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Smyrna times., 1900-07-18

The Fourth of July week it was
thought had reached the climax in
temperature, but this week if anything
has been hotter. The temperature has
ranged from 95 to 103 degrees in the
shade, with cloudless sky. The peo-
pie have been able to bear it the better
because there has been but little hu-
midity. The promised showers and
lower temperature has not yet reached
us.
Smyrna times., 1900-07-18

Thursday evening the following Of
fcers of Stars and Stripes Council, No.
%, Jr., o. U. A. NJ, were installed by
Senior Past Councillor, E. M. Fowler:
Councillor, Joseph s. Windal; Vice
Councillor, w. w. Hynson; Assistant
Recording Secretary, Harry Collins
Conductor, j. l.. Collins; Warden
W. H. Fries; Inside Sentinel, b. W.
Leinberger; Outside Sentinel, Georg'
S. Collins; Chaplain, W. b. Start.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04
LITTLE FELLOWS AT WORK.
Five Year Old Apprentices Who Earn

Five Year Old Apprentices Who Earn
Their Daily Bread in Flowery ia
pan.
The ancient custom of apprenticeship
down from medieval times, and still in
force in Europe, has a parallel in ia
pan. In Japan, too it has been handed
down for centuries, and it remains to-
day one of the most picturesque and
little known elements of Japanese civil
ization.
The little japanese apprentice is
called a 'kozo" and he belongs to a
poor or middle class family who cannot
undertake the burden of his support
and education in the home. To appren-
tice a boy in some useful trade means
to make a good provision for his future,
and the japanese idea seems to be that
the sooner this arrangement is made
the better. When the parents have de-
cided upon what calling the SON shall
enter, or have found a good opening for
him, perhaps in the business of
friend, he leaves his home with his pa
rents, and is bound over to his new
master with long career before him
as a kozo before he can aspire to be
workman with wages, and finally a
master himself if he develops any abil-
ity in his trade,
The first born son in an Oriental fam
lily is of so much importance that in ia
pan he rerely becomes a "kozo," unless
his parents are too poverty stricken to
support him; but that does not often
happen in country where living is so
oh hat ooTo ha rnaIn6 at
the cost of a, few ''sens" a day
Most of the kozot9 in a Japanese city
are country boys, SO that when they
leave their homes they may not return
again for many years. 1t is not I'M
common for child to become a kozo at
the age of five or six years If the
master considers the boy bright and
strong, and likely to do well in his
trade, he pays the parents good sum
of money, and agrees to give the boy
home, food and clothing until he is
eighteen, when the apprenticeship Is
over The name, by the way, means
little priest" Some say that it is be-
cause che i1uzos shave their heads; still
their hair is allowed to grow out again,
and not kept shaved like that of the
priests. The master probably finds it
more economical to have his kozos' hair
cut very short, and, therefore, at long
intervals.
The kozo leads a busy life, filed with
work from early in the morning till late
at night, but he rarely receives unklnd
words or neglect, or suffers hardship,
according to the japanese conception.
The japanese are a race uniformly
gentle in their relations with each 9TH
er, and harsh words are rarely heard,
so the kozo is sure of home where he
not only has all the rice that is good for
him TO eat but is free from the nagging
which people are apt to give other peo-
pies children.
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The Chatfeld Paper Co. so, 2ss-- stG..
Complete Line OF Paper and Irvine in the State

The kozos are to be seen everywhere
in the streets In Japan and in all the
stores. If they are apprenticed to a
| "tabi'' maker the tabi are the white cot
ton socks, with a separate place for the
| big toe), he sits all day on the platform
within the door of the shop, stitching
away on the white socks and .deftly fit
| ting in the ivory fastenings. Generally
there are four or five at work at once
and the eldest is put in charge He
checks all unseemly mirth in the pres
ence of customer and interferes when
conversation becomes too loud and
turns into squabbling.
In the streets "kozos" with their mas
ters' name printed on the front or back
of their blue cotton frocks which, with
skin tight trousers of the same color,
make their costume, trundle carts with
lumber and carpenters tools or char
coal or some kind of grain Generally
the marks of their avocations are so
smeared over the round countenances
that it Is superfluous to look at the cart
to see what they are doing.
'Kozos' have two holidays only dur
ing the entire year, and one wonders
whether they were selected because
they seemed the most appropriate for
the little wretches, or whether it just
happened that way, for they are the
two holidays which appear on the
Buddhist calendar as off days in the
Buddhist purgatory. The master al
ways supplies pocket money to the eX-
tent of two yen Gone dollar), which is
alarge sum for any japanese child to
spend, and most of it goes for as large
variety of candy and cakes and other
eatables as the boy can find. 1t is the
ambition of every ''kozo," true to the
traditions of his guild, to eat SO much
and in such peculiar combinations that
he will be i'll and unable to work for
several days following, and he general
ly succeeds. With all their abandon
ment to the unrestricted pleasures of
the day they seldom forget to visit the
temple of Kwannon, the Goddess of
Mercy, where they stand reverently be-
fore her shrine and say a few prayers,
their belts stuffed with good things to
eat and their faces smeared with the
same. Before they leave they throw a
few covper "rn" to the goddess This
never forgotten offering of prayer and
money is the most unconsciously pa
thetic incident in the monotonous exis-
tence Of the hard working little "kozo."
Los Angeles Times.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04
THE REV. DIR NOBLE OF CHICAGO
RESIGNS.

Chicago, Dec. 3.-The Rev DR.. F. A.
Noble, pastor of the Union Park Con-
gregational church. resigned his pulpit
last night after a ministry of nearly
twenty-five years. The resignation,
which was written in Salt Lake City,
where Or. Noble is spending the winter.
is to take effect as soon as the church
shall accept it. For a year or more DR.
Noble has not been in good health. Dr..
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04

Following are the closing prices reparted
by Prince & Whitley, Bankers and Brokers.
81 Broadway, New York and 10 Center ST.
New Haven. Bid. Asked
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04
NEW YORK STOCK MARKEr

Upemfng, HIGHEST, lowest UNOtntlOm
On the New York Stock Exchange, reported
by Prince & Whitley, Brokers, IL Center
street, New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04
Government Bonds.


Reported over private wire by H. C.
Friedman & CO.. Bankers and Brokers,
10 Wall Street, New York. New Haven
Office, 763 Chapel Street. Norman A.
Tanner, Manager.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04

Crown La Grippe Tablets, the great
cold cure. George D. Farovid's City
Drug Store GA Chapel street.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04

DR.. Noble is a former pastor of New
Havens Center church and is we'll re-
membered here by the church-going
people
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-04

Noble was for two years editor of the
Advance.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

have been softened by many acts of
magnanimity on both sides. and fierce
foes in combat have forgotten animos.
ity when moved by the appeal of hu-
man needs. Before the relief of Lady
smith message went from the camp
OF the Beers to that of the British.
requesting, for the relief of men in
hospitals, a certain kind of medicine.
which the Beers medical department
lacked. The request was instantly
granted. The Beers confidence in the
humanity sf their foes was as touching
as it was creditable to the British who
inspired it.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

The state of Massachusetts, has a
holiday which, although 1t is but seven
years old. has attained great popular
success. 1t is called Patriots day, and
is celebrated on April 10Th, in COM
memoration of the battles of Concord
and Lexington. In Massachusetts, this
holiday has special reason for its ex-
dstence, aside from the fact that Con-
cord and Lexington are within the
limits OF the state. 1t takes the place
OF tho old Fast day. which fell by
custom on the first Thursday in April.
The transformation of Fast day into
day for baseball, fishing and merry
making was perversion of what was
intended to be "a day of humiliation.
fasting and prayer" The people were
not willing to give up the vernal holi-
day, and the celebration of the ami
versary of Concord fight gave an op-
portunity for retaining 1t. bill has
been introduced in Congress to make
April 18th national holiday.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Thrift can almost live on what ex-
travaganee throws away. The dust
from blast furnaces is apparently
worthless material, but in France sue
cessful experiments have been made
with it for fertilizing purposes. The
land responded satisfactorily. The dust
contains ingredients which the earth
finds to be stimulating. After all, there
is little on this world OF ours that is
without value.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Arrangements are in progress for
the assembly at the City of Mexico
next year of a general congress of all
the independent governments on the
American continent. The gathering
will be similar to the "Pan-American
conference" which met at Washington
in 1889. One result of that conference
was the formation of an International
Union of American Republics. with a
bureau of general information. The
bureau, which includes in it's member
ship all of the republics. is taking up
the preliminary work of the proposed
congress. The replies which Secretary
Hay has received to his letter suggest
ing the new conference indicate that
all the American republics will be rep
resented. The conference will have no
political aims. 1t will consider ques-
tions of trade, facilities for transporta-
tion by rail and sea, banking systems
and customs methods. and perhaps it
will discuss the feasibility of a per-
manent tribunal of arbitration to set
tie disputes among the republics with
out recourse to war
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

That the much vaunted common
sense of the American people has an
other side is forcibly illustrated by
recent sales of a good luck box. This
precious humbug is a little wooden
case containing a worthless three
starred ring. worth in all about five
cents. But within the past three
months many thousands of persons
have paid ninety-nine cents apiece for
1t, expecting it to bring good luck. In
this and similar instances the notice
might appropriately read: "Ridicu-
ious! We are giving ourselves away
Cor nothipsi"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15
Cures Talk
Great Fame Of Great Medicine
Won by Actual Merit.

The fame of Hoods Sarsaparlla has been
won by the good it has done to those who
were suffering from disease. Its cures have
excited wonder ard admiration. 1t has
caused thousands to rejoice in the enjoy
ment OF good health, and it will do you the
same good 1t has done others. 1t will e1-
pei from your blood all impurities; will
give you a good appetite and make you
strong and vigorous. 1t is Just the medi-
cine to help you now, when your system Is.
In need OF a tonic and invigorator. y
Scrofula-" had scrofula soret oveS
my back and face. took Hoods Sarsapa-
rila used Hoods Medcated Soap and
Hoods Olive Ointment, and was cured"
OrHo b. MOORE, Mount Hope, Wis.
HOODS SaEsapariHaI
Is Americas Greatest Medicine.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15
Few College Student. Die.

The death rate in colleges is extreme
ly low. The strict attention to the
physique is given as the reason. 9th
ers, as well, may have health and
strength. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
is recommended most highly for the
blood, nerves and stomach disorders,
and it cures constipation, Indigestion.
dyspepsia, sluggish liver or weak kid
neys.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Ambitious Politician don't believe
my career will amount to row of
pins. Friend-Why so discouraged? !?
Ambitious Politician-I've been an
nounced for three days and no one has
made fun of me yet
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Discussions of the war and the
twentieth century" reads n notice on
the wall of a hotel in Glasgow, Scot
land. will rQt be allowed until the
close of BOTH So Tar as ruIs genet
alton is concerned that seems to be a
prohibition until the day after never"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15
Mean.

He-I always take pains to deny the
statement that women can't throw
straight"
She-That is noble of you, my dear.
He-Yes; / have to remember with
what accurate and effective aim you
threw yourself at me.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Uncle Sans latest fashion for dress
ing 16-inch guns is a lose fitting steel
jacket with pressure of five tons TO
the square inch.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

The Transvaal government has 25,-
00o, 600 of bullion in Pretoria, and is
said to be coming $4,000 sovereigns per
month.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Hope is a fiatterer, but the most up
right of all parasites. for she frequents
the poor mans hut. as well as the pal
ace of his superiors.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

A crate many men never pay wot
thay owe too tharself, let alone the
det thay owe too otherze.-Grit.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

A woman has to be lightning
thinker if she thinks before she
speaks.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Sum men are proud ov the fact that
thay never dun anything too be proud
ov, vile otherze are proud oy doom
things that any descent man wud be
ashamed ov.-Grit.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

One mans faults may be another
mans virtues.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

The source of many large river is
but a small spring.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

Jul view of the troubles of other peo-
pie.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

It's foolish to worry about the
things you can help or the things you
can't.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-15

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and only durable wall coating@
~ entirely different from all kali
white or fourteen beautiful
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n AIDES naturally prefer ALA
BASTINE for walls and ceil-J
ings, because 1t Is pure. clean.
durable. Put up in dry pt W
dered form, In five-pound pack-
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u LII kalsomines are cheap. tenn
porary preparations made fro; -
and stuck on walls with 81
cnying animal glue. ALABAA
TINE is not kalsomine-
EwARE of the dealer v
says he can sell you the ''ss
- thing as ALABASTINF<
something just as good"
is either not posted or u
ing to deceive you.
- ND IN OFFERING somsi
10 sell on ALA8AsfINE'
mands. he may not re
damage you will suffyW
kalsomine on your walls.
ENSIBLE dealers will not
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HE INTERIOR wALLs
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able ALABASTINE. 1t
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tons used yearly for this
n y BUYING ALABAST 4,
customers should avoid
ting cheap kalsomines uiA
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. - UISANCE of wall paper ts
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The colored American., 1900-03-31
"Owner" or "Tenant"

Statistics concerning ownership or
tenancy of homes are being eagerly
awaited by many persons who reallzs
the Importance of these statistics a. a
means Of showing the real prosperity
of the colered people.
Reports received from recent confer
ences and conventions in the South
indicate encouraging progress of the
race in industrial knowledge and in
the number engaged in professional
pursuits. Such reported gains can best
be proved beyond dispute by census
facts bearing on the ownership o!
homes among the c0IOred peep @.
These statistics will be made up entire
ly from the replies to the questions of
the census snuu orators. No nattsr
Whist the dwelling is, whether hum
bile cabin OF fine residence, il it is the
abiding place of family lis ownership
will be taken and recorded by the CEN
sus.
Whether the occupant is in debt for
his house or his land CT has bought on
a contract, he is an owner Every
householder is ei her an owner or g
''tenant.n
It is believed that one OF the most
gratifying facts 10 be developed by the
census VIII be the greatly Increased
numbsr of the c0l0rsd rsee who have
succeeded 10 becoming owners of their
homes.
The colored American., 1900-03-31
Pay for Your Paper.

We are sending out this week large
delinquent subscribers A large per cent.
of them is to persons who stand high
in the communities in which they live
and who are amply able to pay their
subsc option bills to The COIored Amer
lean. There seems to be, however,
something in the nature of some peo-
pie which opposes the paying of a
newspaper bill. These letters ale care
fully worded and are not intended to
offend any one. Il is the wish OF the
manager Of the paper, however, that
toose who receive the bills will &C.
knowledge the receipt Of them and send
on their subscription,
This will be q great year because of
the impending campaign, because Of
the pros perity which follows war,
because OF the Paris Exposition and
last, but not least, because of the prog
ress being made by the Afro American
everywhere. Those who have read The
Coiored American from year to year
and who have followed its rtunes
cannot afford 10 miss it this year; but
still, if those to whom bills have been
sent do not remit, they may expect to
part company with the psper and to be
dunned by lawyer for thu amount
that is due. Il is matter of business
and 1t takes money to run a newspaper.
The friends OF the paper will not get
offended, but the ''dsad beat" Will
probably write an In 'ultiDg letter. The
Colored American wants TO h,ar from
every subscriber whose subscription il
In arrears.
The colored American., 1900-03-31
The National Colored Teachers Bureau

In view of mum arcus Inquiries The
| Colored American takes this occasion
to attest the high character or the Ma
tiopal Oul0reG Teachers Bureau, of
this city. The establishment of such
| an institution in Washington, the rec
ognizsd educational center Of the
country would seem to subssrve a pur-
pose of immeasurable usefulness to the
educational public, and to justify its
conduct along advanced lines. No
petty annoyance of registration or
membership fees, deposits, retainers
or other exactions except commission
from those alone for whom 1t secures
positions payable almost at sheIT own
eonve niencs, charac!eriZes the lofty
purposes Of this institution which we'll
deserves the patronage Of the more
advanced educational fraternity. An
other feature OF this Bureau which In
itself is sufficient to Recommend it to
public esteem Is the fact that the most
rigid requirements as to fitness are
imperativeiy demanded of all sppii'
eants for enrolment, thus maintaining
a high standard Of excellence. and fur
nishing q most stimulating incentive
10 proficiency in those who would erter
the profession.
PJksioly there is la~d Y an institr-
ton II this country but Wha5 has had
its Troubles In casting about for suit
able teachers C0mpstent teachers
looking for commensurate oompsnsa'
ton have no less difficulties ia Fl ndine
positions. What a happy solution OF
the vexed problem is afforded both
classes by this central medium, through
which they can keep in perfect touch
with each others necessities? The
brightest young men and women OF all
the states and the most promising
graduates Of all the leading institutions
are rapidly enrolling in the National
| UoIored Teachers Bureau to meet the
rapidly increasing demand for their
services. Wide-awake and progressive
educators fully appreciate the value of
ucn sn institution "a an adjunct of
education. The NaLiOuEi COlnre1
Teacher-' Buvesu is figure The
on biic can rest vel assure d hat 1t will
| be o0nduc ei ia strict conformity y itk
| such edVauoed mtthoda and integrity
as must continue to recommend II 10
the esteem Of the progressive educator
Of tie country.
The colored American., 1900-03-31
BLOOD POISON CURED BY B. B. E
Bottle Free to Sufferers.

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Deep-seated, obstinate cases, the kind
that have resist ted doctors, hot springs
and patent medicine treatment, qnicR
Iy yield to b. B. B. Botanic Blood
Balm) thoroughly tested for 80 years.
B B. B has cured such indications as
mucuous patches in the mouth, sore
throat, eruptions,e ing sores, bone
pains, itching skin, swollen glands,
stiff joints, copper colored spots, chan
cres, liberation on the body. and in
hundreds OF cases where the hair and
eyebrows have fallen out and the whole
SKIN was mass of boiIs, pimples and
ulcers this wonderful specific has com.
pleteiy changed the whole body inte a
clean, perfect condition, free from erup'
tions, and skin smooth with the glow
CT perfect health. B. B. B. is the only
perfect cure for blood poison. 30 suf-
fsreTs may test B. B. b. and know for
themselves that 1t cures, trial bottle
will be sent free Of charge.
B. B. B. for sale by druggist st 81 per
large bottle, or large bottles (full treat
ment) So. For trial bvttle, address
] BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga"
The colored American., 1900-03-31
A New Music Hall.

Yes, the erection Of music hail aud
roof garden controlled by Air0.Ameri.
cans In the city of Washington is
hound TO cOme in the near future.
Having flied long felt wa0t by the
frmation of first-cIsss band and a
permanent chorus, Bandmaster Hoff-
man is now laying plans towards the
building of music hall. By attending
the second annual musical festival
scheduled for June s, at the Academy
of Music you Will endorse lhIs great
undertaking. At present Mr.. Hoff-
man has under his control one hundred
The colored American., 1900-03-31

aud thirty-five musicians. On account
of the large stage required for so greas a
number ii Is out of the question to pro-
duce musical work of high order un'
til sffer the regular theater season
closes.