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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY T1MES-REC0K OER: FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1891.
THE TIMES-RECORDER.
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The Amebicus Recorder Established 1879.
The Americus Times Established 1890.
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Americus, Ga.
Americus, Ga., July 10, 1891.
One fellow lias gone crazy on account
of talk about the world's coming to an
end. Such talk is enough to shake up
almost anybody.
The Harrison’s of Washington have
gone to the seashore, and will spend a
few weeks in the gift cottage at Cape
May, New Jersey.
General John B. Gordon has gone
to New York in bad health. He says the
Davis monument fund will amount to
something creditable.
The great desert in Colorado is filling
up with water. It is 253 feet below the
sea level, and ages ago was evidently a
lake or a part of the Pacific Ocean
• :
The Southern Cadets of Macon won
the four.h prize wat the interna
tional drill at Indianapolis, the first
prize of $2,500 going to the Branch
Guards of St. Louis.
The Georgia legislature will meet to
morrow. A number of important ques
tions will come before it. Among others
the redistricting of tlio State, and the
question of Georgia’s representation at
the World’s fair.
Governor Nohtiien has approved
the finding of the botterments commis
sion which is a final settlement of the
question. The people of Georgia will
breathe a sigh of relief to know that it
will not again trouble the solons of the
state.
The news that Mr. Blaine has had an
other attack of illness at Bar Harbor
will arrest the attention of the nation.
His prominence as a presidential factor,
his ollicial position and the great dis
tinction he has attained as a public man,
all conspire to make Mr. Blaine a central
figure in this country.
The ltata has returned to San Diego,
Cal., from which port she escaped sev
eral weeks ago, under charge * of the
United States steamer Charleston. She
is held by the government for breaking
the neutrality laws, and a trial in the
United States courts will decide whether
she shall be confiscated.
The Republicans of Tennessee have
nominated as the successor of the late
Congressman Leonidas Ilouk, his son
John, who is said to bo a chip of the old
block. If this is true and he is
elected John.will bo a popular fellow at
Washington, because he takes liquor
straight and p’euty of it.
Fred. Douglass, Minister to Ilayti,
is at home on a visit. He says that tlio
recent revolution there was little more
than a tempest in a teapot, and that
Hyppollte is a good ruler. Correspon
dents say Fred didn’t seo much of the
revolution, because about that time he
was conspicuously scarce.
The St. Louis Republic raises the in
teresting question, how much of the
money filched from the Philadelphia
treasury and the missing deposits of tlio
national banks that have failed in that
city wont to make up the $400,000 cor
ruption fund furnished by John Wana-
maker in the last campaign? It is a
very pertinent inquiry, and one concern
ing which the public should be en
lightened.
Swallowing all sorts of hardware
and odds and ends of miscellaneous con
trivances just for the money that curi
ous spectators will pay to witness the
operation sometimes brings the human
.tool chest to grief, it did Patrick Mul-
rooney at an Ohio town the other day.
Trying*to swallow a fiddle bow was a
failure. It stuck in his throat, and now
Pat’s buried “dacintly.” It must have
.had rosin on it.
THE TRUE INWARDNESS OF IT.
A short while ago, a delegation of
Georgia farmers waited on a very promi
nent capitalist, who was likewise a bank
president, for the purpose of getting
from him some corroboration of their
views that there was a dearth of money
in the country.
50 Stating their business; the spokesman
said: “Isn’t the crying need of the
country for more money, the present
per capita circulation being wholly in
adequate to the requirements of busi
ness ?’’
The banker replied: “We have an
abundance of money; there is more idle
capital iu this city than ever before.”
“Then why can’t the people get it ?”
asked the farmer.
Taking a one thousand dollar bill from
the cash drawer the broker said: “What
have you to offer in exchange for this?
I will give it to you for 1,000 bushels of
wheat.” No one responded. “Then
sell me 1,000 bushels of corn for it.” A
shake of the bead by the spokesman.
“Well then, let me have 2,000 bushels
of oats.” Still no reply. “Can any of
you sell me 400 tons Bermuda grass hay?”
None of them had saved any hay.
“I will buy from any or all of you 13,000
pounds of meat.” The offer was not ac
cepted. “Well, if you have none of
those products for sale that all success
ful and prosperous farmers should al
ways raise in abundance to sell, how
would you farmersget this $1,000 if
there was a billion iu our safes?”
“We wish to borrow it at a reasonable
rate of interest and on long time,” said
the spokesman. “On wliat security?”
said the banker.
“We each have an abundance of the
only security that a farmer can offer,
his lands,” replied the seekers after in
formation.
“Well then,” said the banker, “the
security being ample, suppose- I lend
you $1,000 each secured by mortgages on
your lands, at 7 per cent, on twelve
months’ time, each of you endorsing for
the other, these notes for* $1,070 will
fall due a year hence, and how much
better able will you be to pay than now ?
Your smokehouses and granaries are in
the west; and you raise just cotton
enough every year to pay for your sup
plies from the west, meagerly support
your families, pay for guano and mules,
and at the end of the year you are likely
to wind up just where you started.
How can you ever get the $1,000 ahead
with which to pay this loan? You
can’t do it, and I shall have to sell you
out to get ray money back.
‘‘That is why you can’t get money
from the capitalists; and if the circula
tion were quintupled, you would never
get a cent unless you hail some product
to give in exchange for it.
“Raise everything you eat and wear at
home, and lot your truck, cliickeus eggs
butter, mutton, beef, etc., pay for all the
dry goods and luxuries your family
uses; then your cotton crops of twenty
to fifty bales will be surplus, and you
will have money in the bank here with
mo, instead of being borrowers; and you
will never hear anything more about
“financial stringency,” or “contracted
circulation,” or “capital grinding labor,”
or “hard times.”
“Revolutionize your methods, and the
south will flourish like the garden of
Eden; and you will be princes instead of
paupers.”
.The Topeka Journal has put forth the
ticket Blaiuo and Plumb ' for 1892, but
the Kansas City Star says Plumb prefers
to remain on the floor - of the senate
rather than being shelved in the vice-
presidency. To place Plumb on its
ticket would be an attempt on the part
of the Republican party to steal Demo
cratic thunder and an abandonment of
its own professed principles. Plumb
voted for free coinage and against the
the McKinley bill.
Gov. Pattison seems to have a good
many warm admirers* throughout the
country, who are mentioning him for
the presidency, but he is so busy attend
ing to his duties as governor that he
hardly appears to be aware of the fact
that his name has been placed so
prominently before the country. The
fact that he realizes that it is his busi
ness to look after the affairs of Pennsyl
vania, and not fish for the presidential
nomination, has greatly increased his
popularity with the people of his state
and even Republican are beginning to
admit that be ia the beat governor they
have had.
ABUNDANT MONEY.
The following from the Macon Eve
ning News shows how easy It is to do
away with the financial stringency if
somebody would only lead off.
The statement that the Macon banks
have plenty of money is most likely cor
rect’, and is but another evidence of the
general.plethora of money in the finan
cial centers of the country:
The money stringency continues In Macon.
That Is fo say it Is a very difficult matter to
obtain financial accommodation at the
binks. Yet.lt la generally believed that the
banks have plenty of money.
The Memphis Appeal-Avalanche suggests
that It will be remembered that when the
method of resuming specie payments whs
being discussed back In the 70s, some w
man declarod that “the only way to reau
is to resume" The country wondered why
somebody had not thought of U before.
Aud so it will be with the banks. One
of these Hue mornings a banker will start
down town after a good breakfast, feeling In
flnespi its, and before he reaches his office
resolve that he will put an end to the strln
gency of the money market byCle ting out i
Tew thousand dollars. Then all the other
presidents will follow suit, and before the
end of the day the word will be spread aboad
that “money is easy."
Pious John Wanamaker it appears
lias a very convenient memory as is evi
denced by the (act that lie lias made a
statement to the etTect that he forgot
that lie owned any of the stock of the
Keystone bank. Tills is intended as a
explanation of the glaring discrepancies
between his testimony and that of his
clerks, but the trouble is Mr. Wana-
maker forgets entirely too easy, and
while it may escape liis.mcniory .hat it
has been very clearly established that he
is a smooth old rascal the people arc not
apt to forget it. They will also not for
get that as a cabinet officer lie lias ren
dered valuable assistance in disgracing
one of tlio worst administrations which
the country has ever endured. Wana
maker may continue to run his Sunday
school, but the brand of fraud is upon
him and the louder he chants his hymns
the plainer it is to the eye.
THE OHIO CAJIPAION.
The Cincinnati toughs, who will prob
ably scratch Campbell, are not likely to
number more than 5,000, and the fact
that they oppose him will gain him more
Votes than that in other parts of the
state. It doesn't necessarily follow that
those who scratch Campbell will vote
for McKinley, but if they should Camp
bell can spare 0,000 votes and still he
elected, taking his race with Foraker
two years ago as a basis of calculation.
But the Ohio election is a very unc-r-
tain problem. The state has always
gone Itepublican on a fnll vote, and
though it lias three times elected a Dem
ocratic governor, there was each time
more or less Itepublican disaffection and
a light vote.
But electious in all the Northern
States, especially those of the West, are
now more problematical than ever lie-
cause of the manifest political disquie
tude that exist there. The Farmers
Alliance is strong in Ohio, and what ef
fect it is going to have on the coming
election it is not yet in the power of any
man to divine. The principles of the
organization ought certainly to incline it
to Campbell rather than McKinley, but
tlie Bepubiicans have made a bid for the
Alliance vote by nominating a member
of tlie organization for lieutenant-gover
nor.
The labor element is another strong
and uncertain factor iu Ohio politics.
A meeting between Governor Campbell
aud tlie Kniglits of Labor National Ex
ecutive Board is reported to have been
held recently, aud an agreement is sup
posed to have been arrived at that will
give Governor Campbell the labor vote.
If that be true, i‘, is a strong card in the
Governor's favor.!
Another important point lies in the
fact that a fight is ou between Sherman
aud Foraker for the senatorship, and a
family discord is thus created that will
not prove conducive to Uepublican suc
cess.
.Mr. McKinley is at the further disad
vantage that he must necessarily con
duct a defensive campaign aud it looks
also that lie will be forced to make it
one of apology. He is tlie very embodi
ment of tlie high tariff idea, so much so
as to make all consideration of bis per
soual qualifications of no avail.
Governor Campbell is an active, alert
and aggressive politician. Ilis record as
Governor lias been a good one and lias
satisfied the best element of both par
ties. He will get ail out of the cam
paign that is so bo had out of it, and if
any man cau lead the Ohio Democrats to
victory he will.
That is the situation at the opening of
the campaign. There are four mouths
until the election. He is a shrewd poli
tician. Who can prophesy tlie result.
FAKMEUS AND POLITICIANS.
It Is apparont that some of the poli
ticians in the northwest are decidedly in
need of a little calm-mindedncss. a care
ful scrutiny of facts and of a good deal
more courage than they possess.
It is perfectly plain, for example, that
tlie farmers of the northwest, no matter
what may bo their opinions on the silver
question, have no desire to push it to
tlie front either this year or next. They
recognizo and assert that the great evil
from which they are suffering is the un
due burden of taxation imposed upon
them by the McKinley tariff law. In a
recent convention in Missouri it was dis
tinctly declared that all other issues,
including that of free coinage, must
give way to the more pressing tariff is
sue; that the first duty of the farmers is
to change the policy of tlie government
which compels thorn to sell in the
cheapest market and buy in the dearest.
Hardly a leading man of the Farmers'
Allianco desires to risk tariff reform by
making free coinage a present political
issue.
Only timid politicians are raising tho
question, and if political conventions
could be composed of tho moil whom
tbe politicians fear platforms would be
better than they now promiso to be.
A COTTON FACTORY.
Americus needs a cotton factory. One
that will turn out cloth of all grades,
ropes, twines and all other products of
the tleecy.
Every othqr town the size of Americus
in the state lias one or more cotton fac
tories. and ail are doing a good business,
and there is no good reason why Atneri-
cus should not be added to the list.
Situated in the heart of the cotton
producing section with fields of the
tieecy staple growing up to the very
borders of tlie city, and yet every bale
of it has to be shipped to other points
to he manufactured.
With three trunk line railroads pene
trating a large area of country which
needs to be supplied with cotton fabrics
Americus lias every advantage for dis
pensing tho output of an immense facto
And with tlie completion of the S.,
•A. A- M. rail ray to Montgomery Ameri-
-us will have direct connection with the
mal fields of Alabama and the question
of fuel would not he a barrier in tho
wav of the success of such an enter
prise.
Here is truly a grand openiug for the
investment of capital with advantages
which no other city in tlie section can
rival. The cotton is at tlie doors of the
city, and coal will be in easy reach.
That Americus should, and with the
proper effort will rahk with tlio larger
cities of Georgia, there is little soom left
for doubt after the most superficial in
vestigation of her natural resources for
becoming a manufacturing city. And
history shows that manufactures build
large cities.
In view of these facts Americus should
Bestir herself for the immediate erec
tion of a cotton factory, costing from a
half to a million dollars. With this
amount of capita! invested employment
would be given to some five hundred or
a thousand hands, which would mean a
large increase in the population of the
city, and the inliow of thousands of dol
lars annually amoug the merchants and
all other brandies of trade.
That tlio 'necessary amount of capital
could be raised for such an enterprise,
thoro’s scarcely any doubt at all, if the
proper efforts were made. A stock
company issuing shares of small value
could easily be formed, and the shares
readily placed; if some of our progres
sive, enterprising, public spirited busi
ness men would get together, take hold
of the matter and givo it birth.
It would mean great things for Ameri
cus and tlie cotton factory should be
placed on tlie calendar as tlie next great
move for the metropolis of Southwest
Georgia.
GEORGIA'S NEW BISHOP ELECT
The diocesan convention of Georgia
which assembled in Macon on Wednes
day to elect a successor to the late
Bishop John W. Beckwith, had two can
didates in nomination, Bishop Talbot, of
Wyoming and Bishop Wingfield, of
North Carolina, botli being missionary
bishops. On the first ballot Bishop Tal
bot received all except one vote and his
election was made unanimous.
The manner of procedure in electing a
bishop who is already in charge of a dio
cese is somewhat different from the ele
vation of a priest to the bishopric. In
this case the call must be signed by all
the clergy and forwarded to tlie bishop-
elect.
Bishop Talbot was notified by tele
graph of his election and a com
mittee composed of Rev. .F. Rees, of
Macon, and Rev. W. K. Miller, of Augus
ta, was appointed to wait upou him at
the time and place he may elect. This
committee will probably go to Idaho in
a few days to notify the new Bishop of
his election.
The Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, mis
sionary bishop of Wyoming and Idaho,
was born in Fayette, Mo., Oct. 9, 1848.
Having received his early, education at
Fayette he entered Dartmouth, Collego,
Hanover, N. H., in September, 1800, and
graduated there in 1873. He entered
tlie general theological seminary in
1870, aud graduated there in
1878. lie was ordained deacon in the
church of tlie Transfiguration, New
York, Juno 29, 1878, by Bishop Robert
son, and ordained priest in St. Mary’s
church, Fayette, November 4, 1878, by,
tho same prelate. He was at once made
a rector of St. James’ church, Macon,
Mo., and in 1879 lie opened a parisli
school in Macon, which has grown into
tbe present St. James Military Academy,
a flourishing diocesan school for boys.
He represented the diocese of Missouri
twico in the general convention, and was
a rural dean, and member of the stand
ing committee. He married Miss Dora
Harvey November 5, 1873. He was con
secrated May 27, 1887, missionary bishop
of Wyoming and Idaho, and received
the degree of LL. D. from the university
of Missouri in the same year, and that of
S. T. D. from the general theological
sominary of New York city 1887, and of
D. D. from Dartmouth in 1888.
Tbe Atlanta Journal has sheathed its
■word and the contest* is declared off.
Perhaps it ia better thus as the rivalry
created between the friends of the con
testants may have resulted in unkind
feelings In some quarters.
THE COLOR LINE.
The New South, one of tho leading
papers of the colored people, and whose
editor is a negro, in a recent issue gave
the colored people of tlie south the fol
lowing ploce of sound and appropriate
advice :
“It is a fact that is becoming more
and more glaring every day that the col
or lino is being drawn more constantly
and persistently by colored than by
white people, and that we as a race are
entirely too ready to attribute every ill
• we suffer or disappointment with which
we meot to our color. In uiuo casus
out of ten tho cause Is our own indiscre
tion, folly or foolhardiness."
It may take tlie race a long time to
learn the lesson, but they will have It
to learn in the end and correct tho evil
before it can bo cured. If the particular
class of colored people that persist in i
were successfully sat down on, it would
not continue much longer. It is a grow
ing evil, and ono that wo cannot, as a
people, allow to continue indefinitely.
Just about the truth of the matter,
and a sound piece of advice that it
would be well for tho brother in black
to heed. If followed much good will
accrue to thoso who honestly labor to
advance the material interests of their
A NEWSPAPER man of Pittsburg says
that the best amusement in life is
rational conversation which depends
upon rational thinking. He denounces
It is stated that tbe lion. Hiram
Whocler, who ha* been nominated by
tho Republicans for tho governsiiip of | the reading habit and says reading "en
courages conversation and stops think
ing. Tho victim of this habit lets the
Iowa, is distinguished only by tho fact
that he has a beared as long as that of
Senator Feller of Kansas. If this is
true Mr. Wheeler will have a very disa
greeable experience next November, be
cause the political wind will blow a
very large Democratic majority through
his whiskers. Tlie fact of the matter is
Iowa Democrats are now counting on a
majority of 20,000 votes for Boies, and
they are confident in the assertions they
make, that neither the Republicans in
side nor those outsido of the state can
beat them, and there is every reason to
believe that they are not indulging in
any vain boasting, because the Republi
can party, while apparently ltarmqpious
in the convention, are said to he badly
split on tlio prohibition plank which
was inserted in their platform.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
expresses the opinion that had not tho
republican party been* loaded with tlie
negro that the solid soutli would have
long ago been split, and adds that tbe
negro has beeu carried when it was not
policy to do so. It is this sort of talk
that arouses the suspicion that tlie Re
publican party would be glad to let tbe
negro drop if it could do so gracofully.
This sentiment does not bode well for
the negro, because if there is a will there
is generally a way, and at the present
time the politicians of both parties can
not help but believe that tbe day is not
far distant when a black object will be
seen and heard to drop.
printer do his talking and his thinking.
Tlie more one reads the less ono thinks.
For, surely, there is no real thinking
'without independence. Nobody is think
ing when lie is only holding a book in
his hand and letting somebody else do
his thinking. You can't think with
your eyes. Groat readers are very often
mere prisons of information. They let
nothing out and benefit nobody with
their knowledge. Set these bookworms
to teach and they make a failure of it.
They can’t even talk. The reading habit
blinds people. You cau't see tho world
through tlie covers of a bool?. As old
Omar said, “burn the book!”
The silver issue is being clearly de
fined in the various state platforms that
are beiug adopted. The democrats of
Kentucky and Iowa declared unequivo
cally for free coinage, and the Ohio and
Iowa Republicans both endorsed the
law passed by the last congress. That is
the way it will be in the national cam
paign.
Now is the time when the man who is
to take his family to tbe sea shore is
busy fixing matters so that no notes will
go to protest during his absence, while
the one who stays in town aud takes it
out in loafing on the river does not need
to raise money and is in a position to
watch his line of discounts, if he has
any.
A BANKRUPT TREASURY.
It is easy enough, of course, to assert
that the treasury is not bankrupt because
it has sufiicieut credit to borrow money,
but, while it is hardly worth while to
dispute about terms, bankruptcy is
simply a condition whicli is incompatible
with the meeting of pecuniary obliga
tions.
In rouud numbers tho treasury is short
about $800,000. It is true that it has
about $20,000,000 iu fractional currency
but this amount cannot be used for the
payment of large drafts because it is
legal tender for only very small amounts.
Then thero is about $23,000,000 iu the
national bank depositories, but this
amount i6 a small working balanco for
an institution liko a government con
trolled by a political party that is squan
dering a billion dollars in two years.
Moreover, tlie treasury is liable to be
called upon to use all this sum for the
redemption of tho notes of tbe banks.
Iu other words it owes it .all to the
banks.
Therefore the government is now in
debt at least $800,000 which it cannot
pay. Its income for tills month will bo
less than its expenditures. Is not this
bankruptcy? Tbe Barings received loans
which enabled them to pay their debts,
but they were nevertheless bankrupt.
Of course the government’s credit is
good, and it can burrow at a low rate of
interest, but it cannot borrow at all until
congress moots. If a private business
man wore in this position bo certainly
would be declared Insolvent. The gov-
erment is not ruined simply because the
people are too ricli and patriotic to let it
suffer fatally from the > wicked extrava
gance of a Billion Dollar Congress. But
for the moment Its treasuryls bankrupt
because it has been looted of every avail
able dollar.
EVIDENTLY JEALOUS.
The New York World brings
its rival, the Herald, the accusauf,' 51
being subsidized by the Russian r!
ernment to print matter defenain
against charges of barbarity. »
World assumes it to be a well.u '
fact that Russia has subsidized on *
in European capitals and taking thl*
a basis of argument, rushes to tbs
elusion that the Herald's St. Petersb '
correspondent is something in the sa
line.
One doesn't have to look far to see
this charge the foot prints of the g r J
eyed monster. The Herald is a „ t
newspaper anil gives all the news
questions as no other paper in this com
try does.
There is no sort of doubt that p, USii
lias been very hard in the treatment
her Siberian exiles and the present;
sedition of the Jews in that countrv
without any palliation or excuse, but f"
all that, there lias been no country B
much maligned and misrepresented
Russia.
Russia occupies a kind of Ishmaeli
tist position among European powers
Tho hand of each of them is agai^
her. France has been her friend for tin
past few years and is suspected of being
her ally, but that is because France hit
a grievance against Germany. It „„
only a few years back that French armits
joined with thoso of England and Sardi-
nia in fighting Russians on the Crimei
Western Europe is jealous of Russia!
aggression and fears its latent power
and it has therefore been the policy of
Western Europe to abuse Russia and all
of our news from that country has hers-
tofore come through Western Europcat
channels.
It is always well to hear both sides,
aud the country is therefore indebted
tlie Herald for establishing a St. I'etera-
burg correspondence. The World would
do well to emulate this enterprise of its
rival instead of trying to persuade the
public that it is an evidence of corrup
tion.
The ex-Fcdcral soldier in Pennsylva
nia, like the republican politicians of
that state, are inclined to have a hilari
ous time and enjoy life, no matter what
it costs. There is a homo for tho sol
diers at Erie, and not long ago thirty or
more of the inmates who were allowed
all the privileges of tho institution with
out a cent paid for board or anything
else, but who, at tho same time, were
drawing fat pensions from the govern
ment, got on a howling spree and re
belled against the authorities of the
home. The result was that tlie rule iu
vogue clewhero that inmates of homes
for soldiers shall pay 80 per cent of the
allowance that the government gives
them, was enforced, but tho obstreper
ous pensioners, instead of paying the
money, raised a row and left.
A young lady from Texas visited Now
York recently, and no doubt thinking
that men there had as much respect for
ladies in that city as they have in the
South, thoughtlessly ventured on tho
streets without an escort, and tho result
was she was insulted by a masber. She
did not cry out or faint, however, but
without betraying tbe least excitement
knocked the fellow down with a parasol.
The girls from some' of tbe counties in
Texas would have pulled a pistol and
urnfsbed a fee for the coroner.
THE LAKE IN THE COLORADO DESKS!
The recent certain formation of avast
lake in the Colorado desert still remain
a mystory. A despatch from Yumi
Arizona, stalos that a boat party seat
out to trace the new lake have beet
forced fo return after traveling twenty,
five miles. The force of the current
made furtiier progress impossible.
There seems to he but little force
tlie explanation which some have sug.
vested, that the inundation is caused by
a rise of other lakes duo to tbe melting
of unusually heavy snowfalls in tbe win
ter and spring. It has beeu hinted that
the desert lake is a result of earthquake
action. Aud there is some color of prob
ability for this theory. •
After the New Madrid earthquake
shocks of 1811-12, according to tbe geo
grapher Flint, who visited tlio scene
tho convulsion, a tract of many miles ia
oxtent became inundated to a depth o!
three or four feet. In-the coursoofan
hour or two during the period of tbe
earth tremors, large lakes twenty miles
long were formed, and others were as
suddenly drained. Sir Charles Lyell,
the English geologist, who subsequently
visited the disturbed region of tbe Mis
sissippi valley, confirmed the truth of
theso and many like statements.
In the grbat Calabrian earthquake of
1783, numerous circular hollows and
new lakes were similarly formed. An
Italian authority places tbe number of
new lakes formed during tho convul
sions at fifty, though probably some of
these were mere ponds. While there
have not been recently any violent
soismic disturbances in the region of the
Colorado desert It is possible that earth
shocks, exciting very little notice, may
have been inlluential in causing the neu
lake.
The subject is one of so much interest,
geologically and 'practically, that the
cause of the remarkable submergence of
the desert should be carefully followed
up by competent scientists.
The verdict in tho King murder trial
at Memphis is just and right and will he
applauded by all good men wlto love jus
tice and the maintenance of tho laws of
tho land. The killing of Lawyer Dave
Poston by Col. King was, as tlie evidence
showed, a cruel and premoditatod mur
der, done with malice aforethought au
with desire for revenge for a fancie
wrong. If justice is not to bo meted out
under such circumstances, then, Indeed,
is law a mockery and court houses sltou
bo ajiollshed. Tho entire south is to he
congratulated upon this righteous ver
dict. Now let justice bo vindicated
The hold that the Standard Oil Co. i<
obtaining in Germany seems to be ow
ing entirely to tlie superior commerc
tact of the men who manage It, and
cause tho oil they sell is cheaper and o
a better quality than that which comes
from Russia, yet there is some susplc 0°
of political influence ip their f* vor ’
Germany could hold a powerful levs
of Russia, and probably force her
abandon her French alliance by shutt ng
out her oil from German markets.
Becausei
Tblutsnol’
Some inked, have n
The Emperor of Germany Is visiting
his relatives, the royal family of Eng
land.
Lutsm In Parvo.
a thing l» .mu 1 *
not 'twill puy to ‘corot''
lime insects have nlaijerwaw.
But ttfs less than the hornet.
Some people may, perhaps, «*®l*> -? r
account of their dlminutlveness, •
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. But a to
them convinces the moat scornful **®R
that they will cure constipation,
pepaia, sick and billions headway
quicker and surer than their large
competitors, the old^tyle pHL
.