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THE‘WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY NOYEMBEB 9 1886
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ATLANTA. OA.. NOVKMBEB 9,1898.
Nonrlnrr the New Tear.
Within n few week* The Constituttiox
will begin » new year. A few word* of
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of place ben.
Tnv. Constitution thin week goea Into
77,000 home*. It la likely that flea people
read every copy of Ihe paper. This will
glee at ii8S,000 men, women and children,
who read thto week’* Constitution. These
readers are Mattered from Maine to Moxloo,
though moat oftham an in the southern
listen. This bout of reodara Is Increasing by
the thousand every week.
This enonnone circulation hae oome to
Tug Constitution becauM it is u family
paper, flecatue it Interests every member
of the family from the grandmother to the
little toddler who it barely able to read.
Beeann It den not dll its colamaa with
long winded apeecbee ol long-winded poli
ticians, bnt with the pith and aawa of the
world’s history. It la the map of ovary
work—the cyclopedia of seven days. Those
who read it keep op with the program of
event*, and find it a liberal education.
Onr special features have great attrac
tion,. We apend more than 110,000 a year
to apeeial writers for Tn* Wsexs.y Con
stitution. Ton might cover one of Bill
Arp’* letters with silver half doll tn and it
would bo Iras than we pay Ibr It. Every
question that Ur. Jones answers in the tarn
departments averages ns $2 each. Wa of
ten pay |G for a single answer In "The
Knowledge Box." "Beley Hamilton"
makes more than any woman in Georgia by
her letten for ns. We hav* paid IKK) lor a
single stoi7. and yso each for several, W#
giro our renders absolutely the heat that
money will boy, Add to thia that it it tha
only twelve page weekly in the country—
that it cotta leas than two oenta a week and
yon understand its enormous growth.
Bnt wo wont to grow fatter. W# are
impatient to reach the 100,000 notch—when
we get thero we will make a batter and
stranger paper, and give erery trader canoe
far gratillation. We do not appeal fbr th#
help to do thio to stranger*, bnt onr own
friends—to our readen who bar* followed
bination of cirramstancra, has brought this
abont it wonld ha difficult to say. It
been suggested that the remit of the eon-
greeeioiwl elections would be in some sort
test of the popularity of the democratic ad'
ministration—that is to say, democratic
gains wonld show that tlu party indorsed
Mr. Cleveland’s civil service policy, wboraa*
democratic loose* would show that this policy
is obnoxiotu to the party.
The civil service policy of the president
wee not even remotely an issue in any *f the
contest*, hot it may have earned a feeling of
apathy among democrats. On what other
grounds are we to account lor the remarka
ble result in Virginia? As flu as heard from
tha democrat* have lest live congreamen
in that state. Th* truth is, that tha sort of
dvil service reform we hav*been having may
he a very good thing in a country where
there are no partial and no necoadtits for
parties, bnt in this country the workers who
keep ap the organization will allow errata
to shape themselves, so to apeak, if they fail
that they art merely working to give a po
litical opponent a chine* to bold office.
Th* democrats have lost five congressmen
in Virginia, three in Indiana, three in New
fork and two in Michigan, in addition to
the loaees reported Wednesday morning. On
the other brad, they hav* made some gain*
laNsw Hampshire. In Minaesota they have
elected three ont of the five congressmen.
In Connecticut they have made again of one,
and they are reasonably rare of electing a
democratic-oenutor from New Jersey, which
is the moat important gain of all.
Self-Conscious People,
Justin H. Morrill’s new book on “The
8elf'Consdouanesa of Noted Per so nr" con
tains liltl* that ia new, bnt it lays bar* th*
tine inwardness of many of th* greatest men,
"spend thrift* of the personat iironoun,"
Mr. Morrill calls them.
It ia Imposdble to glanoe through this
book without coming to tli* conclusion that
in all ages the leaders of men have been in
the habit ol trumpeting their own praties.
Among tbsae self conscious men w* flod
Paul telling fatif brethren that ha had
"labored more abundantly” than the others,
lie raid to the Corinthians: "1 am become a
fool in glorying. Yo have compelled me:
fbr 1 ought to have been commended ot yon;
fbr In nothing am I behind tha very chlefest
apostles, though 1 be nothing."
In the old day* great freedom of utterance
was permitted when men spoke of them-
reives. Augustus raid: "I found Borne
brick, 1 leave it marble.’’ Cicero speaking
of bis lineage raid: "I commenced an ances
try." Xenophon informs hi* readers that
h* ia "ra eminent among the Greeks for elo
quence as Alexander was for arms." Hor
ace boasted of hia “One genius.”
Th* moderns are not very different from
the ancients. "They call ma lucky because
1 am able," said tho Klrat Napoleon. Wel
lington upon being told that he was the
greatest general of tbs century replied: “By
G—dt It is quite trno.” Dryden raid of hia
‘Ode to St. Cecilia’s Day" that "a nobler
ode was never produced nor ever will be."
Guizot in bts eW ago acknowledged that he
liked nothing better than popular applause.
Sheridan made this prediction whan he
failed In hia that speech: "I have it in me,
and it aboil come ont," and Disraeli under
the nut circumstance* raid: "Though I ait
down now, the time will oomo whan yon will
bear mo." Ertkioe rued so maay l’a in hia
speeches that newspapers found it difficult to
set them up; John Wesley advertised hia
dictionary ns "tha best dictionary in the
world"
Perhaps it la just as well not to quoto the
Americana mentioned by Mr. Morrill, but
ns for a year or moro and who knows o*. It
all cornea back to the personal appeal— ) on exception must be mad* in th* case
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Tuesday's Elections.
Tho return* tram Tuesday’* election*
show soma surprising result*—and yet, ow
ing to tha fact that ao many new Imuaa war*
brought to th* front in th* east and want,
the** malts ar* not as ligolfleant a* they
otherwise wonld be. It may a* well bo *d-
mlttcd that th* democrats bars not held their
own in th* congressional elections. Thoy
hove mad* omn* gains ia unexpoctod quar
ter*, it I* true, hut those hav* bora largely
ovetbolouotd by loose* elsewhere.
Th* defeat of Mr. Carlisle is mors than a
surprise—it ia a calamity to th* party.
Outside of hia views on th* tariff, which
were objectionable, he is a statesman of drat
tsmk, and was looked upon a* th* coming
candid at* fbr th* vice presidency. Hia fra*
trad* viowv, howovor, have proved Ma ruin,
•orbla conatituoutv turn quietly buteSectu-
ally declared their sympathy with the work
ingmen.
The defeat ol Mr. Carlisle ta cloacly fal
lowed by that ot Mr. Morrison, of Iltlno'e,
whose horizontal vole* will not bo heard in
tbeaextcoogieaa. Mr. Springer,oftisosom*
Mate, is closely preesed by the votes of hit
adversary, and rosy yet turn out U be de
feated. The defeat of Frank Hard, in Ohio,
ta also abed omen fbr th* freetraders.
The new congress will hove i demo mile
majority, bnt it will be*reduced majority.
Jest what particular circumstance, or com-
"I wish the ont of fashion practice of prais
ing ourselves wonld, like other old fashions,
tome around into fashion again." And in
bis autobiography ha observes that most
people dislike vanity in others, whatever
share of it they may have thamaalvat, bnt
that far hia port ho is disposed to gtva it fair
quarter wherever found, being persuaded
that it la often productive of good to its pos
sessor, and to others who are within hia
sphere of action. In fact, he a*ya: "It
wonld not be absurd if n man war* to thank
God for hi* vanity, among tho other comforts
of life!"
Itrotlicr Dlalne and the flnnth.
It teems that the republicans who Inin
neder that fiery and untamad statesman,
brother Blaine, are determined to bring on
another war. Brother Blaine haa been stir
ring up Pennsylvania on the «ul|j«ct of chwp
labor in the south, until now a groat many
republicans in that atafa are very mad Ifo-
cante the negroes of this section are willing
to work for wuges. IVo do not know what;
brother Blaine's remedy ia, If it ia not war.
He ray* that the wage workers of Pennsyl-
vanla are abont to be ran oat of bailnamhy
cheap negro labor,and if this la true, there la
an exceedingly warm crisis ahead lor some
body.
Undoubtedly ihtre is and will bo trouble
in the iron and mining regions of Pennsyl
vania. Brother Maine and his fallow re
publicans an this; but as they hav* only a
superficial knowledge of tha aitnatlon, they
jump to th* conclusion that tho difficulty
arises Irani th* competition of cheap negro
labor.
They are mistaken. The competition goes
deeper than that It to the competition of
situation, of convenience, of proceam* and
good management. Pig iron can be mad* at
leu cost in the iron Heidi of Alabama than
in Pennsylvania, and certain capitalist* from
th* lata named state, who have found this to
bo the fact, ar* building, or hove built, (tor-
non* in Alabama.
The republican party cannot remedy this.
Th* competition will go on and increase,
though Brother Blaine ahonld be elected
president for a term of twenty yean. In
dustrially, the oonth to crawling to th* top.
Our Unstable Globe.
Th* story of tha lota Atlantis may be only
a story. Onr history to ao laromptets, and
covet* such a total period, that wa hav* no
record of aome of nature's mightiest consul-
ms.
Leaving Atlantis ont of the question, and
accepting the nsanmption of the adequate
that th* Creator’s work to finished in tho
Atlantic, tha known facts concerning th*
Pacific are sufficient to craviwe* at that th*
work of creation to atilt going ra ia that
quarter. Tbe basis of tha Pacific ta shaped
like a circular bowl, with • wall-dadoed
rim, except ra the (outhern side, whan it
ta broken off and tha bawl merge* into the
Atlantic ocean. The Innumerable islands
cropping up tore and there are rappoved to
be the peaks of a submerged continent.
When this lost continent disappeared to be
yond th* reach of speculation. Dana’s the
ory was that it bad two principal mountain
ranges, one.running from the Hawaiian
group through the Mendooa, Society and
Peal islands, and the other running through
tiro Navigators, Fiji, Solomon, New Guinea,
Spies, Celebes, Borneo, Sumatra to Malacca.
Possibly this immense area of land disap
peared under tha waters lo one mighty eraab,
carrying wifh it millions upon millions of
human beingt, with a civilization and aria
and indoatriia of which we have not tbe
faintest knowledge. Perhaps the land sub-
aided gradually, forcing people to seek tbe
mountains, nntil finally tbe great mam fail
victims lo flood and famine, and only a few
survived.
There to nothing strange in all thia
our globe is gradually cooling it moat con
tract, and the outer shell mult crack, break
op and sink to fit th* ainking Interior. Bach
conditions must remit in earthquakes aud
landslips for ages to oome. We know that
certain coasts are sinking. Islands appear
and disappear. Within the present century
a district 2,000 miles square in tbe Indian
ocean suddenly went down under tbe water
with cities, villages, and a large population.
Tbe sinking of the Andes 220 feet in seventy
jean to another significant fact Altogether
we have enough data to shake onr confidence
in tbe permanent solidity of this great globe
of ours, and w* need not be surprised it
anything.
On* thing ahould reconcile us tothes*
disastrous upheavals. They are all necse
ra ry steps tn the original plan of creation,
An Amusing Incident.
Contrary to th* general expectation th*
congressional election in Georgia was not
entirely devoid of extraordinary incidents.
The old seventh district, which ho* been ao
prolific of political romance, comes once
more to tbe front with one of the meat re
markable occurrences that has transpired in
iis history.
On Monday morning, the day before tha
electira, Tire Constitution announced that
ticket* bearing tbe name of Dr. Felton for
congress bad bean scattered throughout the
seventh district, and that a scheme bad b*en
laid to taka advantage of the popular im
pression that tha democratic nominee had a
walkover, and to rally enough of the doc
tor’* friends to tbe polls to elect him to con-
grtsa.
Yesterday's CONSTITUTION contained a
card from Dr. Felton in which (here was far
moro effort to be sarcastic and severe than to
dear himself from complicity in this novel
method of captaring a seat in congress. It
was charged that these Felton tickets had
been industriously circulated throughout
the district. Tbe result of the election sub-
slant iates that charge. At almost every
precinct voters were offered Felton tickets.
The doctor’s home county, which was pro
snmnbly moat vigorously worked up, was
scooped by this brilliant scheme, but fortu
nately Bartow county does not elect a con
gressman.
Ur. Felton, in bto card which appeared
yesterday, said of Tins Constitution's ex
posure of the plan to catch the seventh dis
txict napping:
ItwIUapricar to others, as it appeared to ms, as
a concerted effort to Craw out s respectable rote
for a nominee who war likely to act a very meager
ot c, owing to many causes needless to mention.
Well, a sufficient vote was drawn out to
laavo Dr. Ftlton at home, though then wart
tickets enough all over tba district to have
sent him to congrem if the voter* who war*
willing to put them into tha ballot box oould
fanv* been found. The nominee who waalu
inch danger of receiving a meager vote, to
the same nominee who, after the two moat
thorough canvasses ever mad* ol tha seventh
dUtriet, defeated Dr. Felton, first by a ma
jority of eight hundred, and two years later,
by a majority abont twice a* large. Dr.
Felton’s apprehension that Mr. Clamant*
was to be th* victim of a very meager vote
laqnite amusing.
Dr. Felton’s card wot hot tho moat explicit
denial be could have made of the charge that
he had a baud in the trick that was attempt
ed in the seventh district yesterday. That'
somebody did attempt a trick whichresultod
in a fiasco to very evident; and for the third
time the people of tho arrentb district have
informed Dr. Felton that they have had
enough ot bto services as congressman. The
doctor will have to he as oontratod as he pos
sibly can in th* Georgia legislator*.
A Grand Salute.
The island of Ninafou, one of the Tonga
group, vraa recently the scene of the grandest
and most aweinspiring exhibition evar wit
nessed by mortal ayes.
When morning dawned everything was
calm and senna, but a purplish haze hung
over tbs island, and not a zephyr stir
red th* leave* of the tall coca tract. The
breathless stillness did not lait long. Hud-
dtniy, without warning, aud in rapid sne-
evasion, came one hundred earthquake
skccks.
Th* detonation* resembled th* sullen
boom of batteries of monstar artillery; th*
island rocked like a cradle, and th* moon-
tain* loaaed their tall peak* to and fro, al
most jostling each other in their lumaltaoos
agitation.
When th* last nimbi* of tbe on* hundredth
•hock bad died away, a mountain dartod up
horn the bottom of a lake in tha centra of
tho island. Tbs lak* was two thousand feat
deep. Tbe mountain leaped up to the bright
of three hundred feet above the anrfoceof
th* water, signalizing it* appearance with
an outburst ta flam* and a ahower of rod hot
atone*.
It wa* a spectacular display of Uu bowels
of the earth, illuminated with flashes of live
thunder. At this distance wa can admir-
ingly pronounce it awfully sublime. Th*
native* of Ninafir' bowtvsr, can nothing
for nature in her grander moods, They pre
fer lea euhllmlty and more eolhlity.
The Paralysis ef Chivalry.
Horn* ot onr northern contemporaries are
making merry over the embarrassing predic
ament of Mr. Omzalee, of Columbia, South
Carolina.
It fee ms that in th* count of a quarrel of
ieng-atanding Mr. Grasta** wa* challenged
by Mr. Robsttaon. A* Mr. Gonzales wan
under heavy brads to keep th* p*ac* he de
clined to accompany bto *o*my to th* Arid
of honor, and was forth with posted by th*
challenger as a coward.
Under th* circumstance* Mr. G onr tie*
had a right to fata aggrieved. Alter think-
lag tit* matter over he famed a circular in
which he make* aom* lively points. Among
other thing*, he declare* that tor four man tbs
before he was placed under bond* he de
nounced Mr. Bobertoon freely, and that gen
tleman never called him to account. Not
nntil h* wen pieced under legal restraint
was he challenged, *nd then, with a com
mendable willingness to be obliging, bo
wrote to Hr. Bobertoon, charging Mm with
endeavoring to take an unfair advantage,
and made the following accommodating pro
position: "My peace brad doe* not prevent
yon from attacking me, nor does itdebarme
from shooting you if you make tbe attack."
Instead of meeting Mr. Gonzalee on this
half-way ground Mr. Bebertaon posted him.
One of our contempororle* suggests that
tba South Carolina legislator* ahonld frame
a statute for tho benefit of citizen* who are
caught in th* awkward fix of Mr. Gonzales,
bnt thia to of conns ont of tho qoeation.
Nothing more effectually extinguishes chiv
alry than a bond to keep th* pesos. When
a mania tied up in that way it to useless to
talk shoot the code duello. Nor to it quite
the thing for him to he attacked by a person
who is not in the toils of tba law. The
grievance* growing out of such a state of
affairs must be adjudicated at the bar of
public opinion.
The Governor's Message.
Gov. McDaniel’* message wa* road before
tho legislature Wednesday. Itto marked by
tbe precision of at* foment and clesrni
style that are characteristic of all tha doom
men!* that have emanated from the gover
nor’s pen. It to comparatively brief, bnt it
coven a great many subjects that are vf in
terest to the general assembly and of impor-
tone* to tho state.
It to at ones a greeting and a farewell, for
it marks the close of Coventor McDaniel’s
administration—an administration that has
been as win as conservative, as successful,
and as beneficent as any tbe state has ever
had. It has been especially successful os a
business administration, and the success of
its methods in this direction will have a
beneficial effect on tba stats long after Gov-
error McDaniel has gone ont of office. The
placing of the fonr and a half per cent bonds,
for instance, was a transaction for which the
state administration deserves far mor* cred
it than it haa ever received.
The loan was placed without east to tbe
ate. No commission has been paid either
in thoiale of ihe hondaorinthe payment of
matured bond* It was ao euccessfoUy
] dated that tbe state's credit, already good,
Has materially appreciated, and this in tbe
face of the ravage attacks made by Henry
Clews and his subsidized organ* in New
York. Tho fonr and a half par cento now
command a high premium in open market,
and, os tha governor suggests, afford per
haps the beat illustration of tha alate’s finan
cial condition.
Governor McDaniel reminds the general
Msembly that the time haa arrived for car
rjinginto effect section 14, article 7, of the
constitution, in which provision to made for
a ainking fond to pay off and retire the
bonds of th* state not yet matorad.. The
general assembly wtil also ha called oh to
provide for the poymtnt of (2,141,000 six
per cent brads leaned under the act oi Feb
ruary 10,1877. Aa these bonds mature at
the same time, Governor McDaniel thinks it
will be practicable to allhrd the holders,
of such bonds an opportunity to
fond or exchange them fbr new b
bearing a lower rate of interest; and
to this end, ha recommends ini table legisla
tion for tita'isao* of bond* maturing within
not leas than thirty years, aulrject to earlier
pa; ment at the option of the state, in inch
amounts and at such dates is may b* deemed
advisable. Govarnor McDaniel aays then
to reason to believe that bonds can be sold
for that purpose bearing even a lower rata oi
interest than four and a half par cant.
Wo have not space to review the entire
menage, which covers a variety of subjects
oi Intereat to the people, but we desire to
peris ripen th* attention of the legislature
the necessity of acting on the raoommrada-
tionsof the governor in regard to ravings
banks and state banks. He raya: “A sys
tem oi raving banka, with provisions to lo
ci r* prudent management, and to encourage
small deposits, to one of tbe pressing needj
of tbe state. Nothing can contribute so
much loth* prosperity of a peopleds habits
oi thrift and economy. Theso depend
largely upon tho faculties fornished for tbe
accommodation and employment of little
ravings. Tho sums thus accumulated under
jtdicious direction footer enterprise, in
crease prodnetion and extend eommarca. la
thia connection tba lawa relating to bank*
aid banker* ahonld bortvtoed so os to sub
ject the hooks, account* and iSMto to per
ianal examination by a state official charged
with that duty. The time may not be dis
tant when state banka will be permitted to
issue Mils for circulation, and provision
should be mad* to commend Ibom to pnbUc
confidence."
Russia and llcr Resource*.
In old times tba Vandals, Goths and Huns
started from the boundless plains of Russia
and Tartary, and overwhelmed Europe, fin
ally placing Tbeodoric oa the throne of the
Omn,
History repeat* Europe today dreads
Cossack domination more than anything
ska. Th* world to just beginning to appre
ciate tbe vast potentialities locked up in
this mighty craptra.
Roariabas inexhaustible resources. Her
territory extend* 8,000 miles in one direc
tion and 2,000 milas in another. She ha*
swallowed up, absorbed 100 different na
tions. She already owns one quarter of all
the land oa both hemisphere*. Her peace
army to 820,000 men, and in war times she
can prara 4,000,000 joung men into service.
Tba crope and products of this wonderful
ceuntry are principally canals, flax, caitU,
sheep and wool. Tbe methods of agricul
ture are backward. Tha farmers Uv* in
comfortable log housra. Over 70,000,000
psopto aro boused in this way. Scattered
over the empire amid Ureas log huts rise th*
gilded dome* of magnificent churches. There
an 40,000 of them sdificee, and th* curt of
on* ef them fa greater than that of th* resi
dence* of 100,000 of th* common people.
In th* rapport of tb*a* church** th* re
sources of Kami* have been wasted for cen
turies.
Within the past two decade* Roasia has
mad* tremendous stride* in civilization.
Her Uteratnra to attracting tha attention of
the world. Her industrial growth haa been
rule. A sjetem of railroads Interlace
territory. Six hand red steamboats
traverse 2,000 mile* of the Volga river. Her
canals link her with tbe commerce of oil
nations: What is needed to * frontier on
tbe Adriatic, and th* fire* navigation of the
Bosphorus aud tha Golden Horn. To obtain
all this she may have to fight Europe, one
may even now be able to wage rach *
teat successfully. If not now, she will
have to bide her time mat* longer.
Peopled by a heroic race, with all the els-
mentsof wealth in heraoil, and with a cU-
mate ranging from that of the frozen zone to
almost tropical warmth, tho domain of tna
Cossack to a land of vast possibilities aud
magnificent surprises. When Roasia ot—
makes nphsr mind to begin adteisiv* strag
gle for tbe mastery of Eorope the tread o.
swarming legions will shake the great glob#
itself, and tbe clash of arms will resound
throughout tiro world. Jnet wbeu the con
flict will come no one con tell. It to enough
to know that it la inevitable.
Snubbing n Prince.
It to raid that th* leaders of Washington
society are under the Imprearion that they
displayed commendable shrewdness in snub
bing I’rinca Lobto Bounpsrte on tbe occas
ion of the young man’* recent visit to’ 1 -*
capital. The prince waa known tot.
gentlemanly youth, but tha Washingtonians
concluded, alter a brief survey of the situa
tion, that the Bonaparte* were rapidly going
downhill, with no reasonable proapectof
ever climbing up again. Taking this view
ot It, they gave Prince Lords the cold shoal
der.
Abont half a century ago another Bona
parte visited this country. He was itndsr a
cloud and in poverty. Many of our society
people thought itth* part of worldly wisdom
to turn their bocks ra him, and tha exile
doubtless had a lonesome time. Yet this
'despised Bonaparte in after years grasped
th* rod of empire, and held sovereign sway
over a dominion worthy of Ctewr.
Perhaps tbe neglected yonng Frenchman,
who found no welcome in Washington, will
(read in the footsteps of hto imperial cousin.
France is fickle. She may tire of -the re
public, Her people may some day call Louis
Bonaparte to tho throne, or, in aome critical
complication of affairs, he may take it. The
men of his race have never been at all back
ward about picking up such things os crown*
and scepters.
Of course all this may never come to pass,
but, if it ahonld turn out happily (or the
prince, the small-soaled people who slighted
him, tbeother day, will bo mortified to tha
core. Even as a matter of policy, it ia well
not to snub a man when he meats with mis-
fortune, because in this changeable world
there la no tailing when he will he on top.
Tbe Tariff Issue at tho Polls.
The Courier-Journal bos a crazy theory to
the effect that all free traders aro honest man
and patriots, while those who an io favor ot
a tariff that shall discriminate in favor of
American industries and American labor on
mercenaries and monopolists. This is a com
fortable enough theory for a crank, but it to
not calculated to help the democratic party
at tho polls when pushed into serious dis
cussion. Nevertheless, it to a theory that
baa been worked by tbe Courier-Jonrnal for
all it to worth, in season and ont of season.
Oar esteemed contemporary has not only put
forth vigorous demands for the slaughter oi
the democratic traitors who opposed the free
trade whims of Mr. Morrison and Mr. Car
lisle, bnt it has insisted on making free
trade an iron* ia all tba cragremional dis
tricts.
The result of aU this, as our readers know,
ia surprising ns well aa curious. Ii the
Courier Jrarnal has any Said or any influ
ence, the fact ought to moke itself felt in
Kentucky. It has made a vigorous free
trade campaign and has denounced tariff
democrats without stint. And yet, ontaida
tbe slate of Virginia there has been no such
exhibition of democratic apathy and indif
ference oa that which extots in Kentucky.
Throe republican congressmen have been
elected in that state, and the city of Loots-
ville, where the influence of tbe Conrler-
Journal ought to bo invincible, has given s
republican majority for tho lint tim* in its
history.
This to certainly a serfons state of affaire,
and wa advise onr brilliant contemporary to
•tody the situation carefully in order that
ill influence a* a marplot and a disorganizar
may b* speedily directed towards the reato-
ratlonot democratic harmony and enthusi-
Kentucky to a port ot tha solid
sooth, and it must not b* permitted to for
fait its allegiance to the democratic party
by reason of the injudicious and bitterly
partisan pressure that has been brought to
bear in that section in favor of tbe dogma oi
free trade.
Bnt, these things sport, tho tariff demo
crats stand sqnsrely on the Chicago platform.
This platform Mr. Clavatond indorsed, and
on this platform ho waa elected. On this
datform the democratic party was indorsed
>y tbs pe pie.
Tbe trouble with Mr. Morrison, and Mr.
Frank Hard, and Mr. Carlisle, and tho
Courier-Jonrnal to that, after warmly in
dorsing this platform, they proceed to
trample It under their leet and ignore it by
bowling for frae trade, and denouncing
tariff democrat* as mercenaries and monop
olist*.
A Counter Epidemic Needed
A New York contemporary complains that
the country to afflicted with an epidemic of
dishonesty.
Admitting th* existence of this evil than
one very obvious remedy. If our pulpit
and picas, and all the forcet moat potential
in influencing the thonghta of man, will
unite in bringing about an epidemic oi
bo neat public opinion th* era of corruption
will come to an end.
! A few conviction* here and then will not
answer the purpose. The court* ore well
enough in their way, hot they cannot mak*
an entire nation bon eat. Reforms aro not
genuine when they an forced upon a peopi*
by the penal terrors of the tow.
So long a* the Christian element of oar
population and the leaden ef society toler
ate sncvesslol dishonesty there con be non-
form. A man in a ragged coat to net likely
to remain virtuosi when ho sees all th*
prizes of lit* won by hto neighbor who bas
broken every commandment ia the deca
logue.
Perhaps we cannot make society go far
enough, bat if wo pull together we eon
•tart it in th* right direction. In this og*
of grata moral rravemrate it oaght not to
fa* * very difficnlt matter to plaea th* sordid
liar, tbe gilded swindler and tba known
bj poerite under the bon.
Ike fear ot brtng rant to th* penitentiary
doe* sot mak* men honest Tbe certainty
ta being ostrsetoed and regarded by all men
coned wonld exercise a mors powerfrtl
‘ moral influence than all tho laws on our
statute hooka.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Murdered 1
That ia a queer laaerlpUra to pat on a tomb-
stone: and yet I have seen tt
In the cemetery at Stone Mountain a Utile slab
mark! the grave of a man named Thompson and;
after tae name and tha must dates, there li care:
cd the nolle word "murdered."
How strangely I felt when my eyes rested on tint
word cut Into the granite. I know the occupant
ot the grave hod been brutally killed for hia money
hut 1 was not exporting such a blood curdling ep>
taph.
Tbe story Is aa follows: The murder occurred
•bout ten years ago. Thom peon tired InOeEtlh
county ana had a neighbor named Jackion-a per:
feet giant tnatreneth. Thompson had about mt.
en hundred dollars in greenbacks and Jsckaoo
pretended to know ot a place where the papec
money could be exchanged for gold. One moraine
before day the tsro men atarted for that place, tint
they had not gras Ur before Jackson murdered
Thompson and robbed him. Tbe crime was easily;
fsstaned on the mnrdarrr, whom* stoat* lodges
In jail at Decatur. Excitement ran high, and
lynching waa freely dneusaed. As darkness en
veloped the old granite Jail Jackson could hear
tbe angry murmnr of the erosrdi outride. He took
from his pocket a large handkerchief, Hal It
•round his throat and deliberately choked himself
to death
A very myiterloua proceeding has disturbed art
Atlanta man whoa* name ia withheld for good
and sufficient reasons. Tho man Uvea In the sub.
urtaoftho oily and baa a beautiful place, sur-i
rounded by s good deal of shrubbery. Several
nights sgo, whtla the moon was shining ont of tire
windows ol tha man's sitting room was raised to
admit freeh air. The man chanoed to be looking
toward the window and saw rising outside above
the illla skeleton hand. It remained there barely
A second, then descended quickly. The mu wu
ro paralyzed by the unexpected sight
that ho could hardly move. When
he regained zelf-control ud went to tho window,
noone.’-ouMtareenandnosoiud cams to hi*
cars Two or three nights *ft*zward the skeleton
hud. silently appeared at the window (gain. At
th* ram* time tho mu'syud dog setup aborting,'
rushed around the bouse ud dashed furiously
through Ihe shrubbery. Tho man rushod Into tho
yard ud found the dog growling angrily ud
shaking something which, when taken trom him,
proved to be the skeleton hud ud tho lower
bones of u arm. That Is all 1 know abont It;
Speculate to suit yourself.
It Is sold that when a mu Is drowning, hre
entire Ills pastes vividly before him. I have often
wondered If the sum* rung wee true ef other
mode* of death. An acquaintance whs was one*
ta death’s door from an overdose or laudanum
tells me h* oould hear what was sold near him,
could hear foolttape, remembered the lauduum,
but could not more, Ha felt as thongh overcome
by weariness and simply wanted to bo let alone.
When several doctors had saooeoded In tiding him
over tbs danger point, he suffered the most ex cru
el* ling pain. At no point did hi* put Ilf* oome
np for review.
PERSONS AND THINOS.
Samuel Payton, grandson of Commodore
Ferry, wu yesterday discharged from th* priroa at
Jackzon, Mich., hia untence of flvo yean lor a
Detroit burglary having expired. Ha Is said dur
ing his Incarceration to have been left a fortune ot
1260,000. He has beu employed as the prison
pbytk-iu'a bookkeeper.
8am Small to trying to reform Albany.
Friday night he talked temperance to u audience
of 2.COO people. One-third tho audience wept u
he described his light agalost th* thirst lor liquor,
Small Implored hia hearer, to rescue thcmieivo*
from tie "hell aud damnation of th* nihilism of
the future."—New York World.
A MAU1XD lady In Bock Island. 111., is no-
•btotoresdud writs or to tell tho timohy Ure
dock. But she is only fourteen, and hope* to
fcun before ah* Is a wliow.
Lonino Pichuuxo, editor of tho Ban Fren
etic* Call, has Just become father ton vigorous
boy. Mr. Pickering is 70 years old ud some time
sgo minted for tbs third tints. Journalism on
the Factllo coast seems to be a healthful occupa
nt.
Marshal Bazars* fall while willing ia
Madrid last week, fractured hti leg ud had to bs
carried to hti home. He is old. poverty-stricken
ud broktn-sptriud, ud Itvee entirely alons, his
wlfo having gone to Mexloo lest spring, with tho
hope of getting some money from certain family
tntemta there.
Dualivo the forty-nlno yean <' Hes reign,
.men Victoria bas spent only twelve days In
Ireland,ui] Mr. Labeurtura wants her 10 celebrate
em-wy ot those twelve
Inhabitant of the neg-
8fE
her ji
MaXT"* 1
Tan tomb ef Thnddus Stevens, upon which
Mr. Blaine recently placed a roso, bean the follow
ing characteristic Inscription, written by the
great commoner himself: - I rest In this qnlet ud
secluded spot not because of uy natural prefers
once for solitude, but finding other cemeteries lim
ited*! to race by character rule*, I choose to be
buried here, that 1 may txampllfy in my death the
principles I have maintained throughout t long
Ilfo-eqortlty of mu briar* nk Creator."
Pnrxcn Lours Napoleon wu prawns ted to
the president at th* whit* bona* yesterday ud
had u Interview of fifteen minute* with him.
A notes: of straw to now being constructed
In Philadelphia, to be shipped to Xaglud ud
erected on Us* grounds of the Americu exhibi
tion In London. It Is u Americu suburban villa
ta th* moat approved architectural design, two
ud a half stoetia high and covering a space Cxjo
fart. It ti built entirely or material manulMtorad
from vtraw—atraw timbera, straw lumbar, straw
sheeting, straw looting and straw decorations, tbs
Inside finish being ol very handsome design, exe
cuted In Imitation of rosewood, mahogany, oak,
walnut and suh.
The first dolly paper appeared tn London la
1,02. Th* custom iff anonymous ud scurrilous
writers end Its power bostu to ovysttatae Into »
reality. The peony papers of today, which enjoy
enormous circulation tu large cities, are not inno
vations but simply repeUllotti of the Athenian Ga
zelle, which began March 17. taw. Dtvcuvslon* o!
various topics Armed the matter thrown to th*
— —•“ ‘ onMtlOZU AS.
CsA f(JQP
h* teyih bu navUrT-WhaT bacon* of lea waters
slier the flnonr' "Where does extinguished fire
|*F and "WlaeUnT’tta lawful for * man rebut
•h^wlfo^ware taken op sod crested with ridtcu-
A coxal necklace owned by th* quau of
Rely ti w* of Queen Margaret's mow chettihad
po>K salons. Bha to said never to Icon ft off, hot
even to wear It on grand occasions hidden under *
diamond collarette. Flva yean ago th* young
prince of Naples saw the necklao* In n atiop tt
Tralee, ud wanted to bey It for hh mother. Not
th* pile* was to* high far th* hoyti puree, ao h*
asked the Jeweler to keep tbe nacklsee for him;
udtetklmboylt bred by beta as h* sarta np
rscMjsseagb. It took two years'rev lugs before
the prince euccesded In obtaining th* wboteuek-
’•c*.
TBwtiUeri boy in Lancaster, Px, to Geerg*
Kerrey, sen taDr.Kmey. He is thirteen years old
udseten fast high. H* ti still grossing.
A citizen ot Seattle, Wash. Ter., ha* tho
following standing card low local paper: "Wt are
as, f bare left my with ans her bownf; whereas, t
has* treasure attached to snntrrer and more al
ts active woman. I hereby tire wnraint to thn
public t tat I white lutura pay say own bills with
out uy aretitanc* trutu bar wnatever."
AhEwnrefor th* tohueo plant bit been
dticoveted. Its sterna and awll, It U clal sa«d. are
equal to linen rags In the mantsfaston ot paper:
Tcbaeeo want *oats lore than 110 a too, llnau rage
I70IOIM. Thereto DO ospumln umrtiog tha
former, and v«y Utuaabrsubara, aa against a lore
of OM-thtrd tangs. The yearly tobacco waste ta
•tlmased by Us* cuts* reports at trare 1.040,00010
4.COO.OOO pounds.
Two yeoag man ef Irek, Mich., irere play*'
In* wish a rtll* to a bamretti. On* put* lemon oa
hti beta ud tire other aloud atlL He pulled tho
Uifger, qnlt* unintentionally, the gun was fort,
charged, tire holtet knocked th* lemon into freg-
menta,udth*jonagme* were nearly ecarta out
ta their wlis at the unexpected coelution of Ueic
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