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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 < 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. ~~~ -i»