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VOLUME XX.
WRIGHT & REGK,
Attorneys at Law.
(OFFICE IN COURT HOISE.)
u -A.ODES.S ODNT, • - q.^
M. M. MILLS,
Counsellor & Attorney at Law.
Will practice in nil the courts Mo 1 ey
loaned on r. al estate at low rate of inter
tst. Long time granted with small pay
ments. Money obtained at once without
delay.
(OFFICE IS COURT nouss.)
Dr. 0. H. Cantrell,
dentist.
JACKSON, - _ GEORGIA.
Up stairs over J. W. Bun’s Rock
Corner.
J. W. LEE, M. D.
JAGKs;ON, GA.
Will practice medicine in its various
branches.
Office ut J, W . Lee & Sou’s drugstore.
Residence first house west of Mrs.
Brady’s.
110 TEL 8.
Iscmpsy House.
MK. 'l'. B. MOORE, I’HOPRIETOH.
i R.j isonablc, and Table supplied
w tii ti e best.
Corner Public Square.
Wiikinson House.
in t-C'iass in Every Particular.
!ii' only brick hotel between Atlanta
m (l M con,
C- nvciiient to all busings*.
Mrs. A. E. "Wli.KiNton, Prop.
STOP AT THE
Morrison House.
EVERY I'HIA'G NEW AND FIRST
GLASS.
Conveniently Located,
Free Hack to Depot.
MRS. E. MORRISON, Proprietor.
IV. IE. YANCEY,
SURGEON DENTIST.
JACKSON, GA.
Respectfully solicits the patronage of
Iho people of Jackson and Butts county.
Office up stairs in Watkins Building,
room formerly occupied bv Dr. Key
SATISFAC: JON GUARANTEED.
Pure, Brilliant, Perfect.
Authentic living testimonials from dis
tinguished generals and statesmen in fa
vor of II iwkes’ New Crystalized Lenses
over all others.
Our Next IT. S. Senator Sayss
Mu. A. K. llawkbs —Duar Sir: The
piutiscopic glasses you furnished me
some time since give excellent satisfac
tion. I have tested them by use and
must sar they are umqualed iu clearness
and brilliauev by any that I have ever
worn. Respectfully,
John B. Gordon,
Ex-Governor of State of Georgia.
Rnsiness Mail’s Clear Vision.
New Y rk City, April 4, 1888.
Mr. A. K. Hawkes — Dear Sir: Your
patent eye glasses received some tinm
since, aud am very much gratified at the
wonderful change that has come over my
evtsight since 1 have discirded my old
glasses and am no v wearing yours.
Alexander Agar,
Secretary Stationers Board of Trade of
New York City.
All ryes futid and ti e fit gua'anteed by
W. L. CARMICHAEL,
J.VCKI’ON. - ' GEORGIA
DEMOCRATIC ADDRESS
To the Public Issued by the National
Committee.
The Democratic national committee has
issued the followin'; address:
To th > People of the United States—The
democratic national committee congratulate the
country on the result of the recent state elec
tions in Maine, V. rmont and Arkansas In
Arkansas the combined opposition, after so
manv extravagant claims, fell short by
thirty thousand of the vote of the democracy
alone. This has brought dismay to the com
bination in the south and its manipulators in
the north. In Maine and Vermont ihe content
was conducted distinctly on national issues, ine
republican managers appealed for votes m these
states on the ground that the “size of pluralities
would exert a great moral influence on the
campaign in other states, and that the poll
be practically ir vote for the president
Similar appeals summoned to their aid all Uo
potent resources of their national organization
with its exhaustless treasury and its splendid
equipment of orators of national fame Mith
ever! fav ring force at their command except
public opinion, with no organization opposed
save those made up within the state.by a.minor
ity party which has been out of power for a
eratiou and which was unaided from "‘“lout,
the campaign of our adversaries for a triumph
ant test vote in these states, so carefully planned
ami si thoroughly and forcefully executed, has
ended in conspicuous disaster. , ...
Oar friends everywhere are entitled * 0
fresh courage from these results. Ih e 7
that thesiroug ten iency of public sentiment is
with ihe democracy and that the people ot the
country are prepared to enforce, rather thanre
verse, the verdict which tliev rendered in low,
William F. Hakbity,
Chairman Democratic Committee.
Don M. Dickinson,
Chairman Campaign Committee.
A Prize Picture Puzzle.
Any one can find the" v PiCtUre conta | ' n \ four a man ar| J bis three daughters.
The picture was DublisheH in" Y b no * 50 easy to distinguish the faces of the three young ladies,
our standard remedy att ? Cted considetable attention to
is to introduce our medicines into np hrnn P !U e con |P etltlcn in connection with it. As the sole object
not to ccmoete in this ’ A,| r l tO .i neW l^ose vv * 1 ° entered the former competition are requested
medicines are held in Toronto Canada ' and the est “nation in which their
Or !2 *£“ The For<l Pj ll p O -’ ’ wnl Sive an elegant pair of Shetland Ponle9.
,and Harness, valued at $6OO, (delivered free in any part of the United States,
I * cxrA ■ , i |P erson can niake out the three daughters’ faces. To the second will be given an elegant
-aay S Gold tnffltch, set in sappliires and diamonds. To the third will be given a pair of
genuine Diamond Ear-rings. r io the fourth will be given a handsome China Dinner
service, lothe ./?//£ willbegivena Kodak Camera. To the sixth, a Swiss Music
uox. io the seventh, a French Mantel Clock- To the eighth , an elegant BdflClUet
JLQIYip. 1 o the ninth, a pair of CrOWII D©rby VdSG3< To the tenths a complete LOWD
TcnniS many other prizes in order of merit. Every competitor must cut out the above
* * Picture,” distinguish the three girls* faces by marking a cross with a lead pencil on each,
and enclose same with 15 U. S. two-cent stamps for one of the following “Prize Remedies:”—
l ord s Prize Pills,” “Ford’s Prize Catarrh Remedy,” or “Ford’s Prize
Cure* Select any one of the above remedies you desire. Address “The Ford.
I ill b 0,,” Cor. Wellington Bay Sts., Toronto, Canada. The person whose envelope is
postmarked first will be awarded the first prize, and the others in order of merit. As this adver
-1 lseinent appears simultaneously throughout the United States, every one has an equal oppor-
Utnity. To the person sending the last correct answer will be given an elegant Upright Concert
G rand 1 lano, valued at $500.00. To the first person from the last sending a correct answer
will he given a gentleman’s fine Gold “Sandoz” Watch, which strikes the hours and quarter
hours on small cathedral gong at pleasure, and valued at 15300.00. To the second from the last, a
first-class Safety Bicycle, pneumatic tire. To the third from the last, a first-class English Shot
gun. To th o fourth from the last , a suite of Parlor Furniture. To the fifth from the last, a
handsome Silver Tea Service. To the sixth from the last, an elegant Piano Lamp. To the
seventh from the last, a handsome pair of Portieres. To the eighth from the last, a genuine
English leather travelling Trunk. To the ninth from the last, two pieces of genuine French
Statuary, and many other prizes in order of merit.
SPECIAL PRIZES FOB EACH STATE.
A_ special prize of a Silk Dress Pattern (sixteen yards, any color), or a first-class
Sewing Machine (any make desired) will be given to the first person in each State in the
U. S. who can make out the three daughters’ faces. We shall give away 200 valuable prizes,
besides special prizes, (if there should be so many sending correct answers.) No charge is made for boxing
and packing of prizes. The names of the leading prize winners will be published in connection with our
advertisement in leading newspapers next month. Extra premiums will be given to only those who are
willing to assist in introducing our medicines. Nothing is charged for the prizes in any way. They
are absolutely given away to introduce and advertise “ Ford’s Prize Remedies,” which are stand
ard medicines, and will be used in every family for years where they have been once introduced. All
prizes will be awarded strictly in order of merit, and with perfect satisfaction to the public. The remedies
will be sent by mail, postpaid, and prizes free of duty.
A WATCH FOB EVERY CORI?F€T AySWBB.
An extra premium of a genuine “Fearless” Wateh, (stem winder,) will be awarded to every
person who sends a correct answer within 30 days after this advertisement appears, in case they should not
be fortunate enough to secure one of the larger prizes. That is, if any one can find the three faces and
enclose them within 30 days from the time this advertisement appears in the newspaper, they are
guaranteed either one of the leading prizes, or an extra premium of a watch on conditions stated.
No answer will be noticed that does not contain 30 cents for one of Ford’s Prize Remedies.
Address THE FORD PILL CO, “37,” Cor. Wellington & Bay Sts., Toronto, Canada.
JACKSON
Real Estate aid Renti Aiency.
D. J. THAXTON, Manager.
SUCCESSOR TO
H. O. Benton & Cos.
Farm Lands, Business Lots and
Residence Lots For Sale.
FREE OF CHARGE,
We Advertise Property in
the MIDDLE GEORGIA AR
GUS without cost to the
owner.
We are the only Real Estate Agents in Jackson, and have in our hands quite a
number of valuable and desirable, farms in Butts and other counties for sale on the
best of terms.
Also City Property, Residence and
Business Lots.
If you have land te sell, put- it into our hands and we will tod you a borer. If
you have houses to rent we will find you a renter. If you wish to bay a home eaii
on us and we will furnish team and driver.
WE ASK ONLY A TRIAL.
- - - Ck., Jw % IW.
JACKSON, GA.. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1892.
McKinley wages
BREAK DOWN.
history of the small list of bogus
■WAGE ADVANCES THAT NOW SUP
PLIES TWO PARTIES WITH CAMPAIGN
MATERIAL BRIEF FACTS IN RE
GARD TO EACH CASE.
The Hon. John DeWitt Warner, ol
the New York Reform Club, has com
pleted bis investigation of the twenty
eight cases where, according to the
American Economist and other high
tariff authorities, wages have been ad
vanced in protected industries since
October, 1890. Trustworthy examiners
were sent to each place to get the facts.
Their reports were of such a nature that
the Reform Club has published them as
a number of Tariff Reform, and the New
York Weekly World gave them adult page.
It will be remembered that the Re
form Club had prepared and published
in the World and in Tariff Reform a list
of nearly 500 wage reductions and lock
outs in protected industries since the
McKinley act took effect. The protec
tionists who had promised higher wages
with the McKinley bill and had been
shouting higher wages ever since, began
so get uneasy because they could not
tell anxious inquirers exactly where
wage advances had occurred. They be
gan to search, feeling confident that
■wages must have advanced in many of
the thousands of protected mills in this
country. They sent out circulars to
manufacturers asking them to report the
per cent, that wages had been advanced
in their mills since October, IS9O. In
this way and in other ways they got
together what purported to be a list of
wage advances. Apparently it did not
occur to the American Economist editor
(or if it did he was so anxious to publish
the list that he did not consider the
consequence of an exposure) that the man
ufacturers might misstate facts, perhaps
to get free advertising, or, it may be, to
attract laborers to their mills. The
twenty-three cases of “wage advances”
were published with a flourish iu the
American Economist. Republican papers
were not slow in copying the list. At
last McKinley had been vindicated and
the “free trade liars” silenced. But tne
one great fault with the list was that it
was short; indeed it was its brevity that
betrayed it in more ways than one. It
not only exposed the meager results of
great promises, but it offered induce
ments to investigation which a more
formidable list would have precluded.
If the protectionists were attempting a
game of bluff they should have made a
list of several hundred advances—so
many that it would be a very big and
very expensive piece of work to make
inquiry in regard to all. But twenty
three cases were just enough to challenge
investigation. If a few of them could
be showm to be incorrect, the already
small list would be diminished so that
even Republican editors would be
ashamed to publish it. It was not ex
pected by Mr. Warner, when he began
the investigation, that the whole list was
a fraud and that he would, in the ma
jority of cases, get wage reductions for
his already long list. The following are
the briefest possible summaries of the
list, the quotations being from the
American Economist’s list of examples
of w 7 ages advanced under the McKinley
tariff, showing increased per cent.:
“1. Haskell & Baker Car Company,
Michigan City, Ind., 10 percent.”
Wages were reduced from to
25 cents per day in 1889, and restored
12-J cents in May, 1890. No change
since the McKinley act took effect.
“2. Wooster & Stoddard, Walden,
N. Y., 5 per cent.”
Strike in May, 1892, caused a read
justment of wages by which some got
more and otbeis less-total effect not
certain.
“3. Camdeu Woolen Company, Cam
den, Me., 10 per cent.”
Four looms got a raise because they
changed to heavier work; weavers earn
ings were not increased.
“4. Rider Engine Company, Walden,
N. Y., 5 per cent.”
No advances in ten years, but reduc
tions of 10 and 12-J per cent, since 18S4.
“5. Hawthorne Mills Company, Glenn
ville, Conn., 15 per cent.”
One man advanced from $1.15 to
$1.25 in July, 1892, and nearly all of
the 200 employes reduced from 10 to 20
per cent, since 1890.
“6. Alfred Dolge, Dolgeville, N. Y.,
20 per cent.”
Alfred Dolge has for years had a sys
tem of encouraging employes to work
for little and to expect more, by advanc
ing the wages of twenty or twenty-five
cf his more industrious workmen a shil
ling at the end of the year. In Febru
ary, 1891, forty or fifty received this
advance but in February, 1892, no ad
vance whatever occurred and many em
ployes were disappointed. Numerous
reductions each year fully offset these
bunched and widely heralded advances.
“7. Lake Superior Lumber Company,
Sault St. Marie, Mich., 15 per cent.”
No advance at all was made in this
planing mill; report was purely for
political reasons.
“8. J. C. Bass, Roxboro, N. C., 2.5
per cent.”
The two or three employes of this grist
and saw mill never got less wages than
now. The report furnished amusement
forueighbors.
*‘9. H. L. Chapman, White Pigeon,
Mich., 15 per cent.”
One of the two employes here is an
apprentice and had his wanes advanced
to 50 cents per day from 25 cents.
“10. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, Grafton, W. Va., 20 par cent.”
No advances here, but the few that
have not been discharged by closing of
foundries, etc., have had their wages re
duced in the last vear from $2.25 to
r 1.57.
“11. Wilkins & Close, Mayfield, N.
Y-, 15 to 25 per cent.”
Mr. Wilkins says tiie report is false, as
only the usual advances to new hands
have occurred.
“12. Close & Christie, Mayfield, N.
Y., 15 to 25 per cent.”
Same situation a3 No. 11.
“13. Cantastota Knife Company, Can
tastota, N. Y., 10 per cent.”
In IS9I, by threatening to strike, the
employes got back about 10 per ceDt. of
the 20 per cent, reduction made four or
five years ago.
“14. New York Knife Company,
Walden, N. Y., 10 per oent.”
In April and in June, 1892, about
two-thirds of the workers by having a
union and bythreatening to strike received
advances of from 7to 10 per cent. A
general reduction of 10 per cent, oc
curred in 1885, which the company
promised to replace if Harrison was
elected.
“15. Tho oaston Knife Company,
Thomaston, Conn., 10 per cent.”
Same situation as at No. 13.
“16. W. F. Epperson, Ladoga, Inch,
10 per cent.”
Mr. Epperson’s reply to the Republi
can letter sent him is being widely cir
culated by Democrats. Instead of ad
vancing wages he has had to shut down
his heading factory part ot the time.
“17. Pittsburg Reduction Company,
Pittsburg, Penn., 10 per cent.”
The proprietor knew of no advances
and was surprised that such a report
was made.
“18. Sultan Buggy and Carriage
Company, White Pigeon, Mich., 10 per
cent.”
No advances, but more work for tho
seme pay.
“19. B. Howitzer, Chaseburg, Wia.,
10 per cent.”
Chaseburg has fifty inhabitants--■'No
Howitzer there.
“20. Enterprise Manufacturing Com
pany, Manhcim, Penn., 30 per cent.”
The girl3 making socks and overalls
at $2.50 to $3 a week became dissatis
fied and wore irregular at Work. The
firm advanced piece prices from 35 to
45 cents, and from 11 to 15 cents per
dozen.
‘ ‘2l. Sliaw Stocking Company,Lowell,
Mass., 10 per cent.”
The reduction by law of working hours
from sixty to fifty-eight caused no re
duction of wages of day laborers, but
piece workers may earn less.
“22. Kiugs County Kniting Company,
Brooklyn, N. Y., 6 per cent.”
The ten or fifteen employes know of
no advance.
“23. Western Knitting Mills, Roch
ester, Mich., 15 per cent.’*
Four apprentices were advanced; many
others of the one hundred employes re
ceived reductions from 15 to cents
per dozen.
“24. Western Knitting Mills, Detroit,
Mich., 15 per cent.”
Wages have not changed for eight
years.
“25. Langley & Davis, Oriskany
Falls, N. Y., 25 to 50 cents a day.”
Two foremen and one apprentice ad
vanced slightly; six weavers and one
finisher reduced from 11 to 16 per cent.;
wages of other five employes unchanged.
“26. William Carter & Cos., High
latidsville, Mass., 15 to 50 cents a day.”
Five of ninety employes were advanced
to prevent them from returning to Eng
land. A few other changes in the mills
were made because new machines were
introduced.
“27. McOormiok <fc Go., Harris
burg, Penn., 15 to 60 cents a day.”
Forty laborers whose wages were re
duced from $1.20 to sl.lO last fall had
the ten cents restored in June. Forty
puddlers on February 15, 1892, were re
duced from $4 to $3.50 per ton. Eighty
five were thrown out in March, 1892, by
the closing of one furnace.
4 ‘2S. He (John DeWitt Warner) should
not forget the 25,000 employes in the
Fall River cotton mills, who had their
wages increased on July 11.”
The legal change of hours from sixty
to fifty-eight per week caused no reduc
tion of wages, because the employes
were contemplating a strike to get back
a reduction of 10 per cent in 1884.
The Tariff a Tax.
Senator Jatnes K. Jones asked the
Hon. C. R. P. Breckinridge, of the
House Ways and Means Committee, to
prepare for the Hon. W. L. Terry, of
Little Rock, a statement of the amount
of tariff duties on a bill of goods bought
by a representative farmer. In reply
Mr. Breckinridge furnished an exhibit
based on actual transactions between Mr.
R. M. Knox, merchant of Pine Bluff,
Ark., and Mr. D. W. Branch, a farmer,
who bought the goods. Mr. Breckin
ridge explains that this is calculated
upon the basis of copy from the books
of Mr. Knox and upon the rate of taxes
actually paid upon competing articles at
the ports as provided by law. The bill,
as it appears in Mr. Knox’s books, is
subjoined:
18S7. Cost. Tatar.
Jan. 26 To eassimere suit
clothes $ 11 00 i 4 00
2 pair brogans, $1.63. 300 75
Feb. 5 1 bell collar 150 75
2 pair plow lines.... 70 16
1 pair boy’s brogans. 126 29
17 1 box axle grease.... 10 2
21 1 Avery plow 350 109
2 buck boards, 50c.; 9
pounds nails, 60... 1 05 29
1 bushel salt, 75c.; 1
pair misses’ shoes,
$1.25 2 00 62
March 8 1 pair shoes, $1.75; 1
pair hinges, 25c.... 2 00 50
1 yard waterproof.. 75 30
26 1 pair brogans 1 69 37
2 yards calico, at 10c. 20 9
1 water bucket, 25c.;
1 spool thread, 5c.. 30 9
April 9 11 pounds nails, 6c.. 66 14
22 2 hats, 65c.; 1 yard
lawn, 50c 1 SO 51
20 yards stripe, 12t£c 259 103
14 yards calico, 10c.. 140 60
3 yards jeans, 50c.... 150 70
dozen thread 40 13
12 yards ticking, 25c 300 125
1 set cups and saucers 75 29
May 3 1 knife 75 25
June 8 2 pair men’s shoes... 400 47
1 pair suspenders.... - 75 20
24 10 yards bleaohel do
mestics, 12}£o 1 25 54
July 25 2 suits ci’ttaes, $7.50, $9 16 50 579
2 yards oil cloth, 40c.. 80 12
10 yards gingham 100. 100 35
1 curry comb and
brush 16 5
Aug. 19 35 yards bajrgmr, 9c.. 315 105
1 bun lie ties, $1.50; 12
lbs. nails, 5c 60 18
Sept. 8 14 lbs. nails, 5c 70 21
1 box axle grease, 10
lbs. soda, 10c 20 6
10 35 yards bagging, %
lb. 8c 2 SO 95
1 bundle ties 1 50 S9
10 varus osnaturgs,
11c l 10 84
Oct. 24 1 suit jeans clothes.... 750 267
2 wool hats, $1 aud
$1.50 250 102
1 boy’s wool hat 75 82
10 yards worsted. 2Jc.. 200 87
13 yards worsted, 17c. 220 93
1 set plates 65 24
1 set goblets 65 24
1 set knives and forks. 275 91
2 dishes, 40c an 1 60c.. 1 00 86
85yvHrdsbagging.be.. 280 99
1 bundle ties 3 13 95
£lOl 50 $3B 80
Protection and Wages.
“No intelligent advocate of a protective
tariff claims that it is able of itself, to
maintain a uuiform rate of wages—with
out regard to fluctuations in the supply
of aud demaud for the products of
labor. But it is confidently claimed
that protective duties strongly tend to
hold up wages aad are the only barrier
against a redaction to a European
scale.”—President Harrison’s Letter.
WAGES PER WEEK IS EUROPE.
Free-trado Protected
England. Germany,
Blacksmiths $9.60 $4.96
Carpenters 9.75 4.11
Machinists 9.00 4.60
Painters 8.92 4.82
Masons 8.00 4.07
Shoemakers 6.00 2.95
Laborers 5.29 *.ll
TELEGRAPHIC GLEANINGS.
The News el the World Condensed Into
Pill!? and Pointed Paragraphs.
Interesting and Instructive to All
Classes of Readers.
The Greensboro, Pa., glass wo ks
owned by Kuhn Bros., shut down for an
indefinite period Thursday, throwing 300
men and boys out of employment.
A news ep cial of Thursday states that
the British bark Hope has gone down u
sea. Six of her crew of nine were
drowned. The lost men -were all Welsh.
A meeting of the stockholders of tin
burned Metropolitan opera house in New
York was held Friday, at which it was
voted to sell the opera house with its en
cumbrances and indebtedness at ptibli.
sale.
The National Switchmen of North
Ameiica met in Dallas, Texas, Monda
morning. More than three hundred del
egates, many with their wives, represent
ed every lodge in North America were
present.
A news special from Loon Lake, N. Y..
says: It was decided by Mrs. Harrison’s
physicians Monday morning to comply
with her wdshes to be t k n to Washing
ton, aud the trip will be undertaken at
once if she continues to improve.
A dispatch received Friday by the In
dian bureau at Washington from the
Choctaw country shows that the situa
tion there is a,ain critical; that many
Jones men are dissatisfied with the peace
agreement and are collecting in large
armed bodies.
A terrible boiler explosion occurred
Saturday in Force & Dickinson’s stove
mdl at Staples, a small village on the
Leamington and St. Clair railway, four
miles from Comber, Ontario. Seven mei
were ins’autly killed. One fatally injured
and about twenty others more or lese
severely hurt.
A New York and spatch of Tuesday says:
The board of health’s 4 o’clock bulletin
says: “No case of cholera in this city
since the last bulletin. There is a sus
pected case of a Chinamau, of No. 14
Mott street, who died to-day, and his
body has been removid to the foot of
East Sixteenth street for examination.
At a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Charleston, S. C., board of
health an order was issued quarantining
the Ciyde line steamers five days from
their sailing date from New York. The
average sailing time is forty-eight hours
and the regulation consequently virtually
amounted to three days’ quarantine of
vessels from infected ports.
A disastrous fire occurred Saturday
morning at the navy yard in Brooklyn,
N. Y. It broke out in the three-story
wooden extension of the machine shops.
In this extension was stored the machin
ery of the new cruiser, Cincinnati. It
was totally destroyed. The flames en
tered to the two-story brick machine
shop and caused much damage. The
loss is roughly estimated at $500,000.
A news special from Portland, Ore.,
says: The principal business transacted
at the session of the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows Tuesday was the
election of officers for the ensuing year,
as follows: Grand sire, Q. F. Campbell,
London, Ontario; deputy grand sire, J.
W. Stebbins, Rochester, N. Y.; grand
secretary, Theodore A. Ros*, Columbus,
O. ; grand treasurer, Isaac A. Shepard,
Philadelphia.
The largest conflagration that has ever
occured on Long Island coast destroyed
over one hundred frame buildings at
Rockaway Beach Tuesday, and left about
one hundred and sixty acres a mass of
ruins. The loss will range between $6OO,
000 and $1,000,000. The burned district
includes both sides of Seaside avenue
from L ng Island railroad track and
about half a mile north from Seaside
avenue.
A special dispatch of Thursday from
South McAllister, I. TANARUS., says: The recent
trouble between the Choctaw national
and progressive parties is settled for the
time being. Twelve of the Choctaws
who did the killing have laid down their
arms and surrendered for trial. The
other three will give themselves up at
once. The remaining armed men have
agreed to lay down their arms and go
home. The governor has promised pro
tection to the prisoners who are in charge
of officers of their own party.
yr-- ——
Anew fer®b is an awl walk out
stretched wings of diamonds.
NUMBER 37.
slumber son a.
The mill goes toiling slowly around,
With steady and solemn creak.
And my little one hears in the kindly sound
The voice of the old mill speak;
While round and round those big white
wings
Grimly and ghostlike creep.
My little one hears that the old mill singoi
•‘.Sleep, little tulip, sleep!”
Ths sails are reefed and the nets are drawn,
And, over his pot of beer.
The fisher, against the morrow’s dawn
Lustily maketh cheer*
He mocks at the winds that caper along
From the far-off clamorous deep,
But we, we love their lullaby song
Of “Sleep, little tulip, sleep P*
Shaggy old Fritz, in slumber sound.
Moans of the stony mart;
Tomorrow how proudly he’ll trot you
around,
Hitched to our new milk cart!
And you shall help me blauket the kiuo,
And fold the gentle sheep,
And set the herring a-soak in brine;
But now, little tulip, sleep. ,
A Dream-One comes to button the eyes
That wearily droop and blink. *
While the old mill buffets the frowning
■kies
And scolds at the stars that wink;
Over your face the misty wings 1
Of that beautiful Dream-Ona sweep.
And rocking your cradle, she softly sings:
“Sleep, little tulip, sleep 1”
—Eugene Field.
PITH AND_ POINT. I
“Born leaders of men”—Women.—
Puck.
The world owes us a living, but it
hasu’t yet authorized anybody to setttle
debts of that kind.—Puck.
Conundrums submitted for the Post’s
gold eagle prize: What makes a coach
dog spotted? The spots. —Boston Post.
It makes no difference how ambitious
a man be to excel; at this season he can
endure being “thrown into the shade.”
—Boston Courier.
She packed a trunk with flannel gowns
And took it to the shore,
But when the damp air stuck that trunk •;
Those flannels were no more.
—Life: 1
Mrs. Slimson—“My Clara is an aw
fully delicate girl; she can’t stand any
thing.” Mrs. Yon Blumer “Neither
can my Maude. She put on a sailor hat
the other day, and it made her seasick.”
—Cloak Review. i
Jones—“ Why on earth do you offei
such a large reward for the return ol
that horrid, yapping, snapping cur?”
Brown—“To please my wife.” Jones—
“But such a large reward will be sure
to bring him back.” Brown—“Oh, no,
it won’t. He’s dead. I drowned him
myself.”—Judy.
An estimable but unhealthy lady who
is taking the water at Saratoga was de
scribing the symptom to a friend, and
wishing to explain that she first visited
the bath and afterward took her glass of
mineral water at the spring, she said:
“My dear, the treatment is very simple.
You take your bath first and diink the
water afterward.”—Texas Siftings.
“Are you a mechanical engineer?”
“Yes.” “Do you know all about the
combustion of fuel in locomotive grates?”
“I know something of it. Why do you
ask?” “I am looking for information on
a certain point.” “What point?” “I
want to know if the father who discour-'
ages his daughter’s lover can be called a
spark arrester?”—Detroit Free Press, j
“Bessie,” said the young man, plead
ingly, “this is the fourth time I have
called at your home since I saw you
last. Is there any way by which I can
always be sure of finding you ia, or at
least of always knowing where you are
when I call for you?” “You might ring
me up, you know,” responded the pretty
telephone girl, looking dreamily at her
shapely fingers.—Chicago Tribune.
Stones That Move.
In Australia, and also in Nevada,'
magnetic stones are found which are ap
parently endowed with the power of lo
comotion. The stones are described at
being almost perfectly round, the ma
jority of them as large as a walnut, and
having the appearance of iron. When
distributed upon the floor, table, or
other level surface within two feet or
three feet of each other, they immedi
ately began traveling toward a common'
center, and there lie huddling up in a
bunch like eggs in a nest. They are
found in a region which is comparatively
level, and is nothing but a bare rock.
Scattered over this barren district are
little basins from a few feet to a rod or
two in diameter, and it is in the bottom
of these that the moving stones are
found. They are found the size of a pea
to six or seven inches in diameter. The
cause of these stones rolling together is
to be found in the substance of which
they are composed, which appears to be
loadstone or magnetic ore. A single
stone, if removed to a distance of not
more than three and a half feet, upon
being released immediately starts off with
wonderful celerity, to joins its fellows;
but if removed four or five feet it re
mains motionless. In the Falkland Isl
ands there are rivers of stones which
slowly but surely move onward. They
consist of blocks of quartzite, mostly
small, which fall into the valleys on be
ing detached from the rocky ridges
above, and become imbeded in the
spongy soil. They are subjected to a
constant expansion and contraction, as
the soil is either saturated or becomes
comparatively dry. Whenever the ex
pansion takes place the stones slip down
some distance, however small or infin
itesimal, and therefore are more or less
on the move. These moving “moraines”
or stone rivers, are one of the wonders
of that part of the world. There are in
many plates stones or masses of rook so
finely balanced that a touch makes them
move and eommenoe rocking.—Yankee
Blade.
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A million dollar sugar refiuerj is to be
built at Brooklyn, N Y