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Mrs. Nan y Milligan accidentally
shot herself at her heme at Mount
Pleasant nes. Charleston Friday afternoon
and died a few hours later while
on her way to the Charleston hospital.
Magistrate Clyde, of Greenville, bas
rendered bis decision in the cases
againt C. W. Clifton, indicted for petit
larceny, and the defendant was
given 90 days or $150 fine to cover the
several cases upon which he was tried.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the big Gluck mill was held in Anderson
March 10. for the purpose of electing
four additional directors and determining
upon the site for the mill.
A majority of the stock was represented.
most of it in person.
Charley Sumpter, the negro who in- '
suited a lady near the old Sidney park j
in Columbia on Friday afternoon, was t
taken before the recorder Saturday !
morning and fined $40 or 30 days on
the chaingang. The recorder remark- '
ea tnat ne wisnea me peuauy cuum
have been greater.
The pension board of Lancaster j
county has completed its labors for !
this year. The number of applications j
approved, including the old pensioners
on the roll, is 259, but one more than
the pension roll of 1902. Thirteen of j
' the pensioners of last year, eight soldiers
and five widows of soldiers, have
died.
A special term of sessions court will
be held in Newberry; convening April
6th, to try the case of George Strother, j
colored, charged with a criminal assault.
On the 20th of last February ;
Miss Emma Bowers, a well known ;
young woman of Little Mountain, was I
assaulted by the negro who afterwards 1
escaped but was captured and lodged
in jail.
The south bound Carolina and North
Western passenger train was caught in
an awkward fix at Allison creek trestle
seven miles north of Yorkville Thursday
night by reason of the blowing out
of the cylinder head. The engine was
then unable to climb the steep grade
leading up from the creek and the passengers
had to remain there until a
freight came along and carried them
on to Yorkville.
A Bostcn lumber firm is building a
large saw mill on Cheehaw river in i
Colleton county, which empties into
the Beaufort river. They will saw up
the immense forests of timber that are
adjacent to ship North by way of St.
Helena Sound. A huge dock and
tramway are to be built, and the enterprise
will employ a great deal of
labor. The machinery was transported
to the spot by a three-masted
schooner. The navigation is good and
deep.
Deputy Sheriff J. W. McCaslin, of
Greenwood, lodged a gay young Lothario
in the county jail at that place
Saturday afternoon, together with the
object of his affection and attention.
The two young people wanted to compromise
by calling in a minister and
having a marriage ceremony performed
at once, but the girl's father was opposed.
and now both languish in jail.
. The girl had run away from home wifh
the young man and a 'phone message
from the girl's father caused the arrest.
Harry Mickin, a young colored boy
of Columbia, was painfully but not
seriously hurt in the Southern Railway
yards Saturday morning. Mickin was
walking along the track, his head bent
down and apparently oblivious of anything
save his feet, when a train back*
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ing towards aim si.rui.-n. mui aim
knocked hirn from the track, slightly
stunning him. When picked up it was
seen that his head had been cut in two
places, both of his knees were wounded
and he was badly bruised about the
body.
A dapper young white man was arrested
by the police in Columbia
Saturdny on a telegram from the police
of Spartanburg. He is wanted in that
city for swindling and he is supposed
to be the same fellow who has been
' operating expensively in the upper part
of the State. His name is Morris and
when he went to the express office to
obtain a package the police were waiting
for him. He gave them a lively
chase before caught. He has a partner
named Ray, who, it is thoight, is
in Richland county, and he will also
be caught.
Just in time to avoid being run over
by a passenger train -the dead body
of C. C. Sanders, a negro hackman, was
found at Salt Water near Beaufort
fintnritnv mnrnine- Tt is believed he
talked to tbe spot in a deranged state
and died from the effects of a fall between
tbe cross ties just after crossing
the trestle. He had been afflicted
with heart disease for some time. He
was 50 years old. The coroner's Jury
rendered a verdict of death from natural
causes. Articles of value found
on his person were returned to his
wife.
Guiseppina Capitano, the Italian
woman who Friday attempted suicide
on the train of the Atlanta Coast Line,
entering Charleston, died Saturday
morning at the City hospital, where
she was taken. Her two sons, to whom
she was going in Tampa, were notified
and they went to Charleston and took
charge of her remains. Her body was
. taken to Tampa for burial. The woman
' regretted her attempt at self destruction
In a conversation with the Italian
consul before her death. The woman
was temporarily insane.
S. J. Thompson, State organizer for
the United Textile Workers of America
addressed r.n audience, composed of
about seventy-five mill operatives, in
the court house in Newberry Saturday
afternoon. He was there in the interest
of his organization, for the purpose
of organizing a labor union. His arguments
in favor of a union were opposed
by Superintendent J. M. Davis,
of the Newberry Cotton Mill, and Superintendent
E. B. Wilbur, of the Mollohon
Mill. No action by the operatives
was taken and those la favor of organizing
a union seem to be in a
minority.
WILL BE TAXED.
Opinion Concerning Buildingand Loan j
Associations.
Building and loan associations must j
be taxed. That is the advice given the |
Comptroller General by the Attorney
General's office, the opinion being
written by the assistant attorney general,
Mr. Townsend. This is an innovation,
at least in some counties, and
uie aiiempi uj assess auu iu wueui
taxes may be taken into the courts.
But the attorney general has advised
that this is required by the law and
the Comptroller General will act accordingly.
When the auditor of Richland county.
Mr. W. H. Gibbes, Jr.. was told of
this yesterday, he stated that he had
already decided to call the attention
of the county board of equalization to
this matter. Mr. Gibbes states that he
has had a number of people to ask him
if they must make a return of their
stock in building and loan associations
and he has told them that the company
as such and not through the individual
stockholders is subject to the
taxation.
But of all the nine "domestic" building
and loan associations in the city
of Columbia, not one has been on the
taxbooks and not one has made a re
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turn uiis year. mere is auutuei iuuipany
with headquarters in Syracuse,
N. Y., which is said to be subject to
the laws cf taxation on account of its
business in Columbia.
One of the Columbia companies, the
Domestic, is exempted because it
started in business after the first of
the year. The other eight are the
Building and Investment Company of
Columbia, the Richland, the Citizens',
the People's, the Homestead, the Fidelity.
the Security, and the Prudential.
Mr. Glbbes could find no evidence
of returns having been made by these
companies.
Comptroller General Jones has r*.
ceived several letters which caused
him to get a declaration from the
office of the Attorney General. The
building and loan companies claim
that their credits or mortgages should
not be taxed as the property on which
the mortgages are given is itself
taxed and the law does not permit
'double taxation." Another contention
is that while the mortgage might have
been given for $1,000, and while the
party might have made many payment
and have reduced his actual indebtedness
to the company yet the mortgage
would be taxed as if no payments
had ever been made thereupon. The
opinion of Mr. Towneend applies to insurance
companies and other organizations
not now taxed.
THE COMPLAINTS.
Mr. Walter I. Hazard, president of
the Home Building and Loan Association
of Georgetown, under date of Jan- i
uary 20th, filed a complaint that the
company has been paying taxes for
several years under protest, claiming
that it is not liable to taxation, owing
to the peculiar nature of its business.
He contends that the funds of
the association are loaned to the
shareholders, secured by mortgages
on personal and real property which Is
already taxed. The law does not contemplate
"double taxation" which, he
claims, is the effect of taxing the building
and loan company.
Mr. Hazard then cites facts which '
tend to show discrimination. The only
other building and loan company in |
Georgetown is the Eureka, which has ,
a capital stock of $150,000 but Is not
assessed for taxation. "And your peti- ,
tloner Is reliably informed and be- j
lieves that the large number of similar
associations doing business in Columbia
and Charleston also enjoy
immunity from taxation."
Wherefore the company begs to be (
relieved of further taxation and asks ]
for a rebate of taxes for 1902. This pe- j
tition receives favorable endorsement
from Wm. H. Dorrill, county auditor,
and E. M. Lucas, county treasurer. '
Mr. H. J. Dean, chairman of the
board of assessors of Spartanburg city (
-ebool district, wrote to the comptroi- ,
. Tuesday in regard to this same
alter, and asks if building and loan
ompanies should not return the ^
value of all credits and evidences of
credit on the first day of the year. In ]
Spartanburg the custom has been to <
return surplus cash on each series on ]
that date, but no account is taken of
money loaned on collaterals.
WILL IT WORK A HARDSHIP? !
Maj. John H. Earle of Greenville, attorney
for the Carolina Loan and
Trust company, also filed a complaint <
with the comptroller. He emphasised i
the statements that "we have no fixed 1
capital," "strictly mutual," "all loans
on taxed real estate," "?ot a bank," (
'do not take deposits," "make no loans j
on endorsed notes," "generally have
an overdraft," etc. The complaint concludes:
"If this little company has to pay (
the high rate of tax here on the mortgages
it holds in trust. It will run them (
out of business for we cannot pay both 1
on real estate and on our assumed
capital stock, which is represented by j
said real estate."
In reply to the comptroller general.
Mr. Townsend said that building and
loan companies are to be taxed as
other companies and he cited a decision
of the Illinois supreme court to <
show that it would not be double tax- ]
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LAW J is 11. UUHUIU5 ouu iA/au aoovvia- ^
tions should be required to return all
loans secured by mortgages on real J
estate for taxation at their full value."
Three farmers Shot. 2
Greenwood, Special.?Robert G. 1
Cheatham, Robert Quattlebaum and
Clebe Penn, three neU known white
farmers of the Phoenix section, were
seriously shrot from ambush at 2 ]
o'clock Thursday morning at some
place below Callison, a postofflce about '
ten miles below hei". Mr. Cheatham
received a charge of buckshot in the 1
upper part of his body, his hands, arms ]
and chest receiving the load. Although j
at close range his physician thinks
that the wounds are not necessarily fa- J
tal. He will recover unless some com- 1
plications set is. Mr. Quattlebauno had (
his left arm broken and also received j
some flesh wounds in the upper part of 1
the body. Mr. Penn's wound was made 1
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by a charge of bird shot which centered
in the calf of the left.
Although the shooting occurred at 2
o'clock in the morning no news of it
was received here until after midday,
then the report was very meagre as to
details and is yet as for that. No one
f. cm that section seems to know anything
about it. Dr. B. W. Cobb of thi3
place was summoned, but he has not
yet returned. The ?act3 as to the
wounds were obtained from Dr. .T. L.
Ward of Phoenix, who was the first
physician to reach the wounded men.
It is reported that thr shooting was
done by negroes and that seven or
eight volleys were exchanged. Those
who really know are extremely re
ticlent.
LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS.
Many Matters of General Interest In
Short Paragraphs.
The Sunny Touth.
Flood conditions still cause great
apprehension and much danger la the
West.
James R. Kecne, though ill, continued
his battle with the Harriman interests
for Southern Pacific control.
Plaquemine, La., Special.?The river
at this point rose four-tenths during
the past 24 hours. The gauge this
evening reads 33 1-2. The back water
on Bayou Plaquemine and Lower
Grand river is higher at this time
than in 1897. A number of arrests have
been made by the levee inspectors of
parties riding on the levees. The
levees are in splendid condition.
At The National Capital.
The office of Director of the Census
has been offered to Mr. S. N. D. North,
of Boston.
The State Department is hopeless of
any fruits coming from the proposed
Alaska boundary arbitration.
A verdict of acquittal was found in
the case of Easign Ward K. Wortman
in connection with the explosion on
the battleship Massachusetts.
J. . Pierpont Morgan conferred with
President Roosevelt at the White
House.
Mr. Geoj-ge Uhler, president of the
Marine Engineers' Association of the
United States, will succeed Gen. Jas.
A. Dumont. chief of the steamboat inspection
service.
At The North.
A 82.000.000 ovster combine was or
ganized at Providence, R. I.
Dr. R. C. Flower was arrested in
NTew York on a warrant charging him
with grand larceny.
Clovernook, the home of Alice and
Phoebe Cary, near College Hill, Ohio,
has been sold.
The Fire Department of Lafayette,
Ind., turned a stream of water on
riotous students of Purdue University.
Miss Maude Mullock, of Washington,
D. C., was hurt in a railroad wreck
cear Mahoningtown, Pa.
In a suit against the executor of
Lhe estate of C. B. Rouss, in New York,
the mother of the plaintiff, Miss Edna
Weller McClellan, told of an alleged
settlement of $35 a week on her daughter.
From Across The Sea.
The Czar of Russia issued a decree
granting religious freedom throughout
his domains and ordering other reforms.
Lord Granville Gordon received a
tetter from his wife, who is in France.
The debate on religious orders was
apened in the French Chamber of Dep
II11C9.
Lord Minto opened the Canadian
Parliament
An effort will be made to get the
Pope's consent to allow his jubilee
gifts to be exhibited at the St. Louis
Exposition.
John Redmond was the principal
speaker at a St. Patrick's Day banquet
n London.
The Reichstag budget committee vot;d
In favor of appropriating $750,000
for Germany's exhibit at the St Louis
:air.
Sir Robert Reid urged in the House
)f Commons that international action
se taken to limit naval armaments.
King George of Saxony wrote an
jpen letter to his people blaming Princess
Louise entirely for the recent
court scandal.
Russia and France favor granting
China's request to have the Chinese
cariff dues collected in gold.
A revolution has broke out In Urojuay.
Miscellaneous Hatters.
Another day's testimony in the Burlick
inquest at Buffalo threw much
ight on the facts surrounding the
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nurder, but ianea iu mssujuac u?
juilty person.
Levees and railway embankments
ire breaking along the Mississippi and
3ood conditions are very grave.
Mysterious Dynamite Explosion.
Bluefield, W. Va., Special.?A large
dox of dynamite exploded at noon tolay,
near the Norfolk & Western staion.
Three laborers were probably family
injured and a score are more or
ess seriously hurt. Articles in a
louse a half mile away were jarred
ind all the property in the immediate
vicinity of the explosion was considerably
damaged. Over 500 window
jlasses were broken, and Princeton
ivenue for half a block is practically
i wreck. The cause of the explosion is
inknown.
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THE EXTRA SESSION
The Senate Stil! Talking on tho Cana
Treaty.
The Democratic Senators at thei;
caucus resolved to stand together ii
the Senate In support of two amend
meats to the Panama Canal treaty
One of these provides for the modiflca
tion ot the twenty-third article of th<
treaty so as to insure tne control or tn<
canal zone by the United States, anc
the other enlarges the provision in th<
fourth article of the treaty which is J
disavowal on the part of the United
States of any intention to "increase iti
territory at the expense of Columbia
or of the sister republics In Central 01
South America," so as to lnclucb
Mexico. With reference to the lattei
amendment there was considerable debate.
Many of the Senators advocated
an amendment striking out the provision
entirely and practically all of then:
agreed that it had no place in the
agreement, but it was concluded thai
as it had been incorporated and would
probably remain, the best policy would
be to make an effort to modify rathe:
than to remove it. Mexico was incorporated
because it was urged that the
people of that country are as sensitive
as those of any other about maintaini
n cr f ho intoo'Hfv a# hnli? AAtinfmr on A
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also as much entitled to the guarantj
as any other .
All the Democratic Senators except
Mr. Dubois, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Morgan,
Mr. McLaurin, Mr. Clark, ol
Arkansas, and Mr. Gibson were present.
It was the understanding that
all the Democrats would support the
two amendments agreed upon, but
alter they are voted upon individual
shall be at liberty to vote for 01
against the treaty as they may elect
It was alao the understanding that
some of the Democratic Senators
would support some of Senator Morgan's
individual amendments, but they
will do so as individual Senators, not
as members of the Democratic caucus.
Democratic Senators who participated
in the caucus say that whether amended
cr no t.the treaty is sure of ratification.
The amendment suggested to the
twenty-third article of the treaty givtwentshrdlu
shrdlu s'nrdlu shrdluluuu
ing the government of the United
States the exclusive right to police and
protect the canal, is practically that offered
by Senator Eacon on Saturday,
! with some verbal changes. This
amendment makes the control of the
United States over the canal absolute
and exclusive, and its right to police
i and protect the same, is under no cir[
cumstances dependent upon the request
or Invitation of the republic of
Colombia.
The other amendment agreed upon
was to article four of the treaty, relating
to the policy of the United States
towards other Central and Southern
American republics, the language of
the amendment being as follows:
"The United States, following their
uniform established policy in regard to
their sister republic in America, freely
acknowledge and recognize the sovereignty
of the republic of Colombia
and disavow any intention to impair it
in any way whatever or to increase
their territory at the expense of Co
lombia, but most earnestly desire her
peace and prosperity."
After the adjournment of the caucus,
Senator Oorman, as chairman, and
Senator C3rmack, as secretary, of the
caucus, gave out the following statement
concerning the last mentioned
amendment:
"This amendment qualifies the language
of the treaty to the extent of
making a simple affirmation of the
established policy of the government
against the policy of territorial acquisition
at the expense of sister republics
in America, and acknowledges
the sovereignty of the republic of Colombia.
There was strong objection to
the language of the treaty in this respect,
because it was thought to be an
impertinence to enter into an engagement
with Colombia for the protection
of other South American republics,
thus in a manner recognizing that republic
as the representative of all the
others and giving her a sort of primacy
among them.
"The language of the treaty is also
broadened in that the amendment asserts
this policy of the United States
with reference to all the American republics
while the treaty confines its
pledges to those of Central and South
America, studiously omitting Mexico,
which Is the republic most sensitive
and apprehensive of aggressions on the
part of the United States.
"The language of the treaty also
goes to the extent of declaring it to
be the policy of the United States to
maintain the teparate independence of
all the Central and Soutn American republics,
not solely as against European
powers, but as against each other.
This was believed to be contrary to the
true policy of the United States, which
is not concerned with the internal arrangements
of these republics, but only
with their defense and protection
against the outside world, in accordance
with the principles of the Monroe
doctrine."
Treaty Accepted.
Without dotting an "i" or crossing
a "t," even without changing a single
punctuation mark, the Senate voted to
ratify the treaty with the republic of
olumbia, for the construction of an
isthmian canal. The vote for ratification
was 73 in the affirmative to 5 in
the negative. The Senate was in executive
session when the result was
announced, so that only the Senators
themselves and a few confidential employes
were present. All the Senators
announced themselves as gratified to
have the long struggle terminated, hut
none of them manifested their appreciation
by cheers or hand-clapping. On
the contrary, all of them seemed more
concerned about getting away from the
chamber than about anything else, so
that by the time the Senate could adjourn,
which it did almost immediately
after the result was announced, most
of the Senators had left their seats and
some of them had donned their haLi
and oreribaM.
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Last night I read to my family po:
tions of a long article by a preacht
| describing the sad condition of a pet
pie he has recently visited. Out of or
3 hundred and sixty-eight towns in tt
3 State he visited seventy of them thi
j are off from the railroads, and all <
these have decreased in populatic
since 1890. None of these towns ha\
* settled pastors or preachers and th
I ehurches are abandoned or ha\
j preaching at irregular intervals and tt
attendance hardly ever exceeds twentj
five persons. The Sabbath schools ai
r equally deserted, lue once busy plant
, of small industries are dead and tt
. people farm only for the bare neccss
ties of life. Houses, barns and fence
are going to decay and the little mil]
I that were on the creeks have tumble
. down and the dams have washed awaj
Here and there you will see a statel
1 mansion sheltering some degenerat
i family in the back rooms while th
t vacant front greets you with the silenc
I of the tomb. Sometimes you will fin
an old man and woman alone in a
1 old ancestral home. I found a mothe
and her two sons and two old maid
in one house not one of whom coul
read. The intermarriage of near rela
tives or not marrying at all is commo
and bachelor and divorced men an
wodowers have housekeepers and the
[ unblushingly cohabit with them an
r young girls become grass widows b
the time they are sixteen.
"Where ib all this?" said my wif<
"I don't believe a word of it. Itiis som
newspaper lie?a fake made up b
some reporter." I read on. In one tow
I found the usual Saturday night danc
going on in an old vacated tavern an
they danced and develled and dran
until Sunday morning. Sunday is n
more observed than it is in Chicagt
'; for they hoe and dig and gatner na
i all the same as on week days. Illltei
j acy, Insanity and imbecility are ver
5 marked! I found one family in whic
both parents were idiots and had raise
| j up a family of idiots. In another horn
, j or house I found a poor father takin
'f care of three motherless children, a!
j idiots.
"I don't believe a word of it," sai
[ j my wife. "There is no such people 1
(this country. What paper are you read
i ing from?"
t One can hardly conceive of the flit
and vice reigning in these countr
places called homes?a barbarism dil
fering from the city slums only in it
stagnant inertia and touched as littl
I by church influences as if in the hear
of Africa. Tfie country people all ove
j the State are generally without ambl
! tion, improvident, ignorant, not abl
to read or write, loose in their famil;
j relations, socially corrupt, given t
drink, and some to the opium habil
And these are the towns where, half
century ago. lived the best families o
, the State. Among them the Field
(Cyrus and his brother), the Abbottf
the Barnes and Donald G. Mitchell am
others.
And now let me tell you, my dea
wifp t am readine from The Hartfor
| Times and this is only a short portioi
of the report read in New Haven re
j cently by Rev. Mr. Hutchins, a Bibl
colporteur, of Connecticut.
This report is fully accredited to b
true and the editor-of The Times trie
to tone it down by saying, "The sam
| conditions described by Mr. Hutchin
j for Connecticut are common to all th
older States." Rev. George Horr, o
Massachusetts, is also a Bible colpor
teur for that State and he said in Bos
ton the other day, 'I have driven aJ
over New England with my own horse
and my conviction is there is no im
morality in any western mining towi
that will compare with what you fini
a few mWes from any New Englan*
town. Mr. Hutchins' observation cor
responds exactly with my own."
#r Unrlo bin/1 fripnrls what 1
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to be done about this. But the edito
of The Times is mastaken when hi
says the same conditions are commoi
to all the older States. We have n<
sbuch people in Georgia. In some o
our mountain counties the people an
illiterate, but they are honest an<
moral and attend church and observi
the marriage relation and obey thi
laws of the land and make the bes
soldiers the *orld ever saw. They hav<
courts twice a year and it takes onl]
a half a week to clear the crimiua
dockets.
Now, I was thinking that as Bostoi
and Hartford and New Haven had sea
a big lot of money down here to eau
cate and reform our negroes it woul<
be nothing but fair for us to send a lo
of the graduates up there to do mis
sionary work in Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts. These negro graduate!
couldn't teach them the lost art o
making wooden nutmegs, but the]
could teach school and preach and th<
New England people could pay then
for it and keep their money at home
Something must be done and doni
quick, or the old Puritan race will become
extinct. I reckon these colorec
graduates would make good mission
aries. They have never tried anything
elese.
When my good friend Mr. T. K
Oglesby sent me his book, "Som<
Truths of History?The South Vindicated,"
I was too sick to peruse i!
carefully. Since I have gotten better ]
have reread it?every page?and an
free to say it is the most comforting
little book of 260 pages I have yei
found. It is masterly and as true and
solid as a stone wall. He has certainlj
vindicated the South and nailed th<
I lies and slanders to the masthead. ]
feel like I have a aeiencier in mme u?u
household, and yet there is not a malignant
expression in It. It is gracefully
done and would bring conviction to any
mind, North or South, that was open
to conviction. Every youth in the land
should buy a copy and absorb its contents,
for It is as readable as a romance.
I regard it as the best contribution
to Southern historical literature
that has yet appeared. Send $1.25 to
Mr. Oglesby, No. 8 South Broad street,
Atlanta, Ga. It seems to me that this
book would convert a Northern fanatic
and if it converted only one it would
save a soul from death and hide a multitude
of sins. And there has recently
come to me the March number of The
Alkahest, a first-class Southern magazine,
and I find in It a very remarkable
article, "The Stages of Civilization,"
by Mr. Frank Orme, of Atlanta.
I did net think that the Frank Ohne
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? I used to know was old aiough to hara
S written an article so scientific, so "jra
5 philosophical, so Huxleyllke on the ra- *v|
ces of mankind. Most of the article is
an analytical history of the principal
j? races and the causes that contributed
? to their advancement or their decay. aj
- The latter part deals gently and fair- Jcfc
ly with the negro and our efTorts to
r* elevate and refine him by education.
^ From Mr. Orme's viewpoint and the
I laws or etnnoiogy *uu uiuiugj hm?
l? cannot be done and the effort will be
' In vain. But I have not time or space
to review his admirable treatise. Let
if our thoughtful men. our wise men, our
' learned professors in the college read . \
re It and they will find abundant food \
te for thought and serious reflection. Mr.
Orme seems as familiar with enthnole
logy, biology, anthropology, sociology '
r- and all the other ologies as Huxley or
Humboldt or Darwin. We old veterans
:a are pleased to see our young men takie
ing hold of these things. Ever since the
1- war our people have seemed almost
;s paralyzed for fear of making their conla
dition more intolerable by talking but
d of late there is a renewal of independr.
ence and younger men are coming to
y the front. The sale of Henry R. Jack;
son's great speech on "The Wanderer"
>e has exceeded my expectations and It \
:e was a young man who projected that? t.
d not for money but for the diffusion of /!
n knowledge.
T And here Is a long article in a Dea
's Moines paper from a woman who has
d been recently traveling through Texas
l- hunting for something she wanted to
a find and she found it. It was some very f
d high weeds In the front yard of one
y home?and at another house was a wod
man sitting on a log dipping snuff and>
y she had lost all her front teeth. Another
discovery was that Texas women .i
- don't do anything. They won't work
e the garden or raise chickens or churn
y the butter and if one was caught at It
II she would be taken up and put In a
a -I J .-..i. Ik ? OA T /vntfl !
" glass case ana Bent iu uie ou uuu? *
d fair as a curiosity. What a malignant
k slanderer she is. She winds up by say0
ing that the people there hate the : j
negro so bad that if the whole' race
J had but one neck they would chop it
off. I know Texas from eaBt to west
jf and north to south and the people will
d average well with the better class in -tM
d the older States. When will these slan- J
e ders cease? The March number of The
S Review of Reviews has a most excel11
lent editorial oil the South and her
people. It is kind and considerate
d until it gets to Roosevelt and it gives
n him the most falsome praise and de- ,,]
clares that he is our friend. But I want v
Mr. Shaw to tell,me !f he can about
d when will Roosevelt retract his pub- , 4
y lished slanders of Jefferson Davis and
' make an apology to his wodiw. That's
; what I want to know and until he does
? that no words of praise will prove him
1 to be either a gentleman or a friend. , 'te
r ?Bill Arp. in Atlanta Constitution.
0 REBUILDING A TREE.
f Broken Down by an Ice Storm, It is
s in Its Oldtime Beauty.
|j Every passing storm seemed to
wreak its vengeance on' the big elm .
r tree that grew by the roadside. One
1 late winter morning we awoke to find
a the world transformed by Ice on every
" tree and burfi. In wonderland amaze- V-'
6 ment we looked abroad. But In front ?'
e of us the elm tree lay a shapeless
g mass, broken and splintered by the
e weight of ice. Already vhe tree hitf
teen endeared to us by its many
e hardships, m which all the family had
* sympathized. The tree must not
perish now. \
j With ropes and pulleys the great
? limbs, some of them now several
1 inches in diameter, were drawn back
i to their places; for every one of
i them still clung to the parent stock
1 by a strip of bark and wood kt its
- base. Iron bolts were made from
half inch rodi, long enough to reach
* through branch and stock Just above
0 the split. With loDg augur, half inch r
j holes were bored through the tree the
j bolts driven in tight and then drawn
f ui) by means of a nut and thread. A
? large head and washer, and another
' washer under the nut at the other
? end, prevented the ends of the bolt
^ from drawing into the wood. So ' |
g tightly was the branch drawn to the
f trunk that no gaping crack was l^t, . *
1 and the crease was heremetically
sealed with melted wax. Then higher ' J
1 up, between brancner two or tnree j
* feet apart, other rods were run to * m
" hold all the members in place. We f|
knew that If the belts fitted tightly in 'm1'
their holes no harm would come to the J'.,
. tree; but that if bands were placed M
s about the tranches they would soon /
f crease and girdle the parts and work /
f much harm. When the storm had/
3 passed the dear tree stood in its cui/
1 toraary mood, and all the following
' summer it grew as if with reaewed
determination.?Country Life in
j America.
Educating Awkward Sea Lions.
A half dozen slippery, shapeless
5 seals and sea lions floundering about
' sn the stage,croaking and barking?
^ and doing some very wonderful things
! besides?do not seem in the least dan;
gerous or formidable, but there is
t hardly any thing more painful and
1 serious than the bite of one of these
curious beasts. Mr. Charles Judge,
r who has trained them for years, is
1 '1 - frr\m thA attack* of
uauijr outt i vu ??vim
. these peculiar half land animals, half
- fish. The bite of the sea lion is poisonous;
besides, it is an ugly wound
1 from the manner in which it is in1
flicted.
Although the creature moves painfully
and slowly on land, the motion of
, its head and neck Is extremely quick.
] The neck seems to have an aimost
elastic quality. One is surprised at its
i reach. The sea lion is like a bull dog.
When he has caught hold he does not
let go at once, but sets his teeth firmly
in the flesh. Then he twists his head,
the teeth being still embedded in the
flesh; and without relinquishing his
grip he gives a quick Jerk. The result
is to pull out a ragged piece of flesh, if
the animal has gotten a deep hold.??
1 Leslie's Weskily.
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