The Montgomery Advertiser from Montgomery, Alabama • 4

MORNING. ADVERTISER 1 The Jacksonville Democrat is anxious for some one to gise The Adi vertiser definite information on the delicit question. Our contemporary save: When the proper time arrives we have doubt that State Auditor White will render a satisfactory statement to The Advertiser. Meantime we are willing to accept the statement and do not believe that Governor Johnston wants any mere credit later on than is due him. We have Arm faith in his Anancial ability, and although he may have not been as astute a politician as some we know of, nevertheless the people of Alabama are satisfled with his administration up to date.

We have no idea that "the proper time" is going to arrive before next January, and thereby probably will be further demonstration of the lack of astuteness en the part of the Governor. The public can not be fooled as tO the condition of the State Treasury on January 1st, or at present, and it has been a blunder to assume that the rublis would not see through the whole play. The figures from the Auditor's office on April 1st, showing that the Statc had met its current liabilities, leave no doub tof the real situation. RUN HERE, SOMEBODY: One Congressman Lewis, hailing State of Washington, has from the free silver being the spoke a speech, in which he remarks we subject, friends to silver, let us be friends are to her," etc. the way to talk.

As Bill Now, that's H- used to put it: the use to be a feller unless you are a h- of a feller?" Shall sliver be maltreated, and insulted, and ravished, and squabashed and everlastingly flabbergasted while her friends stand looking on with their hands in the seats of their breeches? Will not her friends gird their snickersnees and sail into on somebody or something? Won't some gallant soldier--or substitute take her and yank her out of the by the bangs abyss, or wherever she is? Where's Stewart. the yawping yawdoodle from the Empire of Nevada? sockless hirsutes from the Where's the wilds of Kansas? Where's the argentiferous wind-Jamgrasshopper-bitten of Nebraska whose fervescent crmer knocked the Chicago Convention atory heels? What's become of head over statesman from Carthe tridentiferous be possible that silver olina? Can itdown by the feet and is to be trodden claws of gold-bugs, flattened by the of money-devils or swalhydra of Kanchulla lowed by the squamigerous do Wall Street? Won't somebody something? BLUNDERING MOVEMENT. is a movement to In Virginia there to the Party, but it is objected unite who in a State campaign by the men desire to of 1896 in "reaffirm" the deliverances of the Chicago Convention this campaign. Of the Presidential The New contest over the platform York for indorsing the World says: What occasion and is silver there Republican hodgePopulistic came out of the at Culpouge that sense is there in it? Do the What Virginia really hanker Democrats "more of effectual as Emafter 8 he did When he liserson confessed the alleged that "spirit communicatened tions" to -from the other world? Cleveland's reduced plurality to of 50,000 19,000 in for Virginia Bryan in 1892 was It would no doubt have disaplast year. the Democratic madid altogether, in Delaware, Maryland, Kenjorities Virginia, had it not been tucky and Ingrained West antipathy of thousands for the money Democrats to a Republiof sound is not probable that the can inheritors of Jefferson's honest money triumph.

It Democracy are any more inclined to ward fiat dollars events than the currency is not in they were last At all No Congressmen are to issue this year. Republican Congress and be at Washington are supelected. The administration all the Issues that the Democrats need plying to win on in November. And upon these issues Democrats are united. Upon coinage they are and divided.

win? Is this not good time to unite The common-sense of The World this line is unanswerable. And upon mistake not, it is going to be if we that the common-sense of discovered the people runs the same way. The fanaticism of some fossil politicians and mischief-making newspapers is not be imbibed by the rank and going to file of the Party. The Chicago platform was a failure, and the quicker it is acknowledged on all sides and abandoned, the better it will be for the Party. The Greater New York.

which 18 composed of the former city of New York and surrounding towns, was created by an act of the recent Legislature of New York, and begins its official existence on the 1st of January next. The first election will be held on the And of next November and the Mayor will serve for four years, being at the head of 50,000 employes, at a salary of $15,000 per year. The area of the new city will be 317.77 square miles with a population of 3,400,000. Its extreme length will be thirty-two miles and the width sixteen miles. There will be 1,300 miles of streets, 1,186 places of worship, 140,000 inhabited houses, 166 banks and 6,000 acres of parks.

The tax rate of Long Island is $2 per $190 of actual valuation, Brooklyn $2.90 and $2.90 for New York. It will be the largest city in the United States and next to London, the largest in the world. Mr. J. V.

Allen, the coal oil inspector for the Eighth District, speaking the law says that "similar laws to this inspection law are in force nearly' every State in the Union. Re peated efforts have been made by the oll companies and others to repeal the law in Tennessee, but without effect. It is a good thing after years of trial in other States, why not give it a fair trial in Alaban We venture to say that there is not another State in the Union that require some of the fees fros the inspection of oils to be paid into the State and that to the inspectors as is done by the Alabama law. The main objection to the law is that State inspection is expressly prohibited by the Constitution and the people are not to it Allen think proper protection to have the this so much below that in neighbor cates that it is a fact that oll rejested there can be put on sale bere? Alabama law has many defecta hoped that the courts will sook of its Iniquities. Advertiser COMPLET REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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It the advertisement is as good as it should be and the display is as good AS it can he, one insertion to do the business. To ought do Indre business prepare new advertisement. WEATHER FORECAST. Washington, May Alabama -Threatening weather with showers; southwesterly winds. By the time the Senate gets through with the tariff bill, if that ever occurs, its originator can't tell it from a Greek war map.

The Chinese claim that bicycles were used in that country cver two thousand years -but then they also clain that Noah was a Chinaman. It is stated that President McKinley is in Savor of the Republicans passing the tariff bill and then stopping. But the question is where will they stop? Nowhere short of complete defeat we surmise. A congress of mothers has recently been held. An exchange suggests that "how the children should be gotten together and have an expression as to' how they would like to be raised." In this advarced age, the children come very near dictating to the mothers how they shall be raised.

The Providence Journal says that "it the voters of this country should ever have to walk to the polls on taxed shoe-leather, we may be sure that the result of their voting would be decidedly uncomfortable for the party that put the tax on." And why not the same result as to other articles of necesity upen which taxes are voted? Singular, isn't it, that although the present administration is following the precise policy respecting Cuba that was pursued by the Cieveland administration, the jingoes have almost entirely ceased their abuse on the subject? Senator Morgan, it is true, continues to unravel his voice for Cuba, but that is expected. He got into such habit of abusing the administration during Cleveland's term that he can't stop all at once, without jolting his intellect. The Union Springs Herald makes this happy suggesticn as to a way of relieving the alleged deficit in the Treasury: It the State treasury is really in so bad condition, since the report of Auditor White, just let the State draw, in advance, on all that enormous gun of money that the "back tax law" is going to pile This is the solution the matter, the sooner it is done the better It will Won't The Herald please give an estimate of the amount that will be yielded from Bullock County? The Advertiser is trying to prove conclusively that Alabama does not have deficit of over $600.000 as shown by State Auditor White's statement. "Figgers are -Jacksonville Democrat. That reminds us of the old couplet: a naught and Agger all mine and nothin nigger." Most of the at the Capital late done somewhat been against the State.

so deceiving per on theist ver do galaed? Aye, what profiteth the poor who must stand the result of such eztroordinars protection for the Colorado bullionaire and has no aliver of his cwa to Pree-colnage of silver at 16 to 1 is the most preposterous protection every proposed by any party. TED STATE DAILIES. Some Their More Notable ExpresTimely Toples. Valse Mercury, The United States Senate practiced false economy In refusing to appropriat $400,000 to complete the canal around Colbert Shoals. An amendment to the sundry civil bill proposing that amount was offered by Senator Foraker, who was ably seconded by Senator Pettus, but to no avall.

The amendment was defeated on a point of order raised by Senator Allison. The point was that since estimates had not been furnished by the proper department it appeared that the work was contemplated, rather than in actual progress, and tha: under the Senate rules the amendment was out of order. The sundry civil till carried appropriations for rivers and harbors amounting to more than 000,000, to be expended all over the country, but when a paltry $400,000 was proposed by Alabama it was antagonized and defeated. Tien there is not an item in the sundry civil bill that will benefit su many people as would the opening of the Tennessee River to large vessels. Under present conditions the $6,500,000 spent by Alabama and the United States in opening Muscle Shoals has been wasted and will so remain until a small appropriation is made for Colbert Shoals.

The next Congress, of course, will provide the required appropriation, but in the meantime work should have been completed and the vast shipping interests of the great Tennessee Valley opened to the world. When Congress convenes in December a body of citizens should go to Washington and urge a suitable appropriation for this important work. The Brilliant Administration. Eufaula Times. Aceording to Auditor White the State owed $620,000 on January 1st.

Treasurer Ellis's statement is that from October 1st to May 1st the receipts were $1,659,058 and disbursements $1,605,384, which would allow a comfortable little margin for an unearning month or two. So that, what ever the State may have been behind on January 1st it was not behind. at all on May 1st. Now, of course, no taxes will be collected until late in the fall and before that time the State will be in debt, but nothing like six hundred thousand dollars or the haif of it. And there is another thing taught by the statement, and that is that $620,000 is no money for a great State to pay.

There was no occasion to be excited at all, and now, especially, one may dismiss one's fears since the debt is paid. There may be some people who would want to argue that the quickness with which so large a sum was paid, shows what a brilliant administration we have and we incline kindly to the idea. It makes us wish we were a million or so in debt so that the world could be dazzled -by a piece of extraordinary financiering. But we are not in debt at all paid, which makes the summer and the balance of the Governor's first term lie out bleak and uninteresting before us all. And that suggests, what does Alabama need with a brilliant Governor? Why can't we put up easily enough with men, ordinary men, in the chair, like Georgia has.

Now, Georgia does not hustle about to see how great a man she can get to fill the place. Any good, ordinary, honest man is sufficient in Georgia. Hereafter we shall insist that sort of a man shall win in Alabama. We see no occasion for great virtues going to waste in the office of Governor, and we out of debt, too. Peru and Sliver.

Birmingham News. Our Government is advised that Peru has not only suspended the coinage of silver, but has taken measures to prohibit the importation of any silver coin, Such coin as may be imported must come exclusively through the port of Callao and be delivered to the mint by the customs officer to be melted into bars to be returned to the owner. Travelers entering Peru are not to be allowed to bring more than fifty soles (Per uvian dollars) each in Peruvian money. Silver coin sent from place to place in Peru is to be accompanied by an invoice showing it has not been Imported, or that the custom house authorized the importation. This action is rendered necessary to check, if.

possible, the rapid depreciation of the Peruvian silver currency, 50 advices from that country state. This furnishes a valuable object lesson which the silver standard advocates should heed. Here is a country not only forced to suspend the coinage of ailver entirely, but driven to the necessity of exercising the most stringent regulations to prevent a further enlargement of the volume of silver money in order to check its depreciation. Peru has joined the family of progressive nations by abandoning the fickle and ruinous silver standard. A roll call of the countries which have within the past year rejected the white metal standard shows the following: Costa Rica, with a population of 250,000: Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Japan, Russia, 130,000,000.

Add to these China, with her 400.000,000, which has taken a long stride toward the gold standard and which uses silver only by weight, and it will be seen that the cause of the silver standard has not flourished durIng the year. University Dance. Tuscaloosa Gasette. The University boys gave a Mess Hall dance on last Saturday evening. of all the different balls and germans none can surpass a mess hall dance and this tact was well proven on Saturday evening.

The dance was arranged out of compliment to the Auburn boys but their not coming did not deter the home crowd from having thoroughly delightful time. The german was led by J. L. McConnell who displayed pronounced skill in the difficult art. In the pretty march led at the opening he was gracefully assisted by that fair and altogether charming visitor from BirminghamMiss Marie Nelson.

The masculine dancers were as the sands of the see in number. The young ladles present were Misses Ella Alice and Abble Marie Nelson. Lida Inge, Mamie Jones. Julia Royal, Jus Smith. Sue and Gussie Clarkeon, Bette Clements, Alyce Wildman, Mary Calhoun and Fanelle Crawford.

Pleasure Urion Springs Herald. Brown in Pike County, reven miles above Troy, one of the most places to on falling trip, and this week there is a gay jolly party of our people there. The as it leaving on Monday and later, until now Messrs. J. L.

L. MoAndrew, L. V. F. T.

8. FraDr. 8. C. all under the of Mr.

C. R. Radford, of the mill boys have to their is conof the the POTION Governor Taylor of unofficially, though aud nounced, will resigo to sume the lecture deld. the office is only $4,000 and he. can make $5,000 at lecturing.

Viewed solely from monied ration, it is surely a very wise step, but under the circumstances, it seems to us that it is not at all a question of money but one of honor and obligation to the people of Tennessee. Governor Taylor knew just what he was going to get as Governor and what he was getting at lecturing before he was elected, and there can be no manner of excuse for his abandoning the office now. It may be true that he was the only Democrat. who could have been elected at the time, but did he not owe it to his State and his Party to make the siorifice. If he should take the step, he had as well retire from politics and bury all future ambition.

George Gould has evidently put his foot in it, and not only his foot but all the rest of his personal property. He removed his residence from New York to Tarrytown, N. because the tax officials of the former oity wanted to assess his personal property at its proper value, and the New Jersey officers allowed him to put his own valuation on it. The present year the Tarrytown officers have spread a very comprehensive drag-net which catches the big fish as well as the little ones, the assessments for this year being about four times as much as for previous years. As a consequence "George, dear" and other habitual tax dodgers will be forced to pay something like a fair tax on their property, just as poor folks do, If these multi-millionaires can thus be forced to pay something like their honest proportion of taxation, it will be a consummation for which the Tarrytown officials deserve much praise.

Evidently George will have to move again. A few days ago we suggested to The Ar niston Hot Blast that It loosen Sits eyelids, and cast a glance or two around to see if it hadn't some signs of the incipient boom reported from Decatur and Florence. We are pleased to observe that our contemporary has carried out the suggestion. Its last issue says: From information which we received from Mayor Hight we are confident that Anniston will have a nice' market house during the present year. Such a building is greatly needed and all Anniston will rejoice when it is an assured fact that it will be built this year.

It is now in order for all Alabama to rejoice over this glad tidings of good news furnished by The Hot Blast. We expect to 1 hear of Anniston's' booming before long. Speaking of the tariff bill in the Senate, a Washington special to The New York World has this paragraph: The threatened abrogation of the Hawalian sugar treaty has aroused 'such sturdy fighters as Senators Frye and Morgan. The latter placidly remarked that he can talk a year in opposition to the attack on Hawall. Under the rules of the Senate no one doubts the old gentleamn's capacity and determination to do exactly as he said.

It will require a great deal of party whipping to induce Senator Frye to cease the powerful opposition that he can interpose on this same subject. If the senior Senator from Alabama had given a Democratic President and his policies the same consideration and support that he has: accorded Republican Presidents and their administrations, he would not now be opposing Republican tariff bills in the Senate. Allen W. Thurman is reported as a Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio this year. He is quoted as saying: This Government is going to hell 88 fast as the greed and rascality of the two old parties will let it.

We young fellows have got to take a hand in the affairs of this Government, or else we will see a civil war, more horrible than the one that was fought a little over a century ago. It 18 very plain that the young man does not belong in the Party of his revered father. It would seem that he had best Join the Populists, or else start a party of his own. The reports of the secretary and chairmen of several of the principal committees of the Commercial and Industrial Asscciation are presented elsewhere. They will be read with especial interest, as they present in a precise and comprehensive way the work of the Association for the past twelve months, and show what has been done in the several lines of business during that period.

They make a ine showing for the commercial and industrial progress of the city, and are presented with special pride. Their careful perusal is earnestly invited. Is there a city in the State which bas done half so well? The Epworth League of Alabama completed its two days' session in this city yesterday. This is. one of the largest organizations in conjunction with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and next to the Sunday School, is doIng a most powerful work.

The pro ceedings of the meetings in this city have been of unusual interest and bave attracted a great deal of attenticn from people of all denominations. Some of the speakers were from the most influential clerical and lay members the Methodist Episcopal Church, South And their presence in our midst 1 been source of peculiar pleasure and profit to our people. What if he gain cents pound 1 of wool and 50 per pounds of clothso doing what profiteth the poor buy at the and sell? -Tallaprofteth it he sata per capita circulation hundred Communication Birmingham State- Herald. It to be that the spection law by the. last Inture wonid not entirely meet the provel of oll The object that law is not only to afford to guarantee that they being sold which la sate to but also ces as to what the oll In with to fire test.

The law not require fire test of 150 but a flash test of 120 degrees. also the law, the on company to the contrary notwithstandins. The Alabama law places the minimum fire test at 110 degrees; but, matter of tact, since the law went into effect I venture to say that no oll has been shipped into the State which bore fire test below 120 degrees, and mont of It has averaged between 180 140 degrees; whereas, before the law was enacted, the oil companies chipped in all classes of oil, regardless of intertority. The law has at least accom plished its purpose in this respect. As an evidence of this, I inspected oil in stock in this district which the of! companies labeled and sold at a bigh price as 175 degrees fire test which burn ed at 150 degrees and was, therefore, rejected.

As a further evidence, certain dealers in oll objected to my placing the number of degrees fire test upon inspection certificates, because such certificates showed a greatly low. er degree fire test than their own labels (175 degrees) upon the same barrels and Interfered with its sale. This, of course the law does not permit, and the result has been that sales are now made in accordance with the Alabama test, and purchasers are assured of getting exactly what they pay for. As far as the editor of the Athens Courier is concerned. might suggest that his evidence is not very good.

he appears to have undergone quite change of opinion on the law since March 24. when he made an unsuccessful application for appotntment as deputy inspector of oil for this district; although the law may have appeared to him at that time as "iniquitous" and in opposition to his "conviction" he was desirous of being employed to enforce the "iniquity" upon the dear people. Similar laws to this Inspection law are in force in nearly every State in the union. Repeated efforts have been made by the oil companies and others to repeal the law in Tennessee, but without effect. It is a good thing after years of trial in other States.

Why not give it a fair trial in Alabama? J. V. Allen, Inspector Eighth THE WAY TO VICTORY. Clearly Pointed Out by the Trend of Events. Louisville Post.

The alliance between Democrats and Populists in 1806 proved disastrous. It will prove just as disastrous in 1900. In 1872 the Democratic party was nearly destroyed by its alliance with the Greeley ring of the Republican party. Democrats can afford defeat, but they can ill afford to compromise their principles for votes. General Wheeler of Alabama.

calls for a straight Democratic fight in 1898 and thereafter, and he says "The Republicans are now making en issue upon which all the elements of the Democracy can He adds: "That issue is, of course, the tariff; we won on it that issue in 1892 and we can win This is true; we have the issue, and we have the votes, but there are still among us a ring of Bourbon leaders who insist that a political organization is great just in propontion as it alienates its supporters. Commenting on the statement made by General Wheeler, The Philadelphia Times says: "Representative Wheeler is one of the most intelligent of the Southern leaders, and his intelligence is nt an eminently practical order. He well understands that the Democracy cannot make another battle on free silver, as one-half the Democrats who supported Bryan for President believe in establishing our financial systeni on a silver basis. They know that free silver, under present conditions, would mean silver moncmetallism, and would thus make the great republic of the world sever its financial relations from all civilized netions of the earth, and relegate itself to the rear along with the semi-civilized countries, which alone maintain the elver standard." That victory is possible to a united Democracy, The Philadelphia Times thinks is plain, and it suggests the way to victory in this paragraph: "If the Democratic leaders are wise their State conventions of this off political year will relegate national platforms to the rear, and organize their forces solely in favor of honest national taxation and honest State government. There are no Congressmen to elect: there are no national issues directly involved, but in every State the question of unequal taxation of the masses for the benefit of classes is tertain to be felt and popular protest aginst it demanded.

With this issue and the vital State issues which present themselves in almost every State, the Democracy could soften the asperIties of the divided counsels in their ranks and bring to their support not only the entire Democratic vote regardless of financial convictions, but crobably command large accessions of conservative Republicans who are oprosed to monopoly taxation arid would be glad to aid in political reforms in their respective States." That is the work begun in Kentucky ny The Evening Post in January. The Democratic party will get together on such a platform before long. The work is going well in all sections. It is obstructed, by a few fanatics, by. a few selfish leaders, by a few men who never begin to night until the battle 1s oter.

But in spite of all this, harmony is as inevitable as it is essential. It cannot be prevented; it can only be costponed. Reson and common sense will prevail. Democrats will tire of marchIng to defeat merely to ohlige a men who have been decapitated and who do not know it. MOBILE.

Book by Mr. P. J. Hamilton Early History of Mobile. Mobile Register.

A literary announcement of high value, both generally and locally, is that made yesterday by Mr. Peter Joseph Hamilton of this city. namely, of the approaching publication of his work on Mobile which an historical study, largely from original sources, of the bee basin from the of Mobile bay in 1510 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte In In the preparation of this history Mr. Hemliton has been engaged for many bruught to it a mind well trained such work. He been fortunate fading much hitherto anured has thrown a flood of light upon chapters of Alabama which have long been forgotten.

The book will be in forty- seven chapters. grouped so to treat of general such French Capital, The Department of Mobile British Domination "Under the and The which describes the of the work printed in Register nest their own bottle of popEuropean Powers now Incall upon the combatants would have been better for Greece people frat ascertained their capacity- or fight Turks, end counted cost into the The bind hysterics of the Calf" of the modern Greek, cannot count in actual war. But it that this worse than useless war two unequally matched powis now to cease, and that end la to be put to the senseless sacrifice of THE SOUTHERN DAILIES. Interest That They If the Letters are Dane, What Nashville American. The postal receipts of the ment are usually a barometer of bustness conditions.

These receipts for the first quarter of 1897 were over 000, the largest in the history of the department. Bally and a Brate. Chattanooga Times. Emperor William has done great dtal lately to prove that he is a blood-minded man than the truculent Sulten of the Turks; and William seems to be little, spiteful, infinitely mean, in his demands that poor, foolish and sorely pressed little Greece shall be humiliated into the very dust. What a bully and brute his majesty is, to be sure.

Laborer to be Ground to Powder. Chattanooga News. "Wages must come down before the country can says Senator Elkins of West Virginia. At the same time he and his colleagues are saying by their support of the Dingley bill that the necessaries which the consumer must buy must go up before there can be a return of prosperity. The laboring people are thus to be cuught between the upper and the nether mill stone and ground to powder for the benefit of the capitalists.

And yet to these deluded victims McKinley owed his election. Alas! that they should bring such calamities on themselves! They Distrust Englaud. Jackson Sun. The Senators who voted against the arbitration treaty are not antagonistic to the principle involved in the measure, but they distrust England. The foreign policy of England has ever been to grab everything in sight, and wholesome fear that the treaty would enable that country to make more effective that policy to the detriment of this country decided a number of Senators to oppose the measure.

It is also said that England's leaning toward the Turks in the present Eastern war milltated against the success of the treaty. The project, however, should not be abandoned, as the interest of peace demande that a friendly compact be made between the two greatest nations of the earth. Senator Martin's Estimate. Richmond Times. Senator Martin in a recent deliverance in favor of the readoption of the Chicago platform by the Virginia Democracy, makes light of the strength of the sound money Democrats in Virginia, and says in substance that their entire vote at the last Presidential election was only 2,000.

If that is Senator Martin's impression, then he has studied the late election returns to very little profit. In 1892, Mr. Cleveland's vote in Virginia was 163,977 without the Populist vote of more than 12,000 which went to Wea. ver. In 1896, Mr.

Bryan's entire vote was 154,709, including at least 15,000 Populist votes. Leaving out the question of annual increase which is estimated at about 3 per cent. a year, or 12 per cent. for the four years, it is clear that the number of Democrats voting for Bryan was at least 23,000 less than the number of Democrats voting for Cleveland. We are interested to hear an explanation from Senator Martin.

If there were only 2,000 sound money Democrats in Virginia in 1896, we would like to know how he accounts for the fact that the silver Democrats and the Populists combined were not able to muster out as many voters, by more than 9,000, as Cleveland polled four years previously. In point of fact, if we are justified in presuming that the natural increase of the Democratic vote in Virginia in four years was 12 per cent. or about 20,000, then Mr. Bryan should have polled about 184,000 Democratic votes and this with the 14,000 Populist votes which he polled would have given him 198,000 votes instead of only 154,709, GOOD ADVICE FOR THE NEGRO. He is Making Satisfactory.

But Nashville Should Avoid Race Antagoniem Progress, American. The Republican party once profited by the negro vote and drew largely on the negrophile sentiment at the North fo: campaign material. Neither to longer of much avail, and we now White" observe phenomena like its "Lily movements among the RepubJicans references of the South and deprecatory to the brother in black in Republican papers. The negro is making very satisfactory progress, both in education and the acquisition of wealth. He is, indeed a mean-spirited and unworthy citizen.

no matter what his secton or his polithis tics, who is not willing to help along progress in every way possible, but It is not conducive to the negro's welfare to thrust him Into unwelcome 00- society contact with the white man. It begets a race antagonism which would not otherwise exist, and the negro bas more to dread than the white man from such a feeling. He should always avoid unnecessary friction with the whites. The negro youth who seeks a place at Annapolis or West Point de not wise, and the Congressmen who appoints negroes to cadetships in these schools is no true friend of the race. WILD NEWS FROM ALABAMA.

The Record The Constitation This State. Union Springs Herald. Ever since the days when Kolbism: became no widespread in this State, The Atlanta Constitution has been giving its readers "wild" telegraphic reports from Alabama. Very rarely can one put much confidence in the reports he in that paper from this State. The latest is the account of the Are at the Exchange Hotel in Montgomery last week.

The Constitution had the whole building a total and a whole lot of other stutt The Advertiser hasn't done thing to The Constitution's report. Greenville Greenville Advocate. Greenville in with rious orders of the country. Col. Steinhart la Supreme Prelate of the Mr.

Supreme E. R. Lode Knichts of Pythias. Adama, Grand Dictator of Honor. J.

B. Stanley Chairman of the committee OD laws of the Lodge K. of H. R. W.

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Grand of the State of the J. 0. U. may that tion..