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6 TH.IL CONSTITUTION. jaEi.tcrcd nt the Atlanta postofiico as second-class nil matter, November 11,1873. The Weekly Constitution 5i.25 per annum. Clubs office, 81.00 each; chibs of ten, 81.00 each and a copy to getter-up of club. w B WA N T~YOU: The Constitution wants an agent nt every postofiico In America. Agents outfit free and good terms, if you are not In a club, we wan you to act as agent at your office. W rite US. ATLANTA, GA., DECEMBER 13, 1887, It Is the Only One. In selecting your newspaper for 1888, it will be well to remember that The Consti tution is Ist. The only paper that prints twelve pages every week. 2d. The only paper that Bill Arp writes for, and his letters are gems. 3d. The only paper that Dr. Jones writes for (except “ The Southern Farm”), and each week’s installment of his work is worth a year’s subscription to fanners. 4th. The only paper that prints T il tnage’s sermons every week. 6th. The only paper that Betsy Hamil ton writes her inimitable letters for. 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Get your name In the box, by subscribing to the biggest, best ami cheapest paper in the country! No time to lose! The South's Solidity* General Neal Dow, the most prominent of the prohibition leaders, has been interviewed on the part that prohibition is playinginna tional polities. He is emphatic in his belief that. the wedge that will split the solid south has been found and that this section, now united in its political action, will fall to pieces, in di cord arising out of the agita tion of tho prohibition question. It will be remembered that General Neal Dow comes from the rankest of republican States and that while he is even politically a prohibitionist, he herds with an element Which has for its chief object the disruption of the political solidity of tho south. This is the one object of the republican party and in accomplishing it, is its only salvation. It has H ied by every means possible to break it and even went so far, to accomplish Its purpose, as to daub itself in infamy and fraudulently and forcibly take the votes of three states. The integrity of the south broken, the republicans hoped to strengthen their weakening grasp on the country, but popular indiunatkm til their open corrup tion was such as to entirely cast off the bonds of their odious and autocratic admin istration and place the democracy at the Lehn. In Georgia, more than in any other south ern state, the prohibit ion question has taken :> prominent part in the interest of the pub lic. Our legislature wisely determined to give to each county the right of local op tion. This was an admirable solution of the question, and was fully satisfactory to both Bides, as being democratic and just. Be yond this neither side will go. Each com munity will s.ttle the question for itself, mid, like on all other local issues, will di vide; but when the democratic party calls for tin- vote of the state it will get. it, as it will the vote of the south. Prohibitionists ami their opponents unite alike on their fealty to tho parly, ami we tiu-t that the day will never come when either side will forget Its allegiance to the party to which they both owe so much. • The National Banks. Comptroller of the Currency Trenhohn intimates in his report that the national banking system must go. This reminds us tliat The Constiti rtoN has frequently made the same intimation and has urged on congress to take the necessary steps to bow the system out. T here have been various schemes proposed looking to tho perpetuation of the national banks, but the system under which they operate is based on the national debt. When the debt is extinguished, the system will cease to exist. But the extinction of the ■ystem will not precipitate a financial cata clysm. If congress will repeal the ten per cent tax on circulation, the states will lai ready to charter the national banks, and their operation j under statu Rtharters and with enlarged f icililioa w ill be as safe and *s commri ativc as they are now. - • Judge Bond n The long expected decision of the federal supreme court in the ease of the Virginia officials who were committed for contempt by I tilted States Judge Bond, because they obeyed the laws of their state, may be a surprise to those who hold tho republican View of the relations of the states to the general government, but it will be no sur prise to old-fashioni d democrats. The facts of the case have been made ' publie so many times that the slightest *k< leton of a summary w ill now be sutti- j cient. < ertaiu bolder* of the tax receiva able coupon* of Virginia brought suits against stale officers to restrain them from bringing actions in the courts of Virginia for the collection of tax, sin eases where ten., iera hail be, h made of the tax receivable and such tender* had been refused. Mam hearing the complaint L'nited States in ge ■ >nd issued order real rain Ing the . Mate vfhvcrs frviu bringing such suite under such circumstances, and from doing any , tiling to carry into effect an act of the legislature invalidating said coupons for , tax-paying purposes. Attorney General i Ayers and other state officers disregarded this order and proceeded with their suits, whereupon they were fined SSOO apiece and ■ sent to jail. , The imprisoned officers sued out a writ of I habeas corpus, and, when the matter was brought before the federal supreme court, an order was issued for the discharge of tl,e petitioners. The reasoning of the court was very elaborate, but its substance may be 1 stated in a very few lines. Judge Bond proceeded upon the tiieory that the actions in question against the state officers of the state did not amount to suits against the state, a form of redress forbidden under the eleventh amendment to the constitution. The supreme court, however, was clear in opinion that these suits really amounted to an attempt to do In an indirect manner wiiat the law forbade being done directly. 'Flie court’s decision w as eminently sound and just. The Virginia officers were not in any .senseparties to the contracts sought to be enforced against them. The state was the true defendant, and the officers were merely obeying orders and discharging their duty. For the comfort of Judge Bond and those agreeing with him the court said that if a state officer under the color of state laws should come in conflict w ith the superior authority and valid laws of the United States he w ould be stripped of his repre sentative character and would have to meet the consequences of his conduct. Alto gether, the decision is a strong blow against federal centralization, and it will give en couragement to the upholders of the rights of the states. MR. GRADY'S SPEECH On Prohibition In Atlanta—Tobe Printed in Next Week’s Paper. Yielding to a universal demand, we will print next week, in full, in The Constitu tion, the speech of Mr. H. W. Grady, on prohibition in Atlanta. Os this speech the New York Voice says it was the best prohi bition speech ever printed. The demand for it all over the country has been tremen dous, and it has been reprinted in hun dreds of papers. Remember next week’s Constitution will have this speech in full. We shall print loo,ooff copies; but oven this enor mous edition will be rapidly exhausted. Subscribers w ill be served first. So if you wish to be certain of getting the speech, subscribe immediately! Next week’s paper will have it! *._ The Negroes in the North. The negro in the north appears to be giving our republican friends a good deal of embarrassment. in the state of Minnesota the negroes have issued a call for a mass meeting for the purpose of or ganizing a colored man’s league “for the protection of their civil rights, and also to secure political recognition.” Will our colored friends In Georgia be kind enough to consider the nature of this call and to take it in its meaning? Here are tin: negroes in a strong republican state at the north calling a convention in order to protect their civil rightsand to secure po litical recognition. Was Hie like, of this .ever heard of before? The negroes in a strong republican state of the north compelled to assemble together in mass meeting to protect their civil rights and to secure political recognition! Why, this is something terrific. Where is Edi tor Halstead with Ids double-barreled nulli fication of the constitution? Where is the cadaverous John Sherman with his ’Liza I'inkston tonic, one dose of which is calcu lated to give a negro life, liberty and free dom? Really, we are of the opinion tliat the re public lias been turned upside-down. In Georgia the negroes have political recogni tion and civil rights; but in a great repub lican state of tlie north they are deprived of both. This fact ought to lie used as a cam paign document by the republican orators who are to be sent south next year. The Southern Spirit of Independence. The Boston Advertiser strongly com mends the action of Mrs. Jefferson Davis in declining to allow a public fund to bo raised for her husband by certain enthusiastic ad mirers. Mrs. Davis, in the most sensible way imaginable, explained to her friends that the family already had sufficient property to live upon, and that in the event of mis fortune she and her daughter were fitted by their education to earn their own living. This is not the first time tlie members of tlie Davis family have manifested a similar spirit of independence. More than once a movement has been started to present the ex-president with a handsome pecuniary testimonial, but he lias invariably declined. The same line of conduct has been followed by other illustrious southern leaders since the war, and. while several northern gen erals and statesmen have been enriched by the voluntary offerings of their friends, the representatives of the lost cause have quietly busied themselves in repairing their wrecked fortunes, depending antirely upon their own stout hearts and strong arms. This noble spirit of independence speaks for itself, and it is not likely to be forgotten. What It Will Buy. Our Christmas Presents of s.’>t'O in gold will come in mighty convenient to tho subscriber that gets it. It w ill buy aheap of tilings. It will start the farmei along nicely and will help all along during the year. Every subscriber has just the sameehance of getting it that every other subscriber has. \ our chance is as good as any other subscriber. If you don't get tho s.Vk> you may get tho s'-W or the SIOO, or one of the other prizes. lu any event yon-will get the biggest and cheapest family paper in the world. So sub ! scribe at once and get your name in certain! Think of what the S.W will buy, if you get it. and think of what a comfort The CoNsrirv : Tioji will be if you don’t got the SSOO. • ——- - • -«■ Prohibition in Politic*. The announcement recently made by Sena tor Rainier, of Michigan,that the prohibition . quovtion w.es now the greatest issue in the polities of the ciAmtry. and that one of the 1 two great jiartics would be forced to reeog ; nize it in iu platform, has attracted the at tention of the press and considerable dis ‘ cussiva is now taking place, as to what THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1887. either of tlie two national conventions will probably do with the question. Senator Palmer is anxious that the re publican party take the initiatory stepsand adopt a prohibition plank in its platform. He thinks it would be a strong card and would prove very effective in alligning a large element to the republican party which now acts to its injury. Many republican organs are favorably inclined to tlie move ment, which, to say tlie least, has assumed sufficient importance to become an almost certain issue in the next republican con vention. As to whether or not any decided stand will be taken by either party remains to be seen. It is probable that nothing will be done by either convention more than has already been done, which means that the issue will be evaded as much as possible, and left to take care of it self without the national indorsement of either side. But if either party takes up the question and makes it a feature of its policy, it will most probably be the republican. In sever al states that party has, in state issues, put itself squarely in favor of prohibition; but on the other hand, it lias never hesitated to take the other side in states where it was policy to do so. The Boston Herald, speaking of the fu ture of prohibition, says; The intcic-ting feature of the prohibition issue is tlie extent to which the republicans are tampering withit. If they would do ns the democrats are do ing, either declare against it outright, as is the dem ocratic position in the north, or leave it out of gen eral politics altogether, as the party dues in the south, it would be settled on its merits. But the re publicans insist upon making political c ipitiil from it. They use it to gain votes where prohibition is popular; they dodge and deceive, but still tamper witlr it, where it is notjpopular. This keeps the is sue, as a part of our national politics, alive. It makes it a feature iu the piatlorm of several states, it renders prohibition an increasingly formidable embarrassment to the republican party. Itisprob abic that a majority of tho republican party of the nation today is in favor of prohibition. With the majority of the republicans in favor of prohibition, and prohibition made part of the republican creed, the republican party inevitably becomes a prohibi tion party, and not much else. Thirteen Full Regiments and More. Did you ever see thirteen full regiments of 1,000 men each, marching into battle? It’s a grand sight, ain’t it? That is more men than Pickett charged with at Gettys burg, and nearly as many as old Longstreet started against Round Top the day before. Well, we have more than thirteen full regiments of December subscribers! That Is, s"ubscfTl)crsYvlio began last December, and whose time expires this December. What a grand sight it would be if each one of these 13,137 Constitution soldiers who enlisted last December would re-enlist now for another year, and each bring a willing prisoner witli him! Do you belong to one of tho December regiments? Have you re-enlisted ? If not, send in your subscription at once, and send a new name with your own. There is heavy lighting to be done next year for the south and for democracy, and we want you and your friends with us. You have read the paper a whole year. You know it is the biggest and best paper you can get. You know, besides that, you ought to get your name in our Christmas box of presents, and take your chance at the SSOO in gold, or some of the other presents. And you know that for every new subscriber you send your name goes in once more, and your chance is doubled! Now, then, let every man of the thirteen December regiments fall into line, bringing each man a new volunteer with him. Let Hie thirteen regiments be swelled to twenty six full regiments! Quick time—march! There is not a day to lose! Another Chapter of French Politics. Tlie shooting of Jules Ferry in the French parliament, yesterday, is not a new chapter in tlie history of French polities, but it will alarm some timid peopleron this side of the water. So long as men are permitted to carry pistols, there is no safety for public men, rulers, and the governing classes. Dynamite is unnecessary. A desperate revolutionist may without a moment’s warn ing plunge a whole nation into a turmoil not to be recovered from in many a year. What has occurred iu France may occur here. Tlie fact that we live under a good government dues not enter into tlie consid eration of the question. There is only one tiling to lie considered, and that is Hie hip pocket nuisance. So long as men carry pistols in their hip-pockets they are ready for just such deeds as tlie affair reported from tlie French chamber of deputies. It is evident, therefore, that we need something more than a crusade against dynamiters. These fellows with their loaded bip-poekets are infinitely worse. They are able at any moment to remove the head of the nation, or a leading statesman. These are the outlaws to be guarded against. I ..gU’You have less than two weeks in«__£3 LsF’whieh to get your name in Christmas box—closed January i#* Subscribe or renew at * Mil. Randall and Mr. Carlisle have had an hour's conference. This means demo cratic harmony, and deniotratic harmony means democratic success in the next election. i * A I’lizzling Question. Senator Allison’s proposition to prohibit immigration of anarchists and foreigners belonging to the criminal class opens a big field for the investigation of our statesmen. Possibly our government has the right and tlie power to shut out certain races. It appears to be reasonable tliat we should also have the right to keep criminals out of the country. Taking tills view of the matter, we now come to the real difficulty at the bottom of hi* business. Would it be the proper thing for a free government like ours to erect a certain standard of religious, social and po litical belief*. by which all immigrants must be measured? Take such a’man us Prince Kropotkin, for instance. He cannot be classed as n criminal. He has never shown a disposition to violently oppose any gov ernment under which lie has lived, and yet it is well known that his opinions, if worked out to their logical conclusions, would de stroy social order. A prohibition directed against Prince Kropotkin would not l>e an efficient safeguard unless it also included men who were iu favor of monarchy. If it is necessary to keep out the anarchists it is : equally necessary that we should exclude i the monarchists. > Whi nwo once begin to lay down rules i controlling the political opinions of those who desire to enter our gates and east their lot with us, where are wo going to stop? I Senator Allison's idea does not appear to be ■ practicable. Our plan in the past has been i to leave all men free to think, speak and act until they violated our laws, and then we , have dealt witli them as tlie interests of jus i tice demanded. This is the old way, and I perhaps it is wiser, safer and more efficient ' than any untried plan. At present the re i public is not in such imminent peril as to justify tlie adoption of methods more Rus sian than American in their character and tendency. Happy a Whole Year for 51.(15. Have we ever given you foolish advice? Have wo ever deceived you? Well, now, take this suggestion! In subscribing for The Constitution send $1.65 which will get yon, not only The Con stitution, but tlie Southern Farm a whole year. Tlie Southern Farm is under the direction of H. W. Grady and is edited by Dr. W. L. Jones. It is tho best farmer's magazine over printed. “Dr. Jones's “Thoughts for the Mouth” and his “Farm Inquiry Box” arc alone worth ten times tlie subscription price. Think of it! for $1.65 you get The Consti tution and the Southern Farm a whole year. This makes you happy for 1888! You will find in every issue of the Southern Farm some facts about farming from Dr. Jones or tho other editors worth ten times what you pay for tho whole year. Send $1.65 and get these splendid papers. Then you are fixed happily for 1888! Brother Blaine is taking Turkish baths abroad, but scalding water wouldn’t drive away the presidential flea that has been biting at him for so many years. Tlie New Cabinet. The president yesterday nominated Mr. La mar to be associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. This appoint ment will be indorsed by conservative peo ple in all sections of the country. The place is a high one, but Mr. Lamar is better qualified to fill it than any man that could be named. He has not been a great prac ticing lawyer, but he is a great student of tlie law, and-his-mißd-is-tlioroßghly-ground ed in its principles. He is a type of the old south, and also a type of the new. He is conservative and patriotic—in short a genuine American. It has been hinted that the republicans in the senate would or ganize opposition to Mr. Lamar and reject his name, but we believe the time has passed when the American senate could afford to allow partisan or sectional prejudice to con trol it in considering the nomination to a high and responsible office of such a man as Lucius Lamar. This nomination has compelled the pres ident to reconstruct his cabinet, and he has sent in the name of Mr. Vilas to be secre tary of the interior; of Mr. Don M. Dickin son to be postmaster general, and of Charles S. Fairchild to be secretary of the treasury. * have less than two weeks in. _<s to get your name in Kg & Christmas box—closed January or renew at The Woolfolk Case. The prosecution of Tom Woolfolk has not made as strong a case against the pris oner as the public expected. The sum of it seems to be this: It is said that Tom was angry with his people, that he had threat ened them, and that he had said he would some time own the whole property; that he was in the house when the murder occurred; that he gave the alarm; that his clothes were bloody, and the print of a bloody hand was seen on his thigh. The defense replies with testimony that he was not angry with his people; that his clothes were bloodied when he went into the room to see what had happened, when he walked through blood “so that it squshed up through his toes” as he described it, and that the print of the bloody hand on his thigh was that of his wn hand. Departing from this, the defense is labor ing to produce some one who shall stand in the prisoner's place as the murderer. Tlie idiot negro, Jack Dubose, is already dis posed of. John Jeff, the negro partially identified by Mr. Pennington as a negro who was mad with the Woolfolks, does not promise much more definite results. Tlie truth is, the belief that Woolfolk is the murderer is practically universal. It is more than a belief. It is a conviction, almost without dissent. But there is a gen eral impression that the prosecution lias not made out the clear, closely linked, compact, technical case that will lead a jury to con demn a man to death. A Scotch verdict of “not proven” is tlie best Tom Woolfolk can hope for. He must wear the suspicion of this murder through life, even if it does not carry him to the gallows—unless some miracle shall disclose at once another sus pect and irresistible proof that his was the crime. * Mr. Grady’s first speech on prohibition in Atlanta will be printed in full in next week’s Constitution. Subscribe immedi ately so as to be sure to get it. Send l'» the Names. We want 200,000 subscribers next year. To get these, we simply have to put The Consti tution into the bunds of jieople who do not take it. Won't you write us on a postal card the names of five or six people who do not take it ? No matter where they are. Write us the names and address and we will send sample copies free. Please send us the names imme diately. We want to send out 50,000 samples next week. Write on a postal card. This is a small favor to ask—please grant it immediate ly. EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT. One M crone, of Vhuiinia, has retired ! with a dull thud. Wk believe John Sherman has been left j out iu the cold. The roou New England farmers should , come south and grow up with the country. The New York Sun has tiopixtil squarely liaek hit* tho democratic ranks. Tbeexac; date for tlie next ilvp is not yet fixed. Vermont fays her governor SSOO a year. She was on tlie ragged edge of poverty thirty years ago. and has managed to hold her own. Nobody will keubet that the federal su preme court has decided that the state r.f Vir ginia is a bigger thing than a Unite# district judge. It is arranokd tliat Mr. Blaine shall start i bis triumphal lour across the continent, from < Ban Fiaueisco, m>\ eral days lieforo the meet- i ing of the republican conveutieii. Mr. Blaine 1 is a far-seeing statesman, < Congressman O’Neil pvt liis foot into it when lie indorsed tlie blind preacher. Rev. W. H. Milburn, as “not only a Methodist but a I'hristiiui.” it is hard to tell just what Mr. O'Neil meant. A western editor announces the suspen- , sion of ids paper under tlie head “Blowing < <ut ( tho Gas.” The twenty-seven red-headed men in congress are attracting as much attention as tlie street parade of a circus. , Mr. Cleveland’s administration has re stored to tlie people 31,000,000 acres of land wrongfully taken away from them under laws passed by the republicans. i Secretary Lamar says tho Indians have at last reached a period in their career where they must either pick up the ways of the white race or retire. They are now hemmed in on all sides and can go no further west. Farming in Georgia and Ohio. Wo print in this paper the last of [a series of five notable letters. S.'tne one asserted in the Southern Farm a few months ago that a thousand Georgia farmers transplanted to Ohio, and keeping up tlie Georgia methods, would in ten years have a mortgage on the Ohio farms and the farms themselves run down ; tliat a thous and Ohio«farniers transplanted to Georgia farms, and pursuing Ohio methods would in ten years have the Georgia farms well equipped and well stocked, and would have balances in the bank. This proposition evoked considerable discussion. Mr. Glessner, editor of the Americus Re corder, was raised on an Ohio farm. He has studied the methods of farming in Geor gia. He agrees to neither of the above propositions, but admits that there is some truth in both. In the letters he has written for us he contrasts Georgia farming with Ohio farming. He shows that the Georgia farmer has every natural advantage. Grass grows as well here as it does in Ohio, the winters are shorter, lands and labor are cheaper, and the same industry, thrift and intelligence will give fifty per cent better re sults in Georgia than in Ohio. Mr. Glessner’s text is—Grass. This, he holds, is the keynote to our prosperity. With grass comes cattle, and sheep and hogs. With these conies more grass, richer lands, the reclamation of old lands, diversi fied crops, and finer dairies, creameries and cheese factories. Mr. Glessner has been the center of activity in grass, so to speak, in Sumter county. By-eonstant efforts he hae filled the fence corners and old fields of that county with rich grass crops, and now there is the best of home grown hay offered daily on the streets of Americus for sale. Ten years ago Sumter county sent thousands of dollars for hay to the west. What Sumter has done every other southern county can do if they will heed the advice given by Mr. Glessner in his admirable letters. YOU WILL BE FOOLISH If you do not subscribe to The Constitution at once! Why? Because it is the best, biggjst, cheapest family paper in America* Every issue is worth the do’.lar you pay lor a year. Besides this you will get your name in onr box of Chiistiras presents, and if your name is the first one taken out you will get SSOO in gold; if second S2OO iu gold, and so on until tlie last present is given away. You may not get the ?500 iu gold; and you may not get the 8200 in gold; but you will certainly get the best paper for the money you can get in the world. If you subscribe to any other paper, you get a smaller paper, a poorer paper, and have no chance to get a KOO present or any other present. Can you hesitate as to which to take? Won’t you be fooiish if you do not take The Constitution at once? A Mark of Respect. From the Epoch, Customer (in beer saloon)—What have you got your beer kegs all draped in black for, Dutchy? Dutchy—Dot was a mark of respegd. Ido a pig pizness init dose anargy fellas. OUR KNOWLEDGE BOX- Useful and Cnrlous Facts in Answer to our Subscriber’s Questions* [Buf.cs for Knovlcdgc Box: Ask us uhafever you leant to know. BY will answer your question if ive can. Editors Constitution.} Population of Chicago. Editors Constitution : What is tho pop ulation of Chicago and its suburbs? 8. T. K. The population of Chicago proper is 750,000, but tlie suburbs bring the total up to 832,700. Malaria. Editors Constitution: Can one see or smell malaria.? Subscriber. No, it is known only by its effects. In the north ern parts of the temperate zone it is comparatively harmless, but it is malignant and deadly in warm climates where moist-ire and decaying vegetation are found. The clearing of woodland and the digging of cellars will produce malaria in regions where it was before unknown. “Reverend.” Editors Constitution: Is tlie title “rev erend’ used in the Bible? Sunday School Pupil. Only once, and then it is applied to the Almighty, as “Holy and reverend is ;nis name,” Psalms 111, 9. Abolition. Editors Constitution: Did the idea of abolishing slavery originate in New England? Ii«ADEIL No; it was altogether a southern idea. It origi nated in Virginia, and doubtless would have been pressed if it had not been for the aggressive attitude of the northern states. Aaron Burr’s Alleged Treason. Editors Constitution: Was Aaron Burr really a traitor? . T. B. He was not. His scheme was simply to establish a government of his own just beyond the boundaries of the United State as they then existed. He was acquitted upon tho ground that he had not tome arms against the United States. The verdict, how ever, was in the old Scotch form, “Not proven.” Dumas, the Novelist. Editors Constitution: Was Alexander Dumas, the author of Monte Cristo, a mulatto? Stidext. Ti e father of Dumas was the son of a French marquis and a negro woman, but he married a white woman, and Alexander was the offspring of this union. The dark tinge in Dumas' blood never in jured him In Europe, but he was afraid to visit this country on account of it. Inauguration Day. Editors Constitution: Was the fourth day of March selected for inauguration day because it rarely falls on Sunday? Subscriber. No. As a matter of tact. It occurs on Sunday only once in every twenty-eight years, but the day set for Washington's inauguratl >n was the first Wednes day I!» March. This happened to be the Ith, and afteward the tth inst. was made the day. An Old i’ll rase. Editors Constitution: What was the 1 original meaning of “tag. rag and bobtail"' E. F. This is protabit an oil aimtiiig expressiou to signify a herd of deer. Iu Prvicoif* ’Philip the ' Second, ” quoted by strype and Uuilngshcad, is the I following: “Th y hunted the deer, and were so | gtee ly of their <l. dnietion that they killed them rag aud tag. with hands aud swords.” The wool ' tegg, or tag, signifies, according to Bailey, '•» doe , ill the second year of her age.” Rag is defined by ' tlie same writer us “a herd of young colts,” but ■’ other old author; have loeg to signify a herd of deer at rutting time. Bobtail means a fawn just I affer it has been weaned. Tag aud bobtail axe used 1 in the same sense when speaking of sheep, but rag does not seem to to known in this connection. Thbi complete original sense of the phrase ‘‘tag, rng an<X bolttail” seems to havesbeen a collection ot sheep os deer, of all sorts mixed indiscriminately. An Intoxicant. Editors Constitution: Is minco pie intoxk icating? Goon Templar. / Under certain conditions, mince pie made with a litoral allowance of brandy has been known to ini toxlcate. Some temperance people will not tasts, this pie when it has brandy in it. ./ Wooden Cannon. Editors Constitution : Is it a fact thaf cannon made of wood were ever used in warfare? Student, v Yes, on many occasions. They were ringed with iron, aud were strong enough to stanji several discharges. A Half Forgotten Novelist. ►s' Editors Constitution: Who was the 1 , author of “The Rivals, a Tale of Burr and HamilJ ton,” published some time before the war.’ B. W. . Hon, Jere Clemens, a resident at that time, we lieve, of Alabama or Tennessee. I The Rabbit, Rice Bird and English Amos 8., Columbus, Miss.: What about the rabbifl; that is destroying the fields of Australia? Is the rice bird and bobolink the same? What is the history o£ the English sparrow? It Will Be Renewed Forever. Mr. Isaac A. Williams, of Mount Pleasant?/ Texas, says: “If ever The Constitution is rend one year th<# subscription will be renewed as long as the sub* scriber has one dollar.” Tliat is the way we like to hear them talk.! Let every December subscriber send in his renewal at once. The Constitution will be 1 better than ever this year. Our Machine is the Best. There is no machine like tho Constitution sewing machine. At one-third the price isl beats tlie world. Mr. F. B. Spear, of Buyck/ Elmore county, Ala., writes: "My machine arrived and fully tested. It is tlui best machine sold. 1 will show it to my neighbors,-: It beats all the alliance men in the world.” > Tlias is the way they all write about our ma chine. You get the high arm with the paper,' at $22.00, and the low arm with tho paper foi, $17.00. f He Would Feel Lost Without It. . ’ Mr. W. M. Williams, of Sulphur writes: , "I would feel utterly lost if I did not renew my subscription. I have never read a paper I was sd much pleased with ns The C< nstitution. It is the most enterprising paper in the country.” Tliat is a positive opinion, and a good one,; Mr. Williams has read the paper, and, like aW the rest, he tries it again. Was Offered $35.00 for It. \ Mr. H. O. Zeigler, of Deiglersville, ordered bur lifgh arm machine last month J which cast him $22.00 with The Constitution! one year. As sooji as it arrived ho wns offered'' 825.U0 lor tho machine alone, but of .course! would not take it. Ho writes that ho is de/ lighted with it, aud lias thoroughly tested iti We guarantee it to be better than any fifty/ dollar machine sold. i Beats Anthing He Ever Read. ‘ Mr. 11. E. Ellis, of Jcnkinsboro, Ga.il writes: f “I renew my subscription, for The Constitution: certainly beats anything I ever read in the way ox newspapers.” ; Mr. Ellis gets it down fine and that is tliQ way they ail talk. When a man once reads! The Constitution ho never wants to quit itj She Recommends It to All. By the way, here is another letter about out*. High Arm sewing machine. Miss Mary Gil-1 len. of Maxeys, Ga., says: "I have thoroughly tesied my piigh Arm sewings’ machine, and I recommend it to all my friends. Ifl’ is perfect.” If there are any two facts established in' American history is is: First, that The Constitution is tho best American newspaper. Second, that The Constitution sowing machine is the best machine in tho country, and is sold at one-third the price of other ma chines. Do not be misled into taking any other paper than The Constitution or buy J ing any other machine than The Constitu tion sewing machine. We guarantee both to be the best. The Most Instructive and Interesting. Jas. L. Scruggs, Martinsville, S. C.: I sent you a club of 11 some time back. They alt express themselves as being well pleased witli tlie paper. I have been a subscriber for nearly three years undJl expect to continue taking it as long ns it is kept up to tlie present standard. I consider it the must instructive and interesting paper pub-; lished. He Only Got a Little Piece. Mr. S. W. Hubbard, of Hathaway, Ky.. writes: 1 “Editi iu Constitution: I found a small piece o? yom p vper in the road and read it and liked it su> much I send you one dollar. Send me the price auc6 1 will remit the balance.” That is the way with them all. Whoeversees Tub! Constitution, or a pieee of it, wants more. Mr/ Hubbard's paper has been sent and he will find tlio little piece he found in the road a fair sample of tho; paper. We expect him to be so well pleased with it* that he will send us a club of five or six subscribers! before the first of January and get his name five ox; six times in our Christmas Box. Better Thau Lightning. S One day in October two farmers drove intd the race course in a one horse wagon to which a? high-beaded colt was attached, and announced: that they wanted to time him a mile. A' sulky was hired, a horseman asked to hold the watch, and one of the men said: “I rather expect that colt will astonish you.” “Yes, you think he is fast, eh?” • “Well, the man I got him of said lie was the' next thing to lightning. I think he'll go down to 2:18, though he’s never been on a track.” ; The horse was scored and started, and he came under the wire in just 4.06. • “Some powerful mistake there, mister,” said the owner as he was given the time. “I think he needs the whip and a little yelling.” He told the driver to shaice him up in lively style, and the result was that the colt passed the score on a runaway. At the first turn the drives was flung off, and soon after that the sulky waS demolished, and the horse increased his pace. Her came around like a cyclone, and as he passed the wire the owner looked at the time and shouted: “Glory! Glory! He’s bia'.en tho record! That mile was made ill 2;12! The feller never lied to m© a single bit!” ' A Lucid Explanation. From the Arkansaw Traveler. Man (to colored washerwoman) —“Look here, Aunt Millie, I gave you ten white shirts, but you have only brought back eight.” Aunt Millie— "Dat so honey? W’y, how come dat?” Man—“ You are the one to give the explanation.” Aunt Millie— “Yas, an’ it's plain ernuff, too, sab; I washed de shirts dis week in rain water.” Man—“ Put why should the rain water cause two shirts to to miss ing?” Aunt Millie—“W’y, de abirts shrunk, dat's, why. Ain’t yer got gogerfy an' rifmetic an’ edyca tion ernuff ter know dat de shirts sht Ink awful w'd*? yer washes 'em in rain water.’ Since I come ter think ertout it, I'se thankful dat da didn't shrink wus'n dat. Got yer undershirts done up? ’ Man—. “You needn't take them this week. This shrink ing process might soon reduce me to a shirtlcss con dition.” Aunt Millie—“Uh, it rests wid ycrse’f F ’ sah, but ez fur me I’se tired o' washin’ fur folks dat; isignunt. My vice ter you is ter study an edy cate erwhfie fo’ try in' ter carry on de fight wid dis. yere worl'. I cotffdn' he'p de shirts shxinkiu’. Good' day, sah.” In Due Season, From the Chicago Herald. , Senator Evarts is charmed with the terso nesa of the president's message. Anything that teaches brevity in politics, he says, he will recom mend. This Is the gist of his remark. The remark itself will be along later. Base Ingratitude. From the New York Journal. His grace, the duke of Mariborougii, look* sadly over in the direction of the United Stales through a field glass* and murmurs. “ Nevermore 1”. That is the kind of an ungrateful bird be is. What kind of a game is this you are trying to work?" asked the judge, detecting one of the pri*. oner's friends engaged in packing the jury box “The panel game,” cried a voice in the audieucflv