The Washington Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1891, Page 1

Terms. $1.60 Per year in in Advance VOL. Ix THEY SAY | 4: 7 we aL Take a rest. Negro correspondents. It is dangerous to talk. Especially when you don’t know | what you are talking about. When they lose their best man | they see their blunder, but, it is | too late. | The vile temper of some wives {often force the husbands to seek | divorces. | Children can’t always keep hus. | bands and wives together | | A womans’ temper | unbearable. is often | A mean woman is like sand, } | She cau be easily seen. A good woman is a diamond. Hard to find. i | | ————_+ eo > Some men write for fun because | they can’t write in earnest. Be careful of what you say. Jealousy groes. There are exceptions to ‘he rule. is The talk among politicians is the pext convention. Speak the trath honest men will do. always is what Great deeds great men, are found among Small men will do small things. Look out tor the Bee's new dress. Be true to those who are true to you. Snips are numerous among small men. Appear wise although you may be a fool. Fools generally appear wise, while wise men appear as fools. A boasting is a harmless creature. man Creatures while some things creep. Thiey crawl, es creep. libertines crawl. Long live the man who-defends the right : Superintendent Cook is ujaking | record. L 20k A varrow minded set. Some Negro correspondents to journals edited by colord men. Daucy the Re It is a just recognition of a smart mab. owes der. his appointment to - kt is not such an ran a bhewspaper. Let the ambitious don’t believe it. easy matter to try it if they Don’t believe all you hear. The man who was looking for the ajor found him. Be bonest in all that you do. Let us have peace is what the efeated said. | The declaimatory Editor has been | fiven a ticket of leave man by Su-| ferintendent Porter. | When people get the vig bead it | time for them to take a back | eat. He had an idea that he was boss if the Census office. He soon found out at any rate. He is Walker. The umbrella thief jow suit. The week. now pressing bricks for will soon fol- Pilot came out in shape last Don’t be uneasy about the Ber Be all you seem to be and noth ing more. Act well your part in hothing more cau be asked. life and Life is what you make it. «Conscience makes cowards of 8 all.” Av untrathfal erous animal. woman is a dan- Some people will lie when they i do anything else. When you go to yourself you are nerally persued by your enemies Can be lappy ? Do the best you can although u may be lied about. Live in such a manuer that the orld will not believe it. mother in law’s ever A good busband ig often abused br doing bis duty. Some wives are never satisfied. an evil among Ne poop | | and |influences of intemperate and associa ions with others of sim | ilar habits, and that tbe statistics | which is a direct tax upon the peo- | ple. | would be $30,925. , chaser, | manhood and brings crime, misery, | and degradation in its train. |; ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR TRAF- WASHINGTON of the honorable C-maissioners would be lessened, and the city at large would be greatiy benefited. A fair estimate will show that the passage of this law would les- sen the expenses ef the District from one-third to one-balt, and would increase the value of real estate from 30 to 50 per cent on an average, and in certain parts of the city, where saloons and crime abound, it would increase the value of real estate more than 100 per cent. This reduction of tax dupli- cate would add greatly to the pros- perity of the city, and would bea great protection to life and proper- ty, as well as a measure in the interest of order and sobriety. FIC. THE REASON WHY IT SHOULD BE | 8T°PPED IN THE DISTRICT | } | Hon. J. D. Taylor, from the se j leet committee on alcoholic liquor | traffic has given some strong rea- sons why tbe manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the | District of Columbia should be stopped. In his statement to ac- company House bill 6971, be stated the following: It is shown by the statistics of the major of police that during the year ending Juve 30, 1860, there were 288 boys and 32 girls ander twents one years of age arrested for drunkenness. (See pages 40 and 41, Metropolitan Police Report.) Of the 3,895 arrests of persons under twenty-one, it is stated by a lieutenant of police that there is no doubt but that 75 per cent. was at- \tribatable either directly or indi- | rectly to aleohol. The same statistics show that there were arrested during the same period for drunkenness and disorderly couduct 4,216 persons over twenty-one years of age and | 43 babitual drankards, | were women. (See page 44, Metro politan Police Report.) | Poked the 21,150 arrests by the po 7 ry, assau intent to kill, disord- ly conduct, intoxication, aud drunk disorderly, being oftenses chargeable entirely to drink. Of these 13,341 arrests, over 19 per cent were under 21 years of age, showing that over one-fifth of the cases were boys. A letter from the late General Crocker, warden of the jail, says that, after a careful analysis made by himself, he has come to the con- clusio) that 75 per cent of the crimes committed by the 1umates was traceable vo the corrupting habits of the workhouse and almshouse will not materially vary from those of the jail. It has been estimated by an ex- major of police that it requires $90 000 every week to support the liquor trattic in the District of Co- lumbia, or $4,680,000 per year, During tbe fiscal year ending Juve 30th, 1890, according to re- assessor’s oflice (see le*- wholesale 693 re‘ail liceus- granted, for these the fee | Tiis 1s all that | whiskey contribates toward the relief of the sutfermg caused by its | sale and use, represented the almsl ouse, woikbouse, jail, school, criminal and poli charitable institutions, e j The office of the mspector of build | ings in the past year sbows au | exvenditure for @3 were butiding of nearly | $5,000,000, yet for every $3 expend: | e1 almost $5 have gone to purchase | that which does not benetit the pur | but blights and destroys The $5,000,000 expended tor drink would pay for the erection of 2,000 homes at $2,500 each, which would greatly benetit the city, and the comtort and happiness derived from sneh an expenditure by the | families of the drinking man can | never be estimated. | Tous it is seen that the traflic | costs the people a far larger sum in preventing, punishing, avd repair~ | ing the evils of which it isthe} chief source, and that prohibition | ¢ | will greatly improve the finances of | the District , less movey will be re-| quired for sustaining these institu- | tions, and there would be more | money available for the poor man and bis family; more to be distri- buted among the merchants, buteb- | ers, and tradesmen, and the dvties PITH AND POINT. SHE SHOWED HIM. A negro woman who had knocked justice of the peace. » charged with a grave aid the judge. ** Yas, sah,” she replied. “But I don’t know why a man should allow a woman to knock him down, I don’t see how you did it. Stand off there and show me about the way wou hit him.” The woman squared herself and knocked the judge through a win- dow. The old fellow picked iimself 6 of whomy up, and as be wiped the blood from his face, remarked : “Blamed if I don’t believe you did kaock him dowa, but I want to say that so able a woman is of such use to the community that it would be a shame to fine her. Go ahead, you are free.—Arkansaw Traveler. Girl babies grown up they bargh Dispatch. Tramp—“I dou’t hardly kuow what to do with this piece o’ steak now I’ve got it.” Landlady—‘'For goodness sake! Why don’t you eat it?” Tramp—*I’ve tried that.” “Don—I, bear your father-in law for dolls, but when y for dollars.-Pitts —Lowell Citizen. If you look wroug you will be sare tu step wrong. Nobody wants to keep a r. naway horse, but many keep runaway tempers and think nothing of it. FOR THE EYE OF CHRISTIANS. To the editor of the Bre: Two of the leading colored churches of this city are being torn to pieces by virtue of the fact that rivalry and a jealous feelings over church managemeuts and disap- pointments, has usurped the place of christian forbearance, trae relig lon, “each others burdens bear,” Mr. Editor, your journal reaches more hearth stones, fire sides and family-circles interested in this matter than any other newspaper} published in this community, there- fore a word through you to the dear friends that are working up “new organization leavivg the homes ot the fathers and mothers, that they may reflect, ere tis too late. The simple proposition is this, take © Asbury” and “Shil Can those truly religions people afford to | break away from their christian j teligio ts birth-place because they are not satisied with the present management ¢ Why did the South withdraw j trom the Union? Because she desir- ed to put baman slavery in the; Territories. The South rebelled, seceeded, went to war, was conquer. | ed, slavery died, the South lost all. You bnilt ‘*Asbury,” you built “Shiloh ;” think of the years of la- bor, of toil, of saeritice your moth ers and fathers spent to make those | two churches what they are to-day, “smilivg providences” to this com- munity, monuments to the glor God, evidence of your christian zeal, religious loyalty and fortitude. Have you thought for a moment over the examples you are furnish- ing the generation now with vou? Have you given a thought how God regards | your action? Have you taken a moment to consider what rebellion iv a church means? Have you been thinking how much dis- cussion your action creates among those who still maintain that you j cannot stand prosperity, and that you will run after strange Gods? Stop, in the vame of our God, stop; halt ere it is too late. Stop now and think; for as sure as you rest, so sure will you have au an- swer to make before Jehoviahs aw- D. C., SATURDAY, MAY fal throne. Iam aware that you have had much to worry you in church management, you may not like those that have been chosen to | rule your church and there are va- rious things to perplex and cause you to frown. But what is your religion good for if not to teacb that this world is no flowery bed of ease © “Thou on my head in early youth didst smi'e, And through rebellious and verse mean while Tkou hast not left me, Oft as I} * left thee; i On to the close, O Lord abide with | me.” | I will not say a word as to the loss the whole race sustains by your disunion. 1 will with your kind per- mission call attention to the old maxim, 10 ‘Unioe there is strength.’ Are you christians? Do you waut really to set an example for those outside of the fold? Do you desire to do something to draw sinuers | nearer to Chnst, to make men lean ou God? then stay in your church, fight your battles there in and among yourselves, aud publish uot your weakness to your enemies. In conclusion remember when you secede you leave your church as a disunionist, and remember that you have been taught in regard to the angels that rebelled, “A friend in christian line and union.” per- —~— ee NEWS OF INTEREST. La Grippe is killing the Indians at White Blaff. Nine died in one day. A party of Negro gamblers were canght playing poker on a grave at Anthens, Ga. There were ninety colored lynched in the South last year, A colored Women’s Christian Tewperance Union has been organ ized at Norfolk, Va., and is doing excellent work. Miss aie Hand of Petersburg, *2 venrs hae oT An Attractive } Combined POCKET ALMANAC and MEMORANDUM BOOK advertising BROWN'S IRON BITTERS tthe best Tonic, given away at Drug and general stores. Apply at ones, men vV- The Plymouth Lyceum will close the season May 11th, 1891, with a “symp sium” Melange and | intellectual social. Admiesion by | eard only. Tbe symposium will begin at 9sharp. A short adress from ,the presiding officer, then follows speaking, singing, decla~ mations, etc. etc., etc, No one to be allowed over five minutes; any person venturing beyond the pre- | scribed tive minute limit will suf- } fer the penalty of a heavy fine and the ringing of the bell. 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