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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.