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0., SATURDAY, JANUARY 26 1889. NO. 85 TUK DEADLY HKVOLVEB. SENSIBLE REMARKS. To tin' Editor of the Bee: 1 win conceive of no other ex- to'fffer vou for thus mnnopo.

favour time and siiace than the r- that the subject I select to dts- iu hiv bwnb'e and unlettered (Tv is iie of vital and menacing imiiornm-B iu w. vi to our country as well. 1 might iiqvs hut sdiphr. attp.n- J. t0 news cauuot fail to will" iu characterizing thiis period in our ex- ctHH-e One stamIs appalled at the MiMittHiarv iecord being made hv nur F1K Brawls, tights, devllvaKSHiilisanil murder are of ruI'Ii asfoiiudmgl.V frequent occur- thai we are no longer sur- nrKCfi wht-ii we hear of them.

wired, matters have come to Midi ji that when a presiding judge r. fer tons as being the di-reefwiuse ol the deprieiation the moral status of our city in comparison with other cnies of the country, we cannot successfully combat or ioni.stently deny, the ver disagreeable sngma. Mr. editor tins may be to 3 our mind a start ling admisMOii, in fact I am BiirpriM-d myself in being compelled to acq uesce in the very advanced position and sweeping accusation of the learned judge. Bur take a ret respective vew of the criminal record of our city lor the past eightecu months, and even you 11 be'borrified at the ensanguined deductions resubaut therefrom.

Ah Mr. Editor, Utile did you or I think that twenty four years subsequent to the issuance of that me-uiorabbe edict which proclaimed liberty to all the people of whatever race that we would now be engaged in that which almost reaches the demeusions of fratricidal war ves, a war of self extermination. You may say that I am putting it very strongly, but I think the situation eminently justifies my position. It is true, Alas! too true, that our bloody our murderous inclinations are vented only upon ourselves, not that it is auy more preferable to kill people of other extraction than our own, but that it shows conclusively that the gist of our hatred, ot our malevolence, is among ourselves; aud just theie lies the most powerful hiuder-ance to on 1 progression as a race. If we could but learn and appreciate the line, 4Oue touch of nature makes the whole world kin," we hall have solved to a very appre ciable extent the problem of race improvement It appears to me that if there is any race on earth which ought to cherish Ineudlv feelings toward each hei.

we me that particular race. But the pievjiiJing opinion seems to be in mfam ciicles that the "brother in black" is only here to be cut and shot at libitum. In the face of all this, are we not confounded with the idea that the powerful and refining iuflueuce of civilization is abortive iu its efforts to crush the biute in our nature? Now, Mr. Editor, what are the causes that lead to such a deplorable state of affairs, and what is its remedy? I am convinced from personal observation aud experience that the root of the evil lies in the indiscriminate and almost universal haoit or carrying concealed weapons. It is an undeniable truth that men in our city proceed to arm themselves with as much care as the denizens of the Western wilds, and this in our city where the law is supposed to be all powerful.

Yes, aim themselves and go out and mingle with the "waddeuing crowd," and upon the slightest suspicion of an effront or fancied assault (and especially if they are sur hargi tb that ile stuff which is harmoniously referred to as whiskey), will pull out their revolver or knife aud proceed fdT-ith to enact another tragedy. Not only has this been pioven in the past, but the future will us under the present order of things, many similar iustauees. ow, it behoves it is an absolute du'y ou to LmiJ 'be crusade agaii gt these lawless and benighted being- tb ar- certainly not "ii. Ic will be immeasurably bitter I Bti of us who respect ibe law aid comply ith its ex ci tous vh 11 this clas 0 people is driven fr. ani.u.g u.

lb fact, I suggest and commend. Ko Mau's Land s.ciety iB likely to be congenial to their sanguinary inclinations. I imagine that the most effective remedy would be a long term of imprisonment without a fine, and upon th expiration of their teim the officer of the law! be authorized to search them any where and under any circumstances, and if they find any weapon hurry them to a severer and longer exile from the com raunity. This simple remedy applied to ail cases of armed ruffianism, regai diets of dor or creed, would at least releive us of their disagreeable presence, if it would not effectually atarap out the pernicious habit. In conclusion.

I will state that hope no one of the many reader of your valuable! urnal will suppose that the picture I have drawn is in any way applicable to the maj as 1 mineutly respectable portion of our race. No! No! There are thoBe of us who, as far as qu ihtieg of head and heart are concerned, are fit to associate with any society above ground. But I apeak of that class of people who do more to disarm us in the war we are wagiug against the bitter prejudice of our white cmtempo raiieB, than all other terrestial causes combiued Yours, law and order, Jay Kay. Wellington, D. 0 Jan.

21, '89. B. K. BRUCE, IN KANSAS. HrSGRET THE RACE PROBLEM CEIVED.

LECTURE ON HIdHLY RE- Gate City Press Ex. Senator Bruce disappointed the majority of the 500 people who heaid him on the Race Problem Mondaynijiht. But it was an agreeable disappointment. The audience had expected a good practical, plain, nomespun talk, but it was not prepared for the very entertaining lecture of an hour aud a h-ilf which was given. The fame of Mr.

Brrn-e as an orator had not preceded his coming to Kansas City. As a senator, statesman, diplomat aud levelheaded civilian he has all along occupied a front place. His lecture Monday evening was evidence that he holds his own as a public speaker. Not as an Ingersool, for there is but one Ingersool not as a Fred. Douglass, for the mellow tones, the earnest gestures, the unanswerable logic, the noble prestige tne venerable appeareuce of the Old Man Eloquent are an mbodiment ot all the great orators the fire of Wendell Phillips, lordly pose of Beecher, the Saxon emphasis of Ingersool.

But Senator Bruce is a better reader than Horace Greely, has more dish than Theodore Tdtou, more stage grace than Talm ige aud big ger audiences than Tourgee. His whole ensemble is that of theschol ar, the gentleman and the shrewd politician who makes his way to the front ami keeps his place without rain or undue selfassertion. A icviewof his 1 ure will not be attempted here. His solution of the race problem wis iu educatio.i aud a similation. His wrd for assimilation is Americanization.

He believed that could the south like the north be lib rally educated hit pr judiee would be less destructive force iu society, aud that tne blacks would be better treated. He thought the general government should come to the aid of the 60uth aud distribute a part of its surplus in that way. The black race was here to stay and its powers of assimilation were greater than any other race. It was like the white race in everything but color, and separation voluntary or involuuary between the black and white races was impossible. Senator Bruce was accompanied frbin Leavenworth by his nephew B.

K. Bruce, arriving on the eveuiug traiu going direct to the Coates House. He left Tuesday morning for Carthage. aud on Wednesday evening spoke at Se-dalia. Mr.

Goihara Fletcher Jr 's our authorized collector fr Eist and South Washington. The subscribers in those 8 ions of the city are requested to pay him when he calls. THE COLORED PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON IX THEIR ORIGION, GROWTH AND PRESENT CONDITION. BY JAMES STORU31. (From the E.

Ctiurcti Keview.) The common or public school system of this country is the 'bulwark of our great and giowiug government. A government like our own where the sovereignty exists in the people, and where its great powr is controlled by the voice of the people, can never be secure and permanent unless the people are intelligent. Hence, I say, the public schools of this land are the great safeguard of our common country. It is not my purpose, as my subject indicates, to discuss the subject of public schools in geueral, but rather to place before your readers, in a condensed form, what has been and is being done in the colored public schools of the District of Columbia. If there is one thing more than another in which the colored people of District take pride, aud of which they may justly boast, it is their public chools.

The municipal government of the city of Washington was or dained in 1802, and, by an amendment charter in 1804, it was authorized to provide for the establishment of schools. Iu August, 1805, the iirht school boarel met and organized by electing Thomas JeftVrMMi president, and iu the early part of January, 1805, the lrac ical woik of public education was begun in this city. In 1807, a few mouths after the erection of two school houses for the public education of the white children, George Bell, Nicholas Franklin and Moses Liverpool, three uututored colored men, born and reared as slaves, and who had jut emerged from slavery, built the first schoolhouse for colored children. Tnis building was erected iu the southeastern part of the city, near the present site ot Providence Hospital. These men opened iu this building a school which flourished for several yers under a Mr.

Lowe, a white teacher. At this time the census of Washington showed 4,448 whites aud 494 free colored people. The Gist school iu Georgetown for colored children was opened in 1820 by Mrs. Mary Billings, a well educated English woman. These schools were generally taught by English teachers.

There was one exception. Mrs. Anne M. Hall, of Prince George Couuty, was the first coloied teacher in this District, and taught successfully for twenty-five years. Iu 1S22 Henry Smothers, a colored man, built a schoolhouse ior colored children on street, near Fourteenth Street, West, to which he brought a large school that he had started aud taught in another locality.

This schoolhouse was kuown as Smothers' schoolhouse, aud was destroyed by fire in 18G2, having beeu used almost constantly for forty years for a colored school. The result of all this was, a larg- timri hur tt colinnU wprn orcnii. izHil. Tlie.ie is no argument more effective and conclusive that the colored people of this District were public-spirited, that they were determined to secure for themselves and their posterity the advantages and privileges that accrue from ed uca lion. SPEAK OUT.

Wheu Judge Stratton left General Harrison, he quoted the presi dent-elect as saying "It seems to me that the white Republican vote iu the South is suppressed as much as tffe colored vote. You gentlemen come here and go into the closet and whisper about the suppression of the vote, but when you get home, you don't act accordingly, you don't practice what you preach. "Tne general's idea," said Judge Stratton, "seems to be that the white Republican vote in the ought, to a certain extent, woik out their own salvation. Tney must agitate, start a nrpsa that, will represent their own views and give no larter to the old bourbon theories. I think he would like to see a new and vigorous party tight made in all the 'Southern states.

He would probably favor a national election law, which would insure in the! black counties a fair ballot and an honest count. But he wants the white Republicans not to de- pend so much on the mere super iority iu number of the Negro vote. He is anxious to put some backbone and self reliance into the Republican organization in the South. I think he will do it, and I think he will settle the Southern question during his administration." Correspondent "Atlanta Constitution." VERY INDISCREET. (Cleveland Gazette.) What indiscreet utterances for "our leader'7 to make His interest in Langston's election ceased with the election, and he does not care what Langston might say or do in Congress, This is disgusting.

Douglass says plainly that his iu terest in the election of one of our ablest men to Congress ceased with the Fourth District of Virginia's farce of an electiou, aud he does not care what our nearest approach to a statesman might say or do iu Congress in the interest of the race should he get seated. The Gazette is of the opinion that Doug lass has either lost his race interest or his diplomacy, for he has opened his mouth and placed his foot squarely in it. We assure the 'Sage of Anacostia" that whether he is or is not interested in this Langstou Congressional matter, the race is. It wants Lingston seated. Douglass and Mahoue to the contrary notwithstanding.

A few more such letters as Douglass communication to the Press aud his waniGg prestage with our people will be gone forever. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Woman's Work. Use wandering milk-root tea for dyspepsia. Beware.

of the first cross wood in the morning. plain effects are sought after in all di aperies. Inveterate tea drinkers invite early wrinkles. Honeycomb or smock work is ve ry effective on children's dresses. Iu pressing flat embroidery, lay the article wrong side up on a damp cloth.

The leg-of-mutton or gigot sleeve is fashionable for all dresses of light-weight material. When making up unbleached musliu you must allow an inch to the yard for shrinkage. New walling boots are laced in front, the uppers being made of the materirl of the dress aud foxed with it sset. If your sewiug machine runs hard aud y.iur oiler is empty try as a substitute eq 1 il parts of kerosene oil. If a dish gets burnt iu usiug, do not scrape it.

put a little water and ashes in it aud let it get warm. It will come off nicely. To clean straw matting, wash with a cloth dipped in clean salt au(J ater theu wiP dT ouce. This prevents it from turning yel low. For chapped or cracked hands use atea of witch hazel.

It is also good forcankered mouth or throat with goldeu seal and white sugar added. Take a quarter of a yard of mosquito nettiug, fold and refold it un til the required size, then tack it as you would a comfort, and you have a good dish cloth. For an informal or family break fast, cream tinted damask cloths with borders iu bright colors are liked. The napkins match, anel are finished with fringe. Clean knives with a soft flannel aud bath brick.

If rusty, use wood ashes, rubbed on with a newly cut bit ol Irish potato. This will remove spots when nothing else will. A room with a low ceiling will seem ug her if the window curtains hang to the floor. Lambrequins may be used to extend the cunaius to the ceiling and thus carry out the effect. To clean bottles, put into them some kernels of com, and a tablespoon of a-shes, half fill them with water, aud after a vigorous shak ing and rinsing you will find the bottles as good as new.

SPEECH OF HON. WM. STk ART, OF NEVADA, IN THh SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, January 2 1, ISSo. Mr. STEWART said: Mr.

President I desire to discuss the tariff, but I find it so connected with the question of money that I am unable to separate them. Therefore I ask the indulgence of the Senate to consider them in connection with each other. "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things." It is now three thousand years since this truth was declaretl by the -great lawgiver in Israel. Napoleon was once asked, "What are the three most essential requisites iu and replied, "The first is mouey the second is money and the third is money." What is true of war is true of every undertaking or enterprise. The power of money is not confined to the acquisition of property and services, but it draws alter it rank, station, and badges of nobility.

All things are estimated in inoney. BRIEF SKEICII OF EARLY HISTORY OF MONEY Some medium of exchange has always existed in every tribe, community, or nation of which we have any knowledge. It is impossible to tell what was first used. Silver and gold have from a very eaily period been legardeel as best adapted for use as monev. For Itilii-e loelc 11111st lo solcl before Jan, 1st, 5- jU; order tx do so we are frsellisag- It off'25 per cent below cost.

4 wheel express wasons, Upholstered school flys, Large iron axle wagons, Gilt picture frames, S2.50 Dressed dolls, Large picture frames Dressed doll, dozen wine glasses, I dozeu goblets, Xmas tree ornaments. Decorated dinner setts Decorated tea setts, 50 pieces, Decorated chamber setts. Library table lamps, An immense line or Toys, Uroikery, equally as low. TV. A.TJGltijTVTESIN, 817, SIO mud 831 "7 Ox st, n.

I D.ioea to Sunday Schools, Teachers, Fairs, house Keepers Attention! ABB ifyjw Eaworinin of House FURXITUJJE, CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, STOYES, RANGES BEDDING, kc. Guo's sold on the Credit System. J1007 7ih street and 657 N. Y. n.

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In our Dry Goods, Hosiery, Gents Underwear, we guarantee a save of 25 percent. "We Want "Your Ti'ade." Ami we guarantee satisfaction. All we ask of you i to call as we feel a pride to sh-w our goods and consider it no tn-iihU. Remember the place and number. 918 7th n.

w. HERZOGS OLD STAND. 7 centuries they hare been '-the precious metals' and employed as legal tenders and measures of great value. There is 110 recored in the Bible of gold being used as money, although it it was extensively mined. Silver for many centuries passed current by weight before the practise of coining was adopted.

The Romans first coined silver 281 B. and gold 207 B. C. Since that time both gold and silver coin have passed as legal tender money in all the civilized countries until a very recent period, but barbarous and semi civilized people have from tme to time used other material for money, and some of them do so at the present day. England ceas-ed to coin silver as legal tender money 1815.

Austria aud Germany suspended the coinage of gold in 1857, aud Germany restored it in 1871, and at the same time demonetized silver by closing it from th mints. The United States omitted the silver dollar from its list of coins iu 1S73. Periodic Headache and Nenral- gi coid hands aud teet, aua a jeueral derangement of the system. including impaired digestion, with torpor of the liver, are in certain localities, invariably caused by Malaria in the system in quantities too small to produce regular chills. Many persons suffer iu this way and take purgatives and other med-cines to heir injury, wheu a few doses of Shallenberger's Antidote for Malaria would cure them at once.

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