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THE GREAT MYSTERY,
Could we but know
Tha land that ends our dark, uncertain
Wliefe travel,
lies those happier hills and mea¬
dows low.
kh! it beyond the spirit’s inmost cavil,
Aught ot the country could we surely
know,
Who would not gof
The hovering Might we but heat
chorus, angals high, Imagined,
Or catch, betimes, with wakeful eyes,
cud clear.
One all nit vista of the realm before us—
With oce rapt moment given to see and
hear,
Ah! who would fear?
Were we quite sure '
To find the peerless friend who left us
s' Or there, lonely,
by some celestial stream, as
To pure,
gaze in eyos that here were lovellt
This only—
weary aortal ooil, were wo quite
sure, Who
would endure?
—Edmund Clarence Stedman.
A Woman Scorned. 1
r
r.V GERALDINE TYIMSUIINE O’NEIL. Sg
T was rather embarras
it sing for Maurice Con
sitline that when he ar
rived at the hotel at
y Point of Bocks, having
come down there in
order to be near his fian¬
cee, who was spending
the summer there, he found that the
girl who had been his fiancee and
whom he had jilted, was also staying
at the Point. For howevor lie justi¬
fied his conduct, and glossed things
over to himself, there can be no
doubt that he bad acted heartlessly to
Bessie Mintnru, and his knowledge of
this and his knowledge of Miss Min¬
ium's ideas of him, did not tend to
till his mind with unalloyed pleasure.
But he was agreeably surprised
when tho moment came for him to
meet his old love. She was not scorn¬
ful, or theatrically cold to him; she
was just as gracefully courteous to him
as to the other men at the hotel, and
to all appearances had entirely gotten
over her attack of that dangerous dis¬
ease of the brain which is called love,
and which annually makes more fail¬
ures and gibbering idiots than ever
did the Demon Drink. Hhe had be¬
come fast friends with his new love,
little Violet Grantley, and they were
well nigh inseparable; Bessie’s man
ner to the little girl was most tender
and even caressing, and, though Vio¬
let khew that Maurice and Bessie had
boen engaged and ha 1 parted, she
could not help but like her, that is, as
much ns a girl can ever like the Other
Woman, the one whom He liked first,
and perhaps still likes better than
you.
Maurice was much in Bessie’s com¬
pany’during the next month,, aud he
even began to think that, perhaps he
had made a mistake, for she had im¬
proved wonderfully since s he
had seen
her last; her beauty seemed to have
acquired a richer, warmer type, she
was jollier and more charming, and in
every way fascinating. She puzzled
him, she attracted him, and she an¬
noyed him, for she did not seem to re¬
gard him as material for flirting, thougii
she flirted desperately with almost
every one else, but when Maurice tried
to awaken sentimental memories of
old times ia her mind, she laughed at
him. “I have quite got over that old
fancy” she said, “and if is useless for
you to try to revive it. There are no
. birds iu last year’s nests,” and she
laughed again and went down to the
pier to look at her boat, tho Fly-by
Night.
But, the truth was that though she
carried a gay, smiling face, she had
never* either forgotten or forgiven
Maurice or the girl who had taken him
from her. She did not make a show of
herself as a deserted maiden wearing
the willow; for she had what is better
than the Christian virtues, the old
heathen gift of prido, so that she could
»auce and flirt and joke, while her
heart was full of the blackness of des¬
pair and the fires of Tophet.
Given a proud, high spirited aud
vindictive girl who has been thrown
over by a man, place her in the com¬
pany of that man and his new love,
and you have materials at hand
nnnsual things to happen; yet these
three .seemed to be the best friends in
the world, and there seemed to be no
happier girl at Point of Bocks than
Bessie Mintarn.
There came a day too hot for any
exertion, when one could only lie in
the shade and long for evening to
come. The long, weary, blazing day
came to an end at last, the sill's rose
up cool and sweet, the blinding white
dust of tho roads was laid by the dew
and the hotel guests began to stir and
show signs of animation. Bessie came
to Violet aud Maurice in the dusk.
“What do you say,” said she, “if we
ent this place and its stupid hop this
evening and go sailing? I will take
ont my boat, and we will go out by
moonlight. Have you ever been out?
It is a pretty sight.”
So they went down to the pier,
where the Fly-by-Night lay, and
Manrice and Violet got in and sat for¬
ward. Bessie cast loose the rope hold¬
ing the boat and jumped in. Then she
and Maurice pushed hands, the boat from the
pier wifk their and together
hoisted the sails and the Fly-by-Night
took the breeze, softly heeled over
and went creeping down the little bay,
threading the crooked lanes of moon-
!
THE RE60RD
water between the sea grass. They
the outlet and swept through
into the broad sea, which was almost
smooth, there being just enough
to fill the sails and carry them
Bessie sat at the tiller and held the
sheet. She managed her boat with
Night command, and the Fly-by
seemed to obey her like a living
She only moved slightly from
time to time as she shifted the helm,
»d i» a.) Hst. .Vi*. ujMto,
suit aud cap made her look like a
marble figure, except when the light
r * d ; br °™ eyesor the
cods of her red hair, which glittered
TtoSSS'gJtoLi wLkSL ° a s mil
the English n Governor , hanged forty
rllnnvHm “tk °\ d
S -?, ea °k’. , e •? 3er % 0 ?i tbe kirted y say tb V Captain H !? nt '
Kidd s spirit wait , , s o’ , stormy ; nights
7 X U ?i l with Point
hv^kt, r nn dh y 7? i h9 e y " aW °
7 ,• llgllted k bu n k comm3 - up
swmiv
The 'poll Fall “RlvAr River Krvnt boat PUtp City nf of
Gloster comingup,” aaid Bessie, and
slufted her helm holding her boot to
the wind to iet the steamer pass. The
earner came up at speed; they could
seethe brightly lighted portholes, and
the green side lights, hear the rumb
tk 'l ader of the engines
steady cur-ur-ur-urr,” of the
?i d rm‘ JL c ! Land ’ RU 1
Se nt™ ™ S m Bm ’ S ° ° J
, lxr 7 ° 1 ® t 8iud ^ 3S10 . 8 ^ ddenl - - , y and ,
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idmrply, , do you two people love each
7«v,r\ “Wnata 1 question’ . .. „ said Maurice, „ .
with an an knard laugh
fllCted ° a ^ ° tkel ' W ° maU S
heart "“Then,”
said Bessie, and her voice
abonfto die 3 ” 6aCh 0tllel ' ,
She swung the tiiler hard over, and
tho Fly-by-Nignt swung as a girl
swings m a waltz, the sails filled and
tho boat rushed clear into the track
of the oncoming steamer. There was
time to speak, to rise, to cry on ;
happened m a flash, in a moment,
°r e b VC CSS mS T 8t f m ‘
hghs , f shone on Bessie a face
h er f y f 8h “ uagaU d
teeth glistening . between her part- |
lips ilien there came one shout
h J SSrlr“i thuty-foot stem of tho Cdy of
,\ Ck °, f t 1l6 b0at a
lung blow that smashed 1 it . as a
box crumble*, when you step on
the mas flew over and whipped the
and the iron keel of the steamer
on, over and through tbe boat,
the ‘bat-bat-bat-bat” of tho
wheels ground it to pieces.
The City of Glo ster ran on a quor
of a mile, stopped reversed and
back nearly to the spot. With
few short orders and some stilled
some of tho deck hands
a boat, an officer took the
and said, ‘ Give way,” and they
ClrCl8 ° f th °
‘.,5. A httle 9 8 ’ of i and
group passengers
hands clustered at the rail, and
the boat as it swept to and
over the water, no one spoke, and
awe-struck silence rested over the
men.
At last the boat returned, was made
and hoisted, and the officer
scrambled up to the deck.
Did you find anyone?” asked a quiet
from the upper deck.
“No one, sir."
“No one swimming or floating?”
"Nothing but a few boards; their
wa3 smashed to toothpicks. They
have gone clean under us and
cut to bits by the paddles."
The same quiet voice said “Go
a bell jingled in the engine
and the City of Glo’ster tore on
way up the coast, whilo a few
of wreckage tumbled in the
York East Side News.
» Experiments in Burial.
Experiments in surface burial have
made by Mr. F. Seymour Haclen,
pioneer hurial reformer, at his
at Alresfovd, Hants, the results
which he communicates to the
Laying the body of a calf,
or dog on the ground, he “covers
in every direction with a single foot
earth,” and finds at the end of a
that only the bones remain.
whole process is without effect on
purity of the earth beneath, or the
of the air around. Deep
he demonstrates, retards the
resolution of the animal
He has found that bodies
two feet deep take two years
while at three feet
three years aad so on. Ho in¬
those interested to make
to his experimental burial
Famous Bible Distributor.
Perhaps the most famous distribu¬
of Bibles in the world was
Brown, of New Hampshire.
began the work iu 1819, and
up till his death, a few years ago, at
age of seveuty-six. During that
no fewer than 120,000 copies of
Scriptures were given out by him,
despite his age in the two years
his death he canvassed 239
aad visited over 80,000 fami¬
Tsvclvo Tears Deatl and Unbar!eel.
The late King Alfonso, of Spain,
died twelve years ago, is still un¬
His remains lie covered in a
sheet on a marble slab in
of the Escurial, Itis to be hoped
disinfectants are used. He will
interred when tho present King
disaccording which dates back to to tho 1700- Spanish custom,
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DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF JOHNSON COUNTS' AND MIDDLE GEORGIA.
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 25,1898,
FIELDS ^ ■ LCllj LhJ OF ADVFNTTTFF 1 URL,
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
A Snake Nearly Thirty F’eet Lons* Kills a
Valuable Performing Pony and Badly
Injures a Man In Philadelphia—A Di¬
ver’s Encounter With a Fierce shark.
A Brazilian anaconda twenty-etokt
‘a s* i 2*£r ' J *,
phia on6 d recently> d near
j kU l in g a watchman wrapped its
coils avouud a valuablo F * aud
crusbed it to deatb>
were part of the attractions at the mn
Beum . Tlle belonged to W. C
of New York, who placed a
valuation of $10,000 on him. The au
neonda wns imported P by Lw the manage
,^ nfc au(1 an . ive d from York in a
box sis feet lo wbiob WRS (b bt
t0 be secure. The box was placed in
the corner of a curio hall. The .pony
tied shipped from Now York, Ho
WM to a feed box in the curio
hal! . Samuol Mosher is tho watcli
man in tbe bal) . He was in the cellar
with the other attendants engaged in
sorting platfo J cut lumber for an exhibition
* m to bo constructed in tbe J
ourse of the day . T!l0 mana 8e
him on an errand to the curio iiall. He
st(lyod a long w hile, but uo notioswa ,
taken of this until wild shrieks from
tke triokpony and other sounds of
commotion in the curio hall caused
tho attendants iu the collar to drop
tbeil . lumber and hasten to tho scene.
•The spectacle that met them when
they reached the upper floor terrified
them for a moment. Watchman Mos
was
squeezed t J?£?Z3i‘jn£~ was
out of him.
t0 a
tioU sho ' ved tU: * t hewas noUleadl'^Ho
HolpHal^ere^e
two ribs fractured. It is not known
whether ho has any other serious iu
juries beyoud shock from fright, ^
At 1bo ho8pital Mosbei . re ived aud
told tbo Bt of ibe encounter, of
which he was the only witness. He
said on reaching the curio hall ho was
startled by finding about six feet of
the anaconda’s length out on the lloor.
A board bccarae looso and tbrougb
this the captive began 8 slowly to work
Lis w ay to liberty The watchman’s
flvst impniso W as to try to force him
back, mul he started to do this alone
'Cho snakr. attacked hiai c, 1
ia less time tbaa tbe watchmah'could
te l, it the great folds of the reptile
were entirely free from the box and
out ou tho Jlool , In auotber instant
t he watchman was writhing f in them,
He wa3 too terrified at firs to ive
allU . m ancl w hen ho did try, the coils
of tbe mollste r were about his chest,
crushing bim.
Tbe noi3e which summoned the res
cuers W as made by the pony. The
actions of the pony were a remarkable
dis , of animal intelligence. Ho
tbe struggling watchman in the
serpent’s coils, and, with shrill neighs,
8prang to his aid, drawing the feed
box w i t h him. With his sharp f hoofs
aad Lig teetb bo fiel . caIy atfcac ce d tho
Bnake which slowlv unwound its folds
from tha helpless watchman, and
turned on its new assailant. It was
not long before the pony’s neighing
wa3 stifled. The monster wound its
clasp around the brave little animal’s
body, and with methodical slowness
broke bone after bone in its ribs.
The men who rushed to the scene
and saved the watchman’s life were
afraid to attack tho boa or to go near
it except withweapons to destroy it.
The serpent hissed at them and darted
its tongue out. It was evidently pre¬
pared for another attack and to seize
a third victim, Pat McGlinchy, one
of the attendants, who is an old plains¬
man, suggested to lasso the snake’s
head. This plau was adopted and his
head was firmly secured. The problem
of securing the rest of the body wa 3
less easy to solve, but the tail was 80
cured in some way after it uncoiled
from the pony’s body, and the snake
was heavy dragged to an iron cage with a
screen and securely imprisoned.
This pony slayer is nearly thirty feet
long.
A Shark Cripples a Direr.
Andrew Cameron, a deep sea diver,
formerly employed by the English
Government, was a passenger on the
steamer Yucatan which arrived in
New York from Havana and Vera
Cruz.
Cameron was sent to Vera Cruz
several months ago by Pearson & Co.,
an EugusLi firm of dock builders who
had a contract to build a bulkhead in
Vera Cruz harbor. While making a
submarine examination he had an ad¬
venture eighty feet below the surface
of the water with a ten-foot man-eating
shark, as a result of which he will be
in a cripple his for life, beingpartly paralyzed
right leg.
“I arrived in Vera Cruz,” he said,
8 ’and went to work immediately. Be¬
fore making my first descent I asked
some Mexican fishermen if there were
any sharks in the harbor and was told
there were a few small ones, but that
they were not man-eaters. No one
had ever heard of any deep sea sharks
coming into the harbor. J.
“Satisfied with this information
began my work of diving regularly
every day and had been working for
about six weeks carefully, examining
the work on the bulkheads. During
that time I saw .a few small sharks
which I frightened away by striking
my hammer against the colnmus.
“I made a dive October 16, and had
been working about an hour at a depth
of about eighty feet when I saw a dark
shadow over my helmet. Surely, I
thought, that cannot bo tho shadow of
boat at this depic t Then I saw
object move, and s<iw I was within
two feet of a large, man-eating shark.
I reached for my knife, which has a
blade eighteen inches long, and as the
shark swam over me, almost touching
my helmet, I stabbed bim in the
throat, cutting a deep gash.
“For a moment tho big fish remained
perfectly began still, as if stunned; <hon ho
to lash furiously and the water
became crimson with' his blood. I
hugged the piles of the bulkhead as
closely fish. as I could to get away from the
I could nob move, owing to the
heavy weight attached* to my shoes.
The shark swam straight for mo and
rammed me, head on, iu tho right leg.
Luckily it was a glancing blow, and
although the shock tore away tho
heavy‘iucelsiou’ cloth , of which my
diving costume was made, and almost
wrenched my leg off, there were no
bones broken,
“Tho shark turnod on his back and
again came at me with
mouth. I managed to move aside and
stabbed him, and he moved rapidly to
the surface.
“I had signaled to my attendant
the boat to bo pulled np, but the at¬
tendants afterward told me they were
busily engaged at the time in adjust¬
ing the apparatus and did not notice
my signal. I probably owe my life
that fact, for if whits fighting the
shark I had been pulled away
my position I would surely have
my legs.
“The occupants of the boat saw the
shark come to the surface dead,
immediately pulled me up. That
saved my life, for I was too weak
send a signal and my clothes were full
of water, which came through the
made by the shark. I am now
to England for au operation.”
Cameron claims to holds the
record for deep-sea diving, having
gone 200 feet below the surface at
Loch Craig, in Scotland, on April 16,
to reseuo an engineer and
who were drowned in an accident
similar to the recent one on the New
York Central at Garrisons.
A Train’s Race TVUU a Waterspout*
Tuesday afternoon there was a race
run between a passenger train on tho
Inter-oceanic aud a waterspout,
race was declared a draw, as the train
esoaped from tho immediate effects
the waterspout, which burst
the crest of a mountain, but the
mense volume of water poured down
the mountain side, along the roadbed,
aud finally caught up with the
and inundated it so that the
gers had to bo taken off in handcars.
The particulars of this unique
are daily highly interesting. It was
pasaon-yev traia from Puebla
this city and largo v
a number of
sengers were aboard. About
o’clcck tho sky became suddenly
ered with masses of black clouds. Au
inky waterspout culebra, as it is
by reason of its resemblance to a
writhing serpent, hung frpm
heavens and advanced rapidly in
track of the moving train. There
great excitement among the
gers. The people in the
coach, who had the best view of
phenomenon, went down on
knees in prayers for deliverance.
One lady had a nervous attack and
fainted. When the engineer learned
of tke panic aboard his train he
cided to show tho culebra his heels.
Then began tho prettiest race on rec¬
ord, with tho lives of a load of
gers a3 the stakes. Up grade,
grade, around sharp curves,
bridges and over the levels flew
passenger train, with the
just behind and gaining just a little.
The train entered a canyon,
a curve, aud at tbe same moment tho
chasing culebra came to grief high up
the mountain side. Tbe water poured
down tho slope in raging torrents,
aud as tho train emerged from tbo
other side of tho gorge a vast sheet of
water, bearing trees, rocks and ali
kinds of debris on its bosom, threat¬
ened to engulf it. Wider the engineer
threw the throttle, endeavoring to es¬
cape this new danger, and all would
have been safe, but another
curve intervened and the
jumped the track. The engineer saw
the danger aud reversed tho lever
applied the brakes. The engine
rolled down the embankment, but the
rest of the train, including the tender,
remained on the track.
The next novX mol ent the mass of water
struck the stationary train and
flooded it to the level of tho platforms.
The passengers and crew were help¬
less to do more than look ont to see
what had become of the engineer and
fireman, supposing them killed. But
they both scrambled, or rather swam,
out of the window of the overturned
cab and clambered back on tho train.
This happened iu the vicinity of
San Antonio Capulalpam, State of
Tlaxcala. A relief train was dispatched
to a point as near as it could get, and
the passengers and crew of the ship¬
wrecked train were transported in
hand cars and brought on to Mexico,
arriving here only four aud one-tan
hours late, and with ah experience
which none of them will ever live lour
enough to forget, and which, had it
not been for the presence of mind of a
nervy engineer, none of them would,
in all probability, have lived ¥0
momber.—Mexican Herald.
j
Peculiar Device Against Fire. V
The Theater Francais at Faria has
a peculiar device to insure tho great¬
est possible [safety for the audience.
Not only can the scene be separated
from the audience by a hermetically
closing steel curtain, but the roof of
tbe scene can be uncovered at a mo¬
ment’s notice, so that a draught of o/g
is produced, which carries away tha
smoke and noxious gases produced iu
the fire. These, it is said, constitute
the grestest danger to the audience,
often s renaming escape quite impossi
bio. ft is on the scene that the fire
usually breaks out., ---
IS A GREAT SCHEME.
SECRETARY DACE’S FINANCIAL
JUGGERNAUT.
The Administration’s Plan Leaves Noth¬
ing to Be Desired by the Most Re¬
morseless Usurer—Plan to Enslave tl>o
American People,
>
Secretary Gage ha3 pulled off the
mask from the face of the McKinley
administration. Senator Wolcott had
no sooner walked the gang-plank of a
returning European steamer than the
monometallic "scheme which prevailed
in the last presidential election is
given to the public as a proposition by
Secretary Gage, which was by him laid
before the cabinet meeting on Friday
last, says the Silver Knight Watchman.
It leaves nothing to bo desired by the
most remorseless usurer, and nothing
to be hoped for by tho^e who are In
debt. It proposes the destruction of sil¬
ver as a money of redemption, and de¬
clares that immediately, and without
legislation, the entire volume of the
silver dollars In this country is con¬
vertible Into gold coin at the demand
of the holder. All silver certificates are
instantly convertible into silver dol¬
lars, and Secretary Gage offers to give
gold in exchange for the whole of
them. He favors the refunding of all
the bonded indebtedness of the gov¬
ernment. He would exchange the pres¬
ent bonds for new ones expressly pay¬
able in gold instead of In coin, with In¬
terest at 2% per cent. He would give
the present bondholders enough addi¬
tional bonds to make up for this reduc¬
tion in interest. He would Increase the
gold reserve to one hundred and twen¬
ty-five millions of dollars, and make it
permanent. To that he would add all
of the silver dollars and silver bullion,
and still to these he would add two
hundred millions of the greenbacks,
aud never let them go out, unless some¬
body wanted to give gold for them. He
would establish a new national bank¬
ing system. He would have the gov¬
ernment furnish to private banks ?150
worth of bank notes for every ?100 of
bonds deposited as security. He would
have the government guarantee the
entire national bank issue. Two-thirds
of tho issue would be secured by
bonds, and the remaining third by the
assets of the banks and a 2 per cent
tax on the unsecured circulation. The
assets of the banks would include the
tables, chairs, pens, pencils, inkstands,
paper weights and stationery of every
description, and the safes and the keys
to the same.
It Is a g^reat scheme. It snatches
grace beyond the reach of Cleveland’s
art, and puts tbe pliant Carlisle to
school.
Mr. Gage bases bis demand for this
scheme upon the present weakness
the nation's credit. He says that “com¬
merce and industry, so sensitive to all
financial* events, and watchful with
anxiety against dangers as yet unseen,
need for their full rehabitation from
past reverses and depression, a renew¬
ed confidence that tho
finances are to be firmly placed on
stronger and more enduring founda¬
tions than now exist.” Seconding Mr.
Gage’s motion, President McKinley
said, in his banquet speech at Cincin¬
nati on Saturday evening: "Remember¬
perience, ing our rec<^ j.t panic should and strengthen financial the ex¬
,wtr
weak places in our financial system and
remove It further from ambiguity and
doubt.”
We suggest that a simpler plan to re¬
move all anxiety and doubt would be
by an amendment to the Constitution
to place in the hands of Pierpont Mor¬
gan and his associates, and their suc¬
cessors forever, the entire legislative
power of the United States in matters
connected with finance and the cur¬
rency. In other words, that the United
States government make an assign¬
ment to Secretary Gage’s powerful New
York supporters.
“CUurcli Mu»t Lead.”
Rev. Father Ducey preached a sensa¬
tional sermon in St. Leo’s church at
New York last Sunday. Among other
things he said:
“As a priest of the Catholic church,
I say to you from this pulpit that the
present conditions of the poor in the
United States cannot go on. The Cath¬
olic church in these United States
must lead for the emancipation of the
people from their present social and
economic slavery, and as the emanci¬
pator of tbe working classes. The
states, the United States, congress,
must make laws to protect the people's
rights and abrogate the laws that have
been made by bribery in the interests
of frauds. The great mass of the peo¬
ple are in revolt the world over, and
unless the church of Christ, directed
by the spirit of Jesus, becomes the ad¬
vocate of the people’s cause and force
into public life the truest and best men
of the land, who cannot and will not
be purchased by trust kings and kings
of monopoly—force into public life men
who will pass just laws based on the
ten commandments, the revolt of the
people now before the world will swing
into a most disastrous revolution.”
Why Wo Are 1’oor.
The laboring people live too fast;
that is why they are poor. There is
no doubt of thiB, says J. A. Wayland,
for those who are rich say so. If tho
working people will quit dressing in
the latest styles, quit keeping a stud
Df fast horses, quit betting on the
races and gambling In stocks and
bonds, quit giving wine suppers and
banquets, deny themselves theater
parties and European trips, quit their
palaces with a long retinue of servants,
l am quite sure they will become quite
wealthy. These are things that keep
Iheir noses to the grindstone. Pluto
uratlc logic. .
HAMMER AND ANVIL.'”*^
Havlng taken a brief rest after
unsuccessful efforts id? behalf of Seth.
Low, Carl Schurz has resumed hi*
steady occupation of throwing brick¬
bats at Senator Gallinger, whom he ac¬
cuses of being an enemy to civil service
reform. Just •why Mr. Schurz should
constitute himself the 'especial cham¬
pion of civil service is not clear. He is
a chronic officeholder himself, but he
has never held an office subject to the
civil service law. His activity is prob¬
ably due to his propensity to meddle
and to his steadfast conviction that all
the wisdom and patriotism of the na¬
tion e.re concentrated in his person. 1
Gallinger is a spoilsman, but he is
much less offensive {ban busybodies
and pharisees of the Schurz stripe. ■
I
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In the Pennsylvania coal regions,
where the “lawlessness” of the miner*,
recently was the source of great grief
to the organs of the coal barons, a
committee of the Pennsylvania legis¬
lature has made some discoveries re¬
specting the lawlessness of the mine
owners. The committee found that
many if not most of the operators are
maintaining “pluck-me” stores in vio¬
lation of the law, that some of them
use dishonest screens and dishonest
weights, and that practically a,U o'f
them are rack-rent landlords, who ex¬
act from the miners a yearly rent
equivalent to the total cost of the shan¬
ties in which they live. Comment upon
these facts would be superfluous, and it
would be idle to hope for a betterment
of the situation revealed. Pennsyl¬
vania Is a hopeless rotten borough of
monopoly and the only salvation for
the miners is to find work elsewhere
if they can. (
The original idea of the congression¬
al library having been entirely lost
sight of the librarian has recently
added to Its alleged usefulness by pro¬
viding a room for blind readers and a
lot of books printed in raised type, and
now ladies are giving readings from
Howells in the room, and it is said a
piano is to be added presently and oth¬
er things to make it a pleasant loafing
place. This is all very nice, but what
has it to do with the library of con¬
gress, and why should the country pay
the bills? No wonder this is a billion
dollar country.
In speaking of Mr. Hanna, Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll volunteered the re¬
mark that “the people suspect money
without genius.” Mr. Hanna has been
accused by his political enemies of be¬
ing unscrupulous In the use of cam¬
paign money, but not even his ene¬
mies have charged him with getting
his persqnaLi’ortune through dishonest
means. Colonel Ingersoll professes to
be a republican, and it ill becomes him
to cast baseless slurs upon any prom¬
inent man la his party. He must, have
spoken carelessly.
Republican statesmen should broad¬
en generally. While they take such fl
comprehensive view of the Hawaiian
question, they should widen out on the
tariff. It doesn’t consist to argue that
we need a mid-Pacific station in the in¬
terest of extended commerce and then
regulate our tariff laws so as to de¬
stroy that commerce.
Mr. McKinley has not yet told us
what he meant by saying that he is
highly gratified with the result In
Ohio. Such a remark is calculated to
make Mr. Hanna feel uncomfortable.
For the life of us we cannot see whai
part Senator Thurston played in the
late campaign for which he should be
given credit. He left Nebraska and
went to New York, and the latter state
went democratic by a majority so big
that they have not yet got done count¬
ing. In the meantime his absence from
Nebraska did not seem to do that state
any good, as it went democratic, too.
Either the presence or the absence of
the senator seems to be fatal.
Mr. Platt’s denunciation of the Low
managers in New York as a lot of rule
or-ruin factionists is the sheerest non¬
sense in the light of the fact that I>ow
received nearly 50 per cent more votes
than Platt’s candidate. But Platt does
not give any consideration to a small
matter like that. His position is that
Platt constitutes the republican party
of New York, and that anyone who op¬
poses him is a factionist.
We will believe somewhat of the a)
leged shame of the old soldiers at tha
frauds on the pension list when we see
some of the hundreds of thousands ot
old soldiers who are drawing pensions
they do not need return those pensions
to the treasury of the people which
they have robbed. Out upon a country
whose citizens are only willing to
serve it for pay!
The latest move of the adminis¬
tration In its desperation to save Han¬
na is to dragoon poor old John Sher¬
man into the senatorial race. Sher¬
man is, of course, unfitted for service
in the senate now. The president him¬
self was mainly Instrumental in im¬
pressing this fact upon the country by
placing Sherman in a position where
his feebleness was displayed to the
whole world. Therefore, the talk in
administration circles of bringing the
old statesman out for the senate in
the present muddled situation in Ohio
can have but one meaning. That mean¬
ing is McKinley’s wlllingnes* to make
of him a door mat for Ilk; na.
The situation in Ohio appears to
have simmered down to the proposition
that Mr. Hanna can have the senator
ship If he is willing to pay for it. This
is well enough as a basis fob negotia¬
tions, but Mr. Hanna will very proper¬
ly insist upon certain details being
cleared up ‘before he appears as a bid'
der. .x' \ _____, 1 .. _ . . |
NO 48.
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AGRICU LTURAL T OPICS,
Keeping; Hubbard Squash. '
To keep Hubbard squash perfectly,
r. dry room should be secured, where
the temperature can qe kept always
above freezing. Dryness is even more
important than warmth. Squash
quickly mildew and rot when exposed
to moist ajr either cold or warm. y-M
Neats Foot Oil.. 1
Many farmers when they butcher a
cow throw away the hoofs as worth¬
less. They ought always to bo used
to make neats foot oil. Put them in a
kettle with plenty of water and boil
until all the oil is extracted. A set of
four feet will usually make a pint of
the oil, which should be skimmed
from the surface as it rises in boiling.
—Boston Cultivator.
To Destroy Caterpillars*
A farmer writes to an agricultural
paper: Every year I hear of caterpil¬
lar s destroying whole orchards and.
there is nothing so easy to dispose of.
I bore a hole in the tree deep enough
to reach the sap, fill it with sulphur
and plug it up. Tho sap takes tho
sulphur to every branch and twig and
the caterpillars, disappear at once. I
have never known a tree to bo injured
by it and have used it for years.
Buying; Weeds Willi Hay.
A great deal of hay is sent to market
full of weeds. While it is true that
some of these, as the white daisy
when cut early, will be eaten, there is
no weed that grows in meadows that
has the nutrition which hay has, and
many weeds are positively injurious.
The worst of feeding weeds with hay
13 that many of the weeds have seeded,
aud when they go into the manure
pile they go wherever tho manure pilo
is carried.
Cheaper Than Stable Manure, 1
Professor H. E. Van Deman says
in the Philadelphia Becord that a crop
of clover or cow peas plowed under
every two or three years iu the orchard
will stimulate growth sufficiently, and
ns it would take twenty loads of stable
manure per acre to do tho same the
former is the cheaper. He thinks
also that 600 pounds each of muriate
of potash and dissolved bone or phos¬
phate rook per acre should be applied.
But this will not be necessary every
year until an orchard is hearing heavy
crops aud shows signs of impoverish¬
ment.
•' Figs Need Sunlight.
'
A young pig is much like a flower;
it must have plenty of sunlight to
make it develop and grow into useful**
liess. Many a fine litter has been
seriously injured for the lack of it. A
writer in "Wallace's Farmer makes tho
following sensible Log- .assinarke; “Where
farmers have a house, in whichjt
number of brood sows are having their
litters, we advise putting iu cheap
sash on tho south side, Which can bo
done every easily aud, at present
prices, at small cost, A brood sow
should never be allowed to produce a
litter in a dark place. The north side
of a building is no place for her at all;
Choose the south side, or the east if
nothing better can be done, aud let
there be plenty of glass windows to
admit the sunlight. In the summer
time these windows can bo removed
and their place taken by some kind of
screen, or, if nothing better, a coarse
gunny sack, which will admit the air
and keep out the flies if pigs are to bo
kept in the building. A little atten-’
tion to this matter of light will save
plenty of money and prevent serioas
disappointment.”
Heavy Seeds Hie Better. •*iy
The Year Book o'f the United States
Department of Agriculture for 1837, 1
now being distributed, contains an im¬
portant paper on the supremacy of
large, heavy seed which commends it¬
self to the careful consideration of
every farmer desirous Of increasing b W
heavy crop yields. The experiments with
and light seed of various grains
and vegetables on which this paper is
based demonstrated very strikingly,
the superiority of the plump, sound,*
heavy seed. The plaut and root de¬
velopment of the young seedling front
heavy and seeds iu was larger, more uniform
better every way than from
heavy light seeds. The seedlings from’
seeds always showed more vigor
than those from light seeds. In tha'
experiments with barley, for instance,’
fonr different sizes and weights of
grains were taken, and corresponding
lings gradations were noted in the seed¬
therefrom. This interesting
paper concludes with the statement
that numerous investigators, both in
'
this country and in Europe, have
found that heavy seed wheat, oats,'
etc., produce heavier crops in the field
than lighter seed of tho same variety
sown under similar conditions; and
there seems no room for doubt that, iu
the majority of cases at least, the sc*
lection of large or heavy seed will re¬
the planter for all the money ex¬
••'V,
Cannon Ball Flretl In 181!}.
.
Edwin S. Hunt, of Essex, Conn.,
a cannon ball whioh was fonhcl
where the old Saybrook fort was once
just north of the Valley Bail
station at Saybrook Point. Tho
was fired from a British ship ia
river during the War of 1812.
A Curious Stone.
One of the most curious stones in
world is found in Finlaud. It is a
barometer, and actually fore¬
probable changes ia the weather.
turns black shortly before an ay
rain, while ia fine weather
ia mottled with spots of white.
Rapid Communication.
The Greenwioh Observatory has
put into telegraphic communica¬
with that of the McGill College,
the and the signals oan he flashed
two places, a distance of
miles, in three-quarters of u
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