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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. 'ATLANTA, GJLD TUESDAY APRIL 13 188B
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ATLANTA, 0A„ TUCODAY, APRIL U. 1335.
Hr. Davis and the Hill Statue.
Some of our northern contemporaries who
wort craven in war and ora cruel in peace,
are objecting to the promtoed viait of Mr.
J.ffenon Davto at the nnvtollog of tbo lUU
•Mm.
AU the name, Mr. Davto will be bore. He
will receive at the hand* of hi* people, de
feated though ho woe, inch a welcome aa to
orldam given to men who lead conquering
•unite home. It wontd bo atrenge if the
people of the ionth did not lore Mr. Davie.
It wonld be pitiable if they felt cooitrained
through any consideration,to dtooomble their
love.
Eve 17 man in the aontb rralizea that tba
rauseMr. Davis led i* finally and foreverlost,
lint tbe blood end the traaanre freely given
to ita maintenance woe waatel indeed, if it
hot not invtated with laating love and ten
derness, all mm, high or humble, who
bore honorable port in that etrnrgle. Mr.
Davto to the moat iUnatriona representative of
that came; he led it with ability; be
■erred it with devotion, and accepted IU
overthrow with dianity. He never ahrauk
from ita leaponaibilitic* or danger*; he nerer
lowered Ha honor, or .haded by the falntcot
tonch tba chivalrous impulse aa which it
qras coat, or the stubborn and unconquerable
courage with which it wufonght In all
things, from drat to loaf, hi* record to stain,
lrsa a* the aword that Lee sheathed at Ap-
pemntox, and ■■ white a* the eonl that
aonght the Man from Johnston’* bloody form
at Shiloh. Cro.en to the aoathom heart that
will not worm to ita core at the sight of
Ihto dauntless gentleman; misdirected, the
southern hoy that does not grow np to
honor his au mory nu<l love bit name.
Mr. Hens Will or hen-, Watuc we wont
him to be here; because we loro him, end
want bim to know it; because ha loved the
man whoa, immortal featnrea the nnveiled
Maine »ill diwt.ee, and lxvause that man
loved him: ln-vanse this is a free country
nnd tbe crank swim skulked when war wa»
raging enn’t inn it when peace it smiling.
Mr. Davis will Is* hrre.
Tbe Knights „r Labor Out Writ.
Through Ihe action of the western strikers
the Knights ot Iashor are rapidly farlcUitig
the confidence and sympathy of the general
public.
Nix months .go it wa* announce! that th*
first principle of tbe Knightn was peace;
that they opperod strike, and would, tinder
BOcircamsUnres, permit vioUnce The pub
lic wan amaied that tbe discipline of the
tbrir orgaaUitioaso
compact, and their oaths so binding, that
they could control their force, absolutely.
These declarations, made through Mr. Pow-
derly and indorsed by Knights everywhere,
arrested public uttention. The pnblieagreed
that if labor had organized on a platform of
reason, and had tbe power to enforce its rea
sonable theory, and than avoid the disorder*
that oecret labor anion* had aurally brought,
it won at least entitled to a patient and «ym
pathetic hearing.
Bat what to the remit? A strike, unau
thorized and denounced by the central com'
mittee os nnjtutifiabie, was colled in the
south weak Under passionate and Ill-tom'
pered local leaden, who openly defied Mr.
I’owderly and hto colleagues, it spread until
it bloeked the commerce of five states—iso
lated innocent communities almost to the
point of starvation; bankrupted hundreds of
innocent Anna; impoverished thousands of
thrifty workmen who knew little and eared
lcrnof tbe causes of the (trike, and brongbt
woe and suffering to ten* of thousands help
less women and children. Trains were
wrecked, bridge* were horned, the author!
ties wera defied, terrorism wsz established
and innocent blood spilled. Public sympa
thy, which hid been with tbe workingmen,
swiftly changed. Meeting* were- held to de-
nouncc their conns. Tbe governors of four
states loaned proclamations against them.
The state troops were ordered oak Frequent
and bloody collisions have taken plaoonnd
worse no threatened.
All this to deplorable, and if persisted in,
can have bat one remit. It will crystal tse
public sentiment against the Knights of La
bor. It will force reputable and conserva
tive workingmen out of the order, and re
duce it to U10 level of the Holiie Maguires.
Its real leaders recognise this. I’owderly,
prostrated by the strain of this ili-advtoed
strike, to anable to give counsel. Hayes,
one of hto colleagues, wringing his hand*
and weeping, walks np and down in front of
a bloody mob protesting to find in rlmmi-
Turner, the secretary, denounces the strike
that has wrought so lunch evil m without
cause or authority. Practically the central
committee, the appeal to which involved de
liberation, nnd the decisions of which, re
moved as It to from local inflammation, wonld
have bad weight, has lost its power. Tbe (cop
ter lias been struck from the hands of Pow-
derly, and any local demagogue or bally can
defy bis Authority ami laugh at bis messen
gers. The enemies of the Knights of Labor
have slendily predicted this atntoof things.
They bavo Mid that this movement held a
devil that wonld eat at its vitals, and lame
uncontrollable and desperate, from its form.
They counted for the overthrow Of this grand
rally of laborer* on tiro fends in its ranks
that its own violence wonld bring, and on
tbe isolation from oil the other elements of
society that wonld bo naanred by its tnrim-
tones.
It look! as if these predictions wonld prove
trne. The troubles in tho southwest, though
tbe most striking, are not the only evidences
of ita irresponsibility and disorganization.
Mr. Powderty months tgo begged his follow
er* to observe their oaths and stand by the
principle* of their order; adding that while
irotested tlioK. were right, erery hoar
om*
Knights appealed for pnbllo confidence by
declaring that they organized to prevent
strike*. And yet, four month* after they
became n controlling power in labor, more
than 110,000 men bavo been called ont on
strike*, often over tbo protest of the older
lahor nnlone. Unless this policy to changed;
unless violent methods are denounced and
abandoned, tho Knightsof Labor will lose its
power and foil short of its promise. There is
one thing against which no organization can
stand, nnd that to the settled and deliberate
public sentiment of American communities.
That to rapidly forming againsttheorganiza
tion of KnighU of Labor, and unless It* real
Iriends come to its rescue nnd hold np the
hands of ila chosen and conservative leaden,
ita power will be Irrevocably gone.
The Morrison-1 lewltt mil.
The tariff bill which the western state*,
men propoae to introduce into the house is
to be of a conglomerate character. It is to
partake of the reforms Invented by Mr.
Abraham Hewltk and those which bavo
sprung ftill blown from Air. Morrison’s im
mense intellect. As might be supposed,
this conglomerate bill, instead of briog in
the nature ol on effort to systemktise the
tariff sad adjust its differences, to a move
ment in the direction of tree trade. Instead
of revising tbe duties according to the sug
gestions of the democratic platform, so that
the country may enjoy tho blessing* prom
ised in a tariff for revenue with incidental
protection, Mr. Morrison and his coadjutors
ore mincing tbo revenue—reducing the rev
enue twenty-four millions annually, with no
adequate redaction of tazation.
As might be supposed, the east has had ■
very long and ■ very slurp finger in the
Hcwitt-Morrtoon padding. Than anger,
which to eminently a revenue article, to re
duced ten percent. This ten percent comes
ont of the pockets of the sonth, and repre
sents a loes of five millions annnally. “In
cotton and woolen cfotbs,” says the explan
atory telegram printed in yesterday's Con-
cTiTi Tiox, "Ihe principal reduction of duty
hat been on coarse grades, and vary little or
no change hi* been made in finer qualities.’’
There to aa olriness abont this that to abso
lutely charming. No change i* made in the
finer grades of cotton and woolen doth*.
None at oil. The finer grade*, it should be
home in mind, are manufactured in the
north and cask All the reduction has been
mad* on the coarser grade*, which art man
ufactured in tbe sonth. Of coarse, Mr.
Morrison and tho other tariff cranks will
■bow by mean* of the profoundest argu
ments that each redaction w ill aid to build
up sonthsrn industries and protect southern
labor, bnt tbe practical remit of the new
bill, if it sltoc’d pass, will be to cripple
southern mannfactorirc.
It ret ms to us that every southern man
who is intere sted in the development of
rout hern industry ought to rise np and call
the larifl' cranks idrccnl. If paaaible, every
one of them ought to be elre lrd president in
It-cH, Old no doubt they will be.
Nothing is t-jid of fire iron ore in the ex
planatory telegram, bat it Is, no doubt, in
tl r bill us large aa life. Mr. Hewitt wants
lire iron me, and there is no reason why the
rent hern furnace* should not he eripplnl
and that ont to accommodate him. The
passage of this bill would retard tbo mate
rial drvtlcpnH nt of the south beyond any
panic or hnslnm depression that coaid oc
cur. Via depend on tbo sober second
thought of tho boom to lay It under tbe
Labor's Grasp on New England.
The labor-troahle is striking deeper in
New England than in Texas. There is no
collision as in the southwest, bnt there is a
terrible strain.
The city of Lynn, Mass., the largest shoe-
making center in the world, to simply para
lyzed. Bnxiness to stupended, and 11,000
workmen who averaged $15 a week have been
idle for two weeks. This stoppage of $45,-
000 ■ week in wages has pat aa end to trad
ing. Many of the leading manufacturer*
have moved to small and remote villages
where they have ■ rural reserve to draw new
hands from. Many of tiro older workmen
have quit the knights and gone with tho
manufacturers into their new fields. A boy
cotted manaiactarer cannot bay a morsel to
eat in Lynn. He cannot have a hone shod.
Tbe transfer men will not haul hto baggage.
He his had to go to Boatoa or starve. The
dty to (imply throttled, and to as helpless ns
if it were dead. The mannfactnrera print
detailed statements showing that at present
prices a pair of shoes they sell for 75 cents
oasts 71 cents; and a pair sold at $1.50 costs
$1.44. Bnt labor will not loosen its grip
and the city is being deserted by oil who ran
leave ik
In every town and city in Now England
the forces are marshalling for a bitter and
prolonged conflick Up to this time the or
ganization has been almost|wbolly with labor.
Now capital is organizing. The lines of di
vision ore deepening and the ontlook^is
threatening/
Abe you an April subscriber? Docs yonr
time expire in April? Won’t yon renew at
once—and send us with yonr name at least
one new subscriber. It is easy for you to
get one subscriber. Bnt it means very much
to us. Won’t yon send ■ new name with
yonr own? Do this and yon will make as
happy and make yonr new subscriber liuppy.
Horn Facta About Mexico.
We have bad book after book written
abont Mexico and its resources. Onrarti.itg
have scorned tbe country nnd shown up it*
plrlnrcsfjae points. Onr doily paper* tocui
with letter* bum the land of the Montczn-
mas, and yet this vast region continue* to be
regarded as (veritable wonderland.
Perhaps we have been misled by railroad
men and speculator*. They vaguely picture
Mexico as an El Dorado. It to their interest
to do 10.
On a very different line is * recent article
by Mr. D. A. Wells, in the Popular Science
Monthly. According to Mr. Wells ancient
Mexico never bad any very large cities. Tho
inhabitants had no domestio animals, no
beasts of harden, no mesas of transportation.
They were far inferior In civilization to tho
Toltecs, living to the southward. Tbo Mex
ico ol today has not made any great strides.
Air. Wells says; “It is one of the very poor-
eat nnd most wretched of all eonntries, anil
to not likely under any circumstances to de
velop into a great, civilized, rich and power-
ftil nation.” The fertilo land emulate of a
narrow strip along either ocean. The into,
rior is a high table land, from five to seven
thousand feet above the level ol the sea.
There to no navlgablo river of importance,
WTO SMB? UljttUrta mia a* Arabia.
There are hundreds of square miles of ub-
explored territory, and savage tribes of In
dians that remain independent of the gov
ernment and without contact with tbo
whites. As to prectons metals,, they have
been greatly overestimated.
Thi* to an uninviting picture, bnt Air.
Wells writes with tbe air of a man who is
stating fads. Before oar capitalists bnihl
nny more railroads in Alexlco they will do
well to investigate these statements.
A Hoynl Ghost.
In this country we have onr hannted
bouses, bnt they are common-place affairs by
tho tide of those to bo found in tbe old
world. A ghost, like good wine, is wonder-
folly improved by age.
Perhaps tbe most famous ghost that wo
have any reliable account of to "tho White
lardy of llohrnzollem." This restless spirit
to expected soon to put in an appearance at
tbe imperial palace in Berlin. The reader
may sneer, bnt there are millions of intelli
gent people on the other side of the water
who will not dismim tho matter so lightly.
When a gboat hoi a pedigree, ns this one
haa, and n nettled place in litotory, the thing
ia too aeriona to he made the anbject of ridi
cule. ‘The White Lady” wax a princess of tho
house of Hohenzollern. Just four hundred
year* ago she had the misfortune to fid! in
love with Albert of Nuremlierg. This party
reftrsed to many her “so long as four eyes
were in existence.” The princess under
stood tills to mean that her two children by
a former hnsband were in the way. Crazed
by her love she removed the children by run
ning a golden hairpin into their zkalU. After
this mnrder Albert looked upon her with
honor snd wonld have nothing to do with
her. The miserable woman died, bat a
curse was upon her. She was doomed to
walk tbe earth forerer.
Bo, just four centuries ago, the unhappy
princess appeared shortly before tire death of
Albrecht Achillea, ctector of Brandenburg.
Belonging to the Hohenzollern house ihe
selected the castles of that family for her
occasional promenades, generally making ■
brief visit before tbe death of one of tho
occupants. Bayreuth was her home in life,
and she has been seen oflener there than any
where eke. The First Kepoieon saw her there
while on hi* way to Ramis. Everybody
warned him that it meant had luck, but he
was not to I* scared by aghosk The lost
apprarenoeofthis unwelcome pilgrim wa*
prior to the death of Prince Woldemar, a few
yean ego.
The declining health of the Emperor Wil
liam reuse* the inmates of the palace to ex
pect the “White lady” at almost any boar.
Scores of living people have seen her. She
ia always dodging abont. Sometime* hose
imposture* have been perpetrated tn her
itaDir, by bigb-lsun court ladies who desired
to throw a mystery around their scandalous
dvi ntnrvs, but nothing has ever shaken the
y,rrral belief in this remarkable spjok.
When a glicst ha* a wsll-nuthenti-atol
rr.*'id runriitg through fonr bundretyoue
she ia rot to i»e antvzed at.
M, xfcan War Pensions.
A Mcziean pension hill, f<ev of civil war
ani mini into, ha* pis-ed the trouw by th-
>tror« vote of 158 lots Tne np?meat* of
the bill rudeavortd to prevest a saspeauno
of Ihe tn!**, bnt when they a»w that their
effort* wonld be nnavailing, many of them
changed front in order to avoid a record that
wonld be damaging when their constituent*
pawed span them spin. Hto bill wilt
doubtless go Uitoogh the senate without
material amendment, and the men who won
for the country nearly a million square miles
of territory will receive the reward they
have long been entitled to.
The Mexican war was closed thirty-eight
years ago. At that time there were 47,518
men that came within the terms of tho house
hill. It is estimated that there are 12,000
of them etiU living, although tbe association
of th? veterans has been rouble to enroll
more than halt that number. It ia very
difficult to estimate the number of widows
who will receive pensions under the new bill;
bnt it is safe to soy that all told not ovor 20,-
000 persons will be placed on the pension
roll by the nek This wonld involve n max
imum yearly expenditure of $1,920,000. As
very few of the veterans are under sixty
yean of age, it ia plain thla maximum will
soon he largely reduced. Altogether tbe act
will probably involve a total expenditure of
$10,000,000. And every dolisr of the «nm
will go to deserving people, and very much
of it to those who eadly need the money. Tbe
rich country that acquired on empire through
the anfferings and bravery of the veterans
of the Afexican war can well afford to add to
tbe comfort of the closing year, of their live*.
Air. Gladstone'* Home-Rale Battle.
Those who secured seats in tho house ot
commons on Thursday witnessed a scene
that will live in history as long as English
history tuts. 80 far ns Mr. Glsdstone's
place in hiatory is concerned, it matters lit
tle whether he is kept in- office or turned
ont in the contest that will take place over
the meosnre. It matter* little because tbe
measure will he adopted soon or late, and
Air. Gladstone will receive in history the
credit that pertains to tbe originator of a
measure of pacification and reform.
AYhen Mr. Gladstone stated in the boase
that tbo adminktntlve system of Ireland
should be Irish, instead ot English, he ex
plained his entire Irish policy. He (bowed
at once that he bad drawn n bill based upon
justice, common sense and the experience ot
other nations. What has been good in Fin
land, in Norway and Sweden, in Hangary,
and in Germany, he would have in Ireland.
He holds that national power and local lib
erty are by no means incompatible; that, on
the other band, they are eminently adapted
ion nation eomposedofdiitinctraces. There
would he aa mnch justice and sense ia a
control of English home affairs by Irishmen
aa in n control of Irish home affairs by Eng
lishmen.
Air. Gladstone ia a firm believer in the
efficacy of local self-government in the pro
motion of national unity. Ilia cabinet is
now solidly behind him, and the belief pre
vails that aa the problem is discussed and
considered, home rale will commend itself
to all who desire to strengthen the empire
by securing the complete pacification of Ire
land. The outlook ia certainly much brighter
than it was ten days ago. If tho Chamber-
Itin-Trevelyan bolt docs not carry seventy
liberals over to tbe tory side, the hill will
be ranted. There are no indications as yet
vestments. No one knows what Lord Hart-
ington will do. No one knows what ths de
cisive vote will bo, bnt all just, unprejudiced
men will be apt to conclude that nothing
i short ofthe Gladstone scheme will meet the
rase. Nothing bnt Irish folly and Impa
tience ran prevent Its adoption, soon or late,
and with Mr. Parnell In control of the Irish
side, anything of that kind need not be appre
hended. His placa in history Is really as
secure as Mr. Gladstone’s. Two great men
seem to have met to settle a knotty nnd grave
problem.
The Bogus Batter Business.
The dairymen of the ■ country have lost
confidence in the efficacy of state legislation
against tbo manufacture and aale of oleo
margarine, although twenty states have
passed stringent laws. These laws are either
openly defied, or else tbe manufacturers
pay the fines Imposed nod mointaio their
very profitable business. Fines of $100
each do not materially interfere with their
profile. At least 200,000,000 pounds of the
fraudulent batter are annually mode snd
marketed. Lord as well as animal (hta
enter into iff composition, and much of it is
very vile staff, indeed. It is sold in every
state, and in almost every town, in tbe land.
It is also largely exported.
Tbo manufacture of oleomargarine dis
places not only on equal amount of genuine
hotter, bnt it stops the consumption of a
vast amount of batter by placing all kinds
of batter under suspicion. The consumer
doe* not know what bo ia consuming, and
hisdonbta lemon his purchase*. In their
deapairthe dairymen hare determined to
appeal to congress. They wont congress to
pass an act placing the manufacture nnd sole
of all imitation bntter nndtr the Internal
revenue department, and placing upon it a
tax of ten cents a pound.
As good bntter ran not be made for
leas than twenty cents a pound, nnd os the
bogus bntter ran ha nude for ten cents; the
proposed tax wonld not bo prohibitory or
unreasonable.
The dairymen any that unless congress
gives them relief their industry is rained.
And a very considerable interest it is in this
country. Mr. Keall recently stated before
the honse agricultural committee that he
(poke for the ownere oi 15,000,000 milch
cows employ cd in the production of bntter and
cheese, worth $000,000,000 nt $10 per head,
and with tho land and buildings represent
ing an inTcetment of over one billion, and
employing, in addition to the private eye-
terns of making bntter, over eight thousand
creameries and cheese factories. These 15,-
000,000 caws produce 1,000,000,000 pounds
of batter and 100,000,000 pounds of cbeeee
annnally, worth $400,000,000 under normal
conditions.
Dairying has made rapid strides, not only
in increased production, bnt in the quality.
The quantity of hatter and cheese made ia
the United States quadrupled in the twenty-
five years before 1080. Commercial dairying
wo* formerly confined to central Now York
and small diatrfets In Vermont and Pennsyl
vania. It was then introduced into Ohio,
then into Illinois and Wisconsin, nnd later
into Iowa and Alinnwots. Fifteeu yerrs
tgo tho liist crcoiiietiea were atarted in Illi
nois. Now that elute ox port* over on* hna-
dred million pound, of nutter and cheese
annnally. They were started tn Iowa atill
later, bnt that state has now &») creameries,
and makes os fine butter as is produced in
ike world The industry i* a leading one
in Wisconsin, tnd is being introduced in
Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri,
Michigan, Indiana and Tbnnimn.
Air. Real] elainm that if th* country could
ho Creed of fraudulent hotter tba dairy in
terest coaid be developed until wo could
enpply nearly every European country with
bntter, and that onr exports of daily pro
ducts wonld exceed onr exports of brood
stud*. Ho farther showed that two million
farmers sre behind tho petition for national
protection. With such s backing it will be
strange indeed if congress does not at least
give the proposition careful consideration.
Bogus batter has very few non-intercsted
friends.
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Reader, Forsyth. O*.: What la tho data
died fbr Mr. Henry W. Grady's address at the un
veiling ofthe Hill statue?
Tbe address will not be delivered bjr Mr.
Grady. When bo received tho Invitation he
promptly notl/led the committee that It would bo
impossible for him to accept. The committee hzr
since continued Mr. Grady's decision. The statue
will be unveiled onlthe dm of May.
Subscriber, Anniston, Ala: How mnch do
the different countries pay to support their regular
armies?
England's standing-army, exclusive of the la
dlon establishment, consists of 130,000 men, and
costs 170,000,000 annually. Franco, with 490,000 men
under arms, pays Ills,000,000 annually fbr their
maintenance. Ktissls's 715,000 men cost I10\£X>0,-
000 a year, Austria's 250,000 men about IrO.ON,000.
Italy's 200,000 men about 135,000.000, and Ger
many's 430,000 men about 185,000,000. The five
great bowers of Europe, with 2,000.000 men lu
line, pay about 0400,000,000 a year for war pur
poses, while the United States army of 25.000 men
costs each year something mor* than 110,000,-
000.
T. J. C., Athens, Tenn.: Who wore the
Jukes? •
The Jukes were a family living In northern New
York, who became notorious for lawlessness and
worthlessness Several years ago Richard L. Dug.
dale Investigated the history of this family, and
the report of bis research.s was published under
the auspices of the New York Prison association.
The neighborhood In which this family lived was
a thoroughly bad one, containing a number of
other families with a record nearly, if not qutto, as
bad *• that of the Jukes. Their original tuceatore
had been squatters nubs rocky fastnesses of the
MU country, living la hovels, too Idle to attempt
to cam on honest living. For generations tbe men
htd been thieves, snd tbs women utterly depraved
In character. Of tho Juko family thcro had been
six sisters, live of whom htd married In tho
neighborhood, so that their record tnd that ot
their descendants could bo traced. Mr. Dugdale
traced the progeny of these live sisters through five
succeeding fenerations, thus making the total
record of heredity which he wai sble to follow
•even generations, Including tbe parents of tho
slstsn mentioned. The number of descendants he
found registered Included 540 individuals related
by blood to the Jukes, tnd 180 by marriage or co
habitation, In til 700 persona alivo or dead. Out of
these 700 descendtnU of the Jdko girls, ISO were
paupers, and received relief, In whole or In part,
ITOm tho town authorities. Of the other 600, It Is
estimated that 80 were dependent at times on
charity, making S total of 200 persons of this
fkmlly who lived on aggregate of 1,150 years on
public charity. But at some town records had boon
Imperfectly kept and others wore in-
accessible to Investigation, this record Is
not complete. Estimating fbr tbeso
misting records on tbe basis of those ascertained,
there Is tn aggregate of 2,300 years of pnbltc char
ity enjoyed by tho Juk* blood alone. Allowing 150
years of alms honss lift at 1100 aycar, vro havo a
total of 416,OfO, and estimating out-door relief for
2,160 yean at 116 a year wc have (32,250 more, or an
segregate expended from the public fond of 317,-
260 during seventy-llve yews for this family of
Jakes. Taking Into account depredations on priv
ate property also, Mr. Dngdal* estimated that this
fkmlly In less than a century had c<nt their
they htd moved away from their anceatral ndth-
borhood, ultimately became honest, hard-working
L. P M Eatonton, Ga.: Pleue print the thorfc
sentiment on a grain of corn written by Senator
fill! Ju»l before his death.
aa I excel the giitfn of corn tntliU life, why
may I
limit 1
Snbecriber, Murphy. N. C.: Why are cdI-
ored egv* uwdat Easter 7
Rutter egg* •ymbolixe creation, or the re-creaMon
of spring. Tho custom prevailed among the an
cient Fenians, Jew*. Egyptian* and Hindoos. The
Christian! adopted U to symbolise the resurrection,
and colored the eggs red in allusion to the blood of
their redemption. There ts an old tradition that
the a or Id wss hatched or created at Esstcr tide.
Hopewell Towkhuip, Anderson coanty,
8. C., April 11.—[8pccial.]—Tdltora Constitution:
Mr. Augustus Welborn and myaelf have numbered
the blooms on the peachtree of which I gave you
i account of last September. It has now opened
id about to open seventeen hundred and fifty-one
K ^owna. For the benefit oftboee who know
of budding (which is a simple and quick
way to obtain fruit) i will re-state what I stated
last September. This tree had on 8ep ember tat.
five thousand f even hundred and twelve leave*,
tbelaigast measuring two by niue Inches long,
and two hundred and thirty-two branches. Alt
tbe above fa tbe growth from one bod fn one sea
son, 1886. 1 have another bud. the growth of one
season, seven feet ten Inches long.
J. D. SMITH.
W. C. W., Scbeea, sTc!: What Is tho origin
ofthe quotation, ^Mlrnl your !*’« and Q’*7"
SITralo^hcmcsIn Itbe; olden time, when.chalk
••sesrea" were marked upon Itho^wall or lichlnd
the door of the tap r(om,it was customary to put
the inittals "P" and “Q" at the head of every
man's account, to show the number of "pint*”
and "quarts" for which he was In arrears, and wo
momme many a|fricndly rustic to have tanned
rTTithhorcp thefshon?der whence wmin^ur-
ing ioo freely In hts potation*, and to havo u-
claimed as he pointed to the chalk achoro: "Mind
Towy'p's and?o*». man!’! (Other explanations are
»»v» n ofthe origin ontthbfr)hra>e.» however. ■»’”
writer supposing that^it camor.from "Mind yuor
lonpem and your quens"—the toupee" being the
artificial locks of hair on the head, and the
"queues'* the pig tail of olden Ume. Charles
V right thinks it was derived (from the rehonj-
itAim or the prlntingofflce. as the forms or iuo
small "p" and “q" In the Roman typo have al
ways been pussling to the child and tne «printer >
apprentice, from the fact that in one of the down
ward ettoxe is on the left of theoval, and in the
other on the right.
Ovor Throe Regiments of April Hen.
There are 8,300 Coxsmrriox men whom sub-
rcriptlona expire tn April. This is three fell regi
ments and a battalion. Drawn up In line they
wouldmakta fin<army.!flH3l 2 U
KHcw many of these soMienCwilCre-enlist 1 Will
any of them be mustered out finally 7 Won’t every*
man, every squad, every company;every regiment
tome marching np shoulder to shoulder, re-enlisted
for the war. We hate to see anvof tbe old veterans
fall cat. BelUttliau *11, won’t every fJoxmTV-
nos soldier bring up a new rc-:u:t, to ‘Ini »r?ry
t ompany and every rcsi neat may be doubled, and
the April icutiu'.ais grow tniu ..u April brigade?
a l ave the brU&dc, a.*d i’ae turn who bring*
!u tbe nu+l rremits during April »hall b<! puhlUh-
das tlu: brigadier g-»t:ei»l, and we will send hi*
wife cac cl cur irg machines
New. all fall in <nd go to work, and ! •* its sc**
who will bet tfpaJkr ;ein-ru) ot the t|»ll brig-ite
nrd will hate Id* uniform madeon the serin*
» arbine vc wilt pw>ent to Ms wi'e. Ladies, g.;t
jctir heyfaedr to enter fort5f« eomp.’ht:^.
Ws.nl. I Not Take Fifty Dollars for It.
Mr. I*. It Dean, Anderson county. 9. C. who
purchased one of rnr premium dcuMe-birrel
brtfth--loadinggers f write:: "The brecch-loading
shotftm I ordered from you some time ago U do-
cidcdly the best gun I ever shoe I would not take
IB! ter it 1 have given Ha thorough trial before
aayiag anything, lean now say to all wanting «
gu, send to TnaConsriTYTtoK sad ret one mat
wUrkfU*»««l ojx*. Tnookta* icq for gun and
CONSTITUTIONALS.
An insurance man. in speaking of mysterious
fires, myitfc at many can bo attributed to natural
agencies, gsldhe:
"Linseed oil and cotton are. liable at any Ume to
produce spontaneous combustion. Especially Is
this true when the cotton Is tightly wadded, as it
generally is when used in robbing and polishing
feraituTc. A great many mysterious fires may bo
traced to this cause Workmen use a wad of cotton
or cotton rags in rubbing oil on fernitnre, and
when they get through ihoy throw it Into a rubbish
heap In some corner, and the building is locked
up. The heat that Is generated by the contact of
the cotton and oil produces spontaneous combus
tion, and tbe. rubbish catches fire. The losers at
tribute It to incendiarism, when the origin of the
Are might be easily traced directly to this chemical
phenomenon."
A funijy story gap told me regarding one of those
doughty knights ot the sheep shears and brand
iron, who flourished in tho wilds of southern Geor
gia in the olden time. Ills name was Wayne, and
a great and good man was be. There were bnt
fourteen men In his county, snd twelve of them
were his sons. As a matter of course, he had a
walk-over at the election, and came out with fly
ing colon, a duly elected member of the Georgia
legislature, lie owned the swiftest nag in those
parts, aud he was always In tbe lead when the
cavalcade of Solons rode toward
Milledgeville. One time, however, he
waa late. The legislature had been In seashm
three days, snd sll were getting anxious regarding
Hon. Mr. Wayne. At length, just as they were dis
cussing the propriety of appointing a committee of
Inquiry, Weyne camo riding over the hill, driving
agreat flock of geese ahead of him. The house ad
journed to investigate the matter, and as soon as
tho quackcrs were corralled, the old man explain
ed :
"Ye see," said he, "when I wus np here to Mil-
ledgevllle last session, turkeys wus awful scarce,
so I decided to bring some on specylatton tots trip.
I bought a whole paxiel L and when I got at fur as
the OcmnJgee that rascally ferryman wanted to
charge me ferryage. So I jest tuck 'em right back
to my lettlement and swapped 'em for geese, so
that I could git even with that ferryman. Iio was
obliged to put me over free, aud I jest made the
geese swJzn it. I bain't agoin' to let'em swindle
me as long as I can help it."
The ghost of John Wilkes Booth
has wrought no little mischief. It will be
remembered that Dr. Hamtlton.of Georgia, test the
clerkship of the ways and means committee of the
house In tho forty-fourth congress, a position then
worth 18,600 a year, bccauso he had a son named
for the assassin.
Now another man is In trouble on account of
Booth. Sometime ago tbe president nominated a
Mr. Cropley to bo collector of tho port of George
town, D. C. Soon after his nomination
it was charged that once In a
convivial party he proposed a health to JobnWilkcs
Booth, which he and hIs companions drank. The
charge has since been modified. Mr. Cropley is ex
onerated from the authorship of tho toast, but It is
areerted that be drank In responso to it. If this
allegation be substantiated It may defeat his con
firmation.
Colonel Tom Howard says the recent floods in
Georgia and Alabama are probably ahead of any,
thing In that line slnco the famous "Harrison
freshet.”
"But" Mid he, "they didn't come up to that. I
stepped Into a stage coach at Knoxville, Ga., just
at tho beginning of that historio rain and traveled
through it all. I havo never seen anything that
compared to it. It took us four days to drive from
Fori Meigs to Montgomery, a dlstanco of forty
miles. When we reached Montgomery I stepped
from the bluff, which Is sixty feet above low water
mark on to the deck of a steamboat."
General Stonewall Jackson'a famous warhorso
which recently died at the Confederate Soldier*'
home at Richmond after attaining the ripe age of
tbirtrthree years, la being mounted by a taxider
mist in Washington. The old charger will he pre
served in a war-Uke attitude. The taxidermist
has taken as his model the hone of the Thomas
statue which seems literally to bo "snuffing the
battle." General Jackion rode this horse in near
ly all his famous engagements and was riding him
when ho was killed at Cbanccllorsvillo. The re
mains ofthe noble steed, when properly prepared,
will be returned to Richmond and placed lathe
Confcdratc Soldiers' home.
Colonel John R. Towers says: "You cannot con-
cel vo of the damage done by the water in the flood
ed towns. When tbe water receded from a store
it left a rcdlment of mud a foot or so deep on tho
floor. Into this tho curreot would deposit tho
goods from the counters and shelves, literally min
ing them. Safes were Invaded by tho water and
books and money ruined. Furniture fell to pieces
tbe glue dissolving In the water, |or tho joint
■welling and homing. Libraries became pulp
Eight room houses were lilted bodily and straoded
miles away. I saw ono firm empty two hundred
sacks of damaged coffee lu the street. A mer
chant surveying a hundred and fifty stores that
had been flooded aald U would have been better
had the whole street been burned. The lusnranoo
would have started things over. The lots by water
la a dead loss."
Charley Hoe wll’a colored drayman aald, the other
morning: "Boss, is you heered deso Mr. Moodlo
and 8snkl#s what’s preaching down yore at the
comprem?" "No. Are they having a big meottngT"
"De biggest yon ever seed. The compress is des
bilin over wid folks." "What are they trying to
do?" “I ain’t been down dar yet, but I hoars It
talked armin',datdey is gwlne to doaway now wld
terbacccr!"
Yesterday Dr. K. L. Conn ally received from Sena
tor Brown three of the cotton seed, four thousand
years old, recently unearthed in Egypt and for
warded to the senator by Hon. a 8. Cox. The
seeds were little black things, a trifle wrinkled
with bits ot cotton still clinging on the outside.
The doctor wss anxious to bite ono open and see If
the kernel was sound, but was ablo to overoomo
THE HILL MONUMENT.
Arrangements for the unveiling of the HIU
statue are being rapidly effected, and tho day
will be made a memorable one.
Mr. H. W. Grady wu selected by tbo
committee to act as master of ceremonies. The
exercises at tho unveiling of tbe statue will
consist of an introductory statement by Mr.
Grady, tbe formal presentation or tho
statue to tbe state by Dr. R. D. Spalding, chair-
man of the committee, and ita acceptance by
Governor McDaniel.
Mr. Black will then be introduced
and bis oration will perhaps take an hoar.
Mr. Davis will then be introduced and will aay
what his strength permits. The atatne will be
nnveiled when Dr. Spalding rises to presont U
to the state.
Mr. Davis will bo accompanied by his fam
ily, which constats of his wife and daughter.
They will be the gneeta of Mra. Hill, widow of
the late senator, at her Peachtree residence,
and a reception will be given Mr. Davis at the
Capital City clnb. M^jor Livingstone Mims,
president ofthe olnb, and an old personal
mend of Mr. Davis, has been specially re*
qnested by the committee to go with them to
Montgomery, and will do so. Every consider*
ation will be paid to Mr. Davis’s age, and hifl
Unsgilt will not be oror-taxed.
The following description of Mr. Davis Is
ficxu a gentleman who has re<5.at‘y vHted
hie at his home,
"I had ample opportunity to observe tbe deci
ded charges that had been wrought in Mr.
Davis's appearance ainco be posed twenty years
ago for » likencM. His dark hair had all given
way to while; his chin whiskers were atill do
ing duly, but they too ware white, and on hie
npfir lip bad grown since the war a crop of
shottlair. Over the pupil of the left eye ap
peals a filet, looking ronett like a cataract, and
the t»tie face haa in tba waxing years grown,
If pofsibie, even more apart. His tall form,
however, stand a ae erect aa it did the proud
day when the president of tho Southern con
federacy was inaugurated at Montgomery.**
F.F.Mi
the papei
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Who Next?
artln. Ozark, ABl: Tax Coxsmvnm Is
rln these parts, t thtnk 1 wiU bo ablo to
i another omb of five sotaerfrers in a few