The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, January 16, 1891, Image 1
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( About a century ago Paris had only
bbout fifty pickpockets; now the police
Reports show that their number has
(reached 4000 in the metropolis alone,
and about 10,000 in the rest of France.
The Madrid (Spain) -pplicc have been
directed to submit an exhaustive report
to the Minister of Justice ou the subject
of bull fights with statistics as to th?
number of fatal accidents in recent years,
A reform is said to be contemplated.
Coal mining is on the increase in the
United States. In 1888 the grand total
of tho output was 132,731,609 tons,
showing an int ?*;c of thirtf-threo per
cent, in quantity during thrco years.
t imiv ||M hid*f,tir.
Great Britain, which was, in 1888, 169,
935,219 tons.
The Salvatioa army has money and
property in the different countries where
it is established valued at $3,213,690.
The trade effects, stock, machinery ani
goods on hand are valued at $560,000.
Borne idea of tho trado deparlmeut may
be gathered, suggests tho Chicago
Herald, from the fact that they sell 23,000
army bonnets every year to the
female soldiers.
The agent in charge of taking the livo
Stock enumeration of tho Kansas range,
J. G. McCoy, recently stated that enough
data was in to show that the total number
of cattle now on range would not excecc^9,000,0000,
or 4,000,000 less than
in 1880, while sheep would show 28,000000,
or 9,000,000 moro than iu the last
census. The last census showed 8,000,AAA
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uuu uogs on too range, but this census
will scarcely show half that number.
fhe Cincinnati (Jhr'uliin Standard
sarcastically observes: Poor, belated
Japan has got ahead of us in providing
postal saviugs banks foi those of moderate
means. Thoy were established in.18/5,
to encourage thrift, aud the first j'ear
showed 2000 depositors with $15,320 in
bank. Last year's report showed 356,000
depositors in Tokio alone,with $10,400,000
to their credit, and the deposits
in all Japan amounted to over $20,000,fe
000~ - .
really serious in their purpose to build a
yacht to come over here and compete for
the American cup. Wo lmvq no doubt,
acids our inrormaut. that American
yachtsmen would be very glad to welcome
their Gallic brothers, although
there would be so little chance of their
taking the cup back to Franco that,
not a great deal of excitement would
be stirred up over the contest. But let
the Frenchmen comc. They will be sure
of a good titnc in any event.
' The American bison is nearly extinct,
and many a farmer has rcgrettod the
fact, because it has cut off the supply of
"buffalo robes" with which ho was wont
to protect himself from the winter's cold
when obliged to be on the road. If reports
from Illinois arc correct, states the
American Dairyman, a substitute, having
nil the advantages of theoiiginal article,
has been found in the hides of the Gallo
way and Augus cattle. If, as seems
likely, the skins can bo readily cured to
muni samnlos roli(oi< ii??o l>no|i
they will be of considerable value for use
as robes, and the breeders will have an
additional argument in favor of these cxcellcnt
animals, which have long been
noted for their beef-producing qualities.
The following statistics arc taken from
a memorial presented to the United
States Senate by Charlotte Smith, President,
and Catherine Bergen, Secretary,
of tho Woman's National Industrial
League of America: According to tho
Labor Bureau of Pennsylvania, fullgrown
women do not average fifty cents
a day the year round. Women spinners
get seventy-one cents a day; spoolers,
fifty-three cents; weavers, from forty to
ninety cents, paid only to experienced
hands, aud finishers receive only fiftyfour
cents a day. In tho textile factories
women spinners get from forty-seven to
fifty-five cents, winders sixtv-six cents
and finishers forty-three ceuts per day.
Iu the knit goods factories the women
are paid fifty-five cents a day for winding;
twisters of yarn receive sixty-tivo
cents, spinners sixty-sir cents, rcelcra
sixty-five cents and spinners of cloth or
garments flit* cents a day. In the boot
and shoe factories female labor averages
fifty cents for a day's work of ten hours.
That is five cents an hour. In New Jer?III
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trffridover, wages in tho jute, cotton and
thread mills average $1 a day, but the
work is so hard that even the strongest
girls cannot work moro than six months
in the year. The hands in the silk mills
get from $3 to $10 a week. Wages nrc
raised on the penny system, and one will
find gray-haired women of fifty or sixty
who have been at the frame since childhood
getting $8, #0 and $10 a week in
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SOUTHERN STATE NEWS.
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Happenings or Importance For A
Week.} u
Dwellers in City and Country Get a .V
Write-Up Here Free of Charge, n
and No Questions Asked.
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VIRGINIA. ''
A little girl was accidentally shot and 4j
killcnl in Fairfax county a few days ago o
by her brother. H
The Port Norfolk Land Comnanv. has u
Wen organized by twenty-five Baltimore j,
eapi'alists. Friday they purchased for |,
$100,000 valuable Norfolk water front
land. (|
A Merchants' Association has Wen orMay
? r Ellyson, of Richmond, has sign- I
ed the ordinance which gives tljc Jetf (
Davis Mansion to the Ladies' Confederate *v
Literary Association for the purpose of s,
making :t a museum for the preservatian
of confederate relics.
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rot ismouih h.t'l?. delightful sensation ,
Thursday morning. Miss Ada C. Tnbb y
and J. (J. lludgins, both of whom arc
just IN, escaped parental watchfulness ^
and boarded a train for Halifax, N.
where they were married. n
Oen. Charles B. Peek, late general o
manager of the Atlantic and Danville
road thinks the counties mil towns in
Virginia subscribing to the company's
stock will lose their mouev if they do not '
do something at once to protect their in :l
terests. General Peek claims that the receivers
appointed represent only the Kng- A
lish interests, which have as yet been ou f*
ly partially paid for, while the Virginians ti
have fully paid for what stock they got. '
Jacob \V. N. Keeling was found dead
in his room in Portsmouth with a quart '
bottle of whisky lying beside him. The
deceased was 72 years of age, and was at ni
one time a practicing physician in Nanse- p
tnond county. , lc
Reports from the bay say that the ovs- si
ter gunboat Chesapeake is making it hot
' for the dredgers. During a tight near t.-i
the Maryland boundary line several days hi
ago between the Ohe apeake and the c
schooner (\ W. Reach, a sailor on the fi
latter, named Albert Kct/.man, was badly
wounded. The schooner was not captured,
but another vessel, the Joseph W. ,|
Brooks, was. nl
NORTH CAROLINA. m
An important measure int rod need ir
the Legislature is a bill to redistriet the 'I
State, both Congressional and Senatorial rt
dirtricts. fi
The office of the Argonant and Warren M
L. I'itts's large store at Rocky Mount, in
was burned Monday, The tire is report- tl
^gd to be accidental. Loss several thous- ai
| Near Faliston, nine miles from ~ ~r,.
I John Beam, seven years bid, fell in the g'j
J tire during the absence of his parents and 1,1
was so badly burned that lie died in half -s<liour.
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At the opening of the Legislature all oi
the lifty Senators were present and 10(5
of the 120 members of the House. Nearly ^
all the members are of middle age and
are substantial men, mainly farmers.
Richard A. Dough ton, of Alleghany
count v, was elected speaker of the lower
house*. ?!
1\. K. I'. Osborne, late owner of the
Charlotte city railway, has failed. The
assets and liabilities are not yet known, rl
but the latter greatly preponderate. Alahama
land speculation was the cause. 1"
Coventor Fowle, in his message to the
Legislature, recommended that increased '
. provisions he made for the public schools a
of tlic Stale, lie also advised that the |l(
proposed system of tonnage tax on fertilizers
he adopted. .
Enoeli Wellman, a well-to-do (Move w
land county farmer, was rohbed of $800 (j
one day last week. During the absence s(
of the family some one entered the house
by cutting a hole in the lloor. j.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The legal executions in the state dur e<
ing the year were eight in number. la
Dr. Kinloch injected another small dose
of the Koch lympli into the negro man hi
at the Charleston city hospital upon whom h<
the experiment is being made. As far as el
judged the. lymph is having the desired I.
effect. e<
When the appointments of guano inspecters
were made some time ago Oov.
| Tillman and .1. G. Wannamaker, of Or- -p
nngehurg, were empowered to select a
fourth inspector. The appointment has
been made, W. A. Mnckay, of Orangeburg N
being the man. *'
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One of the plans of the trustees of the .
Clemson College, as described by President
Simpson, is "to kecb a large num- ?
Iter of sheep on the College farm, from "
the sale of the wool of .which it is proposed
to furnish a clothing fund to aid 1
poor young men." students at t lie Col lego, ^
in supplying themselves with clothing.
Governor Tillman has olTcrcd a reward -p
1 ft
of $a() for the capture of Alva Scott, who (>
is wanted in Marion County for the mur- |
dcr of Fair lee Mill on Christmas eve. p
Prof. F. C. \\ < odwurd, of Columbia, I u
in a recent address, said that tli" south,
and Anieriea, in fact, are too young to
have a litcratuie. W lien England had b
been founded SUM years, she had baldly '1
the beginnings of a literature, lie inti- ?>
mated that it would be generations before ?,
our writers and their bonks cut much of a
figure in the world of letters. ft
Capt.George l>. Wallace, who was killed "(
by the Indians in the battle of Wounded
Knee, was buried Wednesday morning
in the oenn'terv at Yorkvilic. his old
? s ,.ere coiuiurtea ar
the Pre-bylei ;..i rhuivh, the Jenkins ,'a
Hilles nartieioati ig. Tin. casket was ?
placed immediately in front of the pulpit !(
and was draped with U. S. Mags and cover- !'
ed beautiful floral offerings. ' It was guarded
throughout the night by a sentinel :V
at the head and foot, and in the morning
was delivered to Gen. E. M. haw, a com
f< ?!? ratr brigadier, ascliief marshal of the '!
ceremonies, ('apt. Wallace was a son of
Hon. A. s. Wallace, republican congress V
mail from Ibis state, and a brother to , 1
' H M Wallace, P. s marshal foi *"
t aioliua under Grunt and Arthur.
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GEORGIA.
The president has nominated Laura H.
Wilder, of Forsyth, as postmaster.
Atlanta in to have a new station house
>r city prisoners.
A |ihotograj>hcr pitched his tent in
lonroe Monday and that night some
lischievous hoys cut the ropes. The
iud blow the tent away, and the pho>grapher.
thinking it was a warning to
uit, fled the town.
The death of the little ten-year-old
augliter of John Brantley, au engineer
f the Savannah cotton mills, was a sad
ii< 1 terrible one. While she and several
titer children were playing brush fires
er clothing caught fire and she was
urncd to h crisp.
Governor Northern has written a letter
d (he secretary of war, asking that Lieu
Pliant C. 11. Satterlce, of the United
ft. T. Mullikin, who has been mi mb*
rom Walton county for about ten days,
ras found dead in a creek near Richard's
tore, in Morgan county. j
A company was formed at Cordele to
uy out 2,000 acres of land at the juncion
of the Savannah, Ainericus and
lontgomery and the East Tennessee, Virinin
and Georgia railroads. The comany
commences business with a paid-up
apital stock of $100,000, and will com
lcnce business at once in the new town
f Helena.
TENNESSEE.
K. S. reck, of Frankfort. Kansas, has
een appointed receiver of the Farmers
ml Merchants' bank, of Clarksville.
Governor Taylor appointed Hon. John
. Moon, of Chattanooga, judge of the
nirth judicial district of Tennessee, to
II the vacancy created by the death of
udge I). 1). Trewhitt.
There were five men executed by law
i Tennessee during the year 1800.
The American Dialect Society held a
iccling in Nashville this week. The
eople who feel so much interest in diact
arc the very first to turn the cold
louldcr to those who speak it.
The funeral <>f Judge Trcwhitt at Chat
inooga Tuesday, was attended by a
11!re concourse of people. Few men in
hattanooga had morn warm personal
iends than Judge Trewhitt.
In electing presiding officers for the
,vo houses, says the Knoxville Journal,
in Tennessee Legislature seems to have
lade a good choice in each instance,
ini of character and ability.
Twenty-seven of the worst prisoners in
w county jail at Chattanooga, who had
volfed and refused to enter their cells
mil the corridor, have lieen starved into
ibuiissiou. At 11 o'clock in the mornig
twelve submitted, and at 5 o'clock in
in aftcrntou the other flftscn, hungry
id cold, gave in. The janitor and nauiig
vms "fu'lidcd by IIihV'< ioi ("inn, who
ordered Deputy Sheriff Gordon, and
vcral of the convicts would stop nt
athing to gain their freedom.
FLORIDA.
The Masonic grand lodge of the State
I Florida will assemble in Jacksonville
i Tuesday.
Florida is to contest with a Chicago
am for superiority in live-bird shooting,
id the Times-Union predicts that Florin
will win.
The annual meeting of the State Tench's'
Association which was to have been
;lil in Tampa next month, has been
>stponed until March.
II. A. Tanner h is sued the city of Dcund
for $'?lftOl) damages. I fell from
sidewalk several months ago and has
"en lam: ever since.
On Arbor day, January S, a new Uni,|
States flag, presented by Dr. Chase,
as hoisted, with .suitable ceremonies, on
ie Observatory of the Grade* 1 High
hool building at < >caln.
The easting of a turn table plate for
ie use of the S. F. railroad at Ivissimlee
was recently successfully accomplish1
l.u *lw. Uniill. l.u.
. ... .... loumu v in ur- |
lido. The ?"i*liny weigh'" 2,350 pounds.
A mass meeting 1?? organize the pliohiition
party in the State of Florida has
[ en railed at. Oralu l?y Samuel Dickey,
lairman of the national commit tee; .1.
lovd Thomas, secretary of the national
unmitteo; and I. McQueen Auld of Orndo,
chairman of the State committee.
'reductive and Abandoned Farms in
Maine.
Arm si \, .Inn. 12. The report of the
iuroau of Industrial and Labor Statistics
>r the State of Maine tor 1HJI0 shows that
iie average number of acres in each of
ie :b0 farms reported is I'M; total value
f those farms, *1 ,038. 425; average vnl- I
e, 2,80tl; number of farms growing oi
roduetive, 28'.); less productive, 41;
umber holding their own. 411; number
f farms mortgaged, til; total value of
lese farms. $201.150; amount of niortage.-,
$52,5mio; average interest, $0072.
lie average profits ol farms reporting
ains with rosl of family's support reckned
as "expense," is $233; average loss,
#10. The average profits of farms reorting
gains, without reckoning cost of
imilv Mipport. is $'211! ; average loss
ill.'
The aggregate number of abandoned
irnis reported is 3,318, and. estimating
ic number in delinrpient towns and
Imitations at HO, the total is increased itr
,308. The total acreage of eliose report
1 is 254,5I3,oi an average of 7<i7 to each
Irm. Their assessed valuation isfl.
15M TC.O
A Kiss Lands Him in Jail.
Ituuuiui'oui', Jan. 13.?Owcr? Me(?innii
1 amiable nud loving niooil, strolled
long the street of West Norwallv, mid
lecting n pretty girl with blue eves and
>sy he accosted her, suddenly slipped
is arm about her waist, and imprinted a
iss on her red, ripe lips. Ifc didn't see
?y harm in the act, lie protested to J usee
of the l'eaee Austin, but both the
tdgc and the comely young woman did.
nl Owen is now in jail for thirty dayuirged
with assault. A very explicit
iniieeti< nt statute provides that no man
all kiss a lassie against her will, and
hind ii is a still more rigid old hint
w 11,;,? say - a man shan't kiss his wih
i the Sabbath. ,,
Advantage* of Hi*"R?w.
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A gentleman who has t|w management
of a business that requiraaa large number
of negroes said to one of jfla employes recently,
according to the Savannah (Ga.1
News: 44Sam, the colored people srr n
wonderful people, are thaw not ?'
It was dinner-time, aaf fhun looked up
ii-um his tin dinner kettle and replied: I
"Yes, sah. They can cM|?t Hong with
less money and havs more loafing time
than any people I kcOw of.
"They are heap better off than w hite
folks. They douT Unre anything to worry
them. You knot, bow, colored poo
pic get their eating for almost nothing,
and if they don't <riak whiskey a little
money goes a longjrarwith them.
"If a colored rdta uM friends around
lownjbe can alwayi get a good dinner; a
leguitl wwt? maofa dky&CL for nothing.
Whitecooks
ally, and if he has a few tcquaintances
who cook lie gets along very well in the
outing line.
"Of course, some colored men have to
'keep house," but that don't always pre
vent them from going arouid and dou't
make giving cost much, lxxause his old
woman, if lie has one, take* in washiug
or docs other things to help along. And
boss, you know colored uieu get along
just as well single as raarrifd or married
single.
"Yes sah; the colored folks are a wonderful
people. Auyltody's clothes tits
them. Your clothes will fit me. A colored
man with* your old clothes on and
withhis shoes blacked looks just as well
ns a white man with a new $?r> suit. He
don't mind wearing any white man's
clothes, nevermind what his size is; they
will fit or he will make them so.
"Then, boss, you kuow a colored man
cnu sleep anywhere. He don't want a
bed. He can lay right hero ami sleep.
This plank is good it*v^?L-fnr im*. And
you know the colored man, if he is cTvP
and handy, can get lots.of good things
fiom the white people for nothing. I
mean from people down this way. 1
don't know how it is in the North or up
in the country. 1 ain't got a thing on me
now that cost me a rent.
"Yes, boss, colored people is the Lord's ;
people. He takes rate of them. If a
colored man dou't get along in the world
better than a white man it's his own fault.
The colored man, sah, is just what you
say of him, 'a wonderful man.' If he
works a little ho can sleep in the sunshine
and almost wait for the victuals to
come to him."
ALLIANCE LEGISLATION.
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Bills that Will Be Introduced at this
Session of ths^Hansae Legislature.
Toi?eka, Kan., Ja}i. 12.?The Legislative
, Committee of the Kansas State Farmers'
will soon convene. These bills have
been approved by the sub-alliauccs, and
will receive the united support of tho
Farmers' Aiiiancc legislators. The titles
of the bills arc its follows:
For an extension of the Stay law for a
period of two years; a redemption law
giving the mortgager three years in which
to redeem land not exceeding 320 acres,
sold under foreclosure; revision of the
Chattel Mortgage law; ? law requiring
the mortgagor to pay his proportionate
part of taxes; a reduction of the rate of
interest to 0 per cent, with penalty for
forfeiture of principal and interest for its
violation; a revision of assessment and
taxation laws; a reduction of the salurics
of public otlicers, a reduction of State
Printer's expenses; school text books to
be published by the State and furnished
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... ill.; (HJUJUC ill nisi; revision Ol court I
officers' fee lulls; adoption of the Austra- j
Han system of voting aud the Crawford
county systeyjL of mwwvcs ; requiring
Railroad Commissioners to be
elected by the people; a law requirng
land sold under foreclosure to bring the
amount of judgment aud costs;a law suppressing
the I'inkerton detectives or similar
organizations in the State; such a reduction
of railroad tariffs as will yield an
annual income not exceeding <? per cent,
on the actual investment.
The Caucus Will Rule.
Nasiivii.i.i;. Tknn., | Special. | Xotwilhstanding
the very large democratic
majority in each branch of the state legislature.
the caucus will prevail. Fiftyone
icpresentntives and twelve senators
met Saturday night in joint caucus, and
adopted a resolution to select all officers
to he elected I?y the general assembly in
caucus. They pledged themselves to
consider all measures of importance in
caucus, and abide by the action of the
caucus.
WHY NOT COME SOUTH ?
Where Such Scenesaa This Can Never
Take Place.
Mkokinf". I.<ii>uk, Kans.?Two brothel.-.
named Hell, aged twenty-two and
nine ycais, anil a sister nineteen years
"ki, aiicmicd a meeting near here Wednesday
night and a blizzard arose ns they
started for home at 10 o'clock. When
200 yards from their home, the elder
brother remarked that they could not
make the distance against the storm, and
would have to go with the wind. They
drifted south about a quarter of a mile
and took icfuge in a canyon where they
were soon covered by snow Thurrday
morning. The elder brother crawled out
of the snow and attempted to get home.
He called to his sister that he wass > stiff
that he could not travel, and in a short
time lie w frozen. The younger broth- <
er y | cons
The 7T i''iTfartc^ i>ui Vursdav lnorning
to tind l htf^jLtfrratiid in a short
time scniehing ptQ^ji- witre organized.
Friday morning the tf^Byof the young man
was found, and thoflBlw .-dirchers found <
the girl, who was owesixty hours. The
girl did not know tdBBiotluin* were dead.
She is in a fair wajg.tiK, rfro\lor.
A Rich NoJjn Murdered.
A llclena. I,a., njpoits the assassination
of l'i iiiH^Rfallory, at Island
lil, Saturday night.^Kjallnry was a colored
man and the f^Uicst man in that
sect inn. Three m groclHksuspetled of the
assassination have escaped
Preaches on Sectionalism and the ?
Farmers' Alliance. J
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"The Christian Manhood of America <
Owea to the Farmers A Debt 1
of Gratitude."
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Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr., pa$)pr of tlie
Thirty- third street Baptist chureh. New -j
York city, addressed his largo audience {
Sunday morning on the subject. "What
is Religion ?" It. was preceded by the v
following review of current events:
At last the bloody chasm has lieen |
bridged. The war has really ended ami
tiring must soon cease. The farmers of (
the West and North have joined hands
with the farmers of the South, solemnly
covenanting together to forget the bitterness
of the past and throw off the curse
ot traditional sectionalism. 1
, Thg Christian manhood of America
owesltf the" farmers a'debt of gnditude
for undertaking this divine work. General
Sherman lias said,
"WAR 18 HEM,."
It is. And we have had enough of it.
}>ery effort to revive the bitterness of
the iitte war is inspired only by the devil.
The curse of the nation for the last
two decades has been the determined efforts
of a certain class of demagogues to
trade in the memories of the dead When
the soldiers laid down their arms and returned
to their homes and loveil ones,
these ghouls began their ghost dance over
the fields made rich by the blood of lie
roes. While the war was in progress
these men were in it. "When the lighting
erased they whetted their jawbones and
began, au<\ 4hey have been at it faithfully
ever since. They have driven the sections
further apart by slander and misicpreseiitalion.
They have wearied the
ears of heaven and earth with their sin.
They have fanned the dying embers of
keAewl- lluuie aifuiu, and again, that
in the conflagrations which followed they
might roh ami steal. They have marie
progress impossible because they have
1,1 ? ISSUES OK MKMOKIKS,
and marshaled the hosts of the living to
fight the hopes of the dead. They arc
neither brute nor human; they ate ghouls.
The farmers have declared that they are
going to hang the ring leaders of this
gang antl put an end to their business.
In this God given task they should have
the earnest prayers and co-operation of
the Christian manhood of the North and
South. I
The Christian exclaims with the farm
or, 4,In the mime of God, the common I (
Father, let us be brethren Let us cease
this foolish wrangle over memories and
turn to the great work of to-day." I
The men and the organizations who it
fuse to give heed to this cry of the heart of
the nation for peace and fraternity will
be (rushed by the resistless sweep of dctogether
press forward to the goal of a '
regenerated nation. The issues of the
ana past arc all settled. They are liisto- 1
ry. "isaioslppi rises from the lethargy
of traditionalism, turns her face toward
the rising sun of a new day, drops a tear
over the grave of Jcllcrson Davis, for- '
mally repudiates in her new Constitution
the doctrine of secession, and extends j
her hands to the struggling farmers of .
Kansas. Slavery is now only a memory
lor the aged. It is ancient history foi
the young. I never saw a slave. The '
negro is enfranchised; and it only re i
mains to educate him and lie will be free.
There is no
krgro v ho hi .em
iu-uity omsme me imagination of political
schemers, except the problem of education
and giowth of the uegio race. Such
men as J. C. Price, of North Carolina. (
President of Afro-American League, have
long siuce recognized this fact, and have
entered with energy and enthusiasm upon
the gigantic work of thus uplifting their
race. The problem that confronts ^he ^
negro in the South is the same that con
fronts his white brother in the North and
West. It is not the problem of ballot, '
but of bread.
The real Rsurs of our life have been
obscured now long enough by the fog of j
sectional animosity. We must address j
ourselves to living issues
A N li W li KN K It AT1 ON
of men has come upon the scene. They
have new problems, new hopes, new aspirations,
new fears and new dangers. !
This younger generation of men are sick
ami tired of listening to harangues about
memories and issues of a great pa. t by '
loud mounted demagogues, who eonlri- .
billed nothing to that past except an ad- |
ditional name to the census roll which .
cannot be found on the army niu.der. ,
They ate tired of this sort of thing for ,
many seasons. They feel that it was not ,
Hipif fiiilHttnI'lKni' ? I
...v.. Kiiit nit T ?m m i IM'III liiniri .
and could u<>t shine in t hat golden age. ,
They feel that it is :t crime to rob the ,
living of the highest possibilities of life,
though it he in the sacred name of the
loved and sacred dead They refuse to <
immolate the livimr on the altar of the j
dead. This generation of men will join t
hands with the homey-handed farmers in j
their determination to lid a suffering na- (
tion of this peat. We arc confronted to- ji
day with i
TUB on.VVEST I'ltORI.KMS
ever submitted to the human incc for so- 1
lution. It may he that tin destiny of 1
the, world hangs upon the solution of I
America will give to these problems We '
feel even now the eaith tieiubling beneath
our feet, with the shock of the lirsl hat- 1
ties of a world wide social si niggle. Can I
the clashing interests of conflicting class- '
cs be reconciled, and our civilization sav- 1
ed from a catastiophe? We must answer '
this question. The iuteicsts of the hosts
of the late contending hi inies are piaeticAIIV
flllP WllPH lliO eoouo/1 t into 1 fc
II lit
nTfea ofboth recognized this. The South- 1
eru man now fervently thanks God that his 1
country is freed from the curse of slavery. ''
The Christian manhood of this nation 1
ought to be a unit in purpose, ideal, and '
effect. '
VOl n flKARTH A IIK ONK.
You arc separated only by externals, and
they are mostly traditions. At the close ,
of a battle, during the war, a dying Federal
officer asked u passing Confederate
to have a few moments prayer with liiin
The Confederate dismounted and kneeled
by the side of the dying man. lie prayed
earnestly and tenderly. l p in the
utma of a loving heart he took the sufferer
-
al one sweet n?nii, ,f#^r notheffTWF
vheo he eloaeu, the dead Iread of the oficer
lay on his bosom. The dying man
tad used what strength he had left to '
'rawI up aud wind both arms around the 1
ieek of his late enemy in batttle while
j" prayed. The hattie had ceased. In
hat hour of sorrow their two hearts hat
>ith a single thought. They were one.
>bu and brethren let us remember this
Piie buttle has ceased. We are children
?f a common Father. 1
The era of fraucidal strife between tlu
tortious of this nation is passing away '
I'he day of the real fraternity is dawning '
Let inen, North, South, Fast, West, take
lotiee. The grave already yawns to re
civo him who refuses to heed his fact.
ONE GIRI/s" LUXURY.
lor Beautiful Rooms and How They
Are Furnished and Arranged.
A .. A * ? * ' ?
mi mncnrni} pnm'rM, wmnn" imnrr is
i cotton king, Inis just completed in 1 ho
internal mansion the furnishing of hot
irivato apartments. They am four in
nnnher, and could Ninon do I'Kudos, or
ven the late Madame do Pompadour ho
how 11 through, certain it is the ancient
levotees of the toilet would lose their
leads and stand embarrassed la-fore the
dories of Miss Parvcnue's boudoir. Kven
n the loftiest dreams those luxury-loving
adies never conceived the minute details
if elegance surrounding this daughter of
i millionaire. %'roin the silver-wreathed 1
'syche minor that swings to reflect her
nil-length loveliness to the repousse spir- j
t lamp burning to warm her lotions, (
iludcmoisello is iucompasscd by a sumpuousuess
unknown to (Juccus.
The scheme of color decorating the
nits warms from white to blush pins in
he both, and iu toilet and reception
ooms melts into a rosy lilac. Her bed
rhumber might have been designed for
I fans Andersen's snow maiden, so fine in
Ts immaculate purity. Mural iluodraiioiia
ire iii white and silver. On the wide silver
frieze dogwood blossoms bloom,
while by a wonderful bit of fresco painting
the ceiling seems enveloped in a
loudy drifting fog.
Here and there the soft mist curls about
/aguclv outlined figures, with a sharp
ift in the centre from which hangs a
rystal chandelier blown to resemble u
Knupict of lillios. All of the white
manieled furniture is finished iu silvei.
md from the carved lied depend drape
ies of heavy silk brocaded in silve:
leur do lis. The spotless fleece of lee
ami snecp provides a tlutty carpet to.
the liar?l white wood floor, and glanciug
>ver the many tall screens, tow rocking
rliairs, long divans and even rare has reliefs
on the wall, one is impressed the
tln/.y.ling whiteness of every part.
Gorgeous at the faith-room proves with
its pink marbles and roseate hangings, it
is in her boudoir that this young money
(I woman has evidently found her mo.u
sympathetic surroundings. The apartment
is a study in that rare shade of rosy
like tied when found beautifies all womankind.
It is called the wistaria-room,
from the wealth of pale purple flowers
leeorating the walls and woven into eiirlains
and through the mesh of the thick
arpet. Here all the wood-work is of
lack mahogany, upholstered in a warm
lieliotrope silk, with many bronze orna
nents. valuable etchings and mirrors in
awed frames.?New ^ ork Sun.
NORTH AND SOUTH MATCHED.
A Great Inter-State Pigeon Shooting
Arranged for Next Month.
Ciucaoo, Jan. 13.?Preparations are in
active progress here and in New York
I'ity for the grand championship contest
at live birds to take place between the
North and the South during the first two
weeks in February.
It was lii9t proposed when ? repirsen
Lntive from the Dixie Quu Club, ol Flori
la, 11. W. Simmons, mine to Chieagi
uul held ? consultation with local shoot
jrs to make the match between Florida
tnd Illinois crack shots. A chnllciu.ro
o.-iii iiie Southerners resulted, and at
rangements were shortly afterwards per
fected tc? take a Chicago team with a
>peeial train, which will start South on
lie afternoon of February 7. Charles 10.
tVillnrrf, one of the best known amatuerx
n the West, will be the captain of tie;
cam.
After this team had been chosen it. was
roposcd to send another team, which
ivoukl meet picked teams in New Oceans,
Mobile and Pensacola for a challenge
cup to be emblematic of the chainlionship
and shot for under the Ameriain
Shooting Association rules, the repeseiitntivc
winning the majority of shots
o hold the cup for one year. The match
x will probably be at twenty-five birds
*nch per man and held under the supervision
of the local gnn clubs.
Tho Art Interchange
)pens its XXVI volume with a charm
ng number dated January ;t, 1801.
several improvements are notieable,
imoiig tliern a handsome new colored
over and smooth finished paper and tin
iddition of a J Ionic Dccorolion depait
ncnt.
Ti i 1 ' -? . ? .i.
i 111- muni/ | u ?111 ?t i ur i'l i iciiiurc.s m uir
ssue urc a very beautiful picture of I'rim
" es in color, which is very cleverly
tainted. It shown a row of enrtheru llow r
pots, each bearing a mass of blooming
lowers. The picture is well worth a
rame. Other illustrations arc a pretty
tailor, blue birds and golden rod for
hair back, arbutus design for after din
icr coffee cup and saucer, cut-work boiler
for embroidery, head of "Medusa"
or brass work, wood carving design berg
of stool, design for carved seat for
tool, decorative initials "M. & I'." The
ext includes careful directions for carrying
out all the designs, notes or current
irt events a New Year's ghost party, latest
fashion in home decoration, a course
if art reading, a cotillion?Sir Itogci de'
['overly?decorations for (lining room at
golden wedding, over mantel treatment
te. The issue is tilled with information
taluahle alike to the art student and to
ivoinen interested in pretty liomes. Price
>f i-Mie, including colored study of I'rim
oses, 20 cents. For Sale by News Dealas.
The log book of Christopher Columbus's
first transatlantic expeditiou is said
to have been discovered.
111 y *ja'j . \wWL i
K M. Crosby, of
writes to th* Jscksofivillw Tf oww^TViofc Dm?- ^7* ' J
rollows:
The state of Florida is welmnM to all
I have learned about immigration after
three years incessant advertising, travelling
and correspondence without "a $2,100
salary," prefurriug my own hard
learned business as now established?to
?ny publie office. ,
Fifty dollars each is too tuueh to pay
lo secure Florida immigrants; $30 for
each family is different; but this is too
much and will be reduced when tho hundreds
sure to follow, as the result of past
years work and advertising, arrives?as
arrive they will, for 1 lmve narrowed
down my system to a certainty?i. c.,
each dollar spent in advertising must
bring ten replies (the Times-Union does
his for me.) When a pn|H*r does not
bring this proportion of replies, some
tiling is wrong either with the paper or
til? way the s<lyrrti*mrnt is worded. To ^
so word an advertisement as to bring """ " *fliis
result without a tinge of exaggeration
is ii line ni t, and I still believe the adver- ,
lisenient that is to bring its thousands to
FloWda is yet unborn. As it is, you may
now see my advertiseinents in nearly eve.
< y northern magazine and in over 3,000
northwestern weeklies.
From each 1,000 replies (if 1 do inv
luty, i. e., follow them up with niv
monthly paper, keep on writing them
personally, mailing eireulars of cheap
.'xeursions, etc.,) 100 will eventually
oiuo to Florida hs settlers, investors or
tourists, though this taken from twelve to
thirty months from the time of their livat
writing me. Immigration built up on
these lines will not, however, consist ol"
a roving, visionary trlngs, so often attracted
by co-called "paper city" builders,
hut they are of the hone and sinew of tb
land, viz., the farmers and mechanics of
the North.
To prove the above statement, I will
sny (tow <tr,,unu ?4H ut iu advertising
I can show AGO real estate sales already ??made?:$
10 during the past year-and ful ly
200 new settlers already in the state;
and I have good reason to expert fullv
three hundred more before spring. What
'hey do after they get here for a living
ami other like details, would take too
much of your valuable spare to tell; but
the facts are yours when you want them.
To a legitimate immigration agent selling
the land and securing settlers are but the
liist steps in a long ladder of work niul
worry which is often dropped at this
point by the real estate agent eager only
lor his connniiwiou.
Surely there is enough of the hig "I"
in this screed to clear me of the charge of
being "'too modest,1' and I hope it is
equally clcur to the reader thnt 1 will not
under any circumstances accept a salary
or a position as state immigration agent,
but will do my utmost to encourage the
Ni/jijr in/iiiiigriiH-iffT" ~] liopfi flte-ic lilflfU
given above may stimulate greater effort
and success. O. M. C'hosiiy.
Simple Explnnation of (.'cavitation.
(Gravitation is n subject thnt nearly
everybody is somewhat familiar with,
but there arc .'.oine things about it that
you n:ay not know. For instance, suppose
you were weighed at the top of a
deep coal mine, and afterward at tho
bottom, do you suppose that there would
he any difference in the result? Yes,
there would. You would bo lighter nt
the bottom. If it were possible for you
to go 011 downward 2000 miles in tho
earth, and there ho weighed you would
...tl !w% 4 ~ il.w1 2?1-m.
jiiuimiiij uu nui|mi3uu iu uuu ^uur
only one-half of what it was at the surface;
and if you could go to the center
of the earth you wouldn't weigh an >
ounce.
This is because the ceuter of the earth
is Iho center of its attractive power,
which is exerted equally iu all directions.
If you ascend from the surface of tho
earth, your weight will also decrease,
but not iu the same ratio as when you
descend. In going upward the dccreasu
will be iu proportion to the square of tho
distance. Thus, while you would weigh
nothing if you should go downward 4000
miles from tho surface, you would still
weigh one-fourth your actual weight if
you could weigh yourself 1000 miles up
in the air.
The law of gravitation is at oucc the
strangest and the most sublime in all
nature. I.iglit travels at the ama/.ing
rate ol 180,000 miles in a second. Thcro
are visible stars so far away that if ono
were blotted out at this instant it would
be seen on the earth thousands of years
lienec, because rays of light, starting
now, would take so long to reach us, even
at the wonderful velocity at which they
travel, But if a new star were now
placed out there in the depths of space,
where the blotted out one was, its attractive
force would reach us instantly.
That strange force which dominates tho
universe would nt onm t>c felt, though.
of course, inappreciably, between the new
star ami our earth.
(Cavitation tlifTers from all other forces
in iinother respect. The intervention of
bodies in the line of attraction makes no
difference in the attractive force exerted.
For example, when the moon comes into
direct line between the earth and the
sun, there is not the slightest di(Terence in
the reciprocal attraction between the two ^
former. The enormous power of this
attractive force is utterly inconceivable.
We are constantly reminded of the power
the earth exerts in pulling us downward,
hut think of the attractive power of a
body like the .sun, more than a million y?
times larger than the earth. And this
power controls every speck of light
that we see in the heavens. ? l'ltiltfUtl*
2'/iiu Thuts.
Emperor William, of Germany, has
issued a hook of regulations ordainiug,
among other things, that "the distance
between the rows of gold lace on a field
officer's sleeve shall be .277559 of an
inch." _
A European statistician tells us that tho
Sultan of Turkey has five wives of the
first class, twenty-four of the second
class and 250 of the third clas8(
Paris can now be reached from London
?u hour sooner than Ediuburg.