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Evening journal., 1902-05-29

Alone among the June magazines
the Review of Reviews gives a graphic
and comprehensive account of the Mar
Unique catastrophe, illustrated from
the most recent photographs taken or
the ill-fated island Mont Pelee's
eruptiOns are described from the
scientists point of view by DR.. w. J.
McGee. Of the Bureau of EthnOlogy
az Washington. The Review has again
distanced all its contemporaries. as
il did during the Spanish war. in the
journalistic treatment Of historic
events. The newspaper reader who
is confused by the clamor over the
Philippine situation will find in THERE
view of Reviews for June an editorial
summary of the controversy, written
in calm and judicial spirit, and en-
phasizing the vital points in dispute
While making no attempt to extenuate
amy abuses that may have developed
in connection with our military ad-
ministTatiOn of the islands, the editors
conclusion is that our army has
been more humane and more scrupu-
lous in its recognition of the rules of
war than any other military forces un-
der like conditions have ever been in
the history of the world"
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
Cas- Works. May 2s. l9O2.

Mister Editer: / amt got much time
to do no writin' this week. as Mister
Addicks sent for me the luther da and
put me to work in his dairy He says
that minglin' with cattle and maxim
friends of them will be valuabel ex-
periens for me that will come in handy
when / get back to campane work.
kind O. like the company and hits
more elevatin than some / have saw.
So you see / am purity buzzy, and l
don't no nuthin' moo, so l guess I'll tell
you about a letter that l got from my
Wife. Lauray, the luther da.
Hit seems that little 81. got a-holt OF
some of my letters, and he has been
demOrulized ever sense. He has tuck
hit into his he'd that the best way tc
get along is TO be low-down ornery
You sea he hain't big enough to know
that a father don't allus want his dhil.
dren TO foller the advise he gives tC
uthers.
ST. has got up a robber band. Laura.
says. and he is chief of hit, and they
puts feathers in their hare and goes
lCavortin' round in CRATE shape. Tlhel
all has fansy names. and 81. is thu
chief. and he calls hisself John Ed
ward The luther day when they wal
a-playin' he called them his cattle
and druv them into the stable an'
maid 'em eat hay. Hit was a Oner.
trick, but 1 couldn't help laffin' whel
| read hit.
But hit seams that he has the dea'
wood en- the rest of 'em, cause he put
|up the spendin' money fer the gang
lIauray says SHE don't no how he get
| hit. but he tells the fellers hit come
from waterin' stock. He's a slick ras
lcal. Iauray says that some time ag
the superintendent of the Sunda.
school told the children they was TO b
a libraryen eleckted, and that h
wanted the brightest and best boy II
lschool. Well, the eleckshun was to b
1.-The next Sunday. and all THAT week $
was busy. He give away slate pensils
land old Barlow knives and chewin
gum to beat the band, and all ther
lscholars was a-sayin' what Mise bo
he were. Lauray says that she don
no where he got all them things. and $
won't tell.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

The seventeen-year locust has ap-
peared. and there is much unnecessary
regarding it. AS a matter
of fact. this insect, while injurious to
trees, is by no means a "scourge." Z" I'm
like the grasshopper swarms, it eats
nothing in the winged stage OF its eX-
istence, and the only harm it does is to
the tender shoots of trees. The female
locust pierces these and deposits her
eggs in them; after which that portion
of the twig beyond the puncture withers
and falls off. Aside from this, no harm
is done, and even this damage, unless
the insects should prove to be unusual
ly abundant will not amount to much
philadelphia Public Ledger.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
81. OLOFIELD HEARS FROM LAURAY:
LITTLE 81. is BECOMING DEMORALIZED

Well, when Sunday come ST. walks
INTO Sunday school as big as life, and
the superintendent he gets up and
says; Now boys. who'll you choose
for libraryan?2 81. Jumps up and
SAYS he1fM Mesf of nobody The super
intendent Was surprised. but tko or
three little boys that 81. had give the
Barlow knives to, iumped. up add says:
He, bought hit aRd he ought ito have
hit"
Wen that busted up the eleckshun.
Some was for 81. and some was agiR
him, and they hain't been no eleck-
snun yet.
But l must get back TO the story of
81. and his robber band. Hit seams
that they have swore a terribel oath
that they will have that offs and they
is likely to stick while Sis gifts holds
out They is one boy that they calls
"Flannel-mouth Gale" who does most
of the talkin'. He says that if they
can buy enough of the scholars with
presents they will have majority,
and the majority must rool. He talks
so much that ST. gets disgusted, so he
has had a muzzzle made that he puts
over Gales mouth when he gets tired
Of hearin him. Lauray says that
"Flannel-mouth' has wore hit most of
the time lately.
dhey is anuther boy they call Lit
tie Frank" he is a little undersized
and has bow legs. but he's the right
hand man of the robber chief. They
say that he and "Flannel-mouth'
don't get along very well, but as Gale
does the talkin' and he handles the
funds they manage to get along some
way.
Lauray says the people is gettin'
tired of all their dOins and is a-or-
ganizin' to put stop to hit They
threaten 10 put John Edward. Flannel
/ mouth Gale and Little Frank in Jail,
land I am wosrit considerable.
j I must so back to my cattle now,
as it Is milkin' time. I'm afeerd they
is goin dry, and if they does, Pm
goin' back to Lauray and the farm.
Yours sincerely,
Silas Old1eld
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
Our Educational Methods

From the London Times.
The tendency Of educational activity
in the United States seems to be toward
the attainment Of every end which can
render the children better fitted to be
useful members OF the community to
which they belong, more capable at
once of acquiring knowledge and of ap-
plying it, cleaner and more wholesome
in their habits, stronger and more
shapely in their bodies. and with all
their powers and faculties fully and
harmoniously developed Among our
selves there is at least no lack of ex-
penditure upon education. but we
greatly fear that the efforts of school
board and of school managers are less
directed toward ends than toward
means, less toward the results of teach
ing than toward it's conduct in some
particular way, less toward the attain
ment of results than toward the main
tenance of shibboleths. The remedy is
greatly in the hands of parents. whose
duty it is, as lectors of the authorities
by which schools will be controlled. to
select candidates whose chief aim is eff
hciency in preference to those whose
chief aim is the preservation of formu-
laries.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
PALNrA,s MESSAGE

In his first message to Congress,
president Palma shows that he is
aware Of the dangers and difficulties
in his pathway. At the outset the
young Republic is without sufficient
revenue 10 properly run the affairs of
government, and besides this, is con-
fronted with an enormous obligation
in the form of claims of the late Cuban
army. If the slate could be wiped off,
all might be we'll but from the start
cuba is confronted with a claim which
she cannot evade. but which will re-
quire millions of dollars to satisfy.
President Palma acknowledges this
obligation and recommends it's pay
ment at the earliest opportunity. In
discussing relations with this country
he speaks in terms of gratitude for the
part we have performed, and naturally
expresses a hope for the continuance
OF cordial relations. He is anxious for
reciprocity with the United States
which shall give something of the ad-
vantage in marketing her sugar and
tobacco. hat Porto Rico enjoys.
The new President in his messag,
shows progressive spirit, urging
concessions to railroads and an OK
tension OF education. This must i'm
press the inhabitants with a new idea
Under Spanish control progress wal
hindered rather than advanced. Thi
is attributed TO race and climate, bu
there is a possibility that under tn
Quickening influence Of a clean, pre-
gresslve government Cuba may throv
off her lethargy. The American occl
patton has set her people many e,
amples. For several years she has hs
a government fairly and economical
administered The sanitation of h
cities has been vastly improved, an
life has been made more tolerabl
May she profit by this example.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
No Nonsense in Nebraska
From the Washington Post.

AANAAA AiAN ~ tA'AAAlAaA'h oeAs
Somebody in authority ought to
notify Mount Iona, out there in Ne
braslSa. that it must not get too gay
at this particular time. We are having
trouble enough with volcanoes as it is.
The real thing is more appalling than
there is any need for. In Martinique
and st. Vincent we have had tragedies
that will last our time. Furthermore,
every hill with a hole IN it-counting
the West Indies. the Isthmus, Nicara-
qua, Mexico, etc.-has begun to puff
and snort and wriggle, as though it
were about TO ejaCulate with the ut
most ferocity. Besides, and as if the
cOnvulsions of Nature were not suf-
ficient. political revolutions are raging
in various quarters-Columbia Ecua-
dor. Venezuela, Santo Domingo and
other spots too numerous to mention
and too hot to handle. Not to put too
fine point upon it, we are surround
ed at this moment with eruptiOns of
all sorts. and we do not want any
foolishness out in Nebraska with
Mount Iona That enterprising little
postule must be poulticed, for the pres
ont, at least, and until We can give
It some attention.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
FIENDIsH ACT

We had in this community a case
yesterday similar to an occasional
happening in the South for which the
offender is lynched It is a sickening
story. A reputable woman Of sixty
years was brutally assaulted and out
ragged. II is sometimes said that our law
covering such cases is too severe, but
nothing but the death penalty will
meet such a case as this. The theory
of punishment is that it is for the pur-
pose of deterring others from the COM
mission of like crimes. and TO do this
the penalty must be severe.
Taking into consideration the time
and place of the commission of the
deed, escape should be impossible, and
it is to be hoped that the flend will not
getaway. If he is captured Delaware
will give an example of how she can
meto out justice to such iiends under
due form of law. There will be no
prejudice because Of race, but the mon
ster will have fair trial and get his
deserts without thought of the color of
his skin. In such cases there is a
temptation on the part of the friends
of the victim to resort to summary
measures, but if we mistake not the
temper OF our people. this fend, If
caught, will be perfectly safe until he
has had his trial under due form of
law Then he may prepare for the
moose
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

Momentous events hang on little
things. Dover is trying to raise money
for a new opera house. and the youth
fu State News discourses about as
follows: We must make Dover attrac-
tive or we shall lose the capital. Will
mington is looking on it with enyious
eyes, and is stretching out her hand
to grasp IL. Oh, no; we are content.
We are better satisfied to have the
Legislature remain where it is. Be
sides. the Governor occasionally does
us the honor of visit, and as for the
Secretary of State-well If he keeps
busy we will try to get along without
his society Kent may keep the capi-
tai: certain statesmen would be out OF
setting without .ihe Dover Green as a
background.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
THE LITERARY WORLD

The Engineering Magazine for June.
opens with a sketch OF Lord
Kelvin--His Work and influence" by
Professor =. b. Croker, Of Colum-
bia University. 1t is not a biog-
raphy. but q personal Interpretation OF
the individuality of the man and the
characteristics of his genius. These
are pointed out TO be the rare combi-
nation of scientific insight with prac-
ucal. executive business ability. The
estimate is the more interesting be-
cause Professor Croker himself is of
those who edo things" A seasonable
topic. and one of growing industrial
importance. is discussed by e. w. Rob
erts in a remarkably finely illustrated
article on Motive Powers for the
Modern Launch" Other illustrated
papers by Enrioo Bignami, on the
funicular railway from Vevey to the
summit Of Mont Pelefin, by Charles
Il. King, on continental locomotives,
and by w. NJ. Mcfarland on the marine
engine make the number an unusually
handsome one in point Of illustration.
Mr.. McFarland's paper concludes q
most interesting review of the wonder
ful Increase in economy in marine en-
gineeTing during the last seventy-fve
years. Mr.. Ackermann compares Eng
lish and American coal mining meth
DDS, showing how machinery reduces
the cost OF coal getting; Mr. Carpenter
continues his series on "Money-Saving
Management for the Workshop" and
Mr.. Falconer gives a plan for making
the factory office productive depart
ment. There is the usual comprehen-
sive review and index of the Engineer
ing Press.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
why Concert Was Not Well Attendt

Why Concert Was Not Well Attended
To tho Editor OF the Evening Journal.
Sir: Although the papers clearly
stated that after the concert at Dock
stader's there would be sufficient
money for the mad dog victims fund
many people conceived the idea that
the amount had already been raised
and that probably accounts for the
small attendance Mrs. Pierson de-
serves credit for her unassuming abil-
itv. and should have been better pat
rOnized. fdIiUn
Wilmington, May 29 1902.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

The leading article in the June Fo-
rum-the last issue of that magazine
before its transformation into "A
Quarterly-is contributed by Professor
Felix Adler. who writes on THE Phil
ippine War: Two Ethical Questions. &"
These questions are, whether it is
treason to condemn a war waged by our
country while the war is still in prog
ress. and whether civilized nations are
justified in adopting uncivilized meth
DDS OF warfare. o. p Austin effective
ly uses the commercial statistics of re-
cent years to demonstrate "Our Grow
ing Dependence Upon the Tropics, 8"
and shows the bearing OF this fact
upon the possibilities of our acquisi-
tOns in the East. An important pOiti-
cal problem in connection with these
acquisitions is considered in the light
.of European experience, IN Prof. Paul
IS. Reinsch's paper on Representation
and Colonial Government" Professor
Is. J. Mclean deals with Railway
Rate Regulation in Canada" a sub
iect which the Canadian Government
last year appointed him to investigate
Some strange anomalies in "The Mu-
nicipal Situation in Ohio" are de-
scribed by Professor S. p. Orth. "The
Real Hobo; What He Is and How He
Lives" is the title of an article in
which Charles Ely Adams portrays the
actual characteristics OF class con-
cerning which the public has usually
been content to derive concerning
which the public has usually been con-
tent to derive its information from the
caricaturists. The debit and credit
sides of "Our Legacy to the Cuban
Republic" are contrasted by Albert G
Robinson. "Japan's Mission in th'
Far East" is expOunded by T. lyenag'
as the function of a mediator between
the Western Powers and China. w. J
lShearer protests against Faulty Grad
ing in Our Public Schools and +
Burk shows a possibility Of harmon
4 ious relations between THE Old Edu
d. lcation and the New" This month
numDer concludes with two literary ar
lticles-"Among the Constantinopl
? BookshOps," by DR.. Henry Oti
q Dwight. and Victor Hugo. the Novel
81 list" by Professor Moritz Levi.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

The Cuban Republic has begun its
work. 1t is now engaged in arranging
salary list President Palma gets
$4,000 a year and members of Con-
gress $4,000. The funds for the pay
ment of these salaries are not yet in
sight
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
Headnuarters for E. E. Bach

Fred L. Bach. who has been lately
recalled from Cuba TO assume super
vision of the rural free delivery SER
vice. will be stationed in Philadelphia,
and Will have a general supervision of
the rural delivery system in Delaware
and other States.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
POLICE WANT SALARIES INCREASED
Delegation Appeared Before Members Of
City Council Last Evening

Feeling that they are poorly paid
for the service they perform, a delega-
ton of patrolmen appeared before City
Councils committees last evening and
asked that their pay be increased from
$3.50 to SS4O a year. They called atten-
ton to the fact that they work on an
average Of twelve hours a day, and re-
ceive but about 10 cents an hour. This
is a lower rate than is received by or
dinary workmen.
Another meeting will be held this
evening.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
q. f. RUDOLPH,
Market and Fourth SITS

prices for all sorts of THE swimming
tribes seem high in comparison with
the schedules for beef, mutton and
other flesh meats. Why are not fish
cheaper in these times? The schools Of
mackerel and other inhabitants of the
waters are almost innumerable. But
in the tenement districts fish is COM
paratively an expensive food. Here is
chance for a sea change into some
thing rich and strange.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

blue. short in the sleeves. gored at the
sides and tucked into the trousers be
low. The latter garments We're cut full
and gathered at the knee by a piece OF
twine. The gentlemen wore the con-
ventional duck"
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

Dover has an aesthetic baseball
team. A game has been booked with
the Champion Ladies Club, and a
swell affair is anticipated We may
expect descriptions Of the costumes
about as follows: "The charming Miss
Blank. who gracefully twirled the
sphere, was dressed in a waist of darl
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

Yesterday was a red-letter day foI
Roosevelt. The Kansas State Conven-
tion endorsed him, and Mark Hanna
did the same.
Evening journal., 1902-05-29

An item is going the rounds Of the
press showing how we may tell char
aoter by the kind OF hair one wears.
But suppose there isn't amy hair? Are
we TO decide that the occupants of the
bald-headed row are minus charac-
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
DOES ITtPAY

To neglect your eyes, ruin
your sight, and to allow dis
ease to gain a foothold? To
avoid such a disaster, upon the
first symptoms of any trouble
with your eyes, consult our
optician.
An accurate examination
free, combined with painstak-
ing adjustment. Prices for
glasses moderate at
Evening journal., 1902-05-29
sIRPRIsE YOUR WIFE

By making the old house look new.
Felton-Sibley paints will do it. Sold
by Cartmell. Sixth and Madison.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-10

ton Female College, and the two
Episcopal colleges OF women in the
State would be brought into sharp
competition, and the death knell sof
Williamson would have been sounded.
All the female colleges were now
crowded into the upper part of the
State, and there was no surer way to
kill them all than by further crowding.
It was not true that Columbia had
done nothing. 4 half century ago the
city OF Columbia built the present
building, building that at present
cannot be replaced for $50, 900. By
making an offer at the present time,
after the impression had gone out that
the agitation was simply to secure
money from her, was simply for Colum-
bia to stultify herself. But how in
significant we're the bids for the col
iege's removal!
Take Greenwood's bid, the Insight
fcant sum of $50, 900, and that in sub
scriptions subject to death and to with
drawal. It was proposed to give up
building worth $50, 600, a desirable
lot in the centre of one of the most
progressive cities in all the South,
and to be side tracked in the little
town of Greenwood for the insignificant
little sum Of S39, COO!
Mr.. Daniel spoke of the moral side
of the question, of the compact made
between the fathers and the people of
Columbia, and the fact, as he said,
that this compact would be broken by
the removal. The Conference had been
discriminating against the Girls Col
lege, even in its twentieth century
movement, and yet they expected it
to grow and flourish in equal degree
with Wofford. And now it was pro-
posed to continue this discrimination
by removing the College as sacrifice.
He did not know what the Bishop
was going to say about it, but he be-
lieved that some Of the greatest safe
guards of governments and individuals
were enshrined in parliamentary law.
Here was a movement proposing to
change by its removal the very name
of this historical institution. He be-
lived, in accordance with parliament
ary law, a two-thirds vote would be
necessary. Finally, in the name of
common sense and in the name of the
women of South Carolina, he pleaded
that the College be left in Columbia:
Don't touch that institution. Leave
it where it is. Do that and the bless
ing of God will rest upon you. Move
1t and you stab to the heart Methodist
female education in South Carolina.
Messrs. G. G. Featherstone, j. e.
Lesesne, Rev. r. A. Child, NJ. L.
Carlisle, j. N. Steadman, j. A. Cliff
ton and others took part in the debate.
Upon motion previous question vas
called and in the vote roll-eall was
demanded. The resolution, making
it the sense of Conference that the Col
lege remain in Columbia, was carried,
the vote standing 120 yeas to "a nays,
and the College remains in Columbia.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-10
q NOVEL SUIT.
Action Brought BY Kershaw coun-
ty Against seaboard Railway.

One of the most interesting and
novel cases on record is being tried
before Judge Izlar, in Camden. The
case is a suit against the Seaboard
Air Line Railway brought by Kershaw
county for s., 600.
When the Seaboard was building its
road from Columbia to Camden a tenn
porary bridge was thrown across the
Wateree river and the bases were COM
posed of large pens Or cribs filed with
rock. When the permanent bridge
was built the cribs were allowed to
stand, and the county claims that
these cribs alter the natural course Of
the stream, turning it toward the
bank, and causing it to destroy the
bottom lands adjoining the river.
The water flows over road not far from
the railway line and causes obstruc-
tion to traffic.
1t is seldom that a county brings an
action of this kind against corpora
tion, and the novelty of the suit has
attracted a great deal of attention, and
man expert witnesses are being used
in the case.
Messrs. Kirkland & Hay represent the
county and Messrs. Shannon and Lyles
the Seaboard.-Columbia Record.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1902-12-10
Ne Ran FOR CONGRESS.
A Trne Bill Returned Against
A. p. PrioIeau.

A. P. Prioleau, the negro candidate
for Congress from the 1st district IN
the recent general election, was indict-
ed by the grand jury in the United
States District Court yesterday for
violation of Section 1891, Revised
Statutes of the United States. Before
he had Congressional aspirations
Prioleaux was a railway mail clerk. In
the Indictment it is charged that on
July 4, 1902, he unlawfully delayed,
detained and opened letter addressed
to Peter Gailliard, magistrate at
Eutawyille. The negro was handling
the mail on the postal car when he is
said to have taken out the letter. The
papers went to the grand jury and a
true bill was promptly returned.
The trial is set for this morning.
Pnoleau is here to defend himself
against the allegations, and he has en-
gagged Mr.. A. Lathrop, of Orangeburg,
formerly United States district at
torney. to represent him.
Just at this time Prioleau has sought
some prominence by fling notice Of
protest against the election of Mr..
George S. Legare to Congress. In
Charleston County he got less than
sixty votes.-News and Courier, Nov. 4.