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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-15

the others as well a. the history. prove
J his consciousness that there remains 20
his section only This last resort. 10 make
the world believe that our motives We're
base. charge which they hope will be
! answered with more difficulty inasmuch
! as ii rests upon unsubstantai and intan-
/ gible Interpretation OF facts, and not upon
facts Themselves.
ELEGANCE or DICTION.
with elegance of dietion and wealth Of
knowledge sufficient 90 blind and interest
"a multitude of readers ne deyotes him
self 10 this object. lie is an advocate
seeking to procure pardon for the wrong
dolngs Of his own section by persuading
tie world of the guilt NJ ours; by convinc-
ing an who read on tudy his book (our
own children amcns ,hem) that in defiance
OF all reasons Go know the wrong Of
slavery. We argued before the war and
fought in il, not from conviction Of duty
! or loyalty 10 our constitutional rights ana
those of our children not even from in
/ suited and outraged manhood, but simply
10 hold the negro in possession.
We DO not assert Dis insincerity 1t may
we'll be that ne believed what be said on
that point lie is. therefore, the more
dangerous as teacldns laisehood with al
the force that belongs 10 the conviction
of truth.
II will 60 far 10 establish our PROPOSE
ton az 20 Mr. Fiskes inability 10 see the
truth when slavery and the war enter his
feld Of view and the consequent entire un-
fitness Of his history Tor school use II
we briefly examine other noted writings
that have come FROM his hand. II Is a
maxim laid down by a famous philosopher
and writer that children are more inhu-
enced by the spirit and the uneNpressed
opinlons OF the teacher than they are by
the words they chance 10 hear from his
Inns. We therefore examine Mr.. Fiske
His personality Is in his history: the chap.
ter and verse criticism Of that book is IN
the able reports OF CAPTAIN Bishop and
Rev. Or. Tucker. We turn 70 the
latter half OF the lai pages OF his
much-lauded "Old Virginia and Her
Neighbors." II contains matter which
win not only prove oar criticism
lust but furnish as occasion for much
establishment Speaking Of the slave
trade and abolition. Mr.. Flske tells us that
cocrre Mason Is his lifetime denounced
tho "infamous traffic" 'in terms which
were TO be resented by his grendsons.
whom thcv fell from the Iirs OF Wendell
Phillips" All this We quote literally A
handsome aDtithesis and wen proportioned
sentence you will observe. The author Is
NOT careful TO present 1--WE avoid saying
that he Is careful not 70 present. the true
noint of contrast. George Mason denounc-
ed as Infamous" the sale Of free men
into sIaaerv and the horrors OF the middle
massage. and argued against slavery IN
Virginia on economic and social grounds.
wendell Philips denounced the South and
Southern Shareholders. Mr.. tlske's read
ers do not learn from him mat this was
n,o oesansa that We resented and that
In . ins, indignation which Mr. Mason
' WI he shared 10 the full had he been
it, rho inference that Virginians OF
~ 800 ,arlofs we're not of one mind.
,..',h a. IN The slave-trade and Yankee
interference. Is absolutely falses aud
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-15

ern men and Northern histories into our
schools and for years employed them 10
teach us why and how Southern men,
fought against the North Certain homes
efforts have been made Ia eXpel these
books and their teachings Differences
Of opinion should not. and do not induce
us To impugn the motives OF faithful men;
but we regret that these efforts have not
been entirely successful.
The general views $50 iar expressed have
been presented before The situation seem
ed to as to require their iorciole re9eu-
ton. Now however. and by the last re-
marks with respect TO the histories We.
are brought 10 the special work expected
from your committee of this year. the
examination OF the books allowed for use
bv the last ruling Of our Board of Edu-
cation. and now in use in the public
and some of the private schools Of the
State.
ALL ARE UNFIT
To begin with. and in general: As me
result OF our examination and such schol-
arly aid as we have been able TO secure:
we have to report the positive conciu-
sion that no Northern author has yet
written school history in which IL ~
not easy to trace one or more of the pur-
poses we have described and denounced.
All that We have seen are for this rea-
son unfit for use I'm Southern schools.
Nor do we hesitate 10 express the Opin-
ion that standing as these people do 10
the truth OF history, conscious that their
section Is on trial with respect 10 the
sectional war. and well aware of the
growing signs that theirs is To be the
"lost cause at last-humdn nature being
imperfect-fair history cannot be expect
ed OF Northern authors. unless they be
of the rarest and boldest. worthy 10 rank
with the inspired historians who wrote
the simple truth. II they initiate these
great writer's they conquer self TO an
extent impossible for simple mortais
offend their own people, and fail of their
market. They cannot do the first; fear
to do the second; the third, their pub
fishers will not allow. Ignorantly or
knowingly. seeing with the blinded eyes
OF prejudice or Intent that others shall
not see. they are constrained 10 falsify
the record in fact or I'm effect otherwise
they must be silent. They have not been
silent
NEED TO PLEAD
Without enlarging upon the point or
using the abundant material 10 be had
from English and American literature, we
stop a moment for one or two evidences
that these writer's have need to plead
their cause by such means as they can
devise The chairman of this committee
on one occasion. being In England. heard
a number OF British officers OF high rank,
especially engaged in the study Of mill
tary history. express their opinion-which
we rejoice 10 recognize, and which these
Northern men dread as the worlds final
yerdict-that while Washington. Lee and
Jackson were OF the great leaders of the
worlds history, the North had never pro-
duced a great commander; that Grant.
Sherman and Sheridan were not 20 be
thought Of. that the renegade Nirginian.
Thomas. was the only man who had
approached that rank. On another occa-
sion. travelling IN New England. he en-
countered gentleman who declared him
SELF O student OF history, and desired TO
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MOTIVES or ACTION.

Finally and this deserves "a separate
paragraph-Wit respect 90 the motives.
OF action. we would be glad IL
Mr. FisEe or any other Northern
author would relieve ms OF the
mental confusion resulting from the
contemplation OF facts that Robert
r Lee set free all of his slaves long be-
fore the Sectional war began and that
L. S. Grant retained his - slaves until
they were made free as one Of the re-
suits Of Lincoln's emancipation proclaT
nation. Few. perhaps. know that Con
cral Grant WAS a STAKEHOLDER, but the
fact is that he had several in the state
OF Missouri. and these were freed, Ike
those In the South. by the Emancipation
Proclamation These slaves said Mrs.
Grant. came 60 him from my fathers
family. for ] lived in the West when
married the General. who was then
lieutenant I'm the army.
Soldiers and gentlemen, We accepted IN
fuu faith and honesty the arbitrament OF
the sword We are to-day all that may
be honorably meant by the expression
loyal American citizens" Bun We are
also loyal 90 the memory OF our glorious
dead and the heroic living OF the Con-
federacy. and We viii defend them I'm our
poor way from the false and foul asper-
sions Of Northern historians IS long as
brain can think or tongue and pen can
do their office. We desire that our chill
Iren shall be animated by the same
spirit
Mr.. Fiske furthermore teaches our chill
dren that but for the war the South
would have re-opened the slave trade. lie
tells an unsupported story of slave ships
landing their carg0cs in the South. Those
If us who were men in the later nfties
will remember rumOr that about that
time vessel-called THE Wanderer
and commanded by a Southern man.
brought a cargo of Africans into South
ern river II was also rumored that one
Or more ships. owned and commanded by
Northern men, were engaged in the same
work. The stories may or may not have
been true. Granted the truth: the saci
that one or more Yankee Slave-traders
had returned 20 the sins Of their fathers
loos not prove thei 2A.oo0oc0 Of them We're
about 90 do so nor does the purchase OF
such cargOes by half a dozen Southern
planters prove that 5.Qoo.09S Of ihem had
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the Union I'm language which the concur
rent debate elliott. Vol. II, Pr. so. eZe(
proves To- have been understood
as a condition OF right to with
draw. Mr. Nicholas uses the words The
condition is part Of the compact The
resolution passed and was law untll lSo'.
with respect 10 New York the untrain-
"a reader would necessarily infer mat the
failure OF the condition IN that state was
complete while from the same Elliott 3
Debates Cyol. T p. 30. 300 we ind the
language scarcely less emphatic than thtt
OF the Virginia resolution, TO some mihds
even more emphatic.
II is Co Dee observed that all OF Mt.
Flske's books combine TO prove him utter
ly unreliable as 90 the subjects that nc
tually seem to destroy his historical per-
cepilOns.
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A DRIFTING RACE.
The Columbia and Defender Have n
Poor Speed Trial

Newport, r.. l., Aug 12.-The Columbia
beat the Defender today in the % 9-4- mile
run from New Bedford by 19 minutes 4
seconds. 1t was drift nearly all the way
but the Columbia proved herself to be a
better drifter than the Defender 1t took
the Columbia 4 hours 3S minutes 5S Sec
onds TO go over the course The wind at
the start was from the east northeast.
This held until the yachts reached the Hen
and Chickens lightship. Then it got south
east and spinnakers were taken in and
booms gybed over. The wind kept back
ing until it was southeast, and then dying
out altogether it came back again from the
northeast and the yachts gybed again.
When near the finishing line which was at
Brenton's Reef lightship, there was an
other shift. The wind came southeast and
the yachts gybed again.
The race was no fair test of the sailing
abilities OF the yachts. First one would
get puff and sail ahead only to run into
calm spot, and then the other would be
favored and go ahead. The run was unsat-
isfactory to everyone, and, to make things
more unpleasant, the fog, which had been
hanging around all day, shut in thick lust
as the fleet reached the finish line. and
several OF the yachts had a hard time get
ting into the harbor.
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JOINED THE ICE TRUST.
Reported That Washington Com
pnnies Have Entered the Comb5pe

Reported That Washington Conn
pnnies Have Entered the Combine.
New York, Aug. 1.-THE announcement
is made in Brooklyn paper this after
noon that the Big Consolidated Ice Com
pany OF Brooklyn has gone into a gigantic
ice trust, along with the Knickerbocker
ice Company, and that they have already
secured control of the ice business of
Washington and several large cities and
are now in process of acquiring more. 1t
is claimed that the new trust, which is
known ,as the American Ice Company OF
New Jersey, has acquired every ice plant
and privilege in Washington, and that the
negotiations for the transfer of ownership
in other cities viii be completed within q
few days Promoters of the trust have
been quietly at work during the past few
months buying up the control of ice con-
Germs elsewhere, and the statement is made
that they have already secured control Of
the ice business in Washington. PhiladeI-
phia, Richmond, and a number of other
places in the East and South.
The American Ice Company has a capi-
tai Of $50 G00, 900. II is understood how
ever, that this capital VIII he Increased
New York ice companies have been ex-
changed for like number in the new con-
Germ 1t is probable that the same plan
was pursued in the requirement of the
Washington companies. and that reor-
ganization of the directors will take place
John F. Carroll. the Tammany leader,
promoted the deal, and Wall Street UNDER
stands that the RockefelIers are doing the
financing.
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AID FOR THE PORTO RIcAKs.
Contributions rendered Secretar.
Root for StOrm-StricISen PeonIe

Contributions rendered Secretary
Root for Storm-Stricken People
Relief work for the Porto Rican suffer-
ers assumed a tangible shape at the War
Department yesterday, and kilograms were
received Offering money, provisions, and
clothing.
The department has designated the Ma
tional Bank of North America. at New
York as the repository for the money
donated. Col. f. B. Jones. in charge of
marine transportation on the Atlantic. is
to attend TO the shipping Of all supplies.
The transport Mcpherson will sail from
New York today fer Porto Rico with
supplies.
The following are some Of the dispatches
that have been received:
Roudolph Guggenheimer, Acting Mayor
of New York, says: Your telegram re-
ceived this morning / will Immediately
issue an appeal to the citizens of New
York for contributions for the relief of
he sufferers by the cyclone IN Porto
Rico
vSlliam T. Malster, Mayor of Baltimore,
telsgraphs; Despatch to hand. VIII do
all in my power to aid in raising funds.
food, etc, for Porto Rico"
D. E. Thompson, of Lincoln, Neb. wires
Assistant Secretary Meikleiohn: Make
draft on me for S100, account Porto Rico ="
The following reply to this despatch was
Immediately sent by the Assistant Secre-
tary:
with view to utilizing at earliest mo-
ment your generous contribution for re-
lief of Porto Rican storm sufferers have
today drawn on you at sight for $100. Sec
retary Root joins with me in thanking
you most cordially for your patriotic re-
sponse TO departments relief CALL
Fred Bennitt, late colonel of the Third
Illinois Volunteers, which has been mus
tered out, wires:
''The late Illinois Volunteers contribute
$500 TO the relief of the suffering at Arrayo
and Guayama and wish distribution made
by Captain Swift. Draft follows
The Christian Herald published in
New York, wires to Secretary Root as fol-
lows:
please draw on US for 81. 900 for relief
of Porto Rieos food sufferers"
The San Juan Ice and Refrigerating Conn
pany, also of New York, says:
May we ship by Mcpherson to our agent
at San JUAN quantity of provisions for
distribution TO sufferers 2"
The times., 1899-08-13

Rochester, N. Y, Aug. 12.-If Birdie
Cove. a handsome young woman, living at
g17 East Fayette Street, Syracuse, but who
is now patient in one of the wards in
Rochester Hospital, would talk, she could
tell the story of tragedy. She is serious
ly and the physicians think, fatally hurt,
and although she Is fully conscious and able
TO converse, she refuses TO answer any
questions Word reached Rochester this
the Rome, Watertown and OgGensburg
road, that an engines crew had discovered
the body of a man lying on the tracks near
the Forest Lawn station, and the body Of
a badly injured woman, young and wen
dressed. She was breathing. The east
bound flyer took the dead man and injured
woman to Webster.
The body Of the man was that Of a person
thirty-five years DID, dark clothes, with
u. H b. tattooed on the left arm below
the elbow. Two bullet wounds were found,
one in the back near the shoulder, the
other in the breast. A revolver lay at his
feet. The woman was removed to a hos
pital. One of the cottagers at Forest
Lawn says that q man called at his cot
tage yesterday HlOIuIIs.
been in fight and was covered with
blood. The man was very weak. He was
hatiess, and when asked where his hat
was said that another man had taken It.
A section hand says he saw two men and a
woman along the lake shore night before
last. They had been qaarreling. The
coroner believes that a murder was COM
mitted, and the second man is the one the
officers are after.
The injured girl has a deep cash over
her right temple, and her throat is laeer-
ated as though an attempt was made to
straEgle her. Her throat was bloody and
there were bloody finger marks there. The
coroner's physician, VINO examined the
body, believes the man was shot in the
back. a despatch from Syracuse says
''The man who is dead is undoubtedly
John E. Bradley. formerly OF Gananoque.
Ontario. He is maehinist and boarded
at the Cove house. He went away with
the young woman last Monday. He was
in love with her and had tried 10 force
her to marry him. but she refused" !"
The times., 1899-08-13
THE 9RANSVhAL TROUBLE
Engianfs View of the South Afri'
can Situation.
Not Since Britain Lost Her Colonies
in North America Has the Nation
The Blacks Growing Restiess-
An Uprising Is Not Improbable
fspeeial cabIsgram-oopyrighted.l

London. Aug. 12.-At the close OF to-
days London stock exchange the report
OF the South African market was: -Kafhrs
steady on lsst nights prices. and no
further alarn is felt as TO what the Beers
will CO.
That is the remarkable sequel to the
Government announcement that re-en-
forcements are going TO South Africa TO be
ready for -aIl eyentualities,' and it is
stated that Z. 900 more men have been added
10 the list of those going capeward. Yet
it is certainly true that not one in ten be-
lieres that there viii be Boer war, and not
one in hundred believes that there is a
chance Of war before October. Between
now and then negotiations ought to remove
every possible cause. Indeed. what the
Londoners are calling the Boer backdown
is scheduled for tomorrow, when great
open-air meeting of Beers win be held to
pray for peace and afterward appeal 10
President Kruger TO make some more con-
csssions for the sake of peace. Whether a
pacific solution will begin so soon is doubt
ful, but these are the lines along which It Is
looked FOR.
Mr.. Chamberlain has been accused OF
playing 10 advertise a personal triumph
when he already knows thai President
Kruger means to eventually concede con-
siderable franchise reform. The accusation
is probably unjust. for il has been known
that President Kruger had drafted an argu-
mentative refusal te- Mr. Chamberlain
proposal for an expert commission TO learn
how many and how soon the Uitlanders
would get votes under Krugers latest
scheme. That reply was withheld when
Mr. Chamberlain reiterated on the day oi
The prorogation OF Parliament that the
Government would not rest until the re-
forms il demanded had been conceded, and
British supremacy il South Africa assured.
The Beers reply viii probably be re-
drafted nov, and IL is expected that 1t viii
be sent here early next week. There is 8
prospect Of lengthy wrangIing with con-
stant increases OF British troops in South
Africa as q demonstration of supremacy
but beyond that neither Mr.. Chamberlain
friends nor those best acquainted with
South African affairs expect matters tc
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would cause great damage along the Mis-
sissippi Valley. No damage has so far
been reported along the Florida coast
In the event of the hurricane striking
Washington Prof Garriott can give no bet
ter advice than to remain indoors and keep
several OF the windows or doors open as
the effect of storm OF this nature is to
cause the air to rush outward. In cases
where the doors and windows in a strong
house are tightly closed. the walls are
thrown down and outward. while diiapidat-
ed old places with open doors and windows
have escaped without a mark. The reason
for this Is the difference in the density OF
the atmosphere inside of the house and that
on the outside. By keeping doors and win
dows open, the pressure of the atmosphere
is equal on all parts of the structure.
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contains large proportion OF English who
side with the Africanders.

contains a large proportion OF English who
side with the Africanders."
Everywhere, indeed, the strongest rea-
sons accumulate why the British soldiers
should not fire the first shot, and for diff
ferent reasons 1t is to the Transyaal's in
terest, even II 1t means to fight against
British encroachment. to postpone the date
of rupture. The Times correspondent
IN Pretoria cables that the reason s.the
boer Government is delaying as much as
possible is in order that there may be
time for the grass to graw," for the sum
ner rains will help the Beers, give grass
for their horses, and at the same time i'm
pede the British wagons
There are signs of a growing feeling
IN this country that craftsmanship will
! have failed miserably If it does not use
!. the interim to obtain a pacific settlement
OF a problem which is essentially one for
diplomacy to solve
The times., 1899-08-13

recuperation of his health, were brought
yesterday morning TO the residence CT his
sister, 941 Rhode Island Avenue northwest.
The funeral Will be conducted from there
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. the Rev
F. d. Powers. OF the Vermont Avenue
Christian Church. officiating. The body
will be inferred in GlenwOod Cemetery.
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DIED.


McAAHON-Departed this life August u fSoo
at l 30 a. m, HENRY MCMAHON. beloved bI,s-
band OF Annie Mcmahon, at residence. Ne JOS
Sixth Street northeast
May he rest in peace.
Funeral from late residence Monday. August
II, at $50 a. m. High mass. Relatives and
friends invited. n
HAsLAM-Departed this life suddenly AUGUST
Il, 1899. at l1:45 a. m, ELSIE NJ HAStAV he
bowed daughter OF Mr.. J. o. 5. and Mrs. l. A
Hasiam. =
Funeral from their residence. sO13 G Strs.t
northwest, Monday, August IA. 1880. AT , m
Relatives and friends invited. Interment al Con-
gTessional Cemetery. -
JAAES-Aemhers Of Eastern Lodge. No : r n
o. p, are requested 10 attend a special meeting
MONDAY, AUGUST Il. At A. II ia a+te15
the funeral Of our late Brother JAMES. Bv order
Of the " c.. j II DovIE -
1t
LYNCH-on Saturday. August u. 1seo A. -.t5
p. M, KATE b. LYNCH (nee GaiDor1 haIovad
wife OF Thomas T. Lynch.
please copy. =.
BEALi--On Friday. August II. fseo at n n
M oI pneumonia, at his country home in Nv
attsviile, Nd SEWARD BEAII. beloved h,,sha1d
OF Pearl Muzzy Beall. and loving son of Ricba-d
J. and Corheiia BeaII
Notice OF funeral in Sunday Post. Item
The times., 1899-08-13
A MORMON ELDER BEATEN.
The sheriff Informed and the Lead
ers of the Mob Arrested.

Wise. Va, Aug. 12.-Twc Mormon elders
were taken from a schoolhouse here,
where they were preaching, by gang of
young meuntaineers the other night. They
were tied TO tree and one was beaten
into insensibility They were united and
ordered to leave the country at once. After
the mountaineers left one of the elders
informed the sheriff, who ar once arrested
the leaders of the mob. The officers say
the mob will be prosecuted.
The Mormon who was beaten is in a
precarious condition. His companion is
still preaching. and says he will not leave,
The times., 1899-08-13
FnneraI of seMara nraII.

The remains of Seward Beaa. for ten
years a clerk in the War Department, who
died on Friday OF pneumonia at Hyatts-
Vile, Md, where he had been sent for the
The times., 1899-08-13

Ladies Lisle Thread Hose in all fan
cy colors; also in stripes and figured
effects. All sizes. For 25e
The times., 1899-08-13
I0c Ladies', Vests. SC.

Fine ribbed gauze Vests, in plain and
fancy colors, with tape in neck. Worth
1sc. For Sc.
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z5c and csc Corsefs, 4oc.
75c Gowns, 48c.
39c Drawers, 25c.

Embroidery trimmed Umbrella Draw
ers; good muslin; an excellent S9c
quality. For Csc.
The times., 1899-08-13
SHIELDING A CRIMINAL
A Young Woman's Silence Battles
the Rochester Authorities.

A Mysterious Crime I'm which Three
Persons Figured at Forest Lawn
Man Dead, and Another Has Dis
appcared-Loye Affair at It's Bottom
The times., 1899-08-13

Contraction OF chest. short breath. weak
lungs, and asthma cured by medical gym
nastlc at the Gymnastic Institute. 20 Third
81 ne. JOHN E. REUBSAM, Dr.. N. Tn.
iy23-n
The times., 1899-08-13
Sound Sleep

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