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The SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
VOL. VI NO. 51
PRACTICAL_SCIENCE
Things That Come Under Daily
Observations Both on Land and
Sea Indian School Children-
Strength of The Swiss Army—
Spurgeon's Tabernacle Re
built—Battle at Spottsylvania—
Men Engaged and i/ost—Com
merce on Lake Erie — Alcholic
Drinks Decreasing While
Coffee is Increasing.
You can buy tea in China for
1| cents per pound.
Western Australia has thirteen
bank holidays.
No fewer than 112 families of
injurious insects, vex farmers.
There are 6,003 pieces in the
modern high-grade locomotive.
Every square mile of sea is
estimated to contain some 120,
--000,000 fiHh.
Over $5,00,000 capital is invest
ed in this country in the manu
facture of playing cards.
Andrew Carnegie has given
away $7,863,500 during the last
sixteen months, and nobody is
asking him where he got it.
There are 25,000 Indian children
in school, fully 30,000 Indian com
municants of Christian churches,
and 38,000 Indians who speak
English. The race is not dying
out, but increasing.
The Japanese ride American
bicycles and play baseball, and
they use Americrn expressions in
connection with the game, as "one
strike," "home base," etc.
.France's minestry of public in
struction encourages art by an
annual expenditure of $3,600,000.
Thisihctudesl the support of the
Ecole dcs Beaux-Arts and ten
other state schools of fine arts.
The number of exhibitors at the
Paris Exposition are as follows:
French 30,000; United States,
6,564; Belgian 2,5<K); Germany
2,000; Italy 2,000; llussia l,5l)0;
Scandinavia 1,400; Austria 1,000;
Great Britain 600.
The Trans-Siberian Railroad
will cost at least $500,000,000, of
which $295,000,000 have already
been expended. It is estimated
that the net yearly receipts of the
road whan completed will be a
trifle over $4,000,000.
Robert T. Lincoln, the fastidious
son of Abe Lincoln, the Great
Emancipator, is realizing the
princely sum of $500,000 per
annum for handling, as one of two
administrators, the George Pull
man estate, which has grown from
$8,000,000 at the time of his death
to 15,000,000 at present
Two years ago the Metropolitan
Tabernacle, better known as Spur
geon's Tabernacle, was destroyed
by fire in an hour. It is now
nearly rebuilt. Within a month
the tabernacle will outwardly be
as of yore. The old tabernacle
cost $160,000 and the new one
$200,000. The new edifice will
seat 4000, a few less than the old
building.
It requires an average of more
than 20,000,000 pins per day to
sustain the falling skirts, replace
the missing suspender buttons and
meet the other needs of the Amer
can people. What becomes of all
these pins is a question that no
body has been able to answer, but
there is no falling off in the de
mand, so that this number must
disappear in some manner every
day.
According to official reports the
strength of the Swiss army on
Jan. 1,1900, was as follows: (1)
"Auszug" (men from 20 to 32
years of age), 150,876 men, com
prising 113,617 infantry, 4,551 j
cavalry, 20,443 artillery, 5;686 en
gineers, 4,928 in the sanitary
corps, and 1,751 in other depart
ments. (2) "Landwehr" (men
from 33 to 45 years of age), 87,
--364 men—a well armed and well
trained militia, making with the
Auszug a total of 238,240 men.
Some idea of the immensity of
the industry as well as the wages
received by the workers in the
iron and steel mills around Pitts
burg may be had from a pay roll
for some 12, < XX) men for the month,
which footed up more than $900,
--000. This was for the three plants
of the Carnegie works —Home-
stead, Edgar Thomson, and Du
quesne. A like sum was paid
out to employes in other plants of
the company in Allegheny county
at the same time. The sum dis
tributed is believed to be the
largest ever paid in the history of
manufacturing in this country.
Troops from every state, North
and South, were arrayed in the
battle at Spottsylvania, Va., to the
number of at least 500,000, and
more men were here engaged than
in any battle in the world's
history. The losses in killed,
wounded, and missing on both
sides aggregated 129,838, to-wit:
Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862—
Union loss, 12,353; Confederate
loss, 4,576. Chance llorsville, May
Ito 4, 1863—Union loss 16,030;
Confederate loss, 12,281. Wilder
ness, May 5 to 7, 1864—Union
loss, 37,737; Confederate loss,
11,400. Spot tsylvania Courthouse,
May Bto 18, 1864-Union loss,
26,461; Confederate loss, 9,000.
Of the aggregate of 129,838, the
Union loss was 92,581, while the
Confederates 10.,t 37,257. In the
National cemetery on Marye's
Heights, the largest in the nation,
there lie buried 16,500 Union
soldiers, and frequent additions
are made from the exhumations
on the battlefields.
The registered tonnage of the
vessels passing through St. Mary's
canal to Lake Erin in 1899 was
21,958,900 These carried 49,000
passengers, 3,940,000 tons of coal,
7.114,000 barrels of flour, 58,397,
--000 bushels of wheat, 30,000,000
bushels of other grain, 316,000
barrels of salt, 120,000 net tons of
copper, 15,328,000 net tons of iron
ore, and 1,380,057,000 feet of lum
ber The value of articles carried
through the canal in 1899 was
$233,069,000.
Statistics recently compiled
show that the value of the alcoho
lic drinks consumed by the Amer
ican people for the year 1899 was
approximately $1,000,000,000.
They also show that our national
consumption of alcoholic bever
ages is diminishing, while our con
sumption of coffee has almost
doubled in ten years. The whis
key-bottle appears to be giving
way to the coffee-cup.—New York
World.
There were 903 postoffices in
1800; today we have 75,000—that
is, in America alone. It took a
letter sixteen days to go from
Philadelphia to Lexington, Ky.,
twenty-two days to Nashville,
Term. The cheapest letter post
age was 8 cents, and to send a
letter more than a hundred miles
cost a shilling. Three million
letters and papers were then sent
in a year: at the present time the
postoffice handles about 30 million
pieces of mail in a single day.
About half the population
of the boroughs of Man
hattan and the Bronx is out
side of the "sphere of church in
fluence," according to a chart pre
pared by the New York City
Baptist Mission society. The 103
Catholic churches have 543,163
members.; The membership of
the other denominations is as fol
lows:
First, Episcopal, 121 churches,
65,900 members.
Second, Presbyterian, 70 church
es, 27.766 members.
Third, Lutheran, 33 churches,
21,157 members.
Fourth, Methodist, 67 churches,
15,511 members.
Fifth, Baptist, 50 churches,
16,310 members.
Sixth, miscellaneous, 37 church
es, 15,153 members.
Seventh, Hebrew, 46 churches,
10,892 members.
Eighth, Congregational, 14
churches, 3,018 members.
With a membership in the 103
Catholic churches, therefore, of
543,164, a membership in all the
other 439 churches of L 80,009, and
360,018 persons added as being
within the "sphere of influence" of
these latter churches, the number
of persons within the "sphere of
church influence," according to
these figures, is 1,083,191, leaving
916,809 persons outside of church I
influence. J
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 18 , 1900.
THE OTHER SI
Paul Quinn s Men's Sunday Club a
Noted Literary Organization-
Becoming Famous Through
out the Country—Comptroller
Dawese Sees the American
Negro Through a Different
Prism From Senator Been Till
man —His Services as a Soldier
Will Always Be in Demand-
Made Much Progress in Other
Directions.
The colored citizens of Chicago
have had for some time past a
Men's Sunday Club, which meets
every Sunday afternoon in Paul
Quinn Chapel, the largest church
edifice in the United States in
which colored folk exclusively wor
ship. This Club has already be
come a noted organization, and at
its meetings some of the most
learned men, irrespective of color
or previous condition, have lectured
from its rostrum. It will be re
membered that it was at this Club
some months ago that Kabbi
Joseph, the noted Jewish divine,
lectured on "Race Prejudice in the
United States," which lecture
caused such wide spread comment.
Scores of other prominent literary
lights have done likewise, which
has given the Club a National
reputation for representing the
most advanced thoughts aud ideas
of American progress. Chicago
has some very notable Negro
scholars within her gates and they
are not letting their literary lights
get covered up under the pro ver
bal bushel, but are holding them
high in mid air that all may see
the light. The Men's Sunday
Club in connection with this pro
minent church, wherein the topics
of the day are discussed by the
best thinkers in the community,
is by no means a new idea, as such
clubs are to be found in conjunc
tion with the most of the leading
churches throughout Christendom
at present, and they are proving a
tower of strength to the various
organizations as church feeders.
Other churches among the Negroes
of this country should follow the
example of Paul Qninn and orga
nize similar bodies, and they
would soon see a marked differ
ence in the interest taken in their
respective congregations.
In the last issue of The Repub
lican a speech delivered by
Senator Been Tillman before the
students of Ann Arbor Law school
was published in full. If what
the Senator said were really true,
then of all human beings on the
face of the globe, the Negro is by
far the most dispicable. There is,
however, always two sides to every
question and this week, to show
both sides of the question, another
member of the Caucasian race, no
less prominent in the affairs of the
land than Senator Tillman is quotj|
ed, who is none other than C. G.
Dawese, U. S. comptroller of cur
rency. Mr. Dawese spoke before
the Paul Quinn Men's Club, to
which hundreds of persons both
white and black listened with rapt
attention. He spoke as follows:
"During the brief period which
has intervened since the close of
the Civil War in the United
States the educational and indus
trial progress of the colored
people have been marvelous. At
the close of the war the free color
ad population of the United States
was about 10 per cent of the total,
end a very small proportion of
this number could read or write."
Mr. Dawes then gave statistics
of the advancement of the colored
race, and, in concluding, said:
"In agriculture, commerce,
manufacturing, literature and art,
and in every line of business enter
prise or educational effort in which
this nation is engaged the colored
people have their competent repre
sentatives. In literature colored
authors have made a most credit
able showing. It is not generally
known, but it is a fact, that the
library or Congress contains over
1000 books and pamphlets written
by colored men and women, em
bracing poetry, fiction, history and
sociology.
"In every war in which the
United States has been engaged
from the Revolution to the Span
ish-American war the colored man
has distinguished himself on the
field of battle. There are now in
the United States army two regi
ments of colored cavalry and four
regiments of infantry and a large
number of colored men are enlist
ed in the navy.
"Surgeon S. B. Hunt, late of the
United States army, has recently
made an exhaustive research into
the capacity of the c Sored man as
a soldier, and he toys: 'ior the
purpose of the soldier he has all
the physical charaHer required.
His temperament adapts him to
camp life and his m >rals conduce
to discipline. He i.-> brave and
steady in action, in all subse
quent wars the country will rely
very largely upon the Negro popu
lation as a part of its military
power. In these facts which I
have thus hurriedly grouped, and
in many others which might be
cited is found the highest incen
tive to still greater efforts ou your
part for your people.'"
And still another of the promi
nent Caucasians of this country is
quoted to throw against the Ben
Tillman argument. But recently
Rev. J. M. Lucey of Arkansas
addressed the Trans-Mississippi
Commercial Congress on the "In
dustrial Development of the
South," and touching on the race
problem said in part:
"The Negro now shows a will
ingness to acknowledge that the
Southern white man is his friend,
and he stands ready to unite his
energies with the brain of the
white man and make the South the
happiest and most prosperous
country in the world. Let the
Southern' white man now reach
down a friendly hand to the strug
gling Negro, and the race troubles
are at an end. The advancement
of the Southern N«gro is in keep
ing with his American character.
Under all the disadvantages of
the past thirty-five years he has
made commendable progress.
The facts show virility, thrift and
ambition. Unlike the ordinary
Indian, the Negro is a soldier aud
citizen, farmer and mechanic,
lawyer and doctor; he has entered
every trade and profession of life
and is a substantial element in the
industrial, commercial and politi
cal makeup of our great republic.
Ten millions of people acclimated
to the South distributed in all the
departments of industry: are
worthy of consideration in fore
casting and foreordaining the
work of the new era now dawning
upon us. We need the Negro.
Cotton is still king, but cotton
without the Negro is a king with
out a crown. You are now in a
hurry to adore new gods. The
time will come in the 'sweet bye
and bye' when you will return to
do penance at the shrine of the
ancient Southern divinity. In
respect to the measures which
should be adopted by this conven
tion in respect to the Negro, Ido
not believe that anything more!
than a hearty general resolution
of good will is necessary. The
Negro must work out his own
salvation, as the white man had
to do. Paternalism is not in har
mony with the idea of our Repub
lican government. It is men that
constitute the State, not wards or
children. But just as a chain is
no stronger than its weakest link,
so a government is no stronger
than its weakest element I'rom
the time that the Son of God was
obliged to come down from heaven
to help the white race and every
other race to achieve salvation, the
superior must help the inferior.
I respectfully ask the proper com
mittee to formulate a resolution
expressing to the Negro race of
the South a guarantee of full pro
tection of life and property uuder
the laws of the land, and assurance j
of Southern sympathy and guid
ance in their perfection as citizens
of the United States."
Dr" Lucey's utterances have the
right ring,' and if a few other
Southerners had the same con
victions and the courage to express
them, the frequent clashes between
the two races in the South would
soon become a remembrance.
At last Mr. Bryan has a "Bark
er" on his trail that promises to
put him up a tree at the next
general election.
Kindly remember our advertisers when
yon buy. Also speak a good word for
The Republican.
COUNTRY PRESS
United for a General Fourth of
Jnly Celebration in Every Com
munity in the State—ldeas that
Call Forth Editorial Comment-
Circulating Iyiar 1,00.50 Again—
Sunday Closing I,aw Don't
Work Well in This State—
Yakima Has a Kick to Regis
ter—Other Editorial Calls-
General State Review.
Auburn Argus: "Thanks, Bro.
Cay ton, for your sympathy. But
we'll sympathize with you after
the convention is over. Wooding
will win, you know." And, if he
is, it will be neither the worse nor
the better for us. We lived under
the Moyer administration aud we
can live under a Wooding admin
istration should such a thing ever
lie a reality.
Auburn Argus: "Bro. Cay ton
need not waste any sympathy
upon us. It is plainly evident
whose collar Bro. Caytou wears."
So many politicians have had their
collars about "Bro. Cayton's"
neck that you are justified, be
yond measure, in making the above
allegation. Should we have worn
more collar's of politicians, per
haps, we would not now be wear
ing debt's collar for the necessities
of life. Newspaper men who have
the happy faculty of making all
of the politicians "dig up" seem
to be the "real thing" and are
always able to either wear dia
monds or roll in sumptuous living,
while those who try to be fair
eventually go broke and have to
work for the other fellow.
"Todays forecast -hot aud
stormy," says last Satuday'a Se
attle Review, on which day the
Democratic county convention was
held. And a good many Demo
cratic politicians got thunder
struck during the storm, so comes
the report from the convention
hall, and among the number that
got struck was the man who runs
the Review.
"Largest circulation of any
weekly paper in Pierce county,"
advertises the Sun of Tacoma,
which, even with that, is not say
ing very much for a circulating
lie. You will have to spread
yourself a little more than that to
catch patent medicine adds, Brer.
Tugwell, or you will get them, I do
not think.
"No man should be nominated
for vice-president who would not
make a president," thinks the
Centralia Chronicle, and winch is
about correct, but most any man
that has been spoken off in con
nection with the vice presidency
would make about as good a
president as the other fellow, so if
that be the only requisite shut
your eyes and choo«e one.
From the Chehalis Examiner it
is learned that the Gray's Harbor
Ministerial Association is oppos
ing the running of trains on the
branch road entering that section
on Sundays. Since trains are
being promiscuously run all over
the United States in general and
the state of Washington in particu
lar ou Sundays the kick of the
ministers on running trains on
that road does not seem well
founded. Let Sunday train run
ning be stopped all over the state
and then stop it on the branch
road is the thing that the ministers
should try to do, that is, if they
desire to oppose anything of that
nature.
At Stevenson a merchant and a
saloon man were recently arrested
for keeping their respective
places of business open on Sun
day. A jury was impaneled and
the case was gone over
the defendants not denying the
allegations of the prosecution.
That the city of Stevenson would
not loose trade, the same going to
some neighboring town, the jury,
in spite of the statutes, rendered a
verdict of "not guilty" on the pre
text that to close up the business
bouses on Sunday there and no
where else would ruin the town.
If this is not the capping verdict
that any jury ever returned then
the capping one should be brought
to the front forthwith if not
sooner.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
According to the Yakima
Eerald Yakima county is half
again as large an Puerto Rico and
is fully as rich in natural re
sources, and yet the government
will not give North Yakima a
public building worth $20,000,
when thousands up on top of
thousands are being spent on
Puerto Rico. Thats what North
Yakima gets for having white
citizens instead of copper colored
ones as has Puerto Kico. The
scales will turn some time. _
Memorial Day at Mt. Vernon
promises to be more betittingly
commemorated than ever before in
the history of the city. Ex-
Senator Wilson has promised to
speak on that occasion, and the
Argus of that city says the Rusell
post is to be congratulated on
securing so able a speaker as Mr.
Wilson. The editor frankly ad
mits that he has no particular love
for the Senator personally speak
ing, but he is willing to acknow
ledge his ability as a public speak
er and perhaps the best in the
state.
Everett papers are rejoicing
over the fact that the United
States senate has made Everett
a port of entry to this country.
Everett seems to be quite in the
swim at present and Jim Hill is
doing the work, notwithstanding
the fact that he is constantly
flirting with Seattle, hoping there
by to get more depot concessions
for speculative purposes.
It is gratifying to learn from
the Snohomish papers that Sno
homish county is in the best
financial condition that it has
baen for many years. This is the
results of four years of McKin
leyism in the United States. The
voters are told by the Fusion press
that the same conditions would
have existed had Bryan been
elected, but he was not elected,
heuce such talk is speculation.
Financial demoralization reigns
supreme among the shingle men
of this state, so report the papers
from the various shingle sections,
and such is so, owing largely to
over production. To straighten
out the tangled web it is proposed
to close down the mills for sixty
days or more, which order has
been sent out, and already par
tially put into effect.
Surely the Coulee City News
does not want the outside world to
understand that the county offi
cials of Douglas county are really
"bad men," simply because they
are Republicans. Party prin
ciples may not always be to the
opposite partisan's liking, but it is
un-Christian like to brand mem
as quasi criminals for no other
reason than because they were
elected by the voters of an opposi
tion party. Do you see the point,
Bro. Ogders?
It Hon. J. O 1 B. Scoby is as suc
cessful in preserving guberna
torial nominations as he is in pre
serving strawberries, then there is
no use for any one else in this
state to apply for the governor
ship job for Scobey has it care
fully packed away in one of his
preserve jars. The state press is
generally speaking well of Mr.
Scobey's candidacy, perhaps, be
cause he was once one of the state
gang before he got "offis."
'Judge White flew oft on an ex
pansion tangent," says the Wash
ington Standard, "but has returned
to the party, having found no
place to light outside of the Demo
cratic ark of safety." Your Judge
White is of that vacilating politi
cal kind that no other party, save
the Democratic party, would have
him, for that reason he was com
pelled to return to his first and
only love.
Editor Montgomery of the Sum
ner Herald wants it distinctly
understood that he is not a Rogers
man so far as the governorship is
concerned. Not being a Fawcett
man it begins to look as though he
is decidedly a Montgomery man
for governor.
From some of the exchanges
that reach this office, it is observed
that the "grave yard" poet is still
imposing upon their respective
communities in commemoration of
departed loved ones. However
dear the departed one in to the
living, nevertheless, such poetic
slush is enough to make the dead
turn in their graves in utter
disgust.
