The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 18, 1909, Image 6
NOTABEE ADDRESS
OX "THE MAX liEHINl) THE
PLOW."
Tho Prosperity of livery Man de* ^
pendent I*pon the Prosperity of
tlu* Averime Man.
Mr. Clarence E. Poe, the talented
editor of the Progressive Farmer,
of Raleigh, N. C., made a notable
address before the Commercial Con
gross that met in Washington some j
time ago. We present an extract!
from Mr. Poo's address, which i
will be rend with interest. He said:
"The captains and the kings depart;"
our hankers, our manufacturers,
our merchants, our lawyers, our
doctors, sill these have brought their j
reports, worthy, inspired, notable |
and nil of these men I honor; but j
hero at the last 1 bring to you your j
forgotten man, the man who, of all
nven, is re-building and must rebuild
the South?the man behind the
plow.
Thirty years ago and more tha*.
great-hearted and far-seeing Southern
poet, Sidney Punier, gave us the
key-note of Southern development
and the burden of my address is in a
paragraph that every Southern
school boy ought to learn by heart:
"A vital revolution in the farming
economy of the South, if it is actu-|
ally occurring, is necessarily carrying
with it all future Southern polities,
and Southern relations, and
Southern art, and such sin agricultural
change is the one substantial
fact upon which any really New
South can be predicted."
It is Lanier's old message thsit I
would bring to you today?and yet I
bring si new message, too; that sit
last we have definitely set about, the]
fulKllment of his dream. To tell you
what this means to you and to the
South and to ask you for your support
in carrying it to success, is the
object of my coming.
As si background of my story and
In order that we may see its large
iiii-uiiuiK in i in* rigiu perspective, l
must first of all call your attention
to two statistical facts. First, as to
the overwhelming prominence of
rural interests in the South, the
census showing that more than 80
per cent of our population is rural
.and that the South is today the one
section of America of which it is
true that there are more people
engaged in agriculture than in all
other occupations combined .
Second, as to the efficiency and
earning power of these people heretofore,
the last census showing the
average annual value of products per
farm in the North Atlantic States
as $9S4, in the South Atlantic at
$84, or exactly $500 per year less;
in the North Central States as
$1,074, in the South Central. $530?
or $53 8 per acre loss. And with
this as my basis, I am ready to lay
down three or four propositions
which 1 wish to hammer home to
your minds:
1. To bring; up its earning power
$500 more a year for each Southern
farm is the supreme task and opportunity
of our generation.
2. It is not only our supreme task
and ambition, but it is a realizable
ideal, a workable, practicable program
of progress.
3. It is not only our supreme
task, and a realizable one, but is
one upon whose success depends the
prosperity not only of the South as a
section and Southerners as a whole,
but also (and more important) the
prosperity of you yourself as an iu^
dividual, and of every individual
Southerner?the farmer no more
than the banker, the merchant, the
railroad man, the lawyer, the preacher,
the teacher, the statesman. The
11 %v vi icvcry iruui\ u n, niH
craft in a coirnminity and the pros
polity of every individual in tin
community, from the hoy on tin
street who blacks shoes to the mast
er mind who organizes your railway
systems or governs your State?tin
prosperity of every man, I say, do
ponds upon the prosperity of tin
"7orage man, this average man ii
the South being a farmer?and thi
is the greatest truth that I hope t<
bring you to see this afternoon.
4. And then the hopeful fact ?
the fact that already earnest hipi
and women, working here and ther
in different lines of endeavor, hav
developed almost unconsciously th
several component parts of a fair
ly comprehensive and well-rounde
u/.lw.n.? .1 -1 ' - * - 1
r?vnvmu vji i nidi ill* \ I'lUpilinil , 21 J) I" ]
ninry and essential part of which 1
this getting $.100 more a year farm
log in the Southern States?
scheme of education which embrace
young and old, not only the farm ho
in the school, but the adult farnie
and the farmer's wife as well.
And now, as the spokesman of th
South's agricultural Interests, I com
to you to appeal for your suppor
to ask you as citizens and as lead
ors to join in a great movement f?i
rural development in the South. An
T am going to base my argumei
not on any plea as to what this dc
velopment will mean to the Sout
ns a section, or to Southerners as
whole, hut upon what it will mea
to you as an individual. My hope I
to show you that your indlvidm
prosperity is dependent upon th
prosperity of the average man i
the South, this average man (1 rollout)
being a farmer.
Too long, my fellow Southerners,
a large element of our people have
cherished a different feeling. Too
long, tv> long?ah, tragically too
long men have thought or said, "If
I am it merchant, lawyer, manufacturer,
preacher, railway man, hanker,
or teacher, It matters little to
me (except, of course, as a matter
of altruism or benevolence) whether
agriculture prospers or not, whether
the mail In the field is Ignorant or
educated, is progressing or retrograding,
is prospering or suffering."
1 nunc to you today to tell you
that this Is the fooling that has
cost the South leadership. This is
the sentiment that litis kept our manufacturers,
our commerce, our literature,
our education?that has
kept one and all of these chained
down to the unproiitahlc level of
our unprofitable average man, our
man behind the plow. Increase his
earning capacity and you increase
the earning capacity of every other
worker in the South; free him from
the chains of unprofitable, because
misdirected, labor, and you cut the
hindering shackles of every other
worthy interest in the Southern
Stiites.
All, if our statesmen and public
men in the South these last, thirty
years could only have realized t he
fundamental truth in Lanier's utterance?"A
vital revolution In the
farming economy of the South is
necessarily carrying with it till future
Southern politics and Southern
relations and Southern art, and suen
an agricultural change is the one
I substantial fact upon which any really
New South can be predicted!"
Ah, if they could only have realized
that the prosperity of every man
depends upon the prosperity of th 3
average man!
"Wealth Is by nature not aristocratic,
hut democratic." The poorer
every other man is, the poorer you
are. The richer every other man is,
the richer you are. IOvery mar.
whose earning power is below par,
below normal, is a burden 011 the.
community; he drags down the
whole level of life, and every other
man in the community Is poorer by
reason of his presence, whether he
ho white man, or negro, or what no*.
Your untrained, inefficient man is
not only a poverty-breeder for himself,
but the contagion of Its curne.s
every man in the community thai,
is guilty of leaving him untrained.
The law of changeless Justice decrees
that you must rise or fail, decline
or prosper, with your neighbor. You
will be richer for his wealth, poorer
for his poverty.
And so today every man who is
tilling an acre of land in the South
so that it produces only half what,
intelligently directed labor would g -t
out of it is a burden on the community,
is dragging down the level
of life for every other man in the
community. Suppose you ate his fellow-citizens;
then because of ins inefficiency,
his poverty, because ?t
his failrue to contribute to pu'o'tc
funds and public movements, yoj
must have poorer roads, poo.i.r
schools, a meaner school house and
court bouse, a shabbier church, low
er priced lands; your teacher will l>2
more poorly paid, your preacher's
salary will be smaller, your newmarket,
your railroad smaller traffic,
tlon, your town will have a poor--'
market, your reilroad small.-r traffice
your merchant smaller trade, v >uv
hnnk Kiimllor rtr>nnsils vnir miitiii.
facturer diminished patronage, and
1 so on and so on.
The ramifications a reinflr.ite, unending.
And the doctrine is true
whatever the color of the man. The
ignorant negro in the South is one
of t lie greatest economic hurdeni
' with which any people has evei
had to contend. From travel and
5 observation in ten Southern States
I have almost worked it out as r
5 principly of political economy that
' other things being equal, States and
- communities are prospering in pro
1 portion to their white population.
3 do not know what wo are going tc
do with the negro. I do know thu
f we must either frame a scheme o
3 education and training that wil
- keep him from dragging down tin
o whole master the man or the rac<
? who mlslty-maker and not a poverty
s brooder, or else lie will get out o
3 ytbo South and give way to tlv
white immigrant. No acre of lam
- will long own as its master the mai
1 or the race who mistreats it am
o makes it unfruitful. Either we nun
e have the negro trained or ve mua
e not hnve him at all. Untrained, li
- is a burden on us all. Setter
d million acres of untitled land tha
I- a million acres of mistilled land,
s Let us remember then that on
i- economic law knows no color llm
a White or black, the man whose efr
s cieney is above par is a help; whit
y or black, the man whose < fheiene
r is below par is a hindrance.
"The farmer, the common la bo re
e | of any sort, needs no training. Edi
e onto him and you spoil him. Th
t, | time have they been preachet
I- Hugging this vampire delusion, th
ir Southern plantation owner, has see
<1 I vast level of life in the South, tha
it j will poorer you keep him, the rlcln
>- will be tlie upper class." There hav
h been our pet falacies. And a Ion
a area abandoned to broonisedge an
n gullies, in spite of the fact that ii
Is ' telligent handling would have kej
il j them productive a thousand years,
o' Preaching this fatal doctrine, th
n merchant has sold Western meat an
I
scooters and tobacco, when with
prosperous patrons he might have
quadrpuled his profits by selling
sulky plows and harvesters and carriages
and pianos.
Deluded by his fallacy the statesman
has struggled against fate, on'y
to die and be forgotten by people
too poorly educated to read his biography,
and too poor in property to
build a monument to his memory,
while smaller and meaner men in
sections unshackled by these ancient
errors, are famed in song and story.
Writing editorials in support of
the aristocratic instead of the democratic
theory of Industry of the editor
has seen his patent-outside weekly
fail of support, when a properly
I I'n I nrwl O n/1 ml n/.n t/?.l ?a/mvI/v 1
IMIIUVH V \? KV.CUVU JPCUJII'' WWIIIU
have brought him wealth as the head
of a prosperous daily.
Flghtiug public taxation for bolter
schools and other methods of
training and enriching the nverag
man, your manufacturer has struggled
along with a small business
win 11 a prosperous average men
would have given us great iucaistries
like those in tlie North and West.
Still arguing that education and
man, and that "cheap labor" is what
we need, your banker has complained
that the South offers no opportunities
for the great financier, forgetting
that cheap, unprosperous labor
means small, unprosperous banks.
Opposing taxation for better
schools the rail rends hnnlinii- cotton
in the fall and low grade fertilizers
in the spring, have fought passenger
rate reduction {is a life and death
matter when a well-trained people
would supply the various trafPes and
the heavy dividends of the other seaLions.
Your lawyer, .doctor, preacher,
teacher?each falling in line with
the ancient heresy, has paid the
penalty in disminished fees, diminished
salaries, diminished influence.
Victims of the vicious teaching 1
am pointing out, your men ot talent
?artist, sculptor, poet, orator, have
too often fled to other sections, or
else have died with vision unfulfilled
among a people untrained to
appreciate their genius?when hut
for these tilings you might see statues
of Southern leaders in every
Southern city, tlie work of Southern
artists in the world's greatest galleries,
the thought of the Southern
sleep in neglected graves trampled
under foot by war, and waste, and
error.
Now war and waste, thank God,
are behind us. Let us also put error
behind us.
Of all our errors our greatest has
been the failrue to recognize the fact
that the prosperity of every man
i uepeiius upon me prosperuy or tn^
average man?and in many cases
the actual acceptance of the doctrine
that the State is benefitted by havI
ing cheap, untrained labor.
I have seen on the contrary that such
labor is a curse.
I And our second great error has
I been like unto it?the belief that
I even if the prosperity of every man
I does depend upon the prosperity of
I the average man, we are too poor
to train him. The truth is, that we
are too poor not to do so. The fullI
est and freest training of the averago
man is the one and only positive
guarantee of Southern prosperity,
and by this I mean the prosperity
not only of our section and of our
I institutions and of society as a
whole, but the prosperity of every
individual?every farmer, every
laborer, every merchant, every manufacturer,
every professional man,
I every inhabitant as 1 have said,
from the boy who blacks shoes to
poet the common heritage ol man!
kind. It is not that we have had
| no mighty dreamers; it is that they
4 I the master-mind that builds youi
railroad systems or governs your
' State. And having once accepted
' this doctrine concerning the average
1 man?and the average man in tht
' I South being a farmer?we shall not
be slow to put into effect Mint large
. and comprehensive program of rural
development which^earnest men and
} women, working in many different
. lines have gradually brought in?c
I shape?a program which looks t(
I the ultimate doubling of the profits
I of that occupation which engages
the attention of more people in tin
J South than all other occupation!
combined.
e
j Then, indeed, will the South bios
^ som as the rose; then, indeed, wil
I the long nmbititons of our fathers
II come at last into glorious fruitage
I Not only will the common farn
,j homes in the South he supplied wit!
:l all the conveniences our city broth
M ron now enjoy, good roads and tei
ephones and fine stock an 1 fa
r acres greeting the glad eyes of ai
)# awakened people; but every Indus
I- try known to our Southland wil
o throb with now vigor as it fresl
y l)loo(l had been poured into it
veins. Great mercantile houses wii
ir grow up among us rivaling thos
i- of the North and Wiest, and South
0 orn merchants will make the hi
1. profits that come with big sale
o instead of the small profits inevita
n bio with small sales. (Merchants i
it the West are selling automobile
>r to farmers; compare, if you wil
e tho profits on automobiles t.nd o
g carts.) Manufacturers of a tlions
d and things for which there is noi
i- no profitable Southern market, w
>t shall have; and our laboring mei
finding room for greater skill an
e higher wages, will walk with quieV
1 er step and lighter hearts. Danker
0
0
wijfl no longer own allegiance to'
other sections, but our own financial
institutions will become the
equals of any in America. Our
newspapers will grow greater with
stronger subscription an 1 advertising
patronage, and northern men
and women will begin to read Southern
magazines and Southern dailies.
Our railroads will double-track old
lines to supply the new demands,
and new lines will be built to quicken
dead sections into life. Able
lawyers will no longer go north to
find l>ig fees, foreign pulpits will no
longer be able to take our strong
religious leaders from us, our poet
souls and artist souls will find here
last the atmosphere in which they
best can flourish, our statesmen will
speak with potent voices in the
councils of tlie nation, and the eye
of every Southern school hoy will
sparkle with a keener pride as lie
learns the story of a generation that
has wrought as well in peace as the :
fathers fought in war. These are I
'he things we have now sot out. to
win; these are the tilings which are
to come about with that agricultural
revolution upon which alone can
any really new South he predicted. *
smoi li) m; iiAXCiui).
A Unite That Attempted to Assault
Two Gills.
Hainhrtdge, Ga., Feb. 0.?Ike
Jones, a negro, attempted to criminally
assault tlio 10-year-old daughter
of Joe Spooner early this morning.
The negro went to the home of
the Spooners, and there was no one
at the place except the daughter.
The negro asked where her father i
and brother were, and the girl tool 1
him that they were both in the
field working. He then told her
that he wanted to buy some sausage.
When the girl went out to
the smokehouse to get the sausage
for him, the negro followed her. As
he caught her around the throat
she pulled away, and ran past him,
screaming, to the field, where her
brother was working.
A posse was soon organized and
succeeded In finding the negro who
was brought beforo the girl, who
identified him. He was carried to
Iron City and placed in tho town
jail. There was some talk of a mob
taking charge of him, and he was
brought to Bainbridge on the noon
train.
A number of citizens of the western
side of the county, where the
crime was committed, have followed
the negro here, and there is considerable
uneasiness among the officials
that the negro will bo lynched.
Judge Frank Park, of the Albany
circuit, is hero in town and has
offered to give tho negro just as
speedy a trial as necessary, saying
that he would remain over until tomorrow,
if necessary.
The same negro has been identified
as the one attempting an assault
upon the daughter of another
white man in the same section some
months ago.
THKY PKltFOIlM HEItOlC FEAT.
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nuve nit- *. rei\ 01 nciiouiicr i nat
iiocs to Pieces.
Delaware Dreakwater, Del., Feb
10.?The four-masted schooiu.r
Sarah W. Lawrence, from Ne.vport
, News, with a cargo of coal for Hos
ton, was today blown aground on
the Hen and Chicken's Shoals off
Cape llenlopen, Del. The crew of
nine men and the captain's wCe
were rescued by the Cape llenlopen
life-savers. The schooner broke m
two after the ten persons had been
taken off.
They were landed at Lewes, Del.
The sea was running so high that it
was impossible for the life-saversalone
to go to the assistance of the
stranded vessel, and a tug was called
( upon to tow the life-savers in a
launch out to the schooner. The
' Cape llenlopen men risked theii
' lives in putting their boat through
the pounding surf, but they reached
the schooner safely and just as tin
hull of the Lawrence became sub
" merged. Those aboard were hud
died on the fore house of the sunker
" vessel.
1 The sea was running so high tha
* the hardy rescuers were unable t(
get close to the crew and life pre
1 servers and ropes were brought int<
1 use. The captain's wife was tin
- first taken off, and it took severa
- hours to effect the rescue of tin
t others.
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T.VVTIIIXtJ IV A1.ARAMA.
1
!l
u Negro Had Mistreated Little Dnugh
' tor of Her Employer.
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t. Selma, Ala., Feb. 8.?News ha
g just reached hero of the lynching o
s Will Parker, a negro, near Mexia, 1
t- Monroe county, last Saturday. Th
n negro had mistreated tho three-yeai
8 old daughter of N. O. Bailey, th
1, man for whom he worked on Fridaj
n A mob was formed during tho nlghl
but the dogs were unable to tak
>v the negroe's trail until the followin
e morning. He was found In a cor
i, crib, and when the sheriff's poss
d arrived, about half an ho\y latei
from Monrooville, they found th
s negro's body hanging to a tree.
FLIM FLAM GAME
Worked on the Ministers of Atlanta
a Few Days Ago
BY A SMOOTH ARTIST
The Fellow, Who Admitted With
(ireut Flow of Tears, That lie Had
i
Heen All Kinds of a ItasenI?Took
I
V|? a Neat Collection From the <
Ministers.
Atlanta, Feb. 10.?The Journal
says a shrewd beggar with histrionic
ability in general and of
of humanity in general anil of
preachers in particular, loft Atlanta
last week, taking with him contributions
from the majority of the
local ministry. In all, he secured
fifteen or twenty dollars, a pair of
trousers, and an overwhelming number
of handclasps and assurances of
help.
He was a weazened little man with
a wail in his voice. Rev. II. A.
Atkinson found him on the threshold
of his study last Wednesday.
He pointed one trembling Anger at
the minister.
"I am a forger," ho said.
That was his introduction to the
ministers of Atlanta. His story was
dramatic. He said his name was
lienry Mcls.enz.ie.
"For twenty-two years I was In
Sing Sing for forgery," he told Dr.
Atkinson. "Then I was parolled,
and 1 came to South Carolina to try
life over again. 1 got a job. I was
j living honestly, then they found out
| my past and I was tired. Since then
it has been the same thing over
again. My story follows me everywhere.
Once I get work and life
begins to promise something, someone
hears of it and I am discharged.
"I forged one check for $37,000
on J. IMerpont Morgan in my bad
days and got it cashed. That was
only one of the terrible things I
did. My life was black. But I
want to put all that behind me now
and live a new life, but the world
won't let me. I have paid my debt
to society and still It demands
more."
Dr. Atkinson gave him two dollars
and the pair of trousers. He
also set about getting him work.
The following day, the man all
atremble, came to Rev. E. D. Ellenwood's
study.
"I am a forger," he said again.
TIlpii his fingers began to work
and the tears to roll down his face
"And God help me, a morphine
fiend, too," he cried. "But I have
determined to make a new life of
it."
He snatched a box from his pocket
and threw it into the fire.
"I shall never touch morphine
again."
Dr. Ellenwood gave half a dollar.
After the man had left he took the
box from the stove. In it were some
W It i f r> it* <1 b J 1 > 1? a .1 a ?
M Uivv 1'WMVIVIO, u au SIIUW(.JU IU
a druggist. The druggist said they
were not morphine powders at all.
When he asked Dr. Ellenwood for
money, the later offered to buy him
any food he might wish.
Hut you must trust me, doctor,"
, he said. "Trust is what I need.
Trust and confidence."
He said the same thing to Dr.
Atkinson.
Then he paid a visit to Dr. C. B,
Wilmer, from whom he secured several
dollars; dropped in to see Dr
. Pise, called upon Bishop C. K
, Nelson, and saw Rev. E. II. Peacock,
of the Baptist Tabernacle.
By Thursday Dr. Atkinson had
, secured him a position driving f
. wagon with a gang of convicts. lie
, came to the minister with tears ii
I his eyes.
; "Don't you see that I can't dc
. such work as that," he said. "
. couldn't endure to watch those pool
j black men in chains, after the hor
rible imprisonment I havo gon<
I j through myself."
, It was an emotion too commend
able to be scoffed at. It showed tha
> his heart was tender and throbbing
> All he needed was a further loan
j He made another round of visits am
e told his story all over again. 1I<
told of the horrible twenty-two yean
he had spent at Sing Sing, and lo
told of the agony he had since suf
fered when his story would follov
him from place to place.
Ills wail was "I have paid society
Why can't my debt be canceled?"
He was a very slight, pltable look
s ing man, and the sorrow of his voie
f was deep.
n More contributions came In. The
o he went away. It is believed tha
V?/% " ?. I - /~?~i '? -
u*3 ia nun Ml V^UIUIIIUUS. 11 IS 111!
e material to the Atlanta ministr
r. where he is.
t, Saturday Dr. Ellenwood got
e letter from the warden of Sing Sin
g In which he said that no such ma
n as Henry McKenzio had ever bee
o a prisoner there.
P(
o China uses a jrreat deal of lea(
principally for lining tea chests.
DEAL IS ON FOOT
TO SHIP OUt COTTON DIRECT
TO El ROPE.
A
Gotenburg Wholesaler, With Largo
Holdings ia Company Operating
Savannah Lino, the Prime Mover.
A
The Columbia Record says for
some time Commissioner E. J. Watson
has striven to get thcotton
from this state shipped direct to
European points, thus avoiding the
profits to middlemen.
I The scheme lias lately been furthered
and to^tlie extent that on the
j lath of the month, Mr. Watson and
, Mr. It. Harris; of Pendleton, will go
to Savannah, where they will meet
Mr. Wilhelm Dickson, a director of
the Swedish-American steamship
company, with headquarters at Gothenburg,
Sweden.
The object of the conference is
to look into the feasibility of opening
Southern ports for the exporting
of cotton by regular steamship
lines.
Mr. Dickson is a prominent exporter
and iswjp itly interested in
the scheme above mentioned. On
December 1st of 1 ayear lie wrote
the following letter to Commissioner
U'alunn rnlntivo in msitfoi"
"Dear Sir: Being <he of the direcI
tors of Captain Luhdgren's steamship
company, 'Reduri Aktiebolaget.
Trans-Atlantic,' and (having worked,
with him hand in pand since we
started proceedings ih buying two
small tramp steamers! 1 am naturally
informed of and Yully initiated
in, as well as greatly jinterested in,
your plan of the direca line between
Charleston and Swederk I shall be
starting on Jojiuary 18th for New
York on other business, but I shall
before that go fully through everything
with my friend Lundgren, and
shall have great pleasure in making
an appointment with you when over
in America to discuss matters, especially
so the matter I herewith
take the liberty of putting before
you.
"As you are well aware, there is
is a large cotton export, and also a
great rosin export, and these twodifferent
classes of goods would naturally
be greatly favored by the new
projected Hue, and merchants on.
your side would naturaly t>e anxious
of forming good direct connections,
on this side. It is thus my purpose *
by writing this letter to ask ypifc.^ I
kindly to put me h\t^^<innecjion <*??
with people who would be Interested
in shipping their goods by the
/I I I i tt <> ft n /I ^ I n ?? n M .11^1 1
umxi, line, ?vnvi f^i-LllIlK i* reilillMt?
agent over there. I thus propose to
take up these agencies. I am prepared
to take up any big article
you put before ine, but of course,
I am only wishing to touJh the
wholesale trade and make il largeturnover.
I am myself carrnng on
a large export business, anlj I am
thus open for such proposals as I
have named to you.
"With regard to my personal
standing, beg to refer you to
Aktlebolaget Coteborgs Handelsbank
and Captain Lundgren, and besides,
when you were here, you were sure
to have heard about me.
"Hoping to hear from you before
I leave this country, and that you
shall be able to put before me some
proposal which I migh take up and
arrange when I get to your side. I
remain, dear sir, hoping for a
speedy and lucky development of
mutual plans,
"Yours very truly,
"WM. DICKSON."
What will Mb the outcome of the
conference, of* course, is matter of
. conjecture, but Messrs. Watson and
Harris will leave no stone unturned
1 in the effort to cause the conference
t to bear fruit.
, XKGKOE3FATALLY HVKXED.
1 One Woman in Field and Two
I
p Children in House. . .
Cades, Feb. 10.?Hester Wingate,
a colored woman who lives a few
. miles above ho^^;.caught fire while
t burning brush jffifl before nnything
could be done for her, her entire
flnlhinf Vin.'l linnn ~ ce -
,?_v II inn IIVU Oil. ?n.o
j I caught and burned in the presence
of several men, who failed to render
j. any appreciable service. One got
, his hands severely burned whilo
doing what he could to aid her.
v Yesterday came news of the burning
of Mellard Wood s house and
two-year-old child, while father
and mother were some distance away
at a neighbor's bouse. This seems ^
(, to he another of those not. unusual
cases among colored people, where
n they go away and leave their childt
ren alone in the house to meet death
by their parents' gross carelessness.
y ~~
Fell TIhmh' Hundred Feet.
a Grand .Tuneti^J Colo., Feb. 1ft.?g
While plowing through the heavy
n drifts'nt Baxter Pass on the Unitalf
n Hall road, a locomotive and snowplow
in rounding a sharp curve on tho
down grade plunged over a ?.ftft foot
1, precipice, killing Engineer .1. E. Eano
nr?/l 11? 1 1
, Mimny injuring a section hand.
j