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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Census Figures Place Amount of Land and Buildings Under Control of the Colored People at $900,132,334—Tenant Farmers, However, Are Still In the Majority. By W. ANTHONY AERY. There is now a vast number of colored farmers in the south, working millions and millions of acres rich in possibilities, and yet only a small fraction of this land is rated as improved land. According to the census of 1910, there were in the south 800,141 colored farmers (28.7 per cent of the total number of farmers) working 42,600,117 acres (12 per cent of the total farm acreage), of which 27,735,743 acres (or 18.4 per cent) were reported as improved land. Colored farmers control nearly a billion dollars' worth of land and buildings in the south, and still they control only one-eighth of the land and buildings on all the farms in the south. The value of the land and buildings under the control of all the colored farmers was given at $900,132,334 (12.2 per cent of the total value of land and buildings for all farms in the south) as against $380,280,963 (11.6 per cent) for 1900. That the Negro farmer is going forward by leaps and bounds in the possession and control of property, however, is clearly shown by the census figures of 1900 and 1910. Even where the Negro has many disadvantages to face he is making progress. The 218,467 colored farm owners in 1910 held land and buildings valued at $272,992,238 (4.8 per cent) as against $106,619,328 (3.7 per cent) in 1900. The owners were distributed as follows: South Atlantic states, 101,961; east south central, 58,737; west south central, 57,769. As long as the colored tenant farmers, however, outnumber the colored farm owners three to one and as long as the tenant farmers have under their control a proportional amount of land and buildings which they may use wisely and well or utterly abuse through sheer ignorance the tenant problem and, indeed, the whole land problem for the white south will be a pressing and serious one. The 670,474 colored tenant farmers in 1910 tilled 26,567,802 acres, of which 20,096,375 were reported as improved land. These tenants were using land and buildings valued at $616,768,147 (8.4 per cent) as against $268,177,330 (8.2 per cent) in 1900. These colored tenants were distributed as follows: South Atlantic states, 253,181; east south central, 266,232; west south central, 151,061. If the Negro tenant is not taught how to treat the land properly and increase his earning power the whole south will suffer a tremendous economic loss. When more than 75 per cent of the Negro farmers are tenants there is important work still to be done along agricultural lines through the public schools, the private institutions, the state departments of agriculture and the press to help the tenants raise themselves into the class of owners. This improvement for many, many white farmers has already come about. If the south is to make the progress it should there are still too many white tenants as compared with white farm owners. One of the most hopeful signs of progress, however, is the percentile increase in Negro farmers, the amount of improved land held by them and the value of land and buildings they control. In the south, according to the census of 1910, 24.5 per cent of the colored farmers were owners, 0.1 per cent managers and 75.3 per cent tenants. For 1900 the figures were 21.0 0.2 and 79.6 respectively. In 1910 the white farmers of the south were distributed as follows: Owners, 60.1 per cent; managers, 0.7; tenants, 39.2. For 1900 the figures were 63 per cent, 0.9 and 30.1 respectively. The total number of Negro farm operators in the south in 1910 was 880, 837, and in 1900 it was 732,362. From 1900 to 1910 the percentages of increase in the south were: Total white farmers, 17.4; colored farmers, 20.2; white farm owners, 12; colored, 17; white tenants, 27.6; colored, 21.4; improved land in farms, white, 19.5; colored, 19.5; improved land in farms owned by white farmers, 13.8; colored, 25; improved land in farms of white tenants, 34.6; colored, 17.8. In Virginia, according to the census of 1910, there were 134,155 native white farmers who had 17,257,410 acres of land in farms and 48,114 Negroes and other nonwhite farmers who had 2,238,220 acres of land in farms. There were 101,436 (74.6 per cent) farms operated by white owners and 82,228 (67 per cent) farms operated by colored owners. The value of land and buildings of all the white farmers was $480,833,558 and that of all the colored farmers $45,224,504. The white farm owners had land and buildings valued at $374,781,761 and the colored farm owners $28,059,534. The value of domestic animals was: White. $63,941,810; colored. $9,251,533. Tyler to Handle Life of Washington. The publishers of the memorial edition of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington's life have appointed Ralph W. Tyler of Columbus, former auditor for the navy, general agent for the book. This work is the only authentic story of the life of Dr. Washington. It was written by Dr. Washington himself and contains a sixty-four page supplement by Albon L. Holsey. This is the only story of the life of the late Dr. Washington that has the approval of Mrs. Washington and of Emmett J. Scott, who for eighteen years was the doctor's secretary. VANISHING GOLD. What Has Become of All That Precious Metal That Has Been Mined? What becomes of gold? Where is all of that yellow metal that has been mined? It is one of the oldest metals in human use. There are gold beads dating back to the stone age. It is an object of almost universal desire. It is proof against almost all the influences which destroy other metals, and it has been mined in enormous quantities. Yet today more than two-thirds of the gold in use has been dug since 1849. What becomes of the rest? Where is the gold that set Jason wandering into the Black sea, that filled the treasures of Croesus, that paid the terrific tribute which Persian kings assessed against the Punjab? What has happened to the yellow dust and "electrum"—an alloy of gold and silver—which negro traders brought down the Nile to Egypt for 4,000 or 5,000 years? Ancient gold, like that of modern times, was used for money and for ornaments, but both have disappeared. Where? The most enduring of metals and yet the most evanescent, perpetually sought and yet constantly escaping the hands of even the successful seeker—that is gold. What is the reason for its curious elusiveness?—Chicago Journal. Silk Culture In Italy. About 500 A. D. Persian monks first brought silkworm eggs concealed in the head of a hollow staff to Constantinople. Thence silk culture spread into Greece. A little later conquest carried it to Sicily. From there to Italy it was but a step. Soil, climate, people, sufted it. The industry took root, grew, throve and continues to this day. The thrifty peasant manages to get silk and oil and wine from the same small holding. First he plants his mulberry trees, sixteen, feet each way. Next he prunes the heads into a hollow cup and trains his vines all over them, and finally around the edge he sets a shelter of olive trees. So all seasons bring him labor and the reward of it—London Standard. LEADERSHIP OF DR. D. H. BUTLER His Success as Minister and Business Man Noted. POPULAR WITH THE MASSES Presiding Eider of the Port Gibson (Miss.) District of the A. M. E. Church Has Made Good In Many Positions of Great Responsibility. Stands on His Merit. Jackson, Miss.-The Rev. D. H. Butler, D. D., one of the presiding elders of the Mississippi conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church, is a native of Adams county, this state. Dr. Butler is a former president of Campbell college, in this city, which position he held for seven years. He was also president of Paul Quinn college, at Waco, Tex., for two years. He has served as the minister of some of the largest and most influential churches of the A. M. E. denomination in the south. Dr. Butler's rise from a country schoolboy to one of the leading ministers and business men of the race in this part of the south has been remarkable. After finishing the public school course he entered Jackson college, where he completed the course of study in 1889. Having been convinced [Image of a man with a bald head and a mustache, wearing a suit and a tie.] REV. D. H. BUTLER, D. D. of his call to the gospel ministry, he matriculated at Gammon Theological seminary, Atlanta, Ga., from which he was graduated in 1895. During his course of study at Gammon Dr. Butler became a local minister and was admitted into the A. M. E. conference by the late Bishop Abraham Grant in 1894. He was afterward ordained a deacon, and in November, 1896, the late Bishop Henry M. Turner ordained Dr. Butler to the elderly at Cedartown, Ga. But before engaging actively in the ministry, however, he engaged in educational work and served as principal of three schools at various times in his native state. As minister in charge of churches in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia he became very popular with the masses which gave him the opportunity of knowing the needs of our people along all lines. He showed his Christianity and race pride also by doing what he could to supply the needs and advise as to the best method of overcoming difficulties of the kind peculiar to the people of the rural district. Bishop Evans Tyree made no mistake when he appointed Dr. Butler to the presidency of Campbell college, in this city. His administration was one of wise management and economy. The institution soon took on new life and gained many new friends under his regime. Dr. Butler has served as a trustee of Payne university, at Selma, Ala. Ward academy, Natchez, Miss.; Wilberforce university, Wilberforce, O.; Campbell college, in this city, and Morris-Brown college, Atlanta, Ga. Along business lines he was for seven years president of the local business league in this city and was one of the founders and directors of the American Trust and Savings bank. The Jackson Real Estate company had its origin in the thrift and industry of this progressive minister, as did also the Jackson Coal and Wood company. At present he is serving as treasurer of the trustee board of Campbell college, presiding elder of the Port Gibson district in the Mississippi conference and is chairman of the supreme advisory board of the Independent Order of Immaculates of America. He has contributed something to journalism, for he was founder and proprietor of the Christian Standard. Anniston, Ala.; the Educational Journal, Campbell college; the Mississippi Methodist and the Mississippi Vanguard. Dr. Butler's friends are urging him for the position of business manager of the A. M. E. Book Concern, in Philadelphia. He has the endorsement of the state of Mississippi, as well as Louisiana, for the said position, and should he be elected at the coming general conference to be held at Philadelphia in May he will make good in this as he has in the other positions of trust and responsibility which he has held. Cynical. "Is he a good after dinner speaker? "If there is such a thing as a good after dinner speaker I presume you'd call him one."—Detroit Free Press Naturally. "I saw Mabel buying rouge the other Jay." "That gives color to the report that she paints."—Baltimore American. Man's Adventurous Side. There is always a temptation to cross a bridge which has been condemned, man being an adventurous guss at heart.—Atchison Globe. The confidence we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that we have in others.—La Rochefoucauld. Zoar M. E. Church Over a Century Old. The big event at the Zoar Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia for December was the observance of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of its incorporation. The Rev Dr. F. H. Butler, minister of the church, with the hearty cooperation of the members, arranged an appropriate program for the celebration, which included many notable speakers and singers. Hundredth Anniversary of Methodism Throughout America in parts of Africa. Bermuda and the West Indies the churches of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination are beginning preparations for the general conference to be held in Philadelphia in May. This gathering will mark the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the A. M. E. church by Richard Allen His Definition. "Besides being tiresome, that fellow has a voice which goes right through you." "Yes, I've noticed he's something of a bore."—Baltimore American. A Good Reason. "What makes you think, sir, that I will not be able to support your daughter?" "Well. I haven't been able to myself." Tree Leaves and Water. Ash leaves are capable of making up more water than those of most other trees. In a hundred pounds of ash leaves are eighty-five of water, in the same weight of beech leaves seventy-five, of maple sixty, of pine fourteen and of fir ten. Naturally So. "She's been so conceited since they managed to get a player piano." "Well, dear, player piano owners do as a general thing put on airs."—Baltimore American. LOFTY TRIBUTES PAID WASHINGTON SETH LOW CHIEF SPEAKER Mammoth Throng Assembles at Metropolitan Church, In Washington, the Honor Memory of Tuskegee Institute's Founder—Cabinet Officials Also Attend Ceremonies. Washington. — The nation's capital has joined with the millions of Americans in paying tribute to the memory of Dr. Rooker T. Washington, founder and builder of Tuskegee institute. A tremendous outpouring of men and women of both races which packed spacious Metropolitan A. M. E. church to the doors at the recent national memorial meeting, held as a mark of respect to the lofty character and constructive labors of the remarkable educator and masterly man of affairs, who passed away at his southern home on the 14th of November, 1915. The meeting was held in the name of the 10,000,000 Negroes under the stars and stripes, the local arrangements being in the hands of a citizens' committee, headed by Henry Lassiter as chairman, R. W. Thompson as secretary and Daniel Freeman as treasurer. For more than two hours, with the rapt attention of the immerse crowd, speakers of national fame extolled the virtues of the Negro's greatest educator and leader and commended in unstinted terms the work which he set in motion and carried on with such signal benefit not only to the people of his own race, but for the good of the nation and for the general uplift of mankind. All agreed that Booker T. Washington had practically revolutionized educational standards by his aggressive insistence that it is what a man does rather than what he knows that weighs most heavily in the scale of human advancement. It was the consensus of opinion that the work of industrial training and character building for the Negro youth launched at Tuskegee institute more than three decades ago must go on and that its permanency must be secured by the active efforts of the American people to raise an endowment fund to guarantee the legitimate running expenses of the race's greatest civic center. The principal address of the occasion was delivered by the Hon. Seth Low, former mayor of New York city and chairman of the board of trustees of Tuskegee institute. He was introduced in a happy fashion by Mr. Laussiter, the presiding officer, following the latter's opening statement touching the cause that brought together the host of friends and admirers of the deceased teacher and philosopher. Mr. Low said in opening his intensely practical and helpful address: "I wish that every Negro in the United States—for that matter, I wish every white man in the United States—could see Tuskegee institute in Alabama." For the benefit of those of either race who have not been there the speaker then gave a luminous description of the wonderful community, built up in what had been almost a wasto place in the heart of the southland. He told in graphic language of the broad scope of the training of the head, hand and heart that was offered there and how efficiently the correlation of academic, manual and moral elements of education are being carried on in the school and its environs. Tuskegee institute impressed him as a miniature city, sufficient unto itself, where every man, woman and child was a worker and an influence for the common good. Appropriate. Little Johnny—Dad, there's a girl at our school whom we call Postscript. Dad—Postscript? What do you call her Postscript for? Little Johnny—Cos her name is Adeline Moore.—Exchange. Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50e Reduced Rates to Clubs. Fond for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martins- burg, W. Va. in Second Class Matter J. L. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY JANUARY 29 1916 The finest product of American civilization is a full-fledged American citizen, who loves and practices the principles of Jesus Christ to all regardless of color. If the efforts of the Wilson administration have not shut the mouths of the Negro "Dimocrats" as tightly as the shell of an oyster there is much for the fool-killer to do. --- Consumers should get wise and and boycott all persons and corporations who by storing potatoes away to force high prices, are making it hard for the laboring classes. It is said that thousands of bushels are in storage in Martinsburg. Never had this country a better potato crop. They should, and could be selling for 40 cents a bushel. Buy rice, it makes a fine substitute indeed is better than potatoes. --- We see by a Washington paper that Hon. Wallace Bassford clerk to Speaker Clark, is an applicant for postmaster of the District of Columbia. Mr. Bassford has a tenacious memory and can call the name of any one with whom he has met and talked. Should he be successful, one of the brightest and most polished gentlemen of the nation's city would fill the place to everybody's liking. ```markdown ``` Of all men the President of the United States ought to be the wisest and best from the fact he is selected by a majority of millions of men. But as time passes, it is plainly seen that wisdom is not confined to the Nation's head but can be found in almost every walk in life. If a man of purpose said one term is enough and I will only serve one term; and if the same man decries preparedness, and because public sentiment favors it, he too falls in line, and for no other purpose than to be renominated, what do you think of him? The American Protective Tariff League has just issued a unique pamphlet entitled 'Roster of the Sixty-fourth Congress' which will be useful to every person who wishes to communicate with any member of Congress. The pamphlet also includes letters of approval of the Tarif League's work from a large number of congressmen and practical business concerns. --- Daily the cry is heard about suffering of the Belgians. Of course it is hard, but is it any harder on them than that which Belgium inflicted on the Africans of the Congo? True these suffering souls did not do it but they sanctioned it by their allegiance and loyalty to king Leopold theassassin of the Congo. Hundreds and thousands of blacks—women and children were --- cruelly put to death, and time the regulator of all things, did not forget it. At this critical period in American history while human life is being burned, hung and shot like mad dogs the prophetic words of Thomas Jefferson relative to slavery "I tremble for my country" need to be a constant reminder of a retributive justice greater than man can imagine. Why not then in reality let this be, "The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." LEARN SPANISH. In all of Central America and South America the people speak Spanish. In our American isolation and self-sufficiency we give very little time to the study of foreign language. In that respect the educated classes of Europe excel us, and in that respect they have a great advantage over us in their struggle for foreign trade. Every high school boy and girl ought to study Spanish. The study of Spanish ought to be required in our high schools. It is not a difficult language and it is spoken in most of the Americas. It is part of the latin or romance language, spoken in Spain, Italy, France and South America. If the young men and women who go out of the high schools can read and talk spanish, and if the young men and women of the Latin countries south of us are taught to read and speak English, there will by that fact, exist a bond of unity between the Americas greater than all the congresses or science or politics could perfect. If American literature could circulate among the intelligent classes of South America and Central America as freely as it circulates here; if South American literature could circulate in America; if the business man of South America and of the United States could correspond in either language with equal facility; If the young man could go directly from this country to any city in south America or Mexico to establish a branch of American business without the handicap of ignorance of their language, and if conversely a South American or a Mexican could come here and do the same with equal facility, we should have a pan-Americanism greater than we could attain by speeches and resolutions and treaties. It is of the highest commercial importance to this country to cultivate the study of Spanish in our public schools. THE COMING CANVASS. In less than six months the voters of the country will know who will be the two leading candidates for the office of President of the United States. Indeed they know now who one of them will be, but as to the other there is complete uncertainty. The known candidate of course is that of the Democratic party. No Democrat has proposed himself, no Democrat has been "mentioned" by his friends as a possible opponent of the President. Individual Democrats of high standing have disagreed with some of the President's policies or disapproved some of his actions; but none of them have seriously opposed him. The approval of Mr. Wilson's course by his own party as a whole has been unusually sincere and hearty. On the Republican side all is obscure. It is not yet even known whether there will be a substantially complete reunion of the forces that in 1912 fought each other so savagely. There may be an ar- tificial harmony; there may be continued division and rival candidates. Logically and in the interest of pure politics, there should be continued division; for those who adhered to the Republican party four years ago, and those who broke away from it, do not now, any more than then, think alike on public questions. If they should act together on platform and candidates, and should be successful in the election, one wing or the other would be doomed to disappointment. The alternative is that they should make a platform and choose candidates so colorless as not to offend either wing of the party. In that case of course neither wing would be fully content. But logic is not going to determine the course of Republicans and Progressives in the coming canvas. Political expediency will govern the conduct of each wing of the old Republican party. No one knows to what extremes such expediency may lead. There are many candidates for the Republican nomination, some eager and some reluctant. Five of them are present members of the Senate: Messrs. Borah, Cummins, La Follette, Penrose and Weeks. Others who have been "mentioned" are former Senators Burton and Root, former Vice President Fairbanks, Governor Whitman, and Mr. Justice Hughes. There is another name—that of one who can never be overlooked when the presidency is discussed Theodore Roosevelt. He would be a rash man who should predict what part Mr. Roosevelt will play in the coming contest, for not even he himself knows what it will. Naturally his course will be governed by circumslances; but no one who has the slightest acquaintance with the political history of the last decade will doubt that anything is possible except that Mr. Roosevelt will become the Democratic candidate. That position is preempted. Youth's Companion. Lines to Be Remembered. We live beside each other day by day, And speak of Myriad things, but seldom say The full sweet word that lies wifhin our reach. Beneath the common ground of common speech; Then out of sight and out of reach they go, These dear familiar friends that loved us so, And, sitting in the shadows they have left, Alone with loneliness and sore bereft, We think with vain regret of some kind word That once we might have said and they have heard. - Lowell SEX ATTRACTION. It is the Controlling Force In About Every Human Effort. We cannot escape from the fact that sex attraction is the great event in human life. Sex is the controlling force in nearly all of human efforts. War, for instance, is only an exaggerated form of the sex instinct. Neither literature nor art would exist in any appreciable degree without sex. Men work, fight, sing, paint, live and die for the love of woman. In only one field of human activity is there no taint of sex feeling, and that is science. Science is cold and dispassionate. It has imagination, but the imagination of the explorer and not the lover. 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"Look here," said the husband. "You mustn't complain that way. Remember, at least, that I have to foot all the bills." "Yes, you foot them," retorted the wife. "You kick at every single one of them."—Stray Stories. Mme. L. C. Parrish Hair Culturing Scalp Treatment Largest Mail Order House of its kind in America. All kinds of Toilet Articles for sale. Human Hair Goods of the finest quality. Our Hair Food and Skin Food never fail. If the trouble is with the hair, scalp or skin, we have the remedy. We guarantee a remedy to make hair grow on bald spots and bare temples. Send 10c. for a sample and catalogue. Send for our terms to agents. Address Mme. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden Street, Boston, Mass. Light and the Blind. Light has use, even if men cannot or will not see it. Baring-Gould tells of an institution for the blind that was built in England without windows: "Why," argued the committee, "should we provide windows for those that cannot see out of them?" So scientific ventilation and heating were provided, but the walls were left unpericed by any pane of glass. But soon the poor inmates grew pale, and a great languor fell upon them. They were restless and dissatisfied. They fell sick, and one or two died. Then it was that the committee decided to open windows in the walls. In came the healing light, and the human plants responded to it at once in revived spirits, ruddy cheeks and restored health. Light is good, the light of the world is good, even for those who shut their eyes.—Christian Her- Nelson Won the Elgin Marbles. Lord Elgin, whose name has become so inseparably associated with the famous sculptures, never saw them in their original places in the Parthenon. He employed artists to make him drawings of the sculptures, and it was they who urged him to have the wonderful relies of ancient Greece removed to England to save them from destruction. Elgin repeatedly appealed to the porte for permission to remove them, but the request was refused until Trafalgar. As soon as he heard of Nelson's victory the sultan said, "You may take them now as soon as you please"—London Mirror. No Nervous Strain. Crawford—The elephant sleeps only five hours out of every twenty-four Crabshaw—Very true, but just sleep and consider that the elephant doesn't have to attend lectures or the opera, listen to sermons or war talk or lend an ear to some fellow's description of his newest baby or car, and you will realize that he has a pretty soft time of it, taken all in all—Life. Professional Caution Burglar (just acquitted, to his lawyer)—I will pop in soon and see you. Lawyer—very good, but in the daytime, please—Boston Transcript. Flight of a Raindrop. The velocity with which q rainforest falls depends on its size and the height from which it started, but ordinarily it travels a rate somewhere between three yards and six yards a second. 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The question of providing proper housing conditions in this section has been made the subject of a series of conferences between representatives of the Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests, the City and Suburban Homes company, the National League on Urban Conditions and the Property Owners' Improvement corporation. These meetings were attended by prominent citizens who have become interested in the welfare of the colored people of the city of New York. A number of model apartment houses are to be erected in Harlem as a memorial to the late E. R. L. Gould, president of the City and Suburan Homes company, who was so largely interested in the Phipps houses and the Tuskegee and Hampton apartment houses in the West Sixtieth street district. The houses in Harlem are to be constructed with the idea in mind of correcting some of the conditions which were exposed by the Urban league in its report. Some of the facts as outlined in the report are as follows: Only 25 per cent of colored families of Harlem live in three and four room apartments, while 71 per cent live in five and six room and 4 per cent in seven and eight room apartments. These families have an average income of $791 yearly and pay $281, or 30 per cent of their income, for rent. Of 133 apartments in the same character of houses occupied by German Jews, in neighboring districts, 60 per cent are three and four room apartments, and these tenants pay only $207 yearly for rent from an average income much larger than that received by colored people. In 62 per cent of the apartments occupied by the colored families lodgers constitute 32 per cent of the total population. These lodgers are taken into homes because of the necessity to pay high rents. There is a lodging population in Harlem alone of 16,000 persons, while the increase in Negro population in New York city is about 3,000 persons a year. In an investigation by the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes in an area of about twenty-three blocks, between One Hundred and Forty-second and One Hundred and Thirty-first streets, there were 726 apartments and 443 private houses occupied by Negroes, with but 2 per cent of the total number of residents in the district of white extraction. When these houses were opened to colored people the rents increased per month from $1 to $5 per apartment. It is estimated that the total number of Negroes in Harlem is about 50,000. As has been cited above, they are already paying rents which are exorbitant, compared with their limited incomes, and they cannot pay still higher rents that would be expected if better services were given in these houses. The fact that the houses occupied by colored people return good revenues is shown by the return on the average assessed valuation in that district of 7 per cent net. The following example is cited by the National Urban league as indicating that the increase in rent occurs when white people are succeeded by colored people. Twin houses in Harlem were owned by a single landlord and absolutely filled with white people. They were rented at from $16 to $19 per month. Why We Draw Back. Our human intercourse is constantly being thwarted by our consciousness of consequences. It is especially the case when we are young. Young people feel that they can hardly have an intimate conversation without its ending in a promise to correspond or an invitation to visit. If we keep this attitude as we grow older the consciousness that a moment's intimacy may entail so much makes us pause before taking the fateful plunge. How often do we draw back in a moment of expansion because we reflect, "Shall we feel the same way tomorrow or next month?" How many friendly impulses do we restrain because we are afraid something more will be expected of us—New York Telegram. NA FLORA HAIR DRESSING THE KING OF HAIR DRESSING SHAVES HAIR-REMOVES BANDRUSH AND WETTER BUT IT-TRY IT-TEST IT YOUR DRUG IS NOT BANDRUSH WETTER COLOR DRUG EDENTION TRICKING SUBMARINES. Ruses by Which Vessels May Escape Their Torpedo Attacks. It is the surprise attack which in nearly every case enables a submarine to torpedo a hostile ship. There are several maneuvers by means of which a ship can trick a submarine. Several vessels have diverted torpedoes by swinging round their stern until it points in the direction of the undersea craft. In this way the wash of the propellers has deflected the torpedo from its course and it has sped harmlessly past its mark. Another successful ruse is to stoke up the furnaces of a ship chased by a submarine, and thick, black smoke belches from its funnels and envelops the vessel in a protective shroud. In this way the submarine gunners are confused and cannot perceive the correct direction in which to send their torpedo. A speedy ship which follows an erratic, zigzag course presents a poor mark to a submarine. When a torpedo is dispatched against a fast traveling vessel it is directed to a point just ahead of its mark, and the craft literally runs into the death dealing device. This obviously cannot happen however, if a ship is swinging rapidly from side to side and alternately pointing the narrow expanse of its bows or stern to the undersea marksmen. A submarine seldom attacks a vessel if it is not alone, for it can only attack one at a time, and while it is launching a torpedo at its first mark the second vessel has an excellent opportunity of ramming the submarine, which can be located by its telltale periscope.—Pearson's Weekly. THE ENTRANCE HALL Make It Suit Not Visitors, but the Occupants of the Home. Is anything new to be said about the entrance hall? The smallest room in most houses, it is usually given in the plans an amount of attention that might seem out of all proportion to the rest of the house. And yet the ordinary entrance, whether it be a mere vestibule, a spacious hall of the colonial style or, as in our present day fashions, a part of the living room set off by an archway, is quite unsatisfactory. It is unsatisfactory for this reason—that the entrance way is designed and decorated from the standpoint of the impression it makes on visitors, whereas the impression we should seek is not that made upon guests, but upon ourselves, the occupants of the house. Too often we give the entrance a severe treatment that impresses the student of beauty or that amazes the less discriminating visitor by the other extreme of lavish display. But how does either of these two types of entrance affect those who come into the house many times every day, the good man and his good wife and their children? Is it a room that by its suggestion of rest and repose tempts one after a hard day's work at the office to drop into the first easy chair that comes along, or does it irritate the nerves and keep one going, restless and uneasy, wandering from the entrance to the living room and from the living room to the study and thence to the attic by way of the basement?—Good Health. Suppressing Swearing. Profane as well as legal oaths have been the subject of many parliamentary measures in England. No fewer than five separate bills having the prevention of swearing for their object were presented during the reign of James I., but it was not until 1623 that an enactment was finally carried defining and controlling the offense. In 1635 a public department was established to collect the fines enforced by this law. The officials of this department, of whom one was appointed in every parish, were allowed 2s. 6d. in the pound on the money thus collected, and the balance was paid over to the bishop for the benefit of the deserving poor. These penalties ceased to be enforced after the restoration, but were revived by a statute of William and Mary and still further increased under George II. Stereoscopio Surveying. There is in use a stereoscopic method of photographiesurveying. Photographs are taken at two points with a surveying camera, the plates being exposed in the vertical plane passing through both stations. The developed plates, or positives from them, being then placed in a stereoscopic measuring machine that combines the pictures, a brief calculation gives the exact position of any desired point. The effective range of the instrument is put at about five miles, and the method is said to be of particular advantage in mapping large areas of mountainous country. A Real Grievance Magistrate—How comes it that you dared to break into this gentleman's house in the dead of night? Prisoner—Why, your worship, the other time you reproached me for stealing in broad daylight. Ain't I to be allowed to work at all?—London Telegraph. Back Thrust. Mrs. Puritan - My ancestors came over in the Mayflower, I'd have you know. Mrs. D'Accustic—That may be, but they might not be allowed to land today.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Why He Was Quiet. "What did he have to say for himself?" "Nothing. His wife was with him."—Judge. Terrors. Bug originally meant a goblin. The Welsh word bug signifies ghost. The Hebrew word, which in Psalm xcl. 5, is represented by terror, was in the early translations rendered bug, the verse reading. "Thou shalt not need to be afraid of any bugs by night." His Feat. "Did you hear about that deaf mute at the wagon factory?" "No." "He picked up a wheel and spoke." Sincerely Wrong. The most dangerous people in the world are the people who are sincerely wrong. Conscience is like a compass and needs continual readjustment. Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right—Sophocles.