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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05

thority.
bodily into the arms Of a gang Of ruff
fans to be manhandled, and finally
locked up in dark cell don't sup
pose you've got the nerve to call that
courteous treatment"
He had an advantage, and knowing
1t, was pushinglit to the limit: for all
his nonchalance the black man was
not unconscious Of the pistol; his eye
never forgot 1t. And Amber's eyes
left his not an instant Despite that
the fellows next move was distinct
surprise.
Suddenly and with superb grace, he
stepped forward and dropped to one
knee at Amber's feet. bowling his
head and offering the hilt Of his sword
to the American.
my lord" he said swiftly In Hin
dustani, III have misjudged thee.
If l have earned thy displeasure, upon
my head be 1t. See, give my life into
thy hands; but a little culver Of thy
foreflnger and am as dust.
An Ill report OF thee was brought to
me, and / did err in crediting 1t. It
is true that set this trap for thee;
but see, my lord! though did SO, 1t
was with no evil intent thought
but to make sure Of thee and bid thee
welcome. as a faithful steward should,
to thy motherland. Maha Rao
Rama, Har Dyal Rutton Bahadur,
heaven-born, king OF kings, chosen
of the Voice, cherished of the Eye,
beloved Of the Heart, bone Of the bone
and flesh Of the flesh Of the Body,
guardian OF the Gateway Of Swordsl
/, thy servant, Salig Singh,
bid thee welcome to Bharuta!"
Sonorous and not unpleasing, his
voice trembled with intense and UNI
questionable earnestness; and when
1t ceased he remained motionless In
his attitude Of humility. Amber,
hardly able to credit his hearing,
stared down at the man stupidity, his
head awhirI with curiously commin-
gled sensations Of amazement and en-
lightenment. Presently he laughed
shortly.
Get up" he said; "get up and
stand over there by the wall and don't
be silly ass
"Hazoor!" There was reproach In
Salig Singh's accents; but he obeyed,
rising and retreating to the further
wall there to hold himself at attention.
"Now see here" began Amber, de.
signedly continuing his half Of the
conversation in English-far too much
misunderstanding had already been
brought about by his too-ready IA
miliarity with Urdu. He paused lit
tie to collect his thoughts, then re-
sumed: Nov see here, you're Salig
Singh, maharana Of Khandawar?"
This much ne recalled from his con-
versation with Labertouche couple
Of hours gone
"Hazoor, why dost thou need ask2
Thou dost know" The Rajput, on his
part, steadfastly refused to return
to English.
"But you are, aren't your"
"By thy favor, it is even So"
"And you think I'm Rutton--T1ar
Dyal Rutton, as you call him, the for
mer maharana who abdicated In your
favorT
The Rajput shrugged expressiyely,
an angry light in his dark, bold eyes.
1T pleases my lord to jest" he com,
plained; "but am l child, to be
played within
I'm not joking, salig Singh, and
this business is no joke at all. What
I'm trying to drive into your head Is
the fact that you've made the mistake
of your life. I'm not Rutton and I'm
nothing like Rutton; am an Amert
can citizen and"
CTo BE coNTINUED.)
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05

kidney secretions. After using all
kinds Of medicine, without relief, be-
gan taking Doan's Kidney Pills and
received perfect cure. / have had
no trace Of kidney trouble since"
when Your Back Is Lame, Remem-
Der the Name--DOAN'S."
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price soc.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05
CHAPTER x.
Maharana Of Khandawar.


Both hand and voice might we'll
have been Labertouche's; Amber be-
lieved they were. And the darkness
rendered visual identification impossi-
BILE. No shadow Of doubt troubled
him as he yielded to the urgent hand,
and permitted himself to be dragged.
more than led, through the reeking,
milling mob, whose numbers seemed
each instant augmented. He had
thought, duly, to find 1t difficult
matter to worm through and escape,
but somehow his guide seemed to
have little trouble.
Ever since that knife had flown
past his cheek, his instinct Of self
preservation had been dominated by a
serene confidence that Pink Satin was
at hand to steer him in safety away
from the brawl He thanked his stars
for Labertouche- the hand that
clasped his arm and the voice that
spoke guardedly in his ear.
And then, by the light Of the street,
he discovered that his gratitude had
been premature and misplaced. His
guide had fallen a pace behind and
was shouldering him along with al
most frantic energy; but a glance
aside showed Amber, in Labertouche's
stead, chunky little Gurkha in the
fatigue uniform of his regiment Of the
British army of India. Pink Satin
was nowhere In sight, and 1t was i'm
mediately apparent that an attempt
to find him among the teeming hun
dreds before the goldsmith's stall
would be as futile as foolish-if not
fatal. Yet Amber's impulse was to
wait, and he faltered something
which seemed to exasperate the
gurkha, who fairly danced with ex-
citement and impotence.
"Hasten, hazoor!" he cried. 'Is this
time to loiter? Hasten ere they
charge you with this spilling of blood.
The gods lend wings to our feet this
night"
''But who are you?" demanded Am
Der.
What matter is that? Is It not
enough that l am here and well dis
posed toward you, that l risk my skin
to save yoursY He cannoned sudden
Iy against Amber, shunting him un-
tremendously out Of the bazar road
and into a narrow black alley.
Simultaneously Amber heard cry
60 up, shrill above the clamor Of the
mob, screaming that a white sailor
had knitted the goldsmith. And he
turned pale beneath his tan.
"You hear, hazoor? They are nam
ing you to the police-wallahs. Come!"
you're right" Amber fell into a
long, free stride that threatened quick
ly to distance the gurkha's short,
sturdy legs. yet why do you take
this trouble for me?"
''Why ask?" painted the gurkha-
did not stand behind you and see
that you did not throw the knife? Am
a dog to stand by and see an limo
cent man yoked to crime?" He
laughed shortly. Am / fool to for
get how great is the generosity OF
kings? This way, hazoor!"
why call me king" Amber
hurdled heap Of offal and picked up
his pace again. "Yet you win find mo
generous, though but sahib."
1.-THE sahibs are very generous :"
Again the gurkha laughed briefly ana
unpleasantly. "But this is no time for
words. Save your breath, for now We
must run"
He broke into springy lope, his
chin up, elbows in and chest distend-
ed, his quick small feet stopping re-
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05
Usual ThIna.

Been taxing your eyes lately?"
asked the oculist
Eyes," said the patient; II looked
all through newspaper Of IA pages
which came through the mail to me
bearing the words marked copy"
mo wonder your eyes SMART"
"Oh, but that isn't the worst Of 1t,
/ didn't find anything marked Buff
falo Express.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05

James w. Clay, 666
wv. Fayette ST., Balti-
more, Md, says: 4
suffered almost con-
|stantly from pains in
my back and head
and was laid up for
"a week at a time.
4 could scarcely walk
and experienced add
ed annoyance from r.
regular passages Of
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05
HAVE YOU SUSPECTED YOUR
KIDNEYS?

Thousands suffer from backache,.
headache, dizziness, and WEAKNESS
without suspecting their kidneys.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05

No matter how hard the rules may
be, they're as fair for US as for the
rest Of the gang!
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
COMMENT UNNECESSARY.

An elementary school committee
7veuf into crecuti0e session to de-
tcyBIiHc just hO5g to place Helen
Harris. daughter Of Mrs. Harris,
member Of the Board of Education.
Helen Harris 5pdS finally appoint
cd a second grade teacher and de-
tailed to a ne5JIr opened kiHdcr&dr-
ten.
The above. taken from The Star 5
report of the boards meeting last
Friday, we reproduce without com
mcnt, except to explain that i'll or
der to make Miss Harris teacher
in the kindergarten, out Of her turn
because she was the daughter of a
board member, the salary of a sec
ond grade teacher was utilized
This will necessitate the failure OF
some first eligible, deserving young
woman graduate of the Normal
School, whose parent is not a board
member, from securing an appoint
ment. And it might be observed
with strict propriety, that the mis-
takened assumption has been that
.appointees on the school board were
supposed to look after the interests
of the schools as a whole, and no
use their position and influence, a;
IA member of the board, to secure
.appointn. .onts for their own imme-
diate families in spite of the fac
that some others, not members o.
their families, are higher up on tht
list of eligibles. The foregoing /.
all the comment that is necessary
with regard to Miss Harris ap
pointmert.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
GIVE THEM A CHANCE.

DR.. Davidson and Assistant SUI
perintendent, Mr.. Bruce, could do
a graceful thing by giving the sur
plus graduates in our schools a
chance to teach. Why not, next
year, appoint to the night schools
those graduates who are not ap-
pointed in the day schools and dis
continue, at once, all day teachers
in our night schools?
1t is unfair to our teachers who,
after graduating from our schools,
to have the places filled by day
teachers, who are receiving double
employment. OF course, some OF
the principals will argue, O! no, ii
will not do. We must have the best
teachers in our night schools. DR.,
Davidson, this is a weak argument.
Some of the best teachers in the
city are out of employment.
The Bee will discuss this subject
fully in its next issue.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07

towards the colored race, still the
fact stands out that they have never
entirely abandoned us, and all we
have has been achieved through
and by their efforts. The so-called
Republican insurgents have aban-
doned us. They have abandoned
Us for a lower tariff and a lower
tariff which really becomes free
trade will force the colored man to
compete. for a living, with the
cheap foreign labOrer, who is con-
tent with unsanitary living. with
little or no education for the
masses, and with cheap food and
cheap raiment and crowded tene-
ments. AS between the regular Re
publicans who still continue to in
corporate in their platforms some
reference to the rights and protec-
ton of the Negro, and the insur-
gent Republicans, who argue only
in dollars and cents, leaving the
question of equal rights for the
Negro to be settled by Southern
Democrats, there is but one course
left open to the Colored voter, and
that is to support the regular Re
publicans. Surely this is no time
to swap horses when we are in
the middle of the stream.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07

Negro employees of the Architect S
Office in the list of those to Dc drop
ped, for the given reason OF lnsuttl-
cient appropriation, was nothing
less than elimination Cf Negro en-
Dloyes. and he ordered that they
not be dropped. Had an equita-
bic per cent Of the Negro en-
ployes been selected Tor dismissal,
a per cent, say, equal to the per
cent of the whites selected for dis
missal, the race could not have ar
gued that there was undue discrim-
inatiOn. But when all the high
class Negro employees were selected
to be dropped, it bordered too
closely on unjust discrimination,
and Secretary MacN eagh, who will
not stand for any discrimination
whatever on account of mems col
lor, gave instructions that these
Negro employees should be contin-
ued in the service. He also, doubt
less, was influenced some by the
fact that with the almost tremen-
dous odds against the Negro as a
race, even when he possesses the
ability, energy and fidelity to trust,
these technical Negro employees of
the Architects office would have
experienced a hard time, if thrown
Iout upon the world.
The race should be, and Is CRATE
ful to Secretary MacVeagh for this
new evidence of his deep interest
in US, and for his most refreshing
act of fair play No department
of this great government ever had
for a head a man who was more
conSiderate of, and more interest
ed in according to exact and equal
justice to the many faithful Negro
employees of the government than
Franklin MacVeagh. He is al
ways for a square deal" and JUS
tice is simply an inseparable part
of his makeup. Secretary Mac
Veagh has our grateful thanks.
He is friend indeed in time of
need.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
REPUBLICAN INSURGENCY

One thing the oolored voters
should give particular attention to
is that the so-called Republican in
surgents have never given the least
attention to the question of human
rights as it effects the colored
voter. Their contention involves
simply questions effecting the ma
terial conditions as they effect
white men. Ask a Republican in
surgent what will be their attitude
towards the colored race, and he
will quickly tell you that he had
not given the race consideration
that the race question, so all-impor-
tant to us, is not a matter of con-
Germ to them at this time. While
it is true that the Republican party,
and we mean the regular Republi-
cans, has been somewhat derelict
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07

To make a record, like a comet tail,
High above heads of sapient critics,
L bowed submissive to trustees an
tics
And right off to Washington did set
sail.
AT Howard they assigned hist'ry to
teach
Though l knew it rot, and did be-
seeCh
A deanship was the sphere I did as
And yet thus far alas, failure most
The honor has not deigned down to
me reach.
a thought-noble, inspiring thought
self sent,
Most vaultingly, one day to my brain
went
That by the Board of Education
l might rise and be, without reserva-
ton,
Thirkield's successor-Howards pres
ident.
But first and here my wondrous con-
ception
Did blase way to that honor's recep-
ton,
I must first the son of a Bruce dis
lodge,
And in his place behold myself. A
mirage?
Yea some there are who think IT de-
ception.
My voice, though be it as a mega
phone,
VIII yet, some day, ring through the
telephone
'The Bear Cat has to Thirkield's van
tage seat
Succeeded" and there, midst the glare
and heat
Of success, all the deans l will dis
own.
Disown them? Aye, and more. In
the corner
Of the Trustee Board there will sit
Horner,
My compatriot who helped my sue
cess
And in the colored schools a fearful
mess
Did make, even though without some
honor.
Success is not gagged by honor
Empty.
1t is but priced when places a plenty
Are snatched from ruins of institu-
tiOnS
The people built, without intuitions
Of selfish small men gaining an entry
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
Assaulted on a Car.

Last Saturday morning Mrs. L. }.
Tilhman. employed in the Treasury
Department, and a Mrs. Merritt,
boarded a Washington Electric car
going to the Union Station about $50
o'clock. Mrs. Tilhman rendered the
conductor a ticket, while Mrs. Merritt
gave him a dime, which he put IN his
pocket. and later on demanded his
fare, when both ladies insisted that he
had kept the dime and 5 cents was
coming to Mrs. Merritt, which he de-
clared was not true. Mrs. Merritt
insisted that he owed her 5 cents.
The conductor, without another word,
struck Mrs. Merritt, knocking her to
the floor, saying that he would not
take such talk from nigger. The
affair caused a commotion. When
the car reached the Government
Printing Office a policeman boarded
it and wanted to arrest Mrs. Merritt.
The conductor said he did not want to
arrest her, but just wanted her put
off the car.
Mrs. Merritt refused to get a war
rant for the conductor, giving as an
excuse that she was a church woman
and did not want her husband to
know
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
HOWARD THEATER
Failed Under Flint-Now Under
Colored Management.

The Howard TheateT, which has
been under white management since
the retirement of Mr. w. II Smith, OF
Chicago, has changed hands again
from Mr.. Flint. a white manager, TO
that Of a colored manager, Thomas
brothers, colOred, who are running
the Minnehaha so successfully. These
are enterprising men, and VIII no
doubt make success. Mr. w. H
Smith, who was the first manager, or
ganized the "Our Friend From Dixie"
company and many other successful
combinations. The Bee always stated
that it was mistake when Mr.. Smith
left this theater He was a dignihed
business man, and the sanitary condi-
ton of the theater never was better:
He always saw that the patrons OF
the theater were looked after and po-
litely treated. Miss F NJ. Tyson, who
is now managing the theater, IS an
enterprising and thorough race wo-
man, and would be great acquisition
to the new management. The Bee
wishes the new enterprise success.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
AN EDITOR.


The Bee has long admired Ros-
coe Simmons, the brilliant edito-
rial writer of The Age. His work
has attracted wide attention. He
has come up through storm of op
position. We admire him more
since learning that he intends to
surrender his place in New York
and return to the South, there to
found newspaper among the great
mass of people.
He will succeed from the start
because it is in him, and because
his is something of a charmed name
among all Southerners. Good luck
to Roscoe.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
IS FORTUNE COMING?


In a Washington newspaper,
other than The Bee. appeared last
week the announcement that I.
Thomas Fortune is due to arrive in
Washington at an early date and
connect himself with a colored pub
.lication here, and that already a
number of social functions are be
ing arranged for him. There is
something pathetic in this an
.nOuncement. A decade ago this
announcement would have been as a
beacon light to enthuse and attract
to the fortunate publication that Sc
cured his services an army of read
.ers. But the Fortune who may be
coming now is not the Fortune of
ia decade ago. Age and inhrmities
may not dim the luSter of ones past,
but true it is, and sad it is that it is
true, age and infrmities do not
serve to illumine the present or
make prOpitiOus the future. There
is no Clientel so devoid of sentiment
as the clientel of a newspaper
Ones past, no matter how brilliant,
cannot add to a newspapers clrcu-
lation unless ones present is sup
ported by the same keenest of in
telleCt. the same verility or force
and coherency, in his sentences
penned as Characterised ones past.
Were the New York World to
transport the 'Star-eyed goddess
of reform" the brilliant Henry
Watterson, from the land of good
whisky, fast horses and blue grass
to the editorial sanCtum of that
metropolitan daily, not one more
reader would be added to the circu-
lation list, because Henry Waiter
son is now more of a memory than
a present activity, and because age,
and its attendent infrmities can
not, and never did install a new
Renaissance. If the New York
Herald should assemble in its edi-
torial rooms the most brilliant gal
aNv of editors of these modern
times. unless it carried, each day,
the most news, all the news all the
time, not one name would be ad-
ded to the circulation list The Bee,
because of his past, will welcome
r. Thomas Fortune to Washing
ton, but cannot help but say there
is something pathetic in any at
tempt to place the many-hue livery
Of the present on the shrouded past,
And this is said with llindest feel
| ing for all those whose work is now
retrospection, and redolent with
the aroma of the past.
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
RANDOLPH.

Randolph and Taylor concluded
too soon. In fact. they wanted The
Bee to lose, just as the so-called
expert of the National Union, who
testified against The Bee. The
man before whom the case was
tried knew law, and what was nee
essary to establish a case. Ran
dolph, who published in blazing
headlines that w. Calvin Chase
lost his law suit against the How
ard Theater, is not only a sundown
editor, but sundown lawyer with
out clients. The Bee.is not aware
that he has passed the bar associa-
ton; if he has, he has never tried a
case in court since his graduation
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
\ FRIEND INDEED.

Secretary MacVeagh, of the
Treasury Department, has placed
the Negroes of this country under
fresh obligation to him, and Incl
dentally placed the race under new
obligation to the Taft Administra-
ton by his most recent act, which
continues in the service the Negro
draughtsmen and superintendents
Of construction now on the rolls of
the office of the Supervising Ar
1hitect. In the list of employees
submitted for dropping from
the Supervising Architects Office,
which is a bureau of the Treasury
Department, appeared all the Ne
gro draughtsmen and superlntend-
ents OF construction. Secretary
MacVeagh was not blind to the
fact that the including of all such
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07
THE CUSTODIAN.
Every Negro in this land of
ours is the custodian of the
honor, the character, the rep
utation, of the race"

The foregoing statement made
by Emmett ]. Scott, is what might
appropriately be said to be mnItHDI
imbdrvO. When we, as a race, and
as men, fully realize how true, and
how important in its bearing on our
future is this statement of Mr..
Scott, there will be a most healthy
sentiment installed, and a unison
of action promoted that will
achieve wonders for the race.
Every Negro is his brothers keeper,
and on how we'll we keep our
brother depends our own, individ-
ual, preservation. Rev. Howard, of
this city, once said, IF we do not
raise up the disolute alley Negro
they will pull us all down" This
statement is true, and it but con-
firms the statement of Mr.. Scott.
Emmett Scott is SO completely en-
veloped in modesty that what he
says dlIu OOCSJ dliu llC - uOllS
much to help on our uplift, ap-
pears to him as but the most nat
ural thing in the world, and he is
surprised when the wisdom he
gives expression to is taken up and
given publicity as has been given
to the above excerpt from re-
cent address of his. But after all,
how immeasurable is the good that
the modest, consistent, constant
toiler in the field of progress, like
Mr.. Scott, is doing. Verify we
are the custodian of the honor,
the character, the reputation of the
race"
The Washington bee., 1911-10-07

Ocela Taylor, the other sundown
editor of a weakly" publication,
is struggling with his weakly" to
exist. Notwithstanding the COM
bined efforts of the two 'weaklies, :"
The American and The Union, At
torney A. w. Scott obtained judg-
ment against the Howard Theater
for $6I.5O and costs, a total of
S63.7o, and it will be collected.