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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-14

wANTrD RY STUDENT OF TIE
state Female Normal School: posi-
ton as teacher; teaches English, Matile, the,
mates Latin and Music, and has had
several years experience MISS "A. ..
c., Tobaccoviile Va.
The colored American., 1902-01-04
new JERSEY TO THE FRONT.

has stricken down the great leader in
the midst of his work, snd the direct-
ing hand of Sewel will hold the party
The colored American., 1902-01-04

stitutiOnality Of Southern election laws
aiming to nullify the Fourteen b and
Fifteenth Amendments TO the Fedpra
Constitution Prof Lawson Glands
well 18th the leading men of the Ma
ton, and is the most useful mar ABOUT
WASH" grOn. Onlya few days ego the
solid Republican, delegation in Con-
gress from New Jersey under the lead
ersbip of Senator Kesn, who has
known Mr.. Law son from his boyhood
days presented his name To Presidenh
Roosevelt, for appointment as Record
er OF Deeds for the District of Column
bia.
MIR. Lawson is the life, and brains of
the Afro American Council. and what
soever the Council has accomplished In
a practical way is due to his effects.
He is truly representative man of the
people, and if merit, devotion to prin
cipal, energy AMI honesty count for
anything. Prof. Lawson should be rec
ognized by the pow that be, and We
believe that he Will be.
The colored American., 1902-01-04

between cOlOred and white people has
not been very pronounced, and colored
men have not found 1t i'm pos ,ibie to
obtain employment in thetsctories
New Jersey wac pOliiicsl anomaly
prior to the campaign OF 1895 for W lille
the interests of her citiZ ms were fOs 'er-
ed by protective tariff, her elecCOr u
vote was constantly given to the party
OF free trade. She would send men 10
Congress to vote for protection. and
still give her electoral vote for free
trade; but in 1896, when her ilIustri us
son, GaTTet Augustus Hobart. was N
The colored American., 1902-01-04

The State of New Jersey is not very
large in area, but she is great in the re
sources of her citizens. She was the
battle ground of the American RevOlu-
tton. and from colonial days down TO
the present time Her sons have heeD re-
noWned in war end illustriGus In peace
She has been PERHAPS the talr~st OF all
the states Of tire Unicn In the trea'-
ment of her colored citizens There
has been no time in the history of the
State when colored men didn't vote
and when the nolnred and white people
throughout all the farming Districts
of the commonwealth did not live
together in cordial relationship. Ev-
en- in the great maDufscturi g centres,
crowded bg foreign labor, the friction
The colored American., 1902-01-04

minated for the esideucy on the
ticket with William McKiu' 'ey Of Ohio.
the great apostle of protective tariff the
people of the State realized the fact
that the situation was ''up to" them
and they must meet it. and Trey did
meet II TO the tune ofalmost hundred
thousand ms jority for the Republican
ticket Sinr4 that time the STATE has
been safely Republican, ana wa give to-
day photos of some of the men WEo
have been most conspicuous in the
work OF making NewJersey Republican
in politics
General William j Sc well OF Camden
late United States Senator from New
Jersey, was, during The past twenty
five years the acknowledged leader of
the Republican party in the Stat, and
It was due TO his harmOnIZIng II f1uence
that the party was able to present n
solid front 10 the e"em y, rrutb q II e
"hOrse, foot and dragons" Death
The colored American., 1902-01-04

dfth districs, Hon. r Wayne Parker Of
he sixth district are men OF great force
and commend ing ability in the State
and Nation
Hon. Charles n Fowler of the eighth
district is one of the Prestest orators In
the United States today, and there is no
man in America who Understands the
money question any better than he.
Congressman Fowl sr IS very positive
fsctOr i'm the politics of the State He
is now GhSirman OF the House Com nit
tee on Barking and Currency. and we
expect come day 10 see him Secretary
of the Unit d States Treasury.
The colored American., 1902-01-04

ed that Hon. John Kean wculd be
elected Ss the uoce@sOr of Hon. James
Smith in the Uuited SAFES Senste. and
that Prediction has been verified by
sub equeut everte Keep an eya o
Sena or Kean-19O8 l. not very far off
Ii H'nry Clay Lpudenslsaer of
the first dis5ric5 IL man of SPLENDID
parts He is an orgauiz "from way
back y and VIII he g"' S cunning for
game you rnay lOck for large Tesrlts.
He will In 81 nrobsbility succe"d Mr.
BabcOck of Wisconsin, as Chairman of
The colored American., 1902-01-04

the Republican Cor zressionaI Cam
peign Committee, and we say it with
out hesitation, that he is just the man
for the place!
Hon. John ] Gardner of the second
Atlantic City, district grows in popu-
larity as he grows in age.-the longer
you know him the be etter he wears Mr..
Gardiner has just the temperament for a
grea' pafionsl leader, and il has often
been remarked thst a senatorial toga
would sci well on his form. Fe IL an
experienced legislator, an able debstor
shreWd party manager, Bnd the State
is bound TO keep him TO TIE front.
Ho". Berj jamin 2. s. w II cfthf third
district, Hon. James +. Stewart of the
The colored American., 1902-01-04

Among the colo-ed men of pYomi-
De' ce in Jersey p"litics may be mem
4, ned: Hon. Charles n Robinson, of
Camden, member OF the Republican
State & mmlttee; Hon William r
0oWell OF the same city, who makes
an excellent repre- eV tative of the
UnitG States q vernment tn Pnrt-au-
Primes. Haiti; Mr.. r Henri Herbert of
Trenton aleN connected with the State
central Committee; lawyers Douglass
and COse of Newark. and Mr.. VIII
ism A Kline Of Plainfield
Prof Jesse Lswson, we'll Known to
the readers Of The COlored American
)rstor, scholar and salesman,
was the fir-t man elected by the Re.
public sus OF New Jersey, to represents
mis- race at p Republics National Con-
vantion He ia a fes, lfRs defender of
the rights OF his people and has done
more than sny other man III the United
States 10 t, ST before the courts the con-
The colored American., 1902-01-04

rein, no more in Jersey politics. While
his lss Is Dnourned by all cIasses o. onr
cit,zeps none will feel his death SD keen
ly as the colOrF1 peop'e of the SAFE. He
was TO them friend and q protector.
Peace to his ashes"
Close to Ger era' Sew ell, aud second
to HIM only in ir Fl hence in party cOun-
The colored American., 1902-01-04

c!ls, is Hon John Kean nf Uni0r Co.,
LOW a number of TIE United States
Senate from New Jersey SanstOr
Ke N is now IL the prime Of lite, full of
physical and mental vigor, end of the
higbes social standing He served
two terms IN the National House Of Re-
The colored American., 1902-01-04

presentatives, and has been a factor IN
jersey politics for more than twentV Y
year7. Like General Sswell be has al
ways given consideration to the claims
of colOred voters upon the Republican
nsrty, sao he has the cor fdenee Of sll
classes OF voters IN the state. He has
The colored American., 1902-01-04

ready takes high rank in the Senate of
the Uni ed Statee-a body compos ID
&, ( tF,'s for 4uaost statesme1 Of the world
In 1898. The Col red American predict
The colored American., 1902-01-04

welt from boyhoDd DAYS aud their fam
lies are related by marriage He al
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

the sons of rich men, and some of poor,
but he treated all alike. The people
heard of this and were glad, and they
said to each other;
"Ah! When he is King, Pon-Pon will
be like his father, and we shall all re-
joice to do him honor and fight his
battles
On the day that the Prince was
eleven years old there was a great cele-
bration in honor of the event, but it
had a sad ending. One of the cannons
being fired as the procession marched
along the street, burst, and the flying
pieces hit the King and the Queen and
killed them.
Pon-Pon escaped injury, but he was
left an orphan and in trouble. Someone
else must reign until he had become a
man, and the people selected a noble
man named Hussim, who was a cousin
to the Prince. Hussim, was a cold,
stern man. and not well liked by the
people, but no one thought him the viii
lain he was. He scarcely had been
chosen for the high place when he be-
gan to plot against Pon-Pon's life. II
he could get the boy out of the way
then he would be King himself
Hussim pretended to love the Prince
and be his greatest friend thus the lad
and most of the people were deceived.
After much plotting the bad-hearted
man asked the Prince to go hunting
with him in the forest. They did not go
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it would have been all over with him.
had not the tramp of horses made them
pause. OF a sudden six horses and
riders came 'dashing up, and Pon-Pon
was amazed to see little girl among
them.
1--WE have found him! Here he is!
Here is the lost Prince!" shouted the
men as the wolves skunk away
1t was the little girl herself who
united the knots in the rope and set
the boy free. AS he looked at her in
wonder she laughed at him and said:
you never saw me before. and so
| will tell YOU my name. 1 am Fan
Fan, the Fairy. l have been watching
over you for long time past, although
you did not know it. ] was sure your
cousin Hussim meant you Ill, and to-
day, when the hunt came off, l follow
ed you. When 1 saw him tie you to
that tree l hurried away and brought
these people that they might know
what bad man he is. Now you are
free and he must be punished"
] should like to tell you that Fan
Fan dwelt in the palace and one day
became PonPon's wife and queen. but
that would not be the truth. She had
work to do elsewhere and soon van
ished. AS for Hussim, the enraged
people took him into the forest and
tied him to a tree as he had tied the
Prince, and as he was never seen again
it is believed that the wolves ate him
up. If they did he deserved his fate.
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alone and on foot, but there was a
large party, and they went on horse
back. There were many savage wolves
in the forest, and this was what Illus
sim planned;
When the hunt had been going on for
some time he managed to separate the
Prince from all the others and ride far
into the forest with him. When they
were well away from all the rest. he
asked Pon-Pon to get down from his
horse and look at wonderful spring
among the rocks. There was no spring
there. The Prince was hardly out of
the saddle when he was seized and
bound to tree. Hussim said to him:
''I shall now get rid of you and be
King myself. I have been planning
this for a long time"
But you will not leave me here to
the wolves" cried Pon-Pon, as he
struggled to get free.
AYE, but that l will. They will
come and devour you, and no one will
know what has become of you. 1t will
be no use for you to shout, as no one
can hear YOU
1t was a cruel, wicked thing to do,
but Hussim, who wanted to be King
and was naturally of a cruel DISPOSE
ton, rode away and left Pon-Pon fast
bound. He had not got half a mile
away when two or three wolves came
sneaking about, When the boy cried
out in his fright and distress the
beasts snarled and growled in reply.
Pretty soon there were six wolves and,
as they came nearer, they CRASHED
their teeth and their eyes became like
Goals of fire. They would have at
tackled the boy in a minute more, and
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

Scotia, and her stern grounded on the
beaches of North Carolina.
Besides the little red triangles which
tell of icebergs on the pilot chart. the
red lines which mark the course OF
storms that occurred in other years in
the same month. and the little red
boats that tell of derelicts. there are
long blue lines laid down, which mark
the pathways ofsrhe sea. The captains
of steamers have agreed to keep these
pathways in voyaging from port to
port. This agreement is made so that
steamers going in one direction will
keep away from the track of steamers
going in the other. and that sailing
vessels can know where steamers may
be expected to be found, and so avoid
that section of the sea, thus decreasing
the chances of collision.
On the pilot chart, also, are set down
round blue rings and blue arrows
shooting out from them. These ar
rows show the direction of the pre-
vailing winds in the part Of the ocean
where they are placed.
With the pilot chart in his hand a
ships captain can see at a glance
what conditions prevail and are likely
to prevail over the whole North At
lantic ocean. He can see what dangers
he has TO avoid in the way of obstacles
that he might strike. 1t is Uncle Sans
sharp, wise eye watching night and
day over the ocean and the shore and
hunting storms to their ocean wastes
that makes the sea more and more
safe each year.
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what are known as derelicts. They
float about in the currents of the deep,
real Flying Dutchmen of the modern
sea, with no living thing aboard. yet
sailing on for years sometimes, until
they disappear from the ocean path
ways.
These derelicts are put down on the
pilot chart in the latitude and longi-
tude in which they were last sighted
so that vessels may try to avoid them:
for collision with a derelict on a dark
night is an accident likely to happen
and is often fraught with fatal conse-
Quences.
On the pilot chart the derelict is rep
resented by a little red boat, upside
down if she is floating that way, as
some of them are. or right side up il
the vessel still keeps on her keel. A
sailor can get a pretty good idea of
ing at her picture on the chart. Her
name is given out and the date upon
which she was last seen.
Some of the dereiicts have made Won
derful voyages. Some years ago a
lantic ocean for three years before she
finally disappeared. and in her voyag-
ing she crossed the ocean twice each
way.
Another vessel was cut in two by a
steamer off Nantucket, and, strange 10
say, each half of her floated, and she
became two derelicts, moving in OPP
posite directions.
The forward part of this vessel final
ly went ashore on the coast of Nova
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A party of boys camping out on the
banks of Lake Keedyusking, Pike
county Pennsylvania, were greatly
troubled because they had no means of
telling the time. When the sun shone
they could make rough guess at 1t,
but there has been a great deal of
cloudy weather this season, and when
1t was cloudy they were at complete
loss to know the hour of the day.
Those whose turn it was to keep
camp and get meals ready for others
off fishing in the lake could not regu-
late systema tically what they. did.
They had letters to write and inter-
estng letters and papers and maya
zines sent to them to read. and Time,
who dearly loves to play such tricks,
stole by unobserved and undecided, so
that when the hungry lads arrived at
camp there often was nothing to do but
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

Uncle Sam knows more about storms
.ban anybody else in the whole fam
az, Of nations. He keeps his eyes on
Storm from the time it is born, far
aoy,n on the coast of the Gulf of Mex
100. where, as a baby storm, it losses
the shining sands of the long sunlight
beaches and curls the white and spark
ling crests of the blue waves. Or, per-
baps. he discovers it first disporting
itself within youthful freedom in one
of the states of the Southwest-Texas
Arizona or New Mexico-possibly he
discovers the growing infant first
whistling through the palm trees and
shaking down the cocoanuts in glee on
some island of the West Indies.
Wherever Uncle Sam discovers the
growing storm, he takes care not to
let it get out of his sight again. He
catches it from point to point as it
roars along until he sees it driving far
out on the ocean. Then, in advance
OF the tempest's gathering in force and
waxing terrible, he sends a warning
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05
HOW TROPICAL BIRDS
DEFY THEIR ENEMIES

The brilliantly plumed birds of the
tropical forests are exposed to many
dangers, and if they were not gifted
with queer yet useful instincts they
would fall ready victims to their enc
mics. Chattering monkeys and big
snakes steal and eat their eggs, while
their fledglings are preyed upon by
foes on every side.
But it takes a sly monkey or snake
to get ahead of the mother tailor bird.
She hides her nest so skillfully that
her enemies cannot find it, no matter
how. hard they try. This she does by
using her long, slender bill as a needle.
With the tough fiber OF a parasite
plant abundant in the tropics as a
thread, she sews a dead leaf taken
from the ground to a living one near
the end of a slender and hanging
branch. and between these leaves she
builds her nest where neither monkey
nor snake can approach, because the
branch will not bear their weight.
The Indian sparrow is equally in
genious. She makes her nest of grass,
which she weaves like cloth and in the
shape of bottle. Then she covers the
outside with firefiies to scare away the
bats that prey upon her young ones.
The Oriole Of North America makes
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05
THE STORY OF
FAN-FAN, THE FAIRY.
She Saves Little Prince Pom
Pom from the Death His
Cruel Cousin Had
Planned for Him.

Pon-Pon was boy eleven years old,
and he was a Prince. His father and
mother, who were King and Queen,
were very kind to him, and he was
brought up to have a kind heart to-
wards the poor. Over and over again
the King said to him:
"Pon-Pon, when l am dead you will
be King in my place. want the peo-
pie to love and respect you. I have al
ways been just to them, and 1 have
always remembered that even the poor
est had rights. 1t is well that you
should be proud, but do not be over
bearing and tyrannical. One who rules
by tyranny does not rule long"
As the Prince had no brothers to
play with he often called in boys of
his own age to indulge in games in the
palace grounds Some of these were
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

which has left the coast and gone to
sea with it's boisterous shouting Is
hurting the breakers on the coast of the
British Isles or has tired itself out and
gone to sleep on the broad bosom of
the great deep to harm and rage no
more.
The photographic Office keeps rec
ord of all storms which are particular
ly wicked and marks their course over
the ocean by red lines on the pilot
charts of the North Atlantic ocean,
which the Office issues every month.
On these pilot charts, also, Uncle
Sam marks down the icebergs which
ships have reported as floating down
from the Arctic regions to gather at
the straits of Belle Isle or drift toward
Cape Race and become a menace to
vessels crossing the Atlantic.
The vessels which, overtaken by
storms, have been so badly injured that
their crews were obliged to abandon
them, are shown on the chart. When
their crews leave them they become
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

Lakes, whose cold, fresh waters it will
set to frothing and seething.
A storm which seeks the Great Lakes
LOT the scene of it's exploits nearly al
Ways passes out to sea by way of the
o. o.. Lawrence river and Gulf. Some
uines a storm from the Lake Region
VIII try to break away from its nat
aIal course of the sea, and endeavor to
ny down the Hudson river and get to
SAT- water by way of New York city
:, such storms are unusual, but when
tney do occur, and succeed in their eff
.pI Is to get to sea by taking a turn to
me Southwark, they are storms which
are are long remembered for their de-
structive force.
- AS rule our storms in this country
9 9 rush up from the Southwest and
journey to sea in a northeasterly di-
11ectlon. Our cold waves come from the
iNorthwest, up in Minnesota, the Da-
noCas or Montana, when the winds of
t, ue North blow down from the frozen
tundra lands Of Canada and set in mo-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-10-05

as seen in figure 1, to fit the shoulder
of the bottle. This he bound firmly in
place with an old fishing line, as seen
in figure 2. Then he neatly cut cir
cular piece of wood out of bit of an
old cigar box, made a narrow curved
aperture in 1t, and finished 1t with
sandpaper. See figure g. This he fit
ted into the neck of the bottle 50 that
II was just flush with the top.
Sam also made what he called a reg
ulator. He cut 1t from the cigar box
Qt is shown in figure ~, and finished
1t with great care, for, as he said, 1t
was piece Of great Importance In this
kind of a clock. Having sandpapered
1t well, he fastened it to the shoulder
piece with a little brass screw from his
work box. (Figures and 60
The rest of the boys had furnished to
Sam, at his request, a bucketful of
sand from q bar at the outlet of the
lake. Sam made a frame of wood, like
that shown in figure 7, and stretched
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to wait until a meal could be made
ready and cooked for them.
One of the boys had watch that
had gone wrong. He could do nothing
with it for the handspring was broken.
The only timepiece owned by any of
the boys belonged to Dan, but Dan
had to use it. He was the best fisher
man of the party, and when he went
out fishing he took his watch with him.
SO the boys were in a quandary.
Sam" said Charlie, as they sat
outside the shack they had built in the
woods, talking about the predicament,
you think you're real clever, but you
can't get UP clock"
II don't know" said Sam, but l
think l can rig up a clock. all right"
There was a large bottle that con-
tanned the alcohol the boys used to fill
the small jars in which they preserved
specimens OF tree toads, lizards, snakes
and the like. The bottle was now
empty. and Sam took possession of it.
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MAKING A CLOCK
OUT OF A BOTTLE
With the Extra Help of Few Laths, Sand and String
These Boy Campers, Although Minus Watches, Were
Enabled to Tell the Time of Day.
By j. CARTER BEARD.

"He is going to bottle up the time
of day and uncork II and give us a bit
when we ask for it," shouted Dick,
laughing.
You're nearer right than you think"
said Sam.
The day the clock was made there
was no fishing, for all the boys were
much interested and remained in camp
to see it built. OF all things out Of
which to make a clock they thought a
bottle the most unpromlsing, nor could
they conceive how Sam would go about
It.
The first thing Sam did was to heat
the lower part of the bottle very grad
ually and carefully at the camp fire
until 1t was almost at red heat,
Then, taking 1t out. he wound a wet
string around it as near the bottom
as he could. The glass snapped
asunder where the string came In con-
tact with IL as neatly as If 1t had been
cut with a diamond. Sam now pos
sessed a bottomless bottle.
He next fashioned the piece Of wood
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ton volume of chilled air which
waves itself eastward over the country
ana out TO sea, to follow the storms.
Sometimes the cold wave will sweep
south and act upon the waters of the
Gulf of Mexico. Then the folk who
dwell along the southern shores of the
country and those who sail the shining
waters of the Gulf of Mexico, say, a
norther is blowing"
All these different movements of
storms and cold waves-yes and of hot
waves too-Uncle Sam signals in ad-
vance by means of his faithful observ-
ers who. perched in a hundred lofty
offices in high buildings throughout the
country are in constant telegraphic
communication with each other and
with the central office of the Weather
Bureau in Washington.
Uncle Sam does not atch his storms
and chase them out to sea in a hap
hazard manner; he does it carefully
and scientifically and therefore does it
we'll
When a storm leaves the coast and
sets out on its wild dance across the
great waters, Uncle Sam relieves the
weather bureau of further care of that
particular gale and turns it over to the