Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1902 — Page 13

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Thriving Indiana Town on the Banks of the Wabash Where No White Man Lives

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>1 Wealthy and Prosperous Community Where There Is No u White Man’s Burden”—A Well-to-Do Town of Stores, Churches, Homes and Corn Cribs

—It Was Founded by a Liberated Slave from Tennessee—Rural Mail Routes Its Latest Development.

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CTrotn a Staff Corr«apoo«»nt.J ITLS8, Ind., July M.-Her*. nsttlsd amonc tha eomflalda that skirt tb« aons-htotorlc Wabash, Is Indians’* most unique town—It offers its inhabitants immunity from “the White Man’s Burden.’’ Lyles Is s town In which s whits man does not

dwell.

Lyles came into existence in the antebellum days. More than a half century sffo, Joshua Lyles, s liberated slave, name to Indiana from Tennessee. He had been ffiven bis freedom by a kind master and his first thought was to seek a home In Indiana, where the oppression of slavery waff unknown. He Journeyed to Princeton, the county-seat of Gibson county, and with money from his old ‘master, he ourchased a traet of land In the Wabash bottoms, four miles west of Princeton ' His agricultural eye foresaw good com crops In the fertile bottom lands. He began his^ labors, and to-day his old farm is the site of a prosperous village, the Inhabitants of which are of his own

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Came from Tennaasee.

The civil war came on and passed Into history. When the days of war and slavery were at an end, Joshua Lyles returned to sunny Tennessee and told his kinsmen of the fertility of the Wabash bottom land*. Several of the Tennesseeans emigrated to Indiana and rented small farms along the Wabash. Corn and melons grew under their watchful care

and sunny skies

Then came another ohange. The Louis- there were additions to the population of erty of Harrison Ashby, an ex-slava. villa, BvansvtUa * 8t. Louis railroad— Lyles, and to-day It la a prosperous town Aahby's apples are far-famed, now the Southern—waa built through the of stores, churches, homes and corn- Lyles, like all well-regulated towns, has Wabash corn country. The grain buyera cribs. I.t claims a large lumber yard a •'leading cltiiea.” This distinction befrom Loulsvills and 8t. Louis made an- among its infant commercial resources, longs to James Cantrell. Cantrell is a nual invasions of the corn country, and Great criba filled with corn, the product tall, robust negro, of middle years, and in the negro farmers found * ready market of the lowland farms, line the tracks of his chain of titles the one prized most

for their crops. the Southern railroad s St. Loula division. The railroad company built a aide-track Com Is not king at Lyles, however, on the farm of “Uncle Joshua’’ Lyles, During the melon season the Southern's and the siding was designated aa "Lyles” trains carry carload after carload ’of on the company's time tables. luscious cantaloupes and watermelons Next a email grocery appeared near the from Lyles to the Eastern markets, atde-track and the future town was One of the largest fruit farms In southfounded. During the succeeding years em Indiana Is near Lyles, and is the prop-

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reel, while the roioee of the children are lifted in songs of and thankagtvlng. Seldom It la officer of the law invadee this quiet tot to search for a lawbreaker. Lyles to a town of uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and cousins. Everybody to related to everybody else, because all are descendants of "Uncle Joshua" Lyles and the emigrants that came after him. The corn crop that will be harvested in the lowlands of the Wabash, this fall, promises to be the greatest in the history of the community. The stalks have already reared their heads ten and twelve feet In the air, and the Wabash ” “ Is a sea of waving corn tasseto. is happy and prosperoua A peculiar race condition extern m t county. While Lyles to exclusively home of negroes there to Gibson county in which dares not set foot. Haselton, a neighbor to Lyles, will allow a negro within her cates. If a ored man enter* Haaelton he quickly I himaelf the center of a group of

men and boy*.

He will be asked concerning hi* business there, and then "minutes” will be given to leave town. If he refuaec to go he may be assured that his next stopping place will be at the White river ferry at the edge-of town. “Ferry-boat or swim. Which T” The question to put by the crowd, and the negro Invartktty select* the ferry* drove a negro, a horse trainer, from th* town several year* ago. The hone trtiner waited for an opportunity to “»el

exclusively the risrr

A few months ago the horse passed through "Haeelton on freight. He was with a,car of ho

highly la that of postmaster. "Jim'

Cantrell claims the honor of being the and steward in the Lyles African Metho- putes and difficulties that he settles by only negro postmaster in the Northern <jist Episcopal church. He conducts a gro- arbitration and “hoes sense.” States. Less important in his dally rou- eery in connection with the poatofflee. and Postmaster Cantrell is progressive, tine are the duties of ticket agent for the his wife, an intelligent little woman, to Within a few weeks he will establish a Southern railroad, express agent, grain his deputy. rural free delivery system at his post-

buyer, weighmaster and grocer.

He has spiritual duties. He is trustee in all things, and many are the little dls- master-General that three rural delivery

routes are to be centered at his office, and there are but few of the colored folk of even each morning Postmaster Cantrell will Lyles and vicinity that have not long

send carriers forth to deliver mail to the since affiliated with the church of their ; ..m farmers in the Wabash corn country. choice. filled the oar d°or with reftl** “Oh, there's nothing too good for Lyles to a northern picture of South- aTSSW^SSfge bw

Lyles," declares Lyles's leading citixen, ern types and customs. When the sun refuM ot a ,table.

adding a smile that betokened satlsfac- sends its good-night rays along the rip- As Is customary la f. " rn t *i 1 tion and triumph. pling Wabash, one may wander through knew that a paseeng* A deep religious spirit pervades this this quaint town and hear the folk songs wtu , following his train. The little negro village in the lowlands of of the sunny South. platform at^ tw *^i®

^ the Wabash. The Methodist and Baptist Seated on the stoops and In the door- his cargo of oSa on the "jlm"” Cantrell to Lyles’s leading spirit offlw. He* has”be^n notified by the Post- churches offer their pews and fellowship ways of cottage and cabin, the old negro , nf crow d. It i all thinra nnri mnnv flr« »h« little dl*- master-Oeneral that three rural delivery f° CITlng ones. It m&y be Said that “mammyS CrOOQ their grandChildfSH tO

DEMOCRATS WILL LET THE PHILIPPINES ALONE

PLENTY OF OTHER MATERIAL FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSES.

CARMACK KNOWS BETTER

GOING TO MARKET.”

He Sny* Ineular Policy will be At- ' tacked — Overstreet Preparing Hie List of Speekere.

(By Jam** P. Havaaday. Staff Corr**pond*nt.} WASHINGTON. July ll-If eny Democrat wants copies of the Philippine •peechea of Senators Carmack, Patterson and Culbertson, he •aya will have to aak the Carsaaek Has Democratic co agreea Bog. atonal campaign committee for them. The committee to not going to send out the speeches of thene men, attacking the administration's policy In the Philippines, aa a part of the regular grist of campaign literature. "Tea, wa have got a lot of these speeches hers,” said a member of the committee.’’ “but thay oan rot hare before we will send them out. We oan not prevent the Senator* named from having their speeches printed and sent up here, but we ao not have to •cod them out,and wa are not going to do it except where a man asks tor a particular speech. Carmack's got a bug on the PhilIppttto buatneaa, and whatever he may be saying or doing to without any authority from the committee. The committee decided to make trusts and tariff reform the Issues la the campaign, and It to going to do it. We know that the Philippine business will not make us any votes in tha middle West, where wa have got to get votea if we gain any Congreaaxnen.” Evidently there to a good deal of trietleo in the committee over the question of issues. The Carmack-Patterson-Cul-berson crowd, which Pelley came to be known •f Crime and during the recent Plunder. session of Congress as the "syndicate of vituperation,” to unwilling to have the Philippine question side-tracked. Secretary Edwards and the working force of the committee were getting along pretty well with tke work of sending out literature and arranging for speakers when Senator Carmack came to town, and after blustering around the committee a few hours, gave out an interview to the effect that it was not true that the action of the caucus of the Democratic members ot She House, a few days before adjournggent, tp declaring that trusts and tariff

The Observer leaned gracefully against the corner of a stand tn the market, watching the people stream by with their baskets of farm produce. "Ef there's anything on earth I enjoy," be remarked to a casual acquaintance, ‘It’s reading character, an' there ain't no better place on earth for that than right here In the market. Even the way these people carry their baskets telle a keen observer much about their character*. "See the way that young woman in the striped skirt is carrying her basket, in front and in both hands? She carries H there 'cause she's afraid someone will steal it when she ain't looking, and she has more in it than she really needs—you see she has it heaped up and overflowin' an' if she'd really needed so much she'd brought a bigger basket. See? \\ ell. that means she's suspicious, graspin' and greedy. She does her own marketing fer fear her hushaa'U knock down on her, and she walks down to the market, an’ has her basket delivered by the meat man, ao she can walk back home.”

"Now, that heavy-set woman with th’ plaid skirt Is my kind—generous, free-handed, lovin’ and gentle, and Just enough deviltry In her to 1st that celery hang over the side of her basket in a rakish way. She's perfectly willin' to take chances with th' public's stealin' her provender and totes a basket on each arm without ever lookin' at 'em. She's the kind of a woman that gets up at 4 o'clock in the momln’ to get her hubby's breakfast and flx up his lunch; goes down to market then and gets more than enough for the family, with some left over for a poor family in the nelghbhood; hurries back home with her baskets and does a big washln'; cleans up the house, an' washes the windows, makes over & skirt. do*s some sewin' fer a charity society, gets a big supper for her hubby an* to then ready to go out to one of th' parks with him an' listen to tber band.”

"It Just makes my heart sick when X see the next type. She’s sufferin' from a secret sorrow. Bee the way them baskets hang down at th’ full length of her arms, and bang against her knees. An* Just lookle at th* way they're loaded—a shin bone on top of th' butter, an’ about a ton of com on top of th’ eggs. She doesn’t give a dent If they do get mixed—would Just turn them all Into ther pot together then. Sometimes her h us ban' drinks and sometimes she’s just waitin’ in a little two-by-four servant's room for the millionaire's son to come an’ steal her. He don’t, an’ then she comes down here an' dabbles and bangs her baskets against her knee# till I feel like minglin' my sobs with hem. She's timid, too—see the way she seems to try to hide her baskets partly behind her, Just as if she didn't have just as good a right to carry a basket aa the richest woman in th’ city. When she tries to buy anything she sort of apologises to the dealer for botherin’ him. an’ always takes home the worst goods the market could produce.”

•“That woman with the light plaid skirt belongs to what I call th' picnic type. She was raised on th' farm; to Jolly good company an’ don’t care whether school keeps or not She was raised on the farm—’cause you never saw a woman carry a basket like that unless she’d had experience carryln’ a bucket of milk through a dark barn at 4 o'clock of a winter momln', dodgin’ hay rakee, cultivators, plows, harrows and pitchforks. That’s what gave her that vigilant air and firm poise. What she has In her basket and th‘ care she has showed in packin’ certain things shows she’s good company an’ a regular flend fer picnics. On top, she has a lot of cake* and fancy crackers, fer children an* young people that happen to drop in on her in th’ aftnoons, and then she has a lot of lemons an' four boxes of sourdines and two cans of deviled bam and some canned sammon an' some pickles an' some sweaty cheese and some oranges an' some bananas. An' she doesn't watch her basket.”

"That's a type you want to be wary of,” and the Observer pointed at a slender girl with a big hat adorned with & long, slender quin. "She's giddy. deceitful, frivolous—a butterfly whose wings are not even harmonious —and she is filled with a false pride that Impels her to carry green goods around in a seine bag. Say, that seine is characteristic of her. Tou notice how she carries the bog carefully In front of her? Well, that denotes the gossip. Gossips always carry their shopping-bags that way, Just as If they were about to reach in an' haul out some choice bit of scandal. I've never been able to figure out why she comes to the market. She generally totes in the bog her handkerchief, a powder box, a comb, some hairpins, an emaciated purse and a box of matches and a cake of perfumed soap she bought at the market. Occasionally, however, when she expects company to tea, she comes from the market with the seine bag filled to overflowing with mysterious bundles, but she never carries a basket—not much—she considers them vulgar.”

"But that stout woman with the striped skirt and her bosket held closely to her generous front to th* creme what-chu-caJlem of th* bunch. Look at the way she bolds her basket. How’s that fer scrapptnees and a desire for trouble? One of the delights of her existence to to Jam through a crowd, using the basket like the fender of a runaway street car, after she’s filled It with beef bone, caetile or cast Iron soap and all sort* of hard things. Bhe has charge of the family purse and her house and the house of everyone in the neighborhood. Bhe’* dose, stingy and selfish, shown by th’ way she holds onto th’ basket so tight. She's coarse, because she has more onions than anything else and hasn't a bit of berries or any fruit, and she's too material and matter-of-fact, ’cause she has no little cakes or crackers or anything of that sort. Bite's a curse to her husband, and if a young man flnda he’s goln* to get her for a mother-in-law. he better commit boom devilish crime and go to the penitentiary." "Bay,’’ said the casual acquaintance, “that’s my wife," and the character reading came to an abrupt end.

reform were tha chief issues was an attempt to sidetrack the Philippine ques-

tion.

The caucus passed resolutions on trusts and tariff, he declared, because the party had not been able to place Itself on record on these subjects during the session. "There to not any one question before the country." he declared, "with respect, to : which th« Democrats are more thoroughly united and more unanimously In earn- : est than they are in their opposition te the Republican policy of crime and plun- j der In the Philippine islands. In my opinion It overshadows every other question.” Charles A. Edwards, the secretary of the committee, when asked tf the interview of Senator Carmack bore the seal of the committee, said It liaparta dW not. Are Coming “Our advices are In. that the people. without respect i* politics, are disposed to take the view that we are In th* Philippines and can not run away at thfe time.” said one member of the committee. "So long as w* can not

cut loose, we must do the best we can for It does not want to do that Some of the the people ot the islands, and tbs popular ; Influential Democratic newspaper* in the impression 1s that we are doing that We , East have fpr several weeks been pointhave heard from many representative ; ing out that it would be to the dlaadvanDemocrats in Indiana. Illinois. Michigan tage of th* party to have the next House, and Wisconsin, and they all say w* can They wish the Republicans to have one not make anything out of the Philippine more opportunity to remedy the trust evil

and revise the tariff, feeling confident

I of Thomas H. McKee, of LogsMport, Ind., Journal clerk of the House. It will be ! devoted largely to what the Republicans did during the recent session of Congress I and to a resume of the things accom- ; pllshed since Roosevelt became President.

MINER HUNG BY HIS TOE.

question.”

“Will any Philippine Uterature be sent to Indians?" 1 “Not a Une will be sent by the committee. unless some Individual asks for a

speech.”

that tha opportunity wtll not be accepted and that the country wtll by that time , be willing to trust th* Democratic party

with the work-

BLACK AND WHITE TEAM.

Horses

The Republican congressional campaign

The committee to hoping to keep dear - committee will get to work early in Aug-

of me reorganisation breakers. It does Offices

not propose to dabble in the quarrel between Bryan and his admirers and Hill and hi* followers. The controlling minds In the committee take the view that If the party can make a fairly good showing tn the congressional elections in November with trusts and tariff reform as the chief issue*. it will be In a fair way to make Itself felt in the national campaign two

years later.

The committee doe* not expect to elect enough members of Congress to enable It to control the next House. Possibly

are now open both In this

city and tn New

Ovegstveet York, with a few Picks clerks In charge, the Speakers. and congressional

speeches are being

sent to local committees. The peal work will be taken up when Congressman Overstreet arrives at tha New York headquarters. By th* end of August he will have ready a list of speakers for the several States in which tha committee

will exert Its energies.

The hand-book of the committee 1s being prepared here under th* dtroetton

•nd Wagon Form a Etrikfnfl Combination.

PHILADELPHIA. July IS —On# of th* oddest teams ever shown In this dty and I which attracts much attention when ‘ driven along th* principal thoroughfares | of the city to owned by Edson Brothers, {* well-known commission house. The horses and wagon form a striking com- ; btnation of black and white. The off horse of the pair Is milk white, without a spot of coloring, while his mate to coal-black. ; They are young, weQ-actloned. and finely j mated. One-half of the wagon body, top, j sides, and the running gear to painted 1 white and the other side black. The out- | fit Is kept in the pink ot condition and to : favorably commented upon wherever It 1 makes Us appearance.

As He was Hauled Up a Four-Hurv

dred-Foot Shaft.

8COTTDALE. Pa. July to.—A remarkable escape from death waa made by a miner In the Mammoth mine of the H. C. Prick Coke Company. Mfcfcael Meta was at work at the bottom of the shaft. He had rung a loaded cage up, and Just as he did so saw a hitching used for coupling the pit wagons together lying on the cage bottom. He reached for the hitching Just as the cage started from the bottom. Being a self-damping cage th* bed of the wagon settled down on it. catching the

toe of Metz's shoe.

Mets swung to one side and tried In vain to extricate himself. The engineer, unaware of the terrible position of the eager, hoisted away, and no one at the bottom seeing what had happened, be was given no signal to stop. Mstx dropped head down as the cage lifted from the bottom of the shaft, bat his foot was firmly held, and, suspended head downward, he waa hoisted almost to the . top of the shaft, a distance of 400 feet.

Then aome one at the bottom, phasing the eager, gave the engineer the signal to stop. He did and started to lower it slowly to the surface landing. Between the top and the surface landing there to an old landing that was formerly used for pushing old pit wagons off before the •elf-dumping cage was Installed. At this point Mets grabbed the abaft timbers, drew himself np on th* cage and came to the surface landing, standing bolt upright and uninjured save for a sprained ankle and pinched toe. Mets says the only thing be thought of was his toe, which was being severely pinched between the pit wagon bed and the cage.

Marconi’s Plans. LONDON, July Ik—As soon ss Marconi returns to this country, In about three weeks, steps will be taken to establish a regular service between Poldhtt station, in Cornwall, an American station, at Cape Cod. and a Canadian station at Cape Breton. Marconi betters# that if ail goes well be will be In a position before Christmas to send ordinary messages to Capa Cod or Can* Breton at sixpence and press messages at twopesce halfpenny a weed., Connection of distant town* In Africa Is also promised in the near future. I

PHCTED COLUPSE Of THE CiMFMILE

SIGNOR VENDRASCO HAD WARNED THE GOVERNMENT.

REPROVED AND DISMISSED

The Venetian Authorities Hava Now Tolefrgphffd th# Degraded Offlcisl to Return.

VENICE, July to —Th# causes of the collapse of th# Campanil# ora sold to b# the age of the structure and the bad lime used. Th* tagrar was tan times struck by lightning bsfof# 1TTA when a lightning conductor was put up. It was at times severely shaken by earthquakes. The new wall against th* asst rtdt hid the defects of the Inner wall Other causes adduced are th* ringing of hells and firing of muskats In the plana on June 24. In commemoration of tha hair tie of das Martino. The immediate causes of th# tower'* fall were the cutting of a fireplace and chimney Inside to enable the custodian to have a fire, and the cutting of a trench along th* east wall, above the roof .of the loggletta of Sansovino, to remov# rainbeaten ztones and put in alnc. Signor Rupolo, official engineer In charge of the work, cut a trench on Monday, July 7. He perceived the danger and gave the alarm, but nothing wti done until Thursday, and the public era# *#- sured there wa* no cause for alarm. Realized the Dnnger. Signor Veodrmaco. an architect, wa* only man who realised that the Camps waa tn danger twelve yean ago, when wired to the government expre* ' fears. A special commission, then ad, reported that there wae no and Signor Vendraaco waa

proved.

In U» Signor Vendraaco again wired the government that the Cempaollt was danger, and again a commission report

that it was not in danger. Signor Vendraaco was cashiei weeks ago, when he onoe more that the tower waa falling. On Monday lam Signor \

amined the tower ftt I o'clock to morning. He then said: "It will

a law boon."

"SFJTTZSZEJ— hearted old man left Venice

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