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^ : . RAGE ISSUE. Senator Morgan WouI^Make It a Straight Test by a WHITE MA]S\S PARTY. Wintb the Democracy to Declare in Its Platform That it Stands (or White Supremacy Alone and He Thicks it Would Win Next Election. "Resolved, That the Demooratlo party of the United States Is ^nd has always been a white man's party." This plank, Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, believes, should bs inserted in the Democratic national platform. Ho believes further that some Southern State, through Its delegates, should press this plank before the committee on resolutions with the declaration that the delegates will withdraw from the convention in oase it is not adopted. He would prefer that the declaration come from a Northern delegation, but if none such ad vat oe It he advu oatesthat li be presented by a Southern State. His own S-at?, Alabama, comes first on the alphabetical hst, and the high regaid in which the Senator^ views are held in that. State Inhures thai its delegate to the next Demooratio national convention an more than likely to he Insistent upon the adoption of such a plank ' Souid any one State submit this plank with a declaration of withdrwal in case it Is rej cted it w .uld carrv through," said Senator Morgan. '"Moreover, it would carry the Pro-si denoy. It would overtop every other Hhue. In the Southern S .ates ti e question Is acute today, and suoh a declaration on the part of the nation al convention would brlDg the nrgro qu siion Immediately home to the people of the North, who, sooner, or later, will have to meet It face to face, Just as wo of the South are doing today. "Ii any oandidate for the Presidency should decline to mount this J platform, I would not help him to do so by yieidlng my conviction, nor would I refuse to support him if he ? ou l?li< t Ki* ^ i ^ ^ ? - - * ? ttno ibinjr ijjc uuaiiuco vi uuy party. I would ray to him, 'When you are better acquainted with the founda tlons of our government you will welcome this saving truth to whloh we will turn at last In order to purify It and make It perpotual.' "Alabama has this duty before It, bat It must be approached with due oare and olronmspeotion without disturbing the vantage ground we now occupy. Boire was not built in a day, yet it stands a monumental lesson to the world upon Its seven hills, after many vloissltudes. "I have expected this movement and this demand to oome. from the white men of the North as a reaotiun from the extreme aotion taken in 1860 to 1870, when popular frer zy was employed as a driving foroe to ruth thiougu Congress the disastrous pro gram of negro polltio&l and sooi >.i equality lo ibe provisions of force blliis and bills to secure the ' q ia.1 rights of negroes Id hotels, theaters and places of public resort. That era has pieced away, the North having rejected its follies, and it may never return. { "The poor white people of the North are feeling the fatal p iaon of suoh enactments and are exasperated at the new eia of brutality tba: social c imow have developed among the negroes everywhere. The white people of the South have resumer control of their local *. IT airs and need hava no fear that the evil days will return upon them in any new and serious way if they are true to their oountry and lis organic laws. "The Instruments by which this deliverance has been accomplished are the ballot box and the cotton plant. 1 do not presume to ignore the blessings of Providence. i be14 A no t.Vi a 4. 4Ko ani ?1 fc r # aU* * - icft v>iiv nun p^iiiu ui l/l I tJ IfUHJI High was the controlling force thai olreottd toe work of the convention that framed the constitution if the United States and submitted it to the States arid the people for ratification. I bedeve that thelpeuple of the United States' were thOTset apart to establish and execute ttiat plan of government which had no precedent or model in the wisdom of nations. 1 A do not believe that the Iadlan tribes \ or the Afrioan race were chosen for that great trust in the birth hour of the republic. 1 find noplaoe for either of them in that new p ditic&l creation ?'the people of the United States.' 'The people' instructed with that vast and precious duty were named in the preamble to the constitution. They and -their delegates were all white people, assembled from many countries, and of many languages. They came together by a common impulse, like thatof the WfqpMen, who, led by a star, met at tne stable in Bethlehem to bear witness to a royal birth. * 'This was the inauguration of the sovereignty of the governing people < of the United States, as a raoial nation or Dynasty of white people. Inthane in tribes were then lnbabltents < of vast areas and were segregated from the people of the United States, 1 and vf&re feci gulfed in the constitution aa a self-governing people with i / L, A. .. - "V. whom treaties oould be entered into. "Negroes were here, lu every State and Territory, but they were slave*, and not even reropr \z d in the oonHtltutlon as oonstlt.*: tug a people or a tiibe or as h* v.!,,g *uy rtgtit that d'd not belong alike to all human bekg*. There were no other people in ih country, and the negroes and the Indians were not represented in that oouventlon. Whsn the constitution, in the preamble, declared that 'wo, the people ot the United States, do ordain this government for ourselvos and our posterity,' the line of delimitation was made as clear as If the Chinese or the negroes in the Free State of the Congo should ordain a written constitution creating a government whose sovereignty should belong to them and their posterity. We established 'a people' wbcte itolal distinction was that of the white man and oonfirmed to them the sovereign ty that had won frim tie P:n s. ( orown." SOME FLaIN TALK HOW THE LIEN LAW IFKKOTH TUB Li ABO It SITUATION A Condition That Must be Changed Besore We Can Become Truly Prosperous. The Editor of the Saluda Standard was In Nawberry recently and while there he learned that some of the merchants of that thriving little oit> are afraid that the? will not La ih'r to meet tbolr obligations brcpuse si. many people they have fumlhhtd will not pay out. Wo regret to bay thai, tblH condition la not peculiar to New berry, but ib almost general cvr the entire State. The Editor of Thr Standard uses what he heard cv r h Newberry as a text for a lav aetmoi on the rulncua credit system that is so prevalent in this State,. He s*yf looking at these conditions from ih? standpoint of a white man who found it impossible to get l^bor since it has become so very easy for t.h* ordinary negro to get himself ' f j nibbed," the situation is not t^no r.y pathetic. He then goes on tot r?> cut the following chunks of hcise sense for the benefit of ail concerned "The Newberry merohant who ks > vory much money on the Saluda Kidr has nobody to blame but blmhebJ most of his losses are on worihlws n?groes who have teoome too bigoted to work under & white farmer, and wh know that they caa got a 'plug' somewhere and become tenters sn go to Newberrv and get all the Iter and kindred accommodations thai they want. Were it not for condition like these the white mau c( uid o <? trol labor; as it is con trol is almost impossible, an 3 we mjtout onr land to the negiO"fl or them lie out. The white man cud control all thlslaoor and make a h* log for himself and his laborers, and tbe merobanots would then be paid. As it is, tbe white man can't mrk money with all brains and no lab >r, and tbe nogro can't make morey wit' all labt r and no brains: and so between the upper and nether millstones ti.e merchant loses. And who Is to blame? Is not the merchant who Is so anxious to 'furnish' the negro, whloh to that extent makes him Independent of the white man, largely responsible for tbe situation? "Give tbe ordinary negro an lnoh and he will take a mile. Let him geo a Hen ana m< rrg&ge, and on these ha will get him a boggy and harness and other things, and before they have haroly been Ujed he will mortgage them again and again to other merchants ? all the time playing the pranks already taught him by the merohams. If furnishing merchant* lose uu them this vear it m*v hn u oie^lng in the long run. L these merchants try to do more ouvines with capable white men, aud let the worthless negroes work for them Several times the last sun mnr we saw . oung m grots < f the class wis mention *?ith am e, buggy snd harness and cloth ng of the oest. but out pal i for driving In style with kid gloves an cigarettes on display, and toe Impu dent tc uadrels would hardly give any road in passing nor would they eve riOgmza the fsct they met wbit? ladies and gectlenn n lo toe roV, 1 much le s to lalse ti.elr ha s. Con dltiou are getting worse ai d worsr, and if they gel much worse th?r? h going to be a o ause, even if it take 8 ku-k ux, red soirts, whlde c^a or something else .o bring it sb nit in conclusion he i-a s those "fur nlshlng" meic ants who have so lcn onougut mat intra money lav la tiunegro '-rada are bo ho ne ex e t ra r>poiiHlbi? for these conditions, and we hope they will make an effort to fur niah the ordinary negro through the wu?te mm more than before. H says there arc exceptions, but that what he says above will apply gener ' ally. There Is muoh truth In what the Editor of the Standard says above but are the 'furnishing" meiohants, as he oalls them, more to blame than the landowners who rent their laudt* to shiftless negroes. It seems to us that they are more to blame than the merchant from the faot the shiftless negro Is opmpelled to rent land before the ' furnishingn merohanfc will give ' him one oents worth of oredit. If the land owners want to stop the present : suicidal policy that Is being pursued, all they have to do ia to refuse to rent their lands to negroes who are not oompetant to oultivate them profitably, and we will guarantee that tuob negroes will get no ad vanoes frc m mer- 1 chants. The farmers have the whip handle in their own hands is they will only use it. Our present'*yet?tt will demoralize 1 any labor in the world. Think of it for a moment. Ad, Idle* thriftier negro with no oath tod do business tote to make any oish, goes and rem* h)mft? f a few tore* of land, th?n conn h wo town and makan arrangerh'iU with some merchant to "run him" then buys a mule, buggy anr harneas all on a credit and starts cu to tee the ocunty end Incidentally plant a little ootton and corn. This Is no fancy picture, but la an ever: day occurranoe In the early part of eaoh year. When he sats not the lieu he gave the me chart be gceft ti some other merchant aoduinoitgageh tils outfit for sappllts to oarry him to harvest time. At the end of the year he aklps and leaves hardly enough to pay his rent. Under such a system Is It any wonder that so many of the negroes are worthless, ltzy, shiftless creatures. What incentive Is there for him to work when he oan supply his wants without working. There <ir i many honest, hard working Degroui doing well, and the above does not apply, but we refer entirely to the worthless, shiftless, fellows, who have not the business sagaoity to manage a farm suooessrully. Let us ohange our system If we want tc become prosperous and happy. It will help the n< gro as well as the white man. Hati <^uu Hfurk, Some 00 of the immigrant* who oame over on the Wittokind and went to work in the Anderson cotton mills, oave quit in a body, and are walking about cue streets of Anderson talking to it oh other and getting themselves more disaaUfied. Some of the foreigners are complaining that they were deoeived into believing that they would get more money than they are getting, and the Rev. Father GwynD, who has been among them talking with an Interpreter says there is some ground for this oomplaint, though others who have talked direot and examined the clroulars on whloh they were induced to leave their happy homes In Europe, say there is nothing deceptive about the circulars, that professional agitators among the crowd are trying to dissatisfy people who are satisfied and disposed to work. Tho mill authorities say the foreigners are being paid exaotly the same as the local help, and that this is all that will be paid, that the experienced help Is getting what experienced help In this oeuntry got, bit Lbat green hands must be content to fork ss lco:vl green hands work. It s said mobt of the newcomers wan it to vork, that, they quit out of sympath v/ j. uuuan vtiiu wno ll ihbatl^uuu, ?i1'! 11 is believed that many of tnem will go back to work Son e will leave an others the mill authorities will compel to seek work elsewhere. Shot Through a Window A dispatch from .Johnston says that oomrcunltv was ahockod on Thu^sdav when the news spread that a ncu'd r .ad been committed and soon Ma^ot Turner aed Ch:ei Darrlok were on t . oene and h und that the six year '1 daughter of Bill Gonolllion a resptot able negro, wh i lives on the edge of vowo, had been shot through awn ow, the ball pjnetratlug near the ye and causing instant death. T*o ne grots were held in Jail. Kirk Prinu.and Z ick Cowles; but the former wfs rtleased. In June Oowles killed his wife's unole and for this fact she left him and la In Atlanta, leaving her little girl in the oare or B 11 Gomillion's wife. When Oowles was tr'ed at a recent court there was a mis trial and he was out on bail. S:.jc< the abo^e was wrlttrn Kirk Primus has been released and Gowles carrion to jail. Three Men Killed. At Rochester, N. T , a fatal acoi dent on Thursday at the Kattr* an Kodak works, in which three men were killed, eight seriously 1 j ireti anH tii r tilin hfl ? ? ?? nuu ma Oll^uuljr IIUIUi XiJO 1U6U WBTt) work on a scaffold near the top if a two story bulbing, which is one of Jght buildings in course of construe clou at- K-'dak Park. Ic was known ai the Euulslou building and wi> constructed of steel, concrete au riok. The probable cause or the ao clcieut wa? the removal of the sup ;otts of t e steel flooring before the concrete had pr. perly set. About twenty workmen were on the uppcj .oaffold wuen the top flo'.r gavj way Che rojf and walls toppled In with h cr-.sh of concrete and bricks and heavy steel glrdtr?. Th men were hurled into the debris fill lug about forty feet. Dead In Store \ Mr. A Bullard, who lived at Kibbe GU., was found deaci in bl? store Thursday morning. Up^n lnvestiga tlon It was found that he had beer murdered, probably Monday night. There were three wounds on his head inflicted by some heavy cJub or tie 11 rm a small m rcbttndlse b islnes \i Ktboe Mid bad out been soen b; ila neighbors for several days. Some, o ;e pasting this morning noticed that one window was broken and when the bouse was entered he wai found dead on the floor by bis cot. R bbery s?ems to hate been the motive. There is no olue whatever as to the perr.et/a or of the ortme. Barge*' OrcwH Brown, The barge Athen, lu tow rf the 1 steamer Pratt, went dowo In a >torm Thursday night. The capta n aim six men of the crew were probably drowned. Capt. Maokey of M i*aukee was in command of the hv*ge. He has sailed on the lake for fortv years. The Pratt was bour d ?om j Bioanaba to Bi ffilo with Iror ore. Six of the crew of the barge R solu- 1 tion from Bre, Pa , were dr vned 1 Thursday. Their boat w: i "wampt d as they were endeavoring t ' tssapa from the barge which was sink- ! lug. j ' k STUART'S RETORT TO HIS WIPE. She Came Near Spoiling His Visions oi Grandeur. Gilbert Stuart, though a celebrated artist, was likewise a great braggart. Ou oue ocasion a great public diuuer was given to Isaac Hull by the towu of llostcu, and he was asked to sit for his picture to the urtist. VVheu Hull visited the studio Stuart took great delight in entertaining him with anecdotes of hU English success, stories of the marquis of this and the baroness of that, which showed how elegant was the society to which he had been accustomed. Unfortunately, in the midst of this grandeur, Mrs. Stuart, who did not know that thoro was a sitter, came in with apron on and her head tied up with some handkerchiefs, from the kitchen, and crlod out: "Do you mean to have that leg of muttou boiled or roasted?" to which Stuart replied, with great presence of mind, "Ask your mistress." Worth It. 4 *. "Whnt did the masher get for annoying Miss Flip, the actress?" "I believe she paid him a salary of $25 per week." One Kind of Husband. The lato Alexander Muir of Toronto, author of "The Maple Leaf," Canada's national anthem, was interested all Ids life in the divorce laws, which were too often, he claimed, unfair to women. Mr. Muir frequently declared that men, not their wives, wore in nine cases out of ten responsible for unhappy marriages. "The trouble with too many husbands," he once said, "is that they treat their wives as a Toronto man used to do. "This man, sitting in his drawingroom on a coolish evening, cried out fiercely: "Shut that door, confound it! What's the matter with you, anyway? Do you want to freeze mo?" "The cook appeared calmly in the open doorway. " 'Do you know who you are speaking to, sir?' she said in a stern voice. "Tlio man taken back, stammered : "Oh, excuse me. I though . It was my wife.' " Mother's Advice, Andrew Carnegie is famous for the excellent udvice that he given to poor young men. "In considerable fear," *aid a New York millionaire, "1 once consulted Mr. Carnegie about a new venture. The business looked as though it ought to be profitable. Tilt re seemed to be a public need of it. Still, there was some risk involved, and 1 was afraid. "Hut Mr. Carnegie laughed at my fears. " 'If it is a good thing, plunge in," he said. 'Pear is old-womanish. Fear is what keeps untold millions from making fortunes. When Benjamin Franklin thought of starting a paper in Philadelphia, his mother, greatly alarmed, tried to dissuade him. She pointed out that there were already two newspapers in America." III. Gen. Frederick D. Grant was praising the intelligence of a certain colonel. "He it is," he .said, "of whom they tell the church parade story. "His men were drawn up for church parade one Sunday morning, but the church was undergoing repairs, and could not accommodate all. " 'Sergeant major,' said the colonel, 'tell all the men who dou't wan' to go to church to fall out on the reverse'flank." "About 60 per cent, of the men j quickly and gladly fell out. I " 'Now, sergeant major,' said the colonel, 'dismiss the men who didn't , fall out, and march the others to j church. They need it most.' " ] A Correction, 'Twas not for want of breath he died. But rather that he misapplied The ample breath he had, I wot. ^ Before ho went to bed that night , fie wltlossly blew out (lie light. I The gas escaped; the man did- not. ?New York World. Constant Demand. ? Wo approached Love. "In these prosaic days you are not < is much in demand as you used to i je," wo ventured. "Suppose the de- I mind for your services should cease < iltogether, what would you do? You <now you arc blind." I "Well," replied Love, 'if I am i eally blind I should have no trouble in getting a Job as government inspector."?Exchange. 1 I NEGRO TROOPS Who Were Dismissed Entered a Compact to Preserve Secrecy, AND IN CON>PItt\CY Qreat Pressure Brought to Bear to Have a Rehearing in the Case. War Di partment Issues a Statement In Reference to the DIsmissal. The war department Issued the following statement Thursday concerning the negro troops ordered dismissed at Fort Rano: "In the matter of the order discharging the enlisted men of three oompanles of the Twenty fifth infan try issued by the president applloatlor was presented to the aeoretary of war by a number of persons of standing asking a rehearing by the president, on the ground on which the aotlor was taken. The secretary te egraphed the president of the appro* 1on an'1 delayed the proceedings of the dl* charge until the president oould ludi cais his wishes. The secretary wa* meantime called out of town. No an swor was reoelved frim the president The secretary on his return did no feel justified in further delaying th' executlon of the or ler < f discharge especially In view of the laot that the secretary then learned that the pretil dent had fully and ( xhaustlvoly oon sldorod the argument agalnet the o* dor, of the peieoos who now applied for a rehearing. Acoordlnyly, the aeo rotary directed that the proceeding for discharge bo continued without delay." The investigation of the conduct o' nrgro troopa of ooir pantos B O. an D, Twenty-fifth infantry, as rop >rte up( u by M?J. B lock so m, inspector gon otsI's department, Lieut. Col< Lover lug, Fourth lufantry, acting lnspec tor genera), and Br'g. Gen Garllng ton, inspector general of the army was made public at the war depart ment Wednesday in a volume entitle "The Affray at Brownsville, Tex." M j Bh oksom declares that the af fair *vas preconcerted and both he an G#u. Garllngton exonerate! the otti core from blame. G>n. Garlimztni says It was evident from the first tha* , the three companies had entered into , a compact to give no informatin ] about the affair. Secretary Taft sal4 Wi?^neaday that no steps will be taken to make a further investigation of the ; conduit of the officers. in ills summary of the reports made ( by the other c ffieers and of his own ef , forts to discover the i ullty soldiers, Brig. Gen Garllngton declare* tha every means of getting evlder oe cod j cemlng the stuoting vas exhausted. All the men of the three companies were talked with individually on dlf , ferent occasions, he says, and the dire o< dim quance c f their failure to give u the guilty soldiers were pointed cu All the soldiers > voldt d questions and eyen, refuted to discuss the events at Brownsville, which weie kiown ti have enraged tl e neproes before tbr riot "T: e seort t.?e r i ture of th racr where crimes are ohirged to members of their color, la well irnown." GEN G Ai*LIN#TON S liXl'OUT ( Gen. GarliDgli n says: "Under sue 1 olrcumatanctB self protection or self < interest Is the or 1? le ter by which lb* casket of their minds can te pried 1 open. Acting upon this principle, the history and rtoord of the regiment to which they belong, the tart played by these old soldiers in this record, were pointed cut snd enlarged tpon The i dUino of dligrsoe to the battalion and its individual members by Ibis crlraware Indicated. The fu'. ure tffec* upon the battalion ss a whole was referred to; and, fir ally, the concern of the United States in the matter, his dr Hire and the dislre of the war c? par . meet to seperste the innocent frc r. the guilty ??ere explained, but witl run * ffrct " Gontlrulng Gen. Garllrgou's report says: "No aUclutely accurate vsrlflca- < tion of tbe r'flss ai.d the men of Ihf i oattallon made on the night cf ? Any. 13 Id time to acc< unt for ihe ri I Mo* aLd met at 11 e 1 eyh uing of t ? i tirir g or Ik medlatt ly ou it8 oonolu < i^ion. Tbe r*i!u;e li* explained ca fob 1 : The o remand!' g < fflo r and hit I cut**, wha- t,hf "larra waverim" r ed and tbey hea d the tiring MBumed c that it came fr m th?* olty of Browns- t villc and that t' e guns wero Id tba v bands of o'vllians; li< oth> r words that 1 the garr'son was balng tired into from Li u outside cIvlilanB. It do?? noo ; p pear to hav? ccourfcd to an them bljftt certain enlJwted men of Twsn t ry. fifth Infantry had r^ion of . their arms and were coxi aitting the siime of tiring int/ c uousaa ar.a [ upon the citizen < f iwownbviile, until ; *hemayorcfi rc>o came to the gar J rlBon and 'rfr i. ?d he commanding , nicer, Vej ? rose, that one man J ?* >nd another wcuDded * by his soldiers." 1 AlAJ. HLOCKBOM'b ltEPOUT, f M j. niocksom, in his report, re- l c>t.ii.eodeo thot if sathfaotory evi- ( tore concerning the identity of the s iMmlnals who "shot up" Brownsville. Jid not c me from members of the pattalion all en lhUd men of the three sompantes present on the night of Aug. 13 be discharged from service ( sod debarred from reenllstment In the ' army, navy or marine corps. Maj. t Blocksom regards it part'cularly un t fortunate fcr the reputation of the 1 battalion that the o(Boers did not dls < s i o ver a slrg * iue to too "terrible preconcerted c lra?" lo the tDV??*'gatIon tbat w?- :o'1ucte i bv tbe oommanders of tbr colored foroe. Brig. Om) MtCaskry, commanding the departm* nt cf Texas. In a dlapatch to tha war d*prr m mt exilslns the discharge of 26 mrmlvp of the Twenty fl h In far try or Monday, after Secretary Taft bad ordered the temporary r-utpenflh r or the soldiers dlsmlaiuri by ata inK tbat the dlapateh ^ant to F rt R m arn' ure'rg Seorelary Taft1 couor old not reach that post until oron on Mm day, which was aftar the m? n h*-* ^^h^rged, tori ON h'17 LKS CAN UK USED EOK MAKING NKWK* PAPER, The Frocasa ia About Ferfec ed For tha Utilization of Qreat Waste Material. Discussing hi new Industry of utilizing ootton stalk*, a man prominent In oottt n olroles says the manufacture of paper from the tiber of the ootton stalk Is one of the latest and most Interesting inventions of the n w contury. ITor mtuy years expert Inventors have be<u busily experimenting with tbo cotton stalk, ana now It apperH from recent developments that their labor and expenditures of money are to be rewarded with flgnal and striking succees. Not only have these In vesications parsed the experimental ataga, but tbey are rapidly being shaped to bo placed In praotloal operation. It has b ea ur questionably demonstrated that all grades cf paper from tho best form of linen grade to the lowest, oau bo manufactured from cotton s alks. In addition to this, a variety of by-prcduots, such &s alo> hol, nitrogen, material for gunootton and smokeless power cm also be Becu:ud in paying quantities. The time u not now far distant when p>ptr plains, (quipped with all modern machinery and cievlscs for miking paper, arid the utilization of . V.4. I 1. J 1- J " '< ii? wwut:i u/ |/r uuout rt'iorivn to will bo tuilt and plnand id operation throughout tLe oo Lon g rowing states of the South* The eatablhl ment of thp.so mills for the ir.hnuf&oiure of papor from Cotion stalks * 1 1 at. < r co develop a new industry of quite enormous proportions, and institute the u lllzatlon of a wiste product which &t the p.esenl time has oi.mparavively little or no value. It will piove tl.o nterlng wedge of oheoking the present Increasing o sit of paper, which is boo. minx such a burden npontle newspaper Industry of the oountry. It is estimated that on an area of land producing a bale of ootton at l&aat one ton of stalks oan be gathersd. Upon this basis of calculation this new industry oau aonuallv depend upon from 10,000.000 to 12 000 000 tons of raw material This will not only furnish all neoeasary supplies to meet all home demands, but will also permit of the export of pulp or finished products to foreign countries. At thv present time their 1b approximately 1287,0(0.000 lLvesud in p^per mills in the U ilttd States ?lib but few plants located in the S.'Uth. The bulk of the material goicg into the manuf&O' ure of paper at cbr p 4sent time is sp. uoo pit e which is annually bee mlng more expensive in the depletion of the forests and ohe high piices which such timber commands in the markets for other uses. The uttilzii ion of a waste : roduot, suoh as the ootton stalk, manufactured into commercial paper, will be a boon of inestimable vaiue to the whole country. The practical < fleet of this new invention will be to inoreae the present value of the Sooth's cotton crop early $100,000 000 annually. The iirower will be amply paid for their Helds and delivery to the paper plants, and in addition thereto receive a profit on this produot of their labor. In the southwestern seotlon of the cotton belt the new ludustry will especially be of value and a blessing. With the removal of tho cotton stalks form bt e holds In the early fall the death ImfcU of the boll weevil will be sounded ?d its present dea-tation ir iluenc. s reduced to i minimum. So that from every itandpoint the speedy development end exteislou of this new industry will be welcome in all s^ot oos of the sotton belt. Paper maLiifactured iuuj ?ur uuvi-uu is or tne strongiBt texture and Roftent tlnlsh. It la eported that several plants will bs treced during the next few months n certain sections of the Sou'h, which vlll be to full operation by Janurary , 1907. The South anrl the Male. The Baltimore News says "In chersblng the mule the South has shown ta patriotism by following the path 4. u- *.1? i lUiAuu uut uy bllO lmmortKl WUDID(f< on. It has also exhibited Its genius jr business, aa the mule Is, by odds, , -he most ecunom'.oal of farm animals, n time, wo may indulge the hope hat the North will overoome its op)08lt1on to this distinguishing feature >f Southern civilization, and that iven in conservative and hide bound Sew Kngland the mule may be aolordbd that recognition wblch he has to justly won In every part of Dixie. Meiohant KiIIm Ohl< f. J. S. Johnson, a merchant of Laiett, Ala., shot and instantly killed Jhief of Police J. W. Jones In Lanett Thursday afternoon No oauee for the tragedy is known. Johnson gave him" lelf up, but fearing violence, asked to te taken to the ocunty Jail at LaFayitte, whioh was done. * id#' .