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THE rv NEWS
VOLUME XX.
Just Common Folks.
A. hundred humble songsters trill
I The notes that to their lays belong,
"Where just one nightingale might fill
The place with its transcendant song.
-And thus Fame comes, and with its smiie
A soul with lasting greatness cloaks,
- And leaves a thousand else the while
To be for aye just common folks.
If only sweetest bells were rung,
How we should miss the miuor chimes;
If only grandest poets sung
There’d be no humble little rhymes.
The modest, clinging vines add grace
Unto the forest’s giant oaks,
And 'mid earth’s mighty is a place
To people with just common folks.
-Not they the warriors who shall win
Upon the battlefield a name
To sound above the awful din;
Not theirs the painter’s deathless fame.
Nor theirs the poet’s muse that brings
The rhythmic gift his soul invokes;
Theirs hut to do the simple tilings
That duty gives just common folks.
They are the multitudes of earth
And mingle ever in the crowd,
PA bowing those of equal birth,
M here none because of caste is proud.
■Behind i,y the meshes of a Lte
' 'That sometimes a decree revokes;
.Above the lowly, ’neath the great.
Are millions of just common folks.
Fate lias not lifted them above
The level of the human plain;
JJicy share with men a brother love,
In touch with pleasure and with pain.
One great, far-reaching brotherhood
With common burdens, common yokes,
And common wrongs and common good,
God’s army of just common folks.
—[Nixon Waterman in Boston Globe.
The Missing Candidate.
Characters: Sir John Rivers, 65.
Air. Henry Bosanquet, M. 1*., 45,
cousin. Miss Vaughan, 23,
ito Sir John Rivers’ children.
Scene: Rivers Court in Surrey,
England. Time: General election.
(Enter Mr. Bosanquet, suddenly', to
Sir Joint Rivers, who Is sitting
lunch with his daughters and their
governess.)
Sir John (surprised)—My dear fel¬
low—
Mr. Bosanquot (breathlessly)—It’s
Frank I want. I’ve wired to bis clubs
and to his rooms in town and got no
answer, so L came down here.
Sir John—Sit down (introducing).
Miss Vaughan—Air. Bosanquet.
Mr. Bosanquet — Now, Avhere’s
Frank? We want to run him against
Somers.
i Sir John—I don’t knoiv where
Frank is. No one here does. In
Spain, 1 believe, somewhere.
Mr. Bosanquet—What a pity I It
would have been a walk over the
course for him. lie had only to show
himself and tho thing was done. Old
Somers would not be in it against
Frank with his good looks and popu¬
larity. It was such a chance for the
boy. It would be t he making of him
to get into the House.
Sir John—l am very sorry for the
party, and sorrier still for Frank, but
I can do nothing.
(Miss Vaughan rises hastily).
Miss Vaughan (a little confused)—
I think avc will have to leave you, Sir
John. You Avisli to talk politics —and
tho children have finished.
(Exit Avith children.)
Mr. Bosanquet—That’s a nice girl,
John, and a very pretty o ie.
Sir John—She’s a deal too nice ami
too pretty, my dear Ned. It’s not her
fault, poor girl; b it, to tell you the
truth, it is those charms of hers that
have sent Master Frank to Spain aud
keep him in hiding.
Mr. Bosanquet—What? She won’t
have him?
Sir John—I don’t knoAV about that;
but 1 saw how the land lay and I told
Frank quietly that it couldn’t be
Either lie must go, I said, or the girl,
So he went.
Mr. Bosanquet—You should have
sent the girl.
Sir John—Not at all. Effie aud
Phillis are devoted to her. She is
quite a mother to them, and as they
have no mother now, poor little beg¬
gars, I couldn’t break their hearts and
spoil their chance of growing into
nice Avomen, eveu for Frank. You
see, Ned, one can’t pick a Miss
Vaughan off every bush. She is a
lady by birth, in manner and at heart,
and as straight and houest a littio wo¬
man as ever lived.
Mr. Bosanquet—Why, hang it ail
then, let him marry the giril
Sir John—I have sometimes thought
of that; but—you know we old fel¬
lows are not quite bo bliud as we are
supposed to be, auji—Veil, I won’t let
Frank marry a girl who doesn’t care a
piu for fiitn.
Mr. Bosanquet—Aud you mean to
tell me that this little paragon of yours
doesn’t care for Frank Rivers, the best
looking young fellow in the county,
the hardest rider and the best dancer
for twenty miles?
Sic John—Not a bit; and a man,
my dear Ned, may be the greatest
in the world, and the cleverest
AND PIEDMONT INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL.
handsomest fellow in the bargain, but
if his wife doesn’t love him she’ll
think him a brute and make his life a
burden to him. No, Frank doesn’t
marry Mary Vauglian while I live!
Mr. Bosanquet (laughing)—If yon
have eyes, John, so have I, and mine
are twenty years younger than yours
—and 1 saw something just now when
wc were talking—and come, I’ll lay
you ten to one,in fives, that she’s over
head aud ears in love with Frank and
that the two are in correspondence at
this moment.
Sir John—What makes you think
that?
Mr. Bosanquet—Why, the way she
(urued pale when I spoke of Frank’s
lest chances, and I noticed how she
hurried from the room. You bet she
went to fetch his address.
Sir John—And admit before me
that she is writing to my boy? No, if
she were mean enough to have done
that she would be coward enough to
keep it dark.
Mr. Bosanquet—When a woman is
in love she doesn’t know what being
a coward means.
(Re-enter Miss Vaughan.)
Miss Vaughan—You said, Mr. Bo-
sanquet, you wanted Mr. Rivers’s ad¬
dress. It is No. 1G Calle del Palacio,
Salamanca.
Mr. Bosanquet—Hurrah? I’ll wire
and he’ll be here in forty-eight hours.
Tho seat is saved. Thank you so
much, Miss Vaughan, foil have
done Frank a splendid turn. Good-
by, John. I must drive to the near¬
est telegraph office. (Exit.)
(A pause.)
Sir John—You promised me you
would not write lo Frank, Miss
Vaughan.
Miss Vaughan—Yes, and I have
broken my word. I have written
once to Mr. Rivers.
Sir John—I am disappointed. I had
trusted you so completely'.
Miss Vaughan—Sir John, I am
afraid I must leave your employment.
Sir John—I am sorry beyond words
and the children will be entirely cut
up. And this letter that you have
sent?
Miss Vaughan—I have not sent it
yet.
Sir Joun (brightening)—You have
not sent it?
Miss Vaughan—No, but I paean to
by this night’s post. (SliOAvipg letter
in her band) 1 have it here.
Sir John—Perhaps, after a|l, it is
only an answer to one from Frank?
Miss Vaughan—Yes, it is an answer
to one from him.
Sir John (Half laughed)—The
young rascal I lie has broken his
word, too; but hang it all I so would
1 have at his ago for—for the Ayoman
I loved.
Miss Vaughau—Good-by, Sir John,
I should like to go as soon as possible.
May I? (Sir John holds out his hand.
After a moment she lakes it.) You
xvill not—(surpressing emotion) — you
will not think too hardly of him or of
me, after I am gone?
Sir John—No, my dear; and you
are a good girl to tell me you have
written a love-letter to my boy. Af¬
ter all—.
Miss Vaughan—A love letter! Sir
John, do you think 1 could be so hor¬
ribly underhand?
Sir John—What! Avliat! Not a lovc-
letter? Oh, 1 had hoped itAV. s. Then
what my dear child, did you write?
Miss Vaughau (rather offended and
stiffy)—This is xuy letter. Pray read
it-
Sir John (reading)—“Dear Mr.
Rivers: You have broken your word
lo me and to your father. I was fool¬
ish to listen to you and tell you I
ioved you. Women are more incon¬
stant than perhaps you think. I have
changed—time has changed me. 1 do
not love you now.” Is that true, Miss
Vaughn?
Miss Vaughn—No, it is a lie!
Sir John—Ah i indeed. But let me
finish.
(Reads.) “And twill never marry
you.” Humph 1 Now, do you know,
1 don’t like that at all.
Miss Vaughn (half crying)—I
thought you would bo pleased. I can
do nothing more.
Sir John—No; but I can. (Takes
a pencil and writes on letter; then
gives it to her.) See, I have struck
out “not” in one place aDd ‘“never” in
another, and I have put my initials iu
the margin, so that Frank may under¬
stand. It reads now: “I do love
you and I will marry you.”
Miss Vaughn—Oh, Sir John, what
can I say ?
Sir John—Yon can say whether you
would like me to strike my pencil
through that sentiment about woman’s
inconstancy.
Miss Vaughn—Please do; it is great
uonsensel—[Black and White.
In Minneapolis, Minn., 7,877,947
barrels of flour were made last year,
TOCCOA. GEORGIA, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 1892.
Wakes Over the Dead.
Said a well known embaliner of this
city, speaking of waking the dead:
“The custom is almost a universal one,
and in some form is observed by every
race and tribe, whether civilized or
barbarous. In this country we are
apt to associate wakes with the Catho¬
lic people, blit the sit dug up with the
body after death, and especially dur¬
ing the night, time, from time out of
mind, has been practised by those of
every other creed. This custom
probably originated when enbalming
and undertaking were very crude and
in their infancy and the dread of dear
friends and relatives at leaving the
bodies of their loved ones alone over
night, and to prevent any injury to
the body watchers who were selected
or appointed, who sat up all night and
took turns iu looking after the condi¬
tion of tho body. Then the doubt iu
many people’s minds that their life¬
less ones are not really dead is another
reason for the custom.
“I will remember as long as I live
when I was serving as an apprentice,
I was called upon to join a party of
watchers in a room where the body of
a slout old gentleman lay resting oil a
cooling-board to await the preparation
of a special-sized coffin. It was my
duty to accompany one of the young
ladies present, avIio carried tho light
into the room tvhere the body lay and
occasionally moisten a cloth with anti¬
septic fluid tiiat was spread over the
face of the dead. It was a bitter cold
night and tho wind was howling
mournfully without and creaking
doors and shaking windows, as we
passed iu before the body and I raised
the covering from the dead man’s face,
my companion accidentally jugged tho
board, and instantly following the
motion a Ioav, guttural sound pro¬
ceeded from Ihe mouth of the dead
body which nearly paralyzed us with
fright. My companion shrieked. I
imagined I saw the lips move and tho
eyelids quiver; the cold sweat oozed
from my forehead in huge, bead-like
drops. All the watchers came in and
an investigation ensued. It was only
tho exit of some air in the body that
was started by the shaking of the body
on the board, but it was a terrible or¬
deal lo me, I can assure you.—[Phila¬
delphia Press.
Living on Air.
Tho teaching of experience as il¬
lustrated by several recent instances
of prolonged abstincuce, though it
may afford some idea of human en¬
durance in this particular under
special conditions, lias yet provided
no certain criterion of the vital re¬
sistance possessed by the average man
when suddenly deprived of every
form of sustenance. The measure of
this force may nevertheless be guaged
with approximate correc ness from
the history of recurrent instances of
prolonged and accidental privation.
As an example tiie following is re¬
markable even in this category.
It is die narrative of three Bohe¬
mian miners, who, after being en¬
tombed by a fall of saml in the pit
where they were working, were finally
rescued alive, though, of course, in an
utterly prostrate condition, seventeen
days later. During the period of
their live burial air Avas pumped
down to them by bore holes. On this
they may be said to have lived, with¬
out food and Avithout water. The
total want of the latter is what makes
their survival so remarkable. But
for this essential the longer fasts of
professional fasting men would have
been quite impossible. We can have
no difficulty in understanding gener¬
ally why this holds true if we bear in
mind the fact that not only does
Avater constitute by far the greater
constituent of every tissue, but that
without its due proportion the circu¬
lation and nutrition of the blood and
that needful if costly chemical change
upon which all tissue repair depends
would be alike impossible. — [London
Lancet.
A Pretty Incident.
A pretty incident is reported of
royal lovers, the King and Queen of
Italy. Early in the season Queen
Margherite asked her royal consort
for his opinion as to whether she was
stilt young enough to Avear her favor¬
ite costume of Avhite muslin. Here-
plied: “This is a matter that requires
reflection.” Two weeks later came
the King’s reply in the shape of a
box of beautiful white gowns, which
he had ordered for his wife from
Paris.
As Seen in a Mirror.
Here is something new for people
who keep their carriages. A mirror
is attached to the girdle of the drive r
of a fashionable turnout in St. Peters-
, burg. I his euables the lady who
rides in the phaeton to see ail the fol-
lowing equipages withont turning her
bead. —[San Francisco Chronicle.
FOES TO TRADE.
bad no ads, man freights,
TAXES AND TARIFFS ARE
ENEMIES OF INDUSTRY—HOW TUE
FARMERS EARNINGS ARE DEPOSITED
IN CUSTOM HOUSES.
The typical protectionists are a queer
set. From McKinley down, they all
continue to cry, “We must protect
American industry;” as if they alone,
and not all Americans were in favor of
any and every policy that will protect and
benefit our own people and country iu
preference to all other peoples and coun¬
tries. But at the same time it is clear
that their actions—when they come to
substitute actions for words—that they
have no correct idea of what industry is.
Doubtless, some will say, “What an un¬
founded and impudent assertion!”
“What a free trade lie!” But let
reason about it a little and see wherein
is the truth.
Industry consists of two factors, or
there are two elements in it. One is
production (derived from two Latin
words, pro, forward, and ducere*
tead), meaning, in this connection, tho
drawing out of materials or
from natural resources, and the other
exchange, or the selling of the things
produced; and industry can’t get along
without both any more than a man get
alcng with only one leg. For example,
if a farmer grows 10,001) bushels of corn,
aud needs only 1000 for himself,
and animals, and can’t exchange or sell
the other 9000 he might as well not
have raised it. He can eat corn, burn
it for fuel and make whisky of it, but
he can’t clothe himself with corn husks,
plow with a corn stalk, wear corn
shoes, and the like. To get these other
things he must sell or exchange his
surplus 9000 bushels; and he must be
stupid who does not at once see that
the greater the facilities afforded him
for exchange, such as good roads,
bridges, horses and wagons, cheap and
swift railroads and steamships, low
tolls, freights and taxes, the greater
will be the opportunity for exchange
aud trade to advantage. On the other
hand, poor roads, unbridged streams,
few or no railroads or steamships, aud
high tolls, freights aud taxes, all
tend to restrict or destroy trade and
the opportunity to sell his 9000 bushels
of corn to advantage. A twenty per¬
cent. tariff tax may fairly' be considered
as the representative of a bad road; a
fifty per cent., of a broad deep river
without proper facilites for crossing;
a seventy-five per cent., of a swamp bor¬
dering such river on both sides; while a
hundred per cent, duty, such as is levied
on blankets, window glass, cotton tie3,
and the like, can only properly be com¬
pared to a baud of robbers, who strip
the'producer of nearly all he possesses,
making him thankful that lie escaped
with his life. In short, there has never
been a case in all human experience
when the removal of
natural or legislative—on trade did not
result in the extension of trade to the
mutual advantage of the great majority
of the people concerned. The man who
can get a law passed that will enable
him to tax trade or exchange, always
sees an advantage to himself in the re¬
stricted trade that will result. So also
does his brother-in-law who sits behind
a bush on the road, with a gun, and
tolls the farmer who sold his surplus of
9J00 bushels of corn, “You can’t pass
unless you give me a big part of what
you received for it in exchange.” But
I fancy some farmer protectiouist saying,
“There is no one sitting behind a bush
forme. I don’t see him.” Neverthe¬
less, he is there all the same.
Our farmer sells his 9000 bushels of
corn in England and, a3 he wants things
rather than money, aud as many things
are cheap in England, he concludes to
take his pay in hardware, woolen cloth¬
ings, blankets, starch, paints, oils, glass,
salt, cordage, hats, crockery, cotton tie3,
and other like articles, and starts for
home by way of New York. There is
no man with a gun behind a bush o*n the
wharf to lie ia wait for him, but there is
another man, armed Avith something
better than a gun, who tells the farmer
that he must give up more than half the
value of all the things he has received in
payment for his corn before he can come
into possession of the other half. If he
doe3 not pay quickly or if he makes any
fuss about the charges, thi3 other man
will take the whole, and not unlikely put
the farmer in jail. If the farmer could
pay in things instead of money, and had
taken salt in exchange for his corn, then
for every hundred bushels he would have
had to bring and give up seventy-three
additional bushels. For every yard of
the cheapest carpet he would have had
three-quarters of a yard cut off; aud if
lie had cotton ties, each tie would be
shortened to the extent of ninety percent.
If he had taken the commonest kind of
china plates or cups, theu in order to
carry a dozen of them home he would
have had to pay for eighteen. And so
on. If our Government needed to impose
aod collect such taxes iu order to meet
its necessary expenditures, there would
be some justification for such procedure.
But revenue was not the object sought
for in the enactment ot the laws which
authorize or require them, but the re¬
strictions of trade; to prevent the farmer
from selling his products to the best ad¬
vantage.
Iu short, carry out logically and to
their fullest extent McKinley’s views
about industry, and you would have
every man trying to produce a good deal
and sell as little as journal possible.—David A.
Wells, in American of Politics.
An Example of Tariff Reform.
McKinleyism is atrocious, but what
would the Democrats do in the way of
reform should they attain power? The
question is sometimes asked iu good faith
by Republicans weaned of the Republi-
can policy of high tariff,
During the first session of the present
Congress a Democratic House passed
among other bill* amendatory of tho
McKinley law one which, if there had
been concurrence of a Repblican Senate
and approval by a Republican Executive,
would have put binding twine upon tho
free list. The tariff laid by McKinley -
ism upon binding twine affects every
raiser of a crop of cereals, for binding
twine is now employed necessarily iu
connection with improved machinery
for mowing and reaping. That tariff
was laid and is maintained by McKinley*
ism for no other purpose in this world
than to enable what is now known as
the cordage trust to manufacture this
necessary article and make its own price
thsreon, enriching itself but compelling
tribute from nearly 7,000,000 agricul¬
turists in the United States. It 13 this
protection which Democracy describes
as fraudulent. It is protection which
fosters a monopoly, and, while benefiting
a few persons relatively who are engaged
in the manufacture of binding twine, a3
well as all articles of like character, im*
poses a burden upon millions of the peo¬
ple of the United States
A Democratic House sought to put
binding twiue upon the free list in order
that rue monopoly now existing by
reason of tariff taxation upon biuding
twiue and articles of like character
might be destroyed by tree competition.
The cordage trust notoriously exists. Iu
the expectation that the Attorney-Gen¬
eral of Mr. Harrison’s cabinet would as¬
sail it in the courts a Republican organ,
desiring that he should have full glory
for the proceeding, indiscreetly pre¬
sented all the fact3, and though the
Sherman law is said to be aimed at the
trusts and so describes itself, and though
the Executive has made some show of
commencing prosecution under that law
against such alleged combinations as the
whisky trust, no hand has been lifted
against this atrocious monopoly, Tiie
tribute continues to be exacted from
every Held of wheat, and rye, and oats
all over this broad land. Democracy de¬
sired to pub an end to such fraudulent
tariff legislation, and having no other
power than the power of tho House it
passed this bill repealing the tax on
twine, but the Republicans said “No;
this tax shall be maintained,” and
though they were not frank enough to
go further and say “It shall be main¬
tained iu the interests of this cordage
trust,” yet such is the fact.
This single illustration will suffice to
indicate the direction which Democratic
tariff legislation would take. Wherever
the tariff operates to form a trust its
protection will be withdrawn. Wherever
taxes may be taken from the necessities
of existence it will be done, The aim
of Democracy will be to lay a tariff not
for the benefit ot the cordage trust nor
the lumber barons, but for the purposes
of revenue only. It is the purpose of tho
Democracy so to shape tariff legislation
that Government shall not be protecting
Somebody at the expense of Everybody.
—Chicago Times.
Getting Bed Rock Prices,
Here is a new way for Americans to
circumvent the McKinley bill so that
they may participate in the blessings
(relative) that this measure showers upon
foreigners, It is well known that bun-
dreds of American made goods—3uch as
agricultural implements, sewing ma¬
chines, table cutlery, saws, typewriters,
cartridges, etc.—are sold cheaper to
foreigners than to Americans, Tho
manufacturers here form a trust or have
a monopoly and they fix prices to make
a3 much profit as possible by taking ad¬
vantage of tariffs which prevent foreign
competition. Now when, as often hap¬
pens, they can afford to sell iu tho un¬
protected markets of tho world they
lower their prices for export to this
point and rely upon the tariff laws to
prevent Americans from getting tho
benefit of these lower prices by reim¬
porting the goods. Up to date the
manufacturers have had uniform success,
but their scheme has recently received a
severe shock and, unless they change
their methods somewhat, Americans
may, in some cases, be cursed by prices
as low as those which disgrace Europe.
An American lady of moderate means
Avas visiting relatives in Europe this
summer. She had heard that American
sewing machines were sold cheaper there
than here, and she concluded to briug
one back with her if she could escape
the duty on it and save enough, after
paying freight, to pay her for the
trouble of cairying it. She saw the for¬
eign agent of the machine she wished
and found that she could save about
twenty per cent, by purchasing there,
and that she could escape the duty by
calling herself a seamstress. She was
arranging with the agent, when he sug¬
gested that as she was going to New
York, where he got the machines, it
would save trouble and expense all
around if she would accept his order on
the New York house for a machine—
which she could have at export prices—
though she need not export it or take
any false oaths in regard to it. The
plan worked successfully, and is likely
to be repeated and extended to type¬
writers and other articles if the manu¬
facturers do not put a stop to these
anti-McKinley demonstrations o» their
foreign agents.
That Free Breakfast Table.
Whitelaw Reid said in a speech tba
by coupling together “protection and
reciprocity” his party had given us a
“free breakfast table,” which the De-
mocrats propose to destroy by “restoring
the revenue duties on coffee, tea and
sugar.”
The only thing the Republicans did to
give us a free breakfast table was to re¬
duce the duty on refined sugar from
about two and a half to one-half cents
per pound, For this we would have
been thankful if it had not reduced our
revenue by nearly $6G,000,000 to giye
an opportunity to impose more onerous
duties upon other articles of food and
clothing—duties that would not, like the
sugar duty, put almost as many dollars
into our treasury as it took from the
people, but that would take three dollars
from the people, one of which wou’d
reach our Treasury and two of which
would be caught on the fly by thef
“Iriends of the administration, No,
we have not free sugar yet for our
breakfast tables; the half per cent,
duty must be paid to the sugar trust. It
is this duty that the Democrats pro¬
pose to remove and that they would have
removed months ayoif a Republican Sen¬
ate aud President had not blocked the
way.
As to tea and coffee they have for
years been on the free list, Tho only
possible effect o£ reciprocity upon them
Avould be to reimpose duties and to tax
them, as has been dene by decree of
President Harrison in some cases. For
such a “free breakfast table” we are not
especially grateful to the protectionists.
Keep McKinley on the Stump.
McKinley spoke in three large cities
in Vermont this year and “was received
with the greatest enthusiasm” by groat
audiences in each city. To sin .v their
appreciation of the Major and his
blessed tariff law these cities this year
cast the following vote as compared with
the vote in the corresponding election of
1883:
1SS3. 18.12.
Brattleborough.. Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem.
1,002 4 ) 5 SGI 4U
Rutland».. ,1,398 920 1,285 983
Burlington ,1,401 1,014 1,016 1,106
3,801 2,390 3,113 2,40:3
If the Major could have been induced
by tariff reformers to have made twenty
speeches in Vermont it is safe to say that
it would have gone Democratic.
It is a curious fact that tho farmers
and laborers of this country, tax burdened
and hard pressed as they are, will not
consent to shift their taxes upon the poor
foreigner, and there is uo surer sigu that
there is yet left something of tiiat Ameri¬
can manhood and independence that
made them as unwilling to pay England’s
taxes in 177G, as they arc now to have
England pay their taxes. Justice, uo
more and uo less, is about their size and
McKinley cannot change the lit by ap¬
pealing to their selfish instincts’ by ask¬
ing them to tax the helpless foreigner—
that is providing they belie vc that his
scheme will work. MoKin ley is the
only stumper that is entirely satisfactory
to both parties. He should he given
double pay and asked to made tW4
speeches a day uutil November.
Troublesome Ifs.
If the increased tariff has raised wages
it must—upon tho protection theory—•
have added to the cost of production.
If it has done this how can prices be
lower?
If the increased duty has not added
to the price of imported goods it has
not given any additional protection to
the home manufacturers.
If it has added to the price it has
been an extra burden upon the
consumers.
If the tariff has raised tho price of
farm products it must have added to tho
general cost of living,
If the increased duty has not dimin¬
ished importations, as the protectionists
now claim, it has not secured a homo
market to manufacturers nor protected
waae-earuers against the competition of
pauper labor abroad.
If the foreigner pays the duty Av’ny did
McKinley leave the Treasury so short of
money?
The troublesome ifs are only the be¬
ginning of the labyrinth of lies and
paradoxes into Avhich this tariff for
bounties leads its defenders. —New
York Worid.
Tho Decline of Prot-cuon.
Six political platforms have bean pre¬
sented to the voters of this Nation this
year. Only one of the se favors a pro¬
tective tariff. The othe r live have either
slapped protection sqmreiyia the face
or have quietly given it the cold
shoulder. The monopoly party has a
monopoly of a doctrine that advocates a
system which robs the poor to give to
the rich, and the growth of the others at
the expense of this one party indicates
that the people are tired of being robbed
by custom house brigands, aud that the
manufacturers’ agents stationed at our
ports, ostensibly for the benefit of the
public, but really for the benefit of the
manufacturers, will soon have to be
withdrawn.
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
A Disastrous Wreck on the Western
Railway of Alabama.
A special from Opelika, Ala., says:
A terrible wreck occurred on the West¬
ern Railway of Alabama at 1:54 o’clock
Tuesday morning at a little trestle one
mile from Opelika. Passenger train No.
51, doe in Atlanta, Ga. at 6:30, collid d
with two loose freight cars, running at a
speed of 40 miles an hour. The engine,
tender, baggage and mail cars aud pas¬
senger coach, together with the two
loose freight cars, which were loaded
with merenandise, jumped the track and
tumbled over a steep embankment into
the stream below.
Mr. Lew Willis, engineer, and Tom
Willis, fireman, were killed. Those in¬
jured were: Mr. Ii. L. Harrison, bag-
gagema ter; J. L. McL an, of Atlanta,
passenger; Conductor Zack Martin, At¬
lanta; Jim Crawford, of Opelika, passen¬
ger; Edgir L. Landrum, of Atlanta, mail
clerk; James Carter, colored, of Opelika,
mail clerk. Some of these Avere seriously
injured. There were several other.-! who
received slight wounds.
CAUSE OF THE ACCIDEST.
It is hard to get at the exact cause of
the disaster. Several contradictory re¬
ports are in circulation, the mo3t reliable
and authentic of which is that Conductor
VV'oodal was making up a freight train
in the yards at Opelika aud switched ten
cars on a side track near the compress.
He then went to deliver another car to
the Columbus and Western road, at the
upper end of the track, and by some means
THE SWITCH W AS LEFT OPEN.
In some way two of the cars started
on a down grade and reached the main¬
line and started down a grade at a rapid
rate. They met the passenger train just
as it w; s in the act of reaching the Uttie
trestle with the above result.
NUMBER. 89.
The Modern Toot It.
Fresh from bis recent revelation as to
the inevitable results of higher education
oil the woman of the future. Sir .Tames
Crichton Brown,- who j i.led over a
meeting of the British Association, has
felt iaiiiicutab'le it is painful duty to call attention to
the condition of the tooth of
the present. Tiie picture he draws is
truly desolating, and it D all the more
so 111 th**t it is found' d m the relentless
basis of actual under investigation Out of
I,Slit children twelve recently ex¬
amined the proportion of those blest
with normal or perfe T teeth in need of
neither extraction nor filling wn., only
one in eighteen. Even more alarming are
the dental statistics of I>'"K where the
teeth of 90 percent of the jhqmiaUon are
bad Furthermore r*ir James stated that no
fewer than 10,000,000 of artitkal teeth
are us d in England annually. Of the
three causes to which Sir-Lem. Crichton
Brown attributed the present ■ arlous
condition of the liittT»s»*i tooth : oft
food, high pro-; sure and vitiated atmos-
phere- the first, at least, is by tut means
an inevitable condition of latter-day IHe.
Dn the other hand the nervous tension
of modern existence and lhe growth of
large towns are factors which cannot be
eliminated from the great dental probf-
lent, and are bound to exert an increas¬
ingly destructive influence on the typo
of the coming man. We arc rapidly
tending toward an era of total baldness,
and this, it seems, is to be further aggra¬
vated by toothlessness, There is an
ancient Greek legend of the daughters
of Phorcys, who had only one eye and
one tooth among them, This, we take
it, must have been a prophetic view of
the results of culture and civilization on
the woman of the future.—[London
Globe. ____
qUESTivN A SO ANSWER.
Mildred—What are you looking at me
for?
Jack—I know what I’d like to look at
you for.
Mildred—Wliat?
Jack—Forever.—Boston Courier.
RICHMOND & DANVILLE RR-
F. \V. Iluidekoper and Reuben Foster
Receivers.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division.
Condensed Schedule of Passenger
Trains, in Effect Aug. 28, 1892.
NORTHBOUND. No. 38. No, 10. No. ;2
J ASTERN TIME. Daily. Daily. Daily
t-V. Atlanta (E.i.) 1 00 pm 8 50 pm 8 05am
Oliamblee..... ....... 9 21pm 8 »;oam
Norcross....... ....... 9 31 pm 8 52am
Duluth ... ....... 9 41pm 9 04am
HiiAVaneo.. ....... 9 51 pm 9 15am
Buford........ ....... 10 05 pm 9 28am
Flowery Branch .......10 16 pm 9 42am
Gainesville..... 2 22 pm 10 35 pm 10 03am
Lula.......... 2 40 pm 11 02 pm 10 27am
Bellton........ .......11 05 pm 10 30am
Cornelia....... .......11 30 pm 10 51am
Mt. Airy....... .......11 34 pm 10 55am
Toccoa......... ....... 12 00 am 11 19am
Westminster... ....... 12 40 am 11 56am
Seneca ........ 1 00 am 12 15pm
Central........ 4 40 pm 1 35 am 1 20pm
Easleys........ Greenville..... 2 04 am 1 50pm
5 24 pm 2 27 am 2 15pm
Greers......... 2 55 am 2 45pm
Wellford....... 3 10 am 3 05pm
Spartanburg... C 17 pm 3 31 am 3 29pm
Clifton........ 3 46 am 3 53pm
Cowpens ...... 3 50 am 3 58pm
Blacksburg..... Gaffney....... 4 13 am 4 20pm
7 06 pm 4 35 am 4 37pm
Grover......... 4 16 am 4 46pra
King’s Mount’n 5 06 am 5 02pm
Gastonia....... 5 35 am 5 26pm
Lowell........ 5 50 am 5 37pni
Bellemont..... 6 00 am 5 46pm
Ar. Charlotte...... 8 20 pm 6 30 am 6 10pm
SOUTHBOUND. No. 37. No. :i. No. 9.
Daily. Daily. Daily.
Lv. Charlotte...... 9 45 am 2 20 3333S2SE.33B2BSB3
Bellemont.....
Lowell......... 2 52
Gastonia....... 3 04
King’s Mount’n
Grover.........
Blacksburg.... 10 5G am
Gaffney....... 4 42
Cowpens......
Clifton........ OOOCOO?CO?OOCODOD»J«JC5tHCTKkl^lw^
Spartanburg... 11 43 am
Wellford,.......
Greers......... 5 42
Greenville...... 12 36 pm
Easleys......... i 6 38
Central........ 25 pm
Seneca......... 7 58 5.5
Westminster....
Toccoa........ 1
Mt. Airy....... 930 1
Cornelia....... 9 33 3
Bellton........ B
Lula.......... 8 22 pm i
Gainesville..... 3 41 pm 1C 28 3
Flowery Branch :i 02 I
Buford........ t>m S
Suwanee....... pm H I
Duluth........ I!
Norcroes......
Cbamblee...... 11
Ar. Atlmta (E. T.)i
TOCCOA AND ELBERTON.
Sftil&AI iMtodMtoS
------ Arl+
t 7 00a+1125a-Lv.. .Toccoa. - • 8 45 + 7 35p
7 24 fll 47 ....Eastanoolee-..| f8 20 7 10
7 39 02 jfl2 12 00 05 . .-Avalon.. .Martin’s. - .; f8 8 08 02 C 6 55 45
8 ) . ■ .
8 30 | 12 26 ... Lavonia . • .1 7 43 6 15
»< 0 n oop ....Bowersville. •• 7 25 5 45
9 20 1 07 West Bowersville. 715 I 5 29
9 40 i .... Royston’s.....I 7 00 i 5 11
10 07 27 ! f f 2 1 45 .... -Dewey Bowman’s Rose. ••.•! f618 6 4 4 20 13
10 i 02 .. Elberton-.Lvi i
10 50a 2 20 lAr.. -> 600 if 4OOn
Nos. 9 an t 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be*
tween Atlanta and New York.
Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest¬
ern Vestibnled Limited, between Atlanta and
Washington. Through Pullman Sleepers be¬
tween New York and New Orleans, al-o between
Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and
Birmingham. Sleeper be¬
Nos. 11 and 12, Pullman Buffet
tween Washington information and Atlanta. local and
For detailed as to
through time fable*, rates confer and with Pullman local agents, Sleep¬
ing car reservations,
; r address, H. II. HARDWICK,
W. A. TURK.
Gen’l Pass. Ag’f. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t.
Wfu-h ngton, D. C. Atlanta, Ga.
J. A- DODSON, Superintendent^ Atlanta, Ga.
5V. H. GRLEN, 80L. HASS,
Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager,
Washington. D. C. Washington, D. C.
LEWIS DAVIS,
ATTORNEY at law
TOCCOA CITY, GA.,
Will practioe in the oountiea of Haber¬
sham and Rabun of the Northwestern
Circuit, and FraakLn and Banks of tht
Western Circuit. Prompt attention wit
be given to all business entruatedTto him
The collection of debts will have spec¬
ial attention. .•«