The New Age (Butte)

THE NEW AGE. QUALITY Begins Monday August 4, 1902 Big Bargain In Every Department Big Bargains In Every Department Watch the Daily Papers For full Particulars Visit Henness Visit Hennessy's The Trip will be a Pleasure, the Expense a Profit Mail Orders to Hennessy's But More Mail Orders to Hennessy's Butte, Montana SALT LAKE CITY. Mrs. Lee Johnson is very ill this week. Mr. Ed. Hatfield has accepted a position with the Pullman. Mrs. Nora Dudley has gone to Denver to testify in the post office robbery case. There is a Saltair party most every evening. Mrs. A. Thompson is doing nicely at the Holy Cross hospital. Rev. J. W. Washington, Mrs. Willis Green, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Washington were out to see her last Saturday and Mrs. Young, Mrs. Fasha and Mrs. E. D. Washington were out to see her Sunday. The visiting hours are 2 to 4 every day. There is more colored at work on the streets of Salt Lake than ever before. They are hiring every able-bodied colored man they can get. Mrs. Mary Counsil departed this life July 24, at midnight. The funeral was held at the Calvary Baptist church last Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p. m. it was well attended; quite a number of white neighbors were out. There were two hundred in the chapel. Rev. J. W. Washington officiated. His text was Matthew 25:36. "I was sick and you visited me not." He criticised the members of the church as well as the members of the "household., who turned out with flowers to the funeral, and did not go to see her when she was sick. Her white neighbors deserve much credit; they did all they could for her while she lived. The remains were interred in Mount Olive cemetery. Mr. B. C. Counsid has the sympathy of the New Age in his dark hours of bereavement. Mr. W. W. Taylor, editor of The Plain Dealer, is at his post again, after his extensive trip with the Utah Press association. He reports a dev lightful time. Vol. 1. --- rgains epartment ennessy's essy's Butte, Montana Mrs. J. W. Washington is on the sick list this week. Miss Julia Fergeson arrived last Sunday from Quincy, Ill. She comes to stay. Miss Nora Haggins of Pueblo, formerly of Mo., is expected in a few days. Mrs. William Dallas left North Dakota last Wednesday for the city, where she joins her husband, who is head janitor at the Elks' new building. Mr. Willie Clark, one of the waiters on the dining cars, was taken to St. Mark's hospital last Saturday, with a severe case of pneumonia. He is very sick. His friends should go to see him at once. The visiting days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, from 2 to 5 o'clock. LYNGHING THREATENED IF SENTENCE IS COMMUTED. Guthrie, O. T., July 22.—Governor Ferguson was forced tonight to withhold his decision on a requisition for the commutation of sentence of death imposed on Cephus Bruner, a halfblood Seminole Indian negro boy, convicted of murdering on December 24 last a white boy, Martin West, near Violet Springs, Oklahoma. Today the governor was notified that if the sentence was commuted there was great danger of a mob taking Bruner from the Tecumseh jail and lynching him and if not commuted a party of Bruner's friends are ready to cross the Seminole line into Oklahoma and litter him. It was a mob either way, so the governor sent a sealed verdict to the Pottawatomie county sheriff and Bruiner will be removed before either party can reach him. On account of the boy's extreme youth—14 years—the general opinion is that the sentence is to be commuted. After the murder of West a mob, failing to find young Bruner, lynched his older brother in the Seminole nation. BUTTE, MONTANA, SATURDAY. AUGUST 2, 1902. THE INDUSTRIAL SLAVES APOLOGY TO THE CHATTEL SLAVE (By Nora E. Huldings Siegel.) The editor of this weel delenitated journal remarked in a back issue that "Mrs. Siegel is undoubtedly a friend of the colored race," to which I reply with emphasis that I most sincerely am! and have been since the advent o. my ability to reason upon the subject. Noting the almost impenetrable prejudice existing among the middle white classes in these United States toward the negro. This has been a subject of deep moment to me and I early decided to do my little toward alleviating the injustice. Just here it is well to put in an apology to the colored race for the gross mistreatment aimed at them by the white industrial slave. As you no doubt realize, it is all due to ignorance, lack of spirituality and mistaken apprehension on their part. They desire redress upon the problem polotic, alleviation of their grinding poverty and have not enough understanding and mental expansion to solve it. They who must work! work! work! from morning until night, year in and year out, have left it to more wary persons to do their thinking and these paid thinkers have wittingly engineered politics and religion (the two are in cahoots) into grooves not too exceedingly beneficial to the working classes as the present imperial political system in the United States proves. As you know, you receive very few indulcacies at the hands of the better portion of the white race. Those of us who have neglected neither education nor soul culture are the ones who you may rely upon for justice. We are glad to note such encouraging reports from the south as articles like 'Southern Industrial Developments,' published July 19, in the New Age, in dicate. I have longsince felt that the colored people of the south would step ahead of his white brother in all the attainments that the present age affords, which the afore mentioned article proves. The negro has not the spirited, fighting, unforgiving, cruel propensities in his nature that the white working class are usually burdened with, consequently he can not hold resentment which is a great boon in his favor. While the white man is wasting time, belittling his Godhood warning with each other, both at home and abroad the colored man is educating, building up home interests. This is noticeable especially in the south. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap," is as true in this day and age as it was when the words were first written. Slavery is simply being transmitted from the shoulders of the black chatte slave to those of the white industrial ones; as natural consequence emitting from the enslavement of women through the ages, and the exchange is galling. We can not wonder at it. The chattle slave did not suffer anything like the torture the white ones are being called upon to endure. He did not invite the indignities that were heaped upon him any more than children invite the suffering they inherit. Both are sacrifices of the innocent. Their suffering therefore has an end, while retaliative justice for those who create it is neither easily borne nor quickly ended. Only omnipotent love through time may illuminate it. While the white slave is wasting time and opportunity for good, taking part in lynchings, hangings, etc., inoculating deadly poisonous hatred into his brain and blood he would better occupy the valuable time educating that he may be better prepared to do his own thinking. In as much as he does the latter, he rises above the environments of the masses joining the mental plane of the classes thereby adding another willing hindrance to the perpetuation of ignorance and grinding labor. This is the only method by which any problem may be properly solved. Do the solving yourself. "Make your head save your hands." is an old aphraism and an applicable one. With what measure ye want and so on." meet and I clasp hands with Brother T. B. Washington in his successful rendering of his race problem (but why make it necessary for him to carry so great a burden)? He is doing for his fellows what George Washington did for us all. The age and necessity of course being the ruling motive. If the masses of humanity would only stop and think! If they would only reason! but they wont, they will do any thing, suffer any thing before they will think intelligently. How plorable! No wonder that the major ity of the inhabitants of the globe are being plunged into a cortex of bloodshed! (By way of a hint: Is it not the ignorant who constitute army's riots, mining disasters, etc. do the educated take part in any portion of them? No.) We are all heirs to like mental and spiritual, thus material possibilities and we have but to look about us to see how at variance we are accepting our opportunities. The negative man must educate, he is but a slave without it. By negative I mean the unregenerate mind. That portion of mentality who lives in the enjoyment of his fleshly passions and appetites. He who enjoys a good meal than good lecture. He who would rather supply the stomach than the brain with food. He who enjoys hearing of wars and suicides rather than hearing methods by which the present social and economic industrial problem may be solved. Where does each one stand who reads this article? If you have not decided before do so now. Think! Think! If you are not capable of thinking and reasoning intelligently upon any of the rising subjects of the day, begin now to prepare yourself. Study them. Begin at the foot of the ladder and work up. Begin where your present environments afford opportunity, and reason your way into better and clearer conditions. You can do it, each and every one of you. "The opportunity," as Prof. Weltmer says, "befitting your own case, is right where you are today." Do not measure your case with that of another for no two are alike. Do not waste time and energy by wishing another's attainments were yours. You could not make use of that which he has brought forth. You must learn life's lessons for your self. There is no resion why each man should not become prominent in his cause calling, though he must bring, Herculean effort into play. Your cause would justify it. We get nothing easily. If we did we would be robbed of the pleasure of exertion. It is exertion wrongly applied that is galling. "God is no respector of persons," be he black, white or yellow. A good man is a good man irrespective of his complexion and a colored man is just as commendable if he lives his best as any white man dare be. The error taught by ignorant expounders of the Bible "that the black man is such from a curse placed upon him by God," is losing its weight among thinking people. God never did nor never will curse any one. People do their own cursing through ignorance of natural causes, and ignorance of natural law through those who have the making of written law is mostly the cause of mortality. Therefore do your own thinking. "Ignorance, The Great Imperial!"; "Ignorance, The Great Negative!"; is each and everyone's only ruler and it is a relentless one, there fore overcome it. Be not satisfied with any thing less than the best. The best is yours through patient of fort. A crowd, no matter how dense will always make way for the person who is earnest elbowing his way through it. There is no such thing as a failure to the earnest, diligent as pirant. Environments will not only step aside for you but will aid you progress. EVERY BODY IS WONDERING Why Mrs. Jacobs was weeping all by her lonely Tuesday night. Why our tonsorial artist, the genial Bob, had such a mournful look when Katie Wolcott nosed in Wednesday. Why the young men don't form a whist or social club. If the Emancipation celebration at Basin will be a success. Why the promoters did not start on it earlier. Who will be the belle of the bad at the Auditorium on the 6th. Why every body don't subscribe for the best Negro journal in the north-west. Why our brass band does not give a concert during the warm months. Mr. John Pearce of Pocatella, was in the city this week, he states that the New Ace is attracting quite a good deal of attention among the cotored people in Pocatella. We cannot insure the publication of news that reaches us later than Thursday evening. There will be a big Emancipation celebration on 'next Monday, August 4th, at Basin. Reduced rates by the Great Northern. Case, Gravelle & Ervin COMPANY Fine lawn waists, gingham waists from A, F. A, and Tole du Nord. Fine satin waists, black; $1.00 and $1.25 value. Clearance. Vacation Time Is Here And going away demands new, comfortable wearing apparel—something to lay around in. 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Clearance, $1.00 Men's white madras negligee shirts, plain and plaited bosoms, detached cuffs to match; $1.25 price all season. 85c Half price on silk striped fancy bosom shirts, plaited negligee, tie to match each shirt; earlier in the season was $3.50 each. Clearance, $1.75 Butte, Montana P 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 802-B. Application made for entry at the postoffice at Butte as second-class matter. SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1902. Miss Nora E. Huldings Seigle of Denver, Colorado, who has contributed several articles to the New Age, for the benefit of its readers, attracting no little degree of attention, we again publish a well written article entitled "The Industrial Slave's Apology to the Chattel Slave," this language coming from one of the fairer sex should be appreciated by every colored person. Miss Siegel is also a composer of renown, and the strains from her music fills the saddest heart with gladness and thrills the soul with visions of fresh hopes. The New A. M. E. church had their grand opening last Sunday and a very large attendance witnessed the services in the foreground and evening. Rev. Hubbard, the presiding elder for this district, was present and made an impressive address to an appreciative audience. Nearly two years ago, Rev. Allen, the pastor, proposed to build a church and with the aid and assistance of himself and wife and the members and friends and public generally, they started on their tedious task. All the available resources at their hands was the confidence of his followers. A lot was donated for the church on the corner of Idaho and Platinum, by Senator W. A. Clark, upon which Rev. Allen has labored incessantly, and can now boast of the end which he has gained. Through the efforts of nis supporters he now has a neat little church, with a seating capacity of two hundred, beautiful stained glass windows adorn its walls and an elaborate cut stone foundation supports a neat brick veneered frame building. The corner stone was laid on the 9th of June of last year, amidst impressive ceremonies, in which many ministers of the city were present. The day of dedication is set for the 31st of August, when Bishop Schaffer will be here to attend the services, after which Rev. Allen will leave for Colorado to attend the annual conference. A liberal collection was made, in which $50.00 subscription was taken. The new organ pealed forth the melodious strains of sacred music under the guidance of Mrs. Bartlett, the organist, assisted by the choir, which is composed of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. S. Reeves, Miss Davis, Miss Signorita Scott and Mr. Ross. The New Age is daily in receipt of communications from all over the state congratulating us upon our effort to bring up to a standard the principles in which we have been inadequate. We are laboring to gain an end which will bring us up to a degree of socialism, and a much broader and elevated plane. The New Age looks upon our contemptable afternoon contemporary, the Inter Mountain, as being the most ungrateful and biased news journal published in the northwest, and no respectable colored person in the state should patronize a paper that rediculus our best citizens for trying to gain the only protection that common law and order provides for us. They should not be so readily to humiliate our respectable women just because she appeals to the court to have her rights protected. They are always ready to print under big head lines any confusion, razor and gun plays, and the unfortunate criminal who never seeks to gain any thing more than a new suit of clothes and a loud voice in some alley, can always have plenty of space in their news columns; but anything commendable to the race never finds welcome under her fold from a matter of pride, and as an organ of the colored people of this community the New Age is compelled to call the attention to the public of the fact that the article contained in last Friday's Inter Mountain concerning Mrs. J. I. Jacobs and the negro dialect used will in itself justify our taking this method of revenge for their diastole. For several years the Inter Mountain was looked upon with pride and deep gratitude by the colored people of this state, as being impartial to color or crede, but in late years it seems that they have forgotten that we have got any law abiding citizens among us. We have often seen in big headlines King of Darktown, King of the Colored, etc. under arrest for some crime. This goes to show that they regard such criminals as the leader of the colored faction; we would like to have them understand different, and we can again produce colored citizens that have lived in and around Butte for years whose moral and self-respect stands beyond reproach. AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT WITH CANNIBALS THE CHARACTERISTICS AND PROGRESS OF TWO BOYS FROM CENTRAL AFRICA WHO ARE IN AN AMERICAN SCHOOL. One a Son of a Chief, the Other the Son of a Fisherman. (By Samuel P. Verner of Stillman Institute, Alabama.) For African savages of the iron age to be studying for a university education in America is a unique illustration of the complete revolution in the relative conditions of men which the last fey wears have been working over the world. These African lads came into my charge in the country of the Lunda highlands of Central Africa several years ago, at the time of the Belgian expedition against the Arabs. It may be remembered that Kitchener's advance against the Mahdi from Egypt was simultaneous with a movement against the murderers of Emin Pasha from the mouth of the Congo as a base by Baron Dhanis, one of the successors of Henry M. Stanley. Dhanis ascended the Congo, and then its greatest southern tributary, the Kasai, at whose sources he recruited allies from the Batetela tribe for the war against the Arabs. Among these Batetela, were these two boys, Kassongo Lusuna and Kondola Mukusa. The elder lived at the large African town between the Lomami and the Lualaba rivers. At the time of this expedition he was about twelve years old, and the Batetela soldiers, Dhanis' allies, took him along with other boys to carry ammunition and food, Kassongo was present at the battle of Nyangwe, when the Arabs were so singally routed, and when the Batetela are said to have feasted on the remains of their foes. Kassongo admits this canabalism; but he says it was practiced because the Arabs used to capture his people and feed them to the Manuema when meat was scarce and that his countrymen were determined to avenge themselves in kind. It is just to Dhanis to say that he was not responsible for this savagery on the part of his anthropophagistic allies. Dhanis induced many of the Batetela soldiers to take military service under the Belgian government. These Batetela became famous all over Central Africa for their bravery, intelligence and industry. They were the main dependence of the government in subduing refractory natives, and in establishing its authority over the immense domain given to Belgium by the Berlin conference. Many boys accompanied their elders to the posts of the government, among these were Kassongo and Kondola, a child of the Bakussu branch of the Batetela tribe. Kassongo was the nephew of the Batetela king, an donsequence he belongs to the African nobility, and, according to the usage common in many tribes, he is the heir to the throne. Kondola is a plebeian, the son of a fisherman. The country in which the boys lived is the most remote from outside influence of all Africa. The Batetela had known less of the European civilization than any people on earth. The territory is two thousand miles from either coast, and just south of the equator. It lies beyond the heads of navigation of the rivers and not even the ubiquitous Portuguese had traversed it before Stanley met the Batetela, and was forced to fight his way down the Congo through them. These mem were cuch confirmed canibals that it has been repeatedly asserted that they ate their own dead and had bone yards instead of cemeteryes. They had repelled all attempts at conquest, and their name was a synonym for terror over an area larger than Texas. Kassongo and Kondola therefore, were types of as savage a people as could be found on the globe When the commandant of the fort to which these volunteers went found such a large camp-following of boys and women attached to his allies, he was puzzled to know what to do with them. The predicatment became most serious when the Batetela who had remained at home broke out into rebellion against the Belgian authority, and thus rendered it impossible for any of the others to return or to be sent back. The commandant decided to distribute the boys among the neighboring traders and missionaries, under the agreement that they should be cared for and educated in return for their labor, and duly restored to their free citizenship upon reaching their majority. In this way the two lads finally fell to my charge, when was at Wissmann Falls, at the head of navigation of the great Kasai. Kasanga was then about fourteen, and Kondola ten years o fage, parentless homeless waifs from the great tide of surging humanity in the recesses of remote Ethiopia. Thus they became THE NEW AGE. entirely dependent upon me and have been my wards now for five years. My interest in these boys became the stronger as their traits of character came more and more boldly into prominence upon longer acquaintance They soon became a fascinating study in education and psychology. Their natural wildness and utter lack of any inherited tendencies towards civilization made this study unique. Kassongo became a messenger boy whose duties were principally to act as negotiator in the many diplomatic relations I had to maintain with chiefs and tribes around me. Kondola acted as usher to the crowds who thronged my house or tent, and also as purchaser os supplies and provisions. They both learned to read and to write in the native tongue, which I reduced to alphabetic characters for the purpose. I did not, however, teach them any foreign language. When they came under my care, they would lie, fight, steal and bamble whenever the occasion offered. To break up these habits was not the work of a moment. But before I left Africa with them, I could trust all my goods and my life to them, and they were of a better moral character than the average negro lad is in the Southern States of America, though I do not intend any invidious comparison. The methods I used were both moral suasion and the rod. I found soon after I made their acquaintance that the little savages really had a clear conception of moral distinctions, and their habits were the result of environment and not of originally defective moral constitution. In some perilous adventures I had abundant evidences of their devotion and fidelity. Once I went alone with Kassonga to the summit of a high mountain above Wissmann Falls to make some geographical observations. While walking along the grassy summit, I fell abruptly into a concealed game pit, ten feet deep and set with sharp poisoned stakes. I sustained a severe wound, and narrowly escaped death. With the boy's help I scrambled out of the pit, but became so weak that I could not go farther. Kassongo ran five miles to get help from a native town, returning in a little more than an hour; then hes ucked the wound to free it from poison, and set about nursing me through the almost fatal illness which followed. I am sure that I owe my life to his promptness and presence of mind on this occasion. At another time Kassongo with two other lads made an escape into a dangerous country adjacent to our settlement, and it became necessary for me to go to their immidiate rescue. Taking with me Kondola, who had refused to join the others, I made a forced march into the interior to find them. We walked fifty miles the first day, and sleep t in a forest infested with leopards and elephants and though Kondola was only twelve years old he did not complain or falter. When we r ached our destination, I was so exhausted that I had to be lifted into a boat; but my little companion promptly joined in a game of ball, which the youngsters of the town were playing and seemed not the least the worst for our severe xtions. Once we were obliged to make a perilous trip by canoe down the Kasai through the Wissmann cataracts, in order to meet a steamer that was expected below. I myself took the paddle at the stern, but Kassongo volunteered for the dangerous place of paddler at the prow, where he had to keep the lookout for rocks, sand banks, crocodiles and hippopotami, and to do a large part of the steering. He maintained his post all day long, the boat making nearly seventy-five miles, and we passed in perfect safety through one of the worst pieces of water on earth. This boy is wondrfully adept in watercraft; he swims, dives and rows amazingly well and he knows no such thing as feed on the water. But for his level head on another occasion a whole canoeef of men and women would have been drowned. When the time for my departure for America drew near, several of my staunch little friends clamored to be allowed to accompany me to the "white man's country." What I had told them had greatly excited their curiosity, and it was pathetic to see their eagerness to go. Of course, I could not ake them all, but I selected the two Batetela, principally because of their superiority and because one was thetype of thehighest class, and the other of the pleblans, and each presented distinctly typical ethological characteristics. Their friends brought many rare curiosities as evidence of their interest and appreciation, which I placed in the United States national museum. One of the most touching evidences of the growing power of nobler ideas in these late canibals' minds was shown in their treatment of a sick comrade who was taken down the rive rto his old home near Stanley Pool. This was Bunda, a Mukongo, who had been my cook, and he was then dying of sleeping-sickness, that strange and fearful malady which sometimes decimates whole villages. The Betatela boy fed and nursed him, made his bed for him, watched over him, and when the poor lad died they helped to bear him to his lonely grave. Then they silently walked down to the steamer, tears streaming down their black faces, and solemly said that poor Bundu had gone to his own country at last. Their language has no word for home. A great surprise awaited them at Stanley Pool in the shape of the first locomotive they had seen. They promptly named it "steamer on land," and stood watching it with staring, wide-open eyes, making sundry comments and ejaculations, ending with—"What wizards these white men are!" When we had boarded the train, their alarm was such that it was all I could do to quiet them; and, when an accident occurred, making it necessary to telephone for another engine, Kondola sententiously remarked that after all even the white man could not make an animal that would not stop. When the other engine steamed up, Kondola exclaimed—"See, his brother has come to help him!" At Boma, the capital of the Congo, FIVE-AGE I sought the permission of the governor-general to take the boys to America. My request was officially granted with the pleasantry on the part of his excellency that it seemed to be somewhat more difficult for an American to get Africans to his country than formerly. It was with some misgivings that I faced the next three weeks on the Atlantic, since Livingstone's servant had become crazed at the marvels of the deep when the great explorer attempted to take him to England. But these boys had already traveled a thousand miles on a river steamer, and I believed all would go well. In this I was not disappointed. I was greatly entertained by their remarks about the wonders of the great ship. We had with us a number of wild animals which I consigned especially to the boys' care. They managed to get them all alive to Europe save the chamelions and a little green monkey. The latter drank sea water and died, and the little Africans wept over him sorely and conducted a funeral service for him before they consigned his body to the deep. As no city of any size had ever before been seen by the young negroes, I watched their conduct with keen interest as we drew near Antwerp. As we came in sight of the towers, the spires, the great buildings, the cathedral, ship after ship lining the quay, bells ringing, whistles sounding, all the roar and rattle of the complex noises of metropolitan life greeting the ear, the boys, late from the dark recesses of inner Tthiopia, stood entranced. The passengers crowded about them to see the effect. Their eyes grew bigger, and Kondola exclaimed, "Oh, we must be at Heaven, now!" Kassongo asked, "Master, why do the white men leave all this to come to our land?" In Antwerp the Irish landlady of the Queen's Hotel found lodgings for the strangers and her genial Celtic soul warmed to the naif little fellows, and she took good care of them. The king's government duly confirmed the governor's permission, and constituted me their legal guardian. In Belgium the boys received many visitors, among them a famous artist, who claimed on seeing Kondola's extraordinary physilognomy: "Why, he is so black that he is blue, and so ugly that he is beautiful!" Onur journey across the Atlantic was uneventful. The most exciting incident in their career occurred in New York. It was in February and bitterly cold, with a deep snow and a blizzard raging. The boys were taken to a home of a friend of mine in the city, while I tried to find ahem lodgings for the night. A gentleman of my acquaintance recommended to me a lodgings-keeper near Madison Square. I took the boys there after dark, but found the proprietor out. The jankress promised to keep them in the hall until I came. Imagine my dismay on returning after a half-hour to find the door shut and the housedarkened. After several pulls at the bell, the door opened slightly, and a gruff voice demanded, "Who's there?" I replied it was the gentleman who had brought the little Africans there a short while before. The reply came back: "I put 'em out—I don't want any niggers here." It was nearly nine o'clock and I sought the nearest policeman. Then I went to my friend and asked him to go to the chief of police and to send the alarm over the city. I immediately began the search myself. Street after street was explored with more minute care than any of the paths in Africa. Lost in New York. Fresh from the tropics, not speaking a dozen words of English, what would become of them? What a contrast to the effusive hospitality of many an African chieftain or humble native to me when a stranger alone in the wilds of the Kasal! For three hours I tramped the streets until, under the facings of a fruit dealer's stand, before a window where they saw familiar bananas, I found them. We caught sight of each other about the same time, and the BIG BARGAINS FOR SMALL MEN Five Hundred Small Sized Spring Suits offered in this Mid-Summer Sale for the Smallest Sums Such Garments Have Ever Cost $4.90 riking thing to do—this selling of suits snake, but it is the order of the day that S olutely clean, and therefore these five hun ooked to join the vast array of splendid w store this season. But this is the biggest h 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. 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At last, in Columbia, the little fellows were the recipients of many attentions, and they were sent to live with our butler, whose house was a sort of Mecca for the colored people of the whole city for a month. I decided to carry them to school to Alabama, and they are now at the Stillman Institute at Tuskaloosa. Compartively few of the type of these boys were brought to this country in the coudse of the slave trade. In order to make a test of their capacity for training as thorough as possible, I intend to let the education of these boys uroceed, even to the university and to some special education, if their progress and promise warrant it. The progress of the lads has been extraordinary. They can now read and write; they know elementary geography and arithmetic quite well; they can write letters; they have professed Christianity; and they are of sound moral character. They are faithful workmen on the farm and can use the ordinary mechanical tools fairly well. One is leading his clas with an average of 93 in scholarship, and the other is not far behind. I hope ultimately to secure a concession of land for them from King Leopold of Belgium, that they may return to elevate their people. DIES OF AN ICE CREAM SPREE. Kentucky Boy Eats One Gallon of the Mixture and Then Passes Out. Louisville, Ky., July 27.—Amos Bridgewater, a 15-year-old colored boy, ate a gallon of ice cream last Friday, and is now in Lakeland asylum, a raving maniac. He was brought into the criminal court this morning handcuffed. When asked his name Bridgewater said "George Cuscanden." This is the name of the ice cream man who made the fatal gallon. He afterwards said his name was Mayor Grainger. Bridgewater was in the freshman class at the colored high school. He had always been inordinately fond of ice cream, and had never had enough. Last Friday he decided to go on an ice cream spree. He purchased a gallon and ate all day long. Physicians say he would not have suffered any permanent ill effect if the weather had not been so hot. By nightfall the boy was raving. The Boys Play at Lynching. Toledo, Ohio, July 27.—Charley Bower, aged 5, living at 2,613 Erie street, came near losing his life this evening while playing with a number of boys ranging in age from 10 to 14 years. The boys began to play "lynching," and made little Charley the victi mof their "vengeance." He was strung up by the neck in true lynching style to the limb of a tree. When some workmen came in sight the "lynchers" fled, leaving Charley hanging to the tree. When cut down the little fellow was almost dead. His tongue protruded from his mouth and his face was purple. His condition is serious. The names of the boys who strung young Bower up are not known, but the police expect to arrest them tomorrow. All the advertisers and patrons of the New Age will receive the patronage of the colored people of the city, and state. It shall be the purpose of the New Age to favor those who have contributed 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 A celebrated explorer was the son of the evening at a certain party. His hostess said to him, "What is the most interesting problem of a north pole expedition?" To get back home," was the answer.—Woman's Home Companion. Her Perpetual Cry. Jimson—He married a saleslady, you know. Jameson—Yes. Jimson—Well, the very next day she began calling, "Ca-a-sh!" and he says she has kept it up ever since.—Somerville (Mass.) Journal. Not Thirsty. Lady—Have you given the goldfish fresh water? New Servant—No. ma'm; they have not finished the water I gave them the other day. --- NOTICE THE CATFISH ZONE. And the Origin of the Philadelphia Habit of Catfish and Waffles. While pessimists have been denouncing the extension of the pie belt through the United States and the enlargement of the saleratus biscuit district, they have been entirely oblivious of the extraordinary development of the catfish zone. This mischievous dweller of the pool is known to the small boy and the rustic angler under many names—in one place as a sucker, in another a bullhead, in a third a wolf fish and, most outrageous of all, in northern Mississippi as a shad. But its own only genuine title is catfish. The name is derived from the fact that when the creature is raised from the water it emits a grunting protest which poetical fishermen have pronounced like the curring of a family cat. Philadelphia produced the catfish habit. For two centuries the animal was looked at as something which might be eaten to prevent starvation until one fine day a thrifty Quaker found that the catfish would eat boiled corneum and that this simple food not only fattened the eater, but changed the color of its belly from white to yellow. He perceived the pecunial value of the discovery and established a catfish farm in which he fattened the fishes which he caught elsewhere and in due season sold them to the Philadelphia markets. A Quakress soon after that discovered that the old fashioned waffle, slightly salted and covered with melted butter, made an irresistible accessory to the fish when well fried. This started the catfish and waffles, for which the City of Brotherly Love has ever since been famous. The habit spread like an epidemic, and, like the star of empire, its way was westward. So far as is known the United States government has no record of catfish and waffles east of the Delaware river, but starting at Philadelphia a distinct catfish zone runs westward, terminating at Denver, reaching as far north as Minneapolis and St. Paul and as far south as Mobile and New Orleans. The catfish is said to possess medicinal virtue. It is mildly anaesthetic, soporific and antispasmodic—New York Post. The Women of Damascus. The women of Damascus—that is, the Moslem women—are more closely veiled than those of Constantinople and other eastern cities because the people here are more tenacious in the observance of the ancient customs of their race and the requirements of their religion. The veils are thicker, also, and cover the entire face. Some of them are figured so that the concealment is even more complete. Greeks, Jews and Armenians do not wear veils, and some of them are very handsome, particularly the Jewish women. Their eyes, complexion and hair are superb. The types of oriental love liness remind you of Solomon's Song. No women are employed about the hotels or restaurants. All the "domestic" work is done by men. In the shops and manufactories of Damascus thousands of women and girls are employed, but they are exclusively Greeks and Jews. No Moslem would permit his wife, daughter or sister to appear in a shop or any other place where men are employed. -Chicago Record-Herald. If You Have to Fight a Bon. If You Have to Fight a Boh. If any reader of this article should ever be so unfortunate as to experience the embrace of a boa constrictor, it is recommended that he try to release himself by taking hold of the creature's tail and unwinding it from that end. It can be easily unwound in that way, but otherwise it is not possible. The way to kill a snake is not to attempt to crush its head, the bones of which are very hard, but to strike the tail, where the spinal cord is but thinly covered by bone and suffers readily from injury. It is the same with an eel. Hit the tail two or three times against any hard substance, and the eel quickly dies. The boas are not venomous, but their fangs are sufficiently powerful to inflict serious wounds. A well known peer once asked Cecil Rhodes to stand godfather to his son, and he replied that he would on one condition, which was that he might invest at once £100 in the boy's name and give £100 on each succeeding birthday, provided that it should all go on at compound interest until the boy was old enough to begin to spend the interest, and that then he might yearly decide on what to spend it, so long as it was not on himself. "This," said Mr. Rhodes, "will do two things—first, it will teach your boy how to spend money, and, secondly, it will make him unselfish and kind to those in need."—Court Journal. Not Gullity. "Is your husband a bibliomaniac?" asked Mrs. Oldcastle as she was being permitted to view the treasures in the Library of the new neighbors. "Mercy sakes, no," replied Mrs. Packenham, "he never bibbles a bit. Oh, of course. I don't say that he wouldn't take a little at his meals if the rest was dulit, it, but that's as far as he ever goes in them kind of things."—Chicago Record-Herald. A Change Suggested. "What is your occupation?" asked the old physician as he felt the patient's pulse. "I'm an opera singer," was the reply. "Ah!" exclaimed the M. D. "What you need is a change of air. Suppose you try singing in a church choir."—Chicago News. From Sir John Lubbock we take this ennobling thought: "You may see in a shallow pool either the mud lying at the bottom or the image of the blue sky above." One of Rhodes' Ideas Not Guilty. A. Change Suggested. WE DESIRE TO CALL ATTENTION TO OUR STOCK OF ALSO OUR SILK AND DRESS GOODS COUNTER. AND LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR DEPARTMENT NEW YORK STORE MAIN STREET They Always Respond When the Voice of the Maccunin 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 brtags 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, "Aliah u akbar" (God is great) sixteen times. He then moves 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, settling 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 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 handfolds of snow and threw them in the air. He jumped into a drift in sent it飞ing 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 man. "What! You never saw snow before?" asked the astonished questioner. "Never. Soems strange to you, don't it?" "It beats any sample of verdancy I ever run across." ever. Oh, I don't know," mused the Florida girl. "Did you ever see an alligator eating a pligger? 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. A Story of Browning. Browning himself couldn't always explain his meaning at first reading, Dr. Furnillain, 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 book it over at my leisure and try to find out what was in my mind at the time." HELENA, MONT. HELENA PACKING AND PROVISION CO. Wholesale Oysters, Fish and Poultry M. M. HENNIGER HELENA . . . MONTANA Goodkind Bros. 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Mrs. James Mack and little-daughter Hebe, of Aanconda, was in the city last week visiting friends. Mrs. Harriet ackson, with her two daughters, has removed to the home of her mother on Iowa avenue. Mrs. Harriet Jaskson, with her two ed Presiding Elder Hubbard, Elder Allen and Mrs. Austin at luncheon on Tuesday last. The woman who called up the young office boy last Tuesday morning about five iad better look out or there will be things doing. Mrs. J. I. Jacobs was visiting in Anaconda this week on business and pleasure combined, and had dinner at the Garrone restaurant. Mrs. J. W. Wilson is the proud possessor of a fine sofa pillow, the result of Mrs. Law's belief that Lanky Bob's skill would outweigh the brawn and muscle of Jeffries. We failed to chronicle the fact in our last issue that Mrs. Simpson, of Helena, now visiting her sister, Mrs. W. E. Scott, was in Anaconda last Wednesday the guest of Mr. Willie Wilis. A merry party, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Webb, Mrs. S. Merchant and Miss Mimie Smith went out to the Nine Mile house Tuesday night for an outing and I had a midnight lunch. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Lucas, Miss Birdie Simington, Miss Adalela Cooper and Mr. Jesse Smith speak the evening at Mr. George Willis' playing whist. Light refreshments were served and a good time is exported. Mrs. Frank Q. Walker and Mrs. Henry Norman were in the city from Anaconda on Wednesday, to make business good for the dry goods merchant and to visit the Eastern Star lodge. They report great interest felt in the movement to have a barbecue on Emancipation day and preparations are being made by the Anacondans to participate in this rare event. Mrs. Lucas entertained at a six o'clock breakfast last Sunday morning. Those invited were Mrs. Frisby, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Wilson, Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Burnside. The delicacies of the season were served and the guests departed to take a nap and prepare for morning service. Mrs. Sadie A. Smith left last Monday evening for Spokane, where she will visit her mother for a few weeks and from there she will go to Seattle and spend the remaining part of the summer. The New Age wishes for her a pleasant trip with endless pleasure and enjoyment, and will be pleased to receive a letter each week for publication and five or six for the editor personally. In response to Rev. Jordan Allen's call to sunrise prayer meeting last Sunday morning, it can't be said that the swell set crowded the house to the vestibule at this grand opening of Shaffer's chapel. There were some, however, who laid their beauty sleep on the shelf and greeted the pastor at 4:30 a. m., with smiles not at all indicative that this was the first sunrise their eyes had beheld since early childhood. On Sunday morning Mrs. Frisby entertained Mrs. Lucas, Mrs. Brown and Miss Gladys Brown at breakfast. --- Mrs. Frisby is a charming hostess, and served this repast in her usual dainty style. Mrs. Laura White, en route from Spokane to Anaconda, visited Mrs. Lucas for three days. Mrs. Ella Simington Smith, one of the trustworthy housekeepers at the new Clark building, has removed her residence to 118 South Idaho street. Mrs. Robert Jackson varied the week's amusement for some of her friends by having seats at the matinee on Sunday afternoon. Afterward a delicious dinner was served to them at her home. Mrs. J. W. Jackson and daughter and Mrs. Lucas enjoyed Mrs. Jackson's hospitality. Mr. Sam Hall. a popular young farmer of Gallatin valley, is arranging a fishing party in honor of Mrs Margaret Sutter, formerly of Chicago.That a good time will be in order can readily be vouched for by the many who have partaken of the hospitality of the amiable young man. Mrs. Phelps and daughter will accompany Miss Sutter Mr. Samuel Brockman, formerly a prosperous farmer of Jefferson, passed through the city this week. Mr. Brockman took a herd of horses and settled in Colorado two years ago. He reports farming conditions very unfavorable, and returns to Montana several hundred dollars worse off by the venture. Mr. Brockman was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, whose friendship dates back twenty years. He now goes to the state of Washington, where we hope he will do well. Mrs. George Ernest Willis returned home last Tuesday night from a three weeks' visit. Mrs. Willis was all smiles when interviewed by a New age reporter at her home this afternoon, and a very interesting account of two weeks spent upon the cloud capped mountains of Bald Butte. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Johnson have for several years been in charge of the boarding house at this mill and have a small ranch in connection with it. Mrs. Willis visited the stamp mill and saw a "clean up" which means that she watched the ore from the time it left the wagon until the gold dust was bagged for shipment. She also saw the social side of life in the gay capital. Dinners and parties and handshaking with many old time friends were the order of the day. Mrs. Willis noted with pride that the young Butte gentleman who happened to be visiting in Helena at the time were not be blind the times in point of elegance nor ease of manner in those social customs of which Helena has cause to be proud. Last Notice. As this will be the last notice regarding the inaugural ball. The members of the Crisenda club beg leave to state to our invited guests that we hope every one will come early and join in the first fantastic waltz. Dancing will begin promptly at 9:30 sharp. Our music will be of the very latest and select order. The committee is sparing no pains to make this the swellest of the season. The decoration and illumination of the hall will be on the finest order. Don't forget that dancing will begin at 9:30 sharp. Yours, W. H. SPRIGS, Chairman of Executive Committee Grand Lodge of Colored Pythians. The grand lodge of the colored Knights of Pythias of Missouri, closed its eighteenth annual session Friday at Richmond, Mo., after three days of harmonious deliberations. The session was the largest and most successful in point of numbers and work done in the history of the order. Grand Chancellor A. W. Lloyd of this city was elected grand chancellor by a rising vote of the delegates, in recognition of his successful administration. The other officers chosen were: Grand vice chancellor, J. A. Denny, Huntsville; past grand chancellor, W. H. Goff, St. Louis; grand prelate, P. P. Avant, Hannibal; grand keeper of records and seals, W. A. Gunnell, Farmington; grand master of exchequer, T. A. Burris, Macon; grand master at arms, Eli Carter, Richmond; grand inner guard. William Smith Cape Girardeau; grand outer guard A. H. Bullener, Popular Bluff; secretary and treasurer endowment board Dr. W. P. Curtis, St. Louis; grand medical examiner, Dr. J. W. McDowell, St. Louis; members of endowment board, David E. Gordon, St. Louis, and Wallace Williams, Columbia; grand attorney, Walter M. Farmer, St. Louis. The grand lodge adjourned on the fourth Tuesday in July, 1903, at Moerberly, Mo. The reports of the officers showeed the order to be in a prosperous condition, $5500 having been paid out during the year for death benefits, leaving a balance of $5000 in the endowment fund. The order has 1500 THE NEW AGE. members in the state and thirty-two lodges, nine of which are located in St. Louis. GREAT FALLS NEWS NOTES. (Special to the New Age.) Great Falls, Aug. 2.—One of the most charming social events of the past week was the musicale and reception on Tuesday evening last, given by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Robinson, in honor of Mrs. John D. Gainey, who is here visiting her husband and friends. The cosy little home was decorated with plants and cut flowers, which, with the beautiful costumes worn by the ladies, presented a pleasing spectacle. During the evening Prof. McDonald and Miss Odessa Nott, who presided at the plano, rendered several popular and classical selections and Miss Carrie Johnson won hearty applause by her sweet singing. At 11 o'clock the Misses Mattle Robinson and Grace Innith who presided at the festival board which was groaning under its weight of the delicacies of the season, attended to the wants of all present After reveling in the mazes of the god of terpiscorean the guests departed, voting Mr. and Mrs. Robinson royal entertainers. Among some of those present during the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Gainer, Mr. and Mrs David Nott, Miss Nott, Mr. and Mrs Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Colson, Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs Webb, Mesdames Mills, Porter, Hubbel, Ingerman, Ray, Johnson, Morgan Anderson, Misses Johnson, Baker Robinson, Smith, Messers. Sims, Bix by, Dowell, Robinson and Carmel. Every one was quite amused at the article appearing under the caption of "Great Falls Notes" in last week's issue of the New Age. The article was simply a bouquet of flowers that the writer was throwing at himself and which would mislead the persons reading the article, who do not live here in Great Falls. It is true. It is true the church here has been gotten out of the hands of the North Western Building and Loan Association of Salt Lake, but one of our esteemable citizens still holds that mortgage on the church and have given its members reasonable terms in which to free their church from debt. The same is true at Havre, as one of the solid men of Havre holds the mortgage on the church property there unless the money has been paid to him during the present week. The article also states that since the writers advent into this community he has been responsible for the people of color securing better portions. The people in the cities mentioned would consider it a great favor to have these positions enumerated. The columns of the New Age are at the gentleman's disposal to enlighten the people. The only reason we can give for the absurd statements in the article referred to is that the writer is making a play for the conference to return him again next year. However if he is returned we predict that the church which has already suffered nearly a loss of all of its members will have to close its doors for more attendance. What we want here is a man who will add dignity to his cloth and build up the membership of the church which can be done if the right person is sent to us. The entertainment given by the Sunday school children of the A. M. E. church, on Friday evening last, was a success both financially and socially. Quite a neat sum being realized with which to purchase hymn books. Miss Mattie Robinson, who brought in the largest amount of money, was declared the winner of the prize in the contest. The New Age can be secured by applying at $113\frac{1}{2}$ First Avenue South, where subscriptions can be left or single copies obtained. Any news or advertising matters can be left there also, with our agent. Mrs. Ingerman entertained during the week at a water melon feast. Quite a number of the large, juicy melons were devoured by those present, who lingered until every one was cleaned up. Our genial friend, John Robinson, being responsible for putting three out of business. Mrs. Dowell, who has been indisposed during the past week, is again mingling with her many friends. Mrs. John D. Gainey, who has been visiting here during the week and looking for a house, returned to Havre Friday morning to superintend the packing of her household goods and get ready to move here. Mr. and Mrs. Gainey will reside permanently. Crowned in a Bath Chair. London, July 28.—The Standard, this morning, referring to the health of King Edward, expresses the opinion that his majesty will only be able to attend the coronation in a bath chair as an invalid. THE DOPE BOOK. Mr. Frank Pearl and lady were a little unfortunate by falling in a mud-hole. Slightly disfigured but still in the ring. An unusual roaring was heard in the mountains Sunday, and after a close inspection, it was discovered that Mr. Burnside was singing a bass solo. Mr. Chas. Davis and Mr. Alfred Davis were hunting deer in the mountains Sunday. They found two. Mr. J. D. Yancey done some shooting at a crowd Sunday, being a dead shot he hit every one of them. The deadly weapon was a camera. The firm of Jacobs Smith, livestock brokers, have dissolved, Smith having sold her interest to Birthright, the latter firm. Birthright, Jacobs & Co., will carry on the business in the same old stand. Smith retired from active business on account of falling health, and will take a much needed vacation. The former member left last Monday for the northwest, where they will enjoy the fresh ozone of the northwest territorie in the vicinity of Spokane. The Deuce club of five, Messrs. Charles Davis, Alfred Davis, William Burnside, Frank Pearl, J. D. Yancey, had an outing in the mountains Sunday, July 27. The ladies present were Miss Nelson, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Willis. An elaborate lunch was spread, consisting of chicken salad, veal and cheese sandwiches, Saratoga chips, three kinds of cake, assorted fruit and nuts and sparkling champaign cider. Every one responded to a toast, wishing the Deuce club success. The day was spent in taking photos and ball playing. Music was furished by the Deuce quartette, who layed their heads beneath the roses. Where Prayer Never Ceases. From the Methodist Magazine. There is one spot in the United States where the voice of prayer 's never still. For more than twenty months the "turret of prayer" that surrounds the Temple of Truth, near Lisbon Falls, Me., has never for an instant been without the sound of a human voice in supplication. It is the intention of the people who attend to this remarkable form of worship that prayer in the turret shall never cease so long as the building shall stand. Those who take part in the service compose the Holy Ghost and Us Society. The society affiliates with no denomination and tries to conform strictly to the teachings of the Bible. Starting without a penny, it has in a few years achieved such success that it has built four buildings, the Temple of Truth among them, which form a rectangle capable of seating 20,000 people. Baby Held for Board. Columbus, Ohio, July 27.—Laura Wilson, colored, holds a 10-months-old infant, William McKinley Williams by name, for a debt alleged to be owing for her board. Humane Officer Spencer is trying to get possessions of the child and instituted proceedings in the probate court today. About two months ago an unfortunate girl named Williams was found by Athens, Ohio, relatives to be insane in this city. She had become the mother of a child, which was put into the Mason woman's care. Efforts were made at that time to get possession of the child, but the woman would not deliver it. She claimed that its mother had given it to her. Laura Mason says $50 is due her for boarding the little one. The mother is now in the Athens insane asylum. DEBATE ON NEGRO'S RIGHTS. American Negro Does Not Prepose to Migrate to Any Other Country. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, July 22.—"I tell you when the American negro will go back to Africa—when the old oak that has braved the storms of a hundred years goes back to the acorn," said a negro in debate last night. "Tell me this is not my country! I and my people helped to build 200,000 miles of railroads. We brought forth the corn, the cotton, the rice. By the sweat of our face, we have earned the right to sing, 'My Country, 'Tis of Thee.'" An audience gathered at Quinn chapel last night to hear a debate on the following resolution: "Resolved, That for his future good the American negro should migrate to Africa, or to some other undeveloped country." There were four speakers and Bishop Abraham Grant, who presided, closed the debate. The jury returned a verdict for the negative side. Smith & Mattingly's HIGH CLASS SUMMER Shirts In All the New Fabrics of the Season Now on Sale. Smith & 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. 409 South Montana Street. Telephone 708-M. State Savings Bank 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. Creighton, 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 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 I. A. Heilbronner 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 24 WEST GALENA, 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. 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 AETNA SAVINGS AND TRUST COMPANY INDIANA Under state supervision. Five per cent interest, payable quarterly, paid on deposits. Money to Loan on Real Estate F AUG. HEINZE, - President CHAS. R. LEONARD, - Vice Pres. A. B. CLEMENTS, - Cashier