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V OLUME XX.
Queensland,Australia, owes the largest
National debt—$310 a head.
It is estimated that one doctor to every
thousand of the population i 3 a fair pro¬
portion.
A Chicago man who said that some¬
body’s baby was “ugly” has been sued
for libel.
Cyrus W. Field, says the New York
World, did not leave $100 behind him.
A few years ag 0 he was worth $0,000,-
000 .
The increase of aeronautical tragedies
’end 3 interest to the fact that it is a little
more than a century since Montgolfier
made his first experiments with paper
balloons filled with the smoke of burnt
wool.
The New York Commercial Adver¬
tiser thinks it is rather noteworthy that
it is the bachelors in the British House
of Commons who interest themselvei
most persistently in the woman’s suffrage
question.
Nyin Crinkle, the New York dramatic
■critic, taiuks it is wonderful how Ameri¬
can country girls develop into society
queens and hold their owu in the first
fixcles. The average American girl
catches on in a hurry, auff waea good
fortune throws her into a higher circle
she makes herself equal to auy emer¬
gency.
Miss M. E. Finnegan, County Superin¬
tendent of Schools for Ciioteau County,
Montana, has jurisdiction over an area of
27,500 miles, while Miss Alice
Kavanaugh, of Daw 3 on Couuty, looks
after the schools of a county covering
3 ), 000 square miles, an area equal to
that of South Carolina, greater than that
■of Maine and nearly four times that of
Massachusetts.
The American Farmer thinks that
excellent missionary work cau be done
among wagon-makers to induce a gen¬
eral widening of tires, in the interest of
good roads. The widening of tires means
a lightening of the draft on any road,
particularly bad ones. The narrower a
tire the deeper it sinks in the mud, and
the more force required to pull it over
the elevation it forms in front of itself.
Tne French wagon-makers help keep
their splendid roads in good order by
making very wide tires, aud making the
tread of the front wheels a little nar¬
rower than the hind ones. Iu this way
the front and hiud wheels roll different
portions of the road, aud greatly help to
keep it smooth.
Brooklyn is to have a new Museum of
Arts aud Sciences near its Prospect
Park, overlooking the ocean on one side
and Long Island Sound on the other.
The institute was fonode i sixty-nine
years ago. General Lafayette laid the
corner stone of its original building oa
July 4, 1S25. It has depirt.ueats of
microscopy, astronomy, physics, c’aen-
lstry, botany, mineralogy, political
science, geology, zoology, fine arts,
archaeology, architecture, philology, en¬
gineering and geography, each with a
regular monthly meeting and lectures,
demonstrations and other exercises.
Probably there will be a twenty-five-
acre zoological garden in connection with
its new building.
The Boston Transcript says: It is a
time honored popular impression that the
President and Vice President of the
United States cannot coustutionally be
elected from the same State. No party
has ever put t vo citizens of one State on
its Presidential ticket. Of course there
are obvious political reasons for selecting
the candidates from different parts of
the country. But many have assu no J
that there is a constitutional veto upon
the selection of a Vice-President from
the same State from which the President
is taken. The popular impression oa this
subject is entirely erroneous, and there is
nothing in the Constitution to prevent
the election of both President and Vice-
President from the same State either by
the House and Senate or by the members
of the Electoral College.
People often ask us what is the use o!
the abstract studies scientific men
and women often indulge ia. Tue reply
is, you must first discover a ue v truth
before you can tell whether you cm make
any value of it. Tne valtiabs discovery
that the black rot can be prevented from
injuring grapes by inclosing the bunc 1
in a paper bag, instances Mehau’s Month¬
ly, is the direct result of scientac stulies.
When it was found that the rot was
caused by a fungus growing from a little
*eed or spore which, floating through
the atmosphere, attaches itself to the
grape berry, it was the easiest thing to
think of putting bags over the bunch
early in the season, so that the spore
couldn’t get there. Hundreds of thou¬
sands of dollars have been saved to the
cultivator by this bagging of grapes,
which would have been totally lost but
io 1 the labors of scientific men.
THE TOCCOA NEWS > kiy *-»A r. ■
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL
TO-DAY.
Be swift to love your own, dears
Y'our own who need you so;
Fay to the speeding hours-, dears
“I wil! not let thee go
Except thou give a blessings”
Force it to bide and stay-.
Love as no sure to-morrow;
ft only has to-day.
Ob, hasten to be k : nd, dears.
Before the time shall corns
When you are left behind-, dears
In an all-lonely home;
Before in late contrition
Vainly you weep and pray,
Love i as no sure to morrow;
It only has to-day.
Swifter than sun shade, deirs,
Move the fleet .tings of pain;
The chanoa we have had to-day, dears,
May never co-.ne again.
Joy is a fickle rover,
lie brooketh not delay.
Love has no sure to-morrow;
It only has to-day.
Too late to plead or grieve, dears,
Too late to kiss or sigh,
When death has set his seal, dears,
On the cold lip and eye.
Too late our gi s to lavish
Upon the buria clay;
Life has no sura to-morrow;
It only has to-dav.
—Congregationalist.
A Second-Hand Sweetheart,
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
fi NOTHER room
Cx gone,” said Betsey.
I “Eh?” said
1 Moore.
“Why, the
came down plump
the north chamber
NS night,” explained Bet¬
@1 sey, doorway, standing in
pa with the mop
tin one hand and a pail
of water in the other.
“Looks exactly as
there’d been an av-
alanche o’ lime dust there. Guess it was
the rain done it. I've knowed that
was leaky this good while. An’ it’s my
dooty to tell ye, ma’am, the back stair¬
case ain’t safe to use no longer. There’s
one step gone and the balusters loose.
And cook says she's that nervous she
can’t stay in the house, with the loose
bricks tumbling down the kitchen chim¬
ney every time the wind raises a bit.”
Mrs. Moore sighed. She was a hand¬
some, high featured woman with dark
eyes and a shabby-genteel silk wrapper
worn at the elbows.
“Never mind, Betsey,’’said she. “It’ll
all be right, once Miss Ethel is married.
Doctor Darrow is a man of wealth. He
will rebuild the old Moore homestead lor
us.”
“Well,” muttered Betsey, “it’s a
good thing the weddiu’s comm’ soon, or
there wouldn’t be no house -left to re¬
build.”
At the same moment a pretry young
gipsy of sixteen was rushing frantically
into one of the great, sparsely furnished
bedrooms with a pasteboard box iu her
baud.
Overhead plump little plaster Cupids
Swung garlands of flowers from the
cracked aud discolored cornices; a faded
rag supplied the place of carpet, and
the merry sunshine played hide-and-seek
with the worn places in the yellow dam¬
ask eurtins, and a beautiful young girl
sat at a rheumatic writing desk, with
her chin supported in her hands and her
sea blue eyes fixed dreamily on space.
“Ethel! Ethel I here’s another box
come by express!” screamed the young
sister, breathless with rapture. “It must
be the veil! Do open it and look. Do,
Ethel, please. Ob, I never saw a wed-
ding veil before in all my life, and I do
so want to see what it is like!”
Ethel Moore looked up.
“You cau open it,” said she, without
a change of posture.
“Well, I declare!” said Milly. “ Auy
one would think I was the bride. Well,
here goes! Oh, oh! isn’t it beautiful?”
Ethei leaned forward a little andscru-
tinized the delicate folds of lace more
closely.
“Yes,” she said, indifferently, “it’s
pretty euough. But it's the wrong pat-
tern; it don’t match tne flounces aud the
jabot.”
“It must go back at once!’’ cried
Milly. “Only three days now, an 1 the
wrong pattern of lace! What are peo-
ple thinking of ?”
“Oh, let it stay,” listlessly uttered
Ethel. “What difference does it make
whether it’s one pattern or another.”
“What difference?” Millicent looked
bard at her sister. “Oh, Ethel, Ethel!
I’m so sorry Cousin Jim is coming to the
wedding!” Ethei
Moore colored an intense scar-
let.
“Sorry—sorry that our own cousin is
to be here on the occasion of my mar¬
riage?”
“X—no,” hesitated Millicent—“not
that. But it sets you to thinking of
him. Is he so very haudsome, Ethei?
Is he handsomer than Doct or Darrow?
You’re such a funny girl, or vou would
have photographs of both of them. But
there comes the pony, and I must make
haste, or I shall lose* the down express
train, for the veil.”
Mike, the errand bov, ‘in was promptly
deposed from his place the battered
little village cart, and Miss Miilv
jumpedin, took the box in her lap, and
whipping the pony briskly up, drove
away asfflst as she could.
“Justin time for the express!" she
cried. “And now I may as well wait
for the up train. There may be some one
'
that I know on it.”
“I beg your pardon,” said a pleasant,
deep-toned voice, “but can vou ’ tell me
the way to Moore’s Cliff?”
Milly turned, and saw a handsome
man, with a light valise in his hand.
“To Moore’s Cliff?” she repeated,
going" “Why, I am Millicent Moore, and I’m
straight there. “I—think—vou *
must be—Jim!”
“Tbat is my name,” he answered,
brightly. “And you are little Milly, of
wunM.”
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1892.
She looked gravely at him. He
almost tead the sudden changes
thought in her blut-j solemn eyes
varying color.
“Please get into the cart!” said she.
“I suppose I must take you to the Cliff,
as there’s no depot wagon here.
touching the phlegmatic pony with
whip-lash, “I'm almost sorry
come!”
“Sorry? Why, little Milly! And
thought we were to be such friends!”
cried.
“I think perhaps I’d better tell you
all about it,” said she, speaking as if
had not heard his Word?. “No one
knows it all but me and Ethel. Ethel
won’t be pleased, but—but— Oh, Jim,
hadn’t you better go away without
ing her?”
“Go away without seeing her! And
whv ?”
“On,” faltered Milly, letting the reins
drop, “she's so unhappy! She’s going
to be married to a very rich man—
Doctor Darrow, from New York. Wc
are so poor t you know, and all that
money that papa invested iu the Grand
Toehoomey Bank is gone, and Moore’s
Clill is all falling to ruin, and mamma’s
cried three days and three nights, and
so Ethel said ‘Yes.’ But oh, she is so
miserable! And if you come back, Jim,
the old love will burn up again in her
heart; for she does love you, Jim—she
told me so. She has lcved you ever
since that time you exchanged rings at
Saratoga; and she has got the little blue
ring still. And she hates the very idea
of marrying Doctor Darrow—only—
only mamma has made her feel that it
was her duty. Oh, don't look so stern
and white at me, Jim—dear Jim! It’s
a dreadful thing to have to tell you, but
1 think you ought to kno v. Please,
please don’t ever let mamma or Ethel
know that I said this to you! But if
you could make them believe you were
engaged to somebody else,” said Milly,
with a sudden Hush of hope dyeing her
cheek, “then I think Ethel might learn
to be happy with tne New York man.”
“Engaged to somebody else, eh?” said
this unknown confidant. “But to whom?
To yourself, for example?”
“Yes. Why not!” said Milly, with
the utmost gravity. “.Merely as a busi¬
ness matter, you know. We’ll call it
me—only you must go away, Jim, and
not see her again.”
“Stop the horse,” he said, quietly.
“Wait until I can lift my valise out, and
goodby, my little fiancee!”
“You are really going?” rapturously
exclaimed Milly, clapping her small,
gauntleted hands. “Oil, Jim, how good
of you—how noble! I almost do think I
love you now. And remember, this is
for Ethel’s sake.”
“For Ethel’s sake?” repeated her com¬
panion, and he smiled and nodded, “I
shall reach the station by this cross-cut
through the -woods,” he said, “in time
for the next down train, and—”
The close of the sentence was lost in
the clatter of a tinware wagon that just
then jolted along, inciting the Moore
pony to mad emulation, and, before Milly
could check his enthusiasm, she was
nearly at the tumble-down gates ot the
old mansion itself.
Ethel herself was in the tangled rose
garden, gathering white and cream col¬
ored and royal red rose 3 —Ethel, more
flushed and lovely than any princess;
and beside her, under the full radiance
of the June sunshine, strolled a tall,
handsome young man, carrying the bas¬
ket aud the scissors.
“Milly, come here,” cried Ethel,
springing brightly forward, “Here’s
your Cousin Jim!”
The girl stared blankly at him over
the wheel of the village cart. i
“No,” said she, J “he’s an imposter.
He’s not my cousin. The real Cousin
Jim rode half way up with me aud
jumped off at Beach Corners.”
“But, nevertheless,” said the Spanish-
faced young fellow, mildly. “I am Jim
Elliott, and I am your cousiu. Ask
Ethel, here, if it isn’t so!’’
He looked down into Ethel’s blue,
sparkling eyes; he drew her slim, white
hand under his arm, with a sort of ten¬
der proprietorship that startled poor
Millicent.
“If you are Cousin Jim,” said she,
slowly, “who was the handsome mau
with the gray suit aDd the dark blue
eyes, and the little scar over his left
eyebrow?”
“Is the child dreaming?” said Ethel,
with a sweet burst of laughter. “She
talks as if she had seen Doctor James
Darrow himself.”
Milly never stopped to greet this
some, unwelcome kinsman of hers; she
rushed frantically to her own room, aud
burying her face in the pillows of her
bed, burst into tears,
“Oh, what have I done?” she sobbed,
“What have I done? And all for for no
use!”
The next day there came a letter to
Ethel Moore.
She lrcwned a little as she recognized
the handwriting of her affianced hus-
band—then she broke it ooen and read
its contents.
“Jim,” she murmured to the young
man who'lounged in the cushioned win-
dow seat.
“Well, my queen?”
“It isn’t necessary for us to elope now.
I—I almost believe I love James Darrow
after all. A man that can be as chival-
rous as that—”
She laughed—and then burst out sob-
Mug as she flung the letter to Cousin
Jitn.
“Oh, he is so good—so good!” she
faltered. “He gives me back my troth.
But mamma is to have the settlement
just the same to rebuild Moore’s Cliff
with, and there is a thousand a year for
me, as long as I live. Oh, Jim, I don’t
deserve it. I won t take it.
“Yes, you will, ’ said business-like
Jim—“you’ll take all you can get. We
can't live on air, yo' know, darling, and
my income is rather slim as yet. He’s a
good old duffer—’
“Old?” half angrily interrupted Ethel.
“No older than yourself! But what
does this mean—about the ring? He says
I am to give it to Millicent for herself
; She will know what it means! Well, if
this isn't the strangest riddle J”
Milly looked defiantly at her
when the message was delivered to her.
“But I won’t take the ring,” said she,
half hysterically, resisting Ethel’s
1 to slip the superb diamond solitaire
on
j her “You finger. must!” said Ethel. “ Jim’s tur-
j j quoise this great is a deal more The precious wedding to is me to than
I gem. come
off just the same, but Jim is to be
j groom. Oh, what are diamonds to me?
I am so very, very happy!”
“And this is all you care for Doctor
Darrow's noble generosity!” said Milly,
with scarlet cheeks and quick-coming
breath. “No, I won’t wear the ring.
I’ll keep it; and—and sometimes look at
it. Oh, what a fool I was! And why
did I say all those things? There’s only
j one thing that remains to me—I must go
to work and learn to be a great painter
j as soon as possible, so that I can pay
back the money which mamma and Ethel
are using so mercilessly.”
It was just a year afterward, and
Millicent Moore was sitting on the
ruined stone terrace, feeding her pet
peacock Le Iioi with kernels of corn.
j Her open sketch book lay beside her,
the sweet summer wind was ruffling her
curls, when Le Iloi uttered a discordant
speech and flew away, startled by the
presence of a stranger.
Milly sprang up.
“Doctor Darx-ow!” she exclaimed.
“Call me ‘Jim,’ as you did that first
day.” said he. “Little Milly, you
don’t know what you saved me from
when you mistook me for the cousin
whom you had never seen. Don’t shrink
away so, Milly. Have you forgotten
that you are engaged to me?”
Through all the previous year Milly
had been rehearsing this scene to herself.
She had planned the exact phraseology
in which she would express her apprecia¬
tion, her indifference, her polite sang
froid. He should never know that she
liked him. She would let him see that
she regarded the whole thing as a joke,
and yet , now that the time had come,
she was struck du. b, and sat, blushing
and silent, like any > hoolgirl.
“Milly,” he said, gently, “don’t shrink
away from me. A year ago I believed
that life had no more charm for me; but
thinking of those blue eyes of yours, I
have come to a different conclusion.
Dearest, you engaged yourself to me as
a mere matter of form. Will you do it
again—this time in real earnest?”
And the end of Milly’s carefully-
studied speeches was:
“Yes.”
So there was a Mrs. Darrow in the
Moore family, after all, and when Ethel
Elliott, in a shabby pension at Lucerne,
read the marriage notice, she exciaimed,
scornfully:
“Well, I never thought that Millicent
would take up with a second-hand sweet¬
heart!”
Mr. Elliott made no reply; he was
gloomily surveying a pile of unreceipted
bills.
“Do you hear, Jim?” sharply spoke
hi 3 wife. “Millicent is married. And
to my old beau!”
“Yes, 1 hear,” said he, abstractedly.
“Well, why don’t you say some¬
thing?”
“I’ve only one thing to say,” snarled
the Spaniish-fuced hero. “That any
idiot who gets marriied does a very
stupid thing. Five hundred francs
milliner's bill—a hundred francs board.
Good heavens! what is going to become
ol us?”
“I thought you loved me, Jim,”
whispered Ethel. “I’m sure Doctor
Darrow did.”
“Then,” said Elliott, deliberately, “I
wish you had married him,”—Saturday
Night.
Fuji-san, the Sacred Mountain of Japan
All the mountains of Japan are of un-
questioned volcanic origin, and Fuji
stands where Hondo, the main island, is
broadest. About twenty craters are still
active throughout the islands, but Fuji-
sau belongs to the much greater number
which are now inactive. Its last erup¬
tion occurred in 17U7, continuing more
than a month. As far away as Tokyo,
sixty miles northeast, the ashes fell to a
depth of seven or eight inches; while
on the Tokaido, twelve or fifteen miles
southea .c, the accumulation was six feet,
At this time was formed Ho-yei-san, a
secondary or parasitic cone on the south-
east siope.
No other mountains in Japan reach
within three thousand feet of the eleva-
tion of Fuji, and it is therefore in prom-
inent view fron an immense area, in-
eluding thirteen provinces of the Em-
pire. Certain avenues iu Tokyo are
called Fuji-ini, or Fuji-viewing streets,
and from all of them the famous peak is
a glorious spectacle. All winter long
the summit of Fuji-san is unapprcach-
able, and from November to July snows
reign supreme. In the latter month,
however, when the trails up the moun¬
tain slopes are laid bare, the ascent be-
comes feasible, and remains so through-
out the summer and early autumn.—
Century,
Fishing For Spoages.
The British Consul, in his report on
the trade of Tripoli, remarks that the
sponge fishery on that coast is entirely in
the hands of Greeks, and is carried on
by means of numerous small craft, een¬
ploying about 700 men amongst them.
The fishing takes place in the summer
months only, and is effec;ed by machine
boats provided with proper diving ap-
paratus, or by trawlers an arpoon
boats. Last season there were twenty-
one diving machines in use. Inese, as
the divers have time to select and cut
them, naturally secure the best sponges,
but the trawl nets and harpoon boats,
which can only fish in comparatively
shallow waters, to a greater or less ex¬
tent damage the sponges by tearing them
from the bottom. The best sponges are
found to the westward of Tripoli, the
.
inferior . toward ... tne
quality becoming
east. The diving is angerous owing o
the presence of sharks and other acei-
dents to be met with, sued as remaining
too long under the water or divmg be-
yond the proper limits, which often ex-
hansts the divers and proves latai to
them.—English Mechanic.
j
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GOVERNOR XOUTHUX
-
Tells What the Democrats of Georgia
Have Done for the A'egro.
Governor Nortben received a letter a
few days ago from G. P. Walker, an offi¬
cial of the Afro-American Democratic
club of Chicago, asking him to tell the
club what the Democrats in Georgia had
done to deserve the negro vote. To this
tetter the Governor of Georgia sent the
foil owiDg reply:
G. P. Walker, A fro-American Democratic
Club, Chicago, 111 :
“Sir: I beg to acknowledge the re¬
ceipt of your letter in which you ask me
what ‘ D mocracy has done ’ to secure
the colored vote in this State. In reply,
I may say that, while the people of this
State have done nothing with the direct
view of securing the vote of the colored
people, they have done a great deal which
should go toward inducing the colored
voters to array themselves on the Demo¬
cratic side in the coming fight, both as
between the Democratic and the Third
party, end between the Democrats end
the Republicans. I think that the tecord
we have made will have its effect in show¬
ing to the uegio that in this State, as in
every other State in the South, his best
friend is the white man of his own sec¬
tion, the man who best knows him, best
understands his needs, sympathizes most
deeply with him, and feels for him the
universal truest friendship in a time of deep and
distress.
“Of couse, in a short letter I can only
touch upon that record, but I shall give
you a few facts from the record of the
Democratic party as it has conducted the
affairs of this State since 1872.
“First—With regard to education.
Under the R< publican regime in the state
the negroes were given no facilities and
no opportunities for education. A fund
for educational purposes had accumulated
in the treasury, but this was seized upon
by the Republicans and used to pay
members of the legislature their per
diems of $9 a day, and the schools did
not get a cent. The Democrats on
getting back to power, immediately
restored the fund, and have been steadily
increasing it every year, until in 1891
(the last year for which we have com¬
plete figures)it reached $1,125,000. This
fund is raised partly by taxation, partly
by fees for inspection of fertilizers, rental
of the State railroad, etc. A direct as¬
sessment of one and one-third mills is
levied on all property for school purposes,
which raises $500,000. The white peo¬
ple of the state own $445,000,000 of
property; the negroes own $14,200,000.
The negroes pay the tax for school pur¬
poses in the amount of $19,000, while the
whites pay on the direct assessments
$481,000. The rest of the sums now be¬
ing raised by rental, ect., as I have said,
would have to be raised by direct taxa¬
tion if these properties and fees of the
state were not in existence; so that it
may be stated briefly that the negroes
pay for school purposes $52,000 yearly in¬
to the state treasury, while the whites pay
$1,062 000. How is this fund dis¬
tributed as between whites and blacks?
The school attendance among the negro* s
is about 40 per cent, as compared with
the white attendance. The negroes re¬
ceive about 40 per cent, of the entire
fund of $1,125,000. The whites, having
GO per cent, of the attendance. In other
words, the negroes pay taxes for school
purposes in the sum of $19,000, and re¬
ceive for school purposes from the State
the sum of $450,000. The school facil¬
ities afforded both races are entirely the
same, the only difference being that the
white people practically support the
schools for both.
“Second—With regard to the oppor¬
tunities for acquiring property. In 1878
the negroes owned $5.124,878 of property
in this state. Under democratic admin¬
istration of offices they have been given
such opportunities for acquiring homes
and other property that they now own
$14,200,000, an increase of $9,075,125 in
thiiteen years.
“Thud —As to politics. The Demo-
crats in this State in the present cam-
paign are making use of the figures just
given von, as showing the prosperity of
the negro under this party, and the splen-
did facilities which the party has given
him for Hie education ot his children.
They arc also using the tariff. They
hope to show that the negro as a con-
smner, pays taxes to every protective in-
dustry of the North and East at the rate
of about 83 to 37 per cent on the rnces-
saries of life, and that the tariff is a tax
which reaches him in his home and lev-
ies tribute on him for the support of
monopolies and trusts. the things
“These are but a few of we
have done and hope to do, I cannot take
the time to add anything to the abov-q
though it would be very easy to d » so.
I hope that what I have* given you will
be sufficient to show you that we have
done a great deal and that we have a
v- rv trong claim upon the negro vote of
Georoia I hope that your club may be
able to make good use of it among ceuid your but
people in Iilir.o s, who, if they
understand the evil of the tus iff and the
opportunities < tiered them for better
times ai d ! ett< r advantages in everv de-
P«rt = «... of I if-, u!d l.« ,8 goo i Dem-
era s ts the people of Georgia. ictus
ies ec:fully, W. J. Northes.
Walker has writtc 1 a reply to t e g v
mu i’s letter. In it he says one would
th nk from reading the papers up his
way th t the Democracy f f ti e South was
composed of den. ms, and the negro’s
life \vis one of eoniit.ud sorrow as d
struggle. He says fort .er:
‘•f will, in my feeble way, inform the
Dem crats of Illinois that the Democracy
of the < rent State of Georgia has raised
he Afro American to a higher plane in
life and will aid her sister States iu do-
ing the same. ’
Cleveland Against Bureaucraey.
The elecri n of Mr. Cleveland
ni nn the re orm of the tariff and its
ridu- tion to a revenue basis under wh
\m rican citizens will not be prohibited
r di'couraged from acquiring and
c.-tl i h It wi 1 mtan :be final 1 — -—
p'ete defeat iff the force bill and all «>tlicr
foiriis of federal Coercion in elections. It
"ill cluck radicalism in all directions,
and r< store to the people of all |iftrtit s
, the full enjoyment of their right of un¬
coerced political action.
Without this latter reform no other re-
• form cau be permanent. The interference
of federal officeholders with the polities
° f ihe people of the States is what Mr.
Cleveland denounced as ‘'pernicious ac¬
tivity.” He stopped it under his first
administration, it again. and he's pledged to stop
If federal officeholders can be organ¬
ized in o a politic 1 machine controlled
by cabinet officials and heads of bureaus
used in Washngton; to if this m chine can be
manipulate primaries and to pack
conventions in the States,- then the peo¬
ple of the States are deprived of their
1 'otver and right of free action through
their party organizations, and instead of
eh mot racy be have bureaticrncy in its
wor>t form.
Under Mr. Harrison bureaucracy has
been carried to its worst extreme. His
renomiration at Minneapolis tvns con¬
fessedly the work of liis officeholders and
not of his party. If the political action
of the people of the states cau be thus
controlled from Washington, it will be
always in die power of Washington
< ffieeholdtrs to dictate absoluely to one
>f the great parties, and to force it to any
length no matter how dangerous to the
country. thus The most radical issues will be
auel constantly thrust on the country,
dissension and turmoil will make
question. peace impossible and progress out of the
With Cleveland in the 'White II use,
we will have an end of this bossism by
Federal bureaucrats. He is the nust
pronounced opponent of the system, and
the system will be destroyed by bis re-
election.— St. Louis Republic.
The Only Oue.-
Among the records made by the presi¬
dents of th>- United States are four hun¬
dred carefully written opinions in pardon
cases, referred to tens of thousands of pa-
g< s of testimony in criminal trials,to de¬
termine with accuracy whether executive
clemency should be exercised to save the
lives of convicted men and correct the
mistakes of mistrials. If any person, re¬
publican or democrat, W'ere asked what
president did this immense work with
such care and w r rote these opinions, who
would hesitate to answer Grover Cleve¬
land?
TI1K FIRST OF ALE, ISSUES.
The Foundation oi a Free Government
Menaced by the Force Bill.
This attempt to put all the machinery
of the elections under the control of
Federal power is an attack upon the very
foundation of free government in this
country. If successful it would confer
upon the party in possession of the gov¬
ernment, a potent means of perpetuating
its rule in spite of the popular will. The
Democratic party seeks no such power
for itself, and it would not tolerate the
exercise of such dangerous power by any
other party.— Philadelphia Record.
The Welfare of Every Section at, Stftke.
This is a matter in which Massachu¬
setts has even a. greater interest than
South Carolina. It is not a sectional
measure. It is intended for the coercion
of states of the North, the East, and the
West, as well as at the South. It is the
last resort of a party whose traditions are
those of force and fraud at the polls,
which is now in a popular minority in
the country, and which sees no way to
regain a majority except by forcing
one.— Boston Post.
Republican success in November means
a force law, and such an enactment means
most grievous interference with the pros¬
perity and social organization of the
South.— Nashville American.
The issue of home rule elections leads
all others on the Democratic side, bt cause
it is the nv'St vital as well as the most
fundamental issue.— New York Mercury.
On the Sargasso Sea.
'phe g ar rr asso g ea? 0 r floating masses
of lf weed in mid-Atlantic, which inl¬
* de(1 the ghips of Columbus 400 years
according to the London Globe, has
been the subject of careful rnareograpiier, study by Dr.
H 1 UD 1 mel. a German who
tukes a different view of its origin from
t h a tcommonly * accepted. He is much shows, to
j ^msh je „ iu with that the sea more
e than Humboldt supposed. The
lniddle or thickest part is elliptical in
j orm ^ the great axis the* lying along the
-fropie of Cancer and foci at forty-
(ivc degrees and seventy degrees west
longitude. Around this are more exten-
, j vc } )U t thinner accumulations of the
Vvee( j ’ which vary ' with the prevailing "
w - ind
The gulf weed, which, w ith its little
IoulK ] -berries." is not unlike the mis-
tletoe in form, but of a brownish-yellow
, 0 i or i, as been thought to have lost its
property of rooting on rocks and to have
required the power of living afloat. It
has even been suggested submerged that continent, the sea
, nar k s the site of a
apparently the lost Atlantis. Dr. Krum-
j ne [ holds that the weed has simply been
drifted to its present affluents position from by the the
Gulf Stream and its
I We st Indian Islands and the Gulf of
Mexico. It is now proved that the Gulf
stream is not a single poetically narrow described * river of
the ocean,” as Maury of
j t , but consists of a number currents,
I not ?nIy horn ,hc Mexican Gulf, but the
Antilles. The weed, according to Dr.
Krummel. would take fifteen days to
float as far north as the latitude of Cape
Hatteras and five and a half months to
j j-each the Azores. In the Sargasso Sea
• jt becomes heavy and sinks; but the sup-
ply is kept up by the Gulf stream. Dr.
j Rrummel is certainly right in giving the
i Bargasso Sea a much wider area than
I Humboldt did and than our maps usually
; portray. It has been encountered some
j two or three hundred miles northeast of
Barbadoes; but whether the weed is
j solely carried from the West Indies and
the Gulf is perhaps open to doubt.—[St.
Louis Star Sayings.
- “
There are nearly 200.090 miies of mi¬
wa y in the United States. And yet the
time is easily within the memory of mid-
j dle-aged men when the total railway
j mileage of the country was less than
10,000 miles.
NUMBER 35.
A Sulky with Pneumatic Tires,
What promises to be an important in¬
novation on the present style of sulky is
rio'w undergoing Boston. a course of F. experiment
near To» Charles Clark, a
well-know n horaemau, is due the credit
cf making a test of a wheel which bids
fair ta supplant the adaptation regulation high
wheel. Ibis is an of the
pneumatic tire with a wheel of much
smaller diameter than the one now used
{ n't Mutters and pacers. The largo
wheels wet* removed from a sulky and
a bicycle compute fitted to it a pair of
wheels twenty-eight inch-* in diameter
with pneumatic tires, making them as¬
st iff as possible w ith iron braces.
Mr. Clark has the pacer Albert D. f
bred In the maritime provincesand eligi¬
ble to the 2:40 class. He sent him to
♦he races at Worcester, ami when the big
sidewheeler appeared, drawing the queer¬
looking rig, there was a sensation, borne
old-time trainers laughed at anything the notion
of it horse being able to do in
such a contrivance, but when the Cana¬
dian pacer stepped off with the neces¬
sary three heats, one of them being made
in 2:25'4. they were the lirsf to make up
the procession that followed him to the
stable for a close inspection. Laconia,
The next week at X. H. t
Albert T>., started again with the same
sulky. He was barred in the pools and
won as easily as lie had before. The
weight of the sulky used is forty-two
pounds, but this can be reduced. Mr.
Clark himself thinks a modest estimate
on the gain in apeed would be live
seconds on a half-mile track and two
seconds on a full-length course.—[San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Navy Department homing is pigeons carrying <>u
experiments with as a
means of coast-communication, Birds
have been placed on board the Constella¬
tion at Annapolis . They will be taken
♦00 miles out to sea and liberated, with
messages to the Secretary of the Navy, at
different points off the coasts of Maryland
and Delaware,
___
RICHMOND g DANVILLE R. R.
F. \V. Iluidehopei' and Kenhrn Foster
Receivers.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect July 24, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. NO, 10, No. 12
EASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily.
Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E.X.) 1 00 pm 1 8 50 pm 8 05am
Cliainblec..... .....I 9 50 pm 8 40am
Noreross....... .......! 9 45 pm 8 52am
Duluth........ .......110 00 pm 9 0tarn
Hmvance....... Buford .......10 15 pm 9 15am
Flowery ........ .......10 28 pm 9 28am
Branch ........10 42 pm 9 42am
Gainesville..... 2 22 pm: II OC.prn 10 03am
Lula .......... 2 40 pm; II 29 pm 10 27am
Bellton........ ........ill 32pm 10 30am
Cornelia....... ........ 11 55pinjlO 51am
Mt. Airy....... ........112 01 am 10 55am
Toccoa......... ........112 24 am i 19am
Westminster... ........| 1 04 am t.i 56am
Seneca ........ ........ 1 21 am 12 15pm
' Central........ ........ : 1 55 am 20oiu
Easleys........ Greenville..... am
Greers...,,..,. 5 24 pm am 10
Wellford....... am tc
Spartanburg... am W
6 17 pmj am W
Clifton i3 am w
Cowpens...... Gaffney....... 18 am W
Blacksburg..... am ^
! anil
Grover......... am| ^
King’s Gastonia....... Mount’ll 7 pm
Lowell........ an
Bellemont..... Cl an
Ar. Charlotte..... 16 am W’l
8 20 pmj 40 am) O OOp
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. II. No. 9.
Daily. Daily, j Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 2 29 am
Bellemont..... 2 10 pm 2 42 sm
Lowell......... 2 19 pm 2 52 am
Gastonia....... 2 30 pm 3 04 art;
King’s Moant’n 2 53 pm 3 27 am
Grover......... 3 07 pmj 3 43 am
Gaffney....... Blacksburg .... 3 16 pm j 3 53 am
3 33 pm 4 10 am
Clifton........ Cowpens ...... 4 3 01 58 pmj j 4 4 42 45am am
Spartanburg... 11 43 18 pm 5 00
am 1 pin am
W,-Ilford........ j ........ 4 38 pm 5 23 am
Greets........ 1 54 pm 5 42 ani
Greenville..... |12 36 pro 5 24 pmj 6 10 £MB
Easleys........ 5 55 pmj pm 6 38 20 ant
Central....... 6 52 7 am
Seneca........ 7 17 pm 7 58 am
Westminster... 7 35pm 8 J7 am
Toccoa....... 8 11 pm 8 55 am
Mt. Airy...... 8 40 pm 9 30 am
Bellton Cornelia...... | ........! .......j 8 43 pm 9 9 33 58 -din
.... 9 04 pm am
Lula...... I 3 22 pm 9 0Gpm|10 00 am
Gainesville. Branch!........ . i 3 41 pm 9 28 pm j 1C 28 am
Flowery 9 47 pm 10 48 am
Buford........I........10 00 pm :l 02 am
Suwanee. . to 15 pro 11 15 am
Duluth .10 29 pro II 25 pm
..
Noreross .10 43 pro 11 37 am
Chamblee .ilO 54pro 11 19 am
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.jj 5 05 pm ill 30 pro 1 2 25 pm
^,fdX , 4 ™Uy«cept . „ L,alav ,,. 1 .
co n leaves At-
lanta 6 15 p an .; vis Lula 9 00 p rn. Retnrn-
ing, leaves Lula 6 00 am, arrives Atlanta 8 50
am.
between Lula and Ad.-, Wi **T
m,~arriv Athens Athens,^No. 11 00 p m and 1C
1220 pm. Returning l ave
daily, except Sunday, and No. 12daily, 7 15 p l«
and 8 07 a in, arrive Lula 8.>5 p m and Jo.
a
^etiyeen Toccoa and ELberton—No. 61 dai-
j v . ,. XC ept Sunday, leave Toccoa 1140 am
arrive Elherton 3 20 p m. Returning, No. 60
daily, except Sunday, leavesElbertou 5 00 a ra
Sleepers be-
lween At ] an t a and New York,
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest-
ern Yestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washi^. Through I^ilman Steepen be-
^hington °and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. Buffet Sleeper be¬
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman
tween Washington and Atlanta.
mg car reservations, confer with local agents,
or address, HARDWICK.
W. A. TURK, S. H.
GenT Pass. Ag’r. Ass’t. Gent. Pass. Ag t.
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
J. A. DODSON, Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
W. H. GREEN. 80L. HASS,
GenT Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C.
LEWIS DAVIS,
vT rOPNEY AT L.AW
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the oountiei of Haber
«h&m and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank! n and Banka of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil
be given to all buait.eaa entrusted*to him
The collection of debts will have spt-o
ia’. sttaMtiou.
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