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The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
Casting About.

The above article is very "WobbIy,"
Considering the same puzzle picture,
find where the writer Is located. What
did the COlOred Republican say when
Washington asked him if Senator Fair
banks would be able TO secure the
colored Southern delegates to The
next National R .publicanConvention
The Indlanapo is Freeman.
Referring TO an article in the Bee con
corning Prof. Booker I. Washington
and his new Roosevelt party, the In.
dianapOliS Freeman wants 10 know
what the colord republican said. He
said nothing, but thought Washing
ton would make better headway col
leCting funds for the TuSkegee in IL
tute than he would securing deles aGes
for Mr.. Roosevelt. Prof. Washington
may be a good money collector, but a
bad delegate agent-Ihe Washington
Bee.
Did the colored Republicans think
that or his Proxy? Just the extent of
Mr.. Washington vote getting ability
IS unknown 10 US, but in biblical
phrsseo!ogy, il a man. in these times,
Is a successful money getter, all things
else are easily added unto him. But
to be sincere, il is not thought that
Mr.. Washington has been delegated
the authority Of converting Southern
delegates; but, if SO, our advice is
Get on his side.
Nov Brother Knox what are you
sitter or what is 1t you want 10
knew? You as well IS others will
be thinking the way The Beeis
thinking before many more moons.
Some men 2re good collectors ant
mighty poor farmers. Etlto,s are
born and not ma lie, 80 are money
gettsrs. Delegate getters are born.
Prof. Washington will pass out Of
sight with his god with whom he
dlned, We shall hear no hing of
either 8 ter 1904. Mark The B ea
prediction. Before may more
moons The Bee will number you
among the braves.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
District building we have no indig-
nation meetings.
The trip of the colered editor
South will be published next week
DICTATES OF FASHION.

The camelia is the favorite flower
for hats in Paris, not only in white
bat IN colOrs as well. lI1k and white
cameGas with a knot of back velvet
decorate one hat, and again you see
a bunch of bright red ones with glossy
green leaves on a sable hat.
a handsome gown in black and sill
yer showed bands of maltese lace on
fine net, with deep leSe fiounces in
black chantilly lace, sprinkled with
the tiniest silver sequins. A touch of
Indian gold thread embroidery at neck
and sleeves gave a finishing touch.
Gun-metal panne attracts consider
able attention in the gay world. 1t
seems destined for ceremonial uses.
An opera cloak, d visiting dress or
simple piece of millinery are built"
of the beautiful glossy fabric. The
darkest shade of gun metal is even
handsomer than the paler tint.
Handsome buttons are the rage this
season, and at their best they are real
ly articles of virtu, hand-painted and
enameled. Semi-precious stones are
very much worn in this form, as well
as in every other, and there are tur-
quoise and topaz buttons, buttons Of
coral, amethyst and amber used on
tailor-made gowns.
Very effective for a headdress for
evening are two peacock's feathers
made entirely of sequins in colors, re-
producing the effect of the feathers
with remarkable accuracy. The two
feathers are carried straight up from
two small knots of black velvet, which
finish a band of the same material,
which is to be carried around the coil
of hair.
Tight-ftting skirts have provoked
rivalry in petticoat makers, who are
vying with one another to produce the
PetticOat which shall occupy the least
space. One of the most recent has
lightweight jersey cloth for a top,
the elastic fabric fitting like a glove
to the figure. Silk ruffies finish these
skirts to depth of 12 or ii inches.
Black silk is now much worn, and
though rather oEd-looking and not be-
coming to everyone, is undeniably
serviceable and useful. A typical
black silk gown is made with perpen.
dicular tucks on the whole of the bod
ice and skirt, ending about the knee
line on the latter, the fuIlness spread
ing into q deep iounce. The sleeves
are also tucked throughout their en-
tire length, and. Ike the skirt, end in
a frill.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

Whether the proposed canal will be
4 profitable investment from a finan-
,ial standpoint or not is another
question, upon which the best versed
students of maritime commerce can
not agree. Long statistical argu-
ments have been presented both for
and against the possibility of its pay
ing adequate interest upon the cap
ital that will be invested. To be
sure, the construction of the canal
by the government is not looked up
on as a purely financial proposition.
Our own interests demand that it be
built, whether it be profitable from
a financial viewpoint or not, and il is
because of the demands of commerce,
rather than for any possible direct
financial gain, that the government
will undertake it's construction.
But in considering the possible
traffic through the proposed canal,
whether it be built along the Nicar-
aqua or Panama or Darien routes, it
is interesting to study the figures
presented in the reports of the Suez
corporation. The report for 1900 iz
the latest one to which access may
be had at the present time, that for
the past year not having been made
public.
The net tonnage for 1900 shows a
decrease of 49, AT tons, as compared
with that of 1899, but an increase of
499. $40 tons. as compared with that Of
1898.
The transit receipts, which in 1899
amounted to S17.624,23O, and were
higher than in any previous year
since the opening of the canal, fell
to SIT .49O,356 in 1900.
The number of vessels which
passed through the canal was 3.5O3
in 1898, 1907 in 1899, and 3,441 in
1900, of which 2,295 in 1898, 2.3lO in
1899, and 1885 in 1900 carried the
British flag. There has consequently
been falling off in the tonnage of
British vessels, which amounted to
6,297,743 tons in 1898. 6,5S6,310 tons in
1899, and 5.6O5,421 tons in 1900. Dur
ing the same period the tonnage
from German vessels has increased
from 969,597 tons in 1898, to 1910. .767
in 1899, and 1,466,391 tons in 1900.
Of 2,407 merchant vessels and yes
sells in ballast, of a net tonnage of
6,6l2,316 tons, passing through the
canal in 1900, 1861 ships, of a net
tonnage of 4,705, ,634 tons, were Brit
ish. being fully 90 per cent. of the
number and fully II per cent. of the
tonnage; POI. or 12 per cent, were
German vessels, whose tonnage was
Ill per cent. of the whole; France.
Holland and Austria-Hungary com
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

vessels passing through the canal is
20 feet seven inches, and 5O2 vessels
drawing more than "A feet seven
inches, used the canal, as compared
with $50 in 1899 and 374 in 1895, rep
resenting a percentage Of loi IN
1898, 1O.7 in 1899, and SIS in 1900. 1t
is hoped that before long the maxi
mum draft allowed will be raised 10
26 feet three inches.
1t may be of interest to note that
in 1890 only 13 vessels passed
through the canal with a beam oi ~
feet two inches or more. Since l't9'
the number has increased as iof
lows: Forty-twO in 1895, 6s IN I''o
90 in 1897, 123 in 1895, 159 in 1899 and
212 in 1900.
The number of troops carried
through the canal in 1900 amounted
to 154,249, as against 10S,552 10 l'''
being an increase Of 29,7ll RUSSIAN,
In the year 1870, 26.758 civil anu
military passengers were caf''eu
through the canal; in 1880 the hll,
ber rose to $4,000; in 1890, to -'-'-'''
as against 221 ,34s in 1899
These figures, taken as they arc
from the official reports Of the Sl5'
company, give some idea Of the eDO,'
nous business done by the ean1-
The daily average of vessels Pasen5
through the canal was above nine "
1900, while the daily average tonna-.
was about 26.68O tons. Neary ~
tourists used the waterway da''y y
passing to and from far eastern
points and Europe or America.
The cost Of the Suez channel wa
nearly double the estimated cost o.
the American project along any O"i i
of the three possible routes aN'
could the American project seS'..
as much business as has the DUO
canal, and not exceed by too .a' =
figure the estimated cost, II "ou.'
be a profitable enterprise fnahe.a, +,
". But il is scarcely to be eNP''..r m
that such a volume Of business "-'
be secured for a number Of Fs4 .e.
With the development Of the az -.
there will undoubtedly come d"
creased commerce between E''
and the east and with South Amer =
that would add greatly to the al
enues of the canal The SufI "a. ~.
has been a potent factor in the -s .
velopment of existing commeL'.'. =,
lations between Europe ana ii
and it is hoped that the pro TO-
American canal wiz assist lH .-''
velopment of a heavier tran'
tween this country and ASA
Australasia and between Norm "-
South America.
DANIEL CLEVEkIO-''
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
Hon. w. E. nasOn.

There isno mtn in this country
more appreciated by the American
people than the Hon. Wm. K
Mason of Illinois. He is honest
and brave anl true to the state GuT
the country. He is the negros' +
true lend and champion Of mis-
civil and poll tcal rights. lie
knows 40 by the color Of his
skin. The working man as well
as the negro knows where to find
him. To leave Senator Mason Out
OF The Syna,e is Ike playing Ham-
let with hlm out. The psOp e
want Senator Nj ison returned 10
to the Senate. vi II such mau,
the working mn and the negro
will be safe.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
LonE-Lived English Family.

Instances of unusually prolonged life
are, as a rue. only made known TO the
outer word on the occasion of the per-
sons decease. whereas it would be
much more to the pointif if the examples
recorded were Of individuals still Iiv-
ing and in the possession of their fac
ulties at an abnormally advanced age.
Sometimes this dover of length of
days" is the Inheritance of certain fam
lies. as, e. @, the Foxes, there having
been only two generations in direct
Inc of descent between Sir Stephen
Fox, who was born in 1927, and who.
so il is said, attended Charles |. on the
scatfo,d, and the third earl of Uches-
ter. who died in 1858. OF the two auntS
of Charles James Fox, one (his ia
ther's ha.f sister, died in 1853 and the
other (his mothers youngest sister)
in 1S2S-an interval Of IT'S yearsl
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
Interesting Figures Re-
garding the Suez Canal
Something of the Traffic That Passes Through This
Important Waterway.

bined furnishing a total of 11s
cent. of the vessels and 90 Der - TT
of the tonnage of the CARRYING -"
to the east through the Suez c9r,T
In the ten years, 1SS9-ISgS -
annual net tonnage ranged fra"
6,7s3, ,1s7 tons to 9,23s,6O3 tons u
the transit receipts from SD --as.,
TO S16,46l, $50. The average of -.
net tonnage was 1892 ,S97 tons -
of the transit receipts $144so sos
while in 1900 the net TONNAGE 49,.
9,73S,152 tons and the transit -,
ceipts amounted to $17,49O356. II.
mean net tonnage per vessel a.
rose from 1861 tons in 1889 10 . -,
tons in 1899, as against 1880 tons /,
1900.
The mean duration of PASSAGE t,,
all vessels navigating the cana,
amounted to Is hours and % mi.
utes in 1900, as compared with a
hours and 80 minutes in 1899 7,
1900, the percentage of vessels ravf.
eating by night was 91.2 per cent =,
against 90.7 per cent in 1899.
The percentage of vessels drawn.
less than % feet was $50 in lSqq =,
against GA in 1900, while that .,
vessels drawing more than % fes,
was Ali in 1899, as compared with
37.6 in 1900.
The maximum draft allowed n,
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

talented artist with the woman whose
name is now so strangely linked with
that of the aged capitalist.
Nine. D'Ajuria, or Marchioness
D'Ajuria, as she claims the right to
call herself. flashed upon the fashion
able colony of Lakewood, n. j., in the
season of 1895. She appeared to be
possessed of ample means and rented
from George Gould for the season the
handsome cottage known as Gray
Gables. One of her new neighbors,
says the Chicago Chronicle, was a man
of large wealth who had recently be-
come a widower. On returning from
New York to his Lakewood home one
evening he found awaiting him q per-
fumed note from Nine. D'Ajuria inyit-
ing him to call. lie did so, and found
her lavishly arrayed in a superb vel
vet evening gown. After some con-
versatiOn and an exchange of neigh
borly cOurtesies Nine. D'Aiuria sug-
gested that. as her caller was then liv-
ing alone, she had thought il might
be agreeable for him to become a
b0arder with her at Gray Gables She
would at the same time, she said, if
such an arrangement were pleasing to
him, utilize the opportunity to paint
for him his portrait in miniature. Her
neighbor did not care to give up his
own home and courteously declined to
approve of such an arrangement.
Nine. D'Aiuria was well known at
Lakewood also two years ago. At that
time she rented expensive apartments
in the leading hotel and lived on a scale
of luxurious indulgence. With her was
her only child, ORC, daughter, then
about u years old, and young wom-
an who acted as OrO's governess.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
LITERARY LITTER.

The first volume has appeared of
the Corpus nummorum Italicorum,' .
issued by King Victor Emanuel. 1t
contains descriptions Of 1000 coins.
James n. Lam, of Middletown, n Y.
a preacher, doctor and author, is 80
years Of age, and has been married 13
times. His first marriage occurred at
Milford, Pa, in 1880.
1t is ten years since George Bancroft
died. Meanwhile the securities be.ong-
ing TO his estate, which is now about
to be divided, have increased in value
from s55O,OOO to $685. 900.
About 10000 copies of the new cheap
edition of Darwin's Origin of Spe-
cies," issued recently by a London
firm, have already been sold. This
shows the interest which the book still
excites.
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
of Cambridge, Mass, was rs years old
on December %. He is in excellent
health and is now engaged upon a new
edition of the life of LongfeEow, the
feature of the work being the poets
early life.
The identity of "Iinesman," whose
book on the Boer war has attracted
more attention than any other war
book of the year, has been known to
few people for some time. He is Capt
Maurice Grant. and one of his earliest
admirers was Lord Roberts himself.
The memoirs Of the late former Pre-
mier Crispi, showing that il was Kins
The Cow and the Camera.
Here is a sagacious cow that at
tended promptly to a little matter OF
business, and deserves a blue ribbon.
AT Bloomfield, n. j., the other day
an amateur photographer stole .
march on some girls as they were
frolicking in a stream on the Dodd
estate. The camera was all adjusted
fer an exposure. and the photographer
ducked beneath the black cloth. A
COW apparently took in the situstioA
iugt in the nick of tune, and bucked
the camera fairly and sent IL flying.
Then she turned to the man and chased
him over a rail fence. standing gusrG
untIl the girls had donnsd tAstr clothes
aHd escaped.
Germans 1.Ike Our Tobacco.
In no other country in the world
is the cigar so popular as in Ger
many, so much so that it is impos-
sible to raise enough tobacco in the
empire to supply the domestic de-
mand. Last year Germany imported
nearly S22,OOO,OOO worth of tobacco,
a little more than a third of il COM
ing from the United States. The use
of the cigarette is rapidly spreading
in Germany. last year $50 tons OF
cigarettes we're consumed. at least
FIVE times as many as were needed
ten years ago.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
RUSSELL SAGE SUED.
Into Court by the Charming
MRrehiOness D'Ajuria,

Isabella D'Ajuria, who is suing
Russell Sage, in New York for SIS, 1000
as the result of his alleged conduct
toward her nearly eighteen years
ago, is known to her friends as the
widow of Marquis GregoriO D'Ajuria.
She is one of the best known minia-
ture painters in America. To many
distinguished society folk in New
York and Lakewood she has been
known simply as Nine. Gregorio
D'Ajuria. AS the papers in her suit
were filed in her maiden name, Isabel
la, not a few whose portraits she has
painted did not at first identify the
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

when he was not on his bicycle he was
generally seen going along on a sturdy
little pony, which was his inseparable
companion for long time.
Several extraordinary monuments
have been erected in some of the grave
yards in Italy during the last few
years, but it is doubtful. if among them
there is one which is as realistic as
the one shown in the accompanying
picture aud of which a bicycle and a
pony are the two very unusual fea-
lures
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
HIS ODD MONUMENT.
Memory of Man Who Rode First BIZ
cycle in North England Perpetu-
Rted in Queer Way.

This unique monument was recently
erected in Scotland over the grave of
an cd man who was reputed to have
been the first to ride bicycle in the
north of Great Britain. For many years
he rode over the country roads on a
clumsy two-wheeled affair, and on days
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08
Germans 1.Ize Our Tobacco.
Enrone,s MiIilnrr Rurden-

France has a soldier TO every 50
inhabitants, Germany one to every
80, Italy one 50 every 126, Russia one
TO every I34, ana Great P~itain one
90 every 100.
Old Locomotive Engineer.
John McCurdy recently completed
his fiftieth year as engineer on the
Michigan Central railroad. and al
though 20 years of age, makes daily
trips between Michigan CITY and Jack
Dn, 155 mileA
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

10 prOpheSy WIN any as
surance of even degree of ac-
curacy. The new canal will greatly
shorten the route between England
and Australasia, and so will natural
Iy secure mich of the traffic between
the home country and English col
onies in the south seas that now
passes through the Suez channel. 1t
will probably not secure any great
percentage of the traffic between
Europe and Asiatic ports, though the
two routes will not show a great diff
ference in length.
Americas commerce with the far
east will, in all probability, practi-
cally all go through the proposed
waterway when il is completed, at
least all that is shipped from east
ern or gulf ports, but the detraction
of American shipping from the Suez
route will not greatly affect the rev.
enue of that corporation, as it has
been so light as to receive no partic-
ular mention in the general reports
issued by the Suez company, being
included in the miscellany columns
of such reports.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

There is 6 Od presidential tim
Der in Senators Hanna, Fairbank
and WOOdruI.
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

81 cs the appointmsut of Mr..
Perry Il. Caesar as janitOr of th
The Washington bee., 1902-02-08

HAT effect the building of
the proposed Nicaragua
or Panama canal will have
upon the traffic of the
Suez waterway it is hard
10 prophesY with any as
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-06-12

Lexington, Ky, June John II.
Johns, an attorney of this city, has
returned from Jackson, Ky, whittier
he went to defend Thomas COckrcll,
charged with numbering Ben Hargis.
Johns says the court and bar of Jack
son are in terror over threats by both
the Coclrell and Hargis factions, and
that Judge Redwine refused to act on
the application for change of venue
because of fear of his own life and
the lives of others. Two other attor-
neys were elected to preside as spe-
cial Judge. but each refused to act
for fear of his life. Gov. Becl<ham
has been appealed to. Johns says
the county is bordering on revolution.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-06-12
THREE SQUADRONS.
They VIII Unite in West Indian Wa
ters for Two Months DriIl.

Washington, June 7.-The navy de-
partment has made public the orders
for the assembling next winter of the
,essels of the North Atlantic, South
Atlantic and European stations to
participate in the most extensive fleet
maneuvres ever attempted by the
navy in the West Indies. The orders
recte that about November -, next,
the department will assemble all
available vessels of the stations
named, and about January /, 1903,
these vessels will be gathered at
Culebra, Porto Rico, or Guantanamo,
Cuba, and drilled for two months
as fleet.
The list of vessels which will take
part is as follows: Kearsarge, Iowa,
Massachusetts. Brooklyn, Illinois,
Alabama, Indiana, the new Maine
(probabIy). Olympia, Baltimore, Gin
cinnati, Raleigh, Albany, Chicago,
San Francisco. Newark, Atlanta,
Detroit, Montgomery. Nashville, Mari
etta, Machias, as many of the 80 or
more torpedo boats and destroyers
as are available at the time, and
fleet of naval GOLFERS.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-06-12
TRADE REVIEW.
Labor Disputes are the Only UnfavOrs
able Features Noted.

New York, June 7.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Peace in South Africa has greatly
improved the outlook. Foreign in
dustrial markets will quickly benefit
by the development of that country,
while return to active gold mining
will be helpful influence in none
tary circles. Owing to the present
exceptional home consumption, pro-
ducers in tins country may not be
able to take advantage of the OPP
portunity Immediately, but even the
indirect effects must be beneficial
Domestic conditions still have but the
one drawback of labor disputes,
which have reduced the earning pow
er of large force.
Failures this week in the United
States were 21S, against 1S5 the cor
responding week last year, and in
Canada 16, against so last year.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-06-12
ENVY OF PROFESSIONALS.
According to This Authority Arch
itects Have the Least md Ac-
tors Have the Most.

An Italian philosopher, Signor Fer
riani, has amused himself by con-
structing scale of degrees for the
measurement of professional envy,
reports the Buffalo Commercial. The
highest point in this envy measurer is
ten. Architects are happily placed
lowest on the scale. They register
only one; advocates, priests and mill
itary men are ranged at two; and in
the ascending scale he gives us pro-
fessors of science and literature four;
journalists, five; authors, eight; ply
icians, nine; actors and actresses, ten.
The small amount of envy among
architects is held to be due to their
precise, severe and rigid studies. The
same thing applies to advocates.
Among the clergy envy is found most
ly in preachers. In the military career
envy is quiescent in time of peace, but
can become acute in time of war. Envy
makes mel of science and literature
lead solitary lives, diffident of each
other. Among physicians envy is still
more prevalent, and they do not spare
their colleagues, often terming them
charlatans. In the theatrical world
envy, according to Signor Ferriani,
reaches its acute form, vanity playing
great part in its production.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-06-12
INCOMPETENCE OF KINGS.
Instances of Ignorance of Monarchs
Concerning Conditions in
Their own Realms.

"Seems hard to believe this" said the
reader of "China in Convulsion," look
ing up from his perusal of that re-
markable book, relates the New York
Herald. "AIr. Smith says that every
body in China knew about the danger
threatened by the Boxers; that trav-
elers, merchants, missionaries, edit
ors, and even government consuls
knew about it. The exception, he says,
was the legations-they, of all others,
to be in ignorance! They knew moth
ing and would hear nothing about 1t.
What do you think of that?'
at does seem strange" said thf
Browser, who had been deep in Frene
history. "But here's a coincidence.
I've just been looking over some books
dealing with the French revolution
and later periods of France-Nictor
Hugo's Chooses Nues' and Watson's
Story of France among them. And
what do you think? The kings of that
country were just as ignorant of i'm
pending calamities which threatened
their thrones and lives as were the
legations in China, according to Mr.
Smiths cccount. That, it seems to
me, is even more astonishing.
"Take Louis NNl. at Versailles.
What do you suppose he was about
when the mob went to fetch him to
the Tuileries? Why, shooting rabbits
in the woods, to be sure, with all
France in fever and the shadow of
the guillotine on his door. Much he
knew about what was going on! Then,
Al years later, we have Charles X.
with his edict annulling the very con-
stitution which gave him his throne.