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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
ALABAMA STREET,
J. L. KEIIH, Proprietor
oiatruror? I >r lV*rty years, and while
tl is ;>i\ vciuml tluit the course of true
luv did run smoothly, it u •specially
me that the b ream ol coniurb ; ul fe
l:c. y dots not uhvuy* llow calmly
and uninterrupted by rock or ripple.
While they agreed to the mam, yet
there were some slight differences of
opinion betwieu them, which some
times cast their shadows ^ver the
matrimonial pathway, m clouds Hit
ting Across the sky cast their shad
ows over the landscape. The differ 4
i nc-8 w. re lew. and Henry thought
immaterial. For instance: The old
lady was a warm advocate of temper-
ance and tola! abstinence, while Hen
r y was not. The old lady was a pi
ous and cxamplary Christian, Henry
was not. The old lady was frugal
and industrious, and here again they
differed. Furthermore the old lauy
believed it u doty to work six days
in the week, and rest on the seventh,
while lleury believed that if he rest.
od hard all the six days oil the week,
there was no harm in going a-fishitig
the seventh.
With the •xeeptian of these unini
portant difference*, they agreed as
vtu/l a^ ylie average Matrimonial
couple who are bound together by
the ties »f past love and present lan
H*nry was an arden politician, and
look great interest in see in »that prop
or men Were elected to office. If
a town constable was to be chosen,
lUmy was tn active canvasser, and
on election day, if his favorite can
didate was the fortunate man, Henry
was so elated, he generally ceiebrut
ed his victory so enthusiastically
that late at night h* was so tired Ire
had to be led home by his brother
politicians; while, on the other hand,
if his man was deleated, Henry was
wont to drown his disappointment in
the flowing bowl.
'Hi* old lady had borne this, her
great sorrow, for two score years, un
til at last forebearance in her mind
ceased to be a virtue. So, one cold
November night, when Henry was
brought home in a more than usual
ly sorrowful condition, and laid up
on his bed, she procured a ciotiies
line, and with it bound him as tight
and fast as ever a victim was bound
to the stake. She then put out the
fire in the stove, that he might not
get up in his elepp and set the house
on fire; opened the windows in the
roouij that he might not die of suffo
cation, locked the door, and retired
to her lonely couch. During the
night it stormed so
said his “rheuuiatiz” prevented the
liit*. and hio insulted mauhcod the
Dab Bo, thinking that in the end
he would abandon the suit, and to
ippease h'ui for the time beiug,,! 8L
ed lus petition. 4.
Time passed ^on. There was uo
ot)> ot peace; the day of t*tul utfnie,
amt the twelve intelligent jurors
bought the ground for a divoi'Cv suf
floe ut, and so said by their ver^ic*.
Old lien fly left the court appur;j*»tly
as happy as on his bridal umi'u.
About six wt-eks after, the old tnun
emu* into my odlc* again, looking
very much crestfallen. I had heard
what had happened ad inlerimi and
was prepared tor what was coining.
“Squire/ said Henry at la«', ‘I
want you to get me another diviflW
•Another divoice?’ said I: ‘why,
ire you marr ed again after you; ”;i£t
ex peril t.Ce ?*
‘Yes, Su mre.’ said he, ‘I named
the old woman over agin'
‘You did ?’ said I; ‘why, hiotv in
im* world did that hnppt n, and,with
so short, a coartship ?’
‘’Twa’n’t no courting at' ul4* said
the old man. ‘1*11 t*ll ye Imw it hap
pened. Squire. One evening the old
woman sent me word tlmt. she had
got a letter from our son Sain irt.Kal
iforny, and invited me to comp down
and she would read it to me. I frent
down. She had a good supper for
me. You se*, Squire, I’ve been keep-
in’ t uohTer’g null sin' we parted.
Welf, Attsrp Tratl *tyfe*rf*h*
litter, atul got my old pipe and gin
it to me, and we sit and talked lor
some time, when T looked up in the
Cupboard and I saw the old woman's
bos,<.>i tansy bitters. She saw no*
n uking at it, and went and tiik it
down and sot it on the table, and
told me to take some, it woukl be
good for my rheumatiz. J took a
drink—there wasn’t aa much tansy
in it. as a he used to put in, fer she
used to make it so bitter I couldn’t
drink it. Wall, it tasted kind o’good,
and tl cold woman was pleasant -and
I took another drink, and by me by
another, and arter a while Squir
Hobbs and his wife corned in, and
wc talkidur.d talked about Sam and
old times, and I don’t jest remember
how it was done, but she married
me over ag’iti, But it was the whis
key that done it Squire, aud I believe
it was a sot up job, an’ 1 Won’t stand
it.’
I informed him that he could uot
get. another divorce until some new
cause arose. I told him to try and
get along, let whiskey alone, drop
politics, and I thought the old wo
man would not freeze him to death
*o. 5t.
ftutigous ol' Immitfratiou
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long :*4 the America • p. oole are
tools * nonjh to hid high for such
rubbish? The people so helped,
swear never to return. Why should
to the United
th*v? Banishment
States is not half so bad :.* aj dt, t
We devote space this w»ek to the
ielter ch M r. Hyers, on lmmig ation,
btcause we have always believed that
immigration as at priseut cour'ed by
Georgia and othc states would prove
almost an unmitigated cu*‘Pe,
T’welve years ag>* bv a short article
in one of the then leading weeklies o!
Georgia, we filed our protest against
it, bused upon onlyone ground of ob
jectinn. Time and again since that,
wt* would have-renewed it, bus tl up
ou a number ol objections, bin for
the reasons we Were not known
among the Iradera of public opinion,
and thought that surely* some one
who assumed the roU* ot statesmen
would see ere long that the immigra
tion policy of the day was u mlmake.
T'he argument hits all beeh ou one
side until very recently ; but sonn
have waked up at last.
in addition to whtit Mr. Byers says,
we commend to the viaiouary i..;mi
gruLionists, a wet ks travel through
Georgia, with oons'aat and cl »se ob-
rt.-rvat.ion and ii quay as to the m
crease in the number ol farm houses,
multiplication of farms, character of
lands upon which uu*n are paying
rent; rbo number ol people in towns
and cities out of employment, Hu*
cha gesof investments that might be
made to the profit of capitalists a*,
home and laborers inn, that he may
consider in the* face of what lie learns
by tins process, whether or not wc so
much need or are likely to need, any
other population than our. natural
increase, properly cared for.
We are threatened by no clanking
chains or resounding arms that i r-
bid a pause on this line. Let us pans*
and consider well! and possibly not a mau of them c aid
'•1'. n,. r oeli^Ve, ff’.- fTTtTV'^vMMimT' I*r.'t *vr v, i .ii> hn>4.T5fyj ***''' -
“That e’en a child could understand
The de'il bad business on the ’.and.”
In the morning, poor old Ilenry
was almost frozen so death, but ou
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his making a faithful promise to let
politics alone in the future, His wife
released him. The rheumatism, how
ever, had taken so deep a Bi^t in his
bones, that he was unable to walk
for many a day. As soon as he
could get to town, he came to me to
tell me a most pitiful tale of his
WD 'gs, and employ me to get a di
vorce. I tried to persuade _.*u old
man to forget and forgiv-, but he
woik house, or an asylum for idiot*.
It is conferiug nu-rcy’ and mut<-rinl
g 'oil, and cons der.-ible honor on such
subjects to get -rid of them in ting
way; especially when oi*e tvfl c - t hu|
in a very*lew years these jaiis-bifd*,
paupers, idiots, and what tj») . will
bloom out in full glory of Arm-nctU
citizMisn ip.
One little canton of S^tz rfani
spent in a short series pt yeais. not
less than ota and a half million of
francs in a depurate attempt t.. dis
pose of its poor to other conotr es;
and the greatest regret wag that soma
go'd citizens left with the worthies*.
Within u month, another t»wn has
publickly vou-d forty dollars a head
to all who will emigrate. America,
is a c.itaper poorhouee than any to
lie had at heiue, say t,heat ecoubmists, •
and it is also the cheapest jail. I if
no uncommon thing ou the conti
nent lor villages uud clubs to make
U common purge to defray the ex
pense of halt a dozen loafers aoi* 1 '**
the sea, ou the one condition ‘that
they never return. Alun s: every
mouth of late years nun br M ugW dit«
ficultie* and aiigry ebrn spo-id nc«
boi.w-.-en hniui oflieials tu Europe and
our consuls and diplomatic repr j eu»
tatiyes as- ti* shiping of wonfldeSi
subjects io our shores. But a fevf
moutiia ago, e ven hundred Italians,
wretched, pout and liny, were snip
ped off in n body to the United 8< atei
T’hey wete all ignorant, and of ! >w-
«st classes. They w«re all Uoutaa
Oatholics ol the most bigoted ktad,
again.
A number of months after, I met
o.'d lienrv looking bright and hap
py. ‘Well, my old friend,’ said I,
‘how do you get along?’ ‘Oh \ lust
rate, Squire! fust rate. You see the
old woman can’t foo) me on any
more lanng lea. I’ve quit drinking,
Squir*, i-igned the pledge, and my
second wife and I get along fu-t rate,
betti-r than I did with thofu-t one, a
darned sigh:. Sum’s cowo home,
and, Squire, 1’trf oiost awful glad I
took tluu tuiisy.’
I hope Ll» women wdl see no rea-
uon in the- f negoing anecdote to les-
•vu their e-Hurts in the cause of tun*
p ranee, for while drunkenness has
been in my p met ice the prolific cause
ol divorce, I never before knew a
happy marriage like old IL nry’a to
result from it. Whether tee tansy
had anything to do with the result
is a matter beyond my knowledge.
I have looked in the dispensatory, but
don’t find that “a disposition to
many’’ !3 one of the medicinal prop
erties attributed to the plant.
of neatly all our consuls and diph;
mafic representatives abroad that an
alarming proportion ot these people
who emigrate to the United States
nre m positive injury, an citizens, to
H»ry country. I will try to show that,
though there an* good people who
indulge the supreme nonseme that
every immigrant landing is worih
seven or eight hundred dollars io us,
there are many communities in En
rope willing to give u handsome sum
to be well rid oflhousand* and thou
sand whom we so heartily welcome.
I do not refer to occasional society or
community that may subscribe mon
ey to aid good citizens to cross tho
ocean, but to those moie numerous
c-uimunit;e3 *and local governtn nts
that pay money to get rid of people
vtfliom they know to be bad citizens
and of no good use anywhere. Ol the
(■migrants so sent to us, a major part
have been utter failures at home—un
fortunate and unlucky men, so-call
ed, who would never prosper any
where. No small part uremdventur
ers, seeking fortunes, political and
otherwise, in a country where tney
have good reason to beJeive the most
wortl 't ss may rise U> position. Most
ularmin’g of all are the thousands of
paupers paid for coming amt the jail
birds flying from justice. Haully a
ship lauds that does not bring a doz
en of them. Of course the Socialists,
Communists, Mormons, Nihilists,
and the generally disorderly of what
ever mum* or class, flock to our shores
as a congenial harbor. Here they
hope to om*cute plans in freedom for
which they would have been impris
on re at home, A rc-cent wutes has
pointed out; the fact jjFt.t wFhave in
the United States already more than
two milliohs belonging to these die
orderly classes.
Thai hundreds and thousand ol
paupers, crip! led persons, criminals,
and even idiolte, are being sent to us
by communities and iocal go verity
menfs in Europe ia now beyond a
doubt. It is proven officially, and in
a hundred im ances. It is ustonish-
ii g and barbaious that certain town
councils and village authorities vote
money out of the town purse to corn
pel their criminals and paupers to
emigrate to the United Sta-.-.-s; and
yet who can are so much harm in it,
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few years some country court w U
swear these people all in u* ctnzt- .*
of t!io United Btat.es, and their v.^#
will balance the vote* of *ev*n n-
dred of the m<>.*t intelligent a - . oa*
triotic citizen * of the country. <Jao
tlure be any question io, to win-tlier
tills importation (and there are muuy
like it) Wes un injury to the United
States? Is it. on the other hand, uot
clear that making citizens of them i*
an outrage on Americans?
Half of the people in Massachu
setts are not able to pay more than a
poil tax now. Does MasHactiusvtt*
wish several thotiau*d more penoi
less citizens, who are ignorant ag
well ? Does any other State or terri.
tory ? 11 so, there are O sevon hun«
died aye, seventy times seven huu»
dred more penniless Italians ready to
come.
Let usconsider fora moment what
the effect of nil this is to be on the
huetofore consented and industrious
working classes of America. Labor
lias been honorable among us. Will
it continue t-o, when the laboring
classes are thoroughly mixed with
thelovest offscourmg ot European
towns and wtnu foreign Communists
Socialssts, paupers, and jml-b rds
shall form h.111 the working class,
and enforce their vice by tin aid of
their votet? What is the position of
a workingman in the State of Cali
fornia to day compared with tnat of
a workingman in those States where
the worst foreign elements have not
yet i. r ot a foothold ? What, ton, is to
be the social effec o i the moral and
Ciir.stain woiklng classes of Amer
ica, of degrading them to a level with
the dissolute ami infidel scum that
we are- importing?
Art not, Uf short, our free immi
gration and naturaliz moo laws
bringing a wretched curse bpon the
working classes of the United States?
What cun be more certain tnun that
in a few years a wid.- gulf will exist
between the working and the non-
working clases of Atm-ricu? We are
preparing ^he way to degrade the la
borer, by compelling him to work
side by side with men vasDy h s in
feriors in intellect, in moral worth,
in every nng that has, in cm coun
try, untii i ow dignified labor.—{$. H.
M. Byers, n N. Y Tribune.