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HOME TALK.
Lengthy Speeches still Fashionable With
the Colored Element.

Lengthy Speeches still Fashionable With
the Colored Element.
The death of Prof. Daniel b. Viii.
liams, dean of the Virginia Normal
and Collegiate institute, and professor
of Latin and Greek, recalls an anus
ing incident of the life of the Sun re-
porter The latter was on lecture
trip in the south aud found himself in
Richmond some ten years ago. The
Afro-Americans of the city were to
cele ebrate the anniversary of the eman-
cipation proclamation. The orator
who had been selected for the occasion
sent word at the last moment that he
could not be present. The Sun report
er was waited upon by solemn COM
mittee and asked to fill the bill On the
appointed day about seventy-fve thou
sand Afro Americans filed the streets
of Richmond. The white population
took to the woods. Early in the MORN
ing slow drizzling rain set in. The
the Lee monument. When the process
sion reached there it was raining too
hard for outdoor orations, and it
marched back down town and halted
in front of one of the old-time resi-
dences with flowing verandas and the
like. The speakers ascended to the
second story of the building From
the great veranda the speakers looked
down upon sea of black faces, every
one of which appeared to be weeping
silent tears, as a result of the slow
dripping rain. The grand marshal of
the day looked out upon the sea Of
weeping faces and said: 'Ladies and
Gemmen: On count of de clemency of
de wedder all de speakers gwine ter
cut dev remarks short" The Sun re-
porter took the grand marshal at his
word, and instead of delivering his care
fully address made a fifteen minutes
extemporaneou talk. At the end of it
the grand marshal introduced Prof
Williams a home boy we all loves, who
gwine ter wake up de echoes" He did.
He spoke one hour and half to the
| sea of upturned faces, down which the
nearl drops of rain trickled, giving
them all the appearance OF weeping.
When the agony was over The Sun re.
norter rushed out in the street, but the
crowd was so great that he could make
but little head way Right in front of
him were two aged people talking
about the speaking. One of them said:
ssDoan tell me bout desc norden peo-
ple: dey's no good. Dat New York
man git up ERE and speak o'ny fifteen
minute, an nobody hear i'm. Now,
dere's Brudder Williams; he's home
talent. Ne knows 'in. He git up an
be speak whole half er hour. Gimme
10 home talent all do time. IN, Y. SUN
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Bodice. .nd B.lss.

A pretty dinner bodice Is made Of
white chiffon with three bands of sill
yer sequin trimming decorating it from
bust to waist; the decollctage is on the
shoulders, and just on one hugely
puffed chiffon sleeve is a bunch of pink
roses and blue convolvoli. A gown
worthy of mention has a moire skirt
in pink and mauve shot and bodice
of pink chiffon, with q broad band OF
silver sequins round the waist-and =
very slim waist it is.
These sequin belts, by the way.
should not be admitted on any one who
has not slim waist, but under such
favorable circumstances they are ex-
tremely becoming, especially in black.
Other belts which deserve notice are
the broad elastic ones. These, in white
on blue serge, are very charming, and
as further advantage they sre ex-
tremely tidy, inducing the skirt to re-
main in friendly relations with its
bodice.
1t is quite usual though, nowadays,
to avoid any possible separation be-
tween these two by the adjustment OF
gold safety-pin or jeweled broochi
the jeweled pin looks, perhaps some.
what out Of place, but the plain gold
safety-pin may be cordially recon-
mended. Chicago Journal
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NAMES IN NOVELS.
How some Writers Are PUSHED In Nam.
Ing Their ChAracters.

How some Writers Are PUSHED In Nam.
Ing Their Charscters.
All the mechanism of novel writing
has fascination for the general pub
lie, and no part more 80 than the fit
ting of names to the characters. Why
sertain appellations are chosen whose
aptness and quaintness at once strikes
the reader is question of great In
lerest. The old-fashioned tales and
plays, with their Sneerwells, Back
bites, Belairs, ETC., and the later case,
Thackeray's Newcomes, follow the
simple rule of descriptive names, but
the raison d'etre of the many thousands
which constantly absorb the public in
terest is utterly uncertain.
Dickens, it is well known. ransacked
old London for quaint and curious
narnes. Shop signs were his special
Luasing ground, and In this he had a
French counterpart, Balzac. The story
is twice told tale how the great nov
elist dragged his companion through
Paris one memorable night In search
of a name to fit some one of his stu
pendeus creations, and just as the
dawn was beginning to break and the
IeompanioHs strength was failing a
sign WAS found which bore a name
sufficiently outlandish to suit even
Balzac's taste. The name once given,
he was won't to declare it grew to the
character SO that separation was to
him utterly impossible.
| Such a separation was recently en-
| forced ON an author. Miss Anna b.
| Walker, well known from her many
charming books, and even more famous
as the sister of Susan Warner, who
wrote 1.-THE Wide, Wide World, y
planned book which was to treat OF
West Point life. In searching for a
name for her hero, which would not
be likely to appear in any army regis
ter, an old name came to her mind
one that she had not heard for more
than fifty years, and then only once
the owner having been client of her
father. She recalled hearing him com
ment of the strangeness of the name,
and only that circumstance impressed
it on her memory.
The book was written, with the hero
bearing the quaint old name, but when
she submitted it to the publishers she
was informed that there was some one
living of that name who decidedly OBJ
jected to having it appear ''in a book,
distinctive as it was through its odd
ness With inward protest the patient
author then set about to hnd another
name, but the personality of her hero
had become indissolubly bound to her
first choice, and no other one seemed
to fit it. IN. Y. Herald.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

When the devil doesn't know whist
else to do to kill the preaching, he re-
moves the mask from some hvpocrite.
RAMS Horn.
--Bobby--I wish the Lord had made
the world in two days Jack--Whyf
Bobby Then we'd have three Sundays
. wesk. k.-Harper's Round Table.
Oregon Packer-What 10 the horse
good for? Dealer-Well, 4 b. honest
with We, he's. . little too bony fur
mountain trout and mot quite tough
enough fur corncd beef; but he'd can
up like daisy fur spring chicken. ~
Cleveland Plaindesler.
-Edwin-W What do you think have
In this locket, dearest? The postage
stamp on your letter. 1t has been
touched by your lips It often touches
mine" Angelina-Oh, Edwin, I'm 20
very sorry. l moistened that horrid
postage stamp on Fido's dear, damp
nose. Exchange.
-''Willie, Mrs. Dawson tells me that
you behaved very nicely ct luncheon
at her house yesterday. Why can't
you do that when you're at homer
"Because, mamma, If behaved badly
there, Mrs. Dawson would send me
home, but you haven't any place 70
send me "-Harper's Bazaar.
--"And the new man-begsn Jones
"What Of him?' snapped Mrs.
Jones. 'sWell, I'm afraid the feminine
traits will go to him, the conditions Be
reversed, and"- ZONES, what do you
mean?" "Oh, that man will be embar-
rassed, bashful, ashamed in the pres
cnce OF woman''-s.G Good heavensl He
ought to be nowr'-Cleveland Plain
dealer.
Where's my bicycleY' asked Papa
on the morning OF the Fourth, as he
came out into the yard. "Boo-hoo!-I
don't know" said Willy. ut went on
. little while ago" went on!
Where?" "Boo-hoo! don't know,
f-f-filled the roomatic tire wiv powder
| an touched a m-match to it, an'-ah-
hoo-ah-hool-it went away Harper'a
| Weekly.
Patrick had nice little trade in
ice in the small town of B., and
everything progressed smoothly until
one day rival set up IN business, ana
by degrees took Pats customers away.
Patrick was very mad and swore ven
geance, but Was at a loss how to &C
complish the matter. At last he hit
upon a plan, and Immediately proceed.
ed to put it into execution. He visited
each of the customers he had lost, and
solemnly assured them that his rival
only sold warm ice.-Harper's Round
Table.
Improving on Nature. -"Horrorsr'
exclaimed the beautiful society WON.
an. do you mean to try to sell me-
that picture as an artistic presentation
of group of horses?' The great art
list paused moment bewildcred. Then
light broke in upon him, and with Z
few rapid strokes he painted out al
long, graceful tails on the horses and
| substituted for each . docked tuft that
stuck out straight like pump handle.
"Ah," said the society woman, clap
ping her hands with pleasure; NOW
that is picture worth having. Chi
eago Record.
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THE COURAGE OF WOMEN.
1t Is Passive Fortitude Rather Than
Physical Demonstration.

1T Is Passive Fortitude Rather Than
Physical Demonstration.
Let us consider in what the physical
courage of woman has hitherto most
differed from that of man, for the
difference is one not only of
degree, but quality, and the re
suit partly of physiological condi-
tions, partly the influence OF here
Idity, and partly of the necessities
of her social life and the education
which is habitually assigned to her
all of which must affect the future as
we'll as the past Broadly speaking,
lit is in passive fortitude and endur-
laEce, in continuance rather than
yehemence of effort, in selfsabnegation
and vicarious pleasure that the cour-
lape of woman excels. She will face
with equanimity necessary danger,
but will rarely seek or delight in it.
JOYS of contest and peril have for her
little meaning, and no attraction,
they threaten the home; they are
physically prescribed during a great
portion of her life; they conflict with
her special province of being beauti-
ful, and her special glory of being
chosen and protected, doubt whether
there be woman in the world who
does not in her heart of hearts still
like being fought for, who does not
admire even an ordinary feat OF
strength or daring more than all the
lbonors of the schools.
How strange it would be were this
mot so, when we remember that for
centuries upon centuries the progress
Iof civilization, the evolution of sex
has been founded upon the contest Of
male for female When we think o.
the course OF history, the necessities Of
structure, the influence of maternity
the slow inheritance of one uniform
tradition of conduct, of all these di
verse and potent factors alike tending
lin the same direction, there is nj
room for wonder that a radically diff
lferent conception of courage should bt
held by men and women, and we mus
require very strong evidence to believe
that such conception in harmony, al
i. appears to be alike with nature ant
reason, is erroneous OF destructible. =
lFortnightly Review.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Over 5000 delegates were present
Ut the Pan-American Congress of Re-
ligion in Toronto. There were Prot
estants, Roman Catholics and Jews.
Ira d. sankey, the evangelist sing
or, is now writing history OF the
Gospel hymns. Mr.. Sankey has recent
ly been taking part in the Northern
conference.
Rev. Benjamin Waugh has retired
from the editorship of the London Sum
day Magazine. his work in connection
with the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty TO Children leaving him no lei
sure for other labors.
DIR. Ernest Dryander Is called the
Phillips Brooks of Berlin. His work
greatly resembles that of the famous
American Episcopalian prelate, and.
strangely enough, his personal appear
ance is also very similar
Rev. DIR. Newman Hall, the famous
dissenting minister of England, is .
fine specimen of the physical man, des-
pite his age. He is now rs years old,
but he often walks q dozen or more
miles Sundays to and from his church.
The census report covering Static
tics of churches, just printed, shows
that there are 148 distinct denomina-
tions in the United States, besides In
dependent churches and miscellaneous
congregations. The total number OF
communicates Of all denominations To-
20, el2, sOe, who belong to le5,177 or
eanizations or congregations having
l42. 521 edifices.
The Christian associations OF the
University Of Chicago are seeking to
help in all possible ways every student
that comes to the university Both
associations are thoroughly organized
in all departments of the work OF the
College Y. M. c. A. They aim to throw
. helpful Christian influence around
each student in his social and intel
lectual as well as in his religious life.
Indications point TO an increased
attendance at Wilberforce University.
Ohio, AFRICAN Methodist), for the conn
ing year. The authorities are pleased
at the action taken in a city OF Mis-
sissippi to raise funds for the Douglass
Memorial Hall. 1t is intended to make
this q national race monument, ut tho
oldest Negro university in the world,
In whose interests Mr.. Douglass spent
. part OF hts last days on earth. !.
AT the University of Brussels three
ladies from East India recently passed
their examinations in the medical de-
partment. Two of them received tho
title of Doctor of Mdicine with great
distinction" the third with distinc-
ton On the basis of their diplomas
the ladies have received appointments
in women and children's hospitals in
their native land. and are also permit
ted to practice in the haremk
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Truly stupid.

The extreme simplicity Of the new
soldier in old times in England, when
the peasants did not know their right
foot from their left, and consequently
had to have a wisp of hay tied around
one foot and of straw around the 9th.
er, so that they might answer to the
commands, Hay foot, straw foot, !"
seems to be pretty nearly equaled BY
that of the modern continental re-
cruit.
A French paper says that new 70.
cruit was under instruction from the
sergeant as to the points Of the com.
pass.
''If you have the north in front oi
you, the east at your right, and the
west at your left, what have you ri
your back?" asked the sergeant.
my knapsack!" promptly answered
the soldier. Youths Companion.
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down into the
Rocky Creek
country for new
recruits. From
the general ep-
pearments in
this settlement,
l reckon III he
would come on
across and take
on a Waterbury
movement and
tend to his bust =
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He ar,riv Up il . storm. ;.

Way along in the shank of the svenin
one day last week Andy Lucas come
ridin oyer to see me in monstrous
bsrrr ana furry, AMI presently we both
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Whs. He Needled.

Maude, III have something TO say to
vou-but IL am really afraid to say
il.
well wait minutei I'll tell my
brother Willie to bring you pail Of
vsnd. Williep7-Harper's Magazine.
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Two Of . Kind.

Mrs. Yerger-What is the matteri
You seem to be very much annoyed.
Mrs. Peterby-I have good reasons
to be annoyed. That addlepated goose,
Mrs Jones, has been treating me late.
ly as if l were not her equal Texas
SiftinpS
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Suburban Luxurics.

Mr.. Citiman--Why in creation do you
pucker your face over those sour green
grapes, when you can eas beauties =
the fruitmsn's for . mere song?
Mr.. Suburb-They wouldn't taste y
rood as these.
''Why not?"
.Iraissd these myself. Wesk
l.
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SQUIRE RUFUS SANDERS.
q Mighty "Confusionment" in the
Rocky Creek Country.
Blew scrogglns and His .sTrem mendius" Big
Gold Find on the Old stinson Plaoe-A
dob That Sent Ola Man Abner aFack
to Georgy and to becky Ann"
Copyright. 1896.

Copyright, 1861
II the fool-killer hasn't give up his
Job and went out of the business he
ought to navigate around through
Georgy and Tennessee, and then come
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the feed bills nor buy new frock for
| the habv

the feed bills nor buy new frock for
the baby.
Swap your plnter dog of for cat that
has fits, and then let the cat die.
There is so internal much pomp and
purple and fine linen in the church
nowadays till it makes poor man feel
as bad out of place as bobtail dog at q
log walkin.
II 1t ever comes to pass that you
mought run short on material for
preachers and poets and philosophers
and politicians, all you have got to do
is to back your cart down to Rocky
Creek and load up and drive out
IT people didn't want no more than
they need you wouldn't hear so much
talk about hard times. Man don't
raley need but little here below, you
understand, but he wants whole
passle.
There is somethin wrong with a man
when politics will make him mad and
religion makes him cry.
Man born Of woman is OF few days
and sorry teeth and most in generally
full of mean whisky.
The man that plays the fiddle aini
quite as bad as the man that plays the
devil. RUFUS SANDERA
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Some Short stories.

There is one man in this green and
wicked world-the bellused and broke
down politician-that Will never do
anything for the good of his country
till he dies.
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ness clost and steady for few days he
could start new graveyard somewheres
right around In these regions.
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Genius is mighty good thing no
doubts in its place, but it won't pay OH
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went curlln on down the road to see
Blew Scroggins.
1.-THE news in regards to Blev and the
gold they say he found over on the Stin-
son place has now spread into Georgy,
you understand" says Andy, land old
man Abner Wheelan is now on his way
down here to put in his claims for
Becky Ann. Accordin to my fguration
he will make his landin in the settle
ment tonight, and lowed it mought be
pleasant for us to he there when he
first drives up"
1t was about first dusk, and me and
Blew and Andy had went out to the hore
rack to tend to the stock. when bless
gracious we heard mighty rumblin
and roarin Of buggy wheels down the
road, and the extminnit old man Abner
driv up in perfect storm and full
sweat.
II have come back all the way from
Georgy and driv right on down here to
see you, Mister Scroggins, about that
gold you found buried on the old Stin-
son place." says old man Abner, talkin
nervous and excited like. "When we
sold the land to you we didn't sell you
everything that was buried on 1t, and
| have come to put in claims for Becky
Ann. She remembers same like it was
yesterday the very same night when
old man Gray Stinson went out and
buried that gold, and accordin to law it
naturally belongs to her."
.sDid the old man bury that gold
down there in the back side of the gar
den?n says Blew.
Fright exactly there, accordin to
Becky AIMS remembrance" says old
man Ahner,
sWas 1t buried in big low, sgustty
stone jar?" says Blew
THAT'S the very thing to mats heel
which Becky Ann says he put it away
in, and she can likewise also recoleet
till now that the stone jar come down
from her great grandfather and had been
in the Stinson family clost on to hun
dred wears" says old man Abner.
ssWell by the shades of George WASH
ington, you and Becky Ann know a
blame sight more about that gold than
l do, ',says Blew, ''cause l have never saw
it as yet Some Gipsy horse traders
come along by here, and one of the old
women took forled stick and went out
in the garden, and when she come back
she lowed there was big pile of gold
buried somewheres around there, which
she would show me the very spot for
four bits. give her the four bits
mostly from the fact that she was aid
and pore and feeble, you understand
and she showed me the very spot where
old man Gray Stinson laid his treasures
up. But haven't done any diggin as
yet. l lowed you and BECKY Anr
mought know all about 1t, and con
sequentielly helt off so as to let you
have the trouble of diggin and the fur
of findin the stuff. My four bits in
silver has gone glimmerin down into
that pore Gypsy woman's old stockin
you understand, but am plum willir
to let you take the first whack at the
gold. II in case you find 1t | will take
the old stone jar for my four bits and
call it even. The women folks can use
it to pack lard in, and it will forever
keep me in remembrance OF the Stinsor
family. But If in case you don't fine
it, when you blow off your dogs and
quit will come in on cold trail ant
see If / can't run it down"
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Back to Georgy and Becky Ann.


Now Of all the diggin and sweatin that
was ever read OF or writ about, Blew
Scroggins got it from old man Abner
durin the next three days. The old man
could think of to back down and out.
But Blcv told him 1t would never do for
him to go back to Georgy and Becky Ann
without that gold.
''You can take my spade and grubbin
hoe and go right on down into the bowels
of the earth after it," says Blev, and the
old man had to take the job or either
back square out and show his hand.
In the main time me and Andy went
on spreadin of the news amongst the
people till every livin soul in the set
tlement could tell the story. We would
ride over oncst or twicst every day to
see Blew and old man Abner and find out
If anything had come to pass. And Blew
he didn't do a blessed blame thing durin
them three days but lay around in the
shade and use good tobacco and sick old
man Abner on. He managed so as to
keep the old man diggin and sweatin,
YOU understand, till he had dug over
every square inch of the garden and
still it was all vanity and vexation OF
spirit in regards to the gold which old
man Gray Stinson had buried there in
the old family stone jar accordin to the
remem brance of Becky Ann.
~ have put in my orders for two
horse auger to bore me few wells
around the place." says Blew to old man
Abner when finally at last he had give
up the fight, 'and If you will remain
over and wait week or two can loan
you all the machinery and you moughi
Co on down deeper and deeper till you
find that old stone jar and the yallel
stuff"
But by that time it seems as II the old
man had found out that there was some
thin dead up the creek and he wouldn''
take any more draggin from Blew.
Everybody in the settlement had found
out by now that a man by the name o
Scroggins had set his hook for suckers
you understand, and caught the biggest
one in Georgy. Old man Abner got hi
back up higher than his shoulders anS
lit out the next mornin on his return u
Georgy and Becky Ann. When he dri'
off me and Blew and Andy give him thu
grand horse laugh, and the other boy
kept the tune runnin till he passed OF
out of the Rocky Creek regions.
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Swap your pnter dog of for cat that
has fits, and then let the cat die.
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The man that plays the fiddle aini
quite as bad as the man that plays the
devil. RUFUS SANDERs.
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Man born Of woman Is OF few days
and sorry teeth and most in generally
full of mean whisky.