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PIAS SED OVER THE PRESIDENT'S YE] THE ItiVEIl AND HIARiIOR BIiL AIAa RIGiT. A Comnplete Aniswver ito Cleveland EItraord Inary'll Ch11ages-A Stro:1 IIiesenati n t or4) i eI I loe Facts. The report of tite Com)lmittee c riversn and harbors, recomi1ending tL passage of the river and harbor bil the. objection.s of the I 'rsIde nt I the conltray notwithstanding3." wi resented by Mr. lJooker, Repuiblicar of New York, chairainlJ), and roa The report states that of the .117 item of appropriatifons contatined in the bi all except twnty-seven Iare, for pr jects coitained in bills which hav lieretoforo become laws, and whiel have been for years in process of Conl structioni by the governmtilentitt. No nev projects Were added to the bill of Is1l It will thus 1he se.n the report statet that the pri ncipal work of L,1h comin it tee has becni the ivestigation and ex it)nination of lil provemtCet Ls to whllitI Congress has repeatedly coliittet it.eIf. The river and uta ibor hill o 1m9 appropriated *:25,)00,000 and place ed certailn workzs under the contratel system. wvhich involved the additiona expemittire of $ :,,030. It appears therefore. that hv far tili greatei nuiliber of project.s appropriated for it this hil were alio appiroi~.priated for it tle bill of 1 ki and which are not yl comnpletled. The reporit explain that the hil was referred to ;en. L'atey, then ch te o! the Unitd St~tes engineers, wh( riported to 'resident IlIarrisona thia only eight of 1the itemii s3 eie( to bt of limited or local henetit. Tho gros: ItInount approp iat d lor theso itoin was 1,,. Iroll thI . it will h seon the report coitillues, that, the largel ploIt of tile 4p3C "oet! conit ainted ill till present hil paL:-ed tllt serutiny anc received tile approva of Gen. Case' ancd have gone un'hallenged until now The WilIs of -90 an)d Ir92' were ap proved Iby President Ii arrison and ti bill of P9it waz permitted by the pres ent Icxecutive to becomtie a ilaw by Iimli tation. The eoli ittce i ll peache'd the I res ident's declarati'mn that Iman'y of tihi objects for which the imloney is appro piriated areC not eilated to the p)bli welfarC. TIhe'y aS3('Vet that lhe bill w1 carefully prepared after exhaustivi leL'inlgs. aid that they scrIuIlousl3 avoided 333mkingc appropriations not it the interest of Lin111 tile rce. Ieferringv to the I'resident's criti cisti. that it a few of tile iiprlove iit42ntts latve bil .10 imlprIolvidontI3 planted antd proste1d that after at un3wise expenditure of millions of dol. 1i n1,ew CXprimenl31tS for their accoti plihiAlnent Ihave 1ei entered upon, thi conulitittee '1a that, it, has often occur' red, after a pri has been adopte inl accor'danece with crtain deli not plan ntlhlted by the engineers, tha the Oite t3 of C011m0o requir.e that a Oratr nll 333431e elfective iml ri3' enCIC3Lt li3an3 that ti'st cont~emiplat et h-13ouh1i ho imde. In such cases i had iotg b he usl i tom f Con1gr0e: to ord.ier from33 . ie ito i it. im " w esti mtelia:! li i . lt .aie iwith a view to en larginz the Uo0pW of thlee proj0cts. Ii imiakintgL appropriations fo. thei'se en larged roj tet ti bill often directet that the monetey appropriated should bl cxper3id1 in accordanice'L with the mod itiaton. ols of' 1,the elgineers 'Phi i-m)i,31ttee hlil.,ve, therefore, thIat til Ire.itI nt mv have infirrecd fr'oma til la33uag 3' -usel thl at the originla lansi ha b'~en imprjiovident, andl latd vised alal1 the3 intoney wasI-ted, whlen th lilnet expendedl upon33 the oigina1 phi3wa: auiciousl-y explended ani wunial havy 3een expenided even if Lth to-blild plant hadt bieten or'iginial I adloptLLd. .\n itancelii3 oif tese mitil ecitio'ts i' foundtt in the ease oif the hart hor:,.. at Ihltimor3-i, l'or'tI~hind, Ney Yorkt-I, WVliihnit.n, ).ulaware, .Satvan 3nah1 andi otthei lpla-~e A\ carefui re-exa~itt ion (if the hil warantts the co(nu it teei in asser'ti n tat thtee it o fountdition33 fur (Li I ' eants 'tatemen3Ct thaiit the iil arrties appr1opiLatioin- for woi rk wvhil Jl'vate par13tiL:, have m-'tually agree't.' with the gotviernientt tai di in cnsid erationi of thieir1 occupaey oif pubhlic hlifertintg Lo 3the l're'iidt's furthte cr1iici-sm that the h31 .ii3ill contemplate a immedt33.iat1ecasha exiienditur oc (f nteari in3 the sundrtiy civil aillpropriliato bili for con3t trae t work, th3e commn itte~e a sert L tat thi i1're1-iden cis ini error at that onliy i :1 331,30 are Lto bie e'xpen mad-.-1 that.t the hill 1doeli n3ot, approp'~I te $02,0003.t000t for- coniltc wvork, h' only~ ~I N ,3i'13. IL is alsot 11hown 31h1 If all1 the onitrti'is athiirized by hll ar33. promtly eniteredtl ito biy tI .Secreltary' of Wiar the muaximiu (3ne. yeari i.s~ t;6,6|12,00, and33 n3(t 20,00i 00i0 as the I'rcsidlent aisSerts. lIe~ferinmg to.L 3the l'rtsitdent Ls fith, crit icisin that thte applropiriattion, f the Snlk-rt~t i'hiemtis not1 coIvered3 I contriai-ts wivch w~i ill fall d le twot v'ea htencet wiill not hie less than *2i:3',thi t ecommltittee iimy that the ntexl ri ve andtt 1harbor3 bill w. ilyi Ccie thle etc of lp)osecuting1 thetso smailleri' works fi the twoi list-al years enadi ng in i1900i, at3 that no( add1.1itiontal appropr3iai1L~tis f to small er ontes will bie mad3.1e for' tl Pas~sing t) tile Presidenat's aecue tioni of eIxtravyagance1, the comm31itti~ shiowl thait the a tverage. approprhiiIiatic for. the past six year11s have beenu $1 0300,0003 a year, wilo Ic luditingt pr'OSent bill1 anid the two oitheris for~ t remainder of this century tile toi amlounlt for' thtose six yeariis will oit averaige $13:,000o,000t a year. Thiiis based piar'tly u pon the~ groun id that, t commtittee's expserienco with the e< tract system in the past, togethor w other Iknow.'ledge, juistities the ht that the contract work w h ih wIll d istributed over a periodl of six yu aund. wieb~ amatounits to $d9,000,000~t, wi be compiiletedl for alt leatst 30 per' ('t less thant the aimoutnt stated, , t r a c t s y s e m a s3 b e i nt g le s s ex pj e nts i ve th Gnenit, and Steu ring mtl pr'omtpt, and satisfactory r'esults. TI' system is Vte dIisti netive featur 3e of bill, antd te commatittee str'ongly: comm tends its conttinutation . T1he: port add1s1. thaat not goodt rea~son has be assigned by the President why I H-ouse shtoutld recede fiomt its acti wIth regatrd to the mieasure. "it mtust not be forgotton," the port concludles, "that if this bill shoi fail there are hunadreds of useful p jects ofmpovemaents that have be4 in process of comnpletioan for a nui of years, and against which the ma captious critic could urge no ohjcctil which would be suspended, whecr< groat waste would be incurried 1 groat loss sustained. N otw ith stal ing all that has been Bald againsti bil yu committee assoat that 11 should becomno a law it would yl maat actural substantial benenit to farmers, the producers, the consumo luel, the morchants and the business inter ests of the country, and contribute IS hIrgely to Its prospr Ity." There was an unusually large num bor of moinbors In their seats, and they listened to the report with closo atten 's tion and applauded It warmly. g Mr. Hookcr stated that, In the o;ln-* ion of the committee, the President's veto raised every possible objection, " and it wias the Intention of the commit 13 too by Its report to aiswer them. Hie 1 said that many gentlemon had spoken 0 to him about discussing the veto, and s if he had consented to givo them all " the time asked for it would run over three or four days. The matter Wias s one for the House to determino: If it wanted to engage in debate, well and good. In order to test the senso of the Ilouse or the question, and w ithout ex pressing any opinion ats to the desira bility of the course indiented, he would ask the previous question oin the mo tioi to pass the bill. (4Applause.) Mr. Dockery, Democrat, of M Issouri, tand several other members were on their feet demanding recognition. The former with great vehemence of man ner denounced the course of the gen tieman from New Yor. (Mr. Hooker), shouting : "The gentleman agreed with ,me yesterday that there should be opportunity for debate. It is unjust, unfair and ui:manly to cut us off this way." Mr. Hooker seemed about to yield to Mr. Dockery's demand, but many mem bers interposed with cries for '"the rog ular order," and the voto on ordering the previous question was taken. It resulted : Yeas 179, nys G0. Mr. Diockery demanded the yeas and nays, but could muster only -16 mem bers to second his demand, not a suill cient number, and that announcement was greeted with derisive cries of tri um >h from friends of the hill. '.l he Speaker plit the question : "Up on reconsideration, will the tlouse pass the bill, the objection of thg 'resident to the contrary notwithstanding ?" Whereupon %Jr. Dockery made an other eflort to secure a hearing.. So Iildly as to be almost pathetic he in quired : "Upon the question of ptassing it bill over tho l'resident's veto there can be no debato under the courbe pur sued by the gentleman in charge." The Speaker : "When the Ilouse of llopresentatives has so voted there can be no debate." (A pplaiuSo.) Mr. Dockery :'And it has so voted. Stilled debate." And lie sank into his seat amitlst general laughter. The vote was then taken on thu pas sage of the bill over the PresidentL's veto, the Constitution reluiring that it should be (lone by yeas and nays. There wero 220 yeas and 60 nays. Nore than two-thirds having voted in the allirinative, the bill was declared to have passed. ''hie following I)emocr'ats voted to pass the bill Over the l'resident's veto: Hank hoad, Herry, Btuck, Catchings, Clark, of Alabama, Cobb, Cooper, of l"Ioridn, Cooper, of Texas, Cuilherson, Cumlnmings, D)enny, 1)in:<mnore, Ellett, l'Illiott, l-itzger'ald, Kendall, K y l, I at imer, Iaester, I ittle, leCuIloc h, AIe Alillin, NlelIae, Meyor, AMoney, Ogden, Owens, I'rice, Ikobertlon, Sparkman. Strait, Talber't, Terry, Tirner, of Guorgila, Ty ler. l'11derwood, \Vashing ton, Williams and \Vilsonl, of Sout~h Caroelii:a- -:1. The niegative vote was made up of the following: I)emocrats-A1 len. of Mississippi, ilartlett, IHill, BI lack, Clrdy. Cockrell, l)eAar'monl d, I),>ekery, E-:rdman, IHall, of Iissoil'i, Ilarrisonl, Iiit, liind ricks, .Jones, Kleh erg, I-ay ton, leGuire, NieClelhmIn, Nlel)eamiond, I'nd leton, I tiehardson, Sayers. Shaw, Sor, Stalling's, Sulz~er, Tate, Tucker, --AlIlen, of 1. tah,. A nderson, Anmdraews, -~Ilaker', oif New 11amnpsir e, lI arow, dC a'lread , Conznolly3, G rout, IIlager, -Iliaitier,. llepurnm, Decightvy, I.inney3 I *ong, NleCallI, of T.Ienne.-sce, AleChu-'e, NIcl wvana, Il'carson Il'itnecy, Scranton, SettIle, ShIaafrotlh, S hermanii Setode, Traice'well anzd lIpdeg~ratfl. I 'opulIis ts I bI; ke r, of IKans~as, I1l0ll, of (Color'ado. 1Kemii and Sk in i nr. AIli. Str'o Ld, oIf Nort h Carolina, was the onmly I'opulist, who~ vote'd fori the bill. T1here were'( coinp ar'ative ly so few votes in thec neg atIi ye tbhat it was foun d iminpossible to paira' bl senmt .memb er s ini favor o f the hil1 r.101'.111 I NWAl AW y- ' LI I 5enateY l'ase he l tiver andi'h Shill is as foilows: Mo .- eeteoitt for thle rightt of waiy ar'ose 'i- as soon1 as the ~Senatec lnet. NI\l'. \'est uat Din., Alo.' s whol ini theL aibsence of NI\a'. att l''rye is ini L'hiu-go of the0 river and bai' ,e iir hall. Mhought t.o hmve the I'reoident Is w1 vtOll of t hat meiLssage taiken op. iii Th'Iis was, oppo:-ed'l by' NIlr. l'ott igrew~ I.- appropiaItioni h'ill coniferenice repomrt. NIr'. \'est. hirgedt' that the ,sspen.,iOn .1r andi pol)wile des~trution o1 If tbe work of ir' iipiwovement of internal watermways >y' wa of more)'~ mlomen'it. than(1 any3 othiLer 011on sublject, save that, of tdo national' a, hono'. It, was Iiper'at i that tlhe r que'stionI he' sett led now so that, if the 4 v'eto was sust4ained it coul11d be' detera ,a imnd whietheri anoteri river' and liar d hi1)1 hill was to be framed. 'Thle bill and ri Veto wer ictake upi byP 1yea3cs ;M: nays I10. ec TIhe~ ne gativye vot2 was 'a.u hyv : I )emo-1 erals-Iliate, ChilI ton, II arriis. I 'atlmera' at- \'ihlas -. I kepub~ileans--Ilmrown i.\NIor' 0e i'ill, I 'ettigr'ew, I 'ritehard, Teller'-,. its Totatl 1o. 'l'hie meissage wats then reiad. -Niri. \ .st said the veto contiined lie st atemt-, whIieb I, tiwever n.ichI he he ntighlt r'~euec the hii gh otlico oif the ita l residenit, ou~ghit not to go uinehial aly' lenged. Th'e Senlator d id nolt qu iieLo is theO Il'resu(lnt-s v''to prec'iogatv., la be the froniers of the ('o1usti tut .1ie ee' mn- had intended that th Is piower' 3houldh be itti ,xer'cisedt ini the or'dina'.'y allairs oif the lef governenit,- It was to lbe at tower' to he mieLt extraortinary mow fajir. of tl& u-. r's, '3rnmen~ct.,I it s ti b'e a Iower' to meet til extinraord(limary3 ''mergencit' wv~e po nat. nlar passion lhad lh'd to ha'sty legisla in tioni, or' when~ a const ittional I~guestim -)i was Invoilved. Th'Ie early prI'eiden . ~es wholi stood nearer~ to th e eon io ii, m-i C exercisedt the ve.tl) bti at'veral Limoo tol twviec by Washington, live by'N o Ilail, ,a'e iandl nieverI1' byi Jlferisoni or J1oin MA'(to us AIlr. \' est then iianalyii ta' Sgtta lie moents of tthe v'eto clocring exti'lava '0- ganoco. .' lie I ridenI lt liad, he Sidt en 1)r'Iationis oif aboiit, $h1,Ilt00.0(11, whlileI ini lie fiact they' aggr'egtedt $1I2.,s is op d f On feronce of $1 ,:811,lt0. TIhiis was iit'-13 characterIstic of the elfcti fn 'c- tihe ominaltionis of Na'r. Cle veland, whlo aId never' had sO'~erve ini a legislative body ro- and seemed to have Ia enidenev~ to min en iml'ze the reCsposibility of a l'eg islator icir to hIs constituents. >st Mr. Vest took up other' items, shoiv n, ing that the totals were less thanti the by Pre'sidont's statemients would ilihe nd T1heo Sonator' saidl as to thie gezera ad- charge of extravagance that in view of ho the vast intorests involved, the extent It of the country and the fact thait the old river and harbor bill covered two thn van'a. thls meaanmo maSCa fpa'~tv~ 'easonablo. T1'here were items open to question, yet as iIn all legiblation this was the result of compllromiso. Mr. Vest bad addressed a letter to Goneial Craighill, chief of engineers, asking for the facts as to that state ment of the l'residont that he had learned from ofllcial mirecCs that the bill contained appropriations intended to scrvo private Interests. The Son ator said Genoral Craighill mado no roply hut in 'esponsoe to a telegram an swered that the lotter had been "ro folrrled to Secretary of War for instrue tions." Up to this date no Information had been received. "So that for reas ons best known to the administration," said Mr. 'est, bitterly, ' it is consider ed best not to go into details on these charges, but to indulgoe in general and rhetorical declamation as to the alleged extravagance and favoritism contained in it." Alr. Vest said he believed one of the i'residOnO's charges applied to the Blrunewick, Ga., harbor, one of the best and most economical im)rovellents in the country. Tho Senator spoke of the cleapel rates of tratsportation result I ng fromi improvemente at the "'SOO,' Now Orleans, alltimore. New York, lloston and elsewhero'. In the plat formin upoll which Mr. Cleveland was first nominated was a strong plink for waterway improvements, and his early Messages indorsed these i mprovemien ts. Mr. Vest prophesied that in the near fItu'o legislation would be directed to further developing internal C'nme-ce and cheapening transportation. The Senate passed the river and har bor bill over the President's veto by 5t; to 1>, and the measure is now a law. Those voting in the negative weore Messrs. llate. Chilton, Hill, Smith and Vilas-all )em1ocrats-a. ,JOlIN I'l itiCp'S LUCK. A Stoie Wihich lie Started to Throw at a Cow lirvings 1l1 $I50,000. Hant iaci sco( Examniner-. .1ohn Il'ier'ce is a '.t'ombstone, Ariz., minor, who upl) to a year and a half ago had diflicult work to provide the neces sities of life for himself and famn ily. H1 is now in this city with $250,000 in gold coin to his credit. It is another story of a lucky find of rich gold and silver bearing (uartz. l'iece is the name of the now caIp just coming into Prominence about thirty miles northeast of Tombstone. It is maicd more conspicuous becauso ill addition to its great (r riHliness it is about tihe only gold camp. in the territory. Alreldy there arl )00 poo 111 t here and emlipty houses from Tombstone arc being taken thero bodily. An English syndicate has organized with a million and iL half of dolairs. and it is saild that there is a prospect of the new camp rivaling Cripplo Creck, in Colorado. , 'irce was seen at lis hotel soon afteri his arrival it few days ago. Ho tolls an interesting story of his dis covery Id of his sudden change in position frion i mani without a dollar tO one who cilal be considered fairly Welthly. I'(3 is aL Cornishman, LbOUt fifty yeLrs of ago, With little or no eduetion, and who appears totally un awalre as yet of what his fortune can do for him. " A bout fou r years ago.'' said he, I took up a Claim about thirty miles northeast of Tombstoue. There Was a water hole inl the mountain, and I took tle place inl order to get tihe wate' so I corud iaise a few head of stock. '1ere was not mnl11ch1 to be imade froin it, and a. I wiLs broken down from ha1rd work with a1 pick, my folks had to hel1p out in the living. One day, aboilut e ighltecn months ago, I was dlriv ing tile cows home11 at nlighit anld was uplward of four mliles awa~y from my ralnch, when in erossinig a little ledge where tbere was1 ank ouiteroppinag of r'oek, I stilloopd down andl picked up a piece of stone to throw at one of tihe cows, whe 111i noticed how heavy it, wats. "; Uon1 a closerm exai~lnation) I saiw w hat looked like old( at n took hi'nue several pee fterc and1( horned it, out.Threutho d cc~siel-bl god.I went back and got muorec rock and1 took it into T1omb - stone the niext dlay, aind an essay showed mue that 1 had1( foundl a rich ineli. The ledge w here I picked1 up the rock wvas nlot over 4i00 feet from a road thait ha~d 1been traveled for years. It was just luck T found it." I lerce w-ent 1)n to state that as lhe had no money103 himiself, be hlad to do all tile dleveloping work on IL smatl scale. I- m natgedl to take out several tonls (110r a'l ship~ it aLway3. The recsulIt from tis shlipmenl~t wats over' $3,000d. W\ith this alnounIt of mioney' ho stunk a was I1'-l1 o ihi as'certain the extent of thei h-diC . After- this work ha~d been alccomp1II lihed some~ parLties from SiIv er ('it~y. N .., 0:IIne along and bonded t~lho propertyI for 65dtI0.000 on yeair's 11ne. I Iore the year ha~d expired they sohl the bond to an English synodi eat for an i ad vatnce of $100,00.Ou0, 'nd when1 the0 yearO was up,) whichl occuirred n-t week, Mlr. I 'ierco got a dralft on Sanl Franicisco andl he a~t 0onco caime to the city to get his coin. h'rioIr to two years' a~g) P'iece wais IL brokeni-down mine11r -ai mani who hadLO niever had to exceed $10) at one time andI~ who wais htaving ai hard struggle toi imake bothl ends meet. Now he has ia qluarter' of ai miillioni dollars, all in gold coin3, and like most men imn simi11lar circumfstaniices, (does not know how to spend1( hiis mnoney. His wife, befom e malIkinig thle strike, hadL~ to go to T1omblI stone and hlp~ out the fain 13y exchequer byx dtoing such1 oIdd jobs (If house clean ing as she couLld find, while the son, a young mant now twenty, herded cattle on1 thte raniges. Blesides (Inc son, he has IL daug!h ter', who was given the ad vanltage (If the pubihlic schools of Tomb St(onol Ilis entiro family accompany hllim to this city, andi as it is their first v'isi t away from home, they are enjoy ing themselves. " ' Ilow (d(1s it haippen that y'ou joined of IL (d lli readly-malde clothing. 'Volt, pecausbe mii pruI~tddier choinI id der' ilresbyterians. I vas no~t vaint der, let hIenm git dcer ad vantage mlit "[low get the aidvanitaig ?' "i Minio brudor nodticed dot ho vais dill shloemakor unid (lit der Bresbyte rilns shtood 001) von dey br'ay. I~e seedo d11,(ey varLio her' shoes in (lot voy, nult lie lholns (lot chhurmch to hold dot lirado, unmt priospers: so 1 choinied (der NIethotd ists.'' "Whatdid you gain by that ?" ' Vy( dIr Methodist knieel down unmi vare de' pr'itehos ait (1er kniees (lut yon dcir bra'y, unit dey bray long lint varo'd pig holes In (dem1 pitches. VteI, I sells clothinmg to dem Miethodists unt mai~kes mioish." "Hlut doin't you have to donate con sidem'able to the supplor't of the oh'iirch ?' '" Yah I pults mueh money In clot churmch basket, but ofory time I do mnates to dot shureh I marks pritches oop den por1 cent. uint gits mere as A STRONG PLEA FOR THE WOMEN. IIIbbi ARP ON EICST FOR CLEitKS. Thie Hard Lii or; W orkbng Glis-The I uincicrity ol Society Folks. aet th, good work go on. The shop girls of At anta are now allowed to sit and rest their weary limbs for a brief time when not waiting on custoiirs, and their working time Is out at 6 o'clock in the evening. This a reform that means much to thom, and our sympathetic people will all thank the Chaumberlin house for starting it. The girls have not demanded it nor have* they uttered a word of complaint, but we know that they got tired, very. tired, and sometimes they arc sick and some of them have work to do when they get home. But they never strike -no, they had rather suifor and en dure and always look checry and try to he happy and contented. I have won dered why they did not oiganie und choose their Iladers and sometimes get on a strike 3nd walk out and make deminds on their employers like the men do. No, they will not do that. It is not their nature, and for that reason, if no other, thoso who employ them should be aill the more considerate. Eavery shop girl and every shop woman has an individual history, and could toll a tale of sorrow or misfortune, and some of them would be intensely sad and pathetic if written and published. Many of them belong to that, class who have seen better days-many are or phans-sonic have a widowed mother or an invalid sister to support. All are dependent and have no bright pirospects of bottoring their condition in the years to come. Som of them arc not strong, and often go to their work with a headache or a heartache, but they must not complain-sad faces or sick faces or very homely ones are not wanted. I know fou- sisters who are shop girls at different, places. The eldest is only sixteen. They have neither father nor mother nor birother, but they live together anld work by day and comfort each other- by night. Soie merchants are harid-task mas ters ; " only a shop girl " is their mot to, and their service is wot th what it will bring--that much and no more. They lix the price and keep it there. There is no pr-omotion in wages. I know one who kept a girl down to $21) a moth., She was relined, diligent, conscienll--usi a-d poi ulhw. vnd had been reared a lady in all respects. bu she was only a shcp girl, and out of meager wages inust pay for her boar-d and clothing. Not an hour did she ever loe--but by and by she was olfor ed $30 by another house. and then, and not until then, did1 her1 CIII)oy ers )'o pone to itncrease lhe r wages to the same amount,. \V hy diid they not do it be fore ? I know another large, wealthy house tiat kept a young man for three years, prom ising at initervals to I'aise his wages, but it was only a proinise. At last Ie quit and sought other busi ness, and then they offered hiiii nearly double w hat he had been getting if he would e-iue back. That is what the plroplhet rails "gind ing the faces of the poo." Why wear. a poor girl's life and hicaltih away by feeding her on hopo until it turns to despair ? Only a shop girl 1 A young lady who had once been independent was forced by tih (ommion n.bnit." of thetse hard times to becoei a shop girl-and she told ime that the hardet, thing to bear' was the stately coldness of her former friends-the lack of familiar social recognition ; when they traded at the counter- they hardly knew her-they saidl good morn ing, but, not in the sweet old way. A fter Job had lost his prioperty, h - said :"unt, now they' thlat are younger than I hold me in die r'isioni-whiose fathers I would have dis dai nod to set with the dogs of my13 lock." It is tihe same old1 story of social in sincerity. A man liever kno().vs who are his friends until imisfor'tune over takes himli. T1hank heaven Ither'e are s0ome exceptionas to1 thlis ruleI, and these shop1 girls di) somletimiles find somtebodly to lovo themii andi share theiri sorrows. Th'lere is niothainrg mtore unblecom ing to womaan thani heri dlisposition to rutie money inate her social set and rule ploverty out. No real, wellbred lady will do it. Mly observation is that thiis foolish vanity is generally inad ulged in by the shoddy aristocrats-those who have niothinig elseto their cred it, exceplt mioney3--those wvhose fathers got rich by questionable meains. P each tree is lined with many such, and so are the fashionable quairters of all cities. This fol3' is m~~ aily a fcmini ne One ; the men are not given to it ;1no man dares to snub aniothier beenmuse of hiis poverty, oa' his humbaloi origin. With imea there is no0 arist~Ocracy except that of intel lect. 1t is arelated that when Douglas and Lincoln imet for the first time on thae hustings Douglas, who was a great aristocr'at, said he had not the honor of aan acqunaintanco with his ophponenlt, and, in fact, had seen him hut once, and that wais when he was selling whiskey behind the bar 'n a cross roads saloon. When old A be rose to rely3, lhe smiledl from ear to ear', as lie remarked. " Tih at's so, my fellow citizcns. That-is thec nly time I gver saw him until now. [-1. was on one side of the bair and I was on the othber. H[e took a dr'ink andl I took the money. We are about even on that score." Wha~it's the ditference? A nice, sweet, w~el i-mannered girl or young woman whol waits on the customemrs in a large dr'y goodsl house Is on one sido of the counter and a rich aristocratic ladv is on0 the other. One had amoney, ~the other had goods and they exchangedl that's all. Which is ahcad in the comedly of life and whliich will be ahead whqion the play is ended and final judgmea t is rondlered 9 With one life is a fash ionale farce with the other aL strug gle foar treaid. "' Give us this (lay our daily bread " Is her mnorning prayer. The position of these working girls is a hard one at hest, but kind words and fair wages soften it down greatly. They beg for these places and get them, but whiy women should not be p~aid as much as men for similar ser vice I cannot unaderstand. My Infor miationi Is that they' are paid about half and the emptlloyer's excuse is that comn potitioin Is very great and sas others (out rates they3 must dlo so, too, for la bor is worth only what it will bring and a woman's labor can bo had cheap er' than a mnu's. Trhat Is not a good excuse. It is not to the inter'est of the employer to get labor on such ter'ms. Twenty dollar's a month wvill not keup a young woman In gocod health and good clothos and leave anything for a sick mnother or a child, or for a dloctor's bill. A blg-hear'tcd, generous man wvill inqjuireo into the condition of every femnaloemenployco he has, and as far as possible make It his own con ecen'!. T'hey are, as It we, his war'ds for' the time, and he cannot escape the r'esponsibility. Boforoe the war ther'e wero no shop girlJs, butb for thir'ty years tils great transiti:>n has boon going on, and now the South, liko the North, is full of working gia-ls. The children andl grandiohiidaron of those who once wor'n prioud and Independent are now forced to become their own bread winners. IThnera is no na'eantlon for them. It is daily food for daily labor. The rich aro growing richer by short cuts and questionable means, all of which in thoir last analysis coie from the oarn ings of the toilers and grind the faces of tho poor. Widows and orphans whose husbands and fathors left thom stoek or bonds In a great railroad have lived tq soo it wrecked by unsCruou lous schemers and by the time tlbo wreckers had done with it their stock and their bonds wore worthless. Daniel Webster got a fee of $10,000 for making a speech in the Myra Clark Gaines case and it was no!sed by the press as an enormous fee, bu" now a common lawyor gets $50,000 for bring ug the money of a wrecked railroad into court. An incorporated company accumulates a million dollars surplus and asks the court what to do with It. There was no light, no contest, but the lawyers who took the decree are awarded $75,000 for bringing the money into court. Receivers and lawyers prey upon the carcases of corporations like b izzards upon the carcases of brutes, and but little is left for credit ors or stockholders. These a're the things that ill the p)ople with distrust and diisgust and paralyze industry and intimidate capital. I know a lady and she is sitting near ine now whose father left her $10,000 of stock in a railroad in Alabama. It was good stock and had good prospects, but the schemers got it into court and had a rceiver appointed and it was wreck ed and sold to the bondholders for a song and she lost everything but the cortificate. When she conies across it now among her archives I hear her humming that sweet old song, " This world Is all a Ilecting show." But lot the working girls checer up and always look on the bright side. If they can't got married let them look around and sec how much misery marriage brings -how few women are happiTy mated. E'ncourage a cheerful disposition, and If you can't h happjy, be as happy as you can. Trust in the L'rd and do good. It is not all of life to live nor all of death to die. There are many blessings that cost us nothing. I never pass my neighbor, Mrs. Field's, front yard that is radiant with beauti fil flowers but what I think how cheap they aro to mne. It is a good idea to sometimes think of that poor little boy whose mother covered hini with straw one bitter night and put an old window shutter on the straw to hold It down. " Mother," said lie, "'it isn't overy little boy that has a shutter to .iold down his straw-is it ? " And here is some comfort in a Persian mroverb that says: " BMessed are they *ho have but little, for they shall not ho envied." BILL A m,>. 110N. JOSHiUA IMVElMlNG. A Sketch o (lhe Prohibition Nomlacine ihr the Presidencev. ialtimore Suin. Joshua Levering is one of Balti more's most highly respected citizens, as well as one of her most prosporous business men. Ho is a member of the importing and exporting firm of I'. Levering & Co., engaged ehielly in the Brazilian colfeo trade, the 1house having branches at Rio Janeiro and at Sanatos. The members of the ir1m aro Joshua ILevering, ugene Levering, his twin brother, L.eonidus Levering, Frankling V. Levering, and Nugene Levering, Jr. Since 1884 Mr. Levering has been a member of the Prohibition party, hav ing before that time been an Indepen dent Democrat. In 188 ho votedl for St. .John for President. He was chair man of the Maryland State Prohibi tion Convention In 1887 and again in l1893, and a delegate to the national conventions of 1888 and 1892. Hie do elinedl to allow the use of his namo for the V ice Presidency in 1888 and, in fact, also in 1892. Hius friends insisted in the latter year, andl on the first ballot he received a majority of votes, liut on succeeding ballots the vote was changed sutliciently to nominate Dr. Cranuieldl. Mr. Levering has been vice precsi (lent, of the State executive commtiittee for' several years, aind in 1891 was the -candidate for State Comptroller, re eeiving .5,4431 votes. I 'revious to the State Convention last fall he reiused the use of his name as a candidate for Gover-nor of Maryland, but, being no~minated1 by the Convention by ae clamation, he at last consented to allow the nomiination to stand. He received over 7,7(h) votes. In church and temperance work Mr. Levering holds as prominent a position as ho does in the business world. Hie has been a memnber- of the lnutaw Place Baptist church since its. erection. In the winter of 185758 ho was converted to the Baptist faith andl baptized by the late Rev. Richard l'uller into miembership of the Seventh Baiptist Church, becoming a constit uent of 10utaw Place *,buroh upon its organlization, in AprIl, 1871. Since April, 1881, he has been superinten (lent of the Sunday-school. 'With the general den ominat ional interests of his church, both North and South, Mr. Loverir.g has always been ideuntilled. One of the origina teo's of the American Baptist Educa tionial Society, in 1888, ho has been its treasurer since Its organiza.tion. JlIe has also been vice prtesident for a numa ber of years of tho A mcirican Baptist l'ublication S ciety, and also of the Southier'n Baptist Convention, lHe Is piresident of the hoard of trustees of the Southern Baptist T1heological Semninar'y ,'t Louisvillo, Ky., andl a member of the international com mitteo of the Young Men's Ch ristian Association of the U nited States and Canada. Of the Young Men's Christian As sociation of Balimore ho has been presidlen t since 1885, hav ing been each year' since that time unanimously re o'octed. Since 1887 lie has been pro's ident of the Mlaryland Ihouse of Re fuge. lHe Is a director of the Mary land T1rust Company and of the Pr'ovi dont Savings Bank. On September 12, 1815, Mr. Levering was born In Baltimore, being there fore In his 51st year. lie enjoyed the privileges of p~riv'ato schools until 1 8(il, when he entered commcecial life, beginning at the bottom of the ladder as a clerk. In l8(it he was taken Into par'tner'shipl by his father, together with his two bri others, under the name wicih is still preserved, IEugene Lovering, Sr., father of the nomInee, died In June, 1870, since which tIme the business has been conducted by his sons. 1cm1a TsA.-If you wish to have it perfect and without the least t'ace of bit tea', put the tea in cold water hours before It Is to h)3 used :the delicate flavor of the tea and abundant strength will be extracted, andl there wIll not be a trace-if one's taste Is the judge- - of the tananlc acid wvhich renders tea so of ten (1Isagrocablo and unrialnkable. You need not use more than the usual quantity of tea. If it is to be ser'ved] at a 1 o'clock meal, put in water soon after breakfast, and~ ice a few minutes beforen aneving. Prosperity of tho Southern States. INDUSI'IMtAL INvERESrS LOK. INO UP ON i LL SIIES. Cotton Spindles it Reach 4,0b0.000 In Number by tlie Eti of ThIis Year-Tlie Sout hrii Peaci, Pear atml Waterimelonl Crops-Westcrin Traado Seeking Southern Ports. Mr. Hichard H. Ftinonde, editor of the Manufacturers' Record, who re cently returned from a trip to the South, in an Interview with a reporter for The Baltimore News said that throughout the entire South there wmu a marked tendoney to linprovemenit, which was especially noticeable iii its industrial intorests. " Along the Chesapeako and Ohio and t.e Norfolk and Western rail roads, stretching front iampton Roads out through West Virginia," hE said, "there is overywhere seen a very d olded increase in activity. The output of coal is increasing; now milne are being opened ; tihber lands and coal lands are being purchased lot ievelopment, and the evidences of improvement cannot fall to imprcss anyone who investigates this territory. In the Central South, the Care linas and Georgia, there is no abate Went in the activity in cotton mill building and In the extension of exist ing plants. By the end of the present year the South will havo about 4,00 , 000 spindles, representing an aggro gate capitalizatdon of nearly *125,000'. 0OO, against 1,700,000 Splin<'llS with a capital of $61,000,OO in the census year of 1890, thus showing an increase of over 100 per cent. in the number of spindles within six years. "1 Business matters in Atlanta art showing favorable results, as the out come of the Exposition, and statistict show that more building is now being done In the city and of a higher class of residences, as well uns business houses, than ever befoto , " In South Georgia the peach and watermelon and pear crops aro now% safe, and investigation-s show that the peach Crop will be the la:rgeLt ever product d in the State. The aggro gate va n of the fruit crops of that district for the year is boing estimated as high as $7,U00,000 or $8,000,000. it is calculated that the ftit, and melon Crop of Georgia will this year furnish f-omn 15,000 to 20,000 carloads of freight to the rai jroads. "The immigration movement into that territory is extremely active, and plans tre maturing for considerable colonization enterprises, in addition to theso already in operation, including the bringing of German ahd Scandina vian settlers, as well as of the North ern and Western peopyto. Along the Georgia and Alabama Railroad, which Is largely owned in Baltimore, there are some half a dozen colonization un dertakings, in addition to the 'itz gerald Grand Army movement, whict) has already settled over 8,000 Western people on the. 100,000 acre tract of land purchased for that purpose last year. "Probably the most marked Iim provemu ut and one indicative of the mo.-t w ide-reaching influence upon in dustrial matters is seen in the Alabama iron and coal districts. 13irmingham is taking a decided turn for the botter, and within the last few weeks half a dozen important enterprises involving investments of about half a million dollars have been put on foot, while two extensive steel pilants are practi cally assur-ed. "The Birmingham Roiling-Mill Company, one of the oldest and lar-gest concerns in the State, has decided to build a steel pladt with a capacity of 200) tons a day to furnish steel for- 'ts own works, and this will be construct ed without regard to any outside linan cual aid., The $1,000,000 steel enter prise projected by the Trennossco Coal Iron and.Railroad Company is assumv ing tangible shape, although no Li me has been set for the work of constr-uc Lion. "'rhe outp~ut of coal is the heaviest in the h istor-y of the State, and, not withstanding the low prices which still prevali for- iron, the produ1 ction is very heavy, and nearly all of the furnaces of the State are In blast. "A nother notable evidence of the gener-al upbuilding of the South is the troen.I of West~ern trade th rouigh Southern ports to E'urope. D~urino tbe last nIne months New Orleans has exported 15,000,000 bushels of cor-n, against 2,000,000 bushels for the cor resplonding time of the pr-evious year. New Orleans, by the way, will shortLly be in, advance in some r-espocts of every city in the world in its shipping faci lities. "Just below the city a now shipping point has been established, wvher-e $2, 000,00) or- $3,000,000 has been invested in building a grain clevator-, cotton warehouses, four- of the most p~ower-ful cotton compriesses In the wvorld and (locks and piers for steamship purl~ poses. A t this p)oint -wharfage is en tirely frece, thus oll'ering great attr-ac Lions to steamsh ipsa. "A belt r-ailroad Owned by the same comnpany con nects wvith altl Iriailroads 'ente-ring Newi Or-leans, and freight rains d est ined for that point arec nand led ats soon as they strike the belt r-axIlroadl it h com11pressed air locomo tives, thus avoiding the danuger- of lir-e w ih locomotives ri-tm dng in andI out between cotton warehouse. This necessarily brings about a grecat redluc Lion in tihe cost of insurance. "Not, to be outdone by this move ment, the Ilinrols Central Railrtoad is spend ing about $l,00t0,000 in the build ing of another urain elevator- andl ad d itionail shipping facilities, and this compan~I~iy wiill also fur-nish ft.ec wyhar fage, so that New Orleans wvill pr-acti cally be a ft-ce port befor-e the end of the year. "At Galveston there is a heavy grain movemenl, as at Now Orleans, while at Sabine Pass. Te'x., an elevator and other- sh ipp)ing faci'itIes ar-o being buLiilt to be3 ready for- the opening of a (liroct r-ailr-oad lino betwoen that poi t and Kantsas~ City, whIch will he comn leted ahout Septembbor 1, and uipon whichl $ili,00J0,000 have beeni expendled in conistructionf worctk dur-ing the last Liibiee .vears, tihe r-oad being s 'methinug oiver 700) iles lon1g. '" At Motile an clevator' is under construction ;at, Pnsiacola thme LouIs v'illo and1 Nashvilloc is building an olevator-.. and~ extenlsive shipping whlar-ves ;Savannaht andI Chat-leston are pushintg fotr WAester~n tr-aide; Portt Royal hlas exportedl neat-ly 1,000,0' 1 bushels of cor-n since tile lirst oif th, year, and Not-folk and Newpotrt News, as all lilaltimnoreans know, ate developing a gm-eat oxporting business. "The whole outlook," eaid Mr. Ed mfondsa, "' Indicates a broatd and solid deCvelopm--'nt of t he entire Soutth. Its in duts'ri I d i I - tare pt osper-ing and ex anmd inrg, ntotw ithstand Ing tihe gene-al opl uaits o)f hiard tlimes th rouighott (ithlen s(et ieni. Thie fatrmetrs ar-e less in debt thman at any time since the war and wh ile they arte preparing for alargo cottoa crop, this year's cot ton wil bo produced itt the lowest cost ever known tho soutih. " Moreover, thoit.1 Ita very nuarkcd increaso in gold nining int t 1-. aliid While much money has in tinies pust been recklesely squandered in speecta tive gold et terprises in the South, there is a good prospect for a tolid and substantiaI development of gold in toreste. The great decrease in the cost of reducing gold ores which has come about within the last two or three years inakes available the vast quantities of low-grald ores found all thb way front Virginia to Alabana. "One of the recent prcccevalus, wl'ivli seems to be meting w ith rure s and svbleh if periallotintly suc~co.-fiul pro inises to have t ilatorial t upn the Sooth, is n1ow in operation at Ilackuburg, S. C. -At that point well icnown capiLalists have e )mitIud about $200,000 durintg the last two yoara In experiLniental work and finally in the building of all (xtinslv) plart for treatinzg sulphu tir. 'ht'es. A t. this plant., Which Is now runtliiriig tight livid dy, all Iiht ingre ients or 1,b11 Ur are 1, -ei , and it is est i ilated that 1thc.e biprr ducts will Iiy the cost of flvrttting,j leaving the gold as 0h uri galev. "1 Ouu of the0 Iost ini1portant feaitures of this is the low C.-t at wich 0u Iphuric ae Iid is eing pilrod . . TI hi has induced a conibi.tion of ft et.iil zour; cofupanies to builid a i 100,00 ferti l zf? t plant a few hundredl yards from the sulplhuric-acid work-, ind tiesuiphurk, acid is cai Hied in lum'en pipes direct front the acid chatltni rs to the ftr-till Zorl worl'e. "It is tho;ughIt that this will bring :tbout I reduct ion inl the cost (f folt,i .ize rs, Whie imay have a cor:s idet-Ibk in lueneo0 upon agrictiltiral interests, .vbilo helping to develop tibo gold :nining interests of the South." ---A new aw in iah ji m-wides that before Apri 115th of each year evrV archard and vinvynrd shall be thor -)Ughly ce'anlcd of all deald leaves and ther drbris, wisIch shall be deotroyed A $25 COOKING STOVE yf wirIT A COMPICTR oUTFIT FOS 01nly $12.00, b Deliveredt to your railroat depot, all p f.eight 4-1n11 1 .-S I ;Ad. itead this doaicrip p tin j..rt M. Tis Pplendti cooking h ive la N. a 1: . ionr t inhl plot holes; 16t If;\ nchjjj! ...%. !. ; 1:4 inchi ftr.- box, 21 inces0 b h igh ; 21:6: . i top : -mm); in mht sit ing. I ha o ii - , - v. t.a e i..r my trade after I% ow. . e .ta. h:.bi p i; a:1 tie good 1 -olute ;of sli ni om 1-ric-.-d poves, and b av ingf out 1h11-. io..lI featiros. 1...w! ;ll di|.. i.t it --,e itt No. S vooking 8i citi.1 .1e(- . f. h. n i .. Fitted with 2 I 'lta, p rev. --, 2 stLillets, 2 gridmies, a & baking patsl 3, 1 . ts of tIpe, I elhow, Ico l p lar, I I i i er, I _ -r. I c ': rolisl, 1 iron ! tea ket i, 1 iv . We woit to ;ako cus. SLtomers alet I i. ..' ' in eV.:ry tiakit to the a b South, foi the -.I. +I-e .f lilt roduct ig our b busin i to lew--,..4. iv. ieand to rulnew our a5cquinitancea w (ha d fittatt. 4 Wewlsiitt' len1hii- ookings ~toveO band thze abiovue dtei , 5. j aro toi an) tIllOt, Sall froit ncIniges, 5.r I.i, for (lily 1.00 : when the casht plornet with Ii Iho order,~r This stave is a gori 4u)-. welcl ,,tlo, at1.d wilt I give entire sat isfa,:: in Our ilustrated catalogue of Furntit II re, Sitlivos iad tIuby ;' Carriages muatled freo . A ddress L. F. PA DGET T, 'A 846 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 44 PIEDMONT AiR LINB. Codensed Schedule of Passenger Trains. Northbound. No.38 No 36 No. 1i Na. 18 .Jan. . 89d. Daily LDaity Daily E Sun LY. A tlanta, C. T. 12 00m111)7a "Atlanlta,1iE.T. 10p p2~ Ss5 " Noreruss..... .......t ~ 88L se }3nfori . ..1..... . ... * Gainaesville.. 225p 0a144a73 " Lua.................. loa 4 " Cornelia ..... ...........1 2 "Mt. 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