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A London E iitor Gives his Y T ias?s on
the Subject of Paapenioo.
Mr. Gladstone said the other day ft'
the Hawardca flower Show: “I don’'
*o much fcdifivo in over population,"
Well, no mere Jo I. It is the g,eat
tst fudge out. One has never heari
toe “over-population" cry except ir
countries having redictilons laws and
'Micro tho industrial ingenuity of mao
has been abominably absurdly fetter
ei. ‘'Over population" is merely r.n
otnar namo for an 1 r-production T io
well worn theory about roau is iccie-'e
ing.ia go metrical ratio, aad food in
creasi .g only in an arithmetical rati--
is neat, but it is not true. Asa me.*
ter ol fdc*, man--! don’t me->n th
natural man, whom no one 1 ving no
has over r eo, but man as we kno '
him in there civiliz ’d a.ni for the tuubf
part, cold countries—turn who nn*L
have cooked food, cloth’*, a hum*** of
Eoino sort to live in, aoi ouiy otio
wile—U out, and out the most uterilo
of ill creatures, whether animal or veget
aide. Ho can, if he be let alone, make
tood iifiuirely faster than he can prop
agata his kind. When be fails to
leave bis children better off than he !
was when he began life hiraielf, it is
either becauso bis hands have been
tied, or tecnasebe has been robbed ot
bis earning.
Take the ordinary tjpical case of
the English Artisan or Irish peasant
who has ‘‘seven children." A* a mat
ter of fact, 1 believe Le has something
under tme, but I prefer to bo g.usrcu
and allow him seven. Well, he ieav
es the n paupers, an t the closest phi
losopher, in the evening newppaper,
says they never ought to ha ye been
born. Bat the real fact is, that they
weie well milled to be bi ru, bnt h ive
no business to be paupers, for their ar
tjpaQ or J fOt.unt iwtlior toe in •l' •
course ol liia life made food enough
to feed uot merely seven children, but
seventy times Sevan. U'lfortiumeiy,
the honest man has he<>u robbed. The
two piles upon whiob the whole rotten
edifice of E gland’s pauperism rests
are landlordism and ignorance. Land
lordism depopulates the oonntry and
floods the town, and, combiued with
ignorance, b iags down tLe artisans’
wages to starvation rate. When we
hare corrected ourselves of these two
evils, we shall find that we have pleu
ty of food fc r a very much 1 rger pop
olition than England at present pus
Besee?. Our only care then will be to
see that we do not from oppression
and ignorance of foreign giowtb, and
that neither czar nor kaiser takes upon
himself the functions which our old
nobility (chiefly grandsons of brewers
or attorneys) now exercise, and flood
our streets with paupers ready to work
from morning to night (or to next
morning even on a push) fora mouldy
erust and a piece of oat's meat.
Washington, Dec. 31, —The Sun
dry civil appropriation bill and fortifi
cations appropriation bill have both
been completed by the sub-eomoiittees
of the houso committee on appropria
tions. Chairs in Randall has called
• meeting of the appropriations com
mittee for Wednesday of this week, at
which time both completed bills will
be la’d before it, tbeir consideration
immediately entered epon and, if possi
ble, finished tbo same day. Mr. Ilau
dall wishes to report them to the houße
Wednesday afternoon or Thnrsday
morning.
Since the opening of his Homes in
London, no tewer than 11,344 boys
and girls have been rescued from the
streets of that great metropolis by Dr.
Barnard#.
A Surgical Marvel.
A str.rlling advance in surgical
science has been made by Dr. Max
imilicn Klein, a German Military
■surgeon. Tho particulars are giv
en by the professional journal Alc
moribilien. a man accidentally
cut his left groat toe in the middle
of die firs' joint. The severed piece
icmained hanging to the foot, but
the connecting skin was scarcely
thicker than a thread. Dr Klein
sewed on tho fragment, dressed it
with iodoform, and had the salisfac
t ion, in t wenty-two days of finding
the wound healed and the (re per
fectly sound and flexible. Ericour
aged by t lie unexpected result in
tins case, l)r Klein was induced to
apply the same treatment again, in
order to disable himself and so es-
cape from military service, delib
erately cut off hia forefinger with
an axo at the second joint. The
finger end was lost, and could not
be found until fialf-an-hour had
Nevertheless, Dr. Klein sewed it to
the stump and applied a bandage of
iodoform gauze. As early as the sec
ond day it wag evident that circula
tion had boen partially re established
throughout the finger, and in six
weeks tbs* tnan not only left th 9 ho*
piral, but was doing the very rifle drill
which ho had hoped to 6hirk. The
lin ger was, in fact, as serviceable as i
bud (tvor been. These stoiies read al
most like extracts from the exploitso!
Baron Munchhausen. That they a.e
chronicled in Minorabilien is, howev
er, evidence of their tiutli. English
su geous will not be so tinwilling t<
©
■ reuu iin m as they would have been
i. i l, u t- -> - ■> :— •- - r t• l.
marvellous or p-oßes of ioloform.
Found Jlis Canteen.
A gentleman told me yesterday
of a strange experience related by
a friend of his. It was during the
battle of Gettysburg that his friend
just before entering the action,
took his canteen from his shoulder
and hid it in a crevice in the rock
Then came the fiery hail of shot
and shell 1 hat 6wept down regi
ment! like fields of wheat before
the reaper. At the close of the
battle the soldier forgot all about
his cauteen, nor did it even occur
to him again until he visited the
field at the late reunion. Then it
flashed through his mind, and af
ter a few minutes search he found
it where he had left it on that mo
mentous day. It seemed scarcely
creditible that it could have been
overlooked during the minute ex
ploration of the field ever 6ince the
war, but the gentleman who relat
ed the incident is reliable.
Yonng man, and yon use tobaeco?
Tbe speaker was a batchet faced fe
male, with her arms fall of traets and
the youth happened to be waiting at a
corner for a street ear.
No mom, I don’t, said the yonng
man with a questioning ghnoe, as she
did not look like a person who would
want to borrow a little fire.
Do you drink?
Play card#*
wo mum.
I'm dshgbtad to meet yon, Bir. In
these degen irate days yonng men of
yonr habits ore Tory scarce. If I send
yon an invitation to my next party
will you come?
Yes, mum.
Thank yen. I should like you to
iry facials and family. Wheie
shall I fen! it?
To Plagngly’s saloon. I’m barten
der there.
A Don.iJing Sheriff.
Apropos of Nantucket, Mass.,
one hears ;ome rather old sayings
and of some quaint happenings
there, says Id. A. Marr, in Har
per's.
“You set we are somewhat out
of the way,*’ said one of the island
ers, “so tramps seldom trouble us,
ar> 1 it is or y when our tourist vis
ilors coma |hat we think of lock
ing our doers at night,”
Last fall a man was tried for pet
ty larceny sand sentenced by the
judge to tbiee months in jail, a
few days after the trial, the judge,
accompanied by the sheriff, was on
his way to the Boston boat, when
they passed a man sawing wood.
The sawyer stopped his work,
touched his hat and said, “Good
morning, Judge ”
The judge looked at him a mo
ment, passed on a 6hort distance,
then turned to glance backward,
with the question, “Why, sheriff,
isn’t that the man I sentenced fo
three months in jail? - ’
“Yes,” replied the sheriff, hesi
tatingly; ‘-yes, that’s the man; but
you—you see, judge, we—we hav
ea’t got any one in jail now' and
we thought if a unless expense to
hire somebody to keep fhe jail for
three months just for this one man;
so I gave him the jail key and fold
him that if he would sleep there
it would he all right ”
Indianapolis, L o 81 —t'h nr**),
druiial pec rt, corepri-iiitroue loin bet
iu?mhe r s <>f rh< Suren i;h ludi<m
regiment have complied Hinogetn i t’
or their trip to Wa-hington. They
will not aoeom ofiy G ue al flrrruon
to Washington, as ho will have Jndi
anapolis about ten days pryerto March
4. The esc< r‘ will by special
train at 2 p m. Friday March 1, arriv
trgat Washington about 2 o’c o k
Saturday Maich 2 This escort will
meet (be president elect at thj door of
Willard’s hotel anl remain immedi
ately about him from that mutneut un
nl he returns from the inaugural.
They will constitute a presidential
guard of honor. The Columbia club
of this ci'y, SCO strong, with baud
some civilian unifoitus, will tcCorn
pany the veteraut on tfceir trip to
Washinton.
Judge 0. W. Fairbanks, chairman of
the Indiana inaugural committee, re
turned from Washington to-day, hav
ing made satisfactory arrangements for
accommodations.
“Yes, boys,” said old Bellows,
proudly beating his breast, ‘*l’ve
been a soldier in my lime, and if
Ido say it myself, like the war
horse of Scripture, I could over
scent the battle from afar.
“I e’pose,” ventured young pa
perwate, “that on very many occa
sions that saved your life.”
Beu Bard ley, a colored man who re
cently died st Deaton, bid., was noted
for his immense strength. He had on
occasions walked through the streets
with 830 pounds of iron on hit back.
An eight footed hors* was billed as
an attraction at the Castor county fair.
Hardman & ’Gomp’y,
H ARMONY G ROVE,
DEALERS IN
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ATHENS, ' GEORGIA.
We sell at th lowest possible price, and gnrantee every ort : o!o üba abso
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name and place. —WADE& SLEDGE, Druggists and Pharmacists.
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Haselton & Dozier, Proprietors.
—ll "" f ' '" l ,r ~ Keeps always on hand the oest makes of
B,
VIOLINS AND BANJOS’
And all kinds of Mnsioal Instruments at the very lowest prices for Caeb,
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Written gnrantee on all instruments sold. Speoial reduced rates to chorch
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