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BAKSWELL SOUTH 1
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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
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