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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION* TUESDAY. OCTOlJEK 2, 1883.
THE CONSTITUTION.
' Entered at the Atlanta Poalofflce as second-clsm
Bull nutter, November 11,1878.
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WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, BIX MONTHS, II 00
ATLANTA. OCTOBER 3. 1881.
An unconfirmed report ia published in Lon
don that the popular Irish leader,Mr.Parnell,
has been shot
Bltlkb has captured the greenbackers of
Massachusetts, and now marches on with
firmer tread to victory
Srnator Batasd denies the authenticity
of the interview in which he was represented
as indorsing Butler.
Mas. Fillmorb appears to hare been a very
uncertain sort of lady. She could cut up
pranks enough to amuse the whole family.
Ororoia has been wined and dined in Ken
tucky until she ia ready to return home. In
Louisville it is natural to be a .Bourbon or
Robinson.
A straror case Is under trial in Pliiladel-
phia, in which a landlady keeps possession
the body of a dead boarder until a bill due
for board Is paid,
Tine failures lor the first nine monthsof the
present year largely exceed the failures for
the same period last year. The liabilities are
also largely Increased.
Tns Widow Oarey talks very much like
witneaa who has not much to testify. She
does not known whether O’Donnell’s wife
was male of female.
Bayard professes to see in Butler a man
whom It will not do to talk about for the pres
idency, but who may bo governor of Mi
ebusetta a second time.
Tin jury which has been nursing the Rose
Ambler case so long has at last agreed upon
verdict, and ooncludrs that the past relation
ship of .the parties points to William Lewis as
being the probable murderer.
Tax story of a family stricken to death
related from Greenville, reads like a chapter
from the Nile. And yet it occurred In one of
the healthiest towns In the oountry.
Tax vandals who roam the country for the
purpose of securing relics, have been heard
from again. This time they have laid their
hands upon the Webster monument.
Tax New York Herald bat become the last
man In the procession, and follows Its con
temporaries by a fall in prices. This fully
inaugurates the era of cheap journalism.
Tns prisoner Wallace, under sentence of
death in Savannah, gave every evidence of
sane Indignation on being Informed of the
governor’s refusal to Interfere in his behalf.
Tux monument commemorative of the
consolidation of the German empire was un
veiled yesterday in the presence of the env
peror and an enthusiastic multitude of peo
ple.
Tnxxx seems to be an epidemio abroad of
stealing girls. In several sections of the
country searches arc now In progress for miss
ing maidens. Connecticut kills those she
cannot steal.
Tux Introduction ol a resolution indorsing
the administration of President Arthur sot
the colored convehllon in seaslo%ltt Louiavillo
In an uproar, and was promptly referred to a
committee. 1
Av excited Irishman, who labored under
the imprewrion that hia character had been
anatled, fired olT several shots in in the New
York consulate of the British government.
He is evidently Insane^
Tnx lofig promised colored convention,
under the call of Fred Douglass, finds Itself
assembled in Louisville, where the most per
plexing question presented to them la the
election of a temporary chairman.
Ths onto! Is coming into view again, and
will very likely engage the attention of star-
gasers for the winter. It Is hinted, however,
that tblaromel does not display as fine a tall
as several which have preceded It.
Shkrman, who won glory of the federal
kind around Atlanta, Is now about to assume
the character of a civilian. He will be
succeeded by Hherldan, whose principal
distinction is that be Is the brother of Mike.
Ix the death of Major W. B. Cox the city
has lost a clllsen who was fulty alive to all
the requirements oh patriotism. Ills purse
as well as his counsel were always ready for
the call of enterprise, of duty, or of charity.
Tux tbinskina of the Massachusetts charita
ble awociatlons are not well pleased with the
scrutiny of the governor. Mr. Talbot's letter
declining to exhibit the accounts of a dis
bursing ofilcer, looks very much as If these
accounts would not stand publishing.
Mu-os la steadily progressing, and adopt
ing sensible Ideas. In the purchase of a pub
lic scales, where measurements must be
made, thus protecting her ciUxens against
false weights, she has taken a long forward
step, which Atlanta would do well to Imitate.
Ooloxil Alfonso was vigorously hissed yes
terday on hia arrival in Pans. The mob
which was craven enough to sack their own
city when besieged by the German army was
brave enough to Insult a young man for ac
cepting a token of honor from the sovereign
of another country.
WiLBSUi made a colonel out of Alfonso.
Now the dignity of being a German colonel
is much greater than that of a mere Spanish
king. The French press, making no note of
Colonel Alfonso’s youthful desire for pro
motion bare declared war against monarchy
in Spain, and promises to keep it up until the
young colonel will be compelled to seek per
manent mfety in the beer gardens of Ger
many.
Tnx newsdealers are in revolt against the
recent drop In New York papers. The reduc
tion does not leave them any margin upon
which to live, and they are not willing to sell
for glory. 8a the big dallies will hare to
take the discontented middlemen into their
confidence before the trouble can lie smoothed
ovtr.
Bxx Bctlkb has about as hard a time with
the democrats as with the republicans, Mr.
jr, 0. Prince, who was nominated on the Put- Io "
ler ticket as lieutenant-governor, declines.
And even bis old biographer, Dr. Bland,
apologizes for the work ofenvolumlng the
overnor, because he ia net as staunch a
greenbacker as he could be.
Ir there are any who think federal taxation ia
light, let them consider the fact that $22,350.-
000 have been taken out of the state of Geor
gia in twenty one years by the internal reve
nue officers alone. Tbissum was collected
from spirits, tobacco, fermented liquors,
banks and bankers, and other articles that
were formerly taxed. What the tariff added
to this sum cannot be accurately stated, but
that it directly and indirectly quadrupled it
la scarcely to be doubled,
THE LEG'LATOilE AND ITS WORK.
The legislature that closed its labors with
yesterday, has been an unusually industrious,
painstaking body. If it has left undone some
things that it might have done, it has had the
courage to kill many bills that would have
worked a public Injury.
It has had to deal with much pithy legisla
tion that stems, however, to iiave been de
manded by local exigencies, and it has bad to
work against the obstructive spirit and ma
chinery of the constitution. We regret that
it did not pass the law provldlng_for_ tax-as
sessors, the bill establishing a school of tech
nology, and the general dog law. These will
come in time, however.
The bill redistricting the state Is a good one
the capltol bill is wisely guarded and liberal
in its provisions, the bill prohibiting the run
ning of Bunday excursions is in tho right di
reel ion. Indeed, this legislature seems to
have cast Ita influence in the direction of
morality on all occasions. While it failed to
the general temperance bill It did pass
more than seventy special temperance bills.
We may have bad more brilliant legislatures
—and more progressive and liberal. It is
doubtful if we ever had a safer or more conscl
entious one. Wo certainly never had a more
Industrious one. The members have been
away from home and business for more then
four months. Not one day of this time has
been watted, and the pay hsa been wholly in
adequate to the loss entailed by their absence.
For this service they are entitled to the
thanks of their constituents.
SHORT CROPS AND NEW DEBTS.
The Bavannah News thinks that the plant
ers will be able to get through tho year with
out increasing tliplr obligations to the factors
and merchants. They certainly deserve such
good fortune. For yean they have bravely
struggled to get out of debt. Instead of mak
ing cotton upon which all sorts of midBlc-
men were to thrive, they were about to make
cotton for themselves—cotton that they could
market when they thought best, and
upon which there were to be
charges for money loaned
at grossly uauroua rates In the name of prloea
for supplies. Our Savannah contemporary
estimates that the exactions of the past few
years levied on a bale of cotton aggregated
fully one cent a pound, or about $31,000,000
year. The bill that the farmers of tho
south paid to middlemen was certainly not
than this amount down to a recent pe
riod. Of late all prosperous planters have
firmly worked up. to the policy of raising
their own supplies; and If none
the ground gained Is lost
this short crop year, it will bo because they
had gotten out of debt or nearly so, and liavo
on hand to-day nearly enough grain and meat
meet all economical requirements. If this
should prove to be the case, it will bo con
vlncing proof that our planters are fairly
again on their feet Mon are not independent
that can be brought down to the crop-mort
gage system by the failure of one crop, anil if
economy and good management our
farmers can go through the year without in
curring new debts, no one need despair of the
future.
It seems to us that every rainfall should be
fully utilized this year to get in a fine crop
oats. We can not have too large a crop of
fall-sown oats. This crop will become avail
able just when the other food crops begin to
fail; it will furnish forage for animals through
the winter, and it it wilt serve to keep off the
blues when the effects of the drouth present
themselves. If the oat crop of the stale
could be doubled, we would have no corn to
buy, and the pleasant predictions of our es
teemed contemporary would surely be ful
filled. It Is not too late to sow oats, and we
hope the News will join us getting up au oat
boom.
THE BNOL1SH COTTON MILLS.
It 1s a little singular that the depressions
and lock-outs and strikes in the Lancashire
mills occur Just as the new crop is coming
into market. The usual troubles are report-
on time thla fall; but If any one buys or
sells cotton on account of them, we should
greatly surprised.
The game Is especially plain this season;
for It is the weaving branch of the trade that
Is kicking up all the dust. It is admitted
that the price ot yarns remains high enough
to afford a margin for profit, and no com
plaint at all cornea from the spinneta. If the
demand for yarns remains good at fair
prices, It is strange that the weaving trade is
in a bad way, unless indeed the looms have
been Increased beyond consumption. This
may be the case on account ot the slackened
demand from both China and India tor cot
ton good*, and the agricultural depression is
Engltud. But if there are too many loom*
it would seem to be the right course to run
the factories on shorter time, instead of at
tempting to squeeze the under-paid work
people, or attempting to “bear" the raw ma
terial. And this the master* will
have to do, for the operatires have
decided to reelat any reduction in their scant
wages, and the forehanded produced, ot the
staple in America know that the new crop is
iesn than six million bales, aud will exacts
price based on a short crop. Tba operatives
have in fact resumed work at the old prices
pending further negotiations.” This un
doubtedly means that ths fall raid of the
millownere has failed of its object, and Is to
abandoned.
But whether this is the case or not, let no
southern farmer be misled by report* of
troubles in the English cotton trade. Eng
land may, It is true, have too many looms,
when nearly every other oountry Is going in
to cotton manufacturing, but this ought not
_ affect the price of cotton, for all the cotton
that England does net want other countries
take. It matters little, there-
what the condition ol the
trade is In Lancashire,
rather wbat Lancashire ia about to do, or
threaten to do In the fall of the year. Lan
caablre is in the market wanting raw cotton,
and its sincerity will continue to be doubted
as long as it postpones all settlements between
masters and operatives, until it enters the
market as a buyer. A spring adjustment
would be a novelty, and we advise our En
glish cousins to try one.
SOME RUNNING SUOOESTIONS.
In the casual drift of gossip gathered else
where in Tux Constitution under the head
of “The Man About Town," there are some
suggestions of importance.
Mr. Beck, of Lumpkin, is reported as say
ing thatAn, 1 000,000 has been actually invested
In mines and mining machinery in the Geor
gia gold-region. On the tax books, the total
returned value of mines and mining maobin
ery in the state, including gold, coal, cop
per and iron mines, ia $127,000. This is less
than one-fortieth of what has been actually
invested In gold mines and mining alone.
Comment is unnecessary.
It is shown that prohibition has nude aacb
progress in the state as to justify the belief
that it will eventually control all rural ter
ritory. It has already driven whisky par
tially or entirely out of more than half the
Georgia counties.
The no-fence agitation is also shown to hare
made decided progress. There is nothing, in
onr opinion, of more Importance than this
ami-fence crusade. The fence is costly, fra-
sightly, and a perpetual drain on our thinning
ferests. Ita abolition will taka our cattlebut
of woods tnd put them into pastures. This
will result in better cattle, bred into higher
grades, aud watched with more care. It will
give us ten hayricks where there is now one,
and twenty manure piles where there is now
none.
And lastly, the slate Is about to tackle the
dog by counties. By platoons,os it were,rath
er than all along the line. One county has
already turned its tax gatherer into tho dogs,
ana others will follow. II is not impossible
that in a few years we will be taking $100,000
a year from dogs, with which io educate chil
dren, while as many dogs that now nightly
bay the moon will lie in neglected graves, and
half as many dogs skulk along the by-ways
of the state in disgraceful default.
WIGHTS WITH UNCLE REMUS.*
sum Is Mn-a corns pas'. ’E lot * U P- ’• ketch *Ifmp
dsbag 'pun dallm\ 'Xray:
’’ 'Kt! Wut dials bin-ahug la bag ’pan da
tree-llm’?' B'er Rabbet say:
Bush,B'er 'Possum! 'Tlaame. Js’loe fl“«n
THE TWIN MYSTERIES.
The Rose Ambler esse, following claeely
after the somewhataimllarmysteryconnected
with the sad taking off of Jennie Cramer,
shows that either Connecticut tragedies are
very hard to fathom or else that Cannecticut
boa detectives that do not detect. There are
suspected persons in the Rose Ambler case
just as there were in the earlier
case, but no clew or pot theoiy
fastens the dark crime on any one. That the
woman was murdered is beyond question
and yet the murderer walks the soil of Con
necticut as free os her most innocent citizen.
The detective art is not able to cope .with the
art of criminals In Connecticut.. Jennie
Cramer and Rose Ambler rest in their graves,
but the vengeance of the law remains unsat
isfied, and according to present indications
nlways will. No other stale furnishes so
much mysterious crime. Even in tho Char
ley Roes case one man was sent to tho peni
tentiary, and the two chief criminals, ng.it
is thought, were killed while committing an
other crime. But the blood of the two youDg
Connecticut women will probably go un
avenged, because the murderers of that stale
have more cunning in covering their Hacks
than her authorities have in discovering
them.
Tus straight out republicans ol Virginia are or
ganising to make the climate warm for Mahone,
The trouble, however. Is that Mahone has the pres
ident and the republican civil service commission
to aid him In collecting campaign fundi from tho
federal office holders.
Ths democrats of Now York are almost si harmo
nious as the democrats of Georgia; and the prospects
are that tho more decent republicans ol the suite
are preparing to reform matter* by wiping their
party out. This Is tho only road to reform.
Hows of the organs are calling lien llifUcr “old
moooshiner." This Is very nest. If Benjamin Is
si sharp si tho Georgia moonahlncii. and It Is gen
erally conceded that ho U, ho can manage the ro
ublican patty ot Masrechusolte.
TUKBprlngdetd Republican Intimate* that wo are
■laves tooar views ol political Independence, and
yet it may he merely a prejudice on the part ot the
Republican to think so. Lot our esteemed content
porsry search bli heart In regard to this matter.
lltMUuait society has been Immensely shocked
to learn that queen Victoria has conferred the
garter upon one ol her grandson* This Is nothing.
Suppose the old lady had given the boy her stock
ing; wouldn't that hare creeled a sensation?
Canadian brides may now refuse to any that they
will obey their husband* Old married men have
an opportunity to pity those about to bo married—
not because they are golug to marry, but because
they were*hot married long ago.
An Atlantaman was tackled by a Boston bunko
slcercr some Ume ago. but he had a simple remody
for gelUog rid of tho fakir. He merely looked him
In the beard and inquired: "Do you take me tor
one of the Adams family T"
Tux Reformed Presbyterian church has decided
that the constitution ol the United Stales ia immor
al. Tho Reformed Prcsbytcrianchurchhaievldcnily
mistaken the republican party for (he constitution.
Tux esteemed Cincinnati Commercial Gazette is
trying bard to lead the democratic party ot Hamil
ton county. The riot thtt is going on In the party
shows that It has measurably succeeded.
Tnc Installment of “The Bread Winner*’’ In the
October Century U worth reading as the most pow
erful picture ot a certain phase of American life
that has ever been written.
Asa matter of fact, the republican party in the
various states where then 1* any movement, ap
pears to he petering out. In the language ofthe
provcrbtattst, let ’er peter.
ill
Si-roly the great republican organs ot the coun
try will admit that It Is caster to commit a murder
and evade the consequences tn Connecticut than
In any pan of the south.
MAmAcai scm threatens to rival Ohio as the seat
ot poltucal tumult. But, according to all appear-
ancea. the democrats hare their faces toward the
morning.
It is mid that Governor Benjamin, ot Maamchu-
setts, rather prides hlmscll on the (set the dome of
the state house Is baldheaded.
Isn't It about Ume toe the woo Id be Mahone, of
Georgia, whoever homey he, to hang hit photo
graph on ths outer wall?
Tux Beaton Herald has an article on “Rum In
Vermont." The UUe ts misleading. The rum la
in the people of Vermon t.
It ia a rare tight to me Tammany with all its
feathers smooth and nice. Let us enjoy it while U
Brother 'Podsrtm (lets fn Trouble.
When Uncle Bcmos began his story of Billy Ms-
lone and Mia Janey, Daddy Jack mt perfectly quiet. I it dem sing In da cloud.
Hia eyes were shut, and he seemed to be dozing; [ “B'er 'Pomnm llssen.
but, as the story proceeded, he grewmore and more “ J no yed dem sing, B’er Rabbit,
restlea. Several time* he was upon the point of I " ’Hnsh, B'er ’Pomnm! How is I Us yeddy dem
lotemipUng Uncle Remus, but he restrained him I slngwnn you lsmek-ada fuss dey-dey?'
self. He raised hi* hands to a level with his chin, I “B’er‘Potsum'e bol',e meut’ still, 'cep' 'c
and beat the ends of bis fingers gently together, I grin. B'er Rabbit say,
apparently keeping Ume to bis own thought*. But I “ ‘I yed dem now! I yed den now! B’er'Possum
his ImpaUence exhausted Itself, and when Uncle 11 wish you la yeddy dem sing!
Remus had concluded the old African was a* quiet I “B'er ’Poaum my 'e mout’ witter ter yeddy dem
merer. When Brother Fox wss leftsounceremon-1 sing in dacloud. B'er Rabbit, 'els bln-a hab
lously to his fate. Daddy Jack straightened himself I long tarn 'qualntun wit’ B'er 'Possum, 'e le'm yed-
temporarily and said: Idydctnafog. 'E my:
Me yent bln a yerry da tale so. 'E nice, fer true, I “ *1 git fum da bag, I tun-a you In tell you la yed-
e mek lari come; oona no bin s yerry um lak me." I dy dem atng. Dan you is fun da bag, tell I
“So," mid Uncle Remus, with grave affability, I come babk un 'joy meae’f.
I speck not. One man, one tale; 'n'er man, 'n'er I “B'er 'Possum 'e clam np da tree; 'e git dem bag
talc. Folks tell um dlffunt. Iboun’ yo’ 'way des I 'e bring am down. E tsk off da string; 'e tu 1 '
bes'. Brer Jack. Out wid it-en wo ullaet np yer, I B'er Rabbit go. 'E crawl In un 'e quilo up'
en hark at you en laff wid you plum ttvcl do chlck'n
crow." I " • I no yeddy dem sing, B’er Rabbit
Daddy Jack needed no other Invitation. He I “‘Hi! wait tell da bag git Ue, R'er'Possum. Yon
clasped bis kneo In his bands and began: I yed dem soon 'nuff!' 'E wait
‘Dey Is bin HIT one Man wut plan' some pea In 'e I « ‘I no yeddy dem sing, B'er Rabbit!
geerden. ’E plan'some pea, but 'e mek no pea; I '“Hll wait tell I clam da tree, B'er 'Possum
B'er Rabbit,'o ia fine um. 'E fine um un'o eat I You yed dem soon'nuff!' 'Ewalt.
um. Man mek no pea, B'er Rabbit 'e do 'stroy um | " -I no yeddy dem sing, B'er Babbit!
eo. 'E plan' dem pea; dey do grow, un 'o go off. “ • Wait tell I fix um 'pon da Um’, B'er ’Possum,
E come babk; pea no dere. B'er Rabbit teer um I You yed dem soon 'nuff!' 'Ewalt.
up un mek 'e end wit’ dem. Bo long tarn, Man say I "B’er Rabbit ehun down; 'e run 'way fum dey-
egwan ketch um, un 'e no ketch um. Mango, I dey; 'e hide tn da bush side. Man come bahk.
B'er Rabbit come; Man come, B'er Babbit go. Bum I see da bag moof. B'er 'Possum say:
bye. Mao, 'e is git so mad, 'e y eye biu-a come red; I f no yeddy dem slog. 1 watt ler yer um
e crack 'o toot, 'o do cuss. 'E say 'o gwan ketch I sing!
B'er Rabbit nohow. Dun'eUbla-acall'eUllygal. I "Man Uuk 'e B'er Rabbit In da bag. 'Esay:
'Halt, 'e tell TmferletB’eritebblttroodagcerden I “‘Ahyl ee! Imskky you yed dem sing!
gett. Lil gal say yaaser. 'E talk, 'e tell 'im wun “Man tek-a da bag f um de tree-Um’: 'edo slam
B'er Rabbit go troo da gett. dun 'e mua’ shed da I a bag'gin da face da ye't'. 'E tek-a 'e walkin'
gett, un no le'm come paa' no mo'.' Lil gal say | cane, un 'e do beat B'er 'Possum wut Is do um no
tell o' is moa' kill um. Man Uok B’er Rabbit
“Ole Man Is bln-a gone'bout'ewuk; 111 gal’e do | mua' bin dead by di* 'E look in da bag; 'e'lretch
llssun. B'er Rabbit, 'e come tippy-toe, Uppy-toe; I >ey-eyoblg;'e ’slontsh. B'er Rabbit, 'e do come
gone In da geerden; eat dem pea tell 'e lull np; | fum da bush side; 'e do bolter, 'e do laff.
aat teU ho moa’ git sceck wit’ dem pea. Dun 'e start
fer go out: 'e fine da gett shed. 'E shek um, 'o no I •» 'You no Is ketch-a me! I t'lef you* green pea.—
open; 'e push um, 'e no open; 'e fair grant, 'epush I j tq e f um some.mo“-I t'lef um tel I dead!'
so hard 'e no open. 'E bin a call da 111 gal; 'o do | “Man, 'e 'come so mad, 'e is flUig hatchet at B’er
Babbit un chop off 'e tall,
Lil gal. 111 gal! cum y-open da gett. 'Tin hu't I At this moment Dadd Jack subsided. HU head
mo feclin' ler fine da gett shed lak dU.’ I dfo0 ped forward, and ho was soon In the land of
•Lil gal no talk nullin'. B’er Rabbit any: Nod. Uncle Remus sat gastnB into tho fire-place,
•“■TUa bln hu't me feelln’, lit gal! Come I ^though lost In reflection. Presently, he laughed
y-open da gett, 111 gal, less I teer um loose from da I to m r to himself, and ssld:
btneb.’ I “Dat'a dea 'bout de long endo short un It Mr.
Lil gal v'icecomo bahk. 'EUlk: Man clip off B'er Rabbit util wldde hatchet, enit
DadJy say mus'nV I >t,|ced so free dat Brer Babbit rush off ter de cotton-
‘B'er Rabbit open'omouf.'Esay: patch cn put seme lint on it, en down ter
geo mo long sha'p tool? 'E bite you troo UU I (]!■ day dat lint mos' do fus t'lng you see when B'er
troo." I K*bhit jump out'n he bed cn teU yon good-
“Ml g*l skeer; 'c tu'n loose da gelt un fly! B’er I bj . c
Rabbit gono! Olo man corao babk; 'e ahx'bout I »jj u t Uncle Remus, what became of Brother
B'er Rabbi* MI gal lay: I'Possum?’
E aono gone, daddy. I shed da gott, I hoi' I undo Remus smacked hU lips and looked
um fas'. B'er Rabbit bln show 'o tool; 'e gwan fer I ntee.
bltc-a mo troo un troo. I git Skeer’, daddy.’ Man I “Don’t talk 'bout Brer 'Possum, honey. Efdatar
•bx: I Mr. Man wuz nice folks Uk we all U. cn I alnt
,spate It, be tack' n tuck B’er 'Pomum en bobby-
cue -!m, en 1 wish I had a great big piece right
Dat I docs.'
How 'o gwan fer blto you troo un troo, wun
tool fix fer bite grass? B'er Rabbit tell one big
tale. 'E no kin blte-a you. Wun 'o eeeno 'g'ln, I
you shed dem gett, you hol’um tight, you no to’m 1
go pas' no mo'.' Lit gal say yaaser.
'Nex' day mawnin', Man go 'long 'bout 'e wuk.
Lil gal, ’* play 'roun', un 'oplay ’roun’. B'er Bab.
bit ’e Is como tippy-tippy. ’K lino gett open;
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.
What Ha Sacs, llaara and laiaalaca la Ile-Atlaatlana
M PpOrtMHCBI
, , Atlanta, Ga„ September 28.—"Tho gold
slip In dageorden. ’K chaw dem pea, ’e XDyaw fon of Qcorgta> ., aald tho Hon. E. H. Deck,
dem pea; ’e eat tell dem pea tas’o bad. Don’etry of tuopkl0i -i, tho scene of an activity
for go ont; gott shed fas’. ’E no kin git troo. ’E1 and prcapcilly that ts little undeistood. There Is
push, gett no open; e keek wit um fat, gott no I g^ally invested iu mines and machinery and
open; 'e butt wit’ um hoad, gelt no open. Run 'o I houses In my county $2,MO,000. In tho other conn-
holIc . , . : . , I tics of the gold region there Is as much more, mak,
LU gal. 111 gull como y-open da gott. ’K beery |
had le
feelln' (town wun you uoo tax at* -a Derry ■ „ uu Mr , AndrtwI oMhe i„y consolidated
b ad -' I mine, says he signed checks, for 172,000 clear divl-
“Lit gal hoi o head down; o no eay nutUt*’. I dred la3t ycari on a „ pll »i stock of *250 000, and a
B'or Rabbit say: cash Invesunentol half as much. Thoother mines
•Bo shame, 111 gal, for do ole nun ltk dl* Mo I d eamed mo confluence of
feelln’ git wuaser. Come ycg.cn do gett 'fo' I i* I nort ], ern caplul. We have *11 tho money that Is
tecr .?. m , own ’ .. , I needed for the development of our mines.
D * ddy “ Jrm “’ n ' I “Is your machinery of good pattern 7"
B'erltabbU open ’o y-eyo wide;'e Is took bony I moat , Bproved gold miaInK machinery
mad. E say: I in tho world. And we are making more out of Iho
•• -see meblg yoyo? I pop die yoyo .tret at you, wead crushing oilcan gold ore. than any section of
,o kill s you dead. Come y-open da gett ’to’ mo oountry anywhere , fno rich pockets that have Me-
y-oyo pop. , , • ..... I Unguished this region are still frequently found.
"Lil gal sheer for true. ’E loose de gett, ’e fair U[ ^ „„ „„ ooe ^ olh „ day ^e, yielded »3M
fly. B’er Babbit done gone! Lit gal daddy como worth , ld to 0M flTe . ponnd o(
bahk. 'E ahx wey Is B'er Rabbit. LU gal eay: I ——
K don* gono, daddy. I hot' gett fas’; ’e la bln-1 Away up In Habersham county there has Just
como berry mad. 'E say ho gwan pop 'o y-eyo at I been planted the seed ol a manufacturing city,
mo, ahootamodcad.’ Mansay: I A short time ago a company headed by President
•• ‘B'er Rabbit teU-a two big tale. Uow’egwwl Porter of the Merchants bank bought a water-
shoots yoinwif’e y-oye? 'E y-eye sem Uk turrer I power about seven miles from the village ot Cat-
folks’ y-eyo. Wun 'o como soma moro’, you shed I Wrsvllle. They ralwd a capital of (250,000, and are
demgott, you hot'um fas’.’ LB gal say yaaser. I now building a woolen mill, that with the machtn-
-Nex' day mawnin’, Man go. B'or Rabbit come. | ory and opcraUvo’ houses, wlllooat over 9100,000.
E Is ma'ch in da gett un cat-a dem pea tell 'e kin I It ia being fitted with tho latest Improved maohln-
cat s no mo'. 'K sta'I out; gett siml. 'E no iln I cry, and being under practically the some man-
como pas', 'K shock, 'o push, 'c pull; gettsbod. I agement as the famous old Conoord mills, wittof
Dun 'o holler: I course be successful.
Lil gal, lil gal! come y-open da get* 'Tleberry I A curious tact ts that tho mill will bo ran with
bad fer treat you kin lak dla. Come y-open da gett, I out a dam, The water cornea tumbling down In a
lit gal. 'Til lull mo up wit’ sorry wun you do lak I cataract and furnishes the powerwtihout a dollar’s
dla .* I artfddal aid. Colonel J. W. Robertson says it ts
Lil gal 'e no say nultln'. B'er Rabbit My -. I the finest power ho ever saw, and that It will turn,
E berry bad fer treat you* kin lak di* Tu'n I without arUflclal help. 11,000,000 worth ofmachln-
go da gett, 111 gal.' Lit gal say: lory- Tho mill now going up will feed fivo bun-
How you taktn wit'me, O'er Rabbit?’ I died people, to that wc will soon see a new town
Y’on' gran'daddy toller at’ me nuncio wit' 'o I, tu old Habersham. The other water power* wUl be
do«. Da mek we Is kin. Como y-open d* {ett, 111 I utilised la'ar.
gal '”' „ .., ... , . .1 Tho legislature, after having tried for years to
Dat oSe Rabbit wu* a-talhtn', men !•' exclaimed , a)r> haye „ nl , ltad lt a[ u
Aunt Tempy, cnthusIsiUosJly. I ara ) counties. And wls-Ty. It now goes to the
••LUgslnosaynuttln tall. Daddy Jack went on, Jjopi,, who W ui deal by locsJ opUonwllh dog* as
with renewed animation. "Dun B'er Rabbit say: |
•fie* me long aha'p tool. 111 gal? Mobiles you
troo un troo.' LU gal say.
Me no sheer da too?. ’X bite nultln’ 'tal 'cep'
bite gras*' B'er Rabbit aay:
‘See me big y-eye? 1 pop um at you, shoot-ayou.
dead.' Ml gal aay:
Me no skeer day-eye. 'X sem Uk turrer folks’
y-*y*., B'er Rabbit aay:
.. Xy will Improve the
They can't afford to pen
And they will save
strongholds of liquor, environed doeely with pro-
hiblUon suburb* An election has been ordered lot
Floyd county, and lt will be intereetlng to see how
Rome vote*
As for fence* they have been driven out, not per-
h»p*. so rapidly but Just a. surely, the
elections began only a few years ago,
and now eighteen counUes have abolished
fence* Within the put week Oglethorpe and Wal.
ton, two very Important counUe* here been added
to the list, and the no-fence sentiment Is growing.
TVe fences, having been once abolished, can never
be replaced, ao the anU fence agtteUon never loses
a step’ .that it make*
Mr. v), T nt, of Monroe, a strong and useful man.
said: “ It/ people Toted the no-fence law down by
a majority ds 6 to 1. I had the legislature put the
lew on the 00uhty anyhow, how, fully nine men
out of ten In the county favor It It tuts effected a
perfect revolution," ,
“Hu It beautified the country much?”
“Not u yet, for the old fences are atlU stand
ing. They Will be allowed to rot
away. As the rails rot or are used tor fuel, the
fences are contracted and smaller pastures en
closed. In a few years they,will all begone, ex
cept where slock ere fenced in the pasture* Then
everytblogwUl look much better and smoother."
”My county,” said Mr. Feek, of Rockdale,
would not take 9100,OM for Jhc stock law. You
couldn’t get her to vote' fences bock with that
much money. Uke Hoopoe county, ft has neither
fences nor whisky, and ft don’t want any more of
either. It hu the finest cattle and the soberest men*
the best putnrea and the happiest wives ol any
county In Georgia.”
“When men hare to
•loeores," said Mr. Flynt,
quality ol their stool*
worthies* cattle.
ol the
compost heap. In every way the
new law will work well.”
To revert to the dog law. Speaker Garrard says:
"A general dox law can he passed when ever the
members from lbs sheep raising conn lies say they
want one. They complain that hogs kill more
sheep then dogs do. An old sow, they say, will
follow a flock of sheep and eat every lamb tbet is
dropped. The dogs, they uy, protect the sheep-by
ridding tho woods of “varmints.” I suppose under
the operation of the local option, the dog law wfii
work Ita way Into the com ties that need IL”
An Insurance manager discussing some Items lo
this column on the subjeci,last Sunday, said: “The
capital of the insurance companies In thla country
Is larger than the combined capita) ol the national
banks, and the outstanding insurance la larger than
the naUonal debt.
He further avid: “One ot Use most striking and
melancholy disclosures insurance men ever had
was the rapid dying outof the ohl confederates for
the first ten yean after the war. Worn out, broken
S lritaand body, Impoverished and with nocs-
y to adjnst themselves to the new order of
js. they died at a rapid rate. I know of one
company that In ten years paid out 1110,OM more
than It took In from premiums in one southern
state. Indeed, this experience made many of the
companies contract their lines of insurance nnttl
a few yean alnce, when a new condiUon of things
was established.”
It seems to he pretty well settled In the ninth that
Jud Clemente will have a walk over wtlh the
next nomlnaUon lor congress “He hu had,"said
a probable aspirant, “two hitler and costly race*
and he la enUtlcd to one easy race which J think
the next nomination will give him.” After tha
next race Hr. Clemente may look out for trouble In
the rank*
The talk here is In legislative circles, that north
The news comes from all sections of tho state that
the partridges are unusually plenUful this season.
The shooting season opens to-morrow and the hun
ter will be a-field bright and early.
ARP IN LOUISVILLE,
Ths Cherokee PklloeopkerOeelmetkeBlekte-lteetew
and Other Evsats.
Special to The Constitution.
Lorisviux, September 28.—The care were rolling
on—smoothly and swiftly they carried us over the
polished rail* but still I couldn't sleep. I remem
ber well when we used to have toil! up In onr scats-
and nod and bump around all night u we jour*
neyed to New York to buy goods, and thought how
much better that wu than the old fashioned stage
coach In which we used to travel. Nine Inside and
■omoontbe top, and night alter sight andday
alter day we endured it pleasantly and told stories-
and swapped lies and exchanged our wit, and some
how or other we got along and were happy. Next
came tho railroad* and we thought lt wu elegant
and a luxury to ride on 'em, for they glided along
smoothly over the snake-head nils—that Is so
ioolhly o
d twistln
aspired to t
“ trrowi
U,. wu.—... ....Atlanta"CoNrnTUT?oN!ca‘n draw
the drapery ol hia couch about him and lie down
to pleasant dreams.
lwss riding tn one ol there last night, going to
tho exposition. Tho night wss cool and the road
wu smooth, and ever and anon the locomotive
would take on itrength Uke a slant and I
could feel tho pulse , ot Ue power u
It whirled ca along, but still I could not sleep.
There were some ladle* close by au i they were
cackling about some Atlanta boys and about fool
ish children running away to get married, and how
ny lover* they had rejected, and one said she
ild have married 400‘ times without running
away If she had wauled to, and the other aald she
' * ’ o make a corduroy
, ! been, laid side by
■lde, but she bad never found tho right sort ol a
man yet and she wasn't going to mahe a fool of
herrelL But lt wun’t the Uke ol that that kept me
awake, for I take but IttUe lutcrest In thoee things
now. 1 have been married enough to. do me the
balance ol Ume. I have served my day and done
my duty In that line u well u I could, and imper
fectly content toatand on my hand. Aa Dr. Felton
used lo say-1 quote from Tun Gonstttction—
“there is my record—look at It.” Chil
dren and grandchildren have been clustered around
me, and 1 see In the distent future a posterity aa.
numerous at the asndaol the seashore or the leaves
ol the forest if posterity will ran the schedule of
their Illustrious site ana his moro Illustrious help-
them
and teased
them back
... Urey thanked
me with a (mothered giggle but I.wasont thtuMng
about them girls ana tried lo go to sleep bat I
couldsn* Ae the oars swung around a curve lt
with whisky and fence*
Mr. Foster, of Floyd, la the only man who over
f got a dog-law through the legislature, and his conn
ty the only one that hu a dog law. He said:
■The result ol the law in Floyd county will be. It
will pay into She school lund 92,000 a* tax on 2,000
doga; U will result tn the killing ol 2,900 dogs that
_ worth the taxes, during
'Lil gal, yon mek me 'come mad. ] no lak Its I the year, and about 1,000 dogt will eaoapt taxes and
hu't* me kin. Look at me ho'n! I rau you trso I death.”
un troo.' I " Docs the law provide (or killing delaulUug
B’er Rabbit UC 'e two year up; 'ep'iut umstret I dogs?”
at 111 gal. Ml gal 'come akter da ho'n; *e do ita'n I “No. It simply carries tbs ume penalty prorlded
godagett;'e lly lum deyrilcy.” I for not paying other taxes The:bead of famtlis*
"tVell, ef dat don’t beat!” exclaimed Aunt I are responsible for all thedogsowned by the fatal-
Tempy, laughing aa heartily as tho little boy. 'Look I ly, and are bound to return them. The tax la col-
urn one way, en Babbit year does look lak sbo I lected as other taxes,and dlilrenehtees defaulter*"
nuff ho'n*” I “Have you been abused for having the law rass-
LU gal tu'n go da gett," Daddy Jack continued; I cd”‘
B'er Rabbit gout! Man come back: 'e ahx wey Is “I heard ol one man in Cavefiprlng who waactu-
er Rabbit. LU gal cry;'e uy’o sheer B'er Rabbit | sing me about f. But fourteen sun turned ia and
Man sty'e ia hab uo be'n. Ltl gal U stan' | cussed him. The law must prove popular. It wlU
ho'
um down 'e see ho'n. Man my da ho'n la nullin'
tali but B'er Rabbit year wut 'o yeddy wit’. 'E
tell U1 gal nex’ tam B'er Rabbit come, 'e mas'shed
da gett; 'e mss' ran lum dey-dey un leaf um shed,
LU gal my yamcr.
thin out the worthless deaa and build ap our
schools, best do* protecting out flocks”
It ts probable that the next legislature vrilt by ab
solute enactment pa! the dog law In force in ados-
en oountic* and enact a local optton|(o> others, In
•Man gone, B'er Rabbit C0B1 *- la go In da I wP | c j 1 a u,uc can be made and let the pto-
—*t: 'eeat* dem p» tell ettre. .E try ler go pea pIe do w j* t y, e legtsteture ii a/rxid to do.
da gett; gett shed. L call 111 gal: lit sal gone! El ' —
ail, caU, caU 1U gal no yeddy. 'X try ler fine crack In view ol this It ia worth whUe to note the prog-
da palin’: no crack dey. 'E try ler Jump over: I ttm made by the other local option Issues; to-
palin’ too high, 'e 'come skeer: 'el wit, the stock law and prohibition,
is 'come so skeer, '* squot 'pun da ground'; 'e shek, I p^moitlon hu made lu sray steadily and rapid-
'e shiver. ... Ily. Ten yean ago lt had no hold whatever. The
“Man como bahk. X ahx wey B ex Rabbit. Ltl ^ 0( u, iu0t u uowjprohlblted lo the whole or part
gal my 'e In da geerden. Man hug ill gal * isi lub I ^ ^ c0 , ladea , feavtcg hxe than hall Ute counties in
umao. ’X go in da geerden; edneB er Rabbit, h | , Pc atate [ n which its sale Is unrestricted. The leg
islature just dissolved bas made nine ol there coun-
keth him nm—'• ea'um off ler kUl: 'e mad ter
true. Ml gal oome holler;
Daddy, daddy! miens my ran dere: 'X wan'
you come strot dere!
ties non-Uquor counties by ensetmen t, and provid
ed lor elections In thirty odd more. It also p isred a
blU making lt a crime le sell Uquor to a confirmed
Man Ue B er Babbit In da bag. c hand um on I dmakard ol a dru nken person, alter notice not to
tree-llm'. 'E my:
I gwan oome bahk. 1 l'arn you ler mek cud
wit'me green pea.'
Man gone ler see 'e mlasu* Bumhye, B'ct 'Foa-
seU hu been served by one ol his relative*
Under local option prohlblUon hu showed unus
ual strength. It bas been beaten notably In only
two countie* Washington and Decatur, u we re-
. . - . *. member. Its friends contend that five more years
righufrecemdl b> J##l Wl * 04ltt lw * AU r will see Um six larger cities of Georgia the sole
mill ill H LHUIO, Ulll lllll I El-pi 90 UllUklllZ hUU
thinUlng mid listening at the rumbling rolling
I wheels, and my thought* wandered afar off tuto
tho uuiverae of motion. I(e*e f. wu speeding tiloug
at W miles an hour, and here the world wu turulug
over ou its axis tu 1.000 miles ax hour and going
towards the sun at 40,000 miles aa hour, aud 1 jou Id
em help pondering on all ti}ls complexity of mo*
Uon, this riddle of the unlverao. It wu a bis thing
Indeed to be whuled alone In analace er- * —
a speed, but tho car was
moveo wilta a stn
ling of ilH friction, uui me ** Gi-*u iuii«u uu-auu un
and had been rolling for ageaandages without any
visible power, and it kept me awake thinking and
rumlnaiiug how it wu d'-ne-how itwu begun
and when it would stop, and it seemed to me that
a man wu a fool who wouldn't feel humble under
the mighty band of God when he thought of it.
But I did drop to sleep after awhile—that
is aftes those gills stopped their
racket and the next moraine
1 woke up at Louisville, or near by. and prepared
myself tc.tako ia the notable city, lt wu my firFi
visit to this southern metropolis; tUa benuuful
city; thla city of wealth and dignity, where tbe
proud cld aoulheru stock gave congregated and
living in leisure and refinement. 1 like thisM
Kentucky stock. It la a grand old state and hu a
record to be proud of. For thirty miles out the
counter around Loxfavllle is a garden and fShrc*
signs of happiness and comfort among her people.
I recalled the time when Daniel Duoue found it a
vutwildoraess of unbroken tores & and I lamented
that the grand old trees were son*. The native
forest always reminded me ot the vigorous hair on
a strong man's head. It is nature's covering, aud
when ilia gone dune nature has lost her hair and
U bald headed. But mankind moat Uv»and the
forest must go; aid now houses and fences must be
built mainly of iron and stone, for we live in an
Iron age, and lt is cheaper than wood. There is
timber still-lorn ot timber—bnt it is fast going, ard
a few yean will sing lu requiem. There are sixty
■aw mills in one county near to me, and they have
cut half of iu timber away in the last
five years. The process is sure and timple. In ten
years more the Georgia pine will be u scarce as it
b now in Kentucky, and the face ot nature will
be desolate. AU around Cedartowa for miles there
is not a tree remaining, and the shaved land looks
beack and barren. What the saw mills did not eut
for lumber theiron works took for charcoal, and so
ction it seems alarming, but
outhl to he alumina, for Providence always pro*
vide* Providence makes no mistake* no blun
ders; Wc- may waste and destroy, bat Providence
to kind. Two years >(o barbed wt-o was twelve
cents a pound and now It Is six. Onr Umber fur
mils has nearly gone in Georxta, bnt Iron wire la