The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-20
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

EDITORIAL COMMENT.
With all his shrewdness, Jay Gould was
once duped by the bogus English Lord Gordon
Gould was led to believe the imposter con-
trol!ed certain stocks In which he was in
terested. and gave him 50, 900 as brlbe
The next day the swindle was discovered and
Gordon was induced to refund the money
without appealing to the law
The masses are as much Influenced nv
theories aud opinions as they are by facts
ana arguments. Carlyle said that in the
last century there n book published In
trance thao was laughed at by the nobles
but history showed that their skins went
to bind the second edition. Rousseau's book
lived; its enemies died
The friends Of Mr.. Julian S. Carr, Of Dur
ham, n. g., are earnestly advocating him for
q position In Mr. Cleveand's cabinet Mr..
Carr is one Of the most prominent business
men in North Carolina, and Is thoroughly
ldehtined with the political interests of the
state lie is one Of the original Cleveland
men. and his appointments would be welcomed
by the whole state.
correspondent OF The New York Sun
Tears mat II we keep the worlds fair open
on Sundays 1t will offend the Almighty and
draw upon us a visitation of cholera Our
oid stock Of wickedness Is amply sufficient
to have that effect. 1t is unnecessary 10
speculate upon the probable results Of open.
ing the fair Sunday
The career Of Henry S. Ives is that OF a
remarkable adventurer. Ten years ago he
was clerk Mt n salary Of s., 600 a year; five
years ago he was Napoleon of fnance;'
since then he has served a term IN prison
FOR thieving. He was liberated not long ago
and was soon afterwards married He has
installed his bride in q fine house in a
fashionable quarter in New York city, the
house costing him $4,000 q year rent. Many
Wall street dealers predict that Ives will be
one OF the largest capitalists in the country
before he is forty years old.
Rev. Washington Gladden. in "a Sunday lee
ture Oh the heresy trials said that it could be
shown that the great majority Of defauIters
who Were church people attended some church
where the doctrine taught that punish
ment for sins would come after death in
literal he'll. AS. mere preventive of sim he
Thought the new religion that teaches that
all Of he'll that is horrible can be suffered
here, and ell that makes heaven worth gain.
Ing can il some degree be enjoyed here, IS
to be preferred to the old orthodoxy that puts
Ok all punishment until after death
| Mr.. Aoody's expressed belief that PRAYER
saved the Spree from destruction when ite
shaft broke the other day ts puzzling those
who remember that his old friend and CO
worker. Mr.. Bliss, was killed In the terrible
Ashtabula disaster a few years ago, although
presumably ne prayed as rerventy those
! who were on the Spree. Gwen man as
gifted in prayer as d. L. Moody" says Tn.
| Boston Transcript, should give the larger
laws or the Ruler Of the universe q little
! more humble praise, and the efficacy o.
evangelical praying little less. On the
! whole, General Towards intuition that the
| passengers would all be saved was q good
deal more Ike the simple faith enjoined upol
| the children Of the Kingdom"
| A st. Louis man, speaking Of the girls he
met in Mexico says: Il went down there
| with old Zach Taylor, and liked the country
| so well that L stayed. I bought s cattle
| ranch, and soon had one OF the finest herds
. IN the country [ got along nicely with my
| ne'ghbors until the handsome daughter o.
| Don Jose Velasquez came home from school
[ at Paris, and then my troubles began. PRETTY
! girls are not plentiful in Mexico, and SenOrita
! lnez was as beautiful q woman as ever graced
| the court of old CASTLE. / was soon paving
| asSiduous court TO the dark-eyed Senorita.
| and she appeared TO regard my suit with
considerable favor. 1 had for my rival q
| Senior Romero, wealthy ranchero, who was
supposed TO have been ut time chief Of
! gang Of bandItti that infested the Sierra
| Madre mountains One evening, willie riding
| over to the hacienda of my prospective father
| in-law, a lGsso was thrown over my head and
! settled about my arms pnnng them to my
| side. My horse went on, but [ stopped. A
| minute later | WAS surrounded by a. dozen
| Misunderstanding greasers rs ever cut
| throat. They bound me securely, carried
| up into The mountains and anchored me in
| cave that was evidently the repository of
| punder secured by rotbng excursions. l
! supposed they intended to hold NE for
| som. and opened negotiations with them. !
| then leaanCd that Romero had employed
| them to assassinate me. and that they had
| captured me instead and proposed to serve
| the master who paid best. If Romero bid
| more to have me killed than L could pay for
! my life they would draw II knife across my
| throat. If I outhid him ] free to return
! and settle with him rs best | night. Romero's
! fully expected that be would name n price
! that l could nor pay. After they had, opened
negotiations with him, however, [ Glanced to
| overhear their conversation Romero would
not raise the original pricc-$1, 600. They
! came to me and told me that he had offered
| $4,000 for my life. | through the game
| and replied that | would only pay 81, 600 for
| my release They made pretense of pre-
! pairing for my execution, but | stood firm and
! they accepted my price. II was some days
| before [ could arrange the payment. and
then L returned to have it out with homero
| ana resume my attentions to the young lady.
what was my surprise TO find him coming
| 10 my rescue lille were Quarreiing
| about the girl Frenchman had stepped iii
and married her. Romero wanted my assis-
! lance to Kill the Frenchman. | declined to
| join in the iaudable enterprise, and Romero
| undertook it alone and got the top of his
| head blown of for his pains. | was always
| tribe sorry the affair did not result diff
! ferentiy.'