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P j INDSTINCT PRINT \ ALBANY WEEKLY HERALD: SATURDAY OCTOBER 15, 19J. — Where She Had Her Pocket. Valuable HacgnUaa far (he Slaves af Fnihian. UARBIHON’S WBATU. Herr York letter in St. Louie Fost-Dlupntcli. There were two women coming along Broadway the other day. One of them performed the remarkable feat of carrying a card-case, purse, hand kerchief and small package In the trend, which also held up her skirt, while the other hand managed tier pa rasol and a small reticule. Her com panion walked along unencumbered, except by her parasol and her skirt, which was held high enough to reveal several flounces on her silk petticoat. The burdened woman suddenly be- ■came aware of this fact. “Why, Catherine,” she exclaimed, •“where are all your things?” “What things?” inquired Catherine, amicably. “Why, your handkerchief and purse, and that card of pearl studs you bought and—everything.” “Oh, those,” said Catherine indiffer ently. “They are in my pocket.” TIip lady of the parcels turned'and flashed a look of utter unbelief upon the burdened Catherine. “Do you mean to tell me,” said she, •“that there Is a pocket in that hell ■skirt of yours? Where is It? And what dressmaker ever allowed you to have It? Mine would no more let me have a pocket than she would let me go without a train or tit ine without stays." Catherine smiled the superior smile of a woman who has Ingenuity, and, withhrawing into the comparative se clusion of a photographer's showcase, revealed her secret. She merely clutched her serge skirt so that an inch or two more of the beruflted pet- tiooat was visible, and there, low on the right side of that piece of silken frivolity, was a slit in the seam. She reaohed down, thrust her unengaged hand into it and drew up a silver net purse, a handkerchief, an ivory shop ping list, a small package containing the pearl studs and a silver and glass vinaigrette. ‘“There,” said she with pride, “you see, I don’t have to raise my skirt much higher than usual to get to my pocket. And It’s suoh a convenience I I was always in inortnl terror when I wore a chatelaine bag lest some one should snatch It. And I was always losing things when I tried to carry them all in my hands. Really, dear, you should have one in your silk pet? ticoat.” Then she restored her possessions to her pocket and walked on, serene in the Consciousness that she was more conveniently attired than any other woman on the street. ADVBHNSKD I.ETTKIIS. THE PARTY’* tinOICB. The course of Georgia in going so overwhelmingly Democratic, didn’t seem to have a very wholesome or pla- oating effect on President Harrison. He is reported as saying: 1 have washed my hands of the South. It is a land of rebels and traitors who care nothing for the sanctity of the ballot, and I will never be in favor of making an aotive campaign down there until we can place bayonets at tlfe polls. I am now more than ever in favor of ramming a force bill' down their throats. Southerners will be rather surprised at tills outburst on the part of the Pres ident, especially when he has been told so often that the South was so solidly Democratic, and would never be any other way. President Harrison’s phrase, “the sanctity of the ballot," should have been modified somewhat, so us to have been more in accord with his true opinion. Substitute in that senteuce “the snnetity of the Republican ballot,” and we get at onoe to the President’s true meaning, and \he foundation of all his wrath. Thus modified we agree With him. We have never yet found any sanctity in connection with the Republican bnllot. The rest of President Harrison’s meaning at onoe becomes clear. Now that he has learned that the South oares very little for the sanctity of the Republican ballot, lie is quite in favor of “ramming a force bill down their throats”—as lie has been all along— might well be added. The President’s words spoken in a moment of wrath, have fixed the issue stronger than ever. The question now is one of force bill or no force bill, and all the sugar coated pills preparod by the Halsteads, the Cnokerills and the Reids, cannot turn the issue into any other channel. It is as surely a part of the the basis upon whioh the Re publican party is making the fight as is the fact that it was embodied in their platform, and endorsed by the President and candidate of the Repub lican party. The next President must be a Dem ocrat. Tradk reports for the past two or three weeks indicate that the South is slowly recuperating from its financial embarrassments. List of letters remaining in the post office nt Albany, Ga„ for the week ending Oct. Ik, 1802. If not called for in fifteen days will be sent to fhe Dead Letter offioe: A—Mrs. Sora Adams, II. C. Adoox. B—Harriet Brown, JohnieBritle,Mrs. Nettie Board, Willie Beas, Dan iel Balls, Randall Baker, Mattie S. Bailey, Temp Brinson, John Bern • ton, Vergine Bailey. C—Geo. W. Chilton, Appill Chanel, Affey Clianlie, J. J. Chantons, Miss Nanoy Carlor, Miss Eva Clow, Rev. J. A. Creeges, Cimon Conier, Henry Cool, Miss Jew Conegan, W.S. Coot, J. II. Cooper, Chilah Collins. D—Linney Davis, Jolinie Davis, Miss Mannio Davis, Lloyd Dickerson, Georgia Duglass, J. B. P. Durham, B—Isaah Edwards, Green Ellis. F—Will Flnoher, Mrs. Georgia Fletcher, Mrs. Luov Forde, Geo, Franklin. G—Peggie Garddln, Mrs. A.L. Glover, William Gorden, Will Griffin, Rev R. D. Grean, B. M. Green. H—T. A. Hanks, David Hall, Emma Hall, Mrs. N. C. Harris, Reuben HU). Mrs. Annie Horten, Amy Horton. J—Senthia Jackson, Dizzle Jackson, Wilson Jackson, Eliza Jane Jones, Maria Jones, Mary Julia. K—Lizzie King. L—Hadia Lapen, Levi Lawson, B. Leaptrot, J. B. Love, E. W. Luke. M—T. S. Mader, Mrs. Emina McDonald, Mrs. Louise Myerick. N—Julia A. Neal, Mrs. Docia Nellus, Alford Newton, Guston Norwood P—Dark Park, Master Phil Perkins, Ella Porter, Willie Pool, Mrs. An nie Paine, Frank Postal, Charlie Preston. B—Charlie Randolph, Mrs. Francis Boost! n. S—R. B. Sheppard A Co., Tiddy Sims, Ruthle Sims care tltus Stephens, John Smith (2), Marshal B. Smith, Jas. W. Smith, Dan Smith, Fomon Sein, J. T. Smirtt. T—H. B. Turner, Esq. V—J. P. Vandergriff. W—S. H. Walter, David Watkln, Win- ney Watson care Willie Cutner, Chartie Webster, Dealor Wear, Matilda White, Levi White, Eliza Whaley, Nelvln Williams, Dennis Williams, Andrew Williams, Char lie, Willis, James Wize, Gary Wil lis, T. H. Willingham, Jessie Wood- all, Jimmie Wootnn, L. World, Mrs. N. T. Woodall, Sammie Wright. Y—Miss Lutar Young. In calling for above letters please sa.y “Advertised” and give date. B. F. Brimbkrry. P. M. The persimmon crop this year. is prodigious A (IUh Shave. From Monday’s Evening Iternld. Mr. Mike Cannon came very near being the viotini of a serious accident at the passenger depot yesterday morning. Mr. Cannon is an employe of the Southern Express Company, and his duties require him to handle a good deal of heavy freight. On the 10:40 8., F. A W. train, yes' terday morning, was a large piano consigned to Albany. It was taken from the express car, placed on a pair of large trucks, and was being moved into the company's depot offioe when it slipped and began falling. Mr. Cannon tried to hold it up hut gave way beneath its weight and fell to the floor. Some other parties man aged to keep the main weight of the heavy Instrument on the trnoks, or Mr. Cannon would, doubtless, have sustained serious injuries. As it was, he got off with a slight squeeze and several bruises, but his call was a close one. ernsslssllw of R<B|herli’i Haidar Hchaol AMoelallan. From Tueaday’i Evening Itornld. Last evening quite a number of the members and superintendents of the Sunday Schools of the city met at the Ijiethodist church for the purpose of organizings branch of the State Sunday School Association known as the Dougherty County Sunday School Association. Mr. J. S. Davis stated the object of the meeting. Capt. S. R. Weston was then chosen as temporary ohairman, and Jas. H. Price as secretary, Mr. Fred T. Lockhart, of Augusta, Ga, State Organizer, was then intro duced, and gave those present a fine talk on Sunday School work, followed by Capt. Weston and Mr. Davis. The following officers were then eleoted R. J. Williams, President. C. L. Mailary, Wm. Lockett, T. J. Pinson, T. M. Tlcknor, Vice-Presi dents. Walter Muse, J. B. Gilbert, W. T, Cox, Wm. Lockett, T. J. Pinson, S. R, Weston, Executive Committee. Jas. H. Price, Secretary. The meeting then adjourned, subject to the call of the President. T# Oleai Pleura Frames. Gilt frames, unless badly tarnished, may be brightened by dusting them with a soft cloth and applying a mix ture made as follows: Crush three unions and boll them in a pint of water, to which has been added a tea spoonful of flour of sulphur. flaw la Cara a Cald, Simply take Otto’s Cure. We know of its astonishing cures and that it will stop a cough quicker than any known remedy. If you have Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption or any disease of the throat and lungs, a few doses of this great guaranteed remedy will surprise you. If you wish to try call at our store on Broad street and we will be pleascc to furnish you a bottle free of cost, and “*■ L r '•—J. ~ The Hxrald is advised that- there are a few disgruntled Democrats throughout the Seoond Congressional distriot who are disposed to be luke warm toward the Demooratio nominee, and that they attempt to exottse them selves for suob undemocratic onnduct by saying that Ben Russell, though nominated, was not the choice of the party. This is not only a very lame exouse for any man claiming to be a loyal Democrat to make, but does great in justice to Mr, Russell, If Ben Russell was not the choice of the great majority of the Democrats of this distriot when I10 was nominated for Congress no mnn ever was. The convention that nominated him brought more representative Demo crats to Albany than ever gathered before in the district, nnd the enthu siasm for him was unprecedented in the history of the distriot. No man wns ever nominated with more enthu siasm. The true, working Democrats of the district felt that he had fairly earned the nomination nnd that he richly deserved it. The nomination of no other mnn in the district would hnve satisfied the great crowd that come to the convention, and it would have been useless for any other man to have olfered for the honor. Ben RuBsell took np the banner of true Deinonrnoy at a time when, others faltered. He didn’t start out as a can didate for Congress, but took the stump as a matter of principle in behalf of the party of our fathers. He aroused the people, and* circumstances over whioh he had no oontrol then made him the candidate of those who were unwilling to surrender to the methods that had been adopted by the political organization known as the District Allianoe. It was a forlorn hope, seem ingly, when Ben Russell started out to lead those who were protesting against the Alliance movement in the politics of the district; but he never faltered, and soon others took courage and went to his assistance. The result is well known throughout the district and State, and no true Democrat Jn the distriot oan have any reasonable ex cuse for pursuing an indifferent or lukewarm oourse in this oampaign. Ben Bussell is the nominee of the Demooratio party of the Second dis trict for Congress, and will be elected by the largest majority that has been rolled up for the nominee of the dis trict in a decade, despite the inlliffer- enoe of a few disgruntled Democrats who are sulking and standipg idle with their hands in their pockets Gkt ready for November. that will prove bur assertion, deGraffenried A Co, R. Moulton,. the Taper Hanger, sells I Lost,strayed or stolen—the equinoc- wall- paper. 10-13-dtf | tial storm: Political pots are at boiling point. Cholera has gone into winter quar ters. The Episoopal convention Is In ses sion at Baltimore. The Second District is over 7,000 majority Democratic. Hon. Ben E. Russell is busy mak ing Demooratio votes. Mr. Gladstone wants to abolish the office of poet laureate of England. It has been some time sinoe we have had an eruption from Dr, Hand. Has he withdrawn? Tom Watson hardly knows what to do about it. Fortune, office, and repu tation are almost gone. Democratic fusion with Third Par- tyites is becoming very unpopular among straight Democrats In tbe North west. The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, are representing the Southern Empire State at the Columbus celebration In New York; Carter Harrison speaks hopefully of Illinois in a letter to the New York Herald. He says the Democrats have good chances there. Hon. Henry G. Turner has been in vited to deliver speeohes in Indiana and Connecticut, two of the doubtful states. He will probably accept. It is rumored that Columbus and Macon will each have two candidates for the Senate to succeed Hon. A. H. Colquitt. Where’s Pat Calhoun of At lanta? In New York City time is divided between politics and the Columbian celebration. The balance of attention is, at present, a little in favor of Co- lurabUB. Orator IIah, of Georgia, has, through his pictorial logic and practi cal illustrations of political events' leaped into national fame. He is want ed everywhere. THE TAKIFF TAX. We present herewith a table show ing the tariff tax on luxuries as com pared with necessities. It will be seen that the most expensive luxuries are never taxed higher than 00 per cent, unless it be wines and liquors whioh are taxed very little more. But when we take the necessities of life, things which are in demand every day for family use, what do we find but a tariff tax of 20 to 250 per cent. The remarkable tiling about this is that the cheapest articles are taxed the Ijlghest. Take cloths valued noi above 00 cents per pound, and the tax approximates 250 per cent., while cloth above 80 cents is taxed only 80 per cent. We present here a short list com prising some of the luxuries. Diamonds, uncut, free. Paintings and Htutuary, 10 per cent. Carriages and harness, 85 per cent. Musical Instruments, 25 per cent. Patent leather, 20 per cent. Laces, edgings, Ac., 00 per cent. Velvets and plushes, 50 per cent. Antiquities, photographs, engrav ings, olives, oratlge nnd lemon peel, Ice, plants, ns orchids, Ac., ooooanilts, parchment, vellum, dates, currants, snuer-krnut, Ac., are all on the fre» list, Willie the tax Is ns follows on some of the most important NECESSITIES. Cloths, valued not above 00 cents per pound, 250 per aent. Cloths valued above 80 cents per pound, 86 per cent. Shawls at not above 80 cents par pound, 150 per cent. Blankets not above 00 cents a pound, 91 per cent. Wool hats, 71 to 85 per cent. Flannels, 80 to 108 per cent. Knit goods, 79 to 160 per oent. Bonnets, lists, Ac, 180 to 160 per cent. Cotton underwear, 89 per oent. Cotton olutli, 02 per cent. Boots and shoes, 25 per cent. Brooms, 40 per cent. 8ohoql books, 26 per cent. Hardware implements, 25 to 80 per oents. Garden seeds, 20 to 50 per oent. Meats, 80 to 50 per cent. Wool and woolen goods pay to 60cents per round specific duty and in addition to that 86 per cent, ad valorem. Forks hoes and harrows are taxed 45 per oent. at home and sold for less abroad by the American manufacturer than, they are here at home. These are hot the only artloles whioh are sold for less abroad than at home. Abroad manufacturers have to coin pete with foreign markets, and they must necessarily reduoe their prioe, Notwithstanding reduction they find a good profit in artioles shipped to foreign shores, but because they are so enabled by the protective tariff they pull higher prloeB out of the pooket of the home purohaser. These are facts which the Republl< oan party has never disputed, yet they say the manufacturer must be protec ted at the expense of the masses, and for the benefit of Amerioan industries. In the midst of all this glaring in justice mad reformers look calmly on and point to what they call “the, sham battle over the tariff.” J. A. SIMb.—Dentist. J. G. CUTLIFF.—Dentist. E. H. DENNISON-Dentist. Six members of the cabinet are on the stump for their 'lord and master. Tracy and Wanamaker, however, will compromise on a generous contribu tion to the corruption fund. The constitutionality of the Michi gan election law, providing tor the selection of electors by districts has not yet been decided. If its constitu tionality is sustained it will give the Democrats seven of the fourteen Mich igan electors. “Last fishing trips of the season’’ are being made. The clothing stores are sellingover- coats right along. W. T. KUHNB-Photographer, Albany. There is a tramp in Dougherty county jail on a charge of simple lar oeny. He stole one stalk of sugar cane and now it looks as if he were going to have to pay for it with a year’s labor. The lawns are beginning to look parched and brown. Some of our bicyclists are thinking of taking a ride up to Leesburg as soon as we have a good rain. They will find that our country roads are hard, but their hardness is not of the right nature. A well-known young lady of Alba ny is reported as saying that Geo. Wil son’s advice to young men about kiss ing girls was very timely and good, She agreed with George that they ought to go slow about it. It’s less than six months ’til Chau tauqua, and we must be sure not to forget that the next session is to be the grandest one yet. In a little while we must begin to bestir ourselves, for an all eclipsing Chautauqua Assembly needs considerable preparation. Al bany is always at her best then, and everybody wants to touch up every thing a little before March. Ueefal RuHksM Uinta. From Good Ilouookecpinff. A scant cup of- butter will often make a lighter cake than a full cup. Milk is better for being kept over night in small tins than if a larger quantity is kept over in one vessel. It is better to keep baked pastry in a cupboard'rather than in a refrigera tor, as it would be apt to get damp and heavy in the latter place, To keep jellies from,npouldj them qver with pulverized sugar to a depth of a quarter of an ' will keep for years if thi: ' ARE THEY BETTER DEAD? The Unfortunate Lot of Thou Who Find Lira Not Worth Living. Two distinguished modern English authors have taken fora story theme the question of Buicide. Mr. Robert Louts Stevenson told of the droll per formance of a club whose object it was to look after the extinction of its members. Mr. J. M. Barrie has writ ten a somewhat similar story culled ‘‘Better Dead." It, too, tells about a grewsome society organized for mu tual suicide, and of the strange ex periences of a young man who fbll a victim to the society's weird charms. We confess that thoro is n certain fascination in the title of Mr. Barrie's book, no matter how horrible the story is in itself nnd in its sugges tion. In a Connecticut town there used to flourish a real suicide club, which was responsible for the extir pation of its members. The tele graph occasionally chronicled a mys terious death of some melancholy member who, in joining, hnd test! fled to his predecessors in tlm society that lio considered himself “bettor dead." He bad straggled along un til the burdens of life became too heavy, nnd finally hnd put himself into tho hands of nil organization whoso business it wns to furnish a quick nnd peaceful oxit. "Botterdoad I" Who are the people for whom life haf no further cimrm 1 Are they those alone whoso lives have fallen in unplousunt places? Are they tho poor, tho oppressed t Or, on tho other hand, are they of that consid erable number on whom fortune has smiled too sweetly—tho blase, tho spoiled darlings? Or. again, are they the disappointed, those who have fought bravely, but in vninl Thon there is another class—the class who have aspired, but have tievor had tbe wings for a long flight; thoso who would at least "leave their prisons and depart” None of these is strictly the class from which most suicides come. Tbo largest number shuffle off the coil to uscupe punishment by conscience or by the operation of man's laws— those who are too cowardly to suffor in the mind the slings and arrows of their own ill doods, but who take a leap from the dagger's lethal point and, so far us mortal knows, end their troubles. The lover who has ‘loved doeply once, but loved In rain,” comes next in the Htntistics. Now, Is thoro anybody who really "better dead?” Of' courso there are people who seem to be in a steadily losing game, nnd to whom Sir Toby’s cakes and ale no longer give pleasure. But cannot these be stirred to soma now interest in life? Is there not help for those who seem most helpless? Would they not hotter give themselves pause tip- fore making, thoir quietus? Around tho next bend in the highway there may be rest and peace for them The lover who takes the mad leap for love's sake is really tho least par don'ablo of all. if there bo any mat ter of degree in the question. Shako- speare'B sentiment that lbve is not love that alters when it alteration finds is beautiful, very, but hardly in accord with tbe observed facts of Ufa The Itovs that lurk, In every broaat, So kind a thins. So blind a tiling, has a great capacity for suffering, but likewise an immense recupera tive power. So wo say that of all the reasons for suicide unrequited love is the flimsiest. Yes. and more thou that, all ‘‘bet ter dead” reasons are had. The man or woman who is about to step out into the dark should “consider it again.” It is a good deal better to be a living dog than a dead lion, and •while you waif, do something, be somebody. Stop worrying and help not only youreelf, hut somebody else. —Indianapolis News. THAT TO,OOO MAJOR From tho timtan Herald., Editor Howell, of the Atli Btitution, seems to have the bis esteemed oontemporay, M stead, on whom lie confers th a Georgia Colonel, with the a*.- that the Field Marshal slmll forth receive the full oonsid carried by the title. Colonel 1 has been predicting a revolutii in Georgia, and In nearly Southern States, but 10,0)0 Dem majority Is a sad speotaole for ( Halstead to view, as he turns tL gls for the purpose of finding fevii of Democratic dislocation. The not laoklug evidence that a grea more fun is to be liad at Colonel stead's expense ns the voting pr A Nintill Fire In Etui Albany. Fiom Wednesday's KvesixoHehai.Ii. Just nt 12 o’clock to-day, a thick cloud of smoke was seen rising in East Albany, near where tlieB. A depot used to stand, and a few min utes inter the nlarm sounded. The department came out prompt! but seeing where tho Are was, retur to the engine houses. Quite n or of persons went over from the nod found two Negro oabiusin llan and being rapidly destroyed, were botli rented and ooouplcd darkies working in the city, and the household furniture and lugs of an old wood ohopper an wife were destroyed in the first Hint burnt. The occupants other house saved nil their goods. The two cabins were tl e proper Mr. \V. B. Bennett, ami were eon tively new, having been built 1 two years ago. They were in with Messrs. Ed L. Wight A Co. 1 $180 apiece. The loss of the furniture of li mnn and his wife falls heavily on ns they liad not a dollar's Insnr; and everything they owned wns i house. Messrs. Mayer A Chine ex have their new builldlng ready 1 oupanoy by the 1st of Decemb Is the tariff a tax? Yes, and to boot. The rich man grows pays small prlcus for Ills lux poor innn grows poorer and pf old rip for tho necessaries of I tlie tariff is organized, legaliz bery. Matrimony is stiil in the young professional man of t formed us in all seriousness ( lug that ho was going to kn Hymen’s altar in the near fm denied us tho pleasure of 1 name. Mr. G. I’othin has loouti olty nnd is doing all bolstering, Ho onn y repair any kind of furnlt it ns good ns new. See inent, and call on him nt street. Some of the northern New York are rapidly cu their Republican mnjoril now looks as if tho ity In New York City will less to overcome. All look hopeful. Rumou told it about yesterday, that a pro Inwyer of Albany, and a; lady of this olty were I to-night. The report seen tlgation however f- ’-- 1 - Joke, nnd now the vli lookout for the perpeti n big stlok. Ho had 1 Th« Female Animal* It was hard in a symbol loving age for the maternal instinct of lower mammalia and birds not. to. have taught the lesson figured by the Ital ian painters of the Virgin Mary, queen of heaven. Ladies on the platform of superior rights for their sex will be pleased to know that the illustrious author of “La Vie de Jesus” places the winged or the four footed mother on a far higher plane than mole creatures of the same •pedes. I shall be disappointed on going after death behind the other side of the curtain to find there is no paradise for animals and not find the females on a higher level than the moles. Should not in all justice the ben that brought up clutches of chicks be exalted above the strutting, vainglorious cock?—London Troth. fttoovtrlnr Drowned Bodies. In Java a live sheep is thrown into the water and is supposed to indicate tbe position of a drowned body by sinking near it. But the objects used for this purpose vary largely in dif ferent countries. A correspondent tells how a corpse was discovered by t whisp of straw, around which was tied a strip of parchment inscribed with certain cabalistic characters Written on it by the parish priest.— Notes and Queries. The Democrats owe McKinley , a debt of gratitude. He spoke in Maine and the Republicans lost 0,000 votes. He spoke In Vermont, and the Repub lican vote fell off 10,000. No wonder they want to.trade the rest of his a| ' ' ' for speeches froi On account of tho I tslature will be cotiv year than usual, aoco stltutlonal amendment r Governor Northen will from Ills first term in I Chief Executive of-the i to be inaugurated by C and the Legislature wli Ills successor will me than has been the cu Tux following wail < Jesup Sentinel: 'Tis said we two new papers tbe near future, a r one and a People’s I welcome them both, company and together. One feat successfully ah resources. The Jesup people evide town. —- There is no longer any i Thomasville’s having a clj “It is an assured fact,” t villa Tlmes-Enterprlse. 1 pany has been organfz Intents and purposes to make a big thing of . make a specially of goods 1 ed from tobaoco grown in Georgia farmers shouli of this. The latest campafg the Republicans as 1 They claim that th preparing to colonize I York City for the pu— ing tlie Democratic was brought out i one Dave I and colon!: has I the Repub Posit?-- " fiver