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THE NATIONAL FORUM Library of Congress City. VOL. I. NO. 17. VANITY FAIR CONDUCTED BY The main difference between savage is—sav MORE TROUBLES FOR ELKS. Dr. Mills Issues Manifesto, Denying Special Session and Union Pro- ceedings, and Protesting Everything Just when all looked serene and every L. B. P. O. E., and his friends, even his sisters, cousins and aunts, were congratulating themselves upon the fact that the two factions of that body had united for good and all, along comes a lengthy manifesto from "Headquarters of the Improved Benevolent Order of Elks of the World, 483 Bute street, Norfolk, Va," in the form of "A Proclamation to Subordinate Lodges." After the customary greeting, Dr. Mills says, "By authority vested in me as Grand Exalted Ruler, I proclaim to all of the state officials that the proposed Special Session of the Grand Lodge that was attempted to be held in Washington, D. C, July 20-29, 1910, failed of accomplishment and after declaring there was and could be no union, the session was adjourned by me." Dr. Mills then proceeds under seven heads to give his reasons, the essential points of which seem to be that the understanding that Dr. Mills was to be Grand Exalted Ruler after the union was not carried through; that knowledge of the $5,000 legal expense debt was withheld from the Peace Conference in Wilmington last January; that the Els' Home to be built in Richmond, Va., at a cost of $10,000 upon land to which the "Atkins following" possessed no title; that the two propositions above were unfair to that portion of Elks represented by himself; that because it was the evident desire of the "Atkins following" to either "rule or ruin" and inlined to exhibit an unbroken disposition toward the members of my Grand Lodge, I decided that it was better apart; that the fee of $5,000 to Hon Alton B. Parke for consultation to litigation before the success of New York with the White Elks or $2,500 if Judge Ralph this case should be paid by the "Atkins following" and in event of that suit being lost it might result in both bodies being driven out of the State of New York, and believing it "inadvisable to lend aid in a legal fight in New York, to which our Grand Lodge is not a party, and is in no way concerned." These are principally the reasons. The document concludes with the following appeal: In view of all the foregoing I now proclaim to all the subordinate lodges of the "Parent Body" or "Regular Order" of Elks that they be and remain steadfast in their duty to operate under the original charter and copyrights handed down to this Grand Lodge by B. F. Howard, Past Grand Exalted Ruler. I further proclaim, that all lodges desiring to be free from the oppression of the heretofore "Atkins following," may freely unite with the "Regular Elks" by making application to this office on the 15th day of September, D. 1010. Yours, fraternally. Grand Exalted Ruler of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. What the result of this manifesto may be I cannot guess, but I am certain that the rank and file of both factions desire union and peace and desire it strongly. I talked with delegates and visitors to the convention from every section of the country and each and all of them said one way or another, "I am sick of contention; let us get together." From several members of the two local lodges I secured the following opinions: Charles D. Freeman, Exalted Ruler, Columbia, 85, was the first one I found and he expressed his opinion thus: "I am sick of contention all settled. I think every member of both lodges is satisfied with the results of the joint session and pleased and satisfied with the officers elected by the delegates and conclude to dwell together in unity. I am surprised that Dr. Mills should prove so narrow, and do not think many Elks will be guided "x, him in this affair." I next saw John W. Truman, Exalted Ruler of Morning Star, 40, who said: "I consider that every essential point of the Peace Conference was ratified. There were subjects under consideration which they could not in the nature of their powers consider nor settle and all fair thinking men know this and are willing to leave them to the Grand Lodge and subordinate lodges for final settlement. The utmost spirit of fairness governed all the actions of the delegates in Convention, and the only ones who were unfair were Dr. Mills and a few of his friends and advisers. I do not think there will be another split, and this letter will not have much effect. I am sorry that for the sake of a little graft men will do such things." I saw many members of both Columbia and Morning Star lodges and all were of the opinion as expressed by Moses H. Dade: "That the great body of Elks desire union and are satisfied that the Convention accomplished the union of both bodies and are satisfied and will accept the union as a fixed fact. Dr. Mills's action will have very little effect and he will soon find himself without a follower." A general impression prevails that Dr. Mills had publicly accepted the results of the Convention here, and it is rumored that he expressed himself as being involved with the actions and actions thereof. However, we will see what we will see. "Infantile Paralysis." This awful disease is making havoc among the children of this city. The cause seems beyond the skill of medical science to discover, though it may be caused almost entirely by improper food and harmful methods of feeding infants. Writing in the New York Journal, Dr. Leclerc, Health Commissioner of New York City, says: "The manner in which the food is given is of the highest importance. Don't get the idea that all you have to do is put the nipple in the baby's mouth and then go away and leave it to its bottle. This carelessness in feeding often results in dangerous harm, no matter how carefully the food is prepared. "It is often hard to determine just what causes these sudden attacks of summer complaint, but it is usually bad milk. That is the reason that every mother should be able to taste the baby's food immediately before giving it. Milk can, under certain conditions, spoil in a very few minutes. For instance, a clap of thunder may render the milk unfit to feed to a baby. "The vomiting, which is usually the first sign of a disturbance in the baby's digestive arrangement, is an effort of nature to get rid of the offending matter in the stomach, and is really good that if you drink it too long. "The first thing to do, of course, is to send for a doctor. Stop all the milk feeding at a place. In place of the milk, give barley water or plain boiled water. Don't do another thing until the doctor arrives, and then be guided absolutely by what he says." This is good sound advice, but causes only a small part of the trouble. There is a more important phase to be considered. Dr. Gilfoy, of the New York Health Department says: 'Most of the deaths of babies in hot weather are due chiefly to impure milk. Our infant mortality would be next to nothing if all the babies could be breasted.' And we see no reason why the large majority of infants should not be breasted, being fairly familiar with the arguments advanced in favor of bottle-feeding, and they point to a wrong motive, it seems to me. The purest cow milk sweetened with cane sugar and warmed or cooked by fire is a poor substitute for the real thing, and I am sure any human baby knows that it is but base imitation, and would not accept it unless forced to do so. Besides, can milk and cane sugar at best are hard to digest when mixed in the customary milk. And that substitute this mixture, heated over a gas jet, or on a stove, for the loving warmth of a mother's heart along with many other divine essences, physical, spiritual, strong and tender which no words of mine can name? The President and the King. Referring to the prevailing idea as stated last week that many men look upon the man who governs as a king, so well known a man as Dr. Parkhurst seems to think we are ruled by a king when he writes: "How much and how little is the President empowered to do? Are there any definite limits set to his responsibility and authority? "This question is one that will be settled in part by discussion and in part by the course of events. As originally conceived the Government of the United States is quite in the nature of a limited monarchy—all but the name. "To those who had hrebled against royal authority in England the term 'President' was an unacceptable than 'King' or 'Militant' and to those who were sufficiently monarchical in their belief that control should be exercised by the educated few, a concentration of power in the person of one was more satisfactory than its distribution among the many." The learned Doctor forgets that the people delegate these powers of rule and restrict their use also to defined limits. The President is not such by "Grace of God," but by votes of citizens, nor can be issue a "roval mandate." Wicked Motion Pictures. The puritanical and hypocritical noise made by socalled reformers against display of Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures has done some good. It has brought to notice as a reaction the display of a class of pictures that are vicious, immoral and degrading, which it has been customary to exhibit freely to whoever had a nickel and inclination to attend a picture session. The writer of Leslie's Weekly says, "I visited a regular family moving picture house where men, women and children attend. One picture presented an aged miner shot down and robbed of his gold. The thief was caught and lynched. The next a jealous woman who thought another woman was waiting for her husband in a hotel and jumped on her, beat her, tore half her clothes off and pulled out her hair. The old gentleman who found that his young bride was flirting with her step-son, and committed suicide. Here is meat for sermons and reform talk. Get busy, gentlemen." "It Pays to Advertise." It should be the aim of every business man to bring his business to the notice of those who are seeking quality and price in goods and service, customers of judgment, discrimination and taste. These are the customers who buy and pay fair prices promptly and willingly. It is to these people that we make our appeal, and this class that we seek as readers of "The Forum." An advertisement placed with us has the best chance for reaching this class of people. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. N. G. Robinson, of 38 A O street, N. W. is visiting friends and relatives in Morefield, W. Va. Her husband, the popular torsional artist at the capitol will join her sometime this week and after a short stay at Morefield will take a political trip through the State of W. Virginia. Imperial Potentate Jacob Wright, of Richmond, Va., was in the city Thursday last and was received by Deputy Imperial Potentate Charles D. Freeman. Mr. Wright is en route to Detroit, Mich., to attend the Imperial Council of Mystic Shriners, August 23rd. Mr. Freeman, the Deputy Imperial Potentate, expects to be present at that meeting. Prof. Walter Dyson, who is spending some time at Culpeper is expected soon, preparatory to assuming the duties of his department at Howard University. Mrs. Dr. L. N. Rosa is expected home WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1910. this week from Cincinnati where she has been for some time visiting her son and daughter. The aged father of Mrs. Willie Lewis, of 1142 15th street, N. W., passed away in his home, Columbus, Ga. Mrs. Lewis was at his bedside during his last hours. Her many friends extend to her their heartfelt sympathy. Mr. Hathaway, the model and clay artist of our city, returned from Baltimore this week with the death mask of Joe Gans, the "Old Master." The Doctors Convention promises to be the biggest thing of its kind ever held here. Attorney Taylor, who was so brutally assaulted by a gang of white ruthens some time ago, is able to be out again and is doing nicely. Mr. M. Bashannon Crusor, architect and builder in East Deanwood, made a flying trip to New York last week on business. Those desiring homes should certainly see Mr. Crusor before investing. J. P. Bond, proprietor of a men's furnishing store in Birmingham, Ala., was in our city for a few days this week enroute to the Business Men's League at New York. Mr. Bond is an enterprising, hustling chap and reports that the business interests among the colored men of Birmingham are being well taken care of. He advises that the spirit of cooperativeness and mutual aid among the Negroes of that city is responsible for their success in the main. The colored people of Birmingham have just opened a bank in Alabama named the Presidential Savings Bank. Mr. Bond says the capitalization is $30,000, and quotes this as one of the evidences of progress. Mrs. David L. Stewart gave an informal musicale and dance at her residence on last Monday night, August 15. It was well attended and a pleasant evening was reported. NEWS ITEMS Chas. D. Freeman, E. R. Columbia Lodge, Writes Letter of Thanks. Washington, D. C., Aug. 17, 1910. Editor National Forum: My dear Sir—I am in receipt of your communication announcing the name of the successful contest in the voting contest inaugurated by your journal, "The National Forum," for the most popular Elk. I am pleased to know that such a progressive and active young man as Dr. R. L. Peyton is to receive the prize. Dr. Peyton is an Elk of good standing and has a host of friends. I desire to take advantage of this opportunity to congratulate the "Forum" on the masterly manner in which it gave the account of the Elk Convention and especially the manner in which it freed the tradehouse. I voice the sentiment of every Elk in the city when I say that your paper has done a great deal to place our order before the public in a very favorable light. Very respectfully, CHAS. D. FREEMAN, Exalted Ruler, Columbia Lodge, No. 85, 1609 4th St. S. W. The Famous Glee Club, of Columbia Lodge, No. 85, Open for Engagements. Those who sing music or perform upon instruments of melody are becoming sadly less. The inventor of the photograph may have added a link to the chain of civilization, but he who "tit to music" was "enemy of mankind." A pleasing reaction from the crowd for canned melody is announced by the Columbia Glee Club, an organization of young men who will study and render choral and glee music. The club is composed of the following: First tenors — Cary Robinson, I. E. Wilson, Verdi Fisher. Second tenors — Charles Lee, Jesse Madden. First basses — George Pope, C. S. Beale, Thomas McIntosh. Second basses — Wm. A. Clayton, Jeremiah Scott, William Jones. Louis Amber, director. D. E. Self, general manager. A Popular Caterer. It is a pleasure to the "Forum" to call the attention of the public to the cafe of Mr. Joshua N. Anderson, who is proprietor of the Tuskegee Lunch Room, at 626 North Capitol street, N. W. Mr. Anderson is meeting a long felt want in this locality by catering to the people, Heretofore it has been most impossible for persons to be properly served in that particular section of the city. As it is now, transients going to and coming from the Union Depot can always secure a first-class up-to-date meal well looked and elegantly presented. It would seize that every embarked man of race pride in the commencement printing office would give his patronage to this establishment and thereby avoid the embarrassment of being "Jin, Crowed" and at the same time get the same fare for less money. Give Uncle Josh a trial. Oyster Shell Roman Roads Many people have wondered what becomes of pins and needles and -oyster shells. The Roman settlers seem to have used them to advantage, for the streets of the ancient Verulium, by St. Albans, which is to be further excavated, are paved with oyster shells, which seem to indicate good taste and economy on the part of our predecessors—Westminster Gazette. To Test Our Courage Hard things are put in our way not to stop, but to call out our course and our strength—Anon. In the Rough. Caddle (to Jones, who has missed his ball six times consecutively — "Try it with the bag, sir." — European Production of Cast Great Britain produces 1,000.00 tons of salt it year, all Europe le ter than 5,000.00. THE TALE OF THE TUB IN POLITE SOCIETY WAY NO THERE ARE YOU IN YOUR TUB? THE SATURDAY NIGHT WATCH NOTICE AURORA SMITH WORK ORDER DATAVIRS POPULATION IS ON THE INCREASE HAVE YOU MEANS TO PROVINE MY DAUGHTER WITH A TUB YOUNG NOW? MORE OF PROPAGATED STATUE TO PATHER OF ORDINANCE AND AMOUNT OF PRIVILEGE ROWED SO FAR TO DEFRAY EXPENSE OF ERECTING SAME EXPOSITION SWEPT BY FIRE Hundred Thousand People Are Panic Stricken. FRANTIC EFFORTS TO SCAPE FLAMES The Loss May Be $100,000,000—Crowd of 100,000 on Grounds When the Flames Sweep Them—Two Dead, Thirty Injured. Brussels (Special)—The white city of the "World's Fair" as the Belgians call the 1910 exposition, is now a mass of flames and smouldering ruins. A spark falling into inflammable material in the telegraph building burst up in flames, which driven by a high wind, swept rapidly in all directions. Soon the Belgian, English and French sections were destroyed. The firemen and detachments of soldiers, called quickly to the scene, found themselves buffled by the veritable fire, carrying the burning embers to all parts of the grounds. The loss in the exposition fire is estimated at 500,000,000 francs ($100,000,000). To the left of the main building arose the picturesque roofs and spires of "Bruexelles Kermesz," a Belgian Coney Island, with water chutes, toobgran slides and scores of side shows. This place was alive with Sunday crowds, and before they could be gotten out with any assurance of crush—the Kermesz was ablaze. The crowds became panic-strike, en, and men, women and children fought mildly to escape. The exits became choked with the struggling masses, and men used their fists to clear the pathway. Many were trumped under foot and badly injured. Soon the enormous facade tumbled in ruins. Considering the rapidity of the conflagration, the small loss of life is mervelous. So far as is known up to a late hour tonight only two are dead. The injured, as officially announced, number 30, but probably many hundreds receive minor hurts. POLICEMEN MUITNY. Refuse to Guard Against Strikers in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio (Special) — Fifty-three members of the Police Department within 24 hours have rebelled against Mayor Marshall's orders to ride on street cars. The mutineers were increased by 20. All of the 20 were men employed as specialists for strike duty. Unlike the regular officers who mutinied, the 20 specialists were not suspended, but upon their refusal to board cars they were told that by that act they had removed themselves from State troops. Officers of the Fourth Regiment, four companies of which are stationed in Columbus, say they have been told to hold themselves ready for service, but at the adjutant-general's office it is denied that preparations have been made for calling out troops. Mayor Marshall called for 2,000 volunteers for police duty. He took the mantle of chief officer against the situation in which the situation has been handled, but said that if his critics were sincere they would offer to perform police duty. SNOW-WHITE WATER. Sea Captain Relates Seeing an Integrable Phenomenon. Port Townsend, Wash. (Special)—In a report to the United States Hydrograph office here the statement is made of an inexplicable phenomenon that marine interests declare is without precedent. The statement is filed by Captain Samnels, of the American barkentine Aurora, on arrival from Callao, Peru. On June 17, in latitude 11 degrees south, and longitude 80 degrees west, according to the report, the vessel's course brought her into an area of snow-white water. The expanse was so large as to require no notice, and it traversed 12 miles along with the natural ocean water was sharp and distinctly defined in color, creating a mervous scene of marine beauty. Investigation with every means available failed to show the phenomenon to be due to submarine volcanic eruption or other seismic upheavals. Losses Money Ends Life Kenosha. Wis. (Special!)—Trank W. Nohling, 42 years old, president of the Kenosha Mercantile Company and leader among the Social Democrats of Wisconsin, committed suicide in his office. He slashed his throat with a shoe knife, severing the jugular vein, and then taking another knife drove it deep into the wound. Mr. Nohling, which he chose to lose most recently, speculation and had betrayed others who had given him the use of their money. MANY PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS A Portion of the Japanese Capital Now Submerged. Thousands of Homeless and Hundry People Sheltered in the Temples and Schoolhouses—Not Enough Boats to Convey the Sufferers to Places of Shelter—A Hotel Patronized by Foreigners Destroyed—All the Guests, However, Are Safe. Tokio (Special).—The great floods in this city and vicinity caused by the high water in the River Sumida have caused, so far as reported, 385 deaths and 500 others are missing. At 6 o'clock A. M. it was announced that the flood was subsiding. The Honjo and Fukadawa wards of Tokio are submerged. Tens of thousands of persons are homeless and starving. One of the three more important embankments guarding Tokio gave way and had the second and third dikes broken half the capital would have been submerged. The threatened embankments were guarded by troops. Thousands of homeless persons are being sheltered in the temples and schoolhouses, at which relief stations the most deplorable sights are witnessed. The victims of the floods are wholly dependent upon public relief. Thousands more have been unable to find shelter, owing to the lack of water to convey them to place in safety, and they are exposed to the rain and hunger. Every available boat is being employed in the work of rescue and to convey food where it is most needed. The question of feeding the stricken people is causing apprehension. The vegetable and fish supplies are failing, and the stock of biscuits already is nearly exhausted. There is no fear, however, for the supply of rice. In the neighborhood of Karizawa destroyed the Mikaza Hotel. Many foreigners were stopping there, but fortunately no fatality has been reported so far. TO PROSECUTE WARDLAWS. Death of One of Sisters Will Not Halt Counsel for State. Newark, N. J. (Special)—The prosecution of Mrs. Caroline B. Martin and Mrs. Snead will not be interfered with in any way by the death of Virginia O. Wardlaw, the third of the sisters indicted in connection with the mysterious death of Ocey W. M. Snead, the East Orange bathtub victim. This statement was made by Louis Hood, special counsel for the State in the Wardlaw case, when his attention was called to reports that Miss Wardlaw's death might cause the prosecution of her two sisters to be dropped. Mr. Hood said that the three sisters were jointly charged with the commission of the crime as well as aiding and abetting it, and he would not connecde that the case against Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Snead had been weakened in any way by the death of Miss Wardlaw. MANY NEW GOVERNORS. Washington, D. C. (Special).—At the coming fall elections more States will elect governors than ever before in the history of the Union. For the first time Oregon is to join the list of Commonwealth electing their executives in November. Heretofore the Oregon State election has been held in June. A total of 36 governors are to be elected this fall. Thirty-two will be voted for at the general elections in November. Three States—Vermont, Maine and Arkansas—will vote for governor next month, and Georgia will elect its executive in October. The gubernatorial contests in some of the States are of a more than ordinarily interesting character. The elections in others will be of a purely perfunctory character, the election of the Republican candidate as the candidate may be being a foregone conclusion. Socialists and Prohibitionists will have candidates for governor in a majority of the States, and in some of them they are expected to poll a considerable vote. DREXEL RISES 6,750 FEET American Aviator Makes a World's Altitude Record. Lanark, Scotland (Special)—It was officially announced that J. Armstrong Drexel, the American aviator, attained a world's altitude record by rising 7,550 feet. His barograph will be submitted to the experts of the Kew Observatory at London who will determine the accuracy of the instruments. Drexel's flight was the sensation of the aviation meeting. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. PEDRO MONTT, PRESIDENT OF CHILI, IS DEAD Stricken By Heart Failure on Arrival at Bremen. HE SAW MAYOR GAYNOR SHOT Senor Montt Had Been a Sufferer From Heart Disease and Was On His Way to German Springs for the Cure—Served Several Terms as President of Chill—a Brave Fighter and a Fine Executive—Many Years An Officer In the Chilean Navy. London (Special).—President Pedro Montt of Chili arrived at Bremen on the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Tuesday morning. His death occurred at 11:50 o'clock P. M. It was due to a recurrence of heart failure, following the recent attack of angina pectoris from which he suffered. New York (Special) — President Monti left New York just a week ago after one of the most startling experiences in his career. That same morning he had seen Mayor Gaynor shot down on the deck of the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, had witnessed the struggle with James L Gallagher, the would be assassin, and had departed the Kaiser feverishly excited over the occurrences, as were most of the other passengers aboard. A sufferer from heart trouble, it is not improbable that his sudden death may in some measure be attributed to the strain of that occurrence. Before the vessel departed President Monti gave out an interesting review, describing the shooting as he saw it, and later at sea he flashed a wireless message of sympathy to the Mayor. He arrived on August 3, after a stop in the Panama Canal Zone, where he inspected the work on the canal and pronounced it good. Arriving here he was received with the presidential salute and met by the Federal, State and city officials. On the following Friday he left for Boston, whence he was taken on the President's yacht Mayflower to Beverly, where he and Mrs. Montt had lunchcone with the President. During his talk with his friend, Ecuador boundary dispenser came up, and asked the Chilian executive to use his influence in urging the two countries to accept the good offices of the United States toward an amicable adjustment. In consequence it is understood that President Montt cabled instruction to Washington. While in this country the ill health of President Montt was apparent. He was easily fatigued, and his old heart trouble bothered him considerably. New York Republican Committee Recommends Sherman. New York (Special) —Theodore Roosevelt matched strength with the "old guard" of the Republican party in New York and met decisive defeat. The Republican state committee, in session here, by a vote of 20 to 15, refused to recommend him for temporary chairman of the state convention, which meets at Saratoga on September 27. Instead, Vice-President James S. Sherman was selected. This is Colonel Roosevelt's second defeat at the hands of the "old guard," the first having been the legislator's refusal to pass the Cobb direct primary bill, although Mr. Roosevelt especially indorsed it. With his latest setback plans for harmony within the party in the state received a severe setback; and as soon as Colonel Roosevelt heard the news he issued a statement in which he enrolled himself as a progressive, so far as the New York situation goes. He and his political statement since his return, and those who saw him were convinced that he had determined to begin an open fight on the "old guard." Woman Had Ubpraided Man for Not Living an Honest Life. Philadelphia (Special)—In the presence of their two children, aged four and six years, Bartko Bernardskiy shot and instantly out his own brains in a lodging-house on North Franklin street, in this city, the neighbor's house, to the wife uphraiding the husband because he did not lead an honest life. The couple came from Poland less than a year ago, and resided with Carroll Fabian in Buffalo. Mrs. Bernardskiy left her husband and came three weeks ago with the children and then wrote him, according to the neighbors, that she would again live with him if he had a better life. The husband came here Saturday from the Buffalo with $15,000 and the neighbors say, was essential where he got the money. This led to quarrels, the tragic result. The police know nothing about the man except what they were told by the neighbors. Where The Forum Can Be Bought KILLS WIFE AND SELF. GAYNOR OUT IN TEN DAYS Secondary Hemmorrhage the Only Contingency. TO LEAVE THE HOSPITAL IN TEN DAYS. Removal of the Bullet Does Not Concern the Surgeons at All, as They Say It Can Easily Be Done at Any Time—His Cough Is Still Trouble some. New York (Special).—The surgeons attending Mayor Gaynor confessed to a fear of just one thing, a secondary hemorrhage that might occur along the path torn by the bullet. A secondary hemorrhage is bleeding 24 or more hours after a wound has been inflicted. In Mayor Gaynor's case it would mean that the bullet has so abrased the wall of some artery that the pulsing blood had broken through. Such a hemorrhage must be checked within a couple of minutes if death is to be averted. Every other contingency conceivable to the alert surgical mind has been provided for. The Mayor has received injections of antitoxin to ward off tetanus, the bullet has been viewed as it lies embedded in bony tissue in the roof of the pharynx, the wound has been dressed and ascertified and the Mayor's blood tested twice a day for the gerns of septicemia or blood poisoning. Of course, such preconditioning is necessary to guard against a secondary hemorrhage, but wholly to guard against that is impossible. That is why there is always at least one doctor on duty with the Mayor night and day. If a secondary hemorrhage were to come the doctor in the room would imply have to stanch the flow of blood with his fingers for a moment or two until ligatures could be applied. It developed Monday that this stanching of a secondary hemorrhage was all that the surgeons had in mind now when speaking of an operation. The bullet is a simple affair with which they are concerning themselves not, at all. One of the physicians who is attending Mayor Gaynor said that, barring unforeseen and improbable complications, Mayor Gaynor will be able to leave the hospital in two weeks. The police are engaging themselves on a theory that James J. Gallagher, the would-be assassin, may have had an acceptance. This Gallagher denies, but with a police record is under suspicion. STEAL RAWN PAPERS. Chicago (Special)—Detectives are in investigating a mysterious robbery at the home of Robert C. Brinkley, son-in-law of "O. G. Rawn, late president of the Monon Railway, in Winnikka. Brinkley, who is now with his family in Virginia, is custodian of Rawn's documents. Official investigation of alleged graft in car repair bills of the Illinois Central Railroad, of which Rawn was formerly a vice-president, is thought to be responsible for the ransacking of the Brinkley residence. Many valuables were passed by the thieves, but desks and drawers where the documents might be placed were ransacked. MOUSE IN HER RAT. Actress Badly Shocked, But Will Read New York (Special).—The first woman to be recorded as having a real mouse in her "rat" is Miss Elizabeth Goodall, an actress. She was rehearsing in the Sewenty-first班. She was going to her app in "We Won't Go Home Till Morning" and in "at one time took off the rat and hid it in a dark corner. When she cut it on again and started to use her hatnin there was a terrible commotion. When she finally got the hat out off popped the mouse with a pin wound in its side. It was said that Miss Goodall is doing well. Steel Cage for Baby Bar Harbor (Special)—A steel cage on wheels, cunningly wrought by a skilled craftsman and safeguarded by locks of the most complicated design, for the morning's ride of Vinson McLean, America's $180,000,000 baby, is the latest and most startling novelty which two fond parents have taken to protect this little Crosseus against kilnapping. This steel perforated canopy, followed the intent attempt of burglars to break into the Edward Beale McLean mansion, at Bar Harbor. The McLean baby is now carefully guarded from all save his nurse and Detective Wardens, as if he were a little prisoner held as hostage. Haunted By Dead Wife New York (Special).—Walter Schmidt, 50 years old, killed himself by inhaling gas. Just six years ago his wife killed herself in the same manner. Since then Schmidt has been jailed. He was not a co-worker or dependent. He was found in beetly dressed, with the gas escaping from a burner which had been left turned on fully. A letter and a bank book, in which there was a balance of $125 to Schmidt's credit, were found in the room. tc S t p v One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....60 1022 You Street, N. W., Room 1. RALPH W. WRITE Editor and Proprietor. JOHN H. WILLS Business Manager. Entered as second-class matter, May 27, 1910, at the Postoffice at Washington D. C., under Act of March 3, 1879. Address all communications, checks and money orders to The National Forum, 609 F Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. TO OUR MANY FRIENDS AND SUBSCRIBERS: WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE MOVED TO THE CORNER OF 11TH AND 11ST STREETS, N. W., OVER THE MECEO THEATRE IN THE CHILD'S BUILDING, WHERE WE ARE COMFORABLY SITUATED AND WILL BE GLAD TO SEE OUR FRIENDS. THE CENTER OF THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THE NEGROES OF WASHINGTON IS FAST DRIFTING THIS WAY, AND DESIRING TO BE WHERE WE COULD BEST SERVE THE WANTS OF THE PUBLIC AND MOST READILY BE GOTTEN AT BY OUR PEOPLE, WAS THE ONLY MOTIVE WHICH PROMPTED US TO MOVE FROM OUR COMFORTABLE QUARTERS AT 600 F STREET, N. W. THE LATCH STRING OF "THE FORUM" DOOR IS ALWAYS ON THE OUTSIDE, COME AND SIT DOWN WITH US AND TELL US YOUR JOYS AND SORROWS, AND WE WILL CULL THEM, GIVING TO THE PUBLIC THE PART YOU DESIRE AND LOCKING THE OTHERS SAFELY IN OUR SANCTUM SANCTORUM. "LEST WE FORGET." Vague rumors and veiled hints have come to us of the contemplated movement on the part of some of the officials high up in one of our institutions of learning to depose certain of the colored professors. We have not been intelligently advised along this line, therefore are not in a position to treat the subject by way of any criticism. However, from the view point of a generalization, it would seem to be a sall mistake to disturb the even tenor of the way of those, without just cause, whose feet have trod the burning sand of difficulty in the days when the tions presented itself almost as a forlorn hope. These pioneers were the ones, who at the cost of time and labor and personal means thrust themselves in the breach and saved the day, and made it possible for others to come after them and erect upon the foundation they had so well laid to the present educational structures. These are the men who stood out boldly in the thickest of the fray on the frontier, as it were, and held - on to the tiny strand of hope while the cause of higher education for Negroes was passing through its initial and formative period. We trust advice along this line is not well founded. We need men, great men, tall men, broad men who can touch the pulse of the powers higher up and inform us of the heart beats toward us as a people. Let us keep them for the good they may yet do as well as that which they have already accomplished, in the meantime let conservatism be the watchword. "Lest we forget." If the analysis of hoky-poky is correct we are unable to understand how the files that gather upon the cones manage to stay so long without seeming to be overcome. A new vein of coal seven miles wide and 65 miles long has been found in Pennsylvania. The coal man will make no reference to it when he puts in your winter's supply. Before the Germans begin manufacturing dirigible balloons for war purposes, it might be well to develop one or two of them so that they will serve the less difficult purposes of peace. Ten or fifteen deaths among the comparatively few aeronauts and aviators in the last few months are not only depleting their ranks but showing up air flights as mighty dangerous pastiming. In printing the new passenger tickets to be used on airship lines care should be taken to have it specified that stop-over privileges may be had when necessary without the signature of the conductor. Counterfeit buttermilk is being sold in some of the drug stores in the east, and the health authorities say it is very dangerous. Will it never be possible to get a good thing that the counterfeiters can't counterfeit? Sure Enough He- This paper says that the sight of rats is not at all good. She- Why is it, then, that they always happen to pick out a woman when they want to frighten somebody? So There! Patience—I see they've got a hammock now that it is impossible to fall out of. Patrice—Don't believe it! If a person cannot fall out of it, it's not a hammock. By THURDE RAYLE BRUCE SOLLY societies, humane society, and institutions for the benevolent are abundant and these kinds of Chicago horses by the humane cruelty tortured on our streets, the statutes of Illinois, published the fortieth annual report of the clause reading that "whoever of any horse in the operation performed for the so shall cause the same to be less such is proved to be a imprisonment in the county not less than $25 nor more the cruelty to Animals" another clause to be carried or driven on manner." Houses fully cover docked tails, universally used. has been paid to the cruelties torture belonging to the dark a case it cuts cruelly and brings a the construction on the outside largely used by bus drivers and stands. In order to look smart to my stand erect in the air in the horse. As if this was no strap is brought across the neck so short that it is in misery if. According to the statutes these atrocities could be stopped and the fines go into the fines. Will some humane, Christens in our noble friend the Humane society and Antioch numbers that they will force membership. NTICRUELTY societies, humane societies and endowed and well-supported institutions for the benefit of our speechless animal friends are abundant and these have laws galore. Yet in the city of Chicago horses by the hundreds are abused, mutilated and cruelly tortured on our streets. In the statutes of Illinois, published in the Humane Advocate, the fortieth annual report of the Humane society, there is a clause reading that "whoever cuts the solid part of the tail of any horse in the operation known as docking, or by any operation performed for the purpose of shorten- or by any oper ing the tail, and who shall doing such cutting, unless shall be punished by imprisi year, or by a fine of not less "Conocerment Cruelty ing or driving, or causing to an unnecessarily cruel mann Both of these clauses f curb bits, now so universally. Little attention has been is an instrument of torture the tongue of the horse it c broken submission. The con its wicked torture. These bits are largely sport smart equipages. In cut so short that they star shamefully disfiguring the h is used and an extra strap animal is checked up so short ing the tail, and who shall cause the same to be done or assist in doing such cutting, unless such is proved to be a benefit to the horse, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $100. "Concerning Cruelty to Animals" another clause reads, "by carrying or driving, or causing to be carried or driven or kept, any animal in an unnecessarily cruel manner." Both of these clauses fully cover docked tails, short checkreins and curb bits, now so universally used. Little attention has been paid to the cruelties of the curb bit. It is an instrument of torture belonging to the dark ages. As it lies across the tongue of the horse it cuts cruelly and brings a horse down to heart-broken submission. The construction on the outside is sufficient to prove its wicked torture. These bits are largely used by bus drivers and society people, who sport smart equipages. In order to look smart their horses have tails cut so short that they stand erect in the air in an atrocious manner, shamefully disfiguring the horse. As if this was not enough, the curb bit is used and an extra strap is brought across the nose and then the poor animal is checked up so short that it is in misery if it moves. According to the statutes of these societies all these atrocities could be stopped, the offenders punished and the fines go into the treasuries of the societies. Will some humane, Christian people interest themselves in our noble friend, the horse, and join the Humane society and Anticruelty society in such numbers that they will force activities among the membership. he druggist has considered the much to make things convenient to run over to the drug store, now very convenient it is to go now extremely convenient it is, writing a letter to your sweet courteous about it. The man it or let his customers wait and birth of the store to give you a seven "Thank you." little irritated or gruff you and fact that you have given son the druggist must live on the clock at night, or, worse still, a ders and stamps. The tru- oughly. He has done much know how easy it is to run sent to the station; how ve- ten or cashed there; how ex- your evening at home writ- from the druggist. You aren't even court must rise from his seat or le maybe the whole length of receives nothing, not even " Then if he is a little i not be hurt over the fact t of your purchase and the d order written at 11 o'clock at oughly. He has done much to make things convenient for you all. You know how easy it is to run over to the drug store to have your baggage sent to the station; how very convenient it is to get a money order written or cashed there; how extremely convenient it is when you have spent your evening at home writing a letter to your sweetheart to get a stamp from the druggist. You aren't even courteous about it. The man who is worn out must rise from his seat or let his customers wait and drag his aching feet maybe the whole length of the store to give you a stamp, for which he receives nothing, not even "Thank you." Then if he is a little irritated or gruff you are hurt, but he should not be hurt over the fact that you have given some one else the profits of your purchase and the druggist must live on the profits of a money order written at 11 o'clock at night, or worse still, a one-cent stamp! gers. This serves as a warm cial end of the game, and it the earth's surface. We have witnessed ball have seen the aeronaut desc weigh but a few pounds. Why don't the aviator preservers in the shape of p These, however, would over channels seem to be a a warning that we are decades and it will never be half as saf- eled balloon ascensions at am- tit descend safely in a small p- ods. aviators supply their planes o e of parachutes. would not be of much use o be a recent diversion. gers. This serves as a warning that we are decades from a safe commercial end of the game, and it will never be half as safe as transportation on the earth's surface. We have witnessed balloon ascensions at amusement grounds and have seen the aeronaut descend safely in a small parachute which would weigh but a few pounds. Why don't the aviators supply their planes or dirigibles with life preservers in the shape of parachutes. These, however, would not be of much use over water and flights over channels seem to be a recent diversion. Getting Rid of Noisy Rooster By L. SLEPNER we should take plenty of g this makes one feel sort of one's everyday duties, no ma The writer lives in one any neighbors are all right d "It's so nice to have a True, it is. We used t lived in a country town. W was left behind. y of good, refreshing sleep, a sort of disgruntled and unfit no matter what they are. in one of the most desirable right otherwise, but they will have a few fresh eggs every day used to indulge in such luxury. When we came to Chicago we should take plenty of good, refreshing sleep, and to be deprived of this makes one feel sort of disgruntled and unfits one in a measure for one's everyday duties, no matter what they are. The writer lives in one of the most desirable parts of Chicago, and my neighbors are all right otherwise, but they will keep chickens. "It's so nice to have a few fresh eggs every day," they will tell you. True, it is. We used to indulge in such luxuries ourselves when we lived in a country town. When we came to Chicago to live the hannery was left behind. A A. H. Long Hours of Poorly Paid Drug Clerk By M. HOWELL Aviation Accidents on Rapid Increase By ANTHONY WAGNER Laws Galore to Protect Dumb Animals societies, humane societies and endowed and institutions for the benefit of our speechless and abundant and these laws galore. Yet cagogo horses by the hundreds are abused, many tortured on our streets. Res of Illinois, published in the Humane Add-annual report of the Humane society, reading that "whoever cuts the solid part by horse in the operation known as docking, motion performed for the purpose of shorten-cause the same to be done or assist in which is proved to be a benefit to the horse,iment in the county jail not exceeding one than $25 nor more than $100. Animals" another clause reads, "by carry-be carried or driven or kept, any animal in ar." Vally cover docked tails, short checkreins and used. Paid to the cruelties of the curb bit. It belonging to the dark ages. As it lies across its cruelly and brings a horse down to heart-struction on the outside is sufficient to prove used by bus drivers and society people, who order to look smart their horses have tails erect in the air in an atrocious manner, horse. As if this was not enough, the curb bit brought across the nose and then the poor that it is in misery if it moves. Riding to the statutes of these societies all societies could be stopped, the offenders punish the fines go into the treasuries of the soci- some humane, Christian people interest in our noble friend, the horse, and joinane society and Anticruelty society in such that they will force activities among the ship. Let me say a word for the man that works from 7:00 a. m. to 11:00 p. m. every day in the year—the druggist. I think the druggist is the greatest slave to the public of any business man. Now, of course, you can't see why. It is very easy for a man if he knows his business to fill a prescription, sell a patent medicine, face powder, cold cream, toilet water and perfumes. But where his biggest trade comes in is the advertising branch of the newspapers, telephone checks, water bills, gas and electric light bills, money orders, express and postal or regist has considered the public's needs thor- to make things convenient for you all. You over to the drug store to have your baggage convenient it is to get a money order writ- remely convenient it is when you have spent a letter to your sweetheart to get a stamp ous about it. The man who is worn out his customers wait and drag his aching feet the store to give you a stamp, for which he "hank you." critated or gruff you are hurt, but he should at you have given some one else the profits uggler must live on the profits of a money night, or, worse still, a one-cent stamp! We frequently read of aviation fatali- ties and recently the iist of those killed is increasing at the rate the sport is growing I predict that before man can conquer the air there will be an appalling sacrifice, not only in the number killed or injured, but in the terrible deaths some will suffer. What could be more dreadful, while consciousness lasts, than plunging from a height of hundreds of feet, knowing that mangling must result? Count Zeppelin's airship was disabled on its initial passenger trip, it being. I believe, the first to carry regular passen- ing that we are decades from a safe commer- will never be half as safe as transportation on oon ascensions at amusement grounds and and safely in a small parachute which would supply their planes or dirigibles with life machutes. not be of much use over water and flights cent diversion. It seems to me keeping and raising oi chickens should not be allowed inside the city limits. Doubtless some one will say, "Oh, you crank!" Call me any old name you like. That doesn't disturb me in the least. But to be awakened about four o'clock every morning by a great big speckled chanticleer a few feet from my window, with his cockadoodle-do, which proceeds every few minutes until the time when I myself should be up, is, to say the least, anything but enjoyable. Nature as well as physicians tells us God, refreshing sleep, and to be deprived of disgruntled and unfit ones in a measure for what they are. Of the most desirable parts of Chicago, and otherwise, but they will keep chickens. Now fresh eggs every day," they will tell you. Indulge in such luxuries ourselves when we then we came to Chicago to live the hennery PULPITS AND PEWS METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH. Dr. I. N. Ross, 1444 Q Street N. W. Pastor; E. G. Evans, 1015 Q Street, N. W., Church Editor. In assuming the responsibility as editor of this column for our Church, we do so with full knowledge of its requirements and demands. Our policy will be practically the same as that we pursued the two years served as editor on one of our Church weeklies for our Alma Mater, and afterwards as editor-in-chief three years of our Alumni Department on our college paper—a practical and conservative policy, looking forward for the betterment of our beloved Church and its institutions always. Of our Sunday school workers, Prof. Williams, of the M Street High School; Miss C. E. Martin and Miss Charity are out of the city on vacation. Sister Thomas, one of our faithful members, was buried last week. The Rev. Dr. Israel Derrick's funeral was conducted at the church last week by several ministers. He was one of the pioneers of the Baltimore Conference, and was highly esteemed. Rev. Dr. Ross was called away to Galesville, Md., last week to help Rev. J. O. Custis with his revival meeting. Nine souls were converted to Christ. Our Sunday school is in an excellent condition for this season of the year when so many of our teachers are away; the Primary Department holds up well under the supervision of Mrs. A. E. Waddleton. The combined class from the two New Movement Bible Classes is ably taught by Mr. Thompson, of Tennessee, and also by Mrs. A. E. Waddleton. Among the several visitors at the Sunday school last Sunday were Professor Honeycutt, formerly of Morris Brown College, and Miss Julia Howard, of Atlanta, Ga., on her way to New York to attend the meeting of the Business League. The morning service was spiritual and uplifting as usual. Rev. Dr. Watson preached an able sermon; 355 members bowed at the communion table; nine persons joined the church. The night service was also held, and many were present. Rev. Dr. Ross preached an able sermon; subject "The Common Salvation." On Monday evening of this week, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bailey, of 2210 120th street N. W., celebrated their 20th marriage anniversary, which was of an exceptional high order. They were attended by the same best man and bridesmaid of twenty years ago—Mr. Charles H. Brooks and Mrs. Willena B. Mooze. The wedding march was artistically played by Miss Eva Johnson. The many well-dressed guests were introduced by Miss Catherine Waddleton. Rev. I. N. Ross and Mrs. Willena B. Mooze pressed themselves as being delighted with their surroundings. The presents were numerous, valuable and beautiful, and consisted of china, cut glass and fancy work; among them was a handsome china set presented by the official board of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. Mr. Bailey is a member of the board. An illustrated lecture, "The Life of St. Paul," was delivered by Dr. B. F. Watson last Tuesday night, the 16th inst., at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. He was assisted by Miss. Martha Ross. Dr. Watson also sang one of his noted solos; Miss Laura Lucas sang "There Were Nine and Nine." The lecture was given to raise funds to beautify the Primary Department of the Sunday school. Visit the Chase Art Company. Quadrennially, we elect lay and ministerial delegates to our General Conferences to make laws to govern our progressive denomination. The election of our church delegate to the Electoral College where the two lay delegates are to be elected September 7 look place Wednesday night the 10th inst. The "woods were full of candidates."29 The first balletging gave Prof. John T. Layton, 61; G. Evans, 31; Joseph H. Stewart, Esq. 20; Seventy-10 Mr. R. K. Washington, 7; Prof. John W. Cromwell, 0. Professor Layton was elected on the second ballot after several of the candidates withdrew in his favor. Mrs. Anna E. Waddleton was elected alternate. We hope the delegate will be elected. We very heartily thank the heroic 31 for their continued loyal support; we pledge them that we will at least visit the General Conference if we have them. For several years it was our duty to content that the proportionate number of ministerial and lay delegates to our General Conferences is not justly nor systematically made. Our State has thought so, and is still thinking so along with several other states. Upon what hypothesis, or from what logical reasoning can it be proven that four or six ministerial delegates should go from every conference while only two lay are allowed to attend. We have the "little pastors" must tie together, by day and by night, to keep our grand old church in one harmonious revolution forward! The Unreality of Opera The Unreality of Opera. There are people who still complain of the unreality of opera, who cannot subject themselves to its illusion. And indeed the illusion of opera breaks down if everything in it is not kept at the same distance from reality. In that world of musical expression we must never be suddenly lowered by any incongruous detail into the ordinary world of prose. Realism, the attempt to work upon the emotions by complete illusion of reality, is disastrous in opera. If the scene is a railway station we remember at once that people do not sing when they are catching trains. - conduct academic study. Master: Why are you late for early school, Wright? Wright----"Please, sir, I must have overwashed myself." "Barker has a terrible thirst. It's inborned." "Yes, all his ancestors were abstinents." A Warning Love's young dream appears to have met with an interruption somewhere, judging from the following pathetic warning "ad." in the Auckland Herald of a recent date: "O. D—No; father's home—V. R."—New Zealand Free Lance. ISRAEL METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH. Corner First and B Streets, S. W., Rev. R. K. Harris, Pastor; Miss A. Woods, Church Editress, 1106 O Street, N. W. CHURCH SERVICES. Sunday School, 9.30 to 10.55 A. M.; Mr. John Boston, Superintendent; Miss B. Clifford, Assistant Superintendent. Preaching, 11. A. M. Night Services, 7.45 P. M. Despite the fact that the services at Israel A. M. E. Church proceeded in the usual manner, Sunday, August 14, one could not help but notice how deeply impressive the services were. It was the regular monthly communion day and there were not as many out as are usually on that day. Still, from the time Miss Georgia Savoy, in her capacity as organist, finished the opening voluntary, to which the audience had listened, she was moved by the presence of the choir at the close of the blessing, one was moved instinctively to a feeling the sense of which could not well be expressed in words. Rev. R. Kent Harris gave the text, "The 10th verse of the third chapter of First Timothy," pansing and patiently repeating the same as is the usual custom. He began his discourse slowly and with emphasis, and as the purity and truth of the thought grew up more, he touched so eloquently that viminative and remunerative justice" that the audience was thrilled and electrified. After the usual penny collection for the poor, the Sacrament was administered, and every one in the congregation who did not receive the Sacrament must have felt as they looked upon the simple faith of those who knelt around the altar that there is something in the Christian faith that is Divinely helpful to the congregation, the blessing, the congregation exchanging brief neighborly greetings with one another, began to disperse, feeling certain that the day had been well spent. The efforts to raise a certain sum for the improvement of the edifice are still going on, subscriptions for the same being received every Sunday. Among the unexpected was the cash subscription of $5 from Mr. Charles Stewart, of Baltham, Md. to the Sunday, which was gratefully received. Our very efficient choir leader has returned from Gettysburg, Pa., and his presence was noted with pleasure last Sunday by the members of the choir. The excursion to Washington Park, August 10, proved a very successful one, despite the frequent showers during the day, and was attended by a great number of congenial members and friends of the church. Miss Julia Taylor, a very energetic worker in the church, is spending the summer in Laremont, N. Y. Choir Rehearsal every Wednesday night. The leader desires a full attendance. Kindly send to the address of the Church Editress all news items, advertisements, social and personal news of our church people from Wednesday to Wednesday. Visit the Chase Art Company. A GARDEN IN THE ORIENT. One In Fez Where Is Heard Music That Was Old When the Pyramids Were New. A garden does not necessarily mean a collection of flowers arranged more or less symmetrically, with spaces of lawn, shelter of trees, and paths hither and thither. There have been gardens that, beyond a terra-cotta jar or two holding a rosebush or a flowering almond, have had no green thing within their gates. I know of an Oriental garden in Fez where white-garmedment Moors come in the cool of the evening to sit and listen to ancient stories that they know by heart, or to music that was old when the pyramids were new, or perhaps to look at a dancing girl or two taking soft steps while they smoke their narcissity; yet that garden is nothing more than a series of arches upholding walls beyond, walls, toned a faint, mysterious yellow that is not yellow, but white, and yet not white, but rose. In the middle is a pool of water, in a stone basin that looks blue because of the intense sky overhead, and that shimmers with golden reflections from the walls. In a corner stands a mighty jar full of strange, senilist blossoms and rugs of deep color and intricate pattern lie on the sun-warmed fangs. There is always the fairy music of dropping water, and wonderful shadows move among the arches. This place is a garden for all that it is so builted of man. The word court will not do for it. It may be that a garden, as has been said of Boston, is less a material thing than a state of mind. The story of the Garden of Eden seems to hint at something of the sort; and had we all permission to create an Eden of our own, doubtless these would vary as greatly as do the secret desires of every heart, the inner life of every soul. If, therefore, in speaking of a garden, one pictures something that to another may not appear to conform strictly to the term, what matter? If the garden spirit is there, it will incarnate itself for the true believer, who is always a seer—Century. The Philosopher of Folly. "The world owes you a living," says the Philosopher of Folly, "but it isn't running a delivery wagon to save you the trouble of carrying it home." The Poor Kln. As a general thing the richer a man gets the more he thinks his kin ought to be too proud to ask him for any- thing. Never Die. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.—Campbell. Swarm of Worms to the Acre. There are about 25,800 worms to an acre of cultivated land. SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Pastor, 1334 V Street, N. W.; W. H. Scott, Church Editor, 1503 Pierce Place, N. W. The repairs on the front of our church are now being pushed rapidly and in the course of a week or two will be com- pleted. The iron work about the cupola is receiving a coat of paint and the brick work is being changed from red to buff with red pencilings. When finished appearance will be greatly improved and beautified. The work is being paid for by the men of the church, for which a rally was held last Sunday. The Adult Bible Class of Shiloh ex- tends a cordial invitation to all men and women to join its ranks. Dr. J. M. Waldron, our pastor, is the teacher, and Mr. D. Waldron, our minister, are able students of the Bible and we are sure you will enjoy being with us. The class meets at 10 A. M. and is dis- missed at 10.55 to allow its members to visit other churches if they so desire. The church received a long and interesting letter from the wife of Rev. D. E. Murff, of Cape Town, South Africa. Both are members of Shiloh, having gone to the Dark Continent several years ago to labor for the Master. The health of both has been poor for some time, and they were expecting to return to America for medical treatment. The following is an extract from their letter: Cape Town, South Africa, July 18, 1910. Dear Brother Waldron: I had hoped ere this you would have had a letter from me, but I am writing again because I feel that we will not get home this year. We have a Sunday school banner for your church made by one of the girls of our industrial class. We had intended it as a surprise for you and your people on our return home, but as it was, we would be able to leave this year, perhaps we had better send it. If so, then please let us know it is made of royal blue satin, embroidered with gold silk. I hope you will be pleased with it. Dear brother, it is an answer to prayer for you to ask us to have a rest in Washington. There is no place in America that I would like so much to spend a while. I have asked the dear Lord often to make it possible for us to do so. So he has answered my prayer. I am glad to tell you that we feel more reconciled now than we did when I last wrote you. Perhaps the dear Lord did not want us to come this year, and as he put it in the heart of Brother Jordan to tell us of the great cost to us when we were to prepare to sit in that way. For as much as we would like to come for a little rest and medical treatment, and to see you all once more, we do not want to go against the Lord's will. My husband is not at Cape Town at present. He is many miles away, at a place called Pondland, among the Pondn tribe of our people. I feel very anxious about him. He has been gone about a month, and has written me but once, when he stopped at Brother East's station. His health is poor and the mission on which he is now is so full of hardship and suffering. But what must we do? Our poor Pondland brothers must near of Jesus, and it has been such a long time since the asked to go. So can't just say how he is. One thing I do know, that wherever he is the dear Lord sees and cares for him. I am glad to tell you that I feel better at this writing than I have felt for a long time. Tell the good sisters and brothers that I can feel the healing power of their prayers in my poor run-down body. Give them our love and tell them to keep on praying, and by and by the victory will be won on Israel's side. heard from Brother and Sister East lost in their work. After you read this letter, will you please ask the sisters and brothers to sing for me that good old song. "Thus is the Lord," he says. "It is old, but is ever new to my soul." Yours for Christ and Africa. MRS. MATTE MURFF. Sister Mary E. Gibson is spending the summer at Catlett, Va., with her mother, whose health, we learn, is very poor. Brother John S. Brannon, who is so faithful in his work for the church, will soon take a short vacation. Brother Brannon also assisted as one of the teachers in the Vacation Bible School, having in charge a class of boys. Miss Gladys Fearing is our organist during the absence of Mr. Syphax, and her work is very creditable indeed. Brother A. D. Powell is enjoying the cool breezes at Atlantic City. He says his health has greatly improved. Though absent he did not forget to send his contribution for the Men's Rally. Sister Rosa Holston, who resides at 1731 L street N. W., has been quite ill, and is at present confined to her room. As soon as she is able to travel she will leave for Detroit, Mieh. Sister Holston has made herself very useful in mission work about the city and Shiloh will miss her very much. Effect of Wall Paper The use of wall paper containing designs in vertical lines will make a room look both larger and higher. Marrying Age in England. Thirty-eight in every thousand Englishmen who marry are over fifty years old. Removes Paint Odor. It is said that an onion cut up in a saucer and placed in a room will absorb the odor of fresh paint. Prayer Book in Ostrich's Stomach. A prayer book was among the articles found in the stomach of an ostrich dissected in London. Postman's Aerial Flight Postman's Aerial Flight. In the village of Bonneville, near St. Etienne, France, the local postman, who goes his rounds in a blouse and carries an umbrella, was caught by the gale a few days ago and blown nearly half a mile. He came safely to earth again, but he lost all his letters. Horse's Hearty Appetite. A healthy horse eats nine times its weight in food during a year. C. E. NOTES. Shiloh Baptist C. E. Society is one of the few Societies that do not believe it good policy to close down the Society during the summer months; so under the wise leadership of its consecrated President, Mr. John A. Miles, who, with the regularity of the sun, has led the Society successfully for the past eight years, the splendid work of training the young people for Christian service goes on as vigorously in summer as in winter. One cannot visit these meetings without feeling lifted up. One other reason for the success of Shiloh C. E. Society is that they always emphasize the spiritual side. Below are four objects of prayer for August. Miss Agnes Butler will lead the Endeavor meeting next Sunday evening; subject, "Duty Under Difficulties." Come, you are welcome. 1. Pray for Christian Endeavors away from home, that they may be faithful in witnessing for Christ wherever they are, and in changed surroundings may find new opportunities for service. 2. Pray for the summer religious assemblies, that the power of the Spirit may be manifested in them, and that through them great blessings may come to the church. 3. Pray for any whose love for the Saviour may be growing cold, that they may be quickened into renewed life. 4. Pray that pride and hatred springing from differences of race may cease, and that all may realize their oneness in Christ. JUST QUESTION OF KNOWING Monopolist Explains to Plain Citizen Why He May Stand on Latter's Foot. "You are standing on my foot," said the citizen to the monopolist. "Ah, you must not think of that. good-naturedly replied the monopolist. "It is sordid and pessimistic. You should think of the higher things of life." "Yes, but it hurts," argues the citizen. "That may be; but remember that it is only through trial and tribulation that we learn to make something of ourselves. Blessed are the meek." "Yes, but why should you stand on my foot?" "I see you are inclined to think of yourself; that is wrong." admonished the monopolist in a gentle tone. "Rather you should contemplate the good I have done in the world." "That may all be true, but I think I shall have to ask you to get off my foot." "Being a Christian gentleman," replied the monopolist, very gently, "I take no umbrage at your unkind, not to say unreasonable, request. But what you ask is unconstitutional, and I must insist on my constitutional rights. I have a franchise to your foot. That is the legal phase of it. But there is also a moral side. I have become accustomed to that mode of standing. For you to try to change it now would be nothing less than unpatriotic." "Notwithstanding all that I must insist that you get off my foot." "In that case, my dear sir, I shall have to appeal to the courts and get out an infunction against you." "Do you deny that it is my foot?" hotly demanded the citizen. "I do not deny that; in a sense it is your foot," blandly returned the monopolist, "but I think I can show that I have a controlling interest in it."—Ellis O. Jones in Life Reasoning of Domestic Animals. REASONING OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS According to a French investigator domestic animals have a certain amount of reasoning, and can associate ideas from which they draw inferences. Dogs, and still more so cats, he says, learn to imitate the voice and movements of their masters or mistresses. He has noticed old watchdogs which, when they barked, had a peculiar intonation, which resembled the voice of their master. Cats try, by the way in which they cry, to make their mistresses understand exactly what they want. ATTENTION! For a few days we will make to your order a Two-Piece SUIT FOR ONLY $16.50 from woolens that regularly sell at $20 and $22.50. Choice of 75 patterns. S. Goldheim & Sons 403-405 Seventh St. M. Bashon Crusor Contractor and Builder 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. After Fifteen Years By Clarissa Mackie Melvin Taylor and Adelia Scott had lived next door to each other all their lives, yet they had not spoken for 15 years. Adelia, forty now, with a pewdering of white in her brown hair, was sitting in the old grape vine swing, swinying idly to and fro. Her soft eyes were fixed on the toe of her small shoe as it lightly touched the green turf. Overhead the April sky was cloudless; around her was growing grass and young springing flowers. In her heart was a great yearning for happiness—a renewal of the joys that had belonged to her girlhood; the dreams, the ideals that were hers before the awakening. From the other side of the dividing illiac hedge came the fragrance of tobacco and the sound of men's voices, growing nearer. "Women are naturally stubborn," Melvin Taylor was saying in a disagreeable tone. "If May has quarreled with you, Walter you might as well give her up now and be done with it—no matter how deeply you repent. What apologies you may offer however humble yourself, take my assurance she will not forgive you." "Rubbish!" retorted Walter Stone, laughing. "May and I have had a disagreement, but I know we shall make it up—who knows when—perhaps today! As for the rest of womankind, they are all like May, I do believe—sweet and forgiving—only some clumsy brute of a man like you or me—" "I've had my experience," interrupted Taylor brusquely. "I was engaged to marry what I believe to be A Swaying idly to and Fro. the sweetest girl in the world. We quarreled a week before our wedding day—15 years ago. I wrote a note begging her to forgive me— Their voices died away as they passed beyond hearing, and Adelia still swayed to and fro in the grape vine. Now her face was white. So Melvin Taylor had made overtures of peace and she had never known it. She, too, had written a note to him and hidden it in their true lover's postoffice—a cuplike hollow in the old apple tree that grew in the illac hedge. Day after day, 15 years ago, she had gone to the hollow—but there was never a letter; and her wedding day had come and gone and she had never been a bride. Invitations had been recalled, presents returned and bridal garments hidden from sight, while Adela picked up the dull threads of everyday life and learned to meet Melvin Taylor now and greet him with a cold little inclination of the head. With a sudden impulse she left the grape vine swing and sought the old apple tree. The illac branches had grown unpruned until their smooth green stems "gutt" hid the cup-like hollow. Adela stood on tiptoe and thrust her little hand into the old letter box. The hollow was empty save for a few dead and crumpled leaves and a gathering of moss. Just as she withdrew her hand her fingers were caught in a warm, strong grasp. With a faint cry of alarm, Adela tried to jerk her hand away, but in vain. "Who is it?" demanded Melvin Taylor's voice from the other side of the hedge. "Release me at once," commanded Adela angrily. "Oh! There was enlightenment in his tone; but the grasp only tightened its hold. Mignot of Augsburg, who made it for the Emperor Rudolph II.—London Graphic. Only Safe Plan. Knicker—Would you prohibit erecting a statue to a man until he had been dead 50 years? Hooker—I'd go further and wait till all the people who had to look at it were dead. German Court Etiquette How All Those Who Wish to Be Presented to Royalty Must Proceed. A woman of position who wishes to appear at the German court must find a friend who will introduce her officially to the Oberhofmeisterin—a sort of feminine lord chamberlain—who is an arbiter of fate with regard to court presentation. This dignitary holds a reception of her own previous to the court, and would-be presentes must attend, as it were on approval. If all goes well the aspirant is in due course bidden to a court reception. Courts at Berlin begin at nine. Full evening dress must be worn, with trains, but no veil or feathers and black gowns are not permitted. At the beginning of the reception the feminine element is carefully "sor."—married women in one room and girls and debutantes in another, and in this latter newcomers "If you have the faintest instincts of a gentleman," began Adelia after a while. "I haven't," returned Mr. Taylor coldly. Adelia leaned against the rugged trunk of the old tree, her white, outstretched arm gleaming against the brown bark. Her eyes were shining like twin stars and her breath came in little gaeps. "What—what do you want?" she found courage to ask after another painful silence. "There was a moment's hesitation and then: "I placed a note in here 15 years ago," he began lamely. "Well?" "I never received a reply," he said gruffly, his hold on her hand tightening cruelly. "You are hurting my hand," she said with a little cry. "You hurt my heart 15 years ago," retorted Melvin stubbornly. After a long silence Adelia's voice came faintly over the hedge. "I, too, placed a note there—15 years ago and—" "And?" queried Mr. Taylor. "I never received a reply to my note." "The—dickens!" Mr. Taylor whistled softly. "I never got it, Adelia! Do you mean to say you never got a note from ... the day after—after we quarreled." "I never received any word from you." Adelia's voice was tremulous now, as she added: "If you will release my hand—" He relaxed his hold reluctantly, and Adelia slipped down in a crumpled heap in the soft turf at the foot of the ample tree. "Go, Adelia," he said gently. It is too late for me to offer you any apology for my long silence; I wrote you a letter, asking your forgiveness and I placed it here in the hollow—I believed you were hard and unforgiving when I did not receive any answer and I grew more angry with you, instead of seeking an explanation. Your little note, as well as mine, was probably taken by some marauding catbird to build his nest in the hedge. I think I shall go away now—I have been such a fool I want to seek the uttermost ends of the earth to try and forget my folly!" His voice regained its bitterness. There was a long silence after that. "I am here, Melvin," said Adelia. "May I come over?" he asked in a strange voice. "Yes," she said softly, but not so softly that his eager ears did not catch the longed-for words. Presently he was beside her, the old boyish smile on his lips, the old lovelight in his eyes, the old happiness in his face. Adelia flushing rosily, leaned for support against the apple tree and her downcast eyes dared not meet his questioning ones. "Will you give me, Adelia?" he asked holdin' out his arms. "If you will forgive me, too," she said sweetly, turning a radiant face up to him. And then she came to him, all her sorrows stilled, all her happiness restored ten-fold because of the pain she had endured. Overhead the April sky was cloudless, underfoot the green grass was stared with dandelions; there in the shade of the beloved old apple tree, Adelia's youth came back to her, with happiness and love and all the old ideals. Ten thousand guineas were given by C. Wertheimer, at the sale of the late Baron Schroeder's collection at Christie's a few days ago, for a sixteenth century biberon of carved rock crystal mounted with enameled gold. It is made in imitation of some fabled monster which its designer may have imagined to be a sea serpent, but the body of which, lost in a series of flutings, resembles more closely that of a water fowl. The crystal neck and body is mounted with enameled gold, and is poised like a wineglass on a crystal stem, also mounted very beautifully in gold and enamel. The lid of the biberon is surmounted by a statuette enamel of Neptune sitting astride a Triton, and in this, as in every other portion of the decoration, the work is of unsurpassable delicacy. It is thought to have come from the hands of Daniel Mignot of Augsburg, who made it for the Emperor Rudolph II—London Graphic. Nickler—Would you prohibit erecting a statue to a man until he had been dead 50 years? Hooker—I'd go further and wait till all the people who had to look at it were dead. out are placed on one side, and on the other those who have already gone through the ordeal. The lady presented has now notified her wish to be invited to some of the court entertainments. A court ball at Berlin is opened with much ceremony. The German emperor and empress enter with their suits, and the ambassadresses stand about the throne in the court circle. Their imperial majesties never dance, but converse with their guests in an amiable manner. By the way, the emperor lays much stress on good dancing, and will allow no one who is not an expert to dance at the palace. A court official sits in a gallery and watches the dancers, and should he detect any errors in either ladies or men he, later on, communicates with the emperor, and the culprit is notified that he or she must become more proficient before being again invited to the palace. High-Priced Biberon. Only Safe Plan. Plowing in Algeria E TOOK our case at our inn, my friend Frampton and The road in front of us led where our boat lay, and left-handed to the creek right-handed to the main part of the village, including the church and station. A hedge, just breaking into green, skirted the road, and over its brim we could see a plowman guiding his team leisurely up and down a broad, flat field. The man in his drab corduroys and the horses, a big brown and a gray, made a picturesque group. They gave one, too, the pleasant sense of restfulness an idler feels in watching other men work. In the fulness of my content I murmured something silly about the dignity of labor, which roused my companion from his comfortable silence to retort: "That's because you've never done any." I looked up to where a small, dark speak was rapidly rising in the windy April sky and flooding the air with joyous melody: "Just listen to that lark singing." I said. "Just listen to that signboard creaking! We shall have it down on our heads," retorted my practical-minded friend; not without reason, for a strong breeze was briskly swinging the old sign to and fro, and the storm of the night before had left dangling by a single rusty hook. "The Plow and Anchor!" I muttered, as I eyed it and warily edged along the bench from under it. "I wonder what came first at the beginning of things, and when the first furrow was turned?" "That will be something for you to think about till I get back," said Frampton benignly. "That chap with the plow somehow takes me back to Algeria." My friend grinned with a good-humored sarcasm. "Most things seem to do that," he said. "But if you want to ruminate on plowing, here's something for a start that takes one to the back of beyond." As he spoke he detached a coin from his watchchain and tossed it to me. Next moment he looked at his watch and rose hastily to his feet. "Jove!" he exclaimed, "it's ten to! I must run for it." And swinging his coat across his shoulder, he picked up his bag and disappeared at a trot round the bend of the road to the station. Frampton was right. Numberless incidents of the most trifling kind suffice to carry my thoughts back to Algeria. Life in the desert, life in the towns, life in the Tell, each had impressed me vividly with its strange and distinctive attraction. In the latter district particularly I had studied the process and progress of farming carried on there in a way I should never have thought of doing at home. There was such a glamour over it all; over even the poverty and recklessness of the fellah and his primitive methods of agriculture. Like farmers all the world over, what he did and what he left undone was the result not of personal initiative, but of faithful adherence to precedent. In spite of the efforts of the French government to introduce innovations and improvements the native cultivators of agrarian land plow, sow and reap as men did when the world was young. To see an Arab steering a yoke of oxen, one hand pressed upon the single stem of the plow and the other holding the long, slim goad, is to see a living illustration of how Elisha looked and moved when Elijah found him plowing and cast his cloak upon him in significant symbolism of his destiny. Only in some such insignificant details as the names of the months in the Kabyle dialect is the stamp of Rome still visible, and in the system of hiring labor in the Tell there survives a custom belonging to the early days of the Roman republic. This is what happens. A farmer finds himself in debt, or he wants a lump sum of money in order to marry and settle down. He forthwith borrows the required amount of a richer neighbor and signs a contract by which he practically enslaves himself until he is able to pay off the loan. His master must provide him with a plow and a pair of oxen, the seed for the crop and the necessities of life. He also receives a fixed allowance of oil, wheat any barley per month, besides a yearly supply of clothes and footwear, the price of them going to increase the original debt. In harvesttime the khamse's, as he is called, is entitled to an assistant, but he often prefers to take a small indemnity and set his wife and children to work instead. Usually he is free to seek employment on his own account from January to April, and then he hires himself out for day labor in the vineyards and olive groves of the French colonists. But in the districts now given up to olive growing the khammes are few, as their wages soon enable them to free themselves; and before long, it may be safely prophesied, the Arab will relinquish this ancient usage in favor of modern European devices for tiding over bad times. Perhaps, too, it is hard to believe, he may be gradually induced to secure himself a richer return for his labor by using tools of modern snake, and in particular by exchanging his picturesque but ineffective wooden plow for the powerful up-to-date ma- shine of steel and iron which the French have brought into Algeria. Three thousand years and more lie between the two, and in the extraordinary slowness of the evolution of the plow and the fundamental identity of its first and latest shapes one recognizes the genius of its inventor. Osiris or Bacchus? Triptolemus or Buzygus was it? We only know that the ground was tilled with a share drawn by oxen in the age when every kindred had a god for an ancestor and the golden myths of Greece were in the making. At this point in my meditations I became aware that I still held Frampton's coin in my closed palm. I took it in my fingers and began to examine it. My little Greek just enabled me to decipher its superscription and gather that it was of the coinage of Siciliana, or early Greek settlers in Sicily, dating from about 600 B.C. On one side it bore an almost obliterated head, of Demeter presumably; on the obverse the figure of a plow drawn by two serpents. With such a plow the sacred line enclosing Greek and Etruscan cities must have been traced, and with such a plow did Romulus draw his circle round Mount Palatine, lifting it from the ground wherever a gate was to be. It differed but slightly from the crooked hoe held by Osiris, or from the hand plow with which Samgar, judge of Israel, fought the enemies of his people, being all of one piece, with pins or plugs inserted in the stem to which the leathern thong of the yoke might be attached. A tree trunk with a bent knee was an obvious necessity, and, as to this day in Algeria, the holm cak seems to have been a favorite for the purpose. Hes led, writing 700 years before the Christian era, advises a husbandman to cut down a tree of a suitable shape wherever he may encounter it and straighten bear it home. C. H. T. WOODBURY. Greece-Pred Indian Names. Minneaha, laughing water—what prettier name, in sound and in sense, could there be? But the saddest thing about American nomenclature is the way in which languages have been cross-bred, with deplorable results. All these Indian "Minnie" names are delightful when left alone; and the white man did well in naming the state of Minnesota after the river, which, being interpreted, is "sky-tinted water." But then he must go and contrive "Minneapolis" for its chief town—a shocking mixture of Indian and Greek. What lovely names they must have missed when they imported their Jacksonvilles to dispossess the red man's language!—London Chronicle. Hymn Books for Gunwads Hymn Books for Gunnad. The 130th anniversary of the battle of Springfield, which was won by the Continental soldiers by reason of the fact that they were able to wad their guns with hymn books, was celebrated at Springfield the other day, by the New Jersey Society, S. A. R., with the dedication of a flagpole in the Revolutionary burying ground. The hymn books were used at the behest of the minister of the old Presbyterian church which still stands. He was the Rev. James Caldwell, and when he saw the tide of battle turning against the Colonists because they could not get wadding for their guns he brought out the books from the church and said: "Give 'em Watts, boys; give 'em Watts." Remarkable Forest Work. In point of variety and scope the forest work done on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina is remarkable. The forests, which cover 130,000 acres, are made profitable by the production of various forms of material. Four million feet of lumber, five thousand cords of tannic acid wood and fuel, one thousand cords of tinn bark, and several hundred cords of pulp wood are cut every year. At the same time the forest through wise management is bettered and is steadily increasing in value. Workmen employed along the boundaries of the forest do duty as fire guards. Thus fire protection is secured throughout all the accessible parts of the tract—Hay, Flour and Feed Journal. Women Made the Fight. Lady Wimbourne, who worked hard and succeeded in seating her son, Maj. Guest, in the house of commons, had an opponent of her own. Lady Allington's husband was also a candidate and the fate of the two men lost importance in the minds of those who witnessed the campaign, so much more important seemed the battle of the women. Both women spoke to the constituency every day and when the votes counted in Lady Wimbourne's son, she and he paraded the streets and the victory was regarded as solely hers. Doesn't Talk Back. "Did you enjoy your travels?" "I certainly did, and the my wife quite fell in love with the Sphinx." "She did?" "Yes, it's such a fine listener." FEAR OF NIGHT IS DISEASE LETTERS OF GREAT Relics of Queen Mary and Catherine de Medici to Be Sold. Notable Original Papers Written by Royal Hands or Bearing on Historic Matters Will Be Put Up at Public Auction. London.—Royal letters and state documents, as well as holograph and autograph letters of various celebrities, ranging in date from 1417 to 1904, will be sold by public auction at Sotho-ry's soon. The collection includes letters from Mary Queen of Scots, as well as from her cousin and rival, Queen Elizabeth, and an important treaty, deciding the future destiny of Mary Queen of Scots, by means of which Mary of Guise, her mother, Cardinal Beaton and Lord Lennox rendered void the English treaty, as also the contract for Mary's projected marriage with the future Edward VI. Twenty-seven years later Mary was in prison at Chatsworth and from there addressed an appeal to her brother-in-law, Charles IX. of France, imploring him to intercede with Elizabeth. This letter is accompanied by Elizabeth's original order for the payment of "the blood money," £100, to Sir John Popham, the crown prosecutor, who conducted the fatal trial at Fotheringay. There is also the only letter remaining in private possession written by Mary I. of England; it is dated 1554 and is a recommendation of Symon Raynard, Charles V.'s ambassador, and the principal negotiator of the Spanish match. Documents relating to the Field of the Cloth of Gold have their place in this collection, including a mandate signed "Francis" and dated September 8, 1520, being "an order to the treasurer and receiver general to pay certain sums for the reimbursement of expenses incurred in the month of June last past during the journey we made to the town of Andres and its neighborhood in the matter of the visit, meeting, and parliament between us and our very dear and good brother and ally, the king of England, and for the feasts, banquets and other similar expenses that we there incurred." The catalogue comprises some rare holograph letters from Catherine de Medici written to her daughter Elizabeth, queen of Spain, between 1500 and 1570. One of them contains the following: "And so my daughter, my dear, commend yourself to God, for you have seen me as happy as yourself, never expecting to have any other sorrow, except that of not being sufficiently loved by the king, your father (Henry II.), who honored me more than I deserved; but I loved him so much that I was always afraid, as you know, that he did not love me enough. And God has taken him from me, and not content with that left me with three little children, and in a strange kingdom, not having a soul English Magistrate Fines Nurse for Leaving Children Alone in Dark Unprotected. London.—Great public interest has been aroused by the case of Kate Bell, a Hampstead nursemaid, who was fined 40 shillings at Marylebone police court for leaving three young children alone in the house while her master and mistress went out for the evening. Her mistress, Mrs. Hearne, returning home unexpectedly at 8:30 p. m., discovered that the nurse and both servants had gone out, leaving the three children, age thirteen months, three years and four years, respectively, entirely unprotected. In fining her the magistrate, Paul Taylor, told the nurse that "her conduct showed a very inadequate consciousness of her duty. She had been guilty of a serious moral delinquency." The house surgeon of a large children's hospital in South London, considered "moral delinquency" much too mild a term. "The callous way in which young children are left alone nowadays," he said, "amounts to positive crime—it occurs; most frequently among the very poor. "The criminality of the proceeding lies in this; that, in nine cases out of ten, leaving children alone means frightening them into submission with all manner of absurd tales. "A very frequent instance of what I mean occurs when a married couple go out for an evening at six o'clock, say, and tell the infant upstairs that a tiger will come from under the bed and eat it if it cries or gets up while they are out. "What that poor mite suffers in its loneliness nasses all description." "As often as not, too, its nerves be come permanently affected, and it suffers in youth from a nervous disease which is now classified as pavor nocturnus—dread of the night. SWORDFISH IN FIERCE FIGHT Had Two Men in Small Boat Thoroughly Whipped When Others Come to Their Rescue. Boston:—John Henry of the fishing schooner, Alice Palmer tells of a fight for life he and his dory mate, Adam Walters, had with a swordfish off the Georges Banks the other day. The fish was sighted in the afternoon and in a short time two harpoons were sticking into his back and he was racing away with the harpoon buoys. Henry and Walters manned a dory and started after the buoys. Infurbid by the pain of the iron barbs, the fish turned on the dory. It drove its powerful sword through one end of the craft and then the other, while the two men leaped back and forth to escape the driving blows. The dory began to fill as the repeated attacks of the fish opened up holes, and it looked as if the fishermen would be left entirely at the mercy of the fish in the water. But a second dory from the schooner swept up and with harpoons settled the fate of the fish and rescued the two in the shaking dory. MONA LISA (La Gloeonda) PARIS.—The government officials still are silent concerning the reported theft from the Louvre of the most famous portrait in the world, Leonard da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." The story that the picture has been stolen and that a copy of it was put in its place receives general credence, in view of similar thefts that have been committed in the Louvre. The painting is said to be now in New York in possession of a wealthy American. In the art world this painting, which sometimes is called "La Gloconda," is considered priceless. The most striking feature of the portrait is the mysterious smile that lurks in the eyes and lips of the subject it took Da Vinci five years to bring out, this peculiar expression, and at the end of that time he declared the work unfinished. The task of painting "Mona Lisa" was difficult and painstaking in the extreme. Da Vinci found that his model, a woman, assumed a peculiar expression only when at ease in a certain posture, and when listening to a certain strain of music. FARMER DIGS UP $32,000 there whom I can trust who has not some special ax to grind." Other letters from Catherine mention the hostility of the Guises after the death of her oldest son, Francis II., husband of Mary Queen of Scots, and the intrigues of Admiral Colligyn, and the attempts of the Duc de Némours to carry off the Duc D'Orléans (afterward Henry III.) and set him up against his brother, Charles IX. There is likewise a mass of Huguenot correspondence. Charles I, Charles II. and James II. of England are well represented in this collection, and among the state documents there is the grant to Canterbury of a mint and assay office made by Edward VI., and signed by "And when the child grows up pavor nocturnus will turn to St. Vitus' dance, or 'habit spasms', or one or other of the serious nervous affections with which the next generation promises to be rife. "Favor nocturnus—the symptoms of which are constant tears and intense nervousness—is an illness we dread here, because it is next to impossible to do anything for a child's other complaints until, by long hours, or even days, of patient coaxing, its nerves are restored. "But if pavor nocturnus gets too firm a hold any cure we can effect is temporary at best, for the child's nervous system has been ruined for life." STEALS $3. RETURNS $300 College Girl, Urged by Remorse, Makes Penance After Years to Friend She Robbed: Chicago. — Whether the ancient Greeks intentionally meant to throw a slight upon the fairer sex by depicting their cynical offspring. Mr. Diogones, as searching for an honest man, is unknown. Should a similar search be instituted at the present time, Miss Rien Tedesch, a former coed of Cincinnati university, now visiting her sister, Mrs. Paul H. Phillipson, of this city, could give valuable assistance. "Long ago," asserts Miss Tedesch, "I suffered the loss of a purse containing three dollars and some change. Years passed and blotted its loss from my mind. Yesterday I received a letter from home saying I was the recipient of $300 from an unknown source. Another letter followed, from which I learn that a farmer college friend was the person who had taken the money years ago. She says that her parents and ancestors were honest Puritans and that remorse has worked havee with her. She hopes that now, by discharging a penance, she will find FARMER DIG Delaware Man Unearths Gold and Silver Coin While Plowing in His Scrubby Field. Laurel, Del.—Ashbury Hammond has dug $22,000 in gold and silver-coin out of a grave on his farm, the other day, and all his neighbors are busy plowing over their own fields in the hope of a similar windfall. The local bank has taken the money and has given Hammond full credit for it, so that there can be no question of the value of the find. Hammond was a scrub farmer whose land barely supported him. This sudden acquisition of fortune came when his plow point struck a brick vault in a sandy hill. He got a pick and opened the vault. As soon as he recovered from the horror of seeing a skeleton there he went inside. A bag of coin lay at the skeleton's head and another at his teeth. One of them contained Spanish and American gold and silver worth $17,000, and sim- him, as well as by Cranmer and Thomas Lord Seymour. There are also two of Cromwell's black letter proclamations, prohibiting horse racing for six and eight months respectively. Owing to their being past up these proclamations were soon destroyed and the two present specimens are consequently almost unique. There are twelve letters written by Mme. de Maintenec and an inventory—the original manuscript—of the effects left by Mme. de Pompadour at her death. There is likewise a manuscript dated 1751 embodying the "Remembrances for Orde and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords, when his Majesty is not there." relief from the purgatories of an evil rattened" 110-YEAR-OLD CATALIA DIES Historic Tree in Pennsylvania Town Falls With Crash After Reaching Ripe Old Age. Bristol, Pa.—Bristol's venerable one-hundred-and-ten-year-old catalpa tree, on the Edward Bruden premises, died of old age and fell the other day, while the family were at dinner. The old ivy which clung fast to the ancient tree was gathered in fragments by hundreds as relics. A peculiar remnant of this old catalpa tree, a gigantic stump, was over twenty-five feet high, and when viewed from one standpoint looked like an elephant standing on its hind legs. The "old elephant tree," as they call it, has a history that runs back before the Bruden advent, to the days when the descendants of Samuel Launders, an English tory flourished in its shade. It measured just above the ground 21½ feet in circumference and near the top of the stump 16 feet. GEM FIELDS PROVE WEALTHY Germans Discover They Have Bonanza in Southwest Africa—Government Gets Half. Berlin.-Since the resignation of Colonial Secretary Denbring, one line of his policy has been justified by remarkable statistics published concerning the diamond fields of Luderitz Bay in German Southwest Africa. In the current year diamond worth $5,000,000 have been turned out, and half of that, according to the contract framed by Herr Derrnberg, goes to the government of the colony. All told, those German diamond fields are proving far more valuable than was expected. At first the entire value of the fields was set down at $50,000,000, but now one claim alone has been proved to be worth more than that. S UP $32,000 liar contents in the other were worth $15,000. The coin looked new, al- though the latest date on any of it was 1821. Prays Over Horse Deal Minneapolis, Minn.—That he try his hand at horse trading is the latest request made of Maj. Arthur Cass of the Salvation Army Industrial home. He has had marked success as matri- monial agent in the two years he has been in charge, but has never made a horse trade. As the request comes from a middle age unmarried woman in the country he said he would pray over it and try his luck during the week. Tea Service Brings $1,250 London.—An old Worcester china mug, painted with exotic birds and insects, was sold for $500, and a complete tea service similarly decorated realized $1,250. Open All Night JOSHUA N. ANDERSON, Prop'r SEE UNCLE JOSH AT THE TUSKEGEE Quick Lunch Room 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. ELLIS CAFE Welcome to the Elks OUR FOOD IS O' THE BEST. Police and Prompt service our motto Prices Reasonable No. 729 49th St., N. W. WHERE TO DINE ATLANTIC CITY The Bay State Hotel HARDY & OTTERY, Props. 334 N. TENNESSEE AVE., Atlantic City, N. J. European Plan. Concert Garden Special Rates to Parties Taking Apartments. BONNIE A WISE DOG INTUITION TELLS HER MAN WANTED TO WASH HER. Exciting Day's Work Provided for Man by Wife and Setter—After the Bath Bonnie Seeks the Ash Heap. "What are you going to do, dear?" the lady asked. The man was emerging from the bath room with a towel and a cake of soap. "I'm going to wash the dog," said the man sturdily. The lady peered at him keenly. "Not with my soap!" she said. "The idea of such a thing. With my gilded rose soap!" "Well, hang it," observed the man; "gimme some soap. This was all there was in the bath room." "And one of my best towels—a new one!" cried the lady despairingly. The man threw the towel and soap far from him. "Heaven's and earth!" he said; "this is a fuss over nothing, sure. Gimme some soap and a rag—a blanket—any old thing that you can dry a setter dog with." When these things had been brought him—or to be exact, a piece nernel yellow kitchen soap and a torn shirt, man went into the back yard, rolling merrily: "Here Bonnie! Here Bonnie!" But Bonnie was wise. Some under-the-skin intuition told her that the man desired to wash her, and she prudently crawled under the house. This made the man indignant. "Come out o' there!" he yelled. Then he crawled under and emerged backward, grating his teeth and rubbing his spine, like the teeth of a saw, upon the floor beams. In one hand he held the elastic skin of the dog's neck and the dog fought bitterly each step of the way. Once outside the man tied a rope about the neck of the dog and procured a washtub. It was the one the washerwoman used on Mondays, but was just as good as any for his purposes. He dragged Bonnie to this tub and thrust her forefeet in it, while her hind feet struggled frantically outside. When he got the hind feet in the forefeet were pawing the dirt outside desperately. But Bonnie was at last wet and soaped. Then the man stepped back to throw a bucket of water over her; but Bonnie shook herself briskly and in misery and a shower bath of soapy water deluged the man. "Blame the dog!" he said, rubbing his eyes with hands that smelled of yellow soap and had dog hairs on them. But Bonnie, refreshed and joyous, preferred the ash heap on which a stovepipe had been newly beaten. "Do you mean to tell me," said the lady later, "that you washed that dog?" "Sure I did," said the man, growing red; "that's clean dirt. It'll shake off soon as it gets dry." Relying on Heredity. Fred Latham, Mr. Dillingnam's stage manager, had inspected a hundred applicants for positions in the Dillingham choruses. From them he had selected a dozen eligibles for final consideration. They stood in line. "What is your name?" demanded Latham of the first one. "Schumann-Heink," was the reply, as a good-looking youngster brought himself to the position of attention with a click of the heels. "Any relation to Madame Schumann-Heink?" "Yes, sir; son," replied the young man proudly. "That's enough," said Latham, and Hans. Schumann-Heink was enrolled to support Elsie Janis in "The Slim Princess." In Humanity's Concert. The one thing you have to do is to make a clear voiced little instrument of yourself, which other people can depend upon entirely for the note wanted—Ruskin. Rabbit furs have doubled in value within the last few years, while some skins have advanced 500 ppr cent. ```markdown ``` Uncle Sam Asks All to Swat the Fly 'Gators and Insects Hunt New Home No Corsets are Worn at West Point Dentists Believe They Have a Kick A NEW YORK—The whole United States government, with its vast treasury of wealth, its brainy statesmen and insurgents, its army and navy, its immense horde of high-brows, against the poor little house fly! That's the line-up in a bitter war of extermination scheduled to set the nation by the ears and enlist the courageous support of every man, woman and child in this broad land. The final knell of the house fly has been sounded and the battle has just begun. "Catch 'em and kill 'em; show no quarter"—that is the war cry of the army of extermination that is to put forth every effort to rid the land of the Musca Domestica, the polite name by which the house fly should be addressed by strangers. Until the scientists got busy with their investigations the house fly was considered merely as a pestiferous insect, designed by the Creator of all things merely to take its bath in the sweet cream and maple shrimp, annoy the late morning sleeper, skate about with abandon on the pollished surface of shiny baldheads and practise the Morse telegraph code on the cleanest of windows. Long suffering housewives since time began were the only really active enemies of the seemingly insignificant little fly, and they alone and unaided applied the imprecations and dish cloths vigorously against the nuisance. But after the scientists got onto the job the fight against the insect began to assume proportions of magnitude. That little insect which the average citizen was wont to regard merely as a domestic pest is now branded as the most dangerous creature on earth. The house fly has been publicly indicted as a murderer of the human race, the NEW ORLEANS.—More than 1,000,000 acres of marsh land lying within miles of New Orleans are to be drained, reclaimed—and transformed from a wilderness into gardens, homes, lamlets and towns. The work of reclaiming some 50,000 acres within the corporate limits of New Orleans is now well under way, while contracts have been let for the reclamation of fully 100,000 acres additional in adopting parishes. This means that within two years the alligator will no longer find aboriginal harborage in the Carnival city, that the breeding grounds of countless billions of mosquitoes will be turned into highly productive farms on which mosquitoes cannot breed, that hundreds of miles of paved roadways will lead from New Orleans north, east and west, and that for the first time in its history New Orleans will possess suburbs. To the westward the same character of work is being done, and prepara- WASHINGTON.—"I have often heard a question as to whether West Pointers wore corsets. It is absurd in a way, because should any effeminate youngster resort to such a thing it would be impossible to keep the affair a secret, and once known his school life would become a burden to him on account of the endless amount of criticism he would receive from his fellows. He would be made the laughing-stock of the school and would soon find himself the possessor of any number of effeminate nicknames that would grate upon his ears in any but a pleasant manner. "It is true," continued the old soldier, who was no other than Col. K. B. Collins, a retired army officer, in a TREATH YANKED WHILE YOU WAIT CASH IN ADVANCE CHICAGO,—"Well, I don't know what under the shining forceps I am going to do, anyway," and a dentist in the Masonic temple sighed a perfect mammoth of a sigh. "The matter? Hair, just plain hair. No-not plain, either. Now, for instance. A lady came up to my office the other day and wanted her teeth fixed, and finally I took hold of the top of her head with one hand, while I worked with the other. Then I turned away to get an instrument, and my sleeve button caught in her hair and the whole back of it, about fifteen fat, shiny curls, came along with me. She simply froze me up, and she didn't come back to pay her The Colored Business Men's Social Club No. 1, INC. Will Give Their Annual Family Excursion. To Leonardstown As this is the only Excursion that will land at Leonardtown this Summer, (resulting from the energetic efforts of a special committee appointed and sent to Leonardtown, who received permission to land, and also to use the hall,) we cordially invite our many friends to attend. Music by the Monumental Orchestra, Prof. Hamitcn, Director Boat leaves Seventh Street Wharf at 8 3) a. m., returning in time for cars. Fare Round Trip. 50 Cents 7th and T PHONE NORTH The Theatre For Grand Opening Mono "PERFECTED VA Prices 15-2 Coming Sept. 5th. - Coming Sept. 5th. - - "The Smart Set." 639 F Street, Northwest, LOC Best Work and Workmanship One third deposit requ Blue Mouse 26th and M Largest, Handsome Theatre in Town. Good Vaudeville and A Cordial Welcome Exte H. C. S IN SOCIETY' 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. Mr. James O. Bampfield, secretary general of the Masons, of 1633 11th street, N. W., will leave the city on Friday of this week for Detroit, Mich., to attend the Grand Session of the Masons, which will convene in that city next week. After leaving Detroit, he will visit New York city, Philadelphia and other points. Mr. Carter, of 600 F street, N. W., has returned from a short stay in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Charles H. Douglas, of this city, is visiting relatives and friends in Brockport and Rochester, N. Y. Rev, Dr. P. A. Scott, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., preached at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Sunday evening. Rev. Scott delivered a discourse which was eloquent as well as divine. Rev. Dr. I. N. Ross, pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, Mr. Patton, delegate, and several others left Wednesday morning to attend the District Conference of the Potomac District to convene in Camprole, Md., Wednesday, August 17. The stereoptician lecture on the Life of St. Paul, given at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Tuesday evening was a signal success. The first half of the lecture was delivered by Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the Church Extension Department, and the other half was delivered by Miss Martha Ross, of Cin- Athletics as an Athletics as an Aid to Trade By George Jean Nathan. N alliance of athletics and con- through the keenness induce- mer, is being consummated and corporations today. One of the best example to increase the working val- that of a large life-insurance- been equipped with a complete gymnas- athletic instructor has been retained, and been mapped out for employees, both r occupies the eleventh floor, and here, d after business hours, and on specified employees are given physical training. special instructress on Wednesdays. Th during the winter months. In spring moved up to the root. "You-will find, too," says the instru- following the lack of gymnasium work f give nearly the impression of alertness days." The instructor keeps his eyes clerks not only during gymnasium nours, department's throughout the day. Thus vitality and to suggest to the employee heads of the departments declare that the the officials has succeeded in doubling of workers under their immediate charge N alliance of athletics and commerce, in which the latter profits through the keenness induced and energy infused by the former, is being consummated in many American business firms and corporations today. One of the best examples of how athletics has been made to increase the working value of a business establishment is that of a large life-insurance company. The office building has been equipped with a complete gymnasium and shower-baths, a competent athletic instructor has been retained, and a schedule of athletic work has been mapped out for employees, both male and female. The gymnasium occupies the eleventh floor, and here, during the luncheon hour, directly after business hours, and on specified evenings during the week, the employees are given physical training. The women are provided with a special instructress on Wednesdays. They are organized basketball teams during the winter months. In spring and summer the gymnasium is moved up to the roof. "You will find, too," says the instructor, "that on Thursdays, the day following the lack of gymnasium work for the men, the employees do not give nearly the impression of alertness that they evidence on the other days." The instructor keeps his eyes on the physical condition of the clerks not only during gymnasium hours, but also during his rounds of the department's throughout the day. Thus he is enabled to notice sagging vitality and to suggest to the employees so affected the remedy. The heads of the departments declare that the athletic movement perfected by the officials has succeeded in doubling the efficiency of the different staffs of workers under their immediate charge—Harper's Weekly. The minister was spending the afternoon at the home of one of his members. The father told his little son to bring some apples from the cellar. The child obeyed, and in the kitchen found an especially large red one which had been brought up the day before, so placed it on the dish with the others. When they were passed this was the apple the minister took, and feeling it so warm, remarked to his host that the cellar must be very warm. greatest disease propagator and the carrier *a* more menacing and malignant gerns than all other creatures put together. This little, but potent, messenger of death wanders from the slick room, from the filth of the garbage pail, from the heaps of refuse of all kinds into the peaceful, happq homes of our land, walks upon the butter, the meat, the fruit, the sugar, takes a bath in the milk, leaving everywhere the germs of disease that have gathered upon its furry feet and body. In experiments conducted by the New York health authorities the scientists found on the body of a single little fly 1,222,570 different bacteria, enough to kill a few thousand human beings. In another experiment a fly was caught in a sterilized not and dropped into a bottle of sterilized water. The bottle was shaken and the germs washed off the insect's body, as would be the case if the fly dropped into a glass of milk for the baby. The previously pure water was then examined and it was discovered that the fly's bath contained no less than 5,000,000 disease germs. About half the deaths from typhoid in New York, according to the health authorities, are attributed directly to the distribution of germs by house files. And worse than that, the figures show that of 7,000 deaths of cooling babies in that city from infantile diseases, more than 5,000 were traced to infection carried by house files. According to a noted scientist the extermination of the post is comparatively easy. All that is necessary, he says, is a systematic effort on the part of the public. If all the people will practise the utmost cleanliness, it is declared, the house fly will be extinct in this country within a few years, for the house fly cannot exist without flith. "Cleanliness," then, is the watchword for the American public to put an end to an insect that is not only a terrible nuisance, but a terrible instrument of death to thousands of our population every year. tions are now being made to reclaim an additional half million acres through the construction of a wide levee along the western shore of Lake Pontchattrain and the southern shore of Lake Maurepas. On the crown of this levee a paved roadway 75 miles in length will connect New Orleans and Baton Rouge and ultimately will be the southern terminus of a Chicago-New Orleans highway. The nearest town or settlement of any consequence is now 50 miles distant from New Orleans. Within fifty miles of every large city in the country a million or more people reside, and many industries develop business and wealth for the urban population. This is the end New Orleans is working to and will have reached, in large part, anyway, by the time the Panama canal is opened to the ships of the world. Meanwhile modern sewerage and drainage within the city proper have practically and wholly solved the city's sanitary problems, and the discovery of a simple method of filtering the waters of the Mississippi river has given the city a pure water service excelled by none in the world. These systems are in operation and are nearly complete. They have cost the city about $25,000,000. discussion of West Pointers, "that many West Pointers acquire a figure of perfection of symmetry and a carriage the acme of manly grace, but these are due not to any ingenious appliances, but to the systematic drills and exercises that make the cadet, to a certain extent, an athlete. At the outset these young fellows are put through what are called the 'setting up' exercises, their object being to straighten the body and develop the chest. One might suppose that it would require a great amount of such exercise to make any marked showing, but three long hours of such exercise daily will soon produce beneficial results in the most stooped forms. "The cadet uniform is also a great help in this direction. The dress coat is tight, very tight. The shoulders are heavily padded in order to give them a square effect. The chest is made thick, so that there will be no danger of wrinkling. All this for the sake of looks; comfort has no place in the make-up of a West Pointer; it is discipline and looks." bill, either. Say, this new fangled hair style is putting me to the bad. "The worst feature of the whole thing is that the heads, or rather the hair, won't fit into the headrests. I have tried all manner of schemes, and even had a new headrest built along lines that I was sure would fit, but the heads simply won't fit into anything. "If we do succeed in getting the mass laid out and tucked away carefully where it won't bother us, we get something like this: "Oh, mercy, doctor, you are muzzling my hair all up. And I am going to a party this afternoon, too." "But the most usual thing is: 'Oh, doctor, there is a hairpin sticking in my head. Wait a minute. O, dear, it's coming down. Doctor, do stop a minute while I fasten up my braid." "I do tell you what, the dentists ought to get together and boycott the present style of hairdress, or else insist that all extra hair be taken off before any dental work will be done. That would settle it. all right." The Howard. 7th and T Streets PHONE NORTH 762 The Theatre For the People and Opening Monday, August "PERFECTED VAUDEVILLE." Prices 15-25-50c Sept. 5th. - "The Sn The Theatre For the People. Grand Opening Monday, August 22nd. "PERFECTED VAUDEVILLE." Prices 15-25-50c THE CHASE ART COMPANY High Grade Portraits and Pillow Tops, Novelties and Chemicals All Goods Made and Sold Ly Us Are Gauranteed Met, Northwest, Loom 21, Washington Best Work and Workmanship At Lowest Prices. A third deposit required on all or Blue Mouse Theatre 5th and M Sts. N. W. West, Handsomest and C tre in Town. : : : : Vaudeville and Motion H ordial Welcome Extended To Visi H. C. Smith, Ma SOCIETY'S REAL Best Work and Workmanship At Lowest Prices. One third deposit required on all orders IN SOCIETY'S REALM. (Conducted by Miss Mary Curtis.) etics as an Aid to alliance of athletics and commerce, in which the through the keenness induced and energy infusion, is being consummated in many American and corporations today. One of the best examples of how athletics increase the working value of a business event of a large life-insurance company. The office with a complete gymnasium and shower-bathctor has been retained, and a schedule of athletics out for employees, both male and female. The eleventh floor, and here, during the luncheon hours, and on specified evenings during the given physical training. The women are putress on Wednesday. They are organized by winter months. In spring and summer the roof. Find, too," says the instructor, "that on Thursday lack of gymnasium work for the men, the can the impression of alertness that they evidence instructor keeps his eyes on the physical activity during gymnasium nours, but also during life throughout the day. Thus he is enabled to so suggest to the employees so affected the departments declare that the athletic movement as succeeded in doubling the efficiency of the order their immediate charge—Harper's Weekly. N alliance of athletics and commerce, in which the latter profits through the keenness induced and energy infused by the former, is being consummated in many American business firms and corporations today. One of the best examples of how athletics has been made to increase the working value of a business establishment is that of a large life-insurance company. The office building has --- Unexpected Truth: ```markdown ``` T Streets NORTH 762 For the People. Sunday, August 22nd. VAUDEVILLE." 5-25-50c - "The Smart Set." Loom 21, Washington, D. C. Insignia At Lowest Prices. Required on all orders Se Theatre I Sts. N. W. Harest and Coolest and Motion Pictures. Extended To Visitors. Smith, Manager. Y'S REALM. cinnati, Ohio. The lecture was very practical and interesting, made more so by the interspersion of music. Mr. John P. Rhines, a successful attorney of Nashville, Tenn., and father of Mr. John T. Rhines, of this city, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. James L. Neill, of 904 T street, N. W. Miss Emma J. Terry, a teacher of Nashville, Tenn., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. James L. Neill, of 904 T street, N. W. Mr. Campbell, a tonsorial artist of Montgomery, Ala., paid a short visit to Attorney and Mrs. J. Louis Taylor, en route to the Business League Convention, which convened in New York city. Mr. H. B. Huchus, of Petersburg, Va., was the guest of Mr. S. W. Rutherford, a few days this week, while en route to New York city. Drs. R. F. Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn.; A. M. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala.; John B. Hall, of Boston, Mass., and Emmett J. Scott, Esq., will be the guests of Dr. A. M. Curtis, of 13th street, N. W., during the N. M. A., which convenes in this city next week. On Wednesday evening, August the 10th, Professor John T. Layton was elected, with a large audience, at the Metropolitan Church of the Electoral College, which convenes in Baltimore, Md., September 7, to elect the lay delegates to the General Conference in 1912. Aid to Trade commerce, in which the latter profits inced and energy infused by the for- ward in many American business firms triples of how athletics has been made value of a business establishment is once company. The office building has hospital and shower-baths, a competent and a schedule of athletic work has with male and female. The gymnasium during the luncheon hour, directly and evenings during the week, the em- ployees are provided with a they are organized basketball teams ing and summer the gymnasium is instructor, "that on Thursdays, the day kick for the men, the employees do not meet that they evidence on the other eyes on the physical condition of the hours, but also during his rounds of the thus he is enabled to notice sagging eyes so affected the remedy. The at the athletic movement perfected by the efficiency of the different staffs merge—Harper's Weekly. "Did you not bring these apples from the cellar, Ned?" "Yes, father, all but that one pastor has; it was in the kitchen." "Why did you not tell me?" asked the pastor. "Well," with childish frankness. "I didn't think you would take the biggest one on the dish!"—Delineator. Of all places of importance Sydney, New South Wales is farthest from London as the crow flies—10,420 miles. 609 F St. N. W. Room 203 Sylvester L. McLaurin Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 609 F ST., N. W. First Fleer WISE LITTLE WILLIE HAD ONLY ONE REQUEST, BUT THAT WAS IMPORTANT. Well Aware of the Privileges of Prisoners About to Be Sentenced, Culprit Established Good Hard Sense. "It is my duty to teach you a severe lesson," said Horatio Poppenham, when Willie Poppenham got home, after playing.hookey all"afternoon. "Now, I want you thoroughly to understand the situation. Don't imagine that I am punishing you because it will give any satisfaction to me personally. And I want you to realize thoroughly that I am not doing this in anger. I do it simply as a duty. It is very often necessary for judges in the courts to sentence men to undergo punishment, and the sheriffs and jailers and wardens have to inflict this punishment. "Do you suppose the judge gets any personal satisfaction out of it when he sentences a man to be hang or to undergo imprisonment? Not at all. Very often the judge's heart is almost broken because it is his duty to impose such sentences. And so it is with the men who have to inflict the punishment. They do not administer it in anger. I suppose they would in most cases prefer to let the offender go free, if they could, just as I would much prefer to let you off now, if I had only my own feelings to consult. "But there are duties which officers of the law owe to society, and so they are compelled, when a man does wrong, to see that he is properly punished. If people could do wrong without being compelled to suffer for it many of them would be doing wrong all the time, thus not only injuring others, but also injuring themselves. It is the same in your case. If I permitted you to go unpunished I should be doing you a wrong, and I should also be wronging the rest of the family. If you were allowed to do such things as you have done, and suffer no chastisement, you would soon go from bad to worse, breaking your mother's heart, robbing me of happiness and spoiling your own chances for the future. "You see, the family represents society, on a small scale, and the family, like society, must have its sacred laws. When these laws are broken—the laws of the family—it is just as important that the one who breaks them shall be punished as it is important that the criminal who breaks the laws which society has made for itself shall be punished. In a small way you represent the prisoner who has been found guilty by the jury, while I. occupying the position of judge, am compelled to pronounce sentence upon you, and—" "Say, father, in court the prisoner is always asked if he has anything to say before the judge sentences him, isn't he?" "Yes. And I am going to extend that privilege to you. What have you to say?" "Please let mother be the sheriff." Miraculous Surgery. The successful "sewing up" of human hearts is getting to be something of a commonplace nowadays. A Philadelphia doctor took five stitches in a wounded heart (cut out by a dagger) and the man is said to be on the road to recovery. It was the second heart operation of this surgeon within a month or two. His previous patient got well. There are now on record somewhere near a hundred cases of surgical operations upon the human heart, and the death rate, considering the extreme gravity of the operation, is surprisingly low. When it is remembered that the heart is practically in constant motion, that its complete stoppage means immediate death, and that the delicate surgical manipulations necessary to repairing its wounds have to be performed upon a throbbing and more or less inaccessible piece of tissue, the manual skill and coolness demanded of the heart surgeon will be better appreciated. Oregon Man'a Insect Catcher. In the country all sorts of homely devices are used to catch the bugs and kill them, and an Oregon man, who probably had his apple orchard overrun by some destructive species, patented a trap for the pests. A barrel has pieces cut out of the upper portion and is half filled with rotten or bruised apples or some other odoriferous fruit. On top of the barrel is placed a pan partially filled with water, oil or some polysolon liquid. From the apex of a tripod that keeps the basin from falling off the barrel hangs a lantern. In the daytime the insects will be attracted by the odor of the fruit, and in flying up to feast many of them are likely to fly into the water. At night the lantern is lighted and bugs will come from afar to futter against it and their death in the liquid below—Chicago Tribune. For Ladies and Gentlemen Newspapers, Periodicals and Magazines Imported and Domestic Cigars. 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, Kaleomining Window Shades To Order Prompt Attention All Work Guaranteed 1400 Pierce Place, Northwest Phone North 4048 Silias Johnson New Pool and Billiard Parlor 1721 1-2 Seventh Street, N. W. In Brittany Matrimonial Candidates Are Herded Together and Married in a Bunch. Over in France they have a way of getting rid of all the undesirable features which in the United States go with getting married. They have the scheme in operation in Brittany. In Brittany they do away with the best man and bridesmaids and ushers and other such impedimenta strewn in the path of the American celebrants of the matrimonial ceremony. Even the dressmaker and the milliner and the florist are given the laugh. Their goods aren't needed. The caterer is the only tradesman who profits. About the middle of January every year there is a general round up of all the men and women who have been engaged within the twelve-month. They are herded together in one place, and on the appointed morning along comes the priest and marries them in a bunch. No fuss, no feathers, no "Lobengrill" or Robin Hood stuff, no ushers or bridesmaids to carry away your stickpins and your brooches. And everyone wears the national costume, simple in construction though gaudy. There were 27 couples married at Plougastel January 11, 54 people, 54 count them. Among the 54 were only four names. Everyone married was a Legall, a Jesuquel, a Thomas or a Kazeneuff. Fifteen of the brides were named Marle and three were named Marle Legall. The caterer got his rake off from the barbecue which followed the ceremony. He served 27 sheep, and six cows at the wedding breakfast. "Science" Becoming a Nuisance. "Science" Becoming a Nuisance. Steadily medical science is closing all avenues of safety. Time was when man might do pretty much as he pleased and live. Now whatever he may do is deadly. The Chicago health department has just issued a warning against country springs; in the peluclid water of these sparks death lurks in all of its hideous forms. Also to quaff a cooling from the "Old Oak Bucket" is dangerous. What to drink was long a matter of price rather than choice. But now it is a matter of neither choice nor price. The millionaire as well as the paaper confronts death whenever he drinks or eats. It is unkind of "science" to point out so many dangers and not to indicate any paths of safety that the ordinary person will be content to travel. Perhaps the most comfortable thing, if not the safest, to do, is to take a chance now and then and refuse to be alarmed. Trusting these few lines, etc. Women in the Wrong Place Women in the Wrong Place The anomaly of this island, the center of the British empire, crowded to overblowing, while millions of acres of the richest land in fine climates he undeveloped, has at last struck the national imagination. We cannot open a paper without seeing articles about the wheat fields of Canada, the fruit farms of British Columbia or Rhodesia, the offers of work for British men and women in Australia, New Zealand, and last but not least, South Africa. But in large movements of every kind it is exceedingly difficult to preserve the regular, even progression of parts. Some portions of the mass will always move slower, others faster, than the rest, thereby causing a distortion and dislocation of the whole. That section of the community known as the better-class woman has lagged behind the rest, and by her scarcity in the one place and her superfutility in the other is creating a danger to society—London Times. A Word of Advice From Oregon. A due financial appreciation of a minister's services does not in the least affect the Christianity of the leader of a flock. A well fed and well groomed minister speaks well for a church.—Woodburn Independent. Avoid Suspicion. "When you're walking through your neighbor's melon patch, don't tie your shoe."—Atlantic Monthly. In a State of Partial Employment. Women write all their articles on how to manage husbands before they get any.—Quincy (Ill.) Herald.