The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 4

Tire Bee. —PUBLISHED AT— NO. 1109. “I? STREET, WASHINGTON D. c W.CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. en Entered atthe Post Office atWashington, DC as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1882. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. $2.00 1.00 One copy per year....++-+--++ Six months... Three months z Lity subscibers, monthly...-.....- fa ee NIHILISS IN DISGUISE. Since the assassination of Pres- ident McKinley, public attention has been directed toward the hot- peds of Nihilism, through whose propaganda murder and lawlessness have been fostered and encouraged. Vigorous measures have been ad- opted to stamp out all vestages of the hydra-headed monster Nihilism @ in all probability such measures will be successful. The well being of society, American civilization a3 we are taught to regard it in its manifestation of merality, justice and enlightenment, the fair name ofthe nationand the very life of the republic depends upon the vigilance with which law abiding citizens hunt down and punish law breakers and propagators of riot and law- lessneas. Czolgosz the personific- ation of the diabolism of Nihilism the too! of wicked marplots and enemies of stable and enlightened government ig no greater enemy to mankind than others who are wear- ing the livery of respectability to serve the devil in, and whoaresow-| lawlessness to feed a morbid hatred and satisfy an invincible seetioual | read ing the seeds of discord, sectional and race hatred, mobism and social an? political murder. Inthis con- aectionit would not be out of place to mention twoinstances represent- ative of the class batterly referred to. A fow days ago no less a per- sonage than the editor of the} Louisville Courier Jowrnal in com-| menting upon the Booker T. Wash- ingten, incident at the Whit House stated thit he was sorry for Mr. Washington, since it was he who would have to‘ pay the freight” and on Wednesday last that arch-/| fiend traducer “‘Calaban’’ [Lillman stated that “the actionof President Roosevelt in entertaining that nig- ger will necessitate our killing sj} thousand niggers in theaouth before they will learn their place again.’’ Without entering into a discus- sion as to the propriety or wisdom of President Roosevelt’s noble and generous treatment of Mr, Wash- ington, except to venture the assertion that it was one of the noblest acts of his life, we call at- tention to the manifest attempt on the part of two of the most repre- sentative men of the south to foment discord, intensify race pre- judice and incite lawlessness and murder. Inthe language of the ‘Courier Journal’ which isthe more | reprehensible and cowardly on account of itsapparent equivoeation | the suggestion is to make Boeker Washington ‘pay the freight’ which meaus, if southern me hods have not undergone marked revolution, that Washington is to be harrassed : in every conceivable way and his life and the existance of the schoo) | over which he has charge endang- | ered if not direetly assailed. ‘The language cf Tillman is characteris- tic and bold in its meanness and its effrontery. tle has expressed openly what the other has hinted af and in either case has done great mischief and emphasiz~s the atii- tude of the South toward the government as well as toward the colored race. The language above referred to is Hihilistic of the most venomous eharacter. It is even worss than | Nihilism for Nihilism is hatred toward a form of government, but | this disposition on the part of the southera editorand southern Seni- | tor expresses hatred toward a de-| fengsless race struggling to take | on the highest forms of civilisation | and steadily and surely moving | toward tho plane of approved citizenship, mauhood and woman- hood. It advises riot, murder aod) THE WASHINGION revenge. The murdererof McKin- ley was an ignorant irresponsible proselyte to a vieious doctrine, a weak-minded enthusiast without will, without education, without re- ligions or moral training. What is to be said of the brainiest editor in the South and the impertinent half- educated bully Senator of South Carolina when we find them sowing seeds of sedition and advising mob- ism and murder and all of the other proscriptive inventions which have been designed to humiliate and de- grade the colored people’ Since they cannot be reached and punish- ted by the arm of the law, it is hoped that public indignation may be aroused to such au extent that cur-like propensities of the lower instinct of seuthern character may be given a set-back if not a quietus. When men of thestrip of Watterson and Tillman advocate murder little is to be expected from the sub-stratum who are only two anxious and ready to dothe colorep people harm. Theact of President Rocsevelt will rebound to his glory and although it has fired the southern heart to do murder, God in his mercy and wisdom will re- ward the President and in due time bring the advocates of law- lessness and repine and murder to merited justice, Godis just and in the language of Thomas Jeffer- son “his justice will not sleep forever.” The governor of North Carolina the negroes a lecture the other day. The social equality bug bear seems to have disturbed the demo- crats South. Senator Hanna will not retire from politica. Politics would lose all flaver if Mr. Hanna were to retire, Senator Fairbanks will be found among the the favorites in 1904, Ohio by a Gen. Dick claims | large majority. = LITTLE BITS FROM ABROAD. Smallpox is the increase in France. The for of Great Britain are valued at £2,000,000. The house of peers is 91 by 45 feet; the house of commons a trifle smaller. May is the sunniest month of the year on an average in the south of England. Germany’s population has increased 12,300,000 in the last 30 years, and 4,065,000 in the last five years. A few weeks ago an apothecary shop managed entirely by women—the first of its kind—was opened at St. Petersburg, Russia. The establishment of an American bank in Berlin and London is contem- plated. It is believed that this will y for American industrial gs and exports in the coun- tries of the old world. HATS WOMEN ARE WEARING. Black and white and blue in hat trimming is a very good combination this year. Low, fiat hats, worn tilted forward over the face and the brim covered with long ostrich plumes, are all the fashion at present. Children never look prettier than ina bright red hats, and these are always good trimmed with field flowers. Trimmed with black they are also styl- ish. “Floppy” soft hats are pretty with the rim softly falling in its natural way and then trimmed with a wreath of flowers with a bow of black velvetin the back. A pretty little hat 1s of blue straw trimmed with daisies. It must be worn with a gown which it will suit. Dais- ies, the field flowers, are not good form with elaborate or dress toilets. on Employer—I'd engage you for the Place at once. only I must have a mar- ried man. Applicant—Keep the place open for an hour, sir, I'll fix that! It’s easier to get married than to get a job._N Y. World AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Algeria has four zones in which pe troleum occurs. One of them is 125 miles long. Africa now grows 44,000,000 bushels of wheat a year, thus beating Aus- tralia, which produces 35,000,000 only. There were 17 coal and 137 gold min- ing companies carrying on business in the Transvaal before the war broke out. . Africa contains 12,497 miles of rail- ways, of which more than 3,000 miles are in British territory and protec- torates, besides something cver 2,000 miles in Egypt, over 3,000 miles are in French dominions, 1,200 in the Trans- vaal, 736 in Natal, and a little less than 600 in the Orange colony, @Various new enterprises are projectedin South Atrica. TT) PISTOL USED BY BOOTH. Derringer with Which Lincoln Was Shot Is in Possession of a Phil- adelphia Man. The assassination of President Me- Kinley recalled to George Plowman, a theatrical architect of Philadelphia, the murder of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s theater, Washington, D. C., on April 14, 1865. Mr. Plowman is the possessor of the Derringer, a small vest-pocket re- volver, from which Booth fired the fatal shot, “Several times it has been doubted that the Derringer which I have is the one with whigh Lincoln was mur- dered,” said Mr. wan, “but there is absolutely no d ot that it is the same weapon. Three or four years after the shooting, while George K. BOOTH’S DERRINGER. (Picture of Pistol! with Which Abraham Lincoln Was Shot.) Goodwin and myself were the Walnut Street theater in delphia, the stage carpenter, who was working at Ford's theater the night of the assassination, put in an ap- pearance at the Walnut Street the- ater. He informed Mr. Goodwin (they had been friends for many years) in a confidential manner that he had in his possession something that had caused him great anxiety. The car- penter, whose name I do not recall, told Mr. Goodwin in my presence that he had the Derringer that Booth had used to murder Lincoln. running Phila- “The reason he had not said any- thing about it prior to that time, he said, was because he was afraid of theater after Booth had fled to Vir- ginia. He pocketed the weapon and kept it a secret. ment of the oc in our He drew up a state- urrence and signed it presence. Then he gave the Derringer to Mr. Goodwin. When Mr. Goodwin died his widow made me a present of the weapon, together with ned, state- chly, says the Philadelphia In- and no amount of money could purchase it. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Prof, Requested to Take Charge of George Edgar Vincent May Be the Institution, Prof. George Edgar Vincent, who is prominently sible mentioned as the pos- of Seth Low in the presidency of Columbia university, is one of the most capable educators in America, and at present an associate professor of sociology in the Univer- sity of Chicago. He is a son of Bishop Vincent, of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for more than a dozen years he has been conspicuously asso- ciated with the work of the Chau- tauqua movement, the vast impor- tance and possibilities of which he was one of the first to see. In 1885 Prof. Vincent was graduated from suecessor PROF. GEORGE E. VINCENT. {Chicago Scho Who May B dent of Columbia.) Yale and took advantage of an oppor- tunity to study and to travel abroad. He was tendered his present post in the University of Chicago in 1892, and has collaborated with Prof. Small in the production of text books, upon the science of which he is a special stu- dent and an able teacher. He is not yet_40 years old, and hence may be said to belong to the ever-growing group of young men who are gradual- ly filling up the big places in Amer- ican institutions of higher education. Biggest Tree in the World. The largest tree in the world is to be seen at Masca the foot of | Mount Etna. Its trunk is 304 feet in jcireumference. The largest tree “in the United States is said to be the gigantic tree near Bear creek, on the north fork of the Tule river, in Cali- fornia. It megures 140 feet in cir- cumference. The famous giant red- | wood tree in Nevada is 119 feet in cir- | eumference. » near } Automobiles for Tourists. A line of “observation automobiles” | is to be run in Washington, D. C., for the benefit of visitors. Each vehicle earries 22 passengers and will be ac- / companied by a lecturer on points of nterest at the capital. The fuel is kerosene and the motive power steam —— ee — LLL being arrested. The carpenter : he picked it up on the stage of BYa. A SMOKY CHIMNEY. Gets Moses Calmer Into a Series of Harrowing Difficulties. While Investigating He Falls Head First Into Offending Chimney, Kicks It to Pieces and Is Ar- rested by Irate Landlord. Arrest, after having become fastened head down in a chimney, b choked with smoke, having the chim- ney fall apart, rolling down the roof of his house, and finally being saved from a fall to the gro by hi catching on the gutter, allowing to dangle over the edge, was too much for Moses Calmer, of 294 Maxwell street and he grew eloquent in his own ing almost coat him defense in Justice Dooley’s court at Chieago, the other day. His pleas failed to move the justice, however, and his case was continued te give him time to replace the chimney or suffer the consequences. Calmer told Justice Dooley that the chimney smoked so badly it not only ruined his furniture, but actually changed the color of his whiskers. He then went on to tell how a fire was started in the kitchen stove at his home and the house became so full of smoke shortly afterward that he was obliged to let it out through the win- oming exasperated, he finally got a ladder, and, climbing to the roof of the house, tried to find why the smoke did not come out in the regular way There was very little smoke coming out when he started to make an exam- ination and he put his head inside to see if any obstruction had been placed there. a moment As he did so he slipped and in his body tween the four brick sides was wedged be- His son Isaac, whom f HIS COAT CAUGHT. able f to the blaze and a short while ad after inside the commenced tk Almost Calmer s gied to when the chimney fe apart, allowing him to roll down the of the chimney up smoke come n yolumes blinded uffocated, himself side house tune smiled on Calmer for a mo- ment, for as he struck the iron gutter his coat caught on a projection and he hung suspended in thea y twist- ing himself around he managed to get hold of the gutter with his hands and then it took him but a few moments to reach a ladder. With his eyes smarting and his face begrimed with the smoke Calmer slowly descended to the ground, where the remains of the chimney lay scat- tered about. He went into the house, determined that Mre. P. H. Joyce, of Brighton Park, the ovner of the build- ing, would have to replace the chim- ney with one that would work properly. When the latter was notified, however, she declined to agree to any such proposition and declared that Calmer would have to pay for his rather costly experiment. The latter refused and legal proceedings were against him. HIS CHRISTIAN HU MILITY. commenced Kept Track of His Faliings by Touch- ing Up His Wife with His Shillalah, The following story from the Em- erald isle is a good instance of the de- lightful inconsequence in an Irish- man’s ideas: A certain priest was a good deal astonished to find that a man who used to come and confess to him regularly once every year al- ways began his list of offenses “I have beaten my wife.” After giv- ing him absglution several times for this misconduct, he thought at last he ought to inquire the cause of this cruelty. “Ah! but, your riverence,” ex- plained the distressed Irishman, “it’s not croolty that it is at all, at all. It’s just this way. Ye see, I'm cursed with a most ontenacious mimory, an’ whin it comes to the ind of the year sorra a one ov all my sins can i re- mimber.” “Well,” said the has that to do with i “Why, thin, ye s your riverence, I just take me shillalah and give my wife the least taste in life of it across her back, and she reels out all the bad things iver I've done for the last 12 months. ‘Tis not riverence, that makes wife, but ’tis just mility.” est, “and what croolty, your me bate my pure Christian hu- Europe's Military Burden, France has a soldier to every 59 inhabitants, Germany one ss 9, Italy one to every to every Russia one to every 134, and Great Britain one to every 100. The largest insect known is elephant beetle of Venezuela, was fourd that weighed 7 oune the One ttend to the fire, had added consider- | BOY KING IN TRAINING. Trouble Has Begun for Louis Phil- ippe, Heir Presumptive to Por- tugal’s Shaky Throne. ' Though only a little younger than “little Alphonzo,” Louis Philippe, crown prince of Portugal, has led a much more boyish life. Portugal im- poses no restrictions upon its future rulers and pays them no homage be- yond that of deep respect, and so the little future king has up to this time | led the life of a boy. Now, however, | all is to be different and the child | must realize that he is a man. Louis Philippe has hitherto oceu-| pied a bed chamber in connection | with his brother, little Prince Manuel, CROWN PRINCE OF PORTU (Bright Youngster Is Known by the Name of Louis Philippe.) but now he has been removed to @| large stateroom, where he will sleep | alone, except for a tutor who occu- | pies a bed near by, but even this is | in an adjoining room, so that the lit- | tle prince will lie down to sleep and | dream without human companion- | ship. In aceordance with ancient Portuguese custom a tried and trust- ed valet will sleep across the door sill upon the of the door- way, so that no one can enter with- out disturbing the faithful retainer. The young prince child and full of mischief. He inher- its the brilliant talents and the beauty of his lovely mother, Queen Am , Whose features are of a rare type. The prince is well schooled and speaks many languages. He has not, however, been drilled in military tactics and, contrary to his far-off neighbors, the German princes, knov little or nothing about firearms. Th knowledge will be included in his | new training and he will shortly ride out with the marksmen to shoot at mock game, then at real. He nt rider and performs feats of daring. 7 The kings of Portugal have all been students and little Louis Philippe will be ed to tread the path of learning, a road to which he has not His outside s a very clever is an many been thus far greatly inclined new training starts in at and jfrom this time on his royal highness will be not a boy, but a 1 ; Among the coming eligibles Portu- gal’s future king must be counted i for he is a very rich child throu | his mother’s dower right, which seends to him and his brother, and as ruler of Portugal he will receive | the largest income in proportion to the size of the kingdom and the nec- essary expenditures of any ruler in | Europe. | - once an. LANGUAGE OF BIRDS. Miss Reins Wright, a Wisconsin Girl, Can Talk Intelligently with Feathered Gossips. Reina V. Wright, a talented young girl of Fond du Lae, Wis., has mas- tered the language of birds in a manner which enables her perfectly MISS REINA V. WRIGHT. (Wisconsin Gir! Who Can Talk <o Birds in Their Own Tongue.) to understand their conversation. Miss Wright, who is now 18, has made a study of bird sounds since she was 12 years old. She began by talking to her feathered friends in their own tongue, and was soon gratified by | noting her power of calling them ta gether and imposing silence upon them while she trilled their songs. The birds not only listen, but answer her, sometimes in chorus and again one at a time. Miss Wright is now a teacher of elocution at Grafton hall, in Fond du Lac. She was born {n Ne- braska and came to Fond du Lae when a child of three. She has been a student in the Ralston University of | Expression and Physical Culture at Washington, where she worked under the private direction of President Edgerly. She was graduated last year { others depended | contained the | of cour | static j and then went home to teach. Fishing for Pink Pearls, ,» One of the most important indus- tries of the 'phama islands is the gathering of! pink pearls. It is the only place in the world where these Pearls are found. The pearls, when perfect, bring very high prices, it is said, ranging from $50 to $5,000. CUPID PLAYS PR. Mixes a Young Woman’s and ‘*No’’ Letters, discovers Mistake Atte Mailed and Thea Head Off the Leticry The Chicago post bombarded with tciey wuiman in Kan- ig, imploring which she had mgi be stopped. She e whole future happin upor letters. “Hold the letters. I to Chicago and will ides That was her lasi informat distracted young wom |} two proposals of marr swered both, but nad pu the wrong envelopes. Oy 2, but the other ness of her maide the fu | love letter that finished w | ceptance of a successful! The young woman | name can’t be given, b | the rules of the post | the | other morning. | presence of Superintend offic federal She ru lake front told him who she was. “Have you got them? breathless suspense. Mr. Cahill pushed son tons, and in two minut seurrying of cterks fré the building. They gether in provoki way, but finally Mr. Cat hand two much-marked “Here two stopped in answer to y are bette IT SAYS he said; “one was in int fice. re ° The exeited swooped upon the ou opes. ¥ young the le 3 “See? This is the one y- It say explained to the sympa “And here is the whom I wished to be e “Yes he said, b ou don’t know w you and your clerks ha I'd have traveled a m stop those letters. And they had already been se substations. Oh, it was aw of you. I'll go all the w City before I write a Then I'll write my day and wait a week bef ‘no’ letter. Oh, I'll never like that again.” If nobody else apprecia except a man in Engiewe in West Chicago, and th times put letters in the opes, it’s all right. Oldest Known Among the many things to be seen in the Br um is an old Chinese the of abou lings, which was bought Pope Hennessy, the Hong-Kor an bank Note face value auct g-Woo, the of the Ning dyr the year 1398, and is of is believed to be t in existence belonging Bank notes are used in China before th: tury, and were certainly eral hundreds of year art-of printing was know: said Voice Suddenly Restored Mrs. Ferris, of Hollow, near Bath, N. Y vocal cords George about a ealling her farm ha entirely lost her voice. time she became mute ued until a short time dentist extracted twe The pain seconc “Oh, you ux with joy when s Voice had been’ so Was so er tooth Told of a M A selfish young ma married a lame gir along with a er inconvenient companion on a honeys Started to enjoy it alon diately after the ceremor train tor Buffalo the Pan-Ameri an writes loving le ing how he is eu —_ ee = exp ers to b ing bh ying b EO erroeoretse «= Ss =