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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY JULY ‘24 -TWELVE PAGES.
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OUR HIGH TARIFF.
Samuel Barnett on Its Enor
mities.
ITS BONUS COMPARED WITH WACES.
American Protection Compared with tlmt
of Germany, Franco aad Other
Countries-Monopoly Hun Mad
—Former Tariffs.
It is difficult to appreciate the character
of our enormous war tariff, continuing its
huge exactions anil inequalities twenty
years after peace, and any proposed reform
fought tooth and nail, inch by inch, by
those who lately professed to be friends of
reform. No wonder they fight for it hard.
It yields them hard cash. They are
ready to accept any other alternatire than
tariff reform. “Take any other shape but
that." There are but two alternatives left
them—extravagance and cheap whisky
They accept both, in the order named; ex
travagance first, cheap whisky, if extrava
gance will not serve the purpose. What a
hard choice! The tariff which so.delights
them averages as follows: On dutiable
good*, over 47 per cent.; on aggregate im
ports, including both free and dutiable,
311 per cent. The Mills bill would re
duce duties to the following averages:
Dutiable goods, between 37 and 40 per
cent - aggregate imports, between 24 and 27
per cent. Let us test the enormities of the
tariff by common sense and business prin
ciples, comparing tariff rates with interest,
profits, wages, etc. The results are plain,
easv to be understood and surprising.
protection compared with interest.
Let us see how protection compares with
interest—how this gratuity conferred on
certain monopolies and called “protection,”
compares with the rewards of labor and
saving and self-denial expended in the
accumulation of capital, to be let out at
interest. . _ , . ,
in all the leading States of the Union
the rate of interest is 6 per cent. Many
ot the States issue bonds at 4}, 4—even 3
per cent. United States 3 per cents, -com
mand a premium. United States 4 per
cents, are selling at 128. Georgia lias just
issued * j per cent, bonds at a premium.
liven the Mills bilj (which they call
free t ade, pure and simple) affords an
average protection on dutiable goods of
about 38 per cent., equal to six years’ in
terest at 6 per cent., nine years at 4—and
twelve years’ interest at 3 per cent.
Thus it would take tne owner of a
United States 3 per cent bond 12 years—
2 i semi-annual coupons—to realize as much
interest as protection, even under the Mills
bill, gives to the monopolist, all at a
stroke andin a lump.
Our present tariff, about 48 per cent,,
yields as much as a 3 per cent, bond would
realize in 16 years. Such is the stupendous,
incredible relation which protection bears
to interest.
A 3 per cent, bond of $1,000 would re
alize fur the owner $480 in lb years, in 32
payments; protection gives it cash down.
PROTECTION COMPARED WITH PROFITS
Compare next “protection” with profits
—the profits of capital not at mere inter
est, but in enterprise, with personal atten
tion and risks. Protection under present
tariff is 43 per cent., under the Mills bill 38
per cent.; then the present protect inn is
ovbr two profits, tho Mills bill nearly two.
Suppose a fair profit to bo double inter
est, say 12 per cent., then is protection
now equivalent to four fair profits, under
the Mills bill to three.
In unhazardous business perhaps it is
equal to six profits—say iu ‘rent of
ngricuiiurn land, rent of houses, after
payment of taxes, duties, imposts and ex
cises, federal and State taxes, county and
municipal taxes, for protection comes
bomb proof, free of all them.
Here again wc have extreme
protection called free trade.
Nothing is paid for this beautiful and
bountiful protection, Government l'ust
gives it—kind government! Where does
government get it all? Compare next
PROTECTION WITH WAGES.
Ah 1 says the protectionist, here we have
yuu. It is just here that protection counts.
Just look at the protection it gives the la
borer in his wages. It is costly, perhaps,
but here’s where the good of it comes in.
Let us see, however.
The ratio between wages and tho total
value of protected manufactured articles
in the United States in 1880 was 19 per
cent. The like ratio in iron and steel pro
ducts 18, cotton goods 21, sawed lumber 14.
Such was the ratio of wages to total value
of product. Now protection being 48 per
cent, it seems thnt average protection more
than doubles average ratio of wages to pro
ducts. Kven under the Mills bill it just
doubles them.
ft is said that protection ought to cover
tbe difference between wages in the United
Slates and tht ill-paid Jnbor of Europe.
American wages averaging about 19 per
cent, and Europran wages being less—let
us call them 13. Then protection ought to
cover ihe difference, say 6 per cent! It
covers (not the mere "difference—it more
for the .money and vouchers for its pay
ment to the laborers.
Bounties might possibly reach the work
ingmen—protection, never.
Think of a huge system on such a basis?
In private business this would send a man
to tne asylum.
COMPARATIVE NEED OF PROTECTION.
One other comparison remains to be
made, as to the relative need of protection
'in the United States and Europe. Our
country, w ith the least need of any, lias
the highest protection of all. Our natural
protection is by far the greatest as com
pared with Europe. We have 3,000 .miles
of sea and longer inland transportation;
wc are already protected . by distance,
freight, insurance, time, interest, risks, un
certainties and by being already free trade
at home.
Again, wc have, of' all countries, the
greatest variety of resources and o portu-
nities, the greatest variety of occupations,
aud of possible means to fall back on, if
present enterprises need to be changed.
In our country, our people, our enter
prises, and in the use of machinery, we
are without t rival. It is hard for
even such a tariff to keep us down,
but it does keep down large classes and in
terests aud prevents the proper distribu
tion of the rewards of toil. Meanwhile,
all the prosperity our great natural re
sources and immense energies give us, de
spite the tariff is attributed to the tariff,
as if the speed of a race horse were due to
his carrying a heavy load. Giant indus
tries, combined into trusts, grown old and
fat with spoils, clamor for more “protec
tion” and claim the helplessness of infan
cy
Moreover, we are a book-reading people,
a travelling people, with a constant influx
of fresh blood. We fiud out every new
resource, and new method; we abound in
railroads, telegraphs, newspapers, inter
course, exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Men from all other nations come to us. We
get their ideas and improve on them. We
are the most inventive o' n»ople. Such is
our relative need of ) rotectioi and yet it
is to such a people the; 3? per cent,cal!
ed no protection at all—unu free tra le.
Another comparison is of our luiiff with
the tariffs of other countries. Wc derive
some facts again from Senator Colquitt’s
speech, which is a repertory of tai iff'in
formation.
PROTECTION HERE AND THERE IN UNITED
STATES AND ELSEWHERE.
The duties on aggregate imports of the
following leading powers are as follows:
Germany 9 per cent., France 8, Austria-
Hungary 7, England 7, Italy 14, Russia
J5J, United States (Mills bill) 25, present
tariff 31 }.
Can this statement be true? Yes, by
official figures; the fact is almost incredi
ble, but the statement is exact. The
United States’ tariff’, 311, doubles that of
Bussia; (exceeds those of Russia and Italy
put together, 29}). It exceeds the sum of
the combined tariffs of the four grent pow
ers of Western Europe—England 7, France
8, Germany 9, and Austria 7—31 per cent.
Even under the Mills bill it will exceed
(leave it equal to) the combined tariffs of
Germany, Austria and France,
Germany pursues a tariff policy de
signedly both high and protective, yet her
tariff doubled falls far short of the Mills
bill; trebled, short of our present tariff'.
These facts are astounding. For our
extreme protection there is no parallel in
any civilized country in Europe or else
where.
All other conntics seem to observe some
sort of proportion between “protection”
and other thing*, guided by common sense
and the common weal.
Yet this extravagant protection is called
free trade! If so, all Europe is now free
trade. Germany could double her tariff
and be tree trade still. Then free trade
prevails throughout the civilized world,
except tho United States; and ha* usually
prevailed, without our knowing it, here
too, in the United States.
Tkesa are not figures of rhetoric—they
are solid facts.
Finally let us compare the present with
the past of our own history.
PROTElTION, PAST AND PRESENT.
The tariff rates on aggregate imports
averaged, during Washington’s term, 14 per
cent.; when the war began, 16; by Mills
bill, 25; present tariff, 3lj.
On dutiable imports—In 1800, 20; dur
ing the war, 35; Mills bill, 37.8; present
rates, 47.8.
Observe, that even our lowest rates ex
ceed the higher rates elsewhere: Consider
farther that the evils of a high tariff are
aggravated rapidly as it rises, growing,
perhaps, as the square of the increase, say
twice as high, four times as pernicious.
Thus it seems that protection now exceeds
that of old times and of war times—ex
ceeds that of all other countries—exceeds
interest six toons; exceed profits two or
four to oue. Exceeds not only the differ
ence, but the sum of wages, American and
European, in the ratio of wages to pro
ducts.
As industries grow older and ought to be
sclf-sustnining; os capital becomes abund
ant and interest falls, more protection is
demanded. By every measure and criterion
it is condemned; on its face it is self-con
demned ; very recently condemned by its'
own authors, who promised retrenchment
and reform. Bnrely protection has run
mad, and monopoly gone crazy.
Behold the alternative propositions. The
simple and obvious policy ot President
Cleveland—no surplus, reduced taxes on
necessaries.
To this the monopolists oppose these
THE MAXWELL CASE.
A Seeming Parallel In Chicago's Annals.
From the Chicago Tribune.
St. Louis, Mo., July 12.—The Maxwell-
Preller case recalls an ancient scrap of
Chicago history.' Thirty years ago one
Henry Jumpertz, a barber, was sentenced
to death for the murder of bis mistreat,
Sophie Werner. The case was a notable
one. In it numerous questions of a medico
legal nature were raised and settled by the
Supreme Court of Illinois. Jumpertz was
a handsome young fellow employed in the
slicp owned by Frazza & Ribolln, under
the old Matteson House, on the northwest
corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets.
Sophie Werner was a married woman who
had come to America from Holland in
search of her husband. When she
arrived in Chicago fhe found
her husband living with another woman.
He received his wife in bis home, but used
her with the greatest indignities. She en
dured his ill-treatment for a time, bat
eventually left her husband to his mistress.
Then she met Jumpertz, who was every
smooth-spoken man. He was well calcu
lated to deceive, and soon gained the at
lections of the Werner woman. Jumpertz
promised to marry Sophie, but evidently
had no intention of such a tiling. lie
wanted her as his mistress, and
he succeeded in his purpose. Ihey
lived together quite a tune, possibly a
year, lie sent the woman to Milwaukee,
"where she gave birth to a child, which
died in early infancy. She then came
back to Chicago. Jumpertz met Her at the
depot the night of the 30th of March,
]Rn8, and escorted her to his room,
No. 30 Pomeroy block, then
situated on South Water street,
just west of Clark. The woman was never
seen to leave the room. Two mouths . af
terward the laborers in the Hudson river
freight bouse, New York city, complained
of a horrible stench emanating from a bar
rel addressed to “Dr. Jennings, New Tork
city.” The authorities ordered an exami
nation of the package. It was op-ned, and
disclosed the putrefying body of Sophie
Werner. The barrel was traced back to
Chicago and the case given in charge of
Jake Rehro, then attached to tho police
force. Rchm found that the barrel had
been brought to the Michigan Central
depot by a teamster named Carpenter. He
located Carpenter, who remembered tliai
be bad received the barrel from Jumpertz,
and the night of May 26 Jumpertz was arj
rested, charged with wilful murder. June
pertz was thrown into jail, where he re
mained for two years.
The affair was the sensation of the day,
and almost everybody believed Jumpertz
was not only a seducer but a murderer.
For all this the barber received innumera
ble attentions, particularly from a number
of ladies. His cell was fitted up in the
most luxurious manner. He had books
and flowers, the choicest victuals and deli'
cacies, and the finest cigars. Jumpertz
was a great man and lived liked a king.
Jake Relim to this day grows wraihy over
the mention of the manner in which some
of the swell people of 1858 gushed over
tried to live in Chicago. Many believed his laboratory or that lias left his hands,
him guilty, however. He enlisted in the and is consequently the first to reach this
army, and, if reports be true, was a good j country. At five minutes past 2 o’clock
ii* . . .i i e .i , I : "it l t—?i_
soldier.
nt to Californ
city, where lie kept a barber shop. No one i astounding experience of listening to
knows his whereabouts, and the St. Louis Mr. Edison’s familiar and unmistakable
Jumpertz. At length be told his story,
He said he quit work Bt noon of the Hur.
At the close of the war Jumpertz precisely, I and my family were en-
ialifornia. Then lie came to this joying the at once unprecedented and
Constipation
Directory of 1888 fails to show his name.
Jumpertz and the true story of Sophie
Werner’s death have disappeared together.
lancer. .Undone.
From tbe New York Tribune. t •
General Boulanger has had hU duel this
time, but lias missed liis revenge. A year
tones here in England, more than
3,000 mile3 from the place where he had
spoken, and exactly ten days after, the
voice having meanwhile voyaged across
the Atlantic Ocean. “Ills first phono
gram,” as Mr. Edison puts it, tells me
amongst other things of interest that this
lie, out lias U1.SM.11 ...» .eve u.u. i*ins'rmnent contains many modifications of
more ago lie demanded .satisfaction of which WM , hown ' t the Electrical
. Ferry tor what he considered an insult • v , , ,
. i:*„ u ti.„,„ '-to, in New York* few weeks ago, so
in a political speech. There were ex
tended negotiations between the seconds,
but there was no duel. The General found
a more accommodating antagonist in M.
Floquet, whose representatives scorned the
diplomacy of the code and would not split
hairs over the etiquette of the duello, but
promptly arranged a meeting. The Gen
widely reported by tbe press. In the sev
eral long photiogramic communications to
me—no single word of which had to be re
peated in order to be clearly and easily un
derstood'by every person present, includ-
a child of seven years old—Mr. ICdi-
mg!
son mentions that lie will send me phono,
grams by every mail leaving New York,
* , * •, . t « Kinuio u» cYcir man lUiiviiiH new lurK.
eral on the previous occasion h:u p o- { ftn( j rC q UestH me to correspond exclusively
posed pistols, and Hu- ettnice opened ‘he ; thr0 „$, lhe mw J[ llra ,,f lhe phonograph,
way for much controversial muter re-. hamorou ,| } . remarking in this connection
peeling the distance to be marked off, j , adv#ntage , (ie wiu |, ilU8el(
lie number of shots to be exchanged r j ve from the substitution of phonogi
than covers) the sum of them both—19 , . , , , - • .
added to 13 equals 32. This leaves, after monstrous pleas: Spend, do not ccono-
I’aying both, under the present tariff 43 make protection, nof revenue, the
[ess 32, s,y 16 per cent, surplus The Mills ; ol ?Jfc‘ of , taxation; reduce taxes on
hill at 38 excecda 32, the sum of both per I " hls , k 7‘ , And on ‘““e they go before
cento, of wages, home and foreign. ‘, he American people. Great is their vonfi-
U. ... - • . . . . ° /Inn on in nili> fail It* n* Will* train *1 lit V.
So, even if the laborers get it, tbe tariff
needed for that purpose would be inconsid
erable. But do they get it? We can
‘race it into the hands of monopoly, but
cannot trace it beyond. It ia a long
conduit—does it make connections? Who
handles it, who sells the goods, who re
ceives the profits? Not tne laborers, but
the employers.
Yon insist that the laborers do get it.
who looks after it to see that they do?
h»t agents does the government employ
■or this purpose? *
It is a big business, but very slnck-
‘wisted. Government entrusts it all to the
monopolists. Why give them 47 per cent.
j° enable them to pay 0? They have it all
|n their own hands, and give no account of
a j K° T ernment, laborers or taxpayers.
Admirable arrangement, that I Is it not?
Wc know what becomes of revenue—we
j b ,eTen,le officers, a system of checks
and balances—but what becomes of pro
tection?
Were it my business, I would not select
them, the monopolists, as my agents. The
paymasters of this fund are the selfsame
monopolists against whom the workingmen
•trike, the same who initiate lockouts, form
and unions and th* like.
. What an easy time they haveof account-
,n K in the matter. If I lelected agents, I
*ould take some cognizance of them—
*ould require bond and security, receipts
deuce in our folly or our venality.
Samuel Barnett.
Washington, Ga., July 12, 1838.
Republican Campaign Handkerchiefs.
From the Button Foil.
In the window of a store in Washington
is displayed a handkerchief emblazoned
with stars at top and bottom for the States
anil Territories, with a small flag stamped
upon it and the inscription:
“Protection
American Labor
and
American Industries.”
Appended to this card:
“Republican Handkerchiefs, indorsed
by the Chairman of the Chicago Conven-
dav after Sophie’s return to Chicago and
went to his room. He opened the
door with some difficulty, and was
horrified upon gaining admission to
find the woman’s body. She had
hanged herself from a hook on
the inside of the door. He said he
was much frightened less he should bo ac
cused of killing her. After some delibera
tion, Jumpertz concluded he would not
mention tfie occurrence to any one. J !•
cut down the body and lail it on the bed
He fastened the door and cooly proceeded
to remove the clothing from the body.
He then put the clothes in a package and
expressed them to a friend ' in the East.
The next thing was to get rid of the body
He bought a pork barrel and a sack of
salt and bronght them to his room. He
had a case of surgical instruments and re
moved the stomach and bowels from the
corpse. Then he tried to put ihe body in
the pork barrel. He could not do it, how
ever, and he cut off ho h limbs at the
knee-joints. The trunk was. pushed into
the barrel, with the limbs on end, and Mr.
Jumpertz, playing the part of a cooper,
carefully headed up the package, after
salting down the corpse of his mistress.
Jumpertz was a much cooler man than
Maxwell. He slept in his room just
twelve days with the pork barrel by hi:
bedside. He did not run away, being any
thing but discontented with hia surround
ing*. Maxwell took flight soon after I’relfer’s
death and never stopped until he reached
Auckland. Jumpertz said he buried the
entrials of the Werner woman in the sand
on the lake shore, and refused to reveal
their hiding place. Ho probably lied, b -
cause some of the parts of the body were
seen on the ice in the river, just behind
the Pomeroy block. The prosecution was
conducted by Carlos Haven, wh le Judge
Van Arman, then a new-comerin Chicago,
appeared for the defense. Tho attorneys
fur the people accused Jnmperlz of
poisoning his mistress, and he claimed lie
removed the stomach and viscera so as to
prevent their examination by experts. Mr.
Van Arman advanced the defense herein
before outlined. The prosecution pro
duced the door from which the body was"
said to have been suspended. Evidence was
adduced going to disprove Jumpertz’s de
fense. Tests were made by hanging weights
equal to that of the body of the Werner
woman and demonstrating the fact that the
suicide could not have occurred. Tho
trial of the case occupied eight or nine
day*, and the jury promptly returned a
verdict of guilty of murder in the
„ guilty
first degree and sentencing Jumpertz
to the Bcaffold. Mr. Van Arman made
a formal motion for a new trial, al
leging twenty-five specifications of
error. His motion was overruled, but ow
ing to the absence of Mr. Van Arman from
Ciiiuagu the Gilt cf exceptions ttjB thd
signed nnlil three days before the day of
execution. The gallows had been erected
and within sight of the condemned, man.
Mr. Van Arman secured the signing of
the bill of exceptions, and 10 o’clock _ of
the night before the time for the execution
found him in Ottawa. He awoke Judge
Caton, then the chief justice of the Su
preme Court, and demanded that be. read
the record. The Judge said: “No, sir.
I cannot grant a supersedeas. Jumjiertz
is gniity and ought to hang. It is no use.”
Sir. Van Arman insisted on his rights,
and by daylight convinced Judge Caton
and the method of giving the command
to fire. M. Floquet, as the one insulted,
had the privilege of selecting the
weapons, and by insisting upon haying the
old-fashioned cavalry sabre simplified the
procedure. The Premier and the “Dicta
tor” seem to have been equally in earnest,
and the usual cheip system of mock
heroics and empty bravado was dispensed
with. As a soldier General Boulanger
might reasonably have been expected to be
more than a match for his antagonist in
sword practice; but he secured no advan
tage over the undersized but agile lawyer.
M. Floquet escaped with a scratch in the
hand, while tho doughty General, who has
afiected to be the only soldier in France,
was seriously wounded. The Premier is
now the hero of Paris, while General
Boulanger is the laughing stock of the
boulevards as a soldier who cannot fight
even his own battles. . .
This sensational episode has its 0*4 ss
well as its good side. It is a misfortune,
since it will do much to restore the popu
larity of duelling, owing to.the conspicu
ous positions of the antagonists. .For over
a hundred years French politicians and
statesmen have had recourse to the code,
while army officers have been fighting
duels for several centuries. Almost every
prominent leader in politics since Mira-
beau’s day has been a duellist. Girardin,
Thiers, Guizot, Lamartine, Cousin, Gam-
betta, Cleraenccau, Lockrey and many
other equally reputable statesmen fought
under the same brutal code which Paul de
Cassagnac and Ilenri Rocbefon havo.donc
so much to render disreputable. Until the
downfall of the Empire duelling was
an established institution sanctioned unde*
eve^y form of government. Military offi
cers who refused to fight were deprived of
their epaulettes and dismissed from the
service while politicians Bealed their doom
in public life when they neglected the
code. Happily under the Republic the
custom lias steadily declined, the extraor
dinary pains taken by principals and sec
onds to avoid serious results tending to dis
credit it. When a ruffian like Paul deCas-
sagnac could boast of Bending fortj dial*
lenges and having been twenty times under
fiie, it was time for a radical change in
public opinion respecting duelling. Times
have changed in this respont. It has even
become fashionable in Paris to ridicule
the duello as a vulgar method of advertis
ing a cheap sort of bravado without risk
of bloodshed or serious results of any kind.
Demands prompt treatment. Tic
suits of neglect may bo serious. Avoi
nil liarsl and drastic purgatives, th
tendency of which is to weaken th
bowel*. Tho best remedy Is Ayer’
Pills. Being purely vegetable, thei
action is prompt and their effect alway
beneficial. They are an admlrabl
Liver and After-dinner pill, and every
where endorsed by the profession.
“ Ayer's Pills are highly and tinivcr
sally spoken of by tho 'people abon
here. 1 make dally use of them in in;
practice." — Dr. I. E. Fowler, Bridge
port, Conn.
“I can recommend Ayer’s Pills abovi
all others, having long proved thei:
value as a cathartic for myself am
family.”—J. T. Hess, Leithsville, Pa.
“ For several years Ayer’s Pills liavt
been used in my family. Wo find their
d*
phonograms
for a style of wriliug not always
too legible. Mr. Edison has sent
for our amusement numerous
musical records of great interest and beau
ty, pianoforte, cornel and other instru
ments, solos, duets, etc , many of which he
tells me have been frequently repeated
several hundred times. Altogether, onr
experiences of the day have been so de
lightful ami unusual, not to say superna
tural, that it would make,it difficult to
realize that we have not been dreaming;
so interesting withal as to make it seem a
duty as it is a pleasure to communicate
the above to your widely read paper,which
I have so frequently observed to chronicle
the works of the author of this unparal
leled triumph of mind over matter. All
honor <o Edison I Colonel Gourand adds
the following postscript: “It may be in
teresting to add that tho above communi
cation was spoken by me into the phono
graph and written from the phonograph
dictation by a member of my family, who
had, of course, no previous experience of
the instrumeit.”
Effective Remedy
From the New Orleans Tlmcs-fiemoerat.
Although the life of a merchant vessel
is generally short—only ten or fifteen years
on the average—there are vessels still tra
versing the seas as traders which have cer
tainly reached a ripe old age, A writer
in Chambers’ Journal givea some particu
lars on the subject ol old ships which are
not only interesting but surprising, It
may, for instance, surprise some of our
readers to learn that tho oldest trading ves
sel in the world is an American-built bark,
the Truelove. now of the port of London,
England. Sne is 124 years old, having
been built in 1704. ’ A wooden brig, named
The Brothers, built at Maryport in
1780, is still in the North Sea trade.
The Goodwill, of Sunderland, is a
year older than The Brothers. Three
other .British traders of the last century
are still afloat. The only vessel mentioned
in Chamber’s Journal that surpassed the
preseut age of the Truelove was tho curi
ously named Betsey Caius, which brought
William of Orange to England in 1688 and
was wrecked 2 hundred and thirty-nine
years later, in 1827, when she had passed
the hundred and flftieth year of '
Assuredly H ®li* ° f the,- oia col ? i( i
tell us her history, of tho much she has
seen and known, of her innumerable voy
ages and of tho successive generations of
mariners who have trod
From sucli disrepute into which the code talc would be an interesting one. * '
has gradually fallen the meeting between
M. Floquet and General Boulanger tends
In rescue momentarily this senseless, im
moral and abominable practice. Duelling
will be likely for a time to regain some
thing of its lost prestige. This will be a
most deplorable conseqdcnce of the meet-
iog.
The good side of the transaction is Gen,
Boulanger’s disgrace. He is an adventurer
who has bronght reproach upon the French
army and has played with momentary suc
cess tho part of an irresponsible military
demagogue, conspiring with monarchical
factions and radical extremists against the
institutions of the republic. The popu
larity of this mendacious and unprincipled
.-iddier with diverse classes of the popula
tion has been the most ominous
sign nbove the French horizon.
Great departments have voted for
him almost to a man, and in spite of the
yttptinem of his speeches end his enogeat
assumption of authority his influence has
steadily increased. The prestige of the
vainglorious general will bo likely to be
permanently impaired by this duel. Paris
will now laugh at the soldier who once
displayed himself on his black charger as
often as he could, and aiiowed himself to
lie cheered as “the only general.” The lithe
little lawyer has underdone.him. Tho pop
ular hero is mocked by the town.
Victory Will Perch,
From the Detroit Free Press.
At the Detroit and Milwaukee depot
yesterday a knot of waiting passengers
were talking politics when a young man
with a crape band on bis white hat camo
up and said:
“Whar was liar mason? Yes, sir, whar
is he?”
"What do you mean?” asked one.
“I mean that the Republican party nom
inated Harmnson at Chicago. Ho is a
good man. Victory will perch upon his
banner* But you 510 victory will.”
tion. Tho only authorized Campaign, there was error in the record. A stiper-
Handkerchief. Imported Chinese silk." , sedeas was granted and Van Arman re-
— . turned to Chicago. He did not have a
B *** S 1 , 1 . 1 m.) ,m * minute to lose. Nnm.w.r«» •>■ tn hang
That famous Dili of Mr. MiiU
Is not so IntiR as other bills
Bat then 'tls-not so short aj some,
It tells of fibres, grains and sum.
Of harks, beans, berries, balsams, buds,
Aud herbs which cows chew into nods.
It has a lot of things to sar
Of Jnte and beeswax, Ur snd clay.
You think that It will never cease
Before it gets to bricks and grease.
On bristles, soap, and figs and dales.
It bears yon on In cadence alow
To lllblea, borax. Indigo.
lie sure tbe list to long Hist fills
The famous bill ol Mr. Mfili 1 .
—Chicago Timas.
minute to *o*». Somport
and had made up his mind not to weak
He was an atheist and the future was with-
ont terror. The Jupreuie Court ordered a
new trial. Judge Iireese alone dissenting.
A year after Jumpertz was acquired. Ex
perts established that Sophie tVerner had
eommiHed suicide. Physicians testified
that they had examined" her brain and
foun; it in such condition as to leave in
their minds no doubt of her dementi*. The
announcement of the verdict aliiio-t cre
ated a riot. The prisoner was released and
Do you mean Harrison?'
“Yes, sir, I mean Harrison. Man says
I don’t mean Harrington lies! Good man.
Victory will perch Cm’i help it. Bet
you $10.”
“Aren’t yon a little off?' 1 queried one of
tbe group."
“No, sir! Whar was ('Iceland? Good
Notaiii ti-1 by ReeliulilhHb Vieiory
will perch. Bet you i-10 she will.”
“Do you mean Clcv. land?”
“Yes, sir, mean Cleveland. Any man
who says 1 don't mean < leeluni lies got lo
lick me! She’s got to perch. Must perch.
Bet yon $10 she'll perch.”
“Which side areyou on,anyhow?” asked
a voice.
“Yea, sir. What a n I. Goad man. Vic
tory bound to | crch on me. Got to perch
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Ofllee hours—On. m. t/Wjgsm.
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relief at once. It will positively euro rheum*
tism if used as |ier (Jtreeliyus und with perse
scveraucc.
RhJlffnr FTiigorrttr.
Prom tho Hartwell Sun.
Mr. S. A. Giun, residing near Royston,
became frightened in his sleep a few nights
ago. preaining a burglar was try’ng to
break in his house, he jumped up, grabbed
ins pistol, fired at the marauder, ami waked
out of his somnambulism in time to find
he was minus a Huger on one hand.
Advice to Mothers.
Mrs. Winslow's Boothtng Symp should alway:
oiu-oj for children teething. It soothes the
111.a, semeu8 tho gums, altoyi. all pain, cures
sutfl colic, and la the best remedy foi diarrheas
toe. a bottle. sep6cod-awly
f'rnps In'Dseatur.
From the Balnbrldgc Democrat.
A. gentleman who has been north of
Bainbridge this 'week twenty miles and
louthcast twenty, says he has known this
county twenty-five years and lie never
saw such crops grow as aro now growing
in this county.
A .Shako .Spring.
From theTalbotton New Era.
There is a clear, cool, spring of water
that issues from a rock, near a branch on
the farm of Mr. J. L. Dozier, that
is thought to have sprung from the shake
produced by the earthquake of Iwo years
ago.
for constipation and Indigestion, and
are never without them in tho house.”
— Moses Grenier, Lowell, Mass.
“ I have used Ayer’s Pills, for liver
troubles and indigestion, during many
years, and have always found them
prompt and efficient in their action.”—
L. N. Smith, Utica, N. Y.
“ I suffered from constipation which
assumed such an obstinate form that I
feared It would cause a stoppage of the
bowels. Two boxes of Ayer's Pills ef
fected a complete cure.” — D. Burke,
Saco, Mo.
“ I have used Ayer's Pills for tho past
thirty years and consider them an in
valuable family mediclno. I know </
no better remedy for liver troubles,
and liavo always found them a prompt
cure for dyspepsia.” —James Quinn, 1)0
Middle st., Hartford, Conn.
" Having been troubled with costive
ness, which seems inevitable with per
sons of sedentary habits, I have tried
Ayer’s Pills; hoping for relief. I ant
glad to say that they have served me
udttvt than any other medicine. X *
arrive at this conclusion only aftor a
faithful trial of their merits.” -Samuel
T. Jones, Oak st., Boston, Mass.
Ayer’s Pills,
PREPAREDB
Dr. J. C. Ayer Sc Co., Lowell, Mass,
Soki Iff all Deftlin In Medicine.
DESPONDENT REPUBLICAN'S.
A North Carolina Candidate Gives Up th
Fight as Hop,dei/s.
From the Raleigh New* and Observer.
Judge Russell gives it up. He propose
to decline tho omnty honor of tho Republi
can nomination for Supreme Court jndgi
The Wilmington Star says:
“Hon. D. L Russell in conversation yes
terday said that he hod no hesitation ii
saying that he will decline to accept th
nomination for associate justice of the Sit
ptcmcCourton the Republican State ticket
and, furthermore, that in his letter o ;
deninatinn he will advise the withdrawal:
of the entire State ticket, and that a coali
tion be formed with the Prohlbitiontst8.j
“He gave it ns his opinion that itwoulti
be futile for the Republic _ H
w-snsaa
pr./HtTilng 0‘ectloii will be a walk-over fo
the DemeerilA in the df-t place,’ b
said, thdy (the Republicans) cannot win
and in the second,if they could they wouh
be counted out.’ ”
What Judge Russell says abovt count
ing out is all bosh, and hi knows it. II<
knows that elections are nowhere fairer in
any 1 •' put lie'll in North Carolina, lie
knows it i* rldlcnlona to talk about count
ing ent in North Carolina. His expression
tO' this effect is limnlr to make excuse for
him in the tyes cf his party followers. lie
evidently has no stomach for the light be
fore his pnrty, and that is tho whole story
of his position.
"He thinks that if a coalition is formed
with the Prohibitionists it will break the
color line, and in this way, perhaps, lead
to Republican success hereafter. ‘But,’ he
added, ‘if a Chinese gong campaign is in
augurated, with joint discussions between
Fowle and Dockery, it will result, proba
bly, in a majority of 40,000 for the Demo
cratic ticket.’ Judgo Russell is an astute
and sagacious politician and one of fhe
most influential members of the Republi
can party in the State, and there can be no
question that the stand he has taken in
this matter will have a great weight with
his party.
In connection with what he says read
of the determination of General Rufus
Barringer, of Charlotte, a Republican lead
er of twenty years’ standing, to vote for
Cleveland, as reported by the Charlotte
Chronicle. Is the Democracy to have no
body to beat in NovemlicrJ
And as a policeman led him off he con
lined:
Georgia on Wheels.
From tbe gav/nnah New*.
The special car which is being built at
the shops of the Central railroad in Ma
con, and which will contain an exhibit of
Georgia products, under the management
of the Central railroad immigration bu
reau, will soon be ready to start out on its
trip North, fto length will be 50 feet, and
space will bo reserved at one end of it fora
p-ivste office, the rest being fitted up for
and filled wit t articles of Georgia growth
and manufac lire. \As it speeds along
through the Northern States, it will itself
attract attention by teason of its decora
tions and the inscriptions upon it, but tho
exhibit to be shown at the different
Slntes,district and county fairs, if it repre
sents in a reasonable degree Georgia’s pos
sibilities, will attract far greater attention;
and, no doubt, many people who examine
it will conclude that the State which
can show products in Buch variety and per-
' fection is the one which they should move.
I Mr. \V. L. uiessner, tite commissioner of
immigration for the Central Rond’s Bn-
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
but I’ll bet tho judge victory |e-rche-. rtn* to* i... . -nr runes. A marvel ol per
Can’t help but pereu. She’s all tired out strength and whoa romenes*. More Muon,
andgottopercl,. ’Rah for Lincoln aud &
A.<t Hulll” i ttet,fibortmtttaltt rihnanhAtenowdmn
Boldoalytn c?.:v fH-YAi, i: a K,< * ft)WDSB
COMPANY. 1CW Will Rttrot. Vf>* Va*V
“What am 1? by acclamation, !
KflUon’rt "Phonograph” In Kugland.
From the Pull Mall fiazette.
^Colonel G. K. Gourand, writing I mm '
Little Menlo, Upper Norwood, 8. E., sava: i
A't 2 o’clock this afternoon, at the above j
address, I had the honor to receive from I
Mr. Edison his fir»t “perfected phono
graph,” which, on the authority of Mr.
Edison’s own statement in his own familiar
voice, communicated to me by the phono
graph it*elf, is the first instrument of bis
latest model that has been aeon outside of .
Suffering 'mm effect* of youthful error*, early
®®csy,w»* ling weak net**, lost manhood, etc.,1 will
*• i a valuable treat me Healed) containing full
i *r ■ ur« FREE ^ barge. A
*11' , nultl medical work ; ah' old bo read by every
m»n -vbo Is ncrr.iM. sad itoUUUUxl. A.lilr.-**
Prof. F. C. FfWLEJt, Mooaux, Conn
■ardnslr
reau, will be in charge of the exhibit, and
it is quite certain that a better selection
could not have been made. Mr. Glessner
is an Obioan who moved }o Georgia several
years ago, and who has prospered in his
adopted home. Being a min of intelli
gence and observation, he hat become fa
miliar with and will pre■■■■ii the advanta
ges of Georgia, and in naming these advan
tages lie wi 1 be eloquently backed bv the
exhibit which he carries along with "hint.
Counties in the State which care to have
their resources advertised should at once
prepare pamphlet- de- riptive of them
and send them to Mr. tile .eer at Aiueri-
ens: and ail persons having articl
liar to their ssctfOBs.*. ,
turred articles and curiosities,
quested to send them to the same
by August 1. Articles of value
returned upon request.
No more important movemenl
S ty, lots been in ui-urated in Georgia for
years, and Georgians should see to it that
the State is properly represented.
pecu-
uiii me
tre re-
address
vill lie
in its
Travelers should to- frejisrcl
i .. other anil aealn-t the etteet
t.y provMtiu themsdres with Di
Syrup—the best made.
>r the chance.
exposure
Hall's Cough