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BURDEN OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM
- By RICHARD H. EDMONDS, Editor Manufacturers* Record.
CHIEF of the burdens of the negro
problem is the heed given to words
of exploiters of the negro.
As long as the intelligence of the coun
try fails to discountenance the discus
sion of the negro by professional orators,
Chautauqua or lyceum lecturers, educa
tionalists, confirmed philanthropists and
designing politicians who find therein
more or less personal profit, so long will
the difficulties of the problem persist.
Could it be left to men of the character,
the standing, the experience, the mental
alibre and the common sense of Stuyve
srnit Fish, of New York; T. G. Bush, of
Alabama; Willim A. Courtenay, of South
Carolina; John L. Williams, of Virginia;
I>. A. Tompkins, of North Carolina; J.
B. Killebrew, of Tennessee; W. J. North
ern of Georgia, and John 11. Kirby, of
Texas the happy solution of the prob
: m could be offered in a trice.
Fundamentally it is, as it has always
.. an economic problem to be dealt
v i. not in ignorance, prejudice or pas
bat in knowledge, wisdom and judg
t. and in sober conviction of re
-ibillty to the white race and to
. -ck. Essentially there should be
tud, toward the negro no whit
t from that toward the hordes of
'>>•'•< are crowding into the coun
;gh its eastern ports. The lat
erally the more difficult to be
1 In that they have never had the
. ■ .intage of contact with Amcr
■ of pure stock. Their future
ting for good or ill the history
I is inextricably involved with
.tare of the negro as lie shall he
■ red or helped.
' in negro j s mistreated or is tinim
■i working out his own career, the
i i foreign fugitives from oppres
■overty will wax or will wane.
at that tlm south shall be re-
■ n th e unnecessary embarrss
tieuro development, to that ex
• io south bo free to aid more
; piste parts of the country
•i- ir mo:. ponderous problems.
•> Hives proposed as solutions of
> problem are amalgamation,
. itiou. deportation. Each means
iiiviit of the negro; each is im-
■■ :i•m w .. tried forty years ago
•mliiions where alone it could
possibility. At the instigation
o; i .<li nn Lincoln attempt was made
o It . laneipation with OXO-
go. ernment auspices. It
1 -illy in an odor of graft. Os
i ’rid thousand dollars available
'iment, th" account rendered
> ..r thvc- year;-' expenditures was
"c<it thirty-three thousand dollars,
ilk of which had gone to agents,
.■ :t . government vessel sent to bring
a handful of colonists who had
induced to go to another land. If
■ lan could not but fail for four
negroes with Lincoln as a lead*
>t< r. at a time when the const!*
■■. if the country was in abeyance,
h aid sanity consider it today’
mot than eight million negroes
.. taken into account, In addition
whites or tl’ie whole country?
n e.ro is doing too much for the
eritv of the country for him to de-
I • avo it or for the whites to give
:n gement to anybody who would
or persuade him to leave.
-ilgamation has within itself the
• nts of its own destruction. Mis
ition carries with ft its own pun
t Its effects are reducing to
a Inln tim the number of whites
1 blacks who will submit to It.
- me of the members of that race,
thing with the passions in which they
a, ■■ begotten, are openly or covertly
ding a few negroes to inevitable ruin
themselves. Extremists among
amalgamates may in the course of
subject themselves to deportation
penal settlements or to more speedy
• the hards of the law or outside
.w. while a rapidly growing sentl
in favor of a humane surgical op
t ■ be added to the punishment
penitentiary, will, to a certain
annihilate a part of the negro
iv making it incapable ol prop-
This. enforced ns to criminal
wi II as to criminal negroes,
i nt only have a deterrent influ
pi'vent crime, but it wou'd
!• seen th- reproduction of
But it is puerile and cow
tali; of annihilating a people
i mri-pted by force. ,and prac
v.ithi nt action on their own part,
, unable healthv development
,-nrs ago. and since then the
. experiments that would have
: almost any ra< e, have
doubl 1 in number and still
.. ,-s the excellent educa-
■ii race made possible i 1 tiic
an -I ivery in Africa to bond-
e.i'n of comparatively recent
-th it negro vexations be
b> opining tin? gates to Mon-
There is a charm about
• 1 . inomic politi- ian, in that
j n Amer'can politics that
;. : i .onsible tor the ills of the
• : ti jn the use of him as a
■ 1 a. to crystallize the low or
j. ■ voters in close elections,
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is most strenuous for Chinese exclu
tion. That element may be gagged
against negro agitation by the throat
of Chinese agitation. But that would be
politics; and there has been already
too much politics about the negro.
Statesmanship Is demanded, and states
manship will not jump from the frying
tan into thfe fire.
Statesmanship sees a solution of the
negro problem in removing the obstacles
from the way of the development of
the negro's aptitude, and in encouraging
him in cultivation of those habits which*’
have become second nature with the
white race for its advancement.
Such a policy recognizes these facts
emphasized by the experience of the past
forty years.
The negro race is not the Caucasian
racp merely colored black.
The tygro taco, mentally and morally,
is centuries behind the Caucasian an 1
has never given evidence of ability to
advance in that respect of its own In
itiative.
Crossed upon white stock the negro is
given greater mental strength, but a
strength likely to be exerted in manifes
tation of the vices rather than of the
virtues of the original stocks.
The negro rate, physically, is a power
ful race, and fit to work under proper
guidance.
To seek to gfve the negro child, but
three centuries removed from the jungle,
the start in schooling similar to that
given the white child, with a thousand
years of the education of individual ef
fort behind it. was worse, than foolhardy.
It was not unlike placing a loaded maga
zine rifle in the arms of a. chimpanzee.
To give the negro male the ballot, a
privilege won bv the white man in cen
turies of struggl" and, after all, not al
ways exorcised in a manner justifying
his victory, was worse than criminal.
It was not unlike poisoning a stream
at its very source.
Like education for whites and blacks,
education without distinction of rare, are
the bajteful theories which, applied for
nearly two generations, have not onlv
injured the negro in weaning him from
Incentives to productive and beneficial
exertions into sloth, vice and crime, but
have even twisted the training of whites
upon right lines. In forcing the suffrage
upon the negro there was injected Into
the whole body politic a virus of cor
ruption In party practices and in muni
cipal. state ami national administrations
flatly disproving much of the theory of
public education.
It. is but a step from mendicant meth
ods in negro education to mendicant
methods in white education. Such pau
perization is but the fertilization of the
soli of graft in quarters high and low.
So. the negro problem belongs to us all.
The intelligence and patriotism of the
whole country must combine for Its so
lution. Jn permitting the south, most af
fected by it at present, to determine the
way and to supply the means. Broad,
well defined principles must guide us.
Efforts to educate the rising generation'
of negroes must recognize, for avoid
ance. the mistakes of the past manifested
by negro youth of today. Expenditures
of time, energy and money must be per
capacity of the negro instead of per
capita.
Negroes who have been miseducated
must be brought back to the proper start
ing point before it is too late. They
must not only be allowed in other parts
of the country the opportunities to v.-idt
enjoyed by them in the smith, but they
must be sharply taught that unless they
work they will starve. The machinery
for such instruction is to be had in a
stringent vagrancy law, enforced com
pletely by rip effective rural mlice or
with provision that individuals
who will not work for themselves and
for others shall be forced to work for
the state in fields not conflicting with
honest labor.
The way must be kept open for the j
natural diffusion of the negroes among ,
the white population until they became
an element inconsequential from the so
cial, political or any other standpoint.
At present there is one negro for every
8.6 of the total population of the coun
try. That ratio would be a safe one if
it. was common to all parts of the coun
try. But it is not. Jn the south there
is one negro for every three of the popu
lation, the ratio ranging from one in
twenty-two in West Virginia to I in 1.7
'in Mississippi and South Carolina. At
i the same time in the fifteen states east
of the Mississippi ajid north of the Ohio
i and Mason and Dixon line the proportion
i is I negro for every 55.2 of the popula
tion. the range being from I in 6 in
Delaware to I in 621 in New Hampshire.
In the. II mountain and Pacific states
the proportion is I in 163, and in 9 other
states and territories it. is I in 36.
As long as any distinct race is massed
| in one section of the country, so long
i will that race be hampered and so long
- will it boa drag upon the whole country.
The politician, the sensation, monger "r
any other individual in anj’ part of the
! country who, in using the negro for every
I other purpose but the negro's good, re
tards the natural diffusion of the negro
; revealed In the fact that nearly 1.000.000
negroes are now living outside the south
:> total of 8,834.000. is an enemy to
his country and must be suppressed.
Those who would suppress him have only
to bear in mind the significant fact that
the race question Is invariably brought
to the front when the leading political
parties of the country lack the courage
t<> formulate and support policies appeal
ing to the intelligence of the people, or
when the movement carrying more ne
proes to other parts of the country and
more whites to the south is most pro
nounced.
Os all persons southern men should
have no part in giving life to negro agi
tation. The negro is in this country for
good. We must meet this situation not
with Impracticable theories, supported by
pictures of danger from his
presence. No reasonable man could with
prophetic sight have viewed the Influences
exerted upon negroes for forty years
without expecting even more trouble titan
we have had. Suddenly freed from the
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 28, 1903.
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So Bright!
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That cloud on your china.glass
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v cloudless, bright, wholcsonve.
restraining power which had controlled
and civilized them, taught by most
unscrupulous white* scoundrels that ever
cursed a land, as well as by misguided
phila'nthro’pists from other sections, that
they must, demand social equality, who
could expect aught but a generation <»f
criminal Instincts. But this criminality
is less than might h»a\c been anticipated.
Upon the white people of th** south rests
the responsibility of being p*.■•emitted to
d<-:il with infinite patience with a. race,
millions of which have proved that they
could ’bo honest, virtuous, hard working
and faithful to every trust. The demons
In human shape whose horrible a.cts are
followed by swift punishment, which,
however severe, can never be severe
enough tn atone for the crime, should not
arouse resentment against the whole
rare. The mad dog is a terror, but. the
Letters from the People.
For Small Farms.
Edi'nr Constitution: As a citizen "f
Georgia .ind a-, a farmer depending on the
farm for a Ii -ing 1 want to protest
against the doctrines latelx published by
your paper from the pen of Professor
Phillips and of a "Georgia Farmer.
There is no more pernicious system ot
l.j Vt than tbit of serf and both these
gentlemen offer 'iggcstiotis for c mtro'.flng
labor in Gcorgbi which, if ado.pte.l. would
lead to practical serfdom
Georgia has made rapid progress since
the civil war away from the plantation
system of farming toward tin- better sys
tem of small farms, and it would be a
calamity now to return to the old plan,
not only for the sake of the morals in
volved, but because there is no hope for
the laborer ever being a better citizen
and it would as cert duly influence the
character of the employers for the bad,
as that one <vi| follows another.
No man has a right, to the labor of
another except at a fair price. Because
the cotton mills of the south a.re rapidly
drawing the labor from the cotton farms
does not prove that we have too few la
borers on the farms, but. that we have
too many. Tin mills make more profit,
than the farms and, of course, can afford
to tpay th.- b-.'sj wages. The remedy is
not to import more laborers, but to en
courage some of those wo already have
t i go to th" mills and into business. \\ <
already have too few consumers of farm
I ro.iuets and too many producers. More
than three-fourths of all the people of
Georgia live on farms ami ar. producers
of farm crop.-'. The average wages of the
farm laborer in Georgia is $i 32.72, while
that of the laborer engaged in mamifa
tures in At’rinta is $439. The average
value of tin- product of the Georgia farm
laborer is $202, while that of the manu
facturer in Mlanta is 51.505.
It will be a sad day for the citizenship
of the state wlu n any law is enacted or
any scheme adopted wlu-i-cb.-,- farm labor
will receive less pny than it now receives.
If a "Georgia. Farmer" lias more land
than he can cultivated it pro', -s that
ho his too much land. lie r-.-ally has
no right to demand that my in.in should
work for him, and if ho eaimot hire 1.-i 'or
at a price which ! < profitable to himself
and at the sam< time tisf.i -lory to the
la.borer, he should lie content to let the
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fact that some dogs go ma 1 is never
taken as a sufficient reason for driving
every dog out of the country.
Tlie negro is with tis and he Is going to
stay with us. How shall we get the best
for him and for ourselves out of the situ
ation? Not by deportation, not by amal
gamation. but by the same tireless work
■ which the south lias foil forty years given
1 to this question, freed, howevr-i, from the
visionary theories of outsiders, who know
nothing about the conditions in the south,
and the equally visionary theories of im
practicable southern men. With the
marked Increase of white Immigration to
the south now under way. the tendency
of the negroes to dispersion throughout
the .wintry, the ena tment and enforce
•ment of vagrancy laws .the cst iblishment
of country patrol systems, and the gradual
elimination of the criminal classes in re
production. the negro question will no
longer afford profitable employment for
public speakers and magazine writers.
laborer better his own condition bj ac
cepting better pay from the mills
I am an employer c.f labor myself, in a
small wav. and 1 will rejoice when the
dav comes when the laborer on the farm
will receive as much I»J> for an equal
amount of work as the laborer in 'iny
other calling. This time can otilv come
when there arc fewer farm laborers in
proportion to the t-»t,il ; ..pul.t ion. so that
il-.o product of his labor will .-11 for more
in the market, thus in ■•.•i.-lng th-- profit
of tile farm and in proportion reducing
that "f th’- manufacturer amt 1 uslness
man until all will stand equal
W, 1,. WI I,I,I,\MSON.
Bermuda Dairy, Harmony Grove, Ga.,
September 14.
Prepare Lands Better.
Editor (’(institution: A number of
causes contributintr to the present scarc
ity of labor tor work upon the farms
might be cited. But no matter what
th. cause, there can be no doubt of the
tact that there is such a scarcity. How
is this to be remedied?
Some ii.iv suggested the introduction
of coolie labor. We have enough Ignor
ance and vice now and wo want no more.
The remedy is worse than the evil.
| We have fine lands anu a climate in
which anything that does not .'elong ex
| ciusivcly to the tropics can be grown;
I lands that are susceptible of a high state
!of cultivation, we have the best labor
: for our purposes that can b ■ obtained.
I We know the negro and he knows ns.
! He may be stupid, b it as a rule he is
! not malicious, vicioci or revengeful; lie
■does not bear malice. Let us be just
i and kind to aim. punish him when it
! b comes necessary by due process of
! law. protect him from wrong and oppres
i sion from any source, comply fully in
I all of our promis's to him. no matter
b.ow trivial they may appear to us, anu
: <io not be 100 exacting in making him
j comply to all of uis promises to us.
"Mean white' urn make mean nig
; gers." This has been often said and
1 nas a large grain of truth in It. Prior
Ito . main .pation humane master- had
good slaves and mean masters had mean
I slaves. The same holds true now as bt'-
i tween the employer ot negro labor and
their employees.
Another remedy for the scarcity of farm
labor is to prepare our lands better by
deep plowing and Pti ilizaiion and the
use ol improved agricultural implements.
We can in a very short time bring ou:
lands to Un condition in which they will
produce 40 to 50 bushels of corn, wheat
and oats to the acre, two bales ot eot
i ton to the acre, sugar cane and other
things suited to their particular section
<,n large abundance. Deep plowing, th.n
i ough harrowing ami the use of im
proved implements wilt enable us to de
crease the amount of manual labor on
our farms and increase our animal pow
er, it is cheaper to feed and keep
mules and horses than it is to hire la
borers. Have a rotation of crops so
as to as rapidly as possible have vege
table matter to turn under, thereby en
abling you to have the soil in such
condition that the amount of commercial
1 fertilizer you can apply to your land
I will be unlimited. Cliange your system
lot applying fertilizers / placing some in
j Hi,, ground before plainting and apply
I two or three times more during the cui
j tivatic n of the crops. Have pastures
raise hogs, sheep and cattle.
Necessity is now forcing us to what
our better judgm nt has long nictated,
and 1 doubt rn't in the end that the
scarcitv of farm labor, which has ap
peared to us a great evil, may be a
blessmg in disguise; from the benefits
that will come from improved methods
! in agriculture, and that in a few years
! : lie lands of Georgia will blossom lik<>
’ the rose ami the profits and pleasures
lof country life will attract our white
i people from the allurements of town
I and Georgia will have a prosperous,
' happy and contented rural population
l throughout her boruers.
JOHN A. COBB.
Americus. Ga., September 20.
Wag-es in the Country.
Editor Constitution: in quite a num
ber of the discussions that have ap
peared lately in reference to the low
wages earned by farm hands there is
one clement that has been entirely dis
regarded. It is almost always the case
that the farm hand, whether cropper
or wages hand. Is furnished a house to
live in. as much fuel as he wishes, a
garden spot around his house, and pas
turage for his cows and pigs. If these
were paid for at regular rates obtaining
In small towns and cities the wages
would appear to be large in comparison
with the earnings of laborers in cities
ami would almost equal those of the
best clerks In the city of Atlanta. Let
our writers, in speaking of low wages
in tlie country, take these conveniences
and luxuries into account when shedding
tears over tlie poor farm laborer, who
is in most eases better fed, better
clothed and better housed than his city
brother, receiving more dollars but less
comforts. J- E- McREE,
Crawfordville, Ga.. September 22, 1903.
Crop Short in Texas.
Editor Constitution: W'e have read
several reports w’hlch say that tlie cot
ton crop of Texas Is very largo. We
would like to call attention to the fol
lowing facts. Texas wall not make as
much from the present crop as was
made last year by 25 per cent, because
of the boll weevil, boll worm, caterpil
lars and the dry W'eather. People who
pass through Texas by rail and report
11,000,000, and even 12.000.000. are no
friends to the farmers, and know nothing
about ths cotton crcp.
It is very strange to me that the farm
ers. who are the hub on which the wheels
of commerce t< rn, will not organize and
control the price of their own products.
! x am sure there is not a merchant or
banker in the southern states who would
refuse to uphold them in their struggle
to better their condition.
Come to the front, farmers, and speak
for your own and every other farmer •
Interests, for It is already said that the
farmers have not sufficient confidence
in each other to stick together. The
commercial world knows it, therefore,
they do the pricing of what you uuy and
sell.
One man will say that 8 cents is a
good price for cotton, another says that
10 cents is a big price. Let such men
go into the field the Ist of January, sin
gle-handed, until the cotton is hauled
to the gin and he will be ready to say
12 1-2 cents per pound is as cheap as
a farmer can raise cotton and make a
living.
The present cotton crop will not be
ever 10.500.0C0 bales. The mills had
better pay the farrrers 12 1-2 cents for
their cotton than to pay 15 cents or
stop their mills.
A. P. GAYNES.
Appleby, Tex.
The Cotton Report.
Editor Constitution: The people ought
to know- if the government cotton re
port is a hoax or truth. The last few
days have ruined prospects in our sec
tions. The crop wjjs what it is usually
in June and July being abnormally late.
A large expanse of green where it usually
shows the effects us rust and maturity
at this season. It will In all probability
turn out that this has fooled prognosti
cators as to the amount of the cotton
crop. In the first place the plant is not
heavily fruited. '£he writer has been
almost in everv section of Georgia in the
last few weeks .and knows as far as this
state is concerned that this is the case.
The few pet patches of cotton in cow
pens around the towns being no index of
the general conditions. Excessive rains
left many of the limbs scant of cotton.
In the next place late cotton is never as
weighty as earlier cotton. Lastly cater
pillars have done serious damage in many
sections riddling the fields and tlie
drought has set the plant to throwing off
| t.he blooms and leaves that made it look
I so well up to the middle of August. If
the truth were known it would ’ell a
i far different tale from even two weeks
back With mills with n > supply of cot
ton. with no big crop in prospect the
people ought to have a reliable way to
get at tvhat are absolute facts for ’he
government report Is not believed by
manv as showing facts.
<■ 11. BEAZLY.
Vagrancy La.w True Solution.
Editor Constitution: Why should the
settlement of ’ho so-call-d r.t< o prob
lem he saddled upon the south? Who.
if not tlie r< rth. is responsible for the
rrosont condition of the negroes? After
giving them freedom, equal rights, etc.,
imbued them with the idea that they
were special wards of the nation, and,
in proof of tics assertion, military posts
were maintained throughout the south
until 1869. or later, for no 9ther pur
t ose than to support the freedman's
b: roan in propagating tills rdiu nlion of
< qval ty.
Tlie negr< cs are indebted to misguided
rortlern philanthropists, who have en-
I ilowr,' oolli ges for their mental training,
i without provision or c-quipment for mak
: ing an honest living, except as preach
i rs and teachers, and to these teachers
| of perverted doctrines is the race in
| ■'• bteu for many of its present shortcom-
I ings. Tlie infusion of ideas of super
ti< ial respectability. a repugnance to
i Is. nest toil and morals non est.
To most southern men who have op
-1 portunities to observe, the vaunted race
' problem exists only where vagrancy has
' become a si-rious menace to safety in
!I. wns and cities will re negroes have
i congregated largely in the suburbs,
■v. litre they first become "ladies" and
: "gentlemen" in their own minds, work
, ing when they feci like it. stealing when
ill's easier and loafing most of tile time;
i ore member of a family often support
-1 ing six to ten vagrants. in proof >f
tliis, just drive through a negro settle
ment and observe the number of idlers
and while there try to hire a servant or
laborer, and note the result.
if there is any rac.- hatred it exists In
the i .-rtli al ne. Negr< es are not hated
in the south because they are negroes.
V> her.-vi r you find an industrious, hon
est negro on plantations, in trades fit
the cities or in <ny worthy employment,
v.iio "ondiiets himself with self-respect.
\ou will invariably notice that he lives
< n friendly terms with the white papu
lation. There is no avenue of labor
■ dosed to him. and he is paid fully as
much as his labor is worth.
Statesmen and politicians may elo
quently, or otherwise, proi u.iro the ex
istence of a, race problem in the south,
but the fallacy of their theories :■ evi
dent to those who live in th. smth deal
irg with negroes daily :yad hourly, 'i'll
race problem may possibly exist in the
north to thb extent, at ’east, of bow .to
■ ontrol th" negro vote for a r -publi. an
candidate for tile presidency.
To thinking people of tlie south, the
t. vival of this race problem originated
in the white house, when the pr.-.-abn’
entertained a negro as his guest. Since
then politicians have handled the sub
ject for their own benefit.
The true solution of the so-called race
i i roblm is to wipe out vagrancy. "An
I i.'le mind is the devil's workshop." The
: . nforcement of a rigid law, compelling
; all able-bodied men and women to work,
: imposes no hardship, but. Instead, con
fers a lasting benefit —tlie loafer is again
$4.00 Free
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thus saving you lour dollars, in ordbr to
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$5 00. and the special SI.OO offer Is less
than cost of medicine, package, etc. They
could not afford to do this only that they
expect after you are cured that you will
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who will gladly procure the treatment and
it. this way they will be amply rewarded
for making this nicest liberal offer.
Remember this Is not a patent medicine,
but a complete full three-course special treat
ment put up in a plain sealed package.
The above offer is genuine. No questions
or references of any kind will be asked.
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be given a full $5.00 package for only $ I 00.
Call on your druggist today or If you prefer,
address the Dr. Mary Lock Co.. 1567 Engle
wood Station. Chicago, 111., sos a full pack
age an I h*' quickly cured In the privacy of
your wwn home.
‘•No cure, no pay,” Is the doctor's motto.
If after using the package you are not de
lighted With the result, write the company,
ami they will -refund your money without
question. What could be more fair?
extra
rizes ’ to the 3000 agents X
who do the best work for us
this winter, besides paying well for S
J each and every subscription secured |
/#forTHE Ladies’ Home Journal and j
//The Saturday Evening Post. Five J
// Thousand Dollars will be divided each /
/ f month for the next eight months among
Is the 326 agents who do the best work
g that month and Ten Thousand
B more at the end of the season
| among the 451 agents who
1 done the best work through//
\ the whole season. /
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A4dr»«i> ©ll letter© to W
Agents* Deportment g
THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY I
Ho toootood /nj A rc J-j Philadelphia, Pa. I
KtHf. for ttotaili '.Jvr . 3
introduced to honest Lil. Tar cotton
fields arr white, and farmers ar*- pay
ing wr*ll for pickers; farm hands arp ir.
derna rd.
< ure vagrancy. and many heitwi*
crlnvs will become less frequent, the
courts will be trusted to dispense qutek
pi nishi.i nt an*! justice, and lywh law
will obsolete for want of a
subject.
GICORGE T COT'MIUTT
Wilmington. N. September 12.
‘•Black Horse Cavalry.”
Editor (.'nnstitution: Can an? f| . r your
readers give me the names of the men
wh<> were in the famous "Black Horse
Cavalry" during tlie civil war. or direct
me where 1 can obtain them'.’
L. L. BRAIN.
Lock box 1004. Alliance, Ohio.
North Carolina’s Woman Smith.
Editor Constitution; In The Weekly
Constitution I find an article, "The Only
AVoman Blacksmith in America Is At (lie
State Prison Farm at Milledgeville, Ga.”
This is a mistake. The city of AVi'.son,
Wilson county. North Carolina, elain -
that a woman blacksmith who was work
ing at the trade at least fifteen years be
fore the Georgia blacksmith commence'!.
Ann AViiiiamson, the Wilson woman black
smith, is also a n.'gto, whose husband was:
p blacksmith. She learned the trade un
der him. She can not only strike tlie iron
when it's hot. but can also shoe horses
She wears a dnrs just like any oth. ;■
woman. After her husband’s death she
continued tlie business f"r several ye.'.: s
alone. On account of old age she is. Ju t
nt present engaged it her tr’idc. I h’s
place has also a woman barber, like the
woman blacksm.th; her hu.-b.md was a
barber and taught her the trade.
JAMES DEMPSEY BI ’ I ,LO('ix
Wilson, N. C.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, re’jr. il fr< ni pr.i ••
lice, had placed. In his hands by an East
India missionary the lormul.i "I .1 cm
pl.-, vegetable remedy for Un speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption.
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and nil
Throat and Lung Affection;-; also a pos
itive and radical cure for Nirvcas De
bility and ail Nervous Complaints. Hav
ing tcsterl its woral. rtul curative powcis
In thousands of cajes. and desiring to
iclieve human soft' ring. 1 will •ii ! ir.'"
of charge to all who wish it 11:■ s rj: 1 .
in German. French or Engli.-n, w'th full
directions far preparing ami using. S< nt
by mall, by addressing, with stamp_.
naming this •'Mi’i r. W. A. 847
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MOONSHINERS IN COMMAND.
Raleigh N. C.. Septembei 22.—-(Spe
cial.) —Revenue officers report consider
able trouble with brandy distillers, be
cause the latter do not report materials
used, but secrete these and distill them
ir, tlie absence of storekeepers.
Then they hide the brandy in the
woods, intending to mat ket it after the
manufacturing season ends, so a-- to ex
cite less suspicion. Revenue officers say
it is now harder than ever to obtain in
formation regarding the location of il
licit distilleries, although under the new
state law county officials are instructed
to snpnress these. One man who said
lie knew there were half .1 dozen illicit
distilleries within 4 miles of a certain
place in Martin county said he could not
reveal their location, and added that the
sheriff and his deputies would not molest
them although their op •■ration is in de
fiance of the Watts liquor regulation
■'it is expected that in thirty days (here
will o-e much moonshining, when tlie new
crop of corn becomes available, and then
a supreme test will be made of the
efficacv of the AVatts law, ami whether
the countv officials will cooperate with
the revenue officers in suppressing
moonshining. .
Mr AVatts, who introduced the bill
which became a law. and which has ever
since attracted so much ntterition, said
b-iore Hie law went, into effect that lie
did not expect the county officers or
state officials to join with tlie revenue
officers in any movement.
Faced Revolver in Woman's Hands.
Koine. Ga., Sep'ember 26. —■ Special.)
Mrs. Thomas Morris, who lives on upper
Broad street, came very near being the
victim of a negro brute at a late hour
last night, and but for her splendid nerve
the man would have accomplished his
purpose, burglary or whatever it was.
About midnight Mrs. Morris vias
aroused from slumber by a noise at a
door opening on her side veranda Vpon
asking who it was. a negro man. step
ping from behind a sheltering piece of
woodwork, said:
"Don’t you move or say one word. If
you do. I'll kill you!”
Mrs, Morris, whQ always si ops with a
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pistol under her pillow, rea fil' d for It
and immediately shot at the negro twice
The man fired one shot at Mrs, Mor
rison in return and then turned and fled.
The plucky woman sprang from her
| bed and sent two parting shots after
her assailant, but whether they v r
fecti.’e or not no one knows, as the
map made good his es- <pe.
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' _■ .
> i OPENED THEIR CAMPAIGN.
i General Fitzhugh Lee Speaks to the
; 1 Maryland Democrats.
Baltimore, September 26.-The demo
.. cratie state campaign was opened todav
in Lie presence of about 8.000 persons
’ .11 Mount Airey, in Howard iTounty, a
1 railway point at which four populous
: counties Join. Ail the state candidates
.-.nd the loading democrats of Baltimore
' • ity and Maryland w- re present. Among
■ the speakers was governor and former
i Congressman Joshua Miles. The burden
; of ail the speeches was the race issue
' Mr. 'Warfield fleelared that “the grea <
' am! pressing problem of the day. not only
' 111 Maryland, but in cv. ry section of our
> common < ountry, north as well as south.
' cast a: well ,-,s west. Is ilv negro ques
j lion and it cannot be put aside."
LEAVITT-BRYAN.
Lincoln. Nebr.. September 25.—The
murriag' of Miss Ruth Bryan and Charles
’ B. Leavitt will Ink- place Saturday eve
| ning, October 3. at 7:30 o'clock, at Fab
j view, the home of ’.he Bryans, (he Rev.
Dr. Frank Swearingen, pastor of the
1 First Presbyterian church, of which Miss
■ Bryan is a member, probably perform
ing the ceremony.
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