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6 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA* TUESDAY JUNE 29 1886 IBB WEEKLY MITUTION Entered it the Atlanta Vostosoe as eaooad-ctam kill matter, November U, lire. WMkljConrtitotK-.il, ILK per ennnin CluUofttro, IbOOIeach; olaM 0< leu H.00 each •ad » WT to scttewip of Club. A. WORD WITH YOU. V Jon nr* not * subscriber to Tin Oonltt- Wn, thle cepy li Mot joo m • Mmpl*, with ft request tbnt Jon examine nod decide ptallw or not joa wont to take It. Tan Mod o pood paper for ISM. Wo think Tho Constitution la tho boat papor jon can got. Plaoaafatamlnopt enrofullr. Road It, cot mare It with otbor papara, and aand na jour ■nbacrlptlon* It will bo tho boat laroptmont pan oror made. Vrj II one jear and jon will never quit It. 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