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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 ! BWU. s Dlvtp. ..rviee ia held tu eighteen ; Londta ttactmi on Sun Jay cvtaiqgk 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 ' 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¬ # 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