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THE TOCCOA NEWS
VOLUME XX.
LOVE OVER ALT.
Riches ora so jht. A jewel crown
May be undone, and gold wil! melt,
But an ended pain is long, long felt.
Ki*i re weef, but prayers are best;
Only the lips to a kiss are given,
While the jjl goes, with its prayer, to
heaven.
Dreams aro shaiow?, yet so netimos corns
Like bl *. i curte ns th it drop upoa
3 he torching light of a noonday sun.
Uopes betray us, but Faith is sure,
Nor asks for an answer. She smiles anl
waits,
A patient child at the heavenly gates.
Love over all! A 7evrel crown,
A pain that s=tayp, an ! a nrayer, a kiss,
Dreams, hope, faith, pattens?, . -e in A in
tb*.
Mmy A.De V ere,in Ladies’Home Journal.
AMONG THE RUINS.
A STORY OF INDIA.
\ E T W E E N the
% >\ towns Coimbatore, °f Mysore India, and
*
m on tne left bank
a stream called
t V-eui-ji the Ilonhollay, are
teii ruins of three or four
large villages. The
second one west of
Its the foothills of the
Mysore range of
mountains is called
lO'C Garrew, and amid
the general desola-
tion are the ruins what was once a great
temple. These villages are only three or
four out of hundreds to be found in the
great empire. Now and then their his¬
tory can be {raced back to some terrible
plague which depopulated them in a
month, and again the desolation is due
to war between tribes and factions, As
a rule, no native will approach one of
these ruins, and no attempt is ever made
to rebuild the towns. Iu 18G8, while I
was at the village of Bheeta, about thirty
miles from Garrow, the Government
sent a commission of three officials to
survey and inspect the viliage with a
view of restoring it by offering to re¬
build the temple and give free deeds to
all settlers. I was invited by the com¬
mission to go along, and this appearing
a splendid opportunity for an extended
inspection of the historic ruins I gladly
accepted. Including servants there were
twelve of us in the party. On arriving at
a small village called Mussan, six miles
cast of the village we meant to survey,
we were told of some strange things that
had lately happened. It was declared
that, spirits had taken possession of the
ruins. Strange lights had been seen fiit-
ting about at night, and a hunter whose
ardor had led him among the ruins had
heard the sound of stones being moved
and had been pelted with rocks. lie
had a bad bruise on the shoulder to prove
the latter statement, While the most
intelligent natives of India aie full of
superstition, the common villagers and
farmers are so thoroughly imbued with
it that signs and dreams guide most of
their daily transactions. Tiie commis¬
sion was headed by an Englishman named
Grant of the civil service. The second
was a Mr. Artwell of the same branch,
and the third a Mr. Martin, who was a
civil engineer. With them, as secretary
and clerk, was a young man named
Tbomasson.
Little attention was paid to the stories
of the villagers, and next day we moved
over and camped in a grove on the
stream, about half a mile above the
head of the desolated town. The site
was covered with shrubs and grass and
vines, and here and there were groves of
young trees. No tigers had been seeu
in that neighborhood for years, but the
place looked like a paradise for panthers,
wolves, hyenas and serpents. The town
had extended along the bank of the
stream for a mile and a half. That
evening, while we were settling down iu
our new quarters, a number of stones
from some uuseen assailants were sud¬
denly thrown with great force at one of
the uatives who had strayed beyond the
limits of the camp, hitting him ou the
head and rendering him insensible for
minutes. The missiles came
from a thicket between us and the first
ruins of the town, and after we had
located the direction wo fired a volley
from our guns and put an end to the dis-
turbance. The native servants were
thrown into a state of great consterna¬
tion, believing and arguing that our
presence had offended the spirits keep¬
ing guard over the ruins, aud but for
Mr. Giant’s threats the crowd would
have bolted and left us.
“I think I can see iuto this business,”
he explained to us after the seivauts had
quieted down. “These ruins have either
beeu taken possession of by a band of
robbers or there is a party here hunting
for treasure. In either case our presence
is undesirable, aud that demonstration
was to drive us away. We’ll trv to
make it a bad job for them, whoever
they are.”
The explanation was a reasonable one,
and when I asked the gentleman if a
ruin as old as this ever yielded up treas¬
ure, he replied:
“Bless you, yes! It has been my luck
to be ‘in on two jobs as old as this,
If a tribal war depopulated this town,
then mqre or less treasure was hidden
away because it could not be carried off.
It a plague appeared, then those who
hurried away thought only of saving
their lives, and took little or nothing
iftitn them, borne where in or about
that temp*e te are pretty sure of finding
a piant worth picking up.
He was still talking when queer lights
appeared at intervals among the shrub-
bery, and strange, wild cries were
heard from among the ruins. The na-
tives fell down and. covered their heads
with cloths, too frightened to eren cry
out, but the Commissioner calmly con¬
tinued:
“You have been wondering how it
Came about that such treasures were left
undisturbed ao long. Here i. the ex-
i iRHirlon at handi Such .urvivor. a*
h.fc- *1 Us **i*tc&c« fwsd \q return.
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
No native of India would give at* Eng¬
lishman a pointer on treasure. We have
gathered m plenty of loot since the
mutiny, but never with their assistance.
They call it robbing the dead. If the
party there are after the treasure they
belong to some clan up among the
mountains. They rob each other’s ruins,
but never their own.”
By and by the lights disappeared and
silence reigned over the ruins and we
turned in again. Soon after daylight
came one of the natives, who had now
recovered a portion of bis natural cour-
age, inspected the shrubbery and found
plenty of evidence that it had been oc¬
cupied by men during the night. Some
of the stones thrown at us were found
to have been freshly brokeu from large
blocks.
“It's a gang of treasure hunters for
sure,” said the Commissioner after this
last proof had teen submitted, “audit
is quite needless to caution you that
we must be very careful, No
must enter the shrubbery alone, and we
must be constantly ready for an attack.
They are doubtless Sholaga men from
the hills, and they will stick at
ing.”
“But why not send down to Bheeta
for a detachment of soldiers?” I asked.
“And so give away our ‘find,’ incase
there is one? We are not quite so green
as that. The Government must
its share, of course, but we want
further division. I think we are
enough to rout ’em out, and we will be¬
gin business right away.”
After breakfast the five of us moved
do wn on the head of the village, leaving
the camp in charge of the natives. As
soon as we got among the ruins we found
it tough work to get along. It had been
a very substantial town. There
plenty of building stone at hand, more or
less of it had been used in every house.
It must have taken an earthquake to
fling the blocks about in such confusion.
Here and there a piece of wall was stand¬
ing, but in most cases everything had
failen in a confused heap. The difficulty
ot climbing over the blocks was added to
by the vegetation, and wherever the sun
beat down on a stone we were sure to
find a serpent sunning himself, We
were heading for the walls of the temple,
but after an hour’s work we had not ad¬
vanced over half a mile. Mr. Grant
called a bait, and we were sitting on the
huge blocks of stone in a glade about
fifty feet across when something very
queer happened. The foliage was dense
enough to throw the glade into a
shadow approaching twilight, Our ears
were suddenly saluted with groans and
moans, as of some person in deop dis¬
tress, and while we were looking about
and at each other a figure came out of
the thicket on the south side and slowly
floated across the glade. It looked like
a human figure, though draped and muf¬
fled, and though it passed over the
ground at about an ordiuary height, the
motion was that of floating along in¬
stead of walking. It wasn’t over twenty
feet from us, and when it disappeared
into the thicket on the other side the
air was heavy with a strange perfume.
“It's nothing but a trick to scare us
off,” whispered Grant, after the figure
had disappeared. “If it comes again,
everybody open fire on it.”
We waited in nervous silence for five
or six minutes, when the apparition ap¬
peared again, preceded by the same dis¬
tressing noises. It was scarcely clear of
the bushes when we ooened fire, each
one of us with a revolver. It floated
along as before and at the same pace,
and we got in three shots apiece before
the smoke obscured it.
“We’ve riddled one of them, any¬
how 1” chuckled Grant, as we waited for
the smoke to clear ; but a minute later,
when it had floated away, the figure was
not to be seen. We had fired point
blank at a distance of eighteen or twenty
feet, and it was absurd to suppose that
all fifteen bullets had missed.
“And how do you account for that?”
I asked, as I felt my hair trying to climb
up
“It’s one of their conjuring tricks,”
answered the engineer, “and wa3 pretty
well worked. I’ve seen stranger things
than that. We had best get out of this
at once!”
We were hardly off the blocks before
a rock weighing at least twenty pounds
crashed down through the tree tops aud
fell where we had been sitting. Ten
seconds earlier would have resulted iu
one death at least. As we made our way
along I asked the engineer how such a
rock could have been heaved into the air
to fall with such exactness, but he could
not explain. Instead of pushing to the
temple we now made our way to the
right to get out of the ruins, and soon
were on the open plain.
“The temple is our objective point,”
explained Mr. Grant, “and it’s no use
pushing through these ruins to get there.
We’ll go down opposite and then strike
in. Now look at that, will you?”
About 100 feet away from us and
right in our course was a bushy-topped
tree about thirty feet high. There was
only a light air stirring, and yet the top
of the tree was waving to and fro as if
in a heavy gale. We slowly advanced
until we stood at the foot of the tree. I
had expected to see a native up there,
but nothing was in sight. While we
stood there the tree continued its antics,
and none of us were sharp enough to
solve the mystery.
“It’s just a trick to scare us off,” said
Mr. Grant, ■y “and we’ll see more of them
before we’re through, How they do
these things I can’t pretend to sav, 'would but
they are done for effect and
frighten a native out of his senses. We
must push along and not mind them.”
Opposite the ruins of the temple Mr.' we
entered the thicket agaiu, Grant
leading, and the rest advaaced'a following in Indian
file. We had not hundred
f ee t when we heard sobs aud moans from
both sides of us, and one would have
sworn that a do«en women were wan-
dering about in dutreaa. 09
. . ,
uppeare u *’ we
.ou n , tha praaeua* oi a human
** * V 14 ^’ T. W ‘ • an * U4r
uedtopueh ahead, the thieket eehoad
•uch .cream* and .hrtik. that ay knee.
gftTt 9it ftfid X b*d $• clutch ft Umb fo
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1892.
support me. I expected to be ridiculed
for my exhibit, but the others came to a
halt with serious faces, and the engineer
said:
“I’m blessed if the sounds don’t give
me a chill, though I know it’s all a
blooming trick of the gang to keep fellows U3
out. There must be a lot of the
in there.”
“And I’m thinking it would be a wise
thing to send down for more help,” ad-
ded Mr. Grant. “Good Lord! but see
that!”
A block of stone which seemed to be
four feet long, a foot thick and three
feet wide was lying in the grass within
four feet of us as we stood in a group.
This block suddenly stood on end, rose
into the air fully six feet, and then fell
to the earth with a jar which made
things tremble. I tell you simply what
five of us saw or thought we saw. What
sort of jugglery it was I don’t pretend to
say, but it was jugglery of some sort, of
course. Directly after the stone fell four
or five large pieces of rock came crash¬
ing about our ears, and no one hesitated
to beat a speedy retreat.
“I’m not running from their tricks,”
said Grant as we headed for camp, “but
I’m satisfied they are a large party and
desperate fellows. They are probably
strong enough to wipe us out, and I’ll
have up a company of soldiers to beat
the cover.”
A messenger was at once despatched
to Bheeta, which is a military post, but
it was three days before the soldiers came
up. There were ninety of them, and
though we had heard nothing further
from the treasure hunters while waiting
we felt sure they were still among the
ruins. The troops entered from three
different directions, having orders to
shoot down anythiug they sighted, but
the whole place was beaten up and only
one native found. He was lying among
the ruins of the temple with a broken
leg. He was a Sholaga from the hills,
and after having been carried to camp
and his injuries attended to he talked
freely. The party had numbered fifty
men, and had been working for two
weeks when we appeared. The leader
had been told ot the existence of a cavern
under the ruins of the temple, and they
had labored hard in their efforts to secure
it. As we afterward saw for ourselves they
had moved at least a thousand tons of
debris before opening the cavern. Their
appliances were of the rudest sort, and
everything had been accomplished by main
strength. During the period of their
labors five ot the party had died of snake
bites and two had been killed in moving
the blocks. The cavern was found the
day before the soldiers came, and iu
opening it this native had been hurt.
His friends had deliberately abandoned
him, but he bore them no grudge. Ou
the contrary, he was highly gratified to
know that the treasure had escaped the
Euglish. When asked as to its value his
eyes sparkled and he answered:
“Sahib, there were millions! Over
thirty men had each a heavy load made
ready to carry when I fainted away. It
would have made a hundred English¬
men rich for life!”
We found the cavern to be a room
eight feet long, six broad and ten high.
It had been swept cleau. Tiie native
said it was nearly full of gold and silver
and plate aud jewelry. If so, the gross
value was a tremendous big sum, aud
the fellows must have made two or three
trips of it to carry everything away.—-
New York Sun.
First Woman iu the Treasury.
One of the first women wiio was as¬
signed work in the Treasury Building
was a colored woman, Sophie Holmes
by name, writes Mary S. Lockwood in
the Chautauquan.
One night svhen Sophie was sweeping
the refuse papers in her room she found
a box of greenbacks that had been cut,
counted and packed to transfer to the
vaults and had been accidentally over¬
looked.
She did not dare call the watchman for
fear he would be tempted beyond re¬
sistance. She thought of her four small
children at homo alone, with no one to
give them their supper or put them to
bed, but the one duty that stared her in
the face was to protect that money. She
sat down upon the box and quietly
waited for the hours to go by.
At 1 o’clock in the morning she heard
the shuffling step of General Spinner in
the corridor, and heard him open the
door to his room. She quietly slipped
along the corridor, knocked at his door
and told him what she had found.
The General had the box taken tc his
room aud sent Sophie home in his car¬
riage. The next morning when she re¬
turned she found the General still keep¬
ing guard. That night he sent for her
and placed in her hand her appointment
papers, given for honesty, and for thirty
years she has earned and drawn her $59
per month.
Fifty thousand dollars was in this
box. At another time she found $39,-
000, for which the testimony can be seen
over General Spinner's own handwrit¬
ing.
The Frontal Headaches.
Nine-tentli 3 of the nervous headaches
are situated over the brow, and they are
accompanied by langour and chilliness.
If the headache continues dull and heavy
for any length of time, the patient has a
distaste for food, becomes nauseous, and
with a general feeling of uncomfortable-
ness. To cure such a headache lapidly
and quietly two grains of the potassic
salt should be dissolved in a wine glass
of water. When it is dissolved sip the
mixture slowly, taking the whole dose
in about tea minutes. The iodide acts
immediately, and in half an hour after
the medicine has been taken the unpleas-
ant symptoms will have disappeared.
The dose can be repeated in the small
quantities later if the headache is not re-
lieved. These small doses appear to bs
more effective than larger ones, and one
| should not lose faith in them on ao-
■ count at the amallaess ot the dose until
been Ldaly tested.-—Yankee
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PECK RIDDLED.
A dissection op the new fork labor
60M1IISSIONERS REPORT ON THE
EFFECT OP THE TARIFF ON LABOR
AND WAGES.
- Labor Commissioner Peck, of New
York, having made an alleged investi-
gation of “the effect ot the tariff on
wages,” has issued a one-sided report in
which he claims that protection ha boon
and the McKinley law a blessing, Mr.
1 J- Schoenbof, a well known writer ou the
tariff, thus riddles Peck’s peculiar re¬
port in the columns of the New York
World:
Mr. Peck’s totals show a net increase
in wages for 1891 over 1890 of $6,377,-
925, and a net increase in products in
this State during the same period of
$31,315,130.
I will not inquire into the relevancy of
the statement to the McKinley bill or any
other tariff measure. If the increase d im
not show more than tae ordinary ratio,
the report falls short of its purpose. So
long as no data are furnished, as by the
United States Census, covering all in¬
dustrial occupations, the inference is not
excluded that selections are made with
a view to covering a certain end in view 7
.
Many very important industries are left
out. Cotton, woolens and other tex¬
tiles, iron and steel products, etc., are
not mentioned at all. Did they not
show a sufficient increase in wages to
parade them as glorious examples of
tariff benefits? Yet these are the prin¬
cipal industries which have received
tariff favors.
I will show, in round figures, their
rates of increase, under the beneficent
protective tariff, from the census of 1870
to 1880 (in thousands)
PRODUCTS.
Inc.
1S70. J8S0. & : Dec
Cotton goods......... $11,173 $9.79) $1,474
Hats, caps and ma¬
terials.............. 10,700 7,500 3.200
Iron and steel and
manufactures...... 53,000 27,000 26,000
Here we have the principal industries
which cau be classed pre-eminently as
protected industries suffering a decline
within one brief decade of $33,000,000 —
from $S9,000,000 in 1870 to $56,000,-
000 iu 1880. In the cruder iron and
steel products and manufactures New
York State, in 1870, contributed over
15 per cent, to the total product of the
United States. In 1880 the percentage
of the State of New York had gone
down to 8 per cent, in the total of these
industrial products. Under the blight¬
ing influence of the tax on the raw ma¬
terial the industries falling under these
headings have become tranferrod from
the Democratic State to the Republican
State of Pennsylvania.
It is not known to the writer that a
perceptible the succeeding increase decade, ha3 taken place in
which is to be
covered by the expected returns of the
eleventh census. All reports have so
far tended to advertise further decline
in these industries in this State. If proof
were required further thau that of the
generally known condition of these in¬
dustries iu New York State, the omis¬
sion of Mr. Peck to inclose them in his
tabulations would have furnished it.
Cotton goods have not increased
either, as is well known. Their manu¬
facture becomes more and more concen¬
trated in certain favored localities from
natural causes, the same as in England.
In all wool goods the decline is general
and alone due to the tariff ou raw wool.
The decline in the consumption of wool
in proportion to the growth of the pop li¬
lation, and the corresponding increase
in shoddy and wool substitutes to make
up the deficiency, give full evidence of
the benefits of a tariff on raw materials.
The increase in shoddy goods, of course,
would make up for the difference. But
the silence of Mr. Peck does not seem to
warrant the assumption that increased
prosperity came to the working people
in 1891 in excess of that enjoyed in
1890, against the general depression in
woollens everywhere else, a fact so well
known to everybody at all familiar with
the trade. The three branches cited
suffered a decline in wages paid out and
in the number of work people employed,
according to the census tables, as fol¬
lows (in thousands):
WAGES AND HAND3.
187
Number N umbei
of of
Cotton Wages. Hands. Wages. Hands.
Hats, goois... .$2,62o 9,144 $2,214 9,9 ) >
Iron caps, etc... 2,630 5,870 2,155 5,213
and steai
products....... 9,90) 18,034 4,99L 13.567
Totals $15,150 33,689 $8,364 28,68)
These industries suffered a decline to
the extent of $6,780,000 paid less in
wages and 5018 fewer working people
employed. But what is of further and
greater significance is that the rate of
wages, as shown here, has gone down to
the extent shown here.
The average per hand employed is as
follows,
1870. 18S0. Dec
Cotton goods $287 $214
Hats and caps, etc 446 413 33
Iron and steel products. 525 370 155
This is indeed a showing which would
_ death-knell to high-tariff
any
sentiment still rampant in the greatest
manufacturing State of the Union were
an y ^ acts wanted to prove the absurdity
°* t ^ ie claims usually set forth.
tAi } wil 1 generalize not draw any the inferences tacts further from
8 Dor on
than to show the positions of certain in-
dostries which ought to have steadily in-
creasccl in product and in wages paid
out nn<3e r the benigx influence - a
ta riff, . but have, on the contrary * 1
*“* * Mav ‘ efl fc decline.
Tuat these facts have been ignored by
a ^ < - >mocr atic official authority of the
and spurious facts substitute! to
:, ° 1>ter U P the policy of the opposition
P art J J* LUe thing which gives a
somewhat serious tone to the absurdity
° ^ ue P^rffm^on.
A eomparuon of the product, of wage*
and of hands employed in industries
furtnest removed from the influences r-
ferred to shows on the contrary the
following increases i
.-----
Product. Wages. Pauli
Boots and shoes.... (Thousands.) (Thousands, i
*17,813 $4.998 11 ,401
Clothing............44.71S 8,195 26,090
■Women’s clothing.. 4,830 14,272 42,190
.----IS30-----
Product. Wages. Hands.
Boots and shoes...,$18,979 (Thousands.) (Thousands.)
Clothing............ 81,133 #4,993 13,400
Women’s clothing.. 18,2.4 63,0i>:)
130,413 27,322 99,000
It has been demonstrated sufficiently
by comparisons m~de heio and abroad
that labor in boots and shoes is cheaper
than in Europe. In clothing a tariff is
ineffective. Fashion and taste alone for¬
bid importations of ready-made clothing
and give a clear field to the ho tie manu-
facturer, though nis materials, by tariff
taxation, are so much higher thau the
that foreign clothing manufacturer has to pay
the protection by the tariff on
clothing is quite neutralized. In other
industries where tariff protection is
equally ineffective similar showings can
be made. In clothing, the least pro¬
tected aicicle, the increase is highest:
75 per cent, in product, 125 per cent, in
wages and 150 per cent, in the number
3^ bauds. Women’s clothing has risen
in the product from four and a half
millions to over twenty millions. The
new ceusus will show a heavier increase
yet. These items suffice to show the
damning evidence of facts ignored by
Mr. Peck. Having pointed out t
will now return to the facts adduced by
him to support his theory.
The increase iu products is set down
as $.‘>1,000,000. The increase from 1870
to 1830 was $300,000,000. Considering
the price inflations of all commodities,
as compared with 1880, and the decline
in such important industries noted above,
the increase of 1880 over 1370 shows for
New York fully $400,000,000, or Gil §-
per cent. On the same basis of progres¬
sion the $1,080,000,000 of 1880 ought
to have grown to $1,800,000,000 in
1890. The years of the end of the de¬
cade, however, must show the greatest
ratio of increase, partly on account of the
increase of 25 per cent, in the population
of the State and partly on account of tiie
general trade activity ruling in 1889,
1890 and 1891 against the great stagna¬
tion ruling and spreading in intensity
from 1883 to 1887. The ratio of in-
crease ought from these considerations to
be nearer a hundred millions thau seventy
millions, which would be the average of
the decade. If Mr. Peck is not able to
show more than thirty-one millions of
increase he and h>s theory stand con¬
demned by his own figures.
Reed on “Extravagance.”
Ex-Czar Reed i# something of a
humorist in his way and he has seldom
been more humoroui than he is now in
accusing the Democratic House of “ex¬
tra vagauce,” because with a Republican
Senate and a Republican President
against it it could not repeal the sugar
bouutv act, the steamship subsidy act
and such like acts passed by the Reed
Congress, with the deliberate intention
of increasing the expenditures of the
Government and making the increase
permanent.
The Reed Congress and the Harrison
administration have run the annual ex¬
pense for pensions alone up to $140,-
000,000, so that with this and $10,000,-
000 a year for sugar bounties we have a
permanent expense of $150,000,000 a
year altogether aside from what are
properly the ordinary expenses of gov¬
ern snent.
Under the Disability Pension bill and
other pension acts now in operation the
annual expense for pensions will increase
lor some years to come. It will reach at
least $150,000,000 a year, and the only
cnauce the country has of getting rid of
it is by outliving the pensioners. The
sugar bounty will be repealed as soon as
the Democrats elect a President and ft
majority of the Senate. Until then it re¬
mains with the other permanent charges
imposed ou the country by the most
scandalous Congress the country ever
had.
With a Democratic Senate these per¬
manent charges can be greatly reduced.
When Mr. Cleveland is inaugurated be
will certainly renew the practice of that
strict economy which characterized hi 3
first administration and resulted in the
surplus which Harrison has dissipated.
In the meantime Harrison 13 responsi¬
ble before the country for the increased
expense of his radical administration. He
is costing the country a round hundred
million a year more than Arthur cost it.
Where is the Republican who will say
that Harrison is worth this much more
for the eountry? It may be that we are
to have another Republican as Presi¬
dent in the future. If so, let us get one
who costs less and is worth more for the
money.—St. Louis Republic.
Why Wages Go Up.
The protectionist says that wages go
up because of the taxes he levies on
labor.
The truth is that wages go up because
labor becomes more effective. If two
men, witn improved ruacjinerr, can
produce what four men did before, th«
pay of each of the four being a dollar a
day, the employer can afford to pay
each of the two men $1.50. He
will make a dollar a day by the opera¬
tion, and the cost of labor in his pro¬
duct will be just that much less than it
was.
i Q a j a t e number of the American
Wool and Cotton Reporter is a capital
answer to the question we have asked,
To-day the help that ten year* tended
120 spindles in worsted mills are tend-
ing 160 spindles, “making the increased
production, it is declared, of at least
equal qoMtity.*
The Noble comb bat taken the place
of tb e Ifigter comb and it “give* double
the quantity of top, in the same time,
from the same stock.”
The change from the fly to the ring
frame gives 4000 revolutions a minute,
instead of 2600.
Machrae-dyelHg has taken the place
^ methods, *o that “m the use of
aeiA-dyeetuffs feats are aooompifahad in
lesa than two home, and in the employ—
meat Q f *w*et dye. in less than four
ho***, that b» the uncertain hand pro-
ecsses would demand several daj« for
their performance.”
These are facts that have had a strong
influence on wages in the wonted in¬
dustry. Wages depend upon efficiency
and product as well as upon the law ot
supply and demand. Invention has
greatly multiplied man’s power, and
therefore the man receives more for his
work than he did when his tools enabled
him to produoe less.
When a protectionist says that wages
depend upon a statute that he has cora-
posed he is simply slandering human
geniui.—New York World.
Wages Not Dependent on the Tariff.
“If the workingman pursues his in¬
quires furthur he will find that during
that famo .s period when the United
States had a low tariff, from 1846 to
1861, wages here wore as much higher
as those in any European country as they
are now, and that during tiiat low tariff
period they were steadily rising. Ho
will find that wages in this country have
always been higher than European wage 3 ,
not on account of auy tariff, but on ac¬
count of the circumstances surrounding
us—the large quantity of cheap, fertile
and easily accessible land; the almost
inexhaustible abundance and variety of
natural resources inviting enterprise; the
exceptional energy and productiveness
of labor in this oountrj, and so on.
He will find that the wages of persons
engaged in such labor as is not protect¬
ed by any tariff at all, such as employes
of transportation companies, house ser-
vaute, bricklayers, carpenters, bakers,
’ ongshoremen, plasterers and many
others, are among the highest compared
with corresponding wages in Europe.
Finally, he will find that employment
and wages are as dependent on the labor
market and the state of business in high
tariff America as in free trade England,
and no less; that labor organizations
have as much influence on Buch things
here as in Eagland, and no more; and
that the promises which the protective
policy is commended to the favor of the
laboring men cannot possibly be fulfilled
by any tariff la-v, and are, therefore, a
delusion and a •hare.—Harper’s Weekly.
“Protection” for tiie Dairyman.
The dairyman needs protection against
the tariff on tin, which,for the protection
of the tin barons, is saddling every dairy-
mau with an indirect tax of not less than
25 cents for each and every cow in Am¬
erica which produces milk. Tax on tin
milk-pails, tin milk-strainers, tin gather¬
ing cans, tin settling cans, tin-lined cream
vats, tin-lined cheese vats, tin cheese
hoops, etc., etc. Tin and tax every¬
where.
The dairyman needs protection against
the tariff on salt, which is a direct tax on
every butter-maker using English salt,
to the extent of one cent per head oi
every butter cow, and an indirect aver¬
age tax of $2 per head on every butter
cow whose butter is not salted with Eng¬
lish salt, and with cheaper salt. The
estimate is based upon the average make
of 200 lbs. per year for each butter cow,
and the low estimate of difference in
flavor and keeping quality from use of
different salt than English dairy would
be one cent per pound of butter, or $2
per head of cows.—Mercantile and Ex¬
change Advocate.
A $500,000 BLAZE.
Business Houses at Albany, N. Y.,
Burned.
About 2 o’clock Sunday morning fire
broke out in the upper portion of the
Lyon Hudson building, on the north side of
avenue, between Green and
Pearl streets, Albany, N. Y., and spread
with frightful rapidity. When the fire¬
men arrived the entire top story was in
flames and there wa3 a perfect rain of
sparks upon the surrounding buildings
and into the adjacent streets. The fire
appeared to have caught in one of the
and upper stories occupied by shirt factories,
had made such headway when dis¬
covered that there was already danger
that the front wall, five stories high,
would fall into the street.
At 2:30 the fire which started in what
was formerly the Secoud Reformed church
had spread to the north end of that struc¬
ture, the flames licking up the wooden
pillars of the old belfry, and poured up a
solid column of flame over a hundred feet
in the air. The entire department was
on the ground, and the indications were
that the entire block bounded by Hud-
sou avenue, Green Brave and South Pearl
streets, would be swept away. The loss
will not fall short of $500,000.
KILLED BY BRIGANDS.
Five Men Waylaid in the Sierre Madre
Mountains.
A news special of Friday from Duran-
go, Mixico, says: Celcus Mcrtez, agent of
the S'are bank of DuraDgo, was on his
way to Muzatlan, through the Sierre
Madre mountains on Wednesday with
$10,000 in gold coin, being transported
in bags on the backs of burros. Knowing
the dangerous character of the country
through which he was to pass Martez was
accompanied by five guards well armed.
Fifty miles south of Durango and just
as they were making the ascent of
a range of rugged mountains they
were attacked in ambush by brigands,
who have been the terror of that section
for several years. Two guards were killed
at the first volley, Mnrtez and his re¬
maining men returned the tire, but werp
soon overpowered and shot down, with
the exception of one guard who escaped.
He told his t *ory to the autfcoritHw and
govermnext troops hastened to pursue
the rubber*.
Hissed the Stars and Stripes.
A news special from Montreal, Canada,
eays: “The White Squadron.” the high¬
ly patriotic American play, was being
produced at th; theatre Monday night.
The scene that represented a congress of
navies dags of the various ncions were
applauded until that of the United
Hjqieared, when it wks hissed. When
Hilliard, rtpresenting the American ad-
mir.d, appeared,the biasing was renewed,
and somebody threw at h m. The srowd
M en went to the entrance of the theatre
nd tors down the stars sad stripes,
NUMBER 37.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE R R.
F. W. lluitl'-knprr nutl Konbcn Fo.tlcr
lleoeivors.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 28, 1892.
NORTHBOUND, f No. 38. No. 10. No. 12
ASTI.11N tisik. Daily. Daily. Daily
Lv. Atlanta (E.I.) lUOpmi 8 50pm 8 0;>am
Norcross......I........ ( hatnl.lce . ...i........' p 21 pm S SOani
<J ;;i P n, 8 52am
Duluth ...... 911 pm U 01am
Snwanec..... .....I 9 51 pin If 15am
Bufortl .. .....lit) 05 pm y 2Haui
Flow ry Branch........j !0 18 pm 9 42an!
Game-vilie..... 2 22 pmi j m 85 pm 10 (.'3am
Lula.......... 2 40 pm 11 02 pm 10 27am
Relit. n................,u 05 pm 10 30am
Cornelia.... •-I.....- ..‘11 80pm 10 51am
Mt. Ai y ... •. 1........11 84 pm 10 55am
Toccua...... j........ 12 ( 0 am ii 19am
iVestmin-ier ..........*12 40 am I i 56a ru
Seneca..... • - ........| 100 am 112 15pm
Central.... ..! 4 40 pin! 135aiu 120pm
Easleys..... Greenville.. • •........I I 2 04 am 1 50pm
.. 5 24 pm 2 27 am 2 15pm
Greers...... •. i........! 2 66 am 2 45pnl
Wellford.... ■. 1........j 3 10 am 3 05pm
Sj arlaubnr" . • 0 17 pm 3 31 am 3 29pm
Clifton..... • • j........j 8 46 am 3 53pm
Cowpens Gaffney ... 3 50 am 3 58pui
.... 4 13 am 4 20pm
Grover.........j. Blacksburg.....| 7 00 pin 4 35 am | 4 37pm
King’s 4 46 am ami 4 46pm
Mount’ll . 5 06 5 02pm
Gaston well........i a....... 5 35 amr 5 26pm
.
L 5 50 am 5 37pm
L’elleinosit.....|. 6 00 am j 5 46pm
\r. Charlotte 8 20 pm 6 30;.mi 6 10pm
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SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. ;i. No. 9.
.
Daily. Daily. Laiiy.
i
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 1 50 pm 1 2 20 llilliliiiiiillliliiiililiiliii
Belle mont..... M 2 42
L wi ll......... tC 2 52
Gastonia....... tC 3 04
Kind's Mount’ll 3 27
Gvovi r......... OS
Blacksburg ... 10 56 am 05 3 53
Gaffney....... W 4
Uowpens ...... 3 58 pm
Clifton........ 4 01 pm 00
Spar .‘an burg... 11 43 am 1 18 pm 5
W Ilford........
Greers......... pin
Ore nville...... 12 36
Easleys......... i 7:0
Central........ 25 pm
Seneca......... 7 58
Wcstmins'or.... 8 i7
Toccoi........ 8 55
Mt. Airy.......
Cornelia....... 9 33
Belli on........ 9 58
Lula.......... 3 22 pm
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 10 28
Flowery Buford........ Branch :i 02
Smvanee....... ii
Duluth........
Norcross ......
ChiiUiblee...... ii
Ar. Atlanta (E. T.) 5 05 pm
TOCt'OA AM) ELBERTON.
No. 631 So, 9 I 28, 1892. iNo. 12[ So. 62
Mixed Mixed August Mixed Mixed
+ 7 00a+11 25a Lv-. .Toccoa. ..Ar + 358§S;86SSoSi + 7 35p
7 24 fll 47 ....Eastanoolee. •• 7 10
7 39 fl2 00 ......Avalon...... 6 55
8 02 12 05 .....Martin’s..... 6 45
8 30 12 26 ......Lavonia..... 6 15
910 111 OOp ....Bowersville. •• 5 45
9 20 1 (17 West Bowersville ■ 5 29
940 1 22 Royston’s..... 5 11
.... 4 43
10 07 1 45 .... Bowman’s .... 4 20
10 27 i'2 02 .. .Dewey Rose. •• + 4 OOp
10 50a 2 20 Ar.. Elberton ..Lv
Nos. 9 an l 10 carry Pullman Su pers lx«
tween Atlauta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Wonthwest-
ein Vestibuled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. Through Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween New York and New Orleans, a ho between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlauta and
Birmingham. Pullman Buffet Sleeper bc-
Nos. 11 and 12,
tw< en Washington and Atlanta. and
For detailed information as to local
through time tallies, rates and Pullman Sleep¬
ing ear reservations, coufer with local agents,
<T address, S. H. HARDWICK.
W. A. TURK. Ag’i.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass.
Washington, D. 0. Atlanta, Ga.
J. A. DODSON, Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga.
W. 13. GREEN. i-OL. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Tr.flio Manager, D. O’.
Washington, I). C. Washington,
LEWIS DAVIS,
iTTORNEY AT L.A W
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the counties of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and Frank In and Banks of the
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wil’
be given to all business eutrusted*u> him.
The collec tion of debts will have spec¬
ial attention.
HEAVY FAILURES (N ENGLAND.
Land and Investment Companies Going
Down with a Crash.
A . T London , cablegram , , he , New .. - Y.rk r .
to -
As , »ooi .ted Press states that the failure of
House and Land Investment Trust,
1: “ ,ted > announced Friday, is a part of a
8 ? rles of German bank and building so-
^ ?*■ approximating suspensions now £6,000,000. ^oW.ngli.b:!!- The first
failure announced in this series was that
of the London and General bank, limited ;
next that of the Liberators’ Permanent
Building and Investment Society,and now
comes the suspension of the House and
Land Investment Trust. The nominal cap-
ital of each of the concerns does not rep-
resent anything approaching the liabili-
ties. The money which they owe is ch efly
due to depositors and investors who had
been induced to participate in the affairs
of the concerns by the alluring high rate
of interest which they offered. The lia¬
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bilities of the London and General bank
are roughly estimated £1,000,000; those
of the Liberator Society at £2,500,000.
and those of the Hour; and Lund Trust
at £2,000,000. Another great building
and bank society is involved in serious
has financial difficulties, but its suspension
not yet been announced.
Queer Place fora Tree.
Seeds of trees taken by birds, or by
winds, frequently lie in some decaying build¬
mortar crack on the tops of high
ings, and will grow out and make quite
large trees. One of these is in the city
of Utica, N. H., where, on the top of a
city church tower, is a mountain ash,
which sprouted about fifteen or sixteen
years ago. It still continues to grow,
and has now reached a height their of about
seven feet. The roots push of the way
j nto the cracks and crevices mason
wor k. During the last two or three
vearg jt has blossomed and borne clusters
scarlet berries. It is said by some
friend to be one of the Monthly, interesting sights
Q f Utica,—[Meehan’s