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Call and soe mo and got bargains. T, E. ALEXANDER, WALHALLA, S. C. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Some Salient .Features of tho Messago-Many Vital Questions Discussed. The President's messago ia about 28,000 words in length, dealing with all, the questions of vital importance now .in the public eye. Stripped of descriptive detail, the salient points of the President's message follow : A glowing tribute is paid to tho memory of the lamented William McKinley and anarchy denounced. Tho President not only doplores the existence of anarchists, but beseeches Congress tb make it impossible in the future for tho Chief Exeoutivo of tho nation to be shot down. ' He'oalls attention to tho great prosperity of the nation. He deals at length with industrial ' conditions and problems. He declares that the danger of trusts has been over-estimated, but the government should enact laws to control them ; otherwise, trusts will control. A new oabinot officer is suggested, who shall be known as the Secretary of Commoroo and Industry. Mr. Roosevelt urges that Congress ?co to it that the United States se cure tho greatest service from its employees. Tho re-enactment of the Chinese exolusion aot is urged, and more rigid immigration laws recommended. The message declares that reci procity is no enemy of protection. An encouraging word is said for the benefit of our merchant marine. Mr. Roosevelt declare? that the Amerioan merohant marine should be restored to the ooo an. Tbe gold standard is called timely and judicious, but the wish for a more elastic ourrenoy is expressed by the President. It is suggested that Congress amend the inter-State commerce law. Muoh attention is givon *to tho agricultural interests of the oountry. Intelligent forestry is urged by the President, and ho recommends the reclamation of arid lands. Cuba's freedom is guaranteed at once ; that is, boforo tho close of the present Congress, ' Mr. Roosevelt declares that Hawaii should by all means bo developed, pointing out in detail tho immense advantages to be gained from the now oountry. Tho great problem of tho govern ment of the Philippines is givon muoh space in tho message, and tho President suggests that a stomer polioy is demanded by conditions in the Orient. In no uncertain words tho Presi dent declares that tho canal must be built. Ho urges the necessity of prompt action on this vital problem. The now treaty makes it possible. Tho message declares that the Monroe doctrine should be tho car dinal feature of foreign policies of all nations of the two Americas, as it is of tho United States. Tho attontion of Congress is di reoted to tho faot that a greater Amerioan navy is now demanded. He declares that the work of up building the navy must not be nog looted, but pushed forward with? all possible speed. The troubles in China aro an nounced closed and the futuro safety of foreign representativos fully as sured, Army is big enough. Dry rot threatens commissary and transpor tation departments. He advises that oloser relations exist between the United States and the South Amorioan countries. Tho President takes a bold stand for tbo educational interests of the people. The postal services and rural mail delivery is given the support ot the President in his message. Attention is oalled to tho opportu nity of the United States that now exists in the trade with China. System of appointments should be based on merit for elerioal positions. Politics should be eliminated there I And in tho oonsular service. Troat the Indian as an individual, make him work, do not educate him too highly, and cut off the ration system to stop pauperism. Tho Charleston and St. Louis ex positions are cordially commended and the good work of the Pan Amerioan is praised unstintedly. The revenues of tho postal service have doubled ; so have the expenses. The trouble seems to bo with the abuse in second-class matter. The message calls attontion to the good resulting from the army reor ganization. A liberal pension policy is urged A strong plea is made for the civil service. In closing the President refors to tho death of Queen Viotoria, of England, and the death of the Em pros8 Dowager Frodoriok, of Ger many. A resolution has been introduced in both branches of tho Georgia Leg islatnre memorializing the United States Congress to pass a bill ap propriating proportionately to the Southern States the $106,000,000 ac ruing from the sale of captured and abandoned property during the war between the States and the cotton tax fund, to educational purposes in tho South. Uncle Sam's Mail Service requires physical and mental ability of a high degree to withstand its hard labors. The high tension to which the. nervous system ?9 constantly subjected, has a depressing ef fect, and soon headache, back ache, neuralgia, rheumatism, sciatica, etc., develop ia 8?v?re form. Such was the case of Mail Carrier S. F. Sweinhart, of Huntsville, Ala/, he says: "An attack of pneumonia left me with muscular rheumatism, headache, and pains that seemed to be all over me. I was scarcely ahle to move for about a month when I decided to g Ivo Mlle?* Pain Pills and Nerve Plasters a trial. In three days I was again on my route And In two weeks I WAS free fr?ro ?Ala and gaining in flesh And strength. Sold bf all DruggUte* Dr. Mlle? Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind. ENGLAND'S CONSTERNATION. Beginning ot Third Year ot 8oulh African Con* fifo! Finds England In Serious Situation. [Illustrated Homo Journal. 1 The ameer's death, Russia's in triguea in Afghanistan, and the probability of internal troubles there, give the continuance of tho "little war" in South Africa, whioh has now entered its third year, an omi nous significance for England. The Boors aro as active as ever. Kru ger's propheoy is being horribly ful filled. Want, sufferings, death, a long train of terrible disasters, and England's humiliation are the result of Mr. Chamberlain's determination to drive the Boers into the sea. He forgot that the Boers loved their homes, their liberty, their independ ence as much as did the English, and that they deolared they would fight unto death. Now Russia is advanoing in Asia. Formerly Eng land would immediately have oalled a halt. To-day England finds her self in the position of the dog with the pieoe of meat. She dare not let go of the ohunk sho has bitten off in South Afrioa. That costly and embarrassing struggle had humiliating conse quences for England during the Chinese war of 1900, in whioh she waa compelled to play a far more subordinate part than she would have taken if her hands had been free. England has in tho neighborhood of 200,000 soldiers in South Afrioa, whioh is a largo proportion of the em pire'a entire available fighting force. Some soldiers-probably 20,000 or 80,000-have boen s?nt to India from the Boer region in the past fow months, possibly in anticipation of the complications which aro no threatening on account of the ameer's doath, but England oannot spare more men from that quarter. Sum mer has begun in South Afrioa, and there is greater activity among tho Hoers than there was a few months ago. Tho troubles in Asia will give tho Boers renewed onoouragemont to continue their struggle. The war is costing England about $1,000,000 a day. It has cost her ovor 05,500 men in deaths from disease, and in killed, seriously wounded and cap tured, and the end of the train is not in sight. Thus, tho beginning of the third year of the Sooth African conflict finds England in a serious situation. For the first time in the history of the war the government found it necessary to adopt defensive methods. Secretary ot War Broderick was obliged to impart information whioh has oovered England with consterna tion. 814,000 men, he said, are under arms in the battle with the Boers in South Afrioa. 200,000 are in the field, 100,000 aro being drilled at home, Provisions and ammuni Wm tion aro always supplied for four months in advance 248,000 horses and mules must be fed, and 10,000 fresh animals are added every month to supplant tho losses. Two inci dents havo added to tho general con fusion.. First Gen. Sir Redvers Bul ler, the idolized eommandor, has con fessed in a speeoh delivered at a banquot that ho advised the capitu lation of Ladysmith. Then, Lord Kitchener oas doolared martial law in Cape Colony, which shows, per haps, moro plainly than any other circumstance England's desperate situation. Kitchener has caused the exeoution of tho -Boor commanders, Lotter and Sohoemann, whioh has fanned tho embers of hate into wild flames of fury. The situation is a desperate ono. What a price Eng land is paying for tho African gold fields I And now comes tho startling in formation that King Edward is a vory sick man, that be is suffering from a cancer which grows only moro violent after eaoh operation. What a bitter revelation for haughty Eng land that both her king and empire should be suffering from cancer. The report of new disasters, announced with special rogrots by Kitehonor, has oast a greater gloom . over Eng land than did tho recent fogs, a gloom so intenso that the landing of the suoooBBor to the throne, after his ?reat journey, was soarcely noticed, lord Kitoboner's proclamation was promptly met by Gen. Botha's coun ter-proclamation, which declares all armed Englishmen in South Africa outlaws. At Bethel Gen. Botha has almost wiped out an entire regiment under Col. Benson. Benson and several high offioers foll, and the numbor of dead and wounded amounts to more than 800. Then DeWet helped himself to 6,000 re servo horses near Cape Town, and Commander Maritz gained a deoidod viotory over tho British in tho North ern part of Capo Colony, ' under Major Graudwine, oapturing 120 mon. Deafness Cannot be Cared by local applications, as they cannot reach tho disoasod portion of the ear. There is only ono way to 'eure deafness, and that is by constitutional remodies. Deafness is causea by an inflamed con dition of tho mucous lining of tho ousta ohian tube. When this tubo gota inflamed you havo a rumbling sound or imperfeot hearing, and when it ia entirely closed deafness is the rosult, and unless tho inflammation oan bo taken out and this tubo restored to it? normal condition, hearing will bo destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ton aro caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an inflamed condi tion of tho mucous surfaoes. Wo will givo ono hundred dollars for any caso of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be ourod by Hall's Catarrh Curo. Send for circulars free. P. J. CHENEY .& CO., Proprietors. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 76o. Hall's. Family Pilla aro tho best. News from Whitewater. Whitewater, S. C., December 6. Mrs. W. K. Corbin has boen visiting relatives in Glenville, N. C., recently. Mr. C. D. Corbin made a business trip to Sapphire last weok. Mr. M. Nicholson has rebuilt his ,'i-ist mill noar where it was washed away last year, and is now aooommo dating his old customers. . Mr. Nathan Rogers, who lives noar hero, is moving to Salem. Mr. J. JJ. Alexander, of Little Rivor, was in our midst .Sunday. We guess ho was looking after his best girl. J. Q. C. was out hunting the other day. He heard something^ he sup posed was a widoat, catching a pig, from tho noiso. Next day he went back to search and found only seven teen pigs in ono bed. Not long since wo saw an artiole in Tho Courier signed by "A Gran gor," inviting tho farmers to meet and make a few suggestions on farm ing. He said that tho use of guano makes the land poor and the farmer poorer. Wo do not agree with him, as. so mo of tho land and farmers are as poor as they reasonably oan be, although difforonco in opinion does not make thieves. Mountain Coop. Of Benefit to Yon. D. S. Mitoholl, Fulford. Md. : "During a long illness I was troubled with boa soros. was advised to try Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salvo and did so with wondorful results.- I was porfootly ourod. It is tho boat salvo on tho market." Sure ours for pilos, sores, huron. Iiownro of coun terfeits. J. W. Boll. Saved His 99,000. Chicago, December 8.-A lone highwayman and Dr. L. C. II. Zoig ler, profosBor of osteopathy, with offices in MoVioker's theatro build ing, fought pistol duel on the prairie west of Garfield park for tho posses sion of $9,000. Ono buhot flattened itself against tho doctor's watch, i'ust over his heart, and a second Hillel passed through his silk hat and toro its way through the nine $1,000 bills that woro hidden thore in an envelope. The professor be hoves ono of his ballots struok tho assailant on the head and tho police aro searching for a wounded bandit. Somo weeks ago Professor Zeigler advertised for 400 cad ave rs to bo used for purnoses of demonstration at the schools of osteopathy in Illi nois and other States. He announced in- his published request for bodies that he was willing to spend $21,000 for tho numbor of cadavers ho re quited, and tho police behove it was tho publication of these figures that led up to last night's assault. Tho police bolicvo the hold-up to havo boon tho outoomo of a conspiracy, ono of the phases of which was a confidence game whereby Zoiglor was ontrappod into carrying $9,000 in cash on his person. A 8KETCH OP A 8ERMON On th? DlMMt and Cur? ?f the Human Heart, by Rey. H. ?. Brh&. Text : My eeo give me thine heart. | Proverb? 28: 20. What the phyaioal heart ia to oar ] physical being j tho a f?e ot ion? are to the spiritual belog, in either oase it is the center or seat of the being. Therefore, when God says in the| language of our tost, "Son give me thine heart," He ?imply means give I me thy affections. But the giving | of one's affections or heart to God implies mach ; for we find when we come to do this that our affections are estranged, from Him and are so woven and interwoven and entwined around the things, of time and sense, that it's like "pl licking out our right oyo, or ?utting off our right hand ;" yea, we find that the things of the world have such a strong hold upon us, that it's almost like taking our life to break the connection. Indeed the Apostle Paul compares it to cru cifixion, for he says, "But God forbid that I should glory, nave in the oross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by. whom the world is oruoifled unto me, and I unto the world." Galatians 6:14. God throughout His Word gives | us a terrible description of the un converted heart. In Genesis 6:6, we read : "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of bis heart was only evil continually." Again in Jere miah 17 : 9, "The heart is deooitful above all things, and desperately wioked." St. Mark 7:21, Jesus says, "For from within, out of the heart of men, prooeed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, .wickedness, de ceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blas phemy, pride, foolishness." And we might continue to give quotations from the Word of God, in proof of the badness of the unconverted human heart, but enough has already been given to prove that the heart of every unsaved son or daughter of Adam's race is radically wrong and needs a radical ohange. And God comes to men with just such vile, wioked hearts as the above texts describe and says, "Son, give me tin' <o heart." As though He had said : you oan't make it any better anyhow, though you join tho church, and though you are baptized, oate ohised and confirmed in tho ohuroh, and though yon do live as good out wardly as the Pharisees of old, yet j this will not make your heart any better ; give it to me, let me fix it up. But what does a pure and holy God wa^t of-such a heart? Want of it ? Why He wanta to mako that very heart His dwelling place. St. John, 14:28: "Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words, and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." Again in II Corinthians, 0: 16 : "As God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them, and I will bo their God, and thoy shall be my peo ple." Again in Revelation, 8 : 20 : "Behold, I stand at tho door, and knook ; if any man hear my voioe, and open the door, I will oomo into him, and will sup with him, and he with rae." But God cannot dwell in an unholy plaoe. Therefore he pro pos?e to first prepare the heart for Iiis indwelling. Accordingly He tells nd in Ezekiel, 86: 26 : "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh." Again, Matthew, 18: 8 : "Ex?ept ye be converted and become a? little children (in inno cence and simplicity) ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." But what is it to bo oonvortcd ? j Men differ in their opinions as to what conversion means. Some tell us that it's only a ohange of the mind or of opinions and ideas ; but while it embraces all of thin, yet it must needs go deeper than the mind or intellectual faculties ; neither eau one love God by an aot of the will, or by sotting his mind to do so ; for the will or mind does not control the affections, but the affections control tho mind and will ; but tho affeotions | hoing estranged from God, "tho oar nal mind being enmity against God, I and not subjeot to His law," there fore tho necessity of a radical ohange | to tako plaoe before the heart oan love God. Let us notioe ono or two charac ters in the Bible in proof of the abovo statemont. Saul of Tarsus, had boen making havooof the ohuroh which was at Jerusalem, but his murderous desires not being satisfied, and thinking he did God's Service in putting the saints to doatb, he secures Jotters of authority from the leading ohuroh men in Jerusalem to go to D?masous, to bind and imprison and put to death all whom ho should And there who called on that name, and as he made his journey, about noon, suddenly there shined a light around him above the light of thc sun, and a voioe said, Saul, Saul why perseoutOBt thou me ? And he answering, said, who art thou, Lord 1 And the voioe said, I am Jesus whom thou perseoutest; and ho trembling and astonished, Bald, r<ord, whai wilt thou have nie to do V And th( Lord said unto bim, Arise, and gc [pto the oity, and it shall be tole thee what thou must do. Now San continuos his journey to Damascus but with a ohango of ir'nd, of opie ions and ideas, but not with a chang? of.heart; for when he arrives ii Damasou'e he is an earnest peniten seeker after Qod for three days an< nights, without eating or drinking, a the end* of whioh time the scales fal from his eyes and ho receives a chang of heart. Let us notice one more case : Th rloh young ruler who oame to Chris desiring to know what he must do t be saved. He shows bia Bin cor i ty ir. that, though vioh ai he is, yet h falls down upon his knees in th Btreet before this lowly Nazaren and makes bis desires known ; ye when told what he must do, and th doing of the same would separat him from those things of the worl whioh his heart is set upon ; althoug he endorses the straight way, an bis mind and desires are to go tin way, yet his rebellious heart will nc relinquish its hold upon the world therefore, "hie turns away sorrowful What then must ono do to get h hard, rebellious heart broken up an converted to God ? God has plain] told us in His Wof?f. Ho says i Isaiah, 65 : 7 : "Let the wioked fo sake bis way, and the unrighteoi man his thoughts, and let him retui unto the Lord? and He will hm morey upon him, and to our Gc for He will abundantly pardon, The sinner in returning to God mu needs oome baok over the same roi he traveled while going away fro God ; for this is what it means return ; therefore in ooming ba< over that road he will soe in tl light of the ooming judgment I sins committed against God, also ti wrongs done to those of his folio' man. And. now God Bays, in rega to our wrongs done to man ; "If t wicked restore the pledge, give aga that he had robbed, walk in t statutes of life, without comm ing iniquity, he shall surely live, shall not die." Ezekiel, 88 : 1 In Matthew, 5 : 28-24, Jesus say "Theref oro if thou bring thy gif t the altar, and there remember! that thy brother hath ought agait theo, leave there thy. gift, before t altar, and go thy way ; first be ri onoiled to thy brother, then eoi and offer thy gift." Then he tc as what to do with our sins coi tnitted against God : "If we oonfi our Bins He is faithful and just Forgive us our sins." I John, 1 : "Ho that oovereth his sins shall i prosper, but whoso cenfesseth a forsake th them, shall have mero; Proverbs, 28 : 18. And this ni ak i our wrongs right, and confessing < sins, as tho Spirit leads, humbles t proud rebellious heart into subm sion at the feet of Christ. It brit them to the place where -they hi "a broken and a oontrito heai whioh God d colares He will not d pise. And thus they are brought the point whore God can display ] miraculous power whioh changes hard rebellious heart of stone t heart of flesh. * Reader, have you given your he to God in this way? If. not, saith to thee to-day, "Son give thino heart." May God help yot make haste, and delay not, to do West Union. r An Evangelist's Story. "I sufforod for years with-a brono or lung trouble and tried various rc dion, but did not obtain permanent ri until I commenced using Ono Mb Cough Curo," writes Rev. James K man, evangelist of Bollo River, 111. havo no hesitation in rooommondln? to all sufferers from maladies of kind." One Minute Cough Cure aff< immodlato relief for coughs, oolds all kinds of throat and lung troul For croup it is unequalled. Absolu safo. Very pleasant to take, newer and is really ? favorite with the child Thoy Uko it. J. W y%* Turned White Man Dow j Decatur. Ala., December 6. faot of a white Bishop of tho Mo dist ohuroh being denied enteri ment by negroes in Alabama, ? asking it of them, has oome to li The man is Bishop Hamilton, of Franoisoo, Bishop of tho Nortl Methodiat ohuroh. Preparatory to his visit ber? preside over the negro conf?re Bishop Hamilton wroto to promi negroes here asking that quartoi secured for him in some "gooc Bpeotable negro family." Non the negro members would ente: tho white Bishop and ho was fo to go to a hotel. The nogroea dared they wanted no moro "Bc Washington foolishness." THE SOUTH HAS RIGHTS-A PLEA. The 8outh Will Meet Ike IMUO. [By J. Whitney Boals, Ji\, of Boston.] No nobler sentiment was ever more dearly expressed than the editorial I in the Now Orleans Times-Derooorat of October, 24, 1001-"The South will Meet tho Issue"-and those who read this article will eoe that an error of judgment has been committed by our "President. From the Northern press comments upon the affair of Booker T. Washington being a guest of President Roosevelt within his family oirolo, one would think that the South-had no rights and that the social and business 'nfluonoes were of little or no consequence to' this nation. Aside /from what tho Northern press tolls us, what does the indi vidual, who has never come into con tact with the Southern, negro, know, of the matter ? Nothing, and BO it is that the people of tho North are living, in ignorance of a subject whioh may, in the near future, stir the nation to bloodshed. If one will think of the awful possibilities and the evil cons?quences whioh would follow by plaoing the negro socially on an equal with ns, they will agree with me. What is more sacred than one's family table, and where a breaoh is oommitted whereby a negro enters the sooial oirole, it is leading the black raoe to otb or sooial advances, and one would expect to seo the raoes on equal footing at their homes or at the opera ; but it would not rest there. The children of the two colors would mingle together at so oial gatherings, and then the possi bility of intermarriage would follow. This aot of our President is the first step towards making the blaok man our sooial equal, and while it is too late to mend the harm that has been done, Mr. Roosevelt has lost the respeot of over five millions of people, representing the most cul tured and high bred, of our citizens and the true aristocracy of this country. TUB SOUTH WILL HBBT THB ISSUE. In recognizing Booker^ T. Wash ington, the negro prinoipal of a ne gro sohool at Tuskeege?, Ala., as his sooial equal, the President of tho United States is violating precedents whioh,-for "tho peace, prosperity and honor of the country," have been religiously observed by eaoh Chief Magistrate of the nation from the j first administration of Geprge Wash ington, of Virginia, to the second administration of William McKinley, of" Ohio. There oah be no doubt I among Amerioans bf the Southern ! States that in thus attempting to ! destroy ideals of raoial integrity, held up for more than a oentury by his predecessors in oflioo, Mr. Roose velt has not only demonstrated that he laoks both that good taste whioh is "tho oonsoionce of the mind" and that conscience which is "the good taste of tho soul," but has also pre cipitated upon both raoes of all sec tions in the United States a politioal issue that was thought to be dead and a sooial problem that was be lieved to bc solved. It becomes ol?arer with eaoh pass ing hour that Mr. Roosevelt has de liberately sought to present to publio attention the question of racial so oial equality, and to present it in such a manner that lines of seotion gJ1"!',' I" 1 I 1 1 , ' 111 , ? 111 ' .,' ,1 .'.'I ,, .'_Si lt Makes Wonk Women Sttrong. "I suffered from female weakness for five months," writes Mis? Belle Hedrick, of Nye, Putnam Co., W- Va. "I was trented by ? good physician but he did me no good. 1 wroU to Dr. Jt. V. Pttrca, Buffalo, N. y" for advice, -which I received, telling me to tak? hie FAVORITA 1'Ul?SCf?ll' TiON.' When I had used th? medioiue a month my health waa much improved. It has continued to improve until ?ow I can work at almost all kinds of house-work. I had scaroely any appetite, but lt is all right BOW. Have gained several pounds in waight t would advise all who suffer fri .Monta diseases to writ? to Dr. Pierce." St M ekes Siek Wemen I alism, once traced in blood, but hap? pily effaced by patriots, both at the North and at the South, would bo sharply redrawn within the limits of our one common country. It is idlo for any one to attempt to extenuate the oonduot of the Presi dent in this iuoldont. It is absurd for friends of his to state that he did not rofleot upon-.its consoquono?s. It ls ridioulouB for apologists of hie to plead in Mr. Roosevelt behalt the sohool boy*B oxouse : ?I didn't mean to." lt is preposterous to Bay that the President's iutentlona were kindly, and that if ho erred his waa an error of misdkeoted benevolenoe. The President baa foroed the people reluctantly.to oonolude that ho de* sires to make this raoial aooial equal ity question a burning issue ; and there oau bo no doubt that the Re publican press at the North rejoioes that Mr. RooB.evett has formed that determination. Tho South will meet the issue. In the oonorete pressure of this emer gonoy. tho Southern people will have the courage, the oonstanoy and' tho oapaoity to resist what is clearly .a premeditated assault upon the eo oial Btruoture of the Southern States. It is impossible to disguis? the fact that tho admission of raoial aooial equality in tho South would mean, in time, the miscegenation and the amalgamation of the races ; the de terioration of both whites and blacks ; the BUbBtitution of West Indian or Latin-Araerioan standards of civili zation for the distinctly American standard ; and, finally, the praotioal extinction of that nobler sentiment of purity, of valor and of honor whioh is the life-spark of a people aa well as of an individual. It is olearly within tho limita of restrained state, .ont to say that the Southern people deplore this inoident and would do all in their power, con sistent with a sense of right, that tho ooming crisis might happily pass away. But Republican newspapers at the North, whioh j like tho Phila delphia Press, for instanoe, imagine that tho South can bo intimidated by any such contemptible throat as "there is a stubborn man in the White House," should promptly re alize that they are dealing with a people whose temper and disposition they little understand. It is as trae that high-minded men are not awed by bravado as it is that high-minded mc novor resort to it. Amor loans of the Southern States are the last people on earth to be deterred in their purpose by the veiled threat of a partisan press. Home, and the de fense of home, have no terrors for the Southern people. Long ago they learned the philosophy of the Chi nese proverb : "Thank God I the worst has come"-taught it as they were in the days of reconstruction. It is time that tho people of tho South realized how hopeless it is to win the sympathy of certain oiroles at the North. To Republioan fanat ics-the rightful heirs to that band of charlatans who plundered the South in her poverty, oppressed her in her weakness and mooked at her iu her oalamity-tho contributions of the Southern people to the pros perity of the nation are without sig nificance. It means nothing to them that for thirty-five years the South has fought the most heroio battle in human history ; il means nothing that the South has supported itself, paid promptly its share of the na tional debt inourred by its coeroion ; contributed enormously eaoh year to the payment of Federal pensions ; developed a system of education for both races, giving one-third of the educational fund to the negro schools ; opening up highways throughout the land ; wisoly discharging the obliga tions of citizenship, oity, State and national, and devoting itself with in telligent loyalty to the interests of the whole country. To fanatics at the North who, blinded by partisan rage, have novor kept a pledgo or obeyed a law, the South is but a land to be despoiled, and the Southern peo^'e but a poople to be porseouted. In tue judgments of such ion right and justice and truth wei0h but aa dust in tho balanoe. 'Tia indeed pitiful that tho President has fallon under tho spell of these evil coun selors. ?/> Pl SO'S. CURT. FOR. . ,.'.> ???I'r'IHTM &r/JJtJULWBM -1 <V C O N S .U M P T I O iSl V Sinoe it bcoamo known that Presi dent Roosevelt is fond of possums ho has boen getting oar loads of thom from offloe seekors in the South, who hope to exohange an O'P for a P.O. _ Paradoxically epoaking, fast colors aro those that refuso to Tan when gashed,