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Politicians ought to tell the truth.
Pat a small man in a big posi
tion and he will forget himself.
Wny is justice in Washington
like the weather?
. Because it is changeable. The
justice that ib meted out to the
white man not given to the negro.
There-is but lit le hope for the
negro in the South. , -
The Bee editor ip' not looking
for an office and neither does he
want one.
Unhappy is the man who hangs
on official favors.
Abolish the office of justice of
the peace.
It is better that they are abolished
All offices in the District of Co
lumbia should be filled by election.
The nfigro vote will divide
in 1900,
Our new leadership is made out
of that which cannot be seen.
In union there is strenght.
B. M. Hewlett is the moBt manly
negro attorney before the District
bar.
Be is not the man to oater for
favors.
If thvre was more manhood in
negro attorneys they would suc
ceed bet er.
Be truthful, it will pay always.
There is too much treachery
among certain negroes to succeed.
This world was not made for the
white man alone. ,
It is not well to tell all you know.
Be careful of what you say and
to whom you say it.
Don't be too hasty in coming to
a conclusion.
The Maryland politicians have
not been cared for as yet.
Will the negro vote ever become
a factor in American body politic?
Be what you say you ar
nothing mors.
Deception is sooner or later
detected.
An honest man is a truthful man.
You should do nothing that is
distasteful to good society.
It is not the person who grins in
your face, that Bhould be regarded
as your friend.
Don't place too much confidence
in the person who pretends friend
ship. Be honest with your fellow man.
The best policy is when you can
not do a thing say so.
It will never effect you to be
truthful.
on't be il tr n id at . e
noise.
The try daily has been struggling
hard since its publication.
It came out one day and has been
trying hard ever since to make its
appearance daily.
Can any one tell the difference
between the old school and new
school of politicians ?
Well out of the great number of
fficers appointed in the army not
one negro was appointed.
What has become of the repeal
the civil service law ?
Don't forget how the negroes
fought on San Juan Hill.
General Miles thinks well of the
negro soldiers.
And yet not a nero officer has
been appointed in the regular army
The man who speaks the truth is
the man to trust.
Don't be too impetuous in yonr
deliberation.
The man who thinks he knows
it all is generally affected with the
big head.
There was tyranny in the schools
on the part of certain school officers.
There are some school officials
too much on the old woman order,
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The day will soon ome when all
will be placed on a level.
It is not the wise man who
makes a fool of himself.
Our head Ewells some rimes be
ond theuas i it .
HOW FLIES AND MOSQUITOES DIS
TRIBUTE GERMS.
ScIemtUU Dally Making New DIieaTerUs
Majority of Oar Soldiers lKt in Spanish
American War Died FromTjrphold Fever
Carried by Files.
The relations of insects and bacteria
to man are of the highest importance
and are only just beginning to be ap
preciated in a vague manner by the
public.
The extent to which diseases are
conveyed by insects is appalling.
Scientists are daily making new dis
coveries of this character. As a very
pertinent illustration of what takes
place it may be pointed out that the
majority of our soldiers lost in the late
war died from typhoid fever carried
by flies'.
Texas fever is conveyed by the
Southern cattle tick. Professor Koch
found that the Tsetse fly, which causes
an enormous .loss of cattle in Africa,
kills not simply by its bite but also
by introducing harmful micro-organisms
into the blood of its victim.
The germs of malaria are inserted
into the blood of man by mosquitoes.
The insect finds th'eag&ms "on the de-
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NOSE OF COMMON HOUSE FLY CARRY
ING DISEASE GERMS.
caying animal and vegetable matter
on which it feeds. The mosquito also
conveys the horrible filaria diseases of
the East, which include elephantiasis.
Leprosy is communicated by mosqui
toes and other biting insects.
The "pink eye" of the Southern
United States is attributed to the horse
tick. In the Fiji Islands Europeans
have to wear a veil to protect them
selves against a serious native eye
disease, which is spread by the gnats.
Flees played an important part in
causing the recent terrible outbreak
of bubonic plague in Asia. The horse
fly and a common variety of biting fly
(stomoxys calcitrans) infect cattle and
even men with the germs of anthrax.
Even without the intervention or
flies and other insects man is always
loaded with a swarm of microbes.A
well known bacteriologist recently set
about classifying the various orders of
bacteria which are found on the hu
man skin. He gave up the task after
he had counted two hundred kinds.
Every one of these different kinds
was found to the number of rarely
less than five million. Thus- it seems
that every man carries about with
him microbes considerably exceeding
the entire population of the world.
Fortunately we are not utterly at
the mercy of these microbes. Very
often it is only the sick wliom they
can hurt. Nature, who never creates
a pest without supplying some means
of combating it, has furnished the hu
man body with several lines of de
fence against the microbial hordes.
The first line of defence is the skin,
which most of the mico-organisins are
incapable of penetrating. It is just
here that we perceive the dangers to
which we are exposed from the sting
ing insects. They introduce into the
blood germs which would otherwise
not be able to pass the skin. The com
mon house fly dees not bite, but it
may spread infection by depositing
the germs in the mouth, nose or eyes.
Besides the skin there is another
line of defence acainst the microbes
in the mucous membrane lining the
mouth, throat and digestive tract.
The pneumonia bacillus and the diph
theria bacillus are frequently found
in the throats of healthy persons and
cause them no inconvenience what
ever. They are unable to gain an en
trance to the tissues unless there is an
inflammation, caused probably by a
cold or some other violent disturbance
of the normal health.
The body has another very import
ant defence against the army of mic
robes in the gastric juice of the
stomach. This contains free hydro
chloric acid, which is extremely de-
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GROCERIES & PROVISIONS.
Northwest.
Same Way Secret Signals Travel
Ahead of Officers and Birds Fit
Tk 0lj Sf Way to Captnrs Hatchet.
ma Is te Make a Kuh Daager Al
ways From Scrt Trap Doors Operated
My Cords or Sprlagu Treacherous Roof
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Lieut. "William Price of the San air that will become impregnated wt
Francisco police force has been fight-, marine odors.
Ing the -hatchetmen" of Chinatown in The spectators, or passengers rathpr
that city for ten years. He has thus will walk about at their pleasure or
described his work and that of his sit at ease in chairs upon the dwt
j"ui:o. wuicu ni irpruuuw xnat or a jrenuino
The only way to fight a pack of de- steamer with the minuest aceuracT
ions is to be a demon yourself, 1 1 with all the details of masts riMnV
laco TWl iTfinrc orr V.Q K?o Villi twIqi-C 1.;, U, ..,;.. ' "!'"&
... jtiii fev uic iiit,iniiiui.iQ MuuMiif; auii iiuiuuuj; iiiunei, anil a
crew executing various maneuvers t
mons
euess.
called me. their "white devil."7 If there
Is anything in a name, all right. I
would rather have them believe I am
a devil than an aneel.
How do 1 hsht lnghbmaers.' Never
the command of an experienced can-
otti
At the same time, to the starboard
How do 1 fight highbinders? Never ana port of tne vessel win u "u
twice in the same way. If you set a , Vn?P so fppt in hpin-ht nntni .7rJ
trap for a hatchetman and he gets an tne pfrfection that might be m
caught in it you will never bag anoth- pected from the brush of M d' vied
er one that way. If there were 1,500 an(j representing the port of Marseilles
highbinders in the quarter everyone flyjnc to the rear. Frioul. rimt-m .m.
highbinders
v it m less than 1
utes. When I walk down Kearney
Quarter everyone flvlriP- in tha roor TTrfnnl r-l,., " ,.t.
would know it in less than five rain- nnH fihoi-mttn'o hnntc "o,i !.' .,
a i
ana nsnermen s Doats. ami timn ;,
utes. When I walk down Kearney high seas and the Algerian and Tunis
street and up toward Chinatown these jan coasts toward which the vessel
mpn have Kicrnalmen who carrv the tlHII Vi nnnnrontir tnunn.
rttixvti on ahotiri nf ttip "infat ns if sirnip- - i n, -
w ..r v,. , j- - wci liuji a mue or canvas will un-
one had my picture on a banner going fold all the sites and episodes of this
on in advance. And these signals trav-1 picturesque voyage. Everv one is no-
el like a flash. A certain wave of
the hand goes from block to block and
these hands are well paid, too.
picturesque voyage. Every one is ac-
quamieu witn xne pnenomeon; the dis-
' placement of an object which occupies
Acrv. .....w .. ...... '"-. "' . ' me euure iwm oi vision gives tne sta-
But if they should fail m their duty tionary spectator the impression that
ad some highbinder should be caught he himself is movinc
rtT"i
OXIU DViUC U'n
redhanded all the punk sticks m
Chinatown could not save the erring
signalman. A price would be placed
on his head before an hour.
Besides this system thre are secret
wires and alarms leading to attics and
underground dens where the highbind
ers hold their meetings. I remember a
big raid we made one midnight in
Ross Alley. We had located twenty
hatcbetraen in a deep cellar, but the
next thing was to get-them handcuffed.
I knew we had the right men and that
signals were being used. "Little Pete"
bad just been murdered and over his
grave vengeance had been sworn. Our
only hope was to reach the signals or
wires. A block distant from the den
was a Chinese butcher, on the street
corner, and his stall was open so he
could look in three directions. He had
a suspicious look whenever I came
about and always began to cut up
meat. We watched him. He always
went to the same block and began cut
ting. Two minutes before the raid I
jumped around the street corner and
into his stall. He moved toward the
block, but I clicked a gun in his face.
It was not a block at all simply a
board rounded to look like one, and
the slightest weight upon it would
press a button ImjIow and ring the high
binders' bell a block away. I clipped
the wire carefully, handcuffed my man
to an iron railing outside and soon had
a wagon load of men from Ross alley
on the way to the central police sta-.
tion. They were murderous looking
fellows, but we covered them all with
guns as soon as the door was opened.
The only safe way of getting a high
binder is to make a rush. He, always
has six or eight doors at his disposal,
besides secret hiding places, blind
doors and windows. I have known
some of them to leap into a "dumb
waiter" or secret elevator and shoot np
to the attic and jump through a hole
in the roof. All this in a few seconds.
he himself is moving.
It is the intention to change the can
vases after the exposition is over, and
then, perhaps, make a trip to the north
pole. (Revue International des Expo
sitions de 1900.
Expenm of Parliament.
A paragraph going the rounds of
European papers is intended to show
that popular government through a
representative legislature is generally
more expensive than monarchical gov
ernment. According to this view the
most expensive parliament in Europe
is that of France. The Chamber of
Deputies and the Senate cost nearly
$1,500,000 each year. Russia, which
has no parliament in the American
and English sense, saves this item of
expense, a saving which must seem
to most persons insignificant when
compared with the advantages
derived.
One reason why the French Assem
bly is so expensive is its extensile
membershiu . There are 300 Senators
and 5S4 Deputies, a total in excess of
800. TIip salary paid each is 0,000
francs, or $1,800 a year $200 less than
was paid New York Assemblyman be
fore consolidation. French legislators
also have free passes on the railroau
Italian legislators receive no salarj
but have free transportation on rail
road. The cost of the Italian Parlia
ment was 2.100,000 lires last year, or
about $420,000. The Holland legisla
ture is in two branches, the First and
Second Chambers of the Static Jen
eral. The former comprises ."l mem
bers who receive 10 guilders a day
during the session, and the second 100
members, who receive 2,000 guilders a
year and their mileage. A IMitih
guilder is approximately two-tifths of
a dollar, and the total expenditure of
the Dutch Parliament is $30.iMX) a
year in the equivalent of American
As might be expected. pa.n
Right here is the danger in hunting j has an elaborate parliamentary ys
the highbinder. A policeman is liable i tem whereby- not alone do the electe
XO Sltp lipuil il tuurviuai iiij. viuui "
the hallway or the rooms of the build
ing and fail into some dark, foul base
ment twenty ftM below. We have to
look out for this when we do the "rush
act." Not many weeks ago Tom Nay
lor was pursuing a desperate fellow
through an old lodging house on
Stockton street, and was just about to
crab him by the "pigtail" when the
hiirhbinder ran ut a "trick ladder" to
a hole in the roof. Tom followed him
and when near the top of the criminal
pulled out a nail, jerked a wire and
Naylor fell twenty feet to the floor,
while his man ran out over the roof.
Naylor then had to give it up.
The roof fighting is the most treach
erous of all in raiding highbinders. A
man is a good target in such a place,
and it is impossible to tell where the
shot was fired. But that isn't all.
On all these roofs there are trap doors.
An officer is liable to step on one at
any minute, while the hatchetmen
know them All at a glance. It is a
bad thing to fall through these doors.
1
rpTiri'sontatives of the neonle fo" f
! such of the people as vote) have places
in the Cortes, but also tnose u.
without being elected, receive a (umu
lative vote in several districts sum'
cient to have elected them in one
Spain expended last year 1.(540,000
pesetas for its Cortes, equivalent to
about $3n0,000. Portugal expended for
parliamentary services about $lCH.nw
and Austria, with two Chamber, one
in Vienna .and the other in Bud-ipe't
about 4.000.000 florins, of which :wn
000 was for the Austrian Uelrlnrat
and 1,700,000 for the Hungarian I'a"
liament. The members of the 1oa:
Australian house, ostensibly a repr
sentative body, receive 10 tlonn '
day for their services and ;ret lxW's
a mileage on Austrian railroads !
the official valuation of the rnwi
States Treasury an Austrian florin "
worth 20 cents, so that an Austr..in
lawmaker receives substantial!) tn
question of milagetapart) the same pa
as the law of the Tinted States Jiv"-
as a minimum fc laborers on ow
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urn croinir to lournev. nor nust wnar.
kind of company you're going to find
at the bottom. The doors are opera
ted by cords or springs.
I have surprised many a gang by
sliding down a rope right into their
midst. Anything sudden is always
best. Sometimes a shot fired above
their heads the moment you enter the
room will have the desired effect. You
must show them right from the start
that you mean business. Sometimes
a squad can surprise the guards and
lookouts by jumping out of carriages
before the door or from the opposite
side of a crowded street car.
When a highbinders society meets
to set prices upon men's heads and de
termine which among them shall do
the deed the utmost caution is ob
served. If their wires are clipped
they are still safe. At least three
guards stand near the entrance, two
of them on the opposite side of the
street
thf mpn in
dominoes. The bylaws and the bowl
with the "black button" are put in
a chute and sent above or below,
wT-iorr anmp mnn is alwavs in readi
ness to receive them. When all is quiet
again thej gather arouna tne dowi, ail
The members of the Swedish Parlia
ment number 150 in the upper au-i
250 In the lower branch. The rrin'-r
get no pay: the latter recelyi- l-'J'
crowns, or $300 a year, and if the s
sion lasts longer than four tnontiis
thev receive 10 crowns additional i -each
day of actual service. 'V,'!';,
ish crown is worth about 5tf '" f'
this means an addition of $2 .' a v
f i.Ji.itiS-n, fivprtime. hnuun
spends 'about $200,000 a year f Vf
IUCli'"
Th.
Irt'
Ttritish Parliament, the
TtrlvlnVi enrvn without Sillar.V
man Reichstag, one branch of
represents the political divKi-n- -i
country, and the other br-iii'
voters, costs about J?400.nn i '
Belgium spends $180.0H for t. r
pose, and Greece ."00.000 dnu-hn. u
U-r. PnmhnKf nf nTlll HS. til ,,l'1 '
Ipnt of 1 00.000. The I m fii
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At the approach of an officer i acC0Unt of $2,500,000. exchisn
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