The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1891, Page 1

Terms. $1.50 Per year in Advance, vou. X HEY SAY Grand Army committee re- ea i the colored brother last s will put five on s committee, ( uissioner Douglass will do e best he ean for District Repub- Some people have an idea that ow it all, fhe destiny of a republic is not »one man always. Scott has at last secured veh. s happy now uo doubt. e pot will commence to boil Sailable delegates will be num- erous soon, rhe boodle hanters will be on the »okout soon, Be trathfal in all you say. Your friends willdo you more burm than your enemies some Watch those who pretend to be ir friends. is not the man who professes » your friend, that you can epend on alway vhe Democratic Congress will et soon, then O! then what will take place. Robert Tompkins should reor— ganize his choir. The choir should not be made to ufer because two persons are ob- ectiopable. The new chief clerk ot the Treas- uy Department isa wide-awake Republican. Secretary Foster knows what he doing. He favors the Republicans hold- ug the officers. The white Republicans of Miss- ssippi are opposed to Col. Hill. shoald re- ‘y Negro For that reason he ceive the support of ev and white Democrat. President Harrison will be re- minated. Blacklegs who have grievences should state them publicly. Cowards will talk behind the Whenever you hear a man blow is own praises, you can just di vud upon it, thathe isa very swall man at home. Watch the quiet man. men will do them- they will Talkative selves more harm than others. Read the BEE if you hews, Rev. Walter Brooks preached a great sermon tast Sabbath morn- sure that you are right then 0 ahead. The trastee’s of the schools have put a vetoon teachers selling their positions. Trustee Cornish deserves the credit of this rule. He was the first to bring it to the attention of the board. Lhe politicians around the police nd Health office are busy cou talking. You can hear more about Dis- ct polities there than you can at anyother place. Editor Noyes of the Star knows iis business. He is a quiet man. Quiet men are dangerons to fool "WOULD LIKE TO SEE. Wm. Crawford made a detective. More colored policemen appoint— ed THE BE Representative men sent to the | National Convention. want the | public | The elective franchise restored | to the people. | Citizens oppointed to District | Officers. Less talk and more work, among | District Republicans. | Conceited men made to know | just how much influence they haye. |__ Color prejadice eliminated in the District of Colambia. |. The Commissioners more liberal | in the distribution of official patro- | hage. OUR WEEKLY REVIEW. Tue PourricaL OutuooK rx Onto, REPUBLICAN Success Every- WHERE AssuReD—THE CoLorep Vore Soutp News, &¢ The outlook for the success of the Republican party is very brigbt. The elee ion of Major MeKinly in Ohio isa certainty and a very |grave doubt as to tle defeatof Mr. Fassett in New York. The recent conference that was held at Roanoke, Va, a few weeks jago by one Parsons, is nothing | nore than a white mans movement to defeat the Negroes in the State jot Virginia. Tbe colored people of | the State of Virginia owe it to them seives to stand by Gen. Mahone. No man has done as much for the Republican party ia Virginia and the colored people than Gen. Ma- bone. Be may have his faults, but {he has shown bis friendssip for | the colored and white Republicans | of the South. | THE COLORED VOTE has not been a question of doubt, It isa well settled fact that the colored vote wil! be almost a unit \for the Republican ticcet next |month. The withdrawal of the | quack Doctor Johnson of Albany New York, from the Republicans is not a surprise. Dr. Johnson has been a chronic office hunter for a number of years aud for him to jast find fault with the Republican | party of New York and its candi date, is an evidence of what he has | been charged with several years |ago, political weakness. He will | only take himself out of the party | and nothing more. | The Methodist Conference that has just adjourned bas had great | effect on this prejudiced commuoni- ty. The foreign delegates gave the American white people to un- |derstand that the colored man is jas good as they are. When the Natio: Encampment meets in | this year, there will be trou- | ble ain. Itis boped that the | District Commissioners will re leommend to Congress the passage }ofalaw giving the Commissioners | authority to reject all leenses for | bar rooms, eating houses, ete., that ye @ person on account refuse to s | of his color. | SABBATH ERCISES. |Mr. DovGLass SPEAKS—A RE- | VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN WorK. | | Campbell A. M. E. Church of | Nichols avenue, Hiilsdale, haying been completed, the Sunday |} school review of the last quarter was postponed, so that it occurred | last Sune nigbt and became part ‘ofthe exercises with which the | congregation have been celebrating | es opentor of their new cbursh, |The platform was oecupied by ex Minister Frederick Douglass, Rev. | Silas French of Washington, E.R | Russell, president of the Sunday | School Union; L. A. Cornish, ex | president of the Sunday School | Union; Mr. H. A. Leonard, Rev. | BF. J. Peck, jr., pastor of the Camp- | bell Church, and Rev. Dr. O. D. Robinson of Hagerstown, Md. | Behind a breastwork of j flowers, | just in front of the pulpit, were | officers of Campbell Sunday School ; | on the left of the pulpit was the en tire Sunday School of Bethlehem Baptist Church of Hillsdale and on hapel of Garfield. Prof. Saylor : Ted Bethlehem Sunday School, and opened the exercises | py singing, “Come Unto me. Rev. Silas French offered prayer. Allen Sunday School, conducted by Prot. Jobn Smith, sang, and Rev. Dr. O. D. Robinson, former pastor of the | church, wade a congratulatory wa dress, dwelling upon the growth 0 the school and administering wholesome advice to the teachers. the right was the Sunday sebool of be dAashington Bee ~~ SAT Superintendent of Campbell School Liverpool lowed a review of the lessons stu- died the past year. Rev. F. J. Peck, jr.; presented tothe school acrayon portrait of Supt. Liverpool and in the course of his remarks paid many rich compliments to Mr. Douglass, who, he said, was claim- ed by two worlds and all the sous of Ham, and whose presence is more sacred because his white locks show him tobe g ing down the steps of time. The portrait was received or. behalf of the school by Miss F. B.S. Johnson, assistant superintendent. Mk. DOUGLSS’ ADDRESS. Mr. Douglass was briefly intro- duced by Pastor Peck, and after eulogizing*the Sunday school, the superintendent, the oceasiou and the congregation upon the comple- tiou of their beautiful auditorium, the neat and chaste appearance of which, he said, suggested health, harmony and moral excellence , be congratulated the congregation on | the spirit, aspiration and earrest determivation in surmounting ob- sticles to progress. The reguiar Sunday morning ser vices at Campbell Church was con- ducted by Rev. O. D. Robinson of Hagerstown, Md., former pastor of Campbell, and the one who laid the foundation of the church. His text was Hebrews, xi, 10—“Have faith in God.’ The afternoon service was conducted by Rev. P. A. Hubbard of Denver, Col., whose subject, ‘Condescen- sion of Christ,’ was taken from I Corinthians, ix, 8. HE WILL BE A LESSON, We notice a growing tendency of the young colored men to revolt against this nefaric system of leadership that we have. V ceive letters daily from all parts of the country asking why we do not u our letter to the pr.ss the organization of the young men into au aggressive body that w sist and aid materially 1 the settlement of the race ques- t volting against blood-sucking en as Bruce and others bung and growing colored his idea by We believe that Mr. C. 5. ll, of Chicago is working to orga the young colored men and we hope success will attend his efforts. ‘The idea deserves encour- agement.—The Appeal Correspondent. Charles J. Jobnson, the author of the above correspondence, is a clerk in the War Department who has more than once ca'ledon Re- corder B. K. Bruce and apologized to him for having unjustly eriti- cised him and went so far, with- out the consent of an alleged Press Association in this city, to ask bim to allow him, Johnson, to elect Mr. Bruce an bonarary member of the association. This same Charles J. Johnson, on several occasions called to see Mr. Bruce in the interest of his cousin or brother-in Jaw, and fail- ing to receive avy encouragement, he now resorts to “blood sucking tactics.” Mr. Johnson will be given an opportunity to prove what be has published in the Appeal. This foolish and unwise knight of the quill will not be given a- nother opportunity to apologize, us editorials. NEWS OF INTEREST. Johnson Carter, a Chiesgo negro, sued the Clark Street Theatre for $10,000 damages be he was sold a ticket and ufterwards asked to move his seat, which, he maintamed, was on account of his color. The theatre people proved that color had nothing to do with it, so | Carter was nonsuited. One feiture of the decision is of great interest to theatre- | goers. ‘The defendants maintained that the managers of the theatre had a right to change any seat sold at will. This the judge ruled to be inadmissable, and de- cided that the ticket sold constituted a lease of the seat, with right of ingress and egress, that the ticket holder could maintain against the world.—Pelican Standard. SAN ANGELO, TEX., Oct, 12 —A new born white baby with its head crushed, wrapped up in a corn sack, was found on the banks of the Concho yesterday morn- ing by some children, From all appear- ances the child had just been placed there. The authorities have the matter in hand and will use every effort to capture the guilty parties. The Illinois Humane Society has de- cided to prosecute the parents of two: year- old Leonard Turner, the tobacco smoking baby. The child's case was brougit to public notice recently. Ever since the baby was two mont s father, who is said to be of a dissi- naracter, has beev teaching him to smoke. The child has now become so accustomed to the weed that he cries for his pipe and tobacco, The mother has had to work to support the family, and of late has been leaving the little boy at a nursery, The matroa of the nursery refused to allow the of tobacco and reported the ¢: The Hu- mane society took the matter up and two jans examined the child. . spoke on the | condition, aiready suffering from acute history of the Bible and then fol-| Bicotne poisoning, and having what is present | Ss 2 re | URDAY, OCTOBER 24, 189 He was found to bein a very feeble known to physicians as the “tobacco heart.” His skin, eyes and brain are also affected. He displays but little in- telligence now, and brightens up only when his pipe is placed before his eyes. Acting on the report of the physiciars, the Humane Society has sworn out war- | rants for the arrest of the parents. The penalty for such an offence is not less | than $10 nor more than $300 fine, or_one ; Year in the penitentiary, or both. Doe tors express doubt as to whether the child can be brought back to a healthy | condition.—Chureh_ Union. | i) 2 WER'’S EARLY HABITS. Young and impulsive, ever ready to | respond to the wishes of those who took pleasure in his society, and “thinking no around him, it was singu r that Henry Ward Beecher was never empted to participate in many of the | indulgences of the day, so common a- | mong all cl at that time the same as | it is to-day, writes Mrs. Beecher in the -| first of her reminiseent papers in the | October L divs’ Home Journal. But, as ja youtig man, he was unusually free | from any bad habits. He never smoked, hor used tobacco in any form, eith ras a boy, youth or fall-grown man. He never | indulged in a drop of liquor. His Jan- | guage was as pure among his companions as when in a parlor. He rjected all indulgences. As a young man be never played cards; indeed, he never knew one from auother, He avoiced all these habits in his later years, «lthongh he had | no prejudice against the playing of eards | for others—f played for amusement a: d Jat home. Alter comiig to Brooklyn we both learned to play backgammon. It was a quiet game, and be suid it helped him to a good night’s rest, if hig labors during the day had excited him so much us to threaten to retard his usually sound | sleep. + Tue habit of breathing through the mouth instead of through the nose often causes eatarrh, The best remed which we are sequainted is that relis specific. Oid Saul’s Catarrh Cure. Promises kept inspire confidence, and D.. Bull’s Baby Syrup never promised reliefin the diseases of childno od without }at once effecting ir; hence the popular reliance upon it. Price 25 cents. A famous Washington gambler, it ia said, will soon go to preaching. He would have begun it ten years ago, but he has only just now found a cure for his cough. It is Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. “Behold! the world rests and her tired |iahabitants rave paused from trouble and turmoil, b eause the customary head- Juche and neuralgia have been cured by alvation Oil. Price 25 cents a bottle. —__—=» +a. PRIMARY ELECTIONS! “We propose to have primary | elections and don’t you forget it.” <a —__ There is a difference between one |halfa page of plate matter and | two pages of stereotype matter as is so often seenin the Pittsburg “Mirror. Until the “Mirror” takes off its patent back it sbould hide its head. WANTED.—At this office a boy, | who knows how to attend to a horse. Also a boy to make him-} self generally useful. Apply at once. | WANTED.—Two collectors at} jonce. A liberal percentage given. Diving. One of the occupations which have grown up within the last century, and one which, under certain circumstances, bas been extremely profitable, is the business of diving into deep water, ina dress made for the purpose. Many peo- ple, such as most of the native inhabit- ants of the Pacific Islands, and the peo- ple of the shores of the Persian Gulf, where pearl fisheries are carried on, are expert divers, and, without apparatus of any kind to help them, remain under water an astonishingly long time; but the civilized method of going down into | the «ster clothed in a dress and appara- tus which enables the wearer to work and breathe in the water, is quite another thing. The modern “diver” does not really dive at all; he descends into the water, breathes through a tube, carries a light with him to illuminate the water about him, and has means of communi- cating with those above him. The diver’s most romantic and interest- ing work is to recover treasures from sunken vessels; but his services are of- tenest required for something quite ditfer- ent. The diving dress, for instance, is now ased by men in the pearl and sponge fisheries, In these one man now accom- plishes what 20 naked divers were for- merly needed for. They could remain arder water but a short time, and could collect only what came within reach of their arms. The diver in the modern dress remains from two to four hours under water, and reaps a rich harvest. Divers are also employed in laying stone abutments and breakwaters, and in blasting and clearing away submarine obstructions. The greatest depth to which any diver in diving dress has descended is 204 feet. At this depth the work becomes very difficult and dangerous, on account of the pressure of the water. The additional pressure upon each square inch of surface—for of course the natural pressure of the atmosphere is everywhere—is, at 30 feet, 128 pounds, or less than that of the atmosphere; but it increases at such a rate that at 100 feet deep the pressure is 43} pounds, at 15C feet it is 65} pounds, and at 204 feet it is 88} pounds. This depth was reached by the diver Hooper, an Englishman, in recovering a cargo of copper from the ship Cape Horn, wrecked on the coast of South America some years ago. Under this pressure, which subjected the tubes and apparatus to a severe strain, Hooper remained under water at one time 42 minutes, and descended seven times. A diver’s method of work is as follows: He first arrays himself in his suit, the most important feature of which is a great air tight and glass windowed hel- met. Then he goes down, upon a rope ladder if he is inexperienced or timid ; but the expert diver simply uses a rope. Every diver has a signalman, who holds his life line and airpipe, beth of which are kept just taut and clear of the boat, so that any motion of the diver may be felt. The diver descends slowly, halting for afew moments after his head is under water, to satisfy himself that everything is correct, and then continues. If he feels oppressed, or experiences any humming noise in his ears, he rises a yard or two in the water, and swallows his saliva several times. If oppression, ringing in the ears or headache contin- ues, he returns slowly to the surface and for the time being gives up the attempt. If he is all right and able to persevere, he keeps on the bottom, where he gives one pull on the life line to signify that all is well, and sets about the work for which he has come. In returning to the surface the diver must use great care. It is more import- ant to move slowly in rising than in de- scending; for if he goes up too quickly, the effect of passing from a heavy press- ure to a light pressure will make him faint, and prove disastrous. He stops now and then, and gets accustomed to the change. Only men of the greatest skill, strength, and endurance can make a descent be- low a depth of 150 feet. One of the most celebrated of diving feats was performed by Mr. Lambert, an English diver, who brought up $350,000 in gold from the wreck of the mail steamer Alfonso XII, which was sunk off the Canaries with $500,000 in treasure. The wreck lay at a depth of 160 feet. The treasure room was in the run of the | ship. or aftmost part of the bottom, with three decks above it, so that the task of THE GOOD CHILD. ‘When Tommy Brown came home from school A frown was on his brow; His mother said: “What's happened, Tom? | What is the matter now?” Said Tommy, with a darker scowl: | _ “I wish that you could see . The way the other children act! - They're bad as bad can be! | “They push and pull, and tear my clothes, And make a horrid noise; | They fight at noontime, and the girls Are worser than the boys! “They plague me so I can not learn; ‘ It is no use to try; ‘There's just one good one in the school, And that one, it is I.” ms | Said Mrs. Brown, “O dear! 0, dear! | Now, Ihave heard them say ‘That all the other children talk ~ | In just that very way; | “And each, if anything goes wrong, ‘When questioned, will reply: “There's just one good one in the school, And that one, it is I.” —WEnawaxe, reaching and getting out the gold was an | unprecedented one. After a little work Lambert succeeded in getting both the scuttles open, and en- tered the magazine, Then he blew upa portion of the deck with cartridges, and descended straight to the bullion room through the wreckage. After that the boxes of gold were at- tached one after another to ropes, and hauled up; but the difficulties were so great that a considerable part of the treasure had to be left behind. Zola on War. M. Zola writes to a Paris paper: War must come. War is life itself. Nothing exists in nature, nothing is born or grows or multiplies save by combat. The world can live only by eating and being eaten. And it is only the warlike nations that have prospered ; a nation dies when it disarms. War is the school of disci- pline, sacrifice, and courage. We must wait for it gravely. Henceforward we have nothing more to fear. Germany, so proud for the last 20 years, is at the apogee of her power; but do we not already seem to hear the threatenings of disruption? — “5 cents per copy. NO THE ARIZONA KICKER. An Editor Possessed W! thy Motto. “RETROSPECTIVE.—The first night we entered this town we slept under a wagon on Apache avenue, We felt tough, we looked tough, and we had just 15 cente cash capital. We'd walked 28 miles that day to get somewhere, and after getting there the prospects didn’t seem to im- prove. We were sustained, however, by adetermination to come out on top of the crowd if we lost both legs in the hustle. That determination carried us through. “From the very first issue of the Kicker we took for our motto, ‘Ex dono fams semper vivat,’ which used tomean in oux neighborhood in New England, * Tell the truth without fear or favor, even if you never get an office or own a dog.’ We have stuck to that motto, and while it has made us some enemies it has alsc made us @ host of friends and a power ir the land. In pursuance of our policy we ow wish to say a word about ‘ The Great Arizona Home Provider Company,’ which is advertising extensively in the East. Its latest scheme is to advertise city lots in ‘ Blue Hill City’ at $20 each, The ‘city’ is represented as ‘a hustling young town—three railroads, two banks, one theater, 3,000 people, and bound to be the Chicago of the West.’ We rode out to the site the other day. When we re- turned the company offered us $20 to keep still. We denounce it as a fraud from top to bottom and warn the people against investing. “A POINTER FOR THE Boys.—There are three or four tough men in thistown —'way back toughs, with cartloads of sand in their systeins—but there are 400 wouldbe toughs who are not a bit tough and never can be. It isn’t in them and they are not in it. They go around spit- ting over their shoulder and bluffing the Chinamen aud half breeds, but they take good care not to run up against the man whose father owned the spring which was the fountain head of Fighting Creek. Ina fatherly way we want to say to these boys: ‘Don’t. It’s a waste of time and raw material. The goods are cotton mixed and the dye won't stand. Come off the perch and drop your claims and let everybody size you up for what you really are—a lot of old deadbeats who ought to be driven on the sand hills. “In this connection we wish to briefly refer to the little affair of Sunday, which our contemporary will no doubt misstate in his usual fashion. We were sitting on the steps of the post-office waiting for the place to open at the usual hour, when an individual known around town as ‘Holy Smoke Bengal Tiger Steve Johnson’ came along. No one knows where he came from, and some folks have been very much afraid of him. He picked his teeth with a grizzly’s claw, carried a bowie knife, and claimed to shoot two handed. “In writing up ‘The Bluffers, of this town a few weeks ago we asked this Smoky Tiger, or whatever he calls him- self, what prison he had run from? He's been promising the boys to slice off our right ear, have it broiled in Bill Taylor's restaurant, and then publicly feed it to Steve Aker’s Virginia foxhound. We haven't been greatly worried and we didn’t skip a cog when we saw the Tiger rolling along toward us. He came to a halt in front of us and tried to look awfully wicked—real old Rocky Mount- ain wicked, with the gore thrown in asa chromo. “We didn’t shiver. “Then he smiled—a fac simile of the grin Kit Carson used to put on as he counted up his dead Injuns and whistled for the buzzards to begin work. “We didn’t unwind or lose any but- tons. “Then he sent his deep base roar down to his feet and brought it up again to tell us that our ear was his. He reached for it, but he never got there. We rose up and knocked Smoky off his pins at one punch, and then we walked on him and sat down on him and hammered him from head to heel until he roared like a calf and whined like acoyote. Wehave his two revolvers and bowie knife on our table as we write. We are waiting for him to prove property and take them away. “Perhaps it would be appropriate to observe in this connection that there will be a little bee or gathering or convention or some such thing on Pawnee Square Saturday evening. Most of our promi- nent citizens will be there. Several of them will be provided with ropes. There will be various committees appointed to wait on various disagreeable individuals in this town and ask them how long they ‘tend to remain. If longer than two tours the committee will bring them to the bee and they will be argued with, The ‘Bengal Bluffer’ is on the list to re- ceive callers.” a Very Wor- His Views. The traveler stood looking at the clories of Yosemite for the first time. He had journeyed 3,000 miles to see the wonderful valley. Before him in solemn grandeur rose the Cathedral Rock, the Three Brothers, and the Senti- nel Dome. The Bridal Veil Falls, dis- solving in a feathery mist as the waters descended the tremendous precipice, lit up with varied tints the somber majesty of the scene, while El Capitan, mighty, overpowering, unapproachable, seemed to frown sternly over all. The traveler became conscious he was not alone. At his side, apparently lost in wonder, stood a stranger looking at the marvellous 8s,