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Show i WORLD. AMERICAN FOKIv, UTAH, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 20, VOL. V. NEGBOKS BANK HIGH. LEADERS AT THE CAPITAL OP THE UNITED STATES. Kaay inE. laK. Fabllo Coo jaha OSes H. P, Chwt-kpar, Jobs K. Ljick, P. Uraaa, B. K. Brae, and m, Oaorga H. Whit a. If In each city a roll should be made of eminent colored men who bare attained to national prominence, Wash- ington would present a larger lift than any other city In the Union, aays the Journal. All of these Odd-Fello- distinguished citizens formerly resided in various states, and with but a few exceptions began their residence here In the capacity of government officials. Some have abandoned their former abodes and have become a part of the capitals permanent population; others still retain a residence In the states and when their terms of office expire will return to their homes again and take up the labor they left In the cities or towns whence they came. If you want to meet some of the men who are known throughout the nation we can readily find them in a mornings strolL' If we step down the street we will be at the city hall. Right this way and In here. The gentleman writing at that large desk Is H. P. Cheathan. He Is affixing his signature to the recorded deeds. Twice member of congress, he is now recorder of deeds by President McKinley's appointment Now we will go one square south of here on street This Is the Colored American building. This first floor leads to the press and composing rooms, this next one to the office. The man at that farthest desk Is E. B. Cooper, the first negro In the history of the race to publish an Illustrative Journal. For four years ho was proprietor of the Indianapolis Freedman, and at the head of that sheet commanded nation Four-and-a-H- ISINKING al attention. He 'organized and has for more than four years controlled and edited the Colored American. With this paper, which reaches the race all over the country, he has demonstrated the possibilities of negro Journalism, and has risen In the rank of editors until he stands among the leaders of the foremost few. Let us walk around on F street. This large yellow-bric- k building Is the Capital Savings Bank. Come upstairs In the front room on the second floor. This is the office of Lynch ft Terrell, attorneys-at-laThis man seated at the desk, with mustache and hair gray. Is John R. Lynch. For many years be has been before the public eye, attracting attention by bis successful ventures In politics. He was speaker In of the house of representatives Mississippi, a member of congress, chairman of the national Republican convention In 1888, and fourth auditor of the treasury under President Harrisons administration. He Is now a practicing attorney and president of the Capital Savings Bank, the wealthiest banking Institution of the race. Out we go and up the street three squares. Now, a portion of this building Is an annex to the government Look In the rooms as we postofflce. go by all are white faces, ehf Well, step In here and notice that colored man dictating letters to that white stenographer; that Is John P. Green of Cleveland, 0. He was state senator for three terms In Ohio. He Is now chief of the stamp agency and the head of this office. Every stamp Issued and distributed by the government passes through his bureau. Three squares and a half and we shall be at the office of another prominent man. This large stone building is the Ohio National Bank. Well take the elevator, stop at this floor, this way; step In here. This Is the office of B. K. Bruce, exregister of the treasury, and of deeds. There he sits making out a check. He la now a real estate agent and broker. He Is said to be pros two-thir- ds SHIP PHOTOGRAPHED ill THE LAST MOMENTS OP A L was sinking. She was noticeably down by the head. feet was reported When twenty-tw- o everybody was ordered Into the boats, Mr. Lightfoot not forgetting his camera in the excitement It was . eafly morning, and the boats lingered around several stages of foundering Is some- the ship. Three hours elapsed between "Deserted thing quite novel, and that Is why the taking the pictures entitled A little and "Down by the Head. . series of pictures taken with a camera by Mr. Cecil Lightfoot, who was a pas- later a displacement of the vessel's an engines occurred senger on the watched which who and materially steamer, Japanese her from a lifeboat while she went hastened the end. down In the Atlantic off the Portu- - Presently the Painters have time and again pictured the sinking of a ship at sea. The scenes have usually been the creation of the artists Imagination and the reproduction of an Impression carried In the memory. An accurate photographic presentation of a vessel In the Tal-Hok- pering. Last month he loaned to the Street Baptist Church Nineteenth 110,000 at 5 per cent Interest. Let ue walk to the west. This Is the White House and the man leaving is George H. White, the only oolored representative In the LVth congress. He hai probably been to the President urging the appointment of a constituent BOYVJ STOIiY, BY C. L. BOUGIITON. HE day was sultry and the thermometer rose to 94 degrees ss It hung on a swaying branch head above hla where be had placThankful for Small PotatoM, ed It some minutes Cornish Methodist the Billy Bray, before. miner, knew all the wiles of the devil S 1 e g f rled had and was more expert In resisting that passed bis Anal excruel adversarys advices than many. aminations In Ibe One year he telle how his crop of poand be now lay School, High Everglade tatoes turned out poorly; and as be of the elm a beneath thinking shady satan In the autumn was digging them of bis lithe had hard lessons learned, was at his elbow and said: "There, tle misbehaviors in the past, and what Billy, Isnt that poor pay for serving he meant to do In the future. the all have your father the way you He was good natured, year? Just see those small potatoes. but by no means thoughtless boyish, He stopped hoeing and replied: "Ah, or careless. His mind wandered from Satan, at It again; talking against my one thing to another until his thoughts Father, bless His name! Why, when were centered on the mythological talo I served you I didnt get any potatoes of the strange young man of old whose at all. What are you talking against asms he bore. Father for? And on he went, hoeing He slept and this la the dream he and praising the Lord for small po- dreamed: tatoes. He saw the mighty Siegfried at the ancient forge, lie heard the clang of the great hammer as it fell on the anOr Short Duration. vil. Wife Heres one of my new photoHe watched the skillful hand put the It? of do what think you graphs, dear; Husband Theres something unnaturfinishing touches on the powerful al about 1L Taken by the instantaneThe scene changed. He found him-ae- lf ous process, was It not? Wife Yes, 1 In the midst of a large assembly. but how can you tell? Husband Oh, he saw the man of valor with of the account so on Again merely supposed aword poised shove the figure of a man, repose about the mouth. seated on a rock, clad In armor, ancient but well made. Frocaatloaary Moamra. The sword remained but an instant "Heavens! cried the head of the fell with the force of a thunderbolt It firm, putting his hands to his ears as from the hand of Jupiter. The armor he entered the candy department, burst ssunder and blood bathed the "who gave those girls permission to mountain side. Ah! where was the talk?" "I did, sir, said the floorboasted armor? where the conceited to was the walker. It only way keep mar. who made it? them from eating up all the candy. Siegfried awoke. Drops of cold perDont believe that curling Irons are spiration stood on his forehead. What did It all mean? Had he really responsible for all the curly hair. aeen the mighty warrior he had read o much of? Where waa he? lie sat upright and looked about him. He found hlmaelf on the bank of the which swept Everglade m swiftly toward Its outlet FOUNDERING STEAMER. $ The lofty elm still stretched forth its light-hearte- d, Bel-mun- g. mill-strea- m dived deliberately head fore- Plunge most into three hundred feet of wa ter and was never seen again. "As the sea rushed into the furnaces, adds Mr. Lightfoot, "steam and water gas were generated, and these, rushing up through the smokestack, caused a kind of explosion which Is very plainly seen In the last photograph I took. Just as the ship was disappearing. The upward rush of steam car- - ill-fat- u, guess cosat last July, possess so much Interest. The photographs were reproduc-i- d In the Strand, which contains an account of the disaster. The sinking of the was occasioned by a collision with another vessel In a thick fog. An hour later there was live feet of water In the hold.. The captain hoped to reach Malta, when two feet more of water was taken In another hour he decided to make at ence for Lisbon. Fifteen hours later aa shown In the pictures The Last sixteen feet of water was reported, and "The Final and It was then realised that the ship Few Moments rled a great quantity of soot from the flues, and this caused a dark cloud to hover over the place where the u sank. There was no whirlpool of any kind. When great vessel of 3,100 tons took her last dive the little flotilla of boats could not have been more than luO yards distant Tal-Hok- tis Tal-Ho- ku i A 4' - . .! I NO. 13. 1808. Standing by after her disappearance, we saw pathetic bits of wreckage coming slowly to the top. that cigarette smo! Ing causes softening of the brain; b he doesnt say how he found It out A physician says 1 V Tbs ones thriving town was waning. Factories weakened. Men who were thrown out of employment spent their remaining wages In trying to drown their sorrow In the flowing bowl, and so well did one succeed by walking off the bridge after drinking sight glasses of the cooling beverage, that except for the timely aid of a few high school lads, bis sorrows on this earth would have been at an end. Yet all of these changes were to the interest of the brewery; and how it thrived! Siegfried noted this and determined that yonder brick building was an armor encasing a conceited boaster. Boaster of the ruin and misery he had brought; of the crimes he had committed and of polluted politics he bad made. "This boaster must be humbled and vowed Siegfried, and my silenced, hand shall be the first to grasp tbs to accomplish It Belmung of But what la this Belmung, where la It to be foynd and bow used? he solito-d- ay loquized. Quickly the answer came, This word Is the vote of the people, it Is to be found at the voting polls and Is to be used for Prohibition! He rose from beneath the elm with a firm determination. "I am hut nineteen and have two years to work for the abolition of this curse. Most of my schoolmates like me, and by explaining the lawlessness, corruptness and baseness of this legalized curse, surely I can persuade them to join me. He went to work Immediately with a persistency that showed his heart was In the cause. Two years passed as though they bad been but two weeks. Behold now our hero! By tha vote of hla townsmen be Is magistrate of the little city. He holds the edict which la to banish the brewery and the contents of the casks will bathe the rocks, aa of old blood bathed the mountain side. Union Signal. Maw COTILLON IS POPULAR. Figure for tho Dim of tho Soa-o- n Described. feature of the season's unusually general attention to dancing In Chicago la the revival of the cotillon, which this winter la the most popular of A dances In society. The leaders whose reputations depend largely upon their ability to present an appearance aa nearly aa possible like the Apollo Belvedere In a dress suit are in strict training. To the eotillon leader who can Invent new flgurea for the comic dances, that will be novel aa well as pretty, goes the palm and the honor of winning applause where almost everyone Is a star and the calcium light la Impartially distributed. Nothing is ridiculous when suggested for the cotillon. The sight of grave men of bust nets wearing eccentric headgear and going through evolutions that belong by right to the Inmates of an asylum for the Insane la not regarded as at all out of place in a society ballroom, whatever a stranger to the social might think of the spectacle. Many curious suggestion! have been made for the cotillon that tend to show that this Is to be a great cotillon year, but that which-takethe lead for novelty Is a figure that its designer calls The Slavish The lady upon whom falls Chain. the honor of taking the lead In the figure Is presented with a long chain of ' gold, In whlrh at intervals are fitted golden rings large enough to go over a man's head and encircle his neck. With this chain In her hand the lady begins a tour of the ballroom, while victims quake and tremble every time her glance falls upon them. Well it la for those who have secured partners before the lady of the golden chain cornea her way. Never was a womans protecting Influence more sorely needed than at this moment, for lonely and forlorn wanderers are powerless to escape from the chain. The first man the lady of the chain sees alone Is attached by the passing of one of the rings over his head, and he la led away with mournful aspect, following his captor wherever she may choose to Presently another victim guide him. is captured and harnessed by the golden chain, and the procession wends Its way through the ballroom until every ring encircles a neck, and the lady who leads the line has aa many men on her chain as the chain will hold. HE SLEPT AND DREAMED. protecting branches to shade him from the sun's fury. Siegfried gazed dazedly about him. reiterating hla dream time and again with an endeavor to Interpret it Across the stream and farther down, a denae black smoke rose from the ehlmney of a large brick building, situated on a rock elevation not far from the village center. It waa the village brewery. Siegfried was nineteen years old, yet It had never occurred to him that In two more years he, with several others, would have a voice In the village politics. He lay for some time engrossed In deep thought. What did his dream mean? He raised his eyes, and as If divinely directed, they fell on the brewery. What a pitiful sight he saw! Schoolboy stood at the door watching the manufacture of the poison with Interest; others carried palls of It to their fathers. Although the brewery had been there but a short time, Its Influence waa felt sadly. In the back room of the village store stood a large hardwood barrel Another Poaitr for Pa. an end, drained by a faucet at the lowWillie Say, pa, Is the earth round er end. The grocer sold more of the contents of this barrel than he did of like a ball? Pa Yes, Willie. Willie-A- nd does people live on the other side his staple articles. He had less dePa Certainly, nly son. Willie It? of or fruit mand for flour, potatoes, any don't they fall off? dishad The mill Why garden products. charged three men for lack of work. If the sun had nothing to do but d cobbler waa able The old to carry his now small business alone, shine on the truly good It wouldnt and therefore dismissed his assistant. have to get up so early. gray-haire- s i s |