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2 THE WEEKLY STAR: PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY — CHAS. O. PEAVY. DOUGLAS COUNTY OFFICIAL ORGAN. MUBBCRIFTION RATES. Per Year, in advance, .90cts. “ “ on a credit $1.15 OUR AGENTS. The following are authorized to receive and receipt for anlMcriptiona to the Stab : L. 8. FeAthkuston, Villa Rica, Ga., T. J. Bowen, S»,.t Snriuga, Ga., T'hos. A r uiß. Anatoli. Gu Lei Dobvktt, Chapel Hili; Ga. Address all communications to THE STAR, Douglasville, Ga. Entered at the I’ostoffice at Douglasville, Ga., •* eccond-claM matter. A GRI-AT OFFER. FREE — TO ALL OUR SUBSCRIBERS! All subscribers of the Stab who make an’advance payiront of one year nil! re joive as a premium one year's " nbscrip tion to THE HOUSEHOLD BEACON, ' - aA handsome, 8-page, monthly household paper that will become a welcome visit or iu the home of every intelligent family. SWEPT INTO ETERNITY. JI MILL DAM GIVES WAY WITH DISASTROUS RESULTS. People Drowned and Honaen Carried Aw»j by the li. aging Waters. A terrible disaster befell the post village of East Lee, two miles oast of Lee, Mass., the other morning. At sunrise a flood burst upon tho inhabitants which wrecked three* fourths of the dwellings and mills iu the place, took the lives of seven or more people, and did damage roughly estimated at $200,- <K)O. The town is situated on a brook, the outlet of Mud Pond, which supplies several paper mills with their running power, dams being built all along the stream for four miles. This pond has an area of about 150 acres, and was very deep. The dam which held tho water back was thirty feet high and twenty-two feet wide. It was built nine years ago, and of late* has been conslderei unsafe, but nothing was done to strengthen It, and the people con tinued erecting louses upon the banks of tho at ream. The other morning, a few minutes after 5 o clock, a tremendous roaring was heal'd by the'early risers in Lee. They at once sur misod thecause, and the ringing of the church hells and the blowing of whistles aroused the whole town. It was supposed that Goose I loud, a larger body of water than Mud had broken away, in which event the : ‘' vu U P<’° w0,11,t l "‘ v ” I*Hm in danger. 'Dos in lx* awoke the neople in East 4.-c, «>y.knowing from which source'....'xins t and hearing tl o crashing mid roaring waters and rocks, although three vs four miles awny. rutiie I from i thc.r homos—some haff-clad, others al most naked, all fleeing for their live-,. They were aoue too soon. The grout mass of water came pOv ring down tl e narre w brook, sweep- i nig ecery thing before it, digging trenches In I the sides, tho roads, the meadows, and strew ing rocks, trees, houses, everything conceiv able in the wild rush. The path of the tor- . rent varied from fifty fret to two hundred, ! iThu where tho head waters became con* fincxl td w» JUMTQW Unfits the destruction Was terrible. t * i .‘‘tun the bursting water pOured 1 into a large swamp of fifteen acres, from the end of which led the outlet brook. At this point the descent Is steep and winding. The brook turns like a snake in the ravine on its way to the village three miles away, St, »t> wsw here that the roar- ing eoninvsiired. On entering the town the first olwtaia encountered was a heavy iron aud wooden bridge. Spectators who saw the wave as it advanced and struck this bridge say that it was about twenty feet high and sixty wide. It completely envel oped the bridge and carried it awav. Just below was the mill of John Dowd, which was wreck© 1 completely. Tho dam was washed away and with tills added weight tho water rolled on. A roil Amt her and tho house of Simeon Dowd was n et. Mr. Dowd, seventy years of age an i rather iuflrm, had goaeinit a mo ment before to feed his chickens. He atep;>ed but ton fret l>ack of his house, but the water caught him and swept him into eternity. His wife sbKxl paralysed at the sight. The aaddest incident of the dav. however, was tho killing of A. N. White, aged fiftv niny, his wife, aged forty-five, ami their daughter Ida. need nine, nhd the baby, four months old. They occupied a house re cently purchased wit h bard earned savings, and were a happy family. When the tearful avalauche of water struck the bouse White and his family had not risen. Their _ home was swept awav without a moment's warning, nnd not' a tnu e of it, aven 6f the foundation stem's, remain*. The naked body of the man was found led-ecl iu the crotch of a tree two mites from his home. The lusty of his wife was forced by the swift current through the window of Garfield’s paper mill, a mile below her home, an.l there so ftr.tdv lo Iged in the machinery that four meu had a half hour's work to extricate it, l« tn < bil Iren wore drowned. Mrs. Theodore King, awidow.al'out forty four yew• of nge, was carried from her room and drowned. Mrs Charles Kim... <f H< nsatonte, a relative, who wa* visiting at ‘ the house, was al«ocar>',Kl »w bv tl.e flood, and Iks 1 body was roovered from a mass of de’wis. further deWu the stream Jol.ti MclaughlinM marten® shoj*; Fab u‘# raper milts were wre k si, nil the Wwemmt wnebiqerv Wri •; iwu t out hr the fncd.'an<L thswh uvighing tons, me ear- if they were re*k and lamted 'feet no'Uia lank. L'otnh A" «rk tey * ndllwrigkt shore vrhre abo <h stroved. it- re> | a;»*r mills were »adly denutgud. He Knew Him «*Toiha4 the fultest confidence in yoar clerk, Mr PtaeoMj” ••Oh. yc*. I knew him tlior »uglk|r.’* -How do you WROOunt for the fact, l <heu. that ho tew "ilh. that’s what I a'wxv* th axrht _a . he'd do. No, eir, I wasn’t footed iu him * « not much genuine bunpinee* F -Ute W’MtK bar tteate who do m*t |> v sionm ®rci what they have not got. and L *ls» ten tr-suie h«oh vs tUmar xe* cmr ■L .Wt b-ppinexs a I ‘ Should M. Pasteur succeed in curing diphtheria by the same methods that he can cure hydrophobia, he should have a monument of marble in every country in the world. He claims that it will be ac complished. The largest land sale ever effected in Arkansas, or in the Southwest perhaps, was the recent sale of all the land belong ing to the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway company—63o,ooo acres. It sold at $1.25 per acre. It was the duty of English coroners in olden days to hold inquests not only on deaths, but on fires, burglaries and rob beries. Inquests on fires are still held in Northumberland, and it is now proposed to reintroduce into London the ancient “crowner’s quest law” in the matter of fires. Flour barrels are a source or great ex pense to the people of this country. Say there are 50,000,000 of barrels of flour consumed iu this country each year, and there are 12,000,000 of people who buy it by the barrel, there might be saved to the people of this country $2,- 400,000 when twenty cents per barrel is saved by purchasing flour iu sacks. The American Humane association will distribute 100,000 copies of the num ber of Scienee which contains the report of the committee of the American Ornith ologists’ Union for the protection of birds. The report shows that unless im mediate measures are taken to prevent the present rate of destruction our woods and fields will shortly be without birds. An examination of a map of the United States will show a strip of land several millionsof acres in extent, marked “pub lic land,” lying between the States < f Kansas and Colorado and Texas. This strip of country was left out by mistake in the original surveys, and i? not in cluded in any State or Territorial juris diction. Neither is it reached by United States law. It is wholly without a ju dicial authority, and is, consequently, the abode of the very worst classes in the country. Cattle thieves and criminals of all kinds resort to it as a refuge, and lately cattlemen have partly taken pos session of it to evade the action of the President excluding them from the Indian Territory. There they have established their ranches without molestation. Senator Miller has introduced in the United States Senate a bill requiring all manufacturers of and dealers in oleomar garine, butterino, lardinc and suine to display signs in a conspicuous place at their places of business indicating that they manufacture or sell stlch hrticlel, imposing a special tax of SSOO on manil facturcrs, $250 on wholesale dealers arid SIOO on retail dealers in such produces and requiring them to take out annual license to carry on such business under penalty of fine and imprisonment, and re quiring all persons engaged in such busi ness to keep books and enter therein an accurate and detailed account of all imitation butter manufactured or sold by them, such books to be subject at all times to the inspection of the treasury oflicials. -a., A correspondent writes from Whitley Court House, Ky.,to the New as follows; “There are only 1,000 people —men, women and children—in all cf this county, yet the murders and assas sinations during the year outnumber the births two to one. To anybody who has ever lived for a time in thh section of the country, or who has ever tiav< 1 4 through Harlan, Bell, Knott or Fletcher counties, the statement is too common to excite comment. But no one ever travels through those mountains—for there are not any ndlways to travel by—and no aews|xi| er correspondent ever writes from Harlan county, so the murders, and fends, and ass issinal ions and brawls are not made public. There are courts hero, of course, and ju Iges and juries, as there are in civilised communities, but where every juryman is re!a*edto the murderer on trial, and where the judge has his own life to take care of in a lawless commu nity, the idea of convicting a prisoner never occurs to tho-e in court.” It is th? belief of the 80-ton Cw’t'mter that “the most popular measure that Congress is likely to pass upon this ses iion is in the question of prohibiting Uirn land ownership. It has been found lb it some of our tnort valuable proper ties in the West tec-e been lodgetl in the ‘ ownership of foreigners, and that a great many e-totes in our hr. ;• cities are thus controlled. The sentiment of the people, voiced in both }K>iilica! platforms in the > Irt't f r .’sMeniiii casva«s, is against such , hoi iiu«x«. and there is now considerable lu .iuway t > an influence to declare p;op e.-iy mid. r alien ownership belonging to r.u h American resident* abroad as do not <wi. e in two year* spend a twelvemonth ' oti their native hn.th. It is said that there are over 12,< 00 American families liri: g abronl snpportel wholly by in eou’scs frmn estates owned in America, wlo have nd bren iu this country sci over ten year*. They are sa dto include sobs - <;s,t>Oo a id nr? at no per v i.. * * 5 I * : >.i i'm.- .i i that so k w the edi.-en whe xl us -.td ro. 1.l det.and*.” Just before the outbreak of the war Stonewall Jackson, then a professor in the Virginia military institute at Lexing ton, organized a Sunday school for colored children, which is still sustained by lead ing citizens there. This Sunday school has now set on foot a subscription for a monument to Jackson, which is meeting with a lively response among the people, black and white, of the South. “God help the stranger that is taken sick there,” writes an officer of the United States steamship Galena, speaking of As pinwall. “It is not uncommon for peo ple to lie down in the street aud die in broad daylight, and when dying receive no offer of assistance, even in answer to an appeal for a drink of water. The people appear to be heartless, as if their familiarity with death had made them callous.” In the Chinese language there arc sixty characters and meanings to the syllable Ling, seventy to Sing and seventy-five to Ing. The Chinese child has a pretty or endearing nickname given it soon after its birth. Then the boy has a school name when he goes to school, a marital name when he takes a wife, a business name when he goes into business, an of ficial name if he takes an office, and a death-name to be put on his tombstone and to go down into history. The Chi nese prefix “Ah” so common in this country is an endearing diminutive, equivalent to Sam-my, John-ny, Tom-my in the English language. Some time since reports reached this country that a new textile had been dis covered in France, which was likely to take the place of wool to a large extent. Os course this reyort created a good deal of sensation in certain quarters where the ■wool interests are important. Accord ingly, United States Consul Williams, of Rouen, France, was requested to make a complete investigation of the matter and report at his earliest convenience. This report has arrived at the state depart ment. He says that the new textile is called Berandine, from the name of its inventor, a Macstricht workman, named Berand. The French have made very glowing official reports. Mr. Williams says that in the opinion of experts whe have since made careful examinations of this textile, it is safe to say that it is not likely to take the place of wool, or even the poorest quality of wool or cotton. Its presence in a mixture of textile mate rial increases the difficulty of spinning to such an extent that in no instance could it be spun fine. Its use in fabrics of mixeel thread diminishes its value by imparting roughness and to the touch. Th? consul Ijbinte* this textile may take a modest place here after, it is not at present calculated to diminish the price of wool. Berandine is claimed by experts to be the direct product of certain peat grounds, and is thus cheaper by far than any other known raw textile material. The consul draws the conclusion that the inferiority of the textile surpasses its cheapness, and thus places it low on the list of textiles. But of course it is subject to improvement by inventive skill, and may in the future be an important element. The editor of Tm-f, Fild and Ftirm. in the course of an editorial on the horre, pays th‘s eloquent tribute to man’s equine friend: “The horse pliys an important part in the industrial projects of the world. Draw a chair close to one of our sanctum windows an I look out upon the streets which surround the postoflice block. The surface cars roll up and down with scarcely a break, and the mind grows weary in the attempt to count them. Each car is drawn by two horses, and th- ceaseless tread tells upon feet, sinews and wind. Express wagons, drays, carts and other vehicles moved by horses choke the thoroughfares, and even shallow thinkers are impressed by tho fact that the one-toed quadruped has become a necessity to commerce. We leave the city and take a run across the country. The liue is immaterial. We may continue the journey day after day and night after night, and not get outside of the domain iu which the horse is a [lower, is essential to the civilization of man. He draws the plow and the reaper, and carries the bag to the mill, The fuel which keeps bright and warm the winter hearthstone, the bread with which fast is broken, and the garments with which nakedness is covered, are brought to each village and farm-house de or by the horse. The doctor, the jiost tnan, the small tradesman and the tax gatherer also recognize our four-footed fro nd as an important agent in keeping up communication with isolated homes and scattered communitie-. The wheels cf agriculture and cou.meree would move painfully slow were it not for the horse. Where'er we go we see that there is a great practical want to lie met. and we are ccnitKlied to laud the efforts of those who try to fill this want.” In the Parlor. She-—Ant tel pat ion. He—Exultetion. « Both —Oseulat ion. Father —Indignation. Ke--Gyr.tion. AU around —S onsation.— Tld- Nev« r be « ver-exacting with ciuhlrei; th?v will gr; w wiser with vears. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. I HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST FROM ALL POINTS. EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. The New York police had a short but sav age fight with striking employes of the Third i Avenue Horse-car company who attempted to prevent a car from running and beat its driver and conductor. Seven men, all of whom had received a clubbing, were arrests i. 1 his occurred on the 19th, and on the 20th all the horse-car lines excepting the Third ; avenue were running again, the strikers hav mg resumed work. I Conversation was carried on between ■ New York and Chicago a few days since by means of an improved telephone. The dis j tance by wire is 1,020 miles. John Carpenter, confined in the New . York Tombs under sentence of death for i tesi^thr Ul^ er ’ cominitted suicide by cutting The body of Leopold Schenck, editor of the ; edition o.‘ 1 uck, was incinerated at ths Mount Olivet crematory qp Long Island the other morning. ; Thirtern members of the New York Bakers’Union have been indicted bv the I Grand Jury for boycotting Mrs. Grav’s i k ’ ; , Tfae - V we:e a!1 arrested, and gave ; bail. The result of the boycott has been a j iai-ge increase in Mrs. Gray’s busiuess, per i sous sending money to her from long dis tances. Several fatalities from lightning during severe thunder sterms occurred on the 20tiu AKPottsville, Fenn., a young man and sev .c’/l mules were killed. Four little girls in a public school at Freeland, Benn., were in jured, one fatally. James Manly, driver for , a colliery at Shenandoah, Penn., was struck dead, and Rev. A. M. Child, a Methodist minister, was painfully injured at Weiteru ville, N. Y. The City National bank, of Williamsport, Penn., has suspended. For the second time a New York jury has disagreed upon the trial of General Alexan der Shaler, of the State militia, who is charged with bribery in connection with the selection of an armory site. Ths Grand Army of the Republic of the State of New York, represented by delegates ; from 590 pojrs throughout the State, opened its twentieth annual encampment in New York city < n the 22d. A parade was the feature of the day’s ceremonies. The New Jersey Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, by a vote of fourteen to .sei’en, found P. H. Laverty, keeper of the State prison at Trenton, guilty of two serious charges iu connection with his management of his office. He was deprived of his place and forever disqualified from holding office. I men were crushed to death by the fall of a derrick at Lancaster, Penn. The grandfather of Miss Folsom, the fu ture bride of President Cleveland, is reported in a Buffalo dispatch to have stated that the lady is in Europe selecting her wedding garments, and that the marriage will take place in June. A eire on Broadway, New York, de stroyed business pix>perty valued at $500,0J0. Mrs. Josephine Landgraf, a Now York bakeress, who has been boycotted by the ( Union, has been receiving considerable finan cial aid from sympathizing persons all over the city. Three successive collisions between polic-e --' men and a crowd of strikers occurred on the 22d in front of the Havermeyer Sugar Resin- Con’rahy’s factory, Greenpomt, Long island. The 2,000 emploj’es of the concern had Struck for increased wages the day be fore. Five policemen and many strikers were wounded, one of the former having hi skull fractured. E, Remington & Sons, of Ilion, N. Y„ tho well-known gunmakers, have sus- Jijndcd. • ■* i f SOUTH AND WEST. i Some of the striking Knights of Labor on the Southwestern railroads have returned tc work. Vice President Hoxie, of the Mis souri Pacific road, reported on the 19th that the places of nearly all the strikers had been filled. The Knights of Labor have teen organiz ing negro assemblies in Arkansas and Texas. At a meeting of the officers of the different I railroads entering St. Louis it was deter mined to continue operating their reads with out the assistance of the strikers and without recognizing the Knights of Labor. Two Mexicans, charged with horse steal ing, were shot to death by a mob while I in h constable's custody at Collins, Texas. The Knights of Labor are calling outtheii men in factories which furnish supplies tc . the Missouri Pacific Railroad. —■ WASHINGTON. The House Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic by a vote, of (> to 5 ordered an adverse i report on Representative Taulbee's bill to provide that no person shall be licensed os a retail dealer in intoxicants by the United gtates until he has first received a license as . from the local authorities. The Seventh regiment, York State militia, arrived in Washington from tte metropolis on the 19th, and was received with large crowds, much enthusiasm, music, and fireworks. The excursion was taken bv the regiment in commemoration of its first iourney to the national capital at tho out break of the war twenty-five years ago. Mr. Powderly, General ik-t r Work man of the Knights of I.abcr. appeared Le fore the House special committee of investi gations on the 20th aud gave his version of the labor difficulties in the Southwest. He de clared that the railr ad companies there did not keen their agreements with their em ployes, and that undoubted cause of discon tent existed Jay Govld testinad on the 22d before the House Committee engaged in an investiga tion of the labor strikes in the Southwest. He gave a long account of the troubles from his standpoint, charged Mr. Powderly with dis’artiug facte anil placing him in a wrong light, and asserted that he'believed in arbi tration, but would not recognize the Knights of Labor as such. The court of inquiry into the recent Ore gon d isa ter, held at Liverpool, has exone rated the owners and officers of the sunken steamer from all blame. Foreign. Later reports put the number of persons killed at the fire which destroyed th» town of Stry in Austria at fortj', most of then chil dren After the fire many of the shot® were pilhigjd, and some of tae owncis in taeir de sjair committed suicide. Mveti or petition is being dev ©'oped throughout Great Britain to Premier Glad stone's plan for Irish horn.- rule. Di ke de Castries, a well known French sportsman and owner of race horse.;, is dead. Late news from Greece was decide : ly warlike, aud it was feared that hostilities agaiajt Turkey might I egin at any moment, mt withstand ing tne interventi.noi the treat powers. iNCENDiARjfc have fired .Mandalay, the capital of Burmah. and one-third of the walled city is in ruins. Hundreds of houses were burned. The wife of a laborer living near Cologne has presented her husband with six children in less than a year—three ten months ago, iiuu & tew iisys sixKtL "ill .* i is reported to be utte.-.j- prostrated by h's good forteiDc. Fori; highwaymen wb.7robbed a resident of the Indian Territory were pursued bv citl «ens, and wueu ovcrhaule i were shot dead. Tbk Senate Las confirmed the nomination cf Caleb W. V est, of Kentucky, to be Gov ernor of Utah. * After the turning of the town of Stry, in Austria, by which so many people lost their lives, twenty tiddy persons died in the sure roundxtg fields. TROUBLED LABOR. IHE PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL MES SAGE TO CONGRESS. ilecemmending the Creation of a Commis sion for Settling Disputes. The President has sent the following mes sage to Congress on the subject ,gs the iato. troubles. To the Sena te and House of Representative ■>: The Constitution imposes on the President the duty of recommending to the considera tion of Congi ess from time time such measures as he shall judge necessary and ex pedient. lam so deeply impressed with the impor tance of immediately and thoughtfully meet ing the problem which recent events and a present condition have thrust upon us, involving the settlement of disputed arising between our laboring men an 1 their employer.?, that I' am con strained to recommend to Congress lex i&ation upon this t erious and pressing sub ject. Under our form of government the value of labi r a s an element of national prosperity slould be distinctly ie.-og nized aud the welfare of the laboring man should be r-egaid.d as especially entitled to legislative care. In a country which offere to ail it; citizens the highest attainment cf social and politicaldisflm-tiou its working men cannot justly or safely bo considered tvs irrevocably consigned to the limits of a class aud entitled to no attention and allowed no pretest against neglect. '.I he laboring man, bearing in his hand au indi pjiitable cqntri buticn to our growth and pi egress, may well insist, with manly courage ari l as a right, upon the st me recognition from tuosc who make our laws as is accorded to any other cithen having a valuable interest in charge, and his reasonable demand should be met- iu such a spirit of appreciation and fair ness as to induce a content© 1 au I patriotic co-opt.ration in the achievement of a grand national destiny. IV hile the real interests of labor are not promoted by a resort to threats and violent manifestations, a .id while those who, under the pretext of an advocacy of the claims of labor, w anton y attack the rights of capi tal, and for relfish purposes or the love of disorder ;ow seeds of violence and discon tent, should neither be enequraged nor con ciliated, all legislation on the subject should be calmly and deliberately undertaken, with uo purpose of satisfying umeusonable de mands or gaining partisan advantage. The present condition of the relations be tween labor and capital are far from satis factory. The discontent of the employed is due in a large degree to the grasping and heedless exactions of employers and the alleged discrimination in favor of capital as an object of governmental attention. It must also lie conceded that the laboring men are uot always careful to avoid causeless and unjustifiable disturbance. Though the importance of a better accord between these interests is ap parent, it must be borne in mind that any effort in tl at direction by the Federal gov ernment must be greatly limited by constitu tional restrictions. There a: e many griev ances which legislation ‘by Congress cannot redress and many conditions which cannot by such means be reformed. I am satisfied, however, that something may be done under Federal authority to pre vent the disturbances which so often arisa from disputes between employers and the em ployed and which at times seriously threaten the business interests of the country, and, in my opinion, the proper the ory upon which to proceed is that of voluntary arbitration as the means of settling these difficulties. But I suggcai that, instead of arbitrators chcsen in the heat of c-c ufli ting claims and alter each dispute shall arise, thereby created a Commission of Lal or, consistingof three members who shall be regular officers of the Government, charged among other duties with the consid eration and settlement, when possible, of all controveiries t etweao labor and capital. A eommissicn ih’. s organized would have the advantage of being an able body aud its members as they gained o<yerien?e would constantly improve in their ability to deal intelligently and usefully with the questions which might be submitted to them. If arbi trators at e chosen for temporary service as each case cf dispute arises experience and familiarity with mu »h that is involved in the question will be lacking, ex treme partisanship and bias "will be the qualifications sought on either side, and frequent complaints of unfairness aud partiality will be" inevitable. The imposi tion upon a Federal court of a dutv foreign to the judicial function, as the selection of an arbitrator in such cases, is at least of doubtful propriety. Th? establishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would tie a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and of its right to be represented i.-i the departments of the Government. Fo far as its conciliatory offices halre’a tion to distuibances which interfered with tiansit and commerce between the States, its existence would be justified undei 4 the provi sions of the (jonst-tution, which gives tc Congress lhe power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States.” And in the frequent disputes between the laboring men and their employers of le s ex tent. and the consequences of which are con fined within State limits and threaten do mestic vtelence, the intetposition of such a commission might to tendered, upon the ap plication of the Li gislature or e cecutive of a State, under tle constitutional provision, which requires the? general government to “protect ’ each of the States '‘against d' mes ti; violence.” If curli a commission werefairly organi c-.! the risk of a loss of px>pu’ar support aud sym pathy, resulting from a refu-al to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality, would con strain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference and abide by its deci ions. There would also lie good reason to hope th t the very existence of such an agency would lav ile application to it for advice and coun sel. frequently resulting in the avoidance of cc nte utiou and misunderstanding. If the usefulness of such a commission is doubte l bceau-e it might lack power to en force its decisions, much eu ouragement is derived from t he concede I good tnat has teen a compiishc I by the raiiroad commissions which have teen organized in many of the States, which, having little mor© than advi sory power, have exerted a most satisfactory influence in the settlements of disputes be tween conflicting interests. In July. ISS4, by a law cf Congress, a Bureau of Labor was established and placed in charge of a Commissioner of Ixibor. who is required to “collect information upon the subject of labor, its relations to capital, the h nrs of lahor and the earnings cf laboring men aud women, and the means of promot ing their mater al, social, intellectual and moral prosperity.” The coannisticn which I suggest could easily he eng afted u;ion the bureau thus a.ready organised by the add ticn of two it ore < 034111 and by supplementing the duties now opposed upon it by such other powers aud limct'ons as would per nut the commissioners to act as arbitrators wren necessary between labor end capital under »ti« h I rmtatioiri and upon such ccca s!o:i' a- 4ro .'.d I e deemed pn>;x*r and useful. l ower shmtid ato> be distim t.v conferred upon this bureau to investigate the causes of ad « i .t«putes as theyo.Tcur. whether sabrtiitted for at i»*tratiou or tiof, an t' at information may always i»- at hand t.» ai l legi-lat on on titv subject wli.ii i.ec 'sriry .".mi desirable. Grover Cleveland. Executive Mansion. A:»r i ‘.rt. Being either way up in the attic of ecstacy, or way down in the cellar of despair, is bad policy. Any fool can become comparatively happy in life if he will take a position on the fence and stick to it Wuen on earth the Creator taught truth in simple and homely phrases, yet the simpleness of the language rendered his words eloquent and more convincing. THE PAN ELECTRIC MUDDLE. GARLAND BEFORE THE INVESTI GATION COMMITTEE. The Attorney-Ge tier a] Explains His Be. latious to the Telephone Company. Attorney-General Garland fortified before I the Pan Electric Telephone .Investigation committee of Congress at Washington on the 19th. As soon as he was sworn Mr. Garland put in evidence his statement made to the President and bis Cabinet last October con cerning his connection with the Pan Electric Company. He said that as far back as February, 1883, Mr. Atkins, the present Commissioner of Indian Affairs, sug gested that witness, being a poor man like himself, to enter into the Pau Electric enterprise. Mr. Garland replied he had never male any money except at law and poker, nnd at poker he frequently lo.rt. and so ne hesitated about going into the company- Subsequently he met Senator Hairis, Casev Young, Mr. Atkins aud Dr. Rogers at the latter’s house, where they talked about the general idea of organization of the Pan Elec tric company, aad he concluded to go into it. When, later on, parties urged him as Attor ney-General to bring a suit against the Ball company by the government he at once refused to do so. He had looked into the matter carefully, and concluded that owing to his interest in the Pan Electric company he could not and would uot touch it. Mr. Garlanl declared tho organization of tho Pan Electric company simply au under taking by five or six impecunious men who wanted to better their condition in a legiti mate business enterprise. He never intended to use his official position (being then a United States Senator) in the interest of the company. The original stockholders had paid in their assessments and went ahead in a proper manner to bring * out Roger 1 invention. They had never tried to boom the business. He for one took hold of it as a legitimate business venture, and regretted that it had not turned out better. He had never looked into the question of the legality of issue of the Bell patent. He re garded tho Rogers patent as an improvement over tho Beil, and .as no infringement against the Bell, and therefore patentable; but he did not want to be drawn into a dis cussion about the validity of the Bell patent. Van Benthuj’sen and others, Mr. Garland said, came to him in July, 1885, representing some telephone interests, and asked him as Attorney-General to bring .suit in the name of the government. He simply told them that he could not have anything to do with it, as he was a stockholder in the Fan Elec tric company, a rival of the Bell company. That was the last talk he had with any body about it until after his return*” from Arkansas, and tho thing had gone out of his mind until he received a disnatch in Little Ro k from parties iu New Orleans in forming him that he was being complimented for l.aving directed a suit to be brought against the Bell company. He never told any one that in his absence an application coul I be made to the Solicitor General. He never maut oned the fact to Mr. Goode that an application for a suit was on file, in fact, never mentioned tele phone matters to Mr. Goode until after his return from his Arkansas trip. Mr. Gar laud denied positively that he timed his visit so that he might be away from Washington while th? Solicitor-General was considering the application. Ho made arrangements to go six weeks before leaving. He went to Arkansas, as had been his practice for a number of years, in the month of September, when deer were in season, and as he went for recreat'on and to get awny from business, from letters and paprts, he directed that none be sent to him at Hominy Hill, v hera ho spent the month. Hominy Hill, the AtU>rney-General said, was fifteen from Little Rock and seventeen miles frefrn anywhere else, and he never heard a word mentioning his name in connec tion with ordering the government suit until the 27th of September, when he returned to Little Rock. In reply to a question Mr. Gar land said that at the time his name was first mentioned, and subsequently., nothing was said to him by any one about the office of Attorney-General being advantageous to the Pau Electric company. “I never dreamed of such an idea, and I have never tried, and never thought of trying, to use the office or its powers to benefit the Pan Electric com pany.” Mr. Garland could see no impropriety in taking the interest he had taken in the com pany. Other government and Congressional officers were interested in all kinds of pri vate enterprises. During his cross-examination by Mr. Ran • ney, the Attorney-General statfid that he acted as attorney for the Pan Electric company to the extent of examiningend in some instances making papers and documenta. He often met gentleman connected with the Pan Elec tric company in his committee-room of the Senate; butthero never was a meeting of the company held in his room. 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