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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JULY 20 1886
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION.
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■M atopy la (ctur-np of Club.
uln* ecare in evwy “wet” community, and
whenever a Ubnlona individual ia aeen ap*
) reaching the first question asked will l>e,
“Will he bite?”
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mum. GA., TUESDAY, JULY JO. UN.
Houlhern Crrdll.
Tlie hot ton Advertiser sticks to it that
tbe south must hare the northern standord
of commercial honesty before she can bope
to escape the evils of high interest and
insurance rates.
To bolster up its swooping charges, tbe Ad*
vertiser prints sn anonymous note from Au
gusta to the following effect:
Hut In Grerzla tbe situation la simply outre
geoos, and under our present home.iced lias rives
dishonest debtors s most serious sdrsnuye of
creditors; end ssfortbehlsb sense or commercial
honor you refer lo, many of the alleged "best” bus-
Inewmen here think no more of going beckon s
written contract than they would of killing s m-V-
c, ill to, and s verbal contract Is many times none.
This ia mere nonsense. .Malicious and
dfsgmntled persons write such letters from
every oily in the union. Our homestead
lows will stand comparison with those of
numerous other states. The exemptions in
Massachusetts are about equal to thorn al
lowed in Georgia. New York exempts
91,fit 10. Nevada allows $5,000. Wyoming
exempts about $2,000. Kansas allows n
homestead without limitation aa to value.
In fact most of tbe northern snd western
slides are very liberal in tho matter of home
steads.
The dishonesty of “alleged beat business
uirn," Is nut worth discussiug, but when the
Advertiser says that dishonest men are more
promptly and adequately punished in the
north than in the south, it shows a disposi
tion to ignore the farts, it is not necewiary
to go back very for to point ont gray haired
defaulters in tbe untheru state* who, in
■pile of social position, church standing,
etc., have been sent to the penitentiery or
forced to flee tho country. Another point.
Northern judges ere much more liberal in
suspending sentences, and northern gover-
nme are more ready to pardon gentlemanly
criminals than Is tbe case in the south.
No, our pcoplo have no cause to reproach
themselves for a lack of commercial bounty
«r fur the lax administration of justice, if
they have to pay high rates of interest, it U
because they came out of tho war with ab
solutely nothing. They had to go iu debt
and with their disorganised labor system,
and years of misrule, their program has been
retarded. Bo far as the repudiation of cer
tain fraudulent carpet-bagger obligations
nre concerned, we may rest easy.
■\Vhat we have done for the
prwervatien of honest government has
never hurt our credit. Altogether, wo are
getting along very well without any advice
ftom New England moralists. The north'
rrners who have conic down here to grow up
with the country are uot complaining. They
buy ami sell, and marry and giro in mar-
riage, and enjoy life without suspecting that
they ore any the worse for being mixed tip
with a people who are outside tho circle of
Boston influences, lint we cannot oxpoct to
be nnderxlood by the unfriendly stranger
who views ns ftom afar. When people know
inch other they frequently find It necessary
to throw away their prejudices and revise
lbs ir former estimates.
A Dad Neighbor.
Recently oar telegrams hsva contained
accounts of shocking injustice to American
citizens in Mexico. We hare no reason to
doubt tbe truth of tbeoe stories. They ore
substantiated by onr southwestern exchanges
along the borders of the Rio Grande, and
onr consuls iu Mexico hero time and again
culled attention to these outrages.
Is it not time to change oar policy sod
give Americans some protection abroad as
well ea at home? Many ot onr citizens are
drawn to Mexico every year by their bail'
nets interests. Tbe tide oi travel is on the
increase, and the relations between the two
countries era a hundred times more intimate
than they were twenty-five year* ago. Under
such circumstances it does not become a
powerful government to quietly permit
hundreds ofits citizens to be robbed and ion
prisoned without cause at tho will of every
petty Mexican satrap.
It would beau easy matter for the United
States to impress the Mexican mind with
the idea that the rights of Americana- must
lie respected, and the intermts of both conn
tries demand that it should be done. The
surest way to bring about serious trouble is
to let tho present state of aflhiri continue.
The only way to maintain a profitable
friendship with our sister republic isto force
her to iexpect us, and there is no excuse for
any further delay.
Not Altogether Dry.
With fsw exceptions tho newspaper* of tho
country are, perhaps through misinforma
tion, conveying tho Impraeslon that Atlanta
is openly defying tho prohibition law.
This Is a mistake. The law Is not only
strictly enforord, bnt it is cheerlnlly obeyed.
It is true that liqnoreontinnN to be sold, bnt
it is not told by tho drink. It is cold by the
quart )iy some half a dozen dealers whose
licenie will not expire until into in the sum-
mrr or early iu the fall. When these licensee
•spire the liquor trxfflo bore will bo at an
•ml.
Onr people respect laws and obey them,
whether they like them or not. When it
became nnlawfhl to retell liquor by the glass
tbs busier** stopped. Two or throe months
Item now, when tho last quart license runs
ont, tbst breath of the traffic will be wiped
•nt.
With these facia before them the outside
world will lee that Atlanta is not violating
the law. The example of 1‘ortland, ltangor
and other alleged prohibition cities will not
be imitated here. Nor is it likely that the
Providence dodge will bo tried. In that
city they are selling a “temperance beer,”
aaid lo be non-intoxioaling, bnt in reality
containing at Inut three per cent of alcohol.
Tbt authorities pretend to bo hopelessly in
doubt about the character ol this beer, and
in the meantime it has a lively sale. No such
palpable evaaioa of the law would be toler
ated here for a day. Our frienda atadis-
tanre will do well to disoount the wild re
ports in circulation. They may rely open
it that if we are not altogether “dry” wo are
drying aa rapidly as could be expected.
A Now Danger.
The doctors in Pennsylvania are treiuend-
cusly excited over a remarkable case of blood
poisoning. Tbe victim, it seenu, wet bitten
by a drunken men. In a abort time tho
sufferer lost bis senses, and bis symptoms
were similar to those of hydrophobia.
It baa long been known that the bite of
various animals will eometiniM result in
wbat is celled hydrophobia. II the bite of
a drunken man is equally ae dangerous it is
time for tho people to he on their guard. An
old toper running at large is much more
difficult to deal with than a mad dog. Aa a
precautionary measure muzzles might bo
tried. We muzzle doge, and why uot men,
when they are suspected ot biting proclivi
ties? The objection may be urged that the
muzzle would involve tho deprivation of
persons! liberty, tint iu this progressive age
personal liberty ia uouhrre when those who
claim it are in the minority. If it is lawful
to lock up the hotly of a drunken mao, it is
Only one step further to lock np his uoutb
when ho is ctreniatiog among people.
The Feunsylrania doctors have an inter
esting case on band, and the result will be
anxiously awaited. It their first imprev
eicns prove to ba correct there will bo a geo-
Whislty anil I he Tariff.
The report of Statesman Morrison on tho
Itaudnll hill has been laid before Uie bouse,
ami is now up for discussion in the newspa
pers. While It purports to be a treatise on
the tariff question, the document Is, iu real
ity, an elaborate defense of tbe whisky ring
—an attempt to prove that the people ot this
country owe it to themselves to keep in force
an infamous excise law that has been the
reuse of more craelty, oppression and blood
shed during the past twenty years tbsn any
system of taxation ever invented by tbe in
genuity of uion.
And yet, Mr. Morrison and those who
agree with bim declare that this infamous
system shall bo perpetuated. What are
their reasons? We are told that the “war
larifi” must be reduced to a free trade basis,
and this scheme is defended by arguments
that can bare no sort of weight with those
who understand or have any sort of interest
in tbefindnstrial progress of this country.
We nre told that a democrat who favors
protection lo American industries is no dem
ocrat, and yet hero are democrats who are so
far forgetful of tho principles ol their party
as lo maintain that an lnfemons system of
oppression, which is not only undemocratic,
hut un American, shall be perpetuated in
ibis country—olid all liecanse it is to the in
terest of tbe swindling monopoly known as
tbe whisky ring that there should be a tax
laid on spirits.
What has been the resnlt of this infamous
eyelem? For twenty years the premises and
posnssiont of thousands of innocent people
in thie country have been in a state of selge.
It has led to the most inhuman crnelty and
oppression. Innocent men bare been taken
ftom their dependent families and dragged
off to die a dog's death in jail. Innocent
women and children have lieen insulted and
maltreated, and thousands of comfortable
and liappy homes have been broken up.
Men who knew they were committing no
crime have been shot down in cold blood liy
the United States officials, for the law under
which these officials act ie itself an invitation
to bloodshed. The remits of its elocution
ere tho same under a democratic adminis
tration that they were under a republican
admlnist ration. Tho system itself leads to
cruelty, oppression and cold-blooded murder.
It is a law that ought to have been swept
from the statute books fifteen years ago.
Hut the whisky ring wants protection, and
men who call themselves democrats nre will
ing to Indorse the agents of tho whisky ring
in their efforts to fasten this infamous excise
system on the country. They should re 1
member tbe words of John Randolph, spoken
to tbe country In the senate—wonle that
are as appropriate to thie day and time ae
they wrie when they were uttered:
in did not couiltler the sscImbuui lo besr. so-
cording to the language of the old law books.
tyranny ss to shoots
wolf ot s mad dog: snd tf 1 did not know that
anything like ee excise In this country Is in eitbet
utterly InprecUcshle, I, rnyielf, feellnt. seeing,
blushing for my cotinliy, would gladly vote to lay
sn csrlir on this abominable liquor, the lavish
consumption of which venders this tho most
drunken ustton under the sun: end yet we have
it fused lo lake the duties from wines, from chesp
French wines particularly, that might lure the dog
from his vomit and lay the foundation of a reform.
Sir, an excise system can never ha maintained In
Ihla country. I had as leave ha a tithe proctor In
Ireland, and met on a dark night la a narrow road
by a down white boys or peep of day boys, as an
exciseman In the Allegheny mountains met In a
lonely place by s backwoodsman with arias In his
bend. * * * If any officers of our gov-
eminent were lo take Use Held still hunting among
onr southern end western forests or menntalna I
should like to see the blowing off of the hounds. I
have still so much of the sportsman about me that
1 should llko to see tho breaking cover, end above
all I should like to be tn at the death.
The tine American spirit breathes through
these utterance*, but the some spirit to-day
it quelled by the agents of tbe whisky ring
who ore endeavoring to take charge of tbe
democratic party. Let southern congress
men at least show that they appreciate the
nature of our Institutions by moving to have
the infamous excise system blotted Irani the
statute books. Per twenty yean it has been
an uaspcakablc disgrace to the whole eoun-
*>T-
National anti Hint* Danko.
A Chattanooga paper, commenting on what
The Conntitvtioh recently said in regard
to the establishment of state banks, gives
voice to the hope that there will be no wild
cat system to vex the people. Thix sort of
talk ie altogether out ot place at the present
time. The Chattanooga piper, end other
rstirmedcontemporaries, which ere iadiael
to have a chill whenever the subject of state
bank* is mentioned, might much mure rea
sonably expires the bope that tbe stage cjtch
will not be permitted to take the place of
the steam-draw n trains of the present.
Tbe truth is that all Ibis talk about wild
cat banks groa < out of ignorance or forget-
ftilceis. In Gcotgia there never was a w id
eal bank oigxnizrd under the state l> ink sys
tem. The Hank of the state of Georgia, and
its blanches scattered over the state, issued
notes that were good in every coaiaicrcial
renter of tbe nnion, and in England. Tue
wild-rat banks were meetly private iuxtitu-
Uens, and thrlr falters was to more disxa-
irons then the failure of some of the priests
banks lines the war. To recur to tbe trans
portation illustration, and to push it a little,
we might ae well contend that because lo
comotives, with their trains, are occasionally
wrecked, therelbre it is the duty oi the pub
lic to divert their patronage to ox carts and
country wxgonx.
This question of state banks is a serious
one, snd in tbe course of a very lew yeeix,
will be a moet pressing one. Even as we
write congress is discussing a resolution
which provides that whenever a surplus or
balance in the I lilted States treasury, in
cluding the amount held for tbe redemption
of United States notes, shall exceed the sum
oi one hundred millions of dollars, it shall
he made the duty of tbe secretary of the
treasury to apply such excess in sums not
lets than ten millions per month, during tho
existence of such snrplus or excess, to the
payment of tbe interest bearing indebtedness
of tbe United States, payable at tbe option
of the government.
This means the rapid extinguishment
the public debt, and when there is no longer
any national indebtedness, there will no
longer be any basis for the national banks,
those institutions now exist. No one
doubts that the national banking system
tbe beet tbe country ever bail. At the
time, no one hopes or believes that the poo
pie can be induced to pay interest on an un
necessary public debt merely for tbe purpose
of continuing the national banking system.
This system is in the nature ot a war meas
ure, and was created for the purpose of
making a demand for government bonds,
ie s system which bears no real relation to
the commercial needs of the people, and that
fact ie fully understood by the national
banka themselves; and some of them, espe
cially in the south, have taken measures to
reduce their capital. Those interested in tbe
national banks are perfectly well aware that
the government cannot and will not issue
bonds to perpetuate the system.
Moreover the national banka are prevented
by the luws under which they operate', from
making some ol the best and safest uses of
money. They can invest their whole capi
tal ia tbe bonds of railroad companies, but
they ere not permitted to loan money on real
estate, and can loan only 10 per cent of their
capital to one party or firm. Thus it will be
seen that the national banks are a little too
circumscribed in their operations for a period
of peace and commercial prosperity. Their
managers understand this perfectly well, and
the most thoughtful of them are waitiog for
the day when, under proper limitations and
restrictions, they can branch out as state
banks.
Under this neworderot things the govern
ment will issue its own treasury notes, which
will take the place of national bank currency,
while the national banks, reorganized as
state Uinks, under state laws, will issue a
currency which will be equally as good. As
Mr. George W. Williams, a prominent bank
er of Charleston, truly says, the national
liaukiug system is a war measure, and the
law under which it is organized legislates
against tbe foundation of all wealth—land.
These banks cannot, as we have stated, loan
a dollar on real estate. AH this will have to
be changed when the state banking system 1
is organized, und it will be changed.
Meanwhile, we invite our esteemed con
temporaries to discuss this question and tell
tie ell they know about wild-cat banks. For
instance, how many wild-cat banks were
there in Georgia before I bo war, which bad
tbe authority of the state, anil how many in
South Carolina?
Tlic Cotton Outlook.
Tho returns received from nil parte of the
cotton belt by tbe national eottou exebango
of New Orleans, show the following condition
by states:
Virginia, etc.
North Carolina..
South Carolina
Georgia
Florid*
Alabama
Tenner set-
. so
St-
Average fbr belt
Against trj last year snd si me year before.
East of the Mississippi tbe nbnormally
heavy rainfall aud the cuol spring retarded
tbe crop. West of the Mississippi it is dif
ferent. There the reins found the plants
well rooted ami tho fields lnexcellentcultira
tion. Tile coudition of Texas is rated nearly
par.
Over about two-thirds ol the cotton belt
the luxuriant growth of grass bos been quite
on obstacle, anil the fertile black lande have
lost much of their early prospect. There
has been but little damage from insects.
It appears ftom the general summary that
notwithstanding u tale crop in the east, and
the vicissitudes of the fall season, cousiitrra-
bio improvement may still be hoped tor.
Taking into consideration, the reports from
tbe southwest It is safe to look forward to n
good average crop.
Correcting a Dunton Mistake.
We find tbe following editorial paragraph
in a late issue of tbe Boston Advertiser:
Tux Atlahta Conmitcviox ti the leafing item
octmtlc taper of that reviving Mato. It denounce!
tbe Atlanta congresuwo. Ur. Uammoud, for vot
ing to take up the Morrison bill, and says bis res
ignation should be demanded If he contluues lo so
misrepresent his consUtnthta
It would be surprising to know where onr
Boston contemporary secured so much mis
information. Tiik Constitution has de-
nonuced neither Mr. Hammond uor any
other southern congressman for voting to
take tip the Morrison bill, nor has it ssid, or
STen dreamed of saying, that hie resignation
should be demanded. The truth of the bus-
ineseistbat there is no tariff tome in tbe
south, though there ie renewed interest in
the question. Tiik Constitution, ia dis
cussing the metier, has deemed it to be its
dnty to coll attention to tho tact that the
democratic party of the south, notwithstand
ing the attitude of a majority of the south
ern congressmen, is not a free trade party.
It is, in fact, differently constituted, tty
the picesureof circumstances men with to
tally different views iu regard to tbe tariff
qtusiiou, internal improvements, and other
matin* that were once burning issue*, hive
torn nnitid under one party organization
trad cull tbt m-clvts democrat*.
This lirt was once tersely sat tor tb by Cue
late Senator ttill in a statement which wi*
cruelly and unjustly crilirisotl. ‘If fain a
democrat,” be declared, “I did not go to
be.” He meant by this, that, although be
had been opposed to tbe old democratic
party all bis life, yet,owing to circumstances
over which hr had no control, he was com
pelled to be a democrat. The very cireum-
stance* t$at compelled Mr. Hill to be a dem
ocrat will prevent any very serious contro
versy on the tariff question. The democrat
ic party is not yet reedy to divide on such
on issue, for there would inevitably be e
division if the issue were ineiated on. We
believe that these ere facts which even a
free-trade congressman ought to take into
consideration.
Not only is the democratic party of the
south not tbe old democratic party, but the
south is not tbe old south. There ore those,
of course, who believe that the south is
doomed to be an “exclusively agricultural
section,” but The Constitution has higher
hopes of its future. Agriculture is a noble
and an enobling pursuit when carried on
under favorable conditions, but there can be
no favorable conditions in the south under *
policy that would preveut the building up of
the industrial enterprises that ora so much
needed, and that would prevent the farmer*
from enjoying the benefits of home markets.
This much is certain, and for this and other
reasons The Constitution is inclined to
feel somewhat humiliated when southern
democratic congressmen, instead of recog
ni/ing the situation, persist in trotting
around after Mr. Morrison.
Do Vo* and Wiggins.
De Voe, the Hackensack, N. J., weather
man may prepare to take a back seat. His
tornado booked for Georgia on tbe tilth in
stant, failed to materialize. We are
not in a complaining mood, but still it is
not in Iranian nature to pass snch a failure
l>y w ithout calling attention to it.
Bnt the downfall of De Voe only clears tbe
way for bis successor. Professor K. Stone
Wiggins, who was compelled to retire a few
years ago on accoant of his blundering pre
dictions, now bobs up serenely with the an
nouncement that there will be all sortsof sn
elemental burly burly on the :111th of Sep
tember. This storm, the professor says,will
be one of unparalleled violence. It will
come across the Atlantic, and will sweep
across the continent nntii it strikes tbe
Rockies, when it will probably leap into mid
To our thinking Wiggins is a more agree-
ble man than De Voe. The beauty about
hie predictions is that he always gives its
plenty of time. De Voe is in such a burry
that be breaks us all np. Of the two Wig
gins is our man.
A Friendless Man.
Behind the bars of a gloomy cell in the
Massachusetts penitentiary there is a shat
tered wreck of a man who is face to face
with death.
No pitying eyes look iuio bis; no friendly
voice utteis a word of comfort, and no kind
band ministers to the wants of this suffer
ing outtast.
This utterly friendless man, who is left to
die like a dog, was not always a felon, and
in other days be had troops of friends. In
the first flush of his bright manhood Frank
lin J. Moses was regarded as one of the most
brilliant of .South Carolina’s sons. Bat his
good fortune was his ruin. 8ttrcess mad
dened him. He liecame the most prodigal
ruler Hint ever sat in a governor's chair,
bis vain desire to give his state a dazzling
administration he fell an easy prey to nn
ecrnpulous flatterers who know bow to make
thrift follow fawning. The governor of a
great commonwealth liecame the accomplice
of swindler*. Disgraced nnd scorned by his
own people he left tlic executive mansion
end became a wanderer upon the face ot the
earth.
Ills recent history is painfully familiar.
Time and again within the past few years
this penniless exile has yielded to tempta
tion, or to necessity, anti each time he has
paid the penalty. From jail to jail, and
ftom prieon to prison this broken man has
gone, never escaping tbe consequences of his
petty transgressions. Now, at the ago of
fifty, when he should lie in his prime, he is
ent off from his kindred and the friends of
his yonth, end forgotten nnd nncared for is
left to die a felon’s death.
Men will say that it is just. They will
say that it is a warning example. It is more
than all this. It is the sad ending of a wast
ed life, and it is impassible to contemplate
it without pity.
DADE COUNTY COAL MINES.
There are two classes of person* who go to Dade
count/ coal mine*—member* of the legislature and
long-term, able-bodied convict*.
other people go occasionally, bnt not often, for
the state of Dade ia an out-of-tbe way place, and,
besides that, visitor! have little business fooling
around convict camps.
I went up to Dade the other day to see Colonel
Towers, principal keeper of tbe penitentiary, sup
press an insurrection, and when the riot waa over,
I bad spare time enough to take a glance a*- the
coal mine and the arrangements lor handling tbe
dusky diamonds.
I must drsw ou the resources of tbocomposln
room to help me in my description of tbe interest
ing points about the Dade coaI mines. The coal
company owns a standard gauge railroad running
from Shellmound in Teunetaee to tbe mines,which
are in Georgia. The road is not a common carrier
tut transacts buhiueu only for the company. It is
six or eight miles in length and runs up a valley.
1 he valley is very narrow and the mountains on
each side are about a thousand feet high. To illus
trate, the road runs along the bottom of a great big
v
and I do not exaggerate the steepness of the moun
tain sides by the Illustration taken from the typo’s
ease. The country Is very wild. The mountains
are covered with dense, tangled woods, and deer
and turkey abound In the neighborhood. As the
train goes from Shellmound to the mines it parses
tbe mouth of tbe Nlckajack cave, which can be
plainly seen. The entrancs 1* about one hundred
feet across and is a big tlack liol3 in the moun
tain side. A creek coming down the valley en
ters the mouth or tbe care, disappears in the dark
ness and goes beyond the knowledge of man. On
one occasion Colonel J. W. Renfroe, postmastor ol
Atlanta, rode on horseback nine miles into this
cave, but came out ignorant of its size. There is no
telling how big it is.
From the railroad the location of the old Castle
Rock coal mine can bo seen. Ibe track of tho
inclined plane railroad catches the eye. Two
tracks side by side run up the mountain at an an
gle of about fort j-five degrees. When the mine
was being worked coal was let down by cars on
these tracks, one car to a track, so arranged that
the loaded car would pull the empty car to the top
of the mountain. The cars were run on the prln
ciple of twin well buckets, and made apecd that
would stagger a cannon ball express. One day
r'enator Brown and Mrs. Brown went up in one of
the cars. The next trip the cable broke and there
was uot enough of the little cars left to mako a do
cent toothpick.
Pig Iron and Prosperity.
Tlie rapid progress of the pig iron industry
in northern Alabama and southern Tennes
see is one of tbe wonders of this generation:
The building np of this industry at a time
when stagnation rules in the iron regions of
Pennsylvania and Ohio is significant.'
It shonld be Imrne in mind that the south
ern boom flourishes under the most unfa
vorable conditions. For some time the prices
of iion have been nbnormally low, so low
that the northern furnace owners complain
that they have little or no margin tor profit.
nder these conditions the claim that pig
iron can he produced in Alabama at a coat of
cot more than ten|dollar8 a ton has driven the
iron men wild. It is easy to predict the result.
The new industry has within ten years in
creased its output nearly 1,000 per cent,
Foreign and northern capitalists are patting
their money into it, millions of dollars at a
time.
Against snch competition Pennsylvania
end Ohio cannot stand, and they will not
attempt to light the inevitable. The head
quarters of the iron industry will simply
shift from the north to the sonth. The man
who sees in this remarkable change nothing
more than a local benelit for Alabama and
Tennessee is abort sighted. It is the begin-
ning of a manufacturing era. The building
np of manufacturing cities and towns means
new markets, and these will make diverel
lied fanning as profitable here as it has been
in the thickly settled regions of the middle
states. Thus pig iron will be linked with
onr prosperity. King Pig Iron does not
sound aa well aa King Cotton, bnt he will
make a io)id old monarch. There is room
in the south (or the two kings and we hope
to see a nip and tuck race between them.
ARK AN* AW INNOCENCE.
From tbe Aikau** Traveler.
nan fnm a sequestered township of
Washington couuty called the other day on the
*!i)etit of the Arkansaw Industrial university.
I have come to see ytr," said the v in tor, "ber-
cause I have ncarn that ytr've got er beep o’
re president t-owed and tbe visitor continued:
imr iir» ;i r cr question that cuouraM rascr
Ideal. Ir feller over tn my uctirhb'irn *>1
td me a trank. I a unwed it wan't times uv or
its iM tn- uf. but I Mowed ter tnerse'f that !
nuidn't bit hna till I found out whut be meant,
hut did he tteat?”
Aceoidlrg tn Carlyle," paid the president. -a
. .jnk Ip a v» rr headlong, very positive, la id dull
and angry kind of man. The Amcr c tn Pigottbu
♦iou ol the trim, ■?> employed by the newspapers,
• ?ort ft fanatic. Ktnl-crazy man
“Then I reckon be thinks that 1
crirtf'
erbou: ha'f
At the end or the standard gauge road are tho
coke ovens of the company. The ovens are in tho
valley and are 286 In number. In them the coal Is
burned to coke for use in smelting iron from iron
ore. To stand on the mountains at night and look
down at the coke ovens when they are fired up re
minds me of the remark of a man who undertook
to describe Pittsburg—
' It looks like h—11 with the lid oil'.”
The coke ovens hold thirty or forty thousand
bushels of coal at one time.
The entrance to the Dade coal mine is from tho
top of a mountain, aud that mountain llko the
others, is a thousand feet high. At tho top is
broad plateau, two miles across. The company
has a forty acre garden up there, and the convicts
have all the vegetables they could possibly want.
The Dade coni is not let down in tho way that was
in use at Castle Rock wnen that mine was being
worked. A narrow gauge railroad runs from the
coke ovens to tho top of the mountain. As tho
sides of the mountain are almost perpendicular It
becomes interesting to know how the
trains get up there. It is all very
simple when you sec it done. Tho grade of tho
road is three or four feet to the hundred. The
track, starting at the base, runs parity around the
mountain, climbing Just a little bit. Then a switch
Is put in and the track goes back toward the start
ing point,but goes Just a little higher up tho moun
tain. This zig-zag, whip saw business is kept up
until the top is reached, and the railroad looks llko
a big \v turned sideways.
To ride ou the little train as U climbs
the mountain is the next thing to
Ing up in a balloon. The paasi_ w __
car is about the size of Tiik Constitution's eleva
tor, and It seemed that to sit anywhere except iu
the middle would turn It over. One looks out of
the window and sees that he Is salliug along on a
level with tho opposite ridge. Tall tree* below
seem like grass and weeds. You feel that a big
bird has caught you upand is dying away with yon.
The only thing to dispel the Idea Is the clatter-
clatter of the little train and the Jerking of the
miniature car a* it Is snatched along tho track by
the stout little engine.
"8-s-ss-spofc!" I asked,"Sp-sp-fpose th-th-thi*
the-the-the-thlag r-r-runs ofl?"
"Then its good bye John," was the consoling re
ply, "bnt it has never yet Jumped tho track."
There la a good story told or a certain Dutchman
who was a new employe at the mines, and who
started up the mountain. Instead of following the
path straight up he followed tho railroad track
After walking about a mllo he came to the switch
and turned back. When he had traveled another
mile he came opposite the starting point, and was
horrified to find he had progressed only about two
hundred feet In climbing the mountain. He fol
lowed the track faithfully, however, and traveled
several miles before he reached bis journey’s end.
When the top of the mountain is reached one
finds the entrance to the coal mine. It looks like
a big gopher hole and a little railroad track de
nt uds into it at an angle of about thirty degreos.
Litile coal can* are pulled up this track, whleU is
about :'C0 feet loop, the motive power being a sta
tionary engine which is located near tbe entrance
to the mine,and which winds a cable onto a drum,
I went down in the mine. It was dark as Egypt.
The mine is about one hundred feet underground,
and consists of a great numbeg
of tunnels which crow each other
at right angles. The mountain Is completely
honey-combed.’ Three or four hundred men work
in tbe mine; three hundred of them being con
victs. The men wear small lanterns on their cape
and look like so many overgrown lightning bugs
when seen in the distance down the dark
tunnels. When I reached the foot of the "slope 1
and found myself in the mine I was accompanied
by the engineer, Captain Evans. A tall young man
with large handsome eyes and a big brown mous
tache tipped his cap and bowed gracefully to the
captain. By the yellow light which flickered in
his cap I saw that he had a very striking face and
I was so Impressed by his appearance that I asked
the captain who the good-looking convict was.
He replied:
"His name is Hammond. He came here from
Rome, and is In tor murder. He tried to escape
once and was shot in the back ”
The coal miners lie on their sides to pick tho
coal. A number of males are kept at work in the
mines pulling the little coal cars from different
parts of the mine to tbe slope. A great deal o
track is required to get the coal out of the mines,
about twenty mile* of it being under ground, ran*
ning through the various tunnels. About six hun
dred tons or coal are mined every day. but none of
It Is sold except to the Western and Atlantic rail
road. Tbat rompsny takes ten carloads daily
Tbe ten 1* burnt icto coke for the iron furnaces at
Kirirg Fawn and Chattanooga. No one can form
:<a of the extent of the Dade county coal mine
utsletf be go** thete and tees tor bitn-olf.
’ byar
Tlic Th«»trr tit <iory Canyon.
11 tn the Chicago Rambler.
lough i'ltiaen—"tia'ay, who's p'.ayir
ter night?"
Manafer~"lhe greatest actren ct her time,
i.tMlC a Sioealer."
T. f\— 1 "Never heard o' her."
Majjarfr-Mg^ u:d ;<ra ever hear of Mary An-
dittos:
T. C.—"No."
Maneger—Ever hear of Edwin Booth?"
T. I’,—"Mxy "
MaEager-"Ferhsu yen have heard of Adam
and Ever*
"GUNBOAT” GREENE.
A brave coward!
in company E, or the Thirty-first Louliiaua,therc
was a man named Green. The boy* want lntoser-
vice In tbe| spring of ’02, and for some time had
very little todo. Green soon made himself one of
the no* popular men in camp. Be was something
of a humorist and his talents as a itory-teller made
him always entertaining.
When the Thirty-first sniffed gunpowder for the
first time, Green turced up missing. He had a fit
and was unable to handle a gun. In the second
engagement the poor fellow had a spasm and waa
again kept away from tbe Trent. The Midlers be
gan to have their suspicions and when theirnn-
fortunate comrade fell a victim to rhenmttlsm on
he eve of another fight, they spoke out In pretty
plain teims. 9
'•run was so bedeviled by tbe boys that he wee
driven nearly crazy. Just about that time there
was a call for volunteer* logo up tbe Yazoo river
ou a gunboat expedition. To tbe surprise of all
tbe chronic invalid volunteered. The expedition
lasted about six weeks and no fi|hting occurred.
Green, however, swelled with pride at tbe thought
of his soldierly conduct, and bragged so lustily
tbat his companions nick-named him "Gunboat'*
Green. By degrees is began toKdawn upon him
that he was the butt of the regiment, and then ho
liecame sulky and disagreeable.
Bnt the time came when the gallant Louisian
ians had something more important to think of
than ' Gunboat" Green. They were driven Intothe
"bull-pen" at Vicksburg by Grant’s swarming
legions, and every soldier had to do
bis duty like a little man. The
corps to which Green belonged was
stationed behind a crescent shaped breastwork
seven miles in length. The land in frotit fir some
distance was level, and then sloped down a ra
vine and up a steep hill. The timber had all been
cut down, to there was a clean sweep.
One afternoon the federal* charged the breast
works. They placed their sharpshooters on the
hill to pick ofl the con federates when they showed
their heads. The federal! charged in four column!,
four deep. The confederates remained in tho pita
four deep, and held their fire until the federal*
were within sixty yatds. Then the front rank
opened fire, and fell back, and tho second,
and so on until every gnn
had been emptied with terrible
execution. Finally the assaulting party fell back
behind the timber that had been cutdown.to await
tbe coming of night. In this position they were
protected except from the top of the breast
works, and the confederates would not take tbat
exposed position on account of the sharpshooters.
At the this Juncture an event of the most unex
pected and paralyzing nature occurred. Down In
tho pita a crowd of rough fellows were tormenting
"Gunboat" Green. One man told him that be waa
looking rather pale, and advised him to go to tho
hospital.
"Never mind about my looks," said Green, "I
have a presentment that I am going to bo killed.'^
'By a nervous shock," suggested a corporal, and
then there was a laugh.
The object of all this ridicule gritted his teeth,
and his eyes flashed fire.
"I'll swear, boy#," *aid one of tho company;
that if a bullet is found In 'Gunboat' Green after
his death It will be one that he swallowe 1."
Slung beyond endurance by these taunts Green
seized his musket and ran at full speed until he
reached the top of the breastworks. Here he had
the federal! behind the fillon timber in full view
and easy range. For a moment both armlet looked
on in breathless wonder. On that seven-mile line
ofbreastworks Green was the only man tobes jen
Then the sharpshooters commenced firing at him.
nothing could move him. With a
white face, blazing eye*, and
nerves stretched to their utmost tension he took
aim and fired. Time and again he reloaded and
pulled trigger, each time hitting his man. By this
time the sharpshooters were firings thousand shots
l*er minute at him. Some of tho confederates
begged bim to come down, but an officor said:
"Let tho blanked fool alone, they can't hit
him."
The men In the pits threw up a lot of cartridges,’
and Green continued to fire at tegular intervals.
Bullets (lew past him thick aa hail, bnt not a hair
of his head was harmed. Finally the brigade that
he waa slaughtering in Ills merctlcM fashion
could stand it no longer. They broke and ran up
the hill, losing fC-voral more on the way up under
the fire of the solitary soldier on the breast Turks,
"Gunboat" Green was the hero of tbe hour,
oniccre and privates surged around him, shaking
him by tbe hand and applauding hu bravery.
Ju*t before dark the federal# retired, and a party
of Lonlsianians went out to look at tho results of
Green's bloody markimanahlp. It was found by
actual count that his musket had killed seventy-
two federal.-, crccu insisted that he had killed
ninety, but it was thought that soma
of them were only wounded and their friends had
drafged them ofl. About the seventy-two dead
men there con Id be no doubt. They wore there
and as their bodies lay in a place where there waa
not a single corpse before Green commenoed
firing, it was plain enough that be had brought
them down.
A special report concerning Green waa sent to
the commanding general that night. The result
would doubtless have been a promotion, bnt for
tbe fact that on the following morning "Gunboat"
Green waa nowhere to be found. Later it waa as
certained that he had dciertcd and Joined Grant's
at my. Nothing further was ever heard from him.
ON TO OKLAHOMA.
Twenty -five Hundred Armed Men to.Invade
the Territory.
Wichita, Kans., July 12.—The fallowing
card appeared In tbe Eagle yesterday.
South IIavkn, July 8.—Please publish iu your
paper that there is a party going into the Okla-
paper that there l* a party going i
horns the 15U> of this montn. If one half go in
who ray they are going, and who are making
preparations .0 go. there will he IfiOl We will
•tart from this place. S. II. Nlukxt.
Nugent ia one of the reported leaders of the
movement to enter Oklahoma, and there Is now
no doubt that July lfith ia the time for the pro
posed advance. That secrecy and caution
which characterized their early efforts is cast
aside now that troops are sent among them.
They have subscriptions amounting to about
'Banner" is the
raroo of tb. orKxaizttion. It will most with
nuloobed'for oppoattlon In MxJor Uunra.r, n
HH.wvatu-.wi wn.jwvsi.vis IU atqjw. UUIUU1I. «h
man feared alike by the Indians and white
men. Hla plan Is very practical. lie haa given
orders to the Indiana who are located on the
around their ranges, i„ ..
every tpear of grass in the country except
what the Indiana require to grese their stock.
In this way the invaders will have nothing
upon which to feed their stock and ao practi
cally be started ont
'Tis Done.
’Ti# done, end done for weal or woe!
Tbe foture’a veiled, I cannot know.
Bemorses may be hidden deep,
For In the night where shadows sweep,
There waiting till I come, to crash
Me, like an avalanche’s rush
O'er summer field* In promise bloom.
Heap all in one eternal tomb.
'Ti- done; perliap- ’twere beat undone.
In rain. The pr!/.-latest or won.
I've rl-ked. Tbt? rubioon it past.
'Ti# now resolved. The die is cast.
Ut fortune come «iih light or night.
The morrow brim; me bllrs or blight.
I'll ttand—let all be lost or won,
I'll not recant wbst I hare done.
'Tb done—deliberately and Creel
What might have been may never be.
I know not and may never know-v
Rejoice if weal, lament If woe.
Tis done. 'TI* sealed. With patient trust
I wait the morrow as I most:
If weal, then all tbe world ie wall;
If woe, ’twill reader earth a hell.
t j-*Bu Maxwell, £k George, W.Yiff