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The Visit of President and Mrs. Cleveland
The reception and entertainment of Presi
dent and Mrs. Cleveland, at Atlanta, during
the Piedmont exposition, will boa series of
events memorable forever to those who wit
ness them.
For the first time a democratic president
will set foot on Georgia soil. Additional
interest is given to this, by the fact that it is
the man who led the democratic party from
twenty-five years of defeat into glorious
Victory, and who restored the south to the con
fidence of the nation and to their full rights
mid partnt rship in the union.
president Cleveland does not pay us a
formal pop-call. He comes in the old-fashioned
democratic way, bringing his wife and friends
with him, and staying with us three nights
and two days. He gives Atlanta more time
than any city on hi- entire, route, because ho is
anxious to meet our people, study our re
noun is. and know something from personal
observation of our folks and the wonderful
riches of our Piedmont region. He especially
wants to meet the people face to face and will
lie aeres-iide the whole time of his visit. Every
visitor who wishes to do so can reasonably
count on shaking his hand at.d giving him a
word of welcome.
The scenes attending the president'., re
ception and entertainment will be superb ami
splendid. The illumination of Kennesaw
mountain, witli artillery on its heights, and a
flight of five thousand rockets from its crest by
electric match, will be a sight never seen be
fore. The sham battle, covering seventy acres
with four batteries of artilh ry, ten companies
of cavalry and thousands of foot soldiers, will
bo an incomparable spectacle.
The torchlight procession of ten thousand
young democrats in line, with the whole city
illuminated, aiidthc air full of color and sound,
will bo nspiring. The exposition itself will be
an enormous show, full of interest and itstrue
tion.
Now let us make the president's visit hero
the significant and overwhelming feature of
liis entire tour. Lotus show him tho south
at h< r l et, ami let him know that tho people
love him and honor him. It is because ho
wants to know the south better that he gives
Atlanta more time than any other city on
his route. When he stands up to apeak to us,
lot him look into the faces of more southerners
than any man, living or dead, has ever seen
assembled.
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ATLANTA, GA.. OCTOBER 18. lv>7.
The 1 xpobttiau's 1 h>t U<ck.
The first week of the exposition closed
last night in the face of an unexampled
fiuecoss.
In the first place, the expotition itself is
pronounced with one voice the finest show
ever made in a southern state, ami equal to
the best of the great expositions. When it
is considersd that the work lias been done
in one hundred and four days, the feat At
lanta ! as aceotnphsh. d stands simply with
out parallel or precedent.
As tv the weather, it may be said that
*The elements - fit L> r c.-sar." The days
have been simply faultless, and there is
•'•■■ry 1 it' of its duplicate next week.
The a” t.-danco has justified the predie
»
•urj :. ! -e nho doubted. In spite of
the tret, s h t.ks of the first day, the
eash ■■•< ;; < of th. ■ week have exceeded by
•w : - highest estimate ma le 1 y
ad..
than th- .., mat e made.
I”'''') i: i:.. .it there has been suc-
- ■■•* m the programme has
Veen omitted. The speeches of the open
ing day, i m ( tJivr, Governor Gor
don, Mr. 1,. ndaii. were perfect. The music
was fine. ’J he fireworks were simply be-
Jond criticism or description. In the bi-
cycle races, tho amateur champion and pro
fessional champion of the world have
ridden. The horse racing is excellent, ami
two records have been lowered on our new
track. The ballooning has been superb.
The restaurants have fed the crowds cheaply
and well, and in every respect the exposi
tion has received delighted and unbroken
praise.
Ilace Prejudice in Bleeding Kansas.
The Springfield Republican hits the nail
on the head when it remarks: “It would
seem that we of the north need to be a little
more charitable and a little more tolerant of
prejudices abroad which exist at home.
These prejudices may not be defensible, but
they are not bounded by sectional lines, and
are no more defensible at the north than at
the south.” Now, this is a very sensible
way of looking at the matter, and if com
ment and discussion could proceed along
this line, the John Shermans, the Forakers
and the Halsteads would have to take back
seats; but we maybe very sure that such
conservative voices as that of the Republi
can will be drowned out by the roar of the
Bully Bottoms of tho republican party.
'I he Springfield Itepublican, in the quota
tion which we have made, is alluding to
some demonstrations that have recently
been made, in Kansas- bleeding Kansas—
the state supposed to have been redeemed
by the murders ami assassinations concocted
and carried out by John Brown and his fol
lowers. Taking everything into considera
tion, it is a w ry curious <l< monstration, too,
for it was to Kansas that thousands of de
luded negroes from the southwest were in
vited during the “exodus” that occurred a
few years ago. Moreover, Kansas is the
site of numerous New England colonization
societies, who were sent to that state to pre
vent the spread of slavery an>l to promote
the doctrines of equal rights, social equality
and the like.
But. the descendants of New England
who now hold Kansas appear to have
learned new lessons since th< days of John
Brown. The idea of Hie brotherhood of
man is a big thing outside of Kansas, but
the citizens of that state are not now in the
notion of giving it a very cordial recogni
tion. In fact, they are opposed to it, just as
the republicans of Ohio are, and when tho.
matter is brought home to them, they make,
no bones of showing how they really stand.
There has recently been a contest in Fort
Scott, Kansas, over the question of the co
education of the races, and the negro has
been worsted lias been worsted in the cra
dle of emancipation, in the home of his
friends. Curiously enough, the contest
originated in the discussion of the Glenn
bill by the Kansas newspapers. These
newspapers denounced the bill as an out
rage on humanity, a blot on the civilization
of Georgia, and all that sort of thing. Such
a bill, they said, could never be introduced
in a Kansas legislature, for the reason that
the people of that state were too humane,
too refined, too far advanced in civilization
to oppose the education of the negro side by
side witli their own children.
'Chis discussion attracted the attention of
the negroes, and they at once proceeded to
put Hie higher civilization of Kansas to the
test. It was a practical test and a severe
one. It was such a severe test, indeed, that
the descendants of the New England colo
nization societies couldn't stomach it, and
there has been as significant a protest in
Kansas as there was in the abolition settle
ments and centers of Ohio. The difficulty
was, the negroes took it for granted that
the newspapers of Kansas, in their protests
against tlie Glenn bill, represented the pub
lic sentiment of the stalo. But they will
never make the mistake again.
The experiment, as we have said, was
tried at Fort Seott. Some days ago, in ac
cordance with a preconcerted arrangement,
fifty negro children marched into one of the
white schools and “insisted on being in
structed"- we quote, from the Springfield
Hepul iiean “on a plane of equality with
the. whites.” There was consternation in
the school. The white teachers and pupils
left the building in such haste that their
retreat amounted to a regular stampede.
The negro children put in an appearance
next day. but this time they were quietly ig
nored. The few white children that were
present remained in the cornels of the
schoolroom to receive instruction, and the
negroes got no instruction at all.
The negro children were finally driven
from the schools. The negroes then se
lected a little girl so nearly white that her
Color deceived the school authorities, and
entered her in one of the white schools.
She remained until the principal was in
formed of her race, and then she was put
out. The next move of the negroes was to
apply to the courts for a mandamus to re
ceive the girl into the white schools. It
was admitted in the court that the girl was
quiet, well behaved and studious, but she
was a negro, nnd that settled the matter.
“The board . f education,” it was set forth,
“has provided separate schools for colored
children, with suitable accommodations,
competent teachers and equal facilities for
obtaining an education with the white
children of the city,” nnd on this plea the
judge refused the mandamus and ordered
the girl removed to the colored schools.
As the springfield Republican intimates,
it would be better for the northern newspa
pers to correct the prejudices of their own
people before they make any very ferocious
comments-*»n the prejudices of the southern
people. We commend all these tilings to
Hie serious attention of Editor Murat Hal
stead.
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IT:.n e and the Viuiuma Canal.
Despite the gloomy predictions made from
time to time, work on tho I’anaiua canal
continues to be pushed straight ahead.
Ihcrc is little doubt of the ultimate comple
tion of the enterprise, if no unforeseen ob
; st.u-le turns up.
The financial part of the business, how
ever, may give DeLes'Ops trouble in the
cou. of ay.ar or so. Even then it is not
likely that the work will suspend. As the
stockholders are all Frenchmen it is almost
cei: that the French government will
take hold of tl. ■ canal rather than let the
proj-. it fall through at such an advanced
St'l g»*.
it is true that our congress has already
warned the French government that its con
trol of the canal will not I'c permitted by
_ the I’nited Stales, but when 1 Tench inter
ests are at stake France v ill not stand back
on account of American vpiawition. Our
■ government has been slow to appreciate the
threatened difficult!, •of the situation on
, tl e Isthmus, and it will probably be slow in
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18,1887.
, dealing with them when they begin to take
. shape. More than once within the past
' few years it lias been in our power to make
such terms with the Colombian government
as would settle the question of transit across
the isthmus in our favor for all time to come,
but we have dallied ami played with the
subject until the .chances are now against
us.
Sooner or later there will be a rude awak
ening. France and perhaps another Euro
pean pow er will step in and attempt to con
trol this matter of transit from ocean to
ocean. Then our government will raise a
i row about the Monroe doctrine. An
; army will be raised, a navy will be
I built, and at a vast outlay of blood
I and treasure we will go to work and
settle what could have been settled before
without firing a gun, and with the most in
significant outlay. American statesmanship
is capable of dealing with this problem, but
how can it, when it is always engaged in
preparing for the next campaign? There
will be a very disastrous campaign, one of
these days, for the statesmen who continue
to neglect the important business down on
the isthmus.
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Coining to Tlicir Senses.
The authorities in Chicago have been slow
to learn the remedy for anarchy and culpa
bly negligent in applying it.
At last, however, the men who are respon
sible for the peace and good order of the
city have heeded the danger signals, and
they now promise to act promptly and vig
orously.
The action of the mayor in ordering the
police to suppress George Francis Train is a
step in the right direction. Mr. Train is
not ordinarily a dangerous man. He is not
dangerous when lie. is in New York, because
the people there laugh at him. But in Chi
cago he is a firebrand. He may be a crank,
but his eloquence is liable at any time to
excite a mob of anarchists to a murderous
pitch of frenzy.
So, it is better for all concerned that Mr.
Train should be nipped in the bud, sat upon
and squelched. If he attempts to speak he
is to be locked up. This is the method
which we have all the time advocated. If
this treatment is good for Mr. Train, why
will it not do for all the anarchists? Why
hould they be. permitted to flaunt their red
flags, hold their meetings and publicly plot
murder and arson?
Prevention is better than cure in such
cases. It is better and cheaper to jail a few
anarchists before they go too farthan it is to
wait until after another Haymarket massa
cre. This is the common sense of it.
A Queer Judicial Order.
The other day, when United States Judge
Bond was presiding in Richmond, he took
some pains in the contempt case of Mr.
John Scott, the commonwealth's attorney
of Fauquier, to make his decision as insult
ing as possible. In fining Mr. Scott and
committing him to the custody of the mar
shal, Judge Bond prefaced his order with
the following words:
“Hie respondent in this cnse seems, from his an
swer to the rule, to be so hopelessly blinded by the
ancient dicnine of state sovereignty, that he does
not seem to know that on nil illustrious day in her
history, Virginia gave her adhesion to the constitu
tion oftl c I’nited States.
“To punish a num under these circumstances rs
the court ought to pun isli a man of the ideas pre
v a'ent since the adoption of the constitution, would
be manifestly unjust and would be as unjust as it
would be to punish a Hind mau equally with one
who can see.”
Now, Mr. Scott as an officer of the state
was simply doing his duty. The legislature
had passed an act making it illegal to ac
cept the Virginia debt coupons in payment
of license taxes, and as the commonwealth’s
attorney Mr. Scott had been compelled to
stand by the law in tlie cases arising out of
this unpleasant state of affairs.
It remains to lie seen whether Mr. Scott
is any more blinded by the ancient doctrine
of slate sovereignty than Judge Bond is by
his little brief autliorily. But, whether
right or wrong, the imprisoned officer
knows how to discharge the duties of his
office without gratuitously insulting any
body, and in this respect Judge Bond would
do well to follow his example.
A Strange Trip.
On the last day of September Mr. Joseph
B. Murphy, a young merchant of New York,
mysteriously disappeared. A few days ago
lie returned, and the story told by him of
ills adventures is so remarkable that it is
worth summarizing.
It appears that Mr. Murphy one day re
ceived an accidental blow on the left side of
his forehead. He felt some pain, but did
not regard his injury as serious, and stepped
into a saloon, where lie took a drink of
whisky, the second that he had taken that
day. Then he walked into Baxter street,
where he lost all consciousness. When he
came to himself he was in a hospital in New
Orleans. The next day he was discharged,
and, having no money, he worked his way
on a boat to St. Louis. He arrived in New
A’ork only to find that during his absence a
creditor had levied on his goods and closed
bis store.
Mr. Murphy is still unable to reniember
anything about his trip to New Orleans, but
liis physician thinks that when his health is
restored his memory will revive. It is the
doctor's theory that at the moment Murphy
lost consciousness New Orleans was in his
thoughts, or tho words perhaps attracted his
attention on a sign or advertisement. Sev
eral similar eases have occurred during the
past year, and physicians are beginning to
study them. It is thought by many that the
disappearance of Conant, tlie editor of Har
per's Weekly, some three years ago, be
longs to this peculiar class of adventures.
The Sultan and His Wives.
In the good eld times, when people mind
ed their own business, the sultan of Turkey
never had much trouble with his wives. He
kept a few hundred on hand, and when lie
desired to get rid of them he had
them quietly dropped into the Bosphorus or
smothered, and nothing was said about it.
But now the situation is altogether differ
ent. The sultan is ostensibly the boss on
his own premises, but the miserable man re
alizes that bis pretense of rulership is a mere
sjiam. Just at present he is in hot water,
liis numerous wives for sometime past have
been rapidly increasing in si. e and weight.
I At fust the sultan was delighted. Then the
phenomenal pluiupne'ks of tlie ladiesamus.nl
him. But to his consternation the rotund
, beauties of liis house!,el! continu' dto grow
rounder and larger, and it occurred to him
that it was time to call a halt. He issued
j an edict commanding the offenders to reduce
. tlu.r size, but it had no effect. His next
i step was to notify them that in the event of
, further disebedieuce tlie lord high execu-
tioner would visit them and take their heads
off.
Fortunately for the sufferers a hint of the
sultan’s intentions reached the outside
world, and intimations have reached him
from various European capitals to the effect
that such barbarous methods will no longer
be tolerated. It is a good thing for the sul
tan’s wives, but the sultan feels terribly cut
up. If his finances were not running low
he would ship his present incumbrances,
and purchase a brand new supply. As it is,
he must make the best of it, and the proba
bility is that for the next few months the
physicians of Europe will be deluged with
inquiries from Constantinople about the
Banting system. Where a man has several
thousand extra pounds of conjugal felicity
he is in a bad fix. It is to be hoped, for the
benefit of all concerned, that the sultan’s
fair companions will hit upon some way of
growing thinner before their royal master
loses his temper.
A Correspondent Answered.
A correspondent, who says that he is a
regular attendant at church, writes to in
quire whether recent exhibitions of rancor
and denunciation in the pulpit are not cer
tain signs of decline and degeneracy. We
take pleasure in reassuring our correspon
dent on this point. The pulpit is not only
as pure as ever it was, but it is more power
ful. ’Where one preacher rants and de
nounces, ten thousand preach the religion of
Jesus Christ. Where one preacher uses
sheet-iron thunder, ten thousand call atten
tion to the gospel of love, mercy and charity
which our Saviour preached.
Our correspondent appears to be anxious
to make the same mistake about the preach
ers that the Rev. Mr. Candler, of Nashville,
made about actors and actresses. It is al
ways a mistake to make a sweeping judg
ment. Because there are some bad men
and women on the stage, it does not follow
that all men and women on the stage are
corrupt. Because one preacher, or even ten
preachers, make the pulpit the theater of
denunciation, and dip their tongues in gall
and bitterness, it must not be supposed that
there is a tendency among ministers to in
dulge in that sort of tiling.
On the contrary, the great majority of
preachers of all denominations appear to
have consecrated their lives to teaching the
essons of love, mercy and charity.
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The Difference Marked.
The editorial of the Minneapolis Tribune
which appears in our telegraphic columns,
is so gross that we cannot believe that any
decent American could have written it.
Much can be pardoned in the heat of po
litical rivalry, but even in the severest cam
paigns the domestic circle has been spared.
The people have watched the school-girl’s
elevation to the position of mistress of the
whitehouse. They have seen her assume
her high station with a dignity which re
flected honor on American womanhood.
Their pride in her success shows itself
in the enthusiasm which greets her where
ever she goes. And it is reserved for the
land where Tuttle blooms to insult this
queenly American woman.
Ten years ago the wife of a president visit
ed the south. Her husband held his title by
fraud, and represented a policy under which
the south had been plundered of her sub
stance and robbed of her victory at the bal
lot-box. Yet Mrs. Hayes received genuine
homage wherever she went. In Atlanta she
was received with all the honor to which
the lady of the white house was entitled.
The south had cause for anger, yet did
not forget the respect due a lady. The
west has none, yet Minneapolis can produce
such a monstrosity as the Tribune.
Murder on the Rail.
The recent railway slaughter in Indiana
adds another frightful horror to the long
black list for the current year.
When we hear of these things we hold up
our hands, .and say that there is something
wrong somewhere, and that the railway
people ought to be more careful.
It may be doubted whether this protest is
emphatic enough to do any good. A few
days ago, when the president was about to
pass over a road where some danger was ap
prehended, some railway officials and direc
tors rode in advance of the presidential
train. Os course, no accident occurred.
Sidney Smith understood the situation when
he suggested that it would be a good idea
to have one of the railway directors on each
locomotive.
But let us come down to something prac
tical. We must do something to make
travel reasonably safe. If it will do any
good to have a set of statutes dealing
especially with the matter of railway crim
inal negligence, and attaching the death
penalty to this class of offenses, we ought
to have such laws and execute them to the
letter.
Doubtless the harsh measures suggested
would inconvenience the railways, and in
crease their expenses, but, on the other
hand, it should be recollected that under
the present system they are not only incon
veniencing travelers, but killing them by
wholesale. As a rule, extreme severity in
our penal legislation should be avoided, but
if it is ever justifiable it is in the protection
of the lives of the traveling public.
Visionary Refoi-ins.
A new Henry George has come to the
front in Chicago. Like his predecessor he
has a scheme for abolishing poverty, and
enabling poor men to enjoy all the good
things of this life. His idea is not a new
one. It is simply an enlargement of the co
operative plan.
The Chicago philosopher will fail, just as
Henry George will fail. The hardshipsand
inequalities that exist in society are not to
be abolished any more than sin, and death
■ and pain. In the earliest stages of human
existence, even in the first family, men
I fought each other, and they will continue
their warfare to the end. A Christian civi
lization has merely changed our methods.
In every so called peaceful community there
is a competition, a rivalry, a struggle for
I certain worldly advantages as bitter, and in
i its way as destructive, as tlie violent con
flicts in which the earliest savages of our
race engaged every day of their liv -s.
In the midst of all our self-glorification
over the progress of the race and the advance
of civilization it is well sometimes to strip
the situation of its false colors and view it as
it is. Os course there will be reforms in the
future, just as there have been reforms in the
past, but in the main they will be visionary,
deciqrtive.up in tho air. Sometimes self-in
terest will lead us into new social compacts
and eoinproiniscs of a beneficial nature, but
1 the dreamer who expects to see poverty
abolished and men loving and helping each
other is destined to be disappointed.
We must goon in the same old way,
securing w hat we covet by superior strength
of brain or muscle, and pushing our weaker
competitors to the wall. Mr. George and
his Chicago friend leave human nature out
of their calculations, but they will find be
fore they get through that human nature is
a very big thing. ■
An Old Murder Unveiled.
There is intense excitement in New Eng
land over the arrest of David Stair for the
murder of J. W. Barron, the treasurer of
the Dexter, Maine, bank.
The murder occurred nine years ago.
Barron was found in the panic, vault one
morning so seriously wounded that he was
unable to tell how the bank had been rob
bed or who had assaulted him. He died iu
a few hours, and it was rumored that his in
juries were self-inflicted, and that be had
committed suicide to cover his own itregu
larities. His family has rested under this
stigma for nine years, and it is probable that
the murderer would never have been dis
covered if his own son, Charles Stair, had
not broken down under the weight of his
guilty secret, and made a confession throw
ing the burden of the crime upon his fa
ther.
It is understood that young Stair’s confes
sion is supported by other evidence, and his
father will in all probability be convicted.
The old maxim, “Murder will out,” is sig
nally illustrated in this case, but we have an
alarming number of murders in this country
where the teal criminals are never found.
Still, it is encouraging toJiave an old affair
like this one unraveled. If it convinces the
rising generation of toughs that murder is a
dangerous business it will do some good.
An Ingenious Flea.
A Boston druggist who was up in the
municipal court, the other day, charged
with selling cigars on Sunday, made an
ingenious defense. He claimed that tobac
co was a medicine, and called the attention
of the court to the fact that it was put down
in the pharmacopia as a drug, a remedial
agent.
Now, there was something in this defense,
but the court would not sec it, and the drug
gist was convicted and fined. Os course to
bacco is a medicine, and when it is intelli
gently used it quiets the nerves. The decis
ion of the court in this case was based upon
the assumption that the purchasers of tlie
cigars did not intend to use them intelli
gently. The judge had no right to assume
this,but lie consulted public opinion, and act
ed accordingly. lie knew that the reformers
who shaped the Sunday laws expected him
to put down cigar selling, and it mattered
not to him what the pharmacopia said about
tobacco. Boston is the city where men
used to be arrested for smoking on the street.
The city has outgrown this nonsense, and
it will not be long before she will get rid
of the statute which allows a druggist to sell
a tobacco plaster and forbids him to sell a
cigar on Sunday.
A New Social Standard.
A bright lady novelist makes one of her
characters sneer at a pretty girl because she
looked like a Greek goddess and was bril
liantly gifted. “Plebeian of course,” said
the British matron, “Great beauty and
remarkable intellects belong to the lower
orders.”
One is reminded of this startling deliver
ance tfy a recent illustration representing
Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales and
Buffalo Bill. The queen looks like an ugly,
stupid old dowdy; the prince would pass
for a middle-aged butcher, and Buffalo Bill,
a plain American, comes up to the common
idea of a typical aristocrat.
It is not only this picture that sustains
this view. All the pictures of the blue
blooded nobility of Europe represent all that
is ugly, stupid and sensual. We may have
to come to it in this country, but it will be
generations yet. The struggle of our early
pioneers with the forces of nature, aud witli
with adverse circumstances brought out all
that was best and strongest in them, and
their descendants have not outgrown the
influences which moulded their ancestors
into a race of strong men and comely wo
men.
But idleness and luxury will leave their
stamp upon future Americans. We cannot
escape our share of soggy, muddled minds
and flabby bloat. Degeneracy comes with
long continued prosperity. When a thing
is inevitable we should prepare for it. It is
hard in such a country as ours to place
beauty and intelligence socially below par,
but it will have to be done. If they are not
ruled out new men and women will all the
time be forcing themselves into society, and
they will make it very uncomfortable for
those who are there because their great
grandfathers carved their way to fortune
and fame. We must make dullness and
plainness among the essentials of our social
standard, and we cannot begin too early.
If it does nothing else, it will make some
worthy people very happy. If we are going
to take the English for our models, we must
get rid of our crude ideas about personal
beauty and the charm of superior intelli
gence.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Jkffkrsox county, Kentucky, brags that
it costs only $26 tohang a murderer there. The
cheapness of this method of reform is wonder
fully enticing.
The farmer who couldn’t hit the balloon
should como to Atlanta aud join one of the
gun clubs.
It is reported that Frank James, the ex
bandit, is dying at Dallas, Texas. Ono queer
thing about reformation in general is that as
soon as a man gets thoroughly reformed, he
quits breathing.
Among the things held to be public neces
sities, in Texas, tho newspaper (holds a high
pla<* It was upon this ground that tlie court
discharged the managing edit' r of the Galves
, ton Nows when ho was arrested for printing a
I Sunday edition. Sensible people, those Tex
| ans
The negro who wants to go to Liberia
' might as well venture to New England.
Lr is said that when there is any danger
around, Foraker crawls through bis mouth.
A Mississirri editor denounces a cont'm
, porary .is “a toad >viio disgraces liis own
warts.”
Several New Yohkf.rs who believe that
' tobacco can be grown in Florida at a big profit
are aWut to invest Oj in an experiment
I in that state.
A RLoNiiK xx ii a brunette f. ught a d'tel with
■ knives iu New Orleans the other night. It
was all on account of a young man. The
: girls wore jerseys next to tho skin. Their
arms were bare. The brunette drove her
j kmle into the blonde s arm, aud this ended
the fight. The young man is doing as well affi
could bo expected. ,)
They have some fine writers on the North,
Carolina newspapers. Tho Greensboro North.
State says that Jefferson Davis has heard the
“hiss of the adder of calumny and folt the
sting of tho wasp of vituperation,” but he
“wears at all times the richly jeweled crown
of tho Kingly Gentleman.”
Fred Grant declares that he has inherit
ed the ability of his father. Does he anticipate
another war?
The laying or tho corner stone of the Lea
monument at Richmond, on tho 25th, will bei
celebrated in grand style. > : l
An anarchist who committed suicide the'
other day in New York left a note signed “Th®
Hyena.” A good name for an anarchist. /
The Cincinnati Commercial G.AZErt®
thinks that Sam Randall’s reception in
gia does not look much like putting himoutoj
the democratic party.
Judge Pareon, of the supreme court o£-
Pennsylvania, said in a late decision, that ®'
man who cannot or does not read the newsy
papers is not properly qualified to serve as a
juror. This is almost revolutionary. j
Mr. James Gordon Bennett has returned
home. We are glad of this. The Herald has
recently shown violent signs of what Colonel 1
Skaggs calls “voluptuous erraticism.”
Even the weather appears to be on dress
parade during the exposition.
It is thought that Editor Dana will finallF
become reconciled to Mr. Cleveland’s re-elec
tion. ,
The New York Evening Post will shortly
bo issued as an eight-page paper. This will bo
a great improvement.
We are a smart people. It took us only
two generations to find out the danger that
lurks in the deadly car stove.
The gas generators used on the fair,
grounds are almost as prompt and as powerful
as an all-night sessional congress. ,
The associated press correspondent with
the president is a gifted being. He carries his
illuminated rhetoric in a carpet-bag.
The consumption of coffee in England ia
on the decrease. A bad sign. It means moroj
beer. The coffee drinking nations are teuuj
perate.
The new tint in ladies’ dress goods called*
“spanked baby” is not pink, as has been supj
posed. Tlie Philadelphia News says' it is
“yeller."
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