The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-03-20

have been arrested, put on account OF their
youth they will doubtless escape with light
sentences.
Desperate Poverty.
In a little hovel in the shadow OF Brook.
Ign bridge, an evangelist found. the other
day, poor woman IN garnet making
overalls at 4 cents a pair. BY her side sat
a pinch-faced child of four years, who, by
sewing buttons on the overals, enabled her
mother to earn So. Is a week, working four
teen hours d day, for seven days.
When the evangelist told the woman to
trust in God she turned upon him fercely
and, as quoted by a city paper. exclaimed,
God! Why do you preach to me of God?
/ tell you there is no God for the poor-no
heaven. There is no hell except this life.
No devil except the men who grind the lives
Of women and children into dollars and
cents"
The city missionaries who work among
the poor are disheartened. They say that
it is nard to convert people who are out OF
work ana on the verge of starvation.
Such conditions are dangerous. They
threaten peace and order and the very eX-
istence of society. American Wage-wOrk-
ers have always been accustomed to en-,
ployment at living wages, and
if adopt financial system that will
place them on a level with the pauper labor
Of Europe there viii be trouble.
1t will be Il sad day for this country should
the desperate poor turn their backs on God,
and array themselves against society, pre-
ferring to be shot down. rather than to die
by slow starvation, as they have done IN
other countries.
Ii some of our leading soldbugs would
go among the unemployed masses in the
cities, see their condition, and oVerhear their
talk, they would leave their Wall street
Offices and 80 to Washington and demand
the abandonment of the single gold standard
and currency contraction policy.
cove ne, .s@tiitaD.
New York March 16.-(Special Correspond
ence)-SeveraI gentlemen who have con-
versed with Mr.. Cleveland say that he will
allow the seigniOrage bill to become Il law
by holding it ten days after he receives il.
He will neither sign nor veto it,
This does not SUIT Wall street. Prominent
goldbugs here say that the president is not
the man to sneak o.t of a dilemma through
a pocket veto He IS a very determined
man and is afraid of nothing. lie has de
fled public sentiment many times, and ne
will defy it again. The goid standard men
Will be satisfied with nothing less than
straightout veto.
\ Law Against HHzing.
The New York Legislature has passed
wholly unnecessary bill making hazing,
which results in physical injury, a crime
under the statute. Hazins of that charae-
ter always was a crime, and it could have
been punished if the officers of the law had
attended to their duty. The trouble mas
been that assaults and other injuries com
Inttted by students have been passed by as
college fun OutraSes that Would nave
landed ordinary people in states prison
have been smoothed over because the per
petrarors We're Under-graduates Ihe Cor
reli u0luIc.Ic mas ai laSL loQss1i..t Fltf le"ES
OF New York 10 tine uecessiis. e1y enforcing
the law against collegIans al Vel as other
people Bur mere W2s no need Of a new
law to cover the subject. The old laws
against assault and battery, mayhem ana
murder are ample if they are enforced
without favor.
A..nGtry'a Lever WEEDS.
NJ Fred Gebhard after circIing the globe
in a dizzy whirl of pleasure with MIS-.
Langtry. has at last settled down When
he decided to turn over q new leaf he took
the heeley gold cure treatment. Then he
engaged himself to the beautiful Miss
Louise Morris, of Baltimore. and their we'd
ding last Wednesday was the greatest So
cial event of the week. Mr. Gebhards last
present to Miss Morris was a solid silver
Uathtub.
The white metal in this gorgeous ante
nuptial gift is without alloy. The vessel
is as commodious as the workmanship dis
played on it is intricate and ingenious. Tai!
and beautifully proportional as Miss Nor
ris is she viii be able to dispOrt herself
in this lovers gift without fear Of stub
bng her pink toes at one END OF II or
abrading ner scalp by sudden contact with
the other. This little piece OF boIdor turn
itIre IS beautifully embossed. The exterior
resembles a perfectly laid out flower Sar-
den in miniature, while the interior is deli
cately chased. ON the bottom Of the tub
are embossed Miss NOrris's initials in huge
letters. IT weighs 200 pounds aVordupois
weight. The market price for silver at
present is IS cents an ounce. In this dou-
ble-decked and triple-riVeted vessel suS-
geetlNe of female syb1rltSm there are
500 ounces. At 50 cents AN ounce this
amounts to $2,e56 Tor the metal alone. Sl-
Yer workers IN New York who We're allowed
10 feast their eyes ON the beautliui vessel
before 1t Was SWathe0 IN tmiea roltoh ana