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ARP ROASTS SLEDD. The Creator Made ;he Negro Inferior and He Will Remain So. NO MATTER, WflAT IS WRITTEN. .,. . . : '. , . ;; : .' j -'J Sledd, BUI Says, Tlust Have Had a Diseased Imagination When .He Wrote That Article Little things fret us, more than big ones. If I write that Neptune is six teen: hundred .millions of miles from the sun and it comes out in print six teen millions it worries me. If I write that the doctor sewed up hare, lips and it comes' out hair lips,v I don't like it. The type didn't know that a rabbit had. a slit, under its nose. If I write that' I walked out into the garden to let my choler down, meaning niy.apger, the - typo thinks I meant my shirt collar, x and, so changes the spoiling to suit his ; own idea. But since I read an editor's defense in, a Now York paper I feel bet ter,, for he says it is amazing how few of these mistakes are made in the great . dailies, that have to be rushed through i .with lightning speed. The constant ' pressure on type setters and proof readers is tremendous, but they rarely make any serious blunders, and the in telligent readers can generally cor rect them in hls mind. And so. I will not wotry any more about it. There are ? some other little things that are of more consequence just now. Our cook ljas, tmit, and so has the house maid gone off to Rockmart for a. week or two gone to a house party, I think. That is all right, for the cook has been faith ful a long time and needed restiShe is a good servant an)d keeps a clean "kitchen, and we. have, nad a house party: our selves for several - months. I have been .sick, but now we are reduced to the . regular family of: five and have but lit tle to cook and can get along on two meals a day.' My wife arranged it for me to fire up. the stove and fill up the kettles and grind-the coffee and put on . the hoieiiny and then ring the bell for the girls to get iip and finish up the breakfast She said that if I felt like it I might gweep but the hall and the front" veranda and settle up the front room. Well, of course, I had to split up some kindling and bring in the stove wood, but I am getting along fairly well ... andmy wife' thinks the exercise, is . doing me good.. Last night she hinted that the veranda, was badly tracked tip since the rain and needed .a good , wash ing. SO thjs morning I turned loose the hose pipe oh it. and she praised me right smart and I brought -her some roses from my garden. We let her sleep until breakfast is ready, for she cleans up her room and makes up two. beds and then sews all day for the grancU children. But I want that colored house, party to break, 'up as soon as possible, , . for I don't hanker a'fter this morning business as a regular job. Mrs. Miming, says she likes itand I think she does. ' She has a good room in the back yard and good furniture and a handsome -lamp to read by, and her little grand son 'lives with her, and I don'tsknow of any colored woman that has a bet ter time. In fact, I know of lots of 'good negroes in town who are contented with their situation and will continue bo if they are let alone by the northern fanatics arid southern cranks. What crazehas come over, that nian Sledd to cause him to write such a fool piece for the Bostqn magazine? What good can it possibly do, even if it was true? But it. is not true and only the . product of a diseased imagination. I would write hard thines about him but for his family connections. For their sake he had better have smothered his feelings and tils pen. The Atlantic Monthly has never shown any love for " the south, and why he should select that as his organ passeth comprehen . sion. Professor Sledd says the negro is v an inferior race. Then why 4oes he in sist that we give him a place in our own churches and hotels and railroad ' cars'? - . . '-.! v It was the work of the, Creator that . made hint inferior, and he will remain . so and neither education jior misce genation will ever change It so far as . social equality, is concerned. Moses Vib , lated the law of God when he mardried that Ethiopian woman, and he had todis , . card her, and Aaron and Miriam chiided . him for it long afterwards. Numbers sephus, that the Egyptians wre at war - with theEthiopians and had suffered de feat in efery battle until Pharaoh was advised that no one could command" bis J army successfully but Moses. So Moses i was given command and he marched with the army; to the borders of Ethi . opia and met the enemy arid defeated them and then marched on to Saba, the royal city, and attacked the walls, and ' Tharbis, the daugnter oi tne King, saw and he was' so handsome that 3b e fell desperately in love with him and sent .a mesenger to -him-to say that if ' he would marry her she would surrender the city and army to; him. Moses agreed I, to this and their' marriage .waVat-once'' .xonsumainted.: Then Moses. :. returned; with, his victorious army ; to Egypt; He did not take with him V his Ethiopian wife, but not long after he married '' .Zipporah, the daughter of Je thro the . V Midianite. : , . :So we must suppose that Moses(marv '': ried the. Ethiopian princess as a war measure and - with rio . idea of keeping : his promise. ; - At any, rate it : caused trouble and shame in the familv nrid sn ii uas aone ever since wnenever a white erson mates with a negro. - - What a monstrous falsehood to s?y that the southern negro is dehumaniz ed. Right here in our town every negro mechanic is employed at; good wages.' Blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, paint ers, draymen are all busy. Cooks, nur$-r es and washerwomen find constant enj--ployment and they are not only con tented, but sometimes dare.to-be merry and laugh. Where did Sledd get all that rot about kicking and cursing and beat ing the. negro ? We never iiear of such treatment in this region. Mr. Milam, a truthful gentleman,) (whose business keeps- him on the "street, told me tlie other day that he had heard but one oath uttered by anybody within a yeajy arid that ! was by a northern man to wards a negro who asked him a civil question. Dehumanized, . indeed f, . Ask Tribble and" Brown who give . their shops the most patronage. What ridicu lous folly tp demand seats in our churches for the negroes. They ha vje churches of their ovn that were b'uijt mainly by the charity- of the . white folks. They don't want seats in ovir churches. Tljey have schools of their own that we support, and they have ex cursions and baseball and; watermelons and funerals and Daughters of ZionJ Oh, for shame on Sledd!, I pity his fam ily and his kindred. He. thinks he has found a mare's nest, and for' lack ol something fresh has raked up Sam Hose again. He laments the lynchings, but not the outragos, and he proposes a remedy. Mr. Sledd can set-this down that the ynchings will not stop until the outrages do. When a negro dehu manizes himself and becomes a beast he ought to be ljrnched, whether it is Sunday or Inday' .Let the lynching go on.- This is, the sentiment of our people, and let Bostqn and the. Atlantic Monthly and Siedd howl. We a?e used to that. Not long ago we had a lynching in Rome that was tp my notion. , Uti beast was strung up in Broad street in the daytime and shot to pieces and no body was disguised.' The judge Hyed there and sheriff 'arid town' niarsri els and policemen and a miiutary company, and the governor wasn't 1 far away,but not a soul said nay.. That suits' me ex actly. Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitu tion. . : , -' - 1 ' - : Bryart Would. Not Refuse X j .j .L City, la.. Special W. J. Bry- an addressed an "audience of over 2,000 peisoris at the Clear Lake assembly .lYeJnesday. He was asked if he had been correctly quoted when it was re ported .he refused to be a candidate again , for Presldeiit. He replied that only part pf the interview was used. Ho said he wag hot a candidate, in the light of seeking again to lead the Denj. piratic party, but if the party should decide he was the proper man to head the ticket he could not. honorably say "no." x : . v ' . r Cotton Oil Notes. V , The Longview; Cotton OiK Co of Longview, Texas, . has been chartered, with a capital stock of 540,000: The rn- corporators are C. W. .Lawrence, J FleWellcn and G. A. "Rogers. , rJ The directors df the Planters O Mill Co. at.Cardis, Miss., held a , we! fittended meeting last week for' the puf pose of filling vacancies on the boai:$. The "mill thus far has proved, a splen did success, and the outlook is very en couraging. ; v-; NEWSY CLEANINGS. . ' Good peaches were never more plen- iuui nor cneaper. . . . . it is estimated that there have been 28,000 cases of cholera in the Phili pines.' .... . . f. ;" . Mrs. eal Campbeir has been arrest cd In Chicago; on the charge made byja child of trafficking in infants. Orders have been issued to electrical companies in 'Baltimore, Md., to piace wires under ground within six months. Richard Henry Stoddard pronounced a u eulogy on his dead wife at her grave, this being the only funeral fere mony. Y 1 The anti-trust conference proposed by the Czar will be ignored, it is said, by all tho Powers, including the United States.' :.. .":- . , A mammoth plant will be built at once iu Richmond, Va., by the Imperial Tobacco Company, of Great Britain, to fight the American Trust. Archbishop Island in a sermon coun seled Catholics to refrain from agita tion of the Philippines friar problem, and defended'the Administration. 1 Mrs., Anna V. L. Pierson, widow of Dr.'William Hugh Pierson, inventor of celluloid, committed suicide by hang ing at her home in Glen Ridge, N. J. With the black cap over his head, Goorge Robinson waited to, be hanged at Wise' CourtrHouse, ya., while the Sheriff went to buy a second rope, the fiist having broke.', t It i3 authoritatively announced that Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford will visit the United States this fall to study the United States Navy and in quire into the workings of Morgan's shipping trust. . f A ring has been constructed in the yard of.: the State prison at Jackson Mich., : and a circus performance, last ing an hour arid a half, given for the convicts. The full program of the cir cus was given, and the audience en joyed the show immensely. - Director Roberta of the r United States mint estimates that peace in South; Africa 'will add $100,000,000 fa year, -to the. world's -output of -. gold. The Hand mines , had about , reacted that mark, .when .hostilities practically closed . them. Mr. Roberts believes that: South Africa : can easily increase its gold production beyonji any former figures. ' . " ' ' 1 THE WHITE MAN TO THE REAR Made a BUter Speech at the Atlanta , Negro Congress. , s r Atlanta, Special. The negro young people's, Congress that met here Wed nesday is largely; attended and full of interest. . V . j, ' The activities of the day begati with sunrise prayer1 meetings, at which the general subject of the conversion of the world was considered. At 1 the regular morning session of the conference ad dresses upon' the general theme of moral and social reform were deliver ed by Mary Lyrich, of Salisbury, N. p. ; Rev. G. L. Blackwell, of Philadelphia; Rev. J. A. Bray, of Athens, Ga., "and Rev. Ievory C. Ransom, of Chicago. R. E." Jones,- of New Orleans,- declared that the time had come when it was not for the - white man to decide the policy of 'this country,, but for the negro. If' thV white man wpn't help us, 'we will- make him. It is no longer for the white man 't o say. It is for the. "negro to say. 'and say he will. If the white man does not extend to us the helping hand, e will force him to do it." Jones also declared in bitter tones that the negro in the South, was not given a fair chance and that he must ake for himself his position among the people. r Rev. J. A. Bray, of Athens, Ga., In his. speech on the good of secret socie ties among the negro "race said that if the white man would" co-operate with the negro' in lawfully: executing crimi nals and hunting them down, the negro, would go to the very mouth of hell to protect the women of this country. The, civic and "material status, of the race was the subject touched' upon at the night session; : i ; ? .. . V riilitia fladeVCharge. :A ' Shenandpah,.Pa., Special. A la-, ton. of the Governor's troops of cav alry went to Turkey Run Hill pri ah errand of merty, and, rescued a small family from violence of the neighbors. There had been petty acts of violence, reported from that vterritory nearly every day for a week; Brigadier Gen eral Gobin received a pathetic letter from the wife of a non-union workman whjp is employed in the Gfberton colli ery of the Philadelphia and Reading Goal arid Iron Company, In which she tells of the treatment accorded her by strikers in that vicinity: Among other things she said rocks had been thrown through the windows at night one of them nearly striking: her sleeping child; the house was , damaged and while she was out doors one night a shot was fired at her. t The woman, also said crowds gath ered around the house", hooted : and jeered her and the children andhung crape on the door. "Her husband, she concluded, was compiled to stay in the mine in order to earn money to keep them from, starving and as he could not leave his work she asked the com manding officer of the troops: to pro tect her. Turkey Run Hill has no po lice protection and General Gobin de cided to help the women; He learned that she was not in the best of health and it was decided that she had better s be taken from the place to the Potts vUle Hospital. To, carry .this out the general ordered a platoon of cavalry to make, a demonstration- in that section and while there to escort the woman and child to the railroad station. This was done. . ; The troops rode all over the terri tory and found that the population, wjiich is made, up of foreigners, was not in the best frame of mind. The sol diers were hooted and jeered and called uncomplimentary , names. Only one stone was thrown at the horsemen and this was done by some one in a crowd on a high ridge out of reach of the soldiers, -The cavalrymen stopped their horses and the crowd scattered instantly. Will Render Pulsion. Quebec, Special Messrs.. Gayrior and Greene appeared before Judge' Caron, in the Superior Court and were again remanded. Judge .Caron informed counsel that on Wednesday at 10 o'clock a. m., he would render judg ment on the.; motions of the United States : : government to! dismiss the writs. , Should the writs be dismissed the case -against the prisoners for ex tradition will be heard on the merits. . Dynamite Explosion! . t Bradford, Pa., Special. A terrific ex plosion at Irvin's Mills, ' seven:-miles frprii here, shook the earth over a wide radium and annihilated two hundred beings. A team of horses, a wagon and 40 ten-quart cans of glycerine went Tip also in the flash of cloud . and smoke, that ; accompanied the explosion. Jos. . Gilson and Oscar Bergvall were taking a load of glycerine : from the Pennsyl vania Torpedo Company's, magazine to, Oleanr It is supposed a wheel of the wagon dropped into a rut In the, road causing th6 jar which brought on the explosion; Nothing was left of the out fit' but a small portion of one horse. SOUTIi'S INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. Remarkable Dsvelopment Shown Uj Analysis of the Census. ,. Baltimore, Special. The Manufactur ers' Record has made a critical analy sis 'of the census bulletins, which en ables it to make for the; first time an exact statement of the development of the agricultural interests of the South in connection with a review of the in dustrial advanco of the section. This shows that the South is now a 3,000 000,000 section, the value of ; its agri cultural and ' manufactural products noV annually aggregating nearly that sum;' r. ' : : ': - -v Between 1880 and 1900 the total value of Soutiiern agricultural, manufactured and mineral products - increased from $1,134,586,228 to $2,814,646,440, or 157 per cent., while' during the. same period the increase of 'population was 44 per cent. During that period the capital in vested in manufactures increased from $257,244,564, as the total of 1880, to. $1, 153,002,368 in 1S00, a gain of $895,757, 804, or 348 per cent. In the same time the value of manufactured products in creased from $4,57,454,777 in 1880 to $1, 463,643,177 in 1900, a gain of $1,206, 188,400, or 220 per cent. In agriculture the value of farm, property in the South increased from : $2,290,364,321 in 1880 to $3,951,631,632, a gain of $1,661, 267311, or 72 per cent., while the value of farm products increased from $660, 131,452 to $1,271,654,273, a gain of $611, 522,821, or 92 per cent J In the South the greatest actual in crease in manufacturing? capital was $104,404,876 in Maryland, Louisiana being second with $101,621,826, , Texas . third with $81,188,321, Virginia fourth with $76,701998, Georgia fifth with $69, 177,24a, North Carolina sixth with $63, 458,255, Ahd -Albania seventh with $60,- 702,073 In agricultural advance Texas leads, with an increase in the value of form, property, of $706,391,909, while Louisiana was 'second with a gain of $121,756,359, Kentucky third with $112,-342,024,- Georgia fourth with $85,216; 329,. Mississippi fifth wit $82,204,759, Arkansas sixth' with $82,056,424, and Tennessee seventh with $81,745,855. ' The rate of increase in the capital in vested inv manufactures in ihe South during the twenty years froiri 1880 vto 1900 was 348 per cent, while during the same period the rate of increase for the United States was 252 per cent., and in the value of products the rate of 4in crease in the South; was 220 per cent.; whereas the rate of increase for the United States was 142 per cent. Thus, both in the capital invested and-in the valueof products the rate of increase in manufacturing in the South was much greater than that of the j country at large, riotwithstanding the enormous expansion of the Industrial interests of the United States during the two de cades under review; j During the same twenty-year period the value of farrii property in .the South showed a gain of 92 per cent, while the total gain of the farm prop erty of the United States was -67 per cent., the value of farm products for: the South showing an increase , of 92 per cent., compared. with a gain for the country at large of 113 per cent. In studying these figures which show the very remarkable advance of the South as compared with the entire country? (the .only point in them in which the South did not rnore than ke6p step with the growth of the coun try being in the value of ; farm pro ducts), we should take "into considera tion the complete wreck and ruin of the South by the & war and its : subsequent poverty, leading if of necessity when it was able to resume farming operations to devote itself almost exclusively to the one-crop idea and also the demora lization of much of its labor element, creating at the same time in other parts Of the country misapprehensions regarding the opportunities in South ern agriculture. Thus, starting under these adverse conditions, with a dis organized labor system, with poverty almost beyond our ability j to compre hend, and without any of the advan tages of the enormous immigration which has poured into the far West many millions of - farmers, the . South has been able to more tnan noia its own, both in industrial arid agricul tural advancements with the growth of the United-States. No greater tribute to the inherent' strength of the.South's natural advantages and "of the ability of its people to master the overwhelm ing difficulties could be given. The world has no record of greater achiev ment. v"-; i ,;vl'-;: 1 ; :-t.; ? X)ne interesting phase of the condi tions now prevailing is that in 1880 the value of iarm prpducts exceeded the value of manufactured products In the South by more than $200,000,000, while in 1900 the valu cZ snanufactured pro ducts exceeded the value of farm pro ducts by vmore than $190,000,000. Dur rlng that same period the! number of persons engaged in agriculture in the South, increased 36 per cent., while the number of wage earners in manufactur ing increased 157 per cent., both rates of increase in the South being greater than the rates in the country at large; In this industrial upbuilding the South is to find full fruition of its agricultu ral potentialities. The development' of ; manufacturers, creating quick, t steady and remunerative markets for the ? di versified products of "agriculture- will give to the farmers of the South advan tages .which they Have 1 never before 'possessed. 1 Many Points in riiddle North Una Suffered. r. Killed By Lightning Charlotte, Special.-Durin; ere electrical .storm xt, . ? l noon' a great light stiemed to round at the Dark n 1 y.-zx ! loud crash of thunder. A mr a er Moreon McManawav o rUat. G McManaway, one of the owa?'" C the. machine, came from under t vass crylg for helD: and "u?!l Bpdnded to the alarm found & &ixi.cci no mcivuuan naa been in killed by' the stroke of UghtaCS Smith, a colored emnlnvp M scious and severp.lv . uncoa knoeked down and slightly bruited 1 Uarnage at Durham. Durham. SneciaL A tftHfio rain storm hprp WprJTiPoric.T aj4 - " vuuvuuav ttlLPm abOUt 3 nVlr.nlr HiM r-nnci,, lfl iiuitj. xicco ana Yv'irp- the city fared badly and a large nm? Crl noma -Fwvn-i T T I 1 , A dH' -4.ai.c jLivixt ixiv;ivLuvvu, vest Of Thi dence was blown dovn and the fu ture destroyed. The building was ed by Sid Mangum, of this city occupied by J. H. Crabtree. FortunaS iy every member of the family wasoa visiting at the time of the storm. loss is between-$600 and $80G. In East Durham the steeple to Can Methodist church was blown bfTcW ing a loss of about $100. vThis loss is covered by cyclone insurance. - Below East Durham, a colorei church almost new, was blown doii causing, a loss of $400. The lumbj yard of J. E. Bowling was damaged tn the extent of $50 or $75. The engine shed was lifted into the street aal engine damaged. At Trinity v Park three trees wen blown down and thG home of Pmf au ridge damaged. In East Durham .ft; sanctified tent was blown down and Mr. 'Brooks, who has been assisting fa the meetings, was caught in it. Hi Escaped unhurt. ' Windows in the East Durham Cottoi Mills -were damaged io the amount o! $15 or $20. The direction of the storm was from west to east and seemed to get worse east of the city. ' . ... High Point Hard Hit High Point, Special. A terrific win4 storm passed over High Point Wednes day afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, doing considerable damage at some of the factories and uprooting trees in differ ent parts of the city. The large smoke stack at the Snoil Lumber Company's plant was bloiraj down demolishing a shed. On the jar the lumber was scattered in evpry di recuon. t a large smoire stacK at oaet of. the Globe-Home Furniture Com pany's plants was disarranged. TJf Chimneys at-Mr.t J. K. Grimes' res dence were blown down. The nusler of trees uprooted, outhouses lm down. The number of trees uprootti, outhouses blown down and fences dfr molished cannot be estimated at tia writing, asdainage is reported oneT ery street. The storm struck the town suddenlj The wind was followed by a heavy rail "Which literallv swent the streets. A , storm is an unusual occurrence here. Death of MrsSenator Pritchard Asheville, Special Mrs. J. C. Pritcb ard, wife of Senator Pritchard, died at an early hour Friday morning at tie Barker Memorial'Hospital, at Biltmore. Death did not come unawares, either to the, natient or to relatives. She suffer ed from an internal cancer. Shortly after being, taken to the hospital, oae week ago, the physicians gave sore hope,s which at all times lacked posi tlveness,' that the cancer might notl fatally malignant. Later this hope was dispelled and a dangerous surgical op eration was held out as the only means hT whifh Uffi rniilrf nnssihlv be V:0r longed. This operation was performed ahniif tinnn "EVvt qtitViIIo rillHnZ -W forepart of the. night, a brief period consciousness permitted Mrs. Pritoharj to say "some parting words to husban and relatives. Then she lapsed into un consciousness again and in about t hours, it then being 1 o'clock, tne came. :,c': -. twj The funeral services were conducts by Rev. Wood, - of the Marshall W tict cliurch, Sunday at 2 p. m. Train Pitched By Water. " Florence, Col., Special. A P' Grande special train from the Ea bound to California, 'and carrying tourists, was" ditched just east of FI0 ence near Swallows, the wreck rnn Vir lia train Kolrnr stTUCi down - Peck creek, caused by taef herJ rains in the mauntains south ci yesterday.; No lives were lost. ' State News. A county treasurer made a charge per cent commission on re y school . funds . ; in' 199-1900 and ' cent, on the tSate apropriation schools for 1900;1901. He was to refund, the State Superintenden of lug that the commission on - was Ulegal. The treasurer Wtf clined to refund ana sam y. w board, by advice of its J W "State Supe'rintendenthas retw matter to; the Attorney W UC.UlUtS lllitl, LUC uw'" JJ t 3 A X .1.1, tnOOllfPr ilU-3 .-,1 The th commissions in que&w j. iie ty board had refused to funding of the commir
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