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HILL ARI 1 MU Arp Writes M < Sion Minuta r, 1 have alway.- contend? il that steal- | in.' lilli?- things was di" beset!iii); sin nf t ho negro atol was II race trait. Ami that cheating in :i trade wa- a race trait in thc .lews ;">'i Gentiles. Wo white fall?s de not eal I it cheating, bul say he L'"t tho advantage urie' got the lu--1 nf tho bargain, but this advan i.i.''' is .generally got .by deception er ;t bupjircssioii of the truth. Tho negro sail.itths his sin oycr by calling it j taking things-just as our cok once saiii tu mc when I complained about ht r stealing, lard and Hutu- and rice and such things: "Mr Major, I don't think you miss what I takes." Well, 1 dident very much, int it annoyed . me very much !.?: her to think she was fool i rn; tue when she wasont. Mut that sane in gro would sit. up ;iii night with a sick nu inlier of thc family and was alway- good and kind to our children. Now the white man rarely steal- anything and tho negro as rare ly cheats you in a trade, liefere the civil war the negro's most fr?quent ?-.rime was stealing chickens and he got so expert in that business that a law was passed making it a penal of fense for anybody to buy chickens fruin a negro even though he had raised them in his own yard. We could buy foot mats and brooms and baskets, but we must not buy chick ens. Law or no law, he continued his midnight vocation, and if thu com mandment had said thou shall not covet thy neighbor's chickens it would have been all thc saun; to Ililli. First covet and then steal was part . " his religion. I was ruminating atiout this because I bought a turkey yester day from a negro for a very low price and I wondered where ho got it. I didn't question him, for 1 didn't want to hurt his feelings. When I was in North Carolina a friend told me about an old darkey who was on trial for stealing a turkey and the proof was positive, and yet he did not seem to be alarmed. His lawyer was discour aged and said, "Uucle Jack, it looks like they have got you." "No, dey aint, Mas John; dey aint got me yet and dey aint agwinc to get mc. Tell you how it is, Mas John. Do jedgo seteu up thar was my young master when de war broke out and not gwino to send mc to de pen. No, sir; he aint, he aintdoneforget what I know." But Mas John had lost his confidence, for he knew that the judge would do his duty and execute the law. In a short time thc trial was over and thc judge asked Uncle Jack if ho had any thing to say in extenuation of his crime. The old gray-headed man got up with a grunt and looking around upon the spectators and then at tho judge, said: "Nuffin' much, Mas Judge, nuffin* much. Only dis. you know all about dat old war which wc all got whooped and you haint forgot how I went oud wid you to de army for you was a cappen and old master told me to go 'long and take kcer of yo-u, and you knows I did dc very bes' I could for four mighty long years and how ono time you got wounded and I staid by you ontell you was well again and how anoder time you took the measles aud me, too, and I stay by you and nus1 you and. how anoder time deni yankees cotch me and I got away in dc night and come baok to you and how sometimes you get out of money and out of suinfen to eat all at de same time and you call me up and say, 'Jack, you mus' go out a foragin' and get us sumtiu', and I go out late in de night and bring you chickons and rostin' ears and ono time I bring jou a turkey, and you neber ax me nufiin' about whar I got him and you never giv* me any money to buy him, did you, Mas Jedge. You call it fora gin' den, dident you, [Mas Jedge, and if it w as foraging den how cum it to be stcaliu' now?" By this time thc courtroom was Convulsed with laughter and tho judgo could not conceal his emotion, for his recollection of thc old darky's faithful ness was revived afresh. He wiped his brow and his eyes, and Baid: "Mr. Sheriff, adjourn court. Uncle Jack, I will pay for that turkey, but you must not do so any more. When you need anything you must come to me. I havent forgot you." It is amazing to read our peniten tiary reports where wo learn that there are over 2,000 negroes in the State and County cbaingangs who arc there for stealing of some kind. Most of them are of the new issue who were never in slavery and a majority have ad vanced under freedom from simple, larcency to burglary. Chickens are too small game for the modern darky. One of my farm hands was sent there for two years, and was disgusted with his associates and said, "I tell you what, boss, dar is some mean folks in dc chaingang. Fact is, dar is some folks just as mean in dar as dar is out tya dar." Coho says that Cuba is a good place to send thc darkys to, for thc trees aro small and the chickens S LETTER. lu i pl< a* on i li< . Sin ol' lill ?_?;. i ll Kl I tit I it) H. roost low, hut ihe new negroes ii n t seem lp hanker after chickens like tho ..?.i fuslii..!,, d negroes. They hali rather .natch a lady's pocketbook and run. li is astonishing how many chances they will take lo gel something I'or nothing, and will take the ri-k of arrest and ptiuislimcnl and yet I have never heard of one heilig turned out of chureh for stealing. War will make white folks steal and .Judge Dooley believed thal mean whisky would. The old lime lawyer used io tell '.ow he was broke of tak ing loo nundi when he was on the heuch - ! the Northern circuit. A man by name of Sterrott kept a dirty saloon near thc hotel and the judge patronized bim every morning before breakfast and by court time was pret ty mellow, (?nc cob! nonning the mischievous lawyers borrowed half dozen silver spoons from the landlady ol' thc hotel and slipped them into lin* judge's overcoat pocket. Ile never discovered them until court adjourned foi dinner and was dreadfully puzzled and perplexed. II?! recognize*! thc spoons, for limy bad bis landlady's mark and were ancient heirlooms in ber family. He sent fyr her to come to bis room and gave them back with abject, apology and said it must have been S t erre t t's whisky that done it. It sobered bim up and made bim very serious all the afternoon Next morning a trifling fellow was put on trial for .sti'aling a package of pocket knives from a store in town. He was easily convicted and the judge asked him if he had anything to say for him self. "Nothin', judge," said he, "on ly that I was drinking and don't re member about it." The judge leaned forward and said, "Young man, where did you get your liquor?" "At Ster ret's," said bc, "Discharge him, Mr. Sheriff-discharge him! I am perfect ly aware that Sterrctt's whisky will make anybody steal." \Yro soldier's dident steal much dur ing the civil war, but sometimes we were sorely tempted and fell. Sorre timos we got awful tired of Bait meat and longed for a change of diet. I re member that when we camped near Orange court-house there was a lovely little ?bote that took up where our horses were tethcrd. It belonged to a crosB old man who lived on a hill near by and Major Ayor rode up there one evening and tried to buy it. The old man refused in an insolent manner, for he was a union man and was mad because our army had camped on his land and was cutting his timber. Captain Cothran was a good shot with ?. pistol and was proud of his skill, and so thc next evening Major Ayer bet him a quarter that he couldent shoot that pig's eye out. Ile took the bet and won, and our faithful servant Tip dressed and baked it, and wo feasted. Tho old man came prowling around every day hunting for that pig and it was harder to lie out of it than it was to steal it. Hut tho morning we broke camp we sent Tip up there and paid the old woman two dollars and quieted our conscience. A fat shotc was almost irresistible. Oue time George Burnett and Tom Ayer killed one under similar circumstances and sent a quarter to our mess. The old mau missed his hog in due time, and when he inquired of Burnett if they had seen it around, Burnett whispered to him that Captain Still well's mess had fresh pig for dinner yesterday but he mustent tell who told him. I belonged to Stillwell's mess and the 6rst thing we knew Col. Yciser had us summoned before him to be tried on a chargo of stealing the old man's pig. lt was a kind of mock trial and resulted in convicting Bur nett and Ayer, and they had to pay for tho pig. But I am pleased to say of our Confederate soldiers that I never knew a case of flagrant or cruel robbery or pilagc, nor did I ever know of but one instance of a soldier violat ing thc sacred rights of a man's fami ly. At Centervillc the Louisiana Tigers, as they were called, committed a shameful outrage in the country nearby and were immediately arrested and tried that evening and shot tho next morning at sunrise Old Joo Johnston beat lynoh law out of sight when he had a sure case. There are various kinds of stealing, but the most aggravating to writers for the press is the stealing by the press. Two friends-one in Birmingham and the other in Los Angeles, Cal.-sont me copies of papers published in their towns in which tho said papers have published from Tho Chicago Inter Ocean the letter I wrote for The Con stitution about Pelzcr, South Caroli na. My name is not mentioned, nor is the letter credited to The Constitu tion; only a few immaterial changes have been made, just enough to make it appear that Tho Intcr-Oocau sent a reporter down there to writo up the town. I havo known petty thieves sent to the chaingang for doing things not half so mean as that. . BILL Ant. NOT A CONFEDERATE. Dr. J. William .Iones Talks Interest ingly of the 't ransvaal Trouble. "(?eueral.loubcrt was not a Confed erate and 1 alu glad of it, for I would hate to see any old Confederate fight i ii LT on thc side of thc Hoers,'' said liey hr. William Jones, of KieK inpiid; ina recent interview. "I con fess that I I'.ii one would be sorry to know that a Confederate soldier wa llow in tin.' service ol' lin- I* ?era light in:' against thc fundamental principles for which thc Confederate contended in tlo-great war between the States." Thi- sentence, appearing in a Bich mond dispatch toa Washington paper, attracted my attention for the reason that. 1 had heard so many old Confed erates take exactly the opposite view of tho ease. These others contended that the Hoer-, in lighting in defense of their home-, wen: lighting for thc sane; principles as those for which the southern soldiers contended, and in order to ascertain whether I >r. .Jones, so well-known in Georgia, had been properly quoted, I wrote him asking for his views at greater length. What he has to say on this subject w ill, I am sure, prove interesting read ing, lu his reply to my letter of in quiry lu: says: "If I had read aright and understood correctly, the real issue between the Boers and (?rcat Britian is simply this: At the earnest request of this so call ed republic a large number of the sub jects of Great Britian and other coun tries-making in all about 150,000 - migrated to the Transvaal, bought lands and mines at enormous prices and engaged in business with the un derstanding that they were to beeomo in due time citizens of the country, entitled to all its rights and privileges. So far, however, from accomplishing this they have been denied by the Hoers the right of ' suffrage or the slightest participation in the adminis tration of the government, while the heaviest taxes-amounting in some cases almost to confiscation-have been imposed upon their property; in deed, these 150,000 Uitlanders have been practically paying all of tho taxes and supporting the government, all of the offices and employments of which have been monopolized by "the Boers. Much has been written about thc primitive simplicity and unostenta tious life of President Kruger (Oom Paul) and'yct his excellency draws the modest Balary of $25,000 per annum, and his son-in-law recently erected a privato residence that cost $250,000. These Ilitlanders, as the foreigners aro called, live in cities whieh they have built with no voice in thc muni cipal government, no right to improve tho exorable sanitary condition or to do anything except to pay the enor mous expense of running tho city gov ernment. They arc denied the right of carrying any arms whatever, while every man and boy among the Boers is heavily armed and drilled at tho ex pense of thc Uitlanders. They have been denied the right of holding pub lic meetings, publishing newspapers, criticising the government or its offi cials, or iof even petitioning for a ro dress of theirgrievanccs. .'When some of them were suspect ed of conspiring to revolt against this ccaditicn of things, they were arrest ed and after a mock trial sentenced to death, and released only upon the pay ment of fines varying from $25,000 to $100,000 each. "Great Britain, whose glory it is that she protects her citizens in what ever land they dwell, was seeking by negotiation to alter their conditions, when the Boers, after full preparation for war, laid down their ultimatum, and when it was not aocepted, declar ed war, rushed their legions into British territory and besieged British forts. "The real situation, then, is not that the Boers are fighting for their own homes and property and rights; but that they aro fighting to hold in slavery and live on the Uitlanders whom they havo so grievously op oppresod and wronged, and Great Britain is not waging a war of in vasion and conquest against a freo people, but it is seeking to defend its own citizens from outrage and to re store to them thc God given rights of lifo, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness. *? "in a word, Great Britain is now reversing her position in the war of tho American revolution, and is fight ing for the principle of 'no taxation without representation,' and no gov ernment, especially in a so-called re public, 'without the consent of the governed.' "Without, therefore, going into any discussion of the causes whioh led to the great '.war between the States;' but as an ardent Confederate who for four years followed with youthful devotion the battle flag of the Con federacy, and who, while fully 'ac cepting the situation,' and yielding to none in present loyalty to the union, yet most devotedly believes that the Confederates were right in their struggle for constitutional freedom, I do not hesitate to declare that the Uitlanders, as I see it, represent the principles for whioh our fathers fought in 1776, and for which the Confcder / I ates fought in lS'51-153, and that I j fully sympathize with Croat Britain I in defending her citizens against the tyranny, oppresion and wrong of these so called champions of republican gov ernment. "I am glad, then, that General .Jou i bert was not a Confederate, and should regret to hear that any (dd Confeder ate-. wcr<- fighting on that side." - j Wiishinytnit ('<>r. ?/' Atilinta Conxtttn tum. ! Wheeler's Iteturn Heme. Tho announcement that < ! en. Wheel er is on his way home from the Phil ippines is coi?tinned by tho war di parlmcnt orders for his return, and by advices received by friends in this city. Whether his return is due, as stated, to dissatisfaction with the way things have gone iu the Philippines, and especially with his failure to se cure an assignment which meant active lighting, is not clear, but the general belief is that he would have stayed out there had there bcetl any real lighting. The President is said to fa vor legislation which will authorize I the appointment of Cen. Wheeler, (Jen. Wilson and Cen. Lee as briga dier generals on the retired list in re cognition of their faithful services to thc country during and since the Spanish war. General Wheeler will he disappointed in his expectation to take a scat in the House on his return from the Philippines. There is a very general agreement on both sides of the House that it has been clearly shown by the examination of law and precedent that he has forfeited the right to a seat in Congress, and that tho only thing open to him is to go back to his district and seek re-election if he desires to continue service in Congress. No doubt is entertained that if he seeks re election at a special election to fill the vacancy he will be returned to Congress, perhaps without opposi tion; but it will be held by the House, according to the best authorities in both parties, that the seat from this district is now vacant and will re main so until a special election has been held. The suggestion has been made that Gen. Wheeler might have actually re signed on or before the day of the meeting of this Congress, thus quali fying himself to resume his seat in the House, but this is disposed of by the fact that the records of the depart ment show that ho held his commis sion and was in the service when Con gress convened. This was examined into when the question arose as to whether his name should be consider ed in making the House committee as signments.-Neics and Courier. ?hat Tim Told Them. Some weeks ago a bridal couple came in from Sacramento and put up at the Palace. The bridegroom was very sensitive, and so he told his valet not to tell any of the servants at the hotel that he was newly married. Notwithstanding all precautions, the young couple seemed to be the center of attraction. lu the dining room they were ogled by the ladies and in the corridors by tho men. Finally they could stand it no longer. 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Evans Pharmacy. - Tho biggest redwood stump in the world is located.twelve miles from San Francisco. It is 141 feet around the base and forty-five feet in diame ter. Ills (Quandary. An old Irish laborer walked into the luxurious studio of au artist a few days ago and asked for money to obtain a meal. H?? explained that he had just been discharged from the county hospital and was too weak to work, lie was given a quarter, and departed. One of four young ladies, art students, who were present said: 'Mi , can't we hire that old man and .-ketch lliiu?"' Blank ran out and caught Iiiin. und said: "If you can't work and want to make a dollar, come b?ck to my rooms. The young ladies * ?i a I lo paint you." The Irish man hesitated, so Blank remarked: ' I t won't take long, and it's an easy way to make a dollar." "Gi know that," was thc reply; "but Oi was a wunderin' how th' devil Ui'd git th' paint ul? afterward." Nut So I.iiuiiey. Lunatics often assume a superiority of intellect to others which is quito amusing. A gentleman, while walk ing along a road, not far from the side ol' which there ran a railway, encount ered a number of insane people out for exercise. With a nod toward the railway lines, he said tc one of thc lunatics: "Where does this railway go to?" "It doesn't go anywhere. Wekeep it herc to run trains on.-Ayate. - Thomas Short, a deaf mute," was standing in a barn door at Harpers field, Delaware County, N. J., recent ly, watching au approaching storm, when a bolt of lightning struck a near by tree. Ile was stunned by the shock, but when he regained con sciousness was astonished and de lighted to find he not only could hear what was said, but could speak. Si?ce the incident his powers have continu ed to improve. Sympathy may help a wounded heart but it won't heal a wounded limb. 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