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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
Very Personal and Very Silly.

Since Editors Pulitzer and Dorskeimer
had their bitter newspaper squabble, a
couple ofyears ago, the country has enjoyed
a rest from this sort of warfare.
But there seems to be no escape from
periodical outbreak of Eatonswill journal
ism. The latest is ud-slinging conflict
between Editor Jones, of the Republic, and
Editor McCullagh, of the Globe-Democrat,
OF st. Louis.
The Globe-Democrat printed sensational
dispatches from Arkansas conveying the
impression that the negroes were bull-dozed
and slaughtered by the whites. The Re-
public protested against this distortion of
the facts, and called Editor McCullagh ''a
moral idiot"
In reply to this charge Editor McCullagh
mildly said that Editor Jones was ''an
arrant coward and terrible liar" who had
stood ''as much unresisted horsewhipping
as any man could endure without becoming
more or less of an invalid" He also went
on to say:
Charles II. jones' the author of the article to
which we refer is yankee tTamprecently imported
into this city from Florida. He poses here, as he
has posed elcwhere as "a southerner; but in spite
OF his proostations, the cerulean tint of his aldo
mea shines through the warp and wool of his trous
ers ike a section OF the morning sky in June, as
81 recent novelist describes gentle biue like to-
bacco smoke seen through a sunbeam"
Jones went to Florida few years ago as radical
book-peddler with the bronchitis, and he left Flor
ida few months ago rs democratic country edit
or with the big-head.
OF course, Editor Jones was not going to
stand such talk. He came back at his an
tagonist moro vigorously than before, and
suggested that if Editor McCulagh should
be sent to an asylum for moral idiots the
entry on the books would read as follows
Number 1850 McCuIagh, Joseph B., age fifty
nine l; habit of body, corpulent and bloated; hab-
its of life unfit for entry see secret memoranda book
A. page 2T0) born in Dublin, but has symptomatie
hatred for his native country and his countrymen;
original occupation, yagrant printer religion none;
rohtics, none mote once pretended TO be a demo-
crdt but became republican in connection with a
successful newspaper fight for entrance into whis-
ky ring symptoms, the usual but aggravated in the
Nueme Family history: Pitieut refused to give
H. Int il appears from family name Mao-Cullagh,
meaning in Irish Csee O Brien Irish dictionary
Son ola Hog, that patient has hereditary faint of
moral scrofua.
A few more choice extracts might be
quoted, but our readers have doubtless had
enough. People win not feel disposed to
take any stock in the abusive charges made
by the st. Louis editors against each other,
and they will regret to seetwo great and en-
terprising newspapers filed with such i'll
natured and silly stuff. If Editors Jones
and AleCulagh knew what asses they are
! making Of themselves in the eyes Of the
public, they would follow sam Jones's adj
vice, and "quit their mcauness," and settle
down 10 business.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
The Farmers nnd The Banging Trust.

This is getting to be an old subject, but
it is very important one. And We are
gradually getting to the heart of it.
The cotton bagging described In another
column, and made by the Lane mills, is I'M
doubtedly a perfect substitute for the jute
bagging. 1t stands every test. 1t is less in
fammable less impervious to water, harder
to tear affords better protection to the cot
ton, and does not fill the mill machinery
with bits of jute fibre. We have no doubt
that by next season one third of the crop,
and perhaps more, will be baed with cotton
bagging. For this season the Lane mills
are turning out fifteen Thousand yards day,
and selling II faster than il comes from the
loom. IL will OF course be impossible to
furnish enough to make It a general substi-
tute this season, bu. the experiment will be
fully tried.
The farmers cannot doubt the sincerity
and earnestness Of TIE CONSTITUTION in
their behalf in the matter of the bagging
trust. Now we have one word OF advice for
our friends. Bring in enough cotton to pay
all your debts, without days delay. DO
this in the first place because il Is honest,
and right; in the second place because it is
the best policy. The interest Of the farmer,
and his local merchant are identical His
advances enable the farmer TO make his
crop, and his ability to make those advances
depends on the integrity with which the
farmer rcdcems his pledge to him. In al
most every case it is borrowed money, or
unpaid for supplies that your local merchant
advances you. lie is bound to pay at ma
turity the notes he has given for this money,
or supplies, or he is overwhelmed in disas-
ter. Let every farmer then, filed with the
integrity that makes him powerful in his
fight against this dishonest trust, remember
that his first duty is to pay his debts, and to
bring in the cotton pledged for those debts,
on the very first day it can be made ready
for market
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one who belongs 70 the ''must be obeyed
type" She is always bobbing up just
when she is least expected, and it goes with
out saying that she has her own way.
She made her appearance in the West
Virginia democratic state convention, the
other day, and stampeded the delegates. 1t
seems that English and johnson were the
opposing candidates for judge Of the supreme
court. Half dozen ballots were taken
without nomination, and on the seventh
ballot 545 votes were cast for English and
296 for Johnson. As the two-thirds rule
was in force neither had received votes
enough. At this juncture Miss Llvia Smp-
son, OF Point Pleasant, who had been writ
ing at a reporters desk on the platform, de-
seconded TO the convention floor and shouted
for English. In her excitement she dropped
her hat. A chivarous delegate raised it on
pole above the banner Of his delegation.
The convention went wild at the sight,
and when Miss Lyia seized the banner and
waved it aloft the delegates swarmed about
her. Two rival bands struck up "Dixie"
and "Yankee Doodle" and the scene bafiled
description.
The opponents Of English lost heart when
this girl with streaming black hair and fash
ing eyes charged down on them, and when
the next ballot was taken went over to the
favorite English was then nominated by
exclamation
In this case the "She who must be obeyed"
acted upon the impulse Of the moment, bus
if the whole thing had been deliberately
planned the effect would not have been
greater. 1t is only another illustration of
the poets saying: The hand THAI rocks
the cradle is the hand that rocks the world"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
The News Of the Campaiyn,

What our people want in politics just now
lis news!
Tenpenny argument and long-taw abuse
of the republicans is neither useful or inter-
esting in a section where the democratic
majorties are assured and overwhelming.
What is wanted is news as TO how the fight
is waglng in states where the issue is doubt
full. This THE CONSTITUTION furnishes
this morning in full quantity.
Connecticut is the one point in the cam
paign orr correspondents have omitted, and
it is the most doubtful of the doubtful states.
1t gave Cleveland only 300 plurality. We
print elsewhere full and noteworthy dis
patch from New Haven quoting the chair
man of the state democratic committee Of
the nutmeg state, the candidate for governor
and other leaders. They declare that the
prospect is bright and give reasons for the
faith that is in them.
Our adylees from Michigan and Indiana
are quite as cheering. The whole field
looks well, though OF course there is very
hard campaign ahead.
Especially strong is the democratic party
in its leaders. Cleveland and Thurman are
figures by the side of whom Harrison and
Morton are dwarfed. In common sense, in
craftsmanship, in prestige and in popular
strength, the democrats have decided and
telling advantage.
The republican majority in Maine has d.
minished since the first claims were made,
and is now known to be but tri1e larger
than the majority of 1884.
There is nothing in the events of the
week to discourage, but much TO encourage,
democrats. Surely, and by no means slowly,
your Uncle Grover and your Uncle Allen
are working ont tho democratic salvationl
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What is the Word?

The case of Daniel Bennett, the wealthy
Wall street broker, who was found In his
bed, the other morning, bleeding from Sc
rious wound in his head, is puzzling one.
No clew to the mystery has been found,
and the wounded man is not likely to re-
cover his reason.
When Bennett was found and attended
TO by the doctors he made a sign for a PEN
Gil and some paper, and they were given to
him. He could not speak, but he wrote
out In plain, distinct letters the word
"Whir."
He was asked how he felt, and he again
wrote, "Whir."
He was asked how he was hurt, and if he
knew the faces around him, but in answer
to all of these questions he simply wrote,
"Whir."
The doctors and the police do not know
what TO make OF it. Evidently the suffer
er's shattered intellect is making a mighty
struggle 10 formulate the word that is the
key To the tragedy, and the feeble will is
urging the nerveless fingers TO write it
down.
What can the word be?
inc poor feuow may wrtte anu rcwrlte
"Whir'' til doomsday, but it will throw no
light upon the situation. There is something
in his mind, but what it is no living man
can divine.
A rich man half murdered in his bed. hut
destined perhaps to lineer for years dumb
idiot, wearily writing on . scratch pad the
mysterious word, "Whiri'--there is some
thio,- In all this tbat il aygpggtls anA wa
tcsQUe.
viii the dark secret ever come 10 light?
Never, until the victim thinks Of the right
word.
What is the word?
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
Tho south and tho I.ate ..noom. ),

The fact that every day the south turns
out from its furnaces 1855 tons more of pig
iron than it turned out five years ago, gives
some conception of the substantial work of
the late "boom."
But this marvellous increase in pig iron
output has resulted in a swarm OF industries
for working up this iron. Rolling mills,
car works, stove factories, machine shops,
bridge works, pipe works, agricultural inn
PIGMENT works, and horseshoe factories,
nail factories boiler and engine works,
have multiplied until the south practically
supplies her demand for these articles and
sends immense quantities into the north and
west. The Industries of Admission, for ex-
ample, are 50 well balanced, that though
her furnaces will produce $500 tons of pig
iron per week, her local mills and shops will
consume every pound of it, double its value
over and over again and send it cut as boil
ers, cars, pipes, engines or other manufac-
tured products.
The effect Of this growth in our iron out
put on the industrial fibre OF the south can
scarcely be comprehended. The new fur
naoes are of the very best patterns, equipped
with all the latest inventions--which gives
us an advantage over tho older and less ef-
fectiye furnaces Of the north. Our profits
therefrom, and the demonstrated fact that
We can undersell the north--the opening of
new mines, which in turn lead to others
force the belief that the next ten years will
witness even more astonishing growth
than is recorded for the past five years.
The south has every reason to be satisfied
With the solid and staying results of the
"boom." 1t feathorcd the nest OF some
folks and knocked thc feathers ont Of the
nest # others-.but Il has lett the south IN a
vastly improved condition and has opened
the way for a growth and experience that
will amaze even her most sauguiuo prophets.
''she Who Must lie obcyed"
The wonderful woman In Rider uaggard' 5
most remarkable romance--the "She who
must be oheycd." figures moro os less every
who're, and in every phase Of lft, in tie
small as well as in the larger circles Of So
cicty.
We do not mean that this woman re-
scmbles Mi. llaggard's heroine In all res
pects--the woman We have in view Is the
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his reply is generally encouraging. The an
swer to such questions is to the effect that
in this country there is work for every man,
and that an honest and industrious stranger
who is willing to turn his hand to anything
need not remain unemployed anywhere.
Now, let US see how this pans out. The
New York World recently sent reporter
out as an applicant for employment in order
to test the matter The young man walked
and rode all day, trying hundreds of shops
and stores, but without success, and at tho
cost of sixty cents for street ear fares. lie
tried it again the next day, spent sixty cents
more for car fare, and with the same result.
He offered to DO any kind OF work and ac-
cept any salary, bat there was no place for
him.
Every city is a smaller New York. mex
perienced strangers without money and
friends find it almost impossible 10 get any
thing to do at living wages. This is the sit
uation in every American city, and yet every
year when the business season opens there
is rush from the country of sanguine
young men who confidently expect 90 walk
into easy positions and draw large salaries.
Ninety-nine in hundred are disappointed.
Some of them have the good hard sense TO
return home and make the best of it, but a
large number stick to the city, drift into
lines of work for which they have no capac-
ity or liking, and drag out wretched eNis-
teuce until they break down or do worse.
There is something in all this for country
boys TO ponder. Before they leave the old
farm they should have something better in
there,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

make decided gains. The comparisons are
made with the election two years ago, when
the democrats made strong effort to carry
the state, and did reduce the republican
majority very materially. In that election
the prohibition candidates developed con-
siderable strength.
This year the conditions are reversed.
The prohibition vote has fallen off to al
most nothing, and rs these votes came from
the republican party they have, naturally
enough, gone back to their first love.
Then, too, the republicans, under the able
leadership of Mr.. Blaine, have made thor
ough canvass of the state and have made
every effort 10 secure big majority in the
hope that it might have some effect upon
the doubtful states. The democrats, on the
other hand, have done nothing, The ma
tional committee has wisely refrained from
expeudi0g any of its ammunition in that di-
recton, hence the only fight made has been
made by tho Maine democrats unaided.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
The Maine Election.

Itis part of the republican scheme to
make a great splurge over the Maine cleo
tion. "tIave you heard the news from
Mane?" will be the cry Of the par'y's or
cans during the next month, and the edi-
torial columns Of these papers will be filed
with comparisons Of this election and that
when Maine ''went hell bent for Governor
Kcnt." and so forth.
But all this signifies nothing. II viii
scare nobody; II win not effect the presiden-
;ial election a single vote. Il is campaign
blusfer- nothing more, nothing less.
Everybody who has paid any attention to
the situation expected the republicans to
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

The Fight Against Yellow Jack
In the course of ten or twenty years, or by
the time the next generation comes on the
stage, yellow fever will be thing of the
past in the south.
From the earliest settlement Of this coun-
try down to the present time the fight
against Yellow Jack has been a continuous
struggle. At first the odds seemed to be
Overwhelmingly against US, but men will
display almost superhuman energy and in
genuity when they are fighting for life.
Slowly but surely the yellow fever belt has
been narrowed, until it is now mere rib
bon on the southern edge of our map.
Before the revolution the scourge stretched
its course as far northward as Canada. The
Canadians saw that they could not exist
with such foe at their doors, and they
went to work to drive it southwark. They
resorted to such crude sanitary and quaran-
tine measures as were then sanctioned by
medical scientists, and the result was that
the fever soon paused at Boston when IL
made its periodical trips up the Atlantic
coast. The Bostonians followed the exam
pie of the Canadians, and their energetic
precautions barred out the pest. New York
was less active in the matter, and IL suf-
fered so often and so seriously that John
Randolph felt justified in saying in con
gress that if New York became manufac-
turing city she would have yellow fever
from January to July, and from July to
January again.
But Randolph was mistaken. The New
Workers saw that something had TO be done
or their city would go to the dags. They
kept their streets clean, constructed good
sewers, secured a pure water supply, and
established good quarantine system. The
fever was forced southwark to be driven
from Philadelphia, and other southern
points, until IL was confined to It's present
territory.
All this has been done within about a
hundred and fifty years. There Is no reason
why the fight should not 60 on. When the
threatened points on the south Atlantic and
gull coasts 60 70 work as systematically as
Boston ana New York lid century ago.
they viii be as free from danger as the
northern cities arc az present.
The terrible visitation Of the present year
will not De without good iesults BY next
year the federal. state and municipal au.
thoriues in Florida and along the gulf viii
all make n united effort to ward on the pos
thence. and they will probably be success.
fun When orr southern ports and some Of
the Interior towns guard their health inter
ests with proper ere Yellow Jack will dis
appear from our shores.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

What a flood of memories is revived by
the narrative printed elsewhere under the
above title in THE CoNsTITUuoN
The "Old Colonel" who, by the way, was
then very young colonel, lin spite of the
interesting "reminiscences he has been CIV
ing us) tells a story that doubtless many of
the actors themselves have forgotten. But
1t is curious and an interesting leaf out
of the first chapter of the history of tho
greatest war ever wared on earth
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
The Same old Boston.

Boston is a progressive city in material
blessings. and 1t cannot be said that she is
spiritually at a standstill, but she is today
as !n;olegant and bigoted as she was in the
seventeenth century.
In the good old times it was the rule in
Boston for the majority to make it hot for
the minority, and this custom, with certain
notifications rendered necessary by our ad-
vance in civilization, holds good in this
day ana generation. It has been said of
the first Bosionians that they came to this
country to enjoy their own rights and to
prevent everybody else from doing the same.
So while they were bowling for religious
freedom they stripped and whipped and
hanged the Quakers, and prosecuted the
Baptists
The descendants of these intolerant peo-
pie show the same old spirit. They have
just released from prison, after a year s
confinement, street preacher named Da-
Wis, whose only offense was preaching on
Boston common in violation of city ordi-
nance During the first six months of his
Imprisonment Davis was treated like a
felon, and his health was seriously in
jured.
Now, this course Is not worthy of great
city in this enlightened age. 1t may be a
nuisance for preacher to collect crowd
of tramps on the common, but the penalty
should be adjusted to the offense. Davis
did nothing to justify his imprisonment for
a year-no, nothing to make it necessary
for the authorities to treat him like dan
gerous felon.
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oovcrnor nul nenomlnntod.

The denomination of Governor I'm by
the democracy Of Now York Is the last i'm
portant preliminary act OF The campaign.
Without the denomination Of Governor
llill, democratic fuccogs In New York
would have been extremely doubtful. No
man In the empire state has so strong
hold upon the affections 81 the democratic
masses as David Bennett Mn, and the
ticket bearing the names Of Cleveland and
llill viii IN this campaign, rs In the past,
be found inyinclble HurAh for Cleveland
and Thurman and Hill
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

Al this season Of the year thousands Of
young men in the country towns and on the
farms read the want columns OF The city pa
peFs, and jump TO the conclusion that light
ana remuncrs,iye jobs are TO be had for the
asking.
Somstlmos these youngsters ask q city
man about tie business opportunities IN the
metropolis which be claims as his home, and
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

A TRAMP WITHOUT a thread of clothing on
was picked up outside of the Castle Garden
hospital in Now York, at o'clock in the
morning, the other day. He said that he had
not worn any garments for several daysd
Where no kept himself all that time was o
mystery to the officers
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

A YOUNG LADY ut Newark, New Jerseys
opened her eyes at three in the morning and
found a big burglar with revolver in her
room. She was so mad at having her sleep
disturbed that she jumped on the fellow, PIN
toned his arms TO his side, rushed him to the
top of the stairway and then pitched him
headlong down. The Newark girls won't do
TO monkey with,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

GEORGE VTNDELL ACTED very foolishly in
New York the other night. A pretty girl was
trying to kiss him. Vindell struggled so hard
to escape that he fell from a stairway and was
killed. The girl fell with him and sustained
fatal injuries.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

Brother Blaine seems to be somewhat az
sea.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

THE fact that Maine is joined to her idols
is not at all alarming. Civilization, conserva-
tism and common sense lie south of Maine.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

whose husband IS generous always, has
seats TO spare and more than enough to go
around.
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The Constitution.
WE WANT YOU,

The Constitution wants an agent at every
postoffice In America. Agents outfit free and
good terms. If yoa are not in club, we wan
you to act AS agent at your office. Write us.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18

The September distribution Of presents took
place on September 9th, and tho following is
the list of names that were drawn from the
box. Checks have beon sent for each