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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA- TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21 18S«
THE WEEKLY CONSTITOTIOH.
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A Word About tnrPirtum.
Ta* Cojwmvnon, earnest In m ondowor to
plc*n wm benefit ita tMders, bai procure 1 •
bureau of the finest picture* that can bo aecured.
Tbe Hat tsclodeda roch picture at
•'Haraa Fair, ' Laodaeer’i "Stai at Bay* and Ton
Paid Here." The* picture* are faaoua the world
ever Thaw are each 21*2?*; Inchea aud on nne
SSnpoAr.VodocInr > .plondld effect. Thor
ruenowlimnir Inthousaadsofparlors oil orer tho
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dm cent!
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and IhW le ta opportunity for leUtni Ono plciutce
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ATLANTA, OA. BKITCHBUK III, UM.
Tiro Army lIcftlmilriK lo Hove,
We have abundant evidence* this week
that onr Army ofaubecribcn are beginning
to mar*. They are becking u* up "plan-
dldly Inonrcberg* on helghta which no
•ontheia nawaptper h*« aver yet scaled, and
on tba crest of which la written 100,000 eub-
acribera.
If each one ofourreadere, ifyouwboare
now reading tbia, understood bow easy it
if to got ut tbe subscribers wo yot neat ta
mabe 100,000 we would have them in loos
than a month. Ifyou yourself would sim
ply get ns one snbicribcr and send it in, and
artiyotberiubicriber would do the same
thing, tho work would be competed. Han't
roly on some one else to do your part, but
do It yonrself, and then for lear none one
aloe may foil to get one new subscribe.- you
yon gat three or four and scad tbaa in.
Wa don't believe there is a man, womsu,
or child rending The Cox-iititiox tbia
weak wbecaanot with tba slightest trouble
lead no awe now anbecriber and yet even
Ibias—n afloat would giro no what wo have
atnggM for night sad day for tba peat two
Jtara, aad wawld tom* tree* I* yon-US th*
obeli if l bo 11 jnuiiTj Qogfil'lftiiii wan eves
work this waak?
IWT watt mail your m aa’meripfiwa Is
art, togas aw a now aahatriber, bitsaaad II
atom Vwaflbrywwfor throe new aaV
ambors, which may (sciada year own rt-
atwal, a picture oi ‘'President Cleveland
and hie Wile.” We hare sent on! hundreds
of tbaa* already. Tbia work w* aid tan
other pictures larger than our pictures of
"Clevelandand bis Wife’ and handsomer,
either one of which woofftr to send for three
new lubecrlhere at one dollar each. Wa
bare alao a large ptetare of Mrs. Cleveland
which la ana of the moat boantlfol ornuiuentn
• home could have. The face It lovely snd
the picture itself Its gam. By miking a
little apodal effort yon can get three anb-
acribere and one of thaae pictures. If yen
don’t care to do this at any rata, for our
aka, gat one new eubocriber ho that wa can
aaka our 100,000 this winter. Won’t yon
do It?
It la again atattd that Mr. Manning will
never return to bit post in Washington. Ha
isabapelcea physical wrack. Ilia friend*
bat* bttn alow in admitting the fact, bnt
they now Dad that longer denial la useless
Mr. Manning will be sorely mtetid by the
president.
A Political Forecast.
In October, 1W, it will b* Cleveland and
Blaine.
In November, 1888, U will be Cleveland,
by an Inarmed majority.
Tboecwbo feel that they cannot become
rtcondUd to cither of (he above events with
satisfaction have just two years aud one
month in which to more out nf the coantry.
An Oil In tyuakc.
«blo has had a little cgrthqnnke all to
hanelf.
Tho dispatches toy a considerable region
ronnd about Akron received a acrcr* shak
ing at lour o’clock Snnday morning. A
rumbling noise accompanied tbe dtetur-
bare* and tho shock was sufficient to great
ly alarm everybody In (hat aaction.
The fears of the people had hardly begun
to subside before a new terror was sprung.
An immtnaf biasing meteor cam* skimming
along jnrt above tbe fooaotth* earth like a
gloat red hot hall fired from a monster can
non. Bit* of dr* daw from it lik* sparks
from a blacksmith’s anvil.
Hoon after the fiary affair paaoM there wa*
another earthquake, caused, it it supposed,
by the meteor striking the earth somewhere
or other.
State Banks Again.
The monopoly banking system saddled
upon our people at s war men tore, and per-
peteettd la the interest of Ur* money kings,
is the meanest for or of protection that could
bedtviatd. Tbe imposition of an annual
tax of tan per cent upon the twues at state
books, protecta tbe owners of a fixed
amount of currency and necessarily enables
them to command a high interest.
Now a great deal can be stid iu fivor of
tbe protection of labor, of enterprise. of
manufactures, but what shut we say of a
special protection designed to protect only
Ibegraat moneyed monopolists of tbe eoun-
byT
Bednced to ita last analysis, tbs prohibi
tion of state hooka ondar a high tas system
is a deadly strike at tb* liberty of tbs citi-
«A It ia the went form of that pateraal-
ism which the founders of our republic ab
horred.
To tbe superficial observer, the uniformity
of tbe national bank currency seenn to be
*n admirable thing,bat against this delusive
advantage must b* * offset tho evils of finan
cial centralization, resulting in blgb rates of
interest. Looked at in the proper light, it
will be seen that it lo as onjust and oppres
sive to crash state banks, by a heavy tax, as
it wonld be to create a monopoly In mer
chandise. As we intimated before, tbe con--
trolling question in all this, is one of indi
vidual liberty. If it Is right aud safe for an
individual to pledge bis property and to give
hit note, ho should be allowed to do it in
business-like way, under proper regulations,
by issuing notes which bis fellow-citizens
may nse in trade, or refoae, as it salt*
them. Tbe objection that such a currency
wonld Ira local is one of the treat things that
could be said in ita favor. It would estab
lish local money centres, local circuits of
production and consumption, anil give an
impetus to the Investments of tbe country.
Without a local currency, local aclf-gnrcrn
meat is shorn of one of its most valuable
features.
It is time to get rid of paternalism in
government, unjust war measures, and op
prettivo laws made in tire Interests of the
few and against the welfare of the many,
let ns take n long stride in tho direction of
reform by repealing tbe prohibitory tic of
ten pvr cent on tbe banks of issue char tore I
under stale laws.
Blaine In Mohic.
The announcement that tho republic ms
have carried Maine, is about as startling
as the familiar nows that tbe Dutch bare
captured Holland.
Tbe result is just wbat everybody expect
ed, and has no significance winterer. It is
known to everybody tint the republic-ins
own Maine and that Blaine owoa the re
publicans.
One point of interest, and tbe only point,
is tbe prohibition vote. Because it was
light tbo admirers of Blalno are jubilant.
They claim that the prohibitionists could
not reabt tbe magnetism of tho plained
knight, and fell into lino with the republi
cans.
It will not do lo jump to such a conclu
sion. Tbo prohibitionists of Maine, as in
otbvralatcs, are not yet fully ready for tbelr
Uiinl party movement. They are organiz
ing and preparing for ’cc9. In tbe next na
tional campaign they will lie mere likely to
give the republicans trouble than was the
case in ’84, although they smashed things
thru with n bevvy band. .So the republican
victory in Maine ia not wortb talking about.
“Frank Hnmptirloa Crime."
Neil week's Cormtrrno* will contain a hill ac-
c imtof the banging of Frank Humphries, tho
murderer of Him Carrie Ralnaa and Mbs Ella
Humphries, the history of whom crime Is primed
this week.
No murder ever tllrred the people oi Georgia
more profoundly than strip AWfuf of these two
defense tew wanes, by the man who should bare
protected, thofe.
-foe Is lwbw hung next Friday, If the heating
mhos fuses, ab attempt Is new betas made lo
axes hoe seek, la ease tka sentence Ir carried out
next weak’e pop*> wlUeorttelu a full account of hie
oanaattoa end loot weeds and the scenes about the
Why Nations Decay.
“God made the coantry; man made the
town."
There is a world ol truth in this papular
saying. Whenever the city controls the
coantry, brings it down to Us level of cor
ruption, and thoroughly dominates it, then
both decay together.
When the culminating point is reached of
lnxnry and < ffeminacy on tbe one hand and
of crashing poverty on tbo other the end is
not far off.
Tiro cities bring together tbeso extremes.
Still, there ia room lor progress and pros
perity so long na lbs cities are constantly re
inforced ffom the country with now blood,
new brains, new morality. «
In Loudon a family runs out iu four gen
erations unleas it intermarries with coantry
people. We are coming to that here. With
few exceptions tbo men who aehlova the
greatest uucctas in our citlea come from tba
country.
Onr great danger ia that In this rapid ago
the country is picking up nil tho features of
city life. The only remedy Is to remodel
our cities as for as poalhlt. In tutors It ia
to be hoped that no more cnmpMt towns
and cities will be built. Wa hove seen
that n trowdtd population wlthont
plenty of pare water and freth air
la always cursed with u low grade of health
and of morality. Ono remedy ia to build
onr dries with wld* s tree to, numerous
potko, fountains aud shade trees, and with
n yard attached to each dwelling. This will
require space, bnt if this boundless conti
nent cannot afford it, then It is time to wind
up business. Tho ides is to combine as
much of the country with the city as possi
ble.
It has been said that Paris Is France. We
do not want tbo time to come when it will
be raid in this country that Now York is
America, or that Chicago is the west, or that
Atlanta is tho south. W* want the conn-
try pare and simple to remain distinct from
the cities, not subject to them, bnt front
Unto to time replenishing them with now
strength.
The Anil.Saloon Itepubllcano.
Tbe national convention of nnti-saloon re-
pnblirtns at Chicago displayed conaideruble
wisdom. They were more moderate than
they were expected to be, and yet they
•poke ont positively enough to moot tho
slows of msny prohibitioniaU.
This wing of the republican party is for
high license whan it cannot got prohibition
and local option—when U aannot get a gen
eral stale law—bnt ita ultimate and b total
prohibition under on antendmont to tbo fed
eral constitution.
Thom anti-saloon man propose to stick to
tbe republican party, bat they plodge them-
selves to do all to tbelr power to make tho
party declare war upon tho saloons.
What will bo tho effect of ihiamovoment?
It fo undoubtedly an upheaval within the
party. Some of the boot and moat infla-
cniial republicans asc among the ami saloon
men. A thud party is loomiug up as a
positive danger iu ’B8. Under tho dream-
structr, the republicans will ba almost
driven Into an indorsement of some mild
form of prohibition, such a* high license or
local option.
When the party placet itself on tho lino
than indicated there will bo music to tho
sir. Tho German contingent, n mighty
hoot to itself, will revolt, secede and go
ver bog and boggsgo to tho democracy, J
which Is not likely to recede from its anti-
somptnary platform.
In reaching out for tbo prohibition vote,
Ibc republicans will go through the expe
rience of tbe dog that woo crossing n stream
with a chunk oi beef in hi* mouth. He sow
tbe meat reflected in tbe water, greedily
snapped at il, and lost whit ho hod.
Tbo republican prohibitionists ore not
wise. They are trying to make a national
ireue ont of a local matter. Tbe main reason
wl y Ibe prohibition democrats of the aonth
have been so successful is because they have
purened tbe opposite policy. They have, as
a rule, stuck to local option. If they should
abandon tbia line; if, for instance, a major-
iiy of the rural counties in a state should
endeavor to force prohibition upon the largo
cities pud seaport towns, tbe result wonld be
as notorious, us scandalous and as disgrace
ful a failure as prohibition baa been in
Maine. Fortnnateiy, the iriendaof local
option ns no well aatfoficd that they are not
anxious to try any new methods.
An Interesting Experiment.
.Seed’s thirty days’ fast lacks only three
days of completion.
This is • far more interesting case than Dr.
Tanner’s. It will be recollected that Tan
ner bad to take to his bed, and ho b osbanded
his strength by not exercising. Sued, on
tbe contrary, exercises violently, fences,
rides, swims, walks and reads, writes and
converses. lie is sustained by a mysterious
liquor which ho found in nse in Zanzibar.
This liquor is raid to paralyze tbe functions
of tbe fiomacb.
Nucci believes that chemistry will some
day be able to suppreso banger entirely, and
render eating unnecessary. Much u consum
mation is greatly to be desired, if tbe chemi
cal tubstliuta for food con bo placed within
tbo reach of the ni.uc.-re*. But there is the
rub. To supply the world with the peculiar
liquor swallowed by Sued before ho began
bis lost would coot as much os food. Brill,
this does not lessen the scientific importance
of the experiment, as the developments may
Ire utilized in n medical way.
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A Progressive Industry.
The extent and prospects of Jersey
breeding in the sonth present one of the
most interesting of tho industrial questions
of tbe time. In almost every state in the
union tbeie nre now to be found line herds
oi registered Jersey cattle in the hands ot
practical men who nro.-developing their
real vslue and extending their benefits.
jScnser wf- (he southern states are especially
active In this business. The Georgia breed
ers, who are among tho most progressive
asd most successful in tbs country, have
formed a state association and will hold
their second annual sale in Atlanta on the
2uih of October.
A stall' correspondent gives In this tome
an account of n visit to the Jersey form of
Mr. W. Getty*, at Athens, Tennessee, to
gether with some Interesting facts concern-'
tog this justly-prized breed of cattle.. Their
great practical value end their adaptability
to the land and climate of the southern states
seem to be amply dimonstrated.
Bimply Immense.
Ail the proposed federations ol nations
and international allium-ex sink into insig
nificance when compared with tho splendid
scheme ol Mr. Monk, a Canadian member of
parliament.
Mr. Monk has organized s company with
$10,000,000 capital. Tho ides is to pnrehaso
Palestine and establish there the capital of
the earth. Mr. Monk claims that Palestine
is tho geographical center of the earth, as
well as the center sf population, and he is
satisfied that this is the time foretold in
Iralxh when all civilised people shall cease
their warfare and accept Jerusalem as their
•ipttal.
Mr. Monk says:
Meanwhile, unlit other nations are propuod to
join us, Palcrtluo would be the moil convenient
central pi tllluo for tho capital 0! theprepoied con
federation of tho Brltlah empire, or fur the Soglfott
speaking commttnllica everywhere, for the Gutted
Stales would doulnleaaImmediately Join ut to such
a coufcdi ration for the oak* of lttiurlag tho
gcuetal peace o' tho world at tho earliest poaubio
day.
It takes a man with a very bread mind to
conceive such a scheme, aud therein lies tbs
difficulty. Mr. Monk is ahead of tho age,
snd still traveling. We can't keep pace
with hiiu.
moat to some measure help European indus
tries. Onr fears about the currency have
been quieted, and fbe season closes with a
marvellous contrast to the condition of
things some twelve or fourteen months ago.
At present, labor is occupied, the looms and
spindles are all busy, stocks of goods are
small, tbe margin between cotton and cloth
is fair, and consumption is rapidly increas
ing.
Our authority takes tbe following encour
aging view:
And here let us remark that there never waa
people with tbe opportunity «o ripe tad the condi
tions so favorable for active development ta we am
today. One la apt to forjet unless be steps to think
how fait in this new country appliances for repro
duction multiply. Population while we have
been reitlug baa been addad to at the rate of about
1», millions* year. Wc showed not long line* by
c-rcfo:ty prepared stetemenWthat iiueel8S0oor
population hid Jncresred It millions, which
wonld make the lots! fo about Ol million!, or
a growth In tbe number of producers of one tied
and another, and In the number of consumers of
clolhing, etc , of 20 per cent in six yeore. During
the rame period there have been sold of public
lands by the government (that does not Include
taleior railroad landi) S7.000.000 acres, and roll,
rood mileage has Increased 42,000 mites, the moat
of Ihlt new mileage opening up new territory and
1,rinsing It wlihln reach of a market. Beildex,
since P-.82 we bare been tlqnfditioz, re- ting,
pending, economizing, saving surplus earning!,
and piling up unsatisfied wants. Is It any won
der under such clrcuMance* that the moment tho
rearorcuncucyd! turbancc was even temporarily
removed, that consumption, whleb had boon so
long and unnaturally checked, should s&itu start
our spindles and furnaces Into active operation:
Of the new crop, which is late compared
with last year’s, the Chronicle rays:
Tbe truth Is, tf we were to leavo out three states
we might almost say of the whole of the remuloder
that it has experienced n flood of rain all tho way
tbreuyh. or course, there are local exception* to
even that remark: and yet the district la s very
largo one, or which It mny be affirmed that the
crop siartcd in the wet, and that the planter has
had 10 keep up a pretty plucky fight with the
weeds ever since, or at least until a very recsr I
date. Still, the cotton has mostly putted through,
hut fo what shape as to fruitage Ume only can do.
tctmlnc. 80 It lematssas much a question now
at ever what the final outcome will be. We cannot
think, many event, that the Atlantic state!, oral
least Couth Carollnaand Georgia, will produce sr
largo crops si last year. Those states made quite
a retlifactory return lo 188S: 10 far ns they are coa.
ccrncd, we arc therefore this year comparing with
a pretly full yield, espee illy la the care of Geor
gia. On the other hand, Tex. •, Arkansas and
Tennessee premise well at this date, while with
regard to Louisiana, Mtssim'ppi aud Alabama
there Is no little uncertainty still: It Is to he re
membered, however, that tbe yield per acre fo
I8S5 fo all or these states was not particularly
good.
Iu gcntntl terms tbe belief fo expressed
that capjtsl is now going forward confident
ly in tbe ration* line* of trade and Indus
try, and tbe lutur* is full of promise.
Gcrotiiiito’* Carte.
Tbia talk about conrtntartialtog Oeronimo
and banging bint is all wrong.
In fact, we b’mdercd ftom the beginning.
Wien Gcroninio commenced cutting up,
killing onr people and stealing rattle, we
should have hunted up a man like Sedgwick
and sent him so a special envoy to talk mat
ters over with the blood thirsty Apeche. Wc
should have demanded of Geronimo * modi
fication of hi* penal code, and there to little
doubt tl at he wonld have consented when
tbe matter was placed before him in its prop
er light.
Then, following ont our time honored In
dian policy, it wonld have been in order to
prrr ent Geronimo and hfo tribe with a splen
did tri ct of land, a lot of ritlee, ammunition,
blnulets aud whieky. We have been calti-
rating peaceful relations with the Indians
to this way for the put two hundred yearn,
and it fo too Into in the day to change our
policy.
If we resort to harsh measures with Ge
ronimo simply because ho hu violated
treaties and murdered onr citizens, the pre
cedent will give us trouble. It will ban
lew departure. We should remember that
we are dealing with ne ordinary cut throat.
Colton and Itnstuess.
The Fnancial Chronicle hu lamed its sum-
story of the cottou crop for the year ending
Sep timber 1, 18ml
Ike total crop this jeor reaches G.550,itJ
bile*, while the exports are 4,:llfi,9fil bales,
sad tbe spinners’ taking are a,U7,flTU bates,
having a Hoik on baud at tbe close of the
yeMofla3,TI8 bate*
New Orleans and Galveston have 00’. only
recovered tbe psevtoui yew’* loot, but have
nearly touched the highest total—tbs latter
befog doe to the larger Tesu crop a I moat
wholly, and the former ia part to the be .ter
yield in the Mississippi valley, but in part
slto lo the new railroad connections.
The revival of mds ia tbe United State*
Untimely Humor.
The landslip theory of the recent earth-
quake seems to amnse the humorists. Ons
writer suggests that similar slips in fature
may cause a serious derangement of state
lines.
A remarkable problem may grow ont of
such disturbances. For instance, enppose a
convulsion should force portions of Tennes
see and North Carolina over into Georgia,
Vhile a part of Georgia slid over on Florida.
Thte wonld bring an ares of non-prohibition
territory srithin onr limits, while some of
ear local option counties would be In Flori-
da. In such a cose how would our prohlbi-
tion law work? Would tbe land ellps from
Tennessee and Noith Carolina be subject to
our low, and would the part of Georgia that
had ellpped into Florida be changed front
"dry" to “wel?”
It Is needless lossy that this alleged humor
emanate* from a few Billy eeribblen who lire
at a cafe distance from the aceneof onr groat
earthquake. To thousands of people on the
Honlh Atlantic coaet, it fo not a jeering mat-
ter. It takes a very peculiar hnmorfot to
make capital out of a groat calamity. Hu
mor fo a delightiul thing in its place, bat it
should keep its place.
Local Currency.
From time to Ume It fo announced that
the coantry is afflicted with a plethora of
money. This statement simply means that
tbe great financial centers ere gorged, that
Wall street Has an inconvenient supply ot
money on hand. Tbia state of affaire exists
at a time when money fo exceedingly scarce
and not to be hud except at a murderous in
terest in the coantry at large.
Under thenntional banking system, or with
United States treasury notes constituting
our tole paper currency, we moot expect to
lee this condition of things the rule and not
the exetprion. Capital attracts capital, and
the Wall street monopolists will contlnne to
absorb a disproportionate share of any cireu*
lating median of a national character.
Wlrat fo needed to correct this evil 1s a
lecal cnnrucy, a currency that will remain
for tbe most part within the states where it
fo ireued. To bring about this reform it will
be necessary to return to something like oar
old state bunking system. And why not?
It rhonlil be recollected that for generations
tbe country prospered under that system.
The national banka came in as a war meas
ure, and have only been kept alive by an
nnjoit discrimination. By means of n pro
vision in an *act amen ling the internal rev
enue act, apptoved in March, 1805, congress
effectually drove ftom circulation the notes
of all banka chartered under state laws by
taxing all notes issued and paid out by
them ten per cent per annum. This com
pelled about 1,600 state banks to wind np
thsir bus in ess, at least as banks of issue,
and of coarse no new one* have been eetab-
Baked.
The approach of the time when all the gov
ernment bond* will have been redeomed
draws attention to tbe fact that the national
banks wll 1 then be left wlthont a basis. Whit
are we going to do about it? How shall our
bonking system be readjusted? The simplest
end most satisfactory way would be to repeal
tbe ten par cent tax and thus leave the field
•pen for state bonks. That wonld make the
drtularion of money more general. It
wonld give na a lorn! currency that would
■ot all tbe time be drifting into the coffers
Of • few monopolists of Wall street. Eras
in England the necessity for e local cur
rency te recognised. The bank of England
dees not erjny a monopoly in the matter of
issuing rotes. Under a liberal set, joint
stock bonks are allowed and have been
estat lisbed nil over Engined. Scotian I aud
Ireland. If a local currency fo necetury iu
ae small a toiritory no that of tbe Uaikd
Kirgdnni. haw much more exitutiil it it to
a vest country like ours, where the sections
ore m> wittily different aud have taob con-
flirting van's nr.I inlertt's?
Our locnl banking system could be sifely
guarded by wise lain. It worked troll oaea
and it would srerk well again* A* we ere
situated at preeent, a coantry fa-mar cannot
u«e bis credit at a bank. He can buy sup
plies an time at • store, paying about
thirty or forty per cent interest, but his
farm fo not good enough security to enable
him to get reasonable accommodation at
bank. We are prepared for the aterotyped
objection to wild cat banks. Under the old
system the south had very few ot them, and
the leases by them were no greater than the
lasses of depositors nnder the new system.
The fact fo the objection to state banks come
from Wall slreet, or are Inspired by the
moropolfots of tbe country. If the people
will probe them to the bottom they will be
found to h»T0 very little force In them.
A Might In tho Lunatic Asylum.
ThsCoxstitition has dispatched Mr. P. J. Mo
ran, one of the best staff corrcipondeuts. to the
state lunatic asylum, on * trip of observation Mr,
Moran will spend e night lu the asylum and wit
attend a hall liven to the lunettes, a lull descrip
tion of which will be (Iren In next week's Const:
TCTiorr. This will he 0 graphic letter and of ab
•orbing Interest. Don't mbs nest week's Cons n-
Tel ion. subscribe tt once.
Xoiec ns a Religions Factor,
The annual report of the Bzlvatiou Army’:
operations in London fo an interesting docu
ment.
Tosn old-fashioned orthodox Christian,
the methods of the Army seem rather ques
tionable. A tricycle corps of Salvationists
will be rant through England, presumably
to run down the obstinate sinners who are
trusting to their legs to save them from the
energetic revivalists. Foar squadraus of
"Hallelnjah Losses" ere also to be let loose
at the seme time. Tbe report states that
"Our 1 arses’ dresses have been torn from
heir bodies; our girl officers had to lend
their corps to victory with block eyes, aud
the forces of earth and hell have nnited
•gainst them.” This fo discouraging, but
the Salvationists appear to be used to such
treatment, and, in fact, they rather glory ia
it.
The opposition to the SilvationUts miy
be acci anted for in some measure l>y their
peculiar style of working. Their general
iostructs them to "demonstrate, to make a
co re,” He rays: “It.is necessary to wako
people np; let the cadets drum, fiddle, beat
the tambourine, or stand on their heads. Do
anything, In fact, to attract attention and
get tinners saved.” All this fo very effect
foe, if we aro to believe the report, as tbe
number of sinners converted in London lost
year by the Army ijput at 10,000.
The Salvationists held noise to be on im
portant factor in their operations. Un
doubtedly, all this claugor and clatter drawn
a crowd, but the same might be raid of n
circus, and of many other devices notoriously
evil in their nature. Just how far it fo
proper to go in this direction, fo a nice ques
tion. Itfo exceedingly hard to draw tbo
line, but the apostle’s injunction to do all
things “decently and In order," should be
heeded. Music fo an important feature in
religious exercises, bat how about the music
of the Salvationists? It seeme to ns that
any demonstration calculated to disturb the
public peace, any music amounting to a dis
orderly nuisance, any ranting and shouting
that foyiolent and riotous, should be frown-
ed upon by all who really have the advance
ment of religion at heart. It fo to be re-
gretted that the “Hallelitjah Lasses" should
have their hair pulled aud their dresses torn
off, bnt the people have some rights, and It
the law will not stop the Salvationists, a
long-suffering public will be justifiable in
falling back upon the natural and inherent
right of self-defense. We are not compelled
to believe that men and women nre setviog
the cause oi Christ simply because they in-
sist with blasphemous howls and savage
energy that their mission fo to save the
world. In foot, the loader their profosiioas,
the more doubtful is their sincerity. Noisy
demonstrations, vain display and self-adver
tising never did go together with genuine
religion, and never will. The American
cities and towns that bare locked up the
Salvationists os disorderly bummers aad
vagrants, have set an example that deserves
td be followed, and lie wisdom fo becoming
more manifest every day.
Republicanism In the South
Tbe enti-saloon element in tbe republican
petty counts upon the strong prohibition
feeling in the south. On this issue an at
tempt will be made to reorganize aad re
build the republican party in this section.
It fo claimed that with the ignorant, Ticious
poition of tbe negroes for the saloon, nud
the intelligent and religious portion against
itjthe color line strill disappear, and the re
publican party will no longer bo a negro
party. Heats of white southerners believ
ing prohibition to be the Tital issue, aro'ex
pected to join tbe republicans, and it will
once mare claim to be the "God and mor
ality party.”
The scheme boa a goed hacking, tt fo
fsTored by more than one half of the re
publican senators, many congressmen aud
patty leaden, and tbe party in Vermont
and Maine has officially Indorsed it
There fo no reason why southern demo-
crate should be led off by this delusive
movement. In the tontb wc have thus for
settled our local issues within the demo
cratic petty, end prohibition fo n matter of
local policy and nothing else.
Down this wey there fo a well-grouuled
objection to giving the feieral government
more power than it already enjoys.
A system of national prohibition would
turn the enforcement of the law over to
United States marshals and deputies, and
theevifool the inqasitive internal revenue
system would be intensified. .Southern
democrats will be satisfied with sach prohi
bition es they can get under state larva.
They are not going to surrender themselves
to the federal police if they cun help it We
may have a few cranks and fanatics who
will be ready to throw local self-govern
ment overboard tor tbia new form of pater
nal despotism, bnt they wUl be speedily
suppressed.
It fo nonew thing far th* devil to seek
to ride into power on a moral idea, bnt the
devil of republicanism will be thrown in
tbit instance.
irest knife and cut the upper stones ol the build-
tugs smooth, smack off. Only the lower stories
were standing, but tbey were in a wonderful ■ ate
of preservation. The splendidly paved stmts
showed where the wheels of vehicles bad worn. I
sow the ruins of the temples and the baths and tor
spected tho Interior decorations or the houses.
The excavation waa fMng on when I was there.'J
“Tell me about tho volcano.”
“The mo an tain Is. I think, about thirty mile*
around the base, and 4,000 feet above the sea le
vel. It was in a disturbed state when I was there,
and while lu the city I could see the smoke rising
from the crater. Tbs atcant la gradual, something
very much like that of Stoat mooutain and we
were an hour or two golfing up. Half way to the
top our hones were left and wo went the rest of the
way on foot. As we neared the edge of the crater
wc found spots that were hot enough to most eggs,
We could step around such places, however,
and soon stood at the edge of tho
crater. Words cannot describe the terrible
appearance of ibe frest,funnel shaped hole reach
ing downward into the melted Interior ofthe earth.
You could pttclf the Kimball house Into the dark
depths of tbe crater. Black smoke, mixed with
white, came boiling upward and an blown away
by the winds. Away down, beyond the dense;
black mass I could bear the angry rear ofthe lake
of fire as It beat againtt tbe baas of the crater. A
molten, fiery wave wonld come swlih-twlih-lhse,
iwlih-twlih ,hte,and die away only to.be suc
ceeded by anothor.
Mr. Joel C. Harris, who has had a months vaca
tion, taken becauto of his health does not improve,
and has gone Into the mountains for mother
month. HebasancrToussffkction which has so
far resisted medical treatment. Mr. Harris Is one
el tbe meet absorbing workers In Journalism, and
Ills probable that rest and the mountains will
restore him to health.
“Talk about duels,” sold an old soldier.yesterday,
'the funniest duel I ever taw waa at Newcastle,
Del. The boys made two negroas jealous of each
other. 1* Litton was ono and Uge Knox was the
other, rad tbey were giants In tlzo. A duel was
arranged, rad etch n.gro was convinced
that the oiher'a gun was not to
be leaded. The hoys went to a doctor, got
several boxes of pills and two old muskets were
loaded with puts. The duelists were itatloued on
the wharf forty tret opart and aimed their old
muskets with great deliberation. Etch expected
lo MU tho other. At tbe wofifi "fire" there were
two loud reports la Luton foil something tmaiU
ogsinst his ftee and be put out up the beach. Ltge
lied In another direction. It took rome time to got
them back to Newcartle.'’
Of all tho brilliant things tbit General Robert
Toombs said during hfo long Ilfs, no utterance of
hfo wilt b* inscribed ou hfo monument. The
Washing ton Gtsetto which come to baud yester
day raja the granite base has arrived, and the
monument proper, a draped shaft twenty live feet
high, Ison its way from Italy. The monument
will he above both graves that ofthe general and
that of hli devoted wife. On ono panel fo In
scribed “Robert Toombs, born July ?, 1810; died
December 18,1888." Ouanothcrpancl Islnscrtbed
“Julio A. Toombs, born May 18, 1818; died Sep
tember 4,1883."
ENVOY SMDOWICK'S A.NSW3R.
Me Denies the Chmrgts Against Bim nud Ex
plains Their Origin.
El Paso, Texas, September 11.—Envoy
Sedgwick hu bun busily engaged wltu Consul
Brigham on th* Cutting Investigation. In reply
to the question u to how muoh truih then wu In
the scandalous slorlu thit had bun telegraphad
about him from Mexioo, ho replied that he did not
desire Iomf anything shout the matter.
“I have taken >U the stopo neoeaaary to contro
vert the malicious falsehood," he oontluued, "and
feal that 1 cannot go Into this matter rad attend to
tho builntaa for which 1 oamo down hsro, and 101
have determined to confine mywlftothelnreitlga-
lion and get through with it Jun u qUoxly as r
can. ldonothnowhow the abaurd auduorilht
itory everorlglnatad. exoept that I learned that
rome person Fa tb* city of Moxtoo tolorraphod to
§ Chicago paper aaklngwbal they would pay for a
lawtek scandal; that the paper replied, naming
^ price, and that this utterly groundlesr itory la
the result;
“Ot course It hu hurt me and hu
round mo 0 gnat dtal ol worry,
but I hsvo taken all tbo ncrosary
Heps 10 convince my friends an! the government
at WaaMcgtim of the uninitnflilness ortho charge,
rad leel that I can do no more. 1 have tbo writ
ten statement of forty ruponilbld people-.vho saw
me ou ti 0 nfght In question
when all thuo scandalous ocaur-
rcnccs are alleged to hove taken
placo and who saw mo euly the next morning,
end certainly the teatlinouy of thou forty people,
all of whom are thoroughly trustworthy, trill out
weigh the statement of persons whom Identity
Bayard fo convinced of thu falsity of tho chars*;
uaremy frlond* whokoow ms. Thopubllomutt
judge for Itself with the plain facts betaro it. On
one aide arc forty tangible people who testify that
retired to my room at tho hotel tl au early
hour, rad on th* other hud fo tho person
whom no on* knows enythios of,
who hu practically no axluoncc, sa
Us crate fo unknown. 1 have endeavored, uhave
otherr, 10 find some on# who will admit having
licumcms btarlng on it, but could say nothing u
to tho upectof tho cue. 11a will remain hero
perhaps * weak, tod may bo compelled to go back
THE SEA SERPSNr ECLIPSED.
Clinton,Ifau, September 18.—The Interest
la the Me uipent In Ibis vtclntty hu suddenly
been extinguished by the appearance, In the Im
mediate neighborhood, of an anormoui trad
snake, which fo playing havoc with llvo stock,-
The moil extravagant stories have been told with
in thopesl few days of Ih* oerpent'a slue. The
Iregih given Tartu from twenty-five to forty-five
feet, and lu eircumfereoo* from that of a two*
gallon Jug up to tho otic of a barret, it fo believed
to to tbe ram* reptile that eoeaptd from s traveling
menagerie tome years ago, and wu never heard
of afterward. The lost serpent was a magnificent
boo, tome twenty-five feat long. TUO serpent thatfo
bow causing excitement has been teen by several
. -.-buy sheep rad calveedfoappear.lt
.. tough the Instrumentality of use
monster.
country of the dreadful vbltor.
UlltO.lI.tb NATES.
Yet.” said * Mr. A. C. Briscoe in answer to
qreitton, ' I have walked through the stmt, of
Iv-irpetl; I here climbed the height! of Yeaurtu:
have seen the nilphurooi smoke boll up from the
bowels of fitoear.h; I bare looked down into the
craierof ibe old rolcauoand beard the blwlttgof
the tarth'slbieiDalseaof fire, and tlateaod to the
splashing of the fiery wares ”
'A viry lively experience far an Atlanta sain.'g
Ycr, Jf-u cannot imagine the feeUegaof atara
nadir such circumstance* lo lsTO I suited Egypt
aad Falesriae, and who* on that tour win: te Na
ples aad wu driven by carrier* to PomptU.
Eighteen enturte* *to the wicked city was over
whelmed asd buried by tho eruption of Vosovlm.
As] walked through the >treats of the desert'd
city It seemed to at like some one had taken a
Ma Didn't Gaarnntaa ita Sofcl).
From Urn Philadelphia Call.
Stranger—I left my umbrella here last night.
Where ta it?
bopketocr—I don’t know.
Why, you said I could leavo It here.”
4 c*. but I didn’t toy you'd find it hero when
ycu c*me Lack.”
MRS. CLEVELAND
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