Richmond Planet
Saturday, January 26, 1907
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THE RICHMOND PLANET
SENATOR TILLMAN AND THE RACE QUESTION.
HE AROUSED THE SENATE AND PLEASED THE GALLERIES—REMARKABLE ASSERTIONS OF AN UNRECONSTRUCTED SOUTHERNER. Murder Recognized as a Necessity—Crime Made a Virtue.
VOL. XXIV, NO. 8.
SENATOR TILL
THE RA
HE AROUSED THE SENA
GALLERIES—REMARK
AN UNRECONSTRUc
Murder Recognized a
Made a
(Continued From Last Week.)
"The whole issue involved is one
of race, and the President is prima-
ly more responsible than any other
man for the position of the Negroes
in the South have taken on the
question of Negro rights.
"He gave recognition to Booker Washington in a social way. He tilt it knowing he was flying in the face of caste feeling among 17,000,000 of Southern white men and against the same feeling of two thirds or three fourths of the Northern peo ple. He does not understand the Negro or the deep and vital character of the issue involved. He made a mess of it in the first instance and has made a worse mess of the last. "He speaks by 'suggestion' in his recent message as a motive for crime. What would calculate to provoke the Negroes to crime more than those would. The well known attitude of the administration on the social question has been the cause of a great and noticeable change in the demeanor and action of the Negroes throughout the South, and the greater question of relationship between the races cannot be much longer kept down." Mr. Tillman said.
After predicting in the near future a race conflict to determine whether the Negro is equal to the Caucasian, Mr. Tillman continued:
"Broadly stated, the white people of the United States are face to face with the vital issue as to whether the Caucasian race shall share its inheritance with the other races of the earth. In Cuba the question presses for solution and immediate action. Shall that island be governed by Negroes or white men? Shall it be doomed to the fate ofuto Domingo or shall it be saved for the white man? The question of a protectorate or annexation and of the future status of the people there must be determined in the near future. That is only one phase of the question.
RACE QUESTION ON COAST
"On the Pacific Coast the relation, ship between the Mongolians and the Caucasians is involved. The President announces himself as favoring the policy of absolute obliteration of the race line, the granting of full citizenship to the Japanese. The Americans of the Pacific Coast, as I understand it, are bitterly opposed to this policy, and without regard to party lines. These Americans ought to know what is for their best interest, and they ought to and undoubtedly will have the sympathy and aid of their fellow-citizens, North and South, in protecting their interests. But these two phases of the race problem sink into insignificance alongside of the greater and more vital question of the relationship of the races in the Southern States of the Union.
"In six Southern States (South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana) in the aggregate the Negroes outnumber the whites, and in two of them (South Carolina and Mississippi) the Negro preponderance is very heavy.
"Under the law these people possess every right that white men have as far as the Federal Constitution confers rights, and the fifteenth amendment expressly forbids the enactment of any law which 'shall discriminate in voting on account of race or color.' Large numbers of these Negroes are disfranchised at this time, but these laws are only temporary and work no cure, and in the near future enough Negroes will be able to vote to make inevitable the struggle for mastery between the races.
"In Cuba the color line has been obliterated and miscegenation is in full blast. At the North the same conditions exist, and the large number of mulattoes and quadroons with white blood in their veins who have migrated there are the leaders of the doctrine of absolute social equality, encouraged as they have been and are now by the President of the United States. Take this from his message on the Brownsville affair: 'It is of the utmost importance to all our people that we shall deal with each man on his merits as a man and not deal with him merely as a member of a given race;
that we shall judge each man by his conduct and not his color.
DUTY OF WHITE MAN
"And again: 'Every far-sighted friend of the colored race in its efforts to strive onward and upward should teach first as the most important lesson, alike to the white man and the black, the duty of treating the individual man strictly on his worth as he shows it.'"
"Consider the full import and meaning of these words and then consider whether or not they are sincere and honest, or whether in the fervor of a fight to justify an unwarranted usurpation of power and exercise of executive authority, the President forgot himself and said more than he intended or means. To illustrate, is it possible or desirable that all consideration of race and color shall be dismissed from our minds and not govern our action; that racial instincts implanted in us by nature are to be ignored and all men of all races to be judged and treated on the basis of individual merit?
"Are men to be made over and the caste feeling and race antagonisms of centuries to disappear in the universal brotherhood of man? Are there any Senators in this audience who abate to this poetine who would have the Cuvagian, highest and noblest of the five races, as is attested by history, descend to the level of the others and share his birthright with them, with the inevitable result that pure white blood will disappear from the face of the earth and after the mixing of centuries, shall have completed the amalgamation, have all men of one skin and one type?
"Is President Roosevelt ready to act up to his own theory and have his children marry men and women of the other races?" Would he accept as a daughter-in-law a Chinese, a Malay, an Indian, or a Negro, in accord with the doctrine laid down in his message, which I have quoted previously, and while "few words butter no parsnips" words like these are a source of incalculable evils, coming from such high source.
SOUTH WILL NOT SUBMIT
"The Southern white men and women who have for forty years resisted in every possible way this doctrine of the equality of the races are just as resolved now as they have always been not to submit to it or its results. They are resolved to maintain control of their State government, and to prevent in every way possible social and political equality with the inevitable destruction of their civilization which would follow if they yielded. The conditions are growing more and more aggravated every day. Race antagonism increases in intensity. "Are things to drift until direful tragedies multiply on every hand and blood shall flow like water? Is the statesmanship of our time inadequate to cope with this question, just as the statesmanship of 1880 failed to prevent the title coaster of the war. That war was fought to settle the race question, but forty years after its termination we find conditions more threatening, in some of their aspects, than they were in 1861.
"It is not possible for me to believe that the theorists and sentimentalists of the North who are responsible for the conditions existing will be allowed to pursue their policy of absolute recognition of race equality much further. The question is not a local one, or a sectional one, except so far as the Negroes are nearly all at the South while at the North there are comparatively few of them. It is high time something was being done to have this great and vital question brought before the country in some practicable and sensible way.
WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY.
"The deep interest shown in the Brownsville tragedy is ample evidence that the people of the country are beginning to feel a deep concern in the various phases of this question, and it is absolutely useless for doctrinales and politicians to undertake to pooh pooh the question and dismiss it with a wave of the hand, and for one. I am ready to go
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1907
THE HAND=WRIT= ING ON THE WALL.
"BELSHAZZAR, the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. * * *
"In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candle-stick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another, * * *
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing:—MENE: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL: Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting. PERES: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
In that night was BELSHAZZAR, the king of the Chaldeans slain."--DANIEL, Chap. V: verses, 1, 5, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30
DISCHARGE
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HONOR
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21M
[FROM JUDGE, JAN. 19, 1907.]
to battle under the slogan, America for the Americans, and this is the white man's country and white men must govern it." To a question from Senator Beveridge, that a remedy be suggested, Mr. Tillman declined to enter into that phase of the discussion. He said he had not arisen from a sick bed to speak, and to follow the suggestion of the question would involve another two hour's speech. It had simply been his object to point out that the people of the South were on the crest of a volcano and confronted with a situation of which the people of the North had no conception. As to the Brownsville matter, he stood on the proposition that the innocent outgot not to be punished because there were some guilty, "and I think the President has made some very grave
THE WARNING.
blunders in dealing with this subject."
Every colored man should secure a copy of "Judge" of Jan. 19th, '07 and keep it for future references. Price 10 cents. If you cannot se cure it at the news stands write to Judge, 225 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y.
—Rev. T. P. Harris and Henry Ware of Michaux, Va. called on us.
—Miss Pocahontas Anderson of Germantown, Pa. passed through this city enroute home. Miss Anderson was called to Amelia to visit her sick mother. Her mother has recovered sufficiently for her to return.
HOLD THIS PAGE UP TO THE LIGHT AND LOOK
THROUGH THE BLA. K.SPACE.
Card of Thanks.
Rev. W. E. Partee of Lyncnaburg desires to express his thanks and apreciation for the pleasant surprise given him during the holidays by his friends in the First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, which church he served as pastor for eight years.
A purse of money and other acceptable presents were given him by them and one of them was sent to Lynchburg to present these things. This was a most unexpected token of appreciation and while the givers doubtless had no thought of their kind remembrances being published, the recipient feels that such acts of christian kindness ought to be published and preached.
It is a joy to serve such people and a help to better living to hold them in fond remembrance. God
has a people on this earth and these are some of them.
A Grand Time at the Fifth Baptist Church.
PRICE, FIVE CENTS
Grand Time at the Fifth Street Baptist Church—Five Hundred Officers Installed.
The Installation Exercises at the Fifth Street Baptist Church Tuesday night was a grand success. The edifice was filled from the rostrum to the doors, even the galleries being occupied. The Uniform Rank was out in full force. Eureka Co. No. 1 was commanded by Capt. Iso Moore, Planet Co., No. 8 by Capt. Adolphus Jackson and the Pythian Cadets by Capt. Roscoe C. Mitchell. Major Wm. A. Robinson was in charge. Rev. Dr. A. E. Edwards read the Scriptures and prayed was offered by Rev. J. R. Griffin. The Chair of the Fifth Street Baptist Church rendered fine selections. Col. Thomas M. Crump gave "A Few Figures in Finance." The information was interesting.
The officers of the lodges were then installed by the Grand Chancellor John Mitchell, Jr. Tae Grand Lodge officers advanced down the centre aisle of the church, wearing the red fez caps of the Improved Order of the Knight of Khorassan and created much comment. The Grand Chancellor was assisted by Past Chancellors Thomas M. Crump, William Custalo, John G. Smith and Thomas H. Wyatt, while S. S. Baker acted as Grand Master at Arms.
At the conclusion the Court offi-
cers were installed. Thanks were
extended the pastor of the church,
the church, the choir and the Com-
mittee of Arrangements. The
church was beautifully decorated
with flags, bunting and cut flowers.
The entertainment was the most
successful of any yet held. The offi-
cers of the Courts occupied one
half of the entire lower part of the
church and those of the Louges the
other half.
The Grand Chancellor offered a
set of lodge jewels to the Court taint
would lead in the number of shares
of stock owned in the P. C. I. A. by
the next meeting of the Grand
Lodge and the same offer was made
to the Lodges. It was 11 o'clock
when the exercises were concluded.
The Committee of Arrangements
was as follows: Sir George W. D-
dridge, District Deputy Grand Chanc-
eller; Sir O. M. Steward, Special
Deputy Grand Chancellor; Sir E. W.
R. Gleun, D. D. G. C.; Capt. John
G. Smith, D. D. G. C.; Capt Willis
Wyatt, Mrs. Anna Taylor, D. D. G.
W. Counsellor; Mrs. Kate Thomas,
Mrs. J. A. Graham, Mrs. Lucy A.
Cross, Mrs. Sallie Fox, Mrs. Mildred
Johnson.
1st. Lleut. Sir Robert Veiner,
2nd Leut. Sir C. W. Washington,
3rd Seret. Sir Richard Smith of Co.
No. 13 were over accompanying Maj.
D. B. Cornish of Petersburg. The
latter sat on the rostrum.
Mechanics' Savings Bank Stock Soars
There was a surprising flurry in the stock of the Mechanics' Savings Bank last week. It was bought in blocks ranging from $10.00 up to $1,000. At the conclusion all of it had gone and there were many disappointed investors clamoring for more. As a result eight thousand dollars of it was sold and the price went up from ten dollars per share to fifteen dollars per share where it now remains.
The fine photograph of the American Bankers Association at St. Louis Mo. may now be seen at the Mechanics' Savings Bank and at the PLANET Office. It is about 15 inches long and 52 inches wide.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
A New Court in Prince George Co.
Gee P. O. Va., Jan. 21, 1907.
Queen Victoria Court. No. 115 was organized here last Saturday night with the following officers:
Worthy Counselor, Jennie James;
Worthy Inspector, Roxanna Taylor;
Worthy Inspectrix Lucy Harris; Senior Directress, Effie Grammar; Junior Directress, Ellen Graves. Orator, Martha Cook; Register of Deeds, Mary Carpenter; Receiver of Denositis, Louisa Robinson; Escort, Sallie Luster; Conductress, Julia Cook; Assistant Conductress, Sylvia Wilkins; Herald, Ann Taylor; Prelate. Ed. Grammar; Trustees, Ellen Jackson Susan Allen, Alia Clareburg.
Those present were Dr. E. R. Jefferson of Richmond Sir Edward W. Wood, D. D. G. C. Mrs. Loula Hastings and Mrs. Mary A. Morton of Petersburg. A supper was served and all heartily enjoyed themselves.
WANTED—All able bodied men who go North in need of work to call and consult me. I can at most any time and esp cially in the warm weather secure employment for several hundred. Address,
J. L. WALLACE. Agent.,
International Union of Pavers and Rammersmen.
456 W. 57th St.
New York, N. Y.
—— TH E—~
By KATHERINE CECIL THURSTON,
Author of “The Circle,” Ete.
Copyright, 1905, 1908. by Marper & Brothers
Two.
CHAPTER IL
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don and also on that night eame th
first announcement of the border ris
fngs against the Persian governmen
fa the province of Khorassan—the an
Rouncement that, speculated upon
even smiled at. at the time, assumed
such signiticunce In the light of after
events
At 8 o'clock the news spread through
the house of commons, but at 9 mea in
the Inner lobbies were gossiping, no
#0 much upon how far Russia, while
estensibly upholding the shab, bad
pulled the strings ly which the losur-
gents danced, as upon the manuer tp
which the St. George's Gazette, the
Tory evening newspaper, had seized
Upon the incident and shaken it in the
face of the covernment
Bore than once before Lakely, the
owner and editor of the St. Georze’s,
had stepped outside the decorous circle
of-tradition and taken a plunge Into
modern journalism, but tonight be es
Sayed deeper waters than before and
under an almost sensational heading
@eclared that in this apparently {nno-
cent border rising we bad less an out
come of mere racial antagonism than
@ first faint index of a long cherished
Russian scheme, growing to a gradual
maturity under the “drift policy of
the present British government
‘The effect produced by this pro
Rouncemeut. if strong, was varied
Members of the opposition saw, of
thought they saw, a reflection of it in
the smiling unconcern on the minis.
terial benches, and the goverament
had an uneasy sense that behind the
Rewly Kinaled interest on the other
aide of the house lay some mysterious
Sceuting of lattle from afar off. But
though these Impressions ran like elec.
tricity throuch the atmosphere, uoth
ing tangible marked their passage, and
the ordinary business of the house pro-
ceeded until balf past 11, when an ad.
Journment was moved
The first man to hurry from bis place
was Jobu Chilcote, member for East
Wark. He passed out of the bouse
quickly, with the balf furtive quick.
ess that marks a self absorbed man,
and as he passed the policeman stand.
ing stolidly under the arched doorway
of the big courtyard he awerved a lit-
tle, as if startled out of his thoughts
He realized his swerve almost before
§t was accomplished and pulled him.
self together with nervous Irritability.
“Fogzy night, constable.” he sald,
With elaborate carelessness,
“Foggy night, sir, and thickening up
west.” responded the man.
“Ah, indeed!” Chilcote’s answer was
absent. The constable’s cheery voice
Jarred on him. and for the second time
he was conscious of senseless Irrita
tion. Without a further glance at the
man, he slipped out lato the courtyard
and turned toward the main gate.
At the gateway two cab lamps show:
@4 through the mist of shifting fog
Uke the eyes of a great cat, and the
familiar “Hansom, sir?" came to bim
indistinctly,
He patised by force of custom and,
stepping forwsrd, had almost couched
the open door when a new Impulse
caused him to draw back
“No.” he sald hurriedly; “no, 1
walk.”
The cabman mattered, lashed his
horse and, with a clatter of hoofs and
harness. wheeled away, white Chileate,
still with uncertain hastiness, crossed
the road In the direction of Whitehall.
About the abbey the fog had par
tially lifted, and in the railed garden
that faces the houses of parliament
the statues were visible {n a spectral
way. But Chilcote’s glance was unsta-
Die and indifferent. He skirted the
railings beedlessly and, crossing the
road with the speed of long familiar.
ity, gained Whitehall on the left hand
side.
There the fog had dropped. and, look-
ing upward toward Trafalgar square,
At seemed that the chain of lamps ex-
tended little farther than the Horse
guards and that beyond lay nothing.
Unconscious of this capricious alter-
nation between darkness and light,
Chileote continued his course. To a
close observer the manner of his going
tad both interest and suggestion, for
‘hough be walked on, apparently self
engrossed, yet at every dozen steps be
started at some sound or some touch,
Mke a man whose nervous system is
Painfully overstrang.
Maintaining bis haste, he went de
Mberately forward, oblivious of the
fact that at each step the curtain of
darkness about him became closer,
damper, more tangible; that at each
second the passersby jostled each
other with greater frequency. Then,
abruptly, with a sudden realization of
what had happened, he stood quite
‘still, Without anticipation or prepa-
Fation he had walked full Into the
‘thickness of the fog—a thickness so
dense that, as by an enchanter’s wand.
‘the figures of a moment before melted,
the street lamps were sucked up into
he night.
‘His first feeling was a sense of panic
‘at the sudden isolation, bis second a
Sie cv Sioa
‘oblivion had t so
tra, ‘The second feeling out-
we ‘the first. He moved forward,
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heavily os Th Tron, shutting of all pos-
sibility of retreat. AM about bim tn
the darkness was a confusion of volces
~cheerful, dubtous, alarmed or angry.
Now and then a sleeve brushed bis or
a band touched him tentatively. It
‘Was a strange moment, a moment of
possibilities, to which the crunching
wheels, the oaths and laughter from
‘the blocked traffic of the roadway,
made a continuous accompaniment.
Keeping well to the left Chilcote still
beat on. ‘There was a persistence In
his movements that almost amounted
to fear—n fear born of solitude Aled
with Innumerable sounds. For a space
be groped about him without result,
then his fingers touched the cold sur-
face of a shuttered sbop front and a
thrill of reassurance passed through
him. With renewed haste and clinging
to his landmark as a blind man might,
he started forwarfl with fresh Impetus,
For a dozen paces he moved rapidly.
and uneventy. then the natural result
oceurred. Te collided with a man com-
ing in the opposite direction.
‘The shock was abrupt. Both men
swore simultaneously. then both fauch-
ed. The whole thing was casual, but
Chileote was in that state of mind
when even the commonplace becomes
abnormal. ‘The other man’s exclama
tion, the other man's Inugtt, struck on
his nerves, Coming out of the dark
ness, they sounded like a repetition of
bis own, |
Nine out of every ten men in London,
given the same social position and the
same education, might reasonably be
expected to express annuyance or
amusement in the same manner. poss!
biy in the same tone of voice, and Chit
cote remembered this almost at the
moment of his nervous Jar.
“Beastly fox!" he sald aloud. “I'm
trying to find Grosvenor square, but
the chauces seem rather small.”
‘The other laughed agein, and again
the laugh upset Chileote. He woncer- |
ed uneomt— <1" If he was bernmins
a prey f Wuslons: But the stranger
spoke before the question had solved
Itself.
“I'm afraid they are small,” he said.
“It would be almost bard to find one’s
way to the devil on a night lke this
Chilcote made a murmur of amuse.
ment and drew back against the shop,
Yes. We can see now where the
blind man scores in the matter of sal-
vation. This is nlmost a repetition of
the fog of six years ago. Were you
out in that? It was a habit of bis
to Jump from one seutence to another,
a habit that had grown of late
“No.” ‘The stranger had also groped
his way to the shop front. “No, 1 was
out of England six years ago.”
“You were lucky Chilcote turned
up the collar of bis coat. “It was an
atrocious fog, as black as this, but
more universal. I remember it well.
It was the night Lexington made bis
great sugar speech. Some of us were
found on Lambeth bridge at 3 in the
morning, having left the house at 12."
| Chileote seldom indulged in remiais-
-cences, but this conversation with an
Unseen companion was more like a
soliloquy than a dialogue. He was
almost surprised into an exclamation
when the other caught up bis words.
“Ab! The sugar speech!” he said,
“Odd that I should have been looking
it up only yesterday, What a mag-
nificent dressing up of a dry subject it
was! What a career Lexington prom-
fsed In those days!”
Chilcote changed his position.
“You are interested in the muddle
down at Westminster?” he asked sar-
castically,
“I?” It was the turn of the stranger
to draw back a step. “Oh, I read my
newspaper with the other 5,000,000,
that Is all. I am an outsider.” His
Voice sounded curt. The warmth that
admiration had brought Into It a mo
ment before had frozen abruptly.
“An outsider!” Chilcote repeated.
“What an enviable word!"
“Possibly, to those who are well tu-
| slde the ring. But let us go back to
Lexington. What a plonacle the man
reached, and what a drop he bad! It
has always seemed to me an extraor-
inary Instance of the human leaven
running through us all. What was the
real cause of bis collapse?” he asked
suddenly. “Was it drugs or drink? I
have often wished to get at the truth.”
Again Chilcote changed bis attitude.
“Ia truth ever worth getting at?" he
asked irrelevantly,
“In the case of a public man—yes.
‘He exchanges his privacy for the inter-
est of the masses. If he gives the
masnes the details of bis success, why
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‘wot the detalls of his tallure? But
‘it drink that sucked bim under? =
“No.” Chitcote’s response came ates
8 pause.
“Drugs?”
Again Chileote hesitated. And at
the moment of his Indecision a woman
brushed past bim laughing bolsterous
ly. The sound jarred him,
“Was it drugs?” the stranger went on
easily. “I have always bad a theory
that it was.”
“Yes. It was morpbia.” ‘The answer
ame before Chilcote had realized It
The woman's laugh at the stranger's
quiet persistence had contrived to
draw it from him. Instantly he had
spoken he looked about him quickly,
“Uke one who has for a moment for
gotten @ necessary vigilance.
‘There was silence while the stranger
thought over the Information Just given
him. ‘Then he spoke again, with a new
touch of vehemence,
“So I Imagined,” he sald, “though, on
my soul, I never really credited It. To
have gained so much and to have
thrown it away for a common rice!”
He made an exclamation of disgust.
Chilcote gave an unsteady laugh.
“You Jude hardiy.” he sald.
‘The other reperted its sotnd of con-
tempt. “Justly so. No man has the
tight to squander what another would
give his soul for. It lessens the gen-
eral respect for power.”
“You are a believer In power?" The
tone was sarcastic, but the sarcasm
sounded thin.
“Yes, All power Is the outcome of In-
dividuality. either past or present.
find no sentiment for the man who
plays with it”
‘The quiet contempt of the tone stung
Chileote.
“Do you immagine that Lexington
made no fight?” he asked impulsively.
“Can't you picture the man's struggle
while the vice that bad been slave
gradually became master?’ He stop-
Ped to take breath, and in the cold
Pause that followed it seemed to him
that the other made a murmur of to
credulity.
“Perhaps you think of morphia as a
pleasure?” he added. “Think of It, in-
stend, a5 m tyrant that tortures the
mind if held to and the body if cast
off.” Urged by the darkness and the
silence of his companion, the rein of
bis speech had loosened. In that mo-
ment he was not Chilcote, the member
for Rast Wark, whose moods and si-
lences were proverbial, but Chilcote
the man whose mind craved the relief
of speech,
“You talk as the world talke—out of
iguorance and self righteousness,” be
went on. “Serore you conaema Lex
Ington you should put yourself In his
place"—
“As you do?” the other laughed.
Unsuspecting and inoffensive as the
lauch was It startled Chileote, With @
sudden alarm he pulled himself up.
“I” He tried to echo the laugh,
but the attempt fell fat. “Ob, I mere-
ly speak from—from De Quincey. But
I believe this fog Is shifting—I really
believe it fs shifting. Can you oblige
me with a light? I had almost forgot-
ten that a man may still smoke though
he has been deprived of sight.” He
spoke fast and disjotutedly, He was
overwhelmed by the idea that he had
Jet himself go and possessed by the
wish to obliterate the consequences.
As he talked he fumbled for his ciga-
Tete casa.
His head was bent as he searched
for It nervously. Without looking up
he was conscious that the cloud of fog
that held him prisoner was lifting.
rolling away, closing back again, pre
Paratory to final disappearance. Hav.
Ing found the case, be put a cigarette
between his lips and raised his hand
at the moment that the stranger drew
‘@ match across his box.
For a second each stared blankly at
the other's face, suddenly made visi-
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For a second exch stared dankly at th
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‘scorched his fagers, and,
pecs Pain, he laughed and let i
|] , “Ot all oda things!” be said. Then he
| broke off. ‘The circumstance was too
‘Rovel for onlinary remark.
| By one of those rare occurrences,
‘those chances that seem too wild for
| real tife and yet belong to no other
sphere, the two faces so strangely bid-
den and strangely revealed were iden.
tical, feature for feature. It seemed
toeach man that he looked not at the
face of another. but at bis own face
Fefected in a flawless looking glass.
Of the two the stranger was the first
to regain self possession. Seeing Chi!-
cote’s bewilderment, he came to his
Tescve with brusque tactfulness.
“The position is decidedly odd." he
said. “But, after all, why should we
be s0 surprised? Nature can't be eter-
nally original. She must dry up some.
| times. and when she gets n good model
| Why shouldn't she use it twice?" He
Grew back, surveying Chileote whim
sieally. “But, pardon me, you are still
waiting for that light!”
Chilevtte still held the cigarette be-
tween bis lips. Tue paper lad become
dry, and he moistened it as he leaned
toward his companion.
“Don't mind me.” be sald. “I'm
rather—rather uustrung tonight, and
this thing gave me a jar. To be can
did, my imagination took bead in the
fog, and I got to fancying I was talk-
Jog to myself”.
“And pulled up to find the fancy in
some way: real?”
“Yes, something like that.”
Both were silent for a moment. Chik.
cote pulled hard at his cigarette, then,
remembering his obligations, be turned |
quickly to the other.
“Won't,sou smoke?" he asked
The stranger accepted a cigarette
| he did 4g the extraordinary likeness to
himself ‘struck Chileote with ndded
hand and touched the other's arm,
“I's my uerves!™ be said !n explana
tion. “They make me want to feel
that you are suistantial. “Nerves play
such beastly tricks!” He laughed awk
warily,
The otper glanced up. His expres
sion on the woment was slightly. sur-
prised, slichtly coutemptuous, but he
changed It instantiy to conventional in
terest. “T raid Fam not an an
Thority on nerves," he sat.
But Chilcote was preoccupled. His
thoughts had turned lato another chan
nel
“How old are you?" be asked sud.
deuly. 2
The other did not answer immediate-
ly. “My age?” be said at last slowly.
“Ob, I believe I shall be thirty-six to-
morrow, to be quite accurate.”
Chileote lifted his bead quickly.
“Why do you use that tone?” he
asked. “I am six months older than
You, and I ouly wish it was six years,
Six year nearer oblivion"—
Again a slight tucredulous contempt
crosned the other's eyes. “Oblivion?”
he sald. “Where are your ambitions?”
“They don't exist.”
“Don't exist? Yet you voice your
country? I concluded that much In
‘the fog."
Chilcote laughed sarcastically,
“When oue has voiced one's country
for six years one gets hoarse. It's a
natural consequence.”
The other smiled. “Ah, discontent!”
he said. “The modern canker. But we
must both be getting under way. Good
night. Shall we shake bands—to prove
that we are geauinely material?” |
Chilcote had been standing unusually
atill, following the stranger's words,
caught by his self reliance and im-
Pressed by his personality. Now, as
he ceased to speak, he moved quickly
forward, impelled by a nervous curi-
osity.
“Why should we just ball each other
and pass—Ike the proverbial ships?”
he said impulsively. “If nature was
careless enough to let the reproduction
meet the original she must abide the
consequences.”
The other laughed, but his laugh was
short. “Ob, I don't know. Our roads
He differently. You would get nothing
out of me, and I"— He stopped and
again laughed shortly. “No,” he sald.
“I'd be content to pass if I were you.
‘The unsuccessful man ts seldom a
Profitable study. Shall we say good
night?" |
Fe took Chilcote’s hand for an in-
stant, then, crossing the footpath, be
Passed into the roadway toward the
Strand. |
It was done in a moment, but with
his going a sense of loss fell upon Chil-
cote. He stood for a space, newly con-
scious of unfamiliar faces and unfa-
‘millar voices In the stream of passers-
by. Then, suddenly mastered by an im-
Pulse, he wheeled rapidly and darted
after the tall, lean figure so ridiculous-
ly Uke bis own,
Eialtwag_ecaes’ Sontalans puenre be
overtook the stranger. He paused
on one of the small stone islands thot
‘Drenk the current of trafiie and was
‘waiting for an opportunity to cross the
street. In the giare of light from the
lamp above bis head Chilcote saw- for
‘the first time that, under a remarkable
leintstaen Rake dene ee
ure never anything.” With an-
teal, he stepped the lttle Island
and disappeared Into the throng of
trame.
Chileote stood for an instant gazing
at the point where he had vanished;
then, turning to the lamp. be Ifted the
tard and read the name it bore, “Mr.
Joha Loder. 1% Ciiant's Tan.”
CHAPTER T.
N the morning following the
night of fog Chileote woke at 9,
He woke at the moment tbat
bis man Allsopp tiptoed across
the room and laid the salver with his
early cup of tea on-the table beside the
bed.
For several seconds he lay with his
eres shut. The effort of opening them
on a fresh day—the Intimate certainty
of what he would see on opening them
—seemed to weight his lds. The heavy,
half closed curtains, the bliods severely
drawn, the great oom with its splen-
did furniture, its sober coloring, its
Sent of damp Tonion wiater—dbove
all. Allsopp, silent, respectful and re
“spectahle—were the things to dread.
‘A full minute passed while he sttit
felzned sleep. He beard Allsopp stir
discreetly, then the inevitable inferma-
tion broke the xilence:
“Nine o'clock, str?
Te opened his eyeé, murmured some-
thing and closed them again,
The man moved to the window,
quietly pulled back the curtains and
haif drew the blind.
“Better night, sir, I hope?" he ven-
tured softly
Chileste bad drawn the bedclothes
over his face to screon himself from
the daylight, murky though It was.
“Yes,” he responded. “Those beast-
ly nightmares didn't trouble me for
once.” He shivered a little as at some
recollection. “But don't talk—don't re-|
mind me of them. [hate a man who
has no originality." He spoke sharply. |
At times he showed an almost childish
Irritation over trivial things. |
Allsopp took the remark In silence.
Crossing the wide room, he begin to
lay out his master's clothes. The ac-
tlon affected Chilcote to fresh annoy-
ance.
“Confound it!” he sald. “I'm sick of
that routine! T can see you laying out
my winding sheet the day of my
burial, Leave those things. Come
back in batf an hour.” |
Allsopp allowed himself one glance
at his master's figure tuddled tn the
great bed: then, laying aside the coat
he was holding, he moved to the door.
With bis fingers on the handle, he
paused.
“Will you breakfast in your own
room, sir, or downstairs?"
Chileote drew the clothes more tight-
ly round bis shoulders. “Ob, anywhere
nowhere!" he said, “I don't care."
Allsopp softly withdrew.
Left to himself, Chileote sat up in
bed and lifted the salver to his knees,
‘The sudden movement jarred him
physically. He drew a handkerchief
from under the pillow and wiped his
forehead. ‘Then be held his hand to the
Ught and studied it. The band looked
sallow and unsteady. With a nervous
gesture he thrust the salver back upon
the table and sild out of bed. |
Moving hastily across the room, he
stopped before one of the tall ward-
robes and swung the door opea; then,
after a furtive glance around the room, |
he thrust his haud Into the recesses |
of a shelf and fumiled there, The
thing he sought was evidently not
hard to find, for almost at ouce he
withdrew his hand and moved from
the wardrobe to n table beside the Gre-
place, carrying a smail glass tube filled
with tabloids,
‘On the Table were a decanter, a
siphou aud a water jug. Mixing some
whisky, he uncorked the tube. Again
he glanced apprehensively toward the
door, then with a very nervous band
dropped two tabloids Into the glass.
While they dissolved he stood with
his bund on the table and bis eyes 8x-
ed ou the floor, evideitly restraining |
his Impatience. Igstantly they bad)
disappeared he seized the glass and|
drained it at a draft, replaced the
bottle tn the wardrobe and, shivering
slightly in the raw alr, slipped back
tuto bed.
When Allsopp retursed be was sit-
ting up, a cigarette between his lips,
the teacup standing empty oa the
salver. The nervous irritability bad
gone from his manuer. He no longer
moved Jerkily: bis eyes looked bright-
er, his pale skin more healthy.
“Al, Allsopp,” he said, “there are’
some moments In life, after all. It
ten't all blank wall.”
“I ordered breakfast In the small
morning room, sir,” said Allsopp, with-
out a change of expression.
Chileote Lreakfasted at 10. His ap-
petite, always fickle, was particularly
uncertain {n the early hours. He help-
ed himself to sowe fish, but sent away
his plate cntonched; then, having
drunk two cups of tea, be pushed back
his chair, lighted a fresh cigarette and
shook out the morning's newspaper. |
Twice he shook {t out and twice turn-
ed it, but the reluctance to fix his mind
upon It made him daily, The effect of |
the morphia tabloids was still appar-
ent In the greater steadiness of bis
hand and eye. the regained quiet of his
cuaeaiatiaeien te ee et
te = ae epee
‘The boy smiled. “It’s that busines:
the Wark timber contract, sir,” bé
sald. “You promised ook Into
it today. You know ‘hoe shelved tt
for a week already, and Craig-Bur-
‘bage are rather clamoring for an an-
swer." He moved forward and laid
the papers he was carrying on the ta-
ble beside Chileote. “I'm sorry to be
such a nuisance,” he added. “I hope
your nerves aren't worrying you to-
day?”
Chileote was toying with the papers.
At the word nerves he glanced up sus-
Piciousiy. But Blessington’s Ingenuous
face satisfied him.
“No,” be said. “I settled my nerves
last night with—with a bromide. I
knew that fog would upset me unless
T took precautions.”
“I'm glad of that. sir, though I'd
avoid bromides. Bad habit to set up.
But this Wark business—T'd like to get
it under way If you have no objection.”
Chileote passed his fingers over the
Papers. “Were you out {a that fog last
ight, Blessington ?*
“No, sir. I supped with some people
at the Savoy, and we just missed it. It
was very partial, 1 believe.”
“So 1 believe.”
Blessington put his band to his neat
tle and pulled it. He was extremely
Polite, but he had an inordinate senso
of duty.
“Forgive me, sir.” he sald, “but about
that contract? I know I'm a frightful
‘Oh, the contract!” Chilcote looked
about him absently. “By the way, did
You see anything of my wite yester-
day? What did she do last night?"
“Mfrs. Chilcote gave me tea yesterday
afternoon, She told me she was din:
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ing at Lady Sabinet’s and looking In at
one of two places later” He eyed him
papers In Chilcote’s istiess band.
} Chileote sulled satirically. “Eve Ie
very true to society," he said. “t
couldn't dine at the Sabinets’ if ¢ was
to make me premier. They have a
butler who ls an Institution—a sort of
heirloom in the family. He ts fat and
breathes audibly. Last tlme I lunched
there he haunted me for a whole
night."
| Blessington laughed gayly. “Mrs,
Chilcote doesn't see ghosts, sir,” he
said; “but if T may suggest”—
Culleote tapped his Angers on the
table
| “No. Eve doesn't see ghosts. We
rather miss sympathy there.”
Blessington governed his impatience
He stood still for some seconds, then
Blanced down at his pointed boot.
“If you will be lenient to my per-
sistency, sir, I would like to remind
you"
Chitcote lifted his bead with a flash
of Irritability
| “Confound It, Blessington!” be ex-
claimed. “Am'T never to be left In
peace? Am I never to sit down to a
meal without having work thrust pon
me? Work—work—perpetually work!
T have heard no other word in the last
six yeare. I declare there are times"—
he rose suddenly from his seat and
turned to the window—“there are times
when I feel that for sixpence I'd chuck
It all—the whole beastly round"—
Startled by his vehemence, Blessing-
ton wheeled toward him.
“Not your political career, str?”
‘There was a moment tn which Chil-
cate hesitated, a moment In which the
desire that had filled bis mind for
months rose to his lps and hung there.
‘Then the question, .the incredulity In
Blessington’s face, chilled it and It fell
back Into silence.
“I—I didn’t say that,” he murmured.
“You young men jump to conclusions,
Blessington.”
“Forgive me, sir. I never meant to
imply retirement. Why. Rickshaw,
Vale, Cressham and the whole Wark
crowd would be about your ears like
files if such a thing were even breath-
ed—now more than ever since these
| Persian Tumors. By the way, is there
anything real in this border business?
The St. George's came out rather
strong last night.”
} Chileote had moved back to the ta-
Ble. His face was pale from bis out-
burst, and his fingers toyed restlessly
with the open newspaper.
}“=L haven't seen the St. George's.” be
said hastily. “Lakely ts always ready
to shake the red rag where Russia |s
‘eoncerned. Whether we are to enter
the arena is another matter. But what
About Cralg-Burnage? I think you
Mentioned something of a contract.”
“Oh, don’t worry about that, sir”
Blessington had caught the twitching
at the corners of Chilcote’s mouth, the
nervous sharpness of his voice. “I can
Dut Cralg-Burnage off. If they bare
n answer by Thursday It will be time
enough” He began to collect his pa-
ers, but Chilcote stopped him.
“Wait,” he sald, veering suddenly.
“Wait. Till see to mse TH feel
se ee
Sitar
‘then, with his hand ou th r, he
""You_go_Arst, Blessington,” he said.
Ce
“IT--PTT foliow you\Nr teh minates
1 must glance throuzh the newspapers
‘Blestington looked uncertain. “You
"SPormet? ‘ore S
ee course not.”
room aud closed the door.
Once alone Chileote walked slowly
back to the table, drew up bis chair
and sat down with his eyes on the
white cloth, the paper lying unheeded
beside him.
Time passed. A servant came into
the room to remove the breakfast.
Chileote moved slightly when neces
sary, but otherwise retained bis atti-
tude. The servant, having finished his
task, replenished the fire and left the
room. Chilcote still sat on,
At last, feeling numbed, he rose and
crossed to the replace. The clock on
the mantelpiece stared bim in the face,
He looked at It, started slightly, then
drew out his watch. Watch and clock
corresponded. Each marked 12 o'clock.
With a pervous motion he leaned for-
ward and pressed the electric bell long
dad bard.
Instantly a servant answered,
“Is Mr. Blessington in the study?”
Chilcote asked,
“He ‘was there. sir, ve minutes
back”
Chilcote looked relieved
“ail right. Tell him T bave gone out
had to go out. Something important
Yoo understand?”
oy understand, Sik
But hetore the words had been prop-
cy. spoken Cueeh baw pean ae
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CHAPTER U1.
/AVING his house, Chilcote
walked forward quickly and
mlessly. With the sting of
the outer alr the recollection of
last night's adventure came back upon
him. Since the hour of bis waking It
hed hung about with vasue per
sistence, but now in the clear light of
day It seemed to stand out with @ full-
er peculiarity
The thing was preposterous, never-
theless it was genuine. He was wear.
ing the overcoat he had worn the night
before. and, acting on impulse, he thrust
his hand into the pocket and drew out
the ntranzer's eard
“Mr. John Loder! He read the name
over as he walked along. and it me-
chanically repeated itself in his brain,
falling Into measure with his steps.
Who was John Loder? What was he?
‘The questions tantalized tim tit his
Pace unconsciously {nereased. ‘The
thought that two men so absurdly
alike could inhabit the same city and
remain unknown to each other faced
him asa problem. It tangled with bis
Personal worrles and aggravated them.
There seemed to be almost a danzer tn
such an extraordinary likeness, Ie be-
gan to recret his Impetuosity Ia thrust-
ing his card upon the man. ‘Thea,
again, how he had let himself go om
the subject of Lexington! How nar
rowly he had escaped compromise!
He turned hot and cold at the recotiec-
tion wf what he had sald and what he
might have sald. ‘Then for the oret
time he paused in his walk and looked
about him.
On leaving Grosvenor square be had
turned westward, moving rapidly. tilt
the Marble arch was reached. There,
still oblivious to his surroundings, he
had crossed the roadway to the Edg-
ware aad, passing along it to the
labyrinth of shabby streets that lie be-
hind Paddington. Now, as be glanced
about him, be saw with some surprise
how far be hed come.
‘The damp remnants of the fog still
bung about the housetops in a filmy
yell. There were no gilmpses of green
to break the monotony of tone. All
Was quiet, dingy, neglected. But to
Chileote the shabbiness was restful,
the subdued atmosphere a satisfaction.
Among these sad houses, these passers-
by, each filled with his own concerns,
he experienced a scnse of respite and
relief. In the fashionable streets that
bounded bis own horizon if a man
paused tn bis walk to work out an idea
he tnstantly drew a crowd of inquist
tive or contemptuous eyes. Here if a
man halted for balf an bour it was no-
body's business but his own,
Enjoying this thought, he wandered
on for close upon an hour, moving
from one street to another with steps
that were listless or rapid, as inclina-
tion prompted, Then, still acting with
vagrant almlessness, he stopped In bis
wanderings and entered a small cating
house.
‘The place was low celled and dirty,
the air hot and steaming with the
smell of food, but Chilcote passed
through the door and moved to one of
the tables with no expression of dis-
gust and with far less furtive watcb-
fulness than be used tn his own house.
By 4 curious mental twist he felt
greater freedom, larger opportunities
in drab surroundings such as these
than in the broad issues and weighty
responsibilities of his own life, Choos
ing a corner seat, he called for coffee:
and there, protected by shadow and
wrapped in cigarette smoke, he set
about imagining himself some vagrant
anit who had slipped his moorings and
Was blissfully adrift.
‘The imagination was pleasant while
it lasted, but with him nothing was
Permanent, Of late the greater part
of bis sufferings had been comprised
in the trritable fickleness of all bis
alms—the distaste for and Impossibilt
ty of sustained effort In any direction.
He bad barely lighted a second cigar-
ette when the old restlessness fel?
upon him. He stirred nervously In bis
seat, and the cigarette was scarcely
burned out when he rose, paid his
small bill and left the shop,
Outside on the pavement he halted,
pulled out his watch and saw that two
hours stretched in front before
appointment claimed bis attention, He
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SATURDAY.....JAN. 26TH, 1907.
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A little warm cheer does more than a lot of cold cash.
Faith in God is nothing without fellowship with man.
The ecclesiastical boss is the enemy's best servant.
The most empty life is the one that thinks only of itself.
He who is not rich having nothing will not be rich having all.
People who sow no joy are first to complain when they reap none.
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Large ideas of spirituality cannot take the place of definite ideas of right.
There are a million ways of spelling love and none of them confined to letters.
It is not the sign of the cross, but the spirit of the cross that makes true religion.
A good deal of religious food is spoiling because it is being used for furniture.
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A pound of learning needs ten of sense.
A fool speaks, and a wise man thinks.
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SATURDAY. JAN, 26TH, 1907.
SENATOR TILLMAN'’S SPEECH.
Senator B. R. Tillman's speech in
the United States Senate, Saturday,
Jan. 12th, 1907 emphasized the fact
that as an ally this product of Sout’
Carolina is an almost intolerable,
handicap. To succeeq with him as
&n antagonist is a possibility, but to
win with him as a recruit is well
nigh a miracle. He is mugnett
brilliant and entertaining, affording
much fun and amusement, and at
times some information, but he is as
incontrotlable as a balky horse on a
wintry night or a stubborn mule tn
the mire of a road-way
By his intemperate utterances and
ungovernable temper, he endangers
every cause he advocates and at
some place in his address is sure to
make assertions or vouch-safe admis
sions which will tend to up-set al?
theories that he or his colleagues
have previously advanced. It was
a risky piece of business then when
Senator J. B. Foraker gave way for
this man of the Southland for the
Purpose of having him appear as tae
valiant knight mawing another as-
Sault upon the occupant of the
White House.
In referring to President Roose-
velt’s family, Mr. Tillman trans-
gressed the rules of polite debate
and violated one of the most sacred
customs of this sunny clime. A cit-
izen’s family is rightly presumed to
be outside of the pale of polite dis-
cussion. To infer that Mr. Roose-
velt would consent to the marriage
of any of his chiliren to a China-
man, a Malay, an Indian or a Negro,
or even to a scrub of a white man
‘was a “blow below the belt,” which
few men would tolerate in “a man
to man” discussion and would have
led to bloodshed among aristocrats
in any portion of the Southern
States,
The question of marriage is ne-|
cessarily a question of choice be-
tween the contracting parties and as
a rule down here, a union of white
people in different stations in life is
& rarity and as much giscountenan-
ced as is the union of the races. In
the one case sentiment and custom
control: in the latter case the law
and the mob intervene.
The colored people here are op-
posed to “social equality.” to the mix
ing of the races, to the injecting in-
to our physical’ being the mongrel
strain, and yet the intermingling of
the races is as surely taking place
as though the laws of intermarriage
of the races did not exist. We
would to God it were not so, but we
already have three races; the waite, '
the black, the black white man and
the white black man, The last,
named considered as one and
gro ang ome otters the Negro wh,
man. So, there you are.
_-Fevelling in immorality and riotous
| living. oS igh °
| The living images of prominent
white men may be seen in Negro
“schools and churches of well nigh
leer city In the Southland. But
there was no Negro representative
in the United States Senate to re-
‘ae Mr. Tillman and his hearers of
ail of this.
| Mr. Tillman sata:
1 “One of them,” he continued,
“that famous sergeant, Mingo San-
ders, comes from South Carolina.
1 would like to meet Mingo and
shake his hand. But be ain't go-
ing back to South Carolina and let
me know that he is coming.”
“Why not,” interjected Senator
Foraker.
Because the suspicion that might
prevail as to who really tid the kill
ing would make it unhealthy for
him down there. I wish jt wasn’t
so, but I can't help it. Hf ae nad
been discharged honorably he could
‘have come down there and been the
biggest man at Negro camp meetings
and received cespectful treatment
from the whites.”
“What would probably happen to
him,” persisted Mr. Foraker.
“Oh,” ejaculated Mr. Tillman,
with evidence of impatience, “I am
going to discuss the race question
directly,” and as the evidence of a-
musement at his retort subsided, he
added:
“Don't you fret, T am going to
get right gown to the milk in tae
coacoannt, but I don't want the ‘fire
alarm’ to go off until the bell rings.”
‘These utterances are seemingly In
consistent and they are inconsistent
viewed in the Hght of the Negro’r
citizenship. But Mr. Tillman does
not agree that the Negro is a legal
citizen He treats him as he would
an animal. The place for the Negro
is that of “the hewer of wood and
the drawer of water." He ignores
the fact that the Negro on the plan-
tation of Tillman has been supersed-|
ed by the Negro on the plantation of
a Negro,
Education and citizenship have!
done much for the brother-in-black |
and it will do much more. Mr. Tili-
man considers a Negro just as ae]
considers a mule, a dog, a horse or|
a lamb. He would not treat any of]
these unjustly so long as they re-
main animals and admit of no ad-
vancement. They are subject to
Tillman's will, A man who maims
one of them must deal wita Mr.
Tillman. }
Senator Tiliman is quoted as fol-
Siete |
|
“Everybody who knows the Ne-|
gro knows he will endure torture
with stoicism rather than expose,
one of his race.”
Every one who knows the Negro
knows just the opposite. He Is dis-/
posed to tell white people everything |
when it comes to each other. There
has not been a man-hunt in the
South in years, but what the hunt-
ers were not assisted by treacherous
Negroes. Jt is a fact that through-|
out the Southland there are a class |
of “white folk’s Negroes,” as they
are called, who tell everything ee!
know,
‘These people communicate at once |
These people communicate at
once to the white people of a com-
munity everything that takes place
in a Negro meeting and no minister
of the gospel dares to give yolce to
utterances calculated to inspire race
hatred or intended to create bal feel
ing between the races. This trait
is one of the relics of slavery and
we have not yet gotten far enough
away from that barbarous period of
the South's existence to lose the) |
strain, |
There was one admission, Mr. Till
man made that does credit to his |
judgment and honor to his frank |:
ness. He said: |
“I want to treat the Negro fairly ,
—that is, as fairly as I can; but)
perhaps I’ don't know how to treat
him fairly.” |
He cannot overcome the preju- |
lices of a lifetime. He can noc ree- |;
penize Sam, Bill or Moses as a po-|;
tical equal, even though he may |;
not _be a social or intellectual one. |
He is willing to damn his own soul},
© perdition and his body to wasting |,
passions in order to live in the pasi |,
and do injury to one of the xindliest |,
races of people on the face of the
globe. 1
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THE RICHMOND PLANET. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
patie” Haeerce Cc ee
Mer, tn OR eo Re
| acta teaaaselem. to, dene, that
fall thie” he gana" oa
“It is equally ssoens to aay ta
jthese troops were
cause they were Negroes. If |
Negroes had been treated the same
way as white regulars were treated
at Athens, Ohio, the civil autaorities
"be gunty and the maior nde
in the courts. In that instance
War Department defended the res-
ulars, although they haq committed
murder, and it was declared the
troops were the wards of the nation
a very proper ang right position to
take.
‘Why was it that the War Depart-
ment id not pursue the same course
with the Negro soldiers at Browns-
|ville, ‘Texas that it dM with the
| iite soldiers at Athens, Oniot Is
there any further surprise then that
President Roosevelt has continually
insisted that race prejudice consti-
|tuted no basis for his remarkable
action.
| We have heard It stated that hal
the action taken by President Roase
velt at Brownsville applied to waite
troops, nothing would have been
pence of it. This is very true. Had
the War Department made such 2
recommendation, the Senators from
the various states from whica the
members of the battalion hailed
would have trailed to the White
House’ and the action would Zave
been suspended in forty-eight ours.
‘Then would have followed politica!
sparring and the bringing of power-
ful influence to bear and the gentle-
men, who bad been most active in
the prosecution would ‘have been
most obliging “in their withtrawal
of the accusations.
But in the case of the poor Negro,
he had to howl to attract the atten-
tion of the country and after that]
was secured, he had to depend upon
the factional differences in the Re-
publican Party of the Nation to
work out a solution of the dimfculty.
As the matter now stands, it is a
drawn battle with the colored folks
having the satisfaction of knowing
that they have blocked the business
of the nation for more than a monta
and attracted the attention of the
civilized world.
One thing more has been done.
Tt has shown the hollowness of Mr.
Roosevelt's exploitation of “a square
deal.” He no doubt intended to
emphasize his abhorrence of wrong-
joing and to please the South, but
unfortunately, he leaned too far
back and lost his balance.
Senator Tillman has injured the
Democratic Party of the North and
has embarrassed and handicapped
the far-seelng Democratic leaders of
the South. The declaration has been
mate that he does not represent ten
per cent of the white people of tais
section, This is a mistake. The
conditions can be better understood,
when we state that there are two
classes of white peopte in this sec-
tion. as radically different in thelr
views as are those of the two con-
tending parties.
The one represents the new Souta
with all of its desires an aspirations
The other represents the Old South,
with all of its heart burnings, its
antipathy to the Negro as a citizen
and its hatred of the North. Sen-
ator Daniel and ‘his associates re-
present the New South. Senator
Tillman and his sympathizers repre-
sent the Olq South. When it comes
to wealth and education, the former
has the larger following. When it
comes to the masses, the latter is
in the saddle. Senator Tillman
will be soon reinforced by Gov. Jeff.
Davis of Arkansas and Gov. James
K. Vardaman is longing to be taere
0 assist both of them. When they
stand together, the skeleton will be
put of the closet, the lid will be off
he caldron and men of tae North
will be startled by the utterance of
nany unpleasant truths. ‘The ghost
of the wast will arise from the grave
ind the truth will be known.
In all of these clashes, the Negro
s used only as a pretext. He is
jot the main issue. He will not
ye annihilated and he will not be
riven out of the country. He is
oo valuable an asset for suc a pro-
sition to be contemplated for a
noment, Gauged by his prodccing
apacity, he is adding six hundred
nillion dollars annually to the!
“For nought so vile that on the
earth doth live,
But to the earth some special good
doth give;
Nor aught ‘so good, but, strain’d
‘from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth, stumbling
‘on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being mis-
applied. '
And vice sometimes by action dig-
‘nified.”—Shakespeare
SENATOR TILLMAN DISCIPLINED.
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et fea arto i
Coogi ate Ecabinpaspee:
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[Ber net te ; with the dignity
that au ody, but when he
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‘Rot even the members of his own
party in ‘bis use of the bitter invec-
tives for which he is noted, all
hands, regardiess of party affiliation’
decided to call a halt and subject the
oath-breaking South Carolinian to
such a legislative jolt as would tend
to bring him to a full realization of
a Senator's powers and lmitations
All of this took place last Mon-
day, when he denominated some of
the Senators as artists in a minstrel
show, At the close of his remarks,
the Senate went Into executive ses-
sion of its presumption is that a
record of its proceedings would have
proven to be interesting reading. At
its conclusion, when the doors were
again opened, Senator Tillman was
made to apologize. ‘That he did not
relish the performance is evident
from the eutt manner fn which he
addressed his colleagues. In exec-
utive session, he is alleged to have
sald i
“You may vote to expunge my re-
marks from the Record or to cen-
sure me or even to expel me, but
I will not withdraw behing closed
doors what I said in the open Sen-
ate. I must be given the opportun-
ity to make my explanations or anol
ogies as publicly as i made my
cm |
‘When the Senate went into open
session, hé.gaid among other things:
“1 did mot intemd to hurt any-
body's feelings. When I want. to
hurt a mmn's feelings I generally
know how to wo it, and nobody can
make me take tt back: but as I didn't
mean to hurt anybody's feelings, T
will take the language out of the
Recori, and apologize now to all
who feel agerieved. The only thing
an honest man can do when he finds
he has untentionally wounded the
feelings of his friends ‘s to apologize
and then if they won't accept it
they can lump It. j
What the effect of this sally of
wit and exercise of satire will not
be soon forgotten, is evident, Sen-
ator Tillman has certainly shown to
the country at large the weakness of
his nature and the unjustness of his
cause. The colored people of the
country neeq have little fear of him
in the future. He has “cooked his
pwn gooRe,” so to speak. In the
language of that good old hymn, we
ean thankfully sing:
"God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform.
He plants His footsteps on the sea,
And rides upon the storm.” |
REFUGEES CONDEMN
BRITISH OFFICIALS
REFUSED Sora SUPPERERS
Women, Children and Wounded Ameri.
| €ans Who Sought Sheiter On
Steamer Port Kingston Were Put
Ashore to Make Room For English
Refugees.
| New York, Jan. 23.—American retu:
gces from Kingston, Jamaica, arriving
here on board the steamer Prinz Eitel
Friedrich, which sailed from the
stricken city on Thursday afternoon
last, the third day alter the earth:
quake, were unanimous in condemning
what they termed the “inactivity and
utter Inefficiency” of the English au-
thorities on the island during the first
days following the disaster. For three
days, or up to the day the Prinz Eitel
sailed, they said, there was no sem-
Dlance of order and nothing definite
had been done in the matter of reliev
ing the sufferings of many of the
wounded.
The Pring Eitel’s passengers tld of
the great relief the arrival of tho
American squadron brought to the ter-
ror-stricken people and were amazed
to hear of the rupture which has oc-
curred between Governor Swettenham
and Admiral Davis,
Adopted Resolutions,
The protest of the American refu
gees against the conduct and behavior
Of certain officials on the island was
Yolced at a.mass meeting held on
board the Pring Eitel Friedrich Mon.
day, when Fros6luitons were adapted
and addressed “to the general public
and the international press." ‘The
Fesolutions follow:
“We, a company of American refu-
Bees of Kingston. January 14Jannary
17, 1907, on board the steamship Pring
Eitel Friedrich, herewith utter em-
Phatic condemnation of the conduct
‘and behavior in that period of certain
officials of rank, specifically, Captain
Parsons, commander of the Rritish
steamship Port Kingston, lying in the
harbor of Kingston, and aboard which
‘was Sir Alfred Jones, bis superior, and
other officials, basing our contentions
on the followfng. grounds:
“First—That Captain Parsons de
elined to furnish food for one meal to
the small number of Germans. led by
Captain Richard Vahsel. Hamburg.
American line, who prevented four
docks from burning on the night of the
14th, among them the Port Kingston's
own wharf, = k
Women and Children Put Ashore.
“Second—That such American and
other rete ae oe small boats
manned by ‘Vahsel and others
wl alier DiwcreapeiraS reg
‘Tyesaey to make. Toren foc’ Roton
ane Go P Wwoinom and abide
a ee ee
cnn ibe wowed of mre
nationalities wore taken ashore at the
Same hour and left in a crude situa-
tion on the railway wharf until cared
for by American naval authorities on
‘Thursday, except such as were ro
moved by train to Spanish ‘Town or
by relatives who found them.
“Fourth—That when Father O’Deno-
van. of Boston; Gavin L. Payne, of in-
dianapolis, and the Rev. H. F, Anta,
of Hatboro, Pa., took a petition to Sir
Alfred Jones and Captain Parsons
from tho refugees, sleeping on trunks,
sacks of coffee and the carge-fonled
planks of the Hambnrb-American dock.
to allow the sald refagees to go on
board the Port Kingston, then at her
dock, and sleep on bez clean decks.
where they wonld be safe frem reenr-
rent earthquake shocks. Captain Par.
sons refused with great Incivility, and
coming to the Hamburz-American dock
showed the party further discourtesy.
“Fifth—That in the three days.
though Sir Alfred Jones and his party,
on beard the Fort Kings haa aft tre
comforts of a large, well eqnipped |
ship, no tender was made elther of
food, water, coffee, bedding or medical
assistance. |
“Sixth—That fn three days, save for
the above unpleasant visit of Captain |
Parsons, no’ oficial visit. was. pat
either by the police, military or colon. |
ial authorities to the large body of |
American refugees on the Hambnrg- |
American docks, the known center far |
American refugees in Kingston. to of |
fer succor or protection In any degree, |
or even to ascertain the condition in
which they were.
“Bonds of Blood” a Mockery.
“Seventh—That In individual cases
and minor ways we were made to feel |
rhe superiority and first claim of the
English, and found the mucb-talked-of |
donds of blood and languege.” when
tested, to be a.mockery and a diplo- |
matic phantom.
“Therefore, We dectare our resent- |
ment and condemnation, this utter |
snce being the joint expression of the |
passengers in common assembly on
oar the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, Jan
ary 21, 1907.” |
The Americans had to wait for the |
irrival of the Prinz Eitel at Kingston, |
nd during that time all of them slept |
mn the Hamburg-American dock.
“We lay down on the planks and on
acks, piles of which reached almost
o the ceiling.” said A.D. Hallman, of
Norristown, Pa.. who was one of the |
12 passengers on the Prinz Eitel. |
‘The men were glad enough to get any
hetter, bat with the Port Kingston |
ying nearbs, her decks clean and
mpty, we thought the captain might |
ake the women on board. He refused, |
owever, as the resolutions state.” }
Governor of Jamaica Objects to U. 8.
Sailors In Kingston.
Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 21. — Rear
Admiral Davis’ mission of mercy to
stricken Kingston came to an abrupt
and painful conclusion in consequence
of Governor Swettenham's objection to
the presence of American sailors en-
faged in the work of clearing the
streets, guarding property and succor-
ing the wounded and sick, culminating
in a letter to the admiral peremptorily
requesting him to re-embark all parties
which had been landed.
Admiral Davis was greatly shocked
and pained and paid a formal visit to
Governor Swettenham, informing him
that the United States battleships Mis.
souri and Indiana and the gunboat
Yankton would sail at once.
On the afternoon of the salute inci
dent Rear Admiral Davis wrote Gov.
ernor Swettenham, apologizing for the
salute and offering to render any as.
sistance possible to the stricken peo
ple.
Governor Swettenham responded
Friday as follows
“Dear Admiral—Thanks very much
for your ietter, your kind call and all
the assistance given or offered us.
While | most heartily appreciate the
very generous offers of assistance, |
feel it my duty to ask you to re-embark
the working party and all parties
which your kindness prompted you to
land.
“If in consideration of the American
vice consul’s assidious attentions to his
family at his country house the Ameri
can consulate needs guarding In your
opinion, although he was present and.
it was not guarded an hour ago, I have
no objection to your detailing a force
for the sole purpose of guarding; but
the party must have no firearms and.
nothing more offensive than clubs or
staves for this function.
“I find your working party was help
Ing Mr. Crosswell clean his store.
Crosswel! was delighted that the work
was done without cost. If yout excel
lency siould remain long enough, | am
sure almost all the private owners
would be glad of the services of the
navy to save expense.
“It ts no longer a question of hu
manity; all the dead died days ago.
and the work of having them buried is
merely one of convenience.
“I believe the police surveillance of
the city is adequate for the protection
of private property. I may remind yout
exceliency that not long ago it was
discovered that thieves bad lodged in
and pillaged the residence of some
New York millionaire during his ab-
sence in the anmmer; but this would
not have justified a British admiral
landing an armed party and assisting
the New York police.
“t have the honor to be, with pro-
found gratitude and the highest re
spect. your obedient xervant,
“ALEXANDER SWETTENHAM,
"“Geveracr.”
WANT SWETTENHAM RECALLED
Jamaicans Highly incensed Against
Governor.
Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 23. — The
publication in the Daily Telegraph of
Governor Swettenham’s letter to Rear
Admiral Davis has greatly intensified
the resentment of the residents
againat the governor for rebuffing the
tenders of American assistance, ani
there is a movement on foot here to
demand the recall of the governor.
‘The correspondent of the Associated
es ought Governor Swetten!
‘and spoke to him of the Davis inci-
dent. The governor said that he had
not invited Rear Admiral Davis to
ssiters, Asked if he endorsed the
action taken by Rear Admiral Davis,
the governor replied:
“That is a matter between myself
and Rear A tmirat Davis, to whom 1}
mnet teler von”
‘The governor salt that bis reference
In hie letter te Reor Admiral Davis to
atramp piilscing (he house of a New
York millynsice wax merely a joeular
parattel
Many bodies are stl being recov
ered and crematod, and It is belleved
the fatalities will reach a total of
700.
Saturday night the streets of the
berped district still reeked with the
stench of decaying bodies. ‘The burn-
ed rufns were ilinminated only by the
joa\oful glow of the corpse-fires ining
the roadways, Many bodies were re-
covered throngh the aid of vultures,
which perched in flocks on the ruins
beneath which thelr prey is buried.
As fast as they are uncovered the
bodies are thrown on the funeral
pyres and slowly consumed.
Fuily 1000 persons have been maim-|
#4 for lif, their legs or arms having
hoon aumpuated, and those who sus-
tained lesser wounds are counted by
the thonsands.
SENT ARMY TENTS TO KINGSTON
British Minister at Havana Asked Ald
OF Risseinns tanned /
| Washington, Jan, 23—The secretary
“of war received a cablegeam from Gen:
eral Wint, at Havana, commanding the
Amorican forces in Cuba, saying that
at the reqnest of the British minister
at Hovana, he had made arrangements
for the shipment of a number of army
tents to Kingston for the shelter of
people in distress. The secretary has
approved General Wint's action
At the state department it was stat-
ed that, so far as this government Is
concerned, the matter will be allowed
to drop. the department's position be-
ing that the action of one man in 9
distant colony. at a time of great dis-
tress and mental anguish. should not
be the means of raising an unpleasant
Issue with @ great and friendly na-
tion
Threatened Uprising In Cuda,
Havana, Jan. 22.—The authorities
here received a dispatch from San,
tiago de Las Vegas, this province. an-
houncing that great alarm brevailed
there owing to a threatened uprising,
HANGCD HIMSELF IN BARN |
Threatened Exposure of Attempted
Outrage Drove Man to Suicide. |
Allentown. Pa., Jan. 23. — William
Remalley, single. 45. years old, hired
man for Orange Miller, on Dr. R. B.
Klotz's farm at Ritteraville, three
miles from here, was found hang'ng
in the loft of the barn. On Saturday,
January 5, Remalley. under pressure
of threats, attempted to outrage Mil-
ler's S-yearold daughter Minnie in the
barn, first sending her younger brother
on a mythical errand. The girl's
mother came into the barn just tm
time to save the girl from her assail
ant. Mrs. Miller warned Remalley that
she would tell ber husband as soon
ag he returned. This must have fright
ened Remalley to desperation. He had
been missing ever since, and It was
thought he had decamped, until one
of the Miller boys found him hanging.
SENATOR BAILEY WINS.
ReElected By Texas Legistature By
Vote of 108 to 45.
Austin, Texas, Jan. 23.—Joseph W.
Balley was re-elected United States
senator by a vote in the two branches
of the state legislature of 108 to 45. In
the senate the vote was 19 in favor of
Senator Bailey and 10 against; in the
jower house it was 89 to 35,
The vote in opposition to Senator
Bailey was scattering. It was cast for
Cecil Lyon, the Republican nominee;
Governor T. M. Campbell, former Rep.
resentative A. W. Terrell and others.
In the house seven members did not
vote and two were absent.
The vote necessary to an election
‘was 107. The result was one above
the required amount. The two houses
will meet in joint session to canvass
the vote,
BURSTING BOILER KILLS THREE
Reading Railway Engine Blows Up at
Blue Anchor, M. J.
_ Auantic City, N. J., Jan. 21.—In the
explosion of the boiler of a Reading
/Tailway engine attached to one of the
Atlantic City flyers at Blue Anchor
the engineer, Edward McConaghy; the
‘fireman. Frederick Artbur, and an ex.
tra fireman named Clark were {n-
Stantly killed. No passengers were
hurt. The flyer had just passed Blue
Anchor when the explosion came with:
out warning. The cause will never be
known for the lifeless forms of the
engineer and firemen were found in
the debris. Clark it Is sald, was off
duty and was returning to his home
in Camden.
LUKE WRIGHT WILL RETIRE
Ambassador to Japan Will Resign to
Practice Law.
Washington, Jap. 23.—According to
a private cablegram received in Wash-
ington from a prominent government
oficial in Manila, General Luke E.
Wrigot, American ambassador to Ja.
pan, has made kaown to his friends
that he will retire from the diplomatic
service next August and will return to
hts home in Memphis, Tenn., to resume
the practice of law. Neither President
Roosevelt or the secretary of state
have been advised that Mr. Wright
will relinquish his post at Tokio.
WILL CONTINUE INDIAN SCHOOL
Senate Committee Rejects Recommen-
ililiae idl ieee Peectndl ae eet
Washington, Jan. 22—The appropri
ation for the support of the Indian
school at Carltise, Pa, will be con:
tinued for another year at least. The
full senate committee on Indian af
fairs rejected the recommendation o:
& subcommittee that the appronria
tion be discontinued and the Car!'st:
school abolished. It '5 expected th-
fight against the sckco! wi pe +
Rewed at the next srerinn of sonerse
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4 WEEK’S NEWS CONDENSED
‘Thursday, January 17.
Sire Seine Abra am the | drat
mountains, died at Cincinnat, aged
Meyesre.: So sive, Saeiente
pie snnval reuntgn of the Blue
N. C., and was i $00 sur.
vivors on both sides,
A ton of dynamite exploded in a
stone quarry near Monroe, Mich., kitl-
tng one man, fatally injuring another,
and the concussion was felt for 15
miles.
Friday, January 18,
Elmer Demster, a negro, was hanged
iat Washington, Pa, for killing Mrs.
James Pearce and her three children,
| In a quarrel over a legacy of several
‘thousand dollars Alec Balanec at Bar-
ton, ©., killed his wife, daughter and
‘himself.
| General Quincy O. Gilmore, com-
mander of the Second Brigade, Na-
tional Guard of New Jersey, resigned
on account of ill health.
| Nine persons, seven children and
two policemen, bitten by a mad dog at
Norfolk, Va., have been taken to Rich-
mond for the Pasteur treatment.
John D. Rockefeller has been re
elected superintendent of the Sunday
school of the Euclid avenue church in
Cleveland, in which capacity he has
served for 25 years.
Saturday, January 19.
Jam2s Ward, a negro, was banged at
Richmond, Va., for the murder of Car-
tie Meekins, also colored.
The United States senate passed a
resolution instructing the secretary of
commerce and labor to Investigate the
“umber trust.”
Frederick Seegman, 15 months old,
fell from a chair into a bucket of botl-
ing water at his home in Philadelphia
and was fatally scalded.
A fire caused by the explosion of a
lamp occurred in the Virginia Military
Institute at Lexington, Va., but was ex-
tinguished with small loss.
The Countess of Yarmouth, sister of
Harry K. Thaw, arrived in New York
from England to attend his trial for
the murder of Stanford White.
Monday, January 21.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick is about to
£0 on the lecture stage, and will tour
the country.
General Robert E. Lee's 100th birth-
day was celebrated generally through-
out the south Saturday.
‘The battalion of the 25th infantry
(colored), now at Fore Reno, Okla.
will sali for the Philippines on March
15.
Twenty-five deaths have occurred at
Konowa, I. T.. from @ strange disease
somewhat resembling spinal menin-
gitis,
Eight prominent society women
were seriously poisoned by drinking
pineapple punch at a dance at Nor-
folk, Va.
Tuesday, January 22.
William C. Ashwell, a prominent
Now York stock broker, was struck by
@ street car and killed.
P. H. Fitzerald, a wealthy lawyer,
of Indianapolis, pleaded guilty of using
the malls to defraud, and was fined
$1000.
The Merchants’ and Farmers’ bank,
at Fairmont, Minn, has suspended
payment. Liabilities, $77,974; assets,
$87,906.
Emperor William has conferred the
Red Eagle order of the first class on
Baron Speck von Shentberg, the Ger-
man ambassador at Washington.
Rev. Dr. W. H. McClauflin, of Min-
neapolis, has been elected general
Superintendent of the Universalist
Church, the highest position im the de-
nomination
Wednesday, January 23.
The Alabama legislature has re
elected United States Senators John
T. Morgan and E W. Pettus for an
other term.
Francis 8. McAvoy was elected re
corde in New York to succeed John
W. Goff, who has been elected to the
supreme bench
Clarendon Henri was sentenced to
four years’ imprisonment at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, for stealing a famous Pic-
tire from ‘the art museum.
David S. Reeder, of Centreville, Md,
for 31 years an engineer on the Dela.
ware railroad. was stricken with apo
plexy on his engine at Townsend, Del.,
and died in a few moment«
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS
The Latest Closing Prices In the
Shiiainbent Winciokst
ees ee) ee eee
PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm;
winter extras, $265 @ 285; Penna.
rolier, clear. $2.90@3.10: city mills,
er, $4.40G4.50 RYE FLOUR orm,
at $3.70 per barrel WHEAT steady;
No 2 Penna. red, 75@75%c. CORN
Reese oe 2 ae er ed oe
steady; No. 2 white, cli . &:
434%c.; lower grades, Te HAY
steady; No. 1 timothy, large bales,
$21. Peer steady; famliy, per barrel,
$19.50 BEEF sieaays, beef hams per
barrel. $19. POULTRY: Live steady;
hens. 12@12%¢.; old roosters, 9c.
Dressed steady, ‘choice fowls, 18%e.;
old roosters, $igc. BUTTER steady;
extra iS saaak: 38e. EGGS steady:
selected, 28@30c.: nearby, 26c.; south
ern, 22@24e. POTATOES steacy; per
bushel, 55@58e.
BALTIMORE—WHEAT quiet; No. 2
Spot. 78% G 78%c.; steamer No, 2 spot
72%e.; “southern, 72@76%c. CO
quiet;’ mixed spot 49 49%c.; steamer
Texel SG dite: southern, sew
xe Yee firm, ns ue Feu eS
No. 3, 42G@ 42%¢.;' No. ie
mixed, No. 2, ai 41c.; Nag aad
40c.; No 4, 38@isixc. BUTTER firm;
frsameyy teperaton extras, sigaze!
held, 24@25c.; pritts, 1G 305 lary:
land’ and Perna. dairy prints. 20@21¢.
EGGS firm; fancy evn Penna
and Virginia, 27¢.; West Virginia, 26¢-;
southern, 246 45¢.
Live Stock Markets.
PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards)—
CATTLE steady, choice, 5 Logeo;
prime, $5.50@6.75. SHEEP steady:
brime weyers. $0005, culls and
calven 38g M80, NOUS Seas? pleas
ives, 5 sl yi
heavies, Hehe ea, other grades, $7;
voughs. $5@ 6.10.
Reckefelier Attends Neare Chureh.
Augusta. Ga.. Jan. 21—John D. Reek-
efeller attended services at a negro
church. Having an acquaintance with
the “Black Spurgeon,” Rev. C. T.
Walker, who preached in New York
four years, Rockefeller attended Walk-
er’s church, heard the sermon, made a
generous contribution when the collec-
tion was taken up, and later talked
with Walker, who introduced Rocke
feller to the stewards of the church.
THE PLANET
SATURDAY...JAN. 26TH. 1907
HORTICULTURE
Cheap and Easily Built Place for Raising Winter Vegetables.
A small hot house on the farm will assure a fine winter supply of vegetables and the arrangement can be made to include mushroom growing underneath the benches if desired, while early and fine vegetable plants can be
Plan of Lean-to Hot House.
had in the spring for the garden. The cheapest and best kind of a hot house for the farm is a lean-to, with a southern, open exposure, the adjoining building acting as a break against the wind and cold.
The building should be made about eight feet wide and as long as the building against which it is put. The sloping glass top should start about nine feet up on the adjoining building and the front of the hot house should be six feet high, of which three feet should be of glass and three feet of good, durable inch boards, lined with felt or tar paper to keep out the cold.
Through the entire length, against the adjoining building, is run the bench on which a bed is made. This should be four feet wide and about 30 to 32 inches high. Against the exposed side of the building a bench of the same height and only two feet wide is run, thus leaving a two-foot walk.
Near the entrance at one side may be placed a good sized old-fashioned coal stone. Let the pipe run nearly or quite the length of the building before entering the chimney so that you will secure all the heat. A low, constant fire will keep the house properly heated.
The illustration taken from the Farm and Home shows the arrangement; c c being the glass sash, a a the benches and b the walk. By building the house yourself, the expense will be materially lessened. It will cost but little to run it. The sash, glazed or unglazed, can often be bought cheaply second-hand. If not, new sash are not very expensive and you can then buy the glass, glaze and paint them. A building of this kind could be made to pay well by raising fine tomatoes, lettuce, radishes and other stuff.
CHARCOAL AS PLANT FOOD
It Lends Health and Vigor to All Vegetation.
A horticulturist connected with the Botanical Gardens, at Washington, recently said:
"Experiments with reference to the use of charcoal have developed the fact that plants will vegetate and grow in nearly pure coal, and that plants grown in a mixture of two-thirds coal and one-third of vegetable mold greatly surpass those grown in the ordinary way. Thickness is added to the stems, richness to the color of the leaves and beauty to the blossoms. In all cases where it is customary to mix sand with the mold in which plants are set, the substitution of charcoal dust for the sand will render the vegetation stronger and more vigorous.
"Pure charcoal acts excellently as a means of curing unhealthy plants. Take, for instance, an orange tree affected by the very common disease in which the leaves become yellow, and it will acquire within a few weeks its healthy green color by removing the upper surface of the earth from the pot in which it is contained, and placing in its stead around the periphery of the pot a ring of charcoal of an inch in thickness. The charcoal to use is the dustlike powder from fir or pine coal, such as is used by the country blacksmith, and the best results are obtained when the coal has been exposed to the action of the air through a winter season.
"The properties of the charcoal are manifested in two ways: First, by its tendency to preserve all plants and substances from decay; and, secondly, by the carbonic gas it furnishes during the slow decomposition it undergoes, and which, in a few years, converts it into a coaly earth. It yields directly and constantly one of the most essential elements of plants, and gives beautiful color and great luxuriance to them.
"Where large quantities of charcoal are used the plants consume and require more water than ordinarily, as the air is given free access and dries the roots rapidly."
Hill Up Trees.
Fill the dirt up around the young trees about one foot high for protection
tion from freezing, mice and rabbits and to drain the water from the roots during winter. After growth starts in the spring level down. This answers for the first cultivation around the trees.
WIREWORMS.
Fall Plowing Has Proved the Most Effectual Method of Fighting Pest.
Wireworms are slender worms of yellowish-white color and very hard bodies. They are the young (larvae) of click-beetles, or snapping bugs, so-called from the fact that when placed upon their backs they will suddenly bend the body and, with a sharp clicking sound, throw themselves a considerable distance into the air. Wireworms are among the most troublesome of crop pests, and as they live underground it is difficult to combat them.
At the New York, Cornell, Agricultural Experiment station, exhaustive experiments covering a period of three years were made for the purpose of testing remedial measures. The statements here made are based largely upon the results of those experiments. Many methods that had previously been recommended for the destruction of these pests were found to be inefficient. To cite but one example: It was found that the wireworms were still alive in soil to which salt enough had been applied to kill the vegetation.
One method was especially approved—fall plowing. The explanation of the beneficial results that follow fall plowing is believed to be found in the following facts: Wormworms live for at least three years in the worm or larval state. When the worms are full grown they change to soft white pupae during July. The pupal stage lasts only about three weeks, the insect assuming the adult form in August. But, strange to say, although the adult state is reached at this time, the insect remains in the cell in the ground till the following April or May, nearly a year. This period of quiescence is apparently necessary to the life of the beetle, for in every case where the soil was disturbed after the insects had transformed, the beetles perished.
By fall plowing, says the Farm Journal, we can destroy the beetles in the soil and thus prevent their depositing eggs the following season. After plowing (at least six inches deep), the soil should be well pulverized and occasionally stirred so that the earthen cells of the pupae and adults may be destroyed. It will usually require at least three years to render the soil comparatively free from wireworms, as only the pupae and adults are killed, the young larvae remaining uninjured. Rotation of crops is also helpful in keeping the pest in check.
THE GENTLE CYNIC
Mistakes are only funny when they don't hurt.
Many a woman never listens to her husband till he begins to talk in his sleep.
Every man should know his duty. Then he can recognize it in time to dodge.
Some people waste a lot of time wondering how they should treat their inferiors.
Many a bachelor lives to bless the fellow who married the girl he was in love with.
When some people drop a hint it sounds like a ton of coal going down the chute.
Heaven will probably make some people so dizzy that they will want to jump off.
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APPLE PACKING BENCH
One Which Will Fold Up Out of the Way When Not in Use.
Take a 2x4 and saw out two four-foot lengths and bolt them together in the middle for the legs. Then take
Movable Apple Packing Bench.
two more 2x4's and saw to the length that the bench is desired to be. Bolt the top pieces to the legs on either side and connect the ends with a small rope so that the bench will be open to about three feet from the ground.
Heavy canvas is nailed on the sides, says Prairie Farmer, and sewed around the ropes at the end. The result is an apple picking bench similar to what is illustrated in the sketch. The advantage of the canvas is to save the fruit from being bruised.
Have a Variety.
The man who goes into small fruit growing as a business should plant a number of kinds. In fact, as long as he is in the market the longer he can supply his customers with what they need during the season the better.
Cover Asparagus Beds.
Cover the asparagus bed with well rotted manure after burning the tops.
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Edyth—They say that Percy Feathery is losing his mind. Mayme—Poor fellow! He'll be lucky if he doesn't lose any more than that.—Chicago Daily News.
"What do you think of 'Man and Superman'?" "I don't know a thing about it." "But I saw you at the play." "Yes, but I was in a box party." "Cleveland Leader.
"He is a deceitful man." "What makes you think so?" "He pretended to believe me the other day when he knew I was lying to him."—Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
"There are blessings in defeat as well as in victory," said the philosopher. "Yes," answered the disappointed candidate. "There is nothing like defeat for keeping a reformer from backsliding."—Washington Star.
"Well, well!" exclaimed the first passenger at the ship's railing, " isn't that a brigantine that's just coming up?" "I don't think so," replied the seasick man nearby. "I don't remember having eaten a brigantine."—Philadelphia Press.
Jones (to next door neighbor)—I don't like to mention it, but I fear your daughter is taking elocation lessons. Smith (hotly)—Certainly she is. What of it? Jones (hurriedly)—"Oh nothing; only I thought I would break the news as gently as possible, in case you were ignorant of the fact." Town and Country.
LAUGHTER.
Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better than medicine.
Learn to attend strictly to your own business—a very important point.
Learn the art of saying kind and encouraging things, especially to the young.
Learn to avoid all ill-natured remarks and everything calculated to create friction.
Learn to tell a good story. A well told story is as welcome as a sunbeam in a slick room.
Learn to stop grumbling. If you cannot see any good in the world, keep the bad to yourself.
Learn to keep your troubles to yourself. The world is too busy to care for your fills and sorrows.
Learn to greet your friends with a smile. They carry too many frowns in their own hearts to be bothered with any of yours.
Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. No one cares whether you have the earache, headache, or rheumatism.
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"Young women are strange creatures," said a telegraph clerk.
"One afternoon not long ago a very handsome young woman came to my office and asked for a telegraph form. She wore a brown veil, but I could see all the same that her eyes were red, as if she had been crying. I handed her the form with a sympathetic look, and she wrote this message:
"Never let me hear from you again.
"She paid for the message, and then she asked in a tremulous voice how soon it would go.
"In half an hour, ma'am,' I replied.
"She went away, but in ten minutes she was back again.
"Have you sent that message of mine?' she said.
"No, ma'am, not yet."
"Very well. Give it back to me. I want to change it a little,' said the young woman.
"I returned it, though that was against the rule, and she altered it so that it read:
"No one expects you to come back."
"Then she went away again, but this time she was hardly gone five minutes.
"That message of mine—it hasn't been sent yet, has it?" she asked.
"No; not yet."
"I handed her the message, and the strange creature tore it up and wrote this in its place:
"Dearest, come home. All is forgiven."
"As soon as the sermon commences.
—N. Y. Weekly.
Reggy—I think I am deucedly dull. Don't you? Vivian—No; deucedly clever when you talk like that.—Topeka Journal.
"If you had said twenty-nine cents she probably would have taken you."— Houston Post.
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"Sir," said the young man, entering the office, "I sent you a communication yesterday."
"Well?" asked the grim-faced man of business.
"Well, Mr. Prater, I thought perhaps you might give me a satisfactory reply to my request, and—"
"Wait a minute," said Mr. Prater, taking up a bundle of papers and looking through them. "Are you the man that sent this account for $50 for hats to my daughter?"
"No, sir, I—"
"Then you are the one that left this bill for $100 for her dresses?"
"No, sir. My commu—"
"Then yours must be this note for $40 for shoes, and—"
"No, sir. My note was one asking if I might have your daughter's hand."
"You want to marry her?" Mr. Prater gasped. Then, turning the pile of bills over in his hands, he urged: "Take her, young man. I don't know your name, but take her quickly." She's talking about doing some more shopping."—Chicago Journal.
Courage Promoters.
"Women," remarked Wedderly "are a great incentive to manly courage." "What's the explanation?" queried his friend Singleton. "Well," replied Wedderly, "since I've been up against the marrimonial game and had a few tilts with my wife, the prospect of a scrap with the toughest citizen in town seems like mere child's play to me.—Chicago Daily News.
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P. Ritzhelmer, 7 N. 134th St.
Green and Bailey, 249 E. 127th St.
J. H. Parker, 144 W. 26th St.
Charles Devan, 1.1 W. 30th St.
W. J. Buckner, 1.50 W. 53rd St.
M. W. Slaughter, 312 W. 40th St.
W. W. Johnson, 247 W. 47th St.
E. H. Mitchell, 152 W. 27th St.
Turner R. Robinson, 12-6th Ave.
E. A. Williams, 200 W. 63rd St.
M. B. Walker, 309 W. 37th St.
J. H. Jarrett, 453-7th Ave.
Smith & Miles, 232 W. 41st St.
M. B. Wineyglass, 322 W. 59th ST.
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M. Clay, 182 Fitzwater St.
J. H. Gray, 1233 Pine St.
Bishop Robinson, 1234 Melon St.
E. P. Mackens, 1116 Pine St.
James E. Warwick, 254 S. 11th St.
Mrs. B. Homsher, 1040 Pine St.
William Parker, 631 Pine St.
Mrs. Lavinia Aidridge, 521 S. 12th.
Chas. A. George, 4062 Market St.
F. A. Stewart, 1730 Federal St.
PITTSBURG, PA.
TITSBURG, PA.
Joe. E. Vaane care Jones Laughlin.
E. K. Thump 114 Wmley Ave.
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Lee Ricks, 782 Fulton St.
William A Dabney, 3 Quincy St.
William Pope, 174 Myrtle Ave.
CHARLESTON, W. VA.
L. C. Darrar, 501 Brooks St.
ASTORIA, L. I.
Frank R. Wood, 144 Broadway.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.
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BRONX BOROUGH, N. Y.
J. H. Barrett, 603-162d St.
PLAINFIELD, N. J.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
L. H. Singleton, 20th and E St.
Southwestern Drug Co..
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LAWRENCE, MASS.
A. E. Evans, 382 Essex St.
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
W. H. Brown, 13 Stockbridge St.
COVINGTON, VA.
E. J. Jefferson, 1211-30th St.,
George T. Hall, 1332-30th St.
TARP'RO, N. C.
V. E. Howard.
WILMINGTON, N. C.
William H. Moore.
STAUNTON, VA.
Wm. C. Johnston, 111 E. Main St..
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Charles Morgan, 702 Taylor St.
HAMPTON, VA.
John M. Phillips.
DANVILLE, VA.
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PORTSMOUTH, VA.
H. S. Cooper, 1332 County St.
John H. Johnsea, 210 Bridge St.,
PROVIDENCE, R. I.
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John W. Anderson.
MILWAUKEE, WIS.
J. D. Cook, 26 Juneau Ave.,
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In connection with the road scraper
@ ditch cleaner is used to pass the
earth from the side ditches up the
grade far enouch for the road scraper
to reach it. ‘The ditch cleaner {s
made something afzer the fashion of
a. snow plonzh, but the lefthand side
4s made shorter and the side is made
vertical, so that in practice this per-
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The other side is bevoled something
Uke a ploughshare and Is faced with
Steel. This side, says the Montreal
Herald, is made longer than the other
and it Is this side that shoves the
earth out of the ditch, The hitch {s
not at the point like a snow plough
but about ten inches to the right of the
point, as shown tn the Hlustration
which is adjustable.
CISTERN FOR DRINKING WATER
Arrangement by Which Flitered Water
Can Be Obtained.
In digging a cistern, dig it deep an
arch well under ground, closing ft
the arch to receive a two-foot tile t
form the neck, which can easily bx
closed tight against toads and insects
By the side of the big cistern, dig :
Uttle flitering cistern, as shown tr
cut, that will hold from ten tto 15 bar
rels. Wall, arch and cement the same
as large cistern, except that in the
center of the bottom, which should be
slightly basin shapo, aig and cement
a hole large enough and deep enough
to receive a bucket that will hold five
or six gallons.
Mave bottom of bucket perforated
with small holes and fasten a stron
bale to bucket by which to Hift ft out
Have a strong flange turned close t
the top of the bucket to rest Ught oF
the bottom of Sltering cistern rouné
top of hole. You can make ft water
tight by resting flange on packing. 11
bucket is not good and strong, place
4 rest under the bottom, as there wil
be a heavy pressure when fliterins
cistern is full. From the bottom o}
the hole under bucket connect filter
with cistern with a threeinch sewer
tile thoroughly cemented in.
‘The advantages in this method are
that the filtering material can be
packed in bucket close enough to per
mit the water to filter through very
slowly. The filtering cistern being but
one-third the depth of the cisters
Proper, any time the water is below
‘the tube connecting filter with cistern
the bucket of filtering material car
‘be lifted out and material removed
+ By closing the tile leading to cistern
so that water will not run throush
one can go into the filtering cisterr
and wash it thoroughly without dis
turbing the water m cistern. By an
ing the bucket with pounded brick
charcoal and slate packed In clear
washed sand, the water will filter
through very slowly. After packing
the bucket and before setting it in the
hole, run water through to wash al
gediment out.
HANDLING THE ICE CROP,
Keep the points sharp on the to
tools.
An old crosscut saw makes a goo
fee saw.
Spread a good layer of sawdust ove
the bottom of the ice house.
Felt boots with good rubber arctic
are the best footwear to use on thi
ree.
Wear an apron made of a grain sac!
and put on a dry one as often as {
gets wet.
Let the block of ice freeze solic
‘while it is being put into the house, {
possibie.
It's no fun to handle heavy ice
therefore plan to gather tt before 1
gets too thick.
‘Two strong mon with short handle
tongs wil! load tce quicker and bette
-than-any derrick device. .
Ico keeps best when the bloks ar
14 to 16 inches thick, but blocks six t
elght inches thick will dq if wel
packed.
OUR COMMON ROADS.
They Should Not Be Neglected While
Waiting for Hard Roads.
In the excitement of the good roads
‘commotions there is danger that farm-
ers will let our common roads go
without much work being done on
them and wait for the public Improve.
ment. Farmers now by neslect of
the roads and the principles of ele
mentary road making are paying an
enormous tax; the very great cost 0!
drawing loads over poor roads. The
first principle of good road making is,
keep the water off from the road, and
the second is, get the water off from
the road.
Go over the road aa soon as the
Snow 1s off and sco how often these
Tules are violated. Often the water
runs from the ditch Into the road and
then runs for rods, washing the ma:
terial out, ruining all that was done
the previous year and making the road
nearly impassable. Yet, says the Farm
and Home, by only a few minutes
work the road might be saved and the
water turned out. Every supervisor
OF roadmaster ought to go over the
road late in the fall and turn the wate:
off. On the hilis and at foot of hills,
and elsewhere when necessary, add
open ditches.
At the Ohio state farmers’ institute
D. W, King of Indiana, gave a method
of making and {mproving roads. Mr.
King lives in northern Indiana, in the
“Gumbo” region, where the earth is
Diack and very sticky. The result ts
/@ very good .road at small cost. He
‘uses a split log drag. Hitch with chain
on rod go that all surplus dirt will be
‘carried to center of road, The hitch
fs one of the most {mportant features
Uusually use the flat side forward, but
when smoothing or packing the dirt.
use rounding side forward.
Go over the road a8 soon as It thaws
and smooth down all dirt carried to
the center, Repeat the dragging after
each rain ax soon as the surface 1s dry
enough to work. It is not necessary
to wait till the ground is all thawed
out. Begin as soon as there {s an inch
thawed. This will give the water a
chance to run off; water running In
the road is one of the worst things
for the road. Following it up after
each rain will turn the water, distrib:
ute the travel over the road, avold and
Drevent ruts, and keep the road good
To make the plan most available,
each farmer should have such a drag.
and each one drag from bis house to
the next house, thus each doing the
work at a very small cost. A road
worked in this way will keep good all
summer and fall. Less than a week's
rain will hardly affect it In spring
the road ts in good condition much
sooner than other roads not treated,
OIL UPON DUSTY ROADWAYS.
Way of Treating Roads in Liverpoo
Proves Satisfactory.
‘The English cast vil on the troubled
roads. Dust raising is a nuisance o
such magnitude that various civic and
oMcial antidust experiments have
been made. Quite satisfactory results
have been secured in Liverpoo!
through the use of of] sprinkled upon
macadam roadways, The surface hav
ing the cleanest and whitest appear
ance was that coated with creosote
oll mixed with resin, while that cov
ered with creosote mixed with tallow
had the least odor. The Texas crude
petroleum gave the most lasting re.
sults. After ofling the wear and tear
of the road appears to be less, says
the Chicago Tribune. The surface of
the road dries more quickly after
rains, and the number of loose stones
picked up has been reduced. The
first sprinkling kept the surface in
g00d order for three weeks, at the end
of which time it was thought advis-
able to recover the area. The effects
of the off on the surface after a second
coating had been applied had not en-
tirely disappeared after the lapse of
five weeks. Oiling wood pavements
in Liverpool was done in the same
manner and the dust satisfactorily
kept kept down, a result not previous:
ly obtained even by watering four
tees & day.
STILE OVER WIRE FENCE.
Saves Clothing and Trouble in Cross
ing Fields.
A correspontent ot Praits Fanaa:
sends a sketch of a stile that ho uses
over a wire fence which he has to
cross occasionally, but does not wish
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‘to cut for a gate. The fence is four
and a half feet high. The side pieces
to the stairs are seven feet long,
slightly imbedded in the ground. The
‘steps are put in and a band support
built up one side.
Mittens made from a pair of old
woolen trousers beat leather gloves
‘or mittens for handling ice. They dry
‘soft and without shrinking, when wet.
—Farm and Home,
Ventilation and drainage are very
necessary to a good ice house.
It Was Thin.
Park Policoman—Get off the grass
there, Can’t you see the notice?
‘Small Boy—I ain't walkin’ on yer
old grass. I'm steppin’ between it,
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_& Pungent Query,
Sturdy boy with laughing eres, .
‘Tint clean stolen from the skies,
Cheeks as red az roses are, :
Lipa as sweet as nectar rare;
‘That's the bey by whom I swear,
‘Our John Howard.
‘Should a time of trouble come,
And he follow fife and drum,
He'll not finch at bullet's hum,
‘Or piay coward.
Clambers on his grand-dad's knee,
Rather talky vet'ran he,
Tella him stories of the war,
What he did and what he saw,
All about the cannon’s roar—
‘Spoke the litte whelp,
As he slyly winked his eye,
“Did _you make the rebels fiy,
Without any help?”
Gen. Koratio C. King, in National
Tribune.
MEXICAN WAR SURVIVOR.
Aged Veteran Who Saw Service Un-
der Gen. Winfield Scott.
Que of the few survivors of that lt
We army which, under the command
of Gen. Winfield Scott, administered
crushing defeats to the Mexicans and
finally ended the war with the cupture
of the City of Mexico, is Orson Nick-
erson of Oconto, Wis. Although 82
Years old, he bears his age with all the
vigor and activity of many a man
in the prime of life.
Mr. Nickerson was born in the city
of Canton, N. ¥., in 1824. He enlisted
for service in the Mexican war in
‘May, 1846. and, was assigned to Scott's
command, with which he participated
In’all the battles of that brilliant cam:
paign, A tact whlch lends additional
interest to this aged veteran is that
he was a member of the company of
which Robert E. Leo, later com:
manderin-chief of the confederate
forces, was captain, and Ulysses 8.
Grant Neutenant. Not many years
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later Mr. Nickerson was arrayed tn
the ranks of the union army under
Gen. Grant against his former com
mander.
At the outbreak of the civil war
Mr. Nickerson was a railroad laborer
in Louisiana and was pressed into
the confederate service by the famous
Guerilla leader, Col. Mosby. After a
short time he escaped and walked the
entire distance to Memphis, Tenn.
from which place he secured trans
portation to his home at Canton, N. ¥.
At the, last_named place he enlisted
with the union army and served
throughout the Inst three years of the
war. His regiment was assigned to
Gen. Sedgwick’s division of the Army
of the Potomac, and he served with
this division to the end of the war.
At the battle of Gettysburg his was
the company that first opened fire
upon the enemy. Under Gen. Grant
he participated in the battles of the
Wilderness, Spottsylvania Courthouse,
Cold Harbor, the attack on Peters.
burg and the surrender of Lee at Ap
pomattox.
After participating in the grand re
view at Washington at the close of the
war, in which the flower of the union
army took part, he returned to his
home at Canton. After residing there
Several years he removed to Sheboy.
gan Falls, Wis., and in 1870 to Oconto,
when it was still a wilderness, From
its virgin soll he wrested suffictont for
& comfortable old aze. When inter.
viewed by the correspondent of the
Milwaukee s-xtinel, he was found
picking fruit im his splendid orchard,
which ‘surrounds bis pretty cottage,
and there narrated the particulars of
his life. He enjoys life with a hearty,
whole-souled enjoyment which would
do credit to a far younger man.
|
| Arthur MacArthur, who entered the
army during the civil war, has risen te
‘the rank of Heutenant general, He
succeeded Lieut. Gen. Corbin wher
that officer retired, on September 13
and will hold the rank till he himsel
retires in June 1909: Lieut. Gen. Mac
Arthur was born in Massachusetts, but
entered the army from Wisconsin, of
which state his father was leutenan
governor at the time. He was adjutant
of the Twenty-fourth Wisconsin regi
ment at the age of 17.
Pockets Full of Snakes.
San Antonio, Tex—A few days ago
John Brooks was arrested In this city
on a charge of horse theft. Deputy
Sheriff Gorforth was searching the
prisoner when he suddenly let out a
yell. He had reache! into the man’s
pockets and a ball snake had fastened
{ts fangs fn his fingers. The prisoner
was then omlered to remove all the
enakes he had hid upon his person,
and produced four bull snakes and a
pilot snake. In his buzzy was found
two armadilloes, one iguana, one green
Uzard and three black lizards. The en-
tire collection was taken to jail with
the prisoner, who follows snake charm.
ing for a livelihood,
Simolited.
Ifthe old things make you tired,
Cut ‘em out:
If they are no moro desired,
Cut “em out:
If at mpoliing you are slick,
If the old style makes you alck,
If the lotters are too thick,
Cut ‘em out;
Yonkers “Statesman,
Extremes.
_ “What extremes some men go to in
Jove making, don't they? There's that
fellow who just pagped. He has loved
the lady he's with for over eight
years.”
“Who is she?"
“His wite,"—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Honk Honk Finance,
Kntcker—I sec a bank is to send an
auto around for collections.
Booker—Well, th» machine can pay
for its own repal: on the way—N. ¥.
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BOARD OF DIKEOTORS:
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HISTORIC BUILDING IN EAST.
‘Wooden Walls of Old Blockhouse Full
of Bullets.
Daring the French and Indian wars
the favorite style of fortification was
fhe wooden biockhouse.
‘Their slight cost, the proximity of
the material, and the rapidity of erec-
tion, together with their mpervious-
ness to the arms of that period, com-
dined to make them {deal forts.
‘The usual type, as represented in
the photograph, was a two-story bulld-
fg about 20 feet square, the uppper
story overhanging the lower one avout
42 inches. The overhang enabled the
defenders to guard against insidious
attack. Boards were raised and scald-
ing water was often turned on the
heads or backs of the Indians. Some
times heavy stones were dropped with
erusbing effect, and at any time fire-
arms might be discharged at short
range at the assailants.
‘The logs used in the construction
were hewn about eight inches square
and dovetailed at the ends. Loopholes
were provided at convenient intervals
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for musketry and on the second floor
‘@ large door was provided for the use
of swivels or light cannon.
These blockhouses were usually lo
eated at strategic points, and were
well stocked with provisions and am-
munition.
Of the great number formerly exist
ing in New England but three remain,
and they are in Maine. One Is at Wis
casset, another at Fort Kent, and the
third and most famous one is standing
at Winslow, across the river from
‘Waterville.
‘Fhe one at Winslow is the subject of
the photograph, taken by the Boston
Globe artist. Erected ia 1754, it was
originally one of the three blockhouses,
all connected by a stockade. They
‘were placed at the junction of the Ken:
nebec and Sebsstlcock rivers. The
strategic importance will be easily un-
derstood when you refect that the
Kennebec is so deep and rapid at this
point that the French and Indians
found It impossible to ascend the river
im their light batteaux or canoes, 89
the route was by Sebasticook, the
French settlement.
Many battles wore fought around the
Dlockhouse shown, and its wooden
walls contain a great quantity of bul-
Jets, although many have been extract:
ed. The tragedies of war have been
enacted here; treaties have been con:
eluded and troops quartered within
and around the walls.
‘The sachem of the Abenakis tribe of
Indians was murdered just outside Its
walls after a debauch. In fact, its his-
tory is so connected with the stirring
Perlod of the French wars that the
Maine Historical society has come to
its rescue, and it is now protected
against further depredations and de
cay.
A Story of Gen. Sherman.
Gen. Sherman once had occasion to
stop at a country heme where a tin
basin and a roller towel on the back
porch sufficed for the family's ablu
tions. For two mornings the small
boy of the household watched in silence
the visitor's efforts at making a toilet
under the unfavorable auspices, but
when on the thir day the toothbrush,
nafl file, whisk broom, ete., had been
duly used and returned to their places
in the traveler's grip, he could sup-
press his turiosity no longer, so boldly
put the question:
“Say, mister, air you always that
much trouble to yo'se"t?”
A Serious Matter.
First Guest—The bride looked aw-
fully solemn as she came down the
aisle, didn’t she? Wonder what she
was thinking about?
Second Gnest—Probably wondering
Mf her vell was on straight—Detroit
Free Press
Wanted a Change.
Waiter (at clad restaurant)—Ready
‘with your order, sah?
City Sportsman (back from a
‘week's fishing)—Give me some fish;
T'm tired to death of other things.—
N.Y. Weekly.
Secead ile Bin’
Little Sister—I know what “learnin’
by rote” means.
Little Brother—So do I. It means
Jearnia’ a thing the way the. feller
wrote it—N. Y. Weekly.
Keeping Tab.
First Street Arab—What's them
numbers on the motorcar for, Jim?
Second Ditto—Why, that’s the fel-
Jor's score. It shows how many foike
‘he’s rua over.
Two men run into each
other in a London fog.
When it lifts temporarily ' A
they discover in the light as 7
of the street lamps that Me) ‘en
they are as much alike <a 7
as the two Dromios, as PAV (s N
two peas, or anything wz }
you can imagine. Their ‘ 1 We Bt
own mothers could not biggie 4
have told them apart i i ‘a y
But their stations in Ciera Y i
life are widely different ¢ ie a 3
52 is rich, powerful, re i PRA
famous; the other inthe Rag Fi a
depths of poverty. The Res A ai #8
poor man who was high | Wyry a fA
born assumes the role of a
the rich and becomes F xs
The ro
Pas yy
M@SQUGPQQG? ovate onary oat
other's face.
[TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT]
TILLMAN’S SATIRE
STIRRED SENATORS
Washington, Jan. 22.—Few featurep
of the spectacular were missing from
the proceedings of the senate. The
Brownsville affair was the subject of
controversy, and the day began with
the announcement of a compromise
resolution, which brought both Repub-
Nan and Democratic senators togeth
er on the basis of ordering an inves-
tigation of the facts of the affray,
without bringing into question the au.
thority of the president to dismiss
the negro troops
When the “harmony” testimonials
were all in Senator Tillman took the
foor and delivered a speech in reply
to the recent criticism of himselt by
Senator Spooner. This speech began
with a satirical pleture of the senate
as a minstrel show, which Mr. Till-
man later sald was his first and last
attempt to be “funny,” an attempt
which at its conclusion brought a
stinging denunciation from Senator
Carmack in resentment sf allusions
to him. This was preceded by a ser-
fous reply from Senator Spooner on
the attitude taken by Mr. Tillman on
the race problem, all finally resulting
in a session of nearly two hours be
hind closed doors.
The secret session was followed by
a brief open one, in which Mr. Till
man made 2 profuse apology to Mr.
Carmack, to all senators whom he had
drought Into his “first essay in the
line of humor,” and finally to the en-
Lire senate. “I very much regret that
I ever undertook to be funny, and I
will never do so any more.” Mr. TIll-
man then withdrew all he had sald in
his “funny essay,” and said it would
not appear in the Record.
In his speech Senator Tillman said
the press had denominated him “the
burnt-cork artist of the senate,” and
be added, if he were “entitled to this
appellation, or that of “Pitchfork
Ben,” at one end of the minstrel line,
certainly “Fire-Alarm Joe” (Senator
Foraker) ought not to be ignored at
the other. We both do the Orlando
and Furioso act admirably. !
Senator Culberson was designated
as performing a solo on the “bones”
in praise of the president; Senator
Daniel was called “the brilliant and
courtly senator from Virginia, whose
specialty {s oratory, and who works
his rhetoric overtime.”
“Next.” said Mr. Tiliman, “we have
the dying swan, Smiling Tom, of Col-
orado, the state recently bought at
auction by one Guggenheim, and the
swan song is a dirge for the dying
Democracy of the north, stabbed in
its vitals by Ben Pitchfork.
“Next we have the redoubted Ten-
Resseean (Carmack), who was once a
knight, a very hotspur in the lists,
whose spear has rung true and clear
upon the visor of the usurper at White
‘House, and who has made the sparks
fly in many ap onset; but his spear
head is broken off, he has been un-
horsed. His specialty is a song, ‘Re-
Bominate our idol, or give us back
our platform.’
“Then comes the star of the troupe,
‘Gumshoe Bill,” from ‘Old Missouri.’
He can dance the Highland fling on
top of a 10-rail fence and never touch
the ground, but his greatest feat ts
walking on eggs without breaking the
shells.
“Last we have the artist from the
Badger state (Spooner), an acrobat
and juggler of international reputa-
tion. He ts supple, sly and foxy, and,
having once been a lawyer, is noted
throughout the iand for bis ability to
get on either side of any question.
and maintain the negative or affirma.|
tive in any argument with great force
and fervor. He sings bass, alto, so-
prano or tenor, ard is superb in any
role.
“Have I ever advocated lynch law
at any time or at any place? I an-|
swer on my honor, ‘never.’ I have
dna 1 nave: constsentif and’ per
and I have. “and p
ently maintained that attitude for the|
Seal lta ant See
I bad taken the « tos
I had taken the oath of Mice t
THE RICHMOND PLANET, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
lead a mob to lynch any man, black
or white, who had ravished any wo
man, black or white. This is my at
ttude calmly and deliberately taken,
and justified by my conscience in the
‘sight of God.
“The senator from Wisconsin speaks
of ‘lynching bees.” As far as lyneb-
ing for rape is concerned, the word is
a misnomer. When stern and sad:
faced white men put to death a crea
ture in human form who has deflow-
ered a white woman, there 1s noth-
tng of the bre about it. There fs more
of the feeling of participation as
a funeral. They have avenged the
greatest wrong, the blackest crime in
ail the category of crimes, and they
have done it not so much as an act
As retribution in behalf of the victim
ag as a warning as to what any man
may expect who shall repeat the of
fense. They are tooking to the pro-
tection of thelr own loved ones.”
The south. he sald. was offering up
anywhere from 40 to 190 mafdens and
matrons to this “modern beast” annu
ally. Rece hatred, he sald, was grow:
fng. The nerth today had a Dillion
dollars of capital invested In the south,
and self" fnierest made It the duty of
the north to move to do something to
Felleve the situstion, At hig conclu
sion Senator Tilman was applauded,
hte an TALLY POISONED SON
Mother Gave Typhoid Patient Carbolie
Acid In Nistake For Medicine.
Scranton, Pa, Jan. 23—A particu.
larly sad incident In connection with
the typhoid epidemle occurred here,
John Convey, aged 19, son of a pypmi-
hently connected family, was —pro-
nounced cured of typhold, and the
family was given permission to take
down the typhoid placard.
‘The patient had been taking cltrate
of magnesia, and the attendants had
been using carbolic acid ss a disin-
fectant. The two liquids were kept in
the sick room in simflar bottles. The
son asked his mother for a dose of
magnesia. The mother accidentally
poured out a wineglass full of carbolic
acid and gave it to him. He drank It
all, and in 20 minutes died. When the
horror of the thing dawned on the
mother she had to be forcibly restrain-
ed from doing injury to herself, With
his dying breath the young man, in a
futile attempt to assuage bis mother's
awful anguish, protested that he had
not swallowed the poison, and that he
was all right.
SCALED DOWN $49,000,000
Grand Jury Finds Big Undervatuation
For Coal Mines.
rte) eee eee
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, Jan. 21. — The
grand jury, which has been tnvestl-
gating alleged frauds in assessing
property in Luzerne county, made a
special report to the court. ‘The reve-
lations are startling.
The grand jury claims that the in-
vestigations so far made show that
property, mostly coal lands, is under-
valued to the extent of $40,000,000.
The county commissioners are urged
to increase the value of this property
at once by about $15,000,000.
The grand jury, in its report, ts
very severe on those coal companies
that will not sell the surface of their
coal lands for building lots, although
such lots are very much in demand.
The assessment on these lands {s only
$1000 an acre, while adjoining lots,
owned by individuals, are taxed at the
rate of $200, In other words, the small
property owner pays tax on $200, while
the coal companies pay ouly at the
rate of $14 a foot.
$138,128,500 FOR PENSIONS
New Bill Reported Is Fer $2,000,000
Less Thar Last Year. !
Washington Jan. 22 — Tke house
committee on appropriations reported!
the pension biil carrying an appropria.
tion of $138 138 500 for 1908. The ap
Propriation for pensions in 1967 wae
$140 200000. In the bill appropriation!
18 made for only nine of the 18 pen
ok ineticten Which ane-eane:
Farmers’ Union In Session.
Atlanta. Ga, Jon. 23—Between 500
and 600 members of the Naticna
Farmers’ Union gathered here for thelr
Gith annual meeting. Most of the
southern states and several northern
and western states were represented.
The organization numbers a million
members throughout the country, gath-
ered in various state organizations.
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DRYDEN FIVE VOTES SHORT
Jersey U. $. Senator Falled of Re
Election On First Ballot.
Trenton, N. J., Jen. 23.—The legts-
lature is deadlocked om the United
Btates senatorship. Senator Dryden.
who ia @ candidate for re-election. re
ceived the votes of the 36 Republicans
‘who participated tn the caucus. Mr.
Dryden received 12 votes in the senate
and 24 in the house, or eight short ot
the full Republican strength in both
houses.
Senator Dryden seems to realize now
what has been prociaimed for some
time, that the people of New Jersey
demand a representative at Washing-
ton who is not allied with corporate
interests. He is decidedly crest-fallen
and makes no attempt to hide his feel-
‘ngs of disappointment.
Carload of Powder Exploded and
Twonty-Two Were Killed
BODIES BURNED AND MUTILATED
‘Terre Haute, Ind, Jan. 21—Twen-
ty-two charred, broken, mutilated
Dodies were taken from @ie smoulder-
ing ruins of the accommodation pas-
Senger train on the Cleveland, Cin-
clanatt, Chicago & St. Louis (Big
Four) railroad. following its destruc-
tion by the explosion of a carload of
powder as It passed a fretent train at
Sandford, Ind., five miles west of Terre
Haute. The number of injured will
total at least 35.
‘The cause of the disaster has not
deen fully explained, but several theo-
ries are advanced. The result was ter-
bible. The shock was felt for 30 miles,
many believing it to be an earthquake.
‘The entire train, including the loco-
motive, was blown from the track, the
coaches were demolished, the engine
‘was hurled 50 feet and the passengers
were biown to pieces, consumed by
fire or rescued in an injured condt-
tion.
According to trainmen of the freight,
the explosion of the powder was caus-
ed by the concussion of the passenger
train, which was slowing down for
Sandford,
Besides the passenger train, elght
freight cars were blown to pleces by
the explosion. Huge masses of fron
were found hundreds of feet from the
track. The tank of the passenger lo-
comotive was hurled 100 feet.
The wrecked train and eight freight
cars were consumed by fire, which
broke out in the wreckage. The other
cars were pulled out of danger. Not
& building in Sangtord escaped dam-
age. Windows were shattered, dishes
and furniture broken and several doors
were torn from hinces.
As the passenger train was just
abreast of the powder car the contents
of the powder car exploded. The en-
tire passenger train was blown from
the tracks into the air and crashed to
the earth a tangled mass of wood and
steal, beneath which lay 40 human be-
ings. Fire broke gut in the wreckage,
and befere the eyas of citizens and res
cuers, who rushed from their homes,
many burned to death.
Cries of the injured and the erack-
Ming of the fierce flames greeted the
ears of the resucuers, who worked
frantically, but were soon forced back
by the terrible heat,
Passengers were pulled from the
ruins as the fiames advanced, while
the men frantically. worked to disen-
tangle the human forms from the
wreck and hunted for the Injured blown
far from the train, the women of Sand-
ford cared for the injured After the
fire drove the rescuers away they
searched for scattered persons unail
the heat died down, and then began
dragging out charred bodies, Men con-
tinned to search nearby fields, where
pleces of bodies and wearing apparel
were picked up.
Under the wreckage of the bargaze
ear was found a charred torso, bear-
Ing a lineman’s belt and pools abot
the waist. Four mutilated bodies
Were found in a woods several hun-
dred feet from the tracks.
A thousand feet, of track was torn
up, and a great hols shows where the
powder car stood. This ear contained
500 kegs of powder
To Whom It May Concern:
Richmond, Va., Jan. 19, ‘07.
This is to inform the public awd
the members of the Southern Aid
Soclety of Virginia, Inc. in partic-
ular that Mr. W. G. Carter for a
good cause has been dismissed from
any further sorvice or connection
with the above named Corporation,
and all persons are hereby warned
against paying to him any funds
owing or belonging to the above
named Corporation, and any such
Parments made to him after this
publication is made at the risk of
the party making same, for which
the undersign is not responsible.
By order of Board of Directors.
Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc.
A. D. PRICE, President.
THOS. M. CRUMP, Sec. & Mer.
B, L. JORDAN, Auditor.
sens Sie
Mr. Lyons ‘Requests.
Mr. William B. Lygns, deceasad,
whose esthte was valnéd at $10,000
left the following amoun's to Mrs.
Hattie E. Tilghman, $1,399: Mrs.
Maggie Wyatt of New York, $1,000;
Barclay Lyons, $1,000. He resides
in New York. Miss Agnes Lyons,
of New York, $500; Davi B. Ly
ons of New York, $250; Elizabeth
Butts of New York, $500; Edward
F. Sully, $500; Mrs, “Elizabeth
Brown, $200: Chester G. Sully, and
Rosa, his wife, $200 each: Pleasanc
Sully, $200; Mrs. 9Ila Coleman, $200
Mrs. Alice Randolph of New ‘York,
$250; Inrs. Mattie L, Bush of City
Point, $100: Virginia Home for In-
curabies of Richmond, (white) $100
Friends Asylum for Colored — Or-
phans $100; Old Folks Home, Sack-
fon Streot, $150; ietaBang: Church,
$50; Third Street AoM. EB. Churca
$50; Colored Y. M. C. A., $50: Geo.
W. ‘Lewis qualified as Executor of
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Mr. Miles C. Debbress and Mr. Wil
Ham Custalo vere witnesses to tae
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Michaux, Va. Jan. 20, '07.
‘Twenty-fifth day of December be
ing Christmas Day services were
conducted as usual at the Mt. Zion
Baptist Church, Rev. T. P. Harris.
pastor. He preached a short but
able sermon, showing that the grace
of God is sufficient to keep them, if
they live and do right.
After the services the deacons and
members brought forth his usual
present, winter groceries. This has
been done every year for the last
18 or 20 years. You can judge how
the Pastor's heart was made glad
after these many years finding them
the same. I pray that God will ev-
er bless them in the good work.
In_ the Sth Sunday at Ebenezer
Baptist Church, Goochland lay a
purse with many thanks of which I
coukl but feet proud. On last third
Sunday at Antioch Baptist Church
was another purse. The pastor re-
turns many thanks to the above
named churches for their kind re-
membrances.
REV. T. P. HARRIS.
Ponds, Ala.,
Dear Editor:
Please insert for me these lines.
We have enjoyed a nice Xmas and
the Lord was with us, The weather
was cold but fair and the sun was
bright.
I want to say our people have
made some progress in wealth tls
year, but not any socially-or chris-
tianly. We need that the parents
teach socialism around their fireside
Our boys and girls are taught to en-
ter the ball rooms from nine years
of age and on. If our people or our
girls hed tae training they would
be a peopie.
Isay. No nation can rise higher
than their women. If our women
will be taught to elevate themselves
our boys would be elevated. Train
& child the way of right and you are
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they do. In this country I can say
in ‘places there are twenty-five im
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a people will change.
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Evils of Easy Divorce.
Margaret Sargster’s Opinion on One of the Most Im-
Por.ant Questions of the Day— Chi dren Suffer
When Family Ties Are Broken.
BY MARGARET €E. SANGSTER. | for suffering when they are forced
The divorce laws of this country
are dissimilar in many important
Particulars in different localities. In
Some of the states divorce is easily
obtained on the ground of incompatl-
bility or on almost any pretext that
cables a dissatisfied husband and
wife to sever the bond that has bither-
ty united them.
infidelity, intemperance and deser-
tion are three of the most cogent rea-
Sons presented in the divorce courts
and in a majo-ity of the states; if
‘the complaint is proven on any of
these growggs, the. decree of separa-
tion, either limited or absolute, is
granted without much demur. In one
or two of the older and more conserv-
ative states, notably in the south, and
on the Atlantic seaboard below Ma-
son's and Dixie's line, unfaithfulnese
to marital vows is the only cause com-
monly offered by uncomfortably
mated people, with any hope of gain-
ing their end. Nonsupport of a wife
by a husband {s a ground for divorce
accepted by the courts in a large num-
ber of states, and with much reason.
Yet when all is said there remains
this stigma that divorce rests on too
flimsy a basis, that there is no uni-
formity in our laws in this depart-
ment so that people are divorced and
remarried with undue haste, while it
is quite possible that a: man and
woman who live in lawful wedlock
in one state may be regarded as un-
married in another, and if they live
together do so under the ban of open
immorality.
To assert that people never make
mistakes in the closest of human rela-
tions and that divorce should never
be granted except on the one ground
of infidelity, {s to affirm an opinion
that in some cases would Inflict use-
less and intolerable suffering, and do
no good to any of the parties con-
cerned. But to permit divorce to be
eany, to let the state consent to a
change of partners in| marriage as
children change places in the old |
kame of stage-coach, and to remove
Borgen eral
proach wh n they remarry as they
dent pre-arrangement, is to strike a,
blow at the foundation-stone of so-|
clety, the family. |
Everything stable in civilized tte |
depends on the integrity of the family. |
The family Is the greatest of human |
institutions. It preceded the state and |
the church. When the family ts no |
longer regarded as sacred, when ies
responsibilities are trampled upon,
and husband and wife in mad selfish: |
ness forget the claims upon them of
thetr offspring, there ia the rreateat |
danger that the nation will follow
the fate of effete and corrupt nations |
in the past
are the children. It 1s pitiful to see,
as one often does, a father and moth.
er at variance contending over the |
children who should be thelr ee
bond of union. The little ones cling-
ing tn the sweet simplicity of child |
ish affection to father and mother |
vainly try to unuderstand the disconts |
that ruin thelr home. ‘The love of |
their little loyal hearts is given alike |
to father and to mother. If by the |
adjudication of a court they are torn |
from the arms of one and placed in
the care of the other, they begin a
maimed and mutilated life.
They are ashamed when among
their ttle mates because there is
something that sets them apart, some-
thing queer and odd that they can-
not explain.
Children have a strange capacity |
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for suffering when they are forced
Get of the weet and. sate westaslon
of @ sheltered home, and are
early thrust under the Imelight of
publicity. ‘They are often reticent
and hide their real thought and con-
Jectures from those around them, but.
when they live in an atmosphere
teeming with suspicion and distrust,
when servants gossip mysteriously
within their hearing, and people
about them talk in hushed whispers,
they grow too early familiar with the
language of the scandal. The taint
of evil stains the purity of their souls.
Jt exen seems at times as if a curse
‘descended from mother to daughter
and father to son, when divorce on
foolish and capricious grounds js
Sranted in a family. There are tn-
‘stances on record and to be seen in
‘the smart society of America at this
period, in which the mother, the
daughter and the granddaughter of a
single line have successively discov-
ered that permanence In marriage was
for them impossible, and have made
& wreck of their homes in conse-
‘quence.
No matter on whom the blame may
rest, those who really bear the bur-
den and the shame, if shame there
be, are the sons and daughters. Not
merely while they are in the nursery
and the schoolroom, but later, when
the youth is approaching manhood
and the girl in her beauty and sweet-
ness begins her life in society, do
the shadows meet around them. No
sensitive girl can be entirely con-
tented and satisfed if her father and
mother are living apart, if she must
visit one by permission or by stealth,
or if she have the strange anomaly of
@ stepfather or stepmother who has
taken the place of a living parent.
Where marriage ts looked upon as
sacramental and the church refuses
its sanction to the marriage of those
who are divorced, there 1s considera
tion for the welfare of children un-
known when marriage is regarded
merely as @ civil contract that may
be dissolved if sufficient pressure be
brought to bear on the situation.
The root meaning of sacrament is
fidelity to an oath, and people need
not be either religious or devout to
understand sacramental obligation to-
ward the family. If religious and de-
vout, It Is difficult to see how they
can accept marriage except as it
wears sacredness, partakes of the na-
ture of a covenant and fs, in a word,
sacramental,
In Marion Crawford's recently pub-
lished novel, “A Lady of Rome,” there
is shown with consummate skill the
possibility of setting the solemnity and
the permanence of marriage over pas-
sion, dissension and mistrust. Peo-
plo may not be happy in marriage,
they may even, as in this noble story.
be extremely wretched, but they may
behave with courtesy, forbearance and
dignity, and they may set far in the
foreground the welfare and the fu-
ture successes In life of a child.
Chtidren come into the world by no
volition of their own. No human be
ing Is consulted beforehand as to his.
willingness to accept the joys and sor-
rows of this chequered existence.
Once a child ix here, the first duty of
the family is to the child. The real
sufferers in easy divorce are not the
parents, but the children.
(Copyright, 1908. by Joseph B. Bowles.)
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