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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION- ATLANTA. GAw TUESDAY NOVEMBEJ
i 16 1888
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unteer,” but a ston( and steadfast soldier
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than even the one wa arc now giving you,
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helped re to get to that figure.
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wc: Til n CoxsTrrnnoN lias done its Bliaro
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world that a southern paper can reach a bor.a
fide circulation of 100,000copies. The men
and women who read these Hdcs—written
in t agt nu ts and faith—can accomplish this
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and we will print such a paper as will muko
every southerner proud and overy American
feel that it is an honor to the country at la-go.
Now help tv ami let November close the
good work.
Race Prejudice in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Precis responsible for
the statement that a colored man finds it
nest to Impos table to rent, a decent ho use in
the Quaker city.
it seems that a respectable mnlatto barlrvr
bouse to itim on account of his color.
The hark, r reported his grievance to the
Press, and that enterprising journal sent out
- a reporter to investigate the matter. One
agent raid that it wn- very painful to him
to haven colored man apply for a house. An
other Baid that he wonld not rent a house on
n nice street or in a row of white tenants to
a colored man. The fact was developed that
in Philadelphia colored people cannot seen re
hom es unless they are in districts inhabited
hy ntfoots.
Many of the ftgente interviewed were re
publicans. They regretted tbe existence of
m mu d: race prejudice, bat said that it In-
jnitd Hie value of property to let it to col
ored tenants.
"We must not infer from this that Philadel
phia decs r.ot love the brother in black. On
the lontnuj, she does love him, bet she
fovtshim at a distance, riao weeps over
h'm down sontb, but kirks him out,is a nui
sance when he comes to settle among hi i
sympathetic friends.
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1.t" every subscriber sand as one now pi j-
unli-. riber during too Isa*, half of November,
ft means a half-hour’s work for yoa. It mean*
HKi.tXiO subscribers to us. Won’t you given
half t r: when it givey us sa much ?
11 lion Men May Kiss.
In a Brooklyn court the other day a young
niau use convicted of stealing a kiss from a
pretty girl.
'XI- culprit made no defense beyond the
mb . .able plea that J:o “couldn't help it,”
ajul i hr re was nothing for the stern judge to
do but to pronounce sentence.
lib, honor was fully eqnnl to the occasion.
In tlie course of his remarks ho said:
Thereto no ov.ociinu, no far as lean sea, to a
rr..n sh-teg a girt If sin- is willing. But you must
eoldo Hsgainst tier >i ill. She has a right to ol>-
joarimi f she docs you mustn't do it, Beluxeshe
u will: i:g be fore yeti try.
Tbe h.r,:s part of tho law is ita failure to
p ctcr.be the test of willingness in each
car. er. (tf course the girl always says “No, ”
but is a well known fact that under sorno
cimimtrtances her’-No’ 1 means “Yes. ’ ITow
m a icllow to find out?
bo will not stand in the way ol the fit anl
chcsen candidate, nnder whom, and under
whom alone, tbeBhifty and dangerous Mr.
Blaine can be beaten. Mr. Cleveland may
make mistakes here and there, bat he is a
great big man, and in him is comprehended
democratic hope and democratic as
surance for 1888, Again indorsing all
that the Sun says of Mr. Kandall, wo urge
it to be steadfast in its devotion to him—
and patient.
The Constitution is selling enough guns
to blew a hole in tho sky—enough sowing
machines to sow tho holo np, and enough
Waterbary watches to toll how long it takes
to do It. The Constitution sells the best
and is driving all others out of tho market.
Send in your orders at once.
Gratifying Progress.
The wife of the dean of Westminster is
reported as complaining that great num
bers of people in London are so degraded
and Ignorant that the missionaries aie unable
to make them profit by religious instruc
tion. “Wc teach them to use plenty of
soap,” she said, “anil.not to steal. We can
not got above this.”
No doubt the dean of Westminster's wife
Is inclined to regard the situation she de
scribed as virtually hopeless. This is alto
gether a mistake. If tho denizens of the
slums of London can be brought to believe
in loop, and can ho induced to respect tho
property rights cf other?, they will be mak
ing considerable progress in tbo right direc
tion.
What is (rue of the London heathen is
alto trap of the heathen in largo cities every
where. It is a .veflle of time for mission
aries fopreachctitand dried sermons to such
people. It is enough, :ts a beginning, to in
terest them in the virtues of soap, coupled
with the advice to keep their hands oft' tho
property of their neighbors.
Other things will follow in due time.
Onre get people to hating dirt and loving
honesty, and they will become industrious
and moral, and, in time, religious. The
missionary who makes a nole of this will
have abundant (cod for thought.
Is rending your own subscription to us,
Mud two additional names and you wjll got
ono of oar suporb pictures, sent free to your
address. These pictures sell at §."> each in
bock cloves, and will make splendid ornaments
for your homo.
A Boom In Bogus Butter.
The main object of tho oleomargarine law
was to to protect the dairy industry. It was
thought that when dealers in bogus hattor
commenced selling the stuff with a stamp
npen it, showing its Teal character, con-
snim-rs would reject It and call lor genuine
butter.
To the astonishment of tbe butter mou
who secured the passage of the law, there is
a greater demand fo- oleomarguins than
ever. The internal revenue officers at Wash
ington are now convinced that the people *t
large misunderstand tbo significance of tbe
stamp. There appeara to be a widespread
imprrsdon that tho stamp ie to bo interpret
ed an accrtificato of tbe purity or wholesome
quality of the article. Of course the inter
nal revenu- stamp means nothing of the
kind. It simply means that the hattor is
bogus, snd that the government has the right
to test it and •mbject its macnf.’.chirers to
penalties for tho violation of tho law.
~nrfBFnj 'giifcTfvn gPHuTrie - TurHcFraanu foe
tcced in tbe country to supply tho people?
Perhaps a limited dairy output accounts in
a great measure for the apparent boom in
oleomargarine.
But tho new law has been in operation
I only ten days. It is too early to talk abont
decisive results.
Mr. Cleveland Is tho Man.
The New York Sun, one of our best bc-
lov».d -contemporaries, quotes an editorial
tom The Constitution indorsing the Sun’s
reinnik ‘hat Sir. Samuel J. Kandall would
make a good president.
The enrspfenons placing of our article on
the Sun’s editorial page, leads us to
promptly di-oiaimnDy disposition to join the
fiun in its attempt to put Mr. Kandall in
the field for the presidency in 1888,
Mr. Kandall is one of the ablest of our
public, men. Better than this lie is oua of
' die. meet honest. Ho can, in our opinion,
have the vote of Georgia pretty much when-
everhe wants ii, both in tbe nominating con
vention ard in the electoral college. And
Geo; eta Ls the state, that, with her solid deni-
Iu deLpr.tion of ten congressmen, sets
Ike .'.i loot raiic pattern for many misled
touthnii flairs. But Mr. Kandall nnder-
it: i ds tho ]>olii:< al situation as well as wc
if, and as well as the editor of the Sun
would understood it it be would tbiuk with
bio head instead of his liver.
The rann for 1888 does not bear tho name
of Samuel J. Rudail. His name is Grover
Cleveland, Mr. Kandall knows this, and
CG 000! That is just what wo noed to giro
os 100,000 subscribers. Are there not 20,000
men and women now on onr lista who know
what The Constitution is, who will send m
one now subscriber during November, a ad lot
us go into Bccembar with our full 103,000
Do this and wo’il give you a rousing Christ*
uiftf gift in tbe beet paper over printed. Wo
need only 00,000 new rnmea.
How Aliout tlic Workingmen?
The esteemed Courier Journal appears to
be somewhat rattled because The Consti
tution suggested the other day tint the free
trade ernsado which a few democrats hive
been carrying on in the west has resulted,
and will result, in driving the workingicsn
of that section out of the democratic party.
The Courier-Journal objects to.this sugges
tion in terms that are not by any memo a
challenge to a discus-ion. Nevertheless, the
denial oi the Louisville paper is worth con-
Bidering to the extent of comparicg it with
a statement recently made in New York by
its editor, Mr. Henry Watterson, who his
lately arrived from a European tour.
In discussing the probable extent of the
Henry George movement with the reporter
of a New York piper, Mr. Wiutereou gave
It as hi? opinion that the movement in ques
tion would not, in tbe nature of things, he
«s formidable as tome of its opponents
seemed to think. ‘When pressed for Iris rev-
sons for this belief, Mr. \YaUcrson arid, in
snbstanco, that there was one very important
rcaron why the movement would lie short
lived, towil: That Mr. George Ls a free
trader, while tiieworkingmen areprotectiou-
isis.
Tliis is a very good reason indeed. It is a
good reason why tho workingmen will not
support Henry George, end it is an equally
goed reason why they will not support the
democratic party, if that parly is to be
driven into indorsing the free trade issne.
The workingmen of tho north and west are
not tree traders and they never will be, nor
will they support a free trade party. They
supported tho democratic party in the last
national election because of the protection
plank in i1n platform. When a free trade
plank is substituted, they will desort the
parly without compunction.
- The ltcd Spectre.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
thinks it is all nonsenfc to borrow troibloon
account of tbo anarchists and socialists. Oar
contemporary puts it in this shape:
Take the city of Sew York, fir Instance, ant
Imagine trie every nun of the 63 <00 who vm;d fir
G'coite warn, determined anarchist Intent upon
burning tbe city, kll'ing the caplutlss and piua-
diring Then-are not p-obably x.ooo men among
the® who c< aid be Induced to encase In any „iich
bloody eatorpr.se. Bot if the entire 69 000 made
an onslaught on tho city, even avoiding that they
were able to organize tuaiciemly to mnko their
action iLiuip’i&o to the ruling powers, hu-.v long
ttr.nld It lie before the police would have them In
sufficient (ohlMtlan. so that, with the national
guard and ihcmiiitli within call, they might bo
•appree-ed? And if the rolilti* and police were
or,a hie to put tnem down alone, there are 1W.0CKI
•blr-bod.ed cMicm to aaatat in the labor. The
CMcrgo anonhbsto, with SB their engine* of do
atructlon al hand, were put down In leu minutes
by tho polite, and the sumo might be done iu any
other city in the United hutes.
It will he seen that in the imaginary
emergency spoken of the police and tho
militia would be depended upon for prompt
and efficient work. Some cities are not ade
quately policed, and some states are practi
cally without a militia. Such communities
deserve a shaking up for their negligence.
We should bring the police and militia' as
near perfection as possible.
If the authorities iu London, on the occas
ion of the lord mayor’s parade, had pursued
the timid policy of some of our American
citje 0 , the thousands of roughs, who had col
lected to make trouble, would have plungad
the city into anarchy. Preventive measures
preserved tho peace. The police and tho
militaiy occupied every point of vantage,
and the anarchists, when they found thut
they could make no headway agaiuat the
batons and bayonets on all sides of them,
quietly simmered down into ftn orderly
crowd.
It is not enough to put down the trouble
after it begins. Wo should follow the Lon
don plan, and prevent it.
Two Cranks.
ThoSouth-Y.'ect, a liquor paper edited by
a crank, has become involved in a bitter war
fare with Tho XVI Amendment, a prohibi
tion paper, edited by another crank.
The South-West recently asserted that The
XVI Amendment, in order to be consistent,
would have to admit that it was a sin to use
wine at the communion. In reply tho other
crank cheerfully outlines his position as fol
lows: “Now, that is just what we do admit,
and we will go farther and say, that as be
tween tbo use of alcoholic wine at tbe com
munion and at a public bar, we believe the
latter less offensive to God than the former.”
The liquor crank was wrong in dragging
tbo communion qurstion into tbe contro
versy, and the anti-liquor crank made a
miserable fool of himself when he threw
himself into the mire to grapple with his
opponent.
There me cranks on both sides of the pro
hibition issue. Perhaps they are necessary
evils, but this is no reason why they should
be allowed to araurao leadership. They
,-hould be summarily hustled to the roar.
Home Kulc In tlic United States.
The New York Tribune is furious bocaw»9
Governor Gordon saw proper, in his in
scgural address, to refer to the question of
stale rights, and to utter a warning against
the gradual drift toward n contralizedr gov
ernment that has made itself manifest since
the war. This drift or tendency is injjthe
Fontli as well as in the north, in the demo
cratic ss well as in the republican party, and
tho warning and protest uttered by Gov
ernor Gordon are timely and to the point.
The Tribune, however, pretends to regard
what Governor Gordon says about state
rights as an appeal to the old secession ele
ment, and it waxes hot iu its denunciations.
Tho fury of the Tribune is not by any meins
to lie regretted, for it shows that the two
parties are still divided on the vital issue of
heme rule, which, in this country, is only
another name for the right of the people to
govern themselves, eo lor as their local affairs
aie concerned, free from tho interference t
the general government. I
■\Yhcn our metropolitan contemporary d«
cl.u-es that the war settled..the, njiL-iiua.,*
conception ot the results of the war. The'
war settled that the extreme interpretatioa
of slnte sovereignty which permitted a state
to withdraw from tho union would not ha
tolerated, and it also swept away the chief
esuee of tho extreme state sovereignty idea—
slavery.
Does the Tribune supposa that the states
of the north and west engaged in a costly
war for the purpose of destroying their own
rights ? They fought to preserve the union,
and under that union the states have rights
which neither the weakest nor the strongest
will vote to surrender. Tbe war settled the
fact that the union is one and indivisible,
but the result has not deprived the states
that compose that union of even the least of
their essential rights.
The Tribune evidently regards Governor
Goulon’s remarks as a sort of “disloyal”
ontbuiat; but why did it not have the man
liness fo print this sentiment from the in
augural ?
“Nowhere in this republic,” says Gov
ernor Gordin, “are there either disloyal
citizens or disloyal sentiment*; but every
where, all hearts, voices and arms ate ready
for the pracrvntion of tbo general govern
ment in al! its constitutional vigor as tho
pledge of our peace and safety.”
On the Wrong Track.
It is generally concrdrtl that the prohibi
tionists have accomplished great things iu
Georgia, Slississippi and Texas by stkkiag
to the local option plan.
The successful operation of this mothod in
flic three Males mentioned renders it a mat
ter of surprise that the prohibitionists of
j Arkansas should have adopted a different
plan. In Arkansas the prohibitionists are
organized nan politicalpirty. In 13o3'thoy
polled 20,000 votes. At tho recent election
they polled 03,000, almost enough to carry
tho state. With such an increase in the
anti liquor vote it is sale to predict that
Arkansas will soon wheel into lineWith
Maine, Iowa and Kousts.
We see nothing in this that will benefit
tbo prohibition cause. Maine, Iowa and
Kansas should he regarded as warning exam
ples. They have shown us that prohibition
cannot he forced upon communities where
it is not wanted. On the other hand, the
local option southern states have met with,
gratifying success.
Onr Arkansas friends will do well to con
sider these points before the next election.
Their present schedule is calculated to in
jure their cause and io disintegrate existing
political parties. If they are wiso they
will fellow in the fen to tcp« of Georgia.
UUITOnlAU NOTES,
Jo*t what progress nogro education is mvk-
Ior in ftcorgla It "is impossible to say, but there
bas undoubtedly been a large Increase la Hie fa-
critics. Tte negro schools and colleges in Atlauta
arcmufch mom costly ar.<l comfortable tbsn the
school* for tbe vvbilta It ia true, that Qaob—
pcihBp* the (most—or the moneyilnvested la these
edifices, came from tho north, bnt the fact that
Atlanta bas been selected as the sue and center of
them speahBweU for the ente-prbe and loeal pride
of the leading negroes of Atlanta. Their ednesv
tfonul lnstiinttons are net only very Imposing
fiucturrs, hm tfccya-o fully equipped and eom-
fcr.ably endowrd; and, to all outward appear
ances, are doing a good work.
and yet there are negroes living under the ahad
cw of there colleges who do nol seem to under
stand that tho laws of the stale arc made to apply
to all classes. I recently heard of a case which Is
not an Isolated ono by any moans, itlsthocaso
cf anegro girl who is an orphan. Though she has
alters, she was taken in charge by an enterprising
neg: o woman; and for two or tnrco years has been
to a J intents and purposes tho wonnm'd slave, She
is hlrod out and the womnu pockets tho money.
Eccentlytheglrl ran away, and It was amusing to
ace tho distress of her negro owner. She scoured
tho country in sc*ich of her, and when tho girl
returned she mado haste to put
her claws on her. I am told
bythe negroes themselves .that snch cases arc
common iu Atlanta. They say that there oro ne
gro women who own ns many as a half dozen
slaves, and malto money by hiring them out. The
remedy ls very slmplo for all this. If tho negroes
care anything atoutlt, they; have only to bring
the facts to the attention of Judge Calhoun, tire
Ordinary.
STOlUES FROM SAVAGES’ RANDS.
Sol ini Remarkuble Stories that White Trav
eler* Have Sot Going.
Travelcre bavo told many strnngo talas about
now conntrieB they havo visited. A great many
wonderful jams havo been spuuby sailors and
traders, who ore too often Ignorant to tell the truth
about what they see, oven If they can roslst tho
temptation to tell a good story at tho expenso of
accuracy. Here ls a striking instance of tho differ
ences that may occur Irr tho accounts given by an
ignorant and an intelligent man of tbe samo thing.
Captain Lancaster, many yean ago, told ol a
wonderful plant bo found on tho sea sands of an
Island in the East Indies. He said he found the
shore covered with small twigs growing up like
young trees. When he tried to p :ll thorn up ho
was astonished to find that they shrank down
to the ground, and even sank out ot sight unl j s
ho hold on very bard. In tho course of
time Mr. Darwin examlnod the .wonderful pro
ducts cf nature which Captain Lancaster has dis
covered. He round that tho supposed plant did
not belong to tho vegetable kingdom, bnt was a
species of-the animals known as zoopbylecs or sea-
pens. “At low water." lie wrote, ‘ hundreds of
zoophytes might be scon ejecting ltko stubble.
When touched or pulled they nvld-tuly drew them
selves In with force, to a* nearly or quite to dh*p-
pear."
Bolide* tbe traveler* who willfully or Ignorantly
distort tacts there are not a row who canid journey
aronnd Ure world w ithout being able to tell much
worth hesriug of their travels. A while ago a man
who had traveled a good dual Iu tho western Pa
cific wu asked to describe the Solomon islands.
All be could say was that the water there was
very bine; that the bathing was excellent, and
that he saw many lovely aUeu for villa residences,
it was learned that he had lung been a real estate
agent In Melbourne.
Mr Komffly rays that a few years ago a traveler
who was addressing an audience In Eoglaad
which inclndrd many relentific moa solemnly as
sured them that the natives of New Britain mend
ed broken leg* by iurcrtiug apiece of tmtel-e shell
Into the boue. The shell was neatly fitted Into a
I roovo that was cut In the bone, and the euds of
the broken bone were In this manner kept togeth
er. B Is bearers never thought of questioning fall
veracity when he surprised them further by as
serting that tho science of dentistry was far ad
vanced In New Britain. Ho sold thenativosmado
beautiful teeth of motherof pearl, which thoy at
Inched to th- jaw by fiue threads of alnnet. Later
viHtora to New Britain have failed to find nay evi
dence of these accomplishments.
One cf the funniest stories that over gained w : do
ciiculattnii was. that about the bonoeallng trees of
IneLouhade archipelago. Thu story ran that
during the night tbe brandies of these trees bent
(o tho ground,and that tbe leaves,Uka those of tho
tiy-catehing plants, closed! about all bits of bone
or fitth that they happened to touch. Before
morning all traces of the bancs and meat had dtv
appeared, the trees having completely asslai
failed them. The natives worshiped them as
deities, and placed offerings or bones an., flesh
near them to appease their appetites. This story
was doubtless der ived from the fact that many ot
the Pacific islanders place thousands of bones la
the crotches of trees, and In tho processor growth
many of there become Imbedded In the wood,
q like the horseshoe which has long been on exhibi
tion in n Na'smi Btrost window.
The imaginative element ls largely developed.in
ts’nrcc-rrrfgfrr’»fi!ft»^fi 1 i¥ i N\6;.Ak«Sr l tfi!:i!. 1 iN -affnssiir
tome of which are alter ward repeated in clvtltod
lands as solemn facts. There are many sailors who
helievc to this day that there is a tribe In oentral
New Guinea w hlch Is adorned with tails. Some of
the natives of the southeast coast sro willing to
sw ear by all their gods tliat they lmvo seen men
from tbe interior of whose anatomy tails ore a
natural and highly ornamental feature. Tho sail
ors think they might to know. Jack Tar has also
circulated that other Interesting yirn from New
Guinea to the effect that tone of the natives bore
holts through their left bauds to fire arrows
through them.
WATCHING CONGRESSMEN,
Washington, Novombor la.—District Com-
mlfileucr Wheatley todaj began a hearlog of tho
testimony In thocaso ol Police Lieutenant Richard
Arnold, charged with giving currency to a false
report to the effect that Superintendent of Police
Major Walker had issued an order directing the
police to maintain an espionage over the move
ments and habits of congressmen with a view to
Influencing legislation. A number of witnesses
were examined and the testimony was
rather conflicting. Itanpsared from tho evidence
of Sergeant Diggina that the accused had told
him that Major Walker had suggested at a moot
ing cf lieutenants of the umy that tho habits ol
members of congrces visiting questionable vesorbt
re roted; that Iniormalien might bo used to in-
finches legislation,
Witness ned inquired if the order was to bo act
ed on. to which ihe lieutenant responded “cor-
lately no:; drop it right here." Superintendent
Walker (Killed In moug terms that ho had ever
raid anjihteK that could be construed tuionu or
der of the kind described,and ho war corroborated
In bis statement by tercrai lieutenants, who
bad attended the meeting. Tin of tho
luuttnnct* or. the other hand tenth!
ed that when reference was made
to the* private habits of some public mere Major
Walker bad said tlnil It would be -veh m keep
litre Hit: gs in mind, at they might be of benefit,
ai d tV: another remark ot Walkers was:
‘ Make note of such eases awl no can get an in
crease of one hundred men for the force."
The hearing wa‘ not completed today.
PERSONS AND THINGS.
SEN.vhpn Vance's summer homo, "Gnu
breon," Is to the wildest part of the Blue Ridge
and Black mountain country, two tnomanfi seven
hundred feet abovo tho tea and eight miles from
ary railroad.
Tut; fcucday-rchool teacher was impressing
upon licr class the importance ot honoring .their.
I-auuts. "Now, children," laid she, "whea you
»ie nitigb'J aad cross your mamwti’ doer not want
you to be near her whom she can see your naughty
ways. But whea yen are good sire love* to hive
you by Iwr. Now, To umy, when do you ihtnic
your mammalovcB youbesri" "Whea f’laaslcep,"
replied Tommy, stoutly. “She says so."
Nkab tho village 'of Halifax Courthonso,
Vlrgii ia, llvre a colored woman who had both
binds cut oil' just abovo tbo wrists when quite
young, yet sue is now able to work, wash, sew aud
do other woman's work well. Site make* fine
patchwork for quilts, etc., and has made money
selling men work to cnrlosi'v loving psnpio. Sev
eral rimes she has been offi-rcd Inducements to
travel cm exhibition, but always declined.
A citizen of Minneapolis is baililteg a gen
uine log house right In the city. It will be a big,
rambling dwelling, with queer corners and quaint
windows, bnt tt will have all the modern Improyj-
mi nte and will cost f20.000.
On Sunday a census of tho attendance at
chnrefces ofLondon was taketh It showed that
•ko.oco persons attended the service t In the morn-
in* and ac,01.0 at night. The l-.rge.t esubdahed
chnrch, St.! aul's. ha-1 an t-vculng attendance of
S,«P. Mr. Spurgeon's church war nt I Ire head of
the dissenting eburehe*. having a worsting attend
are - cf -1,519 and an evening attendance <>r«,0J0.
“Ami what have yon named tho baby?" in-
qn!n da suave candidate cl a father, upon whioi
he v a» collli'B-
‘ Nothing ” wav the answer.
"Ah. family mine. I pio time." murmured tho
candidate ftpprovingiy, as he patted tne cheek of
the young constituent —Detroit Free ITe;n.
Miss Winnie Davis is to visit v/aibington
this winter, aud will be presented at tl.o white
home by Secretary Lanar,
Generai. Siiebidan’s mother permanently
settles tho disputed qu' sffon of where her dlalla-
tubbed son was born by locating that event in
r Ibsny, JJ. Y., March 6. 1832. Among wall in-
fount d people It la . geucruLy thought that lira
Sheridan ought to know.
OUR KNOWLEDGE BOX.
Subscriber, Seneca, S. C: Can yon toll mo
something about the Jewish year.’
Tho year, as used by tbe Jews, sectcstohavo
been Instituted ubout tho timo of tho exodus,
though n similar division of tlmo wav apparonlly
known In the age or Noah. Though wc cannot fix
the characteristics of any sing’o year from the
sacred record, we know the exsonttol points of di
vision for years In general. There Is no doubt that
tho year was solar, that is, It Included Ihetimoof
tlic sun’s apparent revolution in the ecliptic. Hsd
this not been so, tho feast of the first traits, when
thcotferte gs of harvest timo won node, whtoh was
fixed by law at a certain timo of tlia year, would in
tho lapso of a few years bo thrown quite out of Its
proximity to theharvest season. But it is quite as
certato that tho months were lunar, each begin
ning witba new moon. Thoro must have, therefore,
been some method cf adjustment, aud It Is known
that after the captivity the custom of Inserting an
intercalary or thirteenth month was followed.
This extra month was Intel ted seven times In a
a ctc'-O r-t nineteen yisr .. it Is nit known ex
actly how tho Jews fixed tho commencement of
etch yoar, but probably they determined It by the
rising or setting of somo -‘.tar which was known
to mark the right timo of the solar year. Tbo
timefromono ptev-over to another,therefore,varlc.1.
It usually included twelvo lunar mouths of thir
ty days each,but occasionally had thirteen months.
The Jowb, after the captivity, had two reckon
ings for their year—the sacred and tho civil reck
onings. By the sacrod reckoning, which bod been
Instituted at the exodus, the Hist month ot tho
year was tho month Abib, occurring aoout tho
timo of the vernal equliox. By the civil reckon
teg the first month was Tizri, the soventh ot tho
sacred year, beginning at near tho timo of the
autumnal equinox.
J. C. H., Ocala, Florida: Ploaeoglvo tho cen
ter of population.
The center ol population Is defined as "the print
at which cqulUfealum would be rcachod, were tho
country taken as a piano surface. Itself without
weight, but capable ol sustaining weight an-i
loaded with gs Inhabitants, In number and por
tion as thoy are found at the period under consid
eration, each Individual bringassumed tobeoftbo
same gravity as every olhbr, aud consequently to
exert pressure on the pivotal point directly
proportioned to bis distunes therefrom.” That
ls to say, .lt.ls tho center ot gravity of tho
population of the country. In 138J th: coaler
of populajon was placed at latitude 39 de
grees, 01 minutes, CB second.-:, longitude 84
degrees, 39 minutes, 40 seconds, which ls In
Kentucky, eight miles south by west from
the center of the city of Cincinnati, ono mile from
the south bank of the Ohio rit er, undone mile and
a half southeast from the Village of Taylorsville.
In 1190 this center was twenty-threo mite* cast of
Baltimore, Md. It has moved westward nearly on
the Ure of the 391h parallel of latitude. h>7 miles
to ninotv years. The method of ascertaining this
center ls thus outlined by the cor res report. A
point was lltst assumed os neat the probable cen
ter, snd through this point a parallel aud a merid
ian were drawn, these Hues being take a as the
axes of moments. A north or south moment is the
product of the population by Its distance from tho
assumed parallel; ai, cost or west moment Is tbe
product of the populMton bj Its distance tram tbe
attumed meridian. In the first case tho degrees
were measured in minutes or arc; !a tho second
case it was necessary to use in Its on account of tuo
unequal length of a degree In different latitudes
Tbo population of the country was then grouped
by square degrees, that ls, by areas Included
between consecutive parallels and meridians,
as these ere convenient nulls with wnich
to work. The popula touol' onehtmdreri oftbo
principal cities was then deducted 'romthatof
their square degrees *nd treated separately. Taou
tho position ol the center of the population tor
each iquarc degree was estimated as nearly as pos
sible. Tho population of each square degree, and
of each city north and south of the assumed par
allel, was multiplied by its distance IroratUat par
allel, and tbo sum of tbe north aud of tho south
moments made up. Their diflerenco divided by
tho total population of the country gave the need
ed correction to the iatuuile.tfao sign of thecorrec-
tion being positive if north, negative If south.
Similarly the east and west moments were made
up, and from them tho correction In longitude was
made. The result gave tho latitude and loDgbade
of the point accepted as the centcrofpopuUtio.j.
It makes no allowance for the spherical sutrace
of the globe, and therefore can not be s .rictiy cor-
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AT GETTYSBURG.
A Monument to Murk tho Spot Where Uon-
• federates Bravely.lfonght.
A confederate monument Is to be dedicated at
Gettysburg on the iO.h.
Although defeated at last on that memorable
field, there was no battle of tho war. perhaps,
where greater bravery was shotvu by tho confed
erate troops. Tho third day's assault upon tho
federal stronghold foiled, and the glory of the pre
ceding days was overshadowed, but confederates
still Jtcl a : dcCp interest In the bloody ground
which He* between cemetery ridge and seminary
rtdgo.
Mr. ThomasTriers, of Atlanta said on raster-
day, while discussing tho monument which 1* to
bo dedicated on the l'Jth:
Swell’s corps having reached Carlisle, was
threatening Harrisburg, when orders were re
ceived ctirccfliig them to mweh to Gettysburg
(remit oast.) On the evoui rg of July 1st, about
tao miles fromi Gettysburg, the advance of
ell’s corps (Edward Johnson's division) came
upon the Bcououttho fight made by Hills corps
that afternoon. Passing through the team, posi
tion was taken on what became later the extreme
left of the conftderste line of battle.
in Johnson's dint-toii wna Stewart's brigruto.
remnosed of tbo Second Maryland, Third North
Carolina. Tenth Virginia, and Xorenty-lhird Vir
ginia. This brigade was the extreme left of tbe
left wing of the army, and the Second Maryland
Jiao the left of this brigade thus receiving the
brunt cf the attack, from front gua Hank.
in such position tbe line advanced to tho fight
of the 20.1 of July, attacking toe rodersls on C-ilp'd
Hl‘4 *nd wbendaikoem name -on Stewart's brig
ade had taken the main 1 Urto or bre&itworts aud
was iuside, at close quart .re with the enemy.
The shouts from I ton ml Top, .vhicu an tbo oruer
end of cur “taorso-riioc" line, could be distinctly
hi and through the nlghi; but other sounds of
rumbling aitlliery and wagons were also hoard to
the immediate front, and irheatiio o*:ly gray of
the sa came nnnumbered camion belched forth at
point blank range, and the eecomt Maryland lost
many cf its bravest ana best. A fter stubbornly
conusting the position onr army toil back."
It is wetJ known that toil butt'eticld has been
decorated, HI to -speak, with monument?, penret-
uatlng and commemorating the praltiou and
defdsof the several constituent pontons of the
federal army on that occasion.
Not until now has any such action been taken as
rebauls tte cc-tifi ileratea, and now, under tho per-
mb-rion of the Gettysburg Memorial association,
which controls ol! matters pertaining to this uis-
torto Ceid, this mouurr.cn will be dedicated ou
tbeJStb under the auspices of tho Second alary-
General George H. Stewart, who comraandod the
tndsade, w:!l to chief marshal on the occasion.
T he surviving members of the Heated Maryland,
nuder Major Vi.W. UoMsborougli; the Army and
Navy society and tlic Maryiaun liuc, under Gen
eral Bradley T. Johnson, win he present.
expiate George Thomas, acting adjutant or the
reglrr cntat the battle, will deliver the ad he-,-.
! ; all 'lo)ph -Mofflto, aid totlcaeral tienrge
witbprajer WiU b ° U * TileJ 10 “Win the terriers
When the location of tho monument was being
twsKS’k "ff ,'i“ ircd b J ‘he Maryland boil
“ft they be allowed to erect U on tho spot to
wbtefi, they penetrated within the lines ot the
ftdersls, bnt it was finally determined by the au
thorities that this spot might be designated by a
stone and the monument erected just outside tho
works, with an tefcripuo.i reciting that the com-
ut “I 1 * P°lut and reached
thespot beyond designated by the stono.
'op® CTcetion of this monument is! cvidenco
21% P PT08C ?.? r ‘Bat day when nil tlic bright
clvti war will be regarded ns tho com
mon he: itage of Autericau valor, wlthoutregard to
the sifle on which the tight was done. h
RTonoy for the Southern States.
Xew Yobk, Xovomber 10.—The hoard of
mis*ions of the Methodist Episcopal church met
in regular session today and made tho following
appropriations tor the southern states: Alabam a
SB.400; Arksussa. SS.COO; Austlu, Tex**, K.O®, Blue
MOge, H.CCO; Ventral, Terni,, ft.OoO, and Georgia,
Pt.coa
8end» Xlls Mew Subscriber.
The following letter is just tho kind we ask
for. IVo asked last weak for each subscriber to
setd ono new subscriber. Mr. Montague sands his
new fubreriber with tho following letter which
we highly appreciate. Let us sec who mill bo
0(xt,
•‘if; puatMgjyX. C.: November 9.—
posm , 1 , no; ' i foroao dollar for which
pHaresfndthc weekly one year tn.f V. Larktu
*ald he could not
jakott. Today, wlxvi he fraud out I had
"ornes bo huxttod about ami raised
hi* Hlth dq l&r. He sava no use talking, I can't
get along without Tub CoseiKrvuos.”
GRAVE TO GAY.
Take Care Not to Batch tka'Nsit-Egip
From Flick.
Bucolic: Tho best way fo koep hens front
setting is to havo Iron pipes running tinder tho
nests, and kept so hot that tho hens can’t under*
take to yet her work In without having her feather*
burned down to tho q»i :k.
She Was Too ifrcsli,
From It ambler.
Now, Johnny, you remember that Lot's wlffi
was changed to a piilar of; ait boca-ue tho turned
and Icoke back. tYby did she torn and loo®
back?”
‘Oh, I s’pose somo o’.hor woman passed tor wltU
a new dress ou.”
It's WroDg to Make Her Jealous,
Firm the Fall River Advanco
There's many a dear girl's pret'y hand, o.--sed 10
Snritywf 11-fitttog kid glove, looks as Innocent
as a baby’a kiss even while it Is tingling :o reso’i
some rival’s bangs and to put a cyclone under hog
bated bonuet.
Knew What She Waa Talking About.
From tho Omaha World.
Miss Ethel—Impossible. Mr. Do Sailor, teji
potsible, but I will alwajsho yc.ur sister.
Mr. Dc uuitcr—I fear you will not Ion/ accorO
me even that comfort, Mtw F.tfcol.
"Ob! havo no fear. 1 have just enra.'-i-,! myself
to your elder brother.
A Man 8 Fori C Inches trigb.
From the Fall Mall Ga’Oito.
A giant is coming to Loudon. Ho to an Anj.
titan. He calls himself Wtekelmcicr. Ho is 0
feet C Inches In height, and is ono o.' the talle*
men who havo lived since tho days of the Anakteg
Ho Is very much taller U: n Maid Marian, undes
whose outstretched arma the bslict used to Janet?
at the Alhambra, But she died before she had
finished growing, and Wiukolmeicr will never bs
any taller. Ho Is said to have nothing to recorak
mend him to notice except his size, bung, Ilka
most giants, without any particular hitellectuaS
energy.
The ltrldo to Boston.
From the Boston Herald
At Trinity chnrch Mrs. Cievai"
quietly, yet elegantly attired. Her drc«
light brown silk, soft and latlrelt??, .v. l i
with, rich passamcnlertc of qo'.dc.i bro
v.-ore a short *raier k ■ it of lito.-g
trimmed at tho throat and sleeves with otl
bonnet was a charming coublnalion of b -
lteacock blue, with velvet trimmlugs of tl
the crown being formed of a pa- iraen
tiny golden crystals. Tarcugh lior
brown hair was Virus’, a dagger pin stu-M-
a magnificent topnz. thus completing r.co
which all tints were charmingly bleu:-
gloves were bur colored and her faa w»» i:
harmony w ith the Siuo:.-.! toili-t.
Ha If now Her SUghtly.
From the Now York dttr.
A recent young rnxu of tho genus d z
in a.theater foyer whll: u pretty scans «
tag a rif quo tong. Turuteg to a seedy ma
side ho raid;
"Clara Is n darling. aiii'Lslie?"
The seedy man didn’t i ay anything.
"She’s better lookuig off the stage, the igb. ' eos
tinned the previous you.b.
"Do you know her." interrotaied the *co ly one.
"Irhould amUe," ren-ouded tho yourg man
with a wink that was a whole Boceaeio'* ltooa.
meron iu Us slgnllleanco. "Ohizho'sa liv -.lyoao;
likes her supper and a boltle of wtoo ai-.- r tho
sh< w. I'm pretty colid; would you like to t o la-,
troduced?”
"No, thank you; I know he: sUghtly. I’m f.O"
husband."
'Oh::"
•
Tho Coming s .duty YVoiuan.
From tbo Washington Critic.
Tho li’ile girl's father had recently bew
appointed to an ofllco lu the di-irict, and - h: and
her mother were out one nlgnt to ace a
who opened a bottle cl champagne.
‘‘j'hank you,” raid the Indy, when a gla*?
handed her, "I never drink champagne."
The child looked gravely at her mjthor
"Take it,” sho said lu a tone of couimau J.
‘ Why. Uet-to." cxetaimed Uie mother ••«■%**
do yen mean.”’
“You must drink it, mem*."
"But I don't like It,” she remoustr;.!(,
“Well, you must leara to. Wo can't over -repert
to move to society If wo don’t drink champagne,”
and tho kid swallowed hers li.-to a llii’.c nianj
while the mother almo-t had a fit.
Tiro Angel nr.tl the lints.
From the Washington Critic,
She was a young woman In Washington for
the season, and »' very fon l of natratiag hoi
conquests and spe-sklug rf her powers ove: trail.
Ho wes a bachelor with a heart of sinno and»
check of cast iron.
They were talking of loro and :. . m >uy m; '4
cognate subjects.
“I’vo been engagod six weeks, Mr. X.’ ..ho said,
with reliesblcg candor to view of tnc f /■; that Lho
arn-rar.-'erc-;:.* ha'. /-e l i;:th.
the next day after the proposal.
•Ah?" he Mi-1 with * .-o’ i smil v-cath.-T
around an iutcrtogaUou point. “How- charming.”
"DeUghtful, Mr. X,”sho continued,: cliantiyi
"Ho was an old frleud of our family, *' l lie was
ro perv-stenl. How long -lo yon thick I t.jpt th"
poor, dear fellow waiting for Ids answer?" and sLj
giggiea a real swell gigg’e.
"I'm—um," he cogitated, as If calculating an
equation of time between a umdlal ana * Wator -
hnry watch. "I'm—well. I should say about a
minute and a half; possibly two OXinutoe."
There was nn abrupt lermiaotlcra to th-, couver*
sa’lon, sud tho brnto wa? left aloaa In tho alcore
where they had been talking.
Hon. tloim Harbour Serenaded.
WABJirNGTos, Kovratber II.—Hon. John 5.
Barbour, of VlrBinla, who has just rcUmi- d from
a trip to Europe, was given aooinplluu .i ry rccep.
tion and teicuadc tonight at the Mc-.rcpoUtaa
hotel by tho Vii-Rteia democratic a -o . 'o r aud
many penov.al friends. In teSponae to r. • ronadc,
he spoke from a balcony ot the hotel t ' ■■■ larji.
crowd a;/cm bled in tWa stre e-t below.
I'.Ke.
All men who livo have from life’a oarliesS
date
Bowed to the edicts In the Book of Fate,
AndTirac. our Mentor, watchful, hoary rage.
Unfolds touscach closely written page.
And slowly :is the nivsttc pages turn
’Tls all too fast, for every day w-o lcoru
Some leffoa of tho pain, and v;riot. aud woo
That Fate has written, aud that man mus; kuowj
‘Tin raid when Nature made our earth ao fair,
I.tst ruau should find loo much perfection there,
She mafic a changeless evil law. and vow., ’.
No day should bo too b: Lht for one dark c loud
Aud ftirther i.till earth s P veliness to mar
Decreed them should be many a night mltboutoaO
star.
So, when Fate writes the story of our lift.
With cruel purpose, tud with cvllrito.
Lott when she cuts our threud i>r tito In two
Wc have not sufftre-d as wo ought to do,
Lest when cur souls drift out of life a-i-i light
They nisi eternity's chill, stsiless night.
Lest they bear with thorn through eternity
Tho deathless boou of some sweet memory,
Lest wo should love this ausoaghv life we bear,
Fate real, her book Willi jealous, cruel car/.
Aud then the stamps as het’s the soulless deed
In letters that her victims all may read;
“No psgo loo white in this, my booV, to show
Tho reeoid of the pain tbo soul must kirow,
Ani many a tear-statetd, sln-steepocl pngo shall
tell
How often that you suffer..!, stnnod a.id f. it.”
And Fate, the monster, play, her p- r.‘. or part, <
A Bcuilcss woman with a re-rpeni'a heart;
Aud litbc, Icur, cruel Dngvrsou our thtua *
In mockery of ourholplttaucra sin. gloat-. '
Ifwohsdsr.nght this curse that men eo" broathj
Then, having lived, ’tw<:- me -t -.- suffer dca'h,
But all uuseusht wc hearth • life wok'to
Merc puppet* iu the bloo-lle-s hand of Fate
i':.t‘c.'; !;--t f**o’l ail- i. < .'ucg.-l fi-.l I,
Altifcl io her relentless will, obedience yloid.
When time shall moigo Into etemitv;
Wlu-U nty'bs like Ilonc ami Love shidl Cease to UU
When fBiili ifi shattoro«l, Hr..i sadly iioccn
Toh»\e l«pcn rodoly w«>ttM>d fr*»m llfo’s dreaxof
When r.il cm» idcls provo hut Fe;i*:i* less clay.
\nd heaven itself seems dim and far a. wav',
Siill fetern, relcntles", cruel »o the liu-t,
Ah the lias been in coimWe5s xmrt.
Fate wrecks onr rents on uoubi’s insiiikidS st?*,'
Ihen leaves them Mraiuled it» eternVy.
4 _ __ . Murnhall Qmfr
Atlanta, Ga., Motcmnor 12.