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When 1 was younger than I wIM
r be again." si)lil ilio professor with
riiroe story lii'in) mul eyeglasses of
telescopic order. "I was the victim
stich liitotiso mentnl abstraction
:i 1 removed myself entirely from
• world of practical nfTnlrs. I was In
Tnb MO I On
ie.nO.
f it Pool of
ITe Snatched o Mfc Oct
Molten V.cm t.
Tnree men cnuie up carrying a long
lrou shaft, which lintl heeu out lu two,
bo that an Iron ring could ho Inserted
between the two hr.Ives. An empty
boundless realms of thought and crucible it fimt vvh.c and deep hung In
I but Heeling attention to the active the ring, i be torward end of the pole
d of human action. It was necos-
.- to notify me when I should attend
classes, cot ray meals and even
u I should retire.
I was «t ope time .requested to lec-
■ lu ii New England village and
rod to do so. The -theme was one
t lmd received my best thoughts.
1 the mere prospect of delivering It
• a physical pleasure. When I ar
il at tin- depot my thoughts were
: eentrated upon ttie prepared nd-
• ss. 1 realized that my train was an
r late and that I must hurry, but
aid the mere fact of hurrying I did
: grasp a detail.
Drive fasti’ 1 shouted to the dldv
held
r. mr.ldug it. as it wore,
a huge T. 'i v.o men hold the T part of
the pole: the third grasped the rein
end. The ei-.-elble hi’.ng between. The
remainder of the molten metal from
the caldron was lip.s-d into one cruel
ble. and the men Hutted o;T with it. th ■
two in front with strain.-d faces, li
man lo.-Jiin ! dr.vi.ig them coinplaeei.
.ly, the udiiest tiain in tin- world. 11-
steered them through a douruay. olid
they emptied their erueilde i > a sim.l
mold. As they v.oiit they !
an unusual rammer, lu - i
ping out right foot with t
left man’s right leg ami t.o i .
left leg went forward togeti
ep
vp
i dingy looking vehicle as I sprang
ml handed him a So hill. ‘Spare
her horse nor whip.’
- \wny we went with n plunge. The
luge rolled like a ship In the trough
the sou. Street lights seemed a
blight procession moving rapidly
the other way. Constables shouted.
. harked, small boys chased tts and
ness eensed that people might stand
i the sidewalks and gaze. Up orn-
et ami down another we dashed
lly. We took corners on two wheels,
zed telegraph poles anil knocked
, t- such movables as ash barrels and
v goods boxes.
■ \fter linlf tin hour of this bewilder
expqrlence I stuck my head out of
i- window and shouted, ‘Are we near
•’lore?’
• “Where did yez want to go. sir?'
■ o - the edifying answer."—Washing
.Star.
Tlie Dixie unit llie Artist.
;Y.i’Js is lnughlug over how an artist
' even with a dude who, having sat
bis picture, was so dlssittlstleil with
, result Hint he refused to pay for it.
Count do X. recently'had a crayon
. are of himself made, which lie
i i ward pretended to tlml fault with,
t does not hear the slightest resells
1 ee to me." lie said, "and I will not
e It." The artist protested, lint all
a avail. “All right, monsieur.” lie
irked dually, "If It Is not at all like
of coui’so 1 enu’t reasonably ex
t to get paid for It." After the
i had gone the painter added to the
nit a nitignllleeiit pair of ass’ ears
■ exhibited It to tlie gaze of the
,u« public. It had not been long
e posed when the count broke Into
artist's studio In a towering rage
. Ilndlug t Inn threats availed him
■-tiuiig, at last offered to buy it at n
■a I era ble nil vo lieu upi>» the original
■ ; was not strange that you failed
i cognize your resemblance to the
. re at llrst," said the painter, do-
.illted to be revenged for the slight
pou Ills work. "lint 1 knew you
d notice the likeness ns soon as 1
•d those ears."
„ 1 with knee, foot with font We a -
why.
"That," said our guide, "is tu proven:
them from tripping. If trey
fall, you .know, that tnetai would pou:
over them.”
"Of course such a tiling never bap
pened?”
“Yes, It did once. One of the itn .
went down. The other jumped oKnr
hut the fellow o.i the llbor - .uni in it.'
“Horrible! Of course tie d.i-d instnni
ly, poor man?"
"No: the fun nan of tie- earrym.-
gang, taking in the sitt:;.>:.m. uad
several terrllle leaps for him. jtinipen
right Into the middle of it. picked him
ui) and threw him out of it bodily
Then he jumped cleat" himself, with
the stuff dropping from Ills shoes
They both went to the Imsplial. but
they are till right now. Heroic, wasn’t
It? By the way. that’s him. the fore
man. .1 iin 11.. over there now. He Is
still looking after those fellows.”
We looked over to Whole a big mus
cular fellow was directing a gang of
men manipulating molten metal, lie
was not disfigured, and lie did not look
like a hero, but thereafter the grime
that covered him seemed noble Indeed,
and he would not say a word of Ids
feat when we sought to talk with him
about it. Rut ,11 ui II will probably
never want for a Job as long as Bald
win's Is working.—From an Article on
the Baldwin Locomotive Works in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly.
HU Method.
The bell In the private office rang
three times, and the man at the desk
hastily teaelied for a flannel bandage,
which he put around his neck. Then
he arranged a sling In which to put one
arm. mussed up his hair, drew down
the corners of his mouth, got out of his
chair and painfully limped toward the
door.
"Mr. Smlthklns?" Inquired the well
dressed man who opened it just at that
moment.
The man with the bandage gave a
half suppressed groan and answered:
"Yes: that's my name. What can 1 do
for you?”
"You seem to be suffering,” suggest
ed the caller.
"Suffering!" returned the other. “Do
you think I'm doing this for fun? Do
you suppose I bandage my throat for
amusement, tie up my nrm for sport
and limp lie cause 1 think it's graceful?
And Fve been in this way for six
mouths. But what can 1 do for you?"
"Pardon me,” said the caller, hack
ing out. ‘TU call again some other
time."
"It's some trouble,” soliloquized the
man with the bandage as he removed
tlie harness and returned to his desk,
"but experience has taught me that it
Is really the quickest way to discour
age a life Insurance agent and keep
him discouraged. That fellow never
will come hack.”—Chicago Post.
A Se isild Negro
Professor W. H. Council, president
of tbe Agricultural and Mechanical
college for negroes in Alabama is j,i 0 d. Mnrreii,w.'iif
decided tbe safest and most sensible'm1: £ H
DIRECTORY OP secret
Orion Lodge So'\ S0 v 1(: -
ONLY AN OLD SONG.
Rut It IIluNtrntcil 11m* Curiosity of »
!St»w York Crowd.
It was only u song, and an old oue at
that, but it enme near causing a block
on the Broadway surface line tlie other
day. The singer was as black as the
coal In the cart he was driving, hut
that fact cast no shadow on his exuber
ant spirits. As he swung It is chariot
from Broadway into Cortlamlt street
he raised his voice. Then the trouble
began.
When the notes of “Old Black Joe”
rang out high and clear above the din
of traffic, expressions of blank amaze
ment overspread the faces of the hur
rying pedestrians who thronged the
sidewalks. Necks were craned In a
vain search for the location of some
newly patented phonograph. Crowds
collected nml gazed vacantly upon the
nlr. ns if they expeeted to locate the
sound in some office window; teams
were drawn up until a long line of
Appeniticllti.
j "Appendicitis,” said Dr. Abbe In an
’ address before the New York Academy
of Medicine, “has few rivals in the sur-
I gieal field and takes rank today with
typhoid, pneumonia and rheumatism in
medical thought. Surely when the ac
tive surgeon of today can number 100
operations for diseased appendices
yearly—and there are a dozen such men
In New York and iu other cities In the
same proportion—we begin to grasp the
importance of the subject and its men
ace to the community.
“The public continues to ask the phy
sician what was appendicitis formerly,
and be answers. 'Probably it passed
under the description of "inflammation
of the bowels” or “peritonitis.” ’ It is
true that less than a generation ago
numberless people In the course of
summer travel were stricken with so
called inflammation of the bowels or
peritonitis and died.
“Now we hear of no oue so reported,
but it is sahl. Tie had an attack of ap
pendicitis. was beyond the reach of a
surgeon and died,’ or. ‘So-and-so had an
attack of appendicitis, was operated
uiioii and recovered.’ Hospital statis
tics show the same changes of tabulat
ed diseases. It is merely a new name,
not a new disease.”
leader the colored people have. He
sees things as they exi3t and he has
sense enough to giye his people ad
vice that will bring them more of
peace and happiness titan they can
hope for by any other course. What
he says in answer to a request from
the Nashville Banner is wise, timely,
and worthy of wide circulation. It is
follows;
“It seems to me that ordinary wis
dom suggests a dn missal of the re
cent White House dinner affair and
common charily demands the view
that neither party to the ‘accident’
had the remotest desire to tear down
the social barriers between the races
in this country. I desire to take this
veiw.
“The white people of this country
do not understand tbe better element
of the negroes of this question. The
educated does not only seek social
equality with the white race, but he
fights against it. He sees written
everywhere the Anglo-Saxon has
reached a determination to resist so
cial intercourse with races in inferior
condition. This antipathy to- racial
intercourse is stronger in tbe Anglo-
Saxon than in any other people.
j. w. white, j:i‘):; , T’i' V T^-
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ceraon, King; D* , if nemi J
Sussbaun,, C. of hi. : t j A*°», ST*
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city Mgron,
Matow—E. J. Willis
Deputy Murebtii Wu
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COUNTY DIHECTOIY,
’• Maxwell.
-C. W. Wiuibferk
M.\V. Bates. Tax Assemo.-a^
U0SNTY.TiCAStiRER.-qeo. S. Mevm 1
rj- u - Totten. oftS?
J-VDOI oy Cm r 91: ,“
A'obody Paid Her Fare.
A young woman got aboard a West
Broad street car and discovered, to her
humiliation, that-her fare was missing
when I lie conductor called. In a gruff
Th-ose Alabama negroes »J
fused to bed and board awhitifl
op had better keep away f ro J
white house, unless they warn]
pevience that chilly de trop |
AN KVANGLIS’rsi
“I suffered for years with* hij
Where the blood of the Atiglo-saxon j ovlung trouble and iried
is purest there the antipathy is great
est. Therefore, for two reasons, it |
is stronger in the South than iu the
North.
“The only pure Anglo Saxon blood to sufferers trom maladies i
1 kind.’’ One Minute CoughCoiJ
immediate relief for coughs, c
! dies mat did riot obtain peruimnj
j until 1 commenced ucing
Cough Cure.” writes Rev. Jamj
man, eyangelist of Belle River, j
I have no hesitation in recount*
is found in the Soutli, wiicre we do
not meet the hoterogeneous white
population which itas settled in the
North. In the ease of the negro it
is unreasonable to expect his former
master or that former master’s de
scendants for many generations to
come, to make the negro a social
equal or even to permit a hint look
ing towards obliterating the social
lines. It is folly to irritate the South
on thiB .question. It has thoroughly
settled this matter in its mind and
crystalized in in its laws. It is instill
ed into every white child from the
all kinds of throat and lung i
For croup it is unequaled. Abd
safe. Veiy pleasant to take.Mil
and is really a iavorite -with tin
ren. They like it. R, L. Jlml
manner the custodian of the car said cradle to the grave. As I have said,
>:.;1
1!«* Won Sni)i*rnltlii>iiM.
was a big. hearty workingman,
when a spare, thin little mail en-
: the tram car, stumbled and sat
him he said lit reply to the little
apologies;
,.n’t trouble, sir; it’s nil right.
o’h no ’arm done.”
en we saw tlie big man a week : trucks extended up Cortlandt street to
j. "i, we were shocked at the change
i , <m. He seemed to have shrunk to
,l - 4 L is former bulk.
•v-»\ by, wlintever’s the matter?” wo
,< - , tilted.
t,j remember tliat little man wot
t ,. ■ «ue in tlie train last week, sir?”
vyell. H’s nil through Mm I'm wastin
• V like tills!"
i .,-serve us!” we cried. “IIow?
e shrunken giant wrung his hands
' i -pnlr.
mud out next day." he groaned,
Broadway, barring access to the street,
that their drivers might ascertain the
cause of the crowd’s curiosity. Sud
denly a newsboy cried:
“Alt. rubber! DontObcr see it’s only
de nigger n-singin?”
The crowd laughed. The darky, now
lustily holding forth on “The Suwannee
River,” turned sharply into Church
street, totally oblivious to the excite
ment he had caused. The crowd then
dispersed, and the long line of wagons
began to move once more.
“Well.” exclaimed a Jorscymnn on
he'd have to get tlie fare at once or the
woman would have to walk. This dec
laration added to her embarrassment.
The ear was crowded. On her right sat
a gonial Irishman and on her left a
well known bookkeeper. The book
keeper and Irishman exchanged sever
al moaning glances. The conductor was
about to pull the bell rope. The book
keeper said he’d pay the fare as the
young woman looked perfectly honest.
The conductor repeated that he'd put
the woman off. This aroused the Irish
man, who said. “If you put the woman
off, your funeral'll be tomorrow.” See
ing a slight nervousness on tlie part of
tbe conductor, he continued:
“How many people on this ear want
to attend the funeral of this conduct
or?” Several answered in the affirma
tive. The conductor grow excited and
In the altercation that followed walked
to the platform without securing the
woman's fare.—Columbus Dispatch.
’ - - | win approach it in etuciewj
utside is not only - stantly relieves and permanffll
sick Headache,Gastralpin.CiiJ
all other results of import 1 ’*'
Preparac’ by E. C. DoV/iu '
AVIgs For Hire.
“Men do not hire street wigs,” said a
New York wlgmnker. “The man who
wears a wig constantly owus it. But
Digests what you
Itartiflcially digests tltefow
Nature in strengthening r
, »tructing the exhausted dig
tne white Soutli has decided this, gans. It is the latest discov
question for tt.elf. Ac, «», 1
opinion from the on
met with unammon
arouses and embitters Southern sen
timent against tlie negro, although
the negro may be an innocent party
in the discussion. Watermelon whisky
“It requires no great acuteness of d uce b juicy old drunk,
wisdom to see clearly that the white i
South has determined two things ! The pork barrel in c0,1 S f 1
which it will support with its life session is reported nnnsallf [
blood: Resist all attempts at social fat and fascination,
admixture of the race, whether by
legal enactment or social sufferanse,
and to rule it in all political affairs
witli the ballot or the bullet.
“The South is never stinted in its
contributions to negro industry, edu
cation or religion. No people meet
Ills way to the ferry. “New Yorkers call ; there are nevertheless many wigs hired
• ’(> was the coroner. An ’e sat on 1 country people curious, but”— lit
I'm shupersttslniB. an it's lcoktn 1 shrugged his shoulders and passed on
I I am, Oh, Lor'!"—London Mail. 1 —New York Mail and Express.
m- Slie Settled the Question. '
- question of precedence at dinner
it social functions at Washington
weighty oue In official circles, but
upon a time there was a western
Trensnreu of the White Honne,
There are doubtless tu every large
etty in tlie country larger and more val
uable collections of bric-a-brac and art
furniture than tiiat to bo found In the
r whose wife thought very light- private apartments of the executive i
mansion, but it is a question whether |
there is In the length and breadth of !
the land any other half so Interesting.
Rarity Is. of course, a universal ctiarac- !
teristie of the artistic gems scattered
through the home of the presidents. !
but better than that is tlie fact tiiat al
most every piece is fraught with mem- j
orles and associations tiiat make it n
•re is some precedence about all prized possession. Of tbe whole nmn- j
ot 1 don’t know what it is. Just
out to dinner, every one of you,
out. Actors, for example. Dire wigs,
anil wigs are rented for masqueraders
and costume parties, and sometimes
wigs are rented for surprises. So that
after all wigs are included in the great
list of things that can be hired, which
list would be found. 1 fancy, to include
pretty much everything that could be
named.”
- tills subject. She was in Wasli-
i for a good time, and j»1ic ro-
d to have it without bothering
: precedence.
j fearless little woman gave a
r on one occasion, and when it
time to get her guests from tlie
ng room iuto the dining room she
it down anywhere you please.”
-i stroke of western diplomacy
. d perfectly.—Exchange.
Other Women Present.
Shoe Clerk—Are you being waited on,
ma'am ?
Fair Customer—No. 1 want a pair of
walking shoes.
Shoe Clerk—What price and size,
ma’am?
Fair Customer (rather loudly)—
Threes!
Shoo Clerk—Threes?
her probably half are the gifts of kings | Fair Customer (in a low tone)—Yes;
and •tiers, tokens of appreciation from j fG; sUo, 0 D.~Philadelphia Press.
III. FnvorH. ni.h.
::nt is your favorite dish?” in-
I Mrs. Front pew of the Rev.
i face, the uew pastor. She felt
:t was ehickeu. hut it proved noc
. the contribution plate.” an-
, >. *-d tlie Rev. Lougface absently.—
*j. o State Journal.
friendly nations, and the romainde
having been fashloued especially for :
♦he White House, have uo duplicates ;
anywhere else in the world.—Woman's
Home Companion.
Even the highest personages in Tur
key are not exempt from suspicion.
Their movements are watched uud re-! give you GO cents for him, Jim
ported to the palace by an army of change.
Epics who swarm In every quarter. I
All ItNtliiinle.
Jack—That's a tine dog you have,
Jim. Do you want to sell him?
Jim—I'll sell him for S50.
Jack—Is he intelligent?
Jim (with emphasis)—Intelligent?
Why. that dog knows as much as 1 do.
Jack—You don't say so? Well. I'll
Ex-
HEALTH AND BEA
A poor complexion is ntoi
suit of a torpid liver or ir re 5''
of the bowels. Cnless MW
is carried off it will surely CJi
Wood. Pimples, boils and ot
, tions will follow. This is nak
the appeals of charity for the negro od of throwing off thepo' 1
with warmer and more liberal hearts. I bowels failed to remor
It aid in all right and proper ways Early Risers ate
is tlie elevation cf the negro.
“The negro educator is a giant.
!Now, for the negro to step from the
school room into politics is a step
from strength to weakness. For a
negro to step over the social lines is
a step from life to death. It is a ! so
plain to every thinking mind that , „
the very salvation of the negro t easy to see where the®'
race depends upon a rigid obser— tires in the business.
vance and enforcement of the social I 1 1, pi
distinctions in the south, . There | An agrostologist ^
may come a time when the good of to the Filipinos. e -.
the races will admit the obliterations j der8tan <I what he ^
of these time-honored customs, but I have lo l ja '' l! ’ 5 s:l *‘ l1 ' J
Mr. Fierpont Morza"^
nodding over in's " 0 ^'
billion I
]aub faf
Dn
world 1
remedying this condition,
late tlie liyer and pronto® 1
healthy action of tlie bowei-
eatise griping, cramps or 1
pills. R. L. Hicks.
Kentucky whisky ls
$10 per barrel for
a barrel for eonsuffll ,1,)
cannot see it now.
OF BENEFIT TO YOU.
D. S. Mitchell. Fulford, Md: "During
a long illness I was troubled with bed
sores, was advised to try DeWitt’s Witch
Hazel Salve aud did so with wonderful
results. I was perfectly cured. It is
the best salve on the market.” Sure
cure for piles, sores, burns. Beware of
counterfeits. R. L. Hicks.
formed
bought a roreiga
two weeks.
Some of the politicians^
pressdent’s ability W
public calamity-