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( About a century ago Paris hv! only fcbout fifty pickpockets; now the police ; {reports show that their number has (reached 4000 iu the metropolis alone, and about 10,000 in the rest of France-. The Madrid (Spain) police liavo been directed to submit an exhaustive report to the Minister of Justice ou the subjoct of bull fights with statistics as to the number of fatal accidents in recent years* A reform is said to be contemplated. Coal mining is on the increase in the United States. In 1888 tho grand total of tho output was 132,731,609 tons, L showing an increase ol thirt^-threo por y cent, in quantity during threo years. ^gp^^JQy^American output, in fact, bids fair Groat Britain, .which was, id 1888, 169,935,219 tons. The Salvation army has money nnd property in the different countries where it is established valued at $3,213,690. The trade effects, stock, machinery ani goods on hand are valued at $560,000. Some idea of tho trado department may be gathered, suggests tho Chicago Herald, from tho fact that they sell 23,000 army bonnets every year to tho female soldiers. The agent iu charge of taking the livn I Stock enumeration of tho Kansas range, 7. G. McCoy, recently stated that enough data was in to show that the total number of cattle now on range would not exceoc^d,000,0000, or 4,000,000 less than in 1880, while sheep would show 28,000000, or 9,000,000 more than in the la9t census. The last census showed 8,000,000 hogs on the range, but this census will scarcely show half that numbor. - 1 - i . ' The Cincinnati ChrUtian Standard sarcastically observes: Poor, belated ^"Japan has got ahead of us in providing postal savings banks for those of moderate means. They wero established in.1875, to encourage thrift, and the first year * showed 20JO depositors with $15,320 in bahk.jpJiast year's report showed 356,000 depositors in Tokio alone,with $10,400,000 to their credit, and tho deposits in all Japan amounted to over $20,000, ??~"vm'itt, reaily serious in their purpose to build a yacht to come over here and compete for w"m:> tho American cup. We have no doubt, adds our informant, that American yachtsmen would be very glad to welcome their Gallic brothers, although there would bo so little chance of their taking the cup back to Franco tbat. not a groat deal of excitement would be stirred up over tho contest. But let the Frenchmen come. They will be sure of a good time in any event. ' The American bison la nearly extinct, and many a farmer has regretted the fact, because it has cut off the supply of "buffalo robes" with which ho was wont to protect himself from the winter's cold when obliged to be on the road. If reports from Illinois are correct, states the Amtriean Dairyman, a substitute, having all the advantages of thooiiginal article, has been found in the hides of the Galloway and Augus cattle. If, as seems likely, the skins can be readily cured to equal samples which havo bceu exhibited, they will bo of considerable value for use oa robes, and the breeders will havo an additional argument in favor of theso cxcellent animals, which havo long bcon poled for their beef-producing qualities. The following statistics are takon from i a memorial presented to the United {States Senate by Charlotte Smith, President, and Catherine Berffan. RnrrAtArv J - O ? 7 ? J 9 of the Woman's National Industrial League of America: According to the Labor Bureau of Pennsylvania, fullgrown women do not average fifty cents a day the year round. Women spinners get seventy-one cents a day; spoolers, jfifty-three cents; weavers, from forty to ninety cents, paid only to experienced :hands, and finishers receivo only fiftyfour cents a day. In the textile factories women spinners get from forty-seven to 'fifty-five cents, winders sixty-six cents y and finishers forty-three cluts per day. In the knit goods factories tho women are paid fifty-five cents a day for winding; twisters of yarn receive sixty-five cents, spinners sixty-six cents, reclcrs sixty-five cents and spinners of cloth or garments fltty cents a day. In tho boot and shoe factories female labor averages fifty cents for a day's work of ten hours. That is five emits sn hour. In New JerWflritTover, wages in the jute, cotton and thread mills average $1 a day, but the work Is so hard that even the strongest girls cannot work more than six months in the year. The hands in the silk mills )f?|W 80t from $3 to 910 a week. Wages are raised on the penny system, and one will 3nd gray-haired women of fifty or sixty T who have been at the f^gme since childhood getting $8, $9 and $10 a week in the ribbon and piece goods factories. h. \ " ??:?? SOUTHERN STATE NEWS. Happenings of Importance For A w Week.] r( Dwellers in City and Country Get a M Write-Dp Here Freo of Charge, n and No Questions Asked. t< VIRGINIA. q A little girl was accidentally shot and (j killed in Fnirfax county a few days ago o by her brother. ? The Port Norfolk Land Company, has 0 l)ccii organized by twenty-five Baltimore |, capitalists. Friday they purchased for |, $100,000 valuable Norfolk water front laud. , A Merchants' Association has been or- t( gani ml ^ I^^ille. Non-bill payers ^ Mayor Ellvson, of Richmond, has signed the ordinance which gives the Jeff f Davis Mausion to the Ladies' Confederate *v Literary Association for the purpose of s making it a museum for the preservatian of confederate relics. ^ Portsmouth had a delightful sensation ( Thursday morning. Miss Ada C. Tabb ^ ami .1. (J. Hudgins, both of whom are ^ just 18, escaped parental watchfulness and lmardcd a train for Halifax, N. C., nucic uiry were marnen. n Gen. Charles 11. Peck, late general o manager of the Atlantic and Danville road thinks the counties aid towns in Virginia subscribing to the company's stock will lose their mouey if they do not do something at once to protect their in- a terests. General Peek claims that the receivers appointed represent only the Kng- A lish interest*, which have as yet been ou- 1' ly partially paid for, while the Virginians ti have fully paid for what stock they got. ' Jacob \V. N. Keeling was found dead in his room in Portsmouth with a quart ii bottle of whisky lying beside him. The deceased was 72 years of age, and was at n one time a practicing physician in Nansemond county. , t Reports from the hay say that the ovs- ? ter gunboat Chesapeake is making it hot for the dredgers. During a tight near t the Maryland boundary line several days I, ago between the Chesapeake aud the ( schooner C. W. Keach, a sailor on the f latter, named Albert Ket/.man, was badly wounded. The schooner was not cap- j turcd, but nnothcr vessel, the Joseph W. , Brooks, was. ? NORTH CAROLINA. n An important measure int rodueed ir the Legislature is a bill to rcdistrict the t State, both Congressional and Senatorial r dirtricta. f The office of the Argonant and Warren 8 L. Pitta's largo store at Rocky Mount, ii . was burned Monday, The tire is report- t ?ed to be accidental. Loss several thous- a ?M*?^alfatofl, rdne mHos trom 2 John Beam, seven years hid, fell in the 8 fire during the absence of his parents and 11 was so badly burned that he died in half K hour. 11 At the opening of the Legislature all of the fifty Senators were present and 10(1 of the 120 members of the House. Nearly all the members nrc of middle age and " are substantial men, mainly farmers. u Richard A. Dougliton, of Alleghany county, was elected speaker of the lower ' house. E. K. P. Osborne, lato owner of the Charlotte city railway, has failed. The assets and liabilities arc not yet known, J' but the latter greatly preponderate. Al- ' ahuma land speculation was the cause. I1 Governor Fowle, in his message to the Legislature, recommended that increased ' provisions be made for the public schools iX of the State, lie also advised that the | proposed system of tonnage tax on fertilizers be adopted. ( Enoch Wei I man, a well-to-do Clew- v land county farmer, was robbed of $800 j one nay insr woeK. IJuring the absence s of the family some one entered the house by cutting a hole in the floor. t SOUTH CAROLINA. ? The legal executions in the state tlur- c ing the year were eight in number. 1 Dr. Kinloch in jected anothcramall dose of the Koch lymph into the negro man I at the Charleston city hospital upon whom 1 the experiment is being made. As far as r judged the.lymph is having the desired I effect. c "When the appointments of guano in- ' specters were made some time ago Gov. Tillmnn and J. K. Wannamaker, of Or- ] angeburg, were empowered to select a fourth Inspector. The appointment has Irecnmadc, W. A. Mackay, of Orangeburg I being the man. One of the plans of the trustees of the J Clemson College, as described by President Simpson, is "to keeb a large mini- ' ber of sheep on the College farm, from ' the side of the wool of .which it is pro- ' posed to furnish a clothing fund to aid 1 poor young men," students at the Col lego, ' m supplying themselves with clothing. Governor Tillman has offered a reward ' of for the capture of Alva Scott, who [ is wanted in Marion County for the mur- j der of Fairlee Ilall on Christmas eve. . Prof. F. C. Woodwanl, of Columbia, I :.. i ..l.l ? .l?1 .1 '' I ' I in it ifiriii nuuir^, niiu inni- lilt' HOUin, 1 I and America, in fact, are too young to have n literature. When Kugland had I been founded 800 yearn, she had hardly ' the beginnings of a literature. He inti- ? mated that it would be generations lreforo < our writers and their books cut much of a . figure in the world of letters. ( G'apt.George1). Wallace, who was killed * by tho Indians in the battle of Wounded Knee, was buried Wednesday morning in the cemetery nt Yorkvllle. his old ; ? ..<?? v. ..ere conducted at ; the Presbytersan church, the Jenkins ' Rifles pnrticimting. The casket was , placed immediately in front of the pulpit ! and was drancd with U. 8. flagR and cover- ! ed beautiful floral offerings. It was guarded throughout the night by a sentinel 11 at tho head and foot, and in tho morning was delivered to Gen. K. M. Law, aeonfederate brigadier, as chief marshal of the " ceremonies. C'apt. Wallace was a son of , Hon. A. 8. Wallace, republican congress man from this state, and a brother to ? t'ol. R. M. Wallace, U. 8. marshal for f South Carolina under Grant and Arthur. u > - .. I - J)' GEORGIA. The president hns nominated Laura H. Wilder, of Forsyth, as postmaster. Atlanta is to havo a new station house >r city prisoners. A A photographer pitched his tent in n Ion roc Monday and that night some ?f 11 tischievous hoys cut the ropes. The iud blow the tent away, an<l the phoigrapher, thinking it was a warning to *?1' lilt, fled the town. The death of the little ten-year old !.y| uugliter of John Brantley, au engineer )(.ss f the Savannah cotton mills, was a sad (j(a) ud terrible one. While she and several ,, tlicr children were playing brush fires er clothing caught fire and she was ry ( urned to a crisp. |i|e Governor Northern has written a letter aud a the secretary of war, asking thnt Lieu- mot onant C. 11. Sattcrlve, of the United Jutes ariUYj be detailed as instructor ami low Sspecfor of tlie Georgia VOiuntcci funis regi It. T. Mullikin, who has been raiutng rom Walton county for about ten days, ras found dead in a creek near Richard's a".V tore, in Morgan county. wh< A company was formed at Cordclc to oaV >uy out 2.000 acres of land at the juncion of the Savannah, Americas and . Cl lontgomery and the East Tennessee, Vir- NC,1 inia and Georgia railroads. The com- ,aa any commences business with a paid-up wo1 apilal stock of $100,000, and will comtence business at once in the new town .)ns. f Helena. JV8< stni TENNESSEE. ?' E. S. Teck, of Frankfort, Kansas, has ^cr ecu appointed receiver of the Farmers thei ml Merchants' bank, of Clarksville. orc' Governor Taylor appointed Hon. John Wlt i. Moon, of Chattanooga, judge of the ^ '' uurth judicial district of Tennessee, to ,oli II the vacancy created by the death of ' udgc I). I). Trcwhitt. wlJ .There were five men executed by law rnn n Tennessee during the year 1800. pC(] The American Dialect Society held a Thi icctiug in Nashville this week. The yoi ..?nU ...k.. * 1 1- ? ' .... ' ? w,,n- mm n?-i m> miicn interest in <lia- niu i*et arc the very first to turn the cold fioi houldcr to those wiio speak it. me: The funeral of Judge Trcwhitt at Chat- ^ol anooga Tuesday, was attended by a ,n ' urge concourse of people. Few men in no^ hattanoogu had more warm personal riends than Judge Trcwhitt. P In electing presiding officers for the ^ wo houses, says the Knoxville Journal, fj^, he Tennessee Legislature seems to have undo a good choice in each instance, nen of character ami ability. * Twenty-seven of the worst prisoners in con lie county jail at Chattanooga, who had cvolfcd and refused to enter their cells rom tho corridor, have l>ccn starved into uhmissiou. At 11 o'clock in tho mornng twelve submitted, and at 5 o'clock in s< ho aftcrnton tho other tiftscn, hungry j r? nd cold, gave in. The janitor and na- I t c iatanta angwa^l^adcd by Bud Gordon, who aurdcred Deputy Sheriff Gordon, and | cvcral of the convicts would stop at lothing to gain their freedom. FLORIDA. 1 Tho Masonic grand lodge of the State ' if Florida will assemble in Jacksonville P?r u Tuesday. Rlv Florida is to contest with a Chicago nam for superiority in live-bird shootiug, ^ii11 nd tho Times-Union predicts that Flori- (jlc la will win. The annual meeting of the State Teach- |nt? rs' Association which was to have been for1 ?.1,1 *? * ......... m..?>. iiiiiuui, nits ucen vio >ostponcd until March. (nx H. A. Tanner has sued the city of De- of | .and for $">,000 damages. He fell from Pri sidewalk several months ago and has be ecu lam: ever since. ,(L , . olli On Arbor day, January 8, a new Uui- jjai e<l States flag, presented by Dr. Chase, rm vas hoisted, with suitable ceremonies, on (.uj he Observatory of the Clruded High ci(.( ehool building at Ocala. jftU The casting of a turn-table plate for am he use of the S. P. railroad at Kissim- pre nee was recently successfully accomplish- ilni d by the South Florida foundry in Or- du< undo. The casting weighs2,950pounds, anr A mass meeting to organize the phohi- 0,1 ?ition party in the State of Fiorina has icen caller! at Ocala by Samuel Dickey, hairmau of the national committee; J. jloyd Thomas, secretary of the national oni ui it tee; and T. McQueen Auld of Or- a, ando, chairman of the State coinmittce. 's'f ^ one me Productive and Abandoned Farms in a(j( Maine. to Auochta, Jan. 12.?The report of the rnl Bureau of Industrial and l.alior Statistics cor 'or the State of Maine for 1890 shows that ca>' lie average number of acres in each of cav lie 870 farms reported is 18-1; total value ? if those farms, tl. 088, 425; average val- I le, 2,800; number of farms growing oi productive, 280; less productive, 41; nimlier holding their own. 49; number W1 if farms mortgaged, 64 ; total value of hi sc farms, $201,150; amount of mort,- I j (ages, $52,5000; average interest, $0672. trs i'lie average profits ot farms reporting Mjn 5ains with cost of family's support reck- ()|,j ined as "expense," is $288; average loss, m>s 1810. The average profits of farms re- Rjft, jorting gains, without reckoning cost of umilv support, is $291; average loss j i1141' ma The aggregate number of abandoned wo, arms reported is 3,818, and, estimating (|rj he numlier in delinquent towns and ( ilantHtions at 80, the total is increased to W(?] I,898. The total acreage of chose report m0 id is 2A4,518,oi an averacrc of 767 toeaeK drin. Their assessed valuation is $1. jJ0 I68.769. ^ tha tin A K1m Lands Him in Jail. ^ rr i Ruhhikwht, Jan. 13.?OwenMcUinnit Th n nmiablo mid loving mood, Rtrollcu >"K dong the street of West Norwalk, and tim necting a pretty girl with blue eyes nnd Fri osy he accosted her, suddenly slipped wai lis arm about her waist, and imprinted n the dss on her red, ripe lips. He aidn't see girl my harm in the act, he protested to Jus- 8ht ice of tho Peace Austin, but both the udgo and tho comely young woman did, >nd Owen is now in jail for thirty days barged with assault. A very explicit A tonnecticut statute provides that no man saw hall kiss a lassie against her will, and 64, lehind it is a still more rigid old blue ore< w that says a man shan't kiss his wife sect u the Sabbath, nssn HEYAkeVPRIHH Colored Man's Felicitations on the Advantages of His' Race. 1 gentleman who has the management business that requires a large numlier cgrocs said to one of his employes re- < ly, according to the Savannah (Ga.) rs: "Saui, the colored people area dei ful people, are they not ?" was dinner-time, ana Sam looked up n his tin dinner kettle and replied: \s. sah. They can can.get 'long with ' money and havo more loafing time i any people I ktfcw of. ! Tliey are heap totter off than white i s. They don't lave anything to wor- I hem. You knov, boes, colored poo get their eating for almost nothing, 1 if tlicy don't irink whiskey a little i icy goes a long way with them. t If a colored irkn has friends around n he can alwaylJget a good dinner, a i uTkr white man'adiaUaer, for nothing. . folks don't dbp^lo their ci^oks^ , nnd if he has a few acquaintance* f i;uuk iic geyj amng vcrj wen in me ng line. < 'Of course, some colored mou have to rp house,'. but that don't always pre t them from going around and don't tc living cost much, because his old nuu, if lie has one, takes in washing loes other things to help along. And s, you know colored men get along . as well single as married or married ?le. 'Yes sail; tho colored folks arc a wonful people. Anybody's clothes tits ru. Your clothes will tit me. A coli man with* your old clothes on and li his shoes blacked looks just as well i white man with a new suit. He i't mind wearing any white man's thes, never mind what his size is; they 1 fit or lie will make them so. 'Then, boss, you kuow a colored man sleep anywhere. He don't want a I. lie can lay fight here and sleep, is plank is good-erwii^WW me. And i know the colored man, if he is civjl | I handy, can get lots.of good things ni the white people for nothing. I an from people down this way. I i't know how it is in the North or up the country. I ain't got a thing on me v that cost me a cent. 'Yes, boss, colored people is the Lord's | iplc. He takes caro of them. If a orcd man don't get along in the world tcr than a white man it's tiis own fault, c colored man, sail, is just what you of him, 'a wonderful man.' If he rks a little he cnu sleep in the sunnc and almost wait for the victuals to ac to him." ALLIANCE LEGISLATION. I Is that Will Be Introduced at this Bflsion of thrftansae legislature. ipeka, Kan., Ja>. 12.?The Legislative umittec or the Kansas Stato Farmers' iaYe"1! " 1 soon convene. Tliesc bills have n approved by the sub-all iauce*, and 1 reeeivc the united support of tho mers' Alliance legislators. The titles the bills arc as follows: "or an extension of the Stay law for a iod of two years; a redemption law ing the mortgager three years in which redeem land not exceeding 320 acres, 1 under foreclosure; revision of the attel Mortgage law; a law requiring mortgagor to pay his proportionate t of taxes; a reduction of the rate of crest to 0 per cent, with penalty for feiture of principal and interest for its lation; a revision of assessment and at ion laws; a reduction of the salaries public oUlcers, a reduction of State nter's expenses; school text books to published by the State and furnished the people at cost; revision of court ccrs' fee bills; adoption of the Austrai system of voting and the Crawford ' mty ryitrqi i f ^rifrnifffn" Vrfrtw- rering Rattrbad Commissioners to be I'ted by the people; a law reijuir'ng d sold under foreclosure to bring the ouut of judgment and costs;a law supssing the Pinkcrton detectives orsiin organizations in the 6tate; such a region of railroad tariffs as will yield an inn! income not exceeding 0 per cent, the actual investment. The Caucus Will Rule. S^ashvii.le, Tknn., | Special. |?Nothstanding the very large democratic jority in each branch of the state legdure. the caucus will prevail. Fifty : leprcsentatives and twelve senators t Saturday night in joint caucus, und >ptcd a resolution to select all officers be elected by the general assembly in icus. They pledged themselves to isider all measures of importance in icus, and abide by the action of the icus. WHY NOT COME SOUTH ? iere Such Scenes as This Can Never Take Place. Ikimcinr f.nixik, Kans.?Two brothnamcd Hell, aged twenty-two and c years, and a sister nineteen years , attended a meeting near here Wedday night and a blizzard arose as they rted for home at 10 o'clock. When ' yards from their home, the elder thcr remarked that they could not kc the distance against the storm, and old have to go with the wind. They fted south about a quarter of a mile I took icfuge in a canyon where they rc soon covered by snow Thurrday ruing. The elder brother crawled out the snow and attempted to get home, called to his sister tnat he was ro stiff t he could not travel, and in a short ie Fonto'"- T*1? younger hroth- . _ I A (Thrfr. e |Z. .^y'tl?tfa*fr?'fUB|^B,*irsday tnornto find the cl^^^Bnd in a short ie searching ]>arn^^^Brd Organized, day morning the bod^Hhe young man i found, and then t^^Barci,cr8 found girl, who was out hours. The I did notknow hcrl^^^H'" were dead, is in a fair way A Rich Nogro^^Hdered. l Helena, Ln., fipc^^Hports the aslination of PrinceIsland Saturday night. was a col1 man and the rh^^Vman in that ion. Three m groos^^Mpected of the filiation have t&capcc^B ; " Preaches on Sectionalism and the c?l Farmers' Alliance. j-( ii.i 'Th? Christian Manhood of America cr Owes to the Farmers A Debt u< of Gratitude." tli \\ Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., pastor of the Thirty- third street Baptist church. New -p] York city, addressed his largo audience <lt Sunday morning on the subject. "What is Religion?" It was preceded by t lie following review of current events: p. At hist the bloody chasm has been | j bridged. The war has really ended and firing must soon cease. The farmers of the West and North have joined hands with the farmers of the South, solemnly covenanting together to forget the bitterness of the past and throw off the curse of traditioual sectionalism. H Thc Uhiistiun manhood of America owes to the farmers a debt of gratitude for undertaking this divine work. General Sherman has said, pi "war is hem,." pr It is. And we have had enough of it. m Every effort to revive the bitterness of ev the Kite war is inspired only by the dev- sh il. The curse of the nation for the last. d? l wo decades has been the determined ef- lu forts of a certain class of demagogues to gl trade in the memories of the dead. When m the soldiers laid down their arms and re- la turned to their homes and loved ones, of these ghouls began their ghost dance over a the fields made rich by the blood of lie- l'i roes. While the war was in progress fu these men were in it. "When the fighting it erased they whetted their jawbones and M began, aud they have been at it faithful- tu ly ever since. They have driven the sections further apart by slander and mis- sii ^presentation. They have wearied the tli ears of heaven and earth with their sin. m They have fanned the dying embers of < 1 hntr?*l i??i? flume again, and again, that II in the conflagrations which followed tbey j u might rob ami steal. They have made ai progress impossible because they have | v made igjjUES OK MKMOKIES, and marshaled the hosts of the living to < fight the Slopes of the dead. They arc neither brute nor huinuu; they are ghouls. The farmers have declared that they are .j going to hang the ring leaders of this gang and put an end to their business. , In this God given task they should have t, the earnest prayers ami co-opcration of the Christian manhood of the North and South. ,] The Christian exclaims with the farm- j;| ev, 'Tn the name of God, the common t*| Father, let us be brethren. Let us cease this foolish wrangle over memories and , turn to the great work of to-day." The men and the organizations who re fuse to ?jivc heed to this cry of the heart of he nation for peace and fraternity will be (rushed by the resistless sweep of dc- | together pi ess forward to the goal of a ' ' regenerated nation. The issues of the ssad past are all settled. They are histo- !' ry. Mississippi rises from the lethargy 1 of traditionalism, turns her face toward ! ' the rising sun of a new day, drops a tear over the grave of Jefferson Davis, for- ' mally repudiates in her new Constitution the doctrine of secession, and extends .' her hands to the struggling farmers of .' Kansas. Slavery is uow only a memory ' for flic aged. It is ancient history foi " the young. I never saw a slave. The ' negro is enfranchised; and it only re v mains to educate him and he will be free. There is no neoro riiom.EM ? to-day outside the imagination of political schemers, except the problem of education and growth of the uegio race. Such n men as J. C. Price, of North Carolina, / President of Afro-American League, have long since recognized this fact, and have j, entered with energy and entluisiasin upon Hie gignimt; nurs 01 II1I1S upilinug tlieir race. The problem that confronts ihc t, negro in the South is the same that con (j fronts his white brother in the North nn<l ]( West. It is not tlie problem of ballot, e but of bread. a The real issues of our life have been ^ obscured now long enough by the fog of sectional animosity. We must address f ourselves to living issues a new generation s of men has came upon the scene. They i have new problems, new hopes, new aspirations, new fears and new dangers. ! This younger generation of men are sick and tired of listening to harangues about memories and issues of a great past by '' loud mounted demagogues, who contri- . buted nothing to that past, except an ad- ^ ditional name to the census roll which ., cannot Ik? found on the army muster. They aie tired of this sort of thing for r( many reasons. They feel ihat it was not j, -their fnuH"thtltThev wcit? not boru earlier c and could not shine in that golden age. ,, They feel that it is a crime to rob the v living of the highest possibilities of life, though it lie in the sacred name of the loveu and sacred dead. They refuse to ( immolate the living on the altar of the ii dead. This generation of men will join ? bands with the horney-hantled farmers in a heir determination to rid a suffering na- < tion of this pest. We are confronted to- a day with u THE ORAVERT IMtOBLK.MH ever submitted to the human lacefor so- 1 lution. It may be that the destiny of 1 the world hangs upon the solution of I America will give to these problems. Wc (! feel even now the cai th trembling beneath ' out feet with the shock of the first bat- ' Ties ot a world wide social stniggle. Can ' the clashing interests of conflicting class- ( cs be reconciled, and our civilization snv- '! ed irom a catastiophc) Wc must answer ' ^.his question. The interests of the hosts j1 of the lata contending hi mies nro piactic- " ally one. When the battle ceased, true men of both recognized I his. The South- !' ernraan now fervently thanks Ood that liis 1 Country is freed from the curse of slavery. a The Christian manhood of this nation c ought to be a unit in purpose, ideal, and ? effect. YOL'R ItKARTS AHK ONK. ? You are separated only by externals, and they are mostly traditions. At the close v of a battle, during the war, a dying l'Vd- ^ eral ofliccr asked a passing Confederate to have a few moments prayer with him ( The Confederate dismounted and kneeled by the side of the dying man. He prayed earnestly and tenderly. Up in the 1 ^ arms of a loving heart ho took the sufferer | In n he closed, Hie deafl head of the of er lay on his bosom. The inf* man id used what strength he had left to awl up and wind both arms around the ek of his late enemy in batttle while prayed. The battle had cease*I. To at hour of sorrow their two hearts beat itli a single thought. They were one. M"0 and brethren let us rcmemherthis In- battle has ceased. Wc areehildien a common Father. The era of fraucidal strife between tlx cti"ii< of this nation is passing away ie day of the real fraternity is dawning t men, North, South, Fast, West. tak< ti*-e. The grave already yawns to re ivc him who refuses to hee*i his fact. ONE GIRL" LUXURY. or Beautiful Rooms and How They Aro Furnishod and Arranged. An American princess, whose father is cotton king, has just completed in the itcrnal mansion the furnishing of hot ivatc apartments. They are four in imber, and could Ninon do 1'Knclos, or cn the late Madame dc Pompadour bo own through, certain it is the ancient ivotces of the toilet would lose their a*ls and stand embarrassed before the ories of Miss Pnrvcnuc's boudoir. Kvcn the loftiest dreams those luxury-loving lies never conceived the minute details elegance surrounding this daughter of millionaire. From the silver-wreathed tyche minor that swings to reflect her ill-length loveliness to the repousse spirlamp burning to warm her lotions, ademoisellc is incompasscd by a surnpousness unknown to Quecus. Tlic scheme of color decorating the lits warms from white to blush pins in ie both, and in toilet and reception urns melts into a rosy lilac. Her bed timber might have been designed for ans Andersen's snow maiden, s<> tine in s Immaculate purity. Mural decorations ? in white ami silver. On the wide sillt frieze dogwood blossoms bloom, bile by a wonderful bit of fresco paiutig the ceiliug seems enveh^rcd in a loudy drifting fog. Mere and there the soft mist curls about agucly outlined figures, with a sharp 111 111 1110 centre from which hangs a rystal chandelier blown to resemble u oui|iiet of lillies. All of the white namelcd furniture is finished in silvci. ud from the carved bed depend drupees of heavy silk brocaded in silve; cur dc lis. The spotless fleece of lectin! sheep provides a fluffy carpet f?>. ic hard white wood floor, and glauciug ver the many tall screens, low rocking hairs, long divans and even rare has rents on the wall, one is impressed the azzling whiteness of every part. Gorgeous at the bath-room proves will. ;s pink marbles and roseate hangings, i' < in her boudoir that this young money T woman has evidently found her mo.n nnpathetie surrouudings. The apart lent is a study in that rare shade of rosy lac that when found beaut itics all wolankind. It is called the wistaria-room, mm the wealth of pale purple flowers coiating the walls and woven into eurlins and through the inesii of the thick iirpet. Here all the wood-work is of lack mahogany, upholstered in a warm eliotrope silk, with many bronze ornalents. valuable etchings and mirrors in c ved frames.?New \ork Sun. IORTH AND SOUTH MATCHED. L Great Inter-State Pigeon Shooting Arranged for Next Month. t int woo, Jan. 13.?Preparations are in ( live progress here and in New York 'ity for the grand championship contest t live birds to take place between the hatband the South during the first two reeks in February. It was first proposed when a renrosen utive from the Dixie Ouu Club, of Floria, II. W. Simmons, came to Chicairv ml held a consultation wilh local shoot | in to make the match between Florida nd Illinois crack shots. A challenge roin the Southerners resulted, and ni angemcnts were shortly afterwards per ected to take a Chicago team with a pccinl train, which will start South on he afternoon of February 7. Charles E. Villard, one of the best known amatuers n the West, will be the captain of tlie nam. After this team had been chosen it was imposed to send another team, which roiild meet picked teams in New Or?ans, Mobile and Petisacola for a chal nge cup to he emblematic of the chain ionsliip and shot for under the Anierinn Shooting Association rules, the repnsciitntivc winning the majority of shots > hold the cup for one year. The match s will probably bo at twenty-live birds nclr per man nnd held under the supcrisioirtrf (he local gun clubs. The Art Interchange )pens its XXVI volume with n chnnn ng number dated January 8, 1801. leveral improvements are notieal?le, inong them a handsome new colored over and smooth finished paper and the ddition of a Home Decoration dcpait aent. The most pronounced features of the ssue are a very beautiful picture of Prim oses in color, which is very cleverly tainted. It shows n row of enrthern tlowr pots, each bearing a mass of blooming lowers. The picture is well worth a rame. Other illustrations are a pretty tarlor, blue birds and golden rod for hair hack, arbutus design for after din icr coffee cup and saucer, cut-work hor icr lor euniromery, neaa of "Mmiush or brosp work, wood carving design for g of stool, design for carved scat for tool, decorative initials "M. & 1'." The i\xt includes careful directions for carrytig out all the designs, notes or current rt events a New Year's ghost party, Ifltst fashion in home decoration, a course if art rending, a cotillion?Sir Roger dc' 'overly?decorations for dining room at ;olden wedding, over mantel treatment tc. The issue is filled with information aluahle alike to the art student and to romen interested in pretty homes. Price f issue, including colored study of Primuses, 20 cents. For 8ulc by News I)ch1rs. The log book of Christopher Columiius'sfirst transatlantic expeditiou is said to have been discovered. writes to tlid JacksoovillcTNm^^ioiraw-~~-? follows: The state of Florida is wcleomc to all T have learned about immigration after three years incessant advertising, travelling and correspondence without "a $2,500 salary," preferring my own hard learned business as now established?to any public office. Fifty dollars each is too much to pay <o secure Florida immigrants; $50 for each family is different; but this is too much and will be reduced when the hundreds sure to follow, as the result of past years work and advertising, arrives?as arrive they will, for I have narrowed down my system to a certainty?i. c., each dollar spent in advertising must bring ten replies (the Times-Union does ibis for me.) When a paper does not bring this proportion of replies, something is wrong cither with the paper or the way the advertisment is worried. To so word an advertisement as to bring ' ? this result without a tingeof exaggeration is a line art, and I still believe the advertisement that is to bring its thousands to Flondn is yet unborn. As it is, you may now see my advertisements in nearly every northern magazine and in over 2,000 uortliwestern weeklies. From each 1,000 replies (if 1 do my duty. i. c., follow them up with my monthly pa|H>r, keep on writing theiu personally, mailing circulars of cheap excursions, etc..) 100 will eventually nine m r inrmu as seniors. mvosior.s i?r tourists, though this takes from twelve to thirty months from the time of their first writing inc. Immigration built up on these lines will not, however, consist of a roving, visionary clugs, so often nttrader I by co-called "paper city" builders, but they are of the hone ami sinew of th land, viz., the farmers and nicehanies of tire North. To prove the above statement. I will snsr rW tr.,onn sprout in advertising 1 r an show f>00 real estate sales already made?:J10 during the p;rst year- ami t nl ly 20(1 new settlers already ill the state; and I have good reason to exper t fullv three hundred more before spring. What they do after they get here for a liviug and other like details, would take ton mueh of your valuable spaee to tell; l?ui the facts are yours when you want them. To a legitimate immigration agent selling the land ami securing settlers are but the first steps in a long ladder of work and worry which is often dropped at this point by the real estate agent eager only for his commission. Surely there is enough of the big "I" in this screed to clear nrc of the charge of being "too modest," and I hope it is etpially cleat to the reader that 1 will not under any circumstances accept a salary I or :: position as state imiuigratiou agent, but will do my utmost to encourage the existing management. *7 hope f/rcstv fiiTrtS' given above may stimulate greater effort and success. O. M. Citosnv. Simple Explanation of Gravitation. Gravitation is a subject that nearly everybody is somewhat familiar with, but there are some things about it that you may not know. For instance, suppose you were weighed at the top of u deep coal utine, and afterward at tho ^ bottom, do you suppose that there would be any difference in the result? Yes, there would. You would bo lighter at the bottom. If it were possible for you to go ou downward 2000 miles in the earth, aud there be weighed you would probably be surprised to tiud your weight only one-half of what it was at the surface; and if you could go to the center | of the earth you wouldn't weigh uu ^ ounce. This is because the ceutcr of the earth is the center of its attractive power, which is exerted equally iu all directions. If you ascend from the surface of the earth, your weight will also decrease, but not in the same ratio as when you descend. In going upward the decrease will be iu proportion to the square of tho distance. Thus, while you would weigh nothing if you should go downward 4000 miles from the surface, you would still weigh one-fourth your actual weight if you could weigh yourself 4000 miles up in the air. The law of gravitation is at once the strangest and the most sublime in all nature. Light travels at the amazing rate of 180,000 miles in a second. There arc visible stars so far away that if ono were blotted out at this instant it would be seen on the earth thousands of years lienee, because rays of light, starting now, would take so long to reach us, even nt ii... .f..i/v?u.. a *?./... travel. But if a new slav were now placet! out there in the depths of space, where the blotted out one was, its attractive force would reach us instantly. That strange force which dominates tho universe would at once he felt, though, of course, inappreciably, between the new star and our earth. Gravitation differs from all other forces in another respect. The intervention of bodies in the line of attraction makes no difference in the attractive force exerted. For example, when the moon comes into direct line between the earth aud tho sun, there is not the slightest difference in the reciprocal attraction between the two # former. The enormous power of this attractive force is utterly inconceivable. We are constantly reminded of the power the earth exerts in pulling us downward, hut think of the attractive power of a body like the sua, more thuu a million times larger than the earth. And this power controls every speck of light that we sec in the heavens. ? I'hilaUcl* I'hia Timet. Kmporor William, of Germany, ha* issued a hook of regulations ordainiog, among othor things, that "tho distance between tho rows of gold lace on a field officer's alcove shall bo .277559 of an inch." A European statistician tolls us that tho Sultan of Turkey has flvo wives of the first class, twenty-four of tho second clawt and 250 of the third claM. O Pans can now bo reached from London an hour sooner than Bdinburg, ~ A-.J JH . J&m