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Will Mot S.pport It BMtu It Will l.t Prvmit lloldlntr Office QKvea . I( Adopted. Aa Able Appeal to MBit na. I Senator Butler has published in The Caucasian of January 4 a letter to Mr. George Wilcox, defining bis position in reference, to the Constitutional Amend ment. In brief, he taja that he has seen much of the evils of the race issue being injected into politics; that the Democratic leaders have used t e race Issue as a most effective barrier to the advancement of the principles of ,the people's party and, in fact, to prevent any independent thought or action along any line; and be says, in effect, that the Democratic leaders do hot de sire to "remove the,race scare-crow from campaigns." To do so, from their standpoint, he says, would be foolish. I ' Again, he remaiks that while he knew that ''they did not, in submitting the amendment, intend to rob themselves of their only effective campaign issye by removing the negro cry from politics, yet decided if the proposed amendment was constitutional and would result in auy way in making it less possible for them to use that demagogical and dis honest cry, and if there were no danger lurking behind it, that I could support it, or at least not actively oppose it. L Senator Butler then proceeds to point out first, that under the amendment the country negroes will be disf rancised, while the town negroes will not be; that about fifty thousand negroes will not be disfranchised among them the town negroes. And he objects that the town negro can not only vote, but still can hold office. He insists therefore that "the race issue" will still be kept alive. REMARKS. ' ; j The Constitutional Amendment was not proposed, as Mr. Butler seems to think, as a partisan measure. It was proposed to remedy a great evil and ac complished a great patriotic object. It was proposed to eliminate the baneful and ruinious influence of irresponsible negro suffrage. A large part of the negro population is, as every on 3 knows, utterly unfit for popular suffrage because of their dense ignorance and tt eir want of Natural capacity; and fcr these reasons their voting power is a menace to the best interest of the people of North Carolina.- The amendment ia intended to cure that evil. If the adoption of the amendment does not entirely remove the race issue it . will become of but little importance. Mr. Butler seems to think the great evil of the day in North Carolina is the race issue. We think the great evil of the day. is the fact that a multitude of ignorant and irresponsible negroes exercise so, much power at the polls and pollute public affairs, not nly in their strong holds, but throughout the State; that they and a few mean leaders, by their political action, blight the prosperity of the State, and in many sections make the . situation of white families within their .influence un bearable. - " ' - ; Mr. Butler says that he had decided that if adopting the amendment would result in any way in making it less possible for the Democrats to raise the negro cry, and if there were no danger lurking behind it, that be would sup port the amendment, or at least not oppose it. Not once does he advert to the griev ances and public evils that the amend ment is intended to remedy and cure. Always, with him, it is partisan politics, partisan politics, partisan politifs. The race issue, he sayB, makes against the People's party, and he would therefore be willing to see the race issue eliminated, so that his party might prosper. - But about the evils that afflict the State he is utterly silent. WHY BUTLER OBJECTS TO THE AMEND- V- MENT. , Mr. , Butler objects, in the second place, that the amendment does not deprive all negroes of the right to hold office; and, indeed, Mr. Alexander Mc- Iver, a Republican leader of longstand ing, also makes that objection. tJnler the Constitution only such persons as can vote are eligible to .office, and negroes ; who cannot vote under, the amendment cannot hold office after it is adopted. The amendment will de prive at least between eighty and One hundred thousand negroes of the right to vote, arid the elimination of this negro constituency will, in itself, put; an end to negro office-holding. That is too plain, for argument. Mr. Butler and Mr. Mclyer, and everybody else, knows that if the amendment is adopted there will be no moie negro Qpnce hold ing in North Carolina. . As a matter of eourse, where their race only is con cerned in connection with the schools, for instance, a few negroeB may be per mitted to hold rffi-H-j.but if the amend ment is adopted it wilt be impossible for a negro to be again elected to a political office, or be elected to any position where he will come in touch wiih white men or white women of the State, or exercise any control over their affairs. But Mr. Batler and Mr. Mclver are not satisfied with this practical re moval of the negro as an office , holder. They insist that the law should say in so many words Uhat no negro shall hold office." This is a peculiar posi tion for men to occupy who are anxi ously insieting that every negro shall be allowed to vote. , Think about it; these men,, political bed-fellows with Senator Fritchard, and who belong to a clasi of politicians who have looked to the negro party for office, one of them now holding the high office of United States Senator by the negro' votes, and whoihopes to be re-elected to that office through the negro vote, objecting to a Democratic measure upon the ground that it does not in express terms deprive all negroes of the right to hold office! What is the milk in the cocbanut? Is it that these white Republicans and Populists desire that negroes shall be debarred from office so that only white Republicans and Populists can be put into office by means of the negro vote? Neither Mr. Butler nor Mr. Mclver, or any other white Republican, will ever make the people of North Carolina be lieve they are opposed ' to the amend ment because it. does not contain a provision against the negro holding office. Men of Butler's class are op Doeed to the amendment because, and solely because it deprives them, as omce-seekers, 01 tne gro vote, ror the sake of office and political power these men are willictr that the horrible conditions .hat existed tinder negro government in North Carolina between 1897 and 1898 should be continued. They care; nothing about the 8ate. Patriotism is a sentiment unknown to them. They consider only their own selfish interests and those of their party. MR. BUTLER AND THE FIFTH 8ECTIOS. 1 Mr1. Butler discusses what would be the result if the 'grandfather ( clause" should; be declared unconstitutional, and the rest of the amendment he held valid and operative. But why should that clause be thought unconstitutional? Surely it does not in itself deprive any one of any right. Mr. Butler says it contravenes the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. That amendment simply says that the right of a citizen to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. The'grandfather cause" (fifth section) does not deny or abridge anybody's right to vote. On the contrary, quite the reverse. It says that the right of certain persons to vote shall not be denied. Standing by itself and con sidered separately, this clause cannot possible be unconstitutional; and -it is hardly possible that any court would listen to an argument attempting to show that this section by itself either denies or abridges anybody's, right to vote, for it does exactly the reverse of that. Neither is section 4 . considered by itself Open to the argument of un constitutionality. . It simply prescribes an educational qualification that every body admits the State has a right to impose. Therefore neither of these sections, taken by itself and considered the one apart from the other, can possibly be unconstitutional. The real question is this: Will sections 4 and 5 (both being constitutional if considered separately), when taken together and construed jointly is parts of one tingle scheme, constitute an unconstitutional enactment? Will the effect of the two considered together be to deny the right of the negro to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude ? Now if the court should hold that they were unconstitutional when considered together, but that each considered separately was valid and operative, the unconstitutional element would be in the combination of the two sections; and the infirmity would be in both and not distinctly either in the one or the other; and of course both would have to fall.'. Section 5 neither confers any right or. takes away any right. It certainly does not deny or abridge anybody's right for any cause; it is an enabling act not a deny ing or abridging act. It simply main tains existing rights. So all that Mr. Butler has to say about what might happen in case section 5 should be held unconstitutional is wind and fury without there being any basis for the suggestion.- ILLUSTRATION. To illustrate what we mean let us take the case of a negro who cannot read and write and is disfranchised un? der section 4; he raises the question in court and says section 4 directs that only those who can read and write shall vote; I cannot read and write; and I am disfranchised by section 4. But some other man who would like myself be disfranchised by section 4 is admit ted to suffrage under section 5. Now is it not unconstitutional to admit anyone to suffrage: plainly the court cannot for that reason hold Bection 5 to be uncon stitutional taken by itself. If it should hold that section 4 and 5 taken to gether constitute an unconstitutional scheme of suffrage' the whole amend ment would have to be declared uncon stitutional upon the ground that the two sections-taken together as a whole discriminate against some voter not em braced in section 5; and so there is ab solutely no danger of section 5 being annulled, leaving section 4 in operation ; and no such danger as Mr. Butler ima gines or pretends to imagine exists. Another reason, why the courts can not hold section 5 unconstitutional and leave section 4 in operation is that they together clearly make one scheme for legislation. They will be voted for not separately, but jointly. The fourth eec tion would not be voted for-and every body knows it would not be voted for without the fifth section. The one is plainly conditioned upon the other. It is a rule universal application in con struing a Statue or constitution, where the court fyids this connection-betweea different sections, and where it is evi dent that the one would not have been adopted without the other; it will bold them both good or hold them both bad This is the only way the court can se cure to the voter what he has voted for. To .strike out the fifth section and leave the fourth would be amending the con stitution in a particular not voted for by the peoples, and. it would be the court's making for the people an amendment which the people themselves never would haye made. The people alone have the right to-amend their constitution. No court can do that for them. But we maintain that neither section 4 of , the amendment is unconstitutional, ! either when thfy are taken separately j or when taken together. We will not' l (A mA . 4 . ... .U-t ! line now. Mr. Butler says only Demo cratic lawyers maintain the constitu tionality of the .amendment as a whole, and that they" are dishonest. -WelI. there are hundreds of 'awyears in North Carolina Who believe it is' constitutional, j Indeed, there are scarcely any who be-j judges in North Carolina elected on the non-partisan ticket, both upon the Su perior and Supreme court benches, who I have openly declared, and still 1 openly declare, that they wdl He for it; and the greatest constitutional lawyer in the Unifxl Sutes Senate, Senator Morgan of Alabama, recognized, after ex-Senator George Edmunds, aa the first consti tutional lawyer in the United Stale, bad just made a powerful speech in the bearing of Senator Batler in Um United States. Senate, emphatically declaring that after careful investigation he has found nothing unconstitutional in the amendment and t'aat there is no provis ion in it which can be interpreted to deny or abridge the right of tb negro to vote on account of his race, color or previous condition of servitude. And before the debate in the Senate uncom pleted Mr. Butler will hear other great constitutional lawyers defend and as sert the entire constitutionality of this measuse. What is the opinion of Bat ler, a briefless lawyer, upon this consti tutional question, compared with that of 'Morgan, whose reputation as a law yer and statesman is world-wide? Sen ator Butler is welcome to his opinion. He has but little company. But even he was at one time in favor of the amendment, or at least he said he in tended to vote for it, until a few months ago. Why has he changed front? ' Is it because he has been promieed Re publican Bupport for re-election to the Senate and failing in that a judicial position under McKinley ? And was it to qualify himself for this" position that he studied Jaw and got bis license ? . But, even if constitutional from A to Izzard, the Senator is not pleased. He objects that, under the amendment, white boys, twelve years old now, when the year 190S comes, will still be unable to read and write and to pay their poll tax,i and will, therefore, be disfran chised. It is possible that there may be some such cases. It is possib'e that some who are boys now within the next eight years will not learn bow to read aud write, or may be too poor, to payt-ir poll tax.: If so, it would i be an inu. 'M ease. It often happens that great public reforms bear hard on some individual. But if it bears bard on any white boy that he cannot vote because he has not learned to read and write, he will doubtless be spurred up to learning. It would not take him long to qualify himself. If his parents have not seut him to the public school while under age,, after he is twenty-one, he certainly can learn in a few months, without interfering with his daily la bors. . He would not miss but one election. If he missed one he w uld learn before the next election came around SCHOOL FACILITIES. , But if he does not learn while still a boy it will not be for the want of public school facilities. The last Legislature have given an earnest of what the Dem ocratic parly means in this matter. Be sides the usual provision, for public schools, it appropriated an additional $100,000 from the treasury to help pub lic scbcols. The facilities for every boy to learn how to read and to write growgreater and greater every year. The way is open. This incentive will be greater if this amendment is adopted than ever before", and every white boy will be sure to learn how to read and write so that he may become a qualified voter. Un der this stimulus illiteracy will cease to exist among the whites in North Caro lina. , Anything that .stimulates the white boys to acquire an education ; and that stimulates the father of the white boy to desire his son to acquire an education, cannot be said to be a bad thing in North Carolina just at this time. It is one of the means of removing the illit eracy that exists in the State. The amendment creates this incentive on the part of the colored boy; and it might be a bad thing not to 'apply the same stimulus to the white boy. The Demo cratic party is determined to give the white- boys of North Carolina a better opportunity than ever before to learn to read and write, and the white boy will learn, trust to his Anglo-Saxon pride for that. . butler's LOGIC. The logic of Senator Butler is found in its fuil perfection, however, in the last objectin he makes to the operation of the amendment as a whole.; ''Ad mit," he says, "that it is constitutional, and let's see how it will, work!" . Well, let's see. The amendment says that every person before he shall be entitled to a , vote shall have paid un or before the first day of Mareh of the year in wh!ch he proposes to vote his poll-tax as prescribed by law for the previous year Taxes are due in the fall. Any man proposing to vote must show that he paid by the first of March the poll tax due the previous fall. That might be a harchip in some individual case, bat it will ensure the prompt payment of the poll tax ; and the'poll tax goes to the public schools. It is the educational tax, and as there is to be an educa tional qualification for voting the poll tax should be duly paid. But Senator Butler sees in this only a Democratic scheme to disqualify men who cannot pay their tax before Marc"i 1st. That is all that his logic can find in it "a scheme to disfranchise,", while it is plainly a provision to induce a prompt payment of the educational tax; on which the public schools so largely ' de- pends. i;- A RESUME. up Senator ' Butler's To Bum up Senator Butler s argn ment, then: He makes the ridiculous suggestion that the 5th section, may be held i'anconstjCutional," since it admits people to the ballot-box; and basing an argument on that absurd suggestion, he argues that man; illiterate white men in the Stale may be disfranchised. Bui even if the court should hold that the otn section whs ui ngui, uu iu iuo entire plan is absolutely lawrui ana con- stitutional, he would still oppose the whole thing because, first, the town ue-j groes are not disfranchised while the country negroes sre. (How long wid it be before Mr: Butler will be holding night caucuses with the leaders of theae despised ! town darkies, and sending thfim out into the country to innance the eood country darkies he talks about against "the white, and to put him back in office?) and secondly, because the ne- grots are still allowed to noia omce; and third, because some boys of twelve vears of ace now may not learn how to read and write by the year 1908, and fi-arth, becaoais sotne men ma not pay tfcetr poll tax before the first of II arc b. And yet he says that he decidd that he would iupport the amendment "if it was constitutional and would mull in making it teas possible for the Demo crats to use the negro any mote in rH tks" and if there ! was 00 danger be hind it. : . There it indeed bat oneway tntcit it, but ooe way to ascertain whether it i. constitutional or not. and that is to adopt it and see what, the court has to say about it. To vote it down prevents the court from having a chance to pa on its constitutionality. If it is a good thing it can. have life only from the breath of the voters. Ir it ii a good thing, it should I riv. n chance not killed at the polls because somebody says the court might y it is unconstitution aL i But if the court would pronounce it constitutional, then it ought not to be killed at the polls if it is a good tbitfg. j And so, after all, the question for the v-jtere of the State ia: Is this measure One that appeals to our best judgment as m proper exercise of our power for the advantage and benefit of the )eople of North Carolina? . ' p l The. people should ask themselves. Do we want this measure? Do we want to have the law so that all white men can vote, and all illiterate negroes can not vote ? Do we want to'have the law so that the mags of illiterate negroes will not terrorize coram unities where they are crowded togethel and dominate the politics of the State? Do we want fto have the law so that great crowd of ignorant negroes cannot put into power and sustain in power vicious and vile rulers, who are an offense to decency and who degrade the administration of public affairs? If so, here is a measure calculated and intended to correct that evil. The remedy is submitted to the people of North . Caroliua by the Stale Legislature for their approval. Do they approve it; if so let them say so at the polls. THE SENATOR'S PERSONALITIES More than a half of Senator But'er's long article discussing this constitution al amei.dment is taken up in a scurril ous attack on Mr. F. M. 6immons and in abusing the Democratic party. We advert to this fact only to say that by lugging in such matu r to fill up he shows conclusively that be.could find nothing better bearing on the ques tion and that would sustain his position against the amendment. The fishwoman harangues in billings gate when her anger deprives her of reasonf Mario 1 Butler follows her ex ample. For some reason he is irrita'ed with Mr. Simmons and he cannot ex plain his views as to the advantage to the public of adopting or rejecting a proposed constitutional amendment without personal vituperation and slan derous assaults on an individual. And indeed the 'greater part of his article is devoted to abuse of Mr. Simmons and the Democratic party. But it is no new thing that Mr. Simmons and the Dem ocratic party do not pleaee Mr. Butler. As a matter of fact they do not seek to please him, aud are quite unconcerned that he hurls vituperation at them. Doctor. Hang a Corpse. New York Siin. I Tw elve doctors, comprising the entire resident '"staff of. the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island, bung up a corjseby the neck in the small hours last Satur day morning, and executed a war dance around it to emphasize their dislike of Dr. George Taylor Stewart, the Superin tendent of the hospital. They were summarily "fired" by President Keller of the Department of Charities yester day, and last night the hospital was U fi in care of Dr. Stewart and two aitauui t who were hut nedly appointed rtr day afternoon Mr. Keller's action was taken yertr day morning immediately after tie b read a report of the Medical Adi? Board of the hofpiul. The rort formally recommended 'that the doctors be discharged because they had insulted Dr. Stewart and bad broken rules re specting the treatment of the dead. Old People Made oac - J. C. Sherman, the veteran editor of the Vermont (Mich.) Echo, has discov ered the remarkable secret of keeping old people young. For years he has avoided Nervousness, Sleeplessness, In digestion, Heart Trouble, Constipation and Rheumatism by using Electric Bit ters, and he writes : "It gently stimu lates the kidneys, tones the stomach, aids digestion, anijl gives a splendid ap petite. It has worked wonders for my wife and me. It's a marvellous remedy for old people's complaints." Only 50c. at Fetzer's drag store. Negro smallpoi Patlcat 8bt. ' Birmingham, Ala., - Jan. 18. Ai Fnnsdale, Ala., to-day City Marshal King' shot and killed negro who was suffering from smallpox. There are many cases of this disease in the St, and the smaller towns are trying to pre vent it from .getting into their limits. There was, consequently, much excite ment when it was reported that a negro had arrived in Fansdale with the disease. The negro was arrested and locked up in a vacant storehouse. He broke out a couple1 of times and thieatened to do bodily harm to any one who interfered with him when be broke out the thud time. Then he set fire to the store and got out. The citizens Uft the Marshal to attend to him. The negro attempted to strike the Marshal with a stick and King pulled out a pistol and shot the negro. The Marshal was not arrested. Used By British Soldiers ta Africa. Cant. C. G. Dennison is well known Capt. C. (1. Dennison is OTer Africa as commander of the -faKeB ni captured the famous rebel Galishe. Under date of Nov. 4, 1897, frora Vryburg, Bechnanaland, he writes : ' 'Bttore starting on the last campaign I . tght a quantity of Chamberlain's j.ColiCj cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, j ich I used myself when troubled with DOwei compiaini, ana oau given u mj men, ana in every case it proven most beneficial. For sale by M. Ii. Marsh & Co., Druggists. " It is said that the President and Sec retary Hay favor the purchase of the , Danish West Indies for $3,000,000. use owKTHiau. ; Be Kwrt hinjj ta tLb tivf of a; Ad prwe ywr mrhl t W A light eptio some tarkfxrd pa A pilot on tnw ara. Find oot the ptar where yoe may 4ti lienrath tout tardea low ; Ta op lb tak with wtlUnjr hand. Be otarthiir, br, tw! lie omHhinjr in thi. thrubUt.jr day Of bojry hands aad feet, A spring baud some daty way. , A tbjrtiow front the brat. Be foam! Dpoa the work man a roll ; Ho sow, fro reap, or plow j lind to some tak with heart aod anV Be Montething, aonwwbere now I krted. Coar.g. Ooarage the higlwwt gift, that urtirtw to bend To mean device for a sordi.! d. Coorajre an imlrul.nit )u k from besiveu a bright tlrou, -By which the oal utandji raied, tri amphant. high alone. Oreat in itself, not praM of theciowd. A bove all v ce,i t t opt uot to If prixm. Kanjuhnr. B1LI. AHP WH1TK4 X ClIftPTKK TIIKllIUir HTKALUU. I have always contended that steal ing little tilings was the besetting sin of the negro and was a race trait. And that cheating in a trade was a race trait in Jews and (lenliles. We white folks do not call it cheating, but say he got the advantage or he got the beet of the bargain, but this a 1 vantage is gener.llv KOt by deception or a su(rreion of the truth. The negro smooth his sin over by calling it taking things just ss our cook once said to nie when I com plained about her stealing lard and flour and rice and such things: "Mr. Major, I d .n't think you miss what I takes." Well,. I didnt very much, for she never took much at a time, but it annoyed me for her to think she was fooling me hen she wasn't. But that same negro would sit up all night wita a sick Aiem bcr of the family add was always good and kind to our children. Now the white man rarely steals anything and the negro ss rarely cheats you in a trade. Btfore the civil war.tbe ne groes' most frequent crime was steal ing chickens aud he got so expert fn that business that a law was passed niaking it a penal offense for anybody tOjbuy chickens from a negro even th uh he had raised them in his own yard. We could buy. foot mats and brooms and . baskets, but we must not buy chickens. Law or no law, he con tinued his midnight vocation, and if the commandment had said thou sbalt not covet thy neighbor's chickens it would have been all the same to him. First covet and then steal was part of his re ligion. -1 was ruminating about this be cause I bought a turkey-yesterday from a negro for a very low price and I won dered where be got it. I didn't ques tion him, for I didn't want to hurt bis feelings. When' I was in North Caro lina a friend told me about an ' old darky who was on trial for stealing a turkey and the proof was positive, and yet be did not seem to be alarmed. His lawyer was discouraged and said, "Uncle Jack, it looks like they have got you." "No, dey sint, Mai John; dey aint got me yet and dey aintagwine to get me. Tell you bow it is, Mas John, De j'-dge seten up dar was my young master when de war broke out and not gwine to send me ; to de pen. No, sir; he aint, he aint done forget wba I know." But Mas John had lost confidence, for he knew that the judge would do hifjduty and execute the law. In a short time the trial was over and the juge asked Uncle Jack if he had anything to say in extenuation of his emu. I he old gray-neaded man -got tip with a gruut and looking arcund ta the sjicctators and then at the tig said : "Nnflin much, Mas Judge, tli'o' much. Only d:s, you know all tout dat old war which we all got wboofti and you baint f rant ' how I went oud wid you to de army for , y?u was a cappen and old mater; told ; me to go 'loog and take keer -f you, and you knows I did de very b s' I could for four mighty long years and how one time you got wound ed and I staid by you on tell you was well 'again and how another time you took the measles and me, too, and I stay by you and nus' you and how an oder tune dem Yankees cotch me and I got away in de night and come back to you and how sometimes you get out of money and out of sumfen to eat ali at de same time and you call me up and say, 'Jack, you mus go out a foragm' and get us sum fin', and I go out late in de night and bring you chickens and rostin' ears and one time I bring you a tuikey, and yov neber ax me nutlin' about wbar 1 got him and you never giv' me any money to buy nira, did you, Mas Judge? You call it foragin' den, didn't you, Mas Judge, and if it w-as foraging den how cum it to be stealin' now?" By this time the courtroom was con vulsed with laughter and the judge could not conceal his emotion, for his recollection of the old darky's faithful ness was revived afresh. He wiped bis brow and bis eyes, and said: "Mjr. Sheriff, adjourn court.. Uncle Jack, I will p y for that turkey, but you mast not do so any more. When you: need anything you must come to me. . I haven t forgot you." It is amazing to read our penitentiary IP Baking Powder Made from pure cream tartar. Safeguards "the food , against aktm Alum baking powders are me greatest. mmacm to health of the present day ML repotU wbrre wetrarw that th mrm ow l.ftW bTo ta the &t aad etwnty etaeraft bo jv tbetw . taUteg kind. Um 4 tWm are of the new mmm Wt wt et r i Ury h1 a, maturity fca adraawd under frtdon ttvm ad4 Urcwsy lo 'i:,y. Otka.ro are too all f4 Uw modTB darky. ihm of lay farm hand Ht titer fw to yi. a4 was iixuted 4iih b aax-Utrs aod ai.1, tll yott what. 'few, dar to Aan f4k in d CfaatRgang. It Im, dr t un folks Jul mm nmn in dar aa dar i ootn Jar." Vkm M) bat Out U a giod iaee to e4 the darky to, 'or the tret are email and the rfckkena tut tit the ww t-grod d,jt "m Ui hanker attef rhkkeoa hk the c4d.fAhi Aed nrftors. They had ralhet oalcb a Udy' kUk and run. It i siotiMhiug how many rharw thy will take to gi . mirthirt Kir tM4bitg4 aod wiH take the ri.k tf arrral and rata Uhnient and yet 1 have oetrr beard of one Wng turued oof of ctvurch tir trwling.' War will make white folk Wl and, Judge lKioley believed Uat mean whiaay would. ' Tli old lini lawyer utd lo tell bow he was broke of takidg too much when be war on the bench of the Northern circuit. A tnau try name id Sierrett ke4 a dirty saloun hear the hotel and the judge patrooiaed him every morning before brrakfat and by court time was pretty mellow. One cold morning the mbehtcvtrtis lawyer borrowed half doaea silver poons from the landlady of the hotel and tiipptid them into the judge overcuat n-ket He never dn covered them unlit court adjourned fcr dinner and was dread fully puzzled and perplexed. He re ft gnisrd the siioon. ftr they had his landlady's mark and were ancient heir looms in her family. He sent for her to come to his room and gave them back with abject ' apology and .said it must have been Hterrett's whiskey that done it. It sobered him up and made him very serious all ths afternoon. Next jnorning a trifling fellow was put on trial fox stealing a package of jaxket knives from a store in town: lie was easily corvicted and the judge asked him if be bad anything to say for bint self. Notbin', judge," said he, 'only that I was drinking and don't remem ber about it" j The judge leaned for "ward and -said, "Young man, where did you get your liquor?" "At Htcr rett's," said he- "Discharge him, Mr. Sheriff discbarge him! J am perfectly ware, that Sterrett's whiskey will make anybody steal." We soldiers didn't steal much daring the civil war, but sometime we were sorely tempted and fell. Sometime we got awful tired of salt meat ' and longed for a change of diet. I remem ber that when we camped near Orange courthouse there was a lovely little shote that took up where our horse were tethered. It belonged to a .cross old man who lived on a hill near by and Major Ayer rode up there one eve ning and tried to buy it. The old man refused in an insolent manner,' for be was a Union man and was mad because our army had camped on his land and was cutting bis timber. Capt. Cot h ran was a good shot with a pistol and was proud of his skill, and so the next evening Major. Ayer bet . bim a quarter that be couldn't shoot that pig's eye out. He took the bet and won, and our faithful servant Tip: dressed and baked it, and we feasted. The old man came prowling around every day hunt ing for that pig and it was harder to lie out of it than it was to steal it. But the morning we broke camp we sent Tip up there and paid the old woman two dollars and quieted) our conscience. A fat shote was almost irresistible. One time George Burnett and Tom Ayer killed one under similar circumstances and sent a quarter to oar mess. The old man missed his bog in doe time, and when he inquired of Burnett if they had seen it around. Burnet whispered to bim that Captain Stillwell's mess bad fresh pig for dinner yesterday, but be mustn't tell who told bim. I belonged to Siillwell's mess and tbe first thing we knew Colonel Yeiser had us sum moned before him to be tried on a charge of stealing the old man's pig. It was a kind of mock trial and resulted in convicting Burnett and Ayer, and tney had to pay for tbe pig. But I am pleased to say of our Confederate sol diers that 1 never knew a case of fla grant or cruel robbery or pillage, nor did I ever know of but instance of a soldier violating the sacred rights of a man's family. At Centervillethe Lou isiana Tigtrs, as they were called, com mitted a shamelul outrage in tbe coun try near by and were immediately ar rested and tried that evening and shot next morning st sunrise. Uid Joe Johnston beat lynch law out of sight when be had a -sure esse. There are various kinds of stealing, but the most aggravating to writers for the press is the stealing by tbe press. Two friends, one in Birmingham and the other in Los Angeles, Cal have recently sent me copies of papers published in their towns, in which the said papers have copied from tbe Chicago: Inter-Ocean tbe letter I wrote for tbe Constitution about Felzer,- South Carolina. My name is not mentioned, nor is tbe let ter credited to the Constitution; only a few immaterial changes have been made, just enough to make is appear that tbe Inter-Ocean sent a reporter down there to write up the town. I have known petty thieves sent to tbe cdain gang for doing things sot half so mean as that. -; , Bill ArK BaelUea's Aralca Salve. - Has word-wide fame for marrj-llooa cures, -it snrpaMies any other salve, lo tion, ointment or halm for Cots, Corns, Barns, Boils, Sores, Felons-. Ulcers, Tet ters, Salt Rheam, Fever, Sort, Chap ped Hands, Skin Eropdons ; 'Infallible for Piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c. at Fetzer's drug store Tbe Roberts committee concluded its work on the 17ih and came to a unani mous finding as to facts. The majority report will be signed by seven members who favor exclusion. The minority re port is signed by two members who favor seAUngJIoberts, then expelling bim. 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