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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY JUNE 29 1886
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ATLANTA, OA, TUESDAY, JUNE ». UK.
It is work—not would—that counts!
Tin: people got a lick at (ionlon’e elan
rlcrcrs fiat unlay nml laid them ont cold 1
Lkt every Gordon man redottbls hit work
Tor the present week anil then we will all
take ■ rest
Tin: Hon, DuPont (inerry goes into north
Georgia w ith General Gordon today and will
look alter the skirmishers who are sent out
to Inulger tho general.
The liscon organs nay that “a hatch of
Cordon counties acted fiaturday.” It should
lie home In mind that the hatch is not hy
any means exhausted.
Now look ont for new slanders on Gor-
alon. They will prove that he stole some
thing or murdered somebody before the week
Is ont. It is their only hold, and their bands
are slipping.
I.f.t ns nil get to work now, and work
hard for another week, and next Hatnrday
we will have some more fun. look ont for
nainstiucted tickets. Vote for straight
Cordon delegates, and we will be with you
next fiundoy again.
Watch for new elandcn on Gordon,
Wstcb for new tricke of the Jlacon men.
Avoid "uninstriirtcd" tickets: vote straight
for Gordon; work hard; sleep with one eye
open, and spare not mi hour until the hist
vole is cost and the last delegate elected,
AHOIT three weeks ago the Macon Tele
graph isiil editorially: “Jt in, of couise, Im
possible for Gordon to ever be governor of
Georgia." Wc trust that everything will ho
kept f|iiiet for abont n half an hour, while
the MuconTelegraph reconsiders this opinion
so rashly advanced,
liEMKMHKR when they nlmso Gordon for
voting against the Thurman funding bill,
that Senator Hilt voted for the same hill.
It was because of his opposition to this hilt
that Dr. Felton said ho was filled with shame
and disgust for Mr, Hill, Hill and Cordon
stood together shoulder to shoulder against
tho Thurman funding trill.
What right lied Pat Calhoun to go Into Oconco
county and attempt to hutroct its honest rotors ?-
Athens Itanner.
Exactly the name right that Statesman
Walsh had to go into Warren and Mr. Han-
son into Clny, and "instruct their honest
voters.” With this difference: The voters
of Oconee accepted what Mr. Calhonn said
and voted for Cordon, The voters of Warren
rejected Mr. Walsh’s advlco and voted
against Bacon, and the voters of Clny, by
three to one, rejected tbo advice of Mr. Han
son and voted for Gordon. That’s tho only
difference wo can think of jnst now. Others
may occur to ns latch
A Word to Gordon Mon.
The lesson ot .Saturday's glorious victory
la —Work! finturdny's victory was achiev
ed liy Work! Hard, earneat, enthusiastic,
systematic Work! fiatimlny's victory can
hr supplemented by n still more glorions
victory on the SHtbof July, If the Gordon
men will keep nt Work.
No cause is fatally lost except that ono
which iebelierrd to lie certainly won. Over-
rontidenco loaea more battlea than any other
ransr. The Gordon men entered this light
ngidnat a trained opposition. Veterans In
campaigning, and entrenched in every coun
ty in the state of Georgia, Ikom tho tint
skirmish in loo to Saturday's battles in
nineteen counties, the Oordou men have
been vietoetons. Much of their ancress, of
course, has been dnt to tho anuulngstrength
of their candidate. Ills very name has
raised np thousands of followers thmnghont
the state. The slanders tluit have been put
n|«n hint hare ntiaed ten thousand more.
Ills eloiinmce nml magnetism on Hu-
hnstlngs lure enthused his followers ami in
creased bin strength, bnt back of ull this bis
victories, unparalleled in tho history
of this state, have been achieved by the
earnest, tlntinllcM and devoted work of the
Gordon men In the several comities. It is
this that luta mode victory possible. It is
this alone that will make his election sure.
The Constiti’tion has not been boastful
in this catnptigu. It has simply advised
the Mends ot General Gordon that there
was n fighting chance for their favorite, and
urged them to—Work! This advice It re
pents this morning—Work 1 It the Gordon
men in tlioso counties wlik-li have not yst
acted, will abow the same energy and cour
age, and nbility, that bos lieea shown hy
those In the counties that hare already acted,
there is no power on earth to preveut Gen
eral Gordon's overwhelming nomination. In
mestof these conntics there are but tcu more
days olwork. Let every Gordon tuan agree
that lie will spare not an lionr until the last
vote is polled in bis county, and the Gor--
don delegates elected. Let the Gordon
men in those counties that have already
acted, go to work on the edges of tho-e
counties that arc yet to act. In abort, let
every Gordon man in Georgia, enthused as
If may he hy Saturday's victories, pledge
himself this morning th at he w ill go to work
with redoubled xeal amt rnergv, and keep
up the lick until the loat delegate in the U-t
comity has been elected, and the gallant
Gordon is crowned with a triumph, the like
cl which no Georgian has ever known !
Do We Want Xoia sicutla?
The talk in Nova 8 otia of aseeding Iratu
the dominion and seeking annexation to tbs
Vnitcd fitaten has stirred up ronaiderobla ex
cite meat
It may be that tbs Nova ficotitns have ns
reilous thought of carrying ont their threat.
They iccl that tbeir rights have not been
projected under the dominion government,
and they desire better treatment. This may
be tbeir way of going to work to secure eon-
cessions.
But, admitting that Nova Scotia wishes to
he annexed to this country, does it follow
that wo want her? Tbs province has an
area of 18,070 square miles, and its popula
tion can not be much over 400,000. The
coast line is about 1,000 miles in length,
and tbs shores abound In excellent bayn and
harbors. There arc numerous rivers; the
eoll Is fertile; the climate Is temperate, and
the natural resources embrace gold, coal and
iron. Tbo fishery traffic it enormous.
Here we have the material for n very re
spectable state, but it it not worth getting
Into n row over. Our republic is peculiarly
situated. She could not well refute to nd
mil Novn Beotia into onr union, if the peo
ple of that province showed an earnest de
sire to enter, bnt, on the other hnnd, It Is
not onr policy to encourage the dismember
ment of the dominion, especially if the se
ceding communities run the risk of lieing
coerced hack. In other words, we can tlford
to take Nova ficotia when ibe is ready to
drop into our bands. We waat no complica
tions. no new problems, no unpleasantness.
This is about the sire of it.
Klrall Wc "Forget the War."
Tbe friends of Major Bacon say: "The war
has been over twenty years. Let as forget
It!"
Bnt why should wc forget tbe war? Its
memories arc glorions and sacred. Wby do
the Baron men say we should forget them?
fiimply because Mr. Bacon did not stay In
the war and fight It through, while General
Gordon did. Bccatuc Msjor Baron was nev
er womuled, while General Gordon’s body is
covered with the scam lie won in bonorablo
battle. Because the war memories hurt Ba
ron and help Gordon in the |>ending race.
Because then, forsooth, itdlsnil vantages an
office seeker fo clierfsh those heroic and hal
lowed memories they must be forgotten! Be
cause it hurts Major Bacon's chances to have
them remembered, the childless mother
going down in bereavement to the grave
mast pnt aside the memories
of the liravo deeds of her
hoys who lie buried hi the valleys of Vir
ginia, and drive from her heart her love of
those who stood shoulder to sbonhler with
those hoys when they went down fearlessly
to death and to glory! The widow la her
weeds must forgst the heroism of the bns-
liand who died with her name on bis lips,
amid the cnrnsgc of (tattle ! The poor fol
lows who hobblo along on a wooden stamp
roust forget what it all means, and the flut
tering sleeve mast bring no proud consola
tion to him who wean It! Tho yonng men
whoso lathers scaled their dovotlon to Geor
gia's cause with their life's blood, must turn
aside from this glorious heritage, and forget
the scents amid which tbeir fathers fell!
The old veterans who suflered on the march
-who thrilled amid battle—who starved
in prison-pens—who languished in hospitals
who agonised, wounded and deserred on
battle fields—who exulted in tbs charge and
endured in retreat—who fought and starved,
and laughed nml prayed, and wept In the
shadow of tho bars and stars, and ragged
and footsore, anil hungry, sot their pale lips
together and followed that tattered aud bat
tle-stained flag to n surrender that had more
of glory in It Ilian any victory that was over
won—tlieso veterans must forget all this 1
When they meet each other, and tho old
comradeship of tbo camp-fire kindles in
their veins, and the nntdddcn tear glistens
in their eyes, end their arms go about each
other's necks, and the eager memories come
thronging to their lips—they mast stop all
that foolishness and forget it! “ They must
forget the war I ” Forget the Immortal fel
lowships of the camp—forget the empty seat
at tbe meea, and the golden-hearted fellow
who filled it—forget the boye who fell by
the wayetde, or went down in the deadly
atoirn—nil the roering fnn, the despair, the
Joy, the tendrrncee, the heroism and the
friendships of those sad but glorious days—
all tills happened twenty yean ago, and It
must "all lie forgotten!" fio the Bacon
men say!
But wby must It be forgotten? Because
it hurts Mr. llaron’a chances far the govor-
nonbip! L’erauso those memories hart Uiron
end help Gordon they are met withderislou
and we are told they mutt lie pnt aside,
llernute the old soldier who sees Gordon for
the first time since the brave old Virginia
days, finds that his eye moistens or his voice
tremble* as he greets bis old commander, he
is limited by the Bacon oigone of "waving
the bloody shift,” and he is told that he
must forget all this.
The memories of the war are sacred. They
are glorious. They are sauctitlcd by sutler-
Ing, ennobled by defeat, the best heritage of
a people that loet all bnt these memories.
They should be sarrodly guarded and kept
alive, and transmitted, hallowed and unim
paired to our children's children. Better
that every politician that hoe aspired since
Esaw or plotted since Catiline should
be lienten—lietter that the brood of
bnttuuholero "from Genesis nil the way,"
klioulil be ground into powder, than that the
slightest of three memories should be disre
garded, or the humblest man who fills a sol
dier'a grave 1» forgotten? Sir. Boron's whole
life, were it consecrated from now till death,
will nei er bold equal sacrifice with the veriest
Ivy rhat faltered and fell ill the charge, .lye-
ing with his eager blood the soil that give
him birth. And ye*. Mr. Bacon's friends
•ell ns Hint lor his rake we must “forget the
war," ler it "has l-een over twenty yearn!"
I cl the people think of this, and of ult tint
it implies! Il is not enough that in Mr. Bt-
ron’s Intel, -t the livirg must be slandered,
hut even the heroic d.-i.l must be forgotten.
Tl-.i- (lentil til* Hon. Dnvl.( Davis.
In the' death ef the Hon. David Davis
Illinois losts one of her mos* distiugnished
riliuns.
Judge Devin first nude hit appearance in
political life in 18(4, when h* was elected
to tho Illinois legislature mo Henry Cloy
whig. He lonned a strong friendship for
Abraham Lincoln, and in I860 did more
than any other man to secure Lincoln's
nomination for tbe presidency. In 1863
Judge Davis accepted on appointment on
the federal supreme court bench, and filled
the position with honor and credit until
1876, when tbe legislature of bis state elect
ed him United fitates Bsnator.
It was intended that Judge Davis should
take the odd place on the electoral commis
sion in 1677, at the time of the Hayes-Tilden
trouble, bnt his election to the senate censed
the selection of Jndge Bradley. As a senator
it will be recollected that daring the dead
lock over appointments during tbe early
pert of Garfield’s administration, ho was
president of the body, and, with Senator
Msbone, held the balance of power.
There was n period in Jadge Davis's life
when his reputation for conservatism and
judicial fairness led the country to look
upon him ns a rising man, hut his senatorial
term relegated him to the rear.
Let Gordon Men Remember
That the “nninstructed” dodge, now be
ing tried in a few counties means Bacon—
and nothing blit Bacon.
It Is a trick of tho Boron men, adopted In
counties where Gordon is stronger than Ba
con. Where bis friends realize that they
have no hope of carrying nconnty in Bacon’s
name they pnt ont an “nninstrncted” tick
et, end ask for votes for it on tbe ground
that new men may lie brought into tho
race.
A11 this means Baron. It can mean noth
ing else. Every intelligent man knows that
the time lias passed when a new candidate
conld enter the field with the slightest pros
pect of success. Already more than half the
whole convention is elected. In lees than
ten days fair fifths of the convention will
be elected. No new man will enter the race
or permit liis name to bo used in it. The
race is made up—and tiro "nninstrncted"
ticket means Bacon—and It is Baron under
a mark.
In one county there isn movement tosend
n delegation pledged to vote for neither can
didate. This movement is under the pat
ronage of the Bacon men and Is run hy them
exclusively. It is meant simply to beat Gor
don. In Brooks county a similar movement
was tried. A ticket has lieen made on tbe
promise that it would vote for neither. And
though it bad fonr strong and popular men
on it, it was absolutely buried out of sight
by the staunch and true Gordon men of
Brooks. I Ait Gordon men evcrywlicrestand
to their colors! To be led olThynn "tinin-
strnctcrl” ticket is tomarclr blindfolded into
tbe Baron ramp, anil to bo laughed at as yon
march in, led hy Baron men.
Let Gordon men stand by the Gordon
colors and he will beovcrwlielmingty elected
governor!
markets should not lie nnripe or over-ripe.
An nnripe melon will ripen, it is true, bnt it
will he inaipid and unpalatable. When over
ripe it soon soars.
The way to do is to go over n melon patch
every iay and poll everything that is ripe.
With proper care the folly ripe melon will
keep several weeks, bat it mast be kept in a
cool place oat of the sun.
Another point is important. None but
large, well-shaped melons should lie shipped.
They sell best. A cor load of big, fine-look
ing melons, will bring more money than
they wonld with the addition of a hundred
or two small, insignificant looking melons.
If the melon industry is to lie developed,
all these requirements must be attended to.
The Georgia and Alabama melons will al
ways be in demand north and west if tho
shippers exercise judgment and caution.
But the traffic will not take care of itself. It
must be nursed.
Concerning Cholera.
At this season of the year citizens crory-
liere should he compelled to keep their
premises clean. They should be advised by
their health anthorities to make free.nse of
lime and copperas. A hot spoil following
our heavy rains will produce n groat deal of
sickness, and wo cannot afford to neglect such
simple preventive measures ns are within our
reach.
Wo do not believe that the danger of a
cholera visitation is any greater than It was
lost year, but we may have a touch of din-
eases resembling cliolera. It it is estimated
that about 75,000 persons in this country will
die during the hot weather of the next three
months. Cholera morbus and dysentery will
appear In many localities, and in many cases
the symptoms will resemble those of Asiatic
cholcm.
Now this prospect is bad enough, and it
Justifies preparation in advance of any serious
imlh-ntions of disease.
Concerning the cholera itsel f, it may be well
to state that its recent appearance In Trieste is
regarded ns threatening the rest of Europe.
But it has reached no European port from
which it is likely to be carried to this coun
try. fio no unusual causa for alarm exists.
We are simply railed upon to mu a prudent
summer schedule.
1*1 Them Try It On.
There are one or t wo Baron organs—to bo
previse the Moron Telegraph and the Home
Courier—that plainly threaten to bolt tho
party ranks when General Gordon is nomi
nated.
Wc soy very plainly to these papers that
they are at liberty to bolt whenever they
get rendy. There is a large majority of tho
good democrats who wonld not regret seeing
the Telegraph crowd try on something of
this sort They remember that Cleveland
was nominated over their howling protest
and elected without their help. They re
member that the Telegraph bos abused nml
vilified almost every prominent citizen of
Georgia. Its intolerance, Us ill temper, its
reckless vituperation ot better men than those
who run It,have put the people in good trim to
•how it what they think of it, if they can
get a square chance at it. It has driven
thousands of Boron men away from Huron's
standard, and General Gordon and his friends
will not count Its support.
As to tbe liome Courier wo say to it in
perfect frankness that wo should not vote for
* man of whom we had printed such things
ns it has printed of General Cordon. Until
we felt this way about It, we should not par
ticipate in the party nomination. We should
do os the Felton men did in the stormy old
days in the 7th—stand aloof from the party
meetings and hold hands off ot the party
machinery, and then fight the convention
nominee openly and squarely. If no went
into the party primary we shoalil feci in hon
or bonml to abide in good fhilh the result ol
that party primary, and accept it* decision.
If every man who gers into a nominating
rontrst reserves the right to oppose the nom
ine* there is no use in having a party.
Wc trust nothing we have said in the
slave will prevent the Macon Telegraph
snd Komi- Courier from kicking ant of the
ranks whenever they g*» reu-ly, or delay
them iu getting ready. Of one thing (bay
may lesure. Their thieati to tiolt will not
di-ttr the democracy ol'Georgia from nomi
nating nnd electing General Gordon.
Melons fin- Market.
A fear timely words about melons are in
order.
One of tho oldest melon men in the eonth
is opposed to the shipment ot melons not
fhtly ripe. Melons gathered for even ilis'ant
It Is Whose Ox is Gored.
The rage of the Bacon men at finding the
little game they have lieen putting nponthe
people of Georgia for the past two years sud
denly smashed, is leading them Into the dir
tiest bypaths of slander.
For example, Mr. Fatrick Calhoun, a gen
tlemen of high character and ability, a close
personal friend of General Gordon's, goes,
at General Gordon's request, Into Oconee
connty to meet and answer there tbe slanders
tbnt the Bacon men have sown ten deep over
tbe county. Mr. Calhoun goes frankly and
openly, annonnees his purpose, Is welcomed
by the people whom he addresses at every
crossroads where he can 11 nd a crowd. Oconee
county accepts tbe answer he makes to tire
slanders against Gordon and the people come
out and rebake them.
Immediately Mr. Calhoun Is denounced es
"a paid hireling of the ring," and it is dis
tinctly charged tbnt "his pay depends on his
carrying tbe connty,” and that he is scatter
ing the money of the ring through Oconee
county, to whom his "very presence is an
insult." Of course all this is false, and tbe
men who wrote it knew it was false when
they printed it. But it is part of tbe plan of
tbe Boron ringsters to vilify and slander
every gentleman who dares to lift np his
voice in opposition to their schemes. If Mr.
Calhoun's presence in Oconee, where he did
not spend, or cause to be spent, one single
dollar, convicts him of being the "paid hire
ling’ ’ of General Gordon, why are not States
man Walsh, who went to Warren (alas! alas!)
and Taliaferro; and Mr. Hanson, who went
toCIny nnd Laurens; and Bill Tntt, who went
toGrccne and Warren and Lincoln, all in Ma
jor Baron’s interest, the “paid hirelings" of
Baron? Why nre Calhonn nnd Guerry and
Cox and Glenn, who go into the counties in
Gordon’s interests, to lie denounced as “a
miserable gang of paid emissaries," while
Walsh, Hanson and Tutt, who go into the
counties in Baron’s Interests, are patriots and
Christian statesmen?
Mr. Calhonn, in being vilified and do-
nonneed for doing precisely for Gordon what
Walsh and Hanson are praised for doing for
Bacon, has the consolation of knowing that
he is in the best of company. The gang that
slanders him is part of the same crowd that
slandered Ben Hill nnd Stephens, as we have
shown in these columns; that bos slandered
McDaniel, Colquitt, Smith, Blandford.Browo,
Clarke, and every gentleman who has dared
to stand np in' opposition to the demands of
tho Bacon ring, nnd that would slander to
morrow its beet friend of today if he ehonhl
he found in tho ranks of those who oppose
them. In Its blind malice and disappoint
ment it has but one rale—every man who
favors Baron is a gentleman; every men who
opposes Bacon is a rascal. This is a classifi
cation that the people of Georgia will be very
slow to accept and very sore to rabnko those
who attempt to enforce It.
A Word About Style.
Before Sam Jones visited Indianapolis the
ministers and newspapers of that city viewed
the coming ol the evangelist with alarm.
They expressed the fetr that Jonea’e "bil
lingsgate” and -‘slang" wonld have n de
moralizing tendency.
The morning niter Sam closed his meet-
lngs tho city papers contained Bill reports
with a batch of comment from tho ministers
who bed attended the revival. We dip the
following extract at random:
”"Bully for Jeffrey; bully for Jones !"-»ews Bdl-
tortaL
'■It will be kind o' lonetomo."-Journal Edito
rial.
"Jones Is a daisy.' 1 —A City Minister.
"1 bare been In Ibo south, and Ibera Is a slam
bans oljlc there that Is very different from our
rlyle."—Another City Minister.
Judging from these choice specimens, H
takes nnrnitignted gall lor the Indianapolis
people to condemn the peculiar style of tho
earnest little man from Georgia. If tho
charge is true that bo has a “slam-bang
style,” it will strike most of our renders that
it loses nothing by comparison with tho ex
tracts quoted above. Our Sum uses plain
Vailed State* English. He has a business
style, snd he means business. If lie takes
liberties with language in tbe exdtemcnt of
the moment, it must be said that hit In
dianapolis critics seem disposed to meet him
more then halfway.
The Railroads In Politic*.
The opinion of The Constitltiox is that
the railroad corporations of Georgia have
merle n tremendous mistake in forcing the
commission issne Into politics. This opinion
may not be worth much, but it is worth as
much as the opiniau expressed by The Cox-
sti-ittiox when the Central railroad, under
the management of Mr. Wadley, wan miking
an effort to blot Americas, and other com-
mnnitlee, from tho railroad map. The Cox-
stitvtiox predicted then that tbe railroads
of tho state, by their discrimination* against
communities end individuals, were creating
n public sentinirnt that would finally result
in defensive legislation.
This prediction eras fulfilled to the letter.
The railroad law, as it stands today, and the
commission established by it, are as trnly
tbe l ulrrme of the poli?y pursued by the
corporations os any water tank on tbeir lines.
Tbe railroids may protest sgaiast tbe law,
»rd light tbe commission, bnt both the law
end tbe corn mission may b© traced to the
ditcrimina-iora which the rorpo - itioas
thought necessary to imjio-o on the pnblie.
Till. C'uNsnrunuN told lire railroad rusts-
•grts that they were making a mistake in
imposing there discrimination!. We now
tell them that tiiry have marie a more fatal
mistake in bringing the commission Issue
iato politics. They luce clearly shown
their band in the present campaign, and tbe
people have been quirk to ace it. They
have been quick to or* it, tad they will not
he slow to rebuke it Wherever there has
been a nap-judgment in tbe present cam
paign—wherever the small politician! and
the courthouse cliques have bad their way,
there the railroad influence is known to be
pern mount The people take note of these
things and remember them, and whatever
difficulties the railroads may hereafter have
with tbe commission and its decisions, may
be traced directly to the fact that they btve
carried the whole matter into polltici, In
stead of allowing it to remain where it was.
Hereafter the great problem will be, not how
to modify tbe railroad law, bat how to take
it ont of tbe domain of politics ; and this Is
a problem that will keep the railroad mana
gers very busy.
In Clarke county, when the famous forty-
one met to select Bacon delegates, the chair
man was the president of a railroad, aud the
directors of a railroad figure among the del
egates. The people had nothing whatever
to do with this matter, bnt they are not
blind to tbe facts of tbe ease. In Augusta,
tire fine Italian band of tbe railroads made
its appearance. The corporations hnve
brought a pressure to bear elsewhere, until
now the people have come to recognize the
fact that Mr. Bacon is the candidate of the
railroads. He is the attorney of one of the
most active lines, and there is not a well
organized railroad in the state that is not
making au eflort in his behalf. These are
facts that cannot he canceled. They stick
out They nre protuberant. Tho issne
rcems to be between General Gordon and
tbe people on one side, and Mr. Baron and
the railroads on the other. This is now well
understood.
There is no sort of doubt os to tho result.
Tho people will win ; but wo are surprised
that men as sensible as the railroad mana
gers in Georgia should have permitted them-
tlvrs to lie drawn into any such contest.
The Constiti'Tiox has always believed that
the people, upon n upper representation of
the facts, would be willing to modify the
railroad law so as to make things even be
tween themselves and the railroads; but
when the question is carried into the whirl
and confusion of politics, there is only one
answer that the people can give. They will
not only refuse to modify the law ns it
stands, but they will refuse to place in the
executive chair a man who, by reason of bis
affiliations, might lie induced to appoint
commissioners who will sympathize with
the corporations, rather than with the people.
There will lie no need to modify tho law
if the governor of tbe state shall appoint
railroad meu on tbe commission. Tho cor
porations wonld then have things in a swing,
so to speak, and they wouldn’t turn on their
heels to secure a modification ot the law,
for the law would be a dead letter.
We repeat, tbe railroads have made a tre
mendous mistake in forcing tho commission
issue into politics.
Business Prospects.
Undoubtedly there is a lietter feeling
throughout the litulness world. The predic
tions made by the <$mm$rcial agencies and
trade journals, during tho past few weeks,
have been verified. Everywhere there is a
buoyant confidence that speaks well for the
intnre.
The stjck market is rising. Investments
are being mtde in lines that investors wonld
not touch a few months ago. There is a
marked Increase in tho movement of mer
chandise. Up to this date one-fifcli more
shoes have been sold; the cotton mills have
taken one-elghtb more cotlon and onr blast
fnmnecs nre turning ont alxrat n fourth more
pig Iron than the figures of last year show
for the same period.
It h settled-that the present year’s har
vests will exceed those of lost year, and
there is no fear ofa lower market for them.
Altogether, It is admitted that general busi
ness boa improved. Money is more abun
dant anil easier. The prospect of good times
has revived the energies of the people and
both capital and labor show n disposition to
pat in their best licks snd pall together.
Tiro Huntington Blunder Dropped.
It is amusing to mo the haste with which
the organs have dropped the Huntington
slender on Gordon.
When it wm shown that General Gonlon,
by favoring Huntington and opposing Tom
ficott's scheme, bad saved the government
$50,000,000, the slander was considered
boomerang, and was incontinently
dropped. Here are the fecta as no one can
deny; Huntington has building a rood
without a dollar of government aid. ficott
was lobbying congress to give him $.70,000,-
OOtlof endorsed bonds for liuiUling'nsimilar
road. Hnntingtou protested against the
government giving ficott $70,000,0<X) to do
just wlint he (Huntington) was doing for
nothing. General Gonlon opposed Scott's
scheme,contending that lltmUngtonwoald.if
let alone, finish tbe road for nothing and
thus save the government tho $70,000,000
that ficott demanded. The opponents of
General Gordon favored Scott’s scheme and
wanted to vote him $70,000,000 of govern
ment credit. The ficott scheme was beaten
by General Gordon's help and be was de
nounced by the lobbyists who favored it
Gonlon was poor when lie went into tbe
senate and poorer when he came ont of it
He was poor all tbe time. He was poor as
tbe other southern senators—Lamar, Ran
som, Vance, Butler, Hampton, Morgan,
l’ngh—were poor. His poverty, as theirs,
was honorable, liecause it was indorsed in
the millet of blinding and insidious and
overwhelming temptations.
In spite of all this he helped to save tho
government $50,600,000 by beating tbe
scheme of Tom ficott. Having failed to
prove that Gordon was corrupt as a senator,
his slanderers will now try some other tack.
Watch them close!
Prohibition in Atlanta.
There Is a good deal of gossip about pro
hibition in Atlanta. We observe from some
of onr exchange* that the city Is to be
rained, and we learn from others that it is
to he vastly improved and benefitted. Oar
own cpiniou is that the depression and de
preciation which might natnrally be sup-
pom! .to result from the suppression ol a
traffic which amounts to a great maay il l’ll
dollars in the course of a year, bus already
licen discounted. Iu other Wards, the prob
ability is that the worst results of prohibi
tum hare already lxcn fell, and tbs city is
now in a condition to reap whatever bmstlts
that may resnlt from a strict eal'orccurent of
the taw as it stands
It i> to be hoped that onr frieuds, the pro
hibitionists, hare mad* due arrangements
to enfouc the Jaw. If it was worth making
a campajirn for, it is worth enferviag. It is
only in this way that either the prohibition
ists or the aati-prehibitioniite con bring
about a realization of their, various predic
tions. A majority of the people hare voted
in furor of the law. Those who voted for
the law did so under the liellof that it will
benefit the community. Very well. If the
law is a good one, it cannot benefit tbe com
munity unless it is enforced, If, ou the
contrary, tho law is a bad one, only its strict
enforcement will convince the people of that
fact, and lead them to move for its prompt
repeal.
The law, as onr readers know, is not
strictly a prohibition law. Tho domestic
wine clause leaves n hole in it almost big
enough for the site of a beer factory. At
the same time, however, there is' enough
prohibition in it to give our people a taste of
the genuine article as it has been adminis
tered at tbe north. We hare now an oppor
tunity of allowing to the country that pro
hibition can be made effective inn large city
for either good or evil, and it is to be hoped
that both factions will unite in patting it to
tbe supreme test. If it Is a good thing, its
enforcement will lie a good thing; If it Is n
bad thing its enforcement will bring abont
its repeal,
Breaking Bail News Gently.
Plain people menu well, but they hivo
very blunt ways. When they have a piece
of had news to communicate they go straight
to the point without regarding tbe feelings
ot the person addressed.
It is dlflerent with people used to the re
finements of court life. When King Lndwlg
committed suicide it was necessary to inform
his mother of the fact. No rode announce
ment was made. All possible care was
taken to avoid shocklug the old lady. Tho
court chaplain went to her. He found a text
in the Bible suited to the sad occasion and
read it aloud. Tbe king’s mother listened
with a smile on her face. Then the chaplain
read it solemnly a second time. The royal
lady looked pnzzled. A third time tiro di
vine read the text, throwing into it all the
emphasis of which lie was capable. The at
tendants understood and bust into tears,
and the bereaved woman collapeed mentally
and physically, going ofl'into a swoon. Hav
ing satisfactorily executed his delicate mis
sion the chaplain withdrew.
This high and mighty way of doing things
reads very well, but oiler all tho result was
uot very different from that In n case taken
from the lower walks of life. A man who
was sent to break the news gently to a poor
woman, snid wbcu she opened the door:
Don't be flustered, madam, I just called in
to say that your husband has lieen found
drowned, and they aro bringing his body
home on a shutter!”
Bad news is bad news. No matter how it
is told, it cuts to tbe heart, in the palace as
well as in the cabin, whether it comes from
a courtier or a clodhopper.
A Novel High License Scheme.
Tbe Atlanta plan of prohibition under
which it is proposed to down the evils of In
temperance by turning loose tnrbid and tn-
nraltuons floods of domestic wine, has sot
men to thinking all over the conntry.
A Jersey City prohibilion leader, after re
volving the Atlanta plan in his mind, has
come to tho conclusion that, instead of dri
ving men to one particular tipple, it
would he lietter to diminish the quantity of -
liquors sold. He proposes to limit tho num
ber of licenses to so many per thousand pop
ulation, say ono license for every tlrousand
inhabitants. These licenses nre to be pnt np
at auction, nnd are to bo sold to tho highest
bidders, no bid of less than $500 being re
cognized. It is to be a condition that any
violation of tbe terms oml ordinances gov
erning the bneicces, will work an immediate
fsrfeitnreof the Ilrense.
It is orgned, in favor of this system, that
it will close the low dives, thru shatUog off
the poorer class of custom. The few dealers
who pay heavy sums for tbeir liccaier, will
have au interest in enforcing tho law and
keeping down drunkenness, because they
will lie elated up when their customers be
come intemperate and disorderly. The Jer-
sey people have taken quite a liking to this
plan, nnd it will probably be pnt to a test.
Wc do not feel inclined to discuss tho differ
ence between tbe Jersey Idea and the At
lanta idea. At the end of two years it will
lie in order to compare notes. It may be
that Jersey City will then decide to give oar
act for tho promotion ot tbe wine traffic a
trial.
Ox Saturday night, June 5th, at their olo-
gsnt suburban homo at West End, then was
iiotnblo and moil onjoygblo social gather
ing. It wss the "Silver Wedding" of Ckp-
tain and Mrs. Evan F. Howell. Ordinarily
the Cultivator would not notice an ovsnt of
this character, but our "Woman's Work” de
partment finds in Mrs. Howell one of Its
brightest end best examples of * faithful, lov
ing, devoted wife aud mother. No diamonds,
no pesrls, no precious stones In tho crown of
any queen of Europe are mors beautiful to be
hold than her "jewels”—her bright, hand-
some, dutiful children. Married daring the
first months of the lata war, Miss Julia
A. Erwin saw very little of her hus
band and knew less of wedded joy until
the terrible strife was over. Then hor rare
domestic virtues were fully tested, yut never
failed to meet all tho increasing requirements
and perplexities of tho math’s transformation
from war to peace. Seven children greeted her
on this "Silver Wedding” occasion, and no
mother was ever prouder of hor maul j, hand
some boys and bright, beautiful girls; nor
conld children have been prouder uf their
dear, devoted mother. If all our homes wero
presided over by such mothers and wives, and
from tbeir portal* went forth always luch
children—such bright "jewels” of domestic
love—what a grand tutors wonld loom up be
fore us m an expending conntry and a grow
ing nation. Such mothers and such family
altars are the hope of tho world, as they al-
waya have been.—Southern Cultivator.
Didn't Finish It.
From tbo Merchant Traveler.
"I say, Miss Bello, I think I can be wool in-'
tcwcsrlrg tonight, even more so than usual," said
a young man who was torn that way and can't
heli* ft to the young lady on whom be was calling.
•■Is it possible?" was the re-pons*.
‘ Yu,*, you ice I nia.'.c a c mundwum tho other
d*5 aud 1 wore it down .veal quick, mi'* not to for
get it Ut ah it Is Wby 1- it that when thouroathats
get, in al srahm It’- always s’mothcr evening?
.-'molbcr evening— ain't that good?"
bat Is tho adorer?" Inquired tbo list
en* i
thick .
s up."
She Looked A lies*!.
Frcm Town Topics.
The four-year-old daughter of ono of our
American peeresses sras pswlac a church la Lon
don the other day ms wedding party cams out.
Kbe announced to her nuns that she intended
■erne day to be married. The none rebuked bee
for mentioning such en improper eobjccs as maul-
mvnv. and told bar that It was quite on lha cards
that -he might lever many, -oh! trot I must