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. SEBRO iEXODDS TO AFRICA i
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Voluntary Emigration The Only a
Solution. j *
. WHAT BISHOP TURNER SAYS. I
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Nothing Confronts the Negro Race |n j
^ This Country but Emigration s
or Extermination. a
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In your editorial mention of the. tj
propositions of Bishop Turner and j,
Bishop L. H. Holsey, D. jl)., I am I ^
represented as favoring the deporta-1 a
K tion of the American negroes to J a
Africa. If you mean by deportation ig
the compulsive exodus or my race to (j
Africa eu masse, I most respectfully ^
beg to plead "not guilty." I would jf
be a fit subject for the insane asylum w
if my mind was so far out of
equipoise. But that I am an African f?
emigrationist is lamentably true. I 0<
say lamentably, because nothing p
confronts the negro race in this coun- j Cj
try but emigration or extermination. w
The African race in this country can ^
no more hope to stand up under the tl
present pressure than a man could ol
hope to shoulder and walk off with a)
the Rocky Mountains. And any re
white man who thinks so has only to ^
blacken his face and travel a few tj
r. days through the country, and he ^
will be surprised that any negro or
African, who has good common tj'
sense, and is,not a scullion by birth Cl
or environments during his childhood
and youth, should ever dream
of making himself and his posterity
. contented under the decisions of the
United States S".preme Court, and a
thousand subordinate Judges, and
the endless quantity of legislative H
enactments and State constitutional sa
amendments that have heeu passed
4 to degrade and tie him and his ^pos- fo
terity to the wheel that rolls in cs
degradation. And lest you should pt
be ignorant of some of these de- m
cisions and enactments, I forward sp
you a few decreed by the United ra
States Supreme Court, the most of
barbarious and inhuman that have of
emanated from any Court of last re- or
sort since man came into being. I ot
have been reading history for forty- m
eight years and I challenge any man ra
living to produce the like in the ta
chronicles of the world. You say E
the scheme is futile. I realize its
L x futility without national help, which sp
God will surely demand at its haud us
sooner or later. The negro has been so
too faithful to this country, its in- ot
* ...
tegrity. unity, perpetuity and its gc
every interest to be kicked aside at
* without some remuneration. His- th
tory records our fidelity to the white tv
race in colonial times, during the ve
i Revolutionary war and in every er
struggle for existence from its birth th
^ to the present. And if it cannot ac- ni
cord us manhood existence, like the pr
Egyptians of old it must lend lis of th
its precious jewels to enable the ju
better element of the race to go to Tl
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themselves. I do not mean iorau u>
go. All of the children of Israel did sli
not go out of Egypt; according to the \v
best authorities, possibly half of lb
them remained and were lost, either ar
by extermination or were swallowed
op in the waters of mankind. So it R
wiH be with the colored people of al
t this country; all will never leave; th
but millions will, and millions are c\
ready now if they had the facility, th
i know the sentiment of the colored G
% ; people on the subject of emigration w
as no other man upon the American w
Continent. I have barrels and bar- ac
rels of letters upon that subject; lo
while I have destroyed stacks and le
* barrels of others that I had no con- tli
venient place to keep. If this coun- S;
% try had ships plying between here vi
and Africa as England, France and w
Germany have, and we could go as d<
cheaply, thousands would be leaving
* yearly.
During the last thirty years six A
million of immigrants have come to
this country, and but few have paid
over fifteen dollars each. The gen- 01
eral price, including children, would ai
average twelve dollars each. If we oi
had such conveniences between here P
- and Africa the emigration would be ^
immense; not only from the South, p
' but from the Northern and Western ^
States. I know whereof I speak. 0
hoc hppn attributed u
IY1UCII rtUDUIUllj i.uu
to the one hundred millions ot dollars
that we propDsed to ask Con- n
gress for, to enable the better ele- v
mentOf the colored race tc leave the c'
country. I see no reason f >r making *
it the subject of so much ridicule f,
and laughter. According to one of f
your own New York papers, nine f
hundred millions of dollars have al- a
. ready been spent in bothering with f
Spain and her possessions, and bill- t
ions will yet be spent before the ^
question is settled. Had Congress ^
appropriated one hundred and five c
millions of this amount of money, *
seven millions of colored people 4
could return to Africa at an average r
of fifteen dollars each, and soon ^
hundreds of ships would be trading 8
with the United States, and building c
up the commerce of the country to an
extent that surpasses imagination, .
and in two generations the hundred
j and five millions would be returned t
jW
to the national treasury with a rea- j f
gonahle interest besides. I verily j (
believe that a hundred millions of 1
dollars invested in helping the ]>et-'
j *
/ >**?r lfim-nt of the negio r:t<*4 in ?>s- j
tablish a nation would be more .pro-| j
- Arable to this country than a billion ]
spent on Spanish islands. It is only <
two hundred and fifty miles further;]
^ from Savannah, Ga., or Charleston, I <
S. to Liberia, Africa, than from
New Yol k to Liverpool, the way j
the ships run; and I believe when a
direct line shall have been deter- J
f mined upon by the navigators, the j
distance, will be almost equal. And j
^ if'millions of immigrants can come I
from the Old World at an average of
S
welve dollars each, fifteen dollars!
honld be amply sufficient to convey !
migrants to Africa. And I believe
it least a million are ready to pay i
hat price now. if the ships were
provided, either by Government aid
r commercial intercourse. Much
ias been said and published about i
he negro not desiring to return to
Africa, but let those who entertain j
uch views start a line of steamers |
,nd offer emigrant rates to those who i
esire to return, and they will see
hat every ship is crowded. Europe j
as over five hundred steamships j
lying between the United States i
nd Europe, daily, the year round, '
nd not one between the United 1
tates and Africa; so that all who ]
esire to emigrate there have to go : t
y Liverpool or Southampton, Eng- 1
md, and pay passenger rates, which | J
ill nAct Anii inriiciHiiQ) ,?c niliph ?<5 I .
All V w ^ t Vllt IIIMI V I V? U M t Mt7 - v.. J
should cost the members of a large t
imily. I have also read a number i
F scurrilous criticisms by the public
ress upon African emigration, beuise
some of the colored people
ho have gone there in the past c
ave returned and berated the conn- ;
y, and magnified its fevers and 1
ther fatal diseases; but no one will F
ttach any importance to such mis- J
'presentations who has read the fi
istorv of the early settlements of *
lis country, Australia and the South
merlean States. But I conclude e
y saying: African emigration is 1
ie only remedy for the disturbed e
mdition of things in this country. v
H. M. Turner, k
Atlanta, Ga. 11
?New York Independent. fl
A Word for Satan. fc
Mark Twain, in the September v
arper's Magazine, has a word to o
ly for Satan:
"We may not pay him reverence, t
r that would be indiscreet, but we A
in at least respect his talents. A S
jrson who has for untold centuries b
aintained the imposing position of t<
iritual head of four-fifths of the n
ce and political head of the whole c
it must be granted the possession n
executive ability of the loftiest a
der. In his large presence the n
her popes and politicians shrink to <_
idges for the microscope. I would ti
ther see him and shake him by the n
il than any other member of the r<
uropean concert." g
Of course Mark Twain could not d
?e$k of Satan without using his o
iual vein of humor; but there are tl
ime things which Mark's humor n
ight to stand in awe of. There is c
ling on a struggle between light n
id darkness, good and evil, and tl
ere is recorded a meeting of the
ro leaders. They were up on a t<
sry high mountain, where the lead- e
of the forces of evil showed all h
e kingdoms of this world, begin- h
ng, no doubt, with Rome in the u
ime of its greatness, and offered fi
em all if the other leader would n
st recognize him as his over-lord, h
ne offer was not accepted, but s<
itan was not called a liar when lie f}
lowed all the city empires in the {>
arid and said these are mine. His e
?s are so mixed with truth that they tl
e not easy to separate. ji
The city empires, like Athens and
ome, were the assembly ground of
1 that was evil in all the radius of
ieir influence. And so it has been "
rery where in every age that while g
ie powers that be are ordained of s
od, Satan and all his forces are al- /
ays present to capture the influence
hich gives them shelter, security, c
Wantage. Mark Twain need not v
ng to meet and shake the great
ader by the tail. Let him go to t
ie nearest large city and study a
itan's own words and his own
cegerents in city empires, and he n
ill go away with|his sense of humor 0
^parted.?Greenville Daily Times. v
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AN AKTPUL UAMfc. ,
Clever Swindle Which Wa? Sv?* f
cesafally Worked In Paris. t
Swindling is as monotonous as ethict n
r mathematics, and the various ways j
ad means resorted to in the last decade >
f the nineteenth century for obtaining
ossession of other people's money were
latters of common knowledge, in the
Igypt of Rameses the Great. But the P
arisian police now affirm that a new t
eparture has been made on the banks f
f the Seine. And this is bow it was ?
rorked: t
An office was hired in a good busiess
street by the inventor of the trick, j
rho assumed the title of somebody and t
ompany. chemical agents. Being coninced
advocates of woman's rights,
hey employed some members of the
air sex, who dressed in the height of
ashion, used the most fashionable per- '
umes and then visited singly the best <
pothecaries' shop. One of these fair, l
alse emissaries would stop her cab at I
he chemists, come in and, taking out
ier purse, ask for another bottle of Dr. ,
Jeaumont's elixir. "Dr. Beaumont's .
rhat?" said the young man behiud the j
ounter. "The elixir. Don't you know?"
'No; I am afraid I never heard of it."
'Oh, how tiresome, and my poor rheunatic
husband will be so disappointed!
Vre you sure it was not here that our
ervant bought it before?" "No, malame;
it was not here. Where is it sold |
vholesale?" "It is sold wholesale, I
liink"? And here the lady showed the
:icket on the bottle. "It costs 8 francs."
That same day the chemist bought j
:he elixir wholesale, laying in a fair j
dock of it, and meanwhile many of the
confreres were doing likewise. Bat. as
aobody called any more on the obliging
rheinists to buy the elixir, one of the
mrious confraternity analyzed this
specific which was supposed to relieve
rheumatics.' He found that it was at
least perfectly harmless, consisting of |
water colored by coffee grounds. The !
police were then let loose npcu the la- j
iies and the chemical agents, but they
had all moved on, leaving no address.
They are said to have netted about 10,000
francs by the trick.?London Telegraph.
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No man ever turns a deaf ear to
advice that coincides with his views.
Every cloud has its silver lining,
but two many of them fail to show
it.
GEN. GORDON DECLINES.
While Appreciating the Wishes of his Old
Comrades in Arms to Rebuild his Home,
He Begs them not to Raise Any Money
for this Purpose.
New Orleans, Sept. 16.?Gen.
John B. Gordon, in a letter to Adjt.
Gen. George Moorman, concerning
steps being taken by the New Orleans
camps of Confederate Veterans
to raise meney with which to re
build Gen. Gordon's home at Atlanta,
recently destroyed by fire, says:
"No words I could employ would
adequately express my gratitude to
these brave and devoted comrades
tor this manifestation of regard for
me and of sympathy in my great
misfortune. I request you, however,
:o say to these camps, and to any
>thers making a similar move, that
1 cannot permit them to carry out
his generous purpose. With the
and on which my home stood free
roin encumbrance and with my
wealth somewhat improved, I hope
o be able, by my own efforts, to
ebuild my home before a great
vhile.,'
Neai Shortage Not Settled.
No settlement of the Neal shortige
has yet taken place. Though it
vas the understanding of the attorley
general that Col. Neal and his
ittorneys wished the conference
'esterday for the specific purpose of
titling all accounts, it seems that
Jol. Neal's attorneys did not so unlerstand
it and came to the confersnce
for the purpose of ascertaining
he exact amoimt Col. Neal is allegd
to owe the State and of agreeing
ipon that figure with the attorney
eneral. It was known yesterday
norning before the conference was
ield that no money would be paid or
io offer of any made, and it is not
nown whether any further attempt
rill be made to settle the matter
utside of the bond or not.
At noon yesterday Col. Neal's atorneys.
Col. Nelson, Mr. Prince and
Ir. Boggs, accompanied by Mr. J.
I. Muller representing one of the
ondsmen went to the office of Ati>rney
General Bellinger. Chairlan
Stevenson of the legislative
ommittee was also present. Attorey
General Bellinger had already
nnounced that he could recognize
o offer of payment on the part of
ol. Neal that did not cover the enire
$11,(XX) or more as in the statelent
in the legislative committee's
sport. This position the attorney
eneral adhered to and declined to
iseuss what Col. Neal admitted he
wed the State on any question as to
lie liability ol the bondsmen in the
latter. When the conference conluded
it was without any agreelent
as to any further conference in
lie matter.
The result of the conference yessrday
simply leaves the matter
xactly as it stood before it was
eld. Attorney General Bellinger
as notified the bondsmen to come
l> and pay in accordance with the
tidings of the investigating comlittee.
Several of the bondsmen
ave assured him that they will do
r>. Now that the conference has
tiled of results, the notice to the
ondsmen will doubtless be renewd.
If they should fail to pay then
he next step will probably be a suit
it the courts.?The State, Sept. 16.
Vulgarity of "Money-Worship."
Joe Mitchell Chappie, publisher of
The National Magazine," in the
September issue administers this
cathing rebuke to a certain class of
Americans:
"The mania of those who have acumulated
wealth for measuring the
alue of everything by the money
tandard, and iterating the cost of
heir personal possessions, indioates
n insidious national disease. The
toted arrivals' at summer hotels are
(lore often emphasized by the size
f their bank accounts than by their
wealth of intellect or character,
'his gentleman represents so many
nillious; that spread cost so much a
date; this yacht, that automobile,
his gown or that horse. The naDit
f putting a cost mark on everything
s an absurd and vulgar phase of
American citizenship, and brings
ipon us just criticism.
"It was a just rebuke when the
iretty little daughter?idolized by
lie wealthy but money-poisoned
ather?said to him: 'Why do you
ihvays tell people of what everyhing
costs, and why do you always
how people things that cost money?
Don't mamma and I cost you mon?y?"
A young lady, full of good deeds,
loticed the tongue of the horse
bleeding, and, with a use of technical
terms too little appreciated, said
to the cabby: "Cabby, your horse
lias hemorrhage." j
"It's 'is tongue's too large for his
mouth," said the cabby, and added
sententiously, "like some young
ladies."
From a Modern Father's Diary.
To-day I discovered that my favorite
cherry tree had been cut down.
"Clifford," said I to my son, "who
did this?"
"I cannot tell a lie," said Clifford.
"I hired another hoy to do the chop"I""
l?nf T tllP inll_"
I'MV X l/woovv. j
"Bless you, my bo.v!" said I.
"The other boy will be President of
the United States, all right, but you
will be chairman of the national
committee!"
Here I shook Clifford by the hand
cordially, for I was much rejoiced.
HOW'S THIS?
We offer One Hundred Collars Ite\vttr<l for
any case of Catarrh that cannot cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, (>.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J,
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
Wkbt & Titl'ax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
O.
Wai.iumu, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesah
Druggists. Toledo, ().
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally,
aetiug directly upon the blood and mucoin
surfaces of the system. Testimonials senl
free. Price 75c.
' Hall's Family Pills are the best.
STARVING fflPOETO BIGt
Terrible State of Affairs Cause
Storm.
THE FRUIT CROP DESTROVEI
Great Majority of ;he Inhabitants Witt
out Means and can Get No Work.
Ponce, Porto Rico, September II
?There are, generally speaking, tw
classes of people in Porto Jiier
About 5 per cent, are educated
thinking folks, who own land nn<
are the employers of the great labor
ing class, which constitutes it;> pe
cent, of the population. This latte
class, the peons, has always been ii
a state bordering on absolute pover
ty. The peons live in small hut
along the rivers and on the hillsides
or wherever there is a bit of wash
land, and they live on the little inon
ey they earn, subsisting upon tin
fruit, which grows abundantly every
where.
The great storm affected the tw<
classes very differently. The firs
class has seen its buildings wrecked
its machinery ruined, and its ripen
ing crops destroyed, but the grea
loss of life occurred in the seeom
class, and it is there that starvatioi
threatens. The planters are unabh
to furnish work to the peons and tin
fruit upon which they had so muct
depended for food is destroyed
Relief supplies are at best only temporary
and difficulties of transports
tion have prevented the distributioi
of relief except at the most centra
points.
Under these conditions there if
only one thing for the peons to do
As fast as they exhaust the supply ol
green fruit saved from the storm
and use up all the edible roots ami
tubers that grow in the mountains
they pack up their belongings and
come into the city. Here they overcrowd
the houses of the poor, s!ee[
by hundreds in the City Hall and
other public buildings and on doorsteps,
in the parks and wherevei
they can jfind room.
As a matter of fact people ar<
starving to ueam aiinosi every u.i\
in the city of Ponce, and while this
sad state of affairs exists there is si
failure to afford the commercial relief
which is the only true and
lasting relief. Unless a permanent
Government is established, unless
the status of the island is determined
unless the policy to be followed her*
in the future is soon outlined, existing
conditions will be aggravated
and it will soon be necessary to feed
the whole population through relic!
agents.
What Porto Rico wants, however
is not charity, but rather the development
of her commercial mid agricultural
interests, and while the
present distribution of relief is necessary,
that necessity would soon disappear
if those interests were properly
cared for.
A Monday Morning Plaint.
Aw, shoot! Maw!
I don't want to go to school!
Wat's the use?
That ole teacher
Don't know uothiu,' nohow!
Has ter ast me
Everything.
She can't spell nuthin',
Always sez
"Johnnie, how d' yon spell such .1
word?"
Why don't she git a book
An' learn a
Few things fer herself
'Thout all the time askin' a
Little feller
Like me to do it?
Ast me yesterday
How much is 2 ami 2!
Anybody ought ter know that!
'N' then there's that old
Joggerfy.
Las' year I could
Round the United States all right.
Then the old
War had to come along,
- * a ..1 _
AH' now tne teacuei s
Always askin'
Us 'bout the Filleypenes
An' Porty Reker,
An'other places like that,
'N' then she asts
Us 'bout all these fellers
At's deadLike
William Penn,
An' Lord Baltimore, an'
George Washington,
An' L'hristopher Columbus,
An' when I can't tell her right off
She sez
I got to stay in
After school
Till 1 know 'em.
Why don't she ast me 'bout
Some one that's
AliveLike
Schley, or Dyer,
Or Dewe.v?
You bet I can tell her that.
But she's got
rlo ast a heap about
People an' things
I never heard of.
Astin' me all about the
Bay of Fundy!
Why don't she ast about
The Chesapeake Bay?
Ah, shoot, maw!
1 don't wan't to go to school!
1 ain't well today
Anyhow!
Honest, I a;n't.
Aw, can't I stay at home?
Pshaw!
Doggone the old school
Anyway!
?Hobart, in Baltimore Amoricai
Secret Worth Knowing.
"Young man," said the long-hairo
passenger to the occupant of the se;i
ahead, who had just sampled tli
contents of a pocket flask, "I am "
years of age, and am proud to sa
that I've never spent a dollar f<
liquor in my life."
"Is that a fact?" queried the othe
turning half-way around with a loo
of unmistakable interest on his fac<
"Well, all I've got to say is von imu
have a pretty smooth seheim
Would you mind putting me next?
?Chicago News.
About the only thing some mr
acquire during their sojourn v
earth is additional years and great*
' ignoiance.
A great many women who con
plain that men don't understai
L them, ought to cotvrjder themselv*
lucky that men don't.
1 I BILL ARP'S LETTER.
I
* ; Bill Says Politeness Costs Nothing and
Pays Well.
t Politeness costs nothing and pays
; well. Whether it is natural or
| artificial, it always makes an agree|
j able impression. The old-time nejgroesare
yet the politest people I
_ | know, hut they have nearly all passi
ed away. Tliere are two that we
! meet or pass almost every day, and
I I they are favorites with my folks be()
cause they how humbly and give the
, sidewalk with alacrity. One of
I them goes bent with age and dej
fortuity. His body is nearly at a
right angle to his legs. He is set
r ^ just right for digging a ditch or
j. chopping wood and makes a fair
j iiving at it, for he is no beggar and
. says he loves to woi k when he is
s | well. Sometimes I drop ii dime in
j his trembling hand, and he always
u savs "(iod bless vou, massa; you is
. a gemtnen, sir." His gratitude and
? his compliment always reward me.
. The other day I overlook him as he
was struggling along and, as usual,
, ho shuttled to the edge of the sidet
walk to let me pass. I didn't have a
dime, hut a half-dollar came into
. my hand. Out of mischief I said:
11 "I'mcIo Jordan, didn't you drop this
I j money hack there on the sidewalk?'
j "No, sir; no, massa. I knows I
, didn't, for bless God, I didn't have
} no money like dat. I jes had two
, nickles, sir, and Ise got dent yet. I
was jes gwine to Mr. Stanford's, sir,
to buy some bread for Sunday." "I
reckon you must have dropped this
, money," said I, "but if you didn't,
I you had better take it. You will
i want some meat to go with the
. bread." His old gray head, his
bent form, his astonishment made a
P picture. I would give a dollar for it
in photo. I looked back at him and
[ he hadn't moved. He hadn't taken
it all in and seemed afraid lest it
I was a trick to get him into trouble.
. That old negro carries me back to
, the days of my boyhood, when I
I went to school with his young mas.
ter, Roddy Gresham, at the Manual
Labor school in old Gwinnett. The
Greshams were good people, "and old
, Jordan was happy until freedom
came. .Nobody cares for him now,
; save charity?the charity or tne oia!
time white folks. It has always
. seemed strange to me that negroes
I were so indifferent to the poor and
t afflicted of their own race. They
> will bury them with great satisfac,
tion and ceremony. They will hire
? the finest hearse and carriages and
. buy a coffin with silver handles and
, have a dress parade and weep and
I wail at the grave, but that is all.
The other negro whom we pass
and repass is a curiosity in his way.
. He is love crazy?as crazy and as
devoted as Shakespeare's Orlando,
who wandered about carving the
' name of his love on the bark of the
beech trees. This darky flame is a
cook for one of our neighbors, and
she will not notice him. In fact, she
hides from him. Day after day he
walks past the house to and fro all
the day long hoping to get a glimpse
of her ebony face. The corner of
mv garden overlooks the backyard
of this neighbor and there he comes
and stands and poses in despondent
attitudes. It would be lomantic and
pathetic if it were not so ridiculous,
for lie goes dirty and ragged and is
L mortal ugly. But. he is always humhie
and polite and that will give
favor and a friend even to a vagabond.
These old-time negroes will
soon he the missing link between the
slave and his master. Shuck footmats
and horse collars and baskets
and brooms have already gone. The
new set have neither good manners
nor politeness. Education and the
ballot have alienated them. Our
children an;! the children of the old
slaves have no common bond to bind
them, and the animosity between
them deepens and broadens as the
years roll on. i reckon it is time to
separate, but how ia it to be done
and who is it to do it? Of course
these gooit oiu negroes win nut -wian
to go and it would bo cruel to force
j them. I remember when the Creeks
and Cherpkees were forced to go
and how some of the old Indians
j were left behind. I remember old
I Sawnv on Suwuy mountain near
| Cuuimiiig, and how his old wife and
j four of his grand-children were al;
lowed to stay with him. When the
I old folks died these grand-children
j followed the tribe. But, of course,
| force is not to be used with the negroes,
and it is not certain that any
considerable number will go. Bishop
Turner says they will, Booker
Washington says they will not. One
negro paper in Atlanta professes to
tie in favor of going. The other is
opposed to it. Their exodus is yet
j afar oil*, for Congress will not vote aj
dollar to it, hut if their ballot is
eliminated maybe we can get along
j in peace. Suppose we try it. White
j primaries should be the watchword
j in every town and county, and then
j we can elect legislators and tnunij
cipal officers who are not afraid of
K i the negro. As it is now, neither our
| law makers nor our mayors or marshals
will do their duty for fear of
" offending the negro and losing his
g vote. Dirty, oderiferous negro men
3 j and hoys not give the sidewalk to
y ! white ladies on one of our business
" 'Pliur.i i< ;? rpcrtllur lien Oil
ftlircio. * uv? v. ... ? - ~r> ? ?
another strefit that lends to two
1 7 #
k churches and all the negro vagrants
of the town gather there and as
s manv as possible stick their feet or
I}. .
their posteriors on the railing of the
piazza and spit tobacco juice on the
sidewalk to tlie disgust aud annoyn
auce of the ladies who have to pass
?11 there. The ladies have complained
31 time and again, but this den can't
^ be abolished while the negro has a
1(l vote. When the trains arrive our
js ladies can hardly get on or off for the
negro brigade. There is a dozen on
?
a
one of our business streets and they
are always in the way. As the Constitution
said recently in a well
considered article, we must have
white primaries, not partisan, but
white, to purge the towns of negro
indolence and negro insolence. They
must be eliminated from the polls
just as they have been in Atlanta.
The dens| must be broken up, the
sidewalks kept clear for ladies and
the passways to and from the trains
unobstructed. Ben Franklin said
that idleness was th^parent of vice
and crime. The young bucks who
congregate atjthis den are either
living off of some hard-working man
or some cook or washerwoman, or
they are stealing from somebody.
Every vagrant should he arrested
and put to work or we will soon hear
of some outrage and have another
lynching. These are perilous times.
The old devil seems to be unchained
and is going to and fro upon the
earth and walking up and down in
it. The daily papers are full of
crimes. White and black seem
demoralized, and we are getting
hardened to the sinful and bloody
calendar that every day meets our
eyes. When will this thing stop? I
started to write a little essay on
politeness. The lack of it among
our young white men is painfully
observant. Last week, when the
day was hot and the dust was deep,
a young man with his best girl dashed
by two of our ladies in a buggy
and almost stifled them with dust.
They had to stop, for they could not
see. He made no apology nor said
please excuse me, and yet he was
from a neighboring city and Polis
means a city and politeness comes
from Polis. Not long ago I was
coming from Atlanta and a Marietta
man who sat behind me elevated
hi^lirty shoes to the top of the back
of my seat and kept them there
within six inches of my head while
he gassed away to his companion
until the cars reached his town. I
looked daggers at him, but it did no
good. I leaned as far away as I
could, and felt like treating him like
I did a cowboy once in Texas. The
cowboy stuck his big boots and spurs
?i? tha h?ck of mv seat and I delib
erately got up and?went over on the
other side. I would have done this
tough, ill-mannered rough the same
way, but the seats were all full.
Young men can show their breeding
anywhere?in the cars or at church
or at the postoffice while waiting for
the mail to be opened. A true
gentleman will fire and fall back
and while waitiikg for his mail give
somebody else a chance to look into
their box, but a selfish, ill-bred man
won't. He will stand up close and
cover half a dozen boxes and peep
through the glass at the postmaster
until he gets his own. The bestmannered
man at the postoffice in
our town is the oldest. There are a
few well-raised lads in our town
whom it is always a pleasure to
meet. They make a gentle bow and
tip the hat and smile a pleasant
greeting. There was a rich old
bachelor who died in Jefferson some
years ago, and he left $10,000 to a
poor young woman because, as he
said in his will, "She always gave
uie a pleasant smile when she met
me." The Irish, as a. race, are
naturally polite, "Pat," said a good
lady, "you passed me on the street
yesterday and never even looked at
me." "Ah, me sweet lady, I was in
agieat hurry and I knew that if I
looked at ye I couldn't pass you."
Mv cond father was an old-time
schoolmaster in the days when manners
and morals were taught as well
as books. The first day of his employment
down in Liberty county he
made the boys and girls a talk, and
said the boys must make a respectful
bow and the girls a courtesy to
him before they took their seats in
the morning. All complied pleasantly
except the biggest boy in school,
who said he bedogond if he was
gwine to make a bow to anybody.
Father gave him a talk next day,
but it did no good, and two other
boys quit bowing. That evening at
the close of school father told him to
wait a few minutes. He reluctantly
waited. After the other scholars
had all gone out father closed the
door and told him he had either to
bow or take a whipping or quit the
school. He studied awhile, and
said: "I'll be durned if I'll do
either." Then the row began, and
lasted quite awhile. They were
pretty equally matched. They
fought all over the benches and under
them and turned over the water
bucket and raised a mighty commotion,
but the hickory was going all
the time and all the outside scholars
were peeping through the cracks of
the log schoolhouse. After a long
struggle the boy gave up and bellered
his way home. That was the end
of all rebellions in that school, and
my father's reputation as a teacher
was established.
"As polite as a Frenchman" has
grown into a proverb. The whole
nation is polite, men, women and
children. It is chiefly artificial, for
it iuf.imrhr in the schools: but it is
II IO VM%?r --pleasing
and seems to be sincere.
In Mexico the politeness *?f the
higher classes is painful. When two
persons meet at the hotel door one
will decline to go in first and the
other will decline in like manner
and it takes a minute or more for the
question Qf precedence to be decided.
In England the courtesies of social
intercourse are never ;forgotten;
no. not even in a quarrel. Two Englishmen
had a bitter quarrel here in
our town while I was present, and
each addressed the other as "my
dear friend" and "pray excuse me"
alt the time the3' were quarreling.
Hut still that was better than our
American style ot "you are an infernal
liar" and "you are another" and
then a blow or a shooting scrape.
Englishmen quarrel, but they never
Amoripnns fieht. but rarely
u^m,. ??
quarrel. With them it is a word and
a blow, or what is worse, a ball from
a pistol drawn from the hip pocket.
I have no respect for a man who
habitually carries a pistol. He is a
coward.?Atlanta Constitution.
? f
i bice hot ib Illinois/
!
Mining Town Scene of a Bloody
Riot:
SIX NEGROES WERE KILLED, i
1
White Miners Refuse to Allow Negro <
Miners to Come to Town.
i
Carterville, III., September ,
17.?Carterville was the scene of a ,
bloody riot about noon to-day in s
which six negroes were killed and j
one fatally wounded, while two j
others received slight wounds.
Trouble has been brewing since the i
militia was recalled by Governor j
Tanner last Monday. The white t
miners of this place have refused to t
allow the negro miners to come into ^
town, always meeting them and a
ordering them back. To-day, how- i
ever, thirteen negroes, all armed, *
marched into town, going to the II- J
linois Central depot, where they.ex
changed a few words with the white
miners there. Then the negroes
pulled their pistols and opened fire 1
on the whites, who at once returned
the fire. A running fight was kept up.
The negroes scattered, some being t
closely followed by the whites up the li
main street, while the remainder ''
fled down the railroad track. Here |
the execution was done, all who j,
went through town escaping. After a
the fight was over six dead bodies t;
were picked up and another mortally ^
wounded. They-were taken to the f
city hall, where the wounded man
was attended to and an inquest held 1
P
ovpr thp nprtfl otipr.
w
The affair is really an outcome of a
the trouble arising' out of the pro- t<
curement of negroes to work in place ^
of striking white miners.
militia ordered to the scene. b
Springfield, III., September
17.?Governor Tanner has ordered y
two companies of the 4th regiment, fl
under command of Col. Bennett, to ^
Carterville. He received a telegram
this afternoon from Samuel Brush, <>
manager of the St. Louis and Big s
Muddy Coal Company, at Carter- t
ville, that some of his negro miners, 8
who had gathered at a depot pre- e
paratory to leaving had been killed, ii
a mob having fired upon them. ^
The Governor gave out the follow- j,
Ing statement to-night: "I received n
a message from Capt. Brush stating g
that the mob had attacked and killed
the negro miners while waiting at fl
the Illinois Central depot for.a train; r
that the sheriff would be unable to I
control the situation, and was power- Jj
less-to arrest the parties; asking ine y
to order troops to Carterville. fl
"In response to this message, tl
knowing something of the condition ^
of that place, and without waiting to
hear from the sheriff or others in n
rr
authority, I immediately ordered 1
Lieut. Lowden, of Company C, of ^
Carbondale, to proceed at once to ^
Carterville, procuring a special train 1<
if necessary, and when reaching h
CarterviHe tosuppress the riot, pro- ri
tect life and property, but report to ^
the sheriff of Williamson County for
ordera, in theuevent that the sheriff
was on the ground. "I
also ordered Capt. Hersh, of ^
Newton, to proceed with his com- jj
pany by the quickest route to Carter- tl
ville. At the 6ame time I ordered P
Col. Bennett, of the 4th regiment. c
who lives at Greenville, to proceed j(
to Carterville at once and take, si
charge of the trpops, I also directed ^
the commanding officer of Company *j
F, of Mount Vernon, to prepare and |,
be in readiness to leave on short fi
notice."
"Later I received a message from J.?
Capt. Brush stating that later re- n
ports showed that seven of his men a
were killed and two injured, and
that a large mob of armed men was
between Carterville and his mine, ?
and that one company was not suf- l<
flcient.
"ft would seem that these negio ?
miners were waiting at the depot for
the train, probably expecting to leave ti
the place temporarily iff finally. It ^
seems to be, from the brief facts re- ^
ported and the further fact that no a
one was killed except the negroes, j<
that it was a prearranged, precon- e
certed, premeditated mutder. If I
am rip-tit in this conclusion the pen- r
- ? - J.
pie of Carterville, and especially of
Williamson County, should use
every means possible, and that
vigorously, to bring these parties,
guilty of this wholesale murder, to
speedy justice, and in their efforts to
do so I promise them the co-operation
of the State, the whole National
Guard, if necessary, to bring about
the arrest and conviction of these
parties for the restoration of peace
and good order in the county, and so
I advised the sheriff of Williamsoncounty
this afternoon by wire.
"This is a blot on the fair name of
the Commonwealth of Illinois and
will be a disgrace to the community
of Williamson County unless quick
and vigorous action is taken by the
county authorities. The good and
law-abiding citizens of Williamson
County should rise to the situation and
support the Jaw officers in restoring
peace and order and in the ^
* 1 t%.f f lin frllMtif
arresc aim ciinviuumi m mw giil>V|r ^
parties.
"I hope that the Newton Company ^
will reach Cartorville before
morning and before any con- 1
fiict occurs, but I do not believe
and sha'l not believe until it ^
I happens that the strikers will attack ?
the National Guard or attempt to oppose
it in doing its duty."
Late to-night Governor Tanner received
a telegram from Sheriff Gray, j
at Carterville stating that the situa- |
tion is critical and that the military J
company is not sufficient to disperse 1
the mob. Governor Tanner wired
other military companies to hasten 1
to the scene.
ifNKGKO PREACHER KILLED.
Chicago, September IT.?A special
to the Times-Herald from Murphy 8horo,
Illinois, says: One of the dead
negroes at Carterville is a preacher,
the others are laborers. One of the
negroes when first shot started to
run. He was shot again and fell.
[)ne of the white men then ran up
and shot him through the head with
x rifle. The shooting took place immediately
i?i frontof Mayor Zimmerman's
house, and in full view of
several ladies seated on the porch.
Hefore the noise of the first shots
lad died away the streets began
;o fill with excited armed meu.
\tter the crowd or negroes had Deen
tilled and scattered it was the evilent
intention of the infuriated
niners to go to Greenville, where the
>ig non-union negro camp'is located
md finish the work. All the aftertoon
an angry crowd of men patroll:d
the streets. Later the projected
rip to Greenville was apparently
:alled off.
HOTTEST PLACE.
he Mercury Reaches 140 Degrees on the *
Persian Gulf.
When we wilt, swelter and per*
pire under the afflicting teinperaure
of our hottest summer days we
lave one unfailing consolation?It is
mtter somewhere else. In one reion
only of the terrestrial surface is
uch relief denied. That region is the
lottest place on earth?the unhappy
rea in which the agonized inhabiant
is overwhelmed with the fact
hat anywhere aud everywhere else
n the world the weather is delightii
I I/?AAI KIT AAmnopSoon
Lilljf LVUI UJ l/Wllipat IDV/Mt
All will be glad to know just where
he hottest place on earth is. In times
ast there has been much disputation
ver the subject, but the authorities .
re now agreed on the spot I am about
o name. Curiously enough, this
Brritory is not a desert, not Fort
ruma, not even the Arizona plains,
lthough a poet well described them
y declaring that the lost spirits,
wandering from their infernal abodes,
tood on the borders of that region,
rith eyes blinded by the sun's rejected
glare, then in terror hurried
ack~ to their sulphurous lakes?to
void the heat. No, the hottest place
11 the world is, with all respect to
cean .summer resorts, on the seabore."
The region of maximum temperaure
is an extensive area on the Perian
Gulf, a part of the southwestrn
coast of Persia. This territory
ncludcs the Bahrein or Aval Islands,
une, July aud August are terrific,
nendurahle save to the natives, and
ideous to them. Day after day the
nercury will mark more than 100 derees
in the shade. By day here I
Dean the diurnal twenty-four hours.
'hink of it, you who look with fearul
eyes on the thermometer that
egisters 100 degrees at noontime.
rnagine the horror of striking a
Dutch at midnight and reading 110
egrees. It hardly seems possible,
et it is officially declared that this
rightful heat is not excessive?in
hat country. Often 140 degrees in
lie shade is attained in the after
OOII. ^
The islands are in a little group,
amed after the largest, Bahrein.
'hey lie between latitude 25 degrees,
D minutes north, aud longitude 50
egrees, and 50 degrees, 30 minutes
ast, Bahrein itself is about 27 milts
mg and 10 miles broad. The popultion
of the group is 75,000. The Halves
are for the most part Arabs,
overned by a sheik, who pays triute
to the Sultan of Oman. ;
The Man the Printer Loves.
There is a man the printer loves,
nd he is wondrous wise; when'er he
rrites the printer inuh he dottelh all
is i's. Aud when he's dotted all of
item with carefulness and ease, he
unctuates each paragraph, and
rosses all his t's. Upon one side
lone lie writes, and never rolls his
?aves; and from the man of ink a*
mile the mark "insert" receive*..
Ltid when the question hedoih ask?
lught wisely he hath been?lie doth
lie goodly penny stamp, for postage #ack,
put in. He gives the place
ronv which lie writes?his address
lie printer needs?and plainly writes
is honored name, so that he that
uiineth reads. He writes, revises,
sads, corrects, and re-writes all
gain, and keeps one copy safe and
ends one to the printer man. And
lius by taking little pains, at trifling
are and cost, assures himself his
mnuscript will not be burned or
>st. Aud so he speaks through all
lie laud, aud thousands hear his
rord, and in the coming.day shall
now how well the people heard.
So let all those who long to write,
ake pattern by this man; with jet
lack ink aud paper white, do just
Krvof tliou unrt Ihon nrit.f.
r man shall know, and bless tlitm
s his friends, all through life's
Durney as they go, until that journey
uds.?Exchange.
The Old Hymns.
'here's lots of music in 'em?the
hymns of long ago?
ind when some gray haired brother
sings the ones 1 used to know,
sorter want to take a hand?I think
of days gone by?
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, $
and cast a wishful eye!"
'here's lots of music in 'em?those
dear, sweet hymns of old?
Vith visions bright of lands of light
and shining streets of gold,
knd I hear 'em ringin', where memory
dreaniin' stands,
From Greenland's icy mountains to
India's coral strands."
'hey seem to sing forever of holier,
sweeter days,
Vhen the lilies of the love of God
bloomed whitedn all the ways,
Lnd I want to hear their music from
the old-time meetin's rise
'ill "I can read my titles clear to
mansions in^ke skies."
,Ve never 11 eeaed singing books in
them old days?we knew
fhe words, the tunes, of every one
the dear old hymn books through,
Ye didn't have no trumpets then, no
organs built for show;
Ye only sang to praise the "Lord,
from whom all blessings flow."
Uid so I love the old hytnns, and
"Ixmi mi? timn chit.1] r?nir??
V* 11*711 1IIJ v?n?v WW...W
before the light has left me and my
singin' lips are dumb? .
f I can only hear 'em then, I'll
pass without a sigh
'To Canaan's fair and happy land,
where uiy possessions lie!"
?Atlanta Constitution. * *
The unhappy mortal whose Liver
s inactive is miserable without apparent
cause. Dr. M. A. Simmons
Liver Medicine makes life worth livng.
For sale by Hughson-Ligou Co.
It isn't the tale but the detail that
wearies.
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