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SEATTLE REPUBLICAN Historical Society POLITICAL POT - PIE Summary—16 Republicans, 10 Democrats; Republican gain, 2. In Delaware there is a deadlock on the election of two Senators, which has existed for four years on one seat and two years on the other. There is no prospect of its being broken—Trade Register. VOL. IX., NO. 38 POLITICAL U. S. Senators Elected for State. Name. Alabama J. P. Clarke D Arkansas George C. Perkins D Colorado E. W. Alison D Colorado Henry M. Tellier D Connecticut Orville H. Platt D Georgia A. S. Clay D Idaho W. B. Heyburn R Illinois A. J. Hopkins R Indiana G. W. Fairbanks R Iowa W. B. Alison R Kansas Chester I. Long R Kentucky J. B. McCreary D Louisiana S. D. McEnery D Missouri W. J. Stone D New Hampshire J. H. Gallinger R New York T. C. Leather R Nevada Francis Newlands D North Carolina Leo S. Overman D North Dakota H. C. Hansbrough R Ohio J. B. Foraker R Oregon C. W. Fulton R Pennsylvania Boles Penrose R South Carolina A. C. Leather R Utah Reed Smoot R Vermont W. P. Dillingham R Washington Lei Ankeny R Wisconsin John C. Spooner Summary—16 Republicans, 10 Demo In Delaware there is a deadlock on existed for four years on one seat and prospect of its being broken—Trade Re Herman W. Craven, who, perhaps, has done more campaigning than any other stump speaker in King county, has been named by Prosecuting Attorney Scott as one of his regular deputies. Mr. Craven has repeatedly been a candidate for official preferment, but this is his first offense of actual office holding. He is a strong, able and conscientious lawyer and will be a world of help to the office. --- There is no doubt in Representative Gunderson's mind but that the state is losing money by the thousands of dollars each year under the present printing law, and though everything has been done on the square, the great increase over the old system is sufficient evidence that it is best to either return to the old law, or some other law that will prevent the state from losing $30,000 per annum more than it did under the old law. --- A prevailing sentiment among the representatives is that it is best by far that the state purchase its own plant and the legislature re-create the office of state printer, who will be under a salary the same as the other state officers and have the power to either increase or decrease his pay roll as the emergency may demand. If the state had to pay as much for its printing as it did under the old law (but it would not) enough could be saved in one year over the present annual expenditure to more than pay for a plant quite adequate to serve its every purpose. --- Representative Levy may be guilty of soliciting a bribe from the printing trust, which has disgracefully robbed the state by overcharging for the printed matter it has done for the state, but the impression is quite general that it is but another case of "stop thief" on the part of the printers in order to draw public attention from them. One might be guilty of murder, but if Pliny Allen was the accuser the information would be a rather iane one. The printing trust's own figures are quite sufficient evidence to convict them of entering into a collusion to skin the state and it locks a good deal like Printing Expert Houghton is as deep in the mire as the printers are in the muck. The Levy accusation seems to be a hoax. --- To defeat the fifty per cent, assessment bill from passage such old pioneers as Dexter Horton, Maddocks, Judge McGilvra and others appeared before the senate committee and gave their version of the matter. Mr. Horton's cheerful face, snowy locks and unassuming air made him unawares to himself a very conspicuous figure in the hotel lobby as well as in the committee room and he was the cynosure, of all eyes. He did some effective work against the measure and 9th Avenue, 10th St. Bassobb Avenue. SEATTLE; WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1903 even though it passes in spite of his opposition, he has demonstrated that though he pays but little attention to things political when he so chooses he can become a successful lobbyist. . . . Speaking about the old pioneers, there are about three other old timers in Seattle older than Mr. Horton, Rev. Daniel Bagley, Rev. Mr. Whitworth and his wife. Mr. Horton is now in his 78th year and yet does not look nor walk as though he was only in his early sixties. He worked and was personally responsible in many ways for the election of the first two representatives from King county, A. A. Denny and Philips, who at the time they were elected in 1855, were partners of his in a drygoods store not far from the present site of the New York block. Denny went to the senate and Philips to the lower house and it was then he bought the partners out and became chief cook and bottle washer, while they went to Olympia to legislate for the dear people. *** The banking bill, which has attracted such widespread comment and brought so many men of money to Olympia, is still on the rack, but with the odds in favor of its early defeat. The home bankers still insist that the measure was not intended to drive foreign bankers out of the field, but to put them on equal footing with the home institutions. At present, so says the home bankers, the foreign banking institutions enjoy privileges we cannot enjoy under the existing state banking laws and this is very unfair, which has prompted the state bankers to push this proposed law, putting the foreigners on the same operating basis as the home people. In the general appropriation bill which has been favorably reported by the joint finance committee of both the senate and the house of representatives is an allowance reimbursing ex-Secretary of State O. A. Bowen for the money he took of his own to replace what the state lost in bank failures just about the close of his administration. No more deserving sum of money could be appropriated by the legislature than that small and insignificant item. Mr. Bowen was a faithful, trustworthy servant and if he had not been the state would have lost in the hundreds of thousands instead of some $15,000, which sum was made good by Mr. Bowen at the time. A report is current that King county's immortal "thirteen," who signed the senatorial caucus call, which resulted in the election of Levi Ankeny to the United States senate, may soon turn the tables on some of their public accusers who charge them with corruption in doing so. Just what will be done and where it will be done are not yet known, but there is a storm brewing, and it may be a cy- clone by the time it gets well under way. Much has been said about the actions of the "thirteen" that will be talked over again and will not be in a Sunday school when it is talked over. Something is going to drop, and drop hard at that. . . . Rev. J. C. Thoms, who has for the past two years of more been quite conspicuously in the public eye, received a set back at the hands of a senate committee last Monday that he will not soon forget. Rev. Thoms in the past has been quite conservative in his public utterances, but in his sermon last Sunday in Olympia he turned loose a flood of abuse upon the senate committee that had charge of the slot machine bill that verged dangerously near to criminal libel. The committee sent for him and administered a roasting to him that he will not soon forget. If he did not completely ruin the chances of the passage of the bill then he almost did it. Representative Levy is again on the gridiron under the charge of soliciting a bribe from the printing concerns whose past actions he was investigating with a view of fastening a charge of collusion to defraud the state on them. Mr. Levy has quite enough to contend with on account of his nationality, and he should endeavor to steer clear of mixes that will leave him in questionable status. P. L. Allen, however, is a very unsavory as well as unreliable accuser of any man. Both Walter Fulton and Lee Hart from King County have been among the lobby list for the past ten days. The city of Seattle has maintained a strong and powerful lobby hovering about the legislature in order to secure the passage of the fifty per cent. assessment bill. The motive of the bill seems to be selfish and one-sided, and was instigated by the residents of Green Lake to boom their property at the expense of the down-town property owners. No bill more unfair could be passed by the legislature than this, and it should be defeated. The men urging its passage are simply the mouth pieces of men owning vast tracts of suburban property to Seattle who realize they can make two or three fortunes out of that property by the natural increase in value the passage of this bill would bring about almost immediately. Among the lobbyists for the bill are Corporation Counsel Gilliam, City Engineer Thomson, Councilmen Morrison, Rude, Perry, Renhart and Redward. *** Ex-Senator John L. Wilson has moved from Spokane to Seattle, where he will reside. Wilson is a shrewd politician, just such a one as King County needs, and while we are not a prophet or even a son of prophets, it would not be a surprise to us to see John L. Wilson of King Washington's next governor and Ed Hamilton of Pierce our next U. S. Senator. Stranger things have happened.—Island County Times. * * * Some newspaper correspondent has perpetrated what must have been intended for a joke, about McBride and Preston acting with the Democrats at the next election. McBride and Preston will devour their crow and smack their lips and declare it is the most delicious game they ever tasted. Of course, we don't know whether or not they will carry any cutlery concealed up their sleeves when they attend the feast—Mount Vernon Argus. There are ugly rumors floating around Olympia to the effect that Plin Allen was trying to catch Al Howe and Gwin Hicks for $500 each and instead of giving it to Levy, as he claimed he intended doing he would put it in his own jeans. Plinny is an Allen. SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION MIKE DOOGEN IN JAIL Olympia will celebrate the semi-centennial of the creation of the present State of Washington into a territory by President Pierce March 2d, 1853, and an elaborate pragram has been arranged for both the afternoon and evening of the day of the celebration. In the afternoon the exercises will be held in the opera house and the principal speakers will be Hon. C. H. Hanford, U. S. District Judge; Hon. Ezra Meeker, president State Historical Society; Clarence B. Bagley and others. The evening banquet will be addressed by Dr. J. J. Smith, President of the state senate; Hon. W. E. Humphrey, congressman-elect, subject, "The Ladies; Hon. Allen Weir, president Pioneer Association, subject, "Pioneers"; Hon. Harvey W, Scott, editor-in-chief Oregonian, "The Press"; Hon. Miles C. Moore, the Walla Walla banker, "Washington's First Governor," responded to by "Her Last"; Hon. Herman D. Crow, state senator from Spokane, "The Inland Empire." Then will follow miscellaneous remarks by a number of old pioneers who have seen this section of Uncle Sam's great domain gradually transformed from a howling wilderness to a beautiful blooming garden, so to speak. The centennial celebration is to be more of a comparison between the pioneer days of Washington with the present time than a mere jubilee of good things. Historical reminiscences, the relating of which will be done principally by old pioneers, will be highly interesting to all and the fact that a joint committee from the eighth legislature will participate in the proceedings will lend further dignity to the occasion. The personnel of those who will take part in the exercises is likewise worthy of much consideration. They are all men of sterling ability and remarkable careers and whatever they may say will be of much historical in terest to the cosmopolitan citizenship Kounty Jale, Seattle, Feb. Dear Fayther. Whin yez see the aboveyez will want an explination. Oil tell yez how it wuz. The trubble wuz gittin worse an worse an fayther Abraham sent fur me an sez, sez he. Moike sum body must go to jale, will yez be a prostittoot. Oil konsider it, sez Oi, and left him. Thin I went to me lawyer an tould him Fayther Abraham wants me fur his prostitoot. The lawyer nearly kilt himself laffin. He sez, sez he. He wants yez for a substitoot. Phat's the difference, sez Oi. He laffled an sez, sez he, don't you rimember Adolf Krug, he wus a substitoot. Holy poker, sez Oi, is that it. Yes, sez he. Now is yer chance Molike. Yez will get a foine salry now. O hell, sez Oi. Oi don't want to disgrace the Doogen family wid goin to jale. The unfallen retch sed, sez he, the hole sinuf uyz wid the men who prostitooted yez ought to be in jale. Wid that Oi give him a clip on the jaw that sint him under the table, he crawled up on the other side the table and sed, wuz that a joke, Molke? Oi sed if you wus jokin it wus. Thin my lawyer made the dale fur me an here Oi am fayther, an whin Oi get out Oil by a Log Cabin Saloon for ivery wan of the Doogen family. Oi explane my prisence in jale in this letter, but in my nixt letter Oil tell you about thim inquisitive fellers sit- LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON APR 29 1952 ICAN PRICE FIVE CENTS IAL CELEBRATION that now direct the destinies and the affairs of the Evergreen State. PERSONAL REFERENCE. Judge C. H. Hanford is truly a pioneer in the fullest sense of the word. He began at the bottom of the ladder on arriving here, but climbed inch by inch from one degree of importance to another until no man in the state at present stands higher in the estimation of the people than he. On or off the bench he is the soul of honor and fairness and the longer he presides as federal judge the more he is admired, appreciated and generally liked by all classes of citizens. Coming as he did to this wilderness of woods when but a mere boy it can be truthfully said that no old pioneer of Washington has had a more varied experience than Hon. Ezra Meeker. He has repeatedly made and lost fortunes in the commercial ups and downs of this section of the country. Even after he had passed his allotted Biblical three score and ten years of life and found his fortunes fading, he went with the mad rush to Dawson City and there, it is said, greatly replenished his much repleted exchequer. That such a man is the right man in the right place when at the head of the State Historical Society, goes without saying, and his address will be a very interesting feature of the occasion. * * * Almost enough has been said about Clarence B. Bagley in the way of introduction to simply announce, he is the son of Rev. Daniel Bagley, and is a chip off the old block. He has grown up from childhood to a ripe old age and although his father is still living, who came to the Northwest as a missionary when Clarence was the tiniest wee bit of a boy, he is still a useful and active man. Mr. Bagley is a Continued on page 3 (tin up-in the kort house. The examanation made by Fayther Abraham before yez kan git in the council is not the same at all, at all, Fayther Abraham wants to no phat yez will do thim jintlemen wants to no phat yez has dun it makes a dom site uv difence. Oi tell yez, we made the fool mistake uv havin a matin wid sum fool peeple to thro dust in their eyes about the Snooqualmie franchise an our fule dutchman asked thim if they wud be satisfide wid the same kind uv a franchise that Shuffleton fur the Seattle Electric Company. That poker deck that Oi told yez about was marked, an it got me a mark on the top uv me hed two inches long wid four stiches in it now, but it wusent a "marker" to that Shuffleton franchise, it will take a litter a yard long to tell yez phat Oi hev to say in my next. Yure lovin sun. City Haul, temporary in jale as a pros-substitoot. P. S.—Holy poker, here cooms Guv. Simple, Oi sez to him, sez Oi, where's Fayther Abraham an Mr. Perry an the other bys. An are yez a pros-substitoot too? Naw, sez he, Oim it. Oi don't care fur Perry, its the loife of my charter that's in danger, but my loyer will get me out wid a "hokus pokus." Phat in hell is that, sez Oi, an why don't Fayther Abraham git wan of thim things fur me. Oim lookin fur koompany now as Oim a pros-substitoot an only wan count. MIKE. The image provided does not contain any text. It appears to be a blank or empty space with no visible content. The Seattle Republican Betablished May, 1894. H.R, Cayton........06. eee itor Susie Revels Cayton.......Aseociate SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Veet cc. ence nsnncscnsan es 8800 Bix Months ....5......eeeeee eee 1,00 Three Months ........-..0-+05+ 60 Entered at the Postoffice at Seattle as Second-class Mail Matter. saa LS Bona Fide Circulation..........2,500 pst T CEO Tad clea Soetoro, Are they after you, too? If Foreman Pigott’s ears do not burn then there is nothing in the old saw. Ohio is said to have a laughing cow, evidently she has heard about Mark) Hanna's ex-slave pension bill. Washington state's printing con- tracts are large’enough to make even J. Pierpont Morgan feel that he had overlooked a. bet. There is a Bell on Profanity Hill that’s pealing forth a few clear clar- jon notes that ‘are striking terror to the hearts of evil doers. ‘Tillman has’ béen denied ‘bail and must actually stay in jail. It is to be ‘regretted that the jail he is to stay in is not spelled hell. It begins to look as if Mike Doogan, the Irish dialect writer for this paper, is thoroughly convinced that an open confession is good for the soul. Although Miss Alice Roosevelt has been in New Orleans for a whole week, she has not as yet been ordered to take quarters in a “nigger hotel.” Very refreshing it is to learn that C. W Fulton, Oregon's senator elect, claims.no relationship to the gamblers’ lobbyist of this state bearing the same Mahe: “Union double six” is an oft called for number: at the Sunset, and few girls there are up there who do not iow that that's the prosecuting at- torney’s number. If Venezuela continues to sign pro: tocols, each of which is but an addi- tional, mortgage on her customs re- ceipts, she will find it even more rav- aging than war itself. Science in Egypt is successfully lighting the tombs of the ancients, so numerous in that country, which, to say the least, is throwing a flood of light on the cradle of civilization. ‘There may be some disposition to dodge it, but if the grand jury con- tinues to dig up rotten things there are some people about the city hall that will soon need the assistance of an at- torney in open court. Senator Morgan’s Nicaragua canal route seems doomed to defeat, owing to the fact that amore feasible one has been found. If the old fosil from Alabama loses the hobby of his life he will go to his grave in disgrace. It may be human nature to be un- grateful to the one who fights your battles for you and gets licked, as says an exchange, but we do not be- lieve it. It is doubtless so in some forms of humanity, but is not charac- teristic of the manly man. Councilman James in a fit of temper the other night came dangerously near admitting that he was the mouth- piece of the Seattle Electric Company in the city council. In future Mr. James had better either avoid such controversies or bridle his temper. It is quite out of the ordinary to see the Times turning a tirade of abuse on trusts when it is the complete crea- ture of trusts and combines. It uses trust news, its money is made from trust concerns and it itself never re fuses to enter a combine or trust if it means dollars for its exchequers. “A union man can be judged by the label on his clothes,” says the, Free- man Labor Journal, Yes, judged as to whether he is a blooming bloody igiot, a monomaniac, an incendiary rioter or a downright murderer. You are quite right, it is all in the label he wears. Gambling is to be a felony if the governor signs Representative Lewis’ pill, which has passed both branches of the Eighth legislature. We take it all back, Bill Lewis has done one com- ‘mendable thing. Not what will the grand jury do, but how many were indicted the previous os is the regular morning inquiry these days. Not one cent should Be appropriated by the legislature for the deficiency printing account, The state has al- ready been mulcted out of too much money by the printers’ rust, and now let them pay their deficiency out of their already collected overcharges. Only Hel’ could induce men to stand in line twenty-six hours in order to get fa ticket to get a few hours’ glance at it, To see Hel and that too with beautiful little Annie in it would tempt most any mortal to take a peep at most.any old cost. So far as General Prosperity is con- cerned he is not particularly troubled one way or the other whether the ‘Democrats nominate Cleveland or Bryan or neither. It matters not ae of them is nominated it Demo- crat is attached to the nominating party it means defeat for the nominee. If Goy. Semple prefers to go to jail rather than disclose the secrets of his books it seems evidence conclusive that there is something rotten in Den- mark, When Mr, Semple can get from the city for $40,000 per annum ivhat others have to pay about $400,000 for you can bet there is a screw loose. It is true that the political grafter in this country is quite common and perhaps some one would say a neces- cary evil, but from reading the news- papers and periodicals of this country one would hardly think that the effete Anglo-Saxon civilization 80 much boasted of would be guilty of such heathenish practices. Governor Cummins, of Iowa, was in consultation with the president and other party leaders one day last week as to lowa’s coming platform touching the tariff. We hope the president and the other party leaders convinced him that tariff tinkering in this country is a dangerous proceeding and that he had better keep his hands off of it. Editor Clayson seems to be pretty well educated himself and that being the fact, we cannot see why he is so hitterly opposed to others being edu- cated equally as well as himself. Evi- dently he is jealous lest some one else enjoys the many good things, ed- ucationally speaking, that he does. From the Bulletin of this city the following is clipped: “It is a sad com- mentary on the Christian — religion when a minister of the gospel marries a white woman to a Chinaman.” We quite agree, but it is a good deal sadder commentary on Christian reli- gion when a white girl will designed- ly marry a heathen Chinaman for the price and then boast of the fact in the daily papers that she and her para- mour are to divide the spoils which they fleeced from the Chinaman be- tween them. Moses of old was taken upon a mountain and given permission to view the promised land, which he started out to enter, but never did, he and his followers dying in the wil- dernese for their sins of omission. Now comes a Walla Walla girl and says she has been permitted to view Heaven from afar, but could not en- ter therein, Does this mean that no one in that famous prairie city is to enter the pearly gates, but must sim- ply be told of its glory by the little visionary viewer? ‘That was a grand coupe made by the Oregon legislature in electing a Unit ed States senator fifteen minutes be fore its final adjournment, which re sulted favorably to Charles W. Fulton, of Astoria, and sent the hopes, ambi: tions and political air castles of the redoubtable Editor Scott glimmering into space. Editor Scott tried to make a still hunt for the plum, but he is still hunting and with the prospects of continuing to hunt until the end of his life. If Congress permits the Southern rebels to place a statute of Robert E. Lee in the National capital no objec: tion should be made by it to the friends of Benedict Arnold placing a statute of him likewise in the National capital. Lee was not only a rebel, but was also a traitor because he tured arms against the country that gave him a military educatiom for the express purpose of defending his country. No more shameful nor dis graceful scene could be enacted than the placing of Lee's monument in the ions capital. It it be true that the late John W. Pratt carried personal insurance to the amount of $20,000, he probably thought that he was doing his family a favor by taking his own life. It will be remembered that the lamented George C. Hilbourne, who at one time was one of Seattle’s leading business men, conimitted suicide and it was af- terwards hinted he did so owing to the fact that he had $105,000 worth of insurance coming to his family at his death, and he tock his life to give opulence to his. family. Seattleites having reaped such a@ financial harvest from being adver- tised throughout the country as the most wicked and immoral city on the Pacific Coast that Spokane has become jealous and her officials are claiming that she is not only the equal of Seat: tle, but can go her one better. If she can establish this fact it will doubt: less mean a heavy increase in salary to her municipal officers. The bunco man fleeces the citizens and the off cers fleece the bunko man, which means money to all concerned except the citizen. Republican legislators, we must ad- mit, occasionally do some rather queer things, but in criticising them for their shortcomings, you should not overlook the fact that in 1897 when the Repub- licans went into power they found the country practically in bankruptey, the highways lined with tramps, factor- ies closed, railroads in the hands of receivers and business in a terrible stagnant condition, all of which in the few intervening years have been trans- formed and now the United States 1s the most prosperous country both f- nancially and otherwise in the whole world and Republican legislation is responsible for it all. In your criti cisms of Republican shortcomings, therefore, we repeat, do not overlook these facts. SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT The National Bank Of Commerce H. C. HENRY, Pres. R. R, SPENCER, Cashier. ue CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE [elebam Denl nr a har ht ‘THE BANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA "Head Office Toronto. Established 1867. 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Drafte and money orders issued on all parts of the world. ‘Cor. Yesler Way and First Ave. South. | FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF j SEATTLE, WASH. Paid up capital ir) JAMES D. HOGE, Jr., President. LESTER TURNER, Cashier. MAURICE M’MICKEN, Vice Pres. R. F. PARKHURST, Asst. Cash. A general banking business trans- acted. Letters of credit sold on all principal cities of the world. Special facilities for collecting on British Co- jumbia, Alaska and all Pacific North- west points. ‘We have a Bank at Cape Nome. Barrett Sign Go. B. F, Barrett J. 0. Rockwell 213 Cherry (Grand Op. House alley) Telephones: Ind. A134, Buneet Black 7133 For Comfort and Convenience use, ELECTRIC LIGHTS They assure you a Clean, Healthy Atmosphere Che Seattle Electric Company. 907 First Ave. se YOUR PIANO OUR PRICES TERMS ARE THE LOWEST $6.00 Per Month Sherman, Clay & Co. - J, Redelsheimer & Co. | Leading Clothiers of The Northwest. 800-2 First Ave. J, Redelsheimer & Co. | . | . 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TEL PIKE 159 ‘Goal ; € 3 *O0a ; k 3 ‘all Coal’ ‘all Goal: f ‘The Best Coal ; t Neweastle 3 f LUMP COAL. ; ‘ Only at the Bunkers of the 3 f Pagifie Goast Co 3 Phone Main 92. 3 Plenty of money nc (4 OR loan on dia- monds, watches and all kinds of Jewelry and valuables Phone Jehn 103! 817 Second Avenue. prominent business man of Seattle and has varied property interests in King County, giving him a responsible position in the affairs of the entire section of the country. President Smith, represents the new comers to the state, but is one of the brainy young men that know nothing but push and pluck and never loses an opportunity to boost the general interest of the state forward. He is rapidly rising as a public man and when time will have ripened him into as old a man as is Judge Hanford and others who will be subsequently mentioned herein, he will have a no less remarkable and brilliant career to point with pride to as they. While Pierce county has her Hamilton and Spokane her Crow, King has her Dr. J. J. Smith who stands as fair for promotion in state affairs as any of them. Congressman-elect Humphrey, also from King county, is likewise an able representative of the latter-day young men of this state. He is especially admired by many of the old pioneers of the state and this accounts for much of his public success. Mr. Humphrey is a pleasing talker and will doubtless do the subject on which he will talk complete theoretical justice. This is said advisedly as he is an old bachelor and is making no visible preparations to love, honor, cherish and abuse some worthy woman as a life partner. But we are taught that, so long as there is life there is hope, and while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return, which, if true, he may, while speaking to the ladies, be shot by Cupid and if so will return to his bachelor domicile and efface from his window his familiar couplet inscribed thereon, running as follows: "Lovely woman, thou art given to rage; Lovely woman, thou art prone to change. Alas, what man can trust your charms Or seek his safety in your arms." For forty years or more Hon. Allen Weir, who is now president of the Pioneer Association of this state, has been a familiar figure in the affairs of the state. He like a great many others, has enjoyed a large slice of public honor. Being a newspaper man, however, it is perfectly natural that he perhaps does not now enjoy as rich a legacy for his trials and tribulations as a pioneer as many of his old pioneer friends. It is not for the newspaper man to attain wealth. If it is not sufficient glory for him to point out the way for others to attain such and that too without compensation most people think so and Mr. Weir found himself in the same boat as his contemporary editors. He, however, is rich in historical reminiscences, especially pleasing to both the pioneer and the newcomer and his address will be one of unusual interest. No one who reads the Oregonian these piping days of commercial state rivalry would think for a minute that Harvey W. Scott, the versatile editor of that paper, has a tender spot in his seemingly marble heart for the state of Washington, but he has, as he spent many long years as a boy on a farm in what is now Mason county and near its present county seat, Shelton. On that farm Harvey Scott split rails as successfully as he has subsequently split public opinion. He who saw him on his Shelton county farm never dreamed that he would become the moulder of public opinion for the Northwest, but he has, and this is but another evidence that, if it's in the man, however menial his early beginning, it will finally assert itself and push him to his proper place in life. Hon. Miles C. Moore was Washington's last territorial governor and setting in the state as one of her business men, after retiring from office he of course is of himself quite a historical relic. It was only yesterday comparatively speaking, when Washington was a territory, but the new comer looks with perfect amazement when Governor Moore is pointed out as the last territorial governor, for, as a state, it ranks so high among the sisterhood of states that it is perfectly natural for it to occur to them that it must have been a long time since Washington was a territory, and he who acted as a territorial governor and is still living, must be a Methusalah in age. In response to requiems of the first governor of the territory by the last covering a period wonderfully rich in historical resources will be discussed by Mr. Moore and being a most delightful discourser a rare treat for those present is in store. In the senate of the eighth legislature there, perhaps, is not a more forcible, convincing and oratorical member therein than Hon. Herman D. Crow, who is to tell his audience 66 of the beauties and bounties of what the citizens of Eastern Washington are pleased to style their section of the state, "The Inland Empire." Senator Crow may not be so popular as others in the senate, but when he rises to take issue on the floor of the senate with a fellow member or a faction the other fellow knows that he has to resort to more than glittering generalities and playful platitudes to carry his point. For these reasons a most excellent portrayal of The Inland Empire may be expected on that occasion. Mr. Crow has a most interesting theme on which to discourse for Eastern Washington comes as near being an inland empire as any one section of a state can get to be. AMUSEMENTS AMUSEMENTS Next week it will be the Shirley company and good plays at the Third Avenue Theater, starting Sunday matinee. The ever popular Shirley company will be in our city next week and present some of the best plays that royalty can secure. The old favorites are still with the company, but a number of new faces will be seen in the cast. Miss Shirley has always been recognized as one of the best and most versatile actresses on the Pacific Coast. She is always at home in whatever role she assumes. Her support this season is far superior to any carried by a traveling company. A feature of each performance will be the stage settings and mountings. They have their own car of special scenery and each play will be staged in a way that will be worth the price of admission alone. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, the romantic drama, "In the Hands of the Enemy." Thursday. Friday, Saturday and Saturday matinee, "Blue Grass of Old Kentucky," will hold the boards. The opening bill is a romantic drama, illustrating the restless and revolutionary spirit of the South American republics. Edgar Hunt, an American mining engineer, is sent to Colomia to survey a tract of land, owned by a New York syndicate. An English adventurer in league with the Colombian government, tries to secure possession of this land, knowing that it is rich in gold and other minerals. Failing to bribe the American to send a false report, they arrest him on a trumped up charge of conspiracy and have him thrown into jail. The play is full of exciting incidents and some of the most startling climaxes. In the last act the American marines and the waving of the stars and stripes makes one of the most dramatic situations ever seen on any stage. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF GOOD INSURANCE. Call up Rev. J. Gordon McPherson, agent Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., of New York, who will write you a policy from five cents per week upwards. Phone Red 8532. Residence 509 (rear) 7th Ave. Seattle Clothes Pressing Ladies' and gents' clothing cleaned, dyed and repaired. We call for and deliver promptly. Phone Red 4484. 1007 Third Avenue COLE'S HOT BLAST SAVES ONE-THIRD YOUR COAL BILL We are the Seattle Agents for the Cole's Hot Blast Original Coal Stove. Ernst Bros. 506 PIKE STREET Phone John 2831 Ind. 1151 NOTICE OF MEETING OF STOCK- HOLDERS. Notice of meeting of stockholders of the Seattle Mattress & Upholstery Co. March 30th, 1903, at 10 a. m., at the office of the above co., at 13 Ft. Ave. South, Seattle, Wash., the office will be a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of increasing the Capital stock of the Seattle Mattress & Upholstery Co. To Fifty Thousand Dollars. Those interested will take notice. S. L. LIPPY, T. A. G. FOSTER, J. W. EFAW, Trustees. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County, District of Washington. Charles H. Burnett, Jr., Plaintiff, vs. Tobias McLean, Mathew McLean, Mary Prescott, Mrs. Eliza Cates, Rebecca McKenzie, Maria McLean, Charles McLean, Norman McLean, Minnie McLaughlin, Frank McLaughlin, Mrs. Rose Jackson, Mrs. Jennie Davis, Charles E. McLean, Mrs. Amy Louise Bond, W. H. Vincent, Mrs. Robert H. Vincent, ander McLean deceased, and all persons known or unknown, claiming any interest in the Estate of Alexander McLean, deceased, Defendants. No. 36653. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington, to the said Tobias McLean, Matthew McLean, Mary Prissott, Mrs. Eliza Cates, Rebecca McLean, Thomas McLean, Norman McLean, Minnie McLaughlin, Frank McLaughlin, Mrs. Rose Jackson, Mrs. Jennie Davis, Charles E. McLean, Mrs. Amy Louise Bond, W. H. Vincent, as Administrator of the Estate of Alexander McLean, deceased, and all persons, as Administrator of the Estate of Alexander McLean, living and estate in the Estate of Alexander McLean, defendants: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, February 1908 and to the court. February 1908 and defend the host entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff, at his office below stated; and in writing will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of the said court. The acts of the above entitled action for the plaintiff to be decreed, and entitled to 1-72 interest in said estate and that the Court make an order decreeing who are the heirs at law of Alexander McLean, deceased, and entitled to an interest in his estate and the proportion of his estate so decreed was entitled to. 2nd. That a partition and division be had of the said estate and a distribution thereof and that Commissioners or Referees be appointed by the Court to the heirs at law of Alexander McLean, deceased, and that if the said estate cannot be fairly divided that the Court in accordance with law cause the said estates to be divided among the heirs at law of Alexander McLean, each receiving the part of said proceeds to which he or she may be entitled. The description of the property sought to be divided and partitioned, is as follows: Lot seven (7) of Block five (5), Bell & Denny's plat. (8) block eight-five (85). Central Seattle Addition, all in King County, Washington. Fractional lot one (1). Section nine- tenth. Churny (30) North. Range three (3). East. Southwest quarter Section nineteen (19). Township thirty (30) North, Range three (3) East. West half of southeast quarter Section nineteen (19). Township thirty (30) North, Range three (3) East. Southeast quarter of southeast quarter hilly (39), North, Range three, 3 East North alf of northwest quarter Section thirty (30) Township thirty (30) North section Let two (2), Section thirty (30), Township thirty (30) North, Range three (3) East. Southeast quarter of northeast quarter Section thirty (30), Township thirty (30) North, Range three (3) East. Southeast quarter of northwest quarter of northwest quarter (30) North, Range (3) East, Range (3) East Northeast quarter of southwest quarter Section thirty (30), Township thirty (30), North, Range three (3) East. Northeast quarter of southwest quarter Section thirty (30), Township thirty (30), North, Range three (3) East, all in Island County, Washington. Undivided half of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section twenty-nine (29), in Township twenty-nine (29), in Section twenty-nine (29), South half of northwest quarter Section twenty-nine (29), Township twenty-eight (28), North, of Range one (1) East, all in Jefferson County Washington. North half of Section nineteen (19), Township thirty (30), North, Range three (3) East, W. M., containing 217.44 acres. That there is One Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Eight Dollars and Seventy-One Cents ($1,178.71), cash, in the hands of the administrator of the estate deceased, to be partitioned and divided. 4th. That the plaintiff recover of the defendants his costs and disbursements in this action and such sum as the Court may deem reasonable as attorney's fees herein, and that the plaintiff may have such other relief as for a complete adjudication of his rights in the premises may be necessary, equitable, just and proper. JOHN FRANCIS MLEAN. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: Room 12 Roxwell Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for the County of In Probate.—No. 3932. In the Matter of the Estate of Elizabeth S. Gilbert. Decased. Order to Show Couse on Final Account Distribution, Etc. The above entitled matter having come on for-hearing this day upon the petition and final account of Sarah A. Kendall, the administratrix herein, praying that said account be approved, the estate distributed, the estate held, the attorney be allowed and that she be discharged and her bondsmen released, and it duly appearing to the Court from said petition that the said estate is in a condition to be closed and that the costs and expenses of the administration have except the compensation to said administratrix and her attorney, and it furtherly appearing to the Court that the time for presenting claims against said estate has long since expired and no claims of any kind have been filed or presented here. Now Therefore, it is by the Court being duly advised in the premises, ordered that all persons interested in or concerned with the above mentioned estate, be and appear before the Court on January 1903, at the hour of 9:30 A.M. on said day, in Department No. 4, at the King County Court House, in the City of Seattle, in said County, and then and there show cause. If any they have, why the estate closed and wound up according to said estate distributed, and the compensation of the administratrix and her attorney allowed, and the administratrix discharged, her bondsmen released, and the estate closed and wound up according to said estate distributed, and the compensation of this order be published in some weekly newspaper published in Seattle, once a week for four weeks, and that three copies hereof be posted in three public places in the county for the same length of time prior to the date of said hearing according to law and the practice of this Court. Done in open Court this 23d day of SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. No. 38108. Hattie L. Jones, Plaintiff, vs. Charley Jones, Defendant. The State of Washington to the said Charley Jones, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty 600 days after the 21st day of Feb. 2022, and to appear in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demands of this complaint. You have been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is that plaintiff may obtain a divorce from defendant on the grounds of abandonment and non-support. ANDREW R. BLACK. Plaintiff's Attorney. P. P. Address 326 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. Feb. 21st, 1903—22 Apr. 1903. NOTICE Notice is hereby given that a meeting of the stockholders of the Spokane Grain Company office on the said company at 1211 Western Avenue the City of Seattle, King County, Washington, on Saturday, hte 7th day of March, 2014, to discuss the purpose and purpose of said stockholders meeting being to increase the capital stock of said Spokane Grain Company from ten thousand dollars to one hundred thousand shares of dollar each to one hundred thousand shares of the par value of one dollar per share. Trustees of the Spokane Grain Company. Jan. 9, March 6. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ON PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION, ETC. In the Superior Court of the State of Washington for the County of King. In the matter of the estate of P. J. Thor- sen, deceased. In Probate. No. 3897. The above entitled matter and estate having come on for hearing on the petition of Emma R. Thorsen, the administratrix discharged, and it duly appearing to the Court for permission, the said administratrix has caused a notice to the creditors of said deceased, and his estate to be published as required by law, and that all of the debts and claims against the said estate have been paid, in accordance with the law, and the said deceased, and the funeral expenses and the costs and expenses of administering the estate of said deceased, and that the time for presenting claims against the said estate has been paid, in accordance with the law, and the said estate is in a condition to be closed, and a distribution made, the administratrix discharged from her trust and the estate wound up, and it further duly appearing to the Court, that the only assets which the administratrix are the household furniture belonging to the said deceased, and the said administratrix, and the north half of the south half and the south half of the north half of the house, and the only heirs at law of the said deceased are the said administratrix, Emma R. Thorsen, widow, and Doris E. East, W. M., in King County, State of Washington, all of which said real and personal property has been duly inventoried and appraised to the Court, and the only heirs at law of the said deceased are the said administratrix, Emma R. Thorsen, widow, and Doris E. East, W. M., in King County, State of Washington, all of which said real and personal property has been duly inventoried and appraised to the Court, that all of said real and personal pro further duly appearing to the Court that administrix is entitled to have all of said real and personal property set aside to her as the widow of said deceased. Now, therefore, it is by the Court being duly advised in the premises, considered, ordered, adjudged and decreed that all persons whosever interested in the estate of the Court may be deemed to appear before this Court, at the King County Court House, in the city of Seattle, in said County and State, in the Probate Department thereof, on Friday, the 13th day of February, A. D. 1902, at the time of the hearing, the past, in the morning of said day, and show cause, if any they have, why the petition of said administratrix should not be granted, and the said estate closed, and the said real and personal property above the estate of the Court should be with the administratrix discharged and the estate wound up according to law, and it is further ordered that a copy of this order be published once a week at least four weeks prior to said day, and that three copies hered be posted in three public places in the county for the same length of time, according to law and the practice of this Court. Done in open court this 6th day of January, 1903. BOYD J. TALLMAN. Judge. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE State of Washington, for King County. Nebraska. Libbie Beach Brown, Plaintiff, vs. William A. Collins, and all persons unknown, if, any, having or claiming an interest or estate in and to the hereafter described real property, Defendants. William A. Collins, who are the owners, or reputed owners of, and all persons unknown, claiming or having an interest or estate in and to the hereafter described real property. You and each of you are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff, Libbie Beach Brown, has requested the Washington tax certificate, No. B7028, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, embracing the following real property situated in King County, Washington, and more particularly described as follows, to-wit: (1) the fee for the Washington tax-six (26) of Glilman's Addition to Seattle. That said certificate was issued on the 12th day of April, 1901, for the sum of $15.73 for the delinquent taxes for the years 1894, 1895 and 1896; that the taxes for the delinquent taxes for the years 1894, 1895 and 1896; that the Plaintiff, w.r.t. the year 1897 the sum of $2.23; the year 1898 the sum of $1.88; the year 1899 the sum of $2.11; the year 1900 the sum of $2.57; the year 1901 the sum of $2.43; which several sums bear interest at the rate of fifteen per cent per annum from said date of pay. You and each of you are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this notice and summons, exclusive of the publication to within sixty days after the 23rd day of January, 1903, in above entitled Court, and defend the action or pay the amount due, together with the costs. In case of your failure so to do, plaintiff will apply for judgment, and judgment will be delivered by the lien, said taxes and costs against the real property, lands and premises here-in named. LIBBIE BEACH BROWN. Plaintiff. W. T. SOUTT. Attorney for Plaintiff. Room 11. Washington Building, Washington. Jan. 28—March 6. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE THEATRE OF Washington or King county. Emily Brunet, ma. vs. Louis Brunet, defendant. No. 36801. The State of Washington to the said Louis Bruns, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wait within sixty (60) days after the 16th day of January; 1903, and defend the above and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the clerk, as has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of this action is that plaintiff may obtain a divorce from the defendant by reason of and on account of defendant's will relieve to support plaintiff and at plaintiff be given the custody and control of the minor children of plaintiff and defendant. P. D. HUGHES, Plaintiff's Attorney. P. O. Address, 533-5 Burke Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Jan. 16 Feb. 27. NORTHERN PACIFIC YELLOWSTONE PARK LINE THREE TRAINS DAILY TO THE EAST Leaving Seattle at 1:10 p. m., 6:20 p. m. and 11 p. m. FAMOUS NORTH COAST LIMITED Is again in service. PULLMAN & TOURIST SLEEPING CARS SUPERB DINING CARS St. Paul Minneapolis Duluth To— Fargo Winnipesg Helena Butte The Short Line to ansas City and All Southern Points, with Through Car Service. Tickets to all points in United States and Canada For information, tickets, etc., call or write to I. A. Nadeau, Genl. Agent, Seat- lille, Wash., A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A. Portland, Ore. Tickets TO ALL POINTS EAST VIA GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY SHORTEST AND QUICKEST LINE TO St. Paul, Duluth, Minneapolis, Chicago AND ALL POINTS EAST Through Palace and Tourist Sleepers, Dining and Buffet Smoking Library Cars. Daily Trains, Fast Time Service and Scenery Unequaled. For Rates, Folders and Full Information Regarding Eastern Trip, call on or address S. G. YERKES, A. B. C. DENNISTON, C. P. & T. A. G. W. P. A. 612 FIRST AVE., SEATTLE, WASH. The Short Line To Chicago and East IS THE North-Western Line All Trough Trains from North Pacific Coast connect with Trains of this Line IN UNION DEPOT, ST PAUL. THE.... NORTH-WESTERN LIMITED IS THE FINEST TRAIN ENTERING CHICAGO. F. W. PARKER, Gen. Agt. 151 Yesler Way Seattle. THE DOINGS OF AFRO=AMERICANS LOCAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS Five Years—7 per Cent. For Sale in Amounts to Suit. R. F. GUERIN & CO. 317 Bailey Bldg. Telephone Main 726 Estab. 1888 DANIEL JONES & CO. Real Estate and Insurance 117 Cherry St. Seattle, Wash. SHAMEK'S RAINY DAY STORE 1307 Second Ave. Arcade! Building Over 1,000 Umbrellas sold the first week—our prices do the work. We will save you one-quarter your money. Each and every umbrella guaranteed. Repairing and Covering a Specialty. R. M. Kinnear A. L. Brown Phone Main 822 KINNEAR & BROWN Investment Brokers Real Estate and Mining 205 Cherry St. Seattle, Wash. PURE WOOLEN GOODS At the Woolen Mill Store, 1117 First Ave. We Wash, Pick, Card, Spin and Weave Wool into Blankets, Flannels and Cloths, and know it is Pure. SEATTLE WOOLEN CO. Largest Stock of PIANOS and small musical instruments of all kinds in the city. We make a feature of low prices and easy terms. Now closing out our sheet music department at less than cost. D. S. JOHNSTON COMPANY 903 Second Avenue, Burke Building. Roslyn Coal... TIME TRIED and FIRE TESTED After two years' use in Seattle it stands alone the favorite Domestic Coal. Phone Union 24, Deliveries North of Pike Phone Main 588, Deliveries South of Pike D. B. SPELLMAN Practical Plumber and Gasfitter. Sanitary Plumbing a Specialty. 212 Columbia Street. MORAN BROS. CO. Manufacture and Sell LUMBER For All Purposes SEATTLE WASH. Next Week Will be Carpet Week At this store. The carpet and drapery departments have been prepared for your visit, and we hope you'll come. All the new season's ar rivals are on the floor and shelves. The attractiveness and the newness will interest you. Standard Furniture Co. L. Schoenfeld & Sons 1012-1018 First Avenue TACOMA SEATTLE WHATCOM Over zealous colored folk in Memphis, Tenn., with more money than sense, are preparing to float a daily paper for "colored folks only," in that section of the country. Such daily papers are dead ones before they are even live ones, and the sooner colored folk with no more capital for such investments than they have learn this fact the better for them. *** In the state of South Carolina there are approximately 781,800 colored folk and only 500,800 white folk. This is the home of the Tillmans and the hot bed of opposition to the progress of the Negro of this country. ```markdown ``` It is learned from an exchange published in Birmingham, Ala., in the interest of the Afro-Americans or that section, that Afro-Americans bought real estate in that city during the past year valued at $100,000. This does not look much like the colored folk of that state are preparing in a body to emigrate to their African fatherland. From the annual report of the United States bureau of education, which is soon to be distributed, it is learned that for the past scholastic year there were in the South between five and eighteen years of age 8,698,888, children of school age. Of this number 5,964,665, or 68.57 per cent, are Caucasian and 2,734,224, or 31.43 per cent, are Afro-American. The report further states that in the public school for white children 4,268,877, or 71.57 per cent of the Caucasian school population were in attendance, while the enrollment in the Afro-American public schools was 1,564,526, or 57.22 per cent of the entire number. * * * If Mark Hanna's ex-slave pension bill should become a law it has been estimated by a Southern Congressman that 1,000,000 ex-slaves would be eligible to be placed on the pension list and at that pro rata it would mean an annual expenditure of $350,000,000 by the general government over what it now expends. The New York Sun has discovered that 76.6 per cent of the population in New York are foreign born or of foreign parentage. It also declares that there are 60,000 Afro-Americans in that city, which gives a voting population, strange to say, of 45,000. With the Anglo-Saxons divided into various parties and factions it is plain to be seen that the Afro-Americans hold the complete balance of power from a voting standpoint not only in New York City, but likewise throughout New York state. --- It will be especially pleasing to the Afro-Americans of this country to see Senator J. C. Pritchard retire from public life the 4th of March next. Senator Pritchard hails from North Carolina and was made United States sen- ator by the coalition of the Republican and Populist votes of that state, and was at the time of his election declared to be the Moses of the colored people from the South. His success, however, was instrumental in giving him an inflated opinion of his own greatness and he soon turned his back on the party that was responsible for his success and joined hands with the Democrats to disfranchise his colored constituents and succeeded in the undertaking, but, like the Roman girl who betrayed her native city to the enemies of her country for what the soldiers had on their wrists, meaning their golden bracelets, who instead of after she had betrayed the city being given their jewels, was buried under a mass of shields, which the soldiers also carried on their wrists and was told to take that as her pay. Pritchard who betrayed his constituents and was promises greatness by the Democrats was turned out of office by them and will be compelled to return to his country home to practice law again, and this he has been told to take as his reward for his treachery. The principal speaker at the annual dinner of the New York Southern Society, which was held last Saturday evening, was one Augustus J. Van Wyke, who made use of the following remarks touching the race question in the South: *** "There is but one unsettled problem peculiar to that section, commonly called the Negro question. The South understands it, and if left alone it will be settled rightly and justly, in a Christian spirit. The natural friendship between whites and blacks of long standing (with no idea of social equality) is well known to those at all familiar with the subject. The best friend of the black race is the white race of the South. The future welfare and development of the former rests upon the absence of conflict between the two. Let no American citizen who loves his country be a party to stimulating a war of the races." --- He or she who makes use of such language is either a fool or a knave or both and should be indicted as an accessory of murder before the fact. With men, women and children being burned at the stake and with men being disfranchised and driven from their homes and the entire aggregation subjected to treatment such as was never before imposed upon a weaker race dwelling among a stronger; and yet such blatant mouth fools as this man Van Wyke will insist on saying "the Southern people are the best friends of the black race." What on earth does he measure his friendship by? Speaking about the whites would never tolerate social equality with the Negroes, if the Southern whites of the Tillman stripe are the ones that the Negro is to be forced to socially recognize, they are as bitterly opposed to social equality as are the whites. The Negro who would socially entertain such brutes as the Tillman gang and similar gangs that are found in all of the Southern states is lower by far than it was ever thought that he could fall. . . . If Senator Hanna will amend his bill to pension slaves so as to confine its benefits to those of pure African blood he will reduce the number of beneficiaries amazingly.—P.I. Quite correct, but was not the octooroon just as much a slave as "those of pure African blood?" The father of the octooroon favored him or her no more than the blackest person on the farm and worst of all the white son of the father of the octooroon would knowingly cohabit with his half sister, the same as with the wild heathen just from Africa, and either was a rose of Sharon and a lily of the valley to him after night fall. Make no discrimination on account of their great difference of color, for in the eyes of you and every other Anglo-Saxon, whether they are pure African blood or only one-sixteenth African blood, they are all "niggers" and whether intelligent or ignorant, good or criminal, you are against their being placed on an equal footing with other nationalities if only they can intelligibly muddle out "I'm a white man." Mark Hanna's bill is but a dish of sop that will never be heard of again, but should this prediction prove false and ex-slaves are pensioned, then, regardless of their complexion, let all be put on an equal footing. * * * Secretary Root asks: "What shall we do with the Negro?" We answer let him alone! The Negro is free. He has the opportunity to acquire independence, to make himself a respected member of society, to hasten or delay his own development—just as the average white man has. He receives an education, such as it is, almost entirely at the expense of the white taxpayer, and, in the South, at least, he can always obtain employment. It lies with him to work out his own destiny, to make of himself a useful citizen, and to rear his family in righteousness and decency. Why need our statesmen concern themselves over the feverish complaints of a handful of impudent agitators demanding that to which they are not entitled and which white men of similar condition and equipment would not dream of asking for? There are thousands of well-to-do colored men in the South who could inform these anxious gentlemen that the Negro is not helped but injured by this everlasting outcry. There are thousands, worth anywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000, who get all the "recognition" they want without clamoring for it, and they can testify in their own experience that "recognition" comes always to him who has deserved it This pestiferous vociferation over the Negro and his so-called rights merely inflames the vanity of the ignorant and robs him of what little self-respect he has. The truth is that this eternal nonsense about the Negro and his rights and wrongs; this mischievous cackle over him and his future, is infinitely harmful to him, and fraught with calamity to both races. Let him alone? Stop this idiotic unroar. The Negro is all right, and for every impudent pretender and complainant filling the air with clamor for recognition there are ten thousand honest, industrious, self-respecting men slowly but surely working out their own destinies and building up their own fortunes. Let him alone! —Washington Post There certainly is method in the Post's madness, and the Negro of this country will make no mistake to ponder long and prayerfully on the thoughts herein. Do something that will commend itself to all manner of man and "recognition" is as certain to follow as night to day. Fool Anglo-Saxons occasionally snub meritorious Negroes on account of their nationality, but sensible men no longer indulge in such. . . . Prof. Council Denies. Normal, Ala., Feb. 9, 1903. The news sent out by the Birmingham papers connecting Prof. W. H. Councill with some meeting which is take place in May in reference to affairs in the South is erroneous. Prof. Councill has not been able to attend to any business for many weeks and is now in the Seventh Day Adventist Sanitarium, at Nashville, Tenn., for treatment. He knows nothing about this meeting and has never authorized anybody to use his name in connection therewith and has never been consulted about it. I am quite sure that he is interested in everything for the unification of the races in the South and the common interest of all, but he knows nothing of this meeting. S. L. MABIN. Secv. PERSONAL. Mr. William Wilson is still confined to his bed. Mrs. W. J. Gudger, who has been in a very precarious condition, is improving. Mount Zion Baptist Church, Rev. J Gordon McPherson, pastor. Services 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sabbath school, 12:30. Morning subject, "Arise and Go Back to Bethel." Evening, "Lord's Supper." Come, you are welcome. Mr. and Mrs. John Ritter gave a most delightful dinner party last Sunday afternoon in honor of Prof. and Mrs. Frank Withers. Among those present were Mrs. M. Wilbur, A. E. Lewis, Robert Rudd and Mrs. Lella Baker. The occasion was enlivened by sweet strains from Prof. Withers' Mandolin and Guitar Club. The many friends of Mrs. W. J. Gudger have arranged to give an elaborate musical at the Masonic hall, corner Pike and Second avenue. Thursday evening, March 5th. Many of the best performers in the city have kindly consented to take part in the musical. The Afro-Americans of the Queen City should make this concert a financial success as it is for a worthy cause. Free Employment Bureaus.—The success of the free employment bureaus in Illinois seems to carry encouragement for those who think that such establishments should be provided in every state. During the last year a total of 27,779 men and 14,134 women applied for help, and work was found for nearly 24,000 men and 13,000 women. For the three years the offices have been in existence in Chicago and Peoria, 90,000 out of 110,000 applicants have been provided with employment. Of applicants for assistance there were 56,000, and 43,500 of these were aided.—Chicago Evening Post. Kodaks Of the latest and best makes. Photograph supplies. Washington Dental Co., Seattle, Wash. Frames Walker Portrait and Picture Co. 1424 Third ave. Frames made to suit you. Agts wanted. 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