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VOL. II.
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1802.
NO. 23.
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-f his tot ought to lire long and pros
j,er exclaims Once A Weak. At tbe age
t,f two jears Charles Lea Burdou, of Pro
T; i-ne, fell inte a cistern and floated
ar,, uid in seven feet of water until his
" 'grandfather handed him a pole, to which
t -'caught on."
i-The Bering Sea offefsless attraction-
to .Canadian poachers this year than
last.f argues the San Francisco Chroni
ca. "Very few of them feel inclined
to take any risks, so we may safely con
r! i le that the close season under exist
is arrangements will prove a complete
t.j'jCCSS.
'There is no Government ia the civil
ized world, except possibly Russia,
which is not to some extent under the
domination of popular opinion," declares
Henry Loornis Nelson in Harper's Maga
zine. "Ths present Emperor of Ger
many is the most virile monarch in Eu
rope, but he dare not oppose too griev
ously the will of his subjects. If there
is any written instrument of government
powerful beyond all other laws, it is our
own Constitution, for it is the rule of
action prescribed by the people for the
guidance and control of their ageuts.
Hut the history of the Federal power
shows that there is a power 'above the
Constitution, and that is th? power ot
papular opinion. There have often beeu
times wnen the Constitution has not
stood in the way of the people's will.
Kvea the Supreme Court will change its
c mind if the people are persistent. It
.has not been :il vuys necessary for popu
lar opinion to damaud the breaking or
flexion of the Constitution; it is only
necessary that it should approve what
has. been done. The purchases of Lou
isiana and Alaska, an 1 the many in
stances of executive and legislative acts
during the war of the rebellion that were
clearly beyond- the constitutional grants
of po'.vHSTjre cases in point which will oc-c.u-
ti anyone who is at all familiar with
our constitutional history."
Frank Leslie's Weekly states that the
State of Pennsylvania show tiia largen
percentage of foreigu born adult male
who are aliens, the percentage in that
State being 35.13 of tie total number,
representing 139,523 person. In the
State of New York, 1D3.U foreign
born adult males, or 23.13 per cent., are
aliens, and in Nov Jersay, 41,877 or
28.87 per cent, are aliens. New York
shows the greatest nunber of naturalized
foreign-bora adult miles, there baiag in
that State 416,362, or 03.74 percent,
of the total number of foreigu-bora adult
males returned. The city of New York
show3 the largest percentage of foreign
born of the total population, the foreign
element in that city representing 42.21
per cent, of the total pop.ilatioa as
against 39.68 per cent, in 183 J. BufTt
lo shows 35.00 per cent, of forjign-boru
as against 33.05 per ce.it. in lSi.
Brooklyn sho.vs 32.46 per cent., an in
crease from 31.36 per cent- in 18S0.
Long Island City has a foreign-born
population of 36.67 per cent., while in
1880 the , foreign-born element in that
city was 3.4.27 per cent, of the total
population; sixteen places show a great
er per cent, of foreign-boru population
in 1890 than is shown in the Stato as a
whole, while in 1830 nineteen places
were reported as having a larger percent
age of foreign-born population than was
reported in the State as a whole.
A Mammoth Chostnut Company has
been organized in New Jersey, with a
capital of $50,000, all pail in. Tnis,
the New Orleais Picayu ie explains, is
not a caestnut in the reprjic iful sense.
The company owns a natural chestnut
giore of 350 acres in Ca n leu County,
which is said to be tbo prettiest and
most productive piece of chestnut tim
ber in the United States. The idea is to
increase the holdings to 10J3 acres in
various sections of the Scate, ai I go into
the culture of mammoth chestnuts on a
mammoth scale. The trees in the grove
mentioned are about as far apart as those
in a peach orchard, and have been cut off
a few fret from the ground, while the en
tire tract has been cleared, the wood ob
tained more than paying the cost. Slips
from Japanese chestnut trees are being
grafted to the stumps, an I a crop of the
"mammoths" is expected in two years.
There are. many varieties of improved
chestnuts, but the Japanese have been
assiduously cultivated for centuries, and
eicel all others. The combination with
them of the sweetness an 1 flavor of the
wild American variety, which has never
been cultivated, will, if it is accom
plished, bring about a perfect product.
The Japanese nut is ready for market two
or three weeks earlier than any other, and
the expense of gathering tha crop is
comparatively slight. Sheep can be
pastured in the chestnut orchard," or it
can be made into a gsmj preserve. One
ot the finest trout strca ns in the State
runs through it, and it is full of small
game. It is very comnoa to see a
Jupune chestnut six inches or more in
"'imference. It, is not palatable raw,
lul mix be c.)oked and used as food in
iii&nj different wavs.
THE LATEST
tT9 w. . m
Oliver W. Gaskins, an engineer on the
Sealwrd and Hoanoke Railroad, was kill
ed by the breaking of a connecting rod
on his engine.
The truckers of Charleston. S. C . and
vicinity organized the Truck Farmers'
Association last week, electing W. D.
Lawtm, president, and E. B. Gadsden,
secretary.
Thc5Virgini:i Paving & Construction
Co, to which a charter has just bcci
granted at Roanoke, Ya , has contiacts
from Roanoke and Lvnchburg aggregat
ing 90,000 square yards.
The Athcrton mills have beeu incor
porated at Charlotte N. C, for the man
ufacture of cotton goods. The capital
stock is $100,000. Another company with
$75,000 capital stock will build mills for
the manufacture of bed ticking.
Representatives from Louisiana, Ar
kansas, Alabama and Texas have appear
ed before the House committee on appro
priations and made urgent appeals for
appropriations by Congress in aid of the
destitute sufferers from the floods in the
lower Mississippi region. They want a
total of about $190,000, but none of (ht
Htatcs has formal I? asked for assistance
New Industries in the South.
The organization of new industrial m
terprises in the South continues actively,
a shown by the Manufacturer's Record,
of Baltimore, in its issue of July 22nd.
Among some of the importaut enterprise
mentioned are the following: A $30,
000 molasses reboiling company at New
Orleans, La ; a $100,000 cotton mill
company at Charlotte, N. C. ; a $100,0oo
tjol works company at Wheeling. W.
Ya. ; a $10,000 canning compjny at For
est City, Ark. ; a $10,000 industrial com
pany at Water Yalley, Miss. ; a $20,0()
hedge fence company at Newberry, S
C. ; a $20,000 coal and coke company in
Virginia; a $50,000 cotton mill company
at Rome, Ga. ; a $100,000 light and rail
way company at Huntington, W. Ya. ;
a $100,000 shoe manufacturing compa-
at Elizabethton, Teno ; a $50,0.0 fuiui
urc company at Fort Worth, , Tex ; n
$1,000,000 coal nnd lumber company t
Philippi, W. Ya ; a $50,000 compress
compauy at Mim-ola, Texas; a $50,000
electric light company at Mt. Wash
ington, Md. : a $50,0j0 electric light
company at Bay View, Md ; an f 8,500
lumber manufacturing compauy at Beth
el, 8. C. ; a $35,000 cotton mill company
at Fort Hill, 8. C. ; a $10,000 publishing
company at Newport, Ky. ; a $30,000 an
tomatic fire alarm company at New Oi
lcans, La. ; a $25,000 coal and coke com
pany at Bremon, W. Ya., and a $10,000
publishing compauy at Austin, Texas.
Building in the Days of the Fathers.
Greensboro, N. C Col. Julian
3. Carr was here yesterday
morning on his return from New York.
In aiiswer to a question about the restora
tion of an old time mansion near Ilills
boro which Mr. Carr has on hand, h
went on to say that when tome of the
flooring of the old house was torn up it
yvas found to have distinctly marked on
the under side, Hezckiah Hogg, June
2l8t, 1741. The lumber used in building
the house was sawed in England and
shipped to Newberne, and from
New Berne distant about 200
miles, it was hauled on ox-carts, requir
in i something near a month to make the
round trip. But if this be a wonderful
undertaking, how much greater was it to
haul the brick in the same way with
which to build a house just over the
river from Mr. Can's place, abr ck house,
he brick of whi h were burnt in Eng
land. No under our people called
Kngland the -Mother Country" in those
Senator Teller Thinks His Party
Must Bestir Itself.
Chicasro Special, New York Sun.
United States Senator Henry M. Tell
er, of Colorado, who is at the Grand Pa
cilic Hotel, said :
' The silver question has been shelved
for this session, but next winter another
free silver bill will be reported, and it
will pass. Its defeat this session will have
no material etfeet on tbe vote in Col rado,
which will go Republican by the usual
majority. Republicans in Colorado will
gain nothing by voting for the People's
party nominees. A vote tor Weaver
means a vote Jor Cleveland.
"I am afraid of some of Ihc Western
States going against us. Nevada is in a
very bad way, and may give the elector
al vote to the People's party. If the
Democratic and People's puty fuse in
any of the Western States the Republi
cans will have to bestir themselves to
save themselves from defeat.
A Birth and Great Possibilities.
Newport, R. I. Mrs. J. II Hooker
llamersly, of New York, gave birth to
a sou yesterday morning. The an
nouncement is fraught with the greatest
impoitauce in the pareuts of the child, to
tbe Duchess of Marlborough, and to the
many charitable institutions to which she
may be kindly disposed; for if this child
1e alive when the Duchess dies he will in
herit the $7,000,000 left by Louis C . Ham
crsly, whose widow the Duche-s was be
fore she was allied to the nobility. She
is now enjoying the income of this for
tune. .Should the child's father, who is
a cousin of the testator, have no son liv
ing at the time of the Duchtss' death the
money will go to whatever charitable in
stitutions she may designate in her will.
Little Girl's Horrible Death.
Yorkville, S. C., The 10-year old
child of Mr. K, P. B. Biddle was t-ftjght
in the machinery of her father's mill and
in a few minutes her body was honiule
mangled. One leg cut off, one arm torn
off, her back broken and her skull cursh
ed in. She lived in this horrible coudi
tion for some minutes, hnd converse
ith her grandfather. Her agony was
excruciating to witness. The child lnu
gone to the mill with her grandfather
aud while he was engaged went too uea.
the machinery, and to a dreadful death.
LABOR AND ANTI-OPTION.
fhe Senate Argues Both Questions
Without Action.
Senator Peffer favors 4 'Hands Off
For Employer and Employes,
and Senator White Closes
His 4 J Hour's Speech.
Washington,' D. C Senate. Mr.
PefTer, Fanners' Alliance, of Kansas,
called up his labor resolutions and said
there were only three ways to meet the
difficulty which now faced us between
employees and employers. This, he ad
mitteed, was unpopular. Another way
was for the government to take hold and
regulate the rates of wages. This was re
garded as unconstitutional. The third
way was for the government to deal with
these great labor employing estab ish
ments as it did with the private lands of
the people: condemn seize ami pay for
them. Thi-, he thought, would be re
garded as still iore revolutionary than
the second proposition. But he submit
ted there was no other way to arrange
these disputes except through the bloody
gates of war. Therefore, he recommend
ed to the government the first proposi
tion : ''Take your hands off and let em
ployee aid employer settle the matter
for themselves." The resolutions were
referred to the committee on education
and labor.
Mr. White, Democrat, of Louisiana,
concluded his speech against the anti-option
hill. He said in the community in
which he lived, ami he presumed else
where, when a difficult matter of com
mercial law was involved, the custom was
to call in commercial experts. Acting
on this piinciple, he called the attention
of the Senate to the fact that there was a
persistent, cons;stcnt declaration of all
the commercial bodies of the country
ngainst this bill. He read the protest of
the chamber of commerce of the city of
New York, the greatest advisory com
mercial body in the United States, and
the bankers of New York, Chicago and
New Orleans, and a long list of all ihc
ther commercial organizations which
had protested against the bill. There
was not a cotton bloom in all tho South-'
?rn States today which did not iu some
way trace its origiu back to the capital
represented in these great petitions, yet
we were told that these gentlemen did
not belong to the producing clas, and
lad no right to be heard on this great
pies ion of commerce.
He also read telegrams from the lead
ing cotton factors and lice and sug r
le lersof New Orleans, opposiug the
3"11. He exhibited tab'cs, which he saitl
3 oved that before The period when tl e
iystem of "future" selling was inaugunt
j I iu the cotton trade, the tall in pric s
uising from a glut in the market was
greater than it had bcdi since, and that
he greater th3 amount of future sales in
proportion to the crop the higher had
eeu the prices.
Mr. White concluded his speech short
v before 5 o'c'ock, having occupied iu
he t wo days about four hours and a half
u its delivery, and the Senate tok up
he Canadian retaliatory bill, passing it.
The Senate then went into executive ses
sion. GOV. PATTTS0N FIRM NOW.
He Says He Will Remain in Home
stead All Summer if it is Necessary.
Homestead, Pa. Col. Colgrcn, the
Provost Marshall, said to a reporter: "I
was talking with Gov. Pattison about the
situation here, and he said something to
me that I thought was quite important.
He said : 'Colonel, there are $8,000,000
in the State Treasury. I will spend every
cent of that money. I will raine more
money by mortgaging the whole State,
and I will stay here myself all nimmer to
supptess this soit of thing and restore
liw and order here.' I asked him if I
might repeat that, and he said he had no
objections to my doing so."
The reporter mentioned this to the
Governor and he seemed somewhat annoy
ed by it. "I have nothing to say on that
subject," he said, "I would rathev not
deny nor affirm it."
This statement of the Governor is the
s- verest blow the strikers have felt yet.
It means that even if the works are in
full operation yvith non-union employees
the troops will remain hen;. The strikers
will have no chance of revenge.
It meansthat the State of Pennsylvania
has resented the usurpation of power ..y
the strikers, and intends to crush the
spirit that prompted it.
A Terrible Death.
A correspondent writes the Charleston
News and Courier that a young ' lad;,
Miss Lizzie Langley, who lived four miles
from Barnwell, S. C., lost h r life las-t
Sunday undwr peculiar circumastances.
She was driving to church iu a buggy
with a young man who was smoking a
cigarette, when some burning tobacco
fell from it into the foot of the buggy.
Her underclothing caught fire and she
was burned to death.
Queen Victoria's American Lawsuit.
New York, N. Y. Queen Victoria,
through her American lawyer, moved in
Supreme Court, Chambers, to vacate an
Dider requiring her tofuruish $230 bonds
for court costs in her suit to recover $9,
000 worih of asphalt which u alleged t-i
have been stolen from Trinidad and sold
to the Standard Asph lit Company.
Decision was rcscivcd.
Democratic National Commitee.
New Yokk The Democratic Na ional
Committee mt there, Chairman Brice pre
siding. W. F. Harrity, of Pennsyl?ania,
was elected as chairman of the commit
tee, and S. P. Shecrin, of Inditn.i, was
re elec ed secretary. Robert B. Roose
velt, of New York, was elected trtas-irp
to succeed Charles J. Canda.
Murder Hear Winston.
Winston, N. C Ellen Smith, a girl
of bad character, was found dead in the
woods near Winston with a bullet-holr
in her breast. The police are after Pete i
McGaff, who was seen wfth the giil ami
is thought to have committed the uno
der. The Japanese community in San Fran
cisco, Cat., and neighborhood, numbers
SCENES IN B10 JANEIRO.
A TRAVELER'S OBSERVATIONS IN
THE BRAZILIAN CAPITAL.
very thing Is Carried on . the Head,
and Most or th Carriers Are Wo
men X Visit to tbe Market Place.
IN no part of the World except Para
guay, writes Fannie B. Ward, in
the Washington Star, are so many
and diverse articles carried about on
people's heads as ia Brazil la the for
mer country (which is peculiarly one of
women, you know, since, rAost of the
men were' killed la LopszV wars) when
you call at a house and han3 the servant
your card to present to the mistress she
claps it ou her head and walks off, with
back braced as stiffly as if the bit of
pasteboard weighed a huadred pounds,
precisely as the femal-pprters "tote"
your trunks up town from the railway
station or steamboat landing and the
waitress brings your dinner or laundered
linen or freshly blackened boots. 1
Here ia Rio everything movable is
earned on the head from cakes to cof
fins, with corpses inside; from piano
cases and wardrobes, to the smallest par
cels. As a rule, the streets are too nar
row for carts and drays; horses are
scarce and colored people numerous,
and so the latter serve instead as
beasts of burden. Dry goods peddlers
perambulate the streets, striking their
yard sticks sharply together, like elon
gated castinets, in front of every house,
followed by porters bearing on their
heads chests, bales and boxes of finery
flowera, feathers, shoes, undetyarments
and all the rest ot female toggery. This
itinerant plan is of mutual advantage,
for it is considered highly questionable
and quite beneath the dignity of ladies
belonging to the better class to visit the
shops, and it enables the merchants to
work off many things they could not
otherwise dispose of. In the same way
the furniture dealer sends around his
chairs and tables and sofas for inspec
tion. The tin-shop man, beating a fry
ing pan to call attention, crowds every
body off the narrow sidewalk with his
bulging load of culinary utensiU.toppeJ,
perhaps, with a bath tub or a tin trunk,
such as Brazilians use for traveling,
painted sky blue, with scarlet and pur
pie roses on the front.
Fruit, poultry and vegetables are
borne from door to door ou the hea Is of
market men and women. The butcher
sends his man around with the odd 4 and
ends of the slaughter house tripe, liver,
sheep's heads, brains piled high on a
shallow tray. Water carriers balance
casks and buckets on their heads; cooks,'
chambermaids and waiters follow the
universal fashion. Ask for a glass of
water, an orange, a towel and nine times
out of ten it will be brought to you ou
somebody's pate, and should you die,
here (which may heaven forbid) you
would probably be toted to Caju in the
same manner
Do you see that stalwart Zeuobia
whose bare anus are round, firm and
glossy as polished ebony, stalking up the
street with all the dignity of a queen
and a deal more natural grace, balancing
a folded cotton umbrella on top of her
crest. Though her head is otherwise
bare iu the hottest rays of the noonday
sun, she feels no nee 1 of shade, being
born to heat, like tue palms or orchids.
It is related that iu the early days of rail
road building in Bra7.il tbe laborers em
ployed in h? work of excavation carried
away thousands of tons of dirt iu
baskets on their heads. Some Henry
Bergh of a contractor, pitying their
arduous toil in this sweltering climate,
went to no end of trouble and expense to
provide them with Yankee wheel
barrows. The workmen eyed the new
fangled contrivances with evident dis
tiust, but accepted them without a mur
mur, as in duty bound. An hour later,
when the philanthropic contractor came
down to see how they were getting on
with the new labor-savers, what was his
disgust to find that though each man
filled his barrow to the brim with gravel,
he then hoisted it on top of his bead
with the aid of one ot his fellows and
trotted to the dump with it. Instead of
being bent up double, as one would.
:think, considering the heavy loads they
constantly stagger under, these human
beasts of burden are straight as young
palms, with spines like the tempered
Steel in Damascus blades.
To one who can arise with the lark a
visit to Rio's market place is enjoyable;
but later in the day, when the tropic sun
has had a chance at the filth with which
the place abounds, vile smells render it
unendurable. It is down by the water
front, near the great stone quays, and its
enormous buildings cover an entire block,
eked out by sheds that ramble down ad
jacent streets and several open squares.
Up to 1834 Rio possessed no regular
market place, but from time immemorial
this beach was used for the sale of fish,
because it was necessary to have one
central place for that commodity on ac
count of the tithes rigorously exacted
from fishermen. Most of the produce
now sold in Rio is brought iu boats from
the fertile islands and shores of the bay.
During the early part of the day the
market place is always more j than
crowded.
One may stroll for hours, if he can en
dure the mingled odors of fish and filth,
decayed vegetables and dirty humans,
among thick -set ranks of baskets of fruit
mostly fruits unknown to northern
eyes of every conceivable shape and
color, smooth, ridged, knobbed and set
with spines; vegetables oueer in shape
and hue, suggesting complicated colics
of which our plain ''garden sassM is in
nocent; fish in glittering piles, scaly,
slimy and odorous, but showing lovely
lines of ruby, opal, emerald, pearl and
gold. If you are brave enough to pene
trate the depths of the interior you
will find more gipsy-like hucksters
squatted on the ground, their chatter
sounding above the gibbering of mon
keys, tbe paw, paw of shrill-voiced par
rots, and the squawking of imprisisoned
poultry. To the very roof the commodi
ties are piled, and from the central raft
ers swing inflated bladders, strings o
sausage, tripe, salted fch, articles of
elothiug, and g..Jue kao v wast not.
lairds whose brilliant plumage looks as if
it had beeu dipped ill uteitei jewels bo;
about in cages of wild bamboo,- kiu of
toucans, flamingoes aud other gorgeous
-feathered creatures hang on door poUi,
countless monkeys m-ck humanity and
hundreds of "frigate-birds" hovering
overall, add confusion to the outcry
'and bewilderment of motion to the
scene.
You naturally essa? to purcaas? cer
tain fruits and curios: ti;j-, an I are warai
h encouraged thereto by jcrsplria mer
chants at their baskets and counters; but
you are amazed to find that tb4 price of
everything you approach is promptly ad
vanced ri thouaud per ceut. Being
traveler; of courc from afar, you are
supposed to have Unlimited cash con-:
cealed about your person; The'fefoTtf.;
the oranges, tigp, pears, etc., that yoit
have just seen sold at tho rate of half a
dozen for a penny, are now quoted at a
shilling apiece, and no abatement by ths
quantity. And you will also find the
'same condition of affairs all over the
country, for every dealer, great or small,
scents money in the air at the approach
of a presumably opulent foreigner.
COL. KING'S H0PE.
The Efforts of His Friends to Save
His Life Cheer Him Up.
Memphis, Tkkn. For several dajs
Col. II. Clay King, condemned to le
hanged on August 12 for killing David
H. Poston, has been in n state of mental
and physical collapse, but yesterday he
brightentd up. Toe strong petition sent
from Kentucky to the Governor asking
that his sentence be commuted, is thought
to have created the hope in Col. King's
mind for a reprieve at last. This morn
log Judge Greer returned from Washing
ton, where he and Judge King, of Texas,
went to make an effort to bring the case
under Federal jurisdiction . It is thought
that there will be tome action taken in
the case by the Federal court. Friends
of the murdered lawyer are receiving nu
merous s:gnatures to petitions asking that
the law be enforced.
SELECT SIFTING3.
Jay Gould says that at one time he
had only a dime in all the world.
' The first paper mill in the United
States was erected at Norwich, Conn.,
in 1765.
The deepest mine in the world is the
fock salt mine near Berlin, which is 4175
feet deep.
. A colony of bees attacked a horse in
Leslie, Ga. , and so severely stung him
that he died.
. Squire Beasley, of Aberdeen, Ky., has
performed the marriage ceremony for
over 14,000 people.
The oldest building in the world is
the Tower of London. It antedates
Caesar's conquests.
The ancients believed Delphi to be
situated in the exact center of the land
surface of the world.
There is a red kangaroo ia the London
Zoological Gardens. Its color is caused
by ft secretion from the skin.
The first book printed ia the English
language was a "History of Troy,"
which appeared in the latter part of the
year 1474.
Forty-four families in a town in Kan.
fas have all their food prepared by a co
operative cooking club, which has been
in existence two years.
The largest telephone switchboard in
the world is that in the exchange at
Berlin. Germany, where 7000 wires are
connected with the main office.
At tbe present rate of increase in the
American production of tin plate the
United States will produce 100,003,000
pounds during thecoming year.
During the reign of Henry VtH. of
England 71,400 persons were executed.
The like has never been known in the his
tory of the woild before or since.
That nothing is more easily forgotten
than an umbrella or cane, is proved by a
recent sale of unclaimed property by a
railroad company. Tbe lot comprised
nearly 2000 umbrellas, more than 100'i
tticks and 300 parasols.
The measles bacillus has been discov
ered at last, and it is said to be an odd
ity even iu the bacilli line. He aver
ages one two-thousandth of an inch
in length, and is studded all over
with little spikelets which stand out as
thick'y upon his body as do the hairs on
a caterpillar.
Wonderful Work of Bees.
Bees must, in order to collect a pound
of clover honey, deprive 62,000 clover
blossoms of their nectar. To do this
the 62,000 flowers must be visited by an
aggregate of 3,750,000 bee?. Or, in
other words, to collect his pound of
honey one bee must make 3,750,000
trips from and to the hive. Tue enor
mous amount of work here involved pre
cludes idea of any one bee ever living
long enough to gather more than the
fraction of a pound of Dectarine sweets.
As bees are known to fly for miles in
quest of suitable fields of operation it is
clear that a single ounce of " honey re
presents millions of miles of travel. It
is no wonder that these industrious little
insects have earned tbe reputation of
being "busy" bees. Sr. Leu is Republic.
The Carious Black Hare.
The lepus insularis or black hare is an
interesting discovery. It. is found only
on the island of Espiritu Santo. It ap
pears to have ben insulated from the
mainland by some remote geologic
change, and by the process of evolution
has Acquired its peculiarities, as it differs
from any varieties found elsewhere. It
is very large and lives among black vol
canic rocks, which may have caused its
change in color to nearly black. There
are many varieties, species and genera
represented 'm the collection, and several
specimens of each variety are taken to
f how variations. San Francisco Chron
icle. .
PEOPLE'S PARTY PLATFORM.
A Declaration of Principles Differing1
From All Other Parties. .
"A-senibfed on tb lltith anniversary of
tU Declaration of Ind-n.lnce, the Feo
H Prty of Aiitric, In their first nation
al convention, invkin on their action the
LltMiegor almighty (i id, puts forth in the
nam ant on behalf of the people of this
eouatry tbe following pi earn Lie and derlara
t"oo of princil:
"Tbe condition wbioh surround us best
justify our co-operation ; we meet In tbe
tuioVt of a nation brought to the verge of
inoial. political and material ruin. Corrup
tion dm insUs the ballot box, the legisla
ture, the rong rerais, and touches even the
-ruiioe ( tbe b-nch. Tbe people are demer
it a .. 31 t of the Htatea have teen com
petted to protect voters at the polling place
to prevent uoiversal intimidation or bribery.
Tbe newppa era are largely sutaidized or
Diuzx'ed, public op nion is silenced, business
m prvbtrated, our homes are covered with
tnortggs, labor is impoverished, and ihe
land is fc nCeM rating in the hands of capital
Uta. Urban wurkmen redtiiil tbe right
of organiz tion for self-protection. Import
ed pupeii:d labor beats down ibir wages.
A hireling standing army, unrecognized by
our laws, is established to thoot them down,
and they are rapidly degenerating into Eu
ropean ocditioii. The fruit of tbe toil of
millions are told If stolen to build up for a
few ool e?al fortune unprecedented in the
history of mankind; and I he possessors of
tbaaa in turn despise tbe republic and endan
ger liberty. Krom the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice we breed the two
great classes tramps and millionaires.
A VAST CONSPIRACY.
"The national power to create money is
approp iated to emich bondholders; a vast
public debt, payable 1 In legal tender cur
rency, has been funded into gold -bearing
bonds, thereby adding millions to tbe bur
dena of the people. Silver, which has ben
accepted as coin srace tbe dawn of history,
has been demonetized to aid to the purchas
ing power of gold bv decreasing the value of
all f ,rms of property, as well as human la
bor, and the supply of currency v. purposely
abridged to fatten iwi erf, bankrupt enter
prise, and enslave industry. A vast con
spiracy against mankind has been organized
m two continents, and it is rapidly taking
possession of the world If not met and
overthrown it forebodes terrible social con
vulsions, tbe destruction of civilization, or
the establishment of absolute despotism.
THE OLD PARTIES) RESPONSIBLE.
Websve witnessed for more than a quarter
of a century the straggles of the two gieat
political parties for power and pluuder,
whi e grievous wrongs have been inn cted on
the tuff ring peeple. We charge that the
control) ng influences dominating both these
parties have ermitted the existing dreadful
conditu ns to develop without effort to pre
vent r restrain them. Neither do they now
Krondsc u any substantial re orm. They
ave agreed together to ignore in th coming
cjmpaigu eve y issue but one. They prop e
to drown the outcries ofc a plundered peoide
with ihe upro-r ef a tnani b.tde over tbe
tariff, eo that capitalists, corporations, na
t onal banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, t he
demonetization of silver and tha oppressions
of the u urtn may all be lost sight of."
'They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
aud c hfldren on the altar of mammon ; to da
fctroy tha multitude in order to secure cor
ruption funds from the millionarics.
THIRD PARTY PURPOSES.
"Assembled on the anniversary of the
birtbdy of the nation and riled with the
spirit of the grand chief who established our
ndependence, we seek to restore the govern
ment af tbe Republic to tbe hands of tha
'plain people,' with which class it originated.
We ssBert our purposes to be iden'ical with
tbe purposes of tbe national conttitut ion to
form a more perfect union and establish jus
lice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for
the common defence, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty
for ourselves and our posterity. We declare
that this republic can only endure as a free
government wbile built upon the love of the
w hole people for each ot her and for the na
tion; that tt cannot be pinned together by
bayonet; that the eivil war is over, and the
passion and resentment which grew out of it
u ust die with it, and that we must be in
fact, as we are in name, one united brother
h'HXi.
CONDITIONS UNPRECEDENTED
'Our country find itself confroL ted by
c nditions for which there ia no precedent in
tbe htstrry of the wrld. Our annual agri
cultural pro 'actions amount to billions ol
dollars in value, which must within a few
weeks or months be exchanged for billions ol
dollars ia commodities consumed in tbeit
production. Tbe existing currency runp'y u
wholly inadequate to make this exchange.
Tbe results are falling prices, the formation
of combines and rings, the in poverisbment
of tbe producing class. We pledge ourselve
that if given power we will labor to correct
these evils by wise and reasonable legislation
iu accordance with the terms of our platform.
OOVEttNllEKTAL POWERS SHOULB BE EXPAND
ED.
'We Dwlieve that the powers of govern
ment in other words, of tbe pple should
be expanded (as m the case of the postal ter
vice) as rapidly and as far as the good sense
of an Intelligent people and the teac1 Ings of
Providence snail justify, to tbe end that op
pre arion, injustice and poverty shall eventu
ally cease in ths land. While oursvmpa
thies as a party of reform are naturally upon
tb aids of every proposition which will tend
tj make men intelligent, virtuous and tem
perate, ws nev! f heies regari thee ques
t ions important as they are as secondary
to tbe great iU s now pressing for solution
and up n which not only our individual
I ros erity, but the very existence of free in
stitutkns depend: , and we ask all men tc
first help us to determine whether we are to
have a republic to administer before we dif
fer ss to the conditions on which it ia to b
administered.
TBE PLATFORM PROPER.
"Believing that tbe forces of reform this
day organized will never cease to move for
ward until every wrong is righted, and equal
tight and equal privileges are seur. ly estab
lined for all ths men and women of t hit
country, we declare, therefore
"FiraC That the union of the labor force
of the United Stales this day couturn mated
tfaell be permanent and perpetual. May it
spirit inter into all hearts for tbe (salvation
of tbe republic and aid in the uplifting of
mankind.
-8 c nd. Wealth beb ngs to him whe
creates ir, and eveiy d ler taken from in
dustry with ut an oiiimleut is a robbery.
If any will not worn neither shall be eat.'
Tbe interest of rural a tl civic labor are the
am; th ir nenier are identical.
"TnJrd. We believe that tbe time bat
come when the lailroad corporation will
either own tbe peop e or tbe people must own
the railroad, and should tbe government
enter on the work of owning and managiqs
all railroads we should favor an amendment
to the Const tat loo by which all persons en
g ged In tbe service should be p ared undtt
cm!- nice regulations ' the moet psA
character, so as to prevent the incre se ot
tbe power of tbe naUoraJ administration by
-the use of such additional government em
ployees.
THE MONET PLANE.
"Fourth. We demand a national curre cy,
safe, sooitd, and flexiblr, iwned by tbe genet al
go rem mew t only, a full leral-tender for a'l
d- bta, public and peltate, and that without
the use of b-ii king corporations, a just, equi
table, and effluent means of distiii uti n
direct to tbe pwple at a tax noi to exc ed 2
per rent, itr annum be provided. aset f rib
in tb sub-Treaeery plan of th- Fanners'
Alliance, or abetters stetr.;also by payments
in the discharge of its obligations for public
ita pro v euieuta.
FREE BTLVaJL
"A, Wsdemanl the free and unlimited
coinage of utver ana gold at" tne present
legal ratio ot 16 to 1.
"B. We demand that the amount of ths
circulating medium be speedily increased to
not less than $50 pr capita.
"C. We demand a graduated income tax.
"D. We believe that the moceyoftbe
country should be kept as much as poM1ble in
tbe hands of the people, and hence we
demand that all State and national revenues
shall be limited to tha neccessar expenses cf
the government, economically andnonettly
administered.
"R. We demand that postal savings banks
be established by tbe government for the afe
deposit of the people and to facilitate ex
change. Transportation bein a means of
exchange and a public necessity, fhe govern
ment should own and operate tbe railroads
in the interests of ths people.
"F. The telegraph and telephona, like tbe
postoflice system, being a necessity for th
transmisfion of news, should be owned and
operated by the government in the interest
of the people.
"U. The land, Including all ths natural
sources of wealth is tbe heritage of the people
and should not be monopolized for speculative
purposes, and alien ownership of land should
be prohibited. All lands now held bv rail
roads and other corporations in excess of their
actual needs, and lands now owned by aliens,
should be reclaimed and held for actual
settlers only."
WISE WORDS.
Love is loaded.
Love is twin to sorrow.
Hate is love gone mad.
Love cannot be hidden.
It is an art to He successfully.
Hunger makes honey of molasses.'
Three meals a day is good for love.
To some hope is but a century plant.
Flattery is not always without profit.
Justice without charity is a monster.
Even the meanest lio has some belie v-,
frs - '
Each one has his own definition for
love.
The happiest men are not the most
ussful.
Confirmed bachelors are confirmed
cowards.
Sentiment is only a feather in the hat
of action.
Compliments usually go out searching
(or mates.
I Men aTe fools because women are, and
vice versa.
A million intentions are less than half
a deed done.
A woman dreads ridicule ss a slave
dreads tho lash.
Accomplished purposes make the
ashes of the world.
We may trust those we love, while we
may not love those we trust. Detroit
Free Press.
The Trade in Old Shoes.
There is a large and growing demand
in big New York for second-hand shoes.
All along Seventh avenue there are deal
eas who make a specialty of old shoes.
The men usually have stalls in cellars.
Their wares embrace shoes of all sorts,
from the baby's tiny slipper to the big,
stiff brogans of the laborer.
"Wc get our old shoes," said ono of
them, yesterday, "from all sorts of
places. I usually make a couple of trips
a week myself to a lot of stylish flats in
the upper part of the city. I collect alt
the old shoes I am able to buy. What
do I give? Oh, verv little, of couiec. i
usually pay forty cents or so for a pair
of five dollar shoes, but the must be inf
good shape to win such a price, for, you
know, we do not get much more than
twice that sum when we retail therd
again over the counter."
"Who sell shoes to you?"
"You would be surprised if you saw
the fine, swell fellows that have to put
up their shoes occasionally to help keep
up appearances. We take the shoes,
black them up, repair them, and then
offer them for sale."
"Who buys them?"
"All classes. Yes, we have nice,
prosperous people who wear second-hand .
shoes, and think nothing of it. Then
there is a class of young fellows in New
York who have expensive tastes and
small capital. They come to us, pick
out a good-looking patent leather shoe,
pay seventy-five cents or so for it, and
go away rejoicing. They go home, put
them on, and, then, who can tell the
difference?" New York Recorder.
A New Gold Finder.
A new instrument for prospecting in
search of gold deposits is a recent Eng
lish invention, which has sound scien
tific principles to back it. The first
thought suggested by the name, "Port
able Gold Finder," under which title
the instrument, it is announced, will soon
be put upon the market, will be inmost
minds that this is a sort of new-fangled
divining rod; and, barring the odium
attached to the term, and the fact that
the so-called divining rod was never of
any use except to the charaltans who
"gained a livelihood through its employ
ment, the suggestion would not be far
from the truth. The instrument, or a
principal part of it, is a rod by which
alluvial earths may be pierced. As
described in English journals, it consists
essentially of a steel tube carrying an
inner rod that communicates by a wire
with a small electric battery carried by a
strap over the shoulder of the pros
pector. When thruit into alluvial de
posits, and upon meeting with any
metallic obstructions, say a gold nugget,
aa electric current is set up, which
causes the ringing; the delicacy ot this
action is alleged to be so great that a
gram of gold so large as a small bell at
tached to the battery, and a pin's head
will give a vigorous indication of its
presence. Though this account is found
in a fccientific journal, it savors of the
fairy tale. St. Louis Star Sayings.
ft
The small guild of draughtsmen who
have the franchise to draw pictures on
the London pavements, have suddenly
taken to cultivating a higher rate of art.
They have improved greatly in their,
profession, and are going into political
caricature something they never used
to do at all.
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