Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

"He stood beside her while she slowly regained a sitting posture. "She belly dangerous. Me go tell Munlo. She fight-me kick." The poor creature now seemed dazed and broken and began to weep, and -with her tears became as abjectly piti? ful as pathetically tawdry, as she bad been hideous and menacing in ber .wrath. Ann shuddered with a bitter nausea, a disorder that was half phys? ical weakness., half mental repulsion. TJriere was something ghastly beyond words in this creature sitting in ut? ter abandonment in her rumpled fin <ery, which the pitiless sun dissected. Stooping, she took the miserable one t>y the arm. "Get up. You must not sit there." Slowly the woman rose, all thought ot revenge swallowed up in a wave of maudlin self pity. "You're all agin j (xne-all of ye! I guess you wouldn't j like it to have your husband stolen by j another woman. You let me alone!? j she said to Woo, with a flash of anger. | ~You pigtail, what business you got to j lay hands on a white lady?" The creature began to pour forth a flood of vile epithets, directed toward the patient Woo, who tried again and again to lift her and was in the midst of .a howl of wrath when Matt came round the comer of the house. "What's all this?" he asked sh?rply. The woman suddenly rose to her feet, well aware that a man had arrived, and begai to mumble and weep again. Nora ran to her husband. "Oh. Matt, i2rive her away. She tried to kill us." "Who is she? Who are you, and what are you doing here anyway?" The woman, quite dismayed, began j to retreat. "It's all right. She prom? ised, i'm going now." Woo explained: "She Munlo's wife. Belry dlunk-ailee same clazy. Take j om gun-go shoot lady." He pointed I at Ann. "Me choke-nm. She fall on j .glound. ND get up. Nola catchee gun." i Kelly followed the invader. "You go j back to where you came from and stay ! there or 'twill be the worse for ye, ye j anurderir/ omadhaun." Ann went to her room and flung j herself clown upon her bed *in such j abasement as she had never known in j .all her life. She could not deceive | .herself. She had brought this norri- j .ble assauft upon herself by something j more than tolerance of Munro. The woman's ignorance and taste-1 lessness. her common voice, her badly ^fitting garments, her incredible base- ! ness of speech, all came back. "Ann ! Rupert a rival to that being!" Of course she had never for an instant di? rectly encouraged Munro, and yet he j bad appealed to her and she had lis- ? ten&d. "Rob should have warned me," she { -complained, her mind going back to the ? inan she could trust. At the moment*! she could not see or would not" ac? knowledge that Raymond had ventured .as far as he dared in revealing Mun? ro's private life. She-was ..too angry [ with herself and every one around her j "to be just. As her flaming wrath died she grew cold and bitter. "This is "what comes of going outside one's own proper world. ? shall leave the peak j at o' ce, and I hope I shall never see it j "or hear it spoken of again." &>S&&*,>"'r~~ -^-.^=- - . - ST '" ' CHAPTER XVII. TH NX'S disgust and bitterness of j f\ self accusation wore awi?y as . I \ she faced the resolving sun- ! JL. light and measured her scars : against the breast of mighty Mogalyou. j In the dawn of the second day the in- ' cident, having lost much of its shame : and terror, was debatable, and under Matt's kindly counsel she reached a certain resignation. "No one but ourselves need know j what took piace." he said in conclusion. ' ""Woo is no talebearer, and when the woman herself sobers off she'll not re- . member a word of it. Furthermore, I warned her that Jack would wring her neck if he knew what she had done. So I wouldn't give another thought of it-not one." XTU try to forget it." she promised humbly, but she could not at once put the experience out of mind. F-he could only wait for that besotted face to fade into a grisly apparition. In the end she pitied The poor woman who loved and wr.s willing to defend her love. Raymond was chilled by the change in Ann-by a return to the cold aloof? ness of her manner at Barnett's-and was profoundly troubled by it. The day following the woman's visit Monro rode down as usual to call and seamed amazed when Mrs. Kelly greet? ed Bim 1 f?d?y. "Ann does not want to see you or any one else this morning- 1 yon least of an." Mnnr > visited. "Another cold blast. It's sure drafty up here on thc side bill, isn't it? What do you suppose is the cause of it." From the inner room a clear, low voice, icy as a mountain stream, re? plied, "Miss Rupert ls not receiving Captain Munro today or at any other time." He took a step toward the door. | "What have I done to get a crack like ; tb at?" Hie door closed with a decided jar 1 and a bolt slid. i "Munro bowed. "I understand. I lake the hint. But some day when you are feeling jolly I'd like to know what bas frosted the air down here-among the aspens." : i ??M-IIIIB -o-i ur fi-?-s fi z GARLAND r HAMLIN GARLAND - : -I -r,-^-u -T-? I "I can tell you," said Nora, with t directness of a woman who has kno*; i rough men all her life. "Ann has leai ? ed the kind of life you live, and she c ! spises the sight of your face." I For the first time in his life Mun was confounded. He stood for a m I ment revolving an explanation. At la ! he said, "You mustn't take an enemj report of me." , I "We do not," said Nora calml j "Your wife has called on us." "My wife!" "The woman who calls herself yoi wife. 'Tis all one so far as we a concerned." v Munro frowned. "Claire calle Here? Then with a leer that was cha acteristic of him, he added, "I hope ye * had a pleasant chat." "Ask her. She did all the talkin'." j Munro became very serious and vei winning. "Now, see here, Nora" "Call me Mrs. Kelly," she interpose shortly. He was not smiling now. His nea was in his voice. "You tell Ann not 1 misjudge me. She must give me chance to square myself. I don't elah to be a saint, but I've been open an aboveboard with every man or woma I've ever had any dealings with. Wha ever my past has been, I'm Jivmg on different plane now. I've cut off a my old habits for her sake. I'm tryin to live up to her standard of things, know she's better than I am, but I ca climb. My family is as good as hers, started right, and with the help of good woman I can get back to where was. I claim the work I'm doing her is worthy her approval. Ask her to le me see her again." Nora turned her face toward Ann1 door and both waited in silence, bu no sound came from the inner roon and Nora, seeing suffering in the line of his face, said more kindly: "Yema; as well go. The door will not open t you this day nor any other." Munro turned and went out wit' ; bowed head, and Nora could not doub I; the sincerity.of Inseam. One morning Ann rose to a singula ; light. In place of the clear, golde? sun shine which had so often glorified he room a blue-gray mist lay thick agains her window pane. Raising the sash, she put her hand into it-it was lik smoke, dry and cold! Dressing fror riedly she entered the sitting room where Matt was helping his sons t< dress. She- stepped to the door and look? om: with vague- alarm. The vapor ha< blotted out the world. Nothing coui( be seen but the faint forms of one a two cabins aifd a ciump of nearby trees, and she went back shivering anc a little depressed. "I don't like t< leave the peak on such a day," she sak at last. "I think I'll stay till the sui comes out. I want to think of it as ii has been-radiant and inspiriting." The cloud hung moveless for hours impenetrable, yet resisting. A husl was in the air as though some disaster concealed as yet, was about to be dis covered. Abou* 10 o'clock as she stood on the steps wondering whether tc cress to the bungalow or not Raymond burst from the obscurity. "Good morning," called Ann. "Isn't this a strange effect?" His eyes were shining, his face pale and his voice vibrant as he abruptly said: "Come with me; the time has come. I want to talk with you." "What has happened?" she asked in alarm. He took her by the arm. "You prom? ised to listen. You are not afraid of me, are you?" "No, but I do not understand. Where is Louis? Has anything happened to him?" "Louis is safe with Kelly. I want to see you because things have happened to me. Come, I must see you alone." They moved off up the path toward the overlook, and, notwithstanding her brave words, the girl wavered in the gust of this man's overmastering ex? citement. The mist closed round them, all signs of other human presence dis? appeared, and they soon stood alone in a world of gray light wherein neither sky nor horizon line appeared. All that remained of the earth was a little strip of ground beneath their feet. Raymond stopped at last and held toward Ann a small, irregular piece of rock. "Do you see that?" he hoarsely inquired. She took it wonderingly. "Is it ore?" "Yes, an 1 'i's heavy with gold./ Kel? ly's luck h. won again. We've open? ed a vein ti ; will make us both rich." There was :. ? tremor or doubt in his tone. "Oh. Fm s'i glad!" she cried out, with unaffected ? lensure. "Now Mrs. Kelly can gi> to I . ' iii ibo valley.*' "Never mind the I.- ilys now." he cried out impatiently. "1 have a great deal to say to you, :md i want to say it here. I'm going t<? try and win you." His manner was exultant, his voice tense with passion. "I am bold to reck? lessness today." He had never been humble. Now he rose above her, masterful, an av< wed lover, and his eyes burning down into hers made her shrink and shiver as if from cold. He misread the movement. "Areyou warm enough?" he asked tenderly. "I hope you are. for I want to tell you explain to you-why I am here. Let t.*t ?ir?"<." Tr<> indicated J* fiat wv "TV.- is ci on I; ... i) unity. .">!J pj G wm know-no one can see us. "TT you listen?" "I will listen," she sair'. quietly ai took a seat, drawing brr cloak abo' her. He took a seat a lit de in front, i that he could see her face, which w; radiant as a rose in the mist. "I*1 been trying to write you a letter ev* since you came. I wanted to set m self right with you on Louis' accour I love the lad, and I wanted you know that I was trying to do hi good." "I know that. I trust you now." "That assurance is sweet to me, bi I want to teil you now that the on mystery in my life is this: I am West Point cadet-I mean, I was" ? ""Were you, really?" She looked ; him with such unmistakable relief ar gladness that he faltered, j "Wait I was only there two year I was court martialed for breach < discipline and gross insubordination J the beginning of my third year." I He hastened on. "You mustn't judi me hastily. It came on my return ai er furlough. That's the time when tl routine and discipline pinch harde on the men. After two years of grit that I hated I had a visit home-a d licious free time-and to get back in school, back into those cold, gray ba racks, was like going into a strai i jacket. The first few weeks after tl ! vacation are times of disorder, a perk ; of boyish deviltry, and I took my shai j in it. My breach of discipline wc nothing more than a boy's frolic, i should have beeu punished for it, an that would have ended it, but I hate one of tlie ofhcers, the disciplinaria] and when he rounded me up he raspe me till I lost my head..- Being a quic tempered youth, I answered him. H abused me shamefully, and I struc him in the face, and that ended m stay at West Point." "Oh, how foolish! How wrong!" I "No, it was not wrong. 1 would d it again. The small sneak used a ton in addressing' me which no man has right to use to another. You wouldn' suppose ? tone could hurt, but it die > It cut like a lash. Well, that ende my career as a soldier. M^j^iome wa on the Ohio river, not far from Cincir nati, and my family still lives there Our whole country is rich in tradition of General Grant, and my father ba< \ selected me out of all his sons to b the soldier of his family. You knoT how some men try to map their sons : careers. Don't you see, I couldn't gi home?" I "Yes, I can see it was hard for you: father. Was your mother living?" I "Yes, she's living yet. I write he: every week, but not one word ha; passed between my father and m< since my dismissal. Naturally enough I drifted west and into cattle ranching I liked the excitement of it, and Vc been trained to ride and to shoot ] gradually became cow boss and fore man, anel so you found me, with a few thousand dollars saved up. Your com? ing changed every current in my life I became ambitious to do something to be rich. I came here, I bought this mine, and there shines my gold." H? held it toward her again. "Now I can go home. My court martial becomes a joke. Don't you see? My father is human. He would not receive me poor and disgraced. With a big mine behind me the case will be different" ""Are we all purchasable."with gold?" she asked. His high mood sank a little. "Don't misjudge me. It's not so clear in my mind as when I met you at the door. Money does help-you know it does. It extends a man's power; it makes him effective for good, if good is in him. I was a rancher when you met me; we stood in a different relation from that which we occupy now. Isn't that true?" "Yes," she slowly answered, "but It isn't because of your mine." "What is it because of?" "It is because you have been kind and considerate of my brother." He looked disappointed. "Is that all? I hoped you liked me for myself." "I do-like you," she answered. "Can you not love me?" "Do not press me." She spoke sharp? ly, a flash of resentment in her eyes. "I didn't intend to do so," he humbly replied. "I feat I've made a mess of it, just as I have with all the rest of my life. But this morning when we un? covered that vein it seemed as though I had a chance to recover my place in the world. I've wasted ten years of my life masquerading here and there, but that is finished. Since I saw you life began to be serious business with me. You smile, but you know what I mean, and if you would only give me time I would make you proud of me." He paused and looked about him. The mist seemed lightening, as if infiltrated with a golden vapor. It was in motion also, and far to the westward small patches of blue sky showed momen? tarily. "It is clearing." he said in a quiet voice, though his eyes were wet. "The west wind is setting in." The beauty of the girl as she faced him there in the mist was shining, all conquering in its pulse and glow. "I love you, and I want you to know it. Some lime I will ask you to be my wife." "Yuu must not do that." she cried out. ..Von will only lead up to disap? pointment. Don't you see how impos? sible it is: You are of ibo west, I am a city dweller. 1 am not titted to help you. My erhole lit'?- and training have been such that 1 am totally unfitted for the life you would lead. LMease do not misread me. lt is not a question of your wealth or your poverty. It's my own way of life, my own mind. I \ don't want to burt you. but I must teli you that ii is impossible to think of- : quito impossible!" and she turned away toward the cabin, now half disclosed. Tin- door ^vas open and Kelly ami ; tho two lads wore on tlie floor picking at a small sack or ore. Mrs. Kelly looked uj> ai Ann. laughing, with tears on her checks. '"I don't b? Heve it. nov | one -\ !.??..- ' /. nd if .-. .. . .?. Rob I want you to keep "it for us." "Yes," said Kelly, 'Tve been of use to you in finding it; now do you be of use to me in keeping it." "I will, Matt!" said Raymond, and the two men shook hands on a new compact. Both Matt and Nora were too engrossed with their new found riches to observe the deep sadness of Raymond's face. "Now," said Kelly, "watch out for .Curran. He'll bate us out of it if he can. I depend on you to stand off the lawyers and the gamblers." "The mist is rising." called Ann . ?- r: ur "" ? ?'-ry, " Jt?gx---; - ... ? "Hove you, and I want you to know it." from The "doorway. As she spoke a tremendous report arose from the obscurity where the fog still clung. "Now, what was that?" queried Matt and all stood transfixed with surprise and vague apprehension. Another and duller report followed one that shook the ground. Kelly rush? ed to the door just in time to see a vast balloon shaped cloud of smoke rise ma? jestically above the mist, bulging into the blue sky above. "Now they've done it!" he called in a curiously reflective tone that was al? most comic. "What was that?" asked Ann. "Some crazy divil under cover of the mist has dynamited the Red Star shaft house." Even as they waited, listening to faint cries, the wind swept the hillside clear, and Kelly's fears were verified, mist has dynamited the Red Star shaft house and mill lay scattered over its dump, and toward it the whole camp seemed hastening. "Oh, the unholy jackasses!" mutter? ed Kelly. "They've opened the door to the witches now. Come, Rob. We may be the next to suffer." CHAPTER XVIII. THE blowing up of the Red Star mill and shaft house shook the entire district with its possibili? ties of further violence and con? cealed beneath its dust and smoke the rich discovery in the Kelly mine. The partners had time to calculate chances and plan for the buying in of the prop? erty. % i The din of controversy was deafen? ing. The labor leaders disclaimed all knowledge of the outrage and roundly condemned it for the foolishly destruc- j tive act it really was. Kelly marched in among them like a grizzly bear and stormed thunderously. "You are re- j sponsible," he growled. "You sit here and send out appeals to the world while these hounds work their will. Where was Munro and his regulators?" "They can't be everywhere," ex? plained Carter. "No one supposed such a thing could happen in the day- j light" ! "Ye're all a set o' chicken heads, j Ye've created a power ye ean'l control. ! I give ye notice that if ye don't go after the thieves that did this work I'll organize a vigilance committee and take charge of the whole gang of yez." i And he strode out of the room, leaving the officers of the union disgraced and angry. He confessed to Raymond on his return that it was a foolish action. \ "It was, Matt. You couldn't have done a worse thing. A large number : of these dago miners already consider 1 us their enemies, and this will confirm j them. We might as well take steps to- | night to get our party of the third part . in some sort of organization." j All this excitement and worry aided ? Raymond in tiding over the day, but j when midnight came and the commit- j tee had slipped away into the night his sense of loss and a feeling of loneliness took possession of him. Ann had an? nounced her intention to return to the Springs at the end of the week, ami, though she had vaguely promised to visit the peak again. Raymond was not . deceived. "She's quite right." he admitted to his better judgment. "A mining camp is no place for her or for Nora. Shu ;4 the destruction of that mill it is even less desirable than before as a place of residence." While on his way to the bungalow the following afternoon he met Munro | accompanying a stranger, a big. blond, handsome fellow in a gray traveling ; suit and soft hat. His face WMS plump and his brown beard close clipped, and, though he realized that he was more or less in durance, his eyes were smil? ing. Munro called out, "Rob, do you know this chap?" "1 do not." Munro turned to his prisoner. "1 thought you were lying." The stranger remained untroubled. "I didn't say 1 knew Mr. Raymond. I ..'..-..iv <;):,] that I wanted you to take "Wayne Peabody, aa old time friend of Miss Rupert Will you please explain to this knight of the hills that I am in nowise interested in his strike?" Raymond looked at him keenly. So this was the eastern lover-this fat, fair man. "I think I have heard of you," he beganslowly. Louis"' arrival relieved the awkward? ness of the moment "Hello, Mr. Pea? body, how did you get here?" Tea body caught at the boy's hand. "Well, well, Louis, I'm glad to see you. You saved my life. How is Ann?" "Fine! You ought to see her work. She's brown as oak. Come on, I'll take you to her. Gee. she'll be glad to see you!" As Peabody excused himself and made off, Munro, with a world of meaning in his voice, softly swore. "Well, if I'd known that I would have killed him and laid him away under a little rock. She turned me down flat the other day, and it hurt. It hurts worse now that I've seen the other man. I really hoped you were the win? ner." "She's out of our world, Jack," re? plied Raymond, and a large part of his resentment of Munro's impertinence vanished with the knowledge that he was a fellow sufferer in despair. Munro went on gravely: "She had me going, sure thing. Why, I stopped ! drinking-just as I told you I would I and I cut off Claire- Say, boy, that j was a severe job! She raised dust for j a day or- two, but when the queen of \ heaven gave me my jolt I said, 'Wat I the good?' and slipped into my old ways. Think of us strutting around ! the parade ground in front of 'the seats ' of the visitors' with intent to beat out I old Grant, and here we are! I'm polic i ing a mining camp, and you're pawing dirt like a woodchuck. 'What a fall is there, my brother!' " Raymond did not enjoy Munro's tone ; and changed the subject. "What are i you going to do now?" Munro ceased to laugh. "I am going ! to cinch this whole camp a little tight? er from this on. I'm going to turn back every nonunion miner. All you fellows who are friendly can gc on working just the same, but your men must: put themselves on record." Raymond's face settled into stern lines. "Jack, I don't want co be mixed up in another man's fight We are on good terms with our hands-they're a lot of cantankerous American citizens anyway and can't be coerced. I wars you not to monkey with our plant" Munro laughed. "I'll fight shy, old man, so far as I'm concerned, but these dagoes and Poles are getting watch eyed, and if they stampede they'll run over somebody. You don't believe in me and my cowboys, but the time may come when you'll see that I'm about the only commander in this camp." "I see that now, Jack. That's why I'm talking to you. But you've .--tart? ed on a line of action that means war with organized society.. You had no call to join those jackasses who "ar. Mackay out of camp. It was none o' your funeral-had nothing to do with, tlie question of wages." Munro grinned. "He was such an ape." "Yes, but it started you wrong. Now, I don't know who blew up the shaft house, but if you do your best plan is tc cut those outlaws out and turn them back to the authorities." "'I don't know a thing. Of course the union had nothing to do with it It was done by a few hotheads full of peaches. These mine owners have got to give up their nine hour scheme. We've got 'em dead to rights, for 1 can drive every nonunion man out of camp il necessary, ami "my advice to you is, have your men march up and sign our rolls double quick." "They can do as they please about that. I will bring no pressure to bear on them, but I'd like to ask you as a friend not to make it any harder than you can hebp for Kelly & Raymond. We've got all we can stagger under now, and the worst thing that can hap? pen to us is delay. We've opened our vein, and we're going to buy in our mine inside of six weeks if nothing prevents." Raymond walked on to his cabin with a heavier heart than he had car? ried since he left Barnett's home. Part of this was due to Munro's warning, but the larger part of it sprang from his meeting with Peabody, who was not at all the sort of citizen he had ex? pected Ann's eastern lover to be. He was a mau of power, dignity and de? cision, not an erratic idler like Barnett and his air of quiet authority sprang from a strong personality securely place?! in the world. Louis came back to the cabin with a sly smile on his face. "What did you think of "Mr. Peabody?' Darn him. he's here to get Ann to go back to New York. I don't go, I tell you that!" "Maybe she won't go?" "I'm afraid she will," the boy gloom? ily replied. "He's got some kind of a 'drag* on her. He's been trying to get her. ob. a long time." Raymond's voice was calm as he ask? ed, "What is his business?" "Lawyer. He's rich too. Ann wants us both to come over to the Kellys' to dinner. I don't want to go. Do you?" ..Sile's the captain," answered Ray? mond. "I reckon we'd better spruce up a bit." .*It makes me tired." the boy weut on. "I wanted lar lo marry you. and then we could ali live out here." A half hour later Ann knocked. "Is any one at home?" Raymond flung opeu tlie door. "We are all at home." Ann introduced Peabody, who stood l?y her side, and the two men shook hands rather coldly while she said to Raymond: "Can you take care of Mr. Peabody for tho night, and will you come over to dinner? You need have no more scruples, now that Woo is with us." [TO BE CONTIXtTED.] Many a tongue shakes out its mas CANDIDATE FOR SPEAKER Mr. R. S. Whaler of Charleston Has .? Announced Himself. A special to the State from Char? leston iast night says: "Hon. g. S. Whaley announced his candidacy to? day for speaker o.' the house of rep? resentative.;. He has been a member of the house for six years. During the last session he was chairman of the judiciary committee; accounted by many the most important in the body. Mr. Whaley has taken a prom? inent part in legislation since he en? tered the legislature." Mr. Whaley is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and has a great many friends in Columbia. Tlie Demands of the Negroes. At the recent annual meeting of the "Niagara Movement," held at Har? per's Ferry the negro leaders issued what they called an address to the American people, outlining their de? mands. Among these demands are abolition of the Jim Crow Lawjgwyp equal rights, manhood suffrage with? out discrimination* the abolition of the Jim Crow car laws and better education for their children in the South, for which, of course, the whites are expected to stand the ex? pense. Tlie leaders of the "Niagara Movement" also resolved to "re? consecrate themselves and their hon? or on the scene of John Brown's martyrdom to the cause of negro rights" and concluded with the* declaration that the negroes "are not more lawless than the whites, but more often mobbed." In commenting on the demands and the resolutions the Philadelphia Ledger, says: "On the day that the address was isued a negro who made an atrocious assault on a little white girl in South Carolina was shot to death by a mob in spite of the authority of the Gov? ernor of the State. Within the past few days two other brutes met the same fate in the same State in the face of Governor Heyward's most ac? tive .efforts. Within the confines of the city of Atlanta half a dozen ne? groes made like hideous attacks on defenseless women and children with? in a few weeks, and the Jjmciiing mob has been busy. In the meantime Hoke Smith has won the fight for nomination to the Governorship by an overwhelming majority on the plat? form of negro disfranchisement and discrimination against the race. "Moreover, the chronicle of negro .r: icks on women from other parts of the South is becoming an alarmingly large part of the .?Nilly record of "Il !.- futile to aver that these re? ports of atrocities are the inventions of negro haters, fabricated for/the purpose of fanning prejudice into f?ame. They are hideous facts, to which bear witness the Governor of South Carolina, the authorities of Ai? li ni a, the ruined homes of innocent mer and the danging bodies of ne? groes riddled with bullets. "The men of the Niagara Move rVnt, says ?he Cnatte*:obga Times, that the negro*hater has been too active in the past year. There is a feling that the Niagara Move? ments' address was incomplete, and in its incompleteness fails to take the measures calculated to put- the rabid negro hater out of court." It is a notorious fact which has at? tracted the attention not only of the Philadelphia Ledger, but other lead? ing Northern newspapers that there was not in the address of the leaders of the "Niagara Movement" a single word of destestation for the hideous crimes of the negro race that cause lynchings, and is causing all negroes to be hated and disturbed. There was no pledge or promise made ir. the ad? dress to consecrate the intelligent men of the negro race to the work of eradicating the great evil which is the prime source of the prejudice of the whites against the negroes. It may be that when intelligent ne? groes such as those who are the lead? ers* <>f the "Niagara Movement" mani? fest a sincere desire to deal with the "new negro's crime" in behalf of both races, their demands will be re? ceived with more consideration than they are at the presen time.-Wil? mington Star. There is more Catarrh in this sec? tion of the country than al! other diseases put together, and v.ntil the last few years was supposed io be in? curable. For a great many years, doc? tors pronounced it a loca! disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment prononuced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be i co tstitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment.. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops t a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mu? cous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any acse it rails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggist?. 73c. Take Hall' Family Fills for con