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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: FEBRUARY 18, 1895.
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dodlaro Tnora for. Its completion,
wliorms a tWlRtn* no-satisfactory In
every respoct can be built la Now York
oity l.tr aive minium*. Tim atiiuu*
tlie resolution seems <to think th-tt the
only tvuy that the state can fiat rid of
the Winding at Albany, which has been
so prolific of scandal sad so expensive
to the tax payers of the state, is to re-
movo tho seat of government to an
other city. Possibly ho Is ■wrong. It
is not at all likely, at any rate, that hts
resolution will pjss, but tt serves very
well as a protest against one of the
most glaring Instances of tncompe-
tency In government known In our an
nals.
THE SITUATION OLEARBR.
ITS LATEST IPOIBM.
The free coinage of silver MU agreed
upon by the senate finance commititee
last Tuesday la reported to toe Ju
following terms:
"That from sad after the passage of
this the aecretary of the treasury
horeby authorized and directed to re
ceive at the United States mint, from
any citizen of the United States, silver
bullion of standard fineness, and coin the
same Into silver dollars of 412H grains
oacto. The seigniorage of said bullion
shAll belong to the Untied States, and
shall be the diiiereuce l^twacr. the c
ace value thereof and the market price of
the bullion In New York on the day the
deposit Is mode, and all expenditures .or
coinage done under tho provisions of this
net shall be paid out of said seigniorage;
and the secretary of the treasury shall
deliver to the depositors of such bullion
standard stiver dollars equal In amount
In the price thereof as aforesaid; and
wherever the said coins herein provided
tor ahull be received Into the treasury,
certificates may be laauod thereon, in the
manner now provided by law.”
This Is not free coinage at all, In tho
sense In which that term Ins boon em
ployed during the existing controversy
on the silver quewtton. It Is true that
it opens the mints to everybody who Is
able to present as mntfc elver as will
make * hundred silver dollars. But
silver Is not treated as a standard of
value, but merely ns a material cut of
which money may be made. The silver
presented for coinage .8 measured toy
the gold standard, and more than half
of It becomes tfae properly of the gov
ernment, as only aternt 40 cents’ worth
of silver Is now necessary to make a
doBsr. We have no doubt that In op
eration this law would result In putting
tho country oo the s.lver basis, and
after a little time In tree free coinage,
but the framers of the bill, while they
no doubt have this object in view, rae-
ognxe the gold standard as the proper
one, and admit the Impropriety of the
government giving 05 cents <of value to
every one iwbo will bring ft 45 cents'
worth of silvtr. The b 11 Is another
attempt to reach indiraotly and under
fctlzo pretenses a result which cannot
be reached directly with tho approval
of a majority of the people.
Some years ago, when the ngitaitlon
of the silver question 1>o«an, It may be
said that <the only point In controversy
was whether or not free coinage would
result In a bimetallic currency. It was
contended toy ono side that free ’Coin
age, at » ratio Jess than that fixed by
hhe markets, would rosifit In silver
monometallism—In driving all the gold
ont of the country. The other side
contended that nettber of these 1U ef
fects would bo seen, but that -the open
Ing of -the mints would Instantly result
in silver taking an equal pjioe In all
the markets of the world with gold as
a money metal, at the ratio fixed by
our government. This we say, was
the controversy at the time the silver
agitation began.
Some progress his been made since
that time. The point in controversy 1*
no longer whether or not free coinage
will result in bimetallism, but whether
or not the present currency system
bill
offered,
•e agreed
' fatal
in a.tic a pproprlatlo
All ithe pirliamen
that senate rule 10
in ihebiH, bit Senator Usnderaoa sar
castically remarked hhai ":Jr- i»rinc«psl
merit of -the rul-v li that we can so
qulekUy get rid of Thom
ere," and .the vlco-pr.-s.
question to the senate
amendment was In order,
thereafter another senat
the same bill certain an
-vlien
<le-
put the
whether the
Tmnieilistely
r differed to
ndiments in
tended to cflont a reform In
lar service. Then rule Id g
work. If was held to o)
amendment from conslilersil.
senate by an overwhelm!;!;
tho coosu-
>! In Its
elude this
in and the
vote up
held tho rule. In effect, therefor*, the
senate bus no rules, in ulia-t U is at per
fect liberty to ignore those under which
it professedly works. In the matter of
closing debate, however, tho 'trouble Is
deeper seated. A majority In that mat
ter cannot control. If Senator Chilton
can secure the adoption of a rule,on
this point, be will have gained dlstiuc
tlon, flor, at the worst, he ' will have
given s majority tn the senate an op
portunity to say whether or not the
rule shall be suspended or set aside,
which means, of course, that In this
maoter, as In others, -the -majority, in
the senate will have ithe power to con
trol the business of ithait body.
THE SOUTH’S OPPORTUNITY.
The PhlkukUphla. Record sees in the
developments of the cotton manufac
turing industry in the South tho onfly
rellof for the hard agricultural condi
lions which now exist la this section.
It says;
part of his Insurance for which’ to has
already paid. It Is avail enough for -the
people -who are deposed to think that
the chefiff? to Ito elhto? ota-mUml ,wss
a good thing for the country to confis
cate holt -the value of the Insurance
policies now In force?
A IIIDB3N ORIME.
Three‘m on Sis ago Rufus Ramsey,
who was treasurer of Itlnols up to the
time thoit the present Incumbent took
office, died, and It Is now d scorered for
the first time that, when he left office,
be was short in h!« accounts more than
$363,000. The fact that he was a de
faulter would probably have never been
known to the -public had not his sudden
deaiffi occurred. The disclosure Is
WAGES OP BUSY PENS
MEAGER PAr OF OUR MOST FAMOUS
AUTHORS.
Starving While Following the Path of Lit
erature—Growth or Literature and Jour
nalism-False Idesa—Work or Ilowella
and James—Roes* and the Thorns.
[Special Correspondence. 1
Boston, Feb. 14.—The wage* of lit-
eratnro are virtually starvation. This la
not always true or generally true per
haps. bot.it lathe tendency the trade, | th^e‘of a^ cUsz'Sm I
and moat men who follow it Btarve in of oonrso tho sitnation ia different i
ever, and his snooess Is scintillating
He has no Idea of returning home. The
authors named are exceptions in their
earning ouparity. Few oan earn above
f2,606 annually at moat by'literature,
pure and simple, and $3,000 exceeds the
average. And bow hard they mnat toil
—how very hard I Novellata ond drama-
tiats have tho best chance. Women eta
well afford to write became they can
lean on marriage He who does a popn.
lar play ia very lucky, bat he cannot do
many snch plays.
As for tho great majority of those
who labor in the field of literature, their
earnings are pitifully small—not
I
I
Lass' 1
L iValsl
• st*
one sense of the word—that is, are de
prived of something they need. The
pursuit of literature is opposed to any
thing like prosperity in this oountry,
brought by ,the filing of suits ‘by his I and every country, and has been at?all
bandsmen 'to recover that amount from ! periods Literature well deserves to ha
bis estate; ‘they having made -It good on
the demand af -the present treasurer
and said nothing about It, as Ramsey
was one of the richest men of southern
Illinois end they expaated -ho be able
to rpoorer their monqy from him with
out any publloAy. The state loses
nothing, but it may be questioned
whether itho -present ‘treasurer had tho
right to withhold from the public the
faot that trusted official had so grossly
abused his opportunity.
MEETING OF COTTON PLANTERS.
Col. R. E. Park has seat ‘the following
called a starving trade.
It cannot be said of literature, ns is
the realm of journalism, but even btra
wo nro presented with the bright sku
only A few of the Journalistic lights
in the large cities earn princely ealariea
—poesilaly a dozen in New York anj
four or five In this city, Chicago and
St. Louis—and Bill Nye and M. IJua-l
(C. B. Lewis), who are Specialists in
Tr
said of eo many things, that it is not their lines, receive $6,000 or $10,000
what it has been; that its present will
not compare with its past. The present
is its primo. More money is made by it
today and made by more persous than
ever before. And yet how small is the
resnlt? Any number of men and women
live by their pen, though far from lux
uriously. But living by the pen is not
living by literature, which is something
very different from ordinary writing.
Journalism nml literature are constant
ly confounded, bat thoy nro In them
selves wide apart, much na thoy are en-
croaohing on one another. Many jour
nalists are literary, thoso of the highei
notice to the Tdflgrapb, with the re- aort> thon|jh fow p nr0 H Ue ratonra are
quest that it bo psibl shed: I journalists or have an understanding ol
TO THE COTTON GROWERS OP BIBB or sympathy with journalism. Journal*
COUNTY. I Ism steadily bocomog more and more a
Macon, Oa., Feb. 14.—All cotton grow- 1 power in the republic. Literature grows,
era, resident in Btbb county, are earnest
ly invited to a business confarence at
shall be destroyed, no mat,tor wlia-t the I " Th * stressing cotton situation tn the
South la forcibly described In the state-
result of its destruction may be. The
Atlanta Constitution, spanking for «hv
fiction of which It Is 'the chief rqpre-
sen atlve, myta in so tnooy -words ths.t
It profors Irredeemable greenbacks, or
silver monome.tjl Ism—prefers almost
anything, In foot, to the present sys
tem, under wh.ch gold Is the Standard
of value.
Tho Democrat who has been led to
believe that in fightlng for free coinage
tt 16 to 1 he was fighting for bimetal
lism would do wdll to pause right liere
meat that cotton la now selling below
the absolute cost of production, and an
other crop of the same size as this last
one would bring tho staple to a price
where tt would not pay to hire the labor
necessary to pick It from ths fields. In
the distant future tha cotton states may
Indeed, be called upon to produce not a
yearly crop of *,600,000 bales, but one of
over 15,OU/,toO bales; but the present over
production must bo radically reformed
until new market conditions arise. The
Houth may reap from her apparent dis
tress of today and expected boon on the
anti look over the cron ml in front of morrow. The South has neglected the
and toeh.nd him. lie started out to
tight for tolmoraMism. Wo are sure
that oven up no this time he has In
tended ,to fight only for bimetallism.
The question for him to answer, there
fore, now. when hs leader confesses
that the tight is not primarily for bl-
motUlsm, tout for greenbacks, or the
silver staodnid, is, wha.t is the proper
thing for h m to do? Ho sought M-
metadllsm because that was the his
toric currency principle of his party
and boatuse It promised a more abund
ant supply of money. Hut suppose, os
h s leaden* now admit, -that the resnlt
diversified agriculture o( the North, and
yet during the decade from 1680 to 1800
her total farm assets Increased tl per
cent, and her farm products gained 18
per cent. In other words thk Southern
tanner reaped a gross revenue ot Cl.l
per cent, upon his capital, : while the
rest of the farmers of the country were
rewarded with only 11.1 per . cent. To
on dollare mat the Northern agrlcultj-
rlst has earned, his Southern brother tins
received almost two dollare.
"Furthermore the South has not reaped
the real profits upon Its cot$on crops,
814,iMi,iM) worth ot cotton goodlT Almost
every pound of this material <Ume from
at 12 o'clock, or upon adjournment of
court. This coll Is made by the request
the Southern Cotton Growers' Con
gress, recently In sesston, and by that
of the president for Georgia.
R. E. Park,
President for Bibb County.
Wo hope this mooting will be uirgely
a ttended. Fanners do not consult with
each other frequently enough, and good
will come of the meeting oven If the
pnrpoee In v.ew is not fully aoeo-m-
too, but makes no sneii advances.
Irving and Cooper#
Whst hs?c cur Iccdij" slithers sch!?r*
cd in money by their works? Washing
ton Irving, with nil bis lovo of and ap
titude fur literature, bad na thought of
adopting it as a profession until the
mercantile bonso of his two brothers,
in which ho was a silent partner, be
came bankrupt, compelling him when
noarly 35 to rely on his pen. Its profits
were considerable, though not large,
but large euough to support him—a
bachelor—with simpio tastes and quiet
habits, iu common comfort Fenimore
Cooper inherited a large estate and
each o year from the American Prcq
Association, bat the average oarniug,
of newspaper men in the cities mimed
ore less than thoso of a clerk in a fin;
class hotel or a cook in a popular res-
taurant. They wil possibly exceed
thoso of a policeman, but then the work
is muoh harder physically.
J. C. Seamno.
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AN INTERESTING COUPLE.
plished. From an laterchangogrf views wrote “Precaution, ” a rural story, ns
may come a fullr-r understanding of
the situation to each of those present,
ond though it may be impraot o.ahle by
voluntary movement to control the bus
iness operations of all the farmers of
the South, yet If each man fully under-
an experiment to show that ho conld
improve on the popular novels of the
time. It mtaoarried, but “The Spy”
awoko an echo abroad, made him cele
brated, turned him to antborsbip; de
cided his destiny. His books had tha
charm of newness and set their mark
stands the situation, he is more likely, on tho time, and it is not yet offaced.
Hiss Blits Proctor Otis and Charles Bov,
ard Johnson.
[Special Correspondence.]
Chicago, Fob. 14.—The latest re
ports seem to confirm the rumors that
have been flying abont for a month ci
more respecting the engagement of Aijq
Elita Proctor Otis and Mr. Cbarlei
Howard Johnson. The wedding is *n-
nonnceil to take place some timn In fiiay.
Everybody In the dramntio and artistii
world Is more or less Interested la this
romantio event, wbiob is a piquant
topio of discussion In the clnbs just at
present Miss Otis, who is the leading
lady in "Oliver Twist,” which recent!;
had n ran in this city, is a young won.
an of remarkable magnetism and pa
sonal charm. Him is tall, plnmp, tril
a wealth of fino blond hair, violet eys
and rosy complexion. Born in tho wen
and belonging to n prominent and
wealthy family, she made her debut in
society rather early in her teens. Ia
Cleveland, where she lived, her vivac
ity and beanty made her a reigning
belle for several seasons. At length skt
cams east and made her home iu Brook
lyn, where she was welcomed iu tha
highest soolal circlet
Miss Otis Anally thought Bhe would
start a weekly journal, and start it she
did. It was called the New York Satur
of b.s own notion, to so regulate his
affairs as to help in improving ‘the gen-
fral sitnation.
day Reviow, and it ran two years, ot
until Miss Otis was glad to let it ilia
In the meantlmo other pecuniary re-
THE JARS MAY BE OH BATED.
of his efforts, If snoceswful, may he nor the southern states, but Ensichd rccelv-
the relMtahneut of the historic theory ed as much for each yard of djur-ponca
for which he has fought, nor the addi- k 0 ® 1 * *• F* ld tho °° llo n growers
tlon to the volume of the currency of for • K,ua ®; i ^ h * °_*, exl ' n '
the money which would come from the "* “
free co.nege of both mesa Is—suppose,
we say, that he make* this discovery.
wha,t should be do? Should he give
up the fight for bimetiilllsm, or shon'd
slve cotton mills In Georgia ant other
Southern states during the past tew
montna by New Eng And cotton spinners
Is a most Important feature. Secretary
of the Interior Hoke Bmlth has already
emphasised tbs faot that the manutoct-
he abandon the leaders who by their ure in tne South o Its own cottoa would
own oonfenslon have led him so far change the value of th ecrop onnuall
astray that .to win tho hstitle he has ,rom WWaio.ooo to about 8l,ooo,ioo,ooo."
The dispa echos ymtordny confirmed
the report that the Chinese admiral ami
Rooetnl In command at Wei-HilAVst
had surrendered the forts and ships un
der their command to the Japanese ami
then committed suicide. They had
made a good defense, s'J things con
sidered, giving the Japanese Invaders
■their first reel taste of warfare since
they begun their march on Pekin. Tho
fall of Wo.-Hal-Wel puts In the ha mis
of the Japanese the last of the power
ful Horns ami arsenate of northern Chi
na and oftena Pekin to attack from
every direction. It was upon the
strength of this fortress amt of Port
Arthur, on the opposite side of the
straits, -that ,thc Chinese government
depended for defense nga net foreign
attacks. Many millions of do tiara had
been spent upon each of .them. The
forts were designed and oonsttructed by
European engineers and armed with
the best rifled cannon. They were con
sidered impregnable, and no doubt they
would bare proved no tod they’been de
fended toy good troops, tt may too said
that ths test Japanese victory really
readers he Chinese helpless. Their
only dofeme st this moment is the rig
orous weather of a northern climate.
Possibly they have a good many thous
and men olhrtod about the capital,
hut they are au army only in name,
and would scat tor, os experience bis
shown, before tho first Japanese at
tack. They have no organization, no
leadership, and their equipment Is so
primitive as ta toe absurd In these days
of msgtalne rifles. Japan ta in a post
t on to d-imand her own terms, with
ihs ixpccLtUoa that they tria he sc
ceded to, hut h Is by no means certain
that Japan will name the terms on
which peace will be made. It happens
that IlnftsU end England era to accord
in dealing ‘With this question, and their
tnteroaa. are opposed to those of Japan.
It la not at ail uni k<4y, therefore, that
after flghtf.ng one of the most success-
fnl want of modem Aimes, the gallant
l.dioders will find ithrensetoree deprived
of nearly aH the valuable fruits of their
victory.
been fighting would toe to defeat the
purposes which he started out to at
tain? Or should he seek bimetallism
by another way-toy a way toy which
all agree it may toe reached, tout which
his leadens have told him Is n slow and
difficult way? If be adopts .the latter
policy-*that Is to say, If he decides to
go vrlith Clove*ind and other Demo
crats who believe that h'tnetalllsm Is
to toe reached only through Interna
tional agreement, by win run no rMks
of precipitating a orls s upon the coun
try. He will run no risk of depriving
the country suddenly of the use of
$600,000,000 of the mo~y with wh eb
It now does business He win take
no risks whatever, except of dfttay, In
trying to bring about the consent . of
foreign nations to the inauguration of
a policy which in its suture is interna
tional, as trade Is International. Delsy
Is to toe regretted, of course, when any
worthy purpose Is In view. But delay
ts better than rashness, and now that
the people are glveo clearly to under
stand exactly what the so-called free
stiver men are striving for, conserva
tism on the currency question Is apt
to become more popular than it has
been before. There is something at
tractive abont the greenback theories,
bat they cannot Uke poasem.on of the
minds of a majority of tho voters in
this country, and to have It known that
the leading silver men are also the
leading greentoackers Is a bad thing for
the silver cause.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, tho groat ro
mancer, one of tho rarest geniuses ol
the oentury, what returns did his writ-
I ings make to him? Burcly enough tc I verses came to her, and now eho began
j livo on iu bis most frugal way in a ; seriously to think of the stago a. a
Now England town. But for his salary means of livelihood. Her first profei-
_ , . . . „ . as n government official in Salem ami slonal appearance was in tho “Crn«t ol
The ‘last South Carolina legislature Boston nnd his appointment as consul Society.’’ She scored a moderate bit in
aallod a constlrutlonal convention, and to Liverpool ho might hnve coma to the character she essayed. Since then
tho members are soon to ho ejected, want. The latter position furnished him she has figured iu a numbor of produo
Apparently the TUmaultea are dot civ with more money thnn ho had ever tious, and by hard and serious devotioj
ATTACKING A GRAVE QUESTION.
All ot thw is truev and (t Is not impoa-
ulble that all -the cotton ot the South
auay be manufactured among the fltuls
where it was grown. This complete
dere-opment will lake t.me and a great
deal of It. Even If our command of
oapltal was unlimited, wo could not at
onoo monopol.se the cotton fiianufac-
ture of th* world. But we lure the
natural advantage* which are necessary
to a monopoly of that Industry, and If
we are wise and enetgetlc tn our meth
ods ot development, th* time need not
be very far off -when. If we have not a
monopoly, wo will at least tore gained
the lead in the ndustry which seems to
belong peculiarly .to the South. When
we havo done that, the low price of
cotton will not be wholly a misfortune,
tot that it wUi strengthen our bold on
the markets of the world tor our cotton
doth.
mined to proveat all white men except dreumsd of possessing. Still he was very to her work abo has gradually attain;!
th .nw'lvre from ivivin- •. poor during the entire 60 years of his her present position as a star.
• ' - , ?, h T « . ^ U1 raeoffiponaed life. His boohs arc As for Charles Howard Johnwm, h«
c u\ ntofi, and os they a.II probably now SU( ) , 0 u wd], b a t while be name is a household word wherever pe.
be suocesvful lu controlling tho con- was alive thoy wero hardly appreciated rlodicals such os Life, Truth, eta, elr-
vent on, the now constitution is likely — barely yielded him broad. His repu- eulataHe was reared on th* Kanuij
to pretty accurately reflect their views tation came too late to botiofit him.
Two Famous I*oeU*
Longfellow's poetry produced consid
erable income after ho had reachod mid-
dlo ago. Before that period ho might
havo Buffered but for Ids wife's snug for
tune. Emerson, with all ids wisdom,
poetry and insight, only managed to Bnb-
eist by thoclosest economy and tho most
—or, ra ther, the v.qws of the half dozen
men who have heretofore made thetr
policy for them. One of the most Im
portant questions to he considered, of
oourse, is the qual floa lions of voters—
a question of vital Importance In
South Carolina, where ithe negroes
THE HELPLESS SENATE.
A resolution Ins been offered <n th*
New York leghfriture providing for re
moval of the cap (al of that state from
Albany to Now York city. The reason
given '* tost the unfinished cap tot
bulkl!ng tn rise former city, which ha*
already coer more than twenty m'.tloa
(JoCbus, will require at least six million
In hts speew-h of scripts nre before
the Telia legMa.ture, the DowJy-eketed
senator, 'Mr. Horace <to:Tl*>n, »*:d that
he was In favor of such a change In
the senate rule* at would permit de
bate to be Hunted and * vote to be had
when demanded toy a majority. Mr.
Chilton sit once before In the senate
by appointment Peitospa for Mi* lack
of tlmg, be did not succeed In making
a very great Impression, but In going
into the sente a second rime with • pur
pose to expedite bnalnass in that body
If possible, he cmslciy makes * good
•tart. It te th* seoste that has wrecked
tfa* Dcupucrsttc piny In this adminis
tration and prevented-fit* haps* of th*
people from toeing fulfilled. Every day
that t»dy denoostretei not only Its
Incapacity to do baxnew toot Its con.
lesnpt tor all rales which might msk*
the doing of huslnem in &n orderly way
possible. Only s faw days ago an
a nutriment tacking on tbs ITiwiattn
cable acbeme to the consular and dlplo-
THE EFFECT ON INSURANCE.
largriy outnumber the whites, as they car0 * a * nD ^ re P° a tcrt uso of his striking
^ u ,, , eseays. Whittier, who wss never mar-
do in M-sssappl. Heretofore the negro llt / nml , ivcrti „ became n Quaker.
vote has been kopi dowo by the eight- w [th severe simplicity most of tho time
box ballot law and by a particularly at Haverhill, acqnired after 70 consld-
•trlngout regUTJtlon law. These law* ernblo property by extraordinary prices
noed s certain degree of education nee- paid for bia poem* for apodal occasion#,
easary, clo-ng oo, however, In an Imli- “ hl «'' ‘omdimez $[,000 apiece.
reot way. Tho T.llroan party has
from the first prided Itself upon being
an anti-negro party, and the new con
stitution will, m all probab tltgr, set up
a tent of the voter’s education and In
telligence nndisgutscdly Intended to
disfranchise the mam of the negroes.
Perhaps .the Mlattoslppl precedenPw.il
be followed.
Tho problem is one of supreme lm-
Having written his antislovcry verso
without compensation, solely toheiptbo
caaso, this munificence must have sur
prised him. Lowell inherited a pecu
niary independence and never dreamed
of living by his pen. In truth, he never
attempted it Holmes was a voluminous
author in prose, not less than verse,
which bis patrimony permitted him to
be. The majority of the makere of
eonnd books who have passed away, inch
Prescott, Motley, Bancroft, Park-
porta no* In ithe South, ami prnwm for man, have regarded litoratnre as a lax-
solution tn Sooth Carol na more Btrong- ! nr L which they could indulge in be-
At the recent meeting of the Actua
rial Society of America, aomo Interest
ing statistics were given. Thus it was
stated that the amount of Insurance
now in fores In the United Stetcn
amounts to $4,807,731,000. Every d li
ter of this vast sum of Insurance his
been paid for by the insured with gold
or money ts good as gold. TV men
who own tt, who have provid'd this
vast sum for (he benefit ot their f an
Hies, bare a right to expect that It will
be paid tn money as good as that w th
which they ported. But suppose that
the Populists and their sympithlz r<
should have their way and the standard
of value in this country should b*
changed from gold to silver. Would
uot the provision -which men hare
made for their families through iu^ur
a nee be reduced Just onohalf? The
insurance companies would still owe
nearly five billions ot doUtrs, as they
do now. tat though the premiums by
which that lnsuranos was earned wsro
paid In th* companlea would no
longer be competed to pay ta that
mete*, or In paper sqniv ■ I m K, M
conld satisfy all drams by the payment
of the proper number of dollsrs. though
the ditlzrs dtesnsetves were diver un<l
worth only half ea much as they *re
now. Tbs comptt. es them* Ives w» - fid
not tie benefited, perhaps, to cause their
assets ass moody Invested In evidence*
of debt, which would b» affected In jnst
»s the potcier issued by
them, tat the result to ths polity ho! t r |
* culd be whst sre bsve Indies ted—the
ly than In any other state, perhaps.
The Tillman party Is not, me think, a
wise party, toeing given over to dome-
gogsm, but the manner in which It ap
proaches the great problem will not for
that reason toe lets Interesting.
It’s the surest. Dr. Price's Baking
Powder, because It's absolutely pure.
Tho Manufacturer*’ Record hts the
following short letter from RiraeavlUe:
"Editor Manufacturers' Record; I note
in your Issue ot January S, a letter
headed, ‘Looking for a Bleacheryr and
cause thoy hud means of tbelr own.
Otherwise they would not have been to
rash as to enter the lists.
James and Howells-
Some men pursue literature unceas
ingly—at least havo no other calling.
Tho inference is natural, therefore, that
it maintains them. Henry James is one
of these. He resides In England princi
pally nnd cams what the English call
big money by bis brilliant criticisms
and very clever stories. It it forgotten
that bis father left him n comfortable
property and that be himself 1* a bach
elor, which hat many pecuniary advan
tages. William D. Howells It another.
Ho reside* at borne and has a family
frontier, studied art for a little wbilt
in Cincinnati, and about six years ay-
landed in Now York with a small hand
bag which contained little more than I
oliango of linen. Ha was then unknown
nnd penniless, bat be carried under hit
jacket n brave heart, and bo set to wort
with vim and vigor. Within a year iu
bad things abont bis own way. Then
was n ready market for nil he produced
with hie brush or ponoiL His atelier,
furnished with exqtfislte taste, becami
tho resort of Now York’s bohemia a
Sunday afternoons. Mr. Johnson exctli
in ooior iiiuetratiuu. ey many good
Jndges It it thought no other artist
approach him in this Una He evinca
a great imagination, and tome of bis
work has a certain witching poetry
abont it not found in the work of any
other man on this side of the Atlantia
Johnson's temperament ia essentially
romantio. He cannot hear restraint ol
any kind. He is a widower and the fa
ther of a wlutomt daughter about*
years old named Gladys.
That Mr. Johnson is dssperately is
love with his fiancee tbs present writ
er has hoard him in all reverence
avow. If the union between Mite Otis
and Mr. Johnson occurs, as now tevui
likely, there Is evory reason to bellexs
that she will still remain on tho stats
and that be will resume his profotsi
With accelerated zest.
Phtt.ifT. Rankin.
It's 'the best—Dr. Price’s Diking Fee
der—because It's edbsoOutely pure.
ould say that It the gentlemen who 1 Bp , I think. He doe* novels—
through Georgia In search tar
a bleochery ette had stopped at Barnes-
vllle they would have found tho quantity
and quality of water they desire. Borne
aaaHlance can also be had hero from
homo capital for a bleochery. The town's
water works has reservoir MS feet
water works has a reservoir SOD feet
above ths town supplied by spring water
We use a targe quantity of bleached cot
ton, Nu. 26s, and formerly bod to OmOd
East to buy It. It coot ue then I cents
per pound more than tt costs now. We
have started a small Mescherey for our
own use only, with very satisfactory re
sults. We can buy ths cotton l coat per
pound cheaper than tn Philadelphia 1 cent
per pound for freight coming from Phil
adelphia, and get tt spun for 8 cents per
l>ound less than we can East, saving, os
1 have lust said, S coat* per pound, be-
st les a profit by blenching the cotton.
"Barnetvtlie Underwear Mins.”
Therm * no good rtaooo why tolmrh-
eries nit uM na’. operated aa success
fully In the South as anywhere else,
and th -v win come when there la a do-
mand for tli' - . r product. Ths start
m .Ia i'-‘'it'-*vf Be te a creditable one
| and the experience of tbe m il there
oarage other raanafiteturem to
confiscation of half tbe value of that 1 1
tiie same kind
very good ones—and the publio like
them and read them eagerly. He write!
other thlngi, too, and they are in de
mand. There Is a market, ready and
quick, for all bis manuscripts, and he
supplies it, at a prudent man should, for
he may not always be the fashion. Tho
greatest merit ia not anre of being tbe
mode. Tho vulgar rumor is that How.
ells is getting rich. He most langb at it-
There U Kmc thing ludicrous in any
man getting rich in any proper sense by
writing. Howells may earn $10,000 a
year, whiob is a great deal and entire
ly exceptional. Hs it frugal minded and
may put s little of it by for a day when
the sun ot to nnotusl prosperity falls to
thine.
Llt«rmtar« and Jonrnallfim.
Bert Harte is a transplanted Ameri
can and enjoys London and its copious
dining art He commands tbs very best
of prices and is thought to live very
well by bis pen. How mneh he may
earn in a season no ont knows. Prob
ably be does not know himself, for he
it an eooentrto creators and teems to be
indifferent to mousy to its fall appre
ciation. Certainly hs is not an arithme
tician, and his social financiering is pe
culiar, almost grotesque- It it raid to
bs vsty. profitable to him, though not
to others. He manages it adroitly, how*
Tbe plate glass trdst has given
ttoe of a ait of forty per cent, in tta
price of American plate glass. Tt*
pr«drat of the company seys this I*
made poastMe by tbe adoption of Im
proved machinery and will be mid;
without any reduction of wages,
few months <tgo we were toeing toM
thst a reduction In the glass duties
would result In ,pauper wages M
American glass workers, tout tt s*fM
that tbs effect Is not tn reduce was*.
but to Improve processes. If tbe <1j-
Ues had not beett reduced, probably
long time would have paused totfrtt
these Improved processes would hi*
been adopted. They were not neef*
wry. Th* Ksii tariff aorvul Ju.
well. The net result, therefore, of tb»
reduction of tits duties is tbat the re*
pis who tne glass will buy K flora milt
mors than half tbe price they paid ***
tore, tits men who make It w 11 get **
aims wages they received before, sod
prssumatoly ths companies will Aviart
Just as large dividends. This seem* w
ua a very satlsfactoiy result.
COLD WEATHER SCHEDULES-"*
During the cold veils of winter
railroad men who have to sunt ™
on top of freight cers during the lore
trips suffer terribly. Rome time* they
are required to stay oa top ot
during ths coldest night and In all klnje
of wosthtr. In ths recent cold
the Southern railway has sought u
protect Its men as much aipA«ir>»
and Trainmaster Beg* allow* a*
freight trains to jam at night over »■
dlvTainn n* the business of tbe re*4
wia garni*.