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OLD SERIES VOL. LII NO. 2.699.
FAYETTTEVILLE, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1SS7.
NEW SERIES-YOL. IV NO. 240.
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AN IDEAL SIESTA.
Thoo. B. Hill, of linleigh.
The .drowsy turn of the murmuring bees,
Hovering over the lavender trees,
oal through half -shut lattices,
s wKke or asleep I scarce know which,
I lazily loll er R window-niche
Vhose jrossamer curtains are softly stirred
pv the gauzy wings of a humming-bird.
From airy heights the feathery down,
Blown from the nettle's nodding crown,
Wearv with wandering everywhere,
sils slowly to earth through the sultry air ;
While indolent zephyrs, oppressed with per
fume,
Stole" from many ft balmy bloom,
re falling asleep, within the room.
Sow floating afar, now hovering near,
Pull to the eye and dumb to the ear.
Grow the shapes that I see, the sounds that I
hoar;
Fverv inurmur around dies into my dream,
Save only the song of a sylvan stream,
Whose burden, set to a Bomnolent tune,
Has lulled the whispering leaves of June.
U things are hazy and dreamy and dim ;
Ti,e flies in lazier circles swim;
On slumberous wings, on muffled feet,
Imaginary sounds retreat;
Anl the clouds Elysian iles that lie
In the bright blue sea of summer sky .
Fade out before my closing eye.
NEW YORK SEttOC&ACY.
Work of tad Stat Convention at Saratoga.
Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 28. The Demo-
rralic State Convention re-assembled this
morning at 11.30 o'clock. The following
nominations were made: Secretary of the
cjo Frederick Cook; Comptroller E.
C. Wemple; Treasurer L. J. Fitzgerald;
Attorney General Charles F. Tabor. All
the nominations were made by acclama
tion, except that for Attorney General,
Tabor receiving 220 votes to loC for Mr
V. A. Poncher.
The platform as adopted declares that:
"The unnecessary Federal taxation of the
last fi5cal vear exceeded $100,000,000. Un
necessary taxatiou is an unjust taxation.
Therefore the democracy of New York de
mand that the federal taxation be reduced
bv a sum not less than $100,000,000 a year
and also respectfully urge upon Congress
that a measure shall be adopted, which
will, in the lanernaere of the President's
in:uiirural address, relieve the people from
unnecessary taxation, having a due regard
to the interests of capital invested and
workincnien employed in American indus
tries. The taxes to be first reduced or al
together removed, are those on imported
raw materials which now assist and pro
mote foreign competition with ourselves in
our own markets and prevent or hinder
the sale of our surplus products in foreign
markets. Along with these taxes should be
fori ) with remitted or reduced the tax
ation which increases the cost to our own
wage earners of the common necessaries
-f life and price of the common daily cloth
ing of all our people. Besides these there
are several hundred articles among the
41S2 articles now taxed, which should he
swept off the tax list into the free list,
thereby diminishing the cost of collecting
nil seaport taxes, and casting away those
which are petty, needless, and vexatious.
"We also urge immediate enactment of the
measures prepared by Mr-, Manning and
Mr. llewett, presented to the last house
by the committee of ways and means, to
systematize, simplify and economize the
machinery for the collection of the cus
toms revenue, and especiallj- for making
correct appraisement of foreign values
wherever ad valorem rates of duty shall be
! retained. .
"The Democracy of New York reiterate
their support of the civil service clause of
the United States and of the State of New
York, and of their purpose to uphold them
both. In view of the radical change in
administration methods which grew out of
tho civil service laws and the differences
of otiinion which exist in relation thereto,
we deem the subject one which might be
aPDronnatelv submitted to a popular voie
favors a reduction of
government expenses, sympathizes with
i Ireland, favors a day's work not to exceed
ten hours and weekly payment in money,
! and a continuance of the canal improve
ments, but without accepting federal aid,
favors a revised excise law applicable with
out unjust discrimination throughout the
State, and opposes all sumptuary laws
needlessly interfering with "the personal
I liberty and reasonable habits and customs
of any portion of our citizens; favors leg
islation in the interest of labor; is against
food adulteration, and for local regulation
of liquor traffic, heartily endorse the admin
istration of Gov. Hill; heartily endorses the
administration of President Cleveland, and
declares that ho has won the respect and
confidence of all citizens, without regard
to party. It has removed that apprehen
1 ion of "the danger which would attend a
... chantre of nartv in the Federal adrainis-
! tration which had become a serious ob
stacle to tli Government depending upon
the popular vote". It has our pledge of
j unanimous support."
Keady-Kade Dinners.
experiment, as to every other which prom
ises to liehten the labor of wives, sisters
and mothers. Doubtless, the system will
have a good measure of success here, as it
has in European cities. Nevertheless, it
will be a long time before the cooking
stove and the wash tub take their final de
parture from all the villages, hamlets and
farm houses of the country.
Great little Things.
""Where do all the pins go?" How.
often this question has been asked and
never answered satisfactorily. They are
made by the billion, and hundreds of per
sons earn good wages in their production.
Naugatuc. valley, Connecticut, is some
times jestingly spoken of as pin county, be
cause of the large shops employed exclu
sively in making these little but useful ad
juncts to clothing, and the small army
of work people in their employ. Stick a
pin here, reader, and think for a moment
of the old Scotch proverb, " Many a micklo
makes a muckle."
How many canary birds do you suppose
there are in the United States? More
than five million. These birds are busy
feeders and great wasters 6f seed. They
are the occasion of many industries. Hun
dreds of tons of brass and iron wire are
anually made into cages for their ben fit,
and the world ransacked to prvide them
with food. The three principal seeds, ca
nary, rape and hemp, on which they live,
are brought from Europe. Eleven million
pounds of these "were imported last year
from Spain and the Mediterranean ports.
Besides these there are other seeds, like
millet and wheat, imported for these pets
of the household, the whole bulk weighing
fully 9,500 tons. Think of the hundreds
of families in Europe to whose livelihood
these birds contribute, of the ships whoeo
cargoes they help to swell, of the transpor
tation and express companies m this coun
try to whom they furnish business and of
the stores scattered all over the land that
deal in these seeds, finding them an im
portant item of their daily trade.
This is the season for the importation of
bulbs. One day recently three steamers
landed in New York with many hundred
thousand. The great seed men of that city
were in a hurry to get them, for their cus
tomers all over the country were- waiting
for them. The docks were crowded with
their drays. Their custom house brokers
were hastening through the routine to
further their wishes. One importer alone
paid that day more than $1,500 duty on
tulips, jonquils, lilies and other like little
things.
The South has within her broad and fer
tile acres thousands of little things, " un
considered trifles," that may be turned to
account and made the basis of a large and
lucrative business.
SITAKE CHARMING.
An Interesting Snake Story,
Manner.
Told in a Pleasing
Coal Survey.
Dr. W. A. Lash, of Walnut Cove, who is
at the head of a corps of surveyors for sur
veying the coal fields- in the Dan River
district, has written a letter to the Com
missioner of Agriculture, accepting the of
fer made by the department m July, l!v,
under certain conditions. At that time
application was made to the department
for $1,000 to assist in his work, ana tne
department agreed to give that amount
provided the citizens of the coal district
would raise a similar amount for the same
purpose. The letter of yesterday was to
notify the Coramisioner that all conditions
had been complied with, and the aniouut
of $1,000 was forwarded. There seenis'to
be considerable interest manifested in the
coal discoveries of that section, and nearly
everybody is confident of finding extensive
deposits, that will be easy of access. The
Danbury Reporter and Post notes about
fifty localities in the Dan River district in
which there are large deposits. There is
every indication that this section will soon
be on a phenomenal coal boom.
Thunder-Storms.
R. R. Jones.
I have often enjoyed this story of my
father on himself. When he was a joung
man he was out in the pine woods of
North Carolina hunting squirrels. He had
walked around for quite a while, and be
ing tired ' sat down on a log for a rest.
Soon after sitting down he heard a squir
rel making great ado just a little dis
tance from him. Ho walked down in that
direction, thinking he would kill it. When
ho got near enough to see he saw tho little
reuow running some ten or ntteen ieet up
and down the tree nearly to the ground,
wuli its hair all turned the wrong way
Drawing a little nearer he saw a lanre
snake of the racer species lying full length
on the ground, with its head near the root
of the tree, looking at the squirrel. He
had often heard of snakes charminer thincrs.
so thought ho would just remain quiet and
il . r, - - -
see me operation, ine squirrel kept up
its chattering and running up and down
the tree, each time seeming to get lower,
until at last it came down and laid itself full
length on the ground at tho snake's mouth.
He then threw a stick at the snake, which
striking near it caused it to suddenly
throw its head around, breaking the
strange spell on the poor little squirrel, and
it ran up the tree. The snake did not ap
preciate such disturbance just as he was
preparing to make his supper of the squir
rel, so he raised his head a foot or two to
look around for the intruder. Now that
looked like such a good chance to knock a
snake's head off with a stick that my fa
ther did not think it necessary to waste a
load of ammunition with him; so, sitting
his gun down, he picked up a dead pino
pole ten or twelve feet long, walked near
enough to make the lick, when, just as he
tried to make the blow a sure one, the pole
broke near his hand -and fell behind him.
The snake not being much pleased with
the turn matters had taken anyhow, was
not slow to see this opportune moment; he
sprang toward him with much force, and
came so near to him that father thought dis
cretion was the better part of valor; so he
took to his heels, running for dear life,
the snake in hot pursuit. After running
fifty or a hundred yards, and seeincr the
snake still following him, he thought he
would turn and fight it out; but the snake
seeraea so raucn surprised at tins suuUcn
change in affairs that he took to flight, my
father in hot pursuit. Just before they
got back to the point he had left his gun
the suake suddenly whipped round a tree
and met him. and ere he was aware of
what he was doing he was running again,
,and the snake pursuing. My father did
not run so far this time before he thought
of himself, and turned on the snake to
fight it out or die in the last ditch. As
soon as he turned the snake thought it
best to go the other way too; so turning
himself about he started the second time
over the dark and yet bloodless ground of
this conflict. By this time my father had
his blood up, and his wrath being kindled
not a little, he started after his enemy, in
tending to pursue him until he got his gun
and use that means of defense. He now
felt like he could use that load of ammuni
tion on hira with a good grace, and if to
kill him would not bo God's service, it
would certainly be to the pjeasure of one
man at least. But, alas! just before get
ting to his gun the snake suddenly turned
to one side, ran over a small embankment
into a hole in the ground, and, lo! he was
not. So getting his gun, and having lost
the squirrel, and coming out second best
in the snake fight, he went home. If not
more wise, he was certainly a more tired
man.
while counting the money. It was quite
black from the arsenic. Every morninga
now piece of sponge is placed on the desk
of each employee, but berore t he day is over
it is black. There were three ladies who
were six years before they were afflicted
with sores. About three months ago they
were so visited with them that they had to j
auit work. They have been away ever
since, and the physician's certificate in
each case says their blood is poisoned with
arsenic.
KAITUrACTTTBIHO.
Korthern and Southern Cotton Kills.
UBIQTJIT0rS ISRAELITES.
; Their Adaptability to All Climates and Con
i ditions.
The Corse of the Country.
Scientific men in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland have been studying the great
increase of thunder-storms on the conti
nent of late years. They attribute the in
crease to a variety of causes. They insist
that there is now more danger to buildings
from the electric fluid because of the ten
denev to keen the soaces around detached
: " r r , l
houses free from trees, which, oemg nign
er than the houses, acted as a conductor
to the fluid. But one of the principal
causes is alleged to be the enormous use of
iron in the construction of railways, and
in the network of telephone and telegraph
wires now so largely applied to social ana
commercial nses. There may be some
truth, but there is certainly more specu
lation, in this. IE there is any country
where iron forms a largo teature in con
structive uses, notonly as respects railroads,
telegraphs, telephones and electric ngni-
ing, but also in modern business Duuumgs,
it is the United States, but we have no
evidence thus far that it has increased
very materially the number of thunder
storms, or has made them more destruct
ive than they were betore.
The Anarchists.
Hew York Ledger.
"We are anoToachiner the time when
the cook stove and the wash tub will be
excluded from the modern dwelling house."
These are words of a woman who has
Riven considerable attention to domestic
affairs. If the cook stove and wash tub
go. the most nerolexing part of the domes
tic servieft nroblem eoes with them, and
then what is to prevent or retard the mil
lennium t We fear this lady is 100 san
iruine. Th Chinese laundry has been es
tablished for several years in most of our
country towns, but the wash tubs are
broucht mit every Monday morning in
most houses, and the white clothes flutter
, in th nnnn.riAv breeze on many a line
I And now in Boston a company has been
building a number . of ingenious wagons,
full of trays and shelve to be kept hot by
Kerosene, for the purpose of conveying
I from hnuA to house hot legs of mutton,
i hot iointa of beef, cooked vegetables, and
: everything nice that now provides work
for the kitchen stove. In each customer's
! Iio'.isa mntnHiA (Onset is to be kept, heat-
f ed bv kerosene, in which the cooked food
is to be placed until the family is ready to
sit down at the table.
How convenient! -We wish well to this
New York, Sept: 23. Captain Black,
who arrived last night, was at the ofhee of
Gen. Roger A. Pryor at 11 o'elock this
morning, to present the case or tne con
demned Anarchists to the lawyer, with a
view to carrying the case to the U. S. Su
preme Court. Gen. .Pryor had said inai
he would not commit himself to the man
agement of the case, at least until he was
made thoroughly acquauiieu wuu u. ;
mltnr;nn lasted until 1.42 o'clock.
When Capt: Black came from the lawyer s
sanctum his face was wreathed in smiles.
He would only say, however: "l nave won
Gen. Pryor over, having explained every
thing to his satisfaction and convinced mm
of the justness of our side." Gen Pryor
said: " I am convinced that tne points tak
en by Capt. Black are excellent, and that
an application for a writ of error will be
granted. I do not see now tne appucauuu
can be refused, and we shall not lose a mo
ment in carrying the case to Washington.
I say we, for 1 am now connected wun ine
case. I am confident that we shall obtain
New York Herald.
Over a hundred millions lying idle. It
has been taken out of the business of the
country by the force-pump of over taxa
tion. It is of no use to any one. It does
the government harm, it arouses the cupid
ity of Congress, it does the people injury.
Our currency is not so plentiful that a
hundred millions can be drained off with
out, serious detriment. Merchants need
that hoarded excess to do business with.
The money market has already grown
feverish. Call loans may be plentiful, but
time loans are another matter. If a man
has monev to spare he places it where he
can get his hands on it at a day's notice.
He has grown cautions, possibly a little
timid.
Then the prospect of a still further ac
cumulation, with another hundred million
abstracted from business, is somewhat ap
palling. What will be the end? is what
everybody is asking. Are we to be taught
by a financial crash that the revenue must
be reduced, or will the Democratic party
take time by the forelock and by judicious
work prevent such a calamity ?
Level-headed Democrats have but one
opinion of the prime duty of the hour. It
is to squarely face the facts and insist on
reduction without further delay. If their
conference with Mr. Cleveland at Oak
View results in an agreement upon some
decisive plan of action, and if: the Presi
dent, seeing the dangers with which the
country is threatened, places himself at the
head of the party, bent on immediate re
form of the revenue laws in some shape or
other, the merchants and the common
sen so of the republic, irrespective of party
affiliations, will be with them.
I It has frequently been remarked, says
the Jewish 'vrhl, that the Jewish race has
a wonderful power of adaptation to all
climates. Jews are found in all parts of
the globe, and seem to possess a remarka
ble faculty for acclimatization, even under
the most unfavorable circumstances. Mes
opotamia is considered the mother country
of the Abrahamic family, as well as the
cradle of the human race, home years
ago a small family of Jews was found in
the ancient city of Sennnr, in the south of
Mesopotamia, and in the vicinity of an
cient Babylon. Of the seventy families
containing the colony, one claimed to be
descended from King Joachim, the rest
from the house of Levi. A colony of Jews
appear to have settled in China about the
beginning of the .third century of the
Christian era, under the dynasty "of Han.
In 1794, Father Gouzani, a Roman Cath
olic missionary, found seven Jewish fam
ilies near Pekin.
In 1680 a Portuguese Jew, of Amster
dam, named DePavia, discovered a sect of
Jews in Cochin, China. According to a
tradition preserved among them, they
were descended from a tribe of Jews who
had quitted Palestine on the destruction
of the second temple. From their long
residenco in Cochin they had becomo com-
idetely bronzed. These are not the Mala
ar Jews. The Jewish traveler, Benjamin,
sometimes called Benjamin the Second,
discovered a colony of Jews, evidently of
Persian origin, in Hindoostan. They were
known as "Babylonian Jews," omnccount
of their having migrated from Babylonia.
They observed the essential rites of Juda
ism, and strictly avoided intermarriage
with other sects. In the beginning of the
seventeeth century a Jewish colony settled
in Cayenne, in the West Indies, oue of the
most inhospitable climates in South Amer
ica.
Cayenne was subsequently conquered by
the French, who made it a penal settle
ment, and the Jewish colony was forced
to retire to Surinam. Notwithstanding
frequent persecutions. Jews are still found
in Persia, more especially to the south of
the Caspian sea, where the soil is very
fertile, but the climate very unhealthy.
The principal city is Balprosh, whereabout
150 Jewish families reside in almost com
plete isolation. They trado with their
brethren in tho county of Great Tarta-
ry, and are engaged in the wool and hilk
trade or in the sale of eitrons. Thev, too,
trace their origin from tho Babylonian
captivity, for according to a tradition still
possessed among them, their ancestors set
tled in Persia in the time of Nebuchadnez
zar, and did not respond to the appeal of
Ezra to return to Palestine. Their movie
of life resembles that of the Persians in
general. They hold the beard in high es
teem, and wear long flowing robes. They
have several synagogues, and obtain
scrolls of the law from Bagdad. The cel
ebrated African traveler, Mnngo Prk,
found a colony of Jewish families in the
heart of Africa, 1ont eight hundred miles
from the coast. It is, no doubt, this pe
culiarity of the Jewish race which induced
a French writer on "Medical Geography"
to express the opinion that "it is question
able whether the crossing of human vari
ieties confers on the issue constant advan
tages in relation to the species, for the
Jewish race seems in a wonderful manner
capable of adapting itself to every change
of climate, while others are scarcely able
to bear the least change."
The Jew is found in every part of the
world; in Europe, from Norway to Gibral
tar; in Africa, from Algiers to the Cape of
Good Hope; in Asia, from Cochin to the
Caucasus, from Jaffa to Pekin. He has
peopled Australia, and has given proof of
his powers of acclimatization under the
tropics, where people of European origin
have constantly failed to perpetuate them
fTnvteanian.
Two papers up in Lewistown, Maine,
the Gazette and the Journal, have just
been carrying on a very animating and in
teresting debate on whether cotton manu
facturing was more profitable in the South
or in New England, the Gazette uphcld
ing the Southern cause and carrying off
the victory.
Taking the question of dividends tho
Gazette shows thev are strongly in favor
of Southern mills. The Graniteville factory
of South Carolina paid a dividend of 20
per cent, last year. The Augusta, Geor
gia, mills 15 per cent.; the Langlcy mill 15
per .cent.; the Woodlawn and Lawrence
manufacturing compauics, of North Caro
lina, 15 per cent.; and so on throughout
the South. Theso are not isolated case,
as is shown by tho facts that the July di
vidends of the forty-five mills in Georgia
averajred over 12 per cent. On tho other
hand, tho Mills a Lewistown, Me., did not
pay a cent dividend, ana two oi mem
found it necessary to scale down their capi
tal to 75 and 90 per cent, respect ivi-ly.
Labor, simply, was cheaper. Thus, the
Eagle and Phu nix mills at Columbus, Ga.,
employ 1,800 operatives and pay out an
nually $400,000 in wages, an average of
$4.25 per week, while tho wages in the
New England mills average fully .flO a
week.
The climate is advantageous to the South
as a manufacturer of cotton goods. In
the Northern mills work is frequently
stopped on account of ice and drought,
and it is necessary to use an instrument to,
create an artificial moisture of the atmos
phere, which is necessary to make a smooth
running yarn. This- is not necessary in
the South, nor is it necessary to keep the
mills artificially heated five months in the
year so as to make them habitable by the
employes, nor to have men constantly em
rain occurring at that juncture, or for
some time before or after. It is like fore
casting the weather by tho phases of the
moon."
Wake Up
The Tariff and tho Tamer
It is boasted by the protection oligarchy
that tho southern people are very fast U
cominc protectionists. To roe it looks like
miscegenation to see sneh a hankering af
ter protection by a people whose very ex
istence depends upon producing C.000,000
bales of cotton, the price of which is made
in Liverpool. Unfortunately the South
haa always had a fondness of accepting the
cast-off policy or interest of the North.
Thus when SO or 90 years ago the States of
New York and New Jersey wanteU to get
rid of their slaves, the South wa ready to
buy them. When 15 year ago the North
found an irredeemable currency no long
er tenable, the South most ardently clam
ored for rag money. And now when the
North sees that protection is an outrage
and nnnresMon. the South i anxious to
step into the old shoes of the Northern pro
tectionists. Happily thi5 sentiment is,
onlv confined to a few frothy advocates in
fJiorfri an il Alabama whone economical
vUion is as blind as wa.the financial Tis-
ion or tnoso wno cnettinfmscucsHwiw:
for rag money.
It is my pnrposo to-day to show the plant
ers of Georgia and Alabama how they are
onnreRsed and swindled in paying tax on
cotton ties. Now, it is an astounding fact
that there is not one planter out of ten
thousand who does not believe, when he
sells a bale of cotton, that be does not get
10 cents a pound paid for the wrapping
and bands that tie op the hale. Four years
ago I had the same cotroversv, with now
Senator Chace, of Rhode Island, when hap
pily Iwas the means of saving the South l
cents a pound on cotton ties, although the
tax is still 35 per cent ad Talorem.
But first of all let roe convince the South
ern rdanter that he does not get one single
ployed at the sluice ways to keep ice from J cent paid for the bagging or ties, whether
obstructing the machinery.
P. T. BARNTJM
Says our people like to be humbugged, and
such seems to be the case
Where is the reason ra paying 5 cents
for a Spool of Thread when it can be
bought at the Racket Store for
2 Cents?
Where is the reason in paying 11.00 or
$1.25 for Miller's Shirt when you can buy
at the Racket Store, for
65 a 73 Cents,
the CELEBRATED New York Mills Shirt,"
warranted the best on the market!
What's the use in paying 50 cents for
Half-nose when they can be Lad at tho
Racket Store at any price from
5 Cents
up, &c4 the Very Best forSSCeitit
On the question of skilled operatives, it
is shown that while many oc the hands in
the Southern mills are green ones, the same
can be said of 'the operatives in the New
England mills. A ma jority of these are
Canadians, absolutely unacquainted with
any mechanical work when they took
places in these mills," and vet thev have
driven out the native New England labor.
With cotton, food, wages, etc., lower, it
is evident that tho Southern mills can
manufacture goods cheaper. The Gazette
goes further, and tries to see just how
much cheaper it can be done. This ad
vantage it finds to be exactly 13$ per cent,
in favor of the Southern mills, so that the
latter can sell their goods much cheaper at
all points where the freights are the same,
that is, as far north as Baltimore; south of
that city, where freights are favorable to
the Southern mills, thev can furnish cotton
goods even cheaper, 'it follows from this
that the Southern mills ought to supply
all tho goods needed by the Southern mar
kets, and so they will in time.
Carious Hysterical Epidemic
Low Death Sate in Tenements.
X. Y. Cor. Detroit Free Pre.
It happens (never mind how) that
I am
' Disease of ICosiey Coaaters.
A Washington correspondent, visiting
the Treasury v Department, noticed that
many of the women employed in counting
bank notes looked ill, and had sores upon
their hands and heads. The superinten
dent gave the followiug" account' of the
.trouble: Very few who spend any con
siderable time in counting money escape
tho enrps - Thev conerallv appear first on
the hands, but frequently they break out
on the head, and sometimes the eyes are
affected. We can do nothing to prevent
this. All the ladies take the greatest care
of themselves in their work, but sooner or
later thev are afflicted with sores. The di
rect cause of the sores is the arsenic em-
tb oT(Mntion of I nloved in the manufacture or the money,
41 . t-- . r . u. . , i l i jj a i
.u- ,1 mtn In mxr lnrimmont. If t.llfi SKin IS Hie icasi Runtueu, aim iuc
formed from Capt. Black's notes, the rec
ords will show so many errors that no
creat exertion will be necessary for us to
win. The nnexpecieu may mvpycu,
course, but I hare no fears."
of
Livee of poor men oft remind us
Honest toil don't stand a chance ;
More we work we have behind na
Bigger patches on our panta.
arsenic erets under the flesh, a sore will ap
pear the next morning. The habit that
Bvorv one has of putting the hand to the
hoa.il and face is the way the arsenic pbi
soning is carried to those portions of the
bodv. One of the officials stopped by tho
side of a voung lady and picked up a glass
vessel containing a sponge; this sponge is
wet, and is used to moisten the fingers
in a position to nave a pretty gomi Know
ledge of tenement life in New York. It
relates to the worst tenements as well as to
tho best, and it has extended over a num
ber of years. Speaking practically, then,
and from my own observation, I say that
the death rate in the tenemeuts, all things
considered, is singularly low. When the
health authorities talk about it they lay
special stress on the high mortality among
children. I wonder if it ever occurred to
those wise men that there is another rea
son than theirs why the proportion of
deaths as between children and adults is
so much higher in the tenements than in
private houses t What is it, this other
reason f Why, simply that the proportion
of children to parents is much larger in the
tenements than elsewhere.
Childless cotjpIbs are never found, or
hardly ever found among the poor in the
tenements. You find them by the dozen,
bv the score, the hundrend, in the higher
circles. Among the well-to-do people who
have some children the number is usually
small frequently, say, two or three, often
onlv one or two. But not so in the tene-
J . 1 1 J Al -11 A 1
ments, wnere u is uanu 10 mouiu an iub
year round. Children swarm there; you
stumble over them at every turn you take.
They are in the yards, on the sidewalks.
in the halls, on the stairs, in the rooms.
The workingmsn and his wife may find
the shoe pinching very often, but the fam
ily increases all the same. Not to follow
this matter any further, though there is
muchin .it for reflection, I repeat that a
strong and obvious reason, never men
tioned by the health authorities, for high
mortality among children in the tenements
is the fact that children are relatively much
more numerous there than anywhere
else. And the real wonder is that so many
of them not only pull through tho perils of
childhood, but become as vigorous men
and women as those who grow ur;n brown
stone fronts often, in fact, a great deal
more vigorous.
UritUh Mediral Journal.
A curious outbreak of convnlsionist
mania, analogous to those which occurred
from time to time during the middle ages,
has shown itself at Agosta, in the province
of Rome.
For tauue weeks past th country people
have Wen laboring under the delusion that
the district is nnder the immediate gov
ernment of the evil one. and before re
tiring to rest they carefully place on the
threshold the broom and the salt, which
are credited with the power of keeping off
evil spirits. Many of the younger women
have epileptiform attacks, during which
they utter piercing shrieks and are vio
lently convulsed. So serious had the con
dition of things lecomo that the syndic of
Agosta found it necessary to inform the
prefect, who sent detachments of soldiers
into th district in order to calm tho ap
prehensions'uf the. inhabitants.
As a natural consequence of this condi
tion of mental perturbation the country is
overrun with quacks, who claim to possess
the only infallible remedyfor the seizures.
One of these nostrums, the vender of w hich
was making a rich harvest from its sale,
was found on analysis to consist of earth,
snuff and borax. Three medical men who
were commissioned to investigate the canse
and nature of this extraordinary affection
came to the conclusion that it was an epi
dvmic of hysteria.
Thev" examined a number of the suffer
ers, mostly young women, some of whom
were alleged to have vomited nails, horse
shoes and other equally indigestible sub
stances, while others barked liko dogs.
Several of them were removed to Rome
for treatment in the hospitals there, and
measures have been taken to check the
spread of the mischief.
In a milder degree tins contagious rorm
of hysteria is not infrequent, especially in
places where ignorance and superstition
favor manifestations ef nervous disorder.
Tho worst excesses of popular outbreaks,
liko the French revolution, have been at
tributed to similar influences and with
every appearance of justice. -
he sells his cotton here or in Liverpool.
Tho fact is perfectly simple. Cotton is
sold in the United States by gross weight.
That is, if a bale of cotton weighs 450
pounds and tho price asrreed is 10 cents a
pound the seller receives f45. In Liverpool,
on the other hand. 24 pounds and some
times 20. tare is deducted; and a bale of
cotton weighing 4.r0 pounds only nets, after
deducting 24 lbs-, 426 lbs for which the seller
is paid. This tare is deducted for the wrap-
)ing and the steel or iron tics. Now, then,
et us take the price of spot cotton, say,
Sept. C, both in New York and Liverpool,
and we will find the problem solved. The
price of spot cotton on the 9th of Septem
ber in New York was 10 cents per pound,
and in Liverpool it was 5 7-10d per rwund.
Proceeds of a bale of cotton weighing
400 pounds in New York, gross, at 10c a
Twmnd. in $42.
T . - . .
Proceeds ot a bale oi conon weignmg
450 pounds, gross, in Liverpool, de
ducting 24 pounds tare, or leaving 420
pounds at 5 7-lGd., is a fraction over 9
13" d.. or exchange at $5-84. is as near as
possible $46.71 for the self-same bale and
weight which brings in New York 45,
leaving $1.71 per bale for freight and
charges.
Thus, the planter, if not pnTbltnd, will
see that whether he sells his cotton gross
New York, and is supposed to get paid
Our Needlo are THE BEST, and only
2 Cents
a paper.
We are selling Ladies' Silk Jersey Gloves
this week at
28 Cents.
Plenty of other grades for 5 cents up.
Our BEST BRASS PIN is ONLY
4 Cents.
in
for the wTappinir and ties at price of cot
ton, he simply gets the Liverpool price for
a bale after the tare of 24 pounds is de
ducted from it. In other words, he no
more gets paid for the wrapping and ties
in either country than he gets for the gin
ning of it. It is entirely a loss to hira, and
has to be borne by him. This being a
mathematical demonstration, the main
question is, why should the pKnter pay a
tax of 35 per cent, on cotton tiea when he
lias to lose the whole cost and value of the
ties!
In 1SS6 the Treasury collected no less
than $211, 1SS duty on cotton ties, and the
account stands thus.
Fimt cost of ties imported in 503,394
Duty paid on them at 33 per cent 211.1&3
Total loss to the planters 814,58!!
Besides the cotton ties bought of the
home manufacturer, which were of course
enchanced 35 per cent. When the Yankee
fisherman needs foreign salt for ennng his
fish no tax or duty is charged; such is and
has been tho law for many jrars. And
yet. when the Yankee fisherman sells his
codfish by weight he actually docs get paid
for the salt the fish contain. But when the
planter has to give the ties to the buyer for
nothing ho is charged by our swindling
tariff 35 per cent. tax. Can outrage or op
pression invent a more refined tax cruelty
than this? All I wish is to make plain to
the millions of the Southern planters that
the present tariff U a swindle on their in
dustry: that what they produce they have
to sell at the lowest pnee prevailing in for
eign countries and on what they are obli
ged to buy for their nse they have to pay a
tax averaging 44 per cent. That is now
the main issue.
J. S. Moore.
New York, Sept. 10, '87.
Eow They Execute la Fraaee.
But our great bargains this week are ia
Ladies' Jerseys, ranging from
47c. to $1.55,
for an elegant all-wool, sateen front and
braided.
Our stock of Stationery U complete, and
our prices are 100 per cent, less than any
other house.
Tbc bargains in
Tinware
eclipse them alL A large stock on hand,
and our prices arc low. Anything in this
line can be found at the Racket.
Oar stock of Gents Neckwear is the
most complete and the styles are the very
nobbiest to be had. Ia this department
you will find Suspenders at all prices,
Also, a lot of men's and boys 3-ply and
4-ply Linen Collars at
5 Cents
Each.
A man in a North Carolina county post
ed the following unique notice in his field:
"If any mans or womans cow gits in this
bear patch of oats, his or her tail will be
cut off as the case may bo. I am a chris
tian man and pays my taxes, but darn
man who lets Iris critters run around loose. ;
The Equinoctial Traditiea.
1
Tho United States sergeant in charge of
the Signal Service Observatory in Phila
delphia is Report cd by the Teleyrapk to
have spoken'on Thursday as follows:
"The popular belief in equinoctial
storms is misplaced confidence in a myth.
We have storms in every part of the year
just as they occur sometimes, at the equi
noctial juncture, and in old traditions they
have names to designate them just the
same as what' are generally spoken of as
the equinoxes. It does not always run on
the 2lst or 22nd of September any more
than it does on the 4th of July, but fre
quently occurs at both periods. People
remember it because their attention hap
pens to' bo drawn to theso particular occa
sions, and they take more notice of it than
they would at any other time. At this
season of - the year we look lor rain more
or less. We know that It is apt to rain,
but it may rain earlier or later than the
2Ut of September, so that the old equiuoc
tial. theory won't hold water. The son can
cross the line on its journey south without
Pranzini, the murderer of Mme. Reg
nanlt, her maid and the maid's child, was
guillotined at Pans, "August 31st. lie
made no confession. Vast crowds waited
about the place ot execution during the
whole of the night and kept np a constant
howling and yelling. The din was horri
ble. When the chaplain who was to offi
ciate at the execution arrived, at 4:30, the
mass of people was so great that he was
almost prevented from reaching the gate
of the prison. Pranzini marched from his
cell to the scaffold with a firm step and
defiant air. When the executioner netted
him the murderer resisted and fought des
perately, demanding" that they let him
alone. The executioners overpowered him
and threw him upon the machine and in
an instant had him securely bound. Im
mediately the terrible knife was started.
It descended with horrible slowness at
first, but then its movement quickened,
and the head of the marderer rolled into
the basket. The mob outside became very
disorderly daring the progress of the execution.
One youngster We hare a nice canopy
top to caver our carriage.
Other youngster lhats nuthin. Ve
hare a ehattel mortgage on oars that more .
than covers it, pa says.
We have an A No. 1 Line of Shoes, and
they were bought for cash direct from the
factory, saving yoa
15 "per cent.
on every pair yoa bay. Come an d
e
them.
Ia Hardware yoa will find some solid
east-steel Chisel 1 inch for only
19 Cents.
We will receive this week a No. 1 line of
Men's, Boys and Children Hats, and the
figures we shall place upon them will open .
your eyes. Look out for them.
When yoa bare read the fcsct. ak yonr
nelf. Why boy from a credit jtem, , wit its
Wa tolK ks yoa bare a live cfl Tt-ta
eloM at hand that yoo 25 to M pv eeot.
on the dollar T
'In Singapore, if a lover can catch his
adored in a canoe race, he can marry her
heuoe the expression, canoebial bksa.
i Wake. Up J