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The Washington bee., 1903-01-31

4. JAMS /. Hayes left fDr New
York City, Thursday.
Br Alexander Middleton is quite
sick at hls home with acute Gastrilas.
Miss Louise Garland who has been
sick Tor some Time IS out again.
Miss Lizzie E. Scott has been very
DID Tor the last week. She has sufficiently
recovered to be at her desk aga n
in the recorders office.
Judge Whipper Of Beauford, sc. is
IL the city, the guest of his daughters.
Iudge Whipper IS TO discuss a motion
before the Unired States Supreme
CouU.
Bishop Alexander Walters left the
civ Wednesday aft moon for New
Jersey
Nr. Robert J. Pollard Of Alabama is
iAtHe city He intends To make this city
bis home.
Mrs. Z. D. Rufin who has been con-
fined to her room, will leave the
city hsortly for Los ngels. Cal. whe
she will remain until next summer.
Editor J. $. {. Sharp and wife OF Denver Col
are in The city, the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Tur-
nrr Editor Sharp has lost none Of his old time
hveliasss. .He will leave for Philadelphia to
day after having dincd with Editor Chase
Ms Ellen Jordan. OF 40 Louisiana
avenue, northwest, who has been Sc
nously iil for two weeks is slowly re
covering.
The Washington bee., 1903-01-31

he Girls "Sec-ts-no" Musical Club.
The regular weekly aeeting Of tne
Girls "SeC-tO-nO" Musical Cub was
held at the residence of the direCIress
MIS-. A. V Chase I3IR Fla. ave, NV,
lasl Saturday at7 pm. Alter dIsposing
Of the business 1.-THE Club, the follow
Tag program was TeudeTed:-"ATD
uOn March, Miss Ruth WeatheIless;
Reading Psalm, Mrs. a. V. Chase; Vo-
cal Solo May BE- Miss Geneva Neat
ing Piano SOLO Dawn of Peace" MISS
Beatrice S. P4tten; Vocal Solo, Al
ALBANIA Miss Pearl Lewis; Piano Solo,
Hearts and FlOweTs", Miss Louise
Clark Paper Oh MELODY, Mrs. A. v.
Nnasr; Vocal Solo, beautiful Fairy
ales , Miss RoWena Lemos; Fiano
S2oIO, 'Ecnpse" waltz. Miss Beatnz l..
Ihase, Piano Solo, In th Beautiful
valley, MISS Georgia MaTston.
In addluon TO the regular program,
the Cub Is preparing u make its innal
appearance before The public in the
mar future. Many papers on different
subjects, all bearing on the WORK Of
Inc CLUB, haye been finished by mem
bers OF The Club. The members ofthe
Club acquit themselves well and de-
serve praise for the work they do.
The Washington bee., 1903-01-31
AFALSE REPORT.
No WhI. . p -Ople Present.

Editor The Bee.
" ashingtOn, d. L.
Dear Sir;
Recently Rev. F. Rice, a local Afro
| American minister. banti1ed a num-
ber or converts of color in the pool at
the Euclid Avenue Baptist John d.
RockefeIler's) church. | Understand
that one of the Washington, D. c.,
papers is republishlng = report Of the
affair in which it is claimed that the
whites in attendance upon the bapiis-
NAL service, laus he'd, jeered and other
wise made fools Of themselves. The
report sent 10 me was forward to Rev
DIR. Chas, A. Eaton, pastor of the church
with a request lor information relative
to the correctness Cf it, Dr. Eaton re
piled as follows Jan. 2Ist. 1908.
Hon. Harry c. Smith.
Editor "The Gazette"
Blackstone Bldg, Cleveland, 0.
Dear Sir:
The newspaper clipping you enclosed
to me is abs lutte nonsense. The Col
ored People had their baptismal service
in the ku, lid Avenue Baptist church
by courtesy of the church. There were
llO "IIlC III t4AN ESliCilSSs All
the white people present that ! saw
were three or four officers of the church.
You had better interview Evangelist
Rice who conducted the bar tiSmal serv
ice. believe he has mission on ScOVill
Avenue. If the COlored people are re-
sponsiole. for this report, they haye
gro ssly abused a courtesy. If they are
not responsible, who ever is, is a most
accomplished and artistic liar
Yours very cordially,
Charles A. Eaton.
1t is hardly necessary to add that
our people are not responsible for the
report which originated in the too fer
tie brain an associated pTesS repre-
sentative in this city or some individual
EMPLOYED on q local daily paper. and
also that Evangelist Rice bears test
mony as to the good conduct Of all
present and the good treatment he and
his converts received from them.
The enclosed letter to US from Mr..
Harry West is self-explanatory.
FTaternally yours,
Harry c. Smith
The Washington bee., 1903-01-31
outnut Of PrInfea Matt-..
(Nert 10 johnson s Grocery)

An arithmetic man calculates the
newspaper and periodical output in
the United States at 2,S55, ,4s6 900 dai-
lies, ]. POS, 100000 weeklies and 263, 1872
600 monthlies; total, 4,337,108.000 cop
les, an amount Of printed matter equal
to 1000. 900. 900 average moves.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

respect. and their ignorance is not because
they are colored men. but because they
have never had an opportunity 10 learn
anything at all. either from their books.
from their parents or from close obserVa-
ton or white men.
They are a threat TO the community In
which they exist just as any other large
body of ignorance would be. but the raw
material in the negro, believe. is as good
in the white man. Unfortunately, how
ever. not l per cent. OF the negroes In the
rural beats" of Sunflower county has an
ordinary common school education. and
while they are not naturally vicious. they
are so ignorant, so naturally suspicious or
the white man. and so easily led by the
few half-educated men OF their own race,
there is a good deal of justification for the
belief that unless their ignorance is re-
moved by a far greater application or the
public school system than the State or
Mississippi has shown any disposition 10
adopt. the time must come when by mere
force Of numbers the black man viii drive
the white man out of the Hazoo delta
sissippi rests in the education Of its ne
groes and vet at this very time a man OF
the name of Nardaman is running for Gov
ernor, and they tell me he will be elected
on a platform which involves the division
of the State school fund, thus leaving the
negro TO provide for his own educationN
which means fewer schools for the negroes
and more pistols for the whites, until IN
the fullness of time Mississippi becomes all
black and all ignorant IL is short-Slgnte
policy at best, but the school problem IN the
South is something which requires more
than casual study.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

American Medicine.
The no-breakfast fad illustrates the fatal
and foolish tendency of humanity to go from
one extreme to another. If we have over
eaten or overdrunken, let us not eat or
drink at all. If we have been hogs, let us
be angels. People without a sense of mod
Grafton and avoidance of extremism who
have gorged themselves with animal food
feel that they must be vegetarians. No
breakfast is their latest reaction. To the
do-nothings and the fussers-about-them
selves this nonsense may do no harm, but
for people who work with muscle or brain
the faddism can do nothing but injury. 1t
will perhaps end in coffeeism and drugism,
or some other pernicious evidence of lack
of balance and control. Many Europeans
make merry or wax Disguised over 1.-THE
American breakfast but they are easily
caught up by the observation that they eat
late at night. so that in the morning the
stomach. or intestines are still filled with
undigested and unassimilated food More
over, they do not fail to pour into the stom-
ach a lot Of coffee at breakfast time, and
they will also take late breakfast one
of their five or six meals a DAY. The stom-
ach should be empty on going to bed, and
if so the normal system demands break
fast of good food soon after rising Harm
may result from the no-breakfast folly il
people do not properly regulate their gen.
eral dietary and personal habits.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

would have led to mental disease. More
over, the task of boiling water during the
dog days is one that most persons would
gladly escape unless it is made an impera-
tive duty by assurance that it is necessary.
Now that we know the bacteria found in
the water are neither dangerous nor num-
erous we may continue to drink IL with
that freedom from apprehension that gives
zest to everyday acts. The experts re-
ported that in the samples Of water which
they analysed organisms were found
which conformed in every particular to the
colon bacillus" and also that numbers of
staphylocci were found" They did not
say that these made the water unsafe or
unfit TO drink, but most persons dread that
PLANTATION the colon bacillus seemed formid-
able enough to the average man woman.
and as for the staphylocci-well, nobody
wanted to tackle them without knowing
what was going TO happen. But when we
learn that every water in its natural state
contains bacilli of some kind and that the
colon bacilli are always present and exist
on the trees. in the grass, and in the air
breathe, and that their presence in
water does not argue pollution. We feel
relieved. AS very large proportion of the
American people have been swallowing
colon bacilli of the harmless variety, all
their lives. as did their ancestors before
them, and as the rate of longevity is stead
lily increasing it is safe to assume that
| their presence in the city water in the very
moderate numbers found is not going
TO hurt anybody. Doctors do not always
agree, but they are all agreed on this
point.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

a practical farmer and the people of In
diana are inclined TO look favorably on
farmer candidates for Governor. Mr.
Stevens is at present member of the
Indiana worlds fair commission from the
Third district
Mr.. Scifres was not prepared to announce
whether he will be candidate for renomi-
nation as representative.
George P. Haywood. of Lafayette. was
here yesterday
William A. Wallace, of Washington, the
new county clerk of Daviess county, was
in the city yesterday and called at the
offices of the Indiana senator's.
James P. Goodrich, of Winchester, Re-
publican State chairman. was here a few
hours yesterday on business.
XXX
Ed V. Fitzpatrick, of Portland, is GER
tainly philosopher. He was here last
night, and while he could not be drawn
into a discussion of State politics so far
as candidates are concerned, he made this
remark:
We'll. sir. 1 don't know of anything that
anords a man as much pleasure as making
race for State office. The travelling around
over Indiana and meeting people and MAX
ing friends and acquaintance are we'll
worth all the time and money il takes
to make a thorough canvass whether a
man wins or rot. I wouldn't have missed
the experience Tor three times what ii cost
me, for l. have never enjoyed myself
more in my life, and l know lot of peo-
pie and have a lot OF friends / wouldn' I
otherwise have made"
Mr.. Fitzpatrick made the race for clerk
OF the Supreme Court last year and is re-
garded as a probable candidate in the next
campaign for that office. but he says he
is not planning that far ahead now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

Industrial Befterment I'm a Chicago
Factory.


John r. Commons. in Review of Reviews.
But Miss Beeks did not limit herself to
the bare necessities. She made the Mccor-
mick establishment, indeed. model fac
tory. She naturally began with the wom-
en- and girls in the Irvine mill numbering
800, and from them gradually extended her
work 10 the 5000 men i'm the other DEPART
ments. One OF the early things she did for
these girls was TO mt up their dressing room
with good supply OF mirrors. Owing TO
the heavy dust about the machines the
girls are compelled To change their clothing
before going 10 work and TO wear a close
Miss Beeks's feminine sense hit upon mir
rors as an essential, and this was certainly
. mark OF insight. for IL Is said to have en-
deared her TO all of the girls She then
induced the company TO experiment with
a system OF ventilation 10 remove the dust
which is very injurious. and which was uiti-
mately removed entirely. She established
a luncheon room and placed IL in charge uf
a committee of the employees cooperating
with the company. Here good meal can
be had for IL cents. Rest rooms were pro-
vided. Toilet rooms hot water, towels a nd
soap. lockers for clothing. a dancing plat
form, pianos, are among the cOnyenienccs
and attractions. IL Is worth observing that
the girls make use OF the dancing platform
and piano every day at noontirnc Miss
Beeks organized the Sisal Club. named
after the fiber from which the bindine.
Irvine rs made, and made this club a GEN.
ter OF amusement An opera company was
organized. trained by an emplove. and tha
four performances. given solely by the fac
tory talent, were praised by 5000 employes
as superior To anything on the stage. A
where 1900 employees and friends gathered
for outdoor athletics. One OF the most try-
ing evils was that of the money sharks.
and this she met by recommending a bank
ing system Tor lending 10 worthy employes
at nominal rates OF interest
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02
NAMES FIRST ARTILLERY.


Portland (Me.) Argus.
Maj. Charles ]. House. clerk in the Office
of the labor commissioner, and Capt.
Horace II. Shaw, of Portland, have about
completed the history of the First Maine
Heavy Artillery. which was mustered into
service in Bangor. Aug. 81, 1862.
The history of the First Maine Heavy
Artillery is of special interest from the
fact that IL lost more men than any other
of the four thousand regiments In the civil
heaviest loser, the Eighth New York
Heavy Artillery. with record OF 36l
The loss Of this Maine regimentsat Peters
burg was the heaviest OF any regiment in
single action, the number killed and
subsequent deaths from wounds being 242.
against 207 I'm the Eighth New York at Cold
Harbor. The Maine loss of 155 at Spott-
syivania was the third heaviest of any regi-
ment in a single action. There were $500
men originally enlisted in this Maine regi-
ment 2l9 hailing from Bangor
The loss to the regiment during the thirty
six days from May 10 TO June IS, 1864, in
elusive. was 404 killed, 7S9 wounded and Is
taken prisoners, making a total loss in this
During the three days battle Of Peters
burg the Second Army Corps. composed or
lost 50 commissioned officers, II of whom, or
almost "a per cent, were officers or the
First Maine Heavy Artillery In the two
battles of Sp6ttsylvania and Petersburg
tHclt Nttc a eoeoi VI nv 'HN..icNaS "a e''@
regiment wounded. At the four engage
ments of Cold Harbor. Boydton Road, siege
of Petersburg and Deatonville there was
a total of l13 wounded. The greatest num-
Der taken prisoners at any one time was at
Jerusalem Plant Road, June p, 1864, when
% went off with the enemy. There are 5SI
survivors scattered various sections
of Maine and Massachusetts, few having
drifted TO the West and South. The only
field officers now living above the rank OF
captain are Maj c. V. Crossman, of Ban
gor, and Brevet Brig. Gen. Charles Hamlin,
renorfer of decisions.
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REVERSED TWO-CENT STAMP.

Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
The new two-cent postage stamps TO re-
place the Mr. Dooley' issue will be put out
without formal heralding. No official an
nonucement will be made of their advent,
but when they are ready they will be quiet
ly sent TO such postmasters as may have
made acquisitions for moro stamps. and the
postmasters will pass them out 10 the pub
lie over their counters as their existing
stocks exhaust themselves. There may
be an interval, therefore, of some months
before the smaller offices open traffic in
them. while they will be in daily use at the
larger ones.
When the question first arose as 10 what
legends should go upon the current issue
of stamps, heed was paid to the demands
of sundry educational institutions that
they should include the name OF the states
man or hero represented in the portrait,
with the years of his birth and death. This.
of course. involves a sacrifice OF the arts
tic to the utiltarian, but the artistic
eminent department. 1t seems strange
that In a country where so much Is made
both of the popular choice OF the governing
the people in history and politics, is should
be necessary to label all the effigies or
great men in newspaper cartoons and on
postage stamps, Ike unfamiliar objects IN
q museum: yet is is fact that Americans
are either the most ignorant the least
observing of people regarding their public
Hltll. AZ tic tliiiC tic duNAviititc VI ZIG
Postoffice Department were discussing
what head of Washington should appear,
II was decided that the Stuart portrait
would be preferable to the Houdon profile
because more people would know for whom
IL was intended. loud laugh went up
at the expense of the man who made this
claim, but he stood his ground and offered
a wager that the first ten persons who
might be Unfortunately approached with
the question, would not be able to tell who
was portrayed in the Houdon PRONE. The
hall
stationing themselves in the nearest CORR
dor, the party proceeded TO stop and ques-
ton the passers-by. OF the ten nterrogated
only two could answer correctly. Later.
number of the party, being still unsatisfied.
tossed across his desk 10 a chance visitor
in his Office a stamp of the series of 1890.
and asked: Whose head is that?" The Wis
itor was business man Of average intelli-
gence. He scanned the profile closely. and
then handed it back with a sheepish air. Il
ought to know" he confessed, but don't"
II was largely on the strength of these
experiments that the Stuart full-face
was adopted. with the result which is now
history.
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vINDICATION OF NOAH.


Kansas City Star.
1t has been wondered many times why.
since Noah was just man, that he did not
warn his neighbors and acquaintance of
the flood which was to ravage the earth.
In the centuries which have followed,
Noah's reputation for kindness and HUI
manity has been subjected to many re-
proaches for his apparent selfishness in
keeping the Lords counsel to himself.
But it must not be forgotten that Noah
was wise. The Book of Genesis relates
that he was 600 years old when he went
into the ark, and in that period he had &C
quired the knowledge of ripe experience
Human nature was the same in the early
cycles of time as it is In this twentieth
Christian century. Six hundred years of
personal contact with it had taught the
father of Shem and Ham and Japheth that
no man ever did and no man ever will pay
any heed to warning that a food is COM
ing. With a sapiency commensurate with
his years Noah saved his breath, not know
ing how long his head might be under
water.
1t is time enough, in all conscience, that
this slight measure of justice should be ac-
corded the builder of the ark. If there
were no better moral to be drawn from the
recent floods In the Kaw and Missouri riv-
ers than cumulative vindication of Noah,
out their beneficent consequence. week
ago last Friday word came down from the
Kaw river that North Topeka was under
water. and a perfect deluge was pouring
down on Kansas City. Two days later it
caught everybody in this devoted city as
totally unprepared as If 1.-THE fountains Of
the deep were all broken up and the win
dows of heaven were opened" Then warn
ings were sent on down the river. The i'm
mensity of the volume of water, which in
the courst of nature would have to flow on
down past other cities, was described.
Noah would have known better Keeping
in mind especially that it was ST Louis
which had to be awakened, he would have
saved himself trouble and held his peace.
st. Louis, of course, paid no attention to
the flood warnings. If the people of that
city thought of the matter at all, they must
have supposed that the Missouri river
would like Kansas City so we'll that it
would stay here and refuse to run down
hill. In other words, they did not take into
account the gravity of the situation. They
seem to have profited not at all by the ex-
periences of people further up the river,
and are now suffering a loss which might
have been avoided in great part.
Noah was right, and Edmund Burke &C
knowledged it when he said, Experience
is the school of mankind and they will learn
in no other"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02

The summary of operations of the United
States treasury for the year ending June
80. published yesterday, shows a very tidy
and healthy state Of finances. With an
available surplus of something over $231. 0oO,-
600 the government will be able to start
work on the Panama canal, redeem a few
million dollars of debt, and still have plenty
may arise. Decreased internal revenue tax
alton shows up in decrease Of excess rev.
enues. but the prosperity of the country has
been such that the excess revenues still
exceeded calculations by nearly s1OO0O.Oo0.
To prevent the withdrawal of the total
channels of trade bank deposits secured by
government bonds have been increased to
over s151 COO, Ooo. widely distributed through
out the country in 10 banks.
The science of government finance differs
not little from the rules for prosperity Of
the individual or business corporation. but
in some points they agree. and the chief
point of agreement Is in the necessity for
comfortable cash balance backed by a
sound credit. No government in the world
has has had quite comfortable a cash
balance as that of the United States at
present. and no government has ever en-
Joyed quite so high credit. French per
cents. were quoted yesterday at 96.S5, and
British consols, bearing pa per cent, ar
90 Lilo. while United States per cents.
stood at 1854 to 1864. The proof of sound
financial theories is the result obtained, and.
judged by this test. the theories applied
since the inauguration of William McKin-
ley in 1897. have been emnently sound
The bottom principle of good government
finance must be the encouragement of the
industry and thrift of the people by means
of peace, preservation of order and wise
legislation. Continuous war. internal disor-
ders that threaten property rights. unwise
experiments in industrial legislation and
unsound currency schemes result in a pow
erty-stricken people. and. since government
can subsist only the taxes contributed
in one way or another by its people, Its
treasury must always very quickly show the
results of bad or weak government or fool
ish legislation. We have to-day the phe-
nomenon of people contributing the larg-
est revenue any government has known.
and at the same time enjoying the greatest
prosperity ever enjoyed by any people. From
a financial point of view it comes pretty
near being an ideal state of affairs
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-02
The art association acted wisely in choos

The art association acted wisely in choos-
ing Indianapolis architect to construct
the Heron Art Institute. Among local
architects are men of high equipment in
their profession and fully competent for
any work they may be called on to do.
Many Of the handsomest and best con-
structed buildings In the city-public build
ings, business blocks and private resi-
dences-were designed and erected by In
dianapolis men, but of late there has been a
tendency to 60 outside for such work-with
a result in several notable cases. much to
be deplored. II stands to reason that an
architect will put his best work on build
ing in his own town, where it Is constantly
under his supervision; on the other hand.
an outsider must necessarily delegate much
of his work to persons of perhaps in
ferior qualifications. The new art institute
starts out well.