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just like all the rest. We of the north are
ever ready to jump on the people of the
sorth for wanting the colored brother to
keep on his own side—to the leeward—of u
ten-acre lot; yet we are built just that way.
In St. Louis with its industrial school, in
Germantown with its public school, and
everywhere else and at all times it is the
same. It- must be "natur."
WHAT IS ILLEGITIMATE COMPE-
TITION.
The Railway Review of July 19 has a long
a.'ticle entitled the Limit of Legitimate
Competition. Most people who believe in
private property and equitable law and who
are unsophisticated by reason of not having
attempted to regulate othor people's bnsi-
ness ovor their heads would say that
legitimate competition is competition
with tha use of one's own time,
money aad working forces withoat
contiavening the laws against theft, burg-
lary, forgery and confidence games. One
may readily be willing to extend the rule
and admit that if n government will bo
guilty of giving a set of men exclusive priv-
ileges it should require them not to shut
down and starve employes while practicing
extortion upon customers. So with rail-
way companies. They must run trains and
provide ample facilities In every respoct ac-
cording to their charters, which may
be amended. Competition is inevitable
where there is freedom. Whe.'e there is
not freedom the best way is to get that and
then competition may be expected. The
Railway Age, however, sees something of
wasted energy in oue road carrying goods a
much greater distance than another in
order to compete. Quito so, and it can find
needlewomen sewing by hand against others
with sewiog machines, and a thousand
other facts of like theoretical import to
any reflecting person, in which if
there be unfairnoss which the law
must notice a majority will turn
to communism for a change. The Railway
Review's standard of legitimacy in compe-
tition la evidently one at variance with the
theory of individual property and custody
thereof, including the management of a
company's interests by its stockholders and
generally a righting of all undefinablo
wrongs to private interests, which oc-
cur through their looseness of solf-
care, by letting the interested par-
ties alone in what directly concerns
their own fortunes. The government
can meddle if it will until the railroad
bondholders and stockholders have nothing
to do but lie back and look to government,
and then other companies will go the same
indolent way and look to government to
manage their business; also to free it from
so-called, "illegitimate" competition. The
Review's article is not far from the
wishes of those cranks who stand
ready to urge that all couipe
tition is illegitimate. It nil involves
a certain amount of waste. On the other
hand the position to be tak8n is that the
owners of a capital are the ones to decide
how it shall be expended. Their economic
mistakes are simply misiakes and not "ille-
gitimate competition." Experience is the
cure for such mistakes. Competition leads
to the survival of tho enterprises that make
the fewest or least serious mistakes.
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THE MEWS' TRAVELING AGENTS.
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Galveston, Tex., May 1. 18901
Philadelphia Telegraph: When it
comes to the color line, we are all "poor
critters;'' we are, indeed. Just see what a
terrible fuas the proposed establishment of
that industrial school for colored youth
near St. Louis has created. Tbe location
■elected is an aristocratic suburb, a little
town where a large number of tbe wealtbi*
est men of St. Louis have their summer
residences It is stated that the whole vil-
lage i, simply paralyzed at this proposed
Introduction of the young man and brother
la to their midst. Tbe "best people'' are
GERMS OF STATE SOCIALISM.
Tho St. Joseph (Mo.) Ballot is not a so-
cialist paper, regarding the demaud of tho
socialistic labor gentry as absurd, but it
finds in the silver bullion bill the germ of
their principle. Congress has played into
their bands, it thinks, without seeming to
know what has been done. Very likely. Many
people seem to be surprised at the circulation
of Bellamy's book. They regard the matter
as though Bellamy were creating all tbo in-
terest manifested. There is nothing but a
mistake in supposing so. Sucb works be-
coming popular simply show the quantity
of unconscious or uacoufessed communism
which exists iu the country—in fact in every
country. But to return to the Ballot's
criticisms
The central feature of tho silver bullion bill
is that it miikos the government issue treasury
notes on silver bullion. HUver bullion is pigB
and billets of silver tteighinn about loo pounds
each, and bavins a variable market value like
wheat airl corn. Ill short it is a more com-
modity, like copper, lead, tin or tsrain; and the
only reason why treasury notes should bei-sued
ou it and not on copper, lead, tin or Kiain is
that there is less ot it in tbe world, and it
Is therefore moio valuable. Bat the bill
concedes flie point that the government may
buy a i..arketable commodity having a variable
value, and issue treasury notes iu payment,
and this is tho Whole principle in industrial
ononomlcs. 'lhe socialists demand ttiat all
products of labor from crop*, hardware,
leather, furniture, pianos, watches, clocks, and
so fi.rtii, Bliall be made a b.isis of currency,
and that any person shall be allowed to deposit
any such articles with the tfoveruniout and
draw treasury notei to their value.
That is not all. Tbo socialistic labor
party would have tho laborer himself
enabled to draw currency for each day's
labor, the product of which would go into a
government warehouse or stand outdoors as
a government work. The argument from
present facta might well be carried further
back than the present bill. All thesilver
and gold certificates are and ever have beeu
issued as a paternal accommodation,
not because the government needs
them on its own account. It is true that they
are based upon a claim which arises through
a direct restriction upon production, which
is not applied to agriculture, general me-
chanical prodaction and domestic com-
merce. But the smallest germ of a system
of government patronage and control is ca-
pable of developing to produce all tho con-
sequences in that system.
AIIMESIA.
The burning point of old world politics is
now tbe Armenian question. It is gener
ally understood that the condition of that
country is one of Insecurity and that tbe
Turkish government has not been held to
its obligations by Kcgland according to tbe
treaty of Berlin. Twelve years ago tho
British government made some ,how of
forcing tbs Turk to execute promised
reforms, and bad a seeming right to
do so, having ju,t previously guaranteed
tbe integrity of tbe sultan's empire, but
the Turk would not, ncd England did
nothing beyond giving a warning. It is
tbought now thai the Armenians will turn
altogether to Russia If the present dis-
turbed condition continues. Kussian troops
are again said to be concentrating upon the
Armenian frontier. The Armenian qiri-
tlon and tbe Balgarlau qnestion together
will make leading subjects for discussion
between tbe czar and Kmperor William at
their meeting, which is understood to be
for a serious conversation. The Anglo-
German arrangement Is believed to
be of a comprehensive character,
lncloding how Turkey shall be dealt with.
It is not to be sapposed that Russia will in-
vade Armenia for any distresses there ex-
cept on a calculation that she Is bringing
on a great war and Is prepared for it Had
occasion been sought there baa been plenty,
yet Russia has restrained herself. Her
rulers always havs a stock of popular en-
thusiasm which tbey cad threaten to let
loose, but tbey seem to be able to hold it In
check until Russia finds a division among
he? opponents. In spite of all threatening
appearances there is tbe AnglosGerman
agreement While that continues and Pre-
mier Salisbury remains at his post of re-
sponsibility tbe prospects are tolerably fair
for an enforced continuance of peace. Now
that the agents of Russia have made tbe
greatest outcry about Armenia, and still
Russia does not move, where is the spirit
of the paladin? Is not the provocation great j
enough? Of course it is, and of course that
has nothing to do witli the question of Is-
suing orders for a campaign.
A SCHEME OF SUICIDAL FOLLY.
Many business men of the north have re-
fused in tbe past to unite with the rabid
political element in slandering and harass-
ing tbe socth. As a rule, tbe-men by whom
tbe legitimate commerce of the north has
been conducted or controlled are friendly to
the commercial interests and progress of the
south. 'Ihey trade with southern people
and invest In southern property. Many of
them have become citizens of tbe south.
This line of commerce is not a line of
battle. We can not afford to treat our
friends in the north as enemies. The
merchant and tho capitalist of Boston
or New York feel iu our social ses
curity and material prosperity a friendly
Interest, which they have not hesitated to
exert against the powerful inflneuce of the
sectional demagogue. Tbe trouble with
tho Georgia Bcbeme to establish a trade
boycot against the north is that it would
injure our friends and aid our enemies. It
is the very movement that tho rabid politi-
cal enemy of the south would have tc make.
He lobes nothing by it, but gains all along.
The men whom we have come to regard as
friends would be converted Into enemies as
far as unfairness and Injustice on our part
could succeed in making them unfriendly.
They now cultivate trade relations
with us. This a boycot would break
up. We now cultivate trade re-
lations with them. This would be
discontinued. They have investments in
the south which would be injured and ren-
dered unprofitable and burdensome by a
hot-headed policy against which they have
a right to protest. They would certainly
protest when their interests were disre-
garded and iu a manner outlawed and con
flscated. They are the people who are ex
pected to Invest still mora in the south.
Their money, enor^y and enterprise wlil
undoubtedly aid greatly in developing the
resources and wealth of this part of the
country. Our interests and their interests
are reciprocal and largely interdependent
They are not our enemies. They are our
friends. Why should we adopt a policy
by which t'.iey tire to be cut off? This
question gains force from the fact that, by
cutting off and damaging them, we are do
ing the very thing of all things that our
sectional enemies would prefer that we
should do. The Georgia plan would hurt
our friends and ourselves fearfully and
would give to our enemies all the advant
ages and complete victory. Carried into
complete execution it would solidify the
north into a state of aggressive hostility to'
ward tho weaker section more firmly
than it ha9 been since the close
of the war, and would assure for
the party in power or some party of
like characteristics a lease of supremacy for
at least another quarter of a century. Nor
is the threat of it calculated to arrest the
passage of the bill. It is more likely "by the
Reeds and tha Lodges in congress to ba
hailed as a challenge and cited as a new
and justifying provocation to tho enact-
ment of measures of that character.
ance together, and deolareB said call an "insnlt
to all intelligent alliance men." Mr. Golden
ba§ the floor.
The News extends sincere sympathy to
Mr. W. C. Brann of the Houston Post in the
terrible affliction which has befallen him
Could he bnt road the hearts of his late asso.
ciates in Thk News editorial room he might
perhaps receive Borne bit of comfort in know
lng that others feel for him and grieve with
him.
Mosey makes the mare gj. and you may
curse the jolly voter, but he rides.
An old maid died at Gdlna, Mo., Rt the
age of 112 years. The reading public would like
to see the color of the hair of the reporter who
found out her age.
THE STATE PRESS.
Three days' gracj is not enough for the
debtor who never pays anything.
Asa Low has the shortest name of nny
man in the country. [Atlanta Constitution.
How about A. Hole, who signs his name by
punching bis pencil through the paper?
The country is now enjoying a real estate
administration^
Missouri has fourteen congressmen
twelve of whom are at home. MeBsrs. Dockery
and Frank have remained at their posts of
duty.
CAUGHT ON THE CURB.
A X ERRONEOUS IDEA.
The News is in receipt of tho following
from an esteemed correspondent near the
mouth of tho Brazos:
BnAzoitiA, Tex., July 19. -To The News:
Your pupor would be a tirst-ctass journal were
it not for tho fact that you evidontly try to
iguore tho worn at tho mouth of tho river,
w here deep water is certain to be had soon, and
hur llv ever speak a good or kind word for this
section of tbe state. The 8encgambian belt,
or some such expression, is about tho v, ay wo
ate spoken of in '1 hi! News when you take the
tnrabl, to notice ul. tialvestou surely need not
bo jenlousol tlio Brazos.orat leaslncei not show
it so plainly. Our county has been in the back-
ground long onougl, and now that we are about
to take our proper piaee to which we aro justly
entitled as one of the richest, healthiest and
most prosperous counties in the state. Thi:
News and the good people ol" Galveston should
wish us Joy and not try to treat us with sileut
contempt. fSureiy an enterprise the elzo of the
oue in progressat thcmouihof tbo llrasoeriver,
where ovor (l.vxx) are spent weekly in the work
of making a Hist class harbor nl that Duint, de-
serves a few words now and then, even from a
piper as overburdened with news as is The
Ualvestok News.
In reply to the charge of inattention and
lack of interest ou its part The News will
say that for several months it has had an
active nnd thoroughly responsible corre-
spondent at Velasco, who has kept it con-
stantly informed on nil items of general
Interest occurring there. That daily reports
have not been published has been due to the
fact that the situation has not warranted
such reports. Tbe correspondent drops
into as great an error when he hints at Gal-
veston being jealous of the Brazos. So far
as The News knows no such feeling exists
here, but even if it did it would cortainly
llnd no place in this paper. The News must
be judged by what it does and not by what
it is supposed to do or not to do. For yeats
it has labored for tho advancement of every
interest that promised to benefit the state.
Its field of labor has been the whole state,
and It has striven to do its work well In the
past and will continue to do so in the future.
"I have a hobby horse which I lovo to
ride," said a wholesale merchant to the
curb man yesterday. "My horse, however,
is a very practical oue and is free from
cranky notions or visionary dreams. I have
just been talking with Mr. Leon Blum and
I learn through him that experience has
demonstrated the truth of jny theory. I
have long contended that there were too
many larg.e interests combined under single
firms lu this city. That is that there have
been too many wholesale houses conducting
several lines of business, each one of which,
If properly looked after, would afford an
ample field for the display of energy and
enterprise on the part of the firm. Thus,
for instance, until within the last year the
wholesale house of ],eon & H. Blum lias
been carrying au Immense stock of dry
goods, another of boots and shoes, another
of notions, etc. I mention this firm as au
Illustration, and you will see why I do
bo in a moment, but it is by
no means the ouly wholesale house
in Galveston that lias been doing the same
thing. The result has been satisfactory and
profitable, no doubt, but not so much so as
it would bavo beeu had a different plan
been adopted. It has required an endless
amount of care and labor, all of which
couid have been much abbreviated by tho
adoption of a simpler method. Messrs.
Leon &• H. Blum took the first step toward
the new system some months ago, aud I
have just learned of some of Its results.
You know that the firm of Marx &
Blum purchased the boot nnd shoe interest
of Leon H. Blum, aud established theins
selves as a boot nnd Bhoe house strictly.
The/ (leal in nothing else, have no other
interest, and have given their whole time
aud attention to tho one thing. The result
is strictly in accord with my theory. The
new firm simply took hold where tho old
firui left off, aud to-day (I have it from the
most reliable authority) the boot and sho?
business of Marx & Blum is more than
double that done under tho old firm's
management. The cause is too evident to
require comment.
"Now, why ctin not other wholesale deal-
ers follow the example of Leon & II. Blum?
It baB bsen mutually benofioial in their
casp, so much so, I learu, that they desire
now to part with their notion department
and confine themselves to tho one line—dry-
goods. If every wholesale bouse in Galves-
ton would do this tho benefit would become
widcoprcad. Itv.ouldof courso multiply
the number of wholesale houses, would ex-
tend the power and inflneuce of Galveston
as a commercial city, anil, as in the case of
Marx & Blum, vrould increasa the business
done in oach line.
"There Is no doubt about the present aud
future position of Galveston as a commer-
cial city. Standing, as she does, at the gate-
way through which the commerce of tho
southwest must pass, she must command at
all tiiueu a lending control of that com-
merce. It will not do for her to clinp too
closoly to old methods of doing business.
What was good enough ten years ago may
not be so to-day and may be actually pro-
hibited a few years hence. Holding
on too closely to what one has
often leads to the loss of
all or the greater part of it. Those desir-
ing to establish special lines will think
twice before they come hero when they
learn that they have to enter into competi-
tion with half a doz«n or moro wealthy
firms more or less engaged in the same lines
of trade. 'Ihe danger in this is that the7
will go elsewhere and become formidable
rivals themselves in more enterprising and
active communities.
'Now what I have said to you is all true,
and I aiu couvinced that any business man
who gives the subject- a little thought will
agree with me. Galveston's greatest need
is a division of its great Interests. Thero
is room here for wholesale dry goods
stores, for boot and shoo stores,
for notion stores, for hardware
stores, for saddlery hardware stores, and
for a dozen or more special lines, and if
they will all confine themselves strictly to
one line tbey will all (to well. The present
plan of one house engaging In three or four
different kinds of trade must bo dispensed
with."
WnAT li the use of baying relatives if
you can't use them? President Harrison began
his administration by appointing almost a
dozen relatives to office. He used the name of
his wife when the Cape May cottage was deed-
ed to him. He ran out ot relatives, however,
on tis recent deal. Six deeds were made to
lots in Glen Ecto hiigh's to members of his
fnmily, including his ,teno?raph«r and his
chlf de cuisine. If he keeps on Ills guy ropes
will be thrown out all aroand Washington so
thickly that a person can not get to the Capitol
at *11.
Is selecting rulers it would be so much
I better If the people knew who are tbe ab'est
1 men and the ablest men did not.
"TnEEK i, not a precinct in this vast na-
tion," said General Grant in 1*4), "arnere a
demotrst can not cast his vote and ha\, it
counted as cast" lUlobe-Democrat.
Yes; bnt do you expect a man to go to
congress for tbe purpose of having his seat
snatched from under him? Would you have
all the democrats Hand up whi e the republi-
cans are comfortably seated? Whet good does
it do th, democrat to cast his vote and have it
counted if h, is to be undone after he has won
tbe pr'.zef
Mr. McKixlet's heart i, sore and swollen
and hie epiglottis sinks down with a pop when
he km Mr. Blaine coming.
P. A. Goldks, acting president of the
state federation of labor, by authority of that
tody, ha, called a big revival meeting to meet
September f. Subordinate organizations of
tbe Farmers' alliance are Include 1 in the call.
The Mercury, official organ of tbe aliianoe.de-
alc the authority of the callua to call the alli-
Could Have Saved Lincoln's Life.
The one man in the world who could have
prevented the aasassinatiou of President
I.iccoln is dead. John Frederick Parker,
boin in Winchester, Vs., cam, to Washing
ton some time before the firing npon For,I
Sumter and soon fonad employment upon
tbe metropolitan police force. When in 1802
it was decided to strengthen the regular
forcc of doorkeepers and watchmen at the
white house with a squad ot police-
men, Parker was one of those
selected. It thus happened that
when President Lincoln aud party en-
tered the old Ford theater on the night of
Good Friday, 18G5, they were accotnpanhd
by Parker as guard. He took his position
at tbe door to the private box from which
President Lincoln watched the perform-
ance, where he was expected to remain and
prevent tbe entrance of every on, except
the member, of tbe party. As tbe play pro-
ceeded Parker from bi, post could bear just
enough of what w.is said on the stage
to arouse his curiosity, and it was
not long before be left the door and
edged his way toward the auditorium.
He finally took a seat in the orchestra,
or "pit" as it was called, where be had
- arcely settled himself wben the whole au-
dienoe "was surprised by tbe repoit of a pis-
te I shot. The assassin. Booth, had stealthily
approached the door of the president's pri-
vate box, where, finding no one to chaK
leugn him, be entered unannounced and
li red tbe fatal shot. There Is no question
in the minds of those who are familiar with
the details that had Parker remained at his
post Booth could never have taken PresK
dent Lincoln unawares. [Washington
special to Chicago News.
l~5HKIDKI> advice it usually given sway.
What the Papers Throughout Texas Are
Talking About.
The Waco Day says:
As long as the people of Galveston be-
lieved the census lately taken would give
the Oleander city 35.000 to 45,000 population
they were reasonably content. But now
comes Supervisor Pell and tells The News
semi officially that the population of the
city Is only 28,547. TiikNewb is up in arms
with righteons indignation, and protests,
saying that if Porter's count at Washington
shall not be larger than Poll's Galveston
must have a recount. And TllENEWSis right,
for it is apparent to any ordinarily intelli-
gent man that Pell'a figures are far too low.
The Day is informed that Galveston has
polled as high as GtSOO votes in a legal mu-
nicipal election—not a primary. If that is
true the population can not well be less
than 33,000, for throughout this southwest-
ern country it has been shown time and
again that the ratio of population is five or
perhaps five aud one-haif to every voter.
Oil the latter basis Galveslou would have
36,300 citizens.
The Hallettsville New Lra, a moderate
and conservative paper, says:
It is feared that the republicans in the
United States senate will pass the federal
election law. If it dees the president will,
iu all probability, sign it, which, if he does,
will complete o.ie of the most obnox'ous
laws that it was possible for the national
government to enact.
The El Paso Herald remarks:
The Mexican military commander at
Guaymas performed a gracious and grace-
ful act ou the fourth of July by tendering
tbe services of the Twelfth battalion bund
to the American inhabitants of that city
for the celebration of tbe anniversary of
tbe independence of tbo United States.
Such acts make Americans and Mexicans
better neighbors and nearer friends.
The San Antonio Express has fouiul tl.e
model democrat. It says:
The true blue democrat is tho heart-of-oak
democrat. The heart-of-oak democrat is tho
Bexar democrat.
Some Bexar democrats believe with
southwest Texas politician that whisky is
required to run the democratic machino.
Last week the Bastrop Advertiser said:
Tha editor very indiscreetly collided with
a chair In his bed room and the darkness of
the night. He is lying up for repairs and
the chair has been banished.
Which causes the editor of tho Colorado
Citizen to make this diabolical insinuation;.
Ill all our experiences with beverages,
and they have heen not a few. nothing ex*
ceeds pure cold water.
The editor of the Citizen was the son of
pious parents and brought up like a chris-
tian. He generally tells tbe truth plainly,
but he never drank liquor hard enough to
hurt it, and if it was not for his age ho
would make a wnrtliy member of tho
Young Men's Chris',Ian association. As to
the Bastrop editor ho is a teetotaler.
The reporter of the Laredo Gate City is
an esthetic. lie writes:
Last evening as the vesper chimes were
floating like a benison over the nodding
flowers nnd tHe sun dropping behind the
western horizon, like a cake o( golden but-
ter, tho quietude of the heights was dis-
turbed for a few moments by Uie pugilistic
encounter between a carpenter whose name
was Kline and another gentleman answer-
ing to the very race coguomon of Jones,
which occurred at the Reini saloon, where
overestimating tneir holding capacity they
had wooed too long that bane of life, spting
of tumult, source of strife, until weariness
had forgot his toil aud fear her dancer, nnd
they proceeded a la Sullivun an 1 Kllraln to
pound each other.
The Vernon Guard says: "Ksep cool."
This is pretty much liko advising the
smal'er boy in a street lisht to "go iu aud
win," The San Antonio Express adds:
It is a very good thing to do if you can,
but you can not unless you can. can you?
San Antonio is unpleasantly wra-m when
the sun is at the meridian in tho mouth of
July for k few days. But wo are a good le-
ligious people, aud stand tha beat lor a
few days, well knowing than provideuce
will intervene at the right time and send
the cooling showers to co-operate with tho
sunshine in making the crops nnd cooling
olf the cropmakers. There is no excuse or
apology for a niau being wicked here where
the ever watchful eyo of providence is seek
anc» and the law on the subject. The Cos-
mopolitan says:
There Is too muoh excitement about tha
Sunday law. Let every one keep the day
his own way, so long as they do not in-
fringe on the rights of tneir neighbors or
grossly violate Ihe law. Enforcement of
the Sunday law is looked upon as a high-
handed measure of city fathers. Now tho
city fathers or the county ofiicers
have no option so long as
the law stands as it is. If tbe humblest
citizen or greatest crank goes before them
and makes a complaint, thev would have to
take cognizance of his affidavit. This
would engender hard feeliugand put neigh-
bor against, neighbor, for each would be
seeking satisfaction of the other. Tbe lib-
erty that has existed by no oue complaining
has beeu abused to a certain extern, and the
more it was allowed the worse it was get-
ting, therefore a halt is callul for und &
start in a newgrooye.
Tho Lexington Telegram made its advent
some day recently, bnt strangely bears no
date. Its matter is devoted to the welfare
of the people. It includes the women among
the people and says:
The time has come for people in this por-
tion of the country to consider the question
of woman's right, but it will ba agreed by
all that it is high time to consider woman's
wrongs.
The Weatherford Constitution says:
The alliance scored a great victory when
their candidate, John P. Buchanan, was
nominated by the democratic convention
for governor of Tennessee. Aud th'.s vic-
tory will be supplemented in Georgia by
the unanimous nomination of J. P. North-
ern for the same office in that state, but
they aro raising sbeol in Arkansas and
South Carolina, where thev have coalesced
with the republicans and the negroes, and
are fomenting factional fights, race riots
aud anti-democratic deviltry generally.
DEATH PARDONS HER.
ing every opportunity to dispense his ben-
eficence just at the right time. If "there is
a fcirer land than this," the Kxpress would
rather take this nud let other speculators
future on the "fairer land."
That is the religion of tho San Antonio
paper: trust in providence and do not
worry with work, aud bettor bear the ills
you have thsn fly to others in the great be-
yond. San Antonio may bo hot at times,
but tbe other place is hot all tho time.
Albritton, editor of tbe Milam County
Vindicator, makes what ho calls a personal
explanation, in which he shows himself to
be a hard-hearted domestic tyrant. His
sixteon-year-old son has acked to bo allowed
to go from home and earn Lis own support,
and the father says:
I feel that in giving this release that,with
him, my responsibility ceases. Yes, go out
upon the cold charities of the world. And
we waut every reader of this article to
kuow that he goes from choice and without
any excuse under the sun, only a desi.'o to
get from under home rule. Taking these
facts into consideration any sensible ninn
or woman see that he needs no sympa'hy
whatever. We since.ely pray that the peo-
ple, wherever may go, will see that he
lives by the sweat of tho brow.
The father disinherits tbe son aud the
latter says:
I accept tho premise, and consequences,
and hereby relinquish my right and title to
any of my father's estate.
The Brenham Banner does not welcome
eleventh hour laborers. It says:
Tho most of the fighting for General Hogg
in the gubernatorial contest is now being
done by th030papers which remained on the
fence until tbe victory was about won.
New converts are proverbially most zeal-
ous.
The Temple Time* further explains:
For several hundrod years our schools of
training have crowded out the great bulk
of practical education to crowd iu a mass of
theory that had to be reduced to practice
after quitting college before ic was service-
able. Tbe reformation began, and true to
tbe spirit of all such moves there sprang
up the so-called schools of practical edu-
cation where in a few months men
aud women could be prepared for the grand
duties of life. Schools were established
where language was taught in eight weeks,
mathematics mastered in a month. In two
short courses of six months each men who
bod barely enou2h knowledge to read a
plain paragraph and repeat Its meaning
were turned loose ou society as teachers,
doctors, lawyers and preachers. Every art
and science was, and is, infected with this
disorder. It Is this smattering of knowU
edge, thi, shadow of a substance that we
alluded to in a former article and which has
drawn out The News.
Tha Brownsville Cosmopolitan say* of
the interruption of an ancient industry of
that city by the minions of the law:
Indignation 1, onr portion from among
thoau who kept open air gambling table, at
tbe balls at the station. Our advice to them
Is to smother their indignation and go to
work at some nxful occupation. For In-
stance. take an acre of land on the bank of
tha river, clear It and lay it out in beds, put
up a sweep with a bucket, and after having
planted tbe beds wit-h various vegetables
use the sweep in hoisting water to irrigate
the be 1*. They will find that this whole-
some exercise will be profitable and very
conducive to their health. Sitting op of
nights is very injurious to tbe eyei and
health, ,o yen indignant gamnlsrs take our
advice and seek healthy employment.
The city of Brownsvile is the field for an-
otl er war on tha subject of Sunday observ-
Caliie ltnsh, a Penitentiary Convict*
UrowtiH liertielf.
Cullie Ruusb, the only white woman In
the Geocgu penitentiary, suicided yester»
day.
The news came hero in this telegram last
evening:
fiHAysvii.1.k, Gn., July IS.—Colonel John U.
Towers, Principal Keeper: Callla Busa
drowned herself to-day. Body recovered. Hoe
letter. W. S. Tysos,
Superintuucent Graysville Penitentiary.
A terribl > story is told in those few
words—the fitting ond of a wild and wasted
life.
The only white woman in the Georgi*
penitentiary!
Pardoned out—her shame and misery
thrown off like a garment.'
Dead! .
Gallic Bush had served more than a year
oil a fifteen years'sentence for murder in
Dade county. She was merely an accessory,
f,he principal being her sweetheart, Jobn
Pyburn, ulio Is now serving a life sentence.
The woman was well known In Dade and
the surrounding counties before that mur-
der was committed.
l^he was an abandoned character, but
with some redeeming traits, and it is said
that, no hungry man or woman was ever
turned away from her cabin in the moun-
tains. She was a famous nurse, a capital
guide, and cou'd ride and shoot better than
mojt men.
She was called a gypsy by many of her
neighbors, from her restless and out-of-door
lifo nnd passionate disposition.
Her part in the murder was prompted by
her love for John Pyburn.
Not many days ago she remarked to one
of tbe guards of the camp:
'I'd rather be dead than to bo penned up
this way; and 'can't stnnd it much longer."
"Where do you suppose von would go to
if you got out that way?" asked another
convict.
"To h—II" whs tbe quick reply.
Her position air oug the convicts, being
the only white woman, was n peculiar one,
and not without some savagu dignity and
consequence.
Some interest is felt in the disposition of
her body.
Will it be dissected in some medical col-
lege? Or will it be turned over to some
one, friend or relative, and be buried iu tha
mountains?
A special from Graysville, Ga., July 18,
says: This morning about 10 o'clock Callio
Bush, a white woman a'ld convict at the
Graysville penitentiary, was missing. In
her Hpartment a note was found under tho
pillow stating her intention to commit, sui-
cide. She was sentenced from Dade county
for fifteen years for manslaughter, ond she
was about 18 years old and was the only
white woman In a Georgia penitentiary.
During her imprisonment she has con-,
ducted herself in sucb a way as not to give
the superintendent any trouble, and
seerr.ed to be contented in her prison life.
Iu fact she never had to ba corrected for Any
misconduct.
After Captain Tyson, the superintendent,
found tbe note he nas satisfied she had
drowned herself. He at once began dragging
the river, and soon found her body in twen-
ty feet of the land. A coroner's jury was
legally impaneled, aud their verdict was
voluntary suicide by drowning without any
known cause. [Atlanta Coustltutiou.
Mr. Halstead aud the Force Bill.
Mr. Halstead's declaration agalust tha
force bill is significant. Mr. llalstead for
sometime, until tbe election of Mr. Harri-
son at least, belonged to tbe extreme wing
of the republican party. His ardor during
the campaign was so intense that apprehen-
sions were pnblicly expressed that he might
invade tbe south in person and renew tho
civil war. It was necessary to elect Mr.
Harrison, however, and the. invocation of
any demon, even the demou of civil stri'e,
was then In order.
Mr. llalstead believes that we should
put away the aword—that state, could b*
saved without it. Tbe country will be
happier when this sentiment Is accepted
by all parties. Let the dismal traditions
and policies and memories of tbe rebellion
return to the limbo from which they
should never have come. We have very
little fear about the force bill. It la
not. a measure that will ever b»
acceptable to an American community.
If it should pass it would become as Infa-
mous as tbe alien and sedition law, or soma
of those other enactments which legisla-
tures in moments of madness permit upoa
tho statute book. The temper of the aga
will never permit government by the cor-
poral of the guard, and Americau citizens
will never go to the polls by the permis-
sion of sergeant majors and federal police-
men.
That Mr. Halstead should see this means
that he is a clear sighted, honest man, with
the courage of independent convictions.
There Is likewise no public man who batter
understands the profound political truth
that nothing ia of lesa consequence to-day
than what a political leader may have said
or thought yesterday; that political wisdom
means dealing with facts as they are. And
n» fact Is mora clearly demonstrated t ban
that the Americans are tired of the bayonet.
The Herald believes In the largest meas-
ure of benevolence and generosity toward
the freedom in the sonth. But tbey must
in essential matters—in trade, professional
advancement, tne suffrage, religious duties,
do as we all do—take care of themselves.
One of the rudest phrases ever caught In
the harmonies of negro minstrelsy Is "Root,
hog, or die!" Well, "root. hog. or die!" harsh
as it may seem, tbe German, tbe Scandi-
navian, the Irishman, the Chinese, tha
American must do it, and why make laws
of deliverance and safegaard for the negro
that do not apply to others? If tbe negro
can not take care of himself and utilize tha
blessings that freedom has given him, not
all the force bills that even the Yankee
genius of Mr l»dge could invent will en-
able him to do so. (New York Herald.
Bound Over.
Hosey Gboye. Tex., July 35.— Jaspar
Neagle,. the 17-yearold boy who stabbed
and killed a negro boy last Saturday, bad a
hearing before Ktqulre Lovelace to-day, and
j was Pound over la tbe sum of HOOtt.
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