The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1903, Page 4

— PUBLISHED AT ateg “1 St.. N. We Washington,D. C W. CALVIN CHASE, EDIT. OR. Entered at the Post at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1882. = TERMS OF SUY=CRIPIION. 1.00 One copy per year.- Six months Three Months........ ubscriber , monthly.. —— The Gity’s Burden. several Negro this cit There have been enterprises stirted in within the last few years, and none of them have been successful, with the exception of the Trae Reform- er’s store, conducted by Mr. Mar- shall and the True Reformers or- ganization. Soon after the war, the Freed- men’s Savings Bank was orga ized and officered by certain white men, with @ few colored mea as eleriks. The colored people throughowt the United States deposited money, many of whom have not yet reeov- ered their losses and neither have they recovered from the condition in whien this bank | ft them. The next failure wis 9 co-opera-, tive store, madaged by a Richmo: d Wa, gro. Quite a eclored ministers were stockholier f in this enterprise and they as wel agthe stockholders lost all pat in this a-sociation number o they The next thing that was ergan-| ized was #0 Insurance company, it failed about two years ago. The last failure was the Qapital Savings Bank whieh «as to be well conducted, because it} was Officered by men who hed ex. perience in banking business, and meu of property, thought Tue Bee again warns th ple to kcep out of those enterprises that are organ zed by interlopers. po- Tere have beer several steam- boat companies orgau.z:d, and they have all failed, and hundreds of people bave |] st their prope ty as well as their money. Every Negro who comes to this eity wi h an oily tongue, and can te | plausible stories, the people of this city are goon caught and the result is, they soon lose their mon- ey as well as their character and re- patation. It is rumored thai another bank is soon to be starie! by tome preacbers and other mea of the legal fraternity. Beware ef the *‘Phillistines.” West Virginia “Jim Crow.” The latest report now comes from West Virginia. A bill has been intreduced in the legislature to es- tablish the “Jim ( row” car law in the State. THe Bek has no idea that such a bill will become a law, while it ia true, that many colored men, especially on a Saturday even- ing, have bottles and “demij »hns"’ full of whiskey, some half drunk, riding inthe car. It is unfortu- nate that the better class of colered peeple, must suffer for the wrongs ef those who have no regard or re- spect or themselves or anyone else. If a law was passed allowing rail- road compsnies to discriminate be- tween the bad aud the good of both races, there would be no objections to the passage of such a iaw Some of the most dirty white men and women are often seen in cara, theatres, dining rooms and other public places, and the moa: refined and highly educated colored titizen is not permitted to enter. Certainly these dirty and filthy white people ‘are equally objection- able to respectable colored people as ~e'] as similar characters are objectionable to the white peopls. The National Afro-American Council. The Executive Committee of Afro- Ame: ican Council has issued a call for aspecial mee ing of that organzation for Monday evening, January 26:h, at 8o’clock, a public mass meeting will be held in the auditorium of Lincoln Church, James H, Hayes, Esq., of Richmond, Va., will deliver an address on “The Disfranchisement of the Afro-} Americans of Virginia, and what they Have Done to Resist It." Addresses will also be made by prominent mem- bers of the Commitiee from ally paris of the country. Had te Retractt _ ae A A newspaper spoke of Prof. Wm H. Ferris as Prot.” Ferris, thus insinuat- ing that Prot. Ferris liad no right to be called proffesor, but he was appointed tothe chair of Natural Ph lusophy in the Florida state Normal and Indus- trial Coilege in rg00, and taught in the Florida Bapust Coiiege prior to the Jacksonville fire. The New York Sun re ognized Prof. Ferris’ appoiniment. for it -aid in the heading of an article, “New Negro professor ina Florida College, and oresident M. W. Collier in a jeiter to Hon. Wm. T. Hartis U.S. Commis sioner of Education, expressly refers to Mr. Ferris@s, Piof F. rris. When interviewed Prof. Ferris said that this paper’s account of the mret- ing, under caption of “The Ferris Wheel’ was a gross misrepresentation and that t ere, ortgivenin The Wash- ington Bee, The Washing‘on Record, The Boston Guardian, The New York Age and the Atl.nta Age, was a truer account. These papers distinctly stated that the house was divided and three of them stated, that even the oppo ents of Prof. Ferris, abmired hi- * ankness, and thought he was fair, in the other papers. The sssernion that “the entire harangue was a brutal assault upon the philosopby, purpose, integrity and labors of Dr. Washington,” was a ma- licious misrepreseniation, as Prof. Ferris commended Mr. Washingion tor his worka Tuskegee, bet criticised him for certain assertions about ‘Jim ; Crow Cars," Re ised Constitutions,” and for meddling in politics, when he all along said, the Negro should keep oul of politics The Boston Herald is white papers that took Booker to tusk for endorsing »outhern consti- tions and the New York limes is one of the whit~ papers that raked Booker ir meddiing in politics, when he had all aong said the Negro ought to keep out of politics. The editor who pub- lished the false report had to retract. one of the NICE OLD GENTLEMAN. New King of Saxony Is Interested tm Military Affairs, Polities and the Fine Arts, The new king’s ft ick August Geor il name is Freder- ge Ludwig Wilhelm Maximilian Earl Maria Nepomuk Bap- tist Xaxier Cyriakus Komanus. He was born at Pillnitz, August 8, 1832, and is four years younger n the late King Albert, who was his brother. He received a thoro and graduated ) military the Bonn university. In the German war he commanded the Second As commande training ony infantry division. of the rst Saxon di- uished himself imthe When Albert became vision he dis war of 1870-71 made comes as ap- sian field marshal by m If, He was married on 11, 185, to Infanta Maria of Portugal. She died in 1884, Six chil- dren were Sorpn to them, i King George jas taken an active in- terest in the polities of his country, and has filled many important govern- zg, Prince George mander in f, and in Jgss he pointed a Pr Emperor Will was the tax reform laws. No important changes are expected to follow his succession. The new king of Sa his military tastes treatment of private sternly put down the mistreatment of nd severely pun- xony is known for considerate soldiers He and soldiers by officers 2 ished petty brutalities on the part of subaltérns and noncommissioned offi- ters. His s in 1891, attr: the Vorwaerts « is a capable music has good taste ana al finish, and often gives musi parties at bis house, where he and his daughter, Princess Mathilde, play duvets. King attended chamber music duously, and is the patron al undertakings. ret decree on the subject, eat attention when niged it. The king n, plays the piano e tech George has concerts as: of many mus BUZZARD FLEW AWAY. And with Him Went Game Rooster That Was Tied to His Feet for a Hot Fight. Jack Wills, of Winchester, Ky., for- mer representative in the legislature, enjoys the reputation of being a prac- tical joker of no mean capacity. His brother-in-law, George Ballard, a prominent breeder of tine horses and owner of Pinchem Wilkes, a noted pacer, has on his place a pen of high ly bred game chickeas. While George was showing Jack his! favorite rooster and expatiating on his great prowess Jack pretended to re- gard the bird as a very ordinary chick- | en and said he could whip him with @ buzzard. A hot argument ensued resulting in ® match being arranged for between | the rooster and ® buzzard, which Jack agreed to produce. Jack had a trap set, and ina short time his uncommon warrior, a very large buzzard, was brought to him. According to the terms af the con- | test the rooster was duly equipped with gaffs, and the two birds were linked together by the feet with a yard or so of stout cord intervening to give room for action, as Jack ex- plained. As the rooster braced himself for the onslaught the buzzard regarded him with stolid indifference, and at the first pass lifted his wings and sailed away, with the rooster squawking in ite wake. George ran for a gun, but before he could get back with it the buzzard and the rooster were high in the air and away out of reach of his fowling piece. The distressing cries of the unfortunate rooster grew faint- er anc fainter, until finally they were heard no more, and the ill-mated pair faded away in the ether blue. Noth- ing has since been heard of the birds, and while Jack is telling the story with much gusto George is mourning she loss of his best gamecock. | ment posts, figuring prominently in THE WASHLInNc SON _DUCK FULL OF IEAD. But This Bird Likes Excitement and Refuses to Die. | Fer Three Seasons Charmed Mallard ‘ Has Successfully Evaded One of lorado’s Beat Shots—En. Not Yet in Sight. “I got another shot at him yester day, but the son-of-a-gun got away again,” said E. M. Gale, the candy man, to a Denver Post reporter. rejoinder. “No who; it was an it, but I call ft him—the lone mallard; didn’t I ever tell you about him?” “Never; tell me now.” “Why, the lone mallard, the big duck that leads the charmed life, comes to the lake on my Weld coun- ty ranch twice a year and teases me and flies away again.” “First I ever heard of him.” “Well, be still, and you'll hear some! more. Jn the first place, he’s the gest duck i ever earth, and I'll bet money on it. first saw him three years ago—no, two and a half years ago—it'll be three years next spring. He looked | as big as a turkey, and really, Ill bet! he'll weigh 12 pounds, and there’s| many a turkey that don’t weigh tha ' He splashed down in saw—biggest among 4 lot of smaller ducks that had tloat-| ed up to within easy shooting dis- tanee from the blind I was crouch-} ing behind, and i made mind | g up my to get him. | “{ had a good gun, 11-bore, and my | shells had heavy ebarges of No. 6, shot in them. Well, I had no sooner} stood up than the lone mallard saw} me and rose in a hurry. When he} was about 26 feet up I let drive with} my right barrel! He didn’t so much as flicker. Then I les him have} the left, and I felt sure I hit him,’ but he just kept right on. { thought | he would circle and come back, but) he d thr il ugh one. l his stopover priv- was limited “| didn’t think anythi more | Sgr following fall, | | | about him till the \ | DIDN'T SO MUCH AS FLICKER. \ when he came along again one day and dropped into the water right where he had lit the spring be ates This time I got two more good shots at him, and I knocked a feather out} of him, but that was all 1 could do} with him. He didn’t wait for any| more trouble, but pursued his way | north. “Ever since that time, twice a that old duck comes quacking ¢ and I’ve shot and shot him till 1} know he must be half full of lead,| but I can't bring him down. ally, you find a leading a} whole flock, keeping his 7 t the apex of the triangle they form in| their flight, but this old fellow trav-| els alone sweethearts b and there along the} line of his route, but h ong, | ' Gener big duck Doubtiess he has his} shans all so- | ; while on his aerial voyages. bave been leaving for him for a week past, and yesterday, when he| came piling down from the north, I was ready with a new gun andi shells loaded with No. 5 chilled shot. ““I'll put an end to his fooling this| time,’ I said to myself, as he swooped | down into easy reach of me, and then | I let loose at him in earnest. I shot) at him three times, the last shot cer-| tainly taking effect in his left wing, } for he went off lame ou that side,! but the tough old rascal managed to flap away and I suppo by this time} | he is pretty near to Texas. “I don't know what to make of} | that bird. I can say without boast- ing that I am a good shot, but I can’t do anything with this phenom. | enal fowl. 1 think there must be aj; duck doctor somewhere down south who patches tp my old friend and! fits him for running the gantlet with ame. “But I'm ae to get that duck some day. I’ve got that big green feather stuck up over my desk and I'm bound to have the rest of them if I have to use a Gatling gun.” Largest Kadish on Record. The Jargest radish on record was raised by J. Bray, of West! Gloncester, Mass. It was grown|/ from seed sent by the agricultural department. Mr. Bray's radish is 2: inches in circumference, and weighs seven pounds and one ounce. This\far! exceeds the Missouri radish recently | mentioned. The latter weighed only five pounds. Killed by Her Pet Cow. Mrs. Joseph Krumfel, of Altoona, Pa.. was milking, when the cow turned her head to brush off a fly, ‘and ran a horn inte the woman's brain, through her eye, causing 2 Yatal injury. * Hi icket seeme o be a} n't. His ticket seemed to be pa ity Wwekomed. lin the daughter of the Spanish min ister. BE. SPAIN’S NEW MINISTER. Tenor Dom Emilie Ojeda, Wh ceeds the Duke of Arcos, Is Very Well Liked. ue A diplomat of unusually interest- ing personality is very soon to take his place in the American Senor Don Emilio Ojeda, the minister from Spain. Senor Ojeda, who succeeds a man as popular in his way as Mr. Wu, namely, the duke of Arcos, begins his American mission under the most favorable auspices. He has alread) secured the ndship of such Maine, and the former secretary of state, William k. Day, with whom he SENOR DON EMILIO OJE (He Sueceeds Duke of Arcos as Minister at Wa was Spanish c of the met ip Paris to consider the ter after the Spanish-Amer war Senor Ojeda spent a few days at! the balloon. Washington re ently, calling at t te department, though in the 4 sence of the president he could not present joined the secretury of the legation | at Newport and will remain there un til the secretary of state informs him that the president ceive his visit.. The Spanish legation has leased a home for six y the corner of Eigkteenth Massachusetts avenue, so he will be | spared the discomfort of bunting. Senora Ojeda has a large acquaint- ance in Washington, an@ is described e his credentials. He has ready to re on treet and | house- jas a handsome and gracefui matron. , ,A daughter, who is about 20, and a! son, who will be an attache of the legation, complete the househotd Senorita Ojeda is said to be unusually lovely, and her advent will be warm- Thé diplomatie corps at present contains but one young woman, Countess Margyrite de Cass- ial, who has béen undisputed queen. It is said that she will find a } j | rival WILL LEAVE CHICAGO. Dr, Frank Cranc, Noted Western Pal- | pit Orator, Accepts a Call j from Worcester, Mass. | Dr. Frank the pastorate of the People’s churet of Chicago, to accept a unanimou eall from the Union Cone: Worceste Crane, who will resign rational ehurch. of Mass., Was chosen as the mest acceptable oceu- | pant of the eastern pulpit after a} ch that extended over two years. s Dr. Crane ing been be a native of Illinois, n in Urbana in 1861, | } | { capital, | new | rep- | “Shot at who?” was the surprised jresentative meu as Senator Frye, of ns of peace | | only the beginn | plained his troubles to a friendly po- | taining money — CE THE ROTUND GROCER | fle Was No Match for the Boys of the Neighborhood. geters Concected a Sebeme- Which Nearly Drove Him Wild aud Was the Cause of Con- sideravle Iudiguation, A rotund German grocer who con- ducts a store in the suburbs of Brouk- dyn recently in he enmity of the boys in thar iviiy. How the feud | started no one seems to know, but it | certainly engendered pienty of hard | feeling. Attirst the boys avenged their | supposed wrongs by jeers and occa- ; sional missiles. The police took a hand and blocked that game. Then they plannec and carried outa revenge which showed that Young Ameriva hus | act lost its traditional ingenuity A pool was formed, each boy contri- buting all his pocket money. The funds of the pool were invested in toy balloons such as are sold by street ja- | kirs. The purchase being made at | ur | wholesale raies a large supply of bal- | loons was accumulated. To each bal- { loon was attac! lip of paper which | stated that the er would receive a | dollar on re | grocer. Onea | was blowing in the Long Island dire | tion the boys sent up the balloons. Then they awaited developments. | The first development came early the ; Bext morning in the form of a husky | Long Isls | team in r | marehed in wit! ning the balloon to the rboon when the wind d farmer, who stopped his stor the grocery a captive ioy balloon and handed it to the German grocer | with the remark that he would like his dolla The grocer stared blankly. .) “For vby?” he exclaimed, “vhy should | I give you a dollar for dat? Do I look like a man dot vants a toy balioon al- j ready? Vat a foo! you takes me for; lyes, no?” The farmer showed the inscription stating that a dollar would be paid for He bad returned it and FARMER WANTED A DOLLAR, . wanted his money. Then the grocer’s | wrath bubbled over. “Dem boys. Dem leedle loafers. Dey makes a®@ dis trouble. J vill see der ehudge und ave dem to der prison send.” But, says the New York Times, it was g of his troubles. The sne a thorough joband balloons all over that Isiand. Through theday ! who worked on the rail- s, even tramps, trudged into the grocery, proudly bear- west wind had c scattered the part of Lon larmers, mé way and troiley line | ing toy balloons and insisting on adol- lar each for returning them. All were filled with in gnation at the grocer’s ; refusal. And, to acd insult to injury, the boys responsible for the vexing of his spirit clustered is little groups, up | and down tl cet, just out of reach, and by their ioud and unfeigned ex- pressions of delight added to the ro- tund grocer’s misery. Late in the afternoon the grocer ex- liceman and asked how the majesty of the law could be invoked to punish the boys. The policeman, after hear- ing the f delivered his judgment with the solemnity of a Solomon. “If youse haven't paid out the money, there's nothin’ youcando. Butif youse pay the coin, them boys is builty of ob- under false pretenses.” matters up for the puz- his cleare zled grocer. “Yah,” he exc tones. “Dat vas it, Of course it false bretense to say dot 1 pay a collar for dem little bal- aimed in relieved False bretenses, RE FRANK CRANE, D. D. (Chicago Preacher Who Has Accepted a Call trom the East.) educated at the Wesleyan university in Bloomington, where he recei degrees as a master of arts and doctor of philosophy. Wesleyan university in Lincoln, Neb., afterward honored him with the degree of doctor of divin- ity. His career as a preacher was pre- ceded by three years of school teach- ed his | ing in the backwoods and his first an- ual salary as a pastor amounted to $75. From his Worcester congrega- tion he will receive nearly $9,000 for the same period. Decorated by Fool Friends. Two couples, who were recently married in the same house at Mount Vernon, N. Y., had all sorts of tricks played on them. Their trunks were tied with ribbons, and bore cards with | these words: “We have just been mar- ried; don’t bother us.” Pinned to the backs of the bridegrooms, as they took seats on the train were cards stating: “We four have jnst been hitched for life,” “We are so aby,” “We } deve evsh other—yes we da” oe - ee —e_ ae j loons. Vat dey tink Il vas? A fool?” | Itis said that Peter Evaus, who lives in Indiana, holds the record for being | arrested more ‘imes within a given pe- j riod than any other man in the state. |Recently the state board of charities, jhearing of the case, instituted an in- vestigation of ‘ge court records. It | Showed thatin 15 years he was arrested 169 times for intoxication, 129 times of which he was placed in jail to sober up, and 40 times he was tried and con- victed. During the 15 yeas he spent 420 days in j county for the period mentioned was $651.60. In his younger days he paid in- sumerable fines, aggregating large amounts, but be has served sentences from 10 to 20 days in jail for the last 20 years at least. By his own request jhe has recently become an inmate of the county infirmary. At one time Peter Evans was reputed to be worth $75,000, all of which has slipped through his fingers. He is 65 years of age. American Clothes in Mexico. Mexicans are discarding the old op era bouffe suits, with gay scarfs, wide- legged trousers, high sombreros and pointed shoes. Now they array them- selvee in American clothing, hats and shees. —e , 000. 1t was i The total cost to the OLD FORT MONTGOMERY. The Story of an American Stronghoté Erected, by Mistake, on Cana- dian Territory. Curious, indeed, is an American fort which was built on British soi, How many can guess what fort it iz and where located? The name is Fort Montgomery, and the location is on an island r the foot of Lake Champlin, about half a mile east of Rouse’s Point, N. Y. A short time ago, when traveling in that part of the country, a New York Herald correspondent saw this fort and asked the name of it. “Why, that is Fort Blunder,” said the in- formant. “Did you never hear of OLD Por (American ! it?” correspondent confessed ignorance, and he explained matters. It seems that after the war of 1813 the government of the United States became convinced that the entrance to Lake Champlain should be guarded by a fort strong enough te engage any British tleet which might at- tempt to force an entrance to the lake. 1 Fort Montgomery was consirucied at a cost of nearly $500,- nense fortification was arranged for for those days, and three tie Just abou; the tim re it was com- pleted the joint surveyors fixing the line between States and Canada came , after doing ann ed a good bit of that Fort Mor unery was on Cana dian soil. The northern boundary of New York staie was the forty-fifth parallel, and this foyt was several hundred yards over the line. Work on the fort immediate came to an , Standstill, and the matter was made the subject of a special treaiy. It was decided that in view of the fact that the United States had not intentionally encroached on Canadian soil the forty-fifth parallel should be bent a little out of its course at this point so as to include the fort. That is why the fort is called “Fort Blue- der.” It was never armed and has never been occupied by more than one or two men. At present a sergeant of marines is stationed there, and hie sole duty is to raise and lower the flag at sunrise and sunset. A FAVORITE OF LEO. Mousignore “al a iahencsett, the Now Apostolic Delegate to the Dominion of Canada. Mgr. Donatus Sbarretti, who haz recently been appointed apostoli¢ delegate to Canada, is well known ie the United States from having beer MGR. DONATUS SBARRETTL (Apostolic Delegate to the- Dominion of Canada.) an attache of the papal legation at Washington and later bishop of Ha- vana. He is a native of Spoleto, Italy, was born in 1856, and was or- dained a priest in 1879. The mon signore is regarded as one of the most learned of living masters of canon law. Also he is said to have made a searching study of the con- stitution of the United States, and is quite familiar with the structure of the Canadian government. He is 5 favorite of Pope Leo. Why She Took a Lame Ma Vina Shaw, a negress who is 64 years old, was recently married te Arthur Dean, 43 years old, by Pro bate Judge Snyder, in Kansas City, Kan. The bride was a slave for 3 years before the war. Dean is a crip ple, and in answer to a question as to why she took a lame man, the old woman replied: “Judge, I took @ Jame man, be se he ain't so apt to get away.” Both have lived in Pon- ner Spring, Kan. Many Irishmen tn London. It is said that there are more Trishmen in London than there are is Dublin, more Seotechmen than ‘n Edinburgh, that half of Soho , is French and the whole of Safron Hill Italian.