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Tiie Constitution.
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oil matter, November 11, 173.
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To the ten next best agents
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‘I otal agents* prize- foi-.lanunry, Sit Io
Here are a lot of agents who will gel a
prize of in gold up to $25. The big agents
have exhausted their territory for the big
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will tale the February prizes.
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More Money for Our Sub-a ribcis.
Hn February 1, th- day after this paper is
issued, we will distribut.' $550 in gold to
our subscribers, in presents ranging from
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nounced next week
\Ve announce also that we will give away
over to our February subscribers. The
February presents will be distributed on
Maich 1. Instead of making the first pres j
cut CJaO, we have made it slot', and the 1
second present »•*;■'. instead of SIOO. The
amount deducted fi'.ni tin -e presents is J
added to the smaller presi nts, so that mote
of out subscriber.-, will get sonx thing. In !
stead of ten presents ol »li> each, we '
giveaway (iftecn, and instead of ten of s*>
cavil, we give away twenty. There will be 1
tins many more subscribers who will get
something. To make it interesting to ,
the ladies, we add one of our high arm
si wing niaehini *, and to the young men,
we add cue of our double barrel breech
loading shotguns.
Thi ( oxsurtnox, we believe, stands i
alone in this generous policy. We furnish
our readers the biggest and cheapest paper
they can get. Besides this, we divide
among them by a perfectly impartial method
at the end of each month, presents that
amount to si vend thousand dollar- during
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same old price, ntid they gel the paper. If
they get one of the present, in addition to
this, it is just that much gained. Our
method of distribution is perfectly im
partial. It of course, does not maitet to
us who gets the presents, or where they go. i
Three oi our agents are brought in. one
from well stale, ami tin y take the names
It >lli the box. w.t'.ut the possibility vt
kn< wing what iianie they a’i taking,
\ll tl is :liotild be considered m your se
lecting a paper icr the year. By sending us I
your subscript ion ot t .25 (or $1 in chibs j
rd five) y oi: e* : t.i. ’.ly get the best paper
you can buy for llie’mouey. In addition to I
this, yon have e. ehauec to get at the end
of tb.e month #l5O In gold, si o:.« of the i
other presents. Soins tean who subscribes
during February will grt bis dollar luck
srd JlfiO in gold, besides the vapor. An
vlhu man will g«; f7S. Auvth-1 will t -<-‘ j
| SSO. F'ifteen otli': -will get '-10 each, and
! twenty others will got, $5 each. February
j is the shortest month in the year, am! the
number of subscribers will be small. Your
chanci thus improved. You may say
that your chances are small of getting one
of these presents. With any other paper
you have no chance at ail. Hr. B. H.
Tullis, of Dranesville, Ga., doubtless
thought his chances were small when he
sent in three or four subscribers, but he got
SSOO in gold at the end of the month.
Somebody will got these February pie- .nt-.
Be sure that your name is in the box by
renewing your subscription, commencing as
a subscriber, or sending in a name. For
every name sent in your name goes into the
box one time whether you are an agent
or not.
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How tin- Farmer is Hurl.
There seems to be, to judge from specials
received from LaGrange, Ga., some distur
bance between the farmers and merchants
there, on account of an alliance the farmers
have made. It is not, surprising that the
I fanners arc beginning to combine. We are
| glad to sec them combine, and hope they
I will speedily find that “in union there is
strength,” and that the farmers ''an control
foi their own good if they will only stand
together. Everything else is combining,
and the farmers are forced to it from
more causes than one. A few years ago
the commissioner <f agrleulturc of this
state made the startling announcement
that ihe average per cent paid by the
farmers for supplies bought on time, was
iii rr-i oil: ri.t: <i xi per annum. Then
it has been ascertained that they have, been
paying as high as t wenty percent per annum
for money, and can only get a loan on one
third the value of the real estate proposed
to be mortgaged.
The merchants ought not to bear the
odium of these outrages entirely. The pres
ent laws that bring about these oppressions
are thecause. and the farmer will du well Io
sec to it that no man, hereafter, is elected to
the legislature who will not only pledge
hitnsidf to have these laws repealed, but will
have Um ability to curry out his pledge.
The farmers certainly ought to have all the
aid the law will give, and should by no
means be oppre.-sed by a linamdal system
that favors the sp-.-cuhdor in preference to
the men engaged in legitimate businc,-.
Watered stock can be used as collateral se
curity in a mitiun.'il bunk, but land is not
permitted so to be u.-ed. As a result the
surplus money of the land is invested
in stocks and bonds, ami there is no
sale lor land. If land had an pua!
showing with stocks and bonds, there
would be more money invented in land, and
the men who have land to sell would get a
fair price for it.
No man ever heard of a man being “land
poor” until after the inauguration of our
present, banking syatenu it ought to be a
great source of wealth, but it is not. Its
owners are permitted to make w bat they
can on it, and are always required to pay
taxes; lint in no other way does it receive
any help from our government. If its
owner wants to borrow money on it,
and proposes to mortgage it, he is met with
the statement that, the government, which,
under the internal revenue laws, has a mo
nopoly of Hie businem, denies the right, to
banks to lend money on land; and this law
cannot be repealed, unjust as it. is, simply
because it is a part of the internal revenue
laws, and the whisky ring don’t want the
system interfered with. So the farmer has
to suffer.
This is why there are thirty million dol
lars’ worth of land under mortgage, in Geor
gia today. Let the farmers see to it that no
man is elected to any office who will not.
promise to wipe out these unjust laws from
our statute books, and then the agricultural
class classes will have relief speedily
and properly. Land will enhance in value;
farm products will be. worth more, and
many men who are now eking out. a miser
able existence on a farm w ill be greatly
benefited.
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The Republican Intciunl K<y«iiu<* in us.
The ( iiiciimat i < '< niniercial Gazette prints
the following paragraph:
The Atlanta Co\smvnoN nrjyuvs well in favor
of the removal of unnecessary internal taxes, hut it
need nut hold up the mo< n Jiiners as persecuted
• nints. Il is not in the cause of these outlaws that
the removal of the whisky tax is best urged. The
Macon, (ia.. Telegraph InLs them off well when it
says *•« moonshiner is gen ndiy a fellow \\ ho makes
mean uhi.-ky with a ri:le by his side, while his wife
and daughto plow and < hop wood. - ’
.hist why tin* < oinmereial Gazette should
I take pleasure in The Constiti tiox's
i arguments in favor of the repeal oi the
I internal revenue system we do not know,
l The infamous affair wns organized and put
i in operation by the republican party, and
, that party, when it had the power, steadily
. refused to r -peal it.
We should think that the organ of a party
j which put the infamy in operation and
nursed it for years after tin war ought to
rush to i. -d< f< me. Tie -e ein<. .< n.-y taxes
hail scried tbeir pmpo-e before the republi
can party went out of power, and yet that
party never lifted its hand to repeal them
\s for the remark which the Commercial
Gazette quotes from the Macon Telegraph,
( all that need be said is that it has no bear
I lug whatever on the matter under discus
I sion. and in that it runs parallel with pretty
) much everything that the Telegraph has
said on Hie snbji i I.
Im: t'oxsriTl itox has nevi r, in any
shape oi fiu'm, attempted to create sympr.-
' thy for the men who violate the law, but to
the man who loves liberty, arid who has a
particle of patriotism in his heart, their sit
i nation is not without its pathetic side.
* Ihey are treated as felons under the law.
i w hen it is w ell know i: that thev .ve not
' criminals as that term is ntulerst -,d.
But the law the law that the people o'
Georgia ai<* anxious to see rvppalod in
1 the nature of abide. It offcis a bounty of
l ninety cents to every moonsb.iner who dis
tills n gallon of whisky witl.ii,! detection.
If tl: re well : the v . . i: .. . .u'al
go out of th. buLr.c--. for he would not be
i able to eo>:';-i:-. with the limta'polists of the
whisky rli.g. wlm me m-t .-.lv rieh. lm‘.'
I have enough unemployed ,'ap.tal to mak.
I themselves inter.-tiiie to imp.-eimiou- . i n
j gi ' men.
It the law aitvi ted cnly the v ivlator i r the
| la a it would be i-a.l enough; it verld be
um’.em.s iatie and v.;:-Ameraan. ami Tur:
< oxsiiTi t iox would still tuvoi it- repeal.
But the .ii'tmi! and inevitable operntions of
; the law are ot such a nature as to make vie
t'lM* out of hundreds and thousam!. of ihno-
I e.ept p ‘oplc.
| fhv bvute |«rrt'tiAut.»c« is busily <r.
THE M EEKLY (.OKbIIIITION. ATLANTA, LA.. ITESDAY, JANIARY 31, im
; ganged, in an effort to modify the law, b it
this modification means the creation of
■ thousands of now ofllccs. Commissioners
are to be appointed in each county in the
. revenue districts, and those who are charged
with a violation of the law are to be tried
before them instead of before a jury.
The infamous internal revenue system
■ must go.
Southern Immigration.
it is admittf-l in Texas that the collapse
' of the southern California immigration
I boom has materially helped the lone star
| state.
I utlcr the circumstances hinted at, there
j is every reason why the south Atlantic states
should profit, by the reflux tide of migration.
i Tboiuands of jieoplc have been deluded by
I the advertisi-ments of the real estate men
and railroad agents, and they have invested
their all in a hind where there was nothing
to attract them but the climate.
Down in this region there is something
besidi-i the climale to attract attention. We
have a fertile soil, an abundance of miner
als, and all that sort of thing. In short,
th-re is everything here to attract immi
grants, but our policy has always been to let
thi. natural advantages of the country draw
people inst' ad of rcaehing out for them.
It is probable that our policy will turn out
best after all. Discontented people who
arc looking for climate may go to Califor
nia, but thr-y will find in a v.-ry short time
that they cannot live on the atmosphere.
In this favored region they will find that
they can work out doors every day in the
year. ’1 his in itself will be enough to at
tract the victims of the blizzards in the
northwest. In the course of time the
southern immigration problem will settle
itself.
Trusts and their Growth.
The business of the country appears to bo
drifting into a. gigantic system of trusts.
These trusts arc monopolies, and they are
not . uly auti-repubiican and anti-American,
but they are gradually placing the people at
the mercy of rings of monopolists.
Be-ides the Standard Oil Trust, the coal,
cotton seed oil, rubber, telephone and fertilizer
trusts, there are many others, and
new ones aro rapidly organizing. Jn New
\ oik the entire mutton supply of the markets
is controlled by a score of men, and there, is a
similar monopoly growing up in beef. These
rings have formed close corporations and will
admit no outsider. They control the meat
market, and propose to keep it in their hands.
One day’s supply of mutton is from 20,000 to
75,000 head of sheep. A farmer is compelled
to sell his sheep to brokers belonging to the
ring, and they in turn sell to the ring butchers.
Os course these trusts can control the supply
of mutton, and buy and sell at their own fig
utes. They have no competition.
The rope mills have combined themselves
into a ti-m.t, and the paper bag manufacturers,
the blank book men, the lard men, the cotton
duck manufacturers, the electric light com
panies, and scores of other lines of business,
have formed similar combinations. In steel
and iron there are trusts and combination.-, as
hard and as strong as the metals with which
they are conoi med. The hugest and most im
portant of tliese organizations is probably the
Bi:semer Sti l l association. All the mills in
the country which turn out steel rails belong
to this pool, which is the successor of the old
Bessemer rail monopoly. This monopoly ran
things with :, very high hand as long as
the Bessemer patents lasted. It had an
impregnable organization. It dictated
prices, regulated production, and did
about as it pleased with the market for steel
rails in this country undcrtlie protection of
the high tariff. But about a year and a half
ago the Bessemer process patents began to run
out. and the old monopoly found itself losing
its grip to a certain extent. Then the present
combination was formed. It is not a trust in
the strict sense of the word. All the mills
preserve their autonomy, and are under the
control oi’ the original owners, but production
is limited by amicable arrangement and prices
are lixed irrevocably at general meetings of
the association. That the combination is a
strong one is evidenced by'the fact that it was
able to advance the price of steel rails from
$2" to .'?!<> a ton. It is true that $27 was too
low a price for money making, but on the
other hand $lO left the large margin ol $8 a
ton prutit. Andrew Carnegie, whose steel
works near Pittsburg employ 5,000 men, and
are said to be the largest oi their kind in the
world, and B. G. Clarke, of the great Thomas
Iron company, are the leading men in the
Bessemer Steel association.
The whisky trust is also a big thing. The
effect of the Combination ot Kentucky distill
ers to limit tlm whisky production has been
felt already, tine firm is reported to have
made, a prolit of $40,000 by the appreciation in
value ot tbeir stock. As yet, however, the
combination has been in operation not quite
two months. It is not u trust exactly, but an
agreement to cease prodm tien for one year.
The distillers bind themselves to pay to a trus
tee twenty cents per proof gallon for each gal
lon manufactured in excess of tin- amount sot
opposite the name of each signer. This
amount is merely a nominal one, put in to
make the contract valid, ami is only one hun
dred gallons in each ease.
This -late of affair, is growing worse. Small
dealer- :ind new men stand no chance. Tiic
big combinations are gobbling up everythin
and the consumers have to pay the piper. The
evils of tiie trust system illici t every man, wo
man and e'liild in the country. Everything
that we eat. diink and .veal' is controlled by a
“combine.’ Our coal, gas and scores of other
necessities are in the hands of lhe.se specula
tor;. Combination is the order ot the day.
ami it will smm make competition impossi
ble.
As Others See i s.
Charles Dickens, the son of tiie famous
novelist, doubtless thought that be wastrem
ing us very han lsi inely when lie remarked,
the other day, that the Amcrieanh.'tels were
the finest and best in the world.
This is al! very we'l, but we have some
thing in this coun’ty besides holds. The
remark made b; the younger Dickens shows
that he is net making very good use of his
oyer. He ignores a thonsaiid matters of in
terest. and when culled upon to mention
what impressed him most, is able to think
of nothing but our hotels.
The elder Dickens, the original and only
gcntline "Bo.', ’ withall his prejudices, paid
ub the neatest compliment that ever foil
liotn an Englishman's lips. After visiting
sevi val ot our cities. he said loan American
liieud: "Where ate y rur cumin-' : peoph
1 have no ditl citlty it- picking them out in
England, 1 t.t hero people arc all so well
dros'vd. o wcl'.-i.’tica'.cd and so well-be
ItUsd that ! c;v..’* de-tingttish between'.be
t-’tlu r ton igmis have found thim-dvcs
similar!) Im’.t --sed. In this country our
workers arc ; lid so w ell tb it they are i<b!e
to have s. mt -.’able homes. They edt’eve
their families. Ireu. well, enjo) a lair share
of the luxmics , (lite, and ha k turwa-.’ to
the limo when 'hoy will take tbeir p’.i. '
among tb» capitalists. liiEngliutd the i.ov
dist saw ihv working e.as'ts held down be
Uy; a.osl grinding ivvenj. I'Le) bac tio
hope of bettering their condition, and they
made no effort to rise.
One doos not have far to go for an expla
nation. The judicious protection extended
to our industries has enabled our working
iii' ii to live in comfort and maintain their
self-respect and independence. Under the
free trade system of England they would
soon plunge into the mire of poverty. They
would soon be as hopeless and helpless as
the workingmen of Londonand Manchester.
A’l ambition would be crushed out, and
they would turn their backs upon the refine
ments of civilization, and become brutish as
well as thoroughly w retched. This speaks well
for what Henry < lay called the zYnierlcan
sy- tein. Os course, in a certain sense, there
arc common people among us, and they will
always be here, but the wholesale brutaliza
tion of the wage-worker of Europe has not
yet been attempted on this side of the waters
and it is not likely that our people will ever
voluntarily saddle themselves with a system
which must inevitably pauperize and starve
ail whose lot in life requires them to work
f..-r a living. So long as we adhere to our
present policy we shall merit the good opin
ion-, of the Messrs. Dickens concerning our
people and our hotels, and various other
matters also.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Wi!.ii.< k, Germany, has a law which for
bids drunkards to marry. This is black list
ing with a vengeance.
Iris said that while at Constantinople,
Vanderbilt paid the great French actor, M.
(’oqmdin, s.t.ixx; f,. r a performance on board of
Ills private yacht. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
re cully paid little Josef Hoffman, the cele
brated child musician, the same sum to fur
nish music at a party given at her house in
New York.
James Nowlin, the boy murderer, who was
hanged at Cambridge, Mass., Hie other day.
had ancestors who had been murderers for five
generations back.
Ji l ol: Lamar has taken his scat and the
country is still safe. What is Editor Halstead
going to do about it ?
Tin. '.ationai. democratic committee will
meet in Washington, Fcbruarg 22d, and will
most probably select cither Chicago or New-
York as the place to hold the democratic con
vention. The chances now seem to be in favor
of New York.
Afiei: the war when several Boston gen
tlemen desired to present General Grant with
a library, and asked for a list of his looks so
that they would not duplicate any of the vol
umes, the old warrior told them to go ahead,
that there was no danger of duplicating, as lie
did not have a single book in bis house.
I) '.vid Whitmer, the last of the three wit
nesses to the Book of Mormon, testified to its
truthfulness on his death bed at Richmond,
Mo., the other day. This will give the Mor
mons another boom.
It seems that Maxwell will have to hang.
Maxwell killed his friend I’reller and packed
his body in a trunk at the Southern hotel, in
St. Louis. He claims that he was performing
a surgical operation, and accidentally killed
his friend.
Fm:i;v ARv, 18GC>, had no full moon. Such a
tiling will not occur again for 2,500,000 years.
A'-cordixu to the New York Herald, the
backbone of winter is broken, and we shall
have mild weather from now on.
Miss Winnie Davis contributes an inter
esting article to the current number of the
North American Review under the title of
“Serpent Myths.”
A WOMAN'S PJiOTFST,
Against a Cranky senator's Effoi t in Behalf
of Woman’s Suffrage.
Mr-. Caroline F. Corbin, in reply to Senate 1 '
Blair's report ol the senate’s special committee on
woinan’B suffrage, has written a magnificent letter
i to the cranky Neiv It.nrq shire senator. Her reply
I is based on that dignitary having misquoted and
i m:s:imlei'stood -neither of which is surprising—an
, ex tract from a former letter of Mrs. Corbin on the
I subject, and is so pointed and strong that it deserves
I to be put on recom. Among other things, si.e
: says:
"You sav in jour report thtff there are raanv
I women who are not wives amt mothers. Very trim
. ami when women vole and hold office there will be
l more of them. A true regard for the best interests
! of society demands tlmt their number shall be re-
I ducid by ad natural : n l leusouable means, but
; wlieii poh’ical rewards are ofleri'il as the price of
services in public life, do yon not believe that nurnv,
and those not of the weak and ignorant, but of tiie
more gifted and intellectual, v ill be tempted to
forego marriage and motherhood tor tin- sake of
winning them? Woe betide the land
i which thus offers its political trusts
a j remiums fol childless women! The morals
I of society are er-rrupt enough now. What do vou
! suppose they will become w hen m.t to be married,
not io be a mother, is the prerequisite fora woman's
| success in a chosen and tempting career? I speak
advisedly, r.nd in the light of thirty years of pro
: found and prayerful study of social problems, when
, t -ay that tiie direct tendency of womansuttYage
would le to form a clas of women such ar. held
high court in Greece in the dnys preceding its down
fail: women brilliant and intellectual. bt:t wholly
wanting in that steadfast faith andabuling virtue
which characterizes tlic Anglo-Saxon i.lenl of
womanhood, 1 nmy s::j tt.e< iir s.i.tn ideal a- w< II -
the wife anil mother. Ate American me:; ix'i are l
to relegate the wives and mothers of this republic
to a secondary mid sec s rvient place, and share tiie
uditieal leadership of this great and free country
\\ it li an oligarchy of Aspusias:
"You say that you have only pro] osed the mens-
I tire because women luive asked you to doit, the
I same plt.'tt was made by your great progenitor in the
I t iarden of Eden; but it did not avail him. Moreover,
jin the case of Adam, it was true.
tn the present instance the pie:
! contains but tlm minimum of truth. There
are tifteen million of women in tl is countrv
1 quote your own ilisticz of voting w.c. Wifi
; y. u kindly inform us w h."t proportion ofihat tifteen
' millions you have heard from? You -ny that these
women an bein-e govert'ed without tbeir consent.
Is it posJblc that yeti > an sincerely better e that sis-
I tern iniilio’is of American women'could be goveru
t e.t witho'ti tneir eonsenr.’ l‘o you not
■ rather feel assured that if a bare 'majority
I of that number did not consent, for’whiit
nopear to teem to lie coo l and sttlla ient resuous, to
, lx; ;evi rm d by indlrri t rather than by direc' rep
resentation u’ere would boa revolution wit!,in
tw Pty four hours' \\ ith cvciy rigid oi agitation at
1 tbeiriommand wliich man possesses tme sts'cih.
I ttee nssetnbly, the right of petition, a press en.
| i ndy to dis-'eminnte tl:eir views, and many ptiv : -
leges of court, sy i esiUo that men lay no Claim to
. act - 1 V ■
any nentand wliii'h '..’:c-e I(KiO.tW should unitedl}
■ make?
"With what show of reason do you lonipnre free
I l ~rn American women to the degraded ami ooka
I rant slaves . ii southern plantations, and spe.iingt
i men as their masters? As a matter of I'ticf
Hie jmiwit of men over women is not gritert
O .'in Hull of women over men. Nature lays hi |
infant man a heljilcss creature in the lap of his
motlur. He is in her isiwcr for life or for death,
and for the liret ten or fifteen years of Ins existence,
I and that during the forming and determining ic
tiod of his i areer—a pcL.-d, too, in which he is a:t
' -wvral'.e to no other law than Unit of Ins home her
I t ower. ver him. phy-ival. inlel'.eeiiml. tind motal,
' Is'o;'.early sv.meme that no power which he can
• nrpvniie over her m later yt urs e m overbalance it
I ndt r oniinary elreinnstani'cs the fatthffil. lutelli
. ). nt mottiet nmy makeol hcrsouinall“ eessentials
I i ■ iminnersand morals.w l.atsover she wile If \meri
-1 cm uc". were today narrowed minded tyrannical.
vi, toes creatuii'S tlmy are charged with liii.gie.
i the woman suflYagbts. uni,tt<d to be legislators
! for ti c whole cat en, it cciit.i only ho l eeatise
tl.eir mothers had r.tisnndsiiod or r.edcrted the
■ o;ottunilies wl;i lutlme pt - Into tiieit 1:.
stl i:., charge is a ttemet-.d, . > indictnmr.’. act.lnst
t e motherhood of ti e r'.at.vn. an ! it tte.iuld be
d < ught - fto bar woman fro tal i ;
■:. :.ve function until they Gin bett r fit till I .t
| which nature demands of them tn chu.l ■!- -wim.
i and tearing. Moreover.it t* ti.e fnne:: nct
i., !oßir. but it is tl:i» nation s pride and l.n.'t it...t
I .n no i tber c wintry that t!., k ill slimes O’; -'.to tl., re
. so many liomes supported by the yr I and Untiring
; industry of men. w ■ . re w.imcu . :>■ to ; t ni . .-.sc
; anil comfort, in order that they may eive Un .r, :;'..-
to the higher duties |o: renting el tldr. i: amt
, i.lug and carrying on < es of elm: tv. p st
■ ihropy and reform. and the intliu'uee ol ’ '■< homes
n|ion Hie public sentiment is tho ore i:res.s:ib’.c
power in Arne: rear, sceni am* political life.
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ever offered. Il -set- y< ■. Iwo 4 jnien oi.e
\<ai I 1..v yet ■" t ■' i'l | '■ :> I ' Y . I ill
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A idler* 51'C SoutUri: T..r.:-.
OUR knowledge box.
A Half Dollar for Somebody.
Oak Bowery, Chansl rs County, Ala. —
Editors Constitution: I haw a silver half dollar
coined in IS'O.uith the nair. i “Ea.'.y Higgins, Com
pany D , Sixth Georgia r.jgimeni,” that I suppose
must have been InsoriLed <.n it during the war.
Perhaps the owner of th’ n .mo or some member of
his family may see this in print and like to have
the coin. If so, they cm ke-s me asiabove.
N. H. ALLEN.
Large Cities.
Editors Constii j uoN.— Picase name the
American city that cov-as the greatest number of
square miles. SußsnunEn.i
New Orleans oc:uj e about forty square miles.
Philadelphia over 100. So probably justice will be
done by holding that Philadelphia is the large t
city inti.c United State-in point of area. As to the
five c.’t’es of the United States, Philadelphia will
lead again: New York comes next with fnty-one
square miles; New Orleans third, with forty; Chi
j cago fourth, with thirty-six, and Brooklyn fifth,
| with twenty-five square miles. The five cities of the
1 world covering the greatest area would seem to be
1 Philadelphia, 129; London, New York,forty-one;
Njw < irlcans. f rty: < hieago. thirty-six square mile-.
Paris covers only about thirty square miles.
Around the World.
Editors Constitution : How is it that a man
loses time by his watch in traveling around tiie
globe.’ ’ J. C. 11.
If the traveller could ‘Tide with the sun,” he
could go around the world in twenty-four hours
witiio t losing any time. But ho cannot ride with
tiie sun, and at each place w est of the starting point
he find.-, himself later l y four minutes for every de
gree of longitude by which the place is west of that
point. So w hen he arrives al the starting point
after circumnavigating the world, he has travelled
westward just -%0 degrees, his watch being put back
four minutes for each degree in order tliat it may
keep the time of the places he visits. So when he
gets to a point 360 degrees west of his starting j oint,
his time is just twenty-ibur hours behind that of the
starting point. Persons going around the world
from wu-t to cast gain four minutes for each degree
travelled, so that when they have gone about the
eartli they are twenty-four hours ahead of the time
of their starting joint. It is on this fact that Jules
Verne’s “Around the World in E ghty Days” is
founded.
Mother Goose.
Editors (’(institution : Who was Mother
Goose, and what was the origin ot her rhymes’
‘ J. F.
Sir William Weils Newell, who delivered a course
oflectures on folk lore, in the chapel of the church
of the Messiah, in New York, brought the series to
a close witli a discourse adapted to the cars and
years of grown up people, on nursery tales, in the
course of which he made some interesting remarks
about Mother Goose, incidentally remarking, with
considerable scree, upon Boston’s claim to ti c nativ
ity of that famous author. Knowing what I do
about Mother G ose, said sir William, it pained and
surprised me to see it asserted in print that she was
once a lady of Boston. As nearly as I can make
out, this preposterous claim is based solely ujon the
tact that in the year 1692, there resided in
Boston a Mr. Isaac Vergoose, who nmrriel
for his second wife one Elizabeth Foster.
This lady, who, Bostonians assert, dropped the pre
fix and became simply Mrs. Goose, had several chil
dren—thereby becoming Mother Goose—among
whom was j.lizftbet. Elizabeth married a printer
named Thomas Fleet, in 1715, and Thomas estab
lished a printing house in Pudding lane. According
to ti c Boston story, Mr. Fleet had a son, into the
tender ear of whom Mother-in-Law Gnose, or Ver
goose was want to chant strange but pleasing ditties.
These her dutiful son-in-law published in pamphlet
form. Now, to speak plainly, though reluctantly,
Ido not believe this story. Much as it may shock
the world at large,. I have no hesitation in saying
that 1 believe the great original Mother Goose
was a heat he a, and it is quite likely that instead
of len ;• a mild and inoffensive el l woman,
called Mother Goose on account of her vast sim
plicity, she may have been a malicious, alarming
hag. < harlcs Penault gave the title of Contes de Ma
Merc F Oye to a volume of talcs published in 1697*
But the name was not invented by him, for it was
quoted by the satirist Ranier, more than a century
before. Queen Goosefoot ißeine Pedance), Bertha*,
with the great-foot, or goose-foot, appears as
synonyms of Mother Goose, in French tales. Queen
Bertha, with the great-foot, was Charienmaoe’s
mother, as is represented in the cycle of Charle
magne.
Again, there was a Bertha, who was the wife of
Rudolf of Burgundy. No w, let it be remembered,
that Bertha meins ‘’the bright,” and is the name of
the ancient Teutonic goddess, equivalent to Ilukhi.
On the Rhine and in Switzerland, when Christianity
came in, Bertha w as represented as being dangerous
to children. She presides over spinning, and sacri
fices of meat and fish are still ofi'ered at her feasts.
She has a long nose and large goose-!e?t. She
doubtless got her goose-feet as the devil got his hoof
—as a mark of degradation. The second day of the
year is her festival, and is kept as a childs’ holiday.
From this and other reasoning, Mr. Newell was con
vinccd that the name of Mother Goose originated
rom the Teutonic goddess, presiding over house
keeping and children degraded in Christian times as
described.
The Year 1900.
Editors ( (institution , Will the year 1960
boa part of the twentieth century? ItJ ADiJi.
The confusion in the question whether the year
1909 is a part of the nineteenth or of the twentieth
century arises probably from the comparison of the
age of a roan with the years of the century. We du
not call a child one year old till lie has lived a year,
and we call him ten, for instance, all through bis
eleventh year. But the year one began with the
lay No. 1. and we call it the year one up to and in
cluding the 365tb day. Ko the years from 1 to 100
comprise the first century, and the second century
begins with the year 101 and ends with LOO, and tiie
nineteenth century began with thelSOl and ends
with the lad day of the year 1900.
Where the New Year Began?
Editors Constitution : Where did the
new year begin?
As the day begir ■: in China so the new year begins
there. China was the easternmost country known
to the discoverers of America, and has always been
considered as The easternmost country of the world.
The decision that made it so was not arbitrary when
it was made, though it seems arbitrary now. The
new year has to begin somewhere, and all discover
ers and geographers and persons who speak with
authority on tiie subject agree in considering China
as the proper place for it to begin.
Is Consumption Contagious?
Editors Constiti tion : Is one liable to
con tract consumption fr< m nursing and sleeping
wi .h a eonsuuipuvc.’ if so is there any precaution
one could use to prevent it? Subscriber.
It is believed Ly many that consumption is con
tagious under the circumstances stated in your
question. A healthy person ought not to sleep
twh out who is seiriously diseased.
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ua • wili | Ist. <« # titution one year.
T | Y K‘-i 2d. sinuieiinFahm oneyea.'
%. 71 .V / you I 3d. Chance in Constitution
1 ' New Y< ars box.
r l his is mon? fui &L6Faim, ns ever offered. It gets
yon two splendid p.’> thanw year and mny get you
J*2so m gold. Dun apers oneto invest 5f.65. Only
a few days of ihist YOU lail send immcdiatclv.
Address The out offer left.”
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A LIMITED SUPPLY.
Tiie u ost characteristic part of tiie personal
adornment of Senator George, ui Mississippi, is an
|cl l-iasbioncd, open f aced silver watch, about as big
j as aUu dipper, winch he carries in his breeches
i pocket hung uj»on the eml of a shoestring.
The vanilla bean is the costliess bean on
: earth. It riuurisbcs in Mexico, vhie.’.y in l‘a
. pantly nod Miscntly. Il grows wild, and isuath
crcdai 1 marketed bytbo naUvoik JustM thej
come fur.’ ’he forest the beans sell at floor sl2 per
1 1.000. Aftert he b- mis aie dried and cured they arc
| worth f* in $7 to ?!2 per pound, according to quab
• ity T t year tbc vicinity of Papantla alone rx
' jkirlcd t/0.-' ‘ ben:'-, i hey are used by di .iggist*
i and vonf' Ctionci.. and are u:i impurtr.nt I'iticiv us
1 commerce.
Jennie Gib.-or. a han<Lt< me girl of sixteen.
I vlm’.lv s .d Arkrigi t. N. Y., has never seen the
, wo.ld by d;.y ';ghi, though c:\ddeJ by lamplight to
1 -e ..i; Ir.a !a • v.;ll ip i .yh i.’.\ Up to the age of
•Ouro: ri\c yt ~:- she wb- believed to be totally
■ J ■ ; cull' > I d ud.r the lamp was
!i.;Lh‘ I bl;-, pact evidence of and
this pc*<’■<• 4 >■t gre > n;«.n her. -util the hide
{ one played with her ? -o ! u • \, qh artificial
i I :h* viigc:’.y r r?;ih:iwn h. Iftvllghl.
gw H. l*ie: "r. th.- .u. .1■: : 'cf M<x,ro
' county. Teiir.. t;i’i 1 n Numa . • : y. rl r -?ecmly
| Ina', uur..n .!ik I,.';...s’jekl i- t; f re
I,'Jar.t'/ bta.:Jc.l utarJo:e;z v. J ! : .t:. t ")1 ■
tl v |-i! :: o't'le lainl acu il.c t ira.".. a'. at;ij l; fls
<e.'a G.utr.a!.act cel in '.tr.i .; t'.,.
a .'e :-yuibz’« nh tit* lec'J.. Ji. •.*<•.i >u tq ;:
I cariiai dcytvl 1i...v>,e0 it au; :i'., < ti'l.tiu ;’-.>.i .
. crop t!:« # ■ cCr.icr » tnr»»nd >a. ,ni.. -y.:
I laiftes.
I THE PET OF THE EMPRESS LOUISE.
I Her Grief in Being Separated From Him -4'
How' Bonaparte Surprised Her.
A writer in Hie Art Journal for January
say- the pet dog of Marie Louise, the Xirt.-ian wt.e
of Napoleon naparte, ivtr a slim Italian greyj]
hound, and as far as she was concerned it proved to'
be n very wit-seme bit of dog flesh. It twit el itsel/,
into her affections by its graceful ways. Stic hud
her other j ets, her singing birds and tier parrot, iiij
Iter boudoir in Vicuna, where, we read, there wall
"scarcely a thing, down to the c irpct on the floor,'!
which was not tne work of tome loved hand.”
Madame Junot says when the archduchess be'4.
came empress, she had to leave her faivn-eolored'
favorite behind her at Vienna. In the num >ir of'
the Empress Marie Louise, by Saint Arnaud, lie
says it was at Munich “she was compelled tosepas
rate from a little dog she loved dearly, which the
countess (Lazansky) bad to take buck to Vienna'
with her.’ The reason of this was that Napoleon’
I did not like dogs. Madame Junot says "the eni»
I peror used to be annoyed by Josephine's favorite'
pet dogs, with Fortune at their head.” The einl J
press cried bitterly when she found the plaintive’
faced little hound had to return with her
grand mistress. Everyone was anxious to
swell the train of this new empress. She longed to
keep her coaxing little friend beside hi r, bi ezn-q
she knew it alone cured to be with her, not because*
she was wife of the man who had so much of Europe"
in liis grasp, but simply because it worshiped her
from tiie depth of its true little heart. “It was ti
< uel separation,” writes Madame Junot, “and the
: empress and her favorite parted witli a duo of com<
plaint.” “The acquisition of a colossal empire did
not console the sovereign for the loss of a little '.10g,”
says another historian.
It is satisfactory to know that the timid, shrink
ing hound was not long parted from tlm empress.
Berthier told Napoleon of Marie Louise's tears
fore leaving her dog, her feathered /rieitd-, heif
room made dear by cherished association, and Na
poleon prepared a delectable surprise f w l.is wife, a
strategy to win her-love. Lending her from thti
balcony of the Tuileries, where he had |re ent: d
her to the people who had thronged below, he I' d
her. in wonderment as to her destination, tip n dim
ly-llghted corridor. A woe begone greyhound
had been sitting in a room there forlorn and
puzzled till it. he rl a step it knew, and whining
with impatience, sprang out when Napoleon (■; cued
the door. The phlegmatic empress greeted her re
covered pct with effusion. She knew its adoration’
was genuine. The fickle multitude t int theore,!
her might turn on her as they had tunied on hetf
great-aunt, the queen of France; but. this tour
legged courtier was genuine and stanch, in the'
room where her trusty favorite awaited het', Marie
Louise found her birds, her music, “in'fact, ever/
article was there, and placedin the room in the
>ame manner as she had left them on qni.ting her
I paternal roof.”
Napoleon was well pleased with the d liglit his
kindly thoughtfulness gave the empre s. tn i maybe
honored the overjoyed hound with some notice.
Four year, after this the dog left the Tuileries with'
the empress and her son. It returned o Vienna
with her, loving her as r.ily as a pensioner and a
prisoner at her i'athi r's court us when she was cm-'
press over a powerful nation. These historic dogs
of France were, you see. no time-servers. They
took but little heed of reverse of fortune or change
of dynasty, well content if allowed to attend their
owners in prison or palace, to the throne or tiie
sea Hob 1.
ODDS AND ENDS.
“Ouida,” who is sixty years of age, wears
her yellow hair flying loose, mid light colored de
collete dresses. She is engaged on a new novel
which is said to be also rather decollete.
Two bright New Jersey young women, dis»
satisfied with the money they made teaching, in-t
vested4so in poultry. The fir.t year their profits
were SI,OOO, the second 83,000.
Linen trousers and straw hats were con
spicuous features of tiie costume of a party ofdibau
fruit importers who landed in New York the oilier
day. They lost no time in seeking a eli d ing store
and buying garments more suitable lot- the cli
mate.
Governor Luce, of Michigan, who runs the
state on a salary of SI,OOO a year andboards himself,
must have welcomed the late snowstorms with great
deal of pleasure, for he can now afford t > dine on
snow balls every day and thus cut down expenses.
From Five to Five Hundred Dollars.
In another column wo print a nuinber ot
receipts from subscribers who got presents out
of our Christmas Box, ranging from SSOO down
to $5. Below we print other receipts, which
give the names of more happy subscribers:
He Acknowledges Receipt of the S2OO Pres
ent.
Mr. J. A. Powe, of Talladega, Ala., is a
good agent and has sent us in a number of sub
scribers. He writes as follows :
Tai.i.adeoa, Ala., January 12, 18S8.—Editors ''on
stitiuion, Atlanta, g.i: lam this day in ruehit of
check covering two hundred dollars for se"'mil prize
in Xmas box. Please accept my thanks and best
wishes for the same. lam your friend,
J. A. IX'WE.
She Sent a Dollar for The Constitution and.
We Made Her a Present of 4)10.
Mrs. T. H. McDowell, Bellevue, Talbot
county, Ga., xvrites:
Eeli.hvve, Tai.ui'T County, Ga,, Jnnuarv sth.,
l-s-. -E liters Constitution: Your kind ;t t tcon
taining your check for ilu as a present emt ol' Tub
i a iNsiTiT Tios Christinas box was received this morn
ing, fir which I thank you very much. I would
ha ve felt am ly paid t > have simply obtained your
valuable weekly, but am now really delighted. You
can rely on me as a life-time subscriber.
Respectfully, Mas. T. 11. McDowEiJ..
He Sent. Seven Subscribers and Keeelvcd ittHG
Besides His Commission,
Mr. D. D. McDavid, of Chumuckla, Florida,
January 7, 1888, writes:
Editors CossriTUTioN; Yours with cheek for 810
received tills afternoon. I sent you seven usin:s. 1
send herewith three more. D. D. Mij.i.win.
He Considers Tiie Constitution One of Hie
Best Papers and Sent 30 Subscribers.
Mr. W. M. Joiner, of Magnolia, Ai';.. wites
January 7, 1888:
1 EiuoHS Constiti': I am in reccin'. < I vours
with ten dollars Inclos.'d drawn in v mi Cm stums
box. 1 send you thirty-six names, ’consl'ler that I
am amply pnid for all my trouble. Wil! i id you
another club in a few days. Your paper J consider
one of the best in this government. You-s very re
spectfully, ' W.M. M. .lU'XEII.
It Increased at His Postotlice in Three I'cai'Ot
From Two Subscribers to Seventy.
Mr. W. L. Adams, of McDonald, Ga., re
ceived $lO out of our Christinas box of pre;-’
ents. He sent us twenty-three subscribers, and
retained the commission which paid him for
his trouble. He says:
January 10, 18S8.--E.litors Constitution. ACaiJa,’
i.a Hear Sir—Your letter received containing i hei ’«
for teu dollais that 1 drew in your Clirb.mas lox. 1
lb nk it was twenti tinea sitbscribers that. I sent
you tiiat went in your Christmas box. I al<.> drew
in your April drawing loi Ann Sewing M: chine
i which I sold for twenty-live dollars in a f -,v >la\S
afterlt arrived. Evcrylxnly like.t Tin: C'C-.-i .: i i.'o’s'.i
: It takes the lead in this county. T'hi,-.' Mia , ago
• there whs but two subscribers for Tm. <riotf
|. coming to this office. Now 1 have work: I :: np to’
1 seventy, and it will still increase. Ever.l snvs
jit is tie best paper in America. You : suieiv
■ soon get kOJ.OW sut scribers. Wish m I, s : es to
I Tin C.'X-titution. it- workers and ei .cr.„ 1
i nra yours most respectfully, W.l. Annis.
These presents were, given away to the sub
i stribers of Tits: Constitution xvi; <mtany
; extra charge. Tin re are more ;>fe c: : in (hi)
February Box, which is to be opened ou
i March Ist, than there were in tiie ( lir stmas
I Box, though the first prose t is not’
'so large. Bo sure and ri'iitw yout|
i subscription immediately, or, if ;?<>.i are
, not n subscriber, be sure to suli wribo 1
1 iinnieuiately. If you are a subscriber ■nd your
subscription is not out. get us a new -eribcf:
or two, so you will got your niime in o. r next'
F irimiyl Lox. V>'e want every u - :ibe
to have an opportunity to get one of these*
' presents. The paper is worth more ihn:> the'
1 in :.'?)■ we drarg for it. and is the die;'.pest
and best paper you can get. The pic-r nts-ara
in addition, and make nn addition Fat no
other paper offers. Yon will see frci.i readii.t£
: these letters, aid those in un< tin lumtir
that there are dorans d subscribers . hi.s-env
i’'.ir dollar for Thi: CoNsTiruTinx. . a who
le.'e'.vod in return sums ranglrg .“ a tivo
hundred dollars down to fixe d< lhi:s. .last ;qjj
' udiiiy will get jr- entson tl efir.-t < i ..farchit
i'e sure test ygu ge; yeer rabscriptL’i in it*