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AMIENS TO SHIMONOSEKI—'THIS
WORK OK A LENT! HV* I'KACK.
Marked by Notable Advance* Toward
Cflntlsnril Arbitration
Wlth the peace of Shimonoseki, an-
other «pot on earth becomes historic and
takes Its place beside the rioted IocaJi-
ties in which the great warn of the
world were declared ended. In all like
Ilboiid. the record of the nineteenth cen-
tury'a |s-ace congresses is now dosed,
and the work of its peacemakers earn be
gathered into one great whole. What nn
array of statesmen confront* the gaze
of him who look* down the long aisle of
this iron age! What hallowed spits
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The great record Is-gitts with Amiens
and ends with Shimonoseki: it begins
with the fall of Pitt, the greatest of
English statesmen, and ends with Count
I to, the precursor of a new era fot lit •
Orient. Pitt fell because he bad deter-
mined to keep n promise made to the
Irish Catholics, and it was left, to Add-
Ington to close It peace with Napoleon
which demonstrated to the world that
England had but one statesman lit to
cope with Talleyrand. Each of these
great jtoaeo conferences was made mem¬
orable in tunny ways. That of Shimo¬
noseki has the attempted assassination
of Li Hung Chong to mark It ns pecu¬
liar in more respect* than its epoch-mak¬
ing political ends.
In 1801 that of Amiens was memora¬
ble in the advent of Joseph Bonaparte,
who conducted the negotiations for
France, Talleyrand being always with¬
in consulting distance. It was the tir.-t
great peace of the century, aixl 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 Malta,
and the greatest nation of today stood
boweil in deepest bn initial ion before the
conqueror.
In 1805 oamo the famous treaty of
Schoenbrunn, in which Prussia gained
Hanover and secured “peace with dis¬
honor.” Prussia’s statesman was Count
Hangwitz. a man of vacillating mind
anil one whom Napoleon used as lie saw
fit. Aiiater.ltz bad been fought and the
■tar of Auatriu had set. It was tlieu
that Hangwitz rushed to Sehoenbrtimi,
•ceured Hanover nnd allied his country
to France.
It wa* at Schoenbrunn that Napoleon
casually remarked: "La dynastic de
Naples a cesser de regnor” (The dynas¬
ty of Naples has ceased to reign.)
Napoleon «s n Peseemnker.
But the peace congresses in which Na¬
poleon played shuttlecock with the map
of Europe were slitijily brief breathing
spells In those years of carnage. Ti e
] eaee of Presshttrg a as followed quick
ly by that of Tilsit, where Napoleon at d
Alexander of Hussia met on a raft to
dlactisw the spoliation of Prussia and the
humiliation of the rarest Queen in his
tory, lionise of Germany.
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YVagratn, came the second peace of
Schoenbrunn. Fox, Grenville, Castle-
reigh were rising Into eminence in Eng¬
land, Mettornieh was learning diplomacy
from Talleyrand, and Napoleon’s des¬
tiny was being enmeshed in the toils of
the shrewdest statecraft he had yet cn-
(ounterod.
The second peace of Paris practically
ended the career of Napoleon, and the
Congress of Vienna is perhaps the most
‘mportant of peace gathui gs of t ,’s
century. Austria had its Matternieh in
William von Humboldt and Herr llar-
denberg. Nesselrode and Radonmoffski
watched over Russia's Interests. Well¬
ington and Castlereigh were sent by
England. France had Talleyrand and
Italherg. Peace in this instance meant
reconstruction, and the map of Europe
underwent its second memorable change
of the early century. Of the men of the
Congress of Vienna. Nesselrode lived till
1S6«, Metternieh till 1S5!>. and Czar-
loryskl, who. as Foreign Minister of
Hussia a Wo attended the Congress, till
1861.
In ISIS came the Congress of Aix la
Chappelle, to which England sent its
great Canning and France its l*uc de
Richelieu. Aix la Chappelle acoom-
plished little except to rid France of
the Army of Occupation.
In 18110 and 1821 came the Congresses
at Trappan and Laybaeh. whose rep.es-
aive work made possible the Revolution
of 1848.
London's Great Conference.
In lSISO the great Ixjndon conference
declared Greece independent, and Met*
ternich. boiling with rage at the union
of Hi nod a and England in behalf of he¬
roic (.recce, remarked: “Not till now
'l**'* hbingie know what It has lost in
Gaatlereigh.” But Europe hue long
ainee decided that Canning'* policy of
Intervention was a powerful stroke of
timely diplomacy. The I>mdon confer¬
ence also actT«mdished the dlvieion of
the Netherlands into the Kingdom* of
Holland and Belgium, thus ending the
religion* war which had begun with that
now historic rendition of the opera "Ma»-
saniello” in Bruesell.
From 1SIIO to 1S-18 there were few real
|>eac« congresses in Europe, It wa* the
“Sturm nnd drang” period which Mot-
,'ernich had so a rmately predicted. In
IS51 the 8rhlexwIg-IIoeteln wars
against Denmark were ended by the
truce of Berlin, and in 18D0 the peace
of I’nri* concluded the great Grlnte.i n
war. and marked with success the policy
of Louis Napoleon, of Lord I’almeiwton
and Lord Stratford. Aside from the eott-
sums of territory, the peace of Paris es-
tabl!*hed several notable international
principles. These were the total aboli¬
tion of privateering, the principle that a
blockade to be binding must lie effective,
and the further declaration that a neu¬
tral flag covers an enemy’s goods, ex¬
cel it contraband of war. not liable to
capture under tin enemy's flag.
It was just before the Paris confer¬
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 UNOIIIHSTTAN FOLLY’’ !
gi ves to I slit in AGAINST GMHIS-
TIANX. will have (Insides God's itveng-
,ug Judgment (hear! hear!), no other
effect than to bring what is now Turk
Vh territory nt a somewhat later period
tr. er Huswian dominion,”
Put the Crimean periisl had brought
a new group of statesmen to the front.
Bismarck was devoting himself to the
internal affairs tit home. tlortg hakoff
appeared for Hussia both at the prelimi-
nary conference of Vienna and, the final
conference of Paris. Lord Clarendon
represented England atwl flavour gained
the distinction of having the House of
Savoy and Sardinia represented as a
power.
fn 1858 the treaty of Tien TVtirt. fol-
'owed by the jH-are of Pekin in 1X1(11,
opened the interior of Chinn to trade.
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In ISC** the pence of Villefrans-lto and
that of Zurich which ended the war of
Austria against Sardinia and France,
paved the way for the rstabJLsliinent of
the Kingdom of Italy. Cavottr surren¬
dered Savoy and Nice to Louis Napoleon,
but. gained Modena and the Papal
Stales. Mazzina and Garibaldi brought
about (lie final peace which gave Italy
to Victor Emanuel.
In 1864 the peace of Vienna gave
Schleswig Holstein lo Austria and Prua
sin. and the peace of Prague in 1866 hu¬
miliated Austria by the loss of its Ban¬
ish possession, tlie loss of Venice to Ita¬
ly, and the establishment of the declara¬
tion that German unity was possible
without Austria, lit these years the
fame of Bismarck ro*e with each Prus¬
sian success, ending with the establish¬
ment if the lmiterial Confederation,
lord Palirieratou was England’s great
peacemaker dining this period, Glad¬
stone and Disraeli were rising into full
view, while in France the names of
Thiers, OMlvier. Eavre, Gambetta and
Hoehefort were becoming famous. In
1 S«>7 the Ijondon conference averted a
war over the Luxemburg! quest ion ihe-
tween France and Germany, lmt only
for it few years, la 1871 the peace of
Fraukfurt-ou-the-Main destroyed (he
military power of France, deprived that
nation of Alsace and Lorraine, and
made a reality of German unity. Theirs
had met Bismarck.
In I STS the peace of Sau Stefauo end¬
ed the llusso Turkish war and the fa¬
mous (Vngrivs of Berlin at which 1'Is¬
raeli secured “Peace with Honor,” set¬
tled the terms of European quiet. Lord
Salisbury appeared upon the interna
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tioi.mt chcsslHtard txn this occasion and
captured Cyprus for Great Britain.
Sorvia, Montenegro and Hutuania were
declared Independent. Russia increased
her Asiatic possessions, and Greece se-
cured part of Epirus and Thessaly,
Th» tailed State* nnd Pence.
The peace congresses of this century,
in which the United States was inter-
esled began with the Tripoli treaty of
PS*4. by the terms of which we deserted
an ally and paid an immense ransom for
captured Americans who might easily
have been released if the original plan
of campaign had been carried out. In
1814 the treaty of Ghent ended our
war of 1812, and a'filed lip fire p? flip
nttmt'A of John Quincy Adams, Henry
Clay, James A. Bayard and Albert Gal¬
latin.
In 1848 the treaty of Gaadalouiw
Hidalgo ended the Mexican war, and
the one name prominently connected with
the international proceedings was that
of Commissioner Tri.-d, now almost for¬
go! ton.
Our treaty with Japan in 1854, con¬
ducted by Commodore I’erry, took p ace
nt Yokohama ami opened up a number
of important Japanese port* to Ameri¬
can commerce.
The treaty of Washington in 1871 was
followed by that at Ghent in 1872. which
gave the United Xtat.es $15,000,000 for
depredation* committed by Confederate
cruisers fitted out by the English.
The great juatnos connected with the
proceedings at Washington and Ghent
were Marquis of Kipon, Sir John A.
Macdonnald, Sir Edward Thron’on, Sir
Stafford Northeote. Hamilton Fish, Gen¬
eral Sehenck, J. O. Bancroft l*avis and
E. H. Hoar. Not alone were the Ala¬
bama claims adjusted Ly the two con¬
ference*, but many unsettled point* In
that fiasco, the Clnyton-Bulwer treaty,
were disposed of. The Island of San
Juan 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 tiie great Pan-American Con¬
gress which marked the statesmanship
of Mr. Blaine as nolab'e. the record is
alwittt complete, and the nineteenth cen¬
tury will go Into history with it* wars
accentuated by notable peace congresses,
all lending lo advance many step* near¬
er to Ihttl point where all dispute* will
lie settled by arbitration.
liAYFIB GRINDERS
Men \\ lio Travel nil Over (lie I nlnn
Sharpening S(eel.
Knife grinders in this town retain
the wandering instinct that has belong¬
ed to their craft from ■time Immemo¬
rial. Being peripatetic, it is a Biittfii:
and easy thing to prolong a day’s walk
to the next ci'ty, and *o by degrees all
over the union. They are seldom na¬
tive American*, never negroes, and as
often are not Germans, They are
found In large number* on the east side
and on the west, hut are seldom seen
in the main business thoroughfares.
Their best customer* used to be the
butchers, but the 'traveling tool shop,
with all the appliance* for sharpening
edged tools, setting saws and repairing
cutlery, has somewhat cut into the
trade of the wandering knife grinder.
Scissors grinding for non-professional
women i* now an important part of
their trade, and in many country dfis-
(ricts they are culled scissor* grinders.
The knife grinder’* outfit is I to ugh t
in Mulberry street, the resort of all
sorts of peripatetic persons. It cos's
from $6 to $10. and *hould include, be¬
side the frame, treadle and driving
wheel, a small grind-stone for larger
articles, a smuller one or sandstone for
tine cutlery, a tile and a whetstone.
The la«t two articles and a few other
trifles are stored in a little closet be¬
tween 'the legs of the frame, 'I’he
wheels will last from eight lo ten years,
and the frame, with proper repairing,
half a lifetime. The whole thin, i«
light enough for a man of moderate
strength to carry all day long without
overexerting himself. Some knife
grinders have routes that ate not seri¬
ously Interfered with by their fellows,
but every important thoroughfare is
visited daily by several, They are
treated with more consideration than
peddlers, and are recognized, especially
in the German quarter, as a public con¬
venience.
Some of the knife grinders insist
upon grinding with a dry stone, a cus¬
tom that many owner* of cutlery object
to on the ground that it tends or spoil
the temper of the steel. The dry grind-
en* 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 suite
slowly.
The characteristic ting-a-lin?, ling,
ting, ting-a-Ung, 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 in time it becomes almost
involuntary. A few grinders have sub¬
stituted tiie voice or the bugle for the
hell, but the traditional alarm is the
must agreeable to persons that find
pleasure in the conservation of trade
and pioturesq ties ness in it* uniformity
with tiie past.
A little Swiss knife grinder of no age
in particular, shaking German, French
and English, as is the way with ntany
Swiss, declares that lie has gone tink¬
ling about 'this city for ten years, aud
has beside seen Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore. Pittsburg and places be¬
tween. He takes an expert’s pride in
his trade, aud declines to water his
wheel, though knives are withheld in
consequence and receipts fall off.—New
York Sun.
THE LITERARY FELLOW’S.
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
five teet high and has a ghastly face and
a head of unkempt hair.
Walter L’esjtnt won't write a line unJer
the s< ttled rate of 'ten guineas ($52.50* per
thousand words, and none of the pub¬
lishers have struck against it.
T. B. Aldrich, the poet and writer, is
an alert, active man of fifty. He is at-
ways fashionably dressvd and wears his
mustache waxed In French fashion.
Edward W. Townsend, the author of
that popular book. “Chimmie Kadden ”
will shortly issue his first novel, a pic-
ture of “the other half of New York.” en-
titled “A Daughter of the Tenements."
George du Maurier and Alma Tadema
were students together at Antwerp, and
In those days resembled each other so
closley that they were hardly distinguish-
able apart untH du Maurier lost the sight
of an eye and began to wear blue spec¬
tacles.
Mrs. Marie Robinson Wright; the Mex-
lean traveller and writer, recleved the
highest price ever paid for a newspaper
article—$20,000 in gold, paid to her by the
Mexican government for an illustrated
article cn Mexico in the New York World,
THEY ARE
BOTH WRONG.
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AM) SLYER EXTREMISTS.
CO VI ROLLING KACTOR in TIIE
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Washington, D. C„ May U.-U is some¬
times assumed that the people are in the
habit of sending all their statesmen, phil¬
osophers and thinkers to Congress. It
true that everybody who is sent t0 Con "
cress is 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 ana
thinker In this city who comes to have a
look at the public buildings or to attend
court, hut never runs for office and
scarcely ever participates in public ar-
falrB 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 to
the public service of the United States.
Be Is a son of James Murray Mason, who,
with Mr. Slidell, came so near Involving
the t nlted 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, but said he would re¬
duce his views to writing from time to
time and send them to yonr correspon¬
dent. The first instalment arrived today.
It deserves careful reading. Mr. Mason
says:
“The arrogance and Intolerance of the
gold bugs are as Interesting as the im-
practfhabllity 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 1
consolidating against Them. 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 from Wail
Street bankers, 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 ithe public weal. These men are
not bankers trained to look at a stlila-
tlon with an eye to personal profit. Lend¬
ing money, trading in bonds, wrecking
ing holders oT railroad securities, rigging
quotations to unload watered stocks, is
not an 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 silver dollar Is now as valuable as a
gold dolllar 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 sliver com¬
ing to Us mint, and was able and willing
to exchange gold coin for silver coin at
IS 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
“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 butllion 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
coins one of gold. The coinage of silver
would thus be limited only by the amount
of gold offered to the mint. The 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 sil¬
ver as may he offered at 16 to 1. They
may be mistaken. Let us try it. If the
gold supply becomes less than one-six¬
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
w m qot be as great as an effort to con-
j^ lue the demonetization of silver. They
will further object that we may have two
Issues of silver of different weight and
therefore of different value as bullion,
Reply: The capacity of the mint may be
increased and reeoinage effected auickly.
Again: We have frequently had two is-
sues of different weights. The gold dollar
was made smalled In 1834 and larger in
1837.
“It exhausts patience to anticipate ob-
jections 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. Soiling
nonds abroad relieves capitalists carrying
too many securities, but It aggravates
of our trouble, and la bad for
the cause large. A home-held debt
the country at hold abroad. Th*
Is less heavy than one Rothschilds
recent sale effected through
will in the long run take trom us many
times the amount of gold we obtained.
far-seeing statesmanship cures the
Wise, trouble, quacks tinker at a
cause of a surface.”
sore on the » brief
Judge Mason promises another
contribution to the discussion In the near
future. be prospect of a com.
There is said to a people. The
tng division among the silver pri¬
H to 1 irovement, whicn was started
marily by the radical free silver 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
from the business Interests of the
up against unlimited free
West and South it Is as¬
coinage at 10 to 1 as promises, of silver
serted, to threaten the interests
coinage. of the more con¬
It Is said that some Democratic
servative heads among the of
silver people are sounding the note
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 sll-
ver to take Its place In the coinage of the
country and those who want a Govern¬
ment market for silver as a commodity,
and that while the latter are In the min¬
ority they are liable to wreck the whole
silver cause because of their 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 heads of
the movement is this: Concentrate all ef¬
forts in a fight against go#d 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 sliver 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 silver 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 will 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 split 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 Repuhltti.
GEORGIA FRUIT IN DEM AND.
Ylr. Iliinipli Snys It Is Wanted in
Chicago.
Editor of the Macon Telegraph:- 1
have been in Chicago for several days,
talking wit It commission merchants
and railroad people. I find that those
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 compar xi
with the Eastern peach districts. Tfi?
outlook is bright for good prices, while
transportation is sure to be lower. Thes¬
is no reason why Georgia should tut
have equal advantages with Calif a:
nia. I find numbers of people through¬
out the West who are desirous ot
coming to Georgia to invest in fruit
lands. Now, the question is ask,-’,
can we get as good shipping facilities
as is offered in California At no distant
day we hope to have low rates to ell
markets. This, of course, will induce
many more capitalists and eiierge'tc
farmers to come to Georgia- This is a
very important matter that should be at¬
tended to by tiie various railroads,
whose profits would be much larger at
a low rate of freight, as four times the
amount of fruit and produce would he
grown. Chicago, with a population of
2,030,000, should he made the distito¬
uting point for the West and Northwest.
There are more titan fifty cities with a
population of from 50,000 to 500,000 rang¬
ing from ten to three hundred miles
of Chicago, which can consume very
easily at paying prices from one to five
cars each day during the season.
For inslunce, we will take this part of
the West, not over 400 miles of Chicago-
With the greatest ease and at good
prices tin average of front fifty to sev
enty-fivo ears -of sound fruit can he con¬
sumed per day.
The most, important feature about rite
Georgia peach is the time of ripening,
which places it on the market at a sea
-son when the trade wants it and tins
markets are hare of fruit. The earliest
varieties begin to ripen the 1st of June—
such varieties ns Aleaxnder, Waterloo,
Briggs’s May, etc. From the lOtii *o
25th of June Tillotsou, Amelia, Early
R.vers, Saint John, Family Favorite,
etc-, art< shipped. Next are the Elbert.l,
Belle of Georgia. Chinese Free, Tluir-
ber, Early Crawford, Emma, Smack,
Crosboy, etc. By the 25th of July ilie
season is ale nt over. Then the Cali¬
fornia, Maryland, New Jersey, Michi¬
gan and Delaware fruit comes into the
market and continues through Septem¬
ber.
There is no use to think that a f -w
hundred of Georgia peaches will sup¬
ply the demand. In the first place a'*
lauds are not adapted to this fruit. For
this reason such are more valuable.
There is no spot on the globe that will
surpass Central and Southwest Georgia
as a fruit growing country, and it is
surely the 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 al’ss in the Night"
is busily engaged on a new book dealing
exclusively with Engli sh life. Dr. < < nan
Doyle includes her name among the 12
most promising writers of the day.
Daudet is contemplating a visit to Lon¬
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tertainments, etc., proposed in his honor,
that he has made, it known that he would
deebne, on account of his health, all In¬
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other corporate bodies.
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Fifty-two Cub** Are Reported—Ac¬
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disease was small pox or not and nt
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tiiorongih investigation existence of the situation.
He has r-ported the of fifty-
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country. The local authorities, now
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farm has Iteen secured upon which a
pest house has 'been erected. The city
will be divided into districts, each dis¬
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experienced physician.
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