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6 TJjE GOHSTITUTIOfi CLARK HOWELL Editor ROBY ROBINSON Business Manager l ,n,ere ‘l the Atlant* FaatofTice *■ Second Yia=S Mail Mutter, Met. 11, 1873. THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, only St net annum. Clubs of five. $| each; Hub? of t?n, SI each and a copy to getter-up of club. WAtfT YOU—The Constitution wants an agent at every postoffice in America. Agent’s outfit free and good terms. Jf you are not in a club, we want yon to act as agent at your office. Write u«. CHANGE OF ADDRESS-When ordering ad dress of your paper changed always give the old as well as the new address. Always give postoffice, county and state. Jf your paper ?• not received regularly, notify us and we will straighten the matter. JF YOU SEND US AN ORDER for new sub scribers. please allow us a week to get the names on the list and paper started before you write a complaint, as we are very much ciowded now. DO NOT FORGET tn make your renewals In time. Watch your direction tag and see when your subscription expires. The next six month wld be full of interest, and you should not miss a single copy of The Con stitution. kjcnd your orders a* least a week in advance to make sure. It may not r fiko a week In every instance, as we use the greatest diligence to get them on our mail ing list. Should Be No Further Delay. The net increase in taxable values of Georgia as shown by the county di gests is $22,157,102. To this will be added an increase in the property re turns of the railroads approximating $2,500,000, not including the franchise returns. With this information at hand, the governor and comptroller general need only to know the results of the arbitrations upon franchise valua tions to enable them to fix the tax rate for the state. It is sincerely to be hoped that, there will be no un necessary dela.v in the completion of these arbitrations. The present de lay serves to draw attention io one of the many weak points < f the arbi tration system—that which restricts the comptroller general to the mem bers of the railway commission in making his selection of arbitrators for the state. While this plan may not have placed an unusual amount of work upon these three gentlemen in the past, the enactment of the Iran- I chise tax law has brought ou so many arbitrations that it is almost a phys ical impossibility tor the members of the commission tocomplete their work in the short time desired, even were no obstacles in their way. The fact is. however, that they have : no power t > hurry the other arbitra tors. One result of the workings of this system, as seen just now, is that with I the time lor fixing the tax rate at hand, not one of the arbitrations of the large properties has been com pleted. It may be that these can be hurried without jeopardizing the in terests of the state, hut it would have been very much better had it been possible for arbitrators to have been selected without putting all this labor upon the members of the commis sion, as then one arbitration would not have to await the disposition of others. ■Whatever the cause, it is to be hoped that all concerned will cooper ate with the governor and the comp troller gener.il in I ringing an early settlement of these maters in dispute, so there may be no delay in the fixing of the tax rate. Even without awaiting the fran chise arbitrations, it is now certain that the tax rate lor the next year will be loss than 5 mills on the dollar —a most gratifying showing and a highly credit able record lor Governor Terrell's ad minis! rat ion. The Constitution and the Flag. It has been fully sett led by the de cision. five to four, of the supremo court bench, that the lonstituiiou of the United States does not follow the flag—the ensign of the national au thority. That settles the fa< t. that we have a dual form of government— half republican and half imperial— I ‘'half horse and half alligator.” Which ever way w. turn to escape that con viction the ease is labeled "stare de cisis,” for under lb ’ majority rub the judges make as binding law from the supreme bench as the entire nine could make in concert. Another and higher question is ■whether the constitution remains with the flag at home? It is notorious with all mon who observe am! think that the republican party has as little re gard for the limitations of the con stitution here in the United States as it has for it win n appealed to by the Porto Ricans or the Filipinos. No man can truthfully deny that the republican party has established in this country those perpetuities and monopolies which are unconstitution al. The party itself confesses the charge in its masquerade warfares against its own creations. It.; Sher man anti-trust law. its grand stand resolutions in conventions and its wild colt demonstrations by the president and the somnambulistic Knox are all substantial evidences that it has done unconstitutional tilings and is now Impotent to undo them because bound by the cords of its own iniquities. That it would like exceedingly to crusade against the south and deprive a number of our states of their con stltuiional representation is not dis putable. But the negro is the only in strument they can use for such an unholy end. And just now the negro is not available to them. He has turned up through the wrong trap door and performed in northern com munities in away to make it foregone that no pro-negro campaign can arouse much enthusiasm anywhere west of the Bill Garrison bronze effigy in the Back Bay district of Boston. The constitution requires governors of the states to deliver up indicted fu gitives from justice; but the republi can party’s governor in Indiana re fuses to deliver ex-Goverr.or Taylor to the Kentucky authorities for trial on an indictment ar particeps criminis in the murder of his elected successor. Other republican governors, including Roosevelt of New York, guaranteed this same fugitive free passage through their states in order that he might go as a delegate from Kentucky to Philadelphia and vote for the nom inations of McKinley and Roosevelt. And these are but sample bricks out | of the pedestal on which the repub lican party stands. Were there not scores of other instances to cite these three should be enough to incite the great majority of Americans against the further dominancy of the nation by that party. Its contempts for the constitution make pertinent the ques tion we ask: What kin is the constitu tion to the flag, anyhow? Editor Burnett’s Crusade. Every respectable negro and every ' genuine friend of the negro race should applaud the action of Editor Burnett, of The Atlanta New Era, in inaugurating a crusade against the worthless and criminal of his race. If he shall succeed in awakening any number of the lespeetable, intelligent negro citizens to a realization of the duty they owe Io themselves and to society by inducing them to join in the prosecution of the vicious and worthless, he will earn for himself an honored place upon the roll of real leaders of his people. The action of Editor Burnett in causing the arrest of a woman who was acting in a disorder!}’ and unlaw ful manner upon the street, and in appearing as prosecutor against her, deserves the highest commendation. There is nothing truer than that one of the heaviest handicaps from which the good negroes of the south have suffered —perhaps the heaviest, handi cap of all —has been the practice of the race, taken as a whole, in assum ing responsibility for the acts of the criminal by furnishing them shelter and protectio i in their efforts to es cape from the officers of the law. While there have, of course, been isolated instances to the contrary, the rule has been that negroes have joined to protect any negro charged with crime and to prevent his cap ture and prosecution rather than to aid. as the white man does, the au thorities in their efforts to see that the ends of justice are met. In al most every instance, the so-called race wars have been directly due to peaceable and naturally peace-loving negroes allowing themselves to be used by bad negroes who, to protect themselves from the consequences of their crimes, have appealed to racial prejudices. The thinking men of the negro race have long seen that this failure of the negroes themselves to differentiate between the good and the bad among them is at the bottom of most, if not nil. of then’ troubles. The good ne groes, and the race taken as a whole, have suffered greatly. There can be no uplifting of the race, no real de velopment of good citizenship, until the substantial and God-fearing join in not only drawing the line sharply against tiie worthless and the vicious, but in giving the authorities every possible aid in bringing the criminal to ju-tice. Negro preachers and ne gro teacher 1 have seen this and talk ed it. but there has been too little action. Editor Burnett comes to the front as o’ . who believes in showing his faith by his works; and now that he has lead the way, it is sincerely to be hoped ho will have the hearty cooperation of all good negroes. Ihe time for action upon these lines is particularly opportune. The enactment of the new vagrancy law by rhe general assembly furnishes the means by which worthless vagabonds, as well as criminals, can be reached. These vagabonds arc parasites living upon the industrious of their race even when they are not open law-breakers, and their presence is an incubus from which the race has suffered in the past, and is suffering, greatly. Under the operations of this law. those who will not work can be made to work —either for themselves or on the chaingangs. Th south furnishes the opportunity for honest, labor to every man, and those who will not take ad vantage of such opportunities, be they white or black, should be made to work by the process of law, and the new vagabond act affords the method by which it can be done. The white men of Georgia are go ing to sei' that this law is strictly enforced against the worthless on their side of the color line; the good negroes—and they are certainly in the majority can do no better work for their race than in following up the work started by Editor Burnett by prosecuting, not only the criminal ainong them, but the worthless vaga bonds who are constantly bringing disgrace upon their race. Colombia and the Canal. In the absence of more explicit de tails, it is fair to assume that the an nounced “rejection” of the canal treaty by the senate at Bogota does not necessarily mean that Colombia intends to break off all negotiations with tin government of the United States. In all probability that rejec tion will be found qualified by subse quent developments. The interests of Colombia in having the canal con structed through the isthmus of Pan ama is too great to permit the failure of a canal treaty in some shape. The rejection reported is probably of the terms set out in the treaty as negotiated. There has been strong opposition throughout the United States of Colombia to some of the features of that treay, but even the most unfriendly reports from Bogota have not presaged the absolute rejec tion of any treaty. The Colombian senate has the same right to amend that is lodged in the United States senate as a part of the treaty-making power of our government. The most likely method of procedure, therefore, is for the senate now in session to amend the convention so as to make it comport with the ideas of a ma jority of that body. If this is done in good faith, and if the amendments are of a character likely to meet the approval of this government or to serve as basis for a mutual understanding, President Roosevelt can submit the amended treaty to the senate when congress convenes in extra session. That is not a long way off, and the delay in volved would probably not be ma terial. The president is, however, clothed with full authority, should he see fit I'.ULE WKKKXtX <DUIWXJ.'AMO-NBAY. AUGUST -4, liw.,. to exercise it, to break off the nego tiations with Colombia and renew ne gotiations with Nicaragua and Costa 1 Rica for the construction of a canal i by the Nicaragua route. If the action of the Colombian con gress is such as to leave the way open i for further negotiations calculated to I bring an agreement, the president will doubtless submit, the matter to the United States senate, which will act. in accordance with the later develop ments. If, however, there is no proba bility of the acceptance of the Colom bian amendments, if these .are antag onistic to the principles upon which the original treaty was constructed, the duty of the president is plain. He must start things going for a canal through Nicaragua. Coming Back to Dixie. Reliable railway authorities along the border report that there is a very pronounced increase of negro travel from the north to the south. This is a fact that, according to common understanding of conditions north and south, ought, to be other wise. In the north the negro has so many friends whose chief business is to inform him how badly he is treat ed in the south; who are so eager to make him feel that he is the equal of themselves, their sons and daugh ters; and who feel so honored when he condescends to oat and drink with them, that it becomes interesting even if not. important to know why the negro Is emigrating from such Canaan-like conditions. As a carload of these negroes land ed here in Georgia a few days ago, hailing from Illinois, our natural im pulse is to ask the esteemed Chicago Tribune to betray to us the genesis of this exodus from its state? There are not many states in the union where the governor would set a state dinner for negro militia officers, as Governor Yates did not many weeks ago. Os course he knew, for he is no yellowhammor politician, that this negro dining in the Illinois governor’s mansion would be immensely popular, or he would not have followed the wal nuts and the wine of the feast by an nouncing his candidacy for reelection to the governorship. Now, as ne groes cannot hope to ever take pot luck in the state mansion in Georgia, wo wonder why these negroes left Il linois and came back to a southern state, where the negro knows his place. Perhaps The Tribune can give us the correct explanation. Another Instance was the return of several families of colored people to North Carolina, after ten years’ resi dence in Boston. They explained that they had only gone to Boston to get free education for their children for nine months in the year, instead of the three months available to them in North Carolina. As one of the negro men naively expressed it: "We’ve jest bin foragin’ on dem Yan kees fer de schoolin’ o’ ouali chil dern!” But that does not sound plausible enough to adequately justi fy their final abandonment of Boston’s ineffable love for God’s queerest crea tion —a black man who is the equal, and in Boston the unqualified supe rior, of a white man. Taking the Boston viewpoint, we are really puz zled to know why God made any white men at all, ami especially the kind that make Boston a negro coddling ground. But The Boston Herald keeps a man who can always easily explain such riddles and we respectfully apply to him to tell why any negro should prefer North Car olina to Beacon Hill baked beans and Commonwealth avenuue boudoirs? The magna charta of human rights begins with the right to life and life is ensued by the arts of bread win ning. In the north the negro finds fewer chances for breadwinning than in the south. The negro in Boston Is confined to a few menial employments and barred by custom and trades un ions from scores of skilled and well paid employments that ho can and profitably follow in the south. Still we should think the average ne gro would prefer to do menial labors in the north for the sake of mouth work of love done over him by poli ticians, polyangtilar old bluestocking girls and pulpiteers who know only the gospel of injustice of the south.— . 4* Cotton and Frost. A question of no little interest is raised in the course of the discussion of cotton possibilities in Egypt and Cuba. Can cotton bo grown successfully where there is no frost? An old-timer, writing from Florida to The New York Sun, quotes John C. Calhoun as having declared, in a mas terly speech in the United States sen ate, that "cotton cannot be successful ly—that is, profitably—raised where there is no frost." The writer, who describes himself as an octogenerian, says he has long been a southern farmer and he has learned that Mr. Calhoun’s dictum is true. The cost of eliminating the last year’s foliage, unaided by frost, is, he declares, too great to make the cul ttire of cotton under such circum stances profitable. Is this true? •— That Same Old Turk? It does seem possible for modern civilized powers to come to some agreement by which the further ser vices of the sultan of Turkey might be dispensed with. He has been the eye-sore and the bone in the gorge of humanity for generations and a time has surely come when duty to God and mankind demands his dethrone ment and the cessation of his suc cession. If it be objected t hat the maintenance of the porte is the core of a truce that supports the peace of Europe; that to abolish it would involve a struggle between the powers of the eastern continent, to control the stra tegic values of the now neutral buffer state of Turkey, that objection can be disposed of by another Berlin con gress and treaty from which, the rep resentatives of the interested powers can return to their capitals announc ing, as Beaconsfield did in 1878, that they “return bearing peace with hon or.” Such a congress of the powers could demand the abdication of Abdul Hamid, decree that the Turkish dy nasty is at an end and substitute for the government an administrative commission so adjusted as to main tain the equities between the powers, guarantee peace and prosperity to the Turks themselves and so remove from the circle of Christian civilization a monster of intolerable character. The riot at is due to be read be fore the Yldiz palace and a transport should be easily provided to take the old rascal to some twentieth century St. Helena. Taft and the Philippines. The president’s tender of the war portfolio in his cabinet to Governor Taft has naturally given rise to wide speculation over the probability of the acceptance of that, important post by the man who has made the civil gov ernment in the Philippines an accom plished fact. When Governor Taft de clined the proffer of a place upon the supreme court, it was taken for grant ed that nothing could tempt him from his present, post unless it was the chief justiceship of that court, to which exalted position he has a right to aspire. But several considerations which did not then outer into the situ ation scorn likely to influence hint to accept the war secretaryship. One of these is his health. Govern or Taft has been in the tropics long enough. He has, upon more than one occasion recently, shown that the strain of work near the equator is tell ing upon him, and the warnings he has received are of a character not to be disregarded. This, however, may bo taken as the consideration least likely to sway a man who has shown himself ready to make every sacrifice of ambition and personal convenience in order to carry forward the groat work to which ho lias been chosen. The fact that civil government must by this time be so firmly established and in such good working order that his presence is no longer essential to the peace and de velopment of the islands, and, especial ly, the fact that the office of secretary of war would furnish him the oppor tunity to see carried into effect those policies which he deems necessary for the success of the American adminis tration of those islands of the Orient, are the considerations most likely to influence his acceptance. As secretary of war, Governor Taft would be in a position to do more to promote the right, government of the islands that in the position he now holds. He would be a greater influ ence in shaping the policy of the ad ministration and, as such, better able to prevent the domination of the civil branch out there by the military. He has won the confidence of all elements, native and foreign, rb a degree which could hardly be attained by any suc cessor to the governorship and in this respect the elimination of his person ality from the immediate scene would be a loss; but this loss would certain ly bo more than offset by the gain to all interests of having him at the head of the war department, where he would have, practically, the final deci sion in all matters affecting the Phil ippines. If Governor Taft does accept, the place in th, cabinet tendered hint, it vvill doubtless bo duo to (his higher consideration rather than to any per sonal ambition. From the standpoint of Philippines peace anil prosperity. It is to Ito hoped ho will consent to be come the successor of Secretary Root. For Good Roads. The promptness with v. ill' ll the com missioners cif a. number of counties have made application for convicts to be worked cm the reads speaks elo quently of the. popularity of the new law. I p to Thursday thirteen counties have filed with the prison commission formal application lor the quota to be assigned them. In a number of other counties the officials have Ute matter under consideration, and there is every indication that by the time the new law, making the short-term con victs available for this purpose, goes into effect, the full number will be applied for. in this way the first real impetus to systematic road building will be given in Georgia. With nearly eight hun dred felony convicts being worked upon the roads, and with this force supplemented by the misdemeanor con victs in the different counties, the good roads movement will become a reality in the state. When the new law shall have been in operation long enough to show tan gible results in the line of scientifical ly constructed highways, it. will, we feel confident, find such favor with the people that the next step will be Hit' use on the roads of the convicts with sentences as high as ten years, instead of being restricted to the men sent up for five years and less, as the law now provides; and ultimately Georgia will use all, save perhaps her life convicts ami those of notedly des perate character, upon her roads, until the state shall lie covered with such a uet-work of good roads as will carry the blessings of prosperity to the rural communities of every county. The new law has come to stay. Its popularity lias already been demon strated, notwithstanding the dire pre dictions of some of its opponents. Back to the Plantation. There is an undoubtedly growing tendency in the south to go back to the old plantation system of agricul ture that prevailed before the war. It has been found that the negroes are not fitted, even after the experi ence of a third of a century, to be come reliable landed proprietors un der the small farm system. They are not equipped with the means, scien tific intelligence and habits that are the essentials for making such farms productive to their highest possibili ties and so the negro tenant and pro prietor farmers are always in debt, under mortgage, disappointed them selves and the agents of disappoint ment to their landlords and cred itors. Most of them know little else than cotton-raising and their lack of thrift in that is too conspicuous to be ignored. Scarcely one in twenty of them produce as much of a crop inde pendently as lie would produce un der hire and intelligent superintend ence. On the other hand, it has been demonstrated within the past few years that large tracts of land can be consolidated under competent, man agement and worked with hired la borers at a minimum of expense and larger profits than by any form of tenant and crop-sharing system. A time is coming when even farming will be a corporation field and com panies will be formed to hold and cul tivate cotton, corn and wheat as they have been formed and used success- fully to raise sugar cane, tobacco and cattle. The mechanism of money-making is delicate and moves on wheels made of dollars. It grinds recklessly and remorselessly. And it is not much longer to be kept out of the vast cot ton fields of the south. Here was an industry, one of the best in the world, that the negro might have easily mo nopolized as his own had lie been wisely guided into industries after emancipation instead of being lugged into politics and notions of social equality. But. his chance has been neglected anil the crowns of independ ence he might have wrought arc sure to be worn later on by a smaller con tingent of “farmer kings.” The large incorporated plantation will be a novel and surprising in stance of combination. It will raise cotton for its surplus crop and food stuffs for self-support. It will gin its own cotton, express its own seed-oil, use its own hulls and meal for cattle feed and fertilizers, and manufacture its own crop and gin-lint in its own factory. It will market “olive oil.” beef cattle and various grades of cot ton goods. Nothing will be neglected —nothing wasted. Those who have figured on the feasibility and returns of cotton en terprises thus organized and operated are sanguine that the future will wit ness a rapid organization of incorpor ated plantations and that when these have multiplied until their power is supreme in the field the south will prosper beyond every dream and bo no longer at the mercy of speculators, eastern mill-owners or foreign tteom petitors—and the rural labor problem will be fully solved. Conger and Prince Ching. The intrinsic value of the promise which Prince Ching is reported to have given Minister Conger may be aptly described as a questionable quantity. As usual there is a string attached to every development in the Manchu rian controversy. This time it comes in the form of a time allowance, the head of Chinese foreign affairs having given the American minister some sort of a promise that on October 8— a date conveniently in the future—a treaty shall be signed guaranteeing that two Manchurian ports shall be “open.” On October B—providing B—providing there is no extension of time, providing the Russian authorities do not interpose objections, providing the dowager em press does not change her mind, pro viding—well, many other things. All these conditions may not be set forth in the “written promise” Prince Ching is reported to have given Min ister Conger, but that, they were bus ily at work in his celestial mind when he attached his official signature to that note there can be no doubt. Minister Conger is clearly up against a heads-I win-tails-you-loso proposition in these Manchurian nego tiations, the other fellow holding tho winning end. First, China says she is willing, but that Russia, being in pos session of Manchuria, is the govern ment to consult. Russia replies that she has nothing to do with it, as the country belongs to China, not to tho czar. China suggests that, this may be the case in theory, but it is certain ly not in fact; tlrwn Russia retorts that as she has said her stay in Man churia is only temporary, nobody has a right to question her promises or her intentions. It. being up to China again, there is more squirming and pro testing. Finally Minister Conger thinks ho has obtained something substantial, but despite his reports the uncertain ties of the situation remind one most forcibly of those surrounding the hero of the vaudeville classic, who was Off again. On again. Gone asaln. Finnegan. We will believe tiiose Manchurian ports have been opened only when we see them. Not an Easy Mark. There is concern in the heart of Tho Now York Sun lest democrats conduct their next presidential campaign on tho theory that the inevitable candi date of Mo repv.olican party is some thing easy. The Sun will, of course, be found supporting that candidate, though at present it loses no opportunity of shieing a. brick at the passing Roose veiißii she 1 . . But witness tho fol lowing quotation from The Nashville American, which appears in the col umns of its New Yora contemporary: Unbalanced, unreliable, full of self, empty of prudence, of knowledge, of dis cretion, of tho comprehension of the laws of nations, of the laws of his own coun try, of even the little social laws, Mr. Roosevelt is a failure. Is that not pal pable. Must we needs butt our heads against a plainer proposition to take cog nizance of this all 100 apparent national misfortune? Must there be yet a greater one? And yet the republicans have already committed themselves to this man's re election, or rather a number of them have. States have instructed for him, conventions have indorsed him and for what? In the happy appreciation amt enjoyment of our wondrous prosperity have any of us stopped to think for what good or gain we owe Mr. HooseveJt? Is it not all 'Ju- reverse? What democrat can do worse? The Sun characterizes this an “in discriminating opinion” of President Roosevelt, and warns the democrats that if they are to have any reasona ble expectation of defeating that gen tleman. they nr -,t not ir ike the mis take of underestimating his political strength or his personal popularity. At the same time, however, this able representative of eastern republican thought does not overlook the oppor tunity to present this southern esti mate of the man to its many republi can readers, presumably in tho hope that it may contribute to the discom fort at Oyster Bay. “The Only Bruffey.” (From The Albany Herald.) Bruffey, the only Bruffey, who can over come more obstacles and sweep aside more objections with a mere wave of the hand than any other man in Georgia, when on the trail of a sensational news story, went to Milledgeville to get the •whole story of the whipping of Mamie De- Gris at the state prison farm, and to in terview the woman herself, and he was successful in both. Others had tried and failed, but Bruffey never fails in such emergencies. Mills Will Not Stop. Americus Times-Recordcr: The British courts refuse to recognize South Dakota divorces. Well, the Sioux Falls patent “separater” can get plenty of grist with out importing it from across the pond. {Frank <£. Stanton. The Tune of Love. What time she loveth me, I know A million roses deck the snow; What time she loveth not—ah, me! No rose in all the world may be. But heaven and earth arc- nil amiss. And in the spring the winter is! What time T glimpse the bluest skies 1 gaze deep in her smiling eyes; What time the darkest storms 1 see Is when those eyes are closed to me! But all the world is bright when she Opcneth those lovely orbs on met »#* ♦ ♦ Many modern authors are receiving monuments these days, and yet very few are anxious to get under them. ♦»* ♦ * The Coining Day. The fields will be bright with the har- vest And sorrow and sighing will cease When the land which our toil has made brighter Shall smile in the beauty of peace! if * « * * A Dream of Fall Time. Dogs a-barkin’ long en loud. Finger on de trigger; Turkey fer do white man, ’Possum fur de nigger. Run, chile, run! Keep de fire hummin’— Put de pot en griddle on,— Mister ’Possum cornin’l Dar he settin’ on de tree— How he wink en frown, sub! Shtin’ dar, a-watchin’ me:— Aint’ you cornin’ down, sub! Run, chile, run! Keep de lire hummin’! But don’t you let de preacher know Mister ’Possum cornin’ 1 ««• * ♦ Only Hungry. Hero is a merry item from The Wire grass Blade: “Two min who took dinner at Kitchens restaurant last Wednesday claim that they ate 5 pounds- of steak, 12 biscuits, 1 quart of sirup and drank 2 gallons of coffee.” The Good Time in Georgia. It’s a good time In Georgia, believers— no matter what people may say; The stars for* our dreams, and the sun shine is making the beautiful day! It’s a good time in Georgia, believers— no matter what people may say! It’s a good time In Georgia, believers no matter the clouds in the sky— Tho rainbow is there, like a ribbon, and Is shining from meadows on high! It’s still the same rainbow of promise which God in his kindness lots fall, And this beautiful thing to God’s chil dren: there’s gold at the end of it all! It’s a good time In rjporgla, believers! — See, how o'er the fields that are bright, The toilers are dreaming of harvest where tho seed has come up through the night! We are drifting from darkness to dawn ing;—no more shall the dark have us thrall:— The'rainbows of God, like a promise, have the gold at the end of ’em all! A Natural Born. Growler. “How do you like this weather?” “Not muclj. I’m ’feared it’s goln’ to rain.” "Well, how's times with you?” "Sorter so-so,—but they won't last!” “Folks all well?” "Yes; but tho measel.< is In the neigh borhood.” “Well, you orter be thankful you're a-livin’.” "Yes; but we've all got to die!” •»» « » The Unsatisfied. If a fiery heavenly chariot should come for me today I’d want to stop at stations, fakin' ice in or the way I And' landed safe in glory, I ain’t got any doubt I'd growl about the climate till the good saints turned me out! The Happy World. "How’s the. old world doin'?” 1 bet you she would say— 11’ only she could answer — "I'm happy .on the way! I'm happy with my great hills— My meadows rich with hay; Green fields and singin' rivers— I'm happy on the way! “How’s the old world doin’ In winter, cold an’ gray? Tho lonely nights are starless, An' sunshine's left the day!” But still tho brave world answers: “In winter wild, and May, I’m rollin' on to glory— I'm happy on the way!” (■**«« Good News by Wholesale. A postal card sent from Millville to one of the absent brethren, reads: “Dear Jim- Nothin’ but good news to tell you. Your crap paid off the mort gage, your brothef broke out o’ jail, an' your daddy has jest got SI,OOO out the railroad fer runnin’ over his leg. Ain't Providence providin’!” “Do po’ man cries en do Lawd hoars him,” says Brother Dickey, “but some times he cries so loud dat he distracts de angels!” Not Visible. "Any race problem whar you come funi?” "No, suit; folks in my section Is too busy tor hunt fer It!” ***** The Times A-Coming- ’Long'. The cool breeze sets me thinkin’ of the times a-comin’ 'long. When Life'll meet the music of a halle luia song! The happy time of fall, When you hear tho fiddle call. And yon balance to yer pardners till the dancin' shakes the hall! *** * • “We goes out in do worl’ ter hunt for happiness,” says Brother Diekey, “en w'en happiness slips in by »de back gate dey’s nobody ter open de do' en let him in!” Joy on the Way. Sorrow comes, but will not stay: Joy is ..whistling on the way; Every winter drcam of May: Sing it so, believers! Though the rain bo round the eyes Every rain-cloud fades and tiles; Bight is streaming from the skies:— Sing it so, believers! *** * * The Light Undying. Never a day in the world shall seem dim— Never a winter seem weary While Dove lights the skies Os my darling's bright eyes— The beautiful eyes of my dearie! Never a storm tinge the pathway with gloom— Casting its shadows so dreary: Songs for Life’s sighs In the light of her eyes— The beautiful eyes of my dearie! Sarge {Plunkett. JEFFRIES is now the heavy weight hero of every boy who reads the pa pers, and thousands of men, women and girls like to talk of the great fight just ended at the city of San Francisco. Tills same Corbett fought Fitzsimmons a few years ago and got whipped then, but those who take interest In such brutal proceedings were sorry for him then ani have clung to him as a fighter woithy their esteem till this good day. Now that he has been whipped again there will grow a contempt for his powers and Jef fries will remain the hero that he is till I a greater brute is found that ’ can knock I him out.” and then ho, too, will be rele gated til the background along with Sullß van and the rest. But the fashions of the day and thu trend of youthful minds is to magnify these pugilists into virtuous heroes, and I am no such fooi as to think of crushing out this vulgar spirit that seems to be a bond companion of the commercial idea that holds our country in Its grip. As hopeless as 1 feel of being able to ac complish much at crushing out this pugil istic sentiment, yet we should everyone strive and keep on striving to the end that a more holy and refined ambition should take possession of tho masses. Surely I have seen fights greater than, these pugilists ever fought and I have seen thousands of people, frail in physical development, whose moral courage and the moral healthfulness of their efforts made them the superiors of these pugilists In every sense of the word. Not a word of these heroes of mine or of the fights they have made have been heard in ths land, and it will be hard for me to per suade the youthful mind to give them tha thought that I know they deserve. I shall not take these heroes of mine or their fights in the order they occurred, for even since I began to write there hax a gone by two young girls that call to my mind the great fight of a noble widow who lives not very far from where we live. These girls arc the remaining un married daughters of this good widow, and to look upon them and know their characters as we know them is enough, to proclaim the victory of this mother in I the fight she has made so much higher and hollier than that of Jeffries at San Francisco that a comparison would be odious and a sacrilege. ’J his widow s fight, which has preserved to the world tha priceless character of these gins, is worth more than all the “gate money” and al) the “winnings” and all the glory of every prize ring that ever occurred or that ever will occur, though they should be popu larized and softened by gloves to relieve their brutishness for a thousand years. The fight that this good widow has made to make and keep her family what it is has been known by many, many people, and yet I doubt if she has ever received the plaudits of a single individual in recognition of her bravery, her fortitude and her example to the world, or caused a passing thought from the fashionable world on the great blessing to the world of which her children give such promise. When left all alone with three little daughters and bowed down in sorrow for tho loss of her husband, this good widow went to work as never a pugilist has worked, as never a baseballist has work- I ed, as never a devotee of the races has worked, and as frail as she was she re ceived buffets from the world without flinching that would have caused the strong frames of Jeffries or Corbett or Sullivan or Fitzsimmons to quiver from the contact, not to mention the mental anguish she suffered that the prize ring has never known nor could “sporting” circles understand. She heard those little girls cry for bread when she had not bread to give them. Did ever pugilists suffer like this? She tended them with a mother's love through sorrow and through gladness and worked, worked. She worked till the blis ters on her hands would burst and dye her fingers with the crimson blood, but on and on she worked. She smothered tho sobs that were almost breaking her heart, but on she worked, chaste, brave, dutiful. Never was there a "sport” so grand as she and never a "sport” with such a weight of sorrow. No whirl of excitement was ever with this widow to stimulate and agg her on. There were no such cheers as came from the prize ring to ever greet her ears. She had no ambitions that took her from her duty-. She simply worked and stuck to duty and by these and that mother love, which is past finding out, she fought a fight that, pugilist has never known and won a victory which has given to tho world a blessing In the character of her daughters that Is beyond and above all t o prize, rings of the world or tha "win nings” of all the pugilists. I have simply mentioned this one widow -thousands in this land could be mention ed who are just as deserving as she. but they are not mentioned. It Is a strange thing to me that human nature is su -h that these real heroines, and heroes as well, do not make such impressions as tn cause their names and their deeds to bo flaunted before the world. The colonels and generals and honorables and gov ernors and senators seem to impress tho average mind that these are all tho on-s that should be made large and have hon ors thrust upon them when we are look ing for our ideals of masculine superiori ty, while the leaders of the fads, tho dressers in tho fashion, the splendid singer, or fine musician, are the ones ■ « select when out for our ideals of femin', a superiority. This should not be so. I.ast Wednesday' me and Brown traveled in a buggy through the portion of our county known as “Arabia." Just why name of "Arabia” was given to this region Is lost in tho ravages of time and the confusion of memories, but it Is just ?> i a section and peopled with the people that suits my purpose here. There yet remain in this section many old people who fought wolves and pan thers and wildcats, and felled the forest, with a gun standing against the near. A tree to be ready for any emergency, and when [ heard them tell of those pioneer days it struck me that the world I '■» never produced a breed tho equal of tic -e men and women who settled this Imd Their hard hands, made hard from a splitting of rails and the cutting down f tiie forest, and those quick eyes win a have not yet lost their quickness, f' < m there now. in ths seventies and close to the eighty mark, can shoot a squirrel the eye from the tallest pines or poplars. As I contemplated these and consider"* 1 their peaceful achievements, it struck n'* that such as these are the ones to in 'll* large and magnify upon the honor i 'il ! Georgia’s great men, and tiie blessed women who yet remain to remind - the courage that protected the hab. i’> the cradle while the man was in the ii 1 ’ 1 '! and spun and wove the clothes, cooked the meals and blessed the world in th* children they gave it—these are my he roes; these are my heroines, and may tb* good Lord bless them and set us b i i< t 0 the example they set. They are greater than pugilists, greater than the leaders >f fads—brave champions for the best in morals, for the home and for God. SARG E PLUNKETT. Sunny Stanton. (From The Snarks Enterprise.) Frank L. Stanton is the "Sunny Jim' of Georgia journalism. There is a ray of sunshine and a sparkling drop of dew in every poem he writes.