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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION 1 . ATLANTA. GA- TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28 1886
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On to itHi.ouo.
On account of tbs rush of news Ibis week,
srs boro not tbo spate to 007 all we would
like lo toonrreaderi. We rteairoto sayjuat
a word about tbo 100,U00 mbezibm wo nro
trying io get. Inst week wo »ake<l eaahof
our anbacrlbort tosend as in ont new sub*
ecrlbsr, and more, if they could let them.
Iluring tbo week bundreda of Ihtnt «ent no
clubs; but there are a great many ol our
readers who bare not yet sent nt tbe new
lubtetlber we oak for. Now, won’t crery
reader Wfi baTe—won’t yon, who are rending
tbit—-make up your mind to get ns at least
on* new subscriber? If this is done, end
each of our subscribers sends ns odd iicw
rarer, wo will bare tbo 100,000 wo on
working for, and many to spore, and wo will
giro you In return the beat family paper in
tbe world.
Mr. Wiggins'* Earthquake.
In spite of the conlldent prediction! of
scientists, there If great uneasiness as to tbe
alarms and earthquakes predicted by Pro
feasor Wiggins ou the ‘-’ink. We don't share
these feats. We bellere Wiggins is • Irsad.
Hut if tho earthquakes come, The Conhti
tution oi nest week will hare tbs Tallest
tint! best accounts of tbo damage they did,
provided it is left on top of tbo ground.
You hitd better subscribe nt once, 00 os to bo
in tln-.a for tbo earthquake edition. If you
should be iwnllowed up, your money will
bo refunded, and you will lose nothing.
A ltcinurknlilo Movement?
The progress of auti saloon ideas in the
republican party, and in the country nt
large, is lllUe abort ol a political miracle.
Tbo republican anti-saloon movement
■torlcd only n few months ego. At tint it
met with nothing but rnrors and ridicule.
Tbe reprcacntatlTM ol tbe now policy bold
a notional convention in Chicago last week,
and now nothing io talkod ol bat their plot*
foini, their objects and their probabilities of
w ho sells them sccmc always prone to become t
rectal uultancc, aud hlst-bop a fountain of evil.
Whatever cuts down the numbers of the class, or
diminishes us power and Importance, Is tool leg-
lslatlon,whether It diminishes the actual consump
tion of Uquoror not. And.fully convinced u we are
of the (hlly of prohibition as a political movement
we admit freely tnat wherever prohibition dltuln-
Iibre tho number of Honor dealers and mattes them
bide their heads. It does not wholly fan. Borne-
thing Is gained when tha liquor dealer Is driven
Into obscurity and tho saloon closed, even If tho
drinking does coon ss bad is ever.
Tbo Philadelphia Press believes that the
majority of the republican party wilt plant
itaelf on the Chicago anti ealoon platform,
which—
-By recocsaiendlBg high license, local option or
prohibition, according es public sentiment war
rants the adoption of any one of these methods In
different localities, it suggests tha only court*
found practicable In dealing with this question.
Tbo western papers are seriously divided.
Tbe Chicago Tribune would be satlafisd
sritb blgb llaam, but it fears that the rani
comities by their majority in the legUlatnre
will place the cities under prohibition,
raises this object ion:
Fupprae, foe Instance, psper prohibition should
bo pawsd by tha legislature of llllnoi*, how could
it bo enforced In Chicago, where mors than nine-
tentba or the voters are hostile to It? Bow could
ten men lo every hondrsd stop tho other ninety
from drinking whit wd when Ihoy wished? Cer
tainly In no other way than by calling In over-
powering outside help. Wotild the rare! com-
munltlei which might favor prohibition send the
targe mllllery forces here, proclaim inertial law,
slop drinklDtr, end pat down tho llqnor traffic at
tho point of the hoyonet? Would such e proceed
ing be anything else then despotic tyranny? lint
In what ether tray then by military font could
prohibition be enforced In Chicago? To preveut
drinhlcg would Step a pretty large armybnsy night
and day.
It wonlil be easy to fill columns with
these significant eipreaalobs of opinion, but
we bare given tbo drift of ropolillcln and
Independent sentiment. The great point in
favor of tbo Chicago platform is that it lea
flexible, self-adjusting ufloir. It declares
for high license where that is tho only prac
ticable thing, local option where that is the
beat that can bo secured, and total prohibi
tion whore a stnta is strong enough to carry
it.
Tbis movement promises to destroy or
reduce to on Intigniflcint fiction tbe third
party prohibitionists. Tbe only effect it will
probably have upon tbe democratic party
will bo to well it to lie favorite policy ot loct
option. Thio method has been natislhctorily
tested in the aontliern states and will
sptcad. Hsiuouutiu temperance reformers
lisve within their own party Mite urgin'/ t-
tiono all the opportunities Iho.v could dcsiro
for carrying Into effect high license, local
option or prohibition Ideas.
For tbe preaent we can afford to etand off
and watcb Iho picturesque commotion in
tbe republican comp. II is simply on effort
to nationalize tbe ideas which have already
been localized by tbe democrats.
Never before did eo novel and radical an
upheaval within n national party attract
such attentiro and spread oo swiftly. Al
ready it baa inn Ilka wildfire acton the con
tinent.
Btnee tbe adjournment of tbo convention
tbe great daillci of tbo country bora devo
ted thtlr editorial columns to tbe ttlecnm-
lon of tha rating topic of tbe honr. Is will
l>e ot Interact to aoo bow it to viewed by rep-
mentatire Journals.
Tho New York Son regards high licenae as
Ike only practicable solution «r tbe llqnor
problem. Is saya:
l>ew that platform no ballava that theprohlt.1-
Ik n 1 arty could elect tho Hon. Henry W. Malt or
any ulher awn 13 tha praideney. And share
would be something in II.
Startling as this prediction mty appear. It
io well backed np by tho following utterance
from tbe Tkibnne:
Then is note step la this programme which
ought po( tobs heartily approved by disinterested
and iatcHloent advocates of temporsnea through
out tho ooontry. To Iho genuine psohtblitonlsu It
Odets the the first Ume e practical end rotlouol
Keens of carrying tnto effect the convictions they
entertain meat etroogly. To Iho ftlsnd, or tom-
peraorowbo ore not yet prepared for prohibition,
the MW movement holds out a hone of grstusl
popular cdnraUon which may produce pctmaneol
benefits. To oil the proposal to remit the question
to Iho popular suffrage must approve Itself ss thor-
saffhlT rwailsteiit with democratic doctrines end
lasuiatlesw. Nor eoa there be any aeriont ques-
dense to the possibility of IMbmlnf Iho rapuhll-
con pony with the spirit ead purpose of tho Chi
sago emvaolloa. Tho lane Is one shout which
ail mro are thinking. Tha arils of the saloon,
both In politics and society, are being recogalz.-d
os asm before. A spirit is growing np among
Ihlahlcg and patriotic men of 0 hlod to eweep
away any talks 5 obstruction, ead this spirit hit
Hi lodgment u the republican party itaelf. The
aaUsaloeaoonnnUoa at Chicago U but an out-
ward sign of a growing tendency and determtns-
Usp. It U the beginning ofoegaalted action on
tho oao line which promises enduring and solid
Even the rosmsmtlvo end strictly baoi-
new Herald wheels Into line. It calla at
tention to tbo Act that prohibition boa
stepped out of tbo domain of moral luavlon
and taken a (addon leap into tbe arena of
politics to thedtomajofthe politicians. It
ahyomlndalgsoeo lntouav
ss havsfee gssmeiilsno,-and. tlghUy. olaimod
th asp atiemtpnof the osmahulty. sooner or
M T*rv ftrymi**’** *
oonaltcly lima that something on done to
cl tho rack less dedeeee offhe-lew throughout
Ik untry. TfeellmM bn *4TOM?e<i
w! »d •rtriu**rU ta«Murrs *iwl tnc-vir*
•4 i vbolcMBt Hall to Ue mU ol rum and All
to nbet'*** tdoUcmiau*
0 old-tashioucd Evening root reworks
I to. repstt t coaurap!a?e to
I saloons are tbeooroorio^arriw
It,says In ooodusian:
'bag ro fore, la amr ago oe
sly smrfcvd-out fee legal
ge meat as liquor dealing
s la our time, whatever bo tho
tancituf ci:sbaa; Crisis, tk: ax:
The Madrid llovnlt.
Our dispatches give us a lively pieturo of
an unsuccessful attempt to inaugurate a
revolution In Madrid.
It was not a popular uprising. Tbe peo
ple bod nothing to do with it. A fow hun
dred discontented soldiers broke ont of their
barracks and atartled tba civilians by rush
ing through the streets shouting, “Live tbe
republic 1”
Tbo revolutionists wore without a plan
and without a head. They eipeeted to bo
joined by all the soldiers in the city, but
they wore disappointed. Alter a fow hour*
hot work tbo rebele were suppressed and
scattered.
A peculiar incident of tbe affair was tho
seizure of one ol the drpota and the depart
ure ol the revolutionists on o special train
elesoly pursued by another special train
contalnlug govonpueut troops.
It will bo recollected that the last revolt
in Madrid, a year or two ago, was'eausod by
tbe introduction of n few kegs of beer into
tbo barracks. Tha soldiers got boozy and
thought that they owned the country. Oar
diapatebe* would indicate tbat tha boys had
obtained a fresh supply ot beer. It at
to have boon a drunken locket all tho way
through.
When Trumps Are Troublesome.
Tbo hszy look of tbo muggy atmosphere
la not duo to cosmic dust; it is a sign of the
wintry days tbat will soon!» upon us.
Cold westher brings something besides red
apples sad oysters. It brlogs tramps.
According to statistics, we have 700,000
tiampa In tbe I'nltnl States, With the sp-
preach of winter tbis vast artuy tai ves south-
waid and infeata our cities.
• Tbla tramp nuisance is one of tbs greatest
evils of tbe age Out ol ovary twenty male
odulto in this country, one is either a beggar
or a criminal.
There is but one way to keep these pasto
sway from our towns end cilice, and that is
to let them know tbat wo mean to enforce
tbe vagrancy laws. It is understood that
tho movement of the chief ol police in this
direction will bo actively pushed during the
corniog season. Tbis Is oar best policy. Tbe
trsuips must be made to understand that If
they attempt to winter in Atlanta tboy will
be put to work. It is rough, but we mint
protect ourselves.
A ynli-l Campaign.
In one respect the preaent congronional
campaign is the moot remarkable in the
history of tbo country. Never before has
tbe election of tbe popular bouse of congress
been so passively approached. Though tbe
(lection is only little more then a month off
there is, save in a very few localities,
little evidence that it it coming. Kach
party bos its campaign committee organised
end nominally at work; bat beyond their
daily output ot dnll literature they appear
to be doing nothing. No demand exists for
campaign oratory, and oven the newspapers
ore discussing politics in a desultory fhshlon
in strange contrast to tbo ordinary campaign
thunder. Her the firat time in the history
of Georgia there ia a walk-over in every con
gressional district, the republicans having
failed to maintain anywhere oven tho sem
blance of opposition. In several other states
of tbe south the field it almost Mde.tr be-
fute tbe democratic nominees.- Kven in the
closely contested Metre is to be found a re-
juethublu lack ut poHricnl onto.- ot the dem
onstrative sort. Almost everywhere- tbe
canipsjga mnlobeluuniog itaelf. What
ia U-c t xpUnatiott? Sum of ihenepubticAn
osyaas air feigning indifference to thereoolt
oT-vke November cle-tlon. They iatisoaSe
that it will really be tatter flit tbe ulrimMc
geml ct The republican party tbat the demo
crats skoeld hove tbo nest hoaee«tbat
they will rammit tha blunders which will
flotbitb emasuuhiau for o great republican
victory in-IM. This is osilly effort units-
cooat certain detest. Everybody knows
that Ectbire weald dctjht tie republican
patty more than to capture tba honte aul
tbiow it into line w th the senate to barrx's
and hamper tbe present admlnistratioa.
Tbe republican senate after its experience of
last teuton is unwilling to make another
unaided effort in tbat direction.
Tbe true reason of tbs present political
lull lits In tbe contentment oi tbe meson of
tbe people ol tbis'counlry with tbo present
administration. They know that it has been
conrervafive end capable; that it bas been
liberal and just; above all, tbat it bos been
bcncat and loartgeona. Against tbis con
victlon, extending as it does beyond tbe
ranks of tbe democratic party, republican
campaign oratory is weak and fatlle. Tbe
republican orators themselves, and tbe able
sdltorawbo back them, hove lost spirit and
have almost ceased tbelr clamor. Tbe dem
cerate have no neson to bo in a finny; and
ro tbe- campaign jogs serenely slang,
quiet general election is a luxury we do not
often enjoy; and it is especially pleasant
when it is tbe expression of the conserve
ties sentiment of the country in fhvor of
good government.
Cackling for Cash.
Hamlet’s remark to Horatio: “There are
more things in heaven and earth than ore
dreamt ol in your philosophy,’’finds a
wider application every day. Men are
conetsntly going over fields that have pre
sumably been well gleaned and fiodiog
there rich sbcarcs which their predecessors
had overlooked: they are finding every day
ulorg their most familiar highways undls
covered by-pstlm leading to “new fields and
pastures green. ” Tbis is tbe philosophy of
that divmity ot industry which Is renovat
ing and revolutionising the sonth. Its ayes
urecltar; its spirit Is active; its heart is
brsve. Jt works; ltfevs,\it dares. Jtnot
; only discovert new resources; it also con
verts the old and well worn into fresh uses
and new wealth. There is now in tbesoatli
timptatlon to every taete in tbe wide do
main of industiy and golden rewards for
honest effort In a hundred different direc
tions. Tbis grand division of labor U rap-
, idly augmenting tbe wealth of tbe country
and multiplying tho i-onditions of pros
perity.
In last Sunday’s Constitution a staff
correspondent showed how the -feisey cow
was bringing to onr people a gold more
lasting than the rich whippings of her de
lirious cream. In tbla iaeae the same cor
respondent tells tbe story of the translation
of the ben that lays tbe golden egg from tbo
realm of fanciful illustration to tbe actual
barnyards of enterprising men.
It is better than s fable with tba best of
morals; it ia a fact from which may be
drawn lemons of real and general value.
Colonel Wiggins anil His Earthquake.
It will be observed by a dispatch from
Colonel E. Slone Wiggins, in onr nesvs col
umns, tbat tbat distinguished prophet bat.
hedged.
We have not only driven him clear off of
tbe “Piedmont escarpment’’ and galloped
him ocrors tbe “cooatrd plain,’’ but we have
cleared him ont of tbe country. He now lo
cates bis alleged earthquakes in South
America and California, sections in which
Thk CoNHTiTi TtoN does not have general
circulation, and tnto which it would, there
fore, be immodest in ua to pursue him.
We call attention to the fact that wo had
already demolished Colonel Wiggins when
he withdrew bis prophetic inilrustlon from
our territory. I’rofceeor White snd Professor
McGee, who are hereby announced ns The
Constitution's scientific stand-bys, were
on record In this office before noon of yester
day with preclve and sensible denials of
Colonel Wiggins’s vagaries. Professor White
bad gcue so far as to say that be would, in
contempt of Colonel Wiggtne, spend the
night of the U’tith in a fifth story, though wo
ore bound to add ho qualified this promiso
with a clearly impoasibleconditlon. Colonel
Wiggins's wordy flight from the Bonth At
lantic elates wav, therefore, simply putting
a feather in the cap of the victory we had
already won.
To sum np, Colonel Wiggins is a gifted
ass. He bos seized on a moment of public
apprehension and theoucomingof a periodic
storm, to scare tbe timid and the unthinking.
The only conjunction he is working is the
conjunction of an opportunity with an occas
ion. We shall probably have onr usual
equinoctial blow. Tbie may do such casual
damage si comes of high winds. But the
idea that an earthquake, or any disturbance
of tho earth's body may be expected to
fbllow, is withediy absurd.
Atlanta and Chiu-leston.
We have refrained from repplyiog to ao
abusive article concerning Atlanta and T-tr.
Constitution from the Greenville N«wo fur
two reason!, let The seneeleu bitterness
el the Greenville News towards The Con-
Min'nos and Atlanta, has long ago so
answered itaelf that it is useless to dignify
it by notice in these columns, dad. We
did tot care to open discussion at present
on tbe subject of the News article. To pat
it briefly tha News charges Atlanta with
meanness in not auhacrtblng more heavily to
Charleston, and Tbe Constitution with
being responsible for this meanness. Biace
the News find Courier, oi Charleston, hu
copied the artide of tho Greenville ptper
with apparent indorsement we cannot
longer remain silent on tbe subject.
When it wo* ascertained that Charleston
had auflkred au earthquake, The Constitu
tion appealed iu the strangest terms it
could command for help for that city. Ia
response to this call a meeting was held aud
neatly £1,000 raised. A check for $1,500
was sent to Charleston at once. In the
mean tine, Alderman Collier, who had gone
to Cbarluton, Investigated the situation at
tie inatance of the mayor and reported to
the committee. He reported that there wits
no Immediate suffering in Charleston—that
there was work at high wages for every Idle
band—that the poorer classes who were for
the moat pan iu wMkteahnn-e* h.td eezaped'
lcfie— that the lore had tallea as a rule ou
the well-to-do do— who would pet need im
mediate charily. Tbifi report wasoccur-tte,
tinthftil, and the only report, tbit could b ,vo
been made. The xpiumrttna then derided
that the il.-'A' it bud sent to Cbiriestjn
wee suflciHif t'.w immediate relief aud it
decided to suspend, setira- vollsction!
until it ns fS'ertmmd what fjrrtet need
these me fhr money. Atlanta -was wilting
then and ia willing now to go as far as any
dry in America to help house the hoaidsss
of CKtrlrttemsabocanid- not build of tksir
own nsootcesu Bui it? (Mr-that- it wav
not a mattes of chesity togive money to tbe
repair tr rthniMins«f bqwes, where owaer*
wet e of themsdves able to stand the expense.
Active operations of tbe committee were
therefore auspended until the situation be
came clear. Atlanta had already given
more than her critics have given and the
revenl hundred dollais still on hand is be
ing increased almost daily. Atlanta will
do her duty and her whole duty as she has
always done.
Those who charge Atlanta with meanness
are slanderers. Tbe records frill show tbat
she has been liberal and eren lavish io her
charities, and she will compare records dol
lor for dollar with any city in tho oonth on
the apreals that have been made for help In
the poet twenty yean. At tbe close of the
war this city was in rains. Her condition
aos vastly worse than Charleston's is now
or ever bas been. Her few returning citi
zens from the field of battle, could not even
define the course of their streets through th#
stbes of their former homes. Bat one little
Mock of buildings was loft standing. There
was no insurance, no property, no business
—nothing bat desolation and despair. As
If to add to the horrors of the sitaatlon there
was an epidemic of smallpox that deci
mated the thin ranks of tho people and
filled the shanties nod tents with death,
Atlanta received no help then or afterwards
towards rebuilding hee city. Mr. Walsh,
of the Angusta Chronicle, who criticises At
lanta now, vboald remember that though
Augusta then, had not hod a shingle tnraed
by the war, though she had prospered
amazingly by her cotton mills, and though
her warehouses ware flooded with cotton
which brought fabulous prices, she did not
eend one dollar to her slater city that had
loot everything in the common straggle and
then sat helpless and almost hopeloss amid,
such desolation as no American city has
seen before or since. We do not mention
this in any ssnse of reproaching, hut simply
to remind Mr. Walsh that It does not lie in
his month to reproach Atlanta.
It so happens tbat Atlanta iron never been
visited with such calamity as appealed to
pnblic charity. This if bar good fortune.
It ia of record that she rebuilt her city from
the very ashes when her people were rained
and impoverished by tbe war. But sho
would no longer deserve her good fortune,
nor could she longer wear her glory, if thoso
things bad hardened her heart or lifted her
above qnlet and abiding sympathy
with all who suffer or are in want. It has
not dons so. She bos responded nobly to
every call made on her kindness or her
conttevy. Besides her giving, which is of
record, it is safe to say that there has hardly
been achnrch or a school bailt within
hundred miles of Atlanta to which site has
not'eoutributed. All this she has done, when
her own poverty has been pressing, her own
poor have been suffering, and when she has
had neither hospital or pork within her
limits. Sho has never tailed in her daty,
and the never will. Those who charge
otherwise, change in the face of the records
and the facto!
Ant BSaloonlsm North ami South.
The New York Graphic bas come out ss an
anti-saloon paper. Every day it prints one
or more illustrations depicting the horrors of
the rum traffic. One of its latest represents
a man on a craft labeled “High License,’’
shooting a monster serpent with a human
bead supposed to stand for the saloon keeper.
In an explanatory note tbe Graphic lays:
“High license is tbe only weapon which will
deetroy the monster.’’
This idea seems to bs generally prevalent
in the north and west, bat in this region, and
in several other states, the anti-saloon men
would shoot tho high license craft as soon as
they would the aaloon.
The great conflict will soon be not between
the anti-liquor men and those who favor
llqnor, bnt between the total prohibitionists
and the high licenae men. The reformers
are fighting each other with greater fury
than thay display in their straggle with tho
enemy.
We have, than, two classes of temperance
reformers—those who will take what they
can get, snd those who will take all they
want or nothing. The high licenae men say
that they are in favor of regulating an aril
which theexperience of centuries has xhown
cannot be extirpated. Tbe prohibitionists
soy that the way to abolish an evil is
to abolish it, and tbata majority rote can do
How It Affiocts Them.
Bridegroom Blaine and Bridegroom Gould
bobbed up about the same time, and for sev
eral daje past they have been the biggest
men iu the country.
The two men on strikingly different.
They travel almost opposite roads in life.
Yet they are now wonderfully alike. They
have the seme look, tbo asms thoughts, and
they talk iu the same strain.
Here is what Bridegroom Blaine says:
“My wife ia pleased and I am pleased, uml
that settles It; it is nobody rise's business.”
To a reporter Bridegroom Gould said: “Yes,
we are married, and we are going on a bridal
lour; we don’t know where, aud we don't
care.”
The reckieis ecstasy of the young men re
minds a contemporary of the words of goad
old Dorcas Pennyroyal, who, iu her old age,
said of her honeymoon: “I had sever been
so comfortable in oil my life; I thought 1
was in n circus oil the time.”
Bridegroom Blaine and Bridegroom Gould
cannot help being deliriously rookies?.
What rates tho one for bis father's millions,
or tbe other for the rid man'a preiideutial
chance!? Each youngster has tbe woman
he loves, snd that is enongh. The world
will taogh at (hove young fellows and poke
ftan at them, but it takes a kindly interest
in them. Nothing is truer then the old sty-
ing, "All the world loves a lover.” It is
human nature.
Don Pedro and the Earthquake.
Our recent seismic eonvuleiose hove
brought out many Interesting remiaiseentee,
hut tbe apet intern of Don Pedro do Torntlo
beet* them all.
Don lNdto lived io the falreet portion of
Mcxi-o ri•('plantation w-.ua level plain,
IVrtili- ard highly prodnctive. The don hod
thrmual M,xic*u family, a brown wnore,
u brown metiti, eudabruMt uf brown lit
tle • aw- Tl* only ilrawhjck to the bappt-
ntwof the family was their old taabinned
forte. It w»i a me story affair huiit of
fidefce. The .error* nod tbe eeoorit* fre
quently hvgjnd theoWdou toerect a stately
mausim. tut he attreyi'refused, saving:
"We era sure of nothing hot the land,
licuwesotl everything else may be lost, but
.tbafariidqnttfc dwaysMmadafc"
Ooediy there- eanw • rambling wool
and B ahakiug el the earth. Don Pedro and
hia brown tribe were slightly nervous, hut
they held on. The shaking continued until
the adobe bouse rocked, end the Torallos
found that they could not stand on their
le The frightened family dripped ont and did
not stop until they were at a safe distance.
Then a remarkable thing took place. Dun
Pedro’s level plain burst into great cracks
and seams. There ires a rath of smoke sod
steam, and finally tbe entire plantation de
voted itaell into a huge mountain with a cra
ter in active operation.
Months later, when the old don returned
he could hardly believe his eyes, taste id
of his verdant fields be saw in theit pi ice a
rocky, hideous looking volcano. It wts all
that was left of the solid earth which he had
boasted was beyond the reach oi misfortune.
Don Pedro still owns his volcano.
earns a precarious livelihood by showing
to the touristo. Ho is net without hope that
another convulsion of nature m»y restore
bis plantation.
Anarchy in Petticoats.
The Chicago anarchists have another re
cruit, and an active one. Daring the trial
of Parsons, Spies snd the others, Mrs. Black
the wife of one of the lawyers for th* da
fense, took a deep interest in the exse. Re
cently she addressed a long letter to the
public in which she warned the people n(
Chicago that a reign of terror was comiag,
and advised them to purchase safety by turn
ing the anarchists loose.
It will be of interest to note tho re .nous
given by Mrs. Black fur her strange conduct.
She states in her letter that sho to a middle
aged Christian womsn, of southern b'rth,
and that she has spent shout $00,000 iu
charitable works. A few months ago she re
garded tbe anarchists with horror. She be
came interested in them during the trial, in
vestigated their grievances and was dazed by
what vhe saw and heard.
Mrs. Block is now convinced that it will
take • great upheaval to right tbe wrong? of
labor. On the side of capital soldiers and
artilleiy will avail nothing against the dy
namite bombs in the hands of tho people.
Tbe good lady has reviewed the Scripture?
for light on tho subject. Bbe finds that tbe
early Christians practiced communism, and
that in Bovriations there is a prophecy of
victory for tbe poor when they rise agiinst
the rich. After all, she soys, anarchy is
simply an effort to bring about the millen
nium. Why nhnnld we hang men for that?
We have oil along thought tbat Lawyer
Black deserved some pu nishmciit tor his ex
traordinary work in behalf of the dynamite
crowd, bnt we do not blame his wife at all.
Mrs. Black has simply tamed into a crank.
Sho to doubtless a kind hearted, emotional
woman, who cannot look on one side of any
subject long without bring converted. She
bas seen something of the misery common
in large cities, snd the fanciful measures
of reform proposed by the anarchists have
turned her head. This is all there is in it.
The Money Sinkers.
The young man who spends money freely
mey look forward to or. old age of poverty.
It will do him little goal to begin practicing
economy after he posses the lino ot middle
fige.
A thoughtful contemporary presents-somo
very inlcieating figures on tbis subject. The
rale of compound interest is thesecret of nil
wealth not aceamnlated by speculation.
Here ia an example that will open the
eyes of some people:
If money can he iaveitcd etspec cent aud the
lutercit lelnveited at the ume rate U mil double
Iu five yean. Allow ten years for tbla totako place,
owing to ton or Ume for reinvesting, and we reach
the rcmirkablo ct ncluilon—remarkable, we mean,
to those who have not thought (boot It—that If a
man can loveit t -.UO at one and twenlyyemn, and
let It accumulate at compound lmereit, it will
omoont to tbe enormous sum of 1150,000 If he lives
to the age of seventy, to ::sco,000 at eighty, and
scro.oco at ninety. This is the secret of the large
fortunes of the great banters and capitalists whose
money gees on accumulating from generation to
generation, aud augments with prodigious rapidity
tiler thirty or forty years have passed.
Onr contemporary indulges in the follow
ing pertinent reflections:
Now, suppose s man begins life with economical
habits, and by rigid self dental aconmnlates lto.000
by the Ume he la twenty-five. This sum will hare
Increased to a competency when he desires to be
free from tba cores of business, and he can then,
and Indeed, for years before, have the pleasure of
laying cut his money freely and without fear In
gratifying his tastes or doing good. Hut If ho bo
inclined to hnmor his tastes when young—to buy,
wo will soy, expenslvo fuinltnro or to mingle too
freely In society, so that ha never saveo atoll until
ho Is five ond forty—whot good will $10,005 do him
then? It Is, of course, good In Itself, but os Iho
loucdotlon ol 0 comyelcncy such a inm Is wholly
Inadequate. It would amount to only fio.oeoat
sixty-five, and not to o ccmpctenry till loog otter
three scoro and ten. One dollar at twenty-one Is
wnith H:o stntnety, amt crery $100spent in foolery
and finely before five and twenty Is simply t:l,000
thrown sway Horn that provision which should bo
made for the Ume when work must he o burden.
Tkejottng man who does not consider
there points Is not destined to take bis place
among the money makers of tho country.
No royal rood to iortnne is pointed ont here,
hut the pathway indicated to sure and eofe.
It is within tbo reach of the average young
man, and U he doeo not follow it be will live
to regret hia folly.
Tbe Grcnteot Egotist.
IVe have had some very vain men in pnb
lic life. Old General Bcott once tried to
paralyze the Britbh army by showing him
self. Ue mounted a log on this aide of the
Niagara river and struck ab attitude. "Let
them see me,” ho said. Tbe British stu
pidly refused to be owed, and commenced
firing st the general, whereupon he mads
himself less conspicuous.
Charles Smnner thought a good deal of
himself. To a friend who asked him, “How
goto tho world?” theponderouo senator re
plied, “AU wrong, sir, oil srrong: I am not
well.”
Bnt Scott and Sumner wero modest men
by the side of Roocoe Contling, If we ore to
believe the rovriations in that lively book,
“Ten Yetis Among tbe Senators?” Tho
writer aays:
Mr. ccsrtltsf recognised nothing above hlonotf
save alow tboOodhetO! You remember Urn story
of the senator's latacvtew with iho Sunday-school
boy at nice: "Doyen know wholom?" -Yesi
yon ora tbo great,senator from Now York"
"Right, my son; but you mail remember what
yeur teaches will tell you-tbot there l< Out
greeter than I." Equals there were none: Nature,
is his opinion, had not been thus lavish. Two
itons may no: roar la one forest: neither U oaesxe
Serge enough tor two UOnkilngs.
Egotism to s power and when it is hacked
by brain*, and sn utter want of consideration
for the feelings of othora tuea will yield
to it Conkllug posed as tbo emho-itmtat
of all -wisdom and all parity. He treated
tbo arguments of others with contempt or
answered them with stinging sarcasm and
Utter irony, His oppapoeita did not care to
bav* Mm always looking down open thorn
from * pinnacle oflcrty score, and with two
or three ratable exceptions they kept ont of
his way.
The man’s power was so great that he had
to undo himself. In a devilish fit of temper
he threw his party into a minority in tbe
senate, and the offense was not forgiven.
Like an enraged scorpion he stung himself
to death. _
The Cotton Statement.
According to the Financial Chronicle, the
total receipts of cotton for .the weekending
September 24thwere 100,001 bales. Tbere-
ccipts for the previous week were 71,0ir>
bales, and for the week before the receipt*
were 13,581, and three weeks ago the re.
reipts were 24,234, making the total receipts
sitce September lot 234,680 bales. Tbg re
ceipts for tbe some period of 1885 were 275,•
4115, showing a decrease of 42,005 balei for
this year.
Tbe exports for tbs week Just closed ware
44,373, of which 31,048 went to Great- Brit",
sin, 6,548 wont to Franco and 8,777 went th
tbe rext of the continent.
Tbe figures indicate a decrease in the cot
ton in sight at the cloaa of business on the
24th amounting to 95,084 bales as com
pared with the asms date of 1885; a decrease
of 3H1,074 boles ss compared with tho cor
responding datoof 1884, and a decrease of
574,045 bales at compared-with 1883.
The totals show that tho rid interior
Mocks have Increased doting the week 4,02ft
bales, and at the dove of business on the
24th were 2,879 more than at the same period
last year. The receipts at the same towns
have been 15,718 bales less than the same
week last year, and since September 1st the
receipts at all tho towns are 14,281 bales
levs than tha same time in 1885.
The total receipts from the plantations
since September 1st, 1688, an 243,534 balsa,
In 1885 they were 312,067, and in 1884 thay
were 275,805 bales ler the same period,
Although the receipts at tho ontports for the
past week were 100,801 briee, tbe actnri
movement from plantations was 114,473
bales, the balance going to increase tbo
stocks at the interior towns, Last year tbe
receipts from tbo plantations for the same
week were 132,351 bales, and for 1881 they
were 130,301 bales.
The trirgrams from the sonth to the Fi
nancial Chronicle indicate that in general
the weather has continned favorable. Pick
ing has, ass rale, made very good progress,
but in a frw sections of Texas rain hoe
canted tome interraptiena.
EDiTom.tr. notes.
Wednesday the 2Stb, will be a big day fur
the lupcrstlUau man. Wlggins’c scare to Dy no
meins confined to the mgrocsi Then are atny
white people, who, whlls sot exactly admitting
that they ue frightened at tba outtoolc, still con-
ton that tho experience of the put few weeks hu
somewhat nnstcadtcd their faith In the stability
of tbe earth's crust In this neighborhood. I asked
an old ncfiro yesterday what ho propomd doing on
the 2?lh.
"I ’socc'c to fiit down on my knees fer pra'ran
git ready to go,” wu his reply.
“Bnt thereto not the tllghtost danger on that day
more than any other,” he wu told.
"Then, hose, th# pruto won’t ha loss, any way,”
was hto answer, u ha shambled off.
Prohibition to about to beoomo the great issua In
Tennessee, and tha IndloaUene ore that that state
will join tha prohibition ranks next year. It to
absolutely out of politics, as hath parties bald the
asms poilUcn concerning It. The platform of bath
the democratic and tha republican conven
tion*, adopted by I be conventions which
nominated the Taylor brothers, declare In
favor of submitting the question to the vote of the
people of tho state, aud the next legU'a'.ure can
scarcely do otherwise than this. Tha last state
legislature adapted an amendment to tha state
comtitullon forbidding tho manufacture at
ralo of any tplrltucna ae malt llqsori as a
beverage. By consUtu-ionol requirement any
amendment to the constitution must first he adop
ted by ono legislature, and then, by a uro-thlrds
vote of tbe next, mutt bo submitted to tbo people
for ratification. At Ibis prohibitory amendment
tor Tennessee bis already passed tbe first channel
towards becoming n law, great Interest centers In
Ibe next turn. If two thirds of the next legislature
to votes, the people will vote on tbe question prob
ably next spring. It to sold that tha Mate will go
overwhelmingly foe prohibition.
Kpoklrg of tho Taylor brothers, and their re
markable campaign In Tennesaao. tbe following
goad slo,y cornea from that dlrertlon:
Durlng the session of the democratic convention
In Nashville, Bob Taylor’s noma was before the
convention ss a candidate. Boh was In Kaoxvilte.
A report wu put In circulation that Bob only, de
sired the honor of a nomination, and his ambition
being gratified, ha would decline to run.
One of hto aidant frtonde becoming cxeited,
telegraphed: "Bay positively whether you will
accept tha nomination If tendered you."
Bob was a little puzzled how to answer such
an Inquliy, but rattled tha following answer over
the wires:
"A poor old man enco dragged hlnutlf twenty
miles to fee my mother. When ho got ready to
leave lie said: -Madam, if yon don't believe I
can late ahamhomejufttryme!'”
‘If yon were fotag to commit suicide,'' I asked
Professor H. C. White, "how would you do It? ’
Queer question” he replied smUlug, “but I
think I should taka a whiff of piuxslo add."
'Would that hill quickly?"
In about a second. You would simply catch a
scent of braised peach kernels and all would ho
over. An hour after death there would be notraoe
of yolion In your body. Tha first affect of tha
prusslcacid would bo to tarn your Woodblock,
As your corpse coaled the poison would evaporate
end In in boor all wonld bo gone. Uke lightning
the breath of tha arid flashes through the veins,
kills end vanishes."
"Is this arid to he found la the drug slores!"
"Yet: but net In the concentrated form 1 speak
of. Iff wanted to kill my tclf, which 1 clearly do
not, I should pout hydoahlotloaridovtr cyanide
of potash, whiff the pruaslc arid gas that srosa and
go off In a twinkling."
"I have In my laboratory at Athens." the profiea-
sorcontinued, "apiece ogpercbmentbtariugtlMta
words: This to written with tha blood of Jerry
Twincher who seas poisoned with prussic sdd.j
The willing Is os black as ink."
"A curious thing come to too In my practice,'’
sold the professor, at be knaeksd the ashes-from
hto cigar, "about throe yeore ago. Tha stamock
of a woman, who had died under suspicious cir
cumstances In Aiken, B. <?., was sent me foe exam
ination, 1 dlicovarad a largo ‘quantity of strychs
nine In tne stomach, and made several crystals
which I sent to the authorities. Her husband was
trreattd, accused of murdering btr, tad convicted.
About that Urns I goto latter from a druggirt. who
lived scar Aiken, Mount that the quinine be was
rolling war peedrylng very strange effect*. tn<l
asking mo to analyse a sample he sent me. I did
so, aid feusd tbat it was almost half strychnine.
I st cae* thought of the man wbowa* under con
viction li that neighborhood tor killing bis wife
with Hrychnlnst and thongbt thus ho might have
been unjustly secured. 1 went to Aiken to ascer
tain tbe tori*.”
"And you found the man really Innocent 1"
"No. I realise that theftary ought to haraended
that way, but It didn’t. The man waa clearly
gum? and bad bought his strychnine from another
druggbt."
The final adjuatmentof the railroad traeka hri
tween Bommtevllle and Chartariea hoe been
made, and jurt seventeen fast hove keen cut cut.
This reprezenti tha contraction of the earth be
tween those two potato, which on last twenty
miles span.