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h BY E. B. M?RRA //?.-?; -; . ' Tlj??HElr^'?OWMN, ? j. G. CLINKSCALES, Sditoe. l ~ . . . ? ' The State Colored. Teachere's Assoria . tfoa will hold an Institute in Columbia \? the first week iri July. It would be well y for: those of our colored teachers who are able, to attend. They can not make a i .better, investment of their money. Soperintendent of Education, J. H. : Bice, has decided to give us $200.00 of , ; the^eabody Fand to aid us in the Insti ... *tntework at -Williamston. This appro? priation 13 made on the condition that ; th^ Institute be open to all the white . / .teachers in the State. It is the purpose ? of the two Commissioners to have a. lec? ture every night from some scholar an<J experienosd teacher. Prof. F. C. Wood wajrdj of Spartanb.irg, will lectore on "What to read, and how to read it." Dr. . CJarllsde; Dr. Geer, Superintendent Bice, W. ft;' Bannet, Esq., and others will :' lectate during the Bession. Don't fail . -;to^a if you want . "to get a place to board within the limits . of th8 town, you better write at once to /someone; Don't go there without hav //" Ingmade airarigements. Don't fail to go I -? i let^ from ^Truf. W. T. gander, /"^?ne^fithfr^steMin District Noi 8, in : forms mis that things are moving np in ? his^istrict. The trustees.have had two \. ,or. 'ti'ree meetings, since the ?chools \closed; 'have discosssed various, matters. : looking to th<$ improvement of the H schools, laying their plans, deep and well .' for'the coming scholastic year. Prof. \ Lander requests us to announce that /- thejliei^ers. wishbg to. make arrange ; jael^fayipoMtions next fall woofd do 1 yweWto) write him;, or aegjum, at once. r^^S^t3yW*;-gJ?de.-: teacher need apply. - They don^t want that kind. The Board canfgive employment to six white teach * era and as" many colored. Their public *- '-''-ierm^wlll. last about four months; in ; some, neighborhoods, the patrons have ? promiwd to suppiemeut the public fund '.;sad-rua' the schools from eight to ten - months. Their teachers will be required to dp a certain amount of reading and r ;^^*0*^ . 8QP6r^'on ?f the schools .7rMj>e ranch, doser than heretofore. //We are stirprised to learn that some of Mr.. ComptopV patrons at Doable .Springs, Fork Towaship, object to his attending the Institute at Williamston in v Jolyi. They do aot want their children . to be oat . of school daring those two weeks. O, what a pity, that men are not " always so acxioua about the education of tri^- chil^rSBh j .What a pity that the : : importance. 6f evea two weeks is not. . alwayVsa plain to them! We have had a exalted opinion of that section of ^Anderson Couaty. We really did not s jJkapw that there was one person in the Fork who was so Bhort-sighted. Caa they aot see that from a business stand poiatj it would-be money.in their pockets 00Ll&ji?. Cp'mjpton go to that Institute? .r^?dftBd,' it. would pay--those people to pay .' ?' Mr. .CJpmpton's board while at-Williams / too, and aot only that but to pay his traveling expenses to and from Williams ton. Do they aot know that Teachers' T?istitates are not child's- plays? Do they/ not know that they are regular \training-schools, in which teachers are made acquainted with the: very beat, methods of instruction? Does their //teacher know enough? Is Mr. Compton too oldj or top far gone, to learn some? thing more? Do his patrons know that he?is huagojring and thirsting for infor? mation^ ;? Iahe aot begging for an oppor ?T tnaity to better prepare himself for the. work he undertakes? Do his patrons ; not know: that two weeks at an Institute such as the oae to be held at Williams ton would be . worth more to him as a ?/-.t&jcner and more to them and their /''children than two years spent by him in the best High School he could attend? 0,' this fearfal .prejudice agaiast some ?^31iteg.aew," tW? te'rrible dread of getting . put of old wbra ruts. We do not hesi? tate to say that two weeks at Williams-, ton would make Mr. Compton a better ?Jtesrqher by 100 . per. cent. We thini surely the good people of that neighbof hoo4have been- misunderstood. Surely they woold not subject themsel ves to such criticism and ridicule as such a course wpald bring upon* them. In justice to ypur chiHren, fello"w-citir.en8, to say nothing of 'the justice doe'to Mr. Comp t?fjowt- faithfuiteacher, in.jostice to your children/in justice to that; enb'ght eameaty.ou. are believed to have, ia justice to; the " demands of ecoaomy, let Compton go the Institute, and be ashamed that you ever objected to it. QEHTLEMaN A1TO LADY. We.nave, doubtless, all over. America' v Vway applying-the titles of gentleman y land lady thai deserves the sharpest criti? cism, or ra^ Do you, gentle married " reader, ever receive ? cards -addressed to "Mr. A'. B. /and Lady?" Did yon eter see a man and wife so en? tered:'pa a iotel ' register? Did you Yljft?',J$\^:faj&-- words printed oa vwf?n^lcaHir^_ This last we never ?awj- bat Prof - Sehele De Vere inli .^rrisatea-'lltat. it: /is- jlone sometimes. Of /oaurse well bred people know that those who write these things on invitations and iff hotel registers are aew.at the business ~ of playrng lady and gentleman. But it ts [veil to emphasize the fact that we make'the term .top eommo'o. If people, r/^.i?oIieOTery ?who write lady for wife only. ? kaeW'" to what Buspicion they sobject. i jjhemselyes from hotel keepers they V wooid "always write wife and not Jady. -;: ^^blaff Eoglisb sentry made a clear s-;^4ls^actio?.whea he .halted'the mTe of - the Geaera| as she'was/crossing forbidden '->?' ?jg&ui?z.yj'Tbe ?eneral's orders, ma'am. Ko oneoarj pass^" /^ut I'm theX3eneral's ilj^." *'T?n'.; couldn't pass, ma'am, if yod were his ->-ife." ;"c 3fbwCtt cdoeab*t help: tbe:imatter that i Gea. Andrew Jackson'said in a letter, ^Pirttfept to Leonidas and iudy my kiud r^-laj(ttto^a?> j aod,. when you write to your . ft'tf|er,tGeneral Polk, present my kind %f:^^i^':^^^y'^?. }*?y and family/' //Either is it enough, to justify the misuse '?t fh^ Garlyle wrote, ? \f*Xm^^*^^^(^^^'-nse to.Mr. fej^roctor and his lady." Evea the ifol> r & co. lowing sentence from Humphrey Clinker does not prove anything except that the misuse is an old one and not an Ameri? canism, as sometimes charged: "Mr. Dennison insisted upon Liddy's accept* ing two bank notes of ?100 each as pocket money, and his lady gave her a diamond necklace of double that value." It is said a gallant American orator once complimented an .audience composed mainly of the fair sex by saying, "The ladies were the last at the cross and the first at the tomb." Would it not have appeared ratber ridiculous even to that audience if the orator had gone on to say that John and Peter only stayed with the Master after the rest of the gentle* men had run away? How much more ridiculous, however, was the case of our orator than tbat of the English Curate who, in the service of the churching of women, prayed in the case of his high* born patroness, "Oh Lord, save this lady, Thy servant," and had from the clerk the response to match, "Who putteth her ladyship's trust in Thee." We all laugh at the absurdity of this anecdote from New Orleans: "A lady caused the arrest of a policeman for call? ing her a 'woman.' The Judge, after carefully deliberating, decided that she was a woman, thus aggravating the insult." But what if a reliable man were to aver that to his sure knowledge a certain church roll in the City of Nash? ville represents a number of men as hav* ing "ladies," but not one as having a "wife." If we remember aright, it was recently telegraphed to one of our city , papers that "Senator Lamar and lady" ! had left for Atlanta; and in a list of press excursionists we read "John Jones and lady," "William Brown aud wife," and "Richard Smith and ladies." .Prof.rfSchele.de Vere in his "Ameri? canisms,'2 tells some amusing anecdotes about the misuse of the word "gentle* man." .''The Duke of Saxe Weimar was, in Alabama, asked the question: 'Are you the man that wants to go to Selma ?' and upon assenting, was told: 'Then I'm the gentleman that is going to drive you.'" The landlord of the inn at Corning, when asked by Sir Charles Lyell to find his coachman, called out in his barroom: "Where is the gentleman that brought this man here?" But the dime museum lecturer perhaps capped the climax when he referred to the Zulu on. exhibition as this gentleman. To come directly to the point the words-man and woman in their proper sense are in danger of dying out in some parts of this country. People of culture should come to the- rescue. It might be well, too, to start some schools and col? leges for young women, rather than for young, ladies, or, if that is not possible, to let young women enter the colleges for young men; ? C. F. ?, in ike Southern Christian Advocate. He Brought in the Game. There was a wedding in Brooklyn re? cently which was attended by a crowd of | people, the bride being a famous belle, the bridegroom a lato army officer. There is a story about him tbat was received-with great effect at the wedding. He was in the western frontier service, and one day (so the story goes) he went out to bunt a bear. He bad been away I from the camp a few hours when bis voice was beared faintly in the distance exclaiming: "H-e r e we come I" In a little time the same cry was-heard again, but nearer ; then it was repeated at-intervals, nearer and louder, when finally the bold captain emerged from a bit of woods near the camp, running at the top of his speed, without hat, cap or gun. In he came to camp shouting : "Here we come!" "Here who comes ?" inquired a brother I officer. "Why, me and the game," gasped the officer, pointing to a big black bear which shoved itself at the edge of the woods, took a long look at the cemp, and then, with a growl at missing his expect? ed meal off the captain, disappeared in the woods again. "What's the use in shooting your game," said the captain, testily, "when you can bring it alive, as I did ?" The story got home before the captain did, aud was in everybody's mouth. The other night, as tbe old captain led his intended bride into the church, with tbe ?pride and grace so readily inspired by the occasion, some wicked wag sang out from the gaflery: "H-e-r-e we come." Which was followed by such a shout of laughter as the old church never heard before.?Brooklyn Citizen. Drank an Ounce of- Aconite. Nashville, May 30.?In East Nash? ville to-day John G. Bernal, an old man, a painter, and very much addicted to I joking, went into a drug store and going back to where George Donelson, a c'erk, was putting up medicine, said: "George, I'm tired of living, what will kill me?" Donelson, who was measuring aconite, said: "Here's something tbat will kill you mighty quick?aconite?if you just drink enough." "All right," said Ber? nal ; "get me something to drink it out of." Donelson poured out an ounce graduate full and said : "All right; here 'she is." He did not notice Bernal, who took it up and drank it. Donelson, looking up a moment later and seeing the empty glass, said : "My GodI Did you drink tbat ?" "Yes," said Bernal. ."Then you'll die, said Donelson and rushed off for help. Six or seven physi? cians were summoned and did all they could, but it was too late. Bernal said he had no idea that the glass contained poison. His wife and two grown sons were also called and were with him when he died. Donelson is much depressed and claims tbat he knew tbe old man was joking, but thought he would not drink the poison after being told what it [ *was. Bernal was about 60 years old and thought well of by everybody. ? Protracted drought is reported in Miuuesota "and Dakota, aud tho grain is suffering because of it. ? Sam Jones refused to address a gathering of newspaper men at Boston. His work appear^ to be excusively among the sinners. PROHIBITION. Address of Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, D. D,, In the Opera House, Atlanta, Ga., on Sunday afternoon, 8th Inst. From the Atlanta Constitution, November 9, 1885. DeGive's Opera House was packed from pit to dome yesterday afternoon to hear the lecture on temperance by Rev. J. B. Hawthorne. Long before tbe appointed hour tbe house was filled and fifteen hundred or two thousand people were turned away unable to gain admission to the building. It is estimated tbat fully three thousand people heard the address. The house was called to order by Rev. T. B. Kendall, who delivered a short and appropriate prayer. The great congre? gation then joined in singing, after which some announcements were made. Dr. Hawthorne then arose and spoke as fol? lows : This grand gathering of the friends of virtue is under the auspices of Atlanta's virtuous women. There is no safer, brighter, happier place for man than that in which the power of Christian womanhood is supreme. Who doubts that it is better to be here to-day in council with these women whose hearts throb in sympathy with all that is pure and lovely and divine than in some club room where the enemies of prohibition have met to concoct their schemes to perpetuate the dominion of the worst enemy that truth ever had, that virtue ever had, that man over had ? I am not here to indulge in any idle flattery of woman, tbe occasion is too solemn and too momentous. It is sc. old slander that to please a woman, you have only to make her pleased with herself. That may be true of some giddy, Billy, empty headed, empty hearted, butterfly of fashion, but it was never true of a wo? man. There are females who are not women. Some one has said that women are tbe poetry of the world, that is true, but in a deeper; sense than he meant to express; they are the poetry of the world, but in the. same sense that the stars are the poetry of Heaven. Clear light giving and harmonious, they are tbe terrestial planets tbat rule tbe destinies of mankind. I. believe that it was Lamertine's remark, tbat there is a woman at the beginning of every great thing; she was at the beginning of -that kingdom which brings peace on earth and good will to men ; she has been conspicuous in every grand epoch of that kingdom's progress; she has been at tbe beginning of every great social reform ; she stood by the cross of Christ when every man,; save one, had forsaken it, and since then, with a martyr's faith and a hero's courage she has stood by everything tbat has blessed and uplifted humanity. When the tem? perance movement was in its cradle she stood over it, smiled upon it, caressed and nursed it. For the possibilities of this hour in the prohibition cause we are mostly indebted to woman; she has stood by it and supported it with her prayers and tears aud toils when men were indif? ferent and there was no morning star to tell of coming day. It was base treason in George Eliott to say "tbat woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams, so tbat tbey are not annihilat? ed by a Bbadow." Of her own hopes it may bave been true, but tbe assertion is a cruel libel upon tbe characters of the thousands and millions of brave women, who have persevered in tbe path of duty, when men fainted and sank down in utter despair. It is said to be a peculiarity of women that they poke the fire at the top, I but I think these whisky rings are begin? ning to wake up to the fact, that the women of this land have learned to poke the prohibition fire at tbe bottom. If they stir their husbands, brothers and beaux as profoundly as they have stirred me, we shall have a moral conflagration, in which the whole kingdom of whisky shall pas.i away, and "like tbe baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a rack behind." It is an old German proverb tbat "one hair of a woman's head draws like a bell rope," but I tell you, that bell ropes and even iron cables are but cobwebs in comparison with the cords with which tbe women of Atlanta will draw in this conflict. If they don't drag their cow? ardly husbands and brothers down, who are perched upon the fence, it will be because there is not enough of substance in them ? to make a fastening for a rope. The Chinese say that, "a woman's sword is with her tongue.?' . That is true and in a cause like this in which we are engaged to-day she never lets it rust. It was a favorite Baying of Dr. Adam Clark tbat in every great moral contest one good intelligent talking woman is a match for seven and a half men, but before this campaign is over the friends of tbe dog gerty will be willing to give us fifty of such talking men as they have for one of our brave, dauntless, God-inspired wo? men. I am not prepared to go as far as tbe French proverb, and Bay that "what a woman wBls God wills," but I will say that there is no community on earth in which a cause worthy of success has ever failed to the support of which woman brought an undivided mind and heart. If these wives, mothers and daughters will be true to themselves, true to their native instinct, true to those divine con? victions which lie in the great deep of every virtuous woman's heart, as sure as a righteouB God reigns, in Heaven and administers his government over the world, the sun of November 25th will go down upon Atlanta redeemed. ? This is the Lord's day, and I feel sure tbat we are gathered here in the interest of tbe Lord's work. The very founda? tion of our blessed Christianity is moral? ity, and the question before us is a great moral question. It is one which touches the very narrow of right and wrong, and any religion which ignores such a ques? tion is not worth having. Any pulpit tbat is afraid to discuss it is not worthy of the respect of. brave and honest-men?< Is it not -marvelous'how zealous these Christian men have become all at otico for tho purity and sauctity of the pulpit? They are not too pious to bribe a poor negro to register three times a day. Tbey are not too pious to keep their backdoors open on Sunday and sell liquor in violation of the laws of God ANDERSON, S. C, 1 and man, but tbey are shocked, they are horrified when a minister of Christ stands up in the pulpit on the holy Sabbath day and urges the people in the name of God and humanity to exterminate the worst enemy that religion and the Sabbath ever had. The liquor traffic imposes great bur? dens and hardships upon society and especially upon the poorer classes. That being true, it is wrong, and ought to be put down. Recently a vast procession of laboring men marched through the streets of Chicago behind the banner on which was written, "our children cry for bread." My friends, that inscription was true. In these cities of our land, there are thousands of children, the offspring of honest laborers, who cry for bread. I have lived in three of the largest cities of America, and I have seen with my own eyes, half-fed and half-clad children by the hundred. I have seen hundreds of nursing mothers shivering from cold and wasting away for the lack of nutritious food. I have seen this even in homes where both husband and wife toiled all the day long and far into the night to provide for the family. Now, what is the explanation of this destitution? It is to be found in a nnmber ot well-known facts, but the main fact is that every year fourteen hundred million, dollars worth of grain, raised in these United States, is destroy* ed by the men who make and sell liquor, Think of it, my -philanthropic friends. Think of it ye who profess to love your brother man. Think of it, ye who pro? fess to believe in and practice pure and undefiled religion. America's children, America's women cry for bread, and yet fourteen hundred million dollar's worth of the bread that God gives to the coun? try is destroyed, and worse than destroy? ed every year. "Our children cry for bread." Stop your distilleries and breweries, let the bounteous harvest with which God annu? ally blesses our country flow into legiti? mate channels, and while the world stands it will never be said again of the children of American laborers that they cry for bread. Bread enough and to spare, will be within the reach of every man upon our soil who is willing to work eight hours a day. Suppose there was a great store house in Atlanta, large enough to contain four? teen hundred million dollars worth of grain, and that the grain should be brought from the four quarters of our land and deposited there. Then suppose, that the eix hundred thousand men in this republic who are engaged in the liquor trade should band themselves together, march down upon us, surround that great store house and burn it to ashes. What would you call them? Saints. Good.citizens. Patriots. Would you rise up and say, "these are the men we should Bend to congress ? From these men let us choose our governors, our legislators, our mayors, our councilmen, our aldermen, our sheriffs and our tax receivers. No, you would call them vandals and fiends. Every man among us, who has the blood of a patriot in his veins, would rend the air with a cry for war. Our wives and mothers and daugh? ters add Bistens would call us to. arms, and in less than three months an army would be raised strong enough to capture and bring to the bar of justice every man who had taken part in the burning of the nation's bread. My countrymen, the liquor men of this land have done worse than burned the nation's bread. They have not only destroyed our bread, but with it they have destroyed millions of human lives; they have filled your asylums with pauper children, crowded your prisons with criminals; painted your streets with blood, and draped your homes in mourning. No less a periodical than the London Times has recently said : "The liquor traffic produces more idleness, crime, want and misery, than all otber causes put together;" and one of the wisest men of the English parlia? ment declares that "if we add together all the miseries generated in our time by war, famine and pestilence, the three great scourges of mankind, tbey do net exceed those which spring from the traffic in strong drink." Yet we are asked to believe that the men who are doing this mischief and bringing all of this woe upon our country and our race, are. good citizens, patriotic men, good enough to ' belong to the cburcb, good enough to be vestrymen, deacons, stew? ards and elders, good enough to have control of our city governments, and our legislatures. We are asked to go to the polls on the 25th of November and by exercise of the solemn right of suffrage sanction the crimes which they have committed against God, humanity and country, and declare that they shall go on in their works of destroying the nation's dread, and of adding to the nation's pov? erty wretchedness and woe. Women of Atlanta, what response do you make to this monstrous proposition ? On the 25th day of this month, the day that shall be remembered in (he years to come as the most solemn epoch in Atlan? ta's hiHtory, will you lay your soft, pure hands on husbands, sons and brothers and say: "Go forth io day and stand by the rum fiend, aud give him liberty for two years more to corrupt and debauch and destroy?" Or will you rise up in the majesty of true womanhood, and bid tbem in God's name to go forth and strike down the demon and thrust him back into the black hell from whence he came? If Chicago and New York should be burned down to morrow, the material loss would not be equal,to that which the liquor.dealers inflict upon this nation every year; and yet, we were asked to believe that the nefarious business in which these men are engaged is indis? pensable to Atlanta's material prosperity. Could you conceive of a greater insult to our common sense. Again and again poor Ireland has been stricken with terrible famines. To what has it been due ? Not a deficiency of grain,, potatoes aud fruit, but to their destruction in distilleries and breweries, Irelaud became poor becauso she con? verted the products of her labor and soil into liquor, and then drank down the liquor, and so drstroyed her capital. Her distilleries and brewers made pau? pers by the thousand; but what did they TUESDAY MORNI] do with their paupere? Take care of them ? Feed them and clothe them ? No, they call noon the outside world and especially upon America to take the burden from their hands. Whisky has made three millions of American paupers within the last five years. Who takes care of them? The men who made them paupers? No, tbey turn them over to the State and to Christian Charity. You who are honest and virtuous have the bill to pay. And yet we are asked to believe that the men who lay the burdens upon us are indispensable to Atlanta's prosperity. We are asked to go to the polls on the 25th of November and vote to these men the privilege of going on in their work of. multiplying drunkards and orphans and pauperism and starvation and crime. Mothers and daughters of Atlanta, can you look God in the face and say that we to whom the ballot belongs ought to do it? It would be nothing more than simple justice to make the whisky traffic provide for the pauperism it has produced, but if we should do that; if we should levy a tax upon the business sufficient to sup port those whom it has rednced to pover? ty and wretchedness, in less than two years the liquor traffic would be numbered among the things that were. No man could afford to engage in it. Year by year these traders in iniquity increase our burdens and multiply our woes. Year by year the vampires get deeper intor our blood. Year by year these ulcers eat deeper into our flesh ; yet we are asked to believe that we cannot have material prosperity without them and to go to the polls and vote them permission to go on with their work. Mothers and maidens, of Georgia, we turn to you for counsel. Shall we yield to their demands ? I believe that every drop of the pure blood in your veins answers, "No." I am persuaded that if Georgia's virtuous women had the settlement of this ques? tion, the whisky ring would be buried beyond the reach of any resurrection arm, and epitaphed with every execration that purity and honesty can heap upon uncleanness and corruption. Six hundred thousand men in these United States are engaged either in the making or selling of liquors. Patriots, philanthropists, think of that. Six hundred thousand men engaged in turn? ing our food into a poison that makes wives widows, children orphans and men devils. Six thousand men engaged in making loafers, tramps, dead-beats, luna? tics, idiots, thieves and aseassioB. It is an indisputed and undisputable principle of political economy that "every person who produces nothing beneficial to society is virtually a pau? per." I beg you to mark the words, "Every person who produces nothing beneficial to society is virtually a pau? per." What are the doggery keepers of Atlanta producing that is beneficial to society ? Will not some Solomon of the anti-prohibition party, some man who in wisdom towers above his fellows?will not some sage like Mr. "Mark Well," arise and tell us what the keepers of the dirty dens of Decatur street are produc? ing that is beneficial to Atlanta society. If any one is ever so fortunate as to make the discovery let him come to me, and I promise him a notoriety such as no Georgian has ever had. If tbey are not producing something that is beneficial to society, then according to the law which I have just quoted, we must class them as paupers, and in this republic there are six hundred thousand of these paupers to sup? port. ' They produce nothing tbat 'is beneficial to society: but that is not all. If they were only a class of paupers we could feel very kindly towards them. If tbey were only paupers, we could tolerate them as we do other paupers. I have seen the poor tramp who was perfectly harmless. He disturbed nobody's prop? erty and nobody's peace. But who will say tbat the class of paupers which we are dealing with to-day are harmless? Will Mr. Mark Well say it? Will Mr. Julius Brown say it ? I think not. If all the world were a book it would not contain space enough to chronicle the mischief which these whisky men have done. And yet tbe citizens of Atlanta and of Fulton County are asked to believe tbat they cannot get along with? out these vampires. They are asked to go to the polls in the approaching elec? tion and say that they shall be protected and supported in their ruinous work. Daughters of Georgia, ye who wear the white flow of innocence and purity, could we offer any greater insult to your feelings, than to charge you with giving sympathy to such a cause ? Would not such an indignity turn your blood into liquid fire ? But if you abolish the liquor traffic how will you get revenue sufficient to support the government? Every man, I suppose, has his ideal statesman. Mine is the peerless man who stands at tbe head of the grand liberal party of Great Britain. His is that mountain majesty of worth, which looks forth into the sun's face like Alpine snow?imperisbably pure. When I am supported in my views on any question by the wisdom of William E. Gladstone, let no man call me fanatic or madcap. When the English brewers came to him and said, "If you interfere with our business you will have a fright? ful deficiency in the government treasury to provide for," he looked them calmly in the face and replied: "Gentlemen, you need not give yourselves any trouble about the revenue. Tbe question of revenue must never stand in the way of needed reform. With a sober popula? tion, not wasting their earnings, I shall know where to obtain the revenue." Oh that such words were "writ where stars are lit;" and for such a man no throne is too high and no empire too vast. "The question of revenue must never stand in the way of needed reform." Put over against these grand words the pitiful political philosophy of the anti prqhibitionist of Atlanta: "We can't afford to reform, because it will diminish our revenue." Fellow citizens, will you take the wisdom of William E. Gladstone or the folly of Mr. Mark Well ? ' The suppression of vice and lawless? ness and crimes, the" lifting up of the nation in morals, is more important than TO, JUNE 9, 1887 a full treasury. That is what the great statesman means. Is be right? Every man who believes in God and moral government knows that he is right. But what say these statesmen who have espoused the cause of Atlanta's whisky ring? "We cannot afford to purify the nation at the expense of the nation's treasury. Sobriety, chastity, honesty and virtue are of less value to a people." These are not their words, but this is exactly what tbey mean. Do you believe them ? No, you can never do that until your natural instincts are dead and the last traces of God's image have faded from your soul. Yet this is what we are asked to believe. This is what we are asked to say on November 25th. Let men who are willing to barter their man? hood say it, but God helping me I never will. I deBire the material prosperity of my country, but let that prosperity rest upon the solid granite of moral intelli? gence. Let ub have a full treasury, but when it is full let us be able to say, "There is not a dirty shilling in it." These sentiments, we are told by a cer? tain gentleman of our city, were trans? ported to this country upon the "May? flower." If he is correct in his statement, then, (o my dying day will I hallow the memory of that dear old ship. I would not give one such man as she bore over untraveled seas to the shores of this Western world for a whole legion of your modern beer suckers and whisky bloats. But, Bays the great English commoner, "with a sober population not wasting their earnings, I shall know where to ob? tain the revenue." He means that a virtuous, industrious and economical people will never And it bard to raise a revenue sufficient to defray the expenses of the government. Is he correct? Is it not to lhe material advantage of any people to be sober and virtuous ? Will not such a people have more from which to raise a revenue than a community in which idlers, drunkards, and deadbeats abound ? Has the God of Heaven made us and put us into a world where civil government cannot be supported without encouraging vice and crime? To this hideous, hateful, damnable doctrine, we are asked by the champions of the anti prohibition cause to commit ourselves. Can we do it ? No, not till our judg? ements bave fled to brutish beasts and we have lost our reason. If these dens of vice should be closed, and the people of Atlanta are not more prosperous, happy and contented two years hence than they are to-day, then the Bible is not true, and God himself is a myth. Or, if there be a God, and he has made the material prosperity of nations and communities of men to de? pend upon the prevalence of drunken? ness, debauchery and crime, be is a mon? ster, And deserves to he bated. ? The executive committee of the prohi? bition parly is made up of men whose veracity is unimpeacbed and unimpeach? able?men upon whose record no stain can be found, and who would choose death rather than dishonor. These men have carefully and conscientiously gath? ered from the villages, towns and cities of our State, where prohibition has been tried, all the information which is needed to form a correct opinion as to the effects of prohibition upon Atlanta's material prosperity. After calmly weighing all the facts which they hare collected, they are prepared, as honest, patriotic God? fearing men, to say to this comunity : "Prohibition will not harm, but greatly improve your material interest." I am not surprised that the words of Sacred Writ bave been perverted to the base purposes of a whisky ring, for itbas always been a favored trick of the devil to quote scripture in defense of bis do? ings. He did that when ho stood with our Christ on the mountain. What an answer did be receive? "Get tbee be? hind me, Satan," and so will I say to his modern imitators. It is true that Christ made wine and drank it. It is true that Paul advised Timothy to "take a little for the stomach's sake;" but it was wine and not a villianous, poisonous counter? feit. . If the liquor traffic were limited to the sale of such a beverage there would be no demand for prohibition; but, where your doggery men sell one bottle of the unadulterated juice of the grape, tbey sell a thousand gallons of whisky that never saw a distillery, and that contained poisons which lay the foundations for in? curable diseases. With a hundred dollars worth of poisonous chemicals there can be made fifty barrels of just such whisky as is sold in the average barroom of At? lanta. When a man's brain and blood are fired with this infernal stuff he is ready for infernal deeds. Who wonders, then, that a learned and distinguished jurist should say, "Nine-tenths of the crimes of this country are traceable to whisky." Would the people of this city vote to license a gambling house? No. They would bury beneath their bitterest ex? ecrations the man who should dare to in? sult them with a proposition so base. But to-day they are asked by a Godless whisky ring to perpetuate a traffic, in comparison with which gambling, even in its worst forms, is angelic innocence. Shall we grant their request? That is the.question whish we are about to de? cide. Christian women of Atlanta, how would you have us vote ? You need not reply, for I know what your answer is. I know something of the depth and in? tensity of your convictions. I know what you are ready to do and suffer in this sacred cause. You are ready not only to petition the men of Atlanta to BE LOYAL TO THE BIGHT, but if it would make your petition more potential, you would get upon your knees and write it with your own heart's blood. In the days of the American revolu? tion Thomas Paine wrote these.immortal words: "These are the times which try men's souls." No greater blessing could come to this community than the crisis through which she is now passing. In this whirlwind of agitaliou men will be sifted, and we shall know what tbey are. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian Christians, "The lire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is." During the next twenty days God will baptize Atlanta in fire. Your men of wood, hay and stubble will be consumed, but your true men will abide the ordeal, and on the evening of the 25th day of Novem? ber they will come forth unscathed and with beatific glory on their faces. There are men in this city who will never speak to me again on account of my position on this question, but the silence of their Hps will be a grander tribute to my con? duct than the blast of a thousand brazen trumpets. There are certain elements of society whose opposition and malignity I always court when engaged in a contest for truth. It is the furnace heat in which the iron that is in me is converted into Damascus steel. Let the anvils ring and the hammers beat. They shape the anchors of my hopes, make me stronger for duty, and more meet for the heritage of glory that awaits me up yonder? "Where the Stars dazzle, And the Angels sing." There are MERCHANTS IN THIS CITY who have threatened to discharge their clerks if they vote the prohibition ticket. Let tbem do it, and the hissing iron of public scorn and indignation will brand them as tyrants and euemies of virtue. Let them do it, and the brave men whom they discharge shall have more than bread enough, and besides a badge of honor more precious than silver and gold. In one of our committee meetings a minister of the gospel arose and said, that he had been waited upon and ad? monished not to join the crusade against whisky. Has it come to this? So be it. The angel of martyrdom is brother to the angel of victory. A minister of Christ driven from his pulpit by the kuklux klans of an iniqui? tous whisky despotism would kindle a fire that would blaze to heaven and illu? mine all Atlanta and all Georgia for years to come. "The blood of the saints is the seed of the church," and one drop of prohibition blood shed in this contest would spring into a harvest of truth, and virtue, and glory such as Atlanta never saw. "Strike mo," said a Massachusetts constable," "and you strike the common? wealth of Massachusetts." And I say to those who have ranged themselves around THE BLACK FLAG OF THE BUM FIEND. Strike any man who wears the white ribbon of prohibition, and you strike the lovers of truth, right, liberty and recti? tude everywhere in this broad land from ocean to ocean and from the lakes to the gulf. Heroes of the grandest chivalry the world ever saw, stand your ground. Lift high your royal banner, and never yield to fear. We shall not fight our battle alone. The vision of the prophet floats before me. The everlasting gates are lifted up, and I can scarcely see for the wings that flash. The chariots and horsemen of the Lord God Almighty are descending to join us. "We are com? passed about with a great crowd of wit? nesses." Our doting mothers, our virtuous wives and our innocent children, gaze upon us with eager eyes and longing hearts. "Humanity with all its fears ^With all its hopes of future years, Hangs, breathless on our fate." The white robed hands in yonder world beyond the sun have climbed the ever? lasting hills to watch the fortunes of our cause. Oh! ye white plumed heroes of the cross, "Sound the tocsin for the fray! Shout the war cry, lead the way." Sieze the monster tyrant by the throat. Blot the era of oppression out. Lead a universal freedom in. How Folks Live in Laureus. The oldest looking negro that I remem? ber ever seeing, was old Phil Pitta. In the first place, his body was bent almost double, so that he was just about the same height when sitting down as when standing up. Phil's head was thorough? ly bald all over, an sleek as a turnip and about as round. The only apology for hair was a narrow ring around the back part of the head, about on a level with the ears, and was about as white as any wool that ever grew anywhere. In addi? tion to these evidences of age, the whole neighborhood for many miles around was stocked with Phil's descendents, all the way down to the fifth generation. I think it was in 1861) that I received a call to go and see Phil, as be was very sick. I went, though fully persuaded that it was useless, as I doubted not, that in the regular course of nature, Phil's time bad come to die of old age; but, in spite of my gloomy prognostications, Phil, after a few days, got better, and I dismissed him. Only a few days after this, one of Phil's numerous grand-sons rode up to my gate and called for me : "I'se come after you agin." "What," said I, "has old Phil got worse f" "No, sir, he's doin' mighty well now, but his daddy's sick." 4*4 "His daddy!" "Yes, sir, bis daddy and mammy come to see him t'other day, and de ole man got sick." . Well, I went, still thinking that there must be some mistake; but when I got there I soon found there was no mistake. It was indeed Phil's veritable father and mother, wno had walked several miles to see their sick son. The old lady was plump, hale and hearty, and said she was one hundred and four years old. She said she did not know how old her husband (old Martin) was, but he was a few years older than herself. Old Mar? tin himself was too bad off to question, and in a few days passed away, leaving a disconsolate . widow and a numerous progeny to mourn his untimely taking off. I am aware that this is too serious a matter to make a joke of, and I only tell it because I knew there are a great many still living in the nighborhood of Clinton who will remember old Phil. In fact, for all I know, he may be living yet.?Jot Prince in Clinton Advert?r,: ? "My little boy," said a gentleman' "you ought'not to oat'thoae green apples. ?They are not good for little boys." . "They hain't, eh'/" the boy replied, with his mouth full. "Guess you don't know much about 'em, mister. Three of these apples'll keep me out of schooll for a week." ??There is more ambition without energy than energy without ambition. VOLUM] THE LEFEBS OF LOUISIANA. Prevalence of the Malady in two old Par Ishers. The report of the State Board of Health od the leprosy in St. Martinsville has aroused the New Orleans press, and it is calling for the establishment of a leper hospital. "There are now three localities affected by leprosy in Louisiana?in La fourche, Vermillion and St. Martinsville. where the disease has been propagated for a century or more. In the instance just reported in St. Martinsville the board of health declares it to be heredita? ry and non-contagious, but when a former investigation was made in Lafourche, some time ago, there were indications of contagion, and the inquiry made by the British Government in Nova, whence it was carried to Louisiana, showed that in many cases the loathsome disease could be transferred from one affected with it to a healthy person. The Louisiana Board of Health and the press, therefore, call for a leper hospital, and for the passage of a law isolating in it all persons affected with the disease, and they point out that such a hospital existed iu New Orleans many years ago, and succeeded in effec? tually exterminating leprosy in that sec? tion of the State. The investigation of the board at St. Martinsville showed that while there was very little of the disease there?only eight cases, including even the suspicious ones?that the wild rumors of its prevalence had done great injury. St. Martinsville is a sleepy little town of 3,000 people, the commercial and social capital of that portion of Louisiana in? habited by tbe-acadians who came here from Acadia, or Nova Scotia, something over a centuary ago, and whose story has been so well told by Longfellow in "Evangeline." The population of the town is almost wholly French, and French is the ordinary language. Occasional cases of leprosy have been reported from the neighborhood for years past, and when some one started the rumor that tbe disease had reached an epidemic form, that several hundred people were afflicted with it, and it was rapidly spreading, the story was generally believ? ed and if panic ensued which killed busi? ness of all kinds, and made St. Martins? ville gloomy and deserted. Tbe farmers of tbe neighborhood refused to come to so dangerous a place either to buy or sell, and within the town people were so frightened that they refused to shake hands with each other through fear of catching the disease, and even refused to be shaved by tbe barber for a like reason. Every one suspected his neighbor, and a feeling of insecurity prevailed that final? ly became unendurable, and the board of health was called on to investigate the matter. Its investigation has shown tbe reported prevalence of. tbe leprosy there to be grossly exaggerated, and that it is not contagious but hereditary. At tbe same time, "to make assurance doubly sure," tbe mayor of tbe town has taken the wise precaution of isolating those who have been found afflicted with this disease until Buch time as tbe State shall provide a hospital for them. ' There is every excuse for the panic, for the leprosy has been known to exist in a certain section of Louisiana, notably in tbe lower end of Lafourche Parish, for over a centuary, and of all "the ills that flesh is heir to" none can equal this hor? rible malady, against which there is no hope, which renders its victim disgusting to the world and to himself, and which shows itself in the descendants to the last generation. Tbe disease in Louisiana is the true Oriental leprosy, differing in only a few features from that described in the Bible. It is treacherous and comes so slowly upon its victim that he knows nothing of its approach until it baa fas? tened its fatal fangs upon bim. There is a slight pain in tbe leg or arm, or possi-' bly a mild headache?nothing more. Some weeks, or perhaps months afterward a small red spot shows itself upon the forehead or arm. It is so small as to atlract no attention?to be scarcely notic? ed, but it gradually grows larger and larger, until it extends over the whole face, giving it a nodulated or bumpy ap? pearance ; the red changes to a dark brown and finally to a bronze, and assumes more and more the roughness and ap? pearance of leather, looking finally like tbe hide of an elephant. From that time the disease progresses rapidly. The hair and teeth drop out, tbe nails fall off, the extremities become purplish, the fin? gers and toes rot away ; tbe mouth be? comes feverish, as hot as a lime kiln, the tongue blotchy, and purple red, hangs from it and finally falls out; the voice grows weaker and weaker and disappears; the throat fills up, and tracheotomy fre? quently has to be resorted to and a tube inserted in order to allow the patient to breathe. Ulcers break out on the legs and arms and gradually eat them away; , / face becomes less human and finally ?Mhmes the appearance of a wild animal without any resemblence to humanity. Tbe two Misses Boyen, girls of nineteen and twenty-two, who had'been fair and pretty, looked like women of over one hundred, haggard, hairless and toothless, their faces a livid bronze and covered with ulcers. In the latter stages of the disease the victim is absolutely helpless with only tbe trunk left behind, to finally die of complete exhaustion. During these stages the odor emitted, distinctive of leprosy, is so oppressive that one can with difficulty remain in tbe same room with the leper. Knowing of tbe nature of this disease, and doubtful whether it is contagious or not, it is not to be wondered at that the people living in these districts where it prevails should demand some protection some time ago. Tbe board of health was called in by the police jury of Lafourche to look into the prevalence of leprosy in that parish, and Dr. Jones, the president, himself made the investigation. The complaint made was a far more serious one than that from St. Martinsville, for the people living in the same ward as the lepers protested against the latter sending ' their children to the public schools where thoy were thrown into clone intercourse with Iho children of healthy parcntB. This leper scUlcmenl is in the lower portion of the parish, on both sides of Bayou Lafourche. It is a low, swampy country, thinly settled, far out of the Hue of travel, and seldom' visited by any one. Here the lepers live almost to themsel ve*, S XXII.- -NO. 48. their intercourse and trading with the world, until the last few years, having been carried on by a peddler who was himself a leper. Occasionally a healthy 3 person marries into one of their families. He seldom gets the disease himself, but the children were always liable to it, the grandchildren and all the descendants. It is very remarkable how the disease propagates itself, skipping from one gen eration to another. All the children are liable, but all seldom have it. In one family in Lafourcbe two out of six chil? dren had the leprosy, the others growing up to manhood and womanhood and showing no taint whatever. Of these two lepers, one had a family of ten, only one of whom became leprous. Occasion? ally the disease leaps one or even two generations, and the children or grand? children of people in perfect health will show the red spot in the face, against which there is no remedy, and which kills with certainty in from five to ten years. Nor is there any certainty when the poison will show itself. It may come early in childhood, or late in life, when the victim has married and brought up a family, every one of whom he knows is in danger of this fatal malady. The investigation in' Lafourcbe was not as successful as that in St. Martins- - ville, for this reason: the lepers, hearing that a committee of the board of health was coming to inspect them, became very much frightened. And the rumor was circulated that the State intended to arrest them and convey them to an island in the Gulf?as was done many years ago, daring the Spanish rule. They refused) therefore, to be examined, retired into the swamp and Dr. Jones was able to see only a few of them, although he obtained all the information he wanted on the subject from people living in their neigh? borhood. In his report to the Legislature he suggested that something be done, both for the relief of these people and for the protection of those who livud near them, but no action was taken. The St. Martinsville affair and the demand of the press are likely to arouse the Legisla-. tare to the necessity for a leper hospital. If once established and these people can be confined within it leprosy will be very soon extinguished in Louisiana, as the number of persons affected with it is small.?New Orleans Letter to Chicago Times. Whence Cnme the Potato 1 It may interest the readers of the Cul? tivator to know that in bia popular work, entitled "The Andes and the Amazon," the late Prof. Orton says the so called "Irish" potato is a native of the Andes mountains. His statement is not origi? nal. It was made by the early Spanish explorers and missionaries early in the sixteenth century.' The generally accepted theory is that the potato was introduced into Spain by the Spaniards from the neighborhood of Quito, and that from Spain it soon spread into the Netherlands, Bargandy and Italy. How it got into North America is not known, but it is generally supposed to have been introduced by the Spaniards soon after the conquest of Mexico ; for, so far as I know, it has never been claimed that it was found in a wild state north of the Isthmus of Panama. It was introduced into Ireland for the first time in 1565; from Virginia, by Sir John Hawkins, a slave trader; and in confirmation of the theory that it is indigenous to the An? dean districts of South America, I may state that I have myself seen it growing wild in various parts of the Interior of Columbia. And yet the "Irish" potato has been used as an article of food in China from time immemorial. You see it every? where from Canton to Pekin, and from Shanghai to the most western limits of the vast Empire; and I never saw a Chinaman who would admit that it had not originated in his own country. In fact, I have been assured, by some Jesuit missionaries who penetrated to the far interior of the mountain districts, that it is sometimes seen in a wild state near the borders of southern Thibet. Why shonld it not have been indige? nous to both continents ? The same con? ditions of climate and soil that would produce it in the mountains of tropical and sub-tropical America would, it would seem, produce it in Asia; and it is prob? able that the peoples of both continents used it m an article of food ages before they were aware of each other's existence. Next to rice, it is to day the chief article of food in Chioa and Japan, and in many parts of Asia it is as mach relied apon by the common people as it is in Ireland or in Ecuador.?William L. Scruggs ? in Southern Cultivator for June. The Caterpillar Plague The caterpillars are disappearing from Pee Dee swamp. For several weeks countless numbers of them have infeuted the forest bordering on Pee Dee, Never in the memory of the oldest inhabitant have the loathsome pests been so numer? ous as this spring. Wherever they ap? peared nearly every class of tender vege? tation was ruthlessly destroyed. Birds, fish and hogs preyed upon them bat . without perceptibly diminishing the myriad hosts. The fish in the river after eating the caterpillars became unfit for food. In some places the caterpillars collect? ed in such numbers on fences that the space between the rails was filled with them and the fence appeared to be noth? ing but one solid mass of worms. One gentleman, of unquestionable veracity, says he has seen them collected in heaps of cylindrical shape measuring several feet in length and ten or twelve inches in diameter. This same gentleman says he has been compelled to keep his gates . propped open all the time or be put to great trouble every time he wished to open a gate, as the caterpillars would collect in each numbers on and ander the gates as to render the opening of them a matter of no small difficulty. Fortunate ly these Vermin have, so far, done little damage to the field crops, and as they are now rapidly dissappeariag, it is hoped that the infested communities will escape without further hart or barm.?Pec Dee Index. ? The Blacksmith is the worst kind of a bore. He can make a'wheel tired.