Coquille City herald., December 28, 1897, Image 7

T H E D O L L IS A N C I E N T .
CAPITAL CITY BLACKS
this Chilkoot tramway will be the only
thing ready early enough to accommot
date the first rush in February and
The mummies of little Egyptian prin­ H O W T H E T H O U S A N D S W I L L March. Until that time, there is ap­
parently little choice between the trails
cesses, dead now three or four thou­
REACH ALASKA.
for winter travel, and those who go in
sand years, have been unwound, aud
before February may take either. Foi
In their spicy folds little dolls have
those who go in over the snow a Yui
been discovered.
Afttiir more than r iie r * A re M a n y R o u te « S p o k e n o f , B u t | kon sled is necessary. This is a strong
a s Y et O n ly T w o A re A d v i s a b l e fo r j
twenty centuries the ruins of Babylon
skeleton sled and may be purchased at
t h e G o ld S e e k e r t o A t t e m p t —S o m e |
and Nineveh have been unearthed aud
any rtigular outfitting point.
Many
moat frequent among the treasures
e f t h e D if f ic u lt ie s t o B e O v e r c o m e .
take dogs to help draw sleds, but all
brought to light have been small terra (Special Correspondence.]
can not do this. If it is done, special
cotta figures ami mauy beautiful carv­
Jewels of Life.—Mauy spend their
How many will go to the Klondike ' provision must be made for food for
ings in Ivory, which most likely were □ext year, how will they be transport- the animals.
labor gathering lif«»’s want«» and throw
the fascinating dollies of little Assyri­ id, are questions now being asked by j After the lakes have been reached, away life’s jewel.—Rev. Frank Crane,
an ladles. The puppets with which transportation companies and the the remainder of the route is the same Methodist, Chicago, 111.
Greek and Roman children amused thousands interested in one way or an- j for both (»asses, consisting of about 550
Good and Great.—We can all be good
themselves in ordinary had their being >ther in tbo great movement about to i miles of lake and river navigation to and great if we but try. We may not
In day. Their arms and legs were Joint­ take place.
Even the man going ; Dawson City, at the month of the reach the goal for years, but the goal
ed ami attach«*! by threads aud were thither to seek bis fortune is vitally in­ Klondike. It is 50 miles further to will be reached at last.—Mrs. Booth-
to dangle al>out oil the doll being terested in these matters. If there is j Forty-Mile, and Circle City is 300 Tucker, Salvationist, Chicago, III.
shaken up am! down or on a thong or :oo big a crowd he may not be able to miles down the river from Dawson.
Love for Humanity.—When we have
string being pulled from below. Dolls iecure a passage, or to get a proper The new town of Rampart City is still
of ivory and wax were unknown, but outfit, or bo successful in transporting about 500 miles further down the Yu­ the light love for frail humanity we
these, no doubt, were the playthings it into the interior. He would better kon, at the mouth of Munook creek, will live for some good purpose, and
of the richer classes«. Before marry­ not trust too much to luck nor depend not far above the point where the our lives will be a great blessing to
others.—Rev. G. W. Ferry man, Bap­
ing, these maidens of classic times too much upon being able to travel in Tannanah flows into the great river.
tist, Cincinnati, O.
would make a sacrifice of their dolls the regular way. Certainly, so far as
This entire lake and river journey is
Greed of (¡old.—I)o we not know
to Venus or Diana; but if they died as the regular steamers are concerned, made in strong boats, usually built out
children the dolls were buried with their berths will all be engaged weeks of timber whipsawe l hv the Yukoners that our one besetting evil is the wor­
them, and most of those that we now in advance, and the man who neglects on the banks of Lakes Lindermann or ship of gold? For money we sell our
possess have been discovered in tombs. ;o secure passage early may have to Bennett. There is a small saw mill health of body and peace of mind, our
The orgin of the name “doll” has baf­ wait a long time for his turn to come there, but it is unable to cut enough sous and our daughters.—Rev. T. B.
fled some of the wisest and most learn­ around. Even on the overland trains timber to fill the demand. Doubtless Gregory, Universallst, Chicago, 111.
ed, the majority of whom have at last there is promise of inconvenience, if not other mills will be taken in as soon as
Liberalism.—Orthodoxy has insisted
come to th«» conclusion that it comes j Jelay. So great a rush, all in one di­ the tramway is completed, but miners for 100 years that liberalism was dy­
from “Dolly,” the diminutive of •Dor­ rection, will tax the rolling stock of should not rely upon this, but should ing In this country. Our brethren
othy,” a favorite name for girls iu En­ the railroads to its utmost, since cars take an outfit of tools and material for should learn wisdom and hold the an­
gland two hundred years ago. The will have to go back empty.
building a boat, as well as oars and nouncement until the obsequies are
word doll is not found in common use
Tbo lowest estimate of the number of row locks. Efforts to take in boats over fully performed.—Rev. U. A. White.
in our language until the middle of the ¡people who will start for Alaska next the pass last fall were unsuccessful, Universallst, Chicago, 111.
eighteenth century, and as far as one spring is 50.000, while some who have even in sections. Though it might be
Progress and Posterity.—A man
can discover first appears iu the Gen­ given the subject much attention place easier to do so over the snow, it is ought to educate his family in the be­
tleman’s Magazine for September, the figure as high as 200,000. At an doubtful if it would not consume as lief that his sou ought to be a better
1751, in the following question: iverageof 300 to each vessel, it would much extra time and labor as the man aud till a nobler place in society
“Several dolls with different dresses, require 170 steamers to convey the min­ building of a boat would require. than himself. He ought to believe in
made iu St. James str«*et, have been imum number, while 680 would be When the tramway is at work, special­ progress. Have hope for posterity.—
sent to the Czarina to show the manner | necessary to accommodate the maxi­ ly constructed boats could no doubt be Rev. J. J. Muir, Baptist, Washington.
of dressing at present iu fashion mum. To send 170 steamers in the taken in to advantage, aud valuable D. C.
among English ladies.” Prior to this months of February, March and April time be saved.
Great Names.—We want imperish­
The route leads through Lake Linder­
the word used to describe the favorite would make it necessary for two to
plaything of all girls In all countries sail each day. There is now advertised mann, 6 miles, a portage to Lake Ben­ able names, characters, which will
and In all ages was “baby,” which is not one-quatrer the steamers necessary. nett, 1 mile; down the lake, 24 miles; stand the test of time. The world’s
to be found, together with poppet or The otiiers will no doubt l)e provided, through Cariboo crossing to Lake Tag- history glows with names of its lie-
puppet In this sense in the works of for there are numerous transportation ish, 2 miles; down the lake 19 miles; roes, and they stand in a grand pro­
most of the great early writers.
projects on foot, but nothing definite by river to Lake Marsh, 6 miles; cession before our imagination.—Rev.
The earliest English “babies” were of about them can yet be said. This is across the lake passing Windy Arm, U. G. Seymour, Baptist, Philad«4phta,
rags or wood. The latter were stiff, sufficient to show that the man who 19 miles. Those who go in the win­ Pa.
Gods.—“Thou shalt have no other
un jointed things in which the arms intends to join the first great rush by ter and early spring can proceed to this
were only roughly indicated, and the the way of the passes and lakes would point by drawing their boats on sleds, gods before me” strikes a death blow
legs, In most cases, not at all. The do well to make sure of his passage to but there they must wait for the ice to to the god of power, and the god of
way we arrived at the wax, china and Dyea or Skaguay. As to the route by break up before proceeding down the money, and tho god of profession, and
more exj>ensive sorts generally is curi­ the way of St. Michaels and the river, river in their boats, unless they intend the god of stomach, and the god of so­
ous. In the middle of the seventeenth that will not be open till June, and to go through light, dragging a sled cial life, aud all the gods on the thrones
century there were no ladies’ fashion extensive transportation projects now over the snow aud ice. Twenty-five of a big city.—Rev. C. Myers, Baptist,
papers, as now. Consequently In or­ under way will be sufficiently developed miles below Lake Marsh is the dreaded Brooklyn, N. Y.
der to show what was most being worn long before that time to make it well Miles canyon, and just below this
The Living Wire.—Electricity was al­
place are White Horse rapids. Both ways floating In the air. Only recently
on the continent «lolls were accurately to postpone any estimates until later.
There are but two well known and of these places may be safely run in have we found a wire to make It light
dressed up and sent around to the vari­
ous European countries, ami from the undeniably practical routes to the Yu­ the boat if the utmost care is exer­ our homes and help our work. Jesus
models orders were taken for costumes kon mines. One is by the mountain cised. Many boats have been wrecked is the living wire, to bring to us in un­
by the foreign milliners! The dolls passes from Dyea and Skaguay to the here and their contents lost, while sev­ broken currents the cheer and power
themselves, rather than their dresses, | lakes and thence by boat down the lakes eral unfortunate men have been of God.—Rev. C. L. Thompson, Pres­
attracted people, so that large numbers . and rivers, and the other is by ocean drowned. No one should attempt these byterian, New York City.
of the little figure« were imported from steamer to St. Michaels and thence up difficult passages without first having
The Sabbath.—As God crowned the
abroad, and from the majority and the the river by light draft steamer. All carefully studied the situation. Thirty six days of creation with the seventh
best of them coming from the Nether­ i other routes are yet to be proved, and miles further down the river is Lake day of holy rest, so let the days of
lands were called “Flanders babies.” jail who try them must expect to meet Le Barge, 30 miles long. Five Finger
A “Bartholomew baby” was a special with the tribulations and uncertainties rapids are 163 miles below this lake, your honest labor become sanctified by
kind sold at the old fair of that name that lay in the path of the pioneer. and Rink rapids are 3 miles further. the solemn rest aud devotion of that
and was celebrated for the quantity of Undoubtedly the great majority of Yu­ These are the last of the specially dan­ day, which is the glorious crown of
ribbons aud mock jewelry with which koners will try the passes, since the gerous places, though care must be ex­ our week.—Rev. H. W. Scliueeberger,
Hebrew, Baltimore, Md.
mines can be reached in this way two ercised during the entire journey.
It was decked out.
As to other routes from the coast,
Saloons.—Public opinion has done
The mechanical doll Is also an Insti­ or three months earlier than by steam­
tution of considerable standing. Ref­ er, and, of these the greater number there are but three that have any much to reduce the liquor traffic and
prominence,
and
none
of
them
is
as
yet
will
go
over
the
regular
Yukon
trail
by
make It unpopular, and has placed It
erence to them has been found in the
the way of Chilkoot pass, the next sufficiently known to make it advisa­ under a law. The Anti-saloon League
earliest editions of the Spectator.
ble
for
the
ordinary
gold
seeker
to
at­
greater
number
going
from
Skaguay
over
has reduced the number of saloons and
Will the custom ever lx» dropped?
tempt them. One of them is tho Dal­ drinking pla«'es in Washington 280 In
the White pass.
F a g m a s t e r in the English Schools.
It is well thoroughly to understand ton trail, leading noitherly over the four years.—Rev. J. W. Duppy, Metho­
Fngmasters are often the fags’ best this route and its variation as to the mountains just west of tiie Chilkoot dist, Washington, D. C.
friends, and even at the universities two pusses. Linn canal, about 100 pass, and paralleling the lake and
afterwards keep a kindly eye upon miles north of Juneau, penetrates a river route for about 300 miles, finally
A L L O N A PINHEAD.
them. Sometimes it happens that a number of miles northerly into the striking the Yukon below the most
fag turns out a great cricketer or oars­ coast mountains, the very head of it be­ dangerous rapids. It is claimed that A l p h a b e t a n d F i g u r e s K n g r u v c il o n a
V e r y S m a ll S u r fa c e .
man, in which case his old fagmaster ing divided into two arms by a rocky this is the best route for a railroad, but
The alphabet and the figures one to
Is as proud of him as of a younger promontory. Into the easterly arm it is yet to be shown how practicable
ten
on
a
pinhead.
It hardly seems po«-
brother. Or, like as not, in after-life a flows Skaguay river and into the west­ it is for general use. The government
country parson can look upon the time erly arm the Dyea river. Both are will probably attempt to send in a re­ slble to «»ngrave so many characters up­
when he fagged the bishop of his rapid, ice-cold mountain streams, nav­ lief expedition by this route early in on such a small surface, but that feat
of microscopic engraving was accom­
diocese. Iu a speech made in 1890 by igable for canoes only for several miles. the spring.
The Taku and the Stickeen routes, plished by Mr. Joe Whltehouse of Mill-
Lord Rosebery, late prime minister of At the head of these arms are located
England, there Is an amusing reference the new towns of Skaguay and Dyea. one starting from Taku inlet, near Ju­ dale, Ky., a young d«‘signer at Noter-
to fagging. “It is a long time since From these points it is necessary to neau, and the other from the Stickeen niau's, on Race street. The thirty-six
you and I, Mr. Chairman” (Mr. Aclaud, j cross the high mountain divide to river, near Wrangel, converge at Lake characters are cut out with peculiar
minister of education), “first met. I Lakes Lindermann and Bennett, where Teslin. Small river steamers can nav­
have always been a little under your boats are constructed for the journey igate this lake and pass down the
presidenee, because I began as your down the river. Until the past season Hootalinqua river to the Yukon below
fag at Eton, and I little thought, when the Yukoners have used the Chilkoot the rapids, and thus to Dawson and be­
I poached your eggs and made your pass, from Dyea, exclusively, the Chil- yond. It is claimed that such steam­
tea, that we were destined to meet un­ kat Indians packing all the supplies at ers will be built on the lake in the
der these very dissimilar circum­ the usual rate of 15 cents a pound. spring, and that trails will be opened
stances.” Lord Roseoery then went The route is 37 miles long, and the up to the lake and pack trains put on,
on to make some suggestions to Mr. summit of the pass is 8,200 feet high. to be followed soon by railroads; but
Acland “with all that humility which The Indians have always refused to until this is actually done the gold
befits our former relations.” There pack by any other route, declaring this seeker wouhl do well not to intrust
can be no doubt that everyone laughed to be the best one. Last summer, ow­ himself to the uncertainties of those
THE P IN H E A D M A G N IFIED .
heartily at this, aud that It helped ing to the great rush and the eager­ routes.
distinctness
ou the head of an ordinary
Undoubtedly the most comfortable
very much In getting a hearing for his ness of all to get ever at any cost, the
suggestion.—Harper’s Round Table.
Indians raised their price for packing, and easy way to reach the Yukon mines pin—the exact size of which Is shown
until often as high as a dollar s pound is by steamer from one of the Pacific In the accompanying illustration. Un­
der the magnifying glas« the letters
M a d e fro m W h ite B e e ts .
was paid them. This, and the crowded coast ports to the mouth of the Yukon,
The first run of clean white granu­ condition of the trail, led many to try at St. Michaels, and thence by light and figures appear as shown above, and
lated sugar ever made In this State the Skaguay trail, which, though 41 river steamers up the stream, the dis­ the work Is regarded by competent
was turned out at the first New York miles long, was asserted to be better, tance up the river being 1,422 miles to Judges of engraving to be excellent.
beet sugar factory, in Rome, last night. because the summit of the pass was Circle City, and 1,772 to Dawson City. Mr. Whltehouse has b«»en at Noter-
It Is smooth-grained, white aud sweet, some 500 feet lower. It was found, The trouble with this route is that the m&n’s for many years, having there
and the fa«.*tory management feels very however, that the trail was not so good, river is navigable only three months in learned engraving and destgulug, at
proud of the production. There are that the river had to be crossed several the year, and then only by small river both of which he Is an export.
about four tons of sugar In this run, times, and that, though the pass was steamers, because of freqnent bars. The
A r t if ic ia l T e e th .
which went into the factory In the form somewhat lower, the trail led up and ice breaks up about the 20th of June
The use of artificial teeth is of an­
of beets on Monday morning. The com­ down hill so much that the actual and fo'ms again about the same time cient origin. Two curious speclm«»i»
pany expects to have al>out four tons climbing done was greater than by the in September. There are now several of artificial teeth from the Etruscan
more of sugar to-morrow. Only white Chilkoot pass, where the ascent was steamers on the river belonging to the tombs, dating from four or five cen­
beets were used in these runs, and the gradual to the foot of the summit di­ Alaska Commercial Company and the turies before the Christian era, may
sugar Is considered equal to anything vide, when one very steep climb was North American Transportation and be seen In the museum of Corneto» on
In the market. After to-morrow It is necessary. The practical result was Tra<ling Company, both of which have the coast of Italy, in the mouths of
expect«! that about ten tons of granu­ that a very much larger percentage of trading posts on the river, with head­ two young girls. On the Jaw of one
lated sugar a day will be turned out. those who tried the Chilkoot pass suc­ quarters at St. Michaels. Both «com­ may still be seen two Incisors fixed to
i/ocal grocers are paying an extra price ceeded in reaching the lakes, than of panies are building several new vessels their neighbors by small gold rings,
to get beet sugar to sell as au advertise­ those who attempted th 3 Skaguay route. tor next year’s traffic.
while In the other, the rings remain,
ment.—Utica Herald.
Nevertheless, improvements are now
The outlook for this route next sum­ but the artificial teeth have fallen out.
being made on both trails, and both mer is that the number of steamers on The teeth, carefully cut, had evidently
F r ie d C e le r y .
will be extensively used in the spring, the river will be utterly inadequate to been taken from the mouth of some
Although the crisp and tender celerj it being much easier to go in over the accommodate the persons who will be large animal.
Is best served In Its natural state, fried snow, when the rocks and mud which landed by thousands at St. Michaels by
N e lth rr.
celery Is an appetizing relish as a made the trails so difficult last fall are steamers and sailing vessels, though
Junior—I don’t know what to think of
luncheon or suppqr dish. To prepare covered up.
there are numerous projects on foot for
It, cut pieces of the larger stalks In
There are projected improvements building steamers on tho river in the Mkw Knice. Either she Is awfully good
three-inch lengths. After wiping each for both of those trails, in the nature spring or towing them thither. As | nature«! or she Is haii-fool. She is
piece dry, it should be dipped In egg, of railroads and tramways, but as yet every vessel on the river will probably knitting all the time.
Senior—Has she good teeth?
then In bread crumbs, and fri«»d quick­ only Chilkoot pass shows anything tan­ run in connection with some regular
Junior—Perfect.
ly by dropping In smoking-hot fat. Re­ gible. A combined railroad and tram­ ocean line, and as the pobabilities are
Henlor--It is safe to say she is not a
move to drain on some brown paper, way is under construction and is prom- that the ocean liners will carry more
and send hot to the table to eat with sed to l»e completed by the first of Feb­ passengers and freight than the river fool; but it does not follow that she Is
scolloped oysters or a chafing <lish ser­ ruary, for the taking of freight from steamers can handle, it would seem as | awfully good-natured.—Boston Tran-
vice of creamed fish.—New York Post. Dyea through to Lake Lindermann. The though the only persons who will stand I script.
probabilities are that this convenience any show of getting through to Dawson
The I m p o r t a n t C o n i d d e r a t i o n .
T h o W is h In E c h o e d .
“I don’t know what this couutry is
will be provided by that time, or by this route will l>e those who pur­
“I see,” said the man with nothing to shortly thereafter. The company oper- | chase through passage from the starting coining to!” exclaimed the pessimist.
worry him, “that some one has invent ating it purposes to contract to carry point to their destination for thorn- I “You are on the wrong track,” replied
ed a yacht that does its own tacking.” j freight from Dyea U* the lake at a price selves and supplies. Those who pay the official, as he signed the order keep­
“I only wish,” said the tired man with much below what it would cost to pack pansage only to St. Michaels, or who ing out an anarchist. “The thing to
the tied np thumb, “that the thing j it over, and to handle it so promptly t reach that point by independent steam­ worry about Is what is coming to tills
could tie applied to carpets.”—Clncin that by the time the owner oan walk ers or vessels, will probably be unable country.”- Washington Star.
natl Enquirer.
over the trail his freight will get to proceed any further. Notwithstand­
The novelist who marries his hero to
through. With this tramway in opera­ ing this promises to he the condition
C o st o f th e S p it h e a d F le e t .
\ “new” woman will have hard work to
The great English fleet of 141 vessels tion, and nothing similar on the Skag­ of affairs next summer, there will convince his readers that they lived
gather«! at Hpithead at the Queen * uay trail, the Chilkoot pass would get . doubtless thousands of men take pass­ happily ever after.
jubilee cost $ 155,000,080, according to a alf the travel. There are, however, | age in all kinds of craft for St. Mich­
statement In the London Times. i>arg.? ftill other tramways and n il road pro- j aels, without providing means for get-
The man who goes ut»out wishing be
as this sum is, it Is less than the United , ketfl on both trails, bat when they will | ting bayond that point. Much disap­ had never been born Is not the only ou#
1 bp ready for use is uncertain. At the I pointment is in store for many on this that regrets It.
Bute« raises annually for pensions»
pr- sent timo it would seem as though ' poors.
U n e a r t h e d w i t h K i c j p t i a n M u m m ie s
T h r e e T h o u n a n d Y e a r s O ld .
FORM
O N E .T H IR D O F W A SH IN G ­
T O N ’S P O P U L A T I O N .
I n N o O t h e r C it y in t h e U n i o n H a v e
t h e C o lo r e d P e o p l e Hi» M u ch W e a l t h
an d I n te llig e n c e - P ay
th e T u xes.
O n e-T e n th o f
H om e A r e r i f f l e s * .
W uH blngton co rresp o m leu ce :
\\ ith so largo a colonsl population as
tlien* is in Washington -a population
which, were it by itself, would make a
city twice the size of either Elmira,
Yonkers or Auburn—there Is. as there
would be in an# so large a community,
a class of the idle and shiftless who
eke out a hand-to-mouth existence.
Washington was thoroughly South­
ern in its beginning. Its resident citi­
zens are still largely Southern. In con­
sequence of this many of their homes
»‘•'«•re originally built iu the old slavery
style with tin» negro quarters in the
J’ear, and while in some cases the fam­
ily servants still live in this manner,
they are now the exceptions. But in
many cases there are handsome houses
facing on aristocratic streets, while the
T ;x -S E N A T O R HRUCE.
alleys in their rear are tilled in solidly
with dilapidated two and three-story
frame houses which are pack«*! with
negro families, an astonishing number
ol' them living within the Inclosure.
However, it is down in the obi canal
districts of the city and in such places
as “Hanunersleys,” “Louse” and
“(«oat” alleys that the lowest type of
the negro element of the capital is to
be found. Mere they fairly swarm, liv­
ing as compactly as bees in a hive,
and idleness, tilth and poverty hold
full sway. That there Is suffering iu
these quarters in the winter time there
can be no doubt, but the weather is
seldom intensely cold in Washington,
and while it is warm and the pangs of
hunger are not too poignant the aver­
age darky of this section seems ob­
livious to his discomforts. The women
lean from their windows and chat the
hours away in idle gossip, which often
becoiyes so animated that a nearby
policeman has to bring it to a sum­
mary close; the men seek sunny cor­
ners out of the sight of these same
police twho seldom consider it neces­
sary to see them) and all day long, and
often all night long, indulge in that
form of gambling which seems to fas­
cinate the colored contingent all
through the South, the game of “craps.”
Bui these are not the representative
colored people of Washington, for it is
an incontrovertible fact that in no
other city iu the Union is there so much
wealth and intelligence as among them
here. While the population is oue-tbird
colored, one-tenth of the taxes of the
city are paid by them, and they are
represented in almost every branch of
business ami the professions of the
city. There are over thirty colored phy­
sicians in Washington, many of them
well educated, and with large prac­
tice.
There are also quite as many
lawyers and numerous real estate
agents, while there are hundreds of
ministers of the various evangelical
churches, and 297 professors and teach-
o . in tin» public schools. There are be­
tween 3.000 and 4,000 people employed
in the Government service with sal­
aries ranging from $5,000 per year,
which is the salary of the recorder of
deeds, who is a colored man, to $40 a
month, which is paid the charwomen.
There are also several colored men
who are employed in the Congression­
al library.
Two excellent papers are published
«ml owned by colored publishing com­
panies—the Colored American, a na-
W OMEN L E A N FROM W IN D O W S A N D CHAT.
tional negro newspaper, and the Bee,
a paper more local in Its scope. They
are published weekly and have large
circulation«. The American Is an ex­
ceedingly creditable sheet; it is an
eight-page paper and It gives a compre­
hensive sweep of the.questions of the
day as they relate to the colored man.
Its editor and manager, Edward E.
Cooper, is one of the brightest and
brainiest young men of his race.
One of the interesting places about
Washington is the old Fred Douglass
home. The Cedars, on the Ana cost la
Height« overlooking the city. It is on«'
of the most beautiful for situation of all
the residences of the Capital City. It
is on the summit of a high bill and is
surrounded by magnificent cedars ami
oaks and the views from the windows
are of unsurpassed loveliness.
Mr. Douglass bought this place a few
years previous to his death and It is
¡¿ere that he brought his white bride
and lived with her during the r«
mainder o>f his life, excepting when
.they were abroad traveling. Mr. Doug-
Jam left a very large estate and wLth
femme other property willed this place
'to Mm. Douglass. There was, however,
» fla w in the will ami she was only al­
ow ed an interest in it, but has since
en buying it from the other heirs,
he lives alone now and has made aV
pio*t 4 Douglass memorial of The
fcedars. Mr. Douglass* library is kept
gfrrtaut as he left it. Several large llfe-
pictures of him adorn the walls.
T h e A la b a m a , th e new w a rsh ip fo r th e A m e ric a n navy, is ra p id ly a p p ro a c h in g
com pletion, an d it is one of th e finest, if n o t th e finest, th a t h a v e risen from th e
w ays in th e big s h ip y a rd s o f th e C ra m p s. T h is engine o f d e stru c tio n is one of
fo u r s is te r sh ip s. T h e th re e o th e rs a re th e K e a rsa rg e , K e n tu c k y a n d Illinois,
w hich a r c now well u n d e r w ay at th e y a rd s in N ew p o rt N ew s. T h e A la b a m a is
a b a ttle s h ip o f th e first class. S h e is 372 fe e t long by 71) fe e t In th e b e am and
d ra w s 23 fe e t o f w a ter. S h e lia s 11,500 to n « d isp la ce m e n t, o r ju s t 100 to n s m ore
th a n th e Io w a. T h e A la b a m a w ill h a v e o n ly tw o tu rr e ts an d w ill he m u c h less
h eav ily a rm o re d in ev ery w ay th a n th e Io w a an d th e M a s sa c h u se tts c la ss o f ships.
T h e A la b a m a w ill he th e m ost p o w e rfu l fig h te r in all th e nav y . T h e en g in e s of
th e n ew sh ip a re o f th e trip le e x p a n sio n type, w ork in g iu s e p a ra te w a te r -tig h t
c o m p a rtm e n ts. T h e s e e ngines w ill develop a com bined h o rse pow er of 10,000,
w hich w ill d riv e th e ship a t a speed o f s ix te e n k n ots an h o u r. S even d e ck s will
rise one on th e o th e r. T h e re a re w a te r b o tto m , p la tfo rm deck, b e rth deck, p ro tee-
tiv e deck, m ain deck, u p p e r d eck am i b rid g e deck. T h e re will he living q u a r te r s
fo r 500 m en w ith th e ir oftteers.
A lift'-size bust is iu one corner and
many souvenirs presented to him (lur­
ing his lifetime are to be seen on the
mantels and tables.
Mrs. Douglass looks rather frail aud
a little as though life’s wind had blown
in her face, but if she has ever regret­
ted the step she took iu marrying the
man with the black skin not by a word
lias she ever betrayed it. “He was the
greatest man of his age,” she says
proudly, “and the pioneer of his race.
I knew no color line when I married
him. I know none now. I only wish to
be one of the grand army who are try­
ing to help uplift the downtrodden
everywhere of both races.”
S t ill a S tr o n g P r e ju d ic e .
swindled him out of almost all his prop­
erty and lie has become the menace of
civilization, the nihilist. Did you ever
hear of a negro who was an anarchist
or nihilist? No, you never did; nor did
I, and I believe that in his heart the
average colored man was loyal to his
country, ami when he learns to make
the man of himself that he is. capable
of, then I will have no fear for him.”
D E A T H IN A S T R A N G E W AY.
C u rioiiH
a n d F u ta l A c c id e n t
K a .stim , M d ., W o m a n ,
to
un
In Easton, Md., Mrs. Josephine Grlm-
shaw went to drive the other day. Her
carriage was making its way along the
That there Is a strong colored preju­
dice in the District cannot be denied,
and a cultured, scholarly man iu
whose blood there is but a taint of
black extraction said to the writer the
other day with intense bitterness in his
voice, “Where is the spirit of the Christ
who said, *Do unto others as ye would
have them do unto you’ among the
Christians of Washington? I am a col­
ored man and I went down to Balti­
more yesterday iu one of the river
steamers, and because of my color I
could not buy a mouthful to eat nor a
drop to drink all day, and when I
reached the city there was not a re­
spectable hotel nor restaurant owned
by white men where I could go to sat­
isfy my hunger. I cannot take a lady
ami go out to Cabin John, Glen Echo or
Chevy Chase (three prominent pleasure
resorts) and be admitted, nor am l al­ street when a curious accident oecur-
lowed in the white churches. Not in red.
A loop in the free end from a tele­
one single store in this capital of the
nation is there one of my race em- phone wire had been left dangling over
the street. Tills loop caught a little
j button on the top of the carriage. The
horse was moving forward rapidly and
the loop tighten«*! about the button.
The movement of the animal jerked the
wire, but It did not break and neither
did the button part company with the
top of the carriage. Instead, the whole
top was wreuehed off the vehicle. The
carriage was half overturned by the
shock and Mrs. Grimshaw was thrown
out, being so severely Injured that she
died in the house to which she was
taken for treatment.
W a te r tig h t C o m p a r tm e n ts.
T H E OI.D
FRED
DOUGLASS
HOME.
ployed in any position higher than a
porter or elevator boy, and although I
am a graduate of Princeton ami try to
conduct myself as a gentleman, I am
not permitted to occupy the desirable
seats iu the tlmaters or other places of
amusement. Do you wonder that I feel
that there Is no ultimate hope for my
race in Washington?”
Ex-Senator Bruce, a leading colored
man. takes a much more hopeful view
of the case. “No,” he said in answer to
my query, “I do not expect to live to see
social equality, but I do not despair for
my race. Time will ameliorate the dif­
ficulty. When the colored people raise
themselves to the level of the white
man intellectually and financially the
difficult problem will be solved, for
when I have wdiat the white man wants
my color will not keep him from com­
ing to me for it. And my people have
made wondrous progress; no other peo­
ple under God’s heaven have made such
advancement despite such adversities
as they. Think of it! Every other
class of people have had those of their
number who Inherited their wealth, but
scarcely a dollar of our wealth came to
us through inheritance. Thirty-five
years ago we were a penniless, ignorant
and utterly Inexperienced people. No
one owned any property and no one had
any experience in ac«iuiring it, yet look
all over the land to-day and there is
scarcely a hamlet where colored people
may not be found sitting between their
own vine and fig-tree.”
“Compare the Russian serf with the
negro.
‘Thirty years ago four and a half
millions of black people were set free
There is nothing new brought Into
the field of Invention, but what some
musty old antiquarian sooner or later
announces that the Chinese were fa-
maliac with the trick long years ago.
Cassler’s Magazine instances the fol­
lowing confirmation of this generally;
The division of a hull of a vess«»l into
compartments Is of a more distant
period than Is generally suppos«Hl.
As early as the beginning of the nine­
teenth century the Chinese divided the
holds of their trading vessels. Intended
for distant waters, into a number of
smaller holds or spaces. Th«»se com­
partments were separated by parti­
tions made of 3-lneh plank, and caulk­
ed with gum that was mixed with lime
autf threads of bamboo—a composition
tlwjt readily hardened when brought
Int«* contact with water. The number
of jom part men ts depended upon the
number of owners In the vessel.
At just what time this division of
the hull was first adopted does not ap
pear to have been recorded. It may
have been very old at the period
named. The compartments were made
for commercial economy, rather than
for the safely of the vessel.
Use pf bulkheads for safety purposes
was probably first made in the West­
ern rivers of the United States.
As e%rly as 1820, not ten years after
the introduction of steam vessels on
the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers by
Robert Fulton, the hull of the steam
boat Columbus, running between New
Orleans and Hhlpplngport, Ky., was
torn opop by a snag, but the vessel was
“saved from sinking by having a snag
room, which apartment alone was Ail­
ed with 'rater.”
The Caledonia, running on the Missis
slppl Rlier in 1824, also had a snag
room.
Prior, e* the yesr 1841). of 736 vessels
lost from all causes on the Western
American rivers, 419 were lost from
snags and other otistnietions In the
rivers. No doubt the danger In navi
gating these rivers is what brought
the snag room or <‘110111 her Into use.
T h e L a b o r P r o b le m .
GAME OF
“ CRAPS.
and scarcely one of them owned the
price of a breakfast. At about the same
time these Russian serfs were freed
also, but to each family a certain num­
ber of acres were given them and a pit­
tance on which to start life. Omfiare
them now. The serf is the down-trod-
den serf still; the Russian Jews have
Neophyte 1 don’t see why you should
give Wiklow $2 a day and me only
$1.50.”
Superintendent—Wiklow s an expe­
rienced hand.
Neophyte—Then the work must come
a good deal easier to him than It does
to me. and he oughtn't to get so much,
instead of getting more —Boston Trans
eript.
O n T h e ir W e d d in g T r i p .
He—I have Just been reading that the
total length of the world’s ralhoa I tun­
nels is about 514 miles.
She—Oh, I wish they were all on this
line.
It is easier to teach babies to talk
than it is to teacb some men oot to.
IH B
YUKON
RUSH