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IE ALBANY HERALD.
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SATURDAY, DEC. 81, 1893.
Mb. Jamas G. Blaihe bat the sym
pathies of thi entire oouhtry in Ale
1 manifold troublee.
Tna Soath Carollnleni are not taking
Very amicably to prohibition aaa State
law. The majority of them are not
ipollned that way.
Ha. Blaihe is oontiderably im
proved. It la gratifying to the whole
oonntry to know that this great states-
man will probably recover.
Wo am eounty Democrats are mak
ing a bard light to keep the old ooun
ty etill solidly - In the Demooratio col
umn, and they ahould be given hearty
•ooouragement.
Jibrt SiMraov la hot on the trail of
the Kansaa Senatorial plum. It looka
very muoh, however, as If Bister Lease
would have a hand to the manufacture
of that Senatorial pudding.
Tssss has beep an Inveatigation in
dbe National House of Representatives
In order t» sound the different mem
hors on the Speakership question. The
canvass pointed to Orlep with a very
large Index Anger.
SrEAiaa Obiip 1s publicly quoted as
favoring an early extra session and as
believing that the session oan easily
be made to adjourn after Its organiza
tion la completed and Its tariff law
framers put In shape for work.
\,Mb. WaiTNBY oould be elected Sen
ator from New York almost by accla
mation. In selecting a Senator New
York should have an eye to able bus!
hsss qualifications as well at purity of
party principles. Both aro found to a
pre-emlnont degree in Mr. Whitney.
almost
Tub Panama swindle lies
succeeded in undermining the govern
ment of the French Republlo, and the
ragged edge of what royalty rcmalna
awaits In dally hope that the hour is
near at hand when the degenerated
House of Orleans will again be called
to the throne.
Georgia's only Ham Is said to be
getting up a lecture whloh will con
tain many of Ills best Jokes on the
snollygoster, whloh will be delivered
throughout the North under the man
agement of n llorton llurenu. Here’s a
success to . Brother Ham. There’s
money ns well ns fume In the lecturing
business, nml he lino the ability to At
tain both.
Tiik Supreme Court has rendered
decision that nil assessments made by
the buaril of equalizers in the State are
valid, ami Hint taxes must bn paid In
accordance with them, in a great
ninny respects the opposition to this
law seems lo have been local. No
doubt the system could be improved
on to a grunt extent, but tlm old style
way of doing tlm buainess has long
ago outgrown its usefulness, and
ahould be replaced with a better sys-
«tom.
Comoukssman CiiXATUAM, of North
Carollun, tlm ouly Negro In the pres
ent House, was defeated for re-elec
tion, and after the 4th of Maroh will
go through the North and Northwest
qn a leoturlng tour. He Is a bright
mulatto, is well eduoated, and will
probably make some cash out of hla
lecture. He eaya he failed of re-elec
tion by a technicality, but doea not
olaim that there waa any fraud what
ever. Two years henoe ha says he Is
going to run for Congress again.
Tbs question uf theponstructlon of
the Nicaragua ranal has oouie up
prominently before Congress. It is
probable that the bill providing for
the Indorsement of the company’s
bonds Till be reported favorably by
the committee, and as the construction
of the canal is endorsed in both na
tional platforms. It is exceedingly
probable that some such measure will
pass by a good majority. The Import
ance of having this canal under Amer
ican oontrol cannot be overestimated,
as it will become practically the key
to the commerce of the world.
- Tux Supreme Court decided on
Thursday that the law providing for
the establishment of county boards of
equalizers of taxes on real and per-
aonal property was constitutional.
The test case was that of J. Washing
ton Collier vs. the tax collector of Ful
ton county. When Ur. Collier return
ed his property for taxation the local
hoard thought it was too small a re
turn. Judge Marshall Clarke deofded
the case In Mr. Collier's favor, but the
Supreme Court has now reversed the
decision of the lower court. The
law has lately been repealed by the
Legislature, but too late to come to
Mr. Collier's assistance, and of any
. others in the .State who may have con
tested the assessments of eqalization
beards.
ILD:
TUB HtMBT CBOM OF TUI
BOOTH AND VVKHT.
Wheat la very much the same to the
Western farmer that cotton is to the
Southern farmer. It is his prinolpal
crop, and his “money crop.”
Last year cotton went down to six
cents. It costs more than that to raise
the staple and get it into the market,
and the effects of the decline, due solely
to overproduction, have been keenly
felt throughout the “Cotton States.”
And now the Western farmers are
being depreiaed by a decline In wheat.
And the oause of the decline In the
wheat market eeeme lo bo due to the
■ame oauia that depressed the market
of our Southern staple—overproduc
tion, or, as the market report* put It,
to the “enormous accumulation of vis
ible stocks."
The price of wheat In Chloago on.
Wednesday touched 69Jf cent* a
bnahel, whloh la as low as It baa ever
been In December In that market. The
same rate wae recorded in December,
1884; hut, with that exception, the
price has never been so low after Aug
ust, and In only one Inatanoe, we are
told, baa it been any lower at any sea
son of the yearwlthin the laat twenty-
■even years.
The farmera of the West, like those
of the South, are the vlotlms of specu
lation. The epeoulatori make more
out of wheat and ootton than the pro
ducers do.
While the whole world Is speculat
ing In his orop, the wonder la that the
farmer doesn't take a hand in It him
aelf. Whenever he Ands the market—
the future delivery market, we mean-
at Agurea that would Insure him a
proAtable price for his cotton, he oan
make himielf absolutely safe by Belt
ing futures covering the number of
balea that he expeota to make and de-*
llverlng the ootton Instead of making
it a niere matter of speculation and
paying or reoelvlng, as the case might
be at the maturity of the contract, the
difference between the price of spots
and the Agurea at which he sold his
crop.
TEI CITY Flftlt DEPARTMENT.
There has been muoh talk of late
among members of the Council as well
as other oltizens in regard to the or
ganization of a paid fire department,
and some very good suggestions have
been offered on this line.
The nxRALD has never yet spoken
editorially on the subject, hut there
can he no doubt about It, the Institu
tion Is one that needs improvement,
There are some members who work
conscientiously and do all in their
power in the case of fire, hut It oannot
be denied that there are many who be
long to tho companies for the sole pur
pose of shirking Jury duties, as is
evinced by the fact Hint,they are rare
ly If ever attendant upon a lire.
This is toying with n. serious busi
ness, find ill the interests of the peo
ple and their property it is right that
It be improved. Just exactly what
plan Bhonld be followed cannot be de
termined until every point line been
taken into consideration. The Hkii-
ALD presented nil Interview yesterday
wherein it was shown that a compe
tent nnd eUloient paid department
could be niniiitnliipd at just about the
same cost or very little mure than is
now expended.
This ,'s a matter thnt tho people
would do wull to consider, and let the
Inaomlng Council in some way have
an expression of their views on the
subject. There Is no doubt but that
the improvement of the lire depart
ment is a matter of general publlo de
sire.
Press Gernniefits.
A Decides ^Brnmek
From the Greenville (8. C.) News.
A New York Herald ppff of C. A.
Dana for minister to England was sent
out ye»terday as “minister to Auck
land.” The blunder la a decided im
provement on the original suggestion.
Auokland la in New Zealand and a
good long way off: if Dana could be
tent there, Mr. Cleveland would doubt-
leu be entirely willing to proclaim a
rigid and perpetual quarantine against
Auokland and the country would be
rid of one Its most offensive and dis
reputable nuisances.
AadPaauMNn VaadeeMII, Tee.
From the Phlledelphta Uncord.
George Francis Train uys that the
word “damn” la Astatic, and synony
mous with baAana. This leta out Gov
ernor Flower, who, It now seems,
exclaimed, at the very worst: “I don't
oare a banana for rotes 1"
Ae DM MsFehUsee HeeeBeeh.
From the Phlledelphia Record.
There seems to be some disposition
on the part of the Republican press to
•prlng again on the oowftry the okl
roorback that the Democrats when
they get in power will pap off the
Confederate bondholders. It would
be the part of wisdom for the organs
to put this stale Invention away In the
rag hag. The disposition' doubtleu
■till exists, especially In the minds of
professional politicians who find them
selves on the wrong side of the fenoe,
to embarrass the forthooiqlng Demo
oratio Administration In every praotl-
oableway; but the Confederate debt
bogy la-no longer uuful. There are
no dupes so hopelessly Imbecile as to
be longer deoeived by this particular
romanticism. It answered Its purpose
well enough twenty years ago; but Its
US ere I f.cper« Net Alwere Paupers.
From the Savannah Morning Nows,
If Wales should Ucoule to visit
Amerioa next year he need not bother
about landing In Canada. Any laws
suspending Immigration that this
country may pass will not be applied
to him.
Tin Blecleral College SfMMh
From tho l’hilndolphm Kocortl (Deni.)
What argument against the modern
development of a blundering electoral
college system could be needed In ad
dition to that which has been presented
by the eleotlon in North Dakota! In
that state the official result divides the
eleotoral between Cleveland, Harrison
and Weaver. The Cleveland elector
has 181 majority; the Weaver elector
14 majority. Thus North Dakota’s
vote for President has beeu neutral
ized by a olumay electoral machinery
which has defeated the will of the
State's mnjority. Has not the time
come .when the people should abolish
this machinery and eleot the President
direotly by popular vote?
^ The Pension Hcnndnl.
From tlics KuusuHCitjr (Mo.) TIiium (Deni.)
The cancer bus grown to such a size
as to require a deep cut; but It is Im
possible. It might cost $10,000,000 to
scrape off the barnacles, hut the gov
ernment will never again have an op
portunity for so large a return on the
money invested.
A DSACOVRAOED HILVER1TB.
Congressman Pieroe, of Tennessee,
who was prominent as an advocate of
the free coinage of silver at the last
session, la reported by a Washington
dlspatob to have given up all hope
that the question will be reaohed thie
Congress. Indeed, Mr. Pieroe even
goes so far as to give it as Ills opinion
that the silver cause will be side
tracked for four yrars. He says that
in the present Congres the free-silver
men will be given no recognition, but
that on their part they have suflleleut
strength to prevent any legislation
oaloulated to be detrimental to silver.
Mr. Harrison says lie will pull nut
for Indianapolis after March 4th, nnd
will live there permanently.
Srnator Billy Chandler, of Ver
mont, is mixed up with the Republi
can steal in the West, says a report.
This, however, goes without saying.
Thr programme for the opening of
the World’s great Fair as mapped out
will be quite an interesting one. Mr.
Cleveland Is to be the only speaker,
and the rest of the programme consists
of a poem by Dr. OliverWendell Holmes
and some music,. The audience for the
occasion, however, la to be very select.
Only 5,000 invitations will be issued,
and one thousand of these go to the
offloials and members of Congress.
The other 4,000 Invitations will kindly
request the bearers to bt present, but
to bring along a five dollar bill to pay
a reserved Beat. The manngers of the
World’s Fair have adopted almost
every conceivable mdhng for coining
money, but 5,000 people from iiinong
all these in the Uuited Slate will form
a very select crowd, and they would
• l; no doubt glsdly pay f«w n,« bolter.
tVhnl Thor DM nl Brussels.
From thu Now Vovk Frees (lto|i.)
Tile only matter upon which the
delegates to the international mone
tary conference have been able to
agree at nil is upon the question of
taking a rest until next May. The
conference, having mnrehed up the
hill, has simply resolved to maroh
down again as gracefully as it oan.
AN ADVERTISING LETTER.
A Schama That Often Due. a Firm More
Injury Tlmn II Doaa Good.
Speaking, of advertising brings to
mind a very prevalent nuisance
which is being inflicted just now on
long suffering New Yorkers. I refer
to the advertising letter—the circu
lar letter which asks you to trade
with somebody or other. They are
directed by hand, put in plain envel
opes, sealed and stamped with two
cents' worth of terra eotta paper.
The uninitiated can't tell them from
a genuine letter until the envelope
la torn open. Then they are un
masked. They Are revealed in all
their uninteresting disappointment.
These people who Mail them out
are sharps, I' tell you. They only
aend them to private houses and
apartments, where women will most
likely, receive them, and Uiny know
the weakness of womankind for any
thing lh the nature of a letter.
Women always just ache to get let
ters. and these' confounded circulars
fool them every time.
If it happen* that the victim live*
In a flat the wife, mother or sister
will gleefully trip down the four
flights of etaire when the hem the
postman's short, sharp ring on the
electric bell in the kitchen. 8he
knows the ring perfectly, nnd it is
to her care about the most welcome
sound of the whole day. Then she
r a the letter box and pulls out
circular. It looks interesting.
There i* no advertising imprint on
the envelope. The handwriting is
apt to be very amateurish or very
expert in its line*. The victim stud
ies it carefully. She sees that the
letter la postmarked in New York,
but that does not count oneway or
another. She is quite likely and
more liable to get a letter from some
one in New York than anywhere
else. She also studies the bock care
fully. and holds the letter up to the
light and discovers nothing to give
her a clew of whom it is from. But
she does not open it.
Oh, no I She holds it tight like
some predotiH thing, and with a glad
heart at the anticipation of a pleas
ant. gossipy letter from Bomohody
she climbs the four flights of atalra
to her own floor.
Perhaps there are two of them.
Then it la all the worse. When she
gets Into the box of u dining room in
her seven room flat, which nlao does
duty as a sowing room, aim aits do.wn
in the rocking chair, drawn a long
breath and opens the letter.
Then is the time to see a woman
mad I
That woman will give the most
perfect imitation of anger and dis
gust you can find anywhere. She
will hurl that advertising letter on
the floor as though it was a thing ac
cursed. She knows she lias been
fooled, and she resents it. Then she
flounces out into the kitchen and
slams the door. That’s a woman’s
way of swearing.
I doubt if under any circumstances
you could induce her to buy goods of
the firm who sent her that letter, nnd
so 1 don't believe that this systematic
letter trickery that ho many linns in
dulge in pays them ns well as adver
tising in some other manner would.
Within tlie last week I have received
these delusive letters from dry goods
houses, hanks, furniture stores, car
pet cleaners, liquor dealors, real es
tate agonts, confectioners, bakers,
butchers, cigar manufacturers, tai
lors, and evon churches are getting
into this pernicious habit. Tho soap
people of course are always with you.
—New York Herald.
AFRICAN IRONMASTERS.
A Place Where There Ate Few Strike!
Becauoe of the Fate of a Striker.
The Baluhiuffi,' as'the natives of
the Miiansanyomma district of cen
tral Africa are styled, enjoy an ex
cellent local reputation as ironwork
ers. They find their crude material
in the form of bog iron ore on the
surface of the land. It rarely hap
pens that digging to an appreciable
depth is necessary. Their smelting
fnrnaoes, which are constructed of
clay, are from six to ten feet high,
from forty to sixty inches in diam
eter at the base and conical in shape.
The ore is tipped into the furnace
from above; the charcoal, on the other
hand, is introduced, into bosinlike
side openings, which also receive a
continuous air blast, while the iron
and dag are removed from the bot
tom of the furnace about every eight
or twelve hours, according to the de
gree of heat obtained.
The forge is a circular building
some sixteen feet in diameter, with
a -pointed root and open side*. At a
distance it might be taken for a park
hand stand. In the center of this
hut is the fire, which is maintained
in constant activity hy means of a
unique pair of bellows; which merit
a special description. They consist
of a block or wood, generally twenty
inches long, hollowed out and fitted
with a funnel head mode of clay.
At the lower end are two orifices,
over whioh skins ore stretched. Mo
tion is imparted to the instrument
by the action of two small rods.
The hammer is of solid iron; the
tongs are marvels of simplicity—to
wit, a bent palm branch. An iron
wedge driven into a timber hole
Berves as an anvil.
The recollections of the Balubans
carry them back to the time when
they wrought metals with stone
tools. Somo of the natives are com
paratively artistic workers. Very
fine axes, tastefully inlaid with cop
per, are produced.
Strikes among these swarthy arti
ficers are of comparatively rare oc
currence, probably owing to the fact
that the malcontents invariably have
their heads lopped off and their skins
placed on one side for patching, or
in case of need entirely recovering
the aforesaid curious bellows.—Lon
don; Iron.
Kxlrn HcuIh Talk.
From tho llaltlmoro Sun ;Dom.)
It is stated that Mr. Cleveland favors
an extra session of Congress, provided
be can be assured that it will be very
ihort. He would like to see the House
organised and committees appointed
next spring or in the early fall, so that
members may buokle down to work on
the tariff in December ae soon ai the
regular session begins. The tariff bill
could be framed next summer by a
committee at some mountain resort,
away from Washington and its lobby
of self-seeking protected interests.
The appropriations committee and the
committee on banking and currency
could advanoe their task in the same
way. But a prolonged session at
Washington, lasting all summer, is not
desired. Can anybody give assurances
that, if assembled in March, Congress
will adjourn in April? If so, all-extra"
session is not improbable.
Eighty-eight Degree* Hellin' Zero.
The coldest known spot on the
earth’s surface is on the Eastern
slope, a shelving mountain that runs
down to near thff water's edge, on
the eastern bank of the Lena river,
in northeast-Siberia. The spot in
question is nine and a fourth miles
from Serkorchoof, about latitude
07 north and longitude 134 east
Dr. Woikoff, director of the Russian
meteorological service, gives the
minimum temperature of the place
as being 88 dogs, below zero. It
Is a place of almost perpetual calm.
In the mountains neur by, where
windy weather is the rule, it is not
nearly so cold.—8t Louis Republic.
Tlmorousnesi of Groat Men.
It has boon recently stated by those
who knew him well that Mr. Spur
geon was an example of the fact that
public men often quake on the eve of
their great successes. Though few
guessed it, he was nervous in speak
ing, and one result of the disastrous
panic at the Surrey Gardens in 185S
was that he ever afterward dreaded
excitement in great audiences. At
the Free Trade hall in Manchester,
1872, the orator was in buoyant and
brilliant form. Yot before delivering
his address he had been attacked by
nervous sickness in the anteroom.
As we have suggested, this curious
preliminary recoil seems to be a fre
quent characteristic of the offorts
that establish or increase famo.
Inquiry shows that somo form of
timorousuess dogs distinction like its
shadow. It may have peculiar and
i even eccentric features. Mr. Ed
mund Yates has mentioned the case
I of a distinguished living politician,
noted for his dash and aplomb while
| in tho house of commons, to whom
on ono occasion Sir Honry Halford,
the eminent physician, gave an ac
count of a railway accident. The
narrator was elaborate in his descrip
tion, and it was too much for his
listener's nerves. In the midst of
the story the doctor had to break off.
His friend was on the point of faint
ing.—Cassell’s Journal.
The Washington correspondents
should be more careful in regard to
their plans when assembled in caucus.
8o far they have announced about
sixteen certainties for caoinet posi
tions.
A General Favorite.
Whether plainly boiled, like the
humble potato, served in a snow
white napkin, and eaten with shav
rings of cold butter, or inlaid in tiny
blocks like miniature black dice into
goose liver, turkey’s breast or pigB'
feet—or. again, sh reded delicately
over the ci >amy surface of supremos
de volatile—the truffle, despite its
costliness, is deservedly a favorite
esculent throughout the civilized
world.—London Telegraph.
Th. Home Aquarium.
An aquarium in which plants are
grown will not require the changing
of water, except occasionally, when
the tank needs to be cleaned. The
growing plants give off oxygen and
absorb carbonic add. To arrange
an aquarium with plants, cover th*
bottom of a glass globe or tank with
gravel which has been thoroughly
washed. Half fill a small flowerpot
with earth, and plant in it a small
Egyptian Uly; then All tho pot with
well washed sand. Place the pot in
the center of the tank and surround
it with stones, so that it may be held
in place and at the same time con
cealed. On top of this pot, and
around it in the rocks and gravel,
Bet out a few fine mosses and vines,
such as grow in fresh water. Let
watercress and homwort bo among
them. A north exposure is best for
this aquarium. Put in the fish apd
feed them on bits of meat, crumbs
of bread and worms.—Ladies' Home
Journal.
Jl'STIVI LAMAR IIKTTBB.
He Kcihun Hi* Jetiruer le Mnce»
Te-day—Meaater Oerdea nl llaiae*
special lo the Herald.
Atlanta, Dec., 28—Associate Jus
tice L. Q. C. Lamar, whose illness was
reported in these dispatches yesterday,
Is better, and will resume bis journey
to Macon to-day, though Tar from be
ing a well man.
SENATOR GORDON AT HOUR.
I Senator John B. Gordon returned
from Washington to-day, and is here
fiii* Hie holiday!.
or On* Mind.
Young De Bore (hunting for some
thing to say)—I wish I had lived in
the knightly days of old. '
Weary Beauty—So da L —New
York Weekly.
It is a fact that has been olearly
demonstrated, that there are a great
ipany more quail in the the country
than there have been in half a dozen
years, and sportsmen seldom lail to
secure splendid sport from a day spent
in the woods. It is generally a very
easy matter to find a number of coveys
in a day’s hunt and an unusually large
number of the whirring “Bob Whites”
have gone down this season before the
unerring aim of many a sportsman.
Electricity In Mining.
One of the latest applications of
electricity to mining operations is
seen in a lead mine in Belgium.
Each bucket arriving at the top of
the shaft makes an electric contact,
and a needle in the office indicates
by a red line upon a revolving drum
the number of buckets brought np.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Me. J. K. P. Keaton, the present
County Surveyor, announces in this
evening’s Hxrald his candidacy for
re-election. Mr. Keaton is' a very
competent man, and the -Hhrald has
heard of no opposition to his re-elec
tion. •
The official counting of Minnesota’s
vote lias not yet been completed.
INDSTINCT PRINT
We have the best recipe for
making Fruit Cake of the most
meaty and delicious quality. We
have just baked one thousand
pounds, and if you contemplated
having a complete Xmas or New
Year’s dinner you are compelled
to have one of
“OWS FAME”
Fruit Cakes. All who have tried
them pronounce them perfect
every respect Send us y6ur or
der to be delivered when you need
them, and we will
ed
in 4
Take Pleasure
in keeping them in our air-tighfl.
Cake Boxes. Send to us for a
sample, and we will send, free, a
small piece in order to convince
you of their merits.
REMEMBER
We I are headquarters foi
kinds of staple and fancy]
GROCERIES
and delicacies; also, for Fruits.
Nuts and Candies of the finest
quality. Very Truly,
Mock & Rawson
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Dress Ms
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TRIMMINGS
THIS WEEK!
Before purchasing call and ex
amine our stock and be convinced.
You can save money on each and
every article sold in a first-class
Dry Goods House.
We have an immense line of
samples of
CARPETS
In all the new patterns. These
goods are just in, and we are no
ready to take orders.
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Reich & Geiger.
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