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TH.E PLE 'S oURAL VOL .---NO9. . - . PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, MAY i,8.(NFDTA Av m HIMO. OF TKIS RIO GRANDE FlD FUNSITON'S VALOR. heio Kanisas Soldior Has Won Hi * 14Yirs in the Phiiippines-Militar Daring that Has lirought Hin 19atidhalFa . The President has appo inted dolone Frederick Fuuston, of thle Twentiet Kansaa,.as-a brigadier general of vol .anteors. . This appoictmont was re commended by Major Genoral Mac 4.tahiyaznd supplomonted very stronglj by Gerical Otis 'in a cablo dispatch LGo'nral MacArthur taid that the ser vies of Colonel Funston during th ,cmpaign, and especially in the cross ing of the 1Rio Granme river, deserv< recognition- such as his promotiop t( be a brigadier general, also that as a leaudr of troops Colonel Funston wai especially valuable. '1 ho Presideni ;rcqpgizos the Pervices of Colonel Fun ston, and his first 9l1lelal act upon re turning to Washington was te make Ji m.a brigadier general. Since the outbreak of hostilites with the--native Filipinos, the whole coun try has admired the daring achieve ments of plucky littic sandy-haired F'red Funston, colonel of Gnu now. famous .A TwontIeth Kansas. HIs name is on t Aho tojngue of every one who admires true bravery, and It will go down in ..Jgstory for docds that will rival the 'idroes of ancient or moderun times.. of him it can be said truly that he "eaeds Swhil others -follow." Ile is the dar ling of his regiment, because he has alvays been the first to volunteer on any dangerous enterprise. In the last few days he swam two rivers at the head-of his devoted band, while bullets of the savage enemy sang their mes sages of death all around him. His crossing the bridge of the Rio Grande, near Apalit, equaled the conduct of Horatlus of old, so celebrated in story and song. With numberless acts of almost incredible daring charged up to his credit, he has infused his spirit into his -followers till one can say, without cavil and invidious compari sion, that the laurels of Roosevelt's Rough Riders look cheap beside those wnf by the bravo Kansan and his men. Thet,. Louis Republic gives the fol. lowing account of ColUnul iLnston's life : Colonel I-unston was h rn in North Carlisle, Ohio, Novcmocr U, 1865. Three years later ni, p.ren ts moved to .Kansas,: where they settled in Allen County. Both of th-se ois peoplo are still alive, and there is no prouder 'couple in the country than the father and mother of this gallant soldier. And he is as devoted o them as any son could be. Each week there comes a bulky letter from across the Pacific, and when its arrival becomes known - the neighborhood gathers about 'ar the white-liatred mother read .4to istoryiof her boy's triumphs. These itors are usually written by the wife f' the gallant colonel, but he always afidq time to add at least a few lines. .6 4Irs. Frcd Funston, who is with her -skjpd in -the Philippines, has been i wife but a few months. Last year, - while the Twentieth K.nsas was at Camp Merriam, near San Francisco, Mios Edna Biankard, of Oakland, visited the encampment with her father, who was a soldier during the civil war. She was introduced to Col. Punston, and he, apparently as hard a lighter in love as in war, wooed and won her. Three weeks later they were married and she accompanied her husband to Manila. Colonel Funston's adventures began before he was cighteen years old. While attending the county school in Aien County, he and two other boys decided it would be much pleasanter to live with the Indians than to go to school ard do chores about the farm. They secured three guns and a quantity of ammunition, and gathering a supply of food started out to find a camp of native Americans, who were of ten seen about that part of the country at that time. Fianally they came to the Osage re servation, where Black Dog was chief. -There the youthful adventurers took up there residence and remained for 2 - two montha, until found by their parents and forced to return home. -'Tho boys were loath to leave the camp, - -as they had become great friends with the - indians. This friendship was never fdrgotten by the old chief, Black - Dog, -and only a few years ago he sent a messenger asking Col. F'unston to * ~ visit him. Col. Funston went back with the messenger and remained nearly a wocek with his old friend, much to the warrior's'delight. At the a o of nineteen Funston en * tredl the .tate University at Law rence. Hils favorite studies were the - languagos and sciences. .In 1888 ho -drifted into Little Rock, after spend ing the summer on a ranch, and ap S lio~d for a place as reporter. lie was still' In his cowboy clothes, and the - e ditor looked upon the request as a joke. Lie gave him a chance, however, *and with in a few weeks the cowboy re porter was writing editorials. Thue News, for which he was work * ing, was then an organ of influence among the Demaocrats of Arkansas. A *coup~le of.' months after F'unston went to work for it the owner of the paper went to a meeting of the Democratic State committee in another city and left Funston In charge. The present -colonel is a Republican, and he was then, and did not like the polley of the papeor. Hlere he saw was a chance to do something for his p~arty. So the morning after lie was left to run the paper it appeared with the platform of the Republican party at thb head of * its editorial columns, and beneath this was a long apology for the course the paper haa followed in the past. The editor wrote that he had made a great mista~ko, but he had seen the error of his ways, and from that time on he would supplort the Republican party and its * candidates. As if this were not enough, there were several local stories about D~emo cratic politicians which reflectedi no * ,, redit on thenm. It may be imagined Little Rock had a sensation. Demo crats were~so angry they threatened to mob the oflce, and the Republicans were jubilant. The owner of the paper returned as far t as a train could bring *him after he learned of his paper's change of policy and Funston left town on the next train. After this brief jour'alistic career Funston went farth -or West. Lie mined in California and lassoed steers in Texas. While i Lone Star State on the IXL ranc did alone what half a hundred boys had been trying to accomi a for more than a year. A parti r Apaches had been harrassing the ( a boys for many months, driving cattle and stealing horses. They % camped in a ravine, and all efror dislodge them had proved futile they were too strongly intrenc and it was Impossible to get them i the pass in which they had taken fuge. Funston grow disgusted after se4 some of his best steers driven av and said he was going to drive Indians out alone. He rode to nearest store, twenty miles away, brought back several little red I dies. The other cowboys attemi to dissuade him from his pirooso, he started for the ravine with his li red packages. The cowboys thou he must have dynamite in those pi ages he had brought from the et but they listened in vain for the rel of the explosion. But they did h the report of a regiment of infar firing volley after volley. And to ti surprisa they saw the Indiani lE from the ravine and dash off ac: the prairie as if riding for their Ii It seems that Funston's puret had been firecrackers. He had gon the mouth of the ravino and ciAn on the ellif, so that he overlookda camp. iHe had then lighted pack after package of the crackers thrown them into the air so they we oxplodo above the heads of the men. To them it sounded as if 4 men were firing at them, and wi they saw one or two whom LFunston I picked off with his rifle fall t jumped on their horses and rode u the evil one was after them. While still connected with .the I ranch, Funston and several of friends saw a bull fight at Chihaub Juan Perez, the toreador, slappe< flower girl as he was leaving the ar and Funstou at once took up her pi Percz challenged him to a duel, wh was fought the following morning the bull ring. Perez was injured ho was not able to fight bulls several nionths and F'unston i slightly huet. In 189- Fmnston was chosen by government to accompany an oxy] ing expedition .o Alaska. Hero had more excitltg adventures, At < time a woman who was with the pal two professors and Funston lost main party and wandered for two (& without food amid the snow and I Finally the sun came out, and, though neither of the professors a able to do it, Feston -ul.-d the pa back to camp by its rays. When Funston returned to 1 United States in 1895 the Cuban qu tion was the urinnipal topi.c of conv sation. Funston formed a compt and wont to South A merica, where was engaged in the coffee business a few months. But he felt he ought hell) the Cubans, and he left plantations and went to Cuba, wh he joined the forces under Gone Gomez. Within two months he i promoted to colonel, and as chief artillery was in the fiercest batt He was twice wounded and was lint captured. He was paroled and egn1 the United States, whoro he lay some months in a hospital in 1S York. Upon his recovery he lectu for some months on the situation Cuba. When war against Spain i declared he offered his services Governor Leedy and was appoin colonel of t4he Twentiesh Kansas. J regiment was sent to the Philippi in December, and since that time, officer and his men have been winn fame for their fighting qualitie. -A proposition to utilize the nej trOOp~s to a large exbont In future m tary operations in the Philippine' attractIng much attention and it believed will be considered by the ministration in the near future. Si a policy is urged on the theory t certain ruolal afliliations may be ilized In a way to defeat rebellious m on the part of Aguinaldo and his pat and to bring peace to the newly quired possess'one of the United StE in the ontet. One-third of the popi tion of the Philippines are negroes the same race as those of the Uni States and while not numerous ab Manila comprise nearly the oni population of some of the Islands. '] advocates of the scheme believe t in a short time there would be an similation bobwoen the negroes of Philippines and their kindred fr the Unuited States and that thore we follow for theocolored peopleoopporti ties to got homes and p)ossibilitiOe careers they could not hope for int country. --It is declared at the State dopi mont that the proclamation Issued the Philippine commission just bof, the beg~nning of the last caimpa represenits the maximum concessi to ,bo made to the insurgents by United States govornmen t. It is r< imod now more strongly than at a other period that the capacity of1 Lt'illplnos for self government is an determined question. The UnI Statos government is willing to ace the natIves an opportunity to test Lb abilities, for the Philippine comn sion proposes to allow them alir complete control of their local alfa exercising only such necessary suj vision through the United Stmi army as may be necessary to gu against the consequences of mistam on the part of the nativo mnunicipdil the provincial oflicials in the first porimont at self-government. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Nave Always Bouj Snature of In very severe cases8 of lIheumal Alligator Liniment should be ap~ three times a (lay. Rub well ini and result will be perfectly satisfactory. have such conflienco In tIs ro w ed) we guarantee it to give Ratisfacotionm fund the money paid for it. 'dold OV the HISTORY RIWEATS ITSI41LF. r) he Iow- BIIa AIW ON LYNCHING. dish of No Good Man has oason to Fear it ow- and (he Wicked May Expecut it off Onily Torriblo-Crimus Call (or Von a to geanoe. .s to for The lynching of Sam Holt Is over. 2ed, Tie press and the proachers havo ex rom pressed their horror or their approval re and the world moves on-not a stay nor a stop nor a jolt is felt either so lng cially, religiously, financially or com av, mnercially. The fulminations of the ti Northern press nor the apprehensions the of editors nearor home amount to any and thing. Uistory is just repeating It un- bolf. Every few years something like ted this ,appens and the press and the but arcachers explodo in about the same ttle 11anguage until they got tired and then ght subside and wait (ihutly for bome otuher ek- harrowing thi'g to hal>pn. We re )re, member well what the press said about por t the burning of the brute at Dallas a ear few years ago, and the same adjectives Itry were used and the same anathemas meir hurled upon our people. Th brute sue who ravished a child of six years and oss then killed her and thro her muti res. lated body in the bushes actuadly found aSo friends among our enemies. They said U to it was brutal to burn him. We reiem bad er when the negro assaulted a little the girl near Madison as sbo was going ige home from school alone and then cut tgd her throat and threw her body in a uld gully and covered It. with brush. When red vengeauco overtook him the Northern ,ooo Xrees howled as usual. ien It is their business to howl. They ,ad like it, and no doubt are glad this ley thing has happened. It feeds their up 8 if l)etito and nurses their wrath and will Inst them a week, perhaps longer. In the language of Governor Oates, I would rise to a point of order and ask, ua. " Whiat are you going to do about It ?" Sa' Nothing, of course, nothing. Such Ihings will happen sometimus every Atrt whore at long intervals, but they do ich not affect a single item of civiliza tion. Who is afraid to move to Georgia or exas becauso of lynchings ? Nobody, vas savc, perhaps, a few bad men who think of coming because they are in bad repute at home. Litzgerald was ,he not afraid to come, nor afraid to stay, 0r- and the Northern people in that grow he ing city are celebrating their content )me with picnics and other hilarities while ty, I write. The wicked llea where no ,he mian pursueth. No grood man Is in %ys -danger of the lynchers. No law-abid cc. ing citizen hat any fear for himself or al- his household. It takes a terrible va1 crimo to arouse a whole community rty into such a remedy, and so I feel no personal alarm. etuader, do you ? 3hc The truth is that lynchings are not Cs- as frequent in the South as they havu er- nbut are eetting quito common ny over the line. We read that they tried he to lynch a man in Now York the other for day for stealing a horse. Why they , to have long since quit that in Texas. his Mr. Inman is right or nearly so. He are says in his answer to the symposium ral of opinions that there Is no just cause vas for alarm among the country people of no greator cause than there has hoer. Cs. That 95 pCr cent. of the people, both ly white and black, are harmless and law to abiding and wo will have to watch and for punish the other 5 per cent. just as we ow have been doing for many years." Tm -ed per cent of the bad negroes is grcater In than he thinks. The number in tihe vas chaingangs prove this, but their crimt.s to are generally misdemeanors, larceny 1ed and burglary, and education does not Iis correct this. Booker Washington says 2os It does, but observation and the state ho tics of the prison commission plrove the ng reverse. We old mon who owned slavos before the war are established in our opinions tro that edut.ation does not lessen crIme, neither among whites nor blacks. 'Mr. iStetson, the chairman of the school icommission of M assachusetts, declared Id- this In a pamphle t sover-al year's ago, ich and pr'oved that educatIon increased erime not a little, but to an alar'ming extent. I have great respect for lBocke: ,cts Washington, and believe that the rty kind of education he is g~iving~ will la a-sen crime among the 1pup)1is lie is edu-* tes eating. Oui' slaves were eduestoed by -fear of the lash or the whmippi ng post, of and you can pijk them out today. I t ted is their children, born since the war, or thelir grandchildren who are In the Ire chaingang. 'h Why should thore be -1,000 neog! oes dat in these State and county cha:ingang. as- of Georgia when ther-e are only :210 ahe white convicts ? It will not do to say em the negro Is punished and the wvh te uld man escapes. Trhalt is a lie, and( overv ni- observing man knows i,. My own (JI) of servation Is that the courts lean to thme his negro rather -than against him. No small per cent. of the colored convict~s irt- are now serving a second term and by some a third term, which proves that re imprisonment does not rofor'm the no gngre. When h~e comes out his last con ns dition is worse than the first. But the ah whipping post would so thoroughly ri a-form a young negro that he would not myi r'epoat the ofoense. Confinement in jail 'nearly crushes the soul out of a white un man, but a neogro is perfectly contented dthere Ask the sherIffs or' the jailers if >tis s not so. Now it will take per irhaps ten ycar-s to do it, but my candid -opinlon Is that the number' of convicts would In that time be reduced from rst 4,000 to 4100 were the whipping pos5t usedl instead of the chaingang. D~ola o-ware has exlporimenited with this for tes half acentury and will not abolish it, It rdis used( for all coloro-white, black and (8mulatto. If that little State was South bex- of the line vWouldent she catch it fronm CXthe Northern pre'ss and Northeirn Prmeac hemrs. Uut how can wvo make the change, for' as long asm the negro has a vote he will vote against a candidate who fa vors It and the candidates arc gener ally demagogues and dare not, dispiease the negr'o. No, they won't even pass rht a (log law for fear of offoniding thele coloredl monstIt.uecnts. Every now and - then miy wife asks mec to buy 501m1 mout ton and says we used to have mluitton. UHut the negroes own thme (logs and the dlogs have oxterminaitedl tihe sheep in B~ lartow County. Wo ought to change imthe constitution and elect, bmwmakers liedforfou orsixyears andi after th at 90they should be inaeiglible. Then they 'lamt wouldent talk andl vole for bunicombho. re- Seome of the sy mF. sium we'lt,rs cry- thought that the law's doiay andl the lawyers warxo to blame for tmrso lynch ing . Not so. A lynching for that crimo IS but the outburst of human in dignation. The law's delay is not in their minds. If I know myself I am as good a man as any horror-stricken editor or preacher. I am kind in heart and love my follow men and fellow wo men. I respect the sunromacy of the law just ats muuh as Governor Atkin son or any other Governor, but I re joiced when the brute was caught and burned. low much the nogro suffered Is of no conseq uenco to ime, nor am I afraid Of the crowd that did it or that will :io it again. It was the unanimous ver dict of a very largo jury, a jury of men and women, and I am not chickon hearted about such suspects as Ligo Strickland, nor would I take very much ympathetic talk from other negro leaders who raise their bristles. I know mid fool that the whito people of ti South have been kmntd ; yeb, overkind to the negro since the war, and that Yankceo O'nissaries havo all (nated him from us and we have got no thanks for all we have done. Sooner or later wo will liavo to take away his vote and establish the whipping post aid then, and not until then, will we have peace between the races. If these remedies affected a few bad whito men, let them sharo it or leave the country. Some of us remember when the Ku Klux was our only pro tection, and It raised a howl that was beard across the ocean, but it saved :ur wives and our daughLtors when th0 world, the flesti and the devil were against us. And so, lot the procession proceed. BILL Air. rim, SOUTHEIRN ati CHRIA-l8TON 'lio Great Railway System is Man agedl oil llusiness Priilples OlIarIestoi Must Tako A ivattage of th Oppor(unities Ofreretl. A reporter for the News and Courier bau interviewed Col. A. 13. Andrews, If the Southern Rtailway, and secured h1e following important and interest ng statement from Col. Andrews : "'The people of Charloston shoild lot get the impression that the South .rn Railway is going to build up the raae of Charleston. unaided and alone. We do not propose to discriminate igalinst any of our other ports for the nicfit of Cliamliston, but w hat we in .entd to do is to furnish this city every racility for growing great commner ially, and we expect the people to ake advantage of the opportunity. We have no idea of diver ,g anything o Charleston from ou, other ports, but harleston will be put On an equal ooting with the otlher ports of the ioutl Atlantic, and then the rest do )Onidb on the people. " I f I came down here and told a long itor- of the very great love the South ,rn I ins for Charlebton and that the -ity would be built up by the Southern ulthat account the p 1ople would think hbat I wab a great fool, or what Is vorse, that I was one great big prevar entor, not to mention s.V(er. other Ahings that I mighit be called. The iouth Carolina and Georgia was leased s a biniess venture. aid, of course, Lbt Southern cmilot make a dollar out if it tLat does not benetit Charleston th proilt, ther:Ufore, Is mi utual, and I herc *hould be united eforts between the railroad amid tie peiople of this cIty. The Southern will furnish the rates and tile schedules, and eXIcts Charlestonians to get I IIove on them selves, and use the schedules and rates. 13eforo we go any further it is best that this matter should be distinctly under stood, So that some people may not expect too much of the Southern. "The condition of the South Care Ilna and Geor-gia Road shlogys that it was never the intecntion of tfrc owners to opierato it. rT hi lck of many neces sary imuprovements showv tis fact. I am not, complalning, because we leased the road with our eyes widle ipen, but I merely say these things to itlustrato the fact, that the road has Men on the market for some timo. I'oo road being for sale, it Is, In my Alinlon, a most, fortunate thing for Tharleston that the Southern was tile iarchaser. We have tihe mileage and hbat's what, counts In building up a dty. Suppose seome of the ether sys nAs hlad purchased It, ho0w wouldl h2arlestonl ever hlave gotten biack into \Vestern South Carolina, a parad iso for- the joibers of tis city ? Never on ''ith , Imy dealr fel low, lI theO jobbinmg trade of this city had com11 inl oppo) titlin to an~y (If tile SouthernI's ptst. We control tile situation anld y'ou may rest assured that we will take care (if our owni, anld we own just aS much (if Chatrleston now as you foilks living light, here in tile city. Our lease mailkes us a pariit aind par-eel oif tis city, and we mfeanil thalt, Ghlarioston will bie on tile samoe footing as any othcl South Atlantic poriIt, in regard to both export, and import tradol. "' I am fr-Ce to a~dmit thl'Lt thec Southl erni has hIurt Chlarleston conlsider-ably in tile past, but It mu ost, be remembl lered that the Sottborn hlad nio interest lhere thlon. Its Interests were In other piaces, anld thlese oither plalces hadli t~o lhe takIen care of, ovin If Chlarleston did get, th~e worst, (of it. This is only humanlbl nautu e, yeou know ; over-ybhody looiks out for hIis OWnI. Thell si tuationl is entirely chlanged. Tile Soutlhern has as gecat iLtest, ini Charl ston low a1s It has inl any (otibor plac0~, andI PIll guariant te thalt the bare will lie let down right away. Thie upi ~ coutr-y wvill be opetnedl to tis port, and it, but remains for theO people to taik e hold1 oIf the opp)ortuntity ando spiread eut. I dlon' t thlink any one1 w iilley tile fact that the Southern has I he powver to, do what, I say we( will dot. The Southiern'. liines just hloney -comnb the 0 Soumlih, ai :spec( tally that part (If the1 -Soul h which1 is tributar-y to Charlestonm, anJh noiw thalt Ulharlestoin is one oif thte Southlern's pOrts all the barriers to itLs comm terco will be co movedlI imedi Iai ly.- Tis 5IsI all I can ay on this pioint,. Thel South urn has the power to, put (Char letton Onl ani equaSIl footin tl~wIith all of Its comn licting ports, and1( will doI .ho. Nowv will the people0 of Charle.ston Lake ad van tage of the posHitionl b, which1 the ci ty will be placed ?" -MIaryland hais her negrot problem. It is said that, w i tlhout, tho 50,(i00 no gro votes, tile l.~opublilians couild not carry more than threo pirecinte inl the whole nommonwmaitb R. . TOIBERT'S STATEMIN' HE' WANTS TO LIVE AT IiOME CI aims that lo Has Beei Misrepre upitei aid Tries to Set limsell Right. Mr. A. M. Carpentor, of tihe Grotn wood index, while he was in Groen Ville as a witness in the Tolbrt con spiracy case, had a long talk with Mr, 11. It. Tolbert, whoi sought the in'.or view, for the tipurpose of making a puiblic staiment, which is given her-c with : At tht outset Mr. Tolbert siLdl he iad not been able to see thatl ho was to biame for tte killing of Mr. Mtheridge or tho other occurrences att Phoenix. 11e did not think ho should bto regard ed ". an outlaw or hold in distrust. by the puople o! this section. " If, a yeair ago," said he, " I could have foreseen what was going to occur, I would not have accepted thbe nomina tion for Congress. As it is, I do not tee that I was tile cause of it. I have b00e a I t0lpublicatn and i have never been afraid or ashamed to declare my principles, but I have never knowing ly giviti anty ian anly advicO that would tend L make hiin other than a good citizenti or cause hiim to set at do liance an'Y estbtlishied law. Whly sihould I dusiro to bring about a state of lawltsumo-s ? M home is in Abbe ville couilty and a Iarge part of ily in terests lie in Greenwood. All I.hiat I care for inl life, everything and every body that, I hold near and dear, is cun tered in thoso two counties, and any evil that, could befall theom would colme upon toe, too. I certainly have somne interest in trying to preservo law and o 'der, and I had always thought 11111 last Noveniber' that my neighbors gave mue credit for trying to do so. It has beenl very humiliating to me for my neighbors anid natny whom I had tre garded as pirsonal friends to chatirge tm11 othierw ise. "It lils beeni charged that I have too .trot)g a predilection for the negro in pol i iths. I Want to set tmysel f right as to that. I 1111 110t, and never havG beetn, ill favor of negroes holding ollice, I ailm not tnow, atnl itever have been, in favor of any man, white or black, ex ruisin'! the righ.t of sulrage unliess he is qualified to do So. ltit I do not be love in disfratnchlisinaig on aCcount, of 1,bher color imetn who, iecauhe3 of pro )ert'y or edlCatiOnl 0' CstabliShed chatractetr as good citizens, should be allowed to vote. I amt not a bellever in ,;ocial eoiluility. I at a believer in white suilpremacy in the broadest and strongest sense of the termI), and if I m3 that it Is in dangLer I will go as far as any man 1.0 defend It. " I cannot see that there Is the re lmotest tdanger of negro .(ominatIon, and I simply cannot believe the whit.c people, in the strength of their supeC r'iority, should coinmit 1,his crimtie gainst, a weaker and defenceless raeo. It is wrongr, there Is no necessity for i, and I d1o not believe there is allv whito man in South Carolina who ;aan in tho deptils of his heart approve fit. "1 When I was nominated for Con grt's by toy party in the thiritd 'ldisiric, I wanted to itake as good a showiing as possibOle. I wanted to refute the state ment that had been made tihath I'ipubli cans had been becluring nominations for oflice in this Stato solely for the pur'lpobe of getting ioney out of tile national Campaign fund. I did not make any money out of the campaign. In the contest, if I am 1not seated, I will not get anything but the actual oxpensoe in making the coitt,-t, and Lh expense aceount will bu carhiflly scru1l tized." 1t was suggested to Mr t. Tioibert tiht the feeling against, him1 ini tiIs sectionl was founded not, s) miuch on accounlt of ils ioilities, or his conduclt dur ing his eanvabs forl Congress, 1a8 0)n aberount (| newspaper utterances attributed t< hIm sInce the Phioenix riot,, and niotaly an Inteorview in tile New Yor'k I itle pendent. "I was coming to that," lie said, "'In that Iiterview I was greatly wronged andl misrepresented. The reporter alter talking with 11o went ol' and( wrote the article and did 1101. submnit thie Interview or his notes to mo. fn talking to tho reportor J did not allude to Mr. Ethoridgo as an " Irresponsible contetr.' I used the term 'rosponsIlblo r'enter.' 1 Il id no allude to Mr. lethbe r-idge ill any unkind or uncharitale inannfor. "I did not use the ' whlite trash ' Ian ulage thiat has been atti'i buted to melt, tndl I do0 not1 8(oo ho(w thlose whio have know me1 111 fr'oim my chi ldhIood COulId ha ve thiughlt m11e guIlty of suchl utterances. I w ith tihe peopoI coilId read my hleart, tliat they miighit 5see ho0w cleat' I tam from such feel ings. Th'ie be.,t, ftriends I 'Jveri had werec two oltd per'5tsn, M r'. aind Mr s. Walket', wV 1o wer'e atmong the pooirest of people 50 fat' as worIldly ptos Sessi10n1 go. I h10p1 I haiive never beeni so vilo as to base my opinion of a tmani 11p)on tile size of htis pou~ketbootk, or' to measui'e my friendship by that hlave been muisrecpresenntLed and miisun-i dort'ood( on so many points that I hardly know what to stay 01' whlor to commtienco to~ set tmyself r'igh t. I want to get right befor'o till people of ity home 1, thoug h, for I am11 suro1 that if I can do thbat the peopikl will have a very di lierent opliniion of mec." M r. Tolb~ort looks wan and( thin. lie says lie bats sufferted a groat deal dur1 ting th1e( past few monlttihs end hiis appear 11n113e ind icates it. Whien I aske{d hitm whait lie wanited tme to say to the peopie (If G reenw Voodi County for himt, his reply wais dignilied irid dliber'ate andi he had the app~lenir anco of a1 man who waI,1rying to do0 thte right thing, fr'oim his p)oint, of view. " (10o not take it,", he said, "thal1t the peolie of Gro'onwood County wvant tme to htumilito myself, and I couldl not III s0 evenI if they wIied it. I have beetn a R epublican froti prlintcip1)o anid atm one yet,. I do not, see how anyone can consider that a cr1ile, hbut I am11 opent to convictio~n and if any man11 can1 shoiw me thlat, my plosition Ih< wrung I wVi h speedily abandon it. I htavo t neer held night tmooti ngs with negroe's antd preached I ncend iary doctrintes to themit, and never eixpect to do) so. I halve never thought thait I was a mtenneie to0 the pea1cC and safety of the commtiunilty, but If any mlan can ehow me0. in what way I havn 1)n0n snch I will try tn chiango ily conduct. I am not an out law and don't want to be considered as such. " I want to go back to any hoei with imly wifo and chi1 dren and live there in) police till tihO en1d of 1my (lays. I want to have the friendship and good will of all my neighbors, and I am sure that when they understand me clearly I will have that to the fullest extent. I want to 10 ablo to go abolit, lo coiniliity and attend to mly busf ness afai rs freely and without miolesta Ion, aid without the consciouness thait I am1 looked uapon with distrust and slspiciol. I simply want it whito mian's chance inl a white mani's coun try. I do ntlL ask for any thiniig m11or1 Liitan this and I will lot, b' sa slied with anytlhigi less." Wot sat, in si lince for soum timo artu thi-. Then I isked him ahaout, his cousin, Jiml Tolbert, whlose " cons~pir aey" proecuLion Iad rueulted so dis astrously for him that day. "I I had rather not say any thing abot, him, Was' thle reply. " Ilhtt, hit) slid, ti-nilng Lo me sudden ly, and lie seomled terri)l y in cal-nest, "I want You to bolleve thaitt therc is a differ ence hetween Jim) Tolbel1.:lt aIld myself ai to olter sons of J Hli. Tolbert. W'Vhen we liglt we ligIt in the open, anld when we pledge our word we keep it." 'huialhout the int'rv iew Mr. Tol hurt talked freely mnd fully, aid an swered w itlhout liesi tLatioul ii the qutis tions asked lin. [to s'iid he was anxious, to Set hiinmelf right before the Ieopl of Grl'eenwoozi Ud CouintV aLId seemed to thlink hlis etuatument~ eumlingl inl this, mllanner- would aecompliSh that end. ILI1 0 A'1'I0 P'OVAIT)llS. A Stralel(l MinoE Skipper Ilids Prosplrily in a Now 'ield. Jonesboiro (Nl6aine) Clr. New York Sun. C Th10 Most faious man in eastern Washiington CoImity twouay is Caleh . Cshling Cliairkce, a Cape Cod lishCer-mnan, '. who caime ashore at .Briey's Mistake di in compiy with his schoner durinig the gale of SOptem ber 1-1, P593. The f schoolun' lilUdd amIOng the roCks aid 1 alder buslies 20 rods boyond high water miiark, an11d lies where sho mtruck. L Clark discreetly remai nod bl.ow -lck, C 1i ntil tb storm had subsided, wile' lie went, to a neighlior's lioube and wats taken down wiLlh an attack of rho Iaiatic fever, which kCpt lhim ill laud Il rue Imoiths. The owner of the house VIIere 1 e stayed lik ed him so wO eCl that, he obtaileLd employment, in tibe sardiLn1 fijlieries as soo i as he was able L.o work, making him so conteinted that t lie ,hat never w iled to retuiirn to I 'ro vineotowi. Though Clark cala pflatco all Ittticlh- t I1un1 t upon l'aiie onl aecolint of tile t perils h has seei, his chief claim to t dist ilet on lies in) tUib possession of It I reimaark abl3e0 b-eLd of potatoes, the I ()riginall seedling of which was given i. 111111 by lii8 belefactor. for the pur)pose of curing rleumiiatisii. H10 began to carry this potlato inl Iti pocket, in March, 18 M1. At that timie it, wa-s largor thain a en's egg, hLI'd lld fall of juico. l)lu'ing the stil)illUlr it bgan to wrinklo and grow labby, 'o tba1, ulark thiought, Of thirowi ng it away for a n''v ono, and would hav.e dono so t'overa'ltl LIne hlacld lhe not b(een as - ired 1haiit to shift a "rhumati. potato" imeait hiLd huck. l)irigli the next I year it had fitilen away to th size of all11glish walinglt and hcneharlden td, lying1 inl I..; ket Ihke a ilek Of .vood. MANICuwhile Caksremaimhid Ientirely disappin-ared. rio One dayq inl the spring of 1Y.16, aftr gltting 1iby Y his trousersi on a fen'- to ''a-b duL ii the railis aldii left, Lthe ,i.tu,u pate illU mnatisin reiuilned with hiry, whi h re inded Clark of hi p a scarebin hhi i trouseris poctiIi for the, tal ismuan lie found it hadl -proutd and 11 partially s-eayedl. I -nitimh..rung iimi' lZoud it, had dunei hilt) ( laark~ aphttkd the tuber in Lihe gardent and~ proutredl a. frfesh potato for hiis l'Ialy . lIt 12on1 t0ilaued to achle all sonmoiair unltil the p)otat() which had proved:L so usefuIl tL ) him hf iad priodu Lced' its crop of tuber~ls, when h10 selected a smiall (on1 from the lot, of six andit, itI in I:is pocket,. That, was throo yoar~us ago. Slinco tlhon Cilar'k has boon pr'opagatinhrg anid solling rhioaumati lotiat~Oos overy tieason. llo has sold Individual t~iubor' tor' as aruch a-i $1 for a single spelimen, thcough his r'egu lar' pirlee Is 50( con ts. 110 ka r'eceiveid orders fr'om al Ipart~s of New t'ngland, and1( as yetnobody.13 has comliplained( oif a fallue L,) Oiure. T1his spring a I lston spe :!1,0r ofe rod him i $500it cash for hiis entarLiei stock oIf abot two barre''(ls. Clark lauighled at him and~ contLinued0( at work on hIs I'bhds forl gr'ow ing early liotato sprouts. lie ilutendLs to lanit abohut two a-ros this -As ia tiolution of the race~ prob01lemi soeof the colored leaders (If < itanan are pushling a schll~o to colonizie the colored peoplo oIf thiis coiln try ini Cubha 2 andt the Il'hili1ppi no I slands. Thle movement was star'ted as a e'sult, of the raceor 1,r mbles i t~o SithL, over' w hiich there his much21 feel intg mi-it~ feed iarniong the Kanlias cofloried peOoplo. As at pat' of the c2IooiztLionI semela( Il'resnjdentl Al t ;ey wiil b)e. urIged to J recruit .l,000ii colored inen for m111itar'y s.,rice in thbe isltad-. In.cludinlg tbo famliu,~' of Lii, roliris. iL is arlgnled 1,h1Is wvuhl Lake ab Iout, 2004,000ot col ored pieoplo: a ut, of thu:eincout'y at once. I -n wouhl11( .at an exou11 of colored pe:opl.-. wlh-, itr i- aid, wvouldi evei negro(J-' h-aving this (counltry. I 'resi dhi at, AleIk nNy hiar been asked what hei tii inkss ofi the plan~r, buit has not yet --Ther'e were 308 colored1 commlfis sioned ollitcers alnd 9,74;1 colored prlI vateI' arid non-'commiaissione~d oflicor's -.ervWaIgf n('anong the voluniltors during thbe Spanish wvtar. 'rhe N inth andr l'nthi cavalr-y and the Twenty-four-th I Inlfatity of the roegulr armiy, coim pioredl of co2lored mon under wh ite ollicors, aggregato about 4,500U. It, is iluiPOssible to ascertain, etven apprlIox i amattoly, how mant~ry colored mon01 arel' a serving ini the navy, becauise they ar~ie I not, designiated ;hut Lucy mulst, haav(. numbered fromn 500 to 7150 when the navy was at its full war., str'ength, makIng a total of atbout 15,(000t coloared peopl)e In both branches of the ser'vice. 1. LI J1.~j~LLL. C A iJWMA, NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS THE NEW STORE. The patst woet was at banner week, very day a huy one. This store is hsolutt~qy new, and growing newer by be daily addition of new attractions. 'li people like wide awake, up-to ate, tget--an-et h thods of busi ess. This store is hright and cheer A, filli of good things. Its salesmen ro quickh, t tentiivo and C'llirteous. oi only sCO the hriglit sid(1 of life at his store-it, is really I good tonic to omne here, come often. We Figure ''ils Way. The more people know of this store, he timror convinced they will be of the reat money saving ad vantages it tiers. livery fthing arranged i a wILy hat makes puraliasing easy and selce ions littLing. IEvery detail for our cuts iuers -onfort carefully looked after. L was Michael Angelo who -aid, " l'rl Q5 Make Perfection,' and perfection nto tri lo. Afew of the Viany Good Things 1500 yards fine Dotted Swiss with lore-d fig-ures and stripeis, for full 'ess and waists, only 15c. 111100 yards '31 Inch Colored Organdio, A Il, only o . 110 ards Inbti leached 101-- Shooting A real goodI yard wide bleaching pliy ic. 27.- .ardiIs goi od 8ea I slatnd only $1.00. 21I .yards heavy Check Nainsook only 1.1)1. 211 yards good White Dimity only $1. '.3 yard i oo Calleoi 1 bio r.Iy $1.00.) STOCKING STOCK Keyps upJ Its end(. Nothing but good trutstworthy Hosiery shown. The valuit of the seasoni in plain, drop stitch anld laco stripe. Compioto stock fore the li ttle ones. Gents half ho-si o i a ar to 25c for Lisie finish. C'W Organldies, New Fans, e w baLces and Embroideries Stock P'K E~mbroideries uist Received. Nice CoolShady Spot (Under' one of our Black Silk, stool rod I 'arasols for O8o. Big values in all g radles of P arasols andl( Umbtrellas. E# Iecteemer wec are aigent s for the lelbratecd .'lc~alIlltazzW' l'atterns, prico '1 andi I15 cent s. .\ake it a po~int to visit (lie New Store I lhe tirs',toppol~rtutty, at J. H-. Morgatn & ridrher's old( stand(. MAHON & AIRNOLD, iI Upper Main St. GREENV[LLE.