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The New Development OF the South.

Columbia in South Carolina and Charlotte
I'm North Carolina are now comparing their
condition rs to manufacturing prosperity
in tone OF friendly rivalry, and the amia-
bic controversy is interesting generally
because it indicates how great n change has
occurred during recent years in the subjects
which command Southern interest.
The Charlotte Observer takes pride In emu
merating twelve cotton mills in that town,
with 70, 600 spindlcs and 1900 looms, be-
sides four iron and machine shops and fiji
teen other factories Of various kinds, all to-
gether employing 1000 hands and turning
out an annual product OF S6,00O,OOO. The
Columbia state puts over against this record
OF the North Carolina town four cotton mills
now operating in Columbia, with 124, 900
spndlcs. "rhc additions pending will give
us five mills, with 25O,OO0 spindles and
over q, 900 looms, so that Columbia within
n year will more than treble Charotte's mill
totals and will employ $500 hands" 1t
acknowledges, however, that Charlotte
turns out n much greater variety of pro-
ducts in its mills and draws from that fact
the lesson that from this Columbans
should learn the Importance Of diversifying
their manufacturing industries"
The South generally Is learning the lesson
ofthc advantages OF diversifying industries,
and with the learning will come transfor-
nation in tone and character which will be
beneficial to the whole Union and not to
the Southern States alone. 1t will bring
the South more nearly into political accord
with the North 50 far as concerns questions
OF economic policy and push into the
background other questions so long provo
cative Of lamentable dscord. Incidentally
the race and color question will be removed
from acrimonious controversy and will set
tie itself The South will need negro labor
more than ever in its manufacturing COM
petition with the North, and il negroes i'm
prove their opportunities they will be able
to improve their condition steadily.
Tho unhappy era of differences in politics
exacerbated by hostile sectional senti-
ment and contradictory views OF sef-inter-
est on the part of North and South, is
happily passing away. With similar eco
nomical interests they will be impelled to get
together in the common advocacy OF an
economic policy which promotes the pros
perity OF both.
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Accidents VIII Happen.
From ms Nrw Orleans Times. Dsmocra


THE other evening" Just before changed
watch" said the clerk at of tn, hotels fat
drummer came up and began figuring out his
pense account for the day. He took the FIRST piece
of paper he could lay his hands and didn't notice
that it was the blank We use for keeping momoran
dunn Of morning calls. The blank is arranged in col
umns headed by figures representing hours and half
hours. and he began his pencinZ in the $50 row
First he jotted down Sl.5o for buggy hire tatn 15
cents for stamps. IS cents for fare 81 80 or
press package s11o for kilograms snts for trunk
straps cents for a paper, and quarter fer mes.
senger service. Down at the bottom. As al after
thought. he put 40. and wrote beer after ".
well. at3.3o O'Clock next morning there was trou
BILE. and plenty OF it, Tho night clerk supposed, Of
course. that the calls had been left in the ord.
Lary way. and while he was little surprised at 81
many people wanting to get up at such unearthly
hour. he told the boys to wake Nos lboI6. 35. l6o
no. 90 and 20. and carry quart of boer TO No. 40
They had terrible time getting the people up and
rybody mad al blaEes particularly the fat
drummer himself. who happened TO be in 10. and
swore he going right down and lick the clerk
About that time the boy with the beer got to 40
There a preacher from north Georgia in the
room and he called out TO know what wanted.
rive brought you the beer you ordered, boilers the
Md and the preacher nearly had ut, Merciful
heavensl he said. this will ruin me for life will
go down Immediately and sec the propristorr He
aud the fat drummer struck tho office together The
drummer wanted gore. but when he tho call list
he turned pale around the gillS and Aneaked back
upstalrs.
It took nearly an hour to get the minister cooled
Off and when the facts leaked out next day several
people began looking for the ft drummer with
clubs. He lay low. but ho has bought memo.
randum book on purpose to figure up his cash"
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San Fernando.

The victory of Gen. MACARTHUR at the
extreme northern end OF the line we now
hold In Luzon IL all the NOR" gratifying
aimee the unprecedented floods OF the last
six weeks" as Gen. Ur1s phrases IT, had
seemed to place an embargo on all nggres-
eive operations. Gen. MACARTHrRs move
was not a repulse OF an attack by tho
enemy, but a strictly offensive movement
against him, carried out in spite Of a re-
cent rain, making marching difficult. and
with such vRor that the enemy was driven
back upon Angeles, which. according to the
dispatches, will be held byus rs n new base
This success Is an indication that the
rainy season will not prove 40 complete
shield for the Filipinos IA they had hoped.
Taken together with the work OF LAwTON's
command on the shores Of Laguna de Bay,
1t shows that wherever the enemy Ia within
striking distance he will he struck. There
are stil months OF the season hostile to
campaigning to wear away, but there can
be nothing more unfavorabc to us than the
past six weeks.
Henceforward our forces in Luzon will
steadily increase, and, when the roads at
last permit, we shall sec n decisive cam
paign that will sweep all before It, Such
affairs as that at San Fernando suggest that
our troops are impatient to begin.
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States ia to have equal representation In the
Senate; that Ia TO say, each colony will have
six Senators, who, however. are to be
chosen not by the colonial Legislature, like
our Senators, but, like our Presidential
electors at large, on general ticket SUD-
mitted to the voters OF the colony. Not
withstanding this difference In the method
OF election. it is plain that the Australian
Senate will represent the colonies In their
capacity OF separate political entities,
whereas the Australian House OF Repre-
sentatives, wherein representation Is pro-
portional to population, will represent the
people OF the Confederacy considered rs
whole. Under such conditions. 1t is clear
that bill might commend itself to
majority OF the House OF Representatives
which might be viewed with deep mis-
giving by the upholders of State rights
concentrated in the Senate.
Forcseeing the possibility OF collision
between two bodies both elective, and both
consequently, clothed with cognate au-
thority the Australian Constitution pro-
vides that, when bill twice passed by the
House ct Representatives shall have been
rejected by the Senate, dissolution OF
Parliament shall take place, and the COM
ponents OF both Houses shall be renewed
by the electors. II, in the new Parliament
the bill is again passed by the House OF
Representatives. and again rejected by the
Senate, the two Houses are to meet In Joint
session, and, il the bill be then passed by
majority OF the members, 1t shall become
law. In the original draft OF the Australian
Constitution, three-iifths majority in
joint session was required. but the change
to an absolute majority was made at the
request OF New South Wales.
Such is the profound and vital difference
between the Senate Of the Canadian Domin-
ion and that which four Australian colonies
have agreed to make a feature Of their Fed
eral Government. There is really nothing
in common between the two bodies except
the name. and the provisions relating to the
one are inapplicable to the other.
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are also soon to have the Albany. sister
ship to the New Orleans
II to this array are added the new torpedo
boats and destroyers already spoken OF, 1t
will be seen that in the next three or four
years we shall have greatly added to our sea
power Yet even then our navy will be be-
hind that OF some other great nations, and
will hardly be In proportion to our popula-
ton, area wealth, resources, coast-line and
merchant marine.
We are not providing a navy that Ia In
any sense excessive. We are rather seek
ing only to restore something OF our old
prestige. In the early years OF the country
great attention was paid to sea power. and
DANIEL WEBSTER referred TO this fact In
saying that in those days we had COM
mcrce which left no sea unexplored; navies
which took no law from superior force. 1t
will be long time before our fleet reaches
that degree Of strength which accords with
our position among the nations.
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To THE EDITOR OF THE suN-Sir: II tree
be known by it's fruits. and management by
its results what shall we conclude from the
annual report OF the Northern Presbyterian
Church Just published? II is time. surely. for
some courageous soul to challenge the system
OF ecclesiastical domination and control
which has produced such results. 1t 10 moth
ing TO the purpose that other denominations
show similar symptoms.
The statistics are these: For the year ending
April l. 1898. total number OF communicates
975,S77 for the year ending April l, 1900
total eS3.907-or a net gain OF only 5000
Sunday School mem bership 1898 was 1894
1874 in 1899 it was .029. 220--or net loss OF
1895. For the past five years there has been a
retrograde movement, The net gain OF mem
bership 10 rep-Sted thus: For 1895. 26.aO7:
for 1896, 2O,SU2: for 1897, 17,195; for 1888
l4,988 for 1899. 5000
One OF Americas grandest Pres by terians we'll
said that no church ever fell away from the
truth where the pul pit was not the first to CO.
The control OF the demon nation By preachers
without parishes, over whom the body OF the
church has no control. together with the
ecclesiastical politics that places at the head Of
chief. II not only, recommendation is. their
need Of place. weakens, faith and zeal full as
much as the theological distractions
Is not the church in bad way. when state
ment such as this TO the last General Az
sembly passed unchallenged? The throne Of
Let the people Of the church sit upon that
throne. and let US have peace.
AsBURY PARK. Aug. 7.
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Horse Painted Yellow Dies.
From n, Philadelphia Pres.


NoRRIsTowN. July 2I.-As the result Of
wanton practical Joke a valuable horse belong
ing TO Edward J. Richards died this evening.
The horse occupied stall at the Farmers
Hotel Last night some one entered the hotrl
stables and smenred the horse with a coat OF
yellow paint The animal is docile and readily
submitted 10 the Joker's work. An attempt
was made to smear two Greys In adjoining
small strokes OF yellow dishgure their hides.
When Mr. richards went TO clean his horse TINS
morning he found the animal suffering in ter
rible agony. In order to free itself of the vel
low coating, y had kicked tho sides out Of the
stall. In addition II licked off as much paint as
possible Every effort was made to save tho
animals life. but 1t died OF blood poisoning and
internal rupture. the latter sustained In itS
paroxysms OF agony.
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Our Growing Navy.

The excitement OF portion OF the Ger
man press over the discovery of an "enor-
nous increase" which Is contemplated in
our feet Is quite unnecessary. One Berlin
paper notes that we are now building AZ
war vessels" with IL more ordered at the
last session Of Congress. OF those 46, how
ever, 35 are torpedo boats and destroyers,
while the remainder include vessels ordered
several years ago.
1t Ia true, however, that within few
years we have greatly increased our fight
ing strength. OF battlcships for example,
we have now only five, the Oregon, Iowa,
Indiana, Massachusetts and Texas. and the
Texas Is OF the second-class. Weare to add
the Kearsarge and Kentucky now almost
ready for their trials; the Alabama, Illinois
and Wisconsin, due next month, but not to
be expected for some months to come the
Maine Ohio and Missouri, not called for
until June, 1901 finally. the Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Georgia, for which the con
tracts cannot be made until Congress settles
the armOr question. These eleven ships
will much more than double our linc-of-but-
tie strength.
OF monitors we now have half dozen
double-turret vessels, the Puritan, Mon
terey. Amphitritc, Mantonomoh, Monad.
mock and Terror, besides dozen single
turret relics Of the Civil War Of the Nan.
tucket and Cauonicus classes Our ap,
preaching additions to this type are less
important than those made t. tho battle
ships. They include tn" Arkansas Con
necticut, Florida and Wyoming, which are
due within the next year and half,
The armored cruiser class now consists OF
the Brooklyn and New York. OF ",2l5 ant
5000 tons displacement, respectively, ant
will DO much more than doubled ia effect
iveness, as the three proposed additions
the California. the West Virginia and tn,
Nebraska, arc to diSplaCc about -, 600 ton,
each. For th"sC, however We may have &c
wait long time, since no contracts can b,
made for them until the price of armor /.
fixed to suit Congress.
Six vessels the Clrvrland Chattanooga
Denver, Des Moincs, Galveston aud Tacoma
are to be added 10 the uuurmurrd vruiS"
class They will dsplRre little more than
the Cincinnati class, and will have an excel
lent coal endurance, with thcirpower to kccl
the seas materially increased 10y th"i
sheathinE. A recent change gives them
pinch protective dock over the machimrr,
and coal bunkers. They are not fast, bu
in other respects ought to be noteworth,
vessels. Bids on them will bo opene'
November 2. and for their construction
probably thirty months will be allowed. W
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Militarisn.

Our esteemed Bryanite contemporary,
Che BuTalo Times, has been looking ut
"Militarism again and has been properly
Mortified thereby
"Militarsn is the antithesis of Democracy
which will the people havet
They will have both, and democracy
must be able to protect itself just as mon
archy must, by means Of IA trained army
and navy 1t cannot fight by means Of
town meetings and county conventions, or
beat an enemy with resolutions. The men
who grow the most purple in denouncing
the autocrats and satraps of the army and
navy are usually the men who, in any con-
troversy OF the United States with foreign
power, are the hercest for war. They want
war. but they are unwilling that the nation
should have the means by which alone war
can be waged successfully
Everybody knows these gentlemen, Dem
ocrats and Populists. Their voices are
heard in Congress and on the stump, insult
ing the officers OF the army and navy, de-
nouncing "miltarism" and shuddering at
standing armies Tho denuncation and the
shuddering are even now going on in Dem
ocratic conventions. This, after a war in
deared themselves to the people by their
high capability and brilliant daring! In a
country conscious OF its strength and justly
expecting to bear no gnoble part in the
great race for commerce and influence in
the East, these protests against 'militarism'
and standing armies are as futile be
lated. Is this BRYAN or GoRMAN, or is it old
JOHN RANDOLPH, squeaking against dcspot-
Ism and tho War OF 1912?
Militarism" means an establishment,
military and naval, adequate to the needs
of the United States OF 1899. Standing
armies" means well-disciplned, we'll
equipped. well-organlzed army. The men
who object to these necessary appliances
OF a great modern power are welcome to
live on acorns and run wild In woods. The
United States Is going ahead.
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LYING BEIBAMr FASHION
A Little Town In Kansas in Which tn'''
Grafton Seems to BE Success

From he Warrington evening Std''
INpEpENDENCE, Kan. Aug, 5.-The little town
Of Morehead In the very northwest corner OF
Iabette county. is probably the only town in
the United States that is run on cooperative
plan TO any extont. This little town hasapopn.
lation OF about Ave or six hundred people and
hasadopted co. operatv methods almost exclu-
aiyely. It ia situated on the Santa Fe railroad
between mere and Kansas CITY, ana ~ about
thirty miles north OF here II Is ~, the hchrt ~
a great agricultural section ana the po-oprrl-
tive idea has been extended into tho country,
where several farms are run on the co'opera;
tive basis Tho farmers raise their drops ana
divide up 80 that II ono farmer mas poor crops
he need not suffer total loss. "a ne would do
The cooperative methods that have been
ed 80 FAR have proven a success ana more
enterprises are constantly being put ununr
this IN ethod OF doing business. AT present INC
town has a cooperative hotel. cooperative
laundry, q cooperative hall. a cooperative
creamery q cooperative canning factory ana
operation where several families. perhaps two
dozen, take their meals. Anybody who is
member OF the company car, get tneit meats
have become members. so that they
S ioR price w HSHa i they CONS to town
movement is 10 be started soon. which, to-
gether with the dining hall already in opnra-
ton. will do away with the hired girI problem.
An experienced manager oversees each COM
mon enterprise and renders his account at the
end OF each month. and the cxpensesare divide
ed up among the members OF tho cooperative
The town is prospecting and many new
houses are going up. Other enterprises VIII
be put on a cooperative basis at once. ana
other work done in common, and such town
az Edward Bethany pictureSin Looking lack
ward" will in all probability be realized ,hern.
as that is the intention OF the people OF More
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LIKE DIAMOND-s7UDDED WALLS.
The Beautiful Appearance of the Interior
OF n Nevada Cavern.
From the Wrnnem.eea si,rcr STATE.

From the Winnemseed Siirer STATE.
On the north side OF the OsRood range OF
mountains. about four miles east OF Eden
creek. there is a natural cave OF quite large
dimensions. 1t is in the limestone formation
and has the appearance OF an old worked-out
mine with its slopes. raises and wines 1t is
almost impossible to find the entrance. as It is
covered with growth OF underbrush.
The first thing that pers on notices is
small crevce in tho rocks. but as he crawls
into the crevce on hands and knees he finds
that it widens as he goes down. About fifteen
feet from the entrance man can stand up and
walk down the gradual incline. which is at
ABOUT ~ degrees. At place thirty feet from
the mouth there is a raise some thirty feet
high and drift forty feet long. The sight
which meets the cave-seeker's gaze at this
point is most beautiful. On the ceiling large
stalactites hang in clusters. and the walls are
decorated with & istening crystals of lime in
terminGed with drops OF water, giving 1t the
appearance OF being set with millions OF dia-
mOn0s
Der is reached which is over sixty feet across
and over fifty feet high. There are numerous
other passages or caverns, and on the left
there is a passage big enough TO admit the
body. that opens into second chamber which
Is about twenty feet across and ten or fifteen
feet high. In the main chamber. some twenty
feet high, can be seen the Opening Of another
chamber. but as there is no tim Der near to
make ladders the upper cavern has not yet
sree Which n9nd be FOUND Weee
closer explorations to be made. SraIactities
and stalagmtes can be seen in all directions
Water is dropping continually, and the light
Of n candle shining upon these crystals and
sp appear '' This cave rs is the home Of the
might be thousands OF the little animals which
make this natural wonder their home.
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From he N,p Orleans Times. Democrat.

From the Nep Orleans Times Democrat
lone OF the most remark BILE feats of strength
ever saw In my life is performed every day ~
an old beRgar on Baronne street. said one OF u
group OF clubmen engaged in discussing attn
1T is nothing to look at" he continued. "and
you will smile when | describe 1t. but am
willing to bet that there Is nobody in the crowd
that can come anywhere near duplicnting
the performance. The beggar to whom /
refer stands in almost exactly the same
position all day long-his feet little
apart. his shoulders stopped. his chin on his
cup or course. | don't pretend to assert that
he holds out the cup continuously without rest
or Intern ssion during his entire stay. but ON
several occasions ! have timed hun. ana can
state positively that he has kept his arm eN-
tended with hardly q culver for over twenty
minutes at n stretch. person who knew
nothing about athletics would suppose that was
easy. but it isn't by a jugful as some ot yun
chaps are doubtless aware. remember hear
ing very powerful fellow in the billiard room
of the St. Charles boast Of the length ~
time he could hold a dumbbell AZ arm =
length. aud somebody present remarked quietly
couldn't hold out a visiting card steadily Tor a
quarter Of an hour by the watch. The big man
jumped at the wager and for Few minutes his
arm was as straight and rigid as bar OF iron.
Theu it began to CULVER slightly. and presently
the arteries were standing out H. e cords ana
the sweat was streaming down his lace ike
rain. He gave lin the eleventh minute.
There Is undoubtedly more Orlrss ot a trick
in the thing. and I suppose the Old heggar
holds his pose through long force Of habit. but
nevertheless it's n remarkable feat
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NOAH AND THE FLOOD
Tho Dsiugo Described as Necessary to Fro
vent tho Overpopulation of the Earth.


From Sotvation, organ Of ns converted Jsp'.
The building OF the ark proves that the
family OF Noah must have possessed and trans
mitted large inheritance OF knowledge ana
skll In arts that we're common TO men Deiore
the Flood. The magnitude and seaworthiness
OF that great specimen Of antediuvian marine
architecture-not less tnan 800 feet in length
and 100 In breadth. and with Its three decks. at
least sixty feet In depths conclusive testi-
mony to proficiency in the arts such as we
should expect from the immense advantage at
which men worked who had hundreds OF years
in which to accumulate skill. experience and
methods. instead o, dropping their life work
as soon as well begun. ike the artisans and
engineers OF the present day.
ours. how long would II have taken the antedi-
iuyians to III! up the Eastern hemispheIei, S OF
years Of Moses chronology for amaximum we
shall stand aghast at our own figures y we
take the smallest conleeturaHIie ratio o, ij
by the Deuge, At only three times the post
dlluvian ratio, or 40 per century. the popuiaI,
mankind in little more than twelve centuries;
and whom tina, great day Of destruction came.
prey population four hundred times as large
as the earth now sustains ,.,,
their average lifetime Of nine centuries, be as.
sumed to CORRESPOND TO our present OLDEST
Ss s sa {" ths
average of human life was. in like manner; ten
times as long y nature; before the Flood as as
have several times multlp piled the present ratio
OF increase in population. The much greater
proportion OF persons who lived to become
parents with the heightened term OF parentage
In the individual. must have still further multi
piled the ratio OF increase.
After making all possible allowances, or even
surprising no greater ratio OF increase in the
worst Of the antediluvian centuries than has
Mosaic chronology as the longest that the linn
its Of probability and Of the capacity OF the
so, but the deluge itself becomes another logi;
cal necessity. That utter destruction OF all
the families OF the earth save one was the only
alternative to an overcrowding Of the earth.