The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 6, 1902, Page 1

tx PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE, _ J FIRESIDE COMPANION. ig Is true if you see it in THE BEE. ia wet BORROW THIS PAPER GRERP ADVERTISING MEDIUM, ae. est De want news? Do you want fouttessuaes Do eet at and advertise in THE BEB! WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1902 HEITFELD, OF IDAHO, wo in Washington as the “Far- mer Senator.” fas Won Handreds of Friends Be- cause Me Never Talks Unless He Has Something to Say—His Ltnique Career, ieitfeld, of Lewiston, Idaho, six years in the states senate and likes it so willing to make it Kansan who was the neigh- \. J. Bailey, republican nom- governor of his state. Heit- met Bailey at a debating Neither was 20 years old, ey gave early promise of erved ae is ting into politics. Young Heit- feld was trying to develop a farm four miles east of Baileyville. Noth- g was further from his mind than * the United States senate. 3 re be had any political ambition been developed through every ewe which could come to a nd business man, including and Kansas grasshoppers. He ed a farm in Kansas, rent- id, homesteaded a quar- t tion in Washington, bought an farm in Idaho, “walloped” into sub- Farmers’ state of the aequ red a competency r thought of doing more s constituency in the When he finally came States senate he was rich in Senator Heitfeld ) st man in M r f Mlinois, has h, but he is squatty. over He is six inch tall, and hs tfeld was born in St. 1859 When he was s mother moved to ther died when he rs old, and the support y devolved upon him | y youth. At 14 years of a quarter section of . ind and farmed near Seneca HENRY HEITFELD Who Is Known as the Farm ) to 1882. The first three were grasshoppers, and orts to produce crops the years ‘ollowing tive raised corn and and to cattle idly. In hogs the ers were pouring into mean- land around Sen- grazing was taken rs. In 1883, the future Idaho left for the far place in from homesteaded a county, Washington. He the Union Pacifie shops money in every legitimate resented itself to an in- y youngster who wasn’t re he had proved ton farm, Mr. Heit- ta farm near Lewiston, s st across from the ie, and bi n rm contained 3 loubled. It proved to t a great in what is known as try and is north of 1 Snake river e ers ra’sed eno t i rich, the the profits tl elevators, and 1 to do bus 3 ‘ tors. Heitfeld let t blish elevators go over 1894, Heit- te senate. rolled both Seaee * | genes a —~ ne the new senator made a record which re- sulted in the offer to nominate him for Heutenant and accepted the nom senate once more. branches of the legislature, bat governor. He declined it tion for the The fusionists had a clear majority, and with a senator to elect, Heitfeld supported W. H. Claggett, the democratic candidate. There were three weeks of balloting without any progress, when Heitfeld’s mame was suggested. Populists as well as democrats liked him, and the deadlock was selved. Wanted Music, “As Lhear your piano very fre quently, Mrs. Fortissimo, I suppose that you are up on musical matters?” “Certainly, Mr. Crusty.” “Then do you know who was play- ing when the poet wrote, ‘Music hath charms’?” “I do not; bet why?” “Well, if yor can find out I wish that.you would invite that musician hans on your piano.”"—N. Y. Her- ald. Some Comments on the Recent Young Peopl Congress. From the National Pilot. We received quite a number of fav- orable comments on our computation on the expenses cfthe Young Peoples’ Congress held in Atlanta not long} since. We only gave what we supposed | to be a moderate estimate of the R. R. traveling expenses. Loard and ex-} penditures f.r luxuries. We could have shown the lossas being much} jgreater by calculating the lost time which is always more serious than *hat} {of money. When the Negro learns the | worth ofa dollar he will have then | learned h s first lesson as to the valu- | of time. The average Negro to-day is lincapable of calculating the value of {either time or money. The man who | has time to go around and attend big | {meetings of deliberations, spending | day after day in riotous living at the | expense others is an idler and brings no good to himself nor tne race to which he belongs. If he pays the tra=} veling expen-es out of bis own pocket he is the reyerse of wise and if he travels atthe expense of others he is a thief! and a robber. It is high time that the so-called representatives of the race were made to come dowrand go to} work, for they are the greatest set of idlers on earth, the mos: of them are worse than railroad tramps. }. Moreover, many of them are kin- | dlers of strife and add fuel to the flame | of racial prejudice. The thing which does the race more harm than any- thing else is the hot headed speech, | ttled off by a foolish babbler. He goes around and plays on the passior jofthe people, floating on, what he \calls, popular sentiment. He caters to whatever sentiment Le believes to be the wishes of the people right or wrong to initiate himself into favor- jabie confidence. | What our people mostly need is sound advice along the lines of indus- try, cleanliness, purity of character, | and frugality, awd however distasteful {such doctrine maybe tothem itis the | doctor's duty to see that the prescrip- tion is properly filled and that the pa | tient is made to take his mediciue. Our |preachers should preach less about | walking the paved streets of the New Jerusalem City ana teach the people | now to walk these streets down here | If they should be so fortunate as to get | {to heaven they will soon learn the| | fashion of walking to the streets, how- | ever beautifully they may be paved | whether with gold or Jasper stone. | | | | | From the Industrial Messenger. The Young Colored People’s Chris-| | tian and Educationol Congress is over. | | We trust that much good was accom- | plished by said Congress. It seems | tobe a question inthe minds of many | }as to whether or not the good accom- | plished was commensurate with the} | time and money spent on account of it. Some who were present do not | hesitate to declare that such was not | |the case. Well, itis all over now, and lallthat we need h re to state is that {we have to live and leara. Possibly | the next time our people will decide to put the amount spent on the Congress | in some enterprise or business that will bring more credit to the race as well as dollars ..nd cents. | | Ethel (coyly)=-What a _ pretty mouth you have. It ought to be on a girl's face. Jack—I seldom miss an oppo ty.—Princeton Tiger. A Cinch, | Brown ous! manages te look so pros; Re Lenient, shoukl'nt judge a man by the * remarked the be “some have one may m to him.”—Cincinnati Com- mercial-Tribune “A Fakir’s Cry”’ From the Evening The Washington Post, hiie taking ‘issue with the Star as to the sincerity | of the cry of negro 4 mination. com- | pliments Senator Pritchard of N wrth Carolin. on his aititude i the present} campaign, and thinks it might be cop- ied e sewhere to advantage. The Star ard on the same subject, and slid so] with all the greater pleasure because of his well known eptaion of the cry jin question. Hethinks thi t the cry « f negro domination is a fakir’s cry \ : | has already complimentea Mr Pritch- | Washington’s nd he has said so repeatedly. If his Present object is not to expose the fa- kirsitis difficult to define it. He has uo chance whatever of success at the polls. His fate two months in advance cf the polling day, and before he has made a single speech to his constitu- ents asking for another term in the Senate, is decided. But it is within his power to show that the disfran- chisement of the negro in North Caro- lina, has notput anendtothe ‘fakir’s cry,” and under the influence of that cry, and with the aid of an elections law framed to fit it, the same old elec tions results can be achieved. In refusing admission to a promi- nent negro delegate to the republican state convention Mr. Pritchard laid himself open to some criticism. He owes his present prominence and in- fluence to the support of the negroes of North Carolina. His two terms in the Senate have been secured with their aid. They could not have been se- cured at all without that aid. He has not changed except in power and re putation since that aid w-s first soiic- ited, and the negroes have not changed since they first responded to his appea! Itis but fair to Mr. Pritchard there- fore to assume thatin barring the ne- groes out of the recent state conven- tion he had but one aim in view, and that was to give the democrats a cam- paign on their own terms. As the ne- — ton further told his hearers that no one would speak at Richmond but a man of business, yet reported judge Terreli, Tom Fortune and several others, whose chief distinction is office seeking ability, there simply to speak and sound his _ praises. Solemn, seri- ous, sad-sounding is the song of the silly son of the solid (white) south. It isa pity that the business men of the race. if they are business men, do not unite along the lines of common and allied interests and quit fooling with Washington, who is using them sim- ply ss an advertising scheme for him self! THE NEGRO VOTE. From the Reserder. The Negro vote, just at the present time. seems to be between the devil and the deep sea. The Democrats have declared for a white.man’s party; aad the Republicans accordingly, have ae- sumed anindependent air and tight- ened their purse strings—so far as the purchasable quantity 1s concerned. The question of wnat to do with the Ne- gro vote, is engaging the white man’s attention and ‘ikewise should cause the Negro to do some serious consid- ering. The past and present corrupt condition of colored voters, is due di- rectly tothe efforts of both Republi_ Not Allowed Admission toa Republican Convention. Republicans of the Country Will The Colored Strike Back. A Political Revo- lution Looked For, gro would not have appeared asa factor on the republican side, the dem- ocratic majority after being rolled up would stand nakedly for the fact that the cry against the negro had been a dishonest one. ‘lo assume otherwise; would be to accuse Mr. Pritchard of in-| gratitude; of beiag willing to kick away w'thcontemptthe ladder upon which he hasclimed to eminence. And tn-| gratitude is especially odious when ex-| hibited toward the weak and lowly. \ Mr. Pritchard will carry his point. The opposition's cry, as he vigorously H complains, is the same old cry of ne-) gro domination, It will win. Th? op- position has no other. One of the pen- alties of fraud is the necessity of keep- | ing 1t up once success has been a- chieved through its aid. The same in-! fluences which caused the spook of ne- | gro domination to be raised are now | instrumental in keepiag it aloft and | advanced to view. Horn the Tailor. On the 15th ofthis month Horn the} ce ebrated tai or at 637 F street north-|Onerous duties. A Negro, guilty of : west will have his grandopening. The | $omemisdemeaor, was given the alter-| waist set. store has been beautifully painted and two handsome show windows put in front, probaly the largest windows of | the kind in the city. Atthe opening | Mr. Horn will take measures of ci tomers ai.d accept their Congratulation | with a deposit or a new suit of clothes. | Horn is one of tne best and most en- terprising tailors in the city. Advice to the Negroes. rom the Boston Guardian Itis worth noting that while Bre’er | Washingtou spoke fervently against | the colored people’s going tothe cities to live. last Monday in his address to the business league in F ichmond, most of the successful members of the league who were listening to him had achieved their success through their city residence and its enviren- | ments. : The speaker further emphasized the fact that the people who sucoeeded in the city donot doso genuinely as do the farmer class. This is indeed ar- chaic and mere childish pabble. Ir puts, with one sweep, Morgan, Carne- gie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt, who give Washington money fo hissehool, in a class with those who live upon their wits But thisis ona par with most of reasoning. The onlv | thing there is about his teaching is its | novet , by reasun of the fact that no- bedy else of his woeful lack of inform tion has the a lvan‘age of the hoom of the daily press. “‘Presid ni’’ Washing cans and Democrats. They must reap what has been sown There are several remedies: One is fcr the better element of the race to refuse to vote for any candidate who seeks to in fluence voters by corrupt methods, the other, and we think the logical | one, is for the colored man to stay out of politics and devote his pres ent energy to_ present needs. We would like to hear from any colored man in the state who has an opinion to express on this issue. The Negro must consider the ques- tion seriously and cautiously. Have the race leaders, teachers and preach- ers taken to the woods or will they) meet the question? A Whipp ng Post. From the News-Enterprise The Louisianna press were almost unanimous in admitting diciary of our State was the most ex- pensive ia the Union. We are informed ; some public spirited ciizens have re- lieved our judges of a part of their native of going tojail or being whipped He preferred the whipping and it was} pin. They are flat and round, in gold | subdrawer over his s “gently administered” to the satisfac- tion of the aggrieved parties and dis- {comfort of the culprit. That's right, give the officials a rest during these hot ays. Cotton picking will soon be in full blast and the laborers will rush here. A strange experience came to Mrs. Kidd, of Fort Wayne, Ind. She was | rubbing camphor ona sore gum, when suddenly her teeth came together on and held it so securely that n't withdraw it. A doctor to re the lacerated finger he had to pry open her jaws. could was summoned, anc sase Usefal Berlin Rexulation. D chmen in Berlir white hats. Th lic to promptly recognize a phy vehicle in case his services are sud ly reauired. wear to enable the pr L. J. Woollen. One of the most successful steamn- boat managers in this country is Mr. L. J. Woo'en, manager of the River Queen, an +xcursion boat that runs upon the Potomac River for colored peonle. For many vears Mr Woolen hasbeena benefactor, so ar as the colored people are concerned. In years gone by when managers of the tous conducted by white people and for white people, stopped colored practical | that the ju-| people from riding in their boats, Mr. Frank Hume, a democrat of wealth, in conjunction with othe~ associates of his, conceived an idea ui placing upon the river a boat for colored people. Mr. L. J. Woolen wis eaiebet noon ger and he has done all in his power tosatisfy his patrons and has undoubted ly given them satisfaction. There are many thousand colored people and many colored denominations in this city who have patronized the River Queen, because Mr.Woolen has demonstrated the fact that he is and has been their friend. Thereis no man better appre- ciated than he is by the entire popula- tion. He is a drawing card so far as friends and admirers among them and wherever he is you may always expect a friendly greeting. The season is about to close and it is regretted that some enterprising citizen has not sug- gested a public testimonial to him, in the way-of an excursion for his hene- fit, on the River Queen. Tue Bez be- lieves that he is entitled to it andas a guarantee of good faith, Tus Ber would suggest a testimonial excursion to Mr. Woolen for his past favors and his efforts to please the colored people while others have ostricised them. PHILOSOPHY OF THE PRISON. {®ing-Sing (N. Y.) Star of Hope.) Example is more forcible than pre eept. Suspicion is a source of great un- happiness. Do not waste time in useless re- grets over losses. The heart hardens by misfortune like the hands of labor. The man who goes to the bad sel- dom has a long journey. Some people are so good-natured that they are disagreeable. Under all cireumstances make the best of your surroundings. dence, so our lives will be safe. It is upon the smoothest ice we slip; est path is the safest. the roug Some people who think they are perfect are perfectly simple. Few the indus- trious, but all temptations assail the | idle. | | | simply | temptations beset True greatness does not consist in never failing, but rising again after } a fall. lf fortune has played thee false to- | day, do thou play true for thyself to- | morrow. One should look beneath the foam on the sea to see that which lies in the depths below. | There | not be penetrated by eandle of kindness. s no cell so dark that it can- the Roman Yes, indeed; a prisoner is like a man at the dentist’s waiting to have a tooth pulled. | stay and see the thing out. aid that philosophy to human | Some one has and freedom are essential are denied freedom, happiness. We so let us recline gracefully on the bosom of philosophy. GLITTERING TRIFLES. Cameo pins, brooch style, for neck | and belt ribbons are sold in sets and are quite a fad. One of the things which one may | buy of the jeweler is a small cinerary | urn of erystal. It is small and grace- | ful in form. | The snake bracelet is with us— the body of gold or silver scales and the half-uplifted head of plain metal, with sapphires, emeralds or topazes for eyes. Fobs are winning their way with of black silk ribbon with a horseshoe with nailheads of | liants and a silver stirrup. goml bril- | An odd watch fob is in the design of three dogs’ heads in silver, con- | nected with fine link chains. The eyes of each are jeweled, and the de- n looks prettier than the deserip- tion sounds. Here is a new variety of the shirt There are the three but- for a_ belt | tons with a larger disk or silver plated, and in the center of | each button is an inifial. | ther marking of the summer girl for identification. She may have the ini- tial of her first or last name upon | the buttons, as she pleases. His Specialty. “J heard you tell a man the other day,” observed the le hat a con- firmed bunion was pi ly incur- able. Yet you are working away at mine as if you expected to cure it.” “I'm trying to make a corn of it,” explained the chiropodist. “I can knock out any corn that ever hap- pened.”—Chicago Tribune. The Age of Realism, Mabel—In old-fashioned novels the hero and heroine married in the last chapter and lived happily ever after- |, ward. Marion—They write more naturally The he heroine the first ¢ >» and apter and live Town Topics. nowat marry in unhappily afterwar A Hard Task. “He is the most uine ever knew. He act teach a girl to love said she might learn. “Other men have tried it and suc- ceeded.” “Yes, but this fellow tried to teach her by mail.”-—Brooklyn Life. man I ndertook to n because she they are concerned. Hewhas many! The small boy will not be in evi-| He has generally to| | feminine fancy and a sporty one is| It is a fur-| STORY WITH A POINT: How Tom Johnson Rose from Ov-} scurity to Power. | He Was Faithful to the Little Teaste Committed to His Care and Won the Co lence of His Employers. { The man who was recently elected: mayor of Cleveland, O., familiarly known as “Tom Johnson,” when at, the age of 14 lived in Louisville, Ky and secured employment as an office boy at two dollars a week in a foun-| dry. His duties consisted of keeping the office clean, running errands and, picking up odd scraps that got inte; other people’s way. B. du Pont, who was part owner of the foundry, saw the industrious office boy rush one day into the street, pick up 4 bit of iron, and, returning, threw} it onto the scrap heap inside. When the boy reentered the office Mr. du Pont said to him: “Why did you do that, my son?* “Why, sir,” said Tom, a bit embar- rassed, “there was no use wasting it, They can put it in the furnace and use it over again.” “Well, I just think I can use you, young man, in the street car business, | How would you like to come at seven dollars a week?” ‘ Young Johnson, says the Chicaga Daily Sun, accepted the five-dollar: raise with alaerity. Mr. du Pont con- trolled the Fourth avenue and Walnut street lines. Fighs ¢ teenth Walnut ets, and at Fourth atenue and Main street was the {drawing station. All the ears of the + One barn was at and system had to pass there and it was |there that the money was drawn \from the big, clumsy boxes into which the fares were dropped. One of the rule jthat as each b: of the company was of m ney was drawn the drawer must it into the office, put it into the cle the door. To this rule 1 owed his promos tion from office boy. Mr. du Pont was seldom at the d jing station durir the drawers g the day, and in No one access to the room but the drawe and knowing one another to be honest, they formed the habit of carelessly throwing the bags of money on the, ew careless Mayor of Clevelaré, W ide Himself Great : | floor and piling them all into the safe na heap at the end of the day or | when they thought Mr. du Pont might ve around. One day the chief drawer was ill and young Johnson, the office boy, was jsent by Mr. du Pont from Eighteenth and Walnut streets to Fourth avenue ind Main street to help ou nson ‘aad the rules and in drawing the bag »f money from the first car, he bound- d up the steps to the room, opened |the safe, threw in the money and | slammed the door. | “What did you do that for?” demand- | ed the bookkeeper. “The rules say so.” answered the vue as he ran |down the steps to meet 4 her ear. The same thing was repeated a dozen Then the bookkeeper wheeled | times | around and demande “Don’t you think I'm honest? Do you think I want to steal any of that money | “Dunno,” n, “but the safe answer ‘Put the the rule says: shut the door. at’s what I’m going to do whether you like it or not.” The bookkeeper jumped off his stool | just as Mr “What's all this asked “This young fool is aéting as if he tho tI ng to steal your I was just obeyin rule, Mr. dua -” spoke up y son. is.” and he st e presi- All right,my boy.” said Mr. du Pont ince you obey tt ules well TH | make you chief drawer right now.” | , ~ was 17, Johnson was superintendent of the | road Rushed. Postmaster—We orter hev perk here. than she can do, eh? | P er—Lord, yes! ae t get through ards ‘fore tea hii!—Puck. mpeg t : cconanguenaill see eneertamaisiaas hoe ptuntrees manereaneemerei