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1 in o o t v 3 A v n vA 7s A DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS. VOL. VIII. NO. 4 MAXTON, N. C TUESDAY, SEPT. 12, 1893. 01. CO A YEAR, J in . IT (& r riiz, niT II IF i i IH lli !l . ! J lit, i E V . The School Board of Auburn, Me., has decided that it takes six children to make a Bchool, and they intend closing up all schools having less than that number. The Chicago Timeb is of the opinion that there is not much farm land in this country bo situated or so poor that it will not pay reasonably for the cultivation ; that is, if it is cultivated properly. It may need some mauur ing first, or draining, or more thor ough working than it has ever had, ibut given these and it will pay. Prince Henry of Uiieans, who is not of much account in most things, has shown wisdom in advising the scions of French royal houses to assist in the colonial development of France, since they can but add confusion to confu sion if they take part in politics. It was upon his advice that the young Duke of Uzeo went on the Congo ex pedition, which proved fatal to him. If half the stories told of him ar. true, Lord Cromer, the British diplo matic agent in Egypt, is an original individual. He divides his leisure time between lawn tennis and Homer in the original Greek. During the recent Egyptian crisis Lord Cromer ordered the Khedive to di&miss his prime min ister within twenty-four hours, ordered troops from Malta and Aden in case of an emergency and then went out and played tennis until sunset. The paucity of American-torn sail ors in the United States Navy has ex cited a great deal of comment, ob eerves the Chicago Herald. A record of the seamen serving in the navy since the establishment of this system shows that not more than four, per cent, of the lads who are graduated from the apprentice training system continue in the service of the United States. The records futhur show that of the 7250 seamen allowed by law in the navy,lesB than one-half of those who enlist at the receiving ships are native born Anieri cans. Says the Boston Herald : "The country taverns are reported to be getting a good deal of custom from bicycle riders this summer, who make long journeys into the country, put up for a day or a night, and then keen "31 or return home. Any town in th-3 rural districts that has good roai3 is sure to be benefited by thi3 sort of custom, and in time it will more than make up for the losses which the oountry hotels and boarding-houses are likely to experience on account of the prevailing business depression. Let the town authorities bear in mind that good roads are the prims requisita for encouraging this business, how ever. " The New York Post remarks that 'Few people have any conception of the pressure for pardon which is brought to bear upon every Executive. Governor Stone, of Missouri, has at least 500 applications before him, and declares that it is not an exaggeration to say that one-half of his time is ab sorbed in listening to such applica tions, which are presented by mothers, wives, daughters, lawyers, friends from every part of th9 State, singly, by twos and threes, and often in larger delegations. Most of these applica tions he has to refuse, only nineteen having been granted during the first six months of his term ; but it is easy to accept his plea that 'an undue pro portion of my time is consumed with these matters, and the strain npon nervous vitality resulting from the pa thetic incidents connected with them is very exhausting.' It is obvious that some change ought to be made, either by the establishment of a Board of Pardons or otherwise ; for it is absurd that half of an Executive's time and strength should be exhausted in con sidering petitions that he will set aside the findings of the courts." No tttate in the Union has better roads than can be found in New Jer sey's more populous countieB, remarks Frank Leslie's. Essex County, which includes Newark, the Oranges and other growing towns, has thirty -eight miles of roads laid with twelve-inch Telford pavement, and varying in width from eighty to one hundred feet. These roads, which cost SI, 700, 000 for construction and right of way, have added greatly to the value of property in oil the region reached by them, and which is filling up with handsome homes, many of them palatial in char acter. Union County, adjoining Es Bex, has also made great progress in improved road-making, and is reaping the fruitsof her enterprise in enhanced realty valuations. The experience of these and other New Jersey counties constitutes an unanswerable argument ia favor of liberal expenditures and coherent system, ia road -making- v TILLMAN TALKS LURIDLY. The Farmers "Will Not Be Pauperized Prophecies of What Will Follow Wall Street Domination. Columbia, B. C. Governor Tillman gave to a reporter a most sensational in terview concerning the tendency of finan cial legislation in Congress. After threatening, if the money panic gets worse, that he will call the Legis lature in extra session to enact a stay law, he says : ' My judgment is that the repeal of the Sherman law, if done at the demand of Wall street, cannot and is not going to restore confidence and produce anything like prosperity. So far, the South has suffered but little. In the Northwest, where I have been, they are in throes of financial dissolution almost." After talking at some length, the Gov ernor in conclusion said : "They object to greenbacks as 'fiat' monej ; they object to silver as a 'dis bouest' dollar; they demand gold to be come the standard of the country, al though it means ifty-cent wheat and six cent cotton, and the loss of the titles of their homes by millions of American farmers, I told the ring in this State in 1888 it was damming up the water when the demand for reform was refused in the State convention. I now make the pre diction that a similar crisis is approach irS in national affairs and the floodgates of the people's wralh will be swept fr om the face of the earth in the next presi dential election. The farmers will not be pauperized to satisfy the greed of the Wall 6treet Shylocks, without exercising the ballot to redress their wrongs. There is lots of driftwood in Cengtess, and men who have betrayed the people in the fight against silver, will yet learn that the people are not such fools as they think they are." Th-J Eouthftiia South : The N. V. Sun prints a 4 c lumn ar ic!e with the fjllowing headlines : THE END OF THE L1ND. THE FINAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE DO MAIN OF THE NATION. THE SIG N1FICANCE OF THE OPENING OF THE CHEROKEE OUTLET. WHITH ER SHALL THE FARMER OF THE FUTURE TURN HIS FACE? The article winds up by sajing that "as grouped in the table, the Bouthern S'atcs include Arkansas, Texas, and all the States south of the Potomac and Oho rivers. Not until after 1874 did the planters and laborers of the South adapt them selves fully to new conditions; but from about tint time Southern fields were tapilly ves'ored to production and material additions were made to the cultivated are3, notably west of the Mississippi. "B.twten 1879 and 1889 the Southern S ates cast of the Mississippi added but 2,700,000 acres to the area under culti vation, although they made additions of ,7,200,009 acres to the cotton fields, the grain-bearing atea having been reduced 500,000 acres in order to add to that cm oloved in growing cotton. During the same period the cereal area of Arkansas and Texas increased 1,4UU,UUU, ana tnat under cotton 2,400,000 acres; the addi tions to the cultivated area of the two States accresatinET 3,700,000 acres, and exceeding those of all the other Southern States by 1,000,100 acres. "Only m the trans-M!ssissippi portion of this group is there probability of any considerable increase in tne manner oi farms; and, taken as a whole, the South will do remarkably well if its fields ex pand as rapidly as the world's require ments for Amencan cotton are aug mented." 'Moreover, great is the future of the American farmer, and vast will be the measure of his reward !" Caanot Be Built. Washington, D. C. Secretary Gresh am has received an opinion from Attorney General OIney, in which he holds that under the law the work of building a government wharf at Wakefield, Va ., the birtbplcce of Washington, cannot be begun without further legislation. Con gress appropriated $10,000 for the con struction of a wharf there, but inserted in the act conditions as to lumber to be used, pi ins, etc. Gen. Casey, chief of engineers of the War Department, re ported that the wharf could not be con stiue'ed under the conditions imposed for the amount of money named in the appropriation. Under these circum stances, the matter was referred to the Altoruey General and his opinion has just been forwarded to the State Depart ment under whose control the work com memorating Washington's birthplace was to be executed. Local Option in Roanoke, Va. Roanoke, Va. The local optiouists won in the election by 142 majority, in a total vote of 3,509, thereby carrying the city against licensing the sale of intoxi cating liquors. The election wa9 the most exciting one tver held here, the contest having been vigorously carried on for the past two months. The minis ters were all on the fide of the local optionists and prominent lawyers and business nvn opposed the movement. It is estimated that the c'ty will be deprived of upwards of $20,000 direct revenue by the elect'on. Augusta Extends Aid. Augusta, Oa The iy council of A'guta contiibuted 500 to purch se proyisions lor the s-tfTccrs along the . ft and m the ten is'ands of South V .r A at, dvastatsd by the recent storm. CHAELEST0N SHAPES UP. She ia All Right Again and Helping Her Neighbors. Charlebtoe, S. C Charleston wishes to announce to the world that she is ready for business again. A sufficient number of wharves have been repaired to accommodate all ships in port, and all railroads are running trains on regular schedules. Telegraphic communication has been restored to all par'.s of the country, the electric lighting and ttle- phonic service are working without a break and the streets have b' en cleared of all the wreckage of the storm. The city health officers say that the commun ity is remarkable free from sickness and the streets and exchanges have assumed their usual appearances. Labor day was spent here in hard work. A committee was appointed for relieving the stoim suff isrs of the sea islands and are pushiDg the work with splendid results. Dispatches from Beau fort announce the arrival of the first train load of provisions and say how gratifying the hungry were for Charleston's gene rosity. The committee have another train load of provisions ready for shipment and a car-load of clothing and bedding was contributed by the people of Charles ton, There will be other csrloada in a day or two for thipment. Subscription? of money, provisions ancr clothing aggregate about $5,000 and the canvassing is still going on. Mayor Fickuer received an offer of a car load of clothing from the mayor of Kansas City. Other eff rs of distant places and from points in thi Stite have been received and all been ac cepted, and yet what his come and what is on the way is only a drop in the bucket. There are from 5,000 to 10,000 people withot anything to eat cr wear. The destitute is absolute and stories from the sea islands are most pitiful. HE IS IN CONTEMPT OF COURT. Even Gov. Tillman's Constables Can not Seize Goods Without Process of Law. Charleston, S. C On August 1st G. B. Swann, one of Gov. Tillman's dispensary constables, seized a barrel of whisky in the custody of the South Caro lina Railway in this city. When the seizure was made Swann showed no authority from either the consignee or consignor of the goods, nor did he pro duce any warrent by virtue of which the seizure was made. When questions as to his authority were asked, he produced his commission as a constable of the State. Swann was taken before Judge Simonton in the United States Circuit Court, on a petition to show why he should hot be attached for contempt. He admit ted at the hearing that his course was of his own motion and that he seized the goods without the formality of a warant. In his decision just filed Judge Simonton holds that Swann was guilty of an out rageous violation of the law and declares that no s;arch and s.izure of property can be made without due process of law. He adjudges Swann guilty of contempt of court an i orders that he be imprisoned in Charleston county jail until he returns the seized goods to the custody of the receiver of the railroad and when the goods have teen so returned that be suf fer a further ynprisornent in the jail for three months and until he pays Qe cos of the proceedings. PITHY NEWS ITEMS. IZostly Concerning- Our ' Southern Country. The first shipment of sugar ever manu factured in Staunton, Va. , was made last week. The shipment con listed of five barrels of beet sugar manufactured by the Staunton Sugar 'Works, and was sent over the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to market. Secretary Hoke Smith was in Atlanta last week, his business bcing,it is stated, to unload his interest in the Atlanta Journal," because of the constant criti cism he receives on account of the utter ances of that paper, in which he owns a controlling interest. Jane Cakebread has made her 201st appearance before a London magis rate for her single offence, intoxication and bad language. COTTON WILL MOVE. New York Will Supply Memphis With Money by September 15th. Memphis, Tenn. All the banks have received notice from their New sYork connections that they could have all the money needed to move the cotton crop by September 15th, when the movement will begin in earnest and if the receipts are favorable several million dollars will be distributed in this section this month. NO PREMIUM ON CASH. The Latest Trace of Acute Stringency in the Market Disappeared. New York, N. Y. The last trace of acute stringency in the money market has disappeared, there being no premium m ensh. The binks are now paying out cHfh freely. A Prohibition-Republican Nominee. Des Moinks Ia The Prohibition Republicans of Iown, nominate 1 for Governor L. S. Coffitr, of Fort Dodge. WAR TROPHIES. SOME GHASTLY POSSESSIONS OF SAVAGE TRIBES. Necklaces of Human Fingers and Teeth Worn as Ornaments Sacks of Human Skin to Hold Aboriginal Medicines, "T "T OREOES in the shape of war ll trophies have recently af-JL-JL- forded a subject for investi gation by the Bureau of Ethnology, says the Washington Star. Perhaps the most remarkable specimen secured is a necklace of human fingers. It represents eight lives. There are only as many fingers, each individual slain being represented by the middle digit of the left hand alone. They were subjected, after amputation, to a careful and elaborate antiseptic treat ment in order to thoroughly preserve them. Each one was Bplit lengthwise on the inner side and, after the bone had been extracted, the skin, both in eide and out, was washed with a kind of earth containing ocher. The bones were not replaced, but sticks were in serted to keep the fingers in shape. The necklace was formerly the prop erty of High Wolf, who himself slew the eight men, belonging to rival tribes. He was a big chief of the Cheyennes, who were for a long time desperately hostile to the whites. Gen eral Crook conducted a long and ar duous campaign against them and the Sioux, which ended in the surrender of 4500 of the allies in 1877. On the morning of November 25, 1876, the fourth cavalry surprised and destroyed the main village of these fighting savages on the headwaters of the Pow der Eiver, Wyoming The red men were forced to flee with nothing save their arms and ammunition. More than half of their great herd of ponies were captured or destroyed. The cold was so intense that on the night after the fight eleven papooses froze to death in their mothers' arms. This blow, the most severe ever in flicted upon the tribes of the plains, resulted in the surrender of the Cheyennes, and later on of the princi pal chief of the 5Sioux, the renowned Crazy Horse. . Among the most lamented losses of property suffered by the defeated foe on this occasion was that of two necklaces of human fingers, together with a small buckskin bag filled with the right hands of riain in fants belonging to the tribe of" the Shoshoni. The latter are deadly enenies of the Cheyennes. These trophies of war were picked up in the deserted village. The one already described is now in the National Museum; the other was buried. The necklace that was preserved is a round collar of buckskin, incmsted with blue and white beads, and further adorned with bits of shell wampum of native manufacture. Pendant from it are five etone arrowheads, as well as four "medicine bags." One of these latter contains some sort of vegetable powder, the second is filled with tobacco, the third with small garnet colored seeds, and the fourth with a yellowish vegetable substance not identified. Likewise attached to the trophy are several artificial teeth, carved out of soft stone in imitation of the teeth of fossil animals which are found abundantly in the bad lands of South Dakota. Such a trophy is kept by the savage not only as a proof of personal vrowess, but also on account of a deeply rooted belief in the talismanic potency possessed by all parts of the human body, especially after death. It was such a faith that impelled the Aztecs and other American tribes to preserve the skulls of their dead, and especially those of victims sacrificed in honor of the gods. The Zuni Indi ans take care to offer food at stated Deriods to the scales of their enemies. Necklaces of human fingers are found in many parts of the world. Some times the whole arm is utilized, and in other cases only the nails. The Cheyennes did ngt always re strict themselves to fingers ; they gen erally made use of the whole hand or arm of the slaughtered enemy. In a picture painted by one of themselves is represented a scalp dance, in which the squaws are seen carrying the arms of foes elevated on poles and lances. This practice of cutting off the arm or hand presumably gave rise to their aboriginal name of "Slashers," or "Wrist Cutters," just as a correspond ing peculiarity of the Dakotas caused them to beT called "Throat Cutters." Necklaces of human fingers are made and prized by other tribes. In East man's "Legends of the Sioux" asqnaw named Harpsthinah is mentioned as wearing a necklace composed of the hands and feet of Chippewa children. In New Zealand the natives used to wear necklaces composed of several rows of human teeth. Captain Cook speaks of seeing fifteen jawbones oi men attached to a semi-circular board at the end of a house on the island of Tahiti. They seemed to be fresh and not one of them wanted a single tooth. In the same place he saw a model of a canoe about three feet long, to which were tied eight familiar jawbones. It rrmM larr.fi that these were tronhies of war. The wild Andamanese, who live on the fruits ii the forests and on fish, so far revere their progenitors that thev adorn their women and children with necklaces and other ornaments made out of the finger nails and toe nails of their ancestors. The aborigines of California did not usually scalp, but they cut off and kept the hands and feet and head of a slain enemy. They also had a habit of plucking out and preserving the eyes. The Ojibwas have made it their custom to cut off fingers from the hands of their foes, preserving these ghastly relics for use in their dances. Sometimes the warriors become bo ex cited that they will break off and swallow a finger. They also use sacks of human skin to contain their medi cines, fancying that something is thus added to their efficacy. The principal war fetiches of Uganda, in Africa, are dead lizards, claws of animals, beaks of birds and human nails. The ex plorer Stanley saw such charms dis played before King Mtesa. The women of some Australian tribes preserve the hands of defunct relatives or friends for souvenirs. They also utilize the skulls of their dead for drinking vessels. Thus a daughter would utilize the skull of her mother. For the same affectionate purpose females in Qippsland wear around their necks human hands, which are beauti fully prepared. One of the most ex traordinary of the laws among Austral ian natives is that a widow for every husband she marries after the first, is obliged to cut off a joint of a finger, which she presents to her spouse on the wedding day. The Sioux Indians make puzzle games out of the finger bones of men and women who have fallen beneath their tomahawks. The bones, after being freed from the flesh by boiling, are strung. Such practices are very ancient. It is related that Adoni-bezeh cut off the thumbs and great toes of seventy kings of Syria. The necklace of human fingers is not a particle more horrible than the ornaments, of human bones to be seen in the cemetery of the Capuchins at Eome at the present day. Indians of several South American tribes wear necklaces of human teeth. Stanley says that the natives of the lower Congo country are frequently adorned with necklaces of teeth of men, gorillas and crocodiles. When a king of the Wahuma dies at the head of the Nile rhis lower jaw is cut -out and preserved. The explorer Schwein furth speaks of having seen piles of "lower jawbones from which the teeth had been extracted to serve as orna ments for the neck" by the-Monbuttoo of Africa. The E5andwich Islanders used to keep the jawbones of their en emies as trophies. King Tamaahmaab had a "spit box which was set round with human teeth. " It had belonged to several of his predecessors. Among some Australian tribes the women wear about their necks teeth which have been knocked out of the mouths of the boys at a certain age. The North American Indians usually take their teeth as they fall out and carefully bury them under some tree or rock. The fierce Araucanians of South Amer ica, after torturing their captives to death, made war flutes out of their bones and used the skulls for drinking vessels. According to Captain J. Q. Bourke, U. S. A, desperate Ceylonese gamblers often play away the ends of their fingers. BROKE THE MONTE CARLO BANK. A Young Scotch Woman Said to Have Won $300,000 in an Hour. Vienna, Austria.. Trieste news paper! of Saturday last assert that a Miss Leal, a young Scotch woman, who has recently been playing at the Monte Carlo gaming tables, had remarkab'e luck foi several days, which cuiminaten in the breaking of the Lank. She is said to have won 60,000 in an h ur. A Columbia Mill Sold. Columbia, S. C Tue Congaree Cot t n Mil', of this city, was sold to Mr. Arrott of Phi'adelphii, who owns a majority of the bonds, and b ;uht in the property in the interest of the bondhold ers. Heavy Frost in the Mob awk Valley. Fonda, N. Y. There was a heavy frost in the Mohawk Valley Saturday night. With the funds rained by pitwmng the regent diamond Napoleon was en abled to undertake the campaign that ended at Marengo. The unexplored area of Canada is one million square miles. SW0RDFISHING. AN EXHILARATING BUT PERIL OUS OCCUPATION. The Fearless Fish Is Harpooned and Then Followed to His Death In a Small Boat Turning on Ills Pursuers. SWORDFISHING is wonderfull y exhilarating sport, like hunt ing bear excellent and health ful jus so long as "the b'ar don't hunt you." Forth from the wide harbor of gray old Stonington on the Long Island Sound twice and thrice a week speed a little flock of smacks and sailboats, bending east ward, making for the swordfish grounds in the ocean far beyond Block Island. From the walled-in little "basin," within the granite breakwater at New Shoreham village, on the lonely island, sails as often another fleet of doughty and eager swordfishermen. Swordfish are very plentiful, and the world has lately learned to prize their flesh. There is money is the chase of that solitary prowler of the sea who wears his sabre in his snout. It is fifteen or twenty miles southeast of Block Island, on the hither edge of the Gulf Stream, that the fisherman go to do battle with the swordfish. But it is not by any means a life altogether of ease and inactivity, cruis ing for swordfish. The great gJtme fish are plentiful, indeed, and when the sport is on there is Btress of work and thrilling adventure, than which there is none more intense, more try ing, more intrepid, not even that of hunting the great right whale or send ing pilots in a storm to incoming liners. These rough and ready, bare-armed, resolute, sun-tanned, marine redmen cruise not for sport in the first place, but for spoils and ready lucre, and every palpitating, armed leviathan they heave aboard their vessel means to them so many pounds of swordfish cut up into so many steaks at eight to ten cents a pound. The dollar mark is tagged to every fish. Almost every one knows how sword fish are taken, and that it is arduous and perilsome, but desperately fascin ating work to take them. Almost every one knows that far out on the bowsprit of every sword fisherman there is a little open iron banded ' 'pul pit, " where the harpooner, harpoon in hand, as his craft rides up to the side of his fearless game, which scorns to flee or turn aside from any foe that assails him ; that the harpoon is hurled into his side, or that when the mon ster, furious with pain and rage, bounds away, with a floating keg at tached to the iron dart by fathoms of rope, or plunges into the northern most course of the ocean. The vessel sails after him, like a tireless hound on the trail of a fox, and the marina hunters have only to keep sight of him until he has exhausted himself with his mad rushes through the seas. When the time comes, however it may be in half an hour, or it may be after twice that time for the plucky spearsman to deal the finishing stroke to the doughty warrior, then, if ever, hunter and game meet on fairly even terms in a valiant tug-o'-war. The harpooner quits the vessel in a yawl, and with axe, or club, or epear pulls his frail craft over the rough waves to the side of the dying fish. It may be the moribund giant is breath less and really exhausted, and. if so. where he has measured his bulky length upon the surface of the ocean, plunge his sharp spear into his heart or brain, or deal a crushing blow upon his head. But if the big fellow is only feinting, there is likely to be trouble. Sulkily and warily, but mo tionless, he notes the harpooner's ad vance, and when the latter has driven his boat to a point not half a Aaz&Ti roia awi7, all of a sudden the great fish arouses himself, shakes the lethargy out of his frame and the brine out of his glim mering eyes, measures the place of his foe for an instant, then rushes upon him like a whirlwind. Rarely ever does he miss his drive, and the daunt less warrior, with swift and sinewy skill and nervous sweep of paddles, is impotent to evade it. The fish cleaves the waves with the speed and fury of a war horse, a sudden dip beneath the waves, lo ! he has gones ; but the next instant the oarsman, leapiug into the stern of his craft, heara a great rush of waters, as ol a submarine volcano beneath him, and with the sound of ripping boat timbers, that part with the fragility of paper, a long, slender, brown black, hairy rapier is driven through the cockle shell from side to side as if the lance of a galloping Cos sack had cleft it. Lucky it i, indeed, for the boatman that he, too, may not be in line with the irresistible straight thrust, for if he is so the sharp slender bone eabre will split him. also, as tvt h'Uy and easily as a cook skowers a chicken. Instances are not AVRnting in which a boatman has had both his legs ppeared through by the pword of a furious swordfish and himself firmly impaled to the sides of his yawl. One Block Islander was cleft in that way only last summer olT Block Island Sound, and a vear or two ago another hunter of the marine Hworilsnuin wtss spitted in his sent, the bone hltulo o- iu, up into his bo.ly, and ho died a few days later of tho frightful thrust. A wounded swontnsh not rarely at tacks the schooner itself, ami only a few seasons ago one big fellow drove hcu-.llong into an island veswol, and his Eabre went through its thick walls as if they were of paper, protruding by several inches into the vessel's cabin, when tho giant in his furious wrench ing to free himself broke tko end of tho bliide, which fell on the floor. It ih3 been only within the past three or four years that men bean to hunt the big ugly chaps lor a steady and profitable vocation. JWore that time the world fancied that the flesh of swordfish was unfit for food, and the Atlantic fishermen hunted them only for the eport it afforded to the idlers at summer seanhore resorts. Then it was learned that a swordfish steak is about as fine and savory a morsel ai may be garnered in the broad ocean by far superior, in the opinion of country epicures, to halibut steaks, since it is jucier, with a peculiar game flavor- -and since then there has been plenty of money in swordfishins?, but on the New England coast alone, and more than a score of swordfishermen go forth weekly to the ocean hunting grounds as far down east as Eastern Maine. Swordfish steaks, juicy, thick white slabs of tender meat, are. sold everywhere in the New England markets at from twelve to sisteeu cents a pound, but Boston is pre eminently the great market for them. Very singularly, Nptv York, the great fish market of th continent, either has never tested or fails to be pleased with the fish, and not a pound, it is said, of sword fish goes to the Gotham markets. There is a steady demand for th1 swords, which may be handsomely polished, so that they gleam like ivory, on the part of summer visitor? to the seashore or curio collectors at the uniform price of fifty cents each. They are beautiful unique ornaments, unmistakably suggestive of the eem. Swordfish range in Hize all the way from 250 to 600 pounds, and a fe have been taken twenty-five miles southeast of Block Island that weighed 800 pounds. There is very littl waste about them, their hide m fairly smooth, though tough aud thick anrl hairy. They cut up finely into steaks an inch or eo many inches thick ai you are pleased to have them cut. They are packed in big boxes, iced, and sent fresh as a smelt right to the tables of the New England consumers. New York Sun. The Home Newspaper A newspaper is the greatest help to the growth of a town that can be. It is a standing advertisement which al ways attracts. It gives more free puffs and explanations of the place than all others. It never lets pass a good opportunity to advocate the in terests of its home enterprises. It helps all the churches and never fails to speak out for its school ; resents all insinuatiors against the character of the citizens and industries of the town ; it lives but to benefit the com munity. To repay its untiring efforts it asks the support of the people, not in a begging manner, but as a recom pense for its labor. It is entitled to a livelihood because it gives more than it takes. It only asks for its rights, and these it should ha re. Carbondale CPenn.) Leader. Costs of Cars. A flat car costs about $380, a fla! bottom coal car $475, a gondola dror bottom $500, a double hopper bottom coal car $525, a double hopper bottom coke car $519, a box car $600, a stock car $550, a fauit car (ventilated) $700, and a refrigerator car $300. A four wheeled caboose costs $550 aEd an eight-wheeled one $700. The pricet given on the above cars includo power brakes and vertical plane couplers. A fifty-foot mail and baggage car costs $3500, a second-class coach $4800, a first-class coach $5500, while a first class Pullman oar costs $15,000. Chi acru Herald. A New York music dealer nays tlit the composer of "After the Bali" will make $100,000 out of his song. Many other authors of popular songs ItfiY. made nothing because they fiil3lt take out copy right a. They are proposing to pension te;"-:i-ers in England
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