The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 19, 1887, Page 1

ORGAN. | 10.000 | Ce ev SUBSCRIBERS Wanted, © t Y Tae LENDING NEGRO s | Ks ewan { a6: Aon ~ ADVERTISE - In "This Paper. | TT WILL PAY. +> | CoLoRED PoruLATion | 80,000. Terms. $2.00 Per year. 5 V. TURDAY, FEBRUARY 19 "AMUSEMENTS. Grand Oriole! given under the auspices of the JUNIOR EXCELSIOR BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION, SAT Own BETHELHALL From March 7, ’87, to March 25th Inclusive. We propose that this entertain- ment shall far excel anything ever given by the above Association and that of itself is a sufficient guaran teé that every one who attends wiil have a pleasant time. There will be 25 booths comprising every’ kind of articles that will be most pleasing to the eye and will amply satisfy the innerman. (Presided over by Washington’s fairest and most accomplished Ladies.) There will be different kinds of Fabries, Mechanical and Musical Instra ments to be disposed of at most reasonable rates competitions in voting on articles that will please the taney of any one. MUSICEACH EVENING. GENERAL ADMISSION 10 cts. Season Tickets, 60 cts. A GRAND, —BAZAAR= —GIVEN BY THE— Scottish Rite Club, At BETHAL HALL, Commencing Feb. 7th, ending Feb. 25th 1887. Faney and Useful Ar- ticles for sale; and to ve voted for in a manner satisfactory to all. Elegant music anda happy time for every body. \EVER SUCH BARGAINS Men’s Boys’ and Children’s Clothing As are now offered at the Great Sample of MEN, BOYS’ and " OQHILDREN’S Clothing Opening at 924 7th St. p. w. BET. | ST. AND MAsSACHUSETTS AVENUE. thousand Men’s Boy’s and Children’s Suits and Overcoats Many of them will be sold at less than the cost of the y nothing about the making and the trimmings. Actual bar- om come. A sample Smt worth $20 can be bought for $12. Jats very low, and Children and Boy’s Suits at little over half- ‘e. Children’s Overcoats at less than you would have to pay for the a re é These goods are mostly in single Suits, only one of a kind, mer ped made of the best English, French and American goods. Prince rr a Coats sold for $15 now 8%, Suits that sold for $12 to $20 at less aka two-thirds of the cost. There are no better goods made, many of 4 superior to the best ordered work. Men's Suits start at $5 and go Oe are Roys’ suits $5 to $10; Children’s Suits $2.50 to $6, and Over- Sid “gr Men, Boys’ and Children from $2.50 up. You can secure the ee ES of your life in any of these goods you can get fitted in. We best bane of Children’s Suits—54 in all—the price of them was $6.50, $7, : ‘210 ages, 4to 8. Just think of it. You can have vour choice “fi Little Overcoats for half price. Men’s Pants 75c., We have a lot of Prince Albert Coats, Black Cloth 1 wold for S 20, $22—your choice to day for $12. priced beimpossible to enumerate the thousands of good things in Cloth ne for Men, Boys’ and Children. Come and see for yourself he creat sale of sample Suits at 924 7th St. N. W., bet. I St. and Ave. Look for thesigns. Sample Suits and all styles of men’s and Children’s Clothing. Salecommences TUESDAY MORN- ut 10 o'clock. r Over one of the best goods. gains Overct pave al 8, Sand of this kk the JOHN FEF. ELLIS & CoO, 937 PENN. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. EXTENSIVE DEALERS IN af MUSIC g - “How perfectly sweet he is,” screamed one. “Isn’t he dear and cunning?” cried the other.——Tid Bits. OPEN LETTER TO HON. J. J INGALLS. (From the Editor.) February, 18, 1887 Senator: — You say in your letter “that -the daties of the office of Recorder of Deeds should be performed by Some resident of the District ac- ceptable to those whose property is to be affected by his acts,” which means some white man and you know it, and no dodging behind Frederick Douglass or any other slave born negro will hoodwink the colored people as to your true animus in opposing Recorder Mat- to President Cleveland thews. You may thiuk you have the measure of the colored peop’e which opens your committee room door, blacks your boots and cleans the spittoons, or by that class another class who lays claim to rep- resent the colored people who when they approach you are very obse- quious and patronizing; vut you are mistaken if you think they rep- resent the refined, cultured and solid portion of the colored people throughout the country. If you doubt it go through the states and see for yourself. You Senator, by your bitter and unrelenting perse- cution of Recorder Matthews have done for the negros that which they have been unable to do for themselves, i.e. enthuse on their race pride. Men who heretofore ac- knowledged with bated breath their identity with the Negro race and who boasted of their white blood are now loud in their expres- sions of pride in their negro iden- tity; for proof of which we refer , 1887. diamonds aggregating in value $500,000, and coal is $9 a ton. Who says that the carbon business isn’t booming ?——Tid Bits. "46° ee OUR NEW YORK LETTER. A GHOST STORY. PERSONS WHO ARE SUPERSTITIOUS. ADVICE To MOTHERS, | SOCIETY GOSSIP, &C. Brooklyn, Feb., 16, 1887. Produce the person who is not superstitious and that person would be pronounced non compos mentis by a character expert. I do not believe in ghosts. No sir. But when the other evening my atten- tion was called to a seat in a pub- lic horse car where the conductor declared a ghost to be disporting himself, there was a spiral creepi- ness along the spine, and a dispo- sition to run, which did not tally well with an out and out unbelief. It was about eight o’clock in the evening, when the cars on the up trips are apt to be empty or nearly so, that I boarded a car at the corner of Smith and Fulton streets Brooklyn, en route for my up- town home. There was an old man sitting in the rear lett hand corner, a woman and a baby by the stove when I entered. At St. Felix street the latter got off, and we jugged on comfortably without taking on any more passengers till we reached Washington Av- enue. Just here, the conductor whose face is as familiar as an old friend’s approached me, and said earnestly, ‘Madame, I want you todo mea favor. Look please, by tLe side of thestove there, and tell me if you see any one.” “Why no, ”f replied, “there is no one sitting there.” “Thank you,” SN VOUO SONVId AND MUSICA L MERCHANDISE OF EVERY DESCRIPTIO Sole agents for the Weber Behring, Vose, Guild, Mason and Hamlin Behr Bros. PIANOS! MASON AND HAMLIN, SMITH AMERICAN. GEO, WOOD PACKARD, CHASE ORGANS! EXPLOSION in CLOTHING, Prices Knocked to Pieces. to the Great Executors Consignment of Clothing At. BiG F STREET, N.W. Opposite United States Patent Office 10 Did you ever buy an all Wool suit for $3.90. ———_Go Men’s Suits by the Did you ever buy anall Wool Dou choice of a thonsand pair of men’s pants at 60¢., and $2.90. Elegant Dress Suits at $6.40, 7.50, 7.80, 8.40, and 9 dollars. Boys’ Suits from 12 to 17 years 2.65, 2.75 and 3 dollars. DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN EXECUTORS SALE IS; We wit TeL. You—A big firm breaks up on account of the Death of one ‘ and to extiie the estate the above sale is ordered. The clothiers in different cities and sold re- in order to make a settlement with the THIS WILL LAST FOR 15 to 20 DAYS only of the partners, stock is consigned to leading gardless of cost or manufacture, remaining partners. 816 FE Street, n: w. (Opposite United States Patent Office,) Between 8th and 9th wW .G. BRADLEY,| IMeriden, Conn, EEL RIGEG 00'S, Solid Comfort Buckoands and Spindle Wagons, single and doable seated, — . di iti - Prices reason- Riding quelities unsurpassed. No jar to the feet, Durable and stylish. able, Shipments singly or by carlosd to all parts of the United States, eee Responsible Agent wanted in every town. Send for Price List and descriptive jogui vondence earnestly solicited. se eeenors person acting as Agent for our Wagons® will have his namo with advertise: ment of Wagons advertised in the leading paper of the county or town where Agent resides, @ratis for six months. . MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS CARPETS AND HOUSE & HERRMANS Instalment House. 921923 7h st. n. w, « FURMTURE STOVES ble Breasted Suit for $5.60. Your t 65c., 75c., $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 AT Admission Season Tickets, cts. “ Thornton A. Jackson, Pres., mrs. Julia Beckett, lst vice pres., Mrs. Wm. F. Thomas, 2nd vice pres., James Dean, sec’y., John H. Bur- ril, treasure, Jerome A. Johnson, Cashier, John W. Freeman, asst., John N. Dorster, Mas. of Entrees, Henry H. Dade, Assistant. > feby. 22, 5 t. THE CARNIVAL!! THE NEW CEPARTURE OF THE PHILOMATHIAN A GRAND MUSICAL AND LITERARY CARNIVAL Or AUTHORS. This popular Literary Society will give a MUSICAL AND LITERARY CARNIVAL IN the 2d Baptist Church, for the benefit of the church anda library for the society Thursday and Friday evenings, March 8d and 4th. This entertainment will be one of the grandest that has ever been given in the city. The lite- rary feature of the program will be a novelty as well as the musis cal. Madame Adelia A. Slye, who has in charge the musical program, will be assisted by Washington’s best musical and literary talent. The managers will have the entertainment two evenings to enable the masses to attend. Single admission to all parts of the church, 25 cents. ~ GUSHING. THE tendency toward gushing is innate in the average American girl of to-day. Her sentences are made ap mostly of adjectives and verbs. She is also much given to lit- | tle giggles and screams and the old- | er she grows the more juvenile she becomes. We have a uew baby up at our house, and two of our young | women friends of the gushing kind | came into see the pudgy little | new-born chap. “Tjust rave over babies,’ said one of the girls. z “So do I,” exclaimed her com- panion. ‘*The dear little darlings !” “J just think they’re too—Oh, here he is!” The nurse had ap- peared with baby, who was cross and sleepy. Heis not a month old yet, and still too red and pudgy and tired looking to be considered you to Prof. John M. Langston’s speech at the Logan Memorial Meeting. You say Senator that the wishes of the citizens should be deferred to; if they had been de- ferred to there would have been no school houses for the negro chil- dren; ‘‘jim crow” cars for the’ negro would still exist, and vari- ous other local privileges denied. No, Senator, the plain truth of the matter is that coming from the far west with hay seed in your hair you have fallen an easy victim to the blandishments of Washington society, whose doors are swung on reversitle hinges to you as chair- man of the District Committee, but when out office, you will re- quire a note of introduction. Referring to your declaration that none but residents should fill the local offices, I am advised that you are reported as saying that you hoped President Cleveland would send the name of another colored man no matter where from, for the positlon of Recorder of Deeds as you desired to correct the mistakes that you and your associates made in rejecting Mr. Matthews. If that be true it will not be surprising to those who have noted your eccentric and er- ratic course in the Senate, for any person who opposes measures as viciously and vigorously as you do and then vote for them is liable at any time to commit political Hari Karie. Just what President Cleveland intends doing in the Matthews case, at this writing, we are not advis- ed, but if our opinion be asked we would say to him as Senator Sum- ner said to Secretary of War Stan- ton, during the Andrew Johnson imbroglio “stick.” Very respectfully, The Editor. EE POINTERS. Cousin BEN FoLsom has organ- ized a base ball club in Sheffield, and anything pleasant we have said of him in the past we hereby take back. Tue Czar having threatened with Siberia anyone who mention ed the failing health of the Czare- witch to him, it is strict etiquette in the Russian Court now to speak ot her majesty as “her Imperial said he, and was about to turn away when Idetainedhim. “Tell me about it,” I said simply. “Well,” said he, “I see a man there, and I would give fifty dol- lars if somebody else could see him. He comes on my car two or three times a week, just as he used to when he was alive, and he is always about two thirds tight, and that is just as he used to be. ile was a splendid fellow, barring the drinking, not over thirty five and I used to help him on and off the car. He was never rough or troublesome, and when he’d see me the next morning, ne’d thank me kindly. ‘There, he is going to get off now, and the conductor instinctively stepped aside to let the spook pass. His hand was on the bell, put he restrained him- self, and after a moment spent in thought, and ringing up a couple of fares, he went on. “He lived ou Bedfore avenue, and I’m al- ways glad when I pass that street. Well, one night last March, he got on to my car in a worse state than ever, and as we had a crowd, {I knew I had no business to let him ride. But he clung to the rail and finally pulled himself up. “For God’s sake,” said he, “dou’t tyou go back on me.” TI shall j never forget those words to my dying day. Well, when we got to his street, I was busy collecting the tares and some body told me he fell backward as he was step- ping up the curb, Two weeks alter I read his death in the paper. Since then he’s been on my car time and again. “Does he ever speak to you?” Tasked. “Never, nor look at me.” “Did you ever see anything of this kind before?” Never mam, and I’ve been to two or three doctors to see if I had anything the matter with my head, and they laugh at me. Do you think he lays up that fall against me, and has he made up his mind to get even?” “Non- sense,” said I. “Well, then do you think 1 am crazy?” “No, put I think there are lots of things we do not understand, and this is one of them.” And now my Athleticness.” street was reached, and the inter- Ir is maintained that there is in | @Stinginterview was closed for that every living being an element of; evening. Who can explain it? individuality which escapes the law of heredity. Thisshows that the legislature ought to make this law broad enough to cover all cases.) “ ‘TO! Let no guilty man escape. ifitis right to pin infants into A WAIL FROM BABYHOOD A troubled young mother asks beautiful. But both girls made @ grab for him. AT a recent White House recep- tight bands. No. Your baby tion Mrs. Senator Stanford wore! wants all the room it can have, cents per copy. No. 38, and nobody but old fogies insist upon their use now. Another mother complains that her baby will not sleep evenings. That is because she did not begin early enough. A nurse can com- plicate all the months uf babyhood by @ six weeks training. Pros spective mothers should inform themselves more than they do on these subjects and and it would not do any harm for unmarried girls to know something about such things. Auother mother asks advise about food for her infant. It is three months old, and a skeleton. Milk does not do at all, and she is sure it cannot live much longer unless it is nourished. Since the wonderful improvement of Mario Harland’s little grand-child on soluble food, and its subsequent endorsement by this popular writ- er, and lover of humanity, I have observed its etlects upon a couple of infants in my own neighbor~ hood. One mother had no milk for her child, and the natural milk of the other mother could. not be retained upon the stomach. At last the physician in the latter case, erdered this food asa last experiment, and the child began at once to improve. Then the news was carried to the other suf- ferer, and the result was as mark. ed as in the first instance. The number of children who die yearly from inanition can scarcely be computed. Consumption, maras- mus, convulsions are household words, and some cases will contin- ue te be beyond the reach or hu- man skill to cure. But those eases I can personally vouch for, and the experiment is worth try- ing. SOCIETY GossIP. Marquis DeLueville, who was a year or so ago advertised so ex- tensively with Mrs. Frank Leslie, has been beard from again. He is engaged in introducing Ameri- can clam bakes to Great Britain. Lord Salisbury declines to use the room of the Treasury since Lord Iddlesleigh died there. He is said to have always been ner- vous and superstitious, and this sudden death under such awful circumstances completely unnerv- ed him. The paragraphs that have been written and the sermons that have been preached about the irrepres- sible burst of Jaughter which gur- gled musically trom Mrs. Wm. As- tor’s box at the opera the other night, would make a good sized book. Of course the spasm knocking Fraulein Brandt clear out of her aria—you may think this intended for a pun, but it is not. Any way, this spontaneous burst of laughter must have been a god send to the bored reporters. We ought to have a Hugo to write the “Girl Who Laughs,” for it was an accident, ani caused by something irresistably ludicrous in front of the foot lights. Eleanor Kirk. DISTRICT MORALS, YOUNG LADIES BEING RUINED. A WARNING TO MOTHERS. A MILI- TARY MAN WITH FIVE SWEED- HEARTS, To the Editor of the Bee: Sir: Tf you ean find spree in your valuable paper to publish this letter, or a part of it you will confer a great favor upon the color- ed society of Washington and, also oblige asabseriber. I shall first call your attention to the morals and evils of the young ladies and gentlemen. To begin with: I shall first mention the females between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, upon whom the e.e3 of the people of society are, and whose lives are darkened by one false step. Weare proud of the young ladies more so than any other city inthe union; bat, if they keep sinking into the lowest depths of vice and sin they will be more of a curse than an houor and, with a few exceptions, as soon as (Continued on 2ud Page.)