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OL. XVII i iriRFNt: q r , WEDNESDAY. NOvEMBEBER 6, 1901. NO. 14.
THE QUJSS CION OF Tflfi HOUR
Arc the Filipinos Capable of Gov
erning Themselves??Facts and
Opinions From an Unprejudiced
Source.
Congressman John F. Shnfroth, of
Colorado, has just returned from a
visit to the Philippine Islands, t>nd
herewith is given u siatement of his
observations:
If tho Intelligence of the Americans
is to bo taken as the standard by which
tho capacity for self-government is to
be determined, then it is very doubtful
whether any other people arc capable
of establishing and maiulaiuiug a re
publican form of government. Every
country has peoples of high and low
order of intelligence, and if wo aro to
asBumo that tho men of lowest order of
civilization are to rule, we might ex
clude from self-gove nment i vory na
tion on earth. Ii is tho cxpeiicuce of
mankind, however, that tho intelligent
classes in all Ihe countries rule. That
being true, there are very few peoples
who ar?< not capable ot self govern
ment. It was Ilenry Clay who said
that it was impossible for him to con
ceive of a people who were incapable
Of the republics of Central and South
America, it is muu to say that, although
they may not be as perfect in the ad*
rninisirution of affairs as the United
Slates, yet they have given to the peo
ple governments far better and freer
fron acta of tyranny and oppression
than tho governments which piceeeded
them.
of solf-governmeut.
The general impression exists among
many Americana that the Philippine
people are savages. A visit 10 the in
lands will certainly dispel any *uch de
lusion. The members of the unciv
ilized liibca of the archipelago are few
in number, compared to the total pop
ulatiou; they arc fewer in propoition
than were the tribes of Indians in Am
erica at the time of the establishment
of our republic. They rove In bands
and areas hostile to the Filipinos as
wore the red tneu to our forefathers.
When I find behind the prescription
desks of thj numerous drug stores of
the islands, even when kept by Ameri
cans and Englishmen, Filipinos com
pounding medicines taken from bottles
labeled in Latin; when 1 see bchitd
tho counter of banks having larg?
capital, natives acting as book keepers
and as receiving and paying tellers;
when I Und them as meichauts and
clerks in almost all lines of business,
as telegraph operators and ticket agents,
conductors and engineers upon rail
roads and as musicians rendering upon
almost all instruments high class music;
when I urn told that they alouo make,
the observations aud intricate calcula
tions at the Manila observatory aud
that prior to I he insurrection there
were 2,100 schools in the islands and
?,000 students in attendance at Cio
Manila university; when 1 Und the bet
ter class livii.g in g?bdt substantial aud
sometimes elegant houses, and many
of Ihnu pu.t.ui:ig-professional occupa
tion, 1 cannot but conclude that it is a
vile slander to compare these people
to the Apaches or tho Americau In
dians. Even tho civilizing test of
Christiauily is in their favor, as a
greater pioportion are members of the
church than among our own people.
Of the 8,000 000 of inhabitants, Mr.
Sawyor, in his work oi the Philippine
Islands, asserts that 5,869,000 are
Christian natives.
But even as to tho Indians, as un
civilized as they may be, our govern
ment recognizes thatit produces abettor
condition of things to let ihem govern
themselves, and thereby we even re
cognize in them a capacity for self
government. Wo do not rulo them?
we make trenties with them as we do
with nations. Wo do not appoint a
goven??-?; or commission to govern
them, nor" judgt8ri1Ju.V!eir.K^ier laws
among them, no^v. police force io
maintain order. We let them select
their own chiefs, punish their own
criminals, aud in every way govern
thotnselvcB so long as they stay on
their own reservations.
The instinct of self government im
planted in man makes him ordinarily
a bettor agent in managing his own
family and affairs than would be one
of greater ability or higher educaiion
without that interest. And as with
man, so with nations, that same prin
ciple of self-boltermcnt or. linirily
makes each nation most capable of
managing its affairs to the advancement
of its own poo) le.
No bolter illustration of this can he
found that in the acuon of the mem
bers of the civil commission of t/<e
Philippine isla n ia in fixing official sal
aries to be paid out of funds collected
from the people of a pom- anu alien
race. They voted to tho governor, wbo
is a member of tho commission, a
salary of 815,000 peraunum rnd $16 a
day for subsistence, making in the ag
. gregate a salary uf $20,376 a year. The
: governor is also furni bed a line house
in which to reside. To each of the
? commission they voted a compensation,
including subsistence of $15,000 per
.annum, They voted a yearly salary of
$7,500 to tho secretary of the cnmmu*
;sion, of $7,000 to each of the six (ho
?exceedingly large number) a*Hoctate
juslieas of the supreme court, of $7,600
to tho chief justice, of $0,000 to the
treasurer, of $5,000 to the director
genoral of posts, and of $0,000 to the
collector of customs. All of these sal- j
aries are payablo in gold. 1 do not
wish to impugn the honesty of the
commissioners, but to call attention to
the fact that such action naturalh
grows out of the attempt of one people
to govern another. If that commission
were responsible to a constituency,
does ;<ny ?...c. imagine that such sah
aries would have been voted?
The aggregate area of tho Philippine
islands is 116,300 sqraro miles, a Intl.
less than that of tho territory of New
Mexico, yet the governor of Mexico re
ceives only $3,000 per annum, aod is
not allowed anything for subsistenc?
nor furnished with an executive man
i ion.
Think of a commissioner, appointed
from Washington (a place 10,000 mile*
from the Philippine islands) composed
of men whe never saw the land they
Sovern prior to-the Spanish war, who
o not speak or read the language of
.the Philippine people, and who are
not oven the same race as their sub
jects, votiug to each member a salary
which is nearly double that of a cabl
not officer of the greatest nation of tho
world, and threo times that of a sena
tor of the United Slates, and voting
to a territorial governor a salary more
than double that of the governor of
the wealthiest Slate in tho union. How
must such acliou appear to the Filipino
laborer, who, furnishing his own food
and lodging, earns bit twenty-five
cents iu gold a day! It must bo re
membered tLat wealth is nothing moio
thau stored labor, and that iu the last
aualysis labor iu ouo form or another
pays all taxes. Such action cannot but
make tho little brown man doubt tho
ability of one nation to give good gov
ernment to another. Does not tho
coutlict of interest between us and the
Philippine people, arising from tho
growing of competing stable products,
render us incapable of governing theni
to their best interest? Wo know that
it will be to the welfaro of the islauds
to give free trado . with tho United
Slates. American, Spaniards and Fili
pinos there unanimously agreo that tho
islands can never be well developed
without it, yet tho very facl that wo
hesitate iu the matter, shows that we
aro consulting our own interest instead
of theirs. No matter how learned and
just the judge may bo, the ethics of
our jurispruuene has determined that
he is incapacity cd from deciding a
case when his own iuterest might be
uffected. .Nations arc but aggregations
of individuals and are subject to the
came influences.
The Filipino is not a bold, warliko
or uuruly person; ho impresses overy
one as of -i shrinking, submissive, kiud
nature and as one who will suffer great
wrongs before he will resist. Such
people always appeal to tho law and
support good government. They have
not the tendency of tho Spaniatd to
ward revolution. The revolts in which
they have participated have been to
overthrow Spanish reigns of terror, al
most equal in barbarity to that of the
Duke of Alva in tho Netherlands.
The brief experience thay had in
self-government prior to tho insurrec
tion, was entirely in their favor. They
established a govermncut modeled after
our own. Their State papers would
have done credit to any natiou. They
inaugurated good judicial, school aud
revenue systems and preserved law
and order.
Consul Barrett, a strong supporter
of the present administration, wrote of
the hundred men who composed the
Philippine Congress as follows:
?* These men, wboeo sessions I re
peatedly alteudcd, conducted them
selves with great decorum and showed
a knowledge of debate and parliamen
tary law that would compare favorably
with the Japanese parliament. Tho
executive portion of the government
was made up of a ministry of bright
men, who seemed to understand their
respective position!-."
Consul-General WUdman, an ap
pointee of the president, speaking of
the Philippine government, said:
" Aguinaldo has made life and pro
perty safe, preserved order, and en
couraged a continuation of agricultural
pursuits. Ue has made brigandage
and loot impossible, respected private
property, forbidden excess either in re
venge or in the name of the State, and
made a woman's honor safe, in Luzon,
tbau it has been in three bundled
years."
Admiral Dewoy, it will be remem
beied, cabled: ?? These people are far
superior in their intelligence, aud more
capable of sell-government than the
natives of Cuba; and I am familiar
with both races."
Tho best evidence of the ability of
the Philippine people to g worn thera
so'vea, is that they possess a largo in
telligent class, thorovghly identified iu
interest with the islands ani capablo
of administering good government.
Tho civil commission has recognized
this ability by recently addtug three
native members to that governing
body; by appointing throe Filipins
judges of tho supreme court; by select
ing about half of the judges of the first
instunco and nearly all the goveinors
of tho provinces from that race; and
by appointing a solicitor-geueral and
many other officers from the natives.
Aro those officials not in the govern
ing business, and do they not perform
their work as well as the American i?
Is it possible that they are capable of
governing because they were appoint
ed by the representatives of a dist-int
nation? Would they lose that ability
if elected or chosen by properly con
stituted authority of their own? In
tin latter event they would make far
better officers, became they would con
cult only the iuton st of their own peo
ple instead of that of a nation 7,000
miles away.
Tho law of our benig u that " tho
just p jwera of government arc derived
from the consent of the governed."
Then why continue, a policy which
means tho continuing loss of millions
lo the government, the weakening of
the mihtury powor of the nation and
tbe destruction of the policy undor
which we have grown so great? Why <
not bo true to our naturo and fulfill
the prayer of Lincoln that government
of the people, for the people and by
the people shall not perish from the
earth."
JOHH **. SllAKKOTII.
Manila, P, I, ^*3^Ht
In Minneapolis tho postofllce depart,
nient has given a contract to an auto
mobile company for carrying the mails
between the ponton lee and sub-stations
and making collections from the letter
boxes in the business section of the
city.
The Wo. > Greatest
Cure for* fflalarla. X
, Tor ?11 forms*.* Malarial poison
ing take John?un'a CHIN and I'eve.
Tonic. A taint of Malarial poison
Incr In your biood means misery and
failure. Bloodmedlcineaoan'tonra
Malarial poisoning. The antldot?
fur It is JOHNSON'S TONIC,
fJet a bottle to-day.
?eiti 5? State |f \t (uns.
WHY MANY YOUNG MEN FAII,
The Lack of ThorouglineHs and
Want of Application to Business.
Robert C. Ugdou, upon whoso able
shoulders rests the executive responsi
bility of John Wanatnakcr's groat New
York establishment, is of opinion,
based ou forty-odd years' experience
in the employment of young meu, that
all tho causes eontributive to failure
iu a business career aro embraced in u
single comprehensive negative qual
ity?lack of thoughtless?that paucity
of intellect which begots tho porfunc- ,
lory performance ??f duty and deprives
the band of dominating skill. Per
haps no iuuu in the drygoods trade is
better qualified to speak convincingly
on the subject of why men fail than
Mr. Ogden, aud ibis is what ho says
about that very importaul question:
Failure to achieve succeso in busi
ness, ''ailing short of great desires
aud h. lima ou the part of young
I men, is . ceable to ouo primal cause?
f the absein. 3 of thoroughness. In the
race for supremacy in all commercial
undertakings, uine out of every ton
meu, ?ilhor fail absolutely or become
noneutilics, not because they lack am
bition, not because tho proper oppor
tunities for advancement have not
cotuo to them, not because they have
not received tho best educational ad
vantages or are haudienpped by poor
health, but because lhc\ have never
been at pains to masler completely
the thiu( a has been given iliem to
do. Tho world is overcrowded with
men, young and old, who remain sta
tionary, filling minor positions aud
drawing meagre salaries, simply be
causo t?ey have never thought it worth
while to achieve mastery in the our
suits they have choseu to follow.
Mostly, this is so hccauso tho average
young man fears haul work, and would
rather drift with the tide of eireum
stances than pull against it.
Everywhere I see mentally near
sighted youug men discontented be
Ciiuso of their small incomes, and chaf
ing uuder tho burden of their hum
drum duties, wondering all tho while
why others are advauced and they are
left behind, but never for an instant
opening their eyes to tho real fact that
thoy have takon hold of their business
with but half a hoart and no mind ex
cept for what is just beyond tho hour's
need.
Tho crying curse of our land at tho
present time is its vast army of incom
petouts, aud its lack of workers who
know their business from the grouud
up. Eor every thoroughly informod
and competent salesman who has
sought employment at my hamla there
have been a hundred who were of
mediocre ability or down-right inca
pacity. There are too many younsj
men who are content to remain among
tho "hewers of wood and drawers of
water," because they will not step be
yond the beaten path to acquire thor
oughness.
Almost every workiug day in the
year I am called upon to receivo some
young man who comes to mo highly
recommended for a position in our
establishment. The letters of iuiro
ductiou these applicants bring me are
usually of a stereotyped form, in which
some well-meaning pastor or person of
iufluence is certain thut "young Mr.
Smith will prove a great acquisition to
your business," or that "Mr. Brown,
with his superior intellect and many
accomplishments, will undoubtedly be
a vnluablc aid in some of tho more re
sponsible berths at your disposal." My
questions to such npplicauls ure some
what in this vein:
"What cau you do?"
"Oh, I can do anything, Mr. Ogdon.
I am an all-reund man, and have tilled
many responsible positions."
"(Jan you take charge of our silk de
partment and buy to advantage in the
open market as well as sell in our
store?"
"Well, no. I do not understand the
details of buying silts."
"Can you go down in our shipping
department and tako charge ??f tho
general freighting of goods, or direct
our city deliveries?"
"I have been a shipping clerk, but I
am afraid 1 couldn't quite take all tho
iesponsibility of the shipping depart
ment."
"Perhaps you can assume the man
agement of our interior decorations
department and suggest to patrons
harmonium color schemes fur floor,
walls and draperies?"
"I'm afraid I couldn't do that, sir. I
can sell carpets and wall paper, hut
I don't understand interior decorat
ing."
And it all ends in placing the namo
of the applicant on our waiting list as
an ordinary salesman, if he is thought
to be worth employing at all. They
all know something about, everything,
but only onco in many crises do I And
a man who knows oveiything about
some ono thing. The man who is tho
square pog in the round hole is the
rule; the thorough master of a trado
or branch of business is the rare ex
ception that proves tho rule. Educa
tion, breeding, even a high ordor of
intelligence, curiously enough, aro no
guarantee that their possessor will
achievo success. Lacking the capacity
for doing his best with a thoroughness
beyond all criticism, the most gifted
young man in ihe universo will fail
and fall iuto the ranks of second-clans
plodders.
In my experience I have found that I
in so small a thing as penmanship the I
average young business man is
astoundiogly deficient. If I could get
clerks who wrote a uniformly rapid
and legible hand, I could in the course
of a year save hundreds of dollars aris
ing from blunders due to careless writ
ings It is easy to Qnd men who write
with a beautiful flourish, but the man
who writes legibly under all conditions
and at all limes is as rare as lien's
teeth.
Take the average stenographer; he
is usually an expert in the transcrip
tion of phonetic signs, but he is mure
often a perfect ass in making gram
matical, well-phrased and correctly
p?netunted English of the necessarily
hurried dictation of his busy employer.
There is no department of human ac
tivity in buslnoss or the professions
where failure is not due to the lack of
thoroughness.
There is one man in my employ to
day who began his business career at
the Mmo time I launched out from
WOMAN'S TROUBLES AND FEMALE
DISEASES CURED BT
Johnston's
Sarsaparilla
QUART BOTTLE8.
Painful and Suppressed Menses, Ir
regularity, Loucorrhcea, Whites, Steril
ity, Ulccration of the Uterus, chango
of life, in matron or maid, all find re
lief, help, benefit and euro in JOHNS
TON'S SARSAPARILLA. It is a real
panacea for all pain or headache about
the top or back of the head, distress
ing pain in the left side, a disturbed
condition of digestion, palpitation of
the heart, cold haods and feet, nerv
ousness and irritation, sleeplessness,
muscular weakuess, bearing-down
pains, backaoho, legachc, irregular ao
tion of the heart, shortness of breath,
abnormal discharges, with extremely
painful menstruation, scalding of urine,
swelling of feet, soreness of the breasts,
neuralgia, uterine displacement and
catarrh, and all thoso Bymptoms and
troubles which make the average wo
man's life so miserable.
MIOUIOAN DBDtt CO., Detroit, Mlefc.
For Sah? by'le I.nriDf DngCcm
pany, Laurens, S. C.
school (and that, as one may read in
my whitening hair, was many years
ago) who has not stepped forward one
inch on iho road to success. Thie
mau hns a fine brain, and keeps abreast
of curront events. Ho is sober, honest
and courteous, but ho has never earned
a higher salary than fifteen dollars a
week, and all because ho is a Jack of
all trades and master of none. He is
shifted about from one department to
another in a vain endeavor to find the
one in which he will provo himself of
greatest value. lie has lived the iife
of a mere automaton and does things
mechanically. Other men of one-third
his number of years can tell him more
about his own business in half an hour
than he would care to listen to. An
old man, ho is still dissatisfied with his
lot, but will not remedy it by acquiring
a thorough knowledgo of some one
branch of tho dry goods trade. It is
pitiful, but not inexplicable. To the
young n\?n who would rise in tho world
I have but ono wotd of caution?be
thorough if you do not want to bo
numbered among the world's failures.
I think our American spirit of rest
lessness has much to do with personul
failure. The fever to gaiu riches and
honor in a hurry leads to a slurring
of work and laxity of morris. <Ve
have too little of the stubborness of
purpose of our early ancestors. Mod
eru life is almost a gamo of touch and
go. We are striving continually to
accomplish more than we are built to
accomplish; the twentieth century man
is a two-horse power engine trying to
do the work of a freight locomotive
Tho tendency of the average j'oung
man is .o fly before he has learned to
crawl. He will quote you JOmersou's
phrase, "Hitch your wagon to a star,"
but he forgets that ono must first get
near enough to his particular star be
fore tho bitching process can he ac
complished. There is ono kind of
ambition that works only for evil, aud
that is the kind of ambition which
says, "I will succeed at once. Let
those who have to, plod along. I will
go straight to tho mark." Nothing
but tho purest folly could dictate such
a procedure of conduci for a young
man. Failure, after all. is merely the
leaving undone, or badly done, those
things which should have bceti done,
and done thoroughly.?Saturday Even
ing Post.
THIS IS NOT OUR FUNERAL.
D mocrata May Take Comfort
from the Washington Incident.
Mr. Henry Wattersou, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, makes the
following deliverance upon tho famous
dinner at tho White House:
" Each American, whether native or
of African descent, has the right to
pick his company, to sit at table with
whomsoever he will, and, if it please
the President to dine one or a dozen
gentlemen of color at the White House
?unofficially, mind you?that is no
body's business.
" Neverthless, and at tho same time,
there are certain conventionalities?
call them prejudices if you like?ii
were well for all men, and parncnlarly
for great public exemplars, to consider
in their migrations between tho draw
ing room aud the dining 100m. Even
as a bluuder i? held in politics and di
plomacy to be woise than a crime, so
in society. Particularly in those homes
of luxury which give tho word aud sot
to the phraso 'four hundred,' it is Bafcr
to commit a sin than to be detected in
a solecism.
"The President need not bo re
minded of this, for ho knows It well.
Nobody knows it bettor. Put he is ex
ceptional. Born with a luflle around
his neck and a gold spoon In his mouth,
he grew up to filch from among bis
playthings a ticket calling for tho capi
tal prizo in tho lottery of lifo. Such a
l mau Is tompted to defy usage. He gets
I to bo a law unto himself.
"In a matter liko this, we should
seek, lira, of all, lo be jut. Ai least
no old time Republican will venture to
chide him tor teaching by example
what they were able to teach ouly by
precept. In a word, Mr. Roosevelt is
true to his political religion.
" The foundation stone of that re
ligion was and is and over will be the
equality ot man. To free the negro, to
educate and elevate the negro, to seat
the negro in tho high places of the land
was not the undoing doctrine of origi
nal abolitionism? was it not the logic
of latter day Republicanism? Wh
shou.d n< t every child of the 'higher
law' come to his estate, possess tho
courage of bis opinions? Why should
he pale before the flie of 'Southern re
bels' or 'Norttom dough-faces?' Did
not his pany, for the sake of a great
moral lesson, purposely keep tho seat
last occupied in the benate of tin
United States by Jefferson Davis va
cant until it could bo filled by a gentle
man of color?
? Revolution! never go backward.
It is but a step from the Capitol to the
White House, from the council board
to tho banquet hall, from tho inarriago
festival lo tho bridal chamber, and
there you are?prophecy fullllled. Mr.
Lincoln might not have done it. Mr.
McKinley would scarso have tried it.
But shall Mr. Roosevelt, tho dashing
rough rider, tho confident reformer,
tho progressive philosopher, quail be
fore his duty to ?humanity ami CJod?'
Perish the thought.
?< Wo mcurn for Booker Washington, i
He it is on ,vhom such consequences j
as betide this kindergarten Icssou in
tin: ethics of modern life are likely to
fall. He, in the end, will, as it were,
have to pay the freight.
" When Frederick Douglass married
a white woman, his power was gone.
It did not elevato him in tho estima
tion of white men. It lost him caste
among the peoplo of his owu race.
Booker Washington, as head of the
Tuskegeo school, was admirable. As
head even of tho kitchen cabinet he is
to bo pitied. A red rag to racial pre
judice, au object of envy to those blacks
who arc intelligent enough to differen
tiate, an offenso to white Republicans,
an offense to white Demoo ats at tho
South.
" Truly, the President did Booker
VVa8hiugtou an ill-turn in this business.
Looking at it from a partisan point of
v ow, Democrats may take not a little
comfort to themselves. Whatever
happens, this is not our funeral. Out
in the cold as we may be, shivering as
we are?aud hungry, yea, verily, and
t'vrsty?yet as we stand around the
White House and look in throuuh the
windows and see Teddy and Booker
hobnobbing over their 'popsum and po
tatoes,' not one of us is disposed to
euvy either of them, or to cxcluim of
either, 'Wouldu't it bo bully to be
him?'
u Wo prefer to take our -bancps of
the future. Wo had rather wait till
oar time comes. Somehow the look
ahead dojs not seem so hopeless, nor
the distanc: so long. For there is here
a mdical iullrmity of judgment?a plain
lack of common scusc?and, bless the
Lord, wo are not in it. Indeed, the
shortcoming implied by it means a
gteai deal to us. Mistakes, like mis
fortunes, never come siugly. They
travel in groups and are cumnlous. Wo
Democrats have but to get together
and to keep our powder dry to carry
all before us three years hence, be
cause this young man is a bronco
busier, and he is going to raise more of
the very hot place, with the very short
name to the square inch than was ever
raised before tu that particular neck of
the woods Sursum corda.
44 There's a >-ood time coming, boys;
wait a little longer."
BILL ARP HAS LOST FAITH.
The Roosevelt-Washington Din
ner i las Aroused His Ang-er and
He Gets Fighting: Mad,
Atlanta Constitution.
It looks now like my old friend,
Evan ilowell, has lost his influence
with the new President, and i have
lost my faith. Hope and despair are
sometimes not far apart. Last wet k I
was sanguine, which moans hopolul,
confident; aud now I am .-anguiuary,
which means lighting mad.
" This world is all a Heeling show,
For man's delusion given ;
And you can't always sometimes most
generally tell what is going to hap
pen"
The smartest doctor can'l diagnose
every case, nor cure a disease if the
patient docs not want to bo cured. My
idol is shattered. I wish that Brunn
was alive wit.i his Iconoclast. Maybe
lie could do justice to the situation and
save me ttm use of language. Bob
Tooml)8 said that the lanatucism of
our No-tbcrn brethren about the negro
fa.igued his indignation, and jus as
now oar contempt is getting tired. The
day after I read about it 1 couldn't re
alize it, nor did 1 believe it was as had
as pictured, and so I wailed for light ?
more light?1 had an idea that Booker
Washington in some way happened in
about dinner time, and Mr. Roosevelt,
having more heait than head, thought*
lessly asked him to sit down at his
table. I thought that maybe he sym
pathized with the man who had done
so much for Ins race and was tab iocd
everywhere by white people and hotels
and churches aud white folks, ctrs aud
opera houses, uud so his heait got the
Detter of his head aud he did it in haste
and would repent at his leisuro. I
thought it was just one case, for The
Now York Press said it was unique.
Then I remembered that Cleveland in
vited the dusky queen of tho Saudwcli
i-lands to the White House, and maybe
Roosevelt looked upon Booker* Wash
ington as a kind of ambassador or chief
of a foreign race, and I kopt on think
ing aud hunting around for an explana
tion or palliation until it was discover
ed that tho case was not unique, for he
did alike thing before at Albany, while
he was governor, and that he sein bis
children to school with negro children
at Oystor Bay. Then I gave it up. He
has sadly disappointed bis friends and
dishonored thu State his mother came
from and desocrated the President's
mansion. It is no longer tho White
House., but like tho chatncloon, takes
any color that comes. Now 1 supp so
lhat Miss Washington, who is at
Wellesloy College, will bo a welcome
visitor at the mansion during bor vaca
tion, and maybe Roosevelt's son will
Tall in love with her aud marry her
without having to elope. That is the
tendency of this new departure?this
unique case. But a hopeful man, an
optimist, should wait a few days and
rumirate. Time is a good doctor and
1 am not as made ?hi.-, morning as I
was laft week. I think maybe that it
is not as bad a case as 1 think it is. By
nature I am a good deal like my good,
old, kind-hearted mother, who gently
took evetybodv's part who was abused.
One day my father caiuo homo very
mad with a man who had mistreated
him and when he rolaiod his grievauce
to mother che said: " Maybe the man
didn't moan it ?nd will make it all
right after while " Father got irri
tated a little with mother and said:
Caroline, I believe, you would de
fend the old devil If be was here on
trial." And shex Id: M Well, 1 have
sometimes thought that too much was
ifid on him "
I still believe that Roosevelt is na
turally a good, big-hearted man and he
didn't think that his Official positiou
limited his privalo aud domestic rights.
The White House was his home?his
castle and ho could ask in or shut out
, whomsoever ho pleased. Ho was born
add roared at tho North, whoio a i
foolish and fanatical sympathy with
the Southern negro is almost universal. '
I It monopolized tho press and the pul- i
j pit, though they knew no more about j
I the negro and his racial iustinctB than
wc know about Bulgaria and tho Mace-1
douiau bandits. What a strange folly I
is that sympathy. Its tendency is to
spoil the most contented and happiost j
race on earth. Sometimes I envy thorn i
their -merry nature Hooker Washing- j
ton seem* in earnest in Iiis efforts to I
elevate and refine his people, but 1
doubt whether ho is really doing thoir.
any good. To labor is their nature and j
the higher education unfits them for it. j
I t oppose that Tuskegeo has tut tied !
out L',000 or 8,000graduates, but where i
are they and what are they doing? We |
never hear of one in this region and I
and li>! ' year a piofessor from Tusea- j
loosa ilared publicly in Atlanta that
he had been to Tuskegeo and invesli- 1
gated aud could bear of only about a
dozen oul at 1,200 whu were at work.
The most of them come <vjt mechanics j
or f?rmere, bet they have btven trails*
formed into gentlemen and are Jiving
oft of their klnfolks. A few have "been
sent to Africa to start the cotton busi
ness, and it is to be hoped that the
others will go there and stay. Fduca*
tlou is not what the negio .tauds most
in need of. It is a reform in morals.
It is the unprejudiced opinion of the
mo-t conservative observers that they
arc the most thievish, unchaste race
upon the face of the.cai tb, and they are
infinitely woiso now than they were
when in slavery. In 187U iherc were
but 200 negro cofovicts in our peniten
tiary, and now there are 4,01)0 in Geor
gia, and the number increases as the
years roll on in spito of schools, col
leges and millions of Northern money.
The good negroes are on the farms
and under the dominion '>f their land
I lords. It Ls safe to say that 75 per cent
of the negroes about the towns and
cities will steal,and that 50 percent of
the ajegro children are b >rn out of law
ful wedlock. Two of our negro bar
bers-decamped to Bessemer last week.
?one has been keepiug three wives
and the other two, but they left them
and took two new ones along wilh
them. We have go! ao accustomed to
this state of wgro morals that it ex
cites no comment Some white men
will rob banks and abduct children aud
hold up trains und embezzle money
and cheat in trade and run blind tigers
and moonshine whisky, dint nearly all
negro servants will take little thing*?
little money or jewelry or a pair of
scissors or stamped envelopes or a iittle
rice or coffee <?.r sugar. They all -(io
this, and we sub ait io it because theyt
still make kind good.natuied servants
and we need them. And so the racc
problem goes on, but 1 will prophesy
seme good to come from Roosevelt.
He is a crank about some Illings, but
he is fearless, independent, 86rf-roJiaul!
and w.'Jl do jitst as ho dogon pleases.
Mythology tells us that Kiui; Augean
had a herd of 3,000 oxen, whose stables
had not been cleaned out for thirty
years, and Hercules came along one
day aud co.' a whiff of the foul odors
and turned two rivers through them
and cleaned them out in a day. i be
lieve that Roosevelt is for clean, honest1
work in the government departments
and will clean out the Augean stables,
if he has to turn the Potomac river
through them. For thirty years their
stench has nauseated us. He has ju?t
appointed Mr. Koulke to the head of
the civil service commission. Foulko
has long been the prosecutor of frauds,
perjuries and evasions, the ie ror of
postmasters, the watch-dog of public
o?icinls, but he was handicapped by
politicians. He will sweep the deck
now, for he and the President are of
one mind on that law. Tho vistois
will no longer get all the spoils. Hut
wc want the President to let the negro
alone. Tho race problem belongs to
us and will be settled on a wiso and
humane basis if the lool yankee editors
and preachers will let us aloie.
But we ?vait and watch and some
good people will pray for deliverance?
"de liver us from evil." I bavn'l given
up Mr. Roosevelt yet. If wo could
only get him down here for two or
three years he would become bo dis
gusted wilh the negro and so exacting
that they wouldn't hire to him, Our
observation long has been that the
Northern people who come South to
live soon got their eyes opened and un
derstand the situation. Not long ago
the editor of a Baptist paper in Now
York said that thehouth was not icady
for it now, hut tho time would soon
come when mlscegonation would be
found tho Pest solution of the racc
problem. And only last week the
.liior of a Uepublioan paper defended
Mr. Roo.-evelt and said that in another
generation social equality between the
races would bo universal at the South
and it was well to start it at tho White
House. With such malignant fools we
can do nothing, for they arc too far off.
But thoy had better shinny on their
own side. Bill Aup.
P. 8. ? I am gratified that Mrs. Bark
and others ha\o come to the rescue of
Nancy Hart and have establish d hor
as a fact und heroine in our history of
iho revolution. We ought to havt a
State historian to rccoiri ami preserve
theso things. Filty years from now
somebody will he saying that Hill Arp
was a myth, nud 1 wouldn't like it.
B. A.
N. B.?We read that the American
Mi-sionnry Association at Chicago
have indorsed the President and com
mended social equality between tho
races. It is about tituo now for tho
bluo and the gray to emhruco again.
Lvit brothorly love continue
B. A.
Later from tho front. The uniquo
has vanished and Roosevelt's capers
havo beco no multifarious, ubiquitous
and ridicul jus.
Hopo for a season bids tho South
farowell. To^our tents, Oh, Israeli
Call off tho dogs. I'm going out to
work in my garden. B. A.
Ci?L?TOniA.
Hot Rolls,
hot muffins, hot cakes,
made with Royai Baking
Powder may be freely
eaten without fear of
indigestion.
IN A HUMOROUS VEIN.
He?" You'll have to go a Ions; way
before you will meet nny one who
loves you more than I." 44 Well, I'm
willing to "?Life.
41 He; 44 Do you ever let your bus
hand have his own way?"
hhe: " Oh, yes. I think it does a
man good to let him make a fool of
himself now and then."
44 My dear, ehfc is the most stupid
person."
44 Really? She has a pleasant face."
44 I know. Hut she is one of those
people who tell the truth about their
neighbors, even if it is pleasant."?
Life.
She?Ob, Dr. Pillsbuiy, I am so.
anxious about poor Mrs. Perkins. She
is in your hands, is she not?
Dr. PilJsbury?She wai, but I have
left off attending her for the present.
She?Oh, that'8goodl She is out of j
danger then!
Bridegroom?I don't see anything
of your father's ?10,000 check. He
promised it, didn't he?
Hride?Yes-; but he saw that your
father had already given us one, and
he knew wo didn't ctre to have any
duplicate presents.?Philadelphia Re
cord.
Tom?44Have a smoke., old man?"
Jack -" Thanks. Don't care if I
do."
Tom?44 You'll find that i? something
like a cigar."
Jack (after a few puffs)?41 By
<icorge, there is a slight resemblance.
WhaJ, is it?"?1 it-Hits.
;< Will you have another dish of ice
cream?" asktd the mother of Johnnie,
whose place wae across from the in
vited guest Johnnie's mother was en
tert? ?jng *.bat day.
uWel?, fjps, I b'leovel will," said
Jounule-'then n<Ulo<l, .".beta's we
don't have it mo:*'* ?WHlot a W*&
"No, sir," exoL?W ^2?S
drummer in the smoker, 44 i . ?11
to say that no house in the country
more men pushing its line of goods
than ours."
44 What do you sell?" asked a curious
one.
"Baby carriages."?Syracuse Herald.
Mrs. Bargen-Hunt: 441 think that
druggist is just too mean for am
thing "
Mrs. Mainchantz: 44 Why?"
Mrs. Hargen-Hunl: "He advertised
that he would sell 13 stamps for 25
cents. I spent five cents care fare In
take advantage of his offer and he gave
me twelve twos and a one."
44 Willie," said his father, as he pro
ceeded with the laying on of hands,
44 I am sorry to have to do this; ii hints
me more than it does you."
41 Well," returned the precocious
youngster, resignedly,441 nover did bc
lii-ve in these hero sympathetic strikes,
am how, They always do more harm
than good."?Chicago Post.
44 But why do you wish a divorco,
madam? ' asked the lawyer. 44 You
arpdll that your husband provides for
>ou properly and is not at all cruel."
" Ciuell" she exclaimed. " I'd Hke
to see him try to be cruel!"
44 Then what cause for complaint
have you?"
44 Why, he is getting so deaf that I
am deprived of the pleasure of scolding
him."?Chicago Post.
Lounges?" echoed the salesman,
4Yea, ma'am. This I way, please.
What kind of lounge, would you like?"
44 I'd like one," said the sharp
featured woman, 41 that cau get right
U|> and kick a man out of doors when
he comes home and throws himself
down on it with his muddy feet, and
growls and scolds because lie has to
w tit about two minutes for his supper.
That's the kind I'd liko, but I'll have
to take what I can get, I reckon. What's
tho price of this ouo with the green
covor?" ?
A woman meiifbor of a fashionable
church bad gone to bei pastor with tin
complaint that she was greatly dis
tmbed by one of her neighbors.
44 Do you know," sho said, "that the
an in the pew behind ours destroys
11 my devotional feels when he tries
to sing? Couldn't you ask him to
change his pew?"
44 Woll," answered tho pastor re
flectively, 44 I feel a little delicacy on
that score, especially as I should have
to ?Ivo a reason. But I tell you what
1 might do?I might ask him to join
thocholrl"
A teacher was instructing a class of
infants in tho Sunday-school and was
letting tho children finish hersonlences
to mako suro they understood.
44 The Idol had oyee," sho said, "but!
It couldn't -"
44 See," cried tho chlldron.
44 It had ears, bu', it couldo''?"
44 Hear," said tho class.
44 It had Hps, hut It couldn't?"
44 Speak," said tho children.
" It had a nose, but it couldn't?"
44 Wipe It!" shouted tho little onos,
and tho teacher Lad to pause In her
lesson in order to recover her com
posure.
The Prohibitionist had assailed the
Demon Hum mercilessly aud wlih
evVry fresh onslaught iho man with
the red nose had applauded
lk Friend," sai>> the leclurOl' at last,
"you look like one who has been a
drinking man."
" You bet 1 have been, si ranger,"
replied ihe man earnestly; "but it do )s
my heart good to see you git out after
nun. 1 never did have no use for it.
Tain't a lit drink for any man. You
can't hammer it too hard for me, an'
when you're through I've got a bit of
le rye here that'll warm your heart up
good. I like a man that knows what
to hit an' what not to Int."
" Private" .lohn Allen of Mississippi
and Marse Henry Wattorsou of Ken
tucky met, purely by chance, in the
Holfmau llwtise cafe.
" John," said Marso Henry, " what
is this Citizen's Union I have been
reading so much about in connection
with the contest for mayor going on
bore?"
" 1 have made sonic slight inquiry
into that subject," replied the " Pri
vate," " and 1 am forced to the con
clusion that it very much resembles
that htrauge animal of fable known as
the Willapua wallapus, which, as you
will remember, could not live in the
water and died on the land."?New
York World.
G -A. BTOIil .
Bonra tho Kind You Have Always Bought
s,er0 ?^S?
A HOOD K?AOS Skkmon.?There
was presented in the thriving city of
West Point a few days ago an object
lesson of the value of good roads which
npresscd all who saw it and which is
worthy of more extended notice.
Mr. M. A. Haralson, a TroupCounty
tanner, who lives about twelve miles
fiom West Point, drove a four mule
wagon into that market with sixteen
lull sized bales of cotton on it. The
weight of the load was about 8,000
-Mids, besides the heavy wagon on
poi. '' was piled.
which u '^ou made Ihe trip from Iiis
Mr. Hnrni. Mv good time, and his
farm in rcnarkau. of having; been
team showed no sign.. " impossible
taxed. It would have bee.. ' cotton
for him to take sixteen bales o*
to market even with his four line tun.,
if the l'roup County roads had not been
in excellent condition There arc some
couoiies in Georgia whore eight bales
would have been a lull load for his
'e. in, and then he would have bad to
travel very slowly.
Mr. Ilaralson found that good roads
weri' quite profitable io him in this in
stance. Tho other fanners of Troup
LorMty and those of neighboring conn
ties who sell their crops in West Point
or LaGrang have realized often a like
be'nelit. Troup is one id the best fann
ing counties in Georgia, and its ?jood
roads add immensely to the value, of
the lands. The county commissioners
of Troup County have proven their
p lit: spirit, broad intelligence and
liberal public spirit by adopting and
earning out the* pol icy that has given
the county such good road8 and the
Cnti8cqu' ut great and permanent bene
fits?Aihiuin Journal.
OASTORIA.
Boats tho j4 lho Kind Yen Have Always Bought
Arrests for drunkenness in 1*20
cities in the United Slate are said to
aggregate ."512,000 during the last fiscal
year.
The pension roll still carries four
widows of soldieis who fought in the
American Revolution.
The buildings for the Louisiana pur
chase exposition at St. Liu is in lOO.'l
will cover 1S7 acres.
^ASTORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Aiwqs Bought
? \?; f i >. ? ? u u m t.u
the youngblood
lumbek company
All .VST*, OA.
n-FICS AM? WOHKfi. NoKTII AUOUSTA S. l)
OoorH, Sinti, no "I ? and flullflor'a
11 ?r<l ware
FLOODING, 31 DING. CEILING AND
INSIDE FINISHING LUMHEli
' IN GKOHGIA PINE.
All Correspondence given prompt at
tention. ?