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VOL. XIV. . ilE WAGES OF SIN.I IK A Young Man Ends His L;fe Rather than Face Charge. WAS ACCUSED OF STEALING. ! As an Officer Was About to Ar- i rest Him He Placed a Pis*?l 4^ lj r> j. tvi iu nis DTOiisx and Fired. J. Horaoo Wood, aped sevontcen, ! \^hot and almost instantly killed him* solffWcdnosday night at about 8 o'oloek v:i3 tho offico of 11. G. Dun & Co., on tho second floor of tho Exchange bank ti building, Macon, Ga. Tho young man chose death rather than tho disgraco of arrest on tho charge of stealing about $20 worth of postage stamps. Wood was forinorly employed in tho office, but was discharged early in Au gust, having worked for about five months as clerk. Prior to his discharge tho number of postago stamps used in tho office had increased to such, an extent as to cause first surprise and then suspicion on the part of the local manager Mr. Logan Douglas. Suspicion pointed to young Wood but nothing fixed upon him until last night. After his disohargo tho stamps continued to disappear too rapidly to bo aocountcd for on tho sooro of letters mailed. Tho watchman of the bank, Warren Mosely, was notified and last nigh.^Mr. Douglas himself decided to watoii for the thief. lie was seated at his desk in a corner of the office without a light and tho outer door locked when soiueono camo up i? ? J ?>< > * * ' vnt> viuvniur uuu waiKcu 10 me uoor, called to ask if anyone was in Mr. Douglas mado no reply. Tho visitor then knocked and said that someone downstairs wanted to see the chief clerk. Ho received no reply and immediately af tcrwards Mr. Douglas heard a key turned in tho look and Horace Wood entered, passing through tho railing and appror.ohing tho stamp drawer ho saw Mr. Douglas, who roso and said; "Well, Horace I havo you now." "Yes, Mr. Douglas," answered the boy, "you havo me now." Mr. Douglas, troubled becauso of tho discovery which ho has more than half i expected to make, asked Wood what he out to do with him. "I don't know," hoTcplied. ) "I have no right to ask a favor of you but if you will overlook it and say noth, ing I will leave town tonight nevor to i return. [ But Mr. Douglas told him that he > must pay for tho stamps ho had ab stractcd and asked him if his father would not pay for them, but to this proposition tho boy would not listen. He said that he had rather dio than ' havo his father know anything about I it- * I At this time Mr. 01cm Steed, tho lawyer who has offices nearby, appeared and Mr. Douglas told him the discovery and asked Mr. Steed to go to tho window and call a policeman. Mosely, the watohman, who sajs ho saw the young man go up tho stairs was, Vl ATtrnVA * in ^ X 3 1 1 I . Ill .1,111 Ml." iiuu UIIUIl'VU MM' office. Mr. Douglas told him also, and I togothcr they talk the matter over Finally Mr. Douulas told Mosely to take Wood to the barracks and he would mcanwhilo see what could bo done about it. i As Mosely approached Wood drow a pistol from his pocket and said: 1 "I'll bod?d if you ever take mo to ' tho barracks," , At tho same time holdidg tho weapon tin front of his breast and pointing towards Mosely. Tho watchman spoke gently to him, edging up close, and when withinToach V triod to knock the pistol down, but as ho did so Wood turned tho weapon on l( himself and fired. ! Tho ball entero.il ahnnt. t.hn rncrmn nf 1| the heart. Mosely eoizod him and I )th him dowo the pascago to.Vctiua t??o elevator. After a few steps ( the unfortunate youth tottered and sank in the officer's arms, exclaiming: I "I am done for, tell all my folks good ~ bye." In a few minutes aftorward ho died. [ The body was taken to Wood's under 1 taking establishment. , \ Young Wood was the son of Mr. JJ W. Wood, a most rospooted mau, who , is well known by the business men as eminently trustworthy and highly re\ speotable. Ho has been employed by the Central liailroad and now holds a I position of trust with the Bibb Manu!. factoring oompany. The young man has boon a littlo wild I ana since ms aisdtargo by tho Dunn oompagf * X has been out of employment. " ' Killed by a Spider. The Pacslet corrospondont of Tho State says: "Mrs. .John Kirby who last Wednesday morning while putting on her shoes was bitten on the too by a small brown spider. Her sufferings wore most excruciating and despite all medical skill, sho died Thursday morning. Her remains wero laid to rest in tho Baptist cemetery Friday, her pastor, Her. S. A. Nettles, conauoting tho funeral exorcises." Will be Pardoned. The Paris correspondent of tho Lon[l? don Daily Chronicfo claims to have good authority for tho statement that Droyftiff will bo pardoned although President Loubet will not exeroiso his prerogative until pf^er the meeting of the counoil of rot0rfl r Ho adds that Capt. Boauvais ana- maj. Brcon were tho only two morabors of tho courtmartial who voted for acquittal and it is was Capt. Parfall who insisted upon tho proviso regarding extenuating circumstances. . X. k* TROUBLE IN THE CAMP. The Leaders of the Grand Old Party Can't Aejree. Senator# II oar, Wellington and Mason, all Republicans, arc openly opposed to the Ilanna-MoKinley expansion business. And now comes Senator Forakcr and announces against imperialism. He has written a letter to Rov. Herbert S. Rigclow, of Connecticut and the minister makes it a basis for a sermon. Wo aro informed that this letter contains a confidential intimation that ho will head the anti-imperialist wing of tho sonato in the next i i : _ a _ _ J ii? %? uuu^rvBa uuu ucing lnicnacu ior puDllcation is a somi-ollioial announcement of tho senator's position on this main issuo of the next national campaign. With the opening of tho session ho will find tho first gun. The letter closes with a hearty note of commendation for the work which has been done in the cause of anti-imperialism by tho Moonomic Club, and declares in underscored typo that the senator "is with tho causo." "A special point is made in Senator Foraker's lottcr of the appeal which Isabel Artaoho, former partner of Aguinaldo, has addressed to tho American Republic, Artaoho, who is spoken of as a man of wealth and influence, ha3 just takon an oath of allcgiaucc to tho United Statos government. Ho protects thai ho has always been a loyal citiz u. llo rails at what he characterizes as 'the mean and spurious affectation' of the leaders of tho present rebellion. Ho declares that tho United States alono can restore peace and prosperity to the islands. "'Behold, what au honorable ally the president has taken to himsolf,' argues tho senator. 'Isabel Artacho, the meanest man the islands havo over produced, as little ai Arnold without Arnold's tiro. Since the American occupation of the city ho has passed in and out as freely as before. Doubtless, he had his useful sides. But that ho should be brought forward as a clincher, that his simple statement should be thought sufficient to blacken the character of the man, who, whatcvor may be said of him, is still making a pretty stiff fight for his country?this is laughable. There were to bo had at any time during our own war for independence 50 Tories who would swear before the British parliament that Washington was a more self elected usurper, leading a handful of atrociously merciless banditti. Artacho's evidence is worse than useless. This government welcoming a traitor was more than Foraker could stand. In old days, the sonator was very fierce against southern "Kcbils." llo is now on tho warpath against his own party. ? i KxcuiuuiH wuu are uringing reproacn upon the constitution, tho Union .and the !iag. A Brutal Parent. Beckvillc, l'anola County, Texas, is excited over a triple tragedy, .lames Forsythe, a highly respected young man, and Oilic Simpson, a hello of tho neighborhood, eloped and wore married Saturday night. When Andrew Simpson, tho girl's father, learned of the wedding last evening ho started after tho couple on horseback. As ho rode up to Forthc's home he saw his son-inlaw Hoeing through tho orchard, lie brought him down with seven buckshot in tho groin, leaving him for dead. King II. Forsythe, father of James, camo out of tho houso unarmed to see what tho troublo was, and was instantly ltillod wit.li n lnnrt nf V.iinlruK^.4- ! r. _ J - w ,, .v.. M ?VMU U& fc/UVIXOIlWU ill abdomen. Simpson then dismounted and ran into the house with his pistol, saying he would kill his daughter, but voung Forsytho's mother soi/.ed and held his pistol until the girl escapedSimpson then walk out and put the pis. tol to his forehead, killing himself instantly. Young Forsythc may recover. Business in Bockvillc is suspended on account of the tragedy. Great Demand for Yarns. A Boston dispatch to the Nt.w York Commcroial asserts that cotton yarn manufacturers are having in their way "tho samo kind of boom as the producers of pig iron." That is, they arc getting mere orders than they can possibly fill, evon by working overtime, and in many instances double time. Thoy are overwhelmed with contraots,' the dispatch goes on, ''and arc quoting prices which equal those at which similar goods can be imported, and are refusing ordors in many instances." One manager of many years'experience says he nevor saw the mills pushed as they are at present. Nevertheless the price of raw cotton remains very, very low, because spinners do not havo to pay an advaneod price to get what thoy want, being able to got it at thoir own prico. Most Bloody Murder. Mrs. Jane B.irhnr uml hnr tmn Wiley and Lovi, were murdorod by unknown robbers in a cross roads station, six miles from Picasanton, Texas. Thoy were killed with a hatchet, their heads having beon smashed to a pulp. A sack containing f 100 in silver was seourcd by tho robbors. Foot traoks in the sand indicated that thcro were thrco mon implicated in tho crime and that thoy left in tho direction of San Antonio. Runners have boon sent to all parts of the county and a eloso scaroh has begun for tho murderers. Texans Won't Visit Paris. Judging from the preliminary movement being mado in different places in Texas, tho State will boycott tho Paris exposition as a result of the Dreyfus vcrdiot. A movtznsnt has alroadybeen sot on foot in Qalvcston and San Antonio to secure plodgos from the people to stay away from tho exposition and a similar movement has been started in Austin. Reports from north Texas aro that ? similar movements aro working ' there. hf i CONWAY. S. C. LIES,BASE LIEs! That Is What a London Concern is Telling on the South. A SCURRILOUS DOCUMENT. The Howard Association Caps the Climax of a Series of Li bels on the Southern States, The Howard association, of London, a concern engaged in circulating defamatory literaturo about tho southern people, has recently issued a document which caps the climax in a scries of wholesale libels of the cotton statos. The full text appears below: The noble spirit of sympathy, with tho vi :tims of Spanish tyranny in Cuba and tho Philippines, which has lately been manifested by the great nation of the United States, lias successfully removed an incubus which had long weighed terribly on thoso splendid islands. May it now be hoped that a siiuilaily humane feeling will as determinedly grapple with a still more extensive form of oppression in tho southern portions of tho Urtited States themselves? During tho past year the Howard association has on various occasions received from those southern states very grievous accounts of cruellies intliotcd both upon prisoners and others of the eolorod race, and, in particular, in tho convict oainps and ehaingangs, where a shocking condition of affairs exists. Thero are comparatively very few prison buildings in tho south. Offenders are chiefly leased out for opon-air work to contractors or bidders, who pay for their labor so much a head to tho state or county, and then become absolute masters of such prisoners, so that tho taxpayer is entirely relieved from the burden of criminals, who actually bcoomc a sourco of largo revenuo to tho state and to individuals. This may at first sight seem to bo a great advanco upon tho general systems of the north and of lOuropo, whioh are so costly to the community. But in roality tho lease system produces tho most terrible sufferings and fatalities to many thousands annually. It is practically a revival of slavory, and on a very extensive scale. In Florida public sale of convicts (most of whom aro Negroes) occasionally take place, when they are sold by auction to tho highest bidder for various periods up to four years. Usually tho sentences in tho south (on colored pcrple), even for minor offenses, such as stealing eg^s, arc for very long periods. Thoro aro sovcral classos of leased convicts. Firstly, those under tho immediate supervision of tho state, in camps, or farms, corresponding somewhat to British convict establishments. These, though open to grave objection, arc comparatively free from the grossest evils, and have of late years undorgono considerable improvement in sovcral of tho states. Secondly, thero aro tho county camps, which arc worse. And, lastly, and worst of all, thcio aro tho numerous gangs farmed out to privato sub-contractors or bidders, who in many eases "sweat" their victims to death by oxcossivc labor, wretched fooO, brutal violeuco and the grossest neglect of sanitary requirement!:. And, of courso, religious and moral obligations are utterly ignorod in most instances. In the best prisons of tho northernstates', as in New York stato (at Elmira), Massachusetts (at Concord .Junction and Shorbonc), Illinois (at Joliot and Pontine), Ohio (at Columbus), Minnesota (at Stillwator) and in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Khodo Island and other states, tho reformation of tho prisonor is, at least, earnestly attempted, and often successfully achieved, llut in the southern camps and chaingangs it is the very reverse. Tho "captains" employed by the subcontractors are often of tho class dcpictod in "Legroo," in -MUnolo Tom's Cabin." Their conduct to tho female convicts is indescribable. A large number of illegitimate births take place in these camps. The wretched children born in them are, in some instances, permanently retained as slaves. And tho breeding of such has become an avowod purpose, at least in one stato Woo to tho women and girls who aro sent to such camps! Thoir life is and mint bo an inforno. Men and women frequently run away and aro thon chased with bloodhounds and guns?those killed being somctimos registered a^ "escaped." Tho colored population furnishes about nine-tenths of tho southern oon TictH, and it is reliably stated that a considerable portion of them are either quito innocent or aro punishod by long sentonces for tho most trifling offenses, aro frequently on moroly trumped-up charges. It is to tho interest of tho local officials and contractors that tho number of oonvicts should be as largo as possible and their detontion as prolonged as it can bo made. A very sad fcaturo in the ohaingangs is the number of young ohildren sent to them. A loading philanthropist of Baltimoro, Mr. G. S. Griffith, president of tho Maryland Society for tho Protection of Childron, was pained to find in the gangs so many ohildren from nioo yearsof age and upward 1 In one of tho better class of ohaingangs in North Carolina he found flfty-fivo prisoners, including three women and ono boy of oloven years of ago. And ho says: "These, men vomon and boys all sleep under a tont 70x24 fcot." This promisoious and most demoralizing association of the various ages and soxos, by day and night, is tho usual foaturo of the private camps, and sometimes cvon of tho state establishments. Judgo Candler, of Georgia, says: Of VII . THURSDAY. SEPTE; "My exporieuco is that when a boy is sent to tho ehaiogang, he is ruined." .Judge Merry, of Atlanta, says: "I havo seen too many esses whoro boys have been ruined by being sent to tho chaingangs." Then what must it bo for girls? Fearful brutalities aro perpetrated by tho "captains" in tho lonoly remoto plaees where many of tho gangs aro loe:it I'll Aft in fnrnotu nml minna times convicts havo been Hayed alive! On one prisoner's corpse forty injuries were found. Ho had been literally beaten to pieces. Another had been di-gustiogly dismombcrcd by kiokH, and ihcro was a groat hole gaping in his side. A young white girl of 1" yeais, after being repeatedly outraged by the officers of a camp, fled to tho woods. She was overtaken by bloodhounds, her clothes stripped off and sho was then flogged in the presence of jeering men. Anothor poor girl, similarly trotted, gavo birth to a child, but both mother and offspring wore spocdily relieved by death. Women and girls are'habitually subjected to the grossest indcecneios and exposures. In ono camp was found a woman who had had seven children whilst thoro, and another had had six thcro. Ana such eases aro legion! Christiau America sends hundreds of missionaries to Asia and Atrica. Hut is thcro not avast mission field for effort and influence? The stntcs of Mississippi, Arkansas and thoCarolinas all need great rofornis in thiH matter; hut especially Florida and <1 eorgia. Their forest turpontino worns and their phosphate mines aro often awful spots morally and physically. Louisiana is making sorao special efforts at improvement. Alabama and Texas aro perhaps hotter than formerly. Yet a prison chaplain in Texas writes to tbo Howard association (18118): "Praotically there has boon no advance in the least, system of our convicts. It can only he an evil." The Howard association lias also received, in connection with these sad accounts of southern camps and chaingangs, much information showing that they form but one portion of a still vaster system of oppression of the colored race generally in the southern states. The voice of Missions (Atlanta, December, 181)8) contains a long and torrih'.o indictment of the whito race for the treatment of the oolorod people since 1805. It says: "The Cuban war and its rosuits and tbo Armenian massacres aro nothing when compared with the thirty years of 'whitccapping,' chasing by bloodhounds, murdering, burning at tlio _i I l v a suikc, lynomng, iiaying, swindling, robbing, defamation of charactor, injustioo, falso imprisonment and oppression whieh the colored pooplo of Atlanta havo passed through and are still undergoing.' This year 800 havo been lynched and murdered by our whito Christian friends, and 110 voico hut our own weak cry has been raised in protest." Many Negroes wore Bhot by the whito Democrats in North and South Carolina during the November elections of 181)8. Recently, also, many unoffending colored people havo been driven away from their homes and farms in tho south by violent and covetous whito neighbors. The same journal complains of tho silence of tho pulpit, both north and south, respecting thoso ovils, and romarks that even the United Statos supreme court at Washington has always turned tho scale against the colored raco. Also that sovcral of the southern states have disfranchised tho Nogrocs by wholosalo, in violation of tho foderal constitution, whilst returning them all as voters for tho purposes of their own proportionate rcpresantation in congress. Lt is known that some prominent politicians and legislators at Washington have made large fortunes as convict contractors. In Tho Richmond Planet (July 23rd, 181)8,) a bishop is quoted as saying: "Enough colored men have boon lynched to doath to reach a mile high, if laid 0110 upon another, and noarly as many more women and children to mako asimizar pile." Thcso lynohings aro defonded by many persons oh tho ground of their necessity for protecting white women from Negro assaults. No doubt occasion il crimes of this kind have been committed by them, but they have been immensely outnumbered by similar outrages by whites upon tho fomales of tho weaker raoo. The colored pooplo havenoed to olear themselves from oomplioity with such crime and also tocultivato more honesty and truthfulness. Nor can they expect to bo much respected until they manifest more Rcif-rospoct and bccomo loss characterized, as a peoplo, by their ovorlasting grin and giggle. Lord Chcstcrfiold said: "I never know a 'Merry Andrew' a respected man." But tho colored pooplc aro too often such fools, and until, as a race, they manago to make themselves both respected and feared, they arc not likoly to get tho justice which is duo to them. Buffoons will bo despised. Kvcn tho aggrogatoof tho lynohings is very small in comparion with the enormous mortality of the convicts in tho camps and ohaingangs. Whereas in Fnglish prisons tho death rato is under 7 per 1,000 per annum, it ranges in theso camps from 75 to ovor 200 ' per 1,000 yearly. Tho Voiooof Missions mournfully remarks: 'There arc no advocates of human rights in tho United States todav. Charles Summer is dead, Abraham Lincoln is gono, Wondel Philips, Wm. Loyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas and Harriet Boccher Stowo havo all nassod away; and with thorn wont the last great advocates of human rights." This com~1_!? a. !? 1 - piHiiu is, nowevor, too pessimistic. Yet , even the Society of Frionds (Quakers) in America, onoo the foremost champions of the negro, through their J. G. Whitticr, Thomas Garrett, Isaac R. Heppor, Levi Coffin, Francis T. King and other good men havo of lato yoars become strangely silent and Mtvti UP.ICR 21, 1899. apparently apathotio as to tho oppressed raco. However, a people of twolvo millions ought no longer to bo mainly dependendent upon, or looking to others for their own protection. They must now chiefly turn to sehouies of self help or remain oppressed. An American correspondent of the Howard association writes (18SVJ): 44Tho Nnffrn (l-iinl.ln Imu ?* ? ' is badly damaged. On Ireland and Boa/, islands everything is moio or less injured. The damage is roughly estimated at ?100,000. At Somerset all tho boats and small crafts were destroyed, the troos demolished and houses uns'.ated, or othorwisc damaged. At 1'rospcet Camp the damage is estimated at ?8,000. More than half a mile of tho causeway connecting the mainland with St. George's is totally destroyed. It will cost ?12.000 to ?15,000 to ropair it. News from St. Goorges received by a whalo boat says serious damage has been dono there to trees, houses, cto. All the boats have been destroyed or arc badly injured. Reports from outlying parishes arc slowly coming in. They all show thcro has boon groat destruction of trees and serious injury to housos and other property. But, so far as can be learned here, thcro has been no loss of life. It is a curious coincidence that tho great gale of 188!) occurred September 11 and 12 and this was on September 12 and 13. No correct estimato of the amount of damage to private property can at present be obtained, but it will be fully ?100,000. Gets an Office. Col. Jas. II. Tillman, of South Carolina, a nephew of Senator Tillman, ; was at tho whito houso Wednesday and j asked tho president to authori/.o tho ( organization of an independent company of Indian scouts for service in tho i Philippines. It is proposed to mako j Mr. Tillman, who was colonel of tho First South Carolina during tho Spanish war, captain of the company, and , Joseph H. Woodburry, "llole-in-tho- i day," tho chief of tho Chippewa Indians , of Minnesota, lirst lieutonant, and soino mombor of tho regimont of "Bough ( Riders" second lieutenant. It is said ( that many moro than a company of Chippewas aro ready t ; enlist in caso they aro allowed to go . > the Philip- j pines as an independent organization. ( It is understood thn1 < > nrnniflnnt !<? forrcd his callers to t o soorctary of ( war. A later disp..t-li 'ays that tho , President has promi u i Col. Tillman the position he sooks. j Sentenced to Death. f A dispatch from Manila says tho lo- ' cal papers assert that Corporal Damhoffcr and Privato Conine, of Co. li, Sixteenth infantry, have heen sentenced to death by courtmartial, and that f Private McBonnothas been condemned I to 20 years imprisonment for having t criininally assaulted native women in r Manila a month ago. Tho crimes, it I is said, greatly aroused the natives, t Tho papers assert also that (Jen. Otis { has rooommended that President Me- J KiNlcy approve tho sentence and that ho dosiros a public execution of tho men sentenced to death as a warning against a repetition of tho crime. Built His Coffin. In Maryland there is a man who has built a coffin for himself, aud he lies down in it for a short timo each day and smokes. Ho says ho is "getting used" to tho coflin. Maybo ho smokes in it because ho expects to smoko hereafter also, and is getting used to that at the samo time. to. THE SCATTERED NATION. The Jews Are Discriminated Against All Over the World. The Droyfus caso has nerved to oall attention to the status of the .Jowa in . VP..U Viuuuiu >;ar> UVVJUIUU nu ftn'ill mill I fear tho difficulty can never bo Bottled but with blood." Tho problem is indeed a vast one and of prossing import to tho United States, both north and south. Is tho Chris tianity of that great nation to remain impotent for tho solution? Are tho colored pooplo to be driven to what now appears to be thoir only means of relief?by Bclfhclp, through imitating tho methods of their adversaries in tho formation of secret sooioties and powerful and compact organized unions for dcfoneo and offense? Is it only thus that they ean make themselves what they must bo, somehow -rcspocted and feared as a race? Hut what olso aro they to do unless the whito race bestirs itself for other efforts than continuing oppression? There arc nearly twelve million-col ored pcoplo in tho United States. They are increasing in numbers, in in tclligcneo and in wealth. It is stated that more than half of them can read and that their property is worth eighty million pounds, or four hundred million dollars. Tho idea of emigrating such a multitudo is utterly visionary. They must bo dealt with in America itself. Nor is foreign interposition for a ino mcoi to uo thought ot. Much a multi tudc arc not likely to put up with their opprosBion indefinitely. Nor ought they to. Must it he left again to the compulsion of national disaster to solve this great problcm-and so to hring about results which may far hotter and far inoro ell'eetually he secured by volunteer hu manit/ and pcaeol'ul wisdom? SWEPT BY A CYCLONE. Much Damage Done to Private and Public Property. A cyelono Bwopt over Bormuda island Wednesday night. Houses were blown down and others were unroofed. '1 ho storm raged the whole night. No lives were lost but heavy damage was done to public and privato property, ? i .iuiv uiiu uvuar iruUH. LUC CaUSOWay was badly injured and the govcrnmant house was damaged. Tho storm was tlio worst known thero since tho hurrioano of 1880. In fact many of tlio inhabitants say it exceeded the galo of 1880 in violenco. Information from the dock yard says tho damage dono thore is very serious. Tho broakwatnr the various countries of the world. Anti Semitic feeling in Franco is stroagor than it has boon for many years past, but thcro are many other lands in which the .lows are subject to sovcro discriminations and rabid prejudices. In fact the I'niteU States and Kngland are about tho only countries in which tho .lews maybe said to enjoy an absolutely open field and fairchaneo. Moth hero and in Kngland Jows have tilled many positions of high distinction and prejudice against them exists in a far lighter degroo than it does olscwhero. The .lew has shown a wonderful ability to take oaro of himself even undor the most adverse conditions. I lis business success is undoubtedly ono of the main reasons of the discriminations against him and the attempts to beat him down. Hut ho has prospered even under per sceution and will continue to do so. There is no prospect that tho Zionist movement, tho plan of collecting all the .lews in Palestine and the restoration to them of distinct national power, will ever amount to much. They are scattered over tho face of the earth, and scattcicd they will remain until tho end of timo. The Jews are so prominent in affairs, especially in commerce, for which they havo shown a genius unsurpassed by any other people that ever existed, that most persons believe they are more numerous than thev reallv are. According to the best information there are not move than 6,200,000 Jews in all tho world?not a great many moro than the population of the state of New York. Of the total Jewish population .">,000,000 are in Europe, chielly in Russia. There are 200,000 in Asia, 700,000 in Africa, 300,000 in America and 20,000 in Australia. In European Russia there are 2,000,000. The next greatest numbers are in Austro Hungary, the figures being put at 1,100,000, leaving 1,000,000 to be divided among the ...ui European coun trios. There arc 130,000 .Jews in tho British islands and not nioro than 200,000 in Franco. In the whole of Palestine there aro about 10.000 and in Jerusalem 20.000. The fact that thevo aro only 300,000 Jews in America will surprise tho averago reader. These 300,000 Jows seem to ho so many more than they aro boeauso they make thoinsolvoa felt in every community where they live, bocauso they arc active, enterprising and thoroughly live factors in our complex oivili/.atson. Three hundred thousand such peol *ti pic easily occomo a power even among 75,000,000. Will Not Go. Indignation over tho outcome of tho Dreyfus trial lias caused a party of over 700 Chieagoans who wcro going to tho fair in a body to abandon their trip, bonis Halle, who is the treasurer of the party, and who, sineo the schemo was inaugurated, a year ago, has been receiving weekly remittance! from thoso who proposed going, Tuesday issued notices to the members to call at bis otlicc and get their money. 1 mmcdiatcly after tho verdict in the Droyfus trial Mr. Hallo commenced receiving lottcrs from members of tho party saying that under no circumstances would thoy visit Franco. So many of these letters wcro received that a meeting executive com mitteo was called and it was deemed advisaolo to call tho entire trip off. A Deadly Weapon. The Mauser pistol is a new arm that has just been put to praoti al test for the government. Human cadavers were used to test the effects of the bullets upon human tissues. Tho pistol lias an effectual range of 500 yards, and is said to be tho most deadly weapon of its kind ever invented. At 500 yards tho bullets went entirely through the jadavers. It is probable that the arm .vill be adopted by the army. It is now in use in Germany. It is the costliest niulril niniln f r.v ?i>nni hoa ll.? ~I |/iwvvf* >?iu\?v ?v/? m n?j n ov>| in'' | 'i il/U 11 11 largo contracts lots boing - ?.*?2.HJ. l'ho cartridges cost fourccnts. Hniokcless ji<)wdcr is used. The calibre is 30. Fho bullets have a lead core and a nickd-plated copper jack it, the weight of ;ach projectile being H."> grains. Want the ConventionUuflalo, Milwaukee, St. bonis and 'Wo or three other oitios arc each anxi>us to have the Democratic national jonvention next year, and several of hem are taking subscriptions of funds ;o bo used in socuring the convention. ; Vlcanwhilo Chicago remains serene, ! 'celing sure that there isn't any other ' dty than herself in wliich tho Chicago | datform could bo roadoptod with so euch elfcct. Ravisher Handed. A Neitro was arrested at Tv-Tv fl* >ositivcly idcntiliod an ono of tha two S'ogroes who assaulted Miss .Johnson at hat placo last Tuesday. Two hundrod ncn heavily aruiod assembled at Ty-Ty. \joplo passing on a train at 2 o'olock his morning saw a Nogro suspended 20 ; 'cct in the air from a telegraph pole. Search (or the other Negro continues. ROYA Absolutely t Mokes the food more de I BOVAt BAKINO POWI NO. 10. III["GilWAY ROBBERY. j " A White Man of Augusta Held Up and Robbed. I RRinK? TMDOVA/M AT DO I ioc ? . ? w ? -v iiit w tf ii n i f w l? I W & t Lost His Pockot Book and All tho Money Ha Had Together With His Vaiise. A bold highway robbory was committcd on lust Thursday near Augusta, ,(Ja. The Chroninlo of Friday says: Mr. VV. II. Fostor, a white man 1 ivj ing at 133<? Fdiis street, was hold up and robhod on the highway Thursday afternoon by a negro. Mr. Foster had been over in Carolina, about livo miles beyond the lino to visit his father and was returning to Augusta, llo stopped in a house near the South Carolina railroad track to got a drink of wax?r and while thoro u?ked what tho tituo of day was. When ho started out a negro man who was thoro said ho guessed it was time for him to l;o going, and started on ahead. A short distaneo down tho track iroui tho house tho negro hail stopped and waited until Foster caught up with him, when he asked Foster if ho had anything to drink. Foster told him he had not, and the man said ho ought to have, lie then pulled out a pistol and, putting it right tip to Foster's face close enough to touch?nskod him if he had a pistol, to which Fosi tor replied in tho negative. Foster was then mado to opon a valiso which ha had with him. Tho negro then told him to pass over his money, which Mr. Foster did. After this the negro mado him pull ofF his coat, saying ho had a pood mind to tako that, too, ami pawn 1 it. Ho shook it to see if there was any money in it and then handed it back, but kept tho poekot book, whijh contained $2.-10 and the valise. Mr. Foster then took a back courso for three miles until ho reached the Horse creek road and oamoby that way to Augusta, going he says live milos or more out of his way to keep from passing tho negro again. Mr. Foster was very much frightened when ho reached tho city, but went at oAeo to police headquarters and reported tho matter. He described the man as being a largo black negro, do or 10 years old, and wearing blue ovoralls. He said ho thought tho negro wcigned about 140 or lf)0 pounds. Whotherhe was in this crowd or not iu n a! 1/K..? 1.? * 1?1? *1 1 ' in uvi nuunu, ijuv J11 nil UUIUrO tllO 11IU0 for the relief to go out lust night Ollicor Daniish wont over to tho city bridge to sec if everything was all right thero and found several negroes shooting craps. When they saw tho ofliocr they opened a broadside 011 him on him with a shower of brickbats that camo down around him like the falling of hail Tho oflioor brought his pistol into view and the negroes, after hearing the tono of its voico twice, scattered in the direction of Hamburg at a lively paoo. Challenges Estorhazy, The following challengo to mortal combat was cabled Thursday morning to Count Ferdinand Walsin-lvstorhazy, at his address in Dondon: "Sir: Relieving you to bo answerblo for tho misery and humiliation of Captain Dreyfus of the French army, and ho, Captain Dreyfus, not being able to call 011 you personally for satis! faction, I as an American, freoborn, loving liberty, do volunteer in my own right to meet you on tho field of honor in behalf of Captain Dreyfus at any time and place agreeable to you. (Signed ) I'AUli l'i A V Wit, "Anderson, S. C." Aycr is a s )n of tho late Goncral Ayor of tho Confederate army, and was a sorgeant of tho First South Carolina volunteers in tho Spanish war. Slain on the Highway. A special from liatcsburg to Tho State says: "Larkin McCarthy was killed at Gangloy Saturday night by William Goodwin. They wero brothcr-inlpw, and somo domestic trouble proceeded tho shooting. McCarthy's body was brought here and taken to his fath cr's for burial. All parties live near horc, in Saluda county. Reports say Goodwin borrowed a shotgun, loaded it with largo shot and awaited his viotim by the roadside and emptied boih barrels, riddling tho body and killing McCarthy instantly. Goodwin was captured and is now in tho Aiken county jail." The Porto Rican Sufferers. Tho governor has received a lettor from tho secretary of war stating that there wero yet thousands of persons to bo fed and clothed in porto Kico. Ho stated that a co^mittco had been appointed to see that all contributions aro properly distributed and expressed tho Iiopo that there would be no relaxation on the part of citizens to aid taem. < ? Death of a Vanderbilt. Cornelius Vanderbilt, oldest son of the lato William II. Y&ndorbilt and grandson of the old oommodoro, founder of the family, died suddenly in Now York Wodnesday morning in his magnificent rcsidenoo at Fifty-soventh street and Fifth avenuo. 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