The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 83. LEADS ILL NORTH CAROLINA IIILIES 11 NEWB 111 ITHLITiI. CHARLES B. AYCQCK ON THE AMENDMENT Way Some Republican Lead ers Oppose it. A NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY WOULD DISCARD TIIE OLD CLASS OF LEADERS. THE MOTHERS A’ND CHURCHES ARE FOR IT The Adoption of the Amendment Would Only Put the State in Line With the Nation in Dealing Wi h Colored Races. The great vitory won by the people of North Carolina last year is aliout to culminate in the final settlement of the negro problem as related to the politics of the State. The Constitu tional amendment which will be adopt ed in August, 1900, will mark the be ginning of a new era. \\ ith the con clusive establishment of white suprem acy on a permanent constitutonal ba sis, a larger political freedom and a greater toleration of opinion will come to ail of our people. Freedom of elec tions and the sanctity of the ballot will lie secured. The Democratic par ty will be set free from the trammels of the race issue and van enter upon a career of economic study and legisla tion. The Republican party will Ih* freed from the stigma of being called the “Negro Party.” and unfettering it self from the rule of cliques and fac tions will greatly gain in character amt will have somewhat more of influence in making and shaping a wholesome public opinion. Discussion of jiolicies and principles will take the place of heated declamation and partisan abuse. In that day. bad* as she pr.n rples of the Republican party are. if it should come into jwwer in the State one might reasonably hope to secure even from it a decent and economical administration of public affairs. The terrible strain of such a campaign as that of 3898 will be a memory of the past. Preachers of the gospel of peace can proclaim the glad tidings of great joy to all the people unhindered by fear for the safety of the State. Prop erty will be secure in all of its just rights and labor shall not Ik* appreswisl. The safety of the white womanhood of the (State {absolutely unattacked any where in the broad bonfi rs of the State since the Bth of last November I will Im* forever secured. Peace will become our permanent heritage and prosperity tin easy achievement of our own industry and economy. Bducaton will be univer sally recognized as the right of every cit izen and the duty of the State. Power will come with knowledge and nothing will be “lost in the tillage of the i»oor for the lack of wisdom.” Material and moral questions will command the best thought of the people and politics will cease to he our chief concern. In or der to secure these blessings the Dem ocratic party will, in the coming cam paign. advocate the constitutional amendment. Many Repu'blcans will sujqiort it. and Populists, who are Pop ulists, will be found advocating it. At the dose of the last campaign when Democratic success had become history and while the Republican leaders were yet dazed by the size of the Dc.moeratie majority, many of them rushed into print in the sltajM* of interviews, and many others in private conversation ex pressed the urgent hope that the Legis lature would disfranchise tin* negro. 1 recall distinctly that one of them, who had enjoyed to the fullest the honors and emoluments of office given him by the undivided support of the negroes said to me very soon after the election: “I hope you Democrats will disfranchise the negro—we have carried him on our shoulders long enough—when tin* negro question is settled many white .men will vote the Republican ticket.” That man now is opjmsing the constitutional amend incut. Why? He says because he is a fra d it will be held unconstitutional. He is not afraid of any such thing. What lie is afraid of. and what he may justly be afraid of, is that with the eliii'.'ination of the negro from iMilitics, a better Republican party will be formed in the State,which will, if it comes into jMiwer. put better and more grateful men in office than lie is. No people that de serves to be free can long Ik* governed by Migrates and cowards, and this man knows that with the advent of a braver, stronger Republican party he will in* without a job, hence with him the amendment is unconstitutional. It will be so with all his class. Rut with that larger and more respectable class of Re publicans in the State, who really be lieve in the principles of the Republican party, and who arc Republicans through evil and good, the elimination of tilt* ne gro from politics w;ll 1 »<* the beginning of a brighter day. They will vote for the amendment. Rut the Republican lead ers are beginning to express their anxie ty lesi the unlettered white voters shall be disfranehisi*d. Since nearly all of tins unlettered white vote is uniformly cast against the Republican party we must greatly admire the generosity of these Republican leaders. Tile truth, however, compels me to spy that they have no such fear. The amendment ex pressly provides that every man who could vote in 18(17 and the descendants of those who could vote in 18157 can for ever vote in North Carolina, whether they can read and write or no. This pro vision protects every white man and every white boy over 13 years of age ex cept pqrliaps a few foreigners. Children now under .13 years of age will, in order to vote when they become 21 have to learn to read and write. To meet this emergency the Democratic Legislature increased Jlu* school fund 8100,090 this year. It will continue to increase this fund until by 1908 we shall be almost if not quite free from illiteracy among the young, at least, so far sis the whites are concerned. The Democratic party through its amendment, gives to every white man and boy over 13 years of age the absolute and unquestioned right to vote in consideration of the inadequate facilities which we have heretofore had for education', and it says to ev er child under 13. we undertake to provide yon with full opportunity to learn to read and write and in addi tion to this free gift from the State we offer as a prize for learning to read and write participation in the gov ernment of tlio State. Can any man doubt the splendid results of this provision? Each party will vie with the other in— providing lor puliidc schools —all other expenses of the gov ernment will he rigidly scrutinized and appropriations will be held down To the most economical basis in order to save money with which to educate the children of the State. This political virtue will become likewise a private virtue and citizens everywhere in the borders ol the Stale will begin to cut i.IT useless and injurious expenses in order that their children may become \critable kings and rule the State. Economy, self-sacrifice, the seeking to work out through our children greater and better things than we have been able to do will be some of the fine results which shall conic to us from this provision. Against these things that awful demagoguery which seeks to perpetuate illiteracy in the State will beat in vain. 1 have known few men. whether they could rend and write' or no. who were willing for their chil dren to grow up in ignorance. I have never known one mother who did not earnestly desire for her offspring some thing better than she had. The teach ers of the State will surely he with ns oil this question—the mothers and churches are with us. Who can prevail against us? Rut say the Republican leaders: "We are afraid that tin* Su preme Court will declare the de.se aidant clause unconstitutional, and tic* other clause constitutional, and thereby bring upon tin* State —white men as well as negroes—a suffrage qualified by the re quirement to read and write.” It is per tinent to ask of what Supreme Court these leaders are afraid? Surely not the North Carolina Supreme Court, a ma jority of whom are Republicans! Cer tainly Senator Pritchard and Governor Russell and tin* other Republican lea l erx in the State who are s>» afraid that some white men who habitually v against them may be disfranchised, do not expect a Republican Supreme Court to lie anxious to do what these leaders arc so anxious shall not be done. And unless the court is anxious to to so how will they In* compelled so to decide when almost every constitutional lawyer in the State worthy of the name who lias investigated the question, belii ves the amendment onstitutional? Then it must In* tin* Supreme Court of the Uni ted States of which these gentlemen are afraid. Rut that too is Republican and equally anxious not t<» disfranchise anybody unless compelled to. Three Southern States have adopted constitu tional amendments looking to tin* settle ment of the negro question. The Su preme Court of the United States iias been appealed to in vain from South Carolina and Mississippi to save the ne gro from exelusion from the ballot box. These constitutions stand and the negro does not vote and the whites do vote. In Louisiana a constitution similar t<> ours was adopted in 1897. and has been in operation ever since. I aider its pro visions the whites do vote and the ne groes do not vote. Where is the Su preme Court of tin* United States and what is it about? Tile Republicans in Louisiana had fears identical with those of Senator Pritchard and Governor Russell. Rut tin* constitution of that State still stands. The truth is that the negro has proved such a failure as a vo ter that a great change of opinion has come about in tin* United Stall's and that change has been so marked and strong that even tin* Courts have Im*i*!i affected by it. The whole country at last realizes that the destiny of this government. State and national. is to In* wrought out by tin* white man it is his burden- -tin* negro himself is a part—a very large part of that burden. Congress first took tin* matter in hand and solved the problem in the District of Columbia, by disfranchising every citizen, white and black. South Caro lina. Mississippi. lvoiiisiana, North Carolina have all in turn taken up the question. Congress has come back to it in dealing with Hawaii and elimi nates the negro without the slightest hesitation, and without exciting on the part of Senator Pritchard any fear of the “wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.” In Cuba. Porto Rico, and the Philippines the negro not only does not vote . but is shot by our gov ernment for even wanting to vote, while Senator Pritchard calmly votes approp riations to shoot them into obedience, saving, however, time enough between appropriations to weep over the sad fate of the “brother in black” in North Carolina. If it is “manifest destiny,” and the “White Man’s Burden” to civil ize and govern tin* weaker and more ig norant races in the Philippines, it can not In* treason to undertake to shape that destiny and bear that burden here. We began the good work in 1898. The sacrifices of that great campaign were worse than useless if we lay down tin* [ work unfinished. We have put our 1 bands to the plough and we will not ' turn backward. In 1898 we unfurled lln* ‘Democratic banner to the breeze emblazoned with the rallying cry of “White Supremacy.” We valuntoored under that banner to the end of the war. We have won the outposts of the RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING,.JUNE 18, 1899. enemy, we have driven them hack in disorder, and they are making one last desperate stand, re-forming their broken lines behind the breastworks of preju dice and demagoguery. They form in vain. The traditions of North Carolina Democrats are filled with glorious achievements; their courage is of the best, their determination is unyield ing, their certainty of victory amounts to inspiration. For peace, for prosper ity. for universal education, for that day when the race issue forever settled, we can have an absolutely free ballot and a fair count, for "the glorious privilege of being independent,” for gen eral toleration of honest if mistaken opinions, we renew the contest. Let the banner of 1898 be again unfurled. Let it still be inscribed with the motto “White Supremacy,” but above that let there also appear as the aim and end of white supremacy, good government for all, absolute justice before the law and unquestioned liberty of opinion. C. B. AYCOCK. SMALLPOX. An Ancient Pest Which Vaccination Has Robbed of Its Terrors. (Philadelphia Medical Journal.) In these days, a century after Edward Jonner’s memorable inoculation of James Phipps on May 14, 1790, we can hardly appreciate what smallpox was. A few facts, however, will show its dreadful ravages. Hinsdale, who went to St. Pe tersburg to inoculate the Empress Cath arine, says that 2,000.000 people died in a single year in the Russian empire from smallpox. In 17*>7. in Iceland, out of a population of 50,000, 18,000 died. In Mexico, in the sixteenth century, 3.500,- 000 people died, leaving in some places scarcely enough alive to bury the dead. At the end of the eighteenth century Hilbert Blune estimated that "an adult 'person who had not had smallpox was scarcely met with or heard of in the United Kingdom.” When servants were advertised for. it was common to specify “that they must have had snialljuix in the natural way.” In ISOS, in an adver tisement for a counterfeiter, it was noted as a means of his identification that lie was without “pock-holes.” At the Insti tution of the Indigent Blind, two-thirds of the applicants were made blind by the smallpox.” , It attacked the high as well as tho humble. In the family of William 111 of England, his Queen, Mary; his father, his mother, his uncle, anil two cousins, children of James I. all died of the smallpox, and the King himself barely escaped with his life. During the eigh teenth century, one Emperor and two Empresses of Austria, six archdukes and archduchesses ,nn elector of Buxou.v. an elector ol* Bohemia, a Dauphin and a King of France, a King of Sweden, and a Czar of Russia were all numbered among its victims. So fearful were its ravages that Bernoulli estimated that tilt,ooo,ooo persons died from smallpox in the century the close of which saw tin* foundation of this very faculty. Well might Macaulay say: “The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid, hut the plague visited our shores only once or twice within living memory. But the smallpox was always present, tilling the churchyard with corpses. Heaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changling at which the mother shud dered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of hor ror to her lover." It was “the most terrible of all the ministers of death.” But in 171K5 arose the medical David who was to smite this Goliath. From that time till the present smallpox lias been shorn of all its terrors. Very re cently, in Jenner’s own country, at tempts have been made to show that vac cination was useless; that it drove out of the system one vile disorder by in troducing another; that it disseminated instead of preventing disease. Were we to grant all that is falsely alleged as to the introduction of tuberculosis and syphilis, even then the benefits it has conferred would outnumber the evils ten-thousand-fold. But, as a matter of fai t, the eases in which evil results have followed are few and far between, •and by the use of animal virus instead of the humanized and by the proper anti septic care in vaccination, which is real ly a minor surgical operation, all of these ill effects can lie avoided. A few statistics will show the bene fits vaccination lias conferred. In Sweden, before vaccination, the deaths per million were 2,045. Since compulsory vaccination was introduced they have fallen to 155. In England during tin* eigh teenth century the average deaths per million were about 2000. Since the epi demic of 1871-'72 and the enforcement of the law for vaccination the deaths have fallen to 53 per million, and in Scotland they have fallen to 8. In Prus sia, before compulsory vaccination, there were 309 deaths per million; in the last ten years only 7. In Austria, with out compulsory vaccination, in the last ten years the average lias been 458 deaths per million, and in Belgium, with out compulsory vaccination from 1875 to 1884, there were 441 deaths per mil lion. In the Sheffield epidemic of 1887- ’BB of the unvaeeiiiatcd population 1 in 20 died; of those who were vaccinated 1 in 1300. I'ERI*ETT AL MOTION. (Boston Journal.) Here us the “philosopdiy” of penietual motion, as solved by an up-to-date philos opher: / Rags make paper. Paper makes tmoney. Money makes banks. Banks make loans. Loams make poverty. Poverty makes rags. Rags make well, just keep on repeat ing Ihe above. It's a wise moonshiner that knows when to keep still. HYPNOTISM, IS II FACTOR HUMBUG? Some Feats of the Profes sional “Subject,” OPINION STILL DIVIDED AMONG DOCTORS AND SCIENT ISTS AS TO HYPNOTISM. HOW IT FEELS TO BE l HYPNOTIZED A Numbness and a Tingling Said to be the Sensation. Making a Subject Follow an Intricate Curve Traced on the Floor. (Washington Post.) In spite of the periodic exposure of hypnotic fakirs, and the confessions of “horses,” who help them delude the pub lic, scientists cling stubbornly to the theory of hypnotic suggestion, and its value in the treatment of many minor ailments, when properly applied. A “horse.” it should be explained, is a pro fessional "subject” of tin* fake hypno tist. who has, by nqture or training, be come capable of enduring an almost in credible amount of what would lie tor ture to one wtili more sensitive nerves or less stoical grit. Recently, one of the most adept of this craft submitted himself to an examination by reputable physicians. and without any simulation of the hypnotic state, permitted his lips to Ik* sewed to gether, held his hand over a blazing match, and withstood other tests which art* commonly convincing. This fellow lias been a professional subject for sev eral years, and has deceived the public as well as physicians. Yet, admitting all these iuq Mistimes, the men who have made a deep study of hypnotism still declare that there is a great deal of good in it when properly used. Reduced to its simplest form it is an every day matter, and has been practiced for hundreds of years by the best physi cians. As an old physician, with an ex perience of over thirty years, once re marked: “If yon can once convince your patient that he is going to get well, half the battle is won. On the other hand. I believe it is practically possible to scare a well man to death, provided be is sufficiently credulous and imagina tive. by simply hammering into bis mind the idea that he is a dangerously sick man. Once when 1 was a youngster and an assistant surgeon in the army, we thought we would have a little fun with one of our darky camp-followers, lie was a big, husky black, and 1 don’t be lieve In* had ever been sick a day in his life. Nevertheless, by concerted effort we succeeded in convincing him that lit* was dangerously ill, and I verily believe if we bad kept it up lie would have died from sheer fright.” THE BOWER OF SUGGESTION. Tin* current number of the Medical Summary, of Philadelphia, says, edi torially: "A popular writer lias said that sug gestion is the moving power in the treat ment of disease. Experienced practi tioners habitually employ it to advan tage of the patient. Prudent friends and callers at the bedside practice sug gestion by taking with them the assur ance of better things to come. A word of cheer, the reassuring smile, inspires hope—this, too, is suggestion. Rheumatic rings, magnetic healing, and "divine healing” all have their tap-root in sug gestion. Pain, sleeplessness, neuralgia, rheumatism, headache, etc., often yield to suggestion. "Is the practice of hypnotism or sug gestion uiidetrimental to patient and physician? Unquestionably! All proper and effectual means in reach may lie employed for relief. If, with ability to diagnose disease and without the aid from coal-tar sedatives anil opiates, the physician can relieve such maladies as headache, lumbago, Mention, anguish of rheumatic joint or bunion, duty imposes tin* obligation to do so. W isely expe rienced, hypnotism will do no injury. It will not injure practice, rather better it. It is hard to see how such use of hyp notism can be a means of lowering tlie dignity of the physician or profession. Truth never hurts a worthy cause or oc cupation; trulli elevates and dignities tin* physician and the profession alike. “Prove all things, hold fast to that which is good. That the doctrine of hypnotism is true scarcely any one who has given it careful attention can doubt. It lias been tester in the crucible of ex perience. No doubt the unscrupulous di vert the most lieneficeut powers into im proper channels, and thereby delay or defeat the accomplishment of the aims of science and benevolence; but tin* phy sician who has the best right to use them, never. "Ofcourse. the hypnotist makes use of suggestion to induce sleep, but except for tin* relief of insomnia may not need In take that step. Good effects, at least most of them, may be had without. Mes merism, faith cure, magnetic healing and "divine healing* possess little of val ue except power of suggestion. The pli.v cisiun's need be none of these. However, apparently be owes it to himself, and patient as well, to acquire knowledge in the lore of suggestion, the accepted practice and precepts of hypnotism, to SECTION ONE—Pages 1 to 4. the end that he may become % ; equipped for the mission of relief. SOME HYPNOTIC EX PERI ME " In the same number of this peril Dr. Arthur MacDonald, specialist ii v United States Bureau of Education, a member of the Society of Ilypno of Paris, has a very interesting article on the effects of hypnotism. In intro duct ion hi* expresses the general regret of hypnologists at their inability to se cure personal and exact observations, owing to tin* fact that the subjects are usually sick people, more or less ner vous. who see nothing in the experi ments but a pretext to be theatrical, lin'd whose testimony consequently must be taken with caution. Accordingly, Dr. Join* enlisted a number of his pupils as subjects, and kept them in a state of semi-hupsosis. during which their minds were active and their memories neither abolished nor weakened. The first sub ject was carefully blindfolded, and af ter being partially hypnotized, the doctor gave suggestions as to movements of the arms, which were obeyed automatically by the young man. The subject gave an account of bis sensations. When the passes were made he felt a sort of general numbness or dizziness, then the left arm obeyed the intiitence of a strange impetus and was pulled forward and upward by force. The force then ceased to be felt and tin* movement of the arm was arrested. The same force was felt in the right arm, and after a few seconds it was felt in both arms in an inverse sense, which determined the lowering and returning of the arms to their normal position. The second experiment was made on Mr. B„ a medical student. The same preparations were 'made as in the first case. ’The subject was placed in the middle of the room well in the light. Ihe doctor then stood three yards in front of him, leaning with his hands on the back of a chair behind him. and sug gested that he should raise the right leg. the doctor himself accompanying the suggestion by the movement. In from fifteen to twenty second tin* subject rest ed all the weight of bis lmdy on the left leg, bent the right knee till only the tm* touched and finally lifted it entirely. The bandage was taken off and the doc tor breathed on his eyes, and he then related his sensations. He did not em phasize the numbness, which, however. In* declares lie felt before an unexpected and involuntary contraction of tin* mus cles in tin* thigh, which caused the rais ing and bending of the knee. CONVINUNG A SKEPTIC. At the second seance M. X.. a medical student, who had been present at the first, said he was not convinced of the reality of the impulse which the sub jects claimed to feel, lie did not doubt their good faith, but thought there must be auto-suggestion and that the si>oii taneous movement only chanced to tie tin* one desired, etc. Dr. Join* proposed to repeat the experiments on him. He being skeptical and prejudiced against auto-suggestion, a successful experiment would have all the more value. M. X. was blindfolded (lie declared that In* was convinced that to try an experiment tm him was useless) and passes made on the head and body, lie. at the same time, being told not to imitate from memory and not to resist any distinct impulse. The operator then stood about two yards from him and began a mental suggestion to move the left arm out, but parallel with the body, and then to bend the forearm up on to the arm. In a very few liioincii'ts the autom.i!'* movements began, slowly but without hesitation. When asked why he made the move ments, M. X. confessed, with some sur prise. that he had felt a force drawing liis arm in the direction followed, that he at first resisted, but the impulse con tinued to act and became very strong, when he no longer resisted. One of the subjects who had served before was then led from the room, while those remaining made a chalk line with numerous curves on the finer. \\ hen all was ready the blindfolded subject was led into the room and placed at one extremity of the line. The operator, without touching the subject, fixed his attention on tin* line which he was to follow. This line liegan at the door, described a circle to the left, turned to the right, and again a large circle to the left. The subject followed the line, step by step, very exactly, stopping and seeming to hesitate at tin* curves. The same experiments were repeated several times with different subjects, which permitted the operator to gather the impressions of each under exactly the same conditions. Each of the sub jects experienced the same sensations and analyzed them in the same way. SENSATIONS OF SUBJECTS. It is of great interest, then, to find in what condition the subjects are at the time of receiving the suggestion. In ap pearance they are awake, and. in fact, if questioned after the experiment, would unanimously reply that they hail not slept. In reality they wore not in a sound sleep, but neither were they in a normal waking condition. The proof is found in the fact that when the passes wen* made they all experienced a change, as they said something seemed to isolate them, and there was a vague numbness and tingling all over the body, Tile subjects were in a state which lias been described as medianic or passive tin* attention to whatever came front the person suggesting was exalted to a i>oint Which it could not attain in a normal condition. It is probably this modifica tion of the subject which admits of the establishment of communication between himself and the operator by which he can be impressed by an influence purely psychic. This psychic correspondence between several individuals does not ap pear to be abnormal or even peculiar to tin* hypnotic state, but in the “me dianic" state there is an orientation pe culiar to this nervous influx, and at the same time a concentration of force to ward some one individual. It has been ascertained that the pres- PRICE FIVE CENTS. ( ‘lice of another person, who makes ; n effort contrary to the suggestion, con ; iderably binders tin* experiment, and tin even prevent a complete success. Mental suggestion requires a consid •able effort of will on the part of the icrator, au effort which must be sus lained without interruption throughout tin* time required for the suggestion. This constant effort of will, this fixity of the attention, concentrated on a single object, is not as easy as may be imagin ed. and requires a certain education or training. » FERTILIZER MEN UNITE. Promoter Darragh Says the South Will Do Its Own Manufacturing. (New York Commercial, June 12.) .The South is to have two strong phos phate or fertilizer companies instead ot one, as at present. The Standard was incorporated at T renton, N. J., on I' ti* day last, with a capitalization of SPOOO,- iMh>, four-tenths of which is in 7 lK*r cent preferred cumulative stock. As far as eoulil be learned by a com mercial representative, who visited most of the large local concerns on Saturday, no New York company is interested. The phosphate beds of Florida and the Carolhias have heretofore been worked largely by the Virginia-t’aroliua Fertili zer Company, whose home office is in Richmond. A number of smaller con cerns, however, of more or less impor tance, have operated in the same terri tory. About three months ago the initia tive was taken and a strong effort made to get these ivmpanies together under one management, but it was at first un success f ill. The action of last Friday indicates that the objections were over come. though it is known that at least two firms are still holding out. They an* represented in this city by Mr. Lif ford. of the firm of Hobbs & Gifford, lawyers, and he informed a Comfflner cial representative that hi* had not been advised, as he eertanly w ould have been, of tending changes. The object of the new corporation is said to 111* to develop new phosphate beds further south in Florida. This will require considerable capital, and the stock will probably Im* limited tor the purpose of raising it. , Tin* Standard Phosphate and Fertilizer Company was organized by J. N. Dar ragh. general manager of the Knicker bocker Phosphate Company, of Bartow. Fla. It is a combine of three different phosphate companies. the names of which are the United States Phosphate ■Company. Knickerbiteker Phosphate Company, and the National Peace River Powder and Phosphate Company. Mr. Darragh. in speaking of the com pany. said that it was the intention of the directors to build a largi fertilizer Plant in Florida. "Heretofore.” he said, “we have ship ped tile phosphate North to have it manufactured, and then reshipped South as fertilizers. We intend to do the manufacturing ourselves.” NEW COLONY FOR CUBA. New York and Virginia Syndicate is Backing a Big Project. A 4 Liliana special to the New York Herald says: The first big colonization kelienu* in Cuba lias been started by a New York and Virtiginia syndicate, with a capital of $12,‘H)0,000 and Hugh Kelly, of New York, as president. The site selected for the colony is at Bahia Honda, fifty miles west of I El ba na. The new town will include the old village of that name, and will extend inland from the coast in the vicinity of Bahia Honda. The ground has been laid out for sugar estates, tobacco plan tations. and truck farms. A. B. R isscr, who is the engineer in charge of the syndicate’s plan, returned* from Bahia Honda today. The land near the coast, lit* says, will be used for sugar-planting and cattle-raising. To bacco will be raised inland. Mechanics for tin* new settlement will lie brought from New York, but the laboring class will come mostly from Virginia and tile South. Agents are now in the United States for the purpose of organizing the colony, which will lie started early next fall. 'lhe United States Government is re ported to have promised every protec tion to the colonizers against the ban dits who have been o|M*ratiiig in that vicinity. General Lee lias visited the site. BISHOP HURST’S FAMILY AFFAIRS. The trouble between Bishop Hurst of the Methodist church, and Inis wife, which has caused their separation, is said to lie due to money matters. She is very rich, and until recently allowed him (he full command of her resources. liis liberality toward the proposed (Ameri can university which he is trying to es tablish in Washington and bis devotion to its interests are said to have led to complaints oil her part and impaired their relations about a year ago. when Mrs. lliust left suddenly for iGiirope. At tlie request of her brother. Mr. Root, of Buffalo. 'Bishop Hurst has conveyed to litis wife all of the family investments that stood in his name and he has given her entire freedom of action without the intervention of divorce courts. THE IRREPRESSIBLE. Dll. soldier of the legion, it is hot enough for tears, Yet you will persist in dying—in dying iu Algiers! Ami that comrade stands beside you as your life-blood ebbs away. Ami 1 wonder he has patience just to hear what you've to say! You are sending still a token to those distant friends of yours, And Pm sure that they regard you as the chiefest of the bores! And the verdict of tin* country to this will sure incline: Would you'd been Imurn at Jericho, n stead of on the Rhine! F. L. S.