"FOR GOD ,FOR COUNTRY, AND EOR TRUTH."
Single Copy, B Cents:'
VOL. XI.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1900.
NO. 49
1.00 a Year, in Advance.
Population of North Carolina Cillen
and Towns. ,
Washington, Dec. 11. Charlotte, in
point of population, ia the second city
in the State, and during the decade
just elapsed haa , passed Rleigh, and
in the matter of increase has left Wil
mington in the rear, as is shown by
the census figures issued to-day. These
figures also show that the tide of im
migration is towards the West and that
Eastern towns and cities barely hold
their own, while the Western cities and
towns are rapidly increasing in popula
tion. The census bulletin issued to-day
gives the figures of 1900 to which a
comparison is added from the census
of 1890, and ia as follows:
The population of certain incorpo
rated places in North Carolina having a
poDulation of more than 2,000 but less
than 25,000 in 1900, is as follows:
1900. 1890.
Aaheville 14.694 10,235
Beaufort ..... 2,295 2,007
Burlington .... 3,692 1,716
Charlotte 18,091 11,557
Concord. . ... t 7,910 4,339
Durham .... . 6.679 5,485
Edent0n . . . . 3 046 2.205
Elizabeth.. . -i . . 6,34S 3.251
Fayetteville . . . . 4,670 4,223
Gastonia ..... 4 610 1,032
Goldsboro . . . .; 5 877 4,015
Graham . . . . . 2,052 991
GreenBboro . . . .10,035 3,317
Greenville. . . . 2,565 1,937
Henderson . . . . 3,746 4 191
Hickory .... . 2,535 2,023
High Point. . . . 4,163 3,481
King's Mountain . 2,062 429
Kineton 4,106 1,726
Monroe . . . . . 2,417 1,866
Mt. Airy . . . ... 2,680 1,768
Newbern . . . .'. 9,090 7,843
Raleigh. . . . .13,643 12,678
Rundleman .... 2,190 1,754
Reidsville ..... 3,262 2,910
Rocky Mount . . . 2,937 816
Salem ...... 3 642 2,711
Salisbury 6,277 4 418
Statesville .... 3,141 2,310
Tarboro . . . . . 2,499 1,921
Washington . . . 4,842 3,515
Wilmington . . . 20,976 20,006
Wilson 3,525 2,126
Winston. 10,008 8,018
The Failure of Natural Gas.
New York Times, 1 . .
During the past two or three years
the failure of the natural gas supply
has been very rapid. In the Ohio field
once famous for its ' 'roarers,' ' and which
cave gas under an initial pressure of
from 450 to 480 pounds per square inch
the gas now has now initial pressure.
and compression is necessary to its
distribution. In the Indiana field it
estimated by experts that onehalf of the
total supply been exhausted. The
pressure at the wells waa formerly an
average of 6zo pounds, very lew now
deliver gas with a pressure of 160 pounds
and as a pressure of 100 pounds is needed
to hold back the Bait water with which
the gas-bearing strata are saturated,
follows that when further weakened by
continued blowing off, the wells will begin
to fill up and the flow cease. About 66
percent of the gas in the grounds' has
been exhausted, and ot that whicn carries
a pressure leBS than 100 pounds compara
tively little is likely to be available. The
reckless waste permitted when the sup
ply was deemed inexhaustible is now
much regretted, but in such a case ex
post facto wisdom does not greatly profit
those who have it.
Died From Mistaken Fright.
Fall River, Mass., Dispatch.
As the result of paralysis, caused
through fear that she had swallowed
her false set of teeth, Mrs. Hannah
Laidlow. of East Main street, ia dead
at the City Hospital.
The woman was Jpund unconscious
Wednesday .night, and after regaining
her SDeech. declared that she had
swallowed her lower set of false teeth.
The physicians declare that the horror
the woman had shown for a surgical
operation, even though assured that she
had not swallowed the teeth, caused
paralysis and finally death.
Crazy for tbe Want of a Husband.
Salisbury Sun. ,
"Why can't I have a husband as well
as other women, why can t i I
This was the wail of poor Harriet
Owens when she was brought home
last night by Deputy Hodge Krider.
It has been told in these columns how
the poor half witted creature left the
county home and wandered away to
Cabarrus county, where she was wanted
and how the commissioners of that
county had notified the commissioners
of Rowan that sh? must be brought
back.
In pursuance of this order Deputy
Hodge Krider went down to Concord
yesterday morning for the woman and
found her in the outskirts of the town.
She protested against returning to
Salisbury and resisted at first but was
finally induced to come back. She Bays
Bhe only wants a husband and went to
Cabarrus county in search of one when
the officers interfered with ber plans.
She will be sent out to tbe couDty home
today.
Former Commiesary-General of
Subsistence Eagan, who was under sus
pension for using alleged abusive lan
guage toward General Miles, has been
restored to duty, was immediately
retired.
HILL AICP'S LETTEIl.
The rapid increase of suicides in the
south is alarming and provokes the
eerious study of our thinking people.
Fifty years ago a suicide was a rare
event among the white race, and never
heard of among the negroes. When it
did occur, it was considered an evi
dence of ineanity. I do not recall but
one instance in my youth and that was
a woman who jumped into a deep well
when no help was within reach. But
nowadays almost every daily paper con
tains an account of one or more self
murders, and even negroeB have taken
the infection, for they will imitate every
vice and frailty of the whites. Old
Lewis, who is my wood chopper, asked
me the other day how it was that the
white folks kill "derselves so much,
and de niggers dident." "Because,"
said I, "white folks are more easily
overcome with grief, or remorse, or dis
tress, than negroes. You negroes don't
borrow trouble, nor take it hard when
it does come. You don't give your
selves much anxiety about tomorrow,
or next week, or next year. You don't
grieve long over a death in the family;
your emotional nature is of alow grade;
your marriage relation is loose; in fact,
it is on the decline since freedom came.
The marriage records show that your
legal marriages are 60 per cent. less.
according to population, than in the
white race, and the decrease gets less
and less every yearf Your young men
and women don't marry; they just take
up and quit when they please, and so
the men don't care very much about
tbe welfare of their children, if they
have any. Besides all this, Uncle
Lewis, your race has a' trait of stealing
little things, and this accounts in a great
measure for their, indifference to the
laying up of something for the future
something for the winter, or the rainy
days, or for old age. If the worst comeB
to the worst, they know they can steal
or beg. If your young folks, men an
women, haven't got but a dollar in the
woild, they will spend it for a water
melon, or an excursion, and take the
chances. Now, Uncle Lewis, you re
member when there wasn't a chaicgang
in the south, nor a heinous crime nor a
brutal outrage, committed by your peo
pie, from tbe Potomac river to the Rio
Grande. Now there are in Georgia
alone over 4,000 of your people in the
chaingangs, and there would be 4,000
more if all the little stealings wera pun
ished." Uncle Lewis had stopped cutting
and was leaning on hia ax helve. "Dat's
all so," said he, "and boss I knows it
and boss what I wants to know is dis
What must we poor niggers do about
it?" There is tbe rub. I couldn't tell
him, but I did say, "Uncle Lewis, your
race has got some mighty good traits.
and l like to nave you about us; .you
are kind-hearted, good-natured, eaBy
to please, and don t carry malice or
revenge in your hearts; you steal, but
you don't cheat anybody. The white
race won't steal, but they will cheat, or
take advantage in a trade, and that is
worse. If vou trust a negro with any
thing he will not abuse your confidence,
but a white man will embezzle and de
fraud and even the cashiers of banks
will appropriate the bank's money, and
falsify the books for months and years
Every race has its race traits, both bad
and good. Some of your bad ones were
almostjrun out by slavery.but they have
come back again, and all your college
education does not stop it. It makes
it worse. There is nothing will stop it
but work, constant work, every day,
under some good employer, work . on
the farm is your beet safeguard, or work
as mechanics under good contrectors.
Your people make good mechanics,
and the white people employ them and
patronize them just as willingly as they
do white mechanics. The negro black
smiths and masons get good employ
ment here and everywhere, and as for
cooking and washing and nursing, your
women have it all. The two races would
fit together nicely if it wasn't for politics
and idleness. An idle negro is a dang
erous creature and Bhould be taken up
and put to work, lie is much more
dangerous than an idle white man, for
he has no shame, and fears not God
nor regards man. If I were a law-maker,
would make continued idleness a
crime, for, as lien franklin says, it is
the parent of vice."
I started to write about suicides, but
got to preaching Uncle Lewis a sermon
and got off the truck. ' Nineteen hun
dred year3 ago Plutarch, the Greek his
torian, said that self-murder was
cowardice, for a brave man would suffer
rather than take the life that God gave
him. Self-murder was a heinous crime
under the old English law. The estate
of the felo de se was confiscated, and
taken away from his family. His body
waa buried on the highway without a
coffin and a sharp stake thrust through
it to mark the accused spot. Suicide
waa under the ban of the church, and
no prayers were said for his soul. In
no civilized country has suicide been
justified, except in such cases as that of
Saul, who fell on his sword because, as
he said, "Lest these uncircumciscd
Philistines thrust me through and abuse
me," Or perhaps that other notable
case the scriptures record, that of Judas,
whose remorse was so dreadful he pre
ferred hell or anything that would be a
change. But generally it is "better to
endure the ills we have, than fly to
those we know not of." Almost every
day we read of young men and young
women killing themselves because of
isappointment or dissipation, or about
love or money. They must believe
there is no hereafter, or all punishment
ends with this life. Surely no Christian
man or woman would think of self
murder. Wait, wait, young man,
young man, young woman; wait, I say
suffer and be Btrong; only cowards
kill themselves. The soul is locked up
in this casket and God only has the key.
Wait and trust Him. Remorse for a
great crime may atone somewhat for
self-murder. Miss Morrison might
have killed herself aftc she killed her
rival, and it would have saemed heroic.
When Othello discovered his great mis
take in killing Desdemona, his perora
tion was grand as he Baid, ' I took the
circumcised dog by the throat and
smote him thus," and then stabbed
himself and died, for, as Shakespeare
says, "He waa great of heart." In an
cient Greece and Rome their notable
warriors sometimes killed themselves,
rather than suffer the stings of defeat in
battle. In Japan military officers com
mit what is called harakari (ripping
open the abdomen) to avoid personal
disgrace. But in our land the pistol or
poison has superseded all other means
of suicide. It would save thousands of
lives if the pistol was abolished by law.
Not one should be allowed in any house
hold; they are entirely too convenient
for murder or suicide or robbery or re
venge. And the sale of poison should
be so regulated that no one could buy
it except upon the most careful inquiry
as to its intended use. Human lite is
too sacred to be endangered by pistols
and poison, for, as St. Paul says, "We
are made in the image of God."
Well, we see that Mr. Crumpicker, or.
btumpsucker, or some Buchname, from
Indiana, has opened the ball at Wash
ington with his usual screech owl howl
against the south. He was in euch
malignant hurry that he got in the first
bill, and it is to reduce the representa
tion of the south in congress, lie re
minds me of Haman, whose stomach
would not digest his food as long aa he
3aw Mordecai sitting at the King's gate,
He has begun to build a gallows for us
Let him beware, f jr it was Haman who
was hanged. Some of these rabid Ke
publicans remind me of old Cato, the
Roman censor, who hated the Ciirthe
genians so bad that he never voted on
any question in the Roman senate
without adding, "And I also vote that
Carthage be destroyed." But nobody
cares; we will yet have a schoolbook
commission in every southern state
The south is moving right along in spite
of northern insults and northern liter
ature. I see that "Barbara Fnetchie"
is to be played in Atlanta. I wonder if
that dramatic lie will be patronized by
any sell-respecting southern man or
woman? Many years ago a yankee
troupe came to Rome with 'Uncle Tom's
Cabin, and we egged them out of town
That's what we done. They may abuse
us from afar off, but they shan't come
down here and rub it in.
Bill Akp,
The Situation in China.
"The Chinese question," says the
New York Herald, "is approaching
solution with that deliberation which
always accompanies important events,
There was a time, not so long ago.
when the portents were rather larid,
and no one of the diplomats of Europe
was bold enough to predict the outcome.
The powers rent by apparent implacable
dissensions; China was trembling at the
possibility of dismemberment, and the
wisest statesmen held their place, won
dering what the next move would be.
Germany was wild with the passion of
revenge; England had made a private
agreement with her, which might mean
anything or nothing; Russia's Czar, who
has from the start stood for peace on
fair terms, was ill with typhoid, and the
United States was left, with slender sup
port, to insist on the integrity of China
and an mdemity that would not throw
the Empire into financial ruin. It is
quite safe to say that Russia's well
known opposition to barbaric reprisals
and the pacific and insistent influence
of the United States led to the sober
second thought which has produced a
remarkable chance in the situation and
created tbe opportunity for a settlement
which will be regarded as honorable and
fair. The outlook at the present
moment, therefore, . is decidedly en
couraging. .
Chicago Dust Storms Cause "Pink
Eye."
A new disease which attacks the eyes
and in many respects resembles "pink
eye" is said to be epidemic in Chicago.
It is infections and is not confined to
any particular part of the city or class
of peop!e.
One explanation offered for the origin
of the malady is that it is due to the
clouds of dust which have been driven
about the streets since the windy season
set in.
An eye specialist who has treated a
number of cases said:
"The disease was first noticed about
month ago, but during the two last
weeks it has spread very rapidly and
has reached the point where it may be
lied epidemic."
That old chestnut about a white man's
Republican party in the South is once
more being talked about by those who
hope to get Federal offices under the
next administration.
An advertisement, like a cigar, should
be so good thai the firBt whiff or im
pression will cause a man to finish it.
STATE NGWS,
- Jubal Gooch, a farmer, was killed by
his young eon at his home, nine miles
from Raleigh on the 11th. Jubal waa
drunk and was cruelly beating his wife.
The son interfered, when the father
drew a knife and. chased him. Then
the father returaed to his cruel beating.
The son returned, got a gun and blew
out the father's brains.
The police census of Wilmington now
being taken promises at the end of first
week of enumeration to very much ex
ceed tbe population granted by the
Census Bureau. All along there has
been dissatisfaction at , the manner in
which the government enumerators
went over the territory and ' a police
census has been contemplated ever since
they finished their work.
Mr. David Steel a farmer who lived
near the Iredell line in Rowan county,
was killed Saturday by a falling limb,
it appears that he had felled a tree from
which a limb had broken off and lodged
in a near-by tree and while he was
working on the tree which had fallen,
the limb was dislodged and struck him
on the head crushing the skull. Mr.
Steele was about 40 vears old and leaves
a widow and five children.
The trial of a number of Populists for
criminal libel, which was expected to
create a big flurry at Duplin Superior
Court last week, ended rather quietly
Friday. The bills of indictment were
quashed and all the defendants dis
charged. This was after the court had
overruled a motion by the defence to
have the cases removed to Sampson
son county, where defendants lived. It
is thought that the tame ending of the
affair is due to a private understanding
between counsel of the opposing sides.
Dr. Kllso at Conference.
When the name of J. C. Julgo was
called at the N. C. Conference at New
bern last week, he arose and addressed
the conference. After a few remarks
in which he said that he would not
stand up in this meeting if he had one
iota of malice in his heart toward any
man, Dr. Kilgo turned to Bishop Mor
rison and said: "May I speak to tbe
conference with reference to the trial
through which I have passed recently?"
Bishop Morrison answered that the con
ference would be glad to hear from him
He then continued and in his remarks
referred to the now famous case in part
as follows:
"I have tried to do my best in the
work i nave been called to do in vour
State, I have tried to be a brave man
I do not look back, nor do I ask God
to let me see in tbe future. The place
you have put me is alwavs in the front
of the fifiiig line. I am trying to do
ruy duty where you have put me.
have tried to be true to my boys, and
any man who can hold the confidence
and love of two hundred boys under
the ordeal through which I have re
ce'ntly passed has reason to be thankful.
The other night when I reached home
and two hundred boys met me at the
depot and every boy assured me of his
confidence in me, I felt that my work
had not been in vain.
"I do not ask to stay at Trinity Col
lege. I did not ask you to put me
there, and I do not ask to stay. One
thing I do ask is that I may have a
place in my church and the confidence
of my brethren. My brethren, you
have stood by me; you almost broke my
heart yesterday with your expression of
love. I thank you for it; it is a res or
reckon of power to me. I bring to you
the expression of appreciation of my
companions, Brothers Udell and Duke,
for your action in our case, and I pray
you may never have to Buffer what I
have been called on to suffer.
The Decline In the Price Of Cotton
uotton took a tumble Monday of as
much as 60 points but regained part ( f
the loss afterward. The net decline was
about 25' points or of a cent. The
cause was the appearance of the govern
ment crop report estimating the 1900-
1901 crop at 10.109,000 bales. The
government is usually accurate in
it estimates, hardly ever underestimating
the crop. The report can hardly be
decribed as a surprise, the most careful
and impaitial observers of this year's
crop had put it at about 10,000,000
bales. A large number of farmers have
sold their cotton at the comfortable price
of 10 cents or even a little ' better, but
still a yery large proportion of the grow
ers are holding their cotton, either in
warehouses or on the farms, expecting
higher prices.
Vanderbllt'M Wealth.
New York, Dec. 11. The offiicial
schedule of the late Cornelius Vander-
bilt's personal possessions, filed today
with Surrogate Fitzgerald, ehows that
his personalty on the day of bis death,
September 11th; was valued at $62,999
8G7.W. The income he erjoyed from Ms per
sonality was $1,739,290, which was lees
than 4 per cent, cf the market value of
the stocks and bonds which he owned.
President McKenley and Secretary
Gage arelettiDg it be known that they
are very much opposed to the proposi
tion adopted by the House committee
on ways and means to cut down the
war taxes by $40,000,000 per year, bec
retary Gage advises a cut of $30,000,000
as all that could safely be made.
SAM JONES ON HIS TKAVELS.
I am now in the midst of the gas belt
of Indiana. Towns are thick and
thrifty everywhere in the natural gas
belt, because natural gas is tbe cheap-:
est and best fuel in the world. For
heating, cooking and manufacturing
purposes it stands alone. AH these
towns are reaping a harvest now and
give evidence of prosperity unmistak
able. I will spend this week on the
lecture platform in this belt and am im
pressed profoundly with the life and
rush, the glow and hustle on the peo
ple. Everything prosperous except the
churches; as a rule the livest towns have
the deadest churches. Saloons, Sab
bath desecration, gambling, etc., are
marked features of prosperity. Its bad
logic and false reasoning that asserts
that "wide open" towns are most pros
perous because they are run wide open.
I heard a fellow on the train declare
that the temperance towns were dead
and the towns which were run wide
open were the prosperous towns. I
asked him did he drink and gamble aud
play the libertine. He said: "No sir,
I don't drink, gamble nor am I un
clean." I said: "If you think saloons,
gambling hells and bawdy houses give
prosperity, you then, sir, ought to go in
all over." No he replied, I know they
will not add to my prosperity. Then,
said I, whose prosperity do they contri
bute to ? He took to tbe woods. " A
city is but a multipled individual, apd
what is not good for an individual is not
good for one hundred thousand indi
viduals. Let the fools drink, gamble and de
bauch, but I propose to do neither, and
I will beat any man to the tank who
does do them.
I see Hoke Smith's eentimerts ex
pressed in The Journal last week have
been very generally copied throughout
the country, he gives a sensible deliver
ance of the situation.
It's nonsense to talk of the reorgani
zation of the Democratic party. The
Bryanites are in the majority and will
come out on top in any tffort in that
directi n. Bryan, Jones, Stone, Altgeld
& Co. are in charge and you can't put
them out, and you can t sidetrack
Bryan until you pan sidetrack the crowd
who ruu with him. Bryan has the
Democratic party by the tail and won't
turn loose.
Unless the Democrats revolutionize
their platform they had better hold on
to Bryan. No candidate could have run
as well on the Chicag ) platform aa Bryan
did in 1896 and has he did in 1900 and
as well as he will run in 1904. When
tbe Democrats change platforms then
they will get rid of Bryan; not before.
Ihe Chicago platform will continue to
beat any candidate for the presidency
that will run upon it for 100 years to
come. If I believed in the Chicago
platform I would hold on to Bryan as
my candidate. Any man who can poll
nearly 7,000,000 fo'tes running on the
present Popocratic-Democratic platform
is the perpetual, legitimate candidate.
How would Hill, Patterson, Whitney or
Grover Cleveland run on that platform?
They could not walk, much less run.
Whenever the brains of the Demo
cratic party comes to the front again,
then the Democratic party will have i
new platform, and perchance, a victo
rious candidate in the field. But I am
not concerned, as I am a Wooley man
of the prohibition stamp.
By tbe way, who will be the next
governor of Georgia? Who will succeed
Senator Clay if he does not succeed him
self?
rtenry u. Turner ought to be our
next governor, Hoke Smith our next
senator, if Steve Clay does not want it
longer. Senator Bacon is perhaps the
strongest man Georgia hasm Washing
ton, and Lon Livingston catches more
"'possums than any dog in Georgia
has in that neck of the woods, and
Georgia wants possums, not only for
supper, but all the year round, ueorgia
has a number of good men in congress,
but if you want something done, get
Lon.
I spent last Sunday in Ciucmnati at
the Grand hotel. I meet there my old
friend Claude Bennett. I enjoyed his
company aud conversation. He is conr
ducting a congressional information
bureau in Washington City, with great
success and numbers among his client
age the leading lawyers and business
firms of the United States.
I also met my friend Dr. Gunsalus, of
Chicago. He lectured in Atlanta last
week and was en route home from
there. Gunsalus is a genial gentleman
and bright as a star. He said one of
his good church women Baid to him
that he was less spiritual as he gained
in avoirdupois. I told him be might
realize that there was some philosophy
ia the statement of the good old woman
in Paris, Tenn., who in telling her ex
perience, aaid she was getting so large
and fat that she feared she would have
trouble walking the narrow path.
I close this tour at Muncie, Ind.,
Friday night and spend Sunday at
home and begin a three weeks' tour,
again, December 6, at liuntsviiie, Ala.
I am about holding my Own physi
cally. Yours, Sam P. Jones.
P. S. How did the legislative com
mittees get back off of their last jaunt?
Any of them been in for repairs since
the Valdoeta trip? 8. P. J.
Marion, Inci.
The Florida trains on the South
ern go on about the 15th of January.
CI7K
Baltimore Sun. ,' V j
In an address before the the Socil
of Ethical Culture in New Yt
On Sunday, ? . the - Chinese rainu ;
compared the 'teachings of: - Cf
fucius with the principles of ' Ch
tianity. . "There is," he said, v
gulf between 'practice' and performs:
At this yery moment Chrietian rnisaicJ
aries are calling ' for bloodshed al
vengeance, and Christian armies a
devastating the land, sparing neitl'
age nor aex.',' This is scarcely an exa.
statement of the case. Undoubted
some of the missionaries adopted a polif
of vengeance wholly inconsistent wi
teach. Atrocities of the most fchockiri
character have also been committed? h
European Bdldiers. But those wb
advocated a policy of revenge were but
handful cimnired with the exeat POtV 1
of Christian people. It was tbe influen
of the latter which has been decisiv
not the influence of the minority, an
for this the Chinese Minister has cam
for profound gratitude and thankf ulnesu
When the first outrages were committee
by the Chinese, and later when th
foreign Ministers were attached by th
Boxers and Inoerial soldiery at Pekin
Christendom was startled and in' soin
quarters barbarous treatment ofthe Chi
nese was advocated. But when th
sober second thought asserted itself th
demand for moderation was heard, and
China was saved from the horrors o:
what some calleda "holy war," bu
what would have been a war of devasta
tion and vindictive revenge.
In averting such a war the United
States has played a conspicuous partJ
It is true that there are extremists in this
country, as in Europe, who would have
pureued a different course' from that
which this Government has adopted.
But these radical elements were far
from comprising a majority of the
American people and their counsels
were eiven little weight. When our
Government announced its policy it
evoked deiisiou from the European
extremists, but it was indorsed and
sustained by the conservative element,
not only in this country, but throughout
the world. The final ratification of
this policy by the European powers ia
due in perhaps a larger measure than
Minister Wu has realized to the influence
of Christianity. If China had beeen
called to account by Turkey, for in
stance, it might have suffered a punish
ment compared with which the demands
of the powers are extraordinarily
moderate. So, if "Christian missionaries
have called for bloodshed and vengeance"1
in China, and Christian armies have
devastated the land, sparing neither age
nor Bex," the broader Christianity of
the world has called a halt upon such
methods and has toned down the
demands of the extremists. Minister
Wu should feel grateful, on behalf of
his country, to those professors and
exponents of Christianity who have
saved China from wholesale devastation,
despite the opposition of Christian
extremists.
China has been treated outrageously r
in tne past by unrisuan nauons. jlc
has been robbed of territory, the reli
gious and national sentiment of itsjeo
ple have been contemptuously ignored
or defied, and much of the resentment
which its pecple chenehed toward for
eigners was justified. But having en
tered into treaties with Western nations
China was bound by the most solemn
and binding obligations to protect the
lives and property of foreigners. No
doubt so able a diplomatist and practi
cal a man as Minister Wu realizes fully
that, whatever the provocation.the Im
perial Government of China had' no
right to join with revolutionary subjects
eigners without regard to sex, in mas-
Rrinr Rrftrea at missionaries, destrov-
ing mission property, and finally cap
ping the climax by attempting to kill
the foreign Ministers. , Whafceyer the
grievances China may have had, the
Imperial Government was not warrant
ed in the course which it pursued, ' and
had to be called to account for its f
"crime against civilization." Undoubt-
edly some of the European powers, in ;
inflicting punishment upon the Chinese,
have themselves been guilty of "crimes
against cizilization" equaling in sav-
agery to the Boxers.- Upon the whole, .
however, enlightened, broad-mindd j
Christian people have condemned ho
crimes committed by "Christian
armies" as unreservedly as Minister Wu,"
and in addition they have insisted upon f
a policy of humanity and moderation
in the final Bettlement with China.
Minister Wu and his country are under f
lasting obligations to such Christians j
for the influence they have exerted in
behalf of a just and equitable settlemeut
with China. 1
Davidson College is in fine condition
with a large attendance. We learn from j
the Kichmond Central Presbyterian that
the president, Rev. Dr. Shearer "has
within the last few' weeks made another ;
liberal gift to the building fund of the j
new laboratory, this time $500. Thiaf
check together with that of another
generous friend of the college, who'
insists as onother notable cccaaions of(
even more conspicuous kind that hiA
name be witheld from publication!
supplies the needed money, and the
finely equipped labaratory will be ready
for service "
WHAT CWIitfA OWES TO
TIAN SENTIMENT.