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VOL XXV. BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, igoi 8BN. MXAURIN IN NEW YORK He Defines the McKinley Doc trines—Trade and Commerce Mast be Extended- Senator John L McLaurin, of South Carolina, spoke at the banquet of the New York Clumber of Commerce on the 10th inst., responding to the senti mept “ The Monroe Doctrine of the Twentieth Century.” He said: Mr. President and Gentlemen: This is essentially a commercial age. Its pre dominating spirit is utilitarian rather than political or sentimental. The rul ing question today with all nations is, what can we do to further industrial development and obtain substantial business prosperity? All political ques tions are subordinated to this. The promulgation of the “ Monroe Doctrine ” was considered a bold and pretentious propaganda on the part of an infant republic. It was an open defiance of the monaicbies of Kurope, who were combined to discourage and prevent the spread of the spirit of hu man freedom, which was the founoa- lion stone of our republic. It was s declaration that we desired independ ence ami sought to avoid all entangling alliances with other nations. At that lime it was the only policy under which we could have extended our territory and free political institutions upon this continent. Any other policy would have wrecked our government, and been an insurmountable harrier to our national growth, prosperity and prog-, tvse. What a vast difference now.* Then we were a feeble republic strug gling for mere existence. Today, in the genius of government, iu inventive ability, in the sciencee, aria and indue- trial euterpnae, our nation has out stripped all others, and challenges them to a coolest for commercial su premacy. We have become the greatest export natiou of the world. Our republican for iu of government la no unlrird experiment. Witt her vm wealth and populauao the* United States baa already baernse the mlght- Mai potentiality on this earth for prag ma, ctviliaatioo and human freedom. The growth of our eouatry, the de- «i lopment of our natural inaourors, and that closer kinship between naiious brought about by modern ieveeUoe, ImJ long before forced a change in our Hky- _ ^ . The Span tab war wea the oiVaanm, not the came. Tbe report of Dewey's «aaeoe ia Manila hay waa bat the for mal aa'vraaceaseut to the world of what y.<e call on your programme ** The rweetisih Century Monroe iHictriue," but which 1 call the »• McKinley iHic- trt le,” and aa aach^ptil l>o>kaowu to future ages - We miH iso loo^vr cooftae our te- •ututmoa aad our dcaiiny to Uus oon- uucot, but ware compelled, by uocuo- indlaMe events, to soak fraternity with mhar nation* nod to reach uat for new > Haaaala of tradr With the eye of n prophet, the aa- gacity of a statesman and tbe tBS|»ra- imjo of a true patriot, Traawlant Me- Kialay graaped the changed aitaalton, and proclaimed to the world that the C aitad btalaa had baeomc one of the grunt world powers of the earth, aad had entered the araaa of nations to rootead with them for commercial su- piimiacy. It waa a bokl puia-'y, but one which prdtnisad to make the (Jatlaif Matas the leading political and com mercial power of the world. The McKinley doctrine waa First. -That, aa oar own manifold productions largely exceeded borne cuu- -uiu|'«tK>u, tbe expulsion of territory, irula ami fliaiaaiw, i ’which Will nuke bis adminiatraliou oue of the most conspicuous and important in the history of the public. In future ages, when our commerce shall whiten every sea an oceanyand the unexampled proeperily of this coun try be the wonder of the world, millions of Americans will feel a deep debt of gratitude to the statesman who put the capstone on the grdat arch begun by Washington, Monroe and Jefferson. His virtues and noble deeds will be embalmed jn the hearts of his country men, and the “ McKinley Doctrine ” will be our chart and compass until we complete another cycle in national life, and another move be made upward and onward. It ia a policy in accord with the com mercial spirit of tbe age, and the prin ciples embraced in it are the only ones which, in their maintenance, promise the stability of the nation and the full accomplishment of oar national destiny. Mere theorists and uoprogressive poli- t.cians may ridicule the commercialism of the age, but these linger in the shades of the past, and have not seen the pillar of cloud by day ami the pillar of Ore by night which are beckoning us onward. No nation ever has, or ever will reach ita destined goal by standing still and adhering to old theories no- soiled to changed conditiona. The eventa and policies of the past are only useful to the extent they unfold others, demanded by and adapted to tbe ever changing future. With an accomplished increase of our products and the natural develop ment of our natural resources, an ex- pa n»ion of our trade waa an imperative >ity. One of tbe means for Ibis was the announcement that ws would oo longer condos our political and commercial activities to the American continent, bat proposed to extend our territory and sphere of political in fluence. The acquisition of the tiiMMiin nMiiila alnnlwL^oi—InK opptwlnnity for a practical illustratoon of our new propaganda. * If was an expansion of tarntory to a region of the world which promised not only rieb rewarda m Um way of commerce, but political consequences of great nt to tbe Uaiicd Stales. Another feature of tble policy is a merchant marine and an isthmian ca- Our weakness upon lbs sea is one great danger confroating tbe Without merchant ships aad Imaed seamen our navy lacks aa la- dispensable resource in Ume of ua- Uuoal danger. Aoicrkan products must be carried abroad ia Amt ships, manned by American Our products should, be at the mercy of our competitors. If they sabeidixe their ships, tbea we mast adopt pro- | tactive mease res for the caooarage- mr-ot of ours, br suffer the sure dte rrace and torn which comes to any na tion when deprived of ita marine de fense and power. Km my part I eouiit rather voieotanlv pay a small tribute to Amencao shipowners than to be at the mercy of a foreign busi ness rival, amd com palled to pay him such tribute aa be may rxact. UsciprocUy treaties consulate aa- other feature of this “Twentieth Cen tury Monroe Doctrine." Reciprocity is nothing bat carrying out of tbe eon- •Ututiooal mao date, “that Congress shall have power to regulate com met ce amilh #eua>w»iaeae sarnA aaaasm *’ It spur ity r- Second. That, as a nation with a| (irmly eaUblubed conslilulK ual gov ernment and eularged national obliga tions, we could no longer ulieUiu'frotn |urtici|«tioo in the affaire uf the world, but must take our share of the-respon- •ibilily. „ Third. Thai, while maintaining the doctnnf that no government on the American continent must be interfered with, or controlled by any European I>ower, yet we must cultivate fnendly relations with them, and be prepared lo seek and control our share of the trivia of the world. Fourth. That we should uot and could not f* n nation safely shrink from the full performance of all the responsibilities cast upon us, but must inbva forward to the fulfillment of om national destiny. These propositions embrace the “ McKinley Doctrine,” which will be to the Twentieth century what the Monroe Doctrine was to the Nine teenth. It proclaims to the world that we are able not only to maintain at liomo our system of government, but we are willing and prepared t& extend its blessing to mankind. The ancient Greeks had a mystic torch race, in which the tired runner handed the lighted brand to some fresh racer, who bore it onward lo (he gea). Washington, Monroe, Pierce, Lincoln and McKinley have been the mystic torch bearers in American his- Id this enlightened and progressive age national prosperity is not tha favor of fortune, bnt is won by national en terprise and activity. To be idle and •• wait for other nations to pour commer cial advantages into the lap of the Hailed States is to resign ourselves to a condittag of helplessness. If, as a nation, we'ifrould enjoy the commercial ftuits we nefed and desire, we must, like iadividaUi, make national ventures and heroic elNrta. In bis last public utterance President • McKinley fhoidgi that he tiuly appre hended the MMMffQ* and outlined a policy which WF g* down in history niipsrably linlHffMh bis name,and witb foreign uaUooa. , It was ttrst done by Andrew Jackson with rotation to diwriiaiittatiDg duties upon foreign shin*, and brought into active trade under FraukJta Pierce The-principle of tbe rcgulaihiri under-tbit danse was to be that of reciprocity ~lbai is, trade the onii mmm io bt free uu jnn* salt and work. The miscreant who laid our President low, aimed not at Williaqp McKinley. It seems as if all Jirophecy pointed to America as the final battle between error and truth, and it may be that we are near the field of Ar mageddon, dimly seen by poet and painter, Where tbo brute nature of man and his immortal soul join in the great battle, which the Good Hook tells us shall ptecede the dawn of that era of “Peace on earth and good will toward men.” BILE ARP LIKR8 THE LIGHT. table placet, stop and think. Stop and .think, and remember tbe long and weary nights that a mother watched with yon and never complained. May be her spirit is watching you now and yearning over yon in the spirit land. For her ?ake stop and think and come back to the innocence of your child hood. And there are some little songs'that Twilight Seems to Shorten aa He Grows Older and [ Darkness Cornea Suddenly. Atlanta Constitution. 1 confess Uiat 1 do not like Uie night —except when 1 am asleep. Of course I mean the dark night—nor do 1 go into raptures over what we call the twilight—that doubtful light twixt sunshine and darkness,- and that literally means “light cut iu two.” It seems to me that these twilights grow shorter as we grow older. When the day is done tbe darkness does seem to fall from the wings of night, and we hasten to light the lamps, for darkness never welcome. It is an intruder and a symbol of every evil thing. We ■uppoee that night was created as a contrast to make us enjoy tbe day, just as evil was created as a contrast to that which is good. Tbe scriptures say no good thing concerning darkness or night, and when describing heaven any, “ There shall be no night there. ” They tell ua of outer darkness and thick darkoeas and tha blackness of dark ness and darkoeas that may be felt. Darkness was one of tbe ten plagues that wm sent upon Pharaoh. Job cursed tbe day of bis birth and soya, “ Let that day be darkness. Let dark- ness nod (he shadow of death stain M.” David aailh, “Sorrow voduretb for the uighi, . luiucUi in ih« nuMutog," and ■tensor ine SBaSe^H walketb in darkness. Tbe *p<wiles use it as a symbol of every calamity. Dsrkuees covered tbe land when tbe Saviour waa crucified. The devil in called the nnoce of darkness. Ancient mytho logy describes Erebus as the dark cavern through which tbe spirits of the damned and wicked dead shell pass oo their way to bed. And Homer writae of a country called Cimmeria afar be yund tbe sea where tbe sun never •biore and tbe people live ia darkoeae. Milton describe* ihe dark Dees of Iledes as so dsaee that It Waa vtalbk lag of avtl spirits that banal maaki be says they move I • darkoeas, bnt fear trwlb aad chastity. “ No evil thing that walks by night ia fur or fire —no bag, or ghiwt, or gubiia has hurtful power ovat a virtuous woman.” Montgomery says, “ Night is tbe tune to weep." And hbakeepenre says, M In tbe dark eight, imagioin^ some fear, a little bush ap pears lb be a bear." Young sup, “ Aa el betel half believes ia God by eight," end Tenayeon says of bimeelf, “ 1 am but an infant crying to tbe bight an infant crying for the light." Rut Ibis is enough, and these ratmna- ttoos were provoked last night about mtduighl the boor when the d> ep sleep lalleih npon a man, but uot u|ion a woman. My wife’* voice awakened and startled me. 8be said, “ What is it? Who is it? What do yon want?” Then she called me and struck a match aad Ugbta I iba candle that waa near. "What did yon bear?" aakl I. “Homo body IS at (be door,*' she said, excited ly. “ bich door?” said I. “This one right here —maybe somebody is sick upstairs," she said. Unlocking tbo door quickly; tb*r Itgbt stmoo into 1, too, remember and still can slug to | rolltou, MiM tbe little belpleas teething things and soothe them to sleep as I walk the room. My little baby songs are stereo typed in my memory ar.d have been handed down, tbo’ not published or copyrighted. ..They are a masculine medley of “ By, baby, bunting,” “ Hash, my dear, lie still and slum ber,” “Julianna Johnson, don’t you cry,” “Away down iu Shinbone alley,” “ And we’ll pass over Joidao,” and so forth. They are all in the same key and in the same meter and dovetail into one another and just go round and round, monotonous aud mournful, until the child has lo go to sleep to keep from hearing them; nevertheless, it is a fact'lhat 1 can get a sjck child lo sleep when ita mother can’t—and sometimes away in the dead of night, aa I walked the room In my night shirt, l have not only got Ihe child to sleep, but tbe mother, loo. But I am having some little domestic troubles that are disturbing my tran quility. Night before last I dipped the keys off the nail in the back room aad went to the pantry to get some nice apples 1 bad hid away there for a surprise to the family juat before bed time. I like these little surprises and so do they. 1 found the cat locked up in tbe pantry and pot her out, aud then pushed the door to keep her out while i waa getting the apples. It ia a curious door lock, for it baa no knob on tbe inside, and I soon found that tbe cat waa locked out aad 1 was locked ia. 1 rapped and tanged for awhile for somebody to hear we and harder and halloed louder, but to no effect. Then I kicked the door aed all aorta of a racket, but nobody Ho I concluded they beard me, but thought it waa good fun to keep me id prison and give me lime to re flect on mjr pent life and tbe value of freedom in Ibta land of liberty. But I didn’t ponder long oo Umee things. I waa perplexed, but after while thought of my knife aa a screw driver and soon had tbe hasp off aad was out of prison other remedy for the rape than the dernier r log. Mr. Lcavell’s lows* Last summer I b spending my vacatio| worth,” the olil count late United Slates about two miles f crime of of lynch- la aa fol- pencil to be at “ Gotes- homo of the nator George, >e town of Car- Lhe time L was there I bean I one dayibat on the night previous two defenseless old i*eople had been done to death in a most foul and brutal fashion, and that because of it the people of The county were coming into town, and there wat like to be'a lynching of several negroes who were susi ccled of the crime. Never before having been to the im mediate neighborhood of a lynching, and wishing to legm something of the character of tin aa rapes ted outbreaks, 1 rode into town to study the situation close at hand, hoping that something might occur which would make it pos sible to prevent any violence. 1 found that three negroes, a mother with Iter son and daughter, tenants of the mur dered couple, had been arrested on suspiefot) of having committed the murder or having guilty knowledge of the facta, and wars at that tune con fined in the county jail. 1 found pre sent on the streets of the town many young farmers from the county who were carrying rifles, shotguns, or pit- tola, aud mixed with them a few of the malurer and mote conservative citizens of the county, to whom the young fel lows seemed to look for direction. All of them bail a serious and determined look upon their faces. 1 found also that a committee of piominent men, among them tha State Senator from that district, tbe District Attorney, and a lawyer wbe bad eevcrjU time* represented ihe county in tbe I legislature, bad been formed and at tbe hour of my arrival were at tha jail examining tbe negroes. Tbe com mittee wa« earnestly sotlcttous to pre vent a lynching. It aalieflwl itself that tboae three negroes did not pt rsonaily commit the crime, bnt knew who did, and were aa yet not willing to reveal their gwilly secret. He vers I times, both individually and ee a committee, these gentlemen eddreseed tbe mob, trying to dueua>lc it from v mis wee, end pleod- in tbe name ut humanity and for tha good name of the county, to let the law lake ita eon res, the more porura- lariy because tbe only apparent “ Didn't yon ail bear ere? ' I inquired. | of learning who Were tbe roar murder- “ Yea, we heard you knocking. Wbat I era «*■ iavuivwd ia keeping there three were yon doing out there?" saul my J negroes alive The mob waa not to be wife. They thought I waa fixing or diatended. As the authorities offered mending something, aad dal out bear , M acUeaily no resistance, the mob took my voice, for there were two rooms u eg roes, banged them just outside and a hall between ns and ail tbe doors | um town, and nddtmt their bodies with I lion, but I will try to give It as it waa given to me by some of the most con servative, most thoughtful, aud moat wise citizens of the South. - 1. Tbe natural barbarism of our human nature, whose first impulse ia to wreak vengeance for an outrage, Is to be always considered, for, us a mat ter of fact, neither individuals nor com munities aver get far away from nature and |h*t I* hiimmft 2 From the earliest times itr Uie South seducUou haa always resulted m either what ia known as a “ military wedding,” or a homicide. The com munity hit always supported the family of the seduced woman for killing the seducer if he would not redeem the situation as far as possible by marriage. If that waa the result where there waa “ consent,” bow much more certainly would homicide be Ihe result where there was force need to accomplish tbe ruin of a woman—where there was rape? A while man would no more escape than a negro. If the white man mast pay with hit life for rape, how much more certainly a negro for the rape of a white woman, where in addition the revolt of all Uie ioatmets of race was.involved?^ S. I d many if not moat rural com munities io the South tbe white popu lation ia very small com|<ared with tbe negro population. The whites are really at the meicy of the blacks, if tbe latter but once should get the no tion that there ia a reasonable hope of escape. For there are alwaye enough vicious negroes in every community feady to commit the crimes of last if they can do so and yet escape justice or vengeance. Lynching is resorted to not merely lo wreak vengeance but to terrorise the negro. 4.*- E/ery one Who handles large bodie^qf negro la/Hirers -every with whom I talked—believes that lbs average negro feare nothing so much ae force. The whiles b* ieve that the moment Um negro sseare to power of tha white man enmee will rapidly increase crimes of Um revoiting character. Among U) (rose, criminals, when tbe crime is committed against a white mi to a certain berate character the ubtecta of a certain sort of admira- Uoa which they crave and rajosoo Tbo convict ion W general that terror is tbe only restraining influence with average negro. A. The aograos, even the boot of them, will ordiaerliy conceal a fleeing negro, sestet him ia bw flight, and, whenever practice els, protest him, this without regard to the reqoira ts of joslico or the character of kia approached mo timidly aad arid: mister, 1 know the i if you will till lot mein lake him boat and if you show 1 will him up.’ “I gladly agreed to ibis propoeiUeo,” continued Mr. Justice, “for the pra- reoce of the dog worried om bo Uttle. Boy and dog had scarcely been when the boy returned ia with a companion, both of started for the gallery entrance. I stopped the second boy just as ha auula a dash for the stairs and aakad Mm for hit Ucket. He replied (hat ha hadaa- ■i*ted the other boy in iornri«f the dog, and that he thought for that rea son he was enUUed to aee the show. Of course I would not stead for that sort of d game, nod was aboat to lay bands oo him when ha tornsd i * ly and aaid; * Wall, miater. I who owns that dog, and if yua don’t *** me in I’ll go back and unchain shut. 1 distributed the applae everything was soon calm and serene, bnt 1 have an incraaaod horror of I j"j being put in jail and I am going to be-1 uf-r ^ outsider, and | bullets. Iteeliaiog that imperii have myself sod keep out Monday night »e beard Mrs. Hberi- atng and it waa a feast. We have known her from her childhood, when i panUeUs aud piopforea ami went to school in Rome wuh my chil dren. 1 could not realise that this was w avar had been lilUe Harsh McDonald who used to piny aud lump aud sc ream like other children, but m bar early youth she beard a prima donna sing end remdved to be a gr at singer, too. Tbe hcotcb-Ineh blood eras ia her veins Her faUier and mother were poor, but that made oo difference. They bad faith—religions fgith—Bible faith—and named their four boys Matthew, Mark, laike and John, aud their three daughters Mary, Martha aud Sarah. Mark aud laike free of duty or at a low rale. Thu was Democratic duclnoe, acted upon by all the leaders of the party in the early days of the republic. This doctrine qj reciprocity was carried out iu connect- ioi with tbe Americau system of pro tective laiiff, which began in 17MD. The second act which stands on the statute books bearing the signature of Washington laid the cornerstone of the whole system, lo the earlier days of tbe government, the tariff was uot a sectional question. Protection was first advocated in a bill introduced by Lowndes, of 'South Carolina, and sup-, ported by Calhoun, Cbeves and Clay^ Daniel Webster and other New Eng land Senators opposing it. Owing to the blight of slavery the South devoted itself to agriculture, aud.the North to manufacturing. Hence, one section received all the benefits, aud the othet bore all the burdens of a protective tariff. This condition is now impossi ble. Manufacturing is developing North. quickly; examined the room carefully and then went ialo the hall and dining room and parlor and thence upstairs up tip- tea, but ail was silent. When 1 re turned she said, “ Well, 1 did ceriaioly bear Somebody at that door, and it waked me, but maybe 1 waa dreaming. I remember now, I did have a troubled dream, but please look under the bed before you put out the light.” Such is conjugal life and felicity. For some time 1 laid .awake listening for a noise and ruminating on human helplessness during the darkness of the night. I remember when 1 had au unwill ing fear of ghosts that 1 would not ac knowledge. I got it from the awful stories that our negroes told to us chil dren, for there waa a fascination about them that drew me to their cabins by night, and I listened to their made-up tales of ghosts and witches and Jack O’Iadterns and raw head and bloody bones until I was afraid to look aiound behind me, and had to be guarded to the big house door when I left. But realized that there haunt ua, and that more in the South than in the _ _ What we need in this country today ibis childish fear passed away, and is a non-partisan patriotism and states- long »ince 1 have manship more devoted to the building * re DO spirits .in up of our common country than to “ on ly m * n i® ?^ e *” party success. Great national issues, My wife is not a timid woman, but involving the glory of our republic and she is cautious, and will not consent its triumphant success, as a free con- for me to keep a pistol in our lied room stitutional government, should not be for fear I might have a bad dream and dwarfed into sectional aad partisan shoot somebody through mistake. She questions. Let us hold to all that is never sleeps very sound. A mother best in our pflst, but ever looking fot- who has nursed ten children never does, ward and upwanl to where Columbia’s and tbe cracking of (he paper on the sun is already daszling the eyes of the wall will arouse her. She is happy now, world by its glories to war and its fot there is another grandchild not far trinmpbs iu peace, let as stand shoul- away, and she goes there every day. der to shoulder, good Americans, no Pretends she goes to help Jeesie, bnt matter what our politics or _what our it is really to nurse and fondle Jessie’s section. - > baby boy, for the nalernal instinct AU signs indicate that our modern never dies, and she has not forgotten civilisation is approaching one.of those the lullabies she sang to her children momentous crises that oesur period!- in their infancy. I remember how m; cally in the history of the haman race, aged mother, when on her lakt The American republic is the pioneer drefmed away lier loving life imagin nation of haman freedom, the hope of log there waa a babe at her breast and the world. It to hero that the prob- j whispering a song to U just before sb« lem of ages must be solved—how to died. She found two in heaven when give each man bis righto and still she got there. Ob, ye young men who maintain organized society. Antago-1 linger and jest in the saloon or around niatic elements of fearful forpe at it wunM be regarded ' 4 rotraesuo for me to knowing that there wes for me to do whet well- known gtnUemea who had ihe con fide uce of their neigh burs there failed lo do, 1 rude away homa some time be fore the lynebiag took place. From whet I learned of the whole mailer, of the nmimetaocee leading up to the crime, it seemed to be a case I particularly demanding that the law should be permitted to take its course. It was not a question of tbe rape of g white woman by a negro brute. It was tbs aasNSSinatioo of the aged |»areola of a young white man wbo bed pre viously shot to death tbe eoo of the negro mother for attempted poiaon. The young man wee out on bad await ing the action of tbe GraoJ Jury. But there was only oue w»y to prevent that a b' •friffltrJ.KiV- gn imvnrwynwr ajM^IUmm The wt sang one Habbalh at a little mission church that wns founded by John Wanuamaker. He was there and beard her and took a great liking to her and bcl|>ed her to visit Europe to have her voice trained. Hhe soon found other friends, who have befriended her and lavished upon her their aid aud blessing. As I listened to her singing thoee sweet old Scottish songs I wondered if there were uot many just such female voices iu that audience aud all they lacked waa culture and determination. I recalled Gray’s beautiful lines — * Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush un seen And waste its sweetness on the desert air." Bill. Aur. LYNCHING8 IN THE SOUTH. A Southern Man’s Views of the Situation in a Northern Mags sine. Rev. William Hayne Leavell, of Houston, Texas, a native of Newberry, South Carolina, who received his literary aud theological education in Greenville, has contributed a very in teresting and valuable article ou lynch ing in the South to the last issue of “ The Outlook,” one of the ablest and fairest of magazines in the North. Mr Leavell has lived for a few years in New England, and be knows tbe pre judices sod difficulties existing there in the way of a juat understanding of the situation in the South when it comes to the social aud political rela tions between the whites and blacks, and the editors of “ The Outlook “'ad mit the justice and reasonable ness of the call made by Mr. Leavell upon the the gaming tables or frequent d is repo- critics of tha Sooth to propose some In connection with my experience aud observation on the day of the ynebmg, 1 took care afterwards to dis cuss the case itself aud the whole mat ter of lynching, as it obtains iu the South, with some of the best aud malurer aud more conservative citizens of that part of the Stale of Mississippi, to learn whether and bdw far they ap proved of lynching for crime. Of course 1 found some extreme men, who are good citizens in their way, Who are yet very nervous over the whole question of the negro and his preponderance iu their part of the Slate, ami who assert that for any con siderable crime, of whatever nature, committed against a white person by a negro, they would take the law io their own hands and shoot him down as Uiey would a dog. These are ex tremists. The greater part of tbe educated, conservative, thoughtful, and, in or dinary situations, more influential citi zens approve of lynching for the rape of a white woman, but deplore the seeming necessity for tt, and are grop ing helplessly in t^e dark for some way to make lynching unnecessary. They see that it to gradually undermining their civilization, destroying nil respect for law, and, with reference (o all sorts of offenses, is substituting mob law for the ancient forms which have safe guarded the liberties of tbe English- speaking peoples for centuries. They contemplate the future with something akin to terror, and confess themselves tied hand and foot to a situation from which it seems impossible to break away without hastening the very thing they fear. They believe that to turn over to the law a black fiqnd who haa raped a defenseless white woman and made over her whole life into a Uviiig hell woul<f inevitably tend to multiply rapes and practically put ail our women at tbe mercy of tbe lustful brutes. Their explanation of the situation as it ia no# found in the South may not be entirely satisfactory to the deni zens of the cities and the dwellers amidst * predominant white popular 4. The farauwaiy stow Um lav aad the frequent of joatka. la New Orleans mouths ago a negro t while upon her a*and aad teaufled to Ihe farts, fids were outrageous and cruel, lawyer for tha Jafeoas succeeded j ferriug tha case soom Months u technicality, aad later the brute coovtctioa got only a three m< sentence. One such oaee aa that aw^ with the cue Alienee m tha law engendered by a hundred justice w accomplished, aod the Mind of the people turns to lynching aa the only certain remedy. If you call their aUeotioa to fact that lyochtog does nut atop rape, their answer is. No, Imt it prevents it more than any other process would The thinking mao of iba South re alize the horror of their si tuattao; they even la private quarrels aod against tha whites them selves. They think it to a cruelty to serve them with conffemnalioo, when they need the sympathy aod aaeistanee of that (Kxtioo of our people wbo live securely amid u prodominant white population. It ia eaay to prescribe practically imooMible premises, btit by such ms C o “ That was took much for me, and I appreciated the originality of tha boy’s threat too much to refoee him, aod, when iofonned that it was all right, ha dashed up thoee stain aa If bis Ufa de pended on it.” irisii aaoeva opbmbd the door. New York Tribune: mao John Fiiioerty, of boon staying at the Hoffi oeotly, and bis presence lo Um dor tha other evening lad a fallow Chicagoan to relate tha followii^ tala: (> Years ago John Flnoerty wm em ployed by The Chicago Times as IU southwestern aod dent. Fioonrty had a roving •loo to cover all rttory, aod eo it I ha oo# day arrived at a caa dly by way of a looety had been investigating iog Uiacovety, aad for a oot of touch with dvtiteatsoa aad la a ooantry where a bath aad a • i or any part of tha Ur- ■ - - " 1 - — aad ia a •#' Therefore, I with a Ua daya’ growth ef ha alighted at town. Rat oue Vhamvty tank to aad m ha wm i ‘Najtker m tha owe nor the eflfcar y eouatry mao of stows, ami toto ef thte room ye’ll aM •It’s Um troth ru M Mi Hog yaw. TVs a Belfast lad, aad so other, that 1 am.’ ha be, “ ‘G m be ■•yirorr —t —— -■■■, —^ I am.’ U ^J'^tawdaar 4 end ehate mThadmlL Tn?* 1 ** Giaa hMveoar gaapod tha ether, ad at Ftaaeriy’a dirt aad ‘Are yea white man or a aa irt-rirdro maskikd oocplk. you can lory or adequate roault. asaaos get oo aaltafac- will need the heal wisdom aod tha best conscience and the beet heart of oor whole people, of the North aod of the South, to lead us out of the dark ness ami the horror of the preeent situation. A BATCH OP GOQD 8TORIES. These Yarns Will Keep a Maa ia Good Humor With the World. Many good stories have gone the rounds of the press concerning what schemes the small boys will resort to in order to gain free admission to a show, but the latest one, and possibly the moet original one which haa come to'gur notice to told by W. C. Justice, business manager of “ A Runaway Girl ” company. ' “ It happened in Beaumont, Tex.,” said Mr. Justice. “ I wm taking tickets at tbe door of the opera house when my attention waa attracted to ward a fine specimen of canine species. He was a most beautiful bred binl dog. I observed the restless, nervous move ments of the animal for some time, aa he continued to dodge iu and oat of. the theater, invariably annoying me as be would each time push bis way between tha crowd and the ticket box 1 stood it as long aa my patience wonld allow, and wm once or twice sorely tempted to try the boot experiment, to see if it were possible to rid myself of the nuisance, but every Ume I raised foot a feeling of companion would over me. At length wbao I had began to despair of chasing the brute away, a ragged little urchin, who had been watching my groat d(sconcera, ably shotted by hto wtfle to Uloatralad by a story toM of' IIubmu. On# evening, hoar for raUriig, he took K tote Mo to ran over to the dob. teat m ha aod madM eveniua call. “ But,” said the tody, “ 1 tha front door locked bafors I retire.” This emergency staggered the pro fessor, aod ha looted bewildered at Ma wife, aod tha lady, seised with aa in- ■ptraUoo, coo tinned: “I’ll go in aad lock tha door and throw you tha key from the window.” This programme wm carried oat, aad when ha reached tha dab ^ feasor related the incident to ai as evidence of his wife’s i city. Tbe fnend greeted the story with a roar of laughter. “ Aod why, my denr proff-eor,” he said, “ did you not simply admit your wife, lock the door from the outside and come away?” “ True,” ejaculated tbe learned man of science, “we never thought of that” The climax of the incident wm reached an hour later, when, returning home, the professor discovered the lady, in her exciu meut, had thrown out the wrong key. . f SHE WAS A WOMAN OE IIEU WORD. Youth’s Companion: The troubles of the literary man am seldom batter exemplified than tu the com of tha seedy looking poet who waadarad into an English newspaper office, restor ing to hope that the editor would aocapt his offering “Give me your address,” mid the editor. “ That, sir,” was Iba frank reply, “ depends co'irely upon “On myself?” aaid editor. “ How eo?” “ Well, y«*a see,” west oo bashed pnei “ it’s this way: If lake tbe poem my address will 77 King street: it you doa’t mte it I shall have no address. My toadtady to a worn iu of her word.” a yourself.” the aetooii