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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
A Warming to Women.

A very sad case is reported from New
York.
Pretty Seraphine Roth was as light heart
ed as bird, and the picture of youthful
health-and beauty. The other day Young
man suddenly proposed to her, and she ac-
cepted him.
The local paper says that Immediately
after the lover left the house Miss Seraphine
had queer fluttering of the heart, and she
seemed to be treading on air. Her heart
continued to futter, and in two hours she
was dead.
The doctors may say what they please
about this young girls death. II teaches
its own lesson. Girls should nerve them
selves to meet the inevitable. Sooner or
later some young man is going to offer HIM
self, and his sweetheart should be prepared
to answer him with paralyzing calmness.
1t must be admitted, however, that there
is something about very sudden proposal
that is we'll calculated to disturb the eou-
niInity of any woman. A man should show
some delicacy in such a matter. He ought
to spend year or two in gently leading up
to the main question. There is no use in
firing 1t off like a dynamite bomb.
Perhaps the Seraphine Roth story Is only
apiece of fancy work by some Bohemian re-
porter.
1t is to be hoped so, but whether true or
not II will suggest much that should be in
cluded in the etiquette of courtship.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
Cotton Seed Lard.

The New Orleans Times-Democrat COM
plains that cotton seed oil is masqueraded
on the market as lard, simply on account Of
an absurd prejudice which has the effect of
keeping many people from using cotton seed
oil when they know it to be such. The
Times Democrat urges that it should be
placed on the market for what it is, claim
ing that when its merits become known it
will force its way into general consumption.
Our esteemed contemporary is right
Cotton seed oil should be called by its
proper name and our people should ADAM
don the foolish prejudice which they have
against it. 1t makes an admirable substi-
tute for lard anyway, and as for cleanliness
there is no comparison between the two ar
ticles. The investigation which was re-
Gently made before the committee of the
house of representatives concerning the
lard industry brought out some startling de-
velopments as to the manufacture of the
hog lard of our commerce. In the first
place, one of the principal ingredients
of this lard is cotton seed oil, which
is all right as far as it goes, but
it was demonstrated beyond the shadow of
doubt that some of the lard In general
use was made up of diseased hog fat, and
other substances not less dangerous or I'M
healthy.
Cotton seed lard is the pure and clean
vegetable without any adulterants whatever
in it, and when it is bought the consumers
know exactly what they get. 1t is not so
with lard, for it is a rare exception that the
genuine article can be found on the market.
AS the Times-Dcmocrat says: eminent
medical authorities have testified that the
cotton oil is anti-dyspeptic; for all cooking
purposes it has been found to be superior to
hogs lard, and experience has shown that
great economy follows its use, inasmuch as
but three-ffths of the quantity is required
to produce the same results. These various
advantages have combined to induce manu-
facturers in New York to begin the manu-
facture and sale of the cotton oil as lard.
The proper consistency is secured by the
addition of the pure fat of beef and the
product is wholesome article of food that
will grow in popularity wherever it is intro
duced -
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
APromising Young Rorgia.

In Chicago, the other day, pretty Minnie
kratzenberg, little girl of thirteen, pois-
oned her mother, sister and two brothers.
Fortunately the victims did not die, but
that was not Minnie's fault. The girl used
CROUCH on Rats literally in the coffee,
and on the food, but the family ate very
light supper, and after few violent con-
vusions recovered.
To the surprise of everybody Minnie con-
fessed her guilt. She told her story very
calmly, and without q sign of remorse. She
did not like her brother John, she said
he put on to many airs, and tried to boss
her. 1t struck her that it was pity to
make the others suffer, but as she did not
know how to get rid of John without pois-
oning the whole crowd she had cheerfully
accepted the situation, and had put in her
best work.
To our mind this is fully as horrible as
any of the murders of the day. A rosy
checked little girl who ought to have been
playing with her doll goes deliberately to
work to poison every member of her family,
with all the malice and all the nerve of a
Borgia 1t is not claimed that she Is in
sane. She is pleasant faced, good-natured
child, with a temper that sometimes gets
the best of her. In no respect, apparently,
is she different from other children of her
age.
This crime and several other diabolical
deeds of recent date will interest The stu
dent of sociology. What is there in our civ
ilization that causes little children to be-
come full-tledged criminals? Why do
husbands, wives, parents and their off
spring kill each other? Why do men with
out motive commit such murders as those
in Austin, Texas, and in London?
1t is impossible to answer these questions
fully and satisfactorily, and yet one cannot
help jumping to the conclusion that in our
society there is something wanting in our
system of moral training-something that
makes the young heartless and the old in
different. Our doctrine of the survival of
the fittest, not only leads us to look on
complacently when some are pushed to the
wall, but it makes some aggressive natures
take delight in anything that is destruc-
tive and deadly. If we go on at our present
rate of progress we may expect to see many
criminals as precocious as the youthful
Chicago monster.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
Starting on the Right Line.

The opening of the chronological school
today marks new era in the history of ed
ucation in Georgia.
What we need are men educated In me-
chanical arts and sciences The sore need
OF such men is shown in the fact that most
Of the men who have done the mechanical
work for this school were imported from
the north to do it. There is scarcely a
business that has machinery connected with
1t, no matter how simple it may be, that
does not, during the year, pay out hundred
or so dollars for some northern expert to
travel hundreds of miles, to do practically
unimportant job, and return. Whatever
manufacturing enterprise is started, it is al
most invariably the case that a northern
man is brought down to organize, and take
charge of its mechanical department.
The state proposes to correct this by edu-
eating her own artisans and master mechan-
les. She proposes to turn out every year or
so, hundred or so expert and scientific
workmen, who can build manufacturing
plants, and administer them when they are
complete.
The school opens with about hundred
students. When its purposes are under
stood, its equipment is noted, and its ad-
mirable faculty appreciated there will be
hundreds of boys applying for admission
who cannot be accommodated.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
Too Many Elections,

II our next legislature would deal with
the matter of changing our election laws so
as to have all, or as many as practicable, of
our elections to take place at the same time,
it would do the state service which would
be far reaching in its effect.
We have too many elections. Take Full
ton county, for instance. In the latter part
of August primary election for senator
was held, then came the legislative primary,
then the general state election, then comes
the presidential election, then the city cleo
ton and last the county election, all taking
place within but little over four months.
This could be greatly simpliied by the leg
islature, as has been done In nearly all of
the other states of the union, most of which
have fixed the date of the presidential cleo
ton for the holding of the state and county
elections. Georgia should do likewise Our
state elections should be moved up from the
first Wednesday in October to the first
Wednesday in November, the day of the
presidential election; and our county cleo
tions should be moved back from the first
Wednesday in January to the first Wednes-
day in November, so that all three of these
elections would take place on the same day
instead of forcing the people to go through
the trouble, the anxiety and the turmoil
which so many elections coming in such
quick succession naturally creates.
This is a matter which the members-elect
to the Legislature should think about, and q
bill should be passed on this line at the
next session. We don't believe that such q
bill would meet with serious objection.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
Light Weight Cotton Bales.

In discussing the various substitutes of
fered for jute bagging, the question of the
present size and weight of cotton bales has
received considerable attention.
Large and heavy bales make rough
handling necessary, and they require an
exceptionally thick and strong covering.
A small bale could be handled more con-
veniently, and 1t is possible that the neces-
sity of comprising would be obyiated. OF
course, all innovations are objected to at
first, but can anybody tell why's bale should
not be $50 pounds instead of 500 pounds9
The secretary of the New Orleans cotton
exchange finds that last season a firm at
Abbeyille, Louisiana, shipped to Fall River
over 5000 bales OF an average weight Of 100
pounds. These bales were put up in the
shape of cubes in very compact form, and
We're covered with Dundee bagging, fastened
with Irvine, without rim bands or hoops.
Owing to their small size, these packages
could easily be handled by one man, and
transported with facility. and slowed away
on shipboard without comprising.
The Louisiana shipments have been so
successful, in the saving Of COMPRISING
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
To the Wheat Gamblers.

The gentlemanly gamblers who, within
the past few days, in Chicago, have pushed
wheat up to more than double Its real value,
are troading on dangerous ground.
Already many of the Chicago bakers in
sist that they must raise the price of five
cent loaf TO seven cents. TO the masses
and the unemployed poor this is serious
calamity.
Good men try to make bread cheap; bad
men combine together TO make It dear.
Some of the bloodicst revolutions in history
have started with bread riot.
The people are less patient, more irrita-
BILE and more reckless now than they have
ever been since we began our experiment
of free government They are watching
the monopolists and gamblers in breadstuifs
with angry and suspicious eyes, and it will
not take much to drive them to the adop-
ton of desperate measures.
When men for speculative purposes raise
the price of food they commit crime
against the whole human race. They can
not expect TO continue in the business long
and live. One of these days, when the
socialists, anarchists and starving poor OF
Chicago hear of a big wheat corner that has
raised the price of bread, they will come to-
gether in the twinkling of an eye and string
the spectators TO the lamp posts.
1t is time for the law to step in and make
this sort Of gambling impossible. So long
as II continues it win tempt the peaceable
poor man to become thief, and provoke
the desperate one to become murderer.
Better stop the whole business.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
Indiscriminate Charity.

We are all familiar with the deceitful
cant about the evils of indiscriminate char
ity, but nobody expected to hear much of 10
when appeals were made for the yellow
fever sufferers at Jacksonville.
1t seems, however, that the wretched
frauds who are always indulging in this
sort of talk do not know where to draw the
line. They have had so much to say that
the Jacksonville Times Union feels called
upon to express the opinion that even in
discriminate charity is better than whole
sale distress and starvation.
So plain proposition does not need ar.
gument. The men who always answer the
distressed with this jargon about charity
are simply trying to justify their niggardly,
misery ways. They hate to give penny.
to even the most deserving object, and the
sufferers in Jacksonville may starve for all
they care. As rule, the man who is all
ways refusing to give on the ground that it
will encourage the idle and undeserving, is
fellow who does not propose, under any
circumstances, to part with a cent until
public opinion forces him to make a show
of generosity.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
The Facts Against Him.

The article on "Sherman In Atlanta, +"
in last Sundays CONSTITUTION, was shown
by New York Herald reporter to General
Sherman, aud the veteran was asked what
he had 10 say about II,
1t was an unpleasant subject II the
general admitted its truth he would have TO
say that he had been sailing under false
colors, and that his march TO the sea was
not preoonceiyed plan, but was a necessity
born Of an emergency. On the other hand.
If he denied the statements in the article he
would be taking issue with man whose
yeracity and memory could no. be ques-
toned.
The general slipped out Of his embarrass-
ing situation very mgeniously. He ad.
mitted nothing, and denied nothing. lie
simply asked the reporter whether he
thought il likely that he would, under the
circumstances, have given his confidence TO
. man In Atlanta. Further than this ho
would not 60.
In his old ago the general is growing dis
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

out at the bidding of his friends or the
| icers of his opponents.
His participation In the national cam
| paign is now matter of more curiosity than
anything else. He has lost his power OF
| harm TO the democracy, and consequently
his capacity of assistance to his own party.
His course since his return has been one OF
constant indiscretion, and his speeches as a
whole have probably done more to help the
democracy than to injure 1t.
There is large element in the republican
party which is distnctively far Mr.. Blaine
above anything, even of the party policy.
There is another element which is for any
thing else but Mr. Blaine. In this cam
paign Mr. Blaine seems to have forgotten
the existence Of this division, and his course
has been such as TO pander TO one side and
affront the other. The consequence is, he
he is now a republican firebrand, and as
fast as he Is thrown into one community by
his admirers, he is thrown out by the other
element, which realizes that he Is a danger
Gus missile.
The republican press has been explaining
his defense Of the trusts ever since he made
that celebrated speech, and the more they
explain the deeper they put Mr.. Blaine in
his little grave. Every time he speaks, the
republican press deyotes itself to explaining
some of his absurd utterances, and his ac-
tiyity has now reached point of absolute
offensiveness to the republican managers.
A few months ago there was not republican
in the country who would not have said
that he would be made secretary of state in
the event of General Harrson's election.
Now the whole party is devoting itself to
checking the injury which even the report
of such contingency entails, by denying it;
and it is even said that the national COM
mittee has determined to announce that no
such thing Will happen in the event of re-
publican success.
Poor Brother Blaine. This is an off year
for him, and unless signs fail, this isthe last
of him as political power. The republic
cans are tired of him and the democrats
wouldn't have him. His race is about run,
and while 1t is true that he was neck and
neck for long time, he has dropped behind
at last, and has now fallen back of the dis
lance pole.
Like Fraudy Hayes, he should take him
self into q Hennery, where he can brood
over his downfall.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

Specializing In the necessities Of life was
blood money.
The Rev. Robert S. Macarthur, Baptist,
after many circumlocutions finally said
plumply that man guilty of Hutchin-
sons conduct was "morally responsible
The Rev. DR.. Houghton, of the sLittle
Church Around the Corner" said that he
didn't know anything about it, and didn't
care to express an opinion.
So much for the preachers. The judges
were more cautious in their utterances.
Judge Cowing said that such speculation
was a serious moral wrong, and deserving Of
punishment
Recorder Smyth preferred to say nothing,
as case involving the question might some
day come before him, and he did not wish
to commit himself in advance.
If these interviews had embraced sis
thousand preachers and judges, instead Of
only six, it is probable that the opinions ex-
pressed would have been on the same line.
cold Hutch,' as he is called, must geS
what enjoyment he can out of his gains.
He will not get much out of the opinions OF
his fellow men when they discuss him and
his methods.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

Greet He was downed In his controversy
with Wade Hampton about the burning of
Columbia. The facts were against him.
He was downed again when he tried to
prove that jefferson Davis wrote a treason
able letter before the war. The facts were
against him. Proiiting by these expert
ences he wisely declines to admit or deny
the correctness of the interviews with him
after the capture of Atlanta, reported for
the first time in THE CONSTITUTION.
Again the facts are against him.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
The Last OF Brother Blaine.

The people Of this country viii probably
not hear but little more, after this year, OF
Brother Blaine as political factor
His decline as political power has been
something wonderful. When he arrived
from Europe about two months ago he was
che political lion Of this country. Rcpubli.
cans went wild with enthusiasm at the com
Ing Of the man whom they believed would
lead tkom TO victory; and democrats, while
fearing his power, Joined in welcoming him
back, as an American whose return 10 this
country after long absence abroad, was .
matter Of national interest.
He threw himself at once into the political
arena, and after stay Of two months, dur.
Ing which his once brilliant plumcs have
been tFaIled In the dust, he refuses TO com,
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09

and the absence of loss in handling, that
the firm has made arrangements to ship
larger quantities of cotton this year in small
packages.
The secretary of the New Orleans ex-
change thinks that there will be revolu-
tlon in cotton baling, as it is now estab-
lished that light weight bales have been
actually shipped to the mills in other COW
ering than the jute baggng, and have been
found by the firm shipping them to be
more profitable than bales of the ordinary
size. The fact that these small bales are
readily taken by the largest milling center
in the United States is also significant.
Our planters and mill men will find
enough in these points to justify their at
tentive consideration of the proposed
change
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
"old Hutch. and His Methods.

A New York World reporter has secured
from the pulpit and the bench number of
interesting opinions upon the action Of Mr.
Hutchinson in cornering the wheat market
OF Chicago and raising the price of flour
S1.75 per barrel.
The Rev. Howard Crosby, Presbyterian.
said that whether Hutchinson's action was
criminal or not in the eyes of the law it
certainly was criminal in the sight of the
Lord. He believed that it ought to be pun
ished by law and would be when we had
legislators with bsckbones.
The Rabbi Gottheil quoted the passage in
Proverbs, which curses the man who makes
for himself gain from the bread of the poor
He believed that speculation should be con-
fined to luxuries like diamonds or brandy.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
A Very Practical Scientist.

The introduction of bill In congress
offering reward for yellow fever preven-
tive or cure has brought out number of
startling suggestions from scientists and
cranks.
Mr.. Edison wants to drench Florida with
gasoline, rhigolene and caustic soda. An
other gentleman is In favor of sinking Cuba,
as that is the home of yellow fever. But
perhaps the biggest scheme Of all is pro-
posed by st. Louis savant. This large
minded Individual writes to Senator Plumb
that Florida is entirely too low and swampy,
and so long as it remains In that condition
yellow fever must be expected. He states
his remedy in the following astounding SEN
tence; "The state must be lacked up at
least 200 feet!''
The vagueness of the plan disappears
when the philosopher explains himself.
What he means by ''jacking up is to ele-
vate the land by means of jack screws. The
same mechanical contrivances used in rails
ing house would have to be employed. 1t
is admitted that good many jack screws
would be needed, and the best engineering
skill would be required. What the jack
screws would rest upon is not stated, but
the st. Louis man doubtless knows what he
is about. After elevating Florida a couple
Of hundred feet a number of canals should
be cut across the state TO run the water off
and drain the swamps. This would make
the climate dry and comparatively COOL
Senator Plumb's correspondent acknowl-
edges that all this would cost a big sum of
money, but he insists that the government
should foot the bill.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
Inspector Byrnes on the London MUIR
derS.

Americans, with their prompt methods
and their contempt for red tape, cannot
understand the horrible murder of so many
woman in the Whitechapel district Of Lon
don.
Inspector Byrnes, the famous New York
detective, is worried over the lnofiicicney of
the London police. He believes that one
man committed all the Whitechapcl muir
ders, and he thinks that he is man Of
superior intelligence who is acting under the
influence OF = homicidal mania. The in
spec,or says that the localizaiion OF the
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-10-09
The Canadian situation,

The loose talk of certain editors and speak
ers concerning our relations with Canada
is calculated to mislead those who have not
studied the situation.
During the past two weeks, New York
Sun correspondent has been travelling
through Canada interviewing politicians,
business men and farmers. The informa-
ton collected by him is of interest, and is
doubtless reliable. Intelligent Canadians
admit that the enforcement OF our retalia-
tion policy would injure them more than it
would injure us. They admit, too, that
however averse their government may be to
backing down it will sooner or later have to
yield to the pressure from Washington, as
the British ministers have sharply advised
n compromise.
SO far as annexation to the United States
is concerned, there is very little desire among
the Canadians for such solution of their
problems. In Nova Scotia there is a pretty
strong annexation sentiment, but there is
none of it in the interior.
The Canadians express the belief that In
future they will have many differences with
us over matters as serious as the fisheries
lueStiuii, bub tuVS ieSA CuuuuSHt THAT the
two countries will have the good sense to
remain at peace with each other 1t may
not be aattering to our patriotic pride, but
1t is fact that our neighbors prefer to
suffer few Inconvenience under the Brit
sh flag than to come under the stars and
stripes, and be cut up into states, and go
through the ordeal of what we call recon-
structiCn perhans tho Canadians arc ri,ylt
AT all events, so long as they wish to stay
ont Of the union We are not going to urge
them TO enter il.