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V ■ A v THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. PATt'RDAT, graft i SOUTHERN COMMON SENSE By REV. JOHN E. WHITE, PASTOR SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH W a ARE taking the race problem either too seriously or not se rf ourly enough. Th 0?e who take It too aerlously are lhof e Who say that nothing can be done •ml are looking helplessly and hope- 1 ,U- toward tho future. Tom Watson's marailnr' sounds that familiar note In ™ latest Issue In sentences like these: ' -The vengefulness that made the ne- „„ problem the 'black plague' of our civilization was' Inexpiable enmity." ■The blood poison of slavery and negro suffrage will affect the Ration Tor cen turies to come. t Those who do not take It seriously enough are those who confine their out look to the little patches of sunshine In individual relations here and there and who do not consider the magnitude of the racial element In it. They think that such problem as there Is comes from political and other unnecessary agitations: that if we Will let the negro alone he's all right, and If you will let question alone everything will be all right. In communities where the negro population la relatively amall, met enough to supply the demand for labor, and In households where the re lation* between servants and family are wall established there ta a strong disposition, toward a narrow view of the situation. A gentleman of my ac quaintance, and a man of public weight, stoutly Insists that the news papers are making the trouble. He mvs to quote his words exactly, "The fear concerning the negro before my eyes Is that said negro will not turn up In time to edit the gravy department in the morning;'' that "the negro who Is on the nerves of the men of this hour and who Is causing their heads in grav but not with years.' Is the one whom’we seek eagerly, but do not fln<l. af her post In the nursery, nnd conse quently the pious men of this country, cunt rare to their religious scruples, are pined In the uncanny hours of the night to do skirt dance stunts to the lelllcme lamentations of their latest horn." He reduces the problem to three rv simple propositions; First. "How m „et and keep a competent negro woman in the kitchen;" second. "How 10 get and keep a kind and trustworthy negro woman In the nursery;" third. “Hew to get and keep plenty of ne groes In the cotton patch." Now-, based on this point of view, there Is a more or less definite crystal- llzatlon of opinion that the negro's place in the South Is and can be only that of a servant. The theology of the slave holders Is recrudescent among multi- tudes of the quiet, Intelligent people of the South. Governor Vardaman. The existence of these two apparent ly antipodal currents of sentiment— those who take the problem too se riously and those who do not take It seriously enough—really comes to one result—a state of Inertia In the South that discourages attention to the ques tion from any and every point of view. To get those who take the matter too seriously to realize that it Is nothing short of Anglo-Saxon cowardice to lie I down and surrender before any sltua- I tlon without a brave effort to do the best* that Is possible to resolve It, and to get those who take It not seriously enough to wake up to the significance of facts and to the profounder Issues that are Involved and that Involve all Interests in the South, and to get a movement of our best common sens* and the wis dom of the whole people brought to bear upon present conditions. Is the task Providence has cut out for the pa triotic sons ot the South, worthy of real leadership, f have not often commend ed Governor Vardaman, nf Mississippi, but I commend the common sense of the statement recently msde by him with reference to the action of govern ors who** Interest In this matter had been quietly appealed to. “The or ganization of press clubs for the pur pose of discouraging the discussion of the question or the failure of governors to appoint this commission for the same purpose, will have Just about as much effect In keeping the people from talking about it and discussing It ns telling a hungry man that he 1s not hungry would satisfy tho cravings of his stomach. They may cry harmony, but there Is no harmony; they may sav there Is no problem, but still the prob lem Is there; they may say thore Is no race question, but the race question Is -program Ith us. The Christian Science treatment will not suit this case at all. Difference of opinion as to the remedy may be ex pected, but There can be no difference of opinion as to the existing, living, distressing facts In the case. It Is passing strange to me that wise and conservative men In other matters should entertain such peculiar views on thlB particular question as are enter tained by some. A Pertinent "If." Have you ever been at pains to try to think what sort of a situation we would have had In this year of our Lord 1907, -if the negroes had been freed by manumission or by the com promise of the Civil war nlong the line of the alleged proposition of Mr. Lin coln to Mr. Stephens at the Fortress Monroe conference? It will do any man good who wants to know tho South's true policy for the future to think out that question. For mark Tt carefully, the complication of the wholesale suffrage features of the fif teenth amendment Is not at the pres ent time nor likely to be In the future a real complication In the South, The turning of the wheel has brought the Southern people around to face a state of facts not. essentially different from the facts they would have faced—the negro in our midst not generally voter In any state or community and yet a freeman and with our universal pleasure In the fact that he is not a slave. The’relative conditions are not seriously changed In point of numbers or capacity. If the negroes are more numerous nnd more Intelligent, the white people are relatively more nu merous, better educated, richer and more powerful. Is It possible to think that under these circumstances I have suggested the Southern white people would not promptly have constructed a general agreement, a pronounced and harmo nious policy touching those questions of relation which nre now the source of so much Irritation? I challenge the Intelligence of any Southern mnn to deny that here la sensible, logical ap peal to the leaders of tho South to move In the direction of a Southern ' / * A Disquieting Reflection. The romance of American economies is the tale of the South'* marvelous REV. JOHN E. WHITE. wealth of resource and riches easily garnered. In terms fabulous the tre mendous findings of 1909 nre put be- foro the eyes of the world's wealth- seskers. Great Britain, until now the thriftiest nation of the globe, managed last year to dig out her resources sev en million dollars a week, while the erstwhile domain of the Southern Con. federacy gathered up seven million three hundred thousand . every day, Sundays Included; that la to say, that while Orest Rrltaln got Hcher In 1906 at the rate of seven million a week, the South got richer at the rale for the whole year of fifty-one million 'one hundred thnuvund dollars. And this is the plucer mining, the surface ylcld- Ings, Wealth above the hard pan. Let us felicitate ourselves and then sit down and think. Who Is going to reap the deeper lying harvest? Is the na tive Southerner prepared for what is coming? Is the native white boy In a mental and moral shape to meet the competition that will pit the Shrewdest, best-trained brains of the world, the coolest and most resolute characters of the world against him In the strug gle for the wealth resources of the South? Three years ago I crossed the ocean from England with the agent of the English cotton manufacturers. Ho was r keen tnnn. He told me that the South had the practical monopoly of cotton; that the tracts In the Sou dan anti In South Africa where by the aid of the English government they had made costly experiments to achieve rotton producing, were abandoned ms failures; that they had to face the music, and that he was coming over to see about sharing the Southern cotton lands with the Southern people. I have cut clippings from the papers since then to vindicate the fear his conver sation begat In my mind. These agents have bought thousands of acres of our beat cotton lands since then. Is the Southern white boy going to hold tils birthright? That is a question thnt ought to loom up among us. I believe that Its answer Is vitally Involved in the creation of a strong Southern "esprit" and that It hinges greatly upon the wny In which we face the negro problem, which, as we are now at It, keeps the Southern white people In a state of nervousness. The mental and moral agitations of out- people do not allow us to concentrate attention and concern upon our own deficiencies, our undeniable educational unpreparedness. Phillips Brooks said that he who really appreciates and loves his coun try Is the patriot who most Intrepidly rebukes Its faults. The sensitiveness that resents attention to the facts of Southern weakness Is blindness. Faith In the South Is the faith that we are capable of seizing upon the truth about ourselves and capable therefore nf remedying our deficiencies In the face of the conflict our very prosperity will bring upon us. The Question of Immigration. At another prominent point the ne cessity for a program Is belnfp made plain. The recent Immigration cun- fefence In New York discussed the question of Southern Immigration. One of the speakers from the South, who has been engaged In the sffort to turn Immigration In our direction, declared that one of the great difficulties was the Impression abroad that the South was In an Insecure and unsettled con dition with reference to tho treatment of labor. One said that “Marie .Van Vorst’a literature slandering the South had been widely disseminated and the Atlanta temporary raoe riot was sen sationally magnified as much more se rious than It was and as embracing tho whole South." Another speaker submitted affidavits to show that Im migrants brought to (he South had been subjected to slavish hardships nnd cruelties and adds: "The cases cited are absolutely true and are a fair sam ple of the treatment which not only illiterates receive In certain part* of the South, but men of more than or. Unary intelligence are Inveigled Inlq taking these chances and to them the suffering must be keep indeed." Now, the fact that we aro misrepre sented so widely and that our Immi gration movements are suffering on account of It, suggests that It Is a mat ter Involving the South's honor as well as well as her progress, and therefore the South ns a station need* to get Its eye concentrated on the Improve ment of conditions and also to pro- nounce for a more settled nnd less un certain state nf affairs with regard to Inbor. Wc have to remember that In our dealing with the eight million ne groes, the labor population of the South. We are not In a corner, but In the eye of the world. Our ability to command the very much needed Im migration requires that the South should put herself In u definite and less dlaturoed relation'with regard to the labor we have. Tho Story of “Nancy.” The Idea of bringing about the con sensus of Southern patriotism nnd the constitution of a representative com mission to elicit, combine and direct the best public sentiment of <hq South In the Anglo-Snxon's dealing with the negroes Is based on common sense. It proposes on tho large scale the policy thn Individual white man, who gets on with the negroes, pursues with the Individual negro with whom he Is as sociated In a business or domestic re lation. the policy of a square under standing upon which peace and mu tual advantage may result. Hon. Rufus Rhodes, the editor of the Birmingham News, and a citizen nf great power In Alabama, had a cook named "Nancy." She had been tong with his family ami was greatly esteemed. She loved them filso. It was one of those beautiful sit uations so frequently found even yet In the South. "I behove," said Mr. Rhodes, "thpt Nancy would go out In the storm and bare her bosom to death for us and we are every whit as much devoted to her. But a little while ago a thing happened that turned Nancy's head and for a little while her heart. It was something that happened In Washington city. She became unpleas ant, difficult and offensive. Our re lations wera strained and yet for no cause except her own Idea that the white people were against the negroes and their rights. It seemed that we would have to part company. But I made up my mind that I had not done my duty by Nancy until I had made the effort to have an understanding with her. So I caught her nnd showed her Jurt what the facts were and what the conditions were In the South and whnt they had to be and made plain to her with Arm kindness of speech here her nnd our Interests lay. Now I said If you will abide these conditions we will go on as we always havs, hap pily." As Mr. Rhodes told the story his eyes became moist with tears at this point. “And what did Nancy do?" I asked. "Oh. she was crying, and we have been all right ever since." A plain, square Southern white man's policy Is common sente. It would clear , the air. It would promote confidence nnd Improve the situation immensely. It would give reassurance to the lead ers of the negroes thnt In right leader ship the Anglo-Saxon conscience would support them. It would tend to lift Into (he heavens the law of race Integrity for both races. It would. I believe. In In tho end transform dlumotrlc tend encies into pnrallel nnd upward prog ress and make a more favorable at mosphere for the South to achieve tho control of her destiny. t THE COERCION OF BADNESS By REV. JAMES W. LEE, PASTOR TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH A CCOR DIN O to the figures given In my article on this subject last week, the grand total of the cost of crime In the United States for 1906 munted to the stupendous figures of II.))7t.327,605.99. The estimate I* doubt- orreet, because made out by a Railing prison official. Rev. John J. Monroe, and published recently In Hnr- IVeekly. This, In cold figures, is ivlint the coercion of bndness amounts Each person In the United States i held up last year nnd forced by criminal population to part with 21 of his good money, as any one esn see who will divide 91,076,327,905.99 by S7.S92.170, which according to The World Almanac Is the population of the American Union on January I, 1JD7. This method of getting at the ques- Ion makes badness an exceedingly per. anal and practical subject. The population of Atlanta In 1900 a* 99,972. It Is now certainly 100,000. This multiplied by $12.24 shows our part of the annual tax for crime to be ll.22t.ooo. As a city we may be above the average and perhaps do not have to pay that much for our own crimi nals. i have not the figures and do not know. But without any doubt crime Is the costliest Item of our expense nc- ■>um. It is well known that old, experi enced criminals are made out of young rrimlnnls. And It la well known that while character Is still In the making, we can do well nigh everything to bring out It* latent powers—for the environ ment around each child becomes the content of its life In the course of Its Mowing to manhood. The child by himself and within himself Is nothing but a palpitating unit of potentiality. HI* growing up may be described as a of Internalizing his world or his environment. His character when n Is nothing more than his outside environment become personal and act ive and throbbing on the inside. In the beginning of a child’s life his self Is °ne possibility and the world around it '* another. The process of Interaction b"gln*, the process of commerce be tween the Inside self and the outside environment. When the prdeeas' ends and the character Is formed, we be- bold the child’s world concentrated, ep itomized and looking at us through the eve* of a human being. If the world ’ h " ' blld faced nnd traded with nnd breathed was bad, the world that pul- 'ate* In the formed character will he bad. An ox | s a palpitating pile of c " rn . nnd a pile of com Is a diffused, “n-1 gnnlzed, potential ox. The ocean: ""table Is that part of the vyhale not Converted Into fish. *' I* the solemn duty of society, therefore, never to let a bad, vicious environment get Itself entrenched and bei'-me self-conscious, self-determtiv n * and self-active Inside the person- Thomas J. Barnardo gathered up from the streets of English cities 60,000 waif children In the course of forty years and trained them In the Barnardo homes, and sent them forth to make their way .In the world. It took one million dollars a year to support hts homes, but It was the best nnd most economical Investment mad# by the people of Oreat Britain, for, according to the report of tho trustees year be fore last, only two per cent of the 80,- 000 turned out badly. In the light of the reported facts about the Barnardo homes Luther Burbank's declaration does not seem so extreme. The truth is. society Is just now waking up to the recognition of the fact that the ac quired characters of parents are not transmitted to their offspring. Every child Is absoluely n fresh beginning, because every child Is a spirit mail# it; the Image of God. Every crow hatched out of the egg Inherits the entire fund of nil the crow traits, original and ac quired. from the beginning of the ca reer of that blark bird on earth. Each netv crow Is but the repetition of the old crow species. But a human being Is a self-conscious, self-determlnlng. self-active spirit, and because of this the content of his mature life Is not made over to hlm by nature, but Is ac quired by him from the elements In his environment, by the use of his pow ers as a person. The power of society over unformed childhood therefore la great. As young criminals come out of those homes where family training Is neglected. It Is the duty of society to take these as they reveal their bent toward lives of crime and put them In different environing conditions, and they can nearly all be reformed. There were, by the United States census of 1900, 92.392 prisoners In the United States. We will say that at the present time there are *6,000. Di vide the cost of crime. Il,0<6,927,605.99, by this nnd tie have 112,082.67. which Is ■I citadel of Its living members, " * can keep a why from the dread nsterlal dynamite as long as If is Iso- «tctl and labeled with the danger elgn, ""When dynamite puts on pants nnd 'siitj about, we can never tell when vc are standing In the presence of It. iii'te was enough .breathing fury In 'It n-sanin of President McKinley to ww up an t |, e capital* of the world. ;> 2 '”*o** was once an Innocent, harm- baby. A bad environment took l-ersonal form In hint. It would have well for all mankind had he been [„ " n something besides nltro-glyeer- , " hen he wag growing up. ‘•uiher Burbank said to me that '-"-nq plant* and the. lower animals i rythlng is due to heredity and noth- , '" environment, but that among hu- , * n 'wing* everything Is due to en rollment and nothing to heredity. the cost of each criminal In the Union to society. That Is each criminal cost* the whole country upon an average of $12,862.67 a year, and each citl*en of the Union Is required to pay 912.24 tax for crime. Now, let us consider some figures and facts dealing with a different phase of the subject. . On Tuesday of this week I made a visit to the Fulton County Industrial harm. The entire cost of construction and maintenance of the farm for five years, including land nnd buildings. Is 970,409.95. The property I* worth perhaps three times * V „.. it n.n * ti-lion tho a* much today as It was when the county bought It. The land then was poor and unproductive. After five years of careful culture and enrichment It looks like a garden. I doubt whether there Is another place In the neighbor hood (ft Atlanta that presents such an appearance of thrift and beauty. It Is simply amailng to consider the trans formation of an old dilapidated patch of ground Into nn attractive estate. The Institution was opened In 1902. Dur ing the first year 966 worth of farm products were sold; the second year, 9300 worth; the third year. 9S0fl worth; the fourth year. 91,600 worth, and last year. 1906, $2,000 worth were sold. This present year the Institution will make enough to feed all the hogs, cows, mules, chickens, and pay the entire grocery bill for the sixty-four penpls on the plantation. It cost In 1906, out- side of what was grown on the estate, 91.60 a day to feed all the mouths, animal and human, out there. Sixty- four people at 91.50 a day Is not quite 2 1-2 cents for each person. The coun ty allows the officer who keep* the Fulton county Jail 971-2 cents a day for food to each prisoner. The little negroes I referred to last week, rang ing In ages from 9 to 15 years, penned up In the Jail cost the county 3. 1-2 cents each Just for what they eat. The fifty-one boys out on the Fulton County Industrial Farm cost the county. In 1909, not quite 2 t-2c each per day for what they ate. and this year they will feed themselves, without any cost to the county. Then there is this differ ence further to consider between the boys on the farm and the boys In the Jail. From the latter are to come oar future burglar* and cut-throats unil rapist*; from perhap* 9S per cent of the former will come good blacksmiths, farmers, carpenter*, coolut, brlckma*on* and useful citizens. The Investment In the Fulton County Industrial Farm I* the most far sighted. rational and Christian the peo ple of this community have ever mHde. The emrloymints of the boys on the Industrie! farm are: Gardening, tc. sing feed for stock, raising cant u..d making syrup, can ning vccetr.tl , putting cane bottoms In chairs. n.enJIng shoe*, milking cows and caring for the milk and butter, making and mending clothes, doing carpenter work, painting, blacksmith work, cement work, laundering, cook ing and studying three hours a day the most essential elements of an English education. Including some military training, baseball and house game*. On Sundays they have religious ex ercises, reading, refreshments and some physical recreation. In his report the superintendent says that ninety-three boys have been ad mitted to the Institution and forty havo been sent away to make their way In the world. < Professor T. A. E. Means I have known a long time. I knew him to be one of the best teacher* In Georgia, but 1 never dreamed until my visit to the farm that he was not only a teach er, but a preacher, an expert agricul turist and a missionary, all In one practical inan nf head and heart anti hand. He Is the prophet, priest nnd king of the Industrial farm, lie takes deep Interest In the moral and spiritual and Intellectual welfare of every one .if the boys under his care. His word Is law, but It Is humane and kindly and hope-Inspiring. Tho youngster who put* the environment of that fnrm, school, workshop, dairy and church, united In one harmonious whole, to pulsating In the interior confines nf his life will make' a useful member if society. And every boy who goes there will be forced to Incorporate thts outfit for Industry nnd study, lying between green plain nnd blue sky. Into hln soul In the nature nf things, he must hold commerce with his surroundings, and of law. It would cost something to build them ahd equip them at the out set. but the returns in money even would soon more than cover the coet, while nt the earn# time raising con stantly the moral level nf our social life. The next step we need to take In Fulton county Is to buy about as much land ns we have for white Dbye, and upen It establish Just such nn Institu tion for colored boys. The two Insti tutions could be controlled by the same there Is nothing out there for heart and I administration. Professor Means could spirit nnd Intelligence to trade with hut what la sane and fair and truthful nnd good. Just a few years during the formative period of young life on that stretch of field and discipline will he enough to adjust It parallel with the lines of law nnd order. It would be a good thing during the coming session of the legislature to have all the mem bers meet out there for a barbecue or watermelon cutting or eome other ru ral function. Just to give them the opportunity of seeing what can ho dona with 11* acres of run-down-nt-the-he«l land and a few Georgia boy* In five years. It would open their eye# and thrill their hearts anil send each nn* away dejermlned to establish Just such a paradise: or rather garden of oppor tunity and hope, in hi* own county. Such nn Institution In ever}- county ot the etate would change the character i our civilization In twenty year*. Crlm Inals would cease to be and breathe and fatten among ua. Such Instlt.t- tlona would serve as dykes to keep the current of human life within the banks •**e****e*****s**t*e*et*e«e*e**e**eee**e***ei Why Men Do Not Marry Beauties BY DOROTHY DIX. A nal-fexamlner.) his senses 'because he happens to be NEWSPAPER dispatch from London states that during the present season beauties are out, and- that the homely woman Is having her innings In society. This Is too good to be true. There will never be a time when she of the peaches and cream complexion, the vio let eyes, the golden hair and willowy figure will have to take a back seat In mixed company. Nor will there ever dawn a day w hen ladles who have had the misfortune to be built, on the archi tectural lines nf a tub or a beanpole, and topped off with a sallow skin and hay-colored hair, will need a bodyguard to keep off their admirers. Men will always worship beauty. They will like to be seen about with women who look like living pictures; they will sit up by the hour and descant upon their Ideal of feminine charm, and lead you to believe that no woman who did not have Venus best a block could.lnterest them. But— When they come to marry, ninety- nine times out of a hundred, they pick nut for a wife some woman who hasn't the slightest pretense to prettlnees, and never claimed to have. In proof where of, take a bird’s-eye view of the mar ried ladle* of your acquaintance, many of whom risk shattering the looking glass every time they take a peek Into It. This Inconsistency of man—that he should publicly put beauty above all other qualities In a woman, and then turn It down—has been variously ex plained. One Ingenious theory Is that beauty Is In the eye nt the beholder. Another Is that when a man Is in love he I* so hypnotized that he believes a pug nose to lie Grecian, a catfish mouth be a Cupid's bow, a featherbed fig ure to be svelte and graceful. Fiddle- ticks! A "••n't taka !**■*• of enamored of a girl. If she's ugly, he sees her physical defects as well as ever, but he also perceives that she hae other charms that more than atone for them, and he takes what sporting men call "the best bet." Certainly It is nn undeniable tact that beauties do not make the best matches. They have more beaux whose attentions mean nothing than the plain girl has, but, they havo fewer beaux who mean business. The real elucidation of this mystery la very simple. Old Dame Nature is not such a partial Jade as wc give her credit for being. When she puta a lot of good material on the outside of a girl's head, she's mighty apt to skimp on the gray matter Inside nf It. Thus only once In a blue moon do you find a beautiful woman who la anything more than a pretty doll. And grown-up men, while they may like to admire the pret ty plaything for a little while, don't car* to play dolls long at a time. They get tired. Again. It Is Inevitable that a beauty should be spoiled. From her cradle up she hae been petted and flattered and given up to. She has had the best of everything because she looked so cun ning when she was dressed up. All of this has borne fruit in making her a monster of selfishness. Now, selfishness is a quality on which man has taken out n patent right. If there Is anybody going to be fluttered, hfc wants to be the one to receive the bouquets. If anybody In the family baa got to give up. he Is firmly convinced that woman enjoy# the beautiful privi lege of self-sacrifice, and thnt he has no right to Interfere with her pleas ures. Hence, while the beauty Kltrnrt* him by her face, she repulse* him by her disposition. Then, too, marrying a beauty Is such an expensive luxury that nobody but elderly millionaire ) can afford to In dulge In It—a condition amply Illus trated In ever) community. A nun woman. with his way to make In the world naturally expects his wife to help him, but he wouldn't have nerve to Invite a plexlon out over the kitchen range or bend her regal form over patching hie trousers. Therefore, his attitude to ward her Is that of the poor In a bric- a-brac shop—he admires, but with lit tle or no desire to possess a thing that would be Incongruous with hla other belongings, and the Jiumble cottage or flat to which he would have to take It. On the other hand, the woman Who knows that her fare Is plain and that she must attract by other qualities than bodily pulchritude, devotes herself .to cultivating the amenities of life. Bhe doesn’t dare to be ugly and stupid, too, and she studies to make herself enter taining. She doesn't expect to be admired anil she Is so humbly grateful to every man who shows her any attention that she Is perfectly witling to burn Incense be fore him. Hard knocks—for the home ly woman gsts hatted about a good deal by life—teaches her sympathy and un derstanding. so that Instead of being a queen on a throne to be worshipped, she I* a man's best friend and com rade. ready to pity him when things go wrong and rejoice with him when they go right, and at all times to enter Into hi* hopes and plans and fears. Above all, the woman who must charm with her wit Instead of her beauty learns the use of tact In dealing with men. and when a woman hae that she can afford to snap her fingers nt all the thirty-nine point* ot the Ideul female face ami figure. Let a woman know how to rub the fur the right way, so to speak, and have a nimble tongue, and It doesn't matter whether she has green eyes and purple hair or not. Give such a woman ten minute*' start with a man and ahe can outrun all the beau ties in creation. For there, is no woman on earth so fascinating as the ugly woman who Is fascinating. Bhe may not attract a man at first, but when »lie get* him ■he holds him—at least long enough to get to the altar. Which explains the phenomenon of the homely married manage, with a sufficient number of guides and teachers and nasistnnta, one thousand hoys as easily as he now dl« reels the education nnd reformation nt fifty. It would perhaps be possible to ect a farm of 100 or more acres ad joining the one we now own. If the county authorities hnd no other motive than that of making money It would pay them to go Into the Industrial farm business, aultkiently at least to furnish a place to work and reform for all boya that are born In the communl. ty with more vigor and activity than will power. There Will be a hundred white boy# In school nnd serving an apprenticeship under Professor Means by the end of this year. The new dormitory, with room for fifty, will be completed by the close of 1907. The same provision could be made for negro boya on an adjoining farm. It will pay ua from a financial point of view. work, talking to himself and saying substantially: 'Oone are the days when my heart was young nnd gay. v jounK mm *>«*.»» Gone are my friend* from the cotton field* away, Cone from thl* earth to a hotter land I know. I hear their gentle voice* calling, 'Old Black Joe.’ "I'm coming, I'm coming. For my head Is bending low. I hear those gentle voices calling, ‘Old Black Joe.'" nn 91<MI9 as 11Ills nuitii (JIJIIU 'll view- nee that happens to be the one from which we are accustomed to measure things. Such nn Institution would, in twenty years, actually bring back to the coun ty more money than It would cost, while It. would at the same time be turning out useful wage earners and citizens Instead of criminals. The entire cost to far of the Fulton County Industrial Farm, Including land, construction of building* nnd maintenance of superintendent, teach ers, helpers and ninety-odd boy* for five year*, ha* been 970,408.95 We have already seen that the average coet of each criminal In the United States Is 912,666.67 a year. It la clear, there fore, that *lx ffrst-clsss criminal* have cost th* people of Fulton county more money In one wear than ninety boya and men enough to guard them, guide them and teach them have cost them In five years. Then why not secure’a farm at once for young negro boys? To pen little fellow* up In the Fulton county Jell month by month Is a pro cedure sufficiently distant from every feeling of humanity and refinement, not to say Christianity, to keep every per son who thinks of It awake each night while It lasts. It la Inhuman; It Is not creditable to pngnns; it la a deep, black, scandalous disgrace to all of us. If we keep quiet am] passive and placid and let It continue, when we see a feasible and rational nay to slop It, then the infamy of It becomes our per manent possession. But we will not stand It. Our people are always ready to right a wrong when they come up agalnet It. If anyone wants to face the wrong, let him go down to the Fulton county Jail and 109k through Iron bars at those poor little negro boys, and then If he wants to know how to right auch a wrong, let him go to the Fulton county Industrial farm and there see how fifty boy* are being taught to make men of themeelvee. Those of us who were brought up on plantation* with negroes can never learn to hate them. The relation* of negroes and their white masters be fore the war were those, of mutual sympathy and good will. Some of the most attractive anJ saintly and beautiful characters who have ever lived In the world grew up among the negroes In tbe South under the Institution of slavery. From among those old Inegro saints, loving their cabins, their kinsfolk and the scenes In the midst of which they grew up, ar tists have found about the only types ot character among us who have any promise of living In the popular songs of the people. There Is a charm and a winsomenesa about the character of “Old Black Joe” that take* hold of the Imagination completely. Stephen Collins Foster has given ds * portrait without exaggeration. There he sits, back yonder In tile day* before 1660, In front of hi* cabin, under (be shade of a peach tree, too old to "Thl* old Suwanee negro hae gone Into all the world. He has been Ideal ized and made Immortal In the most popular sung, perhaps, ever written In this country. The great singer* always Itrlke chords In the common heart, not only In New York, but al»o In St. Pe tersburg nnd Vienna nnd Paris and London, when they respond to encores from the great audience* with 'OH Folks at Home.’ It la w-ell worth con sidering. Just why others havo been passed by—revolutionary heroes, early settlers, lonely Indians, hunters on the plains, exiles of Erin, nnd this good, humble, simple, pure-henrtod. old H11- wapee negro selected to live forever In America's most universal nnd popular song." It show* the kind of human being the negro can become In nn environment of kindness and affection. '"Old Black Joe* grew up nnd grew old at home, loving 111* mnster and his missus, holding In the evening of his life their children or their grandchil dren upon his knee, giving them quaint and Interesting Information about Br’er Rabbit and Br'er Fox. One who never knew him can never know what a lovely and tender-1 i--'i 11, ,1 ,,M man he wa*. Such a specimen of generous, fragrant, responsive, confiding and sim ple manhood never could have been produced In the midst of a cruel and hard and harsh environment. Among many other types which have been given Immortality In music, there Is the negro brought up on a plantation In the far South. He wa* sold to a master In another etate. Still, with change of master and change of location, he re tains his simplicity of character, his love for the old place and the old peo ple. He has wandered far, hut ha* never left the native and genuine ami beautiful Instincts of the human soul. .Now in hi* old age he gives himself up to memories of the past. He Is thinking of the old plantation of his younger days, and to himself he medi tates and says: 'All 'round the little farm I wandered, when I was young. Den many happy days I squandered, many de songa I sung. When I was playing with my brudder, happy was I, Oh take me to my kln<} old mudder, dere let me live and die. All de world am sad and dreary, ebry- where I roam, Oh, darkles, how my heart grows wea ry. far from the old folks at home.' Professor Huxley was at dinner on# evening with a company of Engli-h gentlemen In London, when the sub- , ect of conversation was tho French people. The general drift of opinion was In the direction of Bismarck's re mark that the French were a cross between the tiger and the monkey. When they were not grinning they were ready to devour, "ltut." said Huxley, "we must remember that France has Pasteur.” So It Is our duty to remember that any race who numbers among Its people such admirable characters as Hooker T. Washington. Rev. E. It Car ter, of the Baptist church, and Rev. Proctor, of the Congregational church, nnd thousands of others scattered over the Southern states, Is entitled to re spect. It will not do to let the bad negroes estrange ua from the good ones. Most of u* have known white folks who were not altogether angelic and saintly. There are occasionally to be found streaks of meanness even among mem bers of the proud Anglo-Saxon race. Let It I.■ ■ left for th"-.. among us who nre without tin to coal stones at tho negroes. mam