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THE BONHAM NEWS FEBRUARY. 13 1903
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13. 1903
An Old Familiar Story.
Kansas City World.
It is only uttering a platitude to
say that in some things all men
are pretty much alike.
And just about as tame is the
well wc rn remark that in cer-
tain essential points all women
are as like as peas.
But, platitude or not, these
things are true, aLd occasion has
cima when it is necessary to
say them.
The cable tells of a sensational
scene in which the czar of Russia
and a Polish ballet girl wham
be had once favored and then
forgotten were the figures. The
caar bad once known the girl
well—too well—if reports are
reliable, but he had then put her
out of his life and out of his
mind.
He had tired of her and then
thrown her aside as one throws
aside a flower of wh ch one has
wearied.
How like a man!
The entire moral world is
malarial wiih just that sort of
thing. '
That is no mere pastime of a
caar alone; the very humblest of
men have done that as imperi-
ously as ha.
Men in every grade of life, in
every age and clime, have done
this same thing, and will, no
doubt, contioue to do it as long
as man lusts and woman loves.
Bat this deserted, deluded
ballet girl had not for-gotten.
To her the czar was still her
lover true, kept from her_ only
by un toward conditionsT His
eyes would blrzr with light
again at sight of her and he
would dfcsh his guard aside to
get to her and greet her in the
old way. So she thought—poor
thing! ‘
How like a woman!
Holy writ, mytho’ogy, history,
romance—ihey tell the same
story, ever the same and ever
sad, yet ever sweet.
And when in the park at
Lavidia the ballet girl accosted
his majesty and besought expla-
nation and redress for her deser
tion he promptly ordered her ex
pulsion. In his wrath he forgot
justice, manhood, pity even. His
heart thtivtled with bate, and
from his tempestuous mind every
manly impulse, every sane emo
tion fled. He became a brute
'Again, how like a man!
He may be brave before all
things of earth or hell—except
the ghost of his own sin.
He may be generous to all—ex
cept the poor girl he has ruined.
And then, when his majesty’s
guard were carrying the weep-
ing girl from the park she re
slated—think of it!—and made an
outcry.
Once more, how like a woman!
As utterly futile at her weak
efforts against the powerful
strength of the guard, but,
woman-like, she made them ail
the more desperately because of
their hopelessness. The ruined
girl ever resists with the frenzy
of despair, bat always too late—
too late.
There is one more chapter to
this real life tragedy, and it is
brief. In the castle the czarina
heard the oatery and learned the
cause.
“And the czar," the dispatch
says, ‘‘had a bad day indoors."
And still again, how like a
woman!
MANY LIVES LOST.
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Tidal Wave Devastates Eighty Islands in
the Pacific Ocean. ’
SWEPT ACROSS ISLAND-DOTTED SEA.
Treat The South Fairly.
Storm Rages For Several Days—Full Returns May Swell
Death List—Surviving Islanders Destitute-News
of Disaster Meager.
San Francisco, Cal, Feb 8.
—More than 1,000 persons were
killed and more than eighty
islands of the Society group in
the Southern Sea were devastat-
ed on Jan. 15 by a large tidal
wave that swept across the
island-dotted sea. News of the
disaster * was brought today on
the steamer Mariposa, direct
from Tahii.
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The storm raged for several
days, being most severe from
Jan. 14 to 16. On Jan. 15 a tidal
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wave, accompanied by a terrific
hurricane, attacked the Society
Islands and the Tuamotu group
with fearful force, carrying death
and devastation for miles before
its towering front.
As the news received at Tahiti
up to the time of the sailing of
the Mariposa was meager, it is
though that full returns may
swell the death list. It is pos.
sible that hundreds of bodies
were washed out to sea so that
they may Dever be accounted for.
The islanders who survive are
destitute of food, shelter and
clothing. Crops have been de-
stroyed and death threatens the
survivors.
The first news of the disaster
arrived at Papeete, Tahiti, on
Jan. 26, by the schooner Eimo.
The captain of the schooner
placed ih9 fatalities at 500 per-
sons.
The steamer Excelsior arrived
at Papeete the following day
with 400 destitute survivers. The
captain of the Excelsior esti-
mated the total loss of life at 800
persons.
These figures comprise only
the deaths oq the three islands
of Hao, Hikuer and Makokau
whose total population is only
1.800. Oa Hikuera Island, where
1,000 inhabitants were engaged
in pearl diving, nearly one-half
were drowned. On an adjacent
island 100 more were washed out
to sea.
Makokau and Hao are depopu
iated. Conservative estimates at
Tahiti place the number of islands
visited by the tidal wave and
hurricane at 80. All of them are
under the control of the French
Governor at Tahiti.
The French Governor upon re-
ceipt of news of the disaster,
took prompt measures to relieve
the starving survivors. The
government dispatched two war
ships, the Duranee and Ztelee,
with fresh water and provisions
The Italian man of-war Calabria
accompanied the two French
vessels on their errand of mercy.
As the supply of fresh water and
provision was exhausted by the
storm it is feared that many lives
will be lost before the ships ar
rive.
As far as is known eight white
people were among the drowned.
Included in these were Alex
ander Brander, N. P. Plunkett,
of Oakland, Cal., T. D. Doonelly,
formerly a fireman oncthe steam-
ship Australia, and the local
agent of C. Coppenrath, a mer-
chant of Papeete. Added to
this number was a woman who
committed suicide from fright.
As the Islands were barely
ing seas, which swept with piti-
less force about and over them.
Many natives in the taller trees
were lost when the roots gave
wav or the trunks snapped under
the force of the water. Many of
these were swept far out into the
sea.
The 400 survivers brought by
the Excelsor to Papeete gained
the ship’s side after the hurri
cane by swimming three and four
miles from the tops of the cocoa
nut trees. • ■ „ .
The E mo, although damaged
by the storm, a!so brought off as
many passengers as could swim
to its side. The E mo, like the
Excelsior, was unable to run
close to the shores because of*
the violence of ihe ocean swells,
which continued to' run abnorm-
ally hign, deluging the islands
for a week after the tidal dislur-
bances.
Another schooner, the Gaulois,
fro* Maquesas Islands, 600
miles from Tahiti, encountered
the hurricane while en route to
the latter place, and only the
timely action of the captain in
having the cargo, consisting of
jhirty head of cattle, thirty-five
pigs and thirty tons of cotton
jettisoned, to save the little craft
from destruction. Even with
this precaution, one man was
swept from the decks and lost.
One of the many acts of hero-
ism reported is that of a woman,
who climbed one of the tall co-
coanut trees and lashed her baby
to the branches with strips of
her clothing. The mother clung
to the body of the tree beneath
the little one as best she could.
There they remained for ten
hours, suffering great torture
from wet, cold and hunger until
finally rescued by other natives,
who swam with them to the
ship.
Thousands of tons of copra
and more than 200 tons of mother
of pearl shells are known to be
lost. The pearl shells were val-
ued at $1,800 a tod. Many valu-
able pearls may now be lost for-
ever. The islands produce some
of the finest pearls in the world
Among the passengers on the
Maripcsa today was G. W. Wat-
erberry, formerly of Chicago.
He was in that part of the storm
which visited the island of Raitea
one of the Leeward Islands situat-
ed some distance to the west of
the ill-fated Puamotu. Oa Raitea
much damage was done, although
no lives were lost. A well built
road, constructed by the French
government at a considerable ex
peuse, was demolished, bridges
were carried away, building over-
turned and shattered and pieces
of big ships, old wreckage and
cocoanuttrees were headed high
along the coast line. O.d inhabi-
tants on Raitea said that <the
storm was the worst they had
ever seen. Returning to Tahiti,
the little schooner upon which
Mr. Waterberry sailed was al-
most swamped by the high seas,
and a waterspout came near to
the bow at one place
Estate of Joe Hale.
Notice is given that on January
7, 1903, I was appointed ad-
Leslie’s Weekly.
It would seem only necessary
to consider this whole matter of
the appointment of colored men
and women to office. North or
South, from a calm, dispassion
ate, and, so far as possible, un
prejudiced point of view, to
avoid all the controversy and ill
feeling which have been lately
stirred up over this subject.
Every intelligent person in this
country must understand by this
time exactly how the Southern
people feel about these appoint-
ments, and what the general sen-
timent is in that section of the
Union in regard to the appear-
ance of members of the colored
race in any prominent political
way. Even those who regard
this sentiment as wrong must
admit that its existence is in no
way remarkable or surprising.
That it does exist- we all know,
and we know also that this feel-
iog is deep, fixed and apparently
ineradicable. We also know and
admit, if we are frank about it,
that much the same feeling ob
tains in the North.
Ia theory, we of the North re-
gard the negroes as entitled to
equal rights, privileges and
recognitions in politics and busi
ness with ourselves. But, as a
matter of fact, we believe noth-
ing of the kind.
Our practices here, at least,
are almost an antipodal distance
from our theories. There are, in
i ruth, few neighborhoods in the
North where a colored man in
any conspicuous official position
would be much more welcome
than be is in the South. Especi-
ally would this be true in a small
postoffice, the worst of all pos-
sible places to put a person who,
for any reason, is socially obnox-
ious.
Booker T. Washington, the
wisest and ablest living colored
man, with his characteristic dis-
cretion and good sense ha9 re-
frained from expressing himself
on the particular issue under dis-
cussion, but he has frequently
laid down general principles for
the guidance of his people which
are applicable to the , present
case. It is his teaching that the
negroes should not try to force
the issue either as to social or
political recognition, but should
devote all their energies for the
present to self-development, to
industrial education, to their
elevation in the scale of man-
hood and citizenship, trusting to
lime and the changed conditions
which such efforts on their part
will bring about to melt away
twenty feet above sea level and ministiator of the estate cf Joe
not surrounded by coral reefs, it
was neces.sary for all the inhabi-
tants to take to the cocoanut
trees when the tidal wave began
to cover the land. These trees
are 100 feet high. Those who
climbed the smooth trunks of the
taller trees were above the crest
of the wave, but all the shorter
trees were ct/.uxtd n,. the
When the colored race, he says,
has made itself worthy of the re
cognition it seeks, the recogni-
tion will be given. Neither’ the
holding of public office nor even
the exercise of political rights
is, in Mr. Washington’s views,
the thing of most immediate and
vital importance to the colored
people; nor are they absolutely
essential at present to their hap-
piness, prosperity and content-
ment. i
Numberless opportunities are
free and open before negroes in
this country today, as before
whites, to make the most and
the best.oL themselves, and this
is as true in the South as it is in
the North. Only harm can come
to both "whites and blacks from
stirriog up racial prejudices and
antagonisms when no just oc
casion exists for such action.
This is sagacious and practical
counsel, acd it applies directly
to the present case of public ap-
pointments in the South. It is
worse than folly for us to butt
our heads agaiq^t the solid wall
of Southern BeOtiment on this
question. To persist in 9uch ac
tion can only result in the furth-
er embitterment of Southern
feeling and still further widen
the separation between the two
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Farm Implements, etc.
Get our Figurings Before
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safely or properly made. It is
ooly a situation calling for the
exercise of tact, patience, for-
bearance, and, above all, of plain FoiLthe Ne*s*
__Everything us?d ia the hair
common sense. 1 . ,. , ,
_:__ should be scrupulously neat, and
Little Commoners. the hair brush should be keot
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- clean by frequently dipping it in
From Bryan's Commoner. to*a bath of warm water and am-
It appears that the “Easy monia and drying it in the sun.
Boss" is hard to pry loose. Dip the brushes in with the
The shacklers of cunning seem . bris les downward and shake
to be following up a cold bear backward and forward, as it
trail,
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It takes something more than
talk to enforce the Monroe doc-
trine.
The coal tariff has been remit-
ted. Roboery under the guise
of other tariffs is still permitted.
The people of India now know
who is emperor of their country,
but do they know where their
next meal is coming from?
Perhaps the president w^jl
next venture the assertion that
there are “good trusts," but they
have been hypnotized by the bad
ones.
The Republican organs that
still claim “the foreigner pays
the tax" have not explained the
reason for remitting the coal
tariff.
The Democratic party will not
nominate a man for the presi-
ueacy whose Democracy mast
social and political prejudices. be certified to by the Republican
Hale, deceased, by the county
court of Fannin County, Texas,
and all persons having claims
against the estate of said d *ced-
ent are required to present the race3 ln lhat section.
/im9 within the lime prescribed j8 DOt as if some great and
by law. My post office is vital principle were involved on
Bonham, Texas.
B. A., McKinney,
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Admin8trator.
organs aDd leaders.
There seems to be an evident
intention on the part of Mr. Ha>
to have a “Made in Germany"
tag attached to a new edition of
the Monroe doctrine.
The Cuban reciprocity ■ bill,, so
lately wearing the hue of health,
now seems to be suffering froim
another attack of sugar beet in
its vermiform appendix.
The Monroe doctrine appears
to be suffering from an acute at-
tack of Hay fever, but it will re-
cover as soon as Dr. Public Senti-
ment takes hold of the case.
Giving Great Britain a slice
of Alaska and allowing Germany
to violate the Monroe doctrine
seems to be the measure of John
Hay’s brilliant diplomacy. up to
date.
Senator Hoar says the presi-
dent has no business to be inter*
fering with the affairs that prop-
erly belong to the senate. Some
one should take the venerable
senator aside and explain what
the strenuous life means.
Until a Republican congress-
man named Jenkins introduced
a bill looking to government
ownership of the coal mines the
Republican organs had a great
many humorous flings at the
New York Democratic platform
which declared for the same
thing. The average Republican
which the future well being 0f organ will cheerfully swallow
the colored race depends, an on anyihing labeled Republican and
w’uLb no compiomiso oLiid bw -r v or stop tu ask a question.
loosens the the bristles where
they fasten to the wood iT thU
pai t of the brush is allowed to
get wet. I do not believe it is
generally realized that the hair
brush we use as au every day
and necessary part of our toilet
chay become charged with ele-
ments of infection. If it were,
there would be shown much
care in the use of brashes and
in their cleansing, as maay seri-
ous diseases of the scalp are
communicated fr«. m one to an-
other by the indiscriminate use
of b rushes uand combs. If a
mother wishes her children to
grow up with good habits she
should furnish them with all the
appliances necessary for a refined
toilet and it is not only desirable
but postively necessary that they
should have their own towels
and soap if any member of the
family is affected with sore^eyes
or a skin disease. Tne towel
has for sometime been believed
the most common mode of infec-
tion known, and too much stress
cannot be laid on cleanliness in
the care of the dish towels and
dish cloths. They should be
washed each time of using
in a strong sods, then rinsed
and hung in a sunny place
to dry aad will not only bs kept
soft and white but entirely free
from daogerous germs that are
found in geasy and gumy cloths.
____M. H.
She Deserves It.
Bryan’s Commoner.
The pension office receives
many interesting letters. Not
the least interesting of these let-
ters wa9 one written by a widow,.
and as related by the New York
Herald, was in these words: “A9
I married three soldiers. I don’t
see how you can get out of hold-
ing that I am the widow of at
least one of them. I done my
duty to one and all of them, and
I laid them out side by side, as
you see by visiting tbe sometry
at Oak Hill, where they lay at
rest under their names and dates,
with one poem covering all: “O
Lord, who maketh man to live
for bat a fleeting day—You have
have it in Your power to give as
well as take away."
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Money.
If you have land notes you
wunt to sell, see us at one .
EvaL.j A McKinney.
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