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6 government case, or in a suit by or Igsinst a non-resiSsnt. because of the failure of duty on the part of the jury. The jurors, composed as they are Irani fba best class of Southern manhood, have invariably done their duiy re gardless of every consideration save the evidence and the law. Os course there have been seasons of great politi cal excitement when even good men 10.-e the tol»rance and mental equipoise Which characterizes the majority of iu:r people, but in this respect there has been great improvement. No less could be expected of a considerate and appreciative people. When in the an nals of time was there ever heretofore presented the spectacle we dally see where men who but a few years ago I yxerted every energy of mind and body | so disrupt and deitroy the government, Who were defeated, not only find such : Itfort condoned and themselves re ttored to all the rights of citizenship, iiit actually for nearly a quarter of a lentury are entrusted with the duty of | governing. Representatives and sena- members of the cabinet, justices I >f the supreme court, judges of the lircuit and district courts; in fact, Itiices of every class of trust and re iponsibilty connected with the govern- I uent have been confidently and wisely ' Intrusted by the nation to southern Beu who were Confederate soldiers. If 1 there is any parallel in the history of | ibe world for this trustful magnanim- ! ty on the part, of a nation, it ha* : Wholly escaped my attention Such ’ jonditten* would only be possible to , lhe generosity of a government re iponsive to the hearts of a noble peo- ■ fie. One government has lavished ipon southern harbors and southern ftihlic buildings millions of the peo- ; fle’s money. We may see hard by its i loble contribution to this exposition. I It has come swiftly to our aid when; kestileuce threatened our borders. It has afforded the most graceful recog-J sit-ion to the undoubted loyalty of the louthern people. Os these gallant vus tei* which proudly bear the stars and i •tripes on the waters of every ocean, ! ihe Montgomery, the Raleigh and the) Atlanta are sister ships with the Min neapolis, the Cincinnati and the New I York. Our Soutnern people know and appro- : liate those facts, and let not military | power of this American Union, fall to sstimntethe full fighting strength of »bc non who wore the grey and the sons of ihelr blood. When on a memorable oc- Mwion, not long ago, the president of the United States proclaimed that be would reply to an insult to the American tlsir with the gnus of the American fleet, they who cheered him until the pictured telling of the capital trembled with their plaudits, were men who bad woru the ! {ray, and rallied to the battle riven ban ner of the Confederacy. Sir, when the time shall come, and come it must, when America will need the help of nil her sons, the men who wore the gray and their sons will la 1 no laggards then. With the fiery swiftness of Jackson’s corps, as it swept through tho wood at Cbancellorsville, with the cool courage and deadly aim with which Johnston held tho slopes at Kennesaw, with the constancy and the heroism when starv ing and shivering the incomparable army of Northern Viri'i in manned the lines at Petersburg, nrd with the rebel veil smiting the sulphurous air of battle, trne and gellant c-ntundea they will boar the gorgeous ensign of our country far Into the ranks of the too, ns will the Grand Array of the Republic, and the intrepid youth of the North. But our mission la to speak of the methods of peace, and not war. Surprising as t,he statement may soem to be unhnformed, the people of the South are diillncttivcly a religious people. That noblest of cru.»ades for temperan-e inspired by the Cathciio church of America, its venerated and illustrious clergy finds enthusiastic support with the people and the churches of thia state. They are n temperate people, mid are friends of temperance. Georgians remember the Babbath day to keep it holy, and in the enforcement of the law they make it eti nniyqu Xxjego cecxtehle to persons who hate nr.i its fear itt their eyes. Tho students of the lute war will recall how many battles take their tames from the churche.- of a pious, rural peo ple—Bhfloh, Bethel, New Hope and a multitude of others. No matt will long bold a representative station in the politics of tills state, if he is either immoral or intemperate or law less. In |>e country the entire population as sembles when there is preaching at the unpretentious churth, and woe be unto those “bigglty’’youths who attempt to attract attent ion by misbehavior there. The next session of the grand jury wiil certainly present them tor “disturbing a congregation of persons lawfully as sembled for divine service,” mid the prisoner may as well plead guilty, tor conviction is certain. So, too. with “keeping open a tippling house ou the Sabbath.” So, too, with pursuing one’s ordinary avocation, or rou sing freight trains on the Sabbath day. That true American, Theodore Mooavelt, may well study Georgia tfceth otis. Tim church people are reso lute friend* of law and order. But they ere noted fi r their tolerance and liberal ity of spirit. Denominational bitterness is unknown. The magnetic and Rever end Bam Jours recently illustrated this before a great aud enthusiastic Georgia congregation. ‘I hope," su'd be, "to sue all the denominations racing on the way to salvation, I hope to see the Methodists, and the Episcopalians, and the Ca'holios, and >bo Presbyterians as If on train* ou parallel lines of railroad, tho sacred engineers wi h bands on the throttle, and the sanctified fltomeu shov elling in cdjl tp speqd the happy passen, gers as crowded trains glide along the gleaming rails and the dear old Baptists with bands playing and colors firing, With shouts of joy and hope swiftly fronting up the river ou a steamboat." ltd<ed rhe Georgians b*d early religious example* of the loftiest character. White Oglethorpe himself the nt. st lov able and romantic character was In charge of ’he first colony, there camo to Georgia three clergymen of tho Church el kngitnd whose names and memory are known and honored throughout the world. Os Jnljn Wesley, the eldest and most influential of the**, I tu-y say in the lautiiago of Mttanlav. ‘'Ho was a nian whose oloqiieuue ana logical acute ntM might have mads him eminent In literature, whose genius for government wssnot Inferior to that of Richelieu, and whe whatever his errors might have been, devoted all his powers, in defiance of ob loquy and derision to what he stncerely considered the big-best good of Ute spe cies." It is computed that in bis minis try of fifty three years he traveled 235, ■ COO miles and preached 4.500 sermons. The Reverend William Bacon Stephens •n b«s history of Georgia states that John Wcaiey, in the parish of Christ church, Savaunalr, had cstabliahed a fun fl >*y school fifty years before Robert Kaikes originated ilia noble scheme of Bunday Instruction in Glouocster. Eng land, and eighty years before the Sunday school of Mr. Balkes' plan was establish ed hr the city of New fork. The little baud of thli ty persons who on Sunday waning’ after service, used to meet at tire rector’s hquwe in Savannah, win the founders of the Metiodlst churpti, and baa Uvjfe W -td age and nation to nation, uadi the name of Wee ey is known and cherished all over tee Christian world, and tho earth has been girdled by the lore feasts of bis followers. Os Charles Wester, the ' second of this triumvirate it may be said that the lyrical power and sweetness of - his hymns contributed incalculably to I the groat religious movement in the last sad the present century. What Geor- I gian h«s not felt the charm of this lyrical rapture. Who has ever attended an old fashioned Georgia cvtnp meeting with out feeling bl- sou! stir within him, I especially at night, as the outburst of enug worship rolled away in waves of melody through the aisles of the for- ; , cats, or s~ellcd up to heaven in thun- . der* ot triumphant adoration. But the third, George Whitfield, possessed a Heart that kindled other souls w ‘h the j fire of his own conviction and awaken- | ed them to a higher Consciousuees of religion and duty. He was a born ora tor, and the most successful and won derful preacher that England or America ever saw. When shut out of ' the churches of London, he preached on Kensington common to multitudes that no churoh could hold. He received :in one week a thousand letters from persona convicted of sin by his ser mon* In Lady Huntington’s chapel he was listened to with admiration by the most noted men of his time, the eider Pitt, afterward Lord Chatham, David Hume, the historian, Robert ; Walpole, who for so many years cou- ' trolled the policy of England, and tho [Earl of Chesterfield. Os Whitfield ; Lord Bolingbroke said: “He is the ‘ most extraordinary inan of our times. He has the mostcoitimandingelnquence ; 1 ever heard." It is related of him that he preached in St. Bartholomew’s Fatr, and the monote banks and merry an ' drew*, and the acrobats, stilt-walkers ; and theatrical booths of the Midway of that day were deserted to hear Whit field preach the gospel, and multitudes who seemed foredoom--d to New Gate and Tyburn were plucked as brands from the burning. The Bethesda Or phanage founded by him in Savannah still exists, and bis name in the new I as iu the old world ‘Ji as the previous odev shed Ob consecrated Aaron’s bend." Who oan doubt that the presence in ' I Georgia of one hundred and fifty-one ; thousand live hundred Methodists aud ! one hundred and sixty-three thousand Baptists, is, in a large part, due to the impetus to religious thought imparted bv these inspired missionaries of Christ. We are, my countrymen, trustee for I humanity, the trust is free government, and the beneficiaries of that trust are ' our fellow men everywhere. For my self 1 do not doubt that the American people will be worthy of their trust. It is true that never in the past did there meet so many different, races on to broad nn arena. It is true that mu! titudes of those who seek our shores to better tbc.ir condition have no con ception of i >e character ot our govern ment and therefore no devotion for the inntitutiona of free men, and tlds is one of our greatest dangen.. Our re sponsibilities are tremendous, bnt we must iu the future as in past see to it ibrt the American stock which made the country, shall dominate its institu tion*, direct its policy ind workout its destiny ot; the lines our tat tiers marked. L’he people must remove certain malig nant excresences the growth of the last half century, which have well nigh poisoned the whole body politic. We hear much of the danger of or ganized labor, but to me when we see the nppalling power of organized cap ital it seoiiß; altogether just and proper ■ that the men whose labor is the foun : dation of ail our prosperity shall tbcm- selveti organize that their consolidated energies may by lawful methods protect their rights or advance their interests So rapid has been the de velopment of corporate power in mod ern times that th# laws tit i whollydn ndeqiinte to control its execsssgs. In deed that statesman who will map out a system of public law which will pre vent the unholy rapacity of injurious Irustl, and clothe in the stripes of the felon the wreckers of railroads; which will wisely and righteously adjust the differences between capital and labor and compel obedience to the adjust ment. will be honored in future gen erations like Columbus, who discover ed America, and like Washington, who saved it. Let us afford the procedure, which will enable the people to asjt redress, for gigantic modern abuses our fathers could not foresee, and all will be well with the republic. Whether it lie the plaint of the widow against a conspi racy of wreckers, who would reduce her and’ her children to pitiable beggary, or the protest of a brakeman against the tyranny and prejudice of his su perior, or the prayer for relief of a tax payer to whom nun Is imminent from municipal corruption or corporate greed, or the Just appeal of the corpo ration itself when its business and ex istence are threatened by rascally liti gation or by the passion or prejudice of tho hour, in any event the law should point out tho avenues of justice. “Justice,” exclaimed Sheridan, “I have now before me august and pure. Tho abstract idea of all that would b« per fect iu the spirits and aspirings of men, where the ;nind rises, where the heart expands, where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the un fortunate; to bear their cry and Iselp them; to rescue and relieve, to succor and save; majestic, from its inerey; venerable from its utility; uplifted, without pride, firm, without obduracy; beneficent in each prov ince; lovely, though in her frown." With this, no more is needed, and I re peat the republic is safe. We have seen the strife of our fathers with savage Indians, aud they prevailed. We have seen them unite in •acred rebellion against a sullen monarch and tyrannical parliament We have seen tht< regulars of a venal ministry lay down their arms before the bomospun soldiers of America, aud the veterans who conquered Napoleon J swept down like grain before the sickle by the devastating fire of our citizen soldiery. Division cane in our own counsels, civil war ensued. We have i seen the massy cillumus of the Union ‘in battle frffky confronting the graj I lines of the Confederacy. “The thunder clouds close o’er them, which when rout; Tliv earth Is covered with other cKy, Which her own clay shall corer, heaped and psut, Rider and horse—friend, foe—tn one red burial blent Then came gentle peace and with its sweet praseiica no relic of the struggle in the tender heart of the people sai e the sac<cd duty of kesptng green the ■ memories cf onr hollowed dead “How sloop tbc bravo, who sink to rest with aU Uislr country’s wtsliss blest; When ‘-prior, with dewy fingers cold, | IbUurus to deck their hallowed mould, Shs there shall dress a sweeter sod Timo nuiey’s feolheve ever tend. There bouor oouws, a pllortm fray, To bless ths turf ti»t wraps tbslrriny,— Aud freedom shall a whth' repair. To dwell a weep'uc boriult t-bers.” And If we had succeeded and destroyed like un'au. ’tthit. tbiof THE COMMERCIAL, ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895. Anglo bsxou nations with alt the barred and resentment resulting from separa tion after internecine strife, confronting each other across an imaginary fine with ' frequent wars aud the most exhausting preparation for them. The rbsources of tbs people consumed by tho r xpoaec of astrong military government. Modern forts must be brlailiag en every coign of vantage on the border, modern iron clad aud batteries of incalculable cost we must have guaiding onr harbor* and our coasts. Steeped with suspicion, and rankling with revenge, the great Ameri can people divided into hostile sections like France and Germany waitltg for the signal to ‘‘loose the dogs of war.” No other condition would have been possi ble to the proud and resolute people of America. The blood stained annals of our race prove this to be true. Militarism bore as on ibe continent of Europe for years withdrawing the able-bodied pop ulation from the pursuits cf industry, and the charms of home and our young manhood instead of pursuing productive occupations, working the best years of their lives, iu military servitude. The sergeant and corporal substituted for the professor, lhe teaeher and the proacner. Destruct!’ taxation would be reducing the people of this land of comfort and freedom to the level of the pauperism of Europe. Oh, my countrymen, we should be grateful to God that He spared us the calamities I feebly picture. How unwisely I need not »ay, we marched down into the valley nnd shadow of deabh, but He who rules the destinies of nations was with us. HU rod and HH staff <<d comfort us, and He has restored our souls and is even now leading us through gr*en pastures and by the waters of comfort. Arid here and now, not before our ene mies, for thank God, we have none, but before the people of the habitable globe, He spreads the table that all men may come and see and know the boun ties nnd benefactions He has showered on this favored people. And shall we not be worthy of Hie loving kindness, 11 is care for our past, and His provision ■ for our future. Yea. we shall say with the Psalmist of old, “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days nf our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever rnr. BUTTON TOUCHED. After more music President Collier touched a little button on the table in front of him and the message went tc Gray Gables, telling President Cleve land that everything was ready fur him to touch the button that would put the machinery in motion and really open the exposition. A moment later in his cosy office at Gray Gables, President Cleveland touched a button and in an instant the great fly wheel in machinery hall be gan to revolve; a thousand flags flut tered in the breeze, tile deep tones of cannon echoed among the surrounding hills amid the cheers of the thirty thousand people on the grounds, tin exposition was opened. Bishop Becker then pronounced the simple benediction and the exercises in the auditorium were over. CROWDS ON THE GROUNDS. Tho Midway Is Flockod With People and the Buildings lire Filled. This was a field day for the people who run the various attractions on the Midway. Tho spielers spieled, so t<> speak, and tho air was split with their' shouts. Tho tom toms in tho Chinoso village sent out their hollow notes while the streets of Cairo were crowded all day nnd tho beauty show and every oth er attraction on the grounds did a rustl ing business. Tile crowds also gave due attention to the buildings and their exhibits and everyone was delighted that so few exhibits were out of place. Every building was crowded by a miscellan eous throng that surged through the aisles and along the corridors, laugh ing and chattering and altogether having a good time. The pretty girls haunted the government building and looked curiously and delightedly at the terrible instruments of war, while big. bald-headed men dismissed all such martial fancies with a wave of the hand and looked and longed while they went through the art gallery and the woman’s building. Negroes that shiver themselves to pieces with the thermometer at freez ing spent a large portion of theirtime about the relics of the Oreely expedi tion and northeners who call it fine weather with the thermometer twenty degrees below zero lounged about tile exhibits from tropical countries and went into exstacies over a minature Mount Vesuvius. It wa*a place of contrasts but every body was good humored and all seem ed to enjoy themselves so it made no difference. IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE The City Gaily U»«ov»t»d With Fln*nan<l Bualtng. Atlanta was in holiday attire this morning and from end to end of the city flag* were flying and bunting of all descriptions was fluttering in the breeze. All the city offices and public build ings were elaborately decorated and even the smallest fruit shops bad their evidence of a holiday spirit displayed, riiere was something inspiring and gay in the scene and the man who failed to appreciate it has not yet been’heard from Old Glory wa* th# predominant.and in fact almost the only decoration. Here and there s few state (lags were timidly fluttering, but even they wen only glanced at, for nobody knew what flag it was. The governor’s mansion had the state flag prominently display ed. but that was almost the only plant where it could b*seen. Ou Peachtree street, several of tin most beautiful hoases were elaborately decorated, aud every hotel in tho citi had its colors flying. Tho iuteiior dec orations of the Kimball were particular!.' good nlthongb the same thing may be .aid of all the other hotels. K’tcnpetl That Penalty. The pro codings of the summer school at Harvard afford a certain aniount of J amnsemeut even to tho professors and instructors. It is said that the sessions have attracted some very independent ks w.ell as gifted young women from a distance. Lately one of the instructors iuft'rmed his class, chiefly composed of women, that a daily theme would be required to give facility in composi tion. Thisseeinod tosnrprise one of the i young ladies, who went to the instructor after the session was over, in the pres ence of others, aud said archly and ' coquettishly, "And what will yon do , to us if wo do not prepare any theme!” "We do net," the professor answered gravely, “employ any form of corporal 1 punishment.”—Boston Transcript. Stage Villain—Aha! Tho plot thick ens. Disgusted Auditor—Then I’m off! Can't Tnake head or tail of it now, and I'll never see through it if it gets any thicker.-’London Tit-Bits. ! EXPOSITIONS SCOPE. t'day Marks an Epoch In the South’s History. I'fHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED. ! a»t Ke»onrrei o? Oar Favored Country Hpreat! Oat Before the World—A Com prehensive K«Rome of the Ob jects of the ?how. This day marks an epoch in the his ory of Atlanta, the Bouth and the latlon. The opening of the gates of the Cotton States and International ex iosition is thwart with promise of [Teat and lasting benefits to commerce ind civilization and to the speedy up '.milditig of the South, the most faror- ! id and least known section of the Union. The magnitude of the exposition is now manifest and elicits the apprecia- ■ tlon of al) beholders and it is agreed 1 of al! men that this enterprise—con- ! reived at a time when the country was •offering under an era of the greatest financial depression of which we i know—will mark ihe beginning ot a | period of unprecendentcd develop- ■ aient of the resources of this country •nd the very broad extension of for eign trade. That this is a most opportune mo ment for making advances looking to ward doser trade relations with for eign countries is evidenced by the in terest manifested through representa tion at th* exposition of almost every civilized people on the globe. From ever; state in the Union can he found du exhibition the most worthy efforts of American ingenuity and enterprise while the national government exhibits here the finest illustrations of its function ever pre- ; sented to public view. And while the most enthusiastic do not claim this as extensive an exposition as was the Columbian fair, it is conceded by ■ all that what is lacking in sheer magni tude is more than counterbalanced by superiority of exhibits which are so arranged as to be easily comprehended by all and hence of greater number from an eduoational standpoint than any exposition previously presented to the American public. The very wise action of the manage ment in charging one dollar a square foot for space, raised the standard of excellence and eliminated mediocre exhibits, while it added no little to the income of the exposition company, which income was judiciously expend ed for increasing the pleasure and comfort of visitors to the great show. The management realized that new conditions offer a new career to the South and the exposition was project ed in accordance with this unanimous belief and Piedmont park evidences the great success achieved by the pro jectors of the Cotton Btates and Inter national Exposition, while tho names of such men ns Collier, Hemphill, Cabaniss, Tyler, Grant, Inman, Adair, Smith, Cooper, Oglesby, Bullock. Wylie, Howell, Chamberlin, Allen, Felder, Atkinson, Evans, Spald ing, King, Rice, Thompson, ijlac.k, Northen, Liebtnan, Venable, Peters, Amorous, Wilson. Harralson, Lowry, Woodson, Rich, Miller, Harrison, Ad ler, Hammond, Nelms and others, will ever be sacred to the people of Atlanta and to all who love or feel an interest in the South. MINKRALS IN THK PIEDMONT MEGION. All authorities agree that in no similar extent of territory has there been discovered such n great variety of minerals as in the Piedmont region. So the unknowing skepticism is a pardonable fault and ignorance is prone to question the existence of such deposits, or to doubt that they are sufficiently rich to iuatify develop ment. The average plodding business man is unwilling to buy what he can not actually see, and minerals are suffi ciently hidden from view to exercise the imagination and the spirit of chance, and since a positive demon stration is now satisfactory to the painfully practical mind than the most learned dissitertions and theo retical profoundings of ail the profes sors, great care lias been exercised in gathering, classifying atid presenting specimens of the mineral deposits of this greatly favored section. In the mineral and forestry building is pre sented an object lesson on this subject that astonishes all beholders, that evoke enthusiasm, and will undoubt edly induce the investment, of capital in the development of these numerous and varied deposits, and cause the Piedmont region to rank with the greatest mineral producing sections of the world. The wonderful develop ment within the past few years of the iron and coal deposits has done much to attract the attention of the outside world to the south. Fortunes have been made in the papt.and fortuneswill be, made in the future in southern iron, coal, marble, granite, gold, mica, corundum, copper, manganese, ochre slate, tale and beauxite, etc. But a few years ago beauxite, that great which yields so largely alumina, was known to exist only in France, but the Georgia deposits are now admitted the largest, purest and best on the face of the earth. All of these minerals with convincing statistical information are shown in the Mineral and Forestry Building while their exact locations are so accurately described and so easy of access that in formation from the highest authorities and positive demonstrations are pre sented almost side by side. ‘Tramagina tion folds her wing in weariness" when contemplating tho great possibilities for the good of this display, and if no in terest but this one wore presented, the results absolutely certain to follow would ulone justify the unprecedented efforts of the projectors aud the exptn diture of the millions of money necessary to the opening of the Cotton States and International TIMBER AND AGRICULTURAI. INTKRESTB are represented in the best possible man ner. The various kinds' and characters cf forestry growths ard displayed in endless profusion in rough, dressed and polished forms. The exact amount t lumber produced by the vavious states every srasoa iu the year are shown, j While the amotrtit and character of the i • ndeveloped forests of-the Smith are [Toperiy presented. In the roaftcr of I nrpentino orcharding, the improved I (-’reach method is shown and will nu oubtedly and promptly be adopted, and esult in great benefit to the Soutn by ' -iroiervlng in the future vast forestry reas which turpentine orcharding in tho '■resent •rude, crude and pr!mati»e ncthod destroy. I'hi agricultural interests are well irestnted by Arkansas, Alabama, f'lor'da, Georgia. Louisiana, California, .S’ortliand South Care’.Mia and other bUte*. Bpecia) gttqnMon |» trti~ cotton the great staple of the i South. Tbe plant and every insect itnd insecticide that effect it from tbe ‘ ilanting of the seed to the gathering ■if the crop is shown in most minute letail. The latest improved and most approved methods of manufacture is 1 iihown which in view of the great ac .ivity extant in the building of cotton actories in the South can but accom plish great and good results. THE MACHINERY DISPLAYS. Machinery hall is a veritable 'hive of activity and there are no dead wheels there—everything moves and i in operation demonstrates the uses of .machinery in supplying the wants of mankind. Pins and pencils,envelopes rnd handkerchief*, cotton fabrics and Hie Atlanta Commercial is a partial list- of the hundreds of things made ind distributed in machinery nail. THE GEORGIA MANUFACTURERS. The various manufacturers of the state banded themselves together zn as sociation and erected a handsome build ing in which they make a very credi table display of their various products. That such a vast number of excellent and useful articles are made in Georgia is almost beyond belief and the display must be seen to be justly appreciated. TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. The Transportation Building con tains everything from the primitive to the modern vehicle of locomotion and while the exhibits are by no inerns “shaped up” a sufficient idea at this early date can be formed of what it will be when completed. ELECTRICAL BUILDING. The Electrical Building contains ev- j erythingfrom a “push button” to an electrical locomotive but in such a state of incompleteness are the exhib its that only the experts can distin guish the difference. When the build ing is in “ship-shape” It will prove one of the most interesting spots on the ground. MANUFACTURERS AND LIBERAL ARTS. The manufacturers and liberal arts building is as full of foreign and do mestic exhibits of every kind and char acter as a newspaper is of financial logic. The displays are not only numerous and varied, but elegant beyond any ever made in the South. In a great number of instances these are the same displays made at the World’s fair at Chicago with additions and improve ments. THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. Women prove by pbject lessons their fitness for avocations, callings and professions in which men have heretofore acknowledged no competi tor. The women managers have displayed an amount of excutiveability for wlwch they’ have not received credit for pos sessing. Their beautiful building is the work of a woman architect and it is chuck full of displays of an inter esting character. Women figure as in ventors, lawyers, doctors, bookkeepers, artists, etc. The woman’s build ing contains much to interest and in struct and is one of the most popular departments of the exposition. THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING. The government building is rich with the best, illustrations of the nations func tions. Every department of the govern ment is shown, and while the display is not. so extensive, it is more comprehen sive tban was the exhibit at Chicago. The fisheries and several other depart monte are more complete than ever shown before, and this display alone is worthy of a trip to Atlanta. THE FINE ABTS BUILDING. The fine arts building Is the hand somest structure on tho grounds, and 18 filled to overflowing with the finest con gress of magnificent paintings, sculp tures, drawings etc, ever exhibited in this country. It is hard to refer to any particular artistic effort to tho exclusion of others, but ‘'Bad News" deserves a line because of its impressiveness, for one must have a heart of adamant who can stand before it and feel no sadness. It represents an aged woman with bowed bead, holding in her band a letter encircled with mourning bands. The expression of dispalr and resignation depicted on the face, evokes the sympa thetic tear, and while tho writer Is no critic of art; If "Bad News” be not per fection of the artist’s brush, it is at least true to nature—a reflex of God's work. Here you can feast your eyes on the notable products of leading artists of both the old and new world. SOUTH AMERICAN EXHIBITS. Mexico has as fine an exhibit as was he one at Chicago. Atlanta al ready sells a great many goods in Mex ico and it is expected that every man ufactured product of this country suit able for Mexico will be taken in large quantities. Venezuela makes a striking display as does also the Argentine Republic Chil, Costa Rica, and many others. The Southern people believe firm ly that the government of the ! United States will shortly un | dertake the construction ot the Nicarauga Canal, and they had that in view when they designed this ' exposition on so broad a scale. They qaw that tbe opening of water com munication between the Atlantic and the Pacific will give the manufacturers of the Piedmont region a larger market than any other manufacturing country the world can-reach. They want to be prepared for this when it comes, and they make such a display of their resources, that capital will pour into the Piedmont region for development of its wonderful resources, and build up here, within a decade, the greatest manufacturing plants on earth, They are preparing to manufacture and’ship direct to the Orient by tbe Nicarauga Canal all tbe cot-ton which now goes byway of Europe, and this j means to the coWon planter at least two cents a pound additional for his product and will place southern agri culture upon a foundation of perman ent prosperity. On this line ex-Governor Hubbard, ot Texas, more recently United States Minister to Japan, made a striking statement in a recent lecture in this city. Just before leaving Japan he was called upon oy representatives of j Li Hung Chang and also of a Japa nese foreign minister offering to raise the money to float the bonds for the building of the Nicaraugua canal in order that Japan and China might ‘ buy their cotton direct from America. Governor Hubbard further stated that the Japanese have an intense ad miration for America and the most favorable conditions exist for the buil ding up of an immense American trade in that conntry. South America should be one of the best customers of the (halted States. We buy as much from Latin . America as England and France combined, but both of those countries outsell us. If there is anything in reciprocity, we ought to have the trade of tbe South ern Republics and we would have it but for the obstacles which are likely soon to be overcome. Europe has bet ter counecti«tM than we have, and uiajj. from Aun rica lu Brazil Ily goes byway of Liverpoo.. coffee, the great staple product of Brazil, is marketed chiefly in the United States, just as tbe cotton of the Southern states is marketed in Europe, in spite of this, however, our opportunities for shipping goods to South America are inferior to those of almost every coun try in Europe. The grewth of business under these adverse circumstances shows what we could do with better transportation facilities. The exports from tlie United States to Latin America in 1895 were only soljooo,ooo. while in 1892 they were $90,000,000, an increase of 50 per cent in seven years. To the fact that all of Latin America is en thusiastic over the prospect of closer trade relations with the United States are we indebted for the numerous ele gant exhibits from the southern coun- I tries. THE NEGRO EXHIBIT. The department which is particu larly and of peculiar interest to al! visitors is the negro exjiibit. This is the first opportunity afforded the ne gro to demonstrate his abilities and the use he has made of his freedom surrounded by civilization during tbe past th.rty years. The exhibits show the progress of the negro more fully than anything ever has before. In fact it is a revela tion. Exhibits of particular interest are made by industrial schools such as the one at Tuskegee, Ala., in charge of Booker T. Washington, a very able negro who is a pioneer in technical education among his race. Similar schools in Virginia, Georgia and other states make exhibits, and the array of work showing substantial progress is surprising. The negroes have a de partment of inventions, proving a de gree of talent in this line, which was not supposed to exist. They have also a church and home department in which is shown the progress and the comfort in the home life of the race. They maintain that this is of special importance, as people are too apt to confound the the progressive and educated classes of negroes with the most illiterate and stupid of the race, just as in this coun try the Chinese laborers or coolies are confounded with the educated classes high above them. The educational ex hibit js perhaps the most important and impressive in the whole list. The mil lions of money spent in the education of negroes in the last- thirty years amount to a vast sum, and is little re alized by people who have not inves tigated the subject, nnd the amount of ■work done is in the same proportion. This is adequately presented in the display of the educational department. A LITTLE CHILD. Brights, golden curls and innocent whits brow, And lips like red rose petals blown apart, And laughing eyes of blue! I pray you now, Come yet a little closer to my heart! Nay. fear me not! Thy child heart under stands Love that trusts all and knows not to con demn, - Give me to hold thy tiny, tender hands, That I may warm my withered soul with them I Oh, let me feel—since in my memory No earthly love upon my life hath smiled— That heaven in mercy hath reserved for me Tho kisses and the clinging of a child. —Atlanta Constitution. PROFESSIONAL MOURNERS. Carious Calabrian Customs Which May B* Observed In Now Tork. In the Italian quarter I found myself the other day in a home which had been darkened by a double misfortune. A lit tle Italian boy had fallen from a tire es cape to the street and been instantly killed. His widowed mother, when she came upon the body of her son, went mad with grief and attempted to take her own life. She was taken to the hos pital. The boy's body lay upon a table, and a blazing candelabrum stood at its head. At the side the boy’s foster father and his wife knelt in prayer. Seated about the room was a group of women chant ing an Italian death wail. One of the women raised her face, and her quaver ing voice filled the room : ‘ ‘ Happiness has departed from us for ever 1” And the others droned the refrain: “ Forever 1” “He will never be absent from our thoughts!” “Never from our thoughts!” And so on, strophe and antlstropho, the chief wailer leading and the chorus echoing the dismal refrain. It was a sight and a sound to move even the tardy sensibilities of a reporter. Such scenes are not uncommon in the Italian quarter, though they seldom come under the eye of visitors. Tho pro fessional mourner is an institution in some of the provinces of southern Italy. She—the office belongs entirely to the softer sex—is analogous to the Irish "keener," but with the difference that her wail is more musical than-weird, whereas the "keener” is weird, pierc ing—almost anything bnt musical The Italian wailers—they are called “prefiehe” in their native tongue—are doubtless descendants of the profession al mourners of ancient Romo. They are most common, aud their office is most clearly defined in the provinces of Abruz zo aud Calabria and in Sicily. There they are regularly retained and reward ed with a fee. In other provinces a rel ative of the afflicted family may assume the office and lead the chorus, or the function may be of a wholly miscellaue ous character, all the mourners joining in a song of woe.—New York Herald. CITY trocadero (Opposite Postoftice.) OTTO WEYL, Manager. THIS EVENING, GRAND OPENING NIGHT. PAPI NT A, ie Keigningr Sensation, in her myriad dances THE JUDGE BROTHERS, Acrobatic Marvels, from the Alhambra. London. PROF DeBESSELL. Lightning Modeler, from Koster * Bial’s, New York. ILER BURKE AND RANDALL, GrOlesqnes. LITTLE ANNIE WILKBS, The Child Wonder, in her inimitable songs and dances GERTIE GILSON. New York * Magnet Serio Comiquo. MLLE. PROTO. Skirt and Toe Dancer, from Koster & Bini's, New York. JOHN R. HARTY. The Waiter Juggler. ADOLPH KIRCHNER’S 13TH REGIMENT BAND, Os Brooklyn, N.Y. Brass and String Band Concerts. During intermissions aud morhing hours selections by THE 31OINSSTGCR OkTCKCSSTKIOIX, «0 INRTRUMKNTS IN ONE. Retinulae tomorrow (Thursday), two vr»nd performances daily, eacept Sunday. Com mending afternoons at 4 30 aud eeemu,* a> S:ls General Admission, so cents. Reserved Orchestra Chelrs, ,5 cents. Bsleoav Box Seats. ,lO< RESTAURANT OPEN ALL DAY. Duriag t morning hours Gallertoe reserved tor Ladies aud Children FREE. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. Ita Recent and Rapid Development UpoW the Continent. Before a recent meeting of the Ameri can Institute of Electrical Engineers Mr. H. Ward Leonard delivered an in teresting address upon electrical engi neering developments in France and England as contrasted with those in America. In its commercial develop ment of electricity America is placed first —in fact, far in advance of the old world countries—but considered from an engineering standpoint Mr. Leonard thinks the United States is losing the lead it has thus far held. He lays the responsibility for this condition of affairs almost entirely at the door of the great electrical monopolies, which have stood in the way of progress, and particularly in preventing tho trial of devices and systems of which Europe presents vario ti.>• unknown to us. He questions what has been done in this country in the wav ■if electrical engineering develop ment since Edison started his three wire lightning distribution at Sunbury, Pa., in 1 83, and Westinghouse established his alternating system with 1,000 volt primary and 50 volt secondary a few yea s later, and Sprague started the Richmond electric railroad in 1887. T1 io has of course been great extension of installation along these lines. We have, Mr. Leonard says, the best three wire oqntral station plants in the world. Also the best alternating sys tem converting from 1,000 to 50 volte, br o have practically no other kind of ’tral station to point to. We are o ing 500 volt continuous current e’ a railways at distances for which 2,’ volts should be used instead of 5( and after investing more money in c. r per car than the entire cost of the c‘ ical equipment we still lose twice ich energy as is commercial in the In England in alternating systems •e wire secondary is used with 100 j on each side, and, according to i.xr. Leonard’s view, there was no ex cuse except patents for a 50 volt two wire secondary originally, and none save tho inertia and prejudice of a large corporation for continuing to put in the two wire secondary today. Rotary transformers are used in sev eral stations iu England for a continu ous current, high potential multiple aro distribution, the secondary being a three wire system, and some American inven tions not patented in England aro found to have been utilized in central stations there, white they have been neglected in the land of their inception.—Provic dence Journal LIGHTNING AIS~ iRS. Wear Goloshes During a Thunderstorm if You Aro Afraid. The one thing which a woman most dreads—barring, of course, a mouse and being out of style—is a thunder shower. Many most estimable women, of charac ter and force, who can load great cru sades and revolutionize society, go all to pieces at a clap of thunder, and a good many men, too, for that matter. It is not agreeable to be struck by lightning. Nor is it at all necessary. There is a sure preventive—as sure as it is simple, inexpensive and always ac cessible—a pair of rubbers. If a woman will simply put on a pair of rubbers when the lightning begins to flash and the thunder to roar, and will stand ou the floor so that she touches nothing else, she will be as safe as if she were sealed in a glass cage. Rubber is a nonconductor of electric ity, and if the lightning has to go through a sheet of rubber to get at you it will leave you alone and take some thing else. In other words, when you have on a pair of rubbers and are not in, contact with anything, you are perfectly insulated This is not a theory merely. It is a fact proved by innumerable experiences. A pair of rubbers has saved many a life in a thunderstorm Last summer Horace W. Folger of Cambridgeport, Mass., was on a pilot boar !:■ Boston harbor, when a thunder show came up He was on deck wear ing i-her boots, but steadying himself with one hand by a wire cable from the main topmast. Lightning struck the top mast, shivering it into splinters. Dowa tho cable went the current. Folger was knocked unconscious When he recover 1. he was full of aches and pains, but ■ pulled through. If it had not been the rubber boots, the current would ,ve passed entirely through him. As it .. .is the current could not get through his boots, so it passed down the cable. It might be well Io add that a pair of rubbers to be effi against li htning must be sound Do not put cri an old pair wit. :k m the toe because electricity wii. r ■ j, cut of a very small hole when it is cornered, and a pair of defective rubbers will do you no good.—New York Press. Hifl Own Figures. Heard at a heap of dry g >ods labeled $1.69 : Irish Woman (with a baby in her arms) —Phwat is the price of them? “One dollar and sixty-nine,” politely answered the proprietor. "Which are the $1 and which the 69 clnt wans?” “There are none at those price*, ma'am." “Share, thin, ain’t thim yer own fig ures?” —Boston Transcript