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THE SOUTHERN STATES. A Northern gentleman, recently re­ turned from spending the season in Hew Orleaaa and vicinity, andwho Jrillad » good deal of time while than iMlilkAl oiitiMMS. write# to a perscmaftriand in Chicago thai • '"thewhitesof Louisiana hareMoome more erqfil and intolerant to the col­ ored people auto* President Harrison's eleotton than they wen before, and an not carter determined that the negroes •hall not; bold office but that whites who are disposed to favor negroes and protect their rights shall be put ont of •office if in, aim kept out if not in." This is undoubtedly a fair statement of the general Southern situation. It is certainly fair so far as concerns the State m Louisiana. The recent trou­ bles in Lafayette all grew out of the "fact that two or three white men who had shown equal justice to all, and had Jor that reason secured colored sup­ port at the polls, were resolute in de- . termination to protect the colored citi­ zens of that place in the right to rote. Not content with preventing that class of men from being elected to office, several of them in the Sugar State have been notified that they must re­ sign to make way for "regulators." Wb»r> if. comes ic purely local vk«> taons the regulators can not be made .amenable to national law. If public . sentiment down there, sustains tha$ sort of "regulating" then it must go on until it produces its natural harvest of retaliation. But Congressional elec­ tions can be inquired into and put un­ der national control. Congress will undoubtedly inquire into the facts of these recent outrages, and the develop­ ments may have an important bearing upon the action of that body. It is lugh time the hands of the National Government were washed clean of all responsibility for violation of the con­ stitutional amendment guaranteeing the right of suffrage. The United States should observe with sharpness the distinction between elections over which it has control and those over which it has not, so that the reproach •of Southern barbarism may rest where it belongs. It will be remembered that previous to the war the State of Mississippi re­ pudiated its debts. For a time the financial credit of the entire United States suffered from that bill of repu­ diation. It was loosely charged to the recount of America. Other States have since repudiated, but the world of finance understands perfectlywell that the United States is in no way respon­ sible for any of those repudiations, apy more than it is for the railroad com­ pany that defaults on its interest or passes its dividends. • It took years to free the General Government from the odium of State dishonesty at the South. It is entirely practicable for the Gen­ eral Government *to rid itself of any responsibility for Southern regulators. The first thing to do is to disconnect $he Congressional from the local and State elections and then take complete control of the Congressional polls, and not simply exercise supervisory power. In this letter already referred to occurs the following passage: Ihis whole euuntry Is in an unsettled condition. I suppose the Chicago papers have given you account) of thu troubles which took pla.-u last week [the letter is dated May 16] Ht a municipal election at LaTayette, where the regulators (the coun­ try here is lull of them) surrounded the pitveo where the people had to enter to vote, and declared that "no negi o should vote," that thev were going to "show that it was a white man's flection," and they were so determined ana well armed that the author­ ities closed the polls alter they had been open only about thirty minutes, in order to prevent bloodshed, for a few of the whiteB were bound that the negroes should vote, and were aceompanving them to the polls. And the same week in Gretna, La., i ear New Orleans, they burned a Are engine house belonging to a colored company, and a nice -churcn, nearly new. and two or three good dwelling-houses, all owned by colored peo­ ple, because it was reported that the negroes Of Hhat plaoe were collecting arms and drill­ ing to murder the whites. Most of the colored people who live in the -country are afraid to go out of doors after sunset, and in fact it is not safe for them to do so. Whippings and intimidations are «oing on all the time. A few nights ago a 'party of about twenty men on horseback and armed r-od« up to a colored man trudg­ ing along toward home from town, and leveling their guns at him ordered him to ""halt." Finding out who he was they al­ lowed him to pass. Of course he couldn't have been any one they were looking for or •were disposed to interfere with. Those banished last winter have not been allowed to return yet. though some of them loft lartre families, and in two cases within my knowl­ edge the men's wives hav9 died since from the effects of fright and cold and Wet waath- «r that prevailed at tho time. This condition of affairs cannot en- dure permanently. The Republicans, having at last gained control of both hotibes of Congress and the Executive, should proceed at the earliest prac­ ticable moment to redeem their pledge to defend the colored people and up­ hold the Constitution at the South.-7- Chicago Inter Ocean. The Labor Question fa Alabama. , ' Tinder the auspices of the Southern interstate Immigration Committee there met recently at Montgomery, Ala., a convention of 100 able-bodied 'and physically indolent white men to devise ways and means for tilling the farms in that State. The session open­ ed with prayer, the chaplain complain­ ing to the Almighty that "the plow stands still in the field of promise and briers cumber the garden of beauty," and beseeching Him to send them im­ migration and "to conduct those who are exposed to the chilling winds of frozen regions to this favored land, where summer sings and never dies," and closing with other flowery and equally futile appeals for help, recall- iftg the fable of the wagoner who cried to Jove for help when his wagon was in the mud and was advised by that deity to put his own shoulders to the Wheel. The prayer was followed by discussion of a vague sort, which tra­ versed every suggestion but the right one bearing upon the reasons for the deoadent conditions of Alabama's farm­ ing industry. It did not occur to any of these Southern gentlemen that the negroes are the natural tillers of the soil in that warm climate; that no other class can do the work so well as they, and that if they were encouraged to labor by any hope of reward, if thev were allowed the rights of citizens, {f they were paid fair wages, even, the Al­ abama farms would not be in their present condition. The problem statids thus: The white "gentlemen," who want to live without work off the toil of othej$, ^jll not hire the blaoks at fair wages of^n- courage them to obtain and work",lapd of their own; on the other hand, all through the discussions there was manifest an intention to drive- the blacks out of the State. The white "gentlemen" want to get the blacks off the farm and will not work themselves. In this asaergency they are praying for ~ " onathey in their dtmajsioin rang the changes upon the forming colony of Cullman with its fruitful vuMgrards, wheat fields and nailing peetures--a colony organised hi1878 by Germans, who during the last few have wrought this magical trans­ formation on what & the poorest and thinnest soil in Alabama, and all this without blaek labor. What has been done at Cullman they are confident can be done elsewhere in the State if more Germans or other white immigrants would only go there and work for a dollar a day and practice rigid econo­ my. It never occurred to these white "gentlemen" who are so robust, each of them in his own estimation boing the equivalent of three or tour North­ ern mudsills, and who are afraid of soiling their lily-white kands, that if they would go to work themselves--if they would take up the shovel and the hoe, do the planting, cultivating, weed­ ing and harvesting, and accustom themselves to work their lands as in­ dustriously as these Germans do, they would not be dependent upon black labor. The whole trouble in Alabama and the other cotton States is the lazi­ ness of the whites and their determina­ tion to live off the toil of others. It is part and parcel of the old heredity of slavery, and until that policy is changed Alabama farms will gvrUig to decay. White immigrants are not likely to be attracted by such con­ ditions. The remedy will be found when the lazy whites go to work and pull up "the briers that are cumbering the garden of beauty."--Chicago Trib­ une. The Wets Elected Free Liquor HilL New York Tribune: Gov. Hill's vetoes of temperance bills are not sur­ prising to anybody. Even the inex­ cusable abusiveness and partisanship of his vetoes appear natural with such a Governor at such a crisis. He be­ haves disgracefully, but no one had a right to expect anything better from him. The World is a Democratic pa­ per of sufficiently intense partisanship, and yet it asks: "Is that the kind of legislation and statesmanship merited by the Empire State?" The impartial historian must sadly answer, "It is." The Empire State knew what Gov­ ernor Hill was and deliberately elected him. It knew what forces were behind littn; knew that he would be owned by the liquor saloons, if elected, as abso­ lutely as any patient beast of burden can be owned by its driver. Mr. Hill Was elected by an open alliance be­ tween the Democratic party and the liquor-dealers to serve their joint pur­ poses, and no one had a right to imag­ ine that the liquor dealers would sign any useful temperance measures or any bill to restrain the liquor traffic. So far the case is clear; the 650,000 votes cast for Gov. Hill wtere cast with full knowledge of the man and of his relations, for every one of these voters was bound to know that he was voting for exactly the grade of statesmanship which the Governor now exhibits. But „these were not quite a majority of the whole number of votes cast. May it not jet be said that tine Empire State merited something better? No. The votes cast for a Prohibition ticket were also oast with full warning that they would elect David B. Hill, the candidate of the saloons. Every one of these voters knew that the State ticket for which he voted had no chance of election. He deliberately refused to elect Mr. Miller, auu thereby made himself fully responsible for the elec­ tion of Hill. There is no escaping that responsibility. The 30,000 Prohibi­ tionists are, indeed, incomparably more blameworthy than the 650,000 Democrats and liquor votes, because the Prohibitionists were entirely con­ vinced that Mr. Hill was and would be the instrument of a traffic which they held it their sacred duty to assail and restrain. Many thousand Democrats, who ought to have known better and are responsible for their ignorance, voted for Gov. Hill in the blindness of sheer partisanship. But the Prohibi­ tionists, who actually elected him, have no excuse. They knew whose tool he was, and what the traffic was which he was elected to defend. , Replacements, Not Butcheries. The Cleveland Plaindealer is in a Sfed state of mind over what it calls the "Postoffice butcheries" of Mr. Clark- son. It dilates thereon in a way which one might expect from a sentimental mugwump, but which is sadly out of place in a representative of the moss- back, spoils loving Jacksonian Democ­ racy. The Plaindealer cannot mean to go back on the good old "Locofoco" doctrine that the first duty of an in­ coming administration is to clean out all the political opponents it finds in office and give their places to its own supporters. It is a little singular that the Cleveland paper, instead of berat­ ing Mr. Clarkson, does not honor him for holding fast by "good old Demo­ cratic traditions." If the Plaindealer is not satisfied with that argument then try another. What it calls "butcheries" are in reali­ ty but "replacements." There was for many years a conflict of oi>inion in this country between the nationalists and the State-righters. The latter went to war to enforce their secession ideas. They formed a league of "sovereign" Confederate States and* bade fare­ well, they hoped, to national unity ana national sovereignty. The nationalists accepted the chal­ lenge and fought and whipped them. For a long time the affairs of the na­ tion were administered by national­ ists. All the offices, big and little, were held by men whose principles were those which had been victprious in the war to preserve the nation' One day in 1884, in a moment of forgetful- ness, the people allowed the anti-na­ tional party to obtain control. Its leaders ousted from office the nation­ alists and filled their plaees with old secessionists and State-righters. Last year the people, repenting of their error, put back in power the true rep­ resentatives of the principles that rule. the country. The latter have been busied since then in retiring from na­ tional offices men who are not in har­ mony with the ideas of national sover­ eignty and replacing those persona with men of national ideas. Does the Plaindealer see ? It has been decided that this is to be a nation and not a ' confederacy. Therefore it is wrong to ask that men with confederate and anti-national principles should be left in place. They ought to see the imprp* priety of it themselves and resign, and not stand on the order of their going, but go at onee.--Chicago Tribune. Democrats may do their best and their utmost to throw ridicule on the administration and sneer at President Harrison, but the fact remains that never in the history of the Republioan party were the intelligent masses more fully in sympathy with a President three months after his inauguration thai thsgr are with Prosidwafc TUiijim, AFFAIRS W ILLINOIS. IfVIBE8TIHO ITEMS CATHKKKD - FROM VARIOUS SOCRCKS. What 0*r Neighbor* An Dotaf-Jbttm Gmml nl UhI tatMMt-lbr- riagvs ud De«tk»-AMftdNti ni CitBMs --F*r*onal Pointers. --In the Chicago Criminal Court sn anarchist, while being examined as to his fitness to ssrvs as a juryman in a robbery ease, asserted that he would not aid in enforcing the law. He believed in pre- . venting crime, he said, and not in pun­ ishing it. The eourt thereupon gave him a taste of the law which he despised by sending him to jail for contempt of court. --The Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association held its sixth semi-annual meeting at Chicago last week. Dr. W. L. Williams, of Bloomington, President of the association, and J. F. Pease, of Quincy, Secretary, were the officers of the meeting. The committee appointed at a meeting held in February to secure legis­ lation placing veterinary physicians on the standing guaranteed the regular pro- io secura me passage of the bill. A new committee-- Dr. B. J. Withers, Chicago; C. A. Pearce, Elgia; and J. F. Beed, Decatur--was named to continue work looking to the ultimate passage of such a measure. --Commissioners McCheansy and Watts, and Mr. Johnson, Secretary of the State Board of Live Stock Commission­ ers, accompanied by Dr. John Casewell, veterinary surgeon, visited the Chicago stock yards last week to investigate any cases of actinomycosis, or lumpy-jawed cattle, that might be found there. The number was unusually large, twenty-four well developed cases being discovered. The cattle were condemned and killed. They were, with few exceptions, from the Northwest, Wisconsin furnishing 'more than any other one State. One came from Kansas City and the rest from Iowa and Minnesots. Dr. Casewell states that very few diseased cattle come from Illi­ nois. --A report has just been mads by the Rscorder of Cook County which conveys some idea of the enormous amount of business transacted by that office daily: Number of documents recorded from Oct. 10, 1871, to Nov. 10, 1874 900,000 Number of documents recorded from NOT. 10, 1871, to June 1,1883.. 1,106,972 Total documents reoordod from ths great fixe to June 1, I860 1,908,972 --The Society for the Improvement of Working Girls has effected a permanent organization in Chicago. There is a la­ bor bureau, an information bureau and a benefit bureau. It is proposed in the near future to erect a club house. The first society of this kind was organized in New York years since by Miss Grace Dodge, the daughter of Willism E. Dodge, sinee whioh time thirty-eight or forty other societies of the same sort have sprung into existence. The New York society, known aB the Manhattan Working Girls' Association, has schools in drsss-making, cooking, millinery, book-keeping, stenography, etc. The Manhattan also owns cottages at Orange Mount, N. J.K where the girls go during the summer in detachments of tea for vacations. --A Springfield dispatch says: "The State Board of Pharmacy will hold its regular meeting in Chicago in a few days to consider Senator Frisbee's amend­ ment to the Pharmacy law, passed by the last General Assembly. The board is by no means unanimous in opinion as to the construction which should be given the act, and, as its provisions are some what ambiguous and conflicting, consid erable apprehension has keen manifested by the druggists throughout the State as to what decision the board will reach, and frhether their construction of the amend­ ment will be sustained by the courts." --In the Jo Daviess Circuit Court, last week, Judge Crabtree pronounced a life sentenoe upon Jonathan Skene, the youth­ ful murderer of H. T. Matchett, principal of the public schools of Hanover. The crime, to whioh Skene pleaded guilty, was committed on Sunday, Msy 6, and wss a most cold-blooded one. --Bepresentatives James H. Farrell of Chicago and Thomas E. Merritt of Ma­ rion County have been in Springfield im­ portuning Gov. Fifer for the release of Joe Mackin from Joliet. They snoceeded in securing the Governor's promise to examine the record and petitions in the case. --At a Meeting of the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augnstana Synod, held at Augnstana College, Bock Island, a resolution was passed protesting against the proselyting work of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States among the Swedish Lutherans, and re­ solving that the proper Protestant Epis­ copal authorities be notified. --James H. Ferris, of Peoria, who was tried and convicted of mur­ der and sentenced to be hanged, but whom the Supreme Court granted a su­ persedeas, has been granted a new trial. One of the points on which the case was remanded by the court above was the in­ troduction of evidence to prove a rape in a case where a man was on trial for mur­ der. Ferris was to have hung in March last. --Wade Hampton died in Cairo a few days ago. He was a colored man, and for several yean bad been the popular por­ ter of the Halliday, the leading Cairo hotel. His father and mother were once the slaved of Senator Wade Hampton, of South Carolina. --By the sudden falling of a portion of the Scaffolding i ttached to the mar wall of the power house now being construct­ ed in Chicago for the West Side Cable Boad, eight men were severely injured and one man killed. --James Stewart, a workman in the employ of Baird Bros., contractors for the building of the Cairo bridge, has sued the firm for $25,000 damages on account of losing a leg in an accident while em­ ployed on the bridge. --Gov. Fifer has disposed of all the work imposed upon him by the lste Gen- eral Assembly and will arrange to hear a' number of applications for pardons in the next few weeks of criminals now serving sentences at Joliet and Chester. --Work is rapidly progressing on the peat bridge --iAn interesting suit, right to credit, has just Chicago. 4 dry goods judgment against Eli Gaffii citizen, for goods furnished young wife. Gaffield refuse* bill on the ground that he ise his wife to purchase which comprised expensive and artioles of female adornment. yer asked the court to instruct that a husband could not be made for debts contracted by his wife name unless she had authority to maMe such a contract, and a tradesman sold goods to a wife without thority did so at his peril. T] below refused to give this insl The Appellate Court has ju*tde< the court below erred and re- judgment. --S. Benjamift,. elothing Springfield, has failed. The elafani aggregate f14,500. --Gov. Fifer has issued a proclamation offering a reward of $200 for the appre­ hension and delivery to the Sheriff of Clinton County of , the murderers of Frank Winklejohn, killed near Csrlyle tlid-Sih inst. --Jonas Carlson and his wife, the aged couple who own the now famous cottage in Chicago where Dr. Cronia was mur­ dered, are on the highway to wealth. Their sign "Admission 10 cents," stuck out a few days ago, has borne golden harvest. The Btream of visitors to the cottage shows no diminution. On the contrary, the otowds, eager to view the scene of the heinous crime, are day by day in­ creasing. Each person, no matter of what age or sex, has to pony up the dime. This alone is now bringing them in a daily revenue of about $20--or twice the amount of the monthly rent they used to get. But in addition to this source of income they are also coining mon«y by selling, bit by bit, the blood-stained por­ tions of the floor. Aoeording to sise, they take 10 to 50 oents per fragment for it. --Chicago has raised $160,000 for the Pennsylvania flood sufferers. --W. W. Burson, a Madison County farmer, sends to the Chicago Tribune some samples of wheat head* which, when cut, were covered with a green louse which develops into a green fly. In a note to the editor, Farmer Burson says: The general appearance of the louse, which may prove a new pest, is much like that of the eojuiuuu acephalous jxjRt long known to fruit­ growers anil gardeners, but in an acquaintance with Illinois wheat-growing since 184'2 I have never noticed it until to-day, and an extensive wh^a'-grower of thirty years' experience at this plaoj never noticed it before, so that considt-r- abl' alarm is felt here ov:T the posnibl<> injury it may cause the crop (his year. The da'uage, if any, will bo confinod to the late fti-l«la, a* the early wlnat is substantially made here, tunl harvest will begin in ihre« or four days. Have any of your readers ever investiga.wl this pest; and if so, what is it, aud what are the probabili- ti'js iii damage to the wheat crop? Some large growers arc feeling yuite uneasy over the proba- ule outcome. --The report of John S. Lord. Secre­ tary of the State Bureau of Labor Statis­ tics, remarks upon ths recent remarkable increase in the number of building and loan associations in Illinois. All the records of the State in 1880 contain only 497 mortgages given to such associations, while in the records of 1887 there are more than thirteen times as many. The gross amount represented by those of 1880 was $371,355, and by those of 1887 $7,262,- 440. The number of a&sociations char­ tered by the Secretary of State in 1880 was fifteen, and in 1887 seventy-five were or­ ganised in Cook County alone; and in the other counties of the State fifty, seven were organized, making 134 in the State. The distribution of building and loan association business in the State among the principal cities of the State is in the following proportions: Chicago, $13,175,343; Danville, $1,366,663; Spring­ field, $1,229,367; Joliet, $1,085,250; Au­ rora, $918,970; Peoria, $824,040; Bock- ford, $598,031; Beardstown, $550,614; Bock Island, $510,790; LaSalle, $406,- Shelbyville, $4 4,54; Jack­ sonville, $399,150. The terms with­ in which the mortgages held by associations of th s kind generally mature range from five to ten years, and the Secretary finds the county averages to range from one to eight years, affording an average for the State of three and eight-tenths years. By the use of these figures Col. Lord approximates the mort- gages in the State in 1887 at $27,601,082, but admits that the unceitainty of the calculation mtkes the conclusions conjectural rather than demonstrable. The proportion of mortgages filel in Cook County is 24 per oSnt. of the building lots and 48 per cent, of the land described in acre tracts. --The- new electric light system at Bloomington, which has been in service for some time, has been formally Scoept. ed by the City Council. --Major J. W. Powell, of Washington, Chief of the United States Survey, has been in Chicago for several days making arrangements for the Government topo­ graphical sarvey of Illinois, which he expects to commence July 1 with a com­ petent staff. Major Powell says a force will work in Illinois all summer. The work next year will depend <m the appro­ priation. Until it is completed, the first work will be on the course of the Illinois Biver, as the proposed drainage canal appeared to him the thing of paramount interest, and he thought the Government survey would be of assistance in the ca­ nal work. --Gov. Fifer has issued a proelamatiow, in pursuance of the act of the late Leg' islature, in respect to the shipment of cattle into Dlinois from territory liable to infeotion from Texas or splenic fever. The proclsmation merely traverses the provisions of the new law, which is al­ ready in force; repeats the description of the scheduled territory embraced in the proclamation of Aug. 22 last, and adds a rule defining the method of cleansing cars, boats, and sheds which have con­ tained cattle from the scheduled region. --Dr. Anna E. Ba ley, for trying to swindle the Eastern Illinois Bailroad Company by bringing a damage suit against it for damages she never received, has been indicted at Chicago for conspir­ acy to defraud. Two witnesses, Miss Foreman and Dr. N. B. Baldwin, who swore falsely, have also been indicted. --Mr. C. Shelley, an old pioneer and respected citizen of Cairo, expired the day before the fiftieth enmversary of his golden wedding. His wife survives him. --Clare Smith, a 13-year-old boy at Say brook, accidentally, shot ""fl. . himself witfeariia. • for XHfc Ah1 l/LT£ K ATI OK OF SPICES. Xkt Baak lkM lint Damp Into Their jSteWMfc'*. 1*a8 . <**i8idi*aWo. interest | Headquarters for Screen Doors •roused last winter in certain circles 1889, at W. P. Stevens, West Side. last winter aver food adulterations, and ••• the legislature was at last prevailed Besley's Liverwort. Kidney Cure. Try pon to pass a law authorizing the fr* ;airy Commissioner to proceed against New Carpet*, »t bottani who adulterate or who sell adulter- Petty & Owen's. lard, baking potrder, vinegar, or '--m tuous liquors. > Confirmation Suits, cheap at perry & f some apparently excellent author- 'Owen's. ity is to be believed the work of spying /. „ , . ,, ,. . . , _ ont and p»nisl,ing Wmfnl .dultewto^ »»» DCt h.l[ A l«uiin- »Iki1a- P M' 0ma * Sop «• kale grocery dealer living in St. Paul, Try Benley's Horse and Cattle Food. H. Moon, of the firm of Allen. Moon. There is nothing like it. Co., was interviewed recentlv on this . m 11 rabject by a representative of the Jour- Lanterns, Oil Gl»s> etc.. etc.f al, and this was what he said in sub- Story's. r, ' , ... . All sizes of Wire Screens and Window atrainJ Sk, passed this law Screen Frames, at W. P. Stevens, Went against baking powder and vinegar gj^e. didn't know what they were about. * ; They aimed at what they were made to Call at W. P. Stevens, Wert Side, be- believe was a great evil, but if they had fore you buy your Screen Doors. just directed their attention to the adul- . . r~~ , . . . _ teration of spices, now, there would be ~ ^en ??? d®?.re a Plea8aat ^ some sense in it. Now, just look hero, mmm Business Notices# flayer figs, 10 oents per pound Al- Ithoff Bros. * • St. Patrick's Pills. Let me tell you something about the Go to Mrs. E. W. Howe'* far Millinery adulteration of spices. You see that and Dress Making. there on the oiocK up there on the wall? Well, that's a clock that sells for $9. It's a first-class article. Now, we weigh out enough Bpices of different kinds to make up a package which if pure would be worth $14.80, when we put this clock in with it, and we sell the whole thing--spices, clock, and all--for $1480. More than that, we make from 30 to 40 per cent on every bit of the spice." "How do you account for this?" "Why, simply because the spice is so heavily adulterated. Remember, now, we sell for $14.80 a $9 clock and enough spice to be worth at wholesale, if it were pure, $14.80. God only knows what's in the stuff. If these leg­ islators had been anxious to punish fraud why in the world didn't they turn their attention to the adulteration of spices ?" Taking the word of the wholesaler above quoted, the reader of the Jour­ nal, as he sits at his dinner table *hi« evening and proceeds to pepper his parsnips, may well stop and ask him­ self, what am I eating, anyhow? Well, if he is using the ordinary pep­ per he is undoubtedly putting into his stomach a composition made up of mus­ tard husk, sawdust, gypsum, capsicum, sago, linseed, potato starch, cocoanut shell, sand, dhoura corn (kind of sor­ ghum), milling refuse, clay, and other appetizing materials. Perhaps not all are combined in the particular lot of pepper he is sifting into his food, but it is safe to say a number of them are there, and in the course of a year he un­ doubtedly swallows down all of them if he uses much pepper. Then, too, how is it with other condi­ ments? Cinnamon is sdnlterated with eodar sawdust, roasted hulls of various kind*, oil meals, and mineral matter, though the main adulterant used iu this market is cassia. Low grade cinnamon ground is adulterated with tumeric ochre, mus­ tard hulls, cracker dust, and nutshells. Allspice is not so much adulterated because it is cheap, though an inferior grade of oloves is ground up aud mixed in, and yellow corn and mineral color­ ing matter are occasionally added by way of variety. Ginger, too, does not escape the fraud fiend, and among the edible arti­ cles whioh are ground up for it are mineral matter, cayenne, mustard hulls, tumeric, sago, tapioca, flour of rice, wheat, aud potato. Mustard comes in for a liberal supply of foreign matter. Look at this list found in it: Martin's yellow, rape seed, cayenne pepper, ginger, pea fionr, yel­ low corn, gypsum, saud, and mustard hulls.--Minneapolis'* Journal. Cnssius the Conspirator. Tho conspiracy against C;esar was a coalition between two separate parties of nialconteuts,--the remnant of the old Conservatives, who found it practically impossible, despite all their efforts, to adapt themselves to a state of personal subserviency and civic inaction, and the ambitious Geuerals who had accompa­ nied Ciesar on his campaigns, and wer<3 not satisfied with their share' of the spoil. Our old acquaintance, Caius Cassius, whom we first encountered fighting gallantly in Cilicia, but of whom we learned, so to speak .in in­ fancy, that the fault of inferiority uis not in our stars, but in ourselves," may be regarded as the type of the second class of conspirators, as Marcus Brutus was the great exemplar of the first. Early in the year 709, before the death of Tnllia, there had been a particularly lively interchange of letters between Cassius and Cicero, who, it apjK>ars, had known each other from boyhood. For the most part, I think, the deeper we dig into authentic Roman history and the contemporary writers of Caesar's time, the more striking do we find the main ve aoity of that great Shake­ spearean d.uma from which most of us derived our first clear impression of the year 54 B. C- The author of the tragedy of Julius Csesar not only knew all that ; Seeders and Drills at E. M. Owen & Son's. , Try Besky's Trochee, for Coughs and C°lds. Don't forget Evaason's special list pre­ vious to ana on July 4th. BINDING TWINE. jAt lowest prices, at E. M. Owen & Son's- I Seeders, Seeders, at E. M. Owen & Son's. Fine Toe Slippers for the 4th, only 75c Ht Evanson's. .Now i s your t ime to ge t your Hay flacks at F. A. Hebard's shop, East Mc- flenry, south of Riverside House. ifccts connected^wifli ffie' burnea oaaiuu. When it was dedicated on Sunday, May 9, 1819, James Monroe, President of the United States, his Cabinet officers, Generals, and Admirals, and other officers of high and low degree, were present, together with distinguished men from surrounding States. It was an audience the like of which Savannah had never before seen. Lafayette, in 1825, stood within and expressed his ad­ miration. and since then many men distinguished in State and National annals have done likewise. In it, in 1832, the centennial anniversary of the birth of George Washington was cele­ brated. It is stated that Mrs. C. F. Mills, whose charities have made her one of Savannah's greatest benefactresses, has offered $100,000 toward restoring the edifice on the original plan, which was a cony of St. Martin-in-the Field, En­ gland, flie architect of which was the great' Sit4 Christopher Wren. O11 id a's Plea For Her Sex* Ouida, the erratic, the saroastie, the satirical, the ever intensely interesting, has a word to say in favor of outdoor work for women. Says the author of "Moths" and a hundred other gaudy- lined romances: "It may be hard to work; it no doubt is; but women accustomed to it from childhood have their frames inured, and their muscles and sinews adipted to it. It is strange that any idea of degreda- tion in field work should ever have arisen. It is the oldest, the most prim­ itive, and the most poetic of all forms of labor. Even a line of women hoeing or gathering tubers on a flat expanse of earth, and standing dark against the sky-line has great nobility and beauty in it compared to a line of similar wo­ men standing before a row of tables, of looms, or of machines. Field work does not necessarily age or injure a*wo- man. I know a woman--one out of a number like her--who is 55 years old; she is very handsome in features and clear in complexion, her stature is firm and her form lithe and active; she has been the mother of twelve sons and daughters; she is now at the head of the family, being a widow; she still works early and late in the fields, as she has doue ever since she was a small child employed to cut grass for the calve?, or weed the rows of lettuce or endive; her strength is vast; she can lift immense weights with no effort; she rises at 4 in the morning to send her family off to their various labors; she rules them with patriarchal se­ verity, and with the exception of two or three hours' rest at midday in sum­ mer, she is out of doors all day in the fields or by the edge of the river wash­ ing, or on the road with her eggs and fowl and fruit; in leisure moments she is always plaiting straws, a bundle of which always hangs from her waist ready to occupy any spare idle instant. The Decrease In Drunkenness. In 1840 the total consumption of dis­ tilled spirits in the United States per ( capita of popula'ian was 2.52 gallons; in 1888 the consumption had fallen oft to 1.23 gallons per oapita--a reduction in consumption of a little more than one-half. - This reduction has gradually been was to be known in his time about the brought about by a great and beneficial ' men of that great year, but he came much nearer than some scholars will admit to knowing all that is now to be known. Not even the stupendous labors of Mommsen have availed materially to modify the outlines of his Brutus, his Antony, nor yet his Cecsar. But the real Cassius, if not positively misrepre­ sented, appears to have been more, and in some respects other than the insti­ gator of Brutus in that play. For one thing, he was decidedly literary and speculative in Ins turn, and had lately suffered a conversion from Stoicism to Epicureanism.--Harriet Waters Pres­ ton, in Atlantic. The Horror* of Slavery. It is enough. Our hearts are siok with slaughter. Let the witnesses stood down. Is the smoke of this tor­ ment to go up forever and ever? Re­ member that these deeds of blood and darkness are not isolated facts, no tem­ porary misfortunes, no mere passing accidents of the savage state. They change in the drinking habits of the na­ tion. Instead of spirits, wine and beer arc drank. In 1840 the consumption of wine per capita was only half what it is now, and the consumption of beer per capita was less than one-third of the present consumption. Drunken­ ness has fallen off with the decreased potency of our drinks. It is impossible to put a stop to drink­ ing except by the repression of an appe­ tite that is universal. As the appetite • can not be destroyed, the wisest friends of temperance are glad to promote the change from spirits to less heady pota­ tions. It is'cne of the most lamentable effects of prohibition that it compels a return to the use of whisky and other distilled liquors which are more readily portable, more easily concealed, aud better adapted to furtive and unlawful traffic.--Philadelphia Record. Waiting Longingly for Death. There is an old colored woman in Clark County, Ga., who prepares her- are samples of a sustained, accepted | self for death every night. After a m IT IS IBUROIDTESIS, rfeat is U» Dtimw Which T»«Mm War Veterans Nott, Commander A. H. Spierre got into oralizing mood when a r< im for a story apropos to ay. He usually has a stock of scences on hand on such occadttB% • sc.. his time, however, he had nonelSS^M oming. ,y.fz Do yo« know," he said, with a some- hat melancholy smile, "that I doubt hether the public really comptabwA jjrhat the war meant to us who ana BOV j sailed veterans., Apart from the aa>fOir »scapes we had from death by shot and. *sabre, the hardships forced upon Otfct tamp life and while on march to tlw battlefield, to say nothing of thejriSMK luperiences, were so severe that l ap* hot exaggerating when I say thai shortened our lives by many year*. Now the Grand Army boys are gnntjag told, the effects of these campaign vicis­ situdes arc beginning to be felt in vari- 1 Bus unpleasant forms. ] "I assure you there is nothing to' Uaugh at in the ailments which tta ^veterans find coming upon them," 3fct; dded, earnestly. " They are the natnfal !K\ paiDiui of llie hieli the soldiers were subjected whila _ghting for the preservation of tiw nion. No, the majority Of people Aa l»ot understand the realities of the case. for the simple reason that they neiUMT saw nor participated in the struggle jwhich cost so many lives and involved inch awful suffering to the hosts of jrave fellows who left their homes and f., rienda to . defend their country's beat nterests." Speaking on this very subject, Dr. ' * - Horace P. Porter, surgeon of the Tenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, says t The life of our soldiers of the late war was one continuous hardship to th» aervous system. It was charterized by continuous discomfort to the body in Jgeneral and the nervous system in par- 'tieular. "The wear and tear of the soldier's organism was never compensated for : 7* (and under the circumstances of war ^ f never could have been) by adequate rest and refreshment. * "The common nervous troubles of old soldiers are the legitimate sequela* of the degradation of the nerve structure that had its origin in the neurokineaia of battle, in the tiresome watches of sleepless nights,- in the exposures t<> thermal extremes in the ever-varyintt vicissitudes of climate. They came of malarial saturation; they wore bora in prison pens, while infinite mercy slept.* It will probably console Crmrniaoder Spierre and Albany's G. A. R. geqexal̂ to know that the troubles of whicJt tit# brave old vets find good cause to con** plain has such a name as neurokinesis. --Netv York World. Josh Billings' P i hy» Fear aud oourage both seem tew 1&' constitutional, for we often see the ignore ant the most courageous, and the most wize the most timid. About the best thing that extrema old ago kan do for us iz tew make death a relief. Phools am alwus a wishing tor snm* thing. . ' Envy is just as natral tew the haarl ov man az blood iz tew his boddy. ;! When a doktor looks me square in tit# * if face, and kant see no money iu mm, then - ; i am 'happy. He who will flatter another will robt , < him, if he gits a good chanoe. ,. C,, Xl Thar® might possibly be sum advan ̂ ̂ tage in entering a convent, if ye oonl4 ** ' ;"•» escape from ourselfs; but go whare w« : ^ will, we have tew keep company witH one, who iz able tew do us more lmrfc . Ujt# than ennv boddy else. -1 ^ The meanest kind ov a loafer iz ha who iz willing tew be abuzed by every one. for the privilege ov abuzing others. If it iz really a blessing tew die, it must hav been a curse to be bora. We kant have a better evidence ov the perversity ov human natar than thd' fakt that we arrive at wisdom thru oof adversity, instead ov thru our reazon. f , A wize man never dispairs when hop<| Jf 't gives out, then cums resignashuu. & •<,. The best way i kno ov tew repent o^v * enny thing, iz tew do better next time^lf -;#';! Pashion alwus lowers a grate man,- : but, Fumtimes a|e$ates a little one. ^ Thare iz nothing more bekuming to ' ' i enny man than humility, yet it iz about the last thing he thinks ov. Too mutch reading, and tew little # J thinking, haz the same effekt on a man's -mi-" mind that too muctt eating and too lit- tie exercize haz on hiz boddy. The highest rate ov interest that we „} pay iz on borrowed trouble. Things that are alwus a going tew happen never do happen.--New York Weekly. ^ | Washington Belles in Tightir V ;̂ Society here is all agog over an enter* V*£". 1&L. ^ I I • vw tainment which, for originality and dai>. ing conception, takes precedence of th$ Waterbury circus. This is a* minstrel show gotten up by a dozen young ladiea. of the ultra fashionable set in Wash-? ington, who, if reports are true, were have appeared clad in elongated silken^ hose and full short-skirts of tulle. At- the close of the minstrel performance j. an exhibition of ballet dancing was to have been given at one of the large* , <^4} houses in the West End, aud had pro-' , gressed almost to a successful culmina-» ' 1 tion when the parents of the voung^ SkvJ people took the matter iu hand and put|»'* V' ' a quietus on it. It was then decided, t <; ® after an animated meeting to give th© | ^ 7\ v; entertainment as^)reviously announced, \ «*lf {k with the exception that the list of in- vited should be exclusively confined to • ladies. Subsequently, this plan also was changed, and it is understood that, |VS. instead of burnt cork and gauze, the ^ accessories used will be magnesia and? cotton. Since the young ladies will; ? pose as statuary instead of giving the; wickedly attractive ballet it will not be. :,V;:^ found necessary to exclude the male element from the latter entertainment, as in the former case the stern parents had decided should be done.--^asA- '. ington letter. 1% If* and carefully organized system of cruelty and murder which pervades and penetrates every corner of this continent. Do not let it be supposed that this horror is over, that this day of tribulation is at an end. This horror and this day are now. It iB not even abating. Slavery is on the increase. Time, civilization, Christianity are not really touching it. i directly to Heaven. No fact in relation to the slave trade is ] vond more appalling than this. The fact of this increase, tor a time tie ied, then doubted, has at last been reluctantly admitted, even by the Government of England. In a Government Blue Book, issued only the other day, her Majesty's Consul for the Somali ooast reports "that the slave trade has been very active of late. Ou the. 16th short prayer she clothes herself in a long, flower-bedecked gown, plaits her hair carefully, crosses -her hands on her breast and falls asleep. Two coppers are placed on the table beside her to put upon her eyelids. She has directed that she be buried on the banks of the Oconee River, and believes she is going She is angry be- expression as she wakes each morning and iiods herself alive. lie Wanted a Shew. "You must stop this smoking during business h«»urs,r said the head clerk. " What's the matter?" inquired one of the lvvs. "The boss says he oan't appreciate his 5-cent cigar when ypu clerks ara ofSppfcrnbar, 1888. Capt, oap- pufiugyw IfrnrnjOw"--, A Chauce to Sit Down at Las& He had bought an admission ticket, and with true rural independence, swooped down on the best empty seat in the theater^ He sat placidly thera for a few niinmes, aud then the came and told him he'd have to get out. He moved into another seat and pres- ^ ̂ ently the usher came and fired him out of that. He took another vacant seal \ and presently the gentlemanly wflSit came along and bounced him oat J that. Then he got mad. He stuek his hat on tho back of his head and marched out. As he passed the door-a keeper he stepped up and shook his linger in his face. t "See here, my man, F» going back ' to New Hampshire, I own ground them ; and I can sit down."--San FrtmcisoQ • Chronicle. J> 1 can put one touch of a rosy sqa» s4 into the lUe of any man or woray , j[ dUi fool that I ha*s worked wilk Q«i *. fe; 'ISsLt' - J* ! • * 1 A'