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>v mf^mj Powder Absolutely 'Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome isn pOAiirR co.i nrv IT IS AI,!, 1 ST Till? SAME. DIFFKlttiNT NAM KS KOK BT HAL ING. Hill Arp Write-i a Chapter on tho Prevailing Hill < 1 the MllOti Olltll Century?The Onrkey'n Plira on iho Score 01 KoraKiiiK I iiuv? always contended thai steal ing little thinga waa tho besetting Bin of the negro and wan a ra'io trait. And that cheating in a trade was a race trait in Ji w? and Umitllca. Wo w hite foiko do i ot call it cheating, but ?ay ho gol tho advantage or ho got the beet of the bargain, but this advantage is generally got by deception or u oup pressiou uf tho truth. Tho negro b moot be his sin over by calling it tak ing things? just as our cook onco said to me when I complained about her Stealing lard and ll-.ur ard rice und Buch things : " Mr. Major, 1 don't think you miss what I takes." Well, J dldnt very much, for *t>o novot took much ut a lime, but it annoyed mo for her to think sho was fueling mo when she wasut. Hut that same negro would sit up utl night with a sick momner of tbo family and was always good and kind to our children. Now tho white man rarely steals anything and the negro as raroly cheats you in a trade, liefere the civil war tho negroes' must friqui nt crime was aiealintr chickens and be got so export in that business that a lav/ was patsed making it a penal otTenso for anyhouy to buy chickens fiom a negro even though be bad raited them lu his own yard. We could buy foot mats and broom- and basketn, 'jut wc must not buy chickens. Law or no law , ho eoutoiued his mid night vocation, ami if the command ment bud said thou shall not euvol thy neighbor's chickens it w uld have been all lb? same to him. First covot and then steal was part of his reli gion. I was ruminating about this because I bought a turkey yesterday from a negro for a very low price and 1 won deredwheiebo p-n it I didnt ques tion him, fur I Uidu't want to hurt bis feelings. When 1 was in Nurth Caro lina a friend told me about an old darkey wbu waa on trial fur stealing a turkey and tbo proof was positive, and yet ho did not seem to bo alarmed. Iiis lawyer was discouraged and said, "Uncle Jack, it looks like tney have got you." "No dey aiet, Mas Jubn ; dey aiut got me yet uud dey aint agwino to get me. Tell yuu ho.v it is, Ma? John. De jeUge beten up dar was my young matter when do war broke out and not gwlno to send mo to de pen. No, sir ; bu aiut. ho aint dono forget wha 1 know." But Mas Johu had loft confidence, for be knew that the judge would do bis duty and ex ecute the law. in a short time the trial was over and the judge asked Uncle Jack it he had anything to say iu extenuation of his crime. Tbo old gray-headed man got up with a grunt and looking around upon tho spectators and then at the judge tatd : " Nutlin' much, Mas Judgo, nutlln' much. Only Uis you know all about dat old war which wo all got whooped and you haint forgot how I went oud wid you to do army for you was a euppen and old master told mc to go 'long and tako keer of yo-u, and you knows 1 did do very bes' I could for four mighty long years and how ono time you got wounded and I staid by you ontoll you was well again and how anuder time you touk tho meuslos and me, too, and 1 stay by you and dub' ) you and how anodur time, dem yankees colch mo an .1 I got away in do night and come back to you ami how some times yuu get out of muney and out of eumfen to eat all at do nun ? tlmo and you call mo up and say, 'Jack, you mus' go out a foragin' ami gel us sum tin,' and 1 go out late In do night and bring you chickens and rustiu' oars and ono time 1 bring you a turkey, an you neber ax me nullin* about whar I got him and you never glv' me any money to buy him, did you, Mas Jedgo. You call It foragin' den, didnt you, Mas Jedgo, and if it w-as foraging don how cum It to bo stoalin' now ?" By tbis time tho courtroom was con vulsed with laughter and tbo judgo could not conceal his emotion, for his recollection of tbe old darkey's faith fulness was revived afresh. Ho wiped bis brow and his eyes, and said : "Mr. Sheriff adjourn court. Uncle Jack, I will pay for that turkey, but yuu must not do so any more. When you need anything you must come to me. I havent lorgot you." It is amusing to read our peniten tiary reports where wo learn that there aie over 2 000 negroes In tbe State and county chalngangs who are there fur stealing of sumo kind. MoBt of them aro of the new Issue who were never In slavery and a majority have udvaqucd under freedom from simple larceny to burglary. Cnickens aro too small game for tbe modern darkey. Ono of ray farm hands was sent there for two years, and was disgusted with his associates and said, " 1 tell yuu what, boss, dar Is sumo mean folks in de cbaingang. Fact la, dar is some folks |ust as moan In dar as dar 1b outen dar.' Cube says that Cuba is a good placo to send tho darkeys to, for the trees aro small and tho chickens roust low, but the new negroes dont seem to hanker after chickens like the old fashioned negroes. They had rather snatch a lady's pocketbuok and run. It is astonishing how many chances they will tutco to got something for nothing, And will take the risk of arrest and punishment and yet I have novor heard of ono being turned out of church for stealing. War will make white fo.ks Btoal and Judgo Dooley believed that mean whisky would. Tbo old-time lawyer used to toll how he was broke of tak ing too much when he was on the bench of the Northern circuit. A man by name of Slorreltkept a dirty saloon near tho hotel and tho judgo patronised him every morning before breakfast and by court time was pretty mello*. One cold morning tbo mlscblevoua lawyers borrowed half dozen silver spoons from the iiindiady of tho hotel and slipped them ' n to the judge'd over coat pocket. lie never dibcovorc? them untl. court adjourned fur dinner and was ireadfully puzzled and per plexed. He rocogn Z ;d the spoons, for they had Ids iandiady'a mark and wore ancient heirlooms in her family. He sent for her to come to bis room and gave tin in back with abjt ot apologv and said it raus? have been StOrrett ? whlbky that dono it. It sobered him up and made him very serious all the afternoon. Next morning a tr U ui. fellow was put on tri ?1 for stealing i package of pocketkuives from u stort iu town, tie was i >%-i\y couvicted unU the junge aakeu him If no had any thing to aay for hlmaelf. " Nothin, judge," said lie, " only that I was onnKing an' don't remember ab iut it.'" Tho judge leaned forward and said, " Youiii' man. wheru did yon go*your liquor?' "At Slorrctl'a," said he, " Discharge hiro, Mr. Sheriff ? dla obargo Ulm ! I am perfectly aware that Stcrrott'a whisky will make any body steal " Wo soul.era didn't steal much dur ing the civil war, but, somotlmea we were aorely tempted and fell. Som j tioies wo got awful tired of aalt meat uiiu longed for a change of diot. 1 re member that when wo camped near Orange courthouse thoro wan a lovely iittio a note that took up where our horses were, tetherd. It belongeu to u crona (>ld man who hvtd on ? hoi near by and Muj ir Ayor rodo up there one evening and tried to buy It. Tho old man refused in tin ins dent manner, fur Lu was a union man and waa mjd bj causo our army had campet] on his land and was cutting his timber. Cap tain Cuthran was a good shot wiiti a pistol and was proud of his skill, and ho tho next evoulug Major Ayor bot bim a quarter that ho couldn't shoot tbut plg'a eye out. Llo took tho bet hi , won, au.i our faithful aorvantT.p dre ?cd aud baked It, and wo feaaieu. roe old man camo prowling around every day hunting for that pig and it waa harder to llo out of it than it waa to steal it. But the morning wo broke camp wo aent Tip up there aud paid the old woman two dollars and quioted our conscience. A fatahoto was almost irresistible. Oae time George Burnett and Tom \yor killed one under aimilar circum stances and aent u quarter to our mesa. The old man missed his bog m die time, and when he inquired of liurnelt if they bad t-een it arouuu, Burnett) whispered to him that Captain Still well's moaa had fresh pig for dinner yesterday but ho inustont tell who lold him. 1 belongoi to Stillwell's meas antl tho Urat thing we knew Uoloael Yoiacr hud us aummoned b^ foro him to be tried on a onarge of stealing the old man's pig. It waa a k'nd of mock trial and resulted in con victing Burnett and Ayer, anu they had to pay for the pig. Bat i am pleated to say of our Confederate soldiers tbal 1 never know a caau of flagrant or cruel robbery or pillage, nor did I ever know of but ono instance of a .-oldie - violating the sacred rights of a man'a family. At Cenlorville the Louisiana Tigore, aa they were called, committed a bhameful cuirage in the country nearby and were immediately arrealud aud tried that evening and shot tho next morning at aunrise. O d .Im: Johnaton beat lynch law out of sight when be had a sure case. There are various kinds of stealing, hut the moat aggravating to writers for tho preaa la the stealing by the press. Two friends?ono in Birming ham and the other in Los Auge lev, California?have recently aent me cop loa of papers publiahed in their towns In vhic.h the said papers have copied from Tho Chicago Inter Ocean the letter 1 wrote for The Constitution about P, Irer, South Carolina. My name is not mentioned, nor is the let ter credited to The Constitution ; only a few immaterial changes have been made, just enough to make It appear that inc. Inter-Oceau aent a reporter down thoro to write up tho town. 1 havo known petty thieves sent to the chaingang for doing things not half so mean aa that. Bill, Aiu\ Quaker HUMOR?The unexpected humor which often tints tho grave speech of the Quaker is well Illustrated in a little story told of an eminent young physician of l'ennsylvaula at the time of tho Civil war. llo had de termined to serve his country and leave his practice at home ; but met with grieved remonstrance from his mother, a sweet faced Q lakeresa. " i beseech of thee not to go to this war, my son I" eho pleaded, hor aoft eyt a full of toara. " But I do not go to fight, mothor," said tho doctor cheerfully. "I am going as a medical man. Surely there is no harm in that." Wei), well," aaid tho little mothor doubtfully, "go then if it must be so." Then suddenly a gleam of loyalty shone through her tears, and she straighten ed herself and lookod bravely up Into ber tall 8on's face. " If theo finds thoo killa more than thee cures," she said demurely, " I ad vlso theo to go straightway over to tho other aide, my con I"?Youth'f Companion. ?The rush of now poatofficos to secure tho name of Dowoy is still going on, anu attesla In some measure to tho continued popularity of tho ad miral. A De.wey poslofiico was esta blished the other day In Wlsconain and on the heels of it came an applica tion from North Dakota to have tho name of the now poatoflico thoro named after tho hero of Manila. ?Tho former Spaniah war ship] Pedro, which was captured by the! steamer New York on April 22, 181)8, noar Havana, is now doing numole service aa a coal carrier. Shu haa been renamed tho Hector, and la owned by the Metropolitan Coal Company of Uoatou, which corporation purohaaed nor Of tho government. ?The now troaty batweon Mexico and China allows the froe admission of Cnlneao emigrants, and, in fact, the two governments agree to eucourago the settlement of theCblneae In Mex ico. ?George Gould has invested a quar ter of a million dollars In cotton mills at Gautoola. N. C. It la aald that other aubaoriptiona havo boon received rais ing the capital to $1,400,000. ?A special census In Brooklyn shows that 674.459 Inbabltanta live in 31,087 tenement bousts, an average of 18 to tho house. ?It ia aald that owners of muh a In tho southwest are reaping a harvest from the demuiid which comes from l''. ig mud for army purposi a In South Africa. <j oa. fcj m? o i t Rttu-sths /) IN MX YOU HWB MWW BotlflW INQUIRIES ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES. AMKIIICA FOLLOWING THK KX AMI'LK OF U1U3AT lilt ITA IN. Fii{l>iii>K R Catholic Pn|?Ml*tloM aiut Making IreaileH With Mohailtllll (laiiN -l'roti'cltiit; Slavery ami i'nly Ramy Under 'he Htarn ami MrlpeM - -The Trade llmt Dim-h Not Follow the Fla?. Tho following ar > cxtr icU from tho speech of Hon. Kichard F. Peltlgrow, of South Dakota, delivered in the United Htalos Senate on tho 15th in stunt : Tho President of the United S.at- s, 1 In his speech at Sioux Kalis, S. Dak , In October last, said : " That from tho hour the treaty was ratified it became our territory ; there was but one authority and but ono sov ereignty that could be recognized any where Id those islands, and it became our duty to restore order, to preserve pence, to protect lifo and property." Yot he wont to svar with tho Chris tian peoplo of that country, with those who bolleved in the Catholic religion, and mado a treaty with tho Mohammo daus by which tney w^ro to set up and maintain their own government almost absolutely independent and free from us. If ho had granted to the Chris lans of the Philippines tho same rights he granted to tho slaveholders and poly - gamists of the Philippines there would havo been no war whatever. And yet *e, as a great Christian nation, select for self government tho slavcholding Mohammedans, occupying more than one-third of tho area of tbo entire croup, and proceed to establish what? N Jt Christianity, for they aro already [Christians ; but wo make tho effort to shoot Protestantism Into tho Catholic population of the rest of tho Islands. I f our fl ig fl i-its over that entire re gion, and if, as the President said, it is absolutely under tbe domain and con trol of the constitution of tho UnitoJ. States, seems to mo that bo violated tho constitution when ho made tho treaty with tho Sultan of Sulu, and that ho ought to be Impeached. Mr. President, it would bo In accord more with my ideas of American insti tutions If we bad gone to tbo Sultan of Sulu and said, " You must abandon polygamy and slavery, and If you do not do it and recognize tue power and authority of the government of the United States ovor the whole group of islands under your control we will wage war upon you until you do It," instead of gome to tho people who had had been our alliee, the Christian peo ple of the northern islands, and saying to them, " Unless you surren '.or your constitution which you have adopted, and which is framed after our constitu tion, unless you surrender your right as a government of a free people, wo will proceed to kill you uutll you do." Instead of drawing a trail of blood ovor i nose islands, where tbo population can read and write, where they have em braced the same religion as ours and pray to the same God, it would have been belter had we attacked tho so called barbarous people of tin: southern isiandf. I might road several other extracts from the President'<> speech all to the sumo effect, iio has hardly made a speech without an allusion to tho flag, until I am almost convinced that he receives bis direction from tho English minister, for it is tho same Hoog always that 'l', igland sings whenever she pro poses to rob somebody. Whenever En gland concludes to go upon an expedi tion and plunder some of tho weaker nations of tho world, she makos her first appeal to patriotism, and then, step by slop, goes on until she, has com - mittel the wrong, has transgressed, and then declares that the fl.tg has been tired on and that no Englishman must question tho right or wrong of what tney are doing until the enemy is dofeated and the country annexed. We are pursuing tho same course. Our minister of state was trained In tho English school, and ho has come borne with their ideas and notions and Is going to try their way of humbug ging the peoplo of this country us tho people of England have beon humbug ged. You can do It in England, but you can not do it here. More than a million of the people of England do not vote. Most of tho population havebcon degradod by being herded In manu facturing towns until a very largo per cunt, of her population bavo no prop erty, no capacity, and no opinions ex cept to toady to the aristocracy. llow appropriate, Mr. President, that the restoration of slavory and tho new Interpretation of tho Declaration of Indepondonco should como together. It seems to mo, however, that it marks tho saddest chapter In tho history of that great political organization, tho 11 -publican party. It came into being as a protest against slavory, as the special champion of tho Declaration of Independence, and it goes out ol being and out of power as tho champion of slavery and the repudlator of tho De claration of Independence. The I 're.ilde.nl says that moral rea sons compel us to stay in tho Philip pines, and that we, under God's direc tion, owe a duty to mankind, and more of s'mllar cant. Hero is what John Morley, the Eaglish statesman, and wlrtor and biographer of Gladstone, says with regard to England's policy In this same connection : "First, (speaking of England,) you push on into territories where you have no business to be and where you had promised not- to (re ; secondly, your intrusion provokes resentment, and, in these wild countries, resentment means resistance ; thirdly, you Instantly cry out that tho peoplo aro rebellious and that tholr act is rebellion (this In spite of your own assurance that you have no I intention of setting upa permanent sov ereignty over them); fourthly you send a force to stamp out the rebellion, and fifthly, having spread bloodshed, con fusion, and anarchy, you declare, with bands upliftod to tbo heavens, that moral reasons force you to stay, for If you wore to leave, this territory would be loft in a condition which noclvllls3d power could contomplate with equani mity Of composure." Thore is not a thing tboro (hat does not absolutely accord with tho exc"?es given by the Imperialists why w?. should abandon our former form of government and conquer and rule against their will an unwilling peoplo. What blessing has England given to her colonies that has justified this plan throughout the world V Ireland came first, and tho persecutions of Ire land were justified on a ductrlne of '/cnovolent assimilation?that they were Catholics, and therefore, unless they were converted from Catholicism, they would go to '.he devil, and It was England's great and grand mission to make them Protestant anyhow. She has succeeded neither In tbe ono nor the other. Her course in Iroland has boen one of tho blackest pages in tho history of the world?starvation and plunder. If England will govern Iroland as . she has don >, what right has to thfl claim that she can confer ho neb s uuoo any country. What is there In Viag \ land's cxaaiplo that eon justi'v u-j in undertaking the same work? Toe mis ! orablo, miserable, contemptible rot of ; Kudyard Kip) ng where lie talk* about I tho white man's burden it sennas to me in tho light of Bitrlish history is con tomptlblo?tho white man's burden to confer the curses of KiglUh rule upon tho other nations of tne world. (England OOmmenoed with Ireland liow Is it with India? They have made no converts practically to Chris tianity in India: neither have the na tives learned the Boglieh language. None of the people of ludia tain Eng lish. They havo to keep an army of 210.000 men to hold them in bUbiaotlon and prevent them Trum securing mo dorn implements of destruction, while they trample upon thoir rights a-t a people. What blessing has E lgland conferred upon India? Nothing hut the fact that taking away her food supply has cuuied the Starvation of a million of men in India every yuar for years, ami some yoars six or seven millions of people In a year. Ono hun dre I au?l fifty million dollars' worth of the. foou products of India are shipped away to pay ponslous in England, and tho result iu that the want of that food causes tho people of India to starve. Compare tlio provinces of India that do not recognize English rule, that ace under an English protectorate, and you wilt find that there is no starvation there. The native princes rule, and the people govorn thoinselvos, and E i gland simply has a suzerainty ovor thorn. There is no starvation iu those provinces ; tho starvation is in the En ' gllsh part of India, where the English system of robbery and plunder bfl.ds sway. India gives no money to the English treasury, but India is a field 'or exploiting private enterprise, and thus further enriching the already over-rich classes that govorn tho En glish empire. What of New Zealand ? Did tho cou quust of New Z -aland confer the bless ings of Christianity upon Now Z jalanu? Why, It resulted in tho destruction of the inhabitants. To-day a groat colony of Englisn people aro In New Zealand, but the Inhabitants who formerly oc cupled that land havo disappeared as the result of Englidti government. Iiow Is it in E^ypt ? The Egyptian government was bad, and bad for tho same reason that tho English govern ment was had ; bat England went into Egypt to enforce tho collection of a Usurious debt for money which Egypt never received. Eoglund went there to force upon that peoplo a dobt which wus comnoHed almost entirely of inter est at 2U per cent, on a small sum of money, until to-day every ucro of Egypt that is tillable is taxed $10 a year. . Every man, woman, and child in K.rypt of native population, tolling and tilling the soil, is a slave to the English taxgatheror. Three thousand live hundred Englishmen wring the taxes by imprisonment and by the lash from those people, and yet the so-called civilized world looks on with approval. In order to bettor onlargo their capa city to pay taxes and bear burdens, tho Eagllsh officials have compelled those people to toil In a systematic manner, leaving nothing for thoimelvos but a oare existence and a bare subsistence. 9) it is everywhere thut England has gone. As I said before, England's first con quest was Catholic Ireland, and the ex cuse for oppression there was that tbo Irish were Catholics. Iiow appropriate that in our first act in tbo drama of im perialism we should undertake tho coi quest of another Catholic country, should undertake tho conquest of tho Philippines, and should make the same miserable and contemptible excuse which has justified England's atroci ties In Ireland during all time. From tbo pulpits of this country we bear prayora for our success in order that wo may introduce Christianity. Oh, Mr. President, if we aro to go to war against Catholics, It Is not nocessary to go half way around tho world to do so. Wo havo more of them at homo, although there are 0,000,000 of them in the Philippines. If these islands wero rich In ovory mineral mon desire, if their supplies of gold surpassed those of the Trnus vaal, if evory other motul precious and deslrablo wero In unlimited quantities, if their .-oil wore so fertile that it sur passed oven tho famous valleys of tho Nile, If they could produco overv com fort with half the effort with which It can bo produced olsowhorc throughout tho world, yet I would oppose tho an nexation of these, islands became It Is wrong, becauso it lcavos those who have sneered at us in our claim that wo woro advocates of freedom a jus tification for thoir sneors iu tho fu ture. But, Mr. Prosldont, I hold that wo can not profit from these Islands. None of our race llvo within tho Tropics. There Is not a colony of our race, tho Aryan race, anywhere within 22 de grees of the equator. Tho men of our race who havo been doing a commercial business In Manila do not havo thoir families there. They raise, a family of half-mixed natives in Manila and loave their real families at home. So It has been with commercial England through tho Tropics every whoro, for you can no more produce a whlto man, a man of our blood, In tho Tropics than you can a p dar hoar. Climatic conditions place their limits upon men just as (irmly as upon plants and upon animals. You can not claim that our racohavo not boon colonists and that thoy have not gone forward to plant colonies throughout tho world, for thoy havo ; but thoy setUio In that belt around the world, between the twenty tilth and fifty-fifth degrees of north or south la titude. Mr. Prosldont, wo aro told by tho President of the Unltod States and by tbe orators who favor Imperialism that this will bo a paying venture?that trade ioIIowb tho Hag. Woll, the mor ality of that argument can bo fairly il lustrated, I think, in this way ' if a boy of a numerous family should cross a wide desert and Qnd at'.lie foot of a mountain an old man with a family of children, posses- m of vast woalth In gold, jewels corses, and cattle, a d should r^'.arn to his brothers and say, " Thore are nine of us, and 1 believe, If wo go togothor, we can overturn tho old man, who Is not tit to bring up those children anvway, and rob him of his woalth, and I think It will bo a profit able venture," and they should start out and accomplish that act, it seems to me thoy would stand upon oxaotly tbo same plane as the man who stands upon this floor and advocates taking all tbo Philippine Islands becauso It would pay. But, Mr. President, trade does not follow tho Hag. if it bo true that trade follows tho Hag, then England's trado with her colonies ought to ho a good rxamplo and an argument in Its favor. That ought to settle the question. Trade follows the best markets, and ; England's experience Is a refutation l ot the doctrine that trade follows the flag. So fur aa the K I ? i tr ?pical coli> ', nltfa are concern-d, bjQglanJ only sold : to them 71 oenta' worth of got ds last i year for each inhabitant in those cid ! oniea, and moat of that waa to supply I her own army an<l her owr i lb inhold* era, wiio wanted Eagltsb roods. Her j trade would have been Intloltest'mal, j almost absolutely nothing, with tu t troploal colonies, nxeept for her army in India of 70 000 EagllshiinMi and b?i equally great army of ttttceholders there. So. aucii an urgumen?, ia an nonsense. Trade dooa not folio* tb< fUg. The United Btatoa can only secure tropical countries as colonies. As Schurman, our commissioner to the Philippines, said, the Sultau of Su.U and hia peopio svould Iis:lit, and there fore it was not well to bother with I I them. So the people- who inhabit the , temperate zone will light, and our only place to get a people who are easy tt control, a people who will not tight toe hard, a people who are not armed with modern Implement* Of war, a people who can be run over with battalions of our troops, is In the tropica? How, then, in the light of EnglandV exuerience, in the light of the fact that Knglaud bus practically no trade with the Inhabitants of her tropical colonies, except the trade that comes from supplying her ofli.joholdora and her army, can wo expect to bavo much trade with tho people of the Philip pines? How are wo going to get rich keeping a standing army in the Pnllip pines, so as to make people whose wages are not over 5 cents a day trade with us ? Mr. President, in the Philippines wo do not even supply our own army, if trade follows tho Hag, i seems to me that tho trade with our own army ought to follow the Hag. So prone Is trade to suck the best markets that our army is supplied with potatoes and I beof and butter and pork from tho En glibh colonies ; practically none of It comes from the United States. Our soldiers are olothed by the K 1 gllsh contractors at Hong Kong. Only shoes.and a few canned goous go from the United Statjs, and the reason th.-y go is because we export shoes aud that people everywhere can buy shoos cheaper in this country than anywhere oiso, thus proving conclusively thai trade does not follow the Ii ig, but goes to tho bost markets. The coal that propels our ships acroos tho Pacific in English coal. We do not even patron Ize our own coal mines on the western coast. Every vessel coming this way or going that way in passing Nagaeaki, lakes on a load of English coal. Our transports are chartered by tho gov eminent, and, therefore, every trans port curries goods from tho United States free of cost to the producers It seems to mo exceedingly strange why, if trade will fellow the Hag, il does not get under the flag and just float over and supply our own army in tho tropics. What Is thoro In the future to war rant us to believe that trade will here after follow the flag in the Philippines? I should like to have somebody tell me V/o made a troaty with Spain by which we agreed that the Pnilippines should have the " opon door," so that all the worid could trade thoro through all lime to come. Therefore wo broke down the barriers of protection, aban doned tho policy upon which the H : publican party has ridden into power for years. We declared that we woul.l have tho "open door," thereby destroy ing absolutely all hope of any trade in the future with the peoploof the Pnil ippines, for, under tho decisions of our Suprome Court, wo can not impose a tariff upon their products unless we amend the Constitution. So their products will como to us free of duty. The tobacco made Into Into cigars by tho nimble lingorb of tnoso capable Malays will close the to bacco and cigar faolO'lesof this coun try and drive our labor int-j other chan nels of employment. There Is no rea son why ttioy can not supply unlimil odly the cigars for American consump tion. Labor there is cheap, labor is ab undant, and New England's money? tho vast fortunes of tho men who have accumulated by tho control of monopo lies In our country?will go thoro to exploit this labor, no there to make cotton goods out of Chinese cotton to he sold in the American market. Mr. President, I saw a cotton mill In China having ,*M,000 spindles, a modern mill, with, I think, 2,700 Chinoso em ployees or laborers, every or.o of thorn raon, full grown. There were no chll dron ano no women In that mill, and just one Englishman. Every other em ployee, every spinner, carder, weaver, engineer, every man running a loom, was a Chinaman , and the average wages?mark that?amounted to 50 a month ; and they board thems dvos. Besides, they wero paid in silver, in Mexican dollars, equal to $1.75 in our money. Yet tho American laborer Is Incited to compete with 10,000,000 of this kind of labor by annexing tho Philippines. It tu--, in-, to mo the sum and substance of the whole scherao is to find a Held where cheap labor can be secured, la bor that will not strike, that does not belong to a union, that doos not need an armv to keep it in leading strings, that will make goods for tho trusts of this country ; and, as und; dominated tho St. Louis convention and own tho Republican party, it is a vory proper enterprise for thorn to engage in. England has not boen enriched by her conquests. To-day, what is the happiest country in tho world ? It la llttlo Switzerland. Whore is thero the best distribution of wealth, the best opportunity for man ? Where la thoro the loast poverty, misery, and dletresa? It Is in Switzerland, without colonies. It is not In England. Hor conquests have bestowed no blessings upon her people. Most of hor people havo no property ; most of tue people of England own nothing. Two-thirds of thorn?1>0 per coot, of thorn?own nothing, while about 222 000 persons own all tho pro perty of Croat Britain. You ask me what I would do with tho Philippines. 1 would draw our army back to Manila. I would send to the Philippine people, assurance that they could set up tholr own govern ment?a republic, auch as they havo act up under trelr constitution, framed after ours, providing, as It does, for universal eduoation, for the protection of life p.nd proporty, and I wou'd say to tho world, " Hands off I" Thon I would try to neutraliz i that, country ? that Is, I would try to make a troatv with tho nations of tho world by which those islands and tholr watora a ould be neutral ground, where any vessel of any country could go and coal and trade?not free trade, if they chose to put up a tariff wall againat all tho world, but It ohould ho equal to all ; but no nation could go there to tight. I would do what Europe has dono with Switzerland f nd what thov have dono with tho Su z Canal ; and If the nations of all Europe would not agr.-o to It, I would aay, " Hands off ; we will plant a republic on theahorea of Asia." Tho Malay raco have shown their ca pacity for governing In their triumph In Japan. No nation In the world fctands higher In tho acalo of c' vlllz k lion than liiu Malays of lapat, a kin dred race lo the people of the I'nilin pincs. (>ive them a etiauee, nod tliey will plant republican principle- on the ihon d of As a that will spread to that continent and uuderm'ne and over throw tbo despotism of colonial rale and the despotism of monarches HOW TO HAVK GOOD SCHOOLS riie Slate Superintendent ot iduea tion Hays Much l>( pentls Upon Good County Superintendents. Too annual report of the State super intendent of education, Mr. John J McMahun, is a document of uioie than ordinary Interest, and is the most elaborate report of all the teUato < fli cers. He lays a great deal of sire-- 01 Hie Importance of a more eQiuitot county supervision of the public schools, and on this subj-rct he says ic substance: Every successful school or system of schools Ib tho product of i fHoioQt busi ness management and prof est local over sight. Tim history of the graded sonools in this S ate Is evidence of too good results that couio from the ? tn ploy inent of a competent -chool iuhu to devote Ina v utiro lime and thought to this system of bchoois. ClembOU Col lego und Winthrop euch hus Its presi dent, who does not tench, but ove re-JOo the. whole. The country schools more than uuy ether schools need capable business management. Their little fumi-. if tiiey aro to accomplish in ch, must bo applied with skill. Tho plans abovo suggested for obviating tho dillicultics of country schools require for their e> cutlon the unremitting attention and labors of superintendents of judgment, discretion and business capacity. When a ii und red or more aehuola In a county have no other superintendent than the ono who is the beau and business man ager of the whole county system for schools, surely there Is work enough to employ his entire time and raoro be sides. Even thon the country schools, numerous and remote, cannot receive anything like tho cloae buperviaion that tho city achoo.'e receive from a city bupo intendent. But tho law has not recognized these f ?cts. Tho salary of the county super intendent, outside of Kichland County, ranges from six huudrcd dollars to uotning ?in Bamberg County tho dut ies aro devolved upon the auditor. The usual salary is three hundred dollars or four huudrcd dollars. Tho public ev.dently regard tho duties as inaigniti c tnt and expect tho oQlcer to give most of hia time to his private business. lu Greenville, Darlington and Ander son tbe city school systems expended last year $y,(>70 28, $7,070 09 and 17,200 69, respectively, and d? vo ed ?1,220, $1,200 and $1,350, respectively, to iho employment ol a superintendent, who did not teach, but planned and directed iho worK of tho year. Tho country schools of muny counties cost far more money. Il is the penny wiso and pound foolish policy, If the beat munugement is not provided for auch largo und oxten sivo operations. It is not by this policy mat railroadr, cotton mills and other enterprises aro operated successfully. System is the prerequisite to uny ex tended operution, unless wusto und liuuncial Ions are to bo the rule, instead of the exception. System involves la borious and intelligent supervision. Too otuor county otllcors uro paid more than twico tho salary of tho sup erintendent of educatiem, who alone la irealod as of little or no vaiuo to the county. Tho county- supervisor, who nas general care of toe poor house and tho chain gang, is usually paid twice a- much as tho superintendent of ed ucation, who hus charge of all the children and who handles more money ihan tbe supervisor. Besides tho numerous executive du ties which alone could occupy, with a great financial saving to the schools, tho entire time of tho ablest mau, the county superintendent has a boundless field for work as an expert te uehcr and trainer of teachers, lio should visit the schools, not perfunctorily but for intelligent observation of defects, and for kindly private criticism and sug gestion, by which tho earnest teacher may proJt. He should direct Iiis teach ers In professional study an 1 Insiruot them at monthly gatherings. Through hla elllclent work tho whole body of toachors will gradually bo raised to a higher plane and every child will re ceive u better education. F^r this work of professional supervis on more than one man could be employed nt the S imo time with profit to the sohools of t-io county. So much tbo greater rea s in, therefore, to pay uu adequate a-il a *y and employ tbe entire time of the man who is to attempt the multlludt nous and responsible, duties of county 8 iperlntendent of education. Instead of being the most insignifi cant, tho duties of the superlndent o( education uro tbe most important and are cupubleof almost unlimited ex pans Ion. The man who wlil take charge of tho ofttoe realizing tnat oili-m means duty, and duty means work, intelligent a it) unremitting,and who will surrend er all olhor occupations lor tho titno and give hmsoif to the upbuilding ol tbo educational interests of his country, Is ontltled to a salary se cond to none in tho county. But it is not necersary to eivo as high salary as some couu y elUeord receive. Wo can get good men ami require good work of them for a thousand dollars. As tho tii st step iu a rational and de termined plan for tho improvement of the country schools I r< commend that the salary of each county ruporlntend ont be bercaflor not loss than ono thous and dollars. ?Four modern dwellings, which uro tobe tho tlnost private residences in Brooklyn, will bo built on the site of Talmago's Tabernacle. Tho eel'lice was burned on the 13th of May, 1894, the day Mr. Tal mayo proached his j farewell sermon there previous to his depar uro for Europe. Thu Hotel H - gent, next to the church, waa destroyed by lire at tho. same time, tho total loss being $1,250,000 Since that tlmo there has been nothing built on the plot. It is grass grown, and some ot the ruins of tho tabernucle are still there, in tho tabernacio woro four largo stones which Talmage hud brought buck with him from tho Holy Lind, and they wer incorporated in tho interior walls. One of tho new houses haB al ready boon sold before It in built for $18,000. ?Mrs. Gcorgo A. Plllsbury, ol Min i o ipolle. presented the Calvary B tptht hurch of that city with $6,000 on Chribtmas day. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of BRYAN GIVES IIIS POSITION. HK lb AG AI NM r IMPERIALISM. Our Intcntlona Towards tti ? itdnmiK should b ? Mail ? Kn wn - tic Writes ho Intelvlow to Prevent tOrror?. Win. Jennings- Bryan, of N ibraska, the Democratic Btandard b arer in 189U spool u day in Wash I on too. last Wiek in conference with I) mocratic laadors, when several questions <d party po loy and political management were under consideration. Too re sultol the c >:i foresee is staged aa 'ol Iowa : l-' r.-t, lliat Mr. Bryan la no . opposed to N >w York aa the place for ho ding the national convention. Second, that the parly platform will li.-. in all ess ntlals Ihe plalfor.n of lS'.ni, the only changes In the written tit cu men being those necessary to m, 11 th onauged conditions. Third, tu;.ion the Philippine q e, lion the party will take a strong bland against permanent retention. b1 xirth, tiiat while the territorial quest on will, ?hey feel, in all probvbil .uy he that most discussed la the uaia paigu, the Democratic loaders muni lest nu disposition to put t 10 moo >y question to tho roar, but oj the con trary they profess to believe that be cause if iiie Republican advocacy of the single god standard and thi p is cage ol the pi tiding currency bill tin. D tuocratj will oe at better advantage than they were in ISU?, when tiiuy had to defend their plan for Ditnotai.isui against Republican claims ol friend ship for the white metal. When Mr. Bryan was asked concern ing the reports tba*. some of his Wes tern Irieuds and supporters bad urged objcutloi s to t-iu sell ction of New York as the place for holding tho national convention, Mr Bryan said that ho had expressed and would express absolutely no pn fereuoo In this regard. Be added that it is a 1 act that ho has no prefer ence ; the malt r of the place and the time for hi Id lug tho convention is in the hands of the national committee, and iie should certainly do nothing to influence the notion of the committee against any of the cities making ap plication for tboconvention. Some of tho-e who talked with Mr. Bryan be btud the closed doors of the committee room expressed the opinion that the naii ?nai committee's decision would io between Milwuukoe and New York. T e argument being made in behalf of Milwaukee is that the presence of the convention there would show to the German vuto-s of the Northwest tho sincerity of the D inocnti in declaring ugainst any step toward a colonial form of government, such as would en tail a large Increase in the standing army and the eons qu ni ruilitar.sin against which the Germans ?uu other foreigners are supposed to be so ptrougly arrayed. The application ol the same argument with regard to New Yor k makes the Eastern metro 0011s the second choice of many of those woo are in favor of Miiw.tuk ie as their lirst uholco. Those who talked with Mr Bryan in toe conferences eav that ho ourelully avoid d an expression o! opinion or of chuice. it is tbe impres sion among leading D ituocrats that nie lie d is absolutely Ope-n and that with thfe proper kind of rlTer New Yora'j caanots will be e x eeilent. There was more talk upon the 1'nil Ippine question than anything else. Mr. B y<?n was called upon more than one; to correct Ihe impression given by an loterv.ew published in Minne apolis f.nd telegraphed throughout the couuuj which teemed to present him as havin.r gone over to tho expansion side of tue controversy. Be explained, huwever, that the chief mistakes arose from ihe Interpretation pluee.l upon the interview rather than from the interview itself. " I have not changed my position on the principles involved in tho Philip pine controversy since my first utter ai:c-; immediately after I oarao out of fie army," said he. "Everything I nave said has been so mieprcsented and distorted by tho Republican pro?? that the impression muy have been c eated of change on the line you sug gest, but I assure you thoro have been no changes. At that time 1 maintained that we could secure by holding a nu val station In ih-e Philippines every possible advantage that could bo had by retaining the t mire gruap of is lands. Looking at the question purely from a sellieh Standpoint, I have never seen any argument that proved tho contrary. In order that there might be no mis take about his position on expansion, Mr. Bryan wrote with his own hand the following interview with himself, writing out the questions as well as the answers '. " What about the Minneapolis inter view V Have you changed your views on expansion ?" " Not in tho least. Tho Interview as sent out contains BOtno things that 1 did not say. 1 am advocating today exactly what I did in the interview given out tho day after 1 resigned from toe army, December 13, lMis. I am opposed to imperialism. I am opposed to the permanent retontion of the Philippines. " 1 believe that this government should at onco declare it) purposi t-> give Independence to ihe Filipinos ou the same terms that independence lias been promised to the Cubans, and be lieve further thut wo shoul 1 protect the Filipinos from outside lute, ferunce w bile they work out tholr destiny, just as we have protcoted ihe South Amer ican ami Central American republics. I am opposed to expansion. Each pro posed anin xation must bo settled upon its own merits, i have tried t> tils t aguish bctw ten the peaceful ex ten s on of the limits of a republic and tho change of a republic Into an em pire." Mr. Bry in is a strong I olie vor in tho j ability of tho Filipinos to work out their own salvation undir the protec tion of th's government. H 1 does not believe in such OVdSiVd prumisos of a luture independence as Will it av it in the powi r of those who may bi in ? on'rol of tills governim nt t > postpone ! lud- tlnitely the creation ol an indep in dent Filipino government on tbo pea t lat the people there not havo attain od to tho highest Intelligence and civi lization uouordlng to tie American a anoar d. " We luive got a long start of them," said ho, "aud If w? hold rum t?em tho right of independence until we <; muldcr tiiat they have caught up with us, tl cy may never get It. ? It's a singular fact that the dump Ihg of tbo gai huge of Now York eiiy li the vicinity of tho harbor has pio viuced sUch a state of things that, it is regarded as impossible for 1 ny war ship to get within three miles of the metropolis wilbout running agroiiud, SO e real IS the deposit. ?Among applicants for sholter at Iho city lodging house in Now Yor.: the othor night was ono woman ov r 60 years old,-who was clothed entirely In newspapers. In tome placos tho paper was two Inchot- thick. om; OF thk v?:uy i<iNr;sr. The AtlanUo Coast Line's Florida Sp.Otal?Its Sobe?ulo Will I)?' Facer tiiHii Kvcr tlit.s sniMi i. Charleston News aud Courier Jan. it, ItWU. U Is now several years s:noo iho Al iautuu Coast Luc worKing in uouu<.<.? tiou witn itio 1'taut sysioui bugau ope* rating a s(iooiui tourist tralu oetwecu Now York, Cnarlustou aud F.oridu, and as in ratiro.ds Kepi pace with unproved methods aud mo tastidious travolior '.he tram- each youi heoauio more COinplotu and ha idsotuc, and iho ?u?oUutus m ucKer. Tuts year u nooms as though bUU ?lgh water mark must navo boon nearly readied, (or 11 is uard to imagine a mure speouy trip otian that which will be o tie red aOUtll oounu pa?SoQgO.'d on aud after Tuus daVi Jauuary IU am! also a more con lortubio auu luxurious into is well uig? impossible io pian. Tho train is composed entirely ol t'liil nan cars. uiauu lue tu it* particular service ana Vistibuled, .-o thai passengers pass freely rruiu one car to auutuor, regard* ess i?f too speed at which tnoy are travelling and u-mll cted oy wind o ivuuthor. tiaeh car is a model ul in Kind, one a dining car, wcoro the traveller partakes ol his meats at hours which su;t ni& cunvculcuco an i wnero dolt walteis serve the most tempting dishes, prepared i\ hue Hying along the S'.ool rjauway by a competent eiief. r.n: cud o( itotrain is always ououpiud Oy the " ubsui vatluU car," so uuiijuoly arranged as u> give a view hi jjosl tin ibsiruuled ol too eoonory au ne. the lino jl iho road. A drawing room car and a library and smoking room arc among tue advantages o( ibis movable hotel, for it Is more like a liist-oiasa hotel, with LVfi'..' convenience and comfort, than anything ulse. Ulli the number ol guests is limited strictly io the num ber of herlh accommodations la the magnificently appointed "sleepers," auu there is no fear of Unding a favorite window seat occupied hy a ?? match and lootb pick " customer and always a seat in Hie dining room. Tuen the speed of it! Leaving N >w York at 12:25 p. m. the "special" pauses but a inouijut at PnllaJulphia at 2 52 p. in. Baltimore Is tea bed at ? 05 the same aft. rnoon and V\ ashiug ton reached a'- * * ?' J Four ?ou ? i lof tiie " special' makes Ltlcuiuond and at 7 45 tho next morning arrives in Charleston, eighteen hours and a few minutes al er tue st-,rt. From Charles ton too same excellent speed L in (de tained to Hie several paints ou the Piant system in Georgia ana Florida. For the north bound trip tin. schedule is very convenient and spee.ly. Travel lers leaving Charleston at U 10 a. m, arrive in Kiohtnond at 7.1,"? in the morning. Washington is made at 11 00 a. in., Baltimore 1 15 p. m., Pliila dolphla 2 ltd p. in., and New Vork at i> 0? p. m. An important feature of the tourist special is that no extra charge is made for travelling on this train The re gular fare, wi h only ordinary Pull man fare added, is i'tniled strictly to tt;c capacity of tho sleeping cats." Filipinos Ouit Allies Tuen.?Hj spending to the Senate's roeoiution of li.qulry the secretary of the navy sent a copy of Admiral l);wey's report from Hong Kong dated Mar oh 31, lv.iS, relative to tho capture of Manila, then under consideration. lie stated that his own .-quudron was in a high state of elllolency. Speaking of tho Spanish forces he said they numbered about l?.OOO soldiers of all arms in all tho islands of which half were in the vicinity of .Manila. " Toe islands," says the report, "are no* in a state of Insurrection and my informants state that even the Spanish soldiers, who constitute only a small part of the whole a*'n disaffected. Both ships and forts are it. need of ammu nition. I believe I am not over confi dent in stating that with the squadron under my command the vessels could be taken und the defense.-, of Manila reduced m one day. Tliero is every reason to believe tha'. with Manila taken or even blockaded the rest ol the islands would fall either to the insur gents or ourselves, a-> thoy aro only held now through the support of tho navy and are dependent up .n Manila for supplies. Information has just reached me that there are f>,0UU tinned rebels in camp near Manila who are willing to assist mo." ?Vice President St. John, of tho Seaboard Air Line, referring to tho progress of tho work on tho links that will connect the different properties that C0mp096 the greater s ?aboard Air Lino system, bus said that if the bridge* erecting companies wer.' t q nil to tho tu<k, trains could be run through from New Vork to Florida on February 1. 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