North Carolina Newspapers

r Times. ENTRA H GL K. GKRAXTHAM, Editor Render Unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's, Unto God, God's. $1.00 Per Annum, in Advance VOL. II. DUNN, HARNETT CO., N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1892. NO. 24. i ' A.t the beginning of tho pr3?3it C2-. turv there were in the Unite 1 State3 nvi .-millionaires. Now there are more that -7000. How many will there be fifty ;jears hence? The United State? is makiag iapid strides in accumulating wealth. The revised census figures give the wealth of the Nation a? $63,648,000,000, or about $1000 each for every man, woman and child. Population ha3 about doubled fince 1830, and bo has the per capita "wealth, which was then only $514. The wealth of Great Britain is estimited at 50,000,000,000. Uncle Sam is ahead in the race4 and yet he has only com menced the real development of his vast resources. Within twenty-five years, predicts the Boston Cultivator, New Y ork City will be the money centre ol the world, a position now held by Lon don. In the past, asserts fae Century Ma?a jine, good reasons have rendered it im possible to make the weather service of vf;ry great value to the far. nor. In tiia main its work has been the preparati a iff the familiar prediction, which iuve iheen made for large a re an. At prese it he area -f leeted are sin jle States. Ti3 prediction are made by au officer in Washington . to whom observations are reported from a large number of stations situated in various parts of the coantry. He glances over these reports, noting tha places where rain ha3 fallen, and the net work of temperature and barometic pressure, sees how the con litioo have been changing since the lajt prediction! were made; and, perhaps with scarcely ime to weigh the reasons for his conclu sions, makes np his predictions in re;i i to the weather of the immediate future. He can give but a very smali amount of time perhaps two minutes to each State. The work of forcc-jstin t'i's weather must be dividei, and, in addi tion to the general predictions from Washington, we must have local predic tions prepared by officers in charge of small districts. Such officers have already been appoiuted by the Secretary of Agri culture, and their number will djubtlcja b. increased when the uefulu's of their work is shown. This, however, can not be fully demonstrated until, by the cheap ening of telegraph and telephone service, and by the extension of free mail deliv ery, effective meaus are found for carry ing the predictions to the farmer in lime for his use. The present work of thg local observers is of service in perfecting their methods, and their forecasts are of .preat usefulness to the farmers who can be reached ; but their full value can never be realized until it is possible to put them promptly into the hands of all tho farmers who can use them. ' "While it is true," states George TC. Knapp, of New Jersey, in the American Agriculturist, "that nearly all incorpora ted towns have laws compelling the build ing of sidewalks, and regulating their width, material, etc., hit not as evident that the necessity for some sidewalk in the country is sufficiently great to war rant the agitation of the subject? I would not, for a moment, advocate any law which would compel the building and maintenance of plank, flag, or even gravel walks in the country, but a well defined path or sidewalk might be had without in jury to any one. It is true that the average pathmaster would be of little Ge in carrying out a plan of this nature, but certainly it is possible to so construct a law that the parsimonious man can be made to fall in with his more j public spirited fellow citizens. I remem- ber well a New York farm I worked some years ago which had a frontage of nearly . rive hundred feet on the road. At an expense of less than ten dollars in labor a path four feet wide was constructed along that whole front. The work con sisted simply in marking out, by means of lines, the required width, using an edge cutter to loosen the sod next to the line?, and a horse, with a light plow, to loosen up the earth and sod between the lines; the iron scraper was then brought into play, and the work of making a path was done, with the exception of the trimming up, which was performd with a hoe. Near New York many of the towns are so close together that there is practically no division line which is to be seen by the casual observer. In most cases these are macadamized roads run ning the whole distance through to the city. Certainly there is nothing which will prevent the path I speak of being constructed at the side of 6uch a road. In some places it is done, and the expense is so small and the improvement so great that, from a pecuniary standpoint solely, it has been considered a good invest ment. Public spirit is all very well in its place, but we all know that it is pos sible for three or four close-fisted men in a town to prevent improvements which ire plainly for the good of the whole 'ommunity. Some way of converting fiese short-sighted people is what we want. Gravel paths are used in Ohio, and coarsely sifted coal ashes make an excellent covering (or sidewalks," GENERAL NEWS BRIEFS. Short Items of Interest From Here, There and Everywhere. Telegraphic Dispatches and Culling Embracing a Comprehensive News Summary. Senator Colquitt of Georgia is seriously ill at Washington. There are now five colored lunatics in the city jail at Danville. Va. Fire destroyed Miller's planing mill at Alma, Robeson county N. C. LossflO, 000. The Homestead (Pa.)Mills, of Carnegie Phipps & Co., arc again running, manned with non-union men. Charles C. Poske, a wc'l known Balti more traveling man died of sun stroke at Richmond. Va., Tuesday. The Third party convention of the tenth district of Georgia has re nominat ed Tom Watson for Congress. The Normal College building at Gra ham, Alamance county N. C, was burn ed with all its contents last Friday night. It is probable that ex-Senator Mahonc of Va., will be appointed permanent re ceiver of the Richmond Terminal at a sal ary of 3,000 per year. The U. S. Senate has reported favor ably on the purchase for $70,000 of the Temple Farm at Yorktown, Va., where Lord Coruwallis surrendered. Tuesday was the hottest day Philadel phia has had, save one, in fifty years. The temperature, 1C0 8, was ibe highest of the country. Nine deaths resulted from the heat and there were many pros trations. Letters of incorporation are being got ten up f ji "the Ocean View Hotel Com a ." with the object of building a first a -s hotel on the suif side of Bogue Huik's, opposite Morehead City, N. C. The builiing is to cost $150,000. A desperate fight occulted at Flat Rock, near Somerset, Ky , Wednesday after noon, between Deputy Shciiff Sellers and Johu Coffey, in which both were killed. Sellers attempted to arrest Coffey on a charge of adultery, when the trouble be gan. A Wilmingtou, Del., lawyer has reciv ed a draft fur $800 from Berne-Switzerland, which was the amouut of the in demnity paid by the Canton of Berue for he false imprisonment for five days of five Americans who had been arrested as pickpockets The campaign was opened in the Valley of Virginia at Luiay Monday. Colonel Alexauder, of Winchester, spoke, an nouncing himself a candidate for Congress in opposition to Colonel O'Ferrall. The 1 epic's party also organized, and will have a candidate for Congress in that district. Two Roanoke College students from Mexico. Emilio Robert Garza and Ang 1 Vetez, are spending the summer in Sab in Va. Another young man from Tampico, Mexico, is expected to arrive soon to en ter college in the fall. It is alsi probable that a number of students from Con a will be among the foreigners at Roanoke College next session The appeal made by merchants of the South to turn the stream of immigration down here is having its effect in Eng land and Scotland, a large number of immigrants arriving at New York on the steamer Gallia. The Gallia started Wed nesday for South Carolina and other Southera States. Both ti e pumps at the Staunton, Va. , city water-works are in such, a bad state of repair that they will not work. The reservoir is empty and with the thennoni eter at DH the town is without water. The springs in the suburbs are the soie supply. It will be several days probably before the famine will end and the pumj s get to work again. Governor Buchanan, of Tennessee, has been defeated in the Democratic prima ries iu that State in the canvass for the gubernatorial nominal i -n by Judge Pe ter Turuey, but declares that he will uot enter the field as an Alliance or inde pendent candidate, and will do all in his power to hold Tennessee in'linc for both the national and State tickets. The board of trustees of the Union Theological Seminary, at Hampdcn-Sid-ncy, Virginia, at a meeting Wednesday elected Rev. Dr. Peyton If. Hgc, of Wilmington, North (jorolina. to the va caut chair of the English Bible and pas toral theology in the seminary. It has not yet been learned whether or not he will accept. The Dismal Swamp Canal. whioi cost $1,500,000. and which was sold recently at public auction for f 10.100.was author ized to be constructed by the General Assembly of Virgiuia December 1, 1787. The canal is 2o miles lon:r, and connects the watcis of Elizabeth river in Virginia with the Pasquotank river in North Carolina. It is In-lived that the canal is destined to play an important rave in suppl ing the city of Norfolk u itli drink able water. The President has issued a proclama tion requesting the observance of October 21 as a general holiday in honor of the four hundredth anniversary of the dis rovery of America. The recent British elections have . cost $12,500,000. Every shilling hts to be accounted for in sworn statemeut. Cor rupt ii of voters has bacn tendered al most impossible by the stringency of the reformed elections legislation, Tha contract for the foundation, stone and rndck work, etc.. of the publi : build ing at Tidlihassee, Fla., was awaded to a Chicago firm at $12,723 Weaver Opens His Campaign. Denver, Coi, Gen. Weaver, the People's party candidate for President, made his opening a blress at a crowded n'ceting iu Coliseum Hall. An overflow meeting was also held, which was ad dress-d by Mrs. M. E. Lease,the women's reformer Irom Kansas. ;Gen. We ver re ceived upon ascending 'the platform silver pen. B. Clark Wheeler, who pre sented the pen, said that Gen. Weaver, when elected, could sign the Free Coinage bill with it. Gen. Weaver's address was enthusiastically received. THE STATUE OF COLUMBUS. An Italian War Vessel to Convey the Steamer Which is to Bring it to This City, Washington, D. C The Department of State made public a pleasant exchange of courtesies between President Harrison and King Humbert, of Italy. Under date of the 18th inst the Secretary of the Navy addressed a letter to the Secretary of State, advising him that he had learn ed unofficially that the steamer bearing the statue of Columbus, a gift of the Italian-Americans of the city of New York, was likely to be accompanied by a vessel of war of the kingdom of Italy, and thst the visit would concur with the Columbus celebration to take place in October next under the auspices of the city of New York. The Secretary of the Navy expiessed the cordial satisfaction of the Navy Dep irtment at this intelli gence, and gave assurance that the Ital ian vessel of war would receive a cordial welcome worthy of such au honored visi tor. The letter of the Secretary of the Navy having been sent to the Italian Minister in this city, on the 21st inst, the Minister, Baron Fava, informed the Secretary of State that the royal cruiser Bausan had been designated for this mission, and would be at New York' at the beginning of October. In view of this notification, President Harrison sent the following telegram to his Majesty King Humbert: Wasiunotox. July 21. Hi MiJaty Humbert .. King of It'ilv. Pome: The offer to wirl an Italian rralwr to participate In crn nionles at New Yom !ti October affords m occasion toexpress t your Majesty my eratlflcatl -n t this signal tribute to the long and steadfast friend ship of Italy and the Ulte l States. BE5JAMIK TJAP.RISOK. To this telegram King Humbert re sponded as follows: Mqsza ItovA?. Castle, July 23, 1893. Benjamin Unrriton. t-rrxi-'ent ofthr. L'nitrd State: In the solemnization of the glorious remembrance?, my will was that by Its participation mv Government minht attest the sound friendsMp which binds Italy to the great people of the 'nlt'd States ! thank you for having so nobly received this, my t entiment- HtMBEHT. LEE CHARLES WANTS A DIVORCE. His Wife is the Prettiest Girl in Chi natown, But He Says She is Unfaithful. New York, N. Y. Lee Charles, otherwise known as Lee Norn, head of the Sang Chang Tea and Grocery Com pany, of 28 Mott stieet, has one of the prettiest girls in Chinatown for a wife. Lawyer McLaughlin has instituted pro ceedings for divorce on behalf of the wealthy merchant aaainst Mrs. Charles. Airs. Charles' moher was a negress and her father a Chinaman. She was born and brought up in the Chinese quarter, but has always held herself aloof from the other women in the neighborhood . She speaks excellent English, h s a fair education, and a slight knowledge of her father's " language. When she mar ried Lee Ch -tries everybody in the dis trict said that she was a lucky girl, and for a time she was very happy. But she quarreled with her husband, and the quarrel was never made up. The quarrel was over the atteution paid Mrs Charles by Uug Toy, who also lives at 28 Mott street The relations between the two became so well known that Charles sec his friend Lee Toy to watch them. On Sunday night Lee Toy discovered 3Irs. Charles and Ung Toy together. He summoned the husband. Lee Charles called Policeman Corcoran and had his wife ami Ung Toy arrested. When they were arraigned at the Tombs Court the room was crowded vith Chinamen, all of whom were intensely, interested in the proceedings Mrs. Charlcs wanted to make a charge of at tempted assault against Ung Toy, but the Justice refuse 1 to sllow it, and took a charge of disorderly conduct against both. In the hfternoon a leugthy exam ination was held, at the conclusi n of which Ung Toy was sent to the island for six mouths and the woman was dis charged. The Industrial South. Although the usual midsummer dull ness is at hand, repoits from the South show no cessatioT in the number and di versity in new iudusrial enterprise? or ganized. Iu the list of new enterpiisee for the week ending July 29, the Balti more Manufacturers' Hccord mentions the following as some of the more im portant items: A $25,000 silver plating company at Baltimore, Md ; a $12."i,000 water works and 1 ght company at Mon roe, La.; a f 30, 000 oil and fertilizer com pany at Milledgeville, Ga. ; a $45,000 cotton seed refining and manufacturing company at New Orleans, La.; a $10,000 lumber manufacturing company at Rome, Ga. ; a $40,000 cotton and woolen mill company at Marble Falls, Texas; a $60, 000 ice, water and power company at Yoa kum, Texas; a $20,000 ice manufacturing company at Brinkley, Ark. ; a $25,000 publishing company at Baltimore, Md. : a $50,000 grain milling compauy at Whit acre, Va. : a $200,000 phosphate com pany at Richmond, Va. ; a $300,000 wa ter works and sewerage company at Natchez, Miss. ; a $500,000 construction company at Wheeling, W. Va. ; a $15, 000 manufacturing company at Harriman, Tenn. ; a $60,000 ice. li .lit and water works company at OrangTex-e; a $10, 000 cigarette machine company at Phil ippi, W. Va. ; a $25,000 construction company at Southport. N. C : a $300, 000 oil ard gas development company at Rchmond, Va. : n $20.0 "0 bed spring manufacturing company tt I)all v, Texas ;a $30,000 flour mill at Dtta nr. Texas; a $15,000deve!opmcnt company at I'ocky Mount N. ('..and a $20,000 inanufa-.tur ing company at Vicnlwm. Tvt. A Whole Wisconsin Town in Ashes. ! Ikon Rivkb, Wu. The entire busi ness district, with the exception of one or to buildings, of thetown.is in ashes. Fifteen hundred people are without shel ter, a d in many cases without food. Little is left of what twenty-four hours ago was one of the most prosperous mill towns The total property loss aggre gates $20, 000. with very little insurance. Troops Leaving1 for Home. Homestead, Pa. More troops left Homestead for home. The fourth re giment, four companies of the Tenth and Batterv "C" departed this morning while the Twelfth, Eighth and, Ninth left later in the day. DONALDSON IS PRESIDENT. Chosen By the S. C. State Alliance on 2nd Ballot. . Columbia, S C. The State Alliance met in annual session here. The follow ing gentlemen were placed in nomination for Piesident. Mr. Sligh's candidacy being a complete surprise: Senator W. D. Evans, of Malboro; Hon. M. L Don aldson, of Greenville; W. J. Bowden, of the Cotton Plant; Col. D K. Norris, of Abbeville, and J. A Sligh. of Newberry. Mr. Donald-on w-s nominated by a handsome majority on the second ballot. The new president of the Alliance was born in Greenville county forty-eight years ago. He fought in the war in Hugh Aiken's Hxth Cavalry, Butler's biigade, as a lieutenant inCapt. Joe Sul livan's company, and made a gallant sol-dit-r. After the war he settled in Green ville, where he went to farming and has made a great success of it. He appeared in the political arena in the fill of 1884, when he was fent toHhe Legislature. He served two terms and then succeeded Governor Mauldin in the iScnate, which position he still holds. In December, 1889, when the State Alliaure Exchange was established, he was placed in charge, and he rau the exchange successfully un til he resigued last year, when the Ex change was moved to this city. The general opinion among" the Alliancemen seems to be that they have got the best man for president. The following ars the other officers elected : Vice Pi esident- W. D. Evans, Ben uettsville. Seen ta- y J. W. Reid, Reidsville. Treasure: - F. Y. Taylor, Mt. C Jghlan. Chapla n -Rev. James Douglass, Blackstock. Steward E. B. Taylor. Aiken. Doorkeeper - J. V. Kennedy, Sandy Grove. Assistant Doorkeeper A. R. Walker, Fair Bluff. Sergeant at-arms - J. E. Jarnegan, Co lumbia. Lecturer and organizer John R. Jef fi it s, Star farm. Ex cutive committee T. P. Mitchell, Woodward; S. T. D. Lancaster, Glenn Springs; and E. R. Walters, Orange burg. Judiciary committee W. N. Elder, Guthriesviile: D. K. Nonis, Abbeville; and J. L. Keitt, Newberry. As far as can be acenained the lectur ers in all the iiatii:ts were all re-elected. V0T YET OUT OF DANGER. Manager FricJl of the Homestead Works a Suffering Man; Pittsburg, Pa. Chairman H. C Frick, who was shot four times in his office Saturday by Alex. Berkman, a Homestead sympathizer, is mentally bright and active, but he has much pain from the pistol wounds and the cut from Berkman's knife. The ball which passed around the neck almost grazed the spinal . cord . That which passed out on the side almost touch ed the spine. , The upper cut on the right side should have penetrated the lung but for the edge of the ninth rib, and half an inch more deep would have carried the large lower cut into the abdominal cavity. It wa3 regarded as astounding that thii should be true of so many wounds. Dr. Litchfield has profound admiration for the self control and courage of his patient. He says there was scarcely any result from what the medical men call "shock," no sudden fall of temperature or cold sweat. 1 his is what the doctor said to ca'lers during the afternoon: "Mr. Frick i doing well. There is danger from the secondary effect of the wounds and there will be for a week. He has so far digested his "food well and is doing well and haveBtrong hopes he will recover." The order, signed by Mr. Frick and ftosted at the Homestead works this morn ng, to the effect that men returning to work wou'd be insured against removal, and which was given in Jthe United Press dispatches of last night, is regarded as the final peace offering of the firm to the strikers. In this connection a repre sentative of the firm makes an important Ktatement. "Even if Mr. Frick should die," he said, "the policy of the manage ment in the present crisis will be strictly adhered to. The statement that Mr. Carnegie is not in full accord with Mr. Frick, in the course the latter has pur imed of late, is absolutely and unqual ifiedly untrue. " RICHMOND TERMINAL. The Pennsylvania Railroad Endeavoring- to Secure Control. New YoRk, N. Y. The Richrxoud Terminal advisory commit ee of seven met and authorized Chairman Strong to appoint commit tets of three to represent the 0 and 5 ) cr cent, bondholder', re spectively. These will confer with the advisory committee a-s to the action to be takeu regardiug the default which will be made on the interest of the bond. It is repotted that the Pennsylvania Railroad is endeavoring to get control of the Richmond Terminal system by offer8 of a traffic alliaucc. THE TORRID WAVE. No Lt-TJp in the Oppressively Hot Weather. RitHMo.Mi. Va. (.'lnrlts C. Toske, a diummer for a Baltimore- fancy goods house, died suddenly Wednesday after noon from ihe effe ts of the unprece dented ht weatht-r. Two other cases of sunstroke resulted John Larus. an acrobat of the Sargent and Kidder cir cus, and W. H. Frayser, a street car driver. Both are expected to recover. Since -t Saturday the theiinemeter has not betu below 04 degrees,' and has fre quently registered ino New Yhk, N. Y. The weather throughout the New England and Middle States today continued oppres sively ht. Msny i-rostrations were re ported. Factor and mills shut down oa account of the hot wtather. Nearly 400 bear were killed in Mains during the year ending in May. THE SOUTH BOUND ROAD. Its Lease to the Florida Central Consummated. Savasnah. Ga. The lease of the South Bound railroad to the Florida Central and Peninsular road was consum mated today. The rental amounts to about $100,000 per annum. The link to unite the South Bound, which runs from Co lumbia, S. C, to Savannah, and the Florida Central and Peninsular, which terminates at Jacksonville, will be built at once. The lease places the eecurities of the South Bound at par. The nego tiations have been in progress some months. Expensive Chessmen., The New York Home Journal describes a remarkable eet of chessmen that have just been finished by a down East me chanic. The pieces are made of 6ilver and bronze, and the psriod of costurao and equipment is A. D. 1191, all the characters being histarical and contem porary, and strictly accurate in jvery de. tail of heraldic blazonry and costume. The knights are in chain mail armor, with shield, ax, sword and dagger. Their fur coats have each the individual blazon of the wearer. The queens wear royal robes and carry sceptera. The bishops are in church vestmeuts and carry cross and crozier.' The pawns are men at-arras in a kneeling posture, with spear, bilihook and knife. The white men are English, the black French. The English King and Queen are Richard I. and his Berengaria. The bishops aro Herbert Walter, Archbishop of Canter bury, and William Longchamp3, Bishop of Ely; and the knights are the Earl of Salisbury and the Baron of Worcester. The castle is .Anglo-Norma:;, and is a perfectly accurate representation of feu lal architeciure. The French King and Queen are Philip and Iogeborg, his Danish spouse, the bishop3 being Da Dreux and De Sully, of Bcauvais and Paris. The knights are also well-known men of the twelfth century, laud tho castle is Franco-Norman. Thr: srct has taken upwards of six years to make. Animal Wisdom. We are all familiar enough with ex amples of intelligence in cats and dogs, but of these stories we do not easily tire. Here are some facts from a corre spondent : In moving to a new place of residence we found on the premises a large cat which had been left there by a former occupant. She was not of the real domestic kind, but lived principally in thejbarn, occasionally venturing into tho house to obtain her food. Oj" oue occasion, much to the surprise of my wife, she came up to her and mcved several times, turning each time toward the door leading to the barn. Tliis she repeated until Mrs. N. was induced by curiosity to follow her, when she led the way to a barrel half full of straw, up the sidf of which she climbed, all the time mewing and looking at imy wife, aud there were five kittens, cold and dead. Mrs. N. remarked: "They are cold and dead, pussy," and the cat went away satisfied. She would sometimes scratch the children, and we were fearful she would seriously injure them, and one day I said in her presence that "I would shoot her." She was missing for abo.it six weeks, and of course I had then "oi oif the notion." Forest and Stream. The "Jigger." The terror of blackberry pickers in the South is the cheagre, popularly pro nounced "jigger." Probably no one has ever seen a cheagre save under a micro scope, and certainly he is usually invisi ble to his victims, but he can inflict more discomfort than the mosquito, or than any one of a dozen noxious insects twice bis size. The cheagre comes like a thief, in the night. No one is conscious of his coming, and often his presence is not detected for hours after his arrival, but in due time he makes himself known. The victim is seized with an intolerable itch ing in a dozen spots at once, and scratch ing affords only temporary relief.. Pimples rise over the itching spots, and are soon scran ed raw by the cheagre's tortured victim. Meanwhile the invisible enemy keeps on burrowing, and the itching con tinue often for days together. When it ceases, the victim has the unpleasant conscio usness that all is over probably because the cheagre has died somewhere beneath the pimple. Democratic Candidate. Parkersburo, W. Va., The State Democratic convention was in session un til au early hout in the morning balloting for a gubernatorial candidate. Shortly after midnight there was a stampede for Col. W. A.McCorkle.of Cbarleston,and on the second ballot the counties began tochange their votes for him. In the midst of much cheering and enthusisam a motion was made to make the nomiuatiou unanimous, and it was done. McCorkle wa3 sent for and accepted the nomination in a brief speech, after which the convention ad journed until 9 a. m. Belief for Southern Flood Sufferers. Washington, D. C The House committee on appropriations ordered a favorable report on a bill appropriating $50,000 for the relief of the Southern flood suffereis. The money appropriated is to be expended under the direction of th ? Secretary of War and the governors sf the State i:i wnich it may be expended. ML Bishop's Bemi-Centennial. Winston, N C. Bishop Rondthaler, of the Southera province, and pastor of the Moravian church of Salem, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary Sunday. In the -afterooon a congregational love feast was erved in the church when the bishop was made the recipient of pe&ents aui'-uut- ng in cost to ort-r $4fK It was a mem- irabte occasion The Agricultural School Fund. Washington, D. C. The President has approved the bill to direct the Sec retary of the Treasury to pay over certain money to the State of South Carob.na for the support of the college for the ben tit of agriculture; also, the act to construct a bridge across the Savannah river, OUR ALLIANCE COLUMN. Fery Interesting Notes, Articles, ana Clippings From all Sources. The essence of slavery ts unrequited toil, and it is of no consequence whether the force which robs him of the fruits of his toil be applied directly or iudi rectly, the man who labors in the produc tion of wealth of which others are the principal beneficiaries, i ; A slave Ex change. Seguin Enterprise (Tex ) booms an in come tax as f Hows : A tax upon large Incomes is needed to relieve tte neces saries of 1 fe, so the taxes that eow exis uot only enchance cost of living, but give opportunity for monopo'y and oppre sion It is the fairest of al tnx-8 and the oue best tending to relieve pressure where pressure is least easily lorne. Reveuue should be drawn from wealth, not wa t Representative Baker (People's party), of Kansas, ha introduced a bill into the House proposing a reduction iu the sal aries of government officials receiving more than $1,000 per year. By1 the bill the president's salary is fixed at $2."i,000: the Vice-Presideut's at $5,000 : the cabiuet officers at $6,000; chief justice of the Su prome Court $7,000 ;thc associate justices. $6,500; Speaker of the House, $5,000, and United States Senators and Repies entatives, $3,000. Washington, D. C There is just 23 farmer statesmen in thi Congress. Of these, Holman is running a farm of three or four-huudred acrts in Indiana; Morrell has a little Vermont "garden" of 65 acres; Casey of Nor. h Da kota has control of 300,000 acres in his State, and owns pretty much all of it himself; Vance owns seviral thousands of acres of timber land in the old North State ; and George of Mississippi is a heavy cotton planter. M'st of the Kansas men are agriculturally inclined. Jerry Simp sou owns 1,000 acres, and works i too, when at home; Baker, Davie, and Otis are all in sympathy and close touch with the farmer ; and Fiston is au avowed hayseed. POLK rrtAA TTJND. The ladies assembled at Omaha dui li. i he national People's party convention, organized a ladies' auxiliary for the pur pose of assisting the Polk Memorial As sociation. Mrs. Ben Terrell, of Seguin, Texas. i piesident, and has appointed one vice piesident in each S'ate, as follows: Alabama Mrs. Gaither. Louisiana Mrs. Clajton. Flodda Mrs. A. P. Baskins. North Carolina Mrs. W. W. Worth. Georgia Miss Lizzie Peake. Missouri Mrs Dr. Neff. Tennessee Mrs. J. H. McDowell. Iowa Mrs. Goodrich. Nebraska Mrs. Gen. Van Wyck. Minnesota Mrs. Dr. Fish. .Mississippi Mrs. Eva M. Valash. California Mrs. Nye. Connecticut Mrs. Crumsby. District Columbia Mrs. Crandall. Kansas Mrs. Fannie Vickery.. South Dakota Mrs. Loucks. North Dakota and Washington Mrs. Muir. v Some time ago a writer in the Nortl American Review made the statemect that the United States is the largest ten ant farmer nation in the world. Here h a list of the tenant farmers in some of the States as given by the writer: New York 39,87i Pennsylvania 45,825 Maryland 13, 53"; Virginia 34,898 North Carolina 62,726 Georgia 62,175 West Virginia , 12,000 Ohio 48,283 Indians 40,050 Illinois 80,244 Michigan 15,411 Iowa ?-. 7? Missouri 58,862 Nebraska 1149 J Kentucky 44,02". Kaunas 22,951 Tennessee 57.29G Mississippi 41,558 Arkansas 26,13C Texas 55,465 Total I -808,072 Here are 21 of our lea-ling S'ates with more teant farmers t!u:i England, Ire land, Scotlaud and Wall o. There is something awe in&piiinglj prophetic in the beau if til words of Col. L. L Polk, July 4, 1890: "I am stand ing now just bchk-d the curtain, and ic full glow of the coming sunet. Behind me are the shadows on the track, before me lies the dark valley and the river Wheu I mingle with the dark' waters want to cast one lingering look upoi a country whose government i of th; peo ple, for the p-op!e. and by the people V t V Senator Mander-on ha1 iur duccd t bill in Congress to create a mitioiiil high wav commi"ion, to cnit of two Sena tors, five '(epresentat ivrs. the Secret arie of war, agricultuie.and iuttrioMh postmaster-general, the Htt-)i iicy-gencial, and an associate member from each Slate and Territory. Mc. ting are t In- licid ir Washington during the M--iui f Con gress, in Chicago during tin A'orld'i Fair, and at such other place, id time! as the majority may elct. Th com mission is to investigate the need of the c-mntry in regard to the highway? nd r. t to Congress. STATE ALLIANCE MEETINGS fast as State secretaries repnTt the nr.i and p'ace of the next regu'ar annual ire? tin of the State Alliance, it will be ded t- 'his list: Tennessee. Nashville. Augnt 16: Texas. Austin, Augut 16. Indiana, Indianapolis. November 17. Kentucky, Owensboro, November 8. Ciumbii, S. C, July 17. Virginia. Richmond, August 17. Louisiana, Monroe, August 2. California Sncramento, October 3- Georgia, Gainesville, August 17. Urtle Rock. Ark-- August 18 icississippi, orarKTiiie, August as. Monroe, La., August 10. North Carolina, Greensboro, August 9. West Virginia, Clarksburg, August 10. Willismsport, Ps,. October 25. Arizona Onyx. Arizona onyx is fast gainin? a repul tion in the East, and the clay is not far distant when most of the onx used in the United States will come from this Territory. The great bed of this pre cious store in Ysvapai and Maricopa Counties alone, when sufficiently devel oped, will supply a greater part of the demand. Even now from two to five car leads are shipped from the Yavapai beds, and arrangements are being tuada to increase the output. The Yavapai onyx beds, owned by W. O. O'Neil and partners, are probably the most extensiv mines of the kind known, being almost a solid body one mile by one mile and a halt in extent. At present about, forty men arc engaged in taking out the stone that is being shipped to Chicago, Nev York, Cincinnati and other Eastern cit ies, where it is worked into table tops, etc. Probably the largest slab of onyx ever taken out in one piece was dug out, of the O'Neil ledge, it being 23x10 feet and twenty-six inches thick. The Jtone from this claim is very fine grain and takes a much higher polish than the cel ebrated onyx of Mexico, and it contains colors that were exhausted many years ago in the Mexican miue?. Then, too. the mines of that country river turned out pieces larger than five or six feet square.' So far as developed the Cave Creek onyx beds do not seem to be as large as the Yavapai beds, though the etoce is as fine, but even as they are, they will produce large amounts and in blocks of very satisfactory size. J. B. Dougherty, of New York, is doing a great deal of development work, and as soon as the road is completed, which will be in a few days, he will put teams to hauling and leading in onto the cars at Phenix for shipment to New York. -Phenix Gazette. Wonders or Climate Changes. The changes of terrestrial climate have been many and various. Myrtles and tree ferns once flourished in Greenland; coral insects built on the shores of Mel ville Island ; nautiluses sailed over what must then have been the tepid seas about Spitzbergen. But with the lapse of ages the scene changed and worse than arctic rigors spread into regions now enjoying temperate climate, possibly not for the first time. The Permian was certainly an inclement age, according to the Edin burgh Review, and its inclemency seems even to have reached the point of glacia tion in the west of England and Ireland, yet it was preceded and succeeded by a long prevalence of tropical conditions. These assuredly reigned without inter ruption in north temperate and polar region throughout the vast expanse of tertiary time. Palms and cycads then sprang up in the room of oaks and beeches in England ; turtles and croco diles haunted English rivers and estu aries; lions, elephants and hyenas roamed at large over the English dry land. In Switzerland a mean temperature equal to that of North Africa at the present time is shown by its fossil flora to have prevailed during the miocene or middle tertiary epoch. Antrhopoid apss lived in -Germany and France, fig and cinnamon trees flourished at Dantzic; in Greenland, up to seventy degrees 6f lati tude, magnolias bloomed and vines ripened their fruit, while in Spitzbergen and even in Grinnell Land, within little more than eight degrees of the pole, the swamp cypresses and walnuts, cedars, limes, planes and poplars grew freely, water lilies covered over standing pools and irises lifted their tall heads by the margins of streams and rivers. Tea Chest Lend. O ie of the industries in connection with the tea, tiade is the collection ot the lead with which tea-chests are linel. China has been noted for mmy centuries !or purity of its lead, and fhi tea-c'iest lead, as it is called, is regarded as tha linest in existence. There are many uses fcr it ; it is found very valuable in in iktnz the best kind of solder. No machinery is employed in the production of this beet lead ; every sheet is made by hand in the most primitive fashion. A large, brick is provided, the size of the sheet of lead to be made, and is cove red with two1 or three sheets of paper. On these the molten lead is poured, and another brick is placed on tne top, which flattens ths lead out the required size and thickness. The sheets are then soldered together to the size of the interior of the tea chest; .he taa is packed in, and the top sheet is .astcoed in place. - The workmen are very expert, and ttey tura out an im mense number of sheets in the course of day, and, where labor U so cheap, at a price much less than if the article were produced byamchinery. Btou Tran script. Dirdseye Yiw oLPsrasruay. Paraguay has 430,000 people on her 91,970 square miles of territory. Large numbers of uncolonized Indians are net counted. The country is rich in vegeta tion, but only 160,000 acres undeT cultivation-. Am': i . the notii';' pro ducts ; .c a!groba anH 'quebr .bo for tanning, and algorabeda, indigrr and annotto for dyei og. Thre is an abund ance of resins, copa', fcum elastic, drug plant, ba!am. Beside cotton, Para guay produces textile nd fibrous plants like ramie, jute and paim. To? foreign trade is about 5.00(,of0 a year, but the Ln-led Stages gets very little t it. The principal export are tobacco, hiie, lum !er and oraDge3. Paraguay has no ea port. Her products go out by the Para guay and Panama River'. St. Louis G.oLe-Democrat. There i nothing ia the wori 1 more aggravating to a man with a secret than to meet people who haye no curiosity. Atchison Giobe.