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HILL AKP'S I.ETTEK.
I have not found more entertain
ing reading in a long time than the
"Lights and Shadows of Itinerant
Life," ; being the autobiography of
Dr. Simon Peter Richardson. For
iifty years he was on the go from the
Blue Ridge to Key West, from Dalton
to Brunswick and all the intermedi
ate country. lie knew more people
0 and was known by more than any man
of his day . He was original, unique,
fearless, honest in his convictions and
ivkldy at all times to maintain them,
lie never complained, never, shirked
a duty, traveled thousands of miles
on horseback and sometimes on foot,
crossed swamps and forded streams
at his peril, was fed and sheltered
by the poor. What faith, what zeal,
what diligence, and all for what a
sense of duty and his love for the
Master and the Master's work. No
earthly reward was gained or expected
for he and his family often suffered
the pinchings of poverty and even
the calamity of having his house
burned ajid all its furniture and his
wife and children had to sleep in the
barn upon the cotton seed.
But he never faltered and as al
ways aggressive. He fought a good
fight and kept the faith. He would
have succeeded in any of the learned
professions and acquired both fame
ifjd fortune, for he had great mental
.force, quick perceptions, personal
magnetism and was a holy terror to
evil doers.
Mr. T-iiir'iftn Knifrht, has rfivinwpd
Jihe little book with charming and
truthful words. Aa he says, there is
not a page but shows the genius, the
faith and the humility of the man
lie was not bound through prejudice
or early training to any creed, but
made his own and even dared to im
pugn the inconsistencies of John
Wesley. His antipathy to Calvinism
was intense. The idea of mankind
being responsible for Adam's sin
. shocked him and he would have
stricken the words "original sin" and
"total depravity" from every creed
and prayer book. The doctrine of
lost infants provoked his bitterest
sarcasm.
But these things are not in the
book to any invidious extent and it
contains but one sermon, and that is
in the appendix. The charm of the
book is the recital of his experience
as an itinerate the lights and
shadows of a busy life and his ming
ling with the great men and minis
ters of the olden time, for he was
side by side with such men as Judge
Lohgstreet, Bishops Tierce, Paine,
Andrew, Capers, Soule and Kavan
augh, with l)rs. Boring, Means, Parks,
Evans, Anthony and Glenn,, with
Lovick Pierce and Allan Turne and
in natural mpntnl rnwfr nnrl fcMilnit.
" " " " - f -
force he was their peer. The; book
will make you weep and laugh by
turns. Ilelating his first experience
in 1840, when he left Dublin for his
circuit, he says: "That night I was
sad as the grave, for I had just waked
up to the realities of my situation
and felt conscious pf my inability to
met the expectation of the church.
After supper I went out in the dark
to pray, kneeling in the corner of the
fence. The dogs .found me and I was
forced to get on top of the fence.
-From there they chased me to the
shed that was built over the potato
banks. The barking of the dogs
aroused the boys and they came run
ning with a torch, shouting "We've
got him. We've got him!" supposing
that I was the same negro who had
been stealing their potatoes. They i
soon escorted me to tne house amid
convulsions of laughter, and the
young lady thought 1 was intensely
green."
He refused to administer the sacra
ment to any one who sold or drank
whisky. At a revival once a church
member, who was well oft" but very
stingy, began to shout with great
vehemence, and Simon Peter stopped
his exhortation and peremptorily
ordered him to stop or leave the
church for nB'man had any right to
shout who had not paid his quarter
age. .During reconstruction days a
federal captain forbade him to preach
unless he would pray for the presi
dent, "And so I prayed that the Lord
would take out of him and his allies
the hearts of beasts and put in them
the hearts of men or remove them
from office. The captain never asked
me again to pray for the president.
1 have never been convinced that we
did any wrong in seceeding or fight
ing, and I can see no good reason
now why we should not do it again."
Speaking of original sin, he says:
"Mr. Wesley declares that all the
children are born under the displeas
ure of God and are subject to' spiri
tual, natural and eternal death. This
to me is a horrible doctrine." Speak
ing of revivals, he says: "A revival
is a solemn farce that does not pro
duce a radical reformation. Faith
withoutvorks is a low form of Cal
vinism that has quietly stolen into
Methodism and paralyzed her power."
When the earthquake of 18S6 came
the doctor was preaching at a camp
meeting and says: "The people be
came much alarmed and we had no
trouble in- getting mourners to flock
to the altar."
A Camnbellite preacher cot into a
I doctrinal controversy with Simon
Peter, in Augusta, and Dr. Landrum
took it up. Simon Peter says:
"Brother Landrum is a very lovable
man and a very popular preacher,
but in his sermon he is like a pig in
a china shop. He used invectives
and personalities and took in Catho
lics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians and
Jews and stirred up the town. He
sent me a note and two of his sermons.
I replied that 1 was running fire down
at St. James and had no time to look
alter nis waterworks, Dut when my
revival closed I would take him in
out of the wet and hang him on the
the fence to dry, then set him .afire
and take him into ' the Methodist
church."
But this is enough of the book
Those who expect to read it would
not like for me to anticipate too
much.
We had the good doctor stationed
here for two years and it was always
a pleasure to meet him and. converse
with him, for he was great of heart
and great of mind. I never heard
him say a foolish thing, and hardly
ever made a common-place remark
He was a profound thinker and his
terse, vigorous expressions reminded
me of Boswells Johnson.
I see that Dr. Robins has edited
the book and that it is published at
Nashville by the Methodist house
but l do not know the price, it is
good reading from the preface to the
end.
Two Mississippi girls have dial
lenged those Alabama girls to answer
the following Bible enigma. It is
good one and kept me pondering for
a day or two. I can't neglect the
children and this enigma will perplex
the preachers, too. I have lost or
mislaid the verses sent to me, but
the following is in substance the
same:
God made Adam out of dust.
But In His wisdom made me first:
He made my body all complete,
But Klve me neither hands nor feet.
No living soul In me did dwell.
Nor was I doomed to heaven or hell;
But later on old Adam came
And gave me what Is still my name.
And later still God chose to give
A living soul In me to live.
In course of time He did reclaim
That soul and left me Just the same
As when first made without a soul,
And now I roam from pole to pole,
A boon to man, though out of sight.
For in my death I leave him light.
Bill Aep.'
Giant, Love and Illness Turned Out
of Modern Child Storlen.
Philadelphia Press.
"I am glad from the bottom of my
heart that 1 got over being a child be
fore the modern theory of education eet
in," said a young man who writes.
"I was asked recently by a publishing
farm to write a little book of tales for
very small children. Remembering
the stories I liked when I was a child, I
set gaily to work, and in a short space
of time submitted my first story. It had
the inevitable Prince Charming ia it.
In less than a week my manuscript was
returned.
" 'We like your story very much,'
the publishers wrote, and with a trifling
alteration will be able to use it. We do
not wish to publish any children's
stories that have a love interest in
them,'
"Well, I killed off Prince Charming
and put in a wicked stepmother. The
publishers promptly told me that they
could not U3e any stories that portrayed
cruelty in any form. They especially
object to cruel stepmothers as tending
to give children who might have Btep
mothers one kind or another false and
unjust ideas.
'I murdered the cruel stepmother and
trimmed the story to tit a giant. The
publishers politely objected. Taey
could publish nothing that might wak
en a Bpirit of murderousness in their
little readers I'd had the hero kill the
giant and they didn't like giants any
way, because they frighten children,
and modern educators disapprove. Well,
in my last resorc I changed the tale so
it hinged on the devotion of a boy to
his eick mother. They sent me word
by return post that advanced thinkers
in the kindergarten line will not permit
the use of books in which illnesp is
mentioned in any shape or form. 'We
want to present to our little readers on
ly the beautiful and improving truths
of life."
I gave up then. I thank goodneBS I
had a chance to read a few old-time
children's stories before the reign of
'the beautiful and the improving'Bet in."
KneW of at Leant One.
The crosg-examiner was a smart man,
whose object was to disconcert the wit
ness and discredit his testimony.
"What did you say your name waB?"
was the first question.
"Michael Doherty."
"Michael Doherty, eh? Now, Doher
ty, answer me this question carefully:
Are you a married man?''
"Oj think bo; Oi was married."
'So you think because you got mar
ried that you are a married man do you?
Now, tell me whom you married?"
"Who Oi married? Oi married a wo
man. .
"Now, don't you know better than
to trifle with the court? Of course you
married a woman ; did you ever hear
of any one marryiDg a man ?"
"Yis. Me sister did. '
Most men are generous to a fault
when the fault happens to be their own
SA3TI JONES ON POLITICS AND
RELIGION.
They are unmixed and unmixable
Pure and undented religion is to visit
the widow and orphan in their affliction
and keep yourself unspotted from the
world. Politics, with its whisky donii
nation, makes widows and orphans and
keeps its gang very spotted before the
world. The more religion a man has
got the less he can mix with politics and
political parties of the day; the more
politics a man has got the less he will
mix with religion and righteousness
I will never go to the legislature or a
congress to hunt a conscience, nor hunt
among politicians for an illustration of
what the 10 commandments can do in
elevating mankind. Religion purifies
politics putrifies; religion elevatee, poll
tics degenerates mankind. I have been
in Georgia for 10 days or more reading
the southern dailies. It looks like Bry
an is going to get it. I do not blame
the southern people and those who take
Democratic papers for their faith in and
enthusiasm for Bryan and his election
but when a fellow getB up north and
reads only Republican papers, he thinks
Bryan has no more chance for election
than Georgia cotton has a chance of
going at 5 cents this winter. I am not
a Democrat nor am I a Republican.
keen saying it: I am a Prohibitionist.
I care no more as to who is elected
Bryan or McKinley, than I care wheth
er the liberal party carries the day in
England at their next election, but
say it from a knowledge of this country
which constant travel only can give
man, that we are today enjoying the
most solid substantial prosperity that
have ever known. There is not a nook
nor corner of this country, that is not
prospering. America as a nation never
prospered and never came to the front
as she has in the last four years, not on
ly in all her manufacturing and com
mercial interests and with the balance
of trade millions on millions in her
favor, and for the first tims in our his
tory we are the money lenders to the
imperial countries beyond the waters
Confidence is the basis of prosperity
This is true of an individual. Business
ia done on confidence and confidence
is something that is manufactured to
order like Bhoes or mowing machines,
but it grows out as a condition of things.
A man may have plenty of money, but
if nobody has confidence in him he has
got a hard iob in thiB country. I care
not what capital a man may have, how
ever Braall, if he has the unbounded con
fidence of the community and the
banks he has got something better than
money. I have known some rich fel
lows to "bust" because of the lack of
confidence in them; I have known some
poor fellows to do a big business be
cause they had the unbounded conti
dence of all classes. There are business
houses in Atlanta whose capital stock
may not be large, but they are doing
large business. Capital has confidence
in the status of things as they are to-day.
I don't know whether or - not with i
change of political parties this confi
dence will abida. If it does Bryan and
his administration will be as good for
the country as McKinley's. I belieye
Bryan is as good a man as McKinley.
I don't believe he has got any more
backbone than McKinly, and this isn't
saying much for him. It does not take
backbone to clamor for free silver or
against imperialism, but it takes a thun
dering sight more backbone than Bryan
or McKinley either, has got for them to
give us their dead square hDnest views
on the whiskey question. McKinley
broke his neck with lots of good men in
this country on the army canteen ques
tion, and Bryan knows it but Bryan
will shoot every exposed place in Mc
Kinley's administration, but he is not
going, to shoot in at that hole. He had
rather risk the chances of saying noth
ing than to arouse the liquor devil and
tho vote it controls against him. It
takes more courage in a politician to
utter one sentence against he liquor
traffic than it does to champion all the
isms that Bryan champions and de
nounce all the isms that he denounces,
and the same is true of McKinley. I
am hunting for a genuine, first-class
Christian who is whooping for either
Bryan or Mckinley. There are lots of
Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians,
no doubt,, who are doing so, but I have
more confidence in a plain, Ud-fashion-ed
sinner getting to heaven, who is an
uncompromising prohibitionist than I
have for any member of the church in
this country getting to heaven who is
not a prohibitionist. I am sure this
sounds like fanaticism, and reads like I
was a fool, but if whiskey is God's worst
enemy and the devil's best fuend, and
if there are a hundred thousand drunk
en husband and fathers and sons top
pling into drunkards' graves, and twelve
hundred millions of hard-earned money
expended in this debauchery, then I am
a fool and a fanatic on the right side,
and still believe that the man who votes
one way and prays another is not a
Christian, but that he is a fool or a ras
cal one, and frequently both. I have
not studied up the phase and cast ot our
next Georgia legislature, but without
looking over the roll of members or
worrying myself about an analysis of
the crowd, I just want to say here's
one fellow not fool enough to go down
there and ask for any temperance legis
lation. The preachers and the pious
old deacons have been asleep and the
Liquor Dealers' association have seen
to it that they have a good, wholesome
majority either in the house or the
eenate, one or the other or both, to kill
any temperance legislation in Georgi;
to further abridge the traffic. 1 am
not much, either, on white primaries,
1 used to believe that ll the negro was
eliminated from the ballet in Georgia
we would elect only good men to the
legislature, but I have Been the bottom
knocked out out of that delusion al
ready. I won't have to go a hundred
miles in any direction to find that the
courthouse rings are still at their work
and they pitch the tune by which the
gang sings, and I am going to keep on
talking this way and writing this way
until my tongue is paralyzed, my right
hand loses its cunning or until refor
mation comes. Sam P. Jones.
P. S. I closed meetings at Toccoa
Ga.,last Sunday night. I preached three
times Sunday, and I have been hungup
at home on my way to Pans, Tenn.,for
three days. I can t stand the work
once did, but I go on to join Stuart in
the work at Paris. Cartersville haB had
a wonderful meeting. The good 1 find
now I hope shall last. While the men
who run the town our business men
bankers and merchants have notmoy
ed forward in this meeting like they
should, yet hundreds have been blessed
and testified of God s wonderful bless
ings on them. Yours, S. P. J.
The Life of Biff Guns.
Chicago Record.
There have been some interesting
and mysterious stones in circulation
about tne snort lives oi the big guns
that are used on our battleships and
coast fortifications. One of the yarns
most frequently told is that the 13-inch
gun, which carries a ton of metal for 12
or 15 miles, can only be fired 100 times
with safety, because the tremendous
pressure destroys the cohesive power of
the metal and thus weakens it and
renders it liable to explode. These
stories have got into books, and the
"100 firing fallacy" ia accepted by some
of the ablest authorities on ordnance
The big Krupp gun at the World's Fair
in Chicago was an object of even greate
interest, when visitors were told that i
had been fired 16 times and couldn'
be fired again without danger of explo
8ion because the metal oi which it is
made had become "nerveless."
Admiral O'Neill, Chief of Ordnance
of the Navy Department, say 8 this is
all humbug. "The only damage suf
fered by the big guna from frequent
firing is the wearing out of the rifie
grooves." he says, "and that is easily
repaired. The gun can either be rifled
over again or it can be tubed that is,
a rified tub can be fitted into the bore,
as is irequentiy done in HiDgiana. ana
the gun is as good as new."
'There is no such thing as a gun
getting 'nerveless,' " continued the
Admiral, "lhs metal of which it is
made is not injured by firing. Some
of our guns have been fired 100 times
without showing any injury or wear.
We do not know how lonjr they will
last, except that the rifling has to be
renewed when it is worn out; but we
have never had a gun wear out in our
navy, and, therefore cannot speak from
experience, and many of our guns have
been fired several hundred times."
The ordnance experts of the army
estimate that the 12-inch guns on the
coast fortifications can be fired 200
times without being relined, but this
ia only speculation. They never had
any experience in that line. None of
the big guns belonging to the United
States has ever worn out
Yellow Jack's Outbreak Sertoli.
Washington, September 24. The
Surgeon general's office of the War De
partment has no information regarding
the epidemic of yellow fever in Havana,
although it is known to exist there to a
considerable extent. Private advices
from Havana indicate that the outbreak
is serious. The fever exists in the best
parts of the city and among Americana
who have gone there. No fears of a
serious outbreak among the troops are
entertained, as they are outside of the
city and not in infected districts.
The outbreak is not unexpected, as
fever usually develops about this time
of year, and is even worse during the
months of October and xsoveraber than
in the spring. Surgeon General Stern
berg does not think there need be any
apprehension concerning the spread of
the disease. ' i
Will alvetoii be Kebuilt.
Julian Hawthorne, the celebrated au
thor and newspaper writer, who has
been in Galveston the past week writing
for an eastern paper, passed through
New Orleans the 21st on bis way back
east. He gives it as his opinion that
Galveston will never be rebuilt. He
says the inhabitants are leaving at the
rate of 400 on each train. '
Hawthorne sayB a well grounded plan
s on foot to remove the entire city to
Brazos river, some 50 milesaway, where
there is a Bate landlocked harbor. The
only property interests there in favor of
rebuilding the city, according to Mr.
Hawthorne, are the wharf and Hunting
ton properties.
Richard Croker has not bet $60,000
on the election of Bryan with the expec
tation of losing it. That is one of the
numerous things worrying the Republicans.
TAHT, TEnSE AND TIMELY.
The Chineee government, for which
Mr. McKinley has abandoned the Al
liance, sxya in an imperial edict that all
Boxers look alike to it, and that it can
not pick out the bad ones, which is on
ly another way of saying that the men
who murdered foreigners will not be
punished. How this must have made
Mr. McKinley's new partner, Li Hung
Gang, chuckle.
lianna a trust dividends serve to re
mind him that he holds the belt for the
most bare-faced misstatement that
there are no trusts in this country.
Col. Bryan's conference with Chair
man Jones and other democratic lead
ers brought out much cheering informa
tion, some of it from unexpected quar
ters. The Bryan wave ia growing every
day.
Indiana republicans are begging Mr
McKinley to keep Hanna off the stump
in that State.
Gov. Pingree said the other day: "It
would be a mighty good thing if Miehi
gan were to elect a democratic legis
lature. Right you are, old man
And it would be still better to elect Bry
an and Stevenson electors.
Good taste was rather stretched when
Congressman Hitt, of 111., declared the
American flag to be a land fertilizer.
We never noticed that sort of a scent
about the Stars and Stripes.
Tom Reed was in Washington at the
Bame time Mr. McKinley was but he
did not go to the White House.
What would be thought of a man who
would take a sheet of the paper on
which United States currency i6 printed
and print on one side of it: "Market
value 0 cents; currency value $1,000, if
properly printed by the United States
government," and try to use it as
campaign document? Yet, wouldn't it
be just as sensible as stamping a duk of
silver, "Market value 48 cents; coinage
value 100 cents," as some oversmart
McKinleyites are doing? Everybody
knows that it is the goverment stamp
that makes the value of currency, &vd
not what it is stamped upon.
One of the significant features of the
campaign is the pleading of New York
democrats for more speeches from Col.
.Bryan than he had calculated upon
making in the state.
If Mr. McKinlev succeeds in muzzling
Hanna it will be a case of the tail wag
ging the dog.
From various sources comes the in
formation that England is rooting for
McKinley. Nothing strange about that.
It is human nature to root for your own
Animal With Broken Hearts.
There have been many cases on record
of animals dying of "broken hearts,
usually dogs and horses, and sometimes
birds. Not long ago a young lady liv
ing in London who owned a Gordon
setter that was very fond of her, was
married, and moved to the country
says Golden Penny. The dog was' left
behind, and at once became inconsola
ble. He would eat nothing and stood
looking out of the window for hours at a
time, whining and moaning pitifully.
The dog was wasting away from ex
haustion.
ihose who knew him said he was
dying from a broken heart. When it
was seen that he would die if he could
not see his mistress he was taken to her.
His joy at seeing her was extravagant,
and he at once got better. His mistress
soon after came to town for a two
weeks visit, and left the dog with ser
vants in the country. , When she re
turned she found him dead, lyiDg on
one of her garments. The poor brute.
thinking himself again deserted, lav
down to die, and could not be driven or
coaxed frm his place, neither would he
eat nor drink.
A horse belonging to a brewery had
been driven for years by a man to whom
he had become much attached. One
day the driver failed to appear at the
stable and another man was put on the
wagon. The horse, howeyer, refused
to be driven by any one except his old
friend, and after. many trials he was
put back in the stable and another horse
took his place. The horse continually
watched the stable door lor his master
to enter. He refused to eat the hay and
oats placed before him. t Day by day
he grew thinner and weaker. At last
he fell down and could not rise, and died
before his friend and driver returned to
duty. The veterinary surgeon who at
tended him said he died of a "broken
heart."
Railroad Charity.
Charlotte Observer.
The relief trains bearing the supplies
for the Galveston sufferers, have been
operated by the Southern Railway free
of charge. There have been four trains
to pass over the Southern's line, includ
ing The North American trairs. The
North American is one of the papers in
Philadelphia that has been instru
mental in securing a large fund, and
by the aid of the Southern Railway
the fund was spent to the best advantage
for supplies in Philadelphia and trans
ported free of charge to Galveston. The
railroads are not so selfish after all, and
especially has the Southern been good
to the destitute in time of great suffer
ing. The railroads are to be commend
ed for their excellent work.
There are now about 440 students at
the University, about a dozen of them
young ladies.
Sacrilegious Word ou a Bible.
Louisville Dispatch. t
An irreverent and Bacrilegious work
man caused no end of trouble for the
congregation of and the contractor who
built the New Trinity Methodist church
at Third and Guthrie streets. In ' the
southwest corner of the handsome new
edifice back of the pulpit is the pipe
organ. Over the organ ia an arch and
a dome. In this dome is frescoed an
open Bible. Thia work was done some
weeks ago with great care and trouble.
Scaffolding had to be built, and the
task, though difficult, was excellently
done. Across the face of the Bible
were frescoed, according to directions,
the words "Pax Vobiscum." But
when the congregation inspected the
new church, or surveyed from their pew
the organ and the dome above, they
noticed under "Pax Vobiscum" another
inscription. One member provided him
self with a pair of glasses and turned
them on the inscription. To his horror
he read. "This was done in a hell of a
rush." Thia inscription was right
across the face of the Bible. The con
tractor went to the trouble of erecting
new scaffolding and had the offensive
inscription erased. Eyery effort has
been made to discover the offending
workman, but to no avail.
Clever Story of a Man, a Maid and an
Iron Kettle.
Here is an ingenious Circassian story:
A man was walking along one road,
and a woman along another. The road
finally united and the man and the
woman, reaching the junction at the
same time, went on from there together
The man was carrying a large iron
ketile on his back; in one hand he
held by the leg a live chicken, in other
a cane; and he was leading a goat.
Just as they were coming to a deep dark
ravine the woman said to the man:
"I am afraid to go through that dark
ravine with you; it is a lonely place, and
you might overpower me and kiss me
by force."
"If you are afraid of that," said tbe
man, "you snouldn t nave wanted with
me at all. Hew can I possibly over
come you and kiss ycu by force, when
I have this great iron kettle on my back,
a cane in one hand and a live chicken
in the other and am leading a goat?
I might as well be tied hand and foot."
"Yes replied the woman, "but if.-
you should sick your cane in the ground
and tie the goat to it, and turn the ket
tle bottom side up and put the chicken
under it, then you might wickedly kiss
me in spite of my resistance."
"Success to thy ingenuity, O woman!"
said the man to himself. "I should
never have throught of this expedient."
And when they came to the ravine he
stuck his cane into the ground and tied
the goat to it, gave the chicken to the
woman, saying, "Mold it while 1 cut
some grass lor the goat, and then
lowering the kettle from hia shoulders
he wickedly kissed the woman, as she
was afraid he would.
Women's Club vs. JVIosqulttoe.
Baltimore Bun.
As the mosquitto has no greater ene
my than the fair sex, the fact .that the
women of certain towns are forming
clubs to fight it is news of direful import
for anopheles quadrimaculatns. At
Richmond Hill, a suburban town near
New York in Long Island, they got a
Bcientiest to explain the value of crude
petroleum or kerosene oil, as an exter
minator of the young of the mosquitoeB.
They explored the country around their
town with boys provided with oil cans,
and wherever there was a puddle or
ditch or pond, or marsh any standing
water there they poured oil generously
on the surface. A committe of the
mosquito club took the job in hand and
saw it well done. The result has been,
we are told, that the residents of Rich
mond Hill enjoy Bitting out on their
porches this summer, having almost
complete immunity from mosquitoes.
The oil gets into the breathing appa
ratus of the mosquito larva; and kills
them.
India's Galveston,
After Buffering many months from
want of rain India ia now getting too
much of it, and Calcutta ia in conse
quence having a calamity not unlike
that of Galveston. In three days 35
inches of rain fell, with the result that
the city is inundated to a depth of three
feet. Houses collapse, people are
drowned and thousands are made home
less. For miles and miles outside the
city the country ia similarly flooded,
the area of devastation embracing the
habitat of many millions. With all
this the rain still continues. India has
its ills. To drouth, famine and flood
are added cholera and , the bubonic
plague. But its 290,000,000 people are
Bpread over a wide territory, and while
one part euff era the larger part prospers.
The number of people in receipt of
famine relief hag recently fallen from
over 6,000,000 to under 4,000,000. ' -
It is a queer notion that has entered
the heads of many Populists and white
Republicans that they are eligible to
vote in the senatorial primaries in No
vember. They think it is a white pri
mary, open to all white men, and un
doubtedly many of them will present
themselves At the senatorial box. Dem
ocratic senatorial primaries were held,
it will be recalled, in connection with
the general election of 181)6, and many
Populists ottered to vote and did actual-
ly vote in them. Charlotte Observer.