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The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
THE NEW TEACHER IN PHYSICS

THE BEST APPOINTMENT EVER MADE
IN THE HIGH scHooL-A SCHOLAR
AND A LAWLER.
N. E. Weatherless, A. B., l.. L. B.
who on Saturday, Apr 20, 1900, was ap-
pointed at the head of the department
of physics in the High School of the
District of Columbia, was born on the
I4th day Of January 1865, in the County
ofBedford, State of Virginia. Being d
precocious boy, and having a father
who believed in education and who
placed him in school when only five
years old, young Weatherless passed
rapidly through the schools of Bedford
City, Va, and was appointed teach
er at the early age of ID years.
having taught successfully for sew
eral years at Fancy Grove, Wolf Hill
and New Bethel, Va. Mr.. Wealth
erless entered Knoxville, Tenn, from
which he graduated In 1885. 1t hap
pened that in this very year the prin-
cipalship of the Graded School of
Salem, Roanoke county, Va, became
vacant. There were many applicants
for this position. The oup uperintendent
of Schools decided to fill tt through
competitive examination. Young
Weatherless entered this examination
and became the successful competitor
Mr.. Weather entered upon his new
and responsible position with spirit
and determination, and under his
careful management, the Graded
School OF Salem. Va, because what
they had never been before, the best
most progressive and successfully
conducted schools in the southwestern
part of Va. Not yet satisfied with
what education he had already ac-
CURED and feeling that his race
through its young men was as much
entitled as other races to that broader
culture and refinement which the
higher education alone can give, he
decided to take full college cousfe in
one of the leading northern colleges.
He accor lingly entered Howard Uni
yerSlty in the fall of 1888. Taking the
studies of the middle and senior years
In the Preparatory Department all in
one year, he entered the ollege De-
partment in the next year where new
successes awaited him. His career
through the College Department of
Howard University was one of bril-
liant achievements. Attracted by his
signal ability the university sent him
as its delegate to the Worlds Great
Congress of Young Men, which met
In Cleveland, Ohio in 1892
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
ATTORNEY JONES SPEECH

In the recent murder case in
which Lawyer Thomas l.. Jones
appeared as counsel, 1T was the
consensus of opinion that he made
one Of the most brilliant and log
ical speeches before the court and
jury that has ever been heard in the
Criminal Court for some time.
His argument was logical and his
delivery eloquent aud pathetic. In
one of his figures in which he
pictured the alleged murderer s
mother who is dead, standing by
his side with outstreatcheG arms,
one upon her unfortunate son anc
other pointed to the jury. appealing
to God to give them wisdom to
save her son. So pathetic and
eloquent was this an6 many other
figures, that caused his auditors to
weep for several minutes. The
defense that this young and bril-
liant attorney made received the
highest commentator from all
preIrat.
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has been made by some candidates
who was leas. entitled to the
Supervising principalshlp; but we
have no doubt that it will pass
away as au idle wind. The colored
trustees were unanimous in the
entire matter and we suspect that
the white trustees are far toe
just to attempt to discredit OF
question the wisdom Of the action
taken. The promotion of Mr..
Terrell will advance in salary a
number of others in the High
school and stimulate renewed effort
and advance school interests. We
do pot hesitate to say that the
proper thing was done in every
particular. 1t has been intimated
that Superintendent Powell and
several white supervising principals
would have preferred the appoint
ment of a teacher not within the
9th, 10th or 11th divisions; but as
the teachers of those divisions are
C pable of determining what is best
for our schools, we prefer to believe
their arrangement the rest. Be-
sides we believe that Mr. Powell
would not have objected to the
appointments had he known tn IN
to have been contt mplated prior to
his endorsement of some one else.
Besides Mr.. Cook does not seek to
interfe.e e with the conduct Of the
white schools and we do not believe
Mr.. Powell would unsolicited in .
terfere with ours. Fortunately or
unfortunately, as the case may be,
the schools are not yet mixed and
so long as they are separate we
insist upon separate management.
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Mr.. eatherless was easily the
leader of his class. He won the War
der prize in physics, the Kelly Miller
gold medal for the highest average in
college mathematics and several other
prizes of less importance. 1t is pc
culiar incident of his college life that
in every case, in which he or his class
was involved, he took every prize that
was offered In the College Depart
nent
Another singular incident in his col
lege life was, that of all the college
students who tool; the departmental
civil service examination in Washing
ton city, he was the one who passed
at rate Of per cent. sufficiently high
to insure and secure appointment.
By all who know Mr.. Weather
less he IS regarded as a ripe scholar,
and careful. painstaking and meth
odlcal maE: in every respect. BY his
many friends 1t is claimed that he is
the ideal college graduate, like whom
if there were many others, the higher
education would be the shibboleth by
which all men would swear. Mr..
Weatherless is living refutation of
lHS NClN SCIiOuo Suoi oohiSbiillCS
made that college training educates
a man out of himself anu units him
to attend to the practical industrial
affairs of life. Upon his graduation
from college Mr.. Weatherless did not
start off on the theory that every col
lege in the the land owed him a presi-
dency or professorship, simply be-
cause he was college graduate, but
like u. S. Senator from a certain
western state, who upon his gradua-
ton from Harvard accepted the first
position (hard though it was,) which
came along, he did whatever his
hands could find to do. Surely every
thing comes TO him who waits The
many friends of Mr.. Weatherless wish
him all success in his new field of
labor and feel sure that IN his appoint
ment very valuable addition has
been made to the teachers corps of
the District.
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The sanctury is no longer safe
from the wrath of the hymend
bloodhound of the South. A white
mi lister of God is insulted and his
church dismantled and wrecked
because he dared to condemn mur-
der. This only shows that lawless.
ness once rampant soon becomes
indiscriminate and no one is safe.
The frenzy Le' ONES contagious and
the whites must suffer with the
blacks.
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The recent election In Baltimore
has demonstrated that fairness
toward all of the elements of the
republican party is necessary to
party success. The colored people
were Ignored in the distribution of
offices and they like the whites did
not enthuse. The time has come
when in.order to keep the ranks of
colored republicans intact, it is
neceSSar to say turkey and not
buzzard so often. A very useful
lesson can be learned from Tam
many.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
The C0LORED RACE In AMERICA.
ISSUED BY THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
LONDON, 1899.

LONDON. 1899.
The noble spirit of sympathy with
the victims of Spanish tyranny in
Cuba and the Philippines, which has
lately been manifested by the great
nation of the United States, has sue
cessfully removed an incubus which
had long weighed terribly on those
splendid islands May it now be hoped
that similar humane feeling will as
determinedly grapple with still more
extensive form of oppression in the
southern portion of the United States
themselves?
During the past year, the Howard
Association has, on various occasions,
received from those Southern States
very grievous accounts of cruelties in
hicte both upon prisoners and others
Of the colored race, and in particular,
in the convict camps and chain gangs,
where shocking condition of affairs
exists.
THE CONVICT CAMPS AND CHAINGANGs
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Wherever the head of tyranny
and oppression shows itself, there
will be seen the dance Of the Peer
less Bob Ingers"l. Whatever else
he may be, he is friend to the
downtrodden and a defender and
champion of human rights. HE
life is an open book, beautiful and
useful.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06

There seems tn be "a breaking up
of the Labor Commission. Now
is the time for Brother Fortune to
rFnew his application. 1t would
be handsome recognition of a
worthy student of sociology to give
the editor of the Age the pace. We
think he could diecover some very
Interesting statistics
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THE LYNCHINGS.

In the Richmond Planet, July gard
1898, a bishop is quoted as saying:
Enough colored men have been
lynChed to death to reach mile high,
if laid one upon another-and nearly as
many women and children to make a
similar pile"
These lynchings are defended by
many persons on the ground of their
necessity of protecting white women
from negro assaults. No doubt, occa-
sionaly such crimes of this kind have
been committed by them, but they
have been immensely out numbered
by similar outrages by whites upon
the females of the weaker race
The colored people have need to
clear themselves from completely with
such crimes, and also to cultivate
more honesty and truthfuln SIS. Nor
can they expect TO be much respected
until they manifest more self-reSpeCt
and become Iess characterized, as a
people, by their everlasting grin and
giggle. Lord Chesterfield said:-'I
never knew 'Merry-Andrew' a re-
SpeCted man." But the ColOred peo-
pie are too often such fools, and until
as race, they manage to make them
selves both respected and feared,
they are not likely to get the justice
which is due TO them. BuffoonS will
be deSpised.
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been no advance in the lease system
OF our convicts. 1t can only be an
evil"
GENERAL OPPRESSION OF
THE CoLoRED RACE.
The Howard Association has also
received, in connection with these sad
accounts of southern camps and chain
gangs, much information showing that
they form but one portion or still a
vaster system of oppression of the
colored race generally in the South
ern States. The Voice of Missions,
Atlanta, December, 1893 contains a
long and terrible indictment of the
white race for the treatment of the
colored people since 1865.
Ii says: "The Cuban War and its
results and the American massacres
are nothing when compared with the
the thirty years of 'Whitecapping,
chasing by blooohounds, numbering,
burning at the stake, lynching, flaying
swindllng, robbing, defamation of
character, injustice, false imprison
ment and oppression, which the color
ed people of America have passed
through, and are still undergoing. I"
"This year 900 have been lynched and
murdered by our white Christian
friends and no voice but our own weak
cry has been raised in protest" +"
Many negroes were shot by the white
democrats in North and South Car
olina during the November elections of
1898 Recently also, many unoffending
colored people have been driven away
from their homes and farms in the
South by violent and covetous white
neighbors.
The same journal complains of the
silence of the pulpit, both North and
South, respecting these evils, and re-
marked that even the United states
Supreme Court at Washington has
always turned scale against the color
ed race. Also that several of the
Southern States have disfranchised
the negroes by wholesale, In violation
of the Federal Constitution, whilst re-
turning them all as voters for the
purpose of their own proportionate
representation in Congress. 1t is
known that some prominent politician
and Legislators at Washington have
made large fortunes as convict con-
tractors,
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
OUR SCHOOLS.

The patrons of the schools can
once more congratulate themselves
upon the wise arrangement conse'
ouent upon the death Of our late
supervising principal, Mr.. III. 2.
Montgomery. AS is always the
case under similar circumstances,
many were the candidates, good
bad and Indifferent, who felt th NJ
selves able to fill the vacancy and
entitled I'd do so from their several
standpoints. Some no doubt were
logical candidates, while Others
sought the place relying upon a
strong "pull" with certain whiUe
folks who as ay to take an un-
usually active part in our school
affairs when they have certain
colored people they want TO ad-
vance. OF the several candidates
fer the supervising prlncipa ship
among the principals of the graded
schools Mr. Nalle was confessedly
the strongest and most logical.
And he would no doubt have been
selected had not other considera-
lions appealed more strongly in the
case OF Prof. Montgomery. Mr..
Male has for the past twenty
five years m untaiued a most excel
lent record as a teacher and prin-
cipal in our schools md bears the
enviable repu alton Of being the
best male principal in our schools.
Whilelhe didnot go out Of the ordi-
nary channels in or to strengthen
his chances for the position, he
made magnificent showing aud
would have won the prize but for
the transfer of Mr. Montgomery.
AS is well known Mr.. Montgomery
accepted the princlpalship of the
High school under protest. His
transfer to that position was to
bridge an emergency and it was
no more than natural that when
conditions became favorable he
would seek to again occupy the
position from which he was taken
without his knowledge or consent.
Moreover, SO long as Mr.. Mont
gomery held the principalship of
the High school with the salary of
supervising principal, a gross
injustice would be perpetrated
upon one of our supervisors who
was compelled to be content with
the salary of the principal of the
High school, which was but $500.
This condition was also a standing
menace an demanded correction
as means of equalizing the
salaries of supervising principals.
The transfer therefore of Mr..
Montgomery back to his old posi-
tlon, renders the system harmo-
NOUS with the law which has regu-
lated it and has placed the salaries
where according the spirit of the
law they were intended. In view
Of this we deem the arrangement
of the teachers as not only the
falrest for all parties concerned:
but one which will more adequately
meet the best needs of the system
than any other possible. AS an
incident to the preceding, the
appointment of Prof. Terrell was
most logical and satisfactory. Not
any of the other candidates were
competent to conduct the principal
ship of the High school and in fact
did not apply for it. Nor did Mr..
Terrell have respectable competi-
tor. He is by far the best person
IN this city for the place and Will
bring the High school to higher
standard of excellence than i: has
ever b fore attained. Much nniSa
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
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SELF HELP.

However, people oftwelve million
ought no longer to be mainly depend
ent upon or looking to others for their
own protection. They must now chief
ly turn to schemes of self help-or re
main oppressed.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
THE PROBLEM.

An American correspondent of the
Howard Association wires (I8eo):-
1.-The negro trouble has become so
great that, fear, the difficulty can
never be settled but with blood"
The problem is indeed vast one,
and of pressing impor. to the United
States, both North and South. Is the
Christianity of that great nation to re-
main impotent for the solution? Are
the colord people to be driven to what
now appears to be their only means of
relief-by self-help, through imitat-
ing the methods of their adversaries
in the formation of Secret Societies
and powerful and compact, Organized
Unions, for defence and offence? 1t
is only thus, that they can make tnem-
selves what they must be, somehow
respected and feared as race? BUT
what else are they to do, unless the
white race beStirs itself for other ef-
forts than continuing oppre>sion?
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WHO WILL HELP.

The TOice Of Missions mournfully
remarks:-" here are no advocates of
human rights in the United States to-
day. Charles Sumner is dead, Abra
ham Lincoln is gone, Wendell Phillips,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Frederick DOu-
glas and Harriet Beecher Stowe have
all passed away; and with them went
the last great advocates of human
rights" This complaint is, however,
too pessimistic
Yet even the Society of Friends
(Quakers) in America, once the fore
most champions of the negro, through
their J. G.. Whittier, Thomas Garrett,
Isaac B. Hopper, Levi Coffin, Francis
t. King and other good men, have of
late years, become strangely silent
and apparently apathetic, as to the
oppressed race.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
CONVICT MORTALITY

Even the aggregate of lynchings is
very small in comparison with the
enormous mortality of the the convicts
i'll the camps and chain gangs. Where
as in English convict prisons the death
rate is under 7 per 1000 per annum, IT
ranges in these camps from IS to over
200 per 1000 yearly.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
TWELVE MILLION CoLoRED PEOPLE
IN U. s. A.

here are now nearly twelve million
colored people in the United States.
They are increasing in numbers, in
intelligence, and in wealth. 1t is
stated that more than half of them
can read and that their property is
worth 80 million pounds or 400 million
dollars. The idea of emigrating such a
multitude is utterly visionary. They
must be dealt with in America itself.
Nor is foreign interposition for a
moment to be thought of. Such a
multitude are not likely to put up with
their oppression indefinitely. Nor
ought they to.
The Washington bee., 1899-05-06
A LITTLE RECENT IMPROVEMENT
IN SOME STATES,

The State of Mississippi, Arkansas
ano the Carolinas, all need great re-.
forms IN this matter; but especialIv
FLORIDA and Georgia. Their forest
terpentlne works and their phosphate
mines are often awful spots, moralIv
and physically. louisiana is mating
some special efforts at improvements
Alabama and Texas are perbans bat.
ter tnan formerly. Yet prison char.
IAN In exas writes to Howard Aesp.
ciation (Io9S.) Practically there has
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-05
HOLDEN.

Holden. May 4.-The King Wit Whist
club met at the home of Miss Jessie
Cieaviand. Main street, last night. Five
tabiae we're filed. Among those pres
emf we're Misses Helen L. and n.
Dodge Trask, Miss Clara K. Bascom,
Miss Jessie CIeavland, Miss Carrie
Vim Miss sadie !. Rogers, Miss Liz
1ie Fales. A. w. Ripley, L. W. Hubbard,
G.. W. Warren, ]. w. David, H. w. Nc
Cuthion, F. w. Baseom, ana George n
STnree The next meeting of the club
viii be held at the home of Miss Louise
T. Morse on the evening of May II.
The Holden High School Athletic AS
sociation has secured a field in the
centre of the town to play base ball
games upon, and in future all contests
with clubs from surrounding towns
win be played upon this field instead
of at the QuinapOxet grounds. Mana
ger Carey intends to have force of
men at work grading and laying out
a diamond as soon as possible. The
feld will probably be in condition for
practice by the first Of next week.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-05
REGATTA AT THE LAKE.
Practically Certain the Memorial Day viii
See Some Good Races.

A local regatta at the lake Memorial day
is practically assured. John II. Meagher,
president of the Wachusett Boat Club,
and A. V. Coulson, secretary of the Lake
side Boat Club, have taken the project
in hand and are confident of meeting with
success. They have already waited on
officials of the Consolidated Street Rail
way Company, from whom they have re-
ceived a guarantee of financial support.
They will visit officials of the Worcester
and Marlboro and privilege men and 9TH
ers at the lake whose revenues are in
creased by bringing crowd to the re-
sort, to secure assistance from them
Plans for the events have not been de-
finitey arranged, but the program VIII
undoubtedly include single tandem and
four-blade canoe races, single-shell and
eight-oared-shell race.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-05
OFFICIALS SELECTED.
Men Who viii Be Responsible for Fairness
of HarYard-HIgh School Contest

Manager w. d. Lancaster of the high
school crew has chosen the officials for
the race with the Harvard freshman
crew, May o. They are: Referee and
starter, Edwin Brown; timers, P. H. Hur-
ley, John H. Meagher and Martin w. Ger
rity; judge at finish. DR.. M. P. Higgins
Ten Eyck. One of the Harvard rowing
coaches will be judge for Harvard.
Ten Eyck rowed in No. and No. 5
seats yesterday, as the young, oarsmen
complained of their oars. The coach
found that they have warped and he
substituted the oars which were used
last year for those men. The crew will
departure from the regular custom, in
order that the crew may sit for pic
ture