The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 27, 1894, Page 2

Pub ished every Saturday at 1109 1 Street, nerthwest, Washington, D. C. Entered at the Post Office at Washington as second class mail matter. W. CALVIN CHASE, Epitor, SENATOR BRUCE SUCCEEDS |tl BISHOP BROWN. At a meeting of the Board of Trus- tees of Howard University, held in this city January 16th, Senator Bruce was unanimously elected trustee to succeed Bishop J. M. Brown, de- ceased, A better selection for this important position cou'd not have been made. Mr. Bruce is a broad minded, progressive man of the new school; he has had Jarge and varied experience in public affairs, and, taken all in all, is probably the best equipped, all around man among us. His elec- tion is an additional guarantee to the country that the management of the University are determined to keep that institution fully abreast of the times and to make it what its founders intended it should be—a great na tional anti-color line seat of learning. We were pleased to meet, among those who attended the meeting of Pp i the board, that grand old warrior whose name honors the institution— Gen. O. O. Howard. It is an inspir- ation to shake hands with such a man and recall the many battles he has fought, the many sacrifices he has made for the weak and the oppressed of both races, white and colored. He is as bouyant, enthusiastic and as full of fight as when we first met him twenty-five years ago. May the Lord spare him to us many years more. Dr. Presbrey, whose tall and grace- ful form attracts attention. wherever he appears, attended the meeting. He i8 an earnest, constientious man who believes that the colored people of this country have a glorious future before them, and that Howard Uni- versity is one of the instruments through which that future is assured. His intimate friends have nicknamed him “OldReliable” because of the ten- acity with which he clings to what he believes to be right and just. He is now a resident of Brooklyr., but Wash- ington still claims him as one of her honored sons. The scholarly and eloquent young minister,Rev.Cornelius Patton,attend- ed this meeting of the board. One can not look upon him without being re- minded of his sainted father, who, fora dozen years, as president of the university, conducted the affairs of that institution. We remember him when, as a little boy, he engaged in the innocent sports of the college boys on the campus and won their hearts by his kindness and couttesy. He loves Howard University and the University loves him. The name of Patton will ever be revered on Uni- versity Hill. The venerable and much beloved Dr. Strieby also honored us by his presence at the meeting. He isa man who has.given the best years of his life to the education and elevation of the colored race. Through the in strumentality of the American Mis sionary Society, of which he is the father, intsitutions of learning have been established all over the south Jand and thousands of colored boys and girls have been and are still be- ing, educated and equipped for the higher duties of life. God bless Dr. Strieby and the noble work in which he is engaged. The University at present 18 presided over by the serene and gevial Dr. J. E. Rankin, one of God’s noblemen. lt seems but yesterday, and yet more than twenty years have passed, since he came to this city to take charge of the First Congrega ion- al church. Young, haudsome, avd singularly gifted, he was eagerly sought by the social four hundred of that day, but in vain; be came to do his Master’s work and right royally he did it. Oh, what a storm of indignation was aroused when from his pulpit, Sabbath after Sabbath he thunder- ed against iniquity in high places; denounced the injustice and out- rage to which colored people were subjected, and defended, as no minister in this city had ever I wards us and fallen away from our causes, but this man stands to- day as he has ever stood, immov- able as the rock of Gibralta. We are fortunate in having such a man at the head of this great in- stitution of learning. HON. THOMAS SETTLES, N.C. mittee of the House of Represent- atives last week in the contested election case of Williams va. Set- notice. ing in favor of Mr. Settles, the sit. ting member, becauee there was nothing in the case that we could see, that even gave Mr. Williams the slightest pretext for contesting the seat, unless it was to tell the Democratic House of Representa- tives, that his party allies in North Carolina. failed votes at home to give him the seat, and he wanted the House to cow plete the j»b. In this he failed and we congratulate the young gladiator cf the 5th congressional district of North Carolina on the eplendid victory he has just achieved. Indeed, Mr. Settles de- serves the congratulations of every Republican and every Democrat who loves fair dealings and honest elections, this rising young statesman from the South would have been a national calamity and result would have put the Repub- icans ot the South in a position from which they could not have recovered in twenty years. peop!e of the 5th district of North Carolina should be proud of the gallant young representative who soably represents them at the Nation’s Capitol. termed a clean statesman, hones North Carolina friends and their interests as well as those of other sections, front row of some of the brightest statesmen in the American Con- gies, dth district return him to Congress not because the House refused to unseat him, but because he is a man of the people, a good Repub- lican, and a friend man, let him be black or white. It would do the people of his diss trict good to see this young Re- publican gladiator of North Caro- lina marching down the aisle in the House of Representatives with and silence, defending the princi- ples of his illustrious father and the rights of the people of the old North state. Let the Republicans of Mr. Settles district stand by him said he, “I have heard of Chase, but from what I read here, I am convinced that he is alongheaded man; and in fact is the only colored man in this country who follows his ow: here in one editorial he Brown, same column he applauds -ex-Senator Bruce, isan. w. L. Brown isas rank a Democrat as Thos. B. Reed is a Republican, and is as outspoken as a man can be, and as fearless as he is outspoken. Senator Bruce to be tician.’ a remarkable man, and I would like to dared to do, the cause of the op- pressed! He has never changed. Many of our white friends in recent years have grown lukewarm to- The report of the election com jes deserves more than a glancing} m Indeed we were not surs rised at the committee report.f ci, B io. steal enough h d th To have turned dows Republican ts fa -reaching influence of such a h The ol al He is what ie] @ n ell of bis dealings with his To.day he stands in the Now Jet the voters of the to the poor ance in hand, demanding respect HE SPEAKS WELL OF ALL. Mr. EprTror:—On last Tuesday while riding on the Belt Line cars, a colored gentleman arose and left two copies of your paper in the.corner seat, by acci- dent. Shortly afterthe gentleman leav- ing, a tall, fine looking man came in, took the seat and commenced to read. All at once he gave out an exultant laugh. “Who is the ec said to him: ‘W. Calvin Chase, a very prominent lawy Seat me he inquired: V or of this paper?” I er of this city.” “Oh,” n convictions. why, applauds Prof. arank Democrat, and in the Who is a known Republican part- I know both of these men well. an. reo Cc an original man. full of good ideas, and a splendid poli- Leaving the car he said: ‘Chase is meet him.” . L afterwards learned that this man* was a distinguished Democratic senator of the United States. “OBSERVER.” eee $1.25 to Baltimore via B. & O. Saturday, February 3rd. ‘Tickets good on all trains, and valid for return until. { the foliowing Monday. On same day tickets | will be sold from Baltimore to Washington : at the same rate, 2S | CAVEATS, TRADE MARKs. aed COPYRIGHTS, BTAIN A PATENT? For U NCO. who have had soaniyahy peaes sent free. FY of: j gainthem catalogue of mechan ical and sci ala entific books sent free. fh Munn & Co, receive special notioein tne Retentiac “Americanencd out cost to the inventor. This splendid before the With ipear geslatee gba rear, Samy HOPELESS SUFFERERS FIND | Deo Strange to Define—Tss Mys- Builders’ Exchange Hall Filled to See Dr. cated, aud most enlightened people of Washington are daily becoming converts to these new principles and methods which are supported by such grand and overwhelming evidences and proofs that no reasoning mind can dispute; reali- ties that echo and re-echo in the human most sublime panorama of living truths as presented by this} wonderful ph world what Booth was to the theatric soll to the oratorical, a man towering above all others in the art of healing by these newer methods. without even removing the outer ments of the patient—all in full vie the vast audiences, causes the lame to ¥ and deformed, the atic to throw away th canes. and astonishment as they after another go upon the stage and ceive a blessing in the v relief from the most so those who are able and ay go to the doctor’s private office are masters in this great art qu possible and cannot be done does not change the fact. behind the door,nor in the seeret rece: es of a dark office, but in public, on the open stage, before large and intelligent audiences, daily. These free clinic: e been given ev Dr. Damon came to washington. sands have witnessed them; thus it assured fact. beyond dispute, by even yesterday; among them were two c: after round of applause. will hold a free clinic ever also a special clinie will be given Sun- at other times. O. Meek, drugs and medi Vermont av., is just the place to you want fresh drugs. Tie people that section of the city s to call at this store. NILE | CAPITOL SAYINGS | 609 F ST., N. W. WASHINGTON HON.JNO. R. LYNCH, PResipent DR. J. R. WILDER, Vicu- Pres L. C. BAILEY, PROF. JAMES STORUM, DOUGLASS B. McCARY, Casuier H. E. Baker, W.S. Montgomery, J. A. Johnson | upward. and above. churches, associations, and o organizations can deposit % with this Bank andreceive interest. subject to check without notice, .... glad to have von open an account BANK OPEN FROM 9 A.M. TO5 P.M For a men have believed that the Law PORTER BLANK: this Distric: now. j TH’ CULUMBIA DESK CAL) RIGHTS OF ANIMALS. RELIEF, | Perhaps We Ought to Treat Them With More Civility and Respect. Sir Arthur Helns insisted on’ “cour- } tesy” to animals. We are to be civil spoken to them, and not to bully where we might persuade. Count Toilstoi never uses the 1. hip; he simply talks j to his horse. Mr. Bright long since fol- \lowed on the same side as Sir Arthur Helps. He thought that kindness to animals should be taught at school. This is awkward, says a writer in the London Daily News, for he loved to hook some of them by the gills, for sport. It is needless to say that every form of sport is barred by Mr. Salt and his school. There is, of course, no lack of champions on the other side. Some writers argue that because ani- mals, hevye “no souls” we are entitled to do) what we like with their bodies. Mr. Wood—the naturalist—altogether declined to accept the premises. What Remarkable Power of Healing. terious to Fathom, Damom Cure the Sick by the Laying On of Hands. It is a fact that the w est, best edu- ind as they witness the grandest and ian. Dr. Damon is to the med eecher to the theological, and Inger. ind it is clear enough that he hoped ithful, dog would bear him com- By a touch— gar- y of his pany in the next world. The brutes, have reason, language, mem- se of, moral responsibility, un- s ness and love, and there are no higher qualities in the spiritual bag- gage of man. If they have no hope of a future life, argaed Primatt, one of their earliest champions, there is all the more reason for acknowledging their right to a good time in this one. I ham pleaded logically in their favor, but rather gave them away in defending roast beef on the ground that their pains in providing it were not equal to our pleasures in the use. The “vermin” argument is said to be worthless. “Vermin” is a mere phrase. The animal feels or it does not feel, and if it feels it has its rights. The Hindoos apparently have no difficulty about that, and in Theosophical houses, we believe, beetles have been known to range freely about the drawing- room. The rule is absolute: nothing must be killed. But then how does the Hindoo walk abroad, or even breathe? He must put hundreds of things to death in each operation. Probably every morning stroll of innocence through the meadows imports a whole heeatomb of slain. Small birds are pretty plain sailing. We are all agreed that the murder for millinery goes too far. One dealer in London is said to ve received, as a single consignment, 100 humming birds, 80,000 aquatic birds and 80,000 pairs of wings. A thousand songsters slaughtered in one days Oh, Angelina, meditate upon it, And henceforth, never, never wear, I pray, A redbreast in thy bonnet. But Edwin was inconsistent. He had no sooner ended his appeal than he “said grace and carved the chicken.” ‘There it is. The best of us of this sort have always a chicken to carve, and in the long run our prohibitions are only such as touch other people’s pleasures. he he heals the Ik, the dee and rheum- erutches und seltis People from all sections flock to see im, and are spell-bound with wonder witness one intense Of course, all cannot be tres willing to welfth street northwest, loctor or one of his able bem. Saying that such cures They are done--r ry fall and winter is most bitter rivals. Some twenty or more were ti f paralysis that brought forth round Dr. Damon afternoon vepting Wednesd: it 2:30 o'clock, lay at 7:30, for those who cannot come JUST THE PLACE. ssor to L. nes, 1700 if in hould not fail Dr. G. C. Schuerman, su Snakes in the Home Circle. One would hardly expect to find rep- tiles domesticated, but they are found in that position at Para, not far from the mouth of the Amazon, says the Pall Mall Budget. The stores and warehouses of that city are overrun with vermin of all sorts, and more es- pecially rats. To keep down this plague young boas or jibolas are placed in the cellars, and subsist comfortably on the plentiful supply of food thus af- forded. The Brazilians say that they keep down to reasonable limits the rats, which would otherwise play havoc with any goods they could get at. The fact that boas feed only at somewhat long intervals accounts for the fact that there always seem to be just rats enough for their subsistence, while they perform their catlike duties most satis- factorily. But, as we have said, they also act as very efficient watchdogs. BANK D. OC. CAPITAL $50,000 TREASUE Ss DIRECTORs: . : it is also used at times to make riding J. R. Meriwether | poots, and forms an excellent substi- anaconda being the best. As to vital- ity, a specimen in my possession, which had attacked a visitor, lived eighteen months with an open hole in its skull about an inch deep, caused by a bar Treasurers of | used to beat it off the men it had seiz- ; | ed. The land bea may be said to have _ | but one enemy apart from man, and that, curiously, one of the most insig- nificant of insects, the ant. A certain species, peculiar to northern Brazil, make annual pilgrimages from their jungle retreats to some other point, bs often distant many miles, and destroy * | every living creature that stays in their James Storun. Deposits received froma OD ets Interest allowed on $5.60 Tbe money is We shail uls or cattle. The monkey or the guar knows enough to flee before the | invading host, but the snake does not ; appear to realize his danger until at- | tacked by millions of his tiny but per- | tent foes. Twistings and writhings re alike in vain to shake them off, Peni und the passing traveller may often ura iese made in | see, as I have seen myself, the bleach- Doey Beleves it! oq skeleton of a huge snake which has | thus been literally devoured alive. The ants are, of course, considerably larger han the British varieties, but seem juny enemies to successfully demolish reptile monarch of the jungle. Good Haay Yexe: A great many lawyers and real estate I 1 “Quick and sure. _ .M. W. MOORE, Mer., Printing Office, 518 5th st. naw. jl-tt 2 ENDAR, | He Wanted to Play. There are few people who care to risk an encounter with a lunatic. Most of us would consider “discretion the better part of valor’ in such a case, Which is issued annually by the Pope Manufacturing Company, of Columbia and make good use of our feet. Bicycle fame, is out for 1891, much im-! Recently one of the inmates of the proved in appearance It is a pad caj. asylum at Flatbush, Long Island, made endar of the same size and shape as his escape. A gentleman, walking those of previous years, having 2 lea’ through the grounds, came across him, for each day, but its attractiveness t I been heightened by the work of » ™an’s manner, quickened his pace and clever artist, who has scattered a serie turned in another direction to avoid of bright pen-drawings through ; im. pages. It also contains, as asualeaian Much to his alarm the lunatic started appropriate and interesting contrib: “fter on the run. tions from people both bright and ae iget The gentleman was elderly and stout, but fear lent him wings, and he flew BASEBALL HO USE over the ground at a pace which would WM,J DONOVAN, Fine Wines, Ligue & Cigars, sprinter. He ran for two miles, his pursuer 1528 SEVENTH ST WASHINGTON, D.C. gaye out and he could get no further. and gave himself up for lost. The Household. $638,707.—Chicago Post. WHOLESALE axp REPAIL. yet universally regarded as According to Siberian and Chinese be- lief the’race is ground, its “blind life” being instantly AS TO “BEHEMOTH.” An Inexhaustible Supply of Ivory From the Biblical Monster. The mammoth, or behemoth, is not extinet. orely banished under- terminated by a glimpse of the sun’s or éven-the moon’s rays. The infer- ence might almost be called a logical one from the state of the unearthed re- mains: In several cases the t beast has emerged from his mi I rétire- ment as completely arrayed ‘as if death had only just overtaken him, his hide densely clothed with fulvous wool and that again covered by long black hair; his mane falling over his shaggy shoul- ders, his antediluvian eyes actually staring from their sockets! Contem- porary dogs and wolves find mammoth flesh appetizing in spite of its semi- fossil character; mammoth bones have been proved to contain a remunerative amount of gelatine, and in Kamschat- ka to this day mammoth fat is largely used for fuel. The first mammoth tusk seen in west- ern Europe was brought to London in 1611 by one James Logan, who had purchased it from the Samoyedes; and Father Avril, a Jesuit, who crossed Siberia in 1685, wrote that “the Rus- slams have discovered a sort of ivory whiter and smoother than that which comes from India.” The substance was prized, too, as a styptic, and was said to be derived from a powerful amphibious creature, “as big and as dangerous as a croco- dile,” living chiefly at the mouth of the Lena. Fossil ivory towards the close of the eighteenth century became an object of general commerce, and incredible quantities were exporteil from its Arc- tic repository. Middendorf, about fifty years ago, estimated the annual sale at 110,000 pounds weight, and upward of 1,600 tusks are known to have reach- ed London in 1872. Yet the supply remains unexhausted, end may, indeed, be called inexhausti- dle. It is the demand, which has of late fallen off or failed. In Russia or China, it is true, almost exclusive use is naade of the excavated material, but its bwittleness and tendency to dis- coloration practically exclude it from Wester. markets.—Edinburgh Review. The Locomotive Whistle. When logomotives were first built, and began t trundle their small loads up and down ‘the newly and rudely con- structed railwajys of England, the coun- try roads were ior the most part cross- ed at grade, and \the engine-driver had no way of giving \\warning of his ap proach except by bowing a tin horn. This horn, as may ‘be imagined, was far from being a sufficient warning. One day in the year 1:333 a farmer of Thornton was crossing the railway tracks on one of the count ty roads with a great load of eggs and Lutter. Just as he came out upon the trvek a train approached. ‘The engineman’ blew his tin horn lustily, but the farme,” did not hear it. Eighty dozen of eggs aud fifty pounds of butter were smashed into an indistinguishable, unpleasant mass, and mingled with the kindling wood to which the wagon was reduced. ‘he railway company had to pay the fa- mer the value of his fifty pounds o.” butter, his 960 eggs, his horse and his wagon. It was regarded as a very serious matter; and straightway a director of the company, Ashleti Bagster by name, went to Atton Grange, where George Stephenson lived, to see if he could hot invent something that would give @ warning more likely to be heard. Stephenson went to work and the hext day had a contrivance which, when at- tached to the engine boiler, and the steam turned on, gave out a shrill dis- cordant sound. The railway directors, greatly delighted, ordered similar con- ‘ trivances attached to all the locomo- and see that he is returned to} 770. R. Lyneb, Jp C7 Bailey The skin of the boa is an article of Congress, as he will be, by a rous-] W- McKinlay, W_. £. Loon | commerce both in the Brazils and East- | test will be out of the question. a at Archer Jao. A. Pieri | native musical instruments, it being =—_—_—_— Lewis, A. W. Tane)! extremely tough and hard. In Brazil close at his heels, and then his wind ‘Trembling with fright and panting for breath, he leaned up against a fence The lunatic dashed up and stretching a long, bony hand at him, cried, | World’s Fair extortionaires now know how it is themselves. They have been imade to accept $215,216 for claims of tives, and from that day to this the ‘voice of the locomotive whistle has tute for “upper’’ leather, that of the | | track, except man and domestic ani- ! never been silent.—Cardiff Mail. Where Fish Get Their Shells. There is not much lime in the sea— probably not more than there was in Falstaff’s “sack”—but there is enough. And the use it is put to is one of the curiosities of natural history. Every inhabitant of the ocean which has a shell derives the material of which that hard covering is composed from the water. Besides, the lime se- creted or rather separated from its food, as birds do it for making a cover- ing for their eggs, mollusks take up the largest amount directly out of the wat- er they breathe. Every time an oyster draws water through its gills, some of its lime, which is held in solution, is taken pos- * séssion of by appropriate vessels, and and his suspicion being aroused by the ; goes directly to the living membrane, which deposits it, and thus the shell grows. It is assured that a single drop of sea water contains only about the ten thou- sand six hundredth part of a grain of lime. But the incessant respiration of the dweller, in one or two years, makes a house weighing in some cases many pounds. When the animal dies most of the shells gravitate and aggregate at the bottom, where, becoming brok impacted into solid masses, mixed in fine, earthy deposits under immense hydrostatic pressure and chemical forces, they become marble. All marble quarries are supposed to have thus originated in the abysses of primitive seas, and were afterwards elevated to where they are found by upheaval. Defies La Grippe. The editor of the Valdosta Tel: {s suffering with the grip, but he ex- pects to recover. He says: “When la grippe jumped down on mankind four or five years ago it was the most royal malady in existence. For a time a fellow might have thought that its ravages were confined to kings, czars, emperors and the like, until it crossed the ocean, tackled the President, intro- duced itself to a few Congressmen and Senators, and then whetted up an ac- quaintance with the millionaires and public generally. swept the whole range of vocations, and this year it oe you can hear them sn Influenza, work among the Georghs, editors anal BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. R. Vestibuled Limi Bight daily 11:30a. m. and 8:40 ville, Orleans throvga, For Baltimore weeks days x E715 (8.10, 45-mi Too & ‘o-minutes), x8, Fe 4.28 For Frederi¢k, +11.30, a. m., p.m, ‘ 0 p.m. For Foyd and way points, #7, 5D. mm, For Gaithersburg and 5.0 $8.00, #1000 #. m., 12.45, 3 , Ta 8 40, #1130 p, m, 1.00 a. w, 21:15 p.m. E @t principal! stations Only £4.30 $5.30 Pp. ROVAL BLUE LINE FOR NEW YORK the East, daily Dining Car) ( Dining Car), $00 (11.30 p,m. open at 10,06 o'clock.) : Sundays, 12 00 noon and residences by on orders left at ticket offic Pennsylvania avenue, and «t y- It continued its march and broadened its scope until it RAILROADS. Schedule in effect Nov. 19th, 189 Leave Washington from station.co New Jersey Avenue and Csirece. For Chicago and Northwest, Vv mited express trains 11:30 a. m., For Cincinnati, St, Louis, and [ led see ndiana P. In. pols, P. MO. express 1:50 For Pittsburg and Cleveland p. m. For Lexington and Staunton, 11:30 a. m, For Winchester and way Stations ray. Natural Bridge, Koan: Chattanooga, * . express e, and Memphis an: U:l0 p.m. daily; Seeping Ox* d New Cars 4S-minutes). a. m. x1. it ‘or Annapolis, 7.15 and 8 Pm. Sundays, 8.30 a. U5 14,30 $5.50 For Hagerstown, $11.30 a, m. and 45,3 For Washington Junction and wav pointe, “Xpress trains stopping . m. AND PHILADELPHIA. 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