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THE PEOPLE'S
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
Th* salary of the Mayor . f Abib ,
Khti., is n ilolliir n y* mt. For t! n u
ft »21 it though! i*y th* N• w M*rk
limit that in vt year the oliiee will t k
tin woman, met th* ft i J litithllig Hi it
for a man.
United Hint Coii-nl Newson, at
Malaga, r. ports that it jHiEsibli- f<*r
u very poor man to jive tli* r<- mi five
cents a day. ubil" « very i •.pi ctabje
diuiit r luit** 1". Itiwi for a dime.
The London Time** calla Cuptu:n A.
T. Mahan, of tho IJuitod St;t <».** Navy,
“the nn«*t distinguished livin: v,i ;l r
on naval strategy and th* *iri'-'iri:.l< r
and (irst «xfKincnt of what lna>
culled th* 1 philosophy of llaval l.i
lory.” _
The Duke of Argyll lu> be* Ii mnl. iu;'
a rpi rial Htlldv of tli*• " ew n lif in n
of English tnl rule" in In h ud, and ht
just conipl* t* I n work in which are to
In* brought I** light many n* w und un
tuiliri'l fiii't.-* ben ring <>n t!ii>. Mibj*et.
The work is to be railed “Irish Nation
Ilham; All Appeal to History.”
lhulwaya m ver would linvc lieen p< r
Iiiit1.il to xut iu England, writes
William M. Aewortli, had they been
reckh'ss of hiiiuaii lit* and as cure let
of the tlicoiiveni* ncc they inflicted mi
iii.lividualH iu* American railways have
la i n und to n greut extent still are.
“An Englishman can only Marc with
astonishment will'll lie sees tor tile first
tun** train* running through crowded
Streets of elites such as New York and
Uhicagn.”_
Tin* complete Hfatistics show that flic
production of licet sugar in the United
State*, lias more than doubled during
the past year, although there has I well
no increase in the number of factories.
Thu total production of the *ix factories
wus ‘J7,OH;t,:!‘2ff pounds, against a total
.if 19,001,KIK potituis last year. Ex¬
periments in growing sugar beets have
la*eu tried in a number of tho Western
Btate*. and the meow Inis been so
great that tho number of factories will
ho increased.
Tho Bunkers' Monty** avers that
onr hanks on the frontiers of Canada,
have, at tames, it in said, paid out, or.
technically, pot in circulation the lulls
of Gnnudn banks that tioat over for
border purchases ami expenses of
travel, etc. On these they are liable
to pay ten per emit, tux to the Federal
(loveruuient. The only way onr banks
can get rid of them and avoid the tax
is to ship them to Oatiuda, and have re¬
mittance made to New York for ac¬
count ul the American bank.
Thrt New York Herald thinks that
the danger of contracting di-s us,* from
inierob. liid. ii bank notes is very much
underestimated m this country. It
suggest* that, ns most people who arc
taken with contagious disease* are not
able to tell Imw they are contracted;
perhaps in malty ease* the muluily Im*
Iicoii contracted by handling tnicrolio
laileit currency. It may be so. com¬
ment* the New Orleans Picayune, but
so long as this same currency is a legal
tender, ami one cannot refuse it with¬
out forfeiting in* claim to p.-tvuteut,
wlmt is a poor follow to ,lo? It is a
cam* ol u< ek or nothing.
The N. w Orleans I’leavum*maintain©
that “Aniern-au cut ton mills, and more
particularly Southern mills, havitigthc
xupply of r.iw material eh**** at hand,
ami lx mg equipped with tin* most per
f*x*t machinery, should he able t*» uu
dersell Laiteaslure in nil th«* world’s
market*. We can raise cheaper cotton
than any other cotton-producing coun¬
try, ami, with the looms and spuull. s
Lu-attsl in eh we proximity to ill*-cotton
lit Ids. wc ought t«* l>e able t«* furnish
th«* world v, ith ch«*a|ier cotton thanauy
oth. r country. It is, therefore, very
evident that the uear future must wit
ness a wonderful development of onr
cotton g.K*ds exports.
Says th* New York 1 Th > *.b
stacle to tlw g*neral substitution of
aluminum for iron aud steel m tin-art*
ha^ been the high cost of < \ tract me it
from the native clay This h:i* n
partially *>vcnxiRie by progtvssiv- uu
provetn* nt* in th** pr.s-. * **f manufac
tar*. l*ut still alnmiunm r* mams t..«
c.ist 1 v t** !»■ ti, -u-. ht ot is* u nit stit-.it .
f*,r the l*a>. r Hi ,* l . u©4withstand
tts a»lvautog« * i th r tl'Nl vt il
rep*irt***l damsiw rv of • xtra .r.ism.r \
rich >t. ;»• -nt* of aluminum day in .Ala
liaii.a and tli it in
forward lor tin whit,' to. tal > v>
Ilt*« It* tutw !».* M »l* ‘ st«f •'Hi t
«iu*i< rlnik! l.«RTiXit<*
vbdtJi 4*ih*‘ \ uK*tki hi,t ! T%\
I m t art )jiiv* tJuiiissmtu It I
rt jh«*tV fr**tu th* «# e- utiti* * are I* ilsbi.
U*K ailOhiiDUSfl iS •a&/!krw*t1*Ut*k.
PEOPLES’ PARTY COLUMN.
Current Comment Concerning the Great
Crusade Against Oppression
The recent “Hurry” in financial cir¬
cles r< suited in th* 1 failure of a large
numb) r of business firms as well as
bunk** national banks, too. If Undo
hai" s pettpl" could catch on to the
oe t that this great* A financial sys
tt.n ofours is a fraud, things would
The Top* kit Aihitroft baa started a **
“pr*.h]» rity eoliuiui,” in which it pul
li«h*-s fiiilur* -. eti*. < iood nl* a. Now
h t all tlicpol.t.eal . . . tool- . , y. II .... “prosper
.tv, and i. t th. reform pr. >, publish
he ov.dem e of ,t by report,.,g every
bank ft.id comm* mat failure. Let the
people know wh«t n going oti and
more of them will act m nibble h* re
Itfler.
A few years ago “socialists” and
“hayseeds” were tho liiiines applied to
advocates of alliance measures, lo-day
tli.- great “highcockirioruintt” of de¬
mocracy, including Mills and Voorliecu
of the Ki nate, are clamoring for an in
come tax to appeuhe the popular «le
ma,id that w. nlth hear its share of the
blirdem. of government. Let the good
w*>rk proi'«-*1.
ftlevi land, at last, decides to kill tho !
“dear *dd Denticrutic party.” He him
act down on the “oliiee M t-kern” mnl
r. ius. s an interview with the people,
tin* only president that ever did aueha
thing.* If he dibonrdH the oliiee
se. kera lie kill * the piirtv. for th. y
constitute the party, If Cleveland in
tiie people's man ami th*' only mini iit
the party having houho enough f<> bo
pr.-stili nf, he has a poor way of show
ing it. Hiekorff (A - , f.) M< nury.
II,1,. ...........I................
cut Iooho from Wall strei't and run its
own business in the interest of tin,
people, it Would not Ul'l'll to be troubl¬
ed about the issue of bonds for the
purchase of gold, ami the people would
not need to be t roubled about u “streu
geney iu the motley market. ” As long
ns wall strei t is permitted to run the
defmrtmcnt it would be unreasonable t<i
expect it to be run against Wall Ntrcct
interests.
*'<bdd bugs,” “diyhjcks,” “pluto¬
crats," “coal barona,” “steel barons,”
“plutoeratin organs,” “usiirpiTs,”
etc., etc., aro tcrniH apjaaring quite
frequently in tho old party paper,* re
e< ntly, which is quite euecitiraging to
“calamity howlcra," “fiat fisds" and
“Ittuattan" who, until recently, had u
monopoly of these t*»rias anil worn
roundly a bus* si by some of the sain*
f* llows for uattig them. Spit on your
hands, boya, and lay mi the lmr.br;
help scorns in sight.— fuuma*
loom r.
wr.Ai.rn, WOT I'AtTfiUHM, Tin: Turn
tioHi’Ei,.
A writer in on*, of onr exchange*
W,VH:
“From the tone of many of the re¬
form papers now published nil ov* r
the country, it would seem that u large
Humber of people regard Wealth tt* a
crime uml poverty its a virtue, There
never was a greater or more mischiev¬
ous mistake. It is rffiht that a pro¬
test should be made against ill-gotten
wealth, the result of monopoly or spec¬
ial privileges given by law ton favor* *1
elans. Hut all wealth honest lx gained
is a benefit to mankind, and it-* in¬
creased produet ton and fair distri¬
bution should be til*' aim of the
highest and wisest statesmanship,
Nothing is so popular in e. r,am .(liar-
1 rs i*■ dux as hitter attai'ks *i,i wealth,
and ,he defend* i of the right of on j * i -
tnl is classed with the enemies of hi*
face. flu folly of this prejudice
against riches is apparent when we ro¬
ll, ef that wealth consists merely of
thosi things for lack of wlitoli millions
are cohl, hungry , ragged, and
sheltered in hex. Is. Wealth means
more food, la tter clothes, comfort
iiId*- homes.tearnages. books, paintings
oil that goes t** tnak** life * uj*»ynlile.
11..W silly. III. ii, for would be reform
ers t<i tail against fh. ir increase ’ It
is not bv making tli* rich poor that
the great social evils of our time* can
lv cured, ll is by als'lishiug ,iioii«*j»«>
lies aud uuwise taxes, so that ail can
lkvouic wealthy.
Tl.f BAXKEUs * *»\..|: i : sa .
What is rulltii the "W. rll't con
gr**ss of bankers and tiitanei. r- is u
cons* m- at t'hicago. on Jnm l‘J. and a
g.-li. r.'d invitatmu to atteml has l., en
* xt.'U.le*! to the bank, rs of all nations.
4 % *!i>r qncutlv. th. aSt* iitianec iS likely
!*» lari ^t*. Many vi-itors prominent
:n financial circles will then b< n-. the
I Hit. .i Statt ~ from abr> ad. and tf.
th.aisaiids of banking institution*
this country will do ibtlesa W ..•ute
generally repres- tit* .! Tin progran
for th*' *k'**asi.«u . ml rac, * sixteen
?. r. :it topics. site t motions .
i banks, tin i s>, nljal , h nieut© >•'
a :ionetary -ystem.iaw a's t teg. al tend r _
-uietaihsm a« i iut. rnationa ; taunt
isni.th* cai.se an • itig .tion.it ::
tary pamca.nat ,i« .'l «*. 1 nat;
I .*• k ng.th* qwa-.f.ty *«t *ujq I\ ofmon
, cv and *■ • iH,,* 1 »>> gthat th* d'»«'U*«:cn
1 will take v *vi.h rang. It is al*o pr**-
1* ...1 I.- 1 .a*.- a. |if
! »*!i iut* 1 Vv t!;* M V
i t fq! Mat* v hi tu ♦
! t* C *ti pnrt ll».* Vdtaklt' k> >tt :•>
1 otl« v! tuilllg t* -*■ it*:
■ %* -t ***** !** • t
. w*t. tr id t X
1
I • >! at u
l* ft lilt t Vl v
S t
t
tl
t
free coinage of silver, Thene are
themes of timely import, regarding
which th* incoming Congress is exp* et
. <1 to attempt some remedial legisla¬
tion. Mnl any vo ws that nmy be ad
vaiic* d or substantial agreement ro.ieh
. d in this direction cannot fail to poa
at least suggestive importance.
The congress will remain in session
about a week.
THEY AKE OETTTSO r.BSPI BATR.
It tloes not require an unusually
dose oitst-rv* r t*> notice the anti-re
fom , jTf!liUK art . string more dmper
llt ,.,. v ,. rv n. y have almost ex
'
hll1Ist ,. (l th „ Co rnea to keep tl,e
people fool. '1 un-1 It becomes ne ccw ary
t.» get up something new. The Reform
press has ftp. net! the eyes of the j ilblic,
anti tli«* tiim worn assertions (not arg
mrientH) are no louger available. They
, th at “part of the ,» ople
thf; tilne , and U ]1 of
J t of t}M . ti hut a „ of tluHJl
^ ^ lw , ul M h e time." Thepo
liticnl press are without anything to
say, as it were. The H< publican pap* rs
no longer harp about what the g. o. p.
has done or will do. The Democratic
organs know that it will not do Ao
imiki any more promises at this time,
as none of those formerly made can or
w ill be earnoI out. Hence it in lice*
canary to bids all the meanness going
**U.
A new aditinistration is in. Yet tl>
failures unktmwta. incrw.se Heal with estate a rapidity and *>tht hitlj
erto r
inortgages are increasing . rapidly ...
«o
that no true conception cun tie form
***1. I ho price of farm product* in
going down, down, the price of most
things Hold to conaumera, generally
speaking, ia going up. liiminom and
professional men find their receipts
growing h ss and Ichh. In tho mean,
time the trust and other monopoly or
guns are just waiting for the bosses to
‘ti ll us w hat to d*i.” There is but
twi. sides to this matter. You sr.
cither conducting n monopoly organ
or „ reform organ. You are reading a
.........HrI-I".*'•■».......... There ucul of ■;
reform ,.a,H r. is no
mak.ng .... a mistake * , for tli- .* differenco *■ «•
I is too plain. Think about these mat¬
ters. ft'<:/l«»</*’.
j (MlfiD BASIS.
| Tlir.
According to figure* compiled from
"official sources” by the Worhl Alma -
t ian for 18'Jff, the t*ital supply of nmn
*y iu the world wan, Jan. 1st, 189S, a*
follows:
(hiM snick (coin and bullion) . .••H.*>H!I 1 B* ! MXX>
SSS 2 ,..............:::: iS
I Total....................
! The total supply of money
United Htat«a vm:
GoM •took loin iui*i iir.iUoup..1 ”
nilwr stork *• • -J ^40.1.00,1 tX
r»l%r mm«f$.......... • ■ .. ..M
' 1W»I...... ........ SI.MAOOMW) rotlucad
. Tin- gold stock * lias been
MM ee .bmuurv 1, as per official report
Mtt y 1, to $(11.1,042,879, which shows*
W | inR off of $30,957,121, which
is, in round numbers, eight million
per month.
.. .....the organization of our mint*
t|,e total I'oinuge of gold ami silver up
,| niiniirv 1, 1 s«»:t. ,,s p, r report of
j Director of the Mint for 1*02, ha*
been ns follow*;
1 ......... ........$l,6flt (itki.UOa.tn oiS.l IS
Silver........ ........
Total...... ........9ii.fi li
The iiliov** report puts the amount
of gold and silver coin in the country
January I, lSfiff, ns follows:
(told........ .....i 867.961,904
Bdv< r...... ..... 41*2,9 -,«W
ratal*...J ........gi,*«**.**-4 *;,v
Now let us take these figures the
basis of some observation*, We find
the total coinage of gold $l,5tMi,019,-
145, and the present supply only
$•**..,fftil,.t'.Mi, showing amount gG-**
from us to be $l,tkfS,047,753. Tp>,
then, it appears that the amount
of gold coin that lias disappeared from
our country is equal t** marly supdy or.e
third the whole world's present
of gold, tmth coin and bullion, aiidxvo
see that gold as a circulating mod fin
will not stay with ns, hence, for l*W*d
or homo use, will net answerouriiir
pose* as money. Now let* exam pe
the figure* on silver arnl set) w ta t
w.« can gather from them. We tjwl
total eoinug*'up to Jan. 1,1S93, ItWl
'dofi.,471 ; silver coin now in the couV
try. $4t*2.‘.kW.2fifi, and we have unae
eoiinted f*T $J 71 , 0011 , 20 "*. W *• find
bv reference to the reports that iu the
piist eight in’silver vears there has melted 1 >*•*'n down #5.4,-
51* T.s coin*
l*>r reevinage and for n*e in the arts,
and the $.l5.:*t:5.P'2 4 trade da liars, nd
of which is included in the total coin
should b*- deilticted; thm Would
reduce 171 millions to 81 1-2 millions.
And if yon could follow it on back t<J
ihe first minting the recoinage would
almost if not quite balance those Sgorea.
lb nc*- :t appears that a* let*eon ailvet.
md gohl.as a eir.-uiatmg home money,
-ilver is much preferable. The
figures #how that silv* r as the chiaf
implement of industry iu the produc¬
tion of th* enormous wealth which
marks th, gr.atn. ss ef this country,
actuallv w< ;,rs its. If out going al
doing g • i among the fartr* ts. the
merchants and all classes, tra I» * an l
While gold have- tie
r .iu*. find* its way to the mi * and r -
»■* :v* * the official stamp.whicl «• n;* to
1. its pH*o(>ort n* t arts nnkn wt*. “ahe
t .’<o* to hetwelf wiug* and < JZL ,„ ~ fv m
ii. v, r to r* turn Hi* swift wing*
th.- Unttsh Ciuiard* r bears i. r iv" f*
t ranlta of th* H Iik (o r*
ji* Vt JT* U** Bt VtT. lit 1 udvt r
tUti *1 ^ onr ] pk* ii
r u )ll. .4* r U* ' .! n tL« n<
t* t« tv ,*ne ma- !
h*W> IK* u ■ >d t- Cora
littwii I * I?- y * CM »**
Why* > • ha*' ii t . 1X4 worth t*» ade.
f.» «. Vt f • of
4tn*ft in * »i** : rjr t* * ti»c
.
t t|* tli* umx •1 1 t ifl nt
la - la! *t-** ll till- -.try •< idd
la., 37 mtUn n - . - rt! y tag th* uv
t©re*t bearing dtM of the country to¬
day. Leaving off tin gol<l c. rtifii-at* ~
the (Told stock in the Unite*! States
would require an addition of 50 cents
to each dollar's worth to take up the
paper money in the country, dollar
for dollar. Plutocracy says we must
some to a gold basis; the present na¬
tional administration says so too. But
will we? Can we? IIow? When?
And who will reap the benefit ? Voter,
what do you think of it? /Voyr*
Farmer (Raleigh, N. C.)
A I.earued Irishwoman.
The Actonian Prize of one hundred
guineas has been awarded to Mbs Agnes
M. Gierke by the managers of the Loudon
Royal Institution, for her works ill a-
tronomy, as illustrative of the “wisdom
yid beneficence of the Almighty." 1 n
ike most prizes, the Actonian is awarded
without competition, and Miss Clerkc
was ignorant of its existence until March
7, when she was informed that at the
neeting of the Royul Institution, on the
preceding afternoon, it had been con¬
ferred upon her. Oddly enough. Sit
James Qrtebton Bfroome. M. D., who ha*
said and written so much on the infermr
brain-power of the sex, presided It on is tms
really interesting occasion. «
triumph for all women, and especially the
Irish women and Catholics; for Miss
Agnes Clerkc i3 of purely Irish descent,
was bom near Skibbcrcen, ami is a
devout member of the Catholic Church.
Her father, though Irish, held a It g d ap¬
pointment in England, and for this
reason his family have for many
years £ made their home in I.on
on MijJS A gnt« Clarke, how
a ver, has been a great traveler, and
pussed some years of her early had made girlhood
m Italy. Later, after she us
tronomy her special study, she made a
royage to Cape Town, on the invitation
0 f the head of the Observatory there;
and yet more recently she has been to
tho extreme North and to Russia, m
order to enlarge her experience. Save
for these occasional absences, Mbs Agnes
Clerkc lives with her mother and sister
fn * charming house in Kndcliffc square,
> s o{ u '\> home-lovmg a dupoaitiun
LV'”~“S- lectureshU -s,
and
die like, in American observatories, but
has never felt the least inclination to
“emancipate” herself. She is, indeed,
the most modest and retiring woman in
the world, and it was lung before her
friends connected her with any achieve¬
ment more intellectual than music, iu
which she and her sister are both exceed¬
ingly accomplished. Miss Agnes Clerkc
was chosen by tho Women's Committee
of the Chicago Exhibition to select the
<c j on ti|i (; ho iks written by women—a
Ixitli r* by her scieutiflcand literary knowl
edge and her extremely just and
gentle character. Miss Clerke has the
tluant pen, characteristic of her nation,
ingl her 'History of Astronomy" can lv*
Id witly^Leasu r- IfiV^p er-^ns
Trie subject.
Lumber in th© Northwest.
Some surprising figures have just
been published nnent t he gn at lumber
industry of the Pacific Northwest.
They illustrate how bountifully that
expansive region has been timbered.
In Washington »ud Oregon there
*re over one thousand lumber ami
wood working firms, representing $50,000.- a
combined capital of nearly Tho
000 nu«l employing *25,000 men.
valueof the product is iu the neighbor¬
hood of $85,000,000 yearly. Ten
millions of dollar* arc annually brought
into these tw-o State* from f*>reign and
domestic points in exchange for lum¬
ber, lath, shingles and other wood
products. lumber for
In Washington the cut of
showed a large decrease over the
preceding year by reason of the fact
that the building boom beginning in
RW) began to »ub*ide during the hitter
part of 1891. The cargo trade, how¬
ever, during ISO:!, and tin* coastwise
movement, consiilersldy increased, and
the Eastern demand for rail shipments
of lumber from Washington increased
tally twenty per cent. According to
indications, this year's record will
eclipse all others of the past in tho
commercial progress of the Pacific
Northwest. Th*' l’uget Sound Lumber¬
man estimate* that tbestamliiigtimber
iu the State of Washington amounts in
round numbers to 413,000,000,000
feet.
In order to grasp the magnitude of
these figures 1* t the reader, in his
mhid'aeye. imagine a solid train. 15,
(400 f**>t of lumber to the car, streteh
ing 154,000 mil***, or six times around
the earth, and then enough cars left to
make a train stretching from Tacoma
across the continent to the middle of
the Atlantic. Or, taking fifty cars for
strain, it would take 542,000 trains
td traiisjs'rt the standing timber of
Washington.
j Real Fighting Dervishes.
It is easier to turn n hungry tiger
aside from his prey than a thorcag-»Iy
excited dervish from his swoop e*u tu
an enemy, says a military eomspon
dent. His half br other in .aiiaticism
and creed, the Indian *-r Afghan Gha«.i,
ternble, but the A’rican and Arab
! dervish incurable la defiriuiu superlatively for his awfill. opponent witn an s
! gore. Howling and whirling dervishes,
?iteh aa trawlers are specially
JiK'ted to see when visit mg t.u- m-u
. area compsrativ* iy harms.» x>tz o,
lunati« compared witU tlios,-tyiK sot
%>ao * convert ill to
Mahdiam. burn to run amuck with the
rcigof unbeboYim.' humanity. Once
fairly bitten with the tarantula of Mos
hm sectarian seal, the proselyte
.••msumed with tli. belief that ti.-* do
!-hts of the seventu , nmnber
or any v.;
lifWl> him if he t\%n omy t n
* tn -tardy. <*rwJy bntemry . f
.ufidels of hw own or any ra*-,-. It
h a matt, r of ut.Iiuerenee to him if :n
te MMMtion. while he ah* at he* lils
••fid in his and hw propb. t‘« * Betsy.
th* latter w doing th*- same t«* 1. ;a.
i|udi and happy translation tie ? • is
u ia sor« reward. —London T. .
ftap*.
HOW SOME FARMERS WORK !
DESCSIPTIONS FROM THE TTNTTED
STATES CONSULAE REFORTS.
The Decaying < hinesc Tea Grower—
Bermudan Agriculturists — Ilow
Bests Have Been Imported.
A T present twe-thirds of all the
ten growers in the province
of Amoy, including Formosa,
>• are poor men win* have to
borrow money to raise and move their
crops. Tht v t.lttain the needful money
from pagan usurers anti me rchants and
from Christian tea exporters. It makes
little difference to whom they apply,
as each charges ten percent, per month
on the loan and takes the land ami
growing crop as collateral security, im¬
posing the condition that he shall have
the first choice of buying the new leaf
at the market rates. All of the ered
itors combine t*. rig th* market at the
opening of the tea season and the
grower is skinned.
In the Chinese lists of princes
whom presents of ten were sent by th*'
monarehs of the Flowery Kingdom, are
many wlmw identity would otherwise
Ik: lost to history. From the same
ancient writings many curious :'a"ts
are thus obtainable. Among other
things it apjieurs that Korea was at sin
time a formidable power, military and
naval, that the.laimncs*. at long inter
vals changed ir-un pries aliie neighbors that
into marauders urn! freebooters;
Muni|mr, Akmiih, Burma!), iuii^-yuiii
at various epochs were strongly bel
ligercnt communities in the far East;
that Cambodia ami Cochin ('hina voT,
liopulous, rich and warlike civilian
tions, where now the tiger prowl* imd
the scrjient glides; that the island of
Ceyluu whs the s«-uf of brilliant and
brave dynasties which followed olio
another like the waves on the shore,
and that at times the Tartan nomads
who live to the north, northwest und
west of Asia, were gathered into great
armies and Nations by Tenierlaues and
Zenghis Khans unknown to later fame.
Tlie jir<s'ess *>f decay under Tartar
rule is measured by the fact that IVk
ing th** pres* nt, and Nanking the
ancient capital of China, arc scarcely
half as large as they were an hundred
years ugo. the downward
Amoy tens exported are on the of
path, now to extent
CO,000 half chests where f.irmerly •'»<«'.
000 were exported. This tremendous
change is due, United States Consul
Bedloc regrets to say, almost entirely
to dishonesty and rapacity on the part
of the trade, native und foreign, and
especially the European trading
liouses. At one time the Auioy teas
were excellent, and the tea <us*nets
correspondingly prosperous. As t he
tea planter* ca^ue iuto debt t*i the
*;.«#»rs 'and ruerehanW, they were ■- *
cS t ^T?dky°nV n r, t h ^n r
tea dr,nke r
China knowingly uses Amoy tea. In
the earlier davi Formosa did a l.nsi
m ss of 25,000 to 50,000 half elu sts
per Woo* annum, when Amoy was d. dug
«- a, %»- «• --«■)
reversed.
In the Faso del Norte consular dis
triet the agricultural implements in
use ore either of latest American iiivi n
tiou and manufacture, **r else the
ancient straight stick for a plow, th*
sickle for reaping and the flail ami
winuowiug for separating. These tw*i
extremes in farming methods are found
side bv side. American plows, mowers,
reapers, tliroluTs, etc., are in use
by some who farm on « larger scale,
while others who farm u few acres hold
to ancient means ami methods.
Every nmu in Bermuda who has an
ncre of ground to plant has a hors*',
and the only implements that can he
ssed in most places are th*- hoe, fork
und spade. The patches are very small
aml a horse is quite useless. tu this
little island of twenty-six miles long
uml some places only one ami a half
miles wide, there are . 45 hors. s. Hi*'
grass grown there has very little
nourishment in it. the steamships
that ply la'tweeii Bermuda. New York
und Halifax arc lad* n with cargoes
each trip, and two-thirds of these
cargoes is feed for horses.
The island was clear of insect pest
until some time iu 1558 or 1859. A
vessel was brought there i:. di-tr. -
with a cargo of oranges which were
sold at auction. The fruit was carried
all over the island, and in a few months
after their flourishing trees were cov
ered with an insect which gave the trees
the appearance of being whitewashed,
I Now you hardly- see an orange tree.
| This insect was the “cottony seal.
bug. atterward imported from Aus
! tralia into California, where it threat
’ eue.1 the extirpation of the orange,
(acacia, locust, aud many other trees
i and some shrubs, both fruit bearing
I and ornamentid. Th" bug was ex
j terminated tralia by importing from variety Aus- of
its natural enemy, a
, jk*- “lady bug.”
i Another insect was introduced to
Bermuda in peaches, the island at that
(j nll , being stocked with a delicious
j^ach. This insect was a small white
maggot in the peach which destroyed
. t fj ( . peaches on the island. The
maggot turned into a very small bug.
j, has attacked other fruit, mango***,
etc. As the fruit fell to the
ground no one took the trouble t<> de
s trov the etrgs. an.l thus th** p*«t in
orMm , t „ present dimensions.
j^ n ral suail-N too. iuv picked np bv thr
1)u , rvL United States Vk, -Consul
H. ve r. port- them in some places de
striving everything ' in th* -Li:*|-e of
v , R
‘ _ r. plow ft ti. l.l Th/ra:.. adjoining th*
An „ ru .„. i vcmt j.. n at .s-ntam
tui? than as ;icrts of *ui*« h
^ , m , th , ia ( M , r of tw
!aau a wL ,. S . (1 uv Vt i
. r ,,*ia*l ,: »* had mrvti *r* vHitiA'v
* “ p fw ntv ,,.*re* ut b kttJ
t tUid In lH tt* r tiny u tti*
th % t i: *\ THl
111 t a Unit* stat. Mil -i i
ikki 1 1 Ov i * .. - ‘ .. iXI...... d ihla to
the general manager <i uie im; iTi
Tobacco Corp-oratioii, win*, ns a Jesuit,
£r«ve h large order f. r American ngri
cultural implements to n Ni» York
firm to till. The experiment is t<> be
iried with tin s* impl* in* ntsin all par u
of Persia.—New York Sjuu.
SELECT SIFTINGS
Hamdein. Conn., has offered a bounty
of Si for each mud dog killed.
The most wonderful vegetable in \hc
world is the truffle; it lias neither
To* tt.\ ,-teni. leaves, rh overs nor seeds.
qj u , honeveomb presents n solution
(1 f t j lt . greatest possible strength and
space with th*’ least pe.--ibl<* material.
The in* *-t remarkable imp< ,-t**r was
George Psalmunazar, wh<* invent***! u
language and wrote it literature in it.
When Tanner begun his forty-dav
fast in is bo ii<- wvighed lTf* pounds ; at
the end of the period ha weight was
!--•
A cloth of very fine texture is made
from the bark of tin paper :re*', n
mulberry growing .n the bonth Sea
Uiaiuh*.
» sturgeon, vv. ighing 1-'- pounds
and nieasuring seven f-* t in b ngih,
w . ts ,-* ntiy taken from the Sano o
i Kj vt .j. iu Sdith Carohuu wiiii a skua
| )u .p
v w< st y ir ^i v ia man i- said to luivo
IV( . ( . ntlv sol( , „ U( . „f i,i K sen,. ... a
ntli „ hl ,;, r f) , r *j i„. p. uv , r has now
lile lutll , r fot x \ u .cairn of his
‘
■
. . , «««"« V '
Franee, has decided to cnange the t i uu.m .
of the (jmii be Le- eps. v.hicii ..as
»»n»e*l yiiiy a few years ago in h»w>r
of the fallen great man.
.lapuufse jinriksiias have gained n
considerable footing in the town* **t
South Africa, lu Untie town, IJurlian,
ami lieleriiinritzburg they are well
patronized, and are crowding out iho
cabs an*! public buggies. Kaffirs fur
nisli tin* motive power.
\ child is adopted generally in in
f^uey and v. ry sehlom during youth,
| u Jajiun th*- reverse ir. th<* ease, and
)h>v* from firtren to t ivent v, generally
relatives, mv adopfed. For iusfaiK'e,
there were two brothels in my college,
hut of different names, one having been
adopted by an uncle,
The Japanese soldier of seventv-f.vo lo.'iklng
vonrH :lK ,, vvus „ v< rv different
j tl dividual from the'Japanese and aoldi. chain rof
Then he wore plate hisper
mfti j wnM , rf ,. arrv i ng about <m
KIlftit . ieI)t t „ wt lip a small
: unk sllo .,. The armor itself was made
„f thin plates of iron or steel, of lnird
eUt .d hide, lacquered paper, brass ami
and shark skin.
The Moliaves believe that tho spirit 1 ,
i of their dead go up ' in smoke to the
f 'Whit** Mountain” when their bodice
are eren.ate.1 ami that
" thrown mto he fian.es g,^ up w
u in Th* y also have a l.chef that all
the Mohave* who d,e and are not crc
“““ted turn.into owls and when hey
*
vein . rue*. ,
Tim sea east up n unique hit of trea
sure tmve before an Alderman *>f
‘ Leeds, England, who was walking on
j th*' shore at Bridlington. He saw a
1 neat package coming toward him on
the crest of u wav*', and on securing
and opening it discovered that it eoli
taiued n promissory note for $15,000
- and liank eh**eks for twice that uiuoimt,
all drawn in the y* «r 1S]«5. 'lhe pupent
were valueless, but arc interesting as
si iiivcuirs.
The Parsecs rarely travel in coni
panics of more than twenty without
taking a priest along, but. those repre¬
sen tu fives of the ancient fir.' worship
absolutely refuse t<> accompany a wur
Ji k) . exjH ilitioii. No hritie would in¬
due.- him to undertake tli" functions of
!; field chaplain, and their convert*,
though not absolutely nn-wurlike, hold
tlmt a ivsort to arms is justified only
as the sole means of self defense against
nuutou aggression.
—
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j !«i-i%r7«>r Printing in Japan.
In a recent number of the Archiv fur
Buchrirnckerkuust there is an iustrnc
tive article on the history of printing
in Jaduu, bused on a lecture delivered
hr the Japanese savant. Shugeo. Ac
cording to this authority, the oldest
Japanese manuscripts, like those of
Europe in the Middle Ages, were highly
decorated with miniatures, capitalists
and other ornamentation. The art of
priming was intr idnced into Japan
from China. Th.- oldest printing from
movable type* dates from the year 770
a. n. A copy of this publication is *tilt
extant. The first printing of wood en
graving* date* from the first im
pressitm made with colors from lfi'J5,
At the present time the Japanese pub
lisln rs generally print only on one page
of th*- sheet. The native paper is very
strong, but papers *>f a j»*ior* r grade,
imported from abroad, are now begin
ning to be used. Th<- c..v. r f«.r or.lin
ary i<o*.ks is made out of the i-ane- kind
of paper, and on it arc printed the title
of the book, the .late, .slition and name
of publisher. Iu the ca«- *.f cloth m*>re
valuable books the covers are of
or silk. In most recent tinn-s boakt
are also l*eing bound after Eurojieaa
fashion.—N.w Y'ork Independent.
4 P,tck, , t Ute ,. L,n ' 1
*
Lieutenant Brunei, of Dieppe,
Fratus. m 1*74. introduced a p
life saving apparatus, of which over
SSflO or*- now in n* in Franc*•. where
they -«v .»n an av. rage •■s~> lives aii
h iully. Th. api-arut::* eoaud* of a
ML.till w >d«U flout with lot* feet of
-tout c»»id wound ab .nt it. Ot.** end
»f tli rd is ittj, ht- 1 to a -mail but
I** vruit-d with tour small
h I' si. .. ' . ng w*-i„*fis only
RV sin*-* * tind can l« profit
f r halt a d.bai. — NvW \ rk Alvtr
Uwt.