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SUNDAY. MAY 14, 1893.
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VICTIMS OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL
LAWS.
Something must bo done to increaso tho
confidence of tho people in tho work of their
law makers and their rcspoct and reverence
for tho laws. The statutes of tho stato will
nover bo applied or enforced with a satisfac-
tory and creditable degree of uniformity and
certainty until they are made stronger and
more reliable than we have been making
them in tho past. To begin with wo must
niako fewor laws and fewer changes in our
laws. Nothing woakens tho popular con.
fidenco in our code and court houses more
than the tumultuous rush of ambitious
and eager members to outdo each other
in tho presentation of bills at every
session of tho legislature. We must
have less special legislation, less class
legislation, less exploratory, log rolling
and adventurous legislation, or the legislature
is quite sure to seek the level of a dangerous
city council in which everything goe3 by trad-
ing and jobbery. Even congress itself is by
no means beyond the possibility of such far
and profligato descent. Facilis descensus
averni. The downhill road is dreadfully oasy
traveling. Of all weaknesses and errors un-
constitutional laws must be mo9t strenuously
avoided. For tho people of a great stato or of
tho entire nation to bo forced to live, move,
toil and lose under ta statute for months and
years and then to tind that this expensive
and oppressive act is unconstitutional and
has boen void from the first is utterly in-
excusable. The legislatures of tho country
should bo held to a more rigid account for
such rash and costly errors. Who is able
to compute tho vast sums of money of which
citizens of Texas have been pluckod by
tax collectors, sheriffs or other officials
following out tho commands of laws subse-
quently declarod unconstitutional by tho
courts? Who is able to count the state's
losses in noodless expenditures under uncon-
stitutional statutes? Such inflictions are con-
Bidered lightly because they have corno to bo
matters of course, yet this bewildering fecun-
dity '.and mutability of legislation and this
ceaseless work of making and executing un-
constitutional statutes have done moro to de-
stroy respect for tho laws and confidence in
our civil.institutions than all other influences
combined. Tho New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser has a strong rofererico to this weak-
ness in our system of reekleBS legislation, It
refers particularly to the Geary law, but its
observations may bo applied witheven greater
force to the weak statutes of tho average state
legislature. The Commercial Advertiser says:
If the Geary law is unconstitutional it is, of
course, void from tho beginning. A crude mis-
conception has taken some hold on the public
mind that an unconstitutional statute is a valid
lav/ until some court renders a judgment setting
it aside. This crudity has oven taken tho moro
distinct form in some minds that a law which vio-
lates tho constitution of tho United States is
valid until a judgment of poino subordinate court
is rendered holding it unconstitutional, where-
upon it becomos merely doubtful until sot aside
by the supremo court of the United States. All
such views are erroneous. When tho question of
the constitutionality of a statute is raisod, no
court can decree that it shall bo void in the
futuro or from tho date of tho docree. It can
only adjudicato that the act was void when
passed. It is ono of tho serious witticisms of
tho bar also that tho courts hold everybody
bound to know the law excopt the judges and tho
lawyers. The judges are not expected to know
tho law until they hoar it argued by the lawyers,
and the lawyers, of course, can not know the law
until they get tho judges' decision. But tho pub-
lic is in theory bound to know the law at all
timos, and as a knowledgo of the law includes
tho knowledge whether a particular statute is
void for unconstitutionality, the public is bound
to know, prior to all argument and to any judicial
decision, what the final decision of tho supremo
court will bo. If that decision will be that tho
law is unconstitutional it will operate back to in-
validate in theory every arrest made undor it and
to convert it from tho lawful act of a public
olficoriuto a private trespasses to which tho
only alleviating effect of the statute will bo to
make the damages nominal.
In the courso of time, if we grow in wisdom
and in the admonition of tho expensivo ex-
perience of tho past, our methods will be so
changed as to protect even tho helpless im-
migrant from China from tho oppressive ap-
plication of a statute which is not law, and
from any form of unlawful duress and spolia-
tion in tho namo and pretense of law. Unless
tho grading of lawmakers is raised -a few
notches, or executives who understand and ro-
spect the principles which mark the constitu-
tional limitations of power can bo selected,
tho people in sheer self defense may have to
demand that every act shall bo passed upon
and affirmed by a competent court beforo it
is promulgated and fastened upon tho citizon.
Something should certainly bo done to rescuo
the country from a plaguo of ignoran co. care-
lessness and prolligato perversity on tho part
of legislative malrepresijntatlves.
A judge who stands in the way of the mur-
derer is considered bloodthirsty by criminals.
Tho roal bloodthirsty officials are thoso who
turn tho butchers out to slaughter the people.
SOMETHING BESIDE THE OFFICES.
The mooting of republican loagues at Louis-
ville might serve as a reminder to the demo-
crats that there will soon be something else to
think about than getting the offices. Of courso
to the averago partisan the next thing is keep-
ing them. Even this can not bo done by tho
methods most in favor with spoilsmen. How-
evor compact their organization, it fails when
tho independent sontim'ent of tho country
withdraws its approval from a party. Of course
the reform leaders of the democratic party aro
to have proper time, and not unless they either
fail to control the party or fail to bring on tho
proper roforms will the indopendont senti-
ment have occasion to reconsider its support
of the administration. All that President
Cleveland has dono augurs that tho reformers
will have no cause of complaint so far as he
is concerned. The point for the party sus-
taining him to considor is moro that of bring-
ing its thought and zeal to tho work of pro-
viding support for the reform administration.
It was assorted by Mr. Clarkson that a majori-
ty of tho people are still protectionists. If so,
and perhaps in a broad senso it iB true, the
task of bringing about a reform of tho tariff
which shall bo real and still not inconsiderate of
conditions and consoquoncea is a delicate one,
as of courso the aim must bo to put things so
that they will stay put with tho consent of peo-
ple minded as tho American peoplo are about
caring for their homo industries. The term
of ono administration is soon post and tho
party which should fail to como up as a wholo
to near tho standard of its chiof leader's views
might loso all opportunity of trying further if
it did not make a good rooord for keeping up
with its professions and promises. Hence
democrats may well begin to direct moro at-
tention to impressing upon their representa-
tives tho neod of such action as the most im-
portant part of the Chicago platform bo-
spoaks; but lot it not bo imagined that protec-
tion is dead. It is very much alive.
Governor Tillman of South Carolina will
probably bo prosecuted as an accessory beforo
tho fact in tho horrible case of lynching in
which an innocent man was destroyed by a
bloodthirsty mob. It is claimed that Gov-
ernor Tiliman willfully delivered the victim
into the hands of the outlaws and that ho ap-
proved tho summary method of vengeance.
Bicycle riders aro unanimously in favor of
good roads.
It seems that the lynchers have grown so
dangerous in some portions of South Carolina
that a lawyer can not be hired to prosecute
them.
How utterly loose and ridiculous it is for tho
peoplo of a whole Btate or nation to have to
run on for years observing and following as
law a statuto that, after all, is wholly uncon-
stitutional and void ab initio.
None of our political ulcers will ever be
cured unless somebody troubles the wators.
Agitato.
The way tho great parties havo been run-
ning things it will not be twenty years before
all tho peoplo will movo to Washington and
camp there at public oxpense.
Woman wants to learn how to discuss a
quostion without talking back.
About tho time a law gets to running
smoothly some wise man proposes either to
amend or repeal it.
The congressmen who lmvo camped in
Washington to spend the summer waiting on
their office hunting constituents may now
come home.
Feed tho weak-kneed democratic statesmen
red pepper.
Every time a dangerous young despot takes
his seat upon a throne republicanism and
freodom tako two or throe long steps for-
ward.
The advocates of a reform are sometimes
its greatest enemies.
Keep telling the truth and somebody will
believe it after awhile.
The mobs, if they aro not rigidly sup-
pressed, are going to fill tho land with deadly
feuds and with warring bands of bloody as-
The fools and scamps havo been permitted
to make heroes of the criminals quite long
enough. They must scatter and move on.
Kev. Sam Jones is to be in Dallas soon, and
it is safe to say that Satan is already trembling
m his red-top boots.
Ip France will just be still the people of
Germany will down their despot.
A nation of people who are controlled by a
few self-seeking party commanders are slaves
with scalos on their eyes and yokes on their
necks.
The Now York courts aro making it ex-
ceedingly dangerous for husbands who adopt
heroic methods of putting their wives away.
Dr. Buchanan has just been sentencod to
death for poisoning his wife.
SNAP .SHOTp.
The owl has beautiful eyes, but they aro too
large for everyday wear.
With the hungry man ono condition weighs
more than a hundred theories.
"Ephraim is joined to his idols." In fact,
ho is ono of them himself.
Money 1b ulways easy—to loso.
Some people are so bright that it gives ono
sore eyes to look at them.
Haw whisky is by no means a rare treat.
Every vain dog wants notorioty of some
kind. If it is not his collar it is his tail.
The Bilont watches of tho night are always
wound up at sunrise.
If a mortal will try right hard ho can al-
ways find numerous disappointments lying
around loose.
PEEAE OF THE SCISSORS.
A Queer Caper Cut by a Pair of Editorial
Shears.
Lightning is known to do odd things and
electricity in the transmission of news often
makes hideous mistakes in all departments of
fact, but tho strangest thing that has hap-
pened in a long time occurred in the office of
the Houston Post Friday night, when in
clipping an itoui from tho Now Orleans Times-
Democrat tho Bcissors systematically changed
the geography of tho occurrence from Galves-
ton to Houston. There is nothing like local
pride, oven in a pair of editorial shears.
Galveston's Floral Gilts.
Spocial to tho Timos-Democrat.
Chicago, May 11.—Now York's nico young
men have taken to wearing jessamine buds as
tho proper thing. The blossoms are raised
mostly at Galveston, and the trade has reached
such proportions that it is estimated the Texas
city ships 80,000 daily.
Mrs. Dr. Carrutners, who has beon a leading
spirit in the lloral display from Texas, re-
ceived her first consignment of the flowers to-
day, and from a table in the horticultural
building she distributed 4000 buds.
Most of the callers wero amazed at the gen-
erosity of this section, and could not believe
tkoir oars when assured tho samples went with
Galveston's compliments, and were to bo a
daily feature.
A party of Austrian ladies, whose knowl-
edgo of American geography puts Kentucky
bb the capital of Omaha, and Denver as the
county seat of Missouri, askod Mrs. Carruth-
crs, as they road tho sign designating tho ex-
hibit, if "Mr. Galveston lived in Chicago?"
HOUSTON'S JASMINES.
The Pretty Floral Tributes Capture Many
World's Fair Visitors.
Houston Post's Leased Scissors Lino.
Chicago, 111., May 12.—New York's nice
young men havo taken to wearing jasmine
buds as the proper thing. The blossoms aro
raisod at Houston and tho. trado has reached
such proportions that it is estimatod tho Texas
city ships 80,000 daily.
Mrs. Dr. Carruthers, who has been a load-
ing spirit in the lloral display from Texas, re-
ceived hor first consignment of the flowers
to-day, and from a table in the horticultural
building she distributed 4000 buds.
Most of the callers were atnnzod at the gen-
erosity of this section, and could not believe
their ears when assured tho samples went with
Houston's complimonts, and wero to be a
daily feature.
A party of Austrian ladios, whose knowledgo
of American geography puts Kentucky as
the capital of Omaha, and Denver as the coun-
ty Beat of Missouri, asked Mrs. Carruthers, as
they read tho sign designating tho exhibit, if
"Mr. Houston lived in Chicago?"
THE STATE PRIUSS.
What the Papers Throughout the Stato
Aro Talking About.
Tho LaGrango Journal is for the offioo-
hunters and professional politicians vs. The
New9 and the president:
The Galveston News is tho ready manipu-
lator of fine thoories with its warnings against
the solfish appetito of officosookors. The old
lady by the aoa can beat old Mrs. Partington
moralizing. She can spin a theory as beauti-
ful and ns fine as a spider can its web, but it
is not always Bafo to trust to the good faith of
either. We will not say The News is not as
spotless and as faultless as its theories and as
its logic, but its proachmg is a littlo too ele-
vated for tho praotical politician. Some of
these faithful men aro hungry and neod clothes
and expect to got these essentials by appoint-
ment to office. Tho offices do not go around
hunting for men, nor can theso men live on
the old lady's moralizing, in which she largoly
indulges while digostiug a fine dinner held
down by the finest wines.
Perhaps the Journal likes tho way tho pres-
ident treats the subject better. If so, The
News can make no objection. The Journal
never approves anything saul by this paper.
Tho Georgotown Sun wants prohibition in
that town and Williamson county:
Tho Sun has heretofore called attention to
tho prosperity of San Marcos, Manor, Killeen
and Nolansville under local option. Tho tes-
timony of business men and farmers goes to
show that prosperity has attended the adoption
and enforcement of local option. Now comes
Santa Anna, Tex., whoro local option prevails,
and adds her testimony in favor of the good
results which flow from local option.
The Waco Day-Globe makes this terrible as-
sertion :
There aro hundreds of people in Texas who
will dio of disease this year whose lives would
certainly bo prolonged in hea th and happi-
ness if they only knew of and could be in-
duced to use the Waco hot artesian water.
This is a lamentable truth, but a truth all the
same.
This equals a quack nostrum advertisement.
The La Grange Journal says:
Rev. Sam Jones will commence shaking up
the Dallas toughs on the - 1st instant.. This
will be the greatest effort of his life.
O, no; tho people of Dallas are already al-
most pcrsuadod to be Christians.
The Fort Worth Gazetto wants English as
sho is spoke in America to be the national and
Btate language to the exclusion of all others;
and says:
There is no right reason why emigrants
from foreign lands seeking homos here and
who desire to become citizens should
cling tenaciously to their foreign customs,
and, after their naturalization, insist upon
entertaining their native tongue as tho civic
language. There is no feature in this govern-
ment having a stronger tendency to bind tho
parts in close union than the public school
system of tho United States, and for this rea-
son it is essential that English be the sole lan-
guage of theso schools. The great advantage
to be derived is that tho child of foreign pa-
rentage attending thete schools has an even
start with the American-born child. If
the songs of a people have tho value
which is usually attached to them, in theso,
the children, foreign and native, meet on com-
msn ground. "My country, 'tis of thee,
Bweet laud of liberty," becomes a patriotic in-
spiration equally to each. To conserve this
end ono of tliG most powerful agents possible
would seem to be the teaching in the public
Bchools of one spoken language to be used in
the courts, the forum and the home.
Is not English already tho prodominent
language in all public schools, though dead
and foreign languages aro taught in the higher
grades of tho best public schools in cities like
Galveston? It may be possible that Spanish
is the chief language in some places near
the Rio Grande.
John Wesley said ho could see no reason
why tho dovil should have all the best tunes,
and the Christian Advocate, unlike the eariy
Methodists, is in favor of taking some of tho
musical instruments of the old enemy also.
It says:
Tho 11 children of tho world," whom the
Lord says " aro wiser in their generation than
the children of light," aro not only aware of
the importance and potency of tho "concord
of sweet sounds," but they aro using this forco
in every possible place and way to entice and
charm mankind in order to work their ruin.
The saloon, the theater, the brothel, owo much
of their success in winning souls away from
virtue and piety to tho influence of this power-
ful and tiolightful agency. The ballroom
would be relegated to tho moles and bats but
for th9 siren notesof "music's tuneful strain."
Political meetings aro not complete with-
out tho inspiration of the band, and grim-
visaged war would never wheol his myrmidons
into death's dark lines did he not press tho
bugle and tho "wry necked fif«" into his
bloody and cruel service. Whenever and
wherever the church has harnessed this forco
it has yielded a salutary service. Thousands
of people havo boen allured to the church by
good music and then impressed by the word
of God. Under the influence of music ideas
and doctrines, religious, political, social, are
deeply sown down in the heart; and many an
evil sontimont has become a part of us only
because it drifted in upon us with a tuneful
tide. Lot us have dono with our prejudice
and rescuo this great engino of human sym-
pathy and heart control from tho grasp of tho
world and turn its forces loose in tho work of
God. Let us tako the advice of the psalmist,
and "make a joyful noiso unto the Lord."
Praise him on tho "harp," "organ," on an in-
strument of ten "strings," on the "psaltry"—
yea, let everything praise tho Lord.
The Advocato says:
Many who avail themselves of the cheap
rates to come to the Sam Jones meeting would
equally as roadily tako a late to a fishing ex-
cursion on Sunday.
The Signal says:
Somebody discovered that there are just
seven smells. All of them can bo found in
various proportions in the atmosphere of tho
enterprising city of Luling Bince the rainy
weather set in.
That is a small numbor. Cologne has
seventy, according to the poet, and San An-
tonio and Houston each seventy times seven if
tho papers of thoso cities are to bo behoved.
The Drag Not (Phoebus, etc.) says:
Gonzales is built of stone and brick and has
two banks, waterworks, two railroads, electric
light, an ice factory, bottling works, a tele-
phone system, brick works with a capacity of
32,000 per day, four hotels, ono restaurant,
two livery stables, two book Btores, threo
drug stores, threo dry goods stores, eight gro-
cery stores, three genoral stores, two hardware
and grocery establishments, two exclusive
hardware stores, a $15,000 public school house
building, six practicing physicians, fiftoon
practicing attorneys, a Masonic lodge, con-
sisting of the blue lodge, the Royal Arch chap-
ter and the Knights Templars, elevon
churches owning their own buildings, viz.:
Christian, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist,
Catholic, Episcopal and Gorman Methodist.
Colored churches as follows: African Meth-
odist, Methodist Episcopal and Baptist. Tho
Mexicans also havo a religious organization, a
Knights of Pythias lodge, an Odd Follows
lodge, etc.
No well informed lawyor, soeking a divorco
for a client, will accept a Catholic on a jury,
unless tho client has good Biblo grounds for a
dissolution of his marriage contract. If
Protestant clergymen would impress tho same
lesson on their congregations on this subject
as Catholic priests and Jewish teachers there
would be fewer divorcoa. Tho Texas Chris-
tian advocato is endeavoring to educate its
readers on tho subject. It says in an editorial
a column in length:
The divorce question is one of thelivo issuos
of tho time which call for tho earnest prayors
of the ohuroh and most dilligent efforts of tho
friends of roform. The institution of tho
family is first in time fltid importance of all
tho social institutions. It Ib the social founda-
tion stone of church and state. Whether mar-
riage bo a civil or religious institution, it is a
natural ono, and one that church and state
must both deal with. It is vital to organ-
ized society and the best civilization
depends upon and advances according
to the naturo of our marriage laws. The
church can no more ignore the question than
it can ignoro morality or religion itsolf. That
monogamy is right to the extent that depart-
ure from it is immoral is tho testimony both
of revelation and nature. Both the infidel
and Christian hold it to do tho true doctrine of
marriage. There can be but ono ground for di-
vorce in Christian doctrine—sexual impurity.
This was the doctrine ot Christ and Moses.
Our Lord appeals to a law higher and prior to
that of Moses. It was written in the very
naturo of man in his oreation. Ono man and
ono woman were created in tho beginning and
no provision was made for the remarriage of
either in case they should not agree. It is
dear also that according to tho Christian doc-
trino of divorco only one of the parties should
be released to marry another. The one who
disqualifies himself by impurity to continue In
the present marriage rotation has no right to
marry another. If both sin, neither should
bo allowed to marry again. There is
a sanctity and roligion, if you
please, in the marriage relation
which the state can not touch, but the sooner
the Btate conforms its marriage and divorce
laws to tho doctrine of Christianity tho bettor
it will bo for society. Tho facility with which
divorces aro obtained on the most flimsy ex-
cuses in most of tho states amounts to liconsod
prostitution. This marrying and remarrying,
with tho swapping of husbands and wives un-
der the logal form of divorce, converts each
state into a brothel of tho very worst type.
Tho licensed disorderly house of the modern
city is' bad enough, but the prostitution legal-
ized in tho name of decent marriage by easy
divorce laws is far more intolerable; for the
easy divorco law was conceived in lust aud
brought forth in the prostitution of marriage
itself.
Tolerant as are tho laws, and as public opin-
ion would seem to be on this subject, there is
always a moral bleiniBh on the reputation of
peoplo w'ho aro divorced without the most ob-
vious and strongest reasous.
WOKLD'S FAIR K0TES.
Tlio Irish Village Opened.
Chicago, III., May 10.—The green flag of
Ireland and the stars and stripes floated from
the battiements of Blarney castle this after-
noon on tho occasion of opening the Irish
village in the Midway plaisance, over which
the earl and countess of Aberdeen preside. A
good crowd was in attondance. Tho centor
of attraction was the Primitive concort hall,
where Lord and Lady Arordeen addrossed the
assemblage on the philanthropic object of tho
village enterprise and the coinmendablo pur-
pose of the Irish industrial association. A
real Irish music programme was carried out
in the hall, all the musicians and sincrors,
pipers, jig dancers being from the "Ould
Sod."
English Stage Coaches,
Chicago, III., May 10.—Tho first of the lino
of old-fashioned English coaches, which a
syndicato is to run to the fair grounds, made
its limited trip to-day, starting from the
Wellington hotel on Jackson street. The ve-
hicles are exact reproductions of the coaches
used in England during the first part of the
present century and precisely like tho ono
Tonoy Weller used to drive. The turn out in-
cluded coachman and guard dressed in the
brilliant coiors so favored in the 30s and
the coach drawn by six English cobs attracted
much attention. The vehicles hold twelve
passengers.
Torty Beauties on Exhibition.
Chicago, 111., May 10.—One of the Midway
plaisance novelties known as "The beauty
show" was opened to the public to-day. It
is the exhibit of a costume company, and
consists of an attractive collection of forty
women representative of as many nationalities
and all more or leas passable types of femi-
nine beauty, costumed in a dazzling manner
according to the dross worn in tho countries
of which the womeu are natives. The women
have littlo else to do than keep within their
bailiwioks^and smile their sweetest smile-
Comparative Ticket Pales.
• Chicago, 111., May 10.—Yesterday 16,122 ad-
mission tickets were Bold at the gates. On
the corresponding day at the Centennial ex-
position 11,054 tickets wero sold. On Monday
30,74G people were admitted to the grounds on
paid adrniBsiou8. The exposition managers
believe that a large share of the public is wait-
ing for a definite announcement that tho fair
is complote in evory detail, and when that
word is given out expect about 1,000,000 peo-
ple to make Chicago their temporary abiding
place.
Poor Police Protection,
Chicago, 111., May 10.—Director Goneral
Davis appeared before tho national commis-
sion at the afternoon session and answered
questions from the commissioners regarding
the rules and regulations of the exposition.
Referring to tho statement that several arti-
cles had been stolen from the different build-
ings the diroctor general said he had no
doubt it was true, as ho considered the police
protection furnished by the Columbian guards
utterly inadequate.
Hebrews on Sunday Opening.
Chicago, 111., May 10.—Ex-Congressman
William E. Mason, representing a number of
prominent Hebrews, will bring suit beforo the
week is out to prevent tho closing of the
world's fair on Sunday.
"They observe Saturday as their Sabbath,"
said Mason, "and the Uuited States has no
right to legislate on any quostion appertain-
ing to religion. An injunction will be issued
before the week iB out. I will bet money on
it."
Working the Free I>uty Ilaeket.
Chicago, 111., May 11,—Arthur Houlton,
world's fair manager for tho English pottery
firm of Houlton & Co., was arrested to-day,
charged with selling goods which had beon
admitted duty tree as exhibits at the world's
fair.
A Plea for tho Whitoaps.
Now Orleans Pioayuno.
A gentleman who has known tho people who
are denominated whitecaps for mauy years
mado tho following ploa for them this eve-
ning:
"These people are moro unfortunate than
criminal, moro sinned against than Binning.
They are in a most ignorant stato, and none of
them have any idea of businoss or mathema-
tics. They are as poor as poor can be, and
those who ownod farms would buy supplies
from their morchants on credit, many of
whom would charge them as much as $18 for
a barrol of flour which coBt them only $G, and
othor things in proportion. Tho natural bo-
quenco was that they got into, debt, from
which they could notoxtricate themselves, their
farms were foreclosed and sold out, and strap-
ping nogroos were put in their places. These
farms wero those mon's homes. Thoy
know every twig of the forest, and every peb-
ble in the brook and nook in the home were as
dear to them as to their moro enlightened
brothers, and when they saw strangers cross
the old threshold and know they had been rob-
bed their ignorant natures rose, their wrath
became uncontrollable, and they took the law
into their own hands. They aro guilty, but be-
lieve mo there is much to palliate their guilt,
however dark it may seem.
The Party of the People.
Dotroit Froo Pross.
An expression which we find very frequently
in our republican contemporaries is that "tho
peoplo look upon the democracy"—or, as it is
sometimes put, "tho administration"—-"with
distrust." Wo beg to corroct them. Tho de-
mocracy, as shown by the election of last No-
vember, is the people; and to say that thopoo-
ple look on the democracy with distrust is to
say that it looks upon itself with distrust,
which is a very atupid thing to say. Tho ad-
ministration is tho one which the peoplo have
selected to represent them in the affairs of
their government, and they have the most un-
bounded confidence in it, as thoy ought to
havo.
Tho smallest tree in tho world is the dwarf
willow of Great Britain, two inohes high.
A NEW SOUTHERN WRITER
EEVIEW OP A "GOLDEN WEDDING
AND 0THEE TALES."
Short Stories About Life on the Piotureaque
Plantations of Louisiana and in
New Orleans.
For Tho News.
Another now southern wrltor has, with much
courage and no leas discrimination, mado her
bow beforo the literary publio with a volumo
of stories. Various masters havo within tho
last decade brought tho short story to such a
degree of tochnical excollonoo that nothing
short of unusual merit can hope any more for
a respectful hearing; yet there is wisdom, too,
in choosing this department of the literary
art, since it is tho one which appeals most
surely to the hurried and woary Victims of a
rushing and enervating civilization. Few peo-
ple havo any longer the tune or energy to
read a novel; but to evory one the short
story, which agreeably fills an odd hour of wait-
ing, or weariness, or suffering, has come to be
a necessity. So that, fecund though the last
few years have beon in exquislto literary ar-
tista of this description, thero is room and a
wide welcomo for this now writor, Mrs. Ruth
McEnory Stuart, who, through Harper &
Brothers, has just brought out hor "Goldon
Wedding and Other Tales." The author and
hor chosen subjects soom fitly associated. In
point of technique sho leaves little to be de-
sired, while it goes without saying that no
land, or people, or sequonco of circumstance
ever offered Buch opportunities to the short
story writor as tho south, its people—black or
white, simple or gentle—and the happonings
of those years lying on either side of the war
period. To be more particular, wiiero was
•iifo evar more poetic or picturesque than in
that fairyland of art, the plantations of Louis-
iana or its unique metropolis?
The koen intuition of a born artist has
taught Mrs. Stuart whore to tind character
and ciroumatance suited to her own particular
use, while tho peculiarly poetic quality of hor
mind has made it possible for hor to treat
phases of life which a writer less tender aud
ideal would run tho risk of making wholly
offensive.
"A Golden Wodding" records one of the
most joyous yet pathetic golden weddings ever
celebrated. Nothing could be ruder than tho
two old black people whom she has choson to
introduce to us—nothing more crude than the
incidents which, with the unerring eye of a
realist she has solocted for tho thread of hor
story; yet in point of treatment she is bo truly
au idealist that we are conscious only of beau-
ty, pathos, poetry and a loving kinship with
those simple creatures of sullering and joy.
Pity is saved, however, from actual painful-
ness by tho vein of humor which runs not only
through this story, but through tho entire
book. But being the humor of the woman and
the poet, it does, it is true, lie moro frequently
upon tho brink of tears than elsewhere. It
dips into actual laughter chiefly when she
touches upon that undying spirit of coquetry
which, however it may be with women in
other quartors of tho globe, lives in the heart
of the southern woman, be she dusky or fair,
till her latest breath. In tho "Widder John-
Bing" mirth reaches a climax; in "Uncle Min-
go" pathos touches its highest point.
In reading the conversation between the ne-
gro characters, we vacillate between a suspi-
cion that Mrs. Stuart must have listonod be-
hind tno door, notebook in hand, and tho con-
viction that here again is an example of tho
omniscient imagination compassing the other-
wise unknowable. For mtiniato though the
relatious between tho races may appear at
times to become, the simpler people have set
up a barrier between themselves and the dom-
inant race which tho latter can not pass.
Nothing is more difficult to discover than thfe
real point of view of a negro. His sense of
courtesy in some cases, his want of confidence
in others, colors evory word and act, and eva-
sion and prevarication leave us puzzled and
ignorant at last. But some instinct tells tho
southern reader that such conversations as the
one between "Sis Garrett" and "Brer Thomp-
son" at that touching Christmas dinner is
among actual possibilities.
Yet touching or amusing as such stories as
the "Goldon Wedding," "Jesseidah Brown's
Courtship," or tho "Latnontations of Jere-
miah Johnson" may bo to the majority of
readers, thero aro those who in this perplexing
transition period can not bring themselves to
considor such sympathetic treatment of tho
negro character with patience. To accord
him the implied respect of this careful artist-
ic treatment is to take him out of his place.
Wo areuncompromismg democrats, of course,
but we do still talk of other people's places.
Theso Mrs. Stuart might havo failed to reach,
but in tho "Woman's Exchange of Sunpkins-
viile" sho oilers a story which no kindly hu-
man reader can resist. The situation is ono
which has come to bo typical: "two old timid
womon of narrow and hitherto protected
lives" brought suddenly face to face with the
necessity of bread winning in a primitive Ar-
kansas town where there is no outlet for their
restricted capabilities.
"They ain't nobody in town to boa'd out
but them as aro boa'diu' a'roady, an' 'twould
be jest tho same as askin' 'em to leave an'
como to us,'special as wo got tho fines' house,"
declared ono simple old sistor. To which re-
plied the other, equally dubious: "Th'ain't
tno' quiltin' give out to be did than Mis' Gibbs
can do, an' sho half crippled too." Honce at
last out of this perplexing situation the evo-
lution of a unique "exchango," in which all
futuro exchanges might fiud a beautiful pat-
torn.
In tho memory of evory lover of good fic-
tion there livo a half dozen or so of short
stories which in this era of innumerable good
short stories stand out pro-eminently. By
many this story of the gentle old ladies Simp-
kins will bo added to that choson mental col-
lection. Tho beauty and tenderness both of
tho subject and treatment aro most touchingly
appealing. Tho typo of southern women hero
touched upon is ono that compels affection—a
typo whose ladyhood depends neither upon
outward circumstanco nor acquired culture,
but results naturally from innate gentleness
and sweotness. There is vouchsafed to us also
au unobtrusive example of that martyr like
clinging to principle which another Boction of
country has appropriated and labeled; but,
moro lovablo in its manifestation, this Arkan-
sas conscience substitutes simplicity and
sweetness for complexity and severity, and
goea on its serene way with an untroubled
faith. The results aro happier, certainly, and
at the same time toll quite as offoctually,
though loss consciously, for spiritual elevation.
Tho keynote of tills singularly humanizing
and soothing story is struck in the sisters' iov-
ing account of their brother "Sonny"—Mr.
Stephen Decatur Simpkins, "who was a nat-
uralist in a sweeter, broader senso than ho
himself know."
"Th' ain't but thirteen shot birds there," in-
terrupted Miss Sarey Miraudy, "an' them was
give to Sonny. He spent five yoars livin'
'mongat 'em, bo'b they'd know 'im, beforo he
ever ketchod ono. An' then he nevor took 'em
in nestin' time, loss'n he got both the ho and
the she. Ho nevor left a mo'nin' bird nor a
new hatched nest in his lifo, Sonny didn't."
Tho spirit of this last story is the spirit of
the book. It must needs bo, of course, that
such horrors as "In Darkest England" and
"How the Other Half Lives" should bo offered
to the consideration of thiuking men and
women, and that authors like Mrs. Burton
Harrison should hold up to vlow the weari-
some artificialities of such a society as tho
"Anglo-Maniacs" and hor later story depict;
but the life of the imagination would become
an unendurable nightmare if tho land of tho
genial south did not provide, now and thon,
such a corrective bb this prophet of sweetness
aud tondornoos and joy, tho author of tho
"Golden Wedding and Other Tales."
^ B. N. T.
The gorgeous brilliancy of a phosphor-
escent sea is produced by countless millions
of globular oreaturos, some of which aro as
much as six inches long, and are apparently
formed of gelatinous aud transluoent mat-
ter.
CONTRIBUTED VERSE.
The ltln(f-A Finnish Ballftd.
bv john. p. bjolandhr.
Tho maidon stood in tho evening light
On the gontlo slope by tho gloaming bay,
Whon a lordly youth in a lordly ship
Sought harbor there at tho close of day.
He boflnd his ship by tho sloping shore
And his glance went up to the maiden there;
Thou a spark of fire in his bluo oyos shone,
For uouo before had ho soon so fair.
A ring ho drew from his finger white~
A goldon gloum all around it shod;
'•Beautiful maid, than a queen more fair,
Oh, tako this ring from my hand," ho said.
"A stranger's gold I must nevor take;
That is my mother's warninu to mo;
For a stranger's mind aud a stranger's word
Mean but to decoivo a maid," said she.
But tho air was warm with tho broath of spring,
No rippling wind aiirred tho wators blue,
And tho birds sang songs in tho budding woods,
And evory note sounded clear and truo.
And the ring shouo rod In the waning light;
Twas red as blood with a warm desire,
And tho eyos of tho youth in tho gathering night
Burned and gleamed with a living fire.
And tho wave was still by tho pebbly shorn,
And tho wiud lay wrapt in the dim bluo air,
And hoavori looked down with a thousand oyos,
And smiled that tho oarth was so sweet ana fair.
While a spirit wove a soft silkon not
About the two in the summer night;
And they heeded not how the mad hours spod,
And time swept by in his busy flight.
Till a cloudy morn o'or thowoqdland broko,
When birds sang not in tho dripping troos,
And fogs, like wraiths from their restless graves,
Moved hero and thero in tho fdghlng breeze.
Then tho maidon's hoart in hor bosom burned,
And sho softly sighed: "What a dream I
dreain^d;"
For no lordly lover was at hor side,
No silken sail in the distance gleamed.
But a goldon band rouud her finger clung,
And its gleam was faint like a firo unfotl;
But it burned her hand and it burned her heart.
Till the salt tears came and her cheeks ilamud
red.
The Flamiugo Piuuxe.
by mabhl P. SMITH.
"I send you a plume of flamingo, Pierre,
For a study," tho lottor ran;
'Twas the gift of a friend, to me as dear
As over man was to man.
With its roae and scarlet and snowy white,
The prosont boforo me lay,
And 1 sat and gazod at the lovely sight,
While memory held her sway.
Aud I swear, as I gazod, I stood again
On tho shore of that dark lagoon.
And the sconb to me looked tho same as when
Thore wore two beneath the moon.
For tho gray moss hung from the livo oak trees,
And tho cypress' stars of red
Were softly swayed by the scented breeze
That sung to itsolf o'erhoad.
The magnolias proudly held up their store
Of blossoms like cups of pearl,
And tho gold-groon lamps that the fireflies bore
Wore floating in many a whirl.
And I thought a* 1 watched the gleaming throng
Which ovor around us fbw,
That for beauty he nevor again could long
Who had but that night—and you 1
Ah 1 you and tho nlaht were twins, 1 ween,
For your ovos had the starlight's glow;
(Though tho stars had nono of that midnight
slieon)
And your voice, like the breeze, was low;
And Night herself had beon proud to own
Those trossoB of ebon liair,
Whero a roso-tipped plumo of flamingo shone
For me, who had placed it there.
There aro parting vows and a long caress
In the light of those southern glades-
There are tear-wet eyes and a ravon tress-
Woe's mo, lor the picture fadoB;
I am back in tho world—the dav is past—
'Tie ovoinug, with clouds of gloom,
And of all the vision, too fair to last,
Is loft but a rosy plume 1
In Meinorlttm.
BY J. H, LUTHEB.
The lights are going out, and darker still
Tho way boforo me soems. Familiar spots
That once with beauty rare wolcomod my stops
Seem blighted as by autumn's early frostB.
Faces that onco gavo smiles to gladden lifo
Have disappeared, and voices once as sweet
As heaven s own minstrelsy have died away.
The lights are going out—tho shadows fall
About my foot; but still I follow on—
1 am not left alone. Moth inks I hear
The footfalls in the depths boyond of Ono
Who walked this way in lowly garb,
And ofttimos since appears in glorious mien.
Then though the lights go ouc and tho loved ono9
I all,
And stormB affright and toars unbiddon drop,
I look above and stars unliko our stars
Are filled with golden light—then hope revives.
The lights are going out—tho beautiful,
The pure, tho bravo are dropping from the ranks,
But noaror every hour tho goldon 9hore
Must be, whoro love and joy eternal reign.
The lights are going out—darker to-day
The pilgrim path appears—for o'er a form
Of passing lovoliness the cold oarth lies.
Sometimes Johovah hides himself, and hoart
And flesh will fail, and trembling stops botray
The flight of faith benoath fresh burdens borne.
Take courage heart, though all the lights go out.
Beyond this cloud-land glorious day will dawn
And kindred spirits meet the Prince of lifo.
W ACO, Tex.
Cremation.
BY IRENE ACKEttMAN,
Cromati on-
Tarnation 1
Is this Yankee nation
To be roasted
And toasted
As soon as they're ghostod
And on a hot griddle bo spread?
Cromation—
Tarnation
To their Greek oducation I
Are all of tho 4 mashos"
To bo turned into ashes
And mado smokoy whirls
For their sweethearts and girls!
Cremation-
Tarnation I
Is all of creation
To sell out their lots
To be put up in pots
Or along with the profit
Into somebody's pockett
Cremation-
Tarnation
To their glorification
Of a furnace rod hot
And a big iron pot?
'Tis a corner on coals!
Blast thoir souls I
A Thought.
BY NOMAD.
Wifehood is the golden, siivor or wormwood urn
To which, by Gard'ner Time, are borne,
For weal or woe, for ill or good,
The opening buds of womanhood.
Water as Medicine,
Hall's Journal of Health.
The human body is constantly undergoing
tissue change. Worn out particles are cast
aside and eliminated from the system, while
tho new are ever being formed, from the in«
ooption of life to its close.
Water has the power of increasing the3e
tissue ohanges, which multiplieB the wasto
products, but at the same timo they are re-
newed by its agency, giving me to inoreaBed
appetito, which in turn provideB fresh nutri*
meut. Persons but little accustomed to
drinking water are liable to have the waste
products formed fastor than they are re-
moved. Any obstruction to the free working
of natural laws at ouce produces disease,
which if once firmly seated, requires both
timo and money to cure.
Peoplo accustomed to rise in the morning,
weak and languid will find the cause in tho
imporfoct secretion of wastes, which many
times may bo remedied by drinking a
full tumbler of water before retiring. This
vory materially assisb in tho process during
the night and leaves the tissues fresh and
strong and ready for the aotivo work of tho
day.
Hot water is one of our beBt remedial
agents.
A hot bath on going to bod, even in the hot
nights of summer, is a better reliever of in-
somnia than many drugs.
Inflamed parts will subside under a contin-
ual poulticing of real hot water.
Very hot water, as we all knoy, is a prompt
eheck to bleeding, and besides—if it is olean,
as it should be—it aids in sterilizing our
wound,
A riotous or rotten stomach will nearly al-
ways gratefully receive a glass or more ot
hot water.
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