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Prpsi(lnt,
They are Declared to Be Aa--llientie
Ity Several Popes
Nearly Everylhiue ConueeteU
Willi lltriHt Birtli, Crnclfle
tiou and Burial Seems to Have
Been Preserved Description
or Objects or Religions Rever
ence at Treves and Argeutnll.
Wm. E. Curtis in Chicago Record.
Guayaquil, July 14. I do not know
anything more interesting among the
many attractions that are offered to tour
ists in Europe than the numerous relics
of Christ that are displayed in nearly all
the cathedrals and many of the monaster
ies aud chapels. Many of these relics
have been declared authentic by several
of the Popes. Others have been denoum
ced as doubtful and publicly repudiated
by the same authority, but that does not
seem to deprive theoi of value, and evea
though they may be bogus they excite
our interest, because they are still the ob
jects of the reverence of millions of cred
ulous people.
Nearly everything connected with the
birth, the crucifiction and the burial of
the Savior seems to have been pieserved,
together with several garments that He
wore duriog His manhood and a number
of sandak that once protected His feet.
I have seen the manger in which He was
born, the swaddling clothes He wore im
mediately after His birth, the jar in
which He turned water into wine, the ta
ble cloth and the napkins, that were used
at the Last Supper, the basin in which
He washed His disciples' feet, the stone
on which He lay His head in the garden
of olives; Herod's staircase, down which
He walked when bound with thorns; the
pillar at which He was scourged, the
whip, the rope with which He was tied,
the crown of thorns; the purple robe they
put on Him, the spear that pierced His
side, the inscription that Was placed above
His head, the sponge that absorbed His
blood, the nails that pierced His hands
and feet and a considerable portion of the
cross upon which He was crusified- I do
not claim that all these relics are genuine.
Many of them have been denounced as
bogus by the highest authority of the
church, but at the same time they are
objects of worship and are therefore of
public importance.
At Constantinople they actually have
an autogragh letter which is claimed to
have been written by the hand of the Sa
vior, whose authenticity has been stoutly
detended lor centuries.
Most of these relics are traced to the
Empress Helena aud the year 330. There
- a tradition that bt. Helena was an
Englishwoman, boru at Colchester, but
the Germans claim that she was a native
of Euren, a little town a few miles from
Treves. Her husband was Constantius
Chlorus, Emperor of GauI, Spain and
BriTian, and had his capital at Treyis in
the fourth century. His son was Con
stantine the Great, and some believe that
he himself was the founder of Constanti
nople. In the year 300 the Empress He
lena was converted to Christianity, aud
was the first personage of importance in
Central Europe to embrace the new relig
ion. In the year 326 she made a pilgrim
age to Jerusalem, attended by several
thousand priests, coutiers and other per
sons of importance, and caused an inves
tigation to be made as to the disposition
of the property of the Savior. It was
the custom of the Jews to bury the im
plements of torture with the bodies of
malefactors who were executed under the
sentence of a court, and hence she was
able to fiud in the tomb of Joseph, of Ari
menthea many of the relics which are now
held in such high reverence. Among oth
er things she found three crosses, and,
wishing to ascertain definitely upon which
oue of them Christ was crucified, she
caused the body of a man who had just
died to be brought, and touched succes
sively to each of them . When the first
two crosses were touched nothing hap
pened, but when the dead man came in
contact W'ith the third the heart began to
beat, the eyes opened and the tongue
commenced to sing the praise of the Sa
viour. It is also claimed that pious Christaios
whose ancestors had obtained relics of the
Saviour brought them out of concealment
and gave them to the Empress Helena in
order that they might be used for the con
version of Europe. In this way the ob
tained possession of the tunic of Christ
which is said to have been worn by the
Virgin Mary, His mother, and for which
the soldiers cast lots on Calvary. Christ
had worn it for several years. St. Helena
brought it to Treves, where it was exposed
from time to time for several centuries,
until by order of Pope John it was buried
beneath the altar of the cathedral in order
to preserve it from the barbarians. It re
mained there until 1512, when the high
altar was opened by order of the Em
peror Maxilian, and for twenty-three
days the holy coat was again exposed to
the public gaze. Two thousand pil
grims came 10 see it Irom all over
Europe. In 1640 the coat was carried to
Cologne, where it remained for twenty
seven years in the cathedral beside the
sKuils ot three wise men who came from
the East to welcome the new-born Sa
viour, and the jar in which Christ
turned water into wine at the marriage of
Cana.
In 1C67 the sacred garment was con
cealed for protection against the Franks
and the Vandals in the fortress of
Eherbreit, where it remained until 1790
It was then taken to Wurtzburg and
afterward to Augsburg, where it was
hidden by Bishop Clement until 1810,
when he brought it with great ceremony
to the cathedral at Treves, which had
recently been restored.
The sacred garment was again exposed
to the public until 1344, when, according
to the records, 1,100,000 pilgrims came to
pay it reverence, In 1891 it was exposed
again, and was visited by 1,900,000 pil
grims, and several miracle were per
formed upon those who touched it. The
were cured. There has been no public
exhibition of this, the most famons of
all the world's religious relics, since that
date, but by obtaining letters from emi
nent ecclesiastics it may be seen.
When I saw it it was enclosed in a
glass case, a longish garment of grayish
brown stuff that looks like unbleached
linen. It is seamless and resembles the
tunics worn by the Chiiftse. It must
have reached below the knees, being
four feet nine inches long. But it is only
twenty-seyen inches across the shoulders
and only forty-two inches at the bottom.
The sleeves are eighteen inchss long, wide
and flowing, being perhaps twelve inches
at the wrist. Although I cannot under
stand why a garment with such holy as
sociation should decay the linen is ex
tremely rotten and it would crumble to
pieces were it not protected by glass. In
the fifth century the tunic was lined with
heavy silk to assist in preservation, and
three or four different linings have de
cayed and been replaced since that date.
"The soldiers, therefore, when they had
crucified Him, took His garments and
they made four parts, to every soldier a
part, and also His coat. Now the coat
was without a seam, woven from the
top throughout, and they said: "Let us
not cut it, but let us east lots for it, whose
it shall be.'" John, xix, 23 24.
"They haye parted my garments among
them, and for My vesture they did cast
lots." Psalms xxi, 21-19.
It is a mistake to suppose that the other
holy coat at Argenteuil is a rival of that
at Treves. There is not resemblance be
tween them, and there is no reason why
Christ should not have worn both. The
garment at Argentueil, which by the
way, is a little town only eleven miles
from Paris, is a shirt, or undergarment,
made of camel's hair and worn next to
the skin. It is not more than thirty inches
long, sleeveless and cut loar 111 the neck.
In the year 6i4, after the capture of
Jerusalem, this shirt fell into the hands
of Chosroas, King of Persia, at the time
he took posession of the Holy Sepulchre.
In 627 Chosroas presented it to Emperor
Herashaus at Constantinople, whose
granddaughter, the Empress Irene, gave
it to Charlemange. The latter kept it in
his possesion for many years, but shortly
before hi death presented it to a convent
at Argenteuil, of which his daughter,
Gisila, was the first abbess. The relic
remained m that convert until 11 56,
when the Archbishop of Rouen took
charge of it, and it was not until the seven
teenth century that it was returned to
Argenteuil.
The possession of the holy coat has
made Treves an important point in ec
clesiastical history, and among the
Bishopi of that diocese have been forty
four saints and seventeen martyrs, the
most famous being St. Jerome, who died
in 420; St. Ambrose and St. Helena.
Treves is one of the oldest towns in Eu
rope and nestles in a beautiful spot on
the banks of the Moselle. It is said to
have been founded by Trevita, stepson of
the famous Assyrian Empress Semiramis.
She wanted tQ marry himjafter the death
of his father who was her second husband,
but he would not have her, and came
westward into the mountains of Ger
many, where he founded a city 1,-200
years before Romulus and Remus were
suckled by the wolf in the hills of Rome.
Treres was for several centuries the nor
thern capital of the Roman Empire.
Augustus Caesar hyed and reigned there,
and Diocletian built several monuments
which still remain. The people of Treves
accepted Christianity in the apostolic age.
St. Eucharius, the first missionary sent
out by St. Peter iuto Northern Europe,
arrived at Treves in the year 40 and made
that the headquarters of his evangelical
work. He is buried in the cathedral and
lies beside St. Matthew, whose body was
brought by the Empress Helena from
Ethiopia, where he died. There is a con
troversy about the end of St. Matthew.
Some authorities assert ttat he was cru-
cineu, out at treves may say lie cued a
natural death.
The cathedral at Trevas, where the
holy coat is sheltered, claims to be the
oldest ecclesiastical edifice in Europe. It
dates back to the fourth century. Itwas
destroyed in the early part of the sixth
century and rebuilt in 550. Among the
other relics in the treasury of the ca
thedral is the largest piece of the holy
so, and St. Matern us came to life. Since
cross in existence.which was brought fr jbi
the toly land in 1204 by a valiant cru
sader of the name of Heinrick von Ul
man, but its authenticity is disputed.
Another equally important relic, how
ever, which has the official sanction of
the Pope, is the staff of St. Peter. -The
story goes that Kt. Eucharius aud Sf.
Maternus started together from Rome
for Treves. The latter died on the way. St.
Eucharius concealed the body and went
back to Rome and reported. St. Peter
gave him his staff and told him to return
to the grave.remove the body of his com
panion and lay the staff upon it. He did
then no Pope has carried carried a crozier
except when he has visited Tieves
and earned this one. Five Popes
have made pilgrimages to pay reverence
to the holy coat.
Among other relics at Tieves are a
pair of sandas which are said to have
been worn by the Saviour. There are
similar sandals at Corbie, a little town in
the department of Sonne, France, ten
miles east of Aemines, and a third pair at
Alberstadt, a village in Southern Germany.
PLAIDS ARK THE K.4UE.
In Wool And Silk Dress Goods
They Appear In Many Combi
nations. Baltimore Sun.
A sure sign of the approach of autumn
is attractive displays of plaid dress ma
terials, uarrow and wide, gay and sombre,
rough and smooth, in the store windows.
But the proprietors of the stores say that
it is not merely because September is on
its way that they have filled their counters
and windows, with snch materials. They
say that the fashion of wearing plaids is
going to be expensively followed during
the entire season, and that Dame Fashion
has decreed that no woman shall be 'in it'
this fall who does not posess at least one
plaid skirt.
Rough plaids.or plaids with a suggestion
of camel's hair about them, are among the
mo9t noticeable of those displayed. Then,
as to the color all of the colors which
promise to be popular this winter are
shown, and usually in harmonious com
binations. Automobile red has taken
such a firm hold upon the affections of
the makers of the fashions that a dash of
this irolor appears even in the most un
expected combinations. Black and white,
brown blue and aud green; green, blue
automobile, are very attractively com
bined. One of the richest looking mate
rials has a background of homespun, of
a rich dahlin red shade, with camel's
hair bars across, in shades of blue and
green.
Soft effects prevai. in all of the materi
als, in silk as well as iu woolen weave,
and in goods of solid color as well as in
plaids. Among the soft finished cloths is
a Venetian camel's hair in shades of tan,
gray and automobile. For tailor made
suits a mixed homespun promises to be
much used. The gray which is shown in
this is somewhat darker than that last
year.
Among the "novelty" materials a line,
or sometimes only a dash of velvet, stamps
the meterials as belonging to the season of
1399 1900. In the silk and wool novelties
the effects of the handsome bricade de
signs are are accentuated by the dash of
velvet, which is sometimes of the s;ime
shade and sometimes of a contrasting
shade. But with it all the effect is never
harsh.
The soft finished silks are, like the wool
and novelly materials, dainty in finish
and alluring in coloring.
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PEAR AND APPLE BLIGHT.
The blight in pear has been known for
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This year it has been worse than it has
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States. It is important to watch your
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cut off limbs. It is a contagious bacterial
disease of the pear, apple, and kindred
fruits. The most important time to des
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wood where it joius. Iu the pear, the
blight sometimes starts near the body aud
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tree can be saved. On the apple so far, it
has always appeared on the ends of the
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A Striking Address lo CouTed
emr Veterans.
Wilmington Messenger.
It is a pleasure to recognize talents and
usefulness In the last number of the
Wadesboro Messenger and Intf.i.i.i
oesceh, a well conducted weekly ex
chanee we rarely fail to handle, there ap
pears the elaborate address before the
confederate veterans who met in that
town on the 16th of August. It is by that
very popular speaker, (Jeneral Julian S.
Carr, the State's benefactor. We took
lime to read nearly all of it, although it
would fill a page in the large sized Mes
sen'okk. It is without any semblance of
flattery a capital address, really interest
ing all the way, full of description and
glowing with ardent patriotism expressed
in flowing rhetoric. We like it much and
commend it to the attention of all ?srorth
Carolinians who love North Carolina and
glory in the fame of her magnificent
soldiery.
Geueral Carr quotes Governor Vance's
figures as to the strength of the soh.iers
from North Carolina, putting the total at
121,038. We are sure it is an underestimate,
or the roster published by the State contains
more than 10,000 names in excess. These
names were gathered in time of war. There
are errors iu the re-production of the same
names sometimes when they were trans
ferred froiu one arm of the service to another
from artillery to infantry or cavalry or
vice vera, or some other way. There can
hardly be ten or twelve thousand repeti
tions. We believe that fully 126,000 sol
diers were sent to war by .North Carolina.
One thing should l:e done by the next leg
islature. Let a competent soldier be ap
pointed to revise the volumes of the Ros
ter, and make all needed corrections.
Where there are names repeated let tbem
be corrected, aud let it be ascertained just
how many errors appear, and what the
precise fclre'iieth of the North Caroline
army was. Publish the result in a supple
uieutarv volume. All errrors should be
eliminated. Governor Vance's figures are
too small we are persuaded.
General Carr gives most striking state
ment of losses which in itself is a grand
tribute to the men who led, who did not
say "'go on men," who said "Come on
men," aud they were men, every inch, of
them:
No other -State approaches within thou
sands of her noble ileacl, and her wounded.
toin by the gashes of honorable conflict.
Officers and men alike plumted inio the
mouth of destruction. Willi lewer orhcers
ol high rank by fur ihan her proportion of
private soldiers would permit, she yet lost
in battle eight generals and thirty -three
colonels aud officers of lower rank. What
a story of daring does that reveal, when
the co;ninanders of half her regiments
were killed on the field, besides the large
number that died from disease and priva
tion, or were wounded Kr lite:
Of the surprising character of the armies
of the Southern Confederacy, he says im
pressiveh :
"That price was immense, for here was
an army, where privaies were of the same
blood, culture and ability as the ollicers
who commanded, and patriotism was the
inspiration of bo'h alike. The general of
Ihe army liad a sou in Uie ranks."
General Carr (uotea, one inspiring pas
sage from Col. K. T. lSennett, w ho is often
magnetic and sweeping in his oratory:
"There are occasions in the experience
of, regiments, nrigades and armies, when
i hey rise superior lo themselves; w hen the
enemy. astounded by their audacity, stand
at attention, and applaud the oncoming
host.
"Once in the supreme crisis of a great
battle, when the earth trembled like a
heated oven, aud the battalion hesitated, a
private soldier of well-earued renown, ap
pealed to them to go forward and strike
home tor their cause, lvrsisting in ins ap
peal, he said, 'They that love God, go for
ward.'
"Every human virtue waa repeated du
ring that struggle."
General Uobert E. Leo, first among sol
diers. said to ,eneral Lane ol our o.vn
soldiers:
"Sir, North Carolina has reason to be
proud of her troops.
There are many tine glowing, impas
sicned passages in the address. ltis very
quotable, but we have not space at com
niiiul. The eloquent speaker closed with
this inspiring strain:
"There is nothing in our duty to
our dead comrades and to ourselves
which conflicts with good citizenship and
the fulfillment of all obligations to .our
Stale and Federal government. On the
contrary, the adherance to the constitU'
tioual obligations of each respectively, and
of the citizen to both is, as we have al
ready maintained, the only hope of a gov
ernment oermantiv tree. "
"Grateful for the past with its hallowed
memories let us seize the golden opportu
nities of the present, aud so labor for the
oncoming future of our dear mother State
and all her children, and all her multiplied
interests, eacli in his own sphere, mat
when our summons shall come, in the ful
ness ot time, and the toiling heart shall
sink to peaceful rest, the bugle notes shvll
sound the farewell taps for the true men.
and some dear comrade from his heart re
peat:
"Soldier, sleep! thy warfare o'er,
Sleep the sleep that knows no waking."'
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Lost Cause, fiom a business transaction
in which he took part one day this week.
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Other .nailer.
"Once more into the breach. rood friends
Once more."
The negro question is now uppermost
in the minds of all the people in the sodth
and I write once more upon the subject
to modestly but confidently indorse the
utterances ot 1 he Constitution m Wednes
day s paper. Their deportation is a
dream, an utterly impractable solution
of the race problem, fcixty years ago it
was a great undertaking to remoye 14.1HX)
Indians from north Georgia to the Indian
Territory with their reluctant consent.
Even then 4,000 ot them aiea on the way.
The Washington Post says there are uot
enough transports in the world that could
be had or hired to move them all in
twenty years., and it would cost not less
than $ 100 a head, which would make a
thousand million dollars. The federal gov
ernment would not votea dollar to begin
the experiment. More than all this, the
negro will not go. He will not even go
north to live with his friends, his deliv
erers. A few hundred went to Kansas
some vears aeo. but they got home-sick
aud came back. I ccmpired with Cobe
about it and he said: "Well major, to
my opinion we won t git rid of some ot
em. we raout git up an excursnun iram
with a few car loads of watermillions in
front and toll 'em along as fur as Ohio
and drap 'em, but I'm jubus about gittin'
'em to Africv.
There used to be a colonization society
that owned a gixd ship named Elizabeth
and they carried all the manumitted slaves
to Liberia free ol charge. Uid Mior wa
ters, a wealthy gentleman of Gwinnett
county, gave thirty seven of his slaves
their freedom, and by his win made my
father his executor and directed him to
take them to Savannah and see them
put on board the Klizabeth and to pay
over to William, his faithful body servant,
fioo in gold for each of the thirty -seven
slaves. This money was to set them up
in Africa. So my father corresponded
with the society, and the good ship was
sent to Savannah on time and the negroes
were put on board They wept and w ailed
when thev told father goodby, for they
all knew that he was their old master's
friend.
About two years after that there was
a knock at lather s door oue winter nigiu.
When it was opened there stood William
and six others ot the negroes sent away
lie reported all the others dead and that
he and these six had secreted themselves
in the hold of the vessel by night and
kept hidden until they had been two days
at sea, for it was against the rules of the
society to allow any freed man to return
Thev were bought to Philadelphia, and
there got word to Howell Cobb and Alex
Stephens, in W ashington. ihose men
knew William and his master and sent
him enough money to pay their way
home. They went into service of their
young master, Tom Water not as slaves
but as free men, and were happy at es
caping from Liberia. Here is Uncle Sam,
who worKs in my garden and chops my
wood and goes after io on Sunday. He
has lour grown up children who are sorter
married and thev have a lot of children.
The old man owns the humble home and
is not going to Africa, or anywhere else,
and the children will not leave him. There
would be weeping and wailing worse than
a funeral. Hut suppose they all went
Who is going to pay them for their prop
erty? The negroes pay taxes now on
three hundred millions ofproperty, which
is chiefly real estate. They own pro
bably 200 homes in aud around C'arters
ville, and there would be no buyers. If
they were all deported, who would take
their places? Who would do our cook
iug and washing? Who would nurse our
babies? Who would make our fires when
the cold winter mornings come? Who
would pick our cotton? I'ut the fact re
mains that there are two many of them,
and they multiply to fast, and this gene
ration are indolei.t ahd need regulating
by vigorous laws. There is baseball game
going on right now while I write, ard at
least 200 vagabond negro have pased
my house going to it. The negro women
are supporting them in idleness. John
Anderson said he heard them singing at
the den the other day, and the chorus of
tne song was:
"No use in a nigger working very hard
When his mammy is a cook in a n lute man's
yaid."
Hut enough of this. We have all read
much from the yaiikees about Ihe negro and
much from colored bishops and educators,
and they all sing lh same tune of stop the
lynchings, but 1 have never yet seen any
thing so fair, so truthful, so aptly spoken
as the address recently delivered at Dis
marck Grove, in Kanas, by an Alabama
negro. He is the president of the Adell
college, at Normal, Ala , aud his name is
W. II. Council. 1 copy from a paper pub
Ii5hed at Lawereuce, Kas , a portion of his
address:
"Pardon me for any seeming harshness
but I do not fear southern oppression half
as much as 1 do the invasion of white nor
thern labor, which comes often pleading
its color as its only mark of superiority.
The color line w as never carried upon brn k
walls, to the carpenters' bench, in all the
other industries of the south until northern
white labor carried it there.
"The southern negro has far outstripped
the northern negro since emancipation
outstripped him in every way. 1 do not
say this in any unfriendly spirit tow ard my
northern brethren, but 1 state a fact which
must be plain toevery observing man. This
is all due to the superior advantages of the
southern negio.
"Colored men of the north make a great
mistake in abusing the south. They lurget
that the south was an ante-room in which
their fathers exchanged the clout of the
barbarian for the dress of civilization the
blessed ante-room in which four millions
of miserable, ignorantsavages were changed
into four millions of industrious beings a
g-eat missionary tent in w Inch four millions
of fetich worshipers were transformed to
four millions of Christian citizens of oue ol
the most powerful governments of this Hge.
"Let the south alone and look to your own
neglected opportunities aud correct your
own wrongs.
"1 appeal to the white men of the north
to think more kindly of both black men and
white men of the south. Every honest ne
gro heart is loyal aad true to the south.
We all deplore whatever is wn ng mere. In
every community the best black men and
white men are united for our common giHAl.
The criminal class is made up of me worst
elements of both races. We can no mote
check, in a single generation, our criminal
tendencies thau you ean put dowu the mob
spirit in yourown section, which manifests
itself in strikes, boycotts and riots starv
ing women and innocent children, paralyz
ing industry, ciipplmg coniinerce,tillingtne
air svitn the' black smoke and red names of
ruin, the cries of the dying, and the wails
of the friends of the murdered dead. Com
pared to these, our disorders are as gentle
Florida breezes to Kansas cyclones. We
need and want the sympathy of every sec
tion of the country, but there is a kind and
unfriendly meddling which invariably in
creases friction and harms Ihe negro. e
have strong men in the south who are cap
able, and have righteous inclination to fair
ly adjust all problems growing out of our
new relations. There is a class of northern
whites who come southjis a disturbing ele
ment. They are hypocrites, singing oue
tune to the negroes and another to the
whites ' -
"There are many mistakes in our own
social life, which we as a race must correct
and Tif'h wf pl.,ia r. '"-A.i.
irxv- '-y-'v"- irovVPtu
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
txyrmi tjkwma owot eo . F vemm.
The great majority of our bovs are not in
school, do not attend church, are growing
up lute, vicious, insolent, ignorant, or shun
hard, hontist toil and look for soft jobs.
The negro woman, almost alone, is fight
ing one of the grainiest battles m the annals
of man, with the cook pot. the washboard,
sewing needles, ironing uoard, scrub brush,
she builds churches, supHrts schools, ed
ucates her daughter, often supporting an
improvident husband or an unworthy son
templed, availed on all sides, she main
tains a degree of virtue which would de
serve commendation in women with more
favorable environments.
"We are negroes and should be true to
our own nature inorder to teeome strongand
lair in the eyes of an intelligent world. Let
us be more concerned about straightening
the kinks inside our heads and the kinks on
the outside will be all right.
"1 honor the white man because he
honors himself. I honor him because he
does not go whining around, begging other
races for sympathy, but ever since the old
Teutonic In Les of German foresters started
out for civilization by their own erToris
they have dissipated rivers, raised valleys,
leveled mountains, dipped the great ocean
dry, and harnessed natural forces to
their appliances they cut and carve their
own destiny true to their racial charac
teristics. They protect and defend their wo
men, and throw their owerful arms around
their children and make it fMissible tor
them to rise in this world. He has it in
his power to do so, especially in the South.
There he can grow rich. There and here
American prejudice is but the voice of
God telling him to establish all kinds of
business, put his owu boys and girls in
charge and grow rich. Hear this voice and
do not go about begging for admission anil
accommodations where we are told plainly
we are not wanted. American prejudice
may yet do for us what a lack of rat e pride
fails to accomplish force the negro
to patronize himself and to grow ri'-h in
the goods of this world."
That negro's head and heart are Inilh
right. He is a brave man and dares to
speak the truth 1 wonder why the negro
papers don't copy that address. It should
be scattered broadens? among their readers
and would do good. Hut. the Atlanta edi
tors are not on that line. They want sen
sation and Northern sympathy. They are
politicians. Politicians and preachers
keep things hot. My friend Ham. who has
been to a (-hatitau(ua in Missouri, says tie
heard a lecture there from Hishop Fowler,
ou Abraham Lincoln, in which he took oc
casion to lampoon and scarify us as is usual
up there, and among other things re
charged the old lie that Governor Hmwn
had offered a reward of $5,000 to have
William Lloyd Garrison kutnapied and
brought to Georgia. The bishop ought to
make up a new stock. Those old lies are
worn out. He knew it was a lie when he
repeated it. This is a lie for which there
was no excuse and no foundation, but it is a
good traveler and preachers can send a lie
as far as anybody. If the devil, who is the
father of lies, ha any preference for sub
jects. 1 think he would choose a ljing,
slanderous preacher before anybody. Hui
suppose that wasn't a lie: what ginxl can
ItosMbly come of resurrecting it now? .Ine
Itrown is dead: Garrison is dead, and
maybe they have setlied their own affairs
over there. I was ruiiK-rnating about ttie
difference between this white Northern
bishop and the b.ack man. President
Council, who made that kind conciliatory
address at Hisniarck, and that bnniLlit lo
mind Ihe rsislent slanders of our iuh
ei n hero, Lieuienaut Holis.in, who retired
Almost to oblivion because he was a South
ern man. Not long ago the Kiiglish gov
ernment presented to a sailor the annual
medal for the greatest act of individual
heroism performed during the year. He
had saved two men at sea w hen no other
nian would dare to attempt it, and the in-
luiry was made In a Northern paper as to
who was entitled to tb medal in the
I'nited states. Why Hohson. of course.
No other act of individual heroism will
compare witn his, but Yankee newspapers
and reporters were jealous of him, just
like they were of Schley, and they magni
fied a few kisses into thousands and made
sport of him. The yellow journals ai.d the
white ones are all alike for lies on our men.
Suppose the ladies did kiss him and he
submitted to it. They are the best judges
of I'eroism 1 know of. He was sent away
to Japan , and a letter from Miss Henedict
in the last issionary gives extracts from a
sptecb he made at Kobe to the Young
Men's Christian Association, that were
beautifully patriotic and full of Christian
spirit and missionary zeal. Mabe Miss
Henedict kissed him. She did not tay, but
he deserves all thai lie gets.
P.ii.i. Aui
a niiok Tur.T iiyixm:i.
Ten ew Original Situsi Wliicli
4 'mii be llaid Free.
Whit will the great metropolitan pa
pers do next? This is the question s ime
one asks nearly every day. Hut there is
one w h'ch leads all others. It has gained
the sobriquet of "America's Greatest
Newspaper" by just such remarkable
pieces of enterprise as the one which has
just now attracted the attention ot the
press all over thecounlry.
Last week the New York Sunday World
announced that it would give away an
album of new and original music, con
sisting of ten of the up-to-date class of
songs that are now sj popular, such as
songs ol sentiment, "coon" songs, cake
walks," etc. These ten songs the Sun
day World proposes to distribute one
each week, with every copy of the Sun
day World. When it is considered that
the average price of new music, written
and composed by popular authors, is
from 30 to 45 cents, the unparalleled en
terprise of the World in giving the song
away with a big Sunday newspaper, for
which ouly 5 cents is charged, is appa
rent. The World requests that we pub
lish the following announcement:
A Music Album free. I-rom Septem
ber 3 to November 5, the Sunday World
will issue weekly a song in sheet
music form, with handsome col. -red
cover. Tne entire set will be mailed,
postage paid, for 0 ceut. Remittances
received alter September 3 will get the
back numbers and each new number
issued. Besides the song. The World
will send its colored Art Portfolio, which
is a marvel of journalism ; its Sunday
Magazine, which equals the monthly
periodicals, and its Comic Weekly, which
excels every comic weekly in the I'nited
States except two, and in its comic scope
equals these two 10-cent publications.
Write a postal card to the Sunday
Worli Music Editor, Puliter Building,
N. Y.,for a list of the songs
To Include- Many Kjlorif mid
Control the Output.
New York. Au-ii-t ',). Following
close upon the formation t the Ameri
can Hide ?.nd Leather Company, the
"Upper Leather Trust," which was in
corporated in New Jersey Monday,
comes the announcement of plans for
the organization of a gigantic combina
tion of shoe manufacturers, which, if car
ried out, will result in an aggregatijn of
capital as large as that obtained for the
big steel trusts.
Thomas J. Bryan, the promoter of the
American Hide and Leather Co., is to be
the moving spirit in the shoe combination.
He said to-day that he had obtained the
backiug of interests controlling more
than 100 factories, and representing ab uit
C3 percent, ol the sh e output.
It is his idea to bring into the trust the
combination of manufacturers of shoe ma
chinery, which now, through the control
of the patents, exacts tribute from all the
shoefactries in the country. The capital
ization of the shoe combination, if formed
will probably exceed 150.OX,0OO.
A Specious FhIImcj-.
Fayette vilV Observer.
It has ever been the cue of en
trenched power and privilege to re
press progress by ridiculing those
who favor progress as 'malcontents.'
Dissatisfaction with present condi
tions is the basis of all human ad
vancement. It sustained the first
great democratic movement, the evo
lution of the Chistian religion; it
gave birth to the Reformation., of;
Luther; it peopled the now world
with hardy emigrants; it lighted the
fires of the American Revolution
stud enthroned Liberty; and, please
God, it will hurl from power the
money changers, monopolists, stock
waterers, bond usurpers and 'impe
rialists' who now pollute Liberty's
temple.
Contentment is the enemy of pro
gress, and retrogression sets in when
progress ceases. Except for the need
of food, the human race would in a
few generations cease effort, and. in
stead of the desire fcr raiment even,
would hibernate like a snake.
Those, who sought change two
thousand years ago were, in the eyes
of the scribes, pharisets and other
hypocrites ..publicans and sinners: in
Luther's time they were hertticstnu
the American Revolution, rebels;
and in the uprising of the people
against McKiuley, Ilanna and em
balmed beef, malcontents and calam
ity howlers.
Properity is the relative term. The
people of North Carolina are more
prosperous than those of the Sand
wich Islands, if we measure human
wants by our standard, as those who
live where transportation rates are
more favorable or where there is a
larger per centage of the population
engaged in pursuits or owning prop
erty favored by Republican legisla
tion. The patriotjn Xorth Carolina is
the man who seeks to place Xorth
Carolina and the South on an equality
with the favored States and sections.
IiCt him treat with the contempt
they deserve those who seek a con
tinuance of present conditions and
whose only weapon, lacking reason,
is ridicule and abuse.
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