The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, June 01, 1899, Image 1
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.