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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. 6A.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 30. 1887. THE WEEKLY GBNSTITUTIOH. Entered at Ike Atlanta pwtoflk* at eooooAetaM Mil matter, November 11. W73. The Weekly Constitution &L9S PW«»»n»» Clubs offlre, 91.00 each; flubs of ten, 91.00 each .ua.cowlogrtterupofclnb^ ^ General ftHemAjpnt, «H Park Row Row. hew Tot* City. WE WANT YOU. The CoutltutioR wanta an agent at every postoffice in America. Agents outfit free and good terms* If you are not In a club, we wan you to act aa agent at yoar office. Write us. We waat 10,000 agents. Samples and outfit free. THEWATERBURYWATCH. The YVaterbury Watch Company has withdrawn its trade from the newspapers. We have only a few on hand. We will furnish a watch with The Weekly one year for 53.25. We cannot supply orders for the Watch alone. This is your last chance, and it will soon be gone. Chime, of Aildrr.*. WHEN OUDX*IXO A CIIAHOK OF ADDEEI1 TO* nmann to a nrw»fafr« uioold oiv* ml ou> aji witiL ai Tim new add**.*, to* FEora* roRM 1 j : "CHANGE ADD***. OF MV (DAILY O* IF***' It) cofftitttio* from F. 0. to OUR "CHRISTMAS-BOX'’ OF PRESENTS. On January lit ws will di*lrlbul. $1,000 among our tnlwcrlber*. From September 1*1 to January lit wo put the name ot erery tubteriber received In abor. On the latter dal. wo abak. up tha bo* thoroughly, A bole la cut In It. On* of our weekly agent*, In tbo preaenca ot three other*—draw* out a name. That name geta 1300, the box 1* then ihakcn again, and another nitno drawn. That name get* 9300, and *o on through the llit. Now you ought to subacrlbe for the paper without expecting to get one of th. pteaccl*. Fey for It, for Itaetf, jmt a* you bare alway* lone. From reading tho paper you got your money'* worth, and tnora for your money .Ilian any other paper giro* you. Ho aathtlcd With that. Then If you get the $300, or the •300 or even one of the $3 present*, lake It with our be wishes and our Christman greet* Ingot Of conmo we do not pretend that erery tub- ■criber will get a present. Not ono In every hundred will get ono. Hot avery tubteriber will have an equal chance. Th* bo* will have the name of every tubteriber sent In be- gore January 1st and no other name*. Threo agents from different states wilt shake th* box and will draw out a namo whtlo tho others hold It. Yon will bare just exactly the same chance every other subscriber has. Some per sons will got every prize. It may juet aa wall he yon ss any on. slae. Wo do claim this. W» tarnish you tho big gest and best paper thattaprlnted. We furnish It ohoaper than any other paper. W# give you besides an oqual chain® with every other iub- acrlber In 91,000 In gold distributed aspresonli. No other paper doe* this. Bo, If you Ilk. our paper oa well aa any other, take It, for boalde* tho paper you bare an lntereat In our "Christ inas box,” wblob no oilier paper gives you. But If yon do not llko our paper a* woll a* tomo other paper, take that paper and drop ours, for you may not got on* of our preeento and then you would be dlnatlaflod. Take the paper solely for the paper* nko.and If you got • present, yon will be just that much hap- read* th. literatures of three or four tons""* 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. Dividing Our Profits And Giving Our Readers Some Big Christmas Presents. "lj iz-psge W# Aunfsh oar subscribers with The best family paper in America. Tho cheapest paper printed—Uie weekly. The paper that pay* more for special feature* than any other. 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