The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-29
mn - -nApN1-Ar sAIn.

Onr Greenwood correspondent learn
From - reliable source that the school
charts sold m South Carolina for 800
were sold in Virginia for 81. 1hs inior-
nation must ado to tho satisfaction with
which orr recent school administration
and host 0i school trustees review iher
acbievaments Verify. we havo a bloom
ing SIT of pumpkins dispensing kno"i-
edge 10 tho youth ol Sine state 81 has
often seemed to us that good many
peonle in South Carolina positively rearn
fo Doe buncood bv strangers. u those
charts had been published in South Caro-
lima and offered m g. apiece. the chances
ar. that few OF them would have been
sold But Ist some slick rascal who 10
totally unknown come from away on and
he can seU almost anything 40 amy
prco-Coiumbia state
PEOUTBTBTINT by EXPERIENCE
II there must Doe an election FOR mayor,
lot Che v0to-sell.ng negro be eliminated
from The choice We recognize tn't p
white primary WIN emf or the votes oL
some worthy negro citizens who have
the interest of the city at heart DUO
for tho present they must suffer for tho
sins of those who have no political ann
biuon higher than being hcrdsd DOB
bun pen and selling ont to the msnts.
b.dder-Augusta Chronicle
COME TO MY ARMs,'
yVo f.al very sure that neither Mf
BRYAN nor any other Democrat can object
TO Afr Belmonr5 attitude as outlined ln
tho letter sent ouf Saturday night 10y mo
Associated Press. That attitude is purely
Democratic he has views ot DIS own.
but he w put them aside. So faT as
his action is concerned. when the parry
speaks Ilo is tor Tho single gold stand
trd. lul he "WiN uuhes.tatingy support
f.. ....f fr fp D. should DO be made me
platform sentiment W the party DID Is'
lie will give his "ful support tn ans
candidate whom tho convention selects
This being tho case SIR. Belmont is a5
good "a Democrat as anybody, and meas
ures up 90 the fuu standard ot Dem0c-
racy.-Auauta Constitution
PASSING AWAY.
Ex-Iudee Samuel 49, Melton, VINO olrd
in this city Saturday evening. belonged
o. q generation that is rapidly passing
away lie bad PLAYED 5000 Important pan
in the history ot the State. and the story
" bis life would nl hOok. lle was
line lawyer. powerful advocate and "a
iaruod Judge Since fhe close of tHc wan.
moro than thirty years ago. h- had nol
been 90 political sympathy with ID large
majority OF tle white people of the state.
but h- remained true to DIS latter puilil-
cal alliances. Through al fHe storm OF
opposition aud ODD wil to the day of bis
death 10 bis iuumates ana rho friends
who did not forsahe him who saw the
BRIGHTER ord softer and better side of hIs
generous nature. be- was always charm
lus gentleman. or scholarly tastes and
exquisite hum0r. lie had the courage of
his convictions and chung 10 them 20
the last Charleston News aud Courier
THE ENGLISH ARE LEARNING
Tie English were probably never ne
much in error ass the people OF the
Northern states regarding the racial
characteristics OF the ucgrO. hue such
illusions as they cherished have been
more o. less rapidly diepoled bon recent
years. Their black dependents in the
West Indies have disappointed them
thor0ueh'y In Dis book ODD Tho English
iu The West Indies james Anthony fr0udo
speaks of The blacks iu thc islands as
mere good-natured animals DID, thinks
that th" result of leaving Zoe negro
nature to Itself is more aud moro ao-
parent A. long ls They remained iu
enforced association with The whites
they We're "docnc and partly civilized
but now there IS mot the slightest sl-u
that the masses AFRO fmproviue iu intel
ligenco on moral habits. and the steady
tendency BE- back toward Wost African
supcrsuuons' lu spite of schools. mis-
sionarics. etc.. immortality b. s1 unf-
versal that 10 almost ceases 10 be re-
garicd as fauit"-Macon Telegraph.