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CHINESE SECRET SOCIETIES.
Some Recent Developments in the
Far East.
> The public has scarcely heard of
Chinese scret societies since the collapse
of the Boxer revolt. Even those
who take interest in this curious sub-,
ject have seldom found an allusion to j
it in the news from tbe Far East. It,
might well be supposed that in our !
colonies at least these evil associa- i
tions had been reduced to impotence, \
if they cannot be surpressed. But i
the sharp little fight at Kuala Lum- I
pur just reported shows that they j
are still active and defiant; indeed we ;
recall no former case where a gathering
of members has resisted with
t firearms. Is this another illustration
of the results of the Japanese tri-!
umph?
Kuala Lumpur is the port of!
Perak, a large and flourishing town i
of its sort, inhabited by Chinamen, '
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grants from Southern India, who j
work on the plantations in the neighborhood.
Secret societies are for-!
bidden there, as everywhere else in j
the Malay countries; but three or j
four days ago the authorities learned
that a meeting was to be held in a
temple. The Chinamen did not wait
to be attacked?when the police
came in sight they opened fire, and,
though defeated with a loss of 25
prisoners, they wounded the European
inspector and a Sikh constable
severely. We hear that the Chinamen
were dressed in red, a significant
novelty. But fhe whole incident
is novel.
It was the turbulence of the
Hueys, as these societies are called,
; which obliged Sir Andrew Clark,
governor of the straits settlement,
to occupy Perak in 1SSS, at the instance
of the rajah?Malay, of
course. The mines there had attracted
not less than 50,000 China
men, an army quite beyond the con.,.
trol of any Malay government. The
.' rajah of Perak did not try to govern
them; they were careful to pay his
dues, and he left them alone. Individually,
doubtless, the Chinamen
were excellent fellows?industrious
and good-natured, content with a littie
gamble and a little opium after
the hard day's work. But they all
? j belonged to Hueys* These in their
I raison d'etre, are benefit societies
and cooperative stores, admirably
managed, with the experience of
t: countless generations. Their evil
practices are an excrescence, kept
most scrupulously apart from the
S' regular business.
Rival trade unions never lack
grounds of quarrel. But the Hueys
in Perak?something less than half
a dozen, 'I think?were offshoots of
parent societies long established at
Penang, on British territory. And
these latter were divided into two
factions, savagely hostile. From
the time of its foundation almost,
the great and wealthy city of Penang
was disturbed at no long intervals
by a series of muredrous engagements :
between these bodies in the streets.
White residents bore the infliction as
if it were an unavoidable calamity, (
to which man is subject in the Far
East. Signapore, still greater, and
still more wealthy, suffered worse on
the whole, until the last intolerable
outrage. But if the hostile Hueys
ventured to carry on like this under
the guns of the British fleet, with
regiments of British soldiers within
call, we can imagine their proceedings
in Perak, when there was actually
no force to restrain or punish
them. The various sections up and
down took to fighting as the employment
of their leisure?and fighting
meant killing. At holiday time they
concentrated for real battles. Sir
Hugh low omciany creausu iutr
statement that 30,000 men were engaged
in an action at Ti-ping. when
2,000 perished. Their bones were
turned up laying out a tennis
ground 15 years after.
These glorious victories and
shameful defeats found an echo,
naturally, at Penang?the mothers
demonstrating . in sympathy with
their offspring. Excitement grew
from year to year, .and trouble with
it; until in 1876 a tremendous riot
occurred. Then Chinamen showed
t what they could do in they way of
courage and determination. Though
the troops were called out at an
early stage they did not cease fighting
one another for more than a
week. A thousand at least were
killed in the streets?many houses
were burned.
Something had to be done. A
district grand master and some high
officials of the Hueys were prosecuted
for conspiracy to murder, and
convicted. But the colonial office
still refused to take notice of the
societies. Two years afterward a
riot even more renowned in the annals
of the Straits broke out at Singapore.
Then, at last, the intelligent
gentlemen safe in Whitehall consented
to the registration of the Hueys?
but no more. Not until 1SSS were
suppressed?nominally. At .that
date the official return gave 11 secret
societies in Singapore, with 1,122
office-bearers and 62,376 members;
in Penang five societies with
361 .office-bearers and 92*5SI memKot-O
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whole population of Chinese in the
Straits was 153,532, thus the enrolled
members of secret societies
actually outnumbered the official return
of residents, including women
and children.
It has been admitted that the
Hueys performed excellent service.
But after attending to the various
interests of the members, the committee,
so to term it, proceeds to
make money by every trick which
Chinese ingenuity can devise, unrestrained
by any sort of moral feeling.
This language is not exaggerated.
Mr. Pickering, protector of
the Chinese in Singapore, described
them officially as "combinations to
carry out private quarrels, and to
uphold the interests of the members
in defiance of the law; to raise
money by subscription and by levying
fees on brothels and gambling
houses"?subscription is a mild term
for systematic blackmail, Enforced
by ruthless nftirder. But there is
much more to be said about these
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Mrs. Jessie James is Religious Leader
in New Jersey.
Ocean Grove. X. J., September 15.
?Mrs. Jessie James, wife of the notorious
Missouri 'bandit, has been one
of the most religious attendants at
the annual evangelistic camp meeting
at Ocean Grove. X. J. This fact became
known when an ardent woman
evangelist dropped dead before the
audience of 2.000 persons while
leading the prayer. Among those
who went to the stricken woman's
assistance was Mrs. James, and then
for the first time it became known
that the aged but enthusiastic little
woman who had worked so conscientiously
for the success of the camp
meeting during the last few years
was the widow of Jesse James.
Mrs. James has been living quietly
at the religious resort, and daily has
led the large meetings in song and
prayer. At the "love feast." which is
a regular part of the daily program,
Mrs. James recited her personal testimony,
telling of the great relief
which her religious belief has brought
her.
Put More Bagging on Your Cotton.
Again we would urge our cotton
growers to put on bagging and ties
to the full 6 per cent limit this season.
If you put on less than six per
cent?that is to say 30 pounds on a
500 pound bale, 26 on a 450 pound
bale, etc.,?it is simply a matter of
giving the cotton buyer good cotton
worth 12% cents a pound when he
is paying you only for bagging and
ties averaging about 3 % cents a
pound. This is a matter our farmers
have been entirely too slow to understand.
The gist of the whole matter is
simply this: The price of cotton is
fixed by manufacturers who buy on a
basis of six per cent deduction for
bagging and ties. That is to say,
figure on 30 pounds tare for each
500 pound bale; and on each 500
pound bale, therefore they allow a
price for the gross bale sufficient to
pay for 470 pounds net of lint cotton.
In other words, the price paid
per pound for the whole 500 pounds
is lowered so as to allow for 30
pounds tare.
Now, the average farmer instead
of putting 470 pounds of lint cotton
and 30 pounds of bagging into a 500
pound bale puts in 478 pounds of
cotton and 22 pounds of bagging?
thereby putting in 8 extra pounds
of 12% cent cotton worth $1 instead
of 8 pounds of bagging and ties
worth 28 cents.
Moreover, all of the evidence goes
to show that if the farmer does not
put on full 30 pounds tare to each
500 pound bale, the exporter adds the
extra 8 or 10 pounds in second-hand
bagging and makes the extra dollar
tnat reaiiv Deiongs to tne iarmer.:;
At a meeting of foreign manufacturers
with representatives of the
Farmer's Union in Washington City
a year or two ago, the manufacturers
inquired: "Why is it that when cotton
leaves the farmer's gin it has
only 20 to 22 pounds of tare, but has
31 pounds by the time it reaches us?."
This is the explanation. 1
Put on bagging to tbe full 6 per
cent limit. Mr. Ransom Hinton, a '
well known North Carolina cot- i
ton grower, illustrates the matter
very clearly when he says: "Suppose
you were carrying a box of '<
meat to market and you knew they 1
would knock off thirty pounds from 1
the gross weight for the weight of j
the box; wouldn't you be foolish to
use only a 20 pound box instead?
give them 10 pounds of meat instead <
of 10 pounds of box?"
Even so it is with the farmer who 1
gets pay for cotton on a basis of 30
pounds deduction for bagging and
ties while he puts on only 20 pounds.
Put on all the bagging and ties that
you can buy for 3 % cents a pound 1
and sell for 12% cents.?Progressive
Farmer.
The Ruins of an Old Baronial Castle.
Time was when many an ancient
hall,
Was noisy when the minstrel sung,
When cottage roof and castle wall,
With gladsome music wildly rung.
From climes remote, from lands un
known,
The lord with buoyant spirit came,
The wild harp on his shoulders
thrown,
Would ready welcome ever claim.
And happy were those days of yore,
And joyous was the minstrel's
strain,
But, ah! those days are now no more,
Those notes will never wake again.
Hushed is the song, and changed the
scene.
The broken harp is voiceless now,
And halls where mirth and joy have
been,
Are laid in desolation low.
On many a lonely heath-clad rock,
On many a wild forgotten shore,
A shattered arch withstands the
shock,
Of time and tells of days of yore.
Within the hall where lady fair
And gallant knight once swept
along,
The mountain fox has made her lair,
The midnight bird now wakes her
song.
Gone is the gay and happy crowd,
Silent the sounds of mirth and
glee,
U er an cue ivy weaves us suivuu,
And night winds make sad minstrelsy.
1S41 CHAS. C. HAY.
White Man Lived as Negro.
Fayelteville, N. C., Sept. IS.?A. G.
Thornton, a character well known in
the reconstruction history of this
State, is dead. Thornton was a man
of wealth and a prominent politician
in reconstruction days.
So far as is known Thornton is, or
was the only white person in North
Carolina ever legally married to a
negro, he having married a negress
named Elsie Hargrove by permission
of the military authorities in control
of the State at that time.
The marriage was afterwards legalized
by the constitutional convention
held in 1868. He had lived for many
years as a negro and his funeral will
be conducted from a negro church.
He leaves a widow and five children.
MARS A NEAR NEIGHBOR.
Planet is Now Only About 35,000,000
Miles Away.
I The planet Mars has been attracting
the interest of astronomers for
the past two months and will be one
of our nearest neighbors on September
24. It will be only 35,000,000
miles from the earth. This is the
nearest distance the planet ever
comes to the earth.
Such a distance may seem considerable
to an unastronomical mind.
But to star students it is merely a
little stroll around the block. The];
sun is 90.500,000 miles away, and!
there are other bodies so remote that ]'
a trillion or so years are required j
for one of their winks to reach us. J
Sometimes even Mars wanders off toil
a point on the eclipse which is 234,000,000
miles away.
Numbers of telescopes are already
being turned upon the planet and 1
everybody is eager to see just how 1
it will look on the night of Septem- '
ber 24. Students expect then to see :
the North and South Pole of Mars
and a very interesting sight that will
be in view of what has recently hap- 1
pened on the earth. It is easy
enough to see these poles through a
good lense, and presumably they 1
look pretty much like the earth's, i
About once every 15 years Mars gets ]
as close to us as it will be on Sep- 1
tember 24. !
Advices received from San Fran- l
cisco state that Prof. Campbell and <
a party of astronomers who have :
returned from Mount Whitney, where
they spent some time watching the
planet, have secured a picture of its i
surface, which proves beyond ques- '
tion that Mars is habitable by senti- 1
ent cretures; that is to say, it will !
sustain life. The picture shows, i
they say, that water vapor exists j
there. i
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Hard Shells in Kentucky. 1
Capt. Tracy, who lived down in !
Kentucky, was a good old hard-shell
Baptist, who occasionally would tell \
a story at the expense of the breth- ,
ren. Years ago they were not so con- ;
spicuously orthodox on the temper- .
ance question as they are in our j
time.
"On one occasion," said the cap- j
tain, "the brethren in my region
were about to have a grand church ,
gathering, and all the faithful in the .
neighborhood were expected to exert 1
themselves to entertain suitably and
hospitably the visiting brethren. Two ,
of my neighbors met each other just
before the grand gathering. One '
of them said:
"What are you going to do?"
"Well," replied the man, "I've ;
laid in a gallon of first-rate whis- :
kev."
"A gallon!" retorted his neighbor, K
with a look of contempt; "why, I've
got a barrel: and you are just as able
to support the gospel as I am."
KILLED BY AUXT-IX-LAW.
Fatal Family Trouble in Brewton,
Alabama.
Brewton, Ala., Sept. 16.?Sheriff
G. A. Fountain returned from Pollard
late last night with Mrs. Will
Xowling, who yesterday afternoon
shot to death her aunt by marriage.
Mrs. Henry Nowling, two and a half
miles from Pollard. The latter was
a sister of Martin Lindsay, a minister
of Mobile. Mrs. Will Nowling
claims self-defense. The trouble
arose over the efforts of Mrs. Henry
Nowling to put into the house of
Mrs. Will Nowling the household
effects of a married daughter.
Although warned, she is allleged
to have advanced on Mrs. Will Nowling
with a bed slat when the latter
Bred, the load of shot taking effect
in the heart of Mrs. Henry Nowling.
Mrs. Will Nowling's father and brother
reside at Jay, Fla.
Bad Georgia Farmer.
"And then he began to slap her \
face, over and over again, getting 1
madder and madder, and presently 1
he grabbed her by the throat and be- !
gan to choke her.
"I tried to tear his clinched hands
from her throat, and then he turned *
on me, doubled up his fist and struck '
smashed me in the face. How do I \
know he didn't strike me by acci- ^
dent in the struggle? Because he '
has hit me the same way before." 1
Such was the substance of the testimony
given by Mrs. Laura Hambrick,
against her husband, John
Hambrick, a Fulton county farmer, arraigned
on a double charge of wife 1
beating and assault and battery, be- J
fore Judge Calhoun, Friday morning, i
The daughter, Miss Roxey Ham- 1
brick, corroborated her mother's tes- 1
timonv and added that her father 1
had left the print of his finger nails \
in her throat, and had torn the
whole front of her dress open while
Mrs. Hambrick was trying to break 1
his hold. <
For the defense, a mass of testi
monv was introduced reflecting upon
the character of the daughter, tending
to show that she had been accus- 1
tomed to accept the attention of men 1
against her father's will, and that 1
she had on certain occasions wandered
off alone into the woods or on
the river bank with an undesirable
comDanion. An obscene picture,
which the father was alleged to have
found in a waste paper basket or .
some such receptacle at home, was ?
shown the girl on the witness stand, '
and an attempt was made to show
that she had had it in her possession
at one time or another.
In brief, the father, through his
attorney, attacked his daughter's
reputation before a court room full :
of men, in order to establish the fact 1
that he had a right to "reprove" her
?"reprove" and "choke" being apparently
regarded as synonymous.
Twenty-five or thirty witnesses
swore that Hambrick was a hardworking,
honest gentleman of peaceable
character, and he was duly acquitted
by a jury. !
He is now under indictment for 1
attempting to commit a nameless
crime upon his own daughter, and i
will answer .that charge in the superior
court.?Atlanta Journal. i
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fits. 1
NEED OF INCOME TAX.
Borah Says it is Fairest and Most
Equitable of All Tax Systems.
In LaFoIIett's paper, Senator Borah,
of Idaho, in an article on "Why
We Need an Income Tax," gives a
fine exposition on the merits of such
a tax. He says in part:
"The income tax is the fairest and
most equitable of all the taxes. It is
the one tax which approaches us in
the hour of prosperity and departs in
the hour of adversity. The farmer,
though he may have lost his entire
crop must meet the taxes levied upon
his prosperity. The merchant though
on the verge of bankruptcy must respond
to the taxes imposed. The laborer
who goes to the store to buy his
eoods, though it be his last must pay
whatever extra cost there may be imposed
by reason of custom duties.
"But the income tax is to be met
only afte? you have realized your income.
After you have met your expenses,
provided for your family, paid
for the education of your children for
the year, then, provided you have an
inMme loft vrm -t?irr? tr> meet the
obligations you owe to the government.
For instance, according to
amendments recently pending relative
to the income tax a man with an
income of ten thousand dollars would
pay the modest sum of one hundred
dollars. Man as a human being owes
services to his fellows and one of the
first of these is to support the government
which makes civilization
possible."
Further along Senator Borah says:
"I think those who advocate the
income tax merely as a revenue producing
proposition rob the proposition
of its moral foundation. We
should contend for an income tax not
simply for the purpose of raising
revenue but for the purpose of framing
a revenue system which will distribute
the burdens of government
between consumption and accumulated
wealth, which will enable us to
:all upon property and wealth not in
a just and equitable way to meet
their proportionate expenses of the
government, for certainly it will be
conceded by all that the great expense
of government is in the protection
of property and wealth.
"A tax placed upon consumption is
jased upon what men want and must
have. A tax placed upon wealth
'alls on those who have enough and
to spare and therefore have more
vhich it is necessary for the government
to protect. All the enjoyments
p.'hich a man can receive from his
property come from his connection
vith society. Cut off from all social
elations a man's wealth would be
lseless to him. In fact, there could
je no such things as wealth without
society, weaitn is wtiai uia..> uc ciffianged
and requires for its existence
a community of persons with
eciprocants."
New Bank Organized.
Allendale, September 15.?An en.husiastic
meeting of the stockholders
of the Citizens Bank of Allendale
ras held at the town hall this mornng
at 10 o'clock. The following
lirectors were elected: W. A. All,
Henry Wolff, W. I. Johns, F. Charous,
J. H. Warren, J. P. Gray, Le*oy
Wilson, Jr.
The directors then elected the folowing
officers for the ensuing year:
iVT. A. All. president; Henry Wolff,
rice-president; LeRoy Wilson, Jr.,
:ashier.
The capital stock is $30,000, all of
vhich will be paid in at an early date.
sTot only the directors but the stocklolders
as well represent large busiless
interests in Allendale and surrounding
country. This stock being
aken locally should make this one
)f the strongest banks of its size in
he State.
Mr. J. H. Sams, architect, of Coumbia.
S. C., who was present was
employed to furnish plans and speciications
and advertise for bids for
:he erection of a two story structure
;o be located on the corner of Main
md Bay streets. Work will be
ushed to completion that the bank
nay open its dors for business not
ater than January 1st, 1910.
Mr. E. L. All, who recently graduited
with distinction in law at the
University of Virginia, left Monday
ifternoon for Birmingham, Ala.,
cvhere he has formed a connection
vith the well known law firm, Tillnan,
Bradley & Morrow.
Attorneys Make New Move.
Columbia, Sept. 16.?Attorneys
Lyles & Lyles, for the Clinchfield
railroad, have made application to
Uhief Justice Jones at Lancaster asking
for an immediate convening of
the supreme court in extra session
to mandamus the secretary of state
to issue the road a charter under the
special act passed by the last legislature.
The secretary of state has refused
to issue the charter on the opinion
3f the attorney general that the act
is unconstitutional.
The application says railway developments
"of vast magnitude" in
the State will be delayed and hindered
if the question is not favorably
adjusted by October.
The court does not convene in
regular order until November.
Groom Poisoned His Bride.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Sept. 15.?
J. E. Sayre, of Richmond county, was
on the verge of madness in his cell
to-day after being arrested for the
murder of his bride, a girl of fourteen.
The have been married only two
weeks.
The allegation is that Sayre gave
poison to his bride with whom he
eloped.
He is said to have been under the
influence of liquor and not to have
intended to poison her.
The child wife was a daughter of
a minister. She died here in the
hospital after terrible suffering.
The girl's parents objected to
Sayre's attentions because of his alleged
intemperance.
They eloped to this city and he
stopped at local hotel. The young
woman became ill and her husband
is said to have left the hotel.
The father was summoned and the
husband was not allowed to see his
wife.
It was learned that Sayre was preparing
to leave town and his arrest
followed. He was held without bond.
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