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Show THE BEE. 4 NEGRO HUSIC AND OTHER HATTERS. IS a colored in Salt journalist Lake who is evidently unacquainted with department w'ork in a paper like The Bee, but takes it for granted that the editor is society reporter, dramatic crit-ic- , mining reviewer, etc. This impression would be inexcusable in any one else. As a matter of fact the editor-of The Bee rarely attends a theatre, does not claim to be a judge of music, and has never written a line of musical or dramatic criticism for this paper ; he is not particularly fond of grand opera, prefers plantation melodies, and would rather watch a nigger dance than goto an inaugural ball. The dramatic writer for The Bee, who has very pronounced opinions on both music and negroes, claims that they are not successful in opera, but holds with Dvorak, the greatest musical authority on this continent, that real negro melodies constitute the only distinctly original Once in a while you run American music. across a colored man who holds his head too high to appreciate a compliment like that, who HERE The President Has a Gun of His Own. SPANISH CENSORS OF THE PRESS. EXSORS of the press are not considered necessary adjuncts to this government, but in Spain they rank close to the cabinet in importance. Every telegram goes through their hands, subjecting it to frequent delays and altering its features until the author wouldnt recognize it. This is in marked contrast to the way Senor de Polo is treated in this country ; he is given the utmost freedom and cables minute descriptions of all he sees and all the important conversations he hears to his beloved queen. An American correspondent in Madrid or Havana is treated something like this I have a dispatch for the Congressional Record, said the war reporter. 1 will look it over at once, said the SpanI wish to give ish official smiling affably. American papers the utmost freedom in their work and I regret the duty of glancing over their dispatches, which I only do in a perfunctory Now this cablegram needs no revision way. whatever, it is absolutely correct, but it is very long and expensive for your paper and is not as strong or pointed as if it were condensed slightly. Allow me to make one or two slight changes in this direction. I will not insert a single word. Then the Soanish official read the entire dis patch aloud which was as follows : The situation is unchanged. European no to the determined are queen give powers assistance. The people of Spain are not anxious for war. The cabinet will not hold out much longer. A dispatch from Havana announces that the Spaniards have lost another battle. They were defeated by the Cubans at Salano. After the battle they were pursued by the Cubans as far as Salanca. It furnishes no ray of hope for the queen. Now I will cross out the unnecessary words, said the official censor. After using his blue pencil a moment the dispatch read as fol: lows : The situation is changed. European powers are to give the queen assistance. The people of Spain are anxious for war. The cabinet will hold out. A dispatch from Havana announces that the Spaniards have another battle. They defeated the Cubans at Salano. After the battle It they pursued the Cubans as far as Salanca. furnishes hope for the queen. I will see that your dispatch goes at once, concluded the official bowing politely. And so it went. known and thoroughly responsible gentleman has sent The Bee for publication an attack on a man by the name of Salsbury, concerning some houses of which he has the renting. A well The article is refused space because of its personal character and because no public end is attainable by taking up the matter referred to at this time. This paper does not care to retail scandals or sensations except as they may point a moral or teach a lesson of real benefit to the community. lv Easter may come as early as March 22 and as late as April 25. Since 1803 Easter occurred three times on April 19th, five times on the 16th, fire times on the 1st, four times each on the 2d, 11th and 12th, four times on March 31, four times on April 6, three times on the 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, 13th, 14th and 22d of April and 27th and 28th of March. March 22, 1818, was the earliest date upon which it has occurred. Nine days in March are represented, viz : 22d, 23d, 21th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st. .. The Logan Nation, which may be regarded as an authority among the Republicans of the north and throughout the state, takes this posiIn our tion on the fusion question: opinion the Democrats have gone to a good deal of trouble for nothing. They have refused something before they were asked for it. declares that educated negroes are operatic successes, and so on. But for all that, the negro, speaking of him as a type, as the representative of a race, has a music of his own and a voice of his own, and with his bent for this music goes the habit of beating time, which Bishop Turner, is natural a learned and cultured negro, says, with his people. He and almost irresistabla likes their music and can scarce refrain from That, says he patting when he hears it. is the African in me. Nowt let us examine a local authority for an opinion concerning the colored queen of song, the most famous negro prima donna in the world, Black Patti, whose famous troupe of troubadours is considered the leading negro combination on the stage. Mr. Julius F. Taylor, a colored wTriter of this city, was delighted when he heard that Black |