The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 21, 1899, Image 1
VOL. XIV.
. ilE WAGES OF SIN.I
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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
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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
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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. .
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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.
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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.
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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:
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. 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
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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.
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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,
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.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
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Mokes the food more de
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NO. 10.
III["GilWAY ROBBERY.
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A White Man of Augusta Held Up
and Robbed.
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RRinK? TMDOVA/M AT DO I ioc
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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.
Baking*
Powder
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licious and wholesome
dtq co.t new vouk.