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The colored American., 1900-12-08
IN THE MONTICELLO SECTION.
Doings of the Race at Charlottesville
The Churches and LIteraries.

Charlottesville, Va. Specisl-The un-
Ion Thanksgiving services of all the
colored churches of this city were held
at the Mt. Zion Baptist church. Thanks
giving day at II o'clock a. NJ. The SER
mon for the occasion was preached by
Rev. r. G. Quarles, pastor of the First
Baptist church. The services were held
under the auspices OF the Ministers
Union OF which Rev. G. n. Harris ls
president. In the pulpit were all of the
city who assisted in the services. Spec
ial music was sung by the united choirs
Of the city. Among the numbers being
. we'll composed hymn, written by
Rev. Il. G. Quarles especially for the
occasion. Thanksgiving entertain
ments were given at several of the
churches which were very well attend
cd. The funeral of Mrs. Ann Parago
one Of our oldest inhabitants took place
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ODD WAYS OF TELLING TIME.
Many New Workers Mark Its March
by the Progress of
Business.

So regular is the progress Of business
In great city like this that many per-
SONS mark the march of time without
referring to clock. They merely note
passing occurrences, says the New York
Mail and Express. No matter in what
section of the city one may live he will,
after moments thought, recall some
daily occurrence that will acquaint him
with the time of day.
The people on Washington Heights
have for years been able to tell to dot
when 1T is II p. m. on week days and ten
o'clock on Sunday nights by the footing
of familiar tugboat whistle. This tug
whistles for a watchman. A cashier in
one of the biggest banks near Wall
street never looks at Trinity as he ap-
proaches his office. He knows to GER
tainty whether he is on time by the To-
cation in which he meets shoestring
peddler. If the latter be on the south
side of Pine street and Broadway the
cashier knows he is on time. Should
he be to the north Of that point the
cashier is late. A woman on West
Twenty-fifth street begins to cook
breakfast every morning at the mo-
ment that a certain police officer goes
by. 1t is her way of telling time, and
the bluecoat's approach never varies a
minute. Along Third avenue some of
the shopkeepers tell the time by sim
ply glancing at the familiar face of
some passing motorman. 1t is a most
interesting study, this telling Of time
without watch or clock.
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COST OF LIVING IN PARIS.
For Two Dollars a Day One Can Live
Well in the Exposition City
Of France.

To prove that we are economical
young women shall tell you how much
we pay at the pension? writes girl in
Ladies' Home Journal, who, with girl
companion, is travelling in France and
giving the benefit of her experience to
girls who may 60 to the Paris exposi-
tion next year. The tariff card, tackled
on the wall of my rose-twined Marie
Antoinette room, says the price is
nine francs. Then how do l come to
be paying only seven? One leans over
here to marchander--"to haggle, to
bargain" If madame's prices read
from seven francs," and you write to
her asking If she can let you have u
room and at that price, she will prob
ably reply that the only rooms she has
unrented cost ten francs. But if you
are wise enough to ask her if she has
room for seven francs the answer will
be "yes." We are, of course, beyond
the pale of the bathtub, electric lights
and big tips; the maid who cares for
our room is satisfied to receive a modest
fee, and it is with thrill of delight
that we pick up our candlesticks and
say goodnight" just as they do in
novels. We are comfortable and happy
on two dollars per day. The fact that
we are alone does not bring lis a mo-
ment's annoyance, nor subject us to
any unreasonable restraints.
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OBSTINATE JURORS
A Case in Witch One Dete rm Int ed Ma
Made Eleven Think as
He Did.

There was a "hold-up" in the jury
room Of the court of common pleas in
this city a few days ago, says the
Hartford (Conn.) Courant. A jury.
which had been out 43 minutes, re-
turned verdict for the plaintiff to
recover damages of $25 and costs.
After the verdict had been accepted,
one of the jurymen said that when
the first ballot was taken eight of the
jurors voted in favor of the defendant
and four for the plaintiff. A later bal
lot resulted in II votes being cast for
the defendant and one for the plain
tiff. The jurors were in a hurry to
get home and the II who voted for the
defendant endeavored to persuade the
other juror to turn with them. This
he refused to do and he stated en-
phatically that he would hold out If it
caused a disagreement or kept the
jury out all night.
The one man was evidently stronger
than the II who were against him. He
held to his position, and finally sue
ceeded in bringing the II over. with
the final result that verdict was
agreed upon for the plaintiff to recov-
er $25 and costs. The II jurors who
turned would not divulge the name of
the juror who stood out for the plain
tin from the beginning.
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SCHOOLS IN CITIES.
Kansas City and Milwaukee Spend
the Least Per Capita-Eastern
Cities Higher.

A shortage in the school fund in St.
Paul has caused the superintendent Of
the school system in that city to make
comparison of the cost per pupil with
the similar cost in IA cities, says the
Buffalo Express. On the basis of the
figures of attendance the cost in St.
Paul is $22.0S. Only two other cities
show a smaller cost - Kansas City,
where the school year is only nine
months long and where the cost is $50 OF,
and Milwaukee, where the salary ac-
count alone makes the cost $21.S7. Sew
eral cities run from $24 to $2S, while
the cost amounts to $3.50 in Pitts
burgh and to $4O.77 in Denver. The
eastern cities have a much higher rate
than those in the west, Denver except
ed, and there the cost of labor and
fuel Is excessive. The figures given
have to do with the entire school sys-
tenn, but the difference is wider when
high schools alone are considered. Bos-
ton, with its suburbs, has 12 high
schools, for which it pays per capita
rate OF $S5.40; on salary basis alone
1t amounts to $62.19. In St. Paul the
total per capital cost in high schools
on the basis Of average daily attend
ance is $44.36, and out of this $34.91 is
expended for teachers salaries.
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THE BALLET AT TAIMI.
A Little South Sea Island Girls Grace
and Verve in Dance
Ing.

Ayoung girl endowed with no special
beauty of feature, but possessing an air
and hint of deviltry that would have
rendered attractive one much less IA
vored, bounded into the center of the
room and began to dance in the circum-
scribed space between the lamps, says
Blackwood. 1t amazed us to find in
the untutored performance of this little
South Sea islander grace and verve
rarely equaled behind the footlights
in the civilized world. That her dance
was original the interest displayed by
the native assembly assured us. In
deed, it seemed an improvisation of the
moment. After some preliminary
steps in time to the singing, "Cutty
Sark'--as we christened her, for rea-
son too obvious to require explanation
became bolder, and, making the
captain her objective, danced at him.
Encouraged by our applause, her
abandon increased, until in moment
of extreme audacity she advanced
close and snatching up the gold-laced
uniform cap which lay on the mat at
his feet, clapped it on her own head,
and, thus arrayed, executed rapid pas
seul. Then, overcome with sudden
shyness, she threw the cap down before
him, and, darting out of the circle, con-
cealed herself behind the singers.
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WORK DONE BY ENGINEERS.
In Any Undertaking It IL with Them
Simply q Question Of Maxi
Ing Money.

When you come to reckon up the
work that is done by engineers-that
which really keeps our large works
going and finds employment for our
workmen-it is what may be generally
classed as new commercial work."
says the Engineering Magazine. Into
this class fall all extensions of our rail-
ways, all expansion in our fleets OF
steamers, all increases to our factories,
workshops, mines, tramways and the
like; and the point to be observed in all
these is that all are simply purchased
for the purpose of making money.
In other words, they are investments.
There is no more definite rule for the
number of ships that sail on the At
lantic than there is for the number of
cabs that can find work in the streets
of London. Nobody can doubt that if
cabs could be built great deal cheap
er more cabs would be put on the road
and more work would be found for
coachbuilders and their workmen. So
1t is with ships. A ship is nothing more
than the packing case of the goods that
come over in it. What the public wants
Is the cargo. What the ship-owner
wants is the profit on the carrying
trade. Either of them wants the ship
only as means to these ends, and il
ships can be built cheaper the more
are they able and willing to afford.
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SPECIAL SYSTEM OF TREATMENT.

campaign. This piece of Boer strate-
gy was carried out with brilliant sue
cess from the beginning to the end.
1t would have done the Beers no par
ticular good to capture Ladysmith,
inasmuch as the position itself would
have been valueless and they would
have had Whites army to guard and
feedas prisoners of war. So long as they
could maintain the siege the army was
virtually imprisoned, while compelled
to find its own supplies. When at
length the massing of immense English
armies made the Ladysmith siege no
longer feasible, the Beers quietly de-
parted with their guns and munitions.
For many weeks the Boer army near
Ladysmith had been only 1000 or 5000
strong, though it had etfectually
penned up 1900 British soldiers under
Gen. White and repeatedly repulsed
a great army of relief under General
Butler. General Joubert, as chief in
command of body of undisciplined
Boer farmers, had for months outwit-
ted and outfought about seven times
as large force of British troops led
by famous generals, and had then re-
tired in fairly good order and fighting
trim, having inflicted greater losses
upon the enemy than had been visited
upon his men in return.-From "The
Progress of the World" in the Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews for
April
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DIAMONDS In STEEL.
croscope In the Molten r
Metal.

In the manufacture of carbon steel
microscopic diamonds are formed. A
number of steels from a variety of
processes have been examined and
gave identical results, says the Mining
and Scientific Press. A piece weigh
ing 300 grammes was cut from a
lump Of steel and treated with nitric
acid; the insoluble residue collected
was mainly graphite carbon. After
being washed with water it was
boiled three times with fuming nitric
acid. which partially dissolved the res
idue; hydrofluoric acid ami then fum-
ing suphuric acid were used. There
then remained nothing but graphite,
which, after being washed, was melt
ed with chlorate Of potash. This long
series of operations was recommended.
because It was necessary to subject
the residue to all the treatments men
toned. The insoluble residue obtained
fell to the bottom of a vessel filed
with iodide of methylene and the lit
tie. transparent octahedrons visible
through a microscope burned OIL .
sheet Of platinum without leaving any
ash. These were the diamonds.
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Boer Strategy.

The second stage of the war may
indeed prove very short: but if so it
will not be due to strictly military
considerations. but to the sensible
decision to give up hopeless resist
ance. Although so tiny people, the
Beers have already inflicted fearful
punishment upon the great empire
that is opposing them. Our readers
will remember that in the exchange
of predictions before the war began
English statesmen and English gen
erals alike had taken the view that
the march to Pretoria would be prac-
tically a bloodless holiday picnic,
while President Kruger's prediction
was that if the English marched to
Pretoria they must expect to do it
with the loss of 10000 men. What
happened was that the Beers, by way
of preliminary strategy. went over in
to English territory to meet the enemy
as he approached, with the result of
inflic ting loss about equal to Kru-
gers prediction before the war had
got as far as Transvaal territory. The
English rejoicing over Cronje's cap
ture and the relief of Ladysmith and
Kimberley was so great last month
that many readers of the newspapers
were misled into supposing that these
events were great victories in the mil
itary sense and that the war was vir-
tually ended. 1t is not strange that
the English relatives and friends OF
the 1900 men of General Whites
army, who were on short rations and
suffering from disease at Ladysmith
were overjoyed when the Beers gave
up the siege and withdrew. But il
should be borne in mind that from
the strict military point of view the
Beers had won most of the substantial
points in the game. Their object had
been simply to hold Whites army in
check at Ladysmith for the longest
possible time, in order to put the
English to the heaviest possible cost
in men and money by the attempt to
relieve White-thus diverting the
English from their original plan OF
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GIadstone's seIf-Possession.

This faculty was strildngly mani
tested when, in the position Of leader
of the house, Mr.. Gladstone had to
write frequent letters to the queen
giving his impressions as to public
business. These letters he often wrote
while sitting on the treasury bench
after the dinner hour, and they some
times appeared to tax even his mental
resources. He wrote them in a small
and not very legible hand. and their
composition occupied considerable
time. Sometimes he would pause for
few minutes before finishing half
written letter, and would occasionally
delete word or two after reading
what he had already written. In no
duty did he seem to talce such care,
and keen observers often remarked
that he could more easily deliver a
long speech than write letter to
her majesty. While his mind was ap-
parently absorbed In this work, he
was at the same time listening to the
speeches which were being delivered,
as was evidenced by the fact that he
often jumped up. to correct an oral
statement or to explain some point in
regard to the subject under discus
sion.-Chambers' journal.
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DEATH TO THE CLASSICS.
Rebuked Edward Everetts
Pedantry.

The decline Of the use of classical
quotations in legislative bodies may be
traced to the case of Edward Everett,
who once concluded stately speech
in congress with long, sonorous and
superbly modulated citation of a pas
sage from Tacitus, and then took his
seat, says the Boston Herald. No
sooner was he through than up
sprang a burly member from what
was then a frontier state of the west.
He had once been an Indian agent,
and no sooner was he on his legs than
he began to pour out vehement ha-
rangue in Choctaw. After awhile the
speaker called him to order. II don't
see why my freedom of speech should
be abridged" he cried. you let the
gentleman from Massachusetts run
on, and l didn't understand the frs1
word of his lingo any better than ne
does mine." The scene was described
as very comical, but It struck the
death knell of further classical quota
tions in a congress that had not a ray
of an idea what the unintelligible
lingo of Cicero and Tacitus was driv-
ing at.
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.PRICETOWN.
April I'd, 1900,

April ~, lSUU.
A young child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Marion Whitley is dangerously i'll
with pneumonia.
DR.. CLANCY, Al Swain, John H.
Gossett and son, Albert, were in Gin
cinnati last Friday and Saturday.
The Webster family have moved to
their farm recently purchased of c.
E. Barr.
The Modern WOodmen will organize
a camp in our village in the near
future.
Photographer Parker of uynchburg
is located in our midst for ten days.
B. F. Faris and family, of Fairview
were c alling on Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Sonner last Friday.
Not Republican of Salem township
attended the trump" convention al
Hillsboro last Wednesday. The Re
publicans are satisfied with our candi
date for Congress, and can not be lured
into the laid society" Not only are
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STOCK GAMBLING.
Evils Arising from the Universal
Yearning to Get Something
for Nothing.

Secrecy made it possible to organize
both the opportunity and the tempta-
ton to play the industrial game with
loaded dice, says the Engineering Mag
azine. The itching to get something
for nothing upon the market is at any
time the master vice in trade. One
risk of the business boom is always
that it lets loose those reckless forces
that hasten every disaster of the next
business collapse. The new "com-
bines," If they manipulate clandes-
timely, easily fire every passion to
play with stock variations to lay
traps for the unwary, to declare divi-
dends that never have been earned
and to unload lying values upon the
public. 1t is evident that every form
of secret control-every hidden device
mensely overstimulates this dicer's
spirit, and, therefore, adds to the
most dangerous uncertainties of busi-
ness. That this evil can be greatly
lessened has been proved not only by
English experience-it has been clear
ly proved by Massachusetts, expert
ence. The degree of publicity to
which these corporations must now
submit in Massachusetts, is far great
er than is commonly supposed, and
has been attended by results so hope
full as to mark sure way for. further
legislation. This experience, together
with the experience of the interstate
com mi ssiOn-in spita of all its failuN.s
may well furnish q safe basis for
such federal action as shall give unity
of procedure in different states.
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THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.
Facts from History as to How Ions
II Was Known TO the
Wise Men.

It was q cloister fancy of the dark
some especially created star-like body,
probably within our atmosphere, de-
signed wholly for the leading of the
wise men, says the new Lippincott's.
The law of parsimony rejects such ex-
plication, and science, with silent
scorn, turns its back upon the bauble
star, for in the glorious depths of
Heaven are matchless orbs which,
swinging on their way into mortal
ken for awhile, meet all the demands
of poet and of prophet for the "star of
the King"
History affords us data for deter
mining this wondrous star.
When the magi arrived in Jerusa-
salem Herod was within few weeks
of his death. The massacre of the
babes of Bethlehem was one of the
last of his tragic deeds. Herod died
in the year of Rome 750. When "Her-
od inquired diligently what time the
star appeared" the reply was evident
ly such that he thought it safe to ex-
terminate all baby sons of Bethlehem
from two years old and under, show
ing that "the star" had been known
to the wise men for at least two years
before their arrival at Jerusalem, and
| whether its appearing had marked
the conception or the birth of 'the
king" Herod could not decide. Re-
Gently discovered tablets at Zidon
give the date of two enrollments for
taxing, made under Cyrenius, gov
ernor of Syria. The first of these, dur
ing which Christ was born, was made
five years before the date A. d.
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MARY JANE.

In the town Of Humdrum and valley Go
lang,
Where brown quails whistled and bobo-
links sang,
And Sweet Williams" blossomed and hoi-
iyhocks grew,
And folks came and went that every one
knew,
Lived a coarss-handed woman called Mary
Jase.
Up. rs% ready. each morning at chant'oleel
She cooked, washed and ironed from fall
to fall,
And then to break rounds that monotonies
bring,
She cooked. washed and ironed from spring
And no one said thank you" to Mary
Jane.
Outlines through the valley of homey
GolaRg,
Where brown quails whistled and bobo-
links sang,
Came the dark-shrouded forms OF sickness
and death;
The boon that followed the blight of their
breath
Was the coarse-handed woman called Mary
Jane
Soothing trouble with cheer and sorrow
with song,
And, strengthening Faith as viglls grew
long,
She watched with the angels at bedside and
bier,
And cooked, washed and ironed from year
to year,
With the world knowing nothing of Mary
Jane.
But Mary James Lord knew the ways OF
Golang,
Where brown quails whistled and bobo-
links sang,
And when cooking and washing were done
one day,
He came to Humdrum and took her away
And, among His bright jewels. shines Mary
Stevens Buck, in Detroit Free Press.
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Boston's Boarding Houses.

"There can be no general license in
Boston's Bohemia" writes Margaret
Allston in Ladies' Home Journal. "as
the neighborhood is dotted with board
Ing houses, where it is the invariable
custom that one must pass an examina-
tion both in responsibility and brains
before admittance is allowed, and
which are conducted by patterns of
spinsteral virtue who sit at the head of
table full of cultured boarders, an
nouncing the cultured menu to each in
dividual somewhat in this wise: Miss
-, will you partake of lamb warmed
in its own gravyP Or a suggestion of
shepherds pie? Or possibly chicken
pie to Gomez"
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odd way of showing II. I was called in
to draw up fresh will. Subject TO one
condition, he made his property over to
you."
"And that condition?"
Excuse me moment" said MIR. Fur
ness, looking at his watch. II expect
lady here presently; let us step into my
private room"
"And that condition." said George
Neal, firmly.
Now. my dear boy" said the law
yer, "don't fire up. You have had your
way, let the dead man have his. In some
little miserable seaport on the east
coast your uncle had what nearly every
successful man has nowadays-a poor
relation. 1t came to his knowledge that
this poor relation had died and left a
daughter. This was quite enough for
your uncle. And he made requisite
condition that you marry her. The
lady's name is"
"Stop!' With his face expressing all
the bitterness he felt, the young man
rose.
Footsteps had been coming nearer
every moment, and involuntarily Meals
face turned to the door. The clerk came
first, then the lawyer, with oldfash-
ioned courtesy, came forward to inter
cept the visitor.
miss Kate Perry" he said, "and this
my dear young lady, is George Neal
All the blood that was in Meals body
rushed to his face. He stood grasping
at the back of his chair unable to ute,
a word. Then the little hand that the
lawyer held started, trembling so VIC
lently that it attracted Mr.. Furness' at.
tention, and he hastily led her to q
chair. ut is possible" he said, "tha,