The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-07-16
THE USUAL CRIME" IN MISSOURI
y Crowd of $500 Men and Boys Clamor
Tor FcnEcnnc" Against Thrco Negroes
in tho County Jnil nj linnsns CITY.


IN the County Jail nj Imnsns CITY.
Kansas City, Mo-, July IA
crowd Of twenty fvo hundred excited
mcn and boj& surrounded the couu-
" Jail hero toni ght, clamoring for
venGoanco against throo negroes, who
crIminally assaulted Miss Grace
Davis "Wednesday night in a popu-
lous and highly respectable neigh
borhood. Eight negro suspects have
boon arrested, six Of whom arc be-
!iovcd to hnvo been taken away to
tho work house Tho negroes still
in Jail arc tho two mon who havo
boon idnntilicd-Joscph Roberts and
Frank Holland. Tho policemen sue
c2cd"d after midnight in driving tho
mob from the Court House block,
but 800 mon remain in tho stroota.
! A. M.--Tho mob seems TO havo
abandoned its lynchlng plan. Fivo
hundred men, in squads Of seventy
five, Nro raiding tho negro quarter in
tho North End, chasing and beating
negroes ami smashing windows.
"Straightcning Out the Furrows."
"Boys,' he said, "I'vc been try
ing every day Of my life for the
last two years 10 straightcn out
furrows, and can't lo il. -
One boy turned his head in sur.
prise towards the captains neatly
kept place.
"Oh | dou't mean that kind
lad. | don't mean land lurrow, :"
continued the capt liu, SO sobrrlv
thnI the attention Of the boys be-
came brcnthIcs, as he wen, on:
"Whcn was Il lad about the
age Of you boys, was what they
called a 'hard case no, exactly
bad or vicious, but wavward and
wild. Well, my dear Old mother
used to coax, pray and punish.
my father WAS dead, making it all
the harder for hcr-but she never
got impatient. How in the world
she bore with ali my stubborn.
NcNlnG ways SO patiently will al
ways be to me one of the mysteries
OF life. | knew il was troubling
her, knew it was changing her
pretty face, making ii look anxious
and Old. After Il while, lirinH of
al! restraint, | ran away, went of
t. sea and a rough time had Of
it at first. Still | liked the water
and liked iourncying around from
place to place. Then | settled
down TO business in Il foreign Land
and soon became prosperous, and
now began sending her something
besides empty letters. And such
beautiful letters as she always
wrote me during those years OF
absence. AZ length | noticed how
longing they Ercw--longing for
the presence Of the SON who used
to try her so-and it awokc Il cor
responding longing in my own
heart to go back to the dear, wait
ing soul.
$50 when | could stand it no
longer, | came back, and such a
welcome, and such SURPRISE My
mother is not very old lady, boys,
but the lirst thing | noticed was
the whitcncss Of her hair and the
deep turrows on her brow, and |
knew | had helped to blanch that
hair to its snowy whitcncss, and
had drawn those lines in tnat
smooth forehead. And those arc
the burrows I've been trying to
straightcn out.
'Hut last night, white mothc,
was sleeping in her chair, I sa,
thinking it all over, and looked tc
sec what progress had made.
"llcr face was very peaceful ant
the expression contcntcd as posi-
bic, but the furrows were still
there! | hadn't succeeded i,
Strengthening them out-and-I-
never cr-shall-nevcr!
"Whcn they lay my mothcr---m,
fair Old swccthcart---in her caskct
there will be furrows in he
brow; and | think it a wholcsom,
lesson to teach you, that tn,
ncglcc. you offer your parents
counsel now, and the trouble vo,