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The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

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character. So You see the patch Is
not disgrace by any means.
Another thing essential to good
character is cleanliness. Keep your
body nice and c'ean. 1t is the tenn
pie of God, and should be kept
clean for the indwelling for the
holy spirit. Place before yourselves
che very highest standard of NOR
ality, that you may live, MT only in
the present. bat through all eter-
nifty lThen your history is written
or recalled would you like to have
it said of you, he was born, lived,
smoked cigaretts and died ? The
world is full of just such people.
You must make life worth living
by living the right kind of life, snd
finally we will have the world to
help in bringing about "That
righteousness which come soon. !"
The Lord planted righteousness in
the world for this purpose and the
Lords will be done. The sius of
the world can't be smothered in a
day. We must overcome sins by
degrees. The conflict is progress
ing each day, each moment. There
is no need of noise and muster,
simply march on silently but
strongly suppressing the wrong
whenever we meet it; always max
ing the best possible preparation
and results will take. careeof them :
selves. The Rev. DIR. Talmage
said in a recent sermon after nam
ing all of the great battles of the
world "but all the battles which
| have mentioned cannot be COM
pared with the coming contest. I"
We may take the words of this
great divine and prepare for the
coming contest. He also says that
all evil doers will be on the wrong
side, and the Lords host and every
one, small and great, who has done
the right will be ON the right side.
| need not ask you which side you
will be on, certainly you will be on
one side or the other. You must
have a part in this great contest for
what you do in it this day will have
to do with the generations which
shall come after you; therefore,
prepare yourselves now to make the
path smooth for those who shall
come after you. A question is now
being asked, what have Negroes
done as a race? You are answer
ing it here every day in the shops
and in agriculture. We must be-
come producers where we have been
recipients. We represent a large
part of the population of this
country at present and we must do
something to maintain our position
as a race. A race that has pro-
duced Frederick Douglass cannot
easily be wiped out. Now the
thing that remains for US to do is
to take advantage of every oppor-
tunity to improve ourselves, re-
membering not to take but one step
at once. If you have faith even as
the grain of mustard seed, you can
remove mountains. Be ever grasp
ing after better things. The life
which sees nothing beyond the
present is life of dispair. You
need not seek to be a famous, just
continue to do right, think right,
and work with all your might !;
thinking not Of yourselves, but
only of the good that you may do
in the world.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

The Daily Post has a peculiar
influence of the colored people of
this city. The BEE is willing to
accesd to The Post such merit that
is due it when it is wright. The
Post gets on the wrong track some
times.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

Come among us, 60 into the back
woods and fell the gigantic oaks of
ignorance and superstition. Then
stoop, pick up the little acorns lest
they take root and reproduce that
which oyershadews.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

1t often occurs, if one Of the race
steps on one of the top rounds Of
the ladder of success, that there
are myriad forces seen and unseen
combining to pull him down.
Stop! Do not build on the ruin
of others.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

Now that the colored politicians
have selected their places, please
state where the gold democrats will
come in?
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

President Harrison kept the can
didates waiting until their money
was about to give out and they had
to return home.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

There are several weddings
booked for Decemb r in. our city:
Abbeville, 5. G.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

Major Mckinley may adopt
President Harrison's method on
candidates for office.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

If you do not think IS others,
why condemn because you do not
approve of their methods
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

n. Behave, means simply to de.
mean, so when you say "behave your.
SELF leaves one in doubt whether you
intend the person addressed to behave
we'll or badly.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

McKinley's inauguration will be
the largest in the history Of this
city.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

All communications for publication,
business, or otherwise must be ad'
dressed to The BEE Printing Company,
HOO I street, n. W., Washington, ID. Z.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28
OUR WOMEN.

Mrs. E. v. C. Williams, Editor.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

The students and faculty Of Fer
guson-Williams College are prepar'
ing to celebrate the anniversary OF
the corner stone laying of Fergu.
son- Williams College on Thanks
giving night. The entertainment
will be, from a literary and musi
cal point of view, of a very high
order. There will also be services
in the morning in the College
chapel.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

Fifty dollars for intoxicating
drinks. Thirty six dollars q year
for excursions including dinner +,
and forty dollars for card parties.
One hundred eighty-six dollars a
year! Suppose when your boy is
born you resoIutely begin then to
save such money; twenty-one years
hence the baby of today will be
worth three thousand nine hundred
and six dollars ! Even though poor
you can help your boy to start in
life.
The Washington bee., 1896-11-28

order. There Will also be services
in the morning in the College
chapel.
That there are many theories sd-
vsnced as to the correct way, by
which the United States Colored
American, ought to be lifted is un-
deniable. Among them are politi-
clans who clamor for place in the
body polite. There are the pro-
fessional aorobats. And those who
espouse scientific and art culture.
But the new order, industrial edu-
cation-among some receives little
favor. Both the worker and the
work are criticised. Industrial ed
ucatlon for the masses does not
carry with it, the exclusion of 9TH
er things whereby the people are
fitted for all the duties of citizen
ship of this great nation. The
work of christian culture must &C.
company that of the arts and
sciences, and too much stress can
not be placed on the Importance Of
teaching our girls the art of house
keeping, the manage ment of the
kitchen, dining room. laundry and
sewing room. Our industrial
schools besides teaching the boys
such trades as shoemaking, ma
sonry, printing, carpentry, and SO
forth a sending out cultured, re-
ligious, and industrious home
makers. What is dearer to the
American than his home? To our
mind to scientifically train any
people, be he Greek or Jew, Red,
White or Black, to handle the
plough is a great work, and the sd :
verse criticisms will not make such
work cease. Without the agricult-
urist there would be no million
dollar merchant; there would be
no bankers. Would that there
were moro men and women who
would 60 from every hill top and
into the valleys Of this great coun-
try and proclaim aloud the need OF
industrial education for the people.
We believe that every boy and girl
ought to be taught a trade. You
who sit IN your beautiful homes
wrapped in ermine so to speak and
you who never visit us in our homes
in the rural district are unacquaint-
ed with our needs. You are not
competent to sit in Judgment upon
those who are toiling with un-
gloved bands for the moral, spirit
ual, industrial and intellectual bet
terment of mankind. What the
Bible, the spelling book, and the
plough have done other races will
help US. Our young men and
women after learning trades ought
to have sufficient courage to open
up business enterprises aud conduct
them in strictly business like way.
Fathers and mothers ought to econ
omiEs along all lines and assist
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
The Heart of Gotham,

The real heart of Gotham, the brains
and genius of the metropolis, are to
be found in very small section Of
this big city, writes a New York corr
respondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Between Fourteenth and Fortieth
streets are found the men who write
out dramas, who make our songs, who
compose the music for our operas,
whose pens are responsible for many
of those bright little bits of humor
that tighten our lives, whose brains
invent many of the ideas that other
men utilize. 1t is no exaggeration to
say that this section is responsible for
nearly every bit of the new or original
literary matter that Is produced in
this city. If it is not actually COM
posed in the little world designated, it
is there critically examined, revised,
amended or put into the shape in which
it is finally given to the public. On
Broadway, between the streets named
one is constantly humping against men
and women who are responsible for
good deal OF the music and laughter
of this whole country.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
Bread as a Beautifier.

Bread as the staff of life is famil.
lar enough idea, but bread as means
of beauty has never received enough
consideration. 1t is a subject which
the persistent and consistent seeker
after good looks will study. Obser-
vation and physiological research will
show her that fine wheat bread means q
pasty or even rough complexion, that
pimples follow in tho wake of hot
bread, and that smooth rosy skins be-
long to those who eat coarse, whole,
grain cold bread. For the latter are
best for the digestion. and good COM
plexions accompany only good diges-
tions. New York World.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
Animal Giants.

In the Senalik Hills of India was
found the skeleton of a turtle ten feet
long, twenty feet in circumference
and fifteen feet in girth.
In Colorado there once lived a
gigantic Hzard-like creature eighty
feet long and as large as the largest
whales of today.
A lizard was discovered near Maid
stone, England, that was three times
as bulky as the largest elephant. and
stood on its hind legs like kan
garoo.
Found in the Rocky Mountains was
the skeleton of plated lizard. The
plates with which it was protected
were two or three feet in diameter.
and the spines in its back over two
feet in length. New York Mail and
Express.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
Oueer Stroke of Lightning.

While company of soldiers were
drilling at Rendsburg. Germany,
latelv. a bolt of lightning threw forty
eight men to the ground. The light
ming ran from bayonet point to bay
onet point, SCATTERING the guns COM
pletely. Only one man was killed
one who carried no gun; through him
tho l;gbtbing was conducted to the
ground. His body was covered witt,
blue and green spots and stripes. lhe
eyeglasses of one man were mei'su
and burned into the flesh, aud be re-
ceiyed other painful injuries, but ne
will live. Another had both legs ssii-
fened. The cries of the suffering men
ara said to have been heartrending.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
POPLARvILLE. MISS. THURSDAY MARCH 5, 1896.

it and sneered slightly. Walters
turned to the photographer and said
in English:
"Slip San Juan's cylinder in there
in a hurry. Don't be afraid. Always
net decisively with an Indian.
The cylinder was slipped in and
Walters picked up the ear tubes, and,
adjusting them in the chiefs ears,
said:
''Listen and you will hear the
Great Spirit talk to you out OF the
medicine box" At the same time he
slipped pair of the tubs into his own
ears and watched the Indians face.
The photograph was started and in
moment, in excited Spanish, the
Pueblo's denunciation squeaked forth.
The Indians face was stolid for
awhile, but when his name was men,
toned he WINGED. When it recited
his wicked life and called down curses
upon him, he dropped the tubes.
jumped into the air with bowl and
took himself to safe distance.
The photographer took the tube out
and slipped another one in, mean
while keeping his body between the
Indians and the chief. One Of the
sub-chiefs, lank, hungry-looking
Indian, was invited to put the tubes
to his ears and listen to the Great
Spirit, but he declined with ill-grace.
His companion, greasy looking in
dividual, whose ribs were we'll out of
sight. stepped forward and the ma
chine was started. He heard the
opening strains of CATER the Bal as
played by the Marine band. AClook
of pleased wonder spread over his
face, and his head rocked in time with
the rhymth OF the waltz. In a mo-
ment came bang of the drum and a
clash of cymbals, and the trombone
bone man slid his instrument out
about four feet. The Indian dsppped
the tubes with yell, and loon J to
see where the trouble was. Th 2
looked at the phonograph few u
utes and said:
'.The devil is in the box"
The Indians stalked off to their po-
nies, mounted them from the left side,
and rode off in a dignfied manner.
They didn't want the white men to
know that they were afraid of their
medicine box.
Walters and the photographer
stayed in the mesa for week. All
about through the woods they saw
the blue smoke arising from the Ji-
carilla camps, but they were not mo-
Tested, for on the rock still sat the
terrible medicine box. Kansas City
Star.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Duty doesn't call I; she listens.
Two lies are weaker than one.
All is not fun that raises laugh.
Be as happy as you can, if you can.
Tomorrow is always the best of the
year.
Some women look too old and some
too young.
good habit is never good enough
brag about.
Many man thinks he is in love and
is only in trouble.
The man with nothing to lose does
net necessarily win.
When a man has only one idea it is
usually wrong one.
1t is not polite to have more than
one kind of polteness.
1t is not more blessed to give
bribe than to receive one.
All people have something to regret
if it is ouly that they were born.
Even an honest man often breaks
the promises he makes to himself.
Some benefactor should invent a
system which will be an aid to forget
fulness.
The right to ones opinions doesn't
always include the right to obtrude
them upon others.
The people who are always waiting
for their ships to come in are fre-
quently those who have never sent out
any.
Most women are convinced that all
that is necessary to make man happy
is for him to get wife. The mer
| know better. New York Press.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
Life-Saving Stations.

The station itself is two-story
house built securely and solidly upon
some good site along the beach; it is
comfortable and roomy, furnished by
the Government, and has the boat
room and kitchen on the lower floor;
large bedroom for the keeper, an
other for ths surfmen, and q store
room occupy the second story.
The boat-room is large and opens
by great double doors upon the beach.
1t contains the life-saving apparatus
always in perfect order and readiness.
The crew consists of n keeper and
six surfmen, though some stations
number seven surfmen; there men
are graduates from no naval college,
but have served their apprenticeship
with Old Ocean as their master; they
must be able to handle boat in the
toughest weather, and to face all the
dangers of the deep.
Each man must undergo strict
medical examination, and must bring
to the station his certificate of good
health and he is also obliged to sign
an agreement to faithfully perform all
duties.
The keeper receives salary of 5000
year (up to 1892 it was but 5000, ne
must be at the station all the year
round, but is allowed a months leave
of absence in the summer if he gives
up his pay. A surfman receives S65
month, is at the station during eight
months of the year, and has the priv
ilege of leaving the station for twenty
four hours every two weeks, but in
lonely stations they generally remain
for the active season, which begins
September /, ending May l; when a
man leaves in May he goes where he
pleases, and if he does not return in
September the keeper gets another
Aman in his place for the next winter
$kason. &,
re keeper is held responsible for
condtiaa,9f everything connected
with the station; He-G.nst G.nS drill the
men in their duties, divide the work
evenly, and see that the men ar;
orderly. No liquor is allowed on the
premises; drunkness or neglect o
duty is punished by instant dismissa
from the service the man who is de.
tailed to cook must keep the kitchen
in perfect order; and each has his
share of the housework to perform,
for no women live at the stations.
The crew are numbered by the
keeper from one to six, and at mid
night preceding September the sta
ton goes into commission; at that
hour the keeper gives patrol equip
ments to two of the surfmen, and they
start ont on the first patrol. and the
active season has fairly begun: every
thing runs like clockwork after that,
and as strict discipline is maintained
as on board man-o'- war. st. Mich
| o1op
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05

DR.. Slade-Now, Mrs. Cusack, that
your little son is convalescing from
the fever. you should provide him with
some cheerful amusement or mild rec
reation to wake up his enervated
spirits
Mrs. Cusack-I do try, doctor, but
it don't seem to do any good. I've
had him set at the winder an watch
the boys stonin' Chineymen n'playin'
other games, but little Hankey don't
pear to take no interest in any of
EN-. Chicago Record.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
VOL. vi.
Little Kisses.

Little klSSeSs
Little Kisses Mt the gate
Meets me in the twilight late;
Where the rarest roses be
Waits she with kiss for me
Round my neck her ringlets fall;
she's the sweetest rose OF all!
AHow much do you love me, Kisses
Little Kisses, crowned and curled?'
Then. with arms worldwide, she answered
"Isye you-love you--all the world!'
Little Kisses at the gate
whispers to tho white rose: "Waiti
To the restless red rose she
whispers "Keep me company
And the red rose petals fall
On the sweetest rose OF all!
AIIow much do you love me, Kisses
Little Kisses, GRO gnel and curled?"
Then. with arms worldwide, she answered:
.'Love you-love you-all the world
Little Kisses, at the gate
Linger not too late-too late,
Lest some lonely angel far
Wandering from a loveless star
Where the earthless angels be,
Steal your face away from me-
ssHow much do you love me, kisses
Little Kisses crowned and curled?"
Shall ever miss the answer?-
Love you--love youall the world"
IF. T.. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The small steel screws used in watch
making are worth six times their weight
in gold.
The engine of an express train con-
sumes twelve gallons of water for each
mile travelled.
There is enough iron in the blood
of forty-two men to make plowshare
of twenty -four pounds weight.
Oculists say that the period during
which people have the most trouble
with their eyes is between twenty and
thirty years of age.
A company has been started in New
York City which offers to supply
through pipe service cold air to ho-
tells, restaurants and private houses.
DIR. Herman Weber of London has
given $12, 500 to the British Royal
College Of Physicians to be offered in
prizes for the best essay on tubercu-
losie.
Professor Garriott, of the Chicago
weather bureau, says that Dyrenforth's
scheme for dissipating the London
fogs, will not work and will prove
dangerous to the city.
Asbestos towels are among the curl
osities of the day. When dirty. it is
only necessary to throw them into a
red hot fire, and after few minutes
draw them ont fresh and clean.
Three new napntha springs, yield
ing 60, 900, 7s, 600 and $4,000 pools
daily, have been discovered in the
Caucasus, near the Caspian Sea. The
springs are in chasm 444 feet deep.
Experiments made last summer in
Europe show that the amount of radia-
ton received from TIA sun on the sur
face of the earth in a clea1 daN ~if
greater with dark blue than wit
light blue sky. In the latter case
there is higher tension of the water
vapor in the air.
Professor George F. Becker writes
that in regions near the pole ice is a.
much a rock as limestone. This may
remind some who may not hav,
thought of it otherwise, that the es
sential difference between ice ant
granite, considered as rocks, is merel,
a matter of greater or less degree o
heat it takes to "thaw" them.
A terrestrial globe on scale of
100000 has been projected by NJ.
Elisee Recluse, a French Photographic
who believkaSst. such work woul'
promote geosa Zeal discovery an'
Typographical knss 5edge. The glob'
would be about 400 feet in diameter
and mountains mile high would ap
pear as elevations of about half al
inch.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1896-03-05
Saved By a Phonograph.

EuWln W nilerS, SeOlOSiSt, DULAulSt,
and explorer-at present engaged in
the discovery of the resources of the
Ozark region for the Kansas City.
Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, is n
btorehouse Of information about the
Southwest, Mexico, and Central
America. Some of his stories OF the
Southwestern Indians are romantic.
His familiarity with the country and
the natives. particularly the Pueblos,
the sun worshippers, and his knowl-
edge of Indian tongues and customs,
give his stories an chronological inter-
est.
He tells story of how he escaped
Interference, if nothing worse, from n
band of Jicarilla Apaches in the Taos
Valley, in New Mexico, about two
years ago. He was on his way to
Tres Pedrns--three rocks-which lies
between TERRA Amarillo and the -Four
Corners, that is where Colorado, Utah
and New Mexico come together. He
had with him photographer. and
they carried their instruments in q
wagon. Among their impediments
was phonograph. They were taking
impressions, both by light and sound,
with their camera and the phono-
graph.
When they came to the Taos range
which arose out of the Moreno Valley
and which lies north of Santa Fe
about 100 miles and is north and east
/ of the Rio Grando River, he deter
mined to go over the range on foot
into the Taos Valley. Tho photogra-
|pher he sent with the team around by
the wagon road, journey of two
days longer. The crest of the range
was IA, 900 feet above the sea level and
the month was August. When he
started out he was lightly clad and
unehcumbered. He arrived almost at
the summit by night and there en-
countered terrific snow storm and
was obliged to retreat down the noun
tain. Ordinarily the trip over tho
crest would have taken him only a
few hours. Under the circumstances
he was more than day on the journey
pnd suffered from tho cold until he
got down into the Taos Valley.
In the Taos Valley are three settle
ments. Fernando de Taos, town of
about $500 Mexicans and Americans;
the Ranchero de Tnos, where Ger
man with Mexican wife has a ranch
and Touring mill, and the Pueblo de
Taos, settlement of Pueblo Indians.
# was to the Pueblo that Mr.. Walters
was bound.
Mr.. Walters arrived at Pueblo de
Taos. became the guest of San Juan,
he young chief, a tine young fellow
pf 26 years, whose wife was beauti-
.
Jul girl OF IS years He had had
previous acquaintance with San Juan,
md was Hospitality received and made
nimself comfortable to await the ar
Fival of the photographer. He was
given room in San Juan's house, in
he second tier of the Pueblo. The
door was spread with tanned OK hides.
q the centre was the hide OF pinto,
Pr piebald OK, and sewed around it
Eere black, white. and red hides, and
Pver these, in front Of bed, was a
Pearskin. The bed was covered with
sheet, woven by the vomen Of the
house, and . pair Of Navajo blankets,
closely woven that they would hold
atet. Tor food he vas given Senison
nd besr meat black bsan( corn
b.ksd i Al ssAss' eaa b snd|