The Washington Bee Newspaper, April 29, 1899, Page 4

Published every SATURDAY at 1109 I Stree Sorthwest, WASHINGTON, D. C. Ente si eass gail matter. W. CALVIN CHASE, Epiror. TERMS OF SuUBSCRIVTION, One copy per year.. .$2,00 Six months. . : ~ Puree mouth oss Jity subscribers,monthly OOOO +20 te SPECIAL NOTICE. #2 There are reguiar Authorized Col- sectors in the employ of THE BEE Printing Co., and when they call to see delinguent subscribers they are re- guested to pay them, and not give the excuse that “they wilt see the Editor.” The Editor has no time to see the sub- scribers, and it is oped that his +riends and the patrons of THE BEE will pay the Collector when he calls, _ Seber vate NEGRO TROOPS FOR 1HE PHILIPPINES. Editor New York Journal: Why not urge on President McKin- ley the necessity o sending negro troops to the Philippines Islands? We have in our southern states any quan- tity of negroes who properly officered by whites, would be the best material to use against the insergents. The climate would suit them, and we have before us the example ofthe British, who use inferior races, with white officers, in India and Egypt. I sug- gest this, as it is evident thata call for 100,000 or anore vo'unteers will have to be made before the Filipinos can be subdued, and we cannot afford to sacrifice too many white men. E. Fitzgerald Hollister. 1884 Yalderbilt aae., N.Y. Apr. 19. We clip from the Journal the above to show in wha’ aspect some ofour white friends (?) view our helpfulness in the Philippines war. That the colored soldiers would be amost useful and effectual element in the determination of war condi- tions in favor of the honor as well as the interests of the American government, is most likely. The excellent discipline and courage of the colored troops have been amply demonstrated in his conduct while in Cuba. And there may be no objection on the part of our people to doing all that is reasonable to- ward settling the difficulties and terminating a campaign of blood- shed. Buc the experience fiom which our brave and efficient color- -; to find a job and are accepted in ed at che e ~t Uffice at Washington who come to this the army under most favorable conditions Perhaps it would be most wise to have colored troops and colored colonies in the Philip- pines. And it is not impracticable, as an experiment. But to suppose that colored people, such os would be helpful in the adjustment of conditions favorable to this coun- try, will go under the ban of dis- crimination and with no prospect of advancement, is quite too foulish to think about. Give to the colored man a fair chance and the world will find that it pays to practice as wellzs merely proclaim the doc- trine of the brotherhood of man. 1T IS GUSHING ? | The gushing southern governors who are struggling to explain the horrible cannibalism disp!ayed in the southern states seem to no compunctions in their attempts to mislead northern people as to the real cause of the lawlessness and have bloodthirstiness per. etrated against | afternoon removed from our midst the blacks. It is stated by them|one of the best known and highly that politics are at the bottom of ir] respected citizen: of Washington. all. Such a statement coming from a governor of a state, shows how thoroughly and completely the|letter carrier, having been the first South is dominated by the spirit of colored carrier appointed: During In| the early days of our citizenship, Georgia, where the recent horrible] Mr. Curry was an active partic- the}ipant in political affairs aud assist- masses of colored people are prac-|ed securing to oar colored citizens hate, audacity and anarchy. atrocities were committed, ticaliy disfranchise1. They hold few if any political offices of impor tance worth men‘ioning and mani fest no interest in politics The| uniform courtesy, promptness and election returns show that thous-|intelligence with whicb he con- ands of colored voters do not even|ducted himself, Mr. Curry enjoyed go tothe polls. ‘’hesystem ofespion-| the friendship of the most distin- age has bean so severe and wide|guished white and colored citizens spread that colored people have}and held it until his death He SRE WASHINGTON BEE. country simply}OUR NEW ASSISTANT SUPENINTENDE The Commissioners of the Dis-| trict of Columbia have appomted | an assistant superintendent of the public schools. The presumption is that he will assist in the conduct of the colored schools as well as che white So faras our colored schools are concerned, Mr. Cook is} sufficiently able to take care of} them without the interference of| an assistant. Superintendent Pow- | ell may be in need of an assistant, | but since our schools are separate| there is no reason why Mr. Cook should not have au asssistant also if he needs one. The coloreé schools seem to bean eye sore to some people and for that reason there seems to be a disposition on the part of the whites to make an in- road into the colored schools. A GOOD MAN GONE. The death of Mr. Jno. W. Curry, which took place lasc ‘Tuesday | For over thirty years, the deceased faithfully and honorably served as the sysiem of public schoo's which { we now enjoy. Owing tothe char- acter of his business and the| Not only aresmall boys sent to jail thought it unprofitabie to pay|was a membr of the Letter Carriers attention to politics. ness und crime. people are allowed to vote, tiere| and of esteem. are no alleged outrages such as we hear of from states where political rights are denied. The fact is that It ig becaus | Awsociation and did much to open gomery takes from our midst one of the wbsence of politics among|the way for admission of other colored people in Georgia, that the] ©0'ored carriers. whites have become emboldened to|®¢ss, Mr. Curry was called upon commit so many deeds of lawless-|by many prominent white officials The fact is that] 48 Well as the entire letter carriers’ in the South where the colored |force and was tendered the warmest During his sick- most eubstantial assurance The record made by cur lamented friend will stand out as a1 exemplification of the ,lations concerning | to be forthcoming. and decently for them. of the brighest minds among the efficient officer in our schools. His funeral was largely attended yes- terday from the | church. A PLACE OF DETENTION | NEEDED. ! ' From the Evening,Star. | A small colored boy was yesterday } sent to the workhouse for six days be- cause he had ridder his bicycle the night before without a lamp, The punishment hardly fits the crime. The little fellow had no money and none was advanced to pay his fine, so he was bundled off into the van with the vagrants, the drunken men and _ wo- men and the other riff-raff of the court and sent to acolony where he can learn only that which is evil. His offense et best was slight. It is, of, course, desirable that the police regu- the use of the wheel should be strictly enforced. The streets must be made safe for pedestrians and drivers and wheel- men who are particular in their obedi- ence tothe rules. But at the same time it seems rather harsh to class infractions of these rules with the offenses against morality and decency which are aaily punished by sentences to the workhouse. It is easy to see that justice in such cases somewhat embarrassed by her blindness. Her scales cannot accurately weigh all the little n ‘ters which are occasionally put intu the;pans. The Star bas hereto- fore urged that some place of deten- tion should be provided, different. from the jail and the workhouse, where people who are guilty of slight ; infractions of the munic‘pal laws which do not involve any degree of, moral turptitude may be held pending i or in default of the payment of a fine Such a place need nct be revolting to afford a punishment. It need not throw men and perhaps women and | children into unclean associations to! enforce the dignity of the law and the regulations. It could have varied; uses, such as the detention of wit- nesses, of suspects and of prisoners waiting for collateral which is certain; Every large city} has this margin of semi-criminal cases which fit neither the jail nor the work house, and Washington, is assuredly large enough now to be equipped! with the means of caring properly We have too much of thecal kinds of sentences in the courts. with the rough, dirty and filthy prisoners, but they are confined in the cells of the Police Court where they come in contact with thieves | and cut throats. The death of Prof. H. P. Mont- He was a good and negroes. Metropolitan HOW TO SOLVE (?) THE RACE PROBLEM. .is frequently infected by the spores of . Zeitung soberly dec STRANGE FREAK OF aie - | THE MOST wo How a Caterpillar’s Body Becomes the uy the Root of a Bulrush From some of the newer countries, so-called on account of the lack of definite knowledge regarding them, reports of strange freaks and curiosi- ties constantly appear, and, as 2 rule, | they are laughed at, but once in a while they turn out to be the truth. It is this wayvith the strange freak | of nature called the bulrush cater- pillar, which is indigenous to New Zealand. This report, which stated | that at certain seasons a large black caterpillar would bury itself in the ground, and be converted into the root of a bulrush, was laughed at, like the rest, but now an English scientist, | who recently gave an exhaustive in- | vestigation of the strange phenomenon, | stated that in many respects the state- ments are strictly true. From this re- port it has been leagned that the cater- pillar grows to about three and one- half inches long and when about to assume the chrysalis state buries it- self in the ground, and in doing so it some fungus, which becomes involved in the scales in its neck. These the larvae is unable to expel, and the vege- | tation thus set up rapidly extends | throughout the entire body, replacing each animal cell thus destroyed by vegetable matter, and finally convert- ing it into a comparativeiy dense vege- table structure, which retains every | detail of the body, even to the legs, | mandibles and minutest claw. From | the neck, the portion frst infected, | there then shoots up a single stem, which grows to the height of eight or | ten inches, resembling very closely the | clubheaded bulrush in miniature. It has no leaves, and if the first stem be | broken off another rises in its place, though two stems never grow simul | taneously from the same “caterpillar.” A Queer Story. The Wetternsee, in Sweden, like so many other lakes, bas long enjoyed the local reputation of being a bottomless | pit. The Swedish scientists have now | destroyed the venerable legend, for in | the measurements taken a few days ago they have successfully demon- | strated that the greatest depth of the lake is only 119 meters. There stil re- mains, however, a series of mysteries which science must be content to leave unsolved—at least, for a time. It is not only a legendary belief, but there is a quasi-scientific ground for the queer supposition that living creatures, animal and vegetable, can and do make journeys to and fro between the high northern lake of Wetten and the South German lake of Constance. This bold conclusion has been partly justified by the appearance of exactly the same fauna and even the same animal life in the Swedish and the Swabian inland seas. It is even as- serted that whenever there is a storm on the Lake of Constance the Lake of Wettern begins sympathetically to roll and swell, an that the southern lake is similarly moved by any agitation in the distant northern lake. The Kleine s this sympa- | thetic phenomenon to be a known fact, but considerately adds that we have to wait some time for the rational ex- planation of it. A Communtiy of Markamen. The little commune of Attinghausen, NDERF ~ COVERY OF THE gas O% —— ee, Straightening, Beautifying, and Promoting the growth of the hair, ang for ing the hair suitable for a) pooh and still allow the hair to retain itp VITALITY, its LUSTRE and cone quently its NATURAL +ROWTH. No Fake, No Humbug. No Experiment, BUT THE PEER OF THEY ALL, L, is the acme of Scientifio Ige ié efforts and skill in oven coming kinky, stub) bristly and undesirable suits of a + has stood the test of the nge ine World’s greatest scien. tists and enters 1p the market of the world, as a pertectiy ure harmless discovery that will bring fos to any persons heart, in noed of if, if you will but give it a ti Worth Its Weight in Gulf Axzeline is not made of bigtiy perfumed vaseline like & srest muy “fale” prepare tions on thy market jody, There is ny particle of ru line entering» to its compe tion. Itism from ingrediae entirely dite ent and distios From the Southern Workman. R. T. Coles and Booker T. in Canton Uri. has been made famous Wash- | throughout the world by the pen of | Schiller in his “William Tell. ‘The | in the markes to-day Po papetio commune at pi pot has a population | ° of about 500 souls, including the ba- | ed by competent Chemisty. capacity, honest devotion to duty | e. soldiers have just emerged is of|tke poor whites are brutes and i a 2 of our people and a rebuke to the the sort to discourage rather than | totally unfitted for citizenship anc]- t : neaee ‘ |ington were schoolmates together at encourage them to reenlist in a Sorrell false representat‘ons which are Hampton, Va. They have’ similar i i often made to the contrary. Wejideas for the deyelopment of their campagn so far from base. They|tendencies by mualtreating the 1 thet 1 fail |race. Mr. Coles tries to bring uot the’ bies. Like all its neighbor communes, | i ee extend to the ber-aved family our) $ isi VS a irls w it hol its yearly hutzenfest.” I will want some better reasons that} colored people. The little game of 2 Wey Miers Hote (ue Pose ood PCC be) be Lol ae athe ie the | urged by the writer of the above | associating outrage with every other henee they satisfy tieir What ANGELINE Will Do: 1.—Angeline will positively mis Kinky and stubborn hair straight. (1 spplication wi | prove to you cont ees eae : heartfelt sympathy. jare in his charge. He tells them that! appears from the report of the con- | % 2 the solution of the race question rests| test in the Urner Zeitunz tuat no fewer | with themselves, and to solve it needs its 500 inhabitants are | Dee: Dae ctu ncaa semantic clipping who seems to regard them killed asa means of saving white men. as so many “‘things’’ to be The spirit of discrimination shown and practiced in the Cuban war is hardly caleulated to overstimulate patriotic sentiments among our people, still less to willingly and foolishly submit to being battered and butchered just to save the white people. The whites got all there was of glory or profit out of the wer, while the colored soldiers get all of the‘<cussing”’ and it is no more than proper that the whites be made to maintain a policy which they boastingly characterized as humane, but which now appears but little better than an array of the whites against the blacks. The colored people are willing and ready to do their part and when called upon in the spirit and under conditions of fair play, will doubtless do much to bring victo ry and laures to American arms. It may not be the opinion of many ignorant whites, but the fact is that the colored people have a sufficient number of able, eXperi- enced, brave and skillful men to lead any or all colored troops which the President may gee fit to enlist. Judging from the way some of our white friends talk, the colored people are in a most deplorable condition of iguorance, but thetalk is born of prejudice and entirely out of tone with the facts. From motives of pride as well as patriotism, the colored people will not throw themselves in the breach, bear off the palm of victory and then have it ruthlessly taken from them while they are misrep- resented,sneered at and discozraged The American negro is as brave and as patriotic as the best and proudest of white Americans and far the superior of the foreign scum crime commicted by colored people isentirely too transparent to suc- cessfully hoodwink tne gool eo- ple of the North. The nother people are conserva ive, but the are not fools and will be neither paruies to nor sympathizers with murdezers and morals lepers. DOING HARM. From the Bryn Mawr Defender. Booker T. Washington’s political heresay is doing more harm to the| felicitate him on his manliness and | negro than any other ageacy in the United States. His over a race contending for equal rights as citizens under the Constitu-|f race prejudice as Capt. Castle, tion, is an outrage upon constitutional justice. Like Esau, he is trying to sell his birthright and that of the race for a morsel of pottage. It seems quite | increase and himself be blessed, unfair for Mr. Washington to under. take to surrender the civil and polit: cal rights of a race for the advantage of his educational institution. Every one is ready and willing to concede that Mr. Washington is one of the most successful educators of the coun- try, that he is doing a good work at Tuskegee, for which due credit is given him. It seems to us that as an educator he should stick to his duties and not like the end manin a circus, he should not go over the country ad- vising the colored people to quit politics, or any other profession in which they would engage. Mr. Wash- ington says that if the negro ceases to vote and let all the political offices go toa certain class -of citizens, there would be no more lynching. Perfect nosense, the politicians are seldom lynched. The women outrages, the murderers and thieves are the subjects that offer the most material for the lynchers in the lawless South with a federal officer thrown in now and then Theretore, if Mr. Washington would attend to his duties as an educator and try and better the morals of our peo- plein his section instead of urging them to abandon their citizenship, he would do the right thing. What influ- ence is Tuekegee, hazing upon the lynchers of Alabama? None whatever. This natiunal apologist is an impediment to the race. The white people weuld like to thrust him upon the negro as his leader. The negro does not recognize negro leadership. There are lots in this country like Washington. gressman and areal live represen- The woods are fuli of them. assumed and|just administration. Were all of forced leadership by his white friends our officials as free from the taint When it comes to executive and administrative ability and absolute fairness to all we do not hesitate to} point to Capt. Henry A. Castle, | the Sixth Auditor as an illustrious extumple. Capt. Castle has under! his charge quite a number of color ed clerks and they all join in praising bis uniformly fair treat-| ment without r gard to race, color| or creed. We have more than once} noticed this in Captain Castle anc | the colored people would receive! more just treatment, May his vribe| ALABAMA NEXT. From the Chicago Conservator. It is said that Alabama will be the | e™devoring to sell to the Commis- next State to disfranchise the negro. | sioners any old land for the colored This will give our good friend Booker T. Washington a chance to exercise | 1adustrial school. his influence with the good white peo- ple of the State. All of his teaching has tended to establish friendly rela- tions between the race. He is two true to principles of jnstice to wink at the contemplated infamy. It will be interesting to note what influence his protestwill have. When the negro can afford to eliminate the apolygists, trimmers his condition in this country, will be improved. He will never be able to do anything under present leadership. There is no reason that some colored men cannot be appointed under the District government. Tue Bre acknowledges the receipt of an official copy of the Congressional Directory from Hon. Geo. H. White of North Carolina. Mr. White isan upto date con- tative of the negro. |see supposed intelligent negroes only the same application of industry to their opportunites on the part of the negro young men as white men employ He encourages the boys to learn the little useful arts so that they may be of advantage in private fam-} ilies where thay are employed. Of ail the remedies’ that have} ver been recommended, for a} solu ion of the race problem, may | be found in the above excerpt from the Southern Workman [+ is quite evident that both Coles and} Washington are two narrow con- structed individuals. Whenever you defending such men, you can depend on it that they are getting free summer board at the ‘Tuskegee school. Bishop Grant is a very logical reasoner. The realestate brokers are The Commissioners will oppose the appointment as successor to Mr. Montgomery any one who may have practiced nepotism in office. No favoritism is to be tolerated. Se When you take a small man and put him in a big office he gets the! swell head. fae ee Race He Tue Bae isthe people’s advo- cate and a true American. The colored people are in favor of one superintendent of the public schools. —__ The emancipation parade was a failure There should be no more parades. ——______.. There should be no more streect parades. If the white people would cease contributing money there would be no more parades. | and three of h than 184 out o rapable markesr en or markeswomen, | for out of the 184 who took part in } the contest at the communal butts 43 } were women. Not only did some of the women prove to be better shots than their husbanus, to the great de- light of the . but the highest honors of this y s festival w f male hands. ‘Tue sungfrau Ia irsch, who is only in her fifte made 50 points at the “7 | nd so carried off the first | She is the daughter of Matthias . Who, with seven of his sons daughters, appeared at the Attinghausen schutzenfest, and the whole tamily were so dexterous ! with their rifles that they gained nine | prizes during the day. His Back to the Foe. An army: officer tells that in one engagement there were numbers of | young fellows who smelt powder for the first time, and it is not surprising tuat at times the recruits were a trifle unsteady. | “However,” said the old officer, “I | only remember one case of actual flight, and wuen I think of it I can scarcely refrain from laughing. “In the very thick of a hotly contest- ed engagement one of my own men threw down his rifle and bolted. “Here , you coward,’ I roared after him, ‘what are you running for? “Without so much as a glance over his shoulder, the fellow replied: ‘Be- ‘m in a desprit hurry, an’ I can’t Wasted s ness. O, Edward,” she cried, “do you know what? 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