The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 09, 1898, Image 2
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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.
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Suits and Overcoa
$25.00 You can i
minute you try thei
from, too?another
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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
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by Prices.
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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?
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see the style in them i
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good point. t
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>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.
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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*?.