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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-06-06

CLEVELAND.


Score by Innings: II. IT. j.
Baltimore II 90 o q o b
Cleveland .....3 90 I 90 IL
Summary: Earned runs-Baumore, =
Cleveland, 4. Bases by errors-Baltmore,
2: Cleveland. 8. Left on bases-Balti-
more, 3; Clevland. .. Bases on balls
Esper /. Struck out-Young. /. Two
base hits-Donnelly, Jennings (2). Stolen
bascs-Tebeau. O'ConnOr. Double plays
Burkett and Childs. Passed ball-O' Con-
nor. Empires. Weidman and Kecfe.
Time OF game. one hour and fifty min
utos.
PHILADELPHIA. 8; PITTSBUKG, S.
PHILADELPHIA, June 5.-Philadephla
again downed Pittsburg today I'm game
that was OIL a par with yesterdays con
test for excitement Attendance. $50.
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pire. Lynch. Time OF game, two hours
and seventeen minutes.
NEW YORK :. ST LOUIS, 2.

NEW YORK. June New YORK piaye1
a fast game today. Clarke kept his
hits scattered and received fine support;
Connors men neldcd cleyerly, Quinn and
Meyers excclling. The weather was not.
NEN XnHk
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Summary: Earned runs-Chicago. 5.
Home runs-Ryan, >. Three-base hits
Bannon. Sacrifice hit-Anson. Stolen
bases-Everett, Dahlen, LANCE. Bases
on balls-Terry, /: Hamilton. 4: Bannon.
2: Stivett. /; Dahlen, l. Base on errors
Chicago. 2: Boston, 2. Hit by pitched
ball-Terry. Bergen. Passed balls-Ber-
gen. /. Struck out-Stivett. Donahue.
Double plays-Collins. Lowe. and Tucker
20; Dahlen. Arson and Donohue. I'm
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Totals ...... II 6 ii Q
LYNCIlBLRG.

Summary: Earned notwithstanding,
9. Lynchburg. I. Two-base hits-Fear ?.
Home runs Dundon Mullgan. Dolan.
Mccain. Stolen bases-Stanhope. Dou-
be plays-B1een and StanhOpe. Bases on
balls-on Quarles. 4. of Brunor, 2. Struck
out-by Qua-les, 2 Passed balls-Raf-
fcrt. Fear Time Of game, two hours.
Umpire, Belts.
Second game:
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,rn1cAGO- 1O: BOSTON. ..

BOSTON. June 5.-Terry %a' a ar aec XIV
e niil'@ no, begin TO make him out WINE
could nov 80 80 Terry also batted
s so1lSSd1ly. Dahlen played brilliantly at
short: a capture Of "a h9 be me featu n.e Of
tbs day. Attendance, 3'i4O.
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Patrick p. Driscoll

Mr.. Patrick Driscoll died Thursday
night at the residence OF his brother
ln-law. Mr.. Edward Donahue, In Fulton.
lie was thirty-eight years old and was
well known throughout the city having
been engaged In the mlneral-water busi-
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LOUISVILLE

ocOre by innings. r. TT T.
Washington ..50OO3OO24-i4 II :
Louisville 10 90 / OO3 3 % 9 ?
Summary: Earned runs-Washiugton 3.
Louisville. 2. Base on errors Washington.
2; Louisville 6 LEFT on bases Washing
ton. Z; Louisville r. First base on balls
Maui. 4. Frazer. 6. Struck out-Maul 3.
Frazer. .. Three-base hlt-Clark. Two
base hiis-Claik. Rogers. and Sebach
stolen bases Mcclure Double plays 40
Guire and Dcmontrovllc. Iemoutrevllle
and Cartwright. Wild pitches-F Frazer.
Passed Lalls-Warncr Umpire Em.Hc
Time two hours and thirty minutes.
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WILSON. X. c. June 5.-S)'cia' - "
+. Simr son. president OF Branch's Bank
OF this place. was stricken with paraiy-
SIS on Monday night and after lingering
until the Sd his spirit took its flight. Mr.
S,a,ps.n Nas abou- fifty years old, and
w.s IN ;he no, tide OF useful life.
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PITTsBURG.


Score by innings: II. II. j..
Pittsburg I'll o 6 GOO o / O-S IL
Philadelphia % 3 o o o. % is
Summary: Earned runs-Pittsburg, 4,
philadelphia, g. Base by errors-Pttsburg,
.; Philadelphia, ]. Left on bases-Pitts-
burg. 7: Philadelphia O. Base on balls
Lucid. >. Struck out-Killen, 3. Home runs
--Beckley. Delahanty, .. Three-base Its
Thompson, Hulen. Two-base hits Thomp-
son. Grady. O. Sullivan. Brother. 3; Nash.
Sacrifice hits-1idlman. Stolen bases
SIenzj. 2; Smith. Double plays-Ely.
Bierbauer. and Beckley; Hallman. HUI
len. and Brouthers; Brouthers and Hulen;
Nash, Hallman, and Brouthers. Hit by
pitcher-Killen. /. Umpire. Hurst Time,
two hours and twenty-five minutes.
BROOKLYN. 10; CINCINNATI. /.
BROOKLYN, June J.-Cincirnatfs out
nelders were Kept busy in to-day game
ia addition to the thirteen slashinR hits
made by the Brooilyns. Burke. Hoy. ana
Miller succeeded in captuFng hftc,L
flies, several OF which were long drives
With two men out in the first inning
Mccarthy brought three runs IN On a
home run past the ropes IN the LETT Acid.
Attendance 100.
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utRY.


PARIS. June AIRS. Robert J. Niven,
a daughter Of Commodore Vanderbilt,
died here to-day.
Mrs. Niven was Louise Vanderbilt, tho
daughter OF Commodore Cornelius Van
derbilt. and at tho time OF her fathers
death she was the wifo OF Horace l..
Clark. an Official OF the Lake Shore
railroad.
Since her marriage TO Mr.. Niyen sho
had spent most OF her time In Paris. Ter
home had been at IS Rue Galilee.
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summary: Richmond, 9. Two-base hits
Malarkcy. Sanford. Stolen baseS-kain.
Double plays-Wentz. Langsiordi Ramp,
stephenson. Malarkey. Berto. Wells.
Base on balls Blankenship 4; Maiarkey.
1. hit by pitched BALKAN. Struck out
--Malarkey. 10. Wild pitches-M alarhey, l.
Time of game. one hour and a half. I'm
pire. Cline.
Notes
The game this afternoon VIII be cailed
at 4:45 o'clock, and If you want seat
20 early. fitzpatrick and Giroy VIII be
the opposing pitchers.
wilson's error was due 10 over-conn-
dencA
Wells had his eye on the ball yesterday.
Keep her up Jake.
VIII II be three straights?
II Richmond wins to-day ana Lynch-
buyG loso there will DO less than hun
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CINCINNATI. o Q o q U -
Brooklyn .....4 q 3 j N-l" 10
Earned runs-Cincinnau, !; Brooklyn 4"
Home run-McCarthy. Stolen passes
Shindle. Mccarthy. Ewing BURKE. ga
rihce hits-Shindle, HOY lrNln. iueN
o,t-Rv eKnnedy. . Bases on balls
p,, Kennedy. g: by Gastrght, ]. Base
a.' errors-C cincinnati. l. Lett on bases
cincinnati. i: Brooklyn, 4. Hit by pilch-
cr~Hov. wild pitch-Gastrisht. I'm
nira-Sberidan. Time Of game-one houf
- fnrl..-elN minutes.
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Totals $1,000. "a )


Fleming hit by batted bah.
Score by innings. X.
Portsmouth, ............. 2O1O1102i
Poanoke .............. 0OO1 o o o O-l
Summary: Earned uns-Portsmouth,
o. Roanoke I. Two-base hits Rollins
%. Cockman stolen bases-Burke. Rel
man. Rollins. Fleming. HargrOve, He'll
man Naeee. Bases on balls-off Willis,
+. OF Kimban. /. Hit by pitcher kim
balD-Heilman. Struck out-by Brandt,
2. by Willis. Q. Sacrifice hits-Williams.
Nagee. Reiman. Passed balls Rollins,
Williams. Left on bases-Portsmouth, 4;
Roanoke. 4. Time of game one hour
and ffty-ave minutes. Umpires, Watts
and Van Patton.
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THE VISITORS BLANKED.
SENATOR MdLfRhIr nan NORFOLK
COMPIETEIY At ms MERCY.

Only Three Hits Were Made on OF HIS
DeIivery-The Visitors Never Ke"oh'"
Third-Our Friend Bisnkenshir.
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ST. LOUIS.

Score by innings. r. H. T..
New Nctk al % - q , % X i
st. Louis .....O - OOo2 . O-3 Q .
Summary: Earned runs-New York. q,
St. Louis. .. Two-base hits-Tiernan.
Connaughron. Connor. yhree-base hits
Farrell. Sacrifice hits-NiIud. Donohue.
Stolen bascs-G. Davis. Gleason. Dowd
a. Cross CD. Bases on crrors-Now York.
?. Bases on baus-Clarke. ?. Struck
out-by Clarke. :. Loft on bases-St.
Louis. 2. Double plays -Connaughton
and Clarke; Meyers and Conner. Wild
pitch-Donohue. Time Of game ono hour
and forty-iye minutes. Umpire. Hem
dersOn.
WASHINGTON II: LOUISVILLE. :.
WASHINGTON. June 5.-Washingron
easily defeated Louisville to-day. At
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Games won and lost by each club to
each other club:
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Games Yesterday.

Games Yesterday.
Richmond, Z. Norfolk, o.
Lynchhi ~. is: Petersburg, CO.
Roanoke. /, Portsmouth, :.
Standing OF the Clubs.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-30
SPOT COTTON HIGHER.
ADVANCE OF x CENT IN THE
LOCAL MARKET.

Fair Demand Mt the Advance.
snirits Turpentine Bc Lower With
the Tone Quiet-Buyers Kidding
.. cents After the Close of The
worket-ROsin Firm and Unchang-
.d-WhoIesaIe Markets Steady.
savannah, Oct. 29.-The main feature
l the local markets to-day was the adj
nee of &c on cotton. The higher prices
|. liverpool and New York had the eff
.. IN the local spot market. There was
fair demand at the advance. The spir-
l. urpentine market was again weak,
"A the best bid late in the day was %
ms for regulars. There were sales re-
,r,ed. however, at 251sc at the closing of
f.. market Rosin continued in good de-
md for all grades at unchanged prices.
Tho wholesale markets were steady. The
allowing resume of the different mar
sts will show the tone and quotations
the close to-day:
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OCEAN FREIGHTs.

Cotton-Market firm; rates quoted are
per 100 pounds; Boston, per bale SIPS;
New York, per bale. $1.00; Philadelphia.
per bale, $1.00; Baltimore, per bale, 81 Loo;
to Liverpool via New York, 63c; Bremen
via New York, Zoe; Antwerp. via New
York, sc; Havrie. via New York, 75c Am
sterdam, via New York, 66c: Genoa, via
New York, 73c; Reval, via New York, SOC 4;
Hamburg via New York. 66c Direct /:
nc; Genoa, SIC; Venice. 6Shc Trieste,
6S1Ac Antwerp, Coo; Havre. Coo; Ham
burg, Coo.
Lumber-By sail-Freights are steady
at ruling rates. Foreign business is
more or less nominal. The rates from
this and nearby Georgia ports are quoted
at $i.25Q5.50 for range including Balti-
more and Portland. Me. Railroad ties.
base a feet, Ice. Timber rates, 5Oc07sl. 90
higher than lumber rates. To the West
Indies and Windward, nominal; to Rosa
rio, $l2 .0Oq1S.O CO., Buenos Ayres and Monte
video, $40 00411 90; to Rio Janeiro, S14 90;
to Spanish and Mediterranean ports,
$11 .SO@11 so; to United Kingdom, for or
ders, nominal for lumber, 4-pound IS
standard.
BY Steam-To New York, 81 90; to Phil
adephia, 800; to Boston. 500; to Balti-
more. 500.
Naval Stores-By sail-The market is
firm. Large sized. Cork for orders, are
As Cd; Genoa, Is 3d0Ss Cd; Adriatic. Is Cd
as Cd; South America. rosin, CSC per
barrel of 2S0 pounds. Coastwise-Steam
TO Boston, lie per 100 pounds on rosin
9Oc on spirits; to New York, rosin SIC per
100 pounds, spirits. Soc: to Philadelphia
rosin, 71zo per 100 pounds spirits, SOC; to
Baltimore, rosin. TIC per 100 pounds. spir-
it's Zoe
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New York, Oct. 29.-Riordan & Co., saw
OF cotton to-day: THE weather bureau
predictions of a coming freeze in the
southwest changed the temper of the mar
ket to-day. Prices opened higher January
selling on the call at 1850. After a momen-
tary hesitation, in which January sold at
tgIc, prices hardened, and January adj
Vanced to S.O3c. The realizing sales. how
ever, were so large. that the advance did
not hold and January gradually reacted.
touching 1880, although the eager demand
at that figure was not supplied. During
the AFTERNOON there was again a steady
hardening of prices and January advanced
to S.05c, closing firm at about the best of
the day. If the weather predictions should
be realized, it will mean the end of the
crop and prices will doubtless be higher.
In any case, we hardly expect any serious
decline"
New York, Oct. 29-Silsby & Co. saw of
cotton: Liverpool spot cotton opened this
morning al a good demand, prices 1-l6d
above yesterdays close. Futures opened at
an advance of l to points above yester-
days closing, and remained very firm
throughout the day. Our market opened 8
to points above yesterdays close in SYM
pathy with foreign cables, and advanced
gradually during the day, closing at a
gain of to points on the day. We have
called attention to the fact that our mar
than bear news, therefore, for the time
being, We think the market should be
bought on all depressions, and sold again
on all firm spots, as it is a scalpers mar
ket."
New York, Oct 29-The Suns review of
cotton says: THE trade to-day was broad
er and somewhat more active Prices
opened higher and advanced steadily, clos
ing at about the top figures of the day
There was a slight reaction at one time
on realizing sales by scalpers, and the
tightness of money, but the undertone
of the market was firm. Ellison &, Co. of
Liverpool estimate the consumption of
cotton this season at $4,000 bales. Cold
er weather, with frosts, were predicted
for Eastern Texas Indian territory, Okla
homa, Mississippi and Louisiana. The
total interior receipts for the week are
now estinated at 175,O00 to 10000 bales,
against 202,925 bales last week. In a word,
the news to-day was all of bullish ma
ture, and prices were easily advanced.
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RICE.

The receipts of rough rice up to date have
been fairly liberal, but it is now known
that the total will fall considerably short
of last season, probably 80 per cent. less.
The offerings of cleaned rice, particularly
the better grades, are plentiful and the
demand is good. For domestic or local pur-
poses the grades of common and fair are
more in request than others, but owing to
their scarcity, are relatively higher. 1t
would not be surprising owing to the short
crop in the states fully 80 per cent. less
than last year, to see prices considerably
higher than they are now. Quotations;
Common ................... Nominal
Fair .................. 31la9324
Good ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. OLA
Prime OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IA
Rough, COO to 81 per bushel.
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GRAIN, PROVISIONS, ETC.

New York. Oct. 29.-Flour quiet; prices
rather easier; winter wheat, low grades.
$2.2Oa325; fair to fancy. $3.2504. 30; do pat
ents, &.50a4.90; Minnesota clear $3.0OT400:
patents, $3.S5@480; low extras $2.20Gi325;
southern flour quiet, easy common to fair
extra, S265d3.25; good to choice do, $3.50
300 Wheat, spot dull. firmer with OPP
tions; ungraded red, 7OQS4c; options were
fairly active and very irregular, closing
unsettled at / cent over yesterday, after
the opening they were firm at 2d21kc adj
vance, and declining 1ssGl%c on the tight
money market. but rallying ikGI%c on late
foreign buying; October 767sc; November.
Tic; December. 7S7sc; May. SIC Corn.
spots, dull easier; No 2. 3OAc elevator;
S1hc afioat: options were duh and advance
ed lA6JAc, fell Vase, and closed weak at
lsc below yesterday: October 30c: Decem-
her, BIC; May, 343sc. Oats. spots dull
firm; options dull nominally unchanged:
October 22Ac; December 23hc; May, 26c;
spot, No. 2, 22lsc No. 2. white 25c; mixed
western, 22I2ic. Hay quiet. easy; ship
ping, 55@60c; good to choice, 75087lkc.
Beef slow. steady; family. 49, 5O1950: extra
mess patent, 1915. Beef hams dull; $500
d1600. Tierced beef steady; city extra.
$10.5O012.50. Cut meats steady; moderate
demand; picked bellies, sac; shoulders,
4Ac; hams, 9d91zc. Lard quiet, weak
(Continuad IN Third roaooN
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FINANCIAL.
Money-Steady.

Money-Steady.
Foreign Exchange-The market was very
firm. The following are net savannah
quotations: Commercial demand, A.S2h;
sixty days. $479h: ninety days, A.7S;
francs, Paris and Havre sixty days, 5.2i% f;
Swiss. sixty days, 5.26; marks, sixty
days. "a 1-16. less $3.50 per $1,000.
Domestic Exchange-Steady Banks are
buying at * per cent discount
and selling as follows: Up to $25, 10c prem
ium; $25 to $50 15c premium; $50 to $780, zoe
premium; 500 to $500, Csc premium; 5000
and over at par.
Securites-The market Is quiet and has
a waiting tendency.
Stocks and Bonds-State iconds-Geor-
gia, 49, per cent. bonds of 1880, 10l bid, lO2
asked; Georgia Sls per cents. due 1915, 1Ol
bid. 1902 asked; Georgia AZ per cent. bonds,
1915. 10 bid, III asked Georgia per
cent. due 1926, 107 bid 100 asked; South
Carolina AIS, 1861 bid, 1861 asked.
City Bonds-Atlanta per cent, lO3 bid,
1914 asked; Augusta 4l2s 1925, lO2 bid, l03
asked Augusta per cent, 10 bid, III
asked Augusta 6 per cent, los bid, 100 ask
ed; Columbus per cent, 1O2 bid, 1881 ask
ed; Macon per cent, liz bid, ia asked:
Savannah 5 per cent, quarterly January
coupons, l0S bid 1881 asked; Savannah B
per cent, quarterly November coupons,
los bid 1851 asked; Charleston As, "a bid,
% asked.
Railroad Bonds-Savannah, tlorida ana
Western railroad general mortgage bonds
per cent. interest coupons, bid, ll2
asked; Atlantic and Gulf first mortgage
consolidated per cent. coupons. January
and July maturity. 1897. 1Ol bid. l0l1z ask
ed; Central Railroad AID Banking Com
pany. collateral gold S. % bid. 80 asked;
Central of Georgia Railway first mortgage
gold bonds, 100 bid. 10 asked; Central
Of Georgia railway consolidated IS, 50-year
poJd bonds. 50 bid, 81 asked; Central
OF Georgia Railway. first preferred in
comes 2sh bid. 2sis asked. ex-interest; Cen
trial Of Georgia Railway, second pre-
ferred incomes. III bid, 12i5 asked; Central
OF Georgia Railway third preferred in
comes. bid, asked; Georgia railroad
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blacks. &c; bury. SAFE Wax. zoe. Tai
low, &c. Deerskins, 15c.
Bagging and Ties-The market is firm;
jute bagging, 2A-pound, &c; 2-pound,
SIC; 1%-pound 7c; quotations are for
job lots, small lots higher; sea island bag
ging, SQS15c; Standard Arrow ties, steel,
As pounds, large lots, $40; small lots,
ging, SQSAc; Standard Arrow ties STEEL
45 pounds, large lots, $l.2O; small lots,
S1.25
Dry Goods-The market is steady; de-
mand brisk; prints, 4G5c: Georgia brown
shirtings, 4. sac; "a. &c; A brown sheet
ings, &c; white osnaburgs, 7q715c: checks,
4Q5c; brown drillings. 5M6ikc.
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NAVAL STORES.

Spirits urpentine.-Another drop in the
price was the feature in to-day's market
The sales made after the opening were at
1sc decline, and after the close the highest
bid was at Csc. 1t is said that the receipts
for the next two days have been bid for
at 25c by an exporting firm, and if others
want spirits they will be compelled to
raise the bid.
At the Board of Trade, at the first call
the market was bulletined firm at 25Ac,
with reported sales of 100 casks at 253sc,
and 1,4S9 casks at 2514c. At the last can
the market was bulletined quiet at 251sc,
with sales of $50 casks.
Rosin.-There was no change in the mar
ket, the quotations remaining the same as
yesterday, and the demand being good
for all grades At the Board of Trade, at
the first can, the market was bulletinei
firm and unchanged, with sales of 3,O19
barrels. At the last call the market closed
unchanged, with no further sales. The
6 1T~rr rst,~r H..
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Continued on Third Page.)
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New York, Oct. 29.-The attendance of
buyers in the dry goods market to-day has
been limited. The main business has been
quite moderate throughout, and taken
all around, the market has ruled quiet.
Sellers preserve just as firm a front as
ever.
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Receipts same day last Year. 1492 1866
Charleston, S. c., Oct 29.-Turpentine
market firm Csc bid; sales none. Resin,
firm; sales none; A, B, c, D. $40; E, F,
$145; G, $1.5O; H, $1.55; K, $1.6O; NJ, $1.75; N,
500: w G, $2.15; w w, $780,
Wilmington, n. c., Oct. 29.-Rosin firm;
strained, $1.5O; good strained, $1.55. Spirits
turpentine, nothing doing. Tar steady at
$1.O0. Crude turpentine steady; hard, $l.30;
soft, $190; virgin, $3.50.
New York, Oct 29-Rosin firm strain
ed, common to good, $1.9O. Spirits turpen-
tine, easy; 2SQ2S1ac
The advocate., 1896-08-05
First Things First.

EDITOR ADvOCATE:-The Louisville
(Ky.) Commercial asks "why the adVo-
Gates of income and inheritance taxes
do not try to use these systems In State
and local taxation, rather than wait
the slow and uncertain method of
changing the National constitutionH'
There's food for thought in this very
sensible question. If they are good
systems of taxation, why apply them
exclusively to National revenues, or
await the indefinite, If ever, period
when 1t will be possible to do SOP
Very few Of the States can do so
without first changing their State con-
stltutlons, and certainly Kansas can.
not. This is another strong reason
why the Abilene convention should
take decided ground for a constitu-
tiOnsl convention. With local option
on questions of taxation, counties and
municipalities could speedily try these
and other systems and settle upon the
best one, and the State could profit by
their experience as well aS its own.
The same 10 true Of the initiative and
The advocate., 1896-08-05

referendum, of proportional represen-
tstion, and of the land question, the
general government (Congress) having
no jurisdiction over these questions.
If we are In earnest and really mean
what our platforms say upon these
subjects, why not be honest and senSl.
bic and do the only thing possible
toward solving them, and that one
thing is to so amend our State cOnsti-
tuition as to make 1t possible to take
legislative action concerning them.
II we had the referendum we could
soon ascertain by popular vote the SEN.
timent of the people upon different
systems Of taxation, but under the
present constitution we could not enact
State or local income tax law, even
after every voter in Kansas had voted
for it, nor would any local option tax
be constitutional. New Zealand has q
graduated land tax and an absentee.
owner land tax in addition, which
works well and is a step In the right
direction, but we cannot have either
under our present constitution.
Let the Abilene convention give
strict attention to these State matters
of supreme Importance.
w. II. 7. WAKEFIELD.
The advocate., 1896-08-05
Be-eKeepers.

The natural home OF the bee-and 30
of the bee-keeper-is in a temperate
climate, where the flowers bloom all the
year. Thus we find that our greatest
honey production comes from that State
whose synonym is "the land Of flowers" p"
In California bee-keeping is regarded rs
an industry worthy the fostering care OF
the State, and the yield of honey is no
mean factor in contributing to the
individual and general wealth. A single
bee-keeper there has as many as six
thousand colonies, which produce q total
yield Of two hundred thousand pounds
of honey in a year. So far as statistics
are available, this is the largest apiary
in the world. But even in California
prejudice is still rife, and, because Of the
mistaken idea that the interests Of the
ee-keeper and those Of the fruit-grower
are inimical, the bee ranches are usually
relegated to remote hooks among the
foothills and in the mountain canons.
The California bee-keeper is a man who
deserves more than passing notice.
"Remote, unfriende1, solitary" are the
words that come to my mind instinctively
as / think of the isolated huts upon the
mountain side or In some narrow cleft
between the hills, where / have so often
found him. He is always peculiar, and
often a type that would do credit to
Philiscus himself. But il you can once
penetrate through the crust Of the man,
pity for his solitary condition will soon
vanish. The bees are his friends, and
with them he has little need Of mortal
companlonship. Often he is q man who
has known the world and who has tired
of it, and now, like quaint old thinner
mann, who had known schools and
courts, finds his most keen delight in the
solitude that nature affords. He is no
mercenary; yet the bees toll for him as
they would not for any other, and his
hives flow over with honey.-AugttSt
LippincotFS.