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e 0HE WEEKLY CJONSTTfUTlOILj ATLANTA, GA, TUESDAY MAY 10 1867
WE WANT YOUI
na OonatitnUno want* an scant at mt,
gostoSlc* In Araarlna. Axenta ontdt fraa and
good tanna. If 70a are not la a slob, aa
■ant con to aet aa acant atyonr odea. Write
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Wa want 10,000 acanta.
Cample, and on tilt free.
ATLANTA, GA., HAY 10,1880.
Tbs Mil tan hat bad one hundred and Ally
of his wires vaccinated. This it a cruel in
justice to the other seren hnpdtod.
M. Pahtsus stoutly defends his hydro
phobia treatment. He aaya he has treated
orer fire hundred casea this year, and has
lest only one.
Attorksv-Oekkuai. Gahi.and announces
that four years in the cabinet will be enough
for him, aod that after March, 1889, be will
snore to New York to practioe law.
Cabrisk pigeons hare been sent to the
French Congo rrglon. They will be used to
expedite communications between theofllcial
station., which are about fifty miles apart.
Ir.f.IKOis is about to pass the sererest law
yefenaeted in this country against alien
ownerehipofland. All aliens owning land
in that state will he required to move into
the state or forfeit their lands.
Only a few days ago the moremenl to
erect an equestrian statue of General Korn it
was started in Memphis. Hnhacriptions
hare poured in rapidly and orer 11,000 has
already been contributed to thi. laudable
Object.
Plymouth church is racked with dleaen-
akmaortr the choice of a successor to Beochcr.
Dr. Joseph Parker, of London, is the most
prominent probability, but cri a ho would
“rattle around” fiarfully in the place left
vacant by the giant.
ltBAy.il. will before long bs without a
master nud without a slave. Under the act
ol 1872 emancipation Is proceeding rapidly.
In 18711 thcic were 1,110,000 slnvea lu brazil,
According toarecentregiatratioutlie number
has lieen reduced to 700,000.1
Hii.enc, the only danghterof Heron Solo-
won Rothschild, oi Paris, Ingoing to marry
Captain Van Saneasler, a poor young man in
the Belgian army. However, Helene and
her husband will not suffer. She has already
an immense fortune in her own right, and
her dot will ho about $30,000,000.
Tub fifth annnal session of the Monlesge
Assembly will open July II and closo Sep
tember 7, Tlio summer schools will open
witb the assembly and 'rontinue six weeks.
Many of the ablest lecturers in the country
have been engsged, and the present see-don
promises to be tho moat interesting in the
history oi Monteaglc.
Tun Chicago Inter-Ocean makes some
atonement lor its many sins by the following
psmgvaph :
“What we need," wysthe Charleston News end
Omnler, “an free ship. end free raw materials."
Whet the sooth most needs I. to roast brawn a lot
of may frit-traile editors. Slam the days of J.
€1, Calhoun down to 1801, and tho proaont time,
Charleston editor, have been • poor .ouroo to look
to for either sound lento or .aleemanshlp.
It irritate, the Now York Tribune beyond
measure because Mr. Davis expressed a prof-
•ranee as to who should be moyor ol Mont
gomery. Whllelaw Held's suspenders nro
losing their grip. Tho Tribuno was founded
by n man who went on Mr. Davis’s bond la
IfhU, and tho little chaps who now run tho
paper ate living on tho Impetus which that
blg-hentled, big-brained man gave It.
Mayou Hkwitt'h administration is a
reign of terror lo tho "dives" of New York.
Scores of the most disreputable dens In that
city bave.hcrn broken np, and many others
have been compelled to become comparatively
decent. Tern Gould, the proprietor of ono
of the wont of the places, defied tho anthirl-
tiee. lie fcss Joel been sentenced to pay a
fine of $10,1100.
Tun year has started with a bad rain
record. The .Ignal service figures show
that the rainfall In the cotton stales for tho
first quarter hoi been remarkably otight.
The average for tbie period In 1887 was lull)
Inehei against Id 71 inches for tho first qnar-
ter of I88il. The dry Spring has in many
auctions so delayed tbe planting of cotton
that it will inflict permanent Injury on the
flumenf.
Genirai. 8. R. Bihknku, who wilt be the
next governor of Kentucky is a man of mid
dle itatnre, with small, piarclag bint eyas,
snow-white mustache and imperial and a
rather ruddy dace. Be la between atxty.five
and seventy yean of age. nets wealthy. Ilia
real estate in Chicago is said to ba worth
$100,000. About two yarns ago he naanied, a*
his second wife, a reigning belle of Rich
mond, Va. They have a bouncing boy n year
nitely, so far a* lire fntnre estimate of hi
ability and (kill as a commander are con
earned. As u men there is noqaestion as t(
his position; and it is absolutely impossible
for such a coarse and savage nature as Gen
oral Rheinmu (o appreciate or comprehend
him.
Let na hear no more about silver at the
present rate of coinage driving gold out of
the country. The Inst public debt statement
leaned April 30, gives the gold assets of tbe
treasury at $271,33(1,915. It is thought that
there will lie fully $300,(HK),000 of gold in
the treasury by tbe end of the present year.
Tbe Wall street philosophers should rumin
ate on these figures between drinks.
Samuel.I. Randall never talks nnless
he has something to say. He recently nt-
tend these words of wisdom:
"1 take no Mock in (Ms talk about discontent in
tbe perty with tbe president. It does not exist in
tbe rsnk and flic, some of the leaders may be dls
satisfied, but H would be Impossible for everyone
to be arstitled In tbo dispensation of patronage. 1
know tho president In all casco nsca every on
deavor In harmonize conflicting nenonol Intereste
by urging tbe friends or rival candldataa for places
to pool their ltauoa and concentrate on a single
namo. 1 think you will And that all tbe delays in
making changes are from this canoe and for which
tbo president |ls not responsible. I don’t think
there Is any one to contest the nomination with the
president if be desires It and you will dnd that be
will bo supported with perfect unanimity by tho
whole patty."
Mr, Cleveland's Policy.
The New York World Is disposed to take
the Lonisville Coniicr-Jonrnsl to task fur Its
interpretation of democratic intentions dar
ing the campaign which reanlted in tba
election of Mr. Cleveland. Brother Waiter-
son’s paper cays that "civil service reform
sounded well; everybody took it," and "tbe
democrats preached it because the repnbli-
enns were in office, and it meant that, as
they had abnted office, they sbonld go oat.”
Whereupon, tbe World inquires why the
democrats didn’t say that if they meant it.
Well, the truth is they didn’t mean it, and
they didn’t carry on a campaign nnder false
pretenses. The platform on which Mr.
Cleveland was nominated announced in
favor of genuine civil service reform, and
the democrats, whan they mode their nomi
nation, knew that their candidate was a
genuine civil aervicc reformer. His position
was well known to everybody then, nnd It is
well known to everybody now.
Criticisms and complaints leveled at Mr.
Cleveland by democrats are, as we have
undritaken on several occasions to show,
altogether out of order. The entire demo
cratic party, through Its repronntatives nt
Chicago, declared in favor of genuine civil
service reform, and nominated a genuine
civil service reformer; and we do not sup
pose there is an intelligent—certainly not an
honest—democrat in the country who Imag
ined that Mr. Cleveland was playing the
hypocrite. No democrat helieved that Mr.
Cleveland, after his election, would violates
law pasaed by a democratic congress, and
inaugurate what is known ns the spoils
system.
Tho president has carried ont his poliey in
good iitilb. He has enforced both the letter
and the spit it of tbe law, and by doing so
has commended his administration and the
dtmorrallr party to that large conservative
elute at the north, the sympathy and sap-
]>mt of which will insure democratic sncceas
at the next election.
appointed by a republican president as min
ister to Liberia, said several months ago that
be had become convinced of President
Cleveland's sincere friendship for the colored
people, and that every right of tho colored
citizen would be amply protected nnder this
democratic administration. Scores of other
prominent and influential negroes have
spoken in terms no leas emphatic. Every
citizen, of whatever race, is interested io
having honest government. When the
colored voters look at this question fairly
and intelligently, they will support the beat
men for office regardless of tho clamor of the
republican politicians, who have deceived
and swindled them in the past, and are
awaiting the opportunity tp do the name
thing in the fntnre.
A Real Canadian Trouble.
We are confronted by a Canadian problem
which isofmneb more practical Import to ns
than the qtwrrcl over the fisheries, it ia tba
threatened paralysis of the great and hopefal
trade of the Unite! Hfates with the British
provinces by the operation of the interstate
commerce act.
A recent report of the United Btatee com
mercial agent nt London, Ontario, discloses
this dangtr in a way which demands at
tention.
Under the interstate law freights from
New York to Canada have been ratted so
high that Canadian merchants find it to their
advantage to porebase from England articles
which, nnder railroad competition, oar mer
chants anil manufoctnreis could supply
cheaper than the English. The raising of
rates to this falsi point is necessary nnder
tbe literal enforcement of tbe long and short
lianl clause. In some cases where freights
have not been put so ts to shnt ont tba com-
metcial enterprise of the United States, the
railroads relate to givs any rates at all be
cause of the uncertainty as to tbo construc
tion of the law by the commissioners. This
course is fully nn disastrous as the establish
nient of prohibitory rates.
An instance is given of a Canadian mer
chant who abandoned an attempt to pur
chase $10,000 worth ol California goods be
cause the railroads oonld not inform him
what charges they would be compelled to
make. Where rutee are definitely known they
are from 21 to 100 per cent higher than the
old rates.
It will lie seen, therefore, thatonr commer
cial relation) with Canada nro in a state of
conlhsion and the ontlook for oar Canadian
trade ia decidedly gloomy. It Is said that
oven if congress should repeal the interstate
act at the next session onr trade with Osnn-
da will have suffered a damage which it
will require yents to repair.
Tbs Nashville Union has aenia "like
gyown folks.” It ttrack the meet eensitive
chord in the eonth when it remarked in ite
Dine of last Monday : “Tba internal reve-
nne law to the moat obnoxious of all the war
mrtunrrs now left standing, bat tbe enemies
of tho American syeiem of collecting our
nvenne by customs dntioe are willing, and
Indeed prefer, thlaoppneslon and tyrannies!
direct taxation to n system that gives pro
tection to American lahor.”
Pirrxxx yean ago it was thought that
Dots would not grow in Nebraska. The ex
periment was made and it has succeeded
splendidly. Nebraska originated Arbor IUy
nnd no other state in the union has reaped
aoch benefits from this institution. It is n-
ilmated that twelee million trees w re
planted on the first Arbor Day in Nebraska.
Millions more baee been added on each suc
ceeding aniserexry ol this tree feast. Geor
gia will celebrate her second Arbor Day next
November. She ought to catch tbo spirit
of tbD important occasion as Nebraska has
Gexebal Rrkrman baa mitten a reply
to General Wolralay's article on General
lee. The fame of General lee ae n man
and s soldier was not derated by the oology
of the English general; it certainly cannot
he injured by nnythiag that General Bher-
noan can write. The place General Lee will
hold in history nuy not now be Milled deft-
l-.'nrtlii|unkcs and Cyclonos.
The severe earthquake shocks in Califor
nia, Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas are of inlly as orach importance as
tho calamity at Charleston last year. The
disturbance wtut felt over nn area nine hun
dred miles long nnd six hundred miles wide.
In some localities the direction of the seis
mic wave was from cast to west; in others it
was ftom north to south. The volcanic
ernpliona attending the shock may or may
not have been exaggerated in the telegraphic
reports, bnt there appears to bo no doabt
that wmelhing ol tho kind occurred.
The fact that this great convulsion comes
dating tho cyelono season adds to lte terri
ble interest. Many scientists hold that
thrro ia nn intimate connection -bekireeu
electric alorms nnd enrthqnekea. It is n
good rale just after n cyclone to look oat fir
earthquakes, and then prepare fir hurricanes
and rain alorms. l’erhape the cooling or
the esrtb's ernst has something to do with
it, and possibly it is dno to disturbances in
tbs electric current passing hetweon the
eaith and the enn.
If there is anything in this theory, it is
plain that w# cannot hope to guard against
three mysterious forces of nature. II wo
put our trust in light nad elastic frame
etincinrra on acconnt of tho earibqaskn,
the wild winds will sweep ns away. If we
seek shelter ftom the cyclone's fury in sub
stantial granite walls or to cellars and caves,
we are liable to he crushed under the tailing
debris or traried in the bowels oi tbe
earth.
It la useless to point to tho moral. We
must take what cornea, and be ready.
Tho Colored Voter.
Rome very Interesting newspapers are now
edited and published by colored men in vari
ous puls of tbe country. The tone of moat
of these papers la good. They eeem to be
honestly striving to serve the beat interests
ef the colored cltlxen.
Rome of them have snggseted that it
wonld be a good thing to have a national
convention of representative negroes to bs
held in Washington next Joly for the par-
pote of a ftee interchange oi views as to the
condition, prospects and duty of the oolorsd
people in the t'niled Slates. Tbe proposi
tion has been favorably received by the re
cognised leaden ol the race in this country,
anti the proposed convention will probably
beheld.
One of the most important questions that
would arise before such a convention wonld
be the dnty of the colored voters in relation
to national politics, Krery day it becomes
more evident that they do not mean to llock
in nisra after repahliran leaders, or to be de
ceived by low appeals to their old prejudices.
The negro voter is begiontog to think tor
fciniirlt. As tho Brooklyn Citizen ooservoi:
‘The time when he williugly snb-uitte t to
dictation on tho acore of alleged faeont in tbs
past hat gone by. it is recogmxdd by l ie
colored voter thst President V ereUnd is a
friend of the race; and it is plainly arevrtol
by leading colored men in the aonth th.il he
will be the man of their choice in 14Si
Broken premiers and party domineering
haveprodnred on effectual impression.”
Bishop H. 51. Tomer, of Georgia, a few
days ago tapcaasedhto convictions to word*
very similar to these.
J. Milton Tomer, of 8L Lottie, who woo
These Arc Not Southern Outrages.
The Boston Advertiser in no unkindly
spirit colls attention to the mnrder of Dc.
Northrop by the Ilqaor men in Ohio, nnd
says that ifit had occurred in tbe sonth an
instrnctivo lesson would have been drawn
ftom it. Onr contemporary also speaks of
the Haddock mnrder In Iowa as a case in
point.
It is gratify ing to eco this matter thirty
discussed by tbe northern press. The cases
of Haddock and Northrop are Jnst alike.
The two men undo themselves obnoxious by
their war npon tho Ilqaor men and their as
sassination followed. I’ablic sentiment h ts
made it impossible thus far to oonvict the
Haddock murderers. How it will be with
the slayers of Northrop time will show.
Now, daring the past two years we have
had jnst as exciting prohibition campaigns
In the sonth as onr northern friends have
bail. Rough talk has been indulged in,
communities nnd families have been divid
ed, good citizeis have been broken up in
business nnd their property virtually con-
fiiraUtl, bnt wo bnvo escaped tho deeds of
violence nnd tho paralysii of law reported
from lown nnd Ohio, It the Boston Adver
tiser wants to “draw instroctivo lessons,’’
why not draw one from the eitnation as it
exists?
If the prohibition agitation does nothin;
farther than to bring ont tho sonth in still
stronger light ns tho land of law and orritr,
ct ns linen the full benefit of it,
A Timely Topic.
Many things are done in the name ol re
ligion and by men who pretend to be ex
tremely religions, that tend to injnre rather
than advance ChrDtinnlty.
The religion tanght by onrBavlor has been
of Immense benefit to tho human race. It
has spread civilization, mads mnn happier
and better, elevated woman, and purified
and icdrcmcd millions. Bat many things
have hern done In the name of Christianity
Umt have brought great misery and suffer
ing into the world.
We must expect to see history repeat it
self. The terrible aconrgeof war that lot-
lowed tbe alriio between the pnritan and the
cavalier In England, and the contentions
between the Catholic and tha Protestant, in
various forms in Europe, Involved great na
tions in a war of thirty years’ duration.
This carnival of blood brought pestilence
and famine, and men weie reduced to the
extremity of cannibolDm nn the reanlt of a
•trite originating in religions differences. It
b unnecessary to mention similar calamities
and excesses. Tliey stain the records oi
tvery Christian nation.
Tbe devil was abroad in the land when
enr8avtorset npllb kingdom on earth. He
was found frequently then in the company
of religions people. He wanted Christ to
attempt many things, and he sneoeeded fre
quently in getting Christ's followers to do
many things that were wrong and produc
tive of evil.
When oar Savior performed the miracle of
the loaves and fishes He found the devil in
tbe congregation end quietly withdrew and
wmt away ftom the multitude. They fol
lowed him and onr Savior told them plainly
that many of them wore following Him for
the loaves and fishes. It takes a poor judge
ol human nature to foil to recognize the
devil in mauy alleged religions manifesta
tions at tbe present time. lie b abroad ia
the land, and nothing plea'*" him bitter
than exetsfes of any kind, lio preterm l a
place cna high mountain, more than eigh
teen ceuturiee ago, simply ho-an-o he wanted
to pass the world in review. He has been
at it cmr sine. Ha sends his o.'angiibt
into the great citlee, not to preach the gospel,
bnt to ray fharp things that will capture
llir (onxiMtation, end he never fait* to tike
np a rolltetion. Ho wilt not heaittte to
defile the tree nod holy rel Igloo of Chris*, hy
ennrnnrirgtt at bs “wilt bars H II»lw Ub-wt
s-f a rime at bis Boat meeting." He will
run into ahy execes and daeeiro tbo p-sigl-
by teftiag thou that ha in fighting huuwlf.
Grotl people sometimes soy: "Well, per-
hopi a clars is reached! n this way that can
not be reached in any other way.”
Christianity will suffer for all this. It b
sore to come, as it has in the pa3t, and we
have only to refer back to the history of
English speaking people to sec what these
excesses led to shortly after tbe reign of
James the First. It will be recollected that
jnst before the wove of licentiousness, when
virtue had no reward and everything was
debated, when tho word hypocrite was
synonymous with religions zeal, jnst such
acting) and doings were witnessed. "Praise-
God-Barebones" was a name that marked the
era we allude to. This crowd had their
evangelist, a man who said fanny things,
and took up collections, and cat many queer
antics. Ho bad peculiar ways of making
himself conspicuous. There were many
ouch false leaders, and they succeeded in
disgusting the good and sensible. It was n
fruitful text for the inffdcl and it retarded
Christianity.
There is bnt one form oi religion, nqd It
is tbe pure and simple one taught by oar
Savior. It fits the rich and tbo poor alike.
It b based on Love, not money; meekness,
not noise; purity, not fan; truth, not jokes;
forgiveness, not reviling. The simplest
minded man in the world cannot fail to un
derstand it, and because it b an simple the
devil attempts to counterfeit it. Even Panl
marveled that the people were so soon re
moved from this gospel to another which he
raid was not another, "Bat there be some
that trouble you and wonld pervert the g-»-
pel of Christ.”
It is not uncommon in thb day to hear
the expression from Christian lips that it is
right to fight the devil with fire. This is
tbe nntunil atqnence to another famous say
ing, that the end justifies the means. When
men take np fire to fight the devil they are
apt to get burned. Their next step is to
regniil anybody who fails to approve their
course ns n devil, and then somebody else is
burned, and so it goes, regardless of erase-
qntnccs.
We have no right to jndge men’s motive?.
Bnt we bavconr preferences, and one is that
we preter to go to heaven with good, true
Christians, Ilian to go with noisy fellows
who wont loaves and fishes every fifteen
minutes, who make themselves conspicnous
by their sharp sayings nnd their queer acts
One comforting thought in the midst of it
all is that in tbe end tenth will trinmph.
Where Men Havo Rights.
There is one npot on this continent where
men know their rights and have the spirit to
linntl np lor them. They may be crashed
in the unequal fight, bnt the fact that they
at least make a show of rcsbtance is some
thing.
For sometime past tbe men of Montana
have been in a state of mind over the extra
ordinary privileges granted married women
under the law. It was beginning to look
like petticoat government and nothing else,
when a bold tribune of the people introduced
in the legislature an act for tho better pro
tection of married men. The terms of thb
bill provided that, in consideration of the
privileges nnd immnnitles heretofore secured
by married women, all husbands should
have the right to stay ont three nights in
the week until twelve o’clock, and attend
I lodge meetings on three other nights until
two In tba morning. To make it atranger,
provblons were added to the bill making it
nnlawftil for any married woman to pnll oat
more than one handfnl of her hnsband’s
hair at a time, strike him with a rolling pin
more than seventeen times in anceauion,
throw more than one flat iron at him at a
time, or to goto bed with cold feet.
Of conise it b too early to raise a hurrah
over tbb bill of lights, thb second magna
chsrla. It may be defeated, bnt it b an
encouraging sign of the times to see it
brought before a body of lawmakers for dis
cussion. Tho men of Montana have the eyea
of the country npon them. If they will take
a decided stand all may yet ho well, bnt if
they Dicker they arc hopaleasly gone. Tho
result will be awaited with breathless
anxiety.
Iiltat Night’s Meeting.
Tho meeting of lost night, In DeGive’e
opera house, was dbtinctivcly American and
Georgbn. And yst more zealous Irish
speeches were never listened to I
Governor Gordon, against the advice of
hb physicians, left a sick bed that he might
preside over the meeting of his fellow-citi
zens. The two senators from Georgia ex
pressed their protest against coercive Elegis-
letion. The beneh was represented by Judge
Howard Van Eppa, and tbe pnlptt by Rev.
Dr. Hawthorne.
Tha resolutions introduced by Colonel A.
H. Cox, besides expressing the sense of the
meeting, were supported by hb words of
homing eloquence. They were passed with
out a dissenting voice, and by a rising vote.
Georgia, the most English of tbe thirteen
old colonies, and still the most
English of the states of the
nnioo, protests loudly and strongly
againat tha shame which the coercion bill
wonld bring npon the Anglo-Saxon name.
American Ideas.
I’rofetsor Goldwln Smith told the stu
dents at Cornell university tha other day
that tba American eolonbs made a mistake
in bringing about tho revolution, because it
diverted the great atream of Aoglo-Saxon
immigration which was needed to capo with
tbe foreign element in thb country.
Like many other “professors,” Mr. 8mith
b apt to let hb theories blind him to com
mon sente views.
The American revolution came jast at the
right time. It brought to thb nation
nothing bnt good, and wa can never suffi
ciently honor the memory of the sturdy he
roes who won onr national independence.
There b no reason to fear that the atream
of Anglo-Baxon immigration was so far di
verted aa to place ns in danger of domina
tion by the foreign element.
Kiom 1873 to the present time 1,431,610
immigrants bare come to the United .States.
Of tliifc England, Scotland and Wales have
fan bind 608,620 and Ireland 708,7511.
niitirg a total of 1,405,379 from Groat
Britain. Gvtmsuy has scat 1,430 0JS, These
vorriitn'e more ib.tn half of tbe total immi
gration (or the pjst ffirera yens. Taey
h»i» come ftom tie toteign natims which
a:e ncsiosl of kin lo ns, and whore ideas of
1-msrMTHPt xn.t liWty arc III"?’ similar to
earn. If th?r* bad teen any danger of the
>ri-»rv*ri?n ir err., the mod fieation of
An -reran tiles* by foreign inffnenceit would
rrrtain’y hive appeared ia the period daring
which ere have token in orer fire millions of
people ftere (very quarter of the globs. No
sneb danger bss yet developed. It is true
that communistic societies which are utterly
obnoxious to the Anglo-Saxon spirit have
leen formed in this country, and thst their
leaders and membership are almost entirely
foreign. Bnt these societies have never
made ranch noise anywhere in the Unite i
States except in New York and Chicago, and
whenever they have attemptei mischiei in
those cities they have been beaten down ia
away whichsliora that they will not be
permitted to gain any dangerons strength.
The great moss of the sixty millions of the
people in this country are Americana in the
trnest and best sense. Many of them may
have been horn in foreign lands, bat they
have adopted the ideas and traditions of
thb conntiy and are working to bnild it up,
The Yirtuous and intelligent immigrant,
come from where he may. soon adapts him
self to onr institutions,end soon falls in love
with the land of liberty. The virions im
migrant jnst os soon discovers that he is in
a land of law ns well as ot liberty, nnd that
he must behave himself. Henry Ward
Beecher used to say that we were ia no
danger of transformation by tbe great mass
of immigration which is constantly being
absorbed by onr body politic. "For,” said
Mr, Beecher, “when a lion eats a lamb, the
lion does not turn into a lamb; the lamb be
comes lion.”
Tbe fact that we have absorbed such a
multitude of foreigners and still maintain
onr ideas and institutions withont any con
siderable variation is the highest possible
proof of the virtue of our people and the
strength of onr free institutions. The spirit
of onr Anglo Raxon ancestors, modified and
improved by our own Amoricau forefather?,
has always been predominant in this conn
try, and it always will he.
An Interesting Image.
The Smithsonian institution at Washing
ton baa jnst received the great stone image
secured for it lost year on Easter bland.
While almost nothing is known of the past
history of this remarkable image, the dis
coveries of the future may bring to light an
interesting prehistoric chapter. The image
weighs fifteen tons, and is shaped like a
gigantic human figure from the waist np.
Easter island is in the Pacific, and is
abont 2,300 miles ftom Sonth America. It
is abont eleren miles long and six wide, and
has abont a thousand inhabitants, savages ol
the Polynesian race There are several hun
dred immense statues on the island, one of
them being forty teet high and nine feet
across the sbonlders.
The fact that (bo present inhabitants have
no knowledge of art, no tools and no moans
of moving huge masses of stone, leaves the
origin of the stalnes to speculation. The
natives attribute them to a supernatural
source, bnt the popular theory is that the
bland once belonged to a continent, the other
portions of which are now submerged. Wh it
was tho extent of this continent, and by
whom was it peopled? Did the arts and
sciences flourish there, and did some convul
sion oi nature buy nnder a mighty tidal
wave a magnificent empire, witb stately
cities and millions of people? These ore
seme of tho qnestlons naturally suggested by
the Easter blond idol. Will they ever be
answered ?
Perhaps This Is Genatno Reform.
There is nothing like going to the root of
sn evil. Mere expedients, temporizing de
vices and compromises are unworthy of a
great reform.
This is the view entertained by Dr. J.
Harvey Lovell, the great vegetarian apostle
of Philadelphia, and he teems determined
to impress it npon the popular mind.
At s recent meeting Dr. Lovell rend a re
markably able paper on ‘ Vegetarianism as
Iho best remedy lor intcmporanec.” Same
oi the daotor’e points will surprbo the ravts
of prohibltonist*,bnt it is safe to say that tho
matter of vegetariaobm will be seriously
considered, now that it appeare to he a nec
essary part of trae temperance reform. Dr.
Lowell claims that the taste for drink b
abnormal, end that it cornea from the use of
meet ns sn article of food. If mei will con
fine themselves to vegetnhles they will foal
no desire for liquor. "No mnn,” says the
doctor, “who eats o pound of maccaron!
daily will become a drunkard.” Beefsteak,
particularly, D to be avoided. It b a danger
ous etlmnlsnt sad in many instances leads
to beastly intoxication.
"What we want,” tbe doctor says, "is to
cetablbh temperance vegetation restanrsnts
where onr young men may drop in and treat
each other to baked beans, rice, lettnee, to
matoes, etc.” It b to be hoped thst the
experiment will be Died. Millions of peoplo
ore panting for jnst each innocent methods
of enjoyment A few jolly feilosrs over a
dish of baked beans wonld have a glorioas
time, and invitations to step around the cor
ner to sample encumbers and tomatoes
wonld be the order of tbe day if oar yonag
men only knew where to find s> purely vege
tarian reataorant
It will not do to ridicule Dr. Lovell end
his fellow enranden. Their ideas are spread
ing. The time is coming when the man who
sticks to the intoxicating beef steik, the
jimjem sausage end the boezs producing
hem will be regarded by a large body of
his fellow-citizens sssn enemy to the tem
perance arase. Stranger things have come
to pea in onr day, and wo are not yet at the
end of oar row.
An Eviction in Ireland,
The evictions ol Irish tenants appear to bo
conducted with increasing brutality. Weal
thy landlords who can well afford easy
terms are in fall sympathy with the govern
ment plan oi coercion, and their agents
bscktd np by the police show the teanats no
mercy.
The sconce at sn eviction on s large estate
in Longford, the other day, were affecting In
the extreme. Three-fouthx of those evic
ted did sot hsTe meant enough to purchase
a good mortel oi food. At ono cottage the
inmates were an old woman of eighty-six,
her sick daughter and several little children.
The sheriff ordered these people to leave in
ahmry. Their honsthold goods were thrown
ont, and the aged woman, supporting her
nil k daughter, tottered off over the fields to
find a temporary shelter somewhere.
At one place jnst os the sh-ritV was pro
ceeding to dispossess a woman ant her chil
dren, a goat bnt’td the offi.vr and caused
hint to beat ahasiy rebeat. The langbter of
the crowd provoked the eheriff to thnestes
violence nnless tbe shontieg was stopped.
Many of there firms are described as being
utterly worthless, barely yielding a wretch
ed support to the miserable tenants. The
•rietiions do not resnlt in securing new ten
ants. Nobody con he found to toko the
farms in the present state of public senti
ment. i The course of the landlords is there
fore! unnecessarily hiatal, as there is no
profit in it, and in tact a positive loss for
eometime to come.
The tories cannot reap any substantial
hent lit from these outrages npon the poor
and the helpless. Each a policy is bonnd to
recoil upon the heads ol those who are re
sponsible for it.
Mr. Carlisle and Revenue Reform.
Mr. Speaker Carlisle, we are glad to ob
serve, is of the opinion that tho country has
now arrived at a point where a reduction of'
taxation is nbsolntely necessary. We sin
cerely trust that this statement means oil it
says; but the fact ia that when certain demo
crats in the bonne desired to move tor the
repeal or tie modification of tbe infamous
revenue laws, Mr. Carlisle refused to recog
nize them. He nbsolntely refused to permit
the representatives of the people to bring
I lie'question before the boose, where it wonld
have met with overwhelming indorsement,
bnt, by the exercise ofa privilege which is
unjust nnd tyrannical, gave notice thst he
wonldjiot permit the matter to be discussed
in^or’pssscd on by the ltonse.
This was nn extraordinary stand fur any
reasonable man to take. It D • position
that may satisfy Kentncky democrats who
seem tojbe controlled by a corrupt whisky
ring, hut it will not satisfy the democrats o
the country, who are nnder no obligations to
the whltky ring. Mr. Carlisle’s performance
in this matter commends itself to no pat
riotic mau’a approval, and if it is indorsed
by the democratic party, tbe party will lose
eo time in retiring from bnstnees.
The internal revenue taxespile np at least
eighty millions a year in the United States
treasury. This is the enrplns that eo much
fees is made abont. Every man ot common
intelligence knows that nnless the internal
revenne system is abolished, a redaction of
the tariff wonld only add million,.to the sur
plus, end this fact, which every voter under
stands, shows the hypocritical part that has
been played by the adberenta of the whisky
ring. They say the enrplns must be re
duced, bnt every plan they bring forward is
for the purpose of increasing the snrptns.
This much is certain. If the demucrats in
congress continue to trifle with the interests
of the ptople'ns they have done, with reipect
to revenne reform, they will have the pleas
ure of reeing their party divided in tbe sonth,
a contingency that will briog about certain
defeat in 1888.
We trust that Mr. Carlisle and hid
friends will consider these things.
Sir. Grady's Northern Trip,
From the New York Spirit of the Times.
Editor Grady, of the Atlanta (Go.) Consti
tution, In a twenty-minutes speech at the New Eng-
land dinner, did more to set tho purposes and tho
aims efthe south In a favorable light bofuratho
country than tbe entire southern delegation la con
gress bss incccedud In doing In twenty year*. Mr.
Grady Is note speculative philosopher, bntaman ot
energetic purpose. Ills trip from Atlanta to New
York, in December last, did more to bnild up Geor
gia than Shuman's march from Atlanta to tbo sea
did to destroy.
OUR SUMMER PRESENTS BOX.
Another box of presents for onr weekly. Wo in*
notmeed that list month would be the last month
In which wo wonld distribute prevents to our sub
scribers. It bss been suggested, however, that
those of onr (subscribers whose time expire in tho
summer months are entitled to the same chance
for a present ns .thorn whose time expires In tho
winter months. This claim is Just, and we ere
anxious to do every subscriber alike. It la impos
sible, ofcoune, for ns to offer presents for the sun
nier months in like porportlon to the winter
month?, as the number of subscribers coining in in
very much smaller. We oiler, however, the Hol
lowing presents for tho months of Uay, June, Joly
and August. They will be distributed on tho first
of September. This plan will bo fair aud equit
able, u tho numbor of subscribers received in
those four months is not more than Is received in
ono month of winter, so that tho proportion will
bo the same. Wo announce, theroforo, that every
person who subscribes to Tun Coxstitutiom dur
ing tho months of May, June, July and August will
have his or her namo placed in our present box,'
and that the first namo taken out on tho first of Sep
tember will get a hundred dollars In gold, and
each succeeding name tho next present until the
presents are exhausted. In this way every sub
set tber who pay* between now and the lstof Sep
tember will have iho chance of gottlng ono hun
dred dollars iu gold, besides the paper for ono year
for which hepajs. 8omo subscriber will certainly gat
it, and it may bo you as well as any oneelse. If you
do not get tho flr>t present, you may got ono of tho
others. Any agent who sends in a subscription
during these four months will have his name put
in the box, as well as tho name of tho person he
sends, ro that if you take a little trouble and get ns
a single subscriber, it may pay you a hundred dol
lars in gold. Let every subscriber whose time ex
pires in the next four months ronew promptly
Let every sgent send in all tho names ho can dar
ing the next four months, and let every friend el
The Cokftitution .and tvery person who read*
this get at leaat one new subscriber, which may gel
you one hundred dollars lu gold.
The following is a list of those who drew prize*
in onr April Present Dox: »
W. W. Jones, ghelby, N. C. 1100.
J. T. Samples, Mt. Vernon. Tcnn., ISO,
Alfred Hall, Windsor, Vt, 125.
J. Eccic, Beuna Vista, Ga., 910.
A. G. Pickens, Fort Madison, 8. C., 910.
Miss Lula Little, Little Rock, Ark., r>.
D. W. Yarbrough, Petty, Toxas, 95.
David L. K is tier, gandlfer, N. C., 95.
L. M. Payne, Sumach, Ga., 95.
William T. Bevill, Greenville, Ga., 95.
T. F. Moore, Camargo, Tcnn., High Arm Mt*
chine.
Botcc Ficklin, Washington, Ga., Low Arm Ma
chine.
J. It. Caston, Mid, Ala.. Constitution gun.
Tho following received a Waterbury watch each:
J. P. Dill. Clay Bill. Ga.; C. 1. Thompson, Monroe,
Ga; £ P Sullivan, Forsyth. Ga; D A Johnoo, Jaok-
rou, N C; J F Sets, Gadsden, Ala; C Walker, Long-
street, Ga; O G Gurley, Balnbridge, Ga; Mrs 8 J
Mitchell, Bright Star, Ark; Nicholson Cooper, Ota*
Clinton, N C.
The following received The Weekly Coxstitu-
non one year each: B Joyner, Eastover, S C; Jere
miah Holder, Hamlet, Miss; L P Redwinc, Powell-
vllle, Ga; W A Curtis, Rabon uap, Ga; W A Baggett.
Greenville. Ala; T W Long. Paoli, Ga; G J Martin,
Balnbridge, Ge; E M Green, Geneva, Ala; 8 B
Bure, Fort Valley, Ga; A M Stewart, Loae Star,'
Texas; W D Belingrath, Castleberry, Ala; W A TON
bett, Planter, Ga; Thomas F Palmour, Polmour,
Ga; R M Bichardson, Walhalla, 8 C; Rufus Cald
well, Rice. Tcnn: A M Boger, Buena Vista, Ala; U
A Goodwin, Duluth, Ga; A T Scruggs, lata. Miss;
W LCarr. Perry, Ga; J E Danner, Hillsboro, N C;
PC Gaston, Athens, Ala: Post master, 8but|oalak,
Miff; Mrs N K Lowry, Marion Station, Miss; W U
Crist, Sslcm, N C: Adams Dennis, Estonton, Ga.
April Prizes.
Agents prizes for largest Hats sent in during the
month of April:
W. F. Wordliff, Gainesville, Ga. CO rAOO
T. R. Yon, Martin, Ga ^42 25.00
F. Clarke, McBryde, Ga - „3S 10.00
'. C. Garten, Athens,A ! a .^..11 5.0C
B. It. Baker, IUck Run, ,-,^0..... **.00
Rcl.t A. Barfield, Sunny Side. <ia 5.00
I tombs In Ft. Joseph*
St. Jctopr.IMo., Msy S.-Considerable axcifta-
mentwas cccasioned by the discovery of taro
losdcd dynamite bombs in the cellar or a house
in North fit Joseph, nntil recently occupied hy
a inspected anarchist. The bomba wen made
cf gas pipe, had after examination they irera
thrown into the river. Itls supposed they
were Intended to be n«ed last fall daring the
socialist demonstrations that took place here.