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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. .•«