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NORTHEN ADDRESSES
STATE SUMMER SCHOOL
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Discusses Need of Better State School System and
Offers Some Pertinent Suggestions.
Athens, Ga., July 17.—(Special.)—The
following is a summary of the address do
livered by Hon. W. J. Northen before the
university summer school in Athens yes
terday morping upon the “Future of the
State.” Ex-Governor Northen said:
"Since the organization of this institu
tion I have watched with increasing in
terest its steady growth in usefulness to
ai’l the people of the state. Tills new
feature, in which I now have the honor
to take part, gives me special pleasure as
it gives evidence of further enlargement
of your helpful work. I would be glad if
it were possible to attend every session
of your summer school that I might catch
the inspiration of your attendance and
your work for the betterment of our
schools and thereby the advancement of
the state.
“It lias been announced that I am to
speak to you on the future of
the state. Living as we do, un
der a republican form of govern
ment. It is a matter of wonder that
we have not yet, after all these years of
experimentation settled upon more fixed
policies for the growth and development
of our institutions. 1 have found great
interest recently in the study of the
national platforms adopted during the
last thirty years by the several political
parties. The statements therein contained
are supposed to be the expression of in
telligent statesmen as to the policies to
be adopted to secure and maintain an
ideal government for a free people. It 13
'tirioub to see, not only how men of politi
cal experience differ among themselves,
but how they actually disagree with their
own opinions as the years advance and
different political parties come into power.
In confirmation 01 what I am now saying
we have only to listen for the announce
ments to be made in the forthcoming
platforms adopted for the next national
campaign.
“Whatever may be our differences on
party lines, along commercial, industrial
and financial relations, there are certain
fundamental elements of successful free
government upon which we are all agreed
that ought to have our pronounced ad
vocacy and adherence.
“Whatever may be our personal views
and party policies we are all agreed If the
highest ideal of the nation is reached we
must attain, in each individual instance,
to ihe highest ideal of eitieenship.
"The authority of our government is not
lodged in princes, kings nor potentates,
but in the individual sovereignty of the
individual citizen. Its final character
must be illustrated in the aggregate will
of the majority. Public opinion makes
the law of the nation and the government
of the people. Public opinion is but the
aggregation of individual opinions, that
finally, either passively or in active co
operation. accept the majority as law. If
public opinion is intelligently and honest
ly formed the standard of government
will be high. If it is shaped by ignorant
men. without morals, it will be destruc
tion.
“With these statements granted and
miversally accepted, as they are. we go
further together and all agree that no
man can make an ideal citizen of a re
publican government without sufficient
education to understand and apply the
fundamental principles that ought to con
trol a free people.
“We go still further and all agree that
?o essential to good government is the
education just described that the state
should itself undertake to furnish it ab
solutely free of cost to every man who is
tn become a citizen of the commonwealth
•and exercise bls rights as a sovereign in
ontrol.
Schools Bulwark the State.
"Having gone thus far in generalities,
1 shall venture to say that the future of
the state does not depend, primarily at
least, upon the products of the soil, the
abundance and variety of its mineral re
sources. the vastness of its commerce and
Its industrial development, but upon the
Intellectual and moral strength of its
people. The meaning of this statement is,
If our government is made stable our
schools must be made efficient and all our
•hildren must receive from them the best
possible instruction. This is the natural
and logical conclusion from the universal
acceptance of the fundamental principles
just announced. If the future of tile state
depends upon tile intellectual ami moral
strength of its citizens, the future of the
state must depend, in the last analysis,
upon the character of our schools and tin
efficiency of our teachers. I am here to
say that the people to whom I am now
addressing myself carry. more completely,
the bill'd* ns of society ami of government
than do the legislative, judicial and ex
ecutive departments of tile state all com
bined. No class of our people are sup
posed to understand school matters bet
ter than those who teach the schools. If
the system is wrong, the machinery
clumsy there ought to be no one to dis-
Chronic Sores
Eating Ulcers,
Nothing is a source of so much trouble as an old sore or ulcer, particu
larly’ when located upon the lower extremities where the circulation is weak
and sluggish. A gangrenous eating ulcer upon the leg is a frightful sight,
and as the poison burrows deeper and deeper into the tissue beneath and the
sore continues to spread, one can almost see the flesh melting away and feel
the strength going out with the sickening discharges. Great running sores
and deep offensive ulcers often develop from a simple boil, swollen gland,
bruise or pimple, and are a threatening danger always, because, while all
such sores are not cancerous, a great many are, and this should make you
suspicious of all chronic, slow-healing ulcers and sores, particularly if can
cer runs in your family. Face sores are common and cause the greatest
annoyance because they are so per
sistent and unsightly and detract so SORES ON BOTH ANKLES,
much from one S personal appearance. Gentlemen : About ten years apo a
Middle aged and old people and small sore camo on each of my ankles,
those whose blood is contaminated and oatin?“lnd Un °i-
tainted Wltll the gemiS and poison ot sered intensely for nearly ten years,
malaria or some previous sickness, are I had spent more than $500.00 try
the chief sufferers from chronic sores ing to get well when I chanced to
the cniei sunerers irom enrome sores see g g g advertisert in a Memphis
and ulcers. \\ hue the blood remains m paper. I began to take it and was
an unhealthy, polluted condition heal- cured. My limbs have never been
i„g is impossible, and the sore will XV'A™ XSaJtiVk
continue to grow and spread in Spite OI a great many people, and am now
washes and salves or any superficial or giving it to my nine-year-old son for
-orfoco treatment for the sore is but Eczema. During- my long sickness I
surface treatment, tor me sore iboiu was livillg . near Memphis. Tenn., but
the outward Sign of some COllStltU- havo since removed to Kansas City,
cional disorder, a bad condition of and am now residing at No. 614
the blood and system which local East HARRIS,
remedies cannot cure. A blood purifier Kansas City, Mo.
and tonic is what you need. Some- .
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S. S. S. reaches these old chronic sores through the blood. It goes to
the very root of the trouble and counteracts and removes from the blood all
the impurities and poisons, and gradually builds up the entire system and
strengthens the sluggish circulation, and when the blood has been purified
and the system purged of all morbid,
" unhealthy matter the healing process
| f I begins, and the ulcer or sore is soon
entirely gone.
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rJ J ons drugs of any description, but is guar-
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purifier and tonic combined and a safe and permanent cure for chronic sores
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THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA,
cover ft sooner than those who are re
quired to run it. If teachers do not cre
ate public sentiment on school matters the
question comes not who will, but who
can ?
“The highest and most responsible office
held in Georgia is not found in the man
who makes the law, the judge who tries
the criminal nor in the governor who
simply administers the affairs of state,
but in th? man who controls the schools
«*»at make the citizen who deposits the
ballot that makes or unmakes the com
monwealth.
Some Suffrage Statistics.*
“May I now call your attention to some
results faom our present system that has
beer Jr. operation more than a quarter of
a century. The census taken for 1900 re
ports the white population for this state
to be 1.181,£94. Os these there are 101,264
above 10 years of age who cun neither
read nor write—over 11 per cent; 49,078
males and 52,186 females. The census fur
ther reports 270,879 white voters for the
same year, 32,082 of whom could not read
the ballot they deposited. Twelve coun
ties in the st*te furnished twenty voters
out of every 100 w-tio did not know wheth
er they held their ballots upside down or
right side up. Every four men who de
posited an intelligent ballot were accom
panied by one man who could not, for the
life of him, tell fop whom he voted. These
conditions present a spectacle at this late
day in our civilization that should arouse
to thought and action every patriotic citi
zen of the state. Thirty-two thousand il
literate white voters armed witii the
power to or unmake the state. Put
along witliXdhese white voters 125,678 il
literate neg’) voters and there is cause
for alarm tor the security of our institu
tions. I shall leave to some one else to
say what shall be done with negro voters.
I am discussing now the future of the
state from the standpoint of the white
man.
"There seems to be Inefficiency in our
system somewhere and 1 shall venture to
submit to you some criticisms for your
consideration.
My first criticism is that the general
assembly has not provided a thorough
system of common schools for the edu
cation of the children as required in
the fundamental law of the stafie. The
system fails, first, hi its organization,
and, second, in the lack of funds to
maintain it. Let It be distinctly under
stood that, in this criticism, 1 do not
intend any reflection whatever upon the
officers connected with the organization.
My criticism is not upon the officers, but
upon the system.
Faculty School System.
The first provision of the system cre
ates a board of education composed of
the governor, attorney general, secretary'
of state, tlie comptroller general and the
state school commissioner. This provi
sion is made, not for the efficiency of
the system, but it Is tried as an expe
dient to save money rather than make
citizens. Not a single member of this
board except the commissioner was
made a state officer because of his fit
ness to become a member of the state
board.
I submit, if the state seeds a commis
sion to regulate railroads so as to se
cure for us reasonable rates for the
transportation of our cotton bales to
market, surely the minds and the morals
of our children are entitled to equal
consideration ami money' investment by
the siate. If our children are entitled to
special commission to furnish guards
and enforce penalties and impose stripes
when they are guilty of violation of law,
surely, surely they are entitled to equal
consideration and money investment by
the state to prevent lawlessness and
make them citizens worthy of the state.
Why should we have a commission to
study railroads ami make rates and de
cline to have a special commission to
study school systems and make citizens'.’
If education prevents crime, why should
there be a commission to punish crime
and not a commission to prevent crime
by the proper enlightenment of the fu
ture citizen? Without going further into
criticism of the system as originally' con
structed. it is sufficient to say if has
been amended from time to time great
ly to the detriment of the schools, until
it has become a mass of contradictions
and unconstitutional irregularities.
The bill, as I understand it, now be
fore the general assembly will not, in
my judgment, meet the demands of the
case and certainly not the needs that I
am now discussing. The bill, as I am
informed, proposes a commission to be
made of a limited number of senators
and representatives to determine certain
specific phases of tile school question. I
am proposing a commission to be made
permanent, whose business it shall be to
study the whole question and formulate
a system adapted to our peculiar condi
tions ami remain in offi e after the sys
tem shall have bebn enacted into law
and through the state school commis
sioner administer the system and apply
THE WEEKLY (XXNSTITUTTON: ATLANTA. GA., MONDAY, JULY 20, 1903.
its requirements until it is made to meet
our necessities as a thorough system of
common schools. This commission, in
my judgment, should be made of two
capable school men with the stale school
commissioner, ex-officio, a member, and
not composed of members of the general
assembly who, like the members of the
present state board of education, were
not elected because of any special fitness
for considering school questions.
With such a commission as the begin
ning point in a system, the people could
feel well assured that there, would be
no need for continued unwise and hurt
ful amendments by the legislature, at
least for some time to come. For this
suggested change there would be. re
quired an additional amount of mom*i'
that would finally inure greatly to the
benefit of the state. Are not the children
of the state entitled to it?
With a commission to give the state a
system, the next criticism I would make
is found in the limited means for mak
ing teachers.
During my administration I had the
honor, in my first inaugural address, to
recommend as follows:
“If the state carries forward, success
fully, the great work it has undertaken,
We must have better teachers for the
scnools. longer terms for instruction and
better pay for the service. For the train
ing and instruction of teachers the state
needs a normal school or normal Insti
tution; for longer terms and better pay,
the system needs more money. The
governor of the state receives his salary
when it is due. The judges of the courts
receive their pay upon demand. The
members of tile general assembly obtain
their per diem upon call. The teachers
in our public schools are the only serv
ants of the state whose pay depends
upon contingency and doubt. The honor
of the state demantis a change. AU
the interests of the state urge upon you
favorable consideration of efficient plans
for the better education of the masses.”
This resulted in the extension of the
school term from three months to five;
the inauguration of the present system
of institutes and the establishment of
this most excellent normal school.
What the system needs now is an en
largement of this institution so as to
meet adequately and completely the de
mands of the state in training every
teacher that is allowed to take charge
of a. state school. The greatest evil of
the system is found in the large number
of poorly prepared teachers. If it be
true that the future of the state depends
upon the intellectual and moral strength
of its citizens, the state cannot afford
to be niggardly or sparing in the prepa
rations necessary to prepare teachers for
the grave and responsible duties that
await them.
Teachers Paid Too Little.
I desire to stress another grievous
fault of the system as found in the pain
fully small salaries paid the teachers
of the state schools. This change should
lie made not simply to get higher sala
ries for the teachers, but ithat the chil
dren may be bettor trained. “You can
get more talent to teach your boy when
you pay a good price for it than when
you pay only as much as it takes to
feed a pauper or maintain a criminal in
the county jail.”
This great body of stare teachers should
formulate some plan of demand that will
prevent the abuse they have suffered all
these years that enforces the scaling of
accounts to a miserable pittance as pay
for the services rendered the state. Press
the question until it is fully and fairly
answered. How Is it that every state
officer of the civil system, including the
negro porters at the capitol, can be
promptly paid and the teachers alone
are told to discount their bills and wait
until after everybody else consumes the
public money before thej- can hope to
get theirs? I stand here in my place to
denounce the policy as unfair and in
iquitous. Fight thousand teachers scat
tered throughout every county in the
state are enough to compel a change.
Demand your rights and Stand upon your
demands. I do not like to counsel re
bellion, lint if ever there was a time
when labor should throw down its tools
and walk away from the shop and leave
the industry untouched that time has
come to the teachers in Georgia, if your
appeals are not heard and satisfied.
Longer Terms.
My next criticism is upon the length or
rather the shortness of the school term.
A child cannot be made advance prop
erly with five months' tuition and seven
months' idleness. The state should fur
nish five months’ tuition ami require the
locality to furnish the additional two
months, or better, three by local taxa
taxation. If the state can compel a tax
for five months, the state can compel
a tax for seven months and should do ft,
if the common good so requires.
Whatever may be the plan adopted, the
term should be lengthened and attend
ance required or we will lapse, into igno
rance and possible degeneracy. Thus far
1 have discussed the system as to Its ef
ficiency. It deserves also to be consid
ered in its application. I am in position
':*> pronounce our system practically a
failure unless ihe people in the rural dis
tricts can be concentrated or the schools
consolidated.
If the school system continues in its
present lack of application the rural dis
tricts will soon bo abandoned or the chil
dren living in them will grow up without
instruction. If the change can bo made
in ei'her wav I have suggested, the rural
districts will greatly increase in popula
tion and the state be greatly advanced in
tax values thereby. Fennie arc moving
away from the rural districts because
thov cannot have satisfactory school fa
cilities and people are declining to move
in for the same reason.
A vital question to bo considered Is.
can we afford to allow these dangers
to threaten us? Shall the rural popula
tion continue tn move to the towns or
shall primer s.-honl facilities ho furnished
In the consolidation of the schools or the
concentration of the people?
Concentrate the People.
T» is gratifying to know that the con
sol’d-i ti"r of schools has h A en quite sat
isfactorily' accomplished in sonic coun
ties and that it will be tried In others,
but the hotter thing to do. if wo can
make it possible, is to concentrate the
people.
For twelve years nast I have boon try
ing to concontrafo the people in the coun
try districts by introducing the Eiironoan
svsfom of farming known as village
farms. Whilst I have brought 13.n0n peo
ple into the .state in that time I have not
boon able to locate them so as to carry
out my plans as Indicated.
If we could over Induce men of means
tn Invest in a body of land, say 2.0C0. 3.000
or 4,000 acres, and so divide it as to fur
nish small farms for twenty, thirty or
forty farmers whose homes would be
built in the center of the plat as a vil
lage, we would make an object lesson
that’would be repeated many times over
the state, as it would carry with it the
solution of all the problems that vex our
country conditions and make profitable
money investment for the stockholders.
I lujve come to you profoundly con
cerned about the future of the state as
dependent upon the conditions I have
presented to you. Recognizing the great
responsibilities you carry, because of your
relation to conditions that make our so
ciety and our citizenry, I shall give you
my "sympathy and my help whenever it
can be made possible for me to serve
you.
General Miles Took Long Ride.
El Reno, Okla., July 14.—Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles completed a
horseback ride today from Fort SIH, Ind.
T., to Fort Reno, Okla., a distance of
90 miles, in nine hours and ten minutes.
The first 35 miles was made in record
time, the distance being covered in two
hours and twenty-live minutes. Upon
completing the trip General Miles showed
no signs of fatigue, and forty minutes
after his arrival at Fort Reno reviewed
the troops stationed at that point.
The ride was taken, it is stated, to
demonstrate that General Mlles, at the
age of retirement, is still a sturdy man.
General Miles was accompanied by Cap
tain Sayre, of the Eighth cavalry.
WASHINGTON’S ABLE TALK.
ADDRESS WAS HEARD BY LARGE
ASSEMBLY. *
To Atlanta Audience He Declares
That the South Is the Proper
Place for the Npgro.
For a reign of law and order; of race
love and race harmony. Such was the
keynote of a stirring address delivered by
Booker Washington before a crowd, most
ly white, that comfortably filled Turner's
Tabernacle, in Atlanta, last Monday eve
ning.
In his every utterance there was an
appeal for the black men to recognize the
fact that their best friends and their
best interests were right here in the
southland, and that it was for them to
improve these opportunities in such a
way that the white men would recognize
their ability as laborers and admit the
fact that they could not get along with
out them.
“Work, work with your hands and put
Ihe best that is in your head into the work
of your hands. Do it better than any one
else can do it. Buy your own houses.
Buy land. Have a bank account. Don’t
spend seven days at a camp meeting
when you ought to be improving your
farm. Learn how to use your hands in
sucti away that no one can take your
place. Be tax payers. And when you are
tax payers you will have the best inter
ests of the community in your heart, and
tills much mooted race question will have
been settled.”
So preached Dr. Washington, inter
spersing his remarks with telling and
pertinent stories, sometimes pathetic,
more often humorous, but with a homely
truth so strongly borne out that no one
could mistake ihe purport and the mis
sion of the experience r anecdote.
“While 1 will not attempt to deny tlie
injustice of slavery, we of my race
must ever remember that we owe much
to our masters, it was between the slaves
of tlie older generations and their mas
ters that seeds of friendship were sown
that must not be forgotten and let us all
see to it that these ties are strengthened
rather than torn down, as they have
so often been done. We must remember
too that slavery put us in touch witii
skilled labor and we came here out of
Africa without a language and without
means of using our hands ami we have
come out American citizens carrying
Bibles and opportunities for education.
I thank God for the fact that Georgia
did not yield to the temptation of dividing
the colored school fund and this shows
where our friends, our real friends, are
to be fojind. »
PARTICIPANT IN LYNCHING
MURDER PURE AND SIMPLE
—Justice Brewer.
Milwaukee, Wis., July 13.—“ Every man
who participates in the lynching or the
burning of a negro is a murderer pure
and simple.’’
This opinion was given by Associate
Justice David G. Brewer, of the United
States supreme oourt. who is in Mil
waukee on private business.
"Os course," explained Judge Brewer,
"there may be extenuating circumstances
which would vary tlie degree of the
crime, but the principal participants in
the crime can be held by any court in the
land for murder in the same degree as
if the crime was committed by an in
dividual.
"There is going to boa reaction against
the atrocious crimes with which the
papers have been filled. The fact that
the people are now ini n s'lng themselves
in the discussion of thD problem makes
manifest the fact that, there is a ten
dency toward a change. I expect that
it will come soon. 1 cannot say what
form it will take, but there will be an
uprising of popular f '. ling against lynch
ings which will result in a remedy.”
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LEAGUERS HOLD MEETINGS.
Bishop Galloway First Speaker on
the Pentecost.
Detroit, July 16.—Epworth Leaguers,
17.000 of wh’om are in Detroit for the an
nual convention, tonight held four Pente
costal meetings in Tent Ontario, the Cen
tral Methodist Episcopal church, the De
troit opera house and the Fort Street
I’resbyt -rian church. Tent Ontario, wi.li
siatlng capacity of 5,000, was jammed
to suffocation and tlie opera house and
the Central Methodist Episcopal church
were crowded, while the Fort street
church was well filled.
At Tent Ontario Bishop C. B. Galloway,
of Jackson, Miss., bishop of the Methodist
church, south, was the first speaker on
"Tlie Twentieth Century Pentecost.” .His
splendid .eloquence called forth “Amens”
and "Hallelujahs’’ from all parts of the
tent. B.shop Galloway described the
Pentecostal meetings in li~9 that resulted
in the founding of Methodism by John
Wesley and his coadjutors, who, guided
by the divine spirit in their founding of
tlie church, for, he said, nothing con
ceived entirely by human instrumentali
ty could have achieved such mighty
tilings as Methodism had. "Men talk,’’ the
1 ishop said, "of tin wonderful organiza
tion of tlie Methodist church, but our
wonderful system of theology' has done
more than even our great organization."
He spoke of tlie .■i-entennary of John
Wesley and said:
"Let u R let the spirit of those biccn
t< nnai'.v days bring us closer together as
members of one great family. There is
I hirty
Days Was My Life’s
Limit.
Agony Freni Inherit
ed Heart Disease.
Dr. Mites’ Heart Cure
Cured Me.
One person in every tour has a weak heart.
Unless promptly treated a weak heart will
easily become a diseased heart. A little extra
strain from any cause is sufficient to bring on
this deadly malady, the most common cause
of sudden death. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure will
tone up the heart's action, enrich the blood
and improve the circulation.
“My trouble began with catarrh and I have
always supposed it caused the trouble I have
experienceti with my heart. 1 had the usual
symptoms of sleeplessness, lost appetite, con
stipation, palpitation 1 f the heart, shortness
of breath and pain around the heart and un
der left arm. My mother suffered in the same
wav and I suppose mine was an inherited
tendency. At one time I was in agony. I
suffered so severely e.nd became so weak
that my doctors said I could not live thirty
days. At this time I had not slept over two
hours a night on account of nervousness.
The least exercise, such as walking about,
would bring on palpitMion and fluttering of
the heart so severe that 1 would have to give
1 up everything and rest. Nerve and Liver
Pills cured me of constipation and heart
symptoms disappeared under the influence
of Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure. I am in
better health than I have been in twelve
years and I thank Dr. Miles' Remedies for it.
I think thev are the grandest remedies on
earth and I am cons tant| y recommending
them to my friends." -Mrs. L. J. Cantrell,
Waxahachie, Tex,
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a spirit abroad that calls on us, north
and south, and demands that we lock
shields and unite together ugulnst the
common toe."
The convention was opened at 2:30
o’clock this afternoon with three groat
meetings—one in tent Ontario, at the
center of Focrth and Lafayette avenues,
one in the Detroit opera house, and one
in Central Methodist Episcopal church.
Each meeting followed identically the
same programme, addresses of welcome,
responses and a keynote address. The
large chorus organized tuning the local
singers to furnish the music for the
convention was divided and one-third of
the number sang in each auditorium
under the leadership of Evangelists
John Hillis, J. W. Black and Charles D.
Tillman.
More Religion for the Blacks.
Detroit. July 17.—There was no lessen
ing of enthusiasm among the Epwoith
Leaguers tonight and Tent Ontario. Audi
torium Epworth, the Detroit opera house
and Central Methodist Episcopal church,
where tonight’s meetings were held, were
crowded again.
Dr. H M. Hatnil. of Nashville, Tenn.,
talked on "The Field Near at Hand
nt tlie tent meeting, and in his address
referred to the negro question. "We
have made the negro,” he said, "a tiling
to be batted to and fro by political par
ties and we have forgotten his religion
in a large measure. What we need is
to spend more time in putting the grace
of Christ in the hearts of tlie black peo
ple. What we need to do to solve the
negro problem is to transform any in
stinct of savagery that may exist in the
few of that race, in order to stop tlie
lighting of faggots and the raising of
'ikes It is our only hope. And when
von of the north write resolutions con
demning mob law, remember that it is
not Methodist hands that pull the ropes
and light the fires."
In Auditorium Epworth Key. M. N.
Waldrup, of Bentonville Ark. was chair
man and Rev. A. B. Leonard, of New
York spoke on “The Field bar Away.
Referring to the negro question, he said:
“Whether it be Englishman. French
man Turk, German or Portuguese that
makes conquests in Africa, the African is
his helpless victim. Nor is America free
from the shame and sin of oppiessing
ami cruelly treating the children of Ham
Brought In-re, without their consent, as
human merchandise, liberated after two
centuries of slavery by the exigencies
of war. thev aye now outcasts, socially
and politically, and often denied the right
of trial by jury they are shot or hang
ed or burned at the stake, both in the
north and in the south. American Chris
tians trust see to it that the negroes shall
have a fair chance in the race of life tn
America, and als? do their utmost to
give him the gospel in his native land ”
Rev. George R. Stewart, of Cleveland,
Tenn., stirred his audience in the tent
to a high pitch of enthusiasm with bis
address during the "Moments of Walt
ing.” He talked against higher criticism
and scientific preaching and polities in the
pulpit and urged a return to the old-fash
ioned “gospel preaching.”
TENT ENDEAVOR BLOWN DOWN
Thousands Were in Peril, but No
One Was Seriously Injured.
Denver, Col.. July 13.—The big Tent En
deavor, in which the Christian Endeavor
convention has been held for the last
four days, was blown over this afternoon
while mole than 8,000 persons were under
the canvas, and nearly' a score of men
and women were slightly injured. Mrs.
Jessie M. Thornburgh, of Denver, was
the most severely hurt. Her nose was
gashed and her scalp received several
cuts.
A. M. Ramsey, of Chicago, quickly
sprang on a chair and called to the
people to hold up the canvas and poles.
This allowed air to circulate and pre
vented suffocation. As it was, many
women fainted and were extricated from
the folds of the canvas with much dif
ficulty. Mrs. Winifred Sleep, of Den
ver. who was in charge of St. Mark's
hospital tent, seeing the catastrophe at
the big tent, telephoned to the electric
light company to shut off the current.
This prevented any damage from the live
wires that had fallen with the tent poles.
Boys Start a Costly Blaze.
San Luis Obospo, Cal., July 15 One-sixth
of the business portion of this city has been
burned with a loss of more than $102,000. At
one time the Are threatened to destroy the
business center of th*? town. Boys are be
lieved to have started ths blaze, which soon
spread.
DOOMED TO THE DEATH CHAIR.
Knapp, Ohio Multi-Murderer, Is
Convicted at Hamilton.
Hamilton Ohio, July 16.—Alfred Knapp
was convicted of murder in the first de
gree for the murder of his wife, Hannah
Goddard Knapp, by Judge Belden’s jury
here today.
The verdict was reported at 7:30 o'clock,
the jury having been out since 5 o’clock
last night. To the surprise of everybody,
there was no recommendation of mercy
and the famous criminal must go to the
electric chair. The jury stood ten tor
conviction without mercy and two for
conviction with mercy, being unanimous
for guilt.
The result of the trial is accepted with
great satisfaction by the public, as hope
of a conviction became low when the
jury remained out so long. Knapp s
mother and sister were much affec.ed
when they heard tlie verdiet.
The live case's tn which Knapp confessed
February 26, to officials here, are as fol
lows:
IRMA LITTELMAN. killed in a lumber
yard at Cincinnati, June 21, 1894.
MAY. ECKERT, murdered in a room on
Walnut street, Cincinnati, August 1,
1894. , ,
JENNIE KNAPP, thrown into canal at
Liberty street, Cincinnati, August 7. 1894.
IDA GEBHARD, strangled at Indianap
olis, July, 1895.
HANNAH KNAPP, murdered at Ilam
ilton, December 22, 1992, and thrown into
rhe Miami river at Ljndenwald; tin- body
found in tlie Ohio, opposite Louisville.
No visitors wen allowed to sv>- Ln.'ipp
today. Three hours alter convation
Knapp said:
“I suppose it's all off with me.
POLITICS IN OLD NORTH STATE.
Eight Aspirants for Democratic
Nomination for Governor.
Raleigh, N. C., July 14.—(Special.)—
There are at least eight aspirants for
the democratic nomination for governor
next year, and four of these have been
actively at work for several months to
secure it.
One of the men while not an avowed
aspirant, yet a very strong man. is
M. 11. Justice, now on the superior court
bench. There is now a movement to get
Judge Justice to take the nomination for
the supreme court.
It is known that Judge George 11.
Brown, now on the Si>l>erlor court bench,
will in all probability be one of th. nomi
nees for the supreme court. There will
be two vacancies.
Friends of Theodore IT. Davidson, of
Asheville, desire to get Judge Hoke out
of the way and make the road clear for
their favorite.
MORE QUARTERS TO BE BUILT.
To Greatly Increase Accommodations
at Camp Chickrtnauga.
Chattanooga. Tenn., July 13.—(Spacial.)—
Official orders have been received from
the war department to advertise for the
proposals for the construction of quarters
for another squadron.
Barracks for two squadrons are now
nearing completion and before they have
been received by the government work
will have commenced on the quarters for
the last squadron.
Advertisements for proposals will bo
made at once, and it is expected that bids
will have been received and opened by
the middle of August, when they will be
immediately forwarded to the office of
the quartermaster general with captain
Slocum's recommendation and the con
tracts awarded.
It is expected now that work on the
IS THIS WHAT AILS YOU?
Do you spit up your fijfed?
Do you belelv gas?
Do you swell sfter
eating?
Do you have heart-
F 2a burn?
]_ _ Do you have short-
ness of breath?
Ila HW? you have pains in
. jtSw/ in the chest?
Do you have sore
ness in tlie right side? ■
i?., you have numb ;
feelings?
J 'ou have cold '
? and;? and feet?
Do you suffer with |
constlpatloh or diarrhea'.' 1 can cure you.
Dr. Tucker, Broad street. Atlanta. Ga. I
I barracks will commence about Scptem-
I her 1. The specifications will call tor
| bids for the construction of fifteen build
ings with all modern conveniences. The
I buildings to be erected are as follows:
I Ore for the headquarters of the command
i ing officer, two double captains' quarters,
| two double lieutenants’ quarters, two
I double barracks, five stables, tw > stable
guard houses and one building to be used
as the qnarterm.iMtei-'s simps. This will
allow the post to accommodate a lull
regiment of cavalry.
MORE VICTIMS OF TOY PISTOL.
Eight Deaths from Lockjaw Occurred
at Pittsburg.
Cleveland, Ohio. July 15 —Charles Hines,
of this city, died today of tetanus.
'.as a result of an injury from a toy pisto:
i received July 4. This makes the eighth
• deatli here from lockjaw since the Fourth
! of July.
South Norwalk, Conn.. July 15. —Arthur
Cunningham, aged 12 years, is dead of
lockjaw resulting from injuries received
from sparks while firing a toy pistol.
i Brother of Mrs. Fair Injured.
| New Brunswick. N J.., July 16.—Fred
erick Nelson, of New Market, a brother
of Mrs. I’liarb-s Fair, who was killed in
an automobile accident abroad, had a
narrow escape from a similar death to
day. Nelson anil a friend. Nit Titsworth,
were returning from the seasherc in an
automobile. When near this city the
brakes refused to work anil the machine
rushed down hill and dashed into a. tree,
badly bruising and stunning both men
and wrecking the automobile.
Rev. Kelsey Declines Call.
Hartford, Conn, July 11.—(Special.)—
11. il. Kelsey, pastor of tlie Fourtn
Congressional church, Hartford, who has
liad for some we> ks tile call to til ■ presi
dency of Talladega college under con
sideration, has declined the call in a let
ter to the executive committee of the
American Missionary Association in New
York.
The Bible Suits All.
The Premium Bible came three or four
weeks ago, but do not think it Is lack of
appreciation that I have not expressed
my thanks sooner, for I assure you that
it came in good time, as I was wishing
lor a new one, and one of that size, it
is the nicest 1 have ever seen.
MRS. A. E. HUDSON.
Paris, Tex., January 21, 1903.
The Forty-second,
(JULY 22, 1864.)
In that far-gone July when blue and gra)
Were battling 'round Atlanta's bloody
rim,
And ghostly Death rode ’twixt them,
glad and grim,
Who hold the salient of that fateful fray?
Across tlie rails of yonder iron way
The Forty-second, wolf-like, lean and
slim.
Fought back and forth at fortune's
taunting whim
And held sev'n-fold themselves at baffl'd
bay!
Thermopylae was but a butcher's pen;
I he Alamo a murder done in mass;
And Balaklava was a chase of swine!
But here the valor of those Georgian men
No other race or age did e'er surpass.
For they who fight for Truth are full
divine!
tranis-mississipfi congress.
Official Call for Meeting- at Seattle
Has Keen Issued.
(’ripple Creek, Colo., July 18.—The offl
ciai call foj- the next meeting of the
jons-Mississippt Commercial congress, at
Seattle, Wash., has been issued. The
<lat.e s fixed are August 18, 19. 20 and 21.
•Vule from the commercial relations of
the western country with the Orient, there
will ho other topics to be discussed and
legislation recommended to the national
congress more directly affecting the peo
ple of the West.
Among these are irrigation, improve-
I moms or harbors and water war, the gov-
L rnmental department of mines'and min
! ing. good roads, commercial relations with
; the f'entral and South American republics.
| beet sugar industry, the encouraging of
■ the home manufacturer, statehood for
territories, legislation for Alaska, Isth-
I mian canal, consular service, preservation
of forests, postal service, eta.
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