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THE HELP THAT COMES TOO LATE.
Tig a wearisome world, this world of oure,
"With its tangles small and great,
Its weeds that smother the springing flowers.
And its hapless strifes with fate,
Bit the darkest day of its desolate day3
*fl@*S#the help that comes too late.
Ah ! woe for the word that is never said
Till the ear Is deaf to hear,
And woe for the lack of the fainting head
Of the ringing shout of cheer ;
Ah 1 woe for the laggard feet that tread
In the mournful wake of the bier.
What booteth help when the heart is numb?
What booteth a broken spar
Of love thrown out when the lips are dumb,
And life's barque drifteth far,
Oh ! far and fast from the alien past,
Over the moaning bar?
A pitiful thing the gift to-day
That is dross and nothing worth ;
Though if it had come but yesterday,
It has brimmed with sweet the earth,
A fading rose in a death-cold hand,
Th,.t perished in want and dearth.
Who fain would holp in this world of oure,
Where sorrowful steps must fall,
Bring help in time to the waning powers,
Ere tho bier is spread with the pall;
Nor send reserves when the flags are furled,
And the dead beyond your call.
For baffling most in this dreary world,
With its tangles small and great;
Its lonesome nights and its weary days,
And its struggles forlorn with fate,
Is that bitterest grief, too deep for tears,
Of the help that comes too late.
—Margaret E. Sangster, in Harper's Bazar.
A FAIR EXCHANGE,
E. AND MES.
Harem were farm
ers i n Bockport.
Mrs. Harem sat in
a little rocker, hem
ming the last tlisli
towel of the pile be
fore her. She looked
around her kitchen,
surveying the newly
painted floor, the
new range and
glanced beyond into
the dining-room
with its new appoint
ments. She also,
with her mind’s eye, surveyed with
equal complacency several rooms
around and above her.
The old house had been changed.
The roof had been raised one story.
To tell the truth, it had been raised
several times in a small domestic way
before timbers mado an appearance
and her demands were recognized.
Mr. Harem objected to change, but
Mrs. Harem was determined to have
it. She said she “wanted to see some
thing of the world.” This to her meant
enlarging the old house and taking city
boarders.
Now everything was ready and it was
expected the first couple would make
their advent the next day. Mrs. Harem
was ready for them, even to the nice
loaf cake reposing in a tin pail, safely
hidden from Jake, the chore boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Harem, though old in
years, were still industrious, healthy
people, and both had the reputation of
being spry. Mrs. Harem, in partic
ular, had a reputation of possessing
“faculty” in a great degree, which
meant the adjustment of her affairs
toward securing bread and bank stock.
“Now, Josiah,” she began, “I don’t
see no artlriy reason why we shouldn’t
make money this summer. What with
my spring chickens, an’ aigs, an’ but
ter, an’ your vegetables an’ milk, an’
berries for the pickin’, should think
we’d orter do well. An’ all them bosses
o’ yourn can be put to account, an’ if
you’ll jest let me kev the managin’,
I’ll resk but it'll all come out right!”
and she laid down her scissors with a
click.
“Wftl, Sallie, you kin hev it all your
own way. I’m jest goin’ to wash my
hands of tho hull business. I’ll agree
to take orders from yon jest as if I was
a hired man an’ let you run the con-
Barn, ’ceptin’ my work on the farm;
course you won’t meddle with that;
an’ I’ve got a likely feller cornin’ to
night an’ he will be at your disposal,
too, so I don’t see but you air well
fixed. If you’ll only charge ’em enough
you’ll get on!”
“Let me alone fer that, Josiah!”
she replied, significantly. “I’m goin’
to hev a good price, an’ no hosses
thrown in either!”
When the stage arrived next day it
brought the expected guests, Mrs.
Simson, her sister, Miss Abigail
Haynes, and a young lady, Miss Macy
Beeves, a niece.
“So we are the first to arrive?” said
Mrs. Simson.
“Yes, but I expect another ter-
morrer, a young man who used to
know us well. His folks nsed ter live
'round here, but they air all dead an'
gone, an’ he had a fancy to come up
here to spend a couple o’ weeks, so I
said he could come.”
The next day the gentleman, Cleval
Ashby, arrived. As he did not seem
socially inclined, Mrs. Simson did not
regard him with anxiety.
The house rapidly filled, and before
the week had passed the full number
of twelve were comfortably established
and all seemed contented. We wish
to give you a particular introduction
to Miss Macy Beeves. She was of
medium height, slight, graceful, with
a good, sensible face, lighted by honest
brown eyes; a well-poised head,
crowned with an abundance of yellow
hair. She looked ill and nervous, the
result of a fright at a fire. She seemed
languid.
Cleval Ashby was tall, dark
muscular, with piercing dark eyes;
a man of marked individualities, good
and reliable. He knew all the brooks,
hills and glens for miles around and
took great pleasure in going over the
old haunts.
Although not particularly attracted
to ladies’ society, he was attracted to
Macy and mentally resolved to study
her in a qmet way.
Macy, on her part, who had come
there fancy free, thought Mr. Ashby
different from the ordinary young
man and resolved to study him; so
each was kept busy, unconscious of
the surveillance of the other, and be
came very friendly.
Early one morning Macy strolled to
the lower end of the orchard and
climbed into an old apple tree, whose
branches were easily accessible. She
carried a small portfolio, and, having
seated herself comfortably, proceeded
to write as follows:
‘ ‘Brookside Farm, August 5.
“Drab Max—I know you will be
vtxed with me because I have only
written you short notes. To tell the
truth, I fell ill when I came, but now
I feel like chatting with you and tell
ing you all about who, which, what
and where.
“This is really a comfortable place
and the inhabitants thereof are very
much like other folks, with one excep
tion. We are twelve, all told; only
three men, one of whom is very much
sought after.
“One is an invalid—is almost near
the end of his life, I think—the sec
ond, though not nearly so ill, is so
cross I should think all his folks would
be glad when he is gone over. Now,
that sounds hard, but why need people
be so disagreeable?
“Of the ladies, Mrs. A— is wealthy
aDd wants every one to know it. She
thinks money is all.
“Mrs. B— is in reduced circum
stances. There seems to be a flavor
of better dayB about her. She makes
the best spread of what is left, though.
‘ ‘Miss K— is a lady of uncertain
age. If she would get a good match
on her false hair she would look bet
ter. She simpers and always wants a
gentleman around to kill the snakes
and bugs when we go picnicking.
“Mrs. F— is bony, angular and
suspicious, always watching to see if
somebody isn’t doing something in
judicious. Fan and I give her plenty
of opportunity, for we always manage
to act onr worst when her green eyes
are watching ns. Fan is a distant rela
tive of Mr3. C—, another lady here.
She is so fat and asthmatic she can’t
go anywhere or do anything except
read and knit. She is really good. I
like her and I like Fan sometimes. She
is a bit free and sentimental, but then
she is only seventeen.
Miss L—, a school teacher, we do
not often see. She seems tired and
sleeps a great deal. Should think she
would want to take a regular Bip Van
Winkle nap. It must be hard work to
teach. I don’t think teachers are half
appreciated.
“The exception I spoke of is Cleval
Ashby. He is a very peculiar young
man, twenty-eight years old, perhaps.
One day he is sober and dignified as a
judge. Then he seems about forty.
Next day he frolics like a boy. Then
he seems eighteen. He is really nice,
but sometimes I feel quite afraid of
him, and then again I could say any
thing to him.
“Certainly he is reliable; any one
would say that. He knows all the
pleasant places here, for he nsed to
live here when a boy; so we’ll all rely
upon him as a guide. Now, you
needn’t think 1 am going to go and
fall in love with him; not a bit of it.
I wouldn’t dare; besides, he doesn’t
care very much for ladies’ society, and
he never would think of a silly little
thing like me.
“Now you know all about us, and I
will keep you informed if you feel an
interest. Thine. M. ”
She folded this and then discovered
her envelopes were at the house. She
descended from her perch to return to
the house. As she came down the let
ter fell unnoticed by her side, and she
walked on, leaving the missive behind
her.
Meanwhile, down beyond the “south
medder,” Mr. Cleval Ashby, tired of
angling, stretched himself under an
old pine tree, and using bis hat for a
desk scratched off the following epistle:
‘ ‘Beookside Farm, Aug. 5.
“Dear Old Bov—I deserve no end
of censure for my silence, but the fact
is I have felt disinclined to write even
you. You will know there must be a
special reason. Yon know I promised
to tell you if anything special ever
happened to me. Well—I own up-
confess the soft impeachment and all
that. I am fairly caught and no mis
take. There never was another before
and there never will bo again. ‘She
is all my fancy painted her,’ etc., but
she is unattainable as the moon. Have
been here five weeks and shall stay
while she stays.
“You may call me a fool if you like,
but I can’t go until she goes, and
then—well, I must make up my mind
to live without her. Does she know?
Not except by suspicion. Her aunt
has hinted to me of the brilliant match
she expects to make in autumn, so I’m
dumb, of course. Now that I have
freed my mind to you, I have one re
quest to make. When I see yon, don’t
speak of her to me. I could not bear
it. Cupid’s arrow, of which we have
jested so much, has struck me deeply.
“C. A.”
He folded it compactly, placed it in
his pocket, intending to add the en
velope at the house. He hastened,
seeing it was short cut across the
orchard.
As he passed one of the trees he saw
Macy’s letter lying on the grass. There
was no address, and only the signature
“M.” As the pages slipped in his
hand he caught sight of his own name.
Could human nature withstand the
temptation to read? He read just the
part concerning himself. He sat down
on the grass to think. “Shouldn’t
dare!” he repeated. “That means, of
course, she is not at liberty, even if
sbe were inclined.
“There is but one M. among us, and
so it must be Macy. And to think
she is sometimes afraid of me! I don’t
wonder ! I must be ferociously cross
some days. I have to be stern in or
der to keep myself well in hand.
She’s ‘silly’! I’ll find a way to dis
possess her of that idea. To me she
is the wisest woman in the world.
Well, she has evidently lost this here
and I must carry it to her.”
He placed it in his pocket and
walked on. Then a thought occurred
to him. “She will miss it and come
here to look for it. I will leave it and
she need not know I have seen it. ”
He retraced his steps, took the let
ter from his pocket and replaced it
on the grass. Had he examined a lit
tle closer he wonld have seen it was
his own letter he had placed there.
He was right in his conjecture. He
met Macy, who was on her way to
search for it. She returned to her
room and decided to add a postscript.
When she opened it she saw it was not
hers. She looked for the signature.
It read C. A. There is only one C. A.
among us—it must be Mr. Ashby’s. ”
She resolutely closed her eyes to the
temptation to read it and started to
find him. He was out in a hammock.
“I lost a letter this morning,” she
began, confusedly, “and when I went,
to look for it I found this. I thought
it was mine at first, but I see it is
signed C. A. Is it yours?”
He took it and recognized it
"Yes, it is mine; but yours?” Ha
suddenly put bis hand in his pocket
and drew out hers.
"Why! That’s mine! Where did
yon get it?”
"I found it and meant to bring it to
you. Then I decided to carry it back,
and I suppose I must have put mine
there by mistake. ”
He looked distressed. Each began
to wonder if the other had read any
part of it
"I did not read yours,” said Maoy
in a tone which carried conviction
with it.
“Well, I shall confess to yon if you
hang me for it. I caught sight of my
name and I read just that part of it—
no more. I'm sorry.” Macy looked
astonished.
“Well you saw what a going over 1
have given you!” and she laughed
merrily.
“Yes, but you needn’t be afraid of
me, Miss Beeves. Now I am going to
ask you to do me a favor. Will you
read mine, here and now? It is you I
mean all the way through !” He gave
her the letter and she began to read.
She finished, paused a moment, as
if irresolute; then she said: “Mr.
Ashby, don’t send it.”
“Why not? It is truth!”
“No, it isn’t either! I am not en
gaged to make amatchwith anybody!”
“Then what did your aunt say that
to me for? Was it to prevent me from
trying to win you, Macy ? tell me now!
Have I any chance with you? Let that
letter speak for me ” He 'took her
hands in his own.
“Well—if you won’t make me afraid
of you any more,” she said, with
charming blushes. “I do care for
you, but I never suspected you cared
for me.”
“Now you know,” he said.
"Yes. May I keep the letter?”.she
asked a little timidly.
"Yes, if you care for it. I shall
write a very different one to my friend
now.”—Chicago News.
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About Irish Potatoes.
For nearly or quite a hundred years
after the American potato was intro
duced into the gardens of Great Brit
ain the Scotch and Irish peasant far
mers refused either to eat or cultivate
it for reasons which, at this time, seem
to be very absurd. At last, through
the force of circumstances, such as
Bhort grain crops and threatened
famine, the peasants were induced to
try the formerly much despised tuber,
and the results were so satisfactory
that it immediately became so exceed
ingly popular that in derision it was
given the name of Irish potato. Pre
vious to this time it had been known
as the Virginia potato, through an er
ror of some one who claimed that it
had been found growing wild in Vir
ginia, where it was certainly unknown
to either the aborigines or European
settlers until introduced from South
America. The natives of the higher
regions of South America probably
discovered and cultivated the jjotato
in their gardens centuries before they
were visited by Europeans. Peter
Gierca informs us in his Chronicle
published in 1553, “that the inhabi
tants .of Quito and vicinity have, be
sides maize, a tuberous root, which
they eat and call Papas. ” The Span
iards, having introduced these roots
into their own country, did not retain
the Peruvian name, but from theii
similarity in nature to the sweet pota
to already in use called them battatas.
From Spain they were taken to Italy,
and in 1588 we find a German botanist
acknowleding the receipt of two tubers.
It is true that we have a wild species
of the potato in North America, and
while it is very abundant in the ele
vated regions of Mexico and north
ward through Arizona and New Mexi
co, the tubers are so small that it does
not appear to have ever been utilized
by the inhabitants of the country nor
any of the Indian tribes east of the
Mississippi. The oft-repeated story
that the colonists sent by Sir Waiter
Baleigh to settle Virginia found the
potato in use among the Indians is a
pure myth.—New York Sun.
Freak of a Bolt of Lightning.
Lisgat St. Lambert, the famous Jer
sey bull at Idlewilde(Ga.)J. J. Doughty’s
lower farm, was struck by lightning
recently and instantly killed.
The circumstances of the tilling are
quite phenomenal and astonishing.
The animal had become quite vicious
of late and could not be given free run
to do as he pleased. He was kept tied
to a cedar post in the centre of a large
and airy house, and had to be led to
the fields when watered and exercised.
He was tied to this post when killed.
The post was about tbe size of an aver
age man’s body. It was splintered and
shattered completely by the lightning.
No other portion of the building was
harmed. In no other place was there
the least evidence of a lightning stroke.
The shock of the bolt of lightning
was plainly felt, but it was not known
that any damage had been done until
an hour afterwards, when the Jersey
was found killed under the circum
stances described.
Lisgar St. Lambest was one of the
finest Jersey bulls in the world, being
so recognized by breeders all over the
country. Mr. Doughty purchased him
from the Phinizy farm when he was
two years old, and at that time the
bull brought four hundred dollars. At
the time of his death Lisgar St. Lam
bert was worth, it is thought, nearly a
thousand dollars.
The bull was known all over America.
The news of his death and the peculiar
circumstances thereof will be read with
keen interest.—Augusta (Ga.) Herald.
Some Peculiar Belles.
Docter B. S. Evans, a leading phy
sician living at White Plains, a small
village just over the Georgia line, has
some very peculiar relics. Among the
most striking of these are the rattlers
of about two hundred rattlesnakes,
collected from various sources. The
largest of these has sixteen rattles and
a button. The snake was seven feet
four inches long, and measured four
inches across the back. A man by the
name of Miller was bitten by this snake
while plowing a half mile from home,
and, notwithstanding the very deliber
ate manner in which he killed the
snake, walked home, leading his horse,
and sent for Doctor Evans. His life
was saved, and he still lives a witness
to the truth of the above statement
though it was thirty years ago that ha
was bitten.—Atlftnta.Constitution.
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PROGRESS.
is Fall Where They May.”
JOHN E HOWELL, Editor and ProprUtor.
\ SEPTEMBER 5, 1893.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The Atlantic Ocean alone Is at pree
ned by ten cables in more or ’ess
Qons use. The Commercial Cable
Iny’s system is composed of two main
Ifrom Cape Canso in Northeastern Novi
|to Waterville on the southwest coast
ad. From the latter port the cable is
[ Bristol, with aerial lines to the chief
of England; Wales and Scotland, and
|r to Havre with an underground line
At the American end a doable
tble runs from Cape Canso to Boek-
s., with aerial lines to Boston and
ork. and a second cable running direct
Canso to New Fork. The effieaey of
line was well demonstrated during
of 1888. when it was the only
len from New York to the outer world,
messages to Boston and other places
' -ansrnitted by way of London. The
ngth of cables operated by this com-
i 6935 nautical miles. In the exhibit
Ithe whole process of transmitting
ges between Europe and America is
An artificial cable with all the prop-
|if the real Atlantic cable is employed ;
s sent through it and received by the
j instruments are ot the same shape
l-cupy the same time in sending from
He of the pavilion to the other as from
he of the Atlantic to the other.
( VICTORY FOR REPEAL
Free Coinage Defeated in tbe House by
a Vote ot 239 to lift
The Bland Amendments Were All Voted
Town by Large Majorities.
lore are permitted to send souvenir de
les through this artificial cable, and by
’ their course through transmission
ception, obtain a correct idea of the
loperation. Many people suppose that
■rams are received by means of flashes
It,but it seems that that system is prae-
| abandoned. The messages are recorded
aper ribbon with a fine glass siphon no
l- than a hair; the ribbon moves at the
[ about forty inches per minute and the
i leaves an inky trail clear and legible
Operator, but to the ordinary speeta-
Jsembles the outline of a mountain
la which there are no two peaks alike.
Bese recorders a speed of 250 to 300
per minute may l>e maintained,
hatic senders are also used. The mes-
(is transcribed upon paper ribbon by
i of indentations, then the ribbon is run
gh the automatic sender ; by this means
I, speed and uniformity are attained.
|> of the instruments for detecting breaks
njuries to the cable arc extremely in-
|ting. For example, a machine has been
Jsed for registering the amount of resis
ts the current meets with in passing
lugh the cable. This resistance is divided
> units called ohms, and the number of
■8 per nautical mile for any given cable
Jeadily deduced from the total re-
and total mileage. If the insula-
1 of the cable is tom off by dragging
hors, contact with the bottom, or thelike,
current at that place ceases to have re-
uee, and by dividing the resistance which
|ains by the number of ohms per mile the
placo of injury is known. Some in-
hees of extraordinary speed in cabling are
►rded. One case is mentioned in which
(ructions were sent to London brokere,
I business done, and answer received, all
i six minutes. In another ease a mes-
> was sent to London and an answer ob-
ed in forty-five seconds. This, as maybe
lectured, is the fastest time on record.
I all quarters of the Electrioity Building
pew and astonishing uses to which the
i fluid is put, sometimes when only the
►.test force is desired, at othere when a
fitv and irresistible power is applied.
—
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Nineteenth Day.—In the Senate
Tuesday. Mr. Yoorhees, chairman of
the finance committee, reported back
to the house the bill repealing a part
of the Sherman act with an amend
ment in the nature of the substitute.
He asked that the bill be placed on the
j calendar and gave notice that he should
ask the senate to take it up immedi
ately after the morning business from
this time on until final action is taken.
When he called it up, Mr. Teller ob
jected to its immediate consideration
and it went over until Wednesday.
Mr. Stewart’s resolution, inquiring in
to the condition of the treasury, was
then taken up. Senator Gordon, of
Georgia, had the floor an hour on the
silver question. He spoke in favor of
unconditional repeal. He also declared
himself in favor of free coinage. If
the friends of bimetallism, said he,
were strong enough in the senate to
attach free coinage to the pending
bill they wonld be strqng enough to
enact it afterwards. He was opposed
to delay the repeal by a contest over
free coinage. During the delivery of
his speech Senator Gordon was given
close attention by well-filled and
crowded galleries. He explained his
position by stating that the Sherman
law was not the friend but the insidi
ous foe of bimetallism.
Twentieth Day.—In the senate,
Wednesday, after the routine morning
business the bill for the repeal of the
Sherman act was taken up, and Mr.
Sherman proceeded to address the
senate. He said that if the repeal of
the purchasing clause of the act of Ju
ly, 1890, were the only reason for the
extraordinary session it would seem
to him insufficient. It was, how
ever, justified by the existing
financial stringency. On one thing,
he said, congress and the
people were agreed, and that was that
both gold and silver should be contin
ued in use as money. Monometallism,
pure and simple, had never gained a
foothold in tbe United States. If the
senators wanted cheap money and an
advance in prices the free coinage of
silver was the way to do it, but they
should not credit bimetallism.
Twenty-First Day.—After some un
important proceedings in the senate
Thursday Mr. Cockrell introduced a
concurrent resolution directed the sec
retary of the treasury to issue
certificates, not to exceed 20
per cent of the amount of gold
coin and bullion in the treasury and
to use and expend the same in payment
of interest on the public debt, or any
other demand, liability or obligation
of the United States. It was read and
laid on the table for the present.
The house bill for the repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
was then taken up and Mr. Wolcott, of
Colorado, opened the debate with a
prepared speech against the bill, de
livered in the presence of almost all
the senators, and of a large audience
in the galleries,
eat. Mr. Talbot asked unanimous con
sent to introduce a bill repealing the
statutes authorizing the appointment
of marshals and supervisors of elec
tion. Mr. Breckenridge, of Kentucky,
from the committee on appropriations,
reportedi^ie urgent deficiency appro
priation bill, and it 4va*s passed. The
items are 825,000 for bank note paper,
$200,000 for the coinage of subsidiary
coins and $75,000 for clerks to repre
sentatives. The house then resumed
the consideration of the new code of
rules with the understanding that the
ireneral debate should close at 2 o’clock.
This understanding was disregarded
and the time arranged so as to include
the entire day’s session. The proposed
code of rules was debated, both under
the hour rule and the five minutes
rule. Without disposing of the rules
the house at 5:05 o’clock adjourned.
Twenty-First Day.—After the very
little and very unimportant routine
morning bnsiness had been transacted
in the house Thursday, the considera
tion of the new code of rules was
taken up. Mr. Hooker attacked the
proposition in the rules which confers
upon the committee on rules jurisdic
tion over all proposed action touching
the order of bnsiness. He contended
that such a course would mean the
surrender of the powers of the great
committees of the house to a commit
tee consisting of five men.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Onr Most Important
Telegrapiiic Advices
And Presented in Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs.
IS BUILDING.
given to
room for
I recent and
shown by
ovens,
Jess, are ex-
. lined with
leat, and are
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(dieated by a
colored door
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iroducing the
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All sorts
and exes
gether, or minute inst:
bankers or brokers wit-
misunderstanding or disf
In the north gallery a! 1 .,
clever application of elecj *1
its use in cooking.
models of convenience anJ“|
hibited. They are made
asbestos to prevent radiatl
lighted inside by an incan
temperature of the oven!
thermometer, and a large
shows the progress of th<
Wires offering resistance!!
the electric current, and tlf
heat, are disposed in the q
placed at different points ej
ply the heat wherever desk
is roasting more rapidly on
another, instead of taking it
it about, a second switch i
temperature is raised as reqi
of utensils are provided wit' attachments
through which a current may be passed ;
coffee is boiled and steaks ale grilled with
electricity; flatirons have siaall silk-cov
ered copper wires fastened at the back so
that a high and even heat is maintained at
the bottom, while the top, male of a non-
heat-conducting substance, iemiins quite
cool. In fact, conditions seem fo changed
that the kitchen becomes almost a parlor and
cooking a pastime. In this display there are
also registers from which rooms may be
electrically heated.
In the south gallery chickens are hatched
in electric incubators, and toe records cf
other processes, or even of the maternal hen,
are completely broken. Wires are led
through compartments where, >y gieans of
switches and thermostadts, as absolutely
uniform temperature is maintuised chrough-
out the period of incubation. Tie (time is
lowered from twenty-one to nisetefen days,
and almost every egg produces a ustly chick.
Another contrivance is an eleawic cloth
cutting machine. This is for s^Hin large
clothing manufacturers' shops, as^B is said
to save one-half of the labor
better results than are obtained b(
method. It does its work with t
ease and precision, and costs
power less than £5 per month.
An electric bootblack is the m
One sits in a comfortable chair,
nicklein the siot, when at once]
cleans the boots and another give
diant shtne.
In one of the cases the advance
phy is shown by contrasting a Mo
of 1893 with the original Morse
1837. Near this exhibit is
witness to Cyrus Fields’s labors,
grapnel with which the broken
was successfully recovered.
By another electrical machim
and'direction of a ship are indie
instrument is connected with the
such a manner as not to inter!'
movements, and at the same ti]
a continuous chart for each fifteen]
the distance traversed and any
may have taken place in the coi
In submarine telegraphy the
Cable Company make a very instri
interesting display. After the se’
ures of 1857, 1858 and 1865 of the
connect Europe and America by
eess was achieved in 1366. Since
electrical communication has re;
broken between the Eastern and
Hemispheres, and submarine telegraptAlave
multiplied, until now the different line of j
the globe have an aggregate length of IJV^OO t
ire splendid exhibits showing the sp
in of electricity to mining,
ing this building, one watches the elee-
lins glide along the intramural road,
ilectric launches dart silent and smoke-
__ ibout the beautiful lagoons ; turning
rewards, he sees Chicago covered by the
lowering impenetrable pall of smoke belched
from myriad chimneys, and wonders when
the equivalent of light and heat will to gen
erated at the big coal fields and waterfalls
and sent broadcast throughout the land;
when cleanliness and quiet shall prevail.
THE FAIH'R FINANCES.
Auditor Ackerman has made hi3 official re
port showing the condition of Exposition
finances on August 7. According to tho
statement the Exposition has expended for
construction and administration $22,182,-
423.92. It still has outstanding liabilities of
$1,190,462.32, besides 34,444.500 of debenture
bonds. The total gate receipts to date are
33,447.037.51, and from concessions 31.178,-
546.92. The liabilities scheduled include
3250,000 for live stock premiums and stables,
appropriated but unexpended.
One feature of interest to stockholders is
the item of receipts from concessions, whioh
shows that collected revenue from that
source during July was more than $600,000 j
—a total of 3100,000 more than the returns
from the same source during May and June. |
As near as can be judged from ihc tabulation !
tbe receipts from all sources, Including ad- !
mission, are about $80,000 a day.
The operating expenses arc in the neigh- j
borhood of $15,000 and decreasing con- ,
stantly. This leaves a net revenue of about j
$65,000 a day. or somewhere near 34,000.000
for the remaining period of the Pair. The
attendance, however, is increasing so stead
ily that the directors expect to realize con
siderably more than the estimate, and clear
up all bonded and floating indebtedness,
with a margin for stock dividends besides.
AN INTERNATIONAL BALL.
The international ball on the Midway
Piaisance, a few nights ago, was the most
unique event in the history of the Fair.
Every nationality was represented.
The affair was held in the Natatorium,
which was gorgeously fitted out with lights,
flags, bunting and flowers. Chinese, Japan
ese, Samoans, Dahbmeyans, Turks,
Bedouins, Syrians, Persians, Egyptians,
Moore, Algerians, Austrians, Amazons,
Swedes. Boumanians, Bussians, Esquimaux,
Laplanders, Indians, Gypsies, Brazilians,
Peruvians, Germans, Americans, English,
Spaniards. Frenchmen, Cingalese and every
other nationality mingled together in the
most amicable relationship, and tbe sight
was a most wonderful one to behold.
Some of the costumes were 3tunning,
while othere, particularly those whose
wearers came from the southern countries in
the far away oceans, were startling. George
Francis Train led the grand march,
accompanied by the belle of the Dahomey
village, a dusky maiden. '
At the banquet which took place after the
fourteenth dance interesting dishes such as
“roast missionary a la Dahomey” were on
the bill of fare. All the queer Midway folks
were at table, and they were a jolly lot. The
boxes were occupied by the Exposition offi
cials and representative officials of the
various foreign countries.
The Austrians at the World’s Fair cele
brated the birthday of Emperor Francis
Joseph I. in a fitting manner.’ Informal ex
ercises were held in the Austrian section of
the Manufactures Building, and later a
formal programme of music and speeches
Was given in Festival Hall.
i
THE HOUSE.
Free Coinage Defeated.
Eighteenth Day.—The public gal
leries of the hall of the house of rep
resentatives were filled before ten
o’clock Monday morning, and many
members were in their seats on the
floor at that hour. The surrounding
corridors and lobbies of the floor were
also filled with a throng of people.
When the speaker commanded order
at noon, nearly every seat in
the hall was filled, an un
mistakable evidence of general
and individual interest in the matter
on hand. After the reading of the
journal, Mr. "Weaver, ot New York,
appeared at the bar of the house on
arm of his colleague, General Tracy,
and was sworn in by the speaker.
The house then began to vote on the
Bland free coinage substitute, fixing
the ratio at 16 to 1 at 12 o’clock, and
it was defeated—yeas 123, nays 225.
Sixteen to one is believed to be the
strongest substitute. The majority
against 16 to 1 was at least 30 votes
higher than the anti-silver men
claimed. The 17 to 1 amendment was
defeated—yeas 100, nays 240. On a
vote at 17 to 1, besides the loss
of populist votes, the members of that
party withholding their votes, there
were several negative votes from those
who voted in favor of the ratio of 16 to
1. The 18 to 1 free coinage amend
ment was rejected. Yeas, 102; nays,
239. The 19 to 1 amendment was re
jected. Yeas, 105; nays, 237. The
20 to 1 amendment was likewise re
jected. Yeas, 119; nays, 220. On the
substitute reviving the Bland-Allison
act, the vote was, for 136, against 213
—majority against, 77. In the final
vote to repeal the purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, the Wilson bill, the
vote stood 239 against 110—a majority
of 139 votes for repeal. After Mr.
Catchings had given notice that he
wonld call up the house rules Tuesday
the house, at 3:30 o’clock, adjourned.
Nineteenth Day—In the house,
Tuesday, after a little routine bnsiness,
Mr. Catchings called up the report of
the committee on rules reporting rules
to govern tbe house of the Fifty-thin!
congress. Mr. Beed twitteiLthe demo
crats upon their partial approval ol
the rules of the fifty-first congress, but,
in a humorous vein, contended that
they had not gone far enough. He
then, in a more serious manner, argued
in favor ^ef the rights of the majority,
which rights had been firmly maintied
in the fifty-first congress. Then foi
the first time this session the speaker
took the floor, having called Mr. Rich
ardson of Tennessee, to the chair, and
replied to the criticisms of the gentle
man from Maine. The debate was
continued by Messrs. Springer, Boat-
ner and Hooker of Mississippi, who
contended that the membership of the j
committee on rules should be increas- i
ed. Mr. Pickier, republican, of South
Dakota, agreed with Mr. Hooker on
this point. Messrs. Cumming, Hep-
burn, of Iowa, and Bryan also joined j
in the discussion. Then the subject ■
was dropped and Mr. Springer intro- .
duced a bill to provide for the coin- \
age of the seigniorage silver in the j
treasury. Referred. The house at
5:15 o’clock adjourned.
Twentieth Day.—The session of the
house Wednesday was devoid of inter-
Three deaths from cholera were re
corded in Naples Wednesday. No
new cases. Three fresh cases and
three deaths were reported in Casino.
Secretary Mohler, of the Kansas
state board of agriculture, issued an
appeal Monday for seed wheat and
money to buy it for the farmers of west
ern Kansas. The appeal states that
the wheat crop is a failure in that por
tion of the state.
Two fresh cases of Asiatic cholera
were reported in Berlin, Wednesday.
Both were caused by the drinking of
city water. The newspapers demand
that the city waterworks at Strau, on
the Spree, be closed, as they are gen
erally believed to be infected.
The Pennsylvania republican state
convention assembled at Harrisburg
Wednesday and nominated Judge
Newlen D. Fell, of Philadelphia, as
candidate for supreme court judge,
and Samuel M. Jackson, of Arm
strong county, for state treasurer.
Surgeon-General Wyman, Wednes
day, received a telegram from James
Y. Porter, state health officer at Port
Tampa, Fla., stating that there is one
case of yellow fever there in the per
son of a clerk employed on the dock.
It developed ten days after possible
exposure to the disease.
The Chapin Mining Company, of
Milwaukee, Wis., filed a certified copy
of a mortgage for $1,808,000 on its
property, ore and franchises Monday
morning to secure funds for the pur
pose of the payment of labor and taxes,
the payment of royalty on ore actually
mined and for the development and
operation of the mines in Wisconsin.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Timex reports the first death
from Asiatic cholera in Vienna due to
the drinking of unfiltered water from
the Danube. One death is reported at
Althafen, a suburb of Buda Pesth.
The official returns from Galicia show
that forty-two new cases and twenty-
eight deaths were recorded Saturday
and Sunday.
The storm which swept the south
Atlantic states from Sunday morning
until Monday morning cut down the
telegraph wires from southern Florida
np into Virginia. All telegraphic
communication south was cut off with
Washington except by way of Chica
go. It was with great patience and
difficulty that even meager dispatches
were obtained by the press telling of
the day in congress.
A Toledo, O., dispatch of Sunday
says: The famous personal damage
suit against P. M. Arthur, chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineer, for $300,000, commenced last
Mareh, immediately after the strike of
the engineers on the Ann Arbor rail
road, has been settled out of court.
Wbat the exact terms and conditions
of the settlement are, the public will
probably never know.
A Washington special says: The
commissioner of patents rendered a
decision Wednesday in the matter ol
the appeal to him of the state of South
Carolina from the refusal of the exam
iner to register a trade mark applied
for in the name of the state, consisting
of the word “Palmetto” to be printed
on the liquor labels, together with the
arms of the state and the name of the
liquor. The examiner refused regis
tration.
A special from Madrid, Spain, says;
The old city of Saragossa, capital of
the province of that name, was the
scene Sunday of a serious riot grow
ing out of the dissatisfaction of the
spectators at a bull fight with the
characer of the performance. The
police attempted to disperse them, but
were greeted with a volley of stones.
It was not until reinforcements ar
rived at the scene of trouble that the
rioters were dispersed.
The United States warships Kear-
sarge and Nantucket arrived at Nor
folk, Va., Wednesday, from New York.
The officers report that the trip was
the roughest they have ever experi
enced. During the 6torm Sunday
night the seas washed over the moni
tor, and with great difficulty she was
kept from going to the bottom. The
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
The PMlosop&er Sees a More Hopeful
Financial Ontloofc
“The Bone and Sinew” of the Country
are Not Panic Struck.
The times certainly !jok more hopeful—we
feel it in the air—the caldron has been boiling
and bubbling—the froth and scum have been
thrown over and we begin to see the bottom of the
pot through the clear liquid that has been so darE
and muddy. Time is a good doctor, in a little
while the patient will convalesce. Old folks
cau't be fooled and alarmed like young folks.
When I was in Texas last year I met hun
dreds of good, honest people who were wild
with excitement about Clark and Hogg. The
cry on one side was, “Turn Texas loose," and it
seemed like the great state was bound and
gagged, and her ruin waB inevitable if Hogg
was elected. The_ newspapers and the people
in the towns and cities cried in frantic tonei,
“Turn Texas loose.”
But Hogg was elected, nevertheless, and
Texas is there yet in all her glory and all her
strength, I never took sides, for It was none
of my fight, and I was too old to be alarmed;
Memory goes back now to great" excitements,
both political and financial, and when 1 hear
the wild screech of the politician as he predicts
ruin! rain! ruin! if they don’t do his way. I feel
like it is history just repeating ifself, and the
storm will blow over as usual. A little time is
all that is wanted—time to reflect, and rest,and
recuperate.
The great Dr. Abernathy was asked the se
cret of his success aa a physician. He replied:
“I amuse the patient and let na me do the
work.”
Just so the nation’s finances are now sick, and
congress is the doctor. Up to this time the
dooror hasn’t given any medicine, nor done a
blessed thing except to amuse the patient, and
I verily believe there are signs of recovery.
The truth is the doctor {fight safely lie dis
charged and the patient would get well. Just
let the cotton begin to move, and the south
will be all right. Euglaud will move it if tho
United States cannot, and there will he two or
three hundred millions of dollars put in cir
culation down south this fall and winter.
There will be probably thirty millions paid out
in Georgia, and probably threo hundred thou
sand dollars in Bartow county. Good gracious,
what a pile of money! I’ve got no cotton, but
surely I will get a little of that money.
That will pay lots of debtB and that will turn
Georgia loose and turn Texas loose. That
money will not be hoarded nor hidden. Most
of it is owing now to merchants and the mer
chants will watch tho farmer when he sells.
That money is bound to circulate, for they say
that $10 paid to a debtor does not stop, but
keeps on paying from one to another until it
has paid hundreds or thousands, and is as good
or better than the clearing house certificates
of the banks.
But we haven’t lost confilence in congress.
There are some statesmen there, men whose
patriotism is above party, men who rise above
self-interest and re-election and have the good
of the people at heart. At the last they are
the men who control. They are the men who
will settle this question of dietnrbed finances,
and they wi l settle it right. So let the wheels
roll on. A year from now we will all wonder
that we were so much alarmed.
The truth is, the common people, the bona
and sinew, the fanners and prodnoers, are not
panic struck, and they woulden’t know there
was a panic if they dident read the
papers. It is the towns and cities and mer
chants and bankers that are hurt. The only
apprehension of tho farmers now is that the
money kings will pull down the price of cotton
so as to speculate upon it and get richer
richer. They will find money enough toAiuy
st a low price, hut have lioue for a" fair price.
When will the millionaires get rich enough?
Like the horse-leech, their cry is, “give, give,”
and they keep on bearing what they buy and
bulling what they sell until they suck the life
blood out of the working man. The govern
ment has passed laws against combines and
corners, monopolies and trusts, but there is a
way to dodge all of them, and no one man can
afford to go to law about it. That’s where the
people’s party comes from. When they see in
the papers that pork dropped 50 per cent, in
one day and wheat 25 per cent, on another day,
they know that the speculators had been bulling
it after they had bought it all up, and when the
hand they played bursted, the drop came. The
producer would be willing for his bread and
meat to be cheap to the poor. If lie did not
get a fair return for his own labor it would be a
comfort to know that the millions of poor con
sumers got more of it for their scanty wages.
But these greedy speculators in the necessaries
of life, these vampires who buy by the million
and hoard and keep and bull after they buy are
tho curse of both the producer and consumer.
The people understand all this, and so when
ever some schemy, ambitious fellow gets on the
stump and kildees around and talks about Jef
fersonian democracy and how neither of the
old parties can now to trusted, they fall into
line and look to him as a Moses sent to deliver
them from bondage.
But parties cannot remedy these evils. Thera
is a law now in our code forbidding
the carrying of concealed weapons, and yet
half of the young men of the town and
the country carry them habitually. Just
let a row or a quarrel begin anywhere, oven at
a camp meeting, and 6ee how many pistols ara
drawn. Tho trouble is that the courts do not
execute the laws. The courts fling this charga
back upon the people and say why don't you
prosecute—why do you dodge party duty—
why do you fail to come up and testify? And
so it seems that everybody is to blame more or
less for everything. Our preacher said last
night tl*it he had been a close observer ol the
troubles and afflictions of mankind and in nine
case ont of ten they were the crop that was
planted. “What ye sow, that shall ye also
reap.” Even the poverty that many of our
people complain of is the result of tiieirown
planting. If a young man spends m et of his
time hunting and fishing and frolicking wit”
a little whisky thrown in, and after awhile mar
ries some thoughtless girl and children are
horn to them the family Btarts ont on the down
grade and soon comes to poverty. They reaped
what they Fowed and they try to lay all the
blame on other people, especially on the rich.
No, we can’t regulate everything in this sin
ful would, but we.must do the best we can both
by preoept and example. A bumblebee stung
me on my bald head this morning. I said I
reckon it was for some of my meanness—soma
crop that 1 had sowed, hut in a few minutes one
stung my wife on her head and I can’t account
for that. He made a mistake, I reckon. The
little varmints have got a nest under the floor
in the upstairs piazza, and because I stopped
up their hole the outsiders are savage and
would sting an angel unawares. I don’t know
what, such things were made for, but maybe
I’ll know some time. I hope so. The body
might be an accident, but the sting in his tail
wssn’t. As the lawyers say, “it was put there
with malice aforethought” and that’s the way
he uses it-—Bill Abb, in Atlanta Constitution.
Turns Itself Inside Out.
It is on record that a tiny animal,
which is common in English ponds,
where it is found attached to duckweed,
can perform the very acrobatic feet ot
turning itself inside out. The animal is
merely a cylindrical stomach with a
mouth at the top, surrounded by a num
ber of long tentacles, from whioh itg
name of hydia has arisen. If the mouth
of a hydra be stretched too much by food
which it has attempted to swallow, it
turns itself inside out, thus gets rid of the
unpleasant morsel and then regains its
former condition. At one time it was
believed that if one of these animals was
turned inside out it remained in that
state and performed all the functions of
life. Later researches have shown, how
ever, that when turned inside out the
animal immediately strives to regain its
. normal condition, and dies if prevented
pumps would not free the vessel of from s0 doing. Another extraordinary
water, and officers and men worked 0 f hydra is its power of repara-
for thirty-six hours withotft ceasing.
Monday night, off the Virginia coast,
the vessels parted and each thought
the other had been lost.
The Cholera Spreads-
A cable dispatch from Amsterdam
says: Nine fresh cases of cholera and
five deaths were reported in Leerdam
Wednesday. The Dutch-American
steamship company has notified its
agents that all emigrants, before em
barking, must remain five days nnder
the observation of an American physi
cian in the company’s hospital.
tion of injuries and reproduction of new
-individuls out of portions into which it
has been accidently or naturally divided.
If a tentacle be cut off an entire animal
is formed out of it. If the body is cut
in half it will join together again should
the parts be placed together, and if not,
two individuals will result. And should
parts of one individual be placed on the
cut surface of another they will grow to
gether.—[Brooklyn Eagle.
In 1874 all London houses were com-
pelled for the first time to be connected
with sewers.