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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY JULY 20 1886 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. toferto *1 to* AUxnu rotaOffira M Moonl-clui •Mil metfer, Korembet 11,1171 WMklrOmuUtnUon, S1.M P» nnnajn. del* of are, Fl.OOttxcti-. data ot fea tUO MCE ■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?” A WORD WITH YOU. If you are note subscriber to The Ooustl- iatton, this copy (s sent you as a sample, with a reqneet that you examlae and decide whether or not you want to taka It. Toe weed a food paper for MM. We think The Constitution Is the beet paper yen eaa yet. Fleateferamlne^lt carefullv. Read It, eo. pare It with ether papers, aad send as year subscription. It win be the beet larestmeat Try it ona yaar aad yon will Barer quit it. 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