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Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26
FAMOUS AMERICAN NEGRO
Remarkable Career Of Booker T. Washington
Of Tuskegee
LEADER OF TEN MILLION PEOPLE
Worked His wny from slavery 20 the
Presidency of n Great School
Success in Educating
the Black Race.
LEADER OF TEN MILLION PEOPLE

To be the best known Individual OF a
race of ten millions Of people is no small
responsibility, and yet that is probably the
position which Booker T. Washington holds
today, with regard to the negroes in this
country. AS Frederick Douglass grew to
be an old man the question was often asked
who was to take his place as leader Of the
coloTed people Of the United States. Until
the time of the Atlanta exposition. in 1894.
there had appeared no probable successor.
The address of Booker T Washington at
the exposition challenged the attention Of
the entire country. He was at the time
the comparatively unknown principal of a
recently established, struggling school for
colored young men and women in the mid
do Of the BLACK belt" of Alabama. In
the short time which has elapsed since
the delivery of the address Mr. Washing
tons achievements, and the very general
recognition of his talents and ability, have
brought rim so prominently before the pub
iic that 1t seems quite proper to speak of
him as the best known colored man in the
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

And II the mans success had in it any Of
the elements Of greatness, If he was an Or
ganizer not merely a clever trader, 1t
usually does so. Mr.. Dana's name and fame
were bound up with the sun more firmly
in this generation than any other editors
with his paper, They were in a class by
themselves and it was natural that the
two should be thought inseparable; conse-
quently that something must happen"
when they had to part
And something did happen. 1t was on the
day when the old chiefs will was opened
and read to the assembled family. By its
provisions his son Paul was made not only
sole executor, expressly relieved from the
necessity OF furnishing bonds, but trustee for
life OF Mr.. Danas shares in the Sun. There
was no reserve in the fathers confidence.
There Swas none in that of his long time
colleagues in the management OF the news
paper he built up. They offered the son
the vacant chair and he took it upon the
same terms. Paul Dana became editor OF
the Sun. That was what happened then.
The very wonderment Of the puzzled citi-
zen bears evidence that what has happened
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

in charge, took the responsibility upon HIM
self of swinging the paper around. 1t was
the act of clear-headed, courageous man;
incidentally it made hit of which any
editor might have been justly proud.
Since then the Sun has been consistently
republican, and has easily crowded out all
other claimants to being the partys
spokesman. The course agrees well with
its EDITORS personal predictions. Paul Dana
is natural party man, believer in Amer
lea and its great future. He believes in re-
form where reform is needed within party
lines and by party machinery as the proper
means under our form of government OF
getting things done. Spearing a mugwump
Is his dear delight. In the recent election
the fight for the goyernorship of New York
centered in the Suns championship OF
Theodore Roosevelt as the exponent of q
young, aggressive republican party, and, as
in the Mckinley campaign, the Sun 5 side
won. A greater service could hardly have
been rendered the Empire state and New
York City; indeed, the whole country.
Mrs. Dana is the daughter of William
Butler Duncan and is a woman of many
and rare accomplishments. The old Dana
homestead, the famous Dosors on the Long
Island sound, is now occupied by Mr. Danas
widowed mother. The young couple live in
their Fifth avenue house, within reach OF
the great memorial arch in Washington
square, with their three children, a quiet
and happy home life. The elder boy bears
the name of his great grandfather, Ander-
son, which was Charles A. Dana's middle
name Curlously enough the young Ander-
son was born on July 3, the day on which
his third great grandfather, the first Ander-
son Dana was killed in the massacre of
Wyoming The Sun of the twentieth CEN
tury, when the fights it is fighting today
have long since passed into history, may
once again see a Charles Anderson Dana at
the helm, trained in and imbued with tho
strong traditions of its past that find in
the editor Of today their best exponent and
make it the power it Is in city and national
affairs. JACOB A. RIIS.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

United States today. A few among the
many causes which have led to this result
are the comforting of a degree upon him
by Harvard university, his notable address
at Boston on the occasion Of the unveiling
OF tho Shaw monument on Boston Common,
with many other able addresses all over
the country, his selection by the trustees
of the John F. Slater fund to conduct for
them, with the assistance of Mrs. Wash
ington, a series of meetings for colored peo-
pie in all the cities OF the south, this work
TO cover a period of two years; his sue
cessful administration of the affairs OF Tus-
kegee institute, great school of thousand
pupils; his selection to be one of the orators
at the peace jubilee in Chicago in October
of 1898, where he spoke to an audience of
5000 people in the presence of President
Mckinley, who took the occasion to pay
Mr. Washington a most distinguished COM
pliment and last the visit which the presi
dent and Mrs. Mckinley made to Tuskegee
in their recent journey through the
south.
Does Not Know His Age.
In view Of what he has accomplished the
early life of Mr.. Washington and the op
portunities for education which he had are
interesting. 1t is a striking commentary
on some of the conditions OF life which have
been possible in this country that to the
very natural first question, How old is
Booker Washington" the answer must be
returned, "He does not know" He was
born a slave in the state of Virginia in
either the year 1851 or 1858. SO humble
was his origin, so scant the notice taken OF
the fact that one more black boy had been
born on 1.-THE place" that no special at
tention was given to his birth which would
actually fix the date His home for those
first years, near the village OF Hale's Ford,
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

haps TO his fondness for open air sports are
due his youthful looks as well as his good
health. Mr. Dana looks like a young man
Of certainly not over 3O He Is tall and
slender, clear-eyed and quick of movement
with long nervous stride that bespeaks the
man Of action. He wears big, round glasses
and looks through them straight at the man
he is speaking to. They are searching eyes,
but not unkiHd except to cant and humbug,
or what he holds to be such. The two may
not be, probably will not be, always the
same. The editor OF the Sun is bound to
have fights in plenty on his hands; he is
built that way, But loyalty TO his own be-
liefs will not prevent him from being fair
TO the honest convictions OF others, once
they are made out to be that, however much
they may clash with his
From college the tradition has come
down that he liked the classics and mathe-
MATES, rather an unusual combination with
athletics. The former he has kept up The
classics are still his companions. ANY lin
gering prediction for mathematics has
apparently run to chess, with which he
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

was one Of those one.room log cabins. with
uncouth chimney OF clay and wood glued
upon the end, such as anyone may even yet
see In all parts Of the south Tire floor
OF the cabin was the hari-trodign earth.
and the walls had no windows a clrcum-
stance which was not so very great ac-
count since the door was rarely closed, and
when it was both light and air found free
passage between the logs OF the walls
where the mud chlnkIng had fallen out.
Freed from slavery.
Mr. Washington must have been about
eight years old when the war closed |
have heard him tell OF that event in these
words: 1--WE knew there had been war.
ana in our cabins talked about it. One
morning word was sent over the whole place
for all the hands to come UP to the big
house. Standing there in the yard in front
OF the porch paper was read out loud to
US, and my mother, bending over me, whs-
perod to me that we were free. was too
young to really understand what that meant
then"
There was now the family to be provided
for and soon after freedom was declared the
Washingtons migrated to West Virginia,
whore work in the coal mines offered en-
ployment and money wages. The journey
over the mountains was made in rude cart.
The determination to rise In life, which then
could have only been an instinct, was al
ready stirring the soul of the boy, and find
ing that life in the mines gave no oppor-
tunity for advancement, Booker looked for
other employment. He was so fortunate as
to be hired to work in the kitchen and run
errands for a New England woman of un-
usual intelligence and great force Of char
acter, who was married to a southern man,
and Mr. Washington has always felt that
to her training and example he owes much
of his success in life. This woman, Mrs.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26
CHIEF STOKER OF THE sun
The Man Who Bosses the Job of Keeping the
New York Luminary Hot
HE is FORTY, BUT LOOKS YOUNGER
Personal Appearance, characteristics
and journalistic Methods of Ed
itor Paul Dann-NOtabIe
Change of Politics.
HE is FORTY, BUT LOOKS YOUNGER

1t is one of the odd conceits of the Amer
lean public that when one of its great ed
itors dies the newspaper which he made
great should die with him. When a sue
cessful merchant drops out no one expects
the business he built up and into which he
put life of hard work and haId thought
to collapse. On the contrary, it is ex-
pected to stand as his lasting monument.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

founded in Buffalo, n. Y, known as the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
which has since become one of the most
famous institutions in the world for its
enormous benefits to the sick and suffering
all over the United States Thousands
have come there for treatment and tens of
thousands have received professional adj
vice by mail with suggestions for inexpen-
siVe hometreatment, whereby they have
been cured of severe, and in many in
stances, apparently hopeless diseases.
Massachusetts man, Mr.. John Brooks, of
Boylston, Worcester Co., writes: About a year
ago was taken with bad cold which settled
on my lungs The doctors said l was in con-
sumption and could not get we'll / took Emul-
sion of Cod Liver oil and 1t did me no good.
After taking it four months heard of your
Golden Medical Discovery and wrote to YOU
for advice. | have taken your medicine and it
you that thought would not live through the
winter. In the morning raised an awful lot
aud would spit all the time aud had pains in my
chest. My bowels would not move more than
once twice q week; my strength was nearly
gone; could not do a whole day work Now
my bowels are regular every day and feel no
more pain IN my chest, L feel a great deal
stronger. am working hard every day, driv-
ing a team in the woods, aud owe my thanks
TO Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. /
know II saved my life"
The most difficult diseases 10 cure are
those which are aggravated by constipation.
In such cases DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
should be taken in conjunction with the
Discovery. They never gripe. All good
dealers sell them.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

w. E. O'Bleness, state labor commissioner
Of Iowa, writes that he finds the returns
from the different industries show an in
crease in wages in nearly every line.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

solaces an occasional idle hour in the edi
torial Office Add a course at the Columbia
law school, and an acquaintance with
music which has come to him largely, but
not solely, through his studies on the vio-
lin, and you have the picture of an all
round well trained man, and that in fact
Paul Dana is. He has inherited his fathers
aesthetic and artistic tastes, and, better
than all, the strong common sense which in
the elder Dana formed large part of the
genius that made the Sun great. There is
no more valuable factor in the making Of
a newspaper than sense.
Fighting While i'm Office.
The observation extends to public life,
though there the quality is not always SO
readily recognized. 1t was said of Mr.. Dana
during his term as park commissioner in
New York that he was always in hot water
and, from the point of view of the uninter-
ested onlooker, he was. His term in the
board was a running fight from first to last
But it was the onlooker who was to blame
for not being interested. For, as matter
of fact, the whole community was pro-
foundly interested, or ought to have been,
in the fight he made. Throughout it was for
the principle Of official responsibility to the
people, that is ever foreign doctrine to
Tammany. 1t was a fight for common sense
and official honesty against private inter-
ests and class ignorance.
Mr. Dana never held any other office,
barring the militia rank of major on Gen
eral Ftzgeralds staff as commander of the
First brigade in New York City. 1t was not
the training he coveted or which his father
wished for him. That he obtained in the
Sun office, working under and with the Old
Chief daily, His was teaching by example,
not by precept.
MY father" said the present editor OF
the Sun. recently, never gave me word
of instruction from the day he put the Sun
into my hands. The only criticism l re-
member him making upon my work was
when one day / laid an editorial l had
written before him. He read it through
and said That is not the philosophic
view, meaning by that that the foundation
of 1t did not rest upon the bottom facts.
That was his standpoint. After ALL there
has been a deal of twaddls abOu; the SUMS
course on this or that issue. or on this or
that man. Sometimes the multitude didn't
make out its foothold right away but
sooner or later it did as a rule"
NrI. InIE
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

Counsel for the Defense-The lady talks
about honorable dealing, but let her look to
herself. My client tells me that she prom
ised to burn every letter she got from him
as soon as she had read it, The Court
What has the witness to say in reply to the
defendants counsel? Plaintiff thought
they might be useful some time, and as l
didn't want to break my word. didn't read
the letters.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26
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TOLD OUT OF COURT.

The foreman of a jury in a recent murder
trial reported; THE probability, or even
possibility OF this jury ever agreeing is i'm
possible in my opinion"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

since has justified their choice. And since
Mr.. Dana's death his son has acquired for
himself the necessary number of shares to
give him a majority of the whole, so that
he is beyond any conflict with his authority.
The "YounE Chief"
Paul Dana as editor will always be the
Young Chief" while the present generation
in the Sun Office endures; but the term con-
veys no suggestion of youth in the sense Of
ineXperience The editor Of the Sun is we'll
past 40. the father Of family, has travelled
much and has been fully eighteen years re-
celving the training. in his fathers office,
which Of late years enabled the elder Dana
to leave the conduct of the paper in hs
hands for long seasons and during critical
periods while he sought needed recuperation
abroad. He is a Harvard man of the class
of IA, in which he had something of a record
as an athlete He held the first single scull
championship, was q substitute on the var
sity crew and rowed for three years in his
class crew. Today, at 40, he is among the
most energetic champions of golf as a game
calling out the qualities of endurance, judg-
ment and skill in the highest degree. Per-
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

So equipped for his life work, the young
chief" took the helm, now more than a
year ago Beyond the fat that it missed
the familiar old face and figure. the office
scarcely knew that there had been a change,
He made none. The stafi that had served
his father well he kept. The system pc
culiar to the Sun OF individual editorial ini-
tiative remained as it had al ways been.
There Is no editorial council. Each editor
ordinarily takes up his own subject and sub
mlts his article. SO it passes under the
eyes and the judgment OF the editor-in-
chief. Charles A. Dana trained his men to
know what he wanted AMI left them free
then to do it in their own way. His son
follows the same plan. He himself is a
clear, incisive writer and contributes daily
to the editorial page. He dictates what he
has to say to a stenographer and never
keeps him long, Such tirle as he has to
spare he puts in making himself IA
miliar with the doings of the day
as they pass in review at the
news editors desks, keeping a daily
comprehensive grasp Of the workings OF
the whole establishment. Mr.. Dana has
in a high degree that other, for an editor
invaluable, quality that distinguished his
father-a nose for news, II is only another
way OF writing even balance of mind COM
mon sense. in newspaper Office.
Changing Politics.
| More than a year before the elder Dana
died his son had an opportunity to show his
| fitness to be his successor in very con-
| spicuous manner. II was in the days Of the
silver agitation. when the democratic party
! nominated its chief apostle and threatened,
| as the east saw IT, to preciptate repudia-
tion and dishonor upon the nation. The
! Sun up to that time had been democratic
while not always in accord with the lead
ers Of Its party, Now It electrified the
country and inspired The champions Of Nc
Kiney and the gold standard with new
hope by coming out in fiat opposition to
the enemies OF the national credit, and
leading the attack upon them with all its
old time yigor and pluck. The step was
taken without the knowledge and advice
OF the chief editor. Mr.. Dana was away.
beyond reach. There was no time to be
] wasted and Paul Dana. who had been left
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

In "reminiscences of the early Minnesota
bar Judge Charles E. Flandrau tells in the
Minnesota Law Journal OF an argument be-
fore the supreme court in 1853 by eX-Chief
Justice Goodrich, on behalf of an Indian
convicted of murder. The Indians name
was "Zu-ai-za," but, as the counsel could
not pronounce 1t, he always referred to him
in his argument as my client, Ahasuerus."
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

In an old Indiana case man named
shallcross undertook to live up to his name
by running an unlawful ferry but the de-
cision Of the court said to him, you shall
Lot cross"
The name OF an adopted citizen of the
Chickasaw nation, whose adoption was can
celed and who was thereupon expelled was
Run Hannah"
A California woman who said in her viii,
Il have no fear OF the hereafter. o my
Lord, teach me to live right then in dying
there Is no sting"-bore the prophetic
Christian name OF "Euthanasia"
The name Of "Dr, Physick," which might
be looked for in some allegory, appears as
the name OF a real person in recent law
report.
Some peculiarly suggestive combinations
OF names in the titles OF cases are these:
People against Kaiser Priest against
Lackey Kick against Merry, Protected
Home Circle against Winter Grant against
Lookout Mountain company.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-26

All, that sad niomer
we hear
Deaths awful piniou
ing near
Above the one we he
dear.
We know that
must sooner or
come to all, but
never surely f,
when the dread
will appear, No
how imminent tn
mons may seem,
still, in God 5 good
dence, be far away
part of mans hi
Inanity to man ~
TO avert sick Igi
ness and death II
as far as lies in
mortal power. ~,
Nearly thirty w
years ago, an
La Junta tribune., 1899-01-18

You are perhaps aware that
pneumonia always results from a
cold or from an attack OLA grippe.
During the epidemic of la grippe
a few years ago when so many
cases resulted in pneumonia, it
was observed that the attack was
never followed by that disease when
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was
used. 1t counteracts any tendency
of a cold or la grippe to result in
the dangerous disease. 1t is the
best remedy in the world for bad
colds and la grippe. Every bot
tie warranted. For sale at the
Palace Drug Store.
La Junta tribune., 1899-01-18
pesfaess csaaet be Cured

By local applications. as they can
not reach the diseased portion of
the ear. There is only one way to
cure deafness and that is by con-
stitutionai remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition Of
the mucous lining Of the Eustach-
ian tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it
is entirely closed deafness is the
result, and unless the Inflammation
|eaa b taken gut and this tube res
tored 20 fts n6fmaI condition, heax-
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out Of ten are caused by ca
Ltasrb,. which il -pothing but an in
famed conhition of the mucpps
surfaces.
We win give one hundred dollars
|lor any case OF deafness caused
La Junta tribune., 1899-01-18
mo,Iee Of Fls.l set.lemea4.

TN THE MATTRR or THR ESTATE OF
i Edward H. NcGibn. deceased. nfOtioc Is
hereby given, that on Monday, the s0th dayof
January, A. ID. fssa, being one of the regular
days of the January term OF the County Court
of Otero County, in the State of Colorado. /
Emma Mc(}inu, Administratrix OF SAID estate.
win appear before the Judge of said court.
present my final settlement as such Adminis-
tratrix. pray the approval OF the same. ard
will then apply to be disc harged as such
Administrative. Atwhich time and place any
persou Ia interest may appear and present
Infections to the saine II any there be-. -
Dated at La Junta. Otero County, Colorado
January q. 1Sfa. MRS. EMMA MCGlNN.
Administrssrix OF the estate of Edward II.
McGinn, deceased.
First publication Jan. I, 1892.
Last publication Jan. IS, lsqa.
La Junta tribune., 1899-01-18
To tn. Public.

We are authorized to guarantee
every bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and it not salts
factory to refund the money to the
purchaser. There is no better
medicine made for la grippe, colds
and whooping cough. Price, rs
and SO cents per bottle. Try it.
For sale at the Palace Drug Store.
La Junta tribune., 1899-01-18
notice to contraetor..

DUBLIC NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
iu accordance with an act OF the General
Assembly of the State of Colorado, entitled
AN Act Concerning Roads and Highways" ("
approved March o, 1858, the undersigned
County Clerk Of Otero County, Colorado will.
until IL O'Clock noon, of February 9, 1899, ut
which time the same viii be publicly
opened receive sealed proposals for the NOV
Ing OF the Highway Bridge now across Timpas
Creek on road No. s. and the erecting Of same
on road No.4I. at the point where said High
way crosses Crooked Arroyo, according To
specidcafiuns now on die in his Office.
Each bid must be accompanied by certified
check for the sum OF %. AS = guarantee
that the successful bidder will At once enter
into contract and execute u Rood and sum
'cient bond in the sum of si.0J00O. TO be ap-
proved by the Board of Commissioners, for
the ful0llment Of said contract.
Provided that the Board may reject any or
all bids II they shall deem II for the best In
terests Of the County to do ~.
By order OF the Board OF County Com mis-
sioners @. II. WINCHELL,
County Clerk.
First publication, January "a, Isg9
LAST publication, January ., 1879.