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' .w7 THE NEGRO IN 5TIIE UNITED STATES !v- The race Question will -."not'down. ' All thla crltlo.am of President Uoose ' . Yelt tor discharging from the service, t ' without honor, -certain colored troops, -j who had amused themselves byCom - mlttlng: murder, and their comrades, I!- ,, who had? made themaelvea particepa !fVrtmlni after the tact by. ahelldjng ijiy' the murderers,-la only a phase of. the ; i: race problem 'icrthe1: United- Sutea, The Spanish war veteran of the IMsr :..':'. trlct of Columbia understand .the .V" v case, and they,- are - exactly ' right a,. yrhea they ' declare'' that ' if V Whlta ' v, f v.roopa had been guilty of what these black troops v were, charged wlth and the Identical order had -been made, It would have "met with universal ap proval. The row la made by hot house and dilettanti v humanitarians of New England and the North., Who cannot keep from meddling with thlcga they know nothing about to save their Uvea, and they are aided pothouse and corrupt politicians who want to retain the negro vote In the Republican line. Of . these two, I prefer the pothouse rascal to the pot house Pharisee. . -There Is an organisation at the North that calls itself the "Constitu tional League," poalbly - because it knows about as .much touching the true conceptions of the Constitution as Nlcodemus knew, of the second birth. ', This league sent a committee to Tort Heno to "Investigate." They found out that Inspector Garllngton is a native of South Carolina, though in oracer of the United States Army and a graduate of West Point. That was enough to forever damn Gar llngton In the eyes of, this Imperti nent and Insolent layout that la form ed to attend to another folks' busi ness. They assume that what Garl lngton reports la a lie. They heard no testimony except thaf of the men dice, confirmation strong as proofa of holy writ. They report that the negroes did not shoot up Brownsville; that nobody was killed or crippled, and that Brownsville shot up her nelf, and did It to bring odium on the negro soldiers. Manifest this is an afterthought, for all these gentry had been beslobbering the altars of the temples of patriotism with tars shed over the misfortunes of men who suffered Infamy "for honor's sake" the "honor" waa the refusal of these heroes to Rive testimony against murderers. The fact Is, If Roosevelt will order all the negro troops in the army to Northern and Eastern military posts, and keep them there, within three years every negro soldier will be - mustered out by act of Congress. I make no doubt the negroes were sent to Brownsville be cause that people did not want them there. For that they were sent from an Iowa post I have no prejudice against the negro. My father was a slaveholder. Thousands of the happiest hours of my childhood were spent ln the kltch n. where I ate 'possum, pot-llcker, crackling bread, bllod hen, drop dumplings, and aweet 'tater pudding at Aunt Carllne's table. Nightly I sat at the feet of Uncle Archie and drank In bis philosophies, that he poured out In garrulous streams as he made baskets of white oak splits which he sold to neighboring farmers, and I am glad that when freedom came to him It found htm with a fat purse for hla old age; but be lost thrift when he gained liberty, and his last years brought him the only hardships he ever knew. I am sure If all the white oak sappllnga he cut down on my father's possessions and turned Into baskets were now stand ing In the tree, and my property, I could sell them for enough to make me Independent of the dally news paper grind. A boy. Alec, waa put to watch me before I grot to the age where memory took root. He got me Into a thou sand mischiefs before I was ten years oia. ana i got ten ucxings tor, south Carolina, Mississippi and them where he got one, and yet there Louisiana will become Santo Do are millions of people at the North mlngos before this century fulfills . .. W n K1A,. . V. . ,...-,, ow.hAM.. - iiu ociicyc tu.i d,cij di.tciiviuci whipped every nigger on the place the first thing after he awoke In the morning and repeated the cruelty tne laat thing before he slept at night. me fact is tnat one or tna worst things you couia say oi a man was, 'He la hard on his negroes." That brought on him the ostracism. Some of my pleasantest memories are the evenings I spent In the hayloft. If the weather was mild, or In the kitchen, If It was harsh, reading continued stories out of The New York Ledger to the negroes, my companions and friends on myjvlrtuous negroes to leave oUr shores, ' father's place. How they did enjoy mem: now iney loveo. me neroes ; and heroines! How they hated the j villains and adventuresses! How real it was to them! And so I love the memory of Bonner. Pouthworth, Cobb, Peck. Bennett and all the rest of them. Those negroes, my father's slaves, helped to Impart to me the reading habit, and I can Imagine no blessing that money can buy that equals that. What friends we were; what chums. Alec, Walker, Andy, Cato, Zack. Tom. What happiness it was to go to the rabbit "guma" of a frosty morning and a 'possum hunting of an autumn night with them for companions What delight they got out of the dogs! To ssy that I am a "negro-hater" la as absurd as It Is false. When the American romancer, a Scott, or the American novelist, a Dickens, shall come, If ha ever does, his most delightful chapter will be pictures of Southern life In the time of slavery and the affection and con fidence that existed between master . and slave. Nearly all those faithful old servitors are gone, and we con stantly read of how the whltea of the South attend their 'funerals, mingle .' their teara with the blacks, and ten derly bear the remalna to the grave, : and there sorrowfully consign the body to the dust whence It came and to which It Is now returned.. : But where Is the Northern roan who can comprehend thla sentiment? I have never1 met him. Instinctively, i he rets hla Idea from the fact of the ' slave trade as practiced by hie fore fathers In New Kngland, when the elect of. Ood made "gayneful pillage' ', turning molasses Into rum, exchang , Ing the rum for slaves on the coast of Guinea, exchanging the slaves for . tobacco on the coast of Virginia, ex- ( changing the tobacco for fabrics on v .he coast of old England, exchanging the fabrics for molasses on the coast of Cuba, bringing the molasses home, '" turning It Into more rum, and re peating the venture. That la how lold Peter Faneull made the money ,.' with which ha made, the, hall In Bos , ton . that la ths "Cradle of Liberty." i I have no doubt but that the old fel ''? low would have act a chunk of fire ' to It had he known the use It would be put to by the fanatics and luna tlca that constituted themselves tha " Anti-Slavery Society," It waa Naw ' England that forced Into, the Federal constitution i clause of section f, - article L tbat kept the African slave - trade open until 1801, and If African . slavery had been ,- aa ' profitable In Ohio and Iowa aa It was thought to be In Georgia and' Arkansas, we ; would have African alavery ln .this country thia blessed moment. "' ; 1 ' But climate and product! made :;' African slave qy unprofitable at the "wuva wm went acquaintance of those whom the world JnS?!.'' Mr :,80!'''ealto cranka This tncllnatlen la -not ao subject, wrote a fiction, absurd In verisimilitude,' false 'In fact.- and Im possible (a logic, and the Northern heart was fired, i.; If, there , had ; been no anti-slavery, movement ? at the North," by 1K0 there would not have been a slave at the South, except the ii ..u wumon -; over,iairiy -inn were, v possibly, undt'. for freedom. The . best thought of the South saw the vll. nt , alavanr w ik. cnrh waa human' and would not free the " ,or' ln the land of unreality hat a SuSnedlmT1 ""' vTto'.vo? TO Sumner, Glddlnga ' the LoVeloys. , extreme. I moralise and analyse Just as Stevens and that layout drove the little as possible. I try to see widely. South to defend Slavery, ' and what I like to iurn away from the sweltering men defend they come to believe In;, crush of the streets into quiet bylanes. John Brown did more to entrench K?, ma if.ali,b3La -'"f alnvArw mt th. cin,.k . n.r ,k. cull a violet from Its nook, so am I fond 'very " s10uth thn :ny other of turning away fom buiineas and the man Henry A. Wise, who very conventions to poke for a whll about properly hanged him, waa an antl-1 the ruby-holes of humanity, curious as slavery man, and would .have : freed to what that Is odd I may expect to dis all his' negroes had he not looked cover, and delighted with the munllness around and saw the free negroes of and flavor of the natural, uncontnminat Virrlnla were not attln nn hlf .al1 i am certain to run acroaa. Virginia were not getting on naif as Wha, iter way Is there to relaxT iL " " lav9- ' . I What better way to sympathise, under- The war cama on; the North was etand? victor. The North did not care ai It goes without saying that cranks single hurrah In Tophet for the ne - BTo: ut the North enfranchlart the negro to make treason odious. It was the most stupendous act of po- i mum i imij oi ing enure nriBuan era. The Intention was to make the whites of the South the political serfs of the blacks of the South. The biggest fool in Congress Bhould ngress Bhould have known that only the sword could maintain such a thing as that, and as soon as the sword was re- moved the whole thing crumbled. The whites of the South regained control. "They will keep It. But there Is the race problem. Only the fatuous optimists of both sections hide It from their eyes. Under the law of man the negro is the political equal of the white. You might as well try to regulate by statute the course of the winds and the time storm shall succeed calm, selves. Their qualities are both rare Tou might as well enact that it shall, fTa"t,fu,.l. T,i"y Pean,,1r n" y.. ,,jj ,, 0, v sen al when the barrier of Ice has been be midday sun at midnight. You roken- About the true gBIlUem.niy might as well legislate that death ; crank there is always a reticence, a re shall stay his hand until his victim i serve. None better aware of It than Is ready for his Visit. Man must be himself. He knowa hla honesty and satisfied with the limitations God has motives but lie knowa hla limitations imposed on him. One of those llml-1 f'8" wf.' hi.VJV.m'Jf m.r" a.r. . . . . . . . , ' turs nas act nun apart from tn major- tatlons Is that he Is power ess and ,ty of folk. segregated, he does not impotent Derore caste, and man la that at the North In the aame de gree that he la at the South, and, in fact. Just a little earner, the fanatics shall call themselves the "Constitu tional League" to the contrary not withstanding.. The negro Is not only Inferior. but he kncVs It There never was lesst rlalt.le. He builds them into an one who did not curse the fate that unobtniding life. He embodies them In ,Mn.i him v, ,,, ,. , his work. They are no longer fallacies allotted him the pigment cell. 8ome-(or rhlwra-. T.y are fact,. They body with a perverted imagination RPnulne nBets In the heritage of man has told us that the negro of kind. Bortlcer Washington's age Is like the Suppose, he Is not and oftentimes he Jew of mediaeval tmles. Nothing of i lsn't-a genula or an usher of eras. The the sort. There never was a Jew , me cl,r,icterlstlcs are yet hla-wlth- that would consent to bo of another race. Isaac or York, ir there was such a man, would not have changed, places with Richard Plantagenet. Itl is the grandest of the races, and I console myself ln the fancy that we or the Anglo-Saxon race came from the tribe of Dan. I hope, It Is so, at any rate. Yoti cannot have political equality ,,!.., .,, -.. ., ' without social equality, and you can- not deny tho negroes of the South their political rights under the con- stltutlon without danger to the whites of the South, while the exercise of " ne wonaers mat inings are so or their polttlcal equality there would red'...h', len"? d.!? "ot ,we"y .v"u i w ,1,,.' . . . , v lavai iw 1.11 r i n ia a mo uestlon: "Shall the Southern States become what Santo Domingo Is? If the negro Is taken Into full po litical nartnershln then the States of .. - . . .. . . ts TOUTm aecaoe. But there Is no danger of that r (j0 not believe that of the South are going to surrender : i. una., it iv T nil, c-,iiicti inno nil Mr. John Sharp Williams thinks ; the tables of mortality will do the business, and there Is shrewdness In iha! .......iinn Put inf.rini- rith superior and Inferior dies out, un-( less he ts ward and the superior Is his friend. If I had my ,way I! wouia esiaDiisn a penai coiuny. unu every vicious negro guilty of felony transport. I would hire tho land sDend billions buying and build-1 ing them homes ana paying mem bounties on their crops ln their new land, affording them the protectorate ! 171 T7U 1 IUHQI, VI Hill ru,7, nuu v. - . ..,, -,, m A our moral stamina. But taklnr them Into partnership In society or government never! Tim la ImnouMlhle ' the rnstA that . i -.1 -,.,., in -.,r-, . ki. . Ii,.. . . V.t .i,. self endowed with some superior gifts, us forbids, r and that Is a flat that hut know(1 nnou.h of hlu wwkI,e , governments and armlea and navies modeat and humhle. The self-assertive and intellects and charities and alllorank la Intolerable. He la egotism per- the damnfoolery of the world not get around. END OF BIG8BEK CASK. Grand Jury Finds No Trno BUI In Case of Ailegwl Illegal Voting. Special to The Observer. Durham. Dec. 1. The end of il e case against W. T. Rlgsbee, charged with Illegal voting, was reached to day when the grand Jury failed to find a true bill and the defendant discharged. It Is not known that there will be anything further In this matter; K ha been a hard fought case and there .has been much Inter est here In the past, but recently there was little, or no Interest, until the case waa called In the court this week. (v Thla moralitr the solicitor sent the bill early and It waa soon after the noon how when the Jury sent the bill back, thla being marked "not a true bill." ' V- Thla enda the case. It waa a hard fight up ' to -this time and the third Mil uni.w-u .k .,, o. bill waa Bent, before the Jury was qualified to pass? on such matters and then It was not a true bill. This ends a matter that at one time caused soma bitterness .here, but which of late had practically died out tcnograpber Sees for Salary, Special to Th -"bserver. Asheville. ' Deo.. I. Kmarann Eave, the well-known court stenog- .nd making herself companionable, aha rapher, hla i Instituted suit and sued Is at the asm time bringing to tha na- out attachment papers against tha tlnns as her own distinctive gift high North Carolina Mining Company. .Mr. conoeptlona of honor, of honesty, and of Save claims that tha minin v.. Uprightness of conduct, which are chast- tt-hMufiE2i v?.'s&r& cVcormi,s writ durtnir the takhvr of testimony aa to socspt all things that give cause before epedeL examiners tn the blr for 'elolelnr. but may sha retain -Just suite Of tha North. Carolina Mining snotigh Of the cranky to reject that Ctontfwajr'vft.' the Weatfeld-. K Uv i h,cn wrong, , .. ' i; v .., i t, f The North Carolina Mining :'Com- . V'm''TTZ lmtJm " pany refused, o pay Mr. Eave'g bm.',,,' Sr TbMii alleglnr-the :he chargea ware exor- aurely and quickly check an approaching bltant; that' Ma charge was no gTett- cold or Lagrlpps. When y0U ffrat catch er than atenographera.lo every Bteta cold or fei it . coming on take Br. and territory In the . union charged i "hocp's freventlcs, , and the prompt ef and furthermore, that he had a .pr SjJSSSL JLW'l'Zu? - Notes and f Sentiments!, "- BT GARLAND GREEVK1V ' , ' . i t -i i ..- t.v - , ON CRANKS . ' Through a limitation Or breadth: of nature I ham.lv- know whlnh r .lav, a.. seltled as to amount to a penchant, or so sporadic as to be classed with mere whims. - But there Is" s, fascination -for me in contemplating men. ' and 'not "the Uiast part of the study Is its spice.' Va riety enhances. "Wherever the abnormal x'le. or wherever diralla that which others deem mysterious or absurd, there do I love to dlroot my scrutiny, to utilise my compaas, to employ my proba ' wen ay l unaerstana tne aancer ot i my course. An oberver mav sojourn 1 ,,,rn tho world. They originate Ideas. They Introduce roforma. They pi nee on the market whlrllalg Inveruluns that re- ft principle. or a theory, end, holding to it with nxedness or purpose, lonu to its fortune, whether waxing or waning, the Impetua of persistent concern. They fncsntrat their energies; hence tney i.. h. ,, nf MndurAnA. All hlatnrv nlteatfi that theeo mental malcontents In no Hmall degree mould the destiny of the rnc- Thy warriors of progress, for l" re ".1.m',5 w.'ii? en- -i.'T ni a Ull.ni mini iw. vtjv mmn . u n . dinns. for neither pleasure nor wearl nena can entice them from their vigil. Truly the banner cf crankiness Is broad. Yet it -la not ss great heroes that T would reckon with cranks. I would deul with them rather as stray blta of hu manity or as precious ore-leavings when the main vein nag oeen followed ana exhausted They nr lovable In them hate people. He only realises that his way and theirs are not one. his opin ions If nlred( so he known) would be giv en a rumor of qualntnasa, not the ef ficacy he dealrea. His Ideas ore s Jest to others. So he does not formulate them In worda. Yet be cannot resign them wholly. He puta them In the form which he reels win be least ridiculous, pnlphly men from thn obscuring ranks. n i. devotion in miniature. H la lov- ally without erase to promote. We wronj cranka by urging that they ' Bro ,a" nair-Druincu or viaionarr. ion- der is one who sees no crying Aed. has I ,i. -,iau-,,-. n hi. nr. h. i. m.A as most, and far more naive. H hes this to dlfferenilnte Mm from the mass of creatures, that his amusement are variance with theirs or it least. varlal one from thelra. Nothing suits ,llm tnnn to fo alone, nay to go r.n sti-.ilthlly, and enjoy In quiet the caprices which others would think fool- Ish cr. at least, very strange. wun laoorioun Bnwuiimnn-i, ji nia iai seems hard, he doea not worry you with complaints of his misery, but aoes off slone and snenda bitter moments ln re pln'rix and grief. Khnw him a IrlnrinpRii srwl h tiavat forgets It. Mistreat him and he will , not retalmte, but will shrink from you ns from aome dumb power that he can- rot understand. Be maimed or helpless and he will lavish all attention, warmed to the heart with the simple gladness hitaa'c' serving man aa a man. niiiirn, m.. .: 1 i ,...i i .... , -,ar(iB hm 80mMime by reveallns a bins like his own. You need not think i to deceive him If the hollowneaa of barn understanding Is In your word with liothlrg of the fervor of havln-r felt, he win scorn you ss one acuter work,n-, r,f tho heart but on fMbIer in Mkiwshln and less merciful. But In your tones let there be the vibrations of ; u"''"ir" i-uuvn.nmi. iuu win i-cn "rntnto inn core or nis nature nee his i:' li.'t... ... l..i..." . '..'.. t: i r.rnrfrnK.rl,bi- moment to him n , f:od-innimrt moment. Th .iinc. burden cf hla days srs broken. He has! been crnvlpg and hungry at heart nd ".nflv'TPn nlm- tiencerorm ne Knows - -..iiuitru a-ju. Of course. I am talkln of the rlrht kind of rnink. I have no condonement for the bigot or th fool, neither have I respect for the man who affects a pe culiarity tbat ne doea not possess. I am tslklng of the crank who believes htm sonified. He recognlsea differences In deed, but knowa no reason; for to his urslart mind there is only fully In what the world has smhrsced. His oddities do not merely exist; they atlok out. Though worthy (thus speaknth his man ner), they are leas oominrndahl thaji the person who be"nrs them. He Is an unmltlsnted nuisance. lie. ahould buy soma blank cartridges and blow out his brains. Who like the untamable, the self-suf ficient? Who respects the world -Important Number One? But the true orank we admire. In the secret chambers of our being we applaud him for i bully chap, even when with our handa-or our tongues ws belabor him for aa unruly or an ungrererlous ecsmp. In all tha chaff that falls about him there ts some times a seed of reverence In tha hUar lly of our persiflage there sometimes In terposes an accent that la aravlty Itsslf, Nations and sections, like msa, may be stereotyped or crnnky. If cranky, as most of them srs, they may be of the tvpe which we repudiate utterly Or of that which we accept for what It Is worth. ' To me It apnears thst the Qer man, plodding, Scholarly, scientific. Is, with all his boasts of breadth and toler ance, too often a contemptuous braggart, whose achievements are splendid, but whose Haunts are Insulting; and that a good slap might tend to convince h'm of a certain baalc level of things. Ths Northerner, too,, hustling, inventive, progressive ss he Is, Is st i times a trifle- too ready to turn up his 'nose at mediocre attalnmenta and at ,, unfuifliie(i; we admire his enerwv. and love h'm as s brother, but admonish him ln kindness not to deem himself per- feet. The South, too. Is a orank a notable one. At one time the habit was so confirmed that, though she wss hos pitable In one way. hr doors were not open to what was nswest and beat In the world. But she realists now that she walked too far rrom trequentM l..nm:'" ,'.V:: -vcK."r.; V,''-A '"'i'i.iv l'..',:.-w' j 'i . ' "!:' 'A FOX CHASE .4 BY-MIKE DARE. -, r i f BappV: PaJe, ? 10 v. Is. In ? tny youtujer: days 1 used to hunt all aorta o'f gamo but I Wat especially fohd ot the ichaa. - Therefore, when ."re turned to Happy Dale, I waa delight ed ta hear, that the red fox, as game and ae-cunoti-g a IIUe animal as ever ran before a hound,-had returned to thla aectlon of. the 'eountry. Capt. Frank Corwln, an old rlend of my father, atlll kept a pack of well-bred hoanhO v .' r la the city. I 1 a beautiful fox terrier, but,-Just before I left for the country, I shipped him to a Geor flan vf or hla"1 .ittle boy, who had be come attache to, him In the moun tain, last aummer. In presenting Beauty to the youngster I wrote htm to the effect that 1 would keep hounda and hunt foxes and, hence, would not need the little dog. The father of the boy seemed to appreci ate my kindness to the child, fori shortly after Beauty arrived at his new home I received, express pre nald. aa scrawny, flag-tailed, brown- eyed, red, shaggy dog. In the mtall came the following letter: "You were to kind as to give to my small son the fox terrier. In return I have sent ao kind aa to rive to my small son name. You may not believe it. but Shaggy Is bred in the purple. He is the last of my uncle's famous red fox dogs. I think he la about three years old and the darkey who bred and raised him says that he knows how to follow a fox. Don't lauKh at him until you see him In a iryln race." I did not think muili or Shaggy, but turned him over to Robert and told him to take good care of him. I had forgotten about the dog, when Robert brought him around one morning for ma to see. "How do you like him, Robert?" I asked. He ain't purty, 1 he Marse Mike?" said the old darkey In an swer to my question. 'Will he run?" 'He kin make er rabbit hustle. 1 seed him an' Watch arter or olo Mol- lle Cotton Tall yistlddy." "Well, Robert, we will got Mr. Corwln to try him after a fox some night." "Ef he kin keep compny wld Marse Frank's dogs he's all right." Shaggy had Improved In flesh and general appearance, but he was hon ery looking yet, and would ever be. However his limbs were as trim and clean as those of a race horse. His round, compact feet were like the cafs and his loin like the deer's. His large, light brown eyes attract ed me. I began to, admire the little hound. Days and weeks passed and Shag gy waxed fat and strong. He nd Watch became great friends and hap py running mates. One bright, moot) lit nlRht In Oc tober, Just after the flrnt klllinK frost. I was aroused from sleep by Uobert tapping at my window. I could hear him say: "Marster, jflt up. fur Max.xe Frank's comln' on de Hig Fork arter olo White Tip to-nlsht. I hear him blowln' an dls here fool Shaggy s done gone crazy at de soun' av dat horn. He's des er Jerkin, at his chain to git loose." It was 2 o'clock In the morning and the world about us seemed dead. I went out on the front porch to list en. "Hear dat?" said Robert. "Dat's Marse Frank's ram'e horn. I'd know It anywhere'1 -- I could hear the faint call. Mr. Corwln was crossing the rldRe between the two forks, at a point about three miles from Happy Dale.. So soon as I waa certain that Robert was right I told him to turn the Georgia Cracker aloose and let him go to the Corwln horn If he would. I went back to my room and put on my clothes. On returning to the porch I heard dosrs running. Dem young houn's Is makln' rab- bits hop. Marse Mike. Dls listen " 1 But I knows ole Tom's bark, an- I when you hear It de fox's been dere." We listened patiently for Tom, but , the young dogs were roaring so that ' we could hear nothing but the roar or their busy tonsues. finally, how ever, there was a lull and Koiiert threw his hand to his ear and said: "Listen! Listen! Hear dat hoo-lt! hoo-it! Dat's ole Tom an' he's hit White Tip, fur dat's where he crosses de ridge to come tn to de valley. Ef you don't mind me an' you"ll hear n race yet. i'hi oie iux comes aonn jig -uy 'bout fo' times a week. 1 see his tracks In ne bottoms. Me h A rnsklo dat gut Ann's ole gobbler las fall. "yush! Hear dat fine mouf In dere? Dat's ole Hannah! She's de Tastes travelln dog dat Marse Frank's gut. "Listen! Listen' Dare's Pat, an' Bill, an' Bell, puttln' in! Dey'a git tln' right now," "Where are they, Robert?" I ask ed. "Long de hedge row In dat flel' dea "hove de Big Fork woods. "Hear dat! Dot's ole Hannah! Ain't she tellln" 'bout ltl "Whoopee! Heark In! Heark In!" came a human voice. "Dnt's Marse Frank hollerln' In de young dogs." "Do you hear Shaggy ln there?" "No, air. I reckon he went straight to de rabbit (Infra. But I don't know as I'd know hla mouf If h'd open It. Marse Frank's gut so many mv dem choppln' doga". I could tell from the way the hounds were falling In that the scent 'i a. a ' You know that Roso depends upon absolute purity You know that in "case of sickness that you can rive ember of your family ., withthe supreme satisfaction of knowing that you are using the best to be had. . 'r'ti You know that your order was always shipped by first express after receipt. ::?nJ-.'; You know that you could have. gotten your money back if not satisfied by asking for it. You know that.1; Rose's most raluablelasset is bade of every sale. That's his reputation. ' J:Ja i' ' Four full quartsTof Rose's Old Rye or RbseV Old Corn, or four quarts assorted, shipped by exprcsa" pre- 'd i rpaid. for $3.40 to any! address in tho following States: Georgia, Florida, Alabama N.:Carolinar S. Carolina, or ;'f C ";,.any point on Adams or boutnein express jnes. (V' , liMtteinit by Postoffice or Express . Money; Order;. New ' Do not send stamps or personal checks. ; - ' ? t V. ;' . i-;!? V' iV V " . r-X,i 1. V ... ; ; j.."?? . l .';',. :'." ! V"-, '. ,. '.'", At HAPPY DALE was getting better. Old White' Tip, as Robert called him, ' had passed alone there early In tho night. He waa on hla way to the lowlands, sev eral miles below here, where the Lit tle Fork and the Big Fork come to gether, In strolling about the place I had often aeen hla tracks where he crossed my pasture. I knew from the course ' the hounds were trailing that they would pass close to us. Robert and myself made ourselves comfortable and waited. "All you gut to do is to wait, Marse Mike. He's down dere In de Forks an' when dem dogs goes In he'll come out des flyin'. You don't ketch ole White Tip makln' little cucklea; he's a stepper." Soon the dogs passed through the pasture, going down Little Fork. I had learned the tongues of Tom and Hannah and they were doing most of the barking. Some young hound kept circling or casting ahead and hltttmr the trail. He hurried the older dogs but they did not seem to put much faith ln him. "You kin dea look out, Marse Mike, dem dog'a gittln' right. List how deyer packlnl Rabbit dogs an' ali a in. Thirty minutes from the time t pack crossed In front of the house we heard the glorious, wild outburst that hunters so delight to hear when their dogs are trailing a fox. The cry which means that Reynard Is up and doing Is sweet music to the huntsman's ear. White Tip had quit feeding and gone to running. As the dogs en tered the lowlands, where he had gone to catch birds and rats, the fox ran east for a mile and then turned north, crossing Big Fork, and passing back of my born. "Dut's ole White Tip." said Robert. "Dat's Ws route. He's been goln" It fur several years. Ef dem dogs ain't smart dny won't get him." The dogs were scattered, running pell mell, trying 'to hit behind the fox. As they came by hero eight or tho older ojies were side by elde. going like wild. Rey nard was running parallel with Big Fork. Aa the eagr pack swept on Robert and myself returned to the cottage to sit and listen. I could hear the rolling volume of sound but not dis tinguish Individual voices. In the flrBt mad rush every dog waa doing his utmost. The night was Ideal. The heav ens were lit up by tho full moon and the stars. The ground was wet and the leaves and the grass damp from a recent rain. There was no wind to carry or divert the sound. "Ole White Tip's walkln' 'bout now." said Robert. "He ll go clare to de hald of Big Fork If de dogs push him. I dls kin hear 'em now. But he'll come back. He crosses do ridge to Little Fork an' goes right through de, paster lak he done to night The dogs went out of hearing. Thev had traveled four miles almost ln a bee line. When the music was hushed to us Robert declared: "Dat fox Is at de Ole mine now. He will cuckle though dem big woods an' den come back." Having been out of range of the music of tho crying pack for several minutes we heard he yelp of a sin gle dog, who seemed to say: "Here he! here he! here he!" This waa Immediately followed by: "Yoo-wlt! yoo-wlt! yoo-wlt!" On hearing tho socond voice Rob ert said: "Listen! Listen! Hear dat ! Hannah comln'! She sho Is er run nln' dog. But deyer givln her mo n ehe kin handle." The dogg were coming back. They crossed the ridge and came down the Little Fork. When they had passed Mr. Corwln gave a keen yell, urging them on. As they came nearer and nearer to us the cry of the dog that seemed to say "Here-he! hore-he here-he!" fell faster and louder, With one accord, without havlnn said a word to each other, we slid off the steps and moved down to the pasture fence where we could see the pack go by. Two or three dOK camo Into tho pasture at the same time. Hannah and Bill, two bkick and white dogs, were there, and a dark colored dog was csstlng to the the rlpM. Here-he! here-he! here-he!" cried the dark dog, Kvcry hound hurried to Mm and the pack moved on. I WTvlta Tip circled to the wi-sl . ( turned south for a mile before start- Ing over the first circuit again. He had done this trick many times be- fore. Hannah and Bill had followed him' on former trlns. Thev made a I big circle and got In the lead of the when her husband becomes Secretary mov v"ry , P,om pack. The voice of the dog thai i of the Interior after March 4. tlnlllnT iled' of cried "Here-he! here-he! here-he! ' Mr. and Mrs Straus huve leased ","rt ,nr-t to the had censed. We thotlght ho had dropped out altogether, but as tho pack crossed Big Kork and passed In the rear of the bar "Here-he" and Hannah and Bill were racing for the lead. "Marse Mike." said Robert when the dogs had gone on, "dat llttl doa; dat's runnln' so ain't none uv Mare Frank's ole dogs. No. sir. I knows em all, an' he'a er yewr dog." When we returned to the front side of the house wo met Mr. Cor wln, who had come down the rrind from thf ridge. Without taking time to speak the old hunter asked. "Roh ert, what dos; Is that In there that Is driving old Hannah and BID so hard?" "I don't know, Marso Frank, dat's You Are a If you are you know tho quality of Rose's Old Rye and Rose's Old Corn. You know that for thirty-nine years Rose has been distilling whiskey and sell ing to tho consumer. You know that Rose docs not sacrifice quality for price. "''""'. ' ...: . M T .:.."I. - '-XXj., v ....... ..4 j, Vf.-" ' V ;.?,' ".-. . - dea whut we wni talkln' 'bout when you com np." .. 1 c I never aaw mm before. He does not belong to me. will they come back thia way. Robert?" "Yes, Marse Frank, ole Whlta Tip can't stay way frum de forks." "That' the fastest race I ever heard," declared Mr, Corwln. "That strange dog that crlea 'here-het here hel ' here-he!' la driving hard. List en. He's crossing the ridge and Tom and Hannah are .behind him All was atlll at Happy Dale for an hour. We heard the dogs go Into the North woods, toward the Baxtlett Hills, the roughest country this side of the mountains. ' Old White Tip was trying a new turn. As the voice of the crying pack died away Robert declared: "Marse Frank, dat little stranger's driven ole White Tip out uv his rangln' ground. He'a gone 'mong de Bartlett Hills." As we sat there on my front steps, listening Intently and afraid to talk leat the dogs return and we could not hear them, the moon aeemed to shine brighter and steadier -than I had seen It do In a year. Here and there about the sky were feathery clouds, Now and then the baying of a house dog was heard. The night waa Ideal for a fox race. Aa the hall clock struck three Rob ert exclaimed, ln a whisper: "Listen! Listen!" We tilted our ears to the north. "Here-he! here-he! here-he!" came over the hills and down the valleys. "Hear him!" said all. The note of the lonely dog was borne from the f Bald knob, the highest point ln tfro Bartlett Hills. Soon we heard the pafck cross. "The-y'TO coming iback." declared Mr. Corw Ten mlnufs later "Here-he! here- he! here!" began to fall frequently. Thn little unknown hound waa going at a killing pace and there was a trace of vlclousnesa In his voice. "Ain't dat runnln'?" said Robert. "He sho' do wanter kill dat fox." "He's coming this way," said Mr. Corwln. The dog with the peculiar note was several hundred yards ahead of the pack, which was led by Tom and Hannah. As he came on w went down to tho fence to see him pass. But tho fox made a quick turn and tho vullcy. "O, yes," said Robert, "he can't make do Forks. Dat houn's shovln" him too fas'. Ho had to turn." "Here-he! here-he! here-he" cried the doV as he moved on. We could tell that he was gaining on the fox and that ho was running by body scent. We ran over the ridge by the house. The familiar cry had hushed. "Under de Big Rock," exclalmod Robert. Mr. Corwln had come to the same conclusion, for he was running like a school boy for the Big Rock nt the roar of Happy Dale. He was the nrst one to get there and as we ap proached he shouted: "Come and see this cur dog that made old White Tip take a hole." Robert arrived Just ahead of me and when he saw the lltle four leg ged guardian of the den he declared: "An' Onwd bless my soul, Marse Mike, ef It ain't our Shaggy!" Seeing the old darkey the hound I turned and Jumped upon him and i barked Joyfully. The Corwln dogs, which had run over the trail, were beginning to straRtcle In. White Tip was safe. Had we de sired to do wo we could not havi taken him from that den. liobert and myeslf are ready for all comers. Shaggy Is our champion. MIKE DARE. SOCIETY AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL BY CATHKKINE ALI.MAX. Washington, Nov. JO. Thanksgiv ing Day came, bringing many of the members of Washington society back Into the fold. TV President und Mrs. Roosevelt dined en famlllo nt the White House, Micro their return was most eagerly welcomed. Invitations for the White Hoiisp Cabinet dinner on December 13 are out. This function will Inaugurate the real season of tools I festivities. V'lco President and Mrs. Fairbanks will entertain the presidential party and after that will follow the Klad dinners by members of the Cablne! beginning wlih Secretary of State an Mrs. Root. There will be many changes In th homes and personnel of the ofllcla and diplomatic set thla season, al though there will be but two iie hostesses In the (Vblnet. Mrs. Own' Straus, wife of the next Secretary ' Commerce and Labor. und Mr Oeorge von L. M-yer, wife of tin new Postmaster Cereral. Mrs. Jiinii-i R. Garfield will be added to the IIM tho residence on Sixteenth street re cently built by ex-Senator and Mrs John B. Henderson. It Is undoubt edly the handsomest as well as one of the lurgesl private houses ever of fered for rent In this city, and Was built under the personal supervision of Mri". Henderson. It Is four stories high and h;is a commanding view of tho entire city and surrounding coun try. Tho design Is that of purest Italian architecture; a Venetian pal ace with many graceful balconies The first story Is of white marble, whlln the upper portion Is In Vene tian pink, with white unglazed terr:i cotta trimming-. A large root garden forms another unique feature of thl pink palace. Although Secretary and Mrs. Straus Probably Rose Customer to sell his whiskey. Rose's Whiskey to any member of the famih -'.; York Exchange, or send the. :-i0 'j 7 ii m .mi ieirnn rr r h """"v ,'V ;.. , . ., ...' - ; have no young psepi In their family I the! beautiful home will at once aa- aume'an Important place In the ao- clal life of the capital and will un doubtedly be the scene of many nota ble and brilliant eiturtainmente. , Washington has been usually hon ored thla fall by the visits of many foreigners of : distinction, some of whom were even members of the royal families. First cama . Prince Henry of Reuse, a possible heir to I the crown of the Netherlands; the. Viscountess de la Bassetler renewed her acquaintance with Washington, . aa gueat of her cousin. Miss Acoataj - the Hon. Land Alan Jonhatone, , wife ; 'i ot the British minister to Denmark, f has been the guest of. her parents,' Mr. and Mra. James Plnchot, and has ' been wined, dined and feted In smart v"1, society. The Countess Hoyos haa;d. been the gueat of the wife of the " Austrian ambassador. She la a sister I of the Princess Ulsmarck. that re- markably clever woman who la aaid'."'' to be the author of "Elizabeth and V Her German Garden." The marriage of Mlas Alice Lang-'.-' 1 home, youngest daughter of Mr. and ' i Mrs. John D. Langhorne, of thla city.' " , to Mr. Stanley Washburn, of Minne sota, was one of the most notable events of the season. The bride la .'',1'; a sister of Mrs. Charles Danna aib-.v.H;'1 son, of New York city, and of Mra.'-f,;v:; , Waldorf Astor, of England, who be . fore her recent marriage to young: Ae-.';.' -. tor was Mrs. "Bobble" Shaw, of Bo-.'; '; ton. Tho Washburn family la one ' , ' of tho moat distinguished In the f country, the six sons of Israel Wash- burn, of South Llvermora county,, V a Maine, having each attained ami- ; ,' nence In his career. Israel. Jr waaj, :. war Oovernor of Maine, and waa af ;'.';T forwards elected to Congress. Cad-' V:"" awallader was Governor of Wisconsin, ' 1: a member of Congress and a general during the civil war. Ellhu waa an Intimate friend of Lincoln and Grant, a member of Congress during the civil war, the first secretary of State under Grant, and for many years American minister to France. William D. Washburn, father of the groom, was both Representative and Senator from Minnesota, the three brothers having figured prominently In Congress at the same time. An Interesting figure In Congres sional society will be the bride of Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson. Mrs. Hobson was a Mixs Hull, of Al abama. She is a cousin of Mrs. Hon Jam in Harrison, who was well known here during the Harrison ad ministration as Mrs. Dlmmlck. Pound Infant Burled In Paper Box. Special to The Observer. Winston-Salem, Dec. 1. While out hunting yesterday Mr. J. E. t.'llne discovered what appeared to be a newly made grave Just northwest of the city. Tnis morning Mr. ('line and a friend went out and upon Investiga tion found an Ifant burled I a paper box. The matter was -reported to the coront-r who field an Investigation this afternoon. There was no clue aa to foul play. The child had been burled so long that the Jury waa un able to decide whether It was wnlte or black. For chsnped and cracked hands ret DcWltt s Wltrh Hazel Salve. Sold by Wllrh Hazel Ihiwliv's Pharmacy. RHEUMATISM. Bone or Back Patna. Swollen Joints Cured THROUGH THE BLOOD By Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. There Is hope for I he moat hupelsns case of Rheumatism If the aufforer will only take Hotanle Ilb .1 Halm ill li. H.) Il Inv gorulvi the hltmd. making It pure and rich, and dvstroylng the active poi son In the blood. which causes the awful aympinms of Kheumntlim. 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