The News-herald. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1898-1965, April 14, 1899, Image 1

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News-Herald j**® Constitution, 0 12 IMloxrtlis—sl-25. THE GWINNETT HEKAI.D. » ...... J lono the Consolidated Jan. 1,1898. EMtabliftlied In 189.*. ) HAVE YJ WEAK LUNGS? Every Sufferer from Lung Weakness, Consumption, Asthma, Catarrh or Bronchitis Can Be Cured. CoinpfeiiefMECounse of Treatment Consisting Four preparation The S/ocum System Nearly everybody you meet will re gard it as a kind of insult to be asked if they have weak lungs. All seem to have a solid faith in the soundness of their own breathing machine. In cases of trouble they will admit there is a "heavy cold,” "a touch of bronchitis,” or even “a spell of asthma,” but as to weak or unsound lungs, never, NEVER. Even the poor consumptive, who scarce ly speaks without coughing, whose cheeks are wasted, hollow and bear the hectic flush of doom, will assure you with glistening eyes that his cold is on the mend and he will be all right when the weather changes. It is simply terrible to think how far we may be guilty by our indifference to the lung troubles of those near and dear to us. It is also a sad thought that we ma* hug a delusion as to our own health that we only get rid of when life itself must pay the forfeit. Nobody can afford to think lightly of lung troubles. Nobody can afford to be mistaken about their possible dan gers. Nobody can afford to neglect them, or “let them wear out,” or “get better in the spring,” or any other tom foolery that leads only to wreck and ruin. Lung troubles don’t move back ward. 1 Weak lungs don’t grow strong by themselves —you must heal them and strengthen them, and rid them of the very earliest germs of disease, or you are simply committing a form of suicide. Either you must cure your THIS BEATS THE JEWS! Before buying your SPRING- SUIT Be sure to see us. In order to call your special attention to Spring Clothing, we other a limited number of Good Woolen Suits, guaran teed not to fade, for the un precedented low price of ■ ( r *£2.50! - Only one suit to a customer Remember, we have the only exclusively new stock in town ! Respectfully, J. P. BYRD & co. Everett Pianos, | Harvard Pianos, ; Bush & Gerts Pianos, Strich & Zeidler Pianos. i . —— —— ‘ Any of the above makes of Pianos can be bought very close for cash or on installment pivineots. There are 25 Everett Pianos now in use at the Grab jsvilie Seminary, ’ and are giving entire satisfaction. j The Harvard Pianos hare the “Plectraphone” attach i ment, by the use of which you can imitate the Banjo, Guitar or the Mandolin. The new Opera House, Athens, Ga., has a Harvard in use, and is very satisfactory. Mrs. M. J. Perry, Carl, Ga., has just purchased a Har vard Piano. [ I also handle the “FARRAND & VOTEY” Organs, and ’ purchase them in CAR LOAD LOTS, having already sold > four car loads this year. The Farrand & Votey is the only I absolutely Rat-Proof Organ on the market, notwithstanding J others claim to handle them. « Prices and catalogues will be promptly mailed on applica- J tion. j HOPE HALE, 1 Athens, - - Georgia, THE NEWS-HERALD. lung troubles or THEY WILL KILL YOU. That’s the whole situation in a nutshell. Never was there a cure for lung trou bles equal to the newly-discovered Dr. Slocum treatment. This forms a sys tem of Four Remedies that are used si multaneously and supplement each other’s curative action. It cures weak lungs, bronchitis, asthma, coughs, con sumption and every other ailment of the pulmonary region. It destroys every germ that can affect the respira tory system, and even in advanced stages of lung trouble positively arrests the tubercular growth, while it also builds up the patient so that his system is enabled to throw off scrofula, rheum atism, catarrh, and other wastng dis eases. Thousands of cured cases already prove these claims. Thousands of grate ful people bless the discovery. The Doctor wants everybody to know the surprising merits of his system. He has arranged to give a free treatment (Four Preparations)to all sufferers. Full instructions for use accompany each treatment. WRITE TO THE DOCTOR. Write at once to Dr. T. A. Slocum Laboratories, 96 and 98 Pine street, New York City giving full express and postoffice address, and mention this pa per. Delay only makes your trouble worse. FARM WORK THE LATEST IN YEARS Commissioner O. B. Stevens Urges a Reduction In Cotton Acreage and Fertilizers Used on Cot ton of One-Third at Least From That Used the Fast Two Years. He Also Urges a Large Increase of Food Supplies Kor Man and Beast For Home Consumption, as Well as of All the Products of 1 li<- Fa 1 m (Ex cept Cotton) That Will Bring s*pot * Cash anti Large Profits In the Markets. Atlanta, April 1, 1899. The year 1899 is a memorable one in th& backwardness of all kinds of farm work, preparatory for the coming crop. The mouths of January and February were almost entirely lost, and the un stable weather into March, has retarded the usual progress made in this direction during last month. Under these cir cumstances it is a fixed fact that all crops of 1899 must be planted much later than usual. Even with the corn crop in South and Southwest Georgia, most of the usual planting in February was extended to March, while much of the March work of the corn crop in Middle, North and Northeast Georgia, will of necessity, be carried into April this year. But late planting deep and thorough prepa ration at the start, is much better than slip-shod work and planting at an ear lier period. Every intelligent farmer knows that more than half the work is done, in making, when a crop is put in after this kind of preparation. But there is one other reason why late Rant ing and deep and thorough preparation of soil should go together this year, which I submit to your reflection. I refer to a fixed natural law that regulates the labor of farmers through out the world, and enables them to turn the sunshine and rain God sends us to their own profit. It is this: That the mean annual rain fall in any give/i locality, whether 10 inches or 110 inches a year, does not vary much, either in any given year or series of years. In most of the states east of the Mississippi, we have had an excess of rainfall, commencing last August and perhaps ending with February, for this reason the possibility or perhaps probability of a drouth more or less protracted during the growing season of the coming crop would seem to be in dicated; an additional reason why deep and thorough preparation and late planting should go together, both in corn and cotton this year. Every weak point in every terrace on the farm should be looked after and repaired so that rains that do fall during the com ing months of crop maturing will be consumed and utilized by the growing crop. With perfect terraces, deep prepa ration and shallow culture afterwards, growing crops will be exempt from drouths when compared to lands that are un terraced. We have now arrived at the cotton planting month of April, the most critical in the higtory of the entire state, because on her agricultural pros perity all other interests hinge or rest, either languish or prosper, upon the decision of the, farmers of Georgia during this mouth touching the re duction in acreage as well as in fer tilizers of at least one-third from that used the la6t two years, not only in Georgia, but in all the other states east of the Mississippi, and as snbstan tial a reduction in the acreage of the cotton states west of it. The imperative necessity for the reduction will be seen by a short glance at the crops of 1898 and 1899. The crop of 1897 was 8,750,000 bales, and sold for from 7 to 8 cents. The crop of 1898 was 11,200.000, and this dis astrous crop brought less than $11,000,000 more than the crop of 1897. In other words, 2,500,000 bales of the crop of the 1898 crop were sold at 4.soper bale, weigh ing 507 pounds; so much for making more cotton than the world needs, and allow ing the cotton spinners of Manchester to set the pribe on the entire crop, and the loss sustained on the present crop is much greater than on that of 1898, as many millions of it were sold at 3 cents, and some of it even less than this. There is now more than cotton enough assured to supply the world’s needs the present year, or until next September. I know that the farmers of Georgia have been surfeited with newspaper advice in the management of their own business for years, but in this instance you are advised by one who will do more than practice the precepts here in culcated, both in the reduction of his own acreage devoted to cotton, as well as the quantity of fertilizers used by him this year. Georgia made more cotton than both the Carolines in 1898 and manufactured less of it than either, while the two Carolines united consumed the entire crop of North Carolina and reduced the cotton crop of South Carolina 120,000 bales in 1898. Georgia uses one-fourth of all the fertilizers used from Maryland and Virginia to Louisiana, including that used on the wheat of the first and the sugar cane of the last! She has Pitts’ Carminative aids diges tion. regulates the bowels, cures Cholera Infantum, Cholera Mor bus, Dysentery, Pains, Griping, Flatulent Colic, Uunatural Drains from the Bowels, and all diseases incident to teething children. For all summer complaints it is a spe cific. Perfectly harmless and free from injurious drugs and chemi cals. The population of Egypt has in creased uearly 3,000,000, or 43 per cent, during the last fifteen years. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. APRIL 14, 1899. taken the lead in the “ail cotton” craze folly. For the past two years, until the meshes of the spider web mortgages woven around her hospitable homes by the crop of 1898 that brought disaster and ruin to very many, have redoubled their meshes on very many more in 1899. But Georgians have an almost iufii uite power of active potential endur ance and energy, and their helpmeets are in every wav worthy of them if their work were shown to them. A farmer near Atlanta bronght 100 fine turkeys here lately and sold them for cash as quickly as cotton for $lO5 to the retail trade, a sum equal to sevjn bales of cotton at 3 cents! They cost absolutely nothing but care and protec tion while young. They live on insects, bugs and plenty of corn, and corn never .ought to be sold off the farm in Georgia until after it has been fed to pigs and turkeys, worth 6 and 154 cents a pound, at least, dressed. The cotton bales cost $8 a bale to pick and cover per bale after it is made, leaving a net balance of $49. The farmer fancies that the bagging pav» for itself, but there is a tare of 92 pounds deducted on all cotton exported —deducted from the price of every bale of cotton, w hether consumed at home or in Europe. A half million turkeys raised by the farmers’ wives will be a labor of pleas ure, leaving three-fifths for home con sumption and two-fifths for the market. Dressed turkeys can be sold in the cities at from 10 to 15 cents per pound through the winter and early spring months, and paid for on delivery, by using systematic business methods. Ev ery city, town and village will furnish a market for them The freight on such products would be from 10 to 15 cents per 100 pounds from any county to any city in Georgia. Why should Georgia depend upon Tennessee for her dairy and poultry products, and on the west for nearly all of her mutton, beef and pork supplies? The only answer to this is that the cot ton producers of Georgia have been ex pending their entire energies on cotton for two years past, much to their own sorrow, and have had no energies to ex pend on any other product of the soil. A half million bushels of sweet potatoes can be disposed of in the same way at a stipulated price before shipment, and spot cash on delivery, and millions more for home consumption, as well as to fat ten pork and poultry. They retail today at $1 a bushel in Atlanta, and in almost every other large city in the state, and never sell below 50 cents, and farmers would not be compelled to market them at the lowest price, as they always are with cotton. It has been the custom for many years for farmers’ wives to have a "cotton patoh’’ to supply them with Christmas cash for family necessities or luxuries, but alas, like the large body of labor who "work on shares," nothing or next to nothing has been left of their “patches” after the picking and bag ging were paid for. This year let her ‘‘cotton patoh” be substituted with a flock of 100 turkeys. She will find pleasure in raising them and seeing them grow up. At an average weight of 10 pounds dressed they will net in spot cash over SIOO, equal to four bales of middling cotton at 6 cents on the plantation, besides helping in a email way to reduce the volume of Georgia cotton that has well nigh ruined Geor gia the past two years. By the end of this month an approximate estimate of the coming crop will be arrived at and by the last of May the statisticians will be able to give the exact acreage in cot ton planted, the amount of fertilizers nsed, and on these two as basis give their estimate of the coming crop in bales for 1899 aiifl 1900; the Neils among them giving a large margin to their guess work, in the interest of the cotton manufacturers of the world, and by this means robbing the cotton pro ducers of the south, as they have done in the crop of 1899. Already they are boasting and assuming that the small grain crops destroyed by the severe win ter in Arkansas, west of the Mississippi, as well as in Georgia and states east, will now undoubtedly be planted or re planted in cotton. If these predictions come true in Georgia or Arkansas it will be hailed as a snre omen for another large 4-cent cotton crop, and irretrieva ble ruin to the cotton producers. But we have an abiding faith in the cotton producers of Georgia and we shall con tinne to cherish it for one or two months longer. Georgia farmers learn nothing from didactic instruction, like school children. The intelligence of the aver age agriculturist is as broad and his mind as clear as his city merchant oousin. What he wants are cold facts in plain language, and these he can deal witli and master as easily as they are presented to him. Debt, debt, for many years has put him in the position of the most stubborn criminals a century ago. When they were enclosed in a tank, chained to a pump, and water ad mitted at a ratio faster than he oould pump it out, unless he worked with ail his might, with no volition of his own, he was left for a given time to make his choice between pumping and drowning, the guards ahke indifferent which he preferred. If he owed his creditors SI,OOO they ■ever offered to take 1,000 turkeys for the debt, nor 2,000 bushels of sweet po tatoes; if they had selected the potatoes he would have taken 20 acres of his best land, planted it with this "apple of the The elegant reception and lunch to be given the university alumni in Athens next June is being ar ranged for. The committee of Athens alumni, Messrs. C. M. Strahan, Harry Hodgson and T. W. Reed, who are in charge of the affair will take all the necessary steps to mako the occasion a most enjoyable one. Among every thousand bachelors there are 88 criminals; among ev ery thousand old maids there are ten hundred wanting to marry. earth.” worked at it with the irresist ible and untiring energy of a Georgian, ■hipped the 2,000 bushels promptly on time to lift the mortgage, and bank the other 2,000 carefully for the spring market, at 75 cents per bushel. But his creditors accept cotton only on all debts due them. All other agri cultural products are valueless. Cotton alone brings spot cash, say they, and yet the south in past years has paid ont millions annually for sun cured grass to feed the stock engaged in making cotton to glut the cotton markets of the world with. We have already shown the utter impossibility of the farmer ever being able to cancel that SI,OOO mortgage with cotton, by the actual sale of seven bales at 3 cents per pound, counting only the actual cost of picking and covering it, if to this were added the cost of picking, chopping, hoeing and cultivating, we leave others to com pute how much of the net proceed* of that seven bales would be left to credit that SI,OOO mortgage with. Let those who blame even the all cot ton farmer put themselves in his place. All cotton producers in Georgia and in all the other old cotton states east of the Mississippi have been too much on the “all cotton” plan in the past years, with Georgia far in the lead. We have tried faithfully to make this matter plain in cold facts and figures, and the necessity of raising not only au opulent abundance but a superabundance Of all food supplies for man and beast, not merely for home consumption on the farm, bur for every product of the farm that will find a spot cash market in every village, town and city in the state, and at more remunerative prices than cotton ever brought. A few only of these have been indicated by us, because every farmer can supply many addi tional products that will bring them the hard cash for himself. The farmers of Georgia are the poor est people in the state, I meau the cot ton raising farmer A woman cotton mill hand can make S3O to S4O per month, and has more money than the average farmer has seen the past two years. He has been trying to olothe the world at his own private expense. He sold m 1897 and 1898, 2,600,000 bales of his best cotton at less than 1 cent a pound He has been doing even more charitable deeds than this in 1898 and 1899, but at heavy cost to himself aud family. The facte are before you; the remedy is in your hands. If you heed them now the wrecks of the past two years may still be repaired. But if the farm ers of Georgia are saved from hopeless bankruptcy and ruin it can only come to them by a reduction of the acrege in cotton aud in fertilizers devoted to the production of ootton this year of at least one-third of each. O. B. Stevens, Commissioner of Agriculture. Treatment of Krult Trees Injured by the February Freeze, Question. —To what extent did the February freeze injure the fruit trees of Georgia, and is there any treatment for frozen tree ? Answer. —The unprecedented oold wave that swept over the state last Feb ruary greatly injured fruit trees in many sections of the state, and it is highly important that such trees should be properly treated at once, that the damage may be overcome as much as possible. Peaches, plums and figs have suffered most, while apples and pears soem to be very little damaged. Of the peaches, the Alexanders aud Tillotsons are the most injured. All of the other varie ties are greatly damaged, but to a less extent. In a great many oases the Hatsuma plum was nearly killed to the ground, while the Abundance and most of the other varieties are not so much dam aged. The damage seems to be confined almost entirely to the bearing trees. Young trees from nursery stock to 2 year orchard trees have escaped with little damage. Unfortunately the principal injury is to the trunk of the trees. The bast tissues and the cambium layer of the bark are frozen and blackened from the surface of the ground up to 12 incbeß or more, and in a few oases the bark is loosened from the trees. Us ually, however, there are about 2 or 3 inches of bark on one side of the tree that escaped freezing. This green streak of bark is usually found on the south side of the tree. In some sections, however, it is found on another side. The twigs and limbs are apparently not so badly damaged. The wood just be neath the buds is browned, and some of the twigs killed. In my opinion most of these trees may recover and be re stored to a fair condition. This, how ever, is a question. Many will undoubt edly die in the course of this summer. Trees that were badly weakened from the San Jose soale, or from the depre dations of other insects, or from neglect or otherwise, in most cases were killed beyond a doubt and should be dug up at once. The work of restoration can be greatly aided by cutting the trees back severely. Each grower must determine for himself how much must be out away, according to the extent and the location of the damage. As a rule, at least one-third of the growth of the limbs should be cutoff. In a few cases it will be wise to cut the limbs back to stnbbs about 24 inches All badly dam aged limbs should be taken out entirely. Tnis prnning will reduce the surlaoe to be fed through the roots and will stim ulate new growth of health'- wood. If the tree lives at all, it will regain rap idly its vigor and retop iself during the growing season and be prepared for a fruit crop next year. In doing this work a smooth, clean cot should be made with a saw or sharp pruning knife. The cut surface should be [fainted over with white lead to exclude the air and prevent evaporation. This work should have been done in March. However, it is not too late yet, and should be done at once. Several prominent growers have already commenced the work. Prompt action in this work may save yonr trees. Neither should cultivation be neglec ted. The trees need the best of atten tion now more tliaa ever. Orchards should be thoroughly cultivated during the season as though you expected a big crop of fruit, if cultivation is neg lected, a little hot sun and dry weather Will tell a doleful tale. State Extomolocubv. The trade in the metal buttons, in which Germany once played an important part, is now almost entirely monopolized by the Japa nese. Montgomery county’s coroner has held seven inquests in that county since Jan. 1. The strong grip of death and the murderer's avenging hand have been playing a very conspicuous part of late and the people are determined to draw a check rein on the murder ers ut the April Superior Court. Willie Garner the First Victim. Tlio following is taken from the Mason County (Tex.) News, and i« published in the News-Herald at the request of relatives in this county. A pall of gloom and sadness overspread our fair city last Sun day evening when the words went forth that “Willie Garner is dead !” 011 Friday ho was at school, seem ingly in good health, read until a late hour Friday night and re tired. Saturday he complained of a severe pain in the head; grew worse Saturday night and died at 2p. m Sunday. I)re. Grandstaff and Baze did all that medical skill could suggest, but their efforts were powerless against the malig nancy of that terrible scourge, Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. Willie Garner was born in Ma son, November 28rd, 1881, and was raised in our midst. From infancy he was a favorite with old and young alike. He was a model of politeness and impure was over known to cherish id*er than feel ings of high regard and affection toward him. He was a devoted student, always respectful and obedient to his teachers and it was his ambition to graduate from Mason High School at the close of tlte present term. In all the relations of life his walk was chaste and circumspect, and parents often pointod to him as an example of rectitude worthy of imitation by their children. His devotion to his parents was most deep and sincere, and his affection towards brother and sis ters was most beautiful to con template. His young life was in deed full of high promise, and a career of unbounded usefulness lay out befbre him which, alas! so soon was cut short by the cruel hand of Death. In the presence of a largo con course of weeping friends and rel atives, funeral services were held at the Southern Hotel by Rev. Jesse King, after which the re-j mains were borne to the Gooch cemetery followed by the longest procession ever seen in Mason. The tonderest sympathies of all our people go out to the discon solate parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. 11. Garner, and the family, in this hour of their irreparable loss. AN UNSTABLE CROWD. Mrs. Mary Ellen Leuse, Sockless Jerry Simpson and Coin Harvey appear to be very wavering in their faith. These shining lights a lit tle while ago held to certain prin ciples which they declared wore necessary to the eternal salvation of the country. They were pio neers iu the populist party and occupied front seats in the de mocracy, as constructed at Chica go less than three years ago. Time demonstrates that those lights were either not very strong in their convictions, or else they are incapable of holding to a con viction very long at one time. Mrs, Mary Ellen is out iu an in terview in which she deals harshly with some of her old political as sociates; Sockless Jerry does not hesitate to criticise and condemn the action of his erstwhile politi cal colleagues, while Coin Harvey has flung up the job which was given him of managing the desti ny of the great party which was founded by Thomas Jefferson. The recent happenings are not i-ad omens for democracy. Neith er of these illustrious wind-batters added any strength to it. On the contrary, their influence and ap proval was rather against the or ganization, for it has been known all of the time that the element represented by Lease, Simpson and Harvey was a restless, waver ing element—clamoring for tem porary expedients With not a great deal at stake, they wanted a change in policies, caring dttie whether it brought better or worse conditions. They wanted anything “or bust,” nor wanted that little long. A few more slab-off's of this kind will add greater strength to the party. The skies are bright ening daily and there is hope ahead fora rejuvenated democracy in 1900.—Valdosta Times. A Manilla dispatch says that Aguinaldo and his followers would be willing to accept an American protectionate of the' Philippines similar to the English control of the native Indian states. Well, are we not impressing it upon the Fil ipinos that we mean to govern in the Philippines about as England governs in India and Egypt? Mean time, if Aguinaldo and his follow ers have learned their lesson suffi ciently, all that they have to do to get their protectionate in short or der is to stop fighting and stack arms. —Savannah News. Our Jury System. Editor News-Herald : Please allow me space in your columns to give my views on a subject which I consider very important, to-wit: That of our present jury syskm. Now, in the first place, I believe there are more than 800 competent men in Gwinnett coun ty to sit upon a jury, and I say it is nothing but right and justice that they should be there. I believe that there should be separate traverse and grand jury boxes, with separate names in each box. If you will notice there are twogentlomen that served on the last grand jury now drawn for the petit jury, September term, to trv parties they helped get true bills against. Is that right ? There should be two traverse ju ry boxes, or a partition in one, and when a name is drawn out of one it should be put in the other, and remain there until the first box is empty. That would give to all the rights they are entitled to, and would stop so much of this “pet” business that is being carried on today. And the candidate that will pledge himself to the people of this county that he will intro duce in the legislature a bill to that effect will get a two-thirds majority. Mark the prediction. You may put it down that the man who will fight such a measure is in league with the schomers and cliques that infest our country to day. * * The White Farmer’* Burden. Speaking of the white farmer’s burden in Georgia the Covington Enterprise makes the statement that “hardly a day passes without some one loading his wagons with corn, to begin farming for the year. This means that he must continue Jto buy corn every day until fall and pay a big price for it; and then very little will be raised, because the idea is preva lent among many that cotton will pay better than corn.” Continuing, our contemporary states the cold, clammy fact that “our merchants buy nearly all of the corn that is now being used, in the West, and pay freight, dray age, storage and incidental ex penses on it, and then have to sell for a profit.” The natural conclusion of this observing newspaper is that “this is the reason that so many of the farmers find it so hard to get along and make a comfortable living for their families. If enough corn was raised by each farmer to supply his own ueods, ho would find it easier living for himself aud in a short while would be out of debt. No mau can thrive and mako money when he is compelled to buy the very things that he could easily raise on the farm, and it is only a question of time that he will be head and shoulders iu debt. Many may disagree with us, but time will prove that those who raise their own supplies at home will be in better shape than the man who makes the store house his smoke house aud pro vision pen.” Cotton is the white farmer’s burden in the south. It should be cast off, in the diversification of crops. A little in wheat, a lit tle in oats, a little in corn, a little in cotton, a little in this, that and the other crop that can be success fully grown in the south is the way to lighten Ihe load. It will not bear so hard on one place. The season is well advanced. The last opportunity is to increase the corn crop and decrease the cotton acreage on the former es timates for this year’s planting.— Macon Telegraph. Blaok Hen’s Eggs- A few days ago a woman went into a grocer’s, says the San Fran sisco Call, and said : “I want three dozen hens’ eggs. They must all be laid by black hens.” The grocer said: “Madam, I am willing to ac commodate you, but you have got the best of me this time. I don’t know how to tell the eggs of a black hen from those of a speckle or white hen.” She said: “I can tell the difference mighty quick.” “If that’s so, madam, will you kindly pick out the eggs for your self ?” She did so, and when the three dozen were counted into her bas ket the grocer looked at them aud said, suggestively: “Well, madam, it seems as tho’ the black hens laid all the big eggs ?” “Yes,” she said, “that’s the way to tell them.” uirj uin ut isrJ 1“ TU UiS litact WUuIrJISI: News-Herald j !*=” Journal, w St v ,| Only $1.25. VOL. VI.—NO 25 Politics and Spoil The organization of powerful po litical parties is natural and ine vitable. It is just as natural and inevitable that the more numerous the duties intrusted to the state— that is, the greater the spoil to be fought for in caucus and conven tion and on the floors of legisla tures —the more powerful, danger mis and demoralizing they are cer tain to be. Were these dutiescon fined to the maintenance of or der and the enforcement of jus tice, it would be an easy mat ter for the busiest citizen to give them the attention they required. When to these duties are added the management of agricultural stations, the inspection of all kinds of foods, the extirpation of injur ous iusoctß, noxious weeds, aud contagious diseases; the licensing of various trades and professions, the suppression of quacks, fortune tellers, and gamblers; the produc tion and sale of sterilized milk, and the multitude of other duties now intrusted to the government, it is no wonder that he finds him self obliged to neglect public ques tions and to devote himself more closely to his own affairs in order to meet the ever-increasing bur dens of taxation. Neither is it any wonder that there springs up a class of men to look after the du ties he neglects, and to make such work a means of subsistence. The very law of evolution requires such a differentiation of social functions and organs. The politician is not. therefore, the product of his own love of spolition solely, but of the neces sities of extension of the duties of the state. There is uothing more abnormal or reprehensible about his existence under the - present regime than there is about the physician where disease prevails. As long as the conditions are main tained that created him, so long will he ply his profession. When they are abolished he will be abol ished. No number of citizens’ unions, or non-partisan move ments, or other devices of hopeful but misguided reformers to abolish him can modify or reverse this immutable decree of social science. A4MJIN AI.IMVH IHIt. The dispatches from Manila in dicate that Aguiualdo’s army will not hold together much longer. His soldiers are tired of the fight ing, having become satisfied that they are no match for our troops. There may be two or three more engagements, and then, it is prob able, the war will be over practic ally. What is apprehended is a guerilla war which may last for years. The mountains offer a ref uge for the malcontents, and from their strongholds there they may carry on a very annoying kind of a warfare. It is probable,however, that such i terms will be made with the Phil ipinos that practically the whole population will accept them. In that event the guerilla warfare would not last very long, not hav ing the approval and support of the people. The thought has been thrown. out that, being of a re vengeful nature, the Philippiuos would never live up to any terms they might accept from us. It is doubtful if this is a correct view of the Philippino character. The better opinion is that having been thoroughly conquered they will have tar more respect for us than if we had contented ourselves with holding Manila. It is doubtful if any more troops will be ordered to Manila before it is known with certainty wheth er Aguinaldo will be able to con tinue the war beyond a few days. Extraordinary efforts are being made to get the President to call out all of the 100,000 men author ized by the army bill, but he re fuses to even consider the matter. Those who are chiefly pressing it upon the President are seeking ap pointments in the army either for themselves or their friends. The President knows, however, that if he should put the country to an unnecessary expense he would les sen his chances for being his own successor. Before the President will order a further increase in the army he will satisfy himself wheth er Aguiualdo’s army will go to pieces or hold together and become more formidable than it has yet been.—Savannah News. The London papers still contin ue the warfare agaiust the long hatpin worn by women. Many de clare that its use should be forbid den by law. , Dartmoor, which occupies one fifth of the county of Devon, ia r the largest tract of uncultivated laud in Europe.