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E FREE PRESS 1 BLAIRSV1LLE. GEORGIA. V So delicate is the adjustment ol the most powerful cannon that allowance bus to be made for the cutvature of tho earth before the discharge._ The New York Mail and Express cal¬ culates that a subscription of $32.27 from every inhabitant of the United States would wipe out all form of public indebtedness—National, State and muni¬ cipal. _ The city of Cincinnati has for many year9 been a favorable abiding place of Hebrews, remarks the New York Press. At a recent celebration there Rabbi Wise said that “Cincinnati would here¬ after be the Zion of Judaism in America." There is much in the lingo of the Wyoming war, confesses tho New York Commercial Advertiser, which is as per¬ plexing as some of that in the Bering Sea quatrel. A rustler appears to be a person who gains a livelihood by steal¬ ing other people’s cattle, while a regu¬ lator is a gentleman who lS paid $t> a day for killing rustlers. It is stated that a sugar redning com¬ pany in Chicago, Iff., is making 150 barrels of oil per day from corn, The oil resembles linseed oil and may be used for similar purposes. There is about four per cent, of this oil in the grain, which has hitherto been wasted by the ordinary methods of making starch and glucose. Now that ramee culture has begun seriously to engage the attention oi planters in the Tropics, it is interesting to learn on the authority of a foreign journal that ramee fiber, under great hydraulic pressure, may be made to as¬ sume the compactness of steel. It is as¬ serted that when so prepared it wifi be particularly serviceable for steam pipes, as it will not be subject to contraction or expansion and also will not rust. Within three years passenger rate on the railroad across the Isthmus of Pana¬ ma have been reduced to ten and five cents a mile for first and second class tickets. Up to that time the charge for passenger transportation on the Panama Railroad was the highest in the world, being $25 in American gold for first-class and $10 in gold for second-class passen- gers between Panama and Colon, ot about fifty cents and twenty cents a mile, respectively. It is not a very infrequent occurrence in the London police courts, declares Once-A-Week, for infuriated prisoners to attempt to assault the presiding magis¬ trate. Mr. Montagu Williams, who sits in one of the East End Courts, often has boots thrown at him, and on one occasion he received a severe blow in the face from such a missile. The habit seems to be spreading. The other week the news¬ papers reported a case in which a disap¬ pointed litigant kicked iu open court his own lawyer, for which he may have had Borne excuse, and assaulted the reporters, for which there could be no justifica¬ tion. The remarkable progress of women en¬ gaged in business affairs is instructively get forth, in the Massachusetts State Bureau, of I Labor statistics. According to the figures there presented m 1885, there were]only about 180,000 womeu engaged 4 in ^industrial pursuits. Now there j^are f more %Than 800,000. Two' thirds of these .working women are under thirty years of age, and inasmuch as this proportion has-been maintained during the half dozen years, it seems to indicate that marriage constantly tends to dopleta the ranks. “Such being the fact,” com¬ ments the New York News “there need be little fear that the industrial pendence of the gentler sex will result in an increase of old mafds.” The New England Courier, a German- American weekly, published in Boston, Mass., gives some very interesting figures showing how great and influential the Teutonic race has become as an element of immigration into this country. In Illinois one-half of the foreign born popu¬ lation is German. In Minnesota the pro¬ portion is -one-third; in Nebraska and Iowa more than one-third; in Wisconsin one-half, or one-eighth of the whole population; in Indiana, the banner Ger- man State, out of 244,000 foreigners, 80,000 are of Gerraau birth, or fifty-five per cent, of the whole. Out of 12,000,- 000 immigrants into this country since 1820, 4,500,000 have been Germans. Coming from tbe most thrifty and best educated country in Europe, observes the Boston Globe, these people, constitu¬ tionally endued witli patience, skill tnd perseverance, have engrafted a solid, thoughtful, industrious, and peace-lov¬ ing element into the composite structure of the Uuion. REV dr. talmage THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Text: ,% Put on the whole armor jof God.”—Ephesians vi., 11. There is in this text a great rattle oi shields and helmets and swords. Soldier* are getting ready for battle. We have had recently in this church new enlistments, and I shall address myself to those in this and other churches who are putting on the armor of God, and only who may recruits. feel themselves “Masterly to be as yet raw often military cir¬ re¬ treat” is a term used in cles, but in religion there is no such thing. It is either glorious falling advance or It disgraceful be and ignominious thing all back. about would a strange if our anxiety men ceased the moment they were converted. You would almost doubt tho sanity of that farmer who, having planted the corn and seen “My it work just sprout is ail above dona ground, I should say: have no more anxiety for the field.” No. There is work for the plow keeping aud the hoe, and there must be a careful up of the fences, and there must be a frightening away of tho birds that would pillage the field. And I say the entrance upon Christian life is only the implantation hard of grace in the heart. done There is earnest, work yet to be and perhaps many years of anxiety before there shall be heard the glorious shout of “Harvest home.” The beginning to be a Christian is only putting down the foundation; but after that there are years of hammering, polishing, carving, lifting, before the structure is com¬ pleted. It takes five years to make a Chris¬ tian character it takes twenty years, it takes forty years, it takes seventy years, if a man shall live so long. In other words, a man dying after half a century of Christian experience feels that he has only learned the “A B C’s” of the glorious alphabet. The next year will decide a groat deal in your history, young Christian man. It will de¬ cide whether light you the are church, to be a burning and of shining of or a spark gre.ee covered up in a barrel of ashes. It will decide whether you are to be a strong man in Christ Jesus, with gigantic blows striking the iron mail of darkness, or a bedwarfed, whinning, grumbling soldier, that ought the to be ‘Rogues' drummed March.” out of the You Lord’s camp with 4 have only just Earth been launched; and heaven the voyage is to be made. aud hell are watching to see how fast you will sail, how well you will weather the temptest. and whether at last, amid the shouting of angels, you shall come into the right harbor. May ferod help me this morning to give you three or four words of Christian counsel, as I ad¬ dress myself more entered especially the Christian to those life. who have My just now word of counsel is, hold before first your soul a very high model. £)o not say, “I wish I could pray like that man, or speak like this man, or have the consecration of this one.” Say; “Here is the Lord Jesus Christ, a perfect pattern, By that I mean, with God’s grace,* will to shape all my fife.” In other words, you never be any be, If more a Christian than you strive to you build a foundation twenty by thirty feet you will only have a small house. If you build a foundation one hundred by one hundred feet you will have a large house. If you re¬ solve to be only a middling Christian you will cnly be a aspiration middling Christian. worldly If direcr you have no high in a ff tion you will never succeed in business, you have no high aspiration in religjous things you will never succeed in religion. You have a right to aspire to the very highest style of Christian character. From your feet there reaches out a path of Christian attainment which you may take, and I deliberately than say Paul that you David may be a better man was or or Summerfieid or Doddridge—a better woman than Hannah More or Charlotte Elizabeth. Why not? Did they Did have they a monopoly of Christian grace? have a private key to the storehouse of God’s mercy? Does God shut you out from the gladness and goodness to which they were introduced? Oh, no. You have just the same promises, just the same Christ, just the same Holy Ghost, just the same offers of present aud ever¬ lasting love, and if you fall short of what they were—aye, if you do not come up to the point which they reached and go beyond it—it is not because Christ has shut you. out from any point of moral and spiritual eleva¬ tion, but because you deliberately refused to take it. I admit that man cannot become a Christian like that without a struggle; but what* do you get without fighting for it? The fortresses of darkness are to be taken bv storm. You may by acute strategy flank the hosts of temptation, eviis in but there are that temx>- tations, there are the way and it will you be will have to meet face to face, shot for shot, gun for gun, grip for apostle grip, slaughter for slaughter. The Paul over and over again represents the Christian life as a combat, When the war vessel of Christ’s church comes into glory bringing it# crew and its passengers it will not come in like a North River yacht, beautifully painted and adorned, swinging into the boathouse after a pleasure vessel excursion. Oh, no; it will be like a coming with a heavy cargo from China or India, the marks of the wave and the hurri¬ cane upon it—suds rent, rigging spliced, bul¬ pumps all working to keep her afloat, vessel warks knocked away, 1 see such a coming and get out my small boat and push toward her, aud I shout; “Ahoy, captain! What are you going to do with those shiv¬ ered timbers? That was a beautiful ship when you went out, but you have it.” “Oh,” says the captain, h I have a cargo on board, and by this round trip I I have made ten fortunes.” So I believe it will be when tho Christian soul at last comes into the har bor of heaven. It will come bearing upon it the marks of a great stress of weather. You can see by the very looks of that soul as it comes into dashed glory that it was driven by a storm and in the hurricane, but by so much blessed, as the voy¬ “If age is rough, with will Him the harbor be shall be ye suffered on earth, ye glorified with Him in heaven.” Aim high. Do not bo satisfied to be like the Christians all around you. Be more thun they have ever been for Christ. My recently second word of counsel Christian to those who have entered upon life is, Abstain from all pernicious associations, and take only those that are useful and benefi¬ cent, Stay out of all associations that would damage your Christian character. Take only those associations chat will help you. A learned man said, “If i stay with that man Pension any longer I shall get to be a Christian in spite of myself.” In other words there is a Now mighty power kind in of Christian associa¬ associations. what tions shall wo, as young Christians, seek after? I think we ought to get into com- ££ y better than ourselves, never going company worse than ourselves. it get into company a little better than ourselves and there are ten people will in bettered. that company, If ten chauces int to one we be we get i company a little worse than ourselves, and there be ten people in that company, ten chances to one we will be made worse than we were before. I do not pretend to point oat any evil in¬ fluences, but are there not some surround¬ ing influences that Stand are pernicious back from to your fur¬ growth in grace? that nace in which so many young Christians have been destroyed. In this church there is a large company of young men and young women consecrated to Christ. I know of no better than they are. I into their friendship. Young convert, Contact with invite them you will elevate you. All hail, young followers of Jesus Christ, my joy and my pride' My heart thrills at every step or your advancemsnt. ’ when X talked with you in that hour you most tried to break from sin, and now 1 re- jcice as I see you putting on the armor of a conflict in which God will give you present and evil everlasting; association.!. victory. Stand off from all A man is no bettor than tho company ho keeps, (io ainoiit; those who are better thaft you are and you will be made better. Go among those who are worse than you are and you will be made worse, My next word of counsel is that you be actively Christians employed. with doubts X and see perplexities, a great, many and they seem to be proud of them. Their entire Christian life is made up of gloom, and they seem to cultivate that spi ritual despondency, when I will undertake to say that in uiue cases judgment out of of ten God spiritual idleness. despondency is a upon Who are the happy people in the church to-day? The the busy religion people. Show of Jesus mo Christ the man and who is professes idle, and I will show you an unhappy man. Tho very first prescription that I give to n man when I find him full of doubts and fears about his eternal interest is to go to work for God. Ten thousand voicesare lifted up asking for your help. Go and word help. of 1 have another counsel to give those who have just entered Christian You life, and that is, be faithful in prayer. might as well, business men, start out in the morning without food and expect to be strong all that day—you might as well abstain from food all the week and expect to be P; e g , Ph /hto^ by way*to get^any ami £2$ into the soul is prayer, the only difference between that Christian that is worth anything and that who is worth nothing is the the fact that the last does not pray and other does. Christian^ holy life 6 who and is gotUng'nfong^VKry^ast^iu this is the who only getting progress in' reli(^ t^^Blmber by the amount of prayer; not bytheaHkest by ot hours, per* haps, but supplication that he puts up to God. mhore i, no exception to the rule. Show me a Christian man who neglects this kind of duty, and f will show you one who is inconsistent. Show me a man who prays, and his strength and his power cannot bo exaggerated. of Why, and just give to a man this power prayer you give him almost omnipotence. Sabbath This afternoon you will see two school teachers. That one does not gain the attention of her class. This one does. What is the difference between them, their Intel- from great prostration before God in earnest supplication, asking that God’s mercy might come upon the senool and that in the after noou she might immortals gain the attention of those five or six that would be around w thl M*? “ eUg °SE ' of Lord God Almighty. Another word of counsel X have to give Be careful in Bible research. A great many good read books half are of now coming out. We cun not them. At every revolution of the printing press they are coming. They eover our parlor tables, and are in our boots Sit- ting rooms aud libraries. Glorious they are. We thank God every day for the work of the Christian printing press. But I have thought that perhaps tho followers ot Christ sometimes allow this religious litera- ture to take their attention from (rod’s Word, and that there may not be as much Just calculate experience? in your minds how much re- ligious literature you have read during the, year and then how large a portion of thoi ‘ Word of God you have read, an 1 then con- trastthe two and answer within your own soul whether you are giving more attention to the books that were written by the hanl of man or that written by the hand of God. Now, mineral you go to the drug but store and you gei the waters, you have noticed that the waters are not so fresh or spark- ling or healthful as when you gat these vejhr waters right ut Saratoga where they and bubble Sharon—getti» (hem front tbs- rock. And 1 have noticed the same thing in re- gard to the truth of the Gospel; while there books, i find it is better when I coma tmtoo eternal rock of God’s Worcl au l drink forth that fountain that bubbles up fresli aul ure to the life and the refreshment aud tue ealth of the soul. Read the Bible and it brings you into the association of the best people that ever live:!, You stand beside Moses and learn nE meek¬ ness, beside Job and learn his patience, be- ! side Raul and catch and something of his enchus- iasm, beside Christ you feel His love. Aud yet how strange it is that a great many men have given their whole lives to the as¬ saulting of that book I oauuot understand it. Tom Paine worked against that book as though he received large wages and was in¬ spired by tho very power of darkness, con¬ fessing that all the time he was writing he did not have the Bible anywhere near him. Row many powerful intellects have endeav¬ ored to destroy it, Hume, Boling broke, Voltaire have been after it. Ten thousand men now Word are warring What do against the truth of God’s you think of them? I think it is mean aud will prove it. I will prove it is the meanest thing that has ever been done in all the centuries. There and is a ship at sea and in trouble. The captain the crew are at their wits’ encl. You are on board. Y"ou are an old seaman. You come np and give some good counsel, which is kindly taken. doing That is all right. But suppose, instead of that, in the midst of all the trouble, you pick up the only compass that is on board and pitcu it over the taffrail? Oh, you say, that is dastardly. But is it as mean as this? Here is the vessel of the world going on with sixteen hundred millions of passengers, tossed and driven in the tempest, and at the time we want help tho infidel comes and he takes bold of the only compass and he tries to pitch it over¬ board. It is contemptible beyond everything that is contemptible. Have you any better light? Bring it on if you have. Have you any better comfort to give us? Bring it on if you have. Have you any better hope? Bring it on if you have, and then you may have this Bible and X shall never want it again. I think of thing than But can a meaner that, and that is an old man going along on the mountains with a staff in one hand and a lantern in the other. Darkness lias come on suddenly, die is very old, just able to pick his way out amid the rocks and preci¬ pices, leaning on his staff with one hand and guiding himself with the light in the other. STou come up and say: ‘‘Father, you seem to be lost. You are a long way from home.” *‘Yes,” he replies. And then you take him by the baud und lead him home. That la very kind of you. But suppose instead of that you should snatch the staff from his hands and hurl it over the rocks, and snatch the lantern and blow it out? That would be dastardly, contemptible until there is nc depth of contempt beneath it. If you have a better staff, give it to him. If you have a better light, give it to him. When God has out the staff of the Gospel in our hands and the lamp of God’s Word tc light our feet, are and you going only to illumination? take from us our only support our and rattle¬ I love the sting of the wasp the snake better than I do the man who waute to clutch the Word of God from my grasp. Cling to your Bible! If this Bible should be destroyed, if all the Bibles that have ever been printed should be destroyed, we could make up a Bible right out of this audience. From that Christian man’s experience I take one cluster of promises, and from that old Christian man’s experience another, I put them all together, aud I think I would hav* u Bible. You see, my friends, I have not tried 1 hide the fact that I have large expectation of you who have entered the Christian fife. Do not be discouraged. Press on toward the priz«;^God Keep beside you and heaven Look before you. your courage up. in thirty years from now upon this church. Another man in the pulpit. Other faces in the pews. Another man around leading the alms the song. boxes Others the carrying Thirty of church. All changed. years have gone and I look into the faces of the people, and I say*. w Why, it seems to me I have seen these people somewhere, hut I cannot exactly say where. Ob, yes, now J begin to These were the converts in I8D3 and 1890. Why, how you have change!!’ "Oil, yes," they say. "of course we have chaugSU. I Thirty ‘ How years mattes wrinkles a great there chnnge. say faces!” many "Oh. yes," they are In your wrinkles. say. "thirty make groat many 1 year.-, a "Yes, have •'Have you kept the faith?” we kept the faith.” "Where are those you?" people "All who used to sit in tho pew with gone!” "Then I say, "Well, I feel lonely; come, let us sins one of the old hymns we used to sing thirty years ago, in 1891, on communion day. Any ot you know the old tune? Some one hum it. Yes, that s it, that’s it. Now, altogether, let us sing, just as wo did in 1893: “ There la i a fountain titled with blood, Drawn ______from Immanuel's veins: And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty The dying thief rejoiced his day: to see That fountain In vile he. And there may I, sins though away.” as Wash all my IN PARIS. The Newness ami Briskness of the j| 1( , p,.,.| U .i, younger 1 W0Cdor and ^ newel than .London "."“Hi . The latter, of course, as well as Paris, has been practically '‘made over” since the coup d'etat of Napoleon III, j n 1852. After he was seated firmly fX 3™ th ies“e £ thr T l ^ futlhl r riei B hl: orhood of tho Louvre and the Church of the Nlade- line torn down und miles of new streets laid out, SO that today 1 ai ls is almost entirely modern. Of course, down by t he Cathedral of Notre Dame there are some old foreigners places, looks but the p ar j s known to as f ie *,-V K y f . F.vervthirur } -rfHK here ‘„7,i ' s ’ 01 anc * pleasure. I lie maul- finish their work quickly so they may join their male comrades in pleasure; the small shop-keeper takes out tile w ife aud babies as soon as grades evening comes . g 0 jt is with all of wor king people. The rich and SOCial- ‘y great are all for pleasure. Even the horses go iastei heie thaU cluy where else. The noise is something thorough- terrific—all the principal fares being laid with beyond macadam descrip- pave- meat; the clatter is tion. Never have I seen more nor finer turnouts than here. The horses large, well groomed harness and faultless, spirited, the carriages and and the servants well tailored and smartly set „f up the altogether, talk about the iu spite iu- nrnn ® ,oas< ,« r c i ‘ of nvervthinw ' IJI in ,f„ Paris because of tile new tat iff, r .1 r find a- diess- es are cheaper than in London. The foulard simple morning and printed gowns delaine, of crepon, ill the making of which Parisian dresstliak- ers excel, cost about two-thirds what ** Lourtt *** Worth would 1 chai foi 01 „0 Ment I do not, $45, know, while but in Others London charge they fljoni chfrmience $30 to at the higher price-not, of course, if yon find a dressmaker m fill unfashionable quarter, whose cut is frequently as expensive good, indeed, establish- as the work of more m ents.i ’ other Silk stockings thino-s are cheaper in p F , 1 S 't* ner ln ? S ' seem 36 P, the 6 sumo ‘. ani ° > London. , As , far I have been as rtfclEhcchj aJUe fio see, piqg a woman Jo Iter may individuality, wear any- All materials, made in every oonceiva- ble wav, ifffe fashionable. Hats range j n shape from tiny Hat circles to large poke bonnets with decided crowns, ipther high and small. French worn- GU bttvo not adopted tho have loose the sack En¬ .(foaWXIS glisA. universally Plnladelvhut as Record. — Corr. » -------—--- A number ot' old English “halls” and castles are advertised for sale or to let. Tho Vast Benefits of the Erie Canal. Although on account of the prac¬ tice of vessels going “up” freight light, only about 30,299,006 tons of were transported during the season of 1890, the >y were carried an average distance of five hundred and sixty-six miles; so that, multiplying the tons carried by the distance iu miles, we have more than seventeen thousand million ton- miles,or a one-fourth freight distribution of the ton-miie- equal to almost age of all our railroads. This lake freightage has been done at an aver¬ age charge to shippersof 1.3 miffs per ton-mile. The shipments by railroad on the contrary, are averaged Commission by the Interstate Commerce at 9.22 miffs per ton-mile; so that there was a saving on each ton transported by this water-road over the average charges by railroad, for an equal saving dis¬ tance of $4.48,or an aggregate the producers to be divided between and consumers of this country, of more than $135,800,000. As the Government has appropri¬ ated not quite $30,000,000 for the im¬ provement of the Great Lakes, their harbors, aud tho rivers thut run into them, ceived tho through people the of this cheapened country dis¬ re¬ tribution made the possible single by this of 1890, ex¬ penditure, and iu half times the year total cost four a of the improvements; or. to state the advantages ot’ this improved of water¬ lake way in another and way, the cost freight was six one-half per cent of the value of the goods transported transported ; whereas if they had been at the average charge for railroad freight, the cost would have been fully forty-six per cent of their value. This percentage, would have obviously taken so large a part of the value of a considerable proportion of the goods that the labor and profits of their pro¬ duction and distribution must have been lost to the community if depend¬ ence had been placed on railroads alone. —Fcrnnn. The fact that ahorse at fuff trot if sometimes, at all events, entirely in the air without any of its feet touching the ground, lias been proven by by an instanta¬ Otteu- neous heim, photograph taken of M. Versailles Photographic vice-president the picture Society. The dog Bhows the horse trotting J.n a cart with a single occupant, and the shad¬ ows on the ground clearly demonstrate that all its l’eet are in the air. The legs, both fore and hind, are spread, advanced, the right fore and left hind legs being while tho left fore and right hind legs are pointing backwards. The left fore leg Is a little bent at tho knee. DOMESTIC amenities. “I hope our boy won't take after you,” growled Mrs. Caudle. “He won’t umount to anything if he does.” “Well, I hope he won’t take after you, either,” retorted Mr. Caudle. “If he does, he will be a lecturer of tho dullest type." —[Brooklyn Life. S •ms. /:■ it ) s Tlie suspender girl lias come to stay. Mrs. Buffington Booth receives hut seven dollars a week for her services to the Salvation Army. Miss Nina Picton, of New York City, is one of the few successful women com¬ posers of orchestrations. When two rings are used at a wedding, tho bride pays for the groom's ring aud the groom for be br'de’o. In Finland the women consider a kiss on the lips as the greatest insult, even from their own husbands. Open work scrim with ribbons run through it makes a pretty strip tor the centre of the dinner table. With her income of $500,000 a year Mrs. William Astor ought to he able to struggle along comfortably. Lexington, Mo., boasts a woman ex¬ press agent, a woman manager oi a tele¬ graph office and a postmistress. A new dormitory for Vassal- is to be built with the $50,000 that is that col¬ lege’s share of the Fayerweather bequest. Rubbers of white leather are among the odd things bought by fashionable women to wear over their party slippers. Give your best young man a bouton¬ niere of nine violets if you would have him fashionably attired as to his button hole. The Duchess of Marlborough now buys her clothes in New York. She says the American modistes are better than the English. Queen Victoria has decided to send to the World’s Fair some specimens of her knitting and spinning, done when she was a girl. The late Amelia B. Edwards was a woman of letters. She was entitled to wear Ph. M., L. H. D. and LL. D. after her name. Dr. Mary P. Jacobi, in New York City, and Dr. Mary Hoxon, in Washing¬ ton, are each reputed to earn $40,000 a year at their profession. Mrs. lagalls is quite unlike her dis¬ tinguished husband in physical appear¬ the ance, for she is as short and plump as Kansas ex-Senator is taff and thin. Miss Alice Rideout, whose designs for sculpture at the World’s Fair were ac¬ cepted, has just taken the contract for their execution, the sum being $8200. The “Coston Signals”—the colored light system of signalling both on land and sea—was the invention of Mrs. Martha J. Coston, of Washington, D. C. More than 400 married women have applied to the Bureau of Charities sfad! Corrections in New York City since the 1st of January for relief for themselves and their children. The women of Toronto, Canada, not only took an active part in the late local elections, but they compelled the meu to work as well, and so robbed the rings of much of their power. Miss Lalla Harrison, of Leesburg, Lon- don County, Va., has been selected as the most beautiful woman in that State to represent it as one of the original thirteen States at the Columbian Ex¬ position. The women of Cincinnati, Ohio, have asked for a separate room in the Woman’s Building of the World’s Fair, which they wish to furnish and decorate throughout as illustrative of the culture and art of that city. Herrmann, Lane County, Oregon, can boast of quite a brave young lady who has recently taken up a claim on the east fork of Indian Creek. Her claim is above all other settlers and it is said she stays weeks by herself. It is said that enterprising London shop-keepers employ well dressed women to stand in front of their windows and by “ohs” and “aha” of delight attract people’s attention to the glory of the goods inside the windows. The jewels ot Mrs. Astor, widow oi the multi-millionaire who died, recently, in Paris, are probably the finest i,i America. At times she has appeared in public wearing precious stones valued at between $50,000 and $100,000. The money order department of the Pittsburg (Penn.) Postolfice is exclusively iu charge of Miss .Mary Steele, and the receipts, almost $2,500,000 last year, mark it as probably the largest business handled by any woman iu America. Miss Howe, the woman who won the second prize in the competition for de¬ signs for the Women’s Building iu the Columbian Exhibition was a classmate of Miss Hayden, who won the first prize in the Boston Institute of Technology. Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France, felt so acutely the complete ab9ence_of rec¬ ognition which she experienced when walking about Paris last year that she declined to stay there on her way to Cape Martin, though much pressed to do 80 . Mrs. Potter Palmer has asked permis¬ sion of the German Government to have the great doors of the Strasburg Cathe¬ dral, which were designed aud wrought by Sabina Steinbock, reproduced for the Woman’s Building of the Columbian Ex¬ hibition. A fashion writer from Paris calls this “the banner year of fashion,” for there is nothing ugly. Mam’selle wonders if she overlooked Russian blouses when glancing in at the shop windows down the Rue de la Paix or over 011 the Boule¬ vard des Italians. A new industry has been invented by a clever girl. She caffs herself an ac¬ countant and auditor for large house¬ holds. She finds plenty of employment in looking after the business of 3 few families of large expenditure, whose heads have not taste for the work. THBEE-CEJiT COTTON. THK EVIIj EFFECTS OF COMMISSIONER KE*» bitt’s statement pointed OCT PV EX-COMMlf-SIONEB HESDEBBON. To thk Farmers of G eorgj a : Having entered the race for Commissioner of Agriculture, I propose in this letter to lay before the farmers of Georgia, my views in re¬ gard to a matter of vital importance to them. I refer to the cost of rain ing cotton to the av¬ erage farmer,and to the bad policy (to give it no worse a name) of promulgating to the world erroneous views as to the cost of raising the flo»cy staple. March 18th, published In his interview of broadcast through the land, Commissioner Nesbitt states in offect, that cotton can be raised in Georgia at a cost of from J to 3 1--J cents par pound. widely copied These astounding statements, and quoted, caused comment and discussion all over the state, and not only in the state, but over the United States and the world in al] cotton circles. Here comes the official agr - cultural head of the greatest cotton growing- state in the south, and says that Georgians can and do raise cotton at 3 1-2 cents per pound, leaving in it,even at present unprecedentedly low prices, the handsome profit of 100 per cent, to the grower. Had such a statement come from a ring of speculators on the Cotton Exchange in Wall street, bent on “bearing” the market so as to make a profitable deal for themselves, the world would have understood their motives and laughed at their statements; but, coming from the Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia, the world is bound to hear with respect and credit the statement; credit it, ye-, the speculators will credit it, the spinners and manufacturers of New and Old England will credit it; they are eager and anxious to credit it; it means largely increased profits and handsome dividends to them- But will the farmer of Georgia credit it? He who counts in his humble home the cost of his cotton finds, that after denying him¬ self and family all luxuries and many ncccs- sities, that he is still heavily in debt, and the mortgage is still upon his farm, bis house, his mule, his cow and the meagre furniture in his cottage. Pathetic words those, when one. com- pre hends the whole situation—“the cost of a pound of cotton.” But not only does the farmer take alarm when he hears the words of ill-omen come from the Department created by him and for his protection, hut our public-spirited mer- chants and cotton men raise a note of alarm as soon as the unfortunate statement comes to their ears. As soon as he hears of It, Mr. Samuel M. Inman, the well-known ai d suo- oessful cotton buyer-identified with cotton intetests all of his business life, an honored citizen of whom his city, his state and section are proud,—he writes a letter to Mr. Nesbitt and tells him that this statement, coming r.s it does from one in his important position, “carries a weight and responsibility 1 hat is of vast importance.” It will be telegraphed to every important cotton market in Europe and America, and used in cotton circu ars and re¬ ports. It will be a ‘bear 1 argument for still further lowering the price, and will be quoted as an authority for years to come.” It is hard to calculate the damage done the farmers of Georgia, t he merchants and others holding cotton, by this ill-advised assertion of the Commissioner, this season; but the end is not yet, it will be used by the spinners and speculators to bear downthe price of the grow¬ ing crop about which (he hopes ot the toiling masses now cling. He has“builded better than he thought,” if it was his purpose to kill off the only money crop of his people, but I have the charity to believe that he knew not what he was doing. Mr. Inman then asks Mr. Nesbitt for the fig. ures on which he bases the remarkable state¬ ment he had made. When called to "taw” by Mr.Inman, Mi. Nesbitt; begins to lay stress upon the fact that it will require years of c are¬ ful preparation of the soil„of intrusive farm¬ ing and heavy Ter^ilizijg; before *3 1-2 cents cotton can he raised. Ho then gives tho figures of the State Experiment Station on a little garden plot highly manured and backed by all the wealth and resources of the nation. He also gives the figures and experience ol’Cap¬ tain Corput, a wealthy farmer, who pays cash for everything he needs, who has by intensive farming brought up his Jand to a high state of fertility, and inconsequence makes a fine crop and a handsome profit. Colonel Nesbitt is telling the farmers of Georgia nothing new when he teds them that big crops can be raised by the intensive system of culture. It has been "ding-donged ” into his ears in season and out of season by the agricultural journals and so¬ cieties, by the general press and by tho De¬ partment of Agriculture under my adminis¬ tration, for many years past. But now comes Sir Oracle, and with the air of a man promulgating a new aud important fact, informs the world that from a bale to a bale and a half per acre can bo raised in Geor¬ gia, and at a cost sot exce edino three ash a half cents per pocsd. Statistics.— In compiling the “Common¬ wealth of Georgia,” as far back as 18S5, I pur¬ posely rofrained from giving the cost of pro¬ duction of cotton then selling at about 10 cents perpound. 1 had figured the cost at thattimeal about 8 1-2 cents per pound, but refrained from giving it, believing it would have an injurious effect on prices. (See Commonwealth of Geor¬ gia, page 300). At the same time 1 used every effort to show tho farmer that the intensive Bystem would pay handsomely. See in the same book, pages 361 to 365, instances of heavy returns on farm crops of every description from all parts of the state, under a system of high culture. See also on page 367 the report of the committee of which I was chairman, iu awarding the prizes in the contest for the best acres of corn and cotton offered by the Geo. W. Scott Cbmpany. In that contest the highest yield was 3 1-2 bales per acre, the lowest 1 bale per acre, tbo high¬ est yield ot corn being 116 1-2 bushels per acre, the average being 81 bushels. Whilst the com¬ mittee commented on the handsome profit to be derived from such high culture and urged it upon the farmers, they took care at the same time to show that the farmers throughout the state only raised a bale to 3 1-2 aert s. No, Mr. Editor, tbe farmers of Georgia know these facts just as w. il as tbe Hon. Commissioner himse f; he is not telling tho farmer anything he did not know before; but that farmer is doing the be3t lie can under the severe condi¬ tions of life upon him, under the burden of time prices for everything that he needs to make his crop; usurious interest charges add¬ ed to the unjust burdens of the robber tariff make it impossible for him, strain every nerve as he may, to change his melhod or to make more than cine-third of a bale to the acre, or to make it at a less cost than 8 1-8 cents per pound. Shepperson, the great cotton statisti¬ cian, writing in Nov. 1891, stated that cotton selling at that time for about 8 1-2 cents was undoubtedly below the cost of production. No, the average farmer of the country cannot raise it for less, and God forbid that tho-e who should befriend and protect him, should try to beat down and cheapen the products of his labor by putting the world on notice that he can raise for 31-2 rents what costs him 8 1-2 cents. I can hardly believe that this great wrong against the farmer of Georgia is Inten¬ tional on the part of the Hon. Commissioner, but if not intentional it is surely a blunder, which is little less than a crime. Respectfully. .Tons T. Henderson. A Boston woman makes a business ot hour taking eare of children by the day or at her home on week days and Sun¬ able days, to the great relief of mothers not to hire a nurse, and not wishing to accept the charity of the day nurseries. Her services are so much in demand that she is sometimes engaged as fur as three weeks ahead. Business women and tired mothers who cannot otherwise leave their homes find her services of great value. This adds another to the many expedients by which refined women, too delicate or too retiring, may earn a livelihood with¬ out laavlnu their twmtAii