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City News.
At the annual election last Sunday at
Zion A. M. E. Church the following
Sunday School officers were elec'ed for
the year 1900: Mr. .John F. Dent,
supt, ;.John W. Williams, asst. supt.;
Miss Georgietta Woodest, sect.; Miss
Mabel Hanks, asst. sect.; Atlas Skinner
treasurer; Miss Bessie Thomas, lib.;
George Dickson, asst. lib. ;]Simson, or
ganist; Miss Mabel RicKets, pianist;
Miss Lillian Miner, asst, pianist; Miss
Augustine E. Carter, chorister; Miss
Geonrietta Woodest, asst, cnoriater;
Russell Harris, marshall
A'nong the ‘’4oo” doings of the past
week was a very enjoyable Christmas
party given, last Monday evening at the
residence of l)r. Grant on Charles St.
Only a few friends of the family were
present, bSt everybody bad a good
time un il midmight.
A few evenings after the above
event, Mrs. Hemmings' residence on
Sussex street was alive with friends
who enjoyed the society of her twe es.
ttmabie daguhters, Elizabeth and Anita.
Mrs. J. H. Lewis still seems to re
main in the same condition as when she
came out of the sanitarium. She if
now at her residence on Columbus Ave.
Her husband is in the South settling up
the affairs of his estate for 1899.
lid ward Everett Brown’s social sue
cess in Washington fas preceeded him
He will give his impressions of W r ash
ington a’ the next meeting of the Col
ored Nationa* League.
A private wedding took p ace a few
days ago at the residence of Miss E.fcsa
betli watson. Her reception will fol
low in ajfew weeks. This wedding
has been long talked of and society is
uow glad that tne event has happened.
Mr. and .Mrs. J.W r allace Buchanan
have a neat little home on Spring Vale
Avenue, Everett, and are said to be
very happy.
Miss Annie Gmith is paying a visit to
her relatives in Washington. She is
iccompanied by Miss Lonisn Lewis who
- successful in obtaining a position
ther<. will make Washington her home.
Mi-- Jennie Cavalier has just arrived
u the city after spending Christmas
J nt New Years with liar relatives in
Jaunton.
Ibe class of girls in the city wno
m\e eennnenced to think that working
lsan oonor and not a drudgery seems
1 >• increasing; yet there are several
think that parlor ornaments are in
vogue.
Ihe committee for the 30tn anniver
ol the Fraternal Association are
‘ ~ " make the affair a social sue
I " 1 his is the first thing of the kind
1 llfi ' been given for some time.
u ('onk'ing Brncc who won so
D,in J honors in the Howard—Princeton
II is to make at. address and Mr.
''ard G over will render one of hi*
hhpressive violin solos.
'he literary club of which Miss
na Baldwin is president, is initiating
,0l ‘ et y into tne mysteries of good clas
* lcs • ol that they did not know
*b°ugh about these * classics before but
• quute Booker T Washington,
higher education is a risky thing for
,Je colored people.” It remains for
'to club to prove that this remark is
•otrue,
Ihe exact wht fcbouts of J. H.
Lewis Jr. if unkno i, but it is safe to
say he is haYiug a od time “looking
them over.”
Mr. Marshall, t old Harvard run
ner is now r unn i with John W.
Ramsey m the law isiness. It take-,
a professional run® to keep up with
Ramt-ey.
Mr F VV Linton s placed by the
Courant for a t i. Salary, from
5i, 400 to $l,BOO.
')h ! W L Reea, where art thou?
Show your hand, wiwant to place you.
Who is the most|>opular pastor in
JNew England, tbeI'OCRANT wants to
know. See the votg contest.
The concert last Thursday night at
the Morning Star hptist Church was
qnite a suocess, ijch credit is due to
Messrs, Sneed and obinson. All pres
ent were pleased nd wished the con
cert repeated agai soon, About 500
persons witnessed |e occasion.
The social that as given by the so
cial club last Thuliay night at Chick
ering Mali was tbeeading dance of the
sea-on, Read net week’s Courant
for full particulars
Mr C J Johnsons our correspondent
and agent in the Suth End, Call and
see him at his residnce, 10l Northamp
ton street,
Rev P ThomaiStanford fpaid us a
call’this week andtlso left his subscrip
tion for one year,
The harvest is (most passed and W
L Reed is not san^et.
Good bye Mr Jhn W Williams your
good work will fylow you.
Success to you |r John Dent as Supt
of Zion Sunday o iool,
Councilman O v Newton is on the
sick list since he fok the oath of office
last Monday,
kVßiKrr,
The holidays were enjoyed by all
classes of citizvps. Receptionf were
hale at the residences of many of our
pecple.
The Zion Papist Church people have
reasons to lejobe at the way the young
petole are becoming interested in their
■odety
JhnstmaL. and New Years services
wire well woithy of the efforts of Rev
J&nson W Hill, 1> D, the young and
ptpular pastor,
Watch meeting was a success far be
yend the expectation of the most hope
fil persons among us. und was the first
srvice of the kind m this city,
Frederick Douglass Club held its
regular meeting at the residence of Mr
HDent, 3 Hadley Court,
Mr J R Scales of New York, spent
hi holidays with h.s uncle, A 11 Scales
of i$ Broadway,
Mr T H Rollins of 48 Thorndike Si,
th» mechanic who got hurt Christmas
tiay is gradually glowing better,
iNEWBIIRVrOKT
J here was a grand party and Xmas
tr 4 given by the club last Thursday
nijjht and prizes were given to the
youig ladies Music was furnished by
Riley and others,
ll>e bride and groom have returned
froa; their honeymoon and are r-ady to
receive all their white friends at their
home 8 l itcomb street,
Thire is another wedding booked for
a youiig man in this city, and he has
been going with two young ladies, li
seems L if he promised to take both of
them,
Quite a number went over to Ports
mouth the big ba'i Jan 3rd,
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Ihe Editor oj the lourant:
Deak S’k,— It gives me geeat plea,
sure lo compliment you cn the manage,
ment oi your paper. Known as the Bos
ton Coukasit, I have always noticed
in your paper ciean and decent language
I and not nonsense and abuse. It seems
to m 3 that tie success of a journal do.
pends on the language the editor uses
in his columns. Take for instance a
\
certain Negro paper, in existence a
siiort time ago, was doing well, but the
editor could cot bear prosperity, and
started out to abuse the race in such a
shameful manner that the sensible peo.
pie of our race shut down on that paper
and the editor went running round
town abusing all the secret societies in
Boston, for they reason that he is shut
out of them all. So let me say to you,
Mr. Editor, the Boston O'oukant will
be the only race paper printed in Bos.
ton that will be patronized by the
colored peop.e of Boston. So. Mr.
Editor, let me ask you to out
QBAHD VQTIOB COHTBT.
A Beautiful Gold Watch and Chain
From the large and popular jewellery es
tablishment of Wilson Brothers,Tremont Row,
Boston, will be given to the
MOST POPULAR, pastor
In New England, '
receiving the largest number of votes over
5,000
This Coupon will be printed in each issue
commencing Saturday, Feb. 3, and continuing
to Saturday, May 7,1900
Coupons must be filled out with ink, and re
turned to the Boston Courant Office weekly, as the ac
curate number of votes will be published in each issue.
This watch can be seen on exhibition in the win
dow of Wilson Bros., at any time.
THIS IS ONE VOTE.
For
Of-
Who I think ii.. the Most Popular
Pastor in New England.
ail indecent language and abuse that
should be brought to you for publics
tion. It will ruin your paper While
we intend to give you our support and
patronage, we deplore the abuse of the
colored people So in future we will
look to the Oouuant Publishing Co. for
a clean race paper.
Respectfully yours for the race,
C. J. Johnson.
To the Editor of the Courant:
Will you please answer this question
to decide a bet. Is a man wno is born
in a foreign country, of American bo:n
parents, eligible to be elected president
of the United bta’es?
Windsor Locks C,. Ji
lt the American born parents still
retain their United Slates citizenship,
the child born abroad wonld be eligib e
for the presidency The rule and word
of law for this country is tnat the child
follows the citizenship of his father
until he is of age and elects to choose
another citizenship. He thus comes
within the constitutional requirement
tuat the president must be a natural
oorn citizen of the United States.
1 o the Editor of the Counm:
l must have the ablest, the paper
most devoted to the republic’s ideals,
that we have in America. 1 regard the
Covrant as the truest exponent we
have to teach the people why we have
the grandest government when adminis.
tered, as the founders declared it shou d
be. -‘by the people and for the people ’’
We have become a gieat nation. Iso.
lated as we have bee.i, it has proved an
immense b.easing We have prospered
exceedingly without having a large
standn g aiuay to he sustained b} the
laooring people. Our flag was respected
by all nations loug oetore our Moses
declared war on the Philipyine D la,lj3,
i’o be serious, of all the arrant hum.
bugs ever invented by evil men. chiel
e«t is the idea that we must deprive a
brave, liberty loving people of their
freedom in order to become a world
power. Even a schoolboy of lb )*ors
of age knows it is false Ihe present
administration, if sustained, will oV,> ’ •
throw our form of government. " e
cannot serve God anu do the bidding of
Satan. If we are to remain a republic,
we must not war on a people who are
struggling for self-government.
Dk L B Weymentii.
Norta Vassal boro. Me.
I Wine Making in Portugal.
In great emergency when all
the men are demanded in the vine
yards, women are called to assist
in wine treading. Ourcorrespon
! dent saw young women wear
! ing their own garments which they
; ekilfully gather up around them
j until they assume the biggest and
• most abbreviated of Dutchman’s
I “britchen” costumes, while in the
winery.
THIS IS A SCENE IN THE VILLAGE OF
gUINTAS, PORTUGAL.
An improved method of mash
ing- by machinery is adopted
At the Speer Oporto Grcpe Vineyards,
PASSAIC, N. J.
by which a barrel of grapes a
minute is dumped in the hopper,
that feed two large rubber rollers,
between which the grapes are
crushed.
The Wl no from Speer*iiVln«*yar«l*
beats the world for its valuable
medicinal qualities. None put
on the market now,until nine years
old Weakly persons, Invalids,
Females, and Aged persons,
should always have a bottle in the
house. If properly used it will
restore health and prolong life. It
is by all odds the Wine for wed
dings, social entertainment and
familv use.
sold nv imroo-KTs wthir-ttih who
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7 THE COUSIN OF THE KING. By A. S. VinWnnsa
•—SIX MONTHS IN HADES. By CUrice I. Cllngham
•—THE SKIRTS OF CHANCE. By Cxpula Aiintf
Thompson.
•-ANTHONY KENT By Chirle* Stoke* Wayne.
it-AN ECLIPSE OF VIRTUE. By Ch»mpl°n BtwelL' *
■e-AV UNSPEAKABLE SIREN. By John Gltllu.
•*- IH AT DREADFUL WOMAN. By Harold R Vyae*
< A DEAL IN DENVER. By GlUnei McKendree.
.5 WHY» SAYS GLADYS. By Duld Chrlatte Murray.
*a—A VERY REMARKABLE GIRL. By L. H. Btcklw*
t-A MARRIAGE FOR HATE. By Harold R. Vyaaa.
•—OUT OF THE SULPHUR. 3y T. C. D* Lose.
» - THE WRONG MAN. By Champion BHarll. A
THE HUNT FOR HAPPINESS By Aalta .* .
dartre*.
HER STRaNGH EXPERIMENT. By Harold R Vyar
v THE ALTAR OF PASSION. By Joan GIIUW
- MAarrs to love. By l«*w %
ICEBERGS. ' ~~
Vo port lamps plcam alone our Mdaa.
No banners float on high;
No human lookout raises glaaa
To scan our sea or sky.
No admirals above our decks
Mid guns and gunners stand.
In bidden sheath to send the sound
Of warlike, stern command.
Yet all the navies of the world
Our bows in vain assail;
We fear no smoking battle tower
That thunders through the gale.
By captains gray our path ia raa; ted.
By sailors white and old;
For us the phantom rockets glare,
And phantom bells are tolled.
In misty, unremembered ports
Our beacon lights were set
By bands long gone from mortal view.
By forms that men forget.
And we may wander on our course
Till time at end shall be,
Por In our breasts are looked the hulls
Of ships once lost at sea.
—John James Meehan in Criterion.
CHIEFS OF THE SULUS.
Eaek Hu the Power of Life or Death
Over Hla Subject*.
The social system among the Moros
Is much more primitive than it is
among the greater part of the other
Philippine races. A chief, or dato, con
trols a district. He has his own par
ticular followers and his slaves. Be
sides these he may command all the
men of his own district in time of war.
He also has the right of life and death
over his subjects. For instance, a few
weeks before we arrived in Jolo, Data
Jokanine bad occasion to execute one
of his followers. The man bad been
intrusted with money belonging to the
dato. The first time he came to his
chief and said:
“Oh, great and benevolent dato. L
have gambled away the money! For
give me!”
“Very well,” said the dato. “See
that it does not happen again.”
Once more the retainer came, saying:
“Oh, great and benevolent dato, again
have I gambled away thy money, and
again I beg thee, in thy great mercy, to
forgive me!”
“This Is the second time I have for
given thee,” said Jokanine, “but the
third time, I warn thee, thou shalt die."
Yet again the unfortunate man re
turned without the money be had col
lected for the dato.
“Oh, dato,” he cried, throwing him
self at the feet of his chief, “I have
sinned again and taken thy money!
Mercy! Mercy!”
“Cut him down,” said the dato to one
of his men-at-arms. The man offered
no resistance and was cut to pieces
with one of the great knives of f he na
tives.—Harper’s Weekly.
Getting; Acquainted.
The family had occupied the dwell
ing about a day and a half, and the
mistress thereof was putting a carpet
down in the sitting room when there
came a ring at the doorbell.
She hastened to the front door and
opened it. A smiling woman greeted
her.
“Good morning!” said the caller.
“This is Mrs. Murkley, I presume.”
“Yes.”
"I am Mrs. Pergaliup, your next door
neighbor.”
“Glad to see you. Will you come in?”
“Thanks. I believe I will step in for
a little while.”
“You will find us all torn up, of
course. We haven’t begun to get
things in shape yet.”
“Now, don’t you apologize, Mrs.
Murkley. I know all about this thing
of moving."
“It’s an awful job, isn’t It?”
"Terrible. 1 sometimes tell Mr. Per
galiup I’d almost rather have a spell of
sickness than to move. Two moves
are about as bad as a fire. Well, I
thought I’d drop In and get acquainted.
Could you lend me a cupful of coffee?”
—Chicago Tribune.
Food Elements In Fraif.
Sugar, starch, gum. dextrin, peetine,
sacchariflable cellulose, organic acids
and other extractive matters are. to
gether with water, the chief elements
in pulp fruits. The sugar is assimila
ble and is a food. Fruits whieb con
tain most of it, as bananas, dates and
figs, are true bydrocarbonated foods.
Extractive matters are also nourishing,
but in a less degree, as they are not so
digestible. With these and other rare
exceptions, however, fruits, in the opin
ion of M. Balland, are little nutritive
and cannot be considered as foods.
Their juices, which please us by their
smell or acidity, are condiments rather
than foods.
When He Turned Jap.
A humorous touch in connection with
Lafeadio Hearn’s naturalization as a
Japanese was the reduction of his pro
fessional salary from 150 to 50 yen a
month. As a foreigner he drew a lar
ger salary than the native instructors,
but at the dinner in celebration of his
change of nationality the president of
the university rose and observed that
now that Professor Ilearn had become
one of them the last insidious distinc
tion would be removed by cutting down
his salary. And the American born
professor tried to look as though he en
joyed it.
A Peculiar Plant.
There is a species of plant growing
in New South Wales whose showy
flowers contain a large proportion of
mucilaginous juice of a glossy var
nishlike appearance. Chinese ladies
use the juice for dyeing their hair and
eyebrows. in Java the flowers are
used for blacking shoes.
The most ancient dictionary and
glossary in the world is of the Chinese
language and is the lexicon of Pa
cutsbe. This first known glossary was
compiled more than 1,000 years before
Christ.
All the emery in the world comes
from the little island of Naxos, near
Greece.
LOOKING INTO A SHOTGUN.
A Bandit** Victim Tell* How It Peela
to Be Held (Ip.
“1 happen to know how it feels to be
held up,” said a gentleman who now
occupies a position of prominence in lo
cal railroad circles. “1 acquired my
experience as a passenger in a stage
coach about six miles from
A. T., in 1884. We had a big load, six
men inside, two on tbe driver's seat
aDd an express messenger on the boot.
Every man in tbe crowd had a revolv
er, two of the inside passengers had
Winchesters across their knees, and
the messenger had an 8 bore duck
gun that contained nearly a quart at
slugs. We were held up at about 4ia
the afternoon by a single masked man*
who rose suddenly from behind a pila
of rocks and covered us with a ‘sawed
off’ shotgun. All the curtains wera
raised, so there was a fair view of the
interior, aud when he yelled ‘Hands
up!’ everybody obeyed.
“Then be told us to get out one by
one and stanu in a row, with our backs
to him. I never hated to do anything
so badly in my life, but I saw the oth
ers going and followed suit. About
that time n half grown boy. apparently
unarmed, appeared from behind tha
rocks and took up tbe collection, wbick
included our joint arsenal. After that
we were ordered back, aud the chief
bandit told the driver to go ahead.
“As far as 1 know, the robbers wera
never caught, but what especially im
pressed me about the episode was tba
reluctance of any of our party to taka
the initiative. I was certain the slight
est resistance would be successful, but
1 realized also that the man who made
the first move had an excellent chanca
of being killed, and I suppose all tba
others felt the same way. Anyhow, It
happened exactly as I have narrated
it During the year 1 lived in Arizona
there were eight or nine hold ups os
the same road, and in no instance vu
there any resistance whatever. That
taught me that a crowd of average
men, gazing Into a cocked shotgun,
will do just about anything that la
suggested.”—New Orleans Times-Dem
ocrat
COMPANY DINNERS.
They Are Dreaded by Goeiti aad
Make the Hoatei* Xenon*.
Writing on “Making Company of
Guests,” Edward Bok, in The Ladled
Home Journal, considers “it a curlona
fact that American housewives are sa
loath to believe that a dinner with fuav
and feathers Is dreaded by the vaat
majority of people. The highest com
pliment we can possibly show a guest
at dinner is to let him partake of an
ordinary meal, to let him come quietly
in a?.<j ’be one of the family.’ yet this
Is the very compliment which we with
hold from him. Instead of giving a
guest what he « >«ld relish most wa
give him what he realiy enjoys least.
“Let a hostess lie evei «o graceful
and tactful, let there be yean: of ex
perience on her shoulders, yet nothing
can conceal from her guests that tha
dinner which she is serving is other
than an unusual one. It is a formal af
fair, and no amount of grace can make
anything else of it, for nothing speaks
so loudly or so unerringly as a formal
company dinner. Every course shows
it; every movement of the waitress pro
claims it; every piece of china fairly
cries out the occasion.
“And of course no one at the table
really enjoys it. The guest certainly
does not, because he knows he Is being
made company of, and that feeling la
always enough to offset every enjoy
ment. The hostess does not, for she
hasn’t the time. Uer eyes are for the
table and her servants, not for her
guest”
Emliin Fames Lost His Waver.
Miss Emma Eames has a brother,
Harold, who was an ensign in the
United States navy. His ship was sta
tioned at Leghorn, and one day the
flagship entered the harbor with the
fleet commander on board. The latter
was very dignified and was never
known to lose bis self control. One
day the commander was in swimming,
and young Eames made a friendly wa
ger with a fellow officer that he would
destroy tils senior’s equanimity, in
naval parlance, "rattle” him. The wa
ger was accepted, and a moment after
ward Eames was in the water swim
ming toward his superior officer. Sud
denly he paused, and, stopping his
powerful overhand stroke, began tread*
ing water. Then he saluted precisely
as if he had been on a quarter deck.
To the young man’s intense surprise
the commander returned the salute
with equal gravity Mr. Eames lost
his wager.—Saturday Evening Post.
Seen In the llouul*.
Tortoise shells as they are unloaded
from the ships are far from beautifuL
To be classed as rough they must be
Just as they were when taken from the
tortoises’ backs. It is not until washed
and scoured with acids that their ex
quisite coloring shows. The same is
true of the beautiful seashells which
come here from the shores of India and
other tropical lands. There is almost
as much difference between them in
the rough and when finished as there
is between uncut diamonds nnd those
that have passed through a lapidary’s
hands. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Hereditary Garment*.
Tommy —Pop. what is the meaning of
, “hereditary?”
Tommy's Father— Anything that de
scends from father to son
Tommy—Then your old clothes that
ma makes over for me are hereditary,
! ain’t they V—Philadelphia Record.
The Doctor Prescribe*.
\ Jimson—Doctor, 1 am getting tooj
stoat for comfort and 1 want your ad- :
vice.
1 Doctor—Nothing reduces flesh like!
worry. Spend two hours a day think
ing of the unpaid bill you owe me.