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Declares That North Has no Right '
to Dictate to South-
SAYS LYNCHINGS WILL GO ON.
The Barlow Philosopher Declares That we
MustSellle the Question Scores Some
of the News.
I am not hiipi y. Some months ago J
I wrote to our yanl;ie frieutln that if
thy ut-r.- M.tI nifii th-y would apolo
iz: for all they luo to tin during that
dt vilit-h letter on the line and that was
fr jin a mtive Lorn federal soldier who
bhhI ht; was friendly and that if I
would write out d apology and heud ,
a 1 l I . W T 1!
li i iiin ii- would Hgu it. tie Reemed
to he j roj) rly re)-utaut. And now
cornet to t ij i editor of I ho New York
Herald down here to investigate our
lyiicLiiig biiMutHS and to philosophize
upon it, and he Hny.s the north made a
mistake in giving the negro the right
of eutl'rBge, but he doeceut apologize.
He wmm one of the prime leaders in the
whole biiMLGii and apeaks of it as a
rustlike. li wis no mistake. It was
malicious ignorance, and why doesent
he say so? It Uh taken him and his
folks thirty year to find out they
k; ;;w but lit'io about us and nothing
about the negro. Senator Iugalla hia
got more nen.se und more candor. He
came down to Texas ten years ago to
investigate md went home and wrote a
letter in whn-h he said the negro w3
cot tit tor the ballot and that the north
had made an egregrioun blunder in
giving it to hin. He didn't apologize,
but he came pretty near it.
Now, h mistake doesent involve
any moral turpitude, but a malicious
blander does. The time has passed
for any more truckling. The stage of
dtdperatiou in upon the Houth and po
litical humility to the North has pass
ed. We hae never felt that humility,
but our politicians have preached it
and tried to get something from the
public crib by pretending we were
humble when we were uot.
The truth is that tho North is re
sponsible for every outrage aud every
lynching at the South. Here is the
Atlanta Age, a negro paper that is
published by W. A. Pledger, that con
ies every venomous article from the
New York papers about the Sam Hose
busiuess, and Pledger whites to The
New York Sun that ho is ahockod at
Governor Candler'n utterances and he
says the good negroes at the South are
opposed to these outrages on our wo
men. The paper is preguant with
comment on the lynchiug. I reckon
that is all right, for the liberty of the
press must not bo restricted. Bat
nevertheless these utterance) from
Pledger's paper go through the edu
cated negro element and settles its
convictious aud thereby comes some
more outrages and some more lynch
ings. New York niggers como oat in
their papers and advise tho shotgun
and the torch in retaliation, and those
things are copied in the nigger papers
at tho South.
.But here is the comfort: Uncle Sam
is still helping rue in my gardeu and
doesent know and doesent care ary
tbing about all this business. He bays
he was born a slave and for thirty
years has been a freeman and has al
ways found that if a colored man done
bis duty the white man done his.
UlcIo satn nas a targe lamily uad
throngh these Republican influence
they hare beeu corrupted and demor
alized and he has a l t of grandchil
dren who don't know their own father
ami the old man is grieved.
I was ruminating about all this and
how these negroes have all been fooled
atamt Grant and Lucoln being their
friend and were fighting to free them,
when there is not a word of truth in
it. Neither of them cared a continen
tal dime for the uegro and both of
tnem were more couoerued about their
own successes than any thing elte. But
1 have bad great regard for Lincoln.
II wa. a much better man than his j
party and his death was a caUmity to j
th? South I Lave recently received j
a little volunso entitled "The Genesis !
of Abraham Lincoln " It is carefully j
ard affectionately written by James
II. Cathey, of Western Xcth Caro
lina, and its unprejudiced perusal will
convince any man that Abaham Lin
coln was the son of Abraham Enloe,
and that Nancy Hanka was a good or
phan girl who served in Enloe's fam
ily. The affidavits and other evidences
establish this beyond dispute. Old
Father Abraham Enloe was a cscond
Abraham and poor Nancy Hanks a !
second Hager and for the same reason
she was sent away from the paternal
homestead to keep peace in the fam
ily. The futher of her child had great
regard for her r.nd placed her with his
relatives in Kentucky, where 6he af
terwards married Thomas Lincoln.
Some of the witnesses to these facts
are now ninety years old and have
passed all desire to deceive anybody.
The descendants of this Enloe family
are numerous and their t )i?timony has
been takeu from North Carolina, Mis
souri and Texas, and aM confirm the
story. All the very old people in
North Carolina were familiar with the
girl Nancy Hanks an the Enloe fam
ily and old iiiitn Euloc'd acknowledg
ment of tue child's puttrnity and why
he sent tills modern Hager aud her
Ismael away.
But this is no new thing. During
the war it was talked of in the army
and Lineo'n was denounced by the en
tire Ti.M family, into which he mar
ried. Fiiteen years aero, while I so
journed m Western North Carolina, I
found the sjory current mat Abraham
Lincolu was the son of Abraham En
loe and uas named lor him by his
mother, JManey Hanks. Now, Mr.
Cathey writes a pretty little book
about it and his excuse is that the
truth cannot hurt the living or the
dead; that Abraham Lincoln was
America's most remarkable man, and
there should be no attempt to cloud
the life of a real hero. Cicero says
that the first law of history is that "it
should neither care to say anything
that is fals; nor fear to say anything
that is true.
It is, ther efore, the sole purpose of
this lit tie: book to prove that thi . won
derful ruaa was not without ancestors.
His mother was Nancy Hanks. If he
was the son of a worthy sire the world
is entitled to know who that sire was,
whence he came and what his charac
teristics. The custodians of this history
of Abraham Lincoln are numbered by
scores and hundreds of the first people
men and women of western North
Carolina, for the Euloes were a large
and influential family and their descen
dants have intermarried with many
distinguished people. But I do not
propose to reviev the book. It is an
interesting and remarkable revelation,
and Is vritten by an enthusiastic ad
mirer of Mr. Lincolu, and establishes
beyond question his paternity. Abra
ham Enloe was himself an extraordi
nary man the father of thirteen chil
dren; aud his photo ra hie likeness to
this particular son is very striking,
both in form and feature. Both were
the same height and had the same long,
unshapely limbs.
This little book of 175 pages was
written by James R. Cathey, of Bryson
City, N. C. , and is kind in motive and
classic in style. I thought when I first
opened it that perhaps it had better
not have been written, but on its pe
rusal I believe that it is better for the
whole truth to be told than that this
remarkable man's gensie should con
tinue to be uncertain and unknown.
I am now trying to solve arfother
problem: the problem of how bet to
destroy the potato bug or beetle. Last
year I tried pans gren and was not
satisfied. I am now knocking them
off u.orniug and evening and hoeing
the ground around the plants, and
think that I have whipped the tight.
This will do for the garden, but not
for the field. Professor Starnes will
tell us a better way, I hope, for he is a
scientific genius and the most entbu
siabtio experimenter I have ever met.
l ast week I visited the experiment
station at Athena, of which he has
charge, and was delighted with the
trees he has mado on the university
ttrn:. He is absorbed in his work and
I am suie he will make it a great suc
cess. "How is it," said I to him, "that
you can be so enthsiastic over something
that you do not own and never will?"
He smiled and said:
"Six years" work in this business at
Griffin and here has created within me
an absorbing love for it and I feel like
this little farm and garden and orchard
were all mine. My ambition is not
only to make it a success practically,
but to benefit the people by improved
methods and by remedies for the fail
ures and disasaters that are incident to
the profession."
He has cow ten pupils under bim
and expects to Lave half a hundred in
August. I hope the state will encour
age him in his good work, for like
Smithson, his desire is to disseminate
knowledge among men. Bill Arn in
AUi Constitution.
Sugar and Its History
Sugar is a constituent of most plants,
In greater or less degree, at some per
iod "of their growth. The cereal grains,
formerly supposed to be merely store
houses of starch, have lately been
found to contain notable quantities of
sucrose or saccharose, the specific
name used by chemists to distinguish
the substance in question from its
carbohydrates possessing a sweet
taste. The popular name for this sub
stance, however, cane sugar, indicates
the plant containing it in sufficient
ibuudauce to first attract the attention
of mankind. This plant probably
originated in Asia, whence has
spread gradually to all tropical regions,
its easy propagation from eyes on the
cane itself assisting materially in its
dissemination. The cultivation of this
plant for its sweet qualities stretches
far back into the past, "sweet canes"
being mentioned in the Hebrew Scrip
tures, and its use in China probably
untcdated even this mention; yet the
extraction of sugar from is juice, and
especially the use of the substance as
a separate article of food, is a matter
of comparatively recent date.
For centuries it was used in Europe
only as a confection or as a medicine,
and it was not until the beginning of
the seventeenth century, a hundred or
more years after it was first cultivated
in the Eastern Hemisphere, that it be
gan to be an article of commerce and
was imported to any extent into Eiv
rope. Once begun, however, its mod
ern development down to the present
day. when it. constitutes one of the
world's greatest industries, the product
of which readies the consumer for the
greater part as a chemically pure arti
cle, is little short of marvelous; in
truth, its history cannot be surpassed
in interest by that of any line of hu
man endeavor. North Arasrican Review.
Plight of a Nurse in Cuba
An army nurse but lately returned
from Cuba to Washington declares
that never again will she go to a coun
try whose language she cannot under
stand. It was before hostilities had
come to a definite end that she was
startled one day ly the unexpected
visit of her Cuban laundress. The
woman was intensely excited. Anxie-
j ty sat on her brow, and sorrow dwelt
in her eyes. She gesticulated and she
talked. The nurse knew not a word
of what she said, but the pantomime
filled her with terror. The Cuban's
hands seemed to speak of an attack on
the hospital of wounded men butcher
ed, and nurses cut to riobons. The
j nurse was frantic. She must know
the worst.
In the hospital was an officer very
j ill with typhoid fever. She knew he
understood Spanish. Only in a matter
of life or death would she disturb him,
but this was obviously a matter of
life or death. She led the Cuban wo
I man to his bedside, and then tho
t story was related. The officer listen
ed intently. The nurse held her breath.
The Cuban ceas-d. The si k man
turned his head on the pillow.
"She says." he whispered feebly,
"she says the stripes in your pink shirt
waist have run. and she doesn't know
what to do with it" Washington Star.
Do Birds Eat Butterflies?
Naturalists have as yet been r.rVe
to give a decisive answer to tho q
tion. Do birds eat butterflies cr n-o
Some unhesitatingly answer it in il
negat: . e. while others as positi-relv
maintain that owing to lack of vutS
cient data no one is as yet warranty
In giving a decisive answer, in
last number of the Revue Scientific
ti:ere is an interesting article on th
subject which seems to show that
some birds certainly eat butterflies.
The writer, referring to the recoct
journey of M. Katharinia through
Central Asiatic Turkey, says: "On one
occasion M. Katharinia saw a lar
number of butterflies litre ted by birds.
In a short time many butterflies were
killed. The survivors managed to con
ceal themselves under some herbagi
and the birds did not disturb them any
more. In spite, therefore, of certain
assertions to the contrary, it can safely
be stated that birds do to some ext-:;t
prey upon butterflies. At the sa:i:rj
'time It is worthy of note that birds do
not pursue butterfles except when tho
latter are flying."
4 4 The Prudent Man Setteth
His House in Order'
Your human tenement
should be given even mere
careful attention than the
house you live in. Set it in
order by thoroughly purifying
your blood by taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla,
Erysipelas-" My little girl is now fa)
and healthy on account of Hood's Sarsapa
rilla curing her of erysipelas and eczema."
Mas. H. O. Wheatley, Port Chester, N. Y.
JiOodA SaUafyai'dL
Hood's PiUa cure liver ills ; the non-irritating and
only cathartic to take with llood's Saraaparil I.-n
So. 2t).
"I have been troubled a &reat deal
with a, torpid liver, -hich produces constlpa
ticn. I f sund CASCAiiETs to be all you claim
for them, and secured such relief the nrst trial
that I purchased another supply and vrai com
pletely cured I shall only be too glad to rec
ommend Cascarets whenever the opportunity
Is presented." J. A. Smith.
2920 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa
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