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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-31
BACK TO AFRICA.
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One of the acute questions of our own land, in
vovng every part of it, north, SOUTH and west
Is: What is to be done for the negro? and, what
will he do with himself?'
The present state of things is as unsatisfactory as
be well imagined On the part of the white
man the spectre of social equality leading to ANAL
gamation of the races has almost completely destroy
ed that cOrdality that existed between the
whites and negroes of the South. 1t has made the
white man cold and distant toward the negro and
has led him to institute measures that appear HARSH
separating the far possible from contact
The behavior of class among the negroes, the
lack of that politeness, so conspicuous part
of the negroes bearing have had their effect in wild
ening a gulf that every day grows wider. TO this
must be added the unsatisfactory nature of domestic
service, making many who kindly disposed to-
ward the negro, more and more indifferent to his
fate, believing that conditions hardly be worse
if we had at all. 1t is becoming evident that
something of the most radical nature awaits the flu
of this race.
need not state my personal interest in the
gro, and share in that kindly feeling that has char
acterized the vast majority of the Southern people
who knew the negro a slave in the home. L was
born and reared in the South. My own family were
slave owners. Until twelve years of age | was
reared in a home where the servants slaves In
my younger years, the immediate membrs of my
own family, held a higher place in the love of
my child heart than the Old negro woman whose
place was in the kitchen. There is hatred in my
heart for the to whom this old woman and
others belonged If, therefore, 1 speak as 1 do
it is because of profound conviction and because
| believe his own condition will be immeasureably
improved, and that only III this way he can work
out his destiny in this world; and because believe
that tension may be relieved that too often is dan
gerOusly the breaking line
renorh in the first place that Amerioa is not the
home of the negro race
am aware OF what may claim but home is
not simply where people stay and where they have
bppu horn audxr VIII
Home is the place where people 1oork ont their des
tiny. Every individual has his destiny. The fact
that men often live the last and better portions of
their lives elsewhere than where they were born in
dicates that their destiny is not always accomplished
in their birthplace and where as children they were
reared and where they may own property.
Every nation has its destiny. 1t is historically
true that some nations have not wrought out their
destinies where for time they have had local habi
taton' Israel sojourned in the land of Egypt They
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-01-31
DAY BY DAY.

heard voice at evening softly say,
Nor load this week with last weeks load of sorrow
Bear not thy yesterday into tomorrow,
Lift all thy burdens they come, nor try
To weigh the present with the by and by.
One step and then another, take thy way
Live day by day.
Live day by day
Though autumn leaves whitening round thy way;
Walk in the sunshine. 1t is all for thee
Push straight ahead, as long thou clnst see.
Dread not the winter whittier thou mayst go
But when it comes, be thankful for the snow
Onward and upward Look and smile and pray
Live day by day
Live day by day
The path before thee doth not lead astray
DO the next duty. 1t surely be
The Christ is in the one that's close to thee
Onward, still onward, with a sunny smile
Till step by step shall end in mile by mile,
IN do my best unto thy conscience say,
Live day by day.
Live day by day
Why art thou bending toward the backward way?
one summit and another thou shalt mount
Why stop at every round the space o COUNT
The past mistakes if thou must still remember
Watch not the ashes of the dying ember.
kindie thy hope. Put all thy fears away.
Live day by day.
Julia Harris Hay, in The Atlantic
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14
HoW TO AVoID FAILURE.

Tt Is known that most men who try to do business fail, and it is also known that one of the most important causes of their failure is that they are too smart. One of the ways in which they are too smart is in ignoring the busi- ness ability of their wives. In the course of a recent essay advising hus- bands to confide their business affairs to their wives a writer who has won substantial success in telling others how to win success says: Women are very much better judges of human na- ture than men. They can detect rascal ity deception and insincerity more quickly" For this reason, men are ad- vised, when considering an applicant for an important position, or man with whom business association IS contemplated, to invite the object of suspicion home to dinner, so that the wife will have an opportunity to size him up. It is argued that men who do this make no mistake. for they have the advantage of 'that marvellous feminine instinct which goes so directly and un- erringly to the mark"
 The marvellous feminine instinct is all right, as every married man who doesn't give it due attention knows. It will save men from failure in business and from failure in living if they will only let it. Of course it is at times slightly insistent and burdensome, but that is because men are so stupid that they don't know enough to be gladly and completely guided by it.
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THE RIVER "NUDGED" HIM.

What the River Thought When the
 Tugboat Sank Beside Him-Stillest
 Thing Ever.
 Henry Tract, a diver, was at work on the bottom of the Harlem river this morning, when sub-surface wave nearly knocked him down. This was a new experience for Tract, in spite of the fact that he has been prowling about river and may bottoms in a div ing-bell for years. He has met queer fish, and he has unexpectedly come across gruesome bodies often, but the river never pushed him before.
 The cause of this sensation was right at hand and very obvious, even through six feet of murky river water, way down below the level of passing keels. One keel had come down fast and hard below that lever, and Tract saw through the glass window of his steel mask the hull of big boat set- ting in the mud right beside him, and not more than his own length away.
 Tract didn't wait to hail the tug. He wasn't on that uneanny job, and the boat, arriving so suddenly, with out whistling, made him nervous. Be- sides, he could see red flag, not fly ing, of course, but winding in moist, ghostly sort of way about the staff as the boat swayed gently when her keel first touched bottom.
 A red flag always means danger, and Tract didn't investigate then to learn just what sort of danger a red flag un- der water indicates.
 He jerked the emergency call on his signal cord, and was hoisted to the surface.
 There he learned that the boat which had sunk so uncomfortal5ly close to him was the Harlem River. The tug was on her way to Flood Rock at Hell Gate for a load of dynamite, to be used in the government operations at Central Bridge, near One Hundred and Forty-Fifth street Hence the red l flag.
 The trip to Hell Gate wasn't finished
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14
WEARY.

"Binkley is a very secretive fellow isn't he?"
 T should say he is. Why, he even uses cipher code when he talks Ill iiiS sleep. ."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 "Pa." asked little Willie, looking up from his book, what are 'gastronom- ics?'"
 "oh-er-lemme see" said pa. "oh, they're these country jays that blow out the gas Philadelphia Ledger.
 Your summer vacation must have agreed with you.
 What makes you think soG
 You're so much fatter."
 NO, I'm not, I probably look fatter because I'm so much shorter. ."-CleVe- land Plain Dealer.
 What want" said the discontented summer boarder, lis to enjoy the com forts of home"
 If that's the case" answered Farm CT Corntossel, T don't quite see what you left home for in the first place, - Washington Star.
 How about that case?" inquired the old lawyer,
 Its perfectly clear" replied the young lawyer.
 Well, then, get to work"
 Get to work and do what?"
 And muddle it, of course" Louis vile Courier Journal.
 Waggsby- there was an Orange man at Hibernian picnic.
 Naggsby-W We'll go on with the story
 Waggsby- is all there is of it. Naggsby-It's mighty short
 Waggsby-But just as long as tht Orangeman's stay at the picnic.-Judge
 Bacon-Have they any colored motor men in New York?
 Now thet all these summer boarderE is sojournin' here," said the rustic or the cracker barrel, T reckon yet post office works kinder heavy, ain't it Josh?"
 wal" replied the crossroads post master, tits dash-dinged aggervatin' Sometimes I don't git time ter read al the postal cards, "-Catholic Standard. Markley--Subbubs may be induced t sell his house to me. He says it ism far out of town, either, Wise-No, only twelve miles from cit, hall
 Markley-Why, he told me it was onl! ten miles by the railroad. Wise--Thats true; ten miles by tn, railroad and he walks the other two Philadelphia Press. l The weary tramp with the red beal halted in front of the wayside cottage T called, mum, he announced, be cause I found dis sample package O dyspepsia tablets down the road" 1 Dyspepsia tablets?" snapped tn, woman with the broom. What hace to do with dyspepsia tablets?"
 Why, er-I thought maybe vol might give me something to eat da would gib me de dyspepsia so I coult test dem. Chicago Daily News.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14
 VEGETABLES FOR CHINESE.
Norwich Gardner Respects Oriental
 Preiudices and Makes Sales.

Norwich Gardner Respects Oriental
 Preiudces and Makes Sales.
 Norwich, Aug 12,-S. S. Whipple of Lettingwell town has been successful in growing for Norwich Chiname's use the Chinese Cabbages and cucumbers. The Chinese cabbage never forms a head, it grows more like mammoth lettuce. MT. Whipple has grown cabbages of this variety that weighed eight pounds The cabbage has a tap root all out of proportion to it's size, resembling in proportion to its size, resembling in shape the icicle raddish or the salslfy This cabbage is of milder flavor than American heading cabbages, and eats more like greens. It is cooked in the same way as American engages. This cabbage makes a broad mid-rib, as Swiss chard does when full grown, which is sometimes three or four Inches wide.
 Mir. Whipple finds that the Chinese are good judges of vegetables and are strongly prejudiced against some pro- ducts on account of their shape. They will not buy 8 fiat string bean, the round and meaty Valentine shape al- ways being required. They pay a quarter of dollar apiece for the large Chinese cabbages, and in buying beans they tender the money they intend to invest and call for the moneys worth.
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because the boat was rammed and sunk by another tow boat, the Marga-
 ret D., of East One Hundred and Twenty third street. That's where
 Tract was at work repairing the city's
 submarine waterpipes to Randalrs Is-
 land.
 Before the boat went down, her cap-
 tain and crew all managed to scramble aboard the Margaret D.
 After Tract had shaken some of the lead from his feet and had the top of
 lis helmet unscrewed for spell of natural breathing he remarked that a
 tug boat under normal conditions may be very noisy, bustling sort of craft. But he added, "the stillest thing I
 ever saw under water or above it was
 that ghost boat coming down on me without a toot, It just pushed me so I looked up and there she was."-New | York Evening Post,
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LAND IN THE NORTHWEST.
A Boom Movement That Will Work
 Out its Own Future.

A Boom Movement That Will Work
 Out its Own Future
 The reported fears of the leaders of political sentiment in the eastern pro- vinces of Canada that the great north west will be lost to it makes pertinent a review of the situation in this new country which is the scene of the greatest activity in railroad construc- tion. An English expert who recently made study of the situation reported that he found almost discomfiting ey- idences on both sides of the interna~ tional boundary that the movement was largely one of a speculative char acter-that is, that it showed the dis tinguishing evidences which have marked western land booms in the United States. Americans and Cana dians alike are going into the north western provinces to buy land on par tial payments within the idea of selling them out at great advance to new corners who may or may not intend the permanent occupancy which promises development.
 There is a large movement of the latter kind, of course. That is the foundation on which the airy imitation of land values must invariably rest.
 We have had hundred instances of it in the westward march of our empire and the magnifying process has al- ways shown the extravagant propor- tions which made the reaction certain and imposed the necessity of a long period before the new settlements had grown into their own. It Is the same
 result as is found in a corporation growing up to it's water"
 The expert mentioned found that the
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Expert Opinion.

The early cantaloupe he ate
 And pie of apples green. ,4a On lobster, though the hour was 4ate' He lunched with joy serene Welsh rabbit, too, he put away And then he'd look surprised and say He wasn't feeling we'll The doctors diagnosed his case In scientific terms, For fear of seeming commonplaoe' They said twas due to germs His mother, kindly, yet severe Declared, with scorn intense. That microbes didn't all him near As much as lack of sense. e..-
 --Washington Star
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14
4 HUNGARIAN PROBLEM.

Count Julius Ardrassy, the Hungari- an Minister of the Interior, delivered an important speech in the Hungarian Chamber the other day on the reform of the Hungarian Administration.
 Many Hungarian public men, including Count Andrassy himself, desired great CT administrative standardization and contemplated the repression of the au- tononlous county administrations which seemed to be obstacles to the develop ment of the country. Now, however, Count Andrassy maintains that these autonomous county administrations are so valuable as a means of passive re- sistance to the central government that all idea of further centralization must be abandoned and that future re- form must be in the direction of yet
 greater decentralization, some of the present power of the country being 1tltIQe over IU SIlldllGI lOGdl duLLluIIlltS,
 But for the possibility of certain coun- 1 ty administrations being captured by
 the non-Magyar races it might, he lhinted, even have seemed advisable to
 abolish the position of the foispan, or
 prefect, who represents the central and royal authority and often comes into Iconflict with the local allispan or pre-
 feet, who represents the county. The
 foispan might, however, be required to
 uphold the authority of the Magyar lstate against those who might be in
 clined to question it. He urged the
 necessity for better sanitary arrange fments throughout Hungary which he l declared to be the most thinly populat- ed country in Europe, with a dispro- porttonately high rate of mortality an6
 low average longevity
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14

1885 he was sent out to Tongking, where he remained three years, re- turning a chef de battalion and cheva- Ilier of the Legion of Honor. He was soon after appointed a professor of the Ecole de Guerre, whence he passed to the Genral staff, being put at the head of the Information Bureau. Promoted lieutenant-colonel In 1896, he remained in charge of the Information Bureau, where he discovered the judicial error which had been committed in the case of Captain Dreyfus.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14
4 KANSAS CLIMBER.

There is Society in Kansas, as well as corn, and there are climbers there. One of them has made up his mind to begin Society career, and this is the way he announces himself: In order to break into Society-without being com pelled to lay myself liable for using a 1immy-I beg to announce that l have lately received permission from the Col lege of Heralds to use my ancestral coat of arms. The device is very beauti- ful, consisting of a jackrabbit rampant splitting in the face of a bulldog couch- ant, on a shield quartering green, yell low, red and pure white. The green is emblematical of the color of my fore fathers, the yellow of that streak we all have in common at times and upon oc- casions; the red what sometimes get in my eye and what used to pay fff- teen cents a drink for, and the white is emblematio of my handbook at present and my intentions all the time, the whole esurmounted by crown of lambs- quarter greens and three green onions ahashed The motto is, Tn hoe fricas~ sec" meaning, "my great-grandfather was one of the 5000 or 4000 ragged Con- tinentals who crossed the Delaware in the same boat with Washington. I might also add that my wife is distant ly related to Lord Nelson, whose father was one of the best section bosses on the road from Cork to Dublin. Look out for my coming out function.
 Success to this climber. His claims seem to be as good as many of the claims, and he is doubtless as well fitted to shine in Kansas Society as many of those who are in it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14

so-called American exodus to Canada was in large measure the flying emil grafton of characteristic boomers" Who take lots in plotted towns, quarter sections of farm lands, or. if they have the ability, whole town sites, which are staked out on the plains and placed on the market. The Hudson Bay compa- ny, the Canadian Pacific railway and the Canadian government all have land to sell and they sell under the most favorable circumstances" of a small payment down, balance to suit"
 There is strict compliance with these favorable conditions; in other words
 the land is bought on margin and sol( to others who buy on margin, all to be paid for in installments with default certain when the crowd of purchasers is exhausted. Apparently there is still a preponderance of buyers over sellers. This condition may continue for long time. The Canadian papers are filled with land advertisements, tales of quick fortunes in the great northwest, alluring pictures of Arcadian homes in the wilderness and other indications that the American professionals are at work. Unless the bubble bursts soon the country will be cut into quarter sections and the North Pole will be given as a prize to the purchaser of the very last "six forties' remaining.
 Possibly we should consider the con dition characteristic rather than alarming. Rooms are the precursors of development and the sooner this one is carried to climax the sooner | 1t will be ended and the sooner the long, painful and toilsome task of ac- tual developmet will be entered on,- Detroit Free Press.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each insertion. Five Cents Word for a full week.
 Display advertisements, per inch. one insertion, s1.2Os each subsequent inssr- sion. 70 cents; one week. ss.sO; one month. $1O: one year. $40.
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Two one-armed men, a one-legged man, and a man without any legs en- gagged in fierce physical combat at Ithaca recently, and the Brooklyn Times thinks the fight must have borne a strong resemblance to q modern Ma tional Democratic campaign.
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DMIvERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY. 12 GENTS A WEEK. 50 GENTS A MONTH. 8 FOR SIX MONTHS. SC A YEAR. THE sAMH TERMS BY MAIL SINGLE COPIES, 3 GENTS.
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A New Hampshire hunter" seeing a dark object stirring in some bushes, blazed away and shot a farmer dead. The authorities did not arrest the hon1- icide, accepting his statement that the killing was purely accidental" And the dead man isn't saying word.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-14

Public conveyances of all kinds in London carry close upon 3,000,000 pas sengers every weekday.
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The appointment of General Picquart
 .-one of the most effective agents in
 the restoration of Dreyfus-to the conn mand of the Tenth infantry division in
 Paris, seems to have met with wide spread approval. The three colonels of this command have expressed in pub- zlished interviews their satisfaction at Jhe prospect of serving under one they regard. not only as a born but as one of the best officers g3an the French army. General Picquart be was born in 1854 at Strass6urg, and s ltered St, Cyr at the age of eighteen. He took part in 1876 in the repression
 of the instruction at Aures in Algeria. AS captain, four years later, he was appointed to a post at the War Office,
 in the foreign armies department. In
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Egbert-WeIl it seems they have some green ones. if that's what you nean,-Y0nkers Statesman.
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IA woman indicted in London the oth- CT day for attempting to commit sui eide, refused to plead. The jury there upon was asked to find whether her re- fusal to plead was due to malice or the visitation of God" The jury found that she refused to plead out of malice and convicted her, and she was sen- fenced to twelve months imprisonment.
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It is noted that in the three hundred letters from Mrs. Jordan, the actress, to the Duke of Clarence, afterward William ". of England, her morganat- ic husband, which letters were sold at Lashby's, London, the other day, there sgwera no terms of sendearment. The let ters all begin abruptly after the date line and end "Yours sincerely, Q. J."
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Consul General Iddings, at Cairo, doesn't advise American worlmen to try their luck in the Khedives coun- try; it's a pretty hot country, the cost of living is high, and there are other deterrents, In the case of all large con- tract jobs (such as the building of new hotels) they wouldn't get a look in. s'Workmen and materials are brought generally from England, writes Idd- tngs, ''and when the work is finished the worknen return home. It would be wrong to try to induce competent men-whether plumbers or carpenters ito come and settle in Egypt They could not compete against the cheap Egyptian, Greek and Italian labor; 1t must not be forgotten, either, that nearly all the trades people are natives and speak half 8 dozen languages, all though they may be illiterate.
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The gold output in the Rand district of South Africa has steadily increased since the end of the Boer war; and Is now well above the highest volume reached before the war; nevertheless the market prices of Rand mine shares have fallen over one-half, or by some S650,OO0,0o0 No satisfactory explana- tion of this anomaly has been offered
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Professor Lombraso's jubilee at the University of Turin is the occasion of some stories about the scientist. He is described as "absent minded, frank, kindly, always dwelling in the moon. , Once his daughters were very reluctant to go with him to call upon a stupid lady of their acquaintance. Lombroso finally persuaded them to go, and then burst out as follows to their astonished hostess; T have had the deuce of a time in getting these foolish girls to come with me. They always do dread being boredt But I promised them that we would hurry to- eat some of your cakes, and then go away immediately!"