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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL VOL q.---NO. 9- PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 189. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR THI TRUTH PL4AIN4Y TOLD. EX-GOV. NORTHEN ON THE NEGRO A RIeview of' the Cotiditions Fxistink' In the South Between the Races Lynchings Are Not Defended and Orimes are Not Extenuated. 10x-Governor William J. Northen, of Georgia, was invited to deliver an ad dress on the negro quostio.n in Tremont Temple, Boston, and in complying with the invitation ho made an elabo rate defence of the South in its rela tions and duties to the negro, recalling to the minds of the Bostonians the origin and history of slavery in this country, depluting in generous terms the loyal conduct of the negroes who were slaves during the civil war upon the plantations in the Southern States, and showing very clearly the evils of the reconstruction period -,whon the negroes were taught to vote against the white man regardless of what he might have done for them in the past. This severance of former relations led to the commission of brutal crimes on the part of the negroos, stimulated by the hate and prejudice of their politi. cal leaders, and in turn the whites re sorted to retaliation and punishment, which resulted in lynchings for crimi nal assaults upon white women and the growth of mob law. Gov. Northen's speech is too long for our columns, but we give the concluding part as em bodying the pith of his argument: Let it be distinctly understood that. personally, I am absolutely opposed to mob law for any and all offenses. 1 shall not take your time here to give you my reasons. Personally and of ficially, I have done everything known to me to suppress it in my state. But there is an unwritten law, not peculiar to Georgia or the South, but dominat ing conditions in every State in the union, whero the circumstances are the same, that demands te quickest ex ecution, in the quickest way, of the fiend who robs a virtuous woman of her honor to gratify his hellish diabo lism. Human nature is the same throughout the civilized world, and say what you may, Massachusetts will not be one whit behind Georgia, when you make Mrs. Cranford the wife of a farmer in your State and Sam Holt a brutal fiend, in human shape, a neigb bor near her home. I repeat, again, mob law is terrible. You know its blood and slaughter in your own State. Georgia can no more suppress it than Massachusetts or New York. Until Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and other States can control the wild fury of a mob, let us be done with denunciations upon Georgia, when she fails. Geor gia and the South ask nothing but to be given the same consideration as other States and other sections. You cncd not ask me, then. if f an prove the horrible enactment that oc curred within forty miles of my home, a few weeks ago. God forbid that I should. ."Do you condemn the burn ing as strongly as it was condemned through the Northern press ?" I an swer emphatically-just as strongly. " Then you approve the course taken by the Northern press in the matters of lynchings at the South ?" Pardon me, if, in reply, I say that I condemn the course of the Northern press upon lynchings at the South with all the vehemence of an offended nature. It -s incendiary, unfair and cruel in the extreme. Now, hear mel What was the policy of the press at the North, with only - two exceptions, so far as I know, in the lyncliing of that villainnous fiend, Sam . Epit, at Newman, my State ? Great scare heads-Another negro lynched at .the South. Fiendish bru tality on th~e part of the whites to ward- an unfortunate and defenseless negro. Human devils burn a colored map''Within fifty miles of the capital of Georgia, and gloat over his tortures like demons. Surely these people have been remanded to barbarism and be comeo savages in a civilized land. Not one'word of sympathy for a pure and virtuous woman ; her honor gone ; her husband murdered in her pre sence, she and her little children dragged in the fresh, warm blood of the dying man, and not one word said about this doubly hor ribly outrage. Surely, in all the North, Is there no sympathy except for a negro ? No kindly feeling and no tender word for the defenseless women of the South, who carry with them a living shame, in a living death, in a life all too long for its miseries, if it last but for a day. I submit : The policy of the press at the north, in condemning simply the lynchings, while they maintain an ominous and painful silence about the crimes that provoke them, is iteen-. diary in the extreme, as it encourages negroes to e repetition. It is worse than cruel to the broken-hearted victim 'and the community that has suficred death in its tenderost relations. -The policy is unfair, as between * lynchings at the North and lynchings at the South, making always fish of one and fowl of the other. Let us be fair, and we will sooner be orethron. Harper's Weekly, a pap'er popular over the country, has found great pleasure, from time to time, in malign Ing theSouth. It is due to say that the editor is .beginning to see the South through clearer -glasses. In the issue of May ,,18th, I fmd the following : " To read - ble story fSa Ho'scrime, as our - Georgia- correspondent has written it, begots absolute indifference to that negro's sufferings or fate. It fills the mind with horrQr, and makes one feel that any means tharfis effectual to pe vent such crimes'ie:tMstified. One .: gets the monstrousness of the San~? lynching, and only.:wonders whebher-it was expedient." In -addition to the denunciations by tl'e'press, our colored brethren of the North have assumed dictatorshIp over recent issue of The Herald, of this -.city, appieared an account of a meeting, I-syppose, of colored people, described tehtepolatteSuh Into bm most enthusiastic, In which it who said, referring to the recent lynch ing in Georgia: " The climax of the - vning wan reaebed,. however, when Captain Williams and Lieutenant Jackson said that every negro should carry a Winchester, and wherever a negro was killed, their brethren sh ould go out on the highways and byways, and the first white man they saw should be shot down." This is one way to settle it, accord ing to the colored people of Boston. Not one word about the villainous scoundrel who did the double tragedy -a human fiend. Kill every white man you meet, who dares defend the women of the South against such ini quitous outrage, and the race problem will be settled at the South. The colored people of New York met about the same time, and banded to gether to invoke tne vengeance of God upon Georgia and the South for the lynching of Sam Holt, and not one word of sympathy for the home de stroyed, the man murdered, the wife outraged and the children besmeared with the blood and brains of their mur dered father. May I say to my friends, the colored people of the North, if they will look after their own business and attend to the lawlessness that, occurs in their own bailiwick, khey will possibly have quite as much as they can pruiltably manage. I would be glad to know what they said about the mob of 150 men Lhat strung up Bradley, near New York, charged with stealing Martin Kelley's pocketbook, as reported in The New York World, April 21st. There, It is said. some of the mob wanted to burn Bradley, and that women fainted while the deed of horror was being enacted. There is a dif ference, a great difTerence, every one knows, between " tweedle-aum" and tweedle-dee." Make the case your own: (Will you pardon me if in this presence, I tell a part of this horrible tale of woe and misery and loathsome wretchedness that you may somewhat understand ?) Let It be your daughter, sitting at tea with husband and little children happily enjoying an evening meal. A bloody murderer stealthily approaches, and with the blow of a fiend, buries an ax to the eye in the husband's head : he fells him ; beats his brains till they spread in sickening horror over the floor. He raises his devilish hand and strikes a stunning blow upon the face of a little child- -your grandchild, can you imagine? He drags it across thc bleeding, dying body of its father your daughter's husband, and leaves it senseless, its lather's blood dripping from Its little skirts. See him as he takes another child, your grandchild, by the heels in one hand and his ax in the other, while he demands of the mother her consent or the cruel mur der of her child. Be present In your thought at that supreme moment, and hear her saying, " Save my child," See him then as he confronts, in all the anpalling horror of fiendish glare, with uplifted ax, the trembling form of the wife--your daughter (can you imagine?) curses as only a demon from hell cau swear; jerks her down-your daughter, (can you imagine?) and rolls her in the warm blood of the only one she had hooed to defend her from such awful, awful, awful cruelty and shamel Hear her piteous cries as she writhes, for two long, long hours in the embrace of the villain, and then see her as she falls at her father's gate-your gate (can you imagin?) half clad and in a death swoon, to tell her horrible, sick ening, disgusting, loathsome story, (a stoR y I cannot tell hero, and which has not yet been told because of the loathe someness). Hear her tell it into her loving mother's cars, and tell me, would you not feel that the punish. ment of the nethermost hell, whether administered here or hereafter, was not too much for such a human flend ? What would you do? What would your neighbors do ? What would a mob in Massachusetts do ? I am not asking what ought to have been done. As to that, you and I are fully agreed. I am asking what was done, under similar conditions, in Ohio, Oregon, New Jersey, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, New York and other States that have had similar or even less otfenses. No State claima greater or more advanced civilization than New York, and yet, it is only a few years since a wild andl frenzied mob cruelly murdered eleven innocent negroes, whose only offense was that they were negroes, then burned the negro orphan asylum over the heads of three hundred little help less negro children, simply because they were negroes, and the little ones barely escaped by the back door, while the maddened mob beat down an en trance at the front. Why did not the great State of New York control the mob better than Georgia did ? Is the State of tbe president lacking in civilization ? If not, how did It happen that an unhindered mob seized the rape fiend, Seymour Newland, and lynched him upon a tree near by, be cause of an outrage upon a respectable white woman of eighty-one years ? Is the State of Illinois without civili zation, when her State attorney says they have had half a dozen lynchings in the last few years, and the world knows how the mob shot down negroes with the app~roval of the gov ernor, for no other reason than that they had entered the State in search of work. In the presenca of all this, the pious press of Chicago points to Georgia and thanks God that they are not as that publican. D~o you ask me how these lynchings can be stoppel at the South ? I an swer promptly-just as they can be stopped at the North, and in no other way. Stop the outrages and the lynch lngs will cease. Continue the out rages, and the lynchings will always follow, regardless of threats hy the law, whether In Georgia, Minnesota, Illinois, Ohio or other States. Is it forgotten that the people of Massachusetts, themselves, burned a negro woman at the stake, who bad be'en simply suspected, and not con victed, of poison ing a white man and -his wife ? Wo can t tell what is going to ha ppen, even in the best regulated families. Negro politics, in my judgment, as taught during reconstruction andl con tinued to the present day, aeeking to dominate the white people of the South,- is responsible for most of the blood that has been spilt, the outrages that have been perpetrated and the sorrows that have come to the 'Whites and negroes of the South. The course of the Northern press is .....--ib, for much of the remainder. The South is a white man's country, and it will never be delivered over to no groes, whatever the power and ollu once brought to bear to force this fear ful end. In his recent charge to the jury, the court sitting In Charleston, S. C., te try certain citizens charged with lynching a negro in that State, Judgc Brawley said: " If it be true that this postmaster was an incompeteni negro, a stranger and resident of an other county, the community that hc was appointed to serve had grave and just grounds of complaint, and those who are responsible for his appoint ment cannot escape the condemnatior of fair-minded mon everywhere for the wrong done to that community. Every lawful effortof the people of Lake City to redress their grievance would havc had the sympathy and support of all lovers of order." How much did the appointment of a negro postmastcr, over the protest of the people of Ilogansville, a towri within the ncghborhood of Sam Iolth' residence, and the closing of the mail cars, to force white peoplo to patronizc the negro's postollice, have to do with the awful tragedies that have beert enacted in my State? Let Judge Braw ley answer. Hon. Charlos Bartlett, representing the Macon district in the present con gross, upon application, secured rural mail dslivery for the county of Bibb Mr. Gaitree, the representative of the postollice department, went to Macon and located the routes. Mr. Bartlett was assured that such carriers would be selected as were accceptable to the people. Quite a number of good white people made application, and on Mr. Galtree's recommendation, tw o were selected. Their bonds were sent t( the postmaster at Macon with instrue tions to have them filled out, and the carriers to commence service May ist. A day or two after, the postmaster re ceived a telegram from the chief of the free mail delivery department, asking him to hold up the bonds of the persons appointed. Next day a tele gram came, stating the free delivery would be established, provided the bonds of two negroes, naming them, who had been appointed in the )!ace of the white men, were tilled out and returned. Mr. Bartlett went to Wash ington and protested that the farmer. did not want negro carriers to deliver their mails, in the absence of all but the women of the families from home. Two days ;later, a telegram announced that the free delivery had been post poned. It must be a negro or nothing, says the government to the South. When the goverrment appoints a minister to Austria, and the cable gram comes-" persona non grata" the name Is recalled and another sub stituted at once. Why Austria and not the South ? Why dominate the South with an appointee who is " per sona non grata " when Austria can get what she wants ? Why dominate a section whose pcoplc, as a section, are more thoroughly kmnerican than any other section of the continent; a see tion more devoted to American indus tries than any other section as such, because of its more American citizen ship; a section that defends the Ameri can flag with as loyal hearts, as heroic daring, and as patriotic devotion as ever characterized a liberty-loving citizen of the nation ? Let the North answer me,'why ? Now, then, if the slave trade, the promotor of slavery in America. was a sin, whose sin was it? Not the sin of the South, but the sin of England, the Dutch and New England. If the conferring of citizenship and the ballot upon 4,000,000 of people, absolutely untaught in the simplest elements of government was a mis take, whose mistake was it ? Not the mistake of the South, but the mistake of the North. If the avenues to division anid hate and blood and carnage, outrages and lynchings and violence and mobs have been opened up, at the South, through the bailot given to the negro and that p)olitics taught him to pursue in the destruction of thec w hito muan were a sin, whose sin was it ? Not the sin 01 the South, but the sin of thme North. If the people in the South sheltered the negro in his absolut e poverty, fed him when he was hunogry, furnished him means to accumulate proerty and money ; educated his children to pre pare them for usefulness in life, whmose. honor is it but the honor of the men who have borne, for a generation, hmis burdens, while he gave marked in gratitude in return throtgh his votes. What are we going to do about it ? The negro problem at the South wvill not be settled in a day. Step by step, as it mmerches into the futur'o of the nation, it must be met by the condi. tions bes, suited to the detail of lta solution. It, will never be settled bi abuse of the South, and the North had' as well understand that fact now as later. What Is needed nlow Is, at least, toleration and non-interference, if the South is to be responsible for results. Let me say, in conclusion, that, thc relations between the races at thc South are, ini no sense, alarming Under God we wvili work out the pro blem in righteous settlement for both races, if we are left, alone. Negroes are emplloyed upon out farms, in preference to white people They arc used as coachmen, mechanic: andi in all the trades. They neve" suif for for hack of work, if thbey wanti job. We provide for themi gooc schools, that are buperintended by th( same hoards as control thbe whit' schools. Their religious traIning Ia carefully guarded by the churches ir all the religious dlenominations. Con fidence Is constantly strengthened, as the negroes are beginning to kno y th< vwhite people arc their best friends. Sam hlolt is by no means, a repro sentative of his race. It Is only a vcr3 small per cent oIf the negroes that ar( malicious, crinmi nal and mean. Th< raIo( shlouldl not stler In reputatioi because of the hand c haracer of a few The better part. of thme negroes, anc this is by far the lar-ger part, are he ginning to co-omwerate with tihe whittn people~ for botter conditions. IWcogiiing the tre'~mfendous3 do mands that, mawai t us ini the future, wv< shall trust, in God, d(o ur' het. anc wait. The gospel of the living Got i8 sudlicient for all h oman ills and hu man woes. T1he gospoel's best macalysl is :'" Faith, hope and ch arity." " Th B1111, ARP'8 RUMINATIONS. A VICRY BUSY OLD MAN. lie Will Leave the Negro Problem to Wiser Heatls-Has to Work the Garden and Sprinkle the Flowers. I reckon there are enough philoso plhers to solve the race problem and save the country without further as. sistanco from me. and so I will swear off for the present. I don't care much whether the negro goes to Africa or Arizona or stays here. If lie stays here he has got to stop his dqvilient or take the consequences, and I'm willing to trust the people on that lino. But of all the absurd remedies that have been proposed none are more so than a change of venue and a trial in live days in sonic distant county. County lines do not bound the fierco indignation of a people horrilied and enraged over such fiendish work as that of Sam Ilolt and Will Lucas. And besides, just, think of the machinery that has to be set in motion to summons and convey thirty or forty witnesses to a distant, county, and even then perhaps no trial, or a mock trial that disregards the forms of law and the rights of the criminal. No, that is no -emedy. But Pve sworn off. Let the wise tien settle it, tho I confess I wa; surprised v hen I read that Governor Candler had just discovered that education was the unly remedy that would stop tho con. mission of these heinous crimes. Ac cording to the statistics of New York and Massachusetts, taken from their state prisons anc published to the world, education fosters and increases crime-not a little, but immensely. The Governor's theory has long since exploded. And right here in Georgia the uneducated negro before the war and for a few years after was moral and law-abiding and now there are 4,0 in the state and county chain gangs, 75 per cent. of whom can read and write. But I forbear. I had rather rumi nate about pleasanter things, though 1 must protest against this utterly un tenablo basis of all the negroes being good negroes excepting 5 per cent. Mi. Inman started it, and I see that ilishop Gaines takes comfoi t from it in his beautiful and impressive sermon of list Sunday. It is a delusion and a snare. Nearly 5 per cent. of their voting population arei now in the chain gangs, and it is safe to say that if every one who steals was arrested and punished it would add 10 per cent. more to the black army of convicts. Petty larcenies are common in every household where they are employed, but they are not brought to court. These little pilforings af'e crimes, but the crimes arc condoued-vcrlooked -for they have some good qualities. and their service is needed. It is a race trait and develops with their edu cation, especially among the younger negroes. The records of ithe courts prove that the percentage of small larceny anid burglary grows faster than thur population increases. City no grocs and town ngri-ocs are more ad dicted to it than country vegroes, for they have more education and more opporttunities. The fear of the law as it is now does not deter thent. The fear of the lash would. But we can worry along with their little pilferings on the principle that a cook we once had declared to me when I reproved lier for stealing : " You don't mis1 what I takes." It is the greater crimes that now give out' people deep concern and these will be quickly and terribly aveniged. Out' people, especially the country people, are in deporate earn est, and neither law nor lawyers nor the horns of the altar will protect a brute in human form, whether he be white or colored. But what mtakes my thoughts and my pen glide along on this subjet ? M~y wife is calling me now to come there and bring the stepladder'. She wants the vines of the trellis tied up, and 1 am the boy. That ladder is old and t'ickety and I am subject to vertigo sotmetimes. i'm aft-aid of that ladder, but never itn my life did I admit to her that I was afraid of anything, and so I will mount that ladder with all the a.lar'city I can. The time was when I had black boys and1 whites ones, too, to wait Otn me, but now 1 have to tote my own skillet and nurse the gt'andchil drnen, too. There are two little ones here half the time and they love me dear-ly and I have to stop wt'iting when evet' they say so. They want mne In the gatrden to get Ilowetrs, or plick straw herrties. or' mane sand houses, or tmud pies or get, somte wat~er or something to eat, and I have to followv them at-outid or catrry the little one while my wife is making sotme more little dt'esses for them. Their mother has no ervant and lets them come up here by themselves to be petted, while she is sewing or cookIng or playing on the piano. My wife andl I do tmore wot'k nowadays than we ever did in our lives, but it is sweet work and we like it. How the children and grandchil dren will get along when outr time Is out and we at'e off' duty I cannot see, but one thing I known, " the Lotrd will provtde," for " Hie tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." But about, these negroes. Ihardly a day passes tut whar, I heat' somebody say :' 1 w ish to the Lotrd that they wetrc all out, of the country." I don't know about that. The iron mnakcr-a andI miniers and lumbet' men andI rail road tmen and the big farmer's would object, for' their labor' is both useful and pltttble. I wish we could scaittetr and apportion them all over thte coun try from the Atlantic to the l'aclle. There atre at least f>00 in this little town that we would lIke to spare, but we would like to pick them. There are no dIoubt 10,000 in Atlanta-mostl y young .bu~cks and wenches who have been educated and are now vagabonds -parasites who live oif the labor of good working negrees just as the vaga bond(1 do here. We have many good negroes here who ar'o gotod citizens tand give no tr'oublle, and they are our draymen, our carpenters, carriage makers, blackstmithts, barbers, garden era, cooks and washetrwomion. These tt'ades are shut ouit to them at the North, but the North keeps on sending money down herte to educeato them and to keep their leaders In line politically. T he tr-uth is that all thts devilment that has of late so agitated our people conies from politics. It is planned and designed for party pur'poses, and Mr. SMcKInley was a party to it when he anl)onted ne-rees ton be postmasters and revenue officers in wbito commun ities. I have had no respeet for him slueo ho did it. They say that he has quit it. but he has not apologized. How much longer Is he going to keep that educated negro politician in ofico at Ilogansville? And yet there are thousands of Democrata, men and we mlien, in Atlanta who gave him a wel como and throw him flowers and shouted " All hail McKinley !" I've no respect for them, either. I want to live long enough to soo a man In the presidential chair who ia far above such machine politics. They say they want to break up the solid South and yet they do the very things to keel) it .olid. But my wife is calling me again. She says it is about time for me to begin to water the roses. It takes about lifty buckets of water every ev'eming, but the hydrant Is near by and I don't mind it. The little chaps try to help ie with little buckets and they get their clothes wet and of course I aml scolded for it. If they get dirty Ar take cold or run at the noso it's all m1y fault. They say that 1 1)o0l then sO nobody else can do anything with them1. I don't care. They shall have a good time as long as I live, for there will be trouble enough after I am L'on11e. Now about this tiling that is called Iducation I do not wish to be misunder 4tod. Millions are wasted on it to no good u)LlrPose. E-very mother's son and Jaughter should be taught to read and LO write and multiply. Good reading books should be placed within their reach-books that teach a good moral lesson, books that exalt virtue and Londemn vice-but work, toil. industry Is a bigger thing than books. Modern 2ducatioin is contined to the head, the iotellect, and is mixed up with train ing the hands to play ball and the logs Lo run, and the boys tram p li over Lhe country to play match ganes and tle old manl's money is spent for 0111o thing that is not worthi a cent to the young man when ho settles down to) the business of life. The average boy has no more use for algebrat, or colic sectlons, or calculus, or astronomy, or G3reek or rnchLi than a wagon has for t lifth wheel. it is valua1ble time wasted. Outside of tihe )rofessors I hIave never found but one college graduate who could translate line of 13reck or solve a prollen ill geometry. Perhaps one in a thousand sllows a itness for these higher branches and ohat one should have a chance at them f possible, for the world needa astrono ucrs and mathematicians and scientists ind linguists, and will have them, even f the acquiremetnt has to be hammered )ut at the anvil as Ellhu Burritt did. Work is the big thing in this practical igo. To make a living is imperative, and it is a struggle. But to be a great wrator, or poet, or )racher is a giLt, bnd like Patrick Henry, or.enry Clay, >r John Wesley, will come to fruition vith or without a higher education. ro read well and to read wisely is the >est part of an education. it is strange hat our schools do not teach their pu Ills to read-to read with emphasis mnd tone and accent. Not one preacher n ten can read a chapter or a hymn u an impressive manner. It was his lappy faculty of reading well that nadeo Bishop Beckwith a great man. t was a solemn feast to hear llin re 1te theilitany, or read a hymn or utter prayer. Why (o not the theological 01milaries teach tile students to read 6nd also something of elocution ? it s an itition onl a congregation o have to listen to the sing-song, hildish, unimpressive readings of our relachers. But this is enough on this line. I fear am getting hypercritical. hILL AmP. I)0WIdY. AND) WOMEN. A. 111nt Which lie Gave a Womnan Newsapaper' Worker. Admiral l3ewey Is not,, like Nape eon, a wVoman~ hater, ablthoulgh manyfl iaval ofliccrs' wtves are almost eon rinced to tile contrary. 'rie admIral loes not hesitate to say tnat he be ieves tile presence of a woman inter eres with a mamn's elllciency as ant >flicer in war time. Many oflicors' vives, as soon as they became con rlnced that their husbands would re nain1 an inldefinite lieriod at, Manila, ost, no tI me in hutrry Ing over to jolin hemi, andI some1, 'tis said, even thloughl ,hcir hlusbands8 cabled "' No "' to their ictitionls. Tibc admirall did not look wvithl favor upjonl thteir arrival, for. to his5 indll, it mea~lnt 11Iimired cfhicieuncy Li some of is best ofllcers. Th'ley came, however, and before tile out b~reak of hostilities between the In surgents andt the Americans, dances and yachlt excursions In the bay and 01) the P'asig river beccamn quite fre rjuent, even the admiral himself giving a large ball on the Olympia. lie, ho0w ever always maintained his position, abnd no woman was allowed aboard ship) whlen she went to sea or during the subhsequlent period when the fleet was in battle array around Manila bay. One young lady, engaged in newspa per work, drew hecavily on the ulffer iint sh1ips' julnior ollicers, who fell vie tLims1 to hecr chlarms. It becamell quit~e El daily piractic amongfl tihe oflecers to, In turn, take 1her driving in the coo01 of tibe afternoon. As thle principles drives If Interest laly in close piroxtmnity to 1110 ifring lines tile excursion was not, without, tile element of danger so dear LI) the hleart of both oficers and ad ventursome women. The admiral looked on for some time inl silence, but, Lventually meeting the fair charmer ne (lay, reproachled her for taking such risks, thinking perhaps in tis way to stein tile practlice so rapidly becoming popular among is men. The young lady promptly replied that she was not at all aft aid of bullets when protected by one of D~ewey': oflcers. "Well," replied tihe admiral, " if you do) not object to being killed I have nothing to a;but, I citnnot spare any of my men. ' The young lady does not know whether this Is a comlpliment or a re proach.-lFrank Leslos Weekly. -The Chicaigo Evening P'ost claims that Chicago has p~asbed theO two miu lion mnark in her population. -Trhe doctor who gets out of ipatients ia alnt to lone hi eml~e.. -lHE SOUTH'S ADVANTAGES. A Roseate View of the Futuro-As. tonisinig Figures of the Present Situnation. Richard H. Edmonds, editor and general manager of the Manufactures' Record of Baltimore, 18 generally looked upon as one of the best-informed men in the country on the generai com mercial status. In discussing the general business outlook for the country Mr. EKimonde said last night : " We have entered upon an era in business and commer cial affairs with which there is nothing in all our history to compare. The revolution through which we are pass ing Is the most wide-reaching upon the world'.i affairs that has over been known. Bofore the civil war and after IL, even up to about 1890, we were busy developing a continent. The opening up to civilization of the great weet, the building of about 150,000 miles of railroad, which we have done In the last 40 years, the creation of our vast, industrial intor ests, now employing from .1,000,000 to 4,000,000 hanus anu turoing out annually oetween $12,000, 000,000 and $15,000,000,000 worth o I pro. ducts, or about lour times the total an nual value of all our agricultural pro- u ducts, were tasks sulliclent to employ I our energy and capital. No other c nation ever made such a record, and 1 we may well afford to boast, of what we have done. " But what we have accomlplished is only an indication of our future Until about four or five years ago we wore not counted as factors in the world's commercial affairs, except as an Ox porter of grain, proviblons and cotton. To-day we are the dominating power H in the world's industrial activities. We are fixing the )rico for every ton :)f pig iron and steel rails which the v world Is consuming. It matters not tiow distant the country, nor how S treat the undertaking, American iron Ind steel set the price which all other producers must meet or else lose the ( business. "A few years ago we wore import Ing an average of about 1,000,000 tons L year of iron and steol. Now the con litions are reversed, and we are ox. p)orting as much as live years ago we imported. Our bridge builders are capturing contracts in Africa and in Asia ; our locomotive shops are exporte ing almost as many locoiotives as eC they are sipplying to our railroads ; oe our metal and woodworking machinery aH makers are finding an over-expanruing er market in Europe, in the Orient and ni in Africa. " These are now conditions. They are so revolutionizing in their effect ce that we have scarcely had timo to 10 comprohod their full meaning. With in live years we have become a creditor nation instead of a debtor. The balance of trado in our favor-the ox- at ces of our sales to foreign countries Br aver our purchases from them during he last three years--amounts to about Il,5C0,000,000. In all our history we liave been a debtor nation to i'urope intil now. when Europe is largely in lebt to us. " We have had little or no part in " imlpplying the world's demands for nanufacturcd goo.ls, but now we are ,rowding our old world competitors. lngland stands amazed at our progress M md Goriman iron makers find their )wn homeo markets invaded by our products. in 15 years England has made no progreas in iron productlon, S her output of 6i,000,000 tons in that, .ime being practically the highest, point reached, while we have doubleu Lur output and against E0,nglandf'h i,000,000 tons of i)ig iron will this yeari plroduce l13,000,000 to 14.000,000 tons. i The oplening up of Airica and Asia, tihe development, of great, navies and the now us~e to which iron and steel are being p)ut make the world hungry for iron and steel. Consumption Is every where increasinlg at a marvelous rate, l and until Unina In the distant future develops her iron and coal resources the United fitates must of necessity supplly tihe grater part, of tis increase,.o Whether Uhina will ever becom can Important factor In the world's Iron interests need not concern this gener-a t~ion. In thi~s mighty advane-the most marvelous that, tile human race has Iu seen--an advance which must aiffect- or tihe diestinies of every country, thlere may and likely will comoI halting periods. There will be times of re- b< metion as Inl the plast, but withl the foreign markets open to u18 it, Is reason- ei uable to hope that our periods of de pression will bo less severe and of fe shorter duiration than heretofore. 8, .'ho1 very mlagnitude and linanclal strength of our great corporations will si he strong factor In pushing our manu- w factured products into all foreign mar- a kets. "I n tis great r-evolution the South n must neceslsarIly be a large gainer. As S the Sou1th can make iron at a lower- $ cost than anyl other section ; as it has ri greater mreources of coal and iron susepftll)e of dlevelopment than any o other country ; as it 1)rodluces about n three-four-ths of the world's cotton crop) and has more than one-half of n the standilng tImber of the United States, it plossesses an unequaled comn- I binatlion of advantages, It is on a it solid basis, its industrIal interests are rapIdly expanding, and its foreign a comm ierce Is growing at an astonish- v ing rate. Its future is certain, but oven the most conservative forecast of 3 It vwould be regarded as a dream of an enlthluslast." --" if I were to select the prime re (lulaited for succese." says Mr. Beve ridige, 'I would say, first of all, en erg y. Hut eqlully necessary as energy are concentration and determination Shielded from tile wind and hitting in tile same place every time, little drops of water will wear a hole into the living rock. But if the wind blows them here and there over a small sur face, they have little effect. Thus with a man's energies-let them be concentrated and persistent. Hard study and hard work never injure ; no standard is too lofty. Hut once hav ing selected your pinnacle, no matter how difileult the way, never, never rest until you have reached it." -A St. Louis girl is so modest that she blushes at the bare statement of facts. THE NEW STORE. rows Like A Magne! This store Is undoubtedly an attrac ion; Now Goods, Good Goods, Stylish oods at the prices we name will never all to attract the attention of the pub ic. Not aic special article thrown out s a "catcher,' but every item in the tore marked at a price tat defies ndersollhig for like qualities. The hain Is never stronger than its weak at link, and the business success of ny store can be measured by the con dence the public has in that business. ummer is Here! n dead earnest. You fool like getting ito strictly summer apparel. Our ssortment of those pretty, dainty, hor qualities of Organdies, Dimities, ,awns, Ginghams, etc., is unmatch ble-every pattern a new one. Big alues in all classes of White Goods, ,awns, Organdies, Dimities, P'K and wisses, French Nainsook, &c. )ur Hosiery Department, also Underwear is very strong. ur Shoe.Depament You will find the trustworthy kind 'cry pair new. Prices entirely onomical. In buying for our jobbing well as our retail department we are anblo to buy cheaper than any shoe an in Greenville. tV Iemember we are agents for the lobrated McCall Bazar Patterne, price and 15 cents. \take it a point to visit the New Store the first opportunity, at J. H. Morgan & other's old stand. MAHON & ARNOLD, i Upper Main St. GREENV[LLE. WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING. oro Than Three Million and a Half are Earning Wages in This Coun try. Pigurcs furnished by the United ates bureau of statistics which pre mably aro obtained from reliable urces, show that bhere are more than >O0,000 women wage earners in this untry. lNew persons would have supposed at. thorn~ were so many, and the num r is steadily increasing. The variety, as weli as the extent, of 0 emlploymnents of women Is surpris T1he report referred to gives the fol wing interesting information on this " emale teachers and professor. imber 250,000, e'xclsive of teachers music who are 341,519 strong and ,00O0 artists and teachers of art. " There are 1,143 women clergymen. " Journliists number 888, with 2,725 ithors and literary persons. " Of chum ists, assayers and metal rgists there are two score, lacking e. "Lawyers who arc not men are 208. "" emnale detetivos are 279) in num r. "Only two women have been discoy ed who are veterinary surgeooe. " In Texas a woman has the contract r carrying the mail from Kiffe to "Gergia has a woman mail carrier ; eo travels a forty-mile route tri sekly. This young woman also man ice a farm. "'rho chamber of commerce, Cincin iti, has a restaurant run by three 3tch women, and they clear about 5,000 yearly, although their annual intal is $5,000. " in New Orleans one of the finest "chestras is composed entirely of wo " Packing trunks is a St. Louis wo. han's industry. " A conservatory and rose garden in Imira, N. Y., is ow nud and managed y a woman. " At the Young Women's Christian eociation, Philadelphia, two young romen are in charge of the elevator. "Women writ-servers are employed pith success. " Buffalo has a woman contractor, ho is also a quarry owner ; she is the nly female member of the building xchange. " The woman manager of a Califor ifa insurance comnpany is credited with he largest salary paid to any woman 110,000 a year. " A F'rench Canadian girl is making icr bread by cobbling shoes at Lewis eon, Me. " in Boston are two lar,-e advfrtis ng agencies, the members of 'oth irms being women and all their em ploye. women." Wha't one must have to produce a cure for rheaimatismn, neuralgia, sprains, back ache, ete-, is a penetrating, healing com pound. One that will reach dtown to the cause, through the skini uscies, andl memi brane, no matter where located. You will findi Alligator Liniment, the only out wvard ap~plication that doe this. I tiE a certain cure. D)on't be deceived, there ii none halif an good.