Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-08


against any number of captive or free
balloons.
1t may we'll be imagined that few men
would be found so brave as to go over n
hostile army in a balloon with hot shot
flying thick and fast about it.
The idea of balloons being effective in
military operations against a civilized
enemy is fanciful one. 1t Will have to
take its place with that of submarine
boats to be used at long distances. Sub
marine torpedo boats have been used,
but they have never been constructed so
as to give promise Of being every effective.
The Bogus Butter Business.
The complaint comes from almost every
part Of the Union that the laws prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale of oleomar-
garine and other forms of bogus butter
are not enforced. In some States they are
openly disregarded, while in others they
are evaded. In many places manufac-
turers and dealers are anxiously awaiting
the decision of the Court of Appeals of
New York on the cOnstitutiOnalitv of the
law prohibiting the manufacture or sale
of limitations of butter in tnat State.
Should that law be declared unconstitu-
tional, it is pretty certain that similar
laws in other States will also be declared
void.
There is no probability, however, of
laws regulating, but not prohibiting, the
sale OF bogus butter, such as the law of
Georgia, for instance, being nullifed. The
Georgia law is very proper aud reason
able one. This law, however, is daily
violated in almost every town and village
in the State. Oleomargarine and suene
and similar substances made to initiate
butter, and which cost at who esale only
10 or u cents per pound, are being sold as
genuine butter all over the country at %
to 30 cents per pound.
Very frequently these preparations
are mixed with butter so
as to make detection by consumers more
difficult. Several simple tests have re-
Gently been published, and it is asserted
that any person of ordinary intelligence
can, with a little care and trouble, tell
whether what is sold as butter is genuine
or not. 1t cannot be doubted that many
dealers buy the bogus stuff for good butter
and ore themselves the victims of fraud.
Some care very little whether the stuff
they sell is butter or not as long as their
customers do not complain, while some
no doubt plan deliberately to deceive. in
order to increase their profits.
Every one interested in honest dealing,
in the health of the country, and in the
encouraging of our dairy interests must
feel that the sale OF any form of bogus
butter under any other than its true name
should be suppressed. The laws of
Georgia on this subject are good as far as
they go, but they do not go far enough.
In the May report of the Bureau of
Agriculture there is comparative record
of wages and prices for the % years,
ls60-lSS4, in Somerset county, n. J.
The New York IribaRe'S synopsis of this
interesting document is as follows: The
average prices obtained by the farmer for
wheat, corn, oats and hay are given, the
average wages paid per year, per day, per
day in haying, and per day in harvest;
and the quantity of corn, wheat and oats
which the years wages would purchase
each year. The latter statement is, OF
course, the epltome of the rest; it shows
what proportion of the products OF his
labor tue farm worker gets each year for
the labor given. In 1869 the years wages
would purchase 93 bushels Of wheat; in
1884 the years wages would purchase 1877
bushels of wheat, a shade more than twice
as many. Ia 1850 the years wages would
purchase l13 bushels OF corn; In 1884 the
years wages would purchase $50 bushels,
"A little more than twice as many. In
oats, however. the increase has been
small, from 433 TO 500 bushels. Reckon
ing the three together, the increase in
purchasing power Of wages has been 11.0
/ per cent.
/ Mr.. Randall says his reported views on
the tarin have been somewhat strained,
and he hints that be has not abandoned
| the doctrine OF protection by good deal.
/ lie says, however, that he thinks 1--WE
/ (the Democrats) will be able % do some
thing with the tariff next winter" This
Is better than his position last winter
when "we" THE Republicans and their
/ Democratic allies united to defeat the
/ tariff pill agreed upon by "a Democratic
/ caucus.
Mr.. Rosw well T.. Flower has announced
I that he is not making personal canvass
/ for the nomination for the Goyernorship of
\ New York, and will not do 50, but that ifthe
I choice OF the convention should fall upon
\ him he would be gratitied and should try
70 be elected. This appears to be en-
phaucally a case In which "Barkisv is
more than willin'.
It is charged that the New York doctors
who made the autopsy OF Prof. Odlum's
body kept one Of his Kidneys without
authority from any Of his relatives, who.
boy the way, were very much opposed TO
the autopsy being performed at all. IL is
threatened that the doctors will be prose
cuted for the alleged larceny Of the MISS
ing organ.