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> THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH. Volume XXV Charlotte, N. C., Thursday, September 12, 1901. Number 37 ‘ IN THE OLD WORLD, Our Delegates Having a Very Enjoyable Time. CORRESPONDENCE. Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D., Dear Bro: You will see by this that we are at Brussels, the capital of Bel gium. We have visited Glascow, Edingburg, ana the Sco't'sh lakes. We spent yesterday at London af ter having stopped on our way from Edingburg at York long enough to see the great Cathedral at that place. Yesterday at London we visited St. Paul Cathedral, House of Par liament and West Minister Abby where all of England’s noted dead are buried. Last night we crossed North sea and came up the Coast of Holland and Belgium, landing at Antwerp. We spent a little more than two hours at Antwerp visiting the Cathedral where the great paintings of Rubens, the de scent of Christ from the cross, was observed in its original v\ ith many others. We arrived at Brussel about two o’clock and were most elegantly and comfortably situa ted. We have gone over the principal parts and viewed the most splendid buildings of the wonderful city. Among the things of special interest which we saw was the royal lace palace where the beautiful and costly Brussels is made. It was something we shall not soon forget. We go to Waterloo battlefield to morrow and then on to Paris. I shall have to leave the others with Dr. Caldwell and my wife. We both preach at Bedford, Dr. Geo. Pemman’s city. My wife is engaged to sing and I am to lec ture on “What of the American Negro since Emancipation” on Monday at Bedford. The trip has been areal educational trip. I saw Wesley’s church yesterday, stood at the slab over Gladstone’s grave, etc. I hope to give our friends the benefit of my trip when we return, the Lord willing. No one enjoys this trip more than Bishop Lomax. Of course Bishop Harris enjoys it, being one of, if not the best educated men in the party. Dr. M. C B. Mason and wife are with our party and seem very much at home among us. I hope you, Mrs. Smith and all the friends are in reasonable health and that everything is moving on nicely. Don’t forget to call to see mother whenever you can, or in quire how she is getting along. I shall write you a series of letters after my return this Winter on “Sights and Scenes Abroad” foj the Star. Yours fraternally, Geo. W. Clinton. * * * Paris, France, Aug. 29, 1901. Rev. J. W. Smith, D. D., Dear Bro: I am now at the above named place, having reached here yester day in company with the mem bers of our delegates. We have all been quite well. The sail across the sea was pleasant. I go to Bed ford, England, to preach on the last Sunday in September. I will return to England on Tuesday. We have all had a nice time. A full account of the trip will be given later. 1 have not the time to write more now. J. S. Caldwell. The Negro. WHO KNOCKED HIM DOWN. Special to The Observer. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 8—James B. Parker, the Georgia Negro who knocked down Czolgosz the mo ment after he shot the President, was found to day and gave a graphic account of the tragic oc currence. “I was next in line behind the anarchist who shot the President,” he said. “I trid to get in front of him several times, but he pushed me back with his elbow. A little girl had just shaken hands with the President when the assailant reached him. ‘Czolgosz had the revolver concealed in a handker chief which was wrapped around the revolver and his hand. Czol gosz did not extend his left hand, as some of the newspapers report. The President thought Czolgosz’s right hand was sore, and put out his hand to take the anarchrist’s left hand. As he did so the anar chist fired twice. I struck him on the nosei with my right fist, and reached with my left hand to take the pistol from him. Several of the marines thought the officer was the mar who did the shooting) but he pointed to where I had Czol gosz down on the floor and said: ‘There is the man who shot him.’ Czolgosz raised his pistol again to shoot either the President or my self, but at that time I choked him so hard that he couldn’t shoot. I struck him so hard that the blood gushed from his nose. We strug gled some seconds before the Se cret Service officers reached us. Then one of them, I think it was Foster, struck him and said: ‘You d-d scoundrel, how dare you shoot our President?’ I wanted to cut his throat but they took him from me. I believe my striking Czol gosz kept him from shooting until he emptied his pistol and probably prevented the President from be ing wounded again.”. Parker is a native of Georgia. His mother was a colored woman from Savannah, and his father was a half Spanish and half Negro from St. John’s Island, off Char leston. He has been living in Buf falo since last March and had for several months been employed in the Plaz Restaurant, in the expo sition grounds. He got off from his work in order to shake hands with the President, and was the man immediately behind the as sailant. Parker considers Atlanta as his home, he having lived most of his life there, working in the North at intervals. He says he that he only did his duty but does not relish the way the Secret Ser vice men have attempted to ere ate the impression that they over came the assailant. He only re grets that he was not allowed to kill Czolgosz. “The twenty thous and white people there ought not to have expected a nigger to do it all,” he said. “Some of them ought to have helped me kill him. We would have fixed him quick in Georgia.” Parker is in deadly fear of the anarchists and says he will leave Buffalo soon, because he is afraid they will kill him. CHARLES EDWARD LLOYD. IMPERFECT IN ORIGINAL NAMELESS TERROR. __ ■ > Took Hold of Mrs. McKinley a? They Entered the City. FORESHADOWED TRAGEDY. d' * Special to the World. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 6—It is signifi cant that Buffalo’s vociferous greeting to the nation’s chief when he'tnade his sunset entrance last Wednesday should have foreshadowed the tragedy then so near. As the special train of Mr- McKinley ana ms party uasnea rnrougn Terrace station enroute to the Exposition Grounds the artillerymen of the Sev enty-third Seacoast Battery drawn up to await his coming fired a salute of twenty-one guns. The concussion broke seven panes in the forward car, the Pennsylvania, and its two occupants narrowly escaped serious injury. The crash and shock cause* a panic that in one instance, at least^aslasting. Mrs McKinley fell fainting in her husband’s arms. Not all the mad shouts of the popu lace, who, all unconscious of disaster, were calling for a sight of the Presi dent could banish it. They were gath ered at every coign of vantage--a lov ing, laughing crowd to do him honor— and Mr. McKinley, laying his stricken wife back upon the pillows, stepped out to the end of the car and bared his head to the exultant throng. But it cost more than even those about him realized. When he alighted at the terminal station his pallor startled all who saw him. Whether .it was the whis per of fate, or a woman’s nervousness, certain it is that from the moment of their approach to the city a nameless terror had taken possession of Mrs. McKinley. Those about her endeav ored to reassure her in vain. Mrs. McKinley, seated at the back of the observation car with her husband, shuddered and covered her eyes. The President, quick to respond to her alarm, with an infinite tenderness gath ered her shrinking figure to his side and drew up her lace wrap to shield her ears, smiling the while as one might to a troubled child. It was done with such winning gentleness that it had an almost instantaneeus effect. The shouts ceased and men involuntarily lifted their hats. It was shortly after this, before the train was well out of the subway, that the explosion of the guns and shattering glass aroused Mrs. Mc Kinley’s anguish anew. At each shot she shivered as if mortally hurt, finally lapsing into unconsciousness, It was 1 only when Dr. P. M. Kixey assured the President that the swoon tyould be of short’duration that he resigned her to neices, Miss Mary and Miss Ida Barber, who had accompanied them, while he appeared in answer to the salutations of the people. Bravely she rallied. At the station the man who is, before all, the husband took her from the care of nurse'andhaaid and lifted her down in his strong arms. At the carriage door it’was'he'who turned to the nurse for "another wrap” and drew it about her shoulders with'the solicitude of a lover. Never before had the country’s Chief Executive been seen by bis people in so intimate, so lovable a light as on Presi dent’s Day at the Pan-American, If he had prepared a last day o” his life, had Tid it of every cloud and clothed it with the dignity of the statesman softened by the direct ap peal of the man, he could not have peopled it wiih an association of hap pier incidents. It was his first public appearance since the Fourth. He had been broken by the suffering of his wife’s long illness. The story of that terrible journey from the Pacific coast, battling with death was fresh in the minds of all who heard him speak that day. Mrs. McKinley’s piesence at his side, his tender attention, ready at every cal', were constant reminders of the Presidents’t supreme interest. His first evening in Buffalo had been spent quietly with her at President Milburn’s home, where they were guests. Since her recovery he has devoted his holi day to keeping her well. It was his dearest wish that she should partici pate with him in the pleasures of the Exposition. Rulers Slain. Of the 20 rultrs slain in the last cen tury 11 were Presidents of Republics. Emperor Paul, Russia, choked.1801 Saltan $elim, Turkey, stabbed... .1808 President d’Istria, Greece, sabre. ..1831 Duke of Parma, Italy.1854 President of Hayti, stabbed.1859 President Lincoln, U. S. shot... . .1865 President Balta, Peru, shot.1872 President Moreno, Ecuador, shot. .1872 President Guthriz, Ecuador, shot. .1873 Sultan Abdul Aziz, Turkey, stabbed 1874 President of Paraguay, shot.... .1877 President Garfield, U. S. shot.1880 Czar Alexander II, Russia, bomb. .1871 Pres. J.R. Barrios, Guatemala, shot 1885 Queen of Corea, poisoned...1890 Pres. Carnot, France, stabbed., . .1894 Shah of Persia, stabbed.1896 Pres. Jose Barrios, Guatemala, shot 1898 Empress of Austria, stabbed..... .1899 King Humbert, Italy, shot.1900 Anarchist’s Confession. Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 6--Leon Czologosz, the would-be-assassin, has signed a confession covering six pages of foolscap, which states that he is an anarchist and that he became an enthusiastic member of that body through the influence of Emma Godman, whose writings he had read and whose lectures he ha3 listened to. He denies having any confederate, and says he de cided on the deed several days ago and bought the revolver with which the act was committed in Buffalo. Czologosz does not ap pear in the least degree uneasy or penitent for his action. He says be was induced by his attention to Emma Goldman’s lectures and writings to decide that the pre sent form of government in this country was all wrong, and he thought the best way to end it was to kill the President. He shows 10 signs of insanity. A Tramp’s Lecture. I Q. From whence you come? A. From a town in N. Y. called f usable. Q. Whar’s your business here? A To learn to subdue my appalpB, and * iponge my living from an indulgSQrjrablic, ' Q, Then you are a regular tramp F^receive? • A. I am so taken and accepted wherever I . 50. Q. How am I to recognize you as a tramp? A. By the laziness of my feet, and my gen- » ;ral carniverous appearance. Q. How gained you admission to this town? A, By a good long weary tramp. Q. How were you received? A. On the end of a Policemans billy pre sented at my head. Q. How did the policeman dispose of you? A. He took me around the town from east to west, where he found the Police Judge, Police Captain, and the Black Maria, and where a great many questions were asked. Q. What advice did the Judge give you? A. He advised me to walk in an upright regular step and to abandon tramping. Q. Will you be oft now? A. With your permission I will be off quickly, NEWS EPITOniZED. \ By the Editor for the Delectation of the Reader. SWEEPING THE HORIZON. There are 1700 Indians in Ari zona owning farms. There are 10,000 missionaries and 1,000,000,000 heathens in the world. Japan has announced that here after all its communication, with foreign Governments.will be made in English. Eminent ministers, in session at Winona, Ind., have voted that there is a hell and will preach the doctrine in future The census of Canada shows a population of 5,388,833, an in crease of but about ten^and one half per cent in ten years. The Surgeon-General of t h e Army objected to the employment of corn doctors, as recommended by Inspector-General Reade. It is reported that Henry L. Wilson, United States minister to Chili, will soon retire and devote his time to commerce representing several American firms. It is said in Copenhagen that the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States for $3,750,000 will be consummated before the close of the present year. The fortune of the late Dowager Empress Frederick amounts to 6,000,000 marks. Her will gives to her six children, including Emper or William, a million each. The government is encouraging temperance societies, having ap propriated large amounts to aid in the prosecution ofthetr work. The appropriation for 1900 was $1, 290,719. In Hawaii there are 23,273 Pro testants, **26,863 Catholics, 4,868 Mormans (polygamy is forbidden) 14,306 of Eastern creeds and 20, 192 who declined to state their faith or possessed none. There is no country in the world where such phenomenal sales of novels are reported. According to the New York Tribune, in two pears—from 1898 to 1900—no less Fan nineteen novels had a circu ation of 100,000. The Hon. Mrs. Arthur Bertrand Etussell has headed a movement to *aise funds for the establishment nf a chair of Temperance in the London (England) University, as i set-off to the brewing professor ship at Birmingham University. We now have in this Christian jountry over two hundred and for ;y thousand saloons, all selling ivhiskey by authority of laws by ;he voters of our nation and dif ferent states. It is estimated that Dur saloons are sending 96,000 hu~ man beings to untimely graves avery year. According to Dr. H. K. Carroll,, the net increase of communicants in all the churches of the United States in 1900 was 364,846. Of these the Methodists gained 106, 162; the Catholics, 80,432; the Lutherans, 62,269; the Baptists, 32,439; the Disciples, 31,586; the Presbyterians, 22,194; the Episco palians, 17,296; and the Gongre gationalists, 1,489.
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