2 IS THE EDUCATED HEGRO A FAILURE? Bill Arp is Inclined to Think That he is. TAKES CANDLER TO TASK FOII IIIS ASSEHTIOX THAT nnu- CATION IS Till: REMEDY. NEGRO CONVICTS WHO READ AND WR IT The Timß that is Wasted on Higher Branches in the Modern College Course, A Di gression from Politics to Step-Ladders. (Written for the Constitution.) 1 reckon there are enough philosophers to solve the race problem aml stive the country without further assistance from me, and so I will swear ofT for the pres ent. 1 don't care mtieh whether the ne gro goes to Africa or Arizona or stays here. If he stays here he has got to stop his devilment or take the consequences, and I’m willing to trust the people on that line. But of all the absurd reme dies that have been projmsed none are more so than a change of venue and a trial in five days in some distant county. County lines do not bound the fierce in dignation of a people horrified and en raged over such fiendish work as that of Sam Holt and will Lucas. And besides, just think of the machinery that lias to be set in motion to summons and con vey thirty or forty witnesses to a dis tant county, and even then perhaps no trial or a mock trial that disregards the forms of law and the rights of the crimi nal. No, that is no remedy. But I've sworn off. I/et the wise men settle it. tlm I confess I was surprised when I read that Governor Gaudier had just discovered that education was the only remedy that would stop the commis sion of these heinous crimes. According to statistics of New York and Massa chusetts. taken from their State prisons and published to the world, education fosters and increases crime—not a little, but immensely. The governor's theory iias been long since exploded. And right here in Georgia the uneducated negro before the war and for a few years after was moral and law-abiding and now there are 4.000 in the State and county ehaingangs, 75 per cent, of whom can read and write. But 1 forbear. I would rather rumi nate about pleasanter things, though I must protest against this utterly unten able basis of all the negroes being good negfoes excepting 5 per cent. Mr. Inman started it and I see that Bishop Games takes comfort from it in his beautiful and impressive sermon of last Sunday. It is a delusion and a snare. Nearly 5 per cent, of their voting population are now in the ehaingangs. and it is safe to say that if everyone Who steals was ar rested and punished it would add 10 per cent, more to the black army of con victs. Petty larcenies are common in every household where they are employ ed. but they are not brought to court. These little pilferings are crimes, but the crimes are condoned —for they have some good qualities, and their service is needed. It is a race trait and develops with education, especially among the youngi r negroes. The records of the courts prove that the percentage of small larceny and burglary grows faster than their population increases. City negroes and town negroes} are more addicted to il than country negroes. for tliey have more education and more opportunities. The fear of the law as it is now does not deter them. The fear of the lash would. But we can worry along with their little pilfering* on the principle that a cook we once had declared to me when I reproved her for stealing: don’t miss what I takes.” It. is the greater crimes that now give our people deep concern and these will la* quickly and terribly avenged. Our people. osih‘- ciuliy the country people, are in desper ate earnest, and neither law' nor lawyers nor the horns of the altar will protect a brute in human form, whether he be white or colored. But what makes my thoughts and my pen glide along on this subjectV Mv wife is calling me now to come there , and bring the stephulder. She wants the vines on the trellis tied up, and 1 ant the hoy. That ladder is old and rickety and I am subject to vertigo sometimes. I’m afraid of that ladder, but never in my life did 1 admit to her that I was afraid of anything, and so 1 wil mount that ladder with all the alacrity 1 can. The time was when I had black Im>.vs and w hite ones. too. to wait on me, hut now I have to tote my own skillet and nurse tin* grandchildren, too. There are two little ones here half the time and tliey love me dearly and I have to stop writing whenever they say so. They want me in the garden to get flowers or pick strawberries or make sand houses or mud pies or get some water or some thing to eat. and I have to follow them around or carry the little one while my wife is making some more little dresses -for them. Their mother has no servant and lets them come up bore by them selves to l>e petted while she is sewing or cooking or playing on the piano. My w ife and I do more work nowadays than we ever did in our lives, but it is sweet work and we like it. How the children and grandchildren will get along when our time is out and we are off duty I cannot see. hut one thing I know, “the l,«»rd will provide,” for “He tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.” But about these negroes. Hardly a day passes hut what I hear somebody say: “I wish to the Ixml that they were all out of the country.” 1 don't know alwint that. The iron makers and miners and lumber men and railroad mCn and the big farmers would object, for their labpr is both useful and profitable. I wish we could scatter and apportion them all over the country from the At lantic to the Pacific. There are at least 000 in this little town that we would like to spare, hut we would like to pick them. There are no doubt 10.- 000 in Atlanta—mostly young bucks and wenches who have been educated and are new vagabonds parasites who live off the labor of good working negroes just as the vagabonds do here. We have many good negroes here who are good ‘citizens and 4 give no trouble, and they are ottr draymen, our carpenters, car riage makers, blacksmiths, burlaws, gar doners, cooks and washerwomen. These trades arc shut out to them at the North, but the North keeps on sending money down hen* to educate them and to keep their leaders in line. i*olit iealty. The truth is that all Ibis devilment that has of late so agitated our iwofdc conn's from politics. It is planned and de signed for party purposes and Mr. Me Kinley was a party to it whon ho ap point'd negroes to be postmasters and revenue officers in white communities. 1 have bad no respect for him since lie did it. They say that lie has quit i(. but lie has not aisdigi/.ed.. Mow much longer is he going to keep that edu cated negro politician in joffiee at llo gansviile*/ Yet there are thousands of Democrats. men and women, in Atlanta who gave him welcome and threw him flowers and shouted "All bail Melvin h-yl" I've no res|#evt for them, either. I want to live long enough to see a man in the presidential' chair who is far above such machine jaditiics. They say they want to break up the solid South and yet they do the very things to keep it solid. But my wife is calling me again. She says it is about time for me to begin to water the roses. It takes about fifty buckets of water every evening, but the hydrant is near by and 1 don’t mind it. The little chaps try to help me with lit tle buckets and they get their clothes wet and of course I am scolded for it. If they get dirty or take cold or run at the nose it's all my fault. They say that I spoil them so nobody else can do anything with them. 1 don’t care. They shall have a good time as long as 1 live, for there will la* trouble enough after I am gone. Now about this thing that is called education I do not wish to be misunder stood. Millions are wasted on it to no good purpose. Every mother's son and daughter should he taught to read ; it 1 to write and multiply. Good reading books should be placed within their reach—books that teach a good moral lesson, books that exalt virtue and con demn vice—but work, toil, industry is a bigger thing than books. Modern educa tion is confined to the head, the intel lect, and is mixed up with training the hands to play ball and the legs to run, and the boys tramp all over the coun try to play match games and tins old man’s money is spent for something that is not worth a cent to the young man when he settles down to the business of life. The average boy has no more use for algebra or conic sections or calculus or astronomy or Greek or French than a wagon has for a fifth wheel. It is valuable time wasted. Outside of the professors I*have never found but one college graduate who could translate a line of Greek or solve a problem in I geometry. Perhaps one in a thousand ' show a fitness for these higher branches and that one should have a chance at them if possible, for the world needs astronomers and mathematicians and scientists and linguists, and will have them, even if the acquirement has to be hammered out at the anvil as Elihu Bur ritt did. Work is the big thing in this practical age. To make a living is im perative. and it is a struggle. But to lie a great orator or poet or preacher is a gift, iifld like Patrick Henry or Henry Clay or John Wesley, will come to frui tion with or without a higher education. To read well and to read wisely is the best part of an education. It is strange that our schools do not teach their pupils jto read—to read with emphasis ami tone I and accent. Not one preacher in ten can I read a chapter or a hymn in an impres , sive manner. It was his happy faculty ! of reading well that made Bishop lleek | with a great man. It was a solemn feast to hear him recite the litany or ! read a hymn or utter a prayer. Why j do not the theological seminaries teach t the students to read with and also some thing of elocution? It is an imposition on a congregation to have to listen to the sing-song, childish, unimpressive readings of our preachers. But this is enough on this line,. I fear I am getting hypercritical. BILL ARP. THE TRUE PHILTOSOPIIER. The man who takes the weather as it comes —as it comes— % When the blizzard roars around him, or the thundro beats its drums— Who is never put in pain By a howling hurricane — Who is singing in the sunlight, and jubi lant in rain,— All happiness, I tell you, in philosophy he sums, The man who takes the weather as it comes! He doesn’t freeze in winter time, and in the summer days lie’s as cool as any iceberg in the bo realis blaze; While others fight and strive— ’Gainst the weather to contrive. He’s simpl.v very thankful that lie's pull ing through alive! In spite of frosty seasons he pulls the richest plums— The man who takes the weather as it comes! Life is hurry, work and worry—if it thunders, if it snows; It is ended —dark or splendid—all too soon for us. God knows! But the smile outlives the tear, In the rainy skies or dear, And the crosses and the losses no more than you can bear, All happiness, I tell you, is philosophy he sums, Who takes this worldly weather ns it comes! —F. L. Stuntm. RAILROA D DIRECTORS. The directors of the Raleigh and Gas ton Railroad met yesterday morning at 1 o’clock and the directors of the Ral eigh and Augusta Air Line at 11. Mr. J. B. Batchelor presided at both meet ings and Mr. Pearson, of Portsmouth, was secretary. There being no quorum the meetings adjourned without date. The puris>se of these meeings was to ; accept the new charter 'consolidating I these roads in tlie Seaboard Air Line 'j system. It is rumored that the new -1 charter may not be accepted after all, i ( since there is said to la* objection to a -1 certain clause. The stockholders will l inert in October and tin* matter may * lie deferred for settlement until then. He who does most is the one to do 1 more.—Spurgeon. THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, SUNDAY MM# . V Home Life of W out##?,. * Several letters from women whose eat at* bit r- to t ■v ' M'* W \ U* I ■ or Wrn that it can bo cured, would be very unwise not t<> ».:!•<• Dr Hartman » ad -.ee. Follow directions; Po-ru-nu does the rest.- Miss L. Wiggins Berlin Height*, O. Pe-ru-na is a scientific remedy for nil phases of catarrh. It is par* .■ u.arly efficient for women’s troubles because it acts through the nerve*. Sarah Gal Mi, of Luton, la., writes: “ l was suffering with the Change of Life; I had spells of flo;ving every two or three weeks which would leave me nearly dead. 1 had given up hope of being cured when J heard of Dr. Hartman's remedies and began to u.w them. I am entirely cured and give all the credit to Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin. The catarrhal nature of female troubles is beyond question, and the certainty of Pe-ru-na's action lias been demonstrated in thousands of cast s, iv-ru-na drives out catarrh everywhere. Mrs. Caroline Daft, Evansport, 0., writes; Dr. S. />. Hartman, Columbus, O. “ 1 can testify to the merits of Pe-ru-na. I have taken considerable of it and one bottle of Man-a-lin, and they both are most excellent, remedies. lam as well and hearty as I pver was in my life, and give the credit entirely to your medicines.” q The Pe-ru-na Medicine Company, Columbus, 0., will mail Dr. Hartman's books on catarrh free, Special book for women. All druggists sell Pc-ru-na. 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Any one suffer log from cut mi > It mat knowing Ny'j Irish y* Jr.. ,*//? •ty*'. | Mh* (Loiatfi yf M 4& Wieti sg -..lit C:‘ } *0 4jy t Jv- gii 1 1. £. \ XWb- tt 'Hvr ij id Nvc-rit ;j jxM* lift xwjtftii ei»* wvy tffee'M, h ■ AiV - * ! i} 4 « of fas* r-4 of ■ ‘‘tty >)t it hr:* ‘tj soth'/riged t ; empowered to I'-w .t* iw:n V «0 ( ! sand dollars, of touh detutnnaatinm sad in speh proportiobs as the lT,ard of ] Aldermen may ard of Aldermen may determine. Section 5. Tliat for the purj- - * of providing for the payment of *he inter est accruing on and the principal at ma turity of the bonds issued under au thority of this act the Board of Aider men of said city shall annually, and at the time of levying other city tax -, levy and lay a particular tax on ail persons and subjects of taxation on which the said Board of Aldermen now are or may hereafter be authorized to lay and levy taxes for any purpose what soever, said particular tax to be not less than six or more than eight cents on the one hundred dollars assessed val uation on property, and not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-five cents on each taxable poll. The taxes provided for in this section shall be col lected, and shall be accounted for and kept separate from other city taxes, and shall be applied exclusively to the pur poses for which they are collected. So much of said taxes as may Ih* required to pay the interest on the bonds issued by authority of this act, as it falls due, and cannot be applied to the purchase or discharge of the bonds for which said taxes are levied and collected, shall be invested so as to secure the payment at maturity of the principal of the said bonds; and to insure the due investment of the amounts collected from year to year in excess of that required to pay the said interest the Board of Aider men shall cause the said excess to be turned over to the commissioner of the sinking fund of the city of Raleigh, whose duty it shall be, under such gen eral rules and regulations as said Board of Aldermen shall from time to time pre scribe, to make investments of so much of the taxes collected and turned over to him as aforesaid, as shall be applica ble as aforesaid to the payment of the principal of said bonds issued under this act, and to do or perform all such other services in connection with said bonds as said Board of Aldermen may pre scribe, and such commissioner shall give bond and receive such compensation for bis said services as said Board of Aider men may determine.” Those qualified voters approving the issue of the bonds and the levy and col lection of the particular taxes as above provided for shall deposit in the ballot box a ballot, IV2 inches wide by 3 inches long, of white “book” paper, in weight 40 pounds to the ream, without device, mutilation or ornamentation, upon which shall be printed in plain long primer type the word “approved;” and those disapproving the same shall deposit a like ballot with the printed word “Disapproved.” That said election shall be held under the provisions of an act of the said General Assembly of 1800, ratified March Gth, 1890, entitled: “An Act to provide the manner of election and the registration of voters in cities and few ns, and for elections upon local ques tions in counties and townships” in the four wards or voting precincts provided in said act authorizing said election and issuance of bonds as aforesaid, to-wit.; First Ward or voting precinct: Bound ed on the south by Hillsboro street, on the east by Halifax street, aud on the north and west by the city limits. Second Ward or voting precinct: Bounded on the south by Newbern ave nue, on the west by Halifax street, and on the north and east by the city limits. Third Ward or voting precinct: Bounded on the north by Newbern ave nue, on the west by Fayetteville street, and on the south and east by the city limits. Fourth Ward or voting precinct: Bounded on the north by Hillsboro street, on the east by Fayetteville street, and on the south and west by the city limits. A new registration shall be had as re quired by said act authorizing said elec tion and issuance of bonds and ordered by said Board of Aldermen. The registration books* will be open for reg istration of voters from sunrise to sunset for ten days, Sundays excepted, begin ning May 30th and closing at sunset on June Oth at the following places (which are also the polling places) by the following named registrars: First Ward —Cone’s Store, corner Salisbury and Jones streets; Melvin An drews, Registrar. Second Ward—E. Hugh Lee’s Store, corner Lane and Bloodworth streets; E. Hugh Lee. registrar. Third Ward—Jones’ Warehouse, cor ner Blount and Davie streets; F. H. Hunnicutt. registrar. Fourth Ward—City Lot, corner Davie and Salisbury streets; W. H. Strother, - registrar. A. M. POWELL, Mayor. HAM F. SMITH, City Clerk. a ft USB*Oil gljflttaml Whiskey Hub ■ I sLaPfCI Sr « ure.t. Write to Ur lUlwll£K^ MU - Wa!«tF«TCr and MiUiaj L I*s *r;; Os ft j tSr!CSSfcCHt vs Ctowt of Wtlt twmtj V 4 ** iix ■- rape* GtK 4t *%£ **lTftl3 ! down the r.r&T fcrrsfc < r.rtf* a: Also Mil ih* :**-# ft*3 3 1 w ; ~ ~ X* j " 'sjx, mm 4 * OQ ! All 4*l Mid i&ad, iznpr&Temeats rad efiinery will be *;d together. (-.) A brick ana woooen nou miles from the city of Raleigh. The above-mentioned machinery to gether comprises all the machinery and appliances needed for the operation of a large paper mill. The machinery as in dicated above will be sold In three sep arate lots and each lot will be identified at the sale. Sixty days will be given the purchaser or purchasers from and after the sale to remove from the premises the property respectively purchased. Terms of sale: One-third cash —bal- ance in equal Installments in one and two years, with interest from day of sale. Time of sale: 12 o’clock, m. OUAS. H. RELVIN, Commissioner. April Ist, 1800. VALUABLE CITY REAL ESTATE FOB SALE. In pursuance of a judgment and decreeof sale duly rendered in the Superior court of Wake county, in the case of Elodia B, Yancy and others ex parte, the undersigned will expose to public sale at the county court house door in the city of Raleigh on MONDAY, JUNE sth. 1899, at 12 o’clock m.. the following described Jots of land in jthe city of Raleigh: Ist. Two lots of land on the north side of Har gett street, in the city of Raleigh, fronting each 40 feet on said street and running back 181 1-2 feet, known as lots Nos. 42 and 44 in the plan of the '‘Cotton Plaeo.” 2d. A lot of land on the south side of Morgan street, in said city, between Wilmington and Blount streets, adjoining W. D. Williams on the east and O. H. Belvin on the west, fronting 70 feet on said Morgan street, and running hack 81 feet. 3d. A lot of land on the corner of Jones and Swain street®, in said city, fronting 106 feet on Jones street and 2(17 on Swain street. 4th A lotof land on Martin street, just beyond the eastern limits of said city, between Free man street aud Stronach’s row, being part of the land known as the “old fair grounds,” front ing 52 1-2 feet on said Martin street, and run ning back 210 feet. Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money to be paid cash; res idne at six and twelve months in equal instalments with Interest from day of sale. C. M. BUSBEE, Commissioner. April 29, 1899. VALUABLE CITY BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE. In pursuanceof a judgment and decreeof sale duly rendered in the Superior court, of Wake county in the case of Elodia B. Yancy and others, ex parte, the undersigned will expose to public sale on the premise, near the cornerof Blount and Peace streets in the city of Raleigh, on WEDNESDAY,MAY 31,1899,at 12 o’clock rn. the following,described lots of land: A lotof land lying partly within and partly without said city, and described as follows: Be ginning at the northwest comer of the inter section of Blount and Peace streets, running thence north along Btocnt street 778 feet to the road, thence westerly alODg the same 220 feet, thence south in a line parallel with Blount street 447 1-2 feet, thence east in a line parallel with Peace street 110 feet,thence south in a line parallel with Blount street to said Peace street, thence east along said Peace street 110 feet to the beginning. This land will be sub-divided and sold in several lots, the corner lot, however, on Blount and Peace streets being excepted from saie. Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money to he paid cash; residue et six and twelve months in equal instalments with inter est from day of sale. The above comprises some of the most desir able building lots in the city, being in one of the best sections of the city, near the street cars, and yet just outside the city limits. Map of the lots can be obtained from the under signed. C. M. BUSBEE, Commissioner. April 29,1899. —t d s