The Washington Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1903, Page 4

oe ene a ne ETL AN I } b THE WASHInvfON PUBLISHED AT Bog “1” St.. N. W. Washington ,D W. CALVIN CHASE, EDI- OR. Entered at the Post at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1882. TERMS OF SU®SCRIPTION. One copy per year.....+.- $2.00 Six months..... . 1.00 Three Mon ths subcribe , monthly For Presideat in 1904, Marcus Alonzo Hanna of Ghio. For Vice President, Timothy L. Woodruff of New York, The Post's Misrepresntation. One reason why the negroes eause is almost always misjudged is on account of a prejudieed and untruthful whjte press, which seeks either to ridicule or pervert the words aud sentiment of almost all gatherings of our people. The case in point is the meeting held at the Lincoln Memorial Church on last Monday night under the auspices of the Afro-American Council and addressed by Jas. H. Hayes, Esq., who is leading the fight againat the new constitution of Virginia by which more than one hundred thousand Negroes have been made slaves. Mr. Haye’s subject was “Dis- franchisement in Virginiaand what the Negro is doing to resist it.’ The church was packed with the very best people of Washington, and his speech was one of the best ever delivered in Washington. It told of Virginia’s conditions that eught to be told with a trumpet from the highest mountain top so that all the world may know how the Negro is robbed and defrauded of his rights guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States. It told of how teachers, preachers docto.s, business men, taxpapers., Negro mem in every rank and eondition had becn deprived of sitizenship by ignorant white men, ealled a Registration Board-while mot a white man had been re/ased registration. He told how the Governor of the State, and mem- bers of the Constitutional Conven- Virginia Negroes are determined to ington are pecuiiar. They are use every lawful means to over learning some sense. turn the new constitution. They are tryiny to hold a National Negro Suffrage Convention, so as to enliat the aid and sympathy of all who are opposed to Southern methods. The Post and all those who follow it, do not desire that Mr. Hayes shall go through this country tell- ing the trath about Virginia’s con- ditions, Despite all the unfairness meanness, murder and disfranchise men(—it must not be told to the world. Sin, political or otherwise must not be discussed, not held up to public gaze, Southern condi- tions can not stand investigation, truth and publicity, Why did notthe Pcst rekuxe the Southern editor who advised white men to kill Negroes who were Sppointed to office by the President? Why did not the Post denounce the Atlanta Constitutionjwhen it mildiy suggested the “ku kluxing” of Negroes appointed to office. 0, no these were white men! They can advise murder, killing, lynchings extermination-anything to ou rage the Negro and it ig all right- But should a Negroopen his movth and declare that he is a man and advise his own flesh and blood to contend for their rights, he is ‘an incen diary,” “‘an insolent Negro” and the Post and all others of its kind setupon him to *‘kill hita off.” We trust this will not deter, to weaken Mr. Hayes in his mission totest and over throw Virginia’s new constitution, and arouse the egroes of the United States to hoid a National Negro Suffrage Convention. GOOD AvPUINTMENTS, Public Printer Palmer has follow- ed civil service strictly and two de- serving men have been promoted, Capt. Bryan who is an expert on printing and who has been foreman of printing in the governcrent print- office for a number of years has beea made cheif clerk to succeed Mr. Uotlins who died a few days ago and Mr. O J. Ricketts succeeds Capt. Bryan. Mr. Rieketts is one of the best known and one of th: most reliable and competent young men under the this government. He and Capt. Bryan have been justly and deservedly rewarded for faith- ful services. Yhe son of Capt. Bryan suceeeds Mr Ricketts. He is also a young man of ability. Tue Bae extends its cougratula- tion, had convassed the State from |tions to these worthy promotions; the mountains to the sea, publicly proclaiming that not ON ESINGLE WHITE man would lose his vote, while every Negro that could, would be refused registration. He told ef the four months school system. He told of the tax on the Indrus- trial Schools, which only crippled the Negro Indrustrial Schools, Hampton, Lawrenceville and Ma- massas. ‘This was a revelation o the audience. He told of how ‘he Negroes had rallied with their mites, employed counsel, that the fight was on, and would never Cease until the Supreme Court had announced that uuder the constitution the Negro had no rights, which Virginia could not annul by her jnew constitu- tion. Iw speaking of the hard corditions by which the Negro was surrounded, he said, “I am not an anarchist, 1 do not believe in killing any body, but stand up for your rights and let some one kill you; but sooner or later the jim-crowing, disfranchising, seil- ing, shooting, butchering, lynching and murdering of the Negro in the South wiil raea of Nat Turners which will cause the sword and torch to desoiate the South.’ This scntance has besn the Dasis of the most malicions misrepresen tation and the Post and many make a Public printer Palmer has added three more stars to his crown. — THE EX-SLAVE PENSION BILL, Rev. I. L. Walton of Tennessee the original advoeator of the Ex- Slave Pension bill is a man of re- markable push and _ influence among his people. He claims that Congress ought to appropriate’ a sufficient amount of money from the unclaimed fund of the colored soldiers and pay these people who were held in slavery and were com pelled to work without compensa tion, Onthefront page of THe Bre this week is the portrait of Rey. Walton and the work in which he is engaged. There is no man bet- ter knowa thein country than Rey. Walton. He has a member ship of one nundred and five thousand peorle seventy A Little Previous. From the Atlanta, Ga,, Age- Washington, D. C., Negroes can’t get up a decent memorial meeting to the honor of the late Thomas B. Reed, the Negro’s foremost champion since the days of Wendell Phillips. Let jsome cheap screw demagogue come along such as advocates of the disfran- 'chising constitutions of the southern states and discussing in slobbery words of the bedeficient (?) premiums they put upon education and property, and the Metropolitan church can’t hold the throng’ Renegades! THE Bee wants to inform the The Pr2vious Question. From the Pine Bluff Herald. The Boston, (Mass.,) Guardian seconds the motion «f the Washington, D. C. (Bee) for a Suffrage Convention, and suggcsis the adyisability of ‘‘c. n- fining it to the north,” and gives divers reasons therefur, Not being allowed, from the above, to amend tue motion, we move the previous question. N Brother Duke, let us have ® suffrage Uonvention, we want nO office-bolders. gun go off. There was not a desenting voice at the conclusion of Mr. Hayes’ Speech on last Monday evening, Senator Morgan is of the opivion that the deportation of the negro is a solution of tbe race question, If Senator Morgan is not dead before that tiwe he will see his grand children married to negroes. S range things happen cometimes. Judge James Pugh would bea good successor to Judge Kimbal's For president in 1904 no mat would suit better than Senator Mar cus A, Hanna. The great! question now is, What will become of the negro, The Afro-Americau Council bas; at last concluded that it is best to have men connected with it. The white man’s leader, Mr. Book er T, Washington musi retire. ‘The old cowardly achool of negro politicians is dying out. Register J. W, Lyons has a leve} head and at the proper time you wil! see bim exercise good judgment, Col. Wm. Pledger of Ga., makes a good presiding officer. The Col. knows how to carry out a program. Editor Cyrus F. Adamsis a good writer.. The certain Paragraphs could have beeen eliminated, The Booker Washington at the 2d Baptist Church lyceum last San day was quietly turned jatoan anti Washington meeting. Dr. Corroth ere led the fight in a manly way, There is no man who has been to this that is more highly thought of than Dr, Corrothers, The meeting Inst Sunday demonstrated the fact that thé District of Columbia is op posed toMr. Washington and no paid hireling ean convince them otherwise. Some colored people are big co¥ ards, At the meeting of the Afro- American Council on last Monday aight there was not a desenting voice heard against its proceedings Out as seon as a few pepers edited edited by white mea declare against the meeiing, there is a seramble for the holes. Mr- Hayes told the truth and when 3 man tells the truth what are You going to about it? Tue Beg Woutp Liketo Know The difference of receiving rail way mail thieves at Tuskeege and dogs. The differerence between an inter loper and an honest citizen. A man who will not take care of his wife and the man who takes care of other mens’ wives, An editor who will point out what other people say about you, but will not publish his own opinion. A colored lawyer who supports him Self or a man some one else supports. Drinking Water as Dowry. | l\ Water is so scarce in the Japan- | ese island of Oshima that it is the j; custom for a bride to take a large | tub of drinking water with her to | her new home as a kind of dowry. ] Cowards run when they hear | | j; comstant petty annoyance was the re-| BEa. FOR STAMP COLLECTORS. There are said to be 15,948 different postage stamps in existence, not counting varieties of shades, paper or watermarks. The first two-cent United States en- velope was issued in 1863. It had the words “U.S. Postage” in the label, and the head of Jackson. In 1864 this was changed to read “U. S. Post” in the upper label. Each kind was printed on both buff and orange paper, and there were two dies of each year. In 1863 one die has the figure “2” smaller thar the other, and in 1864, one die is two mm. wider than the other. Stamps have ceased to be certificates of “postage paid” long ago. Numerals have disappeared and an occasional re- appearance of these artless stam has been sco:ned more or less. All the countries of the globe contend in beau- tiful artistic designs not only, but let their stamps speak to the world. They present their famous men, they tell us about their change of rulers or the mode of government, or of their botany or commerce, and they an- nounce to the general publie of the world great eveuts as happenings in their countries. Our philatelists will be interested to hear that in France a complete new series of stamps is to be issued early in 1903 and that the standard design will be the same as on the new French coinage. This compliment to M. Roty, the designer of the new coinage, was accompanied by the offer of a large fee for the use of the design on the stamps, but he was so pleased with the tribute to his artistic abilities that he declined to accept any further re- muneration, It is learned that the} reason for the new series, while based on the desire for an artistic improv ment gn the present one, has actual ly been brought about by the public j constant complaints against the yel-| low 15 centime (three « which are used for or ary letters | in France, be their destination local | or in the most distant corner of the | country. Vast numbers of the square | envelopes used by French business people are yellow and the stamps were of so much the same bilious hue that nts) stamps, sult, FOREIGN ARMY FACTS. Servia and Switzerland are the only states ubsolutely witliont a wavy. That of Belgium is extremely small, A German marine journal declares that drunkenness is increasing to an alarming extent in the German army, and that it is responsible for nearly 40 per cent. of the punishments in- eurred by sailors. Gen. Andre, the French minister of war, is seeking to improve the head- gear of the French army. The pres- ent headwear is said to have contrib- uted in no small degree to the many recent cases of sunstroke. During 1901 the Prussian army took in 150,961 recruits, of whom 110 were wholly without education. Of these unfortunates West Prussia contrib- uted 27; East Prussia, 21; Posen, 18, and Silesia, 14, the rest coming in smaller jots from the other prov- jnces. Hohenzollern sent no illit- erate recruits. Ninety-two recruits could not speak or understand Ger-, man; 48 of these were from Posen, and 28 from East Prussia. The per- centage of illiterateg wes .07 in the army; in the navy, ovt of 7,667 re- eruits, only one was illiteraté. By way of illustrating one of the differences between Lords Roberts and Kitchener, they are telling this story in London: Just before “Bobs” left Cape Town he assigned an offi- cer to a particular duty and asked how soon it could be done. The colonel said in about a_ fortnight. Lord Roberts said, pleasantly: “I know you will do the best you can.” Later the colonel told Kitchener about the matter. “Now, colonel,” said the new. commander, “if you can’t do it in a week we shall have to see about sending you home.” The job was done in the time set by Kitchener. MUNICIPAL MATTERS. | A San Francisco cable street car company is introducing seats for its conductors, to be used on parts of the runs where traffic is not heavy. The prod on of steel at Pittsburg | in 1901 ec i half that of England, | BRIEF POINTERS. Of every 1,000 men accepted for the United States army, 834.97 are native n, On the south coast of England there is a hotel in which a tropicai tempera- ure is constantly maintained by means of steam pipes. The guests are mostly pensioned officials and officers who spent so many years in India that they cannot endure the climate of England. The London Express comments on the fact that an American publication mentions the hundredth birthday an- niversaries of several great English authors as being close at hand, but ap- parently forgets that of an American, Ralph Waldo Emerson, which comes next year. Here are some others that are not far distant: Bulwer-Lytton (1903), Beaconfield (1904), Hawthorne (1904), Whittier (1907), Longfellow (1907), Tennyson (1909), Thackeray (1911), Dickens (1912). Those of Bal- zac, Hugo and Damas have been cele- brated within a short time, Wishing to obtain some special in- formation regarding the Philippines, Secretary Root gave a breakfast at the Arlington to two men who were thoroughly posted on the matter. Be- ing unusually absent-minded that morning he breakfasted alone, and then went into the lobby, where he found his two friends.. Heinvited them into his office, and there talked with them for a couple of hours, forgetting ail about his breakfast invitation until theyhad departed. His apologies were profuse, but he has been the subject of much raillery on the subject. PEOPLE AND EVENTS. The late duke of Sutherland is said to have left 92 wills. Messrs. Chamberlain and Chaffee, | the original Tennessee and his partner of Bret Harte’s romance. “Tennessee's Pardner.” are still living at Grove- land, Cal. Col. Henry D. ‘Capers, a brother of Gen. Ellison Capers, now Episcopal bishop of South Carclina, is the oldest living confederate, and this is shown by his commission. When Dr. Lorenz was in Philadelphia 8 roofing firm in that city put the fol- | lowing advertisement in street cars: “Dr. Lorenz holds the same place in his profession that our friends say we hold in ours. Clinies daily. Blank & Blank, Roof Surgeons.” In connection with the report that Mme. Patti contemplates one more American tour next summer this story is told: Baron Cedarstrom, the diva’s youthful husband, calied on an Amer- jeav mavager in Londou some months ago and said he thought it would bea good idea for Patti to tour the coun- try in concert, adding that it might be announced as ber farewell appearance. The manager gazed mildly at the young man and seemed making a men- tal calculation. Then he said: “I was going to say that your wife must have made ber first farewell tour of the United States before you were born, but that would have been an ex- aggeration. But it must have been while you were learning your letters in Sweden. So, you see, the plan’s not altogether original.” OF GENERAL INTEREST. One-half of the imports into this § country are of materials for manufac- } ture. Cenadian trade with Great Britain | has increased over 6,000,000 the past y year. 1 Twenty-three thousand tables cov-' ered with hieroglyphics have been, brought from Nippur, in Messpovn-s mia, by Prof. Hilprecht. The water power available on the Pacific slope for producing electric en- is equivalent to the combustion of 500,000,000 tons of coal a year. In 1880 the value of farm products of the south exceeded that of manu- factured products by more than $200,- 000,000, while in 19 $190,000,000, though during that pe- riod the number of persons engaged in agriculture increased 36 per cent. | Germany’s match-making industry, in which about $9,000,000 is invested, is said to have been almost ruined by the output of the American Diamond Match company’s new Mannhei mace in ( ctories near matches rman works were sold at $20 a case; now they are selling at $16 a case, which js a dollar below the Six months was more than that of Germany, twice | that of France, five times that of Rus- | sia or Belgium, and 25 times that of | Spain. | The Noah Webster Memorial asso-} ciation bas been formed at West Hart- | ford, Conn., with Gen. Joseph B. Haw- ley at the head of the board of direct- ors, its object being to erect a libr building in memo@ of Noah Webster who lived ther still standing. On newspaper information that Ta- coma and other cities of the Pacitie coast are short of marriageable wom- en, Nora Nelson, collar girl, of Troy, N. Y., wri to the postmaster of Ta- coma that 500 girls in Troy would will- ingly go to Tacoma if assured of goog and whose home is | * mastication alr other papers have distorted it into}editor of the Atlanta, Ga., Age athreat and as advising the Negroes | that the “Negroes” of Washington, to resist the new constitution with|have never attempted to get up a sword and torch in hand, memorial meetin, for Mr. Reed, This was diametrically epposite}and when they do, they will no to the position taken by thespeak-|doubtdo so. Don’t you cometo the eras hed plored the condition of|eonclusion that every side show is & the Southern Negro. But why this/ representation of the sentiment of perversion of facts? What reason| the Negroes of Washington, Mr, has the Post for attempting to make: Reed was a great man, and no the world be.ieve, that Mr. Hayes{ doubt had Mr. Reed’s friende at- was insane enough to sdvise the; tempted a memorial meeting there Negro torise upagainstthe whites?/ Would have been one. ‘The reason is perfectly plain. The| And, again, the people of Vie h husbands and homes, BERLIN AND ITS PEOPLE. —London Chronicle. Another Lie Nailed. Jaggsby—I understand, gir, you said I drank like a fish. Waggsby—It’s a lie. I never knew you to take @ drink of water in your life—Chicago Daily News. that Berlin's American residents num- ber 1,739, Berlia’s statue of Wagner ‘is to be cut from a block of Pentelikon mar. ble weighing 38 tons. Berliners are not satisfied with 15 cents as the minimum cab fare. They want seven-cent and even cent fares for shorter distances. In a Bad Way. “Why, how do you do, Mr. Brown. How’s all the folks?” “They're all well except Bill. He's married.”—N. Y. Journal. ' Then He Was Offended. Willie—She said that she loved me more than I knew. __Wilhelmina—That’s, nothing. —N, ¥. are small and of inferior quality Germag tables three | least twice daily of cost of production by German ma- chinery. The Diamond Match company uses machinery made in the United States. HEALTH AND BEAUTY. } )0 manufactures exceeded farm products by more than taking but one to three kinds at a meal. Don’t swallow food without ma eation; svokery, by making st unnecessary, is re- | sponsible for much decay of the teeth. If celery is eaten fr | blood is the result, and where this ex- | ists there cap be neither rheumatism, | gout nor nervous prostration to any j extent. It should be eaten preferably cooked, though it may be taken raw, if thoroughly masticated. Cut it into | bits and boil until soft in as little wa- ter as possible. Food fragments left between the eeth quickly undergo not only fer- Mentative but putrefactive decompo- sition. The chemical products of the former attack the enamel and those of the latter render the breath offen- sive. A good preventive is the use at an antiseptic Bicarbonate of modern y an alkaline wash. This may be: In Berlin restaurants oysters cost | $0da, two drams; borax, two drams; from 50 to 75 cents per dozen. They | tincture of myrrh, half an ounce; chlorate of potash, one dram; water Cooked oysters are never seen oy,| to make half a pint. To\be employed freely with or without the toothbrush. _ —— — ington Star. Saas casted Out of His Class. “There was a dog fight going or. juss licaad the corner out of sight,” cx- amg the man who was telling the tory, and who always sees the funny Side of iife. “Back of me, coming as ‘fast as his little legs could carry him, ‘was a small dog not much bigger than Brat. As a matter of fact the biggest ‘thing about him was his bark, but his every action seemed to say: ‘Oh, I do ‘hope that scrap won't be over before I get there!’ I and that small dog came in sight of the fight at the same moment. There were six dogs in the mix-up, and not one of them was smaller than a calf. The way thas small dog suddenly stopped, took one look and then turned and legged it for home caused me to laugh aloud. He acted as if he had suddenly remem- bered that it wasn’t his day to fight.” —Detroit Free Press. Strange Craft. A traveler says: “The strangest eraft | have ever seen were the balsas of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru These balsas are made of an aquatic plant growing in the waters of the lake. The principle on which they @re constructed by the Aymaras In- diars proves their ingenuity. A bale of hay oaiurally floats in the water, and according to the quantity of dried gra-s used in constructing the boat do they control the displace ment cr carrying capacity. These’ boats are likewise fitted with a mast and sail, and in some instances carry from eight to ten persons, The In- dians travel long distances over this vast inland lake. the surface of which is on a level with the summit of the Jungfrau of the Swiss Alps.”"—N, ¥, Oil of Rattlers, In Pennsyivania the oil of rattle- snakes is preserved most carefully ag a liniment especially good for sore joints and fer rheumatism. In pro- curing the oil the dead snake is nailed i tad to a board and cut open. aken ont sad laid upon & from which the From fear ve bitten itself, i by dropping a un, filtered onl « that tb the cle nto # jar perti n if it floats im one globule it egurded as unaffect- ed if he other hand, it breaks nio be ihe milk, it is judged ous and thrown away. tribune Never Voucned Him. Borem—Your friend, Miss Homer, seems to have the proverb habit. Miss Nextdoor--tndeed! I’m sure lk never noticed it. “Well, she has, just the same. The other evening when | called on her I remarked about 11 p. m. that I must go, and what do you think she said?” “Really, I can’t imagine. ‘What did she say?” “She glanced at the clock and said: ‘Better late than never.’ ’’—Chicago Daily News. Redemption of Postal Cards. Postal cards which have been spoiled and not sent through the mails, if en- tire, are now redeemed at all post offices under a sliding scale of valua tions by which the postmaster will pay 7 cents for 10 cards, 18 cents for 25 cards, 37 cents for 50 cards, 75 cents for 100 cards. The cards are to be wrapped in bundles of 25.—Wash- * Like Unlike. i Towne—\ don’t see why you should consider him your enemy, just be- cause he tells you the truth about you. A really true friend should do, Browne-Yes, but here's the differ S ence. A true friend tells you the truth. about you; an enemy tells it to every- body else.—-Philadelphia Press. Too Much. Mrs. Marryat—Mamma is talking of closing her house and coming to live with us. Do you think you couid sup port both of us? Mr. Marryat—My dear, I can support you very nicely now, but I'm afraic your mother would be insupportable —Catholic Standard Times. Didn’t Impress: “She is very artistic, pressionable youth. “Yes,” answered the man with the steely eyes; “she is one of the sort o! girls who think a ounch of hand-pain ed daisies are more important ona di id the im ner plate than ea omelet.”—Sira Stories, Man That Succeeds. “I tell you,” said the doctor, “it the man who can push himself along that succeeeds in this world.” “Not at all,” replied the professor “It’s the man who can shove other Pearson’s Weekly. Marvelous Constraction. In the for sin motive steam engine there 6,000 pieces to be put tog these require to be justed as the work Science and Industry. nation of a How Chinese Sleep. Chinese of their house six or more perso! ey bed about four feet warmed by the chim : = der it.—N. Y. © families The Kareat shell The raresi ‘ ” called the “Cor seum which wed at $o.tKit) “8 The Lazy Mare said “It is mever tee man wh< (hicago Daily \«* oe lazy to begine ST