The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
CURRENT COMMENT,


NEW JERSEY comes to the front with
water trust. This is brand-new kink.
In THE LITTLE province of Baden, smaller
than the average American county, over one
hundred men are employed and paid by the
government to care for the forests. The Ger
mans waited until their timber was cut down
before they began to replace it, but they are
now devoting much of their time and labor to
the matter of forestry.
ONE REASON WHY THE Mormons are migrat7
ing to Mexico is their desire to find q hot clis
mate where they won't have to wear Clothes
a Mormon is compelled to limit his number OF
wives III this country on account of their dry
goods bills. In some parts of Mexico dry goods
are not among the necessaries Of life.
SOME WEEKS AGO the editor of the Annis~
ton, Alabama. Hot Blast hit man couple Of
blows for calling him a liar. The other day q
policeman jumped on the editor and beat him
up. In the first case the editor was fined
twenty-five dollars. In tho last one the police.
man was let off with fine of fifteen dollars.
The Hot Blast complains that there is some>
thing wrong somewhere. We
JAMES SEYMOUR SPENCER, we'll known re-
porter on the staff of the New York Mail and
Express, drove with his wife to see physiI
clan, the other day, about the lady's healths>
On his return Mr.. Spencer suddenly drew
long breath and fell against his wife's Shouts
der. He was dead. Mrs. Spencer stopped at
the next house and her husband was taken
from the buggy. The doctors said that heart
disease was the cause of the unfortunate mans
death.
A FIRsT-CLAss EDITOR achieves the biggest
kind of success when he secures salary Of
$50 900 year, and the best American novelist
thinks that he is doing wonderfully well when
he earns the same sum in year. And yet e.
fellow whose stories don't come under the
head OF literature, whose style is coarse and
ungrammatical can make three or four times
as much as the cultured editor
and novelist. Such writer is II. P. Halsey.
OF Brooklyn, the author of the."O1 Sleutht,
detective stories. Mr.. Halseys facile pen
yields him an income Of from 5000 to S4O,ys
600 ayear. But he is not happy. He wants
to write a novel that will command the approx
val of the critics. He may succeed, but if such
a book pays the expenses of printing.
Mr.. GEORGE r. SIMS, the London writers
thinks that the English climate makes people
insane. He says: "In the highest circle in the
land we find morbid sentmentality and gloomy
forebodings rampant. Lost relations are
mourned for twenty years, and the mourners
isolate themselves from the public gaze Year
after year the remaining relatives are COM
PEELED to gather in gloomy mausoleums, and
Grape and crying seem to be the watchwords Of
certain illustrious lives. In circles q trihe less
lofty we find old women Of seventy marrying
young lads of twenty-three, hereditary peers
consorting with blacklegs, welshers and men
who have been in her majesty's jails. We
have great noblemen displaying the manners
and using the language of drunken coster,
mongers during domestic quarrel, and societS
as whole teens with scandals which are alb.
solutely due to the madness Of the principal
actors or actresses-a madness with method
but still part and parcel of the general lunacy
which is being developed by the British
nation"
SOME OF THE WORST men have the best
wives. The New Orleans Picayuno has the
following: "One of the worst desperadoes in
Texas was Bill Whitley, the highwavman
who was recently killed while attempting to
rob train. He was what is called q "rexas
terror, - but this is what his pale and delicate
little wife thought Of him. She never had
any idea "BilP' was engaged in train robbing,
and does not believe that he would do such
tuihsI anu DelleNeS that he was murdered. He
was kind to her and the children, gave them
money enough to keep them decently, and
always showed desire to see that they were
comfortable. He was rather quiet sort OF
man, and would take a great deal before he
resented it, and seemed anxious to have things
pleasant around the house."
THE STRIKE or the grand jury, says cor.
respondent, in the United States court at Gin
cinnati for more pay is certainly without paral
lei. The jury wanted mileage and four dollars
day, and adopted a resolution to that effect
in true Knight Of Labor style. Ofcourse they
didn't get what they wanted, but they boy
cotted the district attorney by refusing to find
an Indictment in the face of clear testimony,
and then the judge, impersonatng capital,
locked out the strikers by discharging them.
They VIII now probably form Jurors Assem-
bly,, join some labor organization, and proceed