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Newspaper Page Text6 THE CONSTITUTION. Entered at the Atlanta postoffice as sec era-class ma matter. November 11. 1873 The Weekly Constitution ISI.OO per annum Clubs of five, 51.C0 each; clubs cf ten 5 I.CO each and a copy to getter-up or club WK WANT YOU. •I b e Corstitv.tlon wants an agent at every rcsto'fi ein America. Agent’s outfit free fird gccd terms. If you are not in a. club v. e want you to ait as agent at your office Write us. <//.1.\(.£ OF ADDRESS.—When ordering an ti r< of ynir paper changed aluays give the old vs well as the new address. Always give post vj)U count ■! and state. If your paper is nut re • tcnid regularly, notify ns. .. . a an order for new subscribers pleas* allow us a week get the names on the list and pa per started before you write a complaint, as we uri i crij much crowded now. /;« not forget io make your renewals in time. Watch your direction tag and, see when your ntbscription expires. The next sir months will tn 1 ul f of Interest, and. you should not miss a tin l copy Os THE CONSTITUTION. Send your orders at least a vxib in advance to make tin, '■/ not take a week in every Instance; will f‘t Hi m on as soon as possible. Joseph E. Brown on Silver. JT.In IS7S, in reply to the request of iistinguished Georgians, Governor Jo seph E, Brown wrote a remarkable let ter on the silver question. Governor Brown stated at the outset that he was opposed to the demonetiza tion of silver and to the immediate forced resumption of gold payments. He hclii ved in both gold and silver as the true basis of our currency, ami held that the banks and the government fd; .old be requited to redeem their bills in gold or silver, or both. It was his opinion that an immediate return to sj ie payments would put the debtor cl ss eiiiircl;- at the mercy of the cred itor . ia: s. li would cause a. shrinkjigo of v.dui s ’ml ruin the debtors to require them after a certain day, before the p- >.,l of inflation wa.s over, to pay in p. ; ; f: . ,],.b;s louiractod on an infla tion b <is. Such a policy would work •.■■•l. nil ruin to the debtor class, because i; would give those who had hoarded g Id an advantage which they would be < m.iin to use in speculation. lie re f. <1 to the fact that in England, after the Napoleonic wars, there was f.iia 11 -amption on a particular day. The result was almost universal bank >;a y. 1’ ■ wlto held, a mortgage on his neigl lx r’s land for one-half its val ue forcel sod an<l sold it, ami there being little gold in the country he got ;,i his own price. The same result • ! doubtless follow t]te resumption act here. !! > w." * 1 ost de oicdly in favor of Fu ji ding the tut of ls?.J stopping the ;-age of tli 412% grain silver dollar tad ’"a- ie it no longer a legal tender in -c’n- < :■ -eding $5. He would swi • ■ ; 11 b gislation against sil- 1 •. and make bcih gold and silver a ’ _al lender, as they wen; before the if the output of silver from the d im reased. the demand for it had . Is. imaeased. The demonetizaiion < sd. ;• :i (ermany had brought do pa .. on ..■■! distress upon that coun t , while I'rance, under bimetallism, w. 1-. Herons. Ho was not afraid »: t v. ■ aid b ■ :!<«»>*• I with silver if I d t < it:age, because if we had 1 than we needed ihe hundreds of i i is of p 'ople in the silver using • of the oast would absorb it. A h< n i 1 ■ go>eriior put these point- !' 1 why • -’l<] the United States, which 1 > ■ jii -hieing more silver than any • 1 1 .a od earth, s>” k to demonetize ’ a:: i to roilu -e its value, thereby losing ich - Io■ should real iz- : i> it in her 'commerce with the east in ciunp tition with England ''l tv. who use the gold standard? ' • I >ld unto this advantage, and 11 I" io i 1 on the trade of China 1 ‘1 1 the hundreds of millions of 1 e >f -'si i, who prefer and use the silver standard? ; i ' f the demonetization act d ■ r< -toraiion of the 112% grain ' dil.tr a- a legal tender would t out gold the fictitious value that • ' I I' a given to it by anti-silver legis- d ii ‘ iwo metals would readily u-t ' relative table, and silver " 'I 1 ’ ! be a depreciated currency, \ ild be equivalent to gold in its • g power. As neither gold ■ Ivor is an irredeemable currency, He d I not sc any danger of getting too u,< li of it. in <mr depressed con <l a 1 ■ !■•.! ’"ing and debtor classes •i" 1 u or ■ gold and more silver in • ! 'bn. To sirike down silver would in l i * inn ,-csts of the hoarders of ! 1 ami ihe cr> diior class. Nor would it bo u : : Ist to the bond holders to make sd\ i r a legal tend' r. When the gov ermm nt bonds were issued they were r< 1 iiiTde in legal tender greenbacks, j after the war that Ota i ■ the bonds redeemable in coin. Governor Brown went on to show tha' as our population expanded we net led an expansion and not a contrac tion oi Vue currency. It. was unjust to in n who bid made debts when they had abundant means to pay them Io !•’ • Ihe 1 sumption of gold payments and contract the currtmcy, thus leav ing them unable to meet the demands of tl ir creditors. Such a policy, if cou- Tinuetl a lew years, would enrich the lew ami turn the masses into hewers of wood and drawers of water. ’l’he letter. whi<h we have briefly sytmpsiz d hero, was read to one of the dciuocr.iiie meetings ever held it: Atlanta, ami was enthusiastically emb-rsed. Its views were those of our people, and when the primaries were li. bl Colonel t'aihlh'r who favored the forced resumption of gold payments and the deuu.notization of silver, did not get i> vide in Fulton county, and the plat form a'lopted by the Barnesville con vention was <iir<‘ctl.v in line with the ; e.> silver and currency expansion views of Governor Brown. <mr people have never doubted Sen ator Brown s financial wisdom. Every prediction made in his letter concern- ing the disastrous effect of ihe goldbug, currency contraction policy of Colonel Candler has been verified by the sad experience of the past sixteen years, until the people feel that they are in deed becoming hewers of wood and drawers of water under the legislation which struck down half the money ot the country and reduced the price ot la bor and labor's products to a minimum. Colonel Candler still thinks that it will help us to have less money. Gov ernor Brown thinks that we need more money as the population increases. Uh* people can easily decide which is the more reasonable proposition. The President's Letter. There are many tilings in the recent letter of President Cleveland to Chair man Wilson, of the ways and means committee of the house, The Constitu tion heartily approves, but. it does not seem to go far enough on the line of Ihe redemption of all of the democratic pledges. Every word that tin* president says in urging the redemption of democratic pledges should be heartily endorsed by every democrat. He makes a careful and correct gauge of public sentiment in his statement that democrats “are downcast under the assertion that their party fails in ability to manage the gov ernment, and they aye apprehensive that their efforts io bring about tariff reform may fail. But they are much more downcast and apprehensive in their fears that democratic principles may be surrendered.* * * All aban donment of the cause or the principles upon which it rests means party per fidy and party dishonor.” All of which is well and truly said! The democratic party stands before? the country pledged to do certain things, not only with the tariff but with the finances of tin' country. Every word that I’rt'.sidenf Cleveland has said about the tariff applies equally as well to the financial pledge of the democratic plat form and also to Ihe pledge to repeal the 10 per cent tax on state banks. If it is perfidy to fail to do one of these things, it is certainly as perfidious to fail in another promise equally as oblig atory. Hence we regret exceedingly that in bis letter emphasizing the importance of redeeming the tariff pledge of tlm party th<' president did not also stress the im portance? of redeeming other pledges to which the party is committed. We (•arnestly trust tliat this last letter ot the presiilent will be followed by others on the financial pledge, and on the re peal of the 1<» per emit tax on state banks. 'Uhe president argues so well and so forcibly on the pertidy involved in the violation of the tariff pledge of the party that he must, of course', be impr.'ssed with the dishonor ami degra dation that will attach to th.- democratic administration if after two years ot servici* it can bo shown that, neither ihe 1(> per cent repeat plank nor the financial pledge has been redeemed. There is vastly more responsibility rest ing on the president as regards the two latter questions than the tariff, for with tin* tariff he has emphsized upon the people, the party and congress the importance of redeeming the pledge to reduce the tariff to a revenue basis. If congress does not do so, it will not be his fault, and he will have the conscious ness of having done bis duty. With the financial (piestion and the 10 per cent repeal, however, the president should let congress understand its duty just as he lias done with the tariff. As it stands now he has said nothing, doin' nothing, asked for nothing looking to the rt'demptii'ii of cither of tie so two pledges, which are of equal, if not more, importance as Ihe tariff. Yet those most intimate with the president, on tin' floor of congress, violently opposed thi' repeal of the 10 per cent tax on state banks and defeated the measure, and likewise, by an astute combination of the eastern democracy with the re publicans the pledge to use both silver and gold as standard money was per fidiously violated we say perfidious be cause if it is perfidy to violate the tariff ph dgo. ami the president says it is. it is certainly perfidious to violate any other pledge of equal importance. We earnestly trust that the president will follow this letter with another one. commending the free coinage of silver —“the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either.’’ as pledged in Ihe democratic platform, and that he will also urge with equal earnestness upon Ihe repeal of the 10 per cent tax on stale banks. This done, and the president insisting upon the redemption of every plank of the demo cratic platform as earnestly as ho is striving to secure the redemption of the tariff pledge, and he will not have a more active champion in the country than The Constitution. But no party and no man can be honest in one respect and dishonest in another and at the same time maintain the full respect, of the people. It is best to be honest in everything. ■ • 'l’he Office of Coroner. It is now almost settled that the New Nerk c institutional convention will abolish the office of coroner. The advocates of the proposed reform say that ihe coroner is an unnecessary ofiiier. They claim that it would be better to have his work done by the county and ci\v physicians who should be compelled to investigate ail suspic ions cases of death and report the re sult to the prosecuting officer of Ihe county. As matters now stand it is said that many coroners hold inquests when they are not necessary, in order to make the fees. They invade the houses of dead men's families and put the widows and children on the witness stand at a THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. JULY 23.1894. time when their grief should protect them from such intrusions. Then, the work of a coroner in a murder case has to be done over again. The verdict of a coroner's Jury is not final. If a. crime has been committed another tribunal has to investigate it. In this part, of the country where the office of coroner is not much sought, the abuses complained of in New York are unknown. Still, the question raised is one of general interest everywhere and deserves consideration. Less Aloney, More Bayonets. We are not surprised to find The At lanta Journal favoring a standing army with a larger number of soldiers than we now have under arms. This is what it now calls for. The advocates of Ihe gold standard are all rapidly coming to the conclusion that if will require bayonet rule in this country, if their oppressive policy is continued. Less money, more bayonets! This is thi 1 position of ihe gold sharks and the politicians and newspapers on their side. Thi' people are opposed to large stand ing armies. We made this one of our grievances in the declaration of inde pendence and we have been on that line ever since. The democratic party has always held that a large standing army would be a menace to the reserved rights of the states, and to the people. \\ h.i'U we had numerous territories and a largo number of Indians there was some necessity for a good sized army. But we have fewer Indians now, and nearly all of the former territories are now states witli their own militia. The proposed increase of the federal army can only excite suspicion and alarm. In LSfiS congress reduced the army to 25,000, and it. was sufficient during all the reconstruction troubles. Why in crease it now? The question is easily answered. The gold standard leaders fear that the con traction of the currency will cause fur ther discontent and distress. They dis trust tiio states, and have no faith in the people, and they would overawe the masses by scattering bayonets and Gatling guns all over the land. Tiio Journal is right from its point of view. If we are to have currency con traction, with all its evils in the shape of a. general shrinkage of values, low wages, blighted industries and stag nant commerce, the people are going to protest very vigorously and endeavor to right their wrongs at. Ihe ballot box. in order to maintain the gold standard against tiio will of the masses it will then become nocessar.v to suppress free speech, control tin* elections by force, support a big standing army, and mul tiply our prisons and poorhou.ses. Less money, more bayonets! The two go together. But it is a bad policy, and it will prove very expensive in the end. B -fori- we resort to such dangerous ex pedients, why not go back to our old -ystem -restore bimetallism and ex pand the currency? That would make our people so busy, prosperous and hap py that, tlie soldier would be a back number and his bayonet would be a holiday toy. If we restore our American financial system there will be no need of the European mode of governing people by the bayonet. Give us more dollars and fewer bayonets! ._ « First Remove the Necessity. Speaking of the federal army The New Orleans Times-Demoerat says: It is nothing' more than a military con stabulary to be used on occasion in en forcing the mandates of the federal courts and to protect public property. In ease of invasion by foreign enemies, the army would only be a nucleus for a defensive force. The vast business of preserving pub lic order and' of protecting life and property must be entrusted to the militia of Ihe several states, 'there are 13,000,000 of them when needed, but it would take a iong time to get them into the t eld. It is p ain that if, in any public disorder, the militia should sympathize witli th; r;uter», the latter would have their way. No law can be enforced if the great body of the people oppose it. That is just what napncncd in the sectional war between th.- state.--. All the able-bodied men in the south r se up to annul and resist the operation of the federal laws in those states. They w re opposed by the masses of the able-bodied men in the northern states, and rhe war fare was one of gigantic proportions, rhe federal regular army in the civil war had but a small part in the proceedings. Our contemporary is right when it says that the business of preserving public order and protecting life and property must be left to the mililia of the states. Only in exceptional emer gencies can the regular army be called out. When the states cannot or will not preserve order and protect life and property, then the army wiil be used, and properly so, as in Chicago lately. We regret to see in certain quarters a disposition Io increase the number of federal troops and build up a large standing army without first trying to remove the neeessit.v for it. It should not lx' needed, and the dem ocratic policy has always been to have a small army. We ri'dueed the force Io 25,000 men in ISOS, and found it largo enough during the reconstruction t roubles. The advocates of a large standing army seem to fear that we are going to have frequent strikes and riots and revolts that will have to be suppressed by Ihe federal government. If these forebodings are realized and more troops become necessary we can get them. But, wh.v not first see if we cannot pre vent these unpleasant conditions by re deeming our pledges to the people? If the democratic party will carry out the promises of financial relief in its plat form prosperous times will follow, and a happy and a busy people will have no temptation to become turbulent and violent. It is our duty to first see if the policy we guaranteed the people will not render it unnecessary to resort to more bayonets. This is a very reasonable suggestion. 1 If we find that our failure to redeem our financial pledges has caused dis content and distress, it is our plain duty to keep our‘promises, and see if there will not be a change for the better. Give the people just what we promised —free silver, state banks and tariff re form, and there will be no more strike's and riots, and soldiers will not be needed anywhere. This remedy is more hon est, more democratic and cheaper than it is to break our promises to ihe peo ple, and then stippert a big army to suppress the lawlessness which is one of the results of currency contraction and class legislation. Redeem the pledges of the platform and there will be no necessity for an increase in the standing army. The President and the Income Tax. There is one feature about the presi dent's letter that we are sure will not be understood by the people, and we re gret that lie was not more explicit about it. In writing to Nir. Wilson he says: You know eow much I deprecated the incorporation into the proposed bill of the income tax feature. In his message read at the assembling of congress last December President Cleveland spoke as follows on the in come tax. commending the wisdom of the insertion of the tax in tin? bill of the ways and means committee: The (way and means) committee, after full consideration and to provide against a temporary deficiency, which may exist be fore the business of the country adjusts itself to the new tariff schedules, has wisely embraced in its plans a few additional internal revenue taxes, including a small tax upon incomes derived from certain corporate investments. These new assessments are not absolutely and easily borne, but they have the further merit of being such as can be remitted without unfavorable business disturbances when ever the necessity for their imposition no longer exists. There is an air of mystery about this income tax matter that, is not at all sat isfactory. For instance, here in Atlanta and in other places, the newspapers which have assumed to speak for Mr. Cleveland have time and again entered a solemn pledge that the president fa vored the income tax. In his letter to Mr. Wilson he •■deprecates the insertion of the measure in the tariff bill.” though last December in his message to con gress he commended the action of the committee which “wisely embraces in its plans a few additional internal reve nue taxes, including a small tax upon incomes derived from certain corporate investments.” This is the worst kind of an income tax because it reaches small stockhold ers while it entirely exempts from tax ation every dollar of income derived from immense private capital. The in come from the non-producing bonds of the milionaire would bo exempted, if the income tax was confined to corpor ate investments, as suggested, while the income of a struggling widow who may have put four or live thousand dollars in a. safe investment in a manufacturing, industrial or other such enterprise, would bo subject to tax. This would not be right, nor do we believe that it was the purpose of the president's sug gestion to so restrict the operation ot thi' tax. We trust, therefore, in order that mote light may be thrown on the subject, that the president will fake the bull by the horns and let congress understand just exactly what he would like to see it do as regards not only Ihe tariff, but the financial question, the 10 per cent re peal and tlie income tax. For the sake of party harmony and in the hope that wo may arrive at some' definite basis of understanding by which the party can get together, wo should like to see more light thrown on the situation, be cause as matters now stand things are in a horribly mixed condition. Honest Elections Demanded. The people of Louisiana have been bitterly disappointed by the failure of their legislature Io pass a law in the interests of honest elections. ‘1 he day after the ad journment of the legislature Tlie New (t'leaim Times Democrat s*id: On no single measure had the people of the state so fully made up their minds and so firmly set their hearts as on an ad vanced measure of ballot reform, and the failure of the legislature to draw up and pass a bill guaranteeing to the voters a free ballot and a fair count was a derelic tion on its part which a large section ot the community will lie unchristian enough neither to forget nor to forgive. The bal lot reform measure which was passed was a mere empty mockery of ballot reform, which the purity and intelligence of the state is bound to resent, even in accept ance, 'flu' people of Louisiana have it in their power by the continuous agitation of tlie question to secure ihe reform they demand. If they will revive the determined spirit with which they fought and drove from their state the powerful lottery corporation which for so many years flourished in their midst against Ihe protest of tin? better class of citizens they will win the victory. Fraud and violence in elections are among the worst of crimes. Without a fret' and an honest ballot, the people of a state have no certainty that their rights of person and property will be adequately protected. A crime against the ballot should be severely punished by a long term of imprisonment. No man who uses corruption or intimida tion to defeat the will of the people should be permitted to enjoy any of the rights and franchises of citizenship. Fortunately, we are comparatively free in Georgia from the evils com plained of in Louisiana. But it is not enough to know that we have fair elec tions as a rule. We need a system that will guarantee them in the future. We need laws that will make it absolutely certain that every voter will be enabled to cast his ballot without temptation or interference in any way and have it counted. The only way to do this is to throw stronger safeguards around the purity of the ballot and make it a crime with a heavy penalty to violate the law. The fight of the Louisianians for bal lot reform should be taken up in every - % state and pushed forward until fair elec tions and honest counts are absolutely guaranteed. A Heavy Bill. The direct am’ indirect losses caused by the recent strike will perhaps exceed $10(»,0(M),000. The president of one of the largest railway corporations in the country is reported as saying: The earnings of the railroad companies of the western roads fell off in two weeks an average of at least 25 per cent, ine pay rolls that were stopped will represent a loss to employes of, let us say, at least six times as much as that suffered by the companies. Hundreds of factories weie obliged to close from lack of coal or coke. The wages lost in these were five times the amount lost by the manufactories. Ihe beef companies lost hundreds of thousands and California and other fruit crops were either temporary or total losses. The following is not an unfair recapitula tion of losses, I think: The United States government.. 1,000,000 Loss in earnings of railroads cen- tering in Chicago 3,000.000 Loss in earnings of other railroads. 2.500.U00 Loss by destruction of railway property 2,500,000 Loss to railway employes in wages 20,000,000 Loss in exports, produce and mer- chandise 2,00(1,000 Loss in fruit crops 2,500,000 Loss to varied manufacturing com- panies 7,500,000 Loss to employes 35,000,000 Loss to merchants on quick goods 5,000.000 Total $81,000,000 To this must be added loss from what would have been increased summer traffic and manufactured goods for the coming sea son. The final showing will easily be more than $100,000,000. It is probable? that this is a reasonable (?stiniate. Now. who foots the bill? The railroad companies will get damages from the cities whose mobs destroyed their property, and these damages will come out of the pockets of the taxpay ers. Then, tlie loss in wages falls upon the strikers. When the whole business is settled it will be found that the big corporations have suffered less than their employes and third parties who had no interest in the strike. Vice in the Schools. A Now York letter says: The attention of a school board across the river in Newark has been called to brandy drops. These are harmless looking caramels, but it is claimed that they con tain sufficient alcohol to create a craving for alcohol in the youthful stomach, and will, in time, make the little students dip somaniacs. One member of the board said he had secured a teaspoonful of bad brandy from two innocent looking drops, and an other, who opened a pound, exhibited a three-ounce phial two-thirds full. The agi tation has led to the declaration today that the sale of these drunkard-breeding sweets is a violation of the excise law. Perhaps these caramels are getting in their work in other school districts than the one referred to. It might pay to inquire. The same tiling has been reported from other school districts, and it is also well known that tlie dealers in immoral books and pictures manage in some way to distribute their catalogues among girls and boys in many public schools north and south. One would think that an organized effort was being made to demoralize tlie rising genera tion. and that the corrupters of our youth were concentrating all their ef forts upon our public schools. This is a matter that demands con stant watchfulness on the part of our teachers. A Profitable Industry. Mr. It. J. Redding, director of the Georgia experiment station, is doing a good work in his efforts to organize a state dairyman's association, and it is to be hoped that every dairyman and stock grower in Georgia will go into it. Our farmers have neglected this profit able industry too long. The director of the Wisconsin experiment station in forms .Mr. Redding that in his state the cheese and creainerv business brings in half a million dollars a week from American markets, and the single item of cheese exported to England amounts to .$2,000,000 a year. Wisconsin is a young state, smaller titan Georgia, and it is the opinion of experts that, we can do much better here. A successful cheese factory anil creamery is now in operation in Chattooga, county, and it has been dem onstrated that we can make as fine cheese in Georgia as can be made any where in the union. This article of food is always in great demand in Europe and in this country, and more of it should be used by onr own people. It is a good substitute for meat, and the surplus not consumed at home will al ways command the ready cash. The formation of a state dairyman's asso ciation will give this industry the ad vantage of having an organized move ment to push it and will make it easier to market its products. EDI 1011! A LOOM ME NT. A deficit in the state treasury of Ken tucky of $627,000 is a serious matter. It is hard to understand how the state has got so far behind. The Chicago Herald asks George AT. Pull man to come to that city and face the music. He should not leave it to others to fight his battles. It is no time to question the constitu tionality of using federal troops to preserve erdet in emergencies. With a cranky gov ernor like Altgeld. Chicago might have beer burned if the president had not inter fered just when he did. Instead of paying taxes as ordinary mor tals, the citizens of Kiingenberg-on-the- Main, Germany, received each 300 marks from tlie income of several factories owned by the town. The division was made after the expenses of administration had been paid by money from the same source. George It. Graham, who died in New York the other day at the age of eighty one, was the first man who ever employed Edgar A. Poe as the editor of a magazine. Graham made a fortune, lost it. and in l ite years has lived on the voluntary contribu* tions of literary men. Two Birmingham negroes have each car ried a silver quarter under their tongue for thirty-six years. They were first placed there by the men for fear their masters would find and take the money from them, and subsequently kept there because ot superstitious belief. Mr. Rider Haggard suggests regulating journalism by making a man study, pass examinations and be admitted to the profes sion, on the same system as the medical, legal and clerical professions are run. One of our contemporaries suggests that this might he a good plan, amt would doubtless raise the standard of journalism, but, while a few journalists were being made, a lot of good newspaper men would be starving to death. Chauncey Depew says: “I remember in the railway riots of 1877 an armed mob stam peded a company of forty United States sol diers commanded by a lieutenant before a shot was fired. The government, the penal ties for treason, the power to call out mil lions of soldiers and the inflexible justice of the federal courts were ißeljind that little company.” The New Orleans Times-Demoerat says of the situation at Bluefields: “The diplo matic side of the matter is a difficult one to settle, so confused and confiictfng are tlie rival interests in the reservation. There are four different interests—those of the Mosquito Indians, Nicaragua, England and.,. tlie American colonists. The late revolu tion was executed by the Jamaican ne groes, who are subjects of England, and who constitute the bulk of the population of Mosquitora, acting, however, it is said, under American leaders and urged to tlie movement by American influence, the Americans, as we have already notea, holding most of the wealth of the country and controlling it politically. Here we see, therefore, the British element, led by Anericaas, overthrowing the Nicaraguan government and re-establishing that of the Mosquito Indians. The difficulty of the situation is well shown in this one inci dent.” 1 The following narrative of continuous hiccoughing comes from Atlantic City, N. J.: “Visiting and local physicians are mani festing the greatest interest in the ease of Miss Josephine Muller, who has been hiccoughing Incessantly for the past two weeks, at the home of her stepfather, Martin Sperlein, proprietor of the Girard house. Strange to state. Miss Muller is really merry, and disposed to jest be tween the momentary spasmodic convul sions. She eats with a relish, wmen speaks well for her general physical health; her face is full, fresh, bright and cheerful, and her voice is no way suggestive of the hopeless invalid. Yet the doctor says she is bound to break down before many days, when her youthful buoyancy deserts her, and then she will collapse in a rush. Misa Muller’s father and mother both died young, the former of consumption, in his thirty-second year, and the latter in her thirty-first year, of heart failure. About a year ago she had an attack of hic coughs, which lasted three months. She is in her eighteenth year, and is particular ly bright and intelligent, speaking English, French and German fluently.” Three Kiixls of Them. From The Americus Times-Reeorder To The Times-Reeorder —I used to think I knew what a ‘‘bimetallist” was, but I don’t think that. I do now, there seem to be so many mixed breeds species. Can you give a definition of term? Re spectfully, W» W ' B ‘ H ‘ There are at present three Kinds of this animal known to naturalists, though the coming campaign may develop others. 1. There is tlie original double-jointed bi- metallist, who holds the orhtodox creed, believing that bimetallism means the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and sil ver, without discrimination, as standard money of final payment, at a ratio fixed by law. ” 11 2. There is the buy-metallist, who be lieves that the only way to keep silver money afloat at par is to buy it in or redeem it in gold obtained with bonds sold to Wail street; thus making silver coin a debt or liability of the government, instead of legal tender nfoney to pay debts with. Secretary Carlise is a buy-metallist in both theory and practice, especially m prac tice, as the fast disappearing gold reserve shows. 3. Then there is the by-and-by-metallist, who favors the coinage of silver in the sweet by and by, when England consents to permit the I’nited States to run its own government without control from Lom bard street. As the single gold standard enables England to control and manipulate the finances of the world, ami collect back two dollars principal, besides interest, for every dollar she has lent other nations, England will, of course, be delighted to forego her advantage, through an ‘‘interna tional agreement”—in the sweet by and by. The president of the United Slates is a by-and-by-metallist. G t Spoon 3J Hnve you not «cen them? Subscribe for Tlie 'Weekly < otisl it us ton lit once ano g«'t right in tlie push. Tlioasunils iif them will go tilts month. Send in y.mr orders nt once mill avoid the de lays which may crowd upon u.i later. A THE MISSING rinu WORD. Tlie present sentence will run for two months instead of one. as litre- To Sept. Lst An interesting; Contest In Which Tln'- cry body i*ns the Same Chance. The Missing Word competition craze is tlie latest fad in England. It is- exciting tlie whole country, and hundreds o, vbousands of people are racking their brains for miss ing words. Several London weeklies have started what they call “missing word competi tions,” and the craze has affected all Eng land to such an extent as to biock the money ord r ofiic*?, and embarrass the whole postal service. The scheme is this; A sentence is printed every week from which one word is omitted; for instance, “Smith is a ” and people are invited to send in their guess with a money order for a shilling. The money sent in is divided among the guessers who name the correct word.' A few weeks ago one paper distrib uted $35,000 among forty-three correct guess ers, each man receiving over SBOO for his shilling. The money order blanks have all been used up at many postoffices, the mails are clogged and clubs have been organized to go into the guessing nuslness. 8!» CONSTITUTION KEAIIEHS. The Constitution makes this proposition: Among those who supply the missing word in the following sent - nee between now and the l' t id S ptember, 1891, we will divide one fourth of the subscription receipts of all those who send guesses with their subscrip tions. . , , This leaves us the bare and actual cost of furnishing the paper to subscribers for the year. THE SENTENCE. “He crept to this place and waited a fa vorable opportunity. It came at once, for the keen ears of tlie guard heard some un usual sound as Thurabi crouched behind Supplv tiie missing word in the above sentence and if you guess the correct word you will share with the others who are as fortunate one-fourth of the receipts from the subscriptions of all those who guess. THE GUARANTEE. No one knows the word missing except the managing editor, who has placed it in a sealed envelope and which will be opened on Sept. Ist. We pledge our honor that the division will be made and published just as outlined. 'IHE PROSPECT. Suppose 5,009 guesses were made. This would leave $1,250 as one-fourth of th« subscription receipts, for so many names to be divided among the successful guess ers. Supposing ten persons guessed the word, this would give them $125 each; if twenty, $62.50, etc. Suppose there are 10,600 guesses—which is not improbable—this may give from SIOO to SSOO each to the success ful guessers. Checks will be mailed imme diately after September Ist CONDITIONS AND IN DI CEMENTS. The terms of tlie contest are few and slm- P'l' Every guess must be accompanied by one year's subscription to The Weekly Con stitution, sent, to any address at sl. 2. The sender of a club of five at $1 each, for one year, is entitled to a free paper one year and also a guess. 3. With every subscription the missing word should be written plainly, with the name and address of the guesser. It is not necessary to rewrite the sentencq—simply write the word and label it “the missing word for September Ist,” •1. Renewal subscriptions are entitled to guesses iusi ns new subscribers. Remember that you get the greatest aha best of all American newspapers for everv guess. You cannot do without Tha C n nsHtution for 1891. address all communi cations tQ I.'Hffi'CONSrTfTTT(W. Atlanta, Ga.

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The Atlanta constitution. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, July 23, 1894, Page 6, Image 6