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Style is Ni Ruled You can pay the high< clothes, yet it does n? get the style you ougl highest priced kind ar ing, most ungraceful wearer look as if he 1 to make them fit. ' clothes. Our strong ] moderate price. i \ i % \ Suits and Overcoa $25.00 You can i minute you try thei from, too?another Smith CI * uimf Liiunnfiuf! ilffUfl IUKf JIASNIVK IILOCKS O.N" BROADWAY ARE LA 10 IN RUINS. LOSSES RFUCH ft MILLION DOLLRRS rirnmrn Fou ml l?tm.ut?> In Fl*lill?8 rtamri In Tall HulMlns* While HI ilid I n K FreVi?U???l. A Ken York special nays**- In a blind ing raiu storui Suuday night the mas The tire began in the tive-atory , brick building occupied 1 >y the men's i furnishing linn of Itogers, Peet & Co.. on the southwest corner of Mroadway and Warren street. Adjoining the Rogers-Poet building and south of it was the uiagniticeut white building of the Home Insurance company, sixteen stories high, and next to this was the brown stone t building of the Postal Telegraph com- I pany. erected at a cost of a million dollars only a few years ago Within a few ruinates after the dis- , eovory ?f thw tire the Rogers, Peet i building was a roaring furnace, and I ari alarm had been turned in wliieh i ^ brought more than a score of engines to the scene. It was hut a short time | when the flames had eaten through | the wall of the Horns I..ife and were I ' roaring high above the loftv ?tFn?s? I 1 rnoMHundH of people gathered on i the scene and the blinding glnre of | , the flames lit up the lower part of the ! city. Kven in the downpour the great j " crowds of people grew and the police , reserves were called out from many ' J station* ami kept the people hack for | . block* (treat shower* of sparks were oar- ; ' ried in all directions *>y the gule that 1 1 blow sixty miles an hour. The Home Life insurance building w,is occupied hy that company and by i ,. a large number of prominent me*i in vaiioue lines of business. Every effort j was made to save the valuable papers | stored iu some of the offices, hut many i 1,1 of Mien. were lost. j ,('1 The ( dices of the rapid transit com- I K'1 mission were on the ninth floor of this j !<M building and it is believed that all the J plans and schemes of work with which i ttie commission has been busy this < many years have been destroyed, iu i the Postal building, as well, there j ( w cr-s many serious losses ot T T1 by Prices. , til est kind of prices for your Cl ot always follow that you it to get. Oftentimes the e the stillest, most unyield- ? ; clothes made?making the had to stand a certain way n? Tim* oan'f lip stii.nl r?f mir I* ..... - - ? " I ti joint is lots of style at a . BI * ai ! lfl 111 w i i' <]i kJ j o O J d ' I I} ts between ?650 and \ see the style in them i ncn. Plenty to choose 1 good point. t othing Co. | >o> ineiT t| i lives. leaving unseilt messages nt the A i keys. sj The fire burned even more fiercely in the Home l.ife building, owing to ? the grent height of this structure, ami { F in an incredibly short time the upper F lin ! f t\f lltia l. ? -1 * ' Al ...... w. ?n?r. lua^uMircui* umiaiug was f, in flames. The water towers in the o street were unable to throw their ^ heavy streams only into the lower part , k of the structure atul the firemen, si i though they worked with great bravery |J ! and untiring energy in the blinding | K smoke and heat, eould do little in the r face of such a fierce sweep of flames 13 and gale. It was only a question of time when the Postal building, so far p as the upper stories were concerned, si went the way of the others. ^ l '.?t I mat r<l M 1 An insurauga iaau ronoH'^wft aiot ; ,ts > th* t?. ? *? * to other tenants in for "Trie" building, $:t",0.000; Home Rife ' th* Insurance Coiupuny, building and it!J losses to other ttbiants, $">00,000; Pos- oc< tal Telegraph Company, building and Un losses to other tenants, $100,000; ton losses to surrounding buildings, $.">(?,- 7* nr" Cluof Conner though! that this es- dro timate, on the basis of a million dol- Po1. lars loss, was about as correct as was w?t. possible to make. ent The Rogers, Peet Sr Co. building V01 was the property of the Hoffman estate and was one of the historic build- tlet ings of Broadway. It was erected w,tl thirty-live years ago. KKXXEY AHA IV iv - . vi/t IVI * OKI Isms Drlimnrr S?n*l?r ChHrgril Willi AlaliiiR {q'jj ? T?ll?r To I.?iot a Honk. ()|lf United States Senator Richard R. Ohri Kenncy, of Delaware, was placed on ?l,ur trial Monday in the United States eir nit court at Wilmington for the be fi leeond time on charges growing out l?lne.? >f the looting of the First National i,nCfc tank, of Dover, hy its teller, William wars S\ Hoggs. Senator Kenney was last and 'J irrnigned on the charge of aiding and hotting RoggH in misapplying the MS tank funds in last duly, and after a the ( rial lasting over one week the jury Maria isagreod. Since then the charge of tectoi onspiracy lias been joined to the first in Obi liarge. posed the sc KAN A WAV WITH It \ 11. IFF. n'F II out? siotuir lillsli Mi'iiinfr'< rnplnlii l?rflc<l I lit \<l- ' canal, mi rally Coiirl 11 ml ('illicit Out, vnyai?i A Philadelphia dispatch says: The (oTt'tiV ritisli steamer Prinrdene. whose mas- commti r, Captain Johnson, defied the Km- million ish admiralty court anil sailed from wt-?lili teenstown, November 1Mb. arrived Ontli the Delaware breakwater Friday. Americ, l'!iC Hiniik liicl seized the stentuer "v.unrH debt, aiuVthe marshal had jdaeed a t'lfe'snp lit)" oil Im?-.|. ItwMth 'aptain .ivlinson left (Jucor.stnw n other cr h the hailift'on hoard. near as Initios o I_ , litis ln*t:l ZE home industry. Snn- . ?f r jour home pai>or, and r-hj??*n i your neighbor to follow ; R.TAIjMAGE'S SERMON tie Eminent Divine's Sunday Discourse. ' ' ih.lect: "The Coming Century"?-Whet th? X?w Cycle Will Duller In?\?eiU of the New Ace?The - End - of - the - Century Wutch N Ik lit. Tbxt: "The chlldron of Issaohar, whloh ire men that had understanding of the lies, to know what Israel ought to do." ? lronlclos xlt., 32. urnat inoe, in?i iriDo oi lssacnnrt wn?n tab took the census, there were 145,600 of eiu. Before the almanac was born, rough astrological study, they knew from ellcr conjunctions all about the seasons the year, Before agriculture became an t they were skilled lu the raising of ops. Before politics became a scloace ey knew the temper of nations, and whener they marched, either for pleasure or nr, they inarched under a three colored ig? topaz, sardine and carbuncle. But le chief characteristic of that tribe of sachur was that they understood the mes. They were not "like the political id moral Incompetents oT our day, who e trying to guide 1898 by the theories of 128. They looked at the divine indicaons In their own particular ca^ury. So e ought to understand the tin^l. not ths mes when America was thirteen colonies, uddleil together ulong the Atlautlo coast, i nt the tlmc9 when the nation dips one and In the ocean on one side the continent nd the other hand in the ocean on tha ther side the coutlnent; times whioh put ow York Narrows and the Golden Horn of le Pacific within one flash of electric degraphv; times when God Is as directly, J I positively, as solemnly, as tremendously ddresslng us through the dally newspaper i nd the quick revolution of events as lie j rer addressed the unoieuts or addresses s through tho Holy Scriptures. The voice ; f God in Frovldeuce is as important na ip voice or uoa in typology. ??r in our wn dny we liave hail our Sinnis with thun. er?? of the Almighty, and Calvaries of sacflee, nii'l Getlisamanes that sweat great rops of blood, and Olivets of ascension, | nd Mount risguhs of farreachtng vision. , he Lord who rounded this world C000 : ears ago and sent Ills Son to redeem it ear 1900 years ago has yet much to do rjth tliis radiant hut agonized planet. May lod make us like the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding \ f the times, to know what Israel ought 5 do." The grave of this century will soon be ng. The cradle of another century will son bo rocked. There is something movlg this wuy out of the eternities, some- 1 hlng that thrills me, blanches me, appalls ! ip, exhilarates mo, enraptures me. It ; rill wreathe the ornnge blossoms for trillions of weddlugs. It will beat the dirge or millions of obsequies. It will carry the llded banners of brightest mornings and he black flags of darkest midnights. The rorld will play the grnnd march of its icroes and sound tho rogues' march of its owards. Other processions may halt or >r?ak down or fall back, but the procession fd by tliat leader moves steadily oil and rill soon bo here. It will preside over oronations and dethronements. I hail It. bless it. I welcome it, the twentieth cenury of tli A Christian era. What may we expect of it, and iiow shnll re prepare for it. are the momettous quesions I propose now to discuss. As in fumi!os, human nativity is anticipated by alt anctity and kindliness and solemnity and are and hopefulness, so ought fc-e prayerully, hopefully, industriously, d^nfldently i re pure for tho advent of a new century, h" nineteenth canfaUakHWi* ' Vft?v Vrftflry inherited the wreck of rovoluons and the superstitions of ages, round its cradle stood the armed assasIns of Old World tyrannies; the "reign of srror," bequeathing its horrors; Robesierre, plotting his iliabolisin; the Jacobin lub. with its wholesale massacre; tli? uillotine, chopping its beheudments. Th? rou?? w.u. M.r great PUI.S OIC [uroiiRo. Wagram and Badajos. All tu ope in convulsion. Asia In ooraparativ uiet. but the quietness of death. Africa i the clutches of the slave trade. Amerlan savages In full cry, their scalping n1ve? lifted. The exhausted and poverty truck people of America sweating under tie debt of $300,000,000, which the Revoluonarv War had left then. Washington just one into the long sleep at nd the nation iu bereavement, Aaron urr the champion libertine, beoonuluk von after the Vice-President. The, Govrniuc.it of the United States only)""erluicnt. most of the philosopher^ tatesmen and governments of tujit on rotdiesying It wouhl be a dlymipiclieil i ro No DQOX Xo^e<*H**,''-^^'nthRn this "em ' " " 1 H I It i The United States vernment had taken only twelve steps on journey, its Constitution having been ! mod in 1789, and most of the nations of j i earth laughed nt our Government In j llrst attempts to walk alone. Mie birthday of our nineteenth century l urred In the time of war. Our smail 1 Ited States Navy, under Captain Trux- ' ' i. commanding the frigate Constitution, s in collision with the French frigates i ' Vengeance and 1,'Insurgente, and the t infant cries of this century were I I wned in the roar of naval battle, and \ f itical strife on this continent was the I s test, the parties romling each other ? h nantbertne race. The birthday pres.of tbi? nineteenth century was vita para- ! R ?, public unrest, threat of national j u lolition. and horrors national and Inter- 1 T lonnl. I adjure you, let not the twan- ! a h century be met'in that awful way, but ! w \ all brightness of temporal and re- Is nis prospects. nl rst. let us put upon the cradle of the ! it century a new map of the world. The oi map was black with too many harbnr- ' tli land red with too many slaughters and j d? with too manv sufferings. Let us sen i Id t.iut k.i.i muj? so fur as possible gc country from ocean to ocean is a as stlunizerl continent?schools, colleges, ai< dies antl gooil homos in long line 1 i ocean beach to ocean beach. On that lai Cuba must bo free. Porto Itico must j m roc. The archipelago of the Philip- "<>i i must be free. If cruel Snnl? , ?? vaj'ouis j >rucrastiiiHtlon ami intrigue to get >M what she has surrendered, then tlio ! m< liips Iovru an<l Indiana ami llrooklyn hni Poxas ami Vesuvius and Oregon must 'hi lit ba'-W to Southern waters <?r across |?ru >const of Spain to .-ilencethe Insolence sivi idi'dlv as last -intnier they silenced ?'hti 'risiobal Colon ami Oqucnilo and f,lt\ v Teresa and Vizcavn. When wo get *t?f islands thoroughly under our pro- '''? "?t?\ for the tlrst time our missionaries of I na will b? safe. The atrocities lm- H on those good men ami women in wor -called F-'lovvry Kingdom will never will unied. for our guns will lm ton near com Hong to alhov the massacre of mis- that y settlements. or d hat map must he put the Isthmian nigli begun if not completed. No long wal< s around Cape Horn for the world's cut undise, hut short and cheap oommu- dust n l>y water instead ot expensive the* inicatton by rail train, ana more sliak s will he added to our national watc and th?' world's betterment than I any < ipaeity toealculnte. be in omnpi* imi-t he made evident that -and a is to he the world's civilizor ami pros-' lir.er. Free from the national re- Apoe of liur >| o on the one siile and from '.ill, orsti' ions of A-ia on the other side, thno ave facilities for the work that no Iiial I > 11iii?-iit can po.s-ibl v po-scss. As h-no I can tell by the laying ou of the f the I.or.I Almigl tv. t In < continent i < rdaiueii for t!iat w< rk. I'lds 11v country in the world where all The - are on the same platform. :tn 1 HJ : !i< lc have free selection f..r them- w*" h itliout any detriment. When we stone present to tlie other continents this assort* j n ent of religions and give them unlilu- I dered Choice, we have no doubt of their [ selecting this religion of merev and kindness and good will und temporal and eternal rescue, dear it! America is to take this world for God! On tlie map which we will put on the i radio of the new century wo must have very soon a railroad bridge across Boring strait, those thirtv-sir miles of water, not deep, and they are spotted with islands capable of holding the piers of a great . bridge. And what with America and Asia thus connected and Siberian railway, and a railroad now projected for the length of Africa, and Palestine and Persia and India i and China and liurmuh Intersected with railroad tracks, alt of which will be done itO t r\ ra t bo itn nr itanlimti (a rtmf?n Ittt thfl vviviu mo it v if vcuiuij ^ivnu u j/| ?u? wnv will be open to the quick civilization ami evangelization of the whole world. The work of this century bos been to get ready. All the earth Is now free to the j Gospel except two little spots, one In Asia and one in Africa, while at the beginning 1 of the century there stoo I the Chinese wall ' and there flamed the llres and there gilt- j tered the swords that forbade eutrance to many Islands and lnrge roaches of contlnr out. Boinosluu cruelties and FIJI Islands cannibalism have given way, and all the gates of all the continents are swung open | with a clang that has keen a positive and . glorious Invitation for Christianity to en- 1 ter. Telegraph, telephone and phonograph ] are to be consecrateu to Gospel dlssemlna- , tlon, and Instead of the voice that gains the attention of a few hundred or a few thousand people within the church walls l the telegraph willthrill the glad tidings ] and the telephone will utter them to many millions. On, the Inflnlto advantage that the twentieth centnry has over what the nineteenth century had at the startiug! In preparation for this coming century we have time in the intervening years to give some decisive strokes at the seven or eight great evils that curse the world. It would be un assault and battery upon the coming century by tnitt century it we allowed the full blow of present evils to fall upon the future. We ought somehow to cripple or minify some of these abominations. Alcoholism Is to-day triumphant, and are we to let the all devouring monster that has throttled this century sel7.eupon the next without first having filled his accursed hide with stinging arrows enough to weaken and stagger him? Wo have wasted about twenty-five years. How so? While wo have been waiting for the law of tbo land to prohibit Intoxicauta we have doue little to quench the thirst of nppotlto iu the palate and tongue of a whole generation. Where are the public und enthusiastic meetings that used to be held thirty years ago for the one purpose of persuading the youDg and middle aged and old tliut strong drink is poisonous and damning? When will wo learn that we mu9t educate public opinion up to a prohibitory law, or 9uch a law will not be passed or if pussed will not be executed? Seven or eight years ago on the anniversary platform of the National Temperance Society in Now York I deplored the fact that we had left politics to do that which moral suasion only could do and said on that occasion, "If some poor drunkard wandering along this street tonight should see the lights kindlod by tills brilliant assemblage and should come in, and finding the character of the meeting, snouia ask for a temperance pledge, tliut he might sign it nnd begin a new enreor, I do not believe there is in all this house a ternperancrt ple.lK?/an.l yoa woald have to take out u torn letter envelope or a loo.e ?ornp of paper for the inebriate's signature." I found out afterward fhat there was one such temperauee pledce ?n th^ audience, but only ouo t hat I . o?ibI hear ,.r. I)o not leave to polities that wntcu ean be done now in 10,0l? reformatory MJ..W * <>f national redemption! Do not put upon tin* cradle of the twentieth century a mountain of detnijc hns nnd beer barrels and rum jugs, ahd put to its Infant lips wretchedness. disease, murder and abandonment in solution. Aye, reform that army of inebriates. "Ah," you sav, "it eannot be ilouel" That shows that you will be of no use in the wott. "O ye of little faith!" Away back in eai.lv times President Davies, of rriuceton College. one day found a man I In utter despair because of the thrall of strong drink. The president said to hitn: \ "Sir, be of good cheer. Jfon can ho saved. Sign the pledge." "Ah, ' aaid the despairin victim, "I havepften sl>N?d the pledge, 1 but I have always brokcnN^v pledge!" ; "But " said the president. "I WHl be your strength to keep the pledge. J vrf\ne your friend, and with a loving arm vou i will hold yon up When your i luirus, and you feel that ou uiWftiffiio jn it come to my Upnae Mhufy in the parlor. | shield to you. All that I omt! ?!o for you with my books, my syra- , pathy, my experience, my society, my love, my money, T ^wtll do. You nm,n forget your ^ appetite and master it." A look of hope f flowed on the poor man's face, and he re- , n plied, "Sir. will you do all that?" "Surety f will." "Then I will overcome." He !' signed the pledge and kept it. That plan i< of President Duvles which saved one man, n tried on a lurge scale, will save a million u men. Alexander the (treat made an imperial n banquet at Babylon, and, though he had 1.1 seen drinking the health of guests all one light and all next day. the second night ' le had twenty guests, and he drank tho *'f lealth of each separately. Then calling it or the cup of Hercules the giant, a mooter cup, ha filled and drained It twice to i how his endurance; but, ns he finished the * ust druft from tho cup of Hercules tho til innt, lie dropped in a lit, from which he n<, ever recovered. Alexander, who bad conuored Sardis and conquered Hulicarnassus 11,1 ud conquerod Asia and conquered ^he uii 'orld, could not conquer himself,and there ,,,? u threatening peril that this good land f ours, having conquered all with whom has ever gone into battle, may yet be ?*' ?' rertlirown by the cup of the giant evil of ()a io land?that Hercules of infamy, strong ink. Do not let the staggering anil ". oated and embruted iiost of drunkards K"1 ? lr.to the next century looking for insane ] yiums and almshouses and delirium tre- :u|, ?ns and dishonored graves. ^ it has been a custom in all Christian . 0 ids for jieople to k#nn w?o..w - > , iiikiii as are oia yeur goes out and n now year :nes in. People assemble In churches nit 10 o'clock of Hint last night of tlio I year, and they have prayers and songs -his I sermons au?l congratulations until the thei i*ls of the church clock almost roach ' * figure 12, and thou all how in silent lyer, ami tlio scene is mightily impros- I ? until tlio clock in the tower of the fntui irjh or tho clock in tho tower of the M i r hall striken 12, and then nil rise and '' M. X with smiling faco and jubilant voice !S grand dovologv. and there is ashnktng r in lands all around. ( lit wiiat a tremendous watch night the hi is soon to celebrate! This century '" 'til depart ut 12 o'clock of tho :ilst of He- 'iiev her. of tli? year lOOd. Want a night -lie i will be, whether starlight or moonlit i ark with tempest! It will ha sueii a "eni it as v hi and 1 never saw. Those who aiul ! lied the coming In of the nineteenth II rv lr?r>." -IUII1 ..... . iik? went 10 t!i?ir pillow* of their May wo all l>? living on earth to .? ? ' ' ' ( .olomnltlos and join in tlio song* an?l '"r 1 ? hand* in tho congratulation* of that ( hurt h night; or. If bet woo n this an<l that them of us should l?o off and away, mav wo 1 habitants of thai hunt whore'm thou- ttoil. years are as one ilav," ainl in the ville uioe of tlint nngel spoken of in tin* or (>u ulyp.se, who at the end of the worhl standing with one foot on tin* sea and ,l,p 1 tlier foot on tlio land, "swear by lliin elotht livoth forever and ever, that time shall north longer." ,(t>u {] like l> In China ItctrogndlnB? Tllf Chinese (ioverninent has notified all ants for military servlee that they ereafter he examined innrehery and they II slinging. jiickin illl HOT IEEUT LETTER. IDMIMKTRATI0>>8 POLICY DEPHECATEl> HY PREACHERS. PRAISES THE REV DIXON'S SERMON rhe Colored Man In tlie South In Huppv and Should Be I-et Alone By iiio i uiiiifTinup. Those northern Republicans are in awful tangle. They are torn all *? pieces on the Philippine questiou. The press anil the pulpit are fulminating their various theories and are Kiviug advice in no uncertain sounds. Dr. Parkhurst preached a thanksgiving sermon to an immense congregation and left the thanks put. Ho made bold to denounce the war as an unholy one, conceived in sin aud waged with iniquity, and declared that this country had gained neither glory nor respect l>y reason of it. He said that not even the president could tell whether he declared war because the Maine was exploded or because the Cubans were being starved, or because a lot of congressmen threatened to play Judas to the adminlstratiou if lie dident declare war. He says the president is continually nutting his car to the ground like an Indian to hear what the people of the great west have got to say about it. It was a terrible arraiguiueut of the war party. Dr. Van Dyke, another notable preacher, took for his text "The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage," and forcibly denounced territorial expansion. Then again Dr. Morgan Dix, another strong and popular preacher, refused to give thanks "for having made war upon a feeble nation, a war that was entered into for humanity sake only and not to acquire territory." And there were other preachers 011 theother side and between the preachers and the press the people are bewildered and don't know what to think. But it is to be observed that all the preachers have some tlings to cast at the south about the negro except Dr. Thomas Dixon. "The nigger is in the woodpile" up there and everybody is crazy about him. But Dr. Dixon held forth at the (Irnud opera house to an immense audience and dared to tell them the truth. He declared that Mrs. (irannis?'as simply insane ami lie hoped tu?? l.ordi would save the negro from such friends. lie "I knowthe sr.nthern people nml the northern people, ami I know the lienorthern * be.'tijr. "Tlirfff. iieVo? starves or sutlers for bread. The sun does not rise or set 011 this eitv but what some white man or woman or children starve to death. For every negro in the south found sleeping on a hed of straw, T will show you five white persons in the north who have got 110 straw, and would he glad to have it. The northern white man thinks less of the negro than the southmi white man does. You don't want liim in yotir house nor close about you. S"o trades are open to him here. He s nothing hero but a servant; whereas, it the south, he competes with the vvhite man in every trade and walk in *~?<<]qonomic world. Y" r 50,000 negro voters in Sew lork now. ' .H legro office holder among ttiem ?"*?H?ere~-s not one,and never will be. The Anglolaxon will rule,nn<l the southern negro iced expect 110 more artificial support from the north. The experiment i ended. The war gave this nation a ew era of its life. The bloody shirt as buried 011 San .Tunn hill. The 1 egro must now stand alone, ami i icre onn never he a bloody shirt issue < lain in this nation. The negro alone 1 111 solve his problem, and he must do * , not by politics, but by work." 0 Well, that sounds tine., but a good t al of it is fancy. The fact remains d at before the war there was not a gro in the chaiugang in Georgia, d now there are 4,000, and the inhcr is increasing daily, and the rtbern Republican press and ileptihan pulpits are still denouncing us <*f it. In the languuge of Governor fl. tes, I am continually tempted to 'N< laim. "Well, what are v??u' ?. ^ J .... u.lng to <lo about it?" I'? Jilt we aro going to linve a peace "i iloe down hero, and as John TomGraves said of Ilenry Grady, "Wo (jh going to love a nation into peaee." ?>8s if wo don't. Wo are go;ng to J,'?; it our northern visitors so gonerIv and love thorn so hard that when $1. r got haok home tiioy won't say (or for two weeks, maybe a month. F wish it wore possible to got those '"'JJ tics to stay down hero a year or so ' see for themselx es hou the iiegr<> 40c; fing?not in Atlanta or Savannah <l"o i?y of the big cities whore most of haingangs ooino from, t>ut in the itry or the smaller towns. 1 wish -.mr, Mould visit Carteravillo and see * >< . regro draymen hauling cotton and _ their merry laugh and their jokes j'-0' ?oo the cotton i>i. ? -- , . n Hi IOWII on .lav 'veiling ami night spending p<K week's wall's for something good ??rv, Sunday, or see thorn in their rth:?i< he6 on tlie Sahhntli ami Jiear sing and shout and give glory to imcl Who ever heard of a Carters- 271 negro ahusing the white people ''"sin mplaining of oppression? They u,!. dways happy and wear better xor >s than the poor whites at the I<&>I , and at the sound of the school apple, lieir children pour in or pour out ees from a hive. 5*,.?' ire is no trouble here or m the imini ry; no conflict, and all the money I a- on nake is spent at home. Cotton M1 g is their annual frolic. My jjnr barber told me ma suoeoiocK unu quit him and gone to the cotton patch. He earned 75 cents to $1 a day blacking shoes, but he has gone to the field, where he can pick m re than a hundred pounds of cotton and get 40 cents for it; but out there he could talk and luugh and carry on with the other negroes and have a good time. Who ever heard of a novro tramp going around begging for something to eat? Well, now, if they ore so contented and happy, why does anybody want to disturb them about politics or social equality? But we are going to Hee fuu alive before long. The negroes in the islands we have taken will give ouf northern brethren enough to do and to think about, aud maybe they will let us alono for a while. I see that Cardinal Gibbons has been expressing his opinion about the negro problem, and he advises u?\ to have a property qualilication for voters. Well, the New England states have got that now and say it works well. South Carolina and Mississippi require an educational qualification, but my opinion is that a voter onght to have one or the other, either property enough to make him interested in his government or education enough to understand it. The greatest menace to good government is the purchasable votes of illiterate vagabonds, both white and black. Good gracious! how fast we are all living now. A month is louger than a yenr used to be. What with these thanksgiving sermons with the thanks left out, what with Spain nnd Cuba and the Philippines and the treaty and the war iu .....i -v* vu^u^miuu iiiiu iiir iuw > *7111 via v u? wur troops and the devilment of the negro soldiers and the attitudes of the great powers toward us and the low price of cotton and the Atlanta Jubilee and. the coming of Santa Clans and the awful wrecks on the const nud tlio snicides and divorces ami lyncliings and vendettas and devilment in general our minds are kept strained every day and we wonder what the next daily pnper will record. May the good Lord have pity upon us all, is my prayer. ? Bir.ii Aitr in Atlanta Constitution. (JEN. LEE WILL GO. Il? In Slatcil to Mnvd Oil Havana With the Second Illvlnloii. A Savannah dispatch says: While the information is not given out officially, it can he safely announced that Major General Fitzhugh Lee and his staff and all the officers at headquarters of the Seventh army corps will depart from Savannah with thA second division of the corps, which has beeu ordered to prepared to move at once 13 Havana. General Leo stated Saturday morning that it depended somewhat upon advices which lie will receive from Washington whether headquarters will 'novo at this time or not, but his offir~ k?-tir -..j.-aaiul they are to go as soon as the division moves. SECRETARY ALGER REPORTS. Document is I.tMigtliy, hii(I Covers Optra, tloun of War Department In Detail. The aunual report of Secretary of ar Il.A.Alger has boon made public. The report is a lengthy one, and it covers the. operations of' the war department in detail. The report gives much of tlio correspondence and details of the war orders, and it is a complete exposition of the work of the war department. There is no strikingly new feature iu report, and it is mostly TO INVESTIGATE WATT Coni;r??l>innii Nnlzer, of Now Vork, Intro, t rod noon 11 Kesol lit Ion In llio House. A Washington dispatch nays: Representative Sulzer, of Now York, ranking democratic member of tho house ommittee on military afTnim, introluced a resolution at the lirst day's iession "authorizing and directing the rominittee on military affairs to invesigute the war department und theeonluct ?>f tho Spanish-American war." ATLANTA iIAUKETS. CORRECTED WRRKI.T.? 48 Orocniist. Roosted coffee * 11.80, less 50e per 100 lb wes. Oreon coffee choloe 12. fair 10; prime ?Siij,'ar stAmlarii granulated 5J^c. ew Orleans white do yellow 'rup. New Orleans open kettle 25<8>40c. I sod 12'^?20e;' sugar house 26?35e. as, black 30?65o; green 20<Ji'50c. ce, head 7^c; ehoiee f>W?0??C: Salt, dalsacks *1.25; do litils. hulk 2.00; 100 3? .65; ice cream *1.09; common 65<?7(Vi. eese, full cream IOk??llV?c. Matches, 1 50c; 200s *1..SO? 1.75 : 300s $2.75. Soda, tes 6c. Crackers, soda 5?6V?c*, cream gingersnaps fin. Candy, common stick fnnev 12(& 18e. Oysters, F. \V. $1.'0(a) 60; I,'. W. *1.00. Flour, (train and Meal, lour, nil wheat lirst patent. *5.00. second cut. *4.25; straight, *8.75; extra fancy 65; fancy, *8.40; extra family, *3.00. ii, white. 50.'; mixed, 4I.V. Oats, white ; mixed 37<*: Texas rustproof 4?. Rye, ?rgia 8*e. Hay No. 1 timothy large bales small bales 75c; No. 2 tlinothv 41 hales 70c. Meal, plain 50-; bolted Wli.Tit I mi, inriro sacks 85"; I! sacks 85*. Short" !>5o. Stock meal; Cotton seed nii'al <:0* per 100 lt?s: hull* Opor ton. I'oas stock ?75(K 80o pnrbishnl; rnon white $1.15(^1.25; Lady $1.25(10 Grits $2.60. Country Produce. t.'* 18<^20". Butter, western ereatn20 o 2'2c; fancy Tennessee 14(ft>16e; e12V?o; (leorifialOi?12,'^c. Live poulchickens. Hens 25c; spring ehleklarffe 15(R>16c; small 12>?(ii>15e. pnddlo, 20(ii>22!?o: Peking 25tfi> . Irish potatoes, 70rti/75c per d. Sweet potatoes, new crop 35(a> >er hn. Honey, strained 6(fc>7c: in >mb 'Jfii 10" Onions, new cron. OO/S.' >r hii.; $2.75^3.00 i>er hhl. Oabhngo fo lb. Beeswax 221 .(ft>25. Dried fruit, s 4to 5e; peaches 6(? 7c. Provision*, ir rihs hoxeil sides 55?e; clear shies ice-on rod hollies 8c. Sugar-cured !tr?'11c: California 61; breakfast 10fi'12'^c. l.ard. best'piality GJ^o; seouaiity O'.i'; compound 4Jv?. Cotton. kot closed (pilot middling 5 5-lCto 5*?.