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t Spring Place Jimplecute. CARTER & HEARTSELL, Proprietors. VOLUME XI. COL M’CLORE AND NICOLAY. Th» Editor Not OuupHmeatar; to Tbe Bl ognplMr Philadelphia, July 8.—The fol¬ lowing editorial of Col. McClure will appear in to-morrow’s Times: ’’The ignorance exhibited by John G. Nieoluy in his public telegram to the widow of ex-Vice President Ham¬ lin is equaled only by his arrogance in assuming to speak for Abraham Lin¬ coln in matters about which Nicolay was never consulted and of which he had no more knowledge than any oth er routine elerk about the White House. “1 do not regret that Nicolay has rushed into a dispute that must lead to the clear estalishinent of llie exact truth as to the political death ot Ham¬ lin in 1864,- It will surely greatly impair, if not destroy, Nicolay’s hitherto goner ally accepted claim to accuracy as tbe biographer of Lincoln, but ne can complain of none but bimself. “I saw Abraham Lincoln at all hours of the day and night during liis presi¬ dential services, and he has himself abundantly testified to the trust that existed between us. Having had the direction of his battle in the pivotal state of tbe Union, he doubtless ac¬ corded me more credit than 1 merited as tbe only success in politics and war is success; and the fact that I never sought or desired honor or profits from his administration, and never embar¬ rassed him with exactions of any kind, made our relations the most grateful memories of my life. “In all of the many grave political emergencies arising from the new and , often appalling duties imposed by in ' ternecine war, I was one of those call¬ ed to the inner counsels of Abraham Lincoln. He distrusted his own judg¬ ment in politics and was even careful to gather the best councils from all the varied shades of opinion and inter¬ est to guide him in his conclusions and there were not only scores of confer¬ ences in the White House, of which John G. Nicolay never heard, but no man even met or heard of John G. Nicolay in such counsels ” The editorial then says Nicolay was a good mechanical clerk, but utterly inefficient as the president’s private secretary. President Lincoln Nicolay saw, but never Abraham Lincoln. Nicolay’s biography is invaluable as to Lincoln’s public acts, but every line of private biography has unpardona¬ ble errors. Continuing, the editorial says: “I now regret that in obedience to a telegrahie request from President Lin¬ coln, I visited him at the White House t he day before the meeting of the Bal tirnore convention of 1804. At the in¬ terview Lincoln earnestly explained why the nomination of a well known Southern gentleman like Andrew Johnson, who had been congressman, governor and senator by the favor of his state, would not only nationalize the Republican party as the govern¬ ment, but would greatly lessen the grave peril of the recognition of the Confederacy by England and France. He believes . that the election to the vice-presidency of a representative statesman from an insurgent state that had been restored to the union would disarm the enemies of the republic abroad and remove the charge of sec¬ tionalism from the government that seemed to greatly hinder peace. No Intimation, no trace of prejudice against Hamlin was exhibited, and I well knew that no such consideration could have influenced Lincoln in such an emergency. Had he believed Ham¬ lin to be a man who could best pro¬ mote the great work whose direction fed solely upon himself, he would have f avored Hamlin’s nomination regard¬ less of his personal wishes, but he be¬ lieved that the! great public achieve¬ ment would be attained by the elec¬ tion of Johnson and 1 returned*to Bal¬ timore to work and vote for Johnson, although against all my personal pre¬ dictions in the matter. Nicolay’s letter from Baltimore to Hay asking whether Leonard Swett was ‘all right’ in urging Judge Advo¬ cate General Holt’s nomination and Lincoln’s reply, ‘Swett is unquestlona bly all right,’ cited by Nicolay as proof that he bad admission to the conven¬ tion,” the editorial says, “shows Nico- 1 ay was not in Lincoln’s confidence, for Leonard Swett was of all Jiving men the most trusted by Lincoln. Swett and 1 both labored to nominate John¬ son and Swett made Holt, an impossi¬ ble candidate, fail to divide Hamlin’s Supporters. “Had Lincoln desired Hamlin’s nomi Swett would have desired and labored for it, and Hamlin would have been renominated on the first ballot. The convention was a Lincoln body pure and simple, and no man conld have been put on the ticket with Lin¬ coln who was not known to be his choice. It wee not proclaimed, but 4 SPRING PLACE, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1891, was In the air, and pretty intach every¬ body but John G. Nicolay scented and bowed to it. “Of the few men who enjoyed Lin¬ coln’s complete confidence, Char les A. Dana was conspicuous, and his state¬ ment, given in another column, is as credible testimony as conld now be given on the subject. He was trusted by Lincoln in the most delicate mat. ters, politically and military, and he logically tells of Johnson’s ‘selection by Lincoln,’ for the vice-presidency in 1864. With Dana’s direct cot robora tion of my statement added to the strongly corrobated facts herein given, I may safely dismiss John G. Nicolay and the dispute his mingled ignorance and arrogance has thrust upon me. LINCOLN FAVORED HAMI.IN. Chicago, July 8 — Burton C. Cook, of Chicago, who was chairman of the Illinois delegation in the Republican convention of 1864 and who nominated Lincoln in that convention for re elec¬ tion, declared, in' an interview this evening, that Lincoln favored Hanni¬ bal Hamlin for the vice presidency. Cook says: “Although Lincoln had not told me directly he bad given me to so under¬ stand, aud the fact is further proven by the action of the entire Illinois delegation, which was a unit for Ham¬ lin, understanding that We were at Lincoln’s service in tbe matter.” EXECUTED BY fc L-.iiTRIcn Y. Fonr Criminals Snft'-r th* Extreme P«*n> alty o< the Law Sing Stno, N. Y., July 7.— The four condemned murderers who ware put to death by electricity to-day were Jugiro, the who murdered another Japa¬ nese sailor ni a New York boarding house; James J Sic cum, the ex-baseball player, who murdered bis wife; Harris A. Srniler, who killed one of his wives; and Joseph Wood, eoloied, who murder¬ ed a fellow workman. The apparatus was put in place and everything in readiness f it giving the new method of execution a new teat and a better one than was afforded in the Kemmler horror. The death chair stood in the middle of the room and ih> re was nothing about it to indicate the purpose ior which it was to be used. The tbctric contrivances and their attendants were in an adjoin¬ ing room The wires from tbe electro podfB running along the walls and floor from the execution room into tbe room where the switch-board was situated. Behind the chair and out of sight was a little push button, just like the buttons to tie seen everywhere in dailv use for ordering messenger boys, signalling for waitcisor ringing for elevators. It is the gentle pushing of this button by the forefinger of the warden that sets in motion the apparatus of death, which is of the simplest construction imagina¬ ble. The dynamo that supplies the electricity was run by a steam engine 1,000 feet from the electrocution room. The current having been conducted from the dynamo to tile room next to that of the death eliair was tested by a voltmeter and by two dozen electric lamps, to be sure that it was over a thousand volts in strength, and thus able to destroy, in a painless and in¬ stantaneous way, the life of a prisoner. The approxomate time of turning on the current in each case was: Slocum, 6:40; Smiier, 5:10; Jugiro, 6:05, Tbe prisoners had received seme in¬ formation beforehand that the execu¬ tions were to take place this morning and they were prepared. They went to tbe execution chair bravely and met their fate without a struggle. They offered no resistance, but rather assis¬ ted the keepers when they were bound down in the chair. Tbe electrodes were not applied as in the Kemmler case, to the top of the skull and base of the spine, but were bound to the foreheads of the con¬ demned men and the calves of their legs. The current was turned on in each instance for twenty seconds. The vol¬ tage was about 1,600 and 1,800. In e ach case there were apparent eviden¬ ces of revival—as in the Kemmler case —and in each of these four cases the current vas turned on a feeoi.d tin e. In spite of tbe fact that the sponges were kept constantly wet all of the ex¬ ecuted men were burned by the cur¬ rent and especially about the calves of their legs. The medical men present agree that death came with the first contact, and that the seeming revival was mere re¬ flex muscular action, None of the witnesses were over¬ come by fright and all who have spoken have made the statement that the electrodes were successful and d eath, in all cases, was instantaneous and painless. Talk about going away to watering places in the summer for fishing and hunting, we have the lakes in tbe rainy season, and splendid, dense and almost inpenetrable knoweth forests not what on our kind streets that one of game mod wild beasts inhabit. (( TELL THE TRUTH. ” THt PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY. Rapid lucre*** ot Plaeappi* Culture on Lower Indian Klve?. From the Florida Star. That section of Indian river where “What shall the harvest be?” is never asked, as the pineapple is the fruit grown to the exclusion, almost, of everything else, deserves more than a passing notice at this time, Mi the growing interest in pine¬ apples in every part of the country and u few notes of what is going on and the general look of the section made by the writer, while on a busi¬ ness trip recently, may he of some interest to your more slay at home readers. ; It is some seven years since we had tho pleasure of first visiting In¬ dian river south of .Fort Pierce, and we recollect the feeling of loneliness one hsd in sailing along, seeing a house only at rare intervals, and t hese few and far hot wr en. The clearings round each place, as a rule, mere patches, and such as they were invariably called, pineapple patches. Of course, there were on>* or two ex¬ ceptions, notably the place of Mr. T. Richards, at Eden, who had some eight or nine acres in cultivation at that time, and one looked at his, at that time, (xtensive patch with about the same eyes as he would gaze .on his famous old sharpie Z phyr, the largest boaton the river and con¬ sidered a great boat in those days. But changed, indeed,is the pineapple section and changed for the better. Gone are the days when the careless but happy bach would leave his patch on tbe least pretext to go hunt fishing, or visit Titusville lor grub and it might be a little more social intercourse than was to be had so fur south at that time. The change, even in the appear¬ ance of the people, is very marked, and it seems to the writer, that the men look younger and are more cheerful than in the good old days— but the cause of this is easily seen. The patches round each home have grown into parks or plantations and with increased knowledge of the cul¬ tivation and packing of Ihe fruit as well as improved transportation, a deep-sealed conviction has come to nearly every grower that he has a “good thing.” and could hardly find a better if he tried to. The result of which is to make him hold on to his land in cultivation an! keep adaing to it as his means will permit. This every settler in the section is doing, and they have no desire to sell im¬ proved property. 11 has been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is big money in pineapples, and now that northern capitalists and men of means, who from choice or necessity on account of their health, have come to stay permanently on Indian river find that they can enjoy health, com¬ fort, a paying investment for their capital and congenial employment in the culture of this fruit, we may not unreasonably expect that the pineapple growers will have a very large accession to their numbers iu the near future. The acreage in pines will be more than doubled and prob¬ ably trebled this year and this is hardly more than a beginning. Should the preseLt activity in clear¬ ing up land and planting It in pines continue for any length of time,and who can doubt t ut it will, all the land available for this fruit will not, if cultivated, overdo the business. Not only are there sections of the country, west and north, where, if seen at all, a pineapple is a curiosity, hut there is a large field open in can¬ ning tLe fruit which, as yet, has not been touched. Then, again, the medicinal properties of the truit are, as yet, hut imperfectly known. As an aid to the digestion it is, when cut ripe from the plant, so good that it would ruin the average boarding house keeper to have it constantly on tbe table; then, in cases of diph¬ theria, it is being used by some of the first physicians in Atlanta and other large cities of the South with very gratifying results; so that, in view of ils more general use as a medical agent as well as its increas¬ ing popularity as a fruit for general use, any fears that its over-produc¬ tion is likely are without foundation in fact. The pineapple will thrive on a variety of soils but not on shell land. On high hammock it does well, but on hickory and oak scrub it probably does tbe best. For a preference, level, well-drained land should be selected. In preparing tbe land for pineapples there must beg xxl deal oi careful-work done. It should be thoroughly grubbed, harrowed, roll¬ ed and all the stumps dug out. After planting thoSsJips the general prac lice is to scatter cotton seed meal broadcast. Some of which settles in the crown and on the leaves of each plant and gradually forming a paste prevents sand from blowing into the crown and chocking up the young plant. Aa to the profits in piueapple growing there is no hart! and fast line one may go by. If you buy an article for a dollar and sell it for $1.38j >oa know you have 25 per cent, on your turn over. But if two individuals buy ;land adjoining, of the same quality, and each plant an acre in pineapples at the same cost, say for grubbing, plants, planting ana fertilizer, Ibr two years, the average co 4 of which is from $2<i0 to $800, one may roceivi for his in¬ vestment $500, while the other may only get $300 and lie might get $750. No two men have exactly the same experience, owing to any one of a number of dunes. It may ne in packing the fruit after Jetting it lie and getting heateFiu the sun,careless packing, it may be sent to a com¬ mission man whq has more fruit than he can handlo to good advantage, or a variety of other muses too numer¬ ous to mention. Like every other business, attention to detail is well repaid in this, abd the more careful one is with every phase, from plant¬ ing to stenciling the crates loa ship’ ment, the more profitable will the pineapple business tie. One grower on this river who has made pineapples a hoboy for the past six or seven sears has made from barely three- eightns of an acre from $200 to |3iiO each yrar. Last, year he got, net, for his crop $276. Orange growing Is his business, but his jiineappies arje his pets. f It cannot be denied that pineapples are occasionally injured even here by frost. A very plight frost does it, Nil, uevcrtlythese drawbacks Intelligent only serve to make the and progressive grower keep a brigher lookout and make him more careful in every detail of the busi¬ ness, and in no way does it deter men who have looked into the matter carefully, from investing their capi¬ tal and woik in this fascinating oc¬ cupation. The occasional slight frosts that do occur can beavtried by smoke. Some growers having largo iron pots placed at intervals in their field-, ready charged with light wood knots,far ar>d rubbish,that will create a dense smoke, so that, should the thermometer go down to nearly freezing point, they are ready to light up and so eicapo injury. In some pari- ol Michigan, ana else¬ where north, bricks made of pressed sawdust and tar are used for this very purpose. There are other ap¬ pliances, and doubtless some of the growers will, ere another season comes round, be so well prepared for Jack Frost that they will be indiffer¬ ent whether he tays them a visitor not GET A HOME. Get a home or place where your family caw reside, and a place v, here your wife or daughter can plant flowers; feel and know that it is for herself and family, and no landlord dare claim a superior rignt. Where ev ery shade tree that is set out, every fruit tree that you plant is intended for you and jours to rest be¬ neath its boughs and pluck fruit from its limbs, and w. >re your children play and feel joyful, be, use it is home. A place where every nk ”ou drive, every board that is fastened o. is for you and yours; a place that none dare enter with¬ out your consent, from which no man can driveyou; a home though an humble one, to its'owner a paradise, a fortress, a place of pleasure and stronghold. Though the acres may be few, yet no rent is to be paid, no moving from year to year Home is the place of happiness. Let it be a permanent one, where the longer you remain the more endeared it becomes to the family. It is the home of the nation that brings forth patriot¬ ism. With each fixed home stands linked tbe love of the country, the de¬ sire of its well being and prosperity. It has been well and truly said by an American that tho homes of Americans constitute her standing army. Florida Encampment. Tallahasse. Fla., July 8. —Gover¬ nor Fleming has ordered the Florida State troops, eleven companies of infan¬ try and one battery, into annual en¬ campment at 8t, Augustine foom July to 28. BEAUTY OP FORM. The Chftvin of Proportion In Both Man and Woman. Beauty of the human form is to-day exactly what it was in ancient Greece; It is the same through all the centuries, however blind we are to its characteris¬ tics through ignorance. The census of ages is a true verdict, and classic forms become safe models. Greek sculpture was wrought when the body received its highest cultivation, and was so beautiful a: to be called divine. This sculpture should be carefully and continuously studied, as well as pictures of good nude figures. They are to be made familiar, that one may learn why they are good, why they deserve admira¬ tion. Most people fancy that they ad¬ mire these classic models, but it must be in imagination only, else why should they allow themselves to exemplify false standards of form, and positively distort their own God given bodies 7 Searching for the highest standards of human form, we discover that manly beauty and womanly beauty differ es¬ sentially. It is agreed that the type of manly proportions includes a compara¬ tively large head, wide shoulders, rather square, a torso tapering to a contracted pelvis; while the whole may be 7 1-2 heads in height, or an additional half head added to the length of the legs, giv¬ ing a particularly elegant figure. On the other hand, fine proportions for a woman are a small head, shoulders rather sloping and narrow, the torso full and widest at the hips; while the front line from the sternum over the abdomen should show first a gentle, and then a full outward curve. The conventional figure of the day is at variance with this type. Every effort is made to imitate masculine characteristics. The shoulders are thrust up high and square, or made to appear so, the torso is made to taper in, and everything under heaven is done to make the waist look small. The front line is forced to take an inward curve below the bust, and the side lines to form an awkward angle, in the hollow of win oh voluminous skirts are hung. One should study sculpture with the new knowledge of these proportions most thoughtfully, till the rhythm of the lines has fastened itself upon the memory. Studying of'every the pictures of the best artists age, wo shall find these princi cles everywhere demonstrated. The charm of womanly proportion is in the long curve from armpit to ankle, which is so different from the beauty ot a manly figure. The depression at the so called waist line—only the meeting of two large muscles which In a beautiful woman should be slight—would better be ignored in the clothing for the sake of the greater beauty of the whole sweep. It is to be understood that the long curves are made up of shorter contours, one gently melting into another. A form made up of graceful sweeps alone would be a weak, nerveless, insipid thin;. These proportions should be so under¬ stood and so thoroughly appreciated as to be always in mind, else a beautiful human form will not be recognized. Use physical exercises to attain the perfec¬ tion of these curves. Hang pictures showing them where they may grow into your thoughts.—[Harper’s Bazar. The Throat’s Independent Brain. “Did you ever know,” said a well known specialist, aa he deftly inserted a looking glass into the roof of the suf¬ ferer’s mouth, “that the throat has a brain of its own ? No ? I suppose few of the laity do know it, but it’s a fact. There is a small ganglia which exercises direct control over the muscles of the throat and acts as its brain. Of course, it is subservient to the genuine brain, but at the same time does a good deal of in¬ dependent thinking for itself. It is very timid and suspicious at any strange ob¬ jects that come near the throat. For this reason it is very difficult for a phy¬ sician to operate on the throat. Before anything can be done in this direction it is necessary for the operator to gain the confidence of the little brain that dom¬ inates it. It frequently takes weeks be¬ fore this confidence can be secured, and until it is secured it is impossible to oper¬ ate. When the little brain is finally made to understand that no harm is in¬ tended it, but that the physician is actu¬ ated by friendly motives, it will submit to almost any treatment, however pain¬ ful. “But woe be to the man who attempts rough treatment to the throat before the little brain’s confidence, and spite of its protests. His operations be resented with violent paroxysms, of tbe throat, then of the diaphragm, if the operator still persists, the pa¬ will be thrown into convulsions more curious is the fact that thin brain has a memory, and if once in this way it is almost iiru to ever gain its confidence, no how gentle the operator may be. “I don’t know whether its distrust extend to other operators than the who frightened it or not. I think I try the experiment some time of whether it can remember face*. * Press. An Electrical Saw. It has been noticed that platinum, placed in an electrical current, is to a dull redness. This fact is basis of the invention of an electrical which will cut quickly and neatly hardest wood. The device is made of steel wire, upon is deposited metallic platinum. connecting this modified wire with terminals of four Hansen batteries platinum is heated t> a bright re*> jytot .immma&x*- • One Dollar a Year. NO. 26- LESSONS Dl HYDRAULICS. Trcmendou. Power of Water Under High Vertical Pressure. Justice Field, of the Supreme Court, at a dinner party at W ashington aston¬ ished the distinguished guests present, including the President, the Chief Jus¬ tice, and Speaker Reed, by statements he made, based on his California experience, of the power of water in motion, as il¬ lustrated by hydraulic mining. Justice Field, giving ex-Senator Fair, of Nevada, as authority, stated that under a vertical pressure of 100 or 200 feet, the force of the stream is sometimes so great as to hurl away or hold boulders weighing a thousand pounds; and that it would be no more possible to cut through such a stream with a crowbar or an axe, where it issued from the nozzle, than to sever eight inches of solid iron with a penknife. The distinguished guests were incredu¬ lous, and Justice Field promised to col¬ lect evidence in support of his statements that would satisfy the doubters. He has done so, and the New York Sun has had the opportunity of collating some of the wonders of practical hydraulics gathered by Justice Field. We think they will astonish the general reader who has paid little attention to this branch of me¬ chanics. Mr. Louis Glass, for 16 years the super¬ intendent of the Spring Valley mine, as¬ sures Justice Field that he has seen an 8 inch stream, under 311 feet of vertical pressure, move in a sluggish way a 2 ton boulder at a distance of 20 feet from the nozzle; and that the same stream strik¬ ing a rock of 500 pounds would throw it as a man would thru .v a 20 jwund weight. “No man that ever lived," adds Mr.. Louis Glass, “could strike a bar through one of these streams within 20 feet of discharge; and a human being struck by such a stream would be killed—pounded into a shapeless mass. ” Mr. Augustus J. Bowie, of San Francisco, the author of a standard book on hydraulic mining, estimates that the stream from a 6 inch nozzle, under 450 feet vertical pressure, delivers a blow of 588,735 foot pouuds every second, equivalent to 1,070 horse power. “It is absolutely impossible,” says Mr. Bowie, “to cut such a stream with an axe or to make an impression on it with any other implement. ” Mr. Bowie adds that, although never to his knowledge has a man been struck by such a stream aa it comes from the pipe, several accidents have occurred where miners were killed by very much smaller streams at distances of 150 or 200 feet from the nozzle. After elaborate series of computations, Professor Samuel B. Christy, of the University of California, an eminent authority on mining and metallurgy, reports to Justice Field fclliit/—— “If a nozzle of from six to nine inches diameter were specially arranged to throw a stream vertically upward against a spherical boulder of quartz weighing 1,000 pounds, the vertical head being any¬ where from 100 to 500 feet, the boulder would be forced up until the diminished velocity of the stream established an equilibrium of procure. There would bo a point at which the upward pressure of the stream would exactly balance the gravity pressure of the boulder, holding it, the half ton rock, there suspended. In practice, of course, the boulder could not be balanced accurately upon the axis of the stream, but would fall to one side or the other. But if a large conical bas¬ ket of iron bars Were arranged about the nozzle so as to catch the boulder when¬ ever it should be deflected from the stream and return it to the u. zzle.the 1,000 pouuds of ball quartz in fountain. would be kept in play like a a As to cutting these streams, Professor Christy says that he has often tried to drive a crowbar into one of them. The stream felt as solid as a bar of iron, and, although he f couldfeel the point of the crowbar enter the water for perhaps half an inch, the bar was thrown forward with such force that it was almost impossible to retain it in the grasp. An axe swung by the most power¬ ful man alive could not penetrate the stream; yet it might be cut by the finger of a child, if the child were seated on a railway train moving parallel with the stream in the same direction and with the same velocity. That velocity would be considerably more than a mile :> minute.” Good Words for Girls, Your mother is your best friend. i 5 Have nothing to do with girls who •nub their parents. Tell the pleasantest things you know When at meals. Do not expect your brother to be as dainty aa a girl. Exercise, and never try to look as if you were delicate in health. Introduce every new acquaintance to your mother as soon as possible. Don’t think it necessary to get married. JThere is plenty of room for old maids* and they are oftener happier than wives. Enjoy the pleasures provided for you by your parents to the fullest extent. They will like that as a reward better than any other. Most fathers are inclined to over in¬ dulge their daughters. Make it impossi¬ ble for your father to spoil you by fairly returning his devotion and affection. Never think you can afford to be dowdy at home. Cleanliness, hair well dressed, and a smile will make calico look like silks and satins to a father or brother. Do you quarrel with your brother; do not preach at him and do not coddle him. Make him your Mend and do not expect him to be your servant, nor let