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PASHA AND COLONEL.
EGYPT'S COMMISSIONER VISITS THE
PASHA OP OGLETHORPE*
Colonel Jim Smith Entertains Him—They
Swap Watermelon Seed and Talk Farm
ing-Cost of liaising Cotton Compared.
Pasha Maher has had an insight into cot
ton farming in Georgia. He has seen the
crop growing and has familiarized hiiuseif
with the method of cultivation in a general
way. Sunday morning he and Mr. I’icton
went out to the largest farm in the state
Colonel Jim Smith's, in Oglethorpe county—
and they got back Monday night.
The pasha has the material for a complete
report on the Georgia way of raising lite
staple, which is a great crop in his coun
try. When he returns the first thing he
will do will he to report to the khedive and
give an account of his trip to America ami
tell the young ruler some of the things he
learned here. Being a farmer on a large
scale hiiuseif and one of the three membeis
of the royal land commission, he will be
busy with'the crops and affairs of adminis
tration of his department at Cairo sot sev
eral months, but when these aliatrs are all
Arranged and in order he will go to Cot s .
tinople and report to the sultan in person.
“Osman Pasha Maher is one <>‘
guns of his countrj . He gets
vearoalary as land commissioner and -dW
acres of delta land hiniseli, and that land
is worth S3ID an acre, or tn the
aggregate. He lives in tine style in Cairo
has ids slaves and everything that heart
could wish. He is at home on farming and
knows the details as thoroughly an a Geor
gia farmer who manages his own 1’"'“ •
The purpose of the visit to an . . < v.
farm, as before mention’'i in lai C< nst.
Liti.im was to see what improve.l me th.ls
if ; .nv. are used here, ami to examine I <
inn . tieni- with a vi-w t > p.ckmg up any
j....- id.-as that might be valuame lhe
rash i ’ms s-e i a Georgia farm, but does
m.r'km iv whether he Will adopt any Amer
ican methods or not. He "ill expt-tinn
first.
A Georgia. Welcome.
Oglethorpe c .mity had previous informa
tion that the pasha was coming. ~ “ea >
ram was pouring when he and Mi. 1 c-l n .
ami a Cuusiitution representative stepped I
from the Georgia. Carolina junl Northern s
Sundav < y.-mrsi >n tram at rive L <>tks. col
onel Smith had sent over his Ira 1 " l ‘‘"
visitor- The colonel is one of the few (ai
mers in' the world who can have a
ger train of his own meet lus guests at tin
station and ride them for innes through his
own lands to his home. Colonel Smith
came down from the house to meet bls
guests who had been first recommended to
him by Speaker Crisp. All were invited up
on the front porch and the big planter made
his visitors feel at home from the first mo- |
went they shook his hand. Negro boys ,
were thick around there. It seemed as
though ail on the place wanted to get a
chance to wail on the pasha.
A waiter heaped with such grapes as are
shown in pictures of the spies returning
from Canaan was brought out. Directly a
procession of boys arrived with watermil
ons. which were duly cut. I’asha Maher
complimented Colonel Smith on both his
grapes and melons, and expressed a desire |
to have a sample of the melon seed. Melons ■
are grown in Egypt, but no finer than the
Georgia variety. The Egyptian melon is <
smaller, he said. Colonel Smith was not
very familiar with the Arabic language, but
by the assistance of Mr. I’icton interpreting
the two baronial farmers communicated
very satisfactorily. Colonel Smith gave a
servant directions on the spot to make up
packages of seed for the Egyptian. The
latter was interested in the rain. At Cairo,
or Masr as it is calks] in the native tongue,
a shower is seldom seen, ami in some parts
of the country a rain is never seen, ami
probably c.ne never did fall in upper b'g.vpt.
Kijypi *» <»p|h»riuni!y.
The pasha has traveled considerably In
his later years over Europe, but this was
lhe first Georgia rain he bad seen, and he
seemed to like to watch it. He remarked
that it saves the Georgia planter a heavy
expense which th-- Egyptian has to bear for
irrigation. He promised to us-- his influ
ence to get the reporter a contract for fur
nishing Egypt with what showers are
needed when the rain-makers get the busi
ness d >w i fine enough to guarantee success.
Th-- Cm stitution mat' offered to make
another contract with the government, and ;
that was to kill all. the cotton worms in
the khedive’s domains at so much per worm.
Paris green is not known there, and lhe
pasha inquired particularly about it and
will take - >me back in his trunks. He says
that the worm is very destructive there, and
so are the locusts. Colonel Smith told him
that parts green mixed one part with four
of cheap flour or chalk or something of that
kiwi ami sprinkle-1 on the plants early in
the morning while the dew is on the leaves
will kill all the insects, ami that even the
locusts can be got rid of that way. This
impressed the pasha and the Egyptian cot
ton worms will regret his visit to this coun
try.
In the afternoon Colonel Smith showed his
stables ami stock to the visitors, ami they
liked the arrangement of his buildings ami
complimented him on bis mules, which were
in fine condition. Then the carryall was
rolled out of the carriage house and in a
little time the party started on a drive
about the plantation. The rain had stopped
and the sun was shining. Three negroes
followed in a buggy just to bo on hand to
open gates ami to hold the team.
Owns Twenty-Five Square Miles.
Colonel Smith owns IGJHHI acres of land
in one tract lying in Oglethorpe ami Madi
son counties. His home is about the mid
dle of the tract. His possessions extend
farther than the eye can reach in any
direction from the most elevated point in
that -section. His land runs off ten miles
one way. five another ami six another. If
the tract was compact ami in a square,
each side would be five miles in length,
for he lias twenty-five miles all told in that
tract. It was out of the question to drive
anything like over it till, but the party
drove for two or three miles and saw fine
cotton everywhere. The team halted on
a high hill and the pasha got out ami
walked fop a long distance out in the field
ami examined th-- plant closely. It was
the best that ho has seen in this country,
he said, ami no doubt it is for the plant
was well grown am! healthy. Much of it
was four ami a half to five feet high ami
some taller. The owner surprised the
pasha by remarking that his six-foot cot-
h’orvous Prostration
I
Mrs. Emma Hass
Years of Suffering Ended
“ I broke down in health, lost my appetite, j
had 3 bad cough, and suffered from nervoui j
prostration. 1 read of flood’s Sarsaparilla and |
sent for a bottle of the medicine. After using It j
three days my nervea became quieted and I
Cures
regained an appetite. In a short time 1 was
able to walk, and before taking two bottles was
attending to my household duties. I am now
in better health than for years.” Mrs. Emma
Huss, Reepsviiie, N. C. Get HOOD’S
Hood’s Pills act easily, yet promptly and
efficiently, on the liver and bowels. 2uc.
ton was taller than he cared for it to be.
In Egypt the stalk grows all of six feet
and often so tall that it will hide a man
riding through on horseback.
“Our cotton does better when the plant
is not so high,’’ said Colonel Smith. “We
do not like so much weed. It takes from
the fruit, and then in this country, where
we have plenty of rain, the under fruit
would be apt to rot. Cotton needs plenty
of sun, and light ami air-”
“lu my country we do not have any
rain. There is no cloudy weather even,
and there is no harm to the plant from
tall weeds. Then the larger the weed, the
more fuel we get, and that is needed at the
pumping station to run the engine,” re
plied the pasha.
“Is there any cotton in this country
which is grown by irrigation?” he asked
No one knew of any. That was very odd
to him.
The corn, the clover, the cowpeas, every
thing he saw growing he made inquiries
about, and Colonel Smith took pleasure
in posting him on it all. The value of cow
peas impressed the visitor and he will intro
duce them in Egypt.
“You will find that they are as fine as
anything you can grow,” Colonel Smith
stated. “We eat them, we fee-1 them to
the stock as forage and we plow them
under to improve the land, and there is
nothing better unless it is clover. I be
lieve that the cowpea will do a great thing
for your land.”
I’ar from the Stars.
At night, the pasha remarked that the
stars seem fewer over Georgia than over
the country of Cleopatra.
“You are so near to them,” he observed.
And then he explained that in his country
the sky is clear and the heaven blue and
the stars glitter like so many diamonds.
It is easy to read a newspaper any night
ny the light of the stars and the moon.
'l'lie tourists who visit Egypt rave over the
beautiful starlight nights.
“Oh. they are the nights for sentiment,
for young lovers, for poetry, for serenades
ami astronomy. Our people were astron
omers from tin- ancient times. Perhaps,
they bad an advantage in being closer to
the stars than the people of other coun
tries.”
Two Sorts of Gins.
On Monday morning tho machinery was
inspected. Mr. I’ietjjn had an idea that
the Egyptian roller gin would be better
for the cotton than the Georgia gin. After
examining the seed and the gins, he con
cluded that the roller gin. such as is used
in that country, would not do here. The
Egyptian cotton has a smooth seed which
can be shaken out. It is only necessary
to shake the cotton ami the seed drop out.
Th-- merchants there object strongly to the
saw gin because it cuts ami tears the sta
ple. Their staph- is probably half an inch
longer than the staple of the Georgia up
land cotton. Colonel Smith has a large
oil mill and a refinery. In Egypt the seed
is exported. There is no cottonseed oil mill
in the country. He got a good idea of
tho process of extracting the oil. ami he
sail! the Georgia farm bale is about like
th-- farm bah- in Egypt, only the bale he
makes is larger, weighing 700 pounds.
Colonel Smith has 280 mules on bis plan
tation. SOO bead of cattle ami 400 hogs.
The visitors looked at the stock, not all of
it for it was scattered about, but they saw
a large part of it. They inspected the
dairy where he makes sixty pounds of
butter per day*, selling it for 20 to 30 cents
a pound.
The pasha was invited to take a ride on
the locomotive ami he got the first experi
ence of that kind be ever had. He thought
it was rather hot, but he stood it all right.
The party tan over a few miles of the road
ami came back and went to the convict
camp. I’asha Mayer was shown all through.
11-- went into the sleeping quarters, the
hospital, the kitchen, the storehouse and
tin- guards’ quarters and made numerous
inquiries. Colonel Smith has now in camp
about 130 convicts. He says that they do
not pay ami that he makes more money
out of his free wages labor ami would be
glad if the lease was up this year.
A careful estimate was made of the cost
of making -e-otton in this country, ind it
was found to bo on an average of S cents
per pound or within a fraction of it. for the
average farmer on average land for an
average year. Some fa-rim-rs make it for
a little less and it costs some farmers more.
Erjvpt Has ><• Advantage.
The pasha stated that if cotton gets as
low as S cents in Egypt there will be no
money in it for his countrymen. They- can
not make it for less than that, so although
they have cheap labor, there are other
things which offset that as the cost of irri
gation, lhe more frequent plowing ami the
lack of improved implements for cultivating
it. One difficulty in the way of using a
plow is that the Egyptians plant their cot
ton in rows about two feet apart each way.
Their land is perfectly level and they cheek
their laud. When the plant gets some size
the paslia doubts if a plow can be used in
it to advantage. The earth is hoed up in
ridg-'s about the plant ami the water is
allowed to flow in these furrows every ten
•lays. They are filled a foot deep. The water
is soon absorbed by the thirsty earth ami
it stands dry for ten days more. If the
Nile is low and water is a little scarce it
may be fifteen days sometimes before a
planter gets to flood his crop.
The pasha will leave for Washington to
day. He has been greatly' pleased with his
visit ami appreciated very deeply-, indeed,
the hospitality and interest of Colonel
Smith. The latter gave his guest packages
of Kolb Gem watermelon seed and some
seed from the Primus Jones melon, also
cow peas. The pasha said that he will send
Colom-1 Smith several kinds of seed to ex
periment with and they will exchange seed
from time to time ami report as to results.
Colonel Smith wants to try some Egyptian
cotton ami see how it does on this side.
Anit'i 1< an mid J'Jgyptian l-aibor.
I’asha Maher thinks the American far
mer is a great eater. After seeing how
things are running on a great American
plantation, he stated that the laborer in
this country is far better off than the
Egyptian fellah. The latter gets only about
two piasters, or ID cents, a day, while the
farm laborer in this country gets at least
50 cents. That struck the Egyptian as a
high price to pay for labor when cotton
brings only S ami 9 cents a pound. Hi- saw
how much the farm laborer has to eat, the
variety and the quality. “Many a time our
fellahs sit down to a dinner of a piece of
bread, an onion ami salt. They make a
hearty meal on this simple diet. It is cheap;
and their meals have to be. The native
peasants get little or no meat and few
vegetables. They' live in a hut, made of
sun-dried brick. The Nubians who come
down the country’ to work in the fields
make themselves a sort of mud hut. The
garment is a simple blouse, dyed blue gen
erally. «
The British Occupation.
England now has about o,l'oo troops in
Egypt. Since th.- British occupation, in
1882, the condition of things has greatly
improved. Prior to that the poor had a
rough time of it. They were heavily taxed
and oppressed beyond endurance. It was a
revolt against the usurers and oppressors
that started the rebellion. The sedition
was carefully spread until it reached all
over the country. Then came the massacre
of June 12th, when so many foreigners
were killed. The police pretended to stop
it, but really helped it on for a time. Mr.
I’icton, lhe pasha’s interpreter, was then
in the interior, he says. The pasha was
residing near and afforded him protection.
Mr. Pieton had a brother at Alexandria,
who kept sending for him to come to the
coast. So at length he ran down. Many for
eigners were killed in trying to reach the
coast. Mr. I’icton got there all right and
sent his family away. When the bombard
ment of Alexandria occurred under Gen
eral Wolseley, Mr. I’icton was on a pos
tal service vessel in the harbor of Alex
andria.
Killed the Usurers.
The occupation restored order. The Eng
lish and French took more of a hand in
managing affairs and the country is far
better off now than it was before. ’l'lie
usurers were driven out. 'Taxes are collect
ed without imposition. Formerly a collector
would come around and demand the tax of
a fellah and when it was paid giv a re
ceipt on a bit of rotten paper. In the
course of a month or two the paper would
fall to pieces and then the collector would
appear again and demand the payment over.
The poor fellow would not dare to refuse
for he would be whipped if he did. /And in
this manner the poor were robbed outrage-
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 5,18031
ously. They got tired of it and concluded
that they might as well die fighting against
it as die struggling to live under such cor
ruption.
Now the farms are cultivated better and
are more productive. The cities have been
greatly improved. The streets of Cairo and
Alexandria have been paved with slabs,
imported from Austria, and the country is
getting along fairly well. There is some
prospect that it will some day work out
of debt, but the taxes are enormous. While
in Georgia the tax on a farm is about 9
cents per acre for the average, in Egypt it
is $7.50 per acre. The tax there is 3 1-2
per cent, while in Georgia the state and
county tax together are under 1 cent on the
dollar.
F.gypttnn Railways.
The Egyptian goes away with a high
opinion of American railways. Atlanta’s
union depot, with the many' trains moving
In and out, impressed him and he got an
idea that the city is about ten times as
large at it is. In Egypt separate apart
ments are provided for the women on the
trains. The express trains are run by Euro
peans chielly, while the trains on the branch
lines an- manned by the natives chielly.
Special attention is being paid to training
the native and he is making a very good
railroad employe. Excursion rates of one
fare for the round trip are made for special
occasions. The railroads are under la com
mission, consisting of an Egyptian, an
Englishman and a Frenchman. The roads
are heavily mortgaged. There are three
classes of travel as in Europe—first, second
and third. First-class travel pays about
4 cents a mile.
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THE HAKKETT CASE
The Testimony Against the Attorney Halil to
lie strong.
Spartanburg, S. C., August 7.—(Special.)
The investigation of the case against C. I’.
Barrett et al., on the charges made against
them by- the postal authorities was resumed
before Commissioenr ( alvert this morning.
Four witnesses testified in behalf of the
government ami, as was expected, there
were some disclosures of a highly sensation
al nature. The evidence indicated a sys
tematic and organized conspiracy on the
part of Barrett and a number of fourth
class postmasters to detraud, not only the
government, by lhe falsification ol the re
turns of the cancellatioti ol postage stamps
and the illegal sale and disposition of the
same .but to defraud business houses all
over the country by the fraudulent use of
tin- mails.
Postoflices were established where not
needed through the instrumentality of Bar
rett ami the testimony tended to indicate
that this was done for the purpose of de
frauding the government and business
firms. This band operated for several years
ami the firms victimized run up into the
hundreds. Their scheme was to order goods
through the mails. All manner of merciian
dise. from saw mills, steam engines and
carriages to typewriters, crockery ware and
school books were obtained in this way.
aud upon arrival sold, the conspirators
pocketing the proceeds and the victimized
firms being left no possible way of getting
their monev. Bv some way’ theffe men se
cured rating in Bradstreet when they
were not worth sl.
It is charged that in till this Barrett
the power behind lhe throne and lurm-ned
tin- braiiits and shrewdness for the band.
I’oslotliee Inspector I’eer came here about
a month ago to investigate, and as a lesult
several fourth-class postmasters have been
arrested. The big haul, however, was Bar
rett and his ease is exciting wide ini erest
all over the state ami even in Washington,
where he is well known.
Todav's investigation showed up the
scheme’in all its details. The testimony' of
.McElrath, an ex-postmaster deposed on ac
count of fraud, developed tin- fact that af
ter getting these offices established the post
masters would every quarter give Barrett
large amounts of stamps, envelopes and
cards and he would show them how to doc
tor their returns so as to deceive the pos
tal authorities. This was characterized as
“taking a ’possum to town." . Barrett paid
most of his bills here with stamps, and it
has often been a matter of conjecture
when' he got them. The evidence also
showed that Barrett received some of the
goods gotten fraudulently and got his part
of the proceeds of the sale of the same.
The evidence tomorrow promises to be
even more sensational than today’s.
Iturrelt Bond Over.
Spartanburg, S. C.. August 9.—(Special.)—
The Barrett ease was concluded today be
fore Commissioner Calvert ami the defen
dants, Barrett and Owens, will be tried at
the present term of the United States district
court, now in session nt Greenville.
Tlie testimony today was mainly corrobora
tive of the facts already brought out.
More arrests on tiny same charge will be
made shortly.
Mrs. Winslow's Sootring Syrup Is an unex
celled medicine for children while teething.
MRS. W AI.IACE’S COOK.
Beats Her Mistress for Invading the Kitehen
ami Received Reserved Punishment.
Eexingtou, Ky., August 8.-—Mrs. Nannie
Wallace, who lives on lhe Tates Greek
pike, was seriously beaten by her negro
cook yesterday. Mrs. Wallace reprimanded
the negro woman, whose name is Anu
Brown, for some household blunder. The
Brown woman gave Mrs. Wallace to tin 2
derstand that she must keep out of the
kitchen, as she was running that herself.
In a short time Mrs. M’allace had occasion
to call the woman to an explanation for
something else, and .the woman, picking up
the rolling-pin, made for Mrs. M’allace,
knocking her down and bruising her face
unmercifully.
After the difficulty the woman left Mrs.
Wallace’s house and went across the coun
try to Mrs .Moore’s home ami engaged her
self to Mrs. Moore. Mrs. Wallace told her
son. Henry, upon his return, what the
woman bad done. Henry-procured it horse
whip and set out for the Sloore homestead.
He found the negro woman, and after tell
ing Mrs. Moore what had happened, the
lady agreed to let young Wallace settle
the difficulty’ with the cook, provided he
would take her out on the pike. This was
done, and the whip was plied Io the satis
faction of the young man. The woman
was cut severely’ by the lashes received,
but did not ha* the young man arrested,
as she did not c, .' to be punished any more
for her assault on Mrs. ’Wallace.
INDIANA u’IIITE CAI’S
Burn the House of the Canrads in Boon
Township, Kentucky,
Louisville, Ky., August 7-—The white
caps of Boone township, Ind., burned
the house of the Conrads tonight. Today
three riderless horses, owned by three
whitecappers. John Kendall. William Fish
er and William Hubbell, were found. It.
is thought their owners have been killed
by r the Conrads who have returned from
Kentucky. 'They say that they have three
more men to kill. It is thought they
are in hiding in the woods. Harrington
county- is excited as it never was before
over the murderous ambuscade, and every
body is going armed. The Conrads are
asking others to help them, and a bloody
battle is expected in the next twenty-four
hours.
Killed by XVliite Caps.
Anniston, Ala.. August 10.—(Special.)—in
formation lias just reached le t the kill-
ing of Perry Griggs, a United States deputy
marshal. Inst night in Cleburne county by
white caps, supposed to be moonshiners.
The murder occurred near Beecham post
offlee, thirty miles east of here. No other
particulars are obtainable.
Marshal J. C. Musgrove has wired his dep
uties lu re, live in number, to hold themselves
in readiness to go to Cleburne county al any
moment to arrest the murderers.
A BIG SCHEME
WHICH THE POPULISTS WILL
SPRING ON THE COUNTRY,
Plans of the Leaders and What they Claim
For it—They Expect the Support of the
Western and Southern States.
Chicago, August o.—Since the dose of the
sliver convention Mr. George E. Washburne,
of Boston, Muss., chairman of the eastern di
vision of t'he national committee of the peo
ple’s party, and Colonel A. C. Fisk, of Den
ver, Col., president of the Pan-American Bi
metallic Association, together with other
prominent jwpullsts of the west, have been
in daily consultation with leading gover i
menit officials, bankers, capitalists and rat -
road men of the west devising a g. M
railroad scheme of government os,nus P
which they think will afford hnancial r< 1 f
to the country and make at once an issue ol
two of the pet planks of -.eir P
Mr. J. H. Davis, of Texas, Who was the
popuilsit candidate for attorney ‘
year ago, and who, during his ‘huupa gn.Pto
posed a similar plan, is l ue legal eounsel sot
the populists. has
It is alleged Wrnlt the money stimg jn.
affected transpor’a’ion so
receipts on many western ‘” il * s ., ‘1 ' for
off fitly one-third, amt that lei -eD els hips tor
some ol’ them have a. ready bi n a. f.j ;
which will also mean the -nn <>f com ner
and industrial interests tn every
southern state. Mr. Washburne, «h, s
prominent business man reads
ioates that most of the
is beet in -New ’ a “* l ’.. ,-.f , ividemls
enterprises, and that the ‘os s S( . u .
amt threatened ruin is rap.d y
tirnent in that section 1“ ‘‘‘' W. f or iiimet
ownership of railroads, as wen
allisiu. .. ...
Tho I’lan to Buj' Railroad. •
The plan proposed is that ,11 [ . e Jl;'‘''.g.q and
erument sihall issue bonds I u v the
just rnd.-mudn- s. 'J’; 1 exist,
same tenure and «'> ’ , c ht . . U(oUl IW o-
The amount is os' imat • to 2 j , m
thirds of tlie value of tm ■ •>'■> t); .
issuance of legal tendm tt.asuiy r >‘ nmluiug
Silver cwtlilieates for r ., iset i t«
oueathird. Objection , one-third
the populist plan to 1 ; lU j d greatly
tn treasury notis, « 111 ‘-, 11 . .. t he' come
that this issuame of ; h qp.j . ul d inau
afford immediate ‘ln.an ml |,.|ed in
gurate a period of A,,, populists
The history of G<e world, ut “< l
do not propose that th b so gradual-
buy all tlie ratlioads. t . • IR . mo ney
ly that no shock 'D>uld bt fin ‘ roads,
market. Beginning '' tl ll * k( ', in
throughout, they would be t. K< n n y
ex u
would own the ri,llr J^’ p|r I>et Sc l>ems.
What Tltey < tor I ir ■ v
It Is claimed that, P’*’.’’J’ 1 ” rest's, and that,
tagonlze existing Ia 'w ied -ill the railroads
-dd l'r'Xrib i ;^ l V‘a,,d- l <muhi i .;e /1 sed ( by
,f Also-Jlmt urn
tion and tn tins way u ll 4 ) n nd provide
t»eir pn-sent ein^-tft!? Ul ‘‘mfXrer’s
an *< <l*ll tion.u ih.uk* i ...i.,. rpiii’iin mid
n would
that, inasmm h . . saving tn high
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’i’/X-portaliott rates in favor of trusts and
syndicates - third.
mers favor it be,x7ttse they would get
fnd.’h ra es which would not be al the
tr'tffie w mid bear, and thereby absorb all
he r nroits Mr. Washburne will leave for
W: :: l .' l ’t' ( m ,,n to b ’Xn'sK 'atH smern’e the
su'pport' of western and southern congress
men.
HOW WYOMING STANDS-
Tho State -May be Depended Upon to Actwlth
the bemuiirotn.
Cheyenne, Wy<>., August 3.-Special Cor
respottdeuce.)-AN hile reckoned one of the
least of the Stab’S ot our union m point <>t
age, population ami development. Wyoming
notwithslnmiing. Ims had political l ‘ x l’'"
riencis. during lhe past two years, as in
teresting and propitious as the greatest
among veteran states. Ln none ol thost,
infant umpires admitted to statehood din
ing the recent republican administration has
the democratic sun risen faster, or now
sheds forth brighter rays ot promise ha
in this; while none offer a chapter ot local
politics with as many interesting develop
ments. Certainly no other state that came
in under the Harrison midwifery has pro
duced more republican chagrin by reason
of espousing democratic doctrines, that
Wyoming is to be a democratic fortress
henceforth there is little room to doubt.
It is hardly necessary to recall th. close
indentitv between democracy and .he so
i-aiieii third party in Wyoming, as in oilier
Rockv mountain states. Practically m
makeup, principles and action they -ire one.
Many iniluential democrats were willing
enough to be called populists, thil 1 L'i-lty
men or what not. so a ?
democratic principles were fought tor, and
the back of the republican hyena could be
broken. The essence and not the name
was the thing sought for. And although
the state gave a Weaver ami Field electoral
billot it was as thoroughly' a democratic
victory as the “70,(W’ of Georgia. It
was the democratic leaders who headed
th movement; it was the democratic voters
wlio augmented the slough oft from repub
licanism by marshaling recruits to the pop
ulist hanner; and the local blessings ac
cruing to the people of Wyoming are as
thoroughly’ democratic as the shades of
Jefferson.
General John ('Jiarles Thompson, of
Cheyenne, reorganized as, perhaps, the
strongest democratic leader of the state,
makes the following observations for The
Constitution, setting forth the western in
terpriU at ion of recent affairs and present
conditions:
“The tidal wave which made Mr. Cleve-
'' New Cinderella. ';
■ r , *rasc The ugly step-mother and two sisters tall
> / I’Had gone in their coach to the young prince’s ball. ’
I /' \ tn&A rWJust like tlie old story well-known to us ail. ' ’ ,
//I M And left little Cindy alone
»l' the ashes,
To mourn while her sisters were otf making mashes, RSySgrA "w\jswsg
X In pink muslin gowns, and blue satin sashes. jjgSsy*2SW I- jragWjj |
’ “Ere you go to the ball, scrub all the doors, KSK>hwS^'>//;
Scrub all the windows, scrub all the floors.” W 7*
This, their command when poor Cindy implores. wtHiw
> But her god-mother said: “Come Cindy dear, bustle!
|
1 in, sit there aud cr X without moving a muscle i” ’ >
fowl In less than an hour her hard task was done.
‘ K^WvwSr*-'- jfl In blue silk, and diamonds that shone like the sun
’ Slie danced at b*^ l, and tlie P r ihce’s heart won. *
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J Buy a package of GOLD DUST,
; You'll And it will pay.
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St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Montreal.
lan tithe nominee of the demociM c p “
and rolled up such a poptihir xo .. ™
toral majority for him as pies *> 110I 10 ”
a western standpoint—is u. llll1 ’ r ‘ ll ,
mean that there is a. 0,. T; n fted
termination among the masses n th. I n >
States to rebuke nnd cast <low na< urn.
politics. Again, me sentiment In u, ■i»{.i
bly among democrats and popuhsts,.i I.i so
very appreciably' among the republican-,
was to emphasize Hie absolute n . ece ; s, ?
for tariff reform ami reduction, to nine
the burdens lifted from the consumption ot
those things which enter »ib> the <a 5
use of the producing classes of the nat •
In other words, it was an endorsement
of Mr. Cleveland’s bold, broad and patii
otic message to congress on larili in *• >
which is truly said to have been the <-:inse
of his defeat four years ago. ’l he states
ntanship of his tariff policy, while it. di<
not reach the inlellect and conscience ot
the nation then, entered into the body po*
litic as a leaven, and became sp.’cific medi
cine before ’92. Even the republicans ot
Wyoming now admit that the party under
the lead of McKinley had carried protection
to the ultimate of insanity.
“Yet, there is no sentiment in the west
in favor of free trade, or even such a radi
cal annihilation of the tariff policy' of the
government as to destroy or damage le
gitimate industries. Further, while great
fear was felt that Mr. Cleveland was com
mitted to gold, to monometallism, yet his
honest, aide and sturdy character and
tor.uigh devotion to republican ideas of
government, convinced all that, as the chief
executive of the nation, he would yield his
personal convictions on finance to the will
of the American people, expressed at the
polls, and carried out in congress by their
representatives. In other words, they be
lieved. and still confide in the opinion, that
he will not veto a free silver bill, unless
there are vital and valid constitutional
objections to it.
Ttie Populist Future.
“Upon the relations of the democratic
and third parties of the west in future
campaigns, General Thonqison puts the case
curtly:
"1 lie future of the populists in the west
will be entirely dependent on two things:
\\ hether lhe democrats now in charge of
the government rescue it from the commer
cial uses to which it has been prostituted
and, as well, upon the nature of Mr.
Cleveland’s administrative policy on lhe
.silver question. The meat upon which the
populists feed is the pervading fear that
the democrats tts Well as the republicans,
are in the hands and under the control of
eastern monopolists and the money power.
I’roper tariff reform and reduction would
remove the first, and Air. Cleveland's as
sent to a free silver coinage act would elim
inate the other.
"Unless, within the lease of power they
now hold, the democrats meet the wishes
of the poor and suffering producing masses
of the American people, their usefulness
will be destroyed, and the very' existence
of the organization, as a potential political
factor, will be jeopardized. Another organ
ization, founded on lhe same correct prin
ciples of democracy, and with bolder, sin
cerer devotion to their execution, will, in
the event of such lamentable recreance to
duty, entirely supplant, if it. does not whol
ly’ destroy, (lie democratic party, as the
republican party has recently been sup
planted by it. The populists will have
time to eliminate all communistic falla
cies and get down to the bedrock of dem
ocratic principles. And this will come
about naturally' and swiftly, should de
mocracy fail in its certain duty. It is
to be hoped that our party will hew to the
line—retaining the western populist en
dorsement and co-operation as an integral
part of itself.”
W ill V’r ait for the Decision.
Gheyenne. Wyo.. August 9. —The governor
lias decided not to appoint any one to the
senatorship made vacant ny the resignation
of A. Beckwith, until lhe senate shall
have decided the question whether or not a
senator appointed after the failure of the
state legislature to elect is entitled to a seat.
MATERIAL FOR WHITE CAI’S.
A Brutal Husband Whips His Wife and Sub
jects Her to Indignities.
Evansville, Ind-, August 8. —The peo
ple of Dale, located on the Louisville,
Evansville and St. Emtis railroad, between
Lincoln and Huntingburg, are worked up
to a high pitch over the conduct of Jacob
Webey, a farmer in that vicinity His
wife swore out a warrant for his arrest,
charging him with gross brutality.
Webey was'aiTested.
His wife avers that he stripped her and
whipped her with a blacksnake whip be
cause she was too weak to clean some
debris out of a brook on the farm. Blood
was drawn from her body ami limbs be
fore the woman escaped from the house.
She was pursued a considerable distance.
Her cries of pain and terror aroused some
neighbors, and through their intervention,
Mrs. Webey succeeded in returning home
and donning' her clothes.
Webey was threatened with bodily' harm
if he again raised his hand against his
wife. The next day these same neighbors
insisted upon the lady having her husband
arrested. It also developed in the tes
timony that Webey' has subjected his wife
to disgusting indignities for some time,
but she has bourn them in silence. ‘Webey
was lined SIOB. There is a band of white
caps not far from Dale, ami the belief is
that they will get Webey if he cuts any
more capers.
WASDOITS IN THE WEST.
Trains Tied Up—Pueblo, California, Sub
merged.
Santa Fe, N. M., August 9.—Five days’
mail was this morning brought from Grant
and Sierra counties. Trains are tied up at
Silver City, N. M., Hillsboro and interior
points by ’washouts on the Silver City, Dem
ing and Luke Valley branch. Between Kin
son and southern points there are also
breaks. On tlie Southern I’acilic. just west
of Deming, seven miles of track is goue and
no trains have passed for four days. On Hie
Texas Pacific, east ot Bl Paso, trains began
running again yesterday, after a four days’
tie up. The Mexican Central has also suf
fered damage from a cloudburst.
Pueblo, Cal.. August 9.—Another big
flood came down the Arkansas last night,
the water rising eight feet in an hour. The
lower part of the city was submerged nnd
the tracks of the Missouri Pacific and Itio
Grande railroads were covered by several
feet of Wati’l’ and badly damaged. The
approach to tho Eighth street bridge was
washed away for fifteen feet. Three city
and five railway bridges were damaged by
extensive washouts. Tlie loss will be heavy’.
A Sprightly Old Bridegroom
City of Mexico, Mexico, August B.—One of
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girl of sixteen, rich and belonging to one of
tlie first families in Minatitian. He took
tho precaution of getting himself baptized
half an 'hour before the ceremony.
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