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ATLANTA, <1 A., NOVEMBER 1, 1887.
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W orth Ita Weight In Gohl.
General Miles, of I.oui Jana, said at the agri
cultural convention, “I have paid a debt of
8200,000 ami interest with twenty cotton crops
since the war," (a n an of tlm highest ih.ua -
ten. How lie did this . how lie runs his plan
tation, his labor, his hmne, and all about his
old fashioned plantation, will be the subject of
two letters written by one of our staff who will
visit him. These letters w 111 boos tliog-roiiieu
interest, and will be alone worth a year’s sub
scription. Subscribe at once and don’t mis.,
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Southern letters now running.
The Mistake of the Anarchists.
The misguided men who are clamoring
for the destruction of social order claim that
the country has pa- ed into the hands of
the plutocrats, and t hat the poor no longer
have a fightitichance.
So often has this complaint been repeated
that some thoughtless persons have been ed
ucated up to the point where they are ready
to believe the worst that can be said against
the more fortunate members of society.
If we have any plutocrats among us they
arc very harmless. A contemporary repeat
ing a point that has been made inure than
once in these columns, reminds its readei
that our plutocrats, or their fathers, started
as horny handed toilers and a iimulat. d
their wealth by hard work and b. day , nfi r
Jirise. It is a rare thing to find, in this
country, n ri< It man whose am . . have
been wealthy for three or four gi notations.
The alleged plutocrat of today was perhaps
»pauper yesterday, and if lie is not a pauper
tomorrow , the chances are that his children
or grandchildren will have to hoe their own
row.
We have no system of entail, no law of
primogeniture to hand down vast estates in
a direct line, keeping them from generation
to generation in the pos-ession of a single
person. This is the death blow to plutoc
racy.
The concentration of immense wealth in
the hands of om man is not disastrous to
the country iu the long run. Our great
fortunes are all the time undergoing a rapid
redistribution. Tin intense strain under
gone by our millionaires results in softening
the brain, and in idle and disssipated off
spring whose sole business in life is the i
scattering of the hoards heaped up by their
ancestors. Then, every few years or so, a
panic comes aloi and the too v. nt tiresome
employer takes a tumble, while his thrifty,
cool headed hireling leaps upward to fill his
place.
One docs not have to go very far back in
our history to see how these changes have
worked in this country. Any middle-aged
man can think of numerous instances in his
liule sphere where purple and line linen
have been evolved from rags, and where
they have gone back to rags again.
If the anarchists and their dupes had
common sense and patience, they would un
derstand these things, and go to work with
the determination to be plutocrats them
selves. Any sensible, sober and industrious
nuu can lie plutocrat enough to ow n his
home and maintain his family in comfort,
Mid these arc the best things that the big
gest plutocrat ou earth manages to get out
of this life.
The anarchists, the socialists, the kickers
the growlers and the croakers will do well
to think of tin s, th ■ - Whentl. y mid. r
•tend the situation they w ill be better sat-
Utied.
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Tim tit ..f Butter Making.
We -, it-t , ’ a here an intervi. w with Dr.
Ust. s. of \ ,rn. it. who imuislod the but-
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at the . udm.eit exposition. Wo are ills-
toe.,makr thi-the must j lu p U rUfit
exhibit made ..t the l-icdmoiit.
It was ari object lesson in butter making,
«e may almost say that rnakn.g good butter
[ is a lost art in G orgia. There, are oceai-ion
| alfarmerswho make a superb article, cotn
-i I’tct, golden, an-l of excellent flavor; but for
the most part Georgia butter is a sorry arti
cle.
Such butter barely commands fifteen to
twenty cents. Butter properly male
from the same milk would command forty to
fifty cents. Air. Gates states that butter
i similar to that made in Panola dairy would
. find cxhaustlcss market in New York at
vi-nt;. live taints to one dollar a pound.
Five thousand pounds a day of such butter
could be sold in Atlanta at forty to fifty
cents a pound. Indeed the market for first
class butter is not to be limited in the
southern states.
We arc glad to learn that many Georgians
bought the equipmont of the, Panola dairy,
ami will start butter making at once on the
improved plan. Every man who does this
will create his own market, and will stand
as an example to be followed by his neigh
bors. With our long pasturage seasons, our
short and mild winters, our nutritious
gra -vs ami chiap lands, there is every rea
son why the south should become the great
butter making section of this country, and
not. a single reason why it should hold its
present position of dependence on tire north
for the bulk of its butter.
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In Suspense.
The refusal of the federal supreme court
to advance certain prohibition cases from
Georgia ami Kansas on tlm docket is undcr-
. Stood .by some. to,i.udji-.at.e tlm purpose of the.
court to render decisions favorable to the
liquor men in tlm lowa and Kansas cases
which were up a week or so ago.
Prohibitionists regard the present status
of the matter rather gloomily. It is rumor
ed that the court has already decided two
cases from lowa, but has rendered no de
cision. As tin- eight judges were evenly
divided, they affirmed the judgment of the
court below to the effect that it was uncon
stitutional to deprive brewers and distillers
of the right to use or sell their property
w ithout allowing them any compensation,
provided such breweries and distilleries were
owned by the parlies injured before the pass
age of tin- prohibitory law. The Kansas
case was very ably pn -ented on both sides,
and it is thought that half of the supreme
judges will go even farther than Judge
Brewer of lowa did when he decided the
prohibition law to be against the fourteenth
amendment.
All this guess-work concerning the atti
tude of the supreme court is too unsubstan
tial to alarm tlie one side or to inspire the
other with confidence. The decision will
have to be made public before tire situation
can be intelligently discussed.
One tiling, how ever, may be said in ad
vance. if at this late day the supreme court
shall decide that prohibitory laws, when they
deprive citizens of their property and busi
ness, are unconstitutional, the prohibition
ists will form a strong national party to se
cure a prohibitory amendment to the consti
tution. it will be seen, therefore, that the
action of the court mny have the effect of
making prohibition one of the livest of na
tional pai t y questions.
A Victim of the Cigarette.
It is said that Ilobert Louis Stevenson,
W ju.sugenius has endeared him to all who
love good literature, is a victim of cigarette
smoking. During an hour's conversation
with a friend in New York recently he con
sumed a package of cigarettes, literally fill
ing his lungs with the smoke and keeping
them filled.
His physicians say that his ill-health has
no other basis than this vile habit, ami his
family and his friends have implored him to
give it up; hut he continues to smoke, and
it will be only a short time before the most
powerful mind of tiiis generation, so far as
the production of Active literature is con
cerned, w ill succumb to the active cigarette.
Mr. .Stevenson is said to be in a terrible
condition physically, though his mental fac
ulties are as bright as ever. Cigarette
smoking means the inhalation of smoke
laden with nicotine and the fumes of chem
ically prepared paper. This inhalation has
been very swift iu its work in Mr. Steven
son's case. He has lost one lung, and the
other is fast going, anil his entire system is
prostrated.
It 1 i pity that the most brilliant and fas
cinating prose writer of our day should be
the victim of so silly a habit.
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Gordon mid Foraker.
The announcement of the acceptance
by Georeia's gallant governor of the earn
est. invitation of the democratic campaign !
committee of Ohio to deliver a series of ad- !
dresses in that state during tlm pending
campaign, is received w ith great favor by-
Um democrats of the state, and has fallen
like, a bomb in the ranks of Foraker’s
camp.
Indeed the indications are that the hero
of the bloody shirt has already begun to
stampede, and, having clamped the bit be- I
tween his teeth, will be beyond control by
the time General Gordon’s words will have
had opportunity of producing a pacifying
effect. In a two and a half hour harangue,
delivered at Delaware, Ohio. Tuesday, For
aker, who seems to have just heard of the
coming of Georgia's governor, grew vehe
ment in alluding to the event, and devoted
most of his synch to jit. Among other
things, he said:
Hut I wnut him t > stay- long enough to learn that
1 have n< vei in mj lit,’, at any time or 11 ice, m any
manner whatsoever, liy any kind of public utter
ance. made any iissault upon the people of ihe south
as such. Thera has been so much talk
along the line of this charge, that is
hemhled tn advance of the coming of
ti 'Vern. r Gordon. Unit I know this imdi u e will
pird -a mo if I speak tn regard to this matter in
somethin; of a per-, mil a use. I have on various
collisions deiivii ueid with ns plain language as I
have 1-eeu able to command, some of the crimes
that have been ; p tested by violators of the law
utwiil. , exile »e of the right of siitlYnge In the
si . a cs. I have denounced the operation
of the imiui'iis Kuklux Klans,” the ‘ White
I. neue," the ' Ked Slutters,” and all other abom
icnb.c ..-■ a c.nt.ous wan h a few year* n o dis
gruc. d t-.v s nth, and di,,: a e.l the civilisation of
the u.iot . mil oei.t try. lu. that 1 have not de
iioinie. d the i e. , le of the souUt. that so tar as ttio
, aa’i'. e. i .med, I have always
hi. l < '..'.y a ui -t co d'.at feeling, I can make muni
t l 1 l y tl. citation of a few faar la. t-,
w fi. h . a.dt‘.ot to I-.'lost sight of by tim-e who
w .i I 1..'.k >. this manner. 1 want to call your
utw ; ?> ‘ , t..e first place, and if lam a little te ll
0.,1. .. . :!e: that lam t.. Iking n-4 only to this
nil 1■ n I.Ja -o to Gem nd John B. Gold.m. If
t’ e i.ny ■ ' ..st ;e”tole d me w I.cn lie comes
to f. s.nt .f el io, 1 want to help do it.
Tlm; tl.e close of the above outburst of
enthusiasm was greeted with "applause,”
which p.uiiitb.itieal explanation is made by
i the Commercial Gazette, from which the
report is taken, is thoroughly in harmony
with the opjiortuni’.y offered for an unusual
display of the appreciation of the keen
s'‘tisibilit.cs of au Uhio audience. As will
TILE WEEKLY CONSTITI TION, ATLANTA. GA.. TVESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1887. •
be observed by the statement of this rancor
ous apostle of the bloody shirt, he proposes
‘‘to be at the blasting” if any such work is
; to be done. Tlie very idea thus suggested
■ was cnou rli to have elicited “applause,”
‘ in ‘ as the defense of a vulture from tlie
attack of an eagle would excite admiration.
It will be an interesting spectacle when
Gordon and Foralror meet, but unless wc
are much mistaken tlie interest will be in
the withering and eloquent denunciation of
the distinguished Georgian of the man, and
his methods, who would tear open the
wounds of war, and feeding upon section
alism and animosity long since buried by
north and south, seeks to maintain liis
loosening grasp on office by unmanly, un
generous and undignified abuse of tlie south.
Ilis denial that he has never made an as
sault on the south amounts to nothing. His
whole campaign has been one of abuse and
vituperation, and but for tlie fact that he
may be of some assistance in ridding the
people of Ohio of tiiis political vulture,
Georgia’s governor would not join issue
with him in his denunciation of tlie south.
The Situation in Virginia.
After a long era of ascendency in the po
litical control of Virginia, the final over
throw of boss Mahone and his henchmen i
at hand, but tlie shrewd little turncoat does
not give up without a desp rate strugde.
Malione’s term as senator expired v>i:!i
; the last congress, and Rid ili bergcr’s succes
sor will be chosen by the next Virginia leg
islature, whieli is to be eketed next month,
in wlilch contest the energy of tlie republi
cans are bent to tlie utmost, in hopes of re
turning Mahone in tlie place of Riddleber
ger, whose course, while generally witli the
republicans, lias been rather too indepen
dent to suit their exacting demands. Tlie
democrats will probably present John S.
Barbour as their candidate, and in tlie event
of his election Virginia’s representation in
the senate,by Daniel ami Barbour, will be in
striking contrast with that of Mahone and
Kiddleberger, which worthy pair of hybrids
will probably be forever relegated to the
sweets of private life.
There are no state officers to
be elected, and only on the
choice of tlie legislature is the estimate
of tlie political stand of the state in the pres
idential election to be made. One year ago
in the congressional contests, the aggregate
republican majority of tlie state was twenty
thousand. This was the outcome princi
pally of democratic lassitude, and of party
splits ami apathy in the ranks of the office
seekers, all of whom could not be cared for,
as they seemed to have expected, by tlie ad
ministration.
Tlie reputable people of Virginia
abhor Mahone, and when his interests are at
stake they are not loath to flock to the stan
dard of tlie opposition. In tlie approaching
election tlie issue is made squarely against
him, in tlie. election of a legislature, and the
result will be that Virginia will at last throw
off tlie shackles of republican misrepresen
tation and again take her place squarely in
tlie. democratic column.
Tl.e legislature consists of 140 members,
forty of which r.it senators. Os tlie latter
more than half of the last body hold over,
of which seventeen are democrats, so that
only four democrats out of the nineteen
senators to be elected, are necessary to
give a democratic majority in the upper
house. Thus to gain ascendency, t e re
publicans will have to elect sixty-eight out
of tlie 121 members of both houses to be
elected, ami tlie democrats will maintain
their hold by electing fifty-five.
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It lias Ailvancecl the Price fill a Ton.
The fight over the Cotton Seed Oil Trust is
ively. It looks as if tlie Standard Oil com
pany would take in the trust. In the mean
time the Southern Cotton Seed Oil company,
tlie rival of the ’-Trust,” is moving along
quietly. It has advanced the price of cotton
seed SI a ton, which is the main interest the
public lias in the tight.
Work for Onr Navy.
Our navy is not altogether an ornamental
lot of tubs. There are occasions when it is
useful.
Just at present our war vessels in the Pa
cific are on duty at three points where
trouble is apprehended. In southern Mexi
co there is a littie political upheaval, and
for tin- protection of the American residents
in and around Acapulco three of our men
of-war have been ordered to that point.
The efforts of the British to injure Ameri
can trade in the Sandwich Islands have
rendered it necessary to send a fleet to
Honolulu. Down about tlie Samoan
Islands there is trouble brewing over the
encroachments of Germany and the conse
quent interference with our trade. One of
our war vessels has therefore been sent to
Africa for tlie protection of our interests.
The Hurry in naval circles caused by these
developments in the Pacific will lead to in
teresting speculations upon tlie efficiency of
our offensive and defensive equipment on
the water in the event of something serious.
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A Peculiar People.
The proposed colonization of all the Dunk
ards of the Fniteil States in the "Panhan
dle” section of Texas is a big thing tn its
way. The colonists will be principally
drawn from Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania
and Illinois, but some will probably be se
cured from North Carolina.
Originally the Dunkards were a peculiar
society of Baptists in Germany. They came
to this country about fifty years before the
revolution, and have adhered steadfastly to
their faith and primitive methods. In many
respects they lire like other Baptists. Their
mode of baptism, however, 1. a little differ
ent. The person to be baptized has to
kneel and be itipped head foremost, In the
celebration of the Lord’s supper feet-wash
ing and the kiss of love are prominent fea
tures. The sick are anointed with oil.
General redemption is believed in. although
it is not an articled their faith. TheDunk
ards are remarkable for great plainness of
dress and speech. They will not take an
oath, fight or go to law, and it is only in re
cent years that they have consented to re
ceive interest In their money transactions.
Perhaps the entire sect numbers something
like fifty or sixty thousand souls.
The honest simplicity of these people is
v -jrthy of the highest admiration. During
our late war both governments respected
their conscientious scruples. The federate
exempted them from service and the con
federates did likewise, A misprint in the
confederate statute on the subject made it
appear that were exempted,
and there was great rejoicing among certain
red-nosed citizens, but their satisfaction was
short-lived.
During the confederate Invasion of Penn-
I sylvania one of our generals, who bad im-
pressed a Dankard’s horse, gave tl.e man
two broken down animals a soma sort of a
compensation. Tlie next day the Dnnkard
carried one of the horses along disianee to
tlie general’s headquarters. lie said that he
had examined the confederate horses and
had satisfied himself that with a little rest
they would be as valuable as tlie animal
that he had parted with. Feeling that it
was not right to swap one horse for two un
der such circumstances he had decided to
return one. The surprised general begged
the old Dunkard to alter his determination
but could not prevail upon him to accept
the advantage growing out. of the exchange.
Texas is to be congratulated upon secur
ing a colony composed of sucli good people,
and it is perhaps just as well that tliey
should live by themselves, fenced off from
the rest of the world. If they mingled much
with mankind they would doubtless be
robbed or cheated out of everything they
possess.
It Bents the World.
The history of the Elytou Land company, of
Birmingham, is perhafts without parallel.
Fifteen years ago it started with a cash capi
tal of 4 UH),<XX>. Last year it divided, in cash
dividends, 51,320,000, in stock dividends (worth
pa: > S' l X),0o0, invested 8250,(W in permanent
improvements and set aside as reserve profits
8:),i;14,:d5.
On this cash capital of .8100,000 paid up fif
teen years ago it sold last year 8 1,.50G,!>55 worth
of real estate, and its property yet on hand is
worth 815,000,000. These figures are almost
incredible, but are official from Dr. Caldwell’s
report.
Some Figures from Alabama.
We print this morning the first letter from
Mr. I’hinizy, the staff correspondent of The
Constitution, who is touring through Ala
bama. There arc some suggestive figures
in the letter. In ten years Alabama has in
creased her taxable property from $125,000,-
000 to $215,000,000. In the past year Jef
ferson county alone—of which Birmingham
is the county scat—increased $20,000,000
in tax values, a larger increase than was
made by the entire state of Georgia for the
same year. The total increase in the state
for the year -jvas $41,691,703, of which
amount Jefferson county contributed nearly
two-thirds. Our correspondent is led into
error, we fear, by the prinia facie evidence
of the tax books, which shows that the value
of pistols, dirks and guns returned for taxa
tion is five times greater than that of fann
ing tools and implements. There must be
some exemption for farming tools, or they
must appear in some other shape in tlie tax
books. It is simply incredible that the
plows, hoes, harrows, cultivators, axes, har
vesters and other farming implements in
Alabama represent the value of only one
fifth of what is represented by pistols, dirks,
and guns. Our correspondent’s figures are
correct, for they are taken from the tax
books, but there must be some explanation.
In Alabama, as elsewhere, experience teaches
that tlie farmer who raises corn, grasses
and cattle is prosperous’, while the farmer
who plants all cotton impoverishes his
land, and grows poorer almost every year
that passes. It is pitiable that the poorer a
farmer becomes, the more helplessly he is
bound in the all cotton toils. If he loses
a thousand dollars tiiis year by’ planting all
cotton, it only makes the necessity for his
planting all cotton again next year one
thousand dollars deeper. The more abject
his dependence on his commission mer
chant, the more certainly will he be forced
to plant all cotton next year, and buy his
meat and bread.
Tlie first chapter of Alabama and its re
sottFces. of the series we shall print, is en
couraging, and if our daughter across the
Chattahoochee doesnot at last surpass us in
wealth and enterprise she will give us all
we can do to hold our lead. In this race
for the proud eminence of the “Empire
State of the South” we wish Alabama all
speed, promising her at the same time that
Georgia intends to maintain her position if
it can be done.
Georgia’s Pine Barrens and Their Value.
Six years ago Mr. D. C. Bacon, of Savannah’
proposed a scheme for buying up tlie pine for
ests of south Georgia. About $600,000 would
have been required. At least $2,000,000 could
now be realized on that investment had it been
nude.
There is money to be made in buying Geor
gia pine lands or holding them, at present fig
ures. The pine belt is rapidly diminishing and
tlie reputation and uses of piue are multiply
ing. Indeed, all southern forests are valuable.
Prospectors arc buying them up in vast tracts
at low prices. So of mineral tracts. We should
not sell our patrimony for a song. Tlie south
is a new field and Hie coming field, and it will
pay us to watcli and wait.
Greene County on tlie Right I.inc.
Greene comity had a colt show in Grecnes
boro last Saturday, and tho Herald and Jour
nal in its last issue, whieli by tlie way, is as
good an issue of a weekly paper as we over
read, tells us about it.
Captain John Hart, of Union Point, sent up
a drove of thirty mule colts as lino as ever
came from the bluegrass region. Captain Hart
claims that it cost him practically nothing to
raise them. They grazed on tlie canebrake
and liermuda grass, and were fed occasionally
ou forage cane and peavines. They represent
to him almost a clear profit. There were colts
and colts, stout and tine. It is notable that
Wash Stocks, colored, took the premium for
the best two-year-old mare. The Herald says
that Greene spends $75,000 every year for
horses. This enormous amount is annually
drained out of tho county. It represents five
dollars a head for every man, woman and child
in Greene and would pay thirty dollars a year
for schooling every child in tho county. It is
more than the county and state tax and repre
sents nearly two thousand bales of cotton.
Every dollar of this could be saved to the coun
ty by raising horse and mule colts iu the cane
brakes tuid bermuda lands Tor which
Greene is famous.
The colt show in Greene was a success. Tho
next one will bo very much better, and if tho
Herald’s advice is taken the colt show will
dewlop into a first-class county fair. Greene’s
example is well worth following.
Civil Strife Among the Cherokees.
Trouble is brewing in Indian territory
and fears of a civil outbreak among the
Cherokees are apprehended. The difficulty
arises out of the last election for chief of the
Cherokees, and indirectly, out of a quarrel
of long standing between the Downing and
the Nationalist parties, the two principal
political organizations of the nation. The
Tahlequah Telephone is the organ of the
former and the Cherokee Advocate that of
the Nationalist.s, which party is now in pow
er. For a long time the two parties through
their organs have indulged iu crimination
and recrimination, tlie “outs” charging the
"ins” with connivance with the cattle syndi
cates fortlie purpose of betraying the Chero
kee Nation.
In the election for chief of the nation, the
Nationalists supported Assistant Chief
Biineh, who is now second in eominnml,
m. ! r Bushyhead. Tlie Downings sup
port; il a white man n.im.-l Mays, and tlie
first count showed a majority oi 145 votes
for the latter, tlie candidate of the “outs.”
The administration’s organ charged fraud
and demanded a new count, whereupon tlie
Downings charged that tools of the authori
ties had stolen enough ballot boxes to thfow
out Mays and elect Bunch. Tlie last issue
of tlie Telephone charged Baudinot, tlie
editor of Hie Advocate, witli being at the
bottom of tlie scheme and also with having
mismanaged campaign funds entrusted to
him. Like a true western editor Baudinot,
without bandying words, buckled on Ills
armor, on hearing of the charges of the ene
my, and going to the sanctum of Stone, the
editor of tlie Telephone, proceeded immedi
ately to dispatch him to the happy hunting
ground with a bullet through his neck.
The whole nation is in a state of excite
ment,and it is feared that the council, which
has been summoned to meet, cannot set tle
the trouble. Tlie Downings swear venge
ance for Stone’s death, and the pale face of
the moon, as it rides tlie horizon of that
section, is besmattered and dripping with
gore.
A Better Condition Among Tenants.
Mr. Forrest Adair, one of our most capable
young business men, says: “Wo have 1,300
tenants on our renting list. AVo have not issued
one distress warrant for rent this year, where
we. i- tied twenty two years ago. That is, out
of our 1,300 tenants there is not one in twenty
who lias to be forced to pay rent by law, as
compared with two years ago. The bailiff in
Manuingand Landrum’s court, who wcused to
keep busy, was a special guard at the exposi
tion, and said he did it because he didn't have
enough court business to keep him up.”
One Way to Save tlie Forests.
The Mexican state of Yucatan has taken
a very decided step in the matter of preserv
ing her forests. The governor has issued a
proclamation forbidding the exportation of
timber, and prohibiting the cutting of rail
way ties to be used in other states.
Yucatan is passing through the series of
disasters common to all deforested coun
tries, and this extreme measure shows the
serious nature of the situation. We are be
ginning to wrestle with the foresty problem
in this country, but Mexican methods are
out of the question here. The best that we
can do is to encourage tree planting, and
guard against tlie wasteful destruction of
our timber.
The Yucatan incident is only’ valuable to
us in so far as it shows the desperate ex
tremity of a country that has thoughtlessly
stripped itself of one of the best and richest
gifts of nature.
A Tiger at Bay.
In all the annals of modern warfare there
will not be found an instance to match the
almost tiger-like prowess of Beriben, the
Cuban filibuster.
Beriben, witii a small force of insurgents,
found himself surrounded in the mountains
by a body of Spanish soldiers outnumbering
the Cubans eight to one. Seeing that he
had to cut his way out, the filibuster chief
led a desperate charge. A pitiless storm of
bullets met the gallant little band, and Ber
iben received a wound whieli ripped his
stomach open and disembowled him upon
his saddle horn. Feeling that death must
ensue in a few moments, the ferocious sol
dier resolved to sell his life dearly, and rally
ing his followers, he charged down upon his
foes. The dying commander with one su
preme effort raised his right arm and sent
his sword crashing through the skull of a
Spanish officer from crown to chin. The
next moment lie fell dead under an enemy’s
saber.
Inspired by tire superhuman daring of
their leader, the insurgents fought like de
mons, and succeeded in making their escape.
If the men who are fighting for Cuba are
all made of such stuff, it goes without say
ing that they will win. But there are very
few men like tlie brave Beriben.
A Truly American Crowd.
An exposition observer said: “I have i\o
doubt President Cleveland saw at Atlanta
more Americans than lie saw anywhere on his
tour. Certainly tlie crowd was more entirely
American. In the northwest an immense pro
portion of tlie population—especially the sight
seeing crowd—is foreign. To see a real
ican crowd you must come to the so.iHwrgo
to the provincial part of New England.”
Commenting on the above a bystander said:
“Yes; some of your mixed crowds in tiio
northwest would have been a bloody mob
under the exasperating conditions our people
laughed over at Piedmont park. The goodna
ture of the crowd ns it stood for hours in tho
pelting rain waiting on a delayedSprograinino,
amazed everybody. It is only in a crowd of
Americans you can find such a miracle of
frank fun and philosophy.”
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Trying to Reach tlie South Pole.
Our recent explorers have made heroic en
deavors to reacli the north pole, but they
have let the south pole alone. This was due
to the fact that the world’s commerce de
manded a northwest passage, but tlie rest
less spirit of scientific inquiry has claims of
its own to be satisfied, and tlie question of
Antarctic research is now beginning to come
prominently to tlie front.
A society in .Australia now offers to con
tribute $25,000 to bear tlie expenses of an
expedition to the soutli pole if the British
government will donate a like sura. It is
thought that the proposition will be accept
ed, and probably some time next year two
well equipped vessels will sail on their voy
age of discovery. Tlie open seas beyond
the ice wall guarding the southern polar
circle make it comparatively easy for vessels
propelled by steam to push their way into
this unknown region.
Possibly the resulls of the exploration
will add but little to our stock of useful
knowledge. It will be something, however,
to reach one of tlie poles, and Hie achieve
ment may induce mankind to let tho other
pole stay ont in the cold. One is about as
much as we can expect to conveniently han
dle.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
A Sovth Caroi.isa u- _;ro jury tho other
day convicted a negro of iho murder of a
white man. This is progress.
Tuk vkkachek is Westminster Abbey was
floored when tlie London mob howled at him:
“We don’t want charity, wc want work!”
Such talk is hard to answer.
It is said that the lato Francis Lacroix, of
New Orleans, was tlie only negro m ho vvasever
worth a million. Lacroix was worth it, and a
cool hundred thousand over.
Elizabeth Stvart Fhelfr desoribes a
woman as “flinging her rich voice out on a
hymn.” Miss Phelps, perhaps, surpassed this
when she wrote of one of her heroines, “beat
ing her soul out against a red curtain.”
Girim us Dickes ;, ,Tm, is soon to make
tour m this count: ) to give readings from tho
' i f lui illi’- iGhis fatlior. Ho will b<i
hi : rl by rimy who listened with delight to
G r :.;,s of die <’i- it Dickens, whoso,
in lour i>...: made in the winter of
IB.il :i d ’B. j
Aim :x Linpimott’s Magazine says that
no i: -li character as Mr. Pecksniff will bo.
find :n r. al life. Dickens anticipated this
iru c when lie wrote: “All the Pecksniff
family upon earti ar. quite agreed, I believe,'
that Mr. Pee. 'mill is im exaggeration.” .
It is axnol’Ni i:i> that Secretary of State
Bayard is soon to wed a Miss Sophia Dalias
Murkoe, who is now an attache of tho state de»;
partment. She is the daughter of the late Frank
Markoe, who was tlie first secretary of tho 1
Smithsonian institute, and whose southern
sympathies, duringthe war, caused him to lose
his position. j
Canon M eldon recently made a temper*
ance address in Dublin, in which he denounc
ed tlie Highland festival given in honor of the
presence of tho queen as a most revolting
scene of dnmkenne ■s and debauchery, lead by
the sons and sons-in-law of her highness. The
canon forgets that the royal boys are paid to
do nothing but have a good" time.
Omaha wilt, vigorously press its claims
before tlie republican national committee as*
tlie proper place to hold tlie next national con
vention. John Sherman and Governor For
aker have both expressed themselves as favor- ;
ing it. It would bo much better to select some
place on Salt river, so that tlie g. o. p. will not
have far to go iu looking for the result of its
work.
Ex-Governor Hoadlev, of Ohio, is quoted
by tlie Chicago Times as having said that-there
is but little to criticize in Cleveland’s admin*)
istration, and that the president has been true,
to liis duty iu every instance. He thinks that
Cleveland will certainly bo renominated, and
that Blaine will bo the republican nominee
again, if he wants to be. He thinks Sherman
lias no chance at all,*and that if Blaine won’t
accept a renomination that Allison will bo the
man.
Dr. Leonard, the Ohio prohibition leader,
is taking a conspicuous part in the state cam
paign of Ohio, and is arraigning the republi
can party and its methods, declaring’
that in 1872 it declared for free whisky'
and beer. While the doctor’s stand is
not directly for the democrats, yet his
position will materially assist in the election of
democrats to the general assembly, in that tho‘
deflection from the republican vote by prohi-i
bitionists will be decidedly greater than from
the democratic ranks. Luck to the doctor.
Mn. Powderly, Master workman of the
Knights of Labor, in a public speech, in Cleve
land, in referring to the prohibition question’
said: “It is not my desire to interfere with a
man’s right to drink whenever and wherever
he desires, so long as by the exercise of that',
right he does not infringe upon any rights of
mine. lam not a prohibitionist, I would not
legislate against any man’s appetite. I am, ‘
however, to tills extent a prohibitionist, that I
always have and always will prohibit any in
toxicating liquor from being poured into my.
system.” ,
Ex-Senator Thurman, of Ohio, “the no
blest Roman of them all,” announced in a.
public address in his state last Saturday, that’
the effort would probably be his last in the
political arena in which he has served so long
and faithfully. Thus, at the ripe old age of
seventy-four years, lie takes his leave from the’
public with the respect and good-will of his
political adversaries and the love and venera
tion of bis partisans. Be it ever to bis credit,
that his last public address, if, indeed, a loving
people allow this to be his last, was in defense
of the reunion of the sections and in denuncia
tion of the appeal to sectional passion and the
men who are occupied in rekindling sectional
strife. He could not have closed his useful
public career more laudably than by his ear
nest and eloquent admonition to his people to
“stand by the great principles that Thomas
Jefferson laid down for the American people,
that Andrew Jackson enforced, and that have
made this country one of the greatest and
freest and most lovable countries upon which
the sun of God shines today.”
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How the President Shakes Hands.
President Cleveland tells a curious thing as
to the effect of shaking bands with a crowd.
“It docs not produce pain,” he said, “in the
hand or arm I shake with, but gives me severe
pain in tho opposite shoulder. When long
continued it also produces a hot, stinging sen
sation in the knee and thigh of the opposite
leg.”
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And Giving Our Headers Some Big Clirist
inas I'rcNcnts.
Wc furnish our subs •riL.vrs witii
The best family paper in America.
Tlie cheapest paper printed—the only 12 page j
weekly.
The paper that pays more for special features than •
any other.
Win n we do this our contract with our subscribers'
ends. But in the pnst three years our friends have
increased our cir< ulati m .r »m 9,u00 to 112,000 copies.
A p]’ret Lit in/ thk> we simll distribute to tl eu on
January Ist some big presents. Here is a
list of them: »
One present ofSSOO in gold*
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One pre sent of. 50 in gold.
Ons present of in gold.
To the l<> next SIO each ICO in gold.
To the 5 next 85 each in gold* 1
Total Presents SI,OOO
You do not pay n cent for this. You simply pay
f>r youi paper, just as usual. Wc put your name in’
our’“Christmas box” andon January Ist the first
name taken out—the box being shaken and the
avi-ut blindfolded—gets iSOO in gold, the next S2OO,
and so ou through tlie list.
Now note this well. Send tn your own subscrip
tion and we will put your name in the box. There-'
lure every other name you send in we will put in *
your name again. If you send ten subscribers your ■
name goes in ten times, and you have just this
many more chances.
We want every man. woman or child who roads
this to go to work at once for The Constitution.
la.n’t delny a day in sending in uames. Tlie more
you .; t in now tl.e more you will get iu later. Com
menee at oxi B. You ought to have 100 names in
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be taken nt haphazard from the Christmas box on
January Ist, un i that name t. Sooo in gold. It may
be y-'i. In any event you risk not a cent. You
get the b st and elienpesi paper printed, and if you
gel tin fiOOor the - 50, er ui.y ol the other presents
it ls|tl nt much made. ,
N. . in in at <• !'■■■. send in your own name and
that of yo ir friend, and then begin a regular can-’
v.i ■■-. Hu I -. will be thor. uzlily rolled and shaken,
ml the first name may be taken from the bottom.
BIG PAY FOR YOUR WORK.
But we have something v;>e for our agents. And
here it h:
T<» the agent wending in tl. , biggest list of
in before JiMiiinry
Ist. tvuillftnc S .’*.o in gold*
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'J'<» the IK Nt II ■ I Ik,’ Mt 50 “ *’
’ll> t 111- n< xf Ih ’nt “
lii the next b<-wt ag» nt 10 44 M
Total agents* premiums $435*
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< >- t. it uiil j»ay you to l.tcuLuc an agent of Thb
C«. hSTITVTIuN.
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