The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 12, 1892, Page 2

the official heads of the fence re- publicans. Fence. republicans are now de- claring that they have always sup- ported Cleveland. It is too late to flop now. = - Come up to the Captains office and receive your pills. Some pills are very agreeable to take. The hardest pill to take is the “official-head taking-off pill.” Thompson will return to Hayti. The democratic party never was known to create new places for the negro. Mr. Cleveland may divert from former customs. Milton M. Holland will be sac- ceeded by an Ohio man. Senator Hill is opposed to giving recognition to recent kickers and bolters from the republican party. Anybody can be Inspector of Food who wants it. The editor is always prepared for the official hatchet. He was the first to receive the axe from the last democratic ad- ministration. It 18 only necessary for the ne- groes to be united in business. You can be an important factor 2 the body politics if you are uanit- ed. The chairman of the national republican committee was too big in the head to recieve advice from colored republicans. Some men think all. Published every Saturday at 1109 1 Street Northwest, Washington, D. C. Entered at the Post Offiee st Washington as second class mail matter. W.CALVIN CHASE EDITOR. THE REPUBLICANS DEFEAT. Toe reeult of last Tuesday’s election was indeed @ surprise to the friende of the administration, bat not a surprise to those who had predicted the defeat of Mr Harrison st the Minneapolis con- vention. Mr, Cleveland was stronger in the heurts of the American people than what the republican party presumed. There was a grest diseusion among the colored voters of this country and in the northern and western states especially, where the colored vote held the balance of power. The republican man~ agers were confronted with the charge that not a colored man had received any recognition iu the northern states where the colored vote held the balance of power. The national republican com- mittee did not feel disposed to re- cognize the colored workers in this campaign and some of the members said to certain colored republicans that, “Colored orators did more to injure the success of the party than the geod they could do,” The democratic mansg- ers did’nt think 80; they took ad~ vantage of the bluoders that were made by the republican national committee and employed every colored man who applied to them The time bas now passed tor any party to think that the ne- groes can be controlled by any one political party, The negro will never be a citizen until he throws off the yoke of political oppression. The election ot Mr. Clevelaud may open the doors of a new d's~ pensation avd the colored man will at some futu e day stand up- on @ political equality with the more fortunate Anglo Saxon race, There is nothing tc fear under Cleveland’s administration. Of course republicans must give way to democrats; it may be hard for a while, but.a better day is coming. they know it Talk and bluster don’t always win. The:e was too much bluster and big I’s in the republican commit- tee. The BEE expect to expose all rascals who don’t stand by their colors. Read and aévertise in the BEE. It is the people’s advertiser. —E—~ MARRIED ANOTHER MAN. Advertisement for a Wife Does Not Result as Intended. An advertisement appeared in the London Advertiser a short time ago from a man residing at Temby Bay, named Ibbotson, in which he spoke of his desire to secure Christian woman asa wife. Among those who read the advertisement was a widow residing at Perth, mother of two children, who an- swered it. The gentleman wrote a reply, in which he described his house and worldly goods and explained that ho desired some one to take charge of his household. The widow, efter some correspon- dence, purchased a ticket to go to her prospective husband. She did not find things quite as she expected. The household eonsisted of the father and nine children, the youngest of whom was seven years of age. The children’s mother had died insane, and the charming widow was loath to com- plete the transaction which she had be- gunsobravely, She was stopping at Hil- ton, and the widower went thither to interview her, but the lady would not be seen at all. A young man of Temby Bay heard of the lady being there, and that she had two little children, five and eight years old. He had a nice little talk with her on Sunday, proposed marriage with her Monday, was accepted and the wedding took place Tuesday. The widow says she has not made a mistake, even if it was hasty action, for the young man in question is sober, respected and industrious. At last ac- counts Mr. Ibbotson was on his way to meet another lady who had taken pre- liminary steps toward matrimony in re- THEY SAY. It was 8 surprise. sponse to the advertisement, Who is to blame for the blun- ders? The republican national commit- tee will now be convinced that ti:e negro is a neccessary quanity. Florida Moss. The valuable moss of Florids, abounds in the hummocks and back lands. It is gathered chiefly by ne- groes. In its natural state it hangs in _|festoons from the limbs of trees in strands from one to five feet in length. The moss is gathered by pulling it from the trees with long poles, or by cutting the trees down and then remov- ing it. The moss is buried in the earth for about a month, after which it is dug ap and dried and shaken and sold to the local moss dealers for one dollar per one hundred pounds. It is then ran through s machine called a gin, which is nothing more than a cylinder cov- sred with three-inch spikes revolving between a roll of similar stationary spikes. The action of these spikes is to knock out some of the dirt and trash, but it does not complete the job. It is then shaken over a rack formed of parallel bars, after which it The negioes in New York sup ported the Tammany ticket. The democratic adwmivistration will teach the republicans civil ser vice reform. Four years from now the republi- can shall have learned a lesson. A disregard o* the masses for personal interest will kill any par- ty. & The negroes were in it this time. Negro democrats(?) will now come in for their share of the spoils. Mathews of Albany is an orig- -diorior pelea each. ae bead inal democrat. moss mills do all of this hand, axcept the ginning. The after Colored republicans must retire and iive on corn bread and fish for a while. Thay have had a yery fastidious taste for some time. Dick Greener left the republican party too soon. He has been playing white for the last ten years in New York. Who is to blame for the republi- cans defeat? having gone through the al process, brings from two dellars and fifty cents éo three dollars per hundred pounds. If, instead of allowing it to remain in the earth for one month, it is left there for three months, the entire bark of the moss is pulled off and there remains a beautiful black fiber almost exactly like bair. The hair moss brings from five to seven dollars per hundred pounds. The treatment of this moss is a good Geld for invention. Might not a ma- chine be made whieh would take off the bark, leaving the fiber, without the ne- There was a greater division in of burying the mons for 89 the colored colums than one hod) 9 tion the saree sess any idea Q2 eveeempmemeness f° Sing praises to the Lord to save | CLEVELAND VICTORIOUS, He did’ot know it all this time. | 98 DEMOCRATIC SUCCESS IN THE NA TIONAL ELECTION. New York Cast Her Vote for the Ex. President and Decided the Contest- Other Doubtfal States Aided a Demo- cratic Triumph. Grover Cleveland is elected President, That is' the outcome of the 13,000,000 votes cast throughout the Union Tues- day last. There was a landslide to the Democracy. The vote in the Electoral College wil South Carolina South Dakota. Tennessee., Texas... Vermont! West Virginia. Wisconsin. Wyoming. probably be as follows : 3 at a eye States. 421s S)/a/3 so /Hls rn ese 1 Californi 2 Colorado —|-|4 Sonnecticut. | 6]/—|— Delaware . oo 1 Florida . Ae | ee Geo | 3)/—-)— -|—-}|—| 8 -| 41 — |= | 15 | — | =, = ‘}— |] — | 10 Kentucky... {2 — |= Louisiana. (| Sle \- J efi J —}] bi — 1 = a\|—- | 6 8 i es 17) — | - 3 4 8 4 82 4 4 4 8 3 4 3 Se ese z 2| | Sel SISSleoll 18128811 Totals... dn addition to all the States C1 oy both sides to Cleveland in advance of the election, he has carried New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, California, West Virginia, and In a with a gain of six votes in Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, South Da = Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, and Kans: were carried for Weaver. The sweeping Democratic victory in New York practically decided the con- test. The majority for Cleveland and Stevenson is above 47,000. New York City gave the Democratic electoral. ticket 77,000 plurality, and Brooklyn... added 28,000. There were heavy Republican osses throughout the State at large. The legislature elected in joint ballot is Democratic, assuring a Democratic U. S, Senator in place of Mr. Hiscock. The estimated Democratic majorities in other northern States are as follows: New Jersey, 10,000; Connecticut, 1,000; Indiana, 10,000; Illinois, 10,000; West Virginia, 7,000; California, 5,000; Ohio. 1,500. The early reports clearly indicate ¢ large Democratic majority in the next Congress, although the Republicans have made gains. The Democratic plurality inthe House will not exceed 100. According to the latest reports there will be of the 356 members 216 Demo. crats, 127 Republicans, and 13 members af the People’s Party, a democratic ma- jority of 76 and a Democratic lead over the Republicans of 89, The local results in many States were of great interest. In New Jersey, Werte was elected fur Governor over Kean by «bout 7,000 plurality after one of the lot test contests ever known in the State. Returns from nearly all districts of Pennsylvania indicate that the Republi: cans have their usual majorities. In Massachusetts, the Republican elec- coral ticket’succeeded by a reduced ma- jority, but Gov. Russell was re-elected om the Democratic ticket for the third time, Mrs. C. 8. Parnell a Bankrupt. Mrs. C. S. Parnell has claimed the vrotection of the Englisn Bankruptcy “ourt and a receiver has been appointed at her own instance to take charge oj ver affairs, It is believed that she has tone this to stop the action of claim- ints against her own and Mr. Parnell’s state. The effect of the order will be to place another obstacle in the way of he release of the Paris fund, as_ while er affairs are in bankruptcy no money nwhich she is interested, whether as «rustee or otherwise, can be dealt with except by leave of the Court. Private Iams Worsted. Private Iams has failed in his criminal suit against Cols. Streator and Hawking ad Surgeon Grim, whom he charged ‘ith assault and battery in tying him up ‘y the thumbs, shaving his head and ‘ramming him out of camp for calling “three cheers for the man who shot ick.” The jury at Pittsburg, after de- siberating all night and until 11 o’clock next day, Lrought in a verdict of not guilty, but placing half the costs on Cols, Streator and Hawkins. Iams will now bring a suit for civil damages, America is Ready to Race. General Charles J. Paine, ex-Commo- dore James D. Smith, Latham Fish, Archibald Rogers and A. Cass Canfield, a committee appointed to see about an in- ternational yacht race for the America cup, conferred with Mr. H. Maitland Kersey, Lord Dunraven’s representative. in New York this week. The upshot of the matter is that the difficulties in the | of the:parlors were banked wp way of the race have been gotten over endghe tein wants a race hecan ve it, Cuba has saninet New You. +-eld fogy who had forgot! | ing. At a dinner to the supreme j covered with immense double HIS -RAPID DESCENT. — +a .|-& Schoolmaster Broke Up s Sparking Bee, but It Cost Him Dear. “Next,” called the Chairman of the ‘Time-Killers’ Club at the Lindell, and Cecil Fay came to taw, says the St Louis Globe-Democrat. “When s young blood I lived st Rockford, Il. There was 9 school for young ladies in the town, and some of the prettiest girls in the Prairie State were among the pupils. «But the rules of theinstitution were so strict that it was next to impossible to get to speak to any of them. -The head of the concern was an argus-ey' ten half a cen- tury before that he had ever been young. «But where there’s a will there’s a way, you know. We youngsters did succeed in getting acquainted with sev- eral of the girls, and then hit upon ® novel plan for scuring clandestine meet- ings. “On the second floor back was class- room and the girls would gather in there nights and let down a big clothes- basket, such as the redoubtable Fal- staff once inhabited. One of the young fellows would climb in and they would pull him up. He would then assist to slevatastha others, and the class-room would quickly be transformed into a sparking. bee. “The thing worked all right for a month or two, and then the old pro- fessor caught on. One night we were waiting for the ‘ buck basket’ to be let down when we saw him coming around the corner. We sought cover in the shrubbery and waited. He stopped under the window, gave the signal and down came the basket. “He got into it and the girls pulled bim up. Just as they got him nearly to the window they saw who it was and gave a scréam, let go, and he came down with a crash that nearly knocked the life out of him. It cured him of bis smartness, but it also cooked our sport.” It Was the Cat. In the mountainous districts of Penn- sylvania two wrens had built their nest ander the eaves of an old farmhouse, and there they reared a small and in- teresting family. Among the attaches of the farmer's household was ® white cat, and when the wrens became 80 tame that they used to hop around the piazza in search of crumbs the cat would lie in wait for them, and several times came within an ace of catching the adult birds. When the farmer no- ticed this he kicked the cat, and she finally learned that it was dangerous to fool with the wrens. When the baby wrens grew larger, one of them one day fell out of the aest, and, being too weak to run and being unable to fiy, lay helpless on the grass. The cat saw the accident and ran rapidly to seize the bird, but, seem- ing to remember the lesson taught her, when sbe reached the helpless little thing she only touched it daintily with ner paw and then lay down and watched it. Presently there came a black and sellow garden snake toward the flutter- ing birdling. The cat was dozing and was awakened by the fluttering of the bird. Instantly she rose and struck at the reptile with her paw. This was an enemy the snake did not appreciate, but it was hungry, so it darted forward and attempted to seize the bird under the very shelter of the cat’s head. Like a flash the cat seized the snake {ust back of the head and killed it with one bite. When the farmer happened along in the afternoon he found the cat crouching in the grass sheltering the bird, and ten feet away was the dead make. This made it clear that the cat had carried the bird away from the make, and the young adventurer was toon restored to its anxious parents, A Rat's Teeth. The rat is remarkably well equipped for the peculiar life he is ordained to lead. He has strong weapons in the shape of four long and very sharp teeth—two inthe upper jaw and two tthe lower. These teeth are wedge shaped, and by a wonderful provision of nature have always a fine, sharp cut- tingedge. On examining them care- fully the inner part is found to be of a soft ivorylike composition which can easily be worn away, and the outside is composed of a glasslike enamel, which is exceedingly hard. The upper teeth work into the un- der so that the centers of the opposed teeth meet perfectly in the act of gnawing; hence the soft part is being continually worn away, while the hard part keeps a hard, chisel-like edge all the’ time, and at the same time the teeth are constantly growing up from she bottom, so that as they wear away @ fresh supply is ready. Should one of these teeth be removed by accident or otherwise, the opposite tooth will con- tinue to grow; and there being nothing to wear it away it will project from the mouth and be turned upon itself, and if it be and undertooth it will often grow so long as to penetrate the skull, The White House Conservatory. Nearly half an acre of glass covers the flowers of the White House con- servatory. Itkeeps two men busy all the time to take care of it, and the fin. est of all kinds of flowers, from orchids to roses, arein bloom there. There are broad India rubber plants, which are vvorth from fifty to one hundred dol- lars apiece, and there are some flowers which are absolutely worth their weight in gold. On the night of a White House dinner or reception the whole mansion is decorated with flowers, and at one state dinner not long ago there was a floral piece on the table which | used sight thousand flowers in its mak- fle i F two thousand flowers were make » temple of justice, and last diplomatic reception the eh BEs Hf Ey i? with ers, and at another time they i f tising out of banks of green. ed bill, wedi either their presidential date or the people who are making FORCE BILL METHODS CLEVELAND INDORSED AND ORDERED THEIR USE WHILE PRESIDENT. — er to His Attorney General Di- eo Him to Utilize in Cleveland’s See- ond Presidential Race the Very Methods ‘Which the Democrats Now Denoance- Democratic cry against the elections bill, passed by the Republican house Fifty-first congress, mis- a leaglch Democrats the force attitude. It is shown from official records that Mr. Cleveland, while president, ordered his attorney general, Pan Eiectric Garland, to enforce in the election at which Mr. Cleveland was a candidate for re-elec- tion, the very methods provided in the so called force bill. Here is the order of Mr. Cloveland to his attorney gen- eral, and the order issued by the attor- ney general to his marshals: Executive Mansion, | WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 1888. f Dean Sim—You are hereby requested to take general charge and direction of the execution of the statutes of the United States touching the appointments of supervisors of elections and special deputy marshals, and the perform- ance of their duties and their compensation. 20 far as these subjects are by the constitution and laws under the supervision and control of the executive branch of the government. Yours truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. Immediately afterward this letter was sent by Attorney General Garland to United States marshals: ey ‘Srm—In pursuance of a letter of the 5th inst. from the president, directing the attorney general to take charge of the “appointment of special deputy marshals, the performance of their duties and their compensation, together with the compensation of supervisors,” at the ional election in November next, your ‘attention is directed to the provisions of titles % and 28, chapter 7, title 70, of the Revised Statutes. Under sections 2,022 and 2,(24,Revised Statutes, you have power to =. the peace, protect supervisors, preserve order, prevent frauds and enforce the law in towns of 20,000 inhabitants and upward. You should make yourself familiar with the statutes referred to and see that they are understood by your depu- ties, who should be discreet men, impressed with the importance of an honest franchise. ‘The manner of discharging these duties by yourself and your deputies is largely left to your discretion. In matters involving ques- tions of law you are directed to consult the attorney of the United States for your dis- trict for needed information and advice. Ic is assumed that the duties can be performed without infringing upon the rights of any citizen in a manner that shall be firm, and at the same time free from any unnecessary dis- play of authority. It is not expected that supervisiors and deputy marshals will receive com! tion for more than five days’ service. and they should beso informed. Within this time all can be done, it is thought, that ought tobe. You need vigilant men, who are con- scientious workers, and no others. It is thus shown from official records that Mr. Cleveland, while president, or. dered his subordinates to use, in the election in which he was himself a can- didate, the very laws to which his party is now so strenuously objecting. The so called force bill, about which Democrats are howling, was the very essence of the act which Mr. Cleveland ordered his subordinates to enforce for his own re- election. Now, what have Democrats to say to this? Will they charge that their own candidate used improper methods to re- elect himself, or will they admit that they are making false statements in their talk about the force bill? They must do one or the other. WOMEN AND VOTERS, Why the Women Should Take an Inter- est in the Coming Election. Good Reasons Told by a ‘Woman Who Knows. ‘The interest women are taking in this presidential campaign is quite remark- able. There are any number of women’s political clubs in cities, and many brainy women are engaged in active work on both sides, But it is not to these women I addres: myself. I write to the women of the country; to the toilers in mill and fac. tory; to every plain, practical, common sense woman in the land. Now, mind. I am not going to urge you to get out the ox team and go around drumming up voters. I don’t want you to stand near the polls and peddle votes, but | want you to think, read and influence the husband, brother, son or sweetheart to vote this fall. If there isn’t a sweet. heart, get one until after the election at oa ives of workingmen, I have seen th homes of the workingmen of Europe. 1 wish you might compare your tidy little homes with their wretched hovels; your neat, well dressed, well fed children with their half starved, poorly clad ba- bies. If your husband is an iron pud- ler remember that here he earns $5.50 per ton; in England he would only get $ per ton; if a gardener, he receives here-$12 per week, where in England he would earn only $5.80; if an engineer. he gets $3.22 per day, where in England he would receive $1.46. It is very easy to see why your homes can have a Brus. sels carpet, an organ and pictures on the wall; why Janie can take music lessons and youcan havea fine black silk for Sunday wear. Make John vote this fall. His vote may be the very one needed. There is one more class of women to whom I must appeal. All over this vasi country, in tiny hamlets and on Tolling farms, there are homes in which the most sacred memories cluster around a faded red sash twisted over a Picture, a battered sword, or perhaps an old’ blue coat laid away in the drawer in the spareroom. I know how you steal sway by yourself and take out that coat and moisten it with your tears, Iknow ibe & Jvanis avenue and Eleventh street Feor Commenciog Monday, November 1i, Matinees Tuetday, Thursaay snd Saturday: THE FAMOUS RENTZ-SANTLEY NovBLTY AND BURLESQUE OoMPANy In their new spectacular production of AMERICA OR THE DISCOVERY OF COLUMBUS, OMENE, THE DIVINE ODALISQUE. .0. in the .o, VOLUPTUOUS DANCE OF THE HAREM. Hart’s Boston Novelty Company. WEED THAT FEEDS ON FISH. [t Catches Them and Sucks Out Theis Vitality. Commander Alfred Carpenter, writing from Suakim, Red Sea country, contrib. utes the following remarkable- instance of a plant preying upon one of the ver. tebrata, says an exchange. The in- stance noted was observed by him when surveying the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. ~ ' “As I neared a pool cut off by the tide from the sea I noticed among other submarine plants a very ordinary look- ing flesh colored weed. Bending to inspect it closer I noticed numbers of small fish lying helpless in its fronds, apparently with little or nolife in them. “Putting my band down to pick one of them up I found my fingers caught by suckers on the weed, the fronds of which had closed tightly upon them. The fish had been caught in every con- ceivable way —by the head, the tail, sides, etc.—and some of them had been held until the skin was completely macerated. «Those of the fish that were still liv- ing had evidently been caught at differ- ent times, they appearing in all stages of exhaustion. I regret being unable to name either the plant or the fish, but that the botanical cannibal really preyed npon the finny denizens of the deep there isn’t the least doubt.” NExT week A Showman in Brazil. The Yankee who belongs tothe genus humbug had better keep out of Brazil. James Fitzjames, who has just returned to St. Louis from that country tells what happened to a Yankee circus man- ager who did not show according to his bills. According to his advertisement his collection of animals was more com- plete than that which Noah took in out of the wet, and his performers more wonderful than Barnum was ever able to engage. I attended his show and found it a very brazen fake. The audience departed grumbling and in an hour the show was before the Poo Bah of the place charged with fraud. The latter had one of the circus bills spread out on a table and had checked every discrepancy~in the per- formance. “Now,” said he, “why did you not e Show you ad i The showman thought it was « great joke and that he would probably be subjected to a light fine and let off with & reprimand, but he was mistaken. For every shortcoming in the show, for every instance where it failed to tally with the advertisement, he was fined one hundred dollars and given a month in jail. His fines aggregated twelve hundred dollars and his imprisonment ayear. He is serving out his timenow. As he was led away he remarked that the people down there had no concep- tion of poetic license, And they haven’t, Too Much Hat. In 1873, .says a geologist, I was making some explorations in the moun- tains of North Carolina and Easter Tennessee, The natives were a very Primitive lot, and few of them had ever seen » locomotive or a town of three thoussd inhabitants. They spun and wove their own clothing, made their own whisky and lived on corm bread, salt pork, “yarbs,” and sassafras tes. One evening I reached a village of per- haps two dozen houses and a much excitement as » circus in the “black belt.” Everybody turned out to stare at me and follow me about, and couriers were dispatched to the country folks to come in and view the curiosity. They were soon arriving afoot, on mules and steers, and one old fellow came in hot haste astrid le a bull wearing a rope bridle. Iwas vexed and puzzled. I secured quarters for the night and went to my room, but the crowd hung about soe — talked in subdued whis- ly a committee, composed of two of the oldest citizens, was ap- Pointed to wait upon me. Their mis- Ee +H] ] i F cf f : i f f i 1 Hi FEPE I F i H i if i i c