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ia Hr SEI, IOSOPATKIN SAYS J?PS ARE mmm. h? je fighting on Lao Tung Pe? ninsula and Reported Betreal of japanese armiss Kot io o?onied Admiral Kamimura in Hot Pur ss?t of Vladivostok Squadron. Petersburg, July 2.-Gen. Ka? il reports that the Japanese armies commanded by Gen. Knroki and Gen. Oku are slowly retreating toward the Sontb. No further fight? ing is mentioned in his dispatch and '?he retreat of the Japanese is not ex? plained. KAMI MUK A. FU?SUING RUSSIAN. Tokio, July 2.-It is reported here today that Gen. Kamimura's squadron is tn hot pursuit of the Bussian Vla? divostok squadron and a decisive bat? tle is expected. "5EB?PPED th??m?STOK FLEET. Tokio, July 2.- Vice Admiral Kami mura evidently trapped and at? tacked the Bussian Vladivostok squad? ron off the Islands of Tsu in the soutirera entrance to theJSea of Japan tat night The result of the enoun ter is unknown. Tokio, July 2, S.30 a. m.-The" Vladivostok squadron was reported ia the Tsushima straits last night. <? pondon, July 3, 9.08 p. m.-Admiral j -Skrydloifj ?ccording to a dispatch 3rem St Petersburg to a news, agency | hei?t reports that the Vladivostok squadron has returned to Vladivostok undamaged. The admiral confirms . the bombardment of Genaan. St Petersburg, July 1.-Maj. Gen. Tfing, *telegrshping from Mukden under date of July 1, says: "The reports from foreign sources' Hiai the Japanese fleet sank several 'vessels of our squadron on Jurie 23 and that ocr loss; included Bear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky and 700 sai lora are absolutely untrue." r Chefoo, Jnly 1, 8.30 p. m.-What J?ou?d prove* a decisive naval engage meat was in progress at 1 o'clock tais morning midway between Chefoo sad Port Arthur. The steamer Chufeo, which has ar? rived here; passed within lo miles of Japanese fleet, consisting of two ^battleships and five cruisers, all ac? tively engaged. The Bussian fleet was :sot seer, but the distance of the Japa? nese from laird precludes -the possi? bility of the land batteries participa' f?ag. The captain of the Chef co says he beard a terrific explosion, but was enable to discern whether 8 Japanese ot m Bussian ship was affected. The battle is held here to confirm tbs Chinese report that, only four of ?fee large Russian warships were at ?Fort Artbur.last night. - _ ' ^GATING AROUND PORT ARTHUR. St Petersburg, Joly 1.-The follow? ing dispatch has been received at th? **T ?fiiee from Gen, Silinsky, dated June 30: ""Xhe following report have reached "Is?re IjLiaii rangt) from Port Arthur: Cte June 24 the Japanese displayed tgreafc * activity -at ali their outposts aatS in the hope of recapturing the ??ocn?ains of War Tsei Laza \ (?), which' ; bad - been. tasen from them. -Srey attacked, but again were repulsed SEs? OUT troops now occupy the. village of Beikbohoon. northeast of Sia Ping Tao. The enemy maintained a heavy lire afc 4oag range* on our left flank Clem their squadron which lies in !Ba?iea' Waa pay in full view of Port Arthur. It consists of a cruiser two torpedo boat'"deshbyers antf^evea aonrchant ships which evidently *nrought cargoes into the bay. , **On the night bf June -2? 25 the Japanese torpedo boats reapproacb ed She fortresses and at 4 a; m. June 26 ?e enemy began to cannonade from 4 their vessels in Silo Ping Tao- bay Erecting their fire against the whole SOM! towards the north from the bay jfce Meant Uit Selo and then attacked ia great force firstly height No. 131 , .secondly height No 126. ""'Sse latte? was attacked by a small ?aiacbment landed for this purpose. Tcess two positions were held by our -riflemen who after driving off three > attacks with heavy losses retired and being pressed by the enemy songht re Sage on the height of Lou Van Tian. "Aie enemy attacked this position rn great force employing at lea-t a di vic? ien bat all the assaults were'repulsad. "At 3.30 p." m. the Japanese appear? ed oa the Port Arthur road in great numbers and attacked Kwin Shan {Gin San Shan. ) The riflemen 3 who held the height with two battalions retired. The Japanese turned them from the rear losing heavily in the janaoeuver. Our torpedo boats were af some assistance to us advancing on Loan Van Tian and bombarding the coast occupied by the enemy. **Our losses were 7 officers and about 290 soldiers killed or wounded. Our mines exploded at the proper time, blowing up at least50 Japanese. Their kanes were evidently considerable. "According to the latest advices large columns of the enemy are march. daag from Dalny towards the village cf Saan Eon and Khouint mountain. "Oa June 27 there was a fusilado at the Japanese outposts due to the Japa? nese establishing themselves on the summit of Loon Van Tian mountain. Our gunboats proceeded yesterday towards Leun Van Tian and' bomba rd ed the shore. "Yesterday evening the forts and "batteries at Port Arthur opened fire an the Japanese torpedo boats." AMERCAN IN COMMAND. Liao Yang July 1. -Gen. Ku ropa t and Gen. Knroki are moving troops like men on a chess board. 25&e Japanese a?e now 20 mites from lane Yang, ^The rains are impeding their movements. Detachments total? ing 1,200 mes have been detaf e3 from Gen. Rennenkampff's ^Cossacks to scout in the files and hills, harassing the Japanese and not allowing them any rest day or night. The Jabanese artillery is said here to be commanded by an American. His tall form is frequently seen with the batteries. Kuroki's army is extremely active, as the Russian position and the Rus? sians are correspondingly active. The Russian centre is being rapidly pusehd northwards to a point where Kuropat kin established his base after the bat? tle of Vafangowu So far as the Rus? sians know Knroki is steadily pushing onward through^ all the mountain pas? ses, even toward Mukden. Prepara? tion at all points are now practically complete. The demontsration made during the last few days against the Russian left thresiten to completely change the position of the two armies. ' Notwithstanding four days rain the troops are still bei.ag moved. Some Red Cross trains with wound? ed passed northward June 30. The newspaper correspondents have returned to Liao Yang from the south. A pzess boxean has been established here.. NEGROES IN TIE UNITED STATES. -- The Total in United States, Alas? ka, Hawaii and Porto Rico, Ag? gregates 9,204,531. ? ; Over 77 Per Cent of the Negroes Live in the Country. Washington, D, C., July 1.-The census brean today issued the final bulletin on the negro population of "the United Slates. The number of negroes in the United States? includ? ing the entire area covered by the twelfth census, (Continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii,) and Porto Rico, is 9,204,531, perhaps a larger number than is found in any other country outside of Africa. The report indicates that between ll and lo per cent of the negro popu? lation have orare believed.by the enuT m erato rs to? have some degree of white blood. The centre of the negro population is in DeKalf County, Ala-, bama, about four miles from the wes? tern boundary of. Georgia, having moved thence from Dinwiddie County, Virginia, 476 miles' northeast, since 1790. Over 77 per cent, of the negroes live in the country, against over 57 per cent, of the whites. Almost 90 per cent, of the negroes in Conti nen tal United States are in the Southern States and three-tenths of them ar? in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama. Negroes constitute about one-fifteenth of the city population of Continental United States. There was an increase among tthe negroes of 1,345,318, or 18 per cent, in Continental United States, but the rate of increase declined stead? ily through the nineteenth century: The negroes, unlike the Indians and the native white, have a slight excess1 of females. Illiteracy among them is about seven times greater than the whites. There, are 3,992,333 negroes ' in tiie United Sattes engaged in gainful. , occupations. -Their death rate ap? proximates 30 per cent, white ?that of ; the whites under the same calculation ! is 17 per cent. The prortion of mulattoes- to all ne- : 2roes is usually higher in cities of the great cotton-growing States than it is , in the districts ont side of the cities. The district in which the proportion ! of negroes is greatest lies in the Mis? sissippi alluvial region, along the ?j banks of the lower Mississippi, where . five-eighths of 'the population is n?-; .: sro, the maximum.being in Issaquena , County, Mississippi, with more than , Sf teen negroes to each white person. Negroes form one-third "of the popula- H tion in. the South, both in cities and ts country districts, w bile in the ; North they are about one-fortieth of city and one-ninetieth oft be country districts.. In :the country districts of the South, .excluding the population 1 of the 22 cities, which bad at least ? 2,500 inhabitants bof?fa ?890 and in t 1900, the negroes increased, 1890 to ; 1900; over 1# per -: oentr. ; in the 22 Southern cities as a whole they i ocreas- ) ed ?L? per, cen G.- Their increase in 1 the country districts was about two thirds as rapid as that of the whites ' l?-"tire~8au^?i?ea*; their increase in * Southern cities was nearly five-sixths/ as fast as that of the whites in the same^ cities. In the five' Southern, cities,; having ' if least 100,OX) inhabitants, in 1900, the negro opulation increased 25:8 per cent., 1?90 to 1900; the white popula-' tion of the samme cities increased only 20.8 per cent. This is the only group of Southern cities in which the rafe of increase of negro ppopulation passed that" of the whites. In the 38; cities of rbis class in Continental Uni? ted States the per ce at. of increase was 38 for negroes and 32.7 for whites The largest number of negroes liv? ing in compact masses,are found in certain urban counties, several of which lie outside the great cotton growing States. The four each having over 75,OOO negroes* are: District of Columba coextensive with Washington Shelby County, Tennessee, containing Memphis: Baltimore City, Md., and Orleans Parish, Louisiana, coextensive with New Orleans. The general conclusion seems war? ranted that the proportion of mulat? toes to total negroes was found by the enumerators to be high or low, accord? ing as the portion of whites or negroes is high or low. The total number of negroes reported by the twelfth census was 8,840,789. To this number may be added the 363,74?persons of pure, or mixed, ne? gro blood, in Porto Rico, making a total of 9,204,531 negroes under Ameri? can jurisdiction This includes 8,830,394 negroes of continental United State?, which excludes those, of Porto Rico and a few in Alaska, Hawaii and the military and naval service. Couldn't Stop Drinking. Hoonlnlu, July 3.-First Lieut. Gilford S. Garber of the United States signal corps committed suicide here today, shooting himself in the mouth. Garber had been out with some com? panions. Hel left the following note : i ? It's no use ; I cannot stop drink? ing.: ' His accounts are straight. Garner's home was at Madison, Wis. Ten thousand work men have been discharged by the Baldwin Locomotive Company within the past few days, dne to Republican prosperity. PARKER SEEMS TO BE A SURE WINNER. Ths Uninstructed Pennsylvania Delegation Decides To Vote For Parker. South Carolina Senator Declares Himself for Gray of Delaware. Strength of New Yorker Takes Interest Out cf Contest. St. Louis, July 4.-Parker on the second ballot, perhaps on the first. That is tonight the claim of the men who are in charge of the political affairs of the New York candidate. All day long the Parker opponents have tried to perfect the programme which would prolong tbe balloting and afford an oppportnuity to name another can? didate, but apparently they have not succeeded. Many combinations have been suggested, but so far they have proven incapable cr? being assembled into a shape sufficiently substantial to show the independen and uninstructed delegates If ow another candidate can be named. Men who are supposed to hold the balance of power have asked the Parker opponents to say what would be drue after Parker bad been put ont of the race, but tonight they say they hp.ve received 'no satisfactory answer; Action taken by the Pennsylvania delegation tonight by the overwhelm? ing vote of 57 to 5 to vote for Parker only served-to emphasize th i 3 view of the outcome. ^> Sh: members of the Pennsylvania deleg ation did not vote on the proposi-. tion. - . Gorman, Gray-and Cleveland have been suggested,' but no one is prepared to give assurances that either could receive the nomination. The mention of Cleveland has a tendency in some quarters to solidify the Parker strength, for many delegates say they do not want to take even the slightest chan se of allowing Cleveland a fourth nomination. While there is a friendly feeling for GOTO J an among the southern delegates, including those who are under instruc? tions or bound by the unit rule to'vote for Parker, yet the predomipant ex? pression from this element is that the effort now making behalf of the Mary and senator [is too late. They also point to the fact that wheo delegates were being chosen Gorman gave no sien that befdesired the nomination. It is too much to expect, they say, that delegates who were Chosen as Parker men, whether under instructions or not, will desert him now or as long as there is a pos? sibility of securing his nomination. The opposition to Judge Parker, in its eJ?ort to tighten the lines and make s?re of holding the delegations now counted as opposed to him, have brought two new candidates in the persons of former Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania and. Gen. Miles. The opposition leaders appreciate to the utmost the difficulty of preventing a stampede to Parker, should his lead become pronouncedly manifest, but they are coan ting upon doing this by appealing to the local pride of the different favorite son; delegations to hold on as long as possible. ?Na announcement was given out iron:. Senator Gorman tonight and Mr. V>ndiver, who had stated early in the 3ay ? that1*he ;expec|ed, a^coinmuiricaj: . bioc, said tonight 'that he -had received nonji. Mr, Gorman ' s position . ns - a jontlitional candidate has? however, became so well known that no formal, stat wa en t : from him is necessary. H is friends still expect? t?:press his candi? dacy if Parker: ieils of-mccea*. "id in the menatime they witt, do V?? they jan to bring about such a situation. '.The wisdom, of "casting the votes ?i^?^f^^t^?&^!^^9^ for o?her san^datesrha?been:canvassedand this scuRje.- practically .decided. upon. Ifc is opt y?t.'a^lutejy' determined what, aspirants will tfcas: ^mpUmeut^d, r ont -the chotee s lies . between Pattison sue GcckreU. The, vote s absol utely u n ?er.-Mr. Gorman's control are those of Marylands, Weat Virginia. "and the Di?ffcricfc of Columbia, The mes who are talking about Judge Gray are met with the question where the vbtes are to be secu red to nominate him. Tillman Favors Judge Gray. Sk Louis, July 4-"Because he is a st:-aight out Democrat of the open and above board type, a man who stands for the Democracy which has come down to us from the fathers and is, in my opinion, far. and away the strongest man whom the Democrats caa put in the field, I heartily favor ths nomination of Judge Gray of Del-" aware for the presidency.'1 said Sena? tor Tillman of Suoth Carolina tonight. * ' In speaking of Judge Gray, I know wherof I speak," continued the sena? tor. "I served wtih him in the senate and we in the senate can testify to his ability, his integrity and his many other qualifications for the Presdency HB stands for and represents those very principles which the Democrats need to put forward in the coming cam? paign, and for which the people of this country are looking^ . "Until the South Carolina delega? tion gets here tomorrow and organi? zes I cannot presume to say what they will decide to do. I shall tell them my views and we will consider the matter in the light ol events which develop tomorrow without drawing any comparisons, I am of the opinion that Mr. Gray would get"all the support and none of the opposition which Judge Parker has. Judge Parker is undoubtedly in the Iliad thus far, but he has not tbe ne? cessary two-thirds and at this moment he would be ignoring Democratic history who would say that Judge j Parker's nomination was an abso- I late certainty." Regarding the platform, SenaorTill mn said: t **l am opposed to putting any of last year's "eggs in this year's bird nest Vre need a new nest and a new set of eggs You ask me about Mr. Cleve? land. The Democrats will not dare sound that man's name in the conven? tion foT president because the howl of rage which would he aroused would crown everything else " Sanator Tillman is the national committee mac from South Carolina \ and th? general understanding is tHat he will be elected as that State's mem? ber of the national committee. P?RKER Oil THE FIRST BALLOT. ? His Nomination Conceeded by Genera! Opinion. The Negro Question a Bone of Contention. ? St Lonis, July 5.-It is the general opinion of the influential delegates that Judge Parker will certainly be nominated, probably on the first ballot. ^Martin W. Littleton, of Brooklyn, will make the nominating sDeech and Senator Carmack, of; . Tennessee, will second his nomination. The contest over the Illinois dele? gations has developed great bitterness. It is believed that the Hopkins dele? gation will be seated and that the Harrison-Dnnlop delegation supported by Bryan will appeal to the conven? tion. : The platform drawn up by John Sharpe Williams will probably be pre? sented with excellent chances of be? ing adopted without material altera? tion. It contains no reference to the Kan? sas City platform ? the money plank is brief and congratulatory ; there will also be an anti-trust plank. The plank'on the negro question is causing great "worry to the leaders. Many Southerntdelegates demand an open declaration for negro disfran? chisement and threaten to bring' the question before the convention on a minority report should the platform try to dodge the subject. 6. 11 CASES DROPPED. Charleston Attorney's Are Now Satisfied With Method of Taxation. Columbia, July 4.- Messrs. Mordecai & Gadsden notified Attorney General Gunter yesterday that the cases ?|com menced by them to recover taxes, col? lected from certain building and loan associations in Charleston last year had been abandoned. They are now entirely satisfied with the method of taxing these associations prescribed by Comptroller General Jones. The letter says : "Hibernian, Mer? cantile, Shamrock, Oak, Royal, Wood? burn, Globe and Atlas building and loan associations vs. Barnwell R. Burnet, county treasurer of Charleston county, the honorable the comptroller general of South Carolina, having decided to assess the building and loan associations for the year 1904 upon a method and in a manner satisfactory to our clients, we are instructed to discontinue the above named cases ; inasmuch as the summonses have never been filed ic court, we consider an order of formal discontinuance nec? essary, and you will please consider these cases as disposed of. "This will relieve bosh your depart? ment and this office from a very long and troublesome litigation, and we are to be congratulated all around for its fortunate ending." TRAGEDY IN AIKEN COUNTY. Mrs J. J. Ergfe Run Over by train at Graniteville While Trying to Save Child. Aiken, July 4.-Mrs. J. J. Ergle, ; wife of Mr. J. J. Ergle, a prominent merchant of Grani te ville, was instant? ly killed by the afternoon passenger train due at G rani te vi lie at 3.20 o'clock. Mrs. Ergle was on her way home with her younger child when she was killed. The people of Granite ville were bedding ji Foprth of July picnic at Lakeside park, on the edge of the village, and Mrs. Ergle left with her child after dinner und was walking along the Southern railway track when she. heard the train .coming from Co? lumbia. The mother' was on one side of the track and the child on the other. It' is said that M'ra Ergle was seen ito start across the track to keep the little one, from crossing tb her. Th? track makes a sharp curve at this point end the train was upon her in an instant She was knocked about 40 feet and killed instantly. When the body was picked up the brains were oozing out of a hole in the back of the head and tho limbs and frame were horribly crushed. MASSACRES IN ARMENIA. t London, July 4.-In connection with the cablegram which American Secre? tary of State Hay received from Ispahan, Persia, on July 2, signed by "Armenian Bishops in Persia," say? ing that Turkish barbarians were mas? sacring thousands of Armenians, and humbly solicitng the United States Gov ernment in the name of Christauity and humanity to save innocent lives the Daily ? Chronicle this morning prints the following telegram dated Tauris, Persiaune 30 : "It is announced from a perfectly reliable source that in the vicinity of Van (a fortified city of Turkish Ar? menia) on June 24 Kurds and Turkish regulars attacked Armenian travellers killing them as revolutionists. This is the beginning of a general massacre in the province of Van. The people are in terror." St. Louis, July 3.-A special to the Globe-Democrat from Litchfield, Ills., says that the Chicago Limited on the Wabash railroad, due in St. Louis at 7 p. m., and half an hour late, was wrecked tonight inside the city limit?. The train struck an open switch and was overturned, and seven of the nine cars were burned. It is believed that 20 persons perished in the secon d and third coaches and that j 40 were injured. Di HOD, July 2.-R. B. Wallace, a printer employed at tl>e Herald office, ? was shot and instantly killed last ? night about ll o'clock in the suburbs of Latta, a town seven miles below ! here. The killing was done by Will : Jacobs, a native of North Carolina, i who came to this State about four years ago. The entire load of shot from a breech-loading gun entered just .behind the right -ear, and tore away the entire back of the skull, scattering the victims bran na against the walls of the room in which the killing was THE CLEVELAND BOOM. Parker Stil! Leads But Cleveland Sentiment is Gaining Strength Delegates Gathering Slowly. St. Louis, July 2.-Delegates to the Democratic Convention are arriving very slowly. Parker is still in the lead, but the Cleveland sentiment is growing stronger. It is believed that the Bryan wing may support Judge Gray or Richard Olney. John Sharpe Williams will probably be elected tem? porary chairman. Mayor Rose cf Mil? waukee is aspiring to nomination for Vice President. Body of Williams, the Negro Lynched by Moo at Scranton, Found. Lake City, Williamsburg county, July 1.-The bcdy of Cairo Williams, riddled with bullets, has been found in a bay near Scranton. Magistrate Baldwin is now holding an inquest. The lynchers numbered about one hundred and fifty. Controlling Malarial Infection at Panama. The most, important part of our sanitation, I think, will turn upon the control of malaria in these.-villages. Most of the houses are still ina pretty fair state of repair, and many of them are still occupied by the families of the former employes on the canal. The men have, wandered off to the neighboring republics in search of em? ployment. It is estimated that there is still a population of about fifteen thousand in these villages along tthe canal. These people are all, more or less, suffering from malaria. The anopheles mosquito, which is the malarial mosquito, bites them, be? comes herself infected, and when she in turn bites a newcomer, conveys malarial fever to him. If we intro? duce forty-five thousand nnacclimated people into tnese villages, intimately associated with the present infected population, our condition, in the course of a year or two, will be about as bad as that cf the French. The mosquitoes that became infected from the present population would soon have bitten most of the new comers, and, in a few months, they would all be suffering from malaria. Now, we propose to organize, as we did in Ha? vana, brigades in all these villages who will destroy the breeding-places of the mosquitoes, and Inns keep the insect down to its lowest numbers. At the same time, we expect to take all the present population in these visa? ges, find out who haver malaria, make a record of each individual case, and keep them under daily treatment till the malarial parasite has duap peared from the blood. We hope that, a year from now, when our nnacclimated population comes, it will be to clean, uninfected villages, with all the present native population free from malarial infec? tion, and that there will be left very few malarial mosquitoes, and that h tese few malarial mosquitoes, not be? ing able to bite any human being pre? viously infected with malaria, will be harmless. This is not an entirely theoretical scheme. In Havana, yel? low feyer was cared for in just the way that we propose, for . /malaria. The infected human being was taken and placed, under screening, and treat? ed until he was free from infection, and thus no yellow-fever mosquito was allowed to bite him' during the infect? ed period and become herself infected. At the same time, wholesale mosquito destruction was carried on. At the end pf about eight monthB of this woTkj it was found that the num? ber of yellow-fever mosquitoes had been greatly decreased, and those that were left could find no human being . infected with yellow fever, whereby . they, the - yellow-fever mosqnitojes,. might become infected, and thus con? vey it to other human beings. For the past three years, Havana has been free from, yellow, fever. An nnaccli? mated m&n can go to Havana now, and though ne may probably foe bitten a good many times by yellow-feyer mos-' ^uitoes, these mosquitoes have had no opportunity, in the past three years, of biting a human being , infected with yellow fever, and, therefore, are themselves entirely harmless. This condition we hope to bring about in the villages along the canal route by means similar to those ' adopted in Havana.-From. "Solving the Health Problem at Panama, ' by Col. William C. Gorgas, in the American Monthly Review of Reivews for July. MR. EARLE'sTlARROW ESCAPE. Darlington July3.-Through then heroic efforts of Mr. C. S. McCullough, Mr. John H. Earle, candidate for rail? road commissioner, was saved from drowning yesterday afternoon, in Black Creek, where he went with several friends to take a swim,. Short? ly after going in the- water Mr. Earle was seized with cramps, and, though he made no outcry, it was fortunately discovered that he was drowning, when Mr. C. S. McCollough plunged in the dark water and rescued him from a watery grave. The water was deeper than usual, there having been a con? siderable rise in the creek. In a few moments longer Mr. Earle would have gone to the bottom. Londou, July 3.-It is reported tba over 700 emigrants, bound from Copen? hagen to New York, on the Scandina? vian-American Line steamer Norge, have been drowned. Twenty seven survivors were landed at Grimsby (15 miles southeast o2 Hull) tonight. The Norge struck on a rock last Tues? day in the North Sea and kfoundered. There was a heavy sea and most of the boats were smashed. Only two of the L boats succeeded in getting away, and j these were picked up by Grimsby j trawlers. ji Congressman Finley, of South Car-/? oiina, has no ear for music and he isl not unwilling to exaggerate his fail-; iag. "Don't yon know that piecei"^ a friend asked him at a concert. "What is itv ho replied. "Why,I that's * America V ?' the friend ex-', claimed, and Mr. Finley asked inno- j oeufcly; "North or sou^hr' ?T?LLliHS FOR THE SOOTH. They are a Hard-working, Money? making arid Money-saying Peo? ple, Suited to This Climate. Baltimore, Md., June?30.-The part which Italians are to play in the ever increasing immigration to the South is a subject attracting interest in all parts of the country. Bearing upon it are some interesting facts, both from the Itaiian standpoint and from the Southern standpoint, brought ont this week in correspondence in the Manu? facturers' Record from Independence, La., where a settlement of Italians has done much toward increasing the rvalue of land during the past ten years from ?1 to $50 an acre. Mr. G. L. Buck, ^ one of the leading Ameri? can-born citizens of the community, said: ? "Twenty years ago lands could be bought in and around the town for Si to $50 per acre that are now selling readily at $25 to $100 per acre. One tract here of 1,600 acres sold twenty five years ago for $1,600, and only a few weeks ago the purchaser sold 200 acres for $10,400. The assessed value of lands in this parish has been doubled in the past four years. One will ask what was the principal cause of the development The answer must be the Italian immigration that has come here and improved the condi? tions in respect to production. The majority of farmers have done away with negro labor. Why? because they are a shiftless, worthless sort ; where the Italian laborer is a success. His sole object is to make money, and he knows it must come out" of th? ground ; therefore he is always ' at work when his work is needed.. .The question; of his desirability as a citizen is often asked. I can say that thus far in our 12 or 15 years' experience with them they have given, nc trouble to any one. They are' prompt to pay'the debts at the stores, meet their paper at the banks when due, and often before, I do not think there is a paso on record in this parish where the State has had to prosecute them for a crime or mis-7 demeanor, and that is saying a great deal when we consider that there are 150 or 250 families living here, and every berry season there are probably 500 or more who come tc assist in harvesting the' crops. I can speak from experience, and say that thus far I have found them good neighbors - and good tenants. They are frugal and industrions, and when working as tenants they are always willing to - do their part, 'and I find it a great im provemnet and cheaper than the nergo labor of today, that wants a dollar per day for a half-dollar's worth of work. As tenants they never take up more at the store than will be realiz? ed from their crops, as is often the case with the negro. After they are ' here awhile they become more or less Americanized, and live better and spend more money as their means jus? tify. They are, generally speaking, cleanly about their houses. They are capable of improvement in many ways, which is not.tine case with the negro; 4 and as far as I know here they have conducted themselves in a morai, law abiding, way. i.ain; of course^ speak? ing from the patt and present experi? ence we have ?tad with them. As fruit and truck-growers they will be hard to beat, and see I no reason why they cannot be used to : advantage for other sorts of farming. . They soon make fair or . good plough hands, ? though at first they are green about handling, a horse. .'-"They are not hard to teach, asa rule. They want to make money,, which is their sole object, and Ihey try to follow instructions, and: it is inevitable that if tney make "any the landlord will, toa This immediate section would never have been what it is - in so short a tim? without the Italian; labors The price of .land is no ^ object if they; wan$ {rfc and can eee their way. clear to make a living, on it. It t?^/:tbj?k- th'eyt caji make a. living on:; ten acres, of la ad and haye $1,000 -ir they will try it and not "think it too much. Th?Vr reason that' it is that inucK invested ^r?m, wlr?ch they can d?rive a livelihood and have a home 1 * besides. Numbers of them have set? tled, here OB ten acre plots and made a living and saved np money, notwitu? san ding the fact that the family was of large size. So far we find -them peaceful, law-abiding citizens without the dreaded'stiletto. This is giving a general history of them: as I know it. Of co?rse, some are more prosperous ^ than others." One of. the 'Italian farmers, Mr. Geo. Allessi, said: "In another generation, when my children speak the English language and own good homesi why should they not be as good Americana as you are whose forefathers came from Ire lane, .. or some one else who. sprang from any of the jther nations? "They say an Italian doesn't spend < any money. An Italian comes to tfcis country, without anything, and te doesn't spend anything until he makes . it. The first thing he wants to do is to buy a home. The negro rarely owns a home or really cares for one, and spends a dollar a day while he is ^ only making sevetny-five cents, apd sooner or later goes to prison, while the Italian practically lives in priscn for three or four years and spends nothing, and then Jbays a home. An Italani farmer with a h$me paid for and a few hundred dolars in the bank will spend money just like any one else, A few of the older ones, with commendable love for the aplace of their birth, return to the old country a to spend their old age and die amid the scenes of their childhood, but their sons and daughters remain in their American homes, where life presents so many attractive possibili? ties, and rear larpe families of thor? oughly Americanized citiezns." --^-?3 lu the Review of Reviews for July the feature of chief interest is tee sketch of "Theodore Roosevelt as a Presidential Candidate" contributed by a Delegate to the National Republi? can Convention. This writer pays bU respects to various elements in the two , great parties in a series of pungen; - characterizations that make excellent *r reading in this rather quiet opening month of the campaign. In this^con nection the Review publishes the princ pal parts of ex-Secrtary Root's masterly convention ?peech on the Re? publican party's record for the past four years. ? Hunts Round Pointed Pens for sale at Osteen's Book Store.