The age-herald., 1898-12-20

penings down in Santiago harbor,' said Hobson, who was seated beside me. For example, I've got young brother who's cadet at the West Point military academy. He's as bashful and retiring youngster youll meet in a days walk, but as he's in the pleb class at the Point, and, therefore, legitimate prey for the young fellows in the higher classes, he has to suffer good deal on my account. The members of the top classes, for instance, are at great pains to save up all the clippings that refer to me- and then regularly every week my shy brother is made to sit on the top of bar rel and read all of these clippings aloud to the assembled cadets, who applaud his lit tic turn vocferously. When he finishes each clipping he's required to stand upon the barrel, point to the clipping grandil- quently and shout:
 '"Thats my brother" Then he has to place one hand on his breast and say, soi- emnly:
 '"I'm just like him."
 "'Of course, that's all very funny and Imaginable, but it seems pity the lad has to make such monkey of himself on my account. He writes me in very gloomy strain about it, and always winds up his letters with a postscript with the question, Say, why did you go for to sink that mis- erable old tub of boat?
 '"The people on the car continued to screw around in their seats to look at Hobson un- til the train stopped at Odenton and ne got off to change cars, and when the tram started on again for Baltimore they kept right on screwing around to size me up' felt perfectly guitless of having done any thing to warrant all of this attention. put they continued to gaze at me nara uhtll the train was almost at the Baltimore station. Then a huge, farmer-looking man. Wieh q hand on him as big as ham, got up from his seat a few rows ahead of me, paradea down to where I sat, held out his nst TOT me to grasp, and made 'spooch' TOT tne benefit of all the rest of the passengers III the car.
 .Podner,' he said. T didn't edzaetly hev tn nerve t mosey up an mterrup. wen you was a-talkin with your brother much as wanted t grab him by the hand' put you-al1 will do jes' as we'll Jes' let me Ieei tb, nav of tn brother of tn man thet plugged up tn harbor of Santee-aigo.
 The president of the United states par ticipated in a celebration in Atiahta in t~ioa nagroes were not allowed to take mart In Tuskegee lie was t<< guest, .o pether with the leading men of the nalioh and state, of negroes Qulte stiiNins parallel The echoes of the presidents eneeches on both occasions vii not dle away for days to come His uttePahces OH the graves of the confederate deao III At lanta are too well known and too much talked of to need repetition. In lushesee
  i in politics and curb their aspirations uhtii they are qualified by education and ma- terial progress to fill the positions in gov- ernment and society which they some times seek to fill
 The neeroes of Atlanta were very angry because they were not allowed place in the jubilee ceremonies. The Federation or Trades held a meeting and bitterly de- nounced the management because the ne gro members of the Stone Quarrymen's association were not allowed to appear In the parade. The labor leaders held that the color line was not drawn in the war; and there should have been no discrlmlna- tions in after celebrations.
 The Alabama general assembly seems in- clined to be sore over the snubbing it got at the jubilee. The members should s1ot, for Georgia's own supreme court was treated with the same discourtesy No one had the thoughtfulness to fix time or ask the justices to meet the president, so the court remained in session throughout the exercises. The law makers should remem- Der, too, that they could have attended the banquet a dress suit and ten-dollar note each being the requisite. There were chamirs with no takers
 The Atlanta jubilee had a pretty mean- ing if 1t did have some disagreeable feas tures This meaning is no better inter- preted than by the act of grizzled con- federate veteran while passing in review before the president He was the last Of long QetacnmenI Ol NeteTdHS leu " OSh- eral Wheeler. He was mounted on an old sorrel horse, much the worse for work and age His attire was ragged gray uni- form which had seen service on the battle- field from 1861 to 1865. Upon his breast | were pinned ,.4e stars and stripes. When | he came before the president, he bowed | low, touched his uniform, and then, with | trembling hand, significantly pointed to the | stars and stripes which adorned his breast. | The crowd appreciated his meaning, and | the air was pierced with shouts. The | president saw it, too, and while he gazed | at the ragged line of gray uniformed vet- | erans just disappearing a tear made it's | way down his cheek. 8. H.