The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-12
SKETCHES FROM
EVERYDAY LIFE

Chicago, not to be behind her rival, New
York. has been indulging in race riots. On
Thursday last a negro, to defend himself
from an attack by gang of roughs,
struck one of them. This brought upon
him the anger of mob of white men, and
the police had great difficulty in rescuing
him. When the officers asked the mob of
800 whites what the man had done, some
replied he was a thief, others he was a
burglar and still others that he had nearly
killed someone Not a dozen persons knew
what he had done, yet the mob was will
ing and anxious to lynch him. In the South
negroes are only lynched for one crime
The North evidently hates the negro in
spite of their hypocritical love. They find
unsportsmanlilse and unhoy joy in a
negro hunt. In Illinois Saturday regular
negro hunt was organized Two blood
hounds and fifty men under the leadership
of Rev. Owen w. Rose, a minister of the
gospel, were hunting two negroes for the
purpose of lynching them. Mr. Rose has
requested the authorities mot to inter-
fere'' in case the men are taken, as he in
tends to string them up by the heels with
their heads dangling downwards and shoot
them to death. In this case the negroes
had committed a crime. SO far the negroes
have not been caught, but if they are, it
is safe to say that the Rev. Mr. Rose will
be in at the death. This Rose by any other
name would smell as bad.
When these negro hunts are led by the
ministers at the North it is but one step
more for society to take them up, and i'll
stead of hunting the tame but aromatic
aniseseed bag, they will hunt the wild,
woolly and malodorous negro
Here at last is a complete solution of the
negro question One that no one has
thought of before and that has come in
the natural development of Northern civil
ization. History shows that whenever a
man or animal is hunted by civilized man
he soon becomes extinct. Witness the buff
falo and the Indian. When the white
brother goes hunting for the black brother,
the days of the latter are numbered. This
will be an interesting chapter in history.
Bill Nye, in his admirable work, 1.-The His
tory of the United States" says that
few negroes were originally brought to
this country by some merchants of Boston.
That finding the climate of Massachusetts
unsuitable for them, they were sold in the
South. That as a rule they had families,
day you can hardly cross Southern State
without finding a negro or a person with
some negro blood
1t will fall to the lot of some future his
torian to chronicle the sad passing of Sam
DO, under the relentless pursuit of the
Northern white man, until he takes his
place among the has-beens with poor Lo
The subject of matrimony and weddings is
of perennial interest. Weddings of course
have become old fashioned by this time,
and the tendency is to introduce something
original and startling in connection with the
wedding ceremony. There have been bicycle
weddings horseback weddings, straw-ride
weddings and the numerous and varied JUS
tice-of -the-peace weddings until the solem-
nifty of the ceremony has almost been de-
stroyed There was wedding recently in
the Tombs. The groom had plead guilty to
larceny. The girl firmly believes in his in
nocence in spite of his plea. This union of
crime and Innocence, of black and white
heart, is as startling as that of black and
white skin.
But the worst story yet comes from Read
ing.
The son of hotel proprietor recently ap-
peared before an Alderman, with dog
under each arm and requested him to marry
them Marry the dogs! Are you in earn
est?" exclaimed the Alderman. "Certainly,"
replied the young man who made the re-
quest. "Well-er-wheres the marriage IL
cense? No license? Well you'll have to go
to the registrars office before 1 can do any
thing in the way of a marriage, dogs or hui
man beings. Get the license, young man,
get the license, then come and see me-" The
young man, when asked what his idea was
in wishing to have the dogs married, said
well, you see, Pat and Biddy have been
such good friends and associates for years
| thought 1t would be real nice to have them
married. But forgot all about the license"
What else could be expected of man who
says real nice"
over in England they stick more close
ly to the old-fashion customs of weddings
than in America. The British government
is endeavoring to find husbands for some of
the numerous unmarried English women.
These women the government wanted to
go to Australia and marry some of the col
onists, but here the government struck a
snag. The girls decided they would rather
stay unmarried at home than go 10000 miles
to marry a man to whom they had not
been properly introduced. To overcome this
objection, 1t is now proposed that the gov
eminent offer bounty for young men in
the colonies to go to London and meet the
girls there. This is much more proper, and
as some one says, speaking of this matter,
IAN introduction should of course precede
a marriage"
duction should precede a marriage. Is 1t
not a sad fact that the more intimate peo-
pie become the less apt they are to approve
of each other. Few brothers see anything In
their sisters that warrant some other man
in going crazy about them. Do intimate
and lifelong friends often marry? Is it not
the new personality that attracts. The mys-
terry of choice needs no introduction. There
is something more delicate which tells
when the right one is come. In one sense,
there is something of the element of barter
and sale in thus making merchandise of
women. 1t is an old custom, however, to
go to London for wife. 1t recalls the little
man who went there to get him wife, and
who says of his adventure:
1.-THE streets were so long
And the lanes were so narrow,
had to bring my wife home
In a wheelbarrow!
II this custom still prevails In London,
| there will be an interesting sight when the
first ba tch of Wife-hunters arrive.