The Chicago reflector., October 16, 1897, Image 3

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Loans On Real Estate. My Own money,
Samuel Richardson
Investment Banker,
139 Madison St.
Suite 25, Chicago.
Parties tearing the loss of their proper
ty by foreclosure or otherwise, by giving
to me a written statement can exchange
for other property free from iucumbrauce
no deception used.
di I b'Ua l*T tin T ■ H > * ■' I I
Q. W Palmer
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Practical
Plumber,
Steam and
Gas Fitter.
2809 State Street.
Tel. 3 JO South
Special Attention to
Natural Gas Fitting.
Orders inr Mail
Promptly Attended.
REyrtoLDSjrJ!^
@imo III.
For Sale by Montrose W. Rankin,
Druggist 3553 State St. All work
guaranteed.
Beadr?gard F. Moseley
LAWYER,
Suite 1-2, 6303 Halsted Street.
TELEPHONE WENTWORTH 515.
Hours:—,8:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. nr.
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S. W, Cor 35th and
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HISTORY OF A WEEK. |
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fFriday, Oct. 8.
Frank A. Novak, who was brought
back from the Klondyke to answer to
the charge of murdering Edward Mur
ray at Walford, la., says Murray died
from drinking from a bottle containing
whisky and morphine which Novak had |
put in his store as a trap for burglars.
The president appointed the following
consuls of the United States: Rufus
Fleming, Ohio, at Edinburgh, Scotland;
Samuel A. McAllister, Delaware, at Bar
bados, West Indies.
P. E. Studebaker. of the Studebaker
Bros. Manufacturing company, is suffer
ing from stomach trouble and has gone
to the Alma (Mich.) sanitarium.
Lord Tennyson’s biography contains
letters from Queen Victoria to the late
poet laureate which show that she was
bitterly hostile to home rule for Ireland.
Henry Carter, of Chicago, while tem
porarily insane from illness, attempted
to climb cn the stage of a New York
theater and join in a ghost dance, and
was taken to a sanitarium.
A dispatch received from Tokio, Japan,
says it is reported there that the king
of Corea has proclaimed himself emperor
of Corea.
Saturday, Oct. 9.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Zim
merman Packing company, near Port
land, Or. Loss on building, $55,000; on
meats, $25,000. A few7 live sheep were
cremated. *
Anti-Czech feeling runs so high
among the Germans in Bohemia that
they have resolved to drink no ifiore
Pilsener beer, as it is manufactured by
Bohemians.
Sister Gonzaga, the oldest Sister of
Charity in the United States and. for
over fifty years the superioress of St.
Joseph’s orphan asylum, Philadelphia,
died at the asylum.
The Kentucky Bankers’ association
unanimously adopted a resolution indors
ing the local bankers for keeping wine
off the table at the annual banquet.,
Fifty high-class horses perished in the
stables of the Cheshire Improvement
company on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn,
which were burned. The loss is $50,000.
The September pay-roll of the Chicago
board of education for teachers shows
that the cost of the teaching force is in
creasing at a rate of over $20,000 a year.
Monday, Oct. 11.
J. W. Donaldson, a rich St. Louis
stock broker, said to be worth $1,000,000,
wasarrested at Chicago for drunkenness
and kept in a cell at the Harrison street
station for eight hcuis.
James Chapman, who lives about six
miles north cf Jackson. Miss., has been
assassinated. His assassin left no clue.
The American bay colt Diakka of the
Lorillard-Beresfoid stables won the
Duke of York stakes of 2,000 sovereigns
at the Kempton park October meeting.
A 10,000 spindle cotton mill and 2£0
rooms to be operated exclusively by
negroes will be started at Columbia,
S. C.
George McMillan, a prominent citizen
of Wilmington, O., was shot dead on the
street there Saturday by J. C. Martin, a
leading attorney.
Mrs. Langtry vigorously denies that
she is to be married to Prince Ester
hazy. She contradicts flatly all the re
ports of her engagement.
Tuesday, Oct. 13.
There are 623 convicts in the Wiscon
sin state prison at present, 610 male and
thirteen females. This is the largest
number reported in years.
The British steamer Hesperides, lader.
with iron ore, went ashore on Diamond
shoals. Cape Hatteras, and is a total
wreck. The crew was saved.
The residence of A. E. Purdee, on the
Delavan, Wis., road, near Janesville,
Wis., was damaged to the extent of $1,
000 by fire. Mr. Purdee ar.d his family
were absent.
A sympathetic strike to help the en
gineers will be ordered in England that
will involve 400,000 men.
The largest canvas sign ever painted
Is to be used in advertising the Chicago
horse show. It will be 600 feet long and
eight feet wide.
Two masked men held up an electric
car near Oregon City, Ore., and robbed
the thirty-five passengers of about $90.
J. T. Monroe, of Union, S. C., commit
ted suicide at Atlanta by cutting his
jugular vein with a pocket knife. Mor
phine and whisky.
Wednesday, Oet. 13.
William Oldham proposes to cross the
ocean from London in a steel boat 99
inches long, 22 inches beam and 42 inches
deep.
England is spending an enormous sum
of money in protecting Gibraltar. Mod
ern defenses are rising up on the big
rock on all sides.
Eight-year-old Gussie Mantel caught
a burglar in her room at New York.
She clung desperately to the fellow un
til help arrived and he was arrested.
Senator Tillman is suffering from a se
vere attack of catarrhal jaundice.
Rheir.bold Stenzel, editor of the Ham
burg Echo, has been sentenced to eight
months in jail for lese majeste against
King Leopold of Belgium.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rea, wife of Delta Rea,
one of the wealthiest men in Lee coun
ty, la., wants a divorce with $30,000 ali
mony and $1,000 attorney fees.
Thursday, Oct. 14.
Heavy shipments of wheat to Europe
continue. Over sixty grain-laden vessels
have left during the last two months
and six more are ready to sail from San
Francisco.
Ex-Empress Eugenie of France visit
ed and inspected the Untied States ship
San Francisco as it lay at anchor in the
port of Smyrna, Asia Minor.
Robert Ingle, while hunting in the
woods near Holgate, O., rescued the 6
year-old son of Michado Moor from an
eagle. The bird was carrying the child
away.
One hundred and fifty roads in the
United States representing 30,475 miles
of operated mileage, were in the bands
of receivers on June 30. 1S96.
Mrs. Readier, of Dakota, who is visit
ing her parents at Wausaukee, Wis.,
gave birth to triplets, two girls and a
boy. The mother and children are doing
well.
John A. Chanler, former husband of
Amelie Rives, has been sent to Bloom -
ingdale, N. Y., suffering from paresis.
"Mr. Jersey’s” (Mrs. Lantry's) Mer
man won theCzarewitch stakes at New
market. It is believed that Mrs. Langtry
won $200,000.
Jack Cummings died in the Hotel
Dieu at New Orleans as a result of j
blows received in a boxing match.
Status of tbe Hcgro* *
;-V
A Review of His Moral, Religous,
Social and Financial Progress.
His Critics Answered.
An Able Paper in Three Parts, by the Gifted You ay
Contributor-Mr. C. H. Sparks.
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PART II.
He belonged to liis master ami the chicken
belonged to his master, so when the
chicken did disappear from the rpost ;at
night it reappeared in the form of muscle
the next morning at the plow handles.
And then, too, otherwise morally die
Negro is not so bad. The old negro was
brought here a rode, nude, uncultured j
savage; ‘lienew negro is lighter in color,
stronger in intellect and superior in cul
I ture. The old negro was a despicable
character, debased and demoralized by 300
! years of slavery; taught that the laws of
morality had no place in the social creed
j of slaves; horn every one of them bastards;
! there is now not as great a percentage of
j illegitimate births among the negro popu
lation of the Black licit of Alabama, as
; there is in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
I The alarmists now look to another
source for material to intimidate the
thoughtful. They predict race extinction
Mr. Brice in his volumes, the “American
Commonwealth/’says: “The negro cen
ter of population is shifting southward
and the African is leaving the colder
region and higher drier lands for a region
more nearly resembling the old world.”
A similar statement has also been made
by Mr. Gapet of the U. S. Geological Sur
vey, Messrs. Porter and Walker respec
tively of the tenth and eleventh censuses.
For a time these assertions, coming from
such a high authority, were left un
questioned, hut leeeut investigation has
shown these statements to be entirely,.
fal”e. Prof. Brown in his pamphlet en
titled, “Northward movement of the
Negro,-’ has shown contrary to the state
ments of the above critics, that in the
south naturally of course, tlie negro has
increased, in the border states, though
75,o00 emigrated from that section from
1880 to 181)0; there was still an increusi-jof
20 per cent in 1890 over the number con
tained therein in 1880, and besides in the
ficc states there was a feeble increase of
6,000, while Brittanica after manipulat
ing a number of tables concludes that the
negro has begun to move westward at the
rate of 40,000 annually.” The negro is
left now, from a point of geographical dis
tribution only to be taken up from the
physical side. Mr. Hoffman, statistical!
for the American Economic Association,
in a book of his entitled, “Pace traits and
tendencies of the American negro,” abook
wherein he has juggled with tacts and
figures simply worse than would be eXr
peeled from a school hoy, declares (p. p‘.
311-312.) “Nothing is more clearly
.-hown from this investigation than that
the southern black mau at the time of his
emancipation was healthy in body and
cheerfpl in mind, lie neither suffered in
ordinately from disease nor from impaired
bodily/vigor. His industrial capacities ,
as a laborer were not of a low order, nor
was the condition of servitude such as to
produce morbid conditions favorable to
mental disease, suicide or intemperance,
Wliat are the conditions 30 years after?
The pages of this work give but one
answer—an answer which is a most severe
condemnation of modern attempts of su
perior races to lift inferior races to their
osvn elevated position; an answer so full of
meaning that it would seem criminal in
diilerence on the part of a civilized people
to ignore it. In the plain language of the
facts brought together, the colored race is
shown to be on the downward grade,
tending toward a condition in which
matters w ill be worse than they are now,
when disease will be more destructive,
vital resistance still lower, when the num
ber of births will fall below the deaths and
gradual extinction of the race take place.”
Hear him again in the last sentence of his
book (p 829.) ‘“Unless a change takes
pkrce, a change that will strike at the
fundamental errors that underlie the con
duct of the higher races toward the lower,
gradual extinction is only a question of
time.”
Mr. Huffman should have a good mem
ory. He states that “gradual extinction
is only a question of time,” but yet he
does not deny from 1880 to 1890 the
Negros increased by 13.5 per cent. This
is not so bad. The increase of the Ameri
can white is only 11.0, of England 14.
The increase of Negro is greater than that
of Germany which is only 12.2, greater by
far than France which is only 1.5. It will
take the population or Great Britain 81
years to double. Switzerland 135 years,
that of Fganee 445.5. The negro popula
tion has doubled within 30 years and
from all that we can judge his productive
capacity is just as great uow as ever be
fore. Nor indeed does Mr. Hoffman look
forward for an immediate decrease, lie,
in closing bis work, stating that gradual
extinction is only a question of time, for
ce Is that in the first part of his book lie
anticipated that by 1900 the colored in
habitants will number nearly 8,500,000 or
nearly 1,500,000 more than iul890..
Educationally.
Vice President Calhoun once remarked
‘ Pin told that it was impossible to teach
Greek to that race of men whose sknlls
were thick and w hose heels were long aud
that furthermore he would not believe the
negro was a man uutil lie could learu
Greek. Perhaps Mr Calhoun, if he were
living, would he somewhat surprised to
learu that Mr. Scarborough of Macon, Ga.
is the author of a Greek text book It
might also surprise him to learn that It.
U. Wright has for several j’ears success
fully tilled the presidency of that states’
University; that Mr. Blyden is quoted as
being master of 20 languages and an
author of several text book; that W. E
Dubois wou an oratorical prize and also a
$300 scholarship at Harvard; that when
ionly two negroes were in Harvard, on
class day, one took first prize, the other
took second: that there are many negroes
today who can demonstrate problems ou
the parabola, the hyperbola and the ellipse.
[To be Continued]
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Scottish Kite Masonry:
The regular monthly meeting of Prince
Hull Consistory S. F. IPS. is held at their
Keudezvoux at 2730 State St. on the third
Friday of each month.
J. W. Dunmobe, 33° 111. C. I. C.
J. H. Siibeve, 33° Sec’y.
Give Hall’s Laundry, a trial for good
Laundry work.
T. B. HALL, Prop. C. C. HALL. Mgr.
•PHONE SOUTH 185.
..Hall’s Laundry..
MAIN OFFICE:
281 Twenty-Ninth St,
Bed and Table Linen Washed and
Ironed 25c per doz. Bough Dry 25c.
FINE WORK. QUICK SERVICE.
Johnson & Jones
Funeral Directors
And Embalmers.
All kinds of Fine Funeral Furnishings,
Fhpoe S. 377. 3110 DEARBORN
FOR RENT.
Nicely Furnished Room steam
heat, near L. station for young
married couple or gentleman.
Address care Reflector X. Y. Z. •
Furnished flats, 2515-2517
2521 Armour avenue. 4 rooms
$2.50 a week. Apply to agent,
W. F. Hunter, 3240 State
street. 45-49
Nicely furnished room for gen
tleman or man and wife; mod
ern flat- 251 26th street, par
Jar floor. 45
Business Locals.
Sargent Bakery Co. has re
moved to 2808 State St.
A. M. DAMON
.Teacher of.
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Studio 280 State. Res. 4746 Dearborn.
Mahan’s Piano Rooms. Chicago.
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MRS. GRACE ABNEY
2713 State St. - Chicaf/o
The improved and best meeliod of culti
v.iting and promoting the growth of the
hair. The most stubborn hair made
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Indian Hair-Grower.
Price Per Jar, 25 cts.
HAIR AND-SCALP TREAT
MENT, $1 PER MONTH.
Hair Braids and Switches, 3o cts and
upwards, Braids made of combings.
Open eveniugs till nine o’clock.
The 11. and V. Restaurdnt
Is now serving a nicely gotten
up cheap meal. Call and enjoy
the best that the market affords
at a small price. The B. and V.
Restaurant. 290 29th street.