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NEGRO AT HOME. A Reflex Light from Africa as Sees by a BrJSTON GENTLEMAN, . Who Pormcrl? Held to View that the Negro Was the Natural Equcl of the White Man But Who - Has Now Modified Hie Views. The following extract! aro fro-? a remarkable article in the Century Magazlao for Miy by Charles Frauds Adams, Mr. Adams ls well and favor? ably known as holding oonsorvatlvo views on many questions alf doting the South. Ills opinions of the negro and of the future of the negro raoo which have been, pcrforoo, readjusted after a oloser contact with tho black man In his home &nd at his best, aro slgul M? floant as showing thc tondsaov fco w fuller knowlodgo of tho raoo and a truer appreciation of its possibili ties. Tho article should bo widely read, marked, and digested. ?LACK A KKK! A. As to Omdurman (this namo ls pro nounced with the actont on the last syllable: tho town is only six miles from K iartum) tho morning (Febru ary Uti ) spent thero proved most in tcresting aud slngulary suggestive. F.?r the ilrst time I saw Africa-not Fgypt, but bLok Afrioi-Its streets, its iutiabitauts, its marts, tts people As an American, it then carno direct ly borne to mo what those people wore and how they lived. I looked on tho Urgcst mil ve ol ty of a stationary barbarous continent-the ohiof o >m merclal centre of au "inferlorrace" and, comparing it with London, Paris ir New York, tho??e material outcome ^f the two species ludicated tho dlifer ^oe of their capacities. For, cf n?ye, races liko Individuals of the , 'feo, must be measured and . 00;>y thoir visible output: abd as ^tAaan ls to Loudon, so is the Af .eatrVi the Anglo Saxon, Distil oily e difference is too great to adm t of ^easurment. Ai, 3 then cernes ti e 'ful corollary: What ls the duty what the function of ahe supar to tho inferior race under existing fidition, and in tho present advan ?d stage of civilization ? (Jan we, ?nave wo a right to wrap ourselves in our somewhat Pharisaic individuality and taking caro of ourselves, leave the less developed, or wholly undevel oped, to workout through force ard fraud a destiny which is uo destiny at ab? Unless as in the former Sudan, an unrendli g tale of vlolene and wrong be termed a destiny. Hat if we havo not such a right, and are un der an obligation, what I asked my self, becomes of all my philosophic Vi theories heretofore so coulldoutly ad vanooVr" 1 consess to a faltering. My morning at Ojadurmau, and my sub t quent days In c quatorial Af rica, were in this respect pointedly suggestive Indisputably educational. When thus face to face with such a problem one . .. .. ponders a good deal. In his do crlptlon of the dreary re gion known as Sud-the region bc m tween Lake No and Gondokoro-h i ker refers to the natives-and he wrote in 18(M what these who follow In the track he blazed might write today-"they are Bomothlng superla tive in the way of savages; the men as naked as they came luto the world their bodies subbed with ashes and their hair stained red by a plaster of ashes and cows urine." And agalu ho addf.-"thc weather today (Jan 21, ISM) 1B dull, oppressively, and ..dead ctlm. As usual eddless marshes and mosquitoes. 1 never either saw or heard of so disgusting a country aiy that bordering tho White Nile from Khartum to this point." A tjrier motqultc-breeding locality could, not be imagined; yet they did not annoy ns to any notieoblc extent, Tney were indisputably there; and they bother ed, making a mosquito netting at nights a necessity, and mosquito-boo ts in the evenings very.'fleslrabU : but ,_^they were neither ,.rc::ro numerous "n?l-^?e'^venomcus than, in their A season, here on tho banks of B stun'. E^Charle! ; and the stories heird con BBttrning them struck us gd cl mos H?lito-proof Americans as greatly ex l^aggeratBd. They wore mere more I babes and sicklings compared with " the ger uine Jersey bleed. But to return to Baker's narrative for ono last extract; he winds up by 8?y Inp- "it is a heart brcakn g rivei without a single redeeming point" 1 do not wonder at the failure of all < x peclltions In this wretched country. 1 could not believe that so miserable a country existed as tho whule of this land. There is no ?arne to be BOOU, few birds, raid not even crocodiles show themselves: all the water anim i! are hidden In tho high grass; thus diere ls absolutely nothing living to be seen, but day after day ls pais.-d in winding slowly through tho lab, rlntli Of endless mftrdh." Then ro foorlng again to the natives at tin now abandoned Austrian missionary station of Konina, ho says "twenty or thirty of these disgusting, ash bmeared, st&ik-ruikcd b; lites, armed with clubs of hard wood brought to a point, were lying idly about." It was just so at tho same landing place on thc 27 vb of February. 42 year.i later. Tho successors of those Biker saw were loilerirgabout the wooding sta tion one of them a man, old looking and .>maola'?ed, over sevep foot in in height .itark-nakod with a long spear in his hand olad all in Inno oenoel . Finally, as to conclusions. During nine weeka passed In Africa, tho only really suggestive experience was that cbtalncd above tho junction of the two N I-s. A strong rtlleotod light was thrown on our most perplexing home problem -tho Afrlcanilnj Amer ica It ?ave much food for thought -first, as respects Africa; second as respects the Negro. AKIUOA'S TIMK 18 AT ll A NI), i.. ... i., MA ? . ?.' . ? .>.>>?<- la rt-li X lalluy, KU nilnu In UWIUHIK to tho African, Africa's timo ls com ing. Tho Nile problem ls in prccos* of speedy soluth 'i that of central and Interior Afrioa will certainly fol low hard upon it Of theoountry bo youd the White Nile, whether Abyss inaa or that shout tho Nyanzas, I know nothing ; of tho Nile basin I! know something-not much, I adlai J i bub a little; and tho country beyond U a coronary, to lt. S rath ot Khar tum-tba? ls up the NUe--there 1B a very considerable, not as such things go, a vast region, whloh lt dm'no 1 and then Irrigated, would pre duce largely ot cotton, sugar, rice and to? baooo. It is a mere qujstlcn of wat* er in a country ot unevenly distribu ted rainfall-whero there is any rain fall at all-lying under a tropical nun. ( Bub ii .J not A ???^t?y suitable for tbc Caucasian-lt ls a country to be exploited and do volo und, not one to oooupled and peopled. That lt will now be developed, admits of little question The co sMruoblon of the Autumn bom ge, following hard on tho scion ti Ho occupation of the Sud an, settles the question. Tarro is money in lt-and big money I So the work will hone, forth gb right along the wators of the Nile will bo cono mlzod at their pouroes, whether In Abyssinia or at tho outlet of the Ny anzas. The gradual reclaiming and systematic irrigation of a very oonsl 1 orable part of the Nile basin north of Laka No will follow and oven the Sud -that wretched, heart-rend ug mor rass-may, not impassibly he drained by degrees, and made habitable N>w a vast papyrus wilderness, lt would then prove a great rico swamp and sugar Hold. So far as tho uatlves are ooioirned-what will follow? Ulearly, this: The African wll' at last And his place in o' vlllzitlon, what ever that place mxy prove to be. In the Culan and nile basin, I he wit I noe be brought, as in our Southern States Into iudustilal conflict wlib|tho white man. If ho meets with any comp?ti tion it will bo the Imported Asiatic the Aulatlo purposely imported to do what the African will not do or oan not FO well do. The native African of tho Nile baslu is now a suv ?ge-he herds cattle aud cultivates tho soil to a limited extent. He is distinguish ed from the brute creation ouly by tho faot of articulate speech, the use of tools and weapons of tho most primitive kind, and a knowledge of tho proprlUes of Ure. In euch mat ters as clothes, food or sanitation he ls lu no essential respects better than various kinds or anima's A savage, ho aemits, like nearly ad known ue gro savages, of an imtbativ3 domesti cation. Thin, In Africa, the simple question 1B how far ho can be develop ed by external ii flnences, and undei altered conditions; for as yet ho has evinced no self elevating cs,paolty. I Africa proper Is now to be developed and If the laboring white man will not, because he canuo1), make a nomi In lt, thc ?ald ls open to tho n*bivo Can ho oceupy that Held, and till Jr ar must he, free from foro d, regul .'? ed labor, languish and die out llkt the American and the Australian. A largo question, lt is as interest l?g as its answer ls obscure-*s yet Fortunately, Hs solution is In tin best, of hand-.-those of thc British Aslatlo experience thus throws Ugh! on tho African problem; and again the problem working out in Africa i full of suggestion as respects America One thing booms clear, without bo log reduced to servitude, the inferi? race must be rccogn aad as suoh. and In .some way, KO dealt with. Faot are facts; and only confusion result when things essentially not iq tal ar dealt with on the basis of natura rquality. The world has now f i some time boon pondering tho Afrl can rr hiern,-pondering it In Amcrl o% as well as In the placo of Its orlgir -lt has teen laying up a store of ex porienocs bearing upon lt,-cxperl H noes stretching through ab least 2 000 years. The discovery ( f tho Nil source was delayed to our time; In it burn that di c very now bids fair t involve the fu ure of the negro. Th wild animals ? f \ frica arc to g ; wil the negro go with them? Tue alter native ls domestication. That h will not go with the wild animal ou experience shows. That he is lmlba blvd has been proven. That he cai over become, or be made, self-elevj>,? lng in the mass remains to bo shjpwfl TllK A1UUOAN IN .A .MK HW A Finally, a? to tho A M yan in Amer! ca. Whayglcam of suppo.'ablo Ugh ('oes a h,flef visit to tho White Nil throw on our homo problem? A goo deal-Vperbaps 1 lu the Urst place looking ab iib me among Africans 1 j Africa- -far removed from that A morl joan environment to whloh I hav [been accustomed, -the scale fell fron my eyes. I found myself most im P'essod by a realizing sense of th appalling amount of error and cant li which we of the United States hav Indulged on this topic We have ac tually wallowed In a bo? of self suth elent Ignorance,-especially we phil anthroplsts and theorists of Nev England. We do so still. Havlnj eves, we will not soe. Even now wi not Infrequently hear tue successo to the abolitionist and humanitaria) of the auto Civil-war period-th "Uro'e Tom" period-announce tha the difference between whiteman am the black man is much less consider able than is ordinary supposed, am that tho only real obstacle lu th negro's way ls that-"Ho has neve bron given a Chane ! F r myself after visiting the b ack man in hi own hou^c. 1 come back with a de elded impression that this ls th sheoresb of delusions, duo to pur Ignorance of ru 11 men bary facts; ye wo built upon lt In Reoonstructloi days as upon a foundation-stone-; self-evident trutl ! Lot those win Indulg? In such theories go to th Sudan, ard pans a week at Omdur man. Tliat, p!a;e marks In commerce In litters and In art, In sclonco am architfo'ure, the highest point of do velopment yet reached by any Afrl cn race. As already suggested, th' difference between Ondurmau am L >ndon ab.tut measures the di norene botween bbc black and whlto. la disputably great, that lt admits o measurement Is questionable. So fara? 1 am advised, the Sudan 1 so arc tho llnost raco of the whol African spooks. Physically, tho' aro tall, as a who'd well-formed; and In their savage way, they aro Indis putably courageous. Yet in theo not the sllghest Inherent power o development has as yet com.? to tb tiirf?C), Ibiker, af^cr living arnon gs them for years, o<tlls attention to tb itriklng elementary fact that, ?Inc bho beginning of timo to th iday tba now ls, they have neither domestlcat ?d thc elephant nor In von tod pottery As rcspeots pottery tho Chlneso, fo ostanco, were "*as civilized as the iro at the present d .y when the Eng ish were barbarian?'; ' tho Hlnlno lomo8t(oated tho elephant at a pcrloi sow beyond tho memory of man. Tc lay the Africans uses tho gourd, am tills the elephant for his Ivor ! B?kcr W?.s a re ugh, typical Joli! 'lull; and as an authority on tho sub O? Of tho negro what ho wroto 1 rory open to question. A sportimai nore even than an explorer, ho lo k d with on tem pt and dislike on tin latlves; yet he gob along wlbh thom nd dominated thom. Ho was truth ul and Ju i, in his dealings witt Ilm? AHAM I' ?>'. At A ...I-ll. ........ 6VVM ?? ??V> ?ll?, VT J.IUM l/UI r m agency carno, lash out with a strong left arm It would bc well to offset his evidence and inference with those of Livingstone. But, when all allow au ot? H aro marte, tb Aro ts for Amerl- i cann muon food for thought in Baker's oonoluBttns. His verdict Cu the Sudanoee was at any rate explicit. "1 believe that 10 years resideuoo in Sudan and this country would spoil an angel, and would turo the hast hoait to stone.1 And again-"the apathy, indolence dlBhonestly oom binad with dlrbness, aro beyond des cription; and their abhorrence o? anything like order inoreasos their natural diBhko to Europeans." The fellowing we also have observed in America-"lu childhood I believe the negro to bs in advance In lntelloo tual quickness,' of the white child of s similar age, but the mind does not expand-it promises fruit, but does not ripon; and tho negro bas grown in body, but not advanced In Intel lect." Io this respeot, as tho In dividual, so ls tho raoo. "In no In stance has he evinced other than a retrogression, when onoe freed from restraint _and hts natural in stlnots hoing a love of idleness and savagedom, ho will assuredly relapse Into an idle or ravage state, unless specially governed and forced by in dusbry." Tue "restraint" In thlb case is nob necessarily physical; lt may be mora1; hut contact v/ith the white nun ls ncoessary to koop the degro from retrogression. Us has never invented anything -not letters, nor numbers, nor tools, nor narmouy, nor arts, nor architecture.;, nor has ho voluntarily adopted anything, ex cept, rum and tiro-arms. Ile taught himself to handle implements and weapons, both of the rudest and most ciernen*ary kind; and ho can balk. Theft his development stops. In arohitcc'U'o, he has not progress ed beyond the cave, thehovol and thc nest. Ia lotbers ho has not? devised a symbol for a sound. In feeler, co, his digits represent tho sum total of his oapnolty for oomputablon. Art, pocbry, muslo,-lb ls bhe samo old story! lijltglon, law, medlolne-to day the natives of Uganda are per ishing by thousands from a str?ngt I epidemic known as the "sleeping sloknets " The prevailing solentilh otvloblon ls that it ls oauncd bys poisonous insrot of tho m of quito ; sp: otes, to whose attacks bhe negro ll peculiarly exposed from the fact bhab, unlike tho Hindu, for oxample, he baa not yet got so far as to invent garments, and cover his nakedness. And tho worst of lt is that, belt g thus, he ls stationary. The Instinct -xs well as the. doslre for development a ifcOdrg. S lob b)lng the ludlsput abio fact, Baker, writing in 18(55 oleses his long enumeration of condi tions with a startling corollary-"Si long as it ls generally considered that tho negro and the white man are to be governed by the samo laws sno guided by the samo management, so long will the former remain a thorn In the sid J of every oommuuity to which ho may unhappily belong." If true, bhls strikes ab tho ver) root of our American polity-th? equality of man before the law. We oannot conform to it. If the faot must bo conceded-so much tho worst for the fae. 1 By all good Amerloron ab leaBt, tho theory vVlll none the less ne maintained, tho principle oontl dent ly assertec1! We aro thus con fronted by a condition. The exist enos of au unerad'oi-- ?and insur mountable race difference is indisput able. The white man and the blaofe man cannot tlourlsh together, the latter being considerable in number, under the same system of government Drawing apart, they will asmredl). become antagonistic. An opposite theory oan bo maintained, and will work with more orJpsa friction when the white greaJt.lv dominates, and thr black 11 um ?.uti I? a negligible quantity; when, h?wever, the blaok predomln gate's, tho theory breaks down, and some prsc leal solution ls reached not In ojnformity with it. As Hamlet was led to observe in a quite different connection-"This was sometime a paradox, bub now tho time gives it proof." What, then, is to bo our American outcome? The negro iq oats at our hearthstone-wo oan neither assimil?t* nor expel him. Tho situation in Egypt is comparatively simple. The country will be developed hy Europe an money and brain; and tho African will lind his natural place in thc t ut oome. Facts will bu recognized, and a polity adopted in harmony with them. Will tho result? reached there reset on us in America?-Who now oan Raj ? Tho problem ls intrloato Meanwhile one thing is olear-the work done by those who wero lu poli tical control at the close of our Civil war was work done In utter lg nor anoc of ethnologic law and total disregard of unalterable fact. Starting tho movement wrong, it will be yot pro* ductlve of incaculablo Injury to us, Tho negro, after emancipation, should have been dealt with, not as a politi cal equal, much loss forced Into a posl lion of superiority; ho should have been treatod as a ward aud depend ent -tlrmly, bub in a spirit of kind ness and absolute Justice. Practical ly Impossible as a policy then, this is nob less so now. At best, lb is some thing whioh can only be slowly and tentatively approximated. Ncverthe less, it ls not easy for one at all ob nervant to come back from l?^ypb and bbc Sudan without strong bumloloi) that we will lu America make small progress towards a solution of our raco problem until we approach lt in ess of a theoretic and humanitarian, iud moro of a sclcntlllu, spirit, (equality results not from law, but ixists heoause bilinga aro in essentials Ike; and a political Hystem whloh tforks admirably when applied to lomogencous t qual rei ulta only In ihaos when generalized Into a nos ?rum to bo administered universally. lt has been markedly so of late with is. Wort ii ttomeiii bering. It has been said, "baking .brough and through," bhe larger part rt sorrow and heart soho lb has known it's nobonr-e through grcab soi row, mb through little needless hurts and inklodacss, not so much through tho forint/ o' Providence as through tho nl8orderlng% Of humanity. O', tho layn that are spoiled by smaller lnrtsl lu dh d because somebody has u fool Sh ?pito, a wick, tl moid, and uareas mable pn Judloc that must bc gratlll d and have Its way no matter whens Ightrt. plans or hearts aro hurt by lt. No all realiza that this life ls full of orrow. Wo are thoro to "heal tho VOUndfl Rnrt binti t,bn hrnkftn heart," nd the only way we oan do this ls by lelng kind, loving and sympathetic, leart-slokness ls much harder to holp tyan hunger and povorby. Show intel sat In others, try to help thom, go otu. f .your way bo light m tho burdens of lui heavily laden. Don't hosltito to xpreas your kindly thoughts. If you ro ?trODg, then bo merni ful. I. .Jil .J ,.-Ai.'.-JJJUU'.jiiUU HELD AT BAY. DI U V OFFICIOUS OF JLIAW. Warrants Issued for the Arrests of the Outlaws, Who Will Be Punished. A dtepatoh from Barnwoll to The 8tate says Thursday morning Mr. /. J. Bennett, a well to do farmer from the Baldeo soot lon of the oounty, swore nut a warrant beforo Magistrate San ders against Ellie Bradley, a neuro, oharglng him with breach of tr mt with fraudulent intent. Sanders seat me oonBtable, Mr. W. T. Still, to arrest Bradley and deputised Mr. Lu oas Bennett to assist in making tho ar rest. The two went to the home f Bradley and attempted to arrest him Mr. Still going in tho house. Bradley ls a powerful negro and when au at tempt was made to arrest him he re dated. The constable blt him ou the head with a pc ir of bando iff j, o ?using the blood to ruu freely. Bradley then managed to got away from the con stable and secured his arms and defied arrest. In the meantime a party of 25 or 30 negroes began an approach on tho houso from all sides, each carrying \ doule barrol^gun or a Wluohester ri lli. Itseems that theso negroes had been no lil od that tho constables were com ing to mako the arrest and that they aad all armed themsolves with guns ?o help their pal resist arreit and had secreted themselves tn woods around one house. They advanood behind trees until within 50 yards of tho house, wino of the bolder ones oalling out to Bradley insldo the house, "D >n't give up, we'll kill them both if they try to tako you." The gravity of tho situation in which the two constables wore placed oannot be Imagined unless ono is familia with tho party of tho oounty in whloh the trouble oocurred. DJWU lu tho southwestern part of the oounty in tho edge of the swamp of the Savannah rh er with an almost entire negro population, theso two of licers of the law wore held *.t bay by an armed body ol' lawless negroes. They held their ground ? >r more than three hours, hoping foi sumo white man to happen that, way and think lng thereby to frighten away tho neg roes who were assisting their pal tc resist tho law. After walting thu*, until nearly night thoy left tho neg roes in command and came baok, re uortlng tho circumstances to Magls trato Sandors. It was then to late to attempt to enter their don In the swamp. Friday Magistrate Sanders had warrants sworn out for ever negro in tho party, as all their names were known by the constables, and ho will doputi/."d a su Ululent number of men to KO and get them. Tillman vs. II >vklriB. Senator Hopkins tried his best to divert attention from tho corrupt methods employed by the Republican party In assessing national banks to secure a corruption fund to Influence elections by abusing Senator Tillman who roques ed the matter to be look ed Into. Most of the Northern nt?r' . Hean pap* rs endorsed Hopkins' wave of the bloody shirt, and we arc sorry to say that a few.Jjouthern papers did the same. Thc real matter that Hop kins and his associates wou d like to squelch, ls thc proof about bank con tributions to campaign funds. Senator Tillman was more than once prodded about the source of his Information, but In the Hopkins matter at least they woke up the wrong passenger. After Senator Tillman's colloquy with Senator Hopkins thc former sent to thc clerk's desk the article written by James W. Breen, aid printed in the New York Herald, relating to the matter In which; the national banks were assessed for the benefit of the Re publican party. Senator Aldrich ob jected to having the article read, say ing that he thought thc senate knew the contents of the article, and that ic had read it himself. "Perhaps," mid Mr. Tillman,''that accounts for ,'our Indifference to have lt read tgaln." The article was then read by die clerk. Mr. Tillman called atten tion to the fact that long ago bc had irges the committee on elections to ict on his bill regarding the contribu ions of national ba. ks, but that the lill still hangs lire. Senator Lodge de nanded to know who "this man Breen s." Senator Tillman produced certifica cs of Mr. Brecn's character by letters >f recommendation from prominent nen, and among them was one fiom Senator Knox and another from Vice 'resb'ent Fairbanks? Senator Knox .ooh tho door and declared that Mr. boen was a person of thorough rolla? illlty. Mr. Tillman said that there vas something yet uncovered worse han tiny thing that had been revealed n connection with tho Insurance scan? bi ls. Ile had a letter from a New i'ork bank to the effect that if a com nitteo would subpoena Walter M. Anthony, auditor of tho republican na tional committee, lt could lind out. ex ictly wdio contributed to tho last cam* lalgn fund. lilmlnosa lt wurilod. The man to whom he gavo a por lon of food during tho Spanish-Amt r can war has wllbd Charles Mathues derk In the prothonotary's i Mee at rledla, Ba,, ?5,000. William Her :1ns died at his home In Memphis ast week, and among his bequest* vas fi u. d thia Item: "I horoby leave he sum of ?5,000 In cadi to Cha 1 B ?athues, of Media., for a sci vice willoh ho rendered me wbrn in dire listiOHO.'* Mathues was a member of be sixth Bjnnsylvinla. Hid o mipitiy vas sent to Camp Alger. Uarrpid dongslde thorn was the seoji.d Ten lesHee. There was tn ublc about ra lons for the mon of tho South, and vbllo tho men from Pennsylvania vero eating fresh moat and baked .read, tho others woro compel? d to ako hardtack and salt meat for their bare. This continued for a time, /hon,'without warning, tho provis ms woro a most entirely out oif. lt /as at this point that Mathuos mot larkins, and, loaming of his condl lon, gave bim bread and moat. Boru thc Republican congressmen rom Oregon aro appealing for new rials on the indictments for conncc ion with tho land frauds, and tho rand Jury at Portland has Just In? icted another hatch charged with t?o samo offonso. j.mujLui_^ "MAKES ft . RHEUMACIDE all tho germs and po spots in tho body an Nature's way. Purel rnosi powerful of ci time regulates the Ih up the entire system that cures rheumatis MOST P0WERFU1 CUBES DISEAS RHEUMACIDE other remedies and Percell?*, of Salem, V dreds of dollars for pl by half a dozen bot 2120 Ramsay street, man," Mrs* S. A. Coi it cleansed her blood After Noted Doctors Palled Hero ls n cam cur' <1 by RIP-'UV ClDK after noted New York soon Ists had railed, Mr. W. k. t\ue\ writes from / tUins. Va. : .'Four bottles of kilEUMACI liavc; ruth ely rmcd mu of ti lc standing caso of I lu umatism r Sreally Imi ved my general lion was a total wreck, hnvinu had rh mn i is m for I wc m y voa is. I spout s ??ral weeks Slid much money try specialists iii New Writ, but Kit' M?CIDli is tho o-:ly cure I lu found When I beean to use I welched I IO pounds. Now I weich pounds, my no?.nal weicht. "W. K. HUGHES, TI II rilliLK PLIGHT Oftlio Crew of a I'Mutilng 8m?ok in Alexio PM Pftaon? Languishing in a Mexican prison, half dead for laok of food and with their bodies recking vermin, is tho condition of the captain and orow of the Pensacola ilshing smaok Silas P. Stearns, whloh was oaptured by a Mexican war vessel oil the coast of Yuoatan ou April 10, according to a lotter Just received from Capt. Maltl tano. Tho letter was written In Italian .ind was translated by Italian Consul (Jafiero, a oertitl %d copy thereof balng tent to Senator Mallory for transunis don to the state department. The let .er states that tuc vessel was captur ed near Graud R >cf Island, th" oause of the seizure hoing tho vessel had no license to tish in Mexican waders. I was lowed to Progresse where the jrew was thrown into J ill without an opportunity to communloato witt) either the American or Italian con suls. The schooner was placed in charge of soldiers and the men treater'' '"' 'Vrates. , T?r letter further jays: k JL.'??day when a strong northeast wind blow, wo left oil fishing and pro jeeded to the Island, 30 miles distant. Torsholter. In the meantime wo wont ,0 the light house keeper to get some bread und a little Hour. Ho gave u ?bout 10 pounds of soa biscuit. A'tor tho scooid day wo went out in order to pioceod to the same place. We left off fishing and about 8 or U o'clock we were taken in charge, by the Mexioan mau of war aboub 10 miles distant, fortunately we had uo tish on deck ind were nob Ilshing, or they would >iave sent us to the penitentiary for life. Tho commandant of the man of war told us he was g dog to take us to Progresso to make declaration. We ieciarod that we had been Ilshing 50 .niles distant. This has been our sal vation and that of our boab. Wo dB olared that we went luto tho Island for a little Hour." The owners of the vessel, Waren & Go , aro coi. li.lent that the mailor will eventually be amicably ad ju ?tod. out are unable to understand wtiy tilt: United States repr?sentatives at tb6 City of Mexico have s'jnt no mossage rogarding tho seizure. A ru olio Benefftotor. President Roosevelt's Intense dislike of "the man with the muck rake" can hardly be wondered at, for "the man" has uncovered so many scandals that tho Roosevelt Administration will go down into history as tho most, disrep utable era of Republican supremacy. If there had been no muck, the rake would have remained idle. VVas not a rake necessary lo uncover the insur ance grafting, tho postal frauda, the land frauds, the Panama grafting and mismanagement, and would President Roosevelt have prevented Hie exoosurc of tiles?! scandals, because it, unmask ed thc corruption or connivance of some of tho h'ghost Olilolals of tho Re publican part}? lt is no easy or pleas ant, task to wield tho rake, but. tho man Who does stir up t he. muck In an evenhanded manner, telling tho truth wit bout fear, or favor, is a public ben efactor. The fact, is, the Republican politicans had become so Intrenched In power that the grafters thought that anything they did, however vic ious, would be unobserved by the peo ple, but the man with the rake with his publicity, exposed them and the Republican party which was responsi ble for them. lt pllllllO i. I. i.ll . One of thc lifo Insurance magnates has been arrested for giving a large sum of money, that, should have been sacred to thc Widows and orphans of the policy holders, to Mic Republican National Committee. President. Roose velt declared before election that no tainted money was being used in his campaign, but. the evidence shows he was greatly mistaken, for the insur ance trust and other corporations "caine down" handsomely. Tito strange part of lt ls that the Admin* istivtiou organs before tho hist nation al 'election declared that tho Presi dent was managing the campaign on a '.business basis" and receiving daily reports of the finances 0? thc Republi can committee from Chair man Cortol you. Was thc President deceived oi did ho then think Insurance money was not, tainted? No restitution bas yet been made, though lt would SCO ni that tho ethics of thosltuatlon demand that tho money bo returned to Its rightful owners. YOU WELL goes right to the seat of the isons out of the blood, cleans .d sets af! the organs to v/crl y vegetable, non-alcoholic, it i eansing medicines, and at t /er, tones up the stomach ai U RHEUMAC1DE is the only m to stay cured. L BLOOD PURIFIER T%, 1 E BY REMOVING THE has cured thousands of cases famous doctors had failed, a., spent $200 in medicines s ?ysicians' fees, and at last he w ties of Rheumacide. C. Die Baltimore, says it has "mac -nbes, 114 S. Gilmor street, Ba I, took away her pains, and rn; like a new woman," Yi I, and recommends Rheum [? CURES AFTER Sample bottle and 1 i mi for postage to Uk 1 Bobbitt Chemical ? START TOG Wo oan neither set a hen nor mar ry a wife unless she is In tbo humor. . It is allege? that pretty women are i becoming very bcaroo In NJW York. To build up tho tissues of tho bod> sip a glabs of rich creamy milk before retiring. lb is tho greatest of all mistaken to 1 do nothing booause you oau only do ? little DJ what you can. Trie average family does not need coat of arms, but it needs a motte "Ualted we sland; divided we fall." D ?l't Und toe muoh fault with th)' world. If you do, you may be bur? that heaven won't.ex'iotly suit you. S niles had you bask to your youth; tears drag ytu toward old age. It takoi no more time to laugh than to weep. Mike the girl in the looking-glass ar sweet as you cm. She's a good friend to you, aud you want to treat hei well. Most of us oiunt up everything else but our blessings, il glib thoro ou adding machine stops. lb itm'b right though. Pet dogs in sunbinne'e and bluo glass speotaoles may be sam following tholr pwnors through tho Btreets e>f Borliu'ln hob weather. / Whenever a girl wants tojflnd a real hero s io lioki for him bot veo A the cover pages of a dime novej-that was written by a man. A physician's remedy f?.r burns Ik made from equal pirts of linseed oil and lime water. Thia m'xture should always be lu one's medic no chest. Tho woman who Is not busy ls KC raro that she ought t:) b^ labeled ano exhibited In a museum as an obsolete spcclmcnt of thc daughboru of Eve. Money may not bring hsppiness, bul io's good enough to notice when ll passes by. lb Is also worthy of keep ing when onoe you get your haneb upon it. Whllo extravagance is abso'utelj wicke t, to be miserly is wor^e, foi then your money does actual hurm. Put away a little "roll" as a safety un brella for a rainy d.'.y. The poople who win bhelr way lute tho Inmost re cesses of others' bearu are nob, you will Hud, u-ually the most brilliant and gifted, hub those wtv have sympabhy, pntienoe, self-forget fulness and that indelhmblo faculty of eliciting the hotter nature of others. Wo havo many friends who arc more beautiful and gifted, but there ls not ono of them whose companion ship we eojjy hotter than that of the plaid faced man or woman who nevrr makes a witty or profound remark, bub whose simple ii lallty of humui ?roodness makes up every other deft ctency. It is to tho girl who laug'is that * man is drawn at all tlm^s. Ii3 she ht friend, sweotlnarb or w.fo be linds her company ac; lng as a t ?nie on h.s statt if mind and o institution, Siro seems bo have a fu-id of merriment and ho nor which drives away all earea and lightens the heaviest burdens. Tho best way to keep the love cf vcur husband ls to make him husth to keep your love. Hy this it Is not meanb to worry or Utry bl n, but in itead to m ike you'sef a J oiarmlug. so fascin?t ug, so interesting and really superior and lovable that yon havo all tho other women beat to a finish. Cottdll lu Iv lu;'.. In tho Horse last week Mr. Harllott, af Georgia, oallcel at'entlon to the wonderful elf ob the export of tho cot ton crop of tho S )uth had on produc ing the goneral prosperity of bho on bl e country and. Hbo wed from statis tics that wbllo the United States bad ?ported In 1905 over $400,000,000 moro than had Loon Imported, of this mm the cotton of tho South amount' ?d to 1380,000,000 from willoh ht nado thc deduction that the general prosperity of the country was dut ?oro largely to the cotton or ip thai :,o any other commodity. Ho showed jhab tho v duo of the o itt; n orup of ih? South f >r the past live years ex ceed: d by nearly $100 000 000 the on dre product! n of gold and si ver in ib? world during that time. (Jot A c<| II Mt ti toil with Maohinory. Some men aro horn kickers. HP who kicks about a now piece of faro machinery not woiklng Just righi vould have less to k'ok about If he would spond a little tim?, on a rainy lay, studding tho instructions issued iy tho maufaoburor. Muoh valu&hl il mo is lost by tho farmer not know ng bis implements, and bow to us? md caro for'them. Tho mal-or off ool, whothe? lt bo a oarpot stretd e ir a mowing maoblno, knows more ibout its working patts than a iy one Iso. Thoreforo, road up and gnt ao [uatnted with tho now machined. ??r>?_/ i after all , Austin srtd hun=> ras cured trien, of le him a new Itimore, says ade her "fee! our druggist sells lacide. ALL OTHERS FAIL. booklet free if you send five cents Company, Proprietors, Baltimore. ET WELL/TODAY Rheumatism, . Sciatica.. ? . Rheumatic Gout, Lumbago, Catarrh, Indigestion, Constipation. Kidney Troubl?, Liver Disease*, La Orlppe, Contagious Blood Poison. AH Blood Diseases. DB. HATHAWAY Blood Poison Can Be Cured. At Your Own Hame. If You Hive Any of Its Symptoms, Write Dr. Hathaway of Atlanta, Qa. He Can Cure lt In Any Stage and Without Great Expense. A Quarter Century of Experience. Send for Valuable Itecognizod aa tho Oldest KsUiblished nn<lf?_rt|, nd,,,,. Il!,.,w,,.,i,. /v..<.o,l Moat Reliable Specialist. DOOK. UtllCl Diseases LUI CCI. Dr. J. Newton Hathaway of Atlanta, Ga., tho South's most export, roliahlu and success ful specialist in his lino of treatment, says ainsi positively that, he hus a method that will ;uro any case of Speciflo Mood l'oison or n'philis whether in Primary, Secondary or tertiary stago, and ho gives every alllioted nor ien opportunity to investigate this method. Il , you have any symptoms of this dfaoaso. that Is recognized os tho most treacherous and |far renching disease that afil?ete mankind, such aa pimples, sores, ulcers in tho mouth and throat r sh or copper colored sputa on tho body, bol!?, fulling nut of hair and oyebrows, etc., write him a lotter. Ho will send yon a value ble book on tho diseaso and Iiis expert opinion of your ci n free of obargo. Best Obtainable. Thia treatment assures you of a euro and no ? Nervous DnblHty [Ijist vitality] Vari* ?yUt.or, wlioro or, lo whom you may go you will Iud no treatment that will give you as suroro givo y Hilts, and too, tho cost is voiy moderato. Dr. Hathaway is not a "mon only" "euro all" lector, but an honest, upright physician and peuialist, and you can consult him with poi? eet confidence. His specialty also includosothor private and ihronlo diseases of mon and womon, such os Socole, Mt vio t ur?', ICtilnoy Rii't Wail er DIHORH-'H, Catarrh. Sfclu manases. Diseaseso? tho Heart, htvorand Stom aot>, IIIHI'P.IXMI i> MuiHiir to wooton, mo, and if you aro alllictod you caa oonsult him without charge. Mis homo treatmont plan is perfect. Kvory thing strictly confidential. Adrdess Dr, Hatlmway & Co., 88 Inman Bldg., Alanla, Qa We Have For Sale )ne 25 horse power Tal bott, second hand engine in stock which has rocont y been overhauled. This Engine is in first-class condition and will be i great bargain for anyone who is in tho market for such a size engine. Wo are headquarters for anything in the way of machinery supplies, and >rompt at ention will bo given to all inquiries and orders entrusted to our .aro. Writo us whon you aro in tho market for anything, and bo sure io got our prices boforo placing your orders elsewhere. Columbia Supply Co.. .... Columbia. S. C. ???? ?*>?????? *>??? THE GUINAKD BUICK WOKKS, COLvUMB IA, Manufacturers Hriok. ITIro Proof Terra Flue linings and Drain Tile, or millions. ?3. O. Juta 8aUilu?'Bl??t or Proparcd to lill orders for tbou ands a0S?se?ii?*0<Mft*e*'?*??44B?e?*< 1 PENSION MOHKY. ipartamhurg County Doaile While Keaufort liri HRH Up Hoar. Tho fellowing table showing the llstrlbution by counties of tho pen Ion money presents an l.tWestloy omparatlve study. Spartanburg. ns isual, gets tho bluest slice-$18 831) . 0-being the most populous wblto ountv in the state. Richland gets nly ?0.820 85: No. Pension. Ain't, .hbcvillc. K5? $4,135.26 ki ken. 318 7,SOO 70 tnderson. 503 13,28? 30 Jam borg. 8i 1,771.60 larnwoll. 162 3,080,95 leaufort. 43 8311.75 1er kelcy. 127 2 743.76 marleston. 166 3,610.00 Mierokee. 209 5,710.45 Jbester. 112 3,007.80 Jbestortlcld.202 6,703 05 Marendon. 145 3,770 (it) holleton. 357 7,056.40 yarlington.220 6;663 36 )orcbester. ?7 2,011.00 Cdgelleld. 121 3,313.05 i'airtlold. 124 3,427.00 florence.200 4,336 80 roorgotown. 66 1,201.35 I roon ville. 450 12,050 05 I recn wood. 132 3,445.00 lampton. 212 4,807, lorry. 246 6,276 66 kershaw. 131 3 362 70 -ancaster. 2(il 6,648 20 ?aurons. 270 7,470.70 ?oe. 134 3,432.05 .cxiiigt.011. 246 0,629.60 la rion. 252 6,986.46 I a i l ho 10. Kit? 3,871.66 io wherry. 173 4,295 00 ?conoo. 283 7 067 90 .rangoburg. 218 r>jrt>.io 'tokens... 255 6,195.65 Meilland. 270 0,829.85 aluda. 157 4,221.45 partanburg. 710 18,830.20 ureter. 134 3,36230 'nion. 210 5,811.06 /.lllamshurg . 189 4,661.40 ork. 308 8,301.05 Total. 8,915 $224,180.80 Foolish Follow. John Piiit.lay, agod 19, from lhcrtsvlllo, Al%., rrcentiy drank udamim and died In a hospital at tiattanooga Thurd*> . In bia room /er a restaurant whore he woikod 10 love lettors, torn to atoms, wore und. One < f these was addressed . MI83 Kv* Oonloy, of Rosyllle, Ol. ivoral letters wore flllod wi ?li How s and ribbons. Hoon after going to tattanooga Parsley Jolnod the Salva on Army. His body will bo ship id to AlboriiSvlllo, Al&; ARE YOU Q01N? TO PAINT? If So Write Us, For Color Card and Prico List of Ready Mixed PAIFTS, VARNISHES, ALAR ASTIN ES, etc. The Murray Drug Company^ Wholesale Druggists! 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( all on your druggist for lt. JD/Y V * AWI BY*? $K AAA BANK M[t?m ?OO FKI?BCOU_ m Bo?r<l?tCo?t.Write, QROROIA AUBAM A BUSINESS coLuee, .?.*?.. "MoCuunvs sued for another mil llon', is tho boadUoeln a New York nowspapor. For the Lord's sak how nm ny mil I lons did theso Insuranco grafters get away with?