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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. Buckien’a Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cutsr bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, feve, sores, tetter, cbDped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion, or money refunded. Price 25c per box. For sale by D .W, Curry. 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. * * * 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.