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THE TEEMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to YOL. XII. NO. G V] 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. Wd ; be] 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. lovelty. |puts a )brush i a ra- elegra- |eceiver ne of ting ■is the of 1865 speed " This th its I show lies of i that 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. — -w Iff 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 “ lamp. The (dieated by a colored door Iking within. p9 passage of iroducing the ud switches one to np- | If a turkey 'do than on f.d turning ed and the 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.