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HirllmCuc n PAINFULLY LACKING.
©on duct of Two Old < iMd, aid
Tliclr Deportment Commandad * a
Good Kxamplo K* n For the Wliltaa.
Politeness costs nothing and pays
well. W. ether it is natural or artifi
cial, it always makes an agreeable
impression. The oldtime negroes are
yet the politest people I know, but
they have nearly all passed away.
There are two that we meet or pass al
most every day, and they are favorites
with my folks because they bow hum
bly and give th<- sidewalk with alac
rity One of them goes bent with age
and deformity. His body is nearly at
a right angle to his legs. He is set
jnst right for digging a ditch or chop
ping wood and makes a fair living at
'*• for ho is no beggar and says he
1 ves to work when lie is well. Home
iHues I drop a dime in his trembling
baud, and he always says “God bless
you, massa; you is a geminen, sir.”
His gratitude aud his compliment al
ways reward me.
The other day I overtook him as he
was struggling along and, us suual, he
shuffled to the edge of the sidewalk to :
let me pass. I didn’t have a dime, but j
• half-dollar came into my hand. Out !
cf mischief 1 said: “Uncle Jordan. j
dident yoh drop this money back j
there on the sidewalk?" “No, sir; no j
massa. I knows I dident, for bless
God, f dident have no money like dat.
I jes iiad two niokles, sir, and Ise got i
dem yet 1 was jes gwine to Mr. j
Stanford’s, s!r, to buy some bread for
Sunday.” “I reckon you must Lave
dropped this money,” said I, “but if \
you dident, you had better take it. I
You will want some meat to go with
the broad.” His old gray head, his
bent form, his astonishment made a
jjictme I would give a dollar for it
in photo. I looked back at him and
he hiidont moved. He hadeut taken
it all in and seemed afraid lest it wus
a trick to get him into trouble.
’I hat old negro carries me back to |
the days of my boyhood, when I went
to school with his young master, Roddy
Gresham, at the Muininl Labor school
in old Gwinnett. The Greshams were
goon people, and old Jordan was happy
until freedom came. Nobody cares
for him now, save charity—the charity
of the old-time white folks. It has al
ways seemed strange to me that ne
groes were so indifferent to the poor
and afflicted of their race. They will
bury them with great satisfaction aud
ceremony. They will hire the finest
hearse and carriages aud buy u coffin
with silver handles and have a dress
parade and weep and wail at the grave,
but that is all.
The other negro whom we pass Rnd
repass is a curiosity in his way. He
is love ora/.y —as crazy and as devoted I
as Shakespeare's Orlando, who wau- |
dered about carving the name of his
love ou the hark of the beech trees.
This darky flame is a cook for one of
our neighbors, and she will not notice
him. lu fact, she hides from him.
Day after day he walks past the house
to aud fro all the dny long, hoping to
got a glimpse of her ebony face. The
ooruer of my garden overlooks the
back yard of this neighbor and there
he cornea aud stands aud posea in de
apomleut attitudes. It would be ro
mantic and pathetic if it were not so
ridiculous, for he goes dirty aud rag
ged aud is mortal ugly. But he is
always humble aud polite, and that
will give favor and a friend even to a
vagabond.
The old-time negroes will soon he
the missing link between the slave and
his master. Bhuck foot-mats and
horse collars and baskets and brooms
have already gone. The new set have
neither good manners nor politeness.
Education and the ballot have alienated
them Our children and the children
of the old slaves have no common bond
to bind them, and the animosity be
tween them deepens and broadens as
the years roll ou. I reckon it is time
to separate, but how is it to be done
and who is to do it? Of course these
good old uegroes will not wish to go,
and it would be cruel to force them. I
remember when the Greeks aud Oher
okeos were forced to go aud how aoma
of the old Indians ware left behind.
I remember old Sawny on Sawnv
mountain near Gumming, and how his
old wife and four of his grandchildren
were allowed to stay with him. When
the old folks died these grandchildren
followed the tribe. But, of oourse,
force is not to be used with the ne
groes, and it is not certain that any
cousiderahle number will go Bishop
Turner says they will; Booker Wash
ington says they will not. One negro
paper iu Atlanta professes to be la
favor of going. The other is opposed
to it. Their exodus is yet afar off, for
congress will not vote a dollar to it, but
if their ballot is eliminated maybe we
can get aloug in peace. Suppose we
try it. White primaries should be the
watchword in every town and oounty,
aud then we can elect legislators and
municipal officers who are not afraid
of the negro.
As it is now, neither our lew-makers
nor our mayors or marshals will do
their duty for fear of offending the
negro aud losing his vote. Dirty,
oderiferous negro men and boys pot
giving the sidewalk to white ladies on
one of our business streets. There is
a regular den on another street that
leads to two churches aud all the ne
gro vagrants of the town gather there
and as many as possible stick their
feet or their posteriors on the railing
of the piazza and spit tobacco tuioe on
i brigs
■ mir business '
As The Constitution said r&tenfTyui
a well considered article, we must
have white primaries, not partisan, but
white, to.purgethe towns of negro in
dolence and negro insolence. They
must, be eliminated from the polls jnst
as they have been in Atlanta. The
dens must be broken up, the sidewalks
kept clear for ladies and the pass ways
to and from the trains unobstructed.
Ben Franklin said that idleness was
the parent of vice and crime. The
young bucks who congregate at this
den arc either living off of some hard
working man or some cook or washer
woman, or they are stealing from some
body. Every vagrant should be ar
rested aud put to work or we will soon
hear of some outrage aud have an
other lynching. These are perilous
times. The old devil seems to be un
chained and is going to and fro upon
the earth and walking up and down in
| it- The daily papers are full of
| crimes. White and black seem de
moralized, and we are getting harden
-1 ed to the sinful and bloody calendar
that every day meets our eyes. When
will this thing end?
1 started to write a little essay ou
politeness. Tha lack of it among our
young white men is painfully observ
ant. Last week, when the day was
hot and the dust was deep, a young
man with his best girl daslied by two
of our ladies in a buggy and almost
stifled them with dust. They had to
stop, for they could not see. He made
no apology nor said please excuse me,
and yet he was from a neighboring
city and Polis means u city and polite
ness comes from Polis. Not long ago
I was coming from Atlanta and a Ma
rietta man who sat behind me elevated
his dirty shoes to the top of tie back
of my seat and kept them there within
six inches of my head while he gassed
away to, his companion until the cars
reached his town.
I looked daggers at him, but it did
no good. I leaned as far away as I
could, and felt like treating him like I
did a cowboy once in Texas. The cow
boy stuck his big boots and spurs on
the bank of my sent and I deliberatly
got up and—went over on the other
side. I would have done this tough,
ill-mannered rough the same way, bat
the seats were all full. Young mer
can show their breeding anywhere—in
the cars or at church or at the post
office while waiting for the mail to be
opened. A true gentleman will fire
and fall back and while waiting for his
mail give somebody else a chance to
look into their box,but aselfish,ill-bred
man won’t. He will stand up close
and cover half a dozen boxes and peep
through the glass at the postmaster
until he gets his own. The best man
nered man at the postoffice in our
town is the oldest.
There are a few well raised lads in
our town whom it is always a pleasure
to meet. They make a gentle bow
and tip the hat aud smile a pleasant
greoting. There was a rich old bache
lor who died iu Jefferson some years
ago, and he left $1.0,000 to a poor
young woman because, as he saul in
his will, “she always gave me a pleas
ant smile when she met me.” The
Irish, as a race, are naturally polite.
“Pat,” said a good lady, “you passed
me on the street yesterday and never
ever looked at me.” “Ah, me sweet
lady, I was in a great hurry and I
knew that if I looked at ye I couldn’t
pass you.” My good father was an
old-time schoolmaster in the days
when manuerN aud morals were taught
ns well as books. The first day of his
employment down iu Liberty county
he made the boys and girls a talk, and
said the boys must make a respectful
bow and the girls a courtesy to him be
fore they took their seats iu the morn
ing. All complied pleasantly except
the biggest boy in school, who said he
bedogoud if he was gwine to make a
bow to anybody. Father gave him a
talk next day, but it did no good, and
two other boys quit bowing. That
evening at the close of school father
told him to wait a few minutes. He
reluctantly waited.
After the other scholars had all gone
out father closed the door aud told
him he had eitler bow or take a wbip
ping or quit the school. He studied
awhile aud said: “I’ll be durned if
I’ll do either.” Then the row begau,
and it lasted quite a while. They
wfere pretty equally matched. They
fought all over the benches aud uuder
them and turned over the water bucket
and raised a mighty commotion, but
the hickory was going all the time and
all the outside scholars were peeping
through the oracks of the log school
house. After a long struggle the boy
gave up aud bellered his way borne.
That was the end of all rebellions in
that school, and my father's reputa
tion as a teacher was established.
‘‘As polite as a Frenchman" has
grown into a proverb. The whole na
tion is polite, men, women and chil
dren. It is chiefly artificial, for it is
taught in-tbe schools; but it is pleas
ing and seems to be sincere. In Mex
ico the politeness of the higher classes
is painful. When two persons meet
at the hotel door one will decline to go
in first and the other will decline in
like mauner, and it takes a minute or
more for the question of precedence to
be deqided.
In England the courtesies of social
intercourse are never forgotten; no,
not even in a quarrel. Two English
men had a bitter quarrel here in our
towu while I was present, and each
addressed the other as “my dear
friend” and “pray excuse me” ail the
time they were quarreling. But still
that was better than our American
style of “you are an infernal liar” and
Wounded Bat*y -—~
covering—-Judi, \ -Li
tial Reveals !%.•**•-:
The third week of the
at Bennes, France, begau y
oident at 6:30 Monday mornfc : ”-=--=
M. Labori was present. 4k
to the court in a carriage and V
the hall at 6:30. The audience
him by standing up and by a
clapping of hands.
Maitre Lnbori walked quite
but holding hiH left arm close to hlw
side in order not to disturb the
He met General Mercier and General
Billot in the middle of the courtroom,
stopped, chatted and smiled. Labori
looked very well. He was given a
cushioned arm chair. Madame La
hori, looking well, was also in court.
Labori was warmly congratulated by
his friends. Captain Dreyfus, on en
tering, smilingly shook hands with
Labori.
It is said the court will get through
with the ninety odd witnesses by the
beginning of September, and it is
probable that the verdict will be de
livered about September 7th.
All of the witnesses examined dur
ing the day were hostile to Dreyfus,
but as none of the evidence was fresh
but mostly a reiteration of the old
statements, the audience followed the
depositions with comparatively little
interest.
The session wound up with a scene,
on account of extraordinary conduct
of Colonel Jouaust, president of the
court, who permitted himself to make
an unwarrantable display of partiality.
M. Bertullus bad been confronted
with the last witness, Captain Junck,
and General Gonz had defended the
latter when Colonel Picquart was asked
to be allowed to refute some of Junck’s
remarks. Colonel Jouaust made a
gesture of impatience and shouted:
“What, again?”
An outburst of loud hissing came
from the audience at such a display of
unfairness from the president. Judges
and gendarmes quickly suppressed the
noise, but Colonel Jouaust understood
the well-merited rebuke administered
him, turned red and adjourned the
court ten minutes later.
KAISER’S CABINET TO RESIGN.
Member* Hold h Meeting anil Keacli That
Decision —Emperor William Absent.
A special cablegram from Berlin,
Germany, states that Monday after
noon a cabinet meeting was held at
the residence of Prince Hohenlohe,
the imperial chancellor, and the whole
cabinet agreed to resign.
The acceptance of the minister’s res
ignation is uncertain.
Emperor William will return to Ber
lin on Wednesday, when, it is reported,
he will preside at the aabiuet council
and decide what steps are to be taken.
All kinds of rumors are afloat. One
paper asserts that the kaiser has ac
cepted the resignation of the whole
cabinet. Others are of the opinion
that the fall of Dr. Von Miquel will
ential the fall of Prince Von Hohen
lohe also, but nothing will be defi
nitely known until the emperor ar
rives.
The newspapers are still actively
commenting upon the difficulties of
the situation.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industrie* Established the
Fast Week.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported during the past week
include brick works in Texas; coal
mines in Kentucky; cooperage works
in Arkansas; three cotton mills iu
Georgia, one in Mississippi, two in
South Carolina and Tennessee; cotton
seed oil mills in Mississippi aud Texas;
two electric light plants in Tenuessee;
flouring mills in North Carolina and
Virginia; a foundry and machine shop
in Alabama; a furniture factory in
North Carolina; a grain elevator in
Arkansas; iron ore mines iu Alabama;
a knitting mill in South Carolina;
limestone quarries in Alabama; lumber
mills in Louisiana, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee; a pa
per mill in South Carolina; a tele
phone supply factory in North Car
olina; a telephone company in West
Virginia; tobacco companies iu the
Carolinas; a water and power company
in Florida; a woodworking plant iu
North Carolina.—Tradesman (Chatta
nooga, Tenn.)
abreatf of (bene stirring timet
tig nubteribing for yo*tr home paper.
The price in little, and you cannot
ojfurrt to be without it.
GUERIN ANTICIPATED ATTACK.
t’art* Outlaw Wan In Keadlnesi To De
stroy His House By Fire.
A dispatch from Paris says: Antic
ipating an attack from the gendarmes
occupying an adjacent house, M.
Guerin, president of the anti-Semite
league, and his companions, who are
barricaded in the headquarters of the
league, poured petroleum in a room
near the point from which the attack
was expected, preparatory to setting
it on fire.
The anticipated move on the part of
the officers did not materialize.
HI mb \ :Jl., dispatch
L Bes-Union and
‘ B°f the ?-t.-arnpr
of Red
i —:. .- -, tv, enty
was swept
hurricane
aSL flpst.
the storm esti-
Hlife on too
was Bpered through the
wreck Sied Bay after the
storm were hund
reds of raHfgßßpersons of all ages
and cluHsapll <
Captain! DilUpH saps the wind blew
at the rate oimnfety miles an hour at
Nassau, with-osteasional gusts which
reached the velocity of 105 miles an
hour.
WILL ARREST WHITECAPS.
Big; MasHineotinjf Held In Greenwood, S.
C., and Action Taken.
The mass meeting to consider out
rages recently perpetrated on negroes
in that section met in Greenwood, S.
C., Friday pursuant to adjournment
on Wednesday. The committee made
its report that no effort had been made
to excuse, shield or whitewash any
one, but that diligent inquiry had
failed to elicit information sufficient
to recommend the arrest of any one.
They had made the discovery, how
ever, that the situation was not as bad
as reported in the newspapers or as
they thought it to be. While it was
all the outgrowth of the Phoenix riot,
it had no direct connection with it.
The several whippings at as many dif
ferent times and places were probably
due to as many causes.
The meeting evidently thought the
committee had not been as thorough
as it might have been in the investiga
tion and several of the negroes who
had been whipped, aud who were pres
ent, were called for and questioned,
first having been pledged protection
by the white people by a unanimous
vote, for any information they might
give that would lead to the arrest of
at least some of the guilty parties.
The tales they told were harrowing
in the extreme. Especially is this
true of old man Jake Richardson, as
he told how they dragged him from a
sick bed, beat him and assaulted his
wife. No one who looked iu his face
doubted the truth of his statement,
but unfortunately he would not di
vulge the names of any of his assail
ants.
Five other negroes gave evidenoe
against Joe Jones, Jesse Cauley, Wil
liam Wilson and Robert MoCaulan, all
white men, sufficient to warrant their
arrest, and the sheriff will execute pa
pers against them at once. All the
evidence went to show that there was
a dozen or more of the whitecappers
and still others may be arrested.
Feeling over the matter is very
much wrought up, but no further
trouble is apprehended.
THOMPSON SELLS OUT.
The Augusta an<l West Florida Kailroad
Changes Hands.
An Augusta, Ga., dispatch says:
Mr. Jesse Thompson oonfirins the re
port that he has given an option for
the sale of his railroad, the Augusta
and West Florida. He did not say at
what price, but said S6OO had been
paid on the option by Mr. T. J. Jones.
The purpose of the prospective new
owners is to run the road from Wadley
to Keysville on the Tennille division
of the Southern, or failing in that, to
run to Augusta. The road as original
ly projected w r as by way of Eastman
into Florida.
ENGLISH YACHT ARRIVES.
Shamrock. Challenger For America's Cup,
In Fort at New York.
Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht, the
Shamrock, challenger for America’s
enp, l eached port at New York Friday,
accompanied by her tender, the steam
yacht Erin. The Shamrock sailed
from Failee on the Clyde August 3,and
made the voyage over in much quicker
time than was anticipated.
The Erin towed the Shamrock about
2,000 miles, and the latter sailed
something more than 1,200 miles.
Her best day’s run under canvas was
286 knots. Most of the towing was
done ffter passing the Azores, August
9th.
OYER TWO THOUSAND BURIED.
Twenty-Five Hundred Victims of Recent
Hurricane In Forte Itlco Accounted For.
It is now estimated that the bodies of
2,500 victims of the recent hurricane
on the island of Porto Rico have been
buried,that 1,000 persons were injured
during the storm aud that 2,000 people
are still missing.
Ponce is healthy, though bodies con
tinue to be found in the fields. The
authorities have decided to burn the
ruins of Yabnco.
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