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BILL ARF Leaves NegrG 3?rob Than Atlanta Cc I reckon there aro enough philoso-1 phers to solve the race problem and save the country without further as sistance from me, .and so I will swear, off for the present. I don't care much whether the negro goes to Africa or Arizona or stays here. If he stays here he has got to stop his devilment or take the consequences, and Fur willing tb trust the people on, that line.", But of all the absurd remedies that have been proposed none are more so than a change of venue and a s trial in five days in some distant county. County lines do" not bound . the fieroe'mdignation of a people hor rified and enraged over such fiendish work as that of Sam Holt and Will Lucas. And besides, just think of the machinery that has tobe set in motion to summons and cony ey. thirty or forty witnesses to a distare county, and eveu then perhaps no. trial or a X mock, trial that.disregards the forms of law and the rights of the criminal. No, that is no. remedy. - But I've sworn off. Let the wise men settle it, though I confess I was surprised when I.read that-Governor Candler had just, discovered5 that edu ? cation wasj.the only remedy that would-' ? stop the commission" of these heinous crimes. According to statistics of v New York and * Massachusetts, taTcgn from their State prisons and published I tb the world, education foster's ?nd. in crease* crime--not a little,-, but im mensely. The governor's theory, has been long since exploded. And right. * here in Georgia the uneducated negro before the war and for a few years after was moral and law-abiding and ? now there are 4.000 in the State and county chaingangs, 75 per. cent of whom eau read and write. But I forbear. Lhad rather rumi nate about pleasanter things, though ! I must protest against this utterly un tenable basis of all the negroes being good negroes excepting 5 per cent!. Mr. Inman." started it, and I see that Bishop Graines takes I comfort from it it iii his* beautiful and impressive ser mon of last Sunday. It is a delusion I and a snare. "Nearly 5 per cent of their votipg population are now in the chaingangs and it is safe to say that ? if every one who steals w?s arrested and puniished it would add 10 per ' cent more to the black army of con victs. Petty larcenies are common in every household where they are,em-, ployed, but they are not brought to court. These little pilferings are crimes, hut the crimes are condoned overlooked-for they have some good i qualities) and their service is needed. , It is a race, trait, and develops with education, especially among the young er negroes. The records of the courts prove thal; the percentage of small lar ceny and burglary grows faster than . their population increases. City ne groes and town negroes are more ad dicted to it than country negroes, for they have more education and more importunities. This fear of the law as it is now does not deter them. The fear of the la3h would. But we can worry along with their little pilferings .on the principle that ? cook we once had d?clar?e! to me when I reproved her for stealing: {?You ?jon't miss what I takes.'J " It is the greater crimes that now give our people deep concern and these will be quickly and terribly avenged. Our people, especially the .country people, are in desperate ear nest, and neither law nor lawyers ?nor the horns of the altar will protect a brute in human form, whether he be white or colored. But what makes my thoughts and my pen glide along on this subject ? My wife is calling me now to oome there and bring the stepladder. She wants the vines on the trellis tied up, and I am the boy. That ladder is old . and rickety and I am subject to verti go sometimes. I'm afraid of that lad der, but never in my life did I admit to her that I was afraid of anything, and so I will mount that ladder with all the alacrity I can. The time was when I had blackboys and white ones, too, to wait on me, but now I have to tote my own skillet and nurse the ' grandchildren, too. There are two little ones here half the time and they love me dearly and I have to stop writing whenever they say go. They want me in the garden to get flowers or pick strawberries or make sand houses oir mud pies or get come water or something to ?at, and I have to fol low them around or carry the little one while my wife is making some more little dresses for them. Their mother has no servrnt and lets them come up here by themselves to be pet ted while she is sewing or cooking or playing on the piano. My wife and I do more work nowadays than we ever did in our lives, but it is sweet work and we like it. How the children and grandchildren will get along when our time is out and we are off duty I can not see, but one thing I know, "the Lord will provide," for "He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." But about these negroes. Hardly a S LETTER. lem to Wiser Heads His. institution. day passes but what I hear somebody say: "I wish to the Lord that they were all out of the country." I don't know about that. The iron makers and miners and lumber men and rail road men and the big farmers would object, for their labor is both useful and profitable. I wish we could scat ter and apportion them all over the country from the Atlantic to the Pa cific. There are at least 500 in this little town that we would like to spare, but we would like to pick them. There are.no doubt 10,000 in Atlanta-most ly young bucks and wenches who have been edueated and are now vagabonds -parasites who live off the' labor of good working negroes just as the vag abonds do here. We have many good negroes here who are good citizens and give no trouble, and they are our dray men, our carpenters, carriage makers, blacksmiths, barbers, gardeners, cooks and washerwomen^ - These trades are shut ?oufcto them at the north, but the north sleeps on sending money down here to educate them and to keep their .leaders in line politically. The truth is that all this devilment that has of late so agitated our people comes from politics. It is planned' and designed for party purposes and Mr. McKinley was a party to it.when he appointed* ? negroes to be postmasters and revenue officers in white communities. I have had no respect for him since he did it. They say*that he has quit it, but he has not apologized. Row much longer is he going to keep that educated ne gro politician in office at Hogansville? And yet there are thousands of demo crats, men and women, in Atlanta who gave him welcome and threw him flowers and shouted ''All hail McKin ley!" I've no respect for them, either. I want ta* live long enough to see a man in the presidential chair who is far above such machine politics. They say they want to break up the solid south and yet they do the very things to keep it solid. But my wife is calling me again. She says its about time for me to be gin to water the roses. It takos about fifty buckets of water every evening, j but the hydrant is near by and I don't ! mind it. The little chaps try to help me with little buckets and. they get their clothes wet and pf course I am scolded for it. If they get dirty or take cold cr run at the nose it's all my fault. They say that I spoil them so nobody else can do anything with them. I don't care. They shall have a good time as long as I live, for there will be trouble enough after I am gone. Now about this thing that is called education I do not wish to be misun derstood. Millions are wasted on it to nb good purpose. Every mother's son and daughter should be taught to read and to write and multiply. Good reading books should be placed within their reach-books that teach a good moral lessons, books that exalt virtue and condemn vice-but work, toil, in dustry is a bigger thing than books.. Modern education is confined to the head, the intellect, and is mixed up with training the .hands to play ball and the legs to run, and the boys tramp all over the country to play match games and the old man's money is spent for something that is not worth a cent to the young man when he settles down to the business of life. The average boy has no more use" for algebra or conic sections br calculus or astronomy or Greek or French than a wagon has for a fifth wheel. It is valuable time wasted. Outside of the professors I have never found but one college graduate who could translate a line of Greek or solve a problem in geometry. Perhaps one in a thousand shows a fitness for these higher branches and that one ?should have a chance at them if possible, for the world needs astronomers and mathe maticians and scientists and linguists, and will have them', even if the re quirement has to be hammered out at the anvil as Elihu Burritt did. Work is the big thing in this practical age. To make a living is imperative, and it is a struggle. But to be a great ora tor or poet or preacher is a gift, and like Patrick Henry or Henry Clay or John Wesley, will come to fruition with or without a higher education. To read well and to read wisely is the best part of an education. It is strange that our schools do not teach their pupils to read-to read with emphasis and tone and accent. Not one preach er in ten can read a chapter or a hymn in an impressive manner. It was his happy faculty of reading well that made Bishop Beckwith a great man. It was a solemn feast to hear him re cite the litany or read a hymn or utter a prayer. Why do not the theologi cal seminaries teach the students to read and also something of elocution ? It is an imposition on a congregation to have to listen to the sing-song, childish, unimpressive readings of our preachers. But this is enough on this line. I fear I am getting hypercritical. BILL ARP. I A Word From the Hero Himself. To thc Editor of the News and Courier : In response to your request that I should give a sketch of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia it has occurred to me.^that as the subject proposed is too large for a newspaper article, some incidents, showing the duties, tbe gallantry and the perform ances of those serving in that arm of the seraice, would not be unwelcome to many of my old comrades ou the occasion of our next reunion. While the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia could not compare in numbers with the infantry nor rival the brilliant achievements of those incomparable wearers of gray jackets and bearers of bright bayonets, still I hope to show that the duties of the trooper were more arduous than those of their comrades of the infantry, and that through all trials they were brave and true-they thus proved them selves not unworthy comrades of that "incomparable infantry," which has left a record of unequalled and im mortal honor. The cavalry were the "eyes and ears of the army;" they kept watch and ward while their comrades slept. As pickets they guarded against the dan gers of a surprise. Important infor mation was often given to our com manders; on many occasions large quantities of arms and ammunition were turned over to the general stock; wagons and mules in numbers were brought in.. In one instance about two hundred of the former and about nine hundred of the latter, and on or ^ occasion, at least, they gave to their comrades of Lee's army beef enough to allow a ration of one pound a day for forty days to 50,000 men! Beyond those services they really did fight sometimes, though their comrades of the infantry had their jest that no dead man with spurs on was ever seen ! But that this harmless jest was with out foundation is proved by the graves of many of the noblest men of the South who fell in the cavalry, and by many a mourning heart throughout the borders of our Southern land. South Carolina bears her full share of this deep and lasting sorrow, for many of her gallant sons who served in the cavalry died for their State and for our cause. One regiment of South Carolina cavalry, dismounted, and be hind only a frail rail fence, repulsed seven furious charges of an overwhelm ing force, leaving on the field 133 of its men, dead and wounded. One bri gade of cavalry, in which were two South Carolina regiments, had twenty one of its twenty-three field officers killed or wounded during the Gettys burg campaign. These were the men who bore sabres and wore spurs! But the highest qualities of a great leader and the gallantry of men who would face any danger can be best shown by quoting from a report of a fight made by Gen. Rosser, than whom there was no better soldier in the cavalry corps: "Gen. W. H. F. Lee, with his com mand, was on the occasion referred to at Hanover Court House, while some other portion of the cavalry corps were near Atlee's Station. On June 1, 1864, Lee was attacked by Wilson's division's division, when he fell back io the direction of Ashland. Moving to his assistance with three regiments of Rosser's brigade we struck the rear of Wilson's column as he was follow ing Lee. This column was charged by Rosser as soon as it was discovered, and it was thrown into confusion. Following up his success, Rosser pressed the enemy vigorously, and in the series of brilliant charges-some of which were over dismounted men he drove Wilson into. Ashland, cap turing prisoners from eight different regiments, about 200 horses and many arms." The report of this affair, which I regard as one of the most brilliant duriDgthe war in Virginia, is given to show what could be and was effected by cavalry. One other point should be mentioned that regarding the number of prison ers taken by the cavalry in the last campaign. The returns of these are not full, but the report of the provost marshal, and thore of commanding officers account for 11,000. In the movement from Columbia to North Carolina, when Wheeler's command served with me, three or four thou sand prisoners were captured, so that in the last campaign, banning on May 3. '64, more than twice as many prisoners were taken than there were men in our whole cavalry corps. During that fearful, dying struggle of our heroic army, Gen. Lee issued many congratulatory orders to the cavalry, aud after the war, in a letter to myself, he paid a compliment to the cavalry corps, which should com pensate every living soldier of that arm of the service for al! the sacrifices made by him. In this letter after giving what he thought were the causes of the discomfiture of our troops at Petersburg, he said: "If you had been ,there with all of our cavalry, the result at Five Forks would have been different." So, old comrades of the cavalry, let us be content that we tried to do our duty, and thar our immortal chief paid to us the highest honor that was in his power in speaking thus of his cavalry. WADE HAMPTON. Growth of American Cities. I Next to "sticking up" for this coun try the average American is active in sticking up for his own town, and in order to do this most effectively he seems to regard it necessary first of all to make the world think it big in the matter of population. Quantity is the thing that counts in this partic ular, and if quality is not lost sight of completely it is at least very lightly passed over. The disposition to exaggerate in making estimates of population is well illustrated by the publication of a ta ble in a recent number of the Ameri can Land and Title Registry. The mayors of nearly all the American cities that had population of 10,000 and upward in 1890 have given figures that they think will be justified by the census of' 1900, and the conclu sions arrived at are, in some cases, ludicrous to say the least. Detroit, for instance, had a population of 205. 876 in 1890. The mayor of that city estimates that it will have 425,000 in habitants next year, which will be a gain of more than 100 per cent, in a* single decade. Detroit has never made any such gains in the past, and there is no apparent reason for con cluding that its growth has received a sudden impetus which would warrant the claim to such a population as is predicted for the place in 1900. The mayor of St. Louis is another hopeful soul. He places the probable population of the Mound City in 1900 at 1,000,000. In 1890 St. Louis had a population of 451,770. so that if the mayor's estimate is well founded the town will show about as great a growth during the ten years ending in 1900 as Chicago did in the decade between 1880 and 1890. This is extremely improbable. St. Louis had no such suburbs to annex as Chicago had, and the growth of the Missouri town itself has never been anywhere near as rapid as that of this city. In this connection it is inter esting to note that a popular estimate of the population of St. Louis in 1888 was 500,000, which was nearly 50,000 more than the United States census showed two years later. At the time -1888-Chicago's population was es timated at 800,000, which was nearly 300,000 short of the number of inhab itants given, this city by the census enumerators in 1890. The population of this city for 1900 is placed at 2,000,000 in the table pub lished in the Land and Title Registry, which is probably another low esti mate. In order to reach the 2,000,000 mark Chicago will not have to show as great a percentage in growth for the ten years from 1890 to 1900 as it did from 1880 to 1890, while estimates based upon the directory canvass shows that the rate of growth has been well maintained. One of the extravagant estimates in the table is given by the mayor of Baltimore, who thinks that city will have a population of 720,000 in 1900, beating the estimate of the mayor of Boston by 179,000. In 1890 Boston's population was 448,447 and that of Baltimore 434,439. Some o.' the other estimates for 1900 are: Cleveland, 420,000; buffalo, 400,000; Cincinnati, 40C,000; Indianapolis, 200.000. The exploits of the American army and navy duiing the past year have served to forcibly impress Europe with the importance of our country, and all that is now needed to convince the people of the old world the United States t:is the whole thing" is to fire a few of the population estimates of our mayors at them.-Chicago Tjmes. Disgust For Card Playing. Miss B- asked G-eaeral S-, of Louisiana, if it was true that many of our solid citizens, while soldiers, re garded card playing and petty pilfer ing as among the accompiishments of camp life. General S- replied : "A base libel, madam-a calumny. True they never left a friendless chicken to nod on its uncomfortable roost ; never suffered an overburdened apple tree tb break down from its load of fruit; never removed a bee gum until the shades of night made the removal more to the comfort o? the bees ; never permitted the lacteal fluid to sour in badly ven tilated milk houses ; and never-No Never-left a wounded shoat to bleed its young life away by the roadside : and as for cards, we give you our word that just before the battle of Seven Pines, of Perry vii le, of Murfeesb ro, we saw cards strewn all along the road, so great was the soldier's disgust for card playing !" Supreme Court Decisions. Since Chas. O. Tynerbegan the man ufacture of Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy, many peoplo have inquired as to its efficacy. Chief Justice Bleckley, of Georgia, has tried it for indigestion and dyspepsia, and gives this as his decision : "Atlanta, Ga., March 14.-Chas. 0. Tyner, Atlanta, Ga.: I have used, and am now using, Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy. It is a mental as well ab a physical elixir. With its aid and a pair of spectacles I can frequently see the law in spite of unsuitable or too much diet. "LOGAN E. BLECKLEV." This is a splendid decision and peo ple are profiting by it. For sale by Wilhite & Wilhite. Sample bottle free on application to Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy Co., Atlan ta, Ga. Would Abolish Chairs. An eminent English physician, Sir Jai.nes Crichton Browne, announces that men and women would derive great benefit from sitting on the floor instead of chairs. Women would ben efit eveu more than men by the prac tice. The position of sitting ou the floor or the ground is more natural than sitting in a chair, he says. It was once general with the entire hu man race. It is both healthy and nat ural. The exercise of getting up from and down to the floor is beneficial. Through the general adoption of the sitting position among the civilized races many muscles have become stiff or obsolete. Persons who sit on the floor have strong back and thigh mus cles. Turks, tailors and shoemakers are examples of this fact. If you sit on the floor you can change your at titude as ofteu as you please and can enjoy an endless variety of pose, and however often you alter it there is never any chance of you falling off. If you sit on the floor you can achieve all kinds of comfortable positions, which it is impossible to obtain even with the easiest of esaj chairs. The influx of visitors need never cause anxiety to the well constituted miod on the subject of chairs. All he has to provide is a quantity of cushions cushions of every size and shape. Let the guests select any they please, and it will be their own fault if they are not comfortable and happy.-Phila delphia Record. - The greatest town building rec ord in Ohlahoma has been won by Mountain View, Washita County. Monday, May 8, the town site was a prairie. The same day it was survey ed and platted and a large portion of it sold and settled. The town in ODe day became a city of nearly 800 inhab itants, with a mayor and full comple ment of councilmen and minor officers of an organized town. Some of the lots sold as high as ?900 within 30 minutes from the time the surveyor drove his stakes. - Leeches, when applied to persist ent cigarette smokers, drop off dead, distinct traces of the dangerous oil given off by tobacco being found in them. Strangely enough, the same experiment tried upon excessive pipe smokers resulted in no apparent, in jury to the leeches. - Nursing your anger is nursing a viper. ^P?^ A Tandem, o /^Vjfcr^k^ What woman In ^frvnjpi' >^ all the wide world s\\^?? ^?A^ would not be glad fi r mi" T~^' tw0 ?aPPy> healthy, / > 11 ] jBflBBB;-Xl When Nature Atw?sFr"/^ whispers the \ ^SwB^Mii'''>C\sweet assurance l^b^HB?^r^?~^',S*n a woman's JJJmSK^ J?*^"""-^* 1 ear that soon a ^**jtWmMr3^'w w come to ^TUM^^^T c a r e s s with her cheek and neck, she makes the fondest preparations for its arrival. Everything that a woman's dainty taste can imagine ts provided for i:he new-comer's wardrobe. Nothing is overlooked save one thing, and that one thing is the most important. Too many mothers forget that baby's strength and health, its. ability to withstand the usual ailments of childhood, and its vigor and welfare, as a man or woman, are de pendent upon her own health and physical condition during the period of prospective maternity. If, during that critical time, she is weak, sickly,*nervous and despond ent, because of troubles peculiar to her sex, these conditions are bound to have their influence upon her baby's health. Neglect of these conditions invariably means that baby will be weak, puny and peevish. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is an unfailing cure for all troubles of this nature, and it will reinforce a woman's bodily and nerve strength so that she can safely undergo the trials of maternity. .It gives health, strength, vigor, elasticity and endurance to the organs specially con cerned in motherhood. It gives bodily and nervous hardihood to the child. "After using ?fteen bottles of your ' Favorite Prescriptiou ' and a few vials of your ' Pleasant Pellets,' I ara entirely cured of uterine trouble. I had suffered for nearly three years," writes Mrs. F. W. Fogel, of 273 Highland Ave., Newark, N.J. "I had such terrible bearing down pains that I could hardly walk. My back and head ached, had terrible cramps in my legs, was very nervous at times, and felt miserable. With ray ' first child I had to be chloroformed and the child was delivered with instruments. I took the ' Favorite Prescription ' with my second child, and instead of suffering for two days. I was in labor only an hour and a beautiful cliikl was born. I was able to leave my bed the fifth day. I commenced your medicine about four months before confinement. My baby is three months old now. and is a fine, big, fat baby. I am in very good health ; have no more pains or aches. I would be pleased to advise any woman who suffers as I did to use your medicine." If you want Bargains go to - - - - - - CHEAP JOHN'S, The Five Cent Store. IF you want SH0E3 cheap go<o Cheap Jobn'e*, the Five Cent Store. For your TOBACCO and CIGARS it's the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco. 37*c. Early Bird Tobacco. 37Ac. Gay Bird Tobacco. 35c. Our Leader Tobacco. 27*c. Nabob's Cigars. lc. each. Stogies.4 for 5c. Premio or Habana.3 for 5c. Old Glory. 8c. a pack. Arbuckle's Coffee Ile. pound No. 9 Coffee 9c. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for "25c. Candies Gc. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is ahead in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in fact, everything of that kind. Good 8-day Clock, guaranteed for five years, f 1.95. Tinware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST. OFFICE- liront Room, over Farmere sud Merchants Bank ANDERSON, S. C. 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It is unseemly for a grea and powerful nation' to shake from its feet its sandals, to divest itself of its clothing and to scrape tbe?bottom of the flour barrel in its efforts to eke out a living on blackberries and melons. We are no Filipinos. What, then, shall ye wear and _ wherewithal shall your appetites be clothed ? Verily, if ye v/ould walk in pride, like the strutting peacock, ye must FEEL like strutting. No man putteth OD a paper-bottom Shoe, clotheth himself in shoddy raiment and eateth black Flour goeth out to parade himself as a "good ieeler." But he that wears our all-leather ?1.00 Shoes, buys our Standard Dry Goods and eats only Dean's Patent Flour, is a hummer with chin-whiskers, and his name shall be Rockefeller, Methuselah or "something better." We'll SAVE YOU MONEY and a peck of trouble. DEAN & RATLIFF^, THE BARGAIN PRINCES. Parties owing us for FERTILIZERS will please call in and give Notes for same at once MOLASSES, MOLASSES. IF you need a Barrel of Molasses you can't afford to buy until you have seen us. We have just received a big lot-all grades-and know we can please you in both quality and price. Also, new lot of Shoes, Dry Goods and Notions That we will seil cheap, and we have a few Shoes aud other Goods that we are still selling at 50c. and 75c. on the dollar Here are only a few prices : Muscovado Molasses;. 335c. per gallon. Good Molasse?. 12$c. per gallon. Good Coffee. ll lbs. for $1.00. 40c. Tobacco in 10 lb. Caddies for. 30c. Jeans Pants. 40c. Shirts.,. 15c. FLOUR, CORN, MEAT, LARD, Etc., AT BOTTOM PRICES. Yours for Business, MOORE, AOKER & CO., EAST 8IDE PUBLIC SQUARE-CORNER STORE. FREE CITY DELIVERY. . FOB .... Fancy and Staple Groceries, Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Molasses, Tobacco, A_nd Cigars, COME TO J. C. OSBORNE. South Main Street, below Bank of Anderson, Phone and Free Delivery. W. H. Harrison's Old Stand. YOU CANT JUDGE A SAUSAGE BY ITS ULSTER ! Neither can you fix the value of a BICYCLE by its Enamel. SENSIBLE people want SAFE BICYCLES, and safe Bicycles must Lave the best material, the most careful construction, and must be made by people who know how-makers who have learned by experience. We caz interest careful people in the construction of CRESCENT AND VIKING If they will give us tbe opportunity. We'll show what goes into them, and explain why they are better than others. Come and see us. Sulfa Hardware Co. Headquarters for everything in the line of Bicycle Sundries and Fittings. W. W. SULLIVAN, Manager Bicycle Department.