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r ,50*vv!t-. »c-Jte —V. • •' < -.Sr tsr.s i‘i3J jK.<' f ■Br'W’T, 1 ?’ ; ■’,4iir. *,« • f "^iV. ■ .<■’ x w •. 1 u '•- *■ w s-' & fc j* r > ^ *. IP. :v m * 3** i .•or VOL. XXV. « BAKSWELL SOUTH 1 i lY, NOVEMBER 7. 2$5S^£*it ■:./ tI0 N ofthb boob. does anj one Inagioe that rach Ml- THB anBgXMN OFTgB HOUR -- erniflc ThwaaelT**?—Facta aad Opimona From an Ut4«al«* lCe4 Source. Congressman John F. ShafroUi, of Colorado, has just returned from a visit to the Philippine Islands, tod herewith is given a statement of his QhssrtaUons: — * if tha intelligence of tho Americans takeo as the standard by which capacity for self-government is to ' fcKtt U li very donbtfnl BKsr people are capable ami maintaining are- publican form of government. Every country has peoples of high and low and if we are to assume that the tn4n of lowest order of civilization are to rule, we might ex dude ffom self-government every na tion on earth. It ta the experience of mankiml, however, that the intelligent ciaeses in all the countries rule. That being true, there are very few peoples who are not capable of self-govern ment. It was Henry Clay who said that it was impossible for him to con ceive of a iwopje who were incapable of self-government. * Of the republics of Central and South America, it is sate tossy that, although they may not be as perfect in the ad ministration of affairs as the United States, yet they have given to the peo ple governments far better and freer from acts of tyranny and oppression than the governments which preceeded them. The general Impression exists among many Americans that tha Philippine people are eavagee. A visit 10 the i»- Inuda will rtnsnh—-*i de lasion. The member* of the unciv ilised uihes of the archipelago ate few Ih oofitber, compateJlo TYetoul pop. ulauon.lhe) are fewer in prupuitiuo than were the tnbee of Indiana in Am erica at the time of the establishment of oar republic They rove to band* and are as hostile to the Futpinoe as were the red m* u u> our forefather* When 1 find behind the prescription deebb of lbs numnrou* drag store* of tha tolanda, m-n when kept by Ameri cans and Bag.i*hm-n, kilipmue com pounding medicine* taken from Houles labeled in Latin, wbru 1 *ce behud govern them, m the nous ter of banka Laving iazg* capital, nativea aclkPg aa h«H>fe keeper* and aa receiving and payiag teller*; when I find them a* meirhsnt* •od clerks tn aim-et ail I idea of boaineaa, aa telegraph operator* and ticket agems, oondnrtor* and engineers u(>oci rail- rued* and as muatetana rendering epoo almost all iaetmmenU high class music, when I am told ibet they alone make the oheervatinne and intricate cakuia- Uooa at the Meada obeervetorr and that prior to the uveunwiUon there were 2.100 school* In the iaianda and 5000 Modem a la attendance at the Manila untveraily; when I Hod the bet tel daaa living in good, labetantiaJ and asm a times elegant houses, and many of them pursuing professional occopa lion, I cannot but conclude that it In a vile slander to compere these people to the Apaches or the American In diana. Bren the civUiatog teat of Chnstianily is in (heir favor, aa n (renter ptop^ioo are member* of the church lhaa among our own |ieopie. Of the 8,006,000 of inhabitants, Mr. Sawyer, in his Work oi the Philippine Islands, asserts that 5,866,000 are Christian natives. * But even as to the Indians, aa an- giTjlinod as thij amj ha, our -govern- meat recognize* that it produces a better condition of things to ink them got era themselves, and thereby we even re cognize in them a capacity for self- government. We do not role them— we make treaties with them as we do with nations. We do not appoint a jvernor or commission to govern nor judges to administer laws among them, nor a police force to maintain order. We let them select thnlr own chiefs, punish iheir own criminals, and in every way govern themselves so long as they stay on Uteir own reservations. The instinct of self government im planted in man makes him ordinarily a better agent in managing hia own family and affairs than would be one of greater ability or higher education without that interest. And as with man, so with naiions, that same prin ciple of self-betterment onlin&rily makes each nation most capable of managing it* affaire to the advancemoat of its own people. , No better illustration of this can be found that: in the action of the mem bers of the civil commission of the Philippine islands in fixing official sal aries to be paid out of funds collected from ‘ the people of a poor and alien race. They voted to the governor, who is a member of the commission, a salary of $15,000 per annum and |15 a day for sufisistence, making jn the ag gregate a salary of 820,375 a year. The governor ia also farnii-hed a fine house la which to reside. To each 6f the uomuission they voted a compensation, including subsistence of 815,000 per annum. They voted a yearly salary of 87,500 to the secretary of the commis- • sion, of 87,000 to each of the six (an hteOCURe supreme coori, of 87,i to the qhfcf justice, of 86,000 treasartt, of 86,000 to the director- general of posts, and of 86,000 to the collector of customs. All of these sal aries are payable in gold. 1 do net 'wish to impugn the honesty of the oommisstoosrs, but to cH l ,aitentiotr lo the fact that such action naturallT grows out of the attempt of one peoplt to govern another. If that oodtiniasion Ware responsible to,* ooostiiaency, less then that of the territory of New Mexico, yet the governor of Mexico re ceives only 83,000 per annum, and is not allowed anything for aubeietence nor furnished with an executive man sion. Think of a commissioner, appointed from Washington (a place 10,000 miles from the Philippine islands) composed of men who never saw the land they govern prior to the Spanish war, who do not speak or read the language of the Philippine people, and who are not even the same race as their sub jects, voting to each-member a salary which is nearly doable that of a cabi net officer of the greatest nation of the world, and three times that of a sena tor of the United States, and voting to a territorial governor a salary more than double that of the governor of the wealthiest State in the union. How must such aciioo appear to the Filipino Lborer, who, famishing his own food end lodging, earns bit twenty-five cents in gold a dayl It most be re- nitmbered that wealth is nothing more titan stored labor, and that in the last analysis labor in one form or another •pays all taxes. Such action cannot bat make the little brown man doubt the ability of one nation to give good gov ernment to another. Does not the conflict of interest between us and the Philippine people, arising from tbs growing of competing stable products, render us incapable of governing them, to their best tnteresiT Wn know ihal^ it will be to the welfare of the islands to give free trade with the United States. American,Spaniards and Kd»- pinoe there unanimously agrAe that the isleode cun never be well developed vithnat iv, yet the very fact that we 1 hesitate in the matter, shows that we are coa*u!ungour own internet tuatauri ' of xbrir*. No matter bow learned and ! ju»t the judge may ha, tha ctbioe of { cur jumcrodeoce baa determined that I he w incapacitated from deciding a i ca*e when hie own interest might be affected. >auooe are hot aggregation* I of loaieidaala and are subject to the ’sine influences. The PUi|*ao ia not a bold, warlike or annilr peraou; be tmprweeee every ' owe aa of * abnakiag, eubmiaalee, kind ! nature and aa oue wbo will suffer graai wrung* before be will reeiet. Snch , people always appeal to the lew and ] »opport good govemasent. They have , nut the tendency of the Spaniard to ward revotnuoo. The revolts tn which they have participated have been to overthrow Spanish raigoe of terror, al- ; muet equal ta barbarity lo that of the , Duke of Alva is the Netherlands. The brief experteuce they had in •elf government prior to the Ineurrwo. j Iron, wee entirely la their favor, fbey , eetabitahed e government modeled after 1 our owu. Their State papers would have done credit to any aaUoo. They I inaugurated good judicial, echooi and | revenue •yetria* and preserved law and order. I Consul Barrett, a strong supporter | of the preeeut administration, wrote of the hundred snuu who Philippine Qoogreaa ns follows “ These mew, whose sessions I re peatedly not be true to oar nature end fulfill the prayer of Lincoln that government of the people for the people add by the people shall not perish from the. earth.” John F. Sh a froth. Manila, P. I. BILL ARP HAS LOST FAITH. seivee with great a knowledge of debate and parliamen tary law that would compere favorably with the Japanese parliatnrui The executive poruou of the governtaaot wee made up of a minwtry of bright men, who seemed to understood their respective rm fttfUmina when IFmOgHS: pointer of the president, speaking of the PhtHpphie government, said: “ Aguioaldo has made life and pro perty safe, preserved order, and en couraged a continaaiiotM>f agricultural pursuits. He has made brigandage end loot impossible, respected private property, forbidden excess either in re venge or In the name of the State, and made a woman's honor safe, in Luton, than it has been in three bundled years.” Admiral Dewey, it will be remem- beied, cabled: “ These people are far superior in theirikitelligence, and more -iroverumeol capable of sell-government than the natives of Cuba; and I am familiar with both races.” The best evidence of the ability of the Philippine people to g jvern them se'ves, is that they poeeesa a large in telligent class, thorovghly identified in interest with the islands and capable of administering good government. The civil cominisaion has recognised Uiis ability by recently adding three native members to that governing body; by appointing three Filiptn* judges of the supreme court; by select ing aliout half of the judges of the first inatanee and nearly all the governor* uf the provinces from that race; and by appointing a solicitor-general and many other officers from the natives. Are these officials not in the govern ing btulness, and do they not perform their Wbrk as veil as the American if Is it possible that • they ere capable of governing because they were appoint ed by the repreeentotDes,of a distent nation? Wceld they lose that Ability if elected or chosen by ppiperlf «on- stituted authority of their own# In ths ‘ Ii r officers, because they would coo salt only the inter* st of their own peo ple /nttead of that of a nation 7,000 nirey. e law of our being is that u the powers of government are derived the consent of the governed.” en why continue a policy which means the continuing lorn of millions to the government, the weakening of the military power of the nation aao the destruction of the policy which we have grown so grant? Why The Roosevelt-Washing ton Din ner Has Aronaed Hie Anger and He Gets Fighting Mad, Atlanta Constitution. It looks now like my old friend, Evan Howell, has lost his influence with the new President, and X have lost my faith. Hope and despair are sometimes not far apart. Last week I was sanguine, which means hopeful, confident; and now I am sanguinary, which means fighting mad. “ This world is all s fleeting show, For man's delnsiwn given ; Aad yon can’t always sometime* moat generally tell what is going to hap pen.” The smartest doctor can’t diagnose every case, nor cures disease if the patient does not want to be cured. My idol is shattered. I wish that Brann was alive witn his Iconoclast. Maybe he could do justice to thesiioaiion sod save me the use of language. Bob Toombs said that the fnnantcism of our Norther* brethren at^mi the negro fatigued hia indignation, ami josi a* now our contempt is getting tired. The day after I read about it I couldn’t re alise it, nor did I believe it was as bad as pictured, and so I waited for light— ipore tight—I had an idea that Bouksr Waahimrtuo in some way happened in aliooi dinner time, aad Mr. Roosevelt, having more hrait than head, thonghl- iaaely netted tom sw an flow « table. 1 thought that maybe he sym pathised with the man who had done so much for bis raye and was tahmed everywhere by white people and hotel* ami churche* sod white folk*, car* sod opera homes, end *o hie heart got the setter of hie bead and he did it in ba*te and would repent at his leisure. 1 thought It wee juet nue case, for The New York Pree* said W was unique. Than 1 remembered that Cleveland in vited the dusky queen of the Handwdi islands to the White House, and maybe itoueevail looked upon Booker Wash ington aa a kind of ambassador or chief of a for*tea race, aad I kept on thin* tag and hunting aronod for an *xplana boa or pelltaUuu until it wa* dme»>var ed that tha com was not unique, for he did a 1th* thing bufcrtai Albany, while ha wan governor, and that he eent hi* children to school with negro chi.dree at OyMor Bay Then i gave it up. He has sadly disappointed hie friends aad dishonored the Mate hie mother cam* from and desecrated the President'* mansion It in no longer the While House, but like the chameleon, take* aay color that cornea. Now 1 suppose that Mias Washing too, who is at Wsliaaisy collage, will be a welcome visitor at tha maoatoo daring bar vacs maybe Roosevelt's son will fail ia love with her and marry her without having to elope. That is the tendency of thM new departure—this no. But a hopeful mao, aa optimist, should wait a few days and mtaale. Time is a good doctor and ue net as mads this morning os 1 ta lari week. ( think maybe that it ta not as bad a com aa 1 think it is. By nature I am a good daal like my good, oM, kind-hearted mother, who gently took everybody’s part who wa* abuaed. One day my father came bom* very - «• didn't mean it and Will make U all right after while.” Father got irri tated a little with «uother and said: 44 Caroline, I believe you would de fend the old devil U be was here on trial.’' And she Mid: “ Well, I have sometimes thought that too much was laid on him.” — I still believe that Roosevelt ia na turally a good, big-hearted man and be didn't think that his tfflcial position limited his private and domestic rights. The White House was his home—his caatle and he could ask in or shut out whomsoever he pleased. He was born d jpred at the North, Where a foSAaBtand fanatical sympathy with the Southern negro is almost universal. It monopolixed the press end the pal pit, though they knew no more about the negro and his racial instincts than we know about Bulgaria and the Mace donian bandits. What a strange folly is that sympathy. Its tendency is to spoil the most contented aad happiest race on earth. Sometimes I envy them their merry nature. Booker Washing ton seems in earnest in his efforts to elevate end refine hie- people, but I doubt whether be is really doing them any good. To labor is their nature and the higher education unfits them for it. I fcuppose that Tuskrgee has tnrned out 2,000 or 3,000 graduates, but where are they end what are they doing? We never hear of one in this region and and last year a ptofessor from Tusca loosa declared publicly in Atlanta that he had been to Tuskegee aad myeati- gated *and could bear of only about a dozen out af 1,200 who were at work. Thq moat of them come ont mechanics butJMOtogto convictsin oir fittiton- tiary, anduow thefu are 4,000 b Geoc- fiC-and. ilia number increase# as the veaxe roll on in epito of echodlk, col lege* and: millions ef Northern money. Thp good negroeb ere on the terns end under the dominion of their land lords. It is safe to say that 76 per eent of the negroes about the towns and cities will steel, and that 50 per cent of the negro children are born out of law ful wedlock. Two of our negro bar bers decamped to Bessemer last week —one has been keeping three wives and the other two, bat they left them end took two new ones along with them. We have got so accustomed to this state of negro morale that it ex cites no comment. Some white men will rob banks and abduct children and hold up trains and embezzle money and cheat in trade and run blind tigers and moonshine whisky. Bnt nearly all negro servants will take little things— little money or jewelry or a pair of scissors or «tamped envelopes or a little nee or coffee or sugar. They all do this, and we sub ait to it because they si 111 make kind, good naimed servants and we need them. And so the race problem goes on, bat 1 will prophesy seme good to come from Roosevelt. He Is a crank about some things, but be is fearless, independent, self-reliant and will do just aa he do«oo pleases. Mythology tells ns that King Augean had a herd of 3,000 oxen, whoM etabtes bad not been cleaned out for thirty veers* and Hercules came along one day and got a whiff of the foul odors aud turned two nvera through them and cleaned them ont in a day. I be lieve that Rooeevalt is for clean, honest vsork in tha government department* and will clean out the AoReao stables, •f b* ha* to turn the Potomac river ‘m.-ikiMp He has jo.t appointee Mr. Foulk* Vo the bead of the civil service commiseion. Foulke baa long b#eo tha pfbMChtor of frauds, purjunns and evasion*, the t* ror of puMmaalara, the watch-dog ef puMlc officials, bnt he was handicapped by .Mtliliciaas. Hr will aweep the deck now, for he sod tha lYestdem are of • >oe mind on that law. Tbs vtnore will no looner get all lb* epotls. But we want the President to let the negro •loo% The race problem beiooge to ill be ti-Uied oa a wise sod human* bast* if tbs tool yaokae editor* sod preachers will let us alo*e. But we watt aad woteh sod soma r >od people will pray for deiivernace— deliver ua from evil.” 1 bava'l giveo up Mr. Bwusevelt yet. 11 w* could only get Mm down bore for two or three year* be woe id become *o dm- RMted with tb* negro and bo •xaritog that they wouldn’t hire to him. Our •bnervatiou long ha* beau that the Northern people who come booth to live eoon get their eyes opened aad ua- deretand tha eituanoa. Not kmg ago the editor of a Baptist paper la New York aaid that the booth was not isody for i* now, but the Usee would toon com* when tmacegeuatiou would be found the beet eoietiost of tha race problem. And only lost week the editor of a Hepublleea paper defended Mr. Roosevelt and eoM that ta another Renaratioo social rqnaiitv between the race* would be eniveteai at tha booth aad it was well to start it at tha White House. With *och malignant fools w* can do nothing, for they are too far off. Bnt they had better shinny on their own side. Bill Aar. P. b.—I am gratified that Mr*. Park and other* have come to the rescue of Nancy Hart and have establish- d her onghAtohav* a to recoid nod ptoeerr* these thing*. Fifty years from now somebody will be saying that Hill Arp wa* a myth, and I wouldn’t like it. B. A. N. B.—We read that the American Missionary Association at Chicago have indorsed the President and com mended social eqnality between the races. It is about time row for the bine end the gray to embrace again. Let brotherly tore continue. B.A. ' Later from the front. The unique has vanished and Roosevelt’s capers have become multifarious, ubiquitous and ridiculous. , Hope for a season bids the South farewell. To your tents, Oh, Israeli Call off the dogs. Pm going out to work in my garden. B.' A. r YOU*G XBN FAIL “ blind tiger ” r: The defend- case is ed into 'gentlemen and are living off of their kinfolks. A few have been sent to Africa to start the $Mton busi ness, end it Is to be- hoped the! the other* will go there end stey. Echica tion is not what the negto ttands most in need of. U ta e reform in moral*. It is the unprejudiced opinion of the mo-t conservative observers that they are the moet thievish, unchaste race upon the fabe of the earth, end they if infinitely wiwae now than they were when in slavery. In 1870. there were. The L«ch of rw mb* arm Mayjrmavweww am ensi mm» * ****** v ~ n*K*rlP nnnn .h~a.RU #0 expert t* the Urett sS&ss'.iire rest Ft shonkleflr rests'the btlity of John Wenamaker’e greet York establishmenl, is of opinton, based on forty-odd years’ experience in the employment of young men, that all the censes oontribative to failure in a business career ere embraced in e single comprehensive negative qn^*JSSoAttS" of thoughness—that paucity tty—lack of intellect which begets the perfunc tory performance vf duty and deprives the hand of dominfiting skill. Per haps no man tn U>e' drygoods trade ft belter qualified to speak convtnetngly on the snb|ect of why men fell than Mr. Qgden, end this Is whet, he says about that very important question: Failure to achieve succes. tn busi ness, the falling short of great desires and high aims on the part of young men, is traceable to one primal cause— the ebeence of Ihorougheess. in the race for supremacy in all commercial endertakioge, nine ont of every ten men, cither fail absolutely or become non entitles, not because they lack am bition. not because the proper oppor tunities for advancement have not come to them, not because they have not received the beet educatiooal ad vantages or ere handicapped by poor health, but because tbev have never been at the pains to master completely the thing that has been given them t * do. The world to overcrowded wtlb men, young and old, who remain sta tionary, filling minor positions sod drawing meagre aalariM, slmplv be cause tony have never thought it worth while to achieve mastery in the par- young man fear* h*-d work, and wonld rather,drift with tha Udeof^ircum. stances |Bnq poll against it. Evarywhers 1 aae mentally near- sinhied young men discontented bn- Cause of Ufttr •mall incomes, aod ebaf- tag under the harden of ibetr boa druip dettes, wondering all lb* wbtl* why oth-r* are advanced and they are toft behind, but never for aa inetaoi opening 'heir eye* lo the real (art that they have taken bold of ih«ir bueioaaa with Hut half a heart aod no mind ex cept for what to jest beyond the hoar's who writes legibly under all condition* and at all tunes is as rare M hen's Take the average stenographer; be ' transcrip- „ . te Is more often a perfect ass in making gram- malicql, well-phrased and correctly punctuated English of the necessarily harried flictatlod of his lku»y employer. There to no deportment -of human ac tivity tn busineeq or the .professions where MUorp .professions • doe to the of 1 Iwacb^ oat t,™ There Uf'ooe men day who begun the sami time school (sad that, as one stay read in my whitening bqir, was many years ago) who has not stepped forward ode inch bn the rp4d to success... Thi> men has a' fine bralr, and keeps abreast of current events. He (s sober, honest aod courteous, but he bar never Burned a higher salary than fifteen dollars k week, and all because be to a JacluOf all trades and master of none. He to shifted about from one department to another in a vain endeavor to find the one in which he will prove himself of greatest value. He has lived the life of a mere automaton and doe* things mechanically. Other mea of oos-tbird his number of yeare can tell him move ahool hit own bnetnees in half an hour than ha would care t<» listen to An old tnan, he to still di-sati»fled with hto lot, but will not remedy it by acquiring a thorough knowledge of some one branch of the diy good* trade. It to pitiful, but not inexplicable To the voung di»o wbo wonld rise la tbs world I have but one wo d of caution—be thorough if you do not aant to be numbered amotts the worM’e failures . .i 1 think our American spirit of SaeS- .... JuU#r ' lesaness hs« n>u< h to do wtlb personal ■stly, tbto to so tiscons* the svsraga r—— — - - Tha crying cure* of our land at lb* preeeut Urns to it* vast army of i*©.«•- peteeta, and Ua lack of workars who kao* their hoetoese from ths around up Eor every ihdroughly informed and oompetaat eaUemaa wbo baa sought tmpioyaseui at my hand* than- have beau a hundred wbo were of mediocre ability or down-nght Inca- |IMIl ^ pnctiy. There are too many young T procaiais wbo are coolant to remain tha “beware of wood aod drawer* of water,” because they will sot step be yond the beaten path to acquire thor fsi'ors. The fever ta gsimtcTTPS .od honor t a bunr toofl* ter % attiring of wart pud laxity'of aeon la. Jfa 1 have too In 1« of tba stubb-rueaa of purpose of out; early ancestor* Mod- j era Ilfs to slm>at a game of V-oeb and go. IVe ere striving cootinu* ly to, I acc*>mpii*b more than w* are boilt t j sccouidisb; tba tweatletb east ary man I to a t#o-borM power engine iryi»g to do the’ w»rh of a freight locum on ve. i Tba lendracy of the average joang i mao la o fly before be bo* laorwad lw crawi. Ha will quota you Kmaraoe's phraM, ** Hitch your wagoo to a star,” but be forgets that on* must firm gal near enough to hto paiticuior star bo- 1 fore the hlichtog ptooees coo be an- compltohad There to on* kind ef ambittoo bat w..ra* only foe evil, and that to tb* kind of amhstioa whmb soys, M I will succeed at one* Lot ihuM who have to, piod aloof. I wftt if* straight tn tba mark.” Nothi I bat tb* pares* folly o>mld dictate *U of eoodue: for a yuftuf mreiy tha Almost evary year I am colled I young mea who working day in the epoo to reeetve some comm te me highly for a position la our The latter* of lo«ro- ductloo those applicants bring me are naualiy of a staraotypad form, in whleh soma wall-maaalnf pastor or parson of lofloeooe to osrtato that “young Mr. Smith will prove a great acquisition Jo your bosioem,” or that “Mr. Brown, with hi* eepenor Intellect esd many eccompitohn ants, will undoubtedly be 4 valuable aid in tome of the more re sponsible bertbeut your disposal.” My v.- An intereetini reported from Kentucky ant, being requested by others to pur chase whiskey for them, took the money furnished by them and placed it, with empty bottles on a rock, then walked out of sight, aod in a short time returned, when he found the money gone and the bottles filled with whiskey, which he delivered to the purchasers. He teetified that he wae not interested in the sale, and did not know who furnished the liquor j that he had no understanding with any one tint he was to receive compensa tion or reward for bis service# in pro curing the whiskey. He was convicted of the offenee of selling liquor in viola tion of the local option law, aod it was held by the Court of Appeals of Ken- tacky, in affirming the conviction, that tve’been traus- l w trtclr . subterfuge, device or pre tence shall be permitted to shield violations or evasions of the local op tion law. pastors are notably Rev. Jeeae H. Page, irgant vma.g, dS rhtoper, aa; in the rear North- Carolina considerate. The while preach lag at Morgan ton, a rec- fleot summer evening, dropped his v ine almost to a whisper, saying : “I the brethren in the rear wUl.es UlUik freak me if they do not hear. If er I will awaken those in the what ta this vein “ Whaiene to* ffot** I “Oh, 1 con do anything, Mr. Ogden I am aa aii-rouod mao^nd have AQ«d many responsible poellioba.” “Can yon taka charge of our silk de partment aad buy to advantage in the at Mil in as weU our open market etore ?” / “Well, no. I do not understand the details of buying sills.” “Can you go down in our shipping department and take charge of the general freighting of goods, or direst our city deliveries ?” “I have been e shipping clerk, but am afraid I couldn’t quite take ail tb responsibility of the shipping depart ment.” “Perhaps yon can assume thh man agement of our interior decoration* department aod auggeat to patrons harmonious color schemes for floor, wall* aod draperies?” “I’m afraid I couldn’t do that, air. I can aell carpets aihd wall paper, but I don’t understand interior decorat ing “ TBIffiM from the Wl Mr. Henry Uuisville ~ following derive dinner at the $1 “ Each.A»erieaa, of African pick hi* . . i afrt q was a rt ^eto m it ■ nomtoever the President . •“ Neveribiese, there ere c*U them pr*j were well for for greaf in their' iog room aa a blander in pUmecy to,b* ia eodety of lOxury which to the phraM *fo to commiilt si% a solecism. *.; v ' “The PreaUeuk minded of Nobodr knowett optional. * Born toll» I tn* neck and a gwtd spoon folpef he grew up to flirt from a i playihiugs a Uoket oaiiing Itor al pnza m lb* louerjr o# Ufa oau to teospled todady oaugat^ to he a law omo bim-v'f. “ In a matter Mm ihu, w# •ask. fret of all, to be jn-t. At no old titwr Rrpeblic«a will v chide him tor teaching M • bat ibay sere tirecepi, -Aa a * uue so hto puitUcal i as ftfQllllmiH rt«Mft wea aod ia aod • q iahty o( owa. To free I •-•lursl* sod rtovsto i be uegr< • tn (V bteh p( •Oo* M ! wm o«h ih* sod U g dmirift* ef < Ual abuIttLai-m^^ghell e t tb* • «f l.Uef day b-*u J n 4 *v«n lav’ to hto Mtaie, r.iurag* of hw optatuo*? r.e ;miI« before ha fire uf beU* or‘N-ntmra am hi* pony, for iko i m*T»j la^m, u.t u«s|Uad ta l ailed Mato, bj oaoi eaul n euaid be fitted by i ■toil of color? v-W ' re iid iff the elftl it pews. »» And it ell ends in piecing the name of the applicant on our pairing list aa an ordinary salesman, tf he is thought to be worth employing at all. They all know something about everything, but only once in many cases do I find a man who know* everything about some one thing. The man wbo is the square peg in the round hole is the rule; the thorough matter of a trade or branch of businet* t* the rare ex ception that prove* the rule. Educa- tiou, breeding, even a high order of intelligence, curiously enough, are no gnarantee that their pouesaor will achieve tuccesa. Lacking the capacity for doing Ilia beet with a thoroughness beyond all criticiam, the moat gifted young mao in the universe will fail •od fall into the ranks of second-cleM plodders. in my experience Tliave found in so small a thing as penmanship average young boeiueM aatoundingly deficient. If I clerks wbo wrote e uniformly and legible hand, I could in the course of a year aave hundred* of dollar* aris ing from blunders due to careieae W I urn, B la assy to find men wbo 1 with a beautiful flourish, but f‘ mea Fatter*, after ail. is toavieg eudoee, or badly i thing* which should hav* l«eae dona, aod d «* thoroughly, ffofurffug teg J*Mf. A Oooo Roam baawoH.— wa* prrMoud ia the thriving etty of West IWt a few day* ago an objact of tb* vale* of good roods whisk Impressed all wbo saw H and a worthy of more extended ooriao ^r. M. A. llaratoon, a Troup farmer, wbo Itvne about twai* from West Point, drove a fee joainto that m foil sized bate* of weight of the poaed*, beside .kJB bavins taxed. It for him to mark if the lo exoallutt amdition. i'bar* are some couMgrete Georgia where sight bate* wodT hays been a full load for hto tea^pM than he would hav* had to travVvwy slowly. Mr. Haralson found that good road* were quite profitttble lo him in this m- ttfiffim. -The other farmers of Troup and those of neighboring conn- ho aell their crops in West Potol or iftGraog have realised often a like t. Troup ta one of the-beat fat m- .nouottes to Georgia, and its gpod add immeheely to the value of The county commissioners p County have proved their pnfiffik spirit, broad intelligence aod liberej public •pint by adopung and carrvfligout the policy that baa given the cuftfity such good roads and. the consfWAt wrest and permanent bene- fits—Aucmto Journal. Mel for* sad, A wel says that two* wishes to have ft .agricultural writer not < to do if one ih in bis neuhbore are, not to trade horses wuh them and not to buv milk eotoafiom them. Thn- ia probably said partly in jrst ano yet aa a rule, uujee* one ha* a superabun dance Mfitoek he U not g dog to trede off hju%e*t horse, the one which fill* his IBw of perfection in every respect, becalm he will always have a good c&xb-market for it. Likewise, be is un- likely to sell bis best oung cow unless he it raising a surplus t cattle for that purpose. Bat it Is not fair to e that the average per* >n will specifically end intentionally mi repre- the qualities of the stock be has to sell. The goverumeot’s grant of 34.000 eqaare miles to the Union Pacific Rail way Co., is the largest ever made to any railroad company. At the dose of the fiscal i ear 1600, there were 76/183 pom offices in ib< United States, or one to every 1,000 in habitants. 14 Truly. Washington aa Hi-lira 4a I it it (ram u. happens, this ts not our J in the cold as we may be, w* are—and hungry, yea, t’umy—yet as w* stood i White Huue windows ua hobnobbing latoea,’ not envy either of iff wfi either, 4 Wouldn’t him?* • \ .. _ t 44 We prefer to take ourcb annas'of the future. W* had rather waft UtT iMtr time* comes. Somehow the lodk absiad do a ant seem a«> thedistauc So kmg. For there i ■o leiig. a radical infirmity of judgment —n biaiii lack of eutumou keuse—and, bleak the indeed, tbs U eeaen* S mm. Lord, we ere oot iu - it. eburtcooilng implied by gree; deal to tortuoee, never coma travel in group* and as* Democrats have but to and to keep our powder all before u« three yeare cause this young man is y a busier, aud he is going to raise _ the very hot place, with the verywhoci name to the square loch than was ever raised .before m that particular Week of the woods Sursom oorda. ( 44 There’s a good time oqming, bpye; wait a littte longer.” Enortoous quantities of i the Southern cotton oil the bulls ere need as to Connecticut annually j tobacco growers for from too, foe om on lobe Arrests tor dr cities tn the United: aggregate 312,000 < your. m ' ft