The National tribune., 1910-07-14
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they insist on buying because it is less
trouble to prepare it for food; but as
II is the nature of a dog to howl and
they have not anything else to do these
dogs Just howl, and it is raising Cain
among the citizens of that part OF
Mount Pleasant, who would have DR.
Wiley arrested if they could, but the
police have no jurisdiction over him OF
I his dogs, as they are upon Government
property.
Two young negros in the Naval Ser
vice have won the commendation OF
Rear-Admiral Nicholson, Acting Secre-
tary of the Navy, for heroism in saving
"a fellow white shipmate from drown
ing. The heroes are Alexander Bias
! of Annapolis, and 7. l.. Walker, OF
Philadelphia. The man they rescued
was ]. C. Lowery. They were all three
of the third class on the receiving shiT
Franklin, at Norfolk Navy Yord, where
the incident occurred. Lowery had be-
come exhausted while swimming, and
sank twice some distance from the
ship. His cries attracted the attention
of those who were in swimming near
the vessel and others on deck. Walker
and Bias were quicker to the rescue, as
they were closer, plunging into the wa
ter with all their clothes on. walker
dove into the water just as LoWery
sank for the third time, and brought
him up by the hair. Bias supported
Lowery, so as to keep his head above
water 1t is the opinion of Assistant
Surg. H. F. Jenkins that the man would
have succumbed If it had not been for
the timely assistance. The rescue was
very difficult, owing to an ebb tide
which was sweeping Lowery away from
the ship. Capt. Reynolds, of the ship,
recommended the young men for COM
mendation.
There is one puzzled Englishman in
Washington. His name is William b.
Foster, and he is from London. AT
the New willard the other evening he
was discussing the prize fight between
Johnson and Jeffries and incidentally
the race question There seems to be
something incomprehensible to me in
your way of reasoning" he said. You
Americans have such a deucedly de-
eided objection to having the negro
place Xkimself on the same social Oh
other Tiane with the white man that to
Ithe uniformed it looks almost little
wrong You won't have anything t1
do with the black man in social way,
you will not entertain him at your
home, you will not have him at your
club, except in a menial position; you
will not even have him ride in the
same car with you or allow his pres
ence in the theater and restaurant with
lyou. I understand also that your ath-
| letic teams most seriously object to
playing against or with colored teams,
and if a white baseball or football team
or tennis team would arrange a series
/ of games with colored players. the
cry out that the supremacy of the
white man has come to an end.
And yet Jeffries, the white man,
was defeated by a black man. If the
colored brother is good enough for the
prize ring, why isn't he good enough
for the baseball field? Or, vice versa, If
he isn't good enough or is inferior to
the white man on the tennis field. why
shouldn't he also be inferior to him in
the prize ring? No doubt there is some
| thing wrong somewhere. 1t seems to
me the first time white man con-
sented to fight a colored man he made
/ serious mistake. 1t should never have
/ been allowed by the public, and the
newspapers, which always claim to be
| the guardians of the interests of the
public, should have presented a united
front against a white man battling in
the same arena with a black man. Let
the colored people have their own
champion and let the whites have their
own bouts. If this argument, however.
does not appeal to the American peo-
pie, then they should, at least, be con-
sistent and permit the colored man to
take the measure of the white man on
the track, on the ball field, and in every
other branch of sport"
Mrs. Rufus Peckham, wife of JUS
tice Peckham, of the United States Su-
! preme Court, is seriously i'll in South
ampton, England. Mrs Peckham sailed
for Europe June 1 on the Adriatic, and
became i'll at sea. She was attended on
shipboard by several prominent physi-
clans, who were going over at the same
time, and on landing at Southampton
was taken to the hospital. where she
still remains with DIR. Osler in attend
ance. Her illness is considered quite
serious.
Attorney-General and Mrs. Wicker
sham have gone to their Summer home
at Cedarhurst, Long Island, where the
Attorney-General will spend the Sum.
mer with his family.
1 Death in the Diplomatic Corps.
Again official Washington was star.
tied last week by the announcement OF
the death at White Sulphur Springs
w. Va, of Owe Guide, the Envoy Ex-
traOrdinary and Minister Plenipoten.
tiary of Norway. He was one of the
most popular members of the Diplo.
matte Corps I'm Washington. Minister
GUIDE had apparently been in gooC
health, and the attack came very sud
denly after dinner at his Summer resi-
dence in White Sulphur Springs Ht
lived only short time after he was
stricken. With him at the time were
his wife and two daughters.
Mr.. Guide came to Washington as the
representative from the Norwegian
Government April %, 1908, during the
latter part OF the Roosevelt Admins.
tration. Previously to being credited
10 the United States he had been Min
lister from Norway and Sweden to Co.
pehhagen, being stationed at that post
at the time Norway severed her con-
hection with that country. Later he
was appointed Minister at Berlin. and
came from that country to Washing.
; ton.
A strange coincidence is that Minis.
, ter Guide succeeded Minister C. Hauge
who died suddenly in Norway in 1907
while there on his vacation
Minister GUIDE was pre-eminently 2
scholar, and spoke languages of eight
different nationalities fiuentIy, being
, familiar with the history as we'll as tn,
tongues which he spoke. His educa.
uon had been finished at Heidelberg
, Germany. and he had the reputation o.
/ being one of the best scholars that uni.
Versity ever graduated. Later ne stud
led in England and France. He wa,
wonderfully accomplished, having stud
led vocal music in France, taking ;
complete course in sight reading an,
voice culture, and was a graduate o
the Paris Conversatory of Music. III,
was also an accomplished painter, hav
ing inherited in large measure tn,