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iMtthm nmm
IS iowcco.
row was created
of Ion Ppfdlsarts. m
Cromwell Var
sttaoeo. bj Baleoall.
*?ut. Warshlpewere
tor Tangier, Wad til Uadi of pnu
wm eiertW to mb|iI the Saltan
>t41n the rplnti of the capttrea.
^ wef?KW,vMiir/tbre>ti of death.
? a hear?, ransom be paid and,
damsjkl* be <oopll?d with, jfbat
Idoapilns le likely tp lead to a
In the affaire of Morocco le eery
^Uj hollered. The present ettoa
i i demonstration of the lnntablU
I the preeent government, and le
OApHOa 't?'i
merits to action. Morocco has a pop
A It
Om *7 tft U? DoabaroUea.
a at that tfoths wmmt distinguished
1st ,1ft * Europe, called on th?
poet UaartlM aad asked for
to study his band. The podk
readily granted the reqoaat, and
half aft hour Desbarolles carefullf
studied tho lines In his hands. Then
ho rather abruptly look htolsav% aad
that evening be said
"I studied learns
and'was greatly surprised sil wHt
saw. I expected that he would have
the Bands of a poet?soft, delicate, ef
feminate hands?whereas ho haa exact*
!y such hands' as you will And on the
typical' msrchaat or wholesale dealer.
The llngevravf largo, strong and sons
what clumsy, aad the lines show great
success In a tashuas career.**
This was repeated to Lamarttno a
few days later,, and at ooce ho ?
claimed, enthusiastically: "Desbarolles
la right! I waa bora to he t drst-elass
hmlntii tt'ti. aoA. fjif 1 because ft
poet heaven only knows.**
A TYPICAL BRIGAND OP MOROCCO.
ttlatlon estimated by some at 9.400.000.
ETbe ftultan of Morocco claims to be
thirty si*tb Is descent from Fa.tlmab,
the da ughtcr of t lie prophet. His au
thority la absolute and not modliled.
as In Turkey, by the opinions of the
ieayuad. The area of Mprocco can ouly
be vaguely estimated. as the southern
frontiers toward the Safcara Desert
?re unsettled, but It prolmbly contains
800,000 square miles.
There Is oneEnglfsh newspnper. tiro
French and three Spanish published in
Tangier. The army of Morocco Is es
timated at 80060. Including the mill
tut. It Is trained and commanded by
English, French and Italian officers.
Nothing lias been done to develop the
country by either opening roads or
railways. It li eue of the most neg
lected-spots In the world. Agriculture
Is. very greftly neglected. The people
only cultivate their liind frptn dire ne
cessity. In 1002 the chief exports were
almonds, beans, peas, oxen, eggs and
?tins. Its chief Imports are cotton
foods and sugar. There are represen
tatives of/fourteen nations at Tangier.
The British enroy Is ?!r Arthur Nicol
?otK Bart., K. C. B.
There la perhaps no portion of the
clylUsed world about which European
Information Is so defective. There has
been no survey of the country, and the
jo^ps have been drawn up largely by
Joiijecture.
Kittling of Honeymoon*.
The late Mrs. John Uldgeway, of
Paris, was noted for her ready wit.
At one of her receptions, apropos of
marriage. Guy de Maupassant said:
"The honeymoon ends when the wife
flfgf s*ks the husband for money."
'?No," Mrs. Rldgeway retorted; "It
ends when the husband ceases to ask
the wife how much he can have the
pleasure of giving her."
Great Men's Mothers.
A recent i?sue of a monthly publica
tion entirely devoted to literature H?on
tulns the portraits of three famous
mothers, that Is, of Jtliree women made
famous by their sous. These are Mrs.
Carlyle, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Speneer.
It Is curious, says the Ladles' Pictorial,
that there Is always more Interest at
taching to tlife mothers of men of jdls
tixction than to their sires, even if
they have been men of some mark. It
is said that most men who achieve
greatness inherit their ability from
their mothers, and It Is noteworthy
that nearly all distinguished men have
been greatly attached to their mothers.
One can never forget the Poet Gray's
exquisite epitaph on his mother, or Mr.
J. M. Barrle's tender and beautiful
tribute to his mother's memory.
Crime and Left-Hands InoM.
i
It has been discovered by a special
ist that more than one-third of the peo
ple who are left-handed are criminals.
This is very interesting, but we don't
see how the discovery is going to be
of particular value to society. Let the
specialist pursue his investigations and
find out whether people are criminals
because they are left-handed, or left
handed because they are criminal.
With that point settled It mny be j>os
slble to Inaugurate Intelligent meas
ures for remedying the matter. At
present we are left to supiwse that all
left-handed people who are not crlm
luals must be baseball pitchers.?Chi*
cago Record.
When arrnyed in his official clothes,
the Sultan of Jobore is ? glittering cu
riosity. He wears gems worth $12,
000,000. They sparkle In his crown,
on his epaulets, in his 'girdle and In
his cuffs.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
PHILANDER C. KNOX,
Attorney-General of the United States, whose vigorous prosecution or the
Kortbern Securities case bas won him fame. He has been recently appointed
Called States Senator from Fenwytvaula to aucceed tbe late Senator Quay.
NEW SAFETY FENDER.
Will C?Uk ? Parson oa Uw
Track astflaa Trap.
The great difficulty experienced with
Buy of th# safety car featen la tka(
they do aot do what they are eappoeed
to do. Some of them hare actually
TH* TBAP PIKDKI.
been denounced as men-slayers. Instead
of being life-savers. Knocking thelt
victims down, they bare so wedged
them against tbe tracks that there war
no possibility of escape.
? lately Invented contrivance foi
preventing the speeding trolley cat
maiming or killing unfortunates who
may get In Its way consists of the or
dlnary fender, to the upper end ol
which is attached a duplicate of the
lower part, the concave sides of the
two portions facing each other, as If
shown In the picture. A man, woman
or child falling upon the fender Is lm
mediately seized from above by the up
per part, which automatically closes In
on him and holds him securely untlf
the car stops and he Is liberated. He
Is thus prevented from being dragged
along the ground or falling at one side
of the fender and meeting disaster un
tier the wheels.
A1 ELEVENTHCEITUHT CHURCH.
This churcn. which, happily, has not
been destroyed, as was recently re
ported, is one of the oldest of the
"Staveklrke" of Norway. The' build
lug Is situated to the east of Sogne
Fiord. The church dates back to the
eleventh century. It is very small
but most curious and Interesting. It
Is built entirely of wood, and to pre
serv-; It the exterior 1c continually
painted with' pitch. The church thai
has been destroyed Is that of the vll
Inge of Borgund, on the road between
Aalesund and Soholt, a church stated
to have the finest reredos in Norway.
A TRICK JUS.
This curious trick Jug wa . sold at ?
recent London auction sale. From the
picture it appears to be the same type
as those sometimes seen In our shops
and from which It Is Impossible to
drink without knowing the secret
Such jugs are pelToi'a icu UoOut the
brim and ran only be emptied bj
sucking through tffe spout while cov
ering with the finger nn nlr vent In the
hnndle. Tli. hnndle Is hollow and
serves a? r tube through which the li
quid enn be drawn when the air /enl
Is closed.
Humor,
"Chinamen huve a tine sense of hu
mor," said the young playwright, KlCh
ard Carle. "In their quiet, dry waj
the Chinese say innumerable good
things.
"I once knew In San Antonio a bach
elor banker. This man decided that
he would employ a Chinese butler. Ac
cordingly, his arrangements wer?
made and In due time the Chinese but
ler appeared. He served his tlrst dlu
ner admirably,
"After It the banker said to him.
" '1 think you will do well Here. W* a?
Is your name?*
" 'My name Is Yot Lee Chwang Toy,'
the Chinaman answereJ.
" 'Oh.' said the banker, 'I can't re
member all that. I'll just call you
John.'
" 'All light,', said the new butler.
"At breakfast the next morning the
Chinaman smiled at his employer
pleasantly.
" 'What's your name?' he sold.
" 'Plerpont Morgan Jones," my friend
replied.
" 'Me no memble nil that.' said tba
Chinaman, 'Me just call you Tom
I tujr*' **
PLUCK, MM A MCE
HMD ADVSMTURE.
CAUGHT BUR.
D
E A CON HANK STRONG,
tv ho Una op at the Mead
ows, writes a correspond
ent from fiHsaeid, VI..
kno\ra of two (ramps who
will not bother him or hi* chlckeus any
more. In fact, he to pretty sore he 1?
rid of the eutlre colt for good and all.
as he liaa been told that lu Hobodom
there are certain signs 'displayed on
fences which Indicate Rood and poor
field of Investigation. He has fonud
souie of these signs on his fence n mile
fioin the house, nud believes that they
were placed there by a pair of tramps
with whom lie had a somewhat on
usual experience.
Hauk began *to be bothered with
members of the ''profession" early in
the summer, and at first Mrs. Stroug, a
whole-souled individual, responded to
their entreaties for food with Jersey
milk, large pieces of pie and good
home-made cheese. When she stopped
the tramps hung aroood until dark nnd
made off with chickens, vegetables,
and even firkins of butter. As the
cold weather came on the hoboes got
more numerous, until they became a
pest. About a week ago the deacon
resolved to be rid of them.
About noon he went to the henhouse,
and selecting half a dosen Thanksgiv
ing capons killed and picked them In
full vli?w. He strung the alz on a pole
and put them in the Icehouse. The ice
house was a box-like affair, about
ten by twenty feet, with a height of
eight feet. It had a good-sized door
that locked with a apring catch and
was strong enough to resist ordinary
efforts to open It from within.
As soon as the chores were done the
deacon, armed with a bean-pole, took
up his position iu the kitchen and from
a point of vantage at the window
watched the door of the henhouse just
across the driveway. Mrs. Stroug
blew out the light after making sure
that the kitchen and Icehouse doors
had been left ajar and sat down with
the deacon.
It was a bright night, and the hus
band and wife could just make out the
door of the trap they had laid for the
tramps. They waited patiently and at
9 o'clock saw a form on all fours
emerge from the direction of the pas
ture aud disappear within the house.
"One 'f th' varmints," whispered the
deacon. "Don't ye move till th' other
feller gits inside."
There was a period of suspense that
seemed Lalt-an Lour and then a sccond
forui was made out emerging from the
pasture. Thl* was approaching in a
crouched position and was followed
by another about the same site.
"Gosh all hemlock, 't I won't ketch
three 'f 'em," jubilantly whispered the
deacon. "Didn't think there was but
two."
The forms approached cautiously,
circled toward the ice-house, aud went
In. A moment later the kitchen door
was softly pushed open and Deacon
Strong crept out, followed by his wife.
He moved noiselessly to the Ice-house
and -pushed the door shut with the
bean- pole. The next instant a muffled
shriek burst from within, followed by
a second shriek and a loud bass ronV
that was never made by a human
being.
"Let us out. let us out." yelled n
voice. "Good Lord. let us out. There's
a bear iu here and he's trying to eat
us up."
"lloly smoke," grasped the deacon as
a second and louder roar smote his ear.
"Quick, Marthy, git th' carbine. It's
loaded."
While Mrs. Strong ran for the gun
more roars and howls tilled the ice
house, followed by a floundering and
thumping on the door.
"Wait 'till I get th' carbine," yetted
the deacon. "Blame it. don't ye bust
thet door. lie can't eat ye both th'
OllCt."
Just then Mr* Stropcr enme on the
run with the gun in her hand and the
deacon slipped the lock. Instantly out
tumbled two terrified tramps, batless
aud white, and before the farmer could
stop them they fairly Hew dowii the
road, shouting at the top of their
voices. Directly afler tlicui came n
small black hear with his mouth full
of chicken and one paw swathed in the
remnant of a coat tail.
"Gimme th' gun. gimme th' gun."
gurgled the dencon.
But there was no time for this, and
Mrs. Strong pointed the barrel at bruin,
?*hut both eyes, aud fired. The bali
nearly lifted the top of the auliual's
head off, and he died instantly.
"(Josh." ejaculated the deacon, view
ing his good wife with pride. "Who'd
liev thought It? Blamed If ye can't
shoot es well cs ye kin cook."
"I cal'lnte we be rid *f them pesky
tramps fer a spell." she responded,
with a glenin of pride In her eyes.?
New York World.
? RAT FOUGHT MAN.
A remarkable story of a fight in the
street with an Infuriated rat <Vas told
to his friends by Andrew Smith, of
?No. ir>8 Fifty-seventh street. Brooklyn.
Smith was on his way to Manhattan,
where he Is employed, and started to
cross Second avenue, half a block from
his home, when he saw' a rat also
crossing the street In front of him, but
In a diagonal direction. It was evident
ly leaving a stable In the rear of Wege
lln s grocery store on the corner. It
was an unusually large rnt.
Smith started after the rat. Instead
of mnklng for the nearest hoh; the
animal went leisurely on Its tvja.v and
S'nith caught up with It Just ns it was
about tj spring up on the curb,
'I he rot stopped, turned quickly, look
ing for a moment at the man. then
sprang straight at him. At the same
time his foot shot out. The rat made
a curve over his swinging shoe, landed
on his leg below the knee and started
to bite furiously. Smith kicked the
anhual off. It sprang at him again
and he kicked once more. This time
he struck mid the rat was knocked sev
eral yards away. It recovered Itself
and made another dash at the mnn.
This time Smith managed to stun the
rat. He killed It before It could re
cover.
Smith t'jen t?env on Ills way. Lnter
lie felt his 1?* oaln. On examining It
he found his sock and nndrrwNr soak
ed with blood, hi* trousers torn sud a
wound In his ley halt sn Inch Ions,
where the rat had bnrled his teeth
BRAVB WATCHMAN.
William McAllister a flagman on
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
at Thirteenth and Cumberland streets,
Philadelphia, sacrificed his life In aae*
log three (Iris from desth beneath .the
wheel* of a swiftly moving tralp. Me.
Allister was tsken to the Samaritan
Hospital with both of bis less broken
and his head and body Injured. He
died an hour after being admitted.
The girls whom lie rescued went away
immediately after the accident and
their names are uuknown.
Within Ave minutes of the time he
was to be relieved from his eigll by tn?
day man McAllister noticed two mill
girls stop to talk to a third girl be
tween tbe northbound rail*. At the
same time he heard an outbound train,
which within a few seconds would be
upon the unthinking girls. He shouted
a warniug as be started toward tbein.
As tbe locomotive drawiug the north,
bound' traiu hove iu sight, not fifty
yards away, a south bound train came
along- Without hesitation McAllistet
sprang iu front of the south bound
train and reached the girls. He threw
his weight against them and sent then)
sprawling out of harm's way.
But he was too late to escape himself.
Before he could jump from the tracks
the pilot of the swiftly moving englue
hit hint.
SHOT SNAKE. SAVED MOTHER.
Miss Katie Klinger. a young school
teacher, saved her mother from a
rattlesnake on Goss Hill. Pa., by kill*
ing the snalce with a rifle a? twenty
five yards. Miss Klinger a year ago
won a gold medal in a shooting match.
Mrs. Klinger was walking in the yard,
when the snake reared up In front of
her. She screamed, and then fainted.
Her daughter, hearing her. secured a
loaded Winchester rifle, and shot the
snake's head cleanly oil'.
SI00 FOR AN ECC
Of an East Indian Gam?-Fowl Imported
Into Kugmntl.
Not often docs the price of a single
egg ciiuib to $100. but this is what wai?
offered for each of the eggs of a cer
tain Indian game-lien, which wa?
brought to Eug'.and some time ago.
says Country Life iu America.
For centuries the Indian Came, or
Azeel Fowls, have been the very apes
of the game-breed, for the pureness of
blood and pedigree have been most
carefully preserved for so long that the
date of the origin of the race has been
lost in the past.
It is almost impossible to secure
specimens of the purest blood, for they
are treasured by the Indian sportsmen
at the highest value, mid the best
fowls are not allowed to go out of their
native country.
As game-fowl, they are great fight
ers. Those who have seen them in
India?for the finest birds never reach
our colder climates?tell of their prow
ess and ungovernable tenacity in bat
tle. With them, it is always victory
or death.
In America, however, the game
fowls are seldom raised for fighting
purposes, but for show, and as pets
and hobbles of poultry fanciers.
Sellout X'tiilUreu of jMp?n.
"Though among the wage-earning
class of Japan there is still great ig
norauce. and an enormous amoiiut re
mains to be done for their education,
it is surprising to note the number of
schools supported by the city of Toklo
alone." says a writer in Social Service.
"To some of these schools a giri itf sent
at six years of age, the one chosen be
ing in accordance with her father's in
come and social position. It is curious
that no matter how exclusive a Japan
ese family may be in other ways, in
education the tendency is democratic.
Schools aro much preferred to private
governesses, even among the nobility,
and girls of royal blood meet dally in
the schoolroom with the daughters of
well-to-do commoners. This is pralt
or.c of the best p??n* that could
be devised for giving such girls a
knowledge of the world and bringing
them to a realization of what modern
progress has done in making these
'others girls' their friends and equals."
Kriltor Hhepnrd's Ne?r?.
When the late Elliott F. Shepard
published a newspaper lie printed at
tliu head of the editorial column eacli
afternoon a Scriptural text. The edi
tor of one of the sensational newspa
pers Instructed a reporter to interview
Mr. Shepard and outlined the questions
the young man was to ask. All went
well until the interviewer asked:
"Why do you publish llible extracts';
The one to-day dealt with the Cruel
tixlon. Do you consider that news?"
"I do." emphatically responded Mr.
Shepard. "It is news to a great many
people?especially so. I believe, to the
gentleman who Bent you to question
me."
The interview ended there.
To Orow ninlMnrf
It Is quite possible for nuy one to
own a forest of miniature oaks, which
may be grown even without the aid ot
soil. In order to rear a miniature for
est procure n shallow dish and cover
tlie base of it with moss an inch thick.
Then set a number of good acorns in
rows about two Inches apart, and a
perfect little forest of oak trees can lie
raised. The moss must always be
kept very moist, and the acorns will
begin to grow in the spring.
By June or July they will have raised
themselves six to eight Inches high,
and will form a charming sight forunjr
lover of trees.?London Mail.
A Kfinarkabl* (tour.
There Is at the present lime In the
gardens of Mr. W. H. Armstrong, at
Benwell. England, a remarkable rose.
It Is n Nlphetos tea rose, and was. we
learu from the Country (Icntletnau,
planted (under glass) eighteen years
ago ftfoin a fWe inch pot Into a pre
pared border. At present it covers nu
area of 1300 square feet. The blos
soms are large, well formed ami white,'
with petals beautifully lipped with
pink. Last year. In spite of the lack
of sun, 16'HX) blossoms were gathered
from thic f<v*e. This year more thae
4WM) have already been gathered, and
It Is thought that the uuiuher will bo
about 18.000.
News of Interest
AFRO-AMERICANS
Mill* told for a Song.
The Coleman cotton mill at Concord.
N. C.. waa sold recently at public auc
tion under an execution of two mort
gages held by the Dukes of Durham.
N. C. The property waa bid In for
the mortgages at $10,000. ? The con
cern owea 920.000.
The Coleman mill was the first fn
North Carolina to run with colored
help. The organizer of the mill was
Warren Coleman, a well-known Ne
gro of Concord. He had considerable
moans and it is said that the failure
of the venture cost him most of his
property. Coleman died some months
ago.
? ? ? *
Negro Congress Called Off.
Rev. E. B. Topp. a well known color
ed preacher of Jackson, Miss., who is
preaideiu or the Southern Negro Con
gress. which was organized in Jack
son three years ago. and which was
scheduled to hold its annual session
at Mobile from the 5th to the 10th of
July, announces that the meeting has
been indefinitely postponed.
Although the officers of the organiza
tion decline to discuss the matter, it
la learned from authentic sources that
it was decided not to hold the congress
for the reason that the race leaders
do not deem it wise at present to stir
up the Negro question, or to discuss
any of its phases in a public gathering,
owing to the general feeling prevail
ing in the country on account of tho
suffrage plank adopted in the rccont
republican national convention.
? ? * m
, "Jl-ri Crow" Lew in Maryland.
A Baltimore special says: The law
passed at the Inst session of the legis
lature requiring seperate compart
ments for white pnd colored passen
gers on railways and steamboats,
known as the Jim Crow law, went
into effect July 1st.
It is held that the law does not cp
ply to through express trains and will
be ir.forced oniy on trains doing a
stplcdy local business in the state and
on steam boats plying exclusively on
state waters. ?11 the railroad com
panies whore lines pass through the
state announce that they are prepared
to obey the law. having equipped
coaches for this purpose.
The steamboat companies whoso
vessels p'y tho Chesapeake bay and
tributaries hove made preparations to
comply with the law, having reserved
seperate places on the deck and in the
sa.oons nnd separate berths for color
ed passengers.
? ? o ?
Coed Work cf Training School.
The Con.*!d<-.envll!e, Ga.. Norui-il and
Industrial Institute for the training
of the colored youth, opened October
15th, 1903. with an enrollment of only
olght. pupils. In a small frame building
the class room work was carried on
and in connection with this a loi of
five aoivs were used na a truck farm
and cu'tivated by the pupils.
On this small farm was raised Irish
potatoes. cabbage, corn and all garden
vegetables. A now building, two sto
ries high, 34 by 50 feet, to be used
for academic purposes, has been erect
ed and the time of closing. June 9th,
wa3 nearly completed, and through
the providence of the Almighty had
been in use about two months to tho
tiiro of closing.
This institution has for Its purpose
not merely the intellectual culture, bus
to teach the beauty and dignity of la
bor. the education and training of the
hoad and heart and the hand, thereby
elevating the race and establishing
the nnhilltv of anrvlPA ?
The school closed ror vacation after
a term of nine scholastic months with
an enrollment of sixty-two and five
acre* under splendid cultivation.
? ? ? ?
Colored Population Figures.
The census bureau, at Washington,
baa issued the final bulletin on the
Negro population of the United States.
The number of Negroes in the United
8tates. Including the entire area cov
ered by the twelftn census (continen
tal United States, Alaska and Hawaii)
and Porto Rico Is 9,204,631, perhaps
a larger number than is found in any
other country outside of Africa.
The report states that between 11
jmd 16 per cent of the Negro popula
tion has, or is believed by the cnumer- i
fttors, to have some degree of whito
blood.
The center of the Negro population '
Is In DeKalb county, Alabama, about I
four miles from the western boundary j
Df Georgia, having moved thence from ;
Dinwiddle county, Virginia, where, <6
miles northeast, since 1790 more than I
77 per cent of the Negroes lived in the i
county, against more than 67 per cent
nt the whites.
Almost 90 per cent of the Negroes ;
In the continental United States are
In the southern states and three-tenths
of them are in Georgia. Mississippi
and Alabama. Negroes constitute
about one-fifteenth of tho city popula
tion and about one-seventh of the coun
try population of continental United
States, but the rate of increase de
clined steadily through the nineteenth
century. The Negroes, unlike the In
dians and the native white, have a
slight oxcese of females. Illiteracy
among them is about seven times
greater than the whites. There are
8,992,837 Negroes in the United States
engaged In gainful occupations. Their
death rate approximates 30 per cent,
while that of the whites under the
name calculation Is 37 per cent.
The proportion of mulattoes to all
Negroes is usually higher In cities of i
the great cotton growing states than
it is in the districts outside of the
cities.
The district In which tho proportion
of Negroes is greatest lies In the Mis
sissippi alluvial region along both
banks of the lower Mississippi, where
Of the population to Na
?PO* ?**!??? btiag In Issaque
na county. Mississippi. with sort than
y*" ^y*1 to white person.
y? torax ??e-thlrd Of the copuU
f10* I* t*? south. both la clUM and
in country districts. while In tha north
thy ara aboat oae-fortleth of city
**" of tho population of
?"WttT districts.
e^lnr dtetrtet of x>?th.
, ?*?l?din? tha population of ?i
etUes. which had at Imm 1.500 inhabl
? b<Hh ,n lt?0 aad 1891. tha Ne
groes Increased from 1890 to 1800 over
*w percent. In-tha 242 southern cities
*? ? whola they increased 21.7 per
Tb*lr lncn?a*# ** th? country
district was about two-thirds as rap d
as that of the whites in the same area
their Increase In southern cities was '
nearly five-sixths as fast as that of the
whites In the same cities.
In the Ave southern cities having at
least 100.000 inhabitants in 1900, the
N'e>:ro population increased 25.S per
cent from 1890 to 1900; the white
population in the same cities increased
only 20.8 per cent. This is the only
group of southern cities in which the
rate of increase of Negro population
exceeded that of the whites.
The largest number of Negroes liv
ing In compact masses are found in
cvr'nin urban counties, several of
which lies outside the great cotton
prowing states. The four each having
over 75.000 Negroes are District of
Columbia coextensive with Washing
ton; Shelby county. Tenn.. containing
Memphis; Caltimore City. Md.. and
New Orleans parish. Ia.. coextensive
with Now Orleans.
Half the Negro?* In* the Unl'ed
Stales are !:tlow 19 years of aire, this
medium a?e being four years below
twe white*. T?-e!r Whorer" Is vnr*?i
more common In country than In city
districts and the females, as with the
whites, are the more illiterate sex.
Negro bread winners constitute 62.
22 pey cent of all Negroes at least ten
years of age. For whites the corres
ponding per cent is 48.6 and for south
ern whites 46.9.
The relatively higher per cent for
Negroes Is closely connected with the
marked prevalence of female labor in
the race. There are twenty-seven oc
cu pat ion 3 in which at least 10,000 Ne
groes were reported engaged In 1900.
These occupations save employment
to 3,807,008 Negroes, or over 95 per
cent of the aggregation of Negro bread
winners.
The total number of Nig roc l re
ported by the twelfth census was 8.
840,789. To this number may be added
the 368,748 persons of pure or mixed
blood in Porto Rico
GARDEN OUT OF PLACE.
Mistake Was In Locating It on Base
ball Diamond.
Henry Turner Bailey, until recently
State Supervisor of Art of Massachu
setts. says there Is a wrong and a
right way to induce the children to
love the beautiful, and he tells the fol
lowing story us an illustration. A
superintendent of schools, during the
vacation period, made a beautiful gar
den in a school yard, thinking that if
he made It beautiful enough the boys
would not dostroy it. With September
a lot of energetic boys caine back\to
school, and in a few weeks the garden
was trampled down nnd ruined. The
townspeople were indignant at the ruf
flanl> behavior of the schoolboys, nnd
spoke of them In rather harsh terms.
Early In i'ie spring there was a
change of stii>erintendents, and the
new mail heard aluewt immediately of
the spoiled garden. He went up to
the school and made friends with the
boys, and then he said, "You boys
don't like flowers, do you?"
They declared emphatically that
?they did.
"Then why did you ruin that flower
garden?" he asked.
"Well." said the spokesman of the
crowd, "they ought to have known bet
ter than to make It on our baseball
diamond."
SHE GOT THEM MIXED.
.ptanation Dawned Rapidly on Mind
of Housewife.
A lady walked Into a grocer's shop
one day with her sleeves turned up tc
her elbows, and a fighting light In hei
eyes. "This ere." she observed with
a sniff, as she banged a piece of yel
lowy substance on the counter, "If
the soap that does the washln' ot
Itsrlf; the soap what makes ev'ry
washln' day m kind of glorified beao
feast; the soap what gits all the linen
as white as snow and as sweet as a
hazlenut by dinner time, and lets the
happy housewife spend the rest of
the day playln' with the children, and
here am I been scrubbln' three nior
tal hours with that lump, and ain't got
so much lather out of It as 1 could
git from a br>kbat." "I beg youi
pardon," remarked the grocer, "but It
Isn't the soup, four little boy cam*
In hero yesterday for half a pound ol
both soap and cheese; that's the
cheese."
"The cheese!" gasped the lad/
"That accounts for the other thinfc
then."
"The otl thing?" queried the gir>
cer.
"Ye*, the other thing," came the
reply, "1 wag layln' awake half the
night wondorin' what It was made the
Welsh rabbit w> had for supper taste
?o fui nv."?Kesri; Cltv imimmniiMui
A Missing Mascot.
"No moro luck," she wallod: *'1
shall never have another bit. of luck,
I know I shan't. I've lovt It and I
hadn't had It but three months.
"What Is It that you have lost that
you are making such a fuss about?"
Inquired a friend. "Your pocket oook?"
"Pooketbook," answered the forlorr
one, "No. I wish It was only tny pock
etbook, that wouldn't be serious. Hut
I've gone and lost my beautiful yel
low garter and?yes. It may be a plain
old thing, but It was such a mascot.
Janet wore it when she was married,
then Rave it to me ami I hove worn It
ever since. And such a good time ??
I havo had! Dances, whist clubs, and
no end of larks, ami I've met simply
slues of men. You know they say
tint whoever wears such a mascot
will he married VMiln the yev. Ones?
I'm dished now for fair."