The New Age (Butte)

THE NEW AGE. MEN'S SUITS Suits for $9.75 Worth up to $18 A fine line of Men's Sack Suits, made of blue serge and blue and fancy cheviots, with values up to $18, marked down to $9.75 a Suit. Suits for $11.75 Worth from $16.50 to $20 A choice assortment of Men's new and nobby Suits, stylishly made of fancy cheviots. Regular $10.50 to $20 values going for $11.75 a Suit. Suits for $14.75 Worth from $20 to $30 Fine tailor-made Suits of black and blue cheviots and serges and fancy cheviots and worsteds in a variety of desirable styles and colorings, correct in style, up-to-date in every particular. Men's Trousers at $2.75 Striped worsted, cheviot and cassimere Trouers in a variety of styles, broken lines but all sizes in the lot. Values to $5, for $2.75 a pair. Men's Trousers at $3.75 A good assortment of Men's Trousses made of striped worsteds and mixed calissimers, all sizes. Values to $6.50, for $3.75 pair Men's Trousers at $4.75 A big lot of Men's Trousers, made of fine worsteds and cassimeres of the newest weaves and best colorings. All sizes, but no two pairs alike. Values up to $9.00 for $4.75 a pair. Mail Orders to Hennessy's Butte, Montana VOL. 1. JACKSON AND BROTHERS Suits for $9.75 Worth A fine line of Men's Sack Suits and fancy cheviots, with valu- $9.75 a Suit. Suits for $11.75 Worth A choice assortment of Men's made of fancy cheviots. Regi- for $11.75 a Suit. Suits for $14.75 Worth Fine tailor-made Suits of black and fancy cheviots and worsted and colorings, correct in style Men's Trousers at S Striped worsted, cheviot and of styles, broken lines but al- for $2.75 a pair. Men's Trousers at S A good assortment of Men's T and mixed cassimeres, all size Men's Trousers at S A big lot of Men's Trousers, m meres of the newest weaves a no two pairs alike. Values u Mail Orders to Henne SAN FRANCISCO PERSONALS. Mrs. J. L. Derrick and son Leo spent Sunday in San Jose. Mrs. Alice Cecil of Salinus spent a few days with Miss Ollie Bolmen this week. Miss Mamie Veany spent the nation's birthday in San Jose as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jacobs. On Monday evening Miss Jessie Bird was entertained by Mrs. Cole. The main feature of the evening was ping pong. I. McKee of 1017 Mason street, is reported as improving. Miss Belle Johnson returned from San Jose on Sunday and on Monday left for her home in Sacramento. Miss Carmeleti Freeman and Mr. John Elkins will be married at Bethel church on Wednesday. A concert will be given by Mrs. Susie Williams, assisted by the best local talent, for the benefit of the Zion church organ fund, on August 4th. A party of young men were out Tuesday evening to serenade Mr. and Mrs. H. D. and J. C. Thompson of Miles' Place. Mrs. Mickliffer of Fruitvale is on the sick list. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Clayton entertained a few of their friends last Friday evening at whist. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Thompson, Mrs. and Mrs. J. R. Roland, Mr. and Mrs. James Clayton and Mr. Blaine Ellis. Mrs. Hattle Moore, who has been in Los Angeles for the last six months, returned home Thursday. Mrs. Mamie Gregwell of Golden Gate who has been sick for some time, died on Thursday, July 10th. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Roland enter --- ...AT... Hennessy's BIG STORE birth up to $18 Suits, made of blue serge and blue values up to $18, marked down to birth from $16.50 to $20 Is new and nobby Suits, stylishly regular $10.50 to $20 values going birth from $20 to $30 Black and blue cheviots and serges tedds in a variety of desirable styles able, up-to-date in every particular. $2.75 And cassimere Trousers in a variety all sizes in the lot. Values to $5, $3.75 Trousers made of striped worsteds sizes. Values to $6.50, for $3.75 pair. $4.75 made of fine worsteds and cassi- s and best colorings. All sizes, but up to $9.00 for $4.75 a pair. essy's Butte, Montana tained at whist on Tuesday evening Those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Ham Thompson, Mr. Bof. Allen, Mr. J. Wade, Mr. Frel Woodson and Earl Woodson. OAKLAND PERSONALS. Mrs. Sarah Collins left for Lake Tahoe last week. Miss Isabele Seville was a visitor in the city on Sunday. Miss Nellie Allensworth is the guest of Mrs. Cashen. C. H. Overton of San Jose spent the Fourth in our midst. Miss Ramey of Los Angeles is the guest of Miss Tesie Clark. Makes Impressive Address. Miss Rhodes, the evangelist, holds audience under spell by magnetic preaching. Miss Rhodes was speaking with the union mission band under the leadership of Rev. Vernon, and without the rant of many street preachers, she held an immense audience until the last sentence and made a marked impression on many of them. Miss Rhodes states that she will probably be here two weeks longer. An African Diplomat. "And the trader wanted you to give up your war club for a string of books." beads? "Yes; but I didn't. I gave him a strip of territory for the beads; but I held on to the war club to get the territory back." The New Age now has on its list Mrs. E. L. Brown of Eufaula, Indian Territory. Mr. Brown, her husband, is one of the most prosperous colored men in the Creek Nation, having gone there in an early day and his energy and keen business ability have gained him a fortune among the enterprises in which he is engaged is cattle raising, farming, real estate, etc. He also runs one of the finest barber shops in the territory. --- BUTTE, MONTANA, SATURDAY. JULY 26, 1902. HOW A NEGRO BOY WON A VICTORY FOR HARVARD. And How Others of the Colored Race Have Achieved Distinguished Hon- ors Recently. William C. Matthews, Harvard baseball champion. Roscoe Conklin Bruce, Harvard's star orator. Henry O. Tanner, artist who has won fame in Paris. H. W. Lewis, famous center rush of Harvard eleven. J. Harry Dorsey, recently ordained Catholic priest. Harvard University's prize orator is a full-blooded negro. The hero of the Cambridge seat of learning at this moment is a negro, right-fielder of the Crimson's nine, whose superb work won the victory from Yale the other day in the furious battle on the diamond. A negro has recently been ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic church by Cardinal Gibbons. In the Paris Salon a picture by a Philadelphia negro hangs with others of the year's best creations of the brush, the second of his works so honored. The daughter of a slave whose ability, learning and high purpose have made him famous and rendered him a great factor in the uplifting of his race—Booker T. Washington—holds, by her grace and talents, a high position among her white sisters at Wesley college, one of the foremost educational institutions of the country. A negro, W. H. Lewis, has become a leading authority on football, and as a coach has no superior. He was the most celebrated centre rush of the Harvard eleven, and the Boston bar is proud of him as a brilliant member. Harvard's Star Orator. These are a few of the recent notable indications of the remarkable progress which is being made by the negro race in various fields of intellectual, artistic and physical activity in the United States. And on this roll of honor must also be written, at or near the top, the name of Roscoe Conkling Bruce, who last month was the star orator of the graduating class of Harvard. His father was Senator Blanch K. Bruce, of Mississippi, one time registrar of the United States treasury and a leader until his death of American negroes in education and politics. When Senator Bruce went to the senate Senator Roscoe Conkling, of all the august body, was the only one to do him the courtesy of escorting him to the president and to his seat. In greatful memory of this act of kindness Mr. Bruce gave to his first son the name of the New York statesman. ship against P. E. Fitzpatrick, of Boston. Young Bruce won the class oratoron, a brilliant speaker. His address was an exposition of what he purposed that his life work should be—namely, helping his race in the south to higher and better things. At the Lincoln day observance at Harvard in February last Bruce spoke on the tesis of the black man summing up his theories in these words: "The most effective way, if I see it, to reach the negro agriculturist, to emancipate him from ignorance and unthrift, is to distribute through the rural districts men and women trained in industrial schools. Bruce's Famous Victory. "The moral enthusiasm which inspired the north in 1865 now inspires the north to join hands with the south to emancipate the negro by the economical progress of education and education that makes men carpenters and carpenters men." Bruce won the coveted oratorical honor by a vote of 269 to 100, and was pronounced one of the finest speakers that the old university had ever had within its walls. In the Harvard-Yale debate of 1900 Harvard carried off the prize, and it was due to the brilliant oratory of Bruce that the victory went to Cambridge. After the debate a large crowd gathered outside his room and cheered him. There was never any color line drawn between him and his fellow-students, with whom he mingled on equal terms in the classroom and gymnasium. Bruce was born in Washington in 1879, went to the public schools in the capital city, thence going to Phillips Exeter Hall, where he fitted for Harvard entering in 1898. His ability as a speaker in the class debating club quickly attracted attention, and he was soon on his class team in the debate against the sophomores. In the fall of 1899 he cme out as a candidate for the Princeton debate, and was chosen for the honor, acquiring himself with great credit. In his freshman year he won the Barton Coubertin medal, offered to stimulate interest in the problems of French politics. He also won the Pasteur medal for the best speech in the interstate debate. His wide reading, great powers of concentration and native powers of mind brought him to victory through many exhausting trial debates. He has also much literary talent, as was shown by stories written by him for the college papers. He is extremely modest and is fond of hard work. As he was not a man of means, he was awarded one of the Price Greenleaf scholarships. Bruce's method of oratory is marvelous in its strength and beauty. Concluding one his speeches he said: "There, upon the southern plantation, is an American in black, bound hand and foot by ignorance and unthrift, slave to the untouched impulse of the present, he is also slave to the accumulated impulses of his past; being slave to an unillumined self, he is slave to a merciless master. "For slavery of this type, the emancipation proclamation is written in one word upon the university (Harvard) seal; it was spoken centuries ago by the Teacher of Teachers, 'And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.'" In another thought equally honorable field Henry O. Tanner, of Philadelphia, has won a high place. This year, and for several preceding years his pictures have been hung in the Paris Salon. "His The Raising of Lazarus," exhibited in 1897, obtained for him the highest award France can give to an artist. It was purchased by the government for the Luxembourg gallery, which distinction carried with it a gold medal and the privilege to the artist of having his pictures exhibited every year in the Salon without submitting them to the Hanging Committee. Mr. Tanner's picture of this year is entled "La Musque," and it has met with much praise from most eminent critics. The negro artist studied his art in Paris under Constant, Tony Robert, Fleury and Bougureau, beginning his studies at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, where his clever work and the fact that he was badly handicapped by the color line there, brought him the sympathy and pecunial aid of Robert C. Ogden. Before he left the academy he was an acknowledged master of his art. Mr. Tanner is forty-three years old, and is the son of Bishop Beninam Tucker Tanner, of the African Methodist church, of Philadelphia, After teaching and working in this country for several years, Tanner decided to take up his residence in Paris, where there is little ostracism on account of color. Under Constant, the master, he rapidly developed his art, and was soon a contributor to the Salon, his first success coming with his "Daniel in the Lions' Den," for which he received honorable mention, and which later attracted much attention in this country. Then he won the gold medal, and took a foremost place in the art world. Although Mr. Tanner paints religious subjects from preference, he has been successful in genre, portraiture and decoration. As a member of the American Academy of Arts in Paris he was selected to decorate the interior of the society building, and was awarded a special prize for the excellence of his work. A critic has said that "perhaps no modern painter more resembles Rembrandt in style than Mr. Tanner. The dominant notes of his work are feeling, sincerity and dignity." In still another field, one in which the best brawn and brain of the universities strive for superiority, a negro has won a distinctive place. William C. Matthews, a negro freshman at Harvard, is the most-talked-of man among the crimson students everywhere at present. The little negro, by scoring a run in the ninth inning of the Harvard-Yale game at New York, won the series for his col. (Continued on Second Page.) Case, Gravelle & Ervin COMPANY Men's Furnishings Of percale, madras, cheviot and oxford cloth, made up with detachable cuffs in neat figures and stripes, and in plain white, with 1-4, 1-2 and 1-inch plaited bosoms. Either of these shirts are suitable for the warm weather wear. Special Now at $1.00 Look cool and comfortable these real warm days. They'll always be worn until something better is brought out. Our Russian calf, single sole, Goodyear welt, $6.00 shoe we offer at the special price 2.65 of. Of your calf, with fancy vamping extension edge, single sole, hand sewed, lace, tip; our price until now $4.00. Special pair 2.75 At half regular price -75c and $1.00 qualities, large Forda and King shapes, at the special price.....50c Men's Fancy Suspenders Not the kind that lay in stock for a year or two, but choice, new ones at a price; good webbibn, leather glove fastener attachment. The price, a pair. ..... 15c Underwear Comfort Men's lightweight balbriggan underwear, color brown, with ribbed cuffs on shirt and drawers; was our 75c garment earlier in the season. Now only... 35c Men's Seamless Sox Uncle Sam brand of seamless box, cotton, double heel and toe; black. A pair ..... 10c Assorted Neckwear Tecks, four-in-hands, bows and strings; 50c qualities. Take your pick. ..... 25c P. J. Brop P. J. Brophy & Co. Grocers and Importers For over Twenty Y The Rich and the and the thrifty find with equal pleasure a store. Our stock compreh to eat and at prices th Your patronage is P. J. Bro For over Twenty Years the LEADERS. The Rich and the poor, the sumptuous and the thrifty find their wants supplied with equal pleasure and satisfaction at our store. Our stock comprehends all that is good to eat and at prices that cannot be beaten. Your patronage is respectfully solicited. P. J. Brophy & G. No. 28 Main St. --- Tan Shoes Men's Shoes Crash Ha No. 9. Men's Felt Hats New blocks, late colors, London smoke with black bands, blue, pearl, black, side nutria and stone; Fedora and golf shapes, narrow and wide brim; an all fur felt hat at $3.00 all season. Now $1.05 Low Shoes Are not a fad, but a necessity. We pool a nice assortment of velour calf, box calf and enamel calf, hand-sewed, tip; all sizes; our $4.00 qualities at Ladies' Department Women's Umbrella Drawers Women's Umbrella Drawers Balbriggan, lace trimmed, bleached, wide umbrella, light weight; -1.00 weight, here. 65c Black Lisle Vests Low neck, no sleeves, lace trimmed, tied with silk tape, nice flexible quality and thin; worth 75c Now only 35c each, 3 for..1.00 Women's Ribbed Vests Low neck, no sleeves, neck and armholes finished with crocheted mercerized silk and tied with tape; earlier in the season price was 25c. Now 15c, 2 for. 25c Out Sizes at Inside Prices Women's under vests in large sizes, nice quality, palbriggan, ribbed, V neck, no sleeves, bleached; our 35c vests. Now 2 for 35c; each. 20c 20 Dozen Choice Shirt Waists Of mercerized washable etamine, blue—corn white pongee= $2.75 was price. Now almost 1.50 half..... Butte, Montana --- 2 THE NEW AGE published weekly by the New Age Publishing Company, office, 220 South Idaho street. Subscription price, $2.00 a year. Six months, $1.10. Three months, 60 cents, invariably in advance. Telephone 862-B. Application made for entry at the postoffice at Butte as second-class matter. TRIBUTE TO REGIMENT FORMERLY AT MISSOULA. A letter has been received at Missoula containing a copy of the circular letter issued by General Burt, upon his relinquishing command of the Twenty-first United States infantry in the Philippines. Headquarters Twenty-fifth U. S. Infantry, Malabon, Rizal, P. I. April 7, 1902. To the Officers and Soldiers, Twenty-fifth United States Infantry. Comrades: It is my painful duty to say I am no longer colonel of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. I can hardly tell you how great a grief this is to me. For ten years I have had the proud privilege of boasting that "I am colonel of one of the best regiments in the United States army, the Twenty-fifth Infantry. This is no idle boast It is based on your splendid record in the past. An inspector said in an official report about you: "This is the finest body of soldiers I have seen in the United States army." The inspector general on his late visit to these islands said to several of our officers, "The Twenty-fifth Infantry is the best regiment I have seen in the Philippines." At the department competition of 1897, in rifle practice, the regiment svented the field. The Missoula battalion is probably the first and only one in the United States army that could and has been drilled by trumpet calls alone. That you are as gallant as the best, remember El Caney, O'Donel, Iba, Arayat and numbers of lesser fights in Zambales. Zambales! One province in Luzon that was absolutely cleaned up of ladrones and insurrections, this by your untiring efforts, night and day, marching and fighting in and out of the rainy season. Oh that was a grand piece of good soldiering! And don't you forget, my comrades, that I will tell that story on all public and private occasions. To the men, not the last to be proud of is your record of good behavior in these islands, proving that your race is as lawabiding as any in the world. I do not recall of the many places where the Twenty-fifth Infantry has been stationed on these islands that the inhabitants were not genuinely sorry when we have been ordered to leave their towns. For that matter, the same is true of your stations in the states. In conclusion, I desire to enjoin on you to remember your fine record in the past and to act in the future that we will all be proud of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. Goodby. A. S. BURT, Brigadier-General, U. S. A. (Late Colonel, Twenty-fifth U. S. I.) HOW A COLORED BOY WON A VIC TORY FOR HARVARD. (Continued from First Page.) lege, and it has made him the idol of Harvard men. Young Matthews went to Harvard from Andover Academy, where he was the greatest athlete in the school. That he was popular there is little question, for he was elected captain of the Andover nine in his senior year. Last fall he went to Cambridge, and, with a reputation as a football player of some ability, he was immediately put on the 'varsity squad and tried at quarter-back. He was full of grit and pluck and quick as a cat. He was retained as a sub-quarter and played in some of the minor games. Every time he played he was given a more enthusiastic reception by the crowd than any other of the crimson warriors, and his appearance at the bat or in the field was the signal for tremendous applause from the grand stand. He is very popular among his fellow-students and is everywhere treated as a Harvard man. His difference in color makes no difference in his social position. He is a very modest man, and possesses wonderfully easy and graceful manners. A Player By Nature. Matthews is a natural player, brilliant in fielding, a hard thrower, sure at the bat and a flash of "greased lightning" on the bases. With these qualities and a handsome, smiling, good-natured face, the little colored man has established an unexpected precedent in the conservative and aristocratic old Crimson university. This country has had three negro priests of the Roman Catholic church. but one of them, Father Tolton, who died in Chicago several years ago, was ordained abroad. The first colored priest ordained here was the Rev. C. R. Ungles, who took orders at the hands of Cardinal Gibbons, in Baltimore, in 1891. The second colored priest was ordained une 21 last, also at Baltimore, and by the venerable Cardinal Gibbons. He is the Rev. J. Harry Dorsey, a graduate of Epiphany Apostolic College of Baltimore, and on the following Sunday he celebrated his first mass at St. Francis Xavier's church for colored people, where he was baptized, confirmed and took his first communion. Father Dorsey was born in Baltimore, and received his early education in the public schools there. Forced by ill-health to suspend his studies, he spent two years endeavoring to recuperate. Meantime he had become a communicant at St. Francis Xavier's and in 1888 the Rev. J. R. Slattery became interested in him and opened a way to him for educational advantages. His patron sent him to St. Paul to study under Archbishop Ireland, where he remained for one year. Dr. Slattery having established Epiphany College, at Walbrook, for the purpose of educating young men for the negro missions, he brought his protege east to become a pupil there. Dorsey was graduated with high honors in 1893 and matriculated at St. Joseph's seminary in September of that year. He took additional courses in philosophy and theology at St. Mary's Sulpician seminary, and was so able a student that three honorary degrees of the seminary were conferred upon him. Father Dorsey will devote his life to work among the negro people. Dr. M. I. Stone-Wigg, the Protestant bishop of New Guinea, electrified a missionary meeting presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury the other day by his sensational account of his experiences among his cannibal flock. Perhaps his unconventional ideas on the subject of the responsibilities of empire-building caused as much astonishment to this religious assemblage—for nowhere is ingoise more rampant than in the church—as his ghastly and grisly stories of man-eating Christians. "It is a great responsibility," said the bishop, "to have added to the empire an area of 90,000 square miles, and to have added to the subjects of the ing a native population of fully half a million who are in the degradation of primitive savagery and bar barkism. "The addition has been made for the purely strategic purpose of securing to our empire one of the highways of the world. It is far more serious responsibility to send you out to the savages of New Guinea, whom the British government have disarmed white savages with their arms of precision to decimate them, to outrage them and to poison them. "Many of the white men who go out to New Guinea are rough and undisciplined and require to be kept in check. Christmas day, the Festival of the Incarnation, is known to the natives of that ultima Thule of the British empire as aday on which the white man drinks strong drink and then lies down to sleep. "I can hardly mention the things that are done in that land of undisciplined white men who are away from the supervision of parents, the civilizing influence of women, and the restraints of home life. "For a white man to thrust his revolver into the throat of a native chief in order to get free access to a village is only one of the things which are done every day under the British flag. It is certainly not true to say that throughout the British empire there is equal justice for the white and the colored man alike. In British New Guinea a white man can shoot a native for £5; but if a native kills a white man there is the hangman ready for him. "I do not mean to say that all the white men are such as I have described. There are men there who are a credit to their race, and who are possessed of a genuine religious feeling. "As to the native race in New Guinea they are still in part in a state of cannibalism. They are still cutting down trees with stone aes, s fighting with stone clubs, and still hollowing out canoes with stone tools. "They still make cannibal raids upon one another, and they have scarcely reached the elementary stage of civilization. I hold in my hand the awbone of a boy who was killed in British territory, only three miles from the coast, as lately as THE NEW AGE. September last, and whose body was thrown upon the fire, dismembered and eaten. "And yet, notwithstanding the raids which the natives make upon one another, there are evidences that a change is setting in. Conscience is at work among them, and when they have been committing outrages they are conscious that they have been doing wrong, and they slink back from their cannibal encounters in twoes and threes and try to avoid the missionary, and they omit the war-song and the war-dance and the public distribution of the cannibal food, which were formerly customary among them. "It is a terrible thing that the cannibal raids should happen at all, and yet they are not carried out as in the old days. The people are in fact emerging from their barbarism, though now and then there is an outbreak of their old habits of savagery. The villages, too, are gradually taking on a new aspect. "No longer is the living child buried with the dead mother, neither are female children now exposed in baskets hung on the boughs of trees. All down the coast a change is taking place. The children are being brought into the schools; the sick are being healed; old and young are being taught, and Sunday is being observed as God's day of rest. "A portion of the Bible is being printed in the native language. The New Guinea Christians are already expert compositors, and they are devoting their services to the setting up of parts of the Word of God. And not only so, but industrial arts of various descriptions are being taught to the people. "Some are being made boat builders, and some are being trained as carpenters. White men say there is one thing the New Guinea natives cannot be taught to do, and that is to work. But Christian missionaries have proved that Christian natives, inspired by Christian motives, and living in Christian settlement, can work steadily at most laborious task under the hottest suns and in the most moist temperatures, and can achieve tasks which native white men find too onerous. "All through the coast God's Word is being taught. The old, dull, sensual look of ignorance and superstition in the native countenance is giving way and the faces are beginning to shine with a light which shows that the people are being brought to a knowledge of the truth. The needs of the heathen world are enormous, but there is a fund upon which the church can draw, and that is Christian self-sacrifice." Negro Boys in Cairo Were Kidnaped. London, July 17.—Particulars have just reached here of the kidnapping of four negro boys in Cairo to be sold as slaves in Syria. Two men were found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude, while a boy who assisted them is transported for five years. The details of the case show that the old conditions of eastern life still prevail underneath the Egypt which is ruled by Lord Cromer. Each of the A man can save money and feel more comfortable by wearing clothes that fit. are all made expressly for us. They fit well, look well and wear well. Prices are little, if any, higher than you pay for "trashy" wholesale clothing. boys. kidnaped was accosted in the streets of Cairo and offered work as a camel-tender at a small village in the suberbs of Cairo. Arriving separately, they were bound and gagged and taken across the desert, their captors bribing the Turkish frontier guards. One boy escaped and gave evidence that caused the arrest and conviction of the kidnapers. The three others were sold for about $60 each before the arrests were made. GREAT FALLS NEWS NOTES. Great Falls, July 25, 1902. Editor New Age. Gentleman: I have seen several copies of you interesting paper and think it ought to be a constant visitor to tach and every reader in our city. We are glad to have it each week and we will endeavor to keep it before our people. We are pleased to note that many positions in the Falls and Benton and Havre are being opened to our people, and we believe the credit is due to the Rev. W. L. N. Baker, who has worked so faithfully, and by his daily christian life has done much to establish confidence among the best white people of each of the cities, that was much needed. When he came to Great Falls the work alone will show the mark of improvement done in the last year in Rev. Baker's charge on the first day of January, 1992, our church of Great Falls was the foreclosure suit. The suit is the outcome of a mortgage given by the trustees, October 1894, for $560.00. We, the trustees, at the above date, had not one cent in our treasury to meet this payment, and we had lost all hopes of ever lifting this mortgage, and our many friends had become sore at our failure, but Rev. Baker and his faithful wife went into the business places and streets until he had succeeded in raising the last dollar of $575.00, and lifted the mortgage from the Western Building Loan of Salt Lake City, Utah, and we feel safe in saying Rev. Baker has done a wonderful work for us by saving our church here. He has had the water put in the church which we have never had before. Fev. Baker has also organized a new work at Havre, Mont. Bought a lot and paid $100 cash and got the deed, and bought a building 18x40. The building cost $75, and reduce this amount to $45, which amount will be paid before he leaves for conference. Rev. Baker is highly respected by both white and his people and we hope he will be able to return another year to us and we will ask the conference to do so. Strangers who visit the city for a short time should not go away without visiting Columbia Gardens, the most delightful resort in Montana. Cars leave Park and Main street every ten minutes. Admission free. The Dora Studio PHOTOS BY EVERY PROCESS BIG BARGAINS FOR SMALL MEN Five Hundred Small Sized Spring Suits offered in this Mid-Summer Sale for the Smallest Suits Such Garments Have Ever Cost $4.90 It is a striking thing to do—this selling day cost to make, but it is the order of the day must be absolutely clean, and therefore these fixtures are booked to join the vast array of spills left the store this season. But this is the striking thing to do—this selling of suits snake, but it is the order of the day that Saturdays clean, and therefore these five hundredooked to join the vast array of splendid wore this season. But this is the biggest b It is a striking thing to do—this selling of suits at less than they cost to make, but it is the order of the day that Symons' stock must be absolutely clean, and therefore these five hundred pieces of apparel are booked to join the vast array of splendid wearables that has left the store this season. But this is the biggest bargain of all. JUDGE FROM THIS PARTIAL DESCRIPTION Such decidedly attractive and desirable crash and light outing suits, ultra striking hand-made homespun suites, womited suits and superb herring and pretty; linings really excellent and modern; values up to $18.00. SIZES 23 TO 36 BAGS SYMC Economists for A Dream Morning Confectionery and Parlour The Best Ice Cream, Candy and Cake in the City. Our store has been entirely proved machinery and facilities for goods in the quickest time and at the OFFICERS L. N. Owsley.....President C. P. TURBENTINE.....Vice Pres. T. A. WEATT.....Secretary JOHN PEARSON.....Treasurer Afro-American Lincoln Club HRADQUARTERS: 130 SECOND AVENUE Docatello, 3dabo decidedly attractive and desirable apparel as a sw and light outing suits, ultra stylish tunne che ing hand-made homespun suits, Scotch tweed sw d suits and superb herringbone affairs; design tty; linings really excellent, fashions clever modern; values up to $18.00, at.... SIZES 23 TO 36 BREAST MEASURE =SYMONS= economists for the People A Dream of Beauty Morris's Sectionery and Ice C Parlor. Ice Cream, Candy and the City. 62 W store has been entirely refurnished and t machinery and facilities for turning out the h the quickest time and at the best prices in t OFFICERS President TIME Vice Pres. Secretary Treasurer American Colon Club ERS: 130 SECOND AVENUE catello, 3dabo Monta Steam Laun Such decidedly attractive and desirable apparel as swagger wool crash and light outing suits, ultra stylish tunne chevlot suits, striking hand-made homespun suits, Scotch tweed suits, crepe wormed suits and superb herringbone affairs; designs, select and pretty; linings really excellent, fashions clever and modern; values up to $18.00, at. $4.90 Economists for the People Directors—Chas. Hill, Geo. Lewis, Jas Watson, Wm., Simms, John Holland. THE GREAT ATLANTIC TEA CO. Teas Direct from the Garden to the Tea Pot NO MIDDLEMEN'S PROFIT 63 W. Broadway Phone 888 A Butte, Montana Crescent Milk, Cream a Butter and L Wholesale Crescent Creamery k, Cream and Ice C Butter and Ranch Eggs Wholesale and Retail. is selling of suits at less than of the day that Symons' stock more these five hundred pieces of array of splendid wearables that this is the biggest bargain of all. durable apparel as awagger wool a, stylish tunno cheviot suits, its, Scotch tweed suits, crepe bone affairs; designs select fashions clever at... $4.90 EAST MEASURE ONS for the People of Beauty ris's and Ice Cream or. and 62 W. Park refurnished and the most im- turning out the highest class the best prices in the state. Montana Steam Laundry 45 to 55 W. Mercury Telephone 81 Our facilities for handling fine work are the very best. All orders called for and promptly delivered. JOHN SCOVIL, - Proprietor Only Exclusive Costuming House in Montana. Madame Robinson's COSTUMING EMPORIUM 105 WEST GRANITE STREET. MASQUERADE COSTUMES, WIGS, MASKS, ETC. Ball, Theatrical and Street Dresses For Sale or Rent. LADIES—Spanish Princess, Queen of Night, Gypsy Queen, Topsy, Carmen cita, Daughter of Regiment, Sorceress Japanese, Tamborine, Polish Costume Jobbing, Cabinet and Office Fixtures a Specialty. 216 WEST BROADWAY Overland Rye The Whiskey of Montana THE Troy Laundry Go. Will call for and Deliver that Laundry. ...Ring Up 'R Remen TROY LAU 'Phone 2. 232 S Butte Fl The Leading De Florists of M Cut Flowers a Decorations and Des Salesroom, 107 W Ring Up 'Phone 2 Remember ATTROY LAUNDRY No. 2. 232 South Main itte Floral The Leading Decorators a Florists of Montana Cut Flowers and Plants Operations and Designs a Spe Salesroom, 107 West Broadway. ...Ring Up 'Phone 2... 'Phone 2. 232 South Main Street The Leading Decorators and Florists of Montana Cut Flowers and Plants Decorations and Designs a Specialty Green Houses at Gregson Springs. A large supply of beautiful card flowers are always carried. All orders For a real sweet suit of clothes, at rate prices, call on Dan Ko The Fashiona 305 North Main St City Steam 101 W. Granite St Ladies' and Gents' Garm Pressed and Repaired a real swell, up-t clothes, at very n ces, call on Jan Kowsk The Fashionable Tailor North Main St., - Steam Dye W Al W. Granite St., Cor. Ala nd Gents' Garments Clea ed and Repaired, Equal t A large supply of beautiful carnations and roses and other flowers are always carried. All orders receive prompt attention. For a real swell, up-to-date suit of clothes, at very moderate prices, call on The Fashionable Tailor 305 North Main St., Butte City Steam Dye Works IOI W. Granite St., Cor. Alaska Ladies' and Gents' Garments Cleaned, Dyed Pressed and Repaired, Equal to New Goods Called for and Delivered. Telephone 826M. ALBERT BARCLAY. Proprietor. TUTTLE JEWELRY CO. NORTH MAIN STREET A New House of Our Day and Time, with the only New and Desirable Lines of A New House of Our Day and Time, with Diamonds a Watch Specialty Cut C Manufacturing and Repair Depart Men of exceptional ability in ch of our prices . . . . Our Day and Time, with the only New and a Watches, Jewel specialty Cut Glass, Brie fucturing and Repair Departments with 1902 Ea exceptional ability in charge. We invite co prices . . . . Manufacturing and Repair Departments with 1802 Equipment. Men of exceptional ability in charge. We invite comparison of our prices . . . . NOTICE. All the advertisers and patrons of the New Age will receive the patron- age of the colored people of the city. and state. It shall be the purpose of the New --- Phone 2... member LAUNDRY South Main Street decorators and Montana and Plants designs a Specialty West Broadway. Telephone 213 cernations and roses and other orders receive prompt attention. well, up-to-date at very modern owske Table Tailor St., - Butte Dye Works St., Cor. Alaska aments Cleaned, Dyed red, Equal to New ALBERT BARCLAY. Proprietor. WELRY CO. In the only New and Desirable Lines of Patches, Jewelry Glass, Bric=a=Brac departments with 1002 Equipment. charge. We invite comparison Age to favor those who have contribu- ted to the support of our paper. Every colored family in the city should subscribe for the New Age, as it is the only organ that is trying to gain for them a higher estimate and broader --- Co. THE NEW AGE FROM THE HUB OF MONTANA. Helena, Mont. July 24, 1902. The members of the "Twenty-One" club expect to give a picnic and dance at Central park, July 31. A large attendance is expected and a good time is anticipated. Thursday, July 24, the St. James A. M. E. Sunday school gave a picnic at Broadwater. A large crowd attended and every one had an enjoyable time. A party of sixteen climbed Mount Helena Tuesday evening. The evening was cool and the moon was bright and the trp was enjoyed by all. Rev. Wagner is holding meeting every evening at St. James A. M. E. church. His sermons are enjoyed by all who hear him. Miss Helen Anderson, accompanied by Mrs. Boxly, left last week for Washington, D. C., where she expects to remain indefinitely. POCATELLO ROUNDUP. Mr. L. M. Owley has just returned from a three days' trip on the mountains, where he was looking after his mining interests. At the races at Pocatello, on July 5th, the three hundred yard race and the quarter-mile dash were won by Canary, the winner being the property of L. N. Owley, the genial and popular manager of the Gate City club. Mr. Wm. Ford has purchased two lots in the suburbs of the city and will begin the construction of a four-room cottage at once. Mr. Chas. Hill, the popular colored night bartender at the Resort saloon, will visit friends in Salt Lake City for a few days. Mrs. S. Pearson of Cheyenne is visiting her son, Mr. John Pearson, the worthy chaplin of the Gate City club. Mr. R. M. Pearson has taken a trip to Great Falls to visit friends. Mr. Chas, H. Wagner is in Rook Springs, paying his mother a visit. Mr. Wm. Hammons was on the sick list, but has recovered sufficiently to be out again. Mr. Fred Scott was quite ill last week with mountain fever, but he is rapidly recovering. On Friday last a party of four colored men of this city went up the river to swim. One of the number, a young man, by the name of Wm. Jones, said to the others in the party, that he could not swim, but he would try it anyway. After jumping into the water and swimming across the river he began to fight the water with both hands furiously as if he had a fit and in a short time he sank and did not rise to the top of the water any more. They at once began a search for the body, but were unable to find it until 9 o'clock next morning. Mrs. A. Townson is in the city from Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. Townson expect to make this their future home. Mr. Pennie is in the city, from Cheyenne, visiting his mother. Mr. Pennie expects to remain in the city all the summer. Mrs. Johnson and nephew, who have been in the city visiting friends and relatives, have returned to their home in salt Lake. The funeral of the colored man, who was drowned in the Portneuil river Friday last, was held at Manas sa's undertaking parlers Sunday afternoon, by the pastor of the Methodist church. It was largely attended by the people of his race. It was said by some that the name of the deceased was Buggs and not Jones, and any information you can give regarding his name will be thankfully received, as he resided for quite awhile in Butte and also in Anaconda. SALT LAKE NEWS. Mrs. Lee Johnson has returned after two weeks' visit in Pocatella. Mrs. Annie Macon is up after quite a spell of sickness. Miss Mamie Perkins has returned from Little Rock, Ark., where she has been attending school. She is delighted to get home and her many young friends extend her a cordial welcome. Mrs. A. Thompson is doing as well as could be expected at the "Holy Cross Hospital," but the many friends has been very slow about visiting Mrs. Stead and Mrs. Washington are the only ones that have been to see her. You can see her any day between 2:00 and 4:00 p. m. "He that will have friends must show himself friendly." Miss Blanche Flake, of Grey's Lake, Ida., is visiting her aunts. Mrs. Susan Blanchard, 250 South 3rd West street. Miss Julia Fergerson, of Quincy, Ill., a niece of Rev. J. W. Washington, is expected in a few days. She comes with the expectation of locating in this city. Mrs. Bertha Stallsworth has applied for divorce on the grounds of desertion. Rev. J. W. Washington and the members of his church are making great preparation to serve meals during the Elk's grand reunion. They have been guaranteed by the reception committee one hundred members who will take meals with them. Mr. and Mrs. James Thomas and Mr. S. H. Harden have returned from the Grand Session of the I. O. G. T., which was held at Omaha. Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Seals who also attended, are expected this week. Mr. McSwine has called a meeting for next Tuesday evening to organize a Knights of Pythias lodge. The Baptist church people have been offered $500.00 more than they paid for their property, which indicates its value. Miss Lutie Jones and Miss Anna Lacon will give a benefit social for Mrs. B. F. McIntyre one the 30th inst. Mr. West Griffin, of Knoxville, Tenn., stopped in the city this week, he was enroute to Los Angeles with the view of locating there. The Salt Lake Literary society held a meeting last Tuesday evening. A short program was rendered: Recitation by Miss Jones; select reading, Mrs. Stead; Mrs. Cora Britton was elected president. Mrs. Calaway, Mrs. P. H. Robinson and Mrs. Durham prepared refreshments. Mrs. Wm. Robinson closed the drawing for three fancy pillow covers. Mrs. Frankie Phelp was the successful winner of the first prize, a handsome yellow satin pillow covering with a black silk butterfly applique. The second prize was won by Mrs. W. D. Powell, a brown lining covering embroidered with full size Tiger lillies. Mr. Grant Smith won the third, which was a green lining covering embroidered with red popes. Everyone was well pleased. Rev. B. F. McIntyre and some of the ladies of his church entertained the presiding elder, Rev. James H. Hubbard, at Salt Air, last Thursday. Some people wait to see how a thing is going, but every one should subscribe for the New Age and help it to go. The Trinity A. M. E. church held their last quarterly meeting before conference, which convenes in Leadville, Colo., Sept. 3rd. The services were well attended. The presiding elder, Rev. James Hubbard, preached three splendid sermons in the morning his theme was "The Old Path, in the afternoon "The Christian Amor," after which many partook of the Lord's Supper." The evening services were well attended. The collections were very good. The choir that had prepared special music for the occasion, deserves much credit, and if they continue they will be the best choir in the inter-mountain region. Mrs. Willis Green presided at the organ. The quarterly conference was held Wednesday night and the reports of the different departments were very good. The Cavalry Baptist church was well attended last Sunday. Half of the congregation was white. There is a good interest manifested in the Sunday school. Regular services every Sunday at 11:00 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. The subject for next Sunday night will be "The Brotherhood of Man," by the pastor, Rev. J. W. Washington. Everybody is cordially invited to attend all the services. Mr J. E. Otey, who came here recently, from Denver, Colo, has accepted a position on the Oregon Short Line dining car. The bar on one of the dining cars was briken open while the car was standing in the yard last Sundav night, at Ogden, and forty dollars worth of wine was taken. It seems as one of the conductors, whose love is not very great for cloried, had the chief cook, Mr. McWilliams, arrested, but he was released as soon as Mr. F. E. Lewis, the general manager. OGDEN, UTAH. WE DESIRE TO CALL ATTENTION TO OUR STOCK OF CARPETS, LACE CURTAINS and DRAPERIES ALSO OUR SILK AND DRESS GOODS COUNTER, AND LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR DEPARTMENT MAIN STREET heard of it. He proved to be innocent. There was one of them old-time feet-shaking here last Wednesday night. There was a good crowd out and everybody had an enjoyable time. M.. James Ashford, who came here from Cheyenne, Wyo., is the swingman on the diner between Ogden and Pocatella, and it is said he can give any kind of service required. He stands high in the waiters' fraternity. Mr. Frank B. Mason, of Pocatella, favored us with his subscription. This is a colored enterprise and all should help it along. Malay Weapon The national Malay weapon, the creee, is said to have been invented by a Japanese monarch of the fourteenth century. Its varieties are said to exceed a hundred, and there are in Javanese no fewer than fifty names for them. It varies in size, from the two foot wavy blade of Sulu down to a mere tooth-pick. But the peculiarity is that the weapon is never ground, but kept rough and sawlike in edge by scouring with lime juice or the juice of an unripe pineapple, sometimes mixed with arsenic, and it is on this account that creee wounds are so dangerous. Old specimens are so eaten away by this practice that the blade seems formed from a bunch of wires roughly wided up. Such creees are highly valued, and some of the ancient ones, helioclores of chiefs, with gretosely carved and inlaid hilts and sheaths, are almost unpurchasable. Where Theft Is Not Robbery. Where Theft Is Not Robbery. In China theft is so common that nobody notices it. A young Chinman once slipped three oranges up his sleeve at a party. While making his bow at parting the oranges slipped on and rolled on to the floor. He accounted for the awkward event by saying that his mother was very fond of oranges. His fault was straightway overlooked, and he was afterward held up as an instance of filim pletery. There are several proverbs which go to show that the folk think lightly of stealing. One says that "when tallers cease to piffer cloth their children will have to go without food," and another declares, "When silversmiths do not steal, they will certainly starve." The Trising Brother The Writing Lesson "Brer Jenkins, you so triffin' dat I vely believes ef you wuz 'photted to be watchman at de pearly gates de fust tiny you'd do would be ter let down en go fas 'sleep." "Brier Thomas, you may well say dat, kaze I'd she' feel so good over do 'pinfment I'd des nachlyh hatter go ter sleep ter dream of it wuz true."—Atlanta Constitution. Discovered. A story is told of a little girl who asked one morning at the breakfast table, "Mamma, is hash animal or vegetable? "Animal, my dear," replied mamma. "Then," creed the little one triumphantly, holding up a tiny bone, "here's the hash's tooth!" A Ready Reply. Poote's ready reply to the caution, "Your handkerchief, sir, is hanging out of your pocket," was of high merit, both from the surprise and for the cordial way in which the caution was accepted—"Thank you, sir; you know the company better than I do."—Gentleman's Magazine. No Reason For Delay "My darling," he exclaimed, "I would go to the end of the earth for you." There was a slight pause while the orchestra played tremulous ragtime. "Suppose," she said, "you begin your travels now." -Pittsburg Dispatch. The Messenger Boy. "Why is it that one can never get a bright, reliable and speedy messenger?" "Do company don't pay dat kind of wages, ma'm."-Indianapolis News. PROVISION CO. Wholesale Oysters, Fish and Poultry M. M. HENNOGER HELENA . . . . MONTANA Goodkind Bros. WHOLESALE LIQUOR, TOBACCO AND CIGAR DEALERS WE ARE THE LEADERS IN FINE LIQUORS AND CIGARS Helena, Mont. R. C. WALLACE & CO. The Best Groceries In Helena Give us a trial for the FINEST GOODS at the most rea- sonable prices HELENA, MONTANA THE Gate - City - Club CLARK STREET Pocatello, Ida. OFFICERS WM. HAMMONS ..... President CHAS. HILL ..... Vice-President L. N. OWSLEY ..... Secretary CHAS. THOMPSON ..... Treasurer L. N. OWSLEY ..... Gen. Manager DIRECTORS WM. HAMMONS CHAS. HILL L. N. OWSLEY CHAS. WAGNER CHAS. THOMPSON 4 17 East Quartz Wall Paper, Paint and Glass Contracting Painters and Paperhangers PHOTOGRAPHS AND KODAK WORK FLASH LIGHT WORK AND PHOTO BUTTONS. 221 South Arizona Street. PHONE 845-B BUTTE.....MONTANA LOCAL NOTES ROOM TO RENT—Mrs. Lucas, 116 South Idaho street. Mrs. Grace Brown was over this week from Anaconda. Mrs. George Willis was indisposed for a few days this week. We are glad to state that Mrs. Ennis Bell, who has been very ill for two weeks, is improving rapidly. We will be glad to see her out again. Mrs. Anna White is seriously ill at her residence on South Idaho street. Mr. W. E. Scott, of Anaconda, was in the city two days last week visiti- ng Mrs. Scott. Mr. Ben Endman, who recently had the smallpox, and was released after three weeks at he pesthouse, was taken back again this week with chickenpox. We wonder what kind it will be next time. Mr Charles Fortune has been hovering between life and death for three days this week from pneumonia. It is conceded by the attending physician this her chance of recovery is doubtful. Mrs. Lee Bell has sold her interest in the beautifying parlors conducted by her and her partner. Mrs. Bell is contemplating going into business under her exclusive management. Mr. James Collins went down to Brown's Lake Tuesday evening with a party. Mr. E. W. Jarrett of Salt Lake was entertained by friends last Tuesday evening at whist. We might reverse this and state he entertained friends, as it was a very difficult matter for the boys to get onto his leads. Rev. J. H. Jenson and wife were up from Anaconda last Sunday. He preached at the Baptist church Sunday evening and every one enjoyed the discourse. Mr. R. C. Logan left last week for Chicago, where he will join the famous Georgia Minstrels. We are sorry to lose a good fellow from our midst, as Mr. Logan, but the New Age wishes him all the success and prosperity that may come his way. Our genial friend and editor, Mr. Chris Dorsey, left last Thursday evening for Alaska, where he expects to explore the land of treasure for several weeks. He will send special letters to the New Age every week to be published for the benefit of its patrons. We wish him unbounded success in his adventure, and should he strike it rich and return to be with us again, it will be just what the New Age wishes for him. May he go forth to the land of great riches and meet with endless pleasure; and whilst sailing the seas of the arctic circle and plowing Davis straight and Bafins bay in his leisure moments, may his thoughts return to the dear one that he leaves with a sad heart and empty longings. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Webb entertained a few friends last Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. S. A. Smith, who expects to leave next Monday for Spokane, to visit her mother. Among those present were Mrs. S. A. Smith, Mrs. A. Nelson, Mrs. J. I. Jacobs, Miss Ida Nelson, Miss Minnie Smith, Mr. Shepherd Merchant, Mr. Jas. S. Yancy, Mr. Charles Lair and J. W. Duncan. Refreshments, consisting of fruit punch, cake and wine and assorted fruit, was served. Everyone responded to a toast in wishing the guest of honor a fine trip. The whole party enjoyed themselves and seemed to be greatly benefited by the fruit juice and wine. "Amid the Green Fields of Virginia" was sung for the pleasure of the host who is a Virginian and takes kindly to music relating to his nativity. Mr. and Mrs. Webb exerted every available means to have the guests feel comfortable, and when a little tanglefoot was presented, no one seemed backward in disposing of his portion. Fancy oriental napkins were presented by the hostess as souvenirs, with the signatures of the guest present. The crowd departed after a late hour, full of merriment, after having enjoyed the finest evening of pleasure this season. Mrs. George Willis returned last Tuesday evening after a three weeks' visit in Helena and Ball Butte mountains, greatly benefited by the two weeks' stay in the mountains, enhaling the pure ozone and drinking the health-giving liquid of the mountain springs. Mrs. Willis was royally entertained while in Helena, and only regretted that she could not stay long enough to repay the courtesy received from her many friends. It was her intention to spend a week on returning from Ball Butte, but George had sent a telephone message along the line stating that he was beginning to get lonesome, and the old home did not look like it used to look; and he was under the impression that she must be growing lonely and homesick; so you had better come along back and get ready for the big dance on Aug the 6th. Bethel Baptist Church Notes. Sprays, Sprangles and Spurs—Rev Louis will be at the A. M. E. church in the morning of the opening, to take part in the services at 11 a. m. In the evening preaching at Bethel from 7 to 8 p. m., Young people's meeting. The baby show of the 29th has been postponed for Tuesday August 22, which will give more time for the sale of tickets. MRS. HATTIE WILSON. PROGRAM. Afternoon July 27, Shaffer's A. M. E. Old Hundred.....Choir Responsive Reading.....Rev. J. Allen Opening Hymn— Prayer. Scripture Lesson— Tenor Solo—Palm Branches ... S. Reeves Preaching.....Rev. Tong Anthem—Wake—The Song... E. O. Excell Choir. Rally—a. Sound Battle Cry. b. Seek- ing Lost. e. Glory In the Cross. Choir. Remarks—Several Members of Minstrel Union. Remarks. Announcements.....Rev. Allen Doxology.....Choir PROGRAM. Sunday Evening July 27, 8:30, Shafer's A. M. E. Church. Old Hundred.....Choir Responsive Reading.....Rev. Allen Opening Hymn.....Choir Prayer. Anthem—I was Glad. Scripture Lesson..... Rev. Hubbard Soprano Solo... Miss K. Shackleford Preaching..... Rev. Hubbard Soprano..... Miss M. A. Davls Rally—We Shall Stand Before the King. Treading the Way. Announcements. Doxology. BLACK JOE WALCOTT A DEMON. Little Barbadoes Gorilla Has Every Heavy Weight in the Ring Leary. Joe Walcott is a demon. At the present time the chunky coon is industrously engaged in looking for someone who will face in a 24-foot ring. For self-evident reasons they all dodge him. Wacott can whip any man in the ring today with the possible exception of Jeffries and Fitzsimmons. He weighs only 145 pounds and is just a fraction over five feet in height; it seems marvelous that with that build he is such a fighting machine, but nature has endowed him with a peculiar shape. The Barbadoes Demon is put up like a gorilla. His shoulders are as broad as a 200 pound man. He has no neck and his thick head is tucked down between his broad shoulders where it is almost impossible to reach it. His arms are abnormally long. Joe can stand erect and scratch the calf of his leg. Walcott can fight like a machine. He laughs at an opponents efforts to hurt him. He is as tough as sole leather and strong as a bull. He comes by his physical make-up honestly. His parents were cannibals in Barbadoes Islands. Juice bands of measure and do his extorted the men a no one Walcott recently posted $5,500 in Boston and dared any man in the ring to meet him. No man will take him up. The coon with the long arms and short body is the terror of all pugilists. He has been ten years in the ring and has fought many battles, but they side-track him these days and he is going stale waiting for a fight. THE NEW AGE. FOOLED HIS SUPERIOR. An Astonished Pasha and a Lieutenant Who Won Promotion. Kassim Pasha when minister of war for Egypt was very particular in regard to the personal appearance of his officers and issued stringent orders that they should never appear unshaven in public. One day he met upon the street a lieutenant who had bearded the pasha and disregarded his orders. "To what regiment do you belong?" demanded the indignant minister. "To the — the regiment, at Abasseu," replied the frightened lieutenant. "Get into my carriage at once that I can carry you to the encampment and have you publicly punished," was the stern command which followed. The young man obeyed, and the twain rode along gloomily enough for some time, when the pasha stopped his carriage and entered an office where he would be detained for some time on business. Seizing the opportunity, the culprit sprang from the vehicle, darted into a neighboring barber's stall and regained his post before the return of his jalfer minus his beard. For the remainder of the route the officer buried his face in his hands and seemed the picture of apprehension. Abasseu was reached at last, and all the officers were assembled to witness the degradation of their comrade, who all the while kept well in the rear of his chief. "Come forward, you son of a dog!" cried the frate pasha, when there stepped before him an officer with a face as clean as a baby's and a look of the most supreme innocence. His excellency gave one look of blank astonishment and then, with an appreciative smile breaking over his war worn features, turned to the assembled officers and said, "Here, gentlemen, your old minister is a fool, and your young lieutenant is a captain." THE SIZE OF FAIRIES. Creatures Who Live In the Poetry of the Elizabethan Age. Readers of Elizabethan poetry are familiar with fairies who fashion coats from a bat's wing, fans from those of butterflies, coverlets from the skins of snakes, wage war with spiders and make expeditions on the backs of files. Writers have commonly assumed that such minuteness was the product of poetic fancy, which reduced these spirits to a size much below that admitted by popular belief, but this is an error. Folklore supplies us with abundant examples of fairies who can carry no more than a single straw, who emerge from a molehill and make a thread bridge in order to traverse a keyhole. Concordant is the testimony of language, as when the foxglove passes for being a fairy cap. If a size so reduced cannot allow historical interpretation, still less does ethnology explain the qualities of these fays, who in power do not differ from their larger cousins. Queen Mab, no larger than the jewel of a ring, is yet charged with the functions of a birth goddess. The least fairy can steal a bride or a baby; tenuity is of less consequence, since any tiny sprite can at will assume gigantic proportions. The fairies who in one canton are represented as dwarfish in the next may be described as gigantic. The contrast, which cannot be accounted for as arising from historical memories, may be easily explained by the early modes of conceiving nature. In prehistoric conception a mountain might pass for a large man, a river for a tall one, while the inmates of petty hillocks would naturally be imagined as possessing a form corresponding to the narrow limits of their habitants.—International Monthly. Passing of Indispensables. Only those who have to go to the depths of long disused trunks when moving time necessitates renovation and the sifting of belongings realize how much of what one clings to as indispensable becomes absolutely useless when laid by for a time. Pictures prized for one reason or another, souvenirs that fail to recall anything but inconvenience, letters that one couldn't bear to burn, odds and ends that one was sure to want, all become as trash in the repose of the stored trunk and are sacrificed without a qualm when moving time comes around to make room for other things that will last their little day and then find the same end—New York Press. Before the end of the seventh century needlework was carried to great perfection in convents, where it was used for the embellishment of the church and the decoration of priestly robes. Artists did not think it beneath their dignity to trace the patterns used for embroidery in their natural colors. A certain religious lady, wishing to embroider a sacreddorid vestment, asked no less a personage than St. Dunstan, then a young man, but already noted for his artistic skill and taste, to draw the flowers and figures which she afterward worked in gold thread. Simple Words. There are a certain number of simple words in the English language that will express the greatest thoughts, and great men use them. To be incomprehensible may be a sign of knowledge. It may also be the sign of an intellectual snob. The world is not moved by men and women who talk in an unknown tongue.—Schoolmaster. The Waiter—You'll find our calves' liver very fine. The Professor—I don't want so much as that. Bring me a portion of the liver of one calf—Chicago Tribune. MOHAMMEDANS AT PRAYER They Always Respond When the They Always Respond When the Voice of the Mucazin Calls. The Mohammedan begins his prayer standing, with his hands outspread and his thumbs touching the lobes of his ears. In this position he repeats certain passages from the Koran, then brtges his hands down to his girdle, folds them and recites several other passages from the same book. Next he bends forward, rests both hands upon his knees and repeats three times with bowed head the formula of prayer to God, the most great. Then he rises and cries, "Allah hu akbar" (God is great) sixteen times. He then drops forward until his forehead touches the ground between his extended hands. He strikes his head upon the floor at least three times, proclaiming his humility, and often a dozen and sometimes twenty times the act will be repeated, according to his desire to show humility and repentance. He then returns to his knees and, setting back upon his heels, repeats a ritual. Next, arising to his feet, he holds his hands and concludes the prayer, repeating over and again the words, "There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet." This may be repeated once or a dozen or forty times, according to the piety of the worshiper, and he holds a string of beads in his hands to keep tally. His obligations are then accomplished, but he can go through the same ritual again as many times as he likes. The more frequently he does so the better Moslem he is. His piety is measured by the number of times he repeats his prayers, and, like the Pharisees of the Scriptures, he prays in public places. No matter where he happens to be or by whom he is surrounded, whether at labor in the fields or selling goods in his shop or however he may be employed, the Mussulman never forgets to pray when the voice of the muezzin reminds him that the hour for devotion has arrived. NOT SO VERY GREEN. The Florida Man Rather Evened Morton. Un-With the New Yorker. Matters Up With the New Yorker. When the young man from Florida came to live in New York, he woke up one morning last winter, and, going to the window, he looked out on what was to him a novel scene. It was a snowstorm, the first he had ever seen. Jumping into his clothes, he ran into the street. He stooped and gathered handfuls of snow and threw them in the air. He jumped into a drift and sent it flying with his feet. He finally lay down and rolled in it, all the time shouting and laughing at the top of his voice. One of the crowd which had gathered to watch his antics went up to him and told him how his mother used to cure fits and volunteered to try it on him. "I haven't any fit," the young man "I haven't any fit," the young man said. "What's the matter with you, then?" "Why, don't you see the snow?" "Yes, I see it. What of it? I have seen it before." "Well. I haven't," said the Florida young map. "What! You never saw snow before?" asked the astonished questioner. "Never. Seems strange to you, don't it?" "It beats any sample of verdancy I ever run across." "Oh, I don't know," mused the Florida cracker. "Did you ever see an alligator eating a nigger? No? Well, you are not so many after all. I have seen it many times." And, throwing a handful of snow down his shirt collar, he pursued his joyous gambols.—New York Mall and Express. Quotation Marks Speaking of the use of quotation marks, the London Chronicle says: But why all these inverted commas, "the silly trick of peppering pages with these uncouth bacilli?" You will find none of these bacilli in the Bible. Take this passage, chosen at random: Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye inquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me; and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? The modern compositor would set that passage between two brackets of in- verted commas, for it is a quote within a quote. But it is beautifully clear as it stands, and among all Biblical mis- understandings no one, we think, has been misled by the absence of an in- verted comma. A Story of Browning. Browning himself couldn't always explain his meaning at first reading. Dr. Furnivall, founder of the English Browning society, frequently consulted the poet as to the meaning of some passage in his works. "Bless me," Browning would say, "I really have forgotten what I did mean, and as I haven't got a copy of my works by me I really can't enlighten you. Just lend me the book, there's a good fellow. I'll look it over at my leisure and try to find out what was in my mind at the time." Realisation. "We never realize the full value of a thing until we lose it," remarked the moralist. "That's right," remarked the practical man, "especially if the thing lost was insured." -Philadelphia Press. Timely. Muggins—Youngpop is going to have his baby christened Bill. Muggins—How strange. Muggins—Oh, I don't know. He came on the first of the month.—Philadelphia Record. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and the world laughs at you.—St. Louis Star. Passing of Indispensables. Seventh Century Needlework Simple Words. The Purist at Large. The trouble with most people is well, it's trouble. -Baltimore News. Smith & Mattingly's HIGH CLASS SUMMER Shirts In All the New Fabrics of the Season Now on Sale. 8smith & Mattingly The Hatters and Furnishers 117 NORTH MAIN. JOHN STRASSER GUN AND LOCKSMITH Dealer in Guns and Ammunition..... 20 West Broadway, BUTTE, MONT. DRINK GENTENNIAL BEER The Beer that Made Butte Famous Centennial Brewing Company ALWAYS OPEN. WE NEVER SLEEP Telephone and Telegraph Orders Promptly Answered. NOTARY PUBLIC Secretary Mount Moriah Cemetery Association. JOSEPH RICHARDS THE BUTTE UNDERTAKER Practical Embalmers and Funeral Directors 140 WEST PARK STREET TELEPHONE 307. Residence. 400 South Montana Street. Telephone 708-M. State Savings John A. Creighton.....President G. W. Stapleton.....Vice President T. M. Hodgens.....Cashier J. O. Hodgens.....Assistant Cashier R. B. Nuckolls.....Assistant Cashier Under state supervision and jurisdiction. Interest paid on deposits. Sells exchange available in all the principal cities of the United States and Europe. Collections promptly attended to. Transact general banking business. Directors: J. A. Creglighton, Omaha; G. W. Stapleton, A. H. Barret, E. D. Levitt, S. V. Kemper, T. M. Hodgens, J. O. Hodgens. Corner Main and Park streets, Butte DALY BANK & TRUST CO. OF BUTTE CAPITAL $100,000.00. John D. Ryan.....President John R. Toole.....Vice President C. C. Swinborne.....Cashier R. A. Kunkel.....Assistant Cashier SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY Under state supervision. Five per cent interest, payable quarterly, paid on deposits. F AUG. HEINZE, - President CHAS. R. LEONARD, - Vice Pres. A. B. CLEMENTS, - Cashier Thieves entered the home of County Assessor Dan Brown, on West Quartz street, during his absence at Ralston and appropriated silverware and other goods to the value of about $300. The Finest Equipped Cigar Store West of New York. I. A. Hellbronner The Leading Tobaccoist. 23 East Broadway, Butte, Mont. Goods delivered all over the state Free of Charge. Reed Gab & Transfer Co. QUICKEST AND BEST. Easy Money To be had at BOARD OF TRADE LOAN OFFICE, Mose Linz, 20 S. Main St. Also bargains in unredeemed Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry. Adolph Wetzstein & Co. Fine Liquors and Gigars A Specialty 116 North Main Street, Butte. Dr. A. D. Galbraith Dentist Offices—304 and 305, Goldberg Block, Butte, Montana. Hawthorne Social Club Just refitted with all social conveniences for pleasant evenings. A new Brunswick-Balke pool table just put in. Earl Dunne ..... President Jim Jefferson ..... Vice President Sam Harden. Secretary and Treasurer Visitors in the city are invited to drop in. Oxford Market Mendelsohn & Bailey, Props. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Family Groceries Fruits and Vegetables BUTTER AND EGGS, Dried and Smoked Meats. Fish and Game in Season. Phone 682-M. 46 W. Park St. W. H. BLACK Ice Cream and Confectionery 60 W. Park St. BUTTE Standard Ladies' Tailoring COMPANY We have now on display a large and choice collection of Fabrics and Fashion Plates of the latest Spring and Summer styles. We shall be pleased to have you call on us. We can guarantee up-to-date styles. Every garment made to measure. High grade work and prices low by comparison. SUITS FROM $15.00 TO $75.00. We Furnish Our Own Goods. Yours Truly, Standard Ladies' Tailoring Co. 129 WEST BROADWAY. BUTTE MONTANA