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The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02
STAMPEDlNG AND WORK.

The stampeding habit is not dead, but it does not flourish with it's pristine vgor Time was away back in 1900 and 1901, when the stampeder was in his glory. When the midnight bell tolled scores and hundreds of eager men, with here and there a woman, were on the neighboring hills and creeks ready to locate claim. But the New Year custom of stampeding has practically passed, It is growing less and less each year. The fact has been forced home on the minds of most that stalking a claim does not mean the realization of fortune. A man may stake and stake and be poor as a church mouse all his life It is work only that counts. In all our experience in the far Ncrthland, we have known of but few prac tical results from stampeding. When the Klondike was virgin a stampede counted for something. A few, at least, reaped some reward But in mining country that has been settled for few years, there is little chance for the multitude to secure a claim by stampeding. The ''wise ones" have spied out the ground long before, and are on hand in time to secure the plums they had planned for long before. The stam pede should be discouraged, and real, actual work encouraged. The man who works will accomplish things, while the man who con- tracts the stampeding habit will usually feed only on husks and hope.
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02
PILGRIMS ANO> PllGRlMAGES.

The foreign immigrants hOcking today to America by the thousands, the United States reaching out to the Philippines, the Fastener seeking new fields in the West and Northwest, the attempt of Germany to get foothOld in South America, and of Russia to invade China-what is all this but history repeating itself? It is nothing but the cropping out in the twentieth century of that great, majestic movement which through the ages has ever drawn men and nations westward. The cradle of the human race has been said to be Asia Minor. From pilgrimages, have moved steadily toward the setting sun-from the Orient to Greece, from Greece to Rome, from Rome to the Teuton lands, from here to England, France and Spain, then the Pilgrim movement to Virginia and Massachusetts, after that the ''GO West, young man." To the student of history all this has been but many mani. festations of one principle and that-"west- ward the course of empire takes its way
 We are told by men of science" says Stevenson, ''that all the ventures of mar iners on the sea, all that marching and counter marching of the races of the past, sprang from nothing more abstruse than the laws of supply and demand for cheap rations. To anyone thinking deeply this seems too prosy an explanation. It is much finer, and just as reasonable, to believe that the tribes that came swarming out of the
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02

surfeit of outlawry, and perchance they think it is time to call halt. Its chief of police has told the mayor of the city that he cannot control the crime that now stalks rampant in the city" It is about time that the chief of police made the admission Hundreds of men who live a long way from Seattle could have told the mayor of Seattle and all of her good citizens the same thing But the mayor and the good citizens have long known that no police force can control crime when the men in authority over them and the good" citizens of the community are deaf. dumb and blind to transgressions of the law
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02

North and the East during the early cen turies were drawn by the magnetic influence of the South and West quite as much as by the demand for new and fresh pasturage for their cattle. The fame of other lands had reached them they were not so much colo nists as pilgrims they travelled towards gold and sunshine and the fountains of youth, but their hearts were set on some thing higher. It was that divine unrest, that old stinging trouble of humanity. that makes man attempt great achievements, even though he may fail miserably, the same prompting motive that inspired and supported the barbarians in their perilous marches from one end of Europe to the other, that sent Columbus across the un- known Atlantic, that challenged the forty miners to move westward
 There is a legend that profoundly illus trates this spirit of pilgrimages, of how a flying party of wanderers encountered on the road very old man shod with iron. The old man asked them whithcr they were going, and they answered in one voice: ''To the Eternal City, He looked upon them gravely. 'I have sought he replied, lover the most part of the world. Three such pairs as you now see on my feet have l worn out upon my pilgrimage, and now the fourth is growing slender under my steps. And all this while have not found the city, And he turned and went on his way alone, leaving them astonished.
 Our own country owes it's existence to d pilgrimage of the past. The Pilgrims of Plymouth were principally inspired by the consciousness that they could build in the wilderness a purer faith and civilization free from the vices and corruption of lands which had forgotten God. The same in spiration spurred to spiritual as well as practical activities the settlers of Salem and Boston, of the valley of the Connecticut, and of other New England settlements The Huguenots of the Southern States and the Germans and Hollanders of the Middle States began their labors keenly mindful of a recent past of cruel and merclesS religious persecution. Nor can we justly overlook the self devotion and piety of those French ecclesiastics who trod close on the heels of the most adventurous soldiers and traders of the pioneers of New France, nor the simple piety of their fellow colonists. They, too, had their dream of d great Christian realm as the fruit of their planting; they too, have helped to explore, to settle and conquer the wilderness, and carry the reign of law and liberty across this great cOnt nent
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02
THE COLOMBIAN EMBROGIIO.

The refusal of the government of the re public of Colombia to ratfy the treaty by which the United States was to purchase the Panama canal route for $40, ,OOO, 900, seems to have been the direct cause of an instruction in that country, new republic having been established which, presumably may be friendly to the United States. A revolution in a South or Central American republic is no serious matter. The entire history of the republics, so called, of South and Central America is chronicle of ephem- eral revolutions. Governments have been overthrown before breakfast, speaking lit orally, and new regimes created in an hour. A revolution in South or Central America, per SC, is of little interest to anyone, save the actual combatants.
 But a revolution that involves the United States and which may embroil some of the European nations, is a far different matter. It may be stated, however, that a dozen revolutions might have taken place in as many weeks or months and caused little or no comment, but for the fact that the Unit ed States has been for year or more nego- tiating with Colombia for certain cOnces- siOnS looking toward the construction of the Panama canal. The concessions were de- ned; the treaty carefully drawn by the Colombian minister to Washington and Sec retary Hay failed of ratification by the Col Ombian Congress.
 It must not be forgotten that there is strong opposition in the United States against the building of an lSthmian canal, whether at Panama or Nicaragua. The most strenuous opposition, of course, comes from the transcontnental railroads, whose money, it is alleged, was freely used in the Colombia Congress to prevent the ratitica- ton of the treaty, for the fact should not be overlooked that Central American Congress- men are just as venal as many of our own.
 The embroglio which seems to have grown out of the Panama canal negotiations is rcgrettable, but it was inevitable. The United States has fully started upon the i'm perlalStic trail; the fruits of expansion must be reapcd. and the cost must be paid, but the fact most to be regretted is that our own people the railroad magnateS and the men who finance railroad propositions are charged with giving ''aid and comfort to ''the enemy.' These men have no national pride speaking in broad sense. National pride with them, has its weight and mpor- tance closely allied with the cent per cent. which the money they invest will bring to their cotfers. However, in our opinion, there is little to be feared from the COlOm- bian turmoil, and the present little tempest
 in teapot will soon blow over and be for gotten.
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02
SENATOR MORGAN'S DENUNCIATlON.

Senator John T. Morgan has denounced President Roosevelt for his action in the Panama question. The Alabama statesman says that the president has fallen into d trap, and as result the United States is practically at war with the Colombia gov ernment It may be President Roosevelt is an impulsive man, but he is honest and courageous. Designing politicians and smart financiers may have deuded him, He may, in this matter, have acted hastily and without due deliberaton, and if he has done so there is nothing more natural than that Senator Morgan should call him to task. Senator Morgan has always been an advocate of the Nicaragua route for the isthmian canal, and candor compeIs Ills to say that his advocacy of that route was wise in almost every particular. It involved no entangling alliances, and no mOneyed in terest in the United States could have blocked it. We do not believe that the pro posed purchase of the Panama canal from the French syndicate was good public policy, simply because it involved the payment of too much money for something not really tangible and the completion of the canal would involve much larger sum than that required for the construction of the Mica ragua route.
 Senator Morgan is an able man. For years he has made transportation problems a study, but in this particular case we are inclined to think that his strictures of the president are due rather to partisan feeling than to any real animosity against the SC lection of the Panama route for the isthmian canal
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02
WICKED SEATTLE WAKES UP.

For nearly seven years Seattle has had an uninterrupted era of "wholesale crime. " It began in 1897, when the Klondike boom burst forth It seems to have been winked at, if not encouraged, by the municipal au- thorities. There was a perennial ''crop of suckers to be trimmed, and it seems to have been thought by the Seattle city fathers that 'everything was grist that came to the mill. Crime has been so rank and rampant in Seattle for seven years past that it smelled to heaven and far beyond it, if such thing is possible. The snug, good men of that town have been too busy graft ing the KlOndiker and the Alaskan to at tend to such triiing matters as the credit and reputation of their city. Murder has been done by day and by night; robbery has been an occupation for hundreds, while all the crimes of the decalogue have been followed with spirit which, while it may not be of the blown in the bottle Seattle kind, has answered it's purpose in the spolia tion of the weak the unwary and the un- fortunate.
 So today Seattle is paying the penalty for its winking at the seven years carnival of crime. Its snug, good men have had a
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02

The NOME NUGGET hereby circulation double the combined circulation Of all other papers published in Northwestern Alaska. Advertising contracts
 will be made subject to this guarantee
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02

We gather from the dispatches that the new republic of Panama, a section of Colombia, was instituted by Colombians and others who favored the Panama canal treaty. It is also to be inferred that the Panama Congress is considering new treaty with the United States, whereby the latter will be given the concessions asked for from Colombia, but which were denied. When this is done the republic of Panama, accord ing to dispatch published today, will be annexed to the United States. There is one thing to recommend the plan: It will give the United States absolute control of the canal-when it is built.
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02

So far the present winter season resem. bles that of 1899. Whether it will continue to do so will be told later.
The Nome nugget., 1904-01-02

New Year resolutions are now in order
The colored American., 1904-04-16
THAT MASS MEETING.

A mass meeting was held at
True RefOrmer's Hall, Thursday,
April 9Th, at which it is said that
more than 1000 people were pres
outstanding room being at a
premium. Rev. B. E. Stroud, of
Parmalee, n. c., was the principal
speaker. He is a man of much
force and elOquence and held the
audience for more than an hour.
He took for his subject give
Bricks in the House of Character. !"
Short addresses were delivered by
Mr.. William Howard, Chairman
of the meeting; Rev. James II.
chatham; Rev S. Pollard; Rev.
VIM. II. III. Kelly; Rev. EdgintOn
and Rev. r. A. Hanine, of Howard
University. The music was fur
nished by a choir of so voices
Mr.. Thomas III. Miller, director.
Mrs. BeIline Nelson made a telling
address, after which she presented
Rev. Drew with a fine suit Of
clothes, the gift of the members of
the Metropolitan Baptist Church.
\ collection was then taken to
rent or buy home for DR.. Drew
500 being subscribed.
A resolution was offered, de-
nOuncing a few of the jealous
Baptist preachers of Washington,
and some of the deacons of the
Metropolitan Church.
The colored American., 1904-04-16

ness. Mr.. Work is a young man,
not yet % years Of age. He has
an unusually sweet lyric tenor
voice, and good musical intelli-
gence. He also was suffering from
hOarseness and was unable to take
the many high notes of the score
with confidence and success.
We will let the Washington
Post tell about the chorus:
The voices of the coIored peo-
pie are peculiarly suited to the
high and difficult intervals and
harmOnies. The society is COM
posed of 191 fresh, young voices,
the parts perfectly balanced, and
the whole most beautifully render
ed.
'The performance was marked
by reverence, sympathy, and abso-
lutte attention to the baton of the
conductor. Their attacks were un-
iformly good, and the body of tone
in the fOrtissimO passages were
compact, melOdious, and thrilling
beyond anything ever heard here
before in choral singing. They
The colored American., 1904-04-16

worked up to the most superb eli
makes, which at times almost took
the audience off it's feet.
"ParticuIarIy beautiful was the
second part, or '|The Death Of
Minnehaha,' which is the most
beautiful of the three parts, the
first one being "Hiawatha's We'd
ding Feast and the third, 'Hiawa-
tha's Departure Nothing could
have been more impressive -ex-
cept with the aid of a full or
chestra on the accompaniment
than the wailing, pitying chorus
which opens the second part, ooh,
the long and dready winterp
"The final chorus, Farewell,
Minnehaha,' was so splendidly
worked up to the climax that the
audience burst into laundering ap-
plause, which subsided only when
The colored American., 1904-04-16

Frederick j. Work, of Fisk Uni
yersity, Nashville, Tenn, tenor.
Prof. John T. Layton, conductor.
The accompanies were Miss Mary
L. Europe, Mrs. Gabrielle L. Pei
ham, and Mr.. VIM. BraXtOn.
Mrs. Mitchell has a clear, sweet
lyric soprano voice of great range.
Her limitations are absolutely ac-
curate. One has confidence in her
and never feels doubtful about her
reaching any of the high notes of
the score. She has sung herself
into the confidence of the Choral
Society and the Washington pub
llc by her accurate, painstaking,
artistic work. Mr.. Gilbert has a
fine barytone voice. He is full of
musical intelligence and has SUI
perb temperament, but he was not
at his best, being a sufferer from
ad cold and a decided hoarse-
The colored American., 1904-04-16

the conductor lifted his baton for
a repetition.
Between the second and third
parts, Arthur S. Gray read the
correspondence between the COM
poser, Mr.. S. COleridge Taylor,
and theOficers of this society,
bearing upon his appearance in
this city to conduct the perform
ance of some of his own works,
and in which the great Anglo-Af-
rican genius expresses his great
delight and pleasure in the antici-
patton of the trip. The time has
been set for the latter part of No
vember, when very likely his latest
work, "The AtOnement," will be
given"
The colored American., 1904-04-16
THE TWENTY-FIFTH MILE
STONE.

Rev. w. G. Alexander, pastor of
the Peoples Tabernacle, Atlanta,
Ga, will celebrate the 25th year Of
his work as a minister of the
gospel. The friends and members
of the church have made great
preparations to testify to his good
work and a most interesting pro-
gram has been arranged, begin
ming Sunday afternoon, April II,
at 3 p. M, and closing Monday
evening, April Is. The committee
of arrangement is headed by such
well-known men as Hon. 81. A.
Rucker, collector of Internal Rev
enue, Mr.. Smith w Easily and Mr..
A. W. Hill.
The colored American., 1904-04-16
HIAWATHA SUPERRIY
SUNG.
s. COLERIDGE TAYLOR'S MASTERPIECE
AT METROPOLITAN A! NJ,
E. CHURCH.
S. COleridge Taylor Coming Next
November, To Conduct a Musi-
cal Festival.
E. CHURCH.

The S. COleride Taylor Choral
Society scored another great sue
cess, last Tuesday evening, at the
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church,
having the largest auditorium of
any church in the city. Every
seat was sold a week before the
concert.
The program was a repetition of
COleridge TaylOr's "Hiawatha."
The sOlOists were Mrs. Kathyren
Skeen-Mitchell, Of Cleveland, O.,
who has sustained the same part
in the former renditions of this
society. Mr.. Stanley G. Gilbert of
Philadelphia, barytOne, and Mr..
The colored American., 1904-04-16

WANTED-A position as stenogra-
pher, bookkeeper; by a competent
young woman with some literary
ability. Would be valuable assistant
on newspaper or magazine. Address:
S. Box, 95, Maysville, KY.
The colored American., 1904-04-16
BGri Medicinal
Mia OLIVE Oil

he thinnest pressing easily assimilated
by delicate stomachs. To preserve it's
freshness and curative virtues i'm
ported only in small a ounce) bottles
and sold at 25 cents by the sole dis
tributor, Chris. Xander, 9O9 Seventh
Street
The colored American., 1904-04-16
The Blue Mountain
POOL PARLOR.

CHARLES CLUTCH, Proprietor.
An up-to-date Pool and Billiard Parlor
with all of the latest balls, cues, ETC..
connected with the profession A full
line Of cigars and tobacco. A frst-class
orderly place. Nothing has been omit
ted to add to the comfort and pleasure
of the patrons.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-19
KIDNAPPED BOY IS
FOUND NEAR HOME
Child for Whose Return the
BLACK Hand Demanded
Ransom Is Safe.
Boys Uncle, Who Says He Picked
Up the Child, Is Under
Arrest.

New York, Aug. 19.-The circum-
stances surrounding the return Of An
tonic Mannino, the 9-year-o1d Brook
Ign boy, are almost as mysterious as
was his disappearance. According to
Salvatore Mannino, q, relative, the boy
was found alone on the street near his
home, after midnight today, but this
the police do not believe and Saliva
tore Mannino is locked up on a
charge Of abduction. The police do
not believe the so-called "Black
Hand" society had anything to do
with the boys disappearance.
A theory advanced by the police is
that Mannino was kidnapped by his
own relatives and that the parents
and the boy were threatened with
death If the boy told all he knew.
This Is thought to have been the elder
Mannino's reason for silencing the lad
while he was being questioned and
is also thought to account for the
boys state Of terror and apparent
dread Of impending danger.
It is known that the boys father
BILE to the police and has not given all
the assistance to find the boy that was
possible for him to do.
At the police station young Man
nino identified Angelo Cucozza, the
boy who was first arrested in the case,
as the one who took him to Manhat-
tan, after giving him money. Cucozza,
when he heard the lad accuse him,
sprang for the child, and Mannino
shrieked with terror. Cucozzo was
seized by policemen and returned to
his cell, while young Mannino was al
lowed to go with his parents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-19
STORMS RAGE; RUST SPREADS; WHEAT SUFFERS:
PRICES SOAR; BULLS EXULT; BEARS SEEK COVEE
DECISION HITS
A BIG MONOPOLY.
Duluth to Lead OFF in Suits for
Recovery Of Refrigerator
Charges.
Special to The Journal

Special to The Journal
Duluth, Mimi, Aug. 19.-The
acknowledgement Fruit company
of this city is planning series of
actions against various railroads for
the recovery Of the use Of refrigera-
tors. The significance Of the step lies
in the fact that it may lead to similar
suits by other concerns all over the
country.
The Duluth company will base it's
actions upon a decision which it re-
ceived from the Interstate commission
few days ago. This decision is di-
rected at what the commission hnds
to be great monopoly and one that
is threatening the fruit and produce
dealers Of the country.
Some time ago the Duluth concern
began proceedings against the Pere
Marquette railroad, tho the real de-
fendant was the Armour car lines.
The Armour concern furnishes the
refrigerator cars to the railroads, and
shippers are forced to use them and
pay tribute to the Armour company.
Not only this, but the Armour COM
pany engages In the produce business
itself.
The Armour company commended it
was not within the jurisdiction Of the
commission, and the action was
brought against the railroad with
whom it had made a contract.
The commission made some 1Eapor-
tant rulings. It was held that the
charge for refrigerators must be the
whole cost and that nothing extra
must be charged for supplying ice,
etc. The freight and charges exacted
now are declared to be exorbitant.
The most important feature Of the
ruling was that railroad may make
a. contract to haul cars of other con-
Germs, but that it cannot make a con-
tract with one concern to the exclu-
sion Of others. AS this is what the
roads have done with the Armour car
lines, it hits at the monopoly.
Should other shippers sue for
amounts they have paid under the ar
rangements that exist In two thirds
Of the United States, the amount
would run into the millions.