The Washington Bee Newspaper, October 5, 1895, Page 1

J FIRESIDE COMPANION. it is true if you see it in | THE BEE. | pomr'T BORROW THES PAPER A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. Do you want reléable news? Do you want a fearless race advocate? trade? Read TRY iT: want colored THE BEE! Do and advertise WASHINGTON, D.C... SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5. 18°95. wo. 15. IN = OF THE’ NEGRO. mm the Literary Digest. Something of a sensation seems to been caused by the. indictments | Southern negro which we lately ed (August 31) under the cap- “The Negro.in American Poli- >from The Globe Quarterly Re-! , Southern and Northern papers « commented a very lively fashion ¢ articles of Messrs. Didier and ne, and the general verdict ap- to be that they have gone too far j made sweeping charges which the hardly warrant. The BEE, the uington organ of the negroes, lished our abstract of the articles nvited its readers to freely reply tin its columns. In an editorial > BEE said: lf there ever was an article filled venom, spite, hatred, and lies, it s article. otwithstanding what the negro ne for the Southern people dur- darkest hours of the late llion, they are characterized in this cle as being worthless, thieves, mmoral, etc. itissaid that itis natural for the ro to steal, lie, and do other crimes t white people will not do. You search this world through, and will not find a more honest, pat- , loyal, and moral class of people e despised negro. he negro has protected the white when there was treachery themselves; the negro was nd patriotic to the Southern erate and his white mistress - was afraid to claim what was wn. a soldier the negro was consid- e bravest on the field of battle. s is not sentiment, but plain facts which only the demagog will attempt writer of the article makes ale charges, but he has not e {one truth by facts or evi- he Baltimore Sun deplores the emly violent talk’’” ot the anti- ro writer and expresses its confi- ce that it finds no echo among thern whites generally. Itgoes on mong the negros, as among the white race, there are good and bad. While in slavery, the negro advanced from the condition of wild and brutal heathen Savagery tO a comparatively high degree of civilization, and all be- came professing Christians. Since the emancipation they have continued to ce, and-in« consequence--of the tion a large ‘proportion of the genera- tion which has grown up in freedom has acquired the artof reading. Some have accumulated property, but not so e a number as had been expected. Didier considers that the negro in rent Southern fiction is a far more ble personage than he is in real i He looks forward to the time when, if the present and past rate -of rease maintained, the black popu- ion of the South will reach seventy ons, which would be in the next or sixty years. Itis useless to in- e in these speculations. Timeisa at physician, and usually brings his -dies along with the diseases, and g rule over the affairs of nations. rring to Mr. Thorne’s statement negro ‘‘must be reenslaved or en from the land’’ in the interests { Southern progress. The Richmond ufter dwelling on the ifi- of such confessions from a fo mer itionists, say We willdo neither. We will go on that conservative, just course in that is characteristic of our people, will work through the unneces- cruel icious abolitionists have put us ves out of all difficult situa- We will neither shoot the negro enslave him, but we will deal w m fairly and humanely in all and ai a while he will learn is true nd is the white man, near whom he lives, and he will sever ince with his supposed Northern , Who can see nothing better to him than toshoot or reenslave , the negro has been so long gged by these people is amaz- They despise him; when «s among them they treat him as a dog, and they have no use for ver except to get his vote to m to secure control of the es Government to use it as 41 oppressing the great body \merican people for the benefit | Phe negro’s real friend i te people among whom he lives. | ve been reared with him: they they like him in his way, justly, and they want to | ove his condition.” on W. Tourgee, one © Ss | © mean time Providence continues | embarrassments that | s reasonable, just men work | jatall or defend himself or his off- | Spring. | “If the indictment is true, which it is not, the present condition is simply the | fruit of that broadcast seeding of. inex- pressible inquity slavery,” In reply to Mr Thorne, Judge Tour- gee, writes as follows: “If he had been an abolitionist he should have learned that freedom was not the end ofslavery’s evils, but only of the form of society under which they flourished. The American negro when emanciated was just what Southern white civilization made him, and every dab of color in the lines Mr. Thorn draws mere splatches the face of the civilization he is striving to whitewash. “‘Itis amusing to see the equanimity with which Mr. Thorne attributes the condition‘of’the South to-day to the Eddie Gray, whose efforts never fail to bring down the house. That the negro is keeping up with the procession ‘‘is dead in line;’’ and a potent factor in the ultimate destiny of his country, find no greater verifica- tion than in the fact that in the drama burlesque and vandeville, he is now considered a sine qua non and no show seems complete unless the brother in black is somewhere in evidence. It has long been conceded that the traditional wit and sparkling humor, the power of mimiery render him pe- culiarly qualified to amuse theatre negro, and what he deems a _ heaven- horrifying fact, that ‘he will not work.’ He-seems toforget that there are twice as many white as colored people at the South, *‘Why in heaven’s name do they not work?) Talk about loafers! There are twice as many white as colored loafers at the South and twice as many colored as white men working in her cotton-fields to-day. Ifthe negro will not work, which is not true, he has the example of the white men of the South to justify him in his idleness—an ex- ample set by high and low, rich and poor, with commendable zeal every day in the year for three hundred years!” On this qnestion of ‘‘work’’ The Phil- adelphia North American writes: “Has it never occurred to Mr. Thorne that there are white people in the Sonth who might well lend an ear to heaven’s call for workers? Has he never reflected that it is the whites of the South who are lazy, and not the negroes alone? Whatever work has been done there has been done by the negroes, either as bound or free, and the statistics indubitably prove that the South is industrially to-day far ahead of its best estate as a slave area. It raises more cotton, more rice, more corn, and more of all things possible to it than ever before, and is growing every year,” “A libel upon a race’’ is what The St. Paul Dispatch calls the charge of habitnal laziness made against the ne- gro. Itsays: “It was the negro, who, during the war, staid at home in thousands of in- stances and raised corn and cotton for his master who was in the army _fight- ing the negro’s friends of the North. It was the negro who without a known instance of violence voluntarily staid on the plantation and fed and protected the white women and children of the South, and had he been the worthless human brute that this modern Solomon pictures, he would have made the fields of that beautiful land run red with the blood of his revenge. If the negro will not work, except under the lash, why is it that from year to year the cotton crop of that region has been in- creasing by million of bales, and when the cotton crop of 1894 exceeded by. far that of any year when the negro was forced to raise it under the lash of the slave-driver? Why, ifthe negro of the South is a mere worthless loafers, is it that cotton mills are increasing that section with such wonderful rapidity, | where his labor, in skilled form, is al- most wholly employed in their opera- tion? Thousands of small farms have been alloted to the former slaves and their descendants, and hundreds and thousands of them, by their own in- i; dustry, are prosperous and_ indepen- dent. Why is it that the white man of that section opposes the migration of the negro and prefers him to any other kind of field labor? It is because he is docile, reliable, and industrious under fair and decent treatment, and not disposed to riotous and disorderly conduct.”” SPORTING NEWS. The decision of the Texas Judge sus- taining the contention of the Florida Athletic Club, of Dallas, Texas, that the law licensing boxing ata $500 fee is valid, has been received with much satisfaction by the sporting element throughout the country, and the belief is now current that the great battle is on despite the manifest opposition of the Executive authority of the State. The legislature has settled it. George Godfrey. “‘Old Chocolate of Chelsea,’’ is reported to matched to box Billy Woods before the Eureka Athletic Club, of Virgtnia some time time month. George isa pitcher that has been to the well pretty often and did not always return intact, but he is still willing to tempt fortune and collar a bit of the coin of the realm. He is un- uestionably a clever and game man, ut his age is a serious drawback. riends of the negro, re- ously in his paper, The e charges of Messrs. Didier With reference to, the | usation that the negro is liar and thief. Judge Tour-! ering the fact that Southern 1 civilization had abso-| the American negro for i fifty years, that there | ch white as colored 1s, and that it gave as its acts the need of ing and civilizing the blacks, of the result should be evidence of the worth- ithern methods and a tion of Soutnern christi- should not the colored | things that are ? Hewas reared amid violence, two centuries | “xed to marry, as not per- _\te, to have anything The Coffee Cooler, whose meteoric career in ‘‘merrie England,” was sud- denly cut short by a swift punch ad- ministered by Slavin, has been given another chance by the National Sport- ing Club of London to retrieve him- self. He is matched to fight Creedon, who is, bythe way, hard, game, and the cooler, willl have to be up to the mark to score the sturdy Australian. THEATRICAL. Primrose and West’s Big Minstrels held the boards at the National Thea- tre last week, and the opinion seems to be general that they are a marked im- provement over the last show of like character. A feature of their performance is the Pickaniny Band composed of young boys, and the singing of diminutive goers and no astute manager takes his show on the road without representa- tion from dark town. Lets shake over it, The base ball cranks of the rival cities of Baltimore and Cleveland will have learned ere the publication of these lines what the harvest will be. Both cities in consequence of the un- precedented closeness of the battle have been fairly bubbling over with excitement and the end and final de- cision infthe championship race will relieve the tension under which they have labored fora month past. I do not love Baltimore, but for the sake of a hat in prospective I favor her chances. Our crack local club, the Market House will make a trip to Norfolk this Wednesday evening for the purpose of A COLORED SERGEANT. Noah E. Sedgwick, one of the best- known members of the Metropolitan police force, is being urged by the best element of citizens in the northeast, and some of the richest property own- ers in that section of the city, as a ser- geant. Officer Sedgwick, as the records will show, has made more arrests and con- victions in one month than any two of- ficers in the ninth precinct. He was born in Montgomery County, Md., in 1857; he attended the public schools of this city and taught school in Virginia. He is a man of intelligence, and very quick to detect crime and all wrong- doers when he is put on their trail. Lieut. James E. Heffner, in whose precinct Sedgwick does duty, speaks of him in the highest terms. Lieut. Heffner is a man who is liked by every officer under him. He treats his men like they were human and does nothing to make their lives miser- able, and on this account he is one of the best liked men on the Metropolitan force. Sedgwick has made several impor- tant arrests and convictions since he has been in the ninth precinct. His most famous arrests were that of Min- berger, the notorious Peter Hunter, and Wm. Smith, the pest of the north- east. He also received the reward of $60 for the arrest of a deserter from crossing bats with the champions of Virginia. From my knowledge of the base ball capacity of the Virginians I feel safe in predicting that victory for the Washington are already assured. The boys have been returning home from the different summer resorts in large numbers this month, and there is a unanimity of opinion that the season, from a monedary point of view, was least productive in recent years. The best evidence of the truth of that opin- ion is in comparison with their record of former years, the boys are not “blowing”? themselves'to any appre- ciable extent, on the contrary they seem to be like Brev. Fox, he lay low. Patriotism received a decided boost when in the international games be- tween London Athletic Club and N. Y. A. C., the Americans were victors in every contest and there was not even a semblance of a protest from the vanquished visitors expressing as being fairly beaten on their merits. Roy. TO IMPROVE THE NECK AND THROAT. An admirable exercise for expanding the chest and filling out the hollows of neck and throat is to rise upon the tips of the toes at the moment of inhalation and hold the breath, throwing, it forci- bly against the muscles of throat and neck, while you can count fifteen; then exhale forcibly and come down upon the heels. Repeat ten times night and morning when there are no constrict- ing bands about the body. These exercises are no modern dis- covery. Thirteen hundred years before Christ the people of India practiced full, deep breathing at regular inter- vals, daily, using it as a healing reme- dy for disease ; and it was no secret to the old Greek and Roman physicians, who also prescribed lung gymnastics as curative means. A severe cold can be greatly relieved and quickly cured by conscious breathing ; and if taken in the first stages, as soon as the usual leqantens of a cold are felt, it can be thrown off ina half hour’s time. Ma- ny cases of headache; especially when accompanied by nausea and conges- tion, are quickly relieved ; and phthisis when taken in the incipient stages can always be greatly alleviated, and is often cured, by this simple means.— From ‘‘Sanitarian,’”’ in Demorest’s Magazine for October. A busy wife, tired of hearing her hus- band declare that women had nothing to do, made up a little statement of the way she spent her time one year. She had two children and two servants. Here are a few only of the items which silenced the husband once for all: Number of lunches put up, 1,1573 meals ordered, 963; desserts prepared, 172; lamps filled and trimmed, 328; rooms dusted (a nine-roomed house), 2,259; dressed children, 786 times ; vis- its received, 879; visits paid, 16 books read, 88; papers read, 553; sto- ries read aloud, 234; games played, 329; church services attended, 125; articles mended, 1,236; articles of clothing made, 1:20; fancy articles made, letters written, 429; hours at the piano, 20%; hours in Sunday- school work, 208; sick days, 44; amusements attended, 210.—Ladies’ Every Saturday. TARIFF FACTS For Speakers and Students, or De- fender Document No. 9 (160 pages), has just been issued by The American Pro- tective Tariff League. Thisis perhaps the most valuable document ever pub- lished by this organization, and_in- cludes full information as to the effect of threatened Free-Trade and the pres- ent low Tariff Law. Order by number only. Sent. to any address for ten cents. Address Wilbur F. Wakeman, Ggn. Sec., 135 West 23d Street, New York. : Subscribe for The BEE. Fort Myers. He is to-day one of the most feared officers in the east and one of the most respected among all classes. So well has he done his duty that the citizens in the northeast, especially the white property owners, want him pro- moted to a sergeant. There is no reason why Officer Sedg- wick cannot be promoted to a ser- geant. He is competent, and there is nothing that can prevent his promotion except his color, and it is not believed that the color prejudice will be strong enough to prevent his superior officers from promoting him to the position the people want him to fill. Officer Sedgwick is a man of family. His wife is. a very interesting and pleasant young woman. His boy is about 14 years old and attends the public schools of this city. He loves his family and is a good provider. The BEE joins in with the people and recommend to Lieut. Heffner and Mae jor Moore, who have no prejudice on account of color, to appoint Sedgwick sergeant at the next vacancy. ALABAMA NOTES. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 3, 1895. Sixty-seven teachers are employed in the academic and industrial depart- ments of the school this year. The pictorial exhibits of the school, consisting of views of the buildings and of the different departments in connection with the institution, were shipped to Atlanta on the 17th of last month. An arrangement has been made by which a number of young women here may learn tailoring. Drawing—architectural, mechanical, and free-hand—is quite an important part of the course of studv ere. The first two branches name? _e taught by Mr. Robert R. Taylor, of the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology of Boston, Mass., and the latter-named branch is taught by Miss A. F. Gale, of the Salem Normal School, Salem, Mass. IsAAC FISHER, Tue Bee Hive Dumpep. [From the American Star.] Washington newspaper publishers are getting up in the world. Friend Cooper has removed the Colored American’s old hat and put on a regu- lar ‘‘ Dunlap” headgear, while Broth- er Chase politely dumped the ‘old hive’ and procured a brand new hive with artistic cells, and of course the Bee is humming. Both papers are beautiful. We like to see it, if we can’t. PHILADELPHIA HOUSE, There is at 348 Pennsylvania avenue a hotel kept for the accommodation of the travelling public. Withasingle exception, it is probably the oldest es- tablished house in the District. Way back in the early part of the last de- cade, when the colored office-holder was no unimportant factor in the Capi- tal City’s social glimmer, when the Southern statesman of color was a fa- miliar figure on the avenue, when the coin of the realm could be easily en- trapped, and as easily disposed of, the gravity, the Mecca to which all good pilgrims journeyed. Indeed, in the cious billiard room attached to the ho- tically mixed at this popular resort. Philadelphia House was the centre of halcyon days of long ago, in the spa- tel one could see the creme de lacrere of society engaged in the pleasant pas- time of pushing the ivories or quaffing the delectable compounds so artis- | Office-holders have come and gone, ! |social stars have furnished a brilliant pyrotechnic show and disappeared be- | |low the horizon—forgotten—but the | Philadelphia House lives on, untram- metled by adverse criticism and imper- | vious to the poisonous shafts of preju-! dice in the house of its friends. Peter | B. Meredith is still the guiding star in| the management of the house, and he/| is. assisted by Jesse K. Roy, the well- known sporting correspondent. MASONIC CHIT CHAT, AND STROLLS AMONG THE CRAFTS- MEN. There is no fear of a relaxation of the enthusiasm among the young men who are now coming into the fraternity ; they show a disposition to master in every minute particular the details of the workshop and the mysteries of the craft. Such a state of affairs presage for the institution its continuance on the right of the line when it comes to working for the common cause of hu- manity. ° oo Samuel Piper, of the P. O. Depart- ment and Social Lodge No. 1, is youth- ful in appearance and make-up, except when he adorns his chin with McGinty whiskers, but when it comes to know- ing the principles and purposes of the craft, go and see Sam, he will do to tie to; bright boy that. Ct The two dromios of this jurisdiction, the two undivided and inseparable compamions, are Sergt. Gabriel Dun- can and Piper. If you see Duncan you have only to look around and Piper is coming. They contend against each other only in the acquirement of Ma- sonic proficiency and skill. Verily they are a great team of willing work- ers. pie Prince Hall Lodge, the latest acqui- sition to the ranks, promises to become in time the bright particular star in the masonic firmament. On its roster ap- pear names of many of Washington’s most brilliant young men, and.it would be inconsistent to expect anything but good square work at their hands. The fact, however, that they have formed a lodge almost within their own circle should not tempt them to anything like exclusiveness, and they must not lose sight of the fact that wherever man has a habitat, wherever language is spo- ken, ‘‘a man’s a man for a’ that,” and a Mason is a Mason all over the world. ° eo The arrangements of the A.A. S.R. to accompany theG. A. R. excursion to Fortress Monroe and contiguous points, and to assist in laying the cor- ner stone of the new masonic hall at Norfolk, were rather hurried of neces- sity, and while there will be no out- pouring of the craft, there will be enongh, I amsure, to make a reputable showing. I have had the pleasure of meeting some of the workmen in Nor- folk, and I am sure that they will make it pleasant for the visiting craftsmen. ° oo Dr. Phillip Brooks, K. T., is the Lord Chesterfield of this jurisdiction; his polished manner, suavity and uniform courtesy easily entitles him to that dis- tinction. The doctor finds time, in spite of the arduous and exacting labor incident to a large and extensive prac- tice, to devote to the Mysteries of the Temple, and there is no more cheerful worker along all Masonic lines than he. ° oo Dr. Wilder, who has been resently elevated tg the ‘‘peerage,”’ so to speak, enjoys a large and remunerative practice as he deserves, and all East Washington swear by him. Combined with an all-embracing knowledge of the materia medica, he has a courtliness of manner that has won him a host of friends, and is a sure augury of his future professional suc- cess. ° oo George Newman is a workman of sterling worth and great capacity. George is continually bubbling over with good humor, and is the lite of any party that he is in. Can’t forget Saint John’s day, George. Hey? ROY. The entertainment given at the resi- dence of Dr. A. W. Tancil last Monday afternoon in the interest of the Interna- tional and Cotton States Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., was a very successful affair. The mother of Mrs. Martha Chase, of Madison street, has returned to Rockville, Md. While here her health was much improved hy undergoing treatment at the Freedman’s Hospital. The exercises at the Nineteenth St. Baptist Church last Sunday afternoon were very interesting. The temper- ance speech by Mrs. Platt and others were masterly. Mr. W. C. Elkins ana Mrs. Brooks sang a solo, and the choir rendered excellent music. NEGRO SUFFRAGE DOOMED Sr —_ “a SOUTH CAROLINA MAY AMEND IT CONSTITUTION TO-DAY. a a Convention Now in Session at Columbs Which May Give = Decisive Vote at An Moment—General Qualification Againe Hliteracy to be Construed Entirely by th White Officials— Governor Tillman } Fall Control of the Convention — Ne gre Schools to be Hampered so Tha Tiliteracy Among the Blacks will Increas Ts — 5 “sT = Columbia, 8. C., Sept. 30.—The Cons tutional Convention which is sitting & this city to amend the Constitution ani désfranchise the 700,000 negroes of thé Sate and forever put the governmen in the hands of the lese than half « mil Hon white population, are considerini and will in all probability adopt an arti cle that will accomplish the desired pur pose under the disguise of on iiliterac! clause. Senator Tillman is in full cop trol of the convention. ‘ ‘The following are the principal clause: of the proposed article: “The person applying for registratior must be able to read and write ant section of this Constitution or mus show that he owns and pays taxes o1 $500 worth of property in this State provided that at the rst registratior under this Constitution and up to Jam uary 1, 1898, all male persons of votin: age who can read a clause in the Con stitution or understand and explain i when read to them by the registratior officer shall be eligible to register ané Decome electors. i “A certified record of every illiterate person thus ered, sworn to by th: registration o! @hall be filed, ont copy with the clerk of court and one ir the office of the Secretary of State on or before January 1, 1898. “Any person who shall apply for reg: istration after January 1, 1898, if other wise qualified may be registered, pro- vided he can both read and write any section of this Conetitution or can show that he owns and has paid taxes during the previous year on property in the State assessed at $500 or more. “The General Assembly shall provid by law for the registration of all quali- fled electors and shall prescribe the manner of holding elections and of as certaining the results of the same, pro- vided that each of the two parties cast- ing the highest number of votes at the preceding election shall have repre sentation on the Board of Managers ai each precinct and on the Board oi County Canvassers in each county.” this amendment no whites will be. nchised, as the registration offi- cers can reece the whole white vote under the permitting the tration of any elector who can - stand any section of the Constitution when it is read tohim. The a officers are the sole judges of the appil- cant’s ability to understand the artich read, and from their decision there is ne appeal. It 1s estimated that 30,000 negroes wil be disfranchised by the new Constitu It is agreed that all possible barrier: shall be placed in the way of negro e disposition of the school money is to be taken from the taxpay- er and left to the trustees of the school Gistricts. The echool term for the blacks, which is now but four months, is to be still further shortened, while that for the white schools is to be lengthened to six months. gers abe i ee CATHOLIC EUCHARISTIO CONGRESS. It Will Open in Washington Wednesday With Impressive Ceremonies. ‘Washington, Sept. 80.—The Eucharis- tic Congress of the Catholic Church will convene in this city on Wednesday and some of the most distinguished digni- taries of the church will be present. The sessions will be held at the Catho- He University. On the occasion of the opening of the congress pontifical high mass will be celebrated by Mgr. Satolli, the Papal ablegate. On Thursday evening there will occur the most picturesque part of the cere- monies attending the congress. This will be the hour of acoration of the blessed sacrament in the University chapel, concluding with a procession through the grounds of the University, and a benediction. As it is likely that the congress will not finish the reading of the papers until after sunset, this procession will probably be conducted at night, as was the case at Notre Dame. If so, the procession will be the finest thing of the kind ever seen here. Each of the archbishops, bishops and attending priests will appear in their robes, each carrying a lighted taper. The grounds will be illuminated with electric lights. The services of the con- gress will conclude with the benedic- tion. —— W.W.WEMPLE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY Schenectady County Republicans Nominate a Ticket. Schene ‘ady, Sept. 30.—Daniel G. Ved- der, chairman of the Republican County Committee, called the County Conven- tion to order\on Saturday and nomi- nated Judge Austin A. Yates as chair- man. F. L. Sauter and James Yelver- ton were appointed secretaries. After the credentials of the delegates had been presented, G. W. Freleigh, of Niskayuna, made a speech in favor of the renomination of Thomas W. Winne for Assemblyman. Louis Cohen moved that Mr. Winne be nominated by acclamation. The motion was car- ried without dissent. R. J. Landon moved for 2 formal bak lot for a candidate for the office of Dis trict Attorney. The ballot resulted ig W. W. Wemple receiving 75 votes and Walter Briggs 18. Mr. Wemple’s nomi- nation was made unanimous, and @ resolution favoring the canal improve- ment bonds was carried. With the appointment of a County Committee the convention 6 journed. $ The medical department of Howard University opened last Tuesday even- ing with a large attendance. 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