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Office up stairs in F. S. Singer
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e» B. BATTLE,
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Lumpkin, Ga.
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Jan. 1 1901.
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i Attorney at Law.
Lmnpkiu, Ga.
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Jan. 15-1900-tf.
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Jan. lst-1897.
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I,. W. Colson, Pastor.
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Kpworth League every Tuesday even
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Prayer-meeting every Wednesday
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Oil Wednesday evening before 1st Sun¬
day in each month.
Fast-day Service on Friday morning
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Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
an Monday afternoon after 1st Sun
s
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Monday afternoon after 2nd Sundays.
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RECORD OE CATACLSMS.
LIST OF SOME OF THE MOST
APPALLING IX HISTORY.
Few Exceed Martinique's Yol
ennie Eruptions and Earth¬
quakes from the l>uys of
Rays of Pompeii to
tire Present Time.
By comparing the figures in the
following with the latest repents
of the disaster in Martinique,which
is calculated to have cost 40,000
lives,it will he seen that this latest
catastrophe has taken a place in
the world's great calamities which
were due to natural causes. Front
the burial of l’ompeii and Hercu¬
laneum to tbe present time there
have been only two similar events
which were attended by greattr
loss of life. It has never been
learned how many persons perish
ed during the eruption of Vesu
v j us
Quesaltenango, .. ,, and , other cities ...
in Guatemala, April 19 1902—800
kilied by earthquake. ,
Chilpancingo, Mexico, ,, January x
‘
16, 1902—300 ,,, niU , dead; , , earthquake. . 1 ,
Shamaka, ... , „ Russian . franscauca
sin, February, 1902-200 killed ;
■
earthquake.
Erzeroum, ,, Armenia, . . November
12, 1901-22 killed; earthquake.
Mt. Koelet, Java, May 1901
About 200 killed; volcanic erup
j Mt. Azuma, Japan, July T , 1900-
200 killed or injured; volcanic
eruption.
island of Oram, East Indies, Oc
tober 10, 1999-4.000 killed; earth
Aidin, Asia Minor, September
20, 1899—300 killed ; earthquake.
Venezuela, April 24, 1894—3,000
killed; earthquake.
Southern Greece, April, 1894
„
1,000 killed ; earthquake.
Island of iloudu, Japan, Octo
her, 1891—10,000 killed; earth*
quako.
Charleston, S. C., August and
September, 1886—38 killed;
quakes.
Manna Loa, Hawaii, 1880—79
killed ; earthquake.
lsle of Ischia, 1883—2,000 kill
ed ; earthquake.
Krakatnn, Strait of Sundu, May
to August, 1888—80,380 killed;
volcanic eruption.
Djokjakarta, Java, 1807—1,000
killed; earthquake.
Island of Martinique, 1867—1,-
600 dead ; earthquake.
Calabria, Italy, 1857—10.000
killed; earthquake.
Fort Royal, Martinique, 1830—
700 dead ; earthquake.
Mt. Garon, Island of St. ViiD
cent, 1812—10,000 killed;
eruption.
Canton, China, May 27, 1830—
6,000 killed; earthquake.
Mt. Taal, Luzon, 1814-15,000
killed ; volcanic eruption.
Lisbon, Portugal, 1756—60,000
killed; earthquake.
Kuehan, North Persia, 1755-
40,000 killed; earthquake.
Canton, ,, China, . November .. . 30, „„
1/31— 1731 100000 10 0,°DC> killed- ki led1 earthquake. earthoimke
Palermo, Sicily, 1i26 0,000 kil
led ; earthquake.
Galicia, ’ Poland, 1268—20.000
. killed; , earthquake. ,
Svria, „ • Uo8—20,000 'lAfw-.i killed; u i earth .i
*
r| ";! 4
, „, r
, •i ei , eart . iqua , e.
,
Constantinople, ^
ool —
, Killed; , earthquake. , ,
Pompeii and Herculaneum, A.
2,000 to 5,000 killed ; vol
canic eruption.
One of the most destructive of
recent calamities produced by the
forces of nature was the Galveston
hurricane and flood, Sept. 8, 190t>,
in w hich 6,000 persons perished
and $30,000,000 damage was done
to property.
Some other flood disasters arc as
follows:
Hurt, Holland, April 17, ^ 1421,
100,000 victims. This was an in
U |,dation by the sea. Seventy-two
villages were destroyed.
Canton, China, October, 1833,
10,000 victims,
Toulouse, France, June, 1875,
victims.
^ Murcia, Spain, Oct. 16, 1879, 1,-
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Johnstown, ’ Pa., May J 81, 1889,
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History exhbits . few catastro
plies , more terrible than that which
1
was caused , , by ,, the great , earth- ,,
J 7
quake , which , , , on Nov. .. 1, ___ l/ob, , lev
’
the . c.ty , L of , Lisbon T . , to the dust.
On other occasions, such as that
of . a siege, a famine ... or a plague, ,
calamit .. y a PP roache8 . , de , « re8 ?;
and preparing them, as it
" ere > to 8U8ta,n " u , ,,crea8 ! u 8
weight of f misery; but t I here des
truction fell upon the devoted city
wilh thfi icllty of a flaah of
)ig|)t()ing A bright 8HI1 s)l one
OV er Lisbon on that fatal morn
. Th wentber wa8 a9 mi , (1 and
„ on a fiiw 8iunnier - s
day in America, when, about forty
niinutes past 9 in the morning, an
eart hq U ake shock, followed almost
immediately by another and tin
other, brought down convents,
churches, palaces and houses in
one common ruin, and at a very
moderate computation occasioned
tbe i ogs 0 f 60,000 lives. “The
shocking sight of the dead bodies,’’
says an eyewitness of the scene,
“together with the shrieks and
cries of those who were half buried
jn the ruins, exceeds all descrip
tiou; for the fear and consterna
lion were so great that the most
resolute person durst not stay a
moment to remove a few stones oil
the friend he loved most, though
many might have been saved by so
doing; but nothing was thought of
but self-preservation.”
Many of those who were not
crushed or disabled by thejaliing
buildings fled to the Tagus, vainly
hoping that they might find there
the safety which they had lost on
land. For, soon after the shock,
the sea also came rushing in like a
torrent, though against wind and
tide, and rising in an enormous
wave overflowed its banks, devour
i»g all it met on its destructive
l’ ath - Many large vessels sank at
» tbers ' t ' ,rn from the,r a,, ‘
chorH * disappeared m the vortex,
or - 8t,iki, ’S »g ai »»t ouch other,
wer<! 8l,ntt " red to P ,ecPH ' A
8tone 9 »ay, where about 8,
000 persons had assembled for
8nfet . y« 8,, .. ! , P« d , lllto . . the ., rlver ’ a,u! ,
one waa loBt; nor did so
, a 8ing ° l e bodv appear ai¬
, tprwnnl ,
„ Had , the . misery • ended , . , here it
might . , degree , have . admit- ...
m some
ted , of . redress, , for, - though ., , lives
could not he restored, yet a great
part of the immense riches that
| were in the ruins might have been
recovered; , , but . calamity , •, soon
a new
f|Ut an e ml to such hopes; for, in
abou t two hours after the shock,
^ rt , 8 |, r ,,ke out in three dillerent
parts of the citv, caused by
gonda ”j, lu „l the kitchen fires being
j um |,| M | together. About
(jm „ ( nlil| , f frW)1 , ga |„ smhh nly
* made the tire
sl)rill g illg up rage
wit |, 81K .|, v i„| ( , m . ( . dint at tlie end
of th ive days the greater part of
die city was reduced to ashes,
\p| ia [ die earthquake jiad spared
jfdl a prey to the (ire, and the
flames oiisumed llmlHillids of
tilated vfet im-, w ho, incapable ol
1 H'fjI'L ' a v *’"' 1 * 1 "’ ru ' 118
.
Tallapoosa, Ga., May 14.—
'dith Rowe, an icronaut, in making
! a balloon ascension here late
jterday afternoon, from a
! height of a hundred feet and was
almost instantly killed.
THREE XUW STATUS.
There is little doubt that the
bill fortlie adm.ssion to th» Union
of New Mexico, Arizona and Okla¬
homa, which has passed the house,
will prevail in the senate also be
loro the end of the present session
of congress.
Then of all the territories in the
United States proper, only the le¬
dian Territory will be left, and pe¬
culiar conditions render probable
the continuame of terraorial gov
eminent there fur an: indefinite
time to come.
The three territories for
admission the house bill provides
have been asking for statehood
persistently during the past five or
six years.
Thny put forward claims which
should have been recognized long
ago, anti would have been but lor
p irtisau considerations.*
Arizona and Now Mexico will
probably be Democratic suites,
while the Republicans have reason
to count on ' Oklahoma. If all
throe had been reliably Republi¬
can they would have been admit¬
ted several years ago.
Speaker Henderson used his of¬
ficial power and influeufce to stave
oil' tbe statehood bill, but the pres¬
sure became too heavy for him to
resist.
Every one of the proposed new
states lias a much larger popula¬
tion and other qualifications for
sovereignty much superior to those
of several of the states which were
brought into the Union several
years ago for the purpose of in¬
creasing the strength of the Re¬
publican party in the senate and
its vote in the electoral college, to
say nothing of Nevada; with her
los3 than 50,000 people.
All three of these territories are
growing steadily and will advance
much more rapidly when they be¬
come states.
These territories, it «eeins, are
about to get the justice for which
they have pleaded so long.—At¬
lanta Journal.
Washington, May 13.—An addi¬
tional appropriation of $300,000
was made by the Senate to-day for
the stricken people of the French
West Indian islands. The added
appropriation was made in accor¬
dance with the recommendation of
the President, who had asked that
the amount of relief be $500,000.
The joint resolution carrying the
appropriation was adopted with¬
out dehute.
Birmingham, Ala., May 13.—
President John Skelton Williams,
Vice-President J. W. Middemlorf
atui Vice-President J. M. Barr of
the Seaboard Air Line, who have
been here since Sunday, declined
to make known tbe object os their
visit, but it is intimated in rail¬
road circles that they are looking
over this field with a view of ex¬
tending their road from Atlanta
to Birmingham.
Port Au Prince, Hayti, May 13.
—Further fighting occurred in the
streets here before and after mid¬
night.
Some of tin- leaders of the revo¬
lution have retired to the United
States legation.
The situati-ui is very serious.
The whole |>< >|>u 1 atiot) is armed
aud insists on the immediate de¬
parture fortbe country of Form¬
er President Sam.
Thu Hague, May 11—The bulle
tins issued at Castle Loo concern
! ing the condition of Queen \Vilh< |
mina have be n reduced to one a
i ay, and it is > x pec ted that they
I will soon cease altogether.
I The marked improvement in
j Her Majesty’s < omlilion continues,
| and the constant attendance other
physicians is im longer necessary.
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liL iili'T DENOUNCE.! THE
8 1-2 Cents Cotton Charge
as Campaign Lie.
The employees of Commissioner of
Agriculture Stevens arc charging that
1 said "the farmers of Georgia could
raise cotton profitably at 3 Vi cents."
XUtw is lUo charge, anti 1 challenge
them to prove it lium anything that I
hllV(i ewer said or written. T' 1.0 words
which they Quote trout my interview of
1892 are the strongest proot of its fal
sity. I denounce Uiis aa a campaign
p 0i imre an j
(Copy.) Experiment, Ga., 189S.
To whom it may concern: 1 planted,
cultivated, gathered and weighed the
cotton trom one acre on the Georgia
Experiment Station farm, that has
caused so much talk, The acre made
L^a? pounds seed cotton at a cost of
not over 3cents per pound, lint.
Mottling is allowed lor interest, on the
money invested in the In.id, superln
tendency, or for wear and tear on
tools. Colonel Nesbitt had nothing to
do with it, he only published the re¬
sults of the experiment.
J. M. Kimbrough,
Agriculturist, Ga. Experiment Sta.
The fabric above shows how this
discussion originated. 1 commented
on this experiment and urged the
farmers, who were then buying most
of their corn and meat in the west, to
plant less cotton and more provisions,
and by judicious treatment to bring up
their lands to a higher state of pro¬
ductiveness, whereby thpir cotton
could he made a more profitable crop.
This is sound agricultural policy, as
every intelligent farmer knows, and
It Is those men who have followed this
plan that are our prosperous farmers
of today.
Mr. Stevens Keeps in the Back
Ground.
Mr. Stevens, according to Ills poli¬
cy in this campaign, keeps under cov¬
er. He has not the manliness to come
out in the open and make this fight.
1 have given him a fair opportunity
to answer certain questions in re¬
gard to his administration. The peo¬
ple and taxpayers of Georgia have a
right to these answers, but not one
has he given. Instead of this, he in¬
spires his inspectors, said to num¬
ber over one hundred, of whom over
thirty are connected with the daily
and weekly press of Georgia, to dis¬
criminate false charges, while lit)
makes a voluminous “announcement’ 1
In order to cloud the public mind and
obscure certain damaging facts.
Misleading Figures.
Mr. Stevens professes in tills "an¬
nouncement" to give an account of his
stewardship, but loaves out the most
important feature, namely, the re¬
ceipts. The records show that in 1900-
1901, the years under consideration,
the receipts from oils and fertilizers
were the largest in the history of the
department, They were $31,324.05
more tliau in the past two years of my
administration and yet Mr. Stevens
shows a net increase to the state of
only $10,135.1)5. Where lias the differ
cnee of $21,190.00 been expended? His
numerous, and many of them unneces¬
sary, appointees, have to be paid, and
this money has to be used for this
purpose.
Any one at all familiar with the in¬
spection of fertilizers knows that a
limited number of faithful, industrious
men can fully and thoroughly cover the
state, and obtain ample and repeated
samples of every brand on the mar¬
ket. Mr. Stevens acknowledges to
thirty-odd, and he only knows how
many more there may be. What is
the purpose of these appointments,
to protect the farmers in their use of
commercial fertilizers, or to build up
the Commissioner's personal Interests?
The people will hold Mr. Stevens to a
strict accountability for squandering
on useless employees, this money,
which by right belongs to the school
fund.
Analysis of Mr. Stevens’ Oil Figures.
The $26,810.34. which Mr. Stevens
shows that I placed in the treasury in
’97-98, was absolutely net—-it all went
to the school fund. Mr. Stevens claims
that the $23,420:89 paid by him into the
treasury in 1900-1901 was also not, but
this Is misleading. An examination of
the Comptroller General’s reports will
show that the salary and traveling ex¬
penses of a state oil inspector,* whom
Mr. Stevens has saddled upon the peo¬
ple, amounting to $2,305.10 and also
$7,500.00 for the Horticulture Depart¬
ment, amounting to $9,805.10 in all was
drawn out, leaving for the school fund
$13,605,79, as against my $26,810.34.
Large Sums Saved to tbe State.
During my administration, by the
most careful reforms in the manage¬
ment of the Agricultural Department,
and economy in disbursements, I
saved to the State:
In Clerk hire ............$ 8,000 00
In inspection of Oils, over.. 100,000 00
Ite-stainping Tags ..... 1,600 00
Returned from appropriation 4,000 00
$113,600 00
Besides those sums, thousands of
dollars were placed to the school fund
by the changes which 1 made in the
appointment of fertilizer inspectors
and the reduction of their salaries.
There salaries were reduced from
$1,500 to $1,000 per annum, and in¬
stead of keeping the entire force of
inspet tors or., only four served the full
term, the others served only as need¬
ed. Ui.til tliesa changes were made
the entire force was on duty continu
ally, often when there was nothing
for them to do, at a coat to the stats
of $ 1,500 a year each.
Where Are Any Reforms or Retrench¬
ments of Mr. Stevens’ Admin¬
istration 1
Whore can Mr. Stevens point to a
single retrenchment or reform? Indeed
one of his first public utterances,
ter he was Installed Commissioner,
published in an interview in Savan
nali, was that there should bo a larger
appropriation to the Department? Mr.
Stevens pays less for tags, and his
receipts for two years are till,324.61
greater than mine, yet ne spends $23.
000 more. s At the present rate of in¬
crease, if he is kept in office long
enough, the receipts of the Depart¬
ment will be absorbed by himself and
lUs appointees.
Money Taken from the School Fund
for Unnecessary Fertilizer In
spectors.
I have asked Mr. Stevens in an
open letter how many fertilizer inspec¬
tors he has employed, their salaries,
places of residence, etc. The tax
payers of Georgia have a right to this
information, and up to the time of Mr.
SteX-ens taking charge it was always
published in the reports of the Agri¬
cultural Department. Not only has
Mr. Stevens failed to publish this lisr,
but he has failed to answer my ques¬
tions, and when other parties have
also asked for this information he has
on various pretexts refused to give it.
The surplus from the tax on fertil¬
izers, from which tax these inspectors
are paid, should go to the school fund.
Therefore unnecessary inspectors at
salaries of $S3.33 per month and trav¬
eling expenses, aggregating several
thousand dollars, take that much from
the teachers of the state, who are com¬
pelled to wait for their hard-earned
wages: while the Commissioner of Ag¬
riculture uses this much of the school
money to pay his political debts. ,
Questions at to Inspection of Oils not
Answered.
Instead of answering my questions
as to oils, Mr. Stevens publishes that
he has had but ten complaints of poor
oils! In traveling over the state I
am told that complaint after complaint
has been sent to inspectors, with sam¬
ples of oil for analysis, and the offi¬
cial reply Is that the oil is all light,
but the lamps must be washed and the
wicks trimmed! At more than ouo
point I find that inspectors have em¬
ployees of the oil companies to take
the sample from the tank car and car¬
ry it to their officers for inspection,
and that instead of re-inspecting this
oil, after it is drawn from the tank and
placed in tire barrels bearing their of¬
ficial stamp, as the law expressly re¬
quires. they leave tho entire matter
In the hands of the oil companies.
Right here the only protection left to
the people under the Stevens oil law
has been continuously ruthlessly vio¬
lated, and I'ne oil companies have so
improved their opportunity that they
have put several millions of extra dol¬
lars into their coffers, while all peo¬
ple who have to use oil, more especial¬
ly large numbers of school children,
have to suffer the consequences of
poor lights, while wc pay the highest
price for the villianous compound.
It. T. Nesbitt.
MR. O. B. STEVENS
And His Discreditable Political Meth¬
ods. He Should Know That One
Swallow Does Not Make a
Summer.
Mr. O. U. Stevens is known through¬
out the State as the unrivaled "Prom¬
iser,” to which title should now he
added another, namely: the boastful
“claimant.” He lias recently claim¬
ed Jackson, Banks, Franklin, Union,
Towns, Rabun and Forsyth counties,
and thereupon announces that he
feels as good as if lie had no opposi¬
tion. He even says he feels quite en¬
couraged over his prospects in Cobb!
If Mr. Stevens ever served in the
Confederate army, which 1 doubt, he
should know what a corporal’s guard
is, which is about his strength in Cobb
county. One inspector, one promised
inspector, and one disappointed poli¬
tician, with a few personal mends, con¬
stitute His following. If there is no
uioie truth in his claims of this and
other counties than in his promise of
jobs, tile people know how much faith
to put in thorn.
Mr. Stevens and Ills hirelings are
now charging Colonel Nesbitt with
aaj uig Unit rarmers throughout Geor¬
gia could ra se cotton at cents a
pound. This is an old threadbare lie,
the ijusity ol wuicli has been proven
aga.u aud again. These demagogues
rnai.e tins charge In the hope of divert¬
ing pa n.o ulteut.oa from tne still uu
an_acred questions, addressed to Mr.
Stev-i.s by Colonel Nesbitt.
Colonel Nesbitt is conducting a
clean raid open campaign, just as he
conducted a clean aud open admin¬
istration, both of whieu stand in mark¬
ed contrast to Mr, Lu .ei e discredit¬
able mttl.OuS. He no secret
night visits to Mr. Stov-ena’ homo coun
ty U behove Mr. ti. < hums three
"homo" counties), and :.:.eu no poiiti
eai tools to hold secret nighi meetings
with a view of disseminating false
hoods and poisoning the public mind,
Tho soul of an honest man revolts at
the spectacle of a high state official
descending to the dirty methods of a
ward poltth ian. Farmer.
Atlanta Journal, April 30th.
Terms, $1.00 Per Annum
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strong points makes the New Home
the best Sewing Machine to buy.
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we manufacture and prices before purchasing
THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO.
ORANGE, MASS.
28 UnionSq. N. Y., Chicago,Ill., Atlanta, On.,
fet. Louis, Mo., Dallas,Tex., Ban Francisco, Cal
FOR SALE BY
T. L. Ufa .vi .\i E1 L
THE COMMUTER.
Bow Be Spend* HU Ilonr* of Hally
Rallruad ’Traveling;.
The much abused suburbanites,
whom the cartoonists picture as com¬
ing to the city every morning from
“Lonesomehurst," “Lost Man’s Lane,”
“I’runehurst-by-the-Trolley” and other
places with equally suggestive names,
are an interesting class of individ¬
uals. The transient clement of the
city’s population spends several hours
every day whirling over the railroads.
When the novelty of these dally bits
of railroading has passed into Hie
monotony of years of travel through
the same country the commuter has
learned to make the best of the time
he spends on the train.
The “card Qend” is a prominent fig
nre In this class. Doth morning and
evening four or five games of cards
are going on In every smokijer ear. aud
It Is safe to say that (lions;*fds of dol¬
lars change hands in this “innocent
amusement" while the players are hur¬
rying to or from business.
Next to the "card sharp” Is the man
who only enjoys his cigar and paper,
lie is oblivious to all Ills surround¬
ings and only shows animation when
he is at his journey's end.
Many of the policies and plans of
some of this city's most successful
business men have been horn or de¬
veloped on these trains. The short
respite between the lmstle of the city
and the cares of home life i.» to this
type of man a season for meditation.
Anosher interesting commuter Is the
Individual who is on good terms with
all his fellows. lie travels up and
down through the ear exercising his
repertory of latest Jokes or sympa¬
thizing with some gloomy looking
friend who thinks that all the world
is against him. He seems to never
grow weary In his well doing.
The train life of the commuter Is now
and then enlivened by wrecks. Though
tossed about and sometimes cm and
bruised, he generally escapes serious
Injury. Such experiences as these ho
considers the spice and coloring of his
existeuee.—New York Mail and Ex¬
press. -
COLOR OF GOLD COINS.
UcuHeiiM For Differences In l’lnt ot
Coins ot French Mintage.
Some time ago a French man placed
together a number of gold coins of
French mintage of the beginning, mid¬
dle and end of the last century. lie
was much surprised lo see that, they
differed In color. lie set alHiiit finding
out the reasons for this difference, aud
the results of his investigations have
been published In La Nature.
There is a paleness about the yellow
of the 10 and 20 franc pieces which
hear the effigies of Napoleon I and
Louis XVI11 that is not observed in
the goidplcces of later mintage. One
admirer of those coins speaks of their
color as a "beautiful paleness" aud ex¬
presses regret that it is lacking in later
coins. The explanation of It is very
simple. The alloy that entered into the
French gold colus of those days con¬
tained as much silver as copper, and it
was tlie silver that gave the coins their
interesting paleness.
The coins of the era of Napoleon ill
were more golden in hue. The sliver
had been taken out of tbe alloy.
The gold colus of today have a still
warmer and deeper tinge of yellow.
This is because the Paris mint, as well
ns that in London, melts the gold and
the copper alloy in hermetically scaled
boxes, which prevents the copper from
being somewhat bleached, as it always
is when ii Is attacked by hot air. So
the present coins have the full warrn
oess of tint that a copper alloy can
give.
If the coins of today are not so band
some In the opinion of amateur collect¬
ors as those Issued by the first Napo¬
leon. they are superior to those of ei¬
ther of ilie Napoleons in the fact that
it costs less to make them. The double
operation of the oxidation of the copper
and cleaning It off the surface of the
coin with acids is no longer employed,
and the large elimination of copper
from the surface of the colus. formerly
practiced, made them less resistant un¬
der wear and tear than are the coins
now In circulation.
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