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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13
The rich man has q cellar,
And a ready butler by him,
The poor must stoer
For his pint Of beer
Whom the anlnta I,nn,f nhnnnA
TO FIGHT
A new Independent Democratic Newspaper
Gtarted In RaIeigh. 3. O.

n Now hnuepouuent Democratic H0W1popoR
Started In Raleigh. n. O.
A new newspaper. tho Morning Post, has
been started in Raleigh, N. c., by business mon
and mon with money invested there who are
tired Of populism and who believe it Is possible
to rescue the State from the blight. North
Carolina has been afflicted with populism and
its accompanying evils for a number of years,
beginning away back in tho time Of the Farmers
Alliance. In recent years the entire govern
ment of tho State has been in the hands of
the cranks. The result Of this has been
that capitalists without tho State have
stored clear of Investments thero. Nc mattar
how bright the prospects Of money making have
bcen, they have been afraid to invest because of
the probability of crank legislation and crank
persecution that would eat up not only tho
profits, but would destroy the principal as well.
While capitalists without the State have steorod
clear OF investment, capitalists within tho State,
who had money invested. have shivered in their
boots. and those who didn't have their capital
invested there sought investment for IL else
where or kept 1t locked up. The result, of
course. has been continued hard times and un-
told damage to the interests of tho State.
Recently some of the largest financial interests
had determined to pocket whatever lossit might
entail and to got out anyway. They preferred.
however,. to stay and fight. but they had no
newspaper backing and no way to get tho truth
before the people. The proposition vas mnde to
establish a newspaper. and 1t mot with instant
support from the moneyed men and institutions.
was started, It has started right in to light
the Pops. who have brought the State int
ment has already begun to change. and the
CAPITALISTS who were going to move away have
new paper. it is said. include ali tho leading
manufacturers, the bankers and representative
OF about all tho commercial interests OF the
State, and they are already pleased with their
Investment, The Morning Post Is independent
merely q local paper.
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FATE OF A LOST COLONY,
Not Lost Really. but Only Living In Robesou
County, North Carolina.

Not Lost Really. but Only Living In Robessn
County, North Carolina.
To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: The object
Of this article Is to contribute some hitherto un.
written history. 1t is relative to tho so.called
lost colony founded In North Carolina by Gov.
John White.
1t will be remembered that he left a colony
in eastern North Carolina, and among them his
infant granddaughter. Virginia Dare, the first
white child born on this continent. He had an
understanding with tho pioneers left to I'M
prove the colony that If they left they were to
leave a message on a tree telling where they
were going and il in distress to leave the sign
of the cross above the message. After over
two years White came back with more men and
supplies, but no colonists greeted his eyes. In
stead, he saw a ruined fort, and amid other evil
dences of desolation he found carved on a tree
the word "Croatan." but no cross. That made
it evident that they were not in distress, but
had taken voluntary leave of their settlement.
Historians on this subject say that their fate Is
involved in mystery, and will never DO known
till the sea gives up its dead. AS a matter of
fact, the descendants Of this lost colony are in
Robson county. North Carolina. They are an
amalGamation of Indian and Anglo-Saxon.
Two of these Croatans have left much to be
lima. They were respectively Henry Berry
Lowery and his brother, who. with a band OF fol.
lowers, terroriZed the counties OF RobeBon,
Richmond. and Cumberland for tho years OF
1868, 1869. and 1870.
At length the daring leader met a violent
death and the organization went to pieces. One
report has it that n boy whom they had captured
slew Henry Berry with an axe, while another
version Is that he was treacherously slain by a
subordinate Of his clan by reason Of Jealousy.
Al any rate his death is pretty well estab-
lished. From some old citizens OF Robeson
county the writer learned the cause OF this ven.
detta., The father OF Henry Berry was pressed
into the Confederate service during the civil
war and made to help build fortiications. He
was impressed az Il negro, and that was revolt
ing to his proud. spirit. A Croatan, like all
other Indians, feels that n stray dog Is better
than a negro. and then Col. Lowery had no
1t was not his war anyway, and he had a deli
cacy about participating. Result. he was shot
for characterization, but his slayers knew not
the fierce spirit that pervadcd the breast Of tho
then youthful Henry Berry. 1t was the owing
dragons teeth.
In he accounts of John Lawson. a man of
literary pursuits. who ~:livcdin this State, men
tion is made of these croatans having the same
family names as their English progenitors. DR..
Mcmillan OF Red Springs. n. C.. has written a
book which proves that they are the descend.
ants of John Whites colony. NJ. l.. WHITE.
PoLKvILLE, n. c., Doc. !.
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HAwAI1, x1oAnAoUA, AND oUrl.
me virsreusiy Au,ericap Opiniens or Ex-cen.
grossunn Moore or Tennessee,

~ StAsS"HS h"'erscNb Vp'htehs OF EN~Con-
Er"ssHHnn Moore OF rcnne~"oe.
To THE EDITOR OF UN-Sir There IN n
tide in tho affairs OF nations, as woll AZ Of men,
which, taken at tho flood, leads on to fortune.
On such a full sea wo nro now ofoat, and wo
must take tho current whiIe 1t serves or lose
our ventures. As n plain business man. carc-
fully observnnt OF both commercial and poNti.
col evonts, with a practical experience of moro
than forty years, I am lod to adopt tho oxpres-
sion with which this lotter opens.
What has suggested these rencctionst an
swer, the pressure of not less than three great
international questions, to say nothing OF tho
purely homo issues OF currency, revenues, &c,
What are the three great international
issues above alluded TOT I answer. Cuba, the
Nicaragua Canal, and Hawaii. These may DO
temporarily pooh.poohed; but they, like the
poor, will be always with us. They are, and
will continue to be, material az well "a politi.
cal issues, and will, therefore, ever command
tho serious thought Of merchants as we'll as
rs of statesmen. Hawaii, being an outpost in
the Pacific Ocean. in tho direct limo of our ships
to tho Orient, is as much q necessity to tho
United States as is any other island now owned
bv her in any other quarter; and when the
pieuo.oooor Vi meN,niey ooloor'
atoiy. through his paramount Commissioner,
Ap,er,can nosssssion 10 d,d .n,o,h,,.s .hat
.n.an..mn po.soss,on, no aa some.nlnR 'saI
materially nelped TO relegato him to the shades
Of permanent retirement.
The Nicaragua Canal come, next in tho
O"".i eo"'oe "oA' ~ ."0
present consideration OF these three overwhclm-
ing Issues; and when our legislators stop oven to
hesitate for n moment ma N the tomporar coat
~ ssus.. nv. u .onnpoiaiy eo'''
IN aolars' Oh tnat aosoiuteiy unique enterprise.
prescience and djscernment that unats them sor
i.asnr,hIn a. 80. "'s'H.. on
Ieauership III u natlon recognized as the most
progressive, the freest. and soon to be, perhaps,
the most powerful IN all the world
- -
l cannot bring myself to comprehend the men
tai ratiocination of any American legislator
who can for even !, mon.nt ston =, oo,nt ~.
49, "n ..on ho'ne"1 s,op 70 count .he
costot an enterprise mat Will shorten by ten
thousand miles for all time tho distance tray-
ersed Inv every shin that s,iIs otu..n IN,
o.. ~. ny .na' 'sN. 'ho
orlenta anu the occldcnt; and. instead or dicker-
ing over a cost Of one or two hundred millions,
il 1 were in Congress- 7 snould feel a natrio,ic
- " - .. " WV.
JOY IN Young an appropriation OF even $780,
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The Con, or tho Familiar Phrase.

To THE EDITOR or THE sUS-Sir: What is the exact
meaning of the phrase. moro fun than a goat p" OF
course. / understand Its meaning to be. In a general
way. that the source of fun under onsiderst!on Is ex.
tremely funny, We are told by way of illustration
that II Will yield moro fun than could be found In the
possession OF a goat. but what I would like to know
Is the origin OF 1t. / think II mus. refer 10 the antics
or some particular goat. though It Is here sp6!sn OF
as "a" goat.
There have been many funny stories told about
goats. and the goat Is indeed an animal of much auiet
humor. have all idea that the goat described in the
iainiiihr phrase must nave boen an extremely funny
glad II somebody would tell his story. WALLABoUT,
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What Shall the Henry George Party
Call Itself?

Having decided to continue as a perma-
nent political organization, the followers of
the late HENR GEORGE are now divided
into opposing camps in regard to the proper
namef for their party. Shall they be known as
Jeffersonian Democrats or as George Demo.
crats2
At a conference of about two hundred
delegates a few evenings ago there was a
spirited debate regarding the relative mer.
its, as men and politicians, of the chief
author of the Declaration of Independence
and of the Single Tax Prophet. The pre-
ponderance of opinion seems to have been
that GEORGE was a greater benefactor to
mankind than JEFFERSON. A special com.
mittee received instructions to report to a
future convention in favor of calling the
party the George Democracy. The matter,
however, will not be settled until the con-
vention meets.
Were HENRY GEORGE alive. he would not,
of course, permit the proposed change of
name in his honor, but his followers are
not bound to observe the programme of
self.effacing modesty he had marked out
for himself. Those who desire to wear his
name politically evince a reyerential affec.
ton for the dead leader which is creditable
to them and indicative of their devotion to
the principles they profess.
Independently of these considerations,
the advanced George men are clearly right
in seeking to drop a title which does
not adequately describe them n in assum-
ing one that accurately expresses their ob.
jects in the effort to reconstruct society.
If there were a genuine Jeffersonian party
in existence, the George adhcrents would be
found in opposition to a very large part of
its doctrines.
No Jefersonian platform, for instance,
that ever was framed enunciated the policy
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13

The Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN 10
called by tho Mexican orators, who have o
genius for compliment, "our great silver
friend" His greatness and his friendship for
silver need not be questioned. but why do our
Mexican brethren set forth champagne and
cake when he approachesi Mr.. BRYAN drinks
water and presumably no abominates cake.
Champagne and cake are distinctly plutocratic,
and tho admirers Of Mr.. BRYAN must prefer to
see him welcomed with food and drink of a
palmer sort. 1t is understood that money kings
and money changers subslst upon champagne
ana cake whenever they are tired Of drinking
the blood of the toiling masses.
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PULASKI. Pulaski county. Va. Dec. ia. '''
Fo't'Graduate Course In the Academy or Crime.
From the Boston Repubne.

Fo" nv boston Republic.
Among the regular correspondents Of Josepb P,,,,S
er's New York World are some of the most notor1op.
criminals in the country. Last Sunday he publisbod
letters from twelve murderers in different narts 10
the United States In which the views of tbesa maI.,an
tors upon tho subject of the guilt or innooenca a,
Martin Thorn and Mrs. Mack were given. In ord.r -
enhance tho value OF their communication NJ
Pulitzer published pictures illustrating tho mprdsr.
which his distinguished correspondents Committed
The letters with the realistic pictures, CONSTITUTED a
Feature - Of tho World.
Is II any wonder that crime is on the incrs...,
Those who are ~weak-minded. those who cyays -.
notorioty and those who have the homic,d.I /, 80.
find in these publications an Incentive =. onp"n",e
crime They know that they will become object. =,
curiosity and that they will DO iionizod II thew cor,,,,.
murders characterized by extreme brutality. NJ"
Mack is a woman who. by her own confsS.ion t."
moral 'epsr TO be Stunned by all decent men ana
wome.' her peramour and a~ccomplice is eouallv
revolving as a specimen OF humanity. We, .Ss..n y
the agency OF Pulitzer and his paper both are entox.
ing q season of notori"ty and a degree of st,sn,,ar
which is denied to persons who have rena.rsS .""n
vice to the public. ser
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Ton-ninute D.ncI. Ne, By !. Io...
From the Wa.hfnnton no.,

"0"'' nc Wdshtngt0n Post.
Tie barriers OF onlcial and diRnin.d nsr,-
are often lowered on the floor of the House, ya-,""'
day was not an exception. ''.'er'
mr. pinEisy was speaking. but had NOT eoDc,u..1
wheh nus Tune expired. The Republican, bsa s~.
n.Ss.ea thei. limit but representative John Alisn
minutes to his credit. '"eh"'hvs
~ say john" said Representative william
stone OF PennsyiVania. speaking famIlioriv $50"
M aisle 10 the AiSSissippian. +" lend me tan rn,,,."o.
noer'Ainiy' said John. in the most Tood.nS,~1-.
1,n%"n n ana Mr. DinSley. bowling his thSnLs' con.
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Ac1D EnADIoAroRs BARRED.
Reasons for nm Order. with severe Penalties
Attached. In WAshInEtOn.

Attached. IN WashihEton.
WASHINGTON. Dec. II "A naval officer on
duty at the Navy Department WAS engaged the
other day In erasing an entry In an official
record book.
"Whero'd you get that stun 7" asked another
officer. indicating the bottle of acid which was
being used.
II bought 1t under authority from the chief
OF the bureau" replied the first officer, land he
also gave me authority to use it in the office. II
/ did not have formal permission to bring it in
here, i could DO court-murtialled. You sec
there is an order against having any OF the
stuff in the department unless by tho express
authority OF the Secretary, or IA chief of bureau.
Its prOmiscuOus use might result in unlawful
changing OF records and cause no end Of
trouble"
A similar order Is in force in the War Depart.
ment. Somebody discovered that part of one OF
the war, records, had been erased and a false
entry substituted, and Secretary Alger issued
An order forhidding the use of acid eradicators
In the department under penalty OF dismissal.
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For Cuba I

Once a lowly race lay dying
Angrily, as madnen die.
Cursing with the gasp that freed thom
Tho power their hate had dared defy.
We were free AMI you enslaved us;
We were strong. you brought US chains;
We were proud. you broke our manhood;
We were rich. you stole our gains.
You robbed our women OF their honor,
Made our fair homes d~eSolate;
We saw our children grow In likeness
To the image that We hate.
We were starving and you kept us
From tho means OF getting bread,
And you dashed us as you drove us
TIL We prayed but u be dead.
But brave men rose up among us
And we followed them TO war.
Crying. Let us live as frremeu.
Better dead than As we are"
Though we're dying. Spain. we're lighting
And our brothers shall night on
TIL. ~ sure rs Gods In heaven,
Your inhumAn rule IL done.
CAMBRIDOE, Ma. 0EoRoE Hooa.
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The Hon. WILLIAM MORRIS STEWART,
the reticent Senator from Nevada, has IAN idea
that there will be an interesting talk in the SEN
ate before many moro days nre numbered with
the past" Can it BIO that Mr.. STEWART has at
last overcome his aversion to making a speech :
Is he about to utter q few millions of miles of
remarks about the Crime of 1873? The country
waits and trembles.
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Our esteemed contemporary, the Pitts.
burg Dispatch. attempts to include within a
single leading article what Mr.. WALKER
Does Not Know" The WALKER in question is
the Hon. JOSEPH HENRY WALLER OF Worcester
and the House Committee on Banking and Cur
rency. 1t would be a painful surprise TO Mr..
WALKER to learn that there is anything that he
doesn't know; and there Is good reason to be-
lieve that he never will be painfully surprised
in that way.
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Our esteemed contemporary, the Roches-
ter Democrat and Chronicle. doesn't "know of
a single argument in favor of football that is
not equally an argument in favor of gladiatorial
combats." Evidently the Nursery has one faith.
full reader in Monroe county. We observe,
however,, that while the Nursery speaks OF the
author of "Atalanta in Calydon as "ALGERHoN
s. swINBURNE," the Rochester Demccrat and
Chronicle calls him CHARLES ALGERNoN SWIM
RURNE'
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The Boston Reform Club has dropped GEORGE
FRED WILLIAMS for not paying his dues Rochester
Post Erpress.

Tho Boston Reform Club may have been
dropped by Mr.. WILLIAMS. but Mr.. WILLIAMS
cannot have been dropped by the Boston Reform
Club. II he had been. the noise of the fall would
have been heard around the world, and no ear
would have failed to ring with it. Really there
isno place In space that is big enough to drop Mr..
WILLIAMS in; and most of the space attainablo
is required for the purpose of holding tho re-
marks which drop from his unrailing tongue.
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mn1cn irn eoon.,,
The rseur ~ sheiley,s Rxesutor vyhioh NAE
ncnn Repahilshea In EnEiaud.

Bcen Repssiished IN RnGiaud.
An executor OF tho estate of q literary man,
and moro particularly OF \ voluminous and in
dustrious writer, is always assured OF some
effects TO administer upon. oven though the
material wealth OF the deoedent was inconsider-
able. Thomas Love Peacock, Shelley's exoou-
tor, was somewhat Of an author himself. though
he began life as n commercial man in India.
served tho English Government In the Bureau
of Indian Affairs for twenty years, and retired
on a pension. A friend OF Charles Lamb and
tho executor Of Shelley, no is the author OF the
verses Rich and Poor" often quoted In frag-
mentary form for the reason that only ono hum
dred copies Of them wero ever printed, and none
of these was sold.
The poor mans sins arc giarinE
In the face OF ghostly warning'
Buying green's on Sunday mornins.
The rich mans sins are hidden
In the pomps OF wealth and station.
And escape the sight
who arc wise in their generation
The rich man has q kitchen,
And cooks TO dr, ~ his dinner;
The poor who would roast
And thus becomes sinner.
For a reason which is obvious, the Sunday
Closing Association had not co6perated in the
| distribution Of these verses, though they owe
tuOlE OTlRlh v - SohtEoNOEb1 III hEObO III NV
British Parliament on the subject Of Sabbath
observance. These limos were suggested by .
speech of Wilberforce, who replied to tho 70
mark Of DR.. Huntington that the Society for the
Suppression Of Vice meddled with the poor
alone. Wilberforco answered that the offence
Of the poor came moro under observation than
those of the rich, and this was. 90 to speak. the
text of Peacock's poetic tale:
The rich man has q cellar.
And q ready butler by him,
The poor must stcer
For his pint OF beer
when the saints can't choose but SOY hin.
One may draw the inference from this that
Peacock had very little sympathy with those
contcmporaneous English reformers who do
sired tp secure by rigid penal laws the strict OBJ
servance Of Sunday in Great Britain. Peacock
seems so have had no definite object in view in
the lines which he indited on the subject Of the
"Ttich and Poor except to satirize the COM
ment Of DR.. Wilberforce; but recently his
stanzas have been rcpubllshed In England as
part of tho controversy which 10 going on in
some Of the large cities on the question Of Sun
day observance.
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h philosopher is supposed to be I'M
moved by the antics OF the weather. but many
things are easily supposed OF and by philosophers.
Otherwise philosophy could not stay in business.
The colder air Of last night must have given
satisfaction even TO the philosophers. Who likes
the wet. sticky p~avements, the air unbreath.
able. the intoIerable mugginessi ST. MARTIN will
hear no good Of himself If he has had a summer
lately. The New York fog may DO deserved By
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Here is a total of nearly $500, 900 as tho re.
suit of two or three days activity on the part of
the deficit architects in the House and Senate.
How soon would President Mckinley be able
to inaugurate his plan of currency reform, II
Congress should go into tho pork business
at tho rate indicated by this first batch of pub
lie building billsi
These things can wait for tho golden days
when revenue shall equal expenditure. They
can all wait.
On second thoughts, however. we are inclined
to make an exception in favor of the Statue Of
Liberty on the Capitol dome. Lot Liberty be
gilded II she needs 1t, and II the Job can be done
for $5, 900,
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the commercial Importance Of New York, but
It lie not healing. The air to make folks buy
ohristmss presents and enjoy thom is cold and
clear. and Ant CLAUS has iciclos on his
whiskors and breathos with the heartiness of n
man who knows good oxygen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-13

Among the bills already introduced at
Washington we note the advance guard OF
measures appropriatinG money for public build.
inEs or monuments Here is a partial list. with
the amounts TO be appropriated:
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The Washington Alphabet.

One Of the most interesting of the minor
measures introduced in the House last
week is Congressman DALzELL's bill to
reform the street nomenclature of the
capital. For the streets now hideously
designated by the letters of the alphabet,
from A to w, excluding J, he would sub
stitute the names Of American statesmen;
soldiers, authors, and other worthless, &C.
cording to the following scheme:
ADAMS, MARSHALL,
BANCROFT. NEwcoMB.
CLAY. odLETHoRPE,
DECATUR, PERRY,
EMERSON, QUIHCI,
FRANKLIN. RANDOLPH.
GRANT, STANTON.
HAMILTON. TAYLOR,
IRyIS0, UNION,
KANE, VAN BUREA,
LINCOLN. WEBSTER.
This brings up again the always fas-
cinating question of the fitness of selection
in such a list.
Mr.. DALzELL's scheme, 1t will be OBJ
served, bitches at U. How about UNoAs9
He was an eminent American.
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publication uOtsh TO haze rejeoted articles returned.
they must IN all cases send stamps for that purpose.
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The Hon. Derry sinpssn,s Ler,.,.
EFaAme.
From the Detroft

DetT0it free PreSS.
M Simpson told his Detroit h..no-
Reed despotism all he could do in unoer ne
SrA~ ms pay. Mr.. simpson il aow on ~
As'0A 70 90 all within hls power d Co..
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Public building at westerly R.l.......".. $50. 900
Post ONCE at Elyin, .,."...""....... 100000
Public building at Selma, Alt. .......... 100. 900
Public building at jamestown. n. Y........ 100. 900
Public building at New Castle, Pa. 100, 900
Gliding Liberty on the Capitol domo ........ 5000
Monument on B~randywine battlefield ...... 5000
Buildings at Puynllup Indian agency ........ 5000
Public building at Lincoln. Neb. ............ j, 900, 900
Public building at Newport News. .......... 100, 900
Public building ut Centraiia, Ill. ............ 5000
Public building at st. Cloud, MINI ......... 100000
Public building at Topeka, Kan. ............. 100, 900
Monument at Fort Greene, n. Y....... 90 1000
Public building at Fergus Falls. MINI. ...... 10000
Public building Mt Va.......... 100000
Statue Of Burnside in Washington .......... 10000
Public building at woonsocket. r. L........ $4,000