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.