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BILL ARPS LETTER. tOeota Constitution. A late paper sent me from Payette county, Missouri, says tbey are running all of the ne groes out of Fayette and Howard counties and the whipping post awaits those who tarry, and that the race war is on in earnest. That is Jbad very bad. Where are the poor creatures to go, for it is awful weather in Missouri, with the thermometer below zero and blizzards raging around. J wonder what they have been doing to provoke such treatment. If they move to another county, how long before they will have to move again? and it looks like they will perish or freeze before the winter is over. Some towns in Illinois have given them marching orders, and it looks like they have no friends but the southern people. We used to wonder why they all did not leave here and go up to their de liveries and bask on their bounty, but only a few weie fools enough and now they would come back if they could. We are getting sorry for the negro. He has no abiding place. They are tenants at will of the landlords. When Russia gave freedom to her serfs a few acres and a cottage were allotted to every family, and this could not be taken away, not even for debt. The poor, shift less laborer has a hard time everywhere. A friend writes me from Quemadas, Cuba, that the wealthy Spaniards who live in Spain own all the land in Cuba, and it is exempt from all tax, but the laborers 'who rent it have to pay tax on everything, their shanties, their horses and carts and stock of all kinds and planta tion tools, and on what produce is left after paying rent, and when they buy anything with Spanish money they are charged 73 cents in the dollar, and when they sell they have to take 68 cents. They are generally no account, but can live fairly well on the bountiful products of a fertile soil and the fruits that abound everywhere. My friend gays it is a most delightful cli mate. He has a wife and five children and never a day's sick ness. In a drive around his place you will see $850,000 worth of pineapples growing, and he is now planting 20,000 more plants, and they make good crops from five to ten years without replant ing and are worth from 2 to 3 cents apiece. It costs $30 per acre to prepare the land and $35 more to buy the plants. The sweetest and best oranges you ever saw grow all over the hills and sell for $2 a thousand. Then there is grape fruit and limes and lemons and mangos, guavas, plantins, figs and grapes. Now, I was ruminating why our negroes didn't go to Cuba, where they would not have to work half the time and where they could mix and miscegnate with the natives and have social equality to their heart's content The Cubans are all colors now from Dearly white to nearly black, and they will mix with any race. One day I saw a cu rious looking specimen in the negro car, and the conductor man t Know wnetner to move him or not, and so he asked him : A JftUN ffllU'T swim in shackles. n lllttll VlUl n isn't a question of his winning a race, but a question of Being aoie only to keep anoat. 1 lie man who is suffering from malnutrition is like the fettered swimmer. His stomach and it allied organs of digestion and nutii tlon are diseased. It is not a question with him of winning is the race for bun Cess but of simply keeping up under any circumstances. Whenever disease affects the stomach It is affecting also the blood and the health of ever or gan of the body. For blood is only food converted into tratrUioa and nutri tion is the life of the body and every man of k. ' Doctor FUrea Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organ of digestion and atrtrt- tlon. It porta the blood and enable the perfect nutrition pf the body which spean perfect health, "For ate loaf yaars rtsffirnd aire hW Mae aad ny aver aa4aMarva.wMahbtK4 tier brat doctor la ear eMtrtry, write X. I, !- cu, Baq.. of wooutr, rones wuuara ct va. I I ancree. win my ttomae tuM back ft a toea time, and after taking a 'cartload ' W axrlidrvt (rata three doctors I f raw to bad I endd hardly Va I i a dr work. Woald have daatn-Uke sains fa th rJda, aad Wta4 twite. In. Pierce's OokWa Medical I beeaa Uklna I Diacovarv aaa rwatant PellrU.' Before I bad taken half of the aecond bottle I breaa to fcel retiend. I (at six aura bottlea and aaed them, and am Baps o say 1 owe my lift to Dr. Fierce. Acrrpt no substitute for Goldan Med ical Discovery. There is nothing "just food' for disease of th etuwach, t!'"xi and )on. 1'tie Common f -na Medical Abdaar, 1 ! - - T in f - -f cowrn, U armt " ( i ' ' f 1 ' - ' t t to Are you a white man or a ne gro?" and he replied: My fader was a Portugee and my muder vas a nager." The con ductor smiled and let him stay. Go into a cigar factory in Tampa and you will see a fair assort ment of Cubans four hundred in one long room, and of all shades, sizes and complexions. They have no national or race color. I should think Cuba would suit most of our negroes very well, for they could live on fruit and honey. My friend says he has framed hives 10 feet square and robs the hives every other day in the dry season, and it is a profitable business. But I don't see any good rea son for driving negroes from one town or county to another. It is not playing fair with the other towns. Chief Ball reports that he is driving them out of Atlanta. It does not seem to concern him where they go so they leave At lanta. Why not take up the vagabonds and punish them un der the vagrant law and put them to work; why not call back the whipping post ? It will cure the negro of small crimes and idle ness quicker than anything in the world. When they get into the chaingang they get a whip pingpost or no post and a good whipping before hand would keep many a one from going there. But the most remarkable treatise on the negro and his race traits has just been written and spoken of by Professor Dowd, of Wisconsin University. Such a deliverance from a north ern source is amazing. He has been down here and gone from town to town and studied the ne gro's actual condition, and de clares he is on the downgrade in morality, in health and physical condition, and the race will be come extinct if some great change is not made in their education and some radical control placed over their morals. They have al most ceased to marry, but take up and cohabit at pleasure and change when they feel like it. He says that out of one hundred families he visited at Durham, N. C, only twenty-nine of the women had husbands, and the children are almost universally supported by the mothers, while the fathers spend their time in idleness or have took up" with some other woman. He writes like he had been to Cartersville, for in sight of my house is a wo man with three sets of children six in all by three fathers, but she has no husband and has never been married. She works bard for those children and stands well in the church. Her sister has four children and no husband, for he has abandoned her. The colored barber who shaved me for years had three wives with children, and ran away with another one and went to Bessemer and there swapped ner on. mere are no doubt a hundred bastard negro children within our town limits, and as Professor Dowd says, the mar riage relation is now almost un known among the negroes. This degredation of the negro has come along so gradually and in sidiously that our people have gotten used to it and no attention is paid to it by courts or grand juries. We hire these very ne gro women for domestic ser vants ana many oi tnem are good ones. Their children go to the public schools and in time the boys get big enough to steal and the girls to follow their mothers' examples. When will all this folly stop ? But just now there seems to be a cessation of political hostili ties about the negro and the race problem. A kind of reaction has come over the northern mind, and they, too, are getting tired of the negro. In fact, nobody seems concerned about him ex cept a few politicians like Cram packer, or Stumpsucker, or whatever his name is. But ever and anon there comes a thunder ing sound from Mount Olympus, where Jupiter Tonans sits en throned in royal dignity. Hark! Jupiter .has spoken. Then shook the hills with thunder riven and louder than the bolts of heaven, we hear a mighty voice that rolls its echoes from the Atlantic to the .Pacific . and -trever berates among tlie clouds and is borne fen electric currents from Washing ton to Indianola, and whispers, "Stand by Minnie!" and they stand. Minnie ought to go up there and take refuge in the White House . where Jupiter could stand by her day and night. Now let that be the O. O. P.'s shiboleth and let it roll down the corridors of time as a watchword r Stand by Minnie !" i jnrTx.Ara Take The h, ht-. Which ? A lean and potash-hungry soil, wasted seed, wasted labor and idle gins A MORTGAGE. Or, plenty of Potash in the fertilizer, many bales and a busy gin A BANK ACCOUNT. Write na for .a! our books. " t They are f "TP money win rr I iSJ'Bj nen. We tend r('ja them r to 1 T 1 CERMAN KALI WORKS S Naeaan St. New Verk WHY RURAL LIB ARIES. "The differance between the educated man and the uneduca ted," says President Schurman, "is that the educated man sees more, feeds more, wants more, is interested in vastly greater variety of things, and, in short, lives a larger, a richer and a full er life. He is haunted by thoughts and touched by emo tions and moved by ideals which are incommunicable to him who has not been nourished at the breast of human science and culture." It is the business of the school to initiate the child in to this larger life. Yet it is a la mentable fact that the boys and girls of the rural communities of the South are getting from the public school practically no help in tins direction. A cnua may learn to read and to write and to manipulate numbers, may learn the rules of grammar and rhetoric, may memorize and re cite the mere lists of facts which pass for geography and history may do all this well, and yet go out into the world with his ho rizon but little broader than if the school had never existed. The business of the school is to initiate the child into civiliza tion. But civilization is not em bodied in the formal studies : reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar. To give tne cnild these is to give him his instru ments, his tools; but to give him no more is to leave him without inspiration and guidance. These tools are made useful only in so far as the child has opened up to him the realms of nature and of humanity. Through the use of these instruments the child may enrich his own hie by appropri ating the accumulated experience of the race. This experience comes to him in the main in the form of books. The most vital endowment which the school gives to the child is the confirmed reading habit directed by a cul tivated taste. With this endow ment the most remote commun ity is put in touch with cvuliza- tion; the child of the district is made the citizen of the world. But this reading 'habit can not be cultivated in the absence of books. Without the rural dis trict library, the rural school must fail in its most important function. Arizona gives $50 a year to the school library of every district having one hundred children Colorado gives one-tenth of a mill school tax to its rural li braries. Illinois allows an amount not to exceed two mills, Indiana one-fourth to one-third of a mill, Iowa one mill. Ken tucky gives $10 to each district, if the people raise $10. Maryland gives $10 if the community will raise $10. Massachusetts gives $15 to the district ' which gives $15. New Jersey appropriates $20 the first year and $10 each year thereafter. The constitu tion of Michigan, as does that of Minnesota, provides . that ' the legislature maintain a library in 1 m Vakea short road. JL ind light loads. 'ood for everything s that runs oa wheels. Said Everywhere. tiri' rr oort.ro. aw ' very township. Libraries are supported in Kansas, Nebraska, New Hampshire, the Dakotas, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Ver mont Wisconsin sets aside for district libraries ten cents for every child enrolled. In all, twenty-nine states of the Union aro appropriating money every year for the support of rural school libraries. Nine Southern states, Alabama, Arkansas, Geor gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Vir ginia, and Virginia, along with the western states, Arizona, Washington, and Nevada, are do ing nothing. MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE. Astaevtlle Citizen. It is questionable if the law in this State dividing murder into two degrees has not been pro ductive of more harm than good. Of course it was designed to aid justice and it has done so by making possible in certain cases the punishment of defendants who could not have been con victed under the old law. From this point of view the new law has proved a wise one. But on the other hand, a habit of con victing of murder only in the second degree has grown up among North Carolina juries un til it has become well nigh im possible to punish even the most malicious and deliberate killing with anything more severe than a short term in the penitentiary. This is especially true if the de fendant happens to be a ' person of wealth, or position, or influen tial friends. As a natural result, life in North Carolina has been cheap ened and men threaten blood shed on slightest provocation, killings have become more fre quent and the criminal courts are often held in contempt. The dividing line between the first and second degrees is so fine that it matters not how deliber ate or malicious a murder mav have been the avenue of escape from the extreme penalty of the law is always open to the defend ant with money and influence on the one hand and to the judge and jury loath to deal out the death penalty on the other. A glance at the State's noted criminal trials within the past few months will illustrate. Take the Nellie Cropsev case. If she was murdered by James Wilcox, as the juries in two trials said she was, the deed was de liberately planned and malicious ly committed. Yet the jury, taking advantage of the law di viding murder into two degrees, brought m a verdict of murder in the second degree. More recent still is the case of Bishop, tried in Charlotte last week. He deserved the death penalty, if ever a man did, but through the law in regard to homicides was enabled to escape with only hve years in the peni tentiary. In the Raleigh tragedy the de fendant Haywood is preparing to take advantage of this law. in case his plea of self-defenseDdoes not serve to let him off entirely Hence it may be seriously questioned if the law dividing murder into two degrees has not proved an obstacle in the admin istration of justice rather than t help. Tragedy Averted. "Just in the nick of time our little boy was saved' ' write Mrs. W. Wat kin of Pleasant City, Ohio. "Pneu monia1 had played aad hovoe with him a terrible cough set in beside. Doe- tor treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. King's JNew Discovery lor (Jonsumn- tion, and our darling was saved. He' now sound, ana well." Ever body ought to know, It's the on! 7- "afl sure cure lor Coughs. Colds and Lung diseases. Guaranteed by Lex lngton Drug Co. Price 50c and 11.00. Trial bottles free. . Football and Insanity. During the year 1902, two men in America were killed in prise fights; and, in a season of three months just passed, twenty-one men have been killed playing football. Fifteen of these died from broken necks or broken backs. How many ' men have been ruptured and permanently injured in various other, way and man can say. : I. know," fays 'Elbert Hubbard, in -the. March Cosmopolitan, that two young men with whom I am personally acquainted are now in lunatic asylums as a result of football, and their ravings are the cries and signals of this game. If you still think that football is manly sport, you might interview the parents of these young men." Mr. vTho. Tverhart,' who -r r 1 Mrs. A 1 inderson, a woman of Jacksonville, Fla., daughter of Recorder of Deeds, West, who witnessed her signature to the following letter, praises Lydia E. 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