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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18


escape, the days of enslavement, the days
of faint light and despair, when an un-
lettered boy, hope first dawned at the sing
Ing OF the slave song, run to Jesus
Like flash came the re-echoing song
with Its old inspiring influence:
Run to Jesus
He will be our dearest friend,
And Will help us to the end,
the song that was destined to WELD 80
much encouragement to the pioneers who
labored so devotedly to lay the founda-
tlons OF the Oldest institution of learning
for the sons and daughters of freedmen
in America
Thirty eight years ago, In the abandoned
hospital barracks of the Union army on
the outskirts of the city of Nashville.
Ienn, university was opened for the
emanc1pated slaves who had been for
pldden to learn how to read or write. A
university Tor newly freed slaves! All,
ye do well to pause, stop, ye sons and
daughters Of freedmen. and in awed graft
tude. In hushed and bowed solemnity,
think deeply of those four men of sainted
memory-the Rev. e. p Smith, John Og-
den, Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, and our own
beloved President Cravath, who had the
courage to project such an enterprise.
meet so many formidable difficulties. and
then, In the face of all, give this silent.
cheering, soul lifting prophecy of the pos
sibilities of the newly unshackled slave.
by founding a university.
And there in the old hospital barracks,
where many of the brave soldiers had
passed on to reward, began the light and
life of thousands. AS has been said: "The
officers quarters became the home of an
earnest band of teachers; the sick wards
were filed with hundreds of eager chill
dren; the deadhouse was turned into a
storeroom of supplies for the naked and
hungry. And there was almost pathetic
romance In the work, when pile of rusty
handouts and letters from the abandoned
slave pen of the city came into the possess
sion of the school, and was sold as old
iron, and the money invested in the pur-
chased Of testaments and spelling books
The number of pupils in daily attendance
the first year averaged over 1000. Some
who began the first term never ceased at
tendance until they were graduated ten
years afterward from q full collegiate
course
The time came when the buildings con-
structed for temporary uses began to de-
cay and the. imperative necessity of OBJ
tanning funds for the purchase Of q new
site and new buildings was a perplexing
problem. In this hour of depression Mr.
George L. Whif. treasurer of the uni
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
A Soma of Victory

And inch and inch till we get home,
Jesus will come by-'n-by.
Song of Victory
One song of victory told of the passing
out from the wanderings in the wilderness
into the land Of freedom. It had long
been sung by the slave fathers and moth
ers who gave God the glory for the day
they believed would dawn--their sons
and daughters on their mission of love
that made possible the education of 9TH
ers Of the race, sang the song Of VIC
tory to the people of America and Eu-
rope in full realization:
Oh, brethren. rise and shine and give God
Rise and shine. and give God the glory,
glory. /.
Rise and shine, and give God the glory.
for the year Of Jubilee
The Fisk jubilee singers gave to the
world the songs of our fathers, and for
seven years interpreted these soul mel
odies that had been pent up and had
burst forth during 240 years of captivity.
There were few songs of despair that
awakened the smoldering sympathy Of the
world, but the larger number were the
songs of hope and faith that reached
the heart of two continents and poured
into the treasury Of Fisk university $780,
900 that erected Jubilee hail, the largest
been raised in. honor of those pioneer
sons and daughters of freedmen.
Up in Connecticut. on the banks of
Long Island sound, stands a magnificent
country home. Every morning, noon and
sunset FROM a tower near by you may
hear clear, sweet notes of chimes ringing
one after another the Scottish airs that
come rapturously to the ears of the gray
haired man who has deeply cherished in
his memory the songs of the bluebells
and heather of old Scotland, his native
home. Many Years ago he came to Amer
lea .penniless, friendless and homeless
BY thrift and economy ne is today one
Of the millionaires of our country, but
the songs of his fatherIand that rang In
his youthful memory and inspired him
with success, those he has perpetuated
In the silver chimes that ring out over
the greensward Of his adopted country.
The Italian or Swede. the German or
Irish alien receives a sweet solace for the
rebuffs that he meets In the hurry and
bustles Of his new beginning in America If
he perchance hears on the street song
of his native land.
Among the sacred records of the world
are the treasured songs of faith, songs of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

versity, organized band of eX-slave stu
dents and trained them to sing with all
the ardor of their souls the old songs of
the plantation. The broken, plaintive
minor strains that had been poured out
with pleas for strength, courage for better
days. for mother, home and heaven. re-
ceived added sweetness and pathos when
strengthened by the harmonious blending
of the rich voices under the training of
their teacher, and 1t was supremely fitting
that these songs of our fathers should be
the means of bringing to Fisk university
the aid so fervently prayed for.
nThe Year of Jubilee"
The freed slave singers faced hunger,
want, suspicion; prejudice, discourage
ments with their faithful leader during
the first dark months of 1871, when they
sang to incredulous audiences. But the
time came when they won. They had been
witnesses Of the year of jubilee, long
hoped and prayed for. 1.-THE year of jubi-
lee had come" and undaunted, what
wonder that the songs they sang reached
the hearts of their hearers in this and
other lands? What wonder that the foun-
tain of tears long ice bound became I'M
fettered. or that strong men, statesmen,
and crowned heads listened entranced?
How much to the dusky-hued singers
had these songs meant in the old days!
How much did these songs still mean,
when they sang them and were carried
back to the old life! The days of wretched
misery were lived over again, as they
sang for your sake and mine the songs
of tTibulation with the long drawn chords
of plaintive woe. With every note came
the remembrance of the bitter, bitter cup.
that each one had drunk to the dregs
I'm troubled. I'm troubled in mind,
II Jesus don't help me, surely will die
And again with the song that melted the
stoniest heart:
: Nobody knows the trouble see. Lord:
Nobody knows like Jesus.
q When the last note Of these songs of
tribulation was borne away the voices of
the singers told the hearers that faith
deeply rooted had vanquished the despair
of the first refrain.
When the song I've just come from the
fountain" sung in quicker, lighter tone,
lifted the singers out into the radiant light
OF hope renewed, hope strengthened, hope
realized, hope borne into glad fruition
rang out with victorious note In "ChiI-
dren, we all shall be free,' .Wait little
while. then Wen sing the new song,',, and
Walk. together children, don't you get
weary"
Then the hushed song Of whispering
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

NH RS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
IM delivered an address on Fisk
university, at the st. Louis ex-
position, which shows much insight
into negro character. Dealing with the
said:
The children of Israel, carried away
ca ptive could not sing their songs In
strange land. When those that wasted
them required of them mirth they hung
their harps upon the willows. and by the
rivers of Babylon, there they sat down
and wept; they cried vengeance, death
and destruction upon their oppressors.
The children of Ethiopia, bowed by the
weight of centuries of toll and contumely,
of wrongs and woes, of hopelessness and
despair, bent to their tasks, and with
the rise and stoop of their bodies poured
out their rhythmic cadence Of faith hope
and charity throughout all. And 1t is
from these songs of our fathers that their
children of the past generation, the chill
dren of Fisk and her children's children,
have received the inspiration that has
imbued them with courage to have faith
that right may win, hope that right will
prevail and charity for all those deep
rooted impediments that divide man from
man and make him unmerciful to his
brother
Vi. 1HeSe are CRITICAL days IN the history OF
the negro race in America. We seem to
have come to the parting of the ways and
crucial test is imminent. The question
is, What shall the end be for race that,
within year. has been called "a menace
to the republic "a race with minimum
of progress and a maximum regress'' and
"a cancerous blot in fair land" So
persistent is the onslaught that history
seems repeating itself, and the weary
days of the reconstruction and anti-slav-
cry period revive, when the discouraged
workers faltered in their attempts to pave
the way for the helpless freedmen. Well
nigh hopeless, they bitterly voiced the
despair that momentarily seemed TO be
crushing their hope for the future.
'Run to Jesus"
Frederick Douglass, 1.-The noblest Roman
of them ALL wavered in his purpose, and
was only spurrede to renewed effort and
reawal1ened hope by the ringing voice of
the sainted Quakeress, when she asked.
Frederick, is God dead?'
Awed by the implied reproof for his
lack of faith Mr. Douglass mind re-
verified to youthful days-back over the
full days of freedom, over the days of
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

flung him far and wide into the boughs
Of the very tree that had been indi-
Gated by the Akoond himself. The
. crowd stood .aghast.
Constitutional Smith looked about
him and rolled cigarette.
Gentlemen" he said, ''the Akoond
was a great man, but he wasn't Con-
stitutional Strong-Arm Smith, that's
ALL" He smiled genially upon the
crowd. Suddenly there was rush
and fifty men seized him and raised
him to their shoulders.
Hundreds of men were yelling. Oh
Keefe! Oh Keefe!" came from null
titude of Threats. ooh Keefe, Akoond
Of Swat! Oh Keefe, Akoond Of Swat"
Smith was indeed the Akoond of
Swat. And almost the first man who
did formal homage to him was the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

cipher upon the face Of the earth. It
was the essence of all that was of mo
account" Doubtless 1t was this fact
that had made 1t Stunned by white
men, and had kept its people SO far be-
hind the present age. Had the island
been productive Of something, no mat
ter what, useful in trade and COM
merce; had her people been active
even actively hostile, why, then, she
might have amounted to something.
She might have made a name for her
self. But she was sterile, and the
minds Of her people were sterile. And
the world had left her to herself.
But in the midst of it all, Constitu-
tional Smith had arrived, and he had
become her Akoond. Behind Constitu-
tional Smith were two incentives. III
the first place, he was an active man.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

comfort, advice, succor under affection
one that seemed to breathe the spirit Of
time of distress and woe:
Steal away, steal away, steal away to
Jesus.
Prayer for Aid
The deep prayers for aid seemed to spur
the nearer to unite with the sufferers plea
for help under the burden, when they sang
with touching melody Save Me, Lord.
Save Me- '.Show Me the Way" and
Keep Me Froms Sinking Down" Never
was more doleful cry, more pathetic wall,
or sadder entreaty- made OF despairing
soul in it's plea for- help than In the open
ing line of the last named song, '.Oh,
Lord the heart-rending appeal to
higher power, then oh, my Lord"-that
emphasizes the almost despairing belief
In a personal Savior, and "Oh, my Good
Lord" showing the Father in His right
eous justice-then the outburst of the
pent up soul In the cry, keep me from
sinking down."
What encouragement to the patiently
waiting slaves had been the faith songs
that had banished the sight Of the auc-
ton block, the separation of mother and
child, father and mother, sister and
brother, as they toiled and chanted Of the
old deIiverance of the Jewish children:
Isaac a ransom while he lay
Upon the altar bound.
Moses an infant cast away,
BY Pharaoh's daughter found.
Didn't old Pharaoh get lost, get lost?
Didn't old Pharaoh get lost In the Red
sea?
Then listen to the answer given in the
caviling soul:
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?
Deliver Daniel, deliver Daniel?
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel,
And why not every man?
He delivered Daniel from the lions den
Jonah from the body of the whale.
And the Hebrew children from the fiery
furnace,
And why not every man?
How wish it were possible to give the
peculiar musical annexation that accom-
panied the expressive words of the song
that seemed to consider the long years of
waiting and toiling before the promised
year of Jubilee, but to hold out of the hope
of the promise Of relief
Keep a-inching along;
Jesus will come by by
Keep a-inching along like poor inch
worm;
Jesus will come by by.
Wen inch and inch and inch along,
Jesus will come by-'n-by,
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temper had gone by this time, and the
rest was war pure and simple. The
Akoond, with a series of gestures,
made 1t plain to Smith and the as
sembled crowd that he would toss
Smith into the beughs of an adjacent
tree. He had done 1T before and he
would do 1t now. Smith appreciated
the good intentions of the Akoond.
but hell Is paved with them, you
know, old man," he remarked pleas
antly. Then, by streak of luck, the
Akoond smote Smith upon the lip
which jerks had split. For the next
ten minutes few people knew what
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18

And inch and inch till we get home,
Jesus will come by-'n-by.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
Early Maturity Is Desira BILE,

1t may be that we have put SO much
stress on the early maturing qualities
of swine that we have reduced their
vitality; but if that is so, we have
gained some things in it's place. One
of the things gained is the perfection
of flesh that makes it possible to mar
ket a pig at almost any age. This is
not true with some of the common
stock of swine that have little i'm
proved blood. The pure bred animals
can be disposed of at almost any
time. In the case of the near ap-
proach of cholera this is a desider-
alum, as it ma es it possible for the
owner to escape the disease by the
quick marketing of his hogs. AS this
kind of swine brings good prices young.
he is not held back by the certainty
that the animals must be disposed of
at a great sacrifce.-Farmers' Re
view.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
AN OSTRICH THAT TROTS,
Trained Bird That Is Entered Against
Fast Horses on Eastern
Race Tracks.

A trotting ostrich, known as Black
Diamond and valued at 5000, has been
astonishing race track goers in Della
ware of late. Harnessed to a track
wagon and driven by it's owner, W. w
Ford, formerly of Delaware but now OF
Florida, this bird is doing exhibition
miles at 2:40 and even better, reports
New York exchange.
He has appeared at Smyrna, Dover
and Milford.
A trotting horse was entered against
the ostrich at Smyrna, but when the
time for the race arrived the horse did
not appear. The ostrich, however, pulled
Mr.. Ford around the track at Eau
pace. The first heat was unsatlsfac-
tory, as the bride broke twice and II
was necessary for Mr.. Ford to climb out
over the shafts and grasp the ostrich
by the neck after a leap in the air to
stop him. When once the ostrich is
held firmly by the throat, like a SER
pent, it is powerless to resist.
When Mr.. Ford took his feathered
steed to the Delaware capital they
created a sensation. An immense crowd
gathered at the baseball park to watch
the big bird draw its master in wagon.
Only a command was required to start
the ostrich With it's head poised nine
feet and four inches in the air, the bird
raised it's great, sinewy feet quicker
than the eye could follow them and
trotted across the park and back again,
then across again and again, with much
of the grace and regularity of young
trotter on the turf.
When the ostrich appeared in Dover,
drawing his master and the four
wheeled track wagon, work suffered.
The people were so wonderfully at
tracted that they neglected business to
look at them.
Baseball finances were at low ebb
in Dover when Mr. Ford and Black Dia-
mond arrived. Their appearance just
before the Dover-Milford game, how
ever, greatly increased the receipts.
For a race the ostrich is harnessed to
the track wagon in much the same man
ner as a horse. The reins, which Mr..
Ford holds fairly tight, extend from his
hands out over the birds rich plumage
to an especially constructed saddle,
which was really breast strap. There
they run through two rings and take
an upward course four feet into the
air, where the steady, almost notion
less head is held at lofty perch. The
reins are attached to bride with mar
tingales and throat latch, but there is
no bit.
The training of the bird was begun
when he was very young; in fact, as
soon as he had been taken away from
the rest of his covey. Since then he has
been used at regular intervals, but not
too often or too long at time. He has
developed remarkable speed, Mr. Ford
having several times driven him under
the wire at 1:12 for the half mile
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
WORKOUT FARM RESTORED
How a Pennsylvania Farmer Secured
Fair Crops from Soil That Had
Been Exhausted.

Many indeed are the means which the
careful and intelligent farmer may use
to keep up and increase the amount of
plant food in his soil, and at the same
time secure abundant harvests there
from. Several years ago, hard-w ork-
ing and economical man lived upon a
very poor Kentucky farm; but he lacked
the one accomplishment of looking to
the welfare of his land. By and by it
would no longer produce sufficient for a
living, and he sold out to Pennsylvania
Dutchman. The neighbors felt sorry
for the new conner, for he was a very
clever man, and they were sure that he
too would starve out Well, having no
interest in the summers crop, which
was about made, he Immediately set to
work and hauled out all the manure
about the barnyard-a great lot for
sure, which gave him a fine start to-
ward fertilizing an old field long ago
abandoned Then the mound of rotten
chips from the woodward went next.
People thought he YVES then at the end
of his row, so to speak, but he thought
differently. He made some stout wood
en- rakes and taking all the children
large enough to help, raked the leaves
in the adjoining woods, hauling them
and piling in little piles thickly on the
remainder of the field. Finally the job
was done and time for blowing had ar
rived. Again the children were called
out and the bottom of every furrow in
the portion where leaves were used for
fertilizing was filed with them. AL
ready far on way to decay, they were
fairly well rotted when wheat was sOwn,
and the next year that field came up
with a good yield of wheat all over.
Other fields were pastured, and when
ever broken, as much green manure as
could be secured was turned under. In
sects did not bother his crop so badly
as those of the neighbors, because the
trash in the fence corners and near
by woods was all cleaned away and
plowed under. Neither were grain
crops of the same kind raised in the
same field for two years in succession.
To make long story short, he made u
good living, and in few years his farm
compared favorably with any in the
neighborhood - D. B. Thomas, in
Epitomist
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
Good Butter Has Good Flavor.

Good butter always has good flavor
The flavor counts for great deal more
than anything else in the judging OF
butter. One observer of the scoring
process says that it may be accepted as
a quite general rule that the higher the
flavor the higher the score. 1t is prob
able that the judge is sometimes pre-
JUDGED in favor of butter by it's high
flavor even to the extent of not marking
it off very severely on color, grain and
salt. In flavor the chief quality is what
the butter judges call a clean favor. Just
at this time of year we hear complaints
of a weedy flavor in butter, which is
evidently due to the dry conditions in
which some of the pastures have been re-
Gently. The clean flavor spoken of above
can be. secured only when the milk is
made from good, succulent feed and is
handled under perfectly clean condi-
tions.-Farmers' Review
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-29
FACTS CONCERNING SLEEP
This Writer Says Nap at Day Is
Sometimes Better Than a
Good Meal.

The scholar and professional man,
like the anxious housewife, is apt to
carry his cares to bed, and insomnia be-
comes curse. Men and women who are
busted in getting and gaining, the mer-
chant the banker all alike, fail to secure
that self-control which can manage the
mind as well asleep as awake, says the
Pilgrim.
Normal sleep should be purely a
physiological repose similar to the rest
of animals, who go to sleep with the
darkness and awake with the light.
Some one has said that sleep is like
hunger and thirst, representing dimi-
mutton of energy throughout the entire
body. 1 hardly think this can be true,
but in my judgment sleep rather sug-
gests the diminution of energy of the
brain, and he is wise man who takes
the hint when brain fag sets in of an
evening and goes comfortably and prop
erly to bed.
Of course it goes without saying that
night is not the only time for sleep.
Men and women who are busy could
steal just few minutes before or after
the MONDAY luncheon to catch a little
nap, and, indeed, am nearly sure that
the MONDAY nap is worth far more than
the MONDAY meal, for the digestive
processes are surely hindered during the
periods of mental activity, and it is the
exceptional person in this busy world
of ours who is not called upon to use all
his brain and Drawn to make a living.
1t has been my habit to advise mothers
70 steal awhile away from every "cum-
brous care" and. even if sleep fails to
be wooed, to take about 20 minutes
every day in absolute peace and quiet
ness, diverting the mind from all ankle
ties and relaxing all the muscles. A
habit of this kind is easily acquired,
and we might have fewer neurasthenic
women, whose nerves make life hideous
to their families, if a word like this,
spoken from considerable experience,
were needed