Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1895, Page 11

THE | EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. : 1 > CHANCE MEETING BY THE DUCHESS. (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) I. -"Isn’t it dreadful, George?” says Mrs. Plake, coming into her husband's dressing room without so much as a knock. “What's dreadful?” asks Mr. Blake, In a tone that no human being but his wife eculd have understood. This fs accounted for by the fact that he is shaving, and that the left side cf his mouth is now drawn up so far that it almost reaches his eyelid. Naturally this leaves In his articulation a good deal to be desired. “Lilian still steadily refuses to stay here and meet him.” “Meet Geoffrey Lansdale?” “Yes, of course; though she knows how much depends upon it.”” ‘There was never a girl who wasn’t a fool!” says Mr. Blake, going on contentedly with his shaving. “Oh! I don’t know that!” After all she had once been a girl herself. “But certain- ly I do think Lilian is behaving very badly about this.” “Let her alone,” says Mr. Blake, who is @ slave to this one “fool of a girl” at all events—his only daughter, Lillan. “If she doesn’t want to marry her cousin, so be it. She will have something of her own. Erough? Why: should she annoy herself on account of her grandfather's money?” “Oh, searcely enough,” says Mrs. Blake. “You know Georgie will come in for the property, and Jack must be thought of. It is impossible for the best of boys to get on on his mere pay; and the cavalry ts ex- pensive. And Lilian * * * She is not the sort of girl * * * . She has not been brought wp to learn the harder features of economy, and I cannot help thinking it is ch a pity.” ‘You are growing mercenary in your old “Stl focaclings should be provided for.” ys her husband. ‘For the matter of that, I am not so very |," says Mrs. Blake, with the faintest tinge of offense in her tone. And not with- out reason; as now, indeed, though in her forty-fourt) year, she still looks young and handsome. Mr. Blake smiles at her. “Only a year or two older than Lil, I honestly believe,” says he, “to look at you. But, see here, Mery, if cur girl doesn't wish to marry young Lansdale, why that’s the end of It.” “Not wish to marry a man she has never seen! How can she know what she wishes? Why can't she stay here and see him, and then say ‘no,’ if she doesn’t ke him? It is very kind and considerate of hira to come here at all, in my opinion. At all events it argues him heart whol “How so?” Mr. Blake has now got to a very difficult bit of his cheek and is Jook- ing ferociou:! C “Why the will, George! You were allud- ing te it only just now. Poor, dear papa so arranged it that if Lilian refuses Geof- frey, all goes to him, but if Geoffrey re- fuses to marry Lilian all the money goes to 2 foundling hospital."" “A foundling hospital! Gcod gracious!’ Mr. Blake turns to her, a face lost in soap. ‘And [ always believed your father was a most moral man.” don’t be stupid. Poor papa had How I wish he hadn't!” ill foundiings should be provided for,” iys Mr. Blake, magisteriaily. s 1 dare say. and so should Lilian.” My dear! Lilian isn't a foundlin; ‘She's a girl with very little more than age, Mar: ide a penny, which amounts to the same thing to me, Mrs. Blake, who fs ambitious for her chil ei = “If Lilian won't stay here to receive young Lansdale where does she mean to £02 i I'm sure I don’t know,” says Mrs. Blake, dejected this moment a loud tattoo on the outer @oor—the door of the bed room—can he Blake goes quickly to it, and etween her and the some- je for the tattoo ensues, however, the outside door is closed again, and Mrs. Blake rushes back to her hushand, her charming face Jicht with mirth and satisfaction. “Well, it Is the funniest thing,” begins sessie has just had a telegram! rave is her sister—eight years unior, and a widow of six years stand- ‘She has just heard from Geoffrey Lans- dale's mother that he is to be at Glengariff tomerrow. Be s that arranges it- jlengariff tomorrow, rt_of person who deserves Mr. Blaké, di lence, isn’t i “almost provi Geoffrey is go- on his way to “It is the stran Foes on Mrs. dential, T call it: nd a weel And Lilian? “Well, as she is determined to go away from home to him, she may just as Hl put in a week there as in any othe: ce. It is lovely, you know, George. Will do the girl good. A perfect paradise! = * * Mrs. Musgrave and Lillan,having of the train that has brought ry, stand irre guided by a who is looking walk off briskiy epped nem to olute for a moment, until, ntle hint from the porter fter their luggage, they into the town that les rf, S) @A little tartar, if 21 ake no m take. low them, where they are presently in- “1 to mount a high vehicle, arranged seats in ro all facing the four arry them to Glen- indeed, all the seats sr quaint coach of the growing impatient be- off they go! as thes h a high hill, the ories of ntry bay become to them. There it lies like a beauti- fil lake, sy high and state- ly mourt ‘aters so still, so calm teday, t § ly they seom alive, and the Aurora, anchored in the middle of it, them, here, Teriinds one of nothing so much as Cole- ridge's ted ship upon a painted ocean. thim two Islands, miss,” says the turning to Lilian, whom he has favored from the beginning with his in- structive conversation (beauty is dear to the heart of the Irishman), “wid the sthrip o' sand joinin’ thim? There's a story about thim. "Tis married now they are, they say, but whin the high tide comes it divides thim. "Tis the ‘Daily Divorce’ they calls thim. Fegs! they must be Protestants, anyway.” He is a garrulous but kindly Jehu, filled with curfous anecdotes and legends which for the last eleven years he has been in- stilling into the ears of his clients; nor does he indeed today draw breath until, having climbed .the highest- hills, he now brings his horses carefully down and down again, throvgh an exquisite descent of wooded road, to the very door of Eccles Hotel. “Oh, how lovely!’ says Lilian, softly, as if afraid to speak too loud. She and Mrs. Musgrave have clambered down the little step-ladder brought out to help them from their elevated position on the open coach, and are now looking round them. Here is the door of the hotel, an old-fashioned, homely entrance, more suggestive of inn than hotel, and, indeed, with the parts of the house on either side of it evidently very old, and would no doubt contrast strange- ly with the long row of new buildings that have been tacked on to them in later years, but for the fact that flowers and clinging, trailing greeneries have covered the house beth old and new with an almost riotous growth, J It is now late in September, but roses and passion-flowers in full bloom are still crawling up the walls wherever they get a chance, reaching the upper windows—nay, the very roof itself. On the left, a mag- nelia is covering the space between two of the drawing room windows, its white and fragcant cups (that so strangely resemble the water lily) gleaming through the tender greenness of its leaves, whilst geraniums show their pale pink and scarlet brightness from even higher up. Such luxuriant ger- antums, growing up and up, and ever up, until they stare out at you from under the very caves. To the right, some Dijon roses are banging their pale and fragrant heads. “The roses at home are all gone,” says Lilian, as if to herself. “But look at the bay, dearest,” says Aunt Bessie. As if reluctantly, Lilian turns from her contemplation of the exquisite flowers, but when she turns it is only to give way to fresh admiration. Only the narrow road runs between the flower- crowned hotel and the water, with its wild wealth of beauty; its purple mountains, that cast their shadows deep into its depths; its islands, clad with gleaming verdure, and the soft, delicate spell of mist and silence that hangs over all. Who—who can describe that spell—the glamour of it, the -lesire, the longing to sink into it and dwell within its eternal calm forever? . * . “Aunt Bessle, we must get a boat to- morrow, and go out as far—as far,as we can!” says Lillian, some hours later. Dinner is over—an excellent dinner in the long and handsome saloon, and she and Mrs. Musgrave, having gone upstairs to put on some wraps with a view to sifting out on the esplanade and watching the grow- ing moonlight deck the waters, are now going "back to their rooms, along the nar- row corridor. 2 “Well, dearest, I dare say a boatman can be found,” says Aunt Bessie, to whom jig- ging up and down on unsteady foundations has no charm. “As for me, you know I 2m _a bad sailor; still—" She stops short; a young man coming to- ward them has caught her eye. “Why, Mrs. Musgrave, is it you!” says the newcomer, stopping short and holding Cling band with pleased surprise. “What luck!” “My dear Geoff, so glad to see you,” says Aunt Bessie, genially, if a little timidly. She is conscious of a faint feeling of guilt. “Lilian and I only arrived this afternoon. Oh, I forgot; you do not know each othe This is Geoffrey Lansdale, dearest Lilian. She omits to look at her niece as she makes this somewhat incomplete introduc- ticn, but Geoffrey Lansdale does not. He casts a quick, penetrating glance at the girl, who acknowledges his bow with the faintest possible one in return, after which she immediately moves away, carrying her aunt by an imperious gesture with her. Lansdale glances after her, an~ amused twinkle in his handsome gray eyes. “So that is she!” says he. “A little Tartar, if I make no mistake! The foundlings are in for a good thing if it rests with me.”” (Continued in Thursday's Star.) ——— WASHINGTON SHOPPERS. Their Chnracteristics as They Ap- pear to a Student of Them. “Washington people are exceedingly liberal patrons of mercantile establish- ments such as ours,” said Mr. A. Kauf- man, manager ef S. Kann, Sons & Co.'s well-known stores at 8th street and Mar- ket space, yesterday to a Star reporte: “It would not be taking too great a liberty with adjectives to call them generous. Their perception in making their selections and their readiness to close the bargain when their desires are satisfied make them remind me more of New Yorkers than any other persons I am familiar with. They are away ahead of Baltimoreans in this re- gard. In Baltimore there will be twice as many of the shoppers known to us as ‘Icokers’ in a day’s crowd as you will find in the same-sized Washington throng. A ‘looker’ is the visitor who comes in merely to see the other women and to be seen her- self, and who yet wants to see goods and get samples merely to make the parade she is going through pass muster. There are not many of this sort here, however. “Now, taks this silk counter here, for in- stance,” continued Mr. Kaufman; “I ven- ture to say that if you would stand by it and watch the ladies who stop at it for an hour you would find that eight out of every ten made a purchase. There is another thing about Washington shoppers which goes a great way, I think, toward disprov- ing the general idea that seems to be held abroad that this community is indolent and slow in its movements and purposes. What I refer to is the continual hurry Washing- ten shoppers always seem to be in. To meet this trait every first-class establish- ment in the city has to adopt a rapid sys- tem of serving by the clerks and change making by th accountants. A lady was in kere a day or two ago and when she was going out she stopped and sald to me: ‘{ want to express my appreciation of the quick methods we shoprers are given the alvantage of here at home. I went up to the conclave in Boston, and while there I went into Jordan, Marsh & Co.'s to make a small purchase. It didn’t take me half a minute to make my selection, but, I de- lare, it was half an hour before my bundle nd change were given to me. Just now I e in kere to buy some handkerchief: s time than I can tell it my pac! age and my change were promptly handed certainly a re‘ief to hérried per-: sons to find such a system where they do their dealing.’ “So you see," concluded Mr. Kaufman, “that Washirgten not only ccntains a gen- erous class of pecple, but a busy one as well. But no one can expect to please it easily. I tell you there are few communi- ties that possess in such a general degree the discriminating taste in the things in- cluded in cur lines as this one at the na- tional capital,” —— War Department Guards. The War Department Guards, company D, sixth battalion, District of Columbia National Guard, held their first meeting since the reorganization of the company by Lieuterant Otto G. Simonson, in their rooms at the new National Guard Ar- mory last night, The main object of the meeting was to get the men together, and Lieutenant Simonson opened the proceedings with an explanation of the plan on which he is working. He sald the object he was aim- ing to accomplish was that the members of the company fraternize, and thereby create a social feature to the command as well as a military. He said that the prospects of the organization were excellent. The greater part of the meeting was de- voted to the election of officers for t coming year, which resulted as follow: H. Blanton, recording secretary; C. A. Stock, treasurer, and Gordon B. Hooker, financial secretary. There was a great deal of talk about doing away with the position of financial secretary, as no one would at first accept it, but it was found that the by-laws of the sixth battalion, under which the command is running, re- quired the existence of the office in each of its companies. The following were ap- da house committee to see that the ters of the company are properly fitted up, and they will have charge of the rooms for the period of one month: Messrs. Dan. Hutton, chairman; Charles O. Krause and Leonard Rosser. A voluntary subscription list was started for the purpose of raising funds with which to purchase furniture, and nearly $100 were pledged by those present. ————— He Knew Him. From Judge. herlie is a very foolish fellow; always borrowing trouble.” “Yes; and I'll bet he never pays it back. That's just like Charlie.” he's VIEW OF THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION pa 6 GROUNDS. PRESIDENT COLLIER’S SPEECH. Remar of the Director General of the Exposition. ATLANTA, Ga., September 18.—The fol- lowing is the speech of Chas. A. Collier, president and director general of the cot- ton states exposition, today: “The cotton states and international exposition owes its. existence to a move- ment which was inaugurated at the most inauspicious period for such an enterprise to be found in the record of many years. Eighteen months ago the practical prob- Jem for almost every community seemed to be how to save what it had, rather than to acquire new elements of strength. The whole country was in a state of depres- sion and anxiety; business was almost stagnant; the pulse of industrial life beat low; capital was apprehensive and re- luctant; labor had scant employment and diminished wages. The clouds which had darkened every material prospect a year before still hung low over the land, and he was accounted either utopian or over- bold who ventured to propose any great undertaking. Fortunately for Atlanta, however, she had among her sons many whose faith in her and in the country had remained unshaken, even by the severe conditions that then prevailed, and in con- fident anticipation of a better day soon to come they suggested and set on foot tlie movement which has led up to this event. The courage, the zeal, the defiance of difficulties, the indomitable energy which have ever characterized this people were exhibited in scarcely higher degree w they so rapidly rebuilt Atianta from the ashes of war than they cre in the history of this exposition. With a unanimity such as few cities have ever displayed in any cause they have stood by the enterprise from its very inception to this good hour. With a liberality Was royal they have contributed with an enthusi- asm and a pertin: ich have advanc- ed their already well-earned reputation for proclaiming the ach!ayemenzs and pres- pects of their city they have heralded and chronicled its glories. “But the unanimity, the ardor and the liberality of Atlanta alone could never have made possible what we behold to- day. To the co-operation of many states and cities, to various foreign nations, to industrial, scientific and social organiza- tions, to individual enterprise and inven- tive genius, to thrifty manufacturers far and near, to artists and artisans, to the tireless devotion and exbaustless ingenuity of heroic women, to the poweful ald of the press and the gererous favor of the federal government we must attribute the variety and splendor of this exhibition. “The occasion derrands a special acknowl- edgment of our debt to the press, that agency whose power to promote or pre- vent, to bless or to blight, is incalculable. The newspapers ‘hroughout the United States have given their cordial and inces- sant support to our undertaking. They have made common cause in behalf of this exposition; they have edvertised it to the world and won for it a fame and a favor which couki never have been ac- quired without their ardent and persistent advocacy. Action hy the Government. “To the federal authorities we are also greatly beholden. When the indorsement and aid of the government were sought there was a resperse which proved that though we are divided geographicaily into states and sections we are in heart and purpose an indivisible people. When our petition went before Congress party lines disappeared and the clangor of sectional- ism was silenced. We found friends in every party group and from every section of the Union. The people of Atlanta, of Georgia and of the south will hold in last- ing and grateful remembrance that demon- stration of sympathy by their brethren of the north and west, and stand ready to prove that they are not to be outdone in generous deeds. Gne of the noblest possi- bilities of this exposition is that it may bring into more complete accord the citi- zens of every part of the republic. We hail ith pride the symbols of the nation’s strength and the evidences of the wise and the beneficent direction of its authority which are here displayed. The Genius of Woman. “The advancement of the race and the adoption of truer ideals have enabled us to profit inestimably by that expanding force in our civilization—the genius of woman. The part it plays here is large, and the use it has made of this opportunity will un- questionably corduce to the fuller recog- nition of woman's righteous claims and a fairer estimate of the value of her work. The way fcr women who must needs strug- gle with the world will be widened by the triumphs of ferrinine capacity and skill which are here arrayed. The Negro’s Progress. “In justice to ourselves, as well as to them, we have invited the co-operation of our negro fellow-citizens. They have ac- cepted the responsibility of a department of their own, and have filled it with proofs of the progress they have made as free men. They were employed largely in the preparation here, as they are in almost all our industries, and they will share largely in the honors and practical benefits of the expogition. The Exposition Defined. “While the city, which originated it, and enlisted the support necessary to its real- ization, will naturally be its chief bene- ficiary, the effects of this great industrial demonstration will be confined to no city, to no state, nor to any one nation. The converging iines of influence and effort which are embodied in this enterprise, con- necting it with every source from which they come, will convey far and wid> its in- vigorating stimulus, its useful lessons and its practical results. Who shall compute the still further possibilities which may spring from the impressions and investigations of the multitudes who will come hither from every part of this country and from other lands? We have established here a great practical school, filled in every one of its many departments with object lessons of progress in the arts and sciences, and with illustrations of the most improved appiica- tions of power for the profit, comfort and delight of man. From the inevitable com- parison of methods and products thus insti- tuted, from the competition of theories and systems, from this battle of ideas we niay confidently expect beneficent and far-reach- ing results. It does not derogate from the national and international character of the exposition to say that, perhaps, the great- est revelations will relate to the resources and possibilities of the cotton states. When cur own people are just beginning to recog- nize the magnificence of nature’s endow- ment in the fields, the mines, the streams and the climate of this region, it is not strange that the outside world has been slow to gain full ard accurate knowledge concerning these sources of health, happi- ness and power. Both our own people and the outside world will know far more about the south at the close of this exposition than they know on this opening day. Reve- lations will spring in our familiar walks. A new beauty will light scenes on which we have looked long with undiscerning eyes, and we will realize as we never did before that ours is indeed a goodly heritage. It is no exaggeration to say that the industrial development of the south would have halted far short of Its present status but for the Atlanta cotton exposition of 1881. Its ef- fects were immediate and immeuse, and have, no doubt, continued far beyond the lines by which we define them. ‘The spirit of the south was quickened, and the four- teen years that have passed since that ex- position bave witnessed a marvelous devel- opment in this section. Great as this has been, there is every indication that we stand now at the opening of an era of in- dustrial achievement which will make what has already been accomplished seem small indeed. Cause of Rejoicing. “Tt is right, therefore, that this occasion. should wear the splendors of a jubilee. It is worthy of the flags and music and the general joy by which it Is brightened and graced. There is good reason for the gath- ering of this happy host. We rejo:ce at once over a victory and a prophecy. ‘Those upon whom has lain’ the burden of prepara- tion for this, event may look back with pardonable pride to the day when a little band of patriotic cit'zens resolved that Atlanta should have the greatest exposition, save one, this hemisphere has seen. 1t has been no easy task to reach the height we hold today. There have been times when difficulties thickly beset us, when progress seemed slow, and the end we aimed at very far off, but not once did our faith fail or our purpose waver. Helping ourselves to the very best of our capacity we found others willing and mighty to a'd us. Best of all a kind Providence has digpelled the gloom that lay over the whole Mind when we put our hands to this task. The work begun- beneath the frown of adverse for- tures has reached its completion under the smile of heaven upon our common coun- try. Everywhere plenteous harvests, reviv- ing commerce, restored confidence. indus- trial activity, capital busy in new enter- prises, labor abundantly employed and reaping increased rewards, all sections uf the country welded together in the bonds of common interest and the ardor of a broad patriotism. Surely we have a pro- pitious hour for the beginning of this great triumph of peace to which we have invited all mankind.” A EULOGY QF THE SOUTH. The Oration Delivered by Judge Emory Speer. Judge Emory Speer, the Srator of the day, said in beginning his remarks at the expo- sition grounds today: “This is indeed a hap- py day for our country. Cold and dull must be the nature of that man who Is insensible to these convincing proofs gathered that the world may see the advancement of our people on all the paths trending toward a more perfect’ civilization.” A great part of Judge Speer's oration was devoted to discussing the conditions of the southern states. Sald he: The Negro Question. “There was never the slightest danger of continued negro controf'in the local affairs of a southern state. Those who apprehend- ed it had done welt to consider that of all the American Union the southern people present the largest percentage of the old Anglo-Saxon stock. Of the white men of Georgia perhaps 90 :per:cent are descended from men who Were patriots either actively or jn sympathy with the American revolu- tion. Eyen now there fs but 13-4 per cent of foreign blood in’ the population of «his state. They had done well to consider the imperious and commanding nature of the Anglo-Saxon race. “I here declare that the so-called ‘race question’ does not exist." There are millions of colored people who live and who will live amorg many more millions of white people. Why shall any one forge a race is- sue? Honest and decent men, will accord to the negro that just measure of favor as a member of society the laws afford him, and which his conduct tsérves, and the long processes of time Will determine whether his presence is a benefit or an injury to himself and to the land to which he is now as warmly attachéd as his white neighbors. No process of reasoning, no fertility of con- jecture will afford any other solution of the so-called question. “Why agitate it, then? Its unnecessary discussion has withheld from the resources of these states the fructifying hand of the industrious white men, whether farmer or artisan, who, earning a bare support else- where, could, in this genial clime, win an abundance of which he never dream2d. It is, moreover, more cruel to the negro than it is detrimental to the white men, for the prejudice it awakens causes the idle, ignor- ant and lawless to become the suspicious enemies of the negro. It is, indeed, a source of alarm to those industrious and respect- able negroes whose intelligent labor and self-denying habits have supported their educated thelr children and added millions annvally to the taxable .value of these states. There is one thing sinca his emancipation the south has ever guaranteed to the negro; that is, no matter what his trade vr occupation, the privilege of earning his living. It is a common spectacle upon structures of every character to behold numbers of white and negro mechanics working side by side. I have regretted to learn that this is not true in the northern states.” The Resources of the South. Further on he said: “The truth is, after making due allow- ance for our disadvantages, the world should awaken to the fact that no other land lighted by the sun in its diurnal progress around the world affords such attractions as a home-for mer with lives before them as do these southern states of the Union. It is demonstrable beyond question. Here the observant traveler will see on one farm the luxuriant beauty of our royal staple, the dark, rich green of the Indian corn, the golden glory of the ripening grain of every kind, the sweet yams, Irish potatoes, peas, hay, ground- peas, sorghum, watermelons, apples, pears, figs, pomegranates, grapes, plums and other crops and fruits all grown in per- fection in the same soil. + “The truth is the south ts beginning to think more of its interests and less of its rights. We have more earnest workers and fewer grand-stand performers. The most important fact of all is that our peo- ple have at length learned the inexorable nezessity of reising thelr own food crops. When on a memorable occasion, rot long ago, the President of the United States proclaimed that he would reply to an insult to the American flag with the guns of the American fleet, they who cheer- ed him until the pictured ceiling of the Capitol quivered with their plaudits were men who had worn the gray and rallied to the battle-riven banners of the con- federacy. Sir, when the time shall come, and come it must, whet America will need the help of all her song: the men who wore the gray and their song ‘will be no laggards then.” If the South Had Won. After referring to, the clvil war and the advent of peace, he said: “And if we had succeeded and destroyed the Union, what then?,/Two powerful An- glo-Saxon nations with all the hatred and resentment resulting frem separation after internecine strife could“not have confront- ed each across an imaginary line without frequent wars and the most exhausting preparation for them. Steeped with sus- picion, and rankling with revenge, the great American péople, divided into hos- tile sections Mke-’France and Germany, would have waited for the signal to ‘loose the dogs of war.’ No other condition would have been possible to the proud and reso- lute people of America. Thankful for Southern Defeat. “Oh, my countrymen, we should be grats- ful to God that He spared us the calamities I feebly picture. How, unwisely I need not say, we marched down into the valley and shadow of death, but He who rules the destinies of nations was with us. His rod and His staff did corafort us, and He has restored our souls and_is even now leading us through green pastures and by the waters of comfort, And here and now, not before cur enemies, for thank God we have none, but before the people of the habitable globe, He spreads the table that all may come and see and know the bounties and benefactions He has showered on this fa- vored people. And shall we not be worthy, of His loving kindness, His care for our past and His provision for our future? Yea, we shall say with the Im:st of old, ‘Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.’ ” WORK OF THE COLORED RACE. Address Delivered by Booker Washington. ATLANTA, Ga., September 18.—Mr. Book- er T. Washington said, on behalf of the col- ored race at the exposition opening exercises today:“Mr.President,gentlemen of the board of directors and citizens: One-half of the population of the south is of the negro race. No enterprise seeking the material, civil or moral welfare of this section can disregard this clement of opr population and reach the highest success. I but convey to you, Mr. President and directors, the sentiment of the masses of my race, when I say that in no way have the value and manhood of the American negro been more fittingly and gen- erously recognized than by the managers of this magnificent exposition at every stage of its progress. It is a recognition which will do more to cement the friendship of the two. races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom. “Not only this, kyit the opportunity here afforded will awaken among us a new era of industrial progress. Ignorant and inexperi- enced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more at- tractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden. y “A ship lost at sea for many days sud- denly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen the signal, ‘Water,.water; we die> of thirst! The answer from the friendly ves- sel at once came back, ‘Cast down your bucket where ycu are.’ A second time the signal, ‘Water, water, send us water,’ ran up from the distressed vessel, and was auswered. ‘Cast down your bucket where you are.’ The captain of thé distressed vessel, at last heeding the injunction, cast down his bucket, and it came up full of fresh, sparkling water from the mouth of the Amazon river. To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land, or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly rela- ticns with the southern white man who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, cast down your bucket where you are, cast it down in making friends in every manly. way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded. Cast it down in agricul- ture, in mechanics, in commerce, in domes- tic service and in the professions. And in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the south may be called upon to bear when it comes to bus- iness pure and simple, it is in the south that the negro is given a man’s chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this exposition more eloquent than in cm- phasizing this chance. Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignity and glorify common labor and put brains and skill into the common occu- pations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the drna- mental gewgaws of life and the useful. No Trace can prosper until it learns that there is as much digmity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin and not at the tip. Nor should we permit our grievances to over- shadow our opportunities. “Gentlemen of the exposition, as we pre- sent to you our humble effort ‘at an exhi- bition of our progress, you must not ex- pect evermuch; starting thirty years ago with the ownership here and there in a few quilts and pumpkins and chickens (gathered from miscellaneous sources), re- member that the path that has led us from these to the invention and production of agricultural implements, buggies, steam engines, newspapers, books, statuary, carv- ing, paintings, and the management of drug stores and banks has not been trod- den without contact with thorns and thistles. While we take just pride in what we exhibit as a result of our independent efforts, we do not for a moment forget that our part in this exhibition would fall far short of our expectations but for the con- stant help that has ccme to our educational life not only from the southern states, but especially from northern philanthropists, who have made their gifts a constant stream of blessing and encouragement. =—_—.___ - A White Squall. From the Portland Dally Press. “A white squall, did I ever see one? I shoulf say I had,” said an old sailor in the barge office. the West Indies, and it was as fair a day as you ever put eyes on. I was at the wheel, and we were bowling along under @ pretty sailing breeze. There wasn't a cloud to be seen, unless a little white vapor far off could be called a cloud. All of a sudden the captain came up out of his cabin. ‘Get all the light sails off her as quick as you caa,’ he shouted to the mate. ‘Clew up the royals and topgallant sails, cond bear a hand lively, boys.’ “What's the matter with the old man now?” said the sailors, as they looked around the horizon and saw nothing but. sunshine and the clear sky. Nevertheless, all hands turned to getting in the light sails. The captain took the wheel and sent me to assist. Of course we all thought it was a piece of foolish- ness, but we worked with a will because the captain told us to. “Well, we had no sooner got those sails in than it struck. Right out of the clear sky came an awful gale. It tore our great mainsail and other sails to ribbons quicker than a flash. It came ‘butt end to,’ as the sailors say. “How did the captain know it was com- ing? Why, he was in his cabin and hap- pened to see his glass go down suddenly. That meant something, and he husiled cn deck. A good captain watches his |,arome- ter as a cat watches a mouse.” +e. Strength of Different Religions. There has been computed, “‘on the basis of the latest scientific and statistical sources accessible,” a suggestive table of the distribution of the people of the globe according to their religions. This table is published in the Deutsche Kirchenzeitung (Berlin). The population of the earth is estimated at 1,500,000,000, distributed as follows: Europe, 381,200,000; Africa, 1: 000,000; Asia, 354,000,000; Australia, 4,730, 000; America, 133,670,000; total, 1,500,000, 000. The leading religions ara represented by the following figures: Protestant Chris- tians, 200,000,000; Roman Catholic Cbris- T. tians, 195,000,000; Greek Catholic Chris- tians, 105,000,000; total Christians, 500,- 000,000. Jews, 8,000,000; Mohammedans, 180,000,000; heathens, 812,000,000; total non- Christians, 1,000,000,000. + —_____ .An infernal machine was found yesterday in the window of a private house Mm the Rue St. Denis, Paris, Foolish and take some other “We were between here and] STREET CAR COLLISIONS A Ninth Street Electric Oar Grashes Into a Belt Horse Oar. Scene of the Accident at Ninth and P Streein—No Ofe Was Seriously In- jured—High Rate of Speed. A collision batween a 9th street electric car and a horse car on the Belt line took place at the intersection of the two roads at 9th and P streets shortly after 7 o'clock last night. The result was ‘the injury of five persons and some irconsequent‘al dam- age to the two cars. According to the Metropol'tan railroad officials the cause of the accident seems to haye been a mis- understanding on the part of C. M. Ham- mett, driver of Belt car No. 28. He was driving west on P street, and as he ap- proached 9th street saw the electric car bound north coming down the grade from © street. It is said that he slackened the speed of his horses and then, thinking the electric car was going to stop, urged them aheed again. The Belt. line officials believe the motorman was to blame. The Belt car was squarely on the 9th street tracks when the electric car, which the motorman, J. M. Walsh, was unable, despite vigorous effort, to sigg in time, crashed into it. ‘The Belt car Was pushed along for fifty or ixty feet on 9th street, and Driver Ham- mett was thrown from the platform. He struck on his head and shoulders on the concrete, and was rendered unconscious and badiy injured. Mrs. Mille Mosby, col- ored, of 444 Ridge street northwest, jumped from the electric car and was hurt in the back and slightly cut about the head. Miss F. H. Gates of Chicago, a guest of the Raleigh, ard Miss Lockwood, also of Chicago, were thrown from their seats ‘and cut and bruised. Joseph Lewis, col-~ ored, of 1016 4th street northwest, was cut and bruised about the head and face. Lewis and Mrs. Mosby were taken ‘*o Freedman’s Hospital; Miss Gates and Miss Lockwood to their hotel, and Driver Ham- mett was removed to his home, at 92 Florida avenue. The collision caused much excitement in, the vicinity, and largé crowds gatheréd and discussed the occur- rence. = ‘The opinion of those who were at the seene of the accident seems to be prac¢i cally unanimous that the electric car was running at a high rate of speed. It is esti- mated that this rate was all the way from twelve to fifteen miles an hour, and it was due to that fact, it*is claimed, that the mo- torman was unable to check the car with promptness. It is said that the motormen generally run at a rather high rate of speed over this part of the road in order to make up the time which is lost on other sections where it is absolutely necessary that a slow rate should be maintained. As an evidence that the electric car was run- ning rapidly, the fact is mentioned that the Belt car was pushed along some fifty or sixty feet before the electric car was brougt to a standstill. Both companies instituted Inquiries into the cecident immediately after it occurred, and a great diversity of opinion was elicited on the subject from those who witnessed it. It will probably, require some time to defi- nitely fix the responsibility. Driver Eam- mett was pretty badly hurt, and was suf- fering a great deal today, but it is not thought that his injuries are dangerous. The other victims were doing well, and are in no danger. Bumped Together. About the time that the excitement over this accident was at its height a narrow escape ffom a similar catastrophe was made at the Garfield monument, where a Belt car and a cable train on the W. and G. road bumped together. Both cars had stop- ped before rounding the curve at the monu- ment, and then both started simulta- neously. The gripman, by putting his track and wheel brakes hard down, stopped his train sufficiently to prevent it from more than smashing the running board of the Belt car. No one was injured. . Was on the Electric Car. ‘fo the Editor of The Evening Star: in a morning paper I fee that the blame for the accident at 9th and P streets last night is given largely to the men on the 9th street e’ectric car, and statements are made by different passengers to the effect that they heard no bell, and that they thought the car was running at a speed of about fifteen miles an hour. I was a passenger on the 9th street car, and sat on the motor car about two or three seats from the motorman, and I wish to testify that his bell did ring and rang tre- quently thicugh the whole block, and that every wariing possible was given to an approaching car on the P street tracks, and that in my opit.ion the accident would have been avoided if the driver of the Belt line car had been ordinarily cautious. Further, I am confident the electric car was not going over ten or eleven miles an hour, and I wish to say that if the electric ears are allowed to go that fast that I think, as far as the other questions are concerned, little or no blame should be at- tached to the motorman or conductor on the 9th street train. HARRY DOUGLAS KING. Fry everything from potato ® S chips to doughnuts in Cotto- lene. Put Cottolene in acold B @ pan—heat it slowly until it® @ will delicately brown a bit of 4 bread in half a minute. Then put in your food. 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