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Banks County Gazette. VOL--11. NO.-39. A collision-proof railroad car is among the crying needs of the age. What is matter with our American genius any how, asks the Detroit Free Preu. nggaii "'"li'ir.™-™ ■. -a;i=s= Hon. J.. B. Baker, of Izard, lately in troduced in the Arkansas Legislature a hill “debarring women from filling posi tions of trust and responsibility. The latest proposition of the friends of woman suffrage, heard by the New York Commercial Advertiter, is to give to all women the right to vote when they support themselves by work. There are now more than a hundred women employed in the telephone ex changes of Berlin, Germany, and it has been decided to employ in the future women only, for the reason that their voices are so much more audible than men’s. Gold mining nowadays means a great deal more than mere gold digging, the Boston Trarucript rises to remark, and the miner with a pick and shovel outfit ii a very ancient number. The Lemhi Gold Placer Company of Idaho began a few days ago to construct a twenty-mile ditch to convey water to its mines at Lemhi. The ditch is to be ten feet wide at the bottom, will require 6,000,000 feet of lumber in its construction, and will cost about $200,000. It is expected that about six miles of the ditch will be com pleted by June 1 next. A nautical journal published on the Pacific coast asserts that the Nicaraugua Canal, if completed, will never be used by sailing vessels, for a reason which ap plies also to the Panama Canal. On either side of Central America, in the vicinity of the proposed entrances to the canal, is a region of perpetual calms and doldrums, and a sailing vessel would find it exceedingly difficult to get into the entrance on one side, and after being towed through would have equal diffi culty in getting away from the coast iu to the region of trade winds on the other. A sailing vessel going to San Francisco from New York or Liverpool would, it is declared, make a quicker passage around Cape Horn than by going through the canal. It is also said that but oue sailing vessel has ever passed .through the Suez Canal, and that was lost in the Red Sea shortly afterward. Since 1790 the increase in the popula tion of American cities is one of the most significant signs of our growth, observes the New York Neun. In that year, taking 8000 as a basis, there wero six. In 1880 there were 286, in 1890 here were 443—an increase during the decade of nearly forty-four per cent. Orouped, the majority of people find their homes on the Atlantic slope. Yet while this shows a tendency .to mass population and with it active enterprises, it has not, as in the case of England, been at the expense so far, of the coun try population. “Should the migration to the cities continue,’’ adds the Neun, “it would be a subject of concern, but r.the average of growth is fairly distrib uted, and the tenement housos and slums • £*f the great commercial centres are not absorbing all the life-making influences of the new people who are finding homes . in our country.” Remarks the Boston Transcript: “The wtory of the tragedy just enacted in Hun gary is one which, had it been wrought put upon the theatrical stage, would have been declared impossible. A sou returns after long absence in America with #3OOO in gold. He seeks his old home, and as a stranger asks for food and lodging. The mother is absent, but the father recognized his son. They embrace, and the son tells of his good fortune. The mother returns after the ■ ion has gone to bed. Her husband : speaks of the stranger, but does not say he is their son. He will keep that sur prise until the morning, when the sou shall reveal himself to his happy mother. The mother rises in the night. She overhauls the stranger’s baggage. She 3ee the gold. *Her cu pidity is aroused. She grasps a knife, cuts the stranger’s throat an I seizes and hides the gold. When the father awakes he discovers his son dead and in a pool of blood. His cry of horror arouses the mother who had expected her husband would be a ready accomplice for the sake of the plunder. The father gasps the name of the victim. The murderess utters a cry, reels aud falls dead. Could anything,be more dramatic? Could any thing be more terrible?” HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1892. ALLIANCE TALKS. NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS Reform Press Comment and Items of General Interest. The sub-treasury is to the Alliance what the hub is to a wagon wheel.— Southern Mercury. * * * The supreme question of the hour is, shall manhood or money rule this repub lic?—Alliance News. * * * The Ocala platform—The bridge for the bloody chasm—The shroud for sec tional strife.—Nashville Toiler. *% Mr. Livingston, of Georgia, has intro duced the sub-treasury bill in the house, but the question will not be taken up at present. The bill is the same as that introduced last session. *** The principles advocated by the reform press are the ones and we hope to soon see the day when honest men will repre sent the people in our legislatures and congress and frame honest and just laws that all can understand.—Standard Parm er. * A * The open Alliance of Nebraska at its annual State meeting adopted a resolu tion unanimously, instructing the State delegates to their annual National meet ing, to vote for a permanent union with our Order. This brings into OHr Order one of the strongest and best organized of all the American States. % The Commissioners of Agriculture from five Southern States met at Memphis, Teun., a few days ago. They say that we should reduce the cotton acreage 20 percent. We suggest a further reduc tion of 20 per cent, from the salaries of all officials who are overpaid. There is an overproduction of salaries just now in some places.—Progressive Farmer. Recently the Russell county (Ala.) al liance met and resolved that they would not support any man for congress who was not an allianceman; and also that no candidate for county offices who was not an allianceman, would get the support of the organization. A meeting of the alli ance will take place the day preceding ihat of the county democratic conven tion, and candidates selected and dele gates idsti ucted to support them. *** The third party convention of Lamar county, Texas, has adopted a long plat form, in which there is a financial plank demanding the issue of $150,000,000 le gal tender treasury notes, $50,000,000 to be paid for the labor for public improve ments, such as buildings, levees for the Mississippi river, and securing or con structing government railroads and tele graphs; the other $100,000,000 to be furnished the farmers at 1 per cent, to take up the overdue farm mortgages, on condition the farmer transfer the note and mortgage to the United States to be deposited in the treasury as collateral se curity on the same terms as those on which banks deposit United States bonds. *** THE THIRD PARTY IN GEORGIA. In a recent interview the editor of the People’s Party Paper, published at At lanta, Ga., says that the people’s party intend running a full state ticket this year. “We will elect our governor and state bouse officials and elect members to the legislature in a great majority of the counties. Of course, I can only judge of this by the reports that come into this office. We requested the friends of the cause to send us the names of voters friendly to the third party movement, and since October 50,000 names have been sent in. We will nominate a National ticket regardless of the action of the Alliance convention in St. Louis in February. That convention may be dominated by politicians, just as the selection of delegates to that conven tion from Georgia was accomplished. The third party men will withdraw and hold a convention, if that convention de cides not to support the People's party. You see that convention will be composed of Alliancemen and various labor organi zations, and is not called entirely as a third party convention. If they resolve themselvis into a third party all right and good, but if they do not that will not interfere with the third party that is now organizing. The third party is a political party, and will be composed of all parties who believe in the doctrines set forth in the Ocala platform whether he be an Alli anceman, a doctor, lawyer, republican or laborer. We are the peoples’ party and will demand the relief that neither of the old parties have accorded us. We will hold our conventions and anybody can be a member who is with us.” PRINCIPLES. The Progressive Farmer of a recent is sue contained the following strong edi torial which will undoubtedly meet the approval of all true Alliancemen: The Alliance organization in its sub, county, State and national meetings have de cided on a platform of principles. It is a duty of every member to stand by these principles, these demands. The Alliance member who goes outside of the lodge room to offer another plan, conceding “for the sake of harmony” to any party, a particle of these principles, deserves the censure, and should receive it, of every true man in the order. It seems that the members have been duped long enough with compromises to parties without principles to back them. We are surprised that a brother now and then so far forgets himself as to offer a compromise on any of our demands, es pecially the Sub Treasury plan, the one of all the demands (if made into a law) which will undoubtedly destroy the 1 ‘power behind the throne” to oppress us. We have written this much, notic ing the occasional substitute offered by some brother, behind which we can rec ognize the “cloven foot” of an old polit ical boss, who has by flattery or other wise induced this brother to try his hand in demolishing our leading princi ple. It is well enough for our enemies, and those of our week-kneed brethren who are induced to act so in discreetly, to remember that the sub treasury plan is the real living issue, and that the other demands are subordinated to this one; and that the Alliance and other labor organizations will stand by it, and will have it or something better made into a law, “world without end.” We further say that no man i North Csrolina will be voteu for by the Alliance members who rh to dodge this issue, and not align him self with it. * * * No matter who the man is; no matter how much he im proves as a speech-maker; no matter how much taffy is offered to the farmers through these speeches, they are not go ing to be blindfolded when they cast their votes in 1892. What bosh, and how ridiculous it founds for a man to say he is with the farmers, wishes them well, etc., and at the same time when it comes to make laws for their relief, his votes, his inge nuity, his whole skill as a politician is used to defeat these ends. Let the boom ing business go on, and let those who think they are fooling the masses by all this clap-trap continue their foolishness. The people are watching and waiting, and when the time comes, the masses, not the old political bosses, will name the man. Brethren watch the booming business through the partisan press. ACTION OP THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OP NATIONAL ALLIANCE. The following resolution, also the ac companying memorial, was unanimously passed at the meeting of the State Presi dents, recently. The memorial was print ed in the Congressional Record: “Resolved, That it is the sentiment and desire of this conference of the Presidents of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union that the delegates for the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union who attend the Industrial Confer ence to be held in Bt. Louis, Feb. !}2d, 1802, use their influence and votes to es tablish and perfect fraternal relations with all labor organizations represented in said meeting, with the Ocala demands as a basis for a platform of principles, and that such platform be presented to the National Conventions of the Demo cratic party, the Republican party and the People’s party this year, with an ear nest request that the principles involved be engrafted into their platforms for the coming national elections of 1892. But that they carefully refrain from commit ting our order as such to affiliation with any political party or parties.” Mr. Pierce asked and obtained unan imous consent to have printed in the Record the following memorial of the Farmers’ Aliiance: To the Honorable tho House of Repre sentatives and Senate of the United States in Congress assembled: • Your memorialists, a committee elected by the Supremo Council of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, under instructions on its behalf, would most respectfully present; That the universal and unparalleled depression in all departments of our great agricultural industry has impressed the farmers of the United Btates with the gravest concern and alarm. That despite their fruitful soils, the favoring condi tions of climate, their faithful applica tion and courageous industry, and irre spective of seasons and harvests, their farms and the products of their labor are constantly and steadily depreciating in value. That the inspiriting hope of competency and comfort, as a reward foi their toil, is vanishing in their earnest struggle for sustenance and tho preserva tion of home. That patient, honest and earnest investigation of this anomalous condition of affairs has impressed the farmers of the country with the solemn conviction that the evils which are thus clogging and paralyzing their energies are largely due to discriminating inequali ties in our governmental policy, and which are the legitimate outgrowth of partial and unfriendly legislation. Your memorialists would further re spectfully represent: That in their organized capacity the farmers of thirty-eight states and territo ries of the Union, after long and earnest deliberation and with remarkable una nimity, formulated and adopted a declar ation of principles (an official copy of which is hereto appended) which they believe, if enacted into law, would re store agriculture to its true and just po sition among the great industries of the country, and would conserve the highest and best interests of the public good. That they respectfully, but most earn nestly commend to the patriotic consid eration and favor of your houorable bod ies the justice and wisdom of enacting such laws as will embody the principles enunciated in the declaration referred to. Your memorialists would respectfully represent: That they are specially charged to ask the attention of your honorable bodies to the great and urgent necessity for imme diate legislative action for the financial relief of the industrial and business inter ests of the country. That they believe that the present financial system of the country is not only inherently defective, but that it is incompatible with the genius and spirit of our institutions, and is in conflict with the fundamental grin- ciples of our government. That they be lieve that the system, born of the terrible exigencies of a mighty civil war, purely as a military expedient and necessity, which, While it doubtless saved the life of the nation in war, lias been demon strated, under the test of experience, not to be the system for preserving nnd per petuating that life in peace. That they believo that a sacred and stead fast observance and mainten ance of the powers and func tions conferred upon the government by the constitution for making, issuing and controlling the money of the people is absolutely essential to healthful and symmetrical development in our material progress, and that these powors and functions cannot in any manner bo relin quished or transferred without violence to equity and justice and gravest peril to the liberties of the people. That they believe that the exclusive right secured to the government by the constitution to make money carrios with it the unavoid able obligation and responsibility to sup ply it in such manner and amounts as to meet at all times the requirements of the legitimate business cf the country and of our growing country and trade. That they believe that the exercise of the legitimate and rightful functions in the control of money would obviate a recurrence of the ruinous effects of un due contraction m volume, as demon strated in the present depressed condi tions which are paralysing the energies of the people in all departments of indus trial enterprise. That they believe that all money should be issued direct by the government direct to the people at a low rate of interest and in sufficient volume to meet the legitimate demands of the le gitimate business of the country, on safe und valid securities, and that it should boa full legal tender for all debts. That they believe that silver should have all the rights in coinage and all the qualities of legal tender which gold possesses. * * L. L. Poi.k, O. W. Macune, Mann Page, W. F. G WYNNE, L. L. Featherstonk, National Legislative Committee of theN. F. A. and I. U, ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. Dun & Cos., Gives a Bright View of Trade Thorughont the Country. Business failures occurring throughout the country during tho week ending Jan. 22, as reported to R. G-. Dun & Co s., number for tho United States 274, aud for Canada 64; total 328, against 330 last week. Report from cities outside of New York shows some increase in trade as well as great confidence in the future. At Philadelphia, increasing sales are seen in dry goods; large orders reported for nails, and general inprovement in hard ware and better orders for iron have caused additional furnaces to begin blast. At Charleston some improvements is seen, though large supplies of cotton are still on hand. THE PRECIOUS METALS. The output of precious metals in 1891 has been surpassed in only two years, ac cording to Wclls-Fargo’s statement, amounting to #31,976,994 in gold, $60,- 014,004 in s lver, $18,201,063 in copper, and $12,385,780 in lead. The Mexican output of silver was $43,000,000. An nual reports of many olher industries show that the production in 1891 has rarely, if ever, been equaled, and the new year begins with no prospect of a decrease in any important industry. The reduction of rates by tho Bank of Eng land from 3 J to 8 per cent shows tho con fidence that prevails in foreign money markets. Reports from all money centers show ample supplies, an easier market and, ex cept at the south, a comparatively light demand, with fair or good collections. The enormous excess of exports still con tinuing leads many to believe that more gold must soon be imported. The industries are remarkably well em ployed for the season and the movement of crops ia still large, and reports from every part of the country express even greater confidence then before in the prospects for trade. The market for products has been undisturbed by specu lation, which is held in check by enor mous supplies. Wheat advanced cents and receipts at the west have been ligh ter owing to the severe weather, but ex ports continue large. Corn is coming forward freely and has declined cents, and the exports for the will probably be heavy. Oats are a quarter lower, but pork products a shade stronger. Oil has declined one-half, and coffee advanced a quarter. Increasing strength is reported in marketp ior iron and steel products. THE COTTON MARKET. Speculation in cotton has taken cour age from the fact that receipts have re cently declined at some points largely, and the price has advanced a sixteenth during the week and a quarter since the lowest point, 7f, was touched. Specu lative sales last week reached 700,000 bales at New York, and the improving market caused a better tone at many southern points. HOSPITALS ARE FULL Of Unfortunates Wrestling with the Dref led Grip. Dispatches of f hursday state that the hospitals ia the C.ty of Paris, France, are crowded with patients >uffering from influenza. The diseases prevails in a most dangerous form throughout the city, and the municipal authorities and assis tance publique are making arrangements to convert available vacant buildingsinto hospitals. De Freycinet, minister of war, will be asked to allow tbe barracks on the outskirts of the city to be used M infirmaries. There is a great increase in the number of deaths resulting from the dises. A BIG CITY’S “PAY DIRT.” FORTUNES MADE IN NEW YORKS STREET SWEEPINGS. A Privilege Worth Over SOO,OOO a Year—An Army of Hag Pickers —Garbage Pier Dweller.*. The sweepings of the New York streets support at least five hundred peo ple. They are lodged, fed, clothed, ed ucated and furnished amusements by the drift from the street. The mud of the city is pay-dirt to them. They make more than the average gold prospector. You ask “how?" Years ago New York used to hire men to “trim” the barges of the garbage fleet, so that they wouldn't cupsize or become waterlogged, or founder when they dropped out from Sarnly Hook to till up the Atlantio Ocean. It co3ts the city something to get its little navy ready to leave port. By and by came along some mon who said there was valuable brass in the city's dust pile, and fine nuggets cf coal, and precious bottles, rich rags, priceless old shoes, and bones that were not to be sneezed at. They offered to trim the barges for nothing and board themselves if the city would let them pick out all the odds-and-cuds which they consid ered valuable. The offer was accepted. It was thought strango that they should work without compensation at wbat had hitherto been paid for. The city’s sweepings was a gold mine. Other men grew jealous of the privilege of working for nothing, and offered to pay the city if it,would permit them to trim the barges, and fish for the valuable debris from the ash-carts. New York was only too glad to sell its broken glass, old iron, wornout rubber shoes, battered tin cans, etc., and it put this money in its pocket, and let tho people who paid for the privilege shovel the swoopin'*. Two years ago a contractor paid $1127 a week, or $58,604 a year, for the right to fish in the city’s garbage-pile. The next contractor who bought the privilege paid $1502 a week, or $78,104 a year. The last contractor paid $1737 a week, or the enormous sum of $90,224 a year. The city’s navy has grown, and it now comprises forty-nine mud-scows of the most modem build and the most recent improvements. None of them can go twenty-two knots an hour, aud none are armor-plated, but they are not surpassed in number and style by tho navy of any other city. A big fleet of twenty -two of them put to son every morning and return to port every evening. They excite tho admira tion of everybody, and aie known as the “black squadron." The city owns twenty-one garbage piers, from which they sail. One hundred and five men from sunny Italy earned their living by sorting the farbage for the contractor, who paid 90,000 for the privilege. As they all have large families it was estimated that the bric-a-brac on the mud scows sup ported 500 m3n, women and children, besides paying $90,224 a year into the city treasury, and affording a handsome profit to the contractor. Inasmuch as the mon trimmed tho scows, performing work which would have cost tho city SIOOO a week, or $52,000 a year, the garbage heap poured into the lap of New York $142,224 a year. Few silver mines in the West pay such dividends. Nineteen pitrs in New York City have people living in them. They are the garbrge piers, and the people who have snapped their fingers at tee tenement houses and live rent-free are tho Italian gentlemen who trim the garbage boats. Their little homes beneath tho piers are furnished with bright bits of carpet taken from the garbage heap, and with various odds and ends which they have found there. Little pictures adorn the walls; there are chairs and tables, and each little home has a cheerful stove and a singing tea-kettle. There are no pianos and portieres as yet, but doubtless they will come after awhile. The janitors of the large office build ings of the city enjoy a great revenue from the unconsidered scraps of paper which are thrown on the office floors. These scraps are gathered up, put iuto bags and sold. Some janitors receive SSOO a year each from the sale of this waste paper. Old newspapers bring twenty-five cents a hundred pounds, or $2.50 a ton. Ordinary book paper and fine book paper bring one cent a pound, or S2O a ton. Scrap paper sells for one fourth of a cent a pound. During the Civil War it brought ten cents a pound, or forty times its present price. It is estimated that at least 10, COO men, women and children in New York City draw their daily bread from the ash barrels. They start out with bag and hook at 2 o'clock in the morning, whether in the soft, moonlit nights of summer, or the bitter, cold nights of winter. Every ash-barrel on their route is ex plored by them. No rag, bone, piece of iron or lead escapes them. They gather the rag in the street as it flies. By hard toil each earns from fifty to seventy-five cents a day. There are hundreds of rag shops and junk shops in tho city which buy and assort the rags. It is estimated that not less than 15,- 000 peeple are engaged as rag-pickers, junk dealers, clerks, bookkeepers, gar bage-pickers, contractors, etc, in mak ing a living out of what the psople of New York throw away. It is claimed that 50,000 people derive their living from the dust heaps and ash-barreis of the city.— Ntv> York Journal. SINGLE COPY 3 CENTS, RICHMOND l DANVILLE R. R. Atlanta and Charlotte Ur-Uae Division. Condensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. in Effect Jan. 17th, 1802. NORTHBOUND, No. 38. No. 10. „ .„ eastern TIME. Daily. Daily. Lv.Atlanta (E.T.) 125 pm 850 pm 9 00am Chamblee 927 pm 9 38am Norcross 939 pm 9 52am Duluth 9 51 pm 10 05am Snwanee 10 03 pm 10 16am Buford 10 17 pm 10 18am Flowery Branch 10 31 pm 10 40am Gainesville 259 pm 10 51 pm 11 08am DuU 11 18 pm 11 93am Demon n 21 pm 11 37am Cornelia 11 46 pm 12 06pm Mt. Airy 11 60 pm 12 11pm Toccoa. 12 20 am 12 41pm Westminster 12 58 am 1 22pm Seneca 117 am 147 pm Central 160 am 2 35pm Easleys 218 am 308 pm Greenville 605 pm 244 am 8 87pm Ore?™ 314 am 4 07pm WeUford 833 am 4 25pm . Spartanburg 657 pm 354 am 4 60pm Clifton 418 am 5 08pm Cowpens 418 am 5 12pm Gaffney 440 am 5 39pm Blacksburg 501 am 6 00pm Grover 511 am 6 11pm King’s Mount’ll 5.28 am 6 30pm Gastonia. 554 am 6 58pm Dowell 6 07aui 7 12pm Beltomont 814 am 7 24pm Ar. Charlotte 910 pm 640 am 7 50pm ROTTTHBOTTVn No. 37, No. 11, N0.9, oUUiHBOUND. Daily _ | DaUy DaUj-. Lv. Charlotte. 945 am 150 pm 220 am Bellemont 212 pm 242 am Lowell 223 pm 252 am Gastonia. 285 pm 804 am King’s Monnt’n 800 pm 827 am Grover. 8 16 pm 8 48 am Blacksburg 826 pm 353 am Gaffney 845 pm 4 10 am Cowpens 410 pm 442 am Clifton 4 13 pm 4 45 am Spartanburg ... 11 48 am 427 pm 500 am WeUford., 4 50pm 523 am Greers 500 pm 542 am Groenville 12 36 pm 534 pm 6 10 am Easloys. 607 pm 638 am Central 055 pm 7 30 am Soneca 722 pm 757 am Westminster. 7 41pm 817 am Toccoa 819 pm 855 am Mt. Airy 848 pm 928 am Cornelia 852 pm 927 am Bellton 916 pm 949 am Lula 918 pm 951 am GaineavUle 341 pm 942 pm 1C 16 am Flowery Branch 10 00 pm 10 40 am Buford 10 17 pm 10 52 am Suwance 10 83 pm 11 04 am Duluth 10 45 pm 11 15 pm Norcross 10 66 pm 11 28 am Chamblee 1108 pm 11 42 am Ar. Atlanta (E. TANARUS.) 505 pm 11 45 pm 12 20 pm Additional trains Nog. 17 and 18—Lula ac commodation, daily except Sunday, leaves At lanta 530 p m, arrives Lula 812 pm. Return ing, leaves Lula 600 am, arrives Atlanta 850 a m. Between Lula and Athens—No. 11 daily, ex cept Sunday, and No. 9 daily, leave Lula 8 80 p id, and 1140 am, arrive Athens 1015 p m ana 12 20 pm. Returning leave Athens, No. 10 daily, except Sunday, and No. 12 daily, 6 20 p m and 6 45 am, arrive Lula 8 05 p m and 8 30 a m. Between Toccoa and Elbcrton—No. 61 dai ly; except Snndav, leave Toccoa 100 pm arrive Elberton 440 pm. Returning, No. 60 daily, except Sunday, leave eElberton 5 00 a m and arrives Toccoaß 30 am. Nos. 9 and 10 carry Pullman Sleepers be tween Atlanta and New York. Nos. 37 and 38, Washington and Southwest ern Vostlbuled Limited, between Atlanta and Washington. On this train no extra fare is charged. Through Pullman Sleepers between New York and New Orleans, also between Washington and Memphis, via Atlanta and Birmingham. For detailed information as to local and through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep ing car reservations, confer with local agents, or address, JAS. L. TAYLOR, W. A. TURK, Gen’l Pass. Ag’t. Ass’t. Genl. Pass. Ag’t. Atlanta, Ga. Charlotte N. 0. O. P. HAMMOND, Superintendent. Atlanta, Ga: W. H. GREEN, SOL. HASS, Gen’l Manager. Traffic Manager, Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. Thf.be are said to be five countie* in Missouri and eleven in Arkansas, com prising a strip of country 125 miles square, that have no railroad oomtnuni catioa with the outside world, and are yet wonderfully rich in zino ore. This sec tion of the oountry lies south and west of the Memphis Railroad, north and west of the Iron Mountain, south and east of the St. Louis and San Francisoo, and north of the Arkansas River. The zinc carbonates of this region yield 83 per cent., and the “jaok” 60 per cent, of pure zino ore. A traveler, Mr. W. E. Win ner, of Kansas City, says that he found in the mountains a cave even larger than the Mammoth Cave. Tho manner of life of the people is extremely primitive. They live in log-houses without windows. Bacon is their main staple of diet. Saloons are unknown. They seldom work as long as they have food and to bacco in the house. But they are virtu ous, peaceable, and kindly disposed to the stranger. At tbe reoent International Congress of Hygiene the comparative mortality of persons in various professions between the ages of 25 and 65 was rated as fol lows: Ecclesiastics, 100; gardeners, 100; farmers, 114; grocers, 139; fishermen, 143; cabinet makers, 148; lawyers, 152; workers in silk, 152; mechanics, 155; merchants, 158; clothiers, 159; miners, 160; shoemakers, 166; commercial trav elers, 171; bakers, 172; millers, 172; upholsterers, 179: masons, 174; black smiths, 175; olerics, 179; road laborers, 185; workers in wool, 186; gunsmiths, 186; tailors, 189; hatters, 192: printers, 193; workers in cotton, 196; pnysicians, 202; atone quarry men, 202; binders, 210] butchers, 216; glassmakers, 214; plumbers, painters, etc., 216; cutters, 229. brewers, 246; cab drivers, 267; wine merchants, 274; potters, 804; Cornwall miners, 831; weavers, 388; ho tel boys. 897. A wonderful .development has been that of the ugiy waterproof to tho stylish ackiutosh.M