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The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16

1t would appear that the Seattle
4 Lake Shore Waterway Company
propose to do something toward the
building of their canal connecting
Lake Washington with the Sound, as
it has reetntly rented the old pump
ing station at Lake Washington for
the purpose of sluicing its right Of
way. ''It never rains but what it
pours," says an old adage, and it
seems to be true in this canal bust
ness, for no sooner than had the
government begun to build a Lake
Washington canal than this private
company likewise begun operations
for another canal.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
CONFERENCE POSTPONED.

The A. M. E. conference, which
had been fixed to meet in Tacoma
August 10th, has been postponed un-
til August goth. The conference
will be called by Bishop Schaffer
Thursday morning and will last three
days, the appointments being read
Sunday evening. 1t is thought by
the presiding elder of this district
that some new preachers may be
transferred to this conference next
year, and perhaps some new charges
opened up.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
SOUTHERN PAPERS PROTEST..

So brutal and outrageous was the
lynehing of two men and one woman
in Mississippi few days ago that
even the Southern papers were de-
nouncing it with vengeance. While
those papers denounce this individ-
ual case, they nevertheless do moth
ing that vii look forward to the pre-
ventiOn of similar disgraeeful scenes.
Not only Mississippi but the entire
South is now practically run by out
laws, and men, women and chill
dren are lynched and burned at the
stake for the most trivial offenses-
One crime always begets another,
and there being but one party in the
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
PASSING
EVENTS
Of Men and Things in the
Public Mind.
THE WEEKLY REVIEW

Indians Turning Farmers and Be
coming SeIf-SustnininG-Th In
dian Not Dying Out but on In
creaSe-AnOther South American
Revolution in PrOgress-MOrtEag-
ed Nations Fail First-Large An-
nuaI Deficits i'm the Postal SerV-
fce-CleVelHnd and Bryan Has
BeenH.'
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
BROTHER
IN BLACK
Under Critical Eye of OBJ
serving Men.
BORROWED THOUGHTS

Famine i'm WOmen Help in the
SOuth-PulIman POrters Form q
Union of Their OvVn-COfOred Gira
House Servants Get Together in
ChicaEO-That Mississippi Lynch
ing Condemned Even in the
south Alabama'S Black Belt
Growing.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
REV. RANDALL RETURNS.

Rev. f. NJ. Randall, pastor of the
First NJ f. church Of this city, has
returned from California, whittier
he went primarily to attend the Ep-
worth League convention, and sec
ondarily on his annual vacation.
His SERMON last Sunday morning
was a description Of his visit at San
Francisco and his meeting of many
of the Eastern delegates at that con-
vention. Rev. Randall is a tireless
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
MISSION TRANSFERRED.

The MOravian Missions in Green
land have been transferred to the
Church of Denmark They comprise
six stations, thirty-three out-stations,
eight missionaries, and thirty native
helpers The missionaries will be
transferred. to other stations.-The
COngregationalist.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16

a stable government south of the
United States, though Mexico does
make some pretenses along that line.
This recent revolution in Columbia
Is nothing out of the ordinary, as it
is but one faction endeavoring to
Overturn another faction, and but
one faction trying to wrench the
power from the grasp of another that
already has the power. Such state
of affairs is not only true of Colum-
bia, but it is likewise true of every
republic in South America, and rev.
OlutiOns among them are as common
as elections in the United States.
Just why these people are not able
to settle their differences and to run
their governments without friction
and fuss is a puzzling question to
every civilized country, not only in
the United States but throughout
Europe. Spanish blood being prev
alent among them, they seem to have
lost most of the excitableness and
characteristics of the people of the
mother country, and prefer to settle
their political differences with the
gun and sword rather than with de-
liberation and discussion.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety's annual report states the years
issues at 4,914,O0O, a reduction of
$4,000. This, however, is due
wholly to the Chinese crisis. The
falling off there is 25O,OOO, so that
there is considerable gain in other
fields. Foreign sales in ~ countries,
through 812 colporteurs, were 1,6OO,-
600. The society maintains in the
East GIG native Bible women, in con-
nection with 80 missionary organlz-
ations. 1t supplies the P. S. G., the
c. NJ. S, and the other great mis-
sionary organizations with most of
the Scriptures that they need, and
as rule without cost.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
MANY RACIAL MEETINGS.

The cOlOred folk of this country
will hold quite a number of import
ant race meetings during the pres
ent month. Chief among them is
The National Afro-American Press
Association, which has already been
held In the city of Philadelphia, and
which is said to have been most in
teresting gathering of pencil push
ers. The Press Association met Au-
gust 9th, and lasted three days. Next
was the National rO-American
Council, which likewise met in Phil
adelphia August 9TH, and lasted
three days. This meeting was at
tended by some of the most prom
lnent colored men in the country,
who took an active part in discussing
the questions Of the hour, touching
upon the race problem of this coun-
try and likewise the overtures for
harmony between the two races tha
are being made by the better element
of both. The National Negro Busi-
ness League will convene in~Chicago
the 21st inst, and this promises to
be the most important meeting of
the entire lot 1t is headed by such
able and well-knOwn men as Booker
L. Washington, T. Thomas Fortune
and Edward E. Cooper. 1t is ex-
pected that the leading business men
of the country will be present at the
session of the league, and that the
discussions will be of the most in
teresting nature. The discussions of
the league at the previous meetings
proved to be of so much interest
that the reports were printed in book
form and have had a wide sale
throughout the country since they
were first issued.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
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WOMEN HELP SCARCE.

From an editorial in the Atlanta
Constitution it is learned that there
is much danger Of the South expert
encing a famine in colOred women
help, which conditions have been
brought about by the women leaving
for other sections of the country
where they can get better wages for
their work, than they could
get in the South. The average wom-
an cook in the South gets from S.
to 81 per month to not only cook but
to likewise do all of the housework,
whereas the same woman can go to
other sections and get from $40 to
$50 per month for the same work.
The cOlOred women have learned Of
this fact and have drifted away, and
now genuine famine in women help
is staring the white women
in the face, who, however
poor they are, have strug-
led to keep colored woman in their
employ to do their work. Not being
able to maintain this any longer,
they must now begin to do their
work themselves, and the Constitu-
ton has begun to teach them
through its columns how to do their
own work and be pleasant while
they are doing it; in short, how to
make the best of the situation. Had
the same plan been adopted thirty
years ago, the South would have
been in more healthy financial con-
dition than it is now, and there
would have been less trouble between
the two races
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16

Mrs. Rose White will leave for
Dawson City early in September,
where she will join her husband
Mrs. John n. Gonna had a letter
from her husband not long since and
he reports himself in good health.
Mrs. j. c.. Branche visited with
Mrs. n J ,Asberry a few days this
week.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16

Christian worker and his speech be-
fore the convention was loudly ap-
plauded by the delegates in attend
ance
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
HARMONY PREDICTED.

1t is predicted by a leading Cath
olic church worker that the Roman
Catholic and the Dissenter Of Ire
land will find it necessary before
many more years to again unite for
their own interests. They have so
long fought each other and with
such awful desperation that they
have succeeded in almost completely
depOpulatlng the entire island, as
many of the inhabitants have come
to the United States. Ireland, as was
said in these columns not long since,
has actually decreased in population
fifty per cent. within the past cen
fury, and it is still on the decrease,
and all because the Roman Catholic
and the Dissenters continue to war
with each other. The Dissenters,
however, are far more liberal than
the Roman Catholic, and even after
they get to America this is clearly
demonstrated, as the Roman Catho-
lies cluster together in cities and
communities, where they become
dangerous political factors one way
or the other, while the Dissenters
become part of the people and di-
vide UP in politics and religion, the
same as any other nationality COM
ing to America.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
CATHOLICS IN IRELAND,

1t is reported that the Catholics
in Ireland are on the decrease both
in numbers and in power, and the
Importance of the priesthood OF
Rome is no longer a significant fact
in the conduct Of general affairs, and
liberal Catholic church from a re-
liglous standpoint is taking the place
OF the old intolerant church, which
ran all the politics, the religion and
financial affairs OF the entire land.
Once upon a time there was a deadly
enmity between the Dissenters and
the Roman Catholics, but that state
of affairs no longer exists and now
the Dissenters look upon the mother
church with much more favor than
they did when the church oppressed
every one who did not agree with it.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
UNIONISM RUNNING RIOT.

This seems to be an age when
unionism is running riot, as it il
learned from Chicago paper thai
5000 colored Pullman porters have
formed union in that city with the
view of bettering their condition on
the railroads. While the true in
tention of the organization is kept
a secret by the men who formed it
yet there is no doubt but that they
mean to strike a blow at some time
for the bettering of their condition
In union there is always strength, ,
and the colored porters will find that
they will soon better their condition
if they will only hang together and
make determined fight. The name
of the union will be the Railway
Mems Mercantile League of Chicago
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16

Mr.. III. ?. Lawhorn and Mr.. VIII
Turner are still much in evidence
in municipal and county official cir
cles.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16

Judge Emery has set the trial Of
the COnsidines for September 10Th,
when the biggest legal contest that
King county has seen for a good
many moons will be waged. Big Bill
Morris is arranging his chain Of evi-
dence and says that he and his col
leagues will win the case in a whoop.
Hon. J. I'll. Schively and Will Fl.
Nicholas have gone East and will be
absent from the state some six weeks
or more. They are on state insur-
ance matters and will take in the
Pan-American exposition while East.
Hon. J. W. McConnaughey has re-
turned from an extended trip
through the East and is highly graf
flied to be home again, if for no 9TH
er reason than to escape the hot
weather that prevails through the
East at present. Mr.. McConnaughey
says Puget Sound weather is like
winter weather in comparison tothat
of the East, and for that and that
only did he desire to come home.
Mrs. J. G. Branche and daughter
Gloria left for their home last Tues-
day. They were delighted with their
stay on Puget Sound and are very
grateful to the many persons who
showed them personal favors while
in the city. She will stop over for
couple of days in Tacoma and from
there she will go to Denver, where
she will remain the most of the
month, endeavoring to reach home
! by the first Of September,
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
COMPULSORY CONVERSION.

A curious instance of religious
fanaticism, though by no means a
unique one, has recently come before
the courts Of Lemberg in Austrian
Poland. A wealthy Roman Catholic
lady has been tried and convicted,
and sentenced to three years i'm
prlsonment for kidnapping Jewish
girl and confining her in a convent,
where she was baptized against her
parents will.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
BIBLE REVISION.

According to the Sunday School
Times, the American revision Of the
Bible will soon be issued by the
American committee, though such
revision, it is understood, will moi
be accepted by the English revisors
The first revision of the Bible was
taken up under King James in 1911
and subsequent revisions have fol
lowed from time to time and have
thereby brought out the true mean
ing of each word and sentence OF
the Bible. The revision that seems
to have done most toward straight
ening out the work and twisted words
of the Bible was that issued in 1885
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
COLORED COOKS COMBINE.

Another union among colOred
folk has recently been formed in the
city of Chicago, and it is none other
than servant girl union. 1t seems
that already the white girls who la
Dor in the city of Chicago have
formed unions, and through their
unions they manage to keep the col
Ored girls from obtaining work as
house servants. Now to eounteract
this move on the part of the white
servants, the colored servant girls
have formed another union, and, ac-
cOrdlng to one who speaks with au-
thority for the union, they will en-
deavor to make it very interesting for
their white sisters. There are in the
neighbOrhOOd of 10000 colored girls
who work in the city of Chicago for
their daily bread, especially as serv-
ant girls, and these two laboring ele-
ments will make it quite interesting
II they wage war against each other.
Labor knows no color in the abstract,
and all persons who labor should be
united in one common cause, wheth-
er they be white or black, and if they
are not, but on the contrary arrayed
in two great armies, struggling to do
each other up, the cause Of labor will
be lowered a hundred per cent. and
neither side will geet the wages that
they are entitled to.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
ALABAMA'S BLACK BELT.

The state of Alabama has twelve
contiguous counties, which is known
as the ''black belt" and their COM
bined area is 9,367 miles, which is
more than that of Massachusetts, and
Rhode Island taken together. In
1890 these counties had an aggregate
white population of 79,291, and at
present they have 1902. In 1890
they had a Negro population of 299,-
681, at present they have 35O,93S,
showing an increase in the whites Of
7,911 and among the blacks 81 1857
in ten years. Here is an opportunity
for those persons who have been ad-
vocating black state in which only
Negroes could live and hold property
and likewise hold office, to get in
their work. The idea of a separate
state for any race or nationality in
this country is absurd, but there are
great many apologists who really
think that such is the only way of
settling the much mooted race prob
lem in this country, and here is an
opportunity for them to experiment
on the proposition. The great Tus-
kegee normal school, of which Book
er t. Washington is at the head, is
likewise located in this black district.
and it will serve as a splendid neu-
cleus for the laying Of the proper
foundations to begin this new state.
Booker Washington is generally ad-
mltted to be man of sound judg-
ment, and he would make a most
excellent advisor for those in charge
of affairs. 1t is therefore suggested
In all earnestness that the state of
Alabama take steps, instead of dis
franchising the colored voters, to
place them in this black district
where they may form state of their
own and thus completely eliminate
the colored vote from the state of
Alabama.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
GREENWOOD'S MISTAKE.

Mr. Frederick Greenwood, in the
London Nineteenth Century, sug-
gests that only single men be sent to
China as missionaries, lest the Chi
nese look upon missionaries with
suspicion, when the two sexes are
compelled to live in the same house.
Evil to him who evil thinks" might
be very applicably said to Mr.. Green
wood in this connection, for certain
ly the Chinese could look upon the
missionaries with no more immoral
suspicion than that that the Chinese
themselves practice, but if the Chris
tianity that the missionaries are eX-
pected to teach does not rise any
higher than that, then it would be
much better if it is no longer taught
to the Chinese. The true lady and
gentleman that cannot board and
room under the same roof without
having immoral suspicion thrown
at them are unworthy of being called
civilized people, and if they refuse to
live in house together because of
such ill-tiung suspicion, then they
but give succor to the suspicion and
strengthen those having such sus-
pICIOnS.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
ROMAN CATHOLIC LOSSES IN AUS
TRIA.

The Lutheran authorities in Aus
tria have recently published some
figures in regard to the number OF
persons who have left the Roman
church and inscribed their names as
Protestants. In 1899 there were
$685. who joined either the Reform
ed or Lutheran churches, and in
1900 4,699-or 11,084 in two years.
Besides these many have freed them
selves from Rome without formally
becoming Protestants; and many
have joined the Old Catholic church.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1901-08-16
A NEW ACCESSION OATH.

The report of the select committee
of the house of lords appointed tO
consider the accession declaration of
the sovereign, in regard to transub-
sanitation, finds that the language
can be advantageously modified with
out diminishing its efficacy as Sc
curity for the maintenance of the
Protestant succession. The form of
declaration suggested by the com
mittee does not contain phrases rel
ative to idolatry, etc, which are so
Objectionable to Roman Catholics.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-28
TRUE.

The following Associated Press bulle-
tin was received after midnight this
morning, dated Manila, March 27th:-
'Aguinaldo has been captured"
That was all, but it is sufficient, if
true, and will practically end the long
drawn out and costly war in the far
Eastern archipelago. Presumably
Brigadier General Frederick Funston,
of Kansas, was the lucky man, as he
started out some time g with a de-
termination to round up the Filipino
leader, if it took months to complete
the work.
At present writing there is a paucity
of details, but with the fact of the cap
ture confirmed there will be rejoicing
throughout the United States as well
as among the soldier boys of Uncle
Sam in the far off Orient, for it means
peace. reduced expenditures for the
country, and a decided dimunition Of
Cnat late strenuous life of the republic
that has required soldiers by the tens
of thousands and dollars by the tens of
millions.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-28

need Of 1orao lfeh& wagons to be used.
in the mountainous country. and the
only way to set chem was to go TO
Nashville and have them made, so I
went to Nashville and had i've light
department. When I got back to Chat
tanooga with the wagons, I put a citi-
zen teamster In charge Of the wagons
and mules.
1.-THE teamster, being a green hand,
did not know that mules would eat
anything within their reach, and in
nocently tied them to the wheels OF
the wagons. Not long after that I got
an order to be ready to march, and on
going out to inspect my outfit / found
that the mules had eaten the Sp0kes
of the wheels nearly off, so that the
wagons were ready to fall down of their
own accord. AS I could not use them,
I had no recourse but to drop them
from my returns, and, being obliged
to assign a reason for SO dropping
them. l gave the true one, viz: Eaten
by mules
Shortly afterward I got a letter from
the quartermaster general, sarcastical-
ly inquiring if Lieutenant Fitch had
observed whether the mules had eaten
the tires or not. / replied that I pre-
sumed they had, as they seemed to
be thoroughly tired the next day. The
quartermaster general wrote back:
ANY further trifing with this depart
ment on the part of Lieutenant Fitch
will probably result in his being re-
tired to privite life.' Thereupon 1
dropped the subject, but my report was
correct"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-28
TILL HORSES WERE WORN OUT
Beers, Says General K~ftchener's
Dispatch.

The British Chased the R~etreating
Beers, Says General Kftchener's
Dispatch.
LONDON, March PA dispatch
from Lord Kitchener to the War Of
fee dated Pretoria March 9th, says:
Our casualties in Gen. Babington's
action were two killed and seven
wounded. The Beers left TWENTY-FIVE
dead and thirty wounded. As their
pursuit was rapid, many more Boer
casualties are likely.
The operation of March 23rd drove
the enemy north from their positions
at Kafirs Kraal. On March 9th the
pursuit was continued by mounted men
only. The enemy's rear guard was
driven in by a combined movement on
by tanks. Their convoy was then
sighted at L~eeufontein. The Greys,
New Zealanders and Bushmen pushed
on. The enemy attempted to take UP
a position, but the Greys and other
troops rode down all opposition and
gave him no chance. The convoy was
ridden into and the enemy's retire
ment became a rout. The pursuit was
continued until the horses were ex-
hausted."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-28

fng examples Of the sort Of thing I'M
der discussion. Both are, Of course,
great and growing cities. but in each
the proportion of annual cost to per
capita population steadily increases. In
Chicago. for example. it is stated That
the cost OF administering the city gov
eminent during the last four years in
creased twenty-eight millions over the
previous four. New York is as bad,
with a budget for 1901 Of M hundred
millions. In the metropolis, in 1900,
the appropriation for police alone was
$11, 9S2, 500, and for the Board of Edu-
cation $14,594, 101. This year the ag-
gregate of the two appropriations is
$50, 451, 100, and if the fire department
be added the sum for but three depart
ments is about sS7. 00O, 900 for this year
alone, and it will be more next year.
Pittsburg, st. Louis, Boston, Phila-
deiphia and other cities might be cited
in detail as living far beyond their
means, and piling UP unnecessarily a
bonded Indebtedness impossible OF
liquidation and which must ultimately
became a permanent charge upon the
communities at a low rate of interest,
like the national debts of England and
France, both of which are fixed and
permanent, and each of which will give
a great bound upwards with the next
war.
The policy the people of Wheeling
have insisted upon, of practicing econ
omy and reducing the indebtedness of
the city rather than increasing it. is
sound and should be continued. Our
interest charges and u obligations
alike become lighter with each passing
year, and with the legitimate increase
in e we will be enabled to get
along well, with a clear conscience and
good credit.