The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 1

“X PAPER FOR THE PSyece, A FIRESIDE COMPRauvn. r; it is true if you see it in THE BEE. — oOn~t BORROW THIS PAPER AT PRAYER. Frightened by Sound of Gabriel’s Horn in Church. Oolered Boy in Belfry Sounded the Terrorizing Instrument, Bat It Certainly Wrought the Ef- fect Desired. George A. Cox, a revivalist of some uote in northern Indiana and south- ern Michigan, resorted to an unusual expedient recently to turn sinners from their evil ways. It was so suc- cessful that he may repeat it for their benefit if the notoriety result- ing from his first attempt does not put the worldly on their guard and thus make it impossible to dupe them @gain. ’ He had been preaching night after might to a village congregation, but had utterly fuiled to awaken interest. The usual special prayers for the con- version of bers had been offered snd meetings “for women only” and men oaly” had been held, but nothing seemed able to bring the sin- aers to the anxious seat. One night, ways the Chicago Inter Ocean, he se reted a negro boy in the belfry of the little church. The lad was provided with a iarge horn, and ata certain the minister's closing ‘for juncture in prayer he was to blow it with all his | might. The e text, sermon that evening was from dany are called, but feware gen,” and Mr. Cox eloquently dwelt upon the delights of the saved and the sufferings of the lost. Then he knelt begged the Lord to of his coming and to in prayer anc hasten th turn the } of the wicked toward Him before it was forever too late “Gabriel, he shouted mighty warn day come “Co blow ne and sound thy of approaching woe to This was the signal for the negro boy in the belfray, and he sounded blast after blast in answer to the min- ister’s prayer. There was a commotion in the con- gregation. Many men and @ stiff-neckec pious women fell on their knees and begat to pray. Sinners sat with blanched faces and trembling forms, expect- ing every moment tor the world to come to an end. “Ah, brethren,” exclaimed the min- | ister, “our petitions are at last an- swered. Down upon your knees, brethren, that you may receive the Lord in contriteness of heart and hu- mility of spirit, for this is surely the day of the resurrection.” So well had the programme been earried out that saints and sinners alike dropped on their knees, and a hundred voices were raised in sup- plication for forgiveness, many of the oldest and most hardened sinners in the praying lustily for mercy. A call for penitents was fol- lowed by a rush to the mourners’ bench, and by hallelujahs from mem- bers who saw their sons and daugh- ters taking the first steps toward a better life. After quiet had been restored, and while the congregation sat in breath- Jess silence waiting for something supernatural to happen, Mr. Cox called the negro down from the bel- fry, and the lad came down, horn in village hand, and a broad grin upon his face. As he came down through the little seattle hole in ) ceiling and iropped to the floor, Mr. Cox pointed nim out upposed Gabriel, and the sinners for had displayed. hame they If thus you are rn of Gabriel, the minister, hat will you do when you stand fore the judgment seat of God se me s have trainpled up- and wh¢ you have so long ed? re upon you. Come ta confes e evil of your lives, isk forgiveness before Gabriel's ypet shall sound in reality for| Babies Never Get Seasick. | have t of them in my} American line steward | Record, “and in t seasick. I phia vrothers and sistets | ‘rs before a can-| so with the babies. | smooth at an excellent with the ap- Do you know, the fact? *t is strange. « beczuse they » rocking of the rent i$ much like hip A baby ore, is mérely a zally big cradle, and odd to him about for it is what he has eer tomed to all his life.” rough or ing | | Supported by His Wife. | ong ¢ Dr. Edward Brooks, | i t of the Phil-| . was asked by| youthful friends to listen} a publie schools tter’s rehearsal of a lesson} there was a reference to ‘Do you know who Atlas ked Dr. Brooks. “Yes, sir. a giant who supported the “Ah! Supported the world, He wa world.” thy trumpet,” | | opinion of Senators and making them | favorable to him. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEEK OF SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 19¢ 3. did he?” went on the superintendent. “Well, tell me who supported Atlas.” The little fellow looked as though ue had not given the subject any par- ticular attention, but showed imme- diate willingness to think it over. The doctor stood looking on, trying hard to keep back a smile; but the youngster finally brightened up and answered: “W 1 guess he mame’ Mave married a rich wife DIVORCE. DEGRIE VOUD SUPREME COURT PASSES ON A SOUTH DAKOTA VERDICT. Justice White Holds that Six Months Residence on the Part of a Citizen of Another State for the Sole Pur- pose of S curing a Divorce is Not Legal Domicile — Western Court Without Jurisdiction. The United ‘States Supreme Cuurt, Monday, passed upon the validity of divorces granted in South Dakota to non-residents. The case was that of Annie Andrews vs Kate H. Andrews, and the question at issue is that as t which is entitled to administer upon the estate of Charles S. Andrews, whom both women claimed as husbana |The record showed that Mrs. Kate Andrews was the first wife and that her husband secured a divorce in South Dakota after remaning there six months, the time required by the stat ute of that State. DECREE BY FRAUD. The Massachusetts court he'd that the decree had been fraudulently se- }cured, and, refusing to recognize it. recognized the first wife as the legal widow of the deceased Mr. Andrews that was the ho ding of the supreme ‘judicial court of Massachusetts, and Monday's opinion, which was delivered by Justice White, affirmed that hold. ing. He said that Andrews’ residence in the State of South Dakota dia not con j stitute legal domicile. The case arose out of the fact that Mr. Andrews’ father Charles H Andrews, bequeathed cer- tain property to ‘‘the wife of my son, Charles S. Andrews.” Justices Brew- er, Shiras, and Peckham dissented. ing upon the case, Justice White discussed at some length the point as to whether the Federal Con- stitution is in any way involved in the case. This, he said. could not be, for the reason that the general government had never had power over marriages to delegate, their control having always been vested in the States and never by them parted with. Hence, there was no power that Congress could exercise to regulate or probit divorces, and it must follow that unless the several States were permitted to control the subject of divorce among their own citizens the subject would be entirely uncontrolled, in which case the abso lute destruction of society must be the result. i} A TEMPORARY CHAN E, | As Mr. Andrews had been a ‘citizen {of Massachusetts, the courts of thst | State had jurisdiction and not the | courts of another State. It was evi- j}dent, he went on, that An'rews’ six | months residence in South Dakota had | been taken up for the sole purpose ol | {securing a divorce | change of residence did not amount to | domicile ner toa change of cisizenship | For this reason he held that the S uth | Dakota court was without jurisdiction | Vhat temporary | report in his favor from the subcom mittee the full committee were willing to vote a favorabl recommendatioa tu the Senate. Later he has bren confirmed centani he would receive 7 per cent. per month, m king the discount ten percent on a dgilar. votes it is claimed are barred by the statute of limitation. This director would disc aut (hese notes with the fu'l k.owl-dge of the di-count board who were the bank directors aud who had to approve thesame. Lt is further claimed that the tre surer ony haa jin hand at the time of the suspe.sion a little more than fifty doliars and it is also ciaimed that ever five hundred dollars was d posited in the bauk a few days or one day befote (he suspen s.on. It will be re wemocred inat the couri appoin ed two receivers to c ose up the accounts of the building associa tion and five hundred dollars was col lected by the receivers and deposited in the bank aad thatis gone. Al-o it is claimed that books of the association have b en stolen as well as the blotter of the Capital Sivings Bantf has been lost. . It is hinted that az s0on as the affairs of the bank is closed, the whole matter will be presented to the zraad jury and indictmenis are to follow. A Modern Home. Sunderland Brothers, Washington’s teading architects, have just completed a handsome residence ior Mr. H. 3. Robinsou, situated on the east side ot Lieventh street, northwest, between 1 and U. ‘he buiiding is three stories high with au overhanging roof of slate. The exterior is executed in red press | brick of te Roman shape, laid in black mortar, the siils and beit courees being brown stone. The plan is extremeiy well arranged, an adm rabie feature of the same being, that all rooms have outside tight, thereby insuring periect ventilation. ihe eutrance and vestibule halls zre treated with mosaic floors, marole ainscot, which are separated by mas- sive Roman columus, and hard wood finish. The parior, 1eceptiun ball and halls are trimmed in oak of natural finish with haavsome mantels to cor- respond with the fiaish of the respeci- ive Ooms {he dining-room is trim- m<d in chestnut, having a green finish, above the base board is a burlap cf dark green four feet high, and azove this isa light greencrepe paper ith [From The Bostes:Guardian.} atinted ceuing Adjoiminy the dining The Guardian agrees with the Wash- room is the butler’s pantry and kilch | ington Bee ia its advocacy of a suffrage en, the former having a porc-.ain sink | convention among colored people. e Se JS eee ee Ho! For A Suffrag. Convention. CAPT. CHARLES G. AYERS, The man who lead the famous roth Cavairy—Tuie ideal of Negro sol-' diers—The man who deserves promotion, — Che time is now ripe for such a move= ment. Some such concerted action by tne thinking men of the race should be ak~n in the very neac future to con- sider “‘ways aad means”’ for the recuv- evry of he Negro’s franchise. The Ne- gros all right as far as President Roosevelt’s action goes in a certain and the Jatter, soap sione sink, laun dry tubs,a range of modern pattern and dressers so arranged along th sides of the walls as to give every con venience necessary for the housekeep er. The hardware on the first floor is of solid bronze The second floor contains four bed in the divorce proceeding, and its de cree wholly void. { Nor did it matter if there had been a} compr. mise with the first Mrs An-/| consent for a money consideration, as | has been alleged. The fact was that} the case was one for the Massachusetts | courts and not for the South Dakota courts, and they could not be deprived | of their power by this means. | | _ Justice Holmes took no part in Mon-| | day's decision in the case, for reason} hat, as chief justice of the State of | Massachusetts, 'e had delivered the} decision declaring the Dakota decree} wey, but the time has come for the acred ri-h s of this race to be crystal z-d aid enba'med in law! The rights of 12,000,0000 people cannot be allowed roomsand bath. The bathisequipped with the most modern fixtures, all ex posed piping being nickel plated The floor is of terrazo-mosa'c, and wains- ial ies Set » g to depend upon the wishes of one man; htened at the | drews, and if she had been induced to | COMUNE of giaz-d tile, five feet bigh,; : . aly haan life is too | treacherous. with an oval mirror set in same over wash basin, uncertain, and fate too d scounte' at the bank at three per | hosorable citizens, including the pres Many of these} deat aad the government. The Roosevelt policy reterred to is he only | correct ove under the !aw, is fair and | honorable, and while we do not always agree with the president in all things he does that affect our people, we can- not but houvor and give him full credit | for the stand he has taken in the Crum jand Cox mutters, as well as for the Principal and policy enunciated as a result of the same. The prejudiced | -ou:hern jackass can bray touts heart’s | content, but it will bein vain, because there is aclast a man in the White House as president who has the cour- age of his convictions, right or wrong. FERRIS AT BETHEL LITERARY — = Prof. W. H. Ferris tells the Colored peopte of the National Capital why Bostonians condemn Dr. Booker T. WasShington (Special Correspondeut for The Bos- ton Guardiars ) Washington, D-C., jan. $8—An au- dience that represented tue brains and culture of Washington assembled Tues day night Jan. 6, to listen to one of the liveliest debates ever held before the Bethel Literary and Historical associa- uon, Prof. Wm. H. Ferris, an A. M., from both Yile and Harvard, in an address which the scholarly Prof. |. J. Caliloway,a friend of Mr. Wash ington, pronounced as ‘table, eloquent and dispassoniate,’’ and which was trequently interrupted with laughter an) applause, reviewed ina calm and Impartial way Mr. Booker Washingtou’s pretentious to Negro leadership. the Washington people know that the thinking and brainly men in Boston oppose Bookcr Washington. Conse- quently Prof. Ferris, who came down { } j MR. W. H. FERRIS, Of Bosten, Mass., who is opposed to Dr Washington’s ideas ot Indrus- triat Education. to Washington to read a paper before the American Negro academy was ev- erywhere asked why and finally was | persuaded te speak upon *‘ he Boston Negro’s Ide.. of Booker fT. Washing- ton.’’ The sews was passed around town and Mr. Washington’s cohorts came out in full force to defend their chief, an@ others came also. Mr. George W, Jackson presidedand | Miss Ella R. Boston acted as secretary. | Prot. Ferris, in his introduction, |spéke ofthe historic associations of Boston, of ics environment and of the anti-slavery agitators who were still living. ie sad that the Boston peo- | ple realize that Washington is doing | some good a’ luskegee, although they | think the value and importance of that | work is somewhat exaggerated; “but” said Prof. Ferris, ‘they teel that Wash | ington 1s bringing the soutiern esti ;mate ot the Negro up into New kEng- jland, and is the vehicle for the im- | portation into New England of south- j}ern ideas concerning civi! and politi- | tical rights of the Negroand his higher | educatiou.”” | Father MeKin ed that from a button in the vestibule, } The electric gas lighting is soarrang- | | i the lig ts can be controlled over tie) entire house. The house is heated with hot air, and the cellar is so arrang -d that part fit is set asi 'e fur cold s orage, ieav- ing atapleroom for large cod bins which he is lucky enuugn to aave fill- invalid. a | | ——_+<-—--- H | FAVORABLE TO MR. BEACH, | | ators en Judiciary Committee, | TheSenate Committee on Judiciary | Monday voted to report favorably the | nomination of Mr. Morgan H. Beach} to be United States a torney for the} District of Columbia, Later in the day the nomination was reported to} the Senate in executive session, and placed on the calendar. It is believed confirmation will speedily fullow. While the statement cannot be made with certainty, the opinion prevails} that there will be no vigorous oppo | sition. | Senators of the judiciary Committee were not unanimous ia reporting the nominatios favorably, but Mr. Beach had a good majority of them. Since the last meeting, when it was reporied that Mr. Beach ha not accepted some} advances from the commitiee in alio- gether good natured a Ictter had been written by him. That was oescribec by one Senator as “a real good Ictter, and it went far toward chan_eing the It certainly secured a favorable re- port from the sutcommittee, to which the nomination with some additional charges had been referred anew for further consideration, with a second H.C. SMITH DBAD- One Among the First Colored Democrats Rev. Henry C. Smith, at one time Py oe eaaer Co aj ee oe | have seen their fa- Good Letter from Him Changes View of Sea, | Uniten Sta es Consuy to Santos. Brazil, and one among the first colored Demo crats under the administration of ex- President Cleveland, is ¢ead. The Business Herall of Donaldsoaville, La,, of January 17, reports his death. THE CAPITAL SAVINGS BANK. The Recelvers Pind It in # Bad Condition. Sus- picienof Foul Dealings, Investigation by the Grand Jury and indictarents ths Probable out coe! Tne Bae has refrained from publish ing anything concereing the fatiure of the Capital Savings Bank because ic thoughtthat an oppo: tuuity should have been given the directors to retur. the pcoples money. There are all kinds of rumors and revorts being circulated, some of the directors arz endeavoring to saddle the blame all on one man, when he is no more to blame than the others, The latect rumor is that some man has overdraw his accouat tothe am oun of thirty thousand dollars. This is absolutely untrue, The fact is that this director who-is employed in one of the departments indorsed t”e notes of the clerks in his office and negutia- ted them atais bank. The notes were | The thoughtful men of the Colored | race should, therefore, come together clore the passing of another summ-er | to take ac ion as to the best methods | | of forcing congress consider’tion on| the Negro’s franchise. It might be well to confine the convention to non- office holders and to the north. so that | its action may not be influenced by fear or intimidation. Boston would be an} idcal place for such a meet, but we) stand ready to co-operate with our | bre hren in other RECONS, and will. | reduced to a coadition of serfdomé } therefore, agree to any more central | . | while in the North he was bein | piace Cleveland would not be a bad! bi 2 Se | eae as it is the most central for the! duced to a constantly lower strata in actual voting strength of the race. Let the press take this matter up for con-| sideration. It is something upon which | the daikest moment of our history. Not only had several southern states di.francnised the Negro, passed Jim- Crow car laws and eliminated ‘the higher cours s from several state col- leges and high schovls, but in, the north the Negro was being more and m re relegated to the mental callings, and even the Abolitionist and their de cendants had grown lukewarm. In jthe South the Negro was fast being had been taken since Booker T. Waah ington d.livered his famous Atlanta 4 speech ’95. And those engaged in the po' tical life of the Negro depends. | 5?<* - Bar “pe pis edads iat cece 2 4s. | thus robbing the Negro of his rights press? x guaranteed by the constitution, those jand that his place in society was at | the bottom, quoted Mr. Washington as | an endorser of their position. — | The speaker ctnen read clippings ' From the Cleveland, O,, Gazette- jfrom the Boston Herald. Record and | i : | Globe,which showed that Washington's The action of the government inthe} sseruon that “very revised con- | case of the Afro-Ame.iecan POstmis-| stitution tnroughout the tress of Indianola, Miss., but indorses | states has puta premium upon incelii | : ; | the policy of the president so clearly | gence, Ownership of property, thrift enunciated in his ; now famous Dr, }and character” was regarded by the Crom letter and his more recent ap-|country as an endorsement of these pointment of that geutieman as collect- | constitutions. Prof. Ferris said further or of customs with hea¢quarters at) that, at the very time the Colored peo- Charleston, S.C. The abusive edi | plein Jacksonville were fighting aginst | torials of scurrilous southern sheets|the Jim-Crow car laws there, and at like the New Orleans States, while| the very time the Jim-Crow cars were they are to be deplored by all honor- | runaing into the capitol of the nation. able citizens of this country, serve a| Mr. Washington was up in Boston say- purpose, and thatis to show ;that in| ing: “Fundamentally, we should not apite of the correctness of the presi-| be so much concerned as to whether ucat’s and the government’s position | we are to ride in a Jim-Crow car as and policy, the rabidly prejudiced | with the question whether one will white people ef tbe south are still not| find in the inferior ear a superior maa, , Oaly vrossiy intolerant, abusive and|nota beast, This assertion was taken | wrong in the position they assume, but | by the country to mean that he virtual | that they also insist upon flaunting the| ly endorsed the Jim-Crow car system fact in the faces of all law-abiding and! in operation in the South. Roosevelt-Crum-Cox. . | this plan with the late Pres Mr. Ferris said that we were now at} : jsociety. All of these backward steps| | who held that he was an inferior being | southern} JHARGES ARE DENTED Schools in the Philippine Islands Are Non-Sectarian. CAtholics Not Discriminated Against and Proselyting Is Forbidden Vatber McKinson'’s Educa- onal Proposition. The bureau of insular affairs of the war department has made public the report of Frank H. Bowen, acting gen- eral superintendent of public instrue tion for the Pnilippine islands, upom the charges made in the United States against the school system of the isl- gnds alleging that it was used as a proselyting agency against Catholics and generally used to the prejudice ef Catholicism. These charges were forwarded to Manila and the reply was made to Acte. ing Gov. Wright, ‘ The report of Superiatendent Bowen” {s a general and specific denial of the charges. He says that of 20 persons who have been division superintend- ents only one has ever been a clergy- man. Three division superintendents were appointed from a list submitted by leaders of the Roman Catholic church in the United States. In this connection the report says: “The question of the religious belief of applicants and appointees was never considered until late in 1901. At that time a special lot of applications, gathered by the authorities of the Roman Catholic church in the United | States, was sent to the civil governor of these islands and transmitted to the general From these special) lists three division super- | intendents and ap- { pointed. In reporting these appoint- ments to the civil governor the gen- eral superintendent stated: superintendents 2 teachers were ‘I have | had much difficulty in finding people | in this lot of appli | sessed of the edu ations who are pos- ational preparation and teaching experience which is re- quired of other appointees in this de- partment. Those who ve not been selected seem to be wholly unsuit- | able.” The only departure from strict non- sectarianism in the conduct of the schools was a provision of the Philip- pine commission, which made it law- ful for a priest or minister of any es- tablished church in the pueblo where } a public school is situated to teach re- ligion for one-half hour three times week in the school building to pupils whose parents have expressed a wish for such construction Concerning provelyting, says: “Not only is no proselyting allowed or attempted in of the public schools, but inquir eaders oF the four principal Protestant denomi the report any of the nations here brings out the fact that so far as is known by these leaders there is not a native Protestant Sum day school teacher in the entire arche ipelago.” The statement that not one-third of the Protestant teachers ever taught a day before going to the Philippines and that the Catholic teachers are sent on to the distant provinces is emphat- ically denied. Father McKinnon, a priest officially eonnected with the public schoo} sys- tem in Manila, who went to that place as chaplain of the First California regiment at the outbreak of the Span- ish-American war, has urged the au thorities of the Philippines church to send 400 of the younger native priests to America for a couple of years’ train- ing in seminaries in the United States. seussed lent Me- Kinley, who approved it, as it was be- lieved that in this way Filipino clergy- men would become imbued with the broad spirit of American priesthood. It is believed possible that money for carrying out this project could be raised in America. It is estimated that the seminary expense of each priest would be about $150 a year. The na- tives are favorable to the plan. The fact that the native priests speak o different uage those in America wo be no hindrance, be cause all Catholic clergymen have wo common knowledge of Latin, and be- sides a number of priests in the United States speak Spanis non says he ¢ from Monarch of the Forest. A few weeks ago there was dis- covered east of Fresno, Cal., in the Sierras, the largest tree in the world. At the time it was said that it meas- ured 150 feet in circumference. John Muir, the naturalist, has visited the tree and reports that it measures at the base only 109 feet, and at four feet above the ground is only 97 feet in circumference. It is, however, larger than “Gen. Sherman” and “Ger. Grant,” which heretofore were the recognized monarchs of the fox eat = varmer on Football. A Bowdoinham farmer saw the Bates-Bowdoin game at Brunswick the other day, says the Hartford Courant. A neighbor asked him about it. “Nothin’ to tell,” he said, “Just let 20 big hogs out on a soft field any day and then throw down a peck or so of corn in a sack, and see ‘um go for it, and you'll know "bout what a game of football looks like to a farmer.” ——e i * ‘ Son mAN ‘ 4 cai