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6 THE CONSTITUTION. ■Entered at the Atlanta poMoffice as second-class mail matter, November 11,1873. The Weekly Constitution ¥1.25 per annmn. Clubs of n»c, SI.OO each; clubs of ten, SI.OO each end a copy to getter tip of club, WE WANT YOU. The Constitution wants an agent at every poM office in America. Agents outfit free and good terms. If yon are not in a club, we wan you to net as agent at your office. W rite us. 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. OUR “CHRISTMAS BOX” OF PRESENTS. On January Ist wo will distribute 81,000 among our subscribers. From September Ist to January Ist wo put the name of every subscriber received in al»ox. On the latter date we shake up the box thoroughly. A holo is cut in it. One of our weekly agents, in the presence of three other , draws out a name. That imino gets 5500, the box is then shaken again, and nn< ther name drawn. That name gets and soon through the list. Now you ought to subscribe for tho paper without expet ting to g* t < no of the ‘presents. I’nv for it, for itself, ju t as you base always done. From reading the paper you get your , money's worth, and more for your money , than any other paper :jv< . you. Bo satisfied with inn. Tlkui if you get the SSOO, or tl.o f‘JOO or oven one of the >5 presents, take it w ith our best wishes and our Christmas greet ings! Os course wci do not pretend that every sub scriber will get a present. Not one in every hundred will get one. But vv< ry subscriber will have an e. al chance. Tho box will have the name of vv< ry subscriber sent in be- I fore January Island no other names. Throe I agents from difft rent states will shake the box I and will draw out a name while the others hold it. You will have* just exactly the same chance every other subscriber has. Some per sons will got every prize. Il may just as well Vo you as any eno else. XV t do claim this. Wo furnish you tho big gest and best paper that is printed. We furnish it cheaper than any other paper. We give you besides an equal chance with every other suls scriber in SI,OOO in gold distributed as presents. No other paper does this. So, if vou like our paper as well as any other, take it, for besides the paper you have an interest in our '•Christ mas box,'' which no other paper gives you. Hut if you do not like our paper as well as B<»mo other paper, take that paper and drop ©urs, for you may not get one of our presents I and thou you would be dissatisfied. Take the paper solely for the papers sake,and if you get a present, you will be just that much hap pier. 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. -■ . 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. . . ... ' ————— ■■■■ - ■ 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. —— • 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." FREE “ EXPOSITION ’’ Do you want a free ticket for 'yourself, wife and children to the exposition? >, Hero is how to get them. Get a club of 51 subscribers to The Constitution at $1 each! and we will give you a full ticket, (50 cents,Jl a child’s ticket, (25 cents,) as a premium. ’ | Get a club of ten subscribers at ,$1 each, and: we will give you two whole tickets ($1) and l two child’s tickets (50 cents) as a premium. I You of course have to buy your admission! tickets for one day when you buy your railroad: ticket. But if you stay two days you will need tickets for the second day. These will cost you 50 cents for yourself or wife and 25 cents each for your children. You can get one of each for nothing by bringing us five subscribers and one of each for every club of five sub scribers. < If you are only going to stay Cue day, wo give you 75 cents cash preniitfm for every club* of five subscribers, or $1.50 for 10, or $3 for 20, all at $1 each. We will only give these rates' to subscribers who actually bring them her© and present them at our office in town or on, the grounds. We do this for two reasons. We want to se©- you and know you. We want you to come to: tlie exposition, and we want to help you pay your way. Now, get to work —get the children to work. —and you can easily get enough cash premiums to pay for your tickets. Tell the children they must help earn the money to pay their way. Every five subscribers at $1 each, pays you 75 cents in casli or a whole and half ticket. If you, want sample copies to work with write on a postal card or letter “send me samples for ex position club,” aud we will send them free. In the meantime work with this copy. Renewals of old subscribers will work just the same as new ones. But we positively cannot make this offer good to anybody but actual visitors to th© exposition, and tlie offer closes when the ex position does. DIVIDING OUR PROFITS. And Giving Our Headers Some liig Christ* mas Presents* We furnish our subscribers with The best family paper iu America. The cheapest paper printed—the only 12-pags weekly. The paper that pays more for special features thaQ any other. When wc do this our contract with out subscribertf ends. But in the past three years our friends have increased our circulation from 9,000 to 112,000 copies* Appreciating this we shall distribute to tl oai ors- January Ist some big Christmas presents. Here is a> list of them: One present of SSOO in gold* One present of 200 in gold* One present of 100 in gold? One present of CO in gold* Ons present of 25 in gold* To the 10 next 910 each JOO in gold*' To the 5 next S 5 each 25 in gold© Total Presents sl,ooo* You do not pay a cent for this. You simply pay for your paper, just as usual. We put your name ia our “Christmas box’’ aud on January Ist the lirsfc name taken out—the box being shaken and tho agent blindfolded—gets SSOO in gold, the next S2OO/ and so on through the list. Now note this well. Send in your own.subscript tion and we will put your name in the box. There-, fore every other name you send in we will put ini your name again. If you send ten subscriber youD name goes in ten times, and you have just thj£ many more chances. We want every man, woman or child who reads this to go to work at once for The Constitution. Don’t delay a day in sending in names. The more you get in now the more you will get in later. Com* uience at once. Y«»u ought to have 100 names irw by January Ist. Remember this. Some name will be taken at haphazard from the Christmas box oa January Ist, and that n .me g< ts SSOO in gold. It may beywre. In any event you risk n*>t a cent. You 1 get the best and cheapest paper printed, and if you 1 get the SSOO or the S2OO, or any of the other presents it is|that much made. Now begin rtf once. Send in your own name and that of your friend, and then begin a regular can* vass. The box will be thoroughly rolled nnd &hakeil» nd the first name may be taken from the bottom. BIG PAY FOR YOUR WORK. ' But we have something else for our agents. An<2 . here it is: j To the agent sending in the biggest list otf MtbM’t’ibri• before January 1 *l. we m ill git e S‘isO in gol<l» To the next bei-t ng» nt feilOO “ “ To the next Im »n .nt 50“ “ To the next beM at 25“ “ I'o the next best agent - 10 “ M Total agent*’ premiums *435. Ina 1 V-.n tu this w*-hll'tw the beM viuh com inl«*ioDs paid by any pa; *r. Wc allow -etter com* r > . us th i a last year, r-end at once aud get our , vv.tut. It will pi y to become an agent of Ths i C- NsrnviK-N. Wc want 10,u00 ager/s at once. Send for our ‘ Ih.nd-Book and outf.t i i.r.r- Anyone can become an agent Who will apply ? The C< nstitvtion is the be>t paper you ever worked for, and the eaa-cst i . ! o get subscribe re for. Apply at once!