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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1889)
Haralson Gouaty Doanen, R T PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK The Buchanam Publishing Company, — AT— BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA “Millions for cotton bagging—not one cent for jute.” That, announces the Atlanta Constitution, is to be the farm ers’ shibboleth in Georgia for the com ing campa'gn. W. J. Applegate and John Bryant, of Chicagy, have a patent to make coal out of the slack by means of a chemical composition and compressing machine. They take the refuse coal and press it into a Lrick, The pateantees have al ready sold their right in Engiand for SIO,OOO. The Japanese are rapidly turning to Christianiiy, asserts the New York Times—not simply Christian civilization, but organic Christianity. Nearly 7000 converts were baptizel last year, and the net increase of members was nearly 6000, or about thirty per cent., while the contributions of native Christians advarced more than fi'ty per cent. The formal acceptance by Chili of the jnvitation of the United Statesto the Congress of American nations soon to be held in Washington, followed by that of Ecuador, which has just been received, and by that of Peru and Bo livia, which will undoubtedly follow, completes the list of nations, and makes certain the participation of them all in the great American gathering. James W. Romeyn, our Consul at Valparaiso, in reporting to the Depart ment of State upon the trade and com merce of Chili, comments upon the fact that while the imports into Chili in 1887 amounted to $48,630,000, only $3,200,- 000 came from the United States, and that while 15,000 vessels entered and cleared at Chilian ports, the American flag waved over only 221 of them. ¢Jt is a curious coincidence,” said a New York detective to a Sun young man recently, ‘‘that ne:rly all the tene ment-house murders occur on the top floor. In fifteen, years’ experience I think I can count on my fingers all mur ders in tenement houses that did not sustain my statement. The most fruit ful cause of crime is poverty, and the poorest people live in the cheapest rents, whice are, of course, the top floors of the big tenements.” : The first Arbor Day was observed in Nebraska several years ago, when 12,- 000,000 trees were planted. There are now growing in the State 605,000,000 trees. In other States many millions of trees have been planted, and at the pres ent time thirty-four States observe an Arbor Day. A hundred thousand acres of valuele s dunes on the Bay of Biscay were planted with trees by Bremontier, which now yield France an annual in gome of one hundred and thirty thou sand francs. The way of the transgressor is hard. A vagrant who died in New York hos- i pital the other day’ turns out to have l been Ellery C. Daniels, who, in 1870, | was the cashier of a Boston bank. He stole $86,000, served a year in prison, was pardoned, traveled for a piano fac ‘tory, embezzled SBOOO and then went t 0 New York. He descended from bookkeeping to clerking during a term, -and finally became a common vagrant. Yet twenty years ago he was a brilliant .social star in Boston. ; ' John Doe, a famous forger who was 'released on parole from the Ohio peni ‘tentiary recen‘ly, has asked to be taken back, as he finds it impossible to gain a - jvelihood outside of the prison walls by reason of the fact that he is known to be a convict. Doe is a fine accountant and writes a beautiful hand. He would ~ have gone to California, where his ~ patents are said to be wealthy, but he ~ was not allowed under the terms of his parole to leave the state. When sent to prison in 1878 he was a splendid speci- A o yroll Tedd. bov Ay be A gerns il of eMo R e e R AR : SN R ] Observes the Philadelphia Telograph: “‘The practics of holding secret sessions for the consideration of executive busi ness is & relic of what may be called parliamentary barbarism.” e German coal mines are threatening to deprive England of her valuable coal trade wtth outside nations. It is worth over one million dollars a weck. The Germans have spent $382,000 in making | navigable a river that reaches her best ~mines, and the traffic has grown greatly. If the Kanawha, Tennessee, and a few other rivers were improved, says the Chicago Sun, it would greatly increase our coal traflic. ; Some years ago an American sailor named Carl Benjamin was wrecked on one of the largest of the Caroline Is lands. He decided to make the island his home, as there was no work to do and plenty to eat. The natives, who are very good natured, took kindly to him, and have made him their King. He is a somewhat scholarly man, and is diligently teaching the natives English and the rudiments of civilized life. He has twenty wives and fifty children. Ncthing, he says, would induce him to go back to his old home, Newburyport, Mass. One of the peculiarities of Chinese civilization is the annual contest for learned degrees. Age is no bar to this competition, and in the last examination seven candidates were 90 years old and twelve were 80 years or over. A me morial has been presented to the Em peror of China praying that he grant de grees to all candidates over eighty who have been present at three competitions and whose papers show that they have fair acquirements. The feature of this competition is that it touches on no prac tical subject and is simply an index of the literary cuiture of the applicant. e e ettt Manufacturing co-operation does not seem to be an overwhelming success in England, states the San Francisco Chronicle. 'The balance sheet of the English Co-operative Wholesale Society for the last quarter of 1839 showed that on a gross production in the manufactur ing branches of $303,295, after charging an interest of five per cent. on capital, there was 2n actual loss of $47.31. The manufacturing departments embraced biscuit works, shoe factory, soap works and a woolen mill. If this showing in dicates the best possibilities of co-opera tion it is not likely to prove a panacea for the woes of the masses. Although the production of coal in Great Britain is constantly augmenting, it is a remarkable fact that so perfect are the safety appliances now in use that the number of deaths from colliery ex plosions in 1888 was the smallest known since 1851, when records first began to be kept. In 1888 the deaths only num bered 43, and in nearly every case these could have been preventel by proper care. The lowest number before this was in 1884, when 65 lives were lost. The highest number ever recorded was in 1866, when no less than 650 lives were lost, 350 being in a single colliery. The main cause for the lemarkably low record of the past year is said to be the stringent provisions of the Mining act passed in 1887, and which went into ef fect Jan. 1, 1888. The New York Zimes states that ¢‘the breeding of horsee bas attracted much attention in some of the Northern and Western States, and there has been a large increase in the business during ten or twelve years past. The large breeds, the French Norman and Percheron, the, Scotch Clydesdale, the English cart horse, and the Belgian draught animal have become popular, and the demand for this class of horses constantly in creases for the supply of the Northwest ‘ern farms, where the heaviest farm machinery is in use. In the Central States more attention is given to Clydes dales, Cleveland bays, and French car riage horses, while the Morgan and Ham bletonian strains are popular in New England and northern New York. An entirely different style of horse is needed in the south, where the saddle is mostly used and where the farm and other heavy work in donebymulm The fin ot gaddle b oBR= W, Keutacky g Taidsesy il Jin: e A Midon Ak g ents oo o, breeding industry. It is there the dro kot th sy L iles. Wil T R SVe T i e AN AQUATIC CITY. Siam’s Capital and Its Fifteen Miles of Floating Houses. Glimpses of a Country About Which Little is Known. Siam, says Frank G. Carpenter in a letter from Bangkok, is one of the out of-the-way countries of the world. None of the great steamship lines of the Paci fic or of the Indian Ocean stop at it. Few glcbe trotters visit it and it is about fifteen hundred miles out of the regular line of travel around the world. The great Biamese peninsula juts down from the east coast of China. It con tains half a dozen different countries, the chief of which are Burmah, Siam and the French States of China. Siam itself is at the lower end of the penin sula and it bounds the greater part of the mighty body of water known as the Gulf of Siam. It is 1300 miles long, and at its widest part it is 450 miles wide. It is almost as flat as your hand, though it has here and there a few mountain chains, It has many big rivers, and the country is as much cut up with canals as is Holland. During the rainy season it becomes a mighty lake, and the people move here and there from one city to another in boats, The greatest river is the Menam, which the Siamese know by the same name as the Indians knew the Missis sippi. Itis ¢‘the Father of Waters,” and it forms the great highway of the Kingdom. This river flows into the Gulf of Siam at its head, and it is about forty miles from its mouth that I sit Lere on its banks and write this letter in this floating city of Bangkok. Imagine a city as lurge as Chicago, of which ninety-nine. hundredths of the people live on the water. There are fifteen miles of floating houses on the two sides of this river, and these, with the King's palaces and a few foreign buildings on | the land, make up the capital of the Siamese people. There are six millions and more of ‘hese Siamese, and their country covers a territory of about twice the size of Colorado, four times the size of New York, and it is about five ' times as big .as Ohio. Itis a tropical country, and the click of my typewriter falls upon my ears mixed with the songs of thousands of birds which sing in the branches of the treed outside of the Oriental hotel. The doors and the windows are all open, and the lightest of white duck linen is oppressive as clothing. It is too hot to go out in the middle of the day, and we have all the surroundings of the tropies. The cocoanut and the palm tree line the banks of this Menam River, and the boats flit in and out of jungles which remind one of the swamps of Florida, save that you may see the mon keys upon the trees, and the plumage of the birds is more splendid. I wish I could give you a picture of ourride up the Menam to Bangkok. The sides of the river are lined with these small floating houses. They are an chored to piles and they lie half hidden by the great palm trees on the banks. Here and there a canal juts off into the jungle, and the houses on it make this a floating street. These houses are made of bamboo, with their sides and their roofs thatched with palm leaves. They are sometimes on piles high above the water, but more often they rest on its surface. They are tied to poles driven into the bed of the river, and they rise and fall with the tide. Their average height is not more than ten feet, and each looks like two large dog kennels fastened together and covered with palm leaves. Here and there is an opening in the palm trees and you get a glimpse of the country; it is flat as the waters of the river and where it is ploughed it looks as black as your hat. The only beasts upon it are ugly water buffaloes. There are no fences, no barns, and only these thatched houses on piles. The viver is winding. It is perhaps a quarter of a mile wide, and every turn brings new surprises. As we near Bang kok the waters are alive with craft of all kinds. _ Little,naked, brown, shock head - I, sk wide io, Shop i lom? s woll eet e T Bl S vie VR yau enter Bangkok the crowd increases. Instead of one line of floating houses along the banks there are three and sometimes four, The whole river is alive and you turn your eyes this way and that, meeting a maze of new ob jects at every turn, ; The Ignorance of Russian Police. From an article by George Kennan in the Century we quote the following: “‘We heard many funny stories from the political exiles in Siberia with regard to the ignorence shown and the mistakes made by the rural police in dealing with supposed revolutionists. Four or five years ago, just after the assassination of the gendarme officer Sudeikin (Soo-day i-kin) by the terrorist Degaief (Deegy yefl), photographs of Degaief were sent to every police office in the Empire. On the back was printed an offer of 10,000 rubles’ reward for the capture of the as sassin, and on the face were printed six photographs of Degaief, showing how he looked in a cap and without a cap; with a full beard and without a full beard; and with a mustache and without a mus tache. A hard-drinking and ignorant police officer in a village of Western Si beria, into whose hands a copy of this card fell, arrested four unlucky way farers who happened to look more or less like the photographs of Degaief, and committed them to jail; then he went about the village, and to the dram-shop, in a half-tipsy condition, boasting that he had captured four of those accursed Degaiefs, and was going to hold them until he could find the other two, so that he could turn the six- together over to the higher authorities. He had no doubt that he would get not only the 10,000 rTubles’ reward, but a ¢€ross of honor. ‘‘Another police officer, equally ig norant, arrested a scientific man, a mem ber of the Imperial Geographical Society, who had gone into the country to pursue his favorite study of ornithology. The unfortunate naturalist was accustomed to note down every day the names of the birds of which he had secured specimens, and the sagacious police officer, in look ing over his prisoner’s diary, found on almost every page such entries as ‘June 13—XKilled a fine crown snipe this after noon; or ‘June 17—Shot a silvia hor tensis today.” Regarding these entries as unmistakable records in cipher of nihilistic murders, the officer sent the captured ornithologist under strong guard to the chief of police of the dis trict, with the note-book as documentary proof that the prisoner was one of the most desperate and bloodthirsty of the terrorist assassins; the entry with regard to ‘crown snipe’ he said was plainly a reference to the most august family of the Gossudar.” : : Origin of a Famous Porcelain. In the periol (954-959) of the Heou. Tcheou dynasty of China, Emperor Chi tsong gave his nickname of Tch'ai (Tch’ai-yao) and the qualification of im perial (Yu-yao) to porcelain that came from the country of Pien, now Khai fong-fou, in the province of Ho-nan, and an artist having asked him for a model, he replied: ¢Let the porcelain destined to the palace be blue as the sky appears to us after the rain in the space between two clouds.” The order was executed literally, and the charm mgly-colored porcelain was called Yu keuo-thien-tsing, (blue of the sky after the rain.) To quote from a Chinese chronicler: ‘lt is blue as the sky, bril liant as a mirror, thin as paper, sonor ous as the Khing, polished and lustrous, and remarkable for the delicacy of its veining as well as for the incomparable beauty of its color.”” After the death of the artist, fragments of his work were eagerly sought for and used to decorate caps of ceremony or to be worn like beads around the neck in a thread of silk,—New York Times. To Save Time. Anything tosave time is New York's motto. The newest thing is a shop where men and women may have their shoes mended while they wait. Custo mers see- the latest shoemaking machinery in the window, and behind the machine arow of lasts, at which men prepare the work for the machines. ‘A woman goes in, has her shoes taken off, put on the lasts, trimmed of all tatters and shreds, fitted with new heels and soles, put into & sewing or nailing ‘machinés. and made good as new almost - half. as guiokly s44h s, Ak /18 [WHiEe SO SISt Se K e R Ll SRR R S S R S S s Cornish Lullaby. Out on the mountain over the town, All night long, all night long, y The trolls go up and the trolls go down, Bearing their packs and crooning a somg; And this is the song the hill folk eroon As they trudge in the light of the ‘misty moon— “ Gold, gold! ever more gold— Bright red gold for dearie!” Deep in the hill the yeoman delves, All night long all night long; None but the peering, furtive eives See his toil and hear his song; Merrily over the cavern rings As merrily over his pick he swings, & And merrily over his song he sings, “Gold, gold! ever more gold— Bright red gold for dearie!” Mother is rocking thy lewly bed All night lonz, all night long— Happy to smooth thy curly head And to hold thy hand and to sing her song; "Tis not of the hill folk, dwarfed and old, Nor the song of the yeoman, stanch and bold, And the burden it bareth is not of gold; But it’s‘‘Love,love—nothing but love— Mother’s love for dearie!” —Chicago News. ' HUMOROUS. Who kills all the dead letter s? Bound to be read—New books. Not real timber—The ship's log. ““Wrapped up in themselves” —Mum mies. Paying cash for a suit of clothes is a no bill deed. Like everybody else, the money lender must have an interest in his business. The barber who shaves boys would make a good city editor. He learns to cut down. In Central of South America, when. a man has a Guatemala letter he puts a Paraguay stamp on it, before his friends can Peru’s it. Henrietta (lecturing her wayward cousin)—Some young men never can say “No.” Jack (unabashed)—And some girls never can say ¢‘Yes.” On the Hunt.—¢‘Doctor, why didn’t you kill that snipe? He came just right for you.” ¢‘But, my dear fellow, he flew zig-zag, and I had no sooner fired zig than he was zag.” Not so Funny.—Editor (looking at joke)—¢‘That's funny. Contributor— “ Yes, I thought so.” Editor—*l don’t mean that. It's funny that you should think sucha thing as that funny.” Winks—Has your wife a cheerful dis position? Minks—Oh, yes; very cheer ful. Last night when I was dancing around the room on one foot, after hav ing stepped on a tack, she laughed until her sides ached. Artful Amy—Algernon, in parliamen tary usage, what does the presiding of ficer say when a matter is to be put to a vote? Unsuspecting Algeinon—Are you ready for the question? Artful Amy— Y-yes, Algernon, I think lam. Mrs. Reclass— I have sclected this bonnett, ‘Frank. ¢“lsn’t it a beauty, and only $13!” Frank (hurriedly)— ¢““Thirteen dollars? My dear, sl3 is an unlucky number. You musn’t think of paying that for a bonnet. Try ome of those $5 beauties.’’ : { Here is a new story of Hans von Bu low, the composer: An old acquain tance whom Von Bulow wanted to drop - met him after a long absence, saying: ‘‘How do you do? T bet, though, that you don't remember my name.” “*You've won that bet,”” replied Von Bulow, ani turned on his heel. Peach Stone Fuel It has been demonstrated in Vaca Valley that peach stones will make as good a fire for houschold purposes as the best kind of coal in the market, says the Vallejo (Cal.) Chronicle. The fruit growers, instead of, as heretofore, throwing the pits away, dispose of the stones at the present time at the rate of $6 aton. A sack of the stones will weigh about ecighty poumds, and will last as long as an equal number of pounds of coal, and give a greater in tensily of heat. At many of the or ~chards in the valley may be seen great stacks of peach and apricot stones which will eventually find their way to San Francisco and other places to be used for fuel. The apricot stones do not burn as readily as the peach, and will not com mand as good a price. The fruit faisers ~will undoubtedly be pleased to learn that they now have another sonrce of revenuo open to them. A largo number ‘of peaches are dried during the summer o R N g hats BN i
