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V,GLUME XVII.
BIlTLEH, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. APRIL IS, 1893.
Tbe loss to the farmers of Michigan m
from smut of oats is estimated at
over $1,600,000.
f -The New England Farmeri3authority
for tho statement that “the condition of
| the average farmer in New England, all
things considered, is much better than
j that of tjhe average farmer ini most other
I sections of the country. ■
| j Twoj^ car-loads of Boston girls have
one to Texas to supply the demand
Bthere for wives, which leads the Detroit
| Free Sress to exclaim that “the man who
I seeks jo escape from woman recklessly
'fi»chl.ci the impossible.”
During, the year 1892 England
-nblished 4915 new books and 1339 new
editions, or a total of 6254. Last year
the figures were 5706. The-increase has
(been especially fin the department of
novels, namely 1147 as compared with
S96 in 1891.. Theology reports 528,
1 philosophy 579, medicine 127 new pub-
llications, while law has only twenty-six,
Jltho.poetry has 185, history 293, and
graphy -250.
Renewed attention is called by the
Sew York Independent to the brutality
1 the best military establishment in the
Id. A non-commissioned officer had
unusually brutal to a German
luit of good family, who eventually
| driven to suicide to escape the deg-
htion • to which he was forced, but
f before he had written a letter to his
ents giving a full account of what he
IRnefed. 'This letter was sent by them
to'the Emperor who ha? caused the ar
rest of the brute. A result has been the
discovery of the fact that out of 127
' deaths iu the army during December last,
twenty-four were suicides mostly caused
by desperation at the tyranny of non-
commissioned officers. But war i>
^essentially brutal.
In American naval officer says that
Ice when a great function took place
/the harbor of Cherbourg, France,
veral vessels of our Atlantic Squadron
Lre present and were drawn up in line
i the Emprcss Eugenie’s yacht as
ft pas). The French sailors manned
the yjs of their ships and shouted,
|‘VivfImperatrice.” Knowing that ho
onldot school his men to repeat those
i|n the brief time loft to him tho
i Admiral ordered his crews to
pBcef, lemons and cheese.” The
9ial yacht came sweeping on, and as
bed the fleet a mighty roar went
“Beef, lemons and cheese” that
ely drowned the voice of the French-
And the Empress said she had
: been so complimented.
ne of the largest and most valuable
the Indian reservations is that on
iich the pxosrs are settled in Montana,
area, states the New York Post, is'
ost as great as New Jersey, stretch
ing along the south side of tho Yellow-
.ahpnt 400 miles and extending
southward to the Big" Horn Mountains
and to the Wyoming line. Rich bottom
lands, mountains of mineral, and tracts
of primitive forest are comprised in this
territory. The Crows are slowly solving
the problem of civilization, although
their inclination to peaceful pursuits is
sometimes rudely disturbed by tbe raids
of their immemorial enemies the Piegans,
and it is not in the nature of the Crows
to forego retaliation. \Vcre the reserva
tion divided among the members of tho
tribe, each buck, squaw and pappoo3e
wfutld receive 1500 acres. If one travels
thr'ough'-the"riig-Horn Valley in theseu
days he will find it dotted with' cabins
thikt are surrounded by corn and vege
table patches. In a few instances dug-
ts for the winter storage of crops have
bfoen constructed and even stables built
: f^ir Montana cayuses which have been
I broken for the harrow and the plow.
Jj"|£hese signs of industry are evidences
t\mt the strenuous counsel of army of
ficers and the Indian agents to take up
lands in severalty have not been disre-
1 garded, but it must be admitted that
the work of redemption is slow, for the
hunting grounds of the Crows are still
more alluring than the productive toil of
‘the fields. That substantial progress is
being made, however, may be judged
from the fact that whereas these In
dians a few years ago ‘ possessed only
pelts, robes, and wild bronchos, their
wealth now includes many farming im
plements, 3000 ponies, 2501
cattle and innumerable pigs
fowls. ______
Mongolian Pheasants.
S If the Mongolian pheasant at all re-
• Ambles in gamy spirit its European af-
aity it is more fitted for a barnyard
iwl than a sportsman's trophy. Proba
lk fly it is just asca3y of domestication,
it is a common thing to hatch out
ibeasants under ordinary fowls, and
:hey readily come at the call for iood.
The less of the game quality they have
[tbe better are they fitted for the spit. It
is amusing to learn that as the Mongo
lian pheasants are greedy grain feeders
they should be boarded out on the farm
ers of tho Sacramento and San Joaquin.
—Marysville (Cal.) Appeal.
GEORGIA JiffS MIS.
Hams of
“Tho growth of the phosphate busi
ness in southern Georgia and Florida,”
remarks one who knows, * 'hasbeen mar
velous within the past four yeais.
Steamers putting in to Brunswick have
contracted in the past few months to
transport 50,000 tons of phosphate,
about a year’s work.”
* * *
■ Brooks county is certainly the banner
county for hog raising, as is attested by
tho large amount of bacon sold by her
farmers to the merchants of Qaitmao. A
representative merchant of Quitman
bought over 500 pounds of hams at one
time from a faimer of Brooks and paid
13 C-8 cents cash for it. Who will say
that docs not beat cotton t
» » *
Discussing the railroad situation, the
Columbus Enquirer-Sun rays: “The
country will wait with some interest to
see what new feature of the railroad
business will attract tbe attention of those
greatest of all modern railroad kings,
the federal court judges. More than one
of these now could write an interesting
story on ‘What I know about running
railroads for the benefit of the stock
holders.’ ”
* * *
Weather crop bulletin No. 2 shows an
exceedingly fine condition of affairs. Tbe
weather all over the state has been re
ported as very warm, the maximum be
ing 85 degrees. Hail showed up in some
portions ol the state, but enough to do
no damage. Vegetables aro growing
rapidly, and in the southern section ot
tbe state, peaches aro developed to a
slight extent. Preparations for cotton
planting are under way in great shape.
* * *
-There is a very strong movement iu
Floyd county in favor of the adoption of
the Australian ballot system. The grand
jury recommended its adoption and iu
their general presentments, which were
read in court, this paragraph appears:
“We endorse and recommend tbe Aus
tralian ballot system and recommend its
adoption by tbe legislature of the state.”
This expression meets the general ap
proval of the peoplo and there will
be some strong efforts made to get tht
next legislature to adopt the system.
* * *
The work of improving the encamp
ment sice at Griffie according to the com-
mands of the advisory board, goes steadi
ly on from day to day. The site will hi
greatly beautified and improved. It L
going to be one of the prettiest military
encampments to be found in the entire-
country. Tho barracks will be moved
higher up the hill, and the rifle range
will be greatly improved. It is a splen
did place for the encampment end tlu
men who have, tho work in charge have
determined to make it all that it can be
made before they finish the work of im
provement.
* * *
The E->me Tribune want9 the Geologi
cal board abolished, and says: “The
governor has largely redeemed the
state’s interests, which were much dam-
nged by the management of the geologi
cal board. We are glad that he ha9
taken tbe bull by the horns and dccidod
to publish the state geologist’s report
and save that much to the state from the
wreck of the department. If the gov
ernor had the whole of the responsibili
ty in the matter we would not be afraid
of the result, and it is to be hoped that
the legislature, at its next session, will
do away with such useless furniture as
the geological board. A competent geo
logist can manage the business better.”
* * *
“That was a very important decision
that was rendered on Monday by th; su
preme court,” said , an eminent lawyer,
“I refer to the one which permits a note
given in Georgia and payable in New
York to be attacked successfully on the
ground of usury, if it bears more than
the New York statutory rate of interest,
which is 6 per cent. The New York
statue declares that all such contracts are
void and so every note given by a Geor
gia man to a New York firm that bears
more than 6 per cent interest is really
void and can be defeated in a suit
brought on it in Georgia, or New York,,
by pleading the New York law as a de
fense.”
Dirert Trade.
Direct trade, so dear to the south, vi-J
tal to her interest, needful to the west!
he was elected justice of the peace,
which office he resigned to enter the con
federate' service in August, >486i, as cap
tain of Company G. Twenty .ninth regi
ment of Alabama Volunteers. He served
in that capacity until captured at Nash
ville on the 15th of December 1864, from
which time he Was held -a® a prisoner
Df war at Johnson’s island until his re
lease and return home in : June, 1865..
Whilein the confederate service he was
appointed as register in chancery, blit
did not enter upon the duties of -the of
fice until reappointed in 1866. After the
close of the .war he was engaged in tbe
practice of the law for a short time with
the Hon. L. M. Lane, and subsequently
with his son, J. Webb Foster. He was
a member of the constitutional conten
tion of 1875, and a member of the leg
islature in 1870, and during the session
of 1878-9. Upon bis election to the
legislature in 1876, he resigned tbe posi
tion of register in chancery. In August,
1880, he was elected chaucellor of the
southern chancery division, then com
posed of twenty-two counties; he was
re-elected chancellor in 1886 and again
in 1802. He was one of the trustees of
the university of Alabama from 1870 to
1889, when be resigned. The degree of
L.L. D. was conferred upon him by the
A. & M. college in 1883. He died at
his home at Clayton, Ala., on Saturday,
the 28th of January, 1693.
* . * *
A Biff Limit Company*
A charter has been filed at Atlanta,
for a mammoth land company which will
do business in this state. The petition
was filed by Governor W. J. Norlhen, S.
F. Woodson, R. J. Lowry, N. J. Osborne,
H. M. Atkinson, George W. Adair, H.
G. Saunders, W. H. Venable, J. F.- Ga-
tihs, J. W. English, W. A. Hemphill, J.
G. Oglesby, H. H. Cabaniss, Hugh T.
Inman and others, and its object is tbe
organization of the Central Georgia Land
Development Company, which is Certain
to prove a powerful factor in tho indus
trial progress of this seefion, and wilt
work wonders in middle Georgia. It is
understood that a number of Macon gen
tlemen of the best financial standing will
be interested iq the operations of this
company and that half of the capital will
be put up by Georgians and the other
half t>y northern capitalists. The prin
cipal office of the company will be in the
county of Fulton, and local offices will
be established wherever desired; but
said company desires to do bus
iness anywhere in Georgia. The
amount of capital stock actually
paid in will be $60,000, divided into
shares of $100 each, with the right to
increase the same from time to time
through tbe direction of the board - of
directors, to any amount not to exceed
$500,000. Tbe most interesting and im
portant feature of its operation, is to be
the planting and raising of all fruits and
vegetables in any and all counties of this
state and preparing the same for market;
the canning of all classes of fruit and
vegetables; the manufacturing of fruits
into jellies and preserves and the manu
facture of vegetables into sauces. An
other object is to establish crate and can
ning factories, packing houses, wineries,
etc. The idea of tbo projectors is that
cotton culture as the leading industry of
the south must “step down and out,”
and this feeling is almost universal at the
south—and that diversified and improved
farm methods must take its place; that
food supplies must be raised at home in
stead of being imported from the notth
and west—a constant drain tlpoh our
capital—and that fruit and tobacco cul
ture, vegetable raising and wine making
to a large extent, be made to supply us
with that ready money which, hitherto,
the southern people have looked to cot
ton alone to produce.
Realizing that the plantations must be
broken np and that both capital and
thrifty settlers are wanted to introduce
new methods and a different system, the
projectors propcsj \o purchuse, sub
divide and sell to settlers, lands in cen
tral Georgia, suitable for fruits, tobacco,
vineyards oy truck farms. Their lands
will lie suffiiently far south to escape
the danger of frost and yet sufficiently
far north to secure the requisite elevation,
climate, soil, etc., and thu3 the owners
will be able to raise fruit and vegetables
to supply all, but especially the eariy
markets in tho north a- d Europe. "
The scheme is not only entirely feasi
ble, but a most intelligent one, and is
bound to be eminently successful, for no
section of this country is better adapted
to the raising the products contemplated
than central Georgia. As compared
with California, hitherto regarded as the
1
A Quaint Epitaph.
A collector of curious epitaphs—and
there seem to be as many such as there
are collectors of coins and stamps and
insects and ferns—claims, according to
Harper's Young People, to have found
this singular inscription upon a grave
stone in a New Hampshire burying
ground:
To all my frieiils I hid a lieu,
A more sudden death yon never knew—
As 1 was leading the ol l mare to drink -
-'jgUe kicked, qqi killed m? quicker’u Tfi»k.
:on and Savannah, in con-
it Savannah, aa to what
to direct some part of the
to Europe through south At-
. The railroads centering at these
l full sympathy with the inquiry and
.iding it in every poBuble manner. The
wesFand northwest are also moving on the
same line of investigation, and it does not seem
unprpmble, with ouunges constantly occurring
to increase oni advantages, that this f&U and
winter may see a movement of western pro
ducts through tho south Atlantic ports that
may be far-r- ach ng in their commercial resales,
and be tbe meaus of realizing through western
and not eastern influences the dream of south
ern statesmen and economists for more than
half a ceutnry—a fclf-mistaining ‘direct trade
between the ports of tho south Atlantic and
those of Ihe great marts of tho world by direct
lines of Bail or n'eain or both. Export of grain
added to the present phenomenal, export trade
af Savannah, would soon draw to itself imports
for the west and make economical and piaclic-
ablo an enlargement of it for the cities in the
Atlantic slope, when direct trade would he no
longer a theory, hut au accomplised fact i
Honoring a Georgian.
Honor has been paid the name of
Cbaocelloi John A. Foster by the chan-
eery court of A'abami. John Arthur
Foster was born November 11, 1828, at
Monticello, Jasper county, Georgia. He
«as gradual ed in August, 1847, at the
University of Alabama; early in the fif
ties he.became.jjresi ient of the Southern
Female college' at LaGrange; Ga. He
was admitted to tbe bar by the supreme
court of Alabama at Montgomery, Jin-
ii-iry 9; IS59, and commenced prac
tice sooo after at Clayton, Ala., being
associated with the Hon. Jcre N. Wil
liams tbo pret eat chancellor. la 1801
t the same lime it wlll not be so vastly
increased os might be taken From the vast
[mount of fertilizers inspected. The
ieveral inspectors of fertilizers who have
been all over tbe state from this office find
that the truth of tbe situation is that
the cotton acreage is but slightly in
creased this year. Ia many reg ions of
Georgia they havo found that the fa:m-
ers have really cut down the acreage of
cotton below the mark reached last year.
The reason for the inspection of so much
fertilizers this yo.--r.is easily explained.
You see the price of cotton seed went
away up this year, inducing all of the
farmers, or nearly all of them, to sell out
their seed. The price went up to $25
and $30 per ton. This was a great
temptation to the farmers to sell. The
result was that many of 4£<m sold so
nearly but that they have not enough
cotton seed left them to put under their
corn crops as a fertil’ztr. Cotton seed
has heretofore been their chief corn fer
tilizer, and having sold out their cotton
seed it is easy to see that they would
have to have more commercial fertil-
izera than usual for their corn planting.
This, in a great measure, accounts for
tho _ great increase in the sales of
fertilizers. Not only this, the farm
ers have, in many instances, exchanged
their cotton seed for fertilizers di
rect-, just for planting corn, aud in
this way it is. found that the mcreas-.
ed sale'of commercial fertilizers meats,
nine times out of ten, that the farmers
are planting a large grain crop this year.
The truth is that the increase of fertilizer
sales before Christmas, away back yonder
in the fall, was four times greater thap it
was last Jefir at that time, and how could
this have any 'effect upon the cotton
abteage whatever, it being-in the fall and
almott before the last cotton crop was
gathered. It was bought for fertilizing
grain. There has been a great amount
Of ? grain soitrn by the' Georgia farmers
this year, and it becomes more and more
evident as the years go by that the farm
ers .of-this part of the'south at least are
learning the lesson that has been taught
them by such long experience to live at
home. They are going for a good crop
of home products this year, and .it is
truly very gratifying. Still another very
strong argument that the increase of fer
tilizer sales means nn increase in grain
crops, not cotton, is that meat is so
high. Meat has gone up to wonderful
prices. It necessitates a much larger
corn crop than haB heretofore been
planted. The deduction is clear. It
means that the farmers’see what is ahead
of them and they have been planting
much larger corn crops than they did
last year and tbe year before. It is'alto?
.getter wrong to believe that the cotton
acreage has been so -Vastly increased just
because the sates of fertilizers have been
so much greater than they Were la9t yeah
It is the opinion of the inspectors of fer
tilizers from this office, whose dtity it
has been to go all over the state to look
Into this, matter, that the cotton acreage
in the state of Georgia will be but little,
if indeed any greater this year than It was
last season. I am confident that this will
be shown Up by the regular report of the
commissioner of agriculture when it is
compiled with absolute accuracy from
the reporters of the department all
through Georgia.” -
THE GOVERNORS MEET*
Organized in Convention at Rich
mond—The Proceedings.
A Richmond, Va., special s-iys:
Promptly at 12 o’clock 'Wednesday Gov-
error McKinney, of Virginia, entered the
chamber at tbe bead of the southern
governors. The distinguished guests
were at once seated. T-wenty-five min
utes were consumed in shaking hands
and introductions. Governor McKinney,
still standing on the floor, rapped the
body to order and said: “Gentlemen, it
is a time honored custom in Virginia to
open all deliberative bodies by asking
God’s blessing.” He then called upon
Dr. Nelson who offered a brief but fer
vent prayer, at the close of which the
governor proceeded to deliver a brief
but cordial welcome to the visitors, say
ing that he wished this would be a work
ing and not a talking body.
He then nominated Governor Fish-
back, of Arkansas as temporary chair
man, who was unanimously elected.
The gathering of the convention drew
•a large crowd of spectators, who filled
the senate gallery and the space in the
chamber outside of the railing. B, sides
Governor McKinney there were present
Governor Fisbbank, of Arkansas,- who
originated the convention movement;
Governor Foster, of Louisiana; Governor
Brown, of Maryland; Governor Jones,
of Alabama; Governor Carr, of North
Carolina; Governor Stone, of Missouri,
and Governor Tillman, of South Cur.i-
lina. The ether states represented by
delegates Were Georgia, Mississippi,
Tennessee and West Virginia. Ken
tucky, Texas and Florida were not rep
resented.
SECOND DAT.
The convention of southern governors
was called to order Thursday morning by
President Fishback. Tic committee on
permanent organization reported through
Governor SIcKinney, recommending that
the temporary officers be made perma
nent, and thnt, upon all questions before
the convention, each state shall be enti
tled to one vote, to be cast by the gover-,
nor, and if he be not present, by one of
the delegates from the state, selected by
the representatives. This was ad ip'ed.
Governor Cnrr, of North Carolina, offer
ed the following resolutions, which, Un
der theiules, was referred:
First, in Order that work may be now and
ht-re begun, it is recdommended that the gov
ernors of theso states i-ppoint several persons,
ohe to investigate carefully ouch ono on the
following subjects in its relations to immigra
tion to that state: Direct trade, labor and < m-.
ployment, mining, ctiroa;o!o,-y and health,
advertising and manufacturing; and th. so per
sons, under the direction of the,.-governor of
that state, shall co-oper..tc wjfh him in such
immigration work as he mg.y direcr.
NEW WING OF DEMOCRACY
To hei .Organized in South Carolina.
Text of the Calh
' 'Meetings were held all over the state
of South Carolina Tuesday for the organ
ization of another wing of the democratic
party in the state. The address calling
for the organization of the Industrial and
Wage Workers’ Democratic League,
says:
Wo declare our principles to be embodied in
purpose to repeal and to oppose
legislation inconsistent therewith. We ac
knowledge agriculture to be the master wheel
of industrial mechanism, hat declare that in
the enactment nnd education of just and whole
some laws it is essential to good order that the
quality and quantity of the product depend
upon the harm.imona working of Ihe whole ma
chine, and that upon no indn-try more than
agricultural will fall the injurious effects of a
departure from this just principle. We believe
the interest of capital and labor to be the Bame
and we assert that a blow aimed atone will fall
upon both, and that legislation directed
“against” cith.r will reflect upon the people of
the whole state.
Wo condemn tbe vicious class of legislation
attempted und enacted by the legislature at its
recent session and endorsed and approved by
tbe governor of this state, the pernicious effects
of which will be put to hazard all industries
dependent upon corporative capital, to lessen
the volume of currency, to increase the cost of
credit and to render uncertain and precarious
tho occupation of all wage-workers within the
state. We denounce the inconsistency of the
so-called ‘ reform” parly which proclaiming:
salaries too large, omits to reduce them. De-
o.nring taxes too high increases them;' profes-
s ng opposition to monopoly conspires to . make
the state a monopoly; preaching prohibition
legislates the slate itself in;o a ntm-seller.
The new orguniz .t-ion is aimed direct
ly at the reform or Tiiimanite wing of
tbe party. It was brought into existence
by tbe passage (if laws at tbe last session
of the general assemb'-y -in obedience to
the governor’s recommendations calcu
lated to oppress the railroads, banks,
factories and in fact, all industries. The
membership of the league, it is said, is
already very large and it proposes to
play an important part in-the next elec
tion. A state convention has been call
ed for the 19th instant. -_
A BIG COMBINE
That Hill Menace the Carnegie Organ-
. izations.
A Pittsburg, Pa., special of-Sunday
says Lit has'just been discovered that a
powerful syndidate will be formed that:
will rival the . Carnegie organizations.
The financial backing will come from
various parts of-the country and Europe,
and the capital stock will be one hun
dred million dollars. Many of' the best
known capi'alists of Pittsburg, Cincin
nati, New York, Boston, Chicago, Phila
delphia, Birmingham,- South Pittsburg,
Ala., and St. Lotlis &ro connected ip the;
enterprise.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Sermon.
Text: “And the darkness Be callei
night.'’—Genesis !, 5.
Two grand divisions of time. The one o:
Eunligbt,- the other of shadow; the one for
work, the other for rest; the one atypso;
everything glad and beautiful, the other
used in^ all languages as a type of sadnest
and affllcticn and s:n. These two divisions
of time may have nomenclature of human
invention, but'tho darkness held up its dusky
brow to the LorJ, and He baptized it, the,
dew dripping from His fingers as He gave if
name, “And the darkness He called night.”
My subject is midnight in town. Tht
thunder of the city has rolled out of the
air. The slightest sounds cat the night
with such distinctness os to attract your
attention. The tinkling ot the bell ‘ ot the
street car in the distance and the-'baying
of the dog. The stamp of a horse iu the
next—street. The slamming of 4 saloon
door. The hiccough of the drunkard. The
shrieks of the steam whistles five miles
away. Oh, how suggestive, my friends—
midnight in town!
There ore honest men passing tip and down
the street. Here is a City missionary who
has been carrying a scuttle of Coal to that
poor family in that dark place. Here is an
undertaker going up the steps ot a building
from which there comes a bitter cry which
indicates that the destroying angel lias smit
ten the first born. Here is a minister or re
ligion who has been giving the sacrament
to a dying Christian. Here is A physician
passing along in great haste, the messen
ger a few steps ahead hurrying on to
the household; Nearly all the lights
have gbne out in the dwelling. That light
in the window Is tbe light of the watcher,
for the medicines must be administered, and
the fever must be watched; and the rostles3
tossing off of the coverlid mast be resisted;
and the ice must be kept on the hot tem
ples, and the perpetual prayer must go np
from hearts soon to be broken. Ob, the
midnight in town! What a stupendous
thought—a whole city at rest!
Weary arm preparing for to-morrow’s
toil. Hot brain being cooled off. Rigid
muscles relaxed. Excited nerves soothed.
The white hair of the octogenarian in thin
drifts across tbe pillow, fresh fall of flakes
on snow already fallen. -Childhood with its
dimpled hands thrown out on thepillow, and
with every breath taking in a new store of
fnn and frolic. God’s slumberless eye will
look. Let one great wave of refreshing
slumber roll over the heart of the great
town, submerging care and anxiety and
worriment and pain.
Let the city sleep; bat, my friends, bsnot
deceived. There will be thousands to-night
who will not sleep at all. Go up that dark
alley and be cautious where you tread lest
you fall over tbe prostrate form of a drunk
ard lying on bis own doorstep. Look about
you Jest you feel the garroter’s hug. Look
through the broken window pane and see
what you can see. You say, “Nothing.”
Then listen. What is it? “God help us!”
No footlights, but tragedy ghastlier and
mightier than Ristori.or Edwin Booth ever
enacted. No light, no fire, no bread, no
hope. SbiveriDg in the cold, they have had
no fool for 24 hoars. You say, “Why don’t
they beg? ’ They do, but they get nothing.
You say, “Why don’t they deliver them
selves over to the almshouse?” Ab, you
would not ask that if vou ever heard the
bitter cry of a man or a child when told he
must go to the almshouse.
“Ob,” yott say, “they are the viclons poor,
and therefore they do not demand our sym
pathy.” Are they vicious? So much more
deed they your pity. The Christian poor,
God helps them. Through their night there
twinkles the round, merry star of hops, and
through the broken Window pane they see
the crystals of heaven, but the viclons poor,
they are more to be pitied. Their last light
has gone oat. Yon excuse yourself from
helping them by saying they are so bad they
brought this trouble on themselves. I re
ply, where I give 10 prayers for the inno
cent who are suffering I will give 39 prayers
for the guilty who are suffering.
Tbe fisherman, when he sees a vessel dash
ing into the breakers, comes out from his
hut and wraps the warmest flannels around
those who are most chilled and most bruised
and most battered in the wreck. And I
want you to know that these vicious poor
have had two shipwrecks—shipwreck of the
body, shipwreck of the soul—shipwreck for
time, shipwreck for eternity. Pity, by all
means, the innocent who are suffering, but
pity more the guilty.
Pass on through the alley, Open the doer.
“Ob,” you say, “it is locked.” No, it is not
locked; it ha3never beenlocked. No burglar
would be tempted to go in' there to steal
anything. The door is never locked. Only
a broken chair stands against the door.
Shove it back. Go iu. Strike a match.
Now look. Beastliness and rags. See those
glaring eyeballs. Be careful mow what you
say. Do not utter any insult, do not utter
any suspicion, if you value your life.
What is that red mark on the wail? It is
the mark of a murderer’s hand! Look at
those two eyes rising up.outof the darkness
and out from the straw ia the corner com
ing toward you, and as they come near you
year light goes oat. - Strike another match.
Ah! this is a babe, not like the beautiful
children of your household, or the beautiful
children smiling around these altars on bap
tismal day. This little-one never smiled; it
never will smile. A flower flung on an
awfully barren beach. O Heavenly Shep-
nerd raw that little one id Thine 'firms I
Wrap around yott your shawl or coat
tighter, for the co'd night wind sweeps
through. ’
Strike another match, Ahtis it passible
that that young woman’s scarred and
bruised face Was aver looked into by ma
ternal tenderness? Utter no scorn. Utter
no harsh word. No ray of hope has dawned
on that brow for many a year. No ray of
hope ever WQl dawn onthat brow. But the
light h«s gone otit. Do not strike another
light. It wonid be mockery to kindle an
other light in such a place as that; Pass out
and pass down the street. Oar cities of
Brooklyn and New York and all odr great
cities are fail Of such homes, and the worst
time the midnight. Do yotl know it is in
Ihe midnight that criminals do their worst
work?
At half past 8 o’clock yon will find them
in the drinking saloon, but toward 12
o’clock they go to their garrets, they get
ont their tools, then they start on tha street.
Watching on either side for the police, they
go to their work of darkness. This is a bur
glar, and the false key will 8 son touch. the
store lock. - This is an incendiary, and be
fore morning there will be a light ou tha
sky and cry of “Firel Fire!” This is an as
sassin, and to-morrow morning there will be
a dead body in oneof the vacant lots. Dar
ing the daytime these villains in our cities
lonnge about; some asleep and some_ awake,
but when the third watch of the night ar
rives, their eye keen, their brain coo), their
arm strong, their foot fleet to fly or pursue,
they are ready.
Many of these poor creatures were brought
np in that way. They were born in a thieves’
garret. Their childish toy was a burglar’s
dark lantern. The first thing they remem
ber was their mother bandaging the brow of
their father, struck bythepolice club. They
began by robbing boys* pockets, and no w
they have come to dig the underground pas
sage to the cellar of the hank and are pre
paring to blast the gold vault. ,
Just so long as there are neglected chti-
dren of the street,-just so long we will have
these desperadoes. Some one, wishing to
make a good Christian, point and to quote a
passage of Scripture, expecting to. get' a
Scriptural passage in answer, said to one ol
these-poor lads, cast out and wretched,
“When'your father and mother forsake
you, who then will take you up?” and, the
boy said, “The perlice, the perlice.”
" In the midnight gambling does its worst
work. What though the hours be siippm-.-
away.and though the wife be waiting in the
.cheerless home? Stir up tbe fire. Bring on
more drinks. Put up more stakes. -;: That
commercial' house- -that only a little while
ago put .out'a'sign- of copartnership wilT
this season be wrecked on a gambler’s table,
There will be many a money till that will
spring a leak; A Member of Congress
-gambled with a. Member-elect and . won
S120.C00. The old way of getting a living^ is
so slow. The old way of getting a fortune is
so stupid. Come, let us toss up find see who
shall have It And so the work goes on,
from the wheezing wretches pitching pen
nies in a ram grocery 'up to tu9 millionaire
gambler in the stock market. . . .
- In tho midnight honr pass down the
of our American cities, and .yon hear the
click of thsdice and tho sharp,- keen tap of.
the.DQOh'Oom ticker, At.thes9 olaces.merr
chant princes dismonnt, and legislators tired
of making laws; take a respite in breaking
them. All classes ot people are robbed by
this crime, the importer of foreign silks and
the dealer lit Chatham street pocket hand
kerchiefs. The clerics, of the store take a
hand after- the shatters are put Up, and the
officers of the court while away their time
while the jury is out
In Baden-Baden; when that city was the
greatest of all gambling places' oa earth, , it
was no unusuil thing the next morning iu
the woods around that city to find the sus
pended bodies of snicides. Whatever be the
splendor of the surroundings, there is no ex
cuse for this crime. The thunders of eter
nal destruction roil in the deep rumble of
that gambling tenpin alley, and as men
come out te join the long procession of sin
all the drams of woe beat the dead march
of a thousand souls. In one year in the
city of New York there were 67,090,000 sac
rificed at tha gaming table.
Perhaps some of your friends have been
smitten, of this sin. Perhaps some of you
have been smitten by it. Perhaps there may
be a stranger in the house this morning
come from some of the hotels. Look out for
those agents of iniquity who tarry around
about the hotels and ask you, “WouldyoUlika
to see tbe cityf ’ Yes, “Have you ever seen
that splendid building uptown?’. No. Then
rillain will undertake to show you what
‘lions” aud tbs “elephants’’
the villain will undertake to show you what
he calls the
aud after a yonng man, through morbil
curiosity or through badness of soul, has
seen the “lions?’ ani the “elephants” he will
be on enchanted ground. Look out for
these men who move around the hotels with
sleek hats—always sleek hats—and patron
izing air and unaccountable interest about
your welfare and entertainmsnU .You are
a fool if yod cannot ses through it. They
want your money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while I
was living in that city, an incident occurred
which firas familiar to us there. In Chest
nut street, a young man went into a gam
bling saloon, lost all his property, then blew
his brains out, and before the blood was
Washed from the fliur by the maid the com
rades were shuffling Cards again. You ses
there is more mercy in the highway man for
the belatel traveler on whose body he heaps
the stones; there is more mercy in the frost
for the flower that it kills; there i3 more
mercy in the hurricane that shivers the
steamer on the Long Islani coast than there
is mercy in the heart of a gambler for his
victim;
In the midnight hour also, drunkenness
does its worst. The drinking will be re
spectable at 8 o'clock in the evening, a little
flushed at 9, talkative and garrulous at 10,
at 11 blasphemous, at 12 the hat falls off and
the man falls to the floor asking for more
drink. Strewn through the drinking
saloons of the city—fathers, brothers,
husbands, sons, as good as you are by nature,
BBT - dbfif
In tEe high circles of society it is hashed
_p. A merchant prince, if he gets noisy
an i uncontrollable, is taken by his fellow
revelers, who try to get him to bed, or take
him home, where he falls flat in the.entry. Do
not wake up the children. They hive had
disgrace enough. Do not let them know it.
Hush it up. But sometimes it cannot be
hushed up—when the rum touches the brain
and the man becomes thoroughly frenzied.
Ob,'if the rum touches the brain, you can
not hash it up. You do not see the worst.
In the midnight meetings a great multitale
have been saved. We want a few hundred
Christian men and women to come down
from the highest circles, of society to toil
amid these wandering and destitute ones and
kindle up a light in the dark alley, even the
gladness of heaven.
Do not go from your well filled tables with
the idea that pious talk is going to stop the
gnawing of an empty stomach or to warm
stockiugless feet. Take bread, take raiment,
take medicine as well as take prayer. There
is a great’deal of common Bense in what the
poor woman said to the city missionary
when he was telling her how she ought to
love God and serve Him. “Oh!” said aha
•if you were as poor and cold as lam, and
ts hungry, you could think of nothing else.”
A great deal of what is called Christian
work goes for nothing for tho simple reason
it is not practical, as after the battle of
AUtietam a titan got oat of an ambulance
with a bag of tracts, and he went distribut-
ino- the tracts, and George Stuart, one of
the best Christian man in this country, said
to him: “What ore! yOd distributing tracts
for now? There are 3030 men bleeding to
death. Bind up their wounds, and then dis*
tribute the tracts.” .
We ■want more common sense in Clins-
tian work, taking the bread oC this life in
one hand, and the bread of the neore life in
the other hand. No such inapt work as
that done by the Christian man who, during
the war, went into a hospital with tracts,
and coming to the bed of a man whose legs
had boen amputated, gave him a tract on
the sin of dancing I 1 rejoice before God
that never are sympathetic words uttered,
never a prayer offered, never a Christian
almsgiving indulged in but it is blessed.
There is a place in Switzerland, I have
been told, where the utterance of one word
will bring back a score of echoes, and I have
to tell yon this morning that a sympathetic
word, a kind word, a generous word, a help
ful word uttered in tho dark plaCa of tho.
town will bring back ten thousand echoes
from all the thrones of heaven. .
Are there in this assemblage this morning
-hose who know by experience the tragedies
of midnight in town? I am not hero to
thrust you hack with one hard word. Take
the bandage from your bruised soul and put
on it the soothing salve of 'Christ’s gospel
aud of God’s compassion. Many have come.
I see others coming to Gsd this morning,'
tired of sinful life. Cry up the news to
heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread
the banquet under the arche3, Let the
crowned heads come down and sit at the
jnbilee.
I tell you thera-is more delight in heaven
over one mnn that gets reformed by the
the history in a minute .
friends I ever had. Outside of_ my own
family I never had a better friend. He
welcomed me to my home at the west. He
was of splendid personal appearance, and
he had an ardor of soul and a warmth of at*
fection that made me love him like a
brother. , *
I saw men coming ont of the saloons ana
gambling hells, and they surrounded my
Friend, and they took him at the weak point,
his social nature, and I saw him going: d™*"-
and I had a f sir talk with him, for I
Mrs. Jones Illustrates It by Frequent
Remarks. *
“I know the best story about Simp
son to-day,” said Mr. Jones, as he set
tled himself comfortably for an evening
at .home. “Yo *ve seen that fur coat of
his, Mario—-wrA it was—■”
hounded by an evil spirit to his cups and
honseof stums; a foal to the Correction of
the stocks.' She looked up woaderingly.
She knew not what it all meant. She was
not old enough to understand the sorrow of
fin orphan child.
On the other side the pulpit sat .the men
who had ruined him. They were the men
who bad poured wunnwOod into the or
phan’s cap; they were the men who had
bound him hand and toot. I knew. them.
How did they seem to feel? Did they weep?
No. Did they say, “What a pity that such
a generous matt'should be destroyed?' No.
-Did they Bigh repentingly over what they
had done? No; they sat there, looking as
vultures look at the carcass of the lamb
-Whose heart they have ripped out. So they
sat and looked at the coffin lid, and
1 told them the judgment of God upon-those
who bad destroyed their fellows. Did they
reform? I was told they were in the places
of iniquity that night after my friend was
laid in Oakwood cemetery, and they blas-
bemed, and they drank. Ob, how merciless
men are, especially after they have de
stroyed 'you! Do not-look to men for com
fort or help. Look to God.
But there is a man who will not reform.
He says; “I won’t reform;" Well, then,
how many acts axe there to a tragedy? I
Act the First of the Tragedy—A young
man starting off from home. Barents and
sisters weeping to have him go. Wagon
rising over the hill.' Farewell kiss flung
back. Ring tha bell and let tha curtain
fall.
Act the Second—The marriage altar. Full
organ. Bright lights. Long white veil
trailing through Ike aisle. Braver and con
gratulation and exclamation or “How well
she looks'”
Act Third—A woman waiting for stag
gering steps. Old garments stuck into the
broken window pane. Marks o£ hardship
on the face. The biting of the nails of
bloodless fingers. Neglect and cruelty and
despair. Riig- the bell aud let the curtain
drop.
Act the Fourth—Three graves in a dark
place—grave cf the child that died for lack
ot medicine, grave ot the wife that died of a
broken heart, grave of the man that died of
dissipation. Oh, what a blasting heath ot
three graves! Blenty of weeds, but no
flowers. Ring the bell and let the. curtain
drop.
Act the Fifth—A destroyed soul’s eter
nity. No light. No music. No - hope.
Anguish coiling its serpents around the
heart. Blackness of darkness forever. But
I cannot look any longer. Woe! Woel I
close my eyes to this last act of the tragedy.
Quick 1 Quick! Ring the bell and let the
curtain drop. ‘‘Rejoice, O youug mao, in
thy youth and let thy heart rejoice in tha
days ot thy youth, but know now that for
all these things God will bring you into
judgment.” “There is a way that seemeth
right to a man, but the end thereof is death.
MB. JONES TELLS A STORY.’
ny sewing, Jeptha,”
Chare now begin.”
Rutsidc of the coat is
‘Wait till
said Mrs. Jon<
‘You know
beaver—’
“Whose coat?”
“Why Simpsoi
“Oh, yes. Gd „...
“And it isn’t to he sneezed at—”
"Oh, dear, where’s my thimble? Just
let me run aud get it. There, now.
What was it Simpson sneezed at?”
“ Who said anything about Simpson
sneezing? That’s just like a woman,”
snarled Jones. “ If you think you can
sit still for five minutes I’ll go on with
the story. He made a bet—”
“Who made a bet?"
“Simpsondid—that nobody could tell
what the coat was liued with—”
“^Wasn’t it fur-lined?”
“ If you know the story better than I
do perhaps yon will tell it,” suggested
Mr, Jones. “The boys all guessed—”
“What boys?”
“The fellows—the crowd—”
“Just let me get this needle threaded,”
■aid Mrs. Jones, as she tried to thread
the point of a crambic ncpdle; “lean
listen better when I’m sewing. - Go on.”
“We were all in it, so we guessed cat-
skin—”
“Jeptha! that reminds me, I haven’t
leen old Tom to-day.”
“Confound old Tom I Will you listen,
Maria, or—”
“Wait till the scissors roll by. There!
I’m all ready. Was that the door-bell?
Now for the story.”
“We guessed the skin of every animal
In the catalogue—”
‘‘What catalogue?”
‘Heavens, Maria, you’ll drive me mad!
Simpson won the bet, aud—”
“What bet?”
“About the lining. It was—”
“Then it wasn’t cat?”
“NoI no! It was calf—when he was
nit | ha! ha! See?”
1 ‘Rather fur-fetched, wasn’t it?" said
Mrs. Jones, yawning.
Then Jones rose to offer a few fedble
remarks about telling a story to a wo
man, and expecting her to see the point,
etc., etc.—[Detroit Free Press.
him in the right way. . -
don’t yon give np your bad habits anise-
come a Christian?” I remember now just
how he looked, leaning over his eountoj as
he replied; “I wish I could. Ob, sir, l
should like to tie a Christian, but 1 have
gone so far astray I can t get hack.
So the time went on. After awhile the
day of sickness came. I was summoned to
hissickbed, I hastened. It took me but a
very few moments to get there. I was sur
prised as I went in. I saw him in his
ordinary clotuej, fully dressed, lying on the
top of the bail. I gave him iny hand, and
he seized it convulsively apd said: Ua.
how elad I am to see you! Sit down there.
I sat down, and he said: “Mr. Talmage,
just where you sit now my mother rat last
night. She has been dead 20 years; Now; I
don’t want you to think I am out of my
mind, or that lam superstitious; but, sir,
she sat there last night just as certainly as
yon sit there now—the same cap, aid apron
and spectacles. It was my old mother—sha
sat there.”
Theh he turned to his wife and raid; “I
wish you would take these 'strings off the
bed. Somebody is wrapping strings around
me all the time. I wish yon would stop that
annoyance.” She said, ' “There is nothing
here.” Then I saw it was delirium.' He said:
“Just where you sit now my mother sat,
audshs said, ‘Roswell, I wish you would dq
better—-I wish you would do better.’ I said.
Mother, I wish I could do better. I try to
do better, but I can’t. “Mother, drou used to.
helpme. "Whycan’t you help me now?
And, sir, I got out of bed, for it was reality,
and I went to her and threw my arms around
her neck, and I said: Mother, I will do bet
ter, bub you must help. I can’t-dqthis
a'oneP” I knelt down and prayed. That
.night his soul went to ths Lora that made it.
Arrangements were made for the obse-
quies. The question waa raised'whether
they should bring him to church. - s Some
body said, “You can’t bring such a^ dissolute
inaa as that into the church.” I said: “You
will bring him ia the church? He stood by
me when he was alive, and I will stand by
him when he is dead. Bring him.” As I
stood in the pulpit and saw them carrying
the body up theaisle, I felt as if I could
weep tears of blosd. . - :
On one side.of the pulpit sat his little chdd
of eight years, a sweet, beautiful little girl
that I had seen him hug convnlsivelym hi3
better moments. He put on her all jewels,
all diamonds, and gave her all pictures and
toys, and then ho would go away as if
The Waste at Panama.
In confirmation of the private account
of the deserted Panama Canal works,
published by us the other day, a different
correspondent sends us this ex tree tfrom
another private letter: “ Whilein Colon
last voyage I made a careful tour of the
Panama oogie, and the stores, engine
Sheds, rolling and floating stock. Words
cannot paint my astonishment at the
sight. I never saw anything so sinful in
my life as to see all that stuff going to
raok and ruin. I went through one
‘store’—of these there arc six in all, at
different places—bigger than any ship
yard on Clyde could boast; all the things
just as they came from the makers.
Files never unpacked; every engineer s
tool you can think of—English, French,
American—was there—Whitworth stocks,
dies and taps, about twenty cases com
plete, good as when they left the shop.
I walked for a mile over the only road
way passable along tbe canal side, vzi.,
{he top of a train of eight-wheel bogie
freight wagons, all sinking in, the
wheels disappeared in tropical under-
Sr °‘Ali around is swampy ground, and
all these wagons are rotting beneath that
blazing sun. Engine steam-sheds, full ot
fine, powerful engines, the sheds overrun
and inhabited now by snakes and their
prey, the lizards, while the six-foot is
full of land crab holes.. I saw eight fine,
large marine boilers, just as they ban
been discharged from the R. M. oargo
boat that brought them over, and
And Why the People and the Courts
So Diligently Pursue Them.
The Constitution intimates tbas this being
an off year in politics and no elections to be
held and therefore no demagogues to ride, tbe
anti-railroad bobby will be allowed a better
chance to make a living. We kopo so, and we
hope that there is a healthy reaction going on
in the public mind concerning them. It is a
strange and hatefnl spectacle to sec how these
great commercial indussries of the state are
hawed at and almost crushed by invidious
legislation. Why is it that snch men as Thornns
and Fink and Green and Comer and Hanson
have to go before the commission and as the
Constitution says, “beg for life?”
Their freight rates reduced 44 per cent with
in twelve years and their net earnings forced
down to an average of h ss than 3 per cent on
the capital stock, what does It mean? Are our
people unfriendly to railroads because of any
harm they have done u-? We old peoplo re
member when the Central and ilie Georgia and
tho State roads were the pride of the farmers
and the merchants who lived along tho Lnas,
and it waa a rare thing for a heavy damage
suit to be brought against them. We n mem
ber when the fare was 5 cents a mile, aiid the
freight rates doublo what they aro now, there
was no persecution, no lawyers running in hot
haste to tho wrecks to get up cases Jigain-fc
them, no strikes of engineers, no failures to
meet the interest on their bonds or to pay tho
usual dividend of 8 per cent per annum on
their f-tock. Everything was peaceful and
prosperous then, and the people were fi iendly
and content. ^What is the matter now? Major-
Green says the Georgia railroad cannot, at pre.-
ent rates, earn more than 3 per cent and yet
the lessee has to pay 11 per cent to the stock
holders. Well, of course, tho stockholder is
not complaining, bnt is this continual reduc
tion of the rates just to tli3 railroads or their
lessees. What other industry dr busi
ness is so hedged in and bridled
by unfriendly legislation? Who says
that the great merchants of Atlanta and
Macon sell their goods too high and they shall
make lower prices? Who limits the manufac
turer or the farmery or.the mimrsin tho prices
of their products? Ou what priuc plc does tho
discrimination against railroads come in? Ho
they not serve all branches of industry and
commerce? Could the people get along'with
out them? Havo they not reduced tho cost of
living to ns all? Then what is the matter?
Why aro more than half the roads in Georgia
in-fhe hands of receivers? Receivers nhose
certificates are better thin the stock or tho
bonds! Certificates that gradnally nudermine
the Btock and wipe ont and then undermine the
bonds and wipe them out and finally a sale is
ordered by the court and the whole concern
passes into new hands and the money it brought
is all consumed in tho receiver’s certificau s.
and the charges of tho courts and the lawyers’
fees. There are as many jobs and per
quisites and professional emo.nments in tho
windnp as there were in the llyan case that
took $50,000 for court expenses and left $37,-
000 for the creditors.
Whenever a railroad or any tiling else falls in
to the hands of a receiver tbe average creditor
may sing, “Farewell, vain world, I’m going
home.”
There are many kinds of wreckers in this
world who watch and wait for some stranded
vessel to como ashore in a storm so that they
may rob the dead and grab tho cargo, but why
the state should help to crush lior own rail
roads is a mystery to m^. It is mortifying to
our sense of justice and the eternal fitness of
things to see such honorable and brainy gentle
men as those who represent our railroads down
almost on their knees beforo the railroid com
mission and “begging for life.” Why, it hasn’t
been many months since a powerful political
party made a public declaration that it favored
the seizure of all the railroads and their opera
tions by the national government. Dema-
goges started that, and some of them rodo into
office upon it. The time was when strikes and
boycott wero unknown in tho south,
but now most every department, of labor has
its organization for self-protection, just aa
though all the rest of mankind were their ene
mies. Contracts aro made and broken at their
pleasure and at their pleasure they “walk ont”
and the wheels of business must stopuutil they
get more concessions: Wo see that ono federal
judge np north has had tbe nerve tn say to
them, “ ‘thus far sbalt Ihon go andno farther.’
Yon may breik your own contract but you shall
not interfere with other roads nor intimidate
their workmen. Commerce most go on.”
Why this pursuit of railroads by the people,
the coarts, tbo jorie*, the legislature? Why
these frequent aud enormous verdicts for dam
ages? A few days ago there were four men
blown up and killed at a lime quarry near here.
Thera was a premature explosion because of a
defect in the fnso, or the cap or something,
or maybe from carelessness of the workmen.
Will their kindred sue for damages? No. But
if they had been killed on a train that seemed
to be safe, and there was a broken rail or a bolt
broken, or a tap lost, or something
else wrong that human foresight could
not discover, the legal wreckers would
be on hand as soon as tho cor
oner, and in due time the courlhous3 walls
would echo with tho same old tearful heart
rending speech that pictures to the jnry “the
criminal recklessness of these monsters of
ower that como thundering down the rails.”
r ot long ago an Atlanta jury gave
$800 damages to an engineer because
he sprained his ankle in stepping
down from tho locomotive tint ho ran. _
The step had gotten loose and turned with him
as he descended. Last year tho Western and
Atlantic railroad, setiled with a negro woman
for the death of her husband. She had lived
with him fed- sixteen years and was the mother
of his children,but anotherwoman has brought
suit because she “was his just wife and he took
and left her.” Anything is sufficient-for a
case against a railroad. When will this pros
ecution he stopped or be mitigated? What
peculiar or exclusive rights - or privileges
nave railroads or other corporations that
other people havo not gol? There was a time
when common carriers had somo exclnsivo
privileges, but now— anvbody can transport
lvincr on me suuic, , •»
never fitted in. I saw dry-docks, splen
didly built and equipped with fine,
expensive "pumping plant. And why say
more ? Poor old De Lesseps’s house on
the point looks very melancholy. —
[London News. . ' {-
■mm HIS BYES OPE3SED.
Green—There was a time when I
thought I knew everything. -
Brown—Yes.. And. you think dif-
ferently-now ?
G.—I do.
B.—“What made you change you?
opinion?
G.—'Well, the fact is I am courting a
widow.—INYork Press.
The main drainage pipes of Loudon
are eighty-two miles, long,
..sight or’psssengers, anybody can Ira ki a rail
road anywhere and can encroach upon another
road and take part of Sts right ot way. John
Anderson keeps good horees and carriages and
sends the drummers lo and fro, but if his team
should he frightened and spilt ihe drummer in
the road and break hia'leg.ia the dmmmtr going
toBueJohn Anderson?- No! Where doea the
difference como in? Both Anderson nnd trie
railroads ose all foresight and all tho diligence
♦hey can. If any difference should be made by
the law, it should be made in favor of tho rail
roads, for the public can’t pos-ibly get along
•without them. If a stock law is right to pro
tect farmers aud save fencing, how much more
is it right to protect the lives of passengers on
a train from being derailed and killed by reas
on of oattlo on tho track. John. Anderson
should drive around the cow but the cow
should keep off the railroad. This is common
senso and common justice. The wonder of it
all is that anybody wonid take stock in a Geor
gia railroad, considering the limitations and
icraecations that surround them. Tho won-
leris that some of them do not throw np the
ponge and snrrender tlieir clmiters, and this
hing will happen eomo of there days. Then
wnai anowi tnerowouia ne among tne peoplo
alODg tho line. JuBt imagine it. The cars
stopped running- No riding to Atlanta or Au-
a or Macon. Everybody penned up at
„„..;e. Havo to hire a herse and . hnggy
and pay 10 cents a mi'o and lose two whole
days to go thirty miles. Oh, my country,
from snch a calamity may tho good Lord de
liver ns.—B-t.t, Aup. in Atlanta Constitution.
FOLLOW ANTTinNO.
, Old Gentleman—Nice'littla flog yon-. ,f' ;
-have. Isn’t he a hunting dog? - - -
Small Boy—I don’t know what that is.
Old Gentleman—Will he follow a
' C Small Boy—Yes, indeedy. Jus’ roil ’
one. ‘ -
A GENEROUS OFFER.
Bliffkins must ho a very generous
man. I heard him Bay last night that he
would lend a friend his last dollar. -
“I know it,” was the reply, “but he s
to rich he never gets down to that.
AT THE ZOO. '
“That was a great race yesterday,”
=aid the elephant to the tigei. ...
“Yes; I understand the giraffe beat
the zebra."
“He did; badly."
“By a neck-"' ! Harper’s Young Folks.
Always keep posted on all puV.lsc mn
ters, to be able to'do this suf— :u -
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