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HILL'S HOT ROAST OF THE PRESIDENT. .« ithout Mentioning His Name He Lands on Roosevelt for His Al leged Fondness for the Spectacular—Great Crowd Present. , Olcott Beach, N. Y., August 19.—From twenty to thirty thousand people at tended the annual picnic of the Niagara County Pioneers’ Association today. The morning was taken up with a business meeting of the association, followed by a reception to former Senator David B. Hill. An immense crowd gathered at the open air theater, where the exercises of the day occurred. Attorney General Cunnen was the first speaker. He extolled the Industry, intel ligence and character of the pioneers of western New York. Mr. Cunnen then paid a tribute to Senator Hili, who was the next speaker. Mr. Hill, in opening, discussed “Mob Law v. Due Process of Law." He said; “Mob violence is not rendered less ob jectionable, even if it bo true, as fre quently asserted, that unless JI shall in terpose its strong arm the guilty may escape punishment through a lax admin istration or the criminal laws or inulffer ..□a to its enforcement on the part of tne people themselves. The very excuse ottered is a reflection on Hie community itself where the crime has been committed and the remedy lies, not in the. people themselves overriding the law. but in the people upholding and enforcing the law, and in an appeal to their patriotism, their good sense, their innate sense of justice and respect for order—qualities seldom, or ever, evoked in vain. We cannot per mit this government to become a mob ocrocy, which aets upon impulse, feels bo restraint and recognizes no appeal from its hasty prejudgment. “Crimes which can only be punished by such irresponsible tribunals as mobs might as well not be punished at all. be cause in the end the remedy will be found to be worse than the disease. “The duty of every American citizen who loves bis country and its free in stitutions is plain. Ho should assist in the creation of a healthy public senti ment. which should demand that no per son changed with crimes be punished therefor except under due process of law nnd by lawful officials. and after a trial . before a court ami jury, as provided by I the wise and beneficent provisions of our I federal constitution and their vital *'.<>- | visions, s»r> essential to the public wef- j fare, must be respected in every part 1 of our domain and wherever our Ameri can flag shall n rm.anently float, and ' every- man. whether white or black. na-,i five or foreign born, rich or poor, educa ted or unlettered, must be protected in ! his life and liberty ” Does He Mean Roosevelt? Taking up another subject, Mr. Hill I Baid: "The tendency of the times is toward I Indulgence in ttiat peculiar speech or sen- | Bational performance which may be. char- I acterized in general terms as ‘spectacu- j larism,’ if I may be permitted to coin that word. ’Spectacularists usually affect su.pe- | rlority over other people; in the matter ■ of patriotism, they desire to be regarded 1 as the only true patriots; they assume J to possess all th" virtues, while other . pi- pb in their estimation possess all the ■ vice. They abhor silence and obscurity. They a.-sert the ommono'-’t kind of self evident propositions, “Which have become | moss covered from age, with an emphasis I fts though they were oracles and as though their platitudes were wholly orig inal. “They have their press agents who, un solicited, supply the naw.sj ipers gratu! tuously with the details of what they do I each morning, noon and night, as though the world was holding its breath for J fear that something would escape it per- i taming to themselves. If they happen j hold a public office they are delighted ; "**.<-> see their smallest public acts paraded, t magnified and applauded. They are sura ! that there was never H efore such public ; officials as themselves -so earnest, so | honest, so self-sacrificing. They meddle 1 with everything, whether within or with out their official jurisdiction, and usually I muddle everything with which they have | anything to do “ gpectacularism. ns he Interpreted, is n I sort of disease- it expands the head and contracts the conscience; and may np •nroprlatelv be called ego mania, which jc -••'other name r or egoti.sm “The hone of the wintrv lies in the great mass of cool, deliberate and con- I servnt’.ve citizens who nursue their avo- | cations and perform unostentatiously and i entertain sincere convictions of their i life's work. They neither delight in war, i tn contention, nor in unne-'ossa rv strife, j Thev carry no chin nnon their shoulders. | always looking for trouble. Their ways I I If so then your system is out of balance, and 4-| W J there is a flaw somewhere in your constitution, Ks-g and a possibility that you are losing health, too. wS The falling off in weight may be slight, but it makes ■ » a wonderful change in one’s looks and feelings, and <L unless the building up process is begun in time, vitality and strength are soon gone and health. quickly follows. If you are losing weight there is a cause for it. Your blood is deteriorating and becoming too poor to properly nourish the body, and it must be purified and enriched before lost weight is regained. It requires something more than an ordinary tonic to build up a feeble constitution, for unless the poisons and germs that are lurking in the blood are destroyed, they will further im poverish the blood and weaken the system, and you continue to lose weight. In S. S. S. will be found purifying and tonic properties combined. It not onlv builds up weak constitutions, but searches out and destroys germs WONDERFUL GAIN IN WEIGHT, and poisons of every description and Huntsville, Ala., Jan. 10,1903. cleanses the system of all impurities, Some years ago my general health thus laying the foundation for a * p ” c wa ?; “V nervous system was , .1,- v.-nlr/hfr shattered, and I could set nothing- to healthy, steady increase tn weight do mo any good t _ u to uee and future good health. S. S. S. I commenced to improve at Food may be bountiful and tne once. My appetite became splendid appetite good, but still the system and from 135 pounds I increased to weakens and we remain poor in flesh iso. I became well again by taking unless what we eat is properly digested S. s. s. and would take no amount for and turned into rich, pure" blood, the good it did me. My health is e q S re-inforces the Stomach and uow Perfect, and I believe if every aids the digestion and assimilation of lwly a bot V® of , S - 8 I 8 ’ aius inv s, occasionally, they would enjoy life food, and there is a rapid tip-btulding ag j. amdoing . # w , L . WINSTON, of health and strength, b. S. S. acts promptly and beneficially upon the nervous system, strengthens and tones it up, and relieves the strain by producing sound, refreshing sleep. You can find no tonic so invigorating as S. S. S., and being composed exclusively of roots and herbs its use is attended with no bad effects. Old people will find that it braces them up, improves the circulation of the blood, and stimulates all the bodily organs, and persons of delicate constitutions can f ta^e S- S. S. with safety, as it does not derange the Stomach like the strong mineral remedies, but acts gently and without any shock to the system. Those whose feelings tell them they are not strong or well, and who are growing thinner and falling below their usual weight, should take a course of S. S. S. and build up again. S. S. S. is recognized everywhere as the leading blood purifier and the safest and best of all tonics. We cheerfully furnish medical advice, without charge, to all who will write us. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., A TLANTA, GA. are ways of pleasantness and their paths are paths of peace, and they believe that righteousness, more than the triumphs of war, exalteth a nation.” The “Prosperity” Question. Mr. Hill discussed “Fictitious v. Real Prosperity” as follows: “There is rz chorus of assertion, con stantly reiterated, that the country c.t the present time is enjoying a period of much prosperity. Yet there are grave reasons for doubting the entire correct ness of the statement. It is conceded that many public works are in process of construction and many important en terprises are in process of development, but the fact must be borne in mind that most of these schemes are being floated on borrowed capital—that the future Is being largely mortgaged—and that profit* to hereafter accrue and dividends io be hereafter declared are already being anticipated and there is no adherence to the good, old-fashioned and safe doctrtn* of 'paying as you go.’ The country has been surfeited with the issue of various stocks and bonds Which have been palmed off on a confiding public under the prom ise of profits—never earned and not llkeiy to be earned, until a financial reaction has set in whi< it has disturbed public confidence, inaugurated a. falling market and temporarily, at least, even If not ror some time to come, prevented safe finan cial investments; and the end is not yet. “Commercial centers seem to be look ing to congress for some sort of financial relief, the exact nature of which Is not stated twice alike. You will recall the fact that it wa~ only a few years ago when there arose a. demand for tne repeal of the Sherman silver law on the ground that silver was too cheap or too plentiful to warrant its continued coinage as money meta> and compulsory silver purchases were accordingly stop ped, and properly so; and soon there after arose a clamor upon congress for the creation of a single gold standard be cause better money was said to be de sired, and the single gold standard meas ure, such as it was. was duly enacted and the financial millennium was freely predicted; and now when a falling mar ket is depreciating values and wrecking fortunes we are told that we must Im mediately have additional financial legis lation providing for what the next speak er of the house of representatives has recently described or dubbed as a 'rubber currency.’ The question is presented whether this proposed measure is in the interest of the people or otherwise. We are informed that its details are not yet wholly perfected, but it is announced that its principal feature is in substance and effect an authorization of the loan ing by the government to national banks of the surplus in the treasury of the United States upon 'approved' securi ties. “The financial situation will indeed be desperate when such expedients as loan ing the people's money to corporations is suggested rather than relieving the people from the taxation which has produced the accumulation of surplus and which accumulation has largely caused the present congestion in the money market.’’ Honest Elections in the North. j (From The Providence. R. 1.. Telegram.) . 'A e are inclined to applaud every word j of the editorial from the valued Atlanta . Constitution, produced elsewhere on this page, dealing with the opportunity for Representative Crumpacker, the champion lof purity in elections, to labor in the ; north, where, in the republican-controlled I slates of Rhode island, Vermont, New • Hampshire. Connecticut. Delaware and 1 Pennsylvania, there is need of just such , reforms as Mr. Crumpacker likes to talk 1 about as being vitally necessary in the I democratic south. j it will he recalled that Mr. Crumpacker j introduced a resolution In the last con- ■ gross providing for an investigation into > the practice of negro suffrage suppression j in the southern states. i He supported his resolution with the • argument that the south had a represen i tation in congress out of all just propor- ■ lion to the actual population of the states , represented. He claimed that while the ' colored citizens counted in the census : used as a basis for apportioning the con gressional representati a they were not i permitted to count at the polls and that. I therefore, until the negro was allowed to exercise his right of suffrage, the number of southern representatives in congress should bo reduced. There is sound sense in the view that i the republican r< former Crumpacker can I find work enough to do in the north and west along the line of his specialty with ■ ; out going south, where he is neither want !rd nor needed. In his own western coun i try—in Ohio. Indiana and lillnqjs. all good j republican states at present—he might put hi his spare time teaching the whites to I refrain from making murderous war on I the bla»s. I As to Rhode Island, many sincere re formers would welcome Mr. Crumpacker’s ■ advice and assistance in dealing with the evil conditions obtaining through the reprehensible practices of the corrupt re publican machine. —* Horn Mangled by Dynamite. Walter, Okla.. August 18.—Professor E. Horn, until recently prominent in Ala bama educational circles, was fatally in jured lure by the explosion of a stick of dynamite. He was horribly mutilated. Both hands were blown off, his abdomen and breast were blistered and portions of his nose, chest and chin were torn away. Professor Horn had intended throwing the dynamite into the creek to kill fish. THE WEEKLY OONbUIIUTIUNi ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1903. NEBRASKA CALLS FOB ROOSEVELT, Platform Declares Against Bryanlsm, Favors Expansion and Devotes a Paragraph Against “Sti fling” of Competition by Trusts. Lincoln. Nebr., August 18.—The republi can state convention today nominated for associate justice of supreme court John B. Barnes, of Madison county, and for regents of the State university Charles S. Allen, of Lancaster, and W. G. Whitmore, of Douglas. President Roosevelt received the heartiest commendation and a decla ration was made for his renomination. The unexpected feature of the conven tion was the adoption by unanimous vote of a resolution declaring John L. Webster, of Omaha, one of the delegates to the convention and ono of the well-known party leaders of the state to be the choice of Nebraska republicans for vice presi dent in 1904. The platform begins with a declaration of congratulation on the overthrow of Bryanlsm in the home of its nativity and continues; “We congratulate the state that we have made it manifest that there is no perma nent place in American politics for a po litical leader who bases his claims for popular support on the failures or disap pointment of the people. “We congratulate the state that this political revolution has been worked out without the people having been made to suffer any of that multitude of calamities so vehemently predicted by our enemies. Bouquets for Roosevelt. “We congratulate ourselves that the people of the state are enjoying all the manifold blessings of general prosperity that we foretold would follow the election of our late, superb and grand American patriot president, William McKinley, and whose magnificent policy is now being carried into full and complete execution in a masterly way by the strong will and clear judgment of President Theodore Roosevelt. “The Philippines are ours as the legiti mate and crowning result of honorable warfare, and we hold them not lor barter or sale, but as a part of the national do main, made sacred to us by the American blood which has been shed to plant and maintain the Stars and Stripes upon the far-off isles of the Pacific ocean. "Under the administrations of the re- I publican presidents, McKinley and Roose ' volt, the people of those islands have re i eeived the benefit of American laws and : are being educated in schools conducted by American teachers. As to the Question of Trusts. “We adhere to the American protective policy of the republican party; me re publican party recognizes that legitimate business fairly capitalized and honestly conducted has increased our industries at home and expanded our trade abroad, but the republican Tarty is unalterably op posed to all combinations of capital under whatever name, having for their purpose the stifling of competition and arbitrarily controlling production or fixing prices.” A merchant marine is favor'd. The closing plank of the platform reads: “We congratulate, not only ourselves, but the people at large, that the admin istration of our national affairs and our negotiations with foreign nations are be ing conducted by the courageous republi- ; can president, who knows no fear, who courts no favor, but who loves peace I crowned with honor and in whose charge | we have a feeling of perfect safety and security—a president whom the American people now desire to honor with a second term as the chief magistrate of the great est and grandest nation of the earth— Theodore Roosevelt.” The Value cf a Trade-Mark. A trade mar'll is usually some one par ticular mark on goods to show their ori gin. but. as a matter of fact, any new, original quality, feature or characteristic of an article of .manufacture, if widely made known through advertising, be comes valuable as a trade mark, and is protected by the courts, so that one arti cle may have many “trade marks” that belong to it alone. Thus, for example, in the case of Cascarets, Handy Cathar tic. the name "Cascarets." the expres sion “Candy Carthartic,” the peculiar shape and color of box, the octagonal tablet, and the letters “C. C. C." on each tablet, all are expressive trade "marks’’ of that popular medicine, be cause they Indicate their genuineness, distinguish them from imitations and have become universally known to the people. Southern Progress. Macon News: The south is fast com ing into her own. One of the choicest spots in the United States of America, there is no reason why this part of the country may not become the wealthiest and most prosperous part. It was shown in a spech made by a prominent southern citizen at the Clemson gathering of south ern planters, last week, that the increase of capital Invested in enterprises in the south is 348 per cent, while in the United States the increase was only 253 per cent; that the increase in the value of products of the factories in the south from 1880 to 1900 was 220 per cent, and in the United States 142 per cent; that in 1880 there wero 164 cotton mills in the south with 561,360 spndles; in 1902 there were 570 cot ton mills with 6.480.974 spindles. Tn 1860 there were in the United States n*)0,0000 spindles, and in 1900 there were 19.000.000 spindles. During the vear 1902 there were located tributary to the line of the South ern railway 663 factories, having a capital of $19,000,003. The railroads in 1860 in the United States had a trackage of 30.090 miles, while In 1900 the roads In the south alone had a trackage of 55,000 miles. PRISONER CAPTURED GUARD. Alleged Criminal Turned Tables on Sleeping Detective. Cheyenne, Wyo.. August 19.—Albert Ecklund, alias George Johnson, who was captured at Rawlins and was being taken back to Chicago" to answer the charge of grand larceny, effected a remarkable escape from Detective Wllllarh Marsden. Marsden left Rawlins last night with Ecklund. and to make sure of his man shackled him' to a seat In the smoking compartment of a chair car. While Marsden was sleeping beside his prisoner, Ecklund went through the detective's pockets, secured the keys to the shackles, released himself and then shackled the officer to the steam pipes. Having relieved the officer of his weap ons and other property, Ecklund left the train at Laramie. Marsden was not awakened by the conductor until Che yenne was reached, when he called for assistance. As Marsden had absolutely nothing on his person to prove that he was not a prisoner, the trainmen would not release him. The railroad authori ties telegraphed to Chicago for instruc tions. and when the train reached Syd ney Marsden was finally released from his predicament. Tonight he passed through Cheyenne en route to Laramie to try to effect the recapture of bls prisoner. Hurricane Sweeps Tampico Washington, August 19.—The state de partment today received the following ca blegram from Samuel Magill, United States consul at Tampico, Mexico: ''Strong hurricane here for twelve hours. Much damage to property.” SOUTH IS ROCKED BY BILL CHANDLER. Speaking at Unveiling of Monument to Chester A. Arthur, Chandler Declares Negroes Are Be ing Rosnslavcd Also Attacks Roosevelt. Fairfield, Vt., August 29.—A granite monument marking the site of the birth place of the late Preßident Chester A. Arthur was dedicated here today. The principal speaker was Former Sen ator William E. Chandler, of New Hamp shire, who was secretary of the navy in Arthur's cabinet. Negroes and the Suffrages. Mr. Chandler said in part: “It is not inappropriate here and now to conjecture what Arthur would do, or try to do, or wish to do if he Uvea tn this beginning of a new century when the condition of the colored race as de fined and supposed to be made secuie at the close of the war for the union oy three amendments of the national con ntitution, is being radically and wicked ly changed. “The thirteenth amendment gave free dom to five millions of slaves. The fourteenth guaranteed to the new citi zens the equal protection of the laws, With the wiiites, including due process of law when charged with crime. The fifteenth gave them the right of eut frage as the most potent protection when exercised, to life, liberty and th» pursuit of happiness. “But now so it is that the existing ten millions of colored citizens are to live and endure under three new principles whose advocates deliberately defy the constitution of tire country. First, they are not to vote. This Is the avowed purpose of the controlling southern whites. In some states they are kept from the ballot box under cunningly contrived constitutions and laws whicn are In direct conflict with the fifteenth amendment. In other states intimida tion and violence continue to be the method of suppressing the colored votes. The suppression is overwhelming, radical and complete by direct purpose of the south. The fifteenth amend ment says that congress shall enforce the right of suffrage by appropriate laws. Congress wholly omits to do this, and under President Cleveland In 1894 the national election laws then existing were repealed. The north continues to submit to their repeal. By the sup pression of the suffrage, southern states obtain a representative in congress and a presidential elector for every 200.000 of the colored people—fifty congress men and fifty electors in all for the ten millions; the power of which fifty con gressmen and tiftv electors is contf/illed and exercised by the white southern ers. Quite likely these fifty electors will change the result of the next presi dential election. The north continues to submit to this wrong. Attacks on. ths South. “Second, emboldened by northern apa thy in reference to the suppression of the votes of the colored people, the south ias adopted another principle. The col ored men are not to have the equal pro tection of tire laws in the exercise of their fundamental rights as citizens Ahen charged with crime they are not to be duly indi-.tev and formally tried by jury. They are to be charged with crime by irresponsible mobs; they are to be found guilty by tin outcries of the same mob and they are tc. be summarily put to death by the violent hands of the sune mob—by shooting, hanging, burn ing; with maiming, mutilation and ex »-i . ein tin ■; torture. ~Ms is almost the universal practice as to every colored citizen charged with a crime of vio.encc. Illis principle is generally adopted a; the south and it is expending northward. No power of the nation is exerted to op pose it. No sincere and earnest decla ration is made agai. st it by any political party willing to stake its whole existence on the issue of the conflict, as were the j men of 185-i and JM--. "Third, not even is the thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery sacred in the sight of the oppressors of the colored people of America The infamous va grancy laws by which in 1865 it was sought to reenslave the newly emanci pated colored man, but which were In 1867 swept away by the rising tide of northern indignation, are being reenacted thirty-eight years later in some of the southern states; and the practice of peonage—the virtual enslavement of col red laborers—has been going forward fi>r several years without discovery by the north. co;<.-«quently without resist ance. “Wrongs Are Real.” “No man desires less than I to revive sectional issues, with the war for seces sion more than a tjifrd of a century be hind us and a history rather than an experience to most of the American peo ple-only a history to the active, influen tial and powerful m-'n who control America today. But the wrongs to whicn I am calling attention are real and terri fying and they will not down because It is disagreeable for the politicians of both parties to face the uncomfortable situa tion. Because the negro is black the re publican party has existed and practical ly controlled the government for forty seven years with great power, promi nence and profit to the greatest Amer icans of the last half century. It will rot serve for the republican party now to find fault because the negro is black Mother Lost Reason After LaGrippe. Daughter Had Fre quent Spasms. Dr. Miles’ Nervine Cured Them Both. Dr. Miles' Nervine is a specific for nervous disorders. It removes the cause and effects a speedy and permanent cure. “I feel it is my duty to let you know that your medicines have cured my little girl of nine, of spa<ns. She commenced havingthem at the age of three. Our family doctor said she would outgrow them but she did not. We took her to another physician who said her trouble was epileptic fits in a mild form. He did her no good either. She was so nervous she could hardly walk. As I had already used Dr. Miles’ Nervine and found it a good remedy for myself I commenced giving it to my child. I gave her in all ten bottles of the Nervine and one of the Blood Purifier. That was over two years ago and she has not had an attack since we com menced the treatment. She is no longer troubled with nervousness and we consider her permanently cured. I enclose her pic ture. My mother-in-law lost her reason and was insane for three months from the effects of LaGrippe. Six bottles of Dr. Miles’ Ner vine cured her. My sister has also taken it for sick headache with good results. We all thank you very’much tor your good medi cines and kind advice. I don't think there is any other medicine half so good. I send my daughter’s photograph so that you may see what a sweet little girl lives out in Arkansas.” —Mrs. Hannah Barkett, Springdale, Ark. All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles’ Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. We will start any bright boy iifhtsiness (W? t ; ‘ s c a , ” t/,. s °/</ t , n, a; \ LlßWtf J jfei 5 .’' u lw / B A-; /i "''' ' ' / ARCH [ W / STREET r The Curtis Publishing Co. Phi la. Pa. ' and to abandon him to subjugation, 1 peonage and barbarous slaughter with- I out trial because ills oppressors are 1 southern whites. “If Abraham Lincoln and his associates had lived till now how would they have > met the new southern American princl i plos; (1) no suffrage for the colored men; I (2) trials by mobs and lynchings for the : colored men; (3) peonage for the colored I men? How would General Grant and bls i associates meet them it alive today? ! How would Chester A. Arthur and bls associates meet them if alive today? How will President Roosevelt and his associates, who are alive today and mak ing history, meet the flagrant violations of constitutional right and privilege which look the American rulers boldly In the face and are more clearly visible to us than are the murders by the Turks of Bulgarian and Armenian Christians, and the slaughter of unoffending Jews by misguided Russian subjects? Arthur Saw the Issuo. “President Arthur clearly saw the is sue which was coming when in his letter of July 15, 1880, accepting his nomination, ho said; “ 'lt is a suggestive and startling thought that the increased power derived from the enfranchisement of a race now I denied its share in governing the country —wielded by those who lately sought the overthrow of the government —is now the sole reliance to defeat the party which represented the sovereignty and nation ality of the American people in the great est crisis of our history.’ “It is true that the result of a presiden tial election has not yet been changed by the increased representation given by reason of the colored inhai/itants, but such an outcome is not improbable In 1904. If the white men of the solid south take possession of the presidency by an electoral majority of ninety or less it will be seen that the work has been done by the fifty electors who represent ten mil lions of colored people, substantially all of whose Legal voters would vote the other way. If not, as Arthur charged, 'de barred and robbed of their voice and their vote.' To keep the colored man from the polls he must be hold in terror of the - whites, and to arouse and keep alive that terror any colored man obnoxiously active in politics will be charged, truly or falsely, with crime, and tried and lynched by mobs. To the peril which Ar thur so clearly pointed out and to avert which -he recommended new legislation in his message of December. 1883, the north ern states of the union cannot be too soon or too thoroughly aroused." Ex-tempore remarks also were made by Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, secretary of war In Arthur's cabinet, among others EXPORTS OF NAVAL STORES. Interesting Figures Are Furnished by- Chief Hitchcock. Washington, August 20.—(Special.)—A report on foreign trade in forest prod ucts, prepared by Frank H. Hitchcock, chief of the division or foreign markets in the agricultural department, gives the following details as to the exports of naval stores during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902: "Spirits of turpentine were exported during 1902 to the extent of 19,178,000 gal lons, the value being $7,431,000. Nearly half of these exports found a market in the United Kingdom. Other countries that bought extensively weie Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. “Os rosin we exported 2.536.000 barrels, worth $4,202,000. The United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil were the largest purchasers. “Our shipments of tar for 1902 amount ed to 23,000 barrels, and was valued at $56,000. We sold this product in largest quantities to the United Kingdom, Can ada, Mexico and British Australasia. "Turpentine and pitch were marketed abroad to the extent of 18,000 barrels, the value being $44,000. Canada, the United Kingdom. Germany, Cuba and British Guiana made the largest pur chases.” _ MIDDLE TIGER IS SWOLLEN., Trestle cf the Southern Bailway Lit erally Washed Away. Spartanburg, 3. C., August 18.—(Special.) The heavy rainfall of last night and this morning caused the Middle Tiger river to reach a flood sta®e, tying up traffic on the Southern and doing dtamage to the roadbed and trestles. The trestle recently erected across the river was literally washed away tills afternoon. The At lanta bound trains that were from two to five hours late already were all stopped at Spartanburg. They are preparing to transfer passengers and mail across the swollen stream, which they expect to be able to do by midnight. The passengers due to have left here at 12:35 last night have not yet gotten by. The flood lias as yet resulted in no loss of life. The railroad people expect to get trains by the river early tomorrow morning. The stream is already- falling. Like the other streams of this section, which caused the disastrous flood of June 5, it is sub ject to sudden overflows. negroes should realize IDEALS OF THEIR OWN RACE From the Emancipation day speech of William Pickens, the colored orator of Yale, delivered at "Watkins, N. Y.; The purpose of an "Emancipation day” is not to review the sorrow of the past; not to listen again to the yelps of blood-hounds and the crack of the overseer's whip; not to sorrow with the slave or abuse the slave-holder; it is not a backward view. It is to arouse ourselves to a fuller appreciation of the present opportunities which God, through the providence of human justice, lias seen lit to grant, us. We can let Calhoun and Davis, Garrison and Lincoln, all rest in peace. We can look with a clear, unprejudiced vision upon the grand old Lee at Appomatox as he delivered his shattered heroes into the hands of Grant, both sides having fought and bled like Americans “for the right as God gave them to see the right. ’ The origin and prosecution of the war demonstrated the moral and physical equality of the white man of the north and south. The result of the conflict was due in the providence of God to the nu merical, military and financial superiority of the victorious section. And subsequent history has shown that the negro has no more right to profit In thinking oth erwise of an honest gentleman from Al abama than of an honest gentleman from Maine. In the throes of this fratricidal strife the negro's personal liberty was born and his freeing begun. I say his freeing was begun: for it was in deed a delusion Immediately after the war to suppose that the negroes were free, when in fact a jnan becomes free by no law under the sun, save the law or self-development. A fiat of law can no more create freedom by a constitutional amendment than it can create wealth by stamping figures on greenbacks. Lincoln's famous emancipation proclamation only cleared the path to freedom, made, it possible for a black man to become free; but. a race, like an individual, must work out its own salvation. « «> « 4 When in 1865 the heroes of the north and south withdrew from the fields of victories and defeats, and the success of unionism had assured the triumph of freedom, the negro was elevated to the privilege of conceiving and pursuing a purpose, an alm in life. The purpose of some was absolutely exemption from work, which they mistook for the blessing of freedom, when It. is only the desire of slaves and cowards. The aim of oth ers was politics, which they- mistook for the supremo end of liberty. Others sought skin-deep, etherealizlng »ducation. which they mistook for culture. Some sought money as an "almighty” equal izer of men and affairs. Far. far too few showed a supremo de sire for life's real end—character. Char acter —built up by the everyday deeds of a life character—breathing an atmos phere above petty Insult. Character bearing a good will for nil men. Charac ter—that settles with the washerwoman as promptly and honestly as with the First national bank. Character—generous ever to one's enemies. Character—founded in homos of stalwart morality, industry and self-respect. Character Is the only success. • • • • It is far more important to have a sound character than the privilege of voting. The unconditional bestowal of suffrage upon the freedman wo may par don as an almost unavoidable blunder. Instead of a "reconstruction" it was well nigh a destruction of the negro’s entire political future. Charles Sumner argued that “the ballot is an educator.” It cer tainly is; for it has now educated the American people to understand that Its Indiscriminate bestowal is hazardous. The negro was like a child that Inherits an estate: he was ready to sell out for a mess of “bread and pottage of lentils.” The venal Esau found his thrifty- Jacob and the ballot was sold for a pint of rum. A man without a life purpose and with the ballot is a menace. «» • • To point to one pure black woman, or one noble black man, who has overcome the obstacle of a life, is a far more elo quent plea than the combined tongues of a thousand blatant orators. One year of a life like Booker Washington's is more far-reaching in its good influence than enough bombastic editorials to make a bonfire. Chicago is regarded as a sort of "prom ised land" by the young negroes of south ern and southwestern states. There they crowd with rotting lives and dissipating energies that could be better used for their race, their country and God's world on tho plantations of southern Alabama. The black belt is a far better home for these men of undetermined characters than the glare and glitter of Chicago, or L .sion. i lie southern white man witii his •‘social •■xelusiveness” is a far better friend to this people than the inmates of a northern slum. 1 would publish it where the negro might run and read that there is more character, more life, more God in the lowliest cabin home of a southern plantation than in any slum of America. * * * ♦ No intelligent black man ever lifts a voice against social separation. The white man has not drawn the line; God and na ture have drawn it. If the southern states pass laws against inter-marriage they only write in books what is indelibly traced in blood. Ii is not social oneness that we need; it is not social oneness that we want, but it is the best and highest society attain able among ourselves. Teach the negro boy that to realize the ideals of his own race is for him the highest accomplishment; that it is a cri.vp- against God and man to degrade the ideal of his race by mixing blood with another; that the man who is ashamed of the essential characteristics of iiis kind must be a very odd animal; that even the baboon and the gorilla have a “sym pathy for their kind.’’ Teach him that miscegenation as carried on in Boston is so tar iroin being “a noble sense of equal ity” as to be an open scandal; that no man, however high lie may- climb, in ed ucation and culture, has the right to sep arate himself from his race; that it Is so much the more his duty to elevate his people. Teach him tliat the southern Witt'- man does n 't separate himself so cially from the negro out of hatred. Teach him that to be socially separate is r»..-t to be inferior; that character is the only measure of equality. As to politics. It would have been less foolish to enfranchise an ignorant race, had that race been allowed to affiliate its political interests with those of the in telligent people of the section in which it lived. The southern white man could have given the black a political education and would have had greater patience in bearing the weaknesses of the negro as a political factor. But though the negro had his industrial, commercial and edu cational interests in the south, he had his political sympathies in Massachusetts. The whte man at the dictation of instinct (soothly supported by the prejudice of caste) had drawn the reasonable and nat ural line of social separation; the black man at the dictation of the “carpet-bag ger,” drew the unreasonable and artificial line of political separation. Consequently the negro was doomed to be to the south a political “body- of death,” until the same unconquerable manhood which caused Leo and Davis t o defy the Stars and Stripes under whose folds they had fought, is now causing the sons of the south to'bid de fiance to the constitution which their fathers helped to frame. Judging the spirit by the letter, in many of the new suffrage acts the disfran chisement is an opportunity for the negro; an opportunity- to acquire through merit what had been given him for nothing; an opportunity to deserve what had once fall en to him through the accident of a “fuss” between the north and south; an opportunity to get more property, intelli gence and character; an opportunity to see the advantage of an apparent disad vantage; an opportunity to overcome If congress should pass a jaw enfranchising all men regardless of Intelligence and character, it would not better the condi tion of the negro race; no law in the uni verse can help the negro Ka v e a j aw tllat will better the negro’s character and that law is t’tie jaw of self-developm ent. OABGEH CURED WITH BALMY OILS. MR. M. YANT. OF CRETE. NEB. 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