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Nasnviu.i Tenn., June 27 . -
fSpecial to the St Louis Konub’ic I
-The American will to-morrow
publish the following sensational
exposure of Editor Macune of the
National Economist,national organ lit-
of the Farmers’ Alliance The
formation is given by a prominent
Alliance officer and the American is
prepared to substantiate it in court.
“Another Moses, just engaged in
leading the people out of the wilder-
ness, is C. W . Macune, Charles
Wesley Macune—the base tool of
Jay Gould’s legislative attorneys,
When the Ocala convention of the
Farmers* Alliance met grave charges
were made against Macune in,m-
nrction with the Georgia senatorial
contest, in which he figured as the
special champion of Pat Calhounl
head of the West Point terminal
railroad lobby. A committee was
appointed to investigate these
charges, of which J. 11. McDowell ’
president of the Tennessee Alliance
was amembor. That investigation
showed from Macune’s ow n cunfos-
sions, wrung by severe and tortur¬
ing cross-examination lrom Ins un
willing lips, that Macune had g^nc
from his home in Washington to
Georgia to sid Pat Calhoun in his
figbftor the United State, senator-
ship svainst General Gordon. It
showed that he went there on a free
annual pass issued him by Calhoun’s
road ; that he immediately began to
^fjrk the Alliance members for CaL
houn, and that he received from tho
latter several thousand dollars in
money, which he said was a loan, D -.
was also shown that he and Sledge
bought out the Alliance Fai\a.«r,or
gan of the Georgia Alliance,publish-
©dm , Atlanta, ... . . therefor . „_ ,000 nnr ,
paying /
jucash; that lie used this organ to
further the election of Calhoun, and
also to defeat certain railroad legis-
lation , . winch Cal! oun had , ,, been .iglit- , ,
nu kodni) mo.nky to lose.
“Dr. Macune was thou, as now,
Editor of the National Economist.
He admitted that he had gone tc
Washington __ T , to take , charge of this
paper a penniless man, and that he
had lost Sd 000 on hi, pane,” ret
that he bad bought an $S 000 homo
in 'Vashin-ton ashington, and and had Had nought Oim h-
wiih Sledge a $7,000 paper ,n Allan-
t»- He declined to explriu P w here
be got the money to meet all these
expenses when cross-examined on
that point. 1 11 the absence of such
explanation the conclusion is irresisc-
ible that ho wot it frour the railroad
comnsnv t'o’ win, e alto-nov he w-
trvinv J gt else’ to ‘ ,ha senate and
irhost* cause he espoused . against
railroad bills pending in the Georgia
legislature. These facts were all
n Wrnn4y St^rs- f rom Mon tin© In m self 1 He ::
concealed them until the questions
w©ra driven home to him bv Fresi-
dent Hall of the Missouri Alliance.
All ... thac . of ... his expIoit>
was Know n
were obtmued from himself alone.
“The committee prepared two re--
ports. One was ^whitewashing Zv re-
’
port; another gave the f tacts , as they
have been stated above. McDowell
and numbers of others signed the
letter. McDowell declared that hit
right hand should wither before he
would ... report which , . . represent-
sign a
ed Jlacune as suy thing other than s
“
dishonored ,. , , But secret
man. some
power, some hidden influence, begfi
to work. McDowell withdrew hi-
signature from the damning state¬
ment, prepared and attached it to
the othor. Others did the 5 **
'i AS II ai 11 ’ 0 f m* J'SOini, • stood
ardmauhoo UotofJtl^e slcrci^pow
er.
FRANKLIN COUNT V 6A WEDNESDAY JULY 29I89I.
xhe whitewash swallowed,
“The whitewash report, thus al-
m 08t unanimousl 7 signed, carefully
avoided all statement of evidence.
It was a general declaration of not
guilty. But such wag the weight of
the committee’s finding that it car -
ried conviction to the convention
and Hall’s single protest was drown-
ed i n a hurricane of hoots and hisses.
The evidence was never heard or
known b v tb0 convention. But
-
these whit® washers are destined to
drink deeply of the cup ot humilia-
tion and fe.l heavily the hand of
Jlacune crushing their manhood to
the earth. Macune was chairman
and had absolute control of the
ecuti ''c board, so powerful to make
or mar the fortunes of members of
«■« »'der. He was the editoi of the
"»tioual organ and controlled various
other organs throughout the conn.
was mighty in hi. power
M,d >"«oiless in his exactions- i’res-
tdent Pelk himself, who bated Ma.
cune like poison,first felt the tyrant's '
and '
power, issued that famous proc-
lwnalion declaring bis anathema
U P n ^ lo ^ ire< * to openly assail
a'member of llie order, which meant
Macnne - In pm-suance ©f this p 0 I-
icy he has demanded the resignation
from the legislative committee of
<! > Missouri, who has kept up
hb lig t on Macune, though giving
another reason for Ins demand. Hall,
bjr the way, is the only farmer on
the committee. Burkitt, of Miss-
issippi, and others likewise bowed
to the tyrant a.-d became his oho-
dient and slavish defenders. In the
meanlime we suggest for the dehb-
erate and earnest consideration of
honest Alliancemen whether they
can safely trust the leadership of a
man who t^kes the money and es-
ponies the came of railroad monop-
oly ami its hired lobyists, or men
wh 6 conspire to deceive them as to
the unworibmess of the former,and
t0 k «P Wm »> a poriiiim of power
and influence in the order.’’
AX IXTICKESTJXG LETTER.
In this connection the following
letter from Mr. McDowell to a friend
who made inqu iries as to the Ma-
cune matter is of inters!:
Ci i’icn of J. H McDowell, )
.
Pres. Tenn. State F. A & I. U., p
Nashville, Tenn.,March 31 ,’81 )
My Dear Sir and Brother:—Jn re-
ply to your favor will say there Wf.S
so much of the testimony it would
imp 0 3 S ijjj e for me to give it in
dehail. It avas taken down by If. C.
Demming, lri Harrisburg, him Pa. If you
wou write and etfer him, say
$5 to copy ’ it for you, I think 1 m
H do it . Hall, of Missouri, ca a
give )ou some strong points drawn
out by him. Ills posfc-oflflce is Hub-
burd,'Mo.
The most damaging lie '(fiU) points! re-
mcinpr asked if he sre: got any money front was Pat
Calhoun during the senatorial fight.
He replied that he got s?2,000 from
bin, as a loan after the senatorial race
E aa orer ’ Uo nduuttwi that the
he had bought ^ a •«**16.WK»,and fine residence that in
VVaslnngtonfor $3,000, paid $1,000
dow n and $100 a month afterward-;
that he and Sledge had bought out
the Southern Alliance Farmer, pay-
ing “ $7,000 cash for a controlling ln -
,. e cst , and that, he favored and
worked for the election of Pat Cal-
hoi,n, a big railroad lawyer, and that
ho went to Washington a poor man.
M whore , r ’ H*“ he got ‘f' the -M’ssouri money to asked meet him the
$ 10,000 loss on Economist, the ujou.
ey to pay for bis residence and the
^7,000 for Southern Alliance > ar>
mer * He i&iicd to answer except as
a controlling interest in the Mercury
of rexas, showing that he and Ma-
tun * TJu Tveb ^
gans of other suites as well as the
ua j_; ona l organ, m order to carry
eveiylhing their n way.
I give yon these points,but m your
fight with hun don’t bring me Into
it as ^ your informant, because I do
nQt ant al thifl time t0 be for , ed
, nl0 a controversy with Macune
When I do I want the whole recoin -
1 that Demwing fortified has th^t I may be
properly should he attafnpt
to denv. 4 I rank 31cGaath,Oi i >e, of,
Kan& is suothe r man who signed
at : first a minority 1“ ‘VrL-r report with me
giving . the , facts, ibis report, was
atterwards withdrawn. Your friend
and brother. J. H. McDow etl.
ri» of peqswfftfi ofrx^rh; *ghts
fixra np afeewl ot the bows of s'Sips
tfietr k^knat%nre cotv enafchrd to sea a
Jhfta&era Avofif enables the pas» |
£bg & collision.
GEORGIA fflUVORS IN
GOTHAM,
. Convention
Of The Georgia We e kly
Press Association. *
_I_
The Members of the Fourth Es-
« * <or te ,‘ ^ ,0ya anc ' * ly south Ent “ rt of " n Masons ff l B ° th
ard Dixons Line.
It was alrair.y body of editors
Umt assembled in Atlanta at the
fifth annual convention of the Gcor-
Weekly Press Ataoeiation.
These staunch men who so well rep-
resent the talent and energy of the
people of a great and prosperous
state, and who are mighty factors m
Georgia’, prosperity, and Georgia’s
Democracy, came up to tire
Gate City from every quarter of
the “Empire State of the Soath N
From the beautiful rolling lands of
middle Georgia, from the alluvial
slopes of the Atlantic and from the
extreme southern section, where the
grape purples beneath a warm sun and
the peach catches the mellow glow of
sunlight, representative editors came
up to meet brother pen oil pushers
of the Piedmont escarpment and be
the guests of the brightest and the
best daily in the South—the Atlanta
Journal, The Journal opened the
gates of Atlanta and the doors ot
the Kimball House to the Press As-
sociati '•«. Twenty rive of the hand-
somest turnouts in the city carried
^ ie editors over Atlanta Monday af-
ternoon, and we saw the Gate City
at lts fairest and best, We were
royally bariquetted a* the Piedmont
club house, and the writ, humor and
Honueneo of the orators ol the Geor¬
gia press furnished a ‘feast of reason
and a flow of souk” The executive
mansion was thrown open Monday
evening, and the editors were elo-
gam ly entertained by Georgia’s gov¬
ernor and his lovely wife and dan gh-
ter.
tjhe weekly editor has returned to
hiss native heath with a soft spot in
iris heart for every member of the
Atlanta Journal’s corps of forcible
writers, from courtly J Smith and gal-
^ lont Cabaniss down to brilliant Beal-
er who has just’attained his’niajority,
and Jack Cohen one of the youngest
and brighest of the Journal’s staff.
No other paper in this coun¬
try has so many gifted young writers
on its staff as the Atlanta Journal.
F. II. Richardson is one oi the com-
ing editors of Georgia, Claad lieu-
nett has already won a higni place in
oeorgea . , oun, absra.Alex v A , Bealcr T> 7 is
making a name for I’m self wherever
the Journal it road,and Miss Connno
Stocker, „’ society editor, is vomjgirls recognized
as one f m ost gifted
in . ‘ he sol f’ Thb weeWy editor aas
admired the Journal, and to-
day, as Editor Coleman oi the Ce-
dartown Standard, would say, “he is
h the Journal’s that he is
hardl ,, , nls own „ And . ... u c tJU eIe S an t
y *
reciprocity which the Georgia edit-
ors enjoyed at the fifth annual con-
vo-.lion of the Weeklv Press Associa-
. ' . '. rf , ’ , °’= --drawn ou‘ wo
would that . the , Journals
wish we were
and not our own.
the hup to new tore.
Georgia’s mammoth daily the At-
:snta i onstitntion, placed two e * e ”
gr,nt Pullman Palaee Sleepers and
^ 7 —
of the Pio.ns Association, and . j i>
^ ° f ° nC hn ” ared
t 0 rs—wearing t be white | silk gold-
f • x t r
trmgec ac g s . c 1 ’
sUmped with t e ,efl o ug le
of Georgia, and bearing the i»«rp-
tion R ’ ‘‘Georgia tC, * la Weekly 7 Press Excur-
sioii To New York ArraBgafl Bv At-
Ian la Coa.titntioii,” toarafi )h ,
train in the dusk of a Jay d i) a >i
the The metropolis....... “ Constitution 7 is the triend of
,,, * . * ';„ ’ ve ™
*
T !i e Constitution 1 has the best new.-
service daily . in the south, and
ot any
i; s editorial staff is made up of men
and women whose names are houses,
Bold words all over the Union.
Clark Howell managing editer of
the Constitution, is the y mngest ma
who has ever occupied trie ie -ponsi
We position of Speaker of the House
never prouder of‘he Constitution j
an ^ ne»er more in love with the great
southern daily, than v htn enjoying
lhc delightful excursion arranged by
its g enial manag’ng editor. It was
the kind ot roc *P r ocity that the rural
editor is capable of appreciating,
When the Georgia editor reveled
in the dutiful scenery of the “Old
Dominion,” and stood with uncover-
e d head in obeisance to the “Mother
otPresidents" and the home of illtts-
‘-vious men, when tearful and hallow-
e d memories of antebellum days
came trooping up at t!u sight of the
Manassas monument, as the train
6 P ed 6w ‘ftly over the battle
Wlls o£ Virginia, lie remembered
that he was indebted to the Const!-
fort be pictures of the ewir-
S * 0,K And u hen tne lu-tpid waters
of the Potomac were crossed and
heart throbs quickened and patriot-
by . ie majcs.ic splendor
of the Capital, and the Georgia edi-
tors finally trod tue laoroughfares
of ootham headed by tb it veteran of
Borgia crackers, Captain Newman,
and took New York by storm, each
editor constituted himself a commit
tee of one to get up a resolution of
thanks for Georgia’s popular daily,
the Atlanta Constitution,
I i:e Georgia editoi fuied like a
king on the fifth annual excursion of
the Weekly Press Association.
At every point cn the route from
the old red hills of Georgia to the
metropolis, Jcors were opened wide
to him and he was invited to come in
and partake of the best without mon-
ey and without price. And he w r cnt
It was in the dawn of a
bright July day mat a geaisl put)
of Georgia Weekly editor-, one hun¬
dred strong, stood at the Jersey
lanamg. Jersey City la y behind us,
the first beams of the rising sun had
kissed the rippling waters o!: the
broad blue “Bhiue of America,” the
domes and spires of the “City of
Churches ,' 7 bathed m floods of morns
ing light, loomed up soiitl of us, and
New York lay m frontt 'Ve could
n*t have approached the netropoli-
m!dor fairer nu spices, A.*vro ^ked
across the Hudson and saw such
magnificent evidences ol the rnar-
venous progress or man since Henry
Hudson saile dup these same waters
loss tban three hundred ye.-* ago,
beautiful, weird impressions touched
the heart, and a poet’s pen c mid
have recorded sweet, and tender
heart symphony.
What can be said of New York
that has not been w-iUcn rimes
without number?
The Georgia . editor who from
goes
a land where the people Ino down
close to mother earth, and whose
latest i otthe , , beauty , . and
impressions
magmf cence or southern homes, have
been received from a dnvc over
Peachtree the loveliest street of :he
loveliest city “ulic south-a street
taa t ,s famous from Maine • to , T . 0 ,,^
.ana, for its elegant homes-is ini-
pressed wi' 1 the tall structures that
line the narrow streets of New York
The ^ p-oplewho e 1 live on the upper 11
floor of ten and , nfteen _ story . houses,
are nearer heaven than Georgia
editors usually go, at least while on
,,.,rt.i,
New L ’ Y ''Y ha ’ ■ ..r wn until ' ‘litre 1
,s no space for it to grow ,n any di-
rectum save up in the air, and r.ew
York i-growing upward at a mar-
f* us - rt
f thp
juvilionairns f *h- w w GnuldA u * 1 '’ Yandar ‘ ‘
.
on tic sidewalks and these mag-
kuaTave j gtone homses of the
money mono J kln £* al ° TUP run together togetuer in m
blocks,and fail to create the pleasing
impression of the lovely houses m
d - saJroanded by flow
.
era anu mcau b^if o^u.naa ui iawn-* iawn... There u.e.e
15 no ‘ » in f ot ^ ce ‘ r
liimg , huig ,n New
i oik, save in the parts an<i squares.
J OINTS OT IXTETEST ABOUND ABOUT
XEW YOEIv.
There i.- scarcely a spot m the
me*-opol^ , oi toe New Wcrld w that .
’
replete wi.ii 1 .. stone
ts not interest,
and iu a sojourn of only a few days,
the Georgia c-cdtors could not take
ia many oi the sights around New
Y orx.
I he three mil on dollar Plaza ho-
tei is a man el cf magnificence,and is
^ to be the most perfect hotel m
phalt walks and drives, meuagerie
aviary, aquarium, horticultural won-
dtrs, tropical plants, museums of art,
lake*, fountains, wilderness of trees,
flowers, and thousand and one at*
tractions, was fairer than the writer’s
dreams of Eden This great pleas-
ure ground m the heart of a great
cut, is a place where one might
stay and never grow tired of living,
A number of the editors walked
down a narrow street-but all of
New York's streets are narrow for
that .natter—lined with unpreten¬
tious looking buildings, but a street
tliat is famous-A all Street.
The Eden Muses, one of the finest
temples of art in this country was a
pomt of especial interest to many
of the press club. Entenng the Eden
Musee, our party paused before a
group that will nev er lore interest
or ic \ cop e w o ore te rat i-
tions of the south. It re TVaa® at ® d
the surrender of Lee to Grant at
Appomattox. Tne heads and hgs
mes of the L Dion and Confeder-
ate soldiers, and the grouping and
dressing were very realistic and were
evidences that the modeling arid
dres-d ig had been done by artists,
Lee’s face was true to life. It was
the face of a man who had fought
and lost and who was surrendering
right to might.
Another group that interested us
was Napoleon and Josephine. The
Emperor of the French with the
co j ( ] hand of ambition pushing from
his heart the only woman that ever
] ove d him.
One might spend a week in the
Eden Museo ami still be interested
Realistic representations are' given
ot scenes and distingmshed persons
from every quarter of the globe.
When the writer stood beside the
tomb of Grant with a Union and
a Confedertae soldier, and saw the
bine and the gray clasp hands at
the grave of one of the greatest
generals the Western World
has ever produced, it seemed
to us a blessed harbinger of a bless¬
ed day—a day when all bitterness
will be dead, there will be no north,
no south, no east, no west, and we
will be one united people. We only
north to do our brave rebel
heroes justice in believing that they
fought for conscientioislr what thev believe.-i was
as as they bn-
Ueve in heaven, and that to- lay
southcu i courage would stand t >s
grandly by the Union colors as it did
by tho bonny Confederate flag,which , t
in the stormy days of civil strife,
symbol Ned the sacredness of south¬
ern rights and guarded the sancrity
of southern homes.
^ New T York , viewed • , f ii om the dome
o£ ^ World
b ^^KtinT^oi ndi the highest buildmcr in t tho
*^'2 r P , - ..
of BaOokl\n » « bridge, T,T o the longest ous.-
pen8;on brjdge in vor!(1> are
Tisib!e £ar Mow . j ers tlTo city aml
Brook | ?n ar6 see n m distance,
^. btatue of . f Liberty b * ErJightemmg k ® *he p
World? and Cagt]e Garden ]oi) g
f amous ag ^ Ian< jino- pl a2e of for-
e goers from f every quarter ^ o. the t L P
S 1 O 0 e *^i versl “o and Central parks
seem like green Edens amidst the
tall buildings of New York, and on
tho west #ows the majestic Hudson,
, J; B e * ,andcur u to the c splendid 1
scene of man’s marvelous Pvogre«s
° n ‘ ac " devemeBt5 '
The elevated and underground
railways of New York were n 'Arveis
to the Georgia editor.
What can be • id of the sple, adid
grandei”- of St Patrick’s, the fin est
church in the United States? ri ^
we knelt one sweet Sabbath morn
mg in the glorious white marble
building, and listened to music,surely
the dn- lest that has fallen upon
mortal ears since the angels came io
sing of the Babe •f Bethlehem,
even diviner melodies were whisper
ed to our heart, and 'fts were borne
up, up, till it seemed that the gates
of paradise stood ajnr and we lested
at the foot of the great wfcite throne.
Long si ent heart chords will vibrate
forever to the touch of the impres¬
sion of beautiful, glorious “t. Pab-
rick’s
The Georgia, editors were the
of the Morning Advertiser at
Conr*y Island, the day of
arrival iji New Yoik, enjoyed
surf bathing and a sumptous sea
shore dinnej, saw the fire works and
Gillniore’s bajid at Manhattan
VOLUME XV!.—No’28.
Beach. And on the evening of the
same day, were entertained at the
Casino and on the following b at Pal-
mers theater; when the orchestra
struck up “Dir’e at the latter place
there was a spontaneous outburst of
applause from one hundred loyal
southerners. The Georgia editors
are unanimous in the verdict that
the Advertiser is a great paper and
they have returned to Georgia im¬
pressed with the idea th?t the New'
York World is a very little paper in
a great many respects.
Who that has visited «lcn Island
will forget it? Aa our steamer near*
ed this Paradise of the jaded and
weary, it seemed that we were ap-
proaching a second Eden that lay
fair and lovely out on the purple
waters. It was to II. D. Wakefield,
the clever business manager of the
Atlanta Newspaper Union, that we
were indebted for the day at Glen Is¬
land, one of the most delightful of
the two weeks jaunt. On that day
we dined royally on clam?, lobsters,
blue fish, Georgia watermelons, etc ,
with wine thrown in for the anti¬
prohibition element of the.Pres 3
Association. Just as we sat
down to dinner the faint sweet
strains of “Dixie” floated to as from
a hand off iu the distance, the folds
of the Union flag fluttered iu the
breezes from the topmost point of a
building clearly visible on our right.
And patriot!suiwas at a high pitch
when President Underwood arose tc
announce that we were nearly a
thousand miles from horae.aimosl
on New England soil, but .meeting
still with old-time southern hospi
tab ty.
One hundred oeoi'gia editors a
thousand miles from the “devil” and
the cry ior “more o«py!” Georgia
must have been lonely in the region-*
of editorial ability.
The day of days, the complete3t day
for thol y r«is Association, ws'i the one
spent al JjO. ir Lranch, one of the moat
famoui sumi .or resorts on the American
Continent. And v/hy? It was a south¬
ern man tuat opened the doors of West
End TIoitel aid gave too Georgia Edifo’S
a royal ■southern welcome, ari l when Mr.
Hddr.jfch, proprietor or the West Ead
Hotel, comes down south, as much of
Georgia as one hundred editors are able
to command, "will be placed at hi?“ dis¬
posal. When The Press Association eat
down Id tho splendid dining hall of one
of the timort hotels oil the Atlantic coast,
elegant menu cards bearing the inscrip-
tion “Welcome Georgia Weekly Press
Association,” were placed before us.
West End Hotel and cottages easily ac¬
commodate fifteen hundred guests. It
has its private stables, dancing hall, and
hail for theatrical performances-
Several of our party went through
Daly’s Club Housa at Long Branch, the
finest zaxnb'ing bouse in the country. It
is lined with mirrors rich curtains met
us a; every turn and vra Vvalked on soft¬
est Persian rugp. It’ is a place of
oriental splendor.
Grants cottage is odc of,the most un-
pre*entio is looking buildings that we
saw at Lo eg Branch.
The eye 3 of the Georgia editor never
rested up on a fairer spot than Long
Branch. Tfro splendid cottages, flowers,
trees, level drives and grandest of til,
the broad, blue Atlantic stretching away
to where bine sky and blue waters seem
to meet, make it a place that once seen
will never be forgotten.
Twilight was deepening across the
purple waters, and the sweet splendors
of a setting sun lingering about fair El-
beron, haUowcdby the death of a na¬
tion’s chieftain,wlieu the Georgia dele¬
gation sail “goodby” to Long Bra.-ch
and a dav'that that we were lo.fi to
leave behind.
One might write forever and a day of
irs impreesioms of ootfi.ni>.
’iv e have brought home with us the
pleasing recrilec ion that while we were
m the north the north vvafe curs.
IX THE CITY OK MAGNIFICENT DISTANCES.
On the homeward journey wo stopped
for a few hours in the National Capital,
W. E. Stevens an old Georgia Newspa-
per man, E. I\ Speer, the Journal's
Washington ?nrrespondent, and Mr.
'Halcomb correspondent of the Macon
.
T n’cgiirfob, met o ir parly in Wsshington
an i showed aa rouca of the city as could
be oe^u in t he short time spent
Mr. Speer with genuine Georgia hospi-
talit) * opened th © dears of his elegant
home to the ladies' d the party.
The* majestic gre/adev” of the Capitol
imore-sod ua with th ^ greatness of our
governuL nl and when % ?e stood in the
senate dumber and the hall of
sentatives ^nr cheeks ting • W1 ’ co ^
scionssb^aneat the 'bought ’-cat Georgia
has tfir.) n the maiuie oi Tothwbs, Hill
and Ste pfians,about the shcuidei^ of Liv.
ingston, Wina and ^ atsoa.
No ci’;y on tfii3 continent has a larger
number ci interesting buildings ; 03 D
Washington.
From the dome of tee Lipitol v.
icgioa Voksnot like a city, but a
disc of mage ifleent dvuc t L . The
broad streets of Wash in gt »n all leal op
tiie Caoitol.
The whit. Hsass is a vary unpreien-
tious looking buildiug by no means
8 pj en( jjj en0 ugh for the home of the
president of a great ;natiou like ours,
Hurried visits were paid to the
Smithsonian Institute, Bateut Office,
Treasury, Naval Observatory and other
public buildings. *
We saw the largest gun that has ever »
been mavlv> 5n the United States, held in
our band two million dollars of I ni el
States bends, walked through vaulU
thatco: tain nearly two billion dollars
of silver, but we have returned to Geor.
giasomowhat poorer ihaa when we
left*
The K . w C.atholie Univerdtv, toward
the erection of whieh one woman alone
contributed irSOO ,000,is one ef the grand-
ing the city.
we stood at the top of Washington
monument 550 feet above the cronnd,
lfig h ^ st monument in the world ex-
cept Eifel tower, and looked down upon
the fairest city on the globe. The Louis
Home, Georgetown, th S >ldiet<» Hmn
elegant private residences, and ths
splendid government buildings »t the
greatest repr.bl c on earih were clearly
visible. And the limpid Potomac held
no sinister gleams as it flowed calufly
oaby Alexandria aud Mr. Vernon to
the Cites [.cake. * e *uew that we were
ju l*xe city o o a taut ia,um cat, mtliy
would cross ttio oeauah. 1 l'o:uiu& U
ot us
in iim uaui lutuie,io Aiinoio u.e luau-
g ira; o . m a DvUiGCialie prtSiUciu.
rne jersey ior onrr^*.. iioisvem TOl
.milk atut cueenc.
wild Tlie fvreat sheep. northwest.jse*ms One herder to say^: be^oing “In
aver
my judgment there is niore money ck&elo In
sheep just now than iu anything
this country.” Well, the wool interest
was down in the mouth long enough. It
la time a boom started its Way.
We should proceed in the selection and
breeding of our cows with one thought
clearly fixed in our mind, and Cyr* ia
when a good, profitable milch cow is old
enough to turn off, the prico that we
shall get for her carcass—of whatever
breed she may bo—will never make ue
rich. The market is not groaning for old
cow beef.—Western Rurak
There are today thousands of favntatt
in Iowa in independent circumstance*
n-iiu commenced on Iowa soil thirty and
forty years ago with a mare, a cow and
a sow, and have raised familiesof inteU**
gent children, now filling many of tn«
etations of honor and trust In svate and
nation.—Iowa State Register.
For cows with young calves bran is f
better feed than corn or corn moui, whin
:»tc too rich P.nd heafinjr-
The total debt of the United States IS
now below a trillion. Tills July ft
touched £093,000,000. Tho ten ricbetf
estates in the Union could, combined,
pay it all.
Many good people are troubled about
the constantly increasing number of
divorces in this country, end are offering
RUggestions to diminish that unpleasant
gum total. There is one way to lessen
(lie number of divorces that has not yet *
been i nggosteri . :c'*pfc by an old cynic,
and that is fl> dirrinLA tho nmulwr of
mamatrii -
What a City Government May Da
Two j^cr.'i ttgo in Loudon the plan of
electing the municipal officers by th©
people wa3 adopted. The old city gov¬
ernment was not satisfactory, and Lon¬
don went in for making a clean bw t
i and reforming it altogether. It was
placed by tho London common council.
Only persons of unimpeachable character
were elected. The best citizens of Lon-
don consented to serve their home town.
Sir John Lubbock was made president
of the council. Among such iSo n as h©
“practical'’ politics would have been a©
out of place as a hyena in a church at
high communion.
Sir John Lubbock has mnda his report
of tho work accomplished by tho cotm-
ciL It lias boldly tom down by whole*
sale filthy tenement houses and prat san*
itary apartment hotLses in their place.
It provided l)athhouses for the London
workingmen, and more than a thousand
cricket and football grounds. It enforced
courageously the doctrine tjjnt tho pub¬
lic parks vero for the peoplejay putting
in seats, gymnasiums aud swings. Bf
establishing a line of free fe-rry steaawf#
it has made coal twenty-five cenfs^heap^P
on the ton for a million of London’s in*
habitants. The council next desires LoU-
Jon to buy and place in its hands for
management the gas and water supply
c f the city, ft this shell be done th©
world will have opportunity to sec hovf
public works thrive under city goverri*
meat ownership.
The London common council waa tbtx$
inaugurated purely with the desf&n df
governing London in the manner that ft
productive cf most good for its citizen*.
When shall we liave municipal govenj*
ments rag for the same object ii
Ak 3 ' 1 ' - :?
eriajwort SaicM. ciafc
Connecticut has an organization krxrwA
^ Bridgeport Suicide club, the chief
rnie of w hich is that at least two tnem-
bers shall depart this life every year.
the five years of its existence tho fnfi
tale of ten liave suicided, aud the naf
tog feature of it is that tho club receivei
many more applications for mernbersWi
than it can consider. All this goes m
gjj OW that many people stauffl ready 0
them rives” with little encourage
menh—just enough to mofea tha act
spec table.
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