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r Tl HE VIENNA PROGI - > UQQ ) H . iHiOO. TERMS, $1. Per Annum. “Hew to the Line, Let the Chips FaH Where They May.” JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XII. NO. 13 VIENNA. GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ITherever yon are fhls time of year, 0, my lost love, who was fal3e as fair. When the cry of the whippoorwill falls on your ear, And the mown hay scents the air, l know you must think of the night westoo J Under the syacnmore tree alone. While our veins ran riot with life's warm flood, And my heart made its passion known— l'oti must think how I called you my love mv own, Wherever you are, Wherever you are on nights like this, Likesweet in your gall, or like gallin your wine, nnual at the Chandler farm. The deacon still offered his accustomed prayer, only there was no Tom to make fan of him, for since that night Tom Chandler had not been seen. Deacon Chandler was still wait ing for his opportunity and still won dering, too, how a chance so earnestly desired wns so long withheld. Others all about him were doing great things toward building up the kingdom, yet, search and wait as he would, nothing ever came in his way. So the time went on for eight or ten years, until one day Deacon Chandler awoke suddenly to the fact that his . . T ,, wife was slowly dying. His lore for ; f ost common rn New Jersey, and least i Irequent in \ lrginia. turned out right, but the chances for that had been so few and for another and more painful one so many that he could only thank God that he had taken into his own hands the most successful woifcing out of Deacon Chandler’fi opportunity.—New York Mercury. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. There are electrij railways in New Zealand. Doctor E. M. Hale, the elimotolo' gist, states that Bright’s disease is his wife was one of the things that no Tou must taste that elinglng and tender kiss, one doubted, and when he noticed how T’—t first mad kiss of mine, frequent in \ trginia. Experiments made at a cancer ho- How timid ^jou were, and how fond yon I to her at once in an unusually anxious i way. IIow you trembled and clung 'twixt your Jove and fright IViien you heard a bird in the sycamore stir, And I gathered you olose and tight! God! but it must all haunt you to-night, Wherever you are. Wherever you are, you must recall How the young moon rose a3 I held you there— How I watched a star from midsky fall, And my wish took the form of a prayer. “Whatoveryou ask will come true," dou said, with that smile that ensuared all pale and thin she had become he spoke j P ital in New York have convinced the ’ physicians that the virus of erysipelas injected into cancerous tumors causes them to disappear. In the museum at Cambridge. Eng- I land, is the skeleton and staffed skin of an adult hybrid between a lion and J a tigress. This, with several distinct : litters by different parents, was born | in the same menagerie. “Is there anything I can do for you, wife?” he asked. “No—I don’t know as there is.” ‘ ‘Is there anything you want ?” Her eyes filled with tears. “Shall I tell yon?”she whispered. “Yes—do.” “I want my boy. I w ant Tom to come back to me. He was my first born, and I cannot forget how I loved him when he was a baby in my arms. Yes, and when he grew to be a boy I And yet you were speaking a lie, you knew— ! ^ ovc ‘^ him still, and my love could have And I never shall pray again. ! saved him. But you—you were so You must think of the wrong you did me I c °ld with him. Conscious Sadly and firmly she told him then It appears that the camel doe.s a the whole pitiful story. ; good deal of harm in Egypt, by eating the trees as they are growing up. Already the massive Cairo camel is i type distinct from other camels, sur passing all in its cumbrous, massive proportions. Wherever you are. -Ella W. Wilcox, in Frank Leslie's Monthly. HIS OPPORTUNITY. BS LOUIS LANZK. Some investigations carried out by Doctor Alexander A. Houston, of Ed inburgh, respecting the nnmber of of your own virtue, you could not bacteria in the soil at different depths pity his infirmity and bear with him, ! from the surface go to prove that the as I would have done. No, hear me j micro-organisms become less and less out,’ as he would have spoken. “You abundant as the depth from the sur- have always prayed—prayed to the | f ace increases Lord for some opportunity to do some I Extensive draught will cftU8e the great good, and when it was here in j gnail to elose its d ° 0 to nt the your own son, you neglected it. Yon j ev rfttion o{ itB bodily moisture and prayers since he was converted .and j began to pray in the little wooden I HERE was one sen-i might have been more gentle; you , - _ teuce that Deacon ! might have led him out of his evil ways, * r,V . , RS - , • 0 an , ... s are s Chandler had never but you would not, and all these years ?essed of astonishing vitality, regain- omitted from liis my heart has been aching for a sight ln g activity after-having been frozen / ,, , , 8 „ ° ] in solid blocks of ice, and enduring a or mr son—my eldest born. . ,, . . , ,■ , . , , , . , I degree of heat for weeks which daily I lie words came sharp and fast now 1 ■ - J and ended in a smothered sob. The deacon was surprised. Never church ou the hill, before had his wife questioned his wis- Tt wns this: “Send dom or censured him for what he did. But the mother love so strong in her had welled up and filled her heart to overflowing, and she must be heard. Strauge as it may seem, his prayers . Her words had their effect, too, for year’s growth may, therefore, number hod never been answered. The sea- Deacon Chandler saw, as he had never 60 > 000 - There is no instance of simi- sons rolled around with their aceus- j seen before this, his mistake and the lar fruitfulness in any other plant tinned regularity and brought increase | hypocrisy of the fervent prayer he had to his flock and plenty to his store- j so often breathed out to His Heavenly Irmses, and as yet nothing unusual had Father when he was an unmerciful— happened. Still the worthy man nay, even cruel parent. How he had to Thy servant, oh, Lord, some great opportunity for doing good.” crisps vegetation. The common purslane, which grows anywhere as a weed, produces more seeds than any other plant. One seed pod, by actual count, has 3000 seeds, and as a plant will sometimes have twenty pods, the seeds from a single prayed on until “Deacon Chandler opportunity” had come to be almost a byword with not a few of the younger members of the congregation. And when he arose at each meeting, and with bowed head uttered the familiar petition, his eldest son, Tom, away in t he back part of tho room, was mim icking his father, to the intense amuse ment of a few unruly hoys who were his companions. Tam Chandler was a bad boy. There was no denying that. Tom’s mother was the last one to admit it, but even she was forced to own sorrowfully that “Thomas was a little wild.” Deacon Chandler in his own family laid down the strictest rules, and they were fear fully followed by all except the eldest. Tom was incorrigible. He chafed un der the home restraint, and his natu ral wildness found vent in various petty misdemeanors, which soon won for him a bad name in his native vil lage. In vain his mother besought him to mend his ways; in vain his father placed him under closer re straint and visited upon him more dire penalties. It was no avail. One night Deacon Chandler entered his home with a stern look on his face that boded no good for whoever the culprit might be. His wife looked up from her sewing as he entered. “Where’s Tom?" he said shortly. “1 don’t know,” was the reply. “Why—is anything the matter?” Before he could reply the door opened again and the subject of their conversation came in. He was a tall, well-built boy of eighteen, but his 1 prayed for an opportunity of doing good, and when it came let it pass— nay, threw it away willfully. He was a man of few words, aud- those he spoke now carried healing balm to the heart of the woman who had so loved her wayward bov. ‘ ‘I have been wrong, wife. Can yon forgive me?” “Oh, freely!” she answered him. He read in her wistful eyes the un spoken wish and answered it. “I will find our boy and bring him home,” he said. “And no matter how sinful he is or how he has fallen you will bring him home to his mother?” “I will. ” And she wns satisfied. To those who wish to learn all things are plain, and Deacon Chandler traced his son, by constant effort, to a small Western city. Of the fact that he was there he became convinced, but could learn nothing more. A week found him standing in a railway station of the city of C., inquiring of the by standers if they knew Thomas Chan dler. “Know Thomas Chandler? Waal, I reckon I do, ” drawled one loafer who was warming himself in the sun. “Canyon tell me where I can find him?” asked the deacon. “Waal, I kinder reckon about this time er day he's ter be found over to the Senter House. ” Having learned where the Senter •House was, Deacon Chandler walked slowly up the main street of the well- kept western city. How should he find Tom? He inferred, from the youthful face was already marked with j manner of the man with whom he had the lines of dissipation and in his | j ns j talked, that his son was still the handsome brown eyes there was a dare- i w ii d young man he had turned from den! expression that spoke volumes to j borne so many weary years ago. But it did not matter. He had promised one who understood it. “Well, sir?” was Deacon Chandler’s greeting. “Well?” came in insolent tones from the boy, who remained standing. “You nre found out.” The stern notes of the father rang iu the mother’s ear like a deathknelL “You may as well confess.” ‘ ‘There is no need if you have found me out,” replied the boy defiantly. “Perhaps you would like me to tell. Are you proud that you nnd your gang have been detected stealing fruit from Mr. Dean's orchard, and that unless I settle you will be arrested? Cau you offer any excuse for removing the gates from half a dozen houses in town and making a bonfire of them in my orchard lot?” growing in thi: country. The Bible fixes the creation of life in successive periods, the oreatioo ot the higher order of animals in the last period, aud immediately before the appearance of man. According to Moses, the order in which living things appeared was: Plants, fishes, fowl, land animals and man. Science, from a study of fossils in the rock founda tions, has independently arrived at the same conclusions. Telephonemeter is the new word naming an instrument to register the time of each conversation at the tele phone from the time of ringing up the exchange to the ringing-off signal. Such a system would reduce rentals of telephones to a scale according to the service, instead of a fixed charge to a business firm or occasional user alike. The instrument has been constructed at the invitation of the German tele phone department and is to control the duration of telephone conversa tions and to total the time. Space for a fort on a hill near Lon don is being cleared of tree stumps by au electric root grubber or stump puller. The dynamo for supplying the current is aboat two miles from the hill. The current is taken by over head wires on telegraph poles to the motor on the grubber carriage. By means of belting and suitable gearing the motor drives a capstan upon which are coiled a few turns of wire rope. A heavy chain is attached to the tree roots, and as the rope exerts its force the roots come up quietly one after the other. IVhat Every Man is Worth. An interesting exhibit at the Na tional Museum shows the physical in gredients which go to make up the average man, weighing 154 pounds, says the American Analyist. A large glass jar holds the ninety-six pounds the mother—aud then was not here his of water which his body contains. In opportunity? He would see that he i other receptacles are three pounds ol grasped it now and would save liis son : white of egg, a little less than ten at any cost. ; pounds of pure glue—without which His meditations were-eut short by ! it would be impossible to keep body ' 1 and soul together—434 pounds of fat, 8r pounds of phosphate of lime, one pound of carbonate of lime, three ounces of sugar and starch, seven ounces of flouride of calcium, six ounces of phosphate of magnesia and TRANSPORTING TREASURE, HOW SILVER AND GOLD ARE SENT FROM POINT TO POINT. ver handled between Washington anj New York or Baltimore or Pittsburg. From St. Louis or Colorado the ex press company would receive $4 for ! every SI000 handled. If Congress Single Shipments of Millions—Pre- j should attempt to put the 90,000,000 WIND AND WAVE. cautions Taken In Handling Large Amounts—Cost of Transportation. 'HEN the financial strin- w silver dollars now in the treasury Sunni Carolina. vaults into circulation by shipping them through the country the express , , , 1 company would receive at least §90, geney began to be ***; J Q00 for handling them. A year ago, ous v et e reeeip s o j w ] ien theTres-oUrvDepartment shipped the express company winch £20,000,000 in gold from San Fran- handles the Governments treasure in | cisco ^ York, - t won]d have had transit fell oft rapidly. Now the tnisi- . ness has nicked nn a little because the ! to 1 >B - V thd ex P re3 * company §60,320 ness nas picked up a little, because tne foJ . the haal at cont ract rates. But Treasury Department is hurrying out . Sftn Franei8co is ont3ide the contraet Natrona 1 bank notes to be put into j territ of the United States Express circulation so as to relieve as much as r , __ , ,, ... ■ •x x g n imi Company, and the Treanurv Depart possible tne scarcity of small bills. ; ' ’ ,, ; . j , mi • xt i- , , , • • i ment sent the gold as “registered Xhis National bank currency is “in- ! , , i , ,, v mail at a cost oi a Jittle less than complete when it leaves the Treasury $2500 Department, for it lacks the signatures i v L , . . , • of the President and Cashier of the The bl «» est 9Q1 i >melu bank which is to issue it. Nevertheless it is classed with the completed cur rency issued by the Government, and if the express company should lose any of it in transit it would have to make good the loss, just as though it had lost coin or silver certificates. The banks pay the same rate for the ship ment of this currency as they would for National bank notes. As custom- currency handled by the United States Express Company for the Government was 815,000,090 shipped from Washington to New York four years ago. It was in hills of large denomination aud they were packed in two small boxes, j For this haul the express company re- I ceived §2250. The largest gold ship I ment handled at one time was $7,000,- 000 taken from Philadelphia to New ers of Uncle Sam, though, thev pay a £ ork “ bttle ?. lore , thal ‘ »/ear ago. small rate for handling the money. In j J T ”' some eases it is less than one-fifth of j P r ^ s company received $3501. gold was stored m two safes which ,, , 7 were sent in a special ear under heavy the express company would pav. , ^ 7 , , The contract for handling the money E T er { effort maile to kee ^ shipped hr the Government east of j tko ° f sh, P“ ent . 14 , seore . 4 , T,, V • , ,, i t- -x i x- fear of train robberv is always in tho Utah is held by the United Express . . „ n -ci m t»i ii i. • minds oi the officials of the express Company. E. T. Platt, who is a son of ex-Senator Patt, of New York (the President of the company), is in charge of the company’s Government service. He has charge of it ever since the United States Company took the con tract away from the Adams Express Company more than fonr years ago. The Adams Company received twenty- five cents a §1000, while the United States Company receives only fifteen cents a §1000 in most of the Territory which it covers. This rate is for cur. rency. That is what the Treasnry De partment ships in the greatest quantity. eonqjauy. The shipment of these large amounts is what makes the contract of the express company profitable. They bring the aggregate of money handled by the express company up to fully §200,000,000 a year. The United States Express Company has not lost anything on its contract with the Gov ernment yet. But eternal vigilance is the price of its security.—Washington Star. WISE WORDS. The rate for silver and gold is much ; The real wise man never makes the higher. | same mistake twice. For this fifteeen cents the express I The justice that a wicked mau never company guarantees the safe delivery ! wants is the justice he deserves, of the §1000 at the point of destina- j 1{ a womau is ever me rciless it is * 10n ’ <• Y n™ UrSC ’ 0I \ ? , sm ” e skl P‘ I when she gets a mouse in a trail, ment of §1000 we would lose money, the gilded sign directly in front of his eyes and he saw in large letters Sen ter House. He was almost ashamed to ask this gentlemenlv fellow about his erring son, but he did. “Iam a stranger here, sir, ” he be gan. “Can you tell me where I can fiud Thomas Chandler?” “Yes, sir,” answered the brisk clerk. Then lie turned to a boy who stood near nnd said, “Go and find Mr. Chandlex-. ” The bov sped away on his errand and Deacon Chandler waited. Then Mrs. Chandler looked hurriedly up [ie heard steps, a man's surprised at her son. voice called, “Father,” and he “Oh, Tom, it isn't so? Say it isn't j looked up and saw his son. But where said Mr. Platt, talking about the Gov ernment service a few days ago. “Even in handling large quantities of money there is so small a margin of profit that a single big robbery would wipe out all that we could make under our contract in years. Up to this time wo have lost only §8000. Part of this went in a robbery of a part of the con tents of two packages out West aud the remainder in the robbery of a sack not far from Washington. In both cases the work of the robber was so earefully concealed that the packages were accepted by the Treasury De partment, which gave us a clean re ceipt for them in each case. Of course we made good the loss when the pack ages were opened and the money was missed.” Small packages of money are shipped in bags. Large quantities of money going between big terminal points are put in stationary safes, which are bolted to the floors of the express cars. These safes are usually not opened, from one end of the route to the other. No one can open them, because the handle is taken from the door when the car starts on its jour ney, and with this handle goes the dial of the combination lock. Expert safe robbers have means of getting into combination locks; and of course it would be possible, by collusion, for the messenger to learn the combina tion and so be able to open the safe in transit. But a locked safe, without a dial or a handle, is a puzzle which has baffled safe robbers up to this j time. Most of Uncle Sam’s money is shipped in stationary safes. Nothing has ever been lost in shipments from the Treasury Department or any of its branches. The losses are nsuallv The greatest trouble is easier to bear than the know., guilt of one sin. How we all admire the widom of those who come to us for advice. If happiness in this life is vour ob ject, don’t try too hard to get rich. There is such a thing as trying to live on blessings and starving to death. When a mail decides to say good bye to his sin, one look at the cross kills it. Bad men do right only because they have to; good men, because they love to. No man wants to he a saint until he finds out what it means to be a sin ner. The man who rides a hobby is al ways complaining that the world is too slow. The lean pig is the one that squeals the most. Let the faultfinder make a note. People who blow their own horns seldom furnish good music for other folks. People who have to make a long reach to pick up the cross find it heavy. It is hard for some men to believe that a sin can be black as long as it pays well. A self-made man spoilo his work every time he opens his mouth to praise himself. There are spots on the sun, and yet some people expect a twelve-year-old | boy to be perfect. | Some people never find oat that . there is joy in giving, because they do i not- give enough.—-Ram’s Horn. Nineteen People Drowned—The Storm at other Points. The Electrical Horsewhip. A wily horse trainer some time ago from packages of mutilated currency provided the jockey who was riding sent in for redemption. ; his horse, fora valuable eup, with a Gold cannot be handled like cur- | complete electrical outfit for supply- rency because of its great weight. At. mg current to a pair of electrical spurs, the time that so much gold was going a little ordinary table salt. Divided up into his primary chemical elements the same man is found to contain ninety-seven pounds of oxygen— enough to take up, under ordinary at mospheric pressure, the space of a room ten feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high. His body also holds fifteen pounds of hydrogen, which,un der the same conditions, would occupy somewhat more than two such rooms row of bottles contain the other ele ments going to make up the man. These are fonr ounces of chlorine. 31 ounces of flourine, eight ounces of phosphorus, 3i ounces of brimstone, 21 ounces of sodium, 21 ounces of po tassium, 1-10 of an ounce of iron, two so. she implored. was the sinful, dissipated mau he had j as that described. To these must be But he was silent. Then the deacon ; thought to see? Here was a well- ! added three pounds and thirteen continued : dressed and prosperous-looking man, | ounces of nitrogen. The carbon in “1 shall settle to save your brothers holding out his hand to him and bid- ! the corpus of the individual referred aud sisters from disgrace, !jut from ding him welcome. And it was Tom. | to is represented by a foot cube oi this night you are no son of mine. I That was the funny part of it. | coal. It ought to be a diamond of the disown you. ‘'Come, lather, and he lead the old same size, because the stone is pure A slight pallor spread over the boy’s man away to a private parlor and ; carbon, but the National Museum has face as he opened his lips to reply. closed the door. “Don’t yon know not such a one in its possession. A “All right, father. If you had dealt me, father? I would know you any more gently with me I might have where.” been a different boy now. I own that “Yes—but it’s so strange,” gasped I took the apples and helped to burn the old mau. the gates. But there, "he burst out- Tom laughed good natnredly. suddenly, “what does it matter? I “Oh, you mean that I am not what won't stay to disgrace the family any you expected to find? Well, hnrdlv, longer. I’ve been ready to go for judging from early indications; but, ounces of magnesium aud three pounds some time.” And he glanced around father—I must say it”—and the man's : and thirteen ounces of calcium. ~ Cal- the^comfortable room contemptuously, eyes grew moist—“all that I am I cinni, at present market rates, is owe to mother. ’ j worth §300 an ounce, so that the “God bless her, Tom. ’ heartily re- j amount of it contained in one human sponded his father. Then after a pause, j body has a money value of §18,300. “Can you forgive me. my son, for my Few of our lellow citizens realize that harshness?” they are worth so much intrinsieaHy. ‘There is no more for me to for- you make him so much trouble. Ask give than you,” returned his son. “I him to forgive you. I am sure he will have lived all these years to learn, and if you will only try to be a better I think I may safely say now that I am boy. ” an honest m»n. This house is mine— “Never! ’ sternly interrupted the and, God willing, I moan in the future building, on South Front street, has a deacon. “He is no son of mine, and to be au honor and not a disgrace to curiosity—a lock of hair that has my house is no longer his home. Go! the old home.” grown to several times the lensrth it Do yon hear?’ Bo, niter all, Deacon Chandler’s : was when severed from the head. It “You need not tell me twice,” re- opportunity was a wasted one, for now was sent to her by a friend two years turned the boy. “Good-bye, mother, there was no need of any effort on his ago, and was then only about l i inches I’m going,” and befoie they realized part in his son’s ease, The opportun- 1 long. Since then it has grown con it the eldest son had passed out of ity had come to him in his son’s youth ' stantly and is now over a foot long. It home life forever. and he had neglected it. i is in vigorous growth and has a ljv$ After that life went pa about esj As it happened, everythin* had i look,—Nowbern (N, C.) Journal, abroad a couple of months ago the Treasury Department was shipping about a million dollars in gold every day from Washington to New York. This gold weighed two tons to the million. One of the portable safes, holding about §200,000 in gold, w eighs, when filled, 1500 pounds. These safes were locked and sealed at the Treasury Department. The portable safes have The current was found to be an infin itely more potent stimulus to the speed of the horse than till simple steel spur, and the horse won. A protest was entered and tho jockey wa3 dis qualified and the race forfeited on the somewhat inconsistent ground of cru elty. It seems doubtful whether such an objection cau be brought against the latest form of the horsewhip, which is constructed so as to give a When he finished speaking mother’s hand was laid on his arm and a mother's voice, pitiful in its sorrow, said: “Don’t go, Tom. Your father don't mean it. He is very angry beeanse Shorn Hair Keeps ou Growing. Mrs. S. E. Credle, the clever keeper of the boarding-house in the Howard key locks. A strip of iron slips over 1 sli ” ht electric shock to the animal, the key hole, and is fastened in place j The handle, which is made of cellu- once with a piece of string, and once | contains a small induction coil with a piece of wire. A lead seal is battery, the circuit being closed used on the wire, and a green wax seal means of a spring push. The ex on the string. ! tremity of the whip consists of two rp . . ., , , , small copper- plates insulated from To get at the key hole a messenger , eHch oth ™ ettc £ of which Ls provided or a robber would have to break the , wjth ft tiny int xhe lat J are con _ seals or cut the string and the wire. . . i, A . A . • 1 , *jTj_ _ a* x ii x ii ° e , i i nected to the induct ion coil bv means JLne tact that the sate has been f i « « • , . 7 *. * . 3 u i . * . of a couple of fine insulated vires. As tampered with would be plainly evi- ; V • • ^ T . - , , f, . , Y,. a means of surprising a sluggisn animal dent to the next person handling it. . . ■ ,. x i , . i x .j m, - . Al r.r.rx i. l- into doing his best work without the The safe, with its §200,000 worth oi infliction of phvsical pain the electri- gold, having been sealed, is boated ^ horsewhi ^ wdll bv U nv tehai , e a with a fall and tackle into a “cage ^ g i adue k-New York fornmer- express wagon—that is, a wagon with : ■ , ,7 wire sides. Anything that occurred | * , in the wagon would be plainly visible ! . _ . p to persons passing on the street, and: ‘ augerous apei. as the trips are made in broad day- i A German genius was very much dis light there is no possibility of the j appointed lately when he applied for a messenger in the wagon tampering ! patent on an invention of his to have with his charge. Besides the messen- • the patent refused, and the mannfac- ger who sits on the safe with a shot- | tore and sale of Lis invention forbid- gun in his hand and a brace of re- I den. It is a paper so prepared that volvers in his belt, there are two men ; any writing on it, made with any known on the front of the wagoB, also fully j sort of ink, can be easilv and quickly armed. The man in the wagon has r ■ erased by the simple application of a shotgun of Belgian make, breech I moist sponge. The paper was made of loading, the barrel sawed off so that j the ordinary ingrediettc, with, the ad it can be used at elose action. The i dition of asbestos and parchment glne. express company owns fifty of these j The paper pulp, after rolling, was im Special dispatches from Georgetown, S. C., state that the West Indian cy clone left destruction in its path at that place. At 2 o’clock on the morn ing of the 13th the wind was blowing sixty miles an hour and the tide cam e all over the water front. At 10 o’clock it was harder, the tide reaching a height of ten inches above the mark of the hurricane of August 27th. The whole water front was from one to fonr feet under water and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise was damaged. The schooner Prosper ity was blown ashore on South island and will be a total loss. Tho Clyde steamer Creaton rode out the storm at anchor at North island. The islanders suffered greatly and at Magnolia beach thirteen whites and six colored per sons are known to have been drowned. Tho tide there rose four feet in ten minutes and the waves swept the houses from their foundations and the inmates to their death. Two men and a little girl are the only ones saved from a total of twenty-two. They got on top of a small building and drifted to the mainland. AT WILMINGTON. A Wilmington, N. C., special says: The oldest inhabitant was forced to admit that the terrific outburst of wind and wave that swept through the city surpassed any storm in his day or generation. Friday night was stormy. There were fitful showers and violent gusts of wind tlict fore tokened the furious gale Hut followed early Saturday morning, and that in creased as the day wore on until the climax of the big blow was reached, near midday. The tide was the highest known even in the memory of the oldest eesident, beng sixteen inches above the high- water mark registered and recorded in 1853, which had surpassed all previous known records, it is believed, sineo the deluge. Many business houses and dwellings were flooded, and ship ping sustained heavy damages. No lives are reported lost. The total loss the immediate section is about §150,000. The storm seemed to have spent its force before it reached Savannah, Ga, The city bore its usnal appearance Friday morning, scarcely a tree or a sign being out of place. The indica tions before the storm reached the city were that it would be fai more- se vere than it was, as the wind at Titus ville,Fla., on Wednesday, was fifty six miles an hour and the swell on Ty- bee bar was the heaviest that has been seen in years. But outside of a fifty mile an hour blow, which lasted for some ten or twelve hours, nothing of moment has happened as a -result of the cyclone. A STORM AT CHICAGO. Dispatches from Chicago are to the effect that the entire chain of lakes was swept by a northwest gale whose se venty has not been excelled for ten years. That there a large loss of life now seems certain, but it may be many days before it is known just how many sailors perished. Sixteen vessels wrecked thus far reported. The gale in the immediate vicinity of Chicago was not so severe as further down the lakes where the gale is said to have blown frem fifty to seventy miles an hour. The only loss of life definitely reported as yet is that on the yacht Enterprise. It is almost certain that her crew were drowned. IN NEW YORK. In the vicinity of New York City and along the coasts of Ohio, a good deal of damage was done and some vessels were wrecked but so far heard, no lives were lost. Advices from Buffalo state that the wind blew there at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Considerable damage was dono and several yachts are ashore. -As far as learned no lives have been lost. BUSINESS REVIEW. Dun & Co. HONORING CARDINAL GIBBONS The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Episco pacy Celebrated at Baltimore. The grandest ceremonial of the Catholic church that prelates, priests and laymen have ever engaged in or witnessed in this country took place Wednesday in and about the cathedral in Baltimore. The occasion was the celebration of the twenty-fifth anni versary of the elevation to the episco pate of his eminence James Cardinal Gibbons. All of the archbishops in this coun try, with perhaps a single exception, and this particular archbishop had written that he would be present; nearly the entire court of bishops, many monsignors and priests from far beyond the province of Baltimore were present to do honor to the jiri- mate. Every seat in the cathedral was fill ed long before the services began, i Solemn pontifical mass was celebrated with all the elaborateness demanded j by the ritual aud liturgy. Rev. Dr. Rooker, vice rector of the American college at Rome, read in the course of I the service a congratulatory letter of the holy father to Cardinal Gibbons. Archbishop Corrigan preached the j sermon. At the conclusion of mass the arch bishops, bishops, mbnsignors and dis- : tinguished priests entered coaches and were driven to the seminary of St. Sul- spice, where a grand banquet was giv en honor of the cardinal and his as- j sociates of the episcopate. Frost Cuts Off Late Cotton. A Birmingham, Ala., special of Tuesday says: It is estimated that the frost which fell Sunday night and killed late cotton will cut off the al- Keport of Trade for the Past Week. R. G. Dun k Co.s weekly review says the country has been waiting. While the uncertainty has i revailed men have not known what to do with safety and so have done as little as they could. Industries cannot always wait, and in them an arrest of im provement generally means some reac tion. Merchants who have obligations to meet cannot always wait, and for some there has come misfortune. The speculators and traders wait because they have no substantial basis for a jndgment The volume of business transacted increases some, because the long er people go without clothing or food aud other necessaries, the more certain their demand is to revive. Government crop reports have not helped speculation, because they are not in harmony with prevailing judg ments. Wheat has weakened 1 l-4e, though the government report would indicate a yield of 39!,000,000 bush els, so small as to warrant higher prices. Western receipts for the week have been 0,054,648 bushels against 9,361,979 last year, while Atlantic exports have fallen off 621,961 bush els against 1,909,123 last year. Corn has advanced 1 1-4 cents, pork products being unchanged, but either would be much stronger if men put full confidence in official es timates. Oil has risen 1 cent and cof fee is unchanged. Cotton stands just where it did a year ago, in spite of a report which some interpreted con clusive proof of a yield far below that of last year, but the enormns stock of old cotton in sight here and abroad would explain great hesitation in the market, if official estimates were accredited. Cotton goods show a gen eral improvement in tone, though weak in spots. The demand for woolen goods is not a third of the usual mag nitude, and sales of wool at the three chief markets for the last week were 2,500,452 pounds against 7,099,600 last year. The situation is a strange one which perplexes the ablest dealers, and though in dress goods a good demand appears, the uncertainty as to men’s goods, knit goods and carpets is as great as if mouths had not elapsed, with extraordinary narrow distribution of products. Outside of New York boot and shoe manufactories aro but poorly employed and eastern ship ments for the week were 34 per cent below last year’s, but bright spots ap pear in women’s shoes nnd in rubber goods. The failures for the past week num ber 349 in the United States against 189 last year, and forty-two in Canada against twenty-six last year. Eighteen failures were in magnitude exceeding §100,000 and eighty-four were over §5,000 each, but less than §100,000. The aggregate of liabilities in failures the first week in October was only §3,491,292, though the number was large. The past week the liabilities have apparently been increased. TWO MEN. One was a kiuc. ami a wide domain He ruled as his sires hail done A B v>den hovel, a lied of puic- Eelonged to tne other one. . The king was ill au 1 the world was sad—* But the monarch languished, the monarch died, The beggar was sick unto death, bur ho had No one to watch at liis low bedside. Then under the minster tho king was laid, While o'er tlim the marbles were piled ; But a shallow grave in the fields was madc> By careless hands, for Poverty's ohild. But now there are those who profoundly de clare, If you opened the tomb and the grave, You could not distinguish, whatever you.' The dust of tho king an l the slave. —Charles Noble Gregory. HUMOR OF THE DAY. IS DR. GRAVES DEAD? A Story Published in Denver That the Authorities were Outwitted. The Denver Itlews, in its Thursday's issue, published a sensational article to the effect that Dr. Graves, the famous poisoner, who was sup posed to have suicided in jail, is not dead. It is maintained that a pine log occupied tho coffin instead of a body. The story is that Charles N. Chandler, a wealthy citizen of Thompson Center, Conn., arrived in Denver Tuesday in company with Stephen Morse, of the same town, which is Dr. Grave’s old home and where the body is supposed to have been buried. These gentlemen told the bote! proprietor where they stop ped that Dr. Graves was not dead, that the casket was opened at the grave in Thompson Center, against the protests of the widow, and found to coutuin a pine log instead of a dead body, and that the supposed dead doctor is now enjoyiDg his liberty in a foreign country. A WRECKED BARK. The Crew Rescued and Hie Wreck Burned. The steamship Saginaw, from Asna, arrived at New York Thursday morn ing and made the following report: October 15th, latitude 29:20, longi tude 72 :45, spoke German bark Ceres, laden with cement, 77 days from Lon don for Savannah, partly dismantled, with six feet of water in her hold and the crew unable to keep her free. Took off Captain Herch, his wife and crew of ten men. The captain reports encountering a hurricane October 10th, during which he lost his main and mizzen topmast;;, sprung the fore mast head, stove the bulwarks, decks, etc., and sprung a leak. The crew were unable to free her. On leaving the bark they set her on fire, fore and aft, and when last seen she was burn ing fiercely and was probably totally destroyed. AFTER THE HIGHBINDERS. shotguns, and each messenger has one | mersed for a short time (from six to in his car. j twenty-five seconds, according to the When a wagon reaches the railroad thickness of the paper to be prepared ready short crop fully ten per cent station the safe is lifted again by means from it; in concentrated sulphuric acid in the counties in north and middle of the fall and tackle and put aboard I at twenty degrees, diluted with te-i to Alabama. The crop was already the car. There is not much risk in I fifteen per cent of water. It was then twenty per cent short before frost handling gold, because it weighs so j pressed between glass rollers, passed came, much that a robber would have a pretty ■ successfully through water, ammonia hard time getting away with it. But solution and a second time through though the risk is not so great as in ! water, strongly pressed between rollers handling currency, the express com- and dried on felt rollers, £.nd finally on polished and heated metal rollers. The finished article is said to be precisely like ordinary paper. Its sale has been prohibited on account of the misuse ta pany receives fifty cents on §1000 for transporting gold. Silver, which weighs so much more than gold in pro portion to its value, is still more ex- pe&OTO in hauling. The express con* which it css he put, A Whole Train C/ew Killed. An accident to the Pennsylvania limited at Wellsville, Ohio, Tuesday morning, at 6:15 o’clock, resulted in the death of the entire engine crew and fatal injuries to three men who occupied the baggage aud express car. The limited ran into a freight train, which was crossing tho main track. A Big Scheme ou Foot to Send Them -- Back lo China. A San Francisco special says: The Chinese Six Companies now appear to be eager to take advantage of the Geary act before the McCreary bill becomes a law. The Six Companies are anxious to get rid of the highbind ers and worst criminal element among the Chinese in San Francisco. To this end the Six Companies are aiding the police to arrest, convict and deport highbinders. Tuesday sixty-two Chi nese were arrested by the police as vagrants. The agents of the Six Com panies and police detectives inspected the whole crowd at the city prison. Fifteen of the culprits were released, as they were found to be hard-working Chinese. The remaining forty-seven will be arrested under the Geary law and an attempt made to deport them. Democratic Negroes Issnc an Address. The executive committee of the negro national league has issued an address urging the workingmen in New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, Iowa and Ohio to snpport the democratic ticket in those states. The address attributes the prevailing distress to the Sherman law und the McKinley tariff and the extravagance of the Reed oongress. A good all-around man—The man in the moon. Penury is very often the unexpected wages of the pen.--Pack. Prosperous barbers are even shaving checks now.—Pittsburg Dispatch. For a spin on the road the proper thing, of course, is a “top” buggy.— Boston Courier. A mau who is iu society and wauts to keep in must be continually going out. —Statesman. Money may lie tight, but there’s no reason for its getting paralyzed.— Philadelphia Times. All men are born equal—but soim are born more equal to the emergency. —World's Fair Puck. The fellow who doesn't think nt all usually sets up for a free thinker.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Silence is golden, but you have never realized how golden until you have to buy it.—Atchison Globe. While vacation always begins with a V it always ends with a scarcity of them.—Baltimore American. Some of theso banks are carrying the early closing movement altogether too far.—Baltimore American. This is the season of the year in which you can get what you do not want real cheap. —Texas Siftings. When a parliamentary division ends !n a free fight both the eyes and noso ire apt to have it.—Lowell Courier. If you want to make sure your ad- riee will be taken have it engraved ou vour umbrella handle.—Troy Press. If it could only be put up iu bottles “general humidity” would make a fair brand of glue.—Philadelphia Record. Experience is a teacher rr.-v And one whom none may sm»'J; Sometimes she works with manners fair, But mostly takes a club. —Detroit Free Press. The alligator grows as long as he ives. And he sometimes lives as long is ten or twelve feet.—Chicago Dis patch. “A well-earned rest,” said Fogg when he was given the particulars of iitixby’s cremation.—Boston Tran script. Johnnie—“Papa, are despots hap py?” Pappa—“I don’t know. Ask the hired girl.”—Kate Field’s Wash ington. Of course the report of the serious illness of Queen Victoria is not true. Her health is pledged too frequently. —Boston Herald. Proctor—“Well, it’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.” Lenox—“Ah, if it were only a step back again.”—Vogue. The Eton jacket is one of the most ibsurd-looking things iu the world— before a pretty girl puts it on.—Shoe and Leather Reporter. The Baltimore police were paid iu silver dollars last week. And yet silver dollars for coppers is not a good ex change.—Boston Globe. Landlady—“Let me help you to the Saratoga chips.” Mrs. Newboarder— “No; I’ll try the toothpicks. They seem to be of softer wood, I think.” Ada—“Why does Clara speak of George as ‘her intended?’ Are they engaged?” Alice—“No; but she in tends they shall be. ”—Brooklyn Life. I dreamt I dwelt ia marble balls ; I felt at ease, with life content, Till fancy brought the landlord’s calls ; He came, alas, to get the rent. —Buffalo Courier. Bridget—“There’s a man at the gate with pigs’ feet, mum.” Mistress— “Gracious, Bridget, send him around to the dimo museum.”—New York Recorder. Beloved—“Papa says he sees no reason why we shouldn’t be married.” < Lover (ecstatically)—“Then he wasn’t pinched in that last deal after all. ”— Detroit Tribune. “If there is any more of this oscu- latory conviviality,” said the little Boston girl at the children’s party, much shocked, “I shall withdraw.” —Chicago Tribune. A lady reader wants to know if we believe in cures by “layiug on hands.” We do, madame, we do most fer vently. But a slipper or pine shingle is better. —Galveston News. Policeman (to hand-organ man) — “Have you a license to play? If not, you must accompany me.” Signor Monkania—“Witha pleasure; wiiat will you sing?”—New York News. We go to sleep these pleasant nights Fanned by the cooling breeze ; Along toward morning we wake up Aud sneeze, and sneeze, and sneeze. —Kansas City Journal. Mae—“That Miss Jumper is dread fully masculine in her ways.” “What does she do?” Mae—“Oh, I’ve seen her get off the car before it stopped, without falling.”—Chicago Inter- Ocean. How does the idea of a ‘corn ban quet’ strike you, anyhow ?” inquired the goose, coldly sarcastic. “A corn banquet tills the bill,” clucked the old hen, pecking away with all her might. —Chicago Tribune. •s To Clean Engravings. When steel engravings and prints have become spotted and discolored, this treatment restores them: Pour some clear water into a basin big enough to hold tho engravings smoothly. Put some chloride of !ime in a muslin bag and immerse it in the water until quite a strong solution is made. Then take it out and immerse ■ the engraving or print. Let it remain until clean, then rinse in weak vinegaj tad water. —New York World.