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6 Y HOME Women on the Farm Conducted By Mrs. IV. H. Felton. + CorrwspontJence on homo topics or ♦ 4 subjects of oar cd al Interest to wo- ♦ + men to Invited. Inquiries or letters ♦ 4 should bo brief and dearly written + * la Ink on one aldo of the sheet. ♦ 4 Write direct to Mra W. H. Feb ♦ : ton. Editor Home Department Semi- ♦ Weekly Journal Cartersville. Go. ♦ 4 Ma inquiries answered by mall ♦ iW * O — Rev. Thomae A. Hoyt. When Dr. Felton read the open letter of Rev. Thomas A. Hoyt, copied from the Nashville American into a Georgia paper, be remarked: "I am repaid for saving Tom Hoyts life many times over. I did good work when I rescued him from death tn the Oconee river, when we were both grammar school boys In Athens. Tom wee sinking for the last time when I got hold of him and brought him to the bank. We were all in swimming, and Tom was almost done for that day. Dr. Nathan Hoyt, one of the best preachers and finest citizens in his day, came to me and thanked me for hto son's rescue from death with all his noble heart, but this letter of Tom's pays the debt tn full. If there ever was any obligation for rescu ing the dear boy. who was as bright as • shining new dollar when he was at school and In college.” f Here's a part of the letter: "The dispute between the north and the south to not settled, and will not be settled while the negro remains. The south cannot treat the negro as the north demands, and the north will not try to ', learn the reason. The north expects of the white race of the south what is impossi ble to grant. The south naturally resents this dicta .-on from people at a distance, who are ignorant of the facts. "The contest Is as irreconcilable as It was in former days. Then the issue was slavery, now It is equality—social and po litical. Emancipation was forced by a bloody war. The negro became the ward of the nation.' The white people of the south were placed under the ban as 'reb els.* and the struggle began, still contin ues, and will last as long as the nation exists in its present form. “All the dreams and fancies of peace and harmony between the two sections - have been rudely shattered by one act of President Roosevelt. This Is its slgnifi • canee: It has broken the truce of God.' and sounded the signal of civil strife. I would not judge him harshly. I think he acted from impulse. I am told that he • deeply regrets it: still the baleful effects . remain. It gratified the hatred of north ern fanatics: it shocked the sensibilities of the southern people, and it filled mill i iong of negroes with vain longings for an impossible equality. The end .s not yet.” He says further: "The southern people have an invincible prejudice against social equality with the negro. Is there a reason for this preju dice? It would become the publicists and philosophers of the north to seek this reason. Does it ever occur to them that millions of intelligent and virtuous peo - pie. covering one-third of the area of the country, would not cherish such a preju dice unless there was some good reason for it? There is a good reason. It is that such relations between the races would lead to intermarriage, miscegenation and the production of a hybrid race. Inferior to the whites mentally, and to the blacks physically. Such an admixture would mean the degradation and ultimate ex • Unction of the Anglo-Saxon in the south. » ■ “This to the good and sufficient reason for the universal prejudice in the south against social equality with the negro. “Thus fortified it is no longer mere prejudice, but becomes a sacred senti ment. a firm conviction, an inviolable in stinct. a fixed habit of nature. These di vinely imifianted motives are arrayed as armed sentries at the gates to guard the sanctity of home, the purity of blood, the just pride of the superior race. Such hal lowed feelings, shared by a whole people, • cannot be violated with impunity. They should be respected and especially by the chief magistrate. They were respected by President McKinley and. for the most part, by hto predecessors." Negro Loses Equal Rights Suit. • New Tork Journal. Nov. 23. "LANCASTER. Penn.. Nov. 22.—Arthur Seymour, negro, brought suit here today against Captain John B. Peoples, manager of the roof garden here of F. W. Wool worth. of New Tork. on the charge of re fusing to sell him and a companion re freshments. The defense was that Sey mour's order was refused by a waitress, without the knowledge of the manager. Captain Peoples was acquitted by the jury and the costs put on Seymour.** . ' The Pennsylvania politicians imported numbers of Delaware negroes to vote in the late state election, and the country is . beginning to understand the negro prob lem a little better tn that latitude. Fanaticism against elavely Is one thing * but enthusiasm for social equality is to quite another thing. The press to be ginning to say some very suggestive things on the subject. The Philadelphia Record, for example, quoted on Thursday last Lincoln's state ment that “there is a physical difference between the two races which, in my judg ment. will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of per fect equality.” and went on to say: "Senator Culberson, we think, is mis taken tn supposing that the problem of social equality to sectional. The experi ment of negro suffrage has had a strong . ly educational influence In the nqythern states. Social equality to talked of in the . north by well meaning philanthropists, who are very far from practicing what they preach, but it does not exist. The political necessity which keeps the south ern states solid wherever the negroes hold a balance of power to sure to assert itself in the north in case of a negro migration northward. Probably at this time upon a fair vote tn Pennsylvania there is a division of parties so nearly equal that the casting of the solid negro vote one way or the other would determine the re sult. As the negro vote has always been cast for the republican party, it has be come a dangerous element in the Key stone state. What education the negroes have attained does not prevail to divide B I s *h e joy of the household, for without * /S&i gffi w7 Wk it no happiness can be complete. How Sb Cwl kUh ® SI. 6Wf>ct the picture of mother and babe, ■M 33w s 3 angels smile at and commend the * s B <•**** F.J thoughts and aspirations of the mother ■ ■ oHS SO <3 bending over the cradle. The ordeal through SE which the expectant mother must pass, how- W xMf E ever, is so full of danger and suffering that she looks forward to the hour when she shall feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and fear. Every woman should know that the danger, pain and horror of child-birth can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother’s Friend, a scientific liniment for external use only, which toughens and renders , pliable all the parts, and k■ na assists nature in its sublime | work. Bv its aid thousands Pg®® p V S of women have passed this gWi SL? $ £ EL ifg y) great crisis in perfect safety W ■ ■ and without pain. Sold at |x.oo per Bk B Mfr bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless kL ’T"/ gj Eo* value to all women sent free. Address » gy* sFrSs BKADHELD REGULATOR OO„ Atlanta. Oa. wB Hr ta u? SBiBXE E3f them as white men divide upon questions of public policy. At the late election in this city the bulk of the negro voters were qualified for the suffrage by the purchase for them of poll tax receipts. Many of them were also paid for their votes, and actively employed as repeat ers in debauching the suffrage which has been mistakenly placed in their hands. "The first step toward a solution of the negro problem should be the withdrawal of the right of suffrage by constitutional amendment. Then, as Senator Culberson suggests, Instead of vain and vapid clam or for a social equality which nature for bids, let us have education, forbearance, moral training, just treatment, opportu nities for labor, social separation, and national tranquility.* ’* “Put yourself tn the place,'' is very good advice, and fits in remarkably well when the northern people have proper ex perience of the negro question. Bridal Superstitions. Relative merits of the various months with regard to matrimony are set forth in the rhyme, which runs: "Marry when the year Is new. Always loving, kind and true; When February birds do mate You may wed, nor dread your fate. If you wed when March winds blow, Joy and sorrow both you'll know. Marry in April when you can, Joy for maiden and for man; Marry in the month of May, You will surely rue the day; Marry when June roses blow. Over land and sea you’ll go. They who in July do wed, Must labor always for their bread. Whoever wed in August be, Many a chance are sure to see. Marry in September's shine, Your living will be rich and fine. If in October you do marry, Love will come, but riches tarry; If you wed in bleak November, Only joy will come, remember; When Decembers' snows fall fast Marry, and true love will last.” Os the days in the week Wednesday is the best and Saturday the worst on which to get married. The old rhyme runs: ••Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health. Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all.** If we are to believe superstition, a bride's happiness depends not a little on what she.wears: "Something old and something new; Something borrowed and something blue,” is invariably regarded by brides. Accord ing to an old rhyme: "Married in white. You have chosen all right. Married in gray. You will go far away. Married in black. You will wish yourself back. Married in red. You had better be dead. Married in green. Ashamed to be seen. Married in blue. You’ll always be true. Married in pearl. You’ll live In a whirl. Married in yellow, Ashamed of the fellow. Married in brown. You’ll live out of town. Married in pink. Your spirit will sink.” Exchange. Stormy Times in Old Greece Over the Gospel. It would seem that fanaticism, like the smallpox, will break out in strange lo calities and under perplexing conditions. An immense mob of 30.000 persons con gregated in the city of Athens, Greece, on November 21 and passed resolutions call ing on the holy synod to excommunicate any person who translated the gospels into modem Greek, as now spoken. Mili tary and marines, patrolled the locality. In frequent collisions between the mili tary and the mob seven persons were killed, 30 dangerously wounded and many more less severely hurt. Armed men are constantly arriving and bloodthirsty peo ple are exciting the rioters. At this distance from the scene of ac tion it looks like “Much Ado About Noth ing.” Why such opposition exists against translating old Greek into modem Greek to not explained in our account of the riot in Athens. It has been the general contention of all Bible lovers that the gospel should be printed in all languages and distributed among all peoples. If uneducated Greeks cannot read the gospels In the ancient tongue it would seem good common sense to print the Holy Book in a language readily understood by those who are eager to read it. Anyhow, it seems a poor thing to fight about and the spirit of the gospels would forbid murder and bloodshed on first prin ciples. It is evident that fanaticism has got in to those modem Greeks in a very disas trous way for their own good and na tional progress. Whenever religion is used to kill and destroy, then the spirit has left the shell. Our latest offer, the Youth’s Compan ion and the Semi-Weekly Journal both one year for only >2.50. "The few have no right to the luxuries of life while the many are denied its ne cessities,” says Elisabeth Cady Stanton. There to a good deal of truth and wisdom in this, but in view of the fact that the system has been in vogue since the be ginning of time, we don't see just what we are going to do about it. Mme. Nordlca has put in a claim for M,000,000 against the government Nor dlca evidently shares noqe of Uncle An dy Carnegie's aversion to dying rich. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1901. Press of the Country H ■* - *• Views the Schley Verdict The Southern Press. People Will Reserve the Verdict. New Orleans Times-Democrat. The dual report of the Schley Court of In quiry will be read with mingled feelings of Indignation and Joy wherever the flag of this nation Is respected and loved. The persecutors of Rear Admiral Bchley have gained a nominal and temporary victory. The American people, who have made the hero of Santiago's cause their own, have won an actual and enduring triumph. Here then is presented the juxtaposition of standards that have always divided, and will everlastingly divide, the prurient crltlo from the high minded and liberal judge. Between such men there Is a gulf aa wide as space and as deep as the Bay of Portugal. The American people will reverse the unrea sonable verdict of this Irrational majority. From the judgment of Rear Admiral Benham and Rear Admiral Ramsay, the case of one of the flnest spirits that ever ruled the seas against one of the most formidable naval cabals that ever disgraced a nation, will bo appealed to a higher tribunal. To the con gress of the United States the controversy will now be taken, and In that body which responds most surely to the people's voice the fame of Winfield Scott Schley will for all time be made secure. Dewey’s Opinion Outweighs All. Macon Telegraph. Historian Maclay. an obscure person on the pay roll in the naval department as a laborer, charged In his book that Admiral Schley had proven himself In the naval battle at San tiago to be “a caitiff and a coward.” Webster defines “caitiff” as “one in whose character meanness and wickedness meet.” When It transpired that Admiral Sampson had read Maclay's proof, and had endorsed the book written to become a text book In the naval academy. Admiral Schley demanded a court of Inquiry. It will be seen that neither the majority nor the minority of the court sustained this charge. The endorsement of Dewey Is worth more than the cumulative testimony from Long down the line to the ward room gossips. Dewey and Schley are the only Americans alive or dead who have conducted a campaign and fought a battle with modern battleships and appliances. Dewey brought to bear on the Schley case actual experience. The other two theoretical knowledge. We have not heard the last of this thing. Against Admiral Schley. Savannah Press. The finding of the Schley Inquiry was not what was expected. It was believed by those who read the evidence that a verdict criticis ing Admiral Schley’s course during the block ade of Santiago and the retrograde movement to Clenfuegos might be possible. The evidence on these points was conflicting and the way was open for a finding adverse to him. It did not seem possible, however,- that Admiral Schley could be censured by the court for his loop of the Brooklyn or for his conduct during the battle of Santiago. The country was not prepared for what has been given out by the court of Inquiry. Possi bly there Is something to criticize in his conduct preceding the battle of Santiago, but Admired Dewey gives him the benefit of the doubt and praises him throughout. This will be the verdict of the country. There is talk of congressional investigation. As a rule such inquiry should be kept out of politics, but if congress Is convinced that the prejudices of the navy department have been too strong for Schley and Dewey it will not hesitate to take this matter In Its own hands and sift it to the bottom. Congress Should Investigate. Charleston News and Courier. Dewey's verdict Is the verdict of the Amer ican people, and the appeal must be made and will be made from the decision of the court through congress to the people. The case will not be settled until it Is settled right, and It will not be settled right until the combina tions which have been made to control the naval establishment of our country In certain Interests have been utterly overthrown. Congress ought to provide for a committee of investigation. and its work should be push ed without fear or affection. In justice to Schley, who is discredited In the report of a majority of ths court, and for the sake of As the years roll on It becomes more ap parent that Georgia must have a more re liable class of farm laborers than at pres ent. Otherwise the farm lands will depre ciate In value and pass Into the hands of mortgage and loan companies, because a living and taxes cannot be made from the soil under existing conditions. It would surprise many students of po litical economy to know how near we have approached to this unhappy condition. Something must be done to Induce farm labor to come in, and whether It will be Chinese, negro or foreign white labor is not half so important as to get enough labor to cultivate the soil for its present owners. The stalwart negro labor has gone to the railroads, the mines and rough labor in manufactories. Cotton picking and cotton hoeing is largely dependent on negro women and negro children. White farmers seem obliged to keep their own children in farm labor the best part of the year to be able to pay taxes and buy food and clothing. Much of the non-attendance In school grows out of this unhappy condi tion, because the question of food and clothes precedes that of book education by reason of necessity. A great many people have given up farm work because country schtfcils are next to nothing and whenever they could get a job in town and send their chil dren to school they preferred to do it, as the conditions are disheartening when Mr. Jenkins’ Trespasser: A Ghost Story. BY MAXIE DUNBAR. Having reached my majority in the win ter of 1882, I determined to run a farm of my own. Thinking: thereby to show off to advantage my great wisdom at that age. Having no means, I gladly accepted a home offered me by Mrs. Brown, a widow of mjf acquaintance. I "rented" her farm and boarded with her family, which con sisted of herself, her little son and maiden sister. , The last named, Miss Jenny Dale, was a jolly good companion for all the boys. She could mount a horse and race with the swiftest riders, usually rounding up far in the lead; and although her wavy locks were white with the frost of sixty winters, she led the dances of all the country round about. None were so light of foot as she or so merry of heart. Just the opposite was her gentle sister, Margie. While Miss Jenny entertained, Mrs. Brown soothed, and every one loved her. I readily made friends with them both and when spring opened I was under good headway with my farm, with every youth ful ambition fully gratified. Situated out of my own neighborhood, I was no longer “Charlie” or “Mr. Charlie,” bu\ “Mr. Jenkins.” The negroes called me “Boss” or “Cap’n," and I heard it spoken casually that I was a good farmer. Wheth er this gave me an exalted opinion of my self I will leave others to judge, as for me I thought what Mr. Jenkins knew was enough. One thing annoyed me. Two negro boys seventeen or eighteen years of age. work ing on an adjoining place, made a custom of passing through the plantation every night enroute to their father’s home. In stead of keeping the road they made the way shorter by crossing my finest field of cotton, thereby leaving sundry tracks athwart my nicely plowed furrows. I sought diligently for a remedy, and finally decided to give them a scare. I had ’possum hunted a great deal with the negroes that winter and had listened attentively to their tales of the different "hants" that held full sway in their re spective dens. There was a black one in the "Hurricane Woods” that invariably put the dogs to flight. White ones could be seen near the old gravevard and such the navy, the Investigation must bo contin ued under condltfofis and by a tribunal beyond the reach of official and political influences. A Victory for Schley. Chattanooga News. The fact that Admiral Dewey upholds Ad miral Schley will be considered a victory for Schley all over the world. It is Dewey and Schley against Ramsay and Benham, and the people understand that the hero of Manila bay and the hero of Santiago are the greatest sea fighters known to this generation. As a friend to Admiral Schely The News is satisfied with the verdict. Hurrah for Dewey! Augusta Chronicle. Technically some of these counts In the complaints against Schley may be true, and it as the consequence of any one of them the Spaniards had escaped or one of our own warships had been lost, there might be excuse for stressing these rival points. But tn the light of the glorious record of our great naval victory, the bringing of these uetty charges against the hero of that marvellous sea bat tle, Is like charging that Napoleon didn't have his shoes polished fit for full dress in spection at the battle of Jena; that Wellington didn’t carry his sword at the right angle in the battle of Waterloo; that Oliver H. Perry had his necktie crooked In the battle of Lake Erie: that Stonewall Jackson didn't ride ac cording to West Point requirements in the battle of Sharpsburg; that General Lee didn't have his horse curried in the battle of Chan cellorsvllle; that George Washington had a hole In his stocking at the battle of lork town, or that Grant didn’t march bls army as rapidly as he ought at Appomattox. In splendid contrast with the petty findings of the majority of the court Is the report of Admiral Dewey. The hero of Manila Bay has honored himself In giving due honor to the hero of Santiago. The heroes of the two great victories of the Spanish-American war, the first and the last, Dewey and Schley, have had their names forever linked In grateful re membrance by this court of inquiry. Nothing Has Been Decided. Columbia (S. C.) State. The result Is to leave the issue just as It was; nothing Is settled, though technically the finding Is adverse to Schley. It will never be possible to induce the Schley partisans to ac cept the deliverance of two virtually unknown naval officers when Schley is vindicated by the declaration of Admiral George Dewey, the most famous naval officer living. The finding itself is hardly more than a summary of the reasons for the diverse views which the critics and admirers of Schley have held. From the same facts and circumstances It Is always certain that different minds will draw different conclusions. It is to be regretted that the decision is not decisive. It will simply serve to conform individual opinions already formed and to strengthen Individual prejudices already ex pressed. We may expect a continuation of the sickening and harmful discussion ttiat has raged for about three years: a congressional Investigation Is not Improbable and there is no telling what else. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tha •A-l?- of Only two-thirds of the area of the lot can be covered In Stockholm, except on street corners, where three-fourths is allowed. The remainder of the lot must be reserved for courts, for light and ventilation. All chimney flues must be twelve or fifteen inches, and must be swept once a month from October to April by official chimney sweepers. A Chicago woman has been divorced three times from the same husband. Has Chicago ever produced a finer instance of constancy than this?—Mail and Express. What Can Be Done About Farm Labor? BY MRS. W. H. FELTON. farm labor cannot be depended on from one day to another. The promise of a job at 80 cents or H a day will stop a mule and plow no matter how urgent the fate of the crop may be to Its owner. Nobody will work on Saturday after noons. Some cut short at Friday night. If It sprinkles the morning, that stops the work for that day. If any hand’s wages are docked for late arrivals he will go elsewhere for a job and take a de light in your confusion and perplexity. And yet taxes never come down a pen ny and the strain increases every year. From the standpoint of a plain north Georgia woman, it seems that we could not do better than to pull the bridles off and tell the Chinaman to come along and make a living for himself as well as the land owner. We need not be dreading Impure men and women of the yellow variety, or If we do dread It we may acknowledge the fact that It Is because we have been so long used to such conditions. So long as the Chinaman is a laborer and not a voter, so long will his labor be devoid of some unpleasant features. It Is proposed to keep the Chinese ex clusion act In force by making the limit perpetual. How can this be done when the Chinese are by long odds and far away ahead of all business peoples in the Philippine Islands? Everybody says the Chinese are the thrifty inhabitants of Manila. But some will say we have got all we hideous noises were heard In the "nine acre hollow” that they could never catch any ’ppssums there. Os course, every old outhoiise was suspected. Being slightly superstitious myself, I quietly avoided these places after the going down of the sun, though I laughed at others fbr doing so. “Mrs. Brown," said I, coming in from my work late one evening, "I want to bor row a sheet.” '•Borrow a sheet! Why, Mr. Jenkins, what do you want with a sheet?” T hesitated. Mrs. Brown was so kind hearted I was almost ashamed of myself. "I want to give Bill and George a fright,” I replied. ”1 have asked them to stay off of my cotton and they pay no at tention to me. I want to give them some thing tonight that they will remember to tell their grandchildren about" "Would that be quite right, Mr. Jen kins? You might scare them to death, or what to more dangerous they might shoot you; all the negroes carry pistols these days. I wouldn’t have you get hurt for anything, my boy.” This nettled me a little, for I felt old enough to take care of myself, and I de termined to have my way about it. "Nonsense, Margie,” put In Miss Jenny, "let him have it. I believe In having all the fun you can whils you’re young. If the proprieties did not forbid I would go along myself and we would certainly have a circus.” Thanks to Miss Jenny, I got the sheet, and proceeded to an old gin house that stood m the middle of the field. The house was built in the old-fashioned style with gearing underneath for the horses and a "lint room” at the end. Concealing myself near this room, with the sheet wrapped securely around me, I waited. I could view the route readily CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS, „ E3 m Best Cough Syrup. Taetes Good. Use fjjj in time. Sold by druggists. F£i ' OPINION IS DIVIDED AS TO EF- < ]' FECT OF THE FINDING, BUT < ]! MAJORITY DEMANDS A FUR- 3 ]! THER HEARING AND COMPLETE 3 VINDICATION. ij The Northern Press. Schley is Vindicated. New York Journal. Fighters know each other. The victor of Manila recognizes and does justice to the vic tor of Santiago. Dewey places the laurels where they be long. and where the American people, guided by their common sense and love of fair play, have Insisted on placing them ever since the battle of Santiago was fought and won—on Schley's, not on the absent Sampson’s, brow. To the American people Admiral Dewey was the Court of Inquiry, summoned to pass judg ment upon Schley. Had Dewey condemned him and Admirals Ramsay and Benham up held him, the verdict of censure by the minor ity would have carried Incomparably more weight than the majority report. So now, when Admirals Ramsay and Benham report against Schley on sundry counts and Dewey supports and praises him. It Is Dewey’s judg ment that will be accepted as against theirs. It is easv after the event to pick flaws in the conduct of a commander who had to take the responsibility of making decisions In Cl lt e ?s to be regretted, of course, that the re port of the' Court of Inquiry leaves any room whatever for division of opinion as to Admiral Schley’s competence under all circumstances as a naval commander. The country would have been glad had the debate been definitely closed by the removal of every Inch of dis puted ground. But It Is not likely that the small critics will have a happy time hence forward. while/ they dwell upon details that have no bearing whatever on the main point. For Schley was really on trial on these three charges: _ . . _ , 1. Incompetency at the battle of Santiago. 2. Cowardice at the battle of Santiago. 8. Endeavoring to steal from Sampson the honor of victory. .... - .. On all three counts Admiral Schley has been acquitted, and more than acquitted. The ma jority report gives him full credit for courage and Admiral Dewey awards him the glory of the victory. The Verdict Cannot Stand. Baltimore Sun. It is most deeply to be regretted that the two inferior members of the Schley Court of Inquiry, constituting a majority of that body, have had the hardihood to make a report voicing substantially the prejudices of jealous fellow officers in the navy department, rather than the plain truth, as made manifest to the American public by the great event with which the whole world Is familiar. Evidently a finding so out of keeping with the judgment of the unprejudiced public cannot stand, but will necessitate a congressional investigation and second inquiry, thus creating an unpleas ant parallel to the Dreyfus scandal. Dewey’s Verdict Is Enough. Washington Post. The country has heard the deliberate opin ion of the one member of the court who possesses Its unreserved respect and confi dence and will accept It with practical una n the attention of the public to the fact that Admiral Dewey's signature to the report is purely formal and perfunctory. As the presiding officer of the court, it was in cumbent on him to certify to the validity of the document. All that Is regular and proper enough. But Admiral Dewey tells us In suffi ciently plain terms what he personally thinks, and that, we venture to say, will fill the meas ure of the nation's real solicitude. It will be perceived on close Inspection that Admirals Benham and Ramsay have reached their ver dict by the simple process of Ignoring the testimony of such men as Cook and Clark, and confining themselves to that of such men as Chadwick. Southerland.' and Bristol. Either Cook and Clark have lied, or Admirals Ram say and Benham regard them as lacking In Intelligence. The American people will have little trouble in choosing among these con tradictory hypotheses. It is clear to us that Admiral Schley should take his case Into a civil court, suing Maclay’s publishers for libel. Through this expedient only can he bring to light the infamous con spiracy against his fame, and hold up to public execration the conspirators thus fai screened by the department, whose favorites, tools, and beneficiaries they notoriously are. The country Is thoroughly convinced that the navy department is honeycombed with vicious and Ignoble practices. can stand up to now, with negroes that fill the towns and cities with vagrants and the police courts with violators of law and the chaingangs with criminals. The best way to overcome these unfor tunate conditions is to bring in enough labor to make them get to work and be glad to do it. We havd been afraid to do anything of this sort because the politi cians are anxious to keep up the repre sentation In congress. Will somebody rise up and say, where is our southern poli tics and what It amounts to In this coun try? The Democratic party has about gone to seed in a natlonaJ view of its con dition. What’s the use of standing In one’s own light merely to keep up a wrangle on po litical questions In the house and senate? We need labor, we need capital, we need money, we need enough profit from farm lands to keep up proper cultivation and repairs. We have got to do something to Induce labor to come to us or we may hang our harps on the willows and quit singing the song about “the land of the brave and the home of the free.” We are face to face with a burning necessity to procure muscle and reliable labor In the south. We must have it or rellngulsh the soil Into the grasp of trusts and loan syndi cates. Note premium list In this issue, make your selection and subscribe at once. without being seen. Presently I heard them coming across the field, singing lustily to keep off the "spooks.” It was a moonlit night and I could see them plainly. Slowly and solemnly I moved out of my trying to look very much like a ghost, when, good heavens! what was that? Something white suddenly rose up, seejningly out of the gcound, at my side. Already nervous, such a sudden fear took possession of me that I took to my heels without ceremony, still clinging tightly. to the sheet around me. I was never frightened so in my life. Suddenly a yell behind me told that the boys had seen me and probably my ghost, too! “O, Lawdy, Bill; lookee yonder! It’s a han’t sho’." “O, Lawdy massy. Mammy, Mammy, holy Moses, dere’s two of ’em. Dey’s got us sho’. O, Matthy, Mark. Luke and John, O, Daddy, hab massy! Mas Jesus, hab massy on dis poor nigger and he neber will sin no mo’, sho’. O, Lawdy massy! massy!! massy!! I neber will sin no mo’.” I sank down exhausted on the edge of the porch, and away down the road I still heard them. "Oh, mammy done tole me de debbil gwlne git me! She done tole me so!” Miss Jenny was an eye-witness to it ail from the porch. Rocking herself to and fro she shrieked with laughter. There was no use denying the fact that I was scared within an inch of my life. "That was the best circus of the sea son, Mr. Jenkins,” said Miss Jenny, when she found breath to speak. "There’s only one thing you did wrong. I am afraid you’ve frightened my little white calf so badly he will never come home again. 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In those days of which I write one little girl named Mary Emma had a fairy god mother who was very absent-minded. In deed, she was so absent-minded at times that she forgot she was a fairy godmother at all, and so, Instead, of helping Mary Emma make her fortune, as, of course, she should have done, she just stayed at home and kept house just like any one else. In fact, if it had not been for Mary Emma herself, the fairy godmother might have forgotten that she had a goddaugh ter, but every once and a while Mary Em ma would wink her left foot three times, which would immediately summon the fairy godmother to her side. Mary Emma did not want anything at all, but she was a very far-seeing little girl, and she knew that some time she might want something, and if her fairy godmother did not have some practice, she might forget what it meant when Mary Emma winked her left foot three times, and never come at all! But the way you can tell whether or not you have a fairy godmother by just trying that. If a fairy godmother with a sugar loaf hat and a long wand does not ap pear as soon as you have winked your left foot three times, then you haven’t any. . . Well, one day Mary Emma decided that she was old enough to go out and seek her fortune, so off she went. She had on her very best frock, a nice lunch in her basket, and she felt sure she was going to find a very nice fortune indeed. She left her mother stoning cherries on the back porch and walked on and on and on, until she had gone farther than she had ever gone before. After a while she entered a deep forest. She had been quite hot and cross In the sun, but it was de lightfully cool in the forest under the great trees, and she thought that seek ing one's fortune was just heaps of fun. Mary Emma was going along singing at the top of her voice, when all at once she turned a corner of the forest and there were three robbers lying in wait for her. My! But she was frightened! She winked her left foot three times just as Aiard as ever she could, and her fairy god mother appeared rubbing her eyes and looking very cross, for she had just been taking a nice nap when she had been so suddenly awakened. The robbers were just about to rob Mary Emma of her lunch basket when her fairy godmother appeared, but as soon as they saw her they all stepped back a few paces, clench ed their teeth and said, "Foiled!’ "Oh, please change those dreadful rob bers into something quick!” cried Mary Emma. Her fairy godmother looked very severely at the robbers and waved her wand. "Why don't they change?” asked Mary Emma, and then she looked around and saw that her fairy godmother had changed herself into a bicycle by mistake. "Qh, dear me!” said the bicycle. "What ever shall I do now? I must have used the wrong magic formula, and now those horrid robbers will steal me." The rob bers all unclenched their teeth and said. "At last!” They were just about to steal the bicycle, when Mary Emma jumped on it and rode off as fast as she could ride. The robbers ran after her. called to her to stop, but she kept on. Mary Emma did not know how to ride a bicy cle, but you know this was a fairy god mother bicycle, and so. of course, it could keep Itself right side up. Mary Emma soon rode the bicycle out of the forest, and then It wanted to stop ana rest a while, for It said it was not used to being a bicycle and was complete ly tired out. "Nonsense!” said Mary Emma. •The Idea of a bicycle getting tired! I never heard of such a thing!” and she rode on faster than ever. Just as the bicycle was getting so very tired that it did not know what to do, they crossed a little bridge over a running brook. You all know that when anything that has been en chanted crosses a running brook It turns back to its former shape at once. Well, as soon as they had crossed this brook the bicycle changed back again, and Mary Emma found herself on the back of fairy godmother’s neck. “Get off the back of my neck at once!” cried the fairy god mother. crossly, for she was very tired from being a bicycle. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself—a great, big girl like you sitting on the back of an old lady like me! Sit on the back of your own neck, if you want to!” Mary Emma got down at once. Then they found that they were hungry. They sat down by the side pf lae road and began to eat the lunch that Mary Emma had in her basket. They ate and rested and rested and ate until the lunch was all gone. Then Mary Emma said: "Why don’t you change this lunch basket into a coach, so we can get in and ride? I don’t like this walking about while I am making my fortune." The fairy godmother said that she would do that before Mary Emma could spell "Jack Robinson” backward tn German, and then she laughed so hard at Mary Emma while she was trying to spell Jack Robinson that way that she very absent mindedly forgot what she was about, and at the same time that she turned the lunch basket Into a coach she turned her self and Mary Emma Into two splendid coach horses. Mary Emma was very an gry when she found herself harnessed to the coach and helping her fairy godmoth er draw It along the road. "Now. just see what you’ve done,” she cried. "I do declare you ought to keep your wits about you more. How are we ever going to get out of this?” Just then the prince of that country and a lot of courtiers came along riding on oxen, for there were no horses in that country. When the prince saw the two splendid horses drawing this superb coach along the road he was delighted. He had never seen any horses before, but he had seen pictures of them in hto natural history book, and so, of course, he knew what they were at once. He got in the coach and drove the horses all the way to hto father’s palace. The horses were just as angry as they could be, and they told the prince he was no gentleman to make ladies draw him along the road In a coach like that. The prince said they must not dare to talk that way to a real prince, and that they were not ladle*, anyway, but only horses, and that If they didn’t behave themselves and trot along nicely, he would hit them with hto whip. “Oh, just you wait till we cross a run ning brook, and if I don't change you into a last year’s mince pie, you may have my gold spectacles!” said the fair godmother. The prince thought that perhaps there might be something in that, so he drove them over roads that did not cross run ning brooks. When they came to the palace the king, the prince's father, was as pleased as he could be. and said that the prince was just the dearest boy that ever lived. "You can have the coach,” he said, “but send the horses to my stable and give them some oats.” "Oats, indeed!" said Mary Emma, 111 have you understand I never ate an oat In my life, and, what is more, I am not going to any old stable, either.” Then, as soon as they were unharnessed from the coach she and her fairy god mother started to run, but just as they had gone a few steps they crossed a wat er pipe full of running water that led to the paiace, and they immediately turned into their proper shapes again. Then the king was furious. "What do you mean,” he shouted, ’by changing yourselves Into something else when you are the only horses I have? 1 never heard of such conduct 1 Change yourselves back into horses again at once!" , "I will do no such thing,” said the fairy godmother. "If you think I am going to uve In a stable and eat oats, you are very much mistaken.” "Seise them and cast them into the deep est dungeon!” cried the king to L-s army. The army got ready to seise them, and then Mary Emma and her fairy godmoth er were frightened almost to death. “I guess may u e we had better change back to horses after all,” said the fairy godmother. “I guess maybe we had,” said Mary Em ma. So, just as the army was about to seize them, the fairy godmother waved her wand, but she did It so absent-mind edly that instead of changing herself and Mary Emma she changed the whole army Into horses, and they immeaiately began to eat grass. The king was delighted at this, because now, he had enough horses to stock his whole kingdom, ana, besides, he owed the army two years’ wages, and now he would never have to pay them. All this time the Prince had been star ing at Mary Emma just as hard as he could stare, and now he dropped on one knee and told her that he thought she was the very sweetest girl he had ever seen and that he would like her to be hto princess at once and for evermore. Mary Emma said that She didn't mind, for she had always wanted to be a princess, and the king said they had better hurry up about It. for dinner was almost ready and he was hungry. So they were married at once, and then they all decided that they had better send the fairy godmother home as fast as ifhe could go, for fear she would absent-mindedly change them all Into something else. The fairy godmoth er was getting homesick, so she flew off In a hurry, and all the rest lived happily ever after. When the fairy godmother got home she called a convention of all the fairy god mothers in the world and told mem all about the way she had been treated. 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