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The bee., 1883-06-30
OBITUARY..

We went over to the old town of
AeX to attend the funeral of one old
friend and beloved citizen, Mrs. Manner
Dogan. She had attained the age of
over four score years, and had been a
regular, consistent and Christian MEM
Der of Roberts NJ. Z. Church for three
score and five years, and she died tri-
umphant in the cause. Oh that my
last hours may be like hers. When
the cold hand of death began to creep
on her breast, she was conscious of the
change. and the pastor of her church
called in just at the time, and he said
to her, Sister Dogan, how do you
feel?' She closed her hands and said.
Brother Walker, | am passing away;
l am fast crossing the river of Jor-
dan" Her pastor then asked her if
there was any clouds in her way. She
said: NO, Brother Walker: all is
well. There is only one step between
me and glory She then sang the
hymn, 81 am going home to die no
more and when she was so far failed
in death that she was too weak to
sing, she told them to sing on, and she
raised her hands and closed them in
praise to God, and fell quietly
asleep in Jesus. Such were the last
moments of our friend and mother,
Sister Dogan. Oh, what life to live,
and death to die. Blessed are they
who die in the Lord. Sister Dogan
had many trials during her soiourn
Sometimes the great pillows of trouble
would roll around her, but, thank God,
she always kept her head above the
waves, and held up her banner for
Jesus, looking away beyond this vale
of tears to that inheritance that is
promised to all the children of God
Shewas charitable, sympathizing and
Christian friend to all she knew. She
stretched out her hand to the poor;
yea, she reached forth her hands to the
needy. Whenever she heard of anyone
being sick or distressed, she would
hasten to their relief, no matter rich
or poor. She was there to soothe and
do all in her power for them. Sister
Marie DOgan's death is vacancy that
will never be filled in Alex, for
none knew her but to love her. She
was attended to her last resting-place
by large number of sympathizing
friends, and many tears were shed, and
many hearts mourned. She bid all her
dear children loving farewell, and
entreated them to live in love and
union and meet her in heaven, where
we all shall meet around the throne
that lives the life and dies the death
of Christian. NJ.
The bee., 1883-06-30

knowledge it. We now refer to the
coward and demagogue. TT. greener,
whom we some time ago denounced
as an unscruplous renegade, who
lwhile in South Carolina) endeavored
to make terms with the arch traitor.
Wade Hampton. whom we to-day pre-
sent to the American people as the
same rebel, who in anti-bellum days,
and who now holds TO the principles
OF Jefferson Davis. Jackson and Lee.
This man greener is the one who filed
false charges against us. because we
denounced him at the Timm's hall
meeting. The ccwardly act of r. t..
grccner is his denial of the charges
after having filed them. He is too
cnwardly TO meet us on the rostraum.
through the press or otherwise. He
is too unimportant TO waste time on.
We desire 10 say that 1--WE bleed, but
not killed" "A man once did sell the
lions skin while the beast still lived,
was killed while hunting him" =
Hqroc.
The bee., 1883-06-30
The Result of Observation.

An observing individual says: |
have noticed that when a horse gets
up he gets up forward first and jerks
his hind parts after him, while COW
will get her rear half up in place; also,
when drinking, a horse will draw in
water rapidly with every breath; the
COW, on the contary, will suck in one
continuous draught as long as she can
hold her breath.
1 have noticed that sheep and goats
are both buffers, yet a sheep has to
run few steps backward before he
can butt, while the goat has to raise
himself on his hind legs to execute the
same movement. One is called a buck
sheep, the other a battering RAM.
They are the only two animals know
of whose butt ends are in front.
A squirrel can run down tree head
first. The cat and the bear must get
down tail first, (if left to Themselves J
If your dog finds his way into your
cellar and sees a nice steak he will
steal it and run out, but if your cat
gets in and finds steak she will sit
right down by it and eat what she
wants, (if not surprised befOre.)
L have noticed that a leather strap
buekled about the height of yourself
around a young tree in few years
will be away beyond your reach, but II
nailed at that distance Will never get
any higher, (only the outer shell runs
up.)
Although turkeys are much more
swift of foot than geese, yet in
weeks drive flock of geese will come
in ahead; for geese you can drive az
night, especially moonlight, but when
evening approaches turkeys Will rooSt.
A man can stand on one foot in the
middle of room and pull on his Shoe
while woman must lean up against
something to accomplish the same
thing.
A man holds the needle in his left
hand to thread it, but woman holds
it in her right.
In one thing I think every one VIII
agree with me: Dress man as "o-
man dresses and you viii freeze him TO
death.
The bee., 1883-06-30
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
NeIIy's TeasParIy.


Nelly Ray lives in a brown cottage
down by the river. There are not many
houses near, and no little children to
play with her. One day her mamma
took her to the city to visit her cousin.
She was older than Nelly, and had a
good many playmates.
While Nelly was there Emma had a
tea-party and invited her little friends.
Nelly enjoyed it very much, and after
she went home wanted to have party
of her own.
"But," said her mamma, "whom will
you invite?"
"Oh, l don't know" replied Nelly.
81 can find somebody, 1 think. And
I'll have my dolls"
Nelly had three dolls-Maria Louisa,
Victoria and Cinderella. Then she had
a little dog named Frisk and three
cats. SnowdrOp was the mother, and
Punch and Judy were kittens Nelly
thought that with all of them she
could have quite party.
, Her mamma gave her some cookies
and milk. She picked bouquet of
daisies and buttercups for her table.
Maria Louisa and Victoria were TAX
ing their afternoon nap when they
were invited, but Cinderella was no
where to be found. 1t took Nelly some
time to remember where she had her
last. And where do you think it was !?
Up in the old apple-tree! Then Nelly
called Frisk and Snowdrop, and of
course Punch and Judy came running
after.
So they went to Nelly's little play
house. They al had to sit on the
ground except Victoria, who had a
high chair. They soon ate up the re-
freshments, and as only Nelly could
talk, the party did not last long. =
"Oh, mamma" said Nelly, "it was
such a funny party; Frisk wanted all
the cake and while l was talking to
Maria Louisa and Victoria, Punch and
Judy drank up ali the milk. Then poor
Cinderella rolled down the bank, but
Frisk brought her back again. Idon't
believe Snowdrop had mouthful to
eat. And I'd rather have my supper
with you"
"Well," said mamma, "now go put
your dollies to bed and have good
run with Frisk. By the time you come
back supper will be ready, and I'll tell
you story."-Our Little Ones.
The bee., 1883-06-30
Honorable Scars.

There is one member of the present
United States government whose face
is so Scared as to be pitiful to look
upon; but the story of these scars is a
record so honorable that no decoration
of the Legion of Honor confers more
glory than do these cruel seams and
gashes.
When this man of whom we write
was but boy, he was sitting with his
younger sister before the fire of a
country house, where they we're spend
ing the Christmas holidays. Did a
spark snap from the blazing wood that
cracked so merrily upon the hearth {?
Or did some incautious movement on
the girls part bring her dress too near
the blaze? At any rate, in an instant
her clothes were all ahame.
The boy loved his pretty sister even
more, perhaps, than most brothers do.
He was proud of her cleverness and Of
her beauty. Should the fierce flames
scorch her life out before his eyesP
He caught wrap from the sofa, a
rug from the floor. He wrapped them
round her and struggled for her life,
so utterly forgetful of himself that, at
the end, he was burned almost beyond
human recognition, while on her fair
girls face the fire had left no mark.
And the boy was well content. 81
am boy" he said, "and it does NOT
matter. She could not have borne it."
For long time his life was despair.
ed of, but at length the vital forces of
his strong youth triumphed, and he
went forth into the world again, wear.
ing his scars for a badge of glory in
the eyes of all those who knew the
tale.
He has made himself one of the men
of mark of his generation. He ha
won love for himself and distinction
and the fair repute of men. But of all
the gains Of his life, none do him such
honor as those scars of his early battle
The sister, whom he saved from the
awful fate that threatened her, has
won her own laurels also. She lives in
Italy amid "the grandeur that was
Rome" whence she sends to America
some of the brightest and most charm.
ing work which our journals print.
She has salon where you meet the
men and women best worth knowing
Her life is happy and prosperous-but
for all its pleasures, she has to thank
the scars which would make her broth
er's face unpleasant to look upon, did
not the knowledge of how they were
won make them his crowning glory
Youths Companion.
The bee., 1883-06-30
OUR SORE-HEADED PROFESSOR,
L. l.. ID. AND ASS.

EDITOR BEE:-Richard Theodore
Greener, negro boy living in Boston.
Massachusetts, was admitted as stu
dent to Howard College at Cambridge,
sometime during the late war, and by
dint of pushing, petting and hard work
on the part of devoted mother, whose
name is Seldern, if ever mentioned pub
licly 10y this ungreatful son, after be-
ing put back year in his studies,
graduated from that institution and
came to this city. Shortly after his
graduation, just at the close of the war,
he was given an opportunity to put
his attainmentS to practical use by be-
ing given tutorship in the Institute
for colored youths at Philadelphia. He
did not meet expectations there and
again came on to Washington, where
he was made principal of our colored
high school, and ley attempting to usurp
the authority of the trustees of that
school, he was dismissed. He then
drifted into the editorial chair of the
NeU National Era, being one of its
editors, but was too quarrelsome and
bigoted to hold on very long. He was
then given place in the Law Depart
ment of Howard University, and be-
came failure there. He then was
placed at the head of a College in South
Carolina, and in neglecting his duties
by seeking congressional honors, that
institution died on his hands. He then
tried to court favor with Gov. Hamp-
ton, being willing to be used by the
Democrats of that State. After the
route of the Republicans had been COM
The bee., 1883-06-30
Queer Shops.

There are very many more boot and
shoe shops here than in any other town
| have ever seen, writes London cor
respondent. In the business streets
one may count them by dozens, and they
all look thriving The continual rain
and damp of London probably account
for theinnumerable shops for the sale of
1ndia-rubber goods, there must be at
least twenty here for one to be met at
home. But the climate cannot explain
the remarkable prevalence of shops
where nothing is sold but artificial
teeth! These crop up on every side,
and excite our constant remark. We
wonder whether people step in and
buy tooth or two or set of teeth, as
one selects a hat or an umbrella.
whether regular dental operations are
carried on within; also, whether such a
branch of business can possibly be pro-
fitable when carried on by so many
traders.
The bee., 1883-06-30
UnnlOYed.

The man or woman who tries to get
reputation for eccentricity is natur-
ally outraged at people who won't be
astoniShed. Baudelaire, a French lit
erary character, was one of these, and
on his first coming to Paris he visited
another literary person, NJ. Du Camp.
who asked him whether he would have
Bordeaux or Burgundy. "Both," was
the reply, and he drained a bottle of
each at draught, looking at his host
to see what impression it made upon
him. Du Camp was unmoved. Bau-
delaire soon visited Du Camp again
with his hair dyed green. Du Camp
paid no attention to it. At last Bau-
delaire cried =. fury: Don't you
notice anything peculiar in the color
of my hair?' Nothing whatever" 4"
was the reply. II have seen at least
fifty people with green hair to-day.
If you had dyed yours bright blue
that would have struck me as uncom-
mOn." Baudelaire bounced from his
chair, flung himself from the room,
and declared to a friend that Du Camp
was the most disagreeable man in
Paris.
The bee., 1883-06-30
THE EXCURSION TO RICH.
M0Nn

OF the Washington Cadet Corps, we
need scarcely remind our readers,
leaves on Tuesday evening next, and
is already an assured success. The
excellent management of the Cade's
of their former excursion to the same
place contrasted SO favOrably with
some others unnecessary to name,
that all who then attended and many
more express themselves as going on
this occasion. The fact that it is Il
holiday, and no working day need be
lost, renders it all the more desirable.
Capt. Fleetwood, who spent last Sun
day in Richmond, reports everybody
making preparations to give all a
specimen of old Virginia hospitality.
Our advice to all is to buy your
tickets through the day. SO as to avoid
the evening crowding, as, from al
appearances, this will be the finest
party ever taken into the old Com
monwealth.
The bee., 1883-06-30
PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS.

The communication in last weeks
issue Of the New York Globe signed
Republican does Public Printer
Rounds injustice. There are none
who have endeavored to promote the
interest ol the colored race more than
Hon. 5. 2. Rounds, our public printer.
Mr.. Rounds entertains no prejudice on
account of color. He is friend TO the
down-trodden race, and We know it.
Capt. Brian, foreman of printing, is
just man, and we are confident that he
has no prejudices. Give the public
printer chance, and we will assure
our friend Republican that Mr.. Rounds
will do the handsome thing. In the
first place Mr.. Lovelett's place was
only temporary, and the gentleman
knows it; hence his removal from that
position could not have been 4 sur
prise.
The bee., 1883-06-30
NEITHER TRAITORS NOR
REBELS.

HAMPTON, OF SOUTH CAROLINA: SAYS
THE LATE CONFLICT WAS NOT
REBELLION, But ONLY A CIVIL
WAR.
Senator Hampton delivered the
memorial Grafton at the unveiling of
confederate monument here to-day. He
paid a glowing tribute to the faith, de-
yotion, and patience of southern women
and said when the true bravery of the
war shall be written they would not
only occupy the first place in our hearts,
but the first in honor. They would
always repel With scorn and indigna-
tion the imputation that the monu-
lnents to the Confederate dead marked
the place where traitors slept. We of
the South were neither traitors nor
rebels; nor was our war in any proper
sense q rebellion. 1t was strictly a
civil war growing out Of conflicting
interests and different constructions
OF the constitution by the opposing
sections of the country. He congra' u
lated the country that the future was
auspiciOuS that the scars of our war
were being obliterated by time, and
demanded that 'our former enemies do
justice to the motives that inspired
our Econduct." The great questions
cchjch mere ut issue bet,ceen the North
ana South, and lChich acre left to the
dT6itrdnoeRt Of aCdr, 1cere decided
! against uS, bit the Sdrofd necer has de-
ctded and necer oCiU decide question
incolciRg a great principle
We invite attention to the words of
Gov. Hampton, underlined.
Thirteen thousand colored men have
been murdered in the South since the
beginning of reconstruction, by order
OF the leader of the democratic party.
For what cause were they murdered :?
Because the colored man has been
made a citizen, and stood in the way of
his former master The sword gave
the colored man liberty-his services
to the government on the battle field,
secured him the ballot. But that bal
lot, says Mr.. Hampton, shall leUer de-
eide q great question, on principles.
The suffrage granted to the colored
man in South Carolina, has been
snatched away from him by brutal
force, through such agencies as the
Hamburg Massacre, the Red Shirts,
the Rife Clubs and cold, open diaboli-
cal murderers and ballot box stuffing.
All this is well known, andyet we find
leading Republicans, still advising
black men to do and die for the party,
while they shake hands across the dead
bodies of our people, with Mr.. Hamp-
ton, Mr.. Butler and that class of demo-
Gratis in the South, and even berate
our republican brethren in Virginia,
that follow the flag, and, the fortunes
of Gen. Malone, which is leading them
TO complete full, and through realiza-
tion of the promises made Ito us) by
the party in 1865.
Freedom and suffrage, in South
Carolina, is but a mockery. Freedom
is but farce, unless each and every
man in the community is allowed the
free and unrestricted right to vote ac-
cording to the dictates of his con-
science.
We hope the day will come, when
there shall be Malone in South Caro-
lima. Until such time, our people
need not expect anything of what
Messrs. Hampton, Butler, and that
class of pro-slavery democrats agree
they shall have.
The bee., 1883-06-30
Cut Flowers.

One of the safest and best ways to
send few choice cut flowers to a dis,
tance is to cut slits in potatoes and in
sert the flower stems, taking care that
they are firmly fastened in and support
ed by little cotton or paper. An Oh.
dlnary potato will keep most flowers
fresh for two weeks OF more in a mod
crate temperature. Potatoes can aI5o
be used in floral decorations through
being disguised by leaves and flowers.
-Culticdtor..
The bee., 1883-06-30

An communications perta1n1ng to business
must be addressed TO the Business Manager
Matter for publication and on private business
must be addressed TO the Editor and Proprie-
tor. In conjunction with the BEE, the mana
gers have established a News Bureau of the
Colored Press. We are prepared to furnish
biographies, special correspondence and news
items at a reasonable price. The object of the
bureau is TO furnish colored journals with
special Washington letters when they have TO
epecisl correspondents. We have some Of the
best writers in the country connected with the
bureau, which will enable us to furnish truth
ful, spicy and concise correspondence. Give
the News Bureau a call.
The bee., 1883-06-30
Just About,

All the passengers in the street car
on Austin avenue were very much
annoyed by crying child, and one
old gentleman appeared to be particu-
larly eXasperated.
Il do wonder what little wootsy
tootsy is crying about" said the
mother, dancing the infant up and
down.
Il know what he is crying about.
He has been crying about six blocks;
ever since you got into the car
Siffi1tgS.
The bee., 1883-06-30

We propose to keep sacred and in
violable the names Of our correspon-
dents, when it is necessary for persons
who feel aggrieyed at what appears in
our columns, to demand an explana-
tion their redress is through the edi.
tor. We do not r"h1isl> e-ory tIIIns :;
we receive but endeavor. to give the
public the. benefit of sound facts making
no distinction or discrimination on ac-
count Of position or what not of those
that the truth is written about.
The bee., 1883-06-30

The indianapolis World calls cur
friend, Rev. John Jasper, Of Richmond,
crank. Indeed dear World, you are
sadly mistaken. John Jasper is as far
from beinga crank as is the ordinary
run of men who entertain orthodox
views on stated subjects. A personal
acquaintance with NJ. Jasper will re.
move all fears from ones mind as to
his crankishness. He who takes
brother Jasper for one of those things
burns his foot.
The bee., 1883-06-30
INDIAN SCALPS.
Prices Paid for Them I'm Colonial Times
Big Premium ON Dead Indians.

A Big Premium ON Dead Indians.
The taking of scalp5 came to be a
recognized part of colonial warfare
Hannah Dustin, who escaped from
Indian captivity in 1893, took ten
scalps with her own hand, and was
paid for them. Captain Church,
undertaking his expedition against
the eastern Indians, in 1705, after the
Deerfeld massacre, announced that he
had not hitherto permitted the scalp
ing of Canada men, but should
thencefOrth allow it. In 1722. when
the Massachusetts, colony sent an expe-
dition against the village of praying
Indians" founded by Father RaSle.
they offered for each scalp bounty of
s1j. afterward increased TO 500; and
this inhumanity was so far carried out
that the French priest himself was one
Of the victims. Jeremiah Bumstead'
of Boston, made this entry in his alma
nae in the same year: Aug. %, %
Indian scalpS brought to Boston, one
of which was BOmbazen's (an Indian
chief and one fryer Rallies" Two
years after, the celebrated but inapprO-
priately named Captain Lovewell, the
foremost Indian fighter of his region,
came upon ten Indians asleep round a
pond; he and his men killed and
scalped them all, and entered Dover,
New Hampshire, bearing the ten
scalps stretched on hoops and elevated
on poles. After receiving an ovation
in Dover they went by water to Boston,
and were paid q thousand pounds for
their srealps. Yet LOvewelrs party
was always accompanied by chaplain,
and had prayers every morning and
evening.
The most painful aspect of the
whole practice lies in the fact that it
was not confined to those actually en-
gagged in fighting, but that the colonial
authorities actually established tariff
of prices for scalps, including even
non-combatants- much for mans,
so much for woman's, so much for
child's. DIR. Ellis has lately pointed
out the striking circumstance that
whereas William Penn declared the
person of an Indian to be sacred" his
grandson in 1864 offered 1884 for the
scalp of an Indian man. ,S130 for that of
boy under ten, and $50 for that of
woman or girl. The habit doubtless
began in the fury of retaliation, and
was continued in order to conciliate
Indian allies; and when bounties were
offered to them, the white volunteers
naturally claimed a share. But there
is no doubt that Puritan theology
helped the adoption of the practice.
1t was partly because the Indian was
held to be something worse than a
beast that he was treated as being at
least beast. The truth was that he
was viewed as fiend, and there could
not be much seruple about using inhu-
manities against demon. Cotton
Mather calls Satan "the old landlord
of the American wilderness. and says
in his "Magnalia:'' "These Parts were
then covered with Nations of Bar
barous Indians and Infidels, in whom
the Prince of the Power of
the Air did work as a Spirit; nor
could it he expected that Nations
of Wretches whose whole religion
was the most Explicit sort of
DevilWor5hip should not be acted by
the Devil to engage in some early and
bloody Action for the Extinction of
Plantation so contrary to his Interests
as that of New England now
T. W. HiggiRson, an H0rper's.
The bee., 1883-06-30

The District Convention will be held
next week. We shall elect three dele
gates TO the Colored National Conven-
tion. South Washington wants Rev.
r. S. Laws. We. some time ago, said
that we favored Messrs. Douglass,
Smith and Cook. We are constrained
TO record from our position on the cleo
tion of delegates, an exception in the
case of Mr.. Douglass We believe
that South Washington should have a
representative from that section, hence
we favor Rev. II. S Laws from that
section. We stand now for Messrs.
Douglass and Laws, Jerome Johnson
or James NJ. Gregory.
The bee., 1883-06-30

The principles of the republican
party is the ship for the colored citizen.
all others, bat the sea. There is at
times serious cause for complaint.
But generally we are getting what we
ask for. We prefer TO 'bear the ills
wehaTe, rather than fly TO others, We
know not of"
The bee., 1883-06-30

There has been very refreshing
shower and a boom for the faithful al
lies. All on account of the racket
made through the colored press. Let
her go boys: in unity there is strength
you bet.
The bee., 1883-06-30

Our strength is in our union, the
danger in our discord. Let us be united,
at least until we shall know that civil
liberty is as good to black man in
Texas as in Maine or Massachusetts,.
The bee., 1883-06-30

A Brooklyn boy can initiate with
his mouth the sound of lawn mower
His father is going to try and initiate
a thrashing machine.