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Washington Letter.
Prom Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., June 16,1890.
Paradoxical as it may appear, the
recent extreme warm spell seems to
have cooled public interest in the pro-
ceediogs of Congress, and thinned out
that body to about the required nuui-
THE OCONEE RIVER.
Extracts from the Report of tho Ex-
amiiation and Burvey by Lieut-
Carter, Corps U. 8. Engineers.
The Oconee River rises in the northeast-
ern part of Georgia, Hows In a southeast
erly direction, and unites with tho Oemul-
gee to form the Altamaha. In the upper
portion of tho stream the slope is verv
her to constitute a quorum and trans- 1 f r , ettt and the channel is obstructed bv
act business. The old adage that "he i 6 ”^ 801 , rock and bars of saud and gravel,
who can wait will eventually get anv- ! i ower P° rt| un of the stream tho
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and sand-bars. 1 ho river Mows tiiroug n
the w ro-grass and long-ieafed pine belt of
the istate of Georgia. Lumber and naval
EDITORIAL. GLIMPSES
The Seventh Georgia regiment will
have a reunion at Decatur, July
21st.
Ice sells in New York this summer
at doable the price paid for it in Au
gusta.—News.
The Senate passed the- silver coin
age bill. The west and south voted
together on the bill.
Remember that it’s a good plan to
watch for your comrades’ virtues and
and your own vices.
The census now being taken is ex
pected to show a population of more
than 2,000,000 for Texas.
Don't think you are a pattern by
which men should be cat oat. May
be you are a bad job, anyway.
The Central Railroad & Banking
Company have declared a dividend of
4 per cent, payable on and after Jane
23d.
The AUianeemen of Bibb held a
meeting last Saturday and unani
mously endorsed Col. Tom Harde
man for Governor.
A philosopher who has kept his eyes
open says: “Give me more taffy
while I am with you and less epita-
phy when I am gone.”
Atlanta gets about $75,000 a year
out of its barroom licenses. Macon
has as many barrooms as . Atlanta
and gets less than one-tenth that rev
enue from them.
The letter of Mr. E. P. Speer, of
Washington City to the Atlanta Jour
nal, published elsewhere in this issue
of our paper will be found interesting
and instructive.
Henry M. Stanley, the great Afri
can explorer was married in London
last Friday to Miss Dorothy Tennant.
Col. Stanley waited a long.time be
fore stepping off.
CoL B. W. Wrenn, general passen
ger and ticket agent of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road, has been appointed by Gov
ernor Gordon to a position on his
staff.
A Baltimore banker, General S. S.
Brown, who died recently, leaves by
the terms of his will $1,000, $500 and
$250, to each of his clerks, who have
been in his employ ten years, five
years and under that time respective-
!y.
One of the first women to preach in
Kentucky was Mrs. L. M. Wosley of
Coneyville, who was licensed to fill a
pulpit by the Kentucky Presbytery
three years ago. She has been suc
cessful in her religious work ever
since.
It is positively asserted, says the
Louisville Courier Journal, that Na
poleon Bonaparte, George Washing
ton, U. 8. Grant, Jay Gould, Mark
Twain, Longfellow, Daniel Webster,
Jim Blaln and R. B. Hayes were all
book agents at one time in their
lives.
Mary Anderson was married in
London Tuesday to Mr. Jose deNa-
varro. It was a quiet wedding, at
the little Roman Catholic chapel near
the home of Dr. and Mrs. Griffin, the
step-father and mother of Miss Ander
sen The brilliant actress has said a
Anal good-bye to the stage, and her
highest Ambition now is to be a good
wife. A host of friends in this coun
try wish her abundant success in that
role.
The Muscogee grand jury passed
^“We recommend that the members
elected from Muscogee county to the
general assembly, at the ensuing elec
tion in October next, be requested to
use their influence to prevent the is
surance of free passes by the various
lailroads of the state to, or the ac
ceptance of the same, by the legisla
ture. as we consider such usage a
great public evil. We further be
lieve a salary instend of diem pay
rill tend to remedy the evil of exten-
sessions, and recommend that
hey favor the same.
demonstrated than by the action of
the present Congress. The old hands,
the queen been, the old shephard dogs
of the flock, have acquired to a great
extent what they have panted for,
and are now dozing amid leafy bow
ers along the sea. While the public
is anxious to have all discussion drop
ped is the opportunity for the medioc
rity of the national legislation to ap
proach the second table and reduce
the surplus. The action is compara
tively unnoticed, uncared for and un
sung. Many millions of dollars are
appropriated every day, with a brief
word of explanation made by the
members in charge of a bill regarding
its contents. When the members of
either House are sufficiently aroused,
they direct their shafts uf wit aud sar
casm at the other branch respecting
its want of deliberation in passing
bills and appropriating the'public
funds. They are equally guilty, how
ever. The House has charged the
Senate with passing bills at the rate
of 120 per iniuute. Its record iu pass
ing public laws has been shown to
have exceeded this rate, but wasn’t
as fast as that of the House. The
private bills are usually disposed of
ou evening sessions, when they are
dumped, like a load of coal iu a bunch.
The republicans of Congress seem to
act as if they were preparing to break
up camp, and were perfectly regardless
of the furniture. They have certainly
acted in a manner this session that
would justify such a feeling of despair
on their part. They have planned for
the appropriation of enough money,
this session to pay the National
Debt. After they go out, at the
neit election they will probably try
to raise a sentiment against their suc
cessors on account of a lack of money
to discharge public obligations and
individual hopes, created by the gang
last discharged.
The House silver bill has been re
ported back favorably from the Fi
nance committee to the Senate and
offered as a substitute,!by Mr. Morrill,
for the Senate bill. It contains im
portant amendments that materially
alter it in a direction unsatisfactory
to the free-coinage men. The provis
ion making the certificates legal ten
der is struck out; also that making
certificates redeemable la bullion at
the option of the Secretary of the
Treasury; and the section providing
that when the market price of silver
is $1.00 for 371:} grains ofsilver.it shall
be lawful to receive bullion for coin
age, and the purchase of bullion be
suspended. He was followed by Mr.
Evarts, who gave a very interesting
review of the history of silver legisla
tion. He said that in 1873 the two
inetals, gold and silver were on a par
ity, and had been since 1803. That no
trade or law of nature had broken
that parity but that It had been ac
complished by the “wit and wisdom of
man.” That in 1873 Congress, while in
a hypnotic condition, had passed the
law demonetizing silver, which eventu
ally reduced It 30 per cent in value.
Mr. Vance followed him in denouncing
that act of Congress and said that
the tariff laws had contributed furth
er lu spreading bankruptcy and ruin
amongstthe farming community.
Speaker Reed, last week, announc
ed the appointment of Mr. Mills of
Texas to the committee on rules. He
declined to serve. His friends say
that his refusal to serve on a commit
tee with the Speaker is based upon
personal grounds. The peculair rul-
ings of the Speaker during the pres
ent session, and his utter disregard of
the ordinary courtesies due the mi
nority has provoked a feeling of un
friendliness on the part of Mr. Mills
that would make service on the same
committee distasteful to him.
A caucus of the republicans will be
held on about the 18th, to consider
suggestions to be offered by the spec
ial committee now struggling with
the subject of Federal elections. A
bill will undoubtedly be provided con
taining the supervisory provisions
and the worst features of the bill in
troduced by Messrs. Rowell, Lodge
and McComas.
The conference report of the anti
trust bill has been rejected and an
other conference ordered with in
structions from the House committee
to recede from the House arnend-
m Edward K. Valentine, the republi
can nominee has been elected Ser-
geant-at-Arms of the Senate.
The House devoted most of Satur
day in paying tributes to the memo
ry of the fate Samuel J. Randall. The
principal oration was delivered by
Mr. O’Neil of Pennsylvania, who was
followed by many others In unstinted
praises of the late statesman.
Did you know this? Paste it in your
scrap-book.
The last day of February and the
4th of Jaly always occur on the same
day of the year. The same is true of
May Day and Christmas.
“How do the evening papers man
age to get their five o’clock editions
on the street at two o’clock?”
‘That’s enterprise,my, boy!”-Wasp.
storo Interests are Increasing in impor-
each year and good farm lands are
abundant and cheap. The country drain
ed by the Oconee river has comparatively
few railroads and is dependent very largo-
y on the river for the transportation of
Its products to market.
„, Bflt !5!2 r L 1841 about $45,000 were
expended by the State In the Improvement
of this river, and between 1874 and 1886
about $8,575 were expended by the Oconee
“team-boat Company oetween Lublin and
the Central Rail road Bridge, a dlstanoo ot
28 miles,
In obedience to the Instructions of Con
gress an examination of tho Oconee River
from Mllledgevllle to the mouth was made
under the direction of General U. A. Gil-
moro, of the Corps of Engineers, In LB74,
and the cost of securing a low-water chan
nel 3 feet deep was estimated at $10,500.—
1 he river was recommended as not worthy
°f .improvement. In 1878 the first appro
priation ’or this work was made by Con
gress, and the original estimate of cost of
securing a 3-foot low-water channel was
Increased to $15,000. This was found to be
totally inadequate, and in 1880 the amount
was Increased to $50,000, and In 18t>8 to
$100,000.
The appropriations made by Congress
for this river up to the present date ag
gregate $45,000 and more than $31,000 have
have been expended. $1,500 or which wore
applied to that part of the river between
Hkull Bhoals and tho Georgia Railroad
Bridge.
As a result of the work dono boats were
enabled, when operations were suspended
n 1885, to run at a stage of water 4 feet
lower thun before the Improvements were
begun, although Irregular and Insufficient
appropriations have made It Impossible to
secure the most suitable working plant or
to use economically that on hand.
The river and harbor act of August 5,
188G, appropriated $1,500 to be expended
between Skull Shools and tho Georgia
Railroad bridge.... Between the bridge
and MUIedgevtile the slope of tho river Is
very great and tbe channel Is obstructed
by shoals tbe Improvement ot which would
be very expensive, and not justlfled by the
present or prospective commerce.
The area of the river basin below 'MU-
ledgevllle Is 2,610 square miles. The river
valley
above
lT . iqi
valley |n this section Is wider than that
Mllledgevllle, and is oovored by for
ests of oak, maple, sycamore, gum, cy
press, cot tou wood and willow. The adja
cent country Is not only excellent farming
land, but contains Immense quantities of
yellow pine which reaches a market by
being rafted down the river to the coast.
The distance from Mllledgevllle to the
mouth of tho river, measured along the
channel, is 149.3 miles, and the low-water
is 158.5 feet, an average of 12.72 inches per
mil -. The slope is nearly uniform from
Mllledgevllle to the river’s mouth
The ordinary low-water discharge of the
Oconee river is sufficient, if properly di
rected and conlined, to nfford a navigable
channel 3 feet deep at summer low water
between Mllledgevllle and the river’s
mouth. This depth Is sufficient for the pres
ent and prospective commercial demands.
1 ho river, once cleared of tho most trou
blesome und dangerous logs and snags,
will require a snag-boat for perhaps only
two or three months of each year, making
the probable cost of maintenance of the
completed work from $3,000 to $5,000 an
nually.
The value of tho present annual com
merce upon this river Is about $1,000,000.
The population of the counties border
ing upon tho Oconee river at and below
Mllledgevllle Is estimated at 90,000, and*
the total value of personal und real pro
perty at about $11,000,000.
The value of the farm products In this
region for the year 1889 amounted to about
$4,000,000,
'The area of the section of country natu
rally tributary to the Oconee river Is about
1,900 square miles. The railroads of this
region all cross the river valley nearly at
right angles to Its length and do not offer
suitable facilities for collecting the pro
duce or supplying the needs of the river
districts lying between them- Were the
Oconee river placed In good navigable con
dition from Milledgevllle to its mouth It is
probable that the present river commerce
would be Increased at least three-fbid.
It would render accessible a large supply
of various kinds of timber: woifid further
stlmulate'tbe'rapldly growing agricultural
Interests and effect a reduction of freight
rates over the tributary river basin.
In view of the facts collected, the Oconee
River Is considered worthy of Improve
ment from Mllledgevllle to Its mouth, with
a view to obtaining a navigable channel 3
feet in depth at ordinary summer low
water.
The cost of the Improvement Is estima
ted, in round numbers, at $171,000.
MILLEDOEVILLE TO CENTRAL BAIL BOAD
Bridge.
From Mllledgevllle tq the Raft there la
plenty of water; but trouble may be wit
nessed at the former place at very low
water. Just at tbe head of the Island be
low tbe highway bridge there is a depth
of only about 4 feet of water, and as It was
reported tbat’trouble was experienced here
at very low water thte place should be Im
proved. It Is sand bottom with some small
rocks intermingled. The direction of the
ourrent is toward the west side of the Is
land, but the greater part ot the water
goes on tho east side, the channel on that
side being the wider. The fall here is 0.15
foot In 400 feet
The reach just below this Island has only
about 5 feet of water, and might cause
trouble at very low water. Tho bottom is
sand, the fall 1.61 feet in 4,000 feet. No
Improvement Is here recommended.
The raft Is an nocumulation of logs,
trees, Umber, and drift-wood. The heav
ier porUon of the trees and Umber re
main at the bottom and thus prevents
freshets from washing It away. This
raft must be of recent formation, as Mr
Gould makes no mention of It in his report
ofan examination made by him in 1874, yet
the lower part of tho raft is considerably
grown up with willows. The water being
up while I was at this place, It was impos
sible to make a close estimate of the ma
terial to be removed, but as near as I could
judge there were about 3,000 pieces, most
ly trees. It Is my opinion, however, that
It would be cheaper to move this material
than to make a cut around It, as the short
est possible cut would be about 800 feet.
The fall is so great here (about 2% feot)that
a cut would not be adralsable. A dam at
the upper end of the raft closing Sween
ey’s cut should be made, length 100 loet.
Considerable water goes through this cut,
but It being all choked up with fallen troos
no boats can pass this way. It Is’ onlarge-
tug very rapidly.
THE FEDERAL ELECTION LAW.
A SYNOPSIS OK THK MKASURK.
The principle features of the meas
ure, comprehensively stated, are as
follows: The chief supesvisors of
elections in judicial districts are
eharged with the execution of the law,
which is to apply to federal elections
in cities of 20,000 idhabltants or up
ward, aud in entire congressional dis
tricts, exclusive of such cities, upon
application to the supervisor by 100
voters*, or in counties or parishes
forming part of a congressional dis
trict upon application from flfty vo
ters. The supervisors are to guard,
scrutinize and supervise the registra
tion and every act incident connected
with the registration and plans for
ascertaining who are legal voters.
Upon notice from the chief, supervi
sors the United States circuit courts
are reqoired to open for the purpose
of transacting registration and elec
tion matters. The supervisors are to
be appointed by tho circuit courts,
three in each election district or vo
ting precinct, hut two of whom are
to he of the same political party.
DUTIES OK THE SUPERVISORS.
The supervisors are to attend all
registrations in their districts, chal
lenge persons, personally inspect aud
copy original registration hooks and
papers, attend elections and expose
nproper nud wrongful manipulation
of the lists. In case of the failure
of local election officers to put the
statutory oath to a cbnllanged voter
and to pass at ouce upon his qualifi
cations, then the supervisors are to
apply the test and recieve and depos
it the vote, making a list of all such
challenges. They are also to person
ally Inspect the ballot boxes
elections, keep independent ballot
lists and Inclose rejected votes (Indor
sed with the name of voters in en
velopes.) In addition to these duties
the supervisors are required to make
in towns of 20,000 people and upward
thorough house to house canvass
before the election to inform voters,
upon inquiry, where and in wiiat box
to deposit their ballots, and to scru
tinize naturalizations.
CANVASSING THK VOTE.
In canvassing votes tlie state law's
are to govern; except that all ballots
are to be counlod by tens, first hv an
Inspector of election, and second by
the supervisor, local election officers
and supervisors Keepingseperate tally
sheets which are to be compared and
the result, publiouly announced.—
Ballots deposited in the wrong box
are to he counted. Returns are to
be made bv the supervisors in dupli
cate to the clerks of the United
States circuit courts aud to the chief
supervisor, who is to tabulate and
refer them to the United States board
of canvassers of the congressional
vote, which it to he appointed by the
United States circuit court, and con
sist of three citizens of tile state and
persons of good repute, not more
than two of whom are to be of the
same political party. The board is
to convene ou Nov. 15 each even year
and is to declare und certify the re
sult of the election, and send, one re
turn to the clerk of the House of
Representatives, one to the governor
of the state and one to the proper
chief supervisor of elections. The
clerk of the house is to place ou the
Roll of members-elect the names of
the persons declared elected by the
United States canvassers fu case
there is a difference in the result
reached by them and by tho state
election oflicers.
THE PENALTIES.
A penalty of between $1,000 and
$5,000 is provided ia case the clerk
neglects this duty. All ballot boxes
are to be clearly inscribed with their
nature, and the boxeB are to be kept
in plain sight and open to inspection.
Bribery or an attempt at bribery of
voters or election officers is made pun
ishable by a fine of not more than
$5,000 or imprisonment for not more
than five years. Like severe punish
ment is provided for false registration
and voting, repeating, corruption of
supervisors or voters, improper con
duct of election officers, false canvass
ing, ballot-box stuffing, fraudulent
ballot distribution, resistance to
supervisor’s lawful command, breach
of the peace at a registration or elec
tion, intimidation and almost every
known kind ot election frauds.
The bill has been agreed upon by a
caucus of the republican party.
The Graduate’s Daddy.
Just now our esteemed oontempara
ries are devoting no small share of
their valuable space to the college
graduate.
It will strike the thoughtful reader
that people generally are disposed to
on
§ ive too must:
ive the young man
advice to the graduate,
ig man a chance. He
is by no means the bookish dreamer,
or the conceited dude, thut some
E ersons would make him out. He
as not been buried iu his text-books
for the past four years. On the con
trary, he has been talking politics,
reading newspapers, developing his
muscles, and taking very aotive inter
est in every-day affairs of life. He
knows many things that are not ein
braced in his regular course of study.
It is not accessary to advise this
bright and practical youngster to
forget certain things that he has
learned. He will forget easily
enough. Nor will it do any good to
preaoh to him about bis mission. He
will find it sooner or later.
If we felt disposed to give the grad
uate any advice It would be to sug
gest to him to take a few weeks off to
get acquainted with his daddy, who
by this time is almost a stranger to
him. The young oollegian will And
the old man worth studying. His
garments are not out in the latest
style. Perhaps he wears a slouch hat
and has horny, brown hands. He
may seem a little out of place In a cir
cle of gay fashionables. But, for all
that, this plain old daddv. with the
traces of time and care in bis wrinkled
face, is a man among men. His lov
ing thoughtfulness, industry and
thrift gave thegraduate his education
and paid for It. •
The old man then is worth study
ing. His head may not he full of fan
ey points of culture, but it is a hard
and wise head all ttie same. Tin*
graduate may be thankful if be lias
one that will do hiiu us much service.
It is quite a drop to come down from
the study of the world’s most famous
men to this wrinkled aud brown-
handed farmer who has left ids cotton
field to attend commencement, but
weliave uo hesitation in telling the
Shameful Gift Taking.
From the Chicago ilea rid.
John Wanamnker’s gift of a $20
000 cottage at Cape May to Mrs. Ben
jauiin Harrison, aud the Utter’s
prompt acceptance of the gratuity
easily make up the most shamefnl in
cident of nn administration that has
been more scandalous and disgraceful
than anything that the country has
ever seen since the second term of
Grant.
It Is bad enough that. John Wana-
maker, who raised a gigantic corrup
tion fund in 1888, should have been
paid for ids services by au appoint
ment to the cabinet, but it is even
worse that he should characterize his
official career by making such gifts
to the wife of the man who placed
him, and that his insulting generosity
should be accepted without a blush.
With this wretched example in high
places we may look for a speedy re
vival of gift giving and gift-taking
It is an easy desoeut fro.u cottages by
the sea to bull pups and packages bv
greenbacks.
The tone of the Harrison oil mi ids
tration was pitched lower than that
of any other within the memory of
the present generation. It entered
office bound and gagged by the cor
rupt and ylcious elements of the par
ty. It lias gone speedily from bad to
worse. The gift-taking stage hag
now been reached. A year more and
we shall hear of the sale of of
fices, a safe burglary or two, and
probably a Credit Mobilieranda sala
ry grab.
—
From the Hon, \V. C. P. Breckinridge’s
Philadelphia Speech.
“I sec some humble home where &
God fearing brend-winner is begin
niiig to get old; gray hairs have gath
ered about an iiouest forehead, tbe
joints of the bones of the Angers are
getting stiff; the morning has been
bleak and the day has been shady,
and the fire is out of the furnace und
the lips are silent,and he comes there to
a home where there is scarcely a hand
ful of lire anil still less to eat. tit 6
some bright girl 14 or 15 years of age,
with the bloom of youth on her
of intelleot iu
gifted graduate that, If he desires toi cheeks, and the beauty
make a man of himself in an honest] her eye, has been thinking and pray
way, lie cannot afford to disregard
the old man’s principles und meth
ods.
Tills old-fashioned and half-forgot
ten daddy is not saying much. He
feels that he must first get acquainted
with ills brilliant son. But his whole
life is a volume of advice. lie has let
speculations alotie, and has been sat
isfied (o make himself independent
and comfortable by hard work and
thrift. He has stuck to the church
of his fathers, aud has never been
bothered by agnostics, or any of the
modern philosophers. He has made
his word us good as his houd iu busi
ness transactions, aud bus never gone
buck i.n a friend. He lias humbly
served his God and his country, doing
his doty as he saw it, and while there
are richer and more distinguished
men in iiiscountry, not one is more
widely loved and respected.
This is success In its highest and
best sense. If the young man who is
leaving college to go out into the
world lias a glimpse of the truth if
he sees the beauty and strength aud
nobility of this quiet life of honest
toil, the chauces are that lie will get
ou the right track and stay there.
Tim graduate will find his old dad
dy his best model. If he follows in
his footsteps he will not go very
far wrong.—Constitution.
♦ ♦ ——■—
Dr. T. 0. Powell.
eye
ing all day, and she comes and gives
her young life to the starving raiui
ly who ’go in the morning to the
factory. And I bowed my head ami
vowed to God that if I could I would
keep such girls from the shop and
send them to school.”
Washington, D. O., June 14. -Dr.
T. O. Powell, superintendent of the
Georgia Asylum for tlie insane, is in
Washington to-day, accompanied by
Mrs. Powell.
He has been up to Niagara, N. Y.
attending the annual meeting of asy
lum Superintendents. Their next
meeting will bo held in this city, and
the following year Dr. Powell hopes
to have the association meet iu At
lanta.—Atlanta Journal.
Texas is likely to have a Hogg for
its next Governor.
Early for watermelons in Middle
Georgia were those reported by the
Sandersville Progress last Tuesday,
June 17th. Tbe Progress says:
Mr. J. T. Blount brought to the
city yesterday morning two water
melons—one weighing 35 pounds and
the other 40 pounds. He has a pretty
large field of them.
“Miss Antique is delirious. The
doctor says it is the result of great
joy.”
“What caused it?”
“The census taker asked her if there
were any other young ladies in the
house.”—Boston Herald.
Au unpleasant Incident of the Sun
day School picnic from Cedartowu
last week was a genuine case of snake
bite. A full grown moccasin struck
Mr. Alonzo Hunt on the wrist witii
all of his fangs. He was promptly
dosed with whiskey, and though
lie 1ms been a pretty' sloly young limn,
lie Is on a fair road to recovery now
A sail accident occurred at. tilt
home of Mr. A. M. Blake, at Calhoun
a day or so ago. Wade Blake had
just returned home from a military
school, anil was showing his younger
brother how to drill with a gun.
Tho weapon was llred and Charlie
was killed with buckshot, the load en
tering his left breast. He fell nud
died ina few minutes.
The papers are just running a nice
in the wit and huuior line. See here
The tules that people tell us
Oft, cause our tears to flow:
But it takes the wasp to get there
With his little tall of woe.—Cnatter.
Victor Meyer, a German scientist,
is confident that chemistry will yet
enable us to make bread out of wood.
Will this raise the price of board?-
Texus Siftings.
First Doctor—Say, there’s an un
licensed physician in town curing peo
ple right and loft.
Second Doctor-Curing people? Goo<3
gracious! We must have him arrest
ed.—New York Weekly.
A lively new paper in Indianopalis
is called The Ram’s Horn. Our Ger
man contributor says it is “sheep
at two dollars a year.—Norristowu
Herald.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
Is Superior to Every Other Known.
The United States Official
Investigation
Of Baking Powders, recently made, under authority of
Congress, by the Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, D. C., furnishes the highest authoritative informa
tion as to which powder is the best. The Official Report
Shows the ROYAL to be a
cream of tartar baking pow
der, superior to all others in
strength and leavening power.