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, THE VIENNA PROGRESS. TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fail Where They May. 1 JNO. E. HOWELL, l LACY A. MO ROAN, I , XI., NO 43. VIENNA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. 01 111 1 erest Gather^ at AH Oyer the Stats. lofessor 1st for fa fit one ' W. S. Yeates, the new gti- 1 he state of Georgia, will the work of reorganizing Pgeologic al survey. I I' * * * [Hie Central railroad company lias A its Macon shop force of sis hnn- |d men on three-fourths time for f. summer, and the men are blue For the outlook. About twenty-five I n were discharged. I * » * I The comptroller general and the at- ■>rney general of the state are after Jhe railroads that are behind with ■heir taxes. The cases against these |oails refusing to muke the ante for LCounty taxes, are still pending and lsoon come up for hearing in court, I which Judge Speer, of Macon, |des. * v special says: The re- Fcommittee is having pre- ement of the entire opera- Central railroad to present iTackson on Mu v i j’ljj— Inent is made that all the ar ts for underwriting the new have been made'. ■annuli News advances this tnging immigrants to Geor- Ireeent convention of south ing adjourned without do- BBng practical to get immi- Jor the south, and the Savannah l)W proposes that each south- ernor ask liis legislature for an fiction of $500 or $600, und all > • to . secure an immigration In Ellis Island to get the cream Immigrants coming to this coun sel Jones, principal keeeper of litentiary, has been making an |ion tour of ull the camps of the The Ciimps of the southern por- tlio state engaged his special l>n, and he says that he found a most excellent condition, .that there is lmt little sickness pts and but few deaths tin that region of the neatly pleased with situation of the camps down in the [ber regions. tie fact that Houston county is liav- Itwo abundant peach crops in suc- lion increases the desire of l'ar-see- Ipeople to own some of these line eh lands and there is hardly a week Jass without some northern gentle purchasing as much land aH can bought in one body. Sometimes ecure as much us they desire they •■bane two or three small tracts. 1 Richard McCormick, a capitalist Columbus, O., a few days ago ,850 acres of tbe finest land ftiou, which he will develop Preparing 150 acres within a Fort Valley for a large nursery 'ther 700 acres, which is situ- |mTles from town, he will peach trees this fall. Mr. is very much enthused prospects. There is no fug anything, for it is a fact I many years hence Houston ill be almost a solid peach "f'd. ' - «■ X * S. &■ \Y. Receivership 3Inttcr. tptain Robert J. Lowry, of At- la, hasjbeen appointed a co-receiver, li Mr. H. M. Comer, of the Savan- and Western Railroad Company, s appointment was made by Judge |rdee ut New Orleans. The news a surprise to some of the interests [the Central litigation. There was lort of understanding that nothing lire would be done in any of the lutral cases until Justice Jackson ies up the ease on the 25th. There JFas no agreement on this line, but some of the lawyers thought that the situation would be allowed to remain unchanged for the present. Those vho keep up with the management’s do of the Central were not surprised all, for it was expected that a co-re- ver would bo appointed by Judge Captain Lowry was selected request of the Central Trust ny of New York. He has been bv that corporation to repre- it before in receiverships. He is isident of the Lowry Banking Com- of Atlanta, and one of -thre anciers in the south. appointment of a co-receiver mean that there is any serioiiB asm or conflict of interests be- lr. Comer and the Central mpany. It is rather presumed are working on the same fenklier anil Crons. ie weather crop bulletin for the week shows that a pretty bad con- >n of affairs in regard to vegeta- exists in many parts of the state, he northwest section of the state 1 are numerous complaints of cot- dying on account of the eold and dy weather, and on many planta- s the damage lias been so great t the crop must either be replanted he fields plowed up and put into ■ etliing else. The cold winds and have also damaged the fruit in thife section to a considerable extent. T n the western portion of the state the ports are to the effect that peaches e falling off considerably, and there e but few places where the bud- rms have not been at work to a dam- ging extent, causing farmers to re liant. The cotton crop is not doing ueh better. In the central art of Georgia the rains have not been too copious, although no scarcity of showers is reported. The plowing of cotton is in pro- and chopping is half completed, ravages of the worms is something out of the ordinary in this part of the state, but is not so bad as in some por tions. In the eastern portion of the state wet weather has kept back the plowing for a few days, but every thing is in shipshape now. Garden truck and sugarcane are doing well. In the southern section of the state the weather has been especially favora ble, but corn and cotton are a little backward. Watermelons are forming nicely on the vines and give promise of being more plentiful than was at first expected. Inland rice is fctiU being planted and potato slips are still being set out. * * * Dr. Curry Talks. The Hon. J. L. M. Curry was in Atlanta a few days ago. He is general agent of the Peabody fund as well as the Slater fund, and his movements are invested with unusual interest. In an interview he readily entered into a discussion of the educational problem. “The educational interests of Geor gia,” said Dr. Curry, “are so closely co-related that we cannot consider the one without the other. The head of the educational system in Georgia is the university at Athens, in which I feel the deepest interest as a native Georgian, and as being my alma ma ter. The prejudices of a large class against university education are ill- founded, because higher education is the test of the best civilization. The history of Georgia would be barren, indeed, if stricken of the achievements of the men who were the graduates of Athens university. The legislature of the state should make regular un- nual contributions, not merely to sus tain, but to enlarge the university, and to place it on the advanced foot ing of the foremost colleges of the world. “The public school system is the chief reliance of the state for the edu cation of the people. Comparatively" few people can avail themselves of a college education, but the public schools are the colleges of the people, and the best test of the progress of a people is the provision they have made for the thorough instruction of the masses. The school system of Geor gia, as it appears upon the statute books has many advantages, und if rid of some obvious defects, would be well adapted to the present state of affairs. Tbe special need is to lengthen the school term. The people should not be content with one day less than six months. A serious obstacle to progress has been a failure to pay that salary, which,inadequate in the first instance, becomes doubly so by the long delay in meeting it. “Obviously the most pressing need of all educational institutions in the south is improved training and teach ing. In no department of education has there been so much advance dur ing the last quarter of a century as in the science and art of teaching. We recognize and insist upon the value of scientific training for other professions, such as the bar, the pulpit and medi cine, while we fail to insist upon tech nical training for those who are to train the mind and mould the charac ter of the youth of the land. Euro pean countries, and, in fact, almost nil the other states of tbe union, have set Georgia an example which she cannot too soon follow in establishing normal sohools. There is not a single south ern state, Elorida possibly excepted, which has not done more on this line than Georgia. Two or three years ago, the legislature of this state put upon the statute book a law for the establishment of a normal school at Athens, but singularly enough failed to appropriate a single dollar for its maintenance. The state of Georgia receives twenty or more scholarships at the Peabody institute at Nashville, and these young men and women, on thei,r return, uie doing much to im prove the methods of,education. What Georgia imperatively needs is a nor mal school, well officered for training men and women how to teach. Even with well-endowed normal schools, there would still be teachers who could not avail themselves of their advant ages. Georgia requires one for each county, but gives only $25 for its sup port, and that is too meager to secure the best results. The Peabody fund this year will furnish $2,000 for the support of one or two institutes, and it is desirable that the teachers therein should be trained experts, and that the course of instruction published in ad vance, should be dove-tailed into a sys tem which will be continued for the next year. In this appropriation, which is for the benefit of both races, I am stretching my authority because of my desire to aid Georgia, for the well-established and beneficent object of the Peabody fund hitherto has been to help only those who help them selves.” * * * The Unveiliug of Stephen’s Statue. The unveiling of Alexander Stephen’s monument at Crawfordville on the 23rd instant will be witnessed by thousands of Georgians. The local committee in charge of affairs at Crawfordville have succeeded in making full arrange ments with the railroads for reduced rates that day from all points. The Georgia railroad authorities have showu special favors to the committee and have agreed to run special trains that day both ways. There will be a a truin from Atlanta and one from Augusta to take the people to Craw fordville. In this way the citizens of all intervening points and from the country along the Georgia railroad will have excellent seheules to and from Crawfordville, enabling them to spend the day and return to their home at reasonable and convenient hours. It is going to be a great day at Liberty Hall. That is already clear and evident. Perhaps there was never a man in Georgia so much beloved by the populace as was Stephens. In his own section he was worshiped like a diminutive god. He was so gener ous and so kind that he made warm friends of every one with whom he was thrown in private and public life. It will never be quite fully known how- much good he did. He educated more worthy young men out of his own pocket than any public man who ever honored Georgia witu his service. He sent dozens of them to school and gave many of them collegiate educations. He was never known to turn a weary soulaway from his door. Even the. tramqs, who counted crossties up and; down the Georgia railroad, found a, friend in Stephens and a warm bed; under the roof tree of Liberty Hall. Mr. Stephens had a room in his house called the “Tramp’s room,” and when ever they knocked at the door of Lib erty Hall, no matter if it was in the dead hour of night, the “great com moner” would let them in and usher them up to the tramp’s room, where they were allowed to stay until they resumed their journey to the greater cities. There is no public man’s rec ord like this. Hll these things ren. deared Mr. Stephens to the hearts o: the common people and won for. him golden opinions at the bar of the gen eral public’6 esteem, and all of these things will take thousands to his grave on the 24th instant to witness the un veiling of his image in enduring mar ble. The address will be delivered by ex- Senator Norwood, of Savannah. Gov ernor Northen and all the state house officials will have special invitations to the unveiling, and will be on the stand that day. Hon. Patrick Walsh, of Augusta, will be there and will have a prominent part in the celebration, he having been one of Mr. Stephens’ greatest admirers and closest friends. Many prominent Georgians will be seated on the stand, and the pro gramme that is being arranged by the governing committee of the memorial association will be one full of interest to the throngs of people who will crowd around the grave of Stephens that day. All over Georgia the people are talking about it. It is with grati fication and genuine pleasure that they think of the success of the effort to raise sufficient funds to build a monument to the great Georgian. The work has been moving slowly along ever since the death of Mr. Stephens, for while nearly every citizen of Geor gia was not only willing, but pleased to contribute something to the fund, these somethings have been in small contributions and scattered pretty generally all over the state. Many of the lists ofVoUirt lolls cWiw contributions of amounts ranging from 10 cents up to $1. Thus it is seen how slow and tedious has been the work of raising the several thous ands of dollars necessary to build the monument. The money comes from thousands of pockets. But the monu ment is a splendid piece of work and a fine specimen of art. It is a good likeness of Mr. Stephens and very sat isfactory to the public generally. Cit izens of Crawfordville and neighbor ing vicinity are preparing to entertain the visitors right handsomely.—At lanta Constitution. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development During the Past Week. A review of the industrial situation in the south for the p-ist week shows the organization of the Imperial Phosplm e Jliuiug Company at Gamtsville, Fla., with $500,000 capital; of the rebuilding at Louisville, Ky., of the works of the Lonisvillj Steam and Electric Motor Com pany, at a cost of $300,000. of the organization of a cotton mill company with $100,000 capital at New Orleans, La., by T. J. Semmes and as sociates. and of a cotton mill company also with $100,000 capital at Shelby, N. C.; of tlie building of a tobacco factory to cost $50,000, at Atlanta, Ga., by N. S. Loyd, and others. The organiza ion of the N w York Mining Company, at Batesvillo. Ark., with $10,000 capital; of the Texas Electrical Burglar and Fire Alarm Companv, at Austin, Texas, capital $30,000; of the Kmfman Cotton Seed Oil Con. pany, capital $30,000, at Kaufman, Texas; of ihe l iedmont Belt Mining Company, at Bock Hill, S. C., capital $25,000, and of the Palmetto Soap Manufacturing Company, capital $25,000, at Charleston, S. 0. Forty new industries were established or in corporated during the week, together with six enlargements of manufactories, and thirty-one new buildings. Among the new industries not above referred to are brick works at Union. S. 0., and Big Stone Gap, Va., canning factories at Hefln, Ala., Jacksonville, Fla., Lavonia and J homasville, Ga.; flour and grist mills at En terprise, N. C., Clinton and NaBhville. Tenn., and glass works at Chattanooga, Tenn., Moundsvilie and Wheeling, W. Va. A coal and coke company is reported at Charleston, W. Va., a mattress factory at Hillsboro, Texas, and ex celsior works at Natchez, Miss., anti cotton mills are to be built at Little Bock, Ark., and Charlotte. N. C. Among the woodworking plants of tin week are a cooperage on a large scale at Springdale, Ark., a handle factory at Greenlicld. Tenn., saw and planing mills at Portia, Ark., Long- wood, Fla., Atlanta, Ga., Croatau, N. C., and Liviugston, Tt xas, and stave and shingle mills at Johnson City, Tenn., Houston and Jeffer son, Texas. Waterworks are to be built at Morganfield, Ky., and enlarged at Fort Gaines, Ga. The enlargements for the week include flouring mill at Fall Creek, Tenn., a sugar mill at Ba you Goula, La., a tannery at Shelby, N. C., cotton mills at Arkadelphia, Ark., and Enter prise, N. C., and a woodworking plant at Bock land, Texas. The new buildings for the week include a bank building at Little Bock, Ark., business houses at Mobile and Montgomery, Ala., Ocala, Fla., New Orleans, Li., Sherman and Houston, Tox., Sweetwater, Toun., and Norfolk, Va.; a $100,000 courthouse at Fairmont, W. Va.; a $24,0J0 dislillery at Coving'on. Ky.; a $50,000 hotel at Kittrell, N. G.; jails at Tuskecgee, Ala., and Welch, W. Va.; a $25,000 Masonic bnii 1 ng at V\ heeliug, W. Va ; and a public bniiding to cost $100,000 at Nashville, Tenn.—■ tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) Sending Whiting and Photographs over an Electric Wire.—Aa exhibi tion of the workings of the Gray telauto graph was given to newspaper men at the office ofthe company on the seventh floor of No. 80 Broadway, New York, last Tuesday. The invention is differ ent from the telephone in that the latter transmits speech, while this later device enables a sender to write at one end of any complete circuit and his handwriting is reproduced in fac-simile at the other; thus the sender and re ceiver each has a record of every message and reply. If the receiver is absent when the message is sent he will find the message on his return. One advan tage is the secrecy which its work insures. The sender sits in his office; he calls up the central office and asks to be put in communication with a certain number. This done he writes upon a scroll on the top of the instrument, and as he writes his handwriting and signa ture are reproduced upon a similar scroll placed before the receiver at the other end. Meanwhile the operator in the Central is ignorant of what is passing be tween the persons in communication. An artist in like manner can transmit a sketch. An ordinary lead pencil is used by the sender. The receiving pen at the other end of the circuit moving simulta neously with the pencil of the sender, is a capillary glass tube, placed at the junc tion of two aluminium arms. The pen is supplied with ink which flows from a reservoir through a small rubber tube placed in one of these arms. Elisha Gray, of Highland Park, 111., is the in ventor. T. M. Logan, of New York, is President of the Company. The factory is at Highland I ark, 111. A sort of mythology has grown u| about the American Indian in region! whence he vanished 109 years ago. Thi popular names of many plants includt the adjective Indian. Few persons it America say Indian corn now, but In dian cakes is a term still strongly in trenched south of Mason and Dixon’i line, and there is even a plant known t< children as Indian tobacco. The bril liant canna is called Indian shot, becaust its seeds are black, bullet-like pellets. Indian traditions are preserved with s sort of reverence in the truth. Twenty- five years ago local travelers on a certain road in Worcester county, Md., common ly stopped at a point in the remoti country, reached under a bush at tht roadside, drew forth a stone mortar and pestle used by the Indians 100 years before, showed the relics to any strangei in the company, and carefully put them back. A whole neighborhood knew the whereabouts of these instruments, but .they Beemed as safe as In a museum. WOMAN’S CONGRESS. BUSINESS OUTLOOK. Representatiyes Iron Every Section ot The Largest Gathering of the Daugh ters of Eve Ever Knowu. Over twelve thousand women under one roof, was the record of the attend ance at the women’s congress at the World’s fair Wednesday. It is 6aid that this is the largest gathering of women ever known. Should the audience continue to grow, the eight halls now in use at the great art palace on the lake front will be entirely inadequate and addi tional accommodations will of necessity have to be provided. Besides the general congress held in three divisions, there were five department-congresses in session during the day and at night— the National Christian League for the promotion of social purity, Woman’s Christinn Temperance Union, Inter national Kindergarten Union, Woman’s National Indian Association and Nation al Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty. At all these ses sions the audiences were large and en thusiastic.' Women from Spain, Greece, France, Switzerland, Peru and Russia told of the efforts made in those countries to obtain the emancipation of women from the harsh conditions imposed on her by the laws of the eighteenth century. Isabel Bogelot, of France; Calliheree Parren, of Greece; Sleona Karla Machova, of Bohemia; Kaethe Schifmacher, of Germanv; Jane Cob- den Unwin, of England, and Lady Aberdeen, of Scotland, were among the speakers. Every English speaking na tion and colony was represented by one or more distinguished daughters, and from each country in Europe, except Turkey, a woman had come to tell the world’s congress of the trials she and her sisters at home were enduring in the cause of woman’s advancement. The report of the congresses, of which there were two, were also devoted to the reception of reports from the five foreign woman’s associations repre sented at the congress. Some of these organizations are powerful bodies with a large membership. In the afternoon social receptions were given the delegates to congress by several of the leading society ladies of Chicago. The main sessions of the congress during the day were devoted to the representatives of the foreign nations. The audiences, which were the largest by far of the convention to date, listened to reports of the progress of women politically and industrially in other lands. Wednessday night speeches from act resses were in order. Modjeska, Julia Marlowe and Clara Morris addressed the convention, and all were greeted with enthusiastic applause. Mme. Modjeska, who began her address by recounting the history of women on the stage down to the present day, closed by saying that the women of the stage were tnore independent and, as to morals, fully the equal of their sisters off the stage. BRUNSWICK BANKS FAIL. The President of One of Them Com mits Suicide. Mr. Max Ullman, the president of the Oglethorpe National bank, at Brunswick, Ga., suicided Thursday morning by shooting himself in the head. A few minutes after nine o’clock President Ullman and Mr. W. E. Bur bage, president of the First National bank, were engaged in earnest conver sation about the condition of the two banks, Mr. Burbage being a director and stockholder in the Oglethorpe, while Ullman had like relations with the First. Mr. Ullman, stating that he wished to step in the back room for a moment, did so, closing the door be hind him. In an instant, the report of a pistol was heard and the bank offi cials present, rushing in, found their former president with a pistol in his hand and a bullet hole in his head. The doors of the bank were closed and payment of checks suspended, and the bank examiner wired to come and take charge of the institution. A meeting of the board of directors of the First Nutional bank was imme diately called by President Bnrbage, and, after a brief consultation, it was decided to suspend business and put the bank in the hands of the United States bank examiner, and he at once telegraphed to that effect. This action was taken by the First National be cause of the relations of the two banks and the certainty of a run. The First National made a statement Wednesday showing only $7,000 on hand. The Oglethorpe made a state ment on Tuesday showing only $4,000 in cash. This caused a run, and, in fact, the condition of the two institu tions had been rumored on the streets for several weeks, and many of their heaviest depositors had been gradually withdrawing their money. This, cou pled with the closeness of the money market and the inability to get assist ance from New Y’ork or elsewhere, ren dered the closing of the two banks ! necessary. The county treasurer had sixteen thousand on deposit with the Ogle thorpe, and it is said that the inability of President Ullman to give County Treasurer Lamb personal security was one of the main causes that led him to suicide, The other banks in the city are in no way affected, and their depositors do not entertain any fear and are mak ing no run. Mr. Ullman was one of the most prominent business men in that sec tion of the state. He was president of the Oglethorpe and of the Brunswick Brewing and Ice Company, was a mem ber of the firm of Mayer A Ullman and a stockholder in many other corpora tions. The officials of the closed bank say that depositors will be paid dollar for dollar. Ullman’s life was insured for $66,- 000. The only companies and amounts known at present are the New York Life, $25,000; Pennsylvania Mutual, $25,000; Mutual Life, $10,000; Ameri can Legion and Honor, $5,000. to Condition of Trade According Bradstreet and Dun & Co. Bradstreet’s trade report says: Despite the favorable effect of a week of bright, warm weather, the condi tion of general trade has not im proved. There has been no change in the condition in southern trade, except the depression due to threatened over flows in the lower Mississippi valley. In the central west and northwest there has been some improvement due to opening of lake navigation and bet ter weather. But the region included between Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City and Omaha, and tributary to those points is feeling the effects of cold, wet weather, delayed seeding, extreme conservatism by country buyers and a further restriction of credits. At nearly all centers, warm weather has stimulated the demand for lumber and other building materials, hardware, shoes and hats. Stocks of print cloths are growing heavier east and prices recede. Steel billets, Bessemer pig iron, wool, cattle, hogs, lard and other staples are also lower, against which advances are confined to sugar, due to the reduction in the European crop outlook and to wheat. Bank clearings are in line with these conditions. Official reports of imports for nine months show 14 per cent increase in JiiSUVST titT'-pfdCfiding year, while the decrease in value of dSEK’Sijfi. ex ports was 20 per cent. Increased im portations of luxuries explain only one-sixth of the total increase in value, while the reduced value of the exports of breadstuff's, cotton, cattle, fruits, seeds and petroleum accounts for the heavy falling off in shipments abroad. Recent bank failures have increased the sensitiveness in financial circles. Money is no easier east or west, where lines of discount are full. Chicago banks are taking care of their best customers. In nearly every direction the financial institutions are drawing lines of credit. Business failures exceed the totals in previous years. Railroad gross earnings for April aggregate over $41, 000,000; 3.5 per cent, more than for the corresponding month of 1892, whereas in preceediag years, the like increase ranged from 8 to 12 per cent. Exports of wheat, flour included, from all American ports including Montreal, aggregate 2,712,000 bushels this week, a total of about equal to the last week but about 900,000 bushels less than in the like week last year. .Notwithstand ing 100,000,000 bushels of wheat at home, and Canada with 73,000,000 bushels afloat for and in Europe, re ports of widespread damage to crops abroad, with delayed planting and damage at home have served to ad vance prices. Summer weather and the opening of navigation at Montreal have stimu lated trade, but the season is shorten ing. Canadian banks are curtailing cred its further. The situation at Toronto has improved slightly, owing to the weather, but export prices are low and the export demand is disappointing. General trade in Nova Scotia con tinues quiet, owing to the late cold weather, and collections are slow. WHAT DUN AND CO. SAT. R. G. Dun and Co. ’s weekly review of trade says: The smash in the In dustrials stocks a week ago, the fail ure of some firms and of the National Cordage Company and the largest de cline in stock in a week since 1873, have been followed by surprisingly little disturbance. Business shows re markable soundness and strength under such a strain. Bank failures at Chicago and Indianapolis, and rumors of others, reflect large losses through Chicago speculation in real estate and grain and at Indianapolis through the failure of the Premier Steel Company, but commercial credits are not yet materi ally affected. Interior money markets are growing lighter and more cautious, but no such stringency is yet seen in stock, general trade in which appears to have improved. Quiet liquidation continues at Philadelphia. Collections are slow and in the iron trade some hesi tation is seen. Iron has grown weaker at Pittsburg with a slower demand feu: manufactured products, but the glass trade is fair. Better weather helps dry goods at Cincinnati. At Cleve land trade is good to fair. Uneasiness is caused at Indianapolis by the fail ure of steel works and a bank, and money is close. At Detroit collections and prospects are a little better, The volume of trade at Chicago is satisfac tory, though somewhat disturbed by financial troubles and retail dis tribution is not up to expectations. There is a heavy demand for money and accommodations are some what difficult, collections being slow. Receipts of wheat are very large— 35.0 per cent above last year’s. Mil waukee reports close collections and scarce. At Minneapolis trade im proves. The flour output is large with heavy foreign sales. St Paul re ports heavy seeding, favorable weather and improving trade. The volume at St. Louis is heavy, shoe factories working extra time, and trade in dry goods is excellent with easy collec tions. At Kansas City business is quiet; at Omaha good, and at St. Joseph improving with money easy. Slight improvement is seen at Denver. At Little Rock and river southern points the danger of high water retards trade. Collections are fairly good in Tennessee and Alabama, with quiet trade, rather slower at At lanta, somewhat improved at Augusta and fair at Savannah, where trade in naval stores is active. At Mobile trade is active, at Charleston brisk, though lower trade is unsettled by the new law. The yverflowing of lowlands in the Yazoo Delta arrests collections and trade in that region. A DISASTROUS STORM Always keep posted on nil public nut ters, to be able to do this subscribe now. Sweeps Through Ohio Causing Irre parable Damage to Property. The worst storm ever known visited Conneau, Ohio, and vicinity Tuesday night. Communication east and south was entirely cut off by destruction of bridges. The nickle-plato bridge at Conneaut is undermined and has been condemded. No trains are running on the road. The Peach street bridge at Erie went down shortly after the passage of the passenger train Tuesday evening. The lake-shore docks at Ash tabula are six feet under water, and sixteen vessels are likely to be driven into the lake. THE ANIMALS OF CiliCU8E8. A FAMOUS SHOWMAN TELLS SOME MENAGERIE SECRETS. The Elephants, Lions anil the Cat Species Are the Best Stock to Handle—Monkeys Are Delicate. J AMES A. BAILEY, the foremost showman of this country and the principal owner of the Barnuoi ifc Bailey Circus, gave the following interesting facts in regard to his menag erie, to a New York Tribune reporter, the otl er day: “The lions and the animals of the cat species, such as tigers, leopards ani pla thers, are the best stock to handle. Con sidering that most of them some from the tropics, they stand the c tanges of our climate remarkably well. As a ride they will li7e a dozen years in captivity, and often much longer. I have know.i of lions to live in the cages for twenty- five or thirty years. Tigers, leopards and panthers are not far behind tbe lions, either. 'Well-grown lions and tigers in a sound condition are worth from $390 to $1200 each. If you can buy iions or tigers in pairs they are. a good invest ment, as they reproduce so frequently. A good tigress will produce two litters of four in a year, and generally one-half of them can be successfully raised and sold at good prices. Leopards and pan thers are given to eating their young, or at least to killing them. “You have to be mighty cireful with your' lions; -tigers, panthers and leopards, though, for while tkej are hardy, disease makes short work with them if. it ouce gots hold of them. Pneumonia is their greatest enemy. Colds, developing into lung troubles, kill by far the most of them. During our London engagement we lost five leopards in three weeks. Post-mortem examinations showed that they all died of cold which had settled on the lungs. “It is necessary to keep a close watch on the appetites of these animals, too, for if they get off on their feed you are likely to lose them. Zoos generally feed their animals on horse meat, but both at the winter quarters and on the road we give them good beef. It pays to do it. If they begin to show a distaste for their food we give them a little hot, fresh blood to drink. If that does not stimu late them we drop a few live chickens, turkeys or rabbits into their cages and let them slaughter them. That gener ally brings them around all right. “So far as hardiness and longevity go, elephants are even better stock than the lions and cat animals. They are not much good as an investment, though, for they seldom reproduce in captivity. So far as I positively know, the one that was Dorn with our show several years ago, aud is in our herd yet, though it is not now much of a baby in size, is the only one bom and successfully raised in captivity. “They arc an exceedingly-useful ani mal and are not much trouble. They will stand almost anything and seldom get sick. Up in our winter quarters and on the road they are very useful for U3 in pushing cars around and hauling heavy loads. It was not many years ago when the elephant was considered the chief attraction of the show, and the worth of a show was reckoned by the number ot elephants it had in its herd. Now they are a drug on the market. I have lent them to zoos and have been glad to get rid of them. I sold ten and sent them to Europe a few years ago. “A good elephant here is worth from $1500 to $3000, according to his age, size, temper and intelligence. In Europe prices run a little higher at present. A finely trained elephant will bring a much higher price, but those who own such generally do not want to part with them. There is no telling how long an elephant will live as a circus attraction. I never knew one to die a natural death. If they do not get killed in an accident or in a fire they eventually become sav age and dangerous and have to be killed. “Monkeys are mighty poor stock to handle, but they are so cheap that we hardly keep any account of them. A dozen of them are liable to drop over from pneumonia any day if a draught happens to blow through their cage. They do well enough in winter quarters, where the temperature is even, but we seldom bring back half a3 many as we start out on the road with. Tney are subject to all sorts of digestive dis orders, too, and people feed them with all sorts of stuff calculated to produce these disorders, in spite of the vigilance of Keepers. “Often we have to replenish our stock of monkeys in the middle of a season. There are plenty of dealers in New York from whom we can get them. They buy them of sailors generally. As for chim- pauzee3, I would not have one in the menagerie, for, although they are great attractions, they are far too delicate to make it profitable to invest in them. No, monkeys are so hard to keep alive that the wise showman contents himself with letting rare species alone. “An animal the people like to see and that is good stock for the showman, is the kangaroo. They are cheap. In Aus tralia there are still huge droves of them, and the natives capture them very easily, with dogs trained to seize them by their long tails. Tbe kangaroo’s tail, you know, is his rudder and balancing pole. Without it his huge hind legs are likely to carry him anywhere except where he wants to go. So when a half-dozen of these Australian dogs get hold of the kangaroo’s big, flat tail he 13 completely at the mercy of his captors. Tney live many years in captivity and reproduce so often that we have to sell off the stock occasionally. “One of the best animals for show purposes is the giraffe, but he is the mo3t delicate animal we carry around. I have only one, but it is worth $5000, a3 is any good specimen. Colds and stomach troubles are the giraffe’s ailments. When it is sick it refuses food. The antelopes are expensive animals, but, with the ex ception of the eland, they are a hardy lot and will live around the circus until they get toothless and blind. “You would perhaps think that an ostrich, the hardiest of all birds, would be the easiest to keep in captivity, but they are very risky. You know they will eat anything from an oyster shell to a piece of lead pipe. Well, they are al ways getting their stomachs out of order, and when they are sick if you do not roil food up in balls and cram it down their throat3 they will starve themselves to death. I bought eleven of them for $309 each. We trained them to run races, but they died off. I have only onejiow. “On the ihinoceros and the hippopot amus we can count as surely as we can the elephants. Once in awhile they will reproduce, but tne young are sosus ceptible to cold that it is very larely one is raised. If my hippopotamus should d:«i I do not believe I coul-i get another in this country. They ate getting mighty sc tree. “Bears are a3 goo 1 stock as weean buy, as they are easily kept and not sub ject to disease. The North American grizzly, thoug —he real article—is get ting scarce. I would like to get one. The only one I know of is in California. I offered his owner $1099 cash for him, but he would not talk of selling him. You see plenty of so-called grizzlies around. They are no; the real articlo though, but of the silver-tippe 1 variety, worth $359 each for the best specimens. Other bears are cheap eaough.”—New York Tribune. WISE MO IDS. The heart that has not suffered has nol loveJ. Condemning other people will not ‘justify us. Eternity will make the good better aud the bad worse. Mark this: You don’t have to be disa greeable to be good. If there is good in us it will be sure to inspire good in others. Fear to die till you have done soma good that will always live. The man who worships a golden calf is burning incense to himself. There is nothing easier to believe than a pleasing lie about ourselves. There is no bigger coward than the man who is afraid to do right. Tne st rougest man in the world is tha one who cka best control himself. Whatever sin has caused in the hu man race, it will cause in you if not given up. The man who deprives liis brother of a right is no better than the one who robs his house.—Ram’s Horn. Music and Heroism. More than any other of the arts music is capable of one particular interpreta tion—that of heroism, writes Camille Bellaigne. Its worst detractors have not been able to deny that it inspires courage. The military value of music is the first that strikes the attention, but it is not the only value. Its heroes are distinguished not only by extraordinary bravery in war, but by force of charac ter, of virtue, of greatness of soul sel dom met. Perhaps it is to veil the hor rors of war that music has always been united with it. Music is more natural to combat than religion or love. It is easier to worship or to love silently than to kill. Savage and civilized races alike are nerved for battle by music. It has a mysterious and double power, it calms and excites, it lulls suffering and quick ens courage. Animals are sensible to music alone of the arts. It is not the noise, the sound, which makes the impression, but the music; that is, sound regulated and modified by certain laws. And of these laws i< seem3 that the most necessary to the ex pression of war-like sentiment is rhythm. The trumpet is par excellence the instru- ment of warfare. The music of war may be traced as fat back into the past as war can itself; military music, properly so called, be gan to be organized by Louis XIIL, but it is from the French Revolution that the true beginning of heroic music dates. The Frencn Conservatory was formed by a Captain of the National Guard and musician, Serette. His little orchestra first taught the “Marseillaise” to the trooDS, who in turn taught it to the world. ' By it the world was revolu tionized. Of all National songs the “Marseillaise” is the most heroic. The heroic lie3 in its rhythm, which is of a mar.ced particularity, staiting as it does with aa upward beat. All the impulse of the composition confers in its pecu liar accented measures.—Brooklyn Cit- A Cane in Eleven Hundred Pieces. William E. Yale, a wealthy Brooklyn (N. Y.) bachelor, is a remarkable trav eler, and his delight is historical study. He has a cane that he carries with him, which is undoubtedly the most C03tly and unique of anything of the kind in the world. The stick contains about 1100 pieces of wood. Each piece is cut in a curious and artistic shape, so that the cane with the various colored and shaped woods has a strange appearance. Mr. Yale planned and made the cane, and work upon it consumed weeks of labor at different times in the course of several years. Sixty of the 1100 pieces of wood are of great value to relic hunters. The head ot the cane is made from a post in the house of Shakespeare’s birtfiplace at Stratford, England. Set in the head is a small lock of white hair from Martha Washington’s head, the lock having been given Mr. Yale thirty years ago by Robert E. Lee, a descendant of Mrs. Washington. There is a Diece of wood from the birthplace of Napoleon, on the Island of Corsica, and one from Napoleon’s writ ing desk at St. Helena. Other pieces of the cane came from the Charter Oak, from the home of John Adams, from a chair of Oliver Cromwell, from the home of Julia Hancock, from the Mayflower, Roger Williams’s pew, from a desk of Abraham Lincoln, from a penholder of Gladstone, from a rule that Garfield U3ed at school, from a penholder of Longfellow, from a trunk that Lafay ette used during the Revolutionary War, from the bed upon which John Wesley died and from the guillotine upon which Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were beheaded. Mr. Yale spent years and much care in collecting the reli03. He has been offered $2000 for tha cane, which is truly a wonder. He will leave it to the historical department of Cornell University when he die3. r Washington's Last Letter. What is regarded as “absolutely tha last” letter penned by George Washing ton was sold in Philadelphia. Wednes day, for $350. The purchaser was tho Historical Society of Pennsylvania. George W. Childs has what was long supposed to be the last letter written by the Father of his Country, as it was composed six day3 before his death, but the letter sold the other day was written onlv twenty-four hours before General Washington’s decease. It is dated “Mount Vernon, 13ch December, 1799, and gives very unromontic directions about matters connected with the man agement of his farm. — Detroit Frefl Press. The Chinaman praiseth his Fs, The mandarin praiseth his Q, The gardener praiseth his turnips and But I praise U. The mariner loveth the Cs, The biiliardist loveth his Q, The husbandman loveth his cattle and B’s, But I love U. The foolish have need of the Y’s, The actor needeth his Q, The pilot hath need of two excellent l’s, But I need U. The hunters seeketh the J’s, The shepherd seeketh his (J; The college boys seek their final “3-A’s,” But ICQ. —St. Nicholas. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A curious woman—One who is not.— Uife. A hoilow mockery—The woodland :cho.—Truth. A force pump—The cross-examining ittorney.—Truth. A limn of the law—Painting the de fendant black.—Truth. It is only in school that low grades make uphill work.—Chicago lntcr- Ocean. Nature covers herself with a plaster of mud to cure that tired feeling in the spring.—Pack. Some men aie too mean to be happy and others too happy to be mean. — Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze. “Who is to be chaperon!” “Mr?. Talkington.” “What foolishness I Why, she is a sufferer from insomnia.” “I wonder why she gave him the mit ten?” “Oh, that was natural outcome of the yarns he gave her!”—Truth. When a man is “beside himselt” lie generally demonstrates that he doesn’t like the company.—Boston Courier. When a woman is trying to write a letter on a half sheet of paper, much may be said on both sides.—Texas Sift ings. If a woman can succeed in making her husband proud of her she can gee almost anything she wants.—Dallas News. A carpet tack is about the only thing that has the “big head” an 1 still makes a success of life.—Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze. Where’s the profit when spring makes us happy and gay if it make ali the microbes feel just the same way?— Washington Star. The woman of limited means who is always well dressed either devotes her entire income or her entire intellect to her clothes.—Life. Mabel—“I wouldn't marry the best man in the world.” Jacques—“Alas, you have made me the uohappie3t of men.”—Boston Courier. Every man thinks that modesty for bids his telling you what he considers the cleverest thing in the way of a story ever told.—Washington Star. Many a woman who resolves when she is married to make over her husband, ends by being content to make over her bonnets.—Dansville (N. Y.) Breeze. And now with rod and line and hook, Tlie fisherman so bold, Will go and sit do.va by tbe brook ' Anil catcli a fearful cold. —Kansas City Journal. “I haven’t any of the liquid quality that musicians talk about,” said the bass drum, “but I can drown out the rest of the baud, just the same.”—Washington Star. Mrs. Byer—“Those are nice looking eggs.” Grocer (enthusiastically)—“Yes, indeed; they’re birds!” And then he wondered why she didn’t buy any.— Troy Press. “It’s curious,” mused Bjorkins, “ho;v this law of compensation run3 through everything. Fot example, wherever there is a well off aunt you will always find a sychophant.”—Chicago Tribune. “So I should make you very happy by accepting you, count?” “Happy? Ah, mademoiselle, I should die wiz zie hap piness.” “Really, count? Y'ou almost tempt me to say ‘Ye3’ ”—Brooklyn Life. The pen is mightier than the sword. This maxim let wise people hurl. But take them together and tney are no match For one pretty typewriter girl. —Chiea ;o Incer-Oosan. : At a Dinner Party: Mistress—“But, Mary, how often must I tell you always to serve od the left?” Mary (from the country)—“Oh, madam, but isn’t that meiely a superstition.”—Fiigende Biaet- ter. “Well, Councillor, I hope you en joyed yourself at my house last evening.” “Indeed I did, midame. As a rule, when I drink tea I can not sleep after it, but your tea had not the least effect on i ne .”—Fiiegende Blaetter. Hawker—“My wife and I had it out itrain this morning a3 to who should start tbe fire.” Jepson—“ Which won?” Hawker—“Neither. Before we finished the argument became so hot my wife got up and cooked breakfast on it.”—Troy Press. Mrs. Grey neck—“3o George i3 en gaged?” Mrs. Taugletongue —“Yes; he'll be married in June.” Mrs. Grey- neck—“I hope he has a youag lady in every way worthy of him.” Mrs. Tangle- tongue—“Oh, yes, I think I can safely say that I am satislied in every way with his fiasco.”—Boston Courier. The Milan Cathedral. The cathedral of Milan, which is re garded by many as the fins3t church structure in Europe, and therefore in the world, with the single exception of St. Peter’s, at Rome, ha3 several cracks in the roof of its main nave, which are slowly widening, and it is feared threaten the collapse of the entire roof. The work of building this cathedral was begun in 1336, more than 500 years ago, and it is not yet entirely completed. It is to be hoped it will not fall down from old age before it is finished.—Caicago Times. A Un’qae Reading Club. A new club for reading and the en- coura fr emoat of good literature is the Half "Hour Club. Its members pledge themselves to read half au hour each day, with tbs exception of a two weeks’ holi day in the year. A fine of one cent marks each day's loss in reading. Tue proceeds of the dues are devoted '.o the purchase of prizes for toe most industri ous aud most capable readers.—Boston Journal. Rice was introduced from the East Indies in 1695.