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AFRO-AMERICAN COLLIES
It has been estimated that about 45
per cent, ot the disease and death of
the people of the United States can be
prevented by the application of mod
ern methods of sanitation, said Booker
T. Washington in a recent address. If
this Is true of the People of the United
States as a whole, I think it is safe
to say that at least 65 per cent, of the
disease and death among negroes is
due to causes that can be prevented.
1 say this because, as everyone knows,
the death rate is much larger at the
present time among negroes than
among whites. Particularly Is this
true among the negro population of
the larger southern cities.
What then is the remedy? I have
said that in this generation at least the
negro will be best off, from every point
’of view, in the rural districts of the
south. We cannot, however, expect
'that he will remain In the country dis
tricts contented, happy and prosperous
without the same means of civilization
that other races enjoy. We cannot ex
pect the negro to remain in the coun
try if he has little opportunity to edu
cate his children; if the schools are
'In session only two or three months
in the year.
Another remedy for the present con
dition of negro health Is education.
The reason that so large a number of
the people of my race are ill and in
efficient is because they are ignorant.
They have never had an opportunity to
know the laws of health and they do
not know how to take care of their
bodies.
1 look forward to the time when
every city and every town of the south
will do what some other cities have al
ready done—started campaigns of edu
cation along lines of health and sani
tation which shall not be confined to
the white portion of the population
alone, but shall extend to the black
portion also.
When I was in Great Britain some
years ago, I discovered that the people
of that great country were spending
annually not tar from $80,000,000 in
an attempt to rescue drunkards, gam
blers, loafers, the misfits of life which
make up so large a portion of the pop
ulation of the great English cities. In
a word, they were spending that tre
mendous sum In trying to get people
up out of the ditch.
The masses of the negro people in
the south, with all their weaknesses
and handicaps, are not yet in the
ditch. How much simpler, wiser and
more economical to spend some mil
lions of dollars to save these people
before they fall instead of waiting to
save them after they are already lost.
During one year 1,500,000 volumes
are called for and supplied by The
j British museum.
. TRAINING STUDENTS FOR USEFUL LIVES
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Students are trained at Hampton institute to go out In the rural coun
try school work of the south as industrial supervising teachers to help
introduce work in cooking, sewing, manual training, agriculture, basket
making, etc.
The man in the picture is an ex-slave teaching summer school teach
ers at Hampton how to make split white-oak baskets.
A negro woman who may be one
hundred and twenty or one hundred
and thirty years old and is certainly
more than one hundred years, has
been discovered living at Trotter, near
■Greensburg She is Mrs. Sarah Walk
er, and makes her home with her
granddaughter, Mrs. Felix Clark. She
■ says she must be "mor’n a hundred.”
Her mind runs back to the "first war.”
She tells of having had three sets of
* twins when the "War of Freedom”
came, and she refers to her former
.owner as "Ole Massa Dickinson." The
family came to Trotter from Hones
.Mills, Franklin county, Virginia.
D. B. Garrett of Holey, Okla.. who
Icalls himself a recruiting officer for
.Alfred Charles Sam, organizer of a
proposed negro colony in Africa, de
clares that he has enrolled more than
100 Boston negroes as prospective col
jonista, says a dispatch from Boston.
.Garrett and G. W. Lane of Wewoke.
Okla., have established headquarters
in a restaurant in the negro quarter
jin the South end. Sam's operations
.are under investigation in New York,
i—Washington Star
In a new hotel in Worcester, Mass.,
i there will be a clock set in the floor
I of the lobby. The dial will be of glass
jone inch thick and will be 24 inches
jin diameter. The ciot/k ;vylll be run
jentlrely by electricity and regulated
idally by telegraph.
In Wood Green, a suburb of London,
l there has been opened a labor ex
change for boys and* girls leaving
school, the object being to find suit
|aHe errrployment for them and sitna
illorw that as far as possible, are what
Jthejr desire. ..
William Kfoste, a street car motor
man of Chicago, was late to work one
day recently for the first time in 20
years. He drove a mule car six years,
before electricity was put into use.
The activities of the Afro-American
race have not been confined to the
professions, however. He has done
well on the farm. There are 880,837
Afro-American farmers in the south
ern states, in 1900 the value of farms
(laud and buildings) was $380,280,968.
According to the census of 1910 It had
increased to $900,132,334, or 136.7 per
cent. In ten years. An example of
the success colored farmers have
wrested from the soil la furnished In
the case of J. G. Groves, the "potato
king." He reached Western Kansas
about 20 years ago with 50 cents in
his pocket and Is now worth more
than 4l°0,000. cHe has succeeded in
raising a larger number'of bushels of
potatoes to the acre thah any other
man In Kansas.
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Berlin is said to be the qufetost city
in Europe, if not in the world. Ail
unnecessary noises are prohibited.
A -"'
H is reported in the London Times
that the government of Tunis is about
to establish a reserve to give refuge
to the rapidly disappearing fauna of
that country. It will include about
4,000 acres of wild, mountainous coon
try and an adjoining marsh of 5,000
acres.
Last year we bought $44,06©,000
worth of lacea from abroad, about
double what we bought about ten
years ago. Art works from Europe
have set us back some $60,000,000, a
aew high record.
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NIAID ANDA BUBBLE
She Thought There Was Some
thing the Matter With the
Sparker—There Was. i
By EMMETT CAMBPELL HALL.
Perhaps 1 should have waited until
1 waB more familiar with the mechan
ism of the thing before Inviting Rose
to take a spin in my bubble; l wAs
very particular to eay "spin'' and
•‘bubble,” as indicating an easy famil
iarity with automobiles, very far from
the true state of affairs.
Miss Prescott (1 did not say
“Rose” when addressing her. I con
fess that I have always been a bit
bashful with girls.) would be de
lighted. Thursday afternoon?
That was oil Monday. I had some
secret misgivings as to the outcome
of the expedition, and spent so much
time out in the machine as to incur
the frown of the senior member of
the firm, who coldly intimated that in
his junior days men were expected to
remain at the office longer than the
period required to ask if there was
any mall Tor them. However. 1 was
doing first rate with the machine, so
didn't mind bid Tomkins’ growls
much. Even Williams, from the agency,
after an afternoon during which I had
only run over one dog, a chicken, and
collided with two trucks, admitted re
luctantly “that maybe in a year or two
1 might be able to travel along a coun
try road, if these wasn’t nobody else
wantin' to use It the eamc day.”
1 had known Miss Prescott for a
long time, and generally whenever
there was anything doing we did It
together. As a matter of fact, when
f come to think it over, she is about
the only girl that I have even called
on oftener thun enough to keep up
acquaintance. aomegow n.
the natural thing to drop In there Sun
day afternoons, and ebe always ex
pected, as a matter of course, that 1
<vcwld stay for supper. Yes, on the
whole, 1 suppose I spent about all of
my spare time In her company. 1
never bothered to think about it, spe
cially, however, till on two Suuduy
afternoons In succession I found Billy
Eagan there when I dropped in. I
didn't stay to supper, and went away
feeling injured. And presently peo
ple began to make little comments
on how much they were together,
watching me out of the corners of
their eyes.
Thursday efteruoon came around
on schedule time, and I brought the
machine up to Miss Prescott's door
with what 1 considered quite a credit
able dash. She was sitting on the
porch, talking to Billy Eagan. They
both got up and eagle down the steps.
"Well, you children run along,” said
Billy. In that disgustingly easy way
of his, "Take my advice, Morton—
and the Blairville road. The country
is so well populated along that route
that when you break down It will he
near a bouse, and you can get a team
to tow you In.”
I didn't deem this levity worthy of a
reply, but I instantly abandoned my
former Intention of going out on the
Blairville road, and determined to
take the valley road, on which the
houses are set at Intervals of about
four miles Billy stood back and
waved his handkerchief as we started.
If be expected to see me make an
exhibition of myself In getting out of
the driveway gate, he was disap
pointed, as 1 bad fully two inches to
spare as we passed the gate post.
After we had gotten clear of the
town and were skimming smoothly
along the country road, I was able to
give a little less attention to my steer
ing and a little more to Hose. She
did not seem in quite her usual
spirits and there wa* a little droop
at the corners of her mouth, but she
presently braced up, and rattled
along in a way that struck me as be
ing a bit feverish. I mentioned Billy
Eagan, and she rather pointedly
changed the subject.
There Is a pretty spring Just off the
road, about four miles out from town,
and Hose suggested that we stop
there In the shade for a while; so
when we reached the place 1 steered
the machine to the side of the road
aud we got out. We had walked a
hundred yards perhaps when Hose
•suddnely turned back.
"Wait a minute, 1 forgot my hand
kerchief.” ■she said, and before I
could say that 1 would get it, she was
gone. She was back in a minute, and
there was a blush on her face and
she avoided my eyes, so 1 supposed
that she had .wanted to its a stocking
I or something. We sat down on the
rocks by the spring, and 1 had never
seeu her so lively anj so pretty. She
Just bubbled. I had got to thinking
about Billy Kagan, and waa rather
j glum. Rose seemed to get provoked.
| ‘Oh. let’s go. You aro too alow
for any use!” she said, and jumped
up.
We went back to the machine, and
1 helped her In. - Then . I gave the
crank a turn. There was no explosion.
I gave several more turns, with a
like lack of result. Rose surveyed
my efforts critically. 1 grew des
perate, and worked that crank as If 1
were a steam windlass. It was no
good, there wasn't a single explosion.
1 looked up at Rose despalrinfly.
"There seems to be something
wrong," 1 admitted sorrowfully.
"Maybe the trouble is with the er—
sparker?” Roee said.
1 loosed at her sharply.
“Do vou know anything about auto
mobiles*?" 1 demanded,
"Oh, no. * just thought I remem
bered that the sp&rker hat* to act. or
there wouldn’t be any—result,” sbe
iaid, rather indifferently.
“Well, what are you going to do?”
Bhe presently demanded. "We can't !
sit here all day, you know. Besides,
I have an engagement this evening
with Billy Eagau.”
1 looked around helplessly.
"I will have to go and get a team
somewhere,” 1 said,
“It's tour miles hack to town, ami
that’s the nearest. Billy Eagpn eaid—”
“Oh, confound Billy Eajau!" 1 said.
She gave me a queer little look from
under her eyelashes. Her eyelashes
are so long that they touch her cheek,
you know.
”1 will have to get a team, that’s
all,” I said firmly.
“And leave me hero all alone?"
Rose protested.
"Then what can 1 do?" I demanded.
"You don’t want to walk to town, do
you ?” and 1 glanced disparagingly at
the little French heel slippers. “They
are Very ornamental, but not espe
cially useful.”
“You don’t' have to look If you don't
like them!” she retorted.
"It's out of the question for you tw
walk—and If you won't stay hero—
what are we going to do?”
"We are ship-wrecked mariners.
Ship-wrecked mariners always wait
until somebody comes along and res
cue? them- - unless they eat each other
first. 1 am getting hungry- already,"
Rose said solemnly. "But we have
plenty of water, anyway," she i^dded
cheerfully. "Let's go back and sit
by the spring; we can see the rosU
Just as well from there."
We sat clown on the rocks. I had
brought the seat cushion from the
outomoblle for her.
"There is room for you, too,” Rose
said.
That brought us pretty near to
gether, and none of my attention was
now being taken up with steering.
The water gurgled over the rocks;
the birds were singing In the trees,
and the shadows were lengthening
across the fields. I could see that
she was tired, for her slender form
began to droop. I slipped an arm
around her—with a little sigh the fair
head came to rest upon my shoulder.
1 leaned forward a little and raised
hor chin gently, that 1 might look
Into her eyes—and then I kissed the
red Ups so near mine.
After a while 1 suddenly came to
earth from up the road came the/
■•honk-honk" of an automobile horn.
-Maybe that fellow can tell us
what's the mailer with the machine?”
1 said, and ran to the road In time to
stop him. It was Jamie Webster, and
he grabbed a monkey-wrench with the
fervid delight with which a medical
student grabs a saw. He crawled over
and under the thing, and tightened
nuts, and tried the sparker. Then he
stood up with a puzzled look on his
face.
•'There don't seem to be anything
wrong,’’ he aaid. Then an expression
of Intense disgust came over his face.
•Sav, Morton, what make* this
thing go?’ bo Inquired
“Nothing seems to just now—gaso
line when It does," l returned petu
lantly.
“Well, why don't you turn It on,
then?" be said, and jumping into his
big machine was gone in a cloud of
duet.
I looked at the supply-cock. In
some way it had gotten shut. 1
turned on the Sow, gave the crank a
turn, and there came the strong, reg
ular cough that indicated that all was
well.
We were rather silent on the way
home. A rosy mist seemed to en
velop us that made speech superflu
ous. Just before reaching the town,
however, 1 brought tbe machine to a
stand.
"Dearest, 1 have a confession to
make,” 1 said.
"So booh ?" nhe smiled.
“Yes. Dear, there was a farmhouse
just behind those tree* on the hill,
not a quarter of a mile from the
spring; 1 could have gotten , a team
there.”
“Oh, I knew that ail the time."
Rose said. “And, dear,” she said
slowly, while a blush crimsoned tbe
white brow: “1 knew you didn't know
much about automobiles, and I thought
you probably wouldn’t notice It—and
| when I said I wanted to go back for
ray handkerchief—I turned oft the
gasoline!”
Solne time later we got home.
(Copyright, by Dally Story Puh. Cal
Activities of Women.
Nearly 200,000 women took ad van*
tage of their first opportunity to regla
; ter ns voters In Chicago recently.
Having their pet animals tattooed
on tbelr arms, ankles, shoulders or
chests is the latest craze among Eng
lish women.
Miss Sarah Edmond la supervising
principal of the Cranford (N. J.) pub
lic schools at a yearly salary of |2,
600.
When Mrs. Alice 8. Wells, pioneer
; policewoman of Los Angeles, goes
f on lecture tours she gives up her
salary during the absence.
Miss Mary Orr la a member of the
j lxtard of directors and acting treas
j urer of the Remington Typewriter
j company.
| In bringing action for divorce, Mrs.
: I.aura B. Potter of Carlisle, Pa„
j claimed that her husband forced her
| to draw a plow In the fields.
Probably the best known business
i womaif In New York city It Miss A.
E. Amendt, private secretary to
Charles Tarbell. the oil magnet.
All Plated.
Mary (excitedly)—John, 1 believe
there Is a burglar down in the dining
room!
John (yawning)—Poor fellow! If he
knows his business he will find out
pretty soon that he is a victim of mta
placed confidence.—Somerville JoOr
aal
Supreme Test.
"Does your husband treat you un
kindly?” asked the lawyer.
“Certainly not!” Bald tho unsub
stantial woman.
“Then why do you want a divorce?”
”1 don't actually want a divorce. 1
merely want to apply for one. Then
I can judge by the kind of a fuss my
husband makes whether be really
cares for me or not.”
A CLERGYMAN’S TESTIMONY. 1
The Rev. Edmund Heslop of Wig
ton, Pa., suffered from Dropsy for a
year. Hie limbs and feet were swol
len and puffed. He had heart flutter
mg, was dizzy
and exhausted at
the least exer
tion. Hands and
feet were cold
and he had such
a dragging sensa
tion across the
Idas that it was
difficult to move.
. Arter using i>
Rev. E. Heslop. of Dodda
Kidney Pills the swelling disappear
ed and be felt himself again. He says
be baa been benefited and blessed by
the ise of Dodds Kidney Pills. Sev
eral months later he wrote: I have
not changed my faith in your remedy
alnce the above statement was author
ised. Correspond with Rev. E. Hea
,’op shout this wonderful remedy.
Dodds Kidney Pills, 60c. per box at
your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co.
liuTila. N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National *Anthem
(English and German words) and re
cipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free.
Adv,
To err Is human—and to blame It
on the other fellow Is still more so
Dr. Pierre’s Pellet#, small, sugar-coated,
es«v to take a# candy, regulate and invig
orate stomach, liver and bowels sod cure
constitution Adv,
Some people count their chlckera
%even before they have any ck;-h
Lameness
Sloan’a IJnlment la a speedy,
reliable remedy for tameness
In horses ana farm stock.
Here’s proof.
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"I had a horse apraia his shoulder hr
polling, 11)0 ha »m so lame he could
not carry foot at all. I got a bottle at
I'Mir IJnlment and put it on four times,
aad In three days he aborted uo lane
Dtaaat all. and made a thirty mile trip
b«£dea."-kefeer B. td, U holts.
Fee Splint aad Thrash
”1 have used Ronn'r Liniment oa a
fine mare for eplin t end cured her, Tbte
make* the third horse I've cored Hate
recommended it to tay neighbors for
thrush and they say it isflne. I Sad It
the best Liniment 1 eter used. I keep
on hand your Sure Colic Cure for say
arlfand neighbor*, and I can certainly
recommend it for CUic."—* *
SLOANS
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Fee He op aad Caak-ae
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The
homesteads of
the low priced
Saskatchewan end
soon have pasted.
Canada offers a heatty welcome
to the Settler, to the man with a
family looking for a home; to the
•farmer"s eon, to the renter, to all whe
wish to live under better condition#.
Canada e> grain yield In 1MJ is
the talk of the world. Luxuriant
Grasses give cheap fodder for large
herds; cost of raising and fattening
for market is a trifle.
The eum realized for Beef, Butter,
Muk and Cheese will pay fifty par
cent on the investment.
Write for literature and partic
ular# as to reduced railway
rates to Superintendent
of Immigration, Ottawa, i
Canada, or to I
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Canadian Government Agl LslUiUn
THICK. SWOLLEN GLANDS
that make a hor*e Wheeee,
Roar, hirt Thick Wind
or Choke-down, can be
reduced with