The Washington bee., 1910-12-10

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ing. This IS one more journalistic
sprout whose demise The Bee has
been called upon to announce almost
as soon as Its head broke through the
sod. 1t looks easy, but running a col
ored newspaper IS no pink-tea affair.
1t won't be long, | opine, until The
Bee announces the funeral arrange
ments for another of those born of
limited means and conceived by per
scnal ambition colored newspapers. In
the meantime, The Bee flourishes, and
IN spite of the fact that It does not
nave to announce each week that If Is
clean and free from leprosy. But
these funeral obsequies are becom-
ing monotonous. The quickness with
which colOred newspapers in Wash
Ington shuttle off the mortal coil
causes ME to rise and remark: If
so soon done for, why begun for?"
And speaking about funerals. brings
me plumb up against Rev. w. 7. How
ard, who, outside of furnishing bail
bond, would rather attend 4 funeral
than eat spaghetti Madame De
SeVlgne, who hobnobbed around Paris
some time between 1920 and 1000. in
describing an imposing funeral, wrote
i was yesterday at a service per
formed in honor of Chancellor Sepuier
at the Oratory. Painting, sculpture.
music, rhetOric-in a word, the four
LIBERAL arts-were at the expense of it.
Nothing could exceed the beauty OF
IT'S decorations; they were fully imag-
med and designed by lie Brun." I
nave sometimes thought that Rev
howard was present at that funeral
IN another body, and that that ac-
counts for his regular attendance az
funerals that mark the ushering into
cahOtic eternity of every embalmed bit
OF humanity. Rev. Billy" as some
attectlonately call him, is one of the
historical and interesting sights that
conductors of sightseeing automo-
bIles call out, megaphonically, to Wis
tors who ride IN them. He has been
preaching at one church, and attend
ing funerals by way of diversion, ever
since Hector was a pup. He always
has something nice to say over the
remains of the flius populi whose
funeral he attends. And if the partic-
ular corpse over which he crates hap
pened to have been bailed out of oris-
on by him at some time, and promptly
paid the rate of interest, this hustiinq
pastor sends him to some paradise in
monOplane without further ado. I
was talking to Rev. Billy one Sunday
morning, at his church (and when il
happened that the collection was
mighty smalD, and in discussing the
race question ha
lot course, that's not my real name),
II we don't raise up these alley mig
gers they'll pull us all down" Some
how or another that bit of philosophy
has stuck IN my ears like a bunch of
medlcated cotton. And | want to tell
you, Rev. Howard has done a heap
IN his life to raise up alley denizens
Hes busy all the time among them
Why | have known him to almost fail
to get TO court in time to go on the
bond OF some fllet of beef in his ef-
lortS to raise up some ugly sinner
from down on the Swanee River. Rev.
Howard has four methods of raising
up tIlletS of Ham. One is to preach
to them every Sunday with all the
.Orce of Paul of Tarsus about Heaven
md that place beneath us they cul-
uredly call hades. Another method
S to bail them out of vermin-infected
station houses for any old crime, from
petty larceny to handbOok-making, for
so much on the side Another is to
send them to his sOn-in-law George
tor legal advice at so much per, and
another is to send them 10 his son.
DIR. VIII, for pills, lotions and nos
trumS at the market price plus But
he's doing a great work, and I wish
had a few more clean,
hustllng, publIC-spirited pastors, high
yellers or coal-blacks, like Rev w. ].
Howard. Well miss him when he
crosses over the river Styx to meet
some of those whose funerals he at
tended, and some of them who skip
ped without paying back the bond
he signed. More power to him, and
more real bail money for him.
Next week I will have few solid
nonpareil lines to say about Dr. Sum
Walter Pinchback, Rev. ].
Milton Waldron, and perhaps one or
two other luminous orbs that cast a
shadow in the empyrian blue Walter
invited me 70 take drink with Rim re-
Gently, and I feel grateful to him.
am not drinker myself, but do take
peculiar delight in having some one
pay for a glass of cool lager for me.
just so | can stand, abstFactly, and
blow the foam of the top. never
drink foam.