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Delivered to any part of the city for 20 cents a week, e cry day in the year Leave sub scriptions at Lincoln bureau, I027 P street. BARGAINS -IN- Dress Goods, Cloaks, AND BLANKETS. FRED. SCHMIDT, 921 0 Street, opp postofticc. Hargri:ayi:s mhos, 743107450 btrect. Wholesale Grocers, Fruit, Produce ami Commission Merchants s. is. MOORE, 1034 O Street Dealer and Jobber in Wall Paper. Lace Curtains, Shade, and Intctlor Deco rations. Got Your Laundr Work -1KHJKAT- TlieExcelsior Steam Lau ndiy sot a. uiii 8t., , rear entrance, Tel. Ml. orders promptly cnllisl for ami ilrilieml. We ptliluoursoht'soa proinptiii'M nnd Miiwriurlty ufuork. MlI.I.KH.t DAY, l'roprlflnrs. I toll inoro bottlci ot Dr. Both Arnold' COUUII KILLKIl tlinu of nny ntlicr rongli Meilleliio Kept In ktock, id tliniiRli 1 Isccp IKtccu ailo tlos. I'M.Itu1)crtRon. forvllla. , .-, . , DruggUta, 25c.r Wc., uU ?i.co, Till! NKGKO IN DIXIK. THE CHAFUCTEniSTICS OF THE COLORED MAN OF TODAY. Wlutt lio I DiiIiir fur lllmiir nml Wliut IMurntlon lint Uono for llliiillin Sorlnl Position of llio Color,,! liner. Tho Colored Mllllln r South Cmolltm. (Special CornwtH)inlciico.l New YottK, Dec. 10. Within two yearn It has been written that "he Is no friend to the colored people who does not plainly nay to thctn that their iositlon ns citizens, In tho enjoyment of nil civil rights, depends quite as much iion their personal virtue und their acquiring hnblta of thrift ns It does upon school privileges." Nothing enn bo truer than tills widely circulated dogma of 11 con servntlvo Now Imglnndor. What Mr. Charles Dudley VVnrner nnw, und bo freely nml honestly wrote of, in Ibjfll, has Iwen forcibly brought to mv own notice by extended travel through Virginia, tho two Cnrolinas and Georgia durinir tho present year. Facts us found will bo brlelly given. Completely dissociat ing tho negro freedmnu from his jiosltloii ns a K)litleal factor or ns an element of partisan oratory, It shall lemyduty, asn faithful ch.vuieler, to show him on tho plantation or in houthcrn towns nud cities on labor days or when npolntcd cessation of work ami holiday excite ment has nirorded mo chances for closo olmorvntlon. It has been said tlir.t n newspaper man on tho road sees more than tho ordinary tourist. Ho certainly has a keener, clearer vision than tho traveler whose only linger lioanl Is prejudice. Tearing olT tho veils of romanco and Motion, I shall present tho colored ruco ns it now actually is in that section of tho United States mo-,1 favorable to Its social devel opment. In tho north a negro must work, steal or starve; but ho need not work or steal In tho south to keep from starving. Tho climate there is his pro tector, (coder and comfoitcr. It Is as tonjshiug upon how little the shiftless plantation laborer can subsist, and it is equally surprising how much ho can eat wlion bounty spreads nn occasional feast in tho rude, unpaiutcd cabin. Tho colored race in Virginia is alout ono-third of the total population; in North Carolina more than -It) per cent, of tho whole; in South Carolina, 00 per cent., and in Georgia, almost one-half. These four states have an aggregate poi ulatlou equal in numbers to that of Now York nlone; but tho total negro census of the great northern commonwealth is less than 10 per cent, of Virginia's freed and elTuslvely liunpy colored inhabi tants, whilo Massachusetts has within its borders only ono-third ns many negroes ns aro content to live In New ork. Heiico it is evident (hat Dixie, the land of mild temperature and fruitful har vests, is tho natural, ns it will long , rcninlji the Vl'-'". !PIo Pf cd ored people in tins counti. They Me Its most acceptable laborers, whether . Working on upland farms or in tho river I irrigated meadows. Their wants aro l few, their children many. With them 1 superstition lingers, sloth is a life sap ping parasite, immorality a glaring characteristic, and religion meiely a I shield from terrors bom of Ignorance. I Ict out of liomlngo only u qumtur.of n century no, they inherited civil pi hi-1 leges whicluu less Indolent race would have solidilled into a political menace. In this world, the negro u piosent is to him sulllclent concern. lie cannot set his mind ukjii the possible- rainy days of j the future. While tho sun slilues and ' the corn sprouts ho is happy. When l thero is no ammunition for tho shot gun ho can always llnd bait for hisllsh hooks. ' His woodcraft fcocuros him toothsome I morsels, for his skill with game traps is well known. So, as far as Ids life in the piuo dealings or on small and unsvbtcm-, atieally worked plantations can lio de picted, the black man is a jioor user of time, sinew nnd opportunity. Wages become an object to him, not ashlsiight, I but as n meau.i to purchase necessaries or cheap luxuries. He has no native or acquired thrift. Money, therefore, Blips easily tlirougli his lingers, lie is willing to earn more when tho larder ii empty, game ncurcc, or tho llsli refuse to bite. This ianooveidrawn pietuio. It vividly represents tho negro in Dixie, as ho is most frequently seen outside tho piospor ous villages, town or cities. lie rather rusts out than wears out. Not tho least marked among Ids numerous peculiari ties Is longevity. When lib cannot drag his rheumatic or age enfeebled limbs out doors, tho ciude icligion which ho has embraced with so much fervor promises n heaven whero all labor is forbidden, hunger unthought of, mid the angels aro neither black nor white, I ut gilded. Endowed universities and industrial training schools for tho colored race have been located in different sections of the south. Their history and practical influ ence, though deeply Interesting, will not bo recited in detail here. Education is tho bright browed consort of progress, but her most prolific Holds have not been found tilled by tho American fieedmen. Yet much good has been accomplished and greater benefits aro assured. No stato has been 111010 liberal in legis lative support of theso colleges for tho colored youth than South Caro lina. Today Iicr public schools have 1 nu attendance, of nearly 100,000 negro children, in 1870 tho average was less ' than 2,000. At Orangeburg tho Clatlin , university, louiuieu tu leuu, uas a lurm of 150 acres and a carpenter shop, where ambitious colored students can, by manual labor, partly defray the eost of their instruction. Tho reason for the es tablishment, in April. 1861, of tho Allen university at Columbia, S. C, was: "To aid in tho development of tho highest typo of Christian manhood, to prove tho negro'a ability to inaugurate and manago n large intci est, to train him not only for tho pulpit, tho bar, the sick room and school loom, but for agriculture, mo clmnics and arts; to educate in tho full est eonsoof that comprehensivo word." Colored firemen, policemen, letter car riers nud militia aro scon in all tho larger touthein cities. Ono even ing on tho East Hattery nt Charles ton I nsked n btalwnrt negro peace guar dian how ho camo to join tho force. Ho told mo that it was less tiresome more respectable nnd better pay than his regu lar trade of shoo making. Fifty dollars a month goca a long way in the mind's oyo of a herculean darky when he Is nt tired in municipal blue with brass but tons, It would bo n novel sight if tho governor of Now Yoik left Albany for tho mctropoll'j to roviow live leglmcnts of colored infantry, yet Governor Rich ardson, of South Carolina, last Fourth of July camo Horn thu executive man biou nt Columbia, 1U0 miles to Charleston, nud stood, dignified and self Hssessed, on a hotel balcony while a full brigade of the stato national guard, nil negroes, tiled past him on holiday parade. They looked martial, BtopH'd lively and kept their eyes squarely to the front. As master mechanic or opoit nillsan, employer, salesman orcloikigung boss or day lalKiier, burlier, jHiiter, waiter, valet or ice cream jHMldlcr, the ell v bred negro In tho south keep paco with his most enterprising northern brother. He often saves money, dons custom mado clothes, drives his own team and aHects all the airs and graces of the prosperous whilo man. In time hn becomes a liondlioldor and owner of real estate. Mr William Alkon Kelly, assessor of the city of Charleston, In his latest annual re-iott, notes the interesting fact that tho col ored residents are apcurlug as a factor In the local tax lists. For exceptional prominenco ns n citi.eu, the southern negro is yet to be hcuid from. llr.Nitv Cl.AY Lt'KCNS. LOCATING SUNKEN VESSELS. How It In Doun In Tlirm, llnjn of tin piovrd Aiilliini'i'. (8xt'lal CorniotiiJciHi'. Nr.w Yohk, Deo. 111. "The steniner Ilierla was promptly located south of Ixing Island, not far from Flro Island inlet, lying in seven fathoms of water. A diver sent down reports that the ves sel cannot be raised, hut that the larger part of the cargo can ho saved. The work of removing will Ugln at once, tho consignees having made a contract to that eirect." Thus a recent dispatch. "It grows easier o cry day," said one of tho olllcnrs of a New Y01 k wrecking com pany which has charge of tho work men tioned in the iiImivo dispatch, "to locate sunken vessels. The old method, which Is still desciibod in novels, was to use small boats, propelled by oars or hails and (Itted with grapnels, grappling lions nnd (latent hooks. This method was slow, uiiccitain and usable only in smooth water. "Tho first great Improvement was the substitution of the steam lug foi oilier soitsof vessels. A good tug can work in almost any weather, and will cover 11 hundred times as much territory'as the swiftest sailer. Tho next improvement was thu wrecking tug, whleli Is a fast and powerful steam lug, cqulpiod with steam cranes, patent anchors, divert, divers' outllts, dynamite cartridges ami all Hie instruments forsuhiuariuesenich iug. Among the latter nro some remark ably ingenious mechanisms, invented, 1 believe, by Edison, but improved to meet tho rough work thrown upon them by use on the ocean. Oueof these Is similar to tho odd electrical contrivance with which the doctors tried to find the bullet in President Gurllcld's body. It consists essentially in n strong magnet so in- I J I.OCATINO A Sl'NKKN SUIT. cased in a frame work that it can only bo moved by tho near presence of a large mass of iron. Then when it moves it induces n current in a coil of wire which rings n bell. "Tho drag containing tho magnet and coil is towed behind tho wrecking tug, tho wiro from thu tug running to the pilot house. The moment tho drag ap proaches a sunken iron ship the magnet Udellected, the electrio bell lings and the pilot stops tho lioat and anchois. If tho sea is very rough ho buoys tho placo und returns when tho weather moder ates. A diver is scut down to examine, the wreck nud tho thine, is done. Iiriro size inatriietio needles are sensitive to vast bodies of iron for nt least (lfty feet, though somo electricians claim that tho sensibility can bo Increased to 000, This is all very well theoretically, but won't work In practice. The !es.t plan is to suspend 0110 electrical drag fioiu the bteru of the wrecking tug and one each from tho ends of two spars fifty feet long placed nt right angles to the sido of tho boat. This makes three drags, sixty feet apart, and allowing foity feet for tho sensitiveness of tho magnets gives us a path 00 feet wide uncler the water. If any iron shin lie in that path it Is bound to bo tliscovercd. The drags should keep clear of tho bottom. This Is ery easily done every wheio along the American coast, as the maps furnished by the government of the coast survey me f.o thorough in rcgaid to soundings that a good seaman knows the depth at any point within Bight of land. Ibis Is especially the enso In the lower Hay of Now York and all along the southern Long Island and New Jersey shores. "Another wondeful mechanism is an apparatus for seeing under water. It Is based uiiou the old principle of a long tubo with a glass bottom, which is lowered into tlio water. The Improve ment consists of a second tube, parallel with the llrst, at the top of which is an electric, calcium or magnesium light. For Mich work as wo have in New ork bay and tho Hudson river, wlieie tho water is full of mud and silt In suspen sion, wo enn hco down twenty feet; but in tho sound nud oil the coast we can see from forty to sixty feet, A curious feat ure of it is that when we use it at night it brings myriads of ilshes mound below the two tubes." Faus. An Unnrreuui-' Opi'nitlon. Young Housekeeper (to cook) What in tho world nro you doing to that llsh, Mnry? Cook Washing it, mum, before I liako it for our dinner tabic. "Wash u llshl You silly crenture, don't you know tho llsli has been In the water all Its life." Texas Siftlngs. Oilcloths thould never bo washed in hot bonpsuds; they bIiouIiI tlrnt be wnshed clean with cold water, then rubbed dry with a cloth wet in milk. The emtio treatment applies to a stone or slate hearth. TRAPPED. 1 1 Itdvr Sir. DlclVllriiii Mnttcrril Up Coiirnnn llnonali. "llnvoyou ever experienced tlio feoltiiR, Mr. MelVllcan,"ial(llio young Indy nuftly, "tlmt sotno gre.it opportunity nn within yourgriiDp, but you Imt! hardly tlio preneiieo of mind, tlio tlio courage, in It wen, to nvnll yourself of III" "Why or yw, Mli Qnlekstop, 1 Imvo omi:tliiipi hnd a kind of fooling in If I'd Ixmjii nort of tent for nnd couldn't go, joii know." Miss Amanda tight! dreamily and thoro was n paiim) (hiring which tlio two nut In tlio f.oml darkuiM of tint Qnlekstop pur lor mid exchanged profound tllonevs. Tlio dooroHnod nud MIm Aniniidn'i elderly foinalo lxlativu lookrd In. "Tlio book you nro looking for, auntie," will tho jotuig Indy, with entire tvlf pstmes lon and noiiio oinplmil, "! probably In tlio library." Tlio elderly fotualo relative withdrew nnd MIm Aniiuiil.i upokougnlu In tho wft, mini enl, tontiinlvo voleuof a trained iqplrciiiit forelinrity, "Mliowlll not dlnturb in ngaln, Mr, Mo IVllean." "Hlio tlio wntn't dliturblng mo nny," he protested. Ami ho tit nnd looked hclplcwly nt tilt glowing coils In tlio grate, with tlio foolltiK Hint every breath liodrow wutn uiortlfyltiiS nud elinntly lilinulcr. "Ah joii wrro about to my, Mr. McFtoll-1 can," ro5iunol tlio young lady, "thvo nro tituo w lieu It wan to all of ns that wo tntitl tlHidt Tklmt Is hi our h tu our mlmU," "Yes," vaguely nntworcd tlio buwlldrred youth, and ho tiled to remember wliou lio Find started to say nuytlilng of tho kind; "yes, o' eourio." "And whilo 1 niu not turo Hint I ought to lUteii to you, Mr. Md'ollcan," Nhotidd, with dowticntt eye, "when you toak to main this In till- kii(oiiii1 nmiiuur, yet" Tlio joiiug iiinu could fool his puUo bontlng n tattoo on tlio driunt of his oars, but lio mt lll.o a hound boy at a corn luisking and until nothing. . "Uy tlio way," exelnhiicd Mlsi Aniaudn prcsontly, "I Imoauuw IkkiUoC ongrnvlngs, Mr. Mol'elioaii, that 1 nut Hiiro you will u joy booing It U n largo boo!:, nnd you'll Imvo to iiiovo your chnlr why, certainly, j on can kit hero with moon tlio sofn. 1 novr thought of that I" Tlio plettuo iluneod hoforo tho ryosof tb young man hi blurred, coufusud Imagos. "Isn't lliii cngrnvlni; of tlio 'Courtship ot Floronco Doinboy ami Walter (Jay1 perfectly lovely V "Wh-wlileli Is Wnltr hognsjiod. "Thcrol Ijook clotor. Don't you too hhnP "W-uho's ho cotirtlngr' "You'll Imvo to coiuo closer, Mr. McPblL can. 1 declare, though," nml tlio looked arclily at tho trvmbllng youtli, "I'm nhuost nfrnld to let you coiuo any nearer. You look oxnetly hko Walter In tlio picturol" And then tlio arm of that lwlplvss young man stole in n timid, apologetic, tuenkiua way nioinnl vlio waist of tlio cluiriulug Aiuhmla Qnle!:stcp, lier head tunic on hit shoulder, and tlio book of ongruvlugs tell neglected to tlio lloor, ' "Alfred," tho Mid, an hour Inter, ns slu toyed with tho button of his coat, "you bold boy I How on earth did you over muster up tho courage to nsk mo to l your wlfof You know well enough I uover gavoyou a partlcl4 of riicoiiragoinent," Tho youus man patted her condescend' I ugly on tho h?mJ nud then tKko proiully, with tho voleoof nn AJix defying tho light nlng: "When I mako up my iiilnd to do any thing, Auiuiiil.t, no olutaclo on earth cm ttop iiiof Inuoeeiit j 011113 Mr. McPellcnnl Chlehgc Tribune. A Ilerolo (111 I. "Oeorge, dear," ska said, with n pleading Ainello Hives look uxm Ikt face, "turely you nro not going thin early Havo you cenfced tc lovo iner' "No, dai ling, my lovo for you U ns n rock it avIII endure," Ueorgo replied with emotion "but early, why, it Is after 1 o'clock, and' dropping heavily luton chair "tholtosssayi ttint If tlio htoro Isn't ojieu nnd tho stern washed down lieienfter ut 0 o'clock 1 loso tnj job." "Uo, go, George," exclaimed tho girl wltt lioblo heroism, "tlio job is nbautnllwo wIL havo to claim ns our own." Now York Sua Popular Hone'. "What Doci l.ittlo Ulrillo Sayl" 'Pollj wants a cracker." "Oft In tho Stilly Night." 'Tapa, I want adwluk." "On tho Deacli nt Long Dmnch." rioms. "Whero Is My Hoy To-nightl" With "Hii Det Girl," most likely. "Hocked in tho Cradlo of tho Deop." Tin harbor buoy. "A I'inoOld Hiiglish Gentleman." Mlnlitei West. Detroit Krco I'res. rrleliteni'il. A turgleal operation Is never n pleasant thing to autieiiMte, ultliough It often provci less painful than wus expected. "I'm not B)lng to n-liool nny more," said four-j ear-old to Ills inotlier, after his lira-, day nt tho kindergarten. "Why not, my dear I Don't you llko to te tho httlo boys and girls!" "Yes, but I don't want to go," persisted tho boy, "Vuti-o tlio teacher Niys that to morrow ho r.oiiig to try to put nu Idea intc my head." Youth's Companion. A In Moimreli.. Father Now, tny son, in a government whut U tho souico of powcrt Young America (promptly) Tho king. Father llut in a country liko ours what Ii even moro powerful than a klngl Y011113 Amerlai (triumphantly) Tow kings nrd nu nee. I.ifo. Only Oil Horn. I'etlJIor Is tho Iwiiof tlio houso lul llrulgot Slio Is; nu' ycr talking to her. "llut I mean tho other boss." "Suro, they only Lp ono fclrl here." Youkers Btutcsmau. Not Strancf. Quo cannot wonder at tlio blunders m.idi In Wnll street 'Uiuti thero nro to many hulli there. - llostoa Uaztttto. Tr'n ItVTtMtW Urn II copy roiiltniit n rATTltilf iiuikh minima tlio lioMrr to tilt teloctlon of Any PATTtni llliittrnliil In any iiiiiiiIkt of tlii MnMxIne. nnd im Ast or Tim hki iiiAiiiiraiturvil, etcli volinnl nt from iwrvutt tottlcinlt, or oir .TCOwoitliof pallorm per cnr, frrn. .... ., Yearly tntirrlillnn, S'J.OO. A trlnl will rntiTlncn ymt Mint yon rtn Rft ten timet tlio lu of thu iiiunry pulil. Hlnglu roplct (rncli containing l'nlliru Urtli-r), SO cent.. PuliliBliuil by TVV JKNNINGS DKMOUKST, Nr.w Yon tc. Tlio Mhito rmnlitnntlon l n tplhuilM clmnce to Ret our plr snd UtnoiiBtr't JtosTllLt at mtluct'd rate. Hcml your tiibicrlptloiit to thlt olllcv. YOU OUGHT TO SEE run ni:w linu Fall Patterns in Carpets In Tnpcittlet, lirussclt, Dody HriiKtclt, Mo(iictts and all otlior line lloor covcilngi. Our line of FINE DRAPERIES Cannot be equaled In the west. Call and A. NI. 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