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THE NATIONAL FORUM Education of Congress City. VOL. I. NO. 13. VANITY FAIR CONDUCTED BY JOHN H. WILLS. THE SITE FOR NORMAL SCHOOL NO. The opposition to the Balloch property as a site for the new Normal School No. 2 is so strong and so just that when the committee of the colored pastors of Washington called upon Commissioner Judson on Monday morning last they received his promise to hold the purchase of a site for that school on this campus. It is believed by many that a plot of ground owned by Howard University, situated near the reservoir, will be next advocated as suitable for the new Normal School No. 2. This location is spoken of as "an ideal spot" for the school. It may be ideal from a purely archectural point of view, if regarded as a landscape adornment expressing picturese possibilities susceptible of artistic development. For practical educational purposes, social, moral and hygienic usefulness it simply won't do. I do not know if this site will be proposed and hope it will not, because all the objections to the Balloch site are strong and the school is considered, besides the filtration plant and the stables thereafter are added objectionables. No one will deny that the Colonel is the most distinct figure in our social and political life today. When I say "social," I don't mean those pink-tie and high handshake affairs, but social as dealing with the thought and life of the people. He is a man of vigorous mind and body; he energizes every action, controls all faculties, puts all the power of body and will into what he does. He is positively and distinctively an American, produced by purely American influences. Europeans have long criticised us as being too forceful, too lavish in action and speed, too florid and vivid, inlined to boasting and lacking in that modesty which restrains and tempers power and its use. Colonel Roosevelt possesses so many excellencies it is but natural that he may have a fault or so. One carping critic says that the Colonel is a tiniest toy colonel, who was waiting to be sent to military service for the few days he was in the army, but has been imposing arbitrary rule ever since upon his own people and others. To an enthusiastic admirer this might seem harsh. Colonel Roosevelt has been fortunately successful in the mastery of all the things he undertook, except, perhaps, milking a cow. Circumstances and conditions have overcome to an extent many of his obstacles and he has stood large in the light. Have returned from the wilds of savage Africa, where he slew many strange beasts, for what purposes I cannot guess, the Colonel is seeking a new labor worth his power. We are told that he will go west and then south. I would suggest that he go south first and tell those that dwell there, many of whom walk in darkness, what it is to be alive in this twentieth century; what it means to be an American; what a citizen of the United States should try to do in this country, and what constitution is, and that states who send members to the Congress of the United States with a total vote of 7,000 as an average, including the opposition in that number, are not free commonwealths, but a horde of slaves, bound in tighter, stronger chains than ever fastened an unwilling African. Here is a labor for Hercules, a work that must be done. If Colonel Roosevelt will do this, and he can do it, he will surply place a shining capstone upon that pillar of greatness his admirers build above the blame of his larshest crief. WHAT DID THEY SAY? About a week ago there visit I Oyster Bay the following personages: John C Danog, Dr. William D. Crum, Giles B Jackson and Harry S. Cummings, a highly interesting quartet, and perhaps it was only a social visit, but it is 'hard to imagine that aggregation coming together just to pay an afternoon call. It seems they asked Mr. Roosevelt to visit the Colored State Fair in Richmond in October and tell the folks something about conditions in Africa. The Colonel on "Conditions in Virginia" would be better than the Eayt speech. EVERYTHING THEIR OWN WAY. The average congressional vote for a member of the House of Representatives of the United States is about 7,000 in the Southern States and about 40,000 in the North, East and West. "There's a reason." T (THE ELKS WELCOME!) Next Tuesday the throng will have gathered amid the laughing greetings handshakes and smiles of myriads of friends. Everyone is filled with hospitality and kindness toward all the visiters who will flock to our city from every corner of our common country. Aside from the social aile of this gathering, the merriment and joy is a serious purpose to be attained and important work to be done. It is to be most sinful, to be most ashamed, to be banished and the entire body unite as one. That contention should cease; that concessions be offered by each and accepted by both is the hope of all well-wishers. The power and influence of the order will increase an hundred fold and then it will be truly I. B. P. O. E. W. WHAT MAYOR GAYNOR SAID. A gentleman representing some of the societies for the uplift called upon Mayor Gaynor to protest in behalf of his society against the fight pictures. The gentleman tells what he said and also what the Mayor said: "I had the Honor of calling upon the Mayor of this city, who admitted me to his presence and talked with me. I told him I was there to beg of him to exercise his authority and prevent the exhibition of the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures. I pointed out to him the degrading effect of them, the evil influence upon the young men and the further influence for evil they might have upon the next generation. I told him that we fear that even in New York there are women who live in the white and coloured cases and that there might be bloodshed as there had been in the past. "When I had finished the Mayor informed me that he knew of no law which would give him authority to act in the matter. He was not empowered COLONEL BOOSEVELT to prohibit the exhibition. To this I replied that, while I knew of his great legal learning, yet I had been informed or I had read that a law founded upon public policy might be invoked. He asked me where I had read this law, and I told him that I had seen it referred to in a newspaper. "At once his manner changed. He looked me squarely in the face and de- clared: 'You are a fool and you were sent here by fools.'" THE NEW PLAYHOUSES Conversing with Mr. W. H. Smith, of Chicago, who is to manage the Howard Theatre, he said that he had just returned from a four months' trip through the South showing the Johnson-Ketchel fight pictures. He said I might imagine what a time he had. Mr. Smith hopes to open the Howard on August 22 and September 5 expects to have Dudley's Smart Set, with Ada Overton Walker. The Howard bids fair to be a great house, with a stage of 80 by 198 feet with a seating capacity of 1500 and a stage large enough to produce any of the traveling productions of coming seasons. The Blue Mouse is an extra attractive house for its kind. The animating idea of the builder was comfort. It has 375 large, comfortable seats, full parquet size, with plenty of room and four large windows on each side. The stage is fitted with complete scenic equipment and is designed to work. The productions are kept to a high standard of interest and attractiveness. "RED BLOODED ANIMALS" By a trick of the type I was made to say: "We still have the lust for battle which all 'red headed animals' feel." I hope no auburn haired admirer of mine thought I was making fun at persons with tinted locks. I only meant that real live things like to fight some time and that now it's got down to rule and rate like everything else in this highly civilized world. THE FIGHT IS ON IN THE 6TH MARYLAND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. the campaign for the Congressional nomination in the Sixth Maryland district is now well under way with three awarded candidates, namely, Messrs. Geeo N. Pearre, the present incumbent; Mr. Gist Blair, a prominent citizen of Montgomery county, and Mr. B. H. Warner, Jr., of the same county. Mr. Pearre has been twelve years in the House and therefore has a slight advantage, though the personal popularity of Mr. Blair makes him a hard contest in the race to defeat. Mr. Warner, though young and inexperienced, is making aashing campaign and will be a factor until the last. It is generally conceded by political experts of that section of the state surrounding Montgomery county that Mr. Blair has the better chance of winning the nomination. First of his character, ability and prestige, and second, that there is less factional antagonism toward him. LAWYER J. LOUIS TAYLOR ASSAULTED While accompanying a lady home on Tuesday of this week Mr. Louis Taylor was assaulted on North Capitol street and seriously beaten. From the best evidence we are able to gather, it appears that the assault was entirely unprovoked on the part of Mr. Taylor, and was the result of nothing but pure maliciousness on the part of fifteen or sixteen rulers. He was not injured, but was otherwise injured about the face. He was removed to his home, where he is now confined and where it is said by physicians he will be compelled to remain for several weeks. One of the culprits was apprehended and is now incarcerated without bail. Later it was learned that the individual who is now languishing in the tols has confessed his guilt and implicated nine other persecutors in their names. It was arrested at first by way of excuse that they took Mr. Taylor for Jack Johnson, but the dissimilarity between the two is so striking that this story was at once discounted. BISHOP E. D. LAMPTON PASSES AWAY The death of Bishop E. W. Lampton, D. D., came as quite a shock to his many friends here and elsewhere, as it was not generally known that he was ailing. He only enjoyed the distinction of holding the office of bishop for a little over two years before he was called from labor to reward. In his passing the church loses a splendid character and the race a staunch supporter. The A. M. E. preachers' meeting adopted a beating set of resolutions and forwarded them to Greenville, where the late bishop was interred on last Thursday. His family have the sympathy of his many friends. Homes for Colored PEOPLE AT GRANT PARK ON-THE-HILL In the District at 57th St., N. E., On the Columbia Electric Railway. H. St. cars so direct to the property—5c car fare—80 minutes from 15th St. and N. Y. Ave. Pure spring water, fine shade, churches, schools, etc. Lots $100 to $200 on Easy Monthly Paymments, NO INTEREST; NO TAXES. The Poor Man's Chance To Buy, A DESIRABLE HOME SITE AT SMALL COST. Grant Park Office, Room 314; Oursay Building, N. W. Cor. 8th and G Streets, N. W. --- WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1910. OF THE INDEPENDENT LEAGUE OF THE DISTRICT HELD AT TRUE REFORMERS HALL, TUESDAY, JULY 19. REV, S. L. CORROTHERS, PRESIDENT, AND REV. J. MILTON WALDRON, NATIONAL ORGANIZER, MAKE ROUSING SPEECHES. SEVERELY ARRAIGN THE POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO WARD COLORED OFFICE HOLDERS IN THE SOUTH. (Reported by J. A. H.) On last Tuesday night the True Reformers' Hall was filled to the doors to witness the proceedings of the Mass Convention which had been called by the Independent League of this city. The purpose of the meeting, it was learned, was to take some steps of protest against what the league terms the administration's southern policy toward Negro Federal officeholders, especially in the South. Rev. Corrothers, who was chairman of the meeting, opened it with a stirring speech to the sound of many "amens" in the audience. He said among other things that the kind pursued before and that it was ruinous to the Negro and to the general welfare of the public; that Govert Cleveland, even though a Democrat, had never thought of introducing such a policy into his regime and that it was an outrage. The Rev. gentleman also paid his respects to Mr. Hitchcock, whom he characterized as being one of the main offenders in this matter; in other words, the fellow who, as he put it, "was moulding the bullets that the President shot them." Rev. Hitchcock later from both the white reporters of the Post and Herald when he said that Mr. Cargie could not pick a Moses for him; that no man who was paid could ever make a good leader; that leaders were made by being born, not appointed. He set up another when he laughingly said that the President had made a swing around the South, danced with the beautiful and highly cultured southern ladies and then sold the Negro out for a mess of "possum." He out for saying that there were its congressional districts in that which the Negro had, and that it was in these districts that the Independent League was organizing. Rev. J. Milton Waldron was that introduced and he said he was "wather not to term this policy the Negro policy instead of the Southern policy. He maintained that he thought he was his special mission to get the Negro dissatisfied with himself and his condition. "Not that dissatisfaction that leads to evil," said he, "but that which makes a man want to aspire to higher things." Dr. Waldron said he was "wather not to go in groups in the Federal or other areas." That it did his heart good, but said he: "It is our fighting that keeps you there and I feel that we really ought to assess you all." He paid a high compliment to the appointment of Mr. Whit McKinley as collector of customs at Georgetown and hoped he would be confirmed, but felt that this was a stroke of policy rather than anything else. He further stated that this policy had done more harm than all the wars in the past century. Speaking of his trip to Montgomery, Ala., he said that Negroes had been allowed to visit the library and allowed to visit or draw books from the library and indirectly by this policy, as it was not in vogue before. He said by reason of this policy labor unions have more difficulty to visit the spirit because it had emanated from such a high and mighty source, and were following in the wake of the precedent established here. He argued that the Negroes had not affected but all dark races. He stated that the Gospel ministry had signally failed to make any effort to recyfey the matter, but on the contrary has aided and abetted it. He cited the instances of Negroes not being allowed to enter the lunch room of the Interior Department to eat, and of their being all segregated in one room and of the unfairness shown by the civil service board toward Negro eligibles. After paying his compliments also to Mr. Hitchcock he spoke of the ill treatment of the co-worker, the jailer, and his speech by saying that of all the independent Negroes the Negro minister was the most independent, insomuch as he did not live off the government and therefore it was his duty to speak out and he proposed to speak out. Hon. N. B. Marshall was next introduced, and in a legal and clear-cut way made an argument that threw new light on the Brownsville affair. At the mention of the name of Foraker the audience者 will hear. Marshall was displeased with concluding and argumentative in his talk and gave his hearers some food for thought. Resolutions were read and adopted, after which the meeting was concluded. The Medical Men. Physicians as a whole do not receive the credit they deserve in the popular mind for their disinterested work for mankind. We are too apt to look upon them as persons who come to us when we are sick and give us something to make us well again, or bandage our injuries when we have been hurt, and even operate upon us in an emergency, and then charge us a good price for it, when compared with the wages of an ordinary laborer—which price we are glad to pay, because we value our health and comfort above price. But this is a comparatively small side of the life of the average modern physician.—St. Louis Star. Of the 282 steamships which carried steerage passengers across the Atlantic during the first half of 1909 143 were equipped with wireless instruments. PIONEER IN MASONRY COLORED LODGES IN DISTRICT OR GANIZED IN 1825. COURT SETTLES CONTROVERSY. RECENT DECISION OF APPELLATE TRIBUNAL ENDS STRIFE AND DESIGNATES THE MOST WORKSHIPFUL GRAND LODGES OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS AS VICTORS IN LEGAL BATTLE—GOT CHARTERS FROM ENGLAND. A controversy among the colored Masons of the District, which had aroused much agitation, has been settled by a recent decision of the Court of Appeals. An attempt was made by one element that had come into existence within the last fifteen years to oust the other element, that had been the recognized body of colored Masons in the District since 1825. By the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals, the older body came out of the legal struggle victorious in all of its essential contentions. In all of their long history the colored Masons here had never before been in a contest of any nature before the courts. Freemasonry among colored men in the District had its origin in the constitution of Social Lodge in 1825. Social Lodge is a direct descendant of the grand lodge of England, through the Prince Hall grand lodge of Massachusetts, thence through the grand lodge of Pennsylvania, from which it received the charter constituting a just and legal lodge. In September, 1908, the colored Masons of the country united with the Prince Hall grand lodge in celebrating in Boston its one hundredth anniversary. This grand body takes its name from Prince Hall, the first colored man raised to the degree of a master Mason in Boston, who was honored, passed and raised in a "traveling lodge" traced to one of the British regiments under General Gage at Boston in the early part of 1775. With fourteen other colored men, who had been initiated about the same time, Prince Hall united in organizing a lodge with the sanction of the authorities under whom they were made. APPLIED FOR WARRANTY After the Revolutionary War, in which Prince Hall served as a soldier on the side of the colonies, application was made by him to the grand lodge of England for a warrant to establish a regular lodge. In September, 1784, his petition was granted and a warrant was issued for the organization of African Lodge, No. 459. A copy of this warrant may still be seen in Freemasons' Hall in London. The original warrant is in the possession of the Prince Hall grand lodge. On account of conditions as to travel at that time, and the confusion following the war of independence, this lodge received its destination till April, 1782. In 1797 two other colored lodges of Masons were organized, one in Providence, R. L., and the other in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1808 these bodies met with African Lodge, No. 459, in Boston and formed African grand lodge, which subsequently became the Prince Hall grand lodge, which is regarded by colored men as the only source of legitimate free and accepted Masony among them. Soon after this Pennsylvania had her own lodge, which was called the District of Columbia, was called into existence by a charter from this body. In 1845 and 1846 the Pennsylvania grand lodge chartered Universal Lodge of Alexandria, D. C., and Felix Lodge, of this city. In 1848 these three colored lodges met in Washington and organized what was then called the Most Worshipful Union grand lodge of the District of Columbia, with Charles Datcher as grand master. It is known as the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. It has existed for 62 years, and during that time has had 33 grand masters. There are fourteen lodges under its jurisdiction and about 1,100 Master Masons. Its membership composes the leading colored men of the Capital City, and many of its grand officers have been men who have distinguished themselves in various lines of activity in the life of the community. The present grand master is Prof. Nelson E. Weatherless, director of the department of science in the colored high schools. It may be interesting to give the names of the past grand masters, as they are names well known in this community. They are: PAST GRAND MASTERS. Charles Datcher, John T. Costin, Richard Phiske, Robert Robinson, Francis Datcher, Jr., Charles Hunt, Annias Erbert, Carter A. Stewart, Edward Evans, William Anderson, Edward M. Roberts, Adolph Hall, William Tunna, Robert H. Booker, William H. Thomas, John F. Cook, formerly collector of taxes for the District of Columbia; William H. Myers, William A. Taliafero, Leonard C. Bailley, Charles C. C. Johnson, Dr. S. Roger Waters, John H. Lee, Charles H. Lemos, Henry Coleman, Dr. Hamilton S. Smith, John H. Burrill, Judge Robert H. Terrell, W. H. Judd Malvin, Prof John T. Layton, William H. Grimshaw, Dr. William A. Warfield, surgeon in chief Freedman's Hospital. The craft owns two splendid halls, one at Virginia avenue and Fifth street S. E., and the other in Nineteenth street, between L and M street 'N, W. The lodges are all in a flourishing condition and could be very much larger from a numerical standpoint if the greatest care were not taken in the matter of the buildings. The total value of real estate owned by the colored Masonic craft in the District of Columbia is conservatively estimated at $40,000.—The Washington Post. Discretion the Better Part. Old Gent—"What are you doing with those snowballs?" Small Boy—"Selling 'em three a penny, and those who can't afford to buy gets 'em for nuffin!" Old Gent—"I'll take the lot."—Town and Country. A Courteous Custom Stopped. "I will be magnanimous," said the French duellist. "Rather than risk taking human life I will fire in the air." "Don't do that," responded his second; "you'd be almost sure to hit an viator."—Washington Star. LOCAL NEWS AND GOSSIP Mrs. J. E. Dent, the charming wife of Mr. Dent, who is and has been employed at the Capitol for many years, is spending the summer in Binghamton, N. Y., the guest of the popular and enterprising hotel proprietor, Mr. Lee. Mrs. Dent is a lady of strong personality and it is said of her that at no distant day in the past she had quite a deal to do with engineering a political deal with one of the leaders of the Republican and it is said of the New York, whereby the condition of the Negroes in that particular locality was bettered. Mr. Dent will leave to join his wife at Binghamton, N. Y., about August 3rd, from which place they will take a trip up in the Adrondacks to spend part of their summer vacation. Mr. P. F. Sola, who is employed in the sixth auditor's office at the Post-office Building, was among the number of fortunates who received promotions. Mr. Sola was promoted to $000 per annum. It speaks well for his proficiency and it is to be congratulated. He was W. K. Sola, sister of Mrs. J. W. Grayson, left for bride, a Mrs., a few days ago to spend some time with her sister at that point. Miss Elizabeth Burrus was buried from her home at 1828 Eighteenth street N. W., one day this week. She had been ill and practically helpless for some time. She was the sister of Mrs. Hall. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Brooks. Mr. Isaac Hathway, of 1234 You street N. W, has some new and very interesting designs in models. It will pay one to stop in and look them over. Mr. Robert Foley, messenger at the Bureau of Engravings, died July 15th at Freedman's Hospital of stomach trouble. The funeral was held at 2015 Eleventh street N. W. Misses Blanche George, Natalie Lewis, Esther Middleton, Mary Mitchell and some out-of-town ladies are on an extended trip, covering Niagara, Quebec, Montreal and Toronto. They are spending their vacation, they report, in an exceedingly charming and pleasant manner. Miss Etta, daughter of the late James Freeman, died at her home at 10 o'clock P. M, July 16th. Funeral services were held at Plymouth Church at Seventeenth and P. streets N. W. Miss Frankie Simms, who has been visiting her sister in New York, has returned to the city. She reports an excellent time. She contemplates spending the month of August and part of September at Cape May. Elks' badges, banners and postcards at the Board & McGuire Pharmacy on Fourteenth street, between T and You streets. Prof. E. W. Williams, president of the Ferguson Agricultural College at Abbeville, S. C., is spending some time in the city. Prof. Williams has spent the last twenty-five years in school work in the South and is therefore in a position to judge what progress is being made among the Negroes. When asked for his opinion along this line and as to what he thought the outlook for the Negro was over the country generally he replied: "From close observation it appears to me that the outlook of the Negro is growing worse instead of better in the South. This, however, seems to be rather general in its nature and bids fair to work quite a detriment to the Negro's cause of advancement. It seems that I find the feeling of intense racial prejudice more radical this way than I do down South. The fact is I see more evidences of real genuine, unadulterated prejudice in Washington than I do in either North or South Carolina." It may be said without straining a point that the Professor has observed well and drawn a correct conclusion. Mr. Harry Parker, the popular messenger to the Ways and Means Committee of the House, whose residence is 1412 Pierce Place, will leave for New York on Tuesday, July 26th, to assume his duties with the National Executive Committee (Republican). Mr. Parker is a prominent member of the A. M. E. Metropolitan Church, and has been with this committee and also associated with the National Executive Republican Committee for a number of years. Thomas N. Ellis, of the Tennyson-Ellis Papering Company, at 1400 Pierce Place, is away with Mr. Thomas L. Karriece The Thomas L. Karriece is for the summer Mr. Karriece is president of the bank at the corner of Fourteenth and You streets. During his absence the Tennyson-Ellis Company is being looked after by the other member of the firm, Mr. James J. Tennyson. When you want neat papering done don't call to call upon them at 1400 Pierce Place N. W. You will meet all of the Elks and their friends at the popular drug store of Board & McQuire, 1912½ Fourteenth street N. W., the place where everybody meets everybody else for drugs, medicines and the most delicious ice-cream soda in the city. Mr. Ryan, Jr., died at his home, 1717 Eighteenth street N. W., on last Thursday at 12:45 A. M. Mr. Ryan had only been ill two days and his death came as a great shock to his relatives and friends. His funeral was conducted from his father's residence, at 1717 18th street N. W. Mr. Ryan was one of the most popular young men in the city and well liked by everybody. His many friends join the family in this, their sad hour of bereavement, in their ex-convict that death has removed from them a shining mark. The L. I. O. of St. Luke, in the District of Columbia, showed to fine advantage at their recent excursion to Somerset Beach. The officials received the congratulations of all the people. No more orderly excursionists have been seen on the river this season. There were close on to a thousand people who enjoyed the day. The committee, regulated in badges, made it pleasant for everybody. The fraternal spirit was seen everywhere. It is very noticeable that worthy and intelligent leaders have success, both as to number of people and money returns in these public events. We wish the St. Luke, under M. B. B., Anderson and Rev. Dr. Garner, the rich success they are surely winning. The St. Lukes' have chartered a car for Richmond, August 15, to avoid "Jim Crowing." ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Mr Elk chosen by the votes of their friend, gave a Diamond Elk Charm. 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The yearly ad wealth in 1815 was £60,000,000; today it is £300,000. Count of British subjects, almost a negligible quanlity now estimated at £2,700,000,000, upon which Most less than £140,000,000. During the last six years capital in foreign countries, largely suspended, has been resumed on a stupendous scale, greatly贸gn trade, and distinctly to the encouragement of least a hundred millions were invested abroad the same amount in 1909. These are merely a indices of the financial power of the nation. Of British people to support a government twice as there can be not the remotest doubt. Assum- reasonable economy are to prevail, the one tower- the public burden may best be adjusted so that the nation than 90 percent of the nation's aggregate wealth share—Review of Reviews. Take Our Trade? Frewen, English Economist A serious aspect of the depreciation of gold—or, to be simply, of the great rise of gold prices—is that relating the industrial development of Asia, with dried millions of people, and involves a competi- though little noticed thus far, is a menace to civilizations. The great abundance of the affiliates our currencies, but there is no equivalent to the silver currencies of the far East. The great stimuli to all that Asia exports to us, and during the next quarter of a century, as I over the control of many great industries—such either and jute—to an awakening China. When I myself seen—the cotton mills of Bombay, the factories of Cawnapore, and now this terribly low, Shanghai and Hong Kong—I find myself menaced by this murderous Mongolia competing competition of Chinese pig and steel must be down here in the West to something like their plus freights, but there is no such competition commodities—wheat, beef, bacon and butter. Thus must get the full uplift of the increasing depre- Vote For Your Favorite Elk The most popular Elk chosen by the votes of their friends and admirers will receive a Diamond Elk Charm. It is a beauty. The Charm will be displayed in the window of Mr. Callisher, the Jeweler, 917 Penna. Ave.. N. W. Go and see it. Cut out this coupon, fill it out and mail it to us. Vote early and often. Extra copies of the Forum for sale at 609 F St, N. W., Room 203, or you can order from your news stand. The presentation will be made during the Elk Convention, July 26, 27, 28, 29. Ten thousand Elks will be in this city attending this Convention. Address National Forum, 609 F St., N. W. COUPON THE MOST POPULAR ELK I. B. P. O. E. O. W. I cast this vote for NAME..... ADDRESS..... The most popular Elk will receive a Diamond Elk Charm. N recent years there has been a good deal of foolish talk about the supposed decadence of Britain. Now a few Englishmen have themselves fallen into grave doubts on the subject. As a matter of fact, the nation never possessed elements of strength equal to those of today. A population of 20,000,000 in 1815 has increased to one of 44,000,000. In 1815 the nation's accumulated wealth was under £3,000,000; as late as 1845 it was only £4,000,000; in 1882, according to Muhall, it was £8,720,000,000; today it is variably estimated at from £12,000,000,000 to £15,000,000,000. The yearly addition to this accumulated wealth in 1815 was £60,000,000; today is it £300,000,000, or six times as much. The total foreign investment of British subjects, almost a negligible quantity a hundred years ago, now estimated at £270,000,000, upon which there is an annual income at not less than £214,000,000. During the last six years the placement of British capital in foreign countries, largely suspended during the previous decade, has been resumed on a stupendous scale, greatly to the improvement of foreign trade, and distinctly to the encouragement of public and private thrift. At least a hundred millions were invested abroad in 1908, and approximately the same amount in 1909. These are merely a few of the more obvious evidences of the financial power of the nation. Of the ultimate ability of the British people to support a government twice as lavish as any yet on record there can be not the remotest doubt. Assuming that the principles of reasonable economy are to prevail, the one towering question is as to how the public burden may best be adjusted so that the 15 percent of the population which receives 50 percent of the national income and possesses more than 90 percent of the nation's aggregate wealth may be made to bear its just share—Review of Reviews. Will Asia Take Our Trade? By Moreton Frewen, English Economist HE most serious aspect of the depreciation of gold—or, to word it more simply, of the great rise of gold prices—is that it is stimulating the industrial development of Asia, with eight hundred millions of people, and involves a competition which, though little noticed thus far, is a menace to our Western civilizations. The great abundance of the new gold inflates our currencies, but there is no equivalent infiation of the silver currencies of the far East. The result is a great stimulus to all that Asia exports to us, and if the rise of gold prices continues during the next quarter of a century, as I believe it will, we shall hand over the control of many great industries—such as steel and coal, cotton, leather and jute—to an awakening China. When I think of the creations I have myself seen—the cotton mills of Bombay, the jute mills of Calcutta, the boot factories of Cawmore, and now this terribly ominous competition of Hankow, Shanghai and Hong Kong—I find myself wondering what white industries menaced by this murderous Mongolia competition will survive. The coming competition of Chinese pig and steel must keep the prices of pig and steel down here in the West to something like their cost of production in China plus freights, but there is no such competition in the case of perishable commodities—wheat, beef, bacon and butter. Thus the necessaries of life here must get the full uplift of the increasing depreciation of gold. Where The Forum Can Be Bought 11 cording to Mullah, oously estimated at from £12,000,000, dition to this accumulated wealth in 000,000, or six times as much. The total foreign investment in Bt bity a hundred years ago, behow e there is an annual income of Hot less years the placement of British capital during the previous decade, has been to the improvement of foreign trade, public and private thrift. At least a 1908, and approximately the same few of the more obvious evidences of the ultimate ability of the British pe lavish as any yet on record there ca sing that the principles of reasonable question is as to how the public be 15 percent of the population which income and possesses more than 90 p may be made to bear its just share Will Asia Tail By Moreton Frewer HE most serious asp word it more simply, it is stimulating the eight hundred milli tion which, though our Western civiliz it new gold inflates our inflation of the silver suit is a great simi if the rise of gold prices continues du believe it, we shall hand over the as steel and coal, cotton, leather and think of the creations I have myself jute mills of Calcutta, the boot factor ominous competition of Hankow, Shang dering what white industries menace will survive. The coming com keep the prices of pig and steel down a cost of production in China plus free in the case of perishable commodities the necessities of life here must get cla sion of gold. A Law-abiding Child. A health officer recently received the following note from one of the residents of his district: "Dear Sit:—I beg to inform you that my child, aged 8 months, is suffering from measles as required by act of Parliament."—[Tit-Bits]. Formaldehyde is used in meat exported to England and the government is making investigations as to its effect on the health and consumers. Where The Forum M. A. Harris, 810 Floric Davis & Smith, 1020 U Gray & Gray, 12th & U O Easily Answered. "How is it doctor," asks the smart patient, "that if I get my feet wet I contract a cold in my head, while if I get my head wet I don't have cold feet?" "It is caused," replies the weary physician, "by the fact that there is no room in your feet for a cold."—Chicago Post. During 1909 Chile produced 18,179 tons of copper, as against 19,463 tons in 1908. --- The National Forum Subscription Rates One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....50 JOHN H. WILLS Business Manager. Address all communications, checks and money orders to The National Forum, 609 F Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Col. Roosevelt has gone far enough to admit that he is for Mr. Taft and that he endorses the administration. Well, there is some comfort in that for us for we at least have a line on the Colonel, and when that much is accom- plished with him much has been done. His avowal in this particular will serve to clarify matters quite a great deal. It seems that there is as much aftermath to the Johnson-Jeffries affair as there was advertisement before. The truth is that the fight is over and this matter of constant revival of it should cease. The public is generally satisfied with it and ready and willing to cease reading about it if the press of the country will kindly cease overworking it. Especially is this true of James Corbett, who is doing nothing more than simply getting himself a lot of easy and cheap advertisement. It is true that Mr. Corbett cannot realize that his stunt can readily be seen through. There is a method in his intense, or apparently intense, desire to find someone, as he puts it, to redeem the championship to the white race, and that method is to get himself before the public and keep himself there in order that he may gather a little easy coin for his show. The veil is too thin and it's time for Mr. Corbett to wake up and fill his pipe with some other dope. While the "Forum" cannot subscribe to the exact method of the Independent League in securing results, it must concede that the leaders are bringing some startling things to light and things to which the attention of the colored people should be pertinently addressed. If some of the things which the report of the meeting shows were uttered by Rev. Dr. Waldron are true, and they doubtless are, they are evils and should be dealt with as such. If colored patrons are released the privilege of lunching in Government buildings, as alleged, then that is an evil and should be corrected. If they are segregated that is wrong and should be righted. If the Negro is suffering at the hands of the civil service his sufferings should receive redress and it is not cowardly, but manly, to contend for these rights. We may differ in our methods of arriving at the truth, but in the last analysis the truth is the truth and no amount of embellishment can make it otherwise, and one thing is certain that we will have to face sooner or later and, for expediency sake, the sooner the better. The overdrawn and eager recitals coming from certain quarters about the exhibition of the fight films pale into insignificance, in point of their evil effects, when compared with the beating up of innocent men without provocation, as in the case of Mr. J. Louis Taylor and the shooting without cause of the Negro by the soldiers the other night on the Aqueduct bridge. It is sheer folly to allege that these things are happening on account of the feeling incited by the fight. These things went on before either Johnson or Jeffries were born. Such pretexts are only cloaks' to hide the real purpose and the inherent maliciousness of the offenders. If as much effort were expended to suppress these evils, which are at our very door and which have been there for years, festering and seething and fomenting until they explode and wreak dire disaster upon the innocent, as is spent in venting personal prejudice under color of moral reformation, the world would be far better, communities cleaner and the moral effect much more pronounced than by expending it on something that is only local in its effect and transient in its character. Let us clean up the yard at home before entering the field to do away with the tares. It's a mighty meritorious thing to be able to do the duty which lies nearest to us. There are some men, muses the New York Tribune, who take their pleasures for business reasons. And if some people didn't think they knew quite so much they would probably know a lot moe, insists the Boston Post. Of course, you know just what you would do in another man's place, but, asks the Chicago News, why don't you do the right thing in your own place? One Count de Lesseps is wounded in a duel. Another flies across the English Channel. Mediacavalism and modernity, moralizes the New York American. It's wonderful, to the New York Press, how much bigger a dollar looks to a man when he spends it upon his wife at home than when he throws it away upon friends downtown. SELADANG HUNT'S THE THING. Get 'Em in Malay Peninsula and They're Scarce. Ralph Isham Is Back From Strange Shooting Experience—Got Fine Specimens—They Are a Buffalo Animal and When Wounded They Hunt the Hunter. There is at least one kind of tropical beast that is not in the bag of a great faunal naturalist who's been killing every kind there is to be found in the East African jungle. Nowhere in the cabled reports or the magazine articles occurs the name of a seladang. Yet Ralph H. Isham of Elizabeth, N. J., who recently returned from a trip around the world, killed him. As soon as I had brought mine down one of the natives rushed out and cut his throat, so that could be claimed that the beast he been killed by slaughtering. Otherwise under their religion he and bellow Mohammedans could not be the carcass. There is not much say about the others, because the is a great deal of luck about hunting "My Malays were very faithful an One doesn't hear very much of seeladong in these parts. Mr. Isham, who is at the Imperial, said yesterday that the animal is only to be found in the Malay Peninsula, and is scarec there. He himself was in the bush two weeks before he got his first shot. It was only recently that a traveller coming from the Far East described in The New York San how Mr. Isham's exploit was the talk of the Malay Peninsula, for his bag had beaten the record established only a few weeks previously by another young American. That the seladang is not of the temper of a giraffe or a zebra may be gathered from the fact that a British army officer who went out to shoot one three years ago was caught by the animal he was trailing and gored to death. Mr. Isham didn't want to go into the particulars of certain hair-breadth escapes, the report of which had been brought by another traveller, because he said he did not want to make a racket about what he had done. "I had no intention of going after seladang when I reached Singapore," said Mr. Isham, "but there I met Fowler, the chap who had killed two, and I thought I would like to have a try. I did not even have any guns of my own with me, but I managed to borrow a 600 cordite double barreled Express from a friend and taking a cook from Singapore started for the seladang country. "What is a soladang? Well, the word is pronounced as if it were spelled 'siahdang.' It belongs to the buffalo family, I should say, and the only other of the family that approaches it in size is the Cape buffalo. The biggest I killed was six feet seven inches from the top of his shoulders to the ground, and there was 36 inches inside the span of his horns. The seladang has a heavy mane and is hairy about the head, but there is no hair at all on his flanks. If there were it would be torn off by the thorns and twigs of the jungle. The skin of the animal is a full inch thick. His legs are of a peculiar shape, for the foot is smaller than the ankle and the legs look like fat hams all the way down, the flesh overhanging the hoof. He is tremendously heavy, but remarkably fleet of foot, and there is this great difference between him and the ordinary buffalo, that the latter when hurt will flee, the seladang will try to stalk you if you injure him. "To get to this particular jungle I had to go on a steamer from Singapore to Port Swettenham and thence on a train of very low cars with the roofs projecting to Kualalumpur. The majority of the towns in the Malay Peninsula, by the way, have the prefix 'kuala' before their names. 'Kuala' means 'mouth of a river'. 'Kualalumpur' means 'mouth of the mud river', and the name fits. Well, from there I took another 'train to Kualakubu and from there I actually rode in a motor bus operated by 'the Government to Raub. There I got conveyance in a baggage wagon, my baggage following me in bullock carts, and at the end of the fourth day from Singapore was at Kualalipis on the Penang river. "Here I got a large dugout about 30 feet long with a sort of cabin over the stern composed of a thatched roof, only three feet high and to get under which I had to crawl on my hands and knees. I got my five boatmen at Kuala lalipis, and our plan was to drift down the river with the current, stopping along the banks at intervals when we saw natives to inquire whether any seladang had been seen. We travelled a good deal by night, getting out and looking about by day. We did this for two weeks before having ascended the Krau river where I heard that a seladang had been seen. "I kept after that beast for two days before getting near enough to him to try a shot, for I had to keep in a direction opposite the wind so he would not get my scent. I had no nent, because the men could so easily build little huts out of sticks and thatch them with banana leaves. Much of the time we went through swampy land and in spite of stout shoes and leather puttees the leaches got at my legs and gave me some scars that I can't get rid of. I had had prepared two bags of boiled rice from which the water had been squeezed, and when we had nothing else to eat we used to break off as much of this as we needed. "To make any progress at all in some places I had to keep hacking away in front of me with a knife, and when we got near the game in order not to attract its attention we would have to stop cutting and crawl on our hollies along the ground. "When I first caught sight of my first seladang he was only ten yards away. I could hear him chewing his cut. Then through a rift in the bush I saw a little patch of black, which I hoped would be the head, but it wasn't. But I blazed away at the patch, and teh seladang disappeared. I got up on him four more times, taking a shot each time, before I brought him down. Then I found I had put four bullets in him. "I was warned that the animal once wounded hunts the hunter and had heard of an experience that happened to Capt. Syres of the British army, who had gone out to shoot seladang three years before. He wounded an animal and thought he was trailing him, but the heist circled, came around and got his scent and killed him. As soon as I had brought mine down one of the natives rushed out and cut his throat, so that it could be claimed that the beast had been killed by slaughtering. Otherwise under their religion he and his fellow Mohammedans could not eat the carcass. There is not much to say about the others, because there is a great deal of luck about hunting. 'My Malays are very faithful and willing, except one who got rebellious. I had to keep him tied up in chains for three weeks. Goling up the Krau river we found that the stream could hardly have been navigated for a long time as we had to cut away logs that lay across the stream to get our boat along. When we got up to Ulu-krau, which means 'source of the Krau,' I found a little 'kampong,' or settlement of aborigines. They are called 'Sakis' and are absolutely jungle people. They wear no clothes except a bit of twisted skin and are smaller than the Malays. In their actions and habits they are very much like monkeys. They are dark brown, their cooking utensils are of the crudest kind and to make fires they use dust and fibre. They grow their own tobacco, which I tried and found very raid, and their own rice, though monkey meat is the principal article of diet. "At first they were inclined to be hostile, looking upon me with suspicion because of my color, but I gave them some matches and some civilized tobacco, and that warmed their hearts. They had never been out of the jungle and most of them had never seen a white man. They don't even speak Malay, though their King had a smattering of that, tongue. They live in huts of bamboo lashed together with rattian and placed high up in trees because of the danger from elephants and smaller beasts. I made one of these huts my headquarters for three weeks. There is no furniture of any description in them, the only contents being palm leaves, which take the place of a bed. "Their main weapon in the chase is a blowpipe of green bamboo through which they shoot a small poisoned arrow. They hunt monkeys with this, and the poison makes no difference, for as soon as a monkey tumbles the hunter scoops out the flesh near the wound with a sharp stone. They have some crude steel knives among them, but they use an anxe that is made of a sharp stone around which rattan is bound for a handle. "I was surprised at the scarcity of reptiles in the jungle. I saw a few cobras, but only one boa constrictor. He was sleeping after having just swallowed a rawn. He was twenty feet long. I cut him in half and brought him home with the heads of the seahawks." "I came out of the country by going up the Triand river to a place which is on the new railway that is building between Singapore and Bangkok and rode down on a ballast train. I did not get the fever in the jungle, but all my men did, including the prisoner. I sat up three nights with that man. He could not take quinine and it was blackwater fever, so I had to give it to him with a hypodermic syringe. "One thing that struck me in that jungle was the extraordinary number of wild chickens, which are smaller but whose habits and appearance are the same as our barnyard. The natives call them ayamounts. Then the woods are full of pink monkeys, which they call white wops or waups. Wild peacocks are numerous. I got the tall of one that measures 4 feet 6 inches. The peacocks make good eating." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. New York has one school teacher for each 270 inhabitants. A prayer book was among the articles found in the stomach of an ostrich dissected in London. Lucknow boasts of the largest room in the world without columns. It is built of a kind of concrete. An elephant in the wild state has such a delicate sense of smell that it can detect an enemy nearly a mile away. Records of the port of New York since the beginning of the year show that the nation will receive 1,000,000 immigrants before 1911 comes. More than 400,000 persons emigrated from this country during the year 1907. This is a much smaller number than shown by the previous year. The natives of Corea carry visiting cards which measure about twelve inches square, and when their use is required they are merely shown. Wages are going up in New York with the other advances and house servants are receiving on an average $2 more a month than they did one year ago. Two years ago the Hudson River was crossed at New York only by ferries and now the tunnels are carrying at the rate of 50,000,000 passengers yearly. The suffragists of Kentucky are following the example of their sisters in New York by holding a series of open-air meetings. The first was held recently at Covington, and the speaker of the evening was Mrs. K. Trimble Woolsey. After waiting 32 years ex-Sergeant Alexander Goodall of Dunbear, England, late of the Royal Artillery, has received intimation that his pension is to be increased by 15 cents a day for gallantry in the Crime, and that he is to get an annuity of $50. IN WOMAN'S REALM Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools, assisted by officers of the Y. M. C. A., started a movement to teach every school child in Chicago to swim. Instruction began at bathing beaches along the shores of Lake Michigan. Character. Character gives weight to one's words and permanence to one's acts. Character secures the confidence of those who employ us, the respect of those above us, the love of those on our level, the loyalty of those beneath. Character is the guinea stamp on the gold, the signature at the edge of the portrait, the ring of the genuine coin, the accent of the speech of the New Jerusalem, which is found only on the lips of the true citizen.—Woman's Life. Making and Using Stencils The use of the stencil for wall decoration, or for ornamenting curtains, scarfs and even dresses, is effective and not difficult. Whether the effect is cheap and tawdry or beautiful and dignified will depend upon the design and colors selected. To make the stencil, procure some fairly heavy Manila wrapping paper. Give it a coat of raw linseed oil. With a cloth wipe of the superfluous oil and hang the paper to dry. It should be used when fresh. To cut, lay the paper upon a sheet of glass and use a very sharp knife. This keeps the under side of the cut clean and free from ragged edges. When finished the stencil should be given a coat of shellac. It will be easily seen that since the design shows only where the openings occur, the openings alone make the design, and the paper must be so made that the paper completely surrounds each opening; that is, unless care is used in planning the design, it may fall apart when it is finished. This can readily be seen by studying FIG. 1. Roses. FIG. 2. Roses. FIG. 3. Roses. FIG. 4. Roses. Fig. 1. When this figure is cut, the pieces A and B will fall out. In Fig. 2 this fault is corrected. In other words, the parts that make the design must in each case be separated from each other by the background of paper. If, when the design is drawn, and before it is cut, the spaces are filled in with pencil or ink, it will be easy to determine if the figure is made so it will not fall apart. Those stencils are best which avoid long, loose connecting parts (Fig. 3). as they are likely to be pushed aside by the brush and the design blurred. Fig. 4 shows the proper arrangement. The space to be decorated must first be marked off into rectangles the size of unit in the stencil. Four holes cut in corners of the stencil will enable one to see where to place the design (Fig. 5). If more than one color is desired, the parts intended for each color must be cut on a different piece of paper, and if three colors are wanted a third stencil must be made. These are used one after the other, allowing each to dry thoroughly before using the next. If, however, the different colors are quite removed from each other in the design, or if one color is a small portion of the design, sometimes it is possible to cut them on the same sheet, and then with a separate small brush the extra color may be worked in at the time the first color is applied. The stencils must be wiped with a clean cloth from time to time, and care must be taken not to let the color get on the front of the paper. The brush should be stiff and with short hairs. If a regular stencil brush cannot be procured, bind an ordinary brush with twine for an inch or more, and then cut on the hair three-quarters of an inch below this binding. (See cut.) The color should be the consistency of cream, and applied by stippling, that is, dabbing, not by moving brush backward and forward. For stenciling on cloth it is necessary to have the color free of oil deposit. Squeeze tube paint on to blotting paper. Then if thinning is necessary use benzine, which dries very quickly. Although it is impossible to give any absolute rules about the combinations of color, yet to help those unfamiliar with colors to produce pleasing effects, we hazard a few combinations which have proved satisfactory. These colors are given in the order of the proportion, that is, the first named should be used in the largest areas and the others in the order of their precedence: 1 Gray-green gray orange 2 Yellow-green gray lemon-yellow 3 Yellow-green gray orange-cored 4 Gray-green yellow-green cream-white 5 Gray-blue dull orange 6 Light-gray-green salmon-pink Two shades of any of the colors may be used in place of one in case the design calls for more colors. Cream or ivory-white is always better than pure white. If the colors in a combination are kept in or near the same value they will be more likely to be agreeable. By 'the same value' is meant neither darker nor lighter. —Youth's Companion. Hints on Letter Writing When writing letters a woman should keep in mind the following rules: Business letters should be concise and clear, because business people are supposed to be busy. No letter is complete without the date. In writing to solicit employment of any kind, on no account should personal perplexities or needs be mentioned. The world is full of unfortunate persons, and to a stranger the troubles of one are no more than those of a host of others. Letters of introduction are left open when written. Elaborately ornamented note paper and highly perfumed notes are vulgar. When answering letters remember: When answering letters remember: That written words stand as everlasting witnesses. That an ambiguous sentence is likely to be misinterpreted. That a friendly word never harms. That a written word of sympathy can sometimes do much good. That a letter written in a kindly spirit should be answered in the same way, even though the message is disliked. That business letters and invitations must be answered at once. That a lady acknowledges any friendly offer of hospitality, even though it be not by acceptance.—Washington Herald. Rights of Fiancees. The law courts of Göttingen have just delivered a weighty decision affecting the rights and liberties of flueances. Some weeks ago a young Berlin architect had a visit from his betrothed, a Göttingen lady. She stayed in the capital over the week end, and the architect escorted his sweetheart back to the station, where, he fondly thought, he saw her in the train safely bound for Göttingen. It appears, however, that the lady was reluctant to tear herself away from the joys of the metropolis. Sirenlike, Berlin beckoned her back, and at the second station she left the train and returned to the city, where she stayed till the next morning. Some kind friend imparted intelligence of this to the architect, and added that his fiancee had been seen unscorted in the Friedrichstrasse. The architect at once wrote to his sweetheart, demanding explanations. Receiving no reply, he broke off the engagement and instituted proceedings for a return of his presents and the money he had spent during his betrothal, including cab fares, railway tickets from Gottingen to Berlin, and the lady's board while she was here. Her explanation of her conduct was that she was tired to the point of enniu of the intellectual life of Göttingen, and sighed for the renowned midnight revels of Berlin. The courts decided that she had done nothing to justify her lover breaking off the engagement, and dismissed the action, adding that there was no proof that the lady's escapade reflected in the least upon her character. Breach of promise cases are unknown to German law, so the Gottingen lady cannot mend her broken heart with coin of the realm.—Berlin Correspondence London Mail. PRETTY THINGS TO WEAR Changeable taffetas are in high favor for afternoon frocks. Tucked long gloves are in again, and will stay for the season. Thin brown cloth gauntlets are good for the horsewoman. Parasols and stockings match the gown, whether the shoes do or not. The stitching itself is varied; a broad chain effect is new and pretty. Pink silk gloves are reversible to yellow, and just match the tearose gowns. Yellow lisle gloves are cool and washable, and look like the fashionable but heavy chamois. Flowered net shirred over a white Neapolitan straw hat makes a novel and pretty effect for a dressy hat. White kid gloves are stitched in colors to match the frock. Lavenders and pinks are especially favored. Chanteceler gloves have come to match the chanteceler handkerchiefs. A tiny rooster or a golden pheasant is emboldened at the elbow. With the barnyard trimmings which are so much sought for, the straw braids—so coarse that one wonders that they hang together—are the first choice. Silk flowers, made so exactly that it is difficult to tell them from the original models, are used for fasteners at the neck with the collarless afternoon gown. Very pretty afternoon gowns are made of the sheer batistis, which comes in the most fascinating shades this year. This material, too, is used for princess slips, worn under the white lingerie gown. Eloping Up to Date. The coatless man puts a careless arm Round the waist of the hatless girl, While over the dustless, mudless roads In a howdah wagon they hurt Like a leadless bullet from hammerless gun, By smokeless powder driven, They fly to taste the speckless joys By endless union given. The cool humble his coilless muru Affords to them the means Is a tasteless meal of boneless cod, With a dish of stringless beans. He smokes his own stringless pipe, And laughs a mirtiless laugh When papa tries to coax her back By wireless telegraph. Motor Record. Ouch! Ouch! Polly—"A girl shouldn't marry a man till she knows all about him." Dolly — "And then she wouldn't want to."—New York Times. Just the Reverse. Gunner — "Was young Biltwood fired with ambition?" Guyet — "No; he was fired because he didn't have any."—Boston Post. His Fix. Tommy—"Pa says I must and ma says I mustn't." Johnny —"Gee, you must feel like a railroad."—New York Sun. Madame de Sight—"Do you think there is any danger of my being run away with?" Jenkins—"Not by me!"—New York Telegram. Clergyman—"Will you take this woman until death?" Prospective Bridegroom — "Isn't there any minimum sentence?"—New York Press. The Ruling Passion. First Office Boy—"De boss's grand-mudder died las' night." Second Office Boy—"Gee! I wonder if he's goin' to de ball game."—New York Times. Not a Good Liar. Judge—"Prisoner, are you guilty or not guilty?" Prisoner—"Let, my lawyer plead not guilty for me, judge. I ain't got the nerve!" St. Paul Dispatch. The Battle. First Sweet Young Thing—“We are starting the battle of life.” Second Sweet Young Thing—“Yes, and we don't know whether a divorce is a victory or a defeat.”—Judge. An Enthusiast. "Yes, he went crazy over golf." "Sad, sad." "Oh, no great harm done. They have links at the asylum. He's playing a better game than ever now."—Kansas City Journal. Reason. "What single trait in common gives even his nerve the right to think of her as his affinity?" "I don't know, unless it be because she is dove eyed and he is pigeon tood."—Baltimore American. The Reason. "You mark all your compositions forte," said the friend. "Yes," replied the composer. "They wouldn't have any vogue among people who live in flats if I had them played softly."—Washington Star. Secrecy Assured. "I found that our stenographer can't read his notes after they are a day old!" "What did you do? Discharge him?" "No. Raised his salary and put him under contract." — Washington Star. ATTENTION! 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This is now the only section of the District in which laboring people and people of moderate means can buy homes. Buy now. The price will soon be double what it is today. The undersigned agent will show the ground. Call and see him and arrange to go out to look the subdivision over. SALISBURY BROOKS 1133 15th St., N. W. Frank T. Rawlings Co. 1505 Pa. Ave., N. W. Architectural Plans Prepared. Materials selected or furnished. All building details superintended with skill and promptness. Office: 51st and G St., N. E. Address R. 3, Box No. 44 EAST DEANWOOD D. C. LITTLE THING Worth Knowing Russia leads the way in planting forests, and American in devastating them. A great electric power generating station in Germany will make use of peat fuel entirely. It costs less to send a dozen pairs of shoes from this country to Acapulco by mail than by freight. In Scotland the legal age at which boys and girls may marry is fourteen and twelve years respectively. Baltimore proposes a "banner exposition" in 1914, the centennial year of the writing of the "Star Spangled Banner." A litter of eight pigs in Mason, Mich., bonsts fifty-four legs, two of the animals having eight, two seven and four six legs aplece. Official census figures by the Government show that the average annual salary of the ministers of the Gospel is $663 in the United States. Under the law of Mexico the national hymn may be played only on occasions when the Chief Executive of the Nation or the government of a State is present. Sir Hiram Maxim proposes legalized roulette wheels in England, $10 out of every $500 to go to the State, which could then pay off the national debt in a few years. The oldest hospital in the country, the Pennsylvania Hospital, has had only one supposed case of hydrophobia, and this was found to have been diagnosed erroneously. For raising oranges or grape fruit in Porto Rico windbreaks are absolutely necessary if the grove is exposed to the trade winds, which blow continuously for nine months and which cripple unprotected trees. Letters curiously formed and written with red chalk, says the New York Press, on a card in the window of a frame building not 300 yards from Columbia University announce: "Day Bored and Vokel Music Taught." When the budget of the Russian Empire for 1910 went from the Duma to the Council of Empire, the latter restored the naval credits which the Duma had stricken off, including the provision of $7,337,000 for the construction of war vessels. As far as is known, no one ever died of seasickness, although frequently this cause is ascribed in reports of the death of travelers. In practically all such cases, however, some organic disease has been the real cause, and not the simple seasickness itself. Census enumerators say that Littler County, Ark., holds the State record for large families. Mrs. Abraham Buller, thirty-four years old, is the mother of fifteen children, all living. Mrs. Laura Rundles, forty-four years old, has twenty-two children living, while two are dead. Mrs. Maggie Howard has been married nineteen years and is the mother of seventeen children, all living. It is reported that from 2500 to 3000 tons of electrolytic copper will be required for the electrification of 1310 miles of railroad in Sweden, the conversion of which from steam to electricity has been decided upon. WHERE TO DINE Seattle Cafe Meals at all hours. Good cooking and careful service. 1239 SEVENTH STREET A Clean Place To Eat Open Day and Night FRANK T. WADDELL, Prop. 15 and 25c Meals At All Hours First Class Dairy Lunch Service 643 Florida Ave. N. W. Washington, - - D. C. Open All Night JOSHUA N. ANDERSON, Prop'r SEE UNCLE JOSH AT THE TUSKEGEE 626 North Capitol Street, N.W., West Side Union Station, Half Block away Washington, D.C. Best Meals at Low Prices EXCELLENT SERVICE Good Things To Eat. ELLIIS CAFE Welcome to the Elks OUR FOOD IS O THE BEST Police and Prompt service our motto Prices Reasonable No. 729 4th St., N. W. WELCOME I. P. O. E. W. WELCOME JAMES W. GRAY The Best of love yih g, too, Dink and Ugars Ladies' and Gentlemen's Cafe Upstairs 1313 E St. N. W. Phone Main 3696 Nxt to National Theatre LON CAS • LEY'S CAFE and DINING ROOM Grandest Pool and Billard Parlors SOUTH OF NEW YORK Ladies' Dining Room Ups airs 1310 Penna. Ave. N. W. The Bay State Hotel HARDY & OTTERY, Preps. 334 N. TENNESSEE AVE., Atlantic City, N. J. European Plan. Concert Garden Special Rates to Parties Taking Apartments. The English Cold Morning Bath ---A Snare and a Deusion. Says "a plain American" in the American Magazine: "Everyone knows about the tradition of the cold morning bath. All Englishmen mention the fact in a casual manner that they have one at least once each day, but I have wondered if they did not protest too much. How can anyone prove that they actually get into this aforesaid cold bath? That a two-hundred pound man can get into a zinc pan eighteen inches in diameter at the bottom, or prince about the great bile keel which surrounds it, does not seem reasonable. "After getting out of a fairly warm bed many times, and trying to do acrobatic acts in tepid water with a damp atmosphere of about forty degrees, in a stone-walled room with the concentrated cold of four hundred or more long years hermetically sealed in a musty old castle, I decided to fake the cold bath, as I now believe all Englishmen do. "It's an easy game, and this is the way to do it. Jump from the bed and land, if possible, clear of the stone floor on any old stray rug or piece of carpet. Dress hurriedly and completely and draw a razor over your blue chop called a chin, staunch the blood with your own pocket handkerchief—don't use the bath towel; then drag the zinc bathtub to the centre of the floor, lay a bath towel or two spread out beside it, then throw the soap as hard as possible into the water six or seven times (this gives the effect of a natural English bath splash), slap the ends of another towel in the water, wet your hands (no matter if it does make 'em ache)—you must do this) and slap them on the towels to represent wet footprints. This done, you can look the world in the eye with a bright and shining morning face—the kind R. L. Stevenson refers to." WORDS OF WISDOM. All art is in its origin connected with religion.—Ulrici. He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.—Pilipay. It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.—Aeschylus. To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step toward knowledge.—Benjamin Disraeli. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.—Bishop Hall. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. A quiet woman is like a still wind which neither chills the body nor blows dust in the face.—Nicholas Breton. IN SOCIETY'S REALM. ```markdown ``` The "Forum" has been fortunate in engaging the services of Miss Mary Curtis, the popular and efficient stenographer to conduct the society column. Miss Curtis is one of our most enterprising and worthy young ladies, and as a young public woman is filling a place unique in its character. She is employed by quite a number of the legal profession in taking testimony, is a notary public, executes pension vouchers and, in all, is public spirited, proficient and much in demand. Any social news desired to be published will be received by Miss Curtis gladly. Just send or bring it to her, at 609 F street, N.W., Room 203. Mrs. R. H. Robinson, of Jersey City, N. A., who was to have visited Mrs. S. A. Fountain, 1124 Eighteenth street N.W., during the M. N. Convention, has changed her plans and will sail for Liverpool, England, August 16th. Miss Marie De Vau, of 514 You St, N.W., will spend the remainder of her vacation in Midland, Va. Miss Esther Middleton, of 18 D street S. W., is visiting at Ningara Falls and points in Canada. _____ Dr. Cannon, of Jersey City, will attend Thrilling Feats in Baseball. By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN. On the afternoon of July 19 o'clock last year, in the second inning of the nines representing Cleveland and Boston, played on the grounds of the former team, Wagner, the first batter for the visiting team, reached first base on an error. Stahl, the second batsman, hunted safely, advancing Wagner to second base. With two strikes and three balls listed against him and with the 20,000 spectators tingling with excitement, the Boston captain gave the "hit and run" signal. The next ball pitched was met by McConnell's bat with tremendous force and was driven over second base in a manner that boded ill for the home team. Neal Ball, of the latter nine, was playing second. The moment the leather sphere left McConnell's bat the former jumped back of the base, leaped into the air, caught the drive with one hand, regained his feet and touched second base, stepped quickly to one side and touched Stahl with the ball, and thus made the most thrilling and spectacular unassisted triple play chronicked in the annals of baseball. Ball's feat was the second of its kind ever recorded in the history of the major leagues, the first having been to the credit of Paul Hines, of the Providence (Rhode Island) team, who had performed a similar exploit, curiously enough, against a Boston team thirty-one years before. Each passing season testifies to the fact that the national game is a sport full of unexpected thrills. That these thrills are as common to the amateur as to the professional contents is to be appreciated from the record of Geo. Bowen, of the Northside Club team, of Noblesville, Ind., who, in a game played last season with the Black Diamond nine of the same town, struck out twenty-four players and allowed only one hit. In professional baseball, on August 21, last year, William Mitchell, pitching for the San Antonio team against Galveston in a Texas League championship game, established a world's record by striking out twenty batsmen in a nine innings game. In collegiate sport a record was established last season in the game between the nines of the Naval Academy of the University of Maryland when Anderson, of the latter team, struck out twenty Annapolis players, and Meade, of the Naval Academy, succeeded in eliminating fifteen. Here was a total of thirty-five strikeouts in a single game! In the Tri-State League, on August 19, last year, the Lancaster nine made thirty-two runs and thirty-three hits off pitchers Stillman and Gryce, of Johnstown, in a regulation game, no player on the Lancaster team making less than three hits. One of the most wonderful feats recorded in baseball chronicles was accomplished last season by Harry Krause, the youthful left-handed pitcher of the Athletics in the American League. Krause won every one of the first ten games he pitched upon his debut in the League. This included three victories over the champion Detroit team, which team, incidentally, succeeded in scoring but one run in the three contests. In the ten games Krause was scored on only four times, six of the games having been shutouts. His first defeat of the season occurred in an eleven inning game with St. Louis. In the game between the Boston National League team and the Roanoke (Va.) nine last year outfielder Bates, of the New England team, brought the spectators to their feet by knocking out two home runs in one inning—the seventh. The most spectacular game in the matter of length ever recorded in the minor combines was played last season between the Decatur and Bloomington nines in the so-called Three-I League, when twenty-six innings were chronicled — a game almost three times as long as the game usually runs. The longest game in the history of the Northwestern League was played last year between the Portland and Vancouver teams. It lasted for twenty-two innings. One of the most sensational afternoons in minor league baseball in many years occurred on August 28, 1909, in the New England League, when the Lowell and Haverhill nines met in a double header. Duval pitched both games for the former team and won both. Each team was credited with a triple play. In the first game Lowell batted out seventeen hits and thirteen runs against two opposing pitchers. This is the first instance in baseball chronicles of two triple plays in one afternoon. A week previously to Duval's noteworthy effort "Jack" Taylor, the well-known veteran pitcher of the Dayton team of the Central League, pitched and won a double header against the Terre Haute (Ind.) team. What was the N. M. A. Convention in August. Miss Louise Miller, the efficient clerk to Lawyer W. L. Pollard, is confined to her home on account of a slight indisposition. Attorney Joseph H. Stewart, of the local bar made a flying trip to Rockville, Md., on the 18th inst. on professional business. Attorneys Bassette and Walker, of Hampton, Va., former graduates of Howard University Law School, are doing a thriving and prosperous business in their legal profession. Miss Ernestine Brent will spend the last two weeks of July at Niagara Falls and on her return trip will spend the month of August in Atlantic City. Attorney Elbert Hubert, of this city, has returned from Wilmington, Del., where he went on professional business. Rev. E. Williams, president of the Ferguson-Williams College, of Abbeville, C. is here in the interest of his school and he is meeting he is meeting with flattering success. even more remarkable, he scored a shutout in each game, and in the first game allowed only two hits. The most spectacular college achievement for 1909—as well as for several seasons preceding—was to the credit of pitcher McClure of Amherst. He pitched a no-hit game against the Naval Academy, winning by a score of 4 to 0; held Yale down to one hit, winning by the same score; pitched a no-hit game against Williams, winning by a tally of 2 to 0, and then pitched another no-hit game against West Point, winning by a 3 to 0 score. In the way of thrilling pitching feats it is to be chronicled that Samuel Weems, of the Macon (Ga.) nine, last year equalled the record held by "Addie" Joss and "Cy" Young, in a game with the Mercer team. Weems did not give a hit or a base on balls, and did not hit a batter. He struck out fourteen men and retired twenty-seven successive batsmen. Another spectacular performance was that of pitcher Browning, of the San Francisco team, who won sixteen successive victories. He lost the seventeenth score of 1 to 0. A record-breaking day was September 26, 1909, as far as the Pacific Coast League was concerned. The first game of a double header was won by the Vernon team against Sacramento in the fast time of one hour and fourteen minutes, one minute quicker than the previous record. The second game was won by the same team in the even faster time of one hour, twelve and one-half minutes, the Sacramento nine being unable to get a hit off pitcher Vance for seven innings. In the way of a remarkable total of hits made by teams in a single day the record of the last day of the Western Association is unique. In the last games of the season of 1909 in this league Pittsburgh made thirteen hits to Muskogee's eleven, Guthrie, twelve to Springfield's ten; Enid, fifteen to El Reno's ten, and Sapulca, sixteen against Bartlesville.—Harper's Weekly. While rhubarb has been cultivated in this country since 1573, it is only lately that it has been grown as a substitute for fruit. The early cultivation of the plant was altogether for the sake of the root, which was used to prepare the medicinal rhubarb. As regards the date of the introduction of the rhubarb into this country we may note that E. M. Holmes in the Encyclopedia Britannica states that it "it was introduced into England through Sir Matthew Lister, physician to Charles I., who gave seed obtained by him in Italy to the botanist Parkinson." The rhubarb of our gardens is a native of Siberia and the basin of the Volga, and its name recalls its Russian origin. The ancient name of the Volga was the Rha, and the name came to be applied to the root of the plant imported from thence. So the Romans called it Rha barbarum, the foreign root. From this came the French rhubarbe and the English rhubarb. During its cultivation in this country many new varieties have been raised from seed.—The Field. A teacher in one of the Newton lower grade schools was entertaining two visitors to the classroom. Several days previously the teacher had furnished amusement and at the same time increased the children's store of knowledge by a series of questions of the following nature: "What do we sit on that rhymes with hair?" Some child would answer "Chair." To-day the visitors would be pleased to observe how readily the pupils could answer. "What do I wear on my head that rhymes with cat?" asked the instructress. Up went the hand of a boy with red hair. "Well, Johnny," said she, "you may tell us." Johnny arose and appeared frightened. "It's a rat," he blurted. And then the tableau. — Boston Post. "Bobby," said his mother, "sit up straight and don't tuck your napkin under your chin. I've told you hundreds of times—" "There!!" exploded Tommy; "you've made me lose my count! I don't know whether it's 256 or 357 times I've chewed this clam!"—Chicago Inter Ocean. Rhubarb. Not a Hat. Distressing. Ford Dabney's Theatre Refined Vaudeville and Motion Pictures VAUDEVILLE CHANGED EVERY WEEK Pictures Changed Every Day Blue Mouse Theatre 26th and M Sts. N. W. Largest, Handsomest and Coolest Theatre in Town. : : : : : : Good Vaudeville and Motion Pictures. A Cordial Welcome Extended To Visitors. H. C. Smith, Manager. The Jolly Swastika Club Will Give Their First Grand Picnic at Eureka Park, Anacostia, D. C. MONDAY, JULY 25, 1910 Music by the Columbia Orchestra. Prof. Syvester Thomas, Director Gates Open from 12 Noon, to 11.30 P. M. ADMISSION REFREME HUMNS SERVED BY THE CLUB 25 CENTS Don't forget the Jolly Swastika Club's Ball, August 15th at Fitzgerald's Auditorium, Atlantic C. N. J. ATLANTIC CITY Pedestrians on South New York avenue, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, witnessed an odd and interesting sight as a group of gray-haired Civil War veterans stood about with bowed heads as the corner-stone of their rejuvenated home, G. A. R. Hall, was laid. Master Earl West, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry West, successfully underwent an operation for tonsillitis, and is doing well at his home, 1706 Baltic avenue. Miss Carrie Ashton, of Washington, and Mrs. Biedella, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Banks, of Richmond, will spend Sunday in Atlantic City. Explorers and aviators will appear before City Merchants Friday night to hear A. Ellman of crossing the sea. Mr. Engene Cook, of 134 Bay street, spent a few days in Philadelphia last week. Miss Hattie Carter and Mr. Woold Wright, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday with Mrs. R. A. Walker, of 134 Illinois avenue. BAGDAD CAMELS: The Common Carriers of Freight in Mesopotamia. Nearly 90,000 camels are used in the vintner of Bagdad as beasts of burden, and with donkeys they form the only means of carrying goods to inland points. Caramel camavans go in "strings," seven camels to the string, with two men in charge. For a camel 450 pounds is a good load, the pack being divided into halves. A burdened camel travels two miles an hour; on long trips across the desert twelve miles a day is an average march, though swift messengers, like the mounted dromedary posts from Bagdad to Mossoul and Damascus, make forty, fifty and even more miles at a stretch. Freight between Bagdad and inland points in Mesopotamia is commonly packed in pairs of bales, each bale weighing about 225 pounds, for the convenience of camel drivers in loading. The rates charged for carrying freight across the desert vary with conditions, being lowest when camels are cheap, labor and pasture plentiful and freight offerings none too-numerous. For a common burden camel $30 is a fair price, though the trotters or swift messenger camels are worth more. A young camel can sometimes be had about Bagdad for as little as $3 or $4. Besides its use for riding and carrying purposes the Mesopotamian Arabs depend on the camel for milk. Shoes are made from its tough, calloused hide, and in times of famine its brittle, strong tasting flesh is eaten. Condensed milk, made by boiling fresh camel milk until evaporation leaves only a hard, chalky substance, is prized among the desert nomads. By rubbing this substance between the hands it reduces to powder and when mixed with warm water it makes a refreshing drink highly esteemed among the desert folk. "Mereey," as it is called, will keep in good condition for two years. When made from buttermilk it tastes sour and is prized among Arabs who have eaten much of sweet dates. Fresh, warm camel milk is also the food of many valuable horses owned by desert sheiks. Camel calves are weaned in their eleventh or twelfth month. When a camel caravan is on the march the very young camels are often tied upon the backs of the mother animals, since they cannot endure the fatigue of a long march. Valuable dogs and Arab desert hounds, called "slugeys," also ride in the same way. Unless camels have been especially trained to the abstinence they cannot go as long as is commonly supposed without water. When marching near rivers they drink twice a day. They feed largely on the tough, scrubby verdure known locally as camel thorn, which grows throughout Mesopotamia, except on the extreme desert wastes. Their habits are peculiar; unlike horses, they seem to feel no fondness for their human associates, though they will seldom wander far from the caravan tents, even if left untied over night. It is no uncommon sight to see 2000 to 3000 camels on the desert waste outside Bagadg's walls. They represent the combined herds of caravans which have met at Bagadg, bringing in wool, etc., and taking out other cargo to different parts of Mesopotamia.—From Weekly Consular and Trade Reports. General Admission - - 25 Cents MARRIAGES IN FRANCE. A Large Increase Since New Law Simplified Formalities It is an interesting and noteworthy fact that since the promulgation of the law of June, 1907, the effect of which is to simplify the formalities which are the necessary preliminaries to marriage in that country, there have been more weddings in France than at any period since the beginning of last century, with the exception of the years 1813 and 1872, in the former of which men contracted unions to escape being sent off to fight, while in the latter many weddings took place which had been delayed by the war with Germany. This very satisfactory state of things, according to a correspondent of the London Telegraph, is due to the initiative of the Abbe Lemaire, one of the deputies for the Department of the Nord. He was not able to get all his propositions adopted by his colleagues, but the law which was finally passed, such as it is, has already done a vast amount of good. Among the relief which the act has brought to persons intending to marry, it has freed those who are over thirty years of age from procuring the whole series of documents and certificates upon which the Code Civil insisted. Then, after the age mentioned, it is no longer necessary to obtain the consent of the parents—indeed, after the age of twenty-one, this can also be dispensed with, provided that it is shown that due nonthe has been sent to them. These are the two principal benefits of the law of 1907, and the result is that many people of the lower classes are now married who might have been tempted to do without the ceremony, as they found it impossible to collect the needful papers, or were prevented by the caprice of parents who refused their consent for no valid reason. What the relief thus obtained means will be understood when it is explained that, in the case of persons who had lost their parents, and who were engaged to be married, upward of nineteen documents were required by the Code Civil of 1894, including two certificates of birth, two of residence, two of non-opposition, the usual military record book, four certificates of the death of parents, and eight of the grandparents, for the entire set of which 22 had to be paid. Naturally, it is in the large towns, where people have been living awhile away from their native villages, that the result of this beneficent law of 1907 has been most conspicuous, and all this, as need hardly be added, makes for morality, which in these days seems to require a good deal of practical encouragement, at least in the big towns. Sixteenth Century Inns. Supervision over the inns was far stricter than at present, especially in Italy. At Lucca and at Florence all the inns were in a single street, and in many towns the new arrival was taken before the authorities by the guard at the gates before he was allowed to choose his inn, to which he would be conducted by a soldier. 'At Lucca, too, was a department of the judiciary which was specially concerned with strangers, and to this the inknkeepers had to send a daily report of each guest. Yet to judge by the tourists' accounts the supervision might well have been carried further and reports upon the inknkeepers required from the tourists. Such a system of double reports would have been a check on the murdering innkeeper, to whom there are occasional references. A landlord at Polliters was detected in the middle of the seventeenth century, and at Stralands, so runs another tale, 800 (!) persons had disappeared at one inn. They had reappeared, it is true — but pickled.—Atlantic. Sylvester L. McLaurin Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 609 F ST., N. W. First Floor ARIZONA. Varied Resources of a New Member of the Sisterhood of States. Arizona has an area of 113,020 square miles (72,332,800 acres), entitling it to rank as sixth in size among the States. Arizona has vast mineral resources of copper, gold, silver, coal (as yet but little worked), lead, mica, fluorspar, molybdenum, nickel ore, limestone, marble, granite, sandstone in limitless quantities, chalcedony, tungsten, turquoise, vanadium, garnet (pyrope) and other minerals, and there are many hot and mineral springs. Arizona has some of the grandest scenery in the world; the famous Grand Canon of the Colorado and the wonderful chalcedony forest near Holbrook, Navejo County, with trunks four feet thick cracked into exquisitely colored blocks, being prominent. Arizona has valley after valley of marvellously fertile lands, experiment demonstrating that in the southern part under favorable conditions the yield an acre is 2150 pounds for wheat, 4000 to 5000 pounds for potatoes, 12,300 pounds for tomatoes, 5000 pounds for strawberries, 27,000 pounds for melons and 1735 pounds for corn. Under the reclamation work now in large and active progress by the Federal Government a total of 10,000,000 acres, or forty times the present area under cultivation, will be reclaimed and put to marvellously productive use. The staple crops are alfalfa, barley, wheat, sorghum, kaffir corn, root crops, sugar beets, green vegetables and small fruits of every variety—apricots, grapes, oranges (judged by many to be the finest in the world), lemons, figs, almonds, olives, etc. Experiments in the cultivation of Egyptian cotton, of which the United States has to import about $10,000,000 worth a year, are also being made, and it is expected that vast tracts of alkali lands in the south, hitherto believed to be waste, can be utilized for date culture, says F. W. Hodge, of the Smithsonian Institution in "America." Arizona has a climate which though hot in summer it not very oppressive, while in winter it is usually delightful. Heavy snows occur in the mountainous north and sharp frosts are frequent, even in the Salado and Gila valleys, but nowhere are the mountains perpetually snow capped. In recent years Arizona has become a popular resort for those suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and catarral ailments. Arizona has mountains and mesas in the north which are generally covered with nutritious grasses, forming excellent pasture for cattle and sheep, while irrigated pastures in the south afford means for fattening for market. Ostrich farming, about 5000 birds, has become a profitable industry, particularly adjacent to the city of Phoenix, the capital to be of the State till at least 1925. The southern plains and parts of the north have a dress of sagebrush, greasewood, yucca, cactus and other desert growths. Cottonwoods line almost every stream. Mesquite, the giant cactus, or saguaro; palverde, ironwood, Jerusalem thorn and other trees are indigenous to the southern plains, and vast mountain areas are covered with pine, juniper and other valuable timber. Vast tracts of timber, however, have been set apart in the national forests, a total acreage of 15,258,861. Arizona has a population of 250,000, of which fully three-fourths are American born. The Indians number about 25,000, the Navajos leading with 15,000. The leading cities are Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, Jerome, Nogales, Yuma, Globe, Flagtagatt, Tombstone, Solomonsville, Kingman, Houbrook, St. John's and Florence. Arizona has a respectable array of State institutions, university, Indian schools, reform school, normal schools, asylum for the insane, penitentiary, Capitol building and offices, etc. Arizona has a mining output averaging about $55,000,000 a year, imports and exports (port of Nogales) of about $15,000,000 a year, besides millions yearly for cattle and farm, garden and orchard products. Arizona has a fine public school system under active extension, compulsory non-sectarian education, with salaries to teachers only exceeded by California and Nevada; over 2000 miles of steam railway, hundreds of postoffices, about sixty daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, ample banking facilities, with unusually large deposits; a very healthy condition of State, county and municipal finances—B., in the New York Sun. Probably True. A raw Irishman shipped as one of the crew on a revenue cruiser. His turn at the wheel came around, and after a somewhat eccentric session in the pilot house he found himself the butt of no little humor below. "Begorrah," he growled at last, "and ye needn't talk. I bet I done more steerin' in ten minutes 'n ye done in yer howl watch."—St. Paul Dispatch. For Ladies and Gentlemen Newspapers, Periodicals and Magazines Imported and Domestic Cigars. 810 Florida Avenne, N. W. The Forum And all Leading Colored Papers For Sale Could You Do Better Than wear a nice tailored, slightly used suit at $3.00 to $15.00, and think of the money you save. Savey? One Price. Justh's Old Stand. 619 D St. N. W. TENNYSON & ELLIS CO. FINE PAPERHANGERS and DECORATOR Painting, Plastering, Kaleemining Window Shade To Order Prompt Attention All Work Guaranteed 1400 Pierce Place, North.west Phone North 4045 Silias Johnson New Pool and Billard Parlor 1721 1-2 Seventh Street, N. W. WISE WORDS. Too many idealists are shy of ideas. There's no fool like the one who thinks he is wise. The old bachelor is naturally a man with a single idea. How seldom beauty and common sense are ladied out together. A sick man need not expect a cure at the hands of a manicure. Convicts are the only people who do not believe in their convictions. Many a man imagines he makes a hit every time he strikes an attitude. How a small man does enjoy going around with a big chip on his shoulder. A man may be justified in wearing long whiskers if his wife buys his neckties. A young widow has a cute way of pretending she believes all men are angels. A moralist may be a person who goes around with a searchlight looking for things to be shocked at. If another woman's husband goes wrong a woman says he's a "wristwatch." If it's her own husband she says "only human." What we know about ourselves is mostly off color. No man has ever failed in business for lack of advice. Those on the inside of a deal can see only the bright side. And the way of the transgressor is sometimes hard to beat. Lots of people expect applause every time they do their duty. Isn't it about time to work up a little indignation against the ice trust? Near actors are all right in their way, but give us the old fashioned country hams. AMERICAN VICTORY IN GERMANY. Prosecutor Finds Oil Company Has Committed No Wrong. Berlin.—The long and venomous campaign waged by German newspapers and rival industrial interests against one of the German branches of the Standard Oil Company—the Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company—has just been brought to a victorious end for the Americans involved. A well known Hamburg newspaper for months printed such a series of attacks against the German graft methods" alleged to have been practiced by the vacuum company in the conduct of its German business that the public prosecutor of Hamburg felt constrained to make an official investigation with a view to eventual indictments. The prosecutor has now concluded its investigation, especially of the work of E. L. Quarles, American manager of the German company's sales department, and announces that no necessity exists for pursuing the inquiry further, because the prosecution was found against Mr. Quarles, and the cost of the entire inquiry will be borne by the State. The result of the investigation constitutes a notable triumph for American interests in Germany. The Germans finding themselves unable to compete with Americans on ordinary terms have resorted to slander. JUMBO HEALTH FOOD "Maria," exclaimed Mr. Stubb, as he rushed down to breakfast, "bring me some health food. I have the appetite of an elephant." And Mrs. Stubb placed a five-cent bag of peanuts before his plate. "Great Josephus!" roared Mr. Stubb in disgust, "do you call this health food?" "Certainly, my dear; health food for the appetite of an elephant." Chicago News. In his presidential address before the American Electro-Chemical Society, at Pittsburg, Dr. Lee H. Backer, stated that "the fast hundred years, under the influence of the modern engineer and scientist, have done more for the betterment of the race than all the art, all the civilizing efforts, all the so-called literature of past ages, for which some respectable people want us to have such an exaggerated reverence."