain pines,
there purls to the plaintive, caressing,
delicious call of the yamabato. No Eu¬
ropean dove has such a cry. He who
can hear, for the first time, the voice of
the yamabato without feeling a new sen¬
sation at liis heart little deserves to dwell
in this happy world.—Atlantic Monthly.
The Sand Blast.
By use of the “sand blast” tracing
and etching on glass is a matter of easy
performance. The mode of operation, is
as follows: The vessel or plate of glass
is covered with wax, and through this
designs are cut down to the surface,
which is left exposed to a stream of fine
sand thrown from the “blast.” The
friction soon wears away the hard
glass surface, but does not affect the wax
protection in the least. When the lace-
work, flowers, leaves or whatever the
design may be has been finished, the wax
is removed from the polished parts and
the article is ready for use.
Formerly the fumes of hydrofluoic
acid was used for tracing designs on
glass and other hard substauces, but ow¬
ing to the unevenness of the result, and
the uncertainty as to when the exposure
had reached the proper point, that
method has been ail but entirely super¬
seded by the “sand blast.”
The idea of cutting designs on glass
by forcing sand against the surface of
piates and vessels of that material was
first suggested by one of nature’s freaks,
just as hundreds of other inventions
have been. An observing young man
who was summering on the coast of New
England noticed that the windstorms in
that section frequently gathered up large
loads of sand aud hurled it with much
force against exposed window frames,
and that these, within a very short time,
were worn through and had to be re¬
placed. In places where they were pro¬
tected by leaves, vines, mosquito netting,
etc., the glistening surface was left in¬
tact. He set about utilizing old nature’s
hint at once, the result being a machine
which does work that cannot even be
imitated in any other way.—St. Louis
Republic.
Chinese Bazars.
The Chinese of San Francisco shave
nearly every day. A queer little razor it
is that they use, too. It is in no respect
like our razor, except in the matter of
the keenness of its edge. It is a wee bit
of a blade, nicely curved into a semi¬
circle. With this tool the Chinese bar¬
ber scrapes the almost hirsuteless face of
his customer,and tuea shaves him around
the ears and down the neck to the first
bone of the spinal column. It, of course,
serves the excellent and highly com-
mendab’e purpose of cleaasing the Mon¬
golian face, neck and ears of dirt very
effectually, though the hairs it clips are
few and far between. The rounded
point of the razor is also inserted into
the Celestial ear, and every ambitious
hair that dares to show itself in the
auricular lobe is clipped before its
growth proceeds very far. The China¬
man, you know, is scrupulously cleanly
about his ears. A growth of hair in
them is considered a mark of low birth
or of careless or ungenteel habits.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
A pig that climbs trees is the latwt
story from Australia
THE SUPREME ISSUE.
No Other Matter so Momenta
Ohs to South and North as
the Force Bill.
A bayonet behind every ballot. .That
is the doctrine of the force bill—that is
the theory of the republican party.-
Norfolk (Va.) Landmark.
Division in the south means negro
domination, engineered and sustained by
the federal R >wer in the hands of the
republicans.—Atlanta Constitution.
The force bill will not be eliminated
until the people of the United States
have rebuked the party that stands for
the force bill by giving it an over¬
whelming and everlasting defeat.—Utica
(N. Y.) Observer.
Now that the republicans have thrown
off the mask, and boldly advocate the
force bill, it is time for the south to re¬
member what this brought them before,
and what it threatens them with to day.
—New Orleans Times-Demoerat.
The Force bill is the evil of evils. Mr.
Wesley pronounced slavery to be the sum
of all villiaiDie®. So the Democrats may
pronounce the force bill the sum of all
villainies which now threaten the per¬
petuity of our free institutions. The
government established by our fathers
could not live long after it bad been
changed by the force bill into a grand
consolidated despotism. The political
institutions of which we boast are not
equal to the task of protecting our peo¬
ple from oppression and wrong under the
operation of a law which would reduce
the states to the condition of mere sat¬
rapies. Yes, the force bill is the sum of
all the republican villainies and warns us
not to allow sleep to our eyes until after
the 8th of November next, when we ex¬
pect to bury the republican malignants
out of sight ODCe*for all, and to be able
to asuire the people of the whole world
that Liberty yet has a home in America.
—Richmond, Va., Dispatch.
The followi ng inquiry touches an inter¬
esting point:
‘ Sir: If the force bill or negro domination
is the chief issue in the present campaign, and
the democratic party takes the same stand on the
question as you do, how can any negro consci-
cntiously vote the democratic ticket?
“A Refublican.”
By negro domination is meant the
domination of an illiterate, ignorant,and
passionate majority in a few of the south
era states, acting under the control of
new scoundrels in the place of the carpet¬
baggers of old. By means of such a sub¬
servient maj* rity the carpetbaggers were
enabled to plunder the treasury of the
states and thus enrich themselves. The
scenes w r hich were witnessed in South
Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida,
and some other southern states after the
war, illustrate the evils and dangers of
negro domination. Over and above this
situation will stand the Federal sup rvis
ors of elections, who will have their own
agents at every polling place, and, with
all the power of the government to back
them, will dictate that in all cases on y
Republicans and friends of the plunderers
shall be admitted to office. This is what
is meant by Federal interference promot¬
ing Negro Domination for the benefit of
a gang of scoundrels with no purpose hut
to enrich themselves at the puolic ex¬
pense.
Against such a combi' Aion as this,
and, above all, against Federal interfer¬
ence with elections in all the States, North
as well as South, every intelligent, pa¬
triotic citizen, who is not carried away
by the violence of party feeling, will cast
his ballot; and every intelligent, patriotic
negro will vote against it as earnestly as
every intelligent white.—N. Y. Sun.
The real importance of Senator Hoar's
letter consists in the evidence which it
furnishes that the republican party is
still fully committed to the policy of the
force bill, and will make a desperate
effort to enact such a measure if it has
the chance. It is perfectly plain that
many republican politicians and editors
are anxious to get rid of this issue, and
there is nothing improbable in the report
that Mr. Harrison would like to cut loose
from it in his letter of acceptance, if he
could see how to do so, but as 1 ng as
men like George F. Hoar retain
their influence in the party there is no
escape from the issue.
But even Mr. Hoar f<els constrained to
make some concession to the popular
prejudice against the policy, and lie,
thorefore, claims that it does Dot really
amount to much. He even goes so far as
to style the force bill “a simple prop vi¬
rion to giTe an appeal to the couits of
the United States, subject to the final
power of the House itself in any contest¬
ed questions of the election disingenious of national
representatives.” could A more made.
statement not easily be
What the Lodge bill proposed was by no
means only an appeal to the Federal
courts in case of a contested election.
It proposed to leave the decision as
to which candidate had been elected
to a canvassing board appointed
by a republican judge, who-e
certificate should be final, so far as con¬
cerned the action of the clerk of the
house in making up the roll of itr mem¬
bers. To talk about this action being
“subject to the final power of the house
itself” is absurd. The house consists of
356 members. Suppose that an election
without a force bill would give the dem¬
ocrats 180 members aud the republicans
176. Suppose that the canvassing boards,
by a grojs abuse of their power, award
certificates to 180 republicans and 176
democrats. Of what use would it be for
the democrats who had thus been cheat¬
ed out of their scats to appeal to the
house to undo the wrong—a house con¬
trolled by the republicans through this
wrong? disposi¬
It will not be strange if the
tion to unload the force bill issue grows
among the republican managers, in view
of such developments as these. But
they cannot get rid of it. The party is
committed to the policy, and it can pain
nothin- by t yin.- to deceive the public
into the belief that it would not carry it
if it had the chance—N. Y. Post.
The republicans are afraid of the Force
bill issue. That is why they are trying
to dodge it by representing it n8 a matter
of in the theoiy merely, of no practical effect
near future, and simply as a dec¬
laration in favor of the use of Federal
power to prevent negro disfranfchisement
in southern states. These pretences are
all false!
The Force bill presents a qu stion at
leas f as praetxal and more imminent
than does the tariff issue. The tariff,
ized unfortunately, cannot be revolution-
so as to protect the people instead
of the monopo’ies, so long as there remains
a republican senate dominated by the
plutocrats. With a Democratic house
and president the couutrv will have to
wait at least until the middle of the com¬
ing presidential term before any satisfac¬
tory and general tariff reform can be ef¬
fected. On the other hand; the election
of a Republican president and a Repub¬
lican house of representatives would pre-
cij itate federal control of elections upon
the country as soon as the new congress
should open, and there is every reason to
be’ieve that the revolution would be
hastened by the action of an extra session
after inauguration in 1893; so that even
next yoir’s electioi s would be held unler
the domination of* federal bayonets
wherever excuse could be found in voting
for a United States official.
At any rate, there would be no other
congress thereafter elected by the people
of the states under local laws, and Mr.
Cleveland’s forecast of long continued
control of the party of private plunder
through public license would be Verified.
There would be no probability of mak¬
ing the United States senate democratic
in time to prevent this deplorable con¬
summation, which the republican senate,
as well as the n publican house arid the
republican bring president, would be bound to
about without delay.
The Minneapolis platform declares for
the force bill in unmistakable terms, and
pledges the party to unlimited federal
direction of elections everywhere.
President Harrison drove the iniquitous
measure through the house and exhausted
the resources of power and patronage of
the executive branch of the government
in the effort to dragoon it through the
senate. There is no republican states¬
man of prominence, from McKinley and
Aldrich down, who is not irrevocably
committed to the force policy, and such
pledges aud declarations have been as
frequent and as strong during the pres¬
ent congress as they were during the last.
To federalize all elections, and destroy
at its source the autonomy and sover¬
eignty of the people of the states, is the
one proposition from which the republi¬
can party cannot vary if successful in
November.
The re-election of Harrison would be
taken as a popular order to subvert home
rule suffrage and an all-sufficient warrant
for the enactment of a measure even
more radical and revolutionary than the
infamous bill which so narrowly failed of
passage by the senate after its adoption
by the house of Czar Reed. If Cleve-
land be not chosen president, the subver¬
sion of the election laws and the en¬
thronement of central despotism over
our polling places, from Maine to Florida,
will surely be accomplished with but lit¬
tle delay. A self-perpetuating central¬
ized government would never alter its
policy so long as the country holds to¬
gether. The popular will would never
again be peacefully enforced throughout
the Union.
Hence the force bill issue lies at the
root of all others, and takes precedence
of them in respect of time as well as of
importance. There is no other question
so vi-al, so pre ssing, or so universal in
its consequence to all localities and to all
interests throughout the United States.—
New York Sunday Mercury.
THE CHOLERA RECORD.
The Dread Disease SI ill Slaying Its
Thousands
A St. Petersburg news special says:
Official returns of new c >ses of cholera
Monday and deaths show a decrease,
compared with Saturday’s figures, of fif¬
teen c.ises and an iocrease of 111 deaths.
Total number of new rases reported Mon¬
day. 6.806; total deaths, 3,429.
Advices from Hamburg, Germany,
state that cholera is chiefly prevalent in
Alstadt, or the old portion of the city,
comparatively Neustadt, the few cases portion. occurring Every in
or new
precaution possible is beiug taken to lo¬
calize the disease. A number of new
cases dispatch were r< ported Reushd, Tuesday. in the
A from pro¬
vince of Ghilan, states that every day
hundreds of persons are dying there from
cholera. Reushd is a very unhealthy
place and sanitary methods are unkuown.
It lies on the Caspian sea and is the cen¬
ter of importing trade of the province in
which it is located. Most of all imports
are from Russia. Other cities are also
suffering.__
Bud Lindsay’s Conduct.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
says: The department of jusUce has no
direct supervision of deputy marsha s,
appointments of this being made by the
marshals themselves, consequently thi
department has not interfered in the
matter of the conduct of Bud Lindsay,
who was charged with rioting at Coni
Creek, Teun. Officials of the department
have availed them«elves of the informa¬
tion contained in the press dispatches on
the subject and Attorney General Milter
has decided to communicate with United
States Marshal Tipton in regard to the
matter and if the facts are as reported it
may be a suggestion will be made that
Marshal Lindsay be removed.
The Cost of Food.
The World recently called attention
to the fact that Senator Aldrich treated
as of equal value the food, clothes,
building materials, patent medicines and
other articles the prices of which were
examined by the Senate committee—in
other words, that his calculation as¬
sumed that a family consumes as much
medicine as food.
In the same way, in treating the food
list, mustard and pepper were treated as
of as much importance as bread aud
while in the cost of
clothes it was assumed that a family er-
peu( i ed as muc h for Linings as for coats,
^ats, blankets and dress goods.
The fuil tables are now issued, and
from them can be gathered the truth
concerning expenditures for the food
that was consumed and the clothes
that were bought during the period of
twenty-eight months investigated by the
Senate.-
Taking bread, flour, eggs, butter,
Cod, beef, milk, mutton, pork, potatoes*
onions and cabbages as the basis of the
ordinary American table, we may com-
pare their prices at the beginning of the
period, June, 1SS9, with the highest
prices attained during the period and
also with those of the last month of the
period, Sentembcr, 1891. The following
table, 100 being considered the normal
and reductions and increases in price be¬
ing represented by percentages of 100,
will show these prices 1
June, Trices 18S9. M high Prl< est Sept Prices 1891. In
ce. ...
Beef* roasting ....100,15 104.45 101,15
Bread .^aoo.oe 100.41 100.42
Butter .... 100.21 128.18 111.51
Cod........... .... 99.9'* 102. se 102.58
gsgs.......... Cabbage ...... .... 100.11 147.40 88.87
.... 97.65 155.80 1 >2.92
Hour, Mutton........ wheat.. ....100.17 102.21 101.94
....100.34 104.78 100.73
Onions........ ....101.55 131.35 lOt.52
Pork, Milk.......... salt .... .... 99.94 104.55 104.55
....100.07 106.11 99.60
Potatoes...... .... 97.75 167.00 86.15
Average 100.33 121.27 101.82
In this list of necessaries of life there
is not an article which did not advance
in price during the agitation and after
the passage of the McKinley act. There
is not one, with the exception of cabbage,
whose highest price was not reached
after the enactment of the law. The
average price of these commodities in
June, 1889, was 100.33. The average
of the highest prices was 121.27. The
average price in September, 1891, was
101.82. At one time during the twenty-
eight months, therefore, and after the
passage of the McKinley law, the prices
of these necessary articles of food went
up $20.94 on every $100 worth, and at
the close of the period these were still
bringing $1.49 on every $100 above the
prices charged before the Fifty-first
Congress assembled.
Tea and coffee are not included in the
above table because they are free of duty,
while sugar is omitted because the Demo¬
cratic policy of free raw material has
been adopted, the result being a decli¬
nation of 37 per cent, in the price of the
granulated article.
Under the McKinley act food has
been dearer by very much more than the
paltry .47 of 1 per cent, admitted by
Mr. Aldrich. Some of this increased
price is due to the law, while some is
due to short crops in Europe.
When the prices of clothes shall be
examined the result of the tariff tax will
appear World. even more clearly.—New York
McKinleyism Must Go.
The women of this country will have
a good deal to say in the selection of
President Harrison’s successor. No
matter who the Republican candidate
for the Presidency may be ho will neces-
sarily be the leader of his party and a
champion of the McKinley tariff—and
the women of America don’t believe in
high prices. Most wives are the treas
tirers of their families, and, as they do
the buying they are much apter than
their husbands to notice it When they
are required to pay more for a thing than
they have been accustomed to pay
l “hen a workingman s family has been
j scrimping and saving for weeks, perhaps
j months, in order to renew the ingrain
j carpet in the little parlor and diniag-
i room, the housewife is astonished to fin l
that it costs a good deal more than t;ie
last one. It does not tend to awaken
that woman’s love for the Republican
Party when she learns that the increase
is due to the McKinley tariff, under
which the tax on the carpet is more than
it sells for where it is made. The shawl
that she buys is taxed 157.31 per cent.,
the kid gloves that she wears on Sunday,
the ribbons for herself and daughters,
the flannels and blankets for the family,
their clothing, even the baby’s rattle,
must all pay heavy tributes under the
McKinley law. And this tribute does
not go into the public treasury to pay
the expenses of Government. Were that
the case, and the money needed, patriot¬
ism would make the burden bearable.
The tariff taxes are not levied for
revenue, however, but to enrich our
manufacturers, who generally stand much
j less in need of protection than do the
people that have to buy their goods.
The present tariff is class legislation in
its worst form—legislation in the interest
of the class whose wealth gives them
political power and, consequently, a
“pull” on Congress. Hence it comes
that those industries which are most
prosperous and best able to bear up
against foreign competition are the ones
that receive most favors from the party
of “protection.” The giants are the
“infants” that always get to the lull bot¬
tle first.
The Democratic Party is pledged to
reverse the Republican policy—to place
the tariff tax so that it will fall lightest
on the necessaries aud ordinary comfmts
of life and heaviest on luxuries for which
the rich can afford to pay.
The women do not vote themselvis,
but the wives who have husbands so
stupid as to wish to cast their ballots for
the party which ha.s made things dear,
and so increased greatly the cost of run¬
ning the house and dressing the family
decently, will be very likely to bring
such husbands to their senses by tue time
election day arrives.
The McKinley tariff is a pair of shears
in the hands of the ricu to shear tne
wool of the poor. It is against justice,
against common sense.
McKinleyism must go. — 3au Francisco
Examiner.
McKinley’s Misrepresent* I ions.
Governor McKinley, in his recent Ne¬
braska speech on the tariff, fairly outdid
himself in bringing forward delusivfe
statistics. He stated that during the
fifteen years of low tariff, from 1846 to
1861, the balance of trade was $409,-
000,000 against us, and that during all
NUMBER 34.
that period tuete were only two year#
wben ** Wa9 ia 0l ‘ r fav-or - Djr ‘°3 the *
fifteed feats from 1S76 to 1S91, Mr-
McKinley continued, there were only two
years when the balance was against us.
Mrr McKinley chose bis years very
shrewdly. In the fifteen years of high
tariff from 1S61 fc? 5S7t» the balance of
trade was in our favor <?nly three years,
and the total balance agaitfsi hj wav
$1,055,000,000; more than twice a*
great as the balance against us during
^ teeQ years of low tariff just pre-
ceeding. What is more, the balance
was * a ou * ^ avoT during the .ust year of
the low tariff and against us during the
year of the high tariff
Tim gentleman repeated the assertion
made by so many of h.s colleagues, that
our trade during the present year has
brought $210,000,000 into the country.
As a matter of fact it has brought next
to nothing into the country, and gold
exports this year have continued Very
late. The country’s exports have ex¬
ceeded Its imports, but we have been
using.tbe surplus to purchase American
securities held by foreigners.
The year after the McKinley bill was
enacted, the balance of trade in our fa¬
vor diminished, but Mr. McKinley did
not notice this. He is supposed to be
one of the honest men in his party, but
if he attempts to deceive the people af¬
ter this manner* what sort of a party
does he belong to, Mod how much confi¬
dence can be placed iV the party’s state¬
ments!—Brooklyn Citizen.^
Cloudburst at Roanoke.
A dispatch from Roanoke, Va., states
that at 11 o’clock Monday night a cloud¬
burst took place. The business portion
of the city suffered to the extent of $100.-
000 in twenty minutes. One peison is
known to have been drowned and sev¬
eral are said to have met the same fate.
London has more than doubled Its
population in the past half century.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
k W. Iluitlekoper and IteuHca Foster
Ilcceivers.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains. »n Effect July 24, 1892.
NOB HI BOUND, j No. 38. No. 10. No. 12
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E. 1.) 1 00 pm 8 50 pm 8 05am
Cham bice..... ........ 9 30 pin 8 40am
Norcross....... ........ 9 45 pm 8 52am
Duluth........ ........ 10 00 pm 9 04am
Suwanee....... ........10 15 pm 9 l&arn
Buford........ ........! 10 23 pm 9 28a’o
Flowery Gainesville..... Branch ........110 42 pm 9 42arn
2 22 pm 11 03 P m 10 03am
Lula 2 4(ipm;ll 29pm!l0 27am
Bellton........ .......11 32 pm 10 30am
Cornelia....... ........Ill 55 pm 10 51am
Mt. Airy....... ........i 12 01 am 10 55am
Toccoa......... ........ 12 24 am 1 1 19am
Westminster ... ........ 1 04 am 11 56am
Seneca ........ ........ 1 21 am 12 15pm
Central....... ........ 1 55 am
Easleys........ Greenville..... ........ 2 22 am »*•* 46pin
5 24 pm 2 45 am to lOp
Greers......... ........ 3 14 am to 39p
Wellford....... ........ 3 33 am ic 55pi
Clifton........ Spartanburg... 6 17 pm 3 54 am co 15p
........ 4 13 am co 32p
Cowpens ...... ....... 4 18 am cj 35p
Blacksburg..... Gaffney....... ..... 4 40 am ** OOpi
....... 5 01 am ^ 19oi
Grover......... ....... 5 11 am ** 30pm
King’s Mount’ll ....... 5 28 am rf- 47 pm
Gastonia....... Lowell........ ....... 5 52 am &
....... 6 05 am ct
Belle mont..... ....... 6 16 am cn
Ar. Charlotte...... 8 20 pm 6 40 am Cw mi
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37, 1 No. 11. No. 9.
Daily, j Daily. I Daily.
Lv. Charlotte ......j 9 45 am l 50 pm 2 20 am
Belkmont............. 2 10 pm 2 42 anf
Lowell......... 2 19 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... ....... 2 30 pm 3 04 am
King’s Mount’ll;........ 2 53pm 3 27 am
Grover.........!........ 3 07 pm 3 43 am
Gaffney............... Blaeksburg ........... 3 16 pm 3 4 53 10 am
Cowpens.............. 3 33 pml pm! 4 42 am
3 58 am
Clifton................ 4 01 18pml pmj 4 45 am
Spartanburg... II 43am 4 5 00am
W. Greets................. llford................ 4 1 33 54 pm pm! j 5 5 23 42 am am
Gre nville...... 12 36 pm 5 24 pm 6 10 am
Easleys......... 5 55 pin 6 38 am
Central................ 6 52 pm 7 30 am
Seneca................. 7 17 pm 7 58 am
Toccoa................ Westminster............ 7 35 pm! i 8 8 ho i7 am
8 11 pm am
Cornelia.............. Mt. Airy............... 8 40 pml pmj 9 33 30 am
8 43 9 am
Bellton................I 9 04 pmj 9 58 am
Lula.......... 3 22 pm 9 06 pro 10 00 am
Gainesville..... 3 41pm: 9 28 pm 10 28 am
Flowery Branch........ 9 47 pm 10 48 am
Buford................110 00 pm : 1 02 arn
Suwanee...............10 15 pm 11 15 am
Duluth.............. ; i 10 29 pm 1 11 25 pm
Norcross......i........ 10 43 pm i 1 37 am
Chiimblee...... j ........i0 54 pm; pml 11 12 25 49 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.)| 5 05 pn; 11 30 pm
Additional trains Nos. 17 and 18—Lula ac¬
commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At¬
lanta 6 15 p m, arrives Lula 9 00 p m. Return¬
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 a m, arrives At laid.i 8 00
a m.
Between Lula and Atli ns—No. 11 daily, ex¬
cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 9 15 p
m, and 10 35 a m, arrive Athens 11 00 p m and
12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 7 15 p 50 m
and 8 07 a m, arrive Lula 8 55 p m and 9
a m.
Between Toccoa and Elberton—No. 61 dai¬
ly; except Sunday, leave Toccoa 1140 am
arrive Eltierton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leaver Elberton 5 00 a m
and arrives Toccoa8 30 arn.
Nos. 9 an 1 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibaled Limited, between Atlanta aud
Washington. Through Pu'hnan Sle-pers be¬
tween New York and New Orleans, al-o between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. be¬
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Buffet Sleeper
tween Washington and Atlanta. local and
For detailed information as to
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing ear reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, HARDWICK.
W. A. TURK, 8. H.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Washington, D. C. Atlanta. Ga.
J. A- DODSON, Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN. 80L. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Tr.ffic Manager,
Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C.
LEWIS DAVIS,
attorney at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the oountie* of Haber
«ham and Rabun of the Northwesterr
Circuit, and Frank! u and Banka of thi
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all business entrusted’to him
The collection of debts will bav* spec
is' attention.