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THE SUNNY SOUTH NINTH PAGE 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, | finds labor such as this, he straightway 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 edge he has gained fades utterly from his brain. As for his religion, well, the church is verj - far, but tlie “obeah” man very m ar, indeed. The parish priest. the Lutheran minister, they A Religion are bj’ all means to be of Super stition and Idolatry more to find a complete cure after several wee&s’ use. “1 have a little sen who sings in a boys’ choir in one of our prominent church"s, and he is greatly troubled with hoarse ness and throat weakness, and on my re turn home from a trip I gave film a few of the- tablets one Sunday morning when he had complained of hoarse ness. He was delighted with their effeot, remov ing all huskilness in a few mir.ntes and making Ihe voice clear and strong. 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So his life runs. work, drink and con stant dread of the “obeah” man. while curious tourists from passing steamers write down notes, placing him a little lower than the beasts. Whose fault is this? What wo may do for this negro of Santa Cruz let those skilled in such matters answer. This is a simple statement of facts pointing a plain moral. As he was thirty' years ago, so is this negro today. Do not think his long peacefulness means no danger in th * future. A few weeks ago, when the false news was received that ihe sale of the islands had been abandoned, a Danish war ship was dis patched post haste to the island, as an other irsurrection was feared. The ex isting law, requiring a property qualifica tion, burs the negro from the ballot. 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 ises of changes should be made. 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