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THE STORY OF 1 KU KLUX KLAN.j 1 (Continued from tirst page.) ingr of the order or took any active part in its work, except as' an elder counsellor of wisdom and 1 mode-ration to its chosen leaders, l?ut his name was a tower of strength.1 He is and always was a man of | pi-ace and a lover of order. Ib-saw' the war begin with infinite sorrow. He is a man of large patriotic views, though an ardent Southerner, lie! e ones of the stoek that created this; Republic*. His grandfather, i.t. j Colonel Frederick llamhright, was a member of the Continental (' ngress and commanded a regiment of Kevolutii nary patriot- at the battle of Kings-Mountain. He is today a venerable minister of Christ, who in a ministry of sixty years has built twentv nourishing churches iii I'iedmont, North Carolina. 11 * know and dreaded the dangerous power of a see rot oath-hound political order. Ho wont into it reluctantly. Ho joined with every other mini-tor in tin* county, only became it was the lard re.- rt ? t despair to save society Irom the intoh rahle cm,-e of Negro dominion, insolence, and crime. Hut for Mr. Steven- there never would have heen a I'nion League, and hut for the I'nion League there never would have heen a Ku Klu\ K lan. Mr. Laps I). Met'ord of Tennessee is another man whos* portrait si-arcely hears out the d -eriptr n of a "desperado." Clansman Met'ord was the printer in the ollioo of the Hula.-ki t iti/en, who-et the type, printed and >titehed the cotnpleto edition c f tlie Kitual of the order. He never knew until voars after the author of tlu* manuscript, or from whose hands ho received it. llo got one day an anonymous lot tor t lling him to roinovo tho middle 1 lick in tho spare honoath a certain window in his printing oilier. He did so and found that tho hriok in the center of tho wall had hoen taken out and in it.- place lay a roll of manuscript containing the Kit vial of the '"Invisible Kmpiiv." No name appeared in the title. It was merely marked with three stars. Ho was instructed to print and hind in the night and on a certain date between the hours of one and two a. nu, to place the bundle of complete copies outside the door. He did as ordered and unseen hands bore them away in the darkness. CHARACTER AND OBJECTS OT THi. ORDER. Tins is an institution of Chivalry, Humanity, Mercy, ami Patriotism: embody inn in its aenius and its principles all that is chivalrio in conduct, noble in sentiment, generous in manhood, and patriotic in nurpose; its peculiar objects being First To pr< toct the weak, the innocent, and the de] fenseb'ss, fiom the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of I the lawless, the violent, and the brutal: to relieve the injured and oppressed: to sue ; cor the suffering and unfortunate, and especially the ! widows and orphans of Confederate soldiers. Second: To protect and defend the Constitution of the C nited States, and all laws j passed in conformity thereto, and to protect the States and the people thereof from all 1 invasion from any -ource whatever. Third: To aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect the people from unlawful . ; seizure, and from trial except hy their peers in conformity to the laws of the land. AKTICLK I. TITI.KS. Suction I. The ollicers of this Order shall consist of a Grand Wizard of the Kmpire, ami his ten Genii; a Grand Dragon of the Deal in, I I -S| M11. K <>l I 11 K KIRsr I'Ai.K Ol THK RITFAI. Ol T11K KC KM \ KI.AN, The only two copies of this Ritual known to exist, are to he found in the Library of ('nlunihia College and the archives of the State of Tennessee, Its author is General George \\ . Gordon of Memphis. Dr. I.andnun is a graduate of I'.rown I'niversity, Providence, Rhode Island, and is a type of the hoys of extreme youth who formed the rank and lile of the Klan; daring young knights of the South they were, who rode with their life in their hands, a song on their lips and the scorn of death in their souls. An extract from a letter written to mo by the Rev. Dr. J. A. Clifton of Orangeburg, S. ('., gives bis official rank: "I was the Grand Cyclops of the Last Chester Den and my territory was very large. Dr. H rat ton of York was the Cyclops adjoining me, and we were compelled to do many severe things in those days to protect our homes. X ) fear 1 was almost a savage in keeping savages in tluir places, but I felt it was my duty."' This territory is the immediate scene of my novel ''The Clansman." One' of the most interesting figures in the inner history of the Klan i-1 that ??f IIon..lolm \V. Morton, the present Secretary of State of Tennessee, who was(ieneral Forl-i-ct v: nf o vfillovv Poln .**><1 I hoyish in appearance, he was in fact hut a ixiy, yet ho won the utmost confidence of the General, who relief 1 on him as Stuart did on lVlham, and Leo on Jackson. Forrest called him the "little hit of a j kind with a great hig backbone." j When the rumors of the Ku Klux Klan first spread over Tennessee, | Forrest was quirk to see its possibilities. lie went immediately to Nashville to lind his young chief <?f artillery. "Morton," he said, "1 hear this 1 Klan i- organized in Nashville, and j I know you're in it. I want to I join." j The youngster fenced, smiled and gave vague answers. The General swore a little and said: "Shut up, you can't fool mc. If this thing s in Nashville, I you re in it, and I'm going to get in if 1 kick the floor flown. Its ap( peal to tic terror of the Negro ami I it- profound secrecy, if linked with | wise leadership and merciless daring at the proper moment, will saw the Sf nth! " The young man avoided the issue and took his old commander for a rifle. Forrest persisted in his questions ahout the Klan, and the youth i ki i?t -miling and changing the suh|iect. On reaching a dense woods in a -collided valley outside tin- city, Morton suddenly turned on his former leader, and said: '< leneral, h.old up your right hand' * Forrest did as lie was ordered, and thr youth, trembling with excitement and liis eyes misty with tears, solemly administered the preliminary oath of the order. That night the general was made a full dedged clansman and was soon elected (J rand Wizard of the Km pi re. Forrest was so elated u\'cr the success of 11is mission, he remained over a day to help young Morton with liis girl who was hesitating over the eventful issue of life. She fairly w? . shipped the daring (Jenera 1 and when he declared to her that Morton was the man of all men for her she gave her consent. A beautiful widded life of twentyseven years followed. Three sons and one daughter blessed their union and all three of these boys leaped forward to defend the flag the morning McKinley called for volunteers in I SOS. The order of dissolution of the Finn liv (lnnnv.il F\ imwt was in every way characteristic of the man. When the white race had redeemed six Southern States from Negro rule in 1*70. the Grand Wizard knew that his mission was accomplished and issued at once his order to disband. The execution of this command by young Morton the Cyclops of the Nashville Pen, also of the stall' of the (Irand Wizard, is typical of what occurred throughout the South. Thirty-live picked men, mounted, armed and in full Ku Klux regalia for hoth horses and men, were selected for the ceremony, and ordered to I oldly parade through the streets of Nashville. The Capitol was still in charge of d,(KH) Uceonstruetion Militia and '2<M) metropolitan police who had sworn to take every Ku Klux Klansman dead or alive who dared to show himself abroad. On the night appointed, the squadron of thirty-live white and scarlet horseman moved out of the woods and bore down upon the city. The streets were soon crowded with .. 1 A 1 * . people waicmng me strange procession of ghost-like figures. On the principal streets the police blew their whistles and darted here and there in great excitement, hut made no move to stop the dare-devil paraders. On they rode up the hill and passed the Capitol building, round which the camp-tires of a thousand soldiers burned brightly, and not a hand was lifted against them. They turned south into High dreot and ladies began to waive their handkerchiefs from windows and men to shout and cheer from the sidewalks. The scalawag police received these shouts with suppressed oaths. At last they began to summon citizens to aid in the arrest of the clansmen. The citizens laughed at them. On reaching llroad street, young Morton, who rode at the head of the squadron, observed a line of police drawn across the street with the evident intention of attempting t?> stop or arrest the riders. Turning to Mart N. l>rown, a gallant clansman who rode by his side, Morton said: "What shall we do, Mart?" "Turn into Vine street," he quickly answered, "pass around them. ' * t i "tfo?ride straight througli thei witl*uut a change of gait!" \vs Motion's order. And they did. The ustonishe police, dumbfounded at the ins< lenco of the raiders, opened the lines and the horsemen rode slow) through without a word. They passed a large frame buiU ing used as a earpet-bag militia a mory. It was full of negroes. Mo ton halted his line of white fiure drew them up at dress parade, ro< up to the door and knocked. T1 negroes rushed to the duel's an windows, and when they saw in tl bright moonlight the grim figure mey iorgoi me ponce aim ti c a,*n soldiers guarding Nashville. Th< made a unanimous break for tl rear, and went out through evci opening without knowledge of ar ohstruetion. Many of them wo window sash home for collars. The clansmen silently wheel* again into double column and rot toward their old rendezvous. Th< had overthrown the earpot-bi Negro regime and restored eiviliz tion. Their last act was a warnin A handful of their men bold slapped the face of the hostile a thorities, before the new admiv.i tration entered upon its work, ai dared them lift a hand again. Outside the city they entered tl shadows of a forest. Down its di cathedral aisles, lit bv tremb'ii threads ?>t" moonl>cntns, the whi horsemen slowly wound their w to their appointed place. For t last time the Chaplain led in pray* the men disrobed, drew from ea horse his white mantle, opened grave and solemnly buried their i galia, sprinkling the folds with t ashes of the copy of their burn ritual. In their weird eeremoi thus ended the most remarkal revolution of history. BARON KANEKO explain: Mikado's con fid en tic | Agent Tells Why h Country Astonished th World In Her Struggl With Russia. (From the Brooklyn Eagle.) The widely different reasons I Japan's success ranging from "( iental Fanaticism" to a "rice diet have resolved themselves into a sii pie dr finition of words, as interpret by the Oriental versus the Occident 11 j 111 ii. . :i i-.vpia Mill mil l)l I 111' ll definition of words used to sum i the success of the little island peop was given in an interview with u re resentative of the Brooklyn Eag last week by Baron Kaneko. Bar< Ivnneko's definition (<f the terms usi by the European to point out the i most phenomenal success of his pe pi 3 are something akin to n microsc piul analysis of words. The Baro although he is first of all a stntesms J?for it was he, with Marquis It | who drafted Japan's new constit . tion ? is no less a student and ! scholar. As a graduate of Hnrvar I he is better conversant with the En lish language than most of his ci leagues in the Japanese House Beers. Baron Kaneko, were he n such a valuable statesman, won have inado a very good instructc For Baron Kaneko can instruct the things that perplex theEuropei mind regarding his country, ai what is more, he enjoys setting rights the minds of those who ha no more conception of Japanese ch? acter than of a Chinese puzzle. F natieism. the word an n'iii>Hr ooii. upon and so popularly used to defi Japanese success, was thus explain by the Baron. "Fanaticism," said he, "which h been so widely quoted as txplainii Japan's recent, successes, is a n< word to me. I have known of it t ing applied to many other nation victories. I remember when I was boy in the high school of Boston, reading in your colonial historic telling of the continental urmy, " the morning an American fights lil a gay boy, at noon he fights like man, in the afternoon he fights li a demon.' I asked the teacher wh a demon meant. He told me to loi it up in the dictionary. I was si prised to learn of its fierce sign! cance. The explanation I would gi to that word in this connection wou bo nothing short of fanaticism, patriotism, loyalty to your nation welfuro and a prido in national su cess is fanaticism, then that is tl word to use. Ho deep is the feeiii of national pride in every heart Japan when our national existence threatened, that every man, womc and child is ready to take up tl cudgel of defence. Would yon cr that fanaticism? If fanaticism e plains for that spirit that moved tl armies of Napoleon, Washington ai Ciraut, as a unit, to victory, the n fanaticism as applied to the Japanese T is army may be correct. "It was this same spirit, that di*1 rected the army in Port Arthur and J" Manchuria. It was with this sume ,r spirit that Togo, after his success. r< N modestly explained that his victory l'< I was due, not to himself, but. to the jj, r_ 'Mikado's virtue.' I had been asked r_ many times to explain this remark. n "We have the same reverential lo feeling for our Emperor that uny body to of people have for their leader, who m '<1 has proved himself of that character 'n u' which inspires the highest respect 8? and confidence. The Kmptror knows er 10 K his people, and they know hi in Dl ^ There is a perfect understanding be- ?' rv tween them. When the troops wore mobilizing for the war, the Emperor l>0 on horseback as ft plain cavalryman w reviewed his army. He spoke words Xl of encouragement to his men, and | vv lc expressed the hope that they would tc py be victorious. With their intense U1 pat*iot:sm, this was the final spark 111 d of inspiration needed for their sue- b g. cess They moved like a unit and 8< u_ they fought like a unit la that fa- 01 |s. natloiem? t! xl Tlie patriotism of our people is not b of a day. It is inbred and has been fr lie cultivated for mora than 2 0<K) eentu- sl 111 ries. No other nation can show a t' ruler's descent like our present Km'* poror, for 2,000 years. We reverence 11 jhim and pay our highest respects to 11 hi n. We are tho most democratic of nations. The poor and tho rich " i all tend the sume schools. The men c c- who make our laws are men who 0 lie know the wants, the needs and de-. oil sires of our people. There is a close P 11-v bor.d of sympathy and understand- V ing between the ruler and tho ruled. C l'o bo able to govern, tho law-makers ? must know the people they govern." >' Tn spoakirg of the fundamental ' C principles of Japanese success, Baron P Ivancko said he believed these two s= I | were of tHe chief reasons for the lit- c tie island coming into history as one t ^ of the great, world Powers: c . The ignoranco of Japan, self-confessed by other nations. ^ Advantage of a constitutional e Government. t p "We hear that Europe has been n ' deceived by the Japanese victory," 0 ,, continued the Baron. "Deceived is n ' hardly the word to use. If Europe a j has been deceived, she has herself to aj blame. In appearance the Japanese a might be called deceptive. We are v ] neither handsome nor brave looking. . There is nothing commendable about ^ de ? the Japanese appearance. They are ^ small and insignificant looking, com- P oared with the handsome and fine ^ )n j physiques of the people of many a , European countries. While we are w small in statue and not strong look- a ing, we have been underestimated and misunderstood. Other races and n ' nut ions never took the trouble to h study us, whereas we studied thejp P to the minutest detail. Every bit of ~ important work to do has been given w j to an expert in his line of work, a * man who has spent several years in a ^ many nations, learning thoroughlv S every detail of the work assigned to him by the Government. Thorough- P ^ ness is the keynote of Japanese sue- a cess. Often when traveling in other b countries I have made special in- d 11) quiries regarding certain lines of ^ business. I found that the man who n was spoken of as an expert in his line knew his work thoroughly as it ofc- S tiined in his own country. The same line of business as carried on in - a foreign country he knew little or h en v nothing of. l ne "The Japanese have been put . down as imitators. This might be mentioned a3 one stage of our progress. In studying a foreign civili/a- ^ tion, the first step is imitation, then ? >w v organization. Our Japanese experts g have a thorough research and study ,5 of every detail of their business as , ' a .-j 1- ?- - - 1 . umucu i?u in 211inoi5i? every country or 0 the world. With this accumulation ? ^ of knowledge they are then ready not to imitate, but originate To this ke ' very thing is due considerable of our () ^ success; the perfect capability of our ^ people to successfully perform their work. Many visitors to our country c pass through our streets and squares ; ^ they see the people and buildings, 1 and whon they return home they say [ ^ the Japaneso are copyists and they y ^ are a race of imitators. This is be- 1 cause they see only the outward ap- H 1 ' pearance of our activity, but, un' fortunutely, never study the inner workings of our mind. Such in- < stances of clever organization are ^ shown in the remarkable success of ,j smokeless powder invented by Major t Shimose. This powder, is by actual test, five timos as strong as the Euro- ? pean powder. n Bring your job work to The ? jn TiMbS. We can please you. i he Man Who Grafts and the Man Who Plows. Robert Burns says: It's hardly in a body's pow'r > koAp. at times, frae bolng sour > see how things are shar'd ; ow best o' chiels are whyles in want, hilo coofs on countless thousands rant." Plowin* i-? a laborious, humble and inple life. The man who plows skes enough to live* on, but he ;?kes little beyond. Grafting is an easy life. The graft lives by the sweat of other inen't ow. His life is one of case; ofter much comfort; sometime* of el*, inco. The man who plows, unless lie ii ell grounded in honesty, is trinptoc > envy the life of the grafter and to ish that he had a like opportunity ) get rich. Perhaps he does noi iind poverty so much for himself od would be content wih his humbh ut hard lot; but he would Itke t( ^e his wife aud children have inori f the good things of Iif-?; and fo icir sake he is tempted to put hi and into the public treasury und t< inko public office a private gain, in lend of n public trust. The terapta on is especially strong when he see hat the rich man is looked up to am lade much of without regard to th lunner of getting riches. It look o him that the main object of hi fc is to get money?honestly, if on an; but get it. That is the mott f a large part of commercial life, am 5 is fast becoming the motto of th olitician of high or low degree iru... .. TT?; O 1 1:1. t ucii it iv u i iru uiuvea ocuntuI 11 tv lhauncey DePew can take $20,IK) ut of the Equitable Company ever ear for five years, without reudei ug any service, it is not strange tha ublic Gfiloers in other stations shoul rah all in sight wherever there is hance to get it ami at the sam ime to cscapj tho law against lai eny. The man who plows 1 ioks on an egins to wonder if it pays to be hot st and to work for a living whe here is a chance to get so muc nore by graft. Thus the foundation f public integrity are undermine nd the standards of personal honest re pulled down. One man sayi 'If there is to be public graft, I ha s well get it as another." Othei rho are not prepared to go quite s ar say, "If there is to be graft, b ad as well get it as anybody else. Crafting is more profitable tha lowing. It yieles larger return! 'or this reason many are tempte nd ^led away into crooked path rhere money is made by questior ble methods. It is well enough to tell the poc lan who plows to be content wit is lot; that honesty is the be* olicy; that virtue is its own rewar -and all that sort of thing. Tha rill not satisfy him. Only one thin 'ill, and that is to punish the grafte s a criminal, and to put a stop t rafting. The way to do this is fc ire man who plows to give his su{ ort to men who are strictly hone* nd to insist that public officers aha e hel 1 to a strict account in th ischarge of their dutios. The man who plows?by which leant any man who works hard an onest for his living?can preven rafting by electing only honest me o office. Let the man who plows rise up i is might and put the grafter out.fewberry Observer. Jester's Cotton Reporl New Orleans, Sept. 1.?Secretar Tester's statement of the world' isible supply of cotton, issued todaj hows the totdl visible to be 2,558 51, against 2,570,485 last week, an ,121,251 last year. 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