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DIXON or Inquiry Into the Z\Lo r Southern J lu a recent letter to the editor of the News and Courier, Hev. Thomas Dixon spoke of Kobert C. Ogden, the leader of the so-cilled Southern relo cation movement, as a negro lover, and his remarks brought forth a de fense from the Columbia Mate. Mr. l>ixon has replied, and hU reply, which was furnished the News and Courier a- well as the Mate, appeared in both pap< rs last Friday. This is what he says; To the Kditor of the State: Thanks for your kind offer of your columns for a reply. I am sorry my letter to the News and Courier was printed in the raw. It was very hur riedly written and very clumsily ex pressed. The truth of my statements, however, cannot be questioned. The quotation in the State's editor ial from Mr. Ogden's private letter, as follows, is very vague; "The statements contained in the article have no foundation in fact, in general and in particular. "I have never uttered a word in the introduction of Hooker T. Wash ington to a public meeting that you and all my reasonable friends in the South would not cordially approve. "The allegations concerning my re lation- with colored persons in my place of business are too contemptible for notice and so absolutely absurd as to make a denial or explanation purely ridiculous." These lines were evidently not written for publication and I fear Mr. Ogden will be far mote distressed over their appearance than I am. He simply declares that his "rea sonable"* friends will cordially ap prove and that my allegations are "too contcmptablc for notice." I do not understand him to deny them. He will not deny them ever his signa ture, for Mr. Ogden, apart from his crazy notions about the negro, is a truthful and loveablc old gentleman, a very estimable citizen. I repeat my allegations with re newed emphasis and challenge Mr. Ogden or any other man to deny them. I know that his introduction of Booker T. Washington to a Cooper Union audience was a loathsome and disgusting performance, because I was present and witnessed it. Tho lady with whom I went was anything but an enemy to the negro or Mr. Ogden, a woman of well poised mind and sound common sense. When Mr. Ogden finished his remarkable speech of introduction, she turned to me, with a look of contempt, and said: "Well, I have heard of Buch things, but never in my life before did I see a white man get dowu in the dirt and kiss a negro's fect! I've enough, let's go!" I said: "No it isu't the negro's fault. He can'i help it. Ilo would crawl under the table if he could, but he can't escape. The negro is good, let's hear him." Wc stayed, and she liked the negr.) much better. Among other things he said in that introduction, I recall one sentence in substance: "Men tell me sometimes that I have made a success in life. Ladies and gentlemen, I count all my achievements and all my honors as trash compared to the glorious privi lege of standing here tonight and truthfully saying to you that I am the personal friend of the illustrious man whom I bave the honor of introducing to you." This is only a sample. I repeat the allegation that Mr. Og den walked through the Wanamakcr store in New York with bis arm around this negro, because I saw him do it. How long he kept in there on that occasion, I can't say. He may have done it unoonsciously; if bo, all the worBe, as a revelation of his char acter. I might prolong tViis controversy at great length and have muoh fun with the venerable president of the "South ern" Educational board, but I have no time at present, being under con tract to furnith three articles to great northern periodicals on this theme and its allied ones in the near future. I allow myself a single statement, however, "to make the tale simple and unvarnished; straight to the point; without tatters of passion or Mother's Ear m?JL?L? 'Jl UOTHBK'W ft**, wh m M *" IUP AMT, A/tO ?$? thm r/ar" th*t gok" that SCOTT'S EMULSION aurmuma tue extra Bmcnorn Arno ?OtfWBNMMT mo HBcmasAmr rott t Vif.."**1- ?* mOTH MOT.tBHAMO child, ? V Send for free simple. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemi?U, Si W4'S pc*?-l ?t?*, ,. . New York. \ 50c andfi.oo; all druggist*. . 4 OGDEN. tive o? .Movement l'or Education, thunder of invective." following the admonition of the editor of the State. 1 think it will be HufOcicnt to con vince the editor ar.J all hi.- .southern l eadcrs. I repeat with emphasis ujy assertion that "Mr. Ogden is a negro worship per, pure and simple," because he teaeh.es a school six days in the week on Broadway where negro equality is taught in the most direct and power ful manner possible by personal exam ; pic. Mr. Ogdcn is the head of the .lohn I Wanamakcr store in New York, and t he conducts there the only lirstclass restauraut in the metropolis where a big buck negro is allowed to enter and seat himself at the name table with a white man's wife and daughter. So far as 1 know, this is the only restau rant where such a digesting spectacle can be seen in New York, and so far as 1 know, Mr. '/./den is the originator of the idea in tl.is mwn. ' 1 am inclined .o think that our pco ! pie of the South were a little unfair to President lloosevelt about his fa ! mous lunch with Hooker T. Washing I tou. It was purely an accident of i the president's busy life. Hooker happened to be there at the lunch hour, the president wished to talk with him, atid accordingly lunch was served in an informal manner. Mr. Iloosovclt did not mean to preach I social equality with negroes he does J noi believe in it. In the heat of I politics we of the South didn't tote : fair with our dashing young presi dent. i But in Mr. Ogden's case, we have ' the real thing; an honest, earnest, well-meaning Yankee fanatic who does believe in it with all his soul. He not only believes in it, he preaches ! it. iic not only preaches it, he prac I tioes it. I have nothing to say about j what be may choose to do at his own j table in his owu home. But 1 have the right as a citizcu and patron of his store to object to h?3 attempt to force my family to cat at the samo table with negroes. The State declared, before learning my identity, that "tho author's inti macy with thingc southern is not the point, his knowledge of Mr. Ogden's mode of association with persons of color is the question at issue." The point is well taken. I have voted in New York continuously since 1BR??. My knowledge on this issue is ample and first-hand. Mr. Ogden's store is the only one where I keep an open account from year'to year. I have had this account thero about ten years. My wifo (and daughter now, also) aro alllictcd with tho "Wana makcr V.abit" (a disease for which Kcc?y never in' - 'd any cure.) They go there an*. all day- ?ytand on their fect, looking at his tempting wares, as the tippler hangs around a saloon, until thoy come home at night in a condition of collapse. I can't blame them. They arc made that way. Mr. Ogdcn koeps a fine store? a tempting store -one of tho beBt in America. In all my dealings with him, ho has never sold mo a shoddy piece of good?I have always got my money's worth. As a morchant, ho is a man of the highest order of gonius. But as a tcaoher on the race problem, ho is a man of profound and pathetic ignoranoe, where money and position make him a fanatic of dangerous and far-reaching power. If Mr. Ogden ran a restaurant for nogroes and whites apart from his store, it would be a matter of little importauce. It would become a negro joint in a few weeks. No first-class restaurant in New York dares allow negroes at its tables. But Mr. Og den's dining room is not run to make money. It is there for the accommo dation of his women shoppers, that they may not leave as long as their money last9, hence tho atrocity of his use of it for the purpose ef preaoh ing'.aoeial equality. If you ask me why I ooctinuo to patronise his store, I say to you frankly that I am a married man. I don't patronize his restaurant, nor do my wife and daughter. I have begged and pleaded with my wife in vain for years, trying to rescue her from the slavery of the " Wan p maker habit/' As well talk to an opium? eater or an old toper! She has sworn to me again and again that she will reform, but the minute she strikes New York, straight to Mr. Ogden's store she goes; I don't object to her going there on his account?far from it. She is a good Georgia girl, who graduated on tho raoe problem loog ago. I confess tny reasons aro finan cial. I am now consumed with a seorct hope that when Mr. Ogden reads this he will find it so "contemptible," so "absolutely absurd," as to make "a denial or explanation purely ridicu lous," and that be will order the head of bis bouk department to throw "The Leopard's Spots" and "The Clans man' out ami make my nauic taboo in his shop forever more. Then, oh Lord, will 1 give thanks, f<-r my wife will never go there any more, and I fdiall be saved! At least, I'll save from $500 to $1,000 annually. If the editor of The State wishes to test the question of Mr. Ogdcn's piti ful negro obsession, let him challenge the president of the "Southern" Edu cational conference to give up his ne gro propaganda restaurant, or resign his presidency! I'll guarantee that negroes will continue to eat with WH I'IK ladies in his store, and that the conference will find a new presid ing ofliccr! I may be mistaken; it is barely possible that Mr. Ogdcn's in novation of the past few years in asso ciating with Southern white people may have broadened his mind but I will not believe it until 1 see it. The State asks why I have delayed my attack on the efforts of a group of good Inartcd, weak minded Yankee philanthropists to pauperize the edu cational system of the South in the interests of negro equality. Again, I will be frank. This "Southern" Educational society is composed of many of my warm per sonal friends, among them Mr. l'agc, my publisher. They are in dead ear nest and their aim is high, and in the main, good. I have hoped that they might shake off the influence of such men as Ogden and >he editors of the northern negro organs like the Outlook. Hut it seems a vain hope. The truth is, these negro propagandists are the men who secure the funds which make the "Southern" Educational board a power to be reckoned with. Asa Southerner, who loves the South and the North, and who believes that the South has performed a migh ty Hcrvice for this republic in preserv ing our racial integrity in spite of the ellorts of such men as Ogden to cor rupt it, I view with suspicion the Greeks who boar gifts. And I venture mildly to suggest that a "Southern" Educational board with its headquar ters in a negro equality restauraut on Broadway, New York, is a legitimate subject of discussion. The State has been deceived, at leasi about Mr. Ogden, -whose real in terests have always been with the ne gro during his entire life. He is the president of the board of trustees of the negro school at Hampton, and on tho board at Tuskegec. If be were to deny over his signature his negro lov ing obsession, ii. would raise n laugh among his friends which could be heard to Philadelphia. This soft spot iu his brain is so well known here that it is a joke, and is excused by his more robust associates as a mild form of in sanity. It is a good time for The State to gracefully withdraw as an Ogdenito obampion. Yoc. are not bound to keep it up. Many subtle forces are at work in America to undermine the barriers which separate our 0,000,000 Africans from tho white race. There is enough negro blood here, if allowed to mix with ours, to drown the national char acter at last in a wcltor of negroid mongrclism. Neither toloration, edu cation nor religion can make a negro a white man, nor justify the pollution of our blood with bis? In my humble judgment the most insidious, dangerous movement against Southern sentiment since the war is concealed behind the fair front of tho "Southern" Educational board, with its millionaire backers, of which Mr. Robert C. Ogden of the Hampton ne gro school, proprietor of tho Broad way negro equali'.y restaurant, is chairman. Thomas Dixon, Jr. New York, June 6. m m>- m - Her First Railroad Ride. An old lady in Missouri took he? first railroad trip last week, says the Butler Democrat. She noticed the bell-cord over-head, and turning to a boy, she said: "Sonny, what's that for?"' "That, marm," he said, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye, "is to ring tho bell when you want some thing to eat." Shortly afterward the old lady reach ed her umbrella up to the oord and gaze it a vigorous pull. Tho train was in the middle of a trestle. The whistle sounded, the brakes were pull ed on, the train began to slaoken its speed, windows were thrown up, ques tions asked, and confusion reigned among tho passengers. The old lady sat calmly through it all. Presently tho conductor came run ning through the train and asked: "Who pulled the bell?" "I did," replied the old lady meek ly. "Well, what do you want?" asked the conductor impatiently. "Well," said the old lady medi tatively, "you may bring me a ham sandwitoh and a.cup of tea, please." ? When a 180-pound woman loses half a pound in weight because she ii wearing lighter clothes she spe?,ka of the day when she was so much stouter than she is now. ? It is next to impossible not to have some money if you don't get married. ' V i' : : " 1 ' . . ' ;W- .: :\\ ' v :'? ' ' -.u:.?,?>> ' '. > ' :. ?.,<1 v>- v -.. .-. v^- J^.Jf [ ' ' ;.V" Dr. McConnel'8 Vagary. There is an ev?;.j money chance in our opinion that the pastorate of the Clifton Heights Presbyterian church of Des Monies, is goin<.' to bo vacant be fore very long. It is now occupied by the Rev. Dr. A. W. McConnell, an able aud earnest divine, and it is one of the most fashioned parishes in the Iowa city. As far as we know Dr. McConnell has no present intention of going elsewhere, but the opinion we have formed is drawn from an an nouncement whioh he made to Iiis iloek last Sunday. Ile requested that persons attending services iu the Clif ton Heights Presbyterian Church would in future wear just as enexpen sivc clothes a* they could, to the crd that no one, however huaiblc, might be embarrassed by the poverty of his or her own garments. So radical a departure as this naturally occasioned much comment and surprise; and the future will all depend upon the efforts which Dr. McConncll may make to in sist upon its observance. The place of purple and, tine linen iu modern worship is too well estab lished to be lightly -tampered with or denied. The picture hat and the Eas ter frock as means to salvation are widely approved by the pew anl tacit ly accepted by the pulpit. It is all very well for Dr. McConncll to wish that poor people should not feel badly in his church, but are not his parish ioners also entitled to protection for their feelings? If the church is, as reported, one of the most fashionable in Des Moines, these latter are great ly in the majority. They are entitled to enjoy their religion to the utmost, and Dr. McConncll or any one else to the contrary notwithstanding, there never was a woman who could enjoy her religion or anything else as much in home-made calico as in the modest made silk. A sudden burst of enthu siasm may for a few Sundays sober the hue of the gowns seen in the Clifton Heights Presbyterian Church, but if Dr. McConncll persists in this vagary of his it is much to be feared that most of his parish'oners will discover before fall that his sermons are begin ning to loose that soul satisfying quality they once possessed and that the "spirit" is not manifesting itself as powerfully in his private ministra tions as it once did.?News and Cou rier. Foot Raca Shifted His Heart. Shippcnsburg, Pa./, May 30.?Burd Duke, of this place, died last evening after a lingering illness and a remark able experience. About 20 years ago he took part and won in a foot raoe, but as a result of his exertion his heart is supposed to have changed from the left to the right side and he fell ex hausted at the end of the race. Since then he has been a great sufferer. Last night a post mortem was held by Dr. E. S. Berry, in the presence of the other doctors of town, and his heart was found on the right side, and his stomach in the place where the heart should have been on the loft side, and grown fast to the left lung. He was about45 yoars of ago and a man of wonderful endurance. It is a question whether there is a similar case on record. Fooled. A regiment of soldiers was drawn up for churoh parade in the barrack square, but the ohuroh was being re paired and could only hold half of them. "Seargeant-major," shouted the colonel, "tell all the mon who don't want to go to churoh to fall out'on the reverse flank." Of course a large number quickly and gladly availed thomselves of the privilege. "Now, aeargeant-major," said the oolonel, "dismiss all the men who did not fall out rfnd maroh the others to churoh; they need it most."?London Standard. Let Common Do you hontestly believe, that c tc tl ti is d li Ii 8i al t? ? Thl* Htm Md? UON COF7E& Millions of American Home There is no ntronger proof of ) ing popularity, "Quality ffurv (Sold only in 1 lb. packages. .{Savo your "Lion-head SOLD m GROCI OLD TOURAINE. As Rich In Historic Interest as In Nat ural Beauties. Tourainc u as rich in historic in ten ^t as it is in natural beauties. The house of Valois had a special liking for the banks of the Loire, and tlx' great nobles of their court built ne;:r the royal residences their own < hat eaux?marvels of architec tural L'ni'/o, strength and beauty, but of which there is not Q stone that is not cemented with blood, for the Valois lived in an atmosphere of intrigue, fraud and violence. They were always being conspired against, and they met plot with counter plot. If treason could not bo met with force, a sudden surprise or a stab in the dark or the malignant skill of some Italian chemist laid to rest forever suspicions which might have been unfounded. It is but fair to stale, however, that this was not often the case, for the nobles were turbulent and ambitious, and when not engaged in waging war openly or covertly with their sovereign, quarreled among themselves and led forth their retainers to surprise or besiege a neighboring castle. On the battlement of every donjon there was a watchman, day and night, ever on the lookout for the glint of arms in the valley below, and ready to his hand was a huge born, one blast of which would alarm the garrison and bring them to the walls. A few feet below the watchman there dangled from a jut ting beam the corpse of some poor wretch, and in the loathsome dun geons beneath the moat others were chained to the recking walls, for ev ery castellan had the right of ad ministering "greater and lesser jus tice" and could dispose of the lives and liberties of his vassals as he deemed lit. He had other privileges also, some 'of which make us wonder why the revolution did not come some centuries earlier. ? Frederick Lees in Architectural Record. Calvinized. One very hot day Dr. (?eorge E. Ellis, the historian, going to an in formal dinner with a friend, wore a very comfortable but unfashionable thin coat and manila hat. A noto riously orthodox clergyman began to banter the Unitarian divine regarding his big straw hat, where upon Dr. Ellis replied that he would not have a word said against that article of apparel, inasmuch as it had been a good friend of his for four years. "Why," exclaimed his friend, "how could it have lasted so long?'" "Because it has been Cal vinized," replied Dr. Ellis. The host, misunderstanding the word, inquired with amazement how the hat could be galvanized. But Dr. Ellis, with a sl}r twinkle in his eye, looked straight at the orthodox min ister as he replied: "I did not say 'galvanized/ I said the hat had been Calvinized?dipped in brimstone." A Useful Member. The small son of a clergyman who was noted for his tiresomo ser mons overheard two friends of his father saying how dry they were, and how hard it was to keep awake during them. The following Sun day, while the minister was preach ing, he was astounded to see his son throwing pebbles at the congrega tion from the gallery. The clergy man frowned angrily at him, when the boy piped out in a clear treble voice : "It's all right, pop. You go on preaching; I'm keeping them awake."?Harpers Weekly. His Slight Mistake. 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