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The reporter., 1900-02-01

"kV W NJ. Keeting, who was
o"Ue oU a Missionary in our District
aneu 10 see US. He is now Pastor
,nS d, Clarksdale, Miss, and Sur.
rounded Hill, Ark,
The reporter., 1900-02-01

The organization of the Nation
al Baptist Young Peoples Union
and the work which is being done
by that department OF our church
work, is fast giving new life among
the flower and hope of the iuture
Negro. Our boys and girls, we
hope to see the good work planted
in every church. ior the destiny OF
our church and people are sealed
up, in what we make of our child
rem and what eyer complaint is
made on the conduct of the little
ones. The parents are to blame,
that they may not be as their faith
ers were, is the command OF God.
Brethren start the work among the
young people ofyour church.
The reporter., 1900-02-01

IT is now reported that m e
then 10000 Negroes have come,
within the last few months, out
from Georgia to Miss. and Ark
ansas, and while this and the other
reasons are given as the cause, yet
it cannot be hiden that it is but the
old spirit of unrest among our peo-
pie ever since the war. And regard
less of what is said by those who
think other wise, it is plain that
under the present conditions of
things as regards the American
Negroes citizenship, it will t a k e
some time yet to Gull this moving
disposition, with a few it may be
inherited, but the many are driven
to it by oppression as a result of
class Legislation.
The reporter., 1900-02-01

Marriage and Death announce
mpnts, must be accompanied with the
Money 50 cents
The reporter., 1900-02-01

To Little Cornelia Bell, we can.
not publish your letter for two
reasons, written on both sides,
and no money sent with it.
Manager.
The reporter., 1900-02-01

~-A Blue Pencil mark on your
paper, signifies that your subscrip
ton is due Pay up!
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

: Strange acquaintance are to be made
under water. II. Phelps Whitmarsh,
who for time adopted the calling of
pearl-fisher in Australian waters, tells
this story of meeting a submarine mon
ster:
1t was muddy day, and everything
in consequence looked blurred and ex-
aggerated. In the yellow distance 1
saw an immense dark object moving
slowly toward me. AS it came nearer.
/ made out central body with several
great arms or feelers waving rhythmic
ally. My heart was in my mouth.
1 felt sure it was an octopus. Then,
when 1 was about to stir up the mud at
my feet, to avoid being seen, l discov-
cred that the enemy was nothing more
than a fellow-diver. The feelers 1 had
imagined were his arms, legs and lines.
A shadowy giant about twelve feet
high, with huge hands and a head like
a small barrel, was approaching. He
walked slowly, his heavy boots raising
the mud behind him like a cloud of
dust, and his great central eye cleaned
darlly. Although 1 knew him to be a
man, it was with difficulty that L re.
Trained from taking to my heels. At
sight of me, he, too, was startled: but
he quickly recovered, and we shook
hands. Then we nodded, grinned.
showed each other the state of our
bags, and parted.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
NORTH AND HIS WAGON.

great letters on its business sign, over
which he was for many years proprie-
tor. In striking contrast his name ap-
pears in small letters on the peddler's
cart in which he carries produce
through the streets of the town.
Charles H. North was born in Yer
mont, of poor parents, who, while he
was quite young, moved to Georgia and
later to Kentucky. Coming to Massa-
chusetts when Is years of age, he went
to work in Waltham bakery, earning
enough to take years course at an
academy. Then he started to learn the
pork-packing business, and inside of
year was able to open stall of his
own. He was successful from the
start and rapidly gained prominence.
In 1867 he opened the establishment at
Somerville. Familiar with every detail
of the business he gave it his personal
attention and gradually added to his
plant until the name of Charles II.
North was known all over the country.
In 1890 he was employing 1900 hands.
The change came when Mr.. North
merged his business with that of the
Swifts. Then followed schemes in
which money went rapidly, such as
gold mines in Nova Scotia and the pur-
chase of pork-packing establishment
in Omaha. North still maintains that
these were not losing ventures, but that
he found his money tied up and others
reaped the benefit. However that may
be, he is now earning his livelihood as
a peddler of provisions. Every morning
he is up with the sun, caring for his
horse and doing other chores. Then he
purchases his stock and starts out, sell
dom returning before dark. Physically
North is a remarkable man, and even
now at the age of 6S he boasts that he
is good for a five-mile swim.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

The report in leading scientific jour-
nal to the effect that French inventor
had perfected a process for utilizing
fish scales in the manufacture of
"pearl' buttons and other articles that
partake of the nature Of pearl will be
regarded incredulously by many who
are somewhat familiar with the many
attempts that have been made by
chemists to convert this waste product
into some useful substance. The fish
scale is about the only offal incident to
the preparation Of food products that!
has not been utilized in some way, and
whether the French invention Is sue
cess or not it must soon yield to the
memorable trend Of modern industrial
economics, which proposes to allow
nothing to go to waste. Most people
are familiar with the fact that buttons
are now made out Of the blood Of
slaughtered animals, which formerly
was allowed to go to waste. Indeed,
the packing industry has been brought
to such a high degree of perfection that
every portion of the once discarded
into something useful to contribute to
the comfort of mankind. A few years
ago a chemist came along and told
Philip Armour that he was wasting
thousands of dollars by throwing away
the stomachs of pigs, which contained
pepsin. These stomachs were then
shipped to New York, but Mr.. Armour
-, lob
tory Of his own for the manufacture of
pepsin. AS a result of this addition to
their vast industrial establishment the
Armours have revolutioniZed the pep
sin industry and have conferred a
priceless boon upon dyspeptic human
ity by placing a commodity that was
formerly imported from England with
in reach of the poorest sufferers. Even
the hair scraped from the skin of the
slaughtered animals is made by the Ar
mours into a thick cloth that is valu-
able in the manufacture of saddles and
cushions for vehicles. Coal tar, by
product of the manufacture of gas, was
Many gas factories, in fact, sent it to
nearby stream through waste pipe.
This product has now become one of
the most valuable by-products known
to productive industry. Its contribu-
ton to chemistry and therapeutics is
the marvel of the age, to say nothing of
its utilization in the mechanical arts
1t will be one of the distinguishing
features Of our Industrial progress in
the twentieth century that inventive
genius will allow absolutely nothing to
go to waste.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
Our SeebbEa

+ A carrier pigeon flying with a strong
wind covers 1000 yards per minute.
The fourteenth century armor was
so heavy that many soldiers only 80
years old were deformed or permanent,
y disabled by its weight.
A Wiesbaden landlord brought an &C,
ton in the Oberlandgericht (the Court
of Appeals) for damages caused to his
property by fieas alleged to have been
introduced into the building by the ten
ants Newfoundland dog.
In the gathering of evidence regard
ing the destruction of song birds it has
been found that one Washington mar
ket sold in one month 1900 robins for
food, while the number of bobolinks
and even sparroWs ran high. Only the
most stringent legislation radically en-
forced can save our birds and our fruit.
Wichita County, Kan9 presents the
curious spectacle of a county without
paupers. There is no poor farm, and
the only man in the county who ever
needs help has been made supervisor
of the poor at an annual salary of
$104. His official duties consist in TAX
ing care of himself, and his salary pro-
vides his maintenance.
eff 1 were to give you an orange.
said Judge Foote, of Topeka, to D. o.
McCray, Il would simply say, 4 give
you the orange but should the trans
action be intrusted to a lawyer to put
in writing, he would adopt this form:
4 hereby give, grant and convey to you
all my interest, right title and advan-
tage of and in said orange, together
with it's rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips,
and all right and advantage therein,
with full power to bite, suck or other
wise eat the same, or give away with
or without the rind, skin, juice, pulp or
pips, anything hereinbefore or in any
other deed or deeds, instruments OF any
nature or kind whatsoever to the con-
trary in any wise Notwithstanding"
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
A Pleasant Letter

1t takes a clever man to find a good
word to say on every occasion. 1t is
said of Thomas Bailey Aldrich that he
once received letter from his friend,
Prof. Edward S. Morse, and found the
handwriting wholly illegible. Mr.. AL
ldrich was not at loss for an answer.
In due time there came to Mr.. Morse
the following reply:
My Dear Morse: 1t was very pleasant
to receive a letter from you the other
day. Perhaps l should have found it
lpleasanter if l had been able to deci-
pher it. l don't think l mastered any
thing beyond the date, which l knew,
and the signature, at which l guessed.
There is a singular and perpetual
charm in letter of yours-it never
grows old, and it never losses its nov
city. One can say every morning, as
one looks at it, Here is a letter of
Morse's l haven't read yet | think
shall take another shy at it to-day, and
maybe 1 shall be able in the course of Il
few years to make out what he means
by those is that look like VS.. and
those is that haven't any eyebrows
Other letters are read, and thrown
away and forgotten, but yours are kept
forever-unread. One of them will last
d reasonable man lifetime.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

The women of Cuba have struck-for
their rights. Before the liberation from
the Spanish yoke they were not occu-
pied with anything beyond the gowns
and the evening promenade. But since
the Americans came among them the
fair Cubans have taken to ideas and
other unusual things. The spirit of in
dependence is aroused and they want
their rights. They even tried to vote
at the recent election. This was to
have been expected. A little liberty
whets the appetite for more. In using
it women often mistake and the Gu
bans will probably fall into the blum
ders which come of inexperience. But
that their lives will be richer, freer,
better ordered and altogether more de-
sirable, is naturally to be expected as
a consequence of the American occu-
patton.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
A Believers Pleasantly.

Science and faith do not come into
real conflict, but now and then their
separate claims may be somewhat Gu
riously contrasted. 1t is related by a
Washington correspondent that the
Hon. George Q. Cannon of Utah, who
takes deep interest in everything con-
nected with irrigation, was once in at
tendance at convention held to con-
slider that subject.
At this meeting a certain delegate
read a sleepy paper on artesian wells,
which, he maintained, as sources of
water supply for irrigation, are limited
by the fact that when they strike
lodges the water supply gives out.
"They produce water" he said, "but
they don't produce it when they strike
the rock" This statement he repeated,
and challenged any one to deny it.
At this point Mr.. Cannon struck in.
"How do you account for Moses sue
cess?' he asked, simply. And the ora
tor had no more to say on the subject.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
Murder Most Foul.

Phoenix (Ariz.)-A message just re-
ceived here gives the first particulars
of the horrible murder of w. S. Moi
fatt, at Harrisburg last Saturday. San
tiago Ortiz, the murderer, found Moi
fatt asleep, and beat him to death with
a steel drill, chopping his head to
pieces. The murder was discovered
Sunday morning, and a posse captured
Ortiz late the same day, twenty-five
miles this side of Harrisburg. His
horse had given out. Five hundred
and fifty dollars in cash and checks
were found on him. The sheriff is en-
route to Yuma with the prisoner. The
killing occurred in the most desolate
part of Arizona, with no telephone or
telegraph facilities within seventy
five miles.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
An AMful RIunder.

At a Rosenthal recital in Seattle q
young pianist of considerable social
prominence sat in stage box and fol-
lowed the performance by means Of
the scores of the several morceaux
which composed the programme. She
was evidently deeply interested, and
stopped at intervals to exchange notes
with a companion who sat behind her.
ALI went beautifully until the artist
came to the last piece, tremendously
heavy List. In the midst of an intri-
cate passage, the lady, much excited,
rose in her box, holding out the roll Of
music toward the stage. That's
wrong! That's wrong" she cried
"You should have crossed your hands
there."-San Francisco Wave.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
His Assets.

The badgering lawyer sometimes sue
ceeds only in affording the witness an
opportunity to show off his own wit at
the lawyers expense. And then the
spectators are happy.
A certain actor was before the poor
debtors court in New York, last winter,
and testified that his only assets were
his salary as a member of the Blank
Company.
"But you must have something else"
said the prosecuting counsel. "Tell the
court what else you have"
That's ALL"
"What-no personal propertyT'
ooh, yes, a dog-and a watch"
"Now think hard. What elsew per-
SISTED the attorney, believing he was on
the right track.
"And a case of rheumatism" said the
witty witness.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25


the claims made for it are justified.
Improvements in railway roadbeds
have naturally been followed by more
capacious cars, heavier trains, swifter
locomotives. For instance, it is only
three years since pressed steel freight
cars were introduced; yet the company
that builds them cannot supply the de-
mand, although it works up more than
a thousand tons of steel day-a larger,
quantity, in the course of the year,
than the entire production of steel in
the United States in any year previous
to 1875. One of these cars will carry
fifty tons of ore. A slightly smaller
car has a capacity of thirty tons Of
grain. A New York railroads ia
nous grain trains" consist of eighty
cars of this capacity, drawn by a sin
gle locomotive; trains thirty-three hun
dred feet-three-fifths of a mile-long,
and weighing from thirty-five hun
dred to thirty-eight hundred tons.
When it is possible to make up trains
like this, railroad can give "phenOm-
enally low" rates of freight ON long
distance hauls, and still make money.
But only a perfect roadbed could bear
the strain of such heavy trains, or of
the passenger express sent out by the
same corporation, which often attains
@ speed between stations of seventy
five miles an hour, with occasional
spurts as high as ninety miles," All
these facts may be condensed into one
proposition. In these days of competi--
tive progress, the railroad that is prop
erly built and adequately equipped is
the only railroad that is likely to
prove both useful and profitable. And
that is as it should be.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
Mrs.
PzHnkzaaKna

The one thing that quail
ffeS a person to give ad-
vice on any subject is
experience : experience
creates knOWEedge-
no OTHER person has SO
wide an experience with
female ills nor such a
record of SUCCESS as
frs. PiRakll1as,, has had.
Over a hundred thou
sand cases come before
her each year. Some per-
sOnally, others by mail.
And this has been going
on for 20 years, day after
day aEd day after. day.
Twenty years of coa-
sfazzf Success = think of
the knowledge thus
gained! Surely women
are wise III, seeking ad-
vice from a woman, with
such an experience, eS-
PecEauy when ills free.
IF you are III get a bottle
of Lydia e. Pinkl1aI71,S
Vegetable Compound at
0nce-fhen write Mrs.
Pknk!saEs,, Lynn, Mass.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

Now Charles II. North, of Somervi1Ie.
Mass, Pebbles Vegetables.
Peddling vegetables from door to
door in the town in which he was once
the richest citizen is the remarkable
change in the life of Charles H. North,
who, less than ten years ago, was
known as the wealthiest man in Somer-
vile, Mass. From the upper windows
of the family mansion ON Prospect
Hill, the fashionable residential section
of the city, and in which he now occu-
pies only two rooms as a tenant, can
be seen large pork-packing establish
ment in the valley, with his name in
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

An English officer in Malta stopped.
in riding, to ask native the way. He
was answered by a shrug of the shout
iders, and mo speak English"
You're a fool, then" said the officer.
But the man knew enough English to
ask:
do you understand Maltese?"
NO"
do you know Arabic"
mo"
DO you know ItalianP
mo"
'Do you know GreekT'
mo"
'Then you four fools. 1 only one!'
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
KILLED BY A SHOCK
San Diego Engineer Receives $500 Volts

San Diego, Aug. 19.-W. B. McCurdy,
assistant engineer of the electric light
plant here, was found dead in the
power house soon after o'clock this
morning. He had received a shock of
about $500 volts. Just how the acct
dent occurred will never be known.
His hat was lying by the dynamo and
his body was twenty feet away. A
burned spot on his hand showed where
he had touched the pole, the shock
throwing him over another machine
standing near. In his fight through
the air he apparently disarranged the
gearing, for the engine ran away and
burned out the dynamo. AS a result
the city is without street lights to-
night. McCurdy was 26 years old and
leaves a widow.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

David Starr Jordan does not think
that college training units a woman
for the severer discipline and humber
duties of matrimony, and he says that
the half-educated woman is exposed to
more dangers and is more susceptible
to the higher foolishness" than is her
better balanced and more brainy sister.
These, of course, are truisms, but they
are truisms that have to be driven
home at regular intervals. For there
still prevails a popular superstition
that tide coifege-bred wife will have
her head in a book when her hands
ought to be in the dough, and that she
will permit TIE dust to gather on the
whatnot while she is putting whatnots
into her brain. But the truth is that it
is often the unframed mind that is
most squeamish about touching dust
and dough and thinks both of these be-
meath the dignity of a ladylike wife.
And is it the college women who make
up the audiences at the sensational
melodrama Of the day, and are they the
ones to be caught by the chaff that fills
many of the modern novels? The ad-
vantage that the college woman pos
sesses over her unframed sister is that
she may have her hands in dough while
her mind is still pursuing the flying
perfect" and under such conditions
neither her spirits nor her bread are
apt to grow heavy. OF course, in the
matter of right living, common sense is
the best of advisers, and this may be
the glorious possession of both the
trained and the unframed mind. But
If there is one thing more than another
that mental discipline is supposed to
insure it is that good thing, common
sense.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
INDIAN WHO WRITES SONGS.
Fu11-Blooded Kiowa Brave Writes
Good SOunets.

Fu11-B1ooded Kiowa Brave Writes
Good Sonnets.
Claude Haynes, a full-blood Kiowa
Indian, claims distinction as the first
red man to compose and publish the
words and music of songs-and. some
of them are pretty good songs, consid7
ering the fact that the composer is an
Indian. One of these songs is called
1.-THE Wooing of an Indian Maiden" 1t
tells how white man succeeds in win
ming the heart of a daughter of the red
race, and is really creditable produce
ton.
Young Haynes wears the costume of
his tribe, and it is only occasionally
that he can be persuaded to put on the
white mans clothes. He is now %
years of age.
When only 10 years of age Haynes
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

/ 81 die proclaiming the Christian
faith" declared NJ. de Giers, in the face
of the fearful death which the Chinese
demons had prepared for him. NJ. de
Giers was diplomat by profession,
not known as religious man, although
no doubt sincere adherent to the
creed in which he believed. Probably
In ordinary life he neither displayed
nor felt any ardent devotion to Chris
tianity, and when, if ever, he read of
the sufferings of martyrs in the past,
he regarded the proofs of their devo-
ton as superhuman and miraculous
as not to be thought of in association
with his own sentiments, conditions or
character. But when the hour of trial
came to NJ. de Giers, the polished
statesman and man Of the world, the
conidant of a Gar and scion of a
princely house, he was equal to it. He
rose to it with all the courage of the
victims of Nero and Diocletian, and in
the face of his tormentors he eXclaim-
ed: Il die proclaiming the Christian
faith" Infidels may mock and sneer
at religion; they may probe its teach
ings and analyze its dogmas with the
chilling logic of Paine or an IngersolI,
but they canNot uproot from the hearts
Of men the anchor of hope, Of faith
and trust In that Christianity which
gave strength and consolation alike to
the martyrs of the Coliseum and of
Pekin, and which animated the worlds
ly man of affairs, confronting death in
Its most hideous form, with the cour-
age of a st. Lawrence.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
Do Your Feet Ache and Eurne

Shake into your shoes Aliens Foot Ease,
a powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or
new shoes feel easy. gives instant relief to
corns and bunions. It's the greatest com
fort discovery of the age. Cures swollen
feet, blisters and callous spots. Aliens
Foot-Ease is a certain cure for ingIowing
nails, sweating, smarting, hot, aching feet.
We have over 80, 900 testimonials. 1t cures
while you walk. All dru gists and Shoe
stores sell it 25c. Trial package FREE
by mail. Address, Allen 5. Olmsteaei, lie
RoV n. y.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25
HOW'S THIS

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of catarrh that CANNOT be dured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned have known F. j.
Cheney fG the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly JEorAble in all business TRANSACTIONS
and financially able to carry out any obligation
made by III cir firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, @.
WALDIrG. KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, o.
ing a. ectiy upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Price. 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

A printing press called the cylinder
hand press" has been invented by L..
B. Woodruff, editor and proprietor of
the San Miguel Messenger of San Luis
Obispo county, and proprietor of the
San Lucas Herald of Monterey county.
The new invention is claimed to be
much swifter and lighter in running
than the ordinary hand press, and can
print from 400 to 500 copies an hour.
Mr.. Woodruff's wife and little child
are said easily to run off the weekly
edition of the San Miguel Messenger
on the first rude machine manufac-
tured after the model and made partly
of wood.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

1 scream because am bird.
below like a buffalo.
The boy will rise up.
The father shows me the road.
l went to see my friends.
went to see the dances.
His people said at once that he was
going to be great prophet, but he said
that the medicine was not right for
him. They insisted and honored him
by singing the song at all their dances.
The medicine man took him out into
the mountains alone and they made re-
quests of the Great Spirit. But it was
no use. The medicine was not right
and Haynes turned out to be a common
clerk in a store instead of a great
prophet. He has quit making medicine
songs and devotes his attention to love
Sonnets.
Holbrook argus., 1900-08-25

Steel rails weighing eighty pounds to
in this country in 1888. Since that
time steel has practically superseded
iron as a track-building material and
the weight of the rails has tended
constantly to increase. Now one of
the great trunk lines is experimenting
with nickel steel, which is even more
expensive than steel, but which will