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VOLUME 11.
WAYS OF THE SALMON.
WHAT AN OBSERVER HAS NOTICED
IN WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Th Tylife, the Largest ami Strongest
Salmon That Ascends the Rivers—
• The “Humpy,” the “Red,” the
, ami the "Silver.”
The short, rapid mountain streams flowing
into Puget sound are, at all seasons of the
year, filled with salmon pressing upwards
into the fiercest rapids, to spawn where their
eggs will be most protected from the numer
ous smaller fish that prey upon them. When
the winter snows melt from the mountain
sides with the warm sun of May and June,
and the streams run almost bank full, the
tyhee, Chinook for chief, run, work their
way slowly into the upper waters, generally
reaching there about July, when the snow
supply having failed, the rivers fall leaving
deep pools between the ripples. In these
pools the tyhees linger for a couple of
mouths, during which time they can only be
caught with seines set in the eddies at the
foot of a ripple.
Only the newest and strongest seines are
used for the tyhee. for he is the largest and
strongest salmon that ascends the rivers,
often weighing more than fifty pounds. Up
to September they are very fast—as the In
dian vendors say, ‘All the same bacon’—and
are of a beautiful silver color with bright
pink flesh, and very fine eating. In Septem
ber they begin to spawn and work into the
creeks and sloughs. Climbing ripples, wrig
gling through shallows with their backs out
of the water, sometimes into streams no
wider than their own length. The journey
soon batters them. Their bright silver colot
turns to a bright brown. The flash becomes
white and soft, and they are totally unfit for
food.
DURING THE SPAWNING SEASON.
The eggs are deposited on the swiftest
ripples. The female strikes the sand and
gravel violently and at the same time de
positing the eggs. The eggs have a slimy
covering, to which the particles of sand,
raised by the blow, adhere, and act as sink
ers. Otherwise the eggs would be carried
away by the strong current, and be devoured
by the swarms of trout, v/hitefish, and suck
errs that follow to prey upon them. The
male fish follows depositing the spawn.
Oftentimes tierce fights occur between rivals,
tearing each other savagely with their for
midable teeth. Spots where the fish spawn
are easily distinguished. The gravel has a
\ white, shining appearance.
A considerable percentage of the tyhees
lie during the spawning season; the rest re
tarn to the sea during October. Every third
’ear, in the month of August, the “humpy
Btimon,” so called from a large hump on the
back of the male, push their way upward
toward head-waters. They don’t dally in
the pools like the tyhees, but push forward
i.ito the shallow, swift streams in a business
li'Ve manner, for their time is short. They
spawn and die, and their bodies line the bars
or li# in great heaps in the eddies, yielding a
most offensive odor. The first Septem’ er
freshet generally sweeps them out, and the
canoe man can breathe fresh air again.
The humpy is a small fish, seldom weighing
over ten pounds; the large hump and savage
looking teeth of the male make him hid
eously ugly; the female is smaller and re
sembles a large trout. They are the poorest
fish that come up the rivers.
A MOST ADVENTUROUS FISH.
Iu October the “red,” also called “hook
bills,” ana "pin sainen” amt oalmv‘U,“
make their appearance simultaneously. The
red is rather small, seldom exceeding fifteen
pounds. They are of a silver color on first
entering fresh water, but as they get higher
up turn a beautiful red. The red salmon is
a most adventurous tellow, forcing his way
up the little mountain creeks to the base of
the foothills. Nothing will stop him but a
perpendicular fall. I have seen them
wriggling along through little creeks no
lar er than street gutters, burying them
es under sticks or logs and projecting
lcs at every sign of danger.
l'he larger, but less hardy, dog salmon,
generally succumbs by the end of November,
and their bodies lie along the banks in myri
ads, tainting both air and water. They
form trie winter food for large numbers of
ducks that come up from salt water. On
their first arrival these ducks are excellent,
but become fishy, soon making them taste as
bad as their diet smells.
Wildcats, raccoons, wolves, eagles and
other creatures congregate along the water
courses until the spring freshets clean the
remnants away, and they are forced to the
hills to seek other food. Hogs, too, of the
razor-back and fern-digger varieties, allured
by the smell, squeeze through a hole in the
fence and go afishing. It is an amusing
sight to watch a hog pounce upon a weak
ened fish, and bear him struggling to the
shore.
THE INDIANS AS FISHERMEN.
The Indians spear great quantities of both
of these last named varieties of salmon.
None are caught in nets, as the hooked snout
of the red, and the large teeth of the dog
salmon would tear the net in pieces in a few
settings. The fish is coarse and whitish, and
but few arc eaten by the whites, but the In
dians smoke and store them away in rough
bales, as this is their staple article of food.
The last run of the year is the “silver sal
mon,” the best fish that enters the rivers.
They come with the November high waters,
and remain pretty quiet in the deep pools all
winter, spawning in the spring.
None of these salmon eat anything while
in fresh water, nud in consequence deterior
ate rapidly, the silver and tyhee runs being
edible for a longer period than the others.
The young salmon go to the sea when two
or three months old, and how long it takes
them there to mature I leave for the natur
alist to determine.—Washington Territory
Cor. Detroit Fiee Press.
Choking a Man with Salt.
A man was seized with an epileptic fit in
the street the other day, whereupon a kindly
disposed policeman darted into a neighbor
ing grocery and asked for a handful of salt,
which he forced into the poor fellow’s
mouth. The operation was approved by
some of the spectators, who complimented
the policeman upon his knowledge of “just
what to do” in such cases.
“Of all popular remedies,” said a physician
who was questioned on the subject, “that of
choking a man with salt just because he has
a fit is the most senseless and barbarous. In
some cases it would do serious injury, and
might cause death. Hystero-epileptics are
troubled with a choking sensation and spas
modic contractions in the throat, which in
terferes greatly with breathing and swallow
lowing. To crowd salt into it is a foolish
and ignorant proceeding.”—New York Sun.
Rewarded l>y a Golden Harvest.
The persons who invested in the diving
speculation to obtain £IOO,OOO worth of gold
which was sunk years ago in the ship Al
fonso XII., off the west coast of Africa,
have been rewarded by a harvest of gold
from the gray sand fields. The- divers have
got up nearly all the gold, and have sent it
to England.—New York Sun.
Buzzards Troublesome in Florida.
Buzzards have become so troublesome
at Tallahassee, Fla., sitting on the chim
neys of the state capital, that the adju
tant general has ordered them shot.
The Missouri Cremation society has
400 members, twenty -five of whom are
women. , .-.f. -it.-
THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
CALLING BACK A DEPARTING SOUL.
A Strange Instance of Chinese Belief
and Practice —Weird Voices.
A correspondent of the North China
| Herald calls attention to a strange instance
of Chinese belief and practice with regard
to the human soul, which lately came under
his notice. Lying awake at 3a.m. he heard
in the street close to his house two strange
answering voices. Evidently two persons
were engaged in this weird dramatic per
formance, one representing a departing soul,
the other acting as the friends and relatives
deprecating the departure.
The first actor gave a low, prolonged cry,
which was answered by a low and earnest
“Come, come.” After a pause the cry and
the answering call were repeated; this went
on for about ten minutes, when
inarticulate cry ceased. The second actor,
in an agony of distress at the departure into
the unseen of the soul he had been entreating
to stay, shouted loudly in a voice which he no
doubt hoped would reach to the confines
of the spirit world. “Return, return—
come!” at the same time calling by name.
Then there was another pause —presently the
low cry was heard as at a distance, “Come,
come,” eagerly responded the actor; and
now the cry and the answer followed one
another more rapidly till the cry seemed
close to the caller, and in a smothered chorus
as of welcome the performance, which was
probably directed by a Taoist necromancer,
ceased,
It is described as being strangely impres
sive in the stillness of the night, notwith
standing the grotesqueness of the supersti
tion ; but of course it was not known whether
there was actual death in this case, within
twelve hours of which the Chinese call for
the soul to return or whether it was only a
case of serious ihaess, fainting, or collapse.
This peculiar custom, it appears, varies in
different parts of China. Up the Yangtsze
it is usual for two women to perform the of
fice. When a man dies suddenly the women
walk through the streets, one calling out the
name of the deceased, and the other respond
ing “I am coming,” the idea being to prevail
on the wandering spirit of the deceased to
return to its material abode, which, it is
presumed, it has temporarily abandoned.—
Nature.
Bob Burdette in Washington City.
While we wandered through the buildings
in the botanical garden, we were joined by
another party of tourists, raw, verdant and
full of wonder as ourselves. But there was
one woman in that party who was not new
to anything, and was only out to impress
her friends and ourselvess. Everything
that was new to the rest of as, was old to her.
“I have one at home just like it,” she said,
“only not quite so large.” We all paused
before a monstrous cactus, big as a colum
biad and rare as a harmonious church
choir. We oh’d and ah’d. “I have one just
like it at home, only a little smaller,” came
the high-keyed, penetrating tones. “Mine
was sent to me from here.” The cactus
shuddered and the procession filled on.
We went into the orchid house and uncov
ered our reverent heads and softly breathed
our worshipful admiration in the presence ol
a delicate spirit of color, the ghost of some
flower, transparent in its delicate purples, a
sprite of color, rather than a flower. “I’ve
found them in the woods in Connecticut,”
said the woman in seal skin. “They grow
wild, under the stumps.” We paused before
alien plants from beyond the sea, rich blooms
that crossed the equator to reach us, hardy
flowers, children of the snow from Alpine
peaks—“l have one just like it at home, only
not so large,” said this woman every tiine-
At last, we drifted away from tne gardens
and our wanderings brought us all to the
foot of Washington monument. “That’s a
noble shaft, Robert,” said Dr. Nourse.
“Yes,” I said, “it is." “I have one just like
it at home,” said the doctor, impressively.
Then he adden, after a pause, “only it’s a
lttle smaller.” Then silence like a poultice
came to heal the flows of sound, and the
woman in sealskin haughtily led her flock
away to the White House, the duplicate of
which, no doubt she has at home.—Brooklyn
Eagle.
Conflict Between Trade and Art.
“A few years ago” said a Chicago vocalist,
i Theodore Thomas was here conducting an
Apollo concert. I was to sing a solo part,
and as I earn my living in a mercantile pur
suit and my rehearsal was called for 11 a. m.
during holiday week it was only by the
greatest exertion that I was enabled to leave
the store to attend. He w r as rehearsing the
orchestra aud he paid no attention to me. I
waited, with great impatience, for half an
hour past the time appointed, and then in
the most respectful way possible asked him
if he would not hear me smg, as I could not
be spared from the store much longer. He
dropped his baton, and, looking over the
orchestra and a score of others who were
present, exclaimed in a despairing tone and
the most insulting emphasis possible: ‘Gen
tlemen, we are in the west—the far west,
where trade is of more importance than art,
He then grumblingly began to play the ac
companiment.
“As I did not know his temper the first at
attempt at rehearsal was not so successful as
it might have been, and in an angry tone he
exclaimed: ‘Young man, when you have
learned your music you can rehearse—not
before.’ He and I had some hot words, dur
ing which I took occasion to tell him what I
thought of him. 1 then resigned. Peace
was afterward resumed, but I refused to re
hearse, and sang the part without having
heard the accompaniment previously. He is
just like all the others. He rails at the ‘west,’
but if it were not for the dollars of the west,
‘where trade is of more importance than
art,’ Thomas would be sawing wood. —Chi-
News “Rambler.”
A Glimpse of Roscoe Conkling.
A third person of distinction to whom I
was presented was Mr. Roscoe Conkling.
Instead of being impressed the moment I
saw him with the recollection of his speeches
in public life and his career as a statesman,
I was foolish and trifling enough to notice
the rare sapphires in his shirt front and to
feel a sense of relief on finding that his nose
had its limits. Inwardly I sent a maledic
tion on the caricaturists who have such
power to give lasting impressions with their
exaggerated pencils through such widely cir
culated mediums as tall and handsome as his
friends have represented him; but his hair
and Vandyke beard are snow white now.
You can scarcely imagine how the deliber
ate, dignified, eloquent sentences fell on my
ear amidst the ripples of laughter around us
and the many gUb tongues all rattling on
as fast as they could clatter. I con
trasted the tinkle of many tea bells
vehemently ringing with the sounds of
a deep toned church bell heard above
them all. Every deliberate sentence was
well worth the closest attention, for he spoke
to me of the furious pace we keep up in this
great babel, of the varied occupations of our
day. and how in pursuing our avocations we
ascend steps, are rushing through the air,
descend again only to be shot up to the top
of a many-storied building. Let down
again, we are taken many blocks in tho
swiftest surface cars, the new Broadway
line, and all this to accomplish one part of a
day’s work.— Mrs. E. B. Custer’S Letter.
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CARTEKSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 11, 1886.
A TALK WITH JAMES D. FISH.
Why He is Brought to the City Again
From His Prison.
New York World.]
James D. Fish, late President of the
Marine Bank, was brought from Auburn
last Saturday to testify in certain suits
brought by W. S. Johnston, the Receiver
of the Marine Bank, and will probably
remain here a week or more. He is stop
ping at the Murray Hill Iletei, where he
is constantly visited bv members of his
family and a few personal friends. A
World reporter called upon him yester
day and found the ex-banker comforta
bly seated in a large rocking chair before
a pleasant grate fire smoking a cigar and
reading a morning paper. lie was dressed
in a plain dark business suit and His face
wore the ruddy glow of health.
“I really don’t know how long I shall
be here,” he said in answer to the re
porter’s inquiries. “Mr. Johnston, the
receiver, wanted my evidence in some
suits, and I was brought down on a writ
of habeas corpus, but I do not know what
the suits are. There are several of them,
however, I am told, and probably they
will all be brought up before I go back.”
Mr. Fish talked freely of his truobles
and of his business relations with Ferdi
nand Ward, and told how he became ac
quainted with Ward and how the latter
had gained His confidence and led him on
to ruin. “I was in business for over for
ty years,” he said, “and my truthfulness
and integrity were never questioned.
When I became President of the Marine
Bank, twenty-three years ago, it was a
small concern with little means of credit,
and so little did I know of the coming
crash that only a week or two before the
failure I bought some of the stock of the
bank and thought I was getting a bargain.
“I made Ward’s acquaintance,” lie
went on, “through Sidney Green, who
was an old friend of mine, and after Mr.
Green’s death at Ward’s solicitation I
advanced him the money for a number
of small deals in flour and other articles.
He seemed a likely young fellow, and al
ways made his returns regularly and hon
estly, as I supposed. He was very inti
mate with Mr. Ed..on, David Dows anil
others, and told me that Dows had ad
vised him to buy Rock Island stock, and
used to tell me also about the check tha 1
Edson gave him when he got married.
About the time he began buying stocks
he took a desk in Dominick & Dicker
man’s office and did his business through
them, but often came to me for assistance,
whice I gave him. In 1879 he hired a
little house in Stamford, Conn., and in
vited me to come up there and meet
‘Buck’ Grant. I didn’t go, however, and
the first time I ever saw young Grant was
at a dinner as the Union League Club,
Ward kept telling me that‘Buck’ wanted
to go into business with hiip and me, and
after I had met young Grant I consented,
and the firm was organized, and Ward
assumed the active management of its
affairs.
“After Garfield’s nomination Ward
told me that Gen. Grant also wanted to
get into the firm, and had $50,000 to put
up. lie said, ‘I think we had better take
him in, as his name and influence will
help us.’ Then Jesse wanted tocorne in.
By this time Ward had made himself
very solid with the whole family, hold
ing the most intimate social and business
relations w ith them. He carried a gold
knife presented to him by the General
and often showed me other little souven
irs presented to him and told me he had
charge of all of Gen. Grants securities
while the latter was in Europe and made
investments for him and how pleased the
General was when he returned. When
he built his big house in Stamford he fit
ted up an elegant room which he called
Gen. Grant’s room. It was a gorgeous
affair, with a representation of the world
frescoed on the ceiling, and I believe
Grant spent some time up there with him.
“The first I ever heard of the Govern
ment contracts w as in January or Febru
ary, 1882. Ward came to me one day and
said: ‘l’ve something to tell you that is
magnificent—something that will aston
ish } T ou and show how lucky w T e were in
taking the Grants in.’ He then said that
Chafte e and Elkins were strong personal
friends of the General, and believed he
would again be President, and that they
were going to give him an interest in
some yeay valuable Government con
tracts they had, and the business w’ould
be done by the firm. He said the secur
ing of these contracts was the result of a
little political favoritism; that the Gen
eral understood the matter perfectly, but
that the business must be done yerv
vuietly, as if it became known it might
hurt Grant’s political chances. I knew
of the intimacy between Grant and
Chaflee, had seen the latter in the office,
and the story looked so plausible I be
lieved it.
Alter we had handled three or four of
these contracts, as I supposed, I w’rote to
Gen. Grant and asked for a conference
to talk over the affairs of the Arm. This
letter was marked ‘private’ atid was
sent to his private office. He wrote
me a note in reply, saying he would
be down to see me at three o’clock
that afternoon, but did not come,
and subst quently I received another let
ter from him written by Grant & Ward’s
cashier, but signed by Gen. Grant him
self. In that letter, after speaking of
other things, he said, referring to the
Government contracts of which I had
spoken: ‘I think the investments are
safe, and am willing that Mr. Ward
should make such use of my name and
influence as they may be worth for the
benefit of the firm.’ It seems now that
the General had such perfect confidence
in Ward that he handed him my letter to
answer.
“Another incident will show you how
thoroughly Gen, Grant believed in the
fellow. I met him one day in Decem
ber, before the failure, and asked him
how things were getting along. ‘Splen
didly,’ he said, ‘our business is phenom
enal. We have made more money this
year than any other fi r m in Wall street.
Ward is the smartest and best business
man I ever saw.’ I asked him if he ever
looked over the books and he said that
he did not, that he was satisfied with his
monthly statements.”
“What do you know about work and
Warner’s connection with the firm?”
asked the reporter. “Nothing,” said
Mr. Fish “I knew they had some dealing
with Grant & Ward, but I never talked
with either of them and knew nothing of
the enormous profit they are said to have
made. Had I known of it my suspicions
would hnye been aroused. Ward told me
that Warner was a retired capitalist, but
I never saw him until he took the stand
at Ward’s trial. It was the same way,too,
with Mayor Grace. I never 1 knew he was
getting more than 8 per cent, per annum
for his money. That is what Ward always
told me.
“ Are any efforts being made in your
case to get a paidon ?”
“Not by me,” was ’he quick re
sponse, “and I know of none. In fact if I
knew I could ask for one and get it by
return mail 1 would not write the letter.
Speaking of his life in prison, where he
acts as corresponding secretary for the
institution, he said he had nothing to
complain of and that he was well treated,
and his rosy face ana generally healthy
appearance certainly testified to the truth
of his assertion.
MUST SO MANY BIS DAMNED.
Parson M ingins Pitches into Christian
Loafers.
New York World. |
While reading his usual Sunday noti
ces yesterday morning the Rov. George
J. Mingins, pastor of the Union Taberna
cle, in West Thirty-fifth street, said that
recent prayer meetings of the church
had been largely attended and full of fer
vor. Then lie said:
“I am sick of loafers in the church who
do nothing but grumble and find fault.
God will surely smite them. I don’t
know where such men and women go—
probably to a special place of their own.
I sometimes think that God will have to
fix up some place for them—somewhere
between heaven and earth.”
Mr. Mingin’s sermon was on “Chris
tian Laziness,” and his text was the sen
tence : “Woe to them that are in ease in
Zion.”
Referring to the smallgess of the con
gregation, caused by the bad weather, he
said that it seemed if the devil had some
thing to do with the weather, as he (the
speaker) never got up a sermon which he
especially desired his congregation to
hear but it rained.
“It there is an abomination on the
earth,” he said. “It is a close-fisted
saint—such as a minister who gets all he
can and keeps all he gets. God and the
angels must despise such a man. This
delusion of righteousness is carrying
many to perdition. They are professors
of religion who say they loVe Jesus;
they look pious, act piously, but are not
pious. They are lazy and indolent, and
the Church is cold to-day because of
them. Activity is as necessary to the
welfare of the soul as it is to the oper
ations of nature and the mind. Stagna
tion is death; there is not a lazy person in
heaven—or in hell. Whs shoulb the
Church be the only place where stagna
tion exists. Statistics show that not one
in twenty of church people is doing ac
tive work for God. Fully nineteen
twentieths of all churchgoing people
will be damned, and yet one will pre
tend that God wishes to condemn them.
It is because of their own indifference.
“This great religious stagnation has
been recognized by two of the great de
nominations, and the Episcopal Church
has brought over eight celebrated evan
gelists to rouse its members. If the 100,-
000 Christians in this city should each
gain only one convert a 3 r ear in seven
years New York would belong to God.
There is not in the ministry the activity
there should be, and if not there, why,
in the pews we know it isn’t.
“A dawdling woman is of no use in the
world. She is an abomination. She
does nothing but frizz her hair and fry
her brains. God pity the man who gets
her.”
“The lack of money in the church is
due to want of sympathy. People treat
kindly what they love. They love them
selves, and wear fashionable bonnets and
patent leather shoes. If they loved God
they would try to help him also. What
they give is given stingily. They say:
‘O Lord, Igo to that church, and I sup
pose I’ve got to give something,’ They
drop in their miserable mite and let God
go starving. The Saviour comes to the
church in rags. Sometimes we to go out
into the world and beg for what ought to
come from members of the church.
• “It has been said of me that I have not
kept my word, because when we left the
Thirty-fourth street church I promised to
live on SLO a week. I said I would do so
if the church could do no more, but it
is amply able to support me as a clergy
man and a gentleman should live. It
does not do half what it ought to do.
This lack of sympathy with the church
will never furnish the means for convert
ing the world. Christianity is hardly
holding its own in this city. You put
your hand in your pocket to feel what is
left. God is left—out in the cold.' And
so God’s poor and the church are starv
ing. Without a fervent zeal nothing can
be accomplished, but that is not looked
upon with tolerance by fashionable peo
ple. If a loving woman should say
‘Amen,’ or a man ‘Praise the Lord,’ dur
ing a sermon, they would turn up their
noses and say, ‘Oh, these people must be
underbred Methodists!’ ”
“ There are Methodist churches in this
city where an amen is never heard. They
want to be fashionable, and God is only
tolerated. I don’t believe in shouting, but
I would rather see man stand on his head
and shout for God than do nothing. The
apathy of the Church and professing
Christians makes the world worse than
it would be without them.”
Mr. Mingins said he would complete
this sermon next Sunday.
THE TELEPHONE SCANDAL.
Mr. Garland Should Either Resign or be
Dismissed.
From the Evening Post.]
In writing a few days ago about the
telephone suit which Secretary Lamar
has authorized to be brought to test the
validity of tne Bell patent, we took the
view that it was the greatest mistake yet
made by the Cleveland Administration.
1 his opinion was based upon a careful
examination of the legal grounds for
bringing the suit as set forth in the bill of
complaint. The subsequent discussion
of the case shows that there are even
graver reasons than those which we gave
for thinking the suit,was a mistake. The
opponents of the suit are making a great
clamor over the pecuniary interest which
Attorney-General Garland has in the set
ting aside of the Bell patent, and are
charging that this is really the main mo
tive of the Government’s action; that
Secretary Lamar, while having no Decun
iary interest in the matter, has yielded to
the personal influence of his associate,
Mr. Garland, in bringing the suit.
Clamor of this kind would liaye no
weight with the public were it not based
upon a certain amount of truth. Unfor
tunately, there i3 only too much truth in
this instance. We have always regarded
the relations of the Attorney-General to
a telephone company as seriously inter
fering with his usefulness as a public
officer in all matters relating to telephone
litigation. He is the self-confessed own
er of a very large block of stock in a
rival company. Documents have been
published which show that he acquired
this stock while he was in the Senate,
and that he was given it because the pro
moters of the enterprise believed he
would be useful to them. His own let
ters show that he not only “saw various
channels iu which he could be useful,”
but that he was useful in many of them.
When he became Attorney-General he
was asked to bring a suit in the name of
the Government to test the validity of
the Bell patent. lie declined to do this,
as he subsequently explained in a letter
to President Cleveland, because he was
“disabled by being a stockholder and the
attorney for the company in whose name
it was intended to make the application.”
This refusal was given some time last
summer. A few weeks later Mr. Gar
land left Washington for a vacation in
Arkansas, and soon after his departure it
was announced that the suit which he had
declined to bring had been granted to the
applicants by the Solicitor-General. The
popular outcry against the proceeding
was very great, and the Attorney-Gener
al’s relations to the company bringing
the suit were fully exposed. The Presi
dent called upon him for an explanation,
and it was given in a long communica
tion dated Oetoll&r 8. 4n it Mr. Garland
admitted the truth about*lYis stock in the
rival company, explained, as cited above,
his reasons lor declining to grant the
suit, and declared that the Solicitor-Gen
eral’s permission had been obtained with
out his knowledge or consent. The Presi
dent then intimated veiy plainly to the
Solicitor-General that he had better re
voke his permission for the suit and refer
the question to the Interior Department,
and this .was done. Secretary Lamar’s
decision to allow the suit to be brought
has caused great surprise, and has re
vived the whole subject of the Attorney-
General’s relations to the question.
Defence of Mr. Lamar’s action may be
possible, and if it is should not be delayed
There is no light to be found in his official
announcement of his decision,for he gives
no opinion upon the merits of the case.
It was very evident that he had not care
fully examined the subject, for he states,
as reason for bringing the suit in the
name of the United States, that no private
suit could avail to set asi ’e a patent which
had been fraudulently obtained, whereas
the Revised Statutes section 4,920 express
ly provide that this issue can be raised in a
suit brought for infringement. If he was
not influenced by his personal regard for
the Attorney-General and the other emi
nent Southern gentlemen who are also
stockholders in the Pan-Electric Compa
ny, he should make this fact as p.uin as
possible.
The great pity of it all is that no expla
nation can free the Administration from
more or or less scandal in the matter.
Mr. Garland is the head of the Depart
ment of Justice, and if the suit is to be
tried in the Government’s name his de
partment will have charge of the prose
cution. That he will not take charge of
it personallj T does not materially lessen
the objection. He owns a half million
dollars’ worth of stock in the Pan-Elec
tric Company, or one-tenth of its whole
capital. The company has eight licensed
branch companies, with an ostensible
capital of S4O, 000,000, of which 40 per
cent, belongs to the Pan-E dectric Com
pany, and one-tenth of this 40 per cent,
belongs to Mr. Garland. If the Bell pat
ent were to be set aside, Mr. Garland’s
interest, which is now little more than
paper capital, would become enormously
valuable, and this contingency will be
certain to affect the conduct of every man
associated with him. Under these cir
cumstances neither he nor a department
controlled by him ought to have any con
nection with a suit of such great impor
tance, and brought under such suspicious
circumstances. It would not be sufficient
for him to dispose of his stock altogether,
for his former relations would be certain
to affect his conduct. We are frank to
say that there is only one of two courses
for the Government to follow, an 1 that is
either to order the abandonment of this
suit or call for the resignation of Mr.
Garland. His continuance in office un
der the present conditions is doing the
Admi nistraticn irieprable injury.
Clingman’s Tobacco Remedies are sold
at Curry’s Drug Store. They are highly
recommended, try them.
A HEAVY LOAD FOR THE DEMOC
RACY.
Washington, Feb. I.—lt is most un
fortunate for the Administration that an
exposure of private interests in a specu
lative scheme should more or loss com
promises two members of the Cabinet,the
Solicitor-General of the United States,
the Commissioner of Railroads, the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, the chief
clerk of the Indian office, and an Indian
inspector, to say nothing of several Sena
tors and several ex-members of Congress,
all Democrats.
These interests in the so-called Pan-
Electric Company were acquired without
any actual investment of capital by the
favored parties.
The telephone business had become a
great popular and pecuniary success.
I his prosperity stimulated rivalry, ex
cited envy, and encouraged jealous hos
tility, which were exhibited in adverse
claims and contests of the only recogniz
ed patent for a talking telephone. The
courts, unitormly, in different States and
with the most accredited Judges, decided
agaiust the contestants, who were left
finally, after costly litigation, almost
without even technical resources to carry
on the war.
In the dilemma the Pan-Electric Com-
P fU W proposed to enlist political influence
in and out of Congress to secure legisla
tion for new proceeding in the courts,
and, failing in that end, to obtain a stand
ing before the public, whereby its alleged
rights might he sold to unwary purchas
ers.
This is the explanation of the fact that
Mr. Garland, Mr. Harris, and other Sen
ators, Mr. Atkins, Mr. Casey Young,
Gen. Joseph Johnston, and other prom
inent persons were invited into the orig
inal organization, and were allotted
shares running into the millions. It is
astounding that Senators and Represen
tatives who respected their public trusts
and valued their good names could have
been induced no accept these favors.
They were, of course, expected to ren
der some equivalent in service for the
shares they pocketed, either by votes or
by the credit of their names to attract
public confidence to the enterprise. In
either case they committed a grave
wrong.
When Mr. Garland entered the Cabi
net he was encumbered with this acquir
ed interest, having knowledge of all the
litigation respecting the telephone pat
ent, and having given an opinion that
there was no infringement ot its rights
by the company with which he was con
nected. He failed to dispose of his stock.
He preferred to take the chances of a
possible fortune, and was willing to as
sume all the responsibility of a false po
sition.
During the summer, when Mr. Gar
land was absent in Arkansas, the United
States District Attorney of Memphis
wrote to the Attorney-General proposing
that the government should commence
suit to test the validity of the Bell tele
phone patent on various charges. The
uniform practice is to refer such applica
tions to the Secretary of the Interior in
order to obtain full information from the
Patent Office.
Mr. Goode, Solicitor-General, was then
acting in Mr. Garland’s place, and it so
happened that some of the latter’s as
sociates in the Pan-Electic Company vis
ited Mr. Goode when the application of
the District Attorney reached Washing
ton. Whether they exerted influence or
not, the fact is not disputed that Mr.
Goode decided to bring suit inside of
twenty-four hours, and without consult
ing the Interior Department.
That decision provoked much harsh
criticism, and Mr. Garland returned to
his post in the midst of it. The subject
was brought up in Cabinet meeting, and
Mr. Garland wrote an explanatory letter
to the President, which was published
without his privity. Mr. Good’s decision
was arrested. Here was a second chanee
for Mr. Garland to have washed his
hands of this unclean thing, and to have
peremptorily forbidden any participation
in a suit by the Department of Justice,
lie was not equal to the occasion.
Subsequently the case was virtually
reopened by referring all the pipers to
the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Da
mar, instead of dismissing it, and allow
ing the courts to determine the contests
now pending, created a court of his own,
with two assistant secretaries and the
Commissioner of Patents as his associ
ates, and fiually decided that suit should
be brought in the name of the United
States to try anew case, made for the oc
casion and for the benefit of Mr. Gar
land’s company, and other speculative
enterprises like it.
It is not charged that any of these par
ties acted corruptly, or that they intend
ed to commit fraud; but the whole busi
ness, from the beginning, when the prin
cipals were Senators and Represenatives,
is tainted with a dark suspicion, which
follows them now into high office.
The Administration suffers seriously
from this cause. The people demanded
reform. They know that the presence
of Mr Darland and Mr. Lamar in the
Cabinet, and of Gen. Johnston, Mr.
Goode, Mr. Atkins, Mr. Upshur, and
Mr. Armstrong in office is a positive in
jury to the Democratic party.
An Okl Citizen Speaks.
Mr. J. M. Norris, an old resident of
Rome, Ga., says, that he had been badly
troubled with Kidney Complaint for a
great many years and with Eczema for
three years ; at times could scarcely walk
and had tried many remedies without
benefit, until he began taking Electric
Bitters and anointing his hands and feet
with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. This treat
ment afforded him great relief and he
strongly recommends Electric Bitters to
all who suffer with Kiduev Complaints
or need a Blood Puritter. Sold by David
VV. Curry, 3 1
NUMBER 2.
ORCHARD STARVATION.
Mr. Chas. Patterson, in a paper read
before the Missouri State Horticultural
Society, and reported in the Rural World,
after referring to the severe injury the
orchards of his state as well as other sec
tions have received from the recent se
vere winters, and from the constant dep
xedations of borers, concludes that, alter
all, starvation is at the bottom of a great
er part of our orchard failures. He says:
“I think grass-sod has killed more
trees, and made more trees barren here,
than all other causes combined. It seems
to starve them almost as effectually as
tying a horse to a stake with plenty of
food all around him. It may be more
severe on our prairies, because they
make the driest of hay and a very close
sod; but I see the same indications men
tioned even in New York. And the rule
was there thirty years ago, that when the
tree made less than six to twelve inches
of growth, it needed cultivation. Here
I nave searched whole orchards in vain
for a two-inch cion.
Whenever the orchard is seeded down,
it will go to bearing like it would from
any other injury, and continue so for per
haps five to eight years, ard then it will
surely begin to fail, to the great astonish
ment and disgust of the owners. If it
were a cow, he would probably feel of
the horns to guess if they were hollow,
but scarcely dream of her hollow belly,
though almost visible between the ribs.
The tree shows just as unmistakable signs
of starvation by failing to make a lively
growth ot wood, as well as making small,
knurly fruit, yet he Ims probably never
thought of noticing that. Weeds or
clover are not near as bad as grass-sod,
especially if no tramping of stock is al
lowed, but they cannot be recommended
as the best th A can be done, unless clo
ver is plowed und r r as soon as it gets its
full growth.”
There are some serious objections to
the constant cultivation of orchards, es
pecially after they come into bearing.
We have seen several cases which seem
to offer conclusive proof that such culti
vation had caused the destruction of
young orchards by keeping up the growth
so late in the season, that an untimely
cold snap found the trees unprepared to
resist it. But there is another, and we
think a better remedy for orchard starva
tion than culture, and which is free from
all these objections—that is, top-dressing
with coarse manure during the winter.
PROGRESS OF THE SORGHUM IN
DUSTRY.
A correspondent of the Rural World irt
calling attention to the coming meeting
of Kansas cane growers, makes some
statements which are not only imperti
nent to the sorghum industry, but to all
other branches of industry as well. He
says: “Now-adays almost every art has
its organized association, its members dis
miss methods, machinery, markets, avow
failures and give the reasons, announce
successes and state the causes, p’an im
provements, learn from each other; in a
word, work together for mutual pros
perity. In olden times trade secrets
were carefully guarded. In these times
it is found that mutual prosperity assists
the prosperity of the individual. Nearly
all lines of manufacture have their pro
tective associations. Science improves
methods and mechanics improve ma
chines and the manufacturer has to change
with them. Prices drop and the cotton
factory remedies it by putting in better
apparatus and making cloth cheaper.
The roller system raises the standard of
flour and the miller takes out his mill
stones. The man who goes steadily on
in the old way his father trod gets badly
left. By trade associations each member
has the benefit of the experience of all.
I know no trade or art of profession
which needs the benefits of organized as
sociation as much as the new northern
cane industry. It has no standard ma
chinery, as Mr. Thoms recently rightly
expressed it. Even the long tested cane
mills are doubted now. The process of
clarifying has to be learned again. Some
sulphur, some use bi-sulphite, some
use lime, some use nothing and now
comes carbonatation. The evaporating
apparatus is chaotic; some use deep cir
cular pans, some evaporate In ma3s in
rectangular boxes, some in shallow liquid
with continuous flow, some in old style
vacuum pan, some in continuous vacuum
I -ii, some are trying cheaper methods
for low evaporation. Some spread the
bagasse and dry it for fuel, some burn it
with other fuel as it comes from the mill,
some hire it thrown away. All grades of
product result from all these methods;
there is no uniformity. Organized asso
ciation will assist northern cane to
emerge from this experimental chaos and
to take its place as a well organized in
dustry.”
At Sparta, a few days ago, nearly all of
the family of W. C. Dougherty were
poisoned, but not fatally, by the smoke
and fumes from white sumac which was
being burned on the fire, around which
they were sitting. It made their skin
itch and turn red, and they became quite
sick, but have now recovered.
r • ’ .
Amerieus Recorder: Another tramp
struck the city, and was promply arrested
and brought before Judge Pilsbury on
the charge of vagrancy. He gave his
name as Mitchell Coleman, He was from
Kentucky, and had not done a strokoof
w'ork for a year. He was given twelve
months in the chain-gang.
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If worms change the complexion they
have a tendency to destroy the vital en
ergies that sustain and promote health
and life; therefore, at the first indication
of worms, administer Shriner’s Indian
vermifuge.