The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-24

| HooDoO DOCTOR.
houses and homes but of mansions
which are superior in appointments
| and conveniences for comfort to the
great houses in which their former
| masters dwelt. One of them has an in
come from the government of upwards
| of $50, 900 per annum, and has held
| lucrative and responsible positions for
| nearly a quarter of a century. Another
| wealthy colored man owns handsome
house on Connecticut avenue, our most
| fashionable thoroughfare, and he could
| easily sell it for four times its actual
| worth, because his wealthy and aristo-
cratic white neighbors would be glad
TO CRAFTY the sense of resentment
| which is Sc common in some quarters
against the lately enslaved race.
The schools for colored children are
separate from the schools for white
children, and an entirely separate but
coordinate system of education is main
tanned, from the primer school room to
the high school, where diplomas are
issued upon par with the diplomas of
the white children's high school, and
which indicate a curriculum of the
same extent and value.
Upon Fifteenth street, within a few
blocks OF our most pretentious hotels
and practically in the most fashionable
quarter of the city, there is a very
large church maintained entirely by
colored people, which, in appointments
and furnishings, is equal to the best
Oh, f,r haA 10, -
the white people; and this church is
particularly famous for its strong, and
in some respects excellent, quartette
choir.
Upon the same street and within q
stones throw of the church referred
to above, there is a less pretentious
church for colored people, that is to
say, less pretentious in external ap-
pearance. But within it is simply COR
geous, and its audience is composed Of
some of the wealthiest men and women
in this city belonging to the colored
race.
Down in the southern and southeast
ern portion of the city, however. the
investigator can find every class of ne
gro, from the ignorant believer in hoo
docs and fetch worship to the intelli-
gent but uneducated negro of the plan
tation variety They come to Wash
ington from every section of Maryland
and Virginia; while hundreds, if not
thousands of them, find their way here
from states more remote. In the al
leys, and on the unused public reserva-
tons, the lower orders of negroes are
found. They are all good natured,
jolly, seekers after pleasure of every
kind; and vet within their ranks the
worst, most degraded and brutal Grim
iuals are to be found, and are known
to be existent by our police and detec-
tive officers. So thoroughly have these
people been watched and studied BY
the guardians of our peace that it is
mitted by one of their number and the
guilty be allowed TO escape.
In these lower orders of colored peo-
pie there is to be found on every hand
the strong belief in might DOCTORS"
which terrorizes so many of that class /
OF people They have somehow become I
SO thoroughly convinced that the
agents of medical colleges are out |
every night in search Of live specimens
for the doctors to operate upon, that I
they look upon every stranger who |
may come into their neighborhood !
after the setting of the sun as night |
doctor" in search of victims.
This belief in might doctors" nearly |
cost a young colored man his life few |
weeks ago. Some systeirs.Sc BAY charles /
had been going on within our city for /
some time. The marauders not only !
robbed houses. but destroyed furniture, |
cutting and slashing carpets, curtains /
and furniture in a manner indicative 1
of demoniacal possession. The police
men Of the city were directed TO make
every man found upon the streets after
one o'clock in the morning give an &C
count OF himself A young colored
man starting out 10 work shortly before |
i've o'clock in the morning was accost-
ed by a man across the street from him,
whom. in the gloom, he could not dis
tpctiy see was an officer in uniform
the darby took 10 his heels, the officer
fired, struck his man. arrested him and !
took him to the hospital II was
learned that the young man Instantly
ran without giving any account OF him
SELF, believed that be was accosted By (
. night doctor" and he was too ter
10 inquire who his inter
lccutor was
These colcred people adopt all sorts
Of means OF securing livelihood: and
their principal object seems 70 be 20
get living out of the white people by
hook or by crook once had colored
woman employed IN nv house who
was discovered to be guilty Of carrying
home with her various articles. such a.
tea, coffee. sugar. while her son was in
the habit OF calling during the Gzy