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THE LENRT (MM’Y WEEKLY. VOL. XIV. *akiM c POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of parity, strength and whulcsomenees. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot he sold in competition with the mul titude of low test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Koval Baking Powder Co., 106 Wall street, New York. novl3-ly PROFESSION A L CABDS. TAB. «. r. CAMPBUJ., DENTI ST. McDonough, Ga. Any one desiring work done can he ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails. lYnns cash, unless special arrangements »re otherwise made. Gf.o W. Betas j W. T. Dicker. lIIIYAX A. F)l< kl \, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the. counties composing he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court oi Georgia and the United States District Court. apr27-ly | AS. 11. TI RABB, attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District Court. marl6-lv p .1. ri;a«4X, attorney at law. McDonough, Ga. W’ill practice in all the Courts of Georgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over The Weekly office. J r. WALL, attorney at law, McDonough, Ga. • Will practice in the counties composing! be FLint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. octs-’79 y. A. BROWN, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in all the counties compos in'' the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-lv j | A. PIIEPLI.S, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamuton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court ot the United States. Special and prompt atten tion given to Collections, Oct 8, 1888 Jno. D. Stewart. | R.T. Daniel. STI7WAKT & DANIIX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. j |R. It. .1. ARAOI.B. Hampton. Ga, I hereby tender my professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all calls night and day. LAW CARD. 1 have opened a law offiee in Atlanta, but will continue my practice in Henry county, attending all Courts regular'v, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited, \\ ill he in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office —Room 26, Gate City Bank Build ing, Alabama street, Atlanta. Ga. JOHN L. TYE. January Ist, I *65. Tax Notice—Second Itmind, Hampton, Monday Oct. 28 Sixth, Tuesday “ 2!) Stockbridge. Wednesday “ 30 Shake Rag, Thursday “ 31 Brushy Knobb, Friday Nov. 1 Loves’. Saturday “ 2 Tussahaw, Monday “ 4 McDonough. Tuesday “ 5 McMulleu’s, Wednesday ‘ 6 Bersheba. Thursday “ 7 Sandy Ridge, Friday " 8 Locust Grove, Saturday “ !» Lowes’, Monday “ 11 SOLOMON KING, T. C. GRIFFIN FOUNDRY AND Machine Works. life announce to the Puln'e that we are * i prepared to p .• tnr. Engine Boil ers ; w ill take orders tor all kinds of Boil ers. We are prepar a to do aft kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin ery, generally We keep in stock Brass fittings sf ail kinds; also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Costings of every Description. OXBOUN X WALCOTT, THE BAGGING COMBINE. IXI BREST IX TEE COMIXG ST. JjOUIS COX TEXTIOX IX('BE.ISIXit- Interesting Inside In form itSion I’nriiislied J»y (lie President of the SSiii't lliigging Cu. —A Vj :ii* of Eitermi. nation. Mr. N. G. Hurt, president of the Hart Bagging Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y.. was iu the city yesterday. .Mr. Hart is well known here, having resided in St. Louis for 30 years, leaving about 9 years ago to establish his manufactur ing interest east. He established the Southern Mills Bagging Co., of this city, aud was its president for a limn ber of years. Mr. Hart was seen by the Republic’s representative yester day, and discussed the bagging .situs tion, the jute bagging trust, the Far mers’ Alliance revolt against the trust, originated by the Republic's expose of the formation of the American Manu facturing Co, and kindred matters, very fully. Ile said : “To begin with, 1 must state that your paper has done my company' an injustice in its article headed “One Big Company,” by in eluding it among the companies form ing the American Manufacturing Co., formerly known as the Jute Bagging Combination. We do not belong to the trust. It is tiue that the Hart Bagging plant was leased by the trust at the time of the latter’s formation, but when that was dofie 1 was ignor ant or the move that was being con templated to secure control and inau gura e a jute bagging squeeze, and would not have leased my mill to them bad 1 known how they proposed t" run things. The mill returns to our hands Jan. 1, 1890, and will then he run outside the combination. It has a single term capacity—that is, running 12 hours’ time—of 6,000,000 yards, and a double t- rm capacity sufficient to supply one fifth of the bagging used in covering the crop.’” “The article you refer te as appear ing the Republic under the heading ‘One Big Company’is, however, cor rect, is it not ?” “Yes, so far as 1 observed. As to the matter of the law involved in the article I can say nothing. As to the fact of the formation of the American Manufacturing Co., 1 have heard it rumored that such a company had been formed, and this is official con firmation of it I have seen. I know nothing of it postively. At any rate the Hart Bagging Co., has had nothing to do with it.” EFFECT OF THE COMBINE. “In your judgement has the jute bagging combine had the effect of ar bitrarily raising prices above a legiti mate point ?” “Certainly it has. They certainly have demanded unreasonable prices.” Wh at is the prospect as to reason able prices for jute bagging during the coming year ?” “1 think that in consequence of our mill and others running outside the combination the tendency will be to lower prices to the normal condition of supply and demand.” “The capacity of these independent mills is as follows: The Ludlow Co., Boston, 10,090,000 yards; the Has: Co., Brooklyn, 6,000,000 yards; the Galveston Co., 4,000,000 yards, and St. Louis Bagging Co., 3,500,000, giv ing a total of 23,500,0°0 yards, or enough to cover one-half the cotton crop. Ot the mills you mentioned as being in the American Manufacturing Co.. E. L. Stevens, of Quiunieburg, Conn., is out of existence, but the trust still controls machinery enough to sup ply the demand for the whole crop The jute supply for this season is in the hands of the trust, so that this year thev have control of the situation.” “Prices for next season should be from 7 to 7 1-2 cents for 1 3-4 pound bagging aud about 8 cents for 2 pound bagging. lam willing to make contracts for large deliveries for next June at those figures. lam making many altera tions and additions to my mills, and will have a largely increased capacity'. I desire to compliment the Republic on its work in opposidg the .Jute Bagging Trust. I have been shown copies of the paper all over the country contain ing its articles on bagging matters, and have always found them thorough authentic and reliable. As to the Farmers’ Alliance convention to be held in St. Louis December 7th to formulate their opposition to the trust, I heartily indorse it, and am in favor of sucii a move. The planters have been made to pay an unjust price lor jute bagging and their opposition to the tiu*t is only natural.” MODE It ATE PROFITS. ‘ 1 do not believe, however, that the squeeze or‘corner’run m 1888 will ever be repeated by the trust. The intention of its managers, I think, is to conduct it on the same principal as gains in the Standard Oil Co., which is to secure thorough control of the jute bagging supply each season, and with full power to regulate the output of the manufactured product, maintain the monopoly on a plan of moderate profits. It is the only safe principal, no matter how powerful a combine may he, for the mas .-s ill not submit to a coutinua ce of ext rtion, and any attempt a sue > would inevitably insult in disa-ter to the projectors of the scheme.” “In mv opinion it will be impossible for the trust to maintain a control of the Calcutta jute supply. I was ap proached thi spring by a leading St. Louts mercha -t, a warm personal friend of mine, who urged upon me the nec essity o! going into the jute hanging combine, stating that i could not hope to fight it successfully, as it practically McDOXOUG litf GA., FKlfflgrato VEM HER, 1,1880. had control of the situation on both sides, meaning that tie truss* could at any time comer both the jute supply and the bagging market. Thi - I deny, and anticipate that the result of the coming season will support my posi tion. The Calcutta, jute output is about 3,400,000 bales, of which about 1.400,000 bales are used in < 'alcana, and about 20 per cent, of the entire output is jute butts. To buy up the output each season would compel the trust to roll up a steadily increasing stock of jute, that would require the wealth of a Vanderdilt to carry in the course of a few seasons. They can not dream of pursuing such a policy and there will always be enough id the raw material to supply outside mills.” AMERICAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY. “The quest! nof the formation ot the American Manufacturing Co. first arose last spiing 1 was not approach ed ns to my willingness to put the Hart Bagging Co. into it, as my attitude on the subject was well known. Conse quent! v I have have Kad but scant in formation regarding ttie progress of the deal, and the article in The Republic was the first intelligence 1 received as to its completion, David Nevius cf the bagging manufacturing firm of Nevius & Co. of Boston, Mass., is president of the company, Appleton Sturgis of the Eagle Mills Co. of New York secreta ry, and Anderson Gratz of the St. Lou is firm of Warren, Jones & Gratz gen eral manager. As to Gratz being thu brains of the combine, 1 would say that he is au able, shrewd and braiuly man, who has devoted all his thought and en ergy to ihe bagging trade for years, and, it may be, lias led largely in de veloping the trust, but there are sever al other gentlemen associated with him who have alsb considerable voice in its management. It is a powerful com pany, comprising almost unlimited abil ity add capitol, but 1 do not believe it will be able to maintain entirecontro) of the jute bagging manufacture in this country. The Republic’s list of the mills forming the American Manufacturing Co. would be complete with the addi tion of the Empire Bagging Co. of Champaign, 111., owned by Messrs. Gratz, Graham & Filley of St. Louis, and of course with thu correction al ready made regarding my in HI, which is most emphatically not in the com bine. the opposition. “I have talked with many promi nent New York cotton men regarding the Farmer’s Alliance opposition to the Jute Bagging Trust, and among others with Mr. R. II Rountree, senior mem ber of the large cotton house of It. H. Rountree A Co. lie was elected vice president of the convention of Ameri can cotton exchanges held in New Or leans September 11, la.-t. to consider the i quitable adjustment of tare on cot ton. and is thoroughly familiar with the whole subject. Mr. Rountree be lieves that no practicable substitute for jute bagging will be found, but recog nizes the fact that the Southern plant ers are determined to break up the jute bagging trust, aud expresses the opinion tin.t they are in the fight to stay, if it costs them millions of dollars. It is the most remarkable iustance of the survival of a storm of public indigna tion aroused by imposition on record in this or any other country. The action of the convention meeting in St. Louis December 7, will be watched with in tense and wide-spread interest. I hope to so arrange my business as to lie here at that time. As to the position of the cotton exchanges and cotton receiving firms of the country, it is but natural to suppose that they are in sympathy with the planter, and desirous of pro tecting his interest. I believe the Allen-West Commission Co. of Mem phis and its Mobile and St. Louis houses have so far been more outspoken as to their position than any other cotton firms, having put them selves on record in their annual circu lar of October Ist as being opposed to the trust. The ftruegle now concen trates upon the focal point of the St. Louis convention of December 7th. I Its action will sound the call for the general engagement for next season, and outline the future policy of opposi tion to the trust.” (furen Victoria's t rowa. Queen Victoria’s crown, kept with other royal regalia under strong guard at the old Tower, and worn only on state occasions, is one of the most cost jlv insignias now in existence. To be ! gin with, there are twenty diamonds around the circlet or head-band, each wortli 87,500, or $150,000. for the set. Besides these twenty there are two ex tra large center diamonds, each valued at SIO,OOO making 820,000 mote ; fif ty-foui smaller diamonds, placed at the angles of the others, each valued at 8500; four crosses, each worth $60,000 and composed of twenty-five diamonds on top of crosses, each having a money value of $5,000 ; twelves diamonds in tho fleur-de-lis. $50,000; eighteen smal-1 ler diamonds contained in the same, SIO,OOO ; pearh, diamonds and rubies I upon arches and circlets, not mention ed before, $50,000; also forty-one : small diamonds, formed in roses and | monograms, 825,000 ; twenty six dia monds in upper cross $15,500; two circles of pearls about the rin. < f the j head piece, $15,000 each. The total ; in ney value of this relic in any jewei i er’s market iu the world would be at ■ least $600,000, metal and all included. The circulation of the blood—quick | ened and enrichened —bears life and energy to every portion of the bodv ; I appetite returns ; the h air of rest i brings with it sweet repo-e. This can |be secured by' taking Dr. J. 11. Me Lean’s Sarsaparilla. Girr if. s.i.!&9mu*. -p jug!, - • Yav are iiiora the old •>' killing a i: with butt also be trills s;» -1 lii.it no died of ill;!'-! in ri prollihitidßHE/l 1 was lying on a B<flp he other,day, .. ip a rniMi) • room of a 'iMKKiiril estalv lis’iriti ut There Other* who in re also rooling f'ff.jwßlp right here ) b. gin siate. lot- tVajJ ■£ *• niisundf'V -landing about the that the r. -on I n.i- there rid of ,u e.iM that had just staTW>|gtn<i which, it goner i !v taken in arrested by moans el' a Turkish ItA I regret to ray, however, that 1 risjjt'4) get there in i me. One of the n#!£ ,fiad not come in to get rid <# ; a cu'i Y' lie had had no sleep for a CiTOphCj a t ,\f\ tie s' it, and was feeling ruth- 1" r UK* mailier. 1 believe -that 1 1 newhere up-town there had lice a (yt ad night poker game, with the uiinieiifs of stim Tints, and this vlefc£n,of poker had felt rather rocky, auaL-VpeiU to a Turkish bath to sort of revive him. “See here,” lie said tojh* itiendant. ■-! want you to send out aioC got me a ;ood u hiskey coekiail.” I ■■ The attendant looked tyjp4t. “My dear sir,” he said# “tbit is not allowed in this establish meJuS “What is not allow the man. •")£& , “Wo are not allowed tiff ...tie out for any liquors.” jStir. “Well.” said the cooler off. a tones of deep disgust, “thi* >9 a.fitjp lathing establishment.” Yflg; “Yes, sir,” said the attetteanf, ‘‘it is eonsidered the finest in I “In town!” cried the rtthej “In the villi.ige, you mean. WB, (it’s the mill place in the United Stores l that a man can’t send out and getAwliit he wants, L tell you I’ve got Spivc a whisky cocktail, and I am igoiilg :o have it,” •Oh. you can have it all an swered the attendant. “Very well, then, I wait it just now.” “You can have it all right! Imt not till after you get out.” “Now, see here," said the mail, in an insinuating tone of voice, “[kerf is a dollar in this thing for you. ’Veil send out on quest and get me a whisky cocktail. It will be all righip -nobody will ever know anything aboijt it ” "1 can’t do it,” said the atte fulant, “It’t strictly against orders JMfcl, be sides, the [iroprietor wouldn'tjjHow it. it’s no use, you had Jf> sleep.” "Y\ L- rc is “He’-in the next room. 11l call liim.il you like.” ” • “Vi ell, I wish you would do so. I want to ree what the reason is for such an idiotic arrangement as that. This is the first Turkish bath place that 1 was ever in that I couldn’t get what I wanted.” The proptietor came in and was vety suave and soothing, hut he was per fectly firm on the liquor question. No whiskey cocktails could get into the doors of that establishment, not while he was proprietor. The up-all-night ttan pleaded amt begged and swore, and threatened never to come there again, and tried to appeal to the proprietor’s better na ture, but it was no go. No whiskey would he allowed in the cooling room. The man thought deeply for a while and finally again sent tor the proprie tor. “Say,” he asked, “have you a tele phone here ?” “Oh, yes,” answeri d the owner of the place. “Well, I wish you would do me the kindness to ring up my friend, Jacob Mrauss. Tell Jake, when you get him, that I’m hete at your bathing establish, meat anil 1 can’t get down for an hour, dell him to postpone that appointment for another hour at least.” “All right. What did you say the uatnu was ?” “.Strauss—Jacob Strauss.” “All right.” The proprietor seemed all the more anxious to please his guest as ho had hail to reiuse him the necessities of life a short time before. But after a while he came into the cooling room and said, as he held the telephone book in his hand : “I can’t find any Jacob Strauss here.” “Oh, he must have a telephone,” said the bather. “It isn’t in the book, Ten.” “Well, thunder, how am I to get a message to him ? I I ave an appoint ment with him iu about ten minutes, and 1 kail fotgotteu all about it. I can’t go out of here till I am cool.” “No, certainly not,” said the pro prietor. “Well, the best thing you can do is to call up a messenger boy and send a note to your friend. Does he live out of town ?” “Ob, im, he only lives up Woodward avenue.” “Very well, then, I would call a messenger boy, if I were you.” “Well, just do so for me, will you, please ?” Wo heard the proprietor ring up the telephone and call for No. 5 aud say : “.*eud a messenger boy up to So and-so's bath rooms right away.” Iu a little while the ptoprietor came iu and said the messtnger boy was waiting outside. “All right, send him in here. Say, can you get mo a sheet of paper aud an envelope ?” “Ceraiuly.” A sheet of paper and an envelope were in ought, and the boy w die. while lie scribbled a short note, thi n on the outside of the envelope he wrote “Jacob Strauss,” with a number on Woodward tiveune. “Now, my boy,".lie said in a whis per, “are you a pretty sharp young j fellow ?” They boy grinned. “Very well. You see 'his address to Woodward avenue f Now, you are not to go there. You just take this uo'e to Charlie You know the place, aud hero’s a dol’ar. Tell him to put it iu an eight ounce bottle, and you put it in your pocket and don’t show it to .anyone till you get in here’again. Un derstand ? You might just show that address to the proprietor outside as you go through, and ask him whether it's |up or down Woodward avenue, you know, to give a sort of semblance ot probility to this thing, and if you keep mum the change of that dollar is yours. Mum'* the word, you know. Do you j tumble ?” L The boy tumbled all light en ough, l and went urn ot» l*p errand. In fi : short lute he returned fibd brnUght in i a note to the bather, at the same time ! slipping gently a small bottle to the | thirsty man. As tvo went out together aud paid our bills at the office, the man said to the proprietor: “1 like your establishment first rate, but 1 think you are a litrio too strict in your temperance rule.” “My dear fellow,” said the proprie tor, “we have to do that. We can’t let any liquor get in here, you know. Now, you must admit that you feel bet ter yourself for not having if, and I should advise you not to indulgo any mare. You certainly look better than if vou had had tho drink von want ed’.” “Well, perhaps you are right,” said the man, as he buttoned up his over coat and strolled away. Hud u Total'll < 'aiitiimrr. Ono of the most prosperous merchants in New York hud his life chant ed by a simple performance of duty. He was clerk in a big Bust' u dry goods house at a small salary, lie uhvavs tried to effect a sale One day a customer ap peared who was more than particular about Ids purchase. In relating his ex perience with this man the merchant said to a reporter : “I have a quick temper, and at times during the transaction 1 felt that I could strangle the customer; but 1 quickly Qutbed my temper and went at him tooth and nail. 1 felt that try reputation as u salesman was at slake, and i: was a question of conquer or tic j conquered. At. lu*t I made the sale, and with it came a great satisfaction ; but 1 was not done with the man yet I I waMed to s f ‘B him more. He said „oniPt:fing about sending fits' wife around to look at some dress goods. I promised to send samples or new pat terns as they arrived. The customei thanked me and said : “It has taken you a long time to seli me a few goods. Are all of your customers as hard to please as I “‘lt takes some customers but a short time to make their selections, while others wish to he slower ; we are bound to please them all, I answered. “‘Does it pay.your house to devote so much time to so small a sale ?’ he in quired again. “ ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘I have taken time to give you what you Want. 1 know you will find the goods as I say. You will have confidence and come, again, and the next time it will not take so long.’ “After getting his package lie walk ed out of the store. Jn three days days I mailed samples of the new dress goods to his wife, and the circumstance pagsi d entirely out of my mind. I was promoted in a few days, nnu h to my astonishment. “One morning I was informed that Mr. B. wished to see me. I went to the office with surprise anil some fear. 1 was more surprised when I saw sit ting beside my employer my customer of a few months hack. Ho proved to be the moneyed partner of the concern, whoso other business interests kept him away from the dry goods store almost entirely, aud he was known to but few of his employes, although he knew that 1 was a new man as soon us he saw me and thought to see what mefal 1 wak made of. That he was satisfied is proved by his making me a buyer of tho several departments where I sold goods. My prosperity began tho tough customer, and now I thank good ness that I got him and did not show my disposition to strangle him.” llfstiirj' of ftliortlmiul. According to a paper read before the recent meeting of the Library Associa tion, shorthan I has flourished more or less for 2,000 years. Cicero’s famous writer, Trio, is known to have had ri vals in his own time, and Ciesar’s b ats in dictating several letters simultaneous ly while traveling still remain unequal ed. But shorthand, as now understood, is the product of the present century. It is computed that the literature relat ing to the subject would fill no fewer than 13,000 volumes, and England alone has given birth to *O7 different systems. — ftiM-klen'N triiica Salic. The Best Salve in the world for | Cuts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt! Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped j Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, arid positively cures Piles | or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfai tion, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box For sale by C. D McDonald. If you are suffering with weak or inflamed eyes, you can. be cured by us ing I)r. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Eye Salve. NO PH ANTOM APPEARIIU. I.n-t Ua|)l. liUlii'N AVmn u Ipilct One Along:' the Jersey fuavl, 'I he night of Friday, October 11, was wluu ts familiarly known along the New Jersey eoast as “Capt Kidd’s Night," when, according to local song and story, the victims and all the ac cursed ermv of that bloodthirsty pirate rise from their graves and along the shore, re-enact scenes done while in the body. This is tradition, and to many seafar ing Jersey roan truth. They believe just a» much in well-regulated ghosts, sp l *ters and such gruesome things as they do in their own identity. Accord ing to their gospel, the seashore Friday night should have been thronged with ill-conditioned ghosts, poorly-clad skel etons aud a heterogeneous nre-re gion otst peril aHi rat horrors, llul it wasn’t. It was the sort, of night when any I well meaning ghost would like to leave the portals of the tomb and raiso high jinks among the blackened riba of lost ships on tho beach. '1 ho beach was was deserted by all save tho life-savers, who patrolled their usual beats hollow with fear and trembling. Merrily the inquiry for ghosts was sent by telephone from life saving sta tion to life-saving station, from Sandy Hook to Cape May Saturday morning, and as a result Supt. Havens assured the anxious that the spook* and spec ters had remaiued within the shadowy precincts of the tomb, hi every place along the coast where Capt. Kidd bur ied his gold they say tliut not a single avaricious phantom came to steal the hidden treasure. These facts all go to prove that there has been a general re form of this particular brand of ghost, for licre'oioro on the night of October 11, in every year, spooks were seen digging up and drag ring off buried gold all along tho coast, while in some plac es doubloons covered with green mold were found. Around Barnega Friday night was termed “Wreckers, Night,” and a dif 'crent variety of specters enjoyed the evening air and haunted the lonely shore. The ghosts thereabouts are those of the victims of the old-time marauding lerseymcn who by false bea cons decoyed vessels to wreck and ruin on the coast. The appearance of those specters seems to bo better authentica ted than those of Kidd’s kind, fur the notorious “Wrecker* of Barnega” are figures in local history and their de scendants live in Ocean County at this day with hereditary evil propensities, kept in subjection by fear of th« law. I’fie memory ot the “oldest inhabitant” "is ’ttverlaiiTeofln vain for flea of rapine and murder by night in the storm on file shore. Jonathan Spauldin, of Metcdeconk, alleges that on the night of October 11, away back somewhere in the last cen tmy, his great grandfather. Cyicuius Spauldin, and Job llulit saw a strange sight, a sort of blue glare at sea, off Manloloking. That the blue glare ex tended and showed in the center of a great circle of flame a great sliip-of-the line. The vessel came cleso into bore and the movements of those on hoard were plainly seen by the wonder ing fishermen. Then the blue glare deepened into a great ghostly flame and the Jersey men were horrified to see a long procession of women anil children made to “walk the plank” in to watery graves. The lift, infernal as it seemed, was so intense that every line of the ship and every movement of her crew were plainly visible. Not a sound was heard by the awed and hor rified Jerseyman, who, perfectly petri fied with terror, made not outcry, but silently watched the minutest details of the tragedy. This scene was enacted, so the Spaul din story goes, in a silence like tliut of the grave. The last in tho line of vic tims were two girls with lovely faces, who clung to each other in terror, hut were shoved down the plank and into the water. Everything was motionless for an instant afterward. The silence was broken by the ship’s bell tolling solemnly three times, a thunderous re port sounded over sea and shore, the bright glare faded away into the black vault of the skies and then the ship sank. This tale was told all thiough Metedeconk and will he told there un til Jersey men are no more. A ’Shi-i* in t; IndUNtry. Farmois living in the vicinity of a corncob pipe factory are exceptionally fortunate. Although many million of cobs are burned or allowed to rot ev- ery year, the price for pipemaking pur poses keeps up. A farmer living near Washington, Mo., recently soid 100 bushels of corn for S3O and got $27 for tlie cobs. This is at the rate of fif t. -seven cents a bushel, and if only suf fieiijtit Missuri meerschaums were smo ked to make the demand larger farm er, would soon be rich. Corncob pipes are manufactured bv a very sim ple process, and are in fair demand all over the c.nmtiy Some were recent ly shipped to Europe, and more were ordered soon after their arrival. Gus. A. Dubois, a well known resi dent of St. Louis, says : I haved used several bottles of Prickly Ash Bitters for billiousness and malarial troubles, so prevalent in this climate, heartily recommend it to all afflicted in a like mariner. It is the best remedy I ever used. Many young chrildren become pos tively repulsive with sore eyes, sore tars, and scald head. Such afflict ions may be speedily removed by the use of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Young and old alike experience the wonderful benefits of this medicine. OCE4IV CAIII,i;S. H'hal 1 1 Co*ln to I'iiwl n llrrak nud Hcpalr It. The Gould or Western Union ca bles extending from Ireland to Nova Scotia are both brokeu. They have parted somewhere in the depths of midocean, and some time next month what is known as a cable steamer will steam out to the location on the sur face of the mighty deep, somewhere beneath w hich the rupture has occured, will haul up the broken ends, splice the four ends into two cables once more and the electrical communication between the two countries over these lines will be restored. Then the ca ble steamer will leave the spot unmark ed in all that vast area of water save by refinance to the stars above and to the sun, and will sail back to the port where rl:e belongs. Those two Gould cables, it may be explained, aro two of the sev en cables comprising what is known as the cubic pool. O: remaining five,* four are owned by tnr Anglo- Amerifift company, whose headquarters and iW flees ate in England, and the fifth ca ble is tho direct cable, also owned by Englishmen. These seven cables, tho property of three companies, pool their earnings under a contract which lias been in existence for several years, and divide them according to curtain percentages which were axed at the time of tho contract. When one or even two of the cables break, as is the case at present, the other cables in the pool do the extra work thus entailed on them, and tho gross earnings are di vided up just the same as though noth ing had happened. As five cables are quite enough to do all tho business done st present, the cable moss ages suffer no delay, and the only thing the company has to do whose cable or ca-, hies are broken is to make the repairs within a year, because if they are de layed beyond that time the existing contract would be abrogated. The location of the cable break is very accurately determined by a pio cess known to electricians, and by an instrumeht which discloses how far an electi ical current started on a given line of wire travels befoie it meets with an interruption. Tho calculation of the distance to the break made on this side of the Atlantic can be checked and confirmed by a similar calculation made on tho other side, though such a confirmation is scatcely necessary. Af ter having found out how far from land the break is the only other thing the captain or navigator of the cable steamer wants to know is in what di rection that distance is to be traveled, and as tho course of the cable is per fectly well known, from tho fact that when the cable was laid accurate ob servations were taken by the cable layers and records made, tho cable steamer starting out to do the work can steam directly over tho spot where the break is located. Of course many times it is not possi ble to determine exactly what the cause of a cable break has been, but usually the trouble is that the cable has been laid too taut and it has broken or been damaged in a serious way by reason of tho immense strain resulting on this excessive tautness. The couso quence is that whenever a repair is made in mid ocean the repairs cut away all the twisted and strained cable in the immediate neighborhood of the break and do away with all possibility of tautness by putting in twenty-five to fifty miles of new cable. T his may meander down the side of a submerged Mount Washington or may curl quiet ly up in the basin of a Mohawk valley, hut. whatever it does there is no chance of the cable breaking in that particu lar spot again from being drawn too tight. ■’nlnf’iil Boll*. About three years ago I was troubled with poison in my blood, very irrita ting and painful boils breaking out all over my body. 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