The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28

, whole .esson was no wonder consider | ing how near the biackness or oaroar- I ism lay behind him. Where now are the l teachers of cooking. sewing. cutting. spinning, weaving. carding. knitting, carpet. sowing. bee-koeping, farming. snithlng, of . thousand industries, | (somc of them now lost arts) only at I Hampton and Tuakegec, when forty years aso these best of industrial | were within call of each other over the | whole land. "Thx South states Mir. Mui phy i1 ! his ardent appeal for industrial edu- | cation, had no trouble with her slaves before the war; We had no trouble with them during the war, even when our women were left largely at their mer- cy. We hnd no trouble with thcm after the war, till the carpetbagger from the North came down upon them. They were peaceful and helpful people be- cause slavery had at least taught them how to do something and how to do 1t we'll. The industrial education of the negro is intended to supply under the conditions of freedom, those ele- ments of skill, those conditions of in- dustrial peace, which our fathers sup piled under the condition of slavery. It is not without significance that no graduate of Hampton or Tuskegee has ever been charged with assault upon 1 a woman" -'
 The industrial education of the white child Is of even more importance. The loss of the old acts of home life ab- sorbed into commerce leaves the wo- men of the poorer homes only idleness or direct drudger The poultry farms, dairies. factories iAostly run by the la- Dor of men robs women of the country | of their one source of income, egg and | butter money, and pay for Knitting, | weaving. canning, preserving meat-cur- ing and the rest of the homely arts of yore. Something must be put into the place of these lost arts or else increasing number of idle hands and discontented hearts. What alarming reading is this: Tn North Carolina and Louisiana-and Alabama is not far | ahead-one white person in every six | Is recorded as illiterate. These fg- ures deal with none other than the na- | tive white population. If we add to | these figures the number of our white people who can just pass the test of literacy, who perhaps can barely sign their names. but who are practically illiterate. our conditions are seen to l be still more serious"
 l Yet in facing these statistics MT. Murphy faces a mighty sun of hope shining on above and beyondVnll pres | ent day poverty of education and means for education. In the growing conviction in all hearts and minds of | the demand for education he sees the upspring of a mighty democracy of | culture.
 Space fails to follow where interest beckons through the chapters. 'The In- dustrial Revival and Child Labor" the l nd ha tiyo of Co-operation," Culture and De- mocracy."
 This Is a book which will do much toward teaching the North the weight of the problems that we face, 1t will create in Northern onlookers a needed sanity and patience in their expression of and observations on our efforts to solve these problems.
 May the book reach the library of every thinking Southerner. The truths therein cannot be told too often and rarely if ever have been told so forcefully as in these chapters.
 The Louisiana Purchase: Its History and Exploration. By Ripley Hitch cock.
 This is the book that every one wants to read just now since 1t tells clearly. concisely and delightfully."- just what all the world asks now to know of the history of the Louisiana Purchase of the exploration of the country se- cured by that great event. Mir. Hitch cock opens with the story of the early Spanish explorers Voca, De Soto, Do- campo. He carries DeSoto through Alabama. that expedition of which Pickett has compiled such an inimit- able narrative, to his discovery of and burial in the Mississippi. Then he relates the story ofT;he French settlers of New Orleans, of the founding of .,ew Orleans. He follows LeSueur and others on their explorations.
 Even after the misfortunes brought about by the speculations of Law and the bursting of the Mississippi Bubble the colony f1ourished and in 1762 M dAbbadie granted to Piere Laclede and his company exclusive right to trade with the Indians on the Missouri. Two years later the company founded the city of St. Louis. On the present site of the city were builded a house and l four stores. From this beginning the city rapidly grew to be tho center com- mercially of the Louisiana territory. Louis XIV. secretly ceding Louisiana to Spain. the HrSt Spanish Governor ap- peared in New Orleans in 176S. Amer licas independence assured. tho new natio sent out bold pioneers further westward. With progress rose com merce and tho West demanded d way to the sea by the road of the mighty river. Manuel Godoy averted threat ered crisis by granting right of de- posit for three years, this right was lcontinued until 1902. when the Span- iard withdrew the right. Against this withdrawal tho West rebelled.
 At this time great plans were afoot Iconcerning this Louisiana territory. Napoleon intended to take possession of Louisiana for France, making San Domingo the base of his operations But meantime the ipsurrection of the slaves in that island had taken 1t from the rule of the French. In 1902 Gen. eral Leeclere. sent by Napoleon. re- conquered the island. But the victory was dearly bought, yellow fever at tacking the French forces and bringing appalling loss to the army of invasion. This disastrous victory changed the plans of Napoleon for the immediate possession of Louisiana. The story of Ihow Jefferson appointed James Monroe Ito buy New Orleans and Florida for