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4 THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 9. THE TELEGRAPH. TVUUMHKD IVKRT DAT W TUS TKAH AND wwar. Office S6T Mnlberri Wrref. m IUII.V TELE0RAPI1—DetlrerM fcy carrier/ in tha city or m«11i*l.P<Mt»B« (rro, «0 cent, a mootb: $LT5 lor llirro month.; {3,50 for si* months; $7 for one year, overy day except Sunday $C. fillR TELEGRAPH—Tri-Weekly, Monday*, Wednesdays aud Fridays, or Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, three months, f f; six months, $2;oiw year. *k T1IK SUNDAY TELEGRAPH-By mail, one year, I*’. THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPII—By mall, one year, $1. Subscriptions payable In advenes. Remit by postal order, check or registered letter, cur rency sent by mall at risk of senders. ADVERTLSEMENTS — Transient advertlse- xnents, 10 ceuta per line. Fourteen linen of aento type, equal to one Inch space in depth, l*the standard of measurement. 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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.