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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
CROSSED A BRIDGE TO DEATH
Party of Five Run Down by a Train
and Two Are Killed.

QUEEN ANNE. Nd. May 81 Five
persons. one woman and four men. were
walking 20 Queen Anne, on the railroad
bridge, near here. at 6 O'Clock last night.
when they were run down by the west
bound freight train A curve obscured
the train until 1t was right upon the
party
Three men jumped from the bridge
without sustaining any injury. while a
man named Booker and the woman, Ella
Somers. were too excited to jump. and
we're instantly killed and horribly man
gIed. There is slight down grade to-
ward the bridge and the train was max
ing fast speed when it overlook the vic
tins.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
Ms. Cheney to Get Divorce.

CHICAGO. May 27.-Mrs. John Vance
Cheney and her daughter. Miss Evelyn
Hope Cheney. appeared before Judge
TuIey yesterday and gave testimony in
the suit for divorce for desertiOn
brought by Mrs Cheney against her
husband, the librarian of the new Berry
Library As a result. Judge TuIey or
dered the evidence to be prepared by
his stenographer, which is equivalent to
the granting OF a decree The formal
entry will be made later in the week
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Fine music, spectacular drill at
sunset, fancy dances, and refresh
ments constitute festivities of the
entertainment

to spend the evening the gates will be
opened at } O'Clock admission through
which will be % cents.
If this afternoon proves stormy the
fete will be postponed until the same
hour tomorrow afternoon.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
Amherst Being Boycotted.

wILLIAMsTOwN, Mass, May ~
Williams has followed the example of
Wesleyan University which yesterday
threw over Amherst by suspending all
athletic relations with her. Williams
has adopted resolutions similar to those
passed at Wesleyan Both colleges state
that It was an affront for Amherst 10
continue 10 play pitcher Kane. whom
Williams and Wesleyan had proved to be
a professional
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
Bakers, Union Rsnraanized-

NEW YORK, May 27.-The strike Of
bakers at the big head baking estab-
lisnment Of c. Friedman & Son at Bed
ford Avenue and North Eleventh Street,
Williamsburg. was settled last evening,
when the firm agreed to recognize the
Bread Bakers Union.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
Peary,s Ship Up for Repairs.

NEWBURG. y. Y, May q The
Windward. which has made several
trips to the Arctic regions, is here for
repairs She will be equipped with new
boilers and engines and viii start in
July 10 await Lieutenant PeaTy at Cape
Sabine
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27

This Office is unable to furnish you
with the amount Of the total revenue of
the department by months. or, at this
time, with the amount OF revenue for the
quarter ended March 81, 1902
1t has been estimated that the total
postal revenue for the fiscal year end
ing June so, 1902. VIII reach Sl21. SIS, -
COO.
relative to the gross revenue of the de-
paTtment which can be furnished prior
10 early in July next
AS this guessing contest will have
closed before July 1, II VIII be useless
TO ask the department 10 furnish the
amount Of the gross postal revenue for
the quarters ending March 81 and June
30, 1902. as the figures for those quarters
viii not be available before the early
part Of July and October. respectively -
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-27
Steamship Arrival.

NEW YORK. May 27.-Arrived: La
Gascogne, from Havre-
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WOULD PREVENT TARIFF WAR

il. z. . ~ .
A Berlin cable re2orts the Emperor
William as expressing the belief that it
would be mutually advantageous for Ger
many and the United States to avoid
war Of tariffs, such as is imminent, IL the
agrarian party in the reichstag succeed
in putting through the tariff measure
which the .ariH committee OF that body
has been preparing for some time past.
The emperor does not favor the agrarian
proposal to exclude the United States
from he most favored nation clause
benefits in the, reciprocity treaties of the
empire, which will expire netx year. and
the continuance and amendment of which
will come up for discussion.
So far< the agrarians in Germany seem
to have a decidedly strong influence in
the reichstag tariff committee. for that
ody is increasing duty after duty, far
beyond what was proposed by the govern
ment with the idea that they would be
satisfied. The agricultural schedules, if
eracted, would operate chiefly against our
cereals, cattle and meat products. A
few days ago the committee increased the
duties on meats above the duties first
proposed by them, as bacon, which is sub
ject to an additional duty Of Sc per cent,
The duties on horses and mules have been
heavily increased and the duty on cattle
has been raised from nine marks to one
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OUR UNSTABLE EARTH

The details of the fearful earthquake
shocks in Guatemala are beginning to
come in and make contradictory chapter
to the recital of horrors which have
marked the history Of this year.
These great cataclysms are, of course,
not unprecedented for they recur at in
tervals either in the form OF earthquakes
and volcanic eruptions, or tidal waves and
tornadoes or pesAilences, depopulating
vast regions of the earth. Pindar, Homer
and Virgil each celebrated the awful con-
vulsions on the islands of Ischia in the
Mediterranean sea, which they, in their
poetic way, attributed to the fierce strug-
giles Of the revolut ionary tFAan, Typhoeus,
whom Jove buried under the mount ain
marine. and who writhed Financially to-
obtain his freedom, as did Enceladus, who
was imprisoned under Mount Aetna. When
men find themselves walking On ground
whichSis hot to the feet and feel hot air
issuing from crevices in the earth and see
water boiling hot and ssatean1ing from the
EARTH they are apty&to think that they
cannot confidently talk~about the solid
was supposed to be rockrooted in unques-
toned solidity, is blown off, and a VOL
scanic outburst comes with it's fearful dissi
charge of liquid rock terrific explosions,
concomitant earthquakes and subterran-
can thunders. and a mighty tide of sput-
tering. fiery lava resistlessly and DELHI.
erately rolls down the mountain side upon
villages, towns and cities built about it's
base, men are apt to think that the foun-.
dations OF the earth have gone to pieces.
Martinique bids fair to become bar
rem lava rock III the sea. St. Vincent may
reach a like fate or both may sink out Of
sight, like the lost Atlantis with its TEEN
ing populations, opulent cities and lordly
palaces. What has happened may happen
again. The region of the sea We call
Polynesia. With its large aggregation of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-24

small Islands, was once a continent which
has been submerged in the deep sea leav-
fng fragments sticking above the water
which we call islands. The remains Of
Atlantis are seen in such fragments as the
Azores which stick up out of enormous
depths of water like chimpeys.
The human race walks upon compare
lively thin crust which is perforated here
and there with volcanic bikes and cracks
from many of which issue great heat or
steam. Picturesque mountains, with peaks
pointing toward heaven have hell of
heat and fire raging beneath them Hesiod
calls the earth "the ever stable abode Of
men. and gods" Isie not. 1t would only
take a slight disarrangement of the life
sustaining gases to wrap the earth in
flames. 1t would be plotted out of the
universe. Stars have been observed under
extinction by flames. Fire beneath us.
Fire in the atmosphere we breathe! The
struggle Of the Titans beneath us goes on.
The real Enceladus is electric motive
force
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-24
The "JEFFERS0N RJRT,Eu

IT IS reported from Washington that
members Of congress are receiving MANY
letters from clergymen all over the conn
'ry' protesting against the resolution re-
Gently passed by the house authorizing
the printing Of 5000 copies Of the book
prepared by jefferson in his leisure: hours.
containing collection Of the savings Of
Jesus recorded in the New Testament.
cut out Of several cc2ies of the volume,
ana grouped $50 as to show the ethics
taught byaJesus, which Jefferson ofton de-
clared TO. be9the finest and most impress
sive ethical system set for in the history
of the world
- In zttisc -'eJ effersonz Billie" jefferson
wrotesla few comments. jefferson HIM
self did Tneta believe in the supernatural
Or divine: char cter CT Christ, but. regard
ed. him as sap extraordinarily wise, man,
leading all other of the oriental sages in
virtue and knowledge :. " 80 r.
The objections which have been made
against the publication by. the government
Of this document are based largely on
the fact that the divine nature of Christ
is ignored ana that Jefferson's notes are
critical of -Christian nifty and. that congres SIS
has no right; under our constitution to-
do anything against the religion of the
people or interfere in any way with the
subject of religion. Objection is made
also to the fact that DR.. Cyrus Adler, of
the Smithsonian Institution, is to write
the introduction to the text, he being. of
the Hebrew faith.
Congress certainly has no right to issue
as a public document an attack upon the
Christian religion, whether by Jefferson
OF J. any other distinguished public man ;,
Ii. "The Life and Morals of Jesus OF MAJ:
areth," which is the title of the book, EN- )
bodies such attack, the publication by the
government should be abandoned as our
government is bound by the constitutional
requirements to abstain from any alliance
with or against religion. Ours is, tho
oretically at least, a Christion nation and
the government should not lend itself to
any assaults upon the Christian religion
or any other in fact. Tit is desirable
to publish the text of the ethical SYSTEM
favored by Jefferson and commented upon
by him, there are many publishers who
are ready to do the work if they can see
any money in it, and if there is any de-
n,and for the work there Will be no lack
of publishers. 50 long as there is Sc
rious objection to the governments prop
sosition tospublish the work, and. SO long
as theresis a question Of the propriety Of
the governments participation in the ed
iting and printing of the so-called "Jef-
ferson Bible,ssi it will, be advisable to
abandon the project.
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hundred marks ton and on hogs from
fifty marks to one hundred marks; Amer
lean sausages are taxed $50 marks ton,
as compared with ITO, formerly, and the
proposition to impose duty on wheat
of about SIS a ton Una ximum) shows the
disposition OF the agrarian tariff makers.
e. While these taxes on food are hard on
the Industrial population and the Ger
nan manufacturers are opposed to them,
they are not avcrse to raising the duties
on manufactured products imported from
this country. Already reprisals are
talked of by some OF Germany's neighbors
especially as the agrarian element has
given out that it is opposed to commercial
treaties fixing maximum and minimum du-
ties. They VIII not probably have
strength enough to carry such PROPOSE
tion as this, for it would tie Germany up
SO tha. she might as we'll give UP her
large and restless ambition to dominate
the trade of the world in manufactures.
There is no provision in our tariff which
authorizes preferential duties to be i'm
posed in the way of reprisal. and II this
German tariff is enacted, our govern
ment will file objections through our am
bassador.
The German emperor knows that this
tariff will be injurious to this country
and he is favorable to reciprocity treaties.
In this country we have a tariff which i'm
poses duties on foreign imports higher
than those which are imposed by any
other country in the world, and we have
thrived under the system for the reason
that we are the leading producers OF
bread and meat and all foedstuffs in the
world, while Germany can't begin to pro-
duce food enough for her own consump-
ton, which is a most serious handicap
for a manufacturing nation. The Euro
pean threats of retaliation upon us by
putting up tariff bars or by organizing a
zcllverein to restrict imports from, this
country are something more than the ny
ing fumes of intense evaporation. Those
nations complain that under our system
they can get no fair return for conces-
sions which they are willing to grant,
and, under such condition, we cannot ex-
pect to hold or increase our trade with
Europe unless we are willing to make
concessions SO as to get the minimum
rates Of the European tariffs. When our
senate is unwilling to ratify the French
reciprocity treaty, there would seem small
hope Of change from our unylelding atti-
tude, yet commercial necessity will ulti-
mately compel us 10 give trade advant-
ooos we'll as take Them. ~ >
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The British government is just now
very unpopular with the British baker.
The British and Foreign Confectloner
and Baker finds fault with Sir Michael
Hicks Beach's logic. That gentlemen IN
defending the tax on wheat and -four said
in one place that it was desirable to tax
an article Of universal consumption so
that the people might be made to under
stand the meaning of war. In another
place he explained that the tax was so
small that it could not be passed along to
the consumers. The conflict of these two
statements is as absolute as II be had
said: This measure is deigned to tax all
the people, but is designed to tax only
the bakers, The bakers, however, are
raising the price of bread enough to make
the people pay the tax and themselves an
additional profit besides. Evidently there
have been chancellors Of the exchequer
from whom Sir Michael Hicks Beach
might learn something.
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training school. The conditions In Vtr-
ginia may have made the change wise.
It may be that there is more Of a demand
there for industrial education than for
general higher education. 1t is said that
representative negroes favor the change.
Yet the negroes must have teachers as
We'll as carpenters, blacksmiths, brick
layers, farmers and so on.
But in commenting on the change the
Atlanta Constitution approves of 1t and
goes on to say that the solution of the
negro problem is to be found in convert
ing the negro into. a satisfied useful and
self-respecting citizen, but that politics
should and must be prohibited to him.
lt'1s rlght$here that there is marked
diference between the northern and
southern point Of view. The calm and un-
prejudiced northern student Of the ques
ton has broad sympathy for the south
efn whites and appreciates the difficulties
OF their situation confronted by numer-
Gus, undisciplined, unframed and largely
non moral, inferior race. He knows full
we'll that il he were in the south he
to be given, into the hands of such peo-
pie. He realizes that social equality be-
tween the two races lisa dream for the
social relation is one of taste and choice,
and he realizes that racial dislike will
never permit the races to meet on terms
OF social equality, But he does not like
to have it said that a man, because he
Is negro, shall not enjoy certain a"tiv-
1tles which are at the, same time freely
offered to. any white man, because he is
white. AS he believes in human progress,
he holds that a man should do those things
Tor which ne; is fit. He does not believe
that 1T is wise to. attempt to hold a whole
race to inferior. or mental services.
Douotless Tor generations to come those
services will be rendered in the south by
negroes, because they are incapable of
doing better things. But the negro who
by natural gift or by training. or by
happy combination of both, is worthy of
higher offices, should not have the road to
them barred by the higher race. That is
nelotlsm' that is caste, and both those
systems breed dissension and strife when
they. are imposed and not accepted.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-24
The NonpareiI Man
Moral Reflections.

Moral Reflections.
Gangs of kids are now drilling holes in
Cedar lake. Bring out your bathhouse.
+, Let US not anger the doctor. He may run
for congress.
Mrs. Kate Thvson MARI intnates that
God thought twice before making woman. 1t
would be ungalIant to- intimate that first
thoughts arc best.
Even che calculating man spends $ worth
OF muscle in wrestling 10 cents worth of home
grown, cucumbcrs from the bugs
The furniture trust made use of very. elo-
quent gesture in pushing up prices 10 to 20
per cent. 49,
II you will notice the cows expression as
she samples the new grass, you will see that
It Is not her fault that butter keeps high.
The Rochambeau party and the president 8
friends have me- and eaten together both in
the White House and on the Gaulois. The
high price of butter came in for much critical
comment and Mrs. Roosevelt told the wife of
the captain of the Gaulois that this was no
real prosperity for the wife of man on a
salary.
The nine cannot seem to connect with the
leather, but if they. should engage the brew
ers' team it might succeed in hitting the key
without much trouble.
Bishop Thoburn SAYS that human life is
safer in Hongkong than in Chicago. People
in Chicago are all so anxious to get away
themselves that they do lot value life as
highly as they ought.
Have you a dark blue pain in the small Of
the back, do you experience hot flashes, are
the whites of your eyes turning yellow, with
dark blue rings under them do you expert
once loss of appetite, have YOU that tidy feel
ing in the morning with loss Of memory
when your wife asks you to order the grocer
ies are you startled out of your. sleep by
dreams OF teing dragged through eight yards
of lead pipe by seven bald-headed angels? II
So it is not sale to neglect this condition, or
1t will grow on you. Get out and hitch onto
few Of the weeds in the garden or on the
empty lot and lit them out before breakfast.
Take an old siding and slap the rugs few
times that are left out on the line. All this
Is C. sovereign remedy for that state of mind
which used to be known as the Charlie
boss - .-.-.. -.--..
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THE NEGRO'S PLACE

since Booker Washington has laid so
much stress in speech and practice on the
mo cfica1 education of the southern me-
groas there has been marked tendency
in tho south for boards of education so to
direct the public schools for negro chill
dren that they shall not get much book
learning beyond the rudiments OF read-
Ing. writing and arithmetic.
In New Orleans the negro schools have
EE1no grades above the fifth and there are
no high schools for negro children. me
school authorities have simply made UP
their minds that the formal mental edu-
cation of the negro should not be pursued
beyond that degree of knowledge repre-
sented by the upper boundary of the fifth
grade. 1t has here been frankly assumed
that, the negroes as a race not only are
mentally inferior but must remain so.
It is another expression Of the common
saving that a niger is all right in his
place.
This is a phrase of caste. The place"
in the case of the negro is assigned for.
ever to all those tasks Of manual labor
which, however honorable and necessary,
in themselves are not either we'll or
cheaply performed, when imposed by the
will of another. It is the expression Of
the theory that the negro, through inher-
emit inferiority, is fitted only for the sim
pier and humber forms of work In an
Aryan civilization. It is also the ex-
preston of a determination to keep at
such work and away from any others.
In Virginia the other day state body
decided to convert a normal school for
negroes into an industrial and manual
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-24
WEALTH USING THE TEST OF MA
) .-,. TERlALISM

elSOuS WHO are engaged IN lay1QSO
much stress on the materialism of the age
seem to think, often, that they have
proved their case if they but point to the
mad race for wealth and the feverish ac
tivity in the marts Of the world. Wealth,
they argue, is material and the unre-
strained pursuit Of wealth must prove a
subsection to materialism.
Doubtless many, far too many, of those
who so busily seek wealth desire 1t only
for a material purpose or purposes, for
richer eating and drinking, for costlier
clothing, for more luxury of life, for more
sensual pleasures generally, for the sake
of being able to buy whatever they want.
> But If the aim of the wealth seekers be
that of the captains of industry it is quite
different matter. In series of short
biographies of such leaders in wealth get
ting now running in one of the monthly
magazines it is clearly shown that the
purpose of all these masterful men is not
to amass q pile of coin to look at or to
spend foolishly and extravagantly for the
delight of spending. WHAT'S it then?
Power u.
In other days power came to men and
women born to the purple, to priests and
soldiers. Nowadays wealth gives power
if united TO the qualities that can win it.
At the command of the man Of wealth in
these days, continental railways are
builded, mighty ships p1ow the seas,
cean-connecting canals are built, deserts
are made fertile, millions act. In harmony,
nations are permitted to exist or are
erased and history is made.
J. Pierpont Morgan does not find his
pleasure of success in counting: his millions.
But he does find it in seeing, the control
of the ocean pass from Britain to5America
under his directing hand in rejecting that
at a word from him hundred thousand
railroad men shall move to accomplish an
appointed task, that he controls forces
which make him in many ways the most
powerful man that has ever lived. He finds
his pleasure in setting himself great tasks
to do and then in doing them. He has
day dream and the next day he realizes it.
J. ]. Hill is not materialist, for all his
millions. There Is many cheap clerk IN
his Offices who is more so. He is much
of a dreamer. Years ago he imagined q
Transportation combination of rail and
water that would create new markets: in
Asia and that would make the shortest
and best and main-traveled route from
East to West, the route. across the Pa
cifc Years ago he dreamed Of day
when the United, States should look as
much to the markets of Asia as it does
now to the markets .4ef Europe And
that day is coming. And with as much
idealism as the sculptor modelling face
of beauty and power out of lump OF
clay he has striven for years to work out
his colossal conception.
AS Hamilton w. Mabie says 1T is not
working with material things that makes
a man a. materialist. It is the purpose
The sculptor works in material clay and
bronze and marble, all Of which must
be provided for him by material wealth.
Rut is he therefore material? And is tit
any more true that he whose principal
material in working out great conceptions
in wealth is a materialist?
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The real nature of Governor Taft's mis-
sion to Rome now seems to be understood
at the vatican. The church is the owner
Of certain property which the Philippines
government wishes to buy, and Governor
Taft goes to negotiate the purchase. In
no sense has his mission political aspect,
So long as the United States remains a
cline to establish political relations with
Catholicism, Professionalism. Buddhism or
any other ism.
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tho partition of Europe, there have, been
fruiuess efforts TO effect an alliance They,
all resulted IN strik king failure and th n,
present alliance seems all the more SIN
gular, because the fact remains to-day a
forceful as in 1864 as expressed in the
policy presented to the Gear Alexander:
The genuine .earnestness of the attempts
to come to an understanding proves ire
futably by their consistent failure that the
political tendencies Of the two countries
are absolutely irreconcilable =