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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERR 1'C, FR )Y JANAR -0 193T-iA ~ 1 1 ESTABISH NE, FRI A Y, JAN U.R Y0, 1908 NEGROES AT WHITE HOUSE FURTHER DETAILS OF THE RECEPTION WHICH CAUSED INDIGNATION. Roosevelt Carrying His Ideas of Social Equalty to the Extreme Limit Somethtng About the Affair. [New York Suu.1 Washington, Januaiy 23.-South ern senators and representatives held little indignation meetings all day at the capitol. The subject under dis cussion was the presence of several negro men and women at the White House reception in honor of Con 'gress and the judiciary last night, a circumstance which caused several Southern gentlemen, nearly all of, whom are members of Congress, to leave the mansion in a huff. This incident and the facts which led to it were the absorbing topics of coin ment today, and indignant inter views with Southern senators and congressmen are being sent out to newspapers in the Southern states tonight. It was ascertained today that the negro guests were John C. Dancy, recorder of deeds of the ,district of Columbia, and his wife and daughter, who accompanied him; Judson Ly. ons, register of the treasury, and six or eight other negroes, men and women, whose names are not known. Officials at the white house declined today to give the names of the ne groes who were present, but it was explained that they were federal officeholders in Washington, with members of their families, and that they were invited according to cus tom. It was said at the white house that the families of negro officials of the government in Washington are always invited to the state recep tions. The colored guests had a rather lonesome time of it at the reception. After they had shaken hands with the president and had passed into the east room they stood for some time in corner of the apartment talk. ing among themselves, but not min gling with the white guests. They were as inoffensive as possible, even from the point of view of a sensitive Southerner, but there was a good deal of comment, and several South ern congressmen got angry and hastily left the house. This was after they had had a chance to ta,k it over a'tong themselves and express the -ndignation they felt toward the presiuent for heaping such an alleged indignity upon them. Representa. tives Small and Pou, of North Caro lina, were among those who made their hasty departure from the wl.ute house conspicuous. ~'Several senators and conL're$smen from the Southern States declared to day that they would never visit the white house again, either socially or on business. It was stated, and the fact seems to be established, that only i rare instances in the past has a nego man attended a white house re3eption, although invited to do so, anid that probably nio negro woman hias ever been there. This statement of course applies only to the especially mnvited guests, for a large number of negroes of both sexes always attend the pub lie receptions. T1he last evening re caption of the winter at the white house has always been open to the general public. The iodignant Southern senators and congressmen today declared that President Roosevelt had sought to force the social equality of the races byr inviting negroes to last night's reception and that he offered themn a personal insult. They declare that if invitations to negroes have beni issued in past years these invitations have not been accepted, and the fact that the negroes came this year is due to Mr. Roosevelt's attitude on the race question, as exemplifled in the Brooker Washington incident and in many Southern appointments. Senator Tillman gave an interview to the Southern newspaper corre spondents today. He said: "The thing that bothers me most is the fact that my name was printed this morning as among the guests present at the reception last [night. This sa mistae.1,as me on the occasion of the diplomatic reception. I have not been to the white house, do not intend to go this winter and never expect to go there while the present occupant resides there. I do not blame any Southern man for at tempting to prevent the practice of social equality; that is, if he is a white man." M'CORMICK'S RIOT. Lawlessness in the Quiet Village Results in Shooting-One in Jail. [Greenville Index 27th.] News reached here Sunday of what came near being a serious riot and bloody fight at McCormick, on the Charleston and Western Caro lina Railroad. The affair sounds like the days of the fights in border towns out West. It appears that some time during the day, Saturday, a party of young men from the country, prominent among whom was Robt Dorn, were disturbing the peace in the town of McCormick. D->rn Was arrested and later released under a ten-dollar bond to appear before the intendant of the town. Dorn went away and a few hours later returned with a party of friends, looking for trouble. These young men proceeded to raise a rough house in McCormick without much prelude. They shot into windows and dis turbed the silence and serenity of the otherwise quiet little town not a little bit. A body of citizens as sembled themselves into a posse and started to arrest the disturbers. When the two parties came in conflict Gaorge Talbert, a leader of the young men, drew his gun and started to plug the leader of the posse. This he did not do, his gun only snapped. The leader of the posse at once fired and wounded Talbert in the arm. The sight of blood dismayed the disturbers and they dispersed. Talbert and young Robert Dorn were arrested, the other escaping. Young Dorn was brought through here Sunday after noon by two constables, who were carrying him to Abbeville to lodge him in jail. They said they had been threat ened by Dorn's friends and expected that an attempt to release Dorn would have been made at Troy, but they were on the train and the at tempt was not made. Dorn was roped and tied like a desperate criminal, although either of his two constables was a better man physi cally. Communication with McCormick yesterday brought assurance that Talbert was not seriously injured and that quiet had reigned since the aff'air. T1albert was released on bond and taken to his home. Modest In a reading-class a little girl read t.hus: 'The widow lived on a limbacy left her by a rolative." "The word is legacy, not limbacy," correctedl the teacher. "But," said the ch ild, "my sister says I must say limb, not leg."-Feb ruiary Woman's Home Companion. Whole Country Watching. rWashington Star.] TIhe case of Mr. Tillman is now with the court, and the whole coun try wvill watch its progrees with in terest. A speedy trial the prisoner hats expressed a wvish for, and( a speeOdy teal he ought to have. Hie will not lack for friends or money, or able counsel, and the fact that he beocame a private citizen today de i ives him of nothing he could have used to advantage in his defense. T1he public upon the face of the case has adjudged him an assassin A mioro cowardly taking of hunman life, if we may accept the details reported, has seldom been recorded. A word of praise is due to tihe citizens of Columbia for the self control they have shown in circumstances of so much difficulty and it is to be hoped that the same spirit may be exhib ited to the end. TO TORCH AND SWORD NEGRO MAKES APPEAL. MASS MEETING OF NEGROES IN WASH INGTON HEAR RBD THREATS MADB BY LAWYER. Kill and Burn Whites is Counsel from Ne tro-Virginia Lawyer Gives the Lie to Booker Washington's Decla ration that Education Helps Negro. [By Milt Saul to Atlanta Journal.] Washington, Jan. 27.-Roosevelt's pro negro policy is responsible for a mass meeting of Washington ne. groes last night, in the course of which the sword and torch were ad vocated as means for the negro to maintain his manhood. Among the speakers at the meet. ing was H L. Johnson, the Atlanta negro lawyer. The meeting was un der the auspices of the Afro-Ameri can council, of which Pledger is a leading spirit. The most sensational speech of the .meetiug and the one which aroused the audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, was made by James H. Hayes, the lawyer who has been re tained by Virginia to test the validity of Virginia's disfranchisement laws. In the course of his speech, lie said "The time has come when the ne gro must fight, not theoretically, not intellectually, but fight with his hands. The disfranchisement of the children of Israel in Egypt has been followed letter for letter by the dis franchisement in the South. A South ern newspaper has threatened us with klu-klux if the growth of Fed eral appointments in the South con tinues. I make the prediction that when the Southern people start to klu-kluxing this time they will not have as the objects of their oppres. sion the same timid people they klu kluxed in the '40s." Negroes are leaving the State of Virginia because of the treatment they are receiving. What we want to do is to start something and keep it up until the white people stop something. We don't intend to be oppressed any longer. We don't in - tend to be rushed. "I am afraid we are anarchistic that we are anarchistic-and I give the warning that if this oppression in the Souti continues, the negro must resort to the sword and to the torch and to that the Southland will become a land of blood and desola tion." The speaker gave the lie direct to Booker Washington's wide heralded utterances on industrial education for the negro. He used( the follow ing words: "It is claimed that the negro in dustrial schools are the proper lines of effort for the race. Talk about education and wealth and say that they make votes for the negro. It's a lie. Ne, they are destroying votes. Every negro who puts on a clean collar and trics to be a man is de stroying a vote. I believe God will take care of us. Just one word about the question of the absorption of the races," the speaker added significantly. "No two people having the same religion and speaking the same tongue, liv ing together, have ever been kept apart. This is well known and it is one ef the reasons why the (dominant race is crushing out the strength of the no~ ro ini the South." Oth r speakers were Rev. Geo. Lee, Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, J. W. T'hompson, cf New York, treasurer of the Africo American council; Cy rus Field Adams, secretary; H. L. Johnson, of Atlanta; Bishop Walters, of this city, and John 0. Dancy, ra. corder of (deeds. They spoke ear ne'stly, but in a less fiery voini than H ayes. Every one0 who has a gardeni or farm should wvrite to T1. W. WVood & Sons, Richmond, Va , for their Soed Book for 1903. It is beautifully gotten up andl well printed, and is really a complete hand b'ook of infor mation, both for the garden and farm. It is peculiarly vanable to our- south erni growers, as it given practical in formation about the seeds best adapt ed to our own section. IMPORTANT TO TBACHERS. 'Last Circular Issued by Capt. McMahan, the Retiring Superintendent of Education. Columbia, January 25.-Follow. ing the action of the State Board of Education at its recent meeting Su perintendent of Education McMahan issued just before retiring from office an important circular of information for school oflicers and teachers, set. ting forth explicity the new require ments a9 to time of examinations, registration of certificates in the county superintendent's olice, and the exclusion of Latin from the schools unless the teacher has a cer tificate of qualification to teach Latin. The circular is given below, and the county papers are requested by Mr. McMahan to copy for Lhe benefit of all persons concerned: Office State Superintendent of Edu cation. Columbia, S. C., Jan. 21, 1903. To County Superintendents: The State Board of Education at its meeting on the 16th and 17th insts. adopted two permanent regulations which are of far reaching effect., and should b9 known at once to every teacher and trustee in your jurisdic tion: First. That after February and beginning May, 1903, there shall be two county examinations for teach ers' certificates each year, to be held in May and September and that hereafter no teacher shall be em ployed in the public schools of this State who has not registered the cer tificate in the office of the county superintendent of education and sub mitted proof to the board of trustees. The February examination will be held as usual this year, and will be after that abolished, so that no teach ers' certificates can be obtained, and none can expire during the winter or regular school term. The times for examination will hereafter be in May, at about the end of the usual school session, and in September, just be fore the opening of the new school session. You will note that no trutees' con tract with a teacher will be hereafter valid, unless the teacher has first registered his certificate in the office of the county superintendent and submitted to the board of trustees employing him your statement to this effect. Therefore no school can lawfully open and certainly no pub lic money can be paid to a teacher until you have on record in your office the facts as to the teacher's valid, up-to-date certificate of quali fication. There will be, therefore, no excuse hereafter for you to relax in any degree the strict eaiforcement of the law requiring teachers to have certificates. Second. That after July 1, 1903, the teaching of Latin in the public schools shall be forbidden except by teacoers holding from the State Board of Education a special certifi cate of qualification to teach Latin, and that exarnination in this sub)ject shall be offered hereafter, beginning before July 1,1903--college diplomas not to exemot from this examination. Latin is not prescribed in the pub lic school course and is not usually to be ti..ught, but where the trustees and county authorities permit it to b)e taught the State B3oard now directs that there must be evidence of fitness of the teachor to teach Latin properly and, therefore, this special exam ina tion is to be offered regularly here after, and this certificate must be held by a teacher before he shall be permitted to teach Lat in in any p)ub lie school. Let this new regulation be generally known an~d see that it is strictly enforced. There is a great deal of humbuggery in the pretence of some teachers to teach Latin. Persons who know no better are be. ing imposed upon. A capable teacher cannot objeict to an examination and a certificate of qu ali licat ion. The teaching of Latin, however, should always be exceptional in a public school, and should niot he permitted where it would interfere with the teacher giving full tuime to the regulai prescribed course. John J. koeMahan, State Superintendent of snuaon. FOR GOOD ROADS. MEETING QF SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIA TION TO BE HELD SOON. Call Issued by Mr. P. H. Hyatt, President of Association, for Meeting on Feb ruary 3d-To be Held in Columbia. [Columbia Record, 20th.] Mr. F. H Hyatt, president of the South Carolina Good Roads conven tion, has issued a call for a meeting of the body to bo held in this city on February 8 at the. county court house. The following is being sent out to the county aulfervisors by Mr. Hyatt: To the County Supervisors of South Carolina. Gentlemen: The bylaws and con stitution of the South Carolina Good Roads association require that a meeting be held in Columbia, S. C., each year, during the session of the general assembly. You b'eing the supervisor of your county become vice president of this association by virtue of your office. I as president of the South Caro lina Good Roads association hereby notify you that there will be a meet. ing of this association held in Colum bia, at the court house of Richland County, on Tuesda.', February 3d, 1903, at noon. I respectfully ask that you be present, as a matter of importance will be brought up and discussed in the interest of good roads. The election of officers for the ensuing year will also be held. It is quite essential that all of the supervisors should be present, as we will have an opportunity to exchange ideas, meet the legislators and make such recommendations as you think advisable. Please let me know by return mail if I may expect you. If you can't be here yourself please send one of your county officials to represent you. Hoping to have the pleasure of meeting with you on the above men tioned date, I remain Yours very respectfully, F. H. Hyatt, President South Carolina Good Roads Ass's. People Will Talk. You may get through the world, but 'twill be very slow, If you listen to all that is said as you go. You'll be worried and fretted andl kept in a stew; For meddlesome tongues must have something to do And people will talk. If quiet and modest, you'.li have it pre suamed Tihat your humble p)osition is only assumed. You're a wolf in sheep's clothing, or else you're a fool; But dlon't get excitedl-heep) p)erfect ly cool For plelI will talk. And then if you sho0w the least boldness of heart, Or a slight inclination to take your ownJ paUrt, They will call you an upstart, conlceitedl and vamn. But keep) straight ahead, dlon't stop to explain For peole will talk. If threadbare your dress and old fash ionedl your hat, Some one will surely take notice of that, And hint rather strong that you can't pa~y your way. But dlon't get excited, what ever they say - For peop)le will talk. If your driess is in fashion, dlon't think to escape, For they criticise then in a dlifier-ent shape You'r-e ahead of your means, for yom~ tailor's unpaidl; lHut mind your own business, there' naught to be made - For people will talk. Now the best way to do is to (do as yo, please, For your mind, if you have one, wil then be at ease. Of course, you will meet with all sort of abuse, But don't think to stop them--it not any use For p)eople will talk. -Exchange. BILL ARP. Granddaughter Marries--He Says Some Good Things On Marriage to Young People. [Atlanta Constitution.] The re,rd is broken. Out of twenty-ono grandchildreu the first marriage wa9 eolebratsd yesterday. A granddaughter has found a mate and gone off with him. That is all right. It is according to nature and there is nothing to cry about when the young folks have chosen wisely and well. There is no goodlier sight in all nature than to see a good look ing, healthy young man, who is making an honest living standing up at the alter with a sweet, good tempered, affectionato, industrious girl and the parents on both sides approving the match. Marriage is a very serious but.rness and my ob servation has boon that those mado among the well to do common people are generally happier than those made in cities among the families of the rich. Children raised to work and wait on themselves make hotter husbands and better wives than those raised in luxury. I in mighty hard for a man to please his wife and keep her in a good humor if she has boon petted by her parents and never know a want and had no useful work to do. She soon takes thi ennui or the (on uiptions or the "don't know what I want" and must go back to ma. A young girl who never cleared up her own room or made any of her own clothes or helped to nurse her mother's baby and did nothing but dress and visit and go to the theater will never make a good wife. The wife and mother business is hard work. The mother of six, eight or ten children has soon sights. She knows what care is and anxiety and sleepless nights and one of those butterfly women can't stand it. One child will dry her up and two will about finish her and if it were not for condensed milk the children would perish to death like the calves in Florida, where the cows don't give enough milk to color the coffee and they have to raise the calves on the bottle. But our grandehildiron are all good, healthy working stock. We have raised ten of our own and the Lord has blessed them in form and feature and old Agur's prayer has saved then from poverty and riches. I have worked and so has my wife and our children worked and have held their own and are now helping us in our old age. I won't say what I have done all of these fifty three years of married life, but my wife has made over a thousand little gar merits with her own hands before ever a sewing machine was brought to our own town and she found time to keel) mie in plaited bosom shirts besides. I bioughit the first machine that eame-a Grover & Unaker, for $125. The next, a W heeler & Wil son, for $100. And so on (down and now we have 'i Homie & Farm for $20, wvhichi is the host we ever had It. isi worth mentioning that H-owe, the first inventor, could niot get his machine introduced in this country for ten years anid had it patented ir. England and all the use they had for it there wvas to stitch the soles on boots and shoes. Yes, our pret ty grand(daughiter has mated and marriedl and( gone. J1ulia Simith is now Mrs. ,Junlian Smith niot much chainge mn her name was there only add(ed the little letter "n"i'. We gave im a cordlial welcome into our famiily for we have heard nothing but good concerning him and comn mend our grandlcild to thle good people of Sehnia andi thio good State of Alabama, which is our own Gleor gia's daughter. Tholire may they -rest and live long and prospor. I ami still sick. As t he lawyers Ssay, "'I li vinig (10 languish , anid Ian - guishming do live','' but 1 amn on the up gradoe and( my swollen extremities are reducing their compass and my wifo says it will soon 1be tiri to lant Isweet peas and trim upl herf restf bushes. TJwo months from yesteor s day will be the fifty fourth anniver sary of our wveddling and the chil dren and grandchmild(1rn have prom itied to gather at the parental man n andt reoiien together over th Lord's goodness unto us. But I must stop now, for it tires me to write. My daughter who helps me is teaching school and I get tired from bending over to my work. I feel like saying with Byron, "What is writ is writ, Would it were worthier-but my visions flit, Less palpably before me and the glow, That in my spirit dwelt Is fluttering faint and low." Well, the little pamphlet of Gen. H. H. Jackson's great speech and part of Dave Webster's at Capon Springs is now ady. Send to my friend, Ed Holland, Atlanta, Ga., and get it. It will be sent postpaid for 25 cents. My last book is about ready. Send to C. P. Byrd, printer and publisher, Atlanta, Ga., and get that postpaid, for $1.25. My wife says the first two chapters would be worth the money if I hadn't told some storiem on her. Btr.r, Aur. WON'T VOTB FOR THE TBRRITORY. Tillman Favors Arizona, New Mexico amd Oklalona Only. Washington, Jan. 26.-The char acteristic declaration of Senator Till man in the Senate Friday afternoon, in discussing that feature of the Statehood bill which provides, as the Senator puts it, for the "parcelling out of Indian Territory" to Okla homa, by the politicians in the Sen ate, after the latter Territory has boon admitted into the Union, as a "damnable and outrageous proceed ing," caused considerable surprise both to the supporters ani opponents of Statehood legislation, as it had been thought that a Democratic Son ator of the robustness of Senator Tillman could not be otherwise than in harmany with his party upon the question of Statehood. It is true that the Senator from South Caro lina did declare that he earnestly ad vocated the admission of Arizona, Oklahoma and New Mexico, but coupled with that, he also declared,. he favors either the admission of Indian Territory along with Okla homa (which is the schemie of the opponents of the House bill), or he favors the admission of Indian Terri tory as a separate State, or at least to give the whito people there a ter rtorial form of government. W hilo Senator Tillnian thus placed himself on record as being in favor of Statehood, he declared with the pro vihions in the omnibus bill relative to Indian Territory the measure can not have hiis support. T hle supporters of t he omnibus bill, including Senator Quay, declare that the mnlsnre will not lbe amended; tihe logical conclusion is therefore that on the finail passage of the bill, if it is ever voted on at this session, Senator Tilbnan's vote will be in the negative. It is climied in some quaiirters that Senator Tillmnan, wvho had not heretofore stated his posi * ion, had b)een won b)y the arguments of Senator Beveridge, who is lead ing the fight against the bill. Other Southern D)emocrats, it is stated, are on the verge of deserting Senat or Quay, among t hem being Senators Batcon of Geor-giai, Cockrell of Missouri, and( iMorgani of Alabiama. It is not becauso they are against Statehood Iligislationt, but it is he cause the omitibus b6ll, as Senator Tilbnan exp)lainedl it, is not al togeith er to their liking, and also the fear that other legislation rmay be defeat ed. Tillman's words are regardled as a kind of warning to friends of the bill andic if not hoodold all Statehoodi legislation may be dlefeatted thIiis Cont gress. No) two Senators evuintly enjoy a scrap more thtan (10 Senators Spooner of Wisconsin and Tiliman of South Carolina Out of the Senate they adimire each other's personality; on the floor of the Senate they adlmire chcl other's ablility. Spooner is the only man in the Senate who can miatch Tillman, bo0th of them being aware, ew!3ently, of that fact. Till mani's style suits Spooner. When ever the South Cerohtna Senator or the Wisconsin Senator takes the floor there is sure to be a (debate be tweoon the two, which is amusing to , the galeries at least