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THE FAMOIN PEACE CONFERENCES
»F THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
AMIENS TO SlinlllMI'Eli I—TH E
WORK OF V t’F.Vn RY’Jt FEAUE.
Marked liy Notable Advances Toward
Continued A rbl t rn t Ion .
* With the lienee of Shimonuseki, an
other «iKit on earth becomes historic and
takes its place beside tin* noted locali¬
ties iu which tlie giant wars of the
world were declared endt'l. in all like
Iih(a m], the record of tin* nineteenth cen¬
tury’s |lean- emigres sc* is now (vised.
ami the work of its peacemaker* can be
gathered into one great whole. What an
array of statesmen confronts the gaze
of him who looks down the long aisle of
this iron age! What, hallowed spuls
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The great record Ix-gins with Amiens
and ends with Khmioiiostiki: it begins
with tln< fall of I’ll . the greatest of
English statesmen, and ends with Count
Ito. the precursor of a new era fm the
Orient. 1’llt fell because he had deter¬
mined to keep u promise made to tile
Irish Catholics, and it was left to Add¬
ington to Cose a peace with Napoleon
which demonstrated to the world that
England had but one statesman lit to
cope with Talleyrand. Each of these
great peace conferences was made mem
arable in many ways. That of Hhimo-
noseki lias the attempted assassination
of Li I lung Cluing to mark it as pecu¬
liar in more respects than its epoeh-mak-
ing political etiilM.
In 1801 that of Amiens was memorn
hit* in the advent of Joseph Bonaparte,
who conducted the negotiations for
France, Talleyrand being always with
in consulting distance. It was the fir.-t
great peace of the century, and the first
and only time when Napoleon found
himself without a war on his hands.
England's conquests were all given up
to France and her allies. Malta was
turned over to the Knights of Mnl a.
and the greatest nation of today stood
howed ill deepest humiliation lie fore the
conqueror.
In 1805 came the famous treaty of
Ki'lioenhruun, in which I’nissln gained
Hanover and secured “peace with dis¬
honor.” Prussia's statesman was Count
llangwilz, u man of vacillating mind
mi l one whom Napoleon used as he saw
tit. AuslerlH/. had been fought and the
still- of Austria had set. it was then
that llangwilz rushed to Sehoenbrunn,
secured Hanover and allied Ids country
to France.
It was nt .Sr-lioeiibninn that Napoleon
easnnlly remarked; "La dynastic de
Naples a cesser de regner" (The dyims
ty of Naples has ceased to reign.)
Napoleon an a Peacemaker.
But the peace congresses in which Na¬
poleon played shuttlecock with the map
of Europe were slunidy brief breathing
spells In those years of carnage. The
(eace of Priusburg w as followed quick
ly by that of Tilsit, where Napoleon and
Alexander of Russia met on a raft to
discuss the spoliation of Prussia and the
humiliation of the rarest Queen in his
tory, i/raise of Germany.
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tn 1S09, after the murderous battle of
Wagram, came the second peace of
Sehoenbrunn. Fox, Grenville, Castle-
reigh were rising into eminence in Eng¬
land, Metteruii h was learning diplomacy
from Talleyrand, and Napoleon’s des¬
tiny was being enmeshed in the toils of
the shrewdest statecraft he had yet on
• oun toted.
The second peace of I’aris practically
ended the career of Napoleon, and the
('ongre-s of Vienna is perhaps the most
mportant of pence g.tLuu gs of t .is
century. Austria had its Mattornioh in
William von llumbodt and Ilerr Har-
denberg. Nossetr.sle and ltadoimiofl-ki
watched over Russia’s inti rests. Wi'll-
ington and t'astloreigli were sent by
England. France had Talleyrand and
Ilalherg. Peace in this instance meant
reconstruction, and the map of Eurojte
underwent its second memorable change
of the early century. Of the men of the
C'ongress of Vienna. Nesselrode lived til!
tS(!J, Metteru ch till ISIS), and Czar
loryski, who. as Foreign Minister of
Russia also a 11 ended, the Congress till
ism
In ISIS came the Congress of Aix la
Chappelle. to which England s<‘ut its
g;e,u Canning and France its Due de
Richelieu. Aix la Chappelle aiwm-
pltshed little except to rid France of
the Army of Occupation.
in 1S2P and 1S21 came the Congresses
at t'rappan and Laybach. whose repres-
sne tvorh ipadp possible the llevolution
of 1H48.
Lomlon's Great Conference,
In lSdO the great Iatndon conference
declared Greece independent, and M' t-
tendch. boiling with rage at the union
of Rmeda ami England in liehalf of he¬
roic Greece, remarked; "Not till now
does Europe know what it lias lost In
Castlereigh.” But Europe lute long
since decided that (kmiiiiig's policy of
Intervention was a powerful stroke of
tlme'y diplomacy. The London confer
enre also accomplished the division of
the Netherlands into the Kingdoms of
Holland and Belgium, thus ending the
religions war winch had begun with that
now historic rendition of the opera "Ma*-
snniello” in Brussels.
From 18110 to 1H48 there were few rea 1
lienee congresses in Europe. It was the
“Sturm utiil drang” period which Met
.crnii’h had so a •euintely predicted. In
1K51 the S< hlesw ig-llo'etein wars
against Denmark were ended by tin-
tnice of Berlin, and in 1850 the peace
of I’aris concluded the great Grime in
war. and marked with success the policy
of Louis Napoleon, of Lord Palmerston
and Lord Stratford. Aside from the elu¬
sions of territory, the peace of I’aris es¬
tablished several notable international
principles. These were the total aboli¬
tion of privateering, the principle that a
bbs'k.itic to he binding must tn- effective,
and the further declaration that a lieu
tral Hag covers an enemy’s goods, ex
f-ept contraband of war. not liable to
ciiiiture under an enemy’s flag.
It was just before the Paris ((infer¬
ence that Frederick William of Prussia,
then already somewhat weak mentally,
wrote the following to the English Min¬
ister resident: "All direct help which
England in ( NOIHUSTIAN FOLI.Y’ !
gives to Islam AGAINST CIIUIS-
Tl VNS, will have (bceidcs God’s aveng-
.n„' Judgment (hear! hear.’), no other
effect than to bring what is now Turk
>h territory at a somewhat later period
under Russian dominion.”
But the Crimean period had brought
a new group of statesmen to the front.
Bismarck was devoting himself to the
in'eriuiil affairs at home. Gorts liak iff
appeared for Russia both at the prelimi¬
nary conference of Vienna and. the final
conference ot Paris. Lord Clarendon
represented England and Favour gained
I he dbt union of having the House of
Savoy and Sardinia represented as a
power.
In 1X58 the treaty of Tien Teiu, fob
lowed by ilio peace of Pekin in 1 N 00 ,
opened the interior of China to trade.
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In 18(iO the peace of Villi I re r.c he and
that of Zurich which ended the war of
Austria against Sardinia and France,
paved the way for the (Stabfishmunt of
the Kingdom of Italy. Favour surren¬
dered Savoy and Nice to Louis Napoleon,
Imt gained Modena and the Papal
Sinlcs. Mazziua and Garibaldi brought
about the final peace which gave Italy
to Victor Emanuel.
In 18(11 (lie pence of Vienna gave
Schleswig Holstein (o Austria and Prus¬
sia. and the peace of Prague in 1800 hu¬
miliated Austria by the loss of its Dan¬
ish possession, the loss of Venice to Ita¬
ly. ii ml the establishment of the declara¬
tion that German unity was possible
without Austria. Iti these years the
fame of Bismarck rose with each Prus¬
sian success, ending with the establish¬
ment if the imperial Confederation.
Lord Palmerston was England's gnat
peacemaker during this period. Glad
stone and Disraeli were rising into full
view, while in France the names of
Thiers. OUivier. Favre. Gambet.a and
Rochefort wore becoming famous^ In
1807 the London conference averted a
war over the Luxemburg question be
tween France and Germany, but only
for a fetv years. In 1871 the peace of
Frankfort-on-the-Maiu destroyed the
military power of France, deprived that
nation of Alsace and Lorraine, and
made a reality of German unity. Theirs
had met Bismarck.
In 1878 the peace of San Stefano end¬
ed the Russo-Turkish war and the fa
moils ('ongross of Berlin at which Dis¬
raeli secured “Peace with Honor." set¬
tled the terms of European quiet. Lord
Salisbury appeared upon the interna
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. ttrvia. Montenegro and Rumania were
declared independent. Russ.a increased
her Asiatic pin-onions, and Greece sc-
cured part of Epirus and Thessaly.
The United States and Fence.
The peace congresses of tills century,
in which the United State's tvas inter-
este.l began with tlie Tripoli treaty of
1804. by the terms of which we deserted
an ally aud paid an immense ransom for
captured Americans who might -easiiy
liave been released if the original plan
of campaign had been carried out. In
1814 the treaty of Ghent ended our
war of lolii «w added lustre to the
name* of John Quincy Adam*. Henry
Olay, James A. Bayard uud Albert Gal¬
latin.
in 1H*8 the treaty of Guadaioui>v
Hidalgo ended the -Mexican war. and
the one name prominently connected with
the International proceedings was that
,,f Ouimisaiouer Trist, now almost for-
tfOl UHL Japan in 1K54,
Our treaty with con-
ducted by Commodore Perry, took place
at Yokohama and opened up a number
of luiportunt .Japanese ports to Ameri¬
can commerce.
The treaty of Washington in 1871 was
followed by that at Ghent in 1872. which
gave the United States f15,000.000 for
depredations committed by Confederate
cruisers fitted out by the English.
The great names connected with the
proceedings at Washington and Ghent
were Martini* of Hipon, Sir John A.
Manlonnald, Sir Edward Thronton, Sir
Stafford Nortiicote. Hamilton Irish, Con-
era! Schenck, J. C. Bancroft Davis and
E. It. Hoar. Not alone were the Ala¬
bama claims adjusted by the two con¬
ferences, but many unsettled points In
that fiasco, the Clayton-Bulwer treaty,
were distssied of. The island of San
Juari near Vancouver’s Island was given
the United States in accordance with the
decision of the German Emperor, to
whom the matter was left for settle¬
ment.
Adding the great Pan-American Con¬
gress which marked the statesmanship
of Mr. Blaine as notable, the record is
about complete, and the nineteenth cen¬
tury will go Into history with its wars
accentuated by notable peace congresses,
all lending to advance many step* near¬
er to that point where all disputes will
be settled by arbitration.
KMKI-I GRINDERS.
tlcu U 1 |(> Travel nil (tier the I nlim
Sharpening Steel.
Knife grinders in this town retain
the wandering instinct that has belong¬
ed to their craft from time iiumetno-
rial. Being peripatetic, it is a simple
and easy thing to prolong a day’s walk
to the next cr y, ami co by degrees all
over the union. They are seldom na¬
tive Americans, never negroes, and as
often nrc not Germans, They are
found in large numbers on the east side
and on the west, but are seldom seen
in llie lnuiiii business thoroughfares.
Their best customers used to be the
butchers, hut tile traveling tool shop,
with all tlie appliance's for sharpening
edged tools, setting saws and repairing
cutlery, lias somewhat cut into the
trade of the wandering knife grinder.
Scissors grinding for non-professional
women is now an important part of
their trade, and in many country dis-
.nets they are called scissors grinders.
The knife grinder’s outfit is bought
in Mulberry street, the resort of all
sorts of peripatetic persons, it coals
from ifiti to $ 10 , and should include, be¬
side tlie frame, treadle and driving
wheel, a small grind-stone for larger
articles, a smaller one or sandstone for
tine cutlery, u file and a whetstone.
The last two articles and a few other
trifles are stored in a little closet be-
tween 'tbe legs of the frame. The
wheels wifi last from eight to ten years,
uml the frame, with proper repairing,
half a lifetime. The whole thing is
light enough for a man of moderate
strength to carry all day long without
overexerting himself. Some knife
grinders have routes that are not seri¬
ously interfered with by their fellows,
but every important (thoroughfare is
visited daily by several, They are
treated with more consideration than
peddhrs, and are recognized, especially
in tlie German quarter, as a public con-
vemeuce.
Some of the knife grinders insist
upon grinding with a dry stone, a cus¬
tom that many owners of cutlery object
to on the ground that it tends or spoil
the temper of the steel. The dry grind¬
ers have a deft way of turning the
knife so that it does not become too
much heated by being long upon the
stone. Dry grinding is economical to
the grinder, since it wears the slone
slowly.
The characteristic ting-a-ling, ting,
ting, tiug-n-llng, ting, ’ting, of the knife
grimier is traditional and unique. It
is kept up a long time by a mechanical
movement of the wrist that gradually
gives the muscles involved great power.
The movement of the 'bell is very
slight, and the muscular effort is so
timed that the motion of walking shall
aid in producing the sound. It is uni¬
form, and iu time it becomes almost
involuntary. A few grinders have sub¬
stituted 'the voice or the bugle for the
hell, but tlie traditional alarm is the
most agreeable to persona that find
pleasure in the conservation of trade
and pieturesquesness iu its uniformity
with the past.
A little Swiss knife grinder of no age
in particular, speaking German, French
and English, as is the way with many
Swiss, declares that he has gone tink¬
ling about 'Ibis city for ten years, and
has beside seen Boston, Philadelphia.
Baltimore. Pittsburg and places be-
ttvoeu. lie takes an expert’s pride in
his trade, and declines to water his
wheel, though knives are withheld iu
consequence and receipts fall off.—New
York Sun.
THE LITER A R V FELLOWS.
Mr. Rudyard Kipling, it is announced,
is on the point of returning to India—not
to live there, however.
Swinburne is fifty-eight years old. Is
lHe teot high and has a ghastly face and
a head of Unkempt hair.
Walter Besant won’t write a line under
the s. tried rate of ten guineas ($52.50) per
thousand words, and none of the pub-
Ushers have struck against it.
T. B. Aldrich, the poet and writer, ts
»n alert, active man of fifty. He is a)-
ways fashionably dressed and wears his
mustache waxed in French fashion.
inward IV. 'i own send, the author o:
(hat popular hook. ' Chlmmte Fadden,"
will shortly isstn his first novel, a pic-
tnre of "the other half of New York.” en-
titled "A Daughter of the Tenements."
George du Maurer and Alma Tadema
wero students together at Antwerp, and
tn those days resembled each other so
closley that they were nardly distinguish-
able apart untB du Maurier lost the sight
of an eye and b gait to wear blue spec-
tacles.
Mrs. Mark' Robinson Wright, the Mex-
lean traveller and writer, recieved the
highest price ever paid for a newspaper
arlicU'—$20,000 in gold, paid to her by the
Mexican government for an illustrated
article on Mexico In the New York World,
THEY ARE
BOTH WRONG.
\ \ OIISBIIV UK'S VIEW OF GUI.I)
AND SEVER EXTREMISTS.
t'UXTKO’I.I.I NM FACTOR IN THE
STANDARD OF MBAS I HE.
Till!, of » Spill Among llie 10 to 1
Sli t •»d vociilen.
Washington, D. C„ May 13.—It is some-
times assumed that the people are tn the
habit of sending all their statesmen, phil-
osophers and thinkers to Congress, it la
true that everybody who is sent to Con-
press Ih not necessarily a statesman, a
philosopher or a thinker, At any rate, it
is perhaps safe to say that there are as
many men of distinguished ability in pri¬
vate life who are never, or scarcely ever,
heard of as there are in public life. Every
once in a while the Republic correspon¬
dent runs against a quiet philosopher and
thinker in this city who comes to have a
look at the public buildings or to attend
court, but never runs for office and
scarcely ever participates in public af¬
fairs beyond casting his ballot on elec¬
tion day.
A man of this class Is Mr. J. M. Mason
of Charlestown, W. Va. Mr. Mason is of
the distinguished Virginia family of that
name that contributed so many men *o
tne public service of the United States.
He Is a son of James Murray Mason, who,
with Mr. Slidell, came so near involving
the United States Government in trouble
with Great Britain during the Civil War.
Mr. Mason is a West Virginia lawyer of
considerable practice, who numbers
among his clients many wealthy men in
New York. His business requires his pres¬
ence in New York frequently, and he is
an acute student of public affairs and a
shrewd prophet of public sentiment.
Mr. Mason was in Washington a few
days ago and in conversation with The
Republic correspondent expressed himself
on the currency question, giving some un¬
usual views. Permission was asked of
him to submit his opinions to the readers
of The Republic in the form of an inter¬
view. He declined, hut said he would re¬
duce his views to writing from time to
time and send them to your correspon¬
dent. The first instalment arrived today.
It deserves careful reading. Mr. Mason
says:
"The arrogance and intolerance of the
gold bugs are ajs interesting as the im¬
practicability of the extreme silverltes.
But the surprising feature of the situa¬
tion is that the former do not see that
popular sentiment, or, what is more ef¬
fective at the polls, popular prejudice, is
consolidating against Vhem. Thoughtful
men aim at a policy which, based on the
approval of an enlightened public judg¬
ment, may be safely accepted as perma¬
nent. Such a policy must be out In the
open, and It will not emanate frotn Wall
Street hankers, who think that all men
are ignorant and dangerous. The best and
most patriotic talent In the land is now
investigating this subject with no motive
except the public weal. These men are
not bankers trained to look at a stiefa-
tion with an eye to personal profit. Lend¬
ing money, trading in bonds, wrecking
ing holders of railroad securities, rigging
quotations to unload watered stocks, is
not at occupation to produce statesmen
ike Hamilton and Gallatin. We may ad¬
mit that the bayonet must be substituted
for the ballot, but unless that admission
be made, it is a mistake to suppose that
voters will accept the theory that only the
ignorant and demagogues differ from
Wall Street as to what policy will bene¬
fit the country. The wisest men of this
generation predicted the result if silver
was boycotted. The prophetic vision was
vindicated by the emergency which forced
Cleveland to employ Rothschild to sus¬
tain what is miscalled Government credit.
“Many thoughts and facts suppressed
by the gold bug press are now clamoring
for a hearing, but there is not room for
them here. The present purpose Is only
to suggest a safe middle course on silver.
A salver dollar is now as valuable as a
gold dollar only because the Government
guarantees to exchange one for the other.
The volume may be increased with safety
provided exchangeability is maintained.
But exchangeability cannot -be maintain¬
ed if silver is coined in excess of gold.
Silver bullion would be exchangeable for
one sixteenth its weight in gold if the
Government offered to coin all silver com¬
ing to its mint, and was able and willing
to exchange gold coin for silver coin at
16 to 1. The bullion would be exchange¬
able because convertible into exchange¬
able coin. But this exchangeability could
not be maintained if the production of
silver exceeded 16 times the production
of gold. The combined governments of
the world could not keep the two metals
on a parity at any fixed ratio unless the
output of the mines be kept at the same
ratio.
"The advocates of free coinage insist
that production in the future will be in
the same proportion as in the past. Per¬
haps they are mistaken. A prudent busi¬
ness man would not risk the output of
silver increasing more rapidly than the
output of gold.
"if the Government should not attempt
to keep silver bulllion on a parity with
gold, then free coinage must be abandon¬
ed. But to abandon free coinage does not
necessarily mean to continue boycotting
silver. The Government may bind itself
to coin 16 grains of silver whenever it
ROl ns one of gold. The coinage of silver
would thus be limited only by the amount
» f *°} d °*‘‘ red to » h * m ‘ nt - ^he distinc¬
tion is between attempting to maintain
an unknown supply of silver bullion on
a parity with gold and attempting to
maintain silver coin exchangeable for
gold. Exchangeability of coin can be
maintained provided there is always a
gold dollar for every silver dollar.
"Gold bugs say that the gold supply
will be Insufficient to offset as much stl-
ver as may he offered at 16 to 1. They
may be mistaken. X,et us try it. If the
gold supply becomes less than one-slx-
teenth of the silver then raise the ratio.
A certainty that this ratio will be raised
would check an excessive production of
silver. The object Is to coin all of both
metals brought to the mint, and yet keep
the Government both able and willing
to maintain exchangeability.
"Gold bugs will object to Increasing the
size of the dollar on the ground of in-
convenience. Reply: The inconvenience
no t t, e as great as an effort to con-
tlnue the demonetization of silver. They
willl further object that different we may have two
issues of silver of weight and
therefore of different value as bullion,
R< ,ply: The capacity of the mint may be
increased and recoinage effected quickly,
Again: Wo have frequently had two is-
sues of different weights. The gold dollar
was made smailed in 1834 and larger in
].<Q7,
“it exhausts patience to anticipate ob-
jeetions by persons who do not think,
Gold is not hoarded when the ability of
Government is undoubtedly. The outflow
of gold will cease when our securities are
held at home and a policy may be adopt-
ed to bring them home slowly. Selling
nonds abroad relieves capitalists carrying
too many securities, but it aggravates
the cause of our trouble, and is bad for
the country at large. A home-held debt
la less heavy than one hold abroad. The
recent sale effected through Rothschilds
will in the long run take from us many
times the amount of gold we obtained.
Wise, far-seeing statesmanship cures the
of a trouble, quacks tinker at a
cause surface.”
sore on the another brier
Judge Mason promises the near
contribution to the discussion in
future. prospect of a tom-
There is said to be a
tag division among the silver people. The
14 to 1 trovement, whicn was started pri¬
marily by the radical free sliver advo¬
cates, including the owners of sil¬
ver mines, and which has since gathered
in the friends of silver coinage, is said
to be responsible for the approaching
split. Such a vigorous protest has gone
up from the business interests of the
West and South against unlimited free
coinage at 16 to 1 as promises, it is as¬
serted, to threaten the interests (if silver
coinage. con¬
It is said that some of the more
servative heads among the Democratic
silver people are sounding the note of
warning against the 16 to 1 radicals.
They say there are a great many people
who desire to see silver rehablltated as
a money metal and take its place In the
coinage of the country upon an equality
with gold, but that these people are not
prepared to say that the way to accom¬
plish this is to have free coinage at the
ratio named; or, In fact, to set any ratio
at this time. It is claimed there is quite
a difference between those who want sil¬
ver to take Its place in the coinage of the
country and those who want a Govern,
ment market for silver as a commodity,
end that while the latter are In the min¬
ority they are liable to wreck the whole
silver cause because of thetr radical de¬
mands. sure to be refused by conserva¬
tive men.
The advice which is now being given
out to the lieutenants of the silver coin¬
age forces by the conservative neads of
the movement is this: Concentrate all ef¬
forts in a fight against gold monometal¬
lism and not in a plea for the coinage of
silver at a fixed ratio. By this means it
is expected the opposition will be put on
the defensive, and all of the friends of
silver from the most conservative advo¬
cates of limited silver and gold coinage
will then be able* to meet on common
ground and make war against the com¬
mon enemy, gold monometallism. By this
means it is thought that the silver move¬
ment will be put upon a sounder basis
and the enemy deprived of some of their
thunder, the stand of the silver people
being that the use of stiver and gold in
the coinage of this country is more
American than a single standard, and
more likely to appeal to the people, while
at the same time there willl be left no
ground for the charge of attempting to
force fiat money on the Government. This
advice is not being relished by the rad¬
ical silver men, it is said. Their fear is
that the promises to silver conveyed by
this line of argument are too vague and
not likely to give -wide enough market
for the products of the silver mines. They;
are afraid it is an attempt to hedge and
they reject the advice on that account,
and it is here that the spilt Is threaten¬
ed, for it is believed that if the radicals
get the management of the movement
there will he wholesale desertions from
the silver cause.—St. Louis Republh*.
GEORGIA Fit ITT IN DEMAND.
Hr. ltiinipli Snys It lx W illi (ei! iti
Chicago.
Editor nf the Mac-on Telegraph:- 1
have liven in ClFeago for several da.-’a.
talking with commission liiorcha.its
ami railroad people. I find that tln'se
people cannot do without the beautiful
Georgia peaches this year. They claim
never to have gotten their share of this
fruit. Furthermore, few people know
the value of Georgia peaches, the acre¬
age of which is very small com par m
with the Eastern peach district-- The
ouiloik is bright fur good prices, while
transportation is sure to he lower. There
is no reason why Georgia sh n!d r.oi
have equal advantages with L’fliifo:-'
ilia. I find numbers of people tiir ug.i-
out the West who are desirous of
coming to Georgia to invest in fruit
lands. Now, the question is .aske”.
can we get as good shipping facilities
as is offered in California At n > d’stani
day we hope to have low rates to all
markets. This, of course, wi 1 .'ud„‘a-
niauy more capitalists and energe ie
farmers to come to Georgia. This is a
very important matter that should be at¬
tended to by Ihe various railroads,
whose profits would be much larger ;,i
a low rate of freight, as four t mos the-
amount of fruit mid produce wi old b-«
grown. Chicago, with a population of
2,0)0,000, should lie made the distrib¬
uting point for the West and No tiuv -it.
There are more than fifty cities with a
population of from 50,000 to 500,000 rang¬
ing from ton .to three hundred miles
of Chicago, which can c usumc very
easily at paying prices from in- .o five
cars each day during the season.
For instance, we will take this part of
the West, not over 400 miles of Chicago-
With the greatest ease and at go id
prices an average of from fifty tu aov
enty-five cars of sound fruit can be con¬
sumed per day.
The most important feature abo it die
Goo-rgia peach is the time of r.p-r.isi’j.
which places it on the market at a sea
sou wlien the trade wants it and tins
markets are bare of fruit. The earliest
varieties begin to ripen the 1st of June—
such yard-ties as Aienxinler, Waterloo.
Briggs's May, etc. From the lG;h -o
25th of June Tillotson, Amelia. Early
R.vers, Saint John, Family Favorite,
etc., are sltipp d. Nest are the E.bert.i,
Belie of Georgia. Chinese Free, Thar¬
bor, Early Crawford, Emma, Smack,
Crosboy, etc. By tile 25th of Ju y the
season is about ov.r. Then lliv Ca i-
fonvia, Maryland. New Jersey, Michi¬
gan and Delawnte fruit comes into th;
utaikot and c.'UlTnies through'Septem¬
ber.
There is no use to think vital a i -w
hundred of Georgia peaches will sup¬
ply t ie demand. In the first place a'l
lauds are not adapted to this fruit. For
th.s reason si.eh are more va.uo.i..
There is no spot on the globe that w ii
surpass Central and Southwest Georj.u
as a fruit growing country, and it
surely tie peach paradise and garden
spot of the world. E. M. RUMPH.
Chicago, Ill., May 10th, 1895.
Miss eBatrice Harraden, the woman
who wrote "Ships that aPss in the Night"
is busily engaged on a new nook dialing
exclusively with Engl; -h li:>. L’l-. l ( nan
Doyle includes her name among the 12
most promising writers of the day.
Daudet is contempla"ins- a v: it to Lon¬
don in a short time. He became so alarm¬
ed when he heard of the banqu ts, en¬
tertainments, etc., proposed in his honor,
that he has made it known that he would
decline, on account of his health, all in¬
vitations from literary societies <thd
other corporate bodies.
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church, an immense crowd being present.
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McCullum one upon Japan. The Home
Board recommended to the Union that
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jurisdiction for the ensuing year. .
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