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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. 6A.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 30. 1887.
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In tho original, and, In New England, ht
certainly would not be described aa unedu,
cated.
However, the editor of tbo Republican
may as well compose hi* provincial mind.
Tho south will look after Its own affairs.
A Ton*h Texan.
If all reports bo true, Mr. Bill Langley,
of I.ee comity, Texas, la as lucky as bo la
tough.
Twelve years ago Mr. Langley’* hip pocket
began to be regarded as such a blooming
nuisance by bis fellow-citizens that it waa
decided to make an example of him.
Texas justice, when It gets started, Is
swift and sweeping, Mr. Langley was tried
by a Jury of Ins peers, and sentenced to be
hangeil. The prisoner had a father, a rich
nnelu and numerous friends. The sheriff,
It is said, was bought outright, lie came
high, but $1,000 fixed him. When the exe
cution took place, things were so arranged
that the weight of Mr. Langley’s body fell
upon an Iron hoop, supiiorted by a strong
body harness. The man eseajied unharmed.
When the drop fell he drew his legs lip and
down two or three times. Tire physicians
pronounced him dead and turned the body
over to his friends for Interment. A coffin
Ailed with stones w as burled, but during the
funeral ceremonies Mr. Bill laurgley skipped
out.
The secret lias been well kept for a dozen
years, and It w ould never have come to light
but for the pardonable pride which Mr.
Langley, Sr., feels in Ids daring offspring.
The old gentleman, haring moved to n dis
tant country, now tells the whole story. Of
course Mr. Bill Langley Is beyond the reach
of the law. When he aliook the dust of
Texas from his feet he struck a bee-line for
Central America, where It Is understood
that he Is a prominent and honored citizen,
and one ot tho largest land and cattle owner*
in Nicaraugua.
It Is a regular dlmo novel story all the
way through, but, aa It It believed in Texas,
there is no reason why the outside world
should refuse to tako stock In It.
ATLANTA, OA., AUGUST 30,1387.
A Rad View of the Houth.
The editor of the Springfield Republican
la an authority on everything connected
with the south. As a matter of fact, he
knows more about this sccllpn and lie peo
ple than thou who, so to speak, are on the
spot and havo been there all their lives.
Knowing so much about the south, hy In
stinct, si It were, this sbls editor Is natur
ally Interested In our situation and prolwblo
late.
“Tho friends of the until,” he kindly
ismarks, "look to tho young men for regen
eration, and yet the situation Is complicated
by *e peculiarly unfortunate circumstance.”
The able editor then placidly relate* the
circumstance. "A southern boy that was
alx years old III 1800, was allowed to run
the street*, boss the tlave* and do anything
bnt study."
Hero was Indeed a pretty howdy-do. If
we were not sura that the able editor of the
Republican Is not more familiar with mat-
ten and things in the south than those who
live here, we would timidly suggeet that
there were precloue few street* on the plan
tations, and comparatively few negroes In
the towns. We would further suggeet,
moreover, If we may be permitted to do so,
that southern boys six yean of age never
thought of bossing slaves.
To this wo might add Uie fact that the
•id system of education waa much more per
fect and thorough before end during the war
than it Is now. The schools were private
School*, It Is true, but there wes not a child
so poor that it might not be educated by the
county. In this way education waa much
more general among the whites In Georgia
Gian it la today—and the schools themselves
were more efficient than rite schools of to-
<*y.
The editor of the Republican was not on
•he ground in 18ff0, but he gained his
knowledge of the statue of the six year old
boy in a very cunning way. He shall be
permitted to describe It himself. "If one
would understand the foil application of
this faet, let him run over the lists of the
southern legislatures and note th* ogee of
th* members tha^make the most trouble.”
The editor of the Republican leav.es his
readers to infer that 11m members of the
southern legislatures "who make the most
trouble’* are uneducated men, for he nukes
this sweeping remark: "It can be stated as
• general proposition thattheeonthern-bom
■en In the prime of life in tire south today
-that Is, from 30 to 33 or 38-are unedu-
fated.” Certainly It can be stated aa a
•‘general proposition,” but any other false
•nd foolish statement can be put In the
**me way. A falsehood Is as convenient
for “a general preposition" as the truth,
and the Inimitable editor of the Springfield
Republican, having discovered this fact, is
Working It for all It Is worth.
It is to be supposed that he wouhl regard
the author of the Ulenn bill aa uneducated
conajdering that he is supposed to have
inad* a good deal of trouble; but Mr. Glenn
The Price ot m flan's Ufa.
Sinre (ho wholesale railway slaughter at
C’hstsworth attention has been called to the
fact that sereral states have passed laws lim
Ring the amount to bo recovored for a
death hy a railway accident to $3,000.
These laws were passed because the
wealthy railway corporations raised the cry
that juries were prejudiced against them,
nnd look a delight In giving verdicts against
them for heavy damages. But Uieru I*
another side to the question. It Is a dan
grrous thing to limit the liability of the rail
way corporations. It mnkes them more
reckless and unscrupulous. No amount of
money can make reparation for the horror
st Chatswortli. The blamo rests not upon
the subordinates, hut upon the president
and directors of the road, and the company
Itself. The criminal negllgenco of these
scoundrels richly merits the gallows, but as
there is no possibility of bringing them to
such a just punishment the next best thing
Is to crush and cripple them with a rush ot
heavy damage suits. This reckless slaugh
ter of travelers must be stopped, and the
law, Instead of Interfering to make It cosy
for tho railways, should throw additional
safeguards around the Innocent and help
less. This Is the Just view to take.
Criticislu* tho President.
Brother Joseph Ptilltxer,of tlioNow York
World, has como to the conclusion that it
will be a good card to criticise President
Cleveland’s administration. Accordingly,
In a recent Issue of tho World, Brother
Pulitxcr emits a loud grunt and a long
grumble, and gives them sonorousness by
the cunning use of doublo leads.
If L'lovolamlism Is to bo tho shibboleth of
tho democratic party, say* Brother Pulitzer,
"why Is It that tho elections of last year and
of this year havo gone against the democrat
ic party! Why did It lose Indiana and
Virginia, and sustain serious losses In North
Carolina and Wost Virginia? Why
was tire parly utterly demoralised
and nearly wiped out In Cincin
nati, Chicago, Mllwankee, and other wet-
tom clflce? Why hns Its majority just
been cut down oue-linlf In Kentucky, on
tho largest vote, it now appears, ever cast
there?”
Brother Pulttser concludes that tha presi
dent and lilt administration are responsible
for these results, and this view of the cate,
weobeorvo, also commends Itself to Brother
Henry Watterson, who Is now marooning
In tho Everett house In New York city,
ifrother Watterson coincides with Brother
I’ulllzcr’t views, aud when three two able
men coincide it It a coincidence indeed.
But Brother l’ulltscr Is wrong and Broth
er Watterson It wrong. Tho democratic
administration Is not responsible for tha
losses to the party described in the quota
tion wo lia\c made. The responsible per-
Ions aro the democratic leaders who have
thought It better heretofore to cater to the
whisky ring than to cany out the desires of
the people. Mr. Morrison Is responsible;
Mr. Cariltle is responsible; Brother Waiter-
son Is responsible; and, to a certain ox-
tent, Brother J’ulitscr is responsible.
These men have been clamoring about a
revision and reduction ot the tariff, and Mr.
Morrison has been introducing his little
bills, knowing full well lluit It the democrats
in the house were to support them unani
mously the republican senate would con
sign them to tho waste basket. There Is
not a democratic voter in the country too
Ignorant to appreciate the situation.
At the same time, these alleged demo
cratic leaden have had many opportunities
to meet the wishes of their constituents, but
this they have refused to do. The people of
this country, especially the people of the
•outb, are in favor of a repeal of tbo odious
and infamous excise laws, but the so-called
democratic leaden have penlstently stood
in the way of this desirable reform. The
ways and meant committee, composed of a
majority of demoerats, refuted to report a
bill in favor of the repeal or modification of
the Internal reveaue system, and when Mr.
Speaker Cariltle was approached on the
subject he positively refuted to recognise
any democrat who might desire to make a
motion to reform the excise system. This
refusal was arbitrary, unjust and undemo
cratic. Moreover, Mr. Carlisle, pretending
to represent the democratic party, absolute
ly flew In the taco of an overwhelming ma
jority of th* petty In congress.
It* refused to recognize a democrat on
any day when the proposed reform could
bat* been carried by a majority of the
Nr. nondemoa, of North Carolina,
on "suspension day/’ when a two-thirds
majority Is required, offered a resolution to
repeal the tobacco tax and the tax on
brandies made from fruits, tho vote stood:
For the resolution, 181 demoerats and 8
republicans; against the resolution, 5 dem
ocrats and 107 republicans.
This vote shows that the proposed reform
of the Internal revenue was a party ques
tion. The demoerats were almost unani
mously In favor of It, and tho republicans
were almost unanimously against It. So
that Mr. Carlisle Is on record as playing de
liberately Into the hands of the republican
party. Can Brother Joseph Pulitzer or
Brother Henry Watterson deny the facts?
He cannot and he will not.
He-e, then, is the whole trouble. Tbe
democratic party wants the Infamous excise
laws repealed or modified, and its sentiments
were voiced by an almost unanimous vote of
the democratic party in the bouse. There
Is but one man In the democratic pari)
could prevent this needed reform, anil ho
managed to do this by refusing to recognize
members of his own party on the floor of
the house.
What is the result? In Kentucky, In Vir
ginia, in West Virginia aud in North Caro
lina the democrats have lost votes, and they
will continue to lose votes until the so-called
democratic leaders in congress conclude to
carry out the wishes of the people.
Mr. Carlisle, by bis arbitrary refusal to
recognize democrats on the floor of the
house, has done more damage to the demo
cratic party than all tho republicans that
could be named. He has struck It a blow
In it* most vital part*. Bo Brother Pulitzer
and Brother Watterson imagine that Mr,
Cleveland Is responsible for Mr. Carlisle’s
undemocratic attitude?
Tha Cotton .Movrnisnt.
The New Y'ork Financial Chronicle, in Its
weekly review of the movement of tbe cot
ton crop, says that for tbe week ending Au
gust 10, the total receipts havo reached 0,
(US bales, against 7,270 bales last week,
1,400 bales tbe previous week and 2,381
bales three weeks since; making the total
receipts since the flrst of September, 1888,
3,223,007 bales, against 6,337,018 bales for
(be same period of 1885-86, showing a de
crease since September 1, 1SSU, of 114,321
bales.
Tbe old Interior stocks have decreased
during the week 1,01S bales and were, Frl
day night, 22,004 bales less than at the same
period last year. The receipts at the same
towns have been 803 bales less than the
tame week last year, and since September 1
the receipts et all tho towns are 73,258
bales lass than for the same time In 1885-80.
The total sales for forward delivery far
the week are 312,000 bales. For immediate
delivery the total sales foot up 0,250 bales,
Including 4,185 for export, 5,074 for home
consumption. The exports for tbo week end
ing Friday evening reach a total of 27,171
bales, of which 24,050 were to Great Brit
ain, 150 to France and 2,371 to the rest of
the continent.
The imports into continental ports during
I lie week have been 10,000 bales. There
was an increase in the cotton in sight Fri
day night of 72,700 bates as compared with
tho same date of 1880, an Increase of 53,027
bales ss compared with the same date of
I860,an Increase of 53,027 bales ss compared
with the corresponding dato of 1885,and a de
crease of 317,800 bates as compared with
1884.
The total receipts from plantations since
September 1, 1880, aro 5,108,023 bales; In
1883-80 were 3,300,310 bales; in 1S84-S5
were 4,746,000 bales. Although the receipts
at the outports the past week were 0,040
bales, the actual movemont from planta
tions was only 8,068 bales, the balance be
ing taken from the stocks at the Interior
towns. Last year the receipts from the
plantations for the same week were 7,814
bales, and for 1883 they were 3,580 bales.
Tho foregoing shows tho weekly Con
sumption In Europo is now 140,000 bales of
400 pounds each, against 138,000 bales of
the same weight at Uie corresponding time
lost year. The total spinners’ stocks in
Orest Britain and on tha continent have de
creased 103,000 bales during the month, and
arc pqw: 47,000 bales In excess of last
season.
Tha Chronicle says that cotton for future
delivery at New York lias been quiet for the
week under review. Tho absence of active
Inffuenecs—or rather with active influences
nesriy balancing each other—has prevented
any wldo fluctuations. Tbe dominant spirit
of tho cotton exchange has been bearish;
and yet but a small Impulse was required to
cause the "shorts” to cover with some ap
pearance of eagerness. It was not, however,
until Wednesday afternoon, when tho full
business for export and homo consumption
on that day was reported, that the bulls
showed any degree of confidence. Then
the continued small receipts at ’ Interior
towns, the small stocks south, and tho
rapid reduction of supplies here, together
with the growing belief that New England
•pinners are carrying but small stocks of
cotton, caused a quick advance, with com
paratively free buying for September.
Thursday there was very Ultle change;
the speculation was sluggish, but the dis
tant options attracted more attention, Fri
day tho market opened dull, but soon be
came active and buoyant on a better closing
et Liverpool and the strong statistical posi
tion of our home markets. Cotton on the
spot hat shown a good degree ot activity,
tho buying having been quite free for ex
port* aa well ai for home consumption.
Quotations were reduced lc. on Monday, and
advanced l-10c. on Thursday. Friday there
was again a liberal business for export, with
steady baying for spinners, and the market
dosed firm at 0 11-16c. for middling up
lands.
The Chronicle's weather reports, whleh
are very full and accurate, indicate that
over a very Urge portion of Texas drouth
has caused considerable demage, and that
in some sections of other states injury is
resulting through worms, rust and shedding.
In the remaining districts, however, and In
tbe Atlantic states in particular, the crop
condition continues quite satisfactory.
Picking Is making good progress.
A Word about Its* Convicts.
We take with several grains of salt all
Gut Is said about sympathy with the con
victs. A man who commits a crime ought
to be punished, and if hU sentence U hard
labor be ought to be kept at worn durtnghia
term. He should have no more sympathy
from the public than will secure him humane
treatment, proper food and clothe*, healthy
locality, and will prevent his escape. In the
past lew months the convict hat monopolised
public pity ami sympathy. Penal Uwt are
made to protect tocWVi and the public
needs all the spare sympathy when Its laws
are Tlolatcil. Laws to be efficient, must be
inflexible, and their execution certain.
The lessees are largely to bUme for the
feeling that has been raised In behalf of tho
convicts and if it spreads Into sickly senti
mentality, dangerous to discipline and good
order, they will bo largely to blame. We
arc startled almost every week with the de
tails of some outrage on the part of some
company of lessees, and It really appear*
that It is getting worse rather than better.
The state has been forced by the large
number of convicts accumulated on Its hands
immediately following the war to effect
a lease. The terms and provisions of the
lease law are as perfect as can be made.
They guard the convict from cruel treat
ment anil at the same time guard society
from Ills escape. Tho governor and other
officers are given almost arbitral)' powers
to enforce the terms of this law and to can
cel the lease,or remote the lessee If violated.
No man can lay the charge of cruelty at
Georgia’s door who will read the lease hill
and see how specially It protects the convict
if its term* are carried ont.
The fault Is not with the law, aud yet in
spite of the continued outrages that have
been reported for years from the convict
camps not a single lessee has been dis
possessed of his lease or suffered one dollar
as far as the public knows for his violation
of the law. There has been skirmishing
without end, but nobody has been hurt ex
eept a few subordinates or outsiders with
out pecuniary Interest In the lease and with
out responsibility for its execution.
This is not because charges hare not been
made and sustained as far as can be judged.
There could hare been no more damaging a
charge against a lessee than tho one made a
short tluic ago concerning the treatment of
convicts near Augusta. It was charged In
terms by a physician that the convicts were
overworked and under fed to such an extent
that the scurvy prevailed In the camp. This
was denied by Messrs. Bondurant aud Jop-
ling who had no responsibility for the lease.
They were punished summarily without a
hearing, hut no lessee lost a cent through
these outrage! which must have been con
sidered proven ns Messrs. Bondurant and
Jopling wero removed. The Augusta News
says that the removal of these men has had
no effect whatever with the work of tho
convicts, but that Mr. Lowe, tho lessee, will
carry on the work as usual, f n the same
paper, by the way, we find the following
queer statement:
Austin 21.—It Is reported hero that John Walsh,
who shot William Dawtor, an old Charlestonian, in
tbe ilarahall liouso In this clty,Jbas escaped from
the pcultcntiary camp. Mrs. Morgan Walsh, his
mother, returned yesterday from Augusta, whither
aha went on Saturday night. On Sunday she visited
the camp where John had been. It was about saveu
miles hom tho city. Walsh unu not there, liowover.
Ilia mother soya ho had dlsaypearcd tha day before,
and no one knew where he waa Tho couvhts all
stated that ho had teen in very bad health and was
unable to do hard work, tils job wns driving and
damning a dirt cart on an embankment. One day
last week the mule started ahead too soon and the
cartbudy dropped on Walsh's shoulder,knocking him
down. The camp Is almost lurroundoi by water
three feet deep, Mrs Morgan states, and It Is alow
death to the convicts. John's former comrades told
her that he was very thin and oould not llv* tong.
To the casual observer it will appear from
the above that "things” are going on"about
as common” In that camp. But whateffect
hod the terrible ordeal through whleh
Mesara. Bondurant and Jopling, outaldc
dummies, wero put, have on the treatment
of tffe convicts In other camps? Let the
newspapers answer. They have printed the
sworn facta as developed by an anonymous
letter and sworn to by Messrs. Towers and
Shubrick. They have developed a case of
cruelty that chill* the blood In every honest
man’s body, and that has no oqttal outside ot
savage life.
All tills hat occurred under the very nose
of tho legislature that appears to bo full of
men overrunning with sympathy and pity
for the convicts. Men who have beat the
air with elaborate appeals for the reform of
tho convicts. We think a little more time
spent in reforming the methods of the
lessees would have wonderful effect. It
would require less demsgoguism but more
courage, to tacklo the wrongdoers, no mat
ter who It hurts or helps, and might bring
about mot 1 * practical result*.
Suppose every leasee who permits the law
to be violated was bounced aa vigorously, aff
Mr. Bingham, tho whipping boss at the
Griffin camp, baa been. We should soon
hear no more of outrages. An exports In
vestigation was all that was needed to snm-
warily bounce Mr. Bingham, but when the
lease itself was to bo considered, and the
men who employed Sir. Bingham were to
bo discussed, there had to be more formality
and delay. Nothing could be done without
notice. There has been entirely too much
parade and too little practical results. What
Is needed Is an honest effort to make tho
lessees comply with the law, and If they fall,
to forfeit their lease, and then make such
disposition of tlio convicts as tho legislature
may provide. This course will bring about
results. Any other course la simply beating
the wind. The leasees Insist that the state
must carry out the contract with them, and
will be required to do so by the courta. Let
tho state require the tame thing of tha lea
sees to the very letter, and where there is
failure, let the contract be forfeited. Where
outrage* are reported, week after week,
public mind drifts to tbe conclusion that the
men who permit It areas culpable as the
men who Inflict It.
These are plain words written In no empty
spirit of fault-finding, but to get at the bot
tom ot the whole question. Tbo safety of
society demandx-tbat the law* of our state
shall be vigorously enforced and that con
victs must be punished to the full measure
of their sentence; but not one step beyond.
It la becoming a elnand a shame and a
blot upon Georgia that our convicts are
treated worse than tbe avenge man would
permit bis dumb brute to be treated. The
good people of Georgia will not stand this
crime, and In rendering judgment will bold
•mall difference between the men who com
mit the cruelty and tho men under whose
contract* It la permitted.
We do not believe half the fact* that are
reported to the public. AU tbe lessees are
not to blame, but the officers of tbe law,
armed with the authority of the state can
decide accurately where the blame lies.
When the guilty men are pointed out they
should be punished, and the higher they
stand the more certain their punishment
should be. We do not believe the lease law
Is afallurc, and the people will not believe
It until It has been fairly tried and it has
been shown that under lu term* the convict
cannot be protected from tbe cruelty or
rapacity of those who have him In charge.
A few example* of the sternness and justice
of the law in US regard will not only deter
those who would violate It and force them
to bo more careful in the selection of their
subordinates, bnt it would be a reformatory
principle among the convicts themselves. It
win teach them that in Georgia the law is
supreme and mutt be obeyed from the high
est to the lowest, and that Its violation
means punishment adequate anil certain,
•lore False History.
Mr. James R. Gilmore, a popular north
ern writer who went to Jail, or narrowly es
caped it some years ago, on account of ono of
his fraudulent transactions, lias made the
North Carolinians justly Indignant hy hit
slanders upon theirstate In his book entitled
“John Sevier.”
Mr. Gilmore describes the early North
Carolinians as the meanest, most Ignorant
and degraded population of tho colonics,
and otserta that most of them wero runa
ways from Virginia, "criminals,” “worth
less trash,” "tho remnants or -descendants
of tlio servile class, who ltad in former years
been Imported to work the plantations,”
Englishmen who "for tho most part could
trace their lineage no farther than the pris
ons sml slums of London.” He goes on lo
say: "Impartial history has to record the
fact that at this period tho masses of North
Carolinians wero the pariahs of American
society, and the state itself little better than
a Botany Bay for the American continent.”
Well-Informed readers are, of course,
aware that no American historian has ever
spoken of the North Carolinians In such
terms. It lias been reserved for a flashy,
scrappy hack-writer, a cliaracterless wretch,
to invent aud promulgate this indictment
against a brave and honorable people.
It is not enough to say that North Caro
lina cannot be written down by such men as
Gilmore. Our wrltersliave strangely neg
lected southern history, leaving it to be
written by aliens and enemies. It is not too
late to repair the mischief. The restless lit
erary activity of the south should not devote
Itself entirely to dialect stories and sonnets
to a lady’s eyebrows. History and biogra
phy offer Inviting fields, and it is time for
southerners to enter and take possession of
them. Tbe beat way to suppress tho Gil
more gang la to look after our own Interests,
and vindicate the truth of history.
A Good Sale for Atlantia
The sale of the Atlanta and Hawklnsville
bonds Is good for Atlanta. It marks the
success of an enterprise, the failure or suc
cess of which would havo been significant.
The people of Atlanta raised a subscrip
tion of about $200,000 for this road. In
stead of watting this and rushing bonds to
sale on a projected road, they put up $300,*
000 In cssli, graded the road, bought steel
rails and offered bonds on a road actually
built. They now sell their bonds at a low
but fair price. At this price they will make
back the money they havo Invested and
have a safe and handsome profit besides.
This Investment can bo repeated. Tho
same company that has put the Atlanta and
Hawklnsville through, can organize this fall
a company to build the road to Eatonton
and Waynesboro, which will materialize
Atlanta’s projected line from the Mississippi
to tbo Atlantic. The Atlanta and Haw-
klnsville will have the richest and heaviest
local trado of any road running Into Atlanta.
When Its affairs aro fairly In shape, and its
work done, a construction company with a
capital of one million dollars can be raized
In Atlanta to build the Atlanta, Mississippi
and Atlantic—which la not dead, but sleep
ing!
One Case aud Ita Lesson.
A farmer in Fulton county made $300last
year by raising and selling "turnip greens.”
This It an unusnal case, but there le a
lesson In it well worth tho consideration of
our freo trade friends. Mr. William B.
Hooper, the farmer alluded to, lives seven
miles from Atlanta. He Is a thrifty man
who makes every edge cut. He not only-
makes money on "turnip greens,” but lie is
successful in whatever ho undertakes. Itc
Is what Is known In the country as n "shifty
man.” He found that in the winter there
was always a heavy demand In Atlanta for
greqnt, especially in the early spring. Ho
prepared to meet this demand, planting his
turnips In approved style Ut Uie fall, and
cultivating them properly. When he waa
ready to market his crop he found the price
In tho city to be ono dollar a bushel. He
comored the market by supplying the stores
at sixty cents, end delivered his crop by tho
wagon load. There was no end to tho de
mand, and he saya that he could have sold
a crop ten times as large. -
Now, the purchasers of this crop were the
men who work In our various manufactur.
lug establishments In this 'city, men who
had the money to pay tho. cash for this
wholesome vegetable diet. This isonly one
Instance in a thousand occurring around
manufacturing centers every year, showing
the superior advantages enjoyed by a farm.-r
who lives near a manufacturing town over
one located at a dlstence. Thepricoof ag
ricultural lands Is much higher near manu
facturing places. Tho farmers near them
make mare money, and yet the cry Is raised
that the farmers want free trade. We doubt
It, To bring permanent prosperity to this
region we must have our goods manufac
tured at home, and when these industries
build up large cities and towns the farmers
will find markets within easy reach ready to
pay them good prices for all they can raise In
their fertile fields. Our farmers desire to
tee this condition of things, and they are
beginning to see that free trade will never
bulhl up any markets for them.
Ska Muddle In Ttnnrsser.
The Tennesseeans are in a state of mind
over the prohibition amendment to be voted
upon the last Thursday in September.
Th* constitution declare* that the ratifi
cation vota shall be “a majority of all the
citizens of the elate votlnn for representa
tives.” There are three conflicting opin
ions. One la that a majority of all the
qualified voters In the state Is required; an
other Is that a majority of the vote cast
upon the amendment will suffice; the thlnl
It that there must be not only a majority of
the votes cast, but such majority must be
equal to the majority of all the citizens of
the state voting for representatives. Tbe
supporters of this third opinion hold that
the amendment cannot be voted upon at a
special election, but must be submitted at a
general election.
It It said that the antis, if defeated, will
appeal to the supreme court upon two
grounds; first, that the legislature could not
lawfully order a qpeclat eh ctlon, and, sec
ond, that a computation upon the basil of
last year’s rote would be wrong. The
friends of the amendment, If they secure a
majority of all the votes cast, .- 111 insist
that prohibition has carried tit* day.
ClrsarcMe Lunatics.
Over In South Carolina the appearance of
a man with a lighted cigarette it the signal
for a genoral stampede.
Our friends across the border are not un
reasonable in their timidity. It appears
that the other night, a young man with his
bride stopped nt a hotel in Spartanburg.j
Suddenly the man developed symptoms of
the most violent Insanity. He made a
vigorous attempt to clear the hotel of tta
guests, nnd it required six strong men to
take him to his room and hold him down.
The doctors riddled him with hypodermic
Injections of morphine until his body looked
like a nutmeg grater. This put him to sleep
and the case was then looked Into. Upon
Investigation it was ascertained that the In
teresting stranger had been Indulging to’
access in cigarettes, nis brain and nerves
had yielded to the strain, and without a
moment’s warning he had become a raving
maniac.
Tills new phase of the cigarette evil Is
alarming. It is bad enough to suspect the
cigarette smoker of getting more than his
share of high art in tbe shape of the
French)- pictures thown in with his poison,
but It is worse still to feel that he It liable
at any time to go mad and run a-rnuck in
any crowd. It Is an old saying that where
there is so mach smoke there must be some
fire, and It applies to what we hear about
the cigarette and Its dangers.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Birmingham is coMFLAiKiHQof high rents.
A fai.lino OFF in the divorce business in
Fulton county superior court is ono of tbe
healthy signs of tho times.
Duron tulip and crocns bulbs are sent
from Holland at fS each. Thousands of then,
are bought In this country every year.
A Bengal tiokr costs $2,000. A "blind
tiger” in Alanta costs $500, and thirty days In
the chatngaiig. Judge Anderson controls the
market.
Mrs. Cr.avm.AHD inherited $30,000 soon
afterslio was msrrisd. Congressman McShsne
•ays that the veins of Omaha property in
which Jfrs. Cleveland and her mother eaeh
own one-eighth interest Is at toast $800,000.
This is th* chosen land of liberty. The
English parliament has 030 members and not
••• the
ole-
more spittoons than all tht rest of the world.
In ius addhess to the people ot Virginia,
Mahono arraign* Governor Fitzliugh Leo for
make the people of Virginia smilo. The little
g eneral, alter he became a United States sena-
>r, used to put up at a poker room when he
visited Richmond, and tnoy do say ho nindo it
very lively far tho boys at that establishment.
Not lono aoo Th* Constitution colled
attention to the fact that tbe democratic, the
republican and the prohibition candidates for
g overnor ot Ohio are all Methodists, aud the
lliio Methodists cannot therefore voto as they
pray. The Cleveland Plalndealer in this con
nection remarks that Governor Foreakerand
Mr. Powell are only related to the Methodist
church on their wives’ side, and must lie clasa-
cd os brothcrs-in-law to tho church. Well, it
is comfort big to know that the future governor
ot Oltio has a pious wlfo.
At the recent ex-confederate reunion at
Dallas, Texas, .Genoral JJ. 8. Stanley, of the
United States army, was ono of the prinolpal
sneakers. Ho msdn a speech in favor of com
plete harmony in tho restored t
very severe on those who would
animosities alive. Referring
Iowa, General Stanley said ho was not only a
cotton thief during the war,*bnt that when he
earns to St. Louie with hla regiment ho robbed
and plundered MeDawell’s medical college.
Assistant Distbict Attorney LrrscoKS,
of Washington, mndo a rattling speech prose
cuting Dr. Crawford, of the nevy, under tho
Utah set for nndno intimacy with a girl ot
fourteen. Crawford said he had never kissed
the girl. On this point Mr. Lipscomb ex
claimed: "From tho time that the flffftpro-his-
torio man told his love to Ids mate and nwoko
the echoes of the primeval forests with their
kiss; from the tfrno when Cresstda sighed
away her seul as she looked out toward thh
Grecian camp, from the time that Romeo end
Juliet exchanged their vows upon the balcony
to tho present time, the defendant Is the first'
man who ever mado love to a woman and did
not kiss her. Ho put his kisses in his letters
and scut thorn hy mail.” Crawford woe found
guilty and sentenced Jo one year In jail. The
verdict was warmly applauded by the crowds
in the courtroom.
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