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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTOR: TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 183'.
THE CONSTITUTION
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ATLANTA, GA., MARCH 7,1882.
“CORN-RAISERS AND COTTON.'
We send this issue ol The
•Constitution to many persons
who are not subscribers.
If you are a subscriber give
the paper to some friend who is
not and ask him to take it. If
you are not, send us your name
and take it.
We are determined to exhaust
the question of “corn-raisers”
and “cotton-planters,” and want
every farmer to' read what is
said.
After this is finished we will
take up other questions of vital
interest to the farmers. *
You might as well take The
Constitution at once. You’ve
got to have it.
Senator Hill’s friends will be glad to learn
that he is back at work and in good spirits.
Bill Arp, as usual, discusses men and
tilings in a mildly cynical way; this week he
writes upon topics which are timely and in
teresting to every one.
Louisiana once more nestles down in Baton
Rouge. The governor, and the other ollicers
of the state government, have checked their
baggage from New Orleans back to the old
capital.
“None whatever,” said Alex H. Stephens
to our correspondent, in answer to a question
whether or no there was any authority for
Colonel Farrow’s assertion that Governor
Colquitt had tendered Mr. Stephens a coali
tion candidacy for govemer. We said we
did not believe it, and now Mr. Stephens
liacks us up.
Cotton Seed Oil is said to have poisoned a
colored family in Thomaston; but it appears
that they took enough to make any one sick
if it had been butter or lard. There is abso
lutely no harmful property in the oil, and
when its use becomes general, as it is bound
to do, ]>eoplc will wonder that they ever raised
objection to it.
It is pleasant to sec from our special letter
that Rome is making rapid progress with its
new cotton seed oil mill The more of such
signs of progress that we can note throughout
the state the better it will be for all concerned.
It is also to be noted that the King mill in
Augusta is progressing, and will be a fine mill
when built.
Now that the president him signed the
apportionment bill, legislatures from Augusta
to Austin are deeply engaged in redistricting
their respective states in the interest of re
spective dominant parties. About twenty
legislatures are in session, and most of the
remainder are momentarily expecting a call
to sit. Very few men will have an oppor
tunity to go to the next congress as members-
at-large.
An infusion of new blood is sadly needed
in the veins of the management of the demo
cratic party in Kentucky. Harmony within
the party is a thing that nearly every machine
organ continually cries for, and it is a good
thing on general principles; but a little whole
some stirring up will do Kentucky good, and
will do little or no harm to the democratic
party. For example, if Kentucky democrats
would get over their fondness for the name of
Gramercy Fark, it Would be a grateful thing.
Two great fires in Georgia within a week
show that other towns as well as our own are
practically at the mercy of the flames. Savan
nah, and now Madison, have suffered losses
which nearly rival the recent great local de
struction. Incendiarism seems to be rife, and
the utmost vigilance and rigid care is neces
sary where so combustible a material as cot
ton is concerned. Luckily for Madison, the
presence of active insurance agents has, in a
measure, provided against local pecuniary
loss.
South Carolina republicans have met in
secret and resolved that they would not make
an organized fight in the next elections. In
this they were wise; for their organization is
useless. They resolved also that they would
make a great outcry to congress to protect
them in voting. In this they were foolish;
for it was unnecessary to call on congress.
As a matter of fact the republicans of South
Carolina cannot agree among themselves and
so put the blame of their fights on democratic
shoulders.
Elsewhere it is stated that Dr. Stanford, of
Columbus, is putting out a number of basket-
willow cuttings and also of mulberries; the
latter with the view of encouraging silk cul
ture. The Chinese have a proverb that he
who plants a tree erects a perpetual monu
ment and is to be prayed for os a benefactor,
which is something like Swift's dictum,that he
who makes two blades of grass grow where
one did before, deserves better of all mankind
than all the politicians. Either of them can
be applied to Dr. Stanford, whose work in in
troducing basket-willow is most highly to be
commended, not to mention the fostering
hand which lie stretches out to silk culture
in Georgia.
RoscokConkling is confirmed by the senate
as a justice of the supreme court. In every
way he is unfit for the position. As a Lawyer
be is a laughing stocK before the bar of his
own state. As for his judgment, the fact that
be fully believed the country was with him
when he resigned the New York senatorsliip
is enough to write him down as unbalanced.
He is simply a bitter partisan, and the office
is a final payment for services rendered to Mr.
Arthur, who has made some good nomina
tions, but has failed this time. Of course
saulted. The would-be assassin is supposed
to be insane. This is the fourth time her life
has been attempted, and all Americans will
give thanks that her life was spared. No one
showed greater solicitude for the life of Presi
dent Garfield than Queen Victoria did, and it
is shocking to chronicle the fact that the as
sassin's hand has again been raised against
her who so lately was shocked by Guiteau’s
crime. It is to be hoped that MacLean will
meet with swift and appropriate punishment;
for every such attempt on the life of a ruler
so mild and good as Victoria is a blow at es
tablished institutions which cannot be af
forded.
THE “YOUNG MEN’S” PARTY.
The most ridiculous thing in political an
nals is the attempt to saddle the coalition
party on the “young men” of Georgia.
That party was organized, if it has any or
ganization at all, in a conference at the Mark
ham house. What “young nieD” were present
at this conference? There was old man Fel
ton, old man Longstreet, old man Farrow, old
man Miller, and old man Hook.
We do not mean to be disre
spectful to those gentlemen in the prefix we
give them, but simply to call attention to the
fact that neither of them is a young man by
many years. The organization was un
dertaken solely bv old men. By wliat right,
then, do they call it a “young men’s” party?
Have the “young mqn” taken hold of it
since the old men gave it a start? Not at all.
With the single exception of Mr. Cox, not a
young man has raised his voice in its defense,
and Mr. Cox must surely understand by this
time that he made a great mistake in doing
so. It was said that he was to be followed by
brilliant young men from every district in the
state, and names were even given freely.
But not one man has yet been found to break
away from the old party in obedience to his
jcall. We can, on the contrary, showscores of
young men who have buckled on their armor
against the coalition. The young leaders of
both the Colquitt and Norwood wings in the
late campaign have with singular unanimity
and heartiness locked hands against the “new
party,” and stand shoulder to shoulder in the
democratic ranks.
Colonel Farrow is mistaken in calling the
coalition a “young men’s” party. The enthu
siasm, the vigor, the dash and the spirit of
Georgia—the “young men” of the state will
be found solid against the new movement.
Whenever they want a party of their own
they will try to have something to say in its
organization—and if they happen to be busy
at the lime they will certainly not get Colonel
Farrow to cut out tlieir work for them!
SILK CULTURE IN THE SOUTH
We are indebted to Mr. P. Wallace McKit-
triek, a practical silk culturist and reeler, of
Memphis, for an excellent pamphlet relating
to silk culture in the south. Mr. McKittrick
is an ardent advocate of the culture of raw
silk in this country. He believes that nature
has given the south such resources that it
should lead the world in tlie|production of silk.
He desires to save to the country The vast sum
that goes elsewhere for raw silk; and he espec
ially urges the southern peoplejto raise silk in
order to give employment and fair compensa
tion to suffering women and children. We im
port every year silks that contain the raw
material to the amount of twelve millions
dollars, and it is this sum that Mr. McKit
trick would have the south receive through a
development of the silk industry. He is
himself the proprietor of the silk mills .of
Memphis, and he offers to all who will en
gage in the work a ready market. He will
buy all the silk cocoons that are offered, pay
ing $2.50 a pound, and even 75 cents a
pound for pierced cocoons, which were for
merly regarded as worthless. This is business.
The author of the pamphlet lives in Memphis,
where his mills are located, and he lias no in
tention of abandoning eitber the south or the
production of silk.
The pamphlet before us is chiefly made up
of instructions in practical silk culture.
The care of the eggs and of the worms, the
gathering of the cocoons, the silkworm food
plant, and many other subjects pertaining to
the business are practically treated in this
little book, which can be had ou application
to its author.
Mr. McKittrick shows that one person can
attend to enough silkworms in six weeks to
secure cocoons worth $500. The cocoons can
be sold, as we have stated, or else the reeled
silk can be sold at from $8.50 to $11 a pound
of twelve ounces. The demand for raw silk
and silk cocoons is constantly increasing, and
no fear of a glutted market need be enter
tained. It is a subject that deserves the seri
ous attention of the new south, and the little
pamphlet should serve to awaken an interest
in an industry that once ir»d a fine foothold
in Virginia and Georgia and the two Caro-
linas.
THE CORN-RAISERS VS. PLANTERS.
We print in another column a remarkable
array of letters giving examples of successful
farmers in the state. It appears without a
single exception that the men who have been
prosperous in farming are men who make
their farms self-sustaining—who raise their
own corn, hay, grain and, to a degree, their
meat. One correspondent—writing from
Habersham county—gives an example of
three men who have prospered beyond the
average, neither of whom ever raised a pound
of cotton and of a district in which not a cot
ton seed was ever planted.
Now the farmers have objected to the an
nual ernsade of The Constitution in favor of
diversified crops, because we are theorists.
They have replied to our arguments with the
boast that one practical farmer was worth a
dozen editors, and that they knew more about
their business than we could ever teach them.
All right. Now we give them adose of “prac
tical farmers.” We give them name after
name of the most prosperous farmers in the
state, and it is shown without a single excep
tion they indorse by years of experience the
argument that we have built on theory. We
have sought no “special” cases. We have
simply asked for the names of the happiest,
fattest, best fed farmers—regardless of their
plan of farming. After the names are col
lected then we look into their methods—and
they are .all corn raisers.
We respectfully submit that these facts are
worth the serious consideration of our coun-
) try friends. They demonstrate absolutely
confirmation means acceptance. Conkling j ^jj at cotton is the curse of this state, and that
and Stanley Matthews will make a fine pair !, s > a i„ i_* i...
to sit together on the bench.
Queen Victoria’s life has again been as
independence and ease awaits only him who
I is strong enough to resist its allurements and
give enough of his land to mixed crops to
assure at least bread and meat for his family
and food for his stock. Within the next two
months the farmers of Georgia will decide
whether they will remain the slaves of the
commission merchant or whether they will
establish themselves as freemen. Will they
heed the lessons conveyed in The Constitu
tion of to-day? We have given them no the
ory or argument, but stubborn, incontrovert
ible facts. No man can answer them; at
most he can only evade their mandates and
affect to misunderstand tbeir meaning.
THE COMING COTTON CROP.
The bulls in the cotton market are labori
ously endeavoring to show that the crop of
1882-3 will be a very short one—shorter even
than the current crop. They do not admit
that a crop of over five million bales is possi
ble ; and it must be admitted that they have
a good many fafcts on their side. The de
creasing sates of fertilizers at such points as
Atlanta, and the known inability of many
farmers to repeat the work that resulted
disastrously last fall, go to show that on the
uplands the acreage will be reduced. The
farmers are driven by inexorable circum
stances to the production of larger food-crops,
and this must necessarily result in a smaller
cotton area. Some of those who can afford
to grow com will doubtless do so, believ
ing that the necessities of their neighbors
will result in an increased price for cotton;
but there will be many in every county who
will not be able to indulge in this delusion,
and the acreage will therefore be reduced—
just how much it is very difficult to forecast.
Nor is this the case alone on the uplands, for
it really is the situation throughout the cot
ton growing regions of the country.
In the Mississippi valley there is an addi
tional obstacle to the making of a large crop.
All the low country below Memphis is under
water or soon will be, aiid the Red River and
many other tributary streams are out of their
banks. These rivers are very high, and it is not
reasonable to suspect that the now submerged
bottom lands will be ready for tiie plow in
less than six weeks. The experience of years
is to the effect that planting operations in
tiie lower vailey begun after the first week in
April, result as a rule very poorly. If the seed
could be putin the ground after that tfine, the
young plants are almost sure to be cut down
by myriads of “grass worms." Such worms
follow great floods, and the New Orleans
Democrat-Times likens agriculture under such
circumstances to an investment in a lottery.
These and some similar facts point to a di
minished out-turn next year, but they should
not lead any one to expect high prices. The
crop of this country will doubtless be all that
the world will need. Just now the markets
of the world are overstocked with cotton,
whereas three years ago there was almost a
cotton famine. The large crop of last year has
glutted the market, and to-day the visible
supply is immense. If next year’s
crop is in the neighborhood of five millions,
many good judges think there will be nothing
in the price of the staple to tempt any sensi
ble planter into an enlargement of his acreage
in cotton—certainly not, if it involves a less
ened production of bread and meat. The
farmer who exhausts his resources in cotton
planting because he believes the crop will be
less than five millions of bales, will doubtless
reap disappointment; and he who knowingly
conducts his farming operations so as to bring
upon us a large crop of cotton and a small
crop of corn will find that a double curse in
the shape of low prices for the former and
high prices for the latter will again be visited
upon us.
DR. FELTON’S LATEST LETTER.
We print elsewhere a letter from Dr. Felton
based on a paragraph which recently appeared
in the Thomasville Enterprise, and which
was reproduced in The Constitution with ap
propriate comments. It is easy to perceive
that the intention of the doctor is to kill two
birds with one stone, and it is a pleasure to
us to allow him considerable latitude in that
direction. The truth is, we admire the skill
with which he shifts his ground when he
chooses, the pertinacity with which he holds
the controversial fort, and the ease and versa
tility with which he disposes of such stubborn
facts and details as may happen to stand in his
way. Such intellectual nimbleness as the
doctor displays is a perpetual delight to the
well-regulated editorial inind, and his letters
are no tax upon our space, not even when he
turns his batteries loose upon The Constitu
tion or any of its esteemed contemporaries,
In order that there may be no misunder
standing in regard to the facts which are the
occasion of Dr. Felton’s letter, we take them
from the record and present them in this is
sue of The Constitution. Comparing these
facts with the criticism in which Dr. Felton
indulges we are forced to the conclusion that
the evils which he would reform are insepara
ble from our punitive system as embodied in
the code. A year or more ago, The Constitu
tion took occasion to urge upon the legisla
ture the necessity of reforming our punitivi
system. "While there are imperfections in all
systems, there is large room for reform
in the Georgia system, as The Con
stitution took occasion to point out
It may interest Dr. Felton to know
that the remarks of The Constitution were
based on suggestions made by one who has
long been a member of the judiciary of this
state.
Now, then, we are in favor of reforming
our punitive system in the interest of jus
tice, but we believe the reform in questiofi
can be brought about without calling upon
Colonel Farrow to start a young men’s party.
There is no need for either our politicians or
our statesmen to get in a habit of this kind!
It is a useless and an expensive one. More
over the time may come when it is necessary
to reform something or other in Georgia, and
Colonel Farrow might not be on hand to
whoop up a coalition and a young men’s par
ty. Then, as a matter of course, there would
he trouble—the evils and errors would have
to go unreformed and uncorrected.
All our people, without regard to party or
race, are interested in reforming any evil that
needs reforming, and it has been demonstra
ted ten thousand times during the last few
years that nothing pleases the average legis
lator better than an opportunity to revise the
code. Let us, therefore, without waiting for
the organization and equipment of Colonel
Farrow’s young men’s coalition party, trust
the whole business to the legislature. We
»re convinced that Dr. Felton has only to
join The Constitution in calling the atten
tion of the next legislature to this important
and amendments made almost without dis- j
cussion. Certainly, no young men’s coalition
party is necessary to compel the legislature,
representing the people of the state, to reform
manifest abuses.
It will be seen from the statement of facts
which we present along with Dr. Felton’s
criticisms, that the conclusions he draws are
not warranted. His complaint is the wide
margin between the sentence of a woman for
robbing a colored child on the street and the
sentence of a negro man for entering and steal
ing from the house of a white man. Willis
McAfee’s sentence was as heavy as the judge
could make it under the law. He was con
victed of larceny from the house. The law,
in grading crimes, establishes certain limits
outside of which the judge has no discretion,
and beyond which he is not allowed to go.
McAfee having been convicted of larceny
frorn the house, and being a notorious crimi
nal, the judge went to the length of his discre
tion and sentenced the criminal to the longest
term provided by the law for the crime he
committed, while the Maddox woman was
sentenced to the lowest. The woman was con
victed of robbery, and the judge sentenced
her to the lowest term allowed under the
law. He had no discretion in the case of the
woman, except to make the term heavier, and
none in the case of the man except to make
his term lighter.
We do not indorse any injustice that may
be the result of our present punitive system;
we simply desire to show conclusively and
beyond all question that in the cases cited by
Dr. Felton the judges had no discretion save
to increase the injustice complained of.
There were suggestions in Dr.
Felton’s Augusta speech, and there
are intimations in the letter
calculated to leave the impression on the
mind of the reader to the effect that Dr. Fel
ton is working himself up to the point of ma
king an assault upon the judiciary of the
state, charging them with being in collusion
witli the lessees in the matter of filling up
the chain gang. Whether such a charge,
squarely formulated, is calculated to insure
the growth and safety of Colonel Farrow’s
young men’s coalition party is a question that
may well be left to the care of itself.
In one portion of his letter Dr. Felton says:
“It really appears, when you read of Adeline
“Maddox and Willis McAfee, and Edward
“Cox that the lighter crimes get the heaviest
“punishment, while the big criminal is en-
“sconced in ‘soft places.’ This is
“one of the glaring errors of the
“system.” The system that Dr. Felton
here alludes to is the lease system. In point
of fact, the lease system has no more connec
tion with the matter than the penitentiary
system of Labrador. The injustice of which
Dr. Felton complains would exist if the lease
system were wiped out and cold ashes
sprinkled over the place. And it will con
tinue to exist until there are changes in the
punitive laws which control judges and
juries. If King Solomon had considered the
Maddox and McAfee cases, and had been re
stricted by the same laws, his decision would
not have been different from that which gave
the woman the lightest sentence under the
law and the man the heaviest.
A HOME-MADE CITY.
Atlanta is emphatically a home-made town.
While we are duly grateful for foreign capitalists
who put their money here, justice to a brave and
energetic people compels the statement that Atlan
ta has been built with Atlanta money.
Our cotton compresses, our grain elevator, our
two new cotton factories, our plow works, employ
ing 700 men, our gin factories, our carriage facto
ries, our machine shops have, without exception,
been built by Atlanta men and money. The fac
tory now running was mainly built by Atlanta
capital. The cotton seed oil mill now building
has $100,000 of Atlanta money. Every bank in the
city is oilicered with Atlanta men and stocked
with Atlanta capital. Our four biggest grocery
firms and our ten biggest dry goods firms are of
Atlanta capital and Atlanta men. Our immense
blocks of buildings have almost without exception
been built by Atlanta men and money.
We do not disparage any northern capital that
has come in, or deprecate any that is coming. We
welcome all and we want more. We simply want
to advertise to the world that Atlantians have the
fullest confidence in Atlanta, and that we ask no
man to put his money where me have been afraid
to risk our own.
“CAN THEY DELIVER THE GOODS?”
“Do you think Pledger will get the Atlanta sttr-
veyorship?” a Constitution man asked Jackson
McHenry, the colored philosopher and statesman.
“Don’t think he will. But Pledger ought to have
it. He deserves some recognition; but I don’t be
lieve he’s going to get it.”
“The administration seems to be forgetting the
colored voters, don’t it?”
“Seems so! Let’em go ahead, though, and make
all their trades and bargains they wart to—we’ll
try and see ’em when they try to deliver the goods.”
BILL ARP.
THE C A.RTERSVILLE CYNIC MORAL
IZES ON MEN AND MATTERS.
He has Something to Say on the Shrewdnesa of Capi-
taUsts Liko Gould In Avoiding Great Trespass
on the Rights of the Sovereign People-
Good Advioo on Fortune Slaking.
Spring is here and the ground is warming up:
but the patient colored republican is still standing
at the back gate, with his hat in his hand, waiting
for a cold potato
The Hartwell Sun says that although General
Gartrell was its favorite in the race two years ago,
it cannot support him upon his present line. It is
squarely against independentism.
There are but three papers in the state, as far as
we can see, that support the coalition. With these
exceptions every formerly independent paper has
comeback into the ranks. There are two other
papers that support General Gartrell’s candidacy,
but are, we believe, opposed to the coalition move
ment.
“ETHERIAL MILDNESS COME.”
matter in order to see the necessary revision an a now m j u u bloom.
Douglasville Star.
A few violets have shown themselves.
Covington Enterprise.
We notice many peach and plum trees in bloom.
Douglasvilli Star.
The old cows will soon be happy. Grass is sprout
ing.
Belton North Georgian.
We would remind the average spring poet that
our gun is loaded.
Athens Banner.
Spring pioetry—send it in. Wc have a waste
basket just yawning for it.
jDal'on Citizen.
Some peach trees around town are in bloom, and
maple and other trees are budding.
Covington Enterprise.
Some thief has raided on the editor’s garden.
Scores of little lambs can now be seen on the sand
hills.
Thomasville Enterprise.
The banana shrubs are beginning to bloom and
flower-yards are fragrant with the delightful odor
of these flowers.
Eastman Times.
We note that roses are in bloom at McRae, as
well as many other flowers that usuaUy appear
much later in the spring.
Oglethorpe Echo.
Flower yards are beautiful.
Fruit trees blooming.
Briers budding in a hurry.
DeKalb News.
Flum and peach trees are blooming freely all
over the county.
The senior editor of the Cuthbert Enterprise has
an almond tree twelve or thirteen feet in height
summer bonnet is required. The colored straws
arc in demand; but, except with brown suits
which seem to require hats or bonnets in quiet
accord with their subdued tone, they will be selec
ted without much reference to anything more than
an absolute opposition (very Oilier cut from contrast)
to the color of the dress with which they were -.vom
Verv dark red straw hats may be worn with bronze:
black, with white or buff: dark green, with white
and old gold, trimmed with black.
BRACING UP A BELLE.
The good book says, “The Lord hath set one
thing over against another.” There seems to
be a law of compensation that balances every
thing in nature and keeps the terrestrial ball
a rolling; not only the ball, but everything
that is on it. Man may jump- up like a liop-
pergrass, but he has to jump down again.
There is a cure for every excess, a set off for
every offset. Every bile has to burst, and
every bubble, too. Seasons may come and go,
and drouths and floods, and caterpillars and
cotton worms and potato bugs, but the average
is all the same, and the Scripture is fulfilled
which says that seed time and harvest shall not
fail. Well, of course it don’t mean that the far
mer shall make as good crop one year as
another, but he had the time to do it and if
he failed he tried all the harder next year and
perhaps made up what he lost. The account
is kept balanced someway and what is lost is
gained if a man works for it in the right way.
There is many a blessing in disguise. When
a big fire sweeps Jaway a block it is built up
better the next time. When pestilence eomes
everybody goes to cleaning up. Riches have
their curse like poverty its pleasures. Gen
erations play at see-saw, up to-day and
down to-morrow. Bankers and mer
chant princes break and great men die,
but nobody stops to mourn or pity. Tiie busy
world looks for a moment at the vacant plac^i
and says “close up! close up!” and we mourn
or pity on the run. I was a ruminating over
ynur vnrigascd p-iper what a world of news
every day of accident and incident, of ups
and downs, of fire and flood, and failures, and
deaths, and marriages, and miseries, and
murders, and how it would all foot up in a
year’s calendar. I was thinking about the
railroad chess-board that the magnates are
playing on, and how first one and then an
other says “check” and they keep on losing
a pawn or a piece, but nobody is mated as
yet and I hope never will be, for the balance
must be kept even for the people’s good, and
be kept even some way or another, for it
never was intended that money kings shall
oppress the people or overthrow them.
the sovereign FEorLE.
I was thinking how easy it would be for
Jay Gould and Vanderbilt and Victor New-
combe and a few others to combine and con
trol all the cotton or corn or wheat in the
land and make beggars of the nation if they
dared to, and then I thought of the forces
that kept them from it, for they know how
far to go, and they know the people wouldn’t
stand it. The people are at last the sover
eigns, the kings of the earth, and they are
becoming more so as the years roll on. , They
allow kings and emperors like they used to,
but that divinity which doth hedge about a
king is gone. He holds the office and draws
the pay, hut that is about ail. The world is
assimuluting. The masses that used to be
hewers of wood and draweVs of water are
looming up and coming to the front. Every
body is getting smart; not so much from
schools or books, but smart by contact and by
absorption. There is no inquisition
now, no oligarchy, no tyrannical priest
hood, no barons with their vassals,
Every man can have his own opinion and is
free to speak it, and the voice of the people is
generally the voice of God. In the multi
tude of counsel there is safety, an A most every
man is a counsellor now, Whatever is, is right,
whether it seems wrong or not. The war was
right, and our defeat was right. Slavery was
right, for it was ordained for the good of the
negro, and freedom was right, for the time
had come when it was a curse to the white
man. Everything moves on according to a
plan, a providence. We remember thafyears
ago the farmers wore out their lands and
moved westward. This peopled a new terri
tory and gave the old lands rest. They grew
up again in forest and have been peopled and
cleared again. We remember when tiie ber-
muda grass was considered a curse in middle
Georgia, hut now it is a blessing and is dili
gently cultivated. Time and experiment is
working wonders. The people arc rubbing
against each other, and what one man learns
is soon caught and absorbed by his watchful
nabors. Fixed laws of justice and morals and
business are prevailing all over the land.
PUBLIC OPINION.
Public opinion is getting to be the supreme
law and governs everything. Public opinion
says one wife is enough and so Mormonism
must go. When railroads combine against
the people the people rise up and make a
commission to regulate and control them.
Jay Gould may combine with Newcomb and
Wadley or any other men. They may hull or
bear the stock, but the people will control
the roads. The people are long suffering and
bear a great deal, but when they become des
perate they speak in thunder tones. Stock
brokers and speculators make a power of noise
and fuss, but they don’t hurt anybody but
themselves. They are just like a passel of
gamblers round a gaming table. They bet
high and lose and win, but the spectators are
only amused and entertained. It is the sur
plus cash that is at stake. It’s not my money
or yours, nor our farms or capital in business.
We don’t care whether the Louisville and
Nashville stock is one hundred or two hun
dred, so it carries us and our freight at reason
able prices. If a man has stock
in it and it pays fair dividends let hint keep
it. whether it is upor down, and if it don’t let
him sell and put his money in something else.
Stock gambling suits some folks and so let ’em
gamble on. Money made in that way don’t
amount to anything. If the possessor does
not lose it his children will spend it and leave
the world as poor as their father came into it.
A fortune made in a year rarely sticks to any
body. Five years is hazardous; hut one
gained by the pursuit of an honest calling for
ten or twenty years brings with it that high
reward which justly entitles a man to be
classed with the true aristocracy.
SUDDEN FORTUNES.*
No man ought to desire a fortune to com-
suddenly. It would embarrass him. It takes
several years to learn its best uses and to han
dle it with becoming dignity. 1 have great
respect for that ciass of rich men who made
their fortunes slowly. I like these presidents
of railroads, and banks, and manufacturing
companies. I can tell ’em as they walk the
streets—there is a bearing of dignity and
moral worth about ’em. 1 give ’em the side
walk, I do, for I have regard for them. They
control money and they control men. Thou
sands are dependent upon their capacity and
integrity, and they know it, and feel it, and
it makes ’em both proud and humble. I think
I would like to be a president of a bank,
wouldent you? This kind of rich men are
liberal and charitable in their old
age, if they are not before. They
endow colleges and orphan asylums.
They build railroads and factories and steam
ships and telegraph lines, and do big things
that other men couldent do. Rich men are a
blessing to the land, for if all the money in
the world was equally divided among all the
people, none of us would have any to share
and there wouldent be another railroad or
steamboat built in the next fifty years; so its
all right I reckon, and I’m content and I wish
everybody else was. I’ve had more than my
share all my life. I’ve eat as much good vit-
tels and wore as warm clothesas a millionaire.
I’ve had my trials and troubles and so lfa3 lie
and so, in the long run, the accounts between
us are about balanced, and we will quit the
world even so far as the world is concerned
What next? Bill Arp.
Ladle* New Straw Hat*.
Jennie June’s letter.
Straws appear in all colors, but there are modified
poke in black or white which are faced with velvet
the edge finished with an exquisite silk and gold
braid, and the exterior with scarfs of embroidered
silk muslin, and a bouquet of mustard in flower of
oats, and small red poppies or hedge roses, that are
handsome, and suited to all occasions for which a
The Coarse of Grooming end Diet Nercwiary to a
Lnd; In Wuth'.nBton SorlctY.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The institution of Lent brings rest for the weary,
swollen feet which last week danced day and night
from Monday to Saturday. “How does your daugh
ter stand it?” I asked of a mother.
She answered by telling me that the same woman
who took charge ot her daughter wheu an infant
still had the cafe of her.and always waited until her
young mistress returned from a ball; then she un
dressed her, gave her a sponge bath, rubbed her
well, and, after administering a cup of hot beef tea,
tucked her in bed and left her to sleep until noon
day, or longer, if she was so inclined. As soon as
the voting lady awoke she was fed with beef tea or
some food equally nourishing; in short, she was
treated exactly as she would be if seriously ill, and
in that way she kept fresh for the afternoon daucing
receptions and tiie germans at night. Nothiug was
expected of her hut to enjoy herself and rest when
the was tired, so sue could continue to participate
in the gayeties while the daneing seasffti lasted.
Tuesday night this young lady danced until 2
o'clock at the german given by the Tuesday elub;
Wednesday night she danced at the german given
by Miss Dora, the daughter of Senator Miller,
which lasted until -t a.m.; Thursday afternoon Mrs.
Miller had dancing at her regular reception, and
Thursday night was divided between the ball given
by Commodore and Mrs. English and the chanty
ball, which kept up until -1 o’clock; Friday after
noon she danced at Mrs. Carroll’s, ana in the even
ing at the german I first mentioned; Saturday after
noon she danced at the reception given by tiie
Misses Fox, and rested Sunday so as to he ready for
the german given to-night by Mrs. White, daughter
of Senator Sawyer, and the ball given at tiie British
legation.
What the I*opcr* s»j,
Rome Courier.
The Constitution is a staprch, welt edited
lU'W.-i paper, having, perhaps, netier fact.ilies for
gathering the news ot the state than any other
journal published in it.
Cherokee Advance.
The people of Georgia can’t do without Tiie
Constitution. It is the only daily we ever see that
gives us all tiie news, and gives it so soon as it
happens. Taking its value into consideration, it is
the cheapest newspaper in the union.
Toccoa News.
It is tcarcely necessary lor us to call the attention
of our readers to this sterling, newsy sheet—a news
paper that, if not kiiotvo to all men. is at least
known to all Georgia newspaper readers. Pub
lished at Atlanta, the capital of the state—being
ably edited, and employing a large corps of cor
respondents, among whom are a number of accom
plished writers- sparing no reasonable expense to
obtain the freshest and most interesting news—The
Constitution could not be other than a first-class
newspaper. It lias won, and not without merit, the
distinguished position of the leading southern news
paper.
Dellraric. In Southern Fruit.
New York Mail and Express.
The southern fruit market is brisk and prices are
remunerative to the dealers. Florida strawberries
are rapidly reaching button, prices. They now sell
at $1.25 per quart, having fallen from $1.50. They
will fall to $1 shortly, and be succeeded by Charles
ton strawberries, which will start at about $1 per
quart and fall off fifty cents in a week or two. The
quantity and quality of Florida fruit is to be had
about the same to-day as at this time last year.
Oranges from Florida arc scarce and high, selling
at from 5d cents to $1 per dozen. There is nothing
doing in fancy West Indian fruit. Bananas are ar
riving from Aspinwall in satisfactory quantities.
They present a more than ordinary line color and
realize from 40 to 75 cents per dozan. Mandarin
oranges are finding a ready sale at from 50 to 70
cents ncr dozen; Malaga grapes bring 50 cents a
pound
A Kill. Girl’s llrblal Chamber.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The walls are covered with heavy white satin,
tufted with gold buttons, ai d mirrors are inter
jected here and there The ceiling is painted in
the most artistic manner, and the curtains are of
white silk, embroidered in gold and rich colorings
n floral designs. Tiie curtaiue nre mounted on
ilt poles, and, wheu drawn back, disclose lace
drop curtains that cost six hundred dollars a win
dow. The portieres are of white silk plush, with
dado embroidery matching the curtains. The fur
niture is treated with the same .material, as. tne
curtains, and what little of the framework is seen
s found to be heavily gilded.
Women’* Shoo*.
Good Words.
Fashion has decided that the heel of the hoot or
shoe shall get as near the ceil ter of the instep as
possible. Instead of the weightof the body resting
upon an arch, in the modern fine lady it rests upon
pegs, with the toes in front, which have to prevent
the body from toppling forward. Then the heel is
so high that the foot rests upon the peg and the
toes, and the gait is about as elegant as if the lady
Were practicing walking upon stilts.
Imlcpcndcxittrtmo
New York World.
The conclusion is irresistible that the independ
ents in Georgia; in Tennessee and in South Caro
lina, as well as in Virginia, must depend upon tiie
readiness of the republicans in those states to em
brace any loathsome thing iii order to satisfy their
passion for spoils, and upon the readiness of the
republicans elsewhere to declare any alliance holy.
How the Family I* Cored For.
Augusta Evening News.
Kate Chase takes care of her girls. Governor
Sprague takes care of the boy, and President Arthur
takes care of Conkling.
PER50NAL
The president dines at eight o’clock.
The prince of Wales drinks no wine but
sherry.
Oscar Wilpe received $1,100 as liis share
from one lecture in Chicago.
Judge Reagan, ot ' r exas. wlio was the con
federate postmaster-general, leads the free traders
in the house.
Lieutenant-Governor Cacchon, of Mani
toba. is said by Canadian pajiers to have cleared
$1,000,000 already out of his northwest speculation.
Getting to be a fat pig.
Queen Victop.ia is not without womanly
superstitions. She is said to be averse to having
her son Leopold marry in May . because that was
the month in which the poor young Princess Char
lotte was wedded to King Leopold.
General N. P. Banks, having accepted an
invitation to lecture in u New England town, a wag
announces that his subject will be “Recollections
of a Confederaie Commissary; or How I Fed Stone
wall Jackson’s Army.”
The ladies of Ireland have done it at last,
or, at least, those ladies of the land league of Ito*s-
carberry, who have solemnly and unanimously re
solved • never to marry a landlord, agent, bailiff,
land-grabber, or peeler who is not a land leaguer.”
Charles Francis Adams, jr., nominates
Judge Cooley, of Michigan, Robert Harris, general
manager of the Erie, and General Francis A. Walke
for national railroad commissioners, under a bill
by which he proposes to establish the commission
as a bureau of the interior department.
Chester A. Arthur, wore black undressed
kid gloves at the memorial services. His cabinet
varied from lavender on Secretary Folger through
various shades, including tan-colored, which Ben
Brewster carried, caught in the clip of a crush hat,
to black worn by Krelinghuysen and Lincoln.
Her majesty will be sixty-three years old
on May 22d, and she has reigned forty-"five years,
she is simply the symbol of headship. Personal
interference and partisan participation of 'he king
or queen of Great Britain in the government jaussed
aivav with crabbed old Tory George ill., and the
ministry (representing parliamentary majority)
have become the responsible ruling and manag-
uig power in the country.
G. ..W. Betiiune, D.D., was a ripe scholar
and an attractive preacher. He was not always as
careful as some others, perhaps, to show the. clergy
man by speech, coat and hat. Not unfrequenuy#
he enjoyed a pure witticism and a dry joke. For
example, one day he made some inquiry ef a gen
tleman in this city—now dead—as to his personal
interest in the subj- ct of religion. “O!” said the
gentleman, “I inherited my religion from my
father.” “Well,” said Dr. B., “your father must
have had very little religion or a large number of
children to supply.”
Egypt, in fact, says the correspondent of
the London Times, is in the hands of one man,
Arabi Bev, the minister of war. T he new ministry
is formed by him and him only. The Egyptian
cabinet is ruled by Arab! Bey with more absolute
authority than even Prince Bismarck exercises. He
does not argue, but orders, and his word is law.
He paid a visit to his president the other day, but
was accompanied by 40 ) officers, ills ministry is
crowded with natives, who beg of him every kind
of favor. A double line of guards is necessary to
keep off the petitioners. The people treat him
with superstitious respect. Some hold him to be a
direct descendant of the prophet: others treat him
as one inspired: a few think lie may be El-Mahdi,
the sacred Imam so long expected, who will restore
Islam to its prestine glory.