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6 THE CONSTITUTION. Bn'credattho AtGnta | -t-.:?.<:e M nd class wall matter, N-m nJ-i r 11. 1 ■. The Weekly Constitution 51.‘15 per annum. Clubs of five, SI.OO each; clubs <»l ten, SI.OO each and a copy 1 • g< tter-up of club. WH WANT YOU. The Constitution want* an agent at. every post office In America. A gent s out fit free and good terms. If yon are not in a club, we wan you to act as agent at your office. V rite us. OUR "CHRISTMAS BOX’ OF PRESENTS. On Jannary Ist wo will ili-tiibuto SI,OOO among our subscribers. From Scptemberjst to January Ist wo put the name of every sub ■ n!«r received in a box. On the latter date we shake up the box thoroughly. A hole, is cut in it. One of onr weekly agents, in the prr <-nco of tlirec other, straws out a. name. Tli.it n.one gets ?MO, the box is then shaken again, and another name drawn. That name gets s2bo, and soon through the list. Now you ought, to subscribe for the paper without expecting to get one of the presents. 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We give you ■ besides an equal chance with every other sub scriber In 1 l.oooin gold distributed a: pre • nls. No other paper does this. Sc, if you like our paper as well l.:i any other, take it, for besides the paper you have an interest in our “Christ mas box," which no other paper gives you. But if you do not like our paper as well as some other paper, take that paper and drop ours, for you may not get one of our presents and then you would bo dissatisfied. Take the paper solely for the papers sake,and if you get a present, you will be just that much hap pier. BL 1 - 1 ATLANTA, <1 A., NOVEMBER 1, 1887. g— ■ - 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., tin m. They will be putt of our series of 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. - • • * Tim tit ..f Butter Making. We -, it-t , ’ a here an intervi. w with Dr. Ust. s. of \ ,rn. it. who imuislod the but- ' ' '■ ■ I’. . 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. —. . « 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. a— 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. • —• 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. « 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.” >. 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.” a 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. 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