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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20

Blame me not for what l am now about
to tell you, and what Il wizard like you
must know already
..Of course l know it, said Spencer
sternly. 'but you must confess youl
crime before you can be forgiven.
1T was your honor's friend, babuji.
that was the beginning of trouble He
picked up a pearl of great price in the
lucknow serai three days ago"
That's - lie said Mitchell, Il
wouldn't be travelling on shank's mare
now if l had But Spencer said quiet
ly:
"The pearl was concealed in a piece of
opium. Say on, who was the owner OF
the pearl?'
ITS owner was a rich merchant from
Ceylon. whose servant | am. He was
taking the pearl to sell to great rajah
in Punjab.''
"Oh, holy one, the sahibs are some
times zahbardasti. angry men. My mas
te. feared that if he asked for the pearl
the sahibs might beat him and take it
away. But if you did not know the
value of What you had found, he might
get it back by craft
Therefore you came as juggler to
search our clothes under pretense of look
ing for coins. And if you failed to find
l the pearl"'
linen my master mas nlred Tour pad
maches with athls. and they will come
in the night and beat you on the head,
and take away the pearl by force"
"a china, it is we'll. You are forgiven.
Co. said Spencer.
'And the pearl?" suggested the native
! hunlby.
The PEARL roared Spencer at the full
| pitch Of his lungs, 'Soor Ike butcha. You
come here and confess to a plot to rob
| and murder us, and then expect to get
| back your accused pearl. Jao nikal jao,
son of Satan. before l destroy your
| At This sudden outbreak the native
| turned hastily and fed for his life leav-
| ing the two Englishmen convulsed with
| laughter under the trees.
''Well, our fortunes are looking up
said Spencer. LET us have a look at
this pearl Of great price,
Mitchell produced the block of opium
once more, and cutting it open they found
| a pear-shaped pearl about half an inch
| long and of great luster reposing in the
| center.
by Jove' exclaimed Spencer, chats
| something worth having. It's worth a
| cool five thousand, or I'm no Judge OF
gems
What shall we do?" asked Mitchell
'Do?' echoed Spencer. ''Why, what
| should we do but hurry into Benares to-
| day and take the train for Calcutta. The
| price of this pearl will set us up in bust
| ness again in style. And I have no de-
sire to have four thugs after me on the
Grand Trunk. Calcutta Mail.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
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Bears the = The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature "a E>HZzzzm

Germans smoked 36S tons of cigar
cites last year. as against SO tons in
1901.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-01-20
THE HIDDEN PEARL.

The Grand Trunk road is the mair
artery of India. 1t runs without break
across the breadth of the land from ka-
rachi to Bombay.
The colored American., 1904-02-27
Me.art's Musical Memory.

Mozart had q wonderful memory OF
musical sounds. When only fourteen
years Of age he went to Rome to as
sist in the solemnities Of holy week.
Immediately after his arrival he went
to the Sistine chapel TO hear the ia
nous ''Miserere' of Allegri. Being
aw that it was forbidden n to take or
81 copy of this rer wned piece of
music, Mozart placed himself in a cor
ner and gave the st1-ictest attention to
the music and on leaving the church
noted down the entire piece. A few
days afterward he heard it second
time and, following the music with his
own copy in his hand, satisfied himself
Of the fidelity of his memory The
next day he sang the "Miserere" at a
concert, accompanying himself on the
harpsichord, and the performance pro-
duced such a sensation in Rome that
Pope Clement XIV. requested that this
musical prodigy should be presented
to him at once.
The colored American., 1904-02-27
A Story of Whistler.

One day Whistler entered the atelier
of his class in Paris and found that
red background had been arranged be-
hind the model. At once he directed
something of a duller tone to be substi-
tuted, and he scraped the red paint off
the canvas of one of the pupils, putting
in its place another background. But
the red would show through. He scrap
ed, studied and worked laboriously to
get something that pleased him. The
rest of the class surrounded the easel
and eagerly watched the master. He
looked up finally and said, '"I suppose
you know what 1 am trying to dof'
"Oh, yes, sir!'' they ali chorused. "WeII,
it's more than 1 do" he replied grimly
and left the place.
The colored American., 1904-02-27
What Puzzled Him.

A well known clubman entered a po-
lice station and said to the sergeant, '1
would like to have an interview with
that burglar you arrested for breaking
into my house last night" Sergeant
don't know that can allow you un-
less you first tell me what you want to
see him about. Mr.. Clubman-Oh,
there's nothing secret about it. 1 just
wanted to find out how he got into my
house so easily; it's more than 1 can do
at night-Kansas City Independent.
The colored American., 1904-02-27
Cheerful and HopefuI.

The men whom 1 have seen succeed
best in life, says Charles Kingsley,
have always been cheerful and hope
full men, who went about their business
with a smile on their faces and took
the changes and chances of their nor
NAL life like men, facing rough and
smooth alike as it came, and so found
the truth Of the old proverb that good
times and bad times and all times pass
over"
The colored American., 1904-02-27
Legal EIOquence.

A young lawyer concluded his argu-
ment in a case with the following sub
lime burst of eloquence: eff, gentle
men of the jury, the defendants hogs
are permitted to roam at large over
the fair fields of my client with i'm
punity, then-yes, then, indeed, have
our forefathers fought and bled and
died in Vainv'
The colored American., 1904-02-27
PHELPS HALL BIBLE TRAINING SCH00I
OF THE TUSKEGEE INSTITuTE
#= Tuskegee, Alabama
ESTABLISHMENT.


s
intelligent Sunday school
those who intend will be greatly helped by taking the
OBJECTThet Bible Training School
knowledge OF
In
6
theological
assist all denominations
THE BUILDNGPhelps Hall the building which the School
are used for
PENNEY is the
B. H H.
School
EXPENSESThe teaching
room light fuel washing
of
- NO0~
School
tut1ons while still 1890 - 0-0. -N'N'
and the remaining
nations represented seven enom
The colored American., 1904-02-27
A Man to Be Avoided.

Briggs-Here comes Gibson Let's
cross over. Griggs-Why, l thought he
was friend of yours. Briggs-He used
to be, but now he's my deadly enemy.
He's the unspeakable villain who rec
commended a place for me to spend my
yacation.-Brooklyn Life.
The colored American., 1904-02-27
Logic.

Teddie-Pa, where do we get our milk
from? Father-F'rom COWS, my son.
Teddie-And where do cows get their
milk from? Father-Why, Teddie,
where do you get your tears? Teddfe
(after long, thoughtful pause)-Do
they have to spank cows, papa Judge.
The colored American., 1904-02-27
'Colored PeonIe. $

Is the title of book 1 am preparing tt
publish 1t will be made up almost en-
tirely of cuts and biographies of col
ored people of both sexes. When
proper, and desirable, the cut of the
wife may appear along with that OF
her husband. Those who do not feel
able to publish their cuts can have
their names, address and occupation
registered in alphabetical order.
If the people make adequate returns,
the set of books will be arranged some
what as follows:
VOLUME I.
Will be made up of the discussions of
''The Status of Colored People, by
Presidents, ex-presidents, congressman,
governors, cardinals, ministers, educa-
tors, bishops, editors, and scientists
among white people; and of people of
like standing among our own people,
when obtainable.
VOLUME II.
Bank officials, judges, lawyers,
physicians, chiropodists, massagers.
nurses, druggists dentists and others.
VOLUME III.
congressman, all Federal Office hold
ers. all State, County and City officials,
army, navy and militia officials, store.
office and other clerks, bookkeepers,
stenographers, typewriters and others
VOLUME ".
Bishops, missionaries, ministers. au-
thors, poets, artists, publishers, job
printers, engravers, photographers,
typesetters, electricians, electrical and
other engineers, noted singers, mu-
sicians, actresses, actors, elocutionists,
pantomimists, inventors, music teach
ers and travelling statesmen.
VOLUME W
All merchants and manufacturers,
all first class mechanics, plasterers, car
penters, masons, plumbers, all proprie-
tors of first class barber shops, hack
an transfer lines, hotels and restau-
rants, stone cutters, mouIders, firemen.
owners and tillers of farms, planters.
gardners, fruit raisers, dairymen and
others; first class sign and house paint
ers and decorators; cuts of colleges.
publishing houses, hospitals, sanitari-
ums, city and farm homes and other
buildings.
VOLUME VI.
Of1cians of and educators in colleges
and EDUCATIONAL institutions, including
all school teachers, college graduates
and perhaps, high school graduates.
The above classification is subject to
The colored American., 1904-02-27
VOLUME VI.

Ofhcians Of and educators in COLLEGES
and EDUCATIONAL institutions, including
all school teachers, college graduates
and perhaps, high school graduates.
The above classification is subject to
change and the number of volumes pub
Iished will depend upon the amount of
material sent in
We want to get as many volumes of
these books as possible into the waiting
rooms Of offices and hotel Hobbies in
order that white people may know
what we are doing And there can be
no doubt that we, ourselves, would be
greatly benefited by having placed be-
fore us pictorial representation of
the progress of others of our people.
The object of this publication is TO
benefit our people; and we hope you
all Will do your part by sending us
Immediately the name and address of
as many people as you can think of.
Liberal terms to reliable agents
everywhere
Our history and literature should be
preserved. Write to-day to
WESLEY ROBBINS, MD.
Flint, Mich, Rooms 10O-1O1 Paterson
Block.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13

1Here is no Town
on the continent which can empty itself
more speedily than Washington of the
transient visitors who give life to it
while congress is here.
The session of congress which has lust
come to an end has not been rich in the
making of regulations. If any one man
has grown greatly in the estimation of
house and senate it is Speaker Cannon,
who, in single session, has enrolled
among the little group of really great
speakers who have presided over the de-
llDeratiOns OF the house. There are not
many of them. Clay, Colfax, Blaine,
Carlisle and Reed are the names which
occur easily to anybody with historical
bent OF mind, and it is high tribute to
Cannon that at the close of an unusually
short and uneventful session, there
should be many who are disposed to
group him with the historic lights. :
Both republicans and democrats unite
to sing Cannon's praises. He is as high
ly regarded on the democratic side of the
house as among his own party associates.
Even the most hopeless partisans are
forced to admit that they have no COM
plant to make against the speaker on
account of his conduct in the chair So
free from partisanishp has he been that
the house has been treated several times
to spectacle hitherto unprecedented
since the creation of the committee on
rules. That committee more than once
has made reports providing special or
ders for legislation in which the repub-
licans and democrats on the committee
united in unanimous action If this had
happened in the administrations of Reed,
or Crisp, or Henderson, it would have
been thought that the heavens were
about to fall
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13

to : morning edition without consult
ing anybody. Not being newspaper
man, it never occurred to him that there
would .bs any difficulty about the press
franchise for telegraphic news. There
was. He changed the Sunday edition into
a Saturday afternoon edition, and when
that was worked changed it back again,
confusing the few remaining readers
who dropped away rapidly. l.
So presently the strange spectacle was
seen of paper which had been greatly
improved, which published excellent
matter excellently written, clearly
printed and we'll illustrated, with cir
culation of one-tenth what it had been
when the paper was not SO good, but
was at least consistently managed. In
a single year, Mr.. Munsey is supposed
to have spent nearly a million dollars:
including the purchase price, upon the
News, up to the time when he publicly
announced that he was ready practically
to throw it away, to suspend publication
without day or date.
That is the other side of the newspa'
per story, good to tell when one speaks
of the wonders Mr.. Hearst has wrought
with practically unlimited money and
nerve Even these qualities do not al
ways win. Mrs. Brown, it is sad to say
did not come through the year much bet
ter than the purchaser of her paper. She
was one of the unfortunates who pur-
chased considerable quantities of the
"busted' shfpbuilding trust.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13

speeches in which
he treated the republican majority with
out gloves. But that he had the qualities
of real leadership was hardly suspected
except by some of his intimates until the
time came when it was necessary to
pick out somebody to assume the re-
sponsibility laid down by Richardson, OF
Tennessee
Williams rose to his opportunity in a
way to delight his fellow democrats in
the house. He has shown tact and bril-
liancy has kept his lance poised for any
possible vulnerable spots in the repub-
lican armor, and at the same time has
maintained personal relations with the
republican leaders which give him in
auence on the majority side of the house.
Williams is a rather curious product
of democratic generation. He was born
in Memphis, Tenn, and his father was a
confederate colonel, killed at Shiloh
Then young Williams, with his mother,
moved to his mothers cid family home
stead in Yazoo country, Mississippi. He
still maintains himself there during the
recesses Of congress as lawyer and a
cotton planter. He is one of the most
highly educated men in either branch Of
congress-. AS he himself expresses it, he
received a fair education" at private
schools.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13

OCpC" WOu1u We.
he does not seek or court personal pub
ticity. Withal, his face and figure are
OF the type that pass unnoticed in a
city that draws from all parts of the
country slender, smooth-faced men to
manifold industries and walks of COM
merce.
Smooth-faced, 1 have called Mr..
hearst. He is about 40 years of age,
and his slender figure and boyish appear
ance give him the look of even greater
youth. Some one of his numerous re-
tinue of campaign managers has issued a
Autograph of him that shows the face
lined and scanned like that of a middle
aged man. In that respect it is not
portrait. Mr.. Hearst's years sit lightly
upon him. The cares OF vast and COM
pick business of publication simply do
not for him exist. He has the power of
disassociation; of leaving to subordi-
mates work that does not personally ap-
peal to him.
Mr.. Hearst has young men about him.
Mr.. Arthur Brisbane, who has been
much named of late as Mr.. Heayst's ad-
wiser and literary man, is of about the
same age and of the same smooth-shaven
facial type, though much more care
worn in appearance. Still, Mr.. Brisbane
was already past 80 when, happening
one day to attempt to enter the casino
at Monte Carlo as visitor, he was
stopped by the watchful attendant, who
informed him that minors were not per-
mitted to enter the famous gambling
hall. The Monte Carlo men, being
Savoyards and pronounced brunes, very
often take northern blond men as young
er than they really are.
Mr.. Brisbane is only one of a brilliant
group Of men whom Mr.. Hearst has had
at times gathered about him, and whose
circulation of his newspapers. Mr..
Chamberlain Arthur McEwen, Ambrose
Bierce and Willis Holly are a few of the
men who have written the stirring edi-
torials attributed to Mr. Hearst by those
who do not know how a great newspa-
per is really edited.
am not sure that Mr.. Hearst does not
owe more to Mr.. Carvalho, the astute
business manager of various of his pa
pers at various times, than to any writer
whatever. Mr. Carvalho and Mr.. Bris-
bane have been close friends for Is
years. They we're associated in prac-
tically their present work upon the
World until seven years ago, since then
they have been the steady team, of
the Hearst establishment
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13


The city CT Washington is growing
to the northwest with a rapidity which
attracts the attention of all observers.
Fifteen years ago the business center
was on Pennsylvania avenue, between
Ninth and Fourteenth streets. At that
time F street, two blocks to the north.
was chiefly occupied by residences. Ten
years ago the center of business had
been shifted from the avenue to F
street, and almost every residence had
been transformed into a. shop.
F street is still the center, but with
in another five years it will have lost
it's prestige, for places of business are
encroaching almost daily on J: the
streets farther north and west. Within
ten years. the business center will be
H street, and Connecticut avenue, from
Fourteenth street west to Seventeenth,
a neighborhood which until within the
last three years was regarded as the
swell residence section of the town.
LOUIS 4. COOLIDGE
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13

nent." Only newspaper men remember
the experiment. Munsey had at that
time already won and lost more than one
respectable competency; wealth soon
after dawned for him with the success
of Munsey's Magazine. His more recent
venture with the Washington Times, the
Boston Journal and the New York News
has proved less easy road to fortune.
The case of the News is instructive.
This paper was long ago the personal
organ. of Mayor Fernando Wood, he
whose claim to immortality chiefly rests
upon the inspired remark that I'VE
must pander sometimes to the moral
sense of the community Which, as
Wood was Tammany mayor during the
war, was a concession. Afterwards the
News was run for years by Col. "Bill''
Brown, who was also in the Tammany
confidence. 1t made money right along
and had the largest circulation in the
world. Its 100000 daily buyers were the
standing marvel of newspaper men. The
paper was chiefly bought by those in
humble circumstances and paid more at
tention to prize fights than to pink teas.
When Col Brown died his widowetill
had in the News q profitable property,
though its circulation had been Whitfield
away by the Sun, World and Journal, one
after another establishing evening pa
pers of great enterprise.
However, the paper was sold to Mr..
Munsey for substantial price and was
worth it. Every step that &c took to
'eboom" it has preciseN the opposite eff
fact. He changed it froIz an afternoon
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13

mental structures on Capitol hill which
will not be exceeded In beauty and Dig
nifty by airy other group of buildings in
the world.
The two new buildings will trans
form what has hitherto been regarded
as an unsightly section of the CITY into
a spot which will be worth travelling
thousands of miles to see. Each of the
new structures will occupy an entire
square, now filled with old houses and
defaced by glazing billboart.,. Under
the new arrangement each senato. and
representative will be accommodated
with fine suite of rooms, handsomely
furnished and supplied with every COM
fort that any working statesman could
desire
IL is not so many years since a great
outcry went up over the country be-
cause the senators had bought an old
hotel, known as the Maltby house,
where those who could not be supplied
with rooms in the capitol kept their
secretaries and their records. Columns
were written about the rugs, and SOFAS
and private baths with which these
rooms were furnished, and many peo-
pie throughout the country imagined
that the senate was lavishine the
money of the taxpayers in oriental
luxury.
But times have changed. The Matt
by building is out of date. Those sena-
tors who are condemned to occupy
rooms there regard it as hardship,
and there are mutterings already about
the dilapidated condition of the place.
But it is seen now that a senator, or
representative, for that matter, is en-
titled to at least as much consideration
in the choice of his working establish.
ment as lawyer burdened with half
the business. AS it is, many repre-
sentatives are compelled to lease
rooms outside the capitol.
With the increase in population of
the country, the statesman in Wash
ington finds his work and responsible
ity thrice or four times as great as in
the days of the seventies.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13
PULPIT AND PEW.

All the religious literature used by
Protestants in Spanish-speaking coun-
tries is published at the Methodist pub
fishing house, Nashville, Tenn.
DR.. Lyman Abbott says the Young.
Mems Christian association has done.
more to unite the Protestant churches Of
Great Britain and America than any
other agency.
A bill is under consideration in Ger
many which will readmit the Jesuits.
into that country, giving Roman Cath
olics equal rights with Protestants in the
eyes of the law.
Policeman Charles w. Wilson, who
has been on the force of Fall River,
Mass, for II years. has resigned be-
cause he regards it as wrong to work on.
the Sabbath day.
The federation OF the 48 Protestant
states churches of Germany is con-
tempAted. There is at present no organ
ic connection. The proposed plan will
not touch the confession of faith.
An explanation of the frequent beg
ging letters received in this country
from Jews in Palestine is given by DR..
Selah Merrill, formerly United States
consul at Jerusalem, who says that the
large majority of Jerusalem Jews live en-
tirely upon charity.
A unique occasion was that recently
celebrated in the Fifth Avenue. church,
New York, when the church recognized
the completion of the so years CT service
Of the assistant janitor by presenting:
him with a check for $1,100. A similar
gift was made by this same church last
autumn, when the janitor also completed
4 half century of service.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1904-05-13
SOAKED. IN COFFEE
Until Too stir to Bend Over.

when drank coffee often had sick
headaches, nervousness and biliousness
much Of the time but about 2 years
ago I went to visit friend and got
in the habit Of drinking Postum.
II have never touched coffee since.
and the result has been that have,
been entirely cured of all my stomach
and nervous trouble.
my mother was just the same way,
we all drink: Postum now and have
never had any coffee in the house for
2 years and we are all well. !
"A neighbor of mine, a great coffee,
drinker, was troubled with pains in her
side for years and was an invalid. She.
was not able to do her work and could
not even mend clothes or do anything
at all where she would have to bend
forward. If she tried to do little
hard work she would get such pains
that she would have to lie down for
the rest of the day.
Il persuaded her at last to stop
drinking coffee and try Postum Food
Coffee and she did SO and she has used
Postum ever since; the result has
been that she can now do her work,
can sit for a whole day and mend AMI
can sew on the machine and she never
feels the least Bit of pain in her side
in fact she has got well and itsshows
coffee was the cause Of the whole
trouble. AZ 5#=
i Il could also tell you shout several
other neighbors who have been cured
by quitting coffee and using Postum
IN it's place" Name given Ey Postum
Co.. Battle Greek, Mica. .ss
B Look ID each pkg. for the famous
nttle book. The Road to Melville. .