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ISSXJED SEMI-WEEKLY*^ ^ ^ ^ ^ l. m GRIST S SONS. Publishers, j ? ^auuln Jleuspaper: jr'or lite promotion of lite political, .Social, Agricultural anil d'omiucrrial interests of the people. J KSTA BLI8HK1) I8S5. YOK1C V I LLK, S. C? FIIIDAY, AI'CI'ST 11, 1!)11. NO. (S-j. fwm /7R\ ? ^ BYTHOM Pub. by Doubleday BOOK III?THE FLOWER. CHAPTER VI. Through Purple Curtains. When Nan made up her mind, she acted with lightning rapidity. She would force Stuart to an avowal of love that would tix their relation beyond disturbance by the little singer. She had too fine a sense of values to permit herself to become entangled in an intrigue. She could wait, and gain in power for the waiting. Her physician had told her that Bivens's days were numbered. Stuart had waited twelve years in silence, lie could wait the few months more of her husband's flicker ing life. But on one thing she was determined. Now that another woman had appeared on the scene she would not live in suspense, she must know that he loved her still, loved her passionately, madly as she believed he did. But he must say it. She must hear his voiee quiver with its old fiery intensity. She wished this as she had never longed for anything on eartn, and for twelve years she had lived in a magie world where she had only to breathe a desire to have it fulfilled. Stuart had baffled and eluded her on every point when she had thought he was about to betray his passion. Here was something mere money had no power to command. Well, she had other powers. She would use them to the limit. She would no longer risk the danger of delay. She had no difficulty in persuading Bivens to urge Stuart to visit their country estate in the mountains of North Carolina. The doctor had ordered him there to live in the open air. The young lawyer refused to go at first, but Bivens urged with such pathetic eagerness he was compelled to accept. 11 was a warm i>raumui mv.. last week in March when he alighted on the platform of the little railroad station on the estate, and took his seat beside Nan in her big touring car. The fruit trees were in full btoom, and their perfume filled the air. The hum of bees and the song of birds he had known in his boyhood thrilled his heart. He drew a deep breath of joy. and without a struggle resigned himself to the charm of it all. "It's glorious, Nan!" he exclaimed. "Your coming mukes it perfect, Jim." she answered, tenderly, and turning to the chauffeur said: "Drive for an hour before going to the house, Collins." The chauffeur tipped his cap and the throbbing machine shot around a curve and swept along the river's edge down the green carpeted valley which stretches out for miles below the raniparts of the great chateau on the mountain-side above. "There's the house, Jim!" Nan cried, pointing to the heights on the left. Stuart could not suppress an exclamation of delight. "Magnificent!" he said, with enthusiasm. Au th? river mailc a trraceful clU'Ve the great building swept into full view - a stunning pile of marble three hundred feet long, its tower piercing the turquoise sky in solemn grandeur. The stone parapet, on which its front wall was built, rose in massive strength a hundred feet from the ledge in the granite cliff before touching the first line of the white Stones of the llotlSe itself. At the end a formal garden had been built on the foundations of masonry which cost a hundred thousand dollars. "What a background that row of live oaks make behind the garden?" he exclaimed. "Don't they?" she answered. "You would hardly believe it. but we planted every one of those trees." "Nonsense! They lillist be two feet in diameter." "More; not one of them is less than three. We uiove?l a hundred of them from the woods, without breaking the litt from their roots built special machinery to do it. I think t'al is prouder of those trees than he is of the house." I'or an hour the car swept like a spirit over the miles of smooth macadam private roads l.iveiis had built. At each graceful turn his wonder incivased at the luxurious outlay of millions which the little man had spent to gratify a whim. h'rom each hilltop, as the huge gleaming castle came into view from a ...... ......I.. i-i-ve:. Simr its marvelous beauty. he thought with a touch of pity of ihe shambling figure ?? tslri? ken man limping through its lialis helpless, loitvly. miserable. What strange pranks fat?* plays with the mighty as w*-11 as the lowly! Su frail was the k -11 body now he ilid not dare risk a cold by taking a ride with Ids \\ ife. Tile maehiiie turned suddenly up a hill and glided through two iron Kates opening i>ii the lawn and the meat white chateau loomed before them in a flash ol blinding heautv. Stuart caught his breath. Turning t<? Nan he shook his head slowly: "Lioti't you like it?" she laughed. "I was just wondering" "At what?" "Whether this is the republic for which our struggling fathers fought and died" America you know. Nan. is the tall rude youth who saw a vision, made his way into the wilderness, slept ou the ground, fought with hunger ami wild beasts and grew strong b\ the labor of his right arm It would be a strange thing if all lie has learned is t crawl back to where lie started and hlllld a castle exactlv like the olie ^ from which the tyrants drove him in the tild World" "What a strange fellow von are. Jim" 11 ?t answer cairied with il a touch oi resentment. "This house is mine, mine not America's please |... Illelilber that. I.et the future Ameli< all take of himself'" Certainly. | understand. he an rOFEvki _____________?MM? ^2? AS DIXON ^ ay Thomas Dixon. , Page & Co.. N. Y. Bf <*gyeaiy<*aiy,e3iy<?flp,<ijjp'xmy swered quickly, as the car stopped tin der the vaulted porte-cochere. "Yot wouldn't be a woman if you didn't fee that way. All right; I'm in you hands. To the devil with the futun American!" [ "That's better!" she laughed. Stuart shook hands with Hivens am was shocked to find him so weak. The little man held his hand with i lingering wistfulness as he looked int. his friend's strong face. "You don't know how rich you are Jim," he said, feebly, "with this ham that grips like iron. I'd give million! to feel my heart beat like yours today.' "You'll get better down here," Stuart answered, cheerfully. "I'm trying it anyhow." he said listlessly. "Make yourself at home, oh boy. This house is my pride. I wan Nan to show you every nook and corner in it. 1 wish I could trot aroum with you, but I can't." "As soon as you've changed clothes," Nan said, familiarly, "come dowt to the library and I'll show yot around" Stuart followed the man assigned a; his valet to the electric elevator and it .? nunitlu cs? olkitu/1 ..lit All tilt* fiilirtl floor. He observed with a smile thai tiis room number was 157. "The idea of living in a huge hote and calling it a home!" he mused with grim humor. "Room 157. greai Scott!" His hostess showed him first thi library. The magnificent room contained more than forty thousand volumes, bound in hand-tooled morocco. "The funny thing, of course." Nai whispered, "is that Cal has never reac one of these exquisitely bound books.' "Why on earth did he make this room the most stately and beautifu one in the house?" "Maybe he didn't!" she laughed. "I'n going to give you a privilege no inert man has ever enjoyed .i this houst before?I am going to show you m> own rooms. Will you appreciate th. honor?" The man answered with a bantering smile. "If I live to tell the story!" When the tour of inspection haf been completed she led him to her owi: suite, which was located in the southwestern corner, overlooking the magnificent formal gardens with their artificial lake, fountains, statuary and a wilderness of flowers, and farther oi; over the beautiful valleys of the Swannaiiou and the French Broad rivers Beyond the river valleys rose range after range of mountains until the lasi dim peaks were lost in the clouds. The magnificence of her bed-roon was stunning. Stuart rubbed his eyes in amazement. Tile bedstead seemed a thing of lift ?so elaborate and wonderful was its art. Built of massive ebony with tin most remarkable ivory carving set it its gleaming black surface, artists, as many as could touch the material, hat worked two years mi the carving alone Tin- allegorical pictures cut into tin broad baud of ivory which ran arouiii (In- Irani*' had required (he linn- of loin art-workmen l'??r eighteen months. Stuart stood fuseiuali*d. "Y??u see that magnificent piece o ivury on the head, Jim?" she asked with sparkling eyes. "The nu>st massive solid piece 1 evel saw!" It*- exclaimed. "I never Urea met the elephant had ever lived with stn*l a tusk." "We tumid him at last!" Nan cried with pride. "It took the time of fourteen hunters in Africa for Revet months." "I can easily believe it," Stuart answered. "l.udwig of Bavaria su*--l> nev*-r dreamed anything like this." "The walls you see are panelled it Louis XV style, permitting the nios elaborate carvings which I hail heavily guild*-*! oil backgrounds of whit* enamel, but tin- tiling I love best aboni this panelling, is not the panel at a! it's the rich purple and gold (h-noes* velvet. I had it made by a noted liin in Lyons. I>..n't y**u think it exquisite?" "If I ever get rich I'll have a pice* of it for the collar of my coat." "1 got my painters from I'aris to dthe ceilings. They worked v?-r> quick ly, but they knew Imw to charge. Tin window curtains, you see, are of tin same material as tin- purple and g*>l* velvet in the panels, while tile limb'! curtains are hand-woven of Brussel,net and interwoven with silk. Tin wardrobe. Ii.il. washstaml. and dressing table are uf ebony and ivory, tin chairs, of solid ivory inlaid with go|< uinl ebony, were all ina?b- t<> match tin bedstead." Stuart look*-?l at his hostess curious ly. "I thought I knew y<iu, Xan, luit tlii: is a revelation. I mild never havi guessed liy the wildest leap ?d' my ini agination. It's lie.Voiid belief" "l?i.n't yiiu like it'."' she asked, will a hurt expression. "I'm stunned. The most wondert'ii thing to me in the ruiiiii. though. is im tin- hedstead. hut the woman stamlini Inside it." A ilash id light eame from the darl e \es ami the maeuifieeiit figure uivt tense ini a moment as she smiled will a look of iniiit ii \ "I'm lost in wonder at the riotou g|o| \ III yolir eapaeitv for SellSlloll joy. I eoiild imagine Juno on th heights III I l|\ lupus eXeeillillg Sllell ! dream of mad luxnrv. hut I eoiilil nev I hate iiiiieeit ed o| this. here, if | 11; 11 not seen ii And >e|. now that I se ton iii the seiiiim. im sure you wer I i:111 - l"i!" il. I in- un.iif Si li. nn is 11:11 IllitllillllS il sral'fS III" "Si ar? s \..u " sin* t.j.. .?11-?l will <Iiii> l< tlisj.lt asm "Yt-s." In wt iti <tii. i'.kiia'l\ "H al IllttSI I ffi.U.ilfS lilt- 11 lifiiu; :i I >:i?'ll t-llll\" A lonk >1 pain sw. pi tin- t\pifssi\ fan ami In- was s.?rrv In- lei.I saitl il 'I'lif j.>! ;? st'.-iiifil "'il t.| liuam.n\ will Iii-i iiiimil. Sin- Ii a 11 lain ii lii-iast-11 si-i i 111-sI> in ilit- i i't-alinii "I lliis mi. -am y had spent nn it a mum) million. Thi et'fei t it had pmdneed mi tin- man'i y mind was anything I nit lli|>|iuill. H< J da l i d lint tell llnW deeply In* wai y iimvfd. Iniw' ewry d -siiv had awaken ed into lieree, erin-l hinging as tin subtle scheme id' seiisuntis di'caniini P \ hail tinfnlded itself before liis eyes. Hi / began tn wniuh'i' whether there wep ^ really any ?->>mpl?-xit> nr any inysterj j) at all almut her, whether she were nn ^ wry simple and wry elemental. >) Tim picture slu* mailt' standing ii * this wonderful rnnin was mm that iie\' J er faded frmn his iimnmry. Tim poisi uf Imr superb fnrni: the tires ilia . smouldered in the depths nf her eyes; , the tenderness with which her senses 1 seemed to drink in the daring luxury; the smile that played about her lips j, joyous, sensuous, cruel! In vivid flashes he saw in her shinins face the record of it all?the naked ] African hunters, crawling through forest jungles, stalking and bringing dowr t in pools of blood the huge hcasu , who paid their tribute to her beauty; the army of toiling artists who benl their aching backs for days and week* 1 and months and years, carving thi t pictures in those white shining suv faces to please her fancy; the bowed . figures of the weavers in Lyons and Itrussels, these deft fingers working . into matchless form the costly fabrics j lo please her eye and soothe tile touch t id' her lingers as she drew back lici . curtains of purple and gold to let in I the morning sunlight! He wondered vaguely what such a . woman, clothed with such power , would do if suddenly thwarted in a j wish on which her heart was set? And then it swept over him that sh? ? was no strange Kgyptian princess, nn ! sorceress of the Nile, no fairy of poet'* ! fancy, but just the girl lie had loved t and lost and yet who had come back into bis life in the dazzling splendor id I her own da.v-<Ireams--one of the rulers of the world. He looked at her a mnt ment and she seemed a being of another planet. He looked again and . saw the laughing school-girl, hisplay. mate on the red hills of his native . state. "Why so pensive, Jim?" she asked. ! "It seems all a dream, Nan," he anI swered. "I'll ruh my eyes and wake up directly. I thought your New York 3 house a miracle. This is fairyland." I "Perhaps it would be," she said looking at him a moment through half i closed eyes, "if only the prince?" A look of pain unconsciously clouded . his face and the sentence was not fin ished. (To be Continued.) > ORIGIN OF CORN. Experiments Have Developed It Back I to the Condition of Grass. i A few years ago, says an Atchison Kan., letter to the St. Louis Globe Democrat, private experimenters suc' ceeded in developing corn backward, until all the ears were on the top ol , the stalk and growing so small that the stalk easily could carry them in 1 that position. Selecting the smallest kernels of the smallest ears, the corn . gradually was led backward through its history until it became not much larger than a good-sized head of timo' thy or orchard grass. It is thought the plant was brought , from the south by the migrating , tribes, tinally being adopted bv the Indians of Florida, and by them and by other Indians was developed through long periods of years, until it was be. coming the one staple article of food all over the territory now occupied by the I'nited States. i Indian Corn Fields. i When tlu* Fnglish and French en teivd their great struggle fur the > ossessioii of what is now America, im mease cornfields were found as tar j north as New York and Massachusetts, I Massasoit led his white friends with corn, and at a later date sweet corn 1 was found, grown hy the Indians in Massachustts. When Sullivan was sent against the lroi|Uois during our p revolution lie destroyed vast orchards of a|i|des and iininense acreages of corn, lie Solo reports cornliclds in southern Florida, where he is said to r have marched through "growing corn . and heans clear across the state In Tallahassee." The Frenchmen who set1 tled in the St. Johns river valley were led with corn and taught how to cook it. t'apl Smith tells of live varieties ' of bread that were made from corn hy the Indians of Virginia. The pioneei i colonists soon learned how to prepare this new grain for food, and without il they could never have made theii " passage westward through the wilderness. The Indians were more advanced in agriculture than is generally supposed. The industrious, intelligent 1 Indians prohaldy raised good crops oi corn; the loafers raised very small . crops. Among tin- earliest men there were a few industrious ones and great uuiii' hers of shiftless ones. The proportion ! of shiftless men constantly is being . lowered since ii is becoming more certain every day that shil'tlessness does, led pay in any walk in life; that tin ' man who practices industry and good conduct, and learns as much as possi. hie, lives an easier and more comfortable life than the idler. A lew years ago the yield of corn to the acre in ? South Carolina was eight bushels t? . the acre; last year this average had increased to eighteen bushels. The average for the country is twenty-six bushels. Last year Jerry Moon I a Itl-year-old South Carolina boy, raised e?v bushels of corn on a single acre, I In I iii nrder t?i 'I" it In- s|??'iit in ' li lt ili/.i'is ami hauled TOO loads id' ri?*li L* earth mi liis prize a?*re. Itut tin* ?t??| paid liini a m i pmlit id' $i:ta. Thi> rii-Ki'd has never Imm-ii iipiali-d. although this year the I my is trying ! ' surpass it. Jerry Mihiit, 1 m-i ;iusi nl i* his ai*i-iiiH|>lisliim*iit, lias in me a ln-ri thrmighmit tin- ciiiiiitry. Al fuliiiuhiis idiin, a I>;iin|ii>-I was given in his hmiiir. init wlii'ii In- was vailed mi In t I linw In- did il, Im liid liis faee in hi.' s arm in Imyisli imilusimi. L* THE HISTORIC SOUTH. i Wealth of History In Southern State?South Carolina. I Tin- smith is especially rich ii I pnillls nl' llistnl'ii* rn|lSi'i|lli'lli'i'S. Al it tin- miiset Virginia was tin- nmst pupil Puis as wi ll as tin- umsl powerful n| It all i In- stales. As "the innlhi'l' nl presidents." she praelieally gave tin law In the enUlltry I'l'nlll tile at'eessim ' ui Washington in 17Mi in the retire llli'lit III' Mnlllne in ISL'a. except dill s ing the fnur years nf .1 n1111 Adams ii I lie pi esiilelli y. Ill the Ili'Xl third n s a century. with its llnyiie. t'alhniiu ** Mil Millie ami mini slate-men nf largi n inlliii'iu'e. Smith Cai'nliiia was the rein - - - . i. . *l\.v;i< Ill l>l I*\ I'l 11S III nil- .1. .. ... Willi lis linwiiilaiy ?lis|nili- with Mini ** in. | >i i'?-i|iil;ili'il llii* w;ii I n-l \\ ? ? ! i tin i' l.nli l ;111 I llir l liil.il States. in wliit'll t. Ii> i iiin|iii st :11111 puri'luisi'. uc uliiiiin imI Arizmia. N'fW .Mi'xii'u. I'tnli. Xi-vn In. t 'aIiI i tii:a iiinl |i:irls m' ('ulm'aih .mil Wyoming. The I'm tin li i mil i ul ul' I In- 111 ii111 ul' I hi- Al issjs.-i|i | J illi'ili'il till' III |* >1 jilt lull Willi I'Vil lli't w 11 i < -11 ri'siilii'il in tlii- aniiexalimi ii I lif pi n\iiiff ul l.miisi.ina. I?y whirli tin - :iri-:i ul tin' I'nili'il St:ili-s was ilmilili'i iiinl nil Milis?'i|ii?'iil anes-al imis ul' ler tiluiy wi-ii' I'l'iuii'ii'il inevitable. Klmi il.i s.iii tlif i ; 111 i i > t while sil I leu ii'ii I' wliii-li wi-ii' 111,i111 - I an\ w Ill-re in 1111 i j i " lit I'nili'il Stales. In die Wan I iuna euluiiv in 'I'l-iiiH'ssee sell'-?uv ililinlil ii i a ili* its mlienl w * i n|' (In ' Alh i li lliie . In-lies Weekly. , ill iocrllattf otto i'riulint). HOLD COTTON. Farmers' Union Officials Issue Address to Farmers. T?i tlit- farmers and all th?* business interests that an- affected h.v the price tif cm tun: Tin* Suinti r county Farmers' Union at its last meeting unanimously dircctcd us as a cuininiltcc to call your attention to the serious condition that confronts us iu the outlook for low | prices for this crop of cotton. Thirty I ' or forty days ag? cotton sold in Sumter for lftJ cents (spot). Today a holder who would not then sell was ' glad to get 12i cents. These are actual sales. What has brought ahout such a slump in this short time sifter cotton had held steady for nine or ten months at 14 to 15 cents? They say because there is a prospect of over 14.utt0.O0ft hales. Is it not more because the world, judging by the past, thinks it can stampede the farmers and the merchants, and buy this crop for any old price? We hear it said that cotton I will sell below 1ft cell18 before CllfistI mas. Tin* men who are predicting such prices are working with might and main to hriiiK about 1ft cents cot^ ton by telling their farmer friends that the crop is the largest on record. "You ought t?? sell as fast as you can. for cotton is hound to go lower." Apparently not knowing that this is the very 1 way to bring about a lower level of , prices. L Now we have no quarrel with the northern ami foreign spinner who wants low priced cotton. It is only a 1 part of his business to get his raw , material at the lowest possible price, , and it is also part of his business to sell his finished product at the highest I possible price, lint how any southern men, even owners of mill stocks, can wish to see low prices for cotton, or can in any way give aid and encotir1 agcinent to the enemy by joining in the hue and cry that "prices are bound to go lower." is past our comprehenI sion. Kver.v business man and every cotton mill in the south is inevitably bound up in the general prosperity of this section. II' u. I it mills ..mil.l ......I- m.l ....... markets fur the manufactured goods, and learn from the successes of foreign mills to cater to the demands i of the world's trade in the fabrics the . world wants, put up in the kind of packages the world wants, they could join hamls with all the business inter, ests of the south and fix and maintain the highest possible price for cotton and cotton goods. That the mills will not do this is I abundantly proven by the history of recent years when our own mills kept out of the market while the farmer was falling over himself to sell his cotton, and later paid more for their stocks than the foreigners, with freight and other charges added. We may expect the same thing to happen this fall. Hence we leave the southern ; spinners out of the count. But we do call on every merchant and every fertilizer manufacturer and every banker and every railroad man to join with the Farmers' Union in urging every farmer to hold back his : cotton until the world is willing to pay a living price for it. Such a course can hurt no one, and it will help every 1 title; the merchant, by giving him cash customers for his goods, the fertilizer plants by increased use of their goods, 1 the banks by larger deposits, the rail1 roads by larger freights on more import* d goods that our people will have the money to buy, anil every profession and calling by the increase in the circulating medium brought about by the larger tlow of foreign gold in all the arteries of commerce. There call be llo question that tliis will be the result of higher prices for , ' cotton. If it were not true, from whence conies the present prosperity of the south? It is lfic cotton that has done it. As surely as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, just so surely will there be stagnation and want, distress and bitterness, in thousands of hollies ill the south, and they will not alt be farmers' homes, if we ' let this crop of cotton sell for ten 1 cents or less. , With the world's stocks of cotton alj most depleted. with the automobile tire industry alone taking hundreds of . 11 ic nisa iii is i)i i i.i i iv- in coiiuo u i in tiii . increased t-<>11s(i 111111 it111 tin every side, this clop tan In- marketed at I I i>r la eeiiis per piititid just as easily as last ' 1 year's en?p was. if we luit ludd mit fur 1 it. This is tint merely our upiniiui, fel( low farmers, Inn it is the upiniuti uf as shrewd business melt as the uiies . W*lit tell Villi that ruttuli will go luvver. I'esitles "there's intiii.v a slip 'twixl the . etip ami the lip.*" and the drought is . nut yet hrukeii uver large areas where t-titt>mi is huriietl up; in other sections ; the young crop eaiiunt make n half yield under must favuralde euntliliuus. Ami all of it has |u run the gauntlet ui excessive rains, if they ever start, ami id the many insect pests, and ; climatic changes that make a late I crop su uncertain. In coiicliisiuu your euuimittee would urge, with all the insistence of calm 1 ami deliberate judgment, that every uiie who can do so hold his cotton off ' the market either in his own strength, ' or with the assistance of his creditors ami the hanks. I'ick it dry. gin it dry, 1 ' put the hales iitviiy under shelter, dry. , | And if von must borrow money on it, do not borrow more than $"Ti or $:'.<> on a bale and for not less than six | months. Thirty-day cotton loans and loans close up to the market value are 1 worse than selling outright. We call | on all the unions in the cotton belt to join us in this light. Shut down oil cotton now ami for tin- next sixty days \ and the light is won. I'apcr contracts do not run mills. Vours for southern prosperity?The ' Sumter t'oiuily Farmers' I'tiioti. K. W. I tablet. J. M. Urogdoii. S. N. Welsh. Committee. 1 Sumter. S. C? August s. 1 : 11. I r COLOR IN THE SOUTH. I Census Returns Show That Negro Is Losing Ground. The fear has been often expressed that the farming sections of tile south ate coming increasingly into the control of a negro population. "The white i | pi.- are moving to the towns and having the country to colored farmers i and tenants." is a cry that has I I heard in some <|iiuiiers. I I I .... I ...lr - |- Of llll-SI- I INI SO OS \\ f HUM- IJCCII I' inn |oi\\;ml uilli ilio ki-i-iu-st hili-m^t I lo Ilia- :i II l*a all III fill. Ill of | III- I'l'DSIIS liK* hivs as lii lli?- ii-l.ilivi- imri-asi1 -lot- : 11 ia I i-olori-tl |io|iiil;il ion in tin' a a 11111 illllillM III! I.isl a I a-aI a 11TillIll >1 Iaa-a-1 III wlial llla-Sa- linillvs all- |<aiini; lo slum was Hii-nislii-al hy Mr 1 l.i-wis \V I'arki-r in his i-onnm-in-i-1111-111 aihlri-ss al tin- South t'aiolina -lali- niiis i-rsily a l'i-w alays ami In tin* i-oiiisi- of ihis aahlri-ss Mr I'arkt-r Kavi tin- lollowiiiK liuuia-s as having In-a-n " furnishi-il Mr Tlia-aiilni-a- II. ITh-t- hy ' I In- a 11 taa-i or of i In- i-i-iisus Tin-si- am nilvaiiai- liisums. ami wliih- linal i-oin' |uiialioiis may i-hanta- lln-iu sliuhlly. t lia-v inav In- aa-a-i-|i|a-il as in i-vi-ry m' |aa-i i substantially ami a|i|iroxiiiial<-ly i oi i-t-i-l. NVi- a | ii a a t - I loin Mr I'arki-r: "l'i-r a-i-nl im ii-asi- in |io|uilalion liv' iiii- ill |a|:ia-i-s of ovi-r I!.film inhahilauls. 1 ami in a 111111 \ ilislrii ls. ra-s|u-i-tiM-ly. ' i roin I Mm |o I'.mil. ami from I lo I lulu, in nim- i-otlon slali-s; lm-ra-asa- lm-ra-ava* I Mm to | ami. I ami in I a I n I'laa a s i ivi-r ami in I Mm Wliiia- 4ii ii .Wis|-o ."Il.fa *a 11111 \ hi-1ril l in l sau \\ inii- i v; IT.:: ,\"a-P| o I , .a X.:! In commenting on tin-so figures Mr. I'arkei- said: "It will lie noted that tin- white population in ?-?>111111it11it ies ill' ovi-r 2.fnni in population increased in pi-r ceiitage le-tween I!hmi ami I'.ilo. 4ii t? pi-r cent as against 27.i! per ?,nt in I Mm to I mm. During sin-li period. tin- negro po|Milnlion in these roininiiiiitii-s increased 2ii.fi pi-r cent as against an ini ri-asr of tin preceding p'-rioil of 22.:! per ( i-nl. (in Ilie otln-r liainl the white population increased in (In- i-oiintry districts. limn in lain, almost idenlirally tin- per cent as from lsmi to laftil; wln-n-as tin- in-grn population shows a iniii-h lower percentage of ini-rcaso, as tin- increase in tin- country districts in tin- later period is only s 2 per cent, sis against 17.a pel* cent in the earlier period." Heiug very nitn-lt Interested in these figures we sent liu-in in tin- uirccinmi On- census fur (-inulii-iiiatiun as tu their correctness. ami alsn In asc ertain what "nine cotton stales" are referred tn. Frnin Itiin we learn that lite nine states included in this preliminary estimate given Mr. I'rice were: Xurth I'amlina. Smith Carolina, Ucnrgia, Florida. Alabama. Mississippi. Arkansas. Louisiana, and Tennessee. The acting director also writes us: "As you will note, the increase is figured on the basis of I lie urban and yural population as constituted in iN'.ni, wlu-rcas ii should properly be based on the areas of urban and rural territory as now constituted, which ligures, however, sire not at present available except in the case of the increase in the negro popilhilion of the ruiiil districts of the states in i|iiestioti from IN'.ni to I mm, w Inch amounts to ti.S per celll." In any case, the figures indicate one tiling unmistakably: The rural south is rapidly growing , whiter. As for that matter, the figures also indicate unmistakably that the whole south is growing whiter. If we recall that the country places in lS'.ni embraced over eighty per cent of the population <>r these iiiin* states, and that the small rural increase of s.a per cent applies tn four times as great a body of population as tin* negro's larger urban increase* of 3tt.f? per cent, another fiiet becomes apparent: The white population of the whole south is increasing almost exactly twice as fast as the negro population ?probably more than twice as fast. Ami we are frank to say that we j heartily rejoice that this is true. We have no ill will toward the negro. We : certainly have no desire to keep him < poor. Kwn front a selfish standpoint We realize that the best interests of the whole south demand that he be j made more intelligent, etlicient, and i prosperous. Hut at best this process will lie slow; and tlit* proportion of < negroes to whites in the south has been too large even for the negro's i own I. The best interest of every- ; body will be helped by a greater rela- i tive increase in the white population. The coming of good settlers from oth- : er sections should be encouraged, and the hope should be that the tides of i migration and immigration will ultimately equalize matters until the pro- ( portion of negroes in no southern state will exceed twenty per cent. Then will it be easier to develop thickly set- i tied white communities. Prosperous i small white farmers, owning their own < homes, and enjoying all modern com- < forts- good roads, good schools, rural I telephones, water-works, trolley lines, etc.. etc.. tilings it is often hard to get where a large part of the population | consists of negro tenants?will develop i in the south the most splendid type of modern rural civilization, and ; U hiiiuiit'r it*t*iui? im m?- nrgi u mmself will develop as his influence be- i 'times less oppressive ami his numbers i better distributed through the whole : country. i The southern white farmer has i sense enough to See (hut with intelligent, seientilie farming lie has far better ehanees for making money and i for enjoying life working as his own i boss on iiis own land than lie would < have as somebody's hireling in some < eity faetory or shop. ('oiisei|iieiitly. he : is going to stay on tile farm: and for ever.v negro who goes to town we may i roam on getting in the end some thrifty white Settler from some Other See- J t i on. i The ipiestion of "Saving the Rural South to tile While Knee" seellis to be I solving itself. Knleigh (N t\? Pro- i givssive Partner. MURDER INDICTMENTS. A Sample of the Idiotic Style In Which , They Are Written. i Murder has been written of as a fine art. but it remained for the I'liiled , States to treat it as a sport. In many < nf the states an indielmeiit for niuriler eoiilaius nearly enough words to till a eoltiiuu and sounds like the eon- , versalion of an idiot. Here is a sample: "That the said J. ] '. <b, a certain , pistol then ami there charged with i gunpowder and leaden bullets, which said pistol he, the said J. I*. < , then ' and there in his right hand had and held, then and there unlawfully, pur- : posely and of deliberate and premeditated malice, did discharge and shoot off to, against and upon the said I'. M.. with the intent aforesaid, and that the said J. I-'. (!., with the leaden bullets aforesaid, mil of the pistol aforesaid. bv the force of the gunpowder aforesaid, liy the said J. I-'. (J., 1 Ih-ii ami llmiv discharged ami shot off as ur<>ivsaiil, him, tin- saiil I*. M., in ami upon (in- 11111><-r right side of tin* hack i>l' him, the saiil I'. M? llien ami lhere"-This isn't as idiotic as it looks, however. It is part of our sporting theory of justice, which makes a murder 1 trial a game of skill ami litiesse between opposing counsel. My the . slightest deviation from statutory form one side may lose the game. Convictions for the most abhorrent ' eriims have repeatedly been set aside , because of trival verbal omissions in ' the indictment. Ilad the murder referred to in the above limitation occurred in Canada the indictment would have read simply: "The jurors of our lord the king present that .1. I-'. <!. ?n the iltli day of August, one thousand nine hundred 1 and eight, at the city of Winnipeg, in ' the province of Manitoba, murdered ! '. M." Canadian preeedure concerns i itscll with the murder, tutrs in many jurisdictions concerns itself with the legal sport, whether the murderer is , punished or not being a secondary consideration. Saturday Kveiiing Most. Ways of the Loan Sharks.?A vigorous crusade against the salary loan sharks is being waged in Mosloii. and some astonishing facts have been brought to light about the methods pursued by the blood-suckers. An almost unbelievable case is that of a man who. years ago. borrowed $l"i from one of these vampires, since contracting the loan lie has paid back tL'.l.Vt. and still owes the original $ 1< I 'an \ oil beat that'.' Aimilu-r ?;isc is licit ?I an uiilorliinali' who Kn| iiiln ilii- grip "I :i loan shark liv?* \ i-a rs ami hy Imrrinvhit? $l?o. Hi- has In ilali- paiil hark $1.0011 ami his rrnlilnr says ilii-n- is still $>fiti 11 Hi- nil I III- $ lOO luall. Massai-liusi-lIs is pi*i-|iai*inu hi nialm it warm fur this i-lass nl human sultans. ami i- \ i'i'\ stair ill tin- I 'liinli shniilil 1111111 \\ tin- Km nl 1 - Na 1111 ili-. It is ilii- wry wlin an- tlm \ ii-liuis nl' thi-si- hi-at th'ss i-xtnrtiutu-rs a i-lass w hit'll is llm |?-asl ahh* In lu-ar stii-h 1 rnshini; hni ih iis. Nasliv ilh* Ti-iniessi-i-aii NEW TYPE OF NEGRO FORMED. * Marked Chanqes In the Race Observ- ( ed In the South. The census figures for 1!?I0. says a I Xt-w Orleans l?-tt*-r ti? I hi- New Yurk 1 Sun. show that the neuroes increased s slowly in nutuhcrs during this tlceude i ami that tln-y an- making lor the ' towns. In the rural districts of the ' south the increase of |io|uilation was N olil.V VI! per cent for the negroes. as I against 1T.fi per cent for the previous ' decade, and as attains! 17.It per cent for the whites. In other words twice I ;is fast as the negro population in iiio'' country districts. | This was not wholly unexpected. If n tin* cpiisus of 1 ! 10 had covpred tltp > <lU< s(ion of the admixture of tlit* races. -s as the ciiiiiiieratioiis in antebellum times ilid. it would have brought to d light a rentiirkable ethnological fact. K namely tliat the southern negro is getting blacker in spite of the mixture ,, of blood and that there is rapidly lie- I; ing formed a homogeneous negroid " race. Former censuses divided the , negroes into octoroons, quadroons. , mulattos and blacks, loiter these distinctions were dropped ami the classi- M lications of colored, that is those of mixed race, and negroes were substi- i< I tiled. Finally, all negroes, w hether *' lull blacks or not. were enumerated as ! colored. Hecause of this classification s( tin- census liguivs do not relied the il change now going on among the tie- " gr<?es as a race. Louisiana is whitening very fast. It n had a negro majority in slavery days ! and for thirty years afterward, and ,M this was the case with New Orleans until INiiu, il being Hie only large tl American city at the time with more " in groes than whites. The census uf '. lain) showed a while majority ot 7f?,- ^ mm; thai of Ittlo will show a while h majority oi L'm.mm. ti i lie whiles have been gaining on u the negroes, slightly through unmi- if gration ami mainly through natural b increase, especially of the French a speaking population, of the twenty- 11 eight parishes of south Louisiana in <1 which the people of Crouch origin are c: numerous, a IllitJtM <> iiuu 1111^1 cr lit grocs than whites \v lieu emancipation t? iunit*, 'lotlay all but live of them have ?' while majorities and these majorities h ure steadily increasing. ti There is some drift in the same di- -vi lection in the northern part ol the a state, hut there it is due largely to the a negro exodus to Oklahoma, Arkansas h mm oilier states caused by the inva- 11 sum of the boll weevil. I.ut tiiis change is a minor matter 'I compared with the tendency of the negroes to become a more homogeiieius race, different from what they t-1 were in Africa or from what they were v in the south in antebellum days. The 11 type is markedly different, and the difference is most apparent in southfin Louisiana anil especially in New ^ Orleans, where the conditions have a been such as to develop this type. a only in Louisiana was me fact ll recognized that the negro slaves imported into the country were not allot' ' tlie same tribe or race. As matter of " lilt I the slaves Were of different tribes ^ jnd differed in language, form and 1' even color. There were yellow, black J'1 nd bronze negroes, even some (Julias b and others mixed of an Arab type; a thele were straight hailed negroes and mil a lew persons of dark skinned races were smuggled in among the negroes proper. " aII the earlier Louisiana records classified I lie negroes according to ' their tribes, and up to the extinction u ?f slavery the Louisiana title deeds riii11i11iii-ii to specify the kind of negro sold, lie was a negro Nurd or of the ' \ard nation, a Senegal negro, a Congo negro, a Mundiiigu negro, etc. Since the abolition of slavery all these tribes ' ind races have so intermarried that " I lie race became in lime composite, '[ un hiding all the black tribes of eon- ' Hal and southern Africa, with pl'ob- " ably a dash of Arab blood. Then fol- xx lowed a mixture with American in- " ilia lis. As negro ethnology has never re- xx ceived Hindi consideration, although Hi.- .Smithsonian institution lias issued '' iln/ens .it volumes mi Indian ethiiol- . ngy. there is imtliing In slim* what " 111<>|m|-1inn nf Indian Idnud was swal- . In wed II | > in tin- more numerous lit'- ' It runs. Tin* nld French and Spanish 1 disuses ni' Louisiana slmw a wry large 1 11iiinlti*i* id' Indian slaves who lived in s I lie same ijiiarlei's as the negroes and .*lin disappeared by the fnrre nf amalgamation. The Indians nunihered nearly otie-lil'th nf the slaves. " Tile disappearance nf these tribes is lint sii iiiIK-ll illle (n their extilletinll U ;is In the I'aet that tln-y were swallowi-d ii11 in the large number nf the lie- " It roes and that intermarriage gradually en|iVel'ted llielll illtn negroes. *'J When the Dawes eoiiiniissiiui visited , l.nuisiaiia and Mississi|i|ii smile years 1 ago m arrange fur the divisiun of the Indian lands, mainly the Choctaw lands in Oklahoma, and In see that a 11 proper share was awarded In these w Indians w lin remained behind when 'J the rest of tile tribe lunVeil under tile .. ham ing liahbit treaty tn Indian terri- . luiy. some in.Hint negroes put in '. claims as doseeiidauls nf the Olioetaus. The eoniutissinii was puzzled at 1 the appearanee of these blank Indians. " but their elaims were linally disposed id' by the fuel that it was impossible fur them In prove the marriage nf i li.-ir parents and to comply with the requirements of the law in other re- ' s peels. In western Louisiana there has always beell SeriotlS trouble with tile j( p< ople known as tile I fed Untie. who claim in be Indians and who ttmluublcdly have Indian blood but in wlmm h I lie I leg In features a lid cliu rant efist ies ire much timre prunoiineed than the . Indian. It ean be staled with safety that lli.-re was in Louisiana and Mis- ' sissippj a considerable mixture of In- y. liati blond with the euinposite Afri- j, can. taking him away from any of the rjgiual type and making him an ludu . > I I M il II. I>*i i 11 v ilic in ix I ii with the ,, whiles, whieli lie linw. :i New I >r lea its j 111:111. attempted to lilillU oilt when lie WtIS superintendent of lite census. Ill ii just before the civil war is tin! ajpiin ill INTO an silteiit|il was |j mole to ei111111 erate the octoroons. i|llailt'ooiis. 11111 l:t11os and negroes separately. It is admitted that the work ! was not thoroughly done, for the in*- f, uro hintself rarely has any knowledge ( of his ancestry, and the test of color while uetierally wood is not always ac- ^ curate. h I'm even making allowances for ;1 errors, the facts given were of intpor- . lance a- showing the interiiiixlure of races The niivliire was confessedly -V w real est in l.oitisiana and particularly 11 Xew ttijeans. The last etiuineralioii j,, showed that th>' negro and colored popiilalion of New ttijeans was ahotit 11 Iwo-iiflhs while and I hree-li ft Its tie- ll uro. 01 not < 111 i 1 the proportions of :m p average mulatto. Now here in the . country. for that matter nowhere in I lie world. Were I here lllore lis Sl and ipiadroons. persons in whom lite Ii white hlood predominated who would p have h. en called while in l.alin .Anierha Inn whom the Americans eltissl li'd ami treated as negroes. Through tin- mixture of the differ 111 \ Ijjeaii 1 rihes w ith a dtish of Indian j ami while hlood and s,i because of the In Mi l* Iii-ilnifiil iIn y i-eceiwil the in*- '' iiif- 11 -1 < I -11111 l: 11 wlifii in slavery ii :i In Hi r. siiniit'i r mini liiylnT ty|ie | k'lavei-y |hiIim|is has must In tin wit Ii 111 i - chaino- Tii I In- slave owners. 1 ii.nlii-uhuly in iliusn In'i-i-iliiiK slaves si Till- ill.- sumlii-i'ii ii 1:1 i*Ki-t. il was ini- n tnH i:<lil. iinli-i-il necessary. In tilki mill cm |'?- nf lilt- lll-mms, jnsl ms lllis is ni-ci-s-'iry wiili Imrsi-s ami calilc " ' in- was laki-n also in see IIimI t! ii- ililiv \-111111 l' Wiiii i -ii 11 ii I nut mate wiili weak, ilt-licalc. iiiiili-i'si/.i-il nr nM lln-ll The cii||Sei|||e||ce was .'iii iiii i ill. vi-i i ii-111 iii the race. The sanie rea Hi induced the planters to lake good are ot their hands and feed (hem well >ii solid and substantial food, not nxnrioits. The negro race added from two to liree inches to its height and an averige of twenty pounds to the weight of In- lull grown man or woman during lavety. Whatever the wrongs of the iegro may have heeii. in the opinion if persons who have studied the mater. it is safe to say that perhaps no ace was in better physical condition then emancipation came, and none unl made greater progress physically nnn the day negroes were imported mm Africa. The white and Indian blood, periaps the mode of living, miuimi/.cd In- features ??l" tlie negro, ami he im-l i roved in looks, ami by 18"0 this ilonil mixture hail affected the entire legro |>o|iulatioii of the eountry. J. tall I'atterson, one of the few perons who have made a study of negro Ihiiology. insists that the white blood tnoiig the negroes has been so well islributed that there is scarcely a nero of pure African blood in the counry. As he |iuts it: "liven now they (the negroes) are 0 longer negroes, one third have a irge infusion of white blood; onebird have less but still some, and of he other third it would be dillleult to ml an assured specimen of pure Al'rian blood." Any one who knows the negro type ill rccogni/.c the truth of this stulelent and will recogliifee the folly ut lassifying by color, .in average negro tmily with any coiisiot ruble propor011 of white blood in it will show hildren from light yellow to almost lack, and the atavistic principle is 1 mug in such mixtures and is one of ie crowning arguments against racial nermarriage. l-'roni the marriage of white man with a woman of nly one-sixteenth negro and showing erself none of the characteristics of In* negro race is often born a child lute in color but decidedly African i feature. .since slavery and especially since lie adoption in Louisiana of the policy I segregating the races, thus putting voi.i. 1,, .*111v i iii t li.-i- iiileriniiicliiig of loud, another marked change lias ikeii place in the negro in Louisiana, nth rapid and surprising, intermixire between tlie races has been allost entirely cut ulF. The negro race . receiving no more Indian or white lood, and as no distinction is drawn moiig the negroes between "white egro" and "black negro" (it was lawn in slavery days, when the ream colored octoroon spurned the -ather colored quadroon and the lat*r took it out 011 the yellow mulatto r dark molasses tinted grille) interlarriage is rapidly reducing the race ? a homogeneous one. probably llveIxths negro and one-sixth white, with dash of Indian. The octoroons are I must gone. A few escape disguised iio the ranks of the whites, occasionlly to be exposed and driven back; ie others sink down into the mass of lie negro race. But the striking feature of this hange is that the new negro, the imposite or homogeneous negroid, is cry dark, probably darker than the ntebellum negro or even the original nported African. No one who can member conditions of lifty years ago tit is struck by the fact that the vcrage negro of Louisiana of today lid especially of New Orleans is much arker than of old. It is a dark, velvety black rather lan the blackish yellow of the origial Congo African. It is much too Ittl'IY 1UI lilt* )I| WJMII hum yji u line UIIU ndian blood in their veins of tlie typiiiI negro of today. On the other and, although blacker, the features re less pronouncedly African, the hair ss woolly's How much of this improvement is lie to better conditions, to better livig. and how much to racial interlixture is of course impossible to say. In* wavy hair is frequent instead of oiil, which the negroes abhor as a trial badge. Thus there is a blacker ire, more distinctly African in color ill iiilinitely less so in feature, a black mcriean as it were. Tin* explanation probably lies in the irt ihat the black type of negro is lore virile and increases more rapidly lan I lie yellow or mixed types and is n refore swallowing them up. Qualooiis and mulattos, as a whole, are e.akcr. are more proiie to disease and live smaller families. Formerly these eople. who were mainly free, looked illi contempt on the blacks, but this aliment has been destroyed by the xperieiices of the last forty years. The negro race is not self-support* ig in New Orleans: there the negro catlis exceed the births, and the deciency is made good by the drift of ie blacker negroes from the country isiricts. Thus, with si continuous apply of black blood (lowing in. the malgsimation becomes more complete, his does not. however, fully explain ie tendency of the negro to grow euker. which is due rather to the u-t tliftt the black tribes of Africa ere of a stronger and ntore virile type ml there is that natural tendency to vert to that original type. The same tendency is shown in sevral of the West Indian islands, where ie original Indian inhabitants have eon swallowed up by the negroes, as ell as a considerable white populaoii. with apparently no effect on the dor of the negroes. In St. Kitts, to hich thousands of Irishmen were nt as prisoners during William of range's campaign in Ireland .there is life apparent trace of Irish blood to i* found among the inhabitants, but je negroes of the island speak with a i.arked Irish brogue, all that survives f the prisoners. RIDING THE BUZZARD. he Ricebird Uses His Bulky Enemy as an Mcrupictnc, People generally associate size and rule strength with victory, especially mong tin* lower animals. Many times, iiwi'Vi r, this is far from being the ise, especially in the Itird kingdom, mong the riee tlat.s of the Carolinas tere abound at some seasons of tincar tiny rieebirds, birds so small that takes two dozen for a good meal, nnigh holies and all are eaten. Tin- great buzzard is found circling rer the tlats at all seasons. He drea-ls le time for the ricebird to collie, for i- is then nearly pestered to death h i a common sight to see one of these tile birds fly up to a buzzard and. Iter dodging this way and that round n- awkward bulk, finally alight w*d) rward between the buzzard's wings n tin- back. Here the tiny passenger labs a lew leathers in his beak and olds on lor grim life. After enjoying ride for as long as he desires the lit e fellow hops off and is gone before Ir. Buzzard is well aware of it. The peculiar part of the whole thing i that apparently the only purpose the ice bird has in getting on the back of ie buzzard is to lake a free ride. It uzzles every one who chances to see Iillli' Ir:1111:i in mm aii\ mm-i i-.i N. yet die lin t remains that it is a v?|ii?iit neourretice, ami the little inls seem tu eiijoy it immensely.? lew York Tribune. Phillips on Matrimony. The late laviil i Ira ha in Phillips hail, like many aehelors. a e.vnieal view of mat riiniii y. Mr. 1'hillips, at a re-union of 'lineetoil's elass of "n7. at the I'rineeill eluli. saiil of marriage: "The Periaus have a proverb that every young I a 11 should eolisiiler Well liefore |ifoosing It runs: "lie that vcnturnth n mati iinony is like unlo one who liriisteih his liuml into a sac k ennlininu many Ihoiissimls of ser|ieiits ml olie eel. Vet. it' tile prophet So ill it In* may ilraw forth the eel ' " CANAL ZONE NEGROES. Peculiarities of Laborers From the Barbados. When the Royal Mail liner Atrato landed lure early in tin* week with sixty-five stowaway negroes from Rardndos, Jamaica and Trinidad, says a Canal Zone letter, the number was just one-third of the stowaway record for West Indian waters as made in 11107. In that year dirt was Hying along the canal route as never before, since diggers and steam shovels worked in a manner unprecedented on the Isthmus. Tile negroes of the West Indies almost went wild with the desire to get to Panama, where the United States government would pay them ten cents an hour, a sum that they Considered munificent when they thought of the maximum wage of two cuts an hour to he earned on their native islands. At Bridgetown, on the island of Barbados, the canal commission had an agent to contract for negro laborers. He chartered the Solent to transport 1,200 Barbadian negroes to Colon. To get them on hoard required a good part of a day. As evening approached it was found that negroes who had not been engaged were sneaking on the Solent. During the dusk a mob of negroes, crazy to get to Panama to line their pockets with gold by digging plain dirt, swooped down on the vessel. Those that didn't crawl up the anchor chains and the ropes thrown over the sides by their more fortunate fellows on board literally scaled the sides of the ship. They went through portholes and over the rails to mix with the officially "hired help" of Uncle Sam. What the captain said about all "niggers" being alike need not be repeated here. By the time he got out of sight of "The Icehouse" hotel the vessel looked to those on shore like an imitation Black Hole of Calcut ta; but the crowd on board was happy. The members of the black cargo yelled and waved their bandannas; those that had none found that their shirt tails made just as good a flutter in the breezes. When they landed here in Colon it was discovered that instead of 1,200 negroes 1,395 passed down the gangway. Even though most of the 195 who were not accounted for on the Solent's sailing list were known to be negroes who had failed to pass the physical examination in Barbados, they were put to work, for the government needed workmen badly in those days. The stowaways were more than pleased. They had secured passage which did not have to be worked out; in the early days of work on the canal the government deducted the cost of passage from the wages, but every negro soon learned that it was possible to get out of paying it if he made a second contract In the canal zone, keeping quiet about the one in his overalls pocket to which he had affixed his murk in Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad or St. Lucia, as the case might be. If any negro was so unique among his fellows that he could write his name he never signed it to the usual 500days' contract; he considered that his signature was binding while his mark WUH HUlw^ L , Since "Barr.nflnr ^teTongs to Great Britain, it was necessary that the canal commission's agent engage Barbadian negroes through the island's authorized emigration agent. Several years ago this official was an educated mulatto by the name of Brewster. One day when he was hustling around in a fashion unusual in a West Indian negro, the canal commission's agent said, "Brewster, you're making things go just as it you were a Yankee." "Well, there is more truth in that remark than you think," replied Brewster. "You may not believe me, but one of my ancestors came over in the Mayflower. I have a perfect right to say that meml?ers of the Elder Brewster family were my ancestors." Brewster exported so many negr<?es to Panama that the planters complained of their inability to secure laborers. The negro women were left in Barbados, but even they did not work in sufficient numbers to harvest the sugarcane crop. Some performed their periodical labor in coaling the boats; a great many did no work at all, since their husbands were sending them money from the Canal Zone. In 1907, the bonanza year for the West Indian laborers working on the canal, the 16,000 Barbadian negroes sent home $300,000. At first they were so economical that they did not buy sufficient food. Many became sick, and quite a few died of pneumonia, as a result of fresh air. The quarters provided for the workmen were too well ventilated for the Harbadiun negroes; they had been accustomed to sleeping with all windows and doors tightly closed, even going so far as to stuff paper in the cracks to keep out the air. The commission decided that the best way to prevent illness was to feed all the West Indian negroes properly. Thirty cents a day was deducted from their wages for nourishing food provided three times a day to each workman. The Barbadian negroes working here on the canal speak what is supposed to be Knglish, but it is doubtful if a southern negro could understand much of their dialect except "Massa." They never say ' hint" and "her," it is always "he" and "she." This is a sample overheard the other day, or as much like it as written Knglish can make it: "Boss, he say to Sam, 'work tiekl.v hard.' He say to lie, 'Sam. Massa I'res'den' Tat" he comes soon an' see how much you got digged.'" The negro front Jamaica speaks much better than his relative front llarbados. For some reason or other? hardly because of the poorer linguistic powers and better working ability of the Itarbadians?no love is lost between the Barbadian and Jamaican wet-jit is the enmity be tween th 111 that separate quarters had to lie established when they first eame here to work. The Jamaican negro, considering himself the eipial of a white man, has a particularly good opinion of himself. If an American here speaks roughly to a Jamaican he will throw down his shovel and straightening himself up, say with pompous dignity, "I wish you to understand, sir. that I am a British subject." Recently two of them engaged in an altercation in front of a hotel here. Since the greatest insult to a Jamaican negro is having his face slapped, so one of them insulted the other in such a manner. He of the slapped cheek paled ill Spite of his black skill, but only said. "You're a very rude man, sir: a very rude man, and I'll tell tlie mayor of Kingston about > on, sir." The respect that the Jamaicans consider due them proved too much for an Illinois Central track foreman who came down here a couple of years ago. !!< remained but a short time, the following incident being the climax of his stay. He objected just as strongly to the respectful words the Jamaicans used as they did to his unprintable language, and one day when a Jamaican foreman ordered two fellow islanders under him to move a railroad tie by saying. "Mr. Montague, won't you and Mr. Johnson be kind enough I" pIcK lll.il sit'i'iin 111> .in.. |..... . over here?" the Illinois Central loreman roared. 'Hlankety hlnuk-hlaiik. ut out calling e.ieh other 'Mister' and get ihnvn to htisiliess." "I'm surprised, sir." said the Jamaieuti foreman. "If you don't like the word I will not use It (Sentlemen, kindly move that sleeper over here." The Ameriean foreman, after using up his vocabulary, took the next hoat that went in the direction of the Illinois Central, where his linguistic abil t\ would produce results by being pi opei |\ appreciated.