The Washington Bee Newspaper, November 23, 1901, Page 1

PAPER FUn - 1 FIRESIDE COMPANION. It is true if you see it in THE BEE. pomwr BORROW THIS PAPER GREXY ADVERTISING MEDIUM, he Bee FRY rr: Do you want réfiable news? Do you wanta fearless race advocate? Do want colored Read and advertise irae BEE! vou. 20. WASHINGTON, D. C. SA’ URDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1901. NO. 2 cIMPL pijective Applied tothe New Ameer} the United States, where of Afghanistan. Native Platte Lady Physi an, Who er Since Enalis ws Known Bi ihood, bibullah to the anistan is subjecting the youth to the pon the part of in Whether he will be follow out the pol \bdur Rahman, re weak man, © ite the long-threat the far east. recently publishe¢ Dr. Lillian Hamil eral years was the house to punish the re Ishak, Prinee} eldest son was left te 1 the nay have m. He has to combine in commor nd courtly man . t imed y, the piety and re ms of Mohamed Afzu , and the r knes seen perception of Ab-| thout his violence anc stion that stil ) AND COURTLY | ma: ers, Bat by an| was hout 1s GisCouragea. 1 it and have gone t sensible grooms have from $800 to $1,500, refus | Bappy to perform mony for he reli | due and orderly inheritance of prop- erty, is always in order, an¢ ple are contenting them what the law sa any peo- es with T TO A MASON. { MONUM A Tlovement im Mem ory of the Late | W. R. Singleton, “| | by the Masonic fraternity of this city Tito erect a monument at Oak Hill issia, is likely’ Cemetery in memory of the late and compell them to drink water ike! an oxen, while they dress extrayanant! |lv and lead their husbands by other | ‘ © | extravagancies nut tending to our well | by all administrations. The grievances priests were | being to bankruptcy depriving them | are that the Southern republicans get of the pleasures of this world. Yes | driving them to suicide. O Lord have mercy upon them, they wear not even the color of the face Thou has given them, patiently accept all this! without not content with nature, paint their faces. O Lord, Thou canst also perceive that their figures are not as! -hou has made them. but they wear | humps on their backs like camels and | thou O Lord, perceive that their head | dress consist of false hair and when |they open their mouths Thou seest | their false teeth. And O Lord, just | make a note of their spiral spring and A movement has been set on foot | Sotto batting contrivances they wear in their bossoms for no other purpose |than to make themselves voluptous jand excite in man a much worse pas | -| Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge | sion than the use of wine, and for this | William R. Singleton. j| Acommittee consisting of the follow- .| ing members of the Grand Lodge F. A. A.M.. of this city, has been ap- pointed to collect funds for the execu- tion anderection of the monument: Most Wershipful Master Harry Stand- her set out for! jford, Grand Master; Past Grand -| Masters George W. Baird, Matthew and Past Grand Secretary C. W. Hancock. A plaster cast model of the proposed monument is on exhibition at the Ma- sonic Temple, corner of Ninth aad F sperity| streets northwest. One of the most prominent Free It, but| Masons in the world is the Illustrious the| F, Webber 33° See’ty Gen’'l for the Southern Jurisdiction. ‘Ihe lll. Web- ber has a fine office at the flouse of the Temple E and 3rd. sts. n. w., he isa courteous and magnanimous Sir ‘| Knight. The Southern Jurisdiction } of the H. H.S. R. is the mother Su- preme Council of the world, and the hout his| most powerful of the Supsreme Coun- cils. After the enactment of the Con- stitution of 1786, the Supreme Coun- jy|cilof which the Hl. Webber is the preseat G. 8S. G. H. E. was formed in ,| 1801, at Charlestown, S. C.( the Grand | Orient )for reasons of convenience. *| The office is located at Wash. D, is that of pow-| The late Albert Pike 33, was the Popular he] Grand Commander; he was noted and nt, but without} the most eminent Mason in the world. country no one| The A. A. 8. R. for some reasons, emain in favor. At} as always beenin e state of confu ible to answer} rity. ras said, “is the! perity of England. t workman y.” Prince only the eld 1 already actec durin LLAH KHAN. Asiatic Kingdom tan.) s health declined, and more au- s hands. rs—until, indeed, vn by Abdur Rah- and the law of re- raids which they universal through- of Afghanistan. at war with his of them, and the of older lineage 1 to be slaves in » various rob- ! it ne about of the Mir of Fy- prisoner by Mir f Turkistan, and, was kept in the t up with his own should be old arry her, Jo- vever, died before 1, and when his e Abdur Rahman's her the riend of her child- erward the ameer, took wi by her beauty an old lady common, married t mest at the vs daugh- n of her own, ern wives, was Idren in his ase Pees in Mexico, unded reports of charges on the part “sized up” Thus osee e per- sioa from the start to the present. | lodayin this country there are at least about five factions among the whites, among the colored seven, all claiming to be the Senior pure article, | ber 33 is the Sec’ty Gen’l, is the legal | and donifide faction. As we have said ;|from time to time the Bee is well | equipped in information appertaining }should all be careful in throwing |stones when we are living in glass word Bogus when we are talking about the various factions. A heap seesand {| few knows, a heap hear and fewcom- prehend; inour travels we hear the | words bogus, spurious, illegal etc. Relative to the Masons in a_ parade and |prised to know that Freemason’s wear green aprons, yet owing to the numerous factions of colored Masons itis not to be wondered that the pondent of the Wash. Times who prepared the article, must have been }color blind; for his infermation, |Masons wear white aprons: plain, | sometimes they have blue, purple and red borders, wé state this in order that there will be no furthur mistakes, !we presume from the description | that the organization was the Knights | of Jerusalem or Good Samaritans or | Fisherman, but weare satisfied that ibul, but in his(they were not Free Masons. We and has, more-| have the origin of the various factions not only in this country, but the Old | world, and we know what we are talking about whenever we print. IT IS NOP BAD AFTER ALL, A Prayer That Had Its Efiect, From the Ax, Mr. Epitor: The following prayer is the result of a visit ofa committee of ladies who called upon the proprietor of a saloon to close its doors. Not being members of the Temper lance Union, we simply advised him | for the good of our community, as we | could see the evil results of its pros |perity. The proprietor invited us to seats and ask one of our committee to pray. I was deeply pondering what the result would be when the proprie |tor announcec he would also pray. The prayer ran thus as wellas 1 can lremember: ‘‘Almighty Creator in Heaven, Thou who kadst made the heaven and earth, and created man in Thine own image as th> ruler of the /earth, whilst animals are living on | grass and water, Thou didst teach Thy | servant Noah to make wine, and Thou | didst punish him for making intemp erate use of it. Atthe wedding of Cana |Thine own Son, Jesus Christ trans Trimble, ana William G. Henderson,| | | | | | } | | | in|from a Masonic Historicat standpoint, | aster when|the Pike Faction of which Ill. Web- to all subjects, as we have said, we} |houses. N.B.we meanto cut out the} article in the} Times last week about the colored | having | e | | trouble with the police, we are sur-|not bear the burdens of the married | life and obey Thy commands to multi| suffice it to say,that President Roose- | But they | velt, will it is sai¢, make an invatation | are too lazy to raise theirchjldren, and | amd recognize colored Northern re- | Same reason they have a number six foot pinched in a number three shoe, | and a forty waist squeezed into a uum-/| ber seventeen corset O Lord these woman want men who patiently ac ceptall this without using tne power Thou has given to wan, that all women shall be subject to man. They will! just the EX-SUPT. W. The Man Who made the Public dent Roosevelt recognition of northern | colored republicans who have been systematically ignored, it is claimed | all the offices and cannot cast an elec- | torial vote. The contention of the| Southern republicans is that, while} they cannot cast an electorial vote,! they can send delegates to every na | tional republican convention, which is | more than gorthern republicams can do. Northern republicans are against the retention of Recorder Cheatham and Register Lyo's. For what pur-| pose no one knows. Both of these men have rendered valuable servi ce to the race and the party. The South- ero republicans claim that it is no fault | | of theirs ifthey cannot cast an honest ballot, They cannoc combat the shot} guns and winchesters, whi e they are perfectly willing to vote. New York. Ohio, Missouria, and Maryland and two other states have requested the President to appoint other colored | men in the places of Lyons and Cheat- ham. It would make ne difference what places were held by South- lern colored republicans. Northern republicans would apply tor them! same. Just what move the Northern colored repub! cans will B. POWE Schoo!s What they are today. ply and resplinish the earth O Lord! Thou knowest the crimes} white folks, class all organizattons as | they cemmit, O Lord have mercy spon j Free Masons, I guess that the Corres-|them and take them back to Thy Bossom. ‘ e folly out of their hearts | give them common sense and grant | that they may be good citizens of this community. O Lord we thank Thee} for blessings Thou hast bestoed upon | us and ask Thee to deliver us from all evils, ; especially hypocritical lying | women, and Thine shall bethe glory, Amen. BRCOMES DESPONDED [Health Causes James Brooks to Attempt | Suicide, | Atelegram received here last Tues day night from Pittsburg gave imfor mation of an sttempt which had been made by James Brooks colored; of this | city to kill himself by sending a bullet into his left side. The deed was com} mitted at the house of Mrs. Ophelia| Barnett, 1304 Franklin street, where} the young man roomed. Brooks is a} son of the Rev. Walter Brooks. He| j told people in the house that he was} tired of life. An effort was made to preyent him from pulling the trigger, | but without success. | Although only twenty two ears old, ) Brooks has served several years in the] army. He became ill while serving in Cuba last summerand was given his | discharge. It ls believed his poor} dent. NORTH VS SOUTH. Northern Republicans Organizing. Opposed to the South Recetving All, A Secret Political Clab on Foot. Recognition is What is Demanded, Some several years ago the colored | formed water into wine, when the | republicans organized ‘for the purpose juice of the grape was exhausted, that | of demanding from the admunistrati on the enjoyment of the guests be not | of President Harrison opines disturbed. The great reformer Martin | THE BEE some few months ago put Luther, said: ‘tHe who does not | lished an account of the scheme and love wine, woman and song, remains | said then that it was a mov omen that a fool all his life long’’ and one of the| would effect the negroes a oug! pul divine commands of the book, Thou | the country. Some few months agoa hast given us, is that a man shall| similar movement was sts drink no longer water, but shall use a little wine for the stomach’s s other infirmit ake and|of demanding from President > And all great men of} Kinley recogmition. The movement ted among purpose Me- northern republicans for tt | this earth ha e been drinking of wine, | did not make much head way. ee Thou hast given thy children upon the | organization continued to grow, unt earth, We pray Thee have pity on|it reached erior of Mexico, |the women here, who are not gratefil| thousands. membership of several tis composed of office | for Thy gifts, whe want to make Tay| ho'ders representing every state in the \ children like the beasts of the field‘ union and it wii demand trom Presi- DP ogress for any political party ori make it not defiinitely known. But publicans. Allis not smooth beneath the surfface. There isa feeling of un- rest among the politicians because the President bas said that he will not take the recommendation of the politicians. BLACK RACE Needs White Man’s Help—The only way to ge, rid of the Race Prodlem Hoaorably ts to Make the Colored Maa Better. | By George W. Cable, Itseems to me important that any one trying just now to say a word for the Negro should begin by stating as I state here: I believe in the value and duty of keeping the white race white, and I believe the best way to keep the white race white, pure and pre-eminent is to do all that can be done to elevate the Negroin mind, morals and every trae aspiration, Educate him. Treathim justly and let the risks we take with him—tor in this, as in all things, they who risk nothing gain nothing—be on the side | of freedom and human brotherhood. | Some men say there is but one way | to get rid ofthe Negro problem, and | that is to get rid of the Negro. But there is but one way to get rid of the Negro problem honorably and | that is to getrid of the Negro honor-| ably. There is but one way to get rid of make ,hima different Negro. There is but ome way to make him a different and better Negro, and that | is tomake the best of him, individually | and collectively, and there is but one way to make the best of him individ-| ualiy or collectively, and that is to make him as good a citizen as we cap make him. He must be made, as far as can be| made a taxpayer, Not a poil-tax payer but a taxpayer | on property, There is the tap root} of safety. | and better) All Negroes cannot be mace tax-| payers all white men cannot be made taxpayers. Many N-groes and many | duct ofa N shool of economies to talk of making the best of any situation without max- ing the best of whoever is in the situa- tion. Asto the part ofthis situation which asks how much the Negro should be educated in order to make the most and best of him, the answer should be that that depends on the particular Negro. As long as that self evident truth is denied the Negro question will remain with us. It is not always remembered that Booker T. Washington is the pro- fa Northern Missionary college inthe South. If Booker T, Washing- ton should be compelled to limit his education to the learning of trade. the thousands and tens of thousands 0} Negroes who owe their mechanical | training, their decent homes and their modest competencies to him must have never be elevated by giving all of them the same degree of education. The statement of Governor Chand- ler of Georgia in this symposium, that the President’s social reception of Mr. B. Tt. Washington will not effect the ceived with pleasure by thousands of Northern men who love their Southern brethern, right or wrong. For scarce ly anything else hasso beclouded that ———— —_____________ | question as the belief tnat that estab- | lishment of the Negro in his political and civil status, as defind in the Con stitution weuld some how operate to }man’s private society—and that the Northern white man so desires it to operate—a very good answer to which mistaken belict is that, even in Boston itself, no such result of social confu’ sion takes place and nobody is trying to make it take place, And yet the Governor’s statement |is net absolutely accurate DOES NOT PRACTICE WHAT HE PREACHES. From the Nationa! Baptist Union, If there is a Negro in allthis coun- try who should be admonished to practice what he preaehes that dis- tinguished personage is Prof. Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee fame. While the celebrated Professor is urging other Negroes to crowd their }children into the industrial school which he is manipulating, and insist- ing that they content themselves with what heis pleased to call *‘ training of the hand,” he is educating his |children in Northern white colleges, wherein they receive the highest de | gree of intellectual culture. As evi dence of this assertion, the fact is not- ed that Press reports a few days ago | contained the following: ‘““A few days agoareport went out from Wellesly Celiege, in Massachu- shown against Booker T. Washing |ton’s daughter, Portia, in the placing {of her in the school. The college | authorities made haste to deny that }in the school. The characterand re- putationof Wellesley are such that they do not need to make any such protestations.” | Observant Negroes would like to | know why itis that Prof. Washington | does not content bimself with that character of training for his own chil | dren that he vouchsafes unto others. |Why should not his daughter ‘Por tia’ be taught to cook good biscuits and to knit marketable hose, instead |of seeking a finished education in a | white college where now and then it | becomes a question largely in debate | whether or not she is wanted on the campus ¢ Wedo not as<ume to dic- tatetothe Professor but it is our undis- puted privilege to call his attention to the fact that if a first class educa- tion is desirable for his children, oth- er Negroes possessed with the same degree of parental! love for their chil- drenare partial to such training In the days to come when Mr. Washington poses asthe advocate of the utilitarian idea, other members of his race will find serious tempta- tion to suggest “‘Gothou and do likewi ae oe Break in China, “Every time you open your mouth,* said the elderly and envious, but plebeian aunt, “you put your foot in it!” “And that is something, you know,” pleasantly replied the wife of the mandarin, looking at her relative’s ample understanding, “you couldn! possibly do.”—Chicago Tribune. At Their Mercy. Suburbs (in great glee)—Shout wit joy, Mary! Celebrate! Mrs. Suburbs—I guess you're going crazy, aren’t you? We've had new health caused him to become despon-| ihe Negre honorably, and that is to| cooks before, you know. Suburbs—Yes, I know, but this one coming out, and lost both her purss end return ticket—Brooklyn Life. Expert Gardeners in Japan. Artist gardeners in Japan earn large salaries. They are required te twist and direct young trees until they assume the shapes of various animals. Many of these odd-shaped plants are exported to New York. WINTER TOURIST TICKETS, SEASON 1901-2. gone without them. A people can | true, whi thrust him arbitrarily into the white} setts, that much predjudice was/ | there are any discriminations of colot | A TREATY OF PEACE. Made Between Two Colonies of Beavers and Muskrats. A Little Story Which Shows That the Animal World Contains Diplo- mats Equal to Talleyrand \ and Bismarck, Charles Nicholas, an ian guide of Kineo, Moosehead lake, to whom .he habits of birds and beasts are an open book, tells the Boston Herald the folk lowing little story, which he declaresis h is certainly good enough to be true: Near the head of Spencer bay is an extensive mareh, where in the sum- mer time deer are wont to feed and frolic, where in the fall the lordly Negro question in any way. will be re | Moose comes from off the mountain to mate, and where, at all seasons of the nruskra ble have xt so far away is a smaller s innume marsh, where for ny years a colony of beaver has | in e houses | built close by the water's edge. These two little communities never ex- changed ea in happy The gi , but lived and prospered clusion. of the ice from the 1 lake last spri llowed by an alk | most unprecedented rise of water, ané the two marshes in Spencer bay, the | large one and the} » one, Were CO™= pletely covered. Now, the muskrats did not mind the flood a bit. from one hole, they sought further back, more holes the nts set up housekee 1 hu ile of driftwood, neve mea! or a wink of sleep. But with the beaver it was d These industrious property owners suffered severely, when the wa- ters of Mooseh last re= ceded the ruins of the be ges | went with them beavers did not | sit and sulk, nei d they for a moment think of building again on the same old site. They sought high- er ground, where the floods of another | spring could not reach them, and so it came about one fine morning when the muskrats came down onto the marsh to play they found the beaver there before them. It was a large marsh, as has been stated before, but it was not large enough for both muskrat and beaver, and the war ended in thé breaking up of the musktat colony and the scattering of the rats along the shores of Spencer War was at once declar ‘Two miles from the marsh and on | the farther side of the bay was @ }clump of poplar trees, which the beavers selected as the best material | | available for their new homes. AI | day and all night they sawed, until | finally they had floating in the lake ctly rafted several hundred | and comy logs just the right length and thick- for up-to-date beaver houses, | They cou!d not even stir the raft of logs from shore, to say nothing of towing it two miles across Spencer bay to the marsh, Every beaver in the colony waa summoned to the tas Young and old, big and little, weak and strong, they pushed and pulled, but they could not budge that raft of timber. Then the head of the beaver col- ony called the other beavers togeth< er on the raft and laid before them this remarkable proposition: If the muskrats would lend a helping hand and tow that raft up Spencer bay they (the beavers) would permit them to return to the big marsh, where they might live without fear of molestation. The rest of the beav~ ers agreed, and the muskrats, when appealed to, also agreed. And the following morning, before the watere of the bay roughed up, the deer and the squiri and the gulls beheld with amazement beavers and musk-~ rats, shoulder to shoulder, pushing a raft of logs before them up Spencer bay. The houses are built and the beav~ ers are in them. And all about are muskrat holes, and muskrats in them, too. And beaver and rat, wha | are at war everywhere else in north- jern Maine, are living together in peace on the big marsh at the hea@ | of Spencer bay. How the Japanese Smoke. | had her pocket picked on the train) The Japanese smoke in a very pe- euliar manner. The pipes have very small metal bowls, with bamboo |stems and metal mouthpieces, and only hold enough tobacco for three or four whiffs. They use a tobacco which is cut extremely fine, and looks more like a ljight blonde hair than anything else. It is of a good quality, however. The Japs take a whiff of smoke and inhale it, letting it pass through the nostrils. They rarely smoke more than one pipeful ata time. ~“Some time ago the cat of the St. white men insist on remaining penni-| pal TIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD. | Paul post office made a record by less and worthless. But we try to} make this number as small as possible and the number of taxpayers as large as possible by making education both of tue head and of the hand as free, as necessary, as obligatory and as useful 48 possible. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has placed on sale at all principal offices | East of the Ohio River, Winter Tourist Tickets to points in Alabama, Florida Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina and Texas; also Hav- RESULTS DEPEND ON P \RTICULAR NEGRO. It 1s coo late in history of the world’s ana, Cuba, and Nassau, N. P., at re- | duced rates. | For additional information call on Agent Baltimore & Onio R. R. slaying 125 rats and mice in one month. In recognition of her abili- ties the postmaster wrote to Wash- ington, asking an increase in her sal- ary, and she now receives $10.40 a year. Soon after she showed her } gratitude by presenting the govern- ment with five kittens, each of which | entered the United States service as { soon as it was old enough to tackle a rat |