The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-08-15
Editorial Notes.

Col. Bob Ingersoll, the bad man (iI
his opinions), was interviewed in New
York on Saturday, JUST before setting
SAIL for Europe, and said: ~ shall &C
70 Scotland first, to find out what ] car
IN regard to traditional incidents OF
Robert Burns, and study the subject OF
Scotch Presbyterlsnism. I think Burns
did more to llberate his people from
CalvinisH than any minister of the
Gospel, and as poet l think him next
20 Shakespeare.
In concluding a review of the wheat
situation, the Chicago Times says
1.-THE fact is, the indications are that
this years wheat crop of the North
west will exceed in quantity that of
last year. While the spring wheat has
been 'sunstruck' and somewhat shriv-
eled, the winter wheat never gave bet
! ter promise of an abundant harvest.
These facts, taken in connection with
the increased acreage, show that while
the quality may be slightly inferior the
supply will be ample"
At Atlantis, Georgia, a judge has de.
cided that it is legitimate for BARRIERS
to ply their trade on Sunday. People,
he said, might go to church black and
solled with dust, and might live So all
their lives, but he thought that delica-
cy of appearance in public was re
quired necessity, and that the use of
BARRIERS shop might in some instances
be as essential as that of drug store,
inasmuch as health and its require
ments often depend on cleanliness of
person.
At no period since 1873 have autumn
and winter trade indications been so
encouraging as now, or the country
been in more heslthful or prosperous
condition. The solid basis for sound,
legitimate business has been laid by
the disasters of the previous years,
and the first stones for the glorious SUI
perstructure which is to follow have
been firmly and carefully placed in po-
sitlon. 1t remains to be seen whether
the completion of the edifice will be
prompt or delayed indefinitely by
doubt or wavering.
There are few tramps in the South.
The negroes, who have autocratic
sway in almost every kitchen, do not
take kindly to them, and will not give
them anything to eat, Another reason
for their absence is, that the South
does not afford the same advantages
for plumber and free living to be found
in the North. 1t is expected that the
cotton crop this year will be larger
than the natives can pick, and the sug-
gestion was made that the tramps be
secured to help get the crop in. The
general sentiment, however, is that it
will be more profitable that the extra
cotton go to waste than to introduce
the tramps into the country.
DR.. Woodwork, Surgeon General of
the Marine Hospital Service, who, by
law, has authority over all quarantine
in the United States, says that yellow
fever is not communicated from sick
person to well person. The poison |
is conveyed in clothing or baggage,
especially if confined IN trunks or box
es. The favorite lurking places of the |
disease are damp, filthy holds and bilge |
water of vessels. When the poison |
finds Judgment In boat, house or |
locality they bacome centers of infec- |
ton, which tend to spread in every d.
rection, if on land. Quarantine by |
land, beyond disinfecting clothing or
the effects of passengers" says DR.. |
Woodwork, sis in my opinion I'M
practicable, if not useless, not taking |
into account the harm that is done to |
commerce, which is no small consider
tion." DR.. Woodwork says that if q |
boat affected with yellow fever should |
come to st. Louis, Louisville or Gin !
cinnatl, the infection might spread |
from the vessel, but, he ssys, there is
not as much danger from a river boat
as from the ocean vessels, as the for |
mer are more open and better ventlla- |
ted. He does not believe the disease |
can be carried by mail.
There were hours anil days of enthu-
sissm and giddiness in London after
the news about Cyprus was town talk,
but Pail Mall maintained its self-com-
mand admirably. eff for few hours" |
it exclaimed, people allow themselves |
t. be persuaded that the treaty is tri- |
umph or even that it m ore than coun-
terbalances, in respect to the influence |
we WELD in the East, anything that !
may have been lost or menaced BY the |
victories of Russia over the Porte, a |
few hours more will leave the country |
wiser than its instructors" 1t chung
tenaciously to the opinion that the
new engagements with Turkey were
onerous and troublesome, and that
England was in a far more delicate and |
troublesome position in the East, and
particularly in a far worse position
with respect to Russia than it was be. |
fore the war began. But it maintained
that there was no choice between TAX
ing up the burden imposed upon Eng
land as consequence of the war and
of abandoning Turkey utterly to Rus
sian influence, and the whole East to
Russian conquest and authority. 1t
argued that nenceforth England Is
bound to the defense of Turkish terri
tory in Asia as much as if it belonged
to the Queen; while at the same time !
there aremany risks, and many tempta-
lions to intrigue and interference there,
that existed nowhere else under the
English flag. And as the responsible
ties are, so the rights must be. No
doubtful rights, no debatable privi-
leges, no dubious authority can be toll
Grated under such. circumstances. To
it's mind, the loss of the good will of
the nations nearest neighbour Is much
to be deplored, and more 30 because it
is far from certain that by the exercise
of little more forethought and con-
slderation in the manner of doing a
thing which, under existing circum
stances, must at all costs have done,
the blow to French feeling might
have been considerably mitigated.
The question whether horses are
injured by being fed on new hay and