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SATURDAY, JULY 1, :
'iukh may be tig*?, but the people
i to be doing the etnggerlng.
■ right aort of girl for a leader in
nta aoolety would be Mias Ella
don,
W* will have aome lively politics in
rgla next year, and the Herald
intends to wield a free lanne.
There were two bank suspensions
In Georgia on last Saturday—one at
' Anserlcus and the other at Uartersville.
South Okoroia doesn’t seem to be
in it this year, but she will be heard
from In the politlos of the State next
a*w.
Editor Sidney Lkwis, of the Sparta
Iehmaellte, writes more editorials and
better editorials, every week, than
perhaps any other editor In Georgia.
De does bis own thinking, and Ills
eas are expressed In dean English,
The Sparta Ishmaellte says: “If
the Demooratlo party wants to go out
of business in Georgia, It can make
•urt of that result hy repudiating the
free coinage platform adopted by it
in 18911. It takes something more than
party papers and party leaders to make
, tip a party strong enough to win vlc-
' torles and to main its supremacy."
The trite old saying that the man
“who buys what he does not want will
sioon want what lie cannot buy” ib
worthy of.acceptation to-day. Fast
living—that Is, living beyond one’s
means—has had a great deal to do
with tbe bard times that people are
now kicking so much about. The
remedy Is to buy only what is abso-
lutcly essential to oomfort and hap
piness.
There are oandidates and candidates
—proapeotlvely speaking—for Geor
gia's gubernatorial sent in the next
election, and some of them are good
men, but it is the duty of the people of
the State to see that the ring polltl-
ciansdo not Install a man who will not
reflect credit upon the Empire State of
the South, If he was eligible, the pres-
ent Governor would bo tlie‘ choice of
, the people,
Whenever you think your lot Is a
bard one and you are burdened with
a great load of cure, just look around
and see If you cannot And some one n
little worse off than you are. You
will see that you have many tilings to
be thankful for, and that by assuming
a brave front and cultivating a cheer,
ful disposition the lives of those with
whom you come In contact will be
made a great deal brighter and hap
pier.
There are a few papers in Georgia
that dare not openly arltlclse the "Ad
ministration,” but It is very evident
that a decided majority of the Demo
oratlo press of the country and
the rank and file of the Democratic
party are sorely disappointed in the
psoorastlnatlng polloy of the “Man of
Destiny" who is dlreotlng affairs nt
Washington. Speaking for itself, the
Herald doesn’t mind saying that It
bas bad enough of Clevelamllsm.
It has been many a year since there
was suoh an universal restiveness as Is
apparent In this country to-day. The
people of the four oorners of this
glorious land of free Amerloa are
waiting and watching for something
to be done to relieve them of the
burdens that now exist, and It is to
the Democratic party that they are
looking for this relief. They were
promised that if Republicanism was
deposed there would be better times
and that the country would be deliv
ered unto prosperity and content
ment. Those were not rash promises
as far as power is concerned, for
Democracy, sailing under the broad
and perspicuous platform adopted at
Chloago, has it within its power to
stretoh a benign hand over a troubled
sea as In days of old, and say "peace,
be still.” But It seems that there has
been a confiscation of that power;
nothing has been done to allay tbe
oliaotlo tendencies so noticeable every,
where, nor bas there been an attempt
at any reform.
Tbe man to whom lias been Intrusted
the powers of the prevailing party,
has not Interested himself to that ex
tent which should characterize Ills
position. Ills persistent mugwuinpery
is attracting attention everywhere,
He has been asked by the leading men
of the Democratic party to call an ex,
tra session of Congress, but he has
failed to do so. He lias had Senators,
Congressmen and the foremost poli
ticians of the country call upon him
In consequence of his tardiness and
unconcern. They have importuned
him, ever since the inauguration cere
monies, to call an extra session of
Congress, but be has not heard th;m.
And that man is President Cleve
land. He Is responsible for the pres
ent condition of affairs.
He could have allowed tariff reform,
and the manufacturers and merchants
would have known how to aot. There
would have been no shutting down of
factories because the merohant would
have known what goods the tariff was
to touoh.
The Sherman silver law could have
been repealed and some legislation
enacted by which the people would
have known the relative value of grid
and silver and what the money stand
ard of the country was to be. If this
had been done there would be millions
and millions of dollars in circulation
to-day that are now looked up In the
vaults of Wall street sharks, who will
let It go only when the most exorbi
tant interest Is paid.
There is no doubt but what all this
would have been done had Congress
been allowed to assemble. In an indl
reef way all the strikes, bank failures,
suspensions, eto., are nt President
Cleveland’s door. He has promised
that Congress will be assembled In
Beptember. That Is nearly three
months off—and embraces two of the
dullest months of the year—the time
when the commercial and monetary
wurlds are most aotlve. Both are now
dogged, which nugurs that the worst
has not come. Something should bo
done; something must be done, and
before a great while something will
be done!
An extra scsbIoii of Congress is
what the people want, and the people
will soon demand it!
Tialnv AND NOW,
T-
MONKEYS PLAYING WITH FME.
The Atlanta Herald bas been giving
the gossips and scandal mongers a
great deal nf attention here of late. It
contrasts tbe ways of our section now
and during the good old days gene by.
It says:
"There Is a vast difference between
the ante-bellum customs and those of
the present day.
The South has not benefltted by
some of these latter-day innovations.
Years ago a man who went from
corner to corner gossiping about
women, oarried his life in his hands.
The street gossip was very rare.
Now he is to be seen in every town,
and be plies his vocation with no
thought of evil consequence to him
self. The era cf ohivalry seems to
have been supplanted in a great meas
ure by the era of commerce,
If this order of things continues,
the day will come when Southern
chivalry will be a thing of the past—
a beautiful dream. <
SYears ago if a man’s name was con
nected In an Improper way with that
of a good and pure woman, the tra,
ducer had to answer for his crime at
the muzzle of a gun. Whether the
woman was related to him or not, she
was defended In a knightly manner,
That oustom made It unnecessary for
the aid of the press to be invoked In
stopping Btreet gossip. Men were
very, very careful.
Now a woman’s name Is passed from
lip to lip, and whole communities dis
cuss her. In clubs and other public
places.' It IsH direful piece of bus!
ness, at best, but if the woman isinno-
cent it is simply horrible. How can
the publlo be expected to accept sim
ple denials of guilt and stop guessing,
ns long ns men seem disposed to let the
originators of scandals pass unnotioed?
If a man is Innocent he oan best estab,
Mali this fact by defending tbe woman
that has been wronged, as becomes
gentleman.”
The Herald announced, several
dgya ago, that Mr. J. IV. Hanlon had
rctSrcd from the nssoolate editorship
ot tlie Ocala Capitol. His name now
appears at the mast head of that
papor as managing editor. He has
tins to say to the IIekai.d :
After Hull,king our -uli! home'' imnrr for tho
compliment at the tormlmia of its article,
which we .In not claim to merit, wo lu'K to say
Shat we suupl.r withdrew from tlm position of
associate oitttor, ami not from ttie Capitol,
wtsich, unitor a new nrruujtelucnt. we hope to lie
with far Into ttie future,
,
Postmaster Gknkral Hihbki.i. 1ms
changed Ills tune somewhat, and is
now willing to turn out Republican
postmasters for offensive partisanship,
If an interview sent out from Wash
ington a few days ago is to bo credited.
Well, he has ample opportunity, and
if he will do the wort; that the Demo
cratic party has the right to expect
cf him, and has been vainly expecting
cf him for some time past, it is safe to
say ttiat the Democratic Congressmen
are ready to furnish the material.
Timm ere twine as many monos on the pen
•Ion rolls now, ns tlu'ie wuro soldiers on ttie
Confodorato side during the whole four year,
of ttie war, with names enough still to ho added,
it the claims he allowed, to run tho total annual
expenditure* tip to |2S0,000,000.—Washington
Star.
And this statement of faots furn
ishes material for a comparison that is
significant as shewing the difference
in the charaoter of the material that
composed the Northern and Southern
armies. If we are to judge by the
pension rolls, the armies of the victor
ious Nor'li were composed largely of
men who, after being mustered out of
service, relapsed into a state of shift
less worthlessness, while the men com
posing tile conquered armies of the
Confederacy returned to their deso
lated Southern homes and went to
work. And to this day not more than
one old Confuderato in a thousand is
ill need of help from ills neighbors,
These are significant facts.
That was a grand step on the road
to future greatness and prosperity
when the citizens of Macon voted
-overwhelmingly > for the. issuance cf i nor did lie ever turn away those who
My! just think of what that Atlanta
poatofflee matter lias developed into
The Constitution says Congressman
I.ivings’on is nt one end of the line
and Senator Gordon at the other. All
this simply means that some other fel
low is going to come along, out that
line in two and take his sent in the
Atlanta postoliice. Watch, now, and
see.
By the dentil of Senator I,eland
Stnnford, California has lost one of its
foremost citizens, lie was many times
a millionaire, hut nut one of the parsi
monious kind, it is said of him that he
never refused an appeal for charity,
4200,000 bonds for the construction of
a complete and adequate sewerage sys-
Xem in ttiat city. Macon is a very
1 healthy place as it is, hut when the
■new sewerage system is in working
-order it is confidently expected that
only a small burial ground will be set
apart for those who die of old age.
Great is Macon, and Albany extends
’ congratulations that such a positive
manifestation of thrift and energy
- should be shown by our sister city.
went to him for heip and advice. The
death of such a mail is always a na
tional calamity.
The Macon News is just “tickled to
death” over winning the light for the
sewer bonds. The News is great.
It is said that there will be a con
vention of husbands of Mrs. Frank
Leslie. If the time is delayed cliere
will likely be a large number in at
tendance.
A Possible Explanation of a Remarkable
Night In Central Africa.
' Reference to monkeys reminds one
of that wonderful procession seen by
the pasha, where each carried a torch
to light him in his depredations
among the cornfields—a story which
one man explains by referring it to
Emin’s defective eyesight, another to
a possibility of monkeys being able
to produce fire hy friction.
Without giving any opinion regard
ing the accuracy of the observer, a
statement mode to me by a South
American native, a Pondonasi, may
throw as much light upon it os all
our science. At tbe time I paid little
attention to it, and indeed it passed
quite from my mind till I came across
the pasha's story in Mr. Stanley's
book. It was, so far as I can recol
lect, in the following words—tho con
nection in which it was told is of no
importance:
“The master is surprised. There
are monkeys in the mountains” (the
gorges of the Drakensberg) "that go
to the fires that men leave in the
bush and carry nwny burning sticks.
They even go up the trees with them
and than throw them down. I have
not seen it myself, but I have heard
say that when women leave a fire
near the edge of the bush they come
out to the gross openly with burning
pieces of wood and play with them.
Some Bay they carry them back to
the fire to moke them bum better.”
If this is n true and sober version
of what is not uncommon, a little less
science and a little more ordinary in
tercourse might have saved the emi
nent if erratic German a good deal of
idle speculation. One can quite fancy
monkeys playing with firebrands
found near the edgo of tho forest,
carrying .hem off in their mnrch to
the cornfields, to cast them aside
when the work of dopredation began.
—James Macdonald in Populnr Sci
ence Monthly.
Walter I,laird's Bodi Email.
From Friday's Evening Herald.
After having been under water in
Flint river for forty-two hours, the
body of unfortunate Walter Lloyed
rose to the surface tliiB morning about
8:30 o’clock.
A constant watch has been kept on
the spot where the young man was
drowned, and his corpse again met
human gaze just where it had sunk
Into the depths uf the treaoherous
stream.
The quiet funeral took place this
morning in Oakvlew cemetery, only a
few friends paying the last tribute to
the dead man's memory.
Mother earth has olosed over his
mortal remains, leaving the ohild, tco
young to know its loss, and the young
wife to mourn her great affliction.
Oianrds, Where Are Feet
The first of July draws on apaoe,
and with it the time for the encamp
ment of several Georgia military com
panies on St. Simonds Island.
Among this number were the Alba
ny Guards, who accepted the fnvita
tlon extended them to spend n week
where the cool breezes from ocean
bosom fan the hot cheek, and make
happy sweltering mankind.
Blit it looks now as if the Guards
are not going to be able to spread
their touts and drill on the beach of
tho island, for interest in the proposed
trip seems to have quite fallen awny.
What’s tile matter, boys?
A Sky EMlstesuifers.
An interesting English invention
consists of a camera combined with a
parachute, especially designed for ob
taining photographs of fortifications
and of the camps of the enemy, al
though pictures may also be made
for general surveying purposes. The
parachute is snugly folded in a thin
cose at the end of a rocket, which is
fired to the required height and
bursts open by means of a time fuse.
The explosion Bets free the parachute,
which is protected from injury by
means of a casing of asbestos. The
parachute has a number of thin um
brella ribs, and these are forced out
ward and kept in that position by
means of a strong spiral spring.
From tho parachute a camera is
suspended, and a Btring held by tho
operator is attached by a universal
joint to the bottom of the device for
the purpose of pulling the parachute
hack. The camera is fitted with on
instantaneous shutter operated by
clockwork, so os to give several ex
posures at intervals. At the back of
tho box is on arrangement by which
tho plates can be manipulated by
clockwork. A swinging motion can
bo given to the camera by the opera
tor, and this will enable him to ob
tain successive pictures over a wide
area.—Boston Transcript.
Rubber Troon In Nlouraugs.
A forest of rubber trees may be
detected without tho eye of an ex
pert, for they are scarred and dying
from the wounds of the machete.
The rubber huntorremindsmoof the
woman who "killed ttie goose that
laid the golden egg.” Each tree will
yield only a certain amount of the
precious juice per year and retain its
vitality. When one of these improv
ident fellows makes a discovery,
however, only a few months suffice
to place his bonanza in the ranks of
the many that have gone before. In
consequence you may traverse these
forests from end to end without see
ing a virgin tree.
The ordinary specimen of Nicara
gua is from GO to 100 feet high and
about 2 feet in diameter. The bark
is white and the leaves oval, with a
Blight inclination downward. Tho
cuts are made about 2 feet apart and
generally extend from the ground to
tho first branch, channels being
scored in the sides to lend the juice
into a bag. Tho average yield of a
tree is from G to 7 gallons of a milky
fluid. This is mixed with the juice
of the “wisth,” which hastens con
gelation. After this operation the
crude rubber is baled up and shipped
north to be refined and further pre
pared for commerce.—W. N. King,
Jr., in Harper’s Weekly.
Now the newspapers are figuring on
the growing cutton crop. The Gal
veston News estimates it at 7,1G0,000
bales.
When Savannah and Augusta can
not sport semi-weekly sensations like
Atlanta they have to oontent them
selves with an earthquake. Nothing
like being in style.
Whenever an appointment is made
at Washington the correspondents re
fer to it ns a “snap,” Maybe if there
were less of these “snaps” there would
he more gold on the reserve list.
There are but few Congressmen in
Washington now, and when the South
ern newspaper men get hard up for
something to send to their papers
they interview your Uncle Leonidas
Livingston. Col. Leonidas is always
loaded and willing to talk.
I x far away California tile banks are
growing sliakey. This is quite con
trary to general expectation, as Cali
fornia has always been considered one
of the most prosperous sections of the
country, and, especially, when its
great fruit crop is being harvested.
But- it goes to show that things grow
worse every day, ami that nil extra
session of Congress is the essential
remedy.
Smoking In tho queen's I-resoncc.
It is a question whether anybody
can smoke in the queen's presence.
In the Windsor theatricals in the
prince consort’s time, Mr. Sals says,
"such a thing os a cigar or cigarette
was never heard of."
I have still, I believe, a copy of the
acting version of G. H. Lewes'
“Bachelor of Arts,” which was play
ed in the Rubens room by the Lyce
um company. This copy belonged
to Charles Mathews, the Horry Jas
per of the piece, and was carefully
Bowdlerized for the occasion by the
late W. B. Donne. There is a mar
ginal query in Mathews’ handwriting
as to whether certain cigars, which
Jasper nnd Dolly Thornton havo to
smoke, are to bo smoked, and I have
reason to believe that this "business'
was slurred over. If, however, "the
scent of tobacco” was taboo at Wind
sor, it was tho scent of volatilized to
bacco. George VI had a "cellar of
snuff," which, testo John Bull, Aug.
16, 1830, was sold after the king's de
mise “to n well known purveyor for
£-100."—Notes und Queries.
Does your
Coffee suit
You? Why
Not send to
Mock & Rs wsou
For one or
More Pounds
Of their
MOSON?
The “Sinking: Mountain" of Algeria.
An isolated mountain called Jabel
Naiba, about 20,000 feet high, situ
ated near Bona, is found to bo rapid
ly decreasing in height, a considera
ble cavity hnving already been form
ed around its entire base. Tho wholo
muss of the gigantic peak is evident
ly slowly sinking into tlio earth's
crust! Evidenco adduced almost with
in the very limits of Bona shows that
u similar subsidence lina been taking
pluee there. Lake Fezarra, a body
of water with an urea of 7,000 acres,
lying between tho "Sinking Moun
tain” and tho city, did not exist in
tho time of the Roman empire, and
recent investigation seems to have
settled tho fact that its waters now
cover wiint was onco a largo fortified
city. When strong woEt or south
west winds blow for several days in
succession, towers and walls may be
Been far out in the deepest part of
the lake.—St. Louis Republic.
A Hurd Problem.
"Is this Mme. Pompon?" breath
lessly inquired a man who had
climbed several flights of stairs ond
been admitted into a darkened par
lor. "It is," replied tho stutely per
sonage whom he addressed. "The
famous clairvoyant and fortune tell
er?” "The same." "Do you read
the mind?" “With perfect ease."
"Can you foretell the future?" “The
future holds no mysteries that I can
not unravel." "Can you unfold the
past?” ’ 'The record of all things past
is to me an open book." "Then
said the caller feverishly, taking from
his pocket a handful of silver, "I
wish you would tell me what it iB
that my wife wanted me to bring
home without fail this evening and
name your price. Money is no ob
ject.”—Chicago Tribune
They
Guarantee
This
Coffee to
Give
Absolute
Satisfaction,
? Knowing
It to be
The
Finest
Quality of
Pure Mocka
And Java.
Sold
Only by
Mock & Rawson
BIGGEST
Tobacco Saved Ills Life.
There is one man in Dexter who is
glad that he was smoking on a cer
tain occasion a few days ago. Howns
sitting in his hotel smoking, and the
clerk was at the desk. The latter
in fumbling around discharged a re
volver that was in the desk, and just
at that instant the proprietor leaned
forward to spit into the cuspidor.
The bullet struck the back part of
the stooping man’s hat and whisked
it off his head. Had he been erect
the ball would have lodged in his
head.—Bangor (Me.) Commercial.
Spain'* Smry.
In the Spanish navy there are ar-
morclad turret shipB, monitors, tor
pedo boats and warships, besides
many unprotected marine craft of
less power, under command of ad
mirals of three grades and manned
by 14,000 sailors and 8,630 marines.
The navy, like th,e army, is recruited
by conscription.—New York Sun.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
BUSINESS MEN
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The Sensation of Fulling.
Lord Sherbrooke's racy style of nar- j \
rative entered even into the descrip-
JOB PRINTING
tion of his misfortunes. In the auto-
Of Any Kind Will do Well to
Coll at The
The Board ofTVustees of the Alba
ny Academy held an important meet
ing Friday morning. Prof. II.'W.
Jones, the new Principal of the school,
and County School Commissioner J. S.
Davis were both present by spec
ial invitation of the Board, and
a lively interest in the prepar
ations that are being made for
opening a flrst-class graded school in
September next was manifested by all.
There is no reason why this should
not be made one of the largest and
best graded high schools in the State,
and the Trustees have determined to
leave nothing in their power undone
for the accomplishment of that end.
account of his fall over a precipice—
fortunately ending in water. The
fall, ho tells us. was said to be 120
feet, but he adds: "On this I can give
no opinion, for my experience has
| proved to me that the worst possible
way of meusuring a height is to fall
down it. People," he says, "are de
scribed in such situations as having
their whole life pass before them, as
losing their breath, ns dead before
they reach tho ground. None of
these things happened to me. I
seemed n long time rolling over and
over in the air. 1 remember hoping
that I should he killed outright mid
then the relief of finding myself in
water."—London News.
The handsome new residence of Mr.
Richard Pattiaou, on Residence street,
will soon be completed. It will add
greatly to that part of the city. \
Herald Office
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