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Let the nations tremble:—Japan is
kbout to build a fleet of eleven Ironclads.
The German pork sausage need no
longer be manufactured exclusively of
beef, _____
BalmACHDA is being treated to a genu
ine dose of Chill sauce, which is supposed
to be aa good for the gooeeaa for the gan
der.
The men of New Zealand have ex
tended to the ladies the right to vote,
and gallantly offered them parliament
ary scats,
The Baltimore Sun boasts that it takes
only sixty peaches of the Ann-Arundel
county variety to fill a basket All that
Is needed to make this true is the use of
the proper basket
It is only a question of time when the
Alliance bosaes will run to seed. In
Alabama they already show a strong dis
position to go to grass—that Is to say
they are after Qstee,
The political wing of tho Farmtra* Al
liance baa simply adopted the laconic,
creed of the ancient Roundheads, which
was: “First, the earth belongs to
Ihe saints; second—we are the saints,”
Pat Eagan is suspected of accepting
from Baimaceda a paltry bribe of $100,-
000, No wonder the disgusted Republi
cans feel eager to recall him. Raima-
cede was a very rich man in a very
barrow corner,
Tin American hog is about to go
abroad again, having reoeived a cordial
Invitation to revisit the “Fatherland.”
Considerations of duty influence him to
undertake the journey. He is not going
on a pleasure trijk
And now the Empress of Austria,
among other royal personages, is re
ported to be losing her mind. The in
sanity dodgs is becoming almost as pop
ular with tho crowned heads of Europe
os with the detected criminals of this
country.
'•Infamous liar” was the expression
used day before yesterday by one honor
able gentleman while addressing another
honorable gentleman in tha Tennessee
legislature. Tha Georgia assembly
should feel flattered. It has already
Imitators.
Wah has been declared on the gnats
and mosquitoes which infest the tropics.
They are to be electrocuted by wholesale.
Like the Frenchman's flea, if they can
only be held etill long enough to adjust
tha electric harness, there aeqms to be no
good reason why the ache mo should not
work with great auccess,
Saturday last Patrick Rahl of Brook
lyn, whtl* boring * long aufToylng com
panion with the tedious details of an un
happy love affair in which he had been
engaged.fell from a pier and waa drowned
In East river. For once the right thing
in the right placet—Rahl’e death is at-
ributed to equal parta of love and
Whisky. __
Atlanta Is famous for tho morhl
crusades inaugurated there, some of
w hich are of more doubtful virtue than
that now being prosecuted against tha
tnasbera. The masher—at least the
over-audacious, unwelcome, imprudent
masher—deserves to be severely dealt
With, and that Is how the Gate City
people are dealing with him.
Jay Gould has had his finger nails
manicured, Jerry Simpson has put on
•ocks, Peffer, his partner, a shirt collar,
Henry Claws haa a $40,000 bath-room and
Col, Livingston haa received a bran-new
eoatof whitewash. While these gentle
men haye manifested no alarming symp
toms of godliness they appear to be
roaching out for the next beat thing.
Ill turning up their blue-blooded noaa*
at the aristocratic aspirations of Mr.
Smith, tha government leader in the
Commons, the English peers seem to
have forgotten bow numerous Mr. Smith
la. Tha movement to abolish the peers
la in constant dangsrof agitation. If
mature should become serious, the
Smith influence might prove exceedingly
valuable as a breakwater; besides Smith
da Smith or Smith Fits Smith wouldn't
•ound so very badly in the house
lords, especially as Smith has already
taken the precaution of purchasing a
genuine, bona fida castle and general
outfit for the nobility business.
The Citizens’ Alliance is tha newest
Livingston dodge. Ae near as we are
able to understand, this is to be an orgau-
ization whose members, after subscribing
to the Ocala platform, will in return be
permitted to vote for the Farmers' Alii
nnce bosaes. in other words, the Alliance
says to the general public: “You have
not the advantage of being farmers and
therefore cannot bo permitted to share iu
our important political councils; but if
you will agree to resign your principles
and accept onrs, then you may consider
yourself perfectly free to help us defeat
the candidates yon have hitherto sup
ported.” This Is a vsry flattering offer,
hut at last accounts the membership of
the Citizens' Alliance had not grown vary
luge.
nr. Exto’s Failure.
The telegrams this morning show that
the administration has at last beard of
its minister to Chili, Mr. Egan. During
the stirring events of tho last week not a
word was heard from him. It was left
to the enterprise of the newspapers to
keep the state department informed as
to the progress of events.
Possibly there was good reason why
Mr. Egan did not cciutuunicate with the
government. What is of vastly more im
portance is tho fierce hostility which he
has excited against himself on the part
of the Congressionalista, who have
ahown that they represent the power as
well as the intelligence of the
Chilian people, They openly charge
that he was in the service of Baimaceda,
and lent to the tyrant all the influence of
hi3 home government; that he persist-
•'dly snd for corrupt motives deceived
and misled Lis superiors At Wosnington,
in his successful efforts to prevent the
recognition of the Congressionalista as
belligerents by the United States; »
The almost inevitable result of the
downfall of Baimaceda will be the resig
nation of Mr. Egan. He cannot main
tain his position in Santiago when an ad
ministration that has for him
a great personal animosity comes into
power. His usefulness will be completely
gone. He must resign or his recall
will be demanded by a government that
resents our attitude during the war.
But while Mr. Egan's conduct is open
to severe criticism it even a tithe of what
is said or it be true, the severest criticism
should fall on the president and Mr.
Blaine for appointing him. He had no
just claim to recognition by the admin
istration or qualifications for the high
office in which he was installed. There
wore many reasons why he should
not have been appointed. He
had but racently come into the country.
He came as a fugitive from English jus
tice, and lay under suspicion of com
plicity in most heinous crimes—of
having guilty knowledge of the Pbcmlx
park murders and of the use of dyna
mite to destroy public buildings in Lon
don. These suspicions possibly wronged
him, but he did not atsy in England and
face them down. The fact that he was a
fugitive, that he was suspected of crime,
that hatred of England was a patsion
with him, that he was a stranger of
only a few years residence in this
country, each and all disqualified
him as a minister of tho United States to
a foreign country—and especially to a
foreign country in which English inter
ests and English influence are so large aa
in Chili, But the administration ap
pointed him largely because of* the facts
which should have prevented him from
being considered. lie was a repre
sentative of ths militant element in Irish
politics, and the Republican party is in
need of the votes of Irishmen. Tha
honor and the interests of the country
were risked in tha hope that such votes
might be gained.
Tha charges of corruption brought by
tho angry Congressionalista against Mr.
Egan have probably no foundation in
fact. His past li/a has not shown him to
be a mau actuated in his conduct by cor
rupt motives, it has been weii known
from the beginning that English sympa
thy waa with tho Congressionalista. In
that fact is found a sufficient explana
tion of Mr. Effcn's course, if he has in
fact exerted himself to help Balmscada’s
cause. He was fighting the enemies of
Ireland, forgetting his duty to the
United States
Egan waa sent to Chili and Douglass
to Uayti for similar political reasons, and
similar causss have led to their failure.
Egan waa too much of an Irishman and
Douglass too much of a negro to be suc
cessful as ministers of the United States.
Let Mr. Blaine try plain Americana in
these important poet* for awhile.
The Government and the Tax-payers.
Mr. Edward Atkinaon always writes
interestingly. In the lest number of the
Forum he hoc an article on "The Govern
ment and the Tax-payera,” which ie valu
able for the analysis which it gives of
the sources of the government's income
and the purposes for which it is expended.
This analysis shows that the revenue
collected from the taxes on liquors and
tobacco is alone more than sufficient to
pay all the normal expenses of ths gov
ernment—that is, the whole cost of the
civil, military and naval establlshmants
—and that within a vsry few
years, so rapid is its growth, this revsnua
will be ample not only to meet thsse nor
mal expenses, but also the interest on the
national debt. Only the expenses which
may be called extraordinary—those for
river and harbor improvement, naval
constructions, pensions, etc;—need to be
provided for by taxes on articles.
Mr. Atkinson further shows that
tariff taxes on articlss
of luxury or voluntary use provide a
revenue of naarly $30,000,0001 It is
plain, therefore, that wore our govsrn-
mont wissly and economically adminis
tered it would not need to collect one
dollar of taxes, except upon those arti
cles tha use of which is entirely volun
tary. Naarly all of Its revenue would
come from taxes tending to restrict the
use of articles the consumption of which
needs to be restricted. Every man could
entirely escape taxation without depriv
ing himself of the comforts of life or
dodging the tax-collector. All the arti
cles which are neceesary to the comfor
table living of the masses, the materials
of manufacture, the instruments of in
dustry, would come to the people at the
smallest cost at which they could be
produced.
In the conclusion of his article, Mr,
Atkinson lays down the principle that
“all taxes that the people pay the
government ehonld receive,” and
doing ao indicate* tha
tivea of the Billion Dollar congress in
increasing the pension sxpenditures to
$130,000,000 a year and of those who
clamor for the repeal of the taxes on
whisky and tobacca The government
caa be supported by taxes on nothing
but luxuries; thsse people are determined
that the taxes on necessaries shall be kept
up One section of them seeke to scoom-
piUk this purpose by increasing the ex
penses of the government, the other by
abolishing tho revenue which it obtains
from the taxation of whisky and to
bacco, The first plesds that the men who
saved tbs nation should be supported by
it; the other that the collection of the in
ternal taxes subjects ths people wk* at
tempt to evade their payment to the In
convenience ot having to live In jails at
frequent intervals
The purpoce of bo'h is the same,
whether they call themselves Democrats
or Republicans—to enable certain persons
to collect fer their own use a large pro*
portion of the taxes laid by lb* govern
ment and paid by the people. They are
protoctionists, and bolieve that it is well
for the country that certain classes
should be enriched at the expense of
other snd more numerous and important
classes.
Tlir f nnvlfl l.sass ayateni.
The convict lonae system of Tennessee
is very much like that of Georgia and its
results lire at/out tho same. There is
public dissatisfaction with it—an earnest
ami wide spread desire to get rid of it. The
recent incidents at Dricrville, where the
free miners defied the military poser of
the Male, brought shout a crisis It woe
felt that sHaus cmld not be sllowid to
drill along in the way they had beau
doing, if bloodshed was to be avoided,
and the legislature was called together
to find a remedy. In fact, tho state was
saved from the necessity of maintaining
its authority by force only by the prom-
iso of the governor that he would con-
the legislature. It was expected of
the legislature that it would abrogate
the lease and devise a new convict sys
tem.
It has not done so. On tho contrary,
it ha-t pas«od a resolution declaring that
state's contract with lbs lessees is
sacred and cannot be broken by the legis
lature, being protected by both the state
and federal constitutions. This is prob
ably good law, and the most that the
Tennessee legislature esn do is to so
change the regulations for the manage
ment of the convicts that thsir labor
will come in lees direct competition with
Uiat of free workmen. Even in doing
this it runs the risk of doing indirectly
what it cannot do directiy, by imposiog
conditions entirely unthought ot at tho
time the contract was mad* and which
the lessees had no reason to believe
would ever be required of them. In this
way the contract could be made value
less to the lessees, but the state would lay
itself open to the charge of bad faith.
The situation in Tennessee is deplore
able, but not more so than in other
Southern slates, and the woree feature
of it is the difficulty of bringing about
a radical change. The action of the Ten-
nesseo legislature was based on the legal
point already stated—that it could not
constitutionally abrogate the contract
with the lessees. But, if that legal dif
ficulty had not existed, what could the
legislature have done? It ie estimated
that the immediate cost cf the change of
system, is ths preparation of prisons,
etc., would be st least $1,000,000, snd
$300,000 or more would be added to the
annual expenses of ths state. Would
the legislature bo justified in laying such
a burden on the taxpayers in order that
a comparatively few miners might be
relieved of convict competition?
The question is a difficult ona The
convicts cannot be kept in idleness, and
they cannot work without competing
with some class of labor. There is, there
fore, no ent ireiy satisfactory solution of
the problem for those who shut their eyes
to the interest* of tho convicts snd of the
state and demand that penal labor shall
not compete at all with that of freemen.
The solution that, apparently, must come
nearest being satisfactory is the employ
ment of convict* in those forme of labor
which, while least remunerative and
therefore least desirable for free workers,
will yet yield a support to the convicts
and allow them to be kept in a state of
health. As our industrial system was
once organized, coal mining was perbape
such a form of labor, but with the changes
which the development of our mineral
resource* has brought this Is no longer
true. It is an employment eagerly sought
bjr uia ■AMueui uiswui industrious work-
s.
The Telkoraph has orten expressed
the opinion that the convicts might b#
best employed In building the good roads
which are a pressing need of the state.
In doing that work they would be a con
siderable source of expense to the state.
It is even potsiblq that tha road* would
cost more than if built by fret labor.
Yet, in view of all the circumstances, tha
employment of the convicts in road
making may be tha truest economy.
The subject is one which should be
thoroughly discussed in Georgia, in view
of the dissatisfaction with the present
lease system and ths probability that at
the end of the lease another system will
be adopted. Thorough discussion will
Isad to the adoption of the best possible
substitute.
A Nllstalta in Salaries.
It is quite evident that Editors Harry
and Larry, while at the lisad of the news
paper organ of the Georgia Farmers' Al
liance, were quite conscious of their
dignity. They were willing, It is quite
true, to make themeelves ridiculous in
the holy cause, but thsy insisted on be
ing well paid for it What sensible man
cau blame them for feeling that way
about it? Doesn't the rreak in the dime
museum get many time* the wages of the
sweaty worker on the farm? His labor is
not so useful, of course, but the natural
reluctance of man to make
exhibitions of themselves musj
be taken into account in fixing tba com
pensation.
While this la true and Editors Harry
and Larry undoubtedly deserved to be
well paid, we can't help thinking that
they struck the tressury of the organ a
little too hard. 8ixty*four hundred dol
lars for the salaries of two editors and
two membere of their families who as
sisted them, is rather more than a little
weekly paper should he expected to
stand, even when it is an organ. Tha
•tovkhoidere who are not editors are
likely to suffer—in fact, they may be
brought to the pass wbsre thsy will sur
render their newspaper property to any
body who will pay its debts.
The impurities discovered in the Cro
ton water supply are reported to have
enormously.incretsed the sales of the New
York brewers Impurities, it ie found,
ere much lees distressing to the palate
when taken in beer and the New York
people eesm almost unanimous in pre
ferring theirs that way.
Doing kiijusllce to Atlanta.
We find in the Southern Alliance Far-
rrer the following preamble and resolu
tion adopted by the Liberty Sub-Alli
ance of Hall county:
In view of the recent so-called indignation
meeting held iu Atlanta by a set of Shylock*.
antis**, Judas Iscariots, and complete apoe-
iS'es from the church of Chri t, and tb<»e who
have set In our slate nnd national halls and
directed our financial legislation for the last
twenty-live or thirty years, aud speculated
upon the most effectual means of robbing
these ex*Confr,)erate soldiers, their orphans,
widows and the people, and enacted tiuanclal
laws making them and their children's
children wage slaves and bondsmen to them
and children tbeircblidren through all gener
ations, robbing them of free and Independent
homes oLthsir own by which they would have
been Independent of public or private charity.
Aud now with appareut or pretended lying
crumo of charity throng the so-called vet
erans' home, but in reality at a prohablo cost
of $M5,IXM to the State, instead of extending
what aid ws caa direct, not even leaving the
labituily vt LUo iubbet to the tiuUm
i he has victimized, but in their mad aud
excitable thirst for filthy lucre, in a deep and
subtle scheme planned and plotted by Wall
street, they would subvert every vestige of
liberty In the republic by a maddened, drunken
rabble. Therefore,
Resolved, That we do most heartily com
mend our own immediate representative nnd
tho noble, true and riibgbteous ninety-four
of Georgia's representatives la doing their
duty In protecting our soldiers and tho people
from tbo preconcerted plan of Atlanta's in
iquity, aud in maintaining the immortal
declaration of independence from misrule aud
ruin.
The six thousand Atlanta people who
attended the artesian well meeting now
know what the members of the Liberty
Sub-Alliance think of them. It is im
possible that the members of the sub-
Alliancc should, personally, know much
•bout the six thousand; and the convic
tion of these good country people that
the six thousands are "Shylocks, out
laws, Judas Iscariots and complete apos
tates from the church of Christ” must
therefore be based on the fact that they
live in Atlanta That this is true is
further shown by tha reference in an*
other place to “Atlanta's iniquity."
It seems to us that this is a deplorable
state of affaire. What haa Atlar.'n done
that the good Alliancemen of Hall county
should feel themselves justified in re
garding every man who consents to live
within her limits aa a Rhylock, outlaw,
apostate, eta? Nothing that we know of.
Of course the fact that a man
voluntarily lives In Atlanta Is prirna
facio evidence that he is not so rood a
man as i! he preferred to live in Macon;
but it is not proof that he may not be a
very good sort of fallow and a fairly
trustworthy citizen. Therefore, in our
opinion, it is a gross outrage that 0,000
citizens should be denounced in such
vilo terms on the strength of Atlanta’s
reputation.
We do not know what the 0,000 can do
about it. We can’t advise them to meet
again and shake their flits at the Lib
erty .Sub-Alliance and call it another.
That would be to waste a groat deal of
energy, for the members of the Liberty
Sub-Alliance would never hear of the
meeting unless a report of the pro
ceedings were printed in the Southern Al
liance Farmer, sad Editor Harry would
never permit that, units* he could
be deceived Into thinking it is patent
medicine, baking powder or lottery ad
vertisement. Then ho might g^va( it the
most prominent place on his first j>»ge.
Tbo chance of deceiving Editor I iarry
is small, however, and wo can't fcofewhnt
the six thousand can do, unless tow can
persuade tbs editor of their mirning
paper to suggest in a mild, entirely in
offense manner that possibly, in this
partioular instance, the Alliance* has
made a very slight mistake—a trivial
error of judgment—due to precipi
tate action, based on incomplete
information, no doubt, but which
doee injustice to Atlanta. A
suggestion of this kind, coming from
this source, might cause Liberty Sab-
Alliance to withdraw the ban which it
has put upon our capital city and admit
that the 0,000 men not all “Shylooks,
outlaw?. Judas Iscariots and complete
apostates from the church of Christ.”
Nlr. Livingston** Railroad Dill.
The bill Introduced in the legislature
yesterday at the request of Col. Living,
sion might appropriately be described as
a bill Intended to evade the demands
made by the recent Ai'taurc convention.
The convention was in favor of a law
which would dsstroy railroad combina
tions already in existence and prevent
the formation of combinations in the
future.
Col Livingston's bill does not propose
to interior* with the existing combina
tions but merely to see that the rates or
freight charged by the roads in combina
tion shall be reasonably low.
The railroad commission, so far as we
can see, already possesses all the power
bestowed upon it by the bilL The bill
goes over ground already covered by
legislative enactment, and it is
at all certain that it will mast
with more than a formal objec
tion on tha part of tha railroads. I
is entirely probable that tha chief author
ities of the roade had knowledge of the
provisions of the bill before it was intro*
duced by request of Col Livingston.
If there is anything new in the bill it
is the provision that “all contracts of
•very nature for the control and opera
tion of any railroad in this state by any
corporation othrr than tha company char
tered to own the same shall be, within
thirty days from their execution, or, if
heretofore made, within thirty days from
the passage of this act, filed with the
railroad commission of this state by the
company parting with the control or
operation."
This is new, and there are several
points about it worthy of brief notice.
First, no penalty ie provided if
the company which gives
tbs control of its road fails
to file the contract under
which it lines an, | a another part cf the
bill it is provided that the lessee may
be fined for failure to obey the orders of
the commission, but the lessee Ie under
no obligation to file the contract and the
commission is not empowered to demand
it from the lessor.
A second point worthy of notice is that
If Col Livingston's bill should become a
law the right of railroads to combine
would be acknowledged by the legisla
ture. The words which we have quoted
not only admit the legality of existing
combinations, but provide for the forma
tion of others in the future. Contracts
made hereafter, Col Livingston's bill
says, shall be filed within thirty days
with ths railroad commission.
Analysis of the other sections of the
bill is hardly necessary. They are not
much more than a jumble of words, but
seem to make an attempt to secure
the results of competition while allowing
the destruction of competition itself.
The same idea is expressed in the caption
of tha bill, which says the set is intended
“to secure the benefits of competition
through the operation of the railroad
competition.”
As for the effects of the bill, if it
should become a law, we do not think it
would have any of any particular im
portance. The Richmond Terminal
would, of course, feel more comfortable,
its various lasses having received the
recognition of the legislature and been
legalized, as far as possible, by that body;
but the people nnd the railroads tvonld
stand in the same relation to each other
that they do now, The railroad com
mission would remain ths sole restraint
on one and the sole guardian of tho
interests of the other.
Col. Livingston end the Third Parly.
The Telkoraph does not exchange
with the Voice, the national organ of
the Prohibition party, hut knows that it
is a reputable and carefully edited paper.
We find in the Atlanta Journal, copid
from the Voice, the following account of
Col Leonidas Livingston’s appearance
befota a committee of the third party
convention at Cincinnati:
Livingston, president of the Georgia Alli
ance, was another who was called before the
committee for hie views. He expressed them
with a frankness that indicated either inex
perience in politics or ignorance of the fact
that the voice hoe strange aud esoteric (towers
over thought waves by which it can always
tell what Is going on behind the scenes. Sir.
Livingston spoke about as foil >ws: (Of course
ru able to reproduce from the thought
waves merely the thoughts, not the exact lan
guage.) He advised th- committee not to
form a ucw party yet. The Alliance In tho
Kouth was not ready and a new party would
weeken It. "Wo can't bring over the
Alliance yet without splitting it. But wait a
little longer, and we will be with you In DEL
We are really third party men and want to de
atroy the Democratic party, but the time hoe
not yet come to make it known. You know
we hare to use some hypocrisy In politios;
Just hypocrites enough to be able to
knowledge the fact without blushing."
There is nothing very surprising in
this. The course of the Georgia news
paper organ of the order of which Col.
Livingston is the head made it plain long
ago that the Alliance would be carried
out of the Democratic party if its leaders
could stccomplish that feet, and we have
Mrs; Lease's word for it that Col, Living
ston is in hearty sympathy with the
third party movement. Nevertheless,
the Voice's statement may be worth
something as comulatlvo evidence, of
which’ AmaiiCeiueu apparently need a
good deal to convince them that their
leaders aro betraying them into the
hands of the high-tax advocates who
have fleeced them for a quarter of a cent
ury.
To divide the enemy and conquer them
is a devio) as old, perhaps, as the begin
ning of stiife among men. It la obviously
the best recort of the weaker party. Old
as it is, it has not hr*, ita effectivnees
where men aro not wide awake to the
tricks oi the enemy snd possessed of in
telligence enough to hold fast to advan
teges they have won. In thia country,
last fall's elections showed that Ihe Re
publican is the weaker parly. Its chance
to win In 1803 lies in dividing and de
moralizing the Democratic party. The
choice for the Alliancemen of the South
lies between accepting the great reforms
which the Democratic party has shown
itself ablo to accomplish and a continua
tion of the extravagant and discriminat
ing Republican regime that hue reduced
them to poverty. They cannot hope to
beat both the Democrats and Republi
cans by going off into a third party.
In Wyoming women have all the legal
rights that man onjny. Including the
right to vote at any and every election.
In Wyoming a tax has been laid upon all
unmarried men above 30 years of
age. There is no doubt an intimate re
lation between these facta The femelo
voter ie getting In her work. This law is
Manifestly unfair to the men and uncom
plimentary to the ladies; Unfair, because
there are about twice as many men as
women in Wyoming; uncomplimentary,
in that It assume* that every unmarried
woman is only waiting for a husband.
It is true (hat the tax is only $2 a ysar,
but it if intended as a punishment for
what the Wyoming voters considsr a
failure in duty, as wsll as to promote
marriage, and willdgnbtlssa be increased
if experience shows that the Wyoming
bachelor wonid rather pay $2 than marry
the Wyoming spinster.
Jerky Simpson is oonfidsnt that the
third party can now carry seven
states, most of them 8onthern states, and
also probably a number ot others in
other sections. Dut ths South, to judge
from Simpson’s utterances, must be con
sidered as the stronghold of the new or
gsnization. Georgia ie regarded by the
Socklese Statesman as thecssisst conquest
of the lot It will roll up any day, ha
says, a third party majority of from
20,000 to $0,000; With great apparent
glee Rim peon recites these imaginary
facts and adds that at least enough ststee
can undoubtedly be carried to defeat the
hopes of the Democrats in the next gen
eral election. The day when Jerry pro
duces his boasted 20,000 majority over
the Democratic party in Georgia will lx
chilly enough for fur-lined overcoats.
According to programme. Prince Rus
•el Harrison, having secured tho revenue
cutter “Grant,” steamed down the bay to
the New York quarantine station on the
morning of the Majestic’s return, and a
“resounding smack" is said to have rung
out clear and loud os he caught his hand
some xrlfa la lie arms Tha prince woe
a little bard it seotns to us on Secretary
Foster snd the other governmental small
fry whose business, eo he seems to
fancy, ia to do odd jobs for his august
father; at leaat R will hardly be right for
his highness to chop their heads off, as it
is report.-d he thinks of doing. Bat the
resounding smack was all right; ia fact
it has elevated that young man <n public
estimation. Under such circumstances,
and perhaps Udder circumstance* which
are not such, tbtre is nothing the matter
with tha 'rebounding smack.”
The Humors or War.
Ti.e peace of the world does not sppear
to rest on a very sound foundation.
Within the past half ceoturv public sen
timent touching international throat cat
ting has undergone so radicals change
that there is seldom any occasion to re
gard war talk as any fling more than
talk, and appeals to arms are not likely
to be resorted to except in extreme cases
But fifty yaars ago the present conn lex-
ion of the war horizon might with reason
Dave been regarded ominous.
Chili, having practically settled he*
own internal differences, is said to be on
the point of looking into the Itata affair.
Of course a look will satisfy her that
looking is safer than fighting; so thsre is
nothing worthy of ssrioas consideration
in that The combined powers have suc
cessfully awed the Chinese by the sug
gestion of a “naval demonstration:'' the
English are ready to acknowledge' them
selves wrong in acting as carriers for
Ralmaceda's stolen millions, and the
United States is not apt to take a belliger
ent stand because an American sealing
schooner has been fired on and captured
while poaching in Russian waters. None
of three complications seem likely to
breed trouble and may be summarily dis
missed from consideration.
But the German recently shook a red,
red rsg under the Frenchman's nose by
celebrating the anniversary oi the battlo
of Sedan. The excitable Gaul could
scarcely contain himself, Even Zola,
who ought to be self contained in pro
portion to the extent of his influence and
his power for doing harm, flew all to
pieces and exclaimed that the humilia
tion of the defeat at Sedan must be wiped
out. No incident has for a long time
furnished so striking an idea of the
strained relations which exist between
France snd Germany.
Russia has just sent troops through the
Darden*!!** in defiuuco of the Forte sud
in violation of a treaty in which all
Europe is supposed to be interested.
Nicaragua and Gautamala
in a state of political fer
mentation; Argentine Republic
is financially embarawied and
government on so unstable a foundation
hst it has been predicted that she will
ere long fall under ths dominion of a
European protectorate. Diaz is seriously
threatened with overthrow in Mexico
nnd Ilippolyte, the Haytian tyrant,
steadily nesrs the verge of the pit into
which he succeeded in pushing Legitime
a couple of years ago. The eye of France,
it may be added, is jealously riveted on
Belgium, ms King Leopold is thought to
he ready to abandon the neutral position
heretofore maintained by his kingd
and antagonize France on the first safe
opportunity. And yet in all human
probability there will for the present lie
no serious war anywhere. t’artstan
bankers have jus: offered a loan of mill
ions to Russia, and thii is on* of the in
stances in which money may truthfully
be said to talk.
His Royal Highness, Russell Harri
son, has finally succeeded in bulldozing
hia father's sroretary, Foster, iuto allow
lag his family the use of the govern
ment revenue cutter ' Grant” for their
private business. At first the secretary
seemed to huve forgotten to whom he and
the “Grant" and the nation and the fat
ness thereof belongs, and tho cutter was
refused. But Kursell quickly brought
him to his senses. He ripped and awore
and snorted and angrily lamented the
folly of the twopenny officials who
dared to oppose his lordly pleasure,
showing himself to be a royal bully of
the first water and a very prince of wails
The secretary's nerve was unable to
stand tbe strain, lie gave up the point,
protecting his dignity only by the shah
lowest of subtsrfugta W hile still osteos-
ibly denying the use of the cutter to sou
Harrison, he allowed him to take it in
the name of bis mamma, though know
ing all the time that tbe vessel was
wanted that KiismII might go nnt
Bandy Ilook and meet his wife return
ing from Europe on the steamer Majes
tic,
The negro Hardy Early, who is being
lionized in Florida for the cold-blooded
murder of Outlaw Murray, boa doubtless
ridded the state of a dangerous criminal;
but the dastardly manner in which he
accomplished this end makes it appear
doubtful whether he is any better than
hi» victim. If Early is in esrnstt in his
effort to render the public e valuable
service he ought to sneak up on himself
end blow another detestable scoundrel’s
head off. _
A NEW LL'MU It It COJIBINF.
.Will Men end lit* Ctorels Lumber
< urufmnr <>ra« Together,
From tbe Savannah Morning News.
The Georgia Lumtor Company held a
meeting last night at its office over ths
Oceen Steamship Company’s office on
Bay street. Tho capi.al stock of the
company was increased to $50,000, and
three largo milling firms were edinilted
to partnership in the company. The
firms are Ftrkins A Bro. of ll.-mlson,
Washington county; Brinson A Brins n
of btihmore, Emanuel county; sod U.
\V. Gsrbutl A to, of Spann, Johnson
couaty.
Thia Is quite a departure in the lumber
business. Heretofore ti • mill moo and
the lumber companies have operated
separately, alwavs with more or less
friction. The Georgia Lumber Com
pany proposes to combine the two in
terests
The three firms admitted are among
the best known in the lumber tudness ia
the state.
The board of officers and dirsotnrs was
increased by the election ef G. W. Per
kins, vice president, and George M.
Brinson and Frank J. Garhutt, directors.
Mr. Psrkins is tire »enior member of the
Perkins Manufacturing Company of
Augusta. Perkins A Co. of Washington
county, and the Beaver Dam Lumber
Company of Burke county. He is also
superintendent of thk Wrigbteville and
Tennilit railroad. Mr, Perkins ia one of
tbe wealthiest lumber men m the sisie,
The Georgia Lumber Company is the
youngest lumber company in the city,
having been organised March 1, 1891, Its
shippiug yards are on the Ocean Steam
ship Company's whirl The company
began with eighty feet of whart front,
and the railroad company h s found it
necessary to increase (his to 050 feet.
It ia expected that the ue*s of last
night’s deal will be something of a sur
prise to the lumbermen generally, as it
Is a new departure iaT the business.
Mr. George M. Brinson, representing
the mill men, said lost night that they
considered it avoir advantageous ar»
range meat for the mills.
AN INTKIIIySTINU MIGHT.
Scenes Attendlns tbe Opening of s
Hospital tn Jerusalem.
A most interesting srticle of the Paris
Journal das Debats describe! a remark
able scene which recently took place in
Jerusalem. The need of a municipnl
hospital for the reception of all the siek
of the city had long been felt in Jerusa
lem. Ths pasha, an excellent man, had
ju*t carried out this important work,
which had already been begun by bis
predecessor, Rahouf Pasha. But whom
to put in care of the • sick? Jewish
nurses? for half the population is Jewish,
and 14,000 more Jews frem Russia are
daily expected. Or Mussulmans? for
Mussulmans are also numerous. Or
Greeks, or Armenians, Copts or Catho
lics? 'i hi question long remained with
it a solution.
Finally, a few months ago. the presi
dent cf the municipal council, aoconi-
ptnied by twe Effcndis, presented him
self before Sister Sion, superioress of the
Daughters of Cnarity, snd asked her to
give some of her nuns for the service of
the hospital. She at once asked from
her superiors the permission to accept
the invitation, and a few days later tbe
municipality itself came to thank the
sitters for their consent and beg them at
to arrange the house for the recep
tion of the sick. There was no time to
lose. In early May they received their
notice, and on Sunday, May 10, the open
ing wai to take nines in presence of
Ibrahim Pacha and the sersgUe—that is
to say, ths council composed of a mem
ber of esch nationality, the heads of all
the religious and the municipal counoil.
For three days and three nights the nuns
had to rest.
At midday on Sunday tho nnns were
all summoned in order to meet a 1 o'clock
in the large reception room. At 1 o'clock
the Pacha arrived in state, and all the
digni'.siies took their places But the
superior end the sUters, where are they?
A carriage is beard approaching. “Here
they come!'' At once a serenade began,
and a thousand voices cried aloud, “Long
live the Bistort of Charity?'' The eoldiers
presented arms, tbe crowd pressed for
ward to that the dragomans h»d diffi
culty in making a way for the sisters.
But at length thsy asesnded the main
steps, preceded by the dragomans Ou
their entry all arose.
“You are welcome, sisters,” said the
pacha in exoellsnt French. “I am too
much astonished at tbe appearance you
have given to this house, in which you
have been working for only three days,
to be able *o congratulate you as I
ought.” “Your excellency, we have
done our duty,” said Sister Sion. “I am
delighted,” said the pachn, “and we can
only congratulate our **!?*• on osr
choice,’ The whole meeting testified to
heir profound sympathy and agreement.
•Do j
u find anything wanting, gentle-
r is everything as you wish?' said
the pacha, turning to the authorities.
"For my part,” said the Grand Rabbi,
“the most beautiful thing I see in the
hospital ie the Bisters of Charity. For
five years we have watched them at
work and they hvve never fallen short of
their professions. They have been moth
ers and sisters to all, whomsoever they
might be," “Long live tho Bisters of
Cherity!" was the cry on all sides in tho
wards, sad corridors, etc;!a!l were fall of
emo.ion. After the presentation the
Pacha returned to ihe div*p to take part
in a Turkish religious service. “Allah !
Allah!” cried out the assistants, opening
wide (heir arms and invoking blessings
on tbe Sietere nnd the sick. The military
doctor, on being presented to 8 eter Sion,
said; "Bister, 1 I/eg you to employ all
your influence with the Pacha to obtain
ight beds, eo that rov poor sick sol
diers may be properly nursed.”
Sixteen doctors ot the city, who were
invited to the opening, wore presented
by the physioinn of the hospital to the
Pacha snd the Sisters. The rnbbis, Ihe
Mussulman end schismatic ohiefi came
also to address their congratulations to
them. Finally, the president of tha
municipal council assembled all 'he per
sonnel of the establishment before the
Sisters, A moviog scone then took pi;
He caused.all to swear respect to the Sist
ers, first of all ihe medical staff, then the
pharmacists, the minor, cook?, garden
ers nod porters Each came up accord
ing to h.s rank end sworo in his own
laugu.-igo end manner wlixt was atked.
When the last had retired the president
said, “Sisters, 1 confide the house to yoo;
you are at home. I need not beg yotl to
act ae mothers among your children.^
SLOUKD Tlllt VltlWVK OF WALES.
Tbe C hurches Oppose Ills Going to
Trenby Croft Agnl
Hjr New York Associated Prere.]
London, Sepi. 4.—The announcement
that the Prince of Wales will reviiit
Trenby Croft this autumn evokes fond
cries from the religious press. The
Methodist Times asks It the prince has
not a single friend in touch
with tbe British people and
warns him that hie conduct exci-es
deep emotion among the middle and
working classes, on which tbe liability of
the throne rests. Tbe facte are that the
Wilsons, who were at Hamburg while
tit* Prince of Wales woe there, induced
the prince to accept nn indefinite invita
tion. The Prince of Wales joins the
group in Copenhagen about tbe middle of
this month. The U ilsons will entertain
at Tranby Croft during Doncaater week,
Gen. Owen Williams, Coventry and *oth
ere of the buccarat let, without the
Princoof Wales
A Clyde firm has sent to the Prince of
Wales plane and estimates for a yacht tn
He built on tho most recent lines for rac
iug purposes.
Prince George has incited hie father to
try to obtain yachting honors, and there
ie currant a report that the Prince of
Wales ie ambitious to race hie yacht in
American waters.
Sweets to tke Sweet.
"Sweets to tbe sweet!" Ah, then, what gift is
there
Bo sweet that 1 may lay tt at thy shrine?
No flower Is frem as that fair face of thine;
No gift of elilulng gold, gleaming and rare.
Can matrli the tintt <go( thy lustrous hair;
Tny derp and earnest ryes far brighter
shine
Than diamond*; while i ubies, red ae wine.
When near thy Ups are ant accounted fair.
Each di»y 1 tnarvel more and more, sweet-
e each a _ „
What offering then shall I bring unto thee? ! n * rn 'T» re uien nan*. Z7.T»tou
"Siraa—tolb..Wfe|T Wb.ta.Mt .tit mint irj« Bitl.l. I. Jy*}S« Uln. (or.
iL.il Lr • .11 runilimnuiddon't«rb.lh«r
14» mil know but. ah! h«n> 1.1 ' ‘ —** *"—
And tb*« ti* sweet because full
In the Line of Duty ftmith “I hear that
Simpkins has justget npenston.He never
saw nny ecrvlte, did bef’ Tompson: “No-
hut he lost his voice urging his neigh*,
bore to go to the front.’'—Now York
bun.
Smiley Score* a Point: The Hauehtv
Mie* McBride—“Alas! I tear I'shalld*
velop iuto a confirmed iuvelid—whv, Mr
Basker, where are you going?” Smiley
Basker, (grabbing his hat)—“Pm going
to study medicine.”—Epoch. *
Wanted no Deadheads in the Enter*
E rise: Dick (at seaside hotel)—“Where
Harry? Wo c in’t go without Harry."
Tom: “Ho’* up tn his room writing to
hisfuther.” Dick: “Then never mind
him; he muet be broke/’—Puck.
Responsibility: “To look at that young
clerk one would think that he carries a
greater weight of responsibility than the
proprietor." “Well, he does, for that
matter. Tbe proprietor can make mis
takes without losing hit jotx“— Indianap
olis Journal
Her Brilliant Reply; “Your father is
largely engaged In the pork trade, 1 be
lieve,” aaidM’. Gotham to Miss Lake/
of Chicago. “Yef, sir,” replied the letter
with that bright repartee for which she
it noted; “paw is a regular pigmy.
Detroit Free Prees. 7
Visitor—“Tommy, what are you going
to be when you go up?” Tommy (aged
10)—“A soldier.” Visitor—“But 1 you
will be in danger of getting killed."
Tommy—“Who’ll kill me?’ Visitor—
'•Why, the enemy.” Tommy—“Thea
I’ll be the enemy.”—Harper’* Young
People.
A Merited Rebuke: Great Hotel Clerk
—"Well, what seems to be the trouble';"
Finicky Gue»t: “This towel is—U not
very dean.” Clerk—“Well, now, fifty
people here used that towel, and von're
twe first one that’s found any fault with
ik”—Boston Courier.
Previous Tfaluing: Summer Boarder
(to village tailor)—“How much will you
charge me to crease thsse trousera?”
Tailor—“Two dollars" Summer Board
er—“Two dollars! Great i.eaveni, that's
robbery. Where did you Uarn to be to
high?” Tailor—“Up to last year I was
waiter in a summer hotel. —Clotbisr
and Furnisher.
RAther an Ambiguous Assurance: “I
hope my vhita are not disagreeable to
you,” he said. “Not at all,” ah* politely
answered. “1 have sometimes thought
that I wearied you.” “Oh, no. No mat
ter hew gloomy I teel when you coll, I
am alwsve happy when you ga”—Har
risburg Telegraph.
PERSONAL.
The pona ho* IWt.000 volumes is his
library, but he hasn’t much time to de
vote to them.
Tbe king of Siam is a good looking
fellow whom the Orientals think hsnd-
some enough to be a lady killer.
Mr. Cleveland thinks Buzzard's Bays
delightful resort, where there are no
political buzzards bothering him.
Minister Charles Emory Smith has
sailed to Russia to resume his duties as
United Stales minister at the court of tus
c—r.
Patti seems te be falling from grace ia
such a way as to warrant Mr. Abbey in
knocking off $1,000 a night from h.r
contract engagement price. A well-
thumbed copy of “Aunio Rooney” bus
betn di'covered in her pOssesvion.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher ie disgusted
with the Brooklyn statue of her late
husband because it makes him "look like
a tramp,” The artist most have hud *
Brooklyn alderman in bis mind wben hs.
was on the job
l)r. Ignutiu>Horitmsnn,who lathe pro*
bsble successor of Biahop Udmour. u a
fit representative of the Catholic church
militant, being of commanding pretence,
d.gnified bearing end tali rnougn to luoK
over the hend of nn ordinary six-footer.
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky is
seriously ill, and hie frienda are anxious
stout him. Hie splendid constitution
and natural ability to eoon throw oil
ordinary attacks of eickn*«s are, how#
ever, s'.roug points in bis favor.
I/ird “Randy” Churchill takes lifl
quite pleasautly whit* traveling around
and writing up Mashonaland, and ha*
two cooks, plenty of cubinet wine#,
choice champagnes end Iota of othrr
luxuries aud comforts which tend to
tal • off ths sharp edges ot special corre*
ipondenc* work in Africa.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cnrnsgie «r
S ueemof ihe Earl of Aberdeen at Had
on Kail. It is supposed that Mr.
n#Jj will keep remarksbiy etill about
the “miserable atuff like the Stuarts'
while he is lipping hit b« e*winged port ia
the dining room of that old baronial hall,
from the walls of which the portraits oi
the bravest defenders of the Stuarts will
look down upon him.
A Bsitle’s Journey,
From tbe New Hadford Standard,
A bottle went ashore near Chatham ths
other day containing a business card of
Mr. Ring, a wholesale jeweler of Detroit.
Mich., with a statement In pencil on the
blank side of disaster to the boat sad
B nbable lose of the crew, and signed by
r. Ring. Mr. J. 1L Howell of the
Standard Oil Company, Jersey City, wai
in Chat! am, where tbe bottle was dtnos*
ited, and, an he wai going direct to De
troit, opened the boltJo and took tbe card
to Mr. Ring to see if there wai any mean
ing to the writing. Mr, Ring wa* found
to be etill alive. He wne iHw to beliere
that hit card came from Capa Loa
until convinced that it waa the truth.
Mr. Ring eaya that on the 25th of Maybe
and others were out fishing on the Da*
troll river, nnd in a spirit of fun wrots
the uieatsge, inclosed it in the bottla. and
oaat it to the waves. To get to Chatham
it bad to travel the length of Lak# Em
over Niagara Falls, the whole length of
Lake Ontario, down the St. Lawrenca
river, through the Gulf of St. Lawreoc#,
into tho Atlantic Ocean, and thence to
Chatham, a distance of 2,600 mU#», and
all in leu than sixty days.
Happy llooalere. , .
We. Timmons, postmaster of Idarille, »
writes; "Klei trk- flitters Las done more forme
than all other uredtclur# uHirbtned. far •“*»
bad feeling arising from kldaey aad wnr
trouble." John Laelfa. farmer and riockiaaa
of hOtus place, sa
I ba tbe lest klrtm
i me feel Ukc a
hardware merchant, ram* town, i
re, says: “Mod Electric HUter«w
kidney and liver medigioe.
:e a new man.’’ J.
len hnnt, same town, any*: r-*“
is Ju»t tbe thing for a man who .
M..-H and don't care whether be liw
U my heart, or 'lira; he found new strength, good »rt*y'
full or tbee. and felt Just like he bad a new leoaeoe
■E, t/buTd**. I Only Wc a bottle, at H. J. Lamar A Soru dru*
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Auz. 17, iW?-
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Children C y for Pitcher’s Castorla.