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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: FEBRUARY 18, 1895. TH! MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAh AND WEEKLY. Office 569 Mulberry Street. THE DAILY rELKUHAi-H—Delivered 67 carriers In Uie city, or milled, postage free, to cent! a month; 11.75 for tnrve month!; IS.60 for «a montna; V tor ona year; every day except Sunday, ft truss TELKUKAfU—fn-Weekly. Mon- daya Wedneadaya and Fridays. or Tuee- daya ‘Xhuredaye and Baturdaya three montha H; ala months, P: one year. H THE SUNDAY raiLEORAfft—By mall, one year, 12. THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH—By math ona year, IL BUd80itlli'THJN»—Payable In advance. Remit by portal order, check or regis tered letter. Currency by mall at risk of sender. COMMUNICATIONS should he addressed and all ordera checks drafts, eta, made payable to THIS TELEGRAPH, Macon, Ua 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. kotfot i lb* , ins t tbs 1 Ulil L rif ftou* old |l curt hie it [ydi. 1120. j; lv l 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*.