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THE SUNNY SOUTH
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06e Russian Bear in Manchuria, TurKestan,
and North China
By Frank G Carpenter
Written for Z7/?e Sunny South
r B| WANT to tell you what the
T Russians are doing out
here in the Pacific. They
are the principal actors on
the stage of western inva
sion. Germany, England. ]
and the United States are i
making a great noilse about
trade and development, but j
Russia is keeping her
mouth shut and sawing
wood. Her policy is to
work quietly but steadily.
She makes no backward
footsteps. She has her fingers out in
every direction, and is quietly gathering
In the continent. She has already a mil
lion square miles more than one-third of
all Asia, and ithe prolspect is that the
whole northern half of this continent will
eventually be hers.
Have you ever figured up the enormous
property that the czar owns outside of
Europe? His possessions in Asia em
brace more than twice as much land as
the United States proper. They are
about as large as the whole of SotKh
America and aJmdst twice as ni'ich as
Europe. The Russian possessions in cen
tral Asia alone, including the .regions mow
being opened up by the Trans-Caspian
railroad, are half as large as the whole
of our country, and the czar is now claim
ing the right to all concessions in C'hi-
nese-Turkdstan, a territory twice as big
ns the empire of Germany. Siberia is
twenty-five times as big as Germany or
France. It is a million square miles big-
ge.r than Europe and bigger than the
United States, Central America and Mexi
co combined. Manchuria, which is now
practically annexed to Siberia, is bigger
than any country in Europe outside Rus
sia, and Mongolia, which will follow suit,
is one-third the size of the United S'batels.
Over all this v;tst territory the czar is
pushing Jiis explorations. He is preparing
to settle the several countries and to Rus
sianize them. His Trans-Caspian road is
carrying thousands of his peasants imo
central Turkestan. His railroad already
goes through Bokhara to beyond Bam ar
cane!, and a branch line extends down to
Afghanistan. Other roads, of which I
write later, are being projected to con
nect with those.
He is not only opening up the coumry,
but he is developing it. He is setting out
cotton plantations and introducing our
American plants. His product of cotton is
•already enormous, and half his crop is
now of the same variety as our own. It
Hoads down ithe railroad during the season,
and you may see shiploads of it going up
the Volga to be transferred to the fac
tories and all parts of Russia. Tobacco
is also grown in large quantities and in
Trans-Caucasia tea plantations are being
established. That region Is now one of
the great silk cocoon-raising places of the
compete, and the
got the business.
Shortly before tl
Russo-Chinese ba
with the Chinese
sian goods comin
•esul't was the Russians
e late war in China the
tk had an agreement
‘'officials that all Rus-
g through Manchuria
were to pay one-tlhird lesis import duties
than were paid by foreign goods landing
at the seaports, and it was then the Idea
to reduce export duties one-third in fa
vor of Russia. Whether such a treaty
could have been carried out is question
able. Russia is, however, one of China’s
best customers. She takes about half
the tea crop that goes abroad and about
one-tenth of all the Chinese exports out-
■ side of tea. These new railroads will ma-
' ter I ally increase the trade and it is safe
to predict that in the far future the Rus
sians will have more commerce with the
Chinese than any other nation.
Npg'roes of the Danish Isles; Strang'e,
Pathetic, Fierce
ething Mbout a Perilous Problem in Our J\[ew Possessions
So
By Lewis Me
Written for i
HE
sho-y
Russian
Versus
American
Wheat a
Coming
Danger
world, and It exports hundreds of mi
lions of pounds of cocoons annually. The
wheat lands are also increasing, and Rus
sia seems in fact L » be reaching out to
ward a monopoly of productions of every
variety for all the world.
The Russians are already our chief com
petitors in the wheat markets of Europe,
and they will be more so as time goes
pn. Russia is the gran
ary of Europe—Siberia
promises to be the gran
ary of the world. A few
years ago I traveled over
th” Black plain south of
Moscow. It has some of
the richest soil known to man, and it pro
duces abundantly with the rudeist culti
vation. The people are mow introducing
our machinery, and their crops will be in
creased thereby. The wheai; lands of Si-
n rla are said to be as rich as those of
the Red river valley, and the climate is
about ithe same.
Russia is rapidly colonizing Siberia. The
soil is being broken. Irrigation works on
a large scale have been started, and de
velopment i!s going on upon the </ioice
tracts along the new railroads.
Since 1887 more than a million peasants
•have emigrated to Siberia, and vast num
bers axe notv being sent by sea from
Odessa to Vladivostock. The czar has
built a fleet of emigrant steamers which,
run regularly from tire Black sea to the
mouth of the Amur. I see them often in
these waters. They carry peasants free
fn.im Russia to Siberia, and 'the govern
ment gives each family from 200 .to 300
acres of land free of charge. It also ‘loans
them money to start farming and fur
nishes agricultural implements at reduced
rateis. Within seven years almost 20,000,-
000 acres of state lands have been turned
over to immigrants and from now on the
settled country will be rapidly increased.
1 have no figures as to the numbers which
ore coming in by the Trans-Siberian rail
road, but they must be enormous, for the
government has reduced the emigrant fees
to a minimum and it is aiding immigra
tion in every possible way.
The czar has already begun to colonize
Manchuria. The soldiers who guard the
railroads have in many cases brought
their families with them and they are
settling along the line as they build it.
The Russians make no bones of saying
•they own Manchuria. General Gribsky,
who has charge of the territory, recently
sent out a proclamation that the Chinese
would not be allowed to settle in certain
sections, as the lands were to be used
for Russian colinization. Be forbade
them to build in the town of Aigun, as
It was needed far quartering the Russian
troops and for Russian warehouses. It
was in Aigun that the Chinese fought the
Russians. The town was destroyed and
the villages near it. General Gribsky has
warned the Chinese that if one of them
dares to shoot at. or injure a Russian he
will have his village or town burned to
(the ground. He closes his proclamation
with the following:
"The Russian czar loves those who obey
him. Turn a deaf ear to the evil consel-
iors who urge you to fight us! They are
your enemies and will bring you to ruin
and death! Woe be unto you if you do
otherwise than as we command you!”
The Chinese know by bitter experience
that the Russians will do what they
say. They will 'treat the people well if
they obey them, but if they do not, they
will not hesitate to annihilate them. Some
of the towns along the Amur river were
Russo-Chinese bank at Shanghai—the financial agent of the Czar in Eist cAs a
utterly destroyed during the la*te war. j the Coroan nobles who had him in keep-
An Ohio man who crossed it saw thirteen ing. The Russian minister 'took him in
Chinese villages in flames at one time and | and for a long time the Russian /?gatif>n
described the .river as black with bodies j was the seat of the government of Corea,
for three days after the Russians took one | Prom it the emperor sent forth a deer e
that his cabinet should he arrested. He
ordered that the members have their
heads chopped off and that The said heads
•be brought to him at the legation, which
you will agree was
“A dainty dish to set before the king.”
At this same time Russian officers re
chosen to drill 'the army, and it looked
for a while ns though Oi.rea was to be at
once Russianized. Shortly after this,
however, the Russians concluded to take
Manchuria first, and they signed a
treaty with the Japanese that neither
government should interfere in the polities
or trade of the Corean peninsula.
In the meantime the Japanese are buy
ing up the railroads of Corea as fast as
they can, and they are now building one
from Pusan, one of the ports on the south
coast, to the capital, Seoul. The French,
which is probably another name for the
Russians, have obtained a concession for
a railroad from Seoul to the northern
boundary of the coutKry, anil this will
probably eventually be connected with
the Manchurian railroad and enable tl«
czar to put his soldiers into the Corean
capital at will.
It is difficult to sav where the czar’s
schemes as to China begin and end. Dur
ing the war 'the Russians seized the Ti"n
Tsin-Shanhatkwan railroad and they will
eventually want to control this line als an
extension of the Trans-Siberian system to
Pekin, if they cannot buy the road out
right there will be little trouble in paral
leling it, as most of the country is level,
and as it possesses but few engineering
difficulties. The road was largely built
with English money, but it is owned by
Chinese.
The line from Pekin to Hankow is said to
practically belong to 'the. Russians. A con
cession far it was given to the Belgians
anil the French. They capitalized it at
$25,000,000 and building is now going on
from both ends. The money is said to lie
furnished by the Ruslso-Chinese bank,
and this is really the Russian government.
The bank has its branch houses at all the
poms of China, including those of Man
churia. It is backed by the government
A Russian guard of the Manchurian
railway
of the Chinese cities upon its banks.
The czar is rapidly pushing ills railroad ,
to 'thei northward to connect with the ;
Trans-Siberian system. Short passages
by rail to Europe are already advertised
at the leading porte, and we shall soon j
be able to go from Port Arthur to Paris, j
Tlie railroad Is nominally under the con
trol of the Eastern Chinese Railroad' Com
pany, hut this is another name for (he
Russian government- The company itself
has a capital of $2,500,000, lint ills bonds
are guaranteed by the government and
are supposed to he hold by it.
The provisions of the concession forbid
China to collect a tariff on goods in tran
sit upon it. and the Russian officials and
Rtilssian mails are to be carried free. Rus
sia Is to have charge of the postal sys
tem along the line, and with it goes the
privilege of opening up and developing
the mineral resources of Manchuria. Rus
sian engineers and surveyors are now
traveling over the country prospecting it.
They have already found coal and Iron
and some rich mines of gold. There are
large coal fields near Mukden, the capital
of Manchuria, which will he tapped by
the railroad. The coal there is said to be
better than the Japanese and equal to the
Cardiff and Pocahontas coals. It will have
a good market at Port Arthur and Talien-
wan, and the- mines will pay Wei.. At
present the most of the mining is done
by the natives. The coal is gotten out
by hand and carried to the markets in
Chinese carts. It is both anthracite and
bituminous.
The czar has already chosen the site
for his metropolis in thils part of the
world. It is to be at the terminus of the
Manchurian, railroad sys-
Tha Clar’ctcm, within a few miles
Metropolis of Port Arthur. This
on the place will surpass V’.adi-
Yellow vostook, as it will have
Sea an open harbor the year
around and will be more
easily accessible. The Russians are build
ing it much as Peter the Great built St.
Petersburg. They are laying out the city
on a grand scale, expecting to bring in
the people after it is completed. They are
building immense breakwater ou* from
the shore and are so dredging the harbor
that K will admit the 'largest of the oe~hn
steamers. They have already built ware
houses and piers and are putting up
other buildings suitable to the great city
of the future.
The name of the town is to be Tailen-
wan and the present indent,iun is to make
it a free port. It will have wide streets |
crossing one another at right angles. It
will have large public gardens and parks.
I understand that they are already laying
the sewers and building bazaars, and that
before any lots are sold. The city is to
be a busimbs one. The military fortifica
tions will be at Port Arthur, which is also
being improved.
It is a question as to what rights for
eigners will have in Talienwan, or, in
deed, in any of the Manchurian cities. The
Russians believe in controlling things for
their own people and limitations will 1
probably be placed on foreign settlements i
and foreign business, although at present J
the Russians say otherwise. There has ,
already been some trouble as to the rights j
of Americans in Manchuria, and Tnat es- j
| peel ally in Newehwang. This is a town
situated on the Eiao river. 13 miles from |
its mouth. It hae been r,.n a pen port !
for some years, but the Russians have j
instituted a military station there and !
they claim to control the town. They !
have had charge of the customs and act ;
as though the whole country belonged to :
them. They furnish a military band j
which gives Sunday concerts.
Newehwang has until now been the I
chief port for Manchuria and it has Eng
lish, German and American housed. The
Russians have built a branch railroad to
it, the Russo-Chinese bank has opened a
house there and the foreigners fear that
their trade will lie gobbled by Russians.
Mukilen, the capital c»f Manchuria, will
be 'Ihe chief interior city along the line,
ft is a walled town of about 200,HOO peo
ple, and as the seat of the Chinese gov
ernor it has been the center of everything
Manchurian. The town is said to be like
Pekin and to have fine Chinese houses.
The question as to whether the Rus
sians will take possession of Corea is one
of the future. They will certainly not
concede it to .Tapn.n. The Japanese are
very jealous of Russia and resent their
acquiring territory on the Corean penin
sular. They threatened war in the spring
of 1900 when the officers of the czar took
possession of the harbor of Masampo. on
the south coast. Some 'land about this
harbor was granted to a Russian steam
ship company, but a private Japanese
Individual had bought the land of Ihe
Corean owners and for this reason the
! Russians wore not able to get it. Vhey
did get. however, other lands at the same
place, and 'they are now said to he plan
ning a naval ant! coaling station there.
This will give them command of the Co
rean strait, and they will not be far away
from Japan and from the Shiminoseki
i-trnit, where there are great Japanese
fortifications.
The Japanese are jealous of the friend
ship which the emperor of Corea has for
the Russians. It will be remembered that
luring the troubles which
The C*ar followed the Chlnese-
and tlae Iapane.se war. his majes-
Coresn ty left his palace and fled
Emperor !o the Russian legation
on Close for protection. He sneak-
Xerme ed out In a closed
Sedan chair with a woman walk
ing on each side of it just like a com
mon nobleman’s wUc, la order to escape
enry Howe
Sunny South
bilging planter who
s the visitor through
tli^’ town of Christiansted,
Santa Cruz, the largest
the Danish islands, will
w/illingly call attention to
tlie ruins of many bullti-
irigs, and Inform him with
gj|pat volubility how many
pie were killed In each
with many other de
tails of the damago done
hi.’ the cyclone of ]89S.
Hut. every now and then
one will come across a ruin quite different
from the otherV whose blackened stones
tell plainly tha* ‘fire and not the hurricane
was the cause ol its destruction. If nsKed
the cause of til's destruction, the guile
at once become;, evasive and non-com
mittal. Without actually saying so, lie
will try to give -he imtression that it
was the work of tVe storm: if, however,
like the writer, oni iad seen these sani"
dismantled ware hi; ses thirteen years
before, the guide, un ’er persistent ques
tioning, will murmur ; >mething about an
insurrection many yeai ago and at once
change the subject—hi. whole bearing
that of a man forced i n the witness
stand to reveal the family, skeleton.
And, Indeed, these sha. P points of
smoke-stained walls that per sist in tower
ing above the wealth or glossy green
which kindly nature had Striven to throw
ever them are. after all. the unsightly
ribs cf disgrace your planter friend would
fain forget.
To the cheerful sound of lusty hammers
and clinking trowels the storm-razed
buildings are being restored to their for
mer state again. But on these fire-crum
bled stones a curss seems to have fallen.
Dike the mummy at the banquet, per
petually they bear witness to the terrible
possibilities of evil that lurk In the
dull brains of these same negro laborers
who, care free, constantly pass by with
coarse jest and idle laughter.
As the same negroes who wrought this
ruin, with their descendants, form today
What political rights are to be granted to
nine-tenths of the population of our new
Danish possessions, some
Nine* uccount of this riot and
Tenth of its causes may lie of
Population value to us in studying
are what is. after all, the
Negroes real problem concerning
these islands, namely:
their inhabitants?
Accurate information on the subject is I
very difficult to obtain. The books pub- j
fished about the West Indies barely men
tion the insurrection or ignore it entirely. |
The semi-official West Indian almanac, I
published at St. Thomas, skips deftly
over it with a brief sentence. The annex
ationists are afraid to mention it, lest it
injure their cause, and it was only after
much trouble that the writer found one
who had lived through that exciting time
and was willing to talk abouL it.
Amll the wreck of what once had been
a fine dwelling, seated on crumbling steps
that led up to nothing more substantial
than the blue, tropic sky. his voice quiv
ered with emotion as lie talked.
The foundation cf tlie trouble was real
ly laid by a fatal error of the govern
ment in 1848, a rr intake which has never
been forgotten by the negro, and may
jet be liitterlj - regretted by our govern
ment. At that time it was announced
that slavery would soon lie abolished. As
was the case in all the other islands, this
news proved too much for the negro's
mental equilibrium. As the appointed
date drew near, he refused to work and.
taking lirst to drinking, quite naturally
wound up the celebration by a bit of
rioting. Had the disturbance been put
down with a strong hand, no permanent
harm would have been done. But, in-
town, chanting fragments of wild Afri
can melodies. Toward dusk the mer
chants, fearing trouble, put up their
heavy shutters, and the townsfolk retired
to their homes. A swift sloop—there was
no cable then—sot sail for St. Thomas,
bearing urgent appeals for help from ihe
tiny Danish garrison there.
At first the mob was contented with
marching up and down the deserted
streets, howling the rallj’ing cry: "No
more 10 cents a day.”
Wild and Shouting was a thirst-
Torrible producing exercise; a
■Scenes rumshop door might, per-
Attanded haps, lie broken in. Yes,
Rioting It was unite easy; there
was refreshment for all
at no expense. The flambeaus of resin
ous wood began to wave unsteadily iri
the hands of their bearers. How easy :t
would he merelj- to laj' one of the torches
against the huge wooden doors of the
sugar ware house! Yes. dry with age, it
caught fire quickly. Like children terri
fied at theor own wickedness. thej r paused
a momei t: tlie red fire leant through the
building; in a twinkling the soft blue-
black of the midnight tro.fic sky was hid
den by a lurid veil of crimson smoke,
shot through and through with dazzling
streaks; with the strong rum seething
in their veins they danced the wild jun
gle dances of their forefathers to its
these dark days with the slender profits
of the sugar crop dropping fraction bj'
fraction, it is none too easy a matter to
find work even there. Hundreds have left
In the past few years, and the other
islands have sent notices, conspicuously
posted cn the custom house doors, stat
ing that further emigration is useless,
as they are no better off themselves. In
this competition for work wages have
naturally dropped, and 20 cents a day is
not an uncommon rate anywhere.
The planters complain bitterly that the
negro will work only when he pleases.
About lire days a week is his average.
A little thought will show that this is
not surprising. As a slave .*.e worked
only when he had to: as a freedman, he
works onlj- long enough to satisfy his
cheaply siqiplied wants. It is not a
pleasant task, this laboring ir. the cane
fields. White men have tried it and
died miserably, quickly in the effort. In
planting time the fierce sun beats re
morselessly on his bended back. Ice cold
showers sweep down, without warning,
from the mountains and drench him
through and through. At harvest he
must take his place in the long line and
swing the heavy machete hour after hour
cutting the thick stalks. With the pre
cision of an army the long line of black
figures, naked to the waist, sweep over
the vast fields, the overseers, like officers,
FOR SINGERS AND SPEAKERS.
The New Remedy for Catarrh Is Very
Valuable.
A Grand Rapids gentleman who repip.
sents a prominent manufacturing con
cern and travels through central and
southern Michigan, relates the following
regarding the new catarrh cure. He
saj's:
"After suffering from catarrh of the
head, throat and stomach for several
j-ears, I heard of Stuart’s Catarrh Tab
lets quite accidentally and like everj'-
thlng else I immediately bought a pack
age and was decidedly surprised at the
immediate relief it afforded mo and still
Group of children at Santa Cruz
Twenty-three years have not covered the scars of the awful negro riot
and acts as the financial agent of Russia
in Siberia. Thin bank has other conces
sions from the Chinese, and it is more or
less connected with all the roailrwad
movements of this part of the world. All
sorts of lines are being projected. Some
are 'to open up the Shansi coal fields, one
is a railroad over the old caravan route
through the Nanki-w Pass from Pekin
into Mongolia and thence to Siberia, and
a third, a most important projection, is
an extension of the Trans-Caspian road
from central Asia* through Chinese Tur
kestan and southern Mongolia >to the head
waters of the Yellow river and thence
south to Hankow on the Yangtse Kiang.
If this road is completed Mongolia and
northern China will shortly be Russian.
A part of the sj1-tem is a line from
Hankow to Kashgar in Chinese Turke
stan.
The czar now proclaims free 'trade for
Manchuria, but after the country has
been Russianized the best things of its
commerce will likelj’ he
Russian given to his own people.
Xrade Until recently’ onlj' Rus-
Methcds sians could mine gold in
Tend to Siberia. There are re-
Monopoly strictions oh trade there,
and this Is so In every
Russian country. The Russian arm is
•long and its hand is so large that it
hopes eventually to bold the world finan
cially as well as territorially'. See what it
did to Persia! The English were supply
ing the country with moist of its cotton
cloths when the Russian government
gave Russian merchants and manufactur
ers a bounty of 3 cents per pound on all
the manufactured cottons sol'd in Persia.
This paid their freight and left them 2
cents a pound profit even when they
sold the goods at cost. With such advant
age's the English manufacturer could not
stead, against the protest of ihe cooler
heads, the government, in a panic of
unreasoning fear, proclaimed the libera
tion of the slaves at once, ahead of
time.
The rioting immediately ceased, but
the negroes had tasted the sweets of
power. Though they had been hut yes
terday' a mass of whin-driven slaves, now
they' cauld rule their former masters with
the awful scourge of the mob. Although
they waiteq thirty long years, they had
not forgotten.
Slavery had been succeeded by the "la
bor law,” under which every negro la
borer was compelled to sign a contract
with some planter on the 1st of each Oc
tober. binding himself to work through
the ensuing y-ear for 10 cents in cash and
10 cents in food a day. Anv found after
the 2d of October who had not signed
such a contract were punished.
Even this .unsatisfactory arrangement
was so much better than previous condi
tions that at first there were no com
plaints. Each OctohfT. however, dissat
isfaction grew stronger until, in 1877, the
government announced a repeal of the
law to take effect thifee years from date.
Again they had triijjTPohed. The leaders
of the uprising of 1!*48 recalled the easy
victory of the past. ■ Three vears was a
long time to wait, bitt still they hesitated.
As the 1st of October. 1878, drew near,
however, it was i.ot^ed that a new spirit
of insolence had i (imeared among th/j
laborers. As they asjiembled in the towns
where the contracts wrere to be renewed
there was much disc’|d er - On the morn
ing of the 1st the plc-frters were surprised
to find a well-oganlzpd opposition to the
renewal of the coriVacts. Arguments,
threats, promises. al»* Proved unavailing.
Every hour fresh /jjands of negroes,
armed with keen maoW etes < marched into
light. With brains awhirl. they' stag
gered from one building to another. The
red glare crept in through the closed
b inds behind which the frightened towns
folk crouched, shuddering with terror.
AVoe to those traders whose dealings had
been harsh or unfair! Only at the immi
nent peril of their lives might they steal
from their burning hon.es to safety.
Brighter grew the glaie: back on the
hillsides an answering glare appeared.
Long tongues of flame crept up the hills
from the burning Helds of cane. The
sites of the planters' homes were marked
by brighter, higher flames. Wilder and
madder grew the chanting, merely hoarse i swells
howls of savage joy now. all semblance I cities,
of articulate words lost.
The black forms dancing around the
turning buildings stood silhouetted like
fiends around the mouth of hell. The
whole island was wrapped in flames.
Still, strange as it mav seem, no lives
were lost. The morning came unseen
save for the lighting up of the dense
bine smoke that filled the streets. A
planter rode bravely into town, forget
ting that these former slaves had tasted
freedom rod power. .Maddened at the
ruin of his estate, he rode straight into
the mob, lashing right and left with hi3
heavy riding whip. For an instant the
crowd fell back, the old instinct still
strong. For an instant it seemed that
daring would succeed. Then a huge no
gro, his face bleeding from a cut of the
lash and working with brute passion,
leaped forward and seized a stirrup. In
an Instant it was all over. A swirl of
half-naked black forms, the piercing
relgh cf a dying horse, the awful cry,
half scream, half curse of a human being
in the throes of a tearful death, and
it was done. Seized by a strange panic,
the mob turned and fled. A bundle of
red-stained, muddied clothes lay in a
sickening heap, very quiet on the cobble
stones.
Of the deeds done that dreadful day'
there remains no record. Gaunt chim
neys, towering like, seared. ungainly
monuments above the smoldering ashes
of the factories around them, mile after
mile of black, unsightly fields veiled -n
a sickening, deep blue smoke—these alone
could tel! the tale. Strangely enough,
that red stain, slowly thickening on the
cobble stones, marked the only human
victim of the meb. Satiated with their
wild orgy, there was a lull and then—
the praj-ed-for troops arrived. Onlj- 200
of them, what could thc-v do against six
thousand savages? Yesterday they had
been torn to nieces jn an irstant, but
row reaction had set in. Frightened at
their own daring, the negroes fled before
the soldiers. Swiftly, .relentlesslj-. the
rioters were hunted down. There is no
lecord of the number that satisfied the
thirst for vengeance with their lives,
hut tales are told of black forms lying
huddled on burned cane heans that were
burled with scant ceremony and. presently
under the sanction of the law. six hun
dred figures writhed helplessly in the air.
suspended from rude gibbets, outlined
against the splendor of the sunset skv.
Such was the strrv told me by the old
man sitting on the fire-scarred stairway
that led upward, most absurdly, to noth
ing but the blue skv.
Yet, even in its hour of triumph, the
government repeated its mistake. The
labor law was declared abolished again
ahead of time. Can one wonder thnt
ihe negro still feels that the triumph was
his. after all?
"There is no danger of riots now,” the
annexationists will tell you, "for this
happened twenty years ago." Yet one
remembers thnt there
Danger* were thirty years between
From 1848 and 1878 and the con-
Riots ditions and surroundings
Not Yet of plantation life are
Stilled practically the same.
The negro child from
six to thirteen years of age is compelled,
theoretically, to attend the public school;
practically, he escapes much of it, as
every year the family moves into a new
district in search of work, and It, must
all be begun over again. During this
time be has learned—what? To stumble
through the first reader, the most ele
mentary geography, arithmetic only as
far as fractions, and a few words of Dan
ish, learned by note and almost instant
ly forgotten. After that he must take
lip his machete and begin the dreary hunt
for work. There is practically no place
open to him save the cane Acids and, in
following with watchful eves to detect a
straggler or shirker. From a distance
thej' look like a procession of huge black
ants gnawing their way through a field
of tender grass.
Soon a deep, mellow voice begins to
hum a familiar air; quickly it is taken
up bj- the others until, swelling into a
weird chant, it sweeps down tlie line, the
flashing steel rising and falling in unison
with its strange barbaric rhythm. The
drj’ (lust rises beneath their tread and
settles in their nostrils: no breeze pene
trates the dense cane growth; it is hot
with the stifling heat that sometimes
the death roll ip. our northern
i cities. With the perspiration streaming
j from everj- black pore, they move on,
j on, all through the wearv dav. Perhaps
| five days a week of this would satisfy
; the best of us.
I When our negro, fresh from the schools,
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j settles down and takes unto himself a
I wife, with or without tlie formality of a
j wedding, as may seem most convenient!
I A wretched hut of nalms and cane is
built—well named a “trash” house, and
'his life work has begun. Small won Dr
! if the rum shop, where the strong native
liquor that brings such delightful forget-
fuiness at 2 cents per glass may lie ob
tained, attracts him in his leisure hours.
Still smaller wonder that the little knowl
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As for his religion, well, the church
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m ar, indeed. The parish priest. the
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There are but 200 legal voters among
the 18,000 inhabitants of Santa'Gruz. This
law, for the present at least, must be
left alone, and what is more important
for future peace and progress, no prom
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Let a few northern agitators go among
them prating of equal rights and univer
sal suffrage, and the tale of the old man,
sitting on ihe ruined stairway, will repeat
itself once more.
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At a dinner on the yacht of a prominent
member of New York society an English
man, who was present on Sir Thomas Lip-
ton’s yacht when he was entertaining
King Edward, was discussing the acci
dent which on that occasion seriously
threatened the lives of all on board.
“People little know,” he said, “how
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It would have been impossible had it come
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had become necessary to make a choice,
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the party or the king?”
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“Wby not let God save the klngT” ,
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A very stout hostess who was enter
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turned to a group of young men standing
near her chair and smilingly said:
“May I trouble one of you young gen
tlemen for a glass of water from the
pitcher on the table?”
Several of the young men hurried to
comply with the request. One who was
particularly active, succeeded in reaching
the table first.
As he handed the glass of water to the
hostess, she complimented him on his
quickness.
“Oh. that’s nothing,” he said. “I am
used to it. I got into many a circus and
menagerie when I was a boj- carrj'ing
water for the elephant.”
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The Reason
In the court house an Irishman stood
charged with stealing a watch from a fel
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battery committed with a frjdng pan.
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prisoner, said:
“Why did you allow the prosecutor, who
Is a smaller man than yourse-lf, to assault
j'ou without resistance? Had you nothing
in your hand to defend j'ourself with?”
“Bedad, your honor,” said Pat. “I had
his watch, but what was that against a
frying pan?”
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