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MINNEAPOLIS EDITOR I ESPECIALLY FINE ARTICLE REGENT! fi iii6ii CLASS VVLLKl One of the most enlightened views of the Southern race problem ever i printod in the North und West ap pears in the current issue of The Bellman, a high olaas weekly pub lished in Minneapolis, Minn., and edited by William C. Edgar, who ehows a marked sympathy for the Southern people. It is as follows : ; The fearful occurrences in Atlanta, Georgia, which have horrified readers of the daily press may.well give UH of the North a shock. We deserve it and we need it to awaken UH to a . realization of our responsibilities to : our brethren of the South. A race war, undertaken on tho part of the i whites in sacred defense of their j homes, or an unlawful outbreak in ] which the innocent or guilty of one j race were alike sacrificed to the mad- i dened vengeance of another ; consider I it either way, as you will ; denounce j it or excuse it; find palliation in the i greatest of provocations humanity i can know or condemn the perpetra- i tors as outrageous law breakers, you ' cannot avoid the awful fact that,the j condition which is responsible for it i exists and must be reckoned with. i This dreadful problem presses for | a permanent solution. The conclu- '. ?ion of the rebellion demonstrated, j ouce and for all, that this was a na- i tion. Being such, its component < partB must share responsibility for the maintenance of order and justice t within its borders. If the protection \ of woman is not tho supreme duty of i the Americau citizen, whether he i lives north or south of Mason and t Dixon's lino, then our country no i longer deserves to rank among the oivilizcd nations. If it is, then it is time that the citizens of the North : cease to consider the problem of the South as an academic question to be i discussed calmly and regretfully at a aafe distance from the scene of horror and shame. It ia his duty to come forward, manfully, and acknowledge his share of the blame and assume his part of the burden. * ( The North is even more responsi ble for this overshadowing horror than the South. Let it face the facts as they are and cease this sloppy, sen timental talk about the elevation of the negro race and the need of self control on the part of the Southern Cauoaaian. Ethioal considerations, fine spun theories, philanthropioal de vices for a gradual elevation of the negro are not entitled to a moment's consideration when it ?B true that no white woman living in the South is safe for a moment, unless guarded by the gun. The North freed these negroes. It elevated them to citizenship and pro claimed them the possessors of equal rights with the whites. Previous to tho war, slavery, accursed though it was, hold them in subjection and re strained the brutes among them, and they were many, from violence. Careless of consequences, the North lot. them loose and eucouraged them to believo themselves equal in every thing to their former masters. After a brief interregnum of oarpot-bag government, the conqueren? retired to their safe, pure, proteoted bomen, seoure in the knowledge that the law was amply strong to proteot them from assault and their women from dishonor. They washed their bands of responsibility ; they left to the im poverished, defeated, dishoartened South the task of making the newly freed worthy of citizenship. Si cc then, the North has contrib uted largely of money to educate the negro. It has sent northern teachers, devoted, solf-sacrificing, well-mean ing persons, full of zeal to lift the once oppressed race to a higher plane. It has sympathized with and sup ported overy scheme devised to bene fit the negro and has lauded to the highest skies every offort to croate in l;lm social, political and financial aspirations. To tho protest of the white men of the South who knew the negro and had to live with him, that the methods chosen were wrong and mischievous and would surely re sult in disaster, the people of the North turned a deaf ear. The Southern white man's exaot knowledge of conditions was discred ited, his advice scorned, his warnings HANDS Ti SOUTH. LT PUBLISHED IN THE BELLMAN, ? OE MINNEAPOLIS. unheeded. Although be had demon strated repeatedly hia fidelity to the restored union and had shown his willingness to serve his country in the field when the emergency arose, he was deemed unworthy of confi dence in questions affecting the negro. He was told to observe the law, when thc law was unable to save him or, what was a thousand times more im posant, to save the dearest thing on ir.rth to him-his women. He was told to contain himself, to be patient and await the results of long-distance northern theorizing. Meantime he was surrounded by a dense mass of ignorant negroes fast forgetting what little of self-control bad been inherited from a former generatidn which had been trained Lo respect the white man and honor Lhe white woman and rapidly return ing to a state of brutal savagery, avery day degenerating, as a whole, morally, and becoming an inoreasing menace to civilization. Upon this vicious, ignorant, debased horde, the puny schemes of race elevation were is snowflakes falling into the seeth ing ocean. Still the Southern whites protested, warned and implored, but Northern sentimentality was proof against the natural appeals of race, the ties of kinship and the dictates :>f nature. Now it has at length como to pass that the deluge hr.? broken and this problem, long in the brewing of the malign factors, must be effectually jettied not alone by the South, but Lhe North as well. We have had enough of terorizing, temporizing, philosophizing, it is time to aot. Northern people aro not generally aware of tho fact, but it is neverthe less true, that the state of the mass of negroes in the South is so debased, so utterly, hopelessly, fearfully lack ing in moral conceptions that there exists in many Southern States a con dition whioh this or any other re spectable journal would not dare de Boribe except in the most genial terms, so loathsome and shocking would the details be if truly and plainly stated. White women and ohildrc n an not safe; they cannot walk cu guarded in the streets of the ciliei even in the day time. At night th< doors must be locked and windowi barred, and the revolver must b< ready at hand if the blaok assailant is to be kept out. In many portiom of the blaok belt the family of th? white man lives in a constant statt of Biege ; a fate worse than deatt awaits its members if they dare relai their vigilance for an hour. North ern people do not know the trutl and their journals are not enlighten ing them. The South, for very shame is loth to let the facts be known, bu a residence of even a few weeks ii any portion of the country where th< ignorant negro population is con gested will convince the most skepti oal that this hideous danger is alway imminent and very real. The crime of stealing is the ver least of the negro's offenses agains Southern society. Tho whites of th South have long since ceased to ex peel that he will respect the right of property. Larceny is looked upoi as a joke. As well might one expec tho leopard to change its spots as th Southern negro to refrain from steal ing. It is possible to protect againe this comparatively minor offense ; i is the hideous crimes, tho unspeaks hie horrors that are the real menace Against these the law is powerief because it recognizes no punishmer adequate to the offense. It can d< vise nothing that will provent tb recurrence, and the harm dono irreparable Ordinary punishment, adequate i the North to chock crime, fails ei Uroly in tho South to restrain tb negro oven from the commission < minor misdemeanors. The disgra< of imprisonment does not touch hie as a rule. In many|Southern tow.i when cold weather approaches ar tho shiftless and improvident blaol fool its chill, numbers of the deliberately and openly oom m theft in order to be arrested, coi vioted and sentenced to the penitei tiary during the ?winter month there to be maintained in oom para- i tive comfort at the Stated expense until spring retorna. When, once again at liberty? they como back, they are met at the train by their neighbors, relatives and friends and escorted ni triumph to their lurking places as if they were heroes return ing from an honorable undertaking, instead of idle, vicious, debased criminals let loose from jail. The fear of immediate and dread ful death is powerless to control the brutal, degenerate negro when his passions are aroused. His mind is too feeble and shallow to consider the consequences of his orime and the brute in him, once awakened, reckons nothing whatever of future punishment. The force of example, even in its most terrifying form when frenzied mobs wreak vengeance in burnings and slekening torture, does not impress itself upon this class for more than a vary brief time. Its intellect is so inferior and its imagi nation so utterly diseased that the effect of Buob horrid spectacles soon wears off. This natural cancer is a revolting, hideous subject. One is loth to speak of it in clean type on unpolluted paper, lest its contemplation shcnld breed pestilence, but, if it is eve? to be cut out, it must be realized and considered in all its horror, especially by Northern people who have too long shut their eyes to the truth. The South understands it and the better class of whites, to whom our sympathy and aid should be extended in the fullest measure, know*further that, besides the vicious negro, they have with them a large element of ignorant, violent, intemperate white people for whose crude and revolting execution of lynch law they aro held responsible by the world. It is time for the North to bear a hand in the solution of the problem it bas liberally shared in creating. It can do so by ceasing to exploit the negro as a white man's equal. It can do so by considering the mass of negroes in tho South as they are, not as sentimentalists represent them to be. It can do so by discontinuing its senseless, fruitless attempt at higher cultivation of the negro. As long as the vast majority of the race in the South remains as it is, the strong arm of white control must be strengthened and encouraged to exert itself. The negro must be taught the rudimentary virtues he has forgotten before he oan aspire to a higher ed ucation. He must be made to obey, absolutely. He must be compelled to restrain himself. He most fear and respect the law and he must be made to understand that if he dares Consumption (| There is no specific for consumption. Fresh air, ex ercise, nourishing (cod and Scott's Emulsion will come pretty near curing it, if there is anything to build on. Mil lions of people throughout the world are living and in good health on one lung. ?J From time immemorial the doctors prescribed cod liver oil for consumption. Of course the patient could not take it in its old form, hence it did very little good. They can take SCOTT'S EMULSION and tolerate it for a long time. There is no oil, not excepting butter, so easily digested and absorbed by the system as cod liver oil in the form of Scott's Eu.ulsion, and that is the reason it is so helpful in consumption where its use must be continuous. t| We will send you a sample tree. .J Be iure that thit Ok picture In the form of \Hg?jMyA a l?bel i> on the wnp- .flKT^VjifflL per of every bottle of SfcH JjuiL Emull ion you buy. ?JfflK^^? Is Scott & Bowne SSfKJtff 409 Pearl Street ^gffijjfe I foe. tad ft I ?'I Hr ag| lo? We must get some on tho next thirty days, toe is no humbug or oatoh nrj Asbestos Roofing, V-Crimp and residenoes for $2 and upwards. Blaoksmith Tools, Forges, Bell? Shellers, Saw Mill and Shingle '. everything that is kept in the lai FROM PEDEN-ANDERSON LC MATHES? WE so muoh as to think wrongfully of a white woman he will deserve death and at the slightest indication of an intent to commit wrong he will re ceive it. The North can do ita duty by fir?? understanding the condition as it is and then unitiug with the Caucasian of the South, in knowl edge of and sympathy with his situa tion, to devise proper, adequate and permanent relief. What is now heeded is loas senti ment and more common sense on the part of the North. All the money it has to devote to humanitarian pur poses and all the sympathy and sup port it can summon should, in this grave emergency which threatens North and South alike, be placed, unreservedly and :n the fullest confi dence, back of th ? better class of white people in the South who alone are possessed of a full comprehension of the true situation and who alone are competent to deal with it ade quately and justly. We have secured the agency for Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new laxative that makes the liver lively, purifies the breath, cures headache and regulates the digestive organs. Cures cbronio consti pation. Ask us about it. J. W. Bell. Old Roman War*. A rich Roman who married waa re garded us a fool. Unmarried and without heirs, be was courted by crowds of sycophants and legacy hunt ers, wno swarmed around bim, on (be lookout for gifts during bis life or for legacies at bis death. Be was an ob ject of attention to and adulation from ali. Bach Roman vted with bis neigh bors in his display of wealth. Osten tation became a passion. A feast was not considered a success ?ntese the cost ot lt was a matter for discussion by "all Rome;" Palaces and vfTtas were built in tba most spteodM and costly style. Beautiful marbles, gotd and silver and preci?os stones were lavishly used in order to show tb* wealth of the owner. Nero bad sev eral rooms in hts golden boase studded ail over with pearls. Goethe might weil term the Romans tba greatest par venus in history. Taken as direoted, it becomes the great est curative agent for the relief of suffer ing humanity ever devised. ?Such is Hol lister'n Rooky Mountain Tea. 35o., tea or tablets. Dr. J. W. Bell. O -O THE VETERINARY 0 o Hogs affected *.rttb vrvran in the in testines run down hi condition, become very thin and lank, the back ts arched, the eyes are dull, they refuse feed, walk stiffly and appear lifeless. The worms may be very numerous, in bad canes completely filling the intestines. The pigs die if not treated. To secure the best results affected hogs nhould receive individual treatment Twenty four hours beforo administering treat ment very little feed should be given 1 m. Then give the following medi cino as fi urench to each 100 pound hog burger or smaller hogs nhould receive a doso In proportion: Oil of tur pentine, four drams; liquor feni din ly nn (UM, half a dram; raw linseed oil, six ounces. If necessary repeat the dose In four days. Medicated Salt Vor SIfrewp. This ls the Reason of the ye&r when wo want the flock eating medicated salt, which wo prepare in this wayt One bushel fluo barrel salt, one pound powdered gentian, one pound powdered sulphate of Iron (coopara*), one pint Hpirits turpentine. Mix thoroughly and placo In a barrel with holes eight inches square cut In the sides if sheep are at pasture, or In somo convenient recep tacle if sheep are folded at barn night. Tapeworms do not relish this mixture, and I know of no other rem edy equally effective to rid a flock of this parasite.-John R. Ray in National Stockman. mt* In every elimo its colors are unfurled, Its fame has spread from sea to sea: Be not surprised if in the other world, You bear of Rooky Mountain Tea. -*Dr. J. W. Bell. D Much Moi IED ut? irv o o o D? Lt-REGARDLESS OF CO )ginning November 1st. TR scheme or fake. We ha^ Corrugated Roofing, Heating Stoves Baggy Harness $6 and up. Single-?? >ws, otc. Turning Plow?, Diso Harr Mill Supplies. Meat Choppers, Kitoh ge hardware houses. REMEMBER BANK. ?OK FOR THE SA. ON HARDV STMINSTER, S Le?*on? of the Far irnnt<-rn War. General Chaffee, chief of staff, United States army, calls attention to tile fact that in the Russlau-Japanese war tho Russians used volleys In ali their firing, beginning nt long ranges and continuing until the final rush of the Japanese, and that the Japanese fire was always Individual in action. "Volley fire," says General Chaffee, "was noted only once lu seven months' observation, used against a retreating Russian force mossed at an estimated ranged of 1,800 to 2,000 yards, and this fire soon censed. Small anns fire at such extreme ranges ns 2,600 yards is of practically no -value, while ranges from 2,600 to 8,600 yards are artillery ranges, pure and simple. The experi ences of tills war are demonstrating tho valuo of the American idea of having skilled Individual marksmen, not a body of men firing volleys into tlie air with tho hope of accidentally hitting something." A Storr Of nurnoo <;ro.?le> . One of the stories told of Uornce Greeley In Wilder's "Tho Sunny Side of tho Street" is a curious rendering into vernacular experience of the an cient Horace's theater going gentleman of Argos, with his retort, "Cul sic ex torts voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratlsslmus error:" A friend-one of the wise, observant, upsetting kind of friends-called on Greeley one cold winter day and found the great Journalist with a favorite book in hts hand, a beatific smile on bis face and his feet over the register. The visitor bad previously been through tbs building and learned that the fur nace had gone wrong and boon re moved, the cold air flu? could not bs closed and aero ah* was coming through ah tbs registers, so be said: "Mr. Greeley, why do yon keep your feet there? There ts DO heat-only cold sir ls coming np!" Greeley tumbled ont of his chair and In tbs childish whine that always came to tum when be was excited replied: "Why didn't yon lot mo alone? I was entirely comfortable, but now Fm near ron I'm troven." TvlMna; HI? Vu nu?. Lord Rathmore waa formerly plain David Plunkett. Shortly after he was raised to the peerage be took a trip to tbs Riviera. The French railway company reserved a carriage for his private use. At some unknown hour of the night tbs door of the carriage was suddenly opened. A lantern was flashed upon him, and a voice sharply cried, "Votre nomT" ("Your name?") Lord Rathmore, wakened out of his sleep, looking np In a partly dascd condition, discovered a railway offi cial on his way round for tickets. Lord Ha tb more" s name was on the paper af fixed to tlie window, marking the com portment as reserved. The official de sired to Identify tho occupant of the carriage with the person to whoso nse lt waa inscribed. "Votre nom?" he sternly repented, seeing the passenger hesitate. There sprang to Lord Hath more's lips the familiar "David Plun kett." Happily be remembered in time he was no longer David Plunkett, but for the life of him be could not re member what title In tho peerage he bad selected. It seemed half an hour to him before be could remember "Rathmore." The Man They Wanted. The great ship labored In the storm. Ever and anon a giant wave would throw the steel leviathan on her beam ends, and at each shock the heads of tho passengers would knock In nn an vil chorus iigulnst the sides- of their berths. At tilts critical moment, with a roar that rose nl>ove the fury of the hurricane, a mob of determined men burst upon the deck. "Mutiny!" gasped the mate. "No, they are cabin passengers," said the captain. "Now, gentlemen, you must go below. There really ls no danger," "Yes there ls-danger for a Jonah who is on this ship," came back the answering chorus. "Who do you mean, gentlemen?" asked the captain. "Show ns," they bowled-"show us that fsllow who was singing Hocked In the Cradle of the Deep' only a few hours ago! Let ns at himT-New York Press. Tho Courier-the beat-1$ per year. ST. Salvage Prices for Te mean "business. This re an enormous stook of for Churohes, sohool houses and/^^ larrel Shot Guns $8.10 and up. ows, Pe?-tooth Harrows, Corn en Furniture-in faot, any and THE PLACE-TWO DOORS VARE CO. . C. Oian't ?mtlmtr tb* Mngl-?rntp. Tho other evening a man of the bur glar typo stepped up to an old gen tleman and, handing him a piece of paper, sold: "Slr, wocld you be good enough to read me the writing on this piece of paper 7" The Individual addressed consentent and, moving toward the rays of a con venient gas lamp, read the following words: . "If you utter a cry or speak a single* word I shall shoot you. Give mo your watch and chain nnd your purse nt once and then pass on." Completely taken off his guard, the gentleman handed over tho articles asked for and walked off. A few steps brought him to a policeman, and, relating his story, tho pair proceeded in pursuit of the stranger, who was not yet out of sight Next morning beforo the magistrate tho vagrant was called upon for an ex planation. .Your honor," ho said, "I nm not an educated man and can therefore nei ther read nor write. Lost evening I picked up a piece of pnper, and, it st rik - . lng me that lt might be of somo im portance, I took lt to the first person I met and asked him to decipher lt. Tho gentleman read lt quietly to him self, and then, without saying a word, handed me his watch, chain and purse ' and walked off without giving me time to recover from my surprise or to ask him what he meant It seemed to me that the paper possessed a certain value, and that he had given me the valuables as a reward for finding lt." But the magistrate gave him six months Just the sam?-London Tit Btts. Tho Qalnt A-Wli. As a young and unknown man I went down to a certain sessions court on the Oxford circuit to prosecute for the crown In a case of extensive rob bery from a goods shed of the London and Northwestern railway. Borne tan or twelve of us, all members of the circuit had accepted the invitation of a very good fellow, also an Oxford cir cuit man, to drive oat that evening and dine with him at-manor. My case had duly come on and I had tie cured a verdict of "guilty** during the afternoon. Raving changed into even ing dress, I took my place in a private bas, together with my fellow guests, for the five miles' drive out About halfway there I, as a newcomer, not having apparently been noticed by the ] rest (the inside of the vehicle was as dark os firebus), a certain Mr. T., a great talker, asked in loud tones, "Who was the young Idiot who prose cuted toduy In that railway case?** was," I promptly rejoined from my obscure corner, and I never knew a man relapse no quickly into silence before or since.-Pox Russell in Pall Mall Magasine. i Forealrxh? In Bird?. The following bird story comes fro! a high church dignitary of North Wales. Close by bis rectory is a large rookery. Twice a year the birds as semble and repair or rebuild their nests. At these times tho ground be neath the trees ls more or less thickly strewn with small potatoes. This mys terious phenomenon was finally ex plained by an old parishioner. The rooks vise tho potatoes for measuring tho insides of their nests. When com pared with a rook's egg the potatoes were found to closely coincide with the former both In length and breadth. Aft or using tho potatoes for purposes of measurement the rooks never ont them or carry them away, and they accumu late In considerable numbers beneath the trees. Rabber Film Glove** For iliiriooDi, A rubber Ulm glove has been de vised for surgeons. The gloves are "put on" by Immersing the bands in a weak solution of gutta percha in ben zine or acetone. The purpose of the film is to seal tho surfaces of the banda with an insoluble, Impervious and prac tically Imperceptible pellicle, which will not admit blood, pus or secretions. Buch a protective measure for Bur geons la said to be preferable to work ing with rubber gloves, Innsmuch as the sense of touch of pliability ot the. .kin ls not Impaired In any way. J * Know a good thing when you see it? Road The Courier-IPs the best-(1.