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The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
LANGSTON FOR CONGRESS

Hon. John Mercer Langston
stands to-day. .one of the greate.t
Negroes in America. His fidelity
to bis people and the cause in,
which be has been engaged while
In Virginia demonstrates the fact
that, if he is sent to Congress, he
will be the peer of any man in
defence of a race which has been
80 long oppressed. He bows to
no man when re is In the right
and he is one of the few men who
conducts an Office as a man should.
He is never influenced by position
or the association of dignitaries,
nor is he man TO forget those
who serve him. As diplomat
his equals have never yet been
found; as an orator he is the equal
of any mar; and as a scholar and
q teacher NJ. Langston has never
been found wanting.
The race is in need of such a
man in Congress; the people of
Virginia could look with pride aud
admiration upon such a man to
rep esent them in Congress. 1t
il in the power of the coIored
voters in the State of Virginia to
send one of their representatives
and honored sons to the great leg
islative halls of the Nation and
q man the world will respect. The
elevation of one of our representa-
tives is our advancement and it is
hoped that the leaders in Mr.. Lang
ston's district will throw away
personal ambition and support
him for Congress. We hope
that such men as Messrs.
Bats, Harris, Stevens and others,
will show to those who have here
tofore prevented a colored man
from coming to Congress, will use
all honorable means to have a COL
ored man to represent them ln
Congress.
The time has come for rs all to
look out for ourselves and the race
which has been 80 oppressed and
we shall do all in our power to
persuade the good people of the
old Dominion to send Langston to
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
NO NEGRO EXODUS.
EX-SENATOR BRUCE WANTS THE
SCHEME ABANDONED.

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 49, Ex-
Senator Blanche K. Bruce,
formerly of Mississippi, but who
is now resident of this city, was
to-day asked by a reporter his
opinion of the proposed negro
exodus 10 South America and
Liberia. The ex-senator replied,
+'Oh, there isn't anything in the
so-caled exodus either to South
America or TO any other forcing
land. The scheme originated
with two classes-one composed
of a few. honest, simple minded
men, without experience and
without the remotest conception
of the magnitude of the venture;
the other is composed of sharpers,
who think they see in the proposed
movement an opportunity to
advance there personal fortunes.
Some of the latter class, I am
Informed, have recently appeared
in northeu communities as agents.
soliciting money to hurry forward
the work. To encourage such
men is to put premium on fraud,
and In the estimation of the public
will do an incalculable injury to
the colored people of this country"
The ex-senator added that about
year ago prominent official in
Venezuela Informed him that
while that government would
welcome immigration. it desired
only such as would be self
sustaining for one year as a
guarantee againts the possibility
of becominga public charge. In
conclusion Mr.. Bruce said: ssWe e
may as well abandon, once for all,
the impracticable scheme of
colonization and devote our en-
ergies to the work of flisciplining
and informing the negroes,
Intellectually and morally, that
they may be armed for the battle
Of life at home"
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

Congress. We would suggest that
Langston Clubs be organized
throughout the district, let every
man, woman and child who has a
voice commence the great work.
The columns of the BEE are open
TO correspondents. and those who
have not subscribed for the BEE
will please do so at once. In this
contest we are for Langston and
the colored people. Begin at
once aud organize aud show tc the
world that there is unity among
the colored people and an appre-
citation for such leaders as Lang.
ston. We shall not only use our
paper, but we shall come in the
District.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
JAMES q. BLAINE.

The letter of Mr.. Blaine found
10 another column of this paper
seemingly declining to allow bis
name to he presented before the
National Republican Convention,
is what the politicians call a
feeler. Let it be what it may,
whether he means what his letter
infers, or not, Mr.. Blaine, if NOM
mated cannot be elected, and if
the Republican party wants an
other Waterloo then nominate
james @. Blaine. If the Repub-
lican party cares anything for the
colored vote in this country some
other man than Blaine should be
nomi Iated. The relation between
the colored people of this cJuntry
and MIR. Blaine is as far apart as
the Atlantic is from the Pacific and
any attempt TO thrust the Maine
Statesman on the colored vote will
prove disasterous to the Republi-
can party.
MIR. Blaine never has been
sound on the Negro question and
history fails to record one thing
that he has done in the interest of
our people. What would his
policy be if he were elected Pres.
dent of the United States +? His
first step would be an alliance with
the Irish vote to the exclusion
of the Negro. His foreign policy
would ultimately lead to war for
which the country is not prepared
and one In which the white man
would attempt to force the Negro
to play an important part, while
he would look on and give orders.
MIR. Blaine's book entitled atwen.
ty years in Congress-" is the best
recommendation for him on the
Negro question. While it is true
that he compliments few coIored
men, there is not one act shown
whereby Negro has been recon-
mended by him for any important
trust under : republican admins
tration. While Secretary of State,
under the Garfield Administra.
tion, he did all iu his power to in,
huence Mr.. Carried 10 overthrow
the Re-a' juster party in the State
OF Virginia which was the only par
tythat recognized the merits of
the colorei man
Blaine is not wanted, and if
nom mated, he will be defeated;
and 50 fer as tie colored vote ia
concerned it can be better seen
when the contest takes place and
bis letter is q political mush pot.n
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

point at issue," pompously replied
Mr.. Jones.
"No, that won't do; give US a
chance to judge for ourselves don't
misrepresent any man."
81 DON'T" Indignantly answered
Mr.. Jones. eff you think 1 didn't
read it right, read it YOURSELF
''I'll do it, said Morris Bowman,
the famed colored attorney, and
taking the paper he read all the
interview with DR.. Williams. When
the whole was read it was found
that instead of reviling secret soci-
eties or speaking dispafagingly of
his own rice, DR.. Williams had
complimented, upheld, aud spoken
most sensibly and calmly of them.
Instantly there was revulsion
of feeling in the audience. Instead
of raking DR.. Williams over the
Goals. the audience wanted to roast
Mr.. Jones. And they did it. Nor
ris Bowman told him he thought il
ssan outrage to villify man with
out cause, and behind his back,
too"
Mr.. Jones insisted that DR.. Will
liams had insulted the whole color
ed race and demanded the passage
of a long list of resolutions con-
demning DR.. Williams in severest
terms.
81 move that the resolutions be
laid on the table,n cried one man
as soon as Mr.. Jones had finished
reading them.
"I second the notion" yelled
everybody in the house but Mr..
Jones.
Then Mr.. Hulitt said ssI move
that we unanimously endorse every
word of DR.. Williams said in the
interviews published in the papers,"
"Second the notion" yelled the
audience, clapping their hands and
stamping their feet.
Mr.. Jones looked tired. His res
olutions had been kicked out and
he was about to be, metaphorically
speaking.
s'Put the motion! put the mo-
tion ~ cried several voices, as MIR.
Jones hesitated.
ooh, you needn't be afraid;
won't put it," he SAID, with the
sickest kind of smile. ''Yes I'll
put it" "I'll put it," he continued.
"Then do it," commanded half a
dozen persons, walking toward him.
There was no help for it; Mr..
Jones had to swallow the gall. Gall
who are in favor of indorsing what
DR.. Williams said say ave." he
painfully announced at last.
Aye! aye!" cried the whole
audience, except Jones.
"Contrary, no." called out Mr..
Jones.
A dead silence followed.
"Move we adjourn" said Bow
man. The motion was not second.
ed. There was no need of it.
Chairman Jones had fed, with his
resolutions, through the keyhole.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
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In q single day at this work. a ''''
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
A MOUTHY NEGRO KNOCKED
OUT.

A CHICAGO EMINENT PHYSICIAN
ENDORSED. A LESSON To MEN WHO
ATTEMPT TO PRACTICE FRAUD UPON
TIE PEOPLE,
From Chicago Inter Ocean.)
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

Sour grapes are always eaten by
the disappointed.
There is a differnce between the
discontinuence of a subscription to
paper and stopping its publica-
ton.
That accounts for the non-publi-
cation of the NATIONAL ERA under
Fred. Douglass.
A dead mans birthday is celebra-
ted to keep in the mind of the peo-
pie, or to reconcile his defeat in
scheme that was disappointment
to his political ambition.
The BEES seventh Anniversary
will be celebrated next June.
A certain professor prepared
Stewarts resolutions for him.
Some of the words used void
breake Stewarts' jaw-bone to pro-
nounce.
Both the professor and Stewart
had better come to halt before
bomb is bursted.
Facts are dangerous when they
are related in order.
The sage of Cedar Hill will no
doubt find comfort his birthday
celebration.
There is certainly none in the
beehive for him nor will there ever
be.
Blaine has retired from the field.
Perry will not vote for ''Jemes"
g. Blaine.
Sherman is the man to elect
President of the United States.
A few months ago a certain re.
tired officer of the Bethel Literary
saw no good in the sage of Cedar
Hill.
To-day he is preparing to cele-
brate his birthday.
He who fawns on man and after
wards hugs him. is knave.
1t is we'll for men to be what they
are and not what they pretend to be.
a pretender is as dangerous as
an asp.
Now that Blaine has retired from
the field, Perry and Andy will have
coincidence meeting.
Dyson wear the Sherman hat.
Milton M. Holland is better than
all of them.
He is what he seems to bean
honest man.
A man that can't look you in the
face is d dangerous.
The peoples Literary is the Phil
omathean.
Be honest and fear no man.
Perry's dead now sure.
Some respectable old funerals
(political) would do Washington a
power of good.
sJeemes" G.. Blaine will not re-
sign himself to his fate until after
the Convention says so.
The withdrawal business is a
part of the scheme to secure the
nomination and to make Blaine
stock go up.
"Jeemes" G.. knows where to find
the weak spots about the average
politician and he hits 'em right.
He confidently expects the ex.
pectsd to happen as the result OF
this unexpectedly withdrawal
from the fight
He cannot be elected if nomina-
ted, as he will be by some cranks
in Chicago, in June next and as he
'opes to be.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

The Cadets Fair will be sstbo,
Fair. 1t will be opened from Fob
22nd to March 9th. ''
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

DR.. Francis's resolutions on In
dustrial Education will appear in
next weeks issue.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

Sherman for president is the
war cry of to day.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

The new City Postmaster is a
good man.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

Garry your children to the Cadets
grand tair
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
VIM HI. H. Hart
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR At LAW.

Office 400 La. ave., n, W., Rooms
5 and 6 End floor Barbour Building
Residence, i1sO 18th St, n. ".
Will practice in all the courts oil
this District and before the Com
mittees of Congress.
Special attention given to drawing
Wills, Certificates OfincOrpOratlOn'
Deeds and other legal instrument
Orchestral music for Balls, FTt
vate parties, SOirees, Receptions
Wed dings, etc. Special induce
ments and low terms to Clubs CIV
ing a number of entertainments
during the season.
f. KRAUSE,
621 s. @. Ave, Sc
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18
Iangton for Congess.
90 to the Cadets grand fair.

Give US suffrage in the District
of Columbia.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

When sauce boils from the side
of the pan, the flour or conn-starcb
is done.
The Washington bee., 1888-02-18

You had better not miss the Ca
dets' Fair.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-26
Cvclinr Down n Mountain Side.

The long seven mile coast began. The
road wound down around horseshoe curves
and loops without number, and as it was
on the east side of the smaller valley
which led down at right angles to the
Rhine valley had to ride on the outer
side of the roadway In order to be on the
right side. At first, In turning some of
the sharp curves to the left where | could
see nothing ahead but air and the hills of
Switzerland twenty miles away, l slowed
up some, for the road was visible for only
twenty or thirty feet ahead and where It
went to then | was totally ignorant, but
after riding mile or two down over
roads SO smooth that the running Of the
machine was scarcely audible, / let up
on the brake little and away l went
faster and faster.
One finger was sufficient on the brake
at first, but after few miles that one
began to get cramped and two fingers
were applied. Then the brake spoon
began to get hot, but still / could not see
the foot of the mountain. About half
way down the water of the Rhine began
to show itself over the edge of the road
as | came TO those sharp turns to the
left, and then | knew where the bottom
was 1t actually seemed that, If l went
straight ahead, should land in the river,
how many hundred feet below my blurred
eyes could not clearly discover. Once met
team and yelled, but the oxen were on
their own side and went by them with a
rush all right. Another time some
children saw me coming and ran down
the sides of the mountain scared out of
their wits. Still | went like the wind
over the same steep grade and smooth
road down from top to bottom without
mishap, but with feeling l never before
experienced in coasting that was glad
to come down do not know, but waited
six minutes at the base for the English
men.-Bicyclist George r. Thayer in New
York World
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-26
Slight Impurities in Metals.

The astonishing changes that small
proportions of foreign matter will produce
In metals are not necessarily of small
practical Importance, as very slight i'm
purities in metals for certain purposes
might lead to serious consequences Rob-
erts-Austin gives two striking illustra-
tions of this possibility. A small fraction
of bismuth in copper win reduce the elec-
trical conductivity sufficiently to cause
any submarine cable made with 1t to
become commercial failure, and the
message carrying power of copper cables
is said to have doubled since the early
days of telegraphy on account of the in
creased purity of the copper. Pure gold
has breaking strain of from sixteen to
seventeen tons to the square inch, but
when alloyed with but two.tenths of one
per cent of lead it will break with a
slight blow or under trifing strain
Arkansaw Traveller
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-26

To have beautiful slightly eyes, we must
have strong sound ones, and avoid all
causes of harm. Never read, write or
work with the light from window in
front of the eyes. Artisans injure their
sight past recovery by working at bench
directly in front of a window when they
should be placed with the back to it.
The light in front falls into the eye,
which contracts to lessen what 1t cannot
bear, with the invariable result of weak
ened sight. Lamps, gas Jets and student
lamps are often placed so near the head
as to heat the eyes injuriously. The sim
plest shade. stops this by making current
of air between itself and the lamp.
Iquote from DIR. Jeffries' highly inter,
esting pamphlet on "Our Eyes and Our
Industries. He speaks very decidedly
on the injury to the eyes of wood engrav.
ers in cutting from photographs on the
block, making the blurred and misty pict-
ures too familiar in papers and magazines.
The work is cheaper, but, oculists find,
most destructive to the eyes, and the bet
ter class of engravers either refuse such
work or raise their prices nearly double.
The wear and tear comes of looking con-
stantly from the photograph to the orig
inal picture hung before 1t and continually
changing the focus of the eye. am glad
to know this has awakened attention, for
| know that looking at the soft, blurry
wood cuts is very trying to sensitive eyes
So is the satiny, calendered paper which
certain publishers protest is necessary for
fine impressions, although finer work Is
done abroad upon dull paper. The gloss
and glitter of much Of the modern house
decoration Injuries the eye by the broken
reflections it Is forced to meet on all sides.
The vanished paint, the metallic finish
of walls and fabrics, the breadth of plate
glass and painted glass are simply destruc-
tive to good sight They may answer for
people who never read, like the Turks and
Bulgarians, but eyes overtaxed like those
of our professional and many of our artisan
classes are, quickly find this glitter sui
cidal.-Shirley Dares Letter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-26
A boomerang Orator.

Fire Alarm Foraker is ringing in the
east at present, and to this cause is doubt
less to be attributed that increase in the
number Of cases of deafness which the
Connecticut biologists have noticed. For
aker is, in his way, powerful speaker.
For instance, he let himself out at Bridge
port the other day, and in consequence
there was for some time report in GEN.
trail and western Massachusetts that the
Springfield gas house had blown up. At
Stamford, on the evening Of the same
day, he performed the remarkable feat of
talking the hands off the clock in the
opera house. Much complaint was made
by pilots and captains of vessels in the
Sound that the fog horns and bell buoys
could not be heard, such was the noise of
the rampant and sonorous Buckeye. So
that as far as producing an ocean of tenn
pertuous sound waves is concerned, the
governor of Ohio has done all that could
be expected of him. He has erupted with
violence and that Is what he was brought
to the seaboard for.
AS to the effect of his eloquence, how
ever, there may be different opinions.
When he was imported into this state,
three years ago, it was admitted by many
Republicans that he was doing his party
more harm than good, and there was Q
disposition to return him without thanks.
He is not calculated for these ATTITUDES.
A curious interest, then, attaches tc
this Orphic sentence from The Tribune
describing the result of his labors with
the folk of Stamford town:
'Tho speech had the immediate and
practical effect Of making many con
verts"
Now, which side did the converts come
FRONT Can 1t be that Fire Alarm is soaring
Republicans into the Democratic party2-
New York Sun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-26
The prcsidenO and the Chinese.

There Is this to admire In the character
Of President Cleveland. He Is typical OF
the people. He acts with their emotions.
He does not set up a better than-thou
policy, policy which the electorate has
so often repudiated.
Whether China like IL or not-whether
or not we lose our tea and fail to sell our
kerosene in the bamboo town of Canton
matters little to the people in this stage
Of their international philosophy, and
therefore IL matters little to the presi-
dent. He returns to congress, with his
approval the act which is meant to ex.
cfude all Cinnamon who may not be here
for travel or diplomacy The executive
function is here as bold as the popular
dogma. The people Of America are ready
for the issue. Let It come. So is the
president ready.
The act excluding the millions Of the
esst is possibly the most important
American legislation touching foreign
affairs since the declaration OF the war
with Mexico That question barely opens
with the present resolution of the nation.
1t is at best set of words engrossed ON
paper and signed by various officials who
may feel some pride In writing their
names in prominent places. But after
the act of saying the words and writing
them, the yellow mon are to be kept out,
and that will be a reality precisely as the
yellow men are kept out. The trouble of
guarding our vast coast against so
Iaany prescribed persons may fail,
us cholera and yellow fever quaran-
tines always fail, and no person can say
that sentry will be SO fearful of a
Chinaman with money as of pauper
refugee from pest. 1t may be expected
that the patience of the Celestials will
excite the impatience Of the Caucasians,
and that reprisals may follow the col
lapse of quarantine We cannot expect
to prosecute great China without re-
sponse In kind from that despotism. The
determination taken at the outset must
support the calamities of trade prohibi-
tion and racial disorders. In the forth
coming difficulty America will doubtless
be as steadfast as China.
1t is creditable to the president that,
hearing these things whispered on every
side by doctrinaries, he has neither vetoed
the bill nor waited for time to give the
measure effect without his nod
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-10-26

An American business man appears to
be born with O disiBclination to walk.
/ have seen half q dozen at time stand
around the entrance to hotel elevator,
wasting several minutes In waiting for
the machine to come for them rather than
mount one flight of steps. AS a conse
quencc of this physical inertia most busi-
ness men of the present day have weak
muscles and especially weak hearts, so
that should they be obliged to exert
themselves to even slight degree their
limbs become exhausted and tremble like
"a reed shaken by the wind" their respi-
ration becomes hurried and difficult, and
their pulses beat at the rate of 125 min
ute, or even more.
It is only necessary to stand at the cor
ner of q street through which a street
railway passes and to watch the men and
women leaving their homes directly after
breakfast, and running hundred feet or
so at the top of their speed to catch an
approaching car, as though 1t was the
only one by which they could go down
town, and their lives depended ON getting
Into that particular vehicle, How they
pant and blow and turn red In the face,
and gesticulate wildly at the conductor
and drop into their seats thoroughly ex-
hausted from the comparatively slight
exertion into which they have been forced
by their love of businessl Many minutes
elapse before they recover their mental
and physicsl equanimity. Not a year
passes that the newspapers do not record
several deaths that have occurred from
this practice, and which would not take
place If the subjects had been In the
habit of taking sufficient muscular exer-
else. In such people the heart is sud
denly subjected to strain to which it is
not accustomed, and 1t gives way in the
effort to accomplish the work required of
It. venture to say that Of those who
read these observations not one in ten
can ascend the steps of an elevated rail
way station as slowly as he pleases with
, out having the action of the heart nearly
doubled in frequency. A rapidly beating
heart is almost invariably feeble heart.
DR.. William A. Hammond.