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The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
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To the Coored Men of Voting Age in Alabama.
Can the South Solve the Negro Problem?
Carl Schurz
Why Dsanchisement is Bad.
Archibald H. Grimke.
Voting Instructions Maryland Voters
What Colored Man should do Vote
Garrison Centenary Leahet
Slavery and the Race Problem in the South
Hon. William H. Fleming
The Atlanta Riot
Ray Stannard Baker.
The Negro in America
Andrew Carnegie
Articles in Press
Address before North Carolina Society New York
William H. Taft
the Colored Law and Order League of Baltimore Md
James H Waring
Study of the Negros Progress in Jackson, Miss.
D. w. WoOdard.
In Preparation
Negro Self Help in Education.
R R Wright, Jr.
Negro Sef-Hep in Home Getting.
Kelly Miller
The Convict Lease System.
George w. Forbes.
Negro Self-Help in Hospital Work
George c. Hall, M D.
Paragraphs.
East Bessemer Alabama Negro Banks in Mississippi.
Some Successful Negro Business Men.
Cooperation between White and Negro Men in Hell
ena Arkansas,
In the circulation of the above articles has
reached 100000
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
TOHN BROWN.

John Browns grave is at North
Elba, New York, and he was hanged
December end, 1889.
By the Lake of the placid waters,
Near a town that bears its name,
Lies the body of a martyred brother
Whose deeds have won him fame
He led the smallest army,
That history e'er records.
1t was the grandest army,
The army was the Lords.
He did not fight for conquest,
Nor did he fight for gore.
He fought for human liberty
That Slav'ry should be no more.
And while he died martyr,
They hung him from a tree.
The chains of Slav'ry, they were
broken
And the Negro-was set free.
Whilst he with his small army,
With twenty-one men all told;
They could not crush the serpent's
head
They were worth their weight in
gold.
He is sleeping with his comrades,
In his native mother earth.
By the lake of the placid waters,
In the State that gave him birh.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

LINCOLN CELEBRATION
The colored people of Wash
ington will observe the centen-
ary of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin in a meeting to be held il
the Metropolitan African Method
ist Church, NJ street, between
18th and 10th street, northwest
the evening of February II, al
g o'clock. The meeting will be
under the auspices of a commit
tee of the COlOred fraternal and
beneficial societies of the Dis
trict, representing Crispus At
tucks Relief Association, Ban
neker Relief Association, United
Aid No. I, Young Mems Imme-
diate Relief, District Grand
Lodge No. 20, G. u. O. O. F.
Douglass Relief Association,
Young Mems Protective League
Walters and Ex-Waiters Mutual
Relief Association, and Elder
Mems Relief Association.
Addresses will be delivered by
Honorable ]. Warren Keifer
member of Congress from Ohio
John c. Dancy, Recorder OF
Deeds, and Rev. Walter H
Brooks, DID, pastor Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church. Mrs. !
VI. Layton will read the Eman-
cipation Proclamation, Mrs, @.
w. Cook, Lincoln's favorite
poem and DR.. w. L. Board, the
Gettysburg address. Music for
the occasion will be under the
direction of Professor J. T. Lay
ton. Rev. ]. H. Welsh will make
the invocation, and Rev. F. ].
Grimke will pronounce the bene-
diction.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
OUR POPULAR SALOON KEEP
Err OF SOUTHEAST WASH
INGTON

We, the members of the National
Colored Personal Liberty League,
representing over 5000 members in
the District of Columbia, take great
pleasure in presenting to the readers
of the Washington Bee, N. B. Wig
genton, 532 9Th Street, southeast.
Mr.. Wiggenton is one of the most
popular saloon keepers in southeast
Washington and he has just recently
moved into his new quarters, which
is one of the finest equipped saloons
in that section of the city. Mr. Wig
genton is, and always has been, a
good friend to the colored race and
has always treated his patrons with
the highest respect, regardless Of
creed or color. He has no 'Jim
Crow" bar at his place of business
and every one who patronlzeS the
place is treated right. He has a po-
lite corps of bar tenders who are al
ways at their place and ready to wait
on their customers, and we do most
cheerfully recommend Mr. Wiggin-
ton to our friends, especially those
who are going to attend the inaugu-
ration to call at Mr.. Wigginton's
during their stay in Washington
and we assure you that you will re-
ceiye the best OF treatment.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

SAN ANTONIO THE MECCA.
DR.. G. J. Starnes, a member of the
recent international Congress on Tu-
berculosis, Washington, D. C., and a
specialist en- all lung and chest dis
eases, in addition to the use of Com
pound Oxygen, Compressed Air, and
the Nebulizer, is using the best rem
edies introduced at that Congress, by
the leading medical men of the pro-
fesSion.
He is located in San Antonio,
Texas, the - designated by the
Worlds Medical Congress in 1896, as
one of the best for people suffering
with any form of lung trouble.
Address 324 w. Commerce Street.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

Mrs. T. Dulaney Ross, of
Hanover street, is convalescent.
Miss Mildred Gibbs is acting
in the position of Supervising
Principal, with grace and Dig
nifty. She is conducting the work
of the division without friction.
The funeral of the late Mr..
Amos was largely attended and
the floral tributes were numerous
and beautiful.
Miss Martha Liggons has
many sympathetic friends who
are delighted with the decision
of Attorney Mcnamara and who
extend their thanks to the Board
of Education through the col
umns of The Bee.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
THE FROGS"

"The Frogs" of the District oil
Columbia, a fraternity composed
of twelve of the Freshmen
"Medics' ) Of Howard University
wish to announce and cordially
invite you and your friends tc
take a second dip in the Big
Creek, True Reformers' Hall
Friday afternoon, February II,
1909 High tide from ? until 6
Lewis Brown and Company
will enliven the occasion with
their melodious croaking.
Bull Frogs.-R. Grayson Nc
Guire, President; A. L. Curtis
vice president; A. Rudolph
Adams, floor manager; P. NJ
Bell, secretary; c. w. Dorsey
assistant secretary; S. LeCount
Cook, treasurer.
Toad Frogs S. G.. Bullock
H. G. Mitchell, H. S. Gloster
Maurice Clifford, c. c. Gibson
R. L. Stokes.
This club needs no introduc-
ton. 1t speaks for itself.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
A VALUABLE GUN.

If you desire to see a curiosity and
valuable piece of mechanism, go 10
Mr.. H. c. Murray, 1921 9TH Street,
northwest, where you will see a gun
that has the following history:
This weapon was presented by
Prince Eugene, of Scotland to King
Menelik in 1879, and was used by
him in the famous SepOy Uprising,
in which nearly three hundred thou
sand English troops were killed
This gun became useless, the hammer
being broken, and as there was no
possible awy of repairing it in the
wilds of Africa, it was placed among
the archives of King Menelik.
In 1886, when Major Popoff, of the
Swedish army visited the king, he
saw this weapon and expressed {
desire to own it. So King Menelib
presented it to him. On his arrival
home, Major Popoff died. The CUR
eventually fell into the hands of per
sons not knowing its value, who dis
posed of it for trife to subject o.
Sweden. who presented it to the pres
ent owner.
The appraised value of this wea
pom, owing to its past association
and its antiquity is about three hun
dred dollars.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
PETITION DISMISSED

The petition of Mr.. Keys, filed by
his attorney Mr.. Joseph H. Stewart,
asking that the recent decree signed
by Judge Barnard dismissing his pc
tition for divorce be vacated, was
dismissed in the Equity Court last
week by Justice Wright Messrs.
w. Calvin Chase and NJ. T. Clink.
scales represented Mr.. Keyes.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

Excellent furnished room with hot
and cold baths. Centrally located, and
and cold baths. Centrally locate, and
within one hundred yards of two
lines of cars. Address Box c, Bee
Office.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
THANKS

The people of Washington,
through The Bee. extend their
thanks to Captain Oyster and
District Attorney Mcnamara for
the wise and just termination
they made of the case of Miss
Martha Liggons, who has been
victim of base treachery.
Dick-'What are you going
to do with yourself on Lincoln's
Birthday"
Carrie-"Why I am going to
spend the afternoon with the
Frogs"
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
OUR DRUG STORES.

Board and Mcclure are up-to-date
druggists, and if you doubt, inspect
their place.
DR.. George w. Murray is the pio-
neer druggist of South Washington
Everybody knows DR.. Murray. He
is genial and the man to patronize
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
OH ANOE = DO 4
PRINCESS
DRESSER
For S16.75

HOUSE AND HERMANN
No piece of furniture is more
useful in a lady's Dressing room
than a Princess Dresser. The
long mirror gives a full length
view of costume This Dress
er in American quartered Oak,
full swell front, and with French
bevel plate mirror, is a January
special bargain at the price
above.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
TUSTH'S OLD STAND.

JUSTH'S OLD STAND.
Workingmen, no doubt you read all
about the big sales going on; but let
them go. Get wise, and save a S.
note; come direct to our store and
buy slightly used tailor-made suits at
$3.50, and comfortable overcoats at
$500, that will look we'll One price
only.
JUSTH'S OLD STAND,
6Io D street northwest.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

Room. Centrally located, near two
lines of cars. Quarter of square
from each. Hot and cold baths.
Write box c, Bee Office.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
THE CRITERION CAFE

Mr., William Fl. Gwathney. formerly
proprietor of the Eureka Cafe at 729
4th St. begs 10 announce that he has
now opened the spacious and improved
Criterion Cafe at First and G SITS. N.
W.. Convenient to all car lines, within
FIVE minutes walk to Uuion Station and
one square fom Govt Printing Office
Meals quickly carefully served at all
hours, very reasonable. Hot home
bread daily at breakfast. Fried chick.
en- a specially.
Furnished rooms & board. Steam
heat, no rear rooms.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
FOR RENT

Rooms. Nicely furnished room
with hot and cold water baths. Gen
tlemen preferred. 1907 18th street,
northwest.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

ROOMS

Nicely furnished and unfurnished
rooms. Hot and cold baths. 2oI8
Vermont avenue, northwest,
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
LEGAL NOTICE.
L. MELENDEZ KING, ATTOR-
NEY
SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA

SUPREME COURT OF THE DIS
TRICT OF COLUMBIA
Holding Probate Court.
No. 1871 Administration
This is to give notice
That the subscriber, of the Dis
trict of Columbia has obtained from
the Probate Court Of the District OF
Columbia, Letters testamentary on
the estate of Lewis H. Douglass, late
of the District of Columbia, deceased
All persons having claims against
the deceased are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, legally authenticated, to the
subscriber, on or before the 10Th day
of January, A. D., 1910, otherwise
they may by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate.
Given under my hand this 10Th day
of January, 1909,
HELEN A. Douglass.
zooz II street, northwest
Attest: William c. Taylor, Deputy
Register of Wills for the District
of Columbia. Clerk of the Probate
Court
L. Melendez King, Attorney
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06
FOR RENT

Furnished room, with steam heat
and gas. 1902 Goth Street northwest.
The Washington bee., 1909-02-06

DIR. MORSE,s DRUG STORE THBPALACEOF WEST END
WHY WAIT?
Never purchase inferior drugs Always patronze first class
and upodae pharmacy have your prescriptions compound
ed Use the best and pmest soaps Purchase fresh toilet a
ces They be obtained the drug of Dr. Morse
Everything in the drug nemay be found in DR. Morses
drug
Dr. J. W. Morse. 1904 L Street. Northwest
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26

drifting through space. When that star
comes into view ii enters the ive-sec-
ond spaces required for it TO pass the
meridian. AS 1t passes along across the
lenses the time OF each contact within
the hair on the second spaces is taken.
particularly the hair in the center which
is the meridian. The time registered
by the clocks Of the observatory is
likewise recorded. Then the observer
turns to the nautical almanac and as.
certains the exact time the stars should
cross the meridian. Whatever the
clocks lack of registering that time is
error and they are adjusted accord.
ingly.
Such is the method of getting the
exact time at the naval observatory or
any other. Frequent observations are
the influences that go to keep the
standard clock so accurately correct
TO conform to eastern time is compli
Gated. special observations are taken at
the Mare Island observatory and time
signals in every way identical with
those of Washington are sent out to
tho stations on the Pacific coast
Distributing Correct Time.
With this correct time in hand the
task of its distribution is that of much
detail. Particularly is the detail al.
most endless for. the transmission Of
the new year message. The Western
Union Telegraph company sends this
message over 100000 miles of wire, 4
single line runs to the Washington Of
flee from the observatory With this
are connected the wires that run TO
the great distributing centers, such as
New York, Boston, Chicago. From
those cities ii is fed out to the smaller
places on other circuits and from them
to yet other circuits. The network
reaches every point in the nation.
The other telegraph companies are
served likewise, They make connections
with their cables for Europe, for South
America, for Alaska, for the Orient,
That great stretch of cable that reaches
out over the Pacific is thrown into the
circuit, The message is received at
Honolulu, at Guam, at the Philippines,
in Japan. in China. That arm of tho
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-26

the interior and United States senator.
He is still in harness, a member of the
monetary commission. With the eX'
ception of his cabinet service under
President Arthur, he represented Colo
RADIO continuously in the senate from
the time that state was admitted until
he refused a reelection.
Justin Mccarthy, Irish statesman,
successor of Parnell, also historian
novelist aud father Of the dramatist of
the same name. 1t will soon he sixty
two years since he entered journalism
in Cork.
Henry NJ. Flagler, major general of
industry and chief of staff to Himself
Jawn ID.
Benjamin F. Tracy, civil war general,
medal of honor man and secretary of
the navy in the cabinet of Benjamin
Harrison,
Henry Vigaud, diplomatist, our secre-
tary at Paris for more than n third of a
century, and who would have been am.
bassador there had gray matter counted
as much as gold.
John Quincy Adams Ward, the Amer
lean sculptor, still welding the mallet
and chisel in his New York studio.
S. Weir Mitchell, neurologist and
novelist-author OF "Hugh Wynpe,
Free Quaker.
They will be welcomed into the octo.
genarian fold by n distinguished as
semblage, whom we will group under
their successive ages at their 1910
birthdays thus
Age eighty-one-Senator Cullom of II.
linois, Senator Stephenson of Wiscon
sin, General William Booth, commander
in. chief Of the Salvation army; james
B. Angel, president Of the University
Of Michigan and eX-minister TO China
Tomaso Salvinl, the great tragedian
who commenced acting sixty-sever
years ago,
Age eighty.two-Connt Tolstoi, Tim
othy Dwight, ex-president of Yale;
George F, Edmunds, former United
States senator.
Age eighty-three-Lord Lister, discov.
erer of the antiseptic system of treat
ment in surgery and former surgeon ex
traordinary to Queen Victoria. Pere
Hyancinthe (Charles Loyson), the cele
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By WILLIAM
ATHERTON DU PUY

probation of standard time they lend
themselves TO this object lesson. Some
philosopher had said that an apprecis-
ton of the value of eXact time is a.
gauge by which any civilization may
be measured and this attempt may tend
TO keep the American people at the
head when so scaled.
The process by which the daily time
signal goes ont from Washington are
similar to that of sending out the mid.
night message. The clock is the same,
same instruments are adjusted TO the
stars The old sidereal clock still per
forms its service II still gets its time
from the stars as well as its name.
Near it stands the sister clock, getting
the same time. subject 20 the same
regulations. The second guardian OF
the time is maintained in case the first
should ever fail at a critical moment.
For twenty years it has waited without
understudled too faithful performer
to be given this opportunity on the big
circuit
Lieutenant Commander Edward
Everett HAYDEN, L. s. N, is head OF
the department of chronometers and
time service at the observatory. The
standardization Of time is his great
enthusiasm and it has been largely
through his influence that the new year
message has spread so far. Many
foreign nations have been induced to
lend their influence IN developing
universal standard time and the move
ment is roing rapidly forward. the
time Of Washington, eight hours fasL
from Greenwich. is being spread
around the world and many nations are
adopting ii as their standard, IL is
stealing into all the business OF tne
Orient. Chinn uses 1t chiefly, as a!oo
does Japan MANY European countries
reSenting British domination take thelr
time from Washington instead of Greens
which The nation is gaining much pres
tige through ii md is looking nseh
with no little pride 10 that date, NO
verher is. 1888. when the frst tllng9
bulletin was sent out from the naVai
observatory. IL
DeSelopment is. of course. expectea
in the future. 1t is not antlclpa.sus,
however. that the time Will ever cou,o aho
when the whistle OF the engine al .no
wood ward and the bell on the nIs.
house in each village in the nation may
he connected to the observatory ,aaS snSS
that these NAV be automatically adc.s
10 the din that inaugurates the pem
wear. An electric spark mlgnt IIosSS S
easily ignite the fireworks ana snovs
the cannon of a nation and II tue o"s
stituents Of the individual eongievjht
man but persist sufficiently this migas
be arranged AT any cost enthusiasm ,.snt
must be given an opportunity to VEN
itself ard that the venting may not
i'll timed the national qovernmenS "M
at least transmit its official Tune "a
tanned direct from the stars: TO tne h,S h;o
night watchers. II read arght tho;cai tho
fuss will be made at the psyeho'os''"
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the house He became the main support
Of his mother at fifteen, studied engl-
neering at night, became a Confederate
officer, sheriff, surveyor and legislator,
And poor Carlotta, eXempress of
Mexico and princess of Belgium, VIII,
if she lives until June Z, receive the
septuagenarian S crown In the madhouse
MaXimilian s tragic fate, she has Ian
guished all these years, near to Brus-
Sells and to the gay Belgian court.
Then we have quite 4 procession of
notables who are waiting 10 pass the
three quarter-ccntury mark In 1910,
They are:
Pope Plus X. born just quarter
century later than his predecessor.
Hetty Green, queen of finance, and
Mark Twain, alias Clemens, born in the
same fortnight with Mrs. Green, for one
week could not have stood the strain of
yielding both of these geniuses.
Alexander Agassiz, great naturalist
and former president OF the National
academy
Rev. Lyman Abbott, employer of T.
Roosevelt, esq, and the only man who
after Agassiz first saw the light, Thus
did they barely escape becoming twin
stars, like Darwin and Lincoln.
Charles Francis Adams, historian and
descendant of two presidents.
Alfred Austin, Lord Tennyson 8 sue.
cessor TO the title of poet laureate of
Great Britain, which office William
Watson, the chivalrous bard, defined TO
his "Women With the Serpent S
Tongue" as ga grotesque anachron-
ISM
John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary of the
treasury, and-what is saying much
more-ex-speaker. He has just escaped
the doctors; may he survive them a
quarter century longer.
Richard Olney, statesman, premier
under the last Cleveland regime: the
man who twisted the lion S tail in '95,
and who introduced the Sunday night
dress suit
Adlai Stevenson, ex.vice president of
the United States, and the only man
who ever really delighted in that office,
for which he ran the second time.
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William E. Chandler ex-secretary of
the navy and ex-member of the United
States senate, where he was known as
"the wasp. -
James Wilson, who last month broke
all previous records for service in the
American cabinet.
And now we come to l9l0's list of
candidates for the Temple Of the Grand
Old Men-those who will become octo-
genarians within the year now so near
at hand. They are:
Francis Joseph |, emperor of Austria,
the "Grand Old Man of Europe and
the oldest ruler in the world today.
Within the coming year will fall the
sixty second anniversary of his reign.
If he lives three years more he will
break Queen Victoria s record for the
longest reign of modern times.
Porfrio Diaz. president of Mexico,
and who has been ruler thereof for
third of n century. He is month
younger than Francis Joseph, and on
his twenty-seventh birthday William