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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 18.18831
THE CONSTITUTION
Entered M the Allan!* Pmt-oflea uwoond-claai
mall matter, November 11, ISM.
Weekly C.».IU«ll.. f 01.SO I-.r AaaaM.
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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS, tl
ATLANTA, SEPTEMBER 18.1881.
Ii is attld that the new European alliance,
Into which Spain has recently entered, la In
favor of a general diaarmament.
Thu atonns along the const the laat day
two have been particularly severe, and the
shipping lias suffered greatly.
Tint mystery of the ltose Ambler case adds
another to the dark horrorr of Connecticut
ife, which have been eo numerous of late
yean.
Tm doughty French admiral, Pierre, who
made such a sensation at Tamatave, did not
live long to enjoy his notoriety. His fnneral
took place yesterday at Marseilles,
W'BitusLL 1‘nn.Lirs la in favor of giving
Bntler a second term. He thinks Tewksbury
could supply the republicans with the kind
of man they want for a candidate.
Tit* French troops in Tonquin have had to
bear the brunt of another battle with the
Mack flags. A victory is claimed, but the
French bad to seek safer quartern, nevertlie-
Tdi emperor of Germany lias deputed bis
son, the crown prince to represent him at tbe
four hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Martin Luther. Germany is enthused over
the event.
Th* celebration at Wittenberg in honor of
Luther seems to have been a national demon
atntlon. Tbe crown prince of Germany
placed a laurel wreath upon the great re
former’s gam
It may interest the people to know that
there is money enough afloat in the United
States to give thirty dollars and twenty-nine
cents ahead. Many would bo willing for the
distribution to commence at once.
Gsoboia will soon have another execution
In which a woman will sink through the trap,
The superior court of Gordon has sentenced
colored woman, convicted of poisoning
child, to hong on the lgthof October.
Macon, so oar special correspondent says,
has placed a good bill of shoes in Atlanta.
This Is the kind of rivalry we like. We need
shoes, and there is no place we would sooner
see get the money than Macon.
A lkadimo naval officer thinks that the
fete of tbo Proteus wilt for a time settle the
foolish expeditions which have been sent to
the north polo v Efforts, must, of course, he
made to relieve tbe Greeley party,but beyond
this nothing will l>o done.
Bismakck is reported to he seriously ill, so
much so as to call for grave concern as to
the resnlt. The great premier has wielded
•Osin with an Iron hand, and his career
will bo recorded in history not only as on
event In German history, but as a great
epoch In the affairs of the world.
Tits alleged incendiarism of the Monroe
Advertiser office yesterday is said to be due
to the position of Mr. Wat tenon on negro
education and tbo prohibition agitation. The
fact that such aebarge should even be thought
of shows that politics are somewhat bitter in
that section.
Tux disaster which befell the Proteus in
tbe northern sens, while engaged In the
search for the Greeley expedition, wbicli is
now doomed to pass a third winter in the
Arctic, adds another to the long list of cssul
tlee in punuit of a scientific chimera. It is
fortunate that Lieutenant Garlington sud his
comrades found their way back to life and
sunshine.
Ex-8scb*tahv Tiiomikok, who, besides the
infamous Holt, Is the only aurvlvpr of the
Buchanan cabinet, declares that the rupture
between ex-Presldent Dsvis and the lateex-
Attorney General Black was of recent or
igin, and is Inexplicable. As between the
two, however, he upholds tbe recollections
of Mr. Davis, and cites the fact that the
Buchanan cabinet, including its Pennsyl
vania member, leaned upon Mr. Davis os
its special spokesman.
Ur to dato $1,(1111,123 has been expended by
the general government upon the rivers and
heritors of Georgia; but in the time about
$4,000,000 has been taken from our pockets
for river and harbor improvements. The
total expenditures of the government lmvo
been $105,000,000, and as Georgia pays about
one-thirtieth of all federal taxes, it follows
that we are out of pocket by the operation
about $2,400,000. Our representatives should
pule these figures ill their eloquent sud res
pective hats.
Mx. Jay Goulk may have gathered in the
Central railroad of Georgia. The Wall street
people uy so, and we are not prepared to con
tradict tbe statement. But when they asserted
that the railroad king had had “various con
sultations within a few days" with President
Wm. G. Raoul, tbe Savannah Times rises to
remark that the latter never had a consulta
tion with Mr. Gould, and that all the knowl
edge he hu of the little man’* face was gath
ered from the cartoons in “Puck.” Tbe Times
got its information from Mr. William G.
Raoul.
COTTON.
Elsewhere will be found the figure* of the
New York Financial Chronicle in relation to
the cotton crop of lut year. It did not quite
reach, on account of the large site of the bales,
the round figure* so often predicted, but still
it stands the largest crop on record, overlap
ping the great crop of 1880 a little more than
400,000 bale*. It wu fully double the averag
crop of the decade before the war.
One of the most gratifying things made
plain in the statement of the Financial
Chronicle is tbe handsome increase in spin
dles in tbe south. At tbe end of the year we
had 800,000 epindlu against 680,000 in 1882,
and 610,000 in 1881. The increase of the put
year in tlje south wu, therefore, nearly 27
per cent, while tbe increase Jin spindles in
northern mills wu leu than 5 per cent. Tbe
southern mills took lut year 331,000 bales
against 238,000 bales in 1862 snd 303,000 bales
in 1881. There is hope in these figures. We
have however a long ways to go before we
overtake the northern mills.
We have only about seven per cent of tbe
spindles of the country, bat onr spindles are
earning money, while on the buis of recent
auction sales it is freely conceded that the
northern mills are running at a loss. Tbe
northern mills cannot always be run in this
way for the sake of saving the machinery
from tbe rnst of inaction, snd tbe operatives
from becoming scattered; snd the New York
Evening Post thinks the best remedy that the
situation affords consists in a removal of the
onerous taxes upon dye stuffs, chemicals,
machinery and other materials that enter into
the production of cotton goods. These taxes
upon raw materials aggregate thirty per cent,
causing moat northern spinners to run at n
loss, snd rendering it impossible in our man
ufacturers to compete in the markets of the
world. Our exports of manufactured cotton
goods are each year dwindling
sway. They are now insignifi
cant. If congress would relievo the cotton
mills of these ta»es upon raw materials, the
mills of the northern states could build up a
foreign trade, thereby saving a great interest
from destruction, while the profits of the
southern mills would be proportionately in
creased, and an industry that is greatly
needed in the south would thus be quickened
and strengthened.
A revenue reform that does not remove tbe
tax from raw materials would be a limping
measure, and the quicker we have such a re
form the better it will be for the country,and
especially for that part of it pecuniarily in
tercsted in northern cotton mills.
missioner Henderson. Instead of seeing it
hampered, restricted, and embarrassed, they
would prefer to Bee its field enlarged, its op
portunities increased, and ils powers enlarged.
If there sre minor particulars in which mis
takes have been made, the legislature should
correct them. If there are directions in
which its usefulness might be increased, the
legislature should point tbemout. Butwhen
this is done the commissioner should be made
to feel, as he deserves to feel, that the legisla
ture, as the representatives of the people,
stands behind him, ready and anxions to hold
up his hands, and aid him when possible, in
the great work being done for the state.
NIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS.'
THE CAPITOL COMMISSIONERS.
Governor McDaniel lias again commanded
tlie confidence and earned tlio gratitude of
tbo people of Georgia—this time liy his ap
pointment of the commissioners to build the
Hew cspitol.
While many people had preference for
other persona than tiioso appointed, and would
ike to have a friend appointed, no man can
deny that the commission is in every way un
objectionable, and represents the very highest
character and capacity. It Is os follows,
printed alphabetically, each member having
accepteJ the trnst imposed upon him.
OSHSBAt. K. P. Ai.sxandbs, of Richmond.
Majob Benjamin E. Crank,of Fulton.
Hon. A. L. Milker. of Houston.
Hon. John ecxxvxm, of Chsthsm.
MB. W. W. Thomas, of Clarke.
Ex-ofllclo OoVSHNOR IlKNBV I). MoDANIKI,.
The members of this commission sro well
known to the people of Georgia. General
Alexander is a graduate of West Point, was
the general of artillery in the Virginia army,
is a practical civil engineor, Is a railroad man
of the highest reputation, and a man of the
beat equipment snd character. Major Crane
has been for fourteen years the president of
tho chamber of commerce of Atlanta, is one
of the first merchants in Georgia, a man of
fine common sense, of large experience snd
strong character. Hon. A. L. Miller was for
merly tlio chairman of the finance coiumliteeof
the house, and is thoroughly acquainted with
the public finances. Hon. John Screven, of
Savannah, Isa native of that city, and served
as its alderman and mayor for many years,
Ho was also representative, state senator and
member of the constitutional convention. He
was one of tbo proprietors snd tlio
president of tho Atlantic and Gulf
railroad, and Is a fine business man,
Mr. W. W. Thomas, of Athons, is a gradu
ated the State University, a civil engineer
who bos done distinguished work in the
field, and a flno architect and building en
gineer. He is the adjuster and one of tlio
ohief officers of the Southern Mutual insur
ance company, and though the youngest
member of the commission, one of the most
capable and accomplished—with the work
under tho supervision of such men ns these,
the people will foel perfectly safe, and coil
lldent tliat every dollar will be properly ap
propriated and the final result a beautiful
and noble building.
It is worthy of note that of the five com
mlsuionersselected by Governoa McDaniel.not
one of them was an applicant for the piece.
Although the names of fully one hundred
men were put before the governor; end
scores of them hacked with petitions and in-
donementa, lie selected five men who had
never applied and declined to appoint
single applicant.
This, taken in connection with the late ap
pointment of the penitentiary physician,
(where he went out of a circle of forty appli
cants, and appointed u man who hail never
thought of applying), indicates certainly that
applications and iietitions have little or no
weight with tlio governor. Indeed, it might
appear that they rattier disinclined the gov
ernor to consider favorably the claims of an
applicant. The truth is, the governor has
deteriulucd to select the officials he is required
appoint witli an eye single to their fitnci
Whether he is perfectly regardless of petitions
not, he is certainly careful that they shell
not becloud his judgment. Out of six officials
that he lias selected he has not taken a single
ppiicant,although some' were before Him that
had in writing the iiuloisement of a majority
of the members of both houses of the legisli
lure. These are very significant facts—and
we must say they are cheering ones.
COMMISSIONER HENDERSON AND HIS
DEPARTMENT,
If there is anything well established by ex
perlcnce, and backed by common sense, it is
that agricultural bureaus tre necessities of
well ordered snd progressive states. Every
stats in the union has one. So lias the general
government. Every country in Europe has
one, usually under the control of a cabinet
minister. It is fsshionsble to criticise and
abuse them. But no state has yet been found
foolish enough to try to do without one. The
older the state or country, the more elaborate
and potential is its department of agriculture.
We do not believe any state in the union
can show s more efficient department than
our own Georgia department. It has done
better and broader work on lees money
and with lees encouragement than
any similar organisation we know of. With
salaries hardly tit for competent men, and a
contingent fund that is pitiably small, it has
carried on its work of crop reports, it has
issued its special manuals, selected and dis
tributed seed, established and carried to won
derful success a fish commission, published
handbooks and done the work of an immi
gration bureau, carried on the inspection of
fertilizers, and out of this single branch alone
annually carried into tbe treasury a sum sev
eral times larger than the entire expenses of
the department.
The people are aatiafied with the depart
ment. They are satisfied with tbe careful,
conservative and painstaking course of Com-
OUR CUSTOM HOUSE.
A table has just been prepared by the
commissioner of customs, showing the re
ceipts and expenses, and the average cost of
collecting one dollar of revenue, in all the
customs districts of the United States dur
ing the past fiscal year. New York is at one
end of the list, and Atlanta at the other;
and the trouble is, our city is at the wrong
end. It costs one cent and eight mills to
collect a dollar in the New York custom
house, and in the Atlanta custom bouse
it costs $.50.81 to collect a dollar. The
average costof collection throughout the serv
ice was two cents, nine mills and n fraction.
The commissioner of customs has certainly
placed us iu no enviable light. Our fine port
is one that does not yield any net cash for the
needs of the government. It did, it is true,
showup$21, but tbe hill for collecting this neat
little sum was $1,068. If such a rate of collec
tion had prevailed through the other custom
districts, we would .certainly have free, trade
inside of a year.
But seriously our merchants who are about
to import goods 'should, other things being
equal, patronize our own custom house. Now
that the railroads are bonded, it is just as
good a custom house as there is in the land.
It reaches all the way to the sea, while none
of the custom houses on the coast extend into
the interior. Oar imports are not, as some
have suggested, brought up Peachtree creek;
they know not even tbe broad and turbid
waters of the Chattahoochee, but they come
by the best railroad lines from the most con
venient ports of entry.
There are 130 customsdlstrlctsin theUnited
States, and in 20 of them tho cost of collect
ing one dollar was more than one dollar last
year. The inglorious and unprofitable twen
ty-nine are Alexandria, Annapolis, Barnsta
ble, Belfast, Cape Vincent, Cnstine, Dunkirk,
Kdgarton, Frenchman Bay, Georgetown,
Great Egg Harbor, Kennebec, Little Egg
Harbor, Macbias, Montana, Nantucket,
Natchez, Newport, Petersburg, Saco, San Die
go, St. Augustine, St. Mary’s, Empire City,
Leche, Waldoboro, Wicasset, York, and At
lanta. Tills is not a list to be proud of. It
a list that Atlanta ahould be taken out of this
year. Our merchants can do it by paying
duties here on the goods they need to the ex
tent of, say, $1,200. Twelve hundred dollars
would not cover many goods under our pres
ent tariff, and there is probably not a week in
tbe year when our jobbers do not pay much
moro than that sum in duties at other ports.
Give tho home port a chance. ■
A uvrsxr fortune-teller who pasted through At
lanta day before yesterday says that Mr. E. V.
Smalley la the author of “The Broad-Why
tho anonymous novel now appearing In Cen
tury Magazine. Tho question is, how did tho gyp-
sey kuowT Perhaps liens Breltmsn could tell us.
Jay Gould', beautiful loiter to Wash McLean
In which be acknowledges that ho refused to buy
Btsnlcy Mathews, should be placed among tho ar
chives of state. It Is a most impressive document.
Itcouldouly have been screwed out of Mr. Uouid
by s distinguished statesman llko McLean.
Tub Boston Hoiald Is very Impartial, but itshould
not bo too Impartial to reatlio tho fact that Qsrflold
snd all tho republican fwllttcUns knew of tho star
roulofrauds sud of Doney's connection with them
long before the fecit were brought out by Congress
man Blount, of Georgia.
Tits astronomers say that the comet which may
now be faintly soon by meaus of powerful tele
scopes will not leaclilts perihelion until next year.
But tho probability Is that tho astronomers know
as little about tho now comet si they do about tho
old moon, sud that Is absolutely nothing.
Piiu.apku'H1A Is excellent missionary ground for
an impulsive democrat like Judge Hoadly. His
visit there evidently hts as its bests the Idea that it
Is better to detest tho McLoau family thsu the re-
mblicau party, snd he Is no doubt correct.
Tub appoamneo of Mr. Ham lhuidall oil s Phtla
deiphla Jury shows that ihc caudtdaic for tho speak
ership Is not stall choice In tho company ho keeps.
All the mercy In the world wouldn’t keep s l’biis
dclphla Jury off of the chain-gang in Georgia.
John Looan Is cxplstnlng hts rebuke to Sitting
Bull. Sitting Bull's rebuke to Logan’s crowd
uoeded no explanation. He said the whole she
bang was drunk, sud Logan'e subsequent career has
verified the statement.
Sums of Uio organs are endeavoring to treat
MahoneassJoke. Itnecdsnosrgumeut iuthlscii-
ilghteued age to show that Mahuuc will prove to be
the costliest Joke the republican parly baa ever
smiled at.
MR. FURMAN AND H!S WORK.
Tbedeathof Mr. Parish Furman removes oue of
the most useful meu In Georgia.
Not ass politician, oras a lawyer did be do the
work that will live after him, but, ss.s farmer,
man of education and lntelligouce, fie turned
aside from tho showier professions and devoted
himself to farming. In this, he blcscd new paths,
or rathcrclearcd the way through which pioneers
had gone uncertainly and dimly. He proceeded
carefully and rarely. He first ascertained by
analysis of the cotton plant precisely what it took
out of the soli. He then made s compost that
would return to the -ill, precisely what .the cotton
plant took from 1L This perfect cotton food ha rap-
piled to tbe soli In excess of what the crop took out
of It. As sure as two snd two make four, he thus
htdbls roll richer erery year than It wai the year
before.
Mr. Furman's work Isuot valuable because of any
discoveries he made, for he made none- Its value
consisted In ike fact that It demonstrated that good
farming will pay and that the laud la a hank that
will pay back with tntcreal every dollar that Is wisely
put Into It, Mr. Furman's experiments produced
such striking result* that they caught the attention
of farmers and provoked tuquiry. When a man takes
acres of land teat produces only eight bales and
five yean brings It up lose to 100 bales, makings
profit on each crop, and raising the value of his
land from 16 au acre to 1100 an acre, other farmers
begin to Inquire why they can not do the s imo
thing, IhoiiMnds of farmcis all over tee
soutn are trying to duplicate what Mr. Furman
hu doue. Last year tee compos: heaps ol Ueonrla-
aod tee compost heap Is largely the evidence of
U>riR and saving—were quadrupled and over a
million dollars saved hi commeu-tal fertilizer. In
other states as fu Georgia, tee farmer* are moving
toward*the formula Mr. Furman established.
W bile many ol them will not achieve tee remarks-
b e reeulu achieved by him, no man who tellow-
hts example will tall to be more or less benefitted-
And none of them will fail to houor Furman's mem-
ory iu that he made plain and inviting way# ihat
warn aeiiaonwas Kit f ibai a .. a a . >
Brother Rabbit and Ills Famous Foot,
The little boy was very glad, one night shortly
after bo had heard about Daddy Jack's ghosts and
witcbes(and ’Tildy's "ba'nts,".toflnd Uncle Remus
alone in his cabin. The child liked to have his
venerable partner all to himself. Uncle Remus was
engaged in hunting for tobacco crumbs with which
to fill his pipe, e i in turning his pockets, a rabbit
foot dropped upon the hearth.
"Grab it, honey!" he exclaimed. "Snatch It up
ofTn de h’ath. In de name er goodness, don’t let
git In de embers; kaze if dAt ar rabbit foot git singe
I'm a goner, sbo!"
It was the hind foot of a rabbit, and a very large
one at that, and the little boy examined it curious
ly. He was in thorough sympathy with all the
superstitions of the negroes, and to him the rabbit
foot appeared to be an uncanny affair. He placed
it carefully on Uncle Remus’s knee, and after the
pipe had been filled, he asked:
"What do you carry that for, Uncle Remus?”
"Well, honey,’a responded the old man, grimly,
"ef you want me ter make shorts out’n a mighty
long tale, dat ar rabbit foot is fer ter keep off boog<
ers. When I batter run er'n’s fer myso’f all time
er night, eu take nigh cuts thoo de woods, eu ’cross
by de buryin’ groun', hit’s monst’ous handy fer ter
have dat ar rabbit foot. Keep yo’ head study,
mine yo’ eye: I aint say in' deyer any boogers any-
wbars. Brer Jack kin say w'at he mineter: I aint
sayiu' nothin'. But yit, ef dey wuz any, en (ley
come sliukin* alter me, I let you know dey’d fine
out terreckly dat de ole nigger heel’d wid rabbit
foot. I ’ud hoi’ it up des dis way, eu I boun’ you
I’d shoo um off ’n de face er de yeth. Eu I tell you
at," continued Uncle Remus, seeing that the little
boy was somewhat troubled, "w’en it comes ter dat
pass dat you getter be dodgin’ ’roun’ in de dark,
ef you’ll des holler fer me, I’ll loan you dish yer
rabbit foot, en you’ll be des ez sale ez you is w'en
Mis Hallie 'itaunin* by yo’ bed wid a litcau’le
t’er hau’,’’
"Strip er red flannil tied ’roun’ yo’ arm’ll keep off
de rheumatls; stump-water ’ll kyo de ’spepsy; some
good fer one ’zeeze, en some good fer n’er, but de
p’ints is dat dish yer rabbit foot ’ll gm you good
luck. Do man w'at tote it mighty ap' fer ter come
out right een’ up w’en dey’s any racket gwlne on
iu de neighborhoods, let 'er be whar she will en
w’en she may; mo’ speshually ef de man w’at got
it know ’zackly w’at he got ter do. W’ite folks may
laugh," Uncle Remus went on, "but w’en rabbit
run ’cross de bJg road front er me, w’at does I do?
Does I shoo at um ? Does I make fer ter kill um?
Dat I don't—dat I don’t! I des squats right down in
de middle er de road, en I makes a cross mark in
de san* des dis away en den I spits in it."
Uncle Remus mado a practical illustration by
drawing a cross mark in tho ashes on the hearth.
"Well, but, Uncle Remus, what good does all that
do?" the little boy asked.
"Lots er good, honey; blessyo’ soul, lotser good.
W’en rabbit crosses yo’ luck, w’at you gwlne do,
lesen's you sets down en crosses it out, right den en
dar? 1 year talk er folks shootln' rabbit in de big
rood, yit I notices dat dem w’at does de shootln'
aint come ter no good een’—dat w’at I notices."
"Undo Remus," the little boy asked, after awhile,
"how did people happen to find out about the rab
bit's foot?"
"Oh, you let follfs 'lone fer dat, honey. You des
let um ’lone. W’at de wlmmen aint up’n tell bid
out anybody axin' uu um folks mighty ap’ fer ter
fine out fer deyse’f. De wlmmen, dey does de
talkin' en de Ilyin’, en de mens, dey does do walkin'
en de pryiu’, en betwixt en betwcoust um, dey aint
much dat don't come out, Ef don’t come out one
day it do de uex', eu so sho goes—Aut’ny over,
Aut'ny under—up one row eu down de udder, en
clean acroeat de bolly-patch! ’ ’
It may bo that the child didn't understand all
this, but he had no doubt of its wisdom, and so he
wailed patiently for developments.
"Dey’s a tale 'bout de rabbit foot," continued
Undo Remus' "but yo' eye look wat'ry, like old
man Nod 'bout ter slip up behiue you; en let 'lone
dat, I speck Miss Hally clock clickin' fer you right
new."
"Oh, no, il Isn't, Uncle Remus," said the child,
laughing. "Mamma said she’d make TUdy call
Dar, now!" exclaimed tho old man, indignantly,
" 'Tildy dis en 'Tildy dat. I dunner w’at yo’ mam
my dreamiu’ 'bout fer ter let dat nigger gal be a-
holl'iu' eu a-bawlln' alter you all 'roun' dish yer
plan’ation. She do mos' uppity nigger on de bill,
en do fun’ news you know dey ull all hatter make
der bows call 'er mlstess. Ef ole miss wuz 'live,
dey wouldn’t be no sech gwiues on ’roun’ yer. But
numtnlue. You des let 'er come a-cuttin' up front
or ray do’, en I lay you'll year squallin'. Now, den,
continued tlio old man, setting himself back In his
chair, "wharbouts wuz 1?'
You said thero was a tale about the rabbit foot,’
the little boy replied.
"So dey is, honey, so doy U!" Undo Remus ex
claimed, "but sho got somany crooks on tu’us iu
'er dat I dunner but w'at 1 aint done goue en for-
gotted some uu uu oiTn my min’; ksze ole folks
lak mo knows lots mo' dan w'at dey kin ’member."
In de days w’euce Brer Rabbit wuz sorter keep-
in’ do neighborhoods stirred up, do yuther crceturs
wuz studyin’ en studyiu' de whole blessld time
how dey gwiuclcr nab ’im. Dey aiut bad no holi
day yit, kazj w’en de holiday come, dey’d go tor
wuk, dey would, on Juggle wid oue er n’er (er ter
how dey gwlne ter ketch up wid Brer Rabbit
Bimcby, w’en all der plans, en der traps, en de jug
gleraeutsaiutdouogood, dey all 'gree, dey did,
dat Brer Rabbit got some euujermcnt w'at ho trick
um wid. Brer B'ar, ho up'n 'low, ho did, dal he
boun’ Brer Rabbit is a uat'al bawn witch; Brer
Wolf say, sezee, dat he speck Brer Rabbit des iu ca
hoots wid a witch; eu Brer Fox, he vow d»t Brer
Rabbit got mo’ luck dau smartness. Deu Jedge
ho drap he heard one side, ho did, cu he ax
now come Brer Rabbit got all do luck on ho own
side. Do mo’ dey ax, do mo’ dey git pestered, en
de mo’ dey git pestered, de wun dey worry. Day in
eu day out doy wuk wid dis puzzlement; let 'lone
dat, dej sot up uights; eu bimeby dey 'gree 'muugs
deyse'f dat dey bettor make up wid Brer Rabbit, eu
see ef dey can’t Uuo out how como ho so lucky."
"Wiles all dlsgwiuo on, ole Bier Rabbit wuz a-
galloplu' ’roun’ fum Fuutown ter FrolicviUe, a-
kickin' up de devilment en tarrifiyin' de neighbor
hoods. Hit keep on dis away, twel one time,
endurin' de odd come-sborts, ole Jedge B’ar sont
wud dat oneer bis cbllluns done bia tooken sick
ness, en he ax wont ole Miss Rabbit, drap ’roun*
eu set up wid 'Im. Ole Mias Rabbit, she say, co'se
she go, cu alter she fill 'er satchy full er yerbs on
truck, off she put.
*1 doue ferglt," said Undo Remus, scratchlhg his
head gravely, "w’ich oue er dem chllluns wuz
ailin'. Ult mout er bin Kub«, eu hit mout er bin
Klibs; but uu matter fer dat. W'en ole Miss Rabbit
git dar, ole Mis# B'ar wuz a-settiu’up iu de chimbly
cornder des a-dosin' en a-nussin* de youug un; eu
all de wimmin er de neighborhoods wuz dar, a-
whispun en a-talkin’, des fer all de word’ lak wlm-
min docs doze days. It wuz:
’ 'Come right in, Sis Rabbit! I mighty proud to
ee you. I mighty glad you fotch yo' knittin’, kaze
m pow'ful po'comp'uy w'en my chillun sick. Des
fling yo’ bonnet on de bed dar. I'm dat flustrated
twel 1 duuner w'ich een’z up, skacely. Sis Wolf,
ban* Sis Rabbit dat rockin-cheerdar, kaze 'taint no
stop fum her house ter time.'
"Dat de way ole Mini B'ar run on," continued
Uncle Remus, "en dey fet dar en dey chatter an
dey chatter. Ole Brer Wolf, he 'uz settiu’ out on de
back peazzer smokin’ eu noddin*. He 'ud tike en
draw a long whiff, he would, en den he 'ud drap
off ter noddin’, en let de smoke oozle out thoo he
nose. Bimeby ole Sis Rabbit drap 'er knittin’ in
er lap, en sing out, sez she:
" 'Law, Sis B’ar! 1 smells 'barker smoke,' sez
she.
"Ole Sis B'ar, she jolt up de sick baby, en swap it
fum one knee ter de yuther, en 'low:
" *My ole man bin smokin’ ’roun’ yer de whole
in de woods whar he b'longat, sez I. Yesum
did dat! I pi lies any ’oman w'at ’er ole man is
fe’r’verlastin’ stuck ’roun’ de house w’en deys any
sickness gwlne on,’ sez she.
" 'Ole Brer Wolf sot out dar on de back peazzer,
eu he shot one eye, he did, en open um ’g’in, en
let de smoke oozle out’n be nose. Sis B’ar she jolt,
de sick baby en swap it fum one knee ter de yuther
Dey sot dar en talk twel bimeby der confab sorter
slack up. Fus news dey know Sis Rabbit drap ’er
knittin' en flung up 'er ban’s en squall out:
"‘De gracious en de goodness! Ef I aint done
come iraipin off en lef’ my ole man money-pus, en
he got sump'n in dar w’at he wont take a purty fer,
needer! I’m dat fergltful,’ sez she, ‘twel hit keep
me miserbul mighty nigh de whole time,’ sez she.
"Brer Wolf, he lif’ up he year en open he eye, en
let de smoke oozle out’n he nose. Sis B’ar she jolt
de sick baby wuss en wuss, en bimeby, she up’n say,
sezshe:
" *1 mighty glad 'taint me, dat I is,' sez she,
'bekaze ef I wuz ter lef my ole man money-pus lay-
in*’roun’dat away, he’d des nat'ually ripupde
planks in de flo’, en t’ar all de bark oflln’ de trees,'
sez she.
"Old Miss Rabbit, she sot dar, she did, en she rock
en study, en study en rock, en she dunner w’at ter
do. Oie Sis B’ar, she jolt en jolt de baby. Ole Brer
Wolf, he let de ’barker smoke oozle thoo he nose, he
did, en den he open bofe eyes eu lay he pipe down,
Wid dat, he crope down de back steps en iit out fer
Brer Rabbit house. Brer Wolf got gait same lak
race-boss, tn it aint take him long fer ter git whar
he gwlne. W’en he git ter Brer Rabbit house, he
pull de latch-string en open de do’, en w’en he do
dis, one er de little Rabs wake up, en he holler out
" 'Dat you, mammy?’
"Deu Brer Wolf wish ho kin sing 'Bye-O-Baby,
butfo* he kin make answer, de little Bab holler out
’g’in:
" ‘Datyou, mammy?’
"Ole Erer Wolf know he got ter do sump'n, so he
tuck’n w’isper, he did:
" ‘Hh-sh-sh! Go ter sleep, honey. De boogers 'll
git you! ’ cn wid dat de little Rab ’gun ter whiaple,
en he whimple hisso'f off ter sleep.
• Den w’en it seem lak delitUo Rabs, w’ich dey
wuz mighty nigh forftr-leven un um, is all done
gone ter sleep, Brer Wolf he crope 'roun', he did, en
feel on demautel-shel-uf, en feel, eu feel, twel he
come ter ole Brer Rabbit money-pus. Ef he want
o light wid he han’," Uncle Remus went on, glanc
ing quizzically at the child, "he'd a knock oil' de
pollygollic vial w'at ole Miss Rabbit put up Jar But
□ummine! Brer Wolf, he feel, en feel twel he come
ter de money-pus, en he grab dat, he did, en he dea
dew’d away fum dar.
W 'en he git out er sight en year’n’, Brer Wolf
look at de money pus, en see w’at In it. Hit 'uz one
er dese yer kinder money-pus wid tossle on de
en shiny rings In de middle. Brer Wolf look in dar
fer ter see w'at he kin see. In one een’ dey
piece er calsmus-root eu some collard seeds, en in
de t’er een’ dey wuz a great big rabbit foot. Dis
make Brer Wolf feel mighty good, en he gallop off
home wid de shorance un'a man w’at done foun' a
gol' mine."
Here Uncle Remus paused and betrayed a dispo
sition to drop off to sleep. The little boy, however,
touched him upon tbe knee, and asked him what
Brother Rabbit did when his found he foot was
gone. Uncle Remus laughed and rubbed bis eyes.
"Hit's mighty kuse ’bout Brer Rabbit, honey,
ne aint miss dat money-pus fer mighty longtime
yit w’en he do miss it, he miss it mighty bad. He
miss it so bad dat he hit ri.ht down sick, kuzo he
know he blcedz ter fine dat ar loot let go w’at may,
let come what will. He study cn hostudy, yit 'taint
io good, en he go all 'roun' 'lowin’ to hisse'f:
I know whar I put dat foot, yet I dunner whar
lef ura; I know whar I put dat foot, yit I duuner
wkar I lef um.’
Ho mope en ho mope 'roun'. Look lak Brer Wolf
got all de luck cn Brer Rabbit got none. Brer Wolf
git fat, Brer Rabbit git lean; Brer Wolf run fas',
Brer Rabbit lope heavy lak ole Sis Uow; Brer Wolf
feel funy, Brer Rabbit feel po’ly. Hit keepdisaway,
twel bimeby Brer Rabbit know zump’n n’er bleedz
ter be done. Las’ he makes up he min’ fer ter take
journey, en ho fix up he tricks, ho do, cn he go
en see ole Aunt Mammy-Bammy Big-Money,
"And who was old Aunt Mammy-Bammy Big-
Money, Undo Remus?" the boy inquired.
Ah, yi!" exclaimed Uncle Remus, in a tone of
triumph, "I know’d w’en I fotch dat ole creetur
name up, dey want gwlne ter be no uoddln’ 'roun'
dish yer h’ath. Iu dem days," ho continued, "dey
wus a Witch-Rabbit, cu dat was her entitlements—
olo Aunt Mammy-Bammy Big-Money. She live way
off in a deep, dark swamp, en ef you go dar you
hatter ildosome; slide some; jump some, hump
some; hop some, flop some; walk some, balk some
creep some, sleep i.me; fly some, cry some; foller
some, holler some; wade some, apnde some; eu ef
you ain't monstus keerful you ain’t git dar den
Yit Brer Rabbit he git dar attor so long a time, en he
mighty nigh wo' oat.
"He sot down, he did, fer ter res' hiuc'f, en bime
by he see black smoke cornin’ outer de bole in de
groun’ whar de olo Witch-Rabbit atay. Smoko git
blacker en blacker, en alter w’ileBror Rabbit know
do lime done come fer 'im ter open up cn tell w'at
ho waul."
As Uncle Remus interpreted the dialogue, Brother
Rabbit spoke iu a shrill, frlghtotied tone, while the
voice of the Rabbit-Witch was hoarse and oracular:
" ’Mammy-Bammy Big Money, I need# yo’ he’p,
"'Son Riley RaDblt, why so? Son Riley Rabbit,
why so?’
" ’Mammy-Bammy Big-Money, I los’ do foot you
gim mo.’
•• ’Oh, Riley Rabbit, why so? Son Riley Rabbit,
why so?’
"Mammy-Bammy Big-.Money, my luck clone gone.
I put dat foot down ’pon de groun', I lef um dar
1 know uot what."
" ‘Do Wolf done tuck en stole yo’ luck, 8ou Riley
Rabbit, Riley, Go fluede track, go git hit back,
Son Riley Rabbit, P.iley.’
"Wid dat," continued Uncle Remus, "ole Aunt
Mammy-Bammy Big-Money sucked all do black
smoko back in de hole in de groun’, and Brer Rab
bit put out fer home. W’en he git dar, w’at do he
do? Do he go oft’ in a corner by hisse’f, en wipe he
weepln’eye? Dathe don’t—dat he don’t. Ho des
tuck’n wait he chance. He wait en he wait; he wait
all day, he wait all night; he wait mighty nigh a
a mout’. He hang 'roun' Brer Wolf house; he watch
eu he wait.
"Bimeby, one day, Brer Rabbit git de news dat
Brer Wolf des come back fum a big frolic. Brer
Rabbit know he time cornin', en he keep bofe eye
open eu bofe years h’ist up. Nex’ mawnin’ atter
Brer Wolf git back fum de big frolic, Brer Rabbit
see 'im come outer de house eu go down de spring
atter bucket water. Brer Rabbit, he slip up. he
did, eh he look in. Ole Miss Wolf, she 'uz sailin’
’roun’ fryin’ meat en gettin' brekkui, en dar hang
in’ 'cross er cheer wuz Brer Wolf wes’eut where he
keep he money put. Brer Rabbit ruth up ter do'
eu pant lak he mighty nigh fag out He rush up,
he did, en he sing out:
"Mawnin', SU Wolf, mawnin'! Brer Fox sont me
atter he shavin’-brush, w'ich he keep it in dat ar
mouey-pus w'at 1 loant 'im.'
"Sis Wolf, she fling up ’er han’* en let um drap,
en she laugh en say, sez she:
"'I ’clar’ ter gracious, Brer Rabbit! You gimme
sech a tu’n, dat I aint got room ter be perlite skace-
ly.’
"But mos’ ’fo’ she git de wuaz out’n ’er mouf,
Brer Rabbit done grab de money-pus en gone!"
"Which way did be go. Uncle Remos?" the little
boy asked after awhile.
"Well, I tell you dis," Uncle Remus responded
emphatically, "Brer Rabbit road aint Uy byde
spring; I boun' you dat!"
TWENTY MILLIONS
IS THE INCREASE IN GEORGIA'S
TAXABLE PROPERTY.
Fulton County Ijereasrs Her L'md In tbo Georgia
Coun'iM-Chatham Lose* and Richmond Leaps
to 8<eend Place la, the List—Floyd
Moving Steadily to the Front.
A reporter of The Constitution on yesterday
compiled from returns in the comptroller’s offlee-
the taxable returns from the counties of Georgia.
A GAIN OF NEARLY TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS.
The total result shows a most gratifying gain. On
the list of counties it shows a gain of $17,132,242
There is a loss on tbe other counties of $580,041. De
ducting this from the gain leaves a net of $16,251,301.
To this must be added the gain in the returns from
railroads which amount to $3,254,187. Adding
this to the gain in the county returns gives a total
gain for the state of $19,535,488. This is a very
handsome showing, and brings the total of taxable
property in Georgia up to $306,784,891.
HOW 1 HE COUNTIES STAND.
The most striking thing in the list is the enormous
increase made by Fulton county. Already the first
county in the list she Increases her lead by over $2,-
006,000. showing a total gain of $3,609,764. Of equal
interest with this is ibe loss iu Savannah of $604,000.
the only considerable loss shown by any county and
endangering Chatham’s place as t ie second county
on the list. Richmond gains $1,000,006 and cornea
which is fifth inthelist,gains$13,C00on Bibb i
is fourth, and increases Its lead over Floyd by
about $45,000 Floyd, which is sixth In ihe list, in
creases Its lead over Clarke by about $250,000.
The most notable increase in any section of the
state is in the three most promiuent! truck
growing counties, Lowndes, Burke and Thomas,
• , nn „.„m,il„ n CTTMVV) Ullt llmllnl nraiVo
But the list speaks
Appling -
Baker -
Baldwin
Banks
Bartow
Berrien
Bibb
Brooks
Bullock
Burke
Butts
Calhoun
Camdera
Campbell
Carroll -
Catoosa
Charlton
Chatham
Chattahoochee
Chattooga -
Cherokee
Clarke
Clay
Clayton
Clinch
Coffee
Columbia
Colquitt.
Presently Tildy put her head in the door to uy
that it was bed time, and shortly afterward the
child was dreaming that Daddy Jack waa Mammy
Bammy Big Money in disguise.
The Usfeuhli I«ts4.
Washington, September 15.—The Lightship'
••sid day, bat zoon’z dish yer chile tuck sick, I I anchored on Frying pan shoals, off North Carolina
* tuck’n hole ’im sez I, fer ter take himsel f eff coast, which went adrift in the recent gale and
recent gale and
which li was (eared might be lost, has been dis-
•Jopyright, 1883, by Joel Chandler Harris. Ail j covered and to^d into a KVrth QSSLTEn to
reserved. 1 ahfety, with her crew of ten men and ail on board.
Dade
Dawson
Decatur
DeKalb
Dodge
Dooly
Dougherty
Douglas
Early
Echols
Effingham
Elbert
Emanuel
Fannin
Fayette
Floyd
Forsyth
Franklin
Fulton
Gilmer
Glasscock...
Glynn
Gwinnett
Habersham.......
Hall
Hancock
Heard '.’."...
Houston
Jackson..."
Jelfirwn. ...
Johnson
Lourcns
Lee a.
Liberty M
Lincoln
Lowndes
Lumpkin
Macon
Madison
Marion
McDuffie
McIntosh
Meriwether
Miller
3 731
*5,666
Milton,
Mitchell
Monroe
Montgomery
Morgan
Murrav. M
Muscogee
Newton
Oconee
Oglethorpe
Paulding
Pickens.
Pierce
Pike
Polk
Pulaski
Putnam
Quitman
Kabun
Randolph
Richmond
Rockdale
Schley
Screven
Spalding
Stewart
Sumter ......
Talbot
Taliaferro
Tattnall
Taylor.
Telfair
Terrell
Thomas
Towns
Troup
Twiggs...
Walker...*
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Washington-
Wayne I
Webster
White
Wilcox
Wilkes ;
Wilkinson- j
70.171
8,112
113.063
C 16.226
291 ,*73
8.305
49.681
84,704
158,234
33.682
59,654
68,181
141.274
68,133
13,982
132.347
227.009
38,056
180,406
28.498
40 734
321,710
"97343
370,513
108.047
78,910
170,603
40,422
140,910
96.078
72.378
64,181
60,679
9.053
46 257
584,170
67.674
81.170
3,609,764
10,775
"i*40!653
345,866
50,748
114,457
22.566
129,420
100,954
"w’eoi
13.412
150,870
10 681
50,204
186,501
9,828
26,555
46,193
61,550
""8,624
104,810
44,856
193,351
71,392
11,526
80,407
18/00
25.551
85,865
31,391
77.679
6,256
75,221
629 415
16 338
68,249-
111.689
24,894
30,616
33,636
110 880
97,370
33,706
171,776
1,GW,160
14 611
7i,8l3
87 674
129,115
47,913
257.471
12 754
19,286
63.267
68,437
10,431
122,402
291 029
18.692
60,619
94,796
30,001
9.634
53,263
"1&269
3,775
134,917
207,238
62,827
33,322
50,311
121.924
38,923
PARTICULAR ABOUT HIS SOCIETY.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
"Say, Mister," said a red headed man the other
day,approaching a gentleman who had Juit alighted
from a car at a station to procure a sandwich. "Say,
Mister, are you acquainted with that lady you
were kiltin’ with?"
‘Certainly, sir," responded the gentleman, Indig
nantly. "That is my daughter."
"Then you must know all about her," continued
tho red headed man, confidentially. "I say, la
them teeth o’ hem natural?"
"They are, sir," replied the gentleman,repressing
his emotion.
"And that hair, is that hai: hem, or is it a wig?"
"That hair is perfectly natural." said the gentle
man, sternly, with an uncomfortable itching in the
viciulty of the foot.
"You don't tell," smiled the red headed man in.
rapture. "I say, does she paint or is that her own
color?"
"She does not paint, and that bloom you are so
jood as tonotlce is the flush of modesty/’ answered
the gentleman, preparing for the worst. "Why do
you ask these questions?"
"Because, if ail you say about her is true I don’i
mind siltin’ alongside of her for a mile or two my
self, but if you aregivin’ me any steer on the rack
et, and I get on to it. I’ll hoist you and the girl
form with the toe of bis boot the redheaded man
•t up and announced with a smile that he knew
. e girl was all made up from the first, ana he'd be
dogged if he was goln’ to "set" dowu by a curiosity
that a man had to fight for, not u long as there was
* dog in the baggage car that he knew wm genuine.