The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1901, Page 4

Tine Bee. —TUBLISHBD AT— NO. 1100, “I? STREET, WASHINGTON D.C ‘W.CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post Office atWashington, D C as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1852. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year Six months... Three months. as Lity subscibers, mont iy-.-- The Assassin's Shot. If there ever was a cowardly at- it was the attempted as— of President William at the Pan-American tack made sassination McKinley, Exposition inthe ‘Temple of Music, at the Buffalo Exposition, on last Friday week. Little did the Amer- ican people think fur a moment that the life of their beloved and honored President was confronting the bullet of an assassiu, who has no regard or respect for our gov- ernment and its people. President McKinley, who has done every- thing a human being could for all classes of his fellow citizens, irre- spective of politics or religious creed, should be so cowardly at- tacked by ‘anarchist whose nationality is foreign to our people and who is permitted without mo- lestation to enjoy the freedom and privileges of our American institu- tions and government. ‘THE Bes | would like to know where the se- cret service and detective force of New York were to allow their President to be socowardly attack— ed in broad day light and who had been sent to the President to prevent just what occured. Yes, these so called guardians of the people were to blame tor their stu- pidity aad inactivity. President McKinley little dreamed that he had an enemy. A man who has been so good, fair and honorable to the peeple he has endeavored to serve is to day prostrate, while the bleeding tears of a faithful and in- valid wife are falling thick and fast over a wounded husband, Must a President now becompelled to remain in recluse from the pso- ple who elected him, because a lawless element is permitted to ex ist among ua? If this must be the fate of a good man, what man will be safe who may occupy the Execa tive Chair? It had been hoped the President would live and this is the wish of many millions of his faith ful black allies who are always found true, honest and faithfal in the hour of peril. They were found faithful and true at San Juan Hill, when Col. Roosevelt was making his famous charge, and there was one faithfal and trueia the Tem ple of Music at Buffalo when an asgagsin was about to fire a third shot intothe body ofthe President, The third shot might have proved instantly fatal had not Parker, the brave Negro, stayed the assassin’s handand felled him to the ground. Could President McKinley but live» a glorious and prosperous Country would be saved from a panic. Will the fuitnfal wife soom enjoy an the company ofa good husband and the Nation continue to prosper? To day the Nation is unhappy. To day the Nation’s noror will be weigh ed ia the bilances. he American people continue to offer their prayers to God and beg that a pro tecting arm may be thrown around their President and angels guard his sacred chair. The Bee sympa- thizes with thefaithfal household of the Presideat. Cus Baz is too full to express itself. We can only look too thit God who rules the destines of Nations. Let the anar- chists be exporied. Let ft Alone, _ Itis to be regretted that a meet ing was called at the Metropolitan chauch this week for the purpose of collecting funds to tender a tes timouial to James Parker, the man who knocked down the wonld be assassin of President McKinley It 1s quite evident that itis uhe wish of the people that the proper per | has been none who has equaled this | ons to handle the affair would be| distinguished young secretary to|depar‘ment. the press of the country. Tne Star and the Post started the fuud and ‘fitisto be made a success these two papers should have charge of the affair. As an evi- dence of the negro to make the af fair a success and as. a demonstra tion of their enthusiastic proclivi ties there were one thousand at the meeting full of enthusiastic win and after the meeting was explain ed, although they knew the object of it before they came, only one man contributed and his name was! Mr. W. H. H. Heart, a teacher in the Law Department of Howard University and manager of Heart’s farm. He is worth several thou sand dollars, aid he contributed ten dollars payable by check. The reason of that was, if the other ne grees did not contribute, he would stop payment on his check. A Committee of five consisting of J. W. Cromwell, J. M. Ricks, Mr. Terrell and Blackstone Richards. Not one member of this great fi- nancial committee contribated one cent; only but one of the thousand present contributed anything and with all duerespect for Mr, Parker, he will never get a house or a prop er testimonial if it is to be left to this committee. ‘The Bee on be- half of Mr. Parker and the people of this city would suggest that the whole matter be Jeft to the and /vst then a proper testimonial will be assured. There are certain negroes who are moved by im Star pulse. They never start or origi nate anything unless there is some notoriety to be obtained. They are moved in instances like this as they are in revival meetings. It i8 hoped that the Metropolitan | Church enthusaists will retire and allow the Sfar and Post so far President McKinley. He Needs Friends. From The Enterprise, The Negro needs friend. He can- not make much progress in getting them by continnal bickerings amoog our leading men. Stop it. The Negro may need friends that ia true, and when he gets them he doesn’t know how to keep them. What the Negro is more inneed of than anything else is more com- mon sense, and the elimination of false leadership. President McKiuley is a man of great nerve. are not protected. The negro may be rel ed upon jull the time to do his duty. Dr, Talmedge is silent on lynch- ing and continues to be so, The latest revort is that Dr, A. M. Curtis will be reinstated. THE Bee is willing and ready at all times to defend the people. The republicans of Maryland are active but they are doing but little Work. A)l honor to Parker the negro jwho stayed the third bullet of the assassin. What has become of Tillman these days? Can he remain quiet these days? ‘The republicans will carry Ohio by a large majority than it has ever before. The American people should as this section is concerned, have charge of the testimonial to Park- er. it Dissents. © Afro-Amer The Washington Beethinks it well for the leading Negroes te hold a Con- ference in Washington to memoral- ize Congress and the President to put a stop to lynching. Ifthe Bee can convince us, beyond a doubt that the President and Con- gress and in fact, the whole Republi- can party are not almostif not entire- ly iudifferent to the welfare of the Negro, except so far as their votes may help to keep them in power, we will consider the suggestion. Other- wise we do not think any good can be accomplished. The Bee desires to say to its es- teemed contemporary that the Pres ident and also the entire Rapub lican party are much interested nominate President McKinley for the third time. What ails Senator Wellington any way? The Senate should teach him a lesson, Washington can boast of the best and shrewdest Chief of Police in the United States. The Virginia Constitutional Convention is yet wrestling wita the su‘lrage question. They continue to lynch negroes, but, you always find them loyal, } patriotic and true. Our Chief of Police should have been allowed to have sent a few of his best men to Buffalo. in the negro. Let the negro now be interested in his own wel- It is evident that President Mc- Sa has the confidence and re- fare and he will find support and (spect of the American people. encouragement from the sources claimed to be in doubt as to the} welfare of the negro. What does| the Afrc-American expect? Can| the President and the Republican | party stop the negroes from com- mitting crimes and other offences? Conflict can pass no lew to come in. contact with state laws and nei-| ther can Congress or the President | interfere with state laws in viola- tion of his oath of office. The! Constitution of the the United | States defines the powers of the| Presideut and Congress, A non-| political conference, iraespective | of bolor would no doubt have its; effect. The Bee snows the Presi-| dent and knows how he feels to-| ward tae negro. The fault is in ourselves, brother Murphy, so lets rectify the evil if we can. 1 fir. George B. Cortelyou. The private Secretary to the President, Mr, Geo. B. Cortelyou demonstrated wonderful nerve and forethought ata time when the nation was onthe eve of collapse by the attempt assassination of the President. ‘That quiet dignified and classic look that always por-, tray the face of Mr. Cortelyou was | in evidence on the occasion of the cowardly attack on President Mc- Kinley. It is universally conceded that in the heat of the gzeatest ex- eitement, Mr. Cortelyou was more reserved and more self possesse than any person present. ‘Lhere| have been many private secretries | to the several Presidents but there | The lawyers as well as the peo- ple want judge O'Donnell upcn the bench of the police Court. Commissioner Macfarland ex- pressed the true sentiments of the people of the District to the Presi. dent. Perhaps Congress may, no doubt pass some kind of law making it acapital offense for any one who attempts to kill a President. Judge O'Donnell is receiving plaudits whereever his name is known, He protects the people and gives the offenders fair trial. The President should have been jguarded by such men as Weedon, Hron or Lacy. The bullet would | have been turned in another direc-j ed of tion. Private Secretary Ricketts, of the Government Printing Office, is one man who has the respect admiration of true and republicans. and loyal Secretary Cortelyou is deserving of tke highest praise and commen- dation that can be bestowed upon aman, The American people, Mr. Cortelyou owe you a debt of grati- tude. THe Bre is anxiously waiting to see Chief Dutton of the fire de. partment recommend a@ few col- rei men for his department. Delays are dangerous. District assessor Darneille em braces every Opportunity to pro This is a republic but the peo-|} He has done more for colored clerks than any of hie predecessors and more than any other chief under the District gov- ernment. Ssnator Mark Hanna is @ pro- phet. His predictions are always correct. The last and latest one is: “McKinley will live.’”” Judge James Pagh is no doubt one of the most popular prosecut— ing officers that has ever been in the lower branch of the Police Court. He knows the law, Mr. Henry E. Barker is to be congratulated ou his recent letter in the daily Post and reproduced in The Bee this week. It is timely oo——————EeSEE 1 MEN AND WOMEN. Rudyard Kipling has indeed dram- atized his “Jungle Book,” and it is declared the resultant play will be | produced at Christmas simultaneous- | \y in New York and London. Wilson Barrett has written another play, and, as usual, the element of re- igiom is strong in it. The title is (he Christian King,” and the hero of it is Alfred the G i Mme. hall celebrity in Pari of There during and for some time after its fall, died recently in her native town of Mon- teux, in southern Vaucluse, where she was born 60 years ago. Joaquin Miller is iikely to become an oil magnate within the next few months. A few years ago while lee turing in Texas the poet made a good deal of money and invested it in a tract of 700 He let the land alone and now told that oil has been found on all sides of his prop- erty and that his tract of 700 acres is supposed to be in the best part of the oil belt. One of King Edward’s pets which has long been kept in the hall at is a small green par- rot which his majesty purchased per- sonally from a boy in Trafalgar equ while passing through there privately with his equerry one day. The bird is a sple d talker, What as always been its favorite expres- reat music and ve rival cond empire ordas, onc he acres. is Sandringham on is a melanc»oly one now ow, ” then, hip, hip, hurrah for the queen! IN THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE. The B: the shallowest only 43 yards in depth the Adriatic, with an av yards depth. tie is sea, xt comes of 45 The most wooden of large towns is | ttle, which out of 14,000 buildings has only 467 which are not built of timber. The biggest incubator in the world is at Batary, near Sydney, in Austra- lia. It accommodates 11,440 ducks’ or 14,080 hens’ eg Canada has th the world. It i jHudson bay district, and is, roughly, 1,000 by 1,700 miles. Gold is the best conductor of heat among metals, platinum second, silver third and copper only fourth. Iron, zine, tin, lead follow in the named. During the year 1900 the shortest passage of a don to Calcutta was 82 days and the; longest 199 days. The shortest pas- | sage from London to San Francisco was 109 days and the longest 203 ly: The shortest trip from San Se largest forest in in the Labrador and order ng ship from Lon- | Francisco to London was 96 days and the longest 181 days. AMONG OTHER PEOPLE. | Hailstorms cost nee £3,700,000 | a year on an ave The French academy has 40 mem- bers elected for life. weekly. The invention of the compass by Flavio Gioja celebrated this Italy. Brunswick It meets twice mariner’s to be Amalfi, is su:amer at is the only country whose laws retain execution by and Spain the only one that uses the aX, garrote. The of geld cir- culation in Great Britain is 915 tons, in Germany the same, but in Austria amount coin in only 60 tons. Germany holds the European mar- riage record at present with 53 per 1,000 inhabitants. England and Den- mark come next with | Switzerland’s watch export Jast| broke the record. It consist-| 426 nickel watches, 3,086,- | silver 800,258 gold watches, | esides nearly 7,000 chronographs nd repeaters. | year and “23 Xealistic Altcgether. ‘ne 2rama has sometimes a curious effest on the mind of the people, and an jacident proving this occurred here recently, The drama “Inez de Castro” |was being played by a Lisbon tournee company at Evora. In the fifth and last act Inez is cruelly murdered by three men, who stab her and her chil- dren to death in a most harrowing manner. This aroused such indigna- tion in the hea:ts of the occupants of the gallery thata Party of them wait- ed at the stage door for the murderers to come up, and attacked them with ticks and bludgeons, to the great dis- may of the actors.—Lisbon Van. | guarda. | ——_—___. His Retort. Waiter (suavely)—Yes’r, that’s the | exact amount of your bill; but— ) @r-h'm!—you have forgotten the | | Mvaiter, sir. | Guest (savagely)—Well, I didn’t eas mote worthy celcred clerks in his | the waiter, did 1?—Puck. - TT | thief. Kecently he fitted up a camera | sciously cause the plate of the camera } to be exposed and a snapshot of the | upon developing it, , thief bending over the flour barrel, THE TRIALS OF GOLDUS. Why an Aged Chicagoan Wants a Wife and Neighbors Who D. Object to Whiskers, Moses Goldus lives at 118 De Koven | street, Chicago. He has two hobbies— getting married and raising whisker: That is why he has so much trouble | and was in Justice Sabath’s court the | { other day. Goldus is 60 years old. They settled down for love in a cot- tage, but it didn’t last. First, young Mrs. Goldus wanted money for soda She got it. Then she wanted Goldus bought them. The water. two cows. HE SAID HE WOULDN'T SHAVE. ned Goldus for was know an octave but that didn’t He had the piano ll Mrs. Goldus One day she told Goldus he would be a better looking man if he would shave off his whiskers. In the next breath she made a demand a-shaven husband, and Gold- next thing she tou a piano. She didnt from a washboard, matter to M set up in for a cle "t shave and he He was ar! ed and Mrs, Goldus showed her contempt for whis- rs by getting a divorce. Still there was no peace for Goldus The ink was not yet us’ decree when John Snyder, a neighbor of Ge *, got his hands tangled in the old man’s beard. Justice Sabath fined Snyder $10 and costs. Now Goldus is looking for another wife. DOG MAKES LONG TRIP. said he would and his whisker on Mrs. Go Homing Instinet Leads a Newfound- land from Oklahoma to His Home in lowa, Half starved and with feet badly swollpn and eyes sunk deeply in its head from privations endured auring a ong and wearisome journey, a large Newfoundland dog belonging to C. W. Franklin, of Muscatine, la., arrived home the other day from E! Reno, Okla., having made the entire journey from that city afoot. Arriving at his master’s doorstep, the faithful animal collapsed, and would have died of fatigue but for the immediate of restoratives. His long nails had been worn most entirely off in his run for home, and all four swolien three times their In spite of his fatigue the use feet usual size. were COLLAPSED FROM FATIGUE dog is already recovering his former health and spir Knowing his q ies as a watchdog, Mr. Franklin loaned him to a brother. Melvin Franklin, who, with his family, was about to start for El Reno in the race for Oklahoma land. The party | left Muscatine on May 15 and arrived | in El Reno July 18, No further information was received | until the dog’s arrival gave evidence | in Jowa to the wild life of the land lot- tery district. | Mr. Franklin refused a neat sum for | his dog, saying that no price would | now tempt him to part with so faithful an animal. Camera as a Detective. | A Mr. Steele, of Virginia, had missed | various articles from his pantry, and his flour barrel had been the most frequently visited and the most to suffer. He tried in vain to detect the and placed it in a position that anyone disturbing the fiour would uncon-| thief taken. Mr. Steele discovered that the plate had been exposed and, recognized the One-Armed Grave Digger. A thousand graves in the church cemetery at Luton, England, have been dug by a one-armed man named Allen, who became grave-digger in 1871 after ® mill accident, | brute } this BATTLE WITH BEAR Remarkable Encounter in the Moug. tains of Wyoming, Bruin Dragged Into Camp Rope and Finished with ap, Ballets — The Some time | ago he married a woman who w | Henry A. Sommer | more than a mon jing it in Wyomi: |citing experiences The co jhas chosen to s big game. | famous fc ver tipv by these r bears « More | animals during the past | was an eye | battle | which he d paper: “In going dow the 22d mers, “I saw one of ful fights with a ably ever occurrec eountry the e ting | between man and jwhom I George betwe of June I witnes and d afterward Saban, o1 sheep owners in who served with ¢ {the Rough Rider 1 vain. “He of low | kni the saw a be He . but with fronti hills, | suit, ho with an ordir Jat the pomme jtimes he « | trained han fell with FRetgite Fo BEGINNING OF head of bruin, brute, with a seemed almost huma paws lifted the rope fr neck before noose. On the eleve. Struck the bear in b and before he ¢ knot was drawn his head. “Then the the bear then the horse the rope. Then a rush atthe r horsemanship and a Saban ¢ rea woul wou de cho avoided the rush. ‘I as I witnessed these r horse and rider woul before them. I was una not go to his assis waved for help me point would have tur had you not seen me pride was up, and | make the figh a fir “The battle lasted { hour, gradual man ng the better of it finally dragged to S where his herder were. Saban got a W commenced pumping He fired four sh head, but st intensely exciting minute the bear w Saban told me ght why he ac afterward: was | quote his own lang 7 was killed the bear. I shois I and the other that he had 12 ba the head. I waited w surprised | shoulder as he came | that it preferred a comfortable home | had one more load i within two fee barrel of the when I pulled the there was ne mistake. I th me. I turned t imstant I felt bear in my face.” “Tt was at this er men got hold one tremend from the pros instant he would have time the wh moralized and the bear s One of the directly thr the h dead in his tracks to Wyomi: balls in t not one « Tax on Crest To dispis plate in Kk i tax of a guinea a year people pay it. 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