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v0..1.- No 19
ro-American Couneil
rs. Ida Wells Barnett Very
Ably Sets Forth the Aim
and Object of ~This
Organization,
:iS LOCAL ORGANIZATION
the Same Character
hroughout the Country.
i to THE ADVANCE:
hout ten years ago Mr. T.
s. Fortune, editor of the New
k Age, outlined the need for a
ng national organization among
colored people of the country;
itted plans for the same and
ted discussion from the country
rge- There was such unani
se response, such cordial ap
al of the plan, that a con
ion for the purpose of organiz
the Afro-American League was
d to meet in Chieago in March,
. It met and elected Dr.J. C.
e as president, witn Mr.
tune as secretary, Mr. Fort
's friends thought he should
e been president. Dr. Price
pted in the interest of harmony,
beyond calling one or two
tings was not able to give time
ttention to the work. When
League met a year later in
yxville, Tenn: Dr. Price met
them only long enough to de
e the presideacy and Mr.
une was elected. But little
ing been done in the meantime
effect loeal organization, Mr.
une found Himself with an
ty honor on his hands. How
, in Boston, San Franciseo,
Orleans, Connecticut and
ral other cities of the country,
1 leagues were organized. They
e done much for race welfare,
are still in existence.
ut the National League having
no other meeting Mr. Fortune
was president. Therefore
hop Walters of the A. M. E.
n Church addressed him an
n letter directly after the burn
of Postmaster Baker and his
nt child: In this letter he
ed Mr. Fortune. as president of
League, to call a conference
see what might be done.
se who were of the same mind
¢ urged to append their names
his document. Quite a number
so, with the result that Mr.
une issued a call asking the
ers of Bishop Walter's letter
others similary ineclined to
t at Rochester, N. Y., Sept.
h, the day after the unveiling
he monument to the memory
rederick Douglass in that city.
Vot a very great number were
nt, but after conference it
decided fo make snother at
pt at national organization
er the name of Afro-American
neil. Mr, Fortune was elected
ident but declined, whereupon
hop Walters was elected in his
ce; Ida Wells Barnett was
e seeretary, and John W.
»mpson, of Rochester, treasurer.
executive committee was chosen
h Mr. T. Thos. Fortune as
irman. The exeeutive committee
authorized to frame a consti
ion and by-laws for the govern
t of the body- They were
eto meet in Washington, D. C.
ing the holidays for the pur-
the meantime had oceurred
massacre in Wilmington, N. C.
Phoenix, 8. C., during the
tions last november. President
ters issued a call for a publie
ting in eonnection with the sit
of the exeeutive committee to
ider what might be done touch
those outragess He invited
izations to send delegates if
were willing to pay $5.00 for
berahip fee. The meeting
a great success. Delegates
present from as far west as
Moines, lowa, while New
and the extreme South
their qnarto. Of visitors as
as voting delegates there were
than one hundred representa
men and women present, and
foundation for much good
of the fivsi things done Was
to enlarge the executive committee,
and two members from each State
were chosen: In a subsequent
meeting it was decided that as
women stood on equal footing
with men in the council, that in
stead of auxiliaries, the members
of the executive committee from
each State should be three persons,
and that one of the three should
be a woman; that until the next
annual meeting the two committee
men already chosen should be
asked to select the women members
for the several States. The ex
ecutive committee as eunlarged at
Washington is as follows:
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Hoo. T. Thomas Fortune, Chairman, ~
A1abama...........c.......J. W. Alstork
TLR e . Bhee
Arkav5a5..................E. O. Morrie
S i s s soo Is: Reokor
Ca1if0rnia................T. B. Morton'
B i s rers e YOR TRele
C010rad0................E. H. Hackley
it e Ak B
C0nnecticut................J. P. Peaker
siervrneniase s JGeorge A Jerkine
De1eware................0.D, Robinson
ih B i svt RV
Phitls...iv..ciovconni v B Moore
Senvesiiivair oo i N AN
ORI, oot ot oWe A Riiiger
Ceifsisiiniuiyraside W LOONS
Bl . ... s.iiciiciniich ks AN
iar sb s s I
BN v o e I Koex
beds e v aanerdh We Thompeon
J0wa................J. Frank Blagburn
vevrvs.e..Mrs. Katherive Tillman
Kenses:........¢icivvsaes - L N, Bradiey
bl rmii it it A D
Kenjueky............. .. W.H. Steward
s ceara s s v I A ket
L0ui5iana............P. 8.8. Pinchback
crsrsssensssssss Col. Jumes Lewis
Mary1and..................Er;0e5t Lyon
e i e o T
Massachusette..............C. 8. Morris
ciasanssasusesss Wikiam H. Ferrie
Michigan................W. 8. Burton
sae e inavssnssiss Ropert Pelham
Minne50ta................J. Q. Adams
SHhd s i iean sl 36 MO
Mississippi.............. John R. Lynch
Bii i O e
Mi550uri...................0. M. Wood
Nevad5...................——R0bin50n
New Jer5ey..............H. M. Jobnson
TR Tee as o »AN AN EOR
New Y0rk..........T. Thomas Fortune
vevieeo...Bishop W. B. Derricks
North Carolino ... .. ....George H. White
Siaranis vikse s s R eDR
OO i iiiiis s vasne assvoin B, Gresn
sve s i A g s i O il
Pennsylvania..........H. C. C. Astwood
cevivers oo Mrs. Gertrunde Mossell
seaiavensriianiashes i gy IS
Rhode f51and..............D.P. Brown
B i s o a RV RO
South Car01ina.......... G, W. Murray
b BRSO s atruss i W AAN
Tenne55ee..................J. C. Napidr
L snc ki b Aohs e vt T Bkl
O o i vcvnnins cins ko is Wl ing
DT SRR R T
Utah.....W. W. Taylor and J. F. Taylor
Virginia..............J0hn Mitchell, Jr.
SRTE e ekw s nimisonni Wels Dy
Wa5hingt0n...............H. C. Cayton
‘Weet Virginia.............J. R Clifford
| vivivisssinsoennd. McHeory Jones
Wi5c0n5in.........0 .00 000.0. 7. Miles
st s s ke s seralbon NN
District of Columbia. ... . Daniel Murray
veveve... Miss Julia Mason Layjon
vranansanid anrewee il OUNE
New Mexico........ Lieut. H. O. Flipper
*Declined.
In the cases of several States,
especially where no representative
was present, the committee were
chosen from the same town because
they were better known to those
present. This was the case with
Minnesota. Most of these have
aceepted the position and are quiet
ly organizing their States, aecord
ing to the constitution and by
laws as printed. It is hoped and
believed that by the time the an
nual convention meets here in
Chieago, Aug. 16th, that delégates
representing bona fide local councils
in every State will be present.
Any number of persons may or
ganize a local eouncil by sending
to the secretary for a copy of the
eonstitution and by-laws, and eall
ing together ten persons. It is
estimated that at least ten persons
may be found in every communify
who will pool their strength for.
race benefit. If this is so, there
should be a splendid meeting in
this city August 17th.
Councils have been formed in
New York, Philadelphia, Pittsbarg
Washington City, Chieago, Peoria,
Tis., Alsbama, Louisiana, the
State of Washington, and letters
are received constantly asking in-
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL. SATURDAY. JUNE 17, 1899,
formation and pledging te organ
izs. In many places there are al
ready organizations whose objeets
are the same: amelioration of the
condition of the racer This is
teue, I believe, of the twin cities.
These have already many of them
changed the name to Council, and
adopted our constitution,
1t is the sincere hope of the lead
ers of this movement that earnest,
race-loving men and women will
give the support of their members
and of their means to aid in solv
ing this' grave pioblem of race
which confronts us.
Ina B. WELLS-BARNETT.
EAT THE DEVIL FISH
Hawalians Consider It a Toothsome
Article of Diet.
lin the Bahamas and Bermuydas the
Ugly Sea Monater Is Mueh
Sought for Wby
Fishermen,
In few things does man show his
perennial curiosity more than in his
patient and often enthusiastic investi
gations into the question of eating.
There hardly is anything in the animal,
vegetable and mineral kingdoms which
some human being has not tried to eat
at some time or another.
Now that we have taken up the white
man's burden, the United States prob
ably has within its possessions a wider
range of gastronomic attainment than
is boasted by any other nation in the
world. In Georgia there are clay eat
ers. In the island of Mindanao we have
man eaters. In Alaska they have been
eating dog with abandon and loud cries
of “More!” Some of our Indian wards
dote on dried and mashed grasshoppers.
Our Chinese squatters eat sharks’ fins
and birds’ nests. But, aside from the
diet of roast and boiled man, which is
more an eccentricity than a studied ac
quisition of taste, the queerest appetite
is in our Hawaiian possessions, where
poi and devil fish are the delicacies that
can lure the dusky and palpitating per
sons of those latitudes from home and
mother.
Poi is well known now, It has been
described often, though waryingly.
Some writers of delicate sensibili‘'cs
have not mentioned that which gr- ser
writers have described most lovingly;
the process of chewing which the root
un:lorgou before it is considered fit for
poi.
Emphatically, poi is something that
is edible only if you do not know how
it has been made.
However, poi is not as curious as devil
fish. To the unprejudiced observer
there is nothing dangerously tempting
in a devil fish. The face of the devil
fish is not his fortune. Itisa flat face
with a beak in the middle and{twaq
staring, flat fiend’'s goggles that make
the. little waves break when he looks
st them. This pleasing countenance is
made fast from behind to a gray, ghost
ly bag like the bloated body of a spider.
Eight arms complete the engaging Tout
ensemble, . 2
Btill, ugly as he is, even the devil fish
has friends, though they are only de
signing friends, who like him better
when he is inside of them than other
wise. To get him into this likeable con
dition there are various methods. In
the Bahamas and in Bermuda the gen
tle and unindustrious colored fisherman
lets his boat float slowly over the coral
reefs till he sees the waving tentacles
or the big eyes of one of the creatures.
Then he gently sticks a long pole with
a sharp hook at the end of it into the
water and lowers it till it is in front of
the devil fish’s submarine villa. Then
the devil fish gets angry, being of a
choleric and infirm temper always, and
he grabs the stick. The hook grabs the
devil fish, and he is ha:ied into the boat,
where he usually tries to eat the darky.
Failing in this, he gives way to lively
grief, and presses his large, expressive
face to the bottom of the boat, arrang
ing his eight arms in a graceful cirele
all around his body till he looks like a
tentacled Niobe.
In Hawaii they fish for the octopus
with & hook which is made of a straight
piece of wood about five or six inches
long. On the upper side is spliced »
piece of mother of pearl, and below is
a piece of lead. Two short prongs of
brass are fastened to the other end of
the stick. Octopus, who is as imuplsive
as he is chronically belligerent and hun
gry, darts at this contrivamee as soon
as he sees it play in the water, and the
end is the fish market and & poi-lined
grave in the dark interior of s Hawalian
stomach. - =
The devil fish that are caught in Ha
waiian waters do not attain the enor
mous size that is reached by the spe
cies in other seas, but fairly large ones
are caught every little while, and the
fishermen don’t like to tackle a big one
in the harbor of Honolulu any more
than they do in other waters.
In China the plucky fishermen jump
overboard when they catch an octopus
in their nets. In Bermuda waters no
darky ean be persuaded to take the col
leetor out to bunt big devil fish. They
will go after the litte fellows, but they
are in deadly fear of any that are above
the average in size.
The octopus and the squid, first cous
ins to each other, both have a pleasant
habit of ejecting an inky fluid—sepia—
from their bag-bodies when they are
alarmed or attacked. This fiuid is so
thick and strongly tinted that the
water becomes absolutely opaque for
many yards sroend the spot, and, cov
ered by kis home-made darkness, the
devil fish cacapes kis enemies—N. X,
Hon. Joseph H. Dickinson
The only Afro-Americau in the
Michigan State Legisiature.
Has Made a Brilliant Record.
He Recently Visited His
Sister, Mrs. V. Weir,
of Minneapolis.
The Hon. Joseph H. Dickinson,
a representative from Wayne (o,
in the State legislature, is one of
the new men who is forging to the
front and making an enviable
record in that body. He is a good
specimen of the rugged type of
American character, honest, earn
est, and with a backbone that is
stiff and rigid. He is a represent
ative ot the common people in
polities, yet free from the taints of
the demagogue. He possesses a
keen, logical mind that ea.ily goes
to the depth of things, and is,
above all, a man of good common
sense. In himself he isa good illus
tration of the wisdom of the Amer
iean people in conferring upon
Afro-Americans all the rihts and
duties appertaining to American
citizenship.,
Something of the personal life
of Mr. Dickinson may be uterest
ing. From Mr. 4. F. Pinkney’s
book, ‘‘Evidence of Progress
Among the Colored People,’’ we
find the following: Joseph 1.
Dickinson was born June 22, 1855,
He attended school at Detroit,
Mich. At the age of 15 he enlist
ed in the U. 8. Revenue service.
At 17 years of age he entered the
employ of The Clough & Warren
Orgon Co. In 1880 he married
Miss Eva Gould, of Lexington,
Mich., and two years afterward
formed a partnership with his
father-in-law, known as the
Dickinson-Gould Organ Co. for
The Blacksmith and the King.
Some time ago, while holding court
in the royal palace, overlooking the
Danube, Francis Joseph received a
Hungarian blacksmith, who desired to
thank the king for the decoration con
ferred on him in recognition of his hav
ing invented an agricultural machine.
During the audience the blacksmith
drew from his pocket two photographs
representing the king and queen, and
said, handing them to his majesty:
“May I ask your majesty, and also the
queen, for your signatures?’ “And
why 7" demanded the king, smilingly.
“Well, when 1 die the cross of merit
which your majesty has given me will
have to be returned and my children
will at least have your majesties’ por
traits and signatures in remembrance
of this audience.” “The gueen is ab
sent from Hungary,” said the king,
“and I cannot give you my signature at
the present moment, for | have neither
pen nor pencil within reach.” “I have
brought a penecil with me” said the
smith, handing it to the monarch. The
king thereupon attached his signature
to the photograph, and dismissed the
smith with a smile. The smith did not
retire, however, but stood his ground.
“Is there anything else | can do for
you?” asked Franeis Joseph. “Yes,
your majesty, I am waiting for my pen
cil” The king had mechanieally pock
eted it, and he returned it with a hearty
laugh~Ban Francisco Argonaut.
Babu Trieks the Gineuwrs.
Peas are proverbially alike, but not
more so than “nigger” law students.
And when each wears astrachan hair,
gold spectacles and a Stewart tartan
nesktie, Dze Manik Lal is % like Dad
abboy Jamshedji as any two men in
jron masks. This fact is not lost on s
wily Hindoo law student. This bright
young mind has, it is said, taken several
scholarships at Lineoln's Inn under his
own name. He, now, for a eonsidera
tion, is willing to temporatily adopt
the series of consonants which form the
name of sny gentleman with a similar
color scheme, and in his ium" per
son goes up for and suecers passen
the examinations of the couneil of the
bar.~Phoenix.
Subscribe for
AFRO-AMERICAN ADVANCE.
$1.50 Per Yeoar
‘the mauufacture of parlor and
chapel organs. The firm sent to
‘the New Orleans Exhibition a large
chapel organ as an exhibit showing
‘the progress made by colored peo
ple in manufacturing. Prior to
this, for the Centennial Exposition
in [876 he helped to construct a
large combination organ for the
E(‘lnugh & Warren Organ Co. and
received a diploma and medal. In
!ISS(i he returned to the employ of
this firm, and his chief work lies
iin superintending the building of
the higher grade of organs.
| Mr. Dickinson is a practical
workman of an inventive turr of
‘mind, a good dranghtsman and de
signer, and an expert in all kinds
of organ building. A pipe organ
Lhnil( on new methods is one of the
produets of the firm that is pushing
its way into many places, that
were designed and constructed
under his supervision, Three vear
(against the competition of eastern
‘manufacturers this company se
eured the contract of putting in a
I large pipe organ for the Tabernacle
| Methodist Chareh at Camden, N J.
i The case for same was also subject
to competition, and the design of
!Mr. Dickinson was chosen in
Ipwtvrvuw to that of some of the
eastern designers and architects,
' The reed organ of Clough &
l Warren are celebrated, and are
Hargely made so through his ideas
guml supervision,
| The firm in whose employ Mr,
Dickinson is, were well pleased at
Chis nomination and election, and
' his work-was so arranged as to
(permit him to still remain with
Cthem while pursning his dutios as
{ 4
"member of the legislature,
. His career shows the result of hix
Learly training and work, and the
[ welfare of the State is safe in the
!hmulu of such us his.
UNDERSELL GOVERNMENT.
New York Dealers in Second-Hand
Postal Cards Compete with
the Post Office,
There are half a dozen men in New
York who undersell the United States
government in respect to postal cards,
These men sell 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 one
cent postal eards annually at on av.
ernge price of ninetenths of a eent
apiece, one-tenth of a cent less than
the official price, notwithstanding that
the eards cost them nearly half a cent,
at least two-sevenths of a cent, and only
cost the government 24 cents a thou
sand.
The competitors of the government
are men who buy eards upon which an
address or advertising matter has been
printed, and erase or obliterate the
printing without illegally changing the
card.
They purchase the printed cards in
small and large quantities from all
sourees, When two firms consolidate
the postal eards addressed and printe?
belonging 1o each firm aré useless, A
firm changing the location of its shoy
and desiring to inform its patrone of
the change usually overestimates the
number of postal cards needed. A man
ufacturer in o large way who sends out
hundreds of thousands of eards every
year often decides that the printed mat
ter on a bateh of cards is not satisfae
tory, anud may have s hundred thousand
useless cards on his hands, The post
oftice will not take them bagk with
money refunded and will not issue oth
er cnrds in exehange for them, Thest
cards are bought at s cost of from one
fifth 1o one-quarter of & cent each, The
dealer either erases the printing witk
chemicals, by a 8 secret process, or ob-
Hterates It with glazed wash resem
bling ealcimine, 'The eomposition of
the caleimine is supposed to be & secret
with the Inventor of this second proe
esx, bt the seeret in so open that other
firtus have discovered the art and are
practicing it in opposition to the orig
inator. The chemical process leaves
the eards like new; the wash process
jeaves them, except where the govern
mental printing is at the top of the face,
any eolor commonly used.
There are no similar dealers in
stamped envelopes upon which ad
dresses have been printed. The powt
offier takes wkl-ua:nnm paying
two cents each for justage stoinp.
"': 'o M 2 == i S
BROKE THE EGG MARKET.
A Woman from Hangor Was the
Cause of Lenten Kxeltement
in Salem,
Retail grocers in Salem are still dis
cussing the way their egg market was
flurried not many daysagoin the height
of the Lenten season, when eggs were
beginning to get scarcer and scarcer
and the price mounted a little higher
daily. Just at this time a Mrs, Kirk
patrick from Bangor, Me,, arrived in
Salem to make a new home. Her hus
band, whe was a prosperous merchant
in the Pine Tree state, had sold out his
business to engage in another line in
the neighborhood of Selem, Their fami-
Iy consisted of twao lively bova,
~Not long after Mrs, Kirkpatrick ar
rived she found the price of eggs to be
40 cents a dozen - an exorbitant price in
Maine “with the prospects that they
would be still more costly. So she
wrote home to relatives and asked them
to send her a fow eggs at Bangor prices
<2O cents a dozen. Her relatives were
generous and when the eggs arvived
Mrs. Rirkpatrick found herself con
fronted with an entire case filled with
the best stock. “What shall we do with
them ™ was the guestion of the hour in
the Kirkpatrick household that day.
The boys finally solved the problem,
After some pleading from them, their
mother gave them baskets and allowed
them to go out on the streets of Salem
peddling Maine eggs ot 32 contsn dozen,
The youngsters started at noon and in
two hours hand sold out, The eggs were
brown and fine and went as fast as the
housewives had a sight of them, Aw
the eggs went, so did the news, Before
many hours the information that eggs
of the best quality were selling uptown
at 42 cents, when the market price was
getting to be considered prohibitive,
reached the storekeepers. Agents went
about and soon discovered the cause of
the trouble.
Tolower the price of the overdue epps
in the stores would not have had the
slightest effect in the face of the su
periority of the fresh Maine stock., The
dealers held meetings to try to find out
where the new eggs had come from, and
i it would be safe to try to buy upa lot
of them. The news spread further, The
agitation of the marketmen hetrayed
them, and a brakeman on a Boston &
Maine train received a tip. On his next
trip up to Maine he ordered o box of
eggs went to him in Portland, and on his
next trip but one back through Salem
he took them off into the station to ped
dle them at 35 centu, Although there
was not very much of a crowd in the
station that day the eggs were sold be
fore the train started and the brakeman
had the cash in hand. He telegraphed
for another case and went on to Boston,
That was the last steaw, The next day
every grocery stoee in Salem was sell-
D egps at 32 cents, although mostly
ut a loss.Hoston Transeript,
GLAZING VEGETABLES.
Ontons and Carrots Are Vaslly Pre.
pared and May e Used the
Year Hound,
The French cooks possess the art of
cutting vegetables in dainty decorative
formu and glazing them, These glazed
vegetables are chiefly for decorative
purposes, but oo also delicious to eat,
he glazed vegetable is generally con
sidered o “fuwsy " thing to prepare, and
therefore the average housekeeper in
this country usually takes little inter
ext in its preparation,
This ix 0 mistake. Onions and car
rots are easily prepared for this pur.
pose, nnd used the year round. To
glaze onlons select a dozen white on
ons of large size. Doil them, Remove
the hearts with a vegetable cutter,
Use the remainder of the onlons staffed
with a forcemeat of any kind, and
ronsted brown for another dish. Take
the round henrtys of the onlons removed
by the vegetable cutter and lny them on
o plate, spread an ounce of batter in
a sancepan and when it is hot and melt
ed put in the onlons; sprinkle two
small pinches of sugar over ench one
f the onlons. Toss the onlonus in the
butter until they are delicately and
evenly colored, Cover them with a lit
tle wtock and cover the saucepan they
are in with u close cover until Lhe gtock
bolls to s glaze. 1t in u good plan st
this stage to put the onions in the oven
and let them glaze there, basting them
wery 15 minutes, Use them around
ment or any vegetable they are needed
wound, Young spring carrots are
med in preference for glazing., Boil
them tender and turn them in small,
even shapes -cork shapes. Put 40
small carrots of the tiny French varie
ty sold in the spring in s saucepan in
half a pint of broth, & teaspoonful of
salt and s teaspoonful of sugar. Put
the saucepan, elosely covered, on a
qulek fire and let the broth boil down
for 20 minutes, when they should be
well colored, Large carrots should be
ut in twoedneh lengths before cook
ing and glazing them. Turnlps can he
eut into cork-shaped pleces one inch
thick by two inches long and glazed
much the same way carrots are. Either
of these vegetables may be prepared
white or brown, sccording as they are
fried in butter and cooked in stock, or
simply partly cooked again till done
in another water, with a pint and a half
of water, a teaspoonful of salt and a
tenspoontul of sugar. N, Y, Tribune,
Well Samed.
Ethel-Papa's named his new fox.
hound after you, dear,
Reggy -~ The diekens! What did he
jo that for?
“Why, he says he don’t know enough
to keep & seent when he's got it
Tudge. ~
A Subatitete.
Mre. Youngish-Oh, Bob! What
shall T do? Baby is erving because |
won't let him pull all the fur off my
sew mufl,
Mr. Youngish—Well, that's all right
ilve him the vat.—Boston Treveler.
Price 5 Cents.
AIRING TIME ON THE COAST.
When the Life-Saviag Stations n
New Jeraey Have Thelr Stoek
of Clothing Out.
Spring isairing time at the life-saving
stations along the New Jersey coast.
At every station, from Sandy Hook to
Cape May Point, wearing apparel is
taken out of chests and hung out where
the fresh sea breezes can blow through
it. There is enough clothing stored at
these stations to stoek a shop. There
are gurments to fit men and women, and
boys and girls. Even babies afe pro
vided, Of course the stock of children's
clothing is rather limited, ns there is
rarely a call for it. The majority of
the wearving apparel is for the use of
wen, All this elothing is kept in readi
ness for the unfortunates who may e
shipwrecked,
There is not a government life-saving
station on the Atlantie, Pacifie or Gulf
const of the United States but what is
the possessor of such a elothing outfit,
The stations on the great lakes are simi
larly supplied. There are stations
where there has seldom been need of
this clothing, but a springtime never
passes without every garment, hat or
shoe, being well aired. This is a duty
which one of the patrolmen must per
form each year., On the other hand
there are stations along the Atlantie,
especially on the New England coast,
where there is little opportunity of
niring the stock of elothing, shipwrecks
belng #o frequent that the supply of
wearing apparel s constantly becom
ing exhausted, Most of the clothing is
supplied by the Women's Henevolent
Seamen's Ad Society of New York,
In speaking of these contributions of
clothing, Capt. Kit Ludlam, keeper of
the Stone Harbor (N, J,) life-saving
station, said: “I'he last time 1 had oe
casion to resort to our clothing chest
was in December, 1565, Every member
of my crew, in addition to seven poor
shipwrecked seamen, realized then the
great good those women in New York
were doing. In the dead of night the
big threeamasted schooner Rodman R,
Niekerson was dashed upon the outer
bar by one of the flercest northensters
I hiave ever witnessed, So suddenly did
the great ship steand that the eight
members of the erew barely had time
to get to n place of safety in the torn
and tattered rigging. Here these poor
fellown clung for 14 hours with the ther
mometer nt the zero mark., 1t was in
the rescue of these men that 1 made the
greatest shot with the life line of all
my H 0 years' expericnce as o surfman,
Upon the first trial | sent the line over
800 yards out to sea, and itdropped over
the shattered foremast of the stranded
ship. We brought seven men safely
ushore in the breeches buoy, Al of
them were sonking wet, When we got
the rescued sailors to the station our
clathing chest was brought into requi
sition, and from among Its contents
every man was clad from head to foot.
All of my crew were soaked, too, and 1
had to outfit them also.” - N. Y. SBun,
Indinns HMungry for Hooks,
The Penobueots offer a fair example
of what education and school training
cun do for the Indian, This tribe is on
an ieland in the Penobseot river, near
Old Town, Me,, and still maintaing its
tribal organization, elects its chief
and council, and makes its own laws,
Although the village is no longer made
up of birch-bark wigwams, it is com
posed of attractively bullt houses, vary
ing from a one-room shanty to the two
story dwelling of the modern American
type, with parlor, dining-room, and
kitehen on the first floor, There ure
nleo w chureh nnd two halls, in the lutter
of which public meetings and festal
patherings wre held, They bave o sub
stantinl and well-planned schoolhouse,
Incliing nothing but books, of a proper
and sullicient kind, Not only does the
sehoolhouse and its pupils feel this lack,
but the alder Indinns are eager for good
sending matter, History is their fa
vorite subject, and next to this they pre
fer wtories of travels and accounts of
birds and animals, Anyone having
hooks which he would like to donate to
same charitable purpose may rest as
sured that they will be appreciated to
thelr full worth by those Penobscot In
dians. They may be seut direct to the
Indinn village, nddressed Penobseot In
dinn Library, Ol Town, Me., or they
may be sent to Mr, Montague Chiamber
lain, Quincy hall, Cambridge, who is
keenly interested in the welfure of these
Indinns -~ the original American stock.
~Howton Transeript.
Crippled Feet in Chinn,
Mrs, Archibald Little, an English
woman who lived in wegtern China for
11 years, says there is o growing senti
ment against the practice of crippling
the native women's feet. While she
wis there they held drawing-room
meetings 1o dincuss the subject and
about 200 of the best Zamilies in Chung
king nnd 1,500 families in the adjoin
ing distriot agreed to discourage the
custom. Men are responsible for the
prictice, for the fiest guestion they ask
in regard to o possible flancee is abgut
the wize of her foot, The engaged young
Chinaman, when he is dining with his
friends, often proudly produces from
the recesses of his eapacious slecyes n
shoe to prove the smaliness of his fu
ture wife's foot. Women with thess
erippled feet can walk and run, but, ae
cording to Mrs, Little, it is slmoat im
posible for them to stand still. When
they try it, they hold on to whatever
hiappens to be nearest to them and
swny backward and forward with a
rocking motion.—fan Prancisco News
JLetter,
How MHe Definea It 5
The quarrel had come at last,
“You're s flirt!" he eried.
“A flirt!™ she repeated, scornfully.
“Why, 1 don't believe you know what
o flirt s
“A firt,” he sald, bitterly, “is u girl
who ran wake & mwan think he is in
heaven when in mflg he is next door
to the other place, with the dooe slight-
Iy ajar”—Chicage Post.