The Washington Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1888, Page 1

Terms. $2.00 Per year in Advance. VOL. VL. THE POET'S LOVE. Why tremble thus the Poet’s heart, Why sadly feel the child of song? Must he from joy and peace depart, And leave the friends he roamed among? makes smart, Why chants be such a moarnfal song: What his lofty feeling Hie is in love: before his view The object of kis love e’er goes, Her heart and hand he fain would W005 He fain would pluck the bloom- ing rose E From off the bush ; but vain to sue She minds him not but onward goes. Thus is his lofty feeling stung, And now he meditates revenge: iis harp to sorrow’s notes is strung ; manner strange. Passion his heart has deeply wrong And now be dwells upon revenge. and his actions His And yet one smile could turn away The evil thoughts that bim pos sess, His heart would turn from sad to gay, All should behoid his happiness ; Que smile the evil thoughts could stay, And nought but good him pos- ess. er sylph-like form he ever sees, lier raven hair hangs platted down, e turns him from ber with ill ease ; Upon his brows dark Passion’s irown ; e hears hér voice waft on the breeze, Fain at her feet would he fall down. e can but view he form afar, And with the passion of his race, e jets deep love bis pleasure mar, Because he’s haunted by her face. And whilst wage within Love’s war ; Alas ! would that I knew her race cries, If from Japbeth, decended she, He will no longer think of her; But bury deep his agony, As would a grave philosopher. But if from father Ham she be, Still, still! the poet will love her. EUREKA. “The game is up,” he knows it now, From Japheth is decended she, In agony he cries aloud : “My heart! alas, it cannot be!” Rost. E. Forp. ee THIS THAT AND THE OTHER. From Woman. lava? Junior girl— put on their face when _ “Oh fora thousand tongues !” sighed a tramp, as he finished a cold tongue sandwhieh. Why do girls kiss each other, aud hen not? Because girls have better ‘to kiss, and men QUESTIONS FOR READY RECKON- ER—Ifa man gets up when the day breaks, can he be said to havea whole day before him? Noah was the first pitcher on record. He “pitched the ark with. In and with eur.” The game was called on account of rain. A brother in prayer meeting in a neighboring town, the other night, prayed for the absent who were “prostrated on beds of sick- hess and sofas of wellness.” _ Young Wife. “I wonder the birds don’t come here any more. I used to throw them bits of cake I made and—-” Young Husband. “That accounts for it.” “The docter said he’d put me on my feet again in two weeks.” “Well didn’t he do it?” “He did ‘udeed; Lhad to sell my borse and iggy to foot the bill.” Omaha Wife. “What under the Sun are you @oing?” Husband. “Trying to tie this string around my finger.” “Why I did not ask you todo any errand.” No. This tring is to remind me that | have Jothing to remember to-day.” A little Miss bad prepared to Tecite in Sabbath school the line: “Search the Scriptures.” When the teacher askeu ber for her verse, however, she hesitated,'then brave- ly uttered the words: ‘Hunt for the prescription.” Gillhooly. “Sad affair over at dones’.” Gus De Smith: -‘What's the] of telling the truth, no matter how |’ matter?” “One of the twins has died,” “That is an affliction.” “ Yes, and the worst of it is the people don’t know which of them is dead, they look so much alike.” AN ACCOMMODATING Boy. Old Lady (sbarpiy, to boy in drug store) “I've been waiting some time to be waited on boy.” Boy(meekly) ‘Yes’um ; wot kin I do fer you?” Old Lady: stamp.” ‘ Boy (anxious to please) ‘Yes "um. iil you have it licked ?? Riding along our country high- Ways ove sees many signs: placed in conspicuous places forbidding trespassing. Some of the signs are in the strongest Janguage, while others are hard to under- stand. On one northwest of the city of Beverly, Mass., is found the following: “Any person ketched on these grounds. or cows, or wimmin, will be liabul to find itself in a skrape.” A FLEXIBLE LANGUAGE. Mrs. B. “My dear, you came in too late last night, and you talked in your sleep.” Mr. B. (uneasily) djd I say?” Mrs. B. “It sounded like ‘ante up, jack-pot.’” Mr. B. (with admirable presence of mind) ‘Yes my dear I had been discussing Volapuk with Jones. The expression which escaped me in my sleep means ‘God bless our home.’ ” Governor Taylor of Tennessee, recently told of a colored clergy- man who preached a sermon on the text ‘“‘And the multitudes came to Him and He healed them of divers diseases,” Said he: “My dying congregation, this is a terrible text. Disease is in the world. The small-pox slays its hundreds, the cholera its thousands, and the yellow fever its tens of thousands but, in the language of the text, if you take the divers you are gone. These earthly doctors can cnre the small pox, cholera and yellow fever, if they get there in time, but nobody but the good Lord can cure the divers. TRUTH VINDICATES OWN CAUSE. “I want a two cent “Did I? What ITs REMARKS FROM THE DARK CONTINENT — AFRICA ; PARTICULARLY THAT PART KNOWN AS LIBERIA. Having seen severai statements made about Liberia, having asso- ciated therewith the name of Mr. Charler H J. Taylor, late United States Minister to Liberia, I thought to make reference to some of them as publish in the Philadel- phia Sentinal, of Nov: 20h, 1887; the Pittsburg Post, of November 16th, 1887; as well as the Boston Herald, ot Nov. 28th, 1887. The first impulse of my mind is to eay, that it seems to me untair that the invevtur of euch known lies as those stated in those journals should be allowed to escape unno- ticed. While the moral «ffect of such unparaieled falsehood, upon intelligent minds, can inftict no more injury upon Liberia than a mesquilv bite can upon Plymouth Rock, yet the author (a miscreant and ill-begotten renegrad. ) of such statements, in honor of the sup- posed charactor of Mr. Taylor should be exposxcd. By this time Mr. Taylor, { am sure, has seen that the intention of the author of these , ublications about Liberia is two fuld: first, to retard emigra- tion from America to this country, as abolitinnists have always done; and, secondly, to show Mr. Tay- lor’s unfitness to represent a hog- pen, to say nothing of a great country as the United States of North America. That Taylor lived a few myuths in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, no one will deny; but that he visited any one of the numerous townships (sve Krogo-town, on the sea beach, near the suburbs of Monrov-a) a farming districts in any part of the Republic during bis stay here, Tameuretheex-Ame ican Minister would brand any one making such an assertion asa liar, I venture this sasertion becaue I believe any gentleman appointed as a divlo matic officer to repre-ent a nation is supposed at least, to be capable laborious the task may be, Ifthe author could not, then I am sure Mr. Taylor can speak the truth long enough to say he was never outside of Monrovia (except in his dreams) after he landed until be was borne out cf the bar to the steamer that took him to Europe —homeward bound. The author of the published falsehoods attributed to Mr. Taylor should be made to know that that dignitary from Kansas City was sent to Liberia by one of the most powerful, most enlightened and chri-tians of the world, and fora higher purpose than that of taking note of how many mules and jackasses could be found Now it is a known fact that the same stock of large cattle found at Senegal and Sierra Leone, from which ships of war and mail s‘eamers are supplied with beef when on this couvst is that from which the Mon- rovia market is supplied principal- ly, They usually weigh 300 lis. 1 ask then for a parallel to the lie that “ihe ¢ »ws of Liberia are about as large as a Newfoundland dog?” Would this tale be told by a man entrusted with an office high as that of a minister resident? The author alludes to the nudity of the natives of th’s country, and in this connection says that in addition to a plug-hat and an um- brella President Johnson wears linen duster, endeavoring to leave the impression thereby that this was his article of apparel. This is simply rediculous, and it would be a waste of time to attempt to notice it. President Johnson is a man too high above the reach of the author of these lies for his base reflections to reach him. Should Mr. Johnson ever go to America as Liberian Minister, you may depend upon it he will not leave the place “very sudden” to avoid paying his board and laundry bills. If the alleged author otf these statements had any conscience he would send the money to pay these bills: he would feel ashame to hear how his wasberwoman is talking; how, hard she had to labor to get his clothing clean, and then after all, to lose her pay. This reminds me, too, that if Mr. Taylor has not been reared in a cold climate be would never have been other- wise than in a nude state—a state that he had become accustomed to in his own boyhood. His wash- erwoman says he brought here three articles of well-worn and well-patched underwear. He would soon have been as naked as the nakedest heathen in the wild woods of Africa, if true. Now to the termite or white ant story. The author in fixing up this lie seems to have forgotten a collateral fact in favor of the people he so much hates. We would rematk that if it be true that bnildivgs in Liberia erected one day will full the next, on re- ceiving a blow—being eaten up by the “bug-a-bugs,” then . the people cf Liberia must be the most industrious people in the world, since they keep their hous- es in good condition although this notorious writer says the “bug-a bug eats everything except iron.” I would say more but the authors unpaid washerwoman says, “don’t waste shot and powd- er shooting at a dead frog.” Z. B. Rozerts, Monrovia, of Sinoe. January 20, 1888. 1 HE LOST HIS GREATNESS. ( pringtield, Ill. Messenger,) The Washingtou Bex, in telling the loss of Frederick Douglass’ greatness, forgets to state that he also lost his greatness when he wanted the Negro soldier to fight for eight dollars per month when the white soldier was getting thir- teen dollars. Williston Fla., September 7, ’88. Messrs. A. T. Shallenberger & Co. | Rochester Pa. 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The glaciers in the valley of Chamonunix, after a period of rapid retreat and diminution in size, are again beginning to advance. As about fifty yards a year is the rate of advance, it will take many years to retover their former ground. A tree called the umbrella tree of Japan, now growing in a yard at Tallahassee, Florida, though only three years old, bas leaves on it that measure 21 by I6 inches. It is umbrella shaped aud makes a shelter that is impervious to sun- shine or rain. The number of sheep in the Unit- ed States rose from 19,000,000 to 51,000,000 in 1884, but declined to 45,000,000 in 1887. This marked decline in sheep raising has oe- curred mainly in the Southern and Western States, notably in Texas, and is attributable in great part to the price of wool in 1884. A. set of surgical instruments, many of them resembling those used at the present time, are among the latest finds at Pompeii. There were also found four beauti- ful urns of fair size, four smaller vessels, eight open vases, four cups ornamented with leaves and figures of animals, and a very beeutifal statue of Jupiter, seat- ed on a throne. A New Manure. Basig slag, the refuse of steel works, when freed from iron and reduced toa powder proves to be a valuble fertilizer, principally on account of the phosphorous it contains. Moun- tains of black slag have accumu- lated about the iron and steel works in England, and much in this country, all of which can be profitably worked over and made into a valuble manure. A large vault with walls of stone and filled with skeletons of human beings has been discovered in an Indian mound which overlooks the Missouri river from a hill near Jefferson City, Mo. The skeletons are thought to be the remains of the ancient mound builders, al- though the remarkaple state of preservation in which they are found would indicate that they are of more recent date. 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