Metropolis weekly gazette., March 20, 1914, Image 2

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AFRO- EH aims
In an addrese delivered at the Audi
torium at Houston, Tex,, E. Lk Black
shear, the head of the Prairie View
Normal and Industrial College for Col
ored Youths, had this to say concern
ing the reasons why the negroes of
Houston are specially interested in the
movement to build a general hospital
in Houston. The plan contemplated
does not seek to make one hospital do
for both races. They will be separate
«nd distinct institutions; but there is
to be a hospital for both, and upon the
basis that in caring for his own health
interests the white citizen must pro
tect the colored as a matter of “Safe
ty First”
Following ie the address delivered:
Rev. Mr. Pevoto of the Baptist sani
tarium of Houston in a visit to Prairie
View on a recent Sunday used the Sab
'bath school leBson of the day as the
basis of his remarks. It was the les
son of the Good Samaritan, and the
speaker saw in this parable the germ
of the modern hospital. And indeed,
how true is it that this spirit of the
Good Samaritan, who picked up a help
less stranger, wounded and sore, and
bound up nis wounds and placed him
in the Eastern inn for care and pro
tection exemplifies the spirit of Christ,
now manifested in modern hospitals,
and in the Red Cross system of nation
al and International reller. Kegara
less of race, nationality or creed, the
Red Cross spirit, the modern hospital
spirit, takes hold of helpless suffer
ers and gives them relief and medical
and sanitary attention. The spirit of
Christ is not the secular spirit and
pride of nationality or race so well ex
emplified in the classic civilizations of
Greece and Rome, but it is the spirit
of humanity, the spirit of the Golden
Rule, the spirit of human sacrifice for
human good, the spirit of t^e Good
Samaritan.
The colored people as a part of
God’e common humanity need the help
of modern medical science and sani
tation. From the standpoint of self
protection, the municipality owes its
colored population sanitary conditions,
for bacterial diseases are no respecter
of race or color once they find lodg
ment; and bacterial infection or con
tagion, originating from unwholesome
conditions among colored people may
thrust their fatal hand even into the
mansions of wealth and culture. It is
of internet to the whites that1 the
bodies and hands and homes of those
of the colored people who cook the
food and wash the clothing and dress
and handle the children of the white
people should be clean, wholesome and
sanitary. Speaking generally, insani
tary conditions and disease among the
negro people weaken the efficiency of
the city's labor and entail a loss upon
invested capital, which is fruitless
without efficient labor.
In the older days faithful slave
women were the nurses of the south.
They sat in humble patience at the
bedside of the stricken mistress or jier
children, the dusky Samaritans of an
alien race. Just as my grandmother
Aunt Harriet of Mongomery, Ala., was.
a type of the cooks of olden days who,
Midaslike, turned whatever cooking
material they touched to the gold
palatableness, so my wife’s grandmoth
er, Aunt Celia of Grenada, Miss., was
a type of the nurses of old, who wae in
truth a Good Samaritan in black, and,
for miles around, was sent for to nurse
the afflicted white women and children
back to health and happiness.
Retail dealers in Hongkong are'dis
covering the advantages of window
dressing after the American plan.
The honor of class oratory, assigned
to a negro at Harvard, is indeed a
creditable achievement, though elo
quence in this fervid and imaginative
race is not an unusual endowment,
many negro preachers having mani
fested this moving quality. It is stated
that this graduate-to-be has it ip mind
to devote his life to the uplift of his
race. There is ample opportunity for
many lives to be so devoted. The
freed race has progressed unevenly,
individual specimens attaining to a
high degree of knowledge and culture,
while the mass of blacks are as much
the wards of civilization as ever they
were In the days of bondage. Not till
individual culture begins to bear fruit
In community uplift can work among
the negroes be said to show adequate
results.
A curious tree of the tropics, the
matapalo, grows only With the aid of
another tree, which it gradually envel
opes and kills.
Before an American heiress who
i marries & foreign nobleman places
ihim on exhibition she removes the
price mark.
Sixty thousand dollars a day is the
estimate of the loss due to the recent
strike at Dublin, Ireland.
It 1b estimated that the Uruguay
fwool crop this season will reach a
lvalue of J25,eOO,OQO.
Natural gas consumed in the United
.States Last year Was~%quivaient to 20,
1000,000 tons of coal.
The diamond output of Herman
j South Africa is being regulated to
^maintain prices.
'Tib no professional agitator for
temperance,” said Booker Washington,
in a recent address, "but keep whisky
away from the negro. In the counties
and states where there are no open
barrooms the negro Is 60 per cent, bet
ter off. I don’t believe that prohibition
increases drunkenness, as one so often
hears. Certain men will get whisky
anywhere—but in prohibition counties
you hear of the ten men who do get
whisky—and you don’t bear of the 100
men who do not.
"There are 200,u00 colored people al
ways eick from preventable causes,”
said he. "Some one is paying the bill.
Not the colored man directly—for he
cant.”
He opposes segregation In cities—
"not because the colored roan objects
to associating with bis own people. He
is proud of his race. He wants to am
sociate with his own kind. Bat ex
perience has taught him that where
he is segregated the street lights are
dimmer and the streets muddler and
the sidewalks more full of holes and
the police service more Indifferent
than in other parts of the-same town—
but that he Is made to pay his full
share of the bills.”
Nor is he in sympathy with the prop
osition to plant immigrants on the
soil of the south. The colored man, he
thinks, is already fitted to his environ
ment. If he is given a fair chance he
ie the most satisfactory laborer the
southern employer can have. But he
wants a little of the comforts of life.
He wants good church and school and
social facilities in the country dis
tricts.
“The white folks of Dallas county,”
said he, “held a meeting in the court
house one night to discuss the ques
tion of immigration. Old Jake, the col
ored janitor, was a very curious old
chap. He always tried to find out what
was going on—but this meeting
stumped him. After it was over he
met the sheriff.
“ ‘Gunnel Jones,’ said he, ‘w’at you
w’ite folks up to now?’
"Colonel Jones explained. But Jake
could not understand that word im
migration. Jones had to make it clear.
“ 'What do you think of the plan of
bringing more white folks to Dallas
county, Jake?' asked Colonel Jones.
" Poh de Lord's 6ake, Cunnel Jones,*
said ^^‘we.DaJlas county nigge^ got
just aJT&any wlte folks as we car sup
port now.’ ”
"There are only 300,000 American
Indians,” said a prominent negro, “and
the government appropriates $10,000,
000 to $12,000,000 each year to feed
and clothe and educate them. And
they're dying off. There are 10,000,
000 of us, and the government isn’t
called on to, do a thing for ns, as a
race." «
Of the. negroes, 9,000.000 are in the
southern states, and 85 per • cent, of
these in rural districts or villages. He
thinks that the negro's best chance is
in the south. The southern white is
more tolerant of the negro's' differ
ences from the white race. He is more
inclined to give the negro a chance.
“That’s all we want,” he said. '’Just
a chance. 1 saw the other day that
$50,000,000 is being spent annually to
rescue Great Britain's drunkards from
the ditch. Were not in the ditch—
but help us keep out of it."
The negro, he thought, 1b worse off
in the cities, especially in the north
ern cities.
More than one-half of the money de
rived from England’s income tax la
collected from Londoners.
In the region between Yorktown
and Williamsburg there is a district,
where much of the land has long been
either owned or tenanted by colored
people; but it is a "back country” far
from the river and penetrated by few
good roads, so that it i« and always
has been a region of wretched poverty,
miserable cabins and neglected boII,
very different from the farming dis
trict on the eastern shore of Virginia,
for example, where there are many
well-cultivated farms owned or ten
anted by colored men. In this latter
region the large estates are being cut
up into farms of from 60 to 100 acres,
provided with complete outfits of farm
buildings, and rented, or sold In many
instances, to colored men.
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Nor
way and other European nations have
for many years been making provision
for Industrial and technical Instruc
tion in public schools.
In England the Smiths are the most
numerous of all families, but in Ire
land they are content to rank fifth,
after Murphy, Kelly, Sullivan and
Walsh.
More than 60 per cent, of the sheep
of this country are on the large
ranches of the west.
In the last year Iowa produced fid,
963,183 pounds of butter, which wag
sold for $28,286,240.
In Melbourne no Sunday papers are
permitted; no hotels are allowed to
open their bars.
In a year 7,707,000 cigars and 14/
000,000 cigarettes were smoked In the
United States.
REASON WHY SCOTS SUCCEED
»'«hnny McTurk Figured It Out in His
’Own Mind How He Would Divide
Marbles With Andrew McDonald.
•'Johnny, dear/' said the visitor.
John McTurk turned around while
the family cat rescued her tall from
his grubby flat.
"Now that you are going to school,”
continued the visitor, "1 want to ask
you a little question: How many mar
bles would you get if I gave yon j
twenty, to be divided between you
and Andrew McDonald?”
Johnny thoughtfully rubbed the j
point of his nose where the cat had
scratched him.
"I dinna ken," he said.
“Come, come,” said his elder
"How’s that?”
"Wqll. ma’am," said Johnny, ”ye
see It’s a’ according. If ye gie me
them When we’re both here we'd hae
ten apiece. If Andrew was here and
I wasna I’d only hae about five. But
if I were to get them when Andrew
wasna here I dinna ken whether he'd |
‘hae ony at a’.”—London Tit-Bits.
Horrible.
"War 1b not nearly so dreadful as I
used to imagine It.”
"It 1b dreadful enough.”
"Of course It is; but, you know, this
grape-shot they shoot the enemy
with—"
"Well?”
"When I was younger I used to
think it was grapefruit"
Her Hand or a Hand Organ.
Heiress—The count is a most ardent
lover.
Married Friend—My dear, be care
ful. A man can put considerable feg
^or into his wooing igjben it's a case fl
marriage or work.—©oston Evening
Transcript.
Tactless Menu.
"My dear, I told you that guest I
brought home to dinner was a very
bashful man."
"1 know, but what of it?”
"Nothing, only you did go and put
your foot In It, when you bad sheep's
head fish for dinner."
A Worker.
“You say your husband likes hard
work?” said one woman.
“Yes, indeed," replied the other.
"He never appears to be doing any
around the bouse."
'“No. But you just ougbt to see him
in a bowling alley."
Used Her Share.
"I see the English language Is used
more than any other,” remarked Mrs.
jWombat. "I am proud of that”
"And well you may be,” Insinuated
Mr. Wombat. "You have certainly
done your share in bringing up the
average.”
WHAT DID SHE MEANT
Mias Antique- Don't you think it
was awful nerve In hhn to kiss me?
Miss Rotting—Well, I should say it
was. , J
Post Graduate.
“Did you aay she was one of your
prominent suffragettes ?’’
“That h'l did, sir. Would you be
lieve h’it, sir. that woman 'as starred
'erself b’out of Jyle four times?"
» u 1 ‘7 *
Filling Up. ’
“I want you to come to my dance.”
“Really, I don’t go In for dancing."
“But you could help All up.”
“Well, I am a pretty good eater. If
that’s what you want me for.’’
, f t •
' - A Kentucky Protest.
"*So your wife has a conservatory?"
"Yes,” replied Colonel Stillwell, "but J
what’s the good of it? My wife Alls It
so full of palms and ferns that there
Isn't room for a mint bed "
WHY THE TRICKSTER BOLTED
Grubby Hobo Made Determined Effort
to Secure Drees Suit of Man
Who Never Owned One.
The grubby-looking man stood In
the doorway with determination on
every line of his unshaven counten
ance. The housewife who faced him
was equally determined.,
“Yes, madam,” said the shabby
man; "the guv’nor says to me, ‘Go and
git Mr. Jones' dress suit to be clean
ed and pressed. The lady'll give it to
yer.’ The guv’nor’s tailor, you see,
mum.”
“Oh!” replied the lady. "And did
you see Mr. Jones?"
“I did, mum,” came the answer; “wlv
me own eyes. He says, ‘The lady’ll
know. I lef a message at 'ome.' ”
Plainly Mrs. Jones was perplexed
The trickster felt he had nearly
achieved his object. The lady's reply
finally crushed him, however.
“Well,” she answered, "all I can say
is that Mr. Jones never had a dress
suit, and for the past flve years he's
been in Canada.”
The grubby man bolted.—Answers
DIGNIFIED.
"What’s your name?"
"MISS Susie Jones at present, sir."
If He Only Knew.
"I wish," wished the roan who waa
always wishing for something or oth
er, "I wish I knew the exact spot
where I’m gonna die."
"You're craxysaid his friend, "to
make a wish like that Why, man.
you'd worry and fret all your life If
you knew where you are going to die.”
"I would not Oee-whlx, I'd never
go near the place!"
Fooled Her.
Young Wife—I think Charley Is en
tirely too generous to bis relatives.
Wife's Mother—What makes you
think that, child?
Young Wife—I asked him the other
day, when 1 missed It, where bis fine
gold watch was, and he said he had
parted with It to hts uncle.
What He Mesnt.
Small Urchin (to the owner of the
horse which ought to have been cat’s
meat)—Does yer want to 'old ’lm,
guvnor?
The Owner—No, thanks. He won’t
run away.
Small Urchin—I didn’t mean to 'old
’lm fast sos he won't run away. I
meant to ‘old 'lm so’s *e won’t drap.
The Fatal Stop
Automobile Salesman—And. what
ever speed you may be going, when
you put on this brake you stop In five
yards—dead.
Prospective Woman Purchaser—
How dreadful! I’ve always thought
they were so dangerous—Punch
Not the Ufa of the Party.
"You didn't seem to feel at home
at your wife's fashionable party.”
"To be honest," replied Mr. Cont
rol. "I didn’t. I felt about as wel
come as the ace of spades alongside of
four small diamonds."
Very True.
Browne—Did you ever see a aaan.
who really wanted the earth?
Towne—Oh yea.
Browne—Who was he?
Towne—A first-class passenger on
an ocean liner when he’s seasick.
Nil Desperandum.
"Things In general," said the pessi
mistic theosophtst, "are very, very
bad."
"Oh. well," replied the optimlstio
theosophist. cheerfully, "it’s all in a.
lifetime; and, besides, there will be
other lifetimes."—Puck.
Novel Idee.
'And when I finish my career i shall
become an aviator."
"Why do you wleh to risk such dan
ger. having such a brilliant future?”
‘ Why,* so as to rise.all the quicker.”
-~
Severe Vocal Strain.
First Office Boy—Wot makes yer no
hoarse?
Second Office Boy—De state o’
trade. I hev ter alt in de front office
from 9 till 5 tellin' bill collectors do
.boss is out.—Puck.
Refuge in Silence.
“You seem fond of moving pic
tures?"
"For a change.” replied Miss Cay
enne. “It is one of the few forms of
theatrical entertainment where you
are sure there won’t be dialogue con
taining profanity.”
Somebody on the Job.
Wise Fresh—No woman ever made
a fool of sue.
Senior—Who did? — Pennsylvania
Punch Botfl.
Watch Carefully
the Child’s Diet
Start Them Off Right With a flood
Laxative and Then Watch
Their Food.
Mothers are often unconsciously
very careless about the diet of their
chUdren, forcing all to eat the same
fooda The fact is that all foods do
not agree alike with different persons.
Hence, avoid what seems to constipate
the child or to give it indigestion, and
urge it to take more of what is quick
ly digested.
If the child shows a tendency to
constipation it should Immediately be
given a mild laxative to help the bow
els. By this la not meant a physic or
purgative, for these should never be
given to children, nor anything like
■alts, pills, etc. What the child re
quires la simply a small dose of the
gentlest of medicines, such as Dr.
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which, in the
opinion of thousands of watchful moth
ers, la the ideal remedy for any child
showing a tendency to constipation.
Bo many things can happen to a con
stipated child that care la necessary.
Colds, plies, headaohes. sleeplessness,
and many other annoyances that chil
dren should not have can usually be
traced to constipation.
Many of America's foremost families
•re never without Syrup Pepsin, be
cause one can never tell when some
member of the family may need it,
and all can use it. Thousands endorse
ft. among them Mrs. M. E Patten,
Valley Junction, Iowa who Is never
without it in the house. Mrs. Patten
No More "BUck Broth" fo<- Him.
Among the forgotten dishea of tbe
put waa the "black broth of Lace
daemon." "What tbe Ingredients of
this sable composition were," says a
writer, "we cannot exactly ascertain.
Doctor Lister (In 'Aplcjus') supposed
it to hare been hog's blood. ... It
could not be a very alluring mesa,
since a citizen of Sybarls, having
tasted It, declare^ It waa no longer a
matter of astonishment with him why
tbe Spartans were so fearless of death,
since any one in bis senses would
much rather die than exist on such
execrable food."
FACE BROKE OUT IN PIMPLES
Kalis City, Neb—"My trouble began
when 1 was about sixteen. My face
broke out in little ptmplee at flrat
They were red and sore and then be
came Uke little bolls. I picked at my
face continually and It made my face
red and sore looking and then I would
wake up at night and scratch it. It
was a source of continual annoyance
to me. as my face was always red
and splotched and burned all the
time.
"I tried -, - and others,
but 1 could find nothing to cure It 1
had been troubled about two years
before 1 found Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. I sent for a sample of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and tried
them and 1 then bought some. 1
washed my face good with the Cuti
cura Soap and hot water at night
and then applied the Cuticura Oint
ment In tbe morning I washed H
off with the Cuticura Soap and hot
water. In two days I noticed a de
cided Improvement wblle in three
weeks the cure waa complete."
(Signed) Judd Knowles. Jan. 10. 1I1S.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout‘the world. Sample of each
free, with **-p. Skin Book Addrews poet
card “Cuticura. Dept L, Boston."—Adv.
Sympathy.
He waa middle-aged and untraveled
For forty-five years he had lived in
the country. At last he made a trip
to the city.
There, for the first time In his life,
he saw a schoolgirl go through her
gymnastic exercises for the amuse
ment of tbe little ones at homo. After
gaslng at her with looks of Interest
and oom passion for some time he
asked a boy near If she had fits.
•No,'' tbe boy replied. "Them's
gymnastics."
"Ah, how sad!" said the map. "How
long has she had ’em?"
Something Different.
"Let us get up a piscatorial excur
sion."
“Can't do it. I’ve Just arranged to
go on a fishing party.”
Its Kind.
"How do they propose to entertain
the convention after business hours?"
“I supposed with canned music."
Strength »> Beauty
Cora* With Dr. Fiatea'r
Golden Medical Dbcovery
mmmmmmmm mmmmmmmm—m mmmmmmmmmmmm
This to abioad olaaaaar and alterative
that atarta tha liver and stomach la to
vigorous actios. 'It thua assists tha
body to manufacture rich rad blood
which foada tha ha art nervm biais
and organa of tha body. Tha organa
work smoothly Ilka machinery running
In oil. Too foal dean, strong and
atronoooa instead of tired, weak and
faint. Nowadays too can obtain Dr.
Pierce's Golden Nodical Discovery
.fckWfa. aa wall aa tha liquid form
‘ front all ctedisins daalara, or trial box
of tebleta by mail, os receipt of Me.
Address R.V. Pierce, N.D, Buffalo, N.T.
[, In U—■ t«M *j Dnaimt.
. RALPH M. PATTEN
says that Syrup Pepsin has done wo*
dera for her boy Ralph, who was coa
stlpated from birth but is now doing
tine. Naturally, she la enthuslastlo
about It and wants other mothers to
use It Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin ia
sold by druggists at fifty casts sad
one dollar a bottle, the latter size be
tng bought by those who already know
Its value, and It contains proportion
ately more.
Everyone likes Syrup Pepsin, as It la
vary pleasant to the taste. It Is alee
mild and non grlptng and free from In
jurious Ingredients.
Families wishing to try a free sam
ple bottle can obtain It postpaid by ad
dressing Dr. W. B Caldwell, 103 Weak
Washington St, Montlcello, m. A pos
tal card with your name and ad-dreg*
on It will do.
Enjoyment!
"Do you get touch enjoyment out
of the new dances?” they aaked the
stout man of mellow yean
"Enjoyment!” he echoed. "Watch
me"
Seising his partner tn a grip of Iron,
be ambled to the right, kicked to the
left, doubled bis knees, kicked all
around, lunged, ahead, dipped to the
rear, kicked eome more, took a abort
run. beat a retreat, nicked a passing
couple and tank down heavily.
"Doesn't that 11 look like enjoy
ment?” bo summered.
Use for Old Umbrella Rods.
The steel rods from old umbrella*
maka fine plant support!. Disconnect
them where they Join the upper part
and also where the ring slips the han
dle and you have a double rod to alip
into your flower pots, and if they are
painted gray they are unnotleeabie
Some fellows are so clumsy that
they can't eren talk without making
| a break.
■■ ■ ■ . ' 111
Make the Liver
200 Farms
Absolutely Free
Wo will give away FREE of charge
and without restrictions as to im
provement or settlement aoo farm
tracts of from 5 to 40 acres in
Palm Beach County.
#1,000 an acre is often made on
similar land from winter vegetables
alone and fortunes in grape fruit
and oranges. This is the land of
three crops a year, below the frost
line; 365 growing days. The last
day for registration is April* 30;
1914. Low excursion rates March
3rd, 17th, April 7th and April 21st.
Writ* tor full particulars to
Secretary, Chamber of Com
merce, Lake Worth, Florida
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