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The recent lynching of three inno
cent negroes in Jefferson parish iD
Louisiana, has directed attention anew
to the prevalence of this crime all
over the country. Indeed no section
seems to be exempt from this blot
upon civilization; and ex-President
Harrison has been moved to condemn
in strong terms this tendency of the
times.
Talk is a cheap commodity in the
suppression of crim°, but not a very
effective one. It has been said, and
•said wisely, “We lament the evils
which aftl ct and degrade mankind.
Our first impulse is to attack and de
stroy them.
“One would think that experience
might convince us how impossible
this is; yet we continue hurling stones
at an invisible enemy and marveling
that he is not demolished.
“Let us rather consider the defi
ciencies than the excess, the crying
needs rather than.the evil deeds, and
our reforms will at once assume a
more practical and intelligent char
acter.”
Who then are responsible—for there
must be responsibility somewhere—
for the state of affairs of which we
hear so much complaint coming up
from no one section of the country?
Are not the lawmakers and those who
administer the laws the responsible
parties? Could these outbreaks occur
in a land where proper laws were en
acted for the suppression and preven
tion of crime, with these laws faith
fully enforced? Our criminal laws
appear to have been enacted more in
the interest of the criminal classes
chan for the suppression of crime, and
to be administered more for their ben
efit than for the preservation of the
peace and dignity of the States of this
Union.
This being the case and the fact be
ing well understood by the criminally
disposed, that class presumes upon
what they appear to regard as a sort
of right conferred upon them to do as
they please; and they please to ccca
sionally do some very wrong, very ex
asperating things, well calculated to
cest the patience, the endurance of
men who have shown their respect for
law in a way that cannot be ques
tioned. We should remember that it
is the same human nature we encoun
ter today that has oropped out in all
history, and that there is a point be
yond which that human nature re
gards submission to wrong, to outrage
that rouses Anglo-Saxon blood to
white heat, as ceasing to be a virtue
The law’s delays and the uncertainty
not to say unreliability of jurors, have
wrought up many communities to the
commission of deeds at which
in calmer moments they have
no doubt stood appalled. Mob violence
is a remedy lor no evil. It is simply
brute force punishing fiends for
orimes which present laws are not
only powerless to redress, but have
failed to impress criminals and those
disposed to commit crime with dread
of the consequences, which all crimi
nal la *s should do.
The laws should provids adequate
punishment for every grade of crime
and that punishment should follow
swift upon the conviction of the crirn
inal. There should be
dilatory pleas, no putting Off trial
from one term of court to another un
til the penalty provided by law has
lost its terror. The stern and inflexi
ble administration of such laws and
the quick and adequate punishment of
the guilty would work wonders in the
prevention of crime; while it would
upercede the necessity for a resort
to mob violence which good men who
have lost confidence in courts and
uries are wont to plead as a justifica
tion for taking into their own bands,
not the trial and determination of the
guilt of a person charged ^ith mur
der or other horrible crime, but the
iofliction of punishment upon any one
whom the quick finger of suspicion
may point out as guilty. Herein is a
lesson for our lawmakers, and they
will prove themselves unworthy their
high calling” if they do not improve
it to the bringing of order, safety, and
high respect for law out of the
chaotic state into which we seem to
be so rapidly drifting.
Another incentive to mob violence
is found in the growing conviction
that a man with money and influen
tial friends can commit crime with
impunity; that his friends can “fix”
enough jurors to secure his acquittal,
or at least a mistrial, or failing in
this, secure postponements upon one
pretext or another until the case
wears itself out and is finally stricken
from the docket, and a “red-handed
murderer” or other criminal of high
grade goes free to follow the trend of
his inclination.
In many communities in every sec
tion of the country such cases can be
pointed out, and it is little wonder
that such cases have brought about a
spirit of unrest and distrust, so that
when a murder of a peculiarly revolt
ing character has been committed, or
other crime of a nature to arouse in
dignation and disgust, men are apt to
be asking each other the question why
the State should be put to the trouble
and expense of prosecuting the
offended when there is no probability
that he can b3 convicted, notwith-
tanding the evidence of his guilt may
be as clear and strong as it is possible
for evidence to be; or that, if con
victed, he is almost certain to be par
doned by the Governor or the sentence
be so commuted as to render the pun
ishment very light ana wholly inad
equate to the crime. Then perhaps
comes a suggestion from some impul
sive relative or friend of the murdered
man or otherwise wronged person to
string up” the offender, and falling
upon the ears of men wrought up to
the highest pitch of excitement, it
often takes shape in wresting the cul
prit from the officers of the law and
the leaving him dang’ing at the end
of a rope in some convenient nook or
corner. It is thus that one murder is
occasionally avenged by another mur
der equally or perhaDsmore revolting
An eminent layer of Nashville was
asked, “What remedy should be used
to prevent mob law?” and his answer
was: “For certain nameless crimes
there is no remedy. Kestore to the
public confidence in its officers,
courts, and juries, that all crimes will
be punished certainly and speedily,
and you have exhausted remedies.”
To this end our criminal laws and
criminal jurisprudence need reform
ing. It will require a type of states
mansbip to do this that we have not
been accustomed to fiod in our legis
latures or those wearing the judicial
ermine. The momentous question
now presents itself. Are the people
of this country, at this time, equal to
the task of taking this departure
from the prevailing custom and
choosing such men as are not
only capable of inaugurating
the much-needed reform, but have
the nerve to put it into practical
operation? Jno. Millkr McKee.
The Sunny South was born in At
lanta, and for nearly twenty years has
made that rising city its home.
From the beginning it was designed
as an outlet for southern literature,
an entertaining and instructive fire
side companion, a pare and elevating
journal for refined homes, a paper
that fathers and mothers might safely
put into the hands of their daughters
and sons.
It was a bold venture into the field
of journalistic conflict. The founders
in effect said:
“We will publish a paper which
shall be unpolluted by scandal and
vulgar sensstion. We will defy that
large class of readers whose morbid
appetites call for the impure, and rest
our hopes of success upon that much
smaller class which pledges its coun
tenance and support to true and lofty
ideals.”
That the hopes of the originators
were far from visionary the long life
of the paper and its present solid and
firmly rooted condition attest. Not
only has it witnessed the rise and fall
of scores of ambitious weekly
and monthly rivals in its chosen field
of effort, hut it has passed without se
rious injury through the unparalleled
storms of the past summer, and is pre
pared to voyage without fear and in
conquering mood upon the high seas
of a glorious future. The public may
be assured that a paper which has
withstood the shocks of fhe past
twenty years has come to stay.
It was never designed for a local,
but for a southern paper, and its
readers may he found in great num-
beis in every Southern State. From
Maryland to New Mexico, from
the lowest point of Florida
to the Northern extremes of Virginia,
Kentucky and Missouri the Sunny
South is the warmly greeted messen
ger and friend of multitudes of domes
tic circles.
But to the people of Atlanta we de
sire now especially to speak, and of
her good men and representative old
and young women we ask,—will you
not add your names to the number of
those who subscribed for the paper in
its infancy when It wa9 but a doubt
ful promise, and who have adhered to
it until they now enjoy its ripening
fruks? Will you not support a whole
some literary and family paper, “racy
of the South” after it has shown its
right to live Dy laboring and waiting
for twenty toilsome years?
••EABOH THE •CBIPTCBEJ.”
According to. a Tennessee paper
there is a man in DeKalb county in that
State who has strictly obeyed this in
junction. He claims to have read the
Old Testament through ten or twelve
times and the New Testament nearly
ninety times. The name of the man
is not given nor are the beneficial re
sults of his reading stated. A few
years ago the name of Eiihu Burritt
was flashed over the world as the
“Learned Blacksmith,” who had mas
tered about fifty languages. If the
name of E ! ihu Burritt should be
mentioned to a company of young
people intent upon literary pursuits
how many of them could tell who and
what he was? The only record he
made upon the page of history was
that he had mastered fifty languages.
That is all he accomplished. So with
the Tennesseean. A man of intelli
gence who had read the Bible through
as often as he has ought to be able to
expound it so as to b8 perfectly plain
to even an ordinary mind; but he
seems to have accomplished nothing
in that direction. He bat simply read
and read and read it, and that will be
the only mark he will make upon the
history of his time, for it is doubtful
France has more persons over sixty whether his name and achievement
years of age than any other country;! will be known beyond the limits of his
Ireland oomes next. » county. «
Sidney Smith once asked contempt
uously : “Who reads ao American
book?” It is stated that Gen. Lew
Wallace’s “Ben Hur” has earned him
more than $100,000 in royalties. If
Sidney could realize this fact would
not his bones “turn over in his coffin,”
if it were possible?
The negro is a disturbing element
in the North, and especially in the
state of New York. He is causing
trouble in the Major-General John C.
Robinson Camp, sons of Veterans, at
Binghamton, N Y. This camp is one
of the pioneer organizations in that
state, and at the time of its organiza
tion four colored men were admitted
to membership. Now they have tired
of the brother in black and sixteen
members withdrew from the camp,
leaving a less number than is requir
ed to keep up the organization. It is
stated that the cause of the trouble
was the demand of the negro members
that they* should be given position
among the officers, and this the white
members would not concede.
And now there is trouble in the pub
lic school in Babylon, N. Y. A citi
zen of that place vigorously objects to
his son being seated next to a colored
pupil, and has appealed to the board
of education to have the matter rem
edied, and so the thing goes on.
Bishop Turner recently said that
the negro is a pariah in this country,
and the North is giving him reason
for the assertion.
CLEMENT A. EVANS.
The Commander in Chief of the
United Confederate Veterans for the
district of Georgia honors the Sunny
South this week by communicating
through its columus his admirable
plan for the organization of the Uni
ted Confedente Veterans throughout
the State. As a scheme for gathering
and preserving the scattered frag
ments of Confederate history and
the history of each individual sol
dier; for cementing a lifelong
brotherhood and keeping ceaseless
watch over needy and suffering com
rades as the years pass by, it is supe
rior to anything that has come under
our notice, and we earnestly recom
mend its careful perusal not only by
the Georgia veterans, but by the peo
ple of the entire South. District com
manders and the officers of local
camps will do well to preserve it for
study and reference.
A biography of Queen Victoria was
written and published some years ago
in which the author stated that being
aroused at five o'clock in the morning
to receive the notification that she
bad succeeded to the throne of Eng
land by the death of her uncle, she
hurried into the room wearing a wrap
per and shawl with her “naked feet in
slippers.” It is natural that under
the excitement produced by such a
message, young girl that she was, she
should have been somewhat “flustra-
ted” and have forgotten something,but
a recent biographer hotly controverts
this story. It was “the color of her
hose” that misled the witness, says
this latest biographer. Better have
let the young Queen stood in her
‘ naked feet in slippers” to receive the
important announcement. There was
something romantic in such an ap
pearance.
Peary’i Arctic House.
From a letter in New York Times
from a member of Peary’s expedi
tion :
“Work on the house is progressing
favorably. When finished it will be
33 by 17. It is built of the very best
material. The uprights are two-inch
planks, outside ot which is placed tar
paper, two-ply, then a sheeting of
matched boards, on top of which is
another layer of three-ply tar paper
The entire bouse, when finished, is to
be painted with tar. Inside comes
another layer of paper. Then more
sheeting, which, by the way, is put oa
at an angle of 45 degrees,and runs oppo-
siteon the opposite sides of the house,in
order to more securely brace it. Inside
of all this is thick red flannel.
“On the roof is a glass dome, as we
call it. It is shaped like a hothouse
and is made of hothouse sashes. Very
thick glass is used. This dome is 25
feet long by 6 wide. Under this dome
and even with its ceiling is another
glass layer, making it perfectly wind-
proof. So you see we wi*l ba pretty
comfortable however cold it may be
outside.
During the reign of Henry YIIF.
71,400 persons were legally executed
in England, the larger portion of
whom were guilty of no offense worse
than misdemeanor. In one year three
hundred starving beggars were hang
ed for asking alms.
the easy chair.
The negroes on the farm used to
sert that no Jay birds could ever h
seen on Fridays. They invariahu
visited Hell on the sixth day 0 f 2
week. Whether they have abandoned
this uncanny habit since the war w
are not informed. Nor do we recall
the reason which the darkies doubtless
gave for the intimacy which they 80 |
emnly asserted existed between the
Blue Jays and old Satan.
* * *
But remembering as we distinctly
ao a certain mean trick that the j aji
ussed to play on the other birds, they
must have been taking weekly lessons
in mischief from the Father of Evil
It reminded us of those big boys who
find delight in torturing small ones
The cry of the Jay is very innocent
and plaintive when he is maki D ghis
dinner off worms and bugs in the
great red-oak trees, and tender-
hearted youngsters (if there are any
such) are inclined to spare him as &
harmless bird.
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But the pity of the sportsman is
turned into wrath when he finds the
blue hypocrite playing the part of a
mock-bird in the forest.
He has only two tunes; the innocent
and plaintive one above mentioned,and
the shrill fierce scream of the chicken
hawk. Concealing himself amongst
thick green foliage near the nest of
some feathered ^neighbor, he terrifies
the baby-birds with the blood-curd
ling cry of the bird of prey. The
frightened twitterings of the helpless
younglings, and the anxious wailings
of the parents as they come flying to
the apparently threatened brood are
pitiable to hear and witness.
* * *
But it is Saturday, and the
schoolboy is abroad with his long,
slim, percussion-cap singlebarrelled
shot-guD. He hears the disturbance
and be goes hawk-hunting. Since he
first learned to shoot without shutting
both eyes his heart has cherished the
desire to take the life of a chioken
hawk. Many and many a time has he
turned regretfully from his fritters
and molasses in response to his moth
er's altogether serious but poetic call:
‘ To arms! it comes! the Dawk! the hawk!”
and rushed wildly to t
support of the old blue hen
only to be exasperated by the spec
tacle of the cruel bird Hying far over
the fields with a squealing chick is
its talons. Over and over again has
he stood on the porch on a hot sum
mer day and seen a hawk perched lilt
a gray speck in the top of a dead pice
tree on Cedar Hill three-quarters of i
mile away, and worn htmself out
making a circuit of two miles under
the burning sun only to behold the
bird soar defiantly away just as
was about to take sight.
* * *
His mind is full of these tantalizing
memories as he sneaks with fox-
like cunning under the trees. He ar
rives undiscovered in the immediate
vicinity of the bird’s nest,aad hie face
glows with the light of expected
triumph as he stands with cocked gun
under the tree from wherce the chici*
en-bawk cries are proceeding at short
intervals. The jay-bird suddenly hop*
out of its place of concealment with
the tell-tale song on his li—bill. The
young sportsman starts—pales with
anger—fires,and the malicious mocker
drops at his feet lifeless. And though
he is disappointed, he eDjoys some
consolation from the consciousnese
rhat be is an an aveDger of the jouug
birds’ wrongs.
Short ai'd Sweet
But his letter is to the point. W
do not claim that our machine iu W'
ter than all the other machines in to
world, but do claim it to be “good »
the best” no matter what price is P alu
for the other machine.
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L Lave h»a the machine tested and flna _ ^
isfactory so lar. beems to be as gova »
be»*.
Novasotv Texas.
Grimes Co.
Very *rnly.
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In this country 2500 wome n ^
practising medicine, 275 preacbm*
Gospel, more than «ix thousand ^
aging postoffices, and over three JL
Boa earning independent lD< ^ nt .
S nee 1880 rhe Patent Office has
en over 2500 patents to women,.
New York city 27000 women snhP 0 *
their husbands.