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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. 'ATLANTA. GA*' .TUESDAY MARCH 3 1888
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Tm Constitution baa thousand* of redd
en in the great northwort, and do more de
voted friends anywhere. This is became
Til* Constitution is honestly and sincerely
devoted to breaking down sectional lines,
and building np a spiritof national comrade
ship. It is a democratic paper now and for*
over. Above all thing! It is a southern pa
per, bnt it Is for the whole country—the two
sections united in one, and cemented with
the blood of the bravest and beat of north
and aonth. All that we had wo offered to
tho caase of the bonnie bine flag. The
straggle aronnd that flag coat ns blood and
fortune. Bnt when Uncle Bob Loo and Un
de Joe Johnston made an honorable surren
der and sheathed their ewords, we Celt that
everybody else might quit fighting. The
war is over. Tbs nnion is reunited—this
time forever. Wc an{ American citizens,
and Tiik Constitution is an American
newspaper) and wc are proud of the name!
Mr. Manky voiced the whole truth when
he said that the complaint of tho people was
not that the president had made 643 remov
als, bnt that ha had not mad# ten timed that
number. The people voted for a change in
1884, and they were entitled to it.
The Carrollton Tragedy.
Til* Constitution, has printed all
the particulars of the recent killing
oi negroes nt Carrollton, Mississippi,
by a party of armed white mea,
and it ia unable to discover tho remotest
justification of so horrible a tragedy. A
more deplorable affair has never been chron
icled In these columns.
There are two aides to tho story, of coarse,
hat there is no excuse, short of the total de
pravity of those whose duty it is to set the
machinery of the law in motion, that wilt
jnsiiiy the killing of them negroes. This
does not seem to hsve been the case at Car
rollton. There the law was In fall force, bnt
in the very teeth of the law, the outrage was
committed.
Let it be admitted that the Brown negroes
were the worst of their kind, and, that the
negroee associated with tham were no better;
let it be admitted that they were impudent
and overhearing in their conduct, and mur
derous in their intentions; let all tills bead-
milted, and atill we shall And neither ex
cuse nor justification tor the wholesale
slaughter of tho negroes who wore assembled
in the conrthonae.
TiikCunstitution understands, of course,
that human nature, at liottom, la pretty
much the asms in Iowa and Indiana aa it ia
. in Mississippi. The people of neither state
are willing, in the face of it flagrant crime,
hwalt ior the slow processes of the law.
The lynchiogs that occur In both sections of
tho country— in the north as well as in tho
eolith—are evidences of this fact. Bat it
stems to as that the outrage reported (bom
Carrollton, MiaeMppi, could not oocnr in
any community under the ann where there
is the Slightest respect for law or the faintest
love of justice.
It ia an outrage that to severely denounced
by the brother of I.iddoll, who sms the indi
rect cause of the trouble. Liddell's brother
was an eye-wiintsa, and he declare* that the
mmder of tho negroes svas unjustifiable and
unnecessary.
Ia Hho Guilty?
The fiuuone Wulkup ease has been dupli
rated at South Valley, N. Y., bnt with*
very different result. In the Watkup ease
(he defendant was acquitted, although it
wee proved that she purchased arsenic
and that her husband died from arsenical
poisoning. In the Xew York caw Mia.
Mary Wileman, a handsome woman of
tbirty-ssven, baa been (band guilty of poi
soning her husband, nnd has been sentenced
to be banged on the 30th of April.
• The result seems to have surprised every-
body, and an effart will be made to secure
either a pardon or a commutation of tho
sentence.
In the Wilrman rase may be seen the
danger of allowing an Ignorant or blood-
thlnty jury to wrestle with circnnutantial
evidence. In this case no motive was shown
for (lie crime. The good character of the
defendant was not attacked. Hatred be
tween herself and her husband was not
shown. Tho possession or pnrchiae of tho
poison need was not traced to her. It was
simply proved that Wileman ate a pie made
by his wife, fell sick nnd died. Before hto
death be expressed the belief that he had
been polsunvd by bin wife. At Uio poet
mortem arsenic waa found In bis stomach.
Now, all these beta make a much weaker
ease lor tho prosecution tlianjwa* made out
in tho Wnlknp affair. Fortunately tho re
mit strikes the people sad press of Now
York so unfavorably, that the victim baa
still another chance. It to not believed that
ttovvraor Hill will allow Mra Wileman to
go to the gallows. Under the circumstance*
it would be a blot on the an unto of a great
state to allow a weak woman to be itranglod
on such muatisfaeloiy testimony. Per ha pa
the jury boxes in New York stand ia need
of acarefal revision.
The Good Old Times.
When our fathers and grandfathers suffer
their dyspepeia to get tho upper hand, they
have a great deal to say nbont the good old
times. The reminiscences of these venerable
dtiaeaa are interesting, but they urc alto
gether too rose-colored.
If we go lack alien t sixty years or so, to a
period within the memory of many now iiv-
lag, it will be found that the manners and
morale then in vogue were infinitely worse
than those of the present day. In the Uni
ted States, aa well aa in Eagiand, the higher
rtrelee of society have always been more or
lees affected by the immplea set by British
royalty and nobility. We aee too much of this
in our own day and generation. Sixty year*
ago it was worse. The man who was rellod
"the first gentleman in Europe” occupied the
tngltoh throne. George the Fourth wee
netting ntoffi Hffr lcaa than a royal bog.
I Thackeray, OrevUle, and Inter writers have
told in how bo lived and misbehaved him-
keif. It to on record that George celebrated
his wedding night by getting beastly drank.
He robbed hto bride of her bracelet* and gave
them to another woman. From the cradle
to the grave be continued an unblushing
Bar, swamped in debt, and nearly alwaye
drank. In bin flunily relations bo was nn-
grateful, brutal and treacherous. When he
fell ont with Lord Mansfield on acooant of s
speech, be told tho Archbishop of Canter
bury to go to hto lordahlp, and toil him he
lied, and to kick him In the king’s name.
The nobles imitated their king. When Lord
Lonrdale was baited by an officer for driving
too Aat bo said .- "You rascal, do you know
I am s peer ?" The officer replied, "I don’t
know yon are a peer, bnt I know you are a
scoundrel!" of course a duel waa the re
sult Even the preachers caught the infec
tion,and we are told of one who in a funer
al diaconna aid that the deceased
lately a great and good dnehea on earth, and
to nowa great and good dnehea in haven.’’
This will do for a glimpie of the good old
times in England. American society did
not escape the consequence* of such bad ex
amples. It to only necesary to glance over
aome of the forgotten books of travels written
fifty or sixty years ego by inch writers a
Mis. Trollope to see that ignorance, immo
rality and bad taste prevailed to an alarm
ing extent in this country, in circles where
something better might have been expect*^.
Perhaps this to going as tor »s It is neces
sary to go. If it does not convince our young
readers that they are fnlly os good aa the
people of tho oid school they will do well to
read aomeof tire histories nnd mcmolnof the
first half of tho centnry. A very little re
search will atiafy them that modem socie'ty
to really on the np grade.
A Manly and Honest Letter.
In pleasant contrast to' the shabby letter
of “L. W. J.,” which we discuss elsewhere
this week, to the following from Mr. H.
T. Flection, of Lucas station, low*. Mr.
Fleenon writes:
l.rcxn, lows, Msrcb 12, lsst.-Edltors Constitu
tion— Dear Mr: 1 have been a reader of many pit-
pare for many years, anil a reader of The Consti-
vi tins for one year, and I bare also been a repub
lican politically all my lire and served in tbe noth
Iowa volunteer infantry, but notwlthitandlni all
tbisl feel tbat I would keilolnx myself and fam
ily an injustice to drop Tire Cosstitctios to try
to find a belter paper, and I will here inclose tbe
eaib, one dollar and twenty-five cent*, for another
year. ILF. Fbxsxos.
A Wicked nnd Supreme Folly.
Tha wwtem free-trade crank* insist that
they do not favor free trade. And yet tbe
Coniier-Jouroai of test week insists that
every one should scud for and read the pub
lications of the New York Free Trade dab.
It endorsee these publications and yet says
it to not for free trade.
In the meantime, the Kentucky legisla
ture baa instructed its senators and mem-
ben to vote against hemp being put on tho
free list Alabama speaksgttp for her iron.
Louisiana for her [angar. A rice planter in
Carolina testifies that he found the (tore-
keeper on hto plantation selling hto rice-
field heads rice raised in East India and
imported by an evasion in tho duty. Free
trade would rain many southern crop* and
Industries and aet the south bock twenty
yearn.
Wa are for a revision of the infamous and
oppressive tariff. A thorough and complete
revision, (hat will give tbe goverament no
more income than itoyactuol need,)and]that it
will be ao laid as to protect southern inter
ests. Tbe folly of ascribing tho ponding
labor troubles to tho tariff, to answered by
the laborers themselves, who are unanimous
igalnst the folly of free trade. The tariff
must be revised—hat not by cranks who
think more of their own notoriety than of
tho country’s good.
Farms Increasing In Number.
Several recent writers would have us be
lieve that Ihe country to threatened with
landlordism—English landlordism at that:
but Mr. Henry Strong, who has resided in
Chicago forty yean, shows in the con no of an
aiticle in the North American Review lor
March tbat there are no grounds for inch
statement*. The evils of landordtom are ad
mitted on all hands, bnt fortnnaUly no
linn of the country is drifting into that kind
of tremble.
Mr. Btiong shows by successive censuses
that small estates are not in tho coarse of
consolidation into huge estates. We repro
duce tbs figures:
No. farms No. farms No. farms
In 1K0. In lm In iw>.
. iw.an
. 119,00
SLOW
2.7KH
42.00
rorgl* 02,000 00,100 130,000
Nor to this all. The same enumerations
show Ihe number ol acre* in the average
Aim of the last three decades, aa follow*:
I860. 1*70. I*Ol
Acres. Acres. Acres
1 lew York
Pennsylvania....
Teas*.....
210,000
203.000
110.000
12,300
241.000
233.0001
lav, 000
03.3*7
Georgia
Iowa
Illinois.
TVaae..—
110
aw
430
1®
til _ 110
— in
;i3i
333
390 301 208
The truth to there are comparatively few
flume in the country of 1,000 acre* or over.
There are only 640 ont of 353,000 ia Illinois;
ia Michigan there are but 84, and in Kansas
only 335. Only three companies have made
considerable purchases of land in Texan, and
all their capital does not equal the vnlne of
the smallest county in Iowa. Landlordism
to still a bugbear, at least in the northwest;
and in the math and southwest the number
of flume is annual ly increasing.
Mr. Strong says that landlordism in the-
northwest to impossible because capital to
net cheap enough. To make money farming
one most live on hto flum, no matter where
it to located. Tbe tendency in that .section
to altogether toward* independent owner
ship. The pwceas to first the form laborer,
then the tenant, and lastly tbe owner. Tbe
lend-owner in this country to the ideal citi-
ren, tbe hope and bulwark of the republic.
Hr to very numerous, nnd the indication*
are that the number of land-owucr* will an
nually increase, and that landlordism will
never become a permanent or prominent fea
ture in thie country.
A 1 tat her Shabby Pel tow.
A friend from Dayton, Ohio, encloses ns a
letter printed in the Dayton Journal by i.
W. J., who was ore of the late Ohio exenr-
sioalete to this ►late. The letter to Tory
abueive,.and our friend writes, “The writer
he* won tho contempt of ua all by so re-
taming tha hospitality of your people.’’
Thereto something ia that Tbe Georgia
forme:* who to frankly met their Ohio
brothers anti dm» open wide tub doors of
their homes to IL^m, did not of course expect
to put oven *Jne obligation! of courtesy on tho
lip* of their visitors. They expected the
OhtoUnt to return home with much to criti
cise, and to speak (rankly of what they had
seen in the south. That modi to always
understood between gentlemen. Bat the
man who accept* the hospitality of a borne,
however hnmble, and while sitting about lta
hearthstone, forgea'slanders with which to
smite that borne after be has left it, to a
pretty shabby fellow and deserve) tho con
tempt of hto-weigh bore.
The Dayton writer grows merry as for as
malice can be made to be merry—over the
“half-banded way’’ in which Georgia Burners
do their work. It to well to judge methods
by their results. Twenty years ago the
Georgia former had nothing. The war that
enriched Ohio desolated Georgia. Homes,
staves, stock, fences, implements, houses—
everything waa swept away. There was
neither money or credit with which to replace
them. A mortgage on land and crop only
gave them the right to buy tbe necessaries of
life at on advance of 50 to 00 per cent on tbe
cash price. The richnorth hindered rather
than helped the aonth. It sent ns nsnrere
and advi-ntnrers, who cut deep for blood and
plondtred at the point of the bayonet. In
spite of ell this, tho Georgia farmer has
prospered. From desolation ho has come to
plenty with amazing swiftness. Last year
hto cotton crop sold for $44,000,000, or nearly
double tbe veins of Ohio’s wheat crop, nnd
more than the value of Ohio’s corn crop.
Ho raised 34,(100,000 bushels of grain last
year, and has 315,000 milch cows, while tho
conene gives Ohio only 767,000. Ho has
bought or raised 140,000 males or asses,
while Ohio has (not including "L. W. J.’’)
only 19,000. He has 60,000 oxen while
Ohiohss only 0,000, and hto form implement),
which L. 3V. J. ao despises, are valued at
$0,060,000 while Ohio’s only reach $30,000,-
OOO, with double Georgia's population. Ho
has 1,660,000 hogs, while Ohio has only
3,141,000 bogs (not counting “L. W. J.”)
He boa 034,000 sheep, while Ohio has only
,003,000, and atill he don’t count his wool-
clip na an item.
The Georgia farmer has done wonders.
Bead over the figures given above. Remem
ber that Ohio has twice Georgia's popula
tion and tbat one third of Georgia's popula
tion to colored. Yon will see that the white
Georgia farmer to about aa well off as his
Ohio brother. And when we remember that
the war, while it enriched tho Ohio farmer,
absolutely impoverished the Georgian and
left him penniless and homeless twenty yean
ago, we certainly feel he to not deserving
the ridicnle "L. W. J.’’ launches at hto con
tented head.
Bnt "L. W, J.’s”pettcr has its sting in its
tail. It closes with the statement that if
"Georgia, with her sand, and red clay, and
niggers anil poor white trash’’ tries to secede
from the nnion again, ho will throw np hto
hat and say, “God speed her ont, forehe
ain’t worth keeping in.’’ No doubt that is
just what "L. W. J.” and hto fellow-cranks
and spoilsmen do want Bnt Georgia has
no ides of leaving the nnion. She tried it
once, and wot headed bock. Now she to in
to stay. She boa got part and parcel In this
government and she to going to have her aay
abont running It, just like the rest of the
family. And the is going to help tho honest
(oiks of the north and the aonth keep the
fingers of L. W. J. and bis sort ont of tho
public treasury. She took a hand in tbejob
of turning them ont lost November year,
and she will be on hand every time there to
any danger of their getting in again. We
respect this to really what is making L. W.
J. lick. If so, he may count on n very long
•pell!
Attacking an Evangelist.
We have fallen upon evil times.
Once a preacher could my what be pleased,
and hto hearers listened In decorous silence.
Now they talk back. When this to not done
it to a common thing 'for some dissatisfied
person to write a card.
Ont in Macon, Missouri, the Rev. Edward
James, a Baptist evangelist, to in very hot
water. For aome time post he hoe been hold
ing successfril meetings. Recently he branch
ed ont in tho Sam Jones style, and de*
nonneed card playing, theatergoing, dancing,
intemperance and other vices. Speaking of
tho Episcopalians and Catholics he said that
many of the former vronid never get to
htaven unless they died during Lent Iu
one of hie sermons he said:
For forty days you observe all the forms sad cere
monies ol your church, at the end of which time
you return to your wickedness, your vices and your
villainies again.
Catholicism he denounced in stronger
terms still, stating that the
Catholics persecuted for conscience's sake and
enslaved liberty. .
A counterblast wo* promptly forthcoming.
It waa in tbe shape of a printed circular,
signed by a prominent Catholic priest. Tho
first paragraph was os follows:
To all whom It may concern: Macon City, Mo.,
has Just now within her corporate limits a phe
nomenon laths shape of a traveling preacher,who
rives promise by his extravagance, bluster and
lying to eclipse even Ingcrsoll, and threw Ram
Jones In the ihade. Whilst lacking the sophistry
of the former and tho bunoombe of the latter
preacher, James seems to possess the brazen effront
ery of both.
Tbe evangelist's attacks upon the Catho
lics and tha Jews were then denied and re-
futcil. The circular condnded with throe
remarks:
It If a sbsme-a disgrace, that respectable citi
zens iliould tolerate hireling fanatics of this man's
type In their midst, to tbe detriment ot the com
munity.
******
la the belief of Its writer, tbe evangelist must
hare got his Insplrstloe as well as his commlmlou
(bom the follow down stairs—U>* devil.
*•••**
We have t very dangerous lunatic to our midst.
The appearance of this spirited document
naturally created in tense excitement. For
the present, Evangelist James to maintain
ing an ominous silence. Hto admirers say
it to tbe calm that precede* a storm, and
confidently predict a cyclonic outburst. The
sitnation justifies the gloomiest forebodings,
nnd the authorities may yet be compelled to
interfere to preserve the peace ol the com
munity.
A Blob of tin thus last*.
Since Ignatius Loyola organized the
fomons Society of Jesus the world has never
•sen sm-h a peculiar order of religions zealot*
as the Salvation Army.
Something over twcntyyears ago William
Booth, * Methodist minister in England,
placed himself at the head of a few follower*.
Booth assumed the title ot general, and ap
pointed other generals, division commanders,
colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, and
mi on. Tha order spread, and at tha present
time has grown into an immense body of
evangelists, all under one cfihtraf head, Gen
eral Booth. In oar northern end western
cities it to a common sight to see them
their military uniforms, rallying converts to
the inspiring music of a brass band. Boston
to just now undergoing the visitation of
large force.
When men and women join tho Salvation
Army, their appearance, education and sta
tion in life give them no advantage. They
enlist aa privates and do the work assigned
them. They most obey orders, and
these orders run ail the way from
tbe captains np finally to the head
center, General Booth in London. Tho pri
vate stags and (boats and preys for weeks,
or it may he yearn, until hto superior
officers notice hto zeal and ability. Then be
to promoted. He mnat ask no questions,
and go wherever he to sent to aaeanlt the
strongholds of sin. If he has money it to
well, bnt if he to poverty-stricken and foot
sore, he most nevertheless march to hto field
of doty, and depend upon charities for food,
raiment and lodging. Sometimes he most
endure the terrors of the tow, or submit to
mob violence. Sneers and jeers, rotten eggs,
bootjacks and dead cats are tributes of popu
lar esteem which be must be prepared to
receive without a murmur.
The Salvationists have a rough road to
travel, but they contlnne to increase rapidly
in number*, and General Booth finds uo
difficulty in collecting money for hto opera
tions. Perhaps the best idea of the growth
oi the society that can bo given to contained
in tbe following cable special from London
The Salvation Army lx completing arrangements
for holding in this city a monster International re-
llltoua convention. Tbe managers announce that
they have secured fire of the largest halls In Lon
don for the accommodation or tho thousand* who
are expected to attend. The convention will open
onMay,28and lari a week. The regular delegates
who will be present to represent the army’s relig
ious movements In different foreign parts of the
world will number 2,300. Tbaee delegatee, the
managers My, will Include Hindoos, negroee,
Maories and American Indiana Passage for the
American delegates has already been secured
aboard the steamer Assyrian Monacb, which will
sail from New York about May 13.
The Educational Bill.
It to plain that the Blair bill would lie
passed by a large majority if a vote conld be
reached upon It, but it to equally plain that
the house committee on education does not
intend to report it nntil n report would be
valueless—until the house calendar to well
filled with bills. Aa a prelimi
nary movement, ' the committee has
resolved to postpone consideration of tho
mroanre nntil a day in April, and when that
day arrives an effort will be mode in the
committee to postpone n report indefinitely.
The friends of the bill are not, however,
idle, and they have introduced a resolution
calling upon the committeo on education to
report tho bill in some shape at an early
day. The resolution hoe not come np in
the house, but it will soon be reached.
The composition of tho committee to well
known, so for ns the Blair bill to concerned.
Messrs. Candler of thta state, Welles of Ken
tucky, Whiting of Massachusetts, Campbell
oi Femuylvania, and O’Donnell of Michi
gan, are in fovor of tho Blair bill. Mr. Mil*
ler, of Texas, considers it the dnty of the
state to educate its own people, and Messrs.
Maybuny, ol Michigan, and Barns, of Mis
souri, are said to entertain similar views.
Hr. Mahoney, of New York, thinks the
Catholics should receive separata recognition
if there to to be an appropriation. Very few,
if any, Catholics, support -the Blair bill, or
any other liberal appropriation in aid of pop
ular education. Mr. Strait, of Minnesota,
thinks the states are able to maintain their
own educational establishments, and Mr.
Taylor, of Ohio, to inclined to take a similar
view of the subject. Mr. Aiken, of South
Carolina, chairman of tbe committee, to ill at
home, and probably will not be able to par
ticipate in the consideration of the bill. In
abort, the committee to against tho bill.
The troth is, tbe bill to involved in the
effort to reduce tho tariff; and a considera
ble number who are not against it upon its
merits, are opposing the appropriation be-
cause, in connection with the demands for n
new navy,' it wonld be nted to urge the in
expediency of a reduction of the tariff.
They Only Wanted to Know It.
We print herewith n letter tbat will be
read with interest, it' will carry a useful
bint to thouands of yonr readers. It to
from Mr. 1.1*. Seal borough, of Marion, Ala.
Hevrritu:
Yonr paper pieaies me so well I thought I woold
try to get a club (or yon. All the trouble I bad to
get the names I lend you was to toll them tbat It
was fur Tin: Atiistx Constitution. Some told
me they bait been wanting to take it for some
Umc, but did not know who waa agent at this
place. Xmt-totu- gentleman who told mo ho was
ttkingit nml raid It would be cheap at five dollar*,
and that he would giro It If he conld not get It for
less, i consider It the beat of all papers. Myself
and fondly look forward with fond anticipation to
Tuesday's mall that bring! ua Tuz Constitution.
Wbnt Mr. Bear borough writes to donbtlero
true of thonsaoda of town* and neighbor
hoods. Tbe people are ready to take Tux
Constitution if they only knew who was
agent and how to get it. If they conld only
see tbe paper, and stndy its merits, they
will certainly wont it. We might print
■cores of letters bearing the same testimony
the one printed above. The Constitu
tion to the easiest paper to canvass for ever
tried. All that it requires to to show the
paper, give time to read it, and then ask for
the subscription. -
Tbere are 10,000 subscribers on our lists
who can do precisely wbat Mr. Scorborongb
has done. If they were to do bo, it would
give The Constitution tho greatest boom
any American newspaper ever enjoyed.
Won't you do it?
A Party of Bravo Women.
The wrack of the steamship Oregon to atill
the talk of the day.
The minor incidents of the wreck are be
ginning to come ont, and they are by for the
most interesting port of the story.
It appears that after the collision, when it
became apparent that the ship was rapidly
going to llie bottom, the usual panic ensued
among the passengers. Tbe tueu were com
pletely unnerved. They scrambled for tho
boats, and i- they did not actually suuvei’ie
women aside, they did not gite them the pre
ference.
And wbat was Ihe conduct of these wetl
and helpless women at a time when dea lt
seemed almost inevitable? Ac-stiding to
the published accounts of the disaster they
were comparatively cool, and even dignified.
The* did not join tbe men iu tbeir rush tor
the i-oata; they did not faint nr scream, or
get in any bod j's way. The Tribune says of
their behavior:
Tho women paaengen of the Oregon were peob.
ably quite average specimens ol tbeir ox. There
ieao icaaon to regard them u exceptional. lot
they acted with a gentle, quiet, self-abnegation
Leant!fill to contemplate, and they did not appear
to have to pot any compulsion upon themselves to
do this. The explanation, of coarse, te not far to
seek. Women are, as a role, for tern selfish than
men; for mors aluulsttc, to borrow a word from the
evolutionary terminology. Thetr lives are spent In
self-sacrifice very frequently. They learn to think
more of others than themselves. And though
some pessimists have latterly broached the hereti
cal sxsertlon-tlist modem social ways and educa
tional arrangements were gradually diminishing
the most attractlr* and lovely characteristic of
woman, tbe cam of the Oregon proves how Idle
such an apprehension realty Is, by demonstrating
that In danger, la the free of death, the calm cour
age and sweet unselfishness of tbe "suppressed
sex” put them as for above the tyrant man as they
arc, Incontestably, In minor matters of tact and
taste, grace and tbs amenities of life.
This tribute to the heroines of the Oregon
wonld not bo complete without a word in
commendation of the judgment they dis
played in a trying boar. The calm patience
of these women wag sensible. It made the
task of getting them into the boats mnch
easier, and lessened the dangers incident to
such a harried transfer.
Trifling With the Wrong Girls.
Of conns at this season of the year
yonng man’s foncy lightly tarns to thoughts
of love, etc., bnt that to no reason why ha
should not “tote lair.”
A reckless disregard of this unwritten
law of love-making has plunged Mr. Croncb,
of Randolph, Tenn., into the depths of ha*
initiation and woe. Hr. Crouch by some
infirmity of hto nature was unable to keep
bto affections within bounds. Ho became
smitten with tbe Misses Templeton, and in
bto tussle with Capid was knocked silly in
the first ronnd.
The two sisters were unaware of the
donble dealing of their lover nntil they
found that he was engaged to both. Then
there was a display of detonating and cor
uscating fire-works in the Tempistin man
sion that boat anything ever witnessed
within those decorous walls. Old man Tem
pleton held an cxecativo session with him
self, and taking hto trnsty shotgun raided
Crouch's bailiwick and captured the young
ster. He marched hto prisoner before him
to the Templeton residence, where he tnraed
him into the parlor in tbe presence of tbe In-
dignantslsters.
Tbs Misses Templeton acted with a neat
ness and dispatch worthy of tbe emergency.
They locked the door and demanded an ex
planation. The hang-dog faced Romeo
wilted. The yonng ladies then proceeded
to test the virtues of a horse-whip. Mr.
Cronch at this juncture recollected an en
gagement elsewhere, nnd unceremoniously
took his departure, carrying the window
snelt with him. Ho had no particular use
for the saah, bnt as it seemed to come handy
he took it along.
Two days later the Randolph papers an
nounced the marriage of Mr. Cronch to one
of the spirited heroines concerned in tbe
affair. All to well that ends well.
Only ton mors days in March. Thou
sands of March subscribers have renewed and
hundreds have brought in now ones. There
are 3,000 March subscribers to-hear from
yet. Are yon one of them? Ifsosendin
yonr renewal and m.kas send a new name
with yonr own. Wo must have 10,000 new
names in March. Bend in a new snbacriber
when yon renew,
Toombs on tbe Code of Honor.
Washington Letter.
When Broderick was killed by Terry in a
duel in California in 1832, Toombs delivered a eu
logy on the dead senator, at thecloae of which he
■aid :
"He foil In honorable contest, under a codo
whlcn bo tally recognised. While I lament his
•ad fate, 1 bare no word of censure for him or his
adversary. I think no man, nnder any otrenm-
slanccs, can have a more enriable death than to
fell in vindication or bis honor. H* has gone be
yond Centura or praise. He has passed away fri—
men's Judgment to tbs bar of the Judge or all I
earth, who will do right.
Earth's highest honors sad la 'here holies.'
And 'dnst to dust' conqpides her noblest song.'
PERSONS AND THINGS.
Out of the 7,000 bills introduced in the
present congress, three bare becomo laws.
A Ditroit prcichor bos j ust wooed and won
widow possessed of thirteen children and 11,000,-
000. There Is hops for Joses.
An insurance company of Barcelona has
raid the queen regent of Spain the sum of 300,000
Vanes, the insurance of her late husband. King
I.elard Stanford's gilt of hto estate in
California, valued at twenty millions of dollars,
for the purpose of endowing a college is tho largest
donation ever made by a private cltlscn.
A mono tbs latest Inventions to that of a
match which may be used over and over again an
indefinite number ol limes, the wood being, It Is
claimed, soaked with a peculiar chemical sola
lion.
The legislators in Mississippi, like those to
Maryland, have failed to materialise In favor of a
constitutional convention. A bill having that ob-
& ct in view waa before the bouse of delegate* of
Isslwlppl last week, but alter an exclttngjjiniggte
tha bill was tabled by a vote of 48 to40. This dis
poses of the matter for the present acarion.
David Sinton, Ohio's richest man, to a
Scotch-Irishman, and grew up around the big Iron
mills of Pittsburg. He began business as a clerk
a country store at gi a month; then was clerk
in a blast furnace, afterwards manager, and at last
owner. After that the advance In wealth was fast.
He la worth 112,000,00), and gives largely to public
charities
Moxx than 3,600 babies have been entered
roc the International baby contest in Paris The
favorite for the prise in tbe heavy-weight class Is a
boy named Btdoyne Valles » Belgian ay descent.
At the age of five yean h* ia four feet one and a
half Inches In height and weighs iu pounds
A farmer once called hiseow “Zephyr,’’.
She seemed such an amiable hspbyr.
When the former drew mar, .
She kicked off his ear,
And now tbs old formsr’smnch d«ybjTj hl l[M)
Tbe largest barn in the world to probably
that of the Union cattle company of Cheyenne,
near Omaha It cover* five acres cost *123.000.
and accommodates three thousand, seven hundred
end filly head cfcattla
The March number of The Southern Evange-
list to Just ont, and to for rale at tha news*
Is to a notable number, strong, bright, and
frill of vivid interest.
8am Jones’s closing sermons at tho great
Cincinnati revival are given, with graphic
■ketchea of acenea and incidents daring the
progress of the meetings
The opening sermons of the two Bams in
the Chicago meetings will be found in this
issue.
The Evangelist also contains Senator Col
quitt's masterly prohibition address at the
llrroklyn tabernacle. Other feature* of in
terest are "£am Jones’ Letter I)*ikat.” two
-ital stories, miscellany, religious intcilt-
once, thoughts for the month, etc.
It is impossible to keep up with tho progrets
one of the greatest and most peculiar re-
ligious movements of the country witb-iut
reading the Southern Evangelist. The ser
mon* of Ssm Jones in Cincinnati and Chicago
leer in the highest degree tbe stamp of tbe
wit, eloquence and power which have made
this remarkable preacher so successful and
femous.
It can he' had by sending GO cents for a
year’s sobaeriptioo to \V. A. UemphtU, burl-
manager of Tbe Constitution.
THE TWO SAMS.
Tho Evangelist Indorsed by the TTlvs* and
Mothers of Chicago.
Bam Jones preached the other afternoon to
the women of Chicago. Folly fire thousand were
Mr. Jons* promised a special sermon to wive*.
He said that he wonld pot It off* few days la order
that his wife might be present “For all I know,"
said be, “my old lady may need a little tapping
npaa well as soma of you." - •
FilHKKH
newed laughter.)
ed Into on any other
cry on him that makes him sweet? ILnuxhteri
(Hr* ms that old wool hat boy, tbatbov whoLu
•impleand plain and has sense iSe a homTuSgh!
day*- H * U ° Wn U,re * blocks one or theso
* *
Therein lots of Umeswhen the daughterhumors
mft MSS JSSffij S3th»£ < 2£??
many* poor woman in Chicago who sits to her
parlor ot night rocking the baby and staging:
“Bock a-baby bunting,
Daddy'a gone a-buntinr.”
And he has, too. {Tittering;]
I don’t see how ■
e men enjoy f
ter buy tome laughing powder and take them lost
before yoor husband comet home, and then grin
him out of countenance. [Laughter.] It ia a
•stronger and stronger, until the wife piekM up
a chernr tart and hung It at the h«IS of
herhusbana. The tart flew wide of Its mark, and
MStma the wall: "God Bless Our Home/*
Lie tnmed to tho other 0 and' czcUtau!?:^^Mamma
in the prwence of yonr children 1 stand up."
About twenty-five elderly women wlth deter-
iSSSffilSSd.
iA CShSttUS
way. How many of you quarrel before your chll-
SSL* ®t«n(Uifc” Not one In the great andlenoo
arose. *>cji. crawled the evangelist with a sar*
donle trlDp. yi take It for granted there are no
women with children here today." [Loud
laughter.]
From tbe Chicago News.
8am Joan and 8am Small ware present at
us Methodist ministers' meeting In the Sherman •
house club rooms yesterday morning. Seventy or
eighty clergymen comfortably filled the apart
ment. Elder Trusdell Introduced the evangelists.
Mr. Jones spoke about twenty minutes, bnnglng
out peals of laughter and many fervent omens. Ho
*Tam not working for converts thl* morning, hot
feel that lam communing with kindred spirit*. I
have one thing that I would Uke to aay to the min-
liters of Chicago—I think that yon ought to make
yonr attacks on evil more specific. Mere generali
sation Is no business method. When my grooer
sends me my monthly statement he don’t say “to
merchandise, so much,” bat the bill comes with
the detalli of account*—"to so-and-so-much flour,
so much; to onions, so mnch. to batter so much,
etc." So, brethren, when you arraign your con
gregation Sunday morning It Isn't bus!DOM to call
them to accouot for general inlnnity. You ought
to present them aa accurately itemized bill—“to
dancing, so much: to theater-going, to card-play
ing, to SabbsOh-breaktag’—quote them tho latest
price current of f - *-
thiuSF
ted and died at a
hall, in a jiffy Satan so on the spot and started
away with her. He hadn’t more than got outside
the door when st. Peter cams In,' rattling
gutter-h?ttd.%,s Wwenfft
with,her Just this minuto,” they said. St Petes
struck out after the devil, and pretty soon caught
up with him. "See here. Satan," said Peter,
"you’ve got no right to that young soul; aba’s al
ways. been a Christian and a Methodist, too.”
"Well,”replied th*devil,"Ididn't knowtiutt. I
Just took her be cans* I found her Ouray territory.”
Th* EvangflUat Forg.ta llltnsslf, and Coes a
Stop Too Far.
Sam Jones has been preaching to the women
of Chicago. In hla sermon ha attacked tho gsr*
Mothers and lathers clow their eyes to this de
bauching of tbeir danghtera, and It goes on and on.
and tho world bacomaswono and worse. I board
a society raan asked how th. ladle, were d reared
at a german not long ago. Hla reply waa that be
did not look under the table, and tha ladle* had no
clothes above It
Considerable displeasure was evident front
tha appearance of the ladles, and Mr. Jones said:
Oh, you look Innocent now, and feel offended,
bnt you know I am telling the (ruth, And wo pal-
pits have eloaed our rnoutha to all this, and almost
sanction rueh things. No wonder the world Is go
ing to the devil.
Mothers, teach your aiagnun to say.'-Danas oa.;-.
Teach them to keep themselves undefiled. Teach
hem to lead a pure life and the world will be pure.
But you must lint be pur* yoursalyro, for you
tjinot trech^pcrlty^unlere your own. hearts are
" " newspapers : . _ .
t from ih« awampgreutd ain't
. but tho people In th. swamps are net .
half *o mean u those In Chicago. Ifwe were edu
cated w. could take lessons in wiotodnes* from
Chicago for yean to come. If I should tell tho
- rople tn Georgia of the wlcktduesa or Chicago
ley would my: "Sam, you haren't quit lying
yet.”
I don't know lha misery of aoctoty. I ncrer was
In It, and my wife waa neyer a society woman. I
hope society won’t let ua In. It ir Impartible fora
Chicago Not Quit. Converted.
Chicago, March 30.—Effort* an being made
to continue th. revival In Chicago by AuaJonro
■r.d Ham * mall two weeks longer than was origin ally ,
B allons! conventions, should a sufficient ran *
6 pledged to defray expenye*. Tho interior of
the buie building on tho Uko front will bo con
verted into a temple of worship. Mr. Jonet.lt i»
ixiil, on good authority, has cancelled hia Sprint- •
said, on good authority, haa
ioMcitillon gwsMysausssa
been anticipated.
A DRAMATIC EVENT!
The CosvrrriTioN is now tatUnff material foe
reporting one of the nuwt dramatic events of •
American history.
Hon. JKIFFKHSOX DAVIS, flrrt ainl last
President of the Confederacy, haa confuted to
deliver an addrea in behalf of the SolrlierV‘Monu
mental Anociatlon in Montgomery, Ala,
Thl a will la all probability bo tho last
wonld Mr. Davis will ovor apeak in public *
The ipcech will be delivered on tho very apotoa
which Mr. Davis Hood when ho
Was Inaugurated President
tho confederacy.
The CoawTiTCTtow will make the grandest report!
i vent ever made by any newspaper. One
•ditor* will accompany Mr. Dgpi« in hifl
ppetial rarfrom his borne to Montgomery. Th<J
speech iu Dill, the Mvmi leading up to lt t willbO
reported Id full. Tbe report will be illustrated
with poTtidltsof Mr. Da via and many other Ulna*
ration*.
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taJnfng the report of thia patriotic and mciaocablQ
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