The National Forum

THE NATIONAL FORUM The main difference between civilized man and the savage is-savages don't read. VOL. I. NO. 18. VANIT CONDUCTED BY The main difference between savage is—sav OPENING OF HOWARD THEATRE. Less than a year ago this project had its beginning and last Monday saw the Howard Theatre finished and ready for the audience. This is the neatest, best equipped and furnished house in this city and will rank first among the theatres of its kind in the entire country. Its dimensions are, width 80 feet, depth 126 feet, with a stage 28 by about 58 feet, being 32 feet before the footlights. There are eight proscenium boxes, four on each side, and the stage is surrounded by the adjoining of the adjoining forms an orchestra circle that is very graceful and pleasing; and the dip of the same arch gives a pleasing contour to the parquet. The balcony is the most artistically proportioned of any I have viewed. The entire house is most carefully designed and constructed and elegantly furnished, though one might say the mural decorations and the frescoes are a trifle gaudy. The seats are wide, comfortable and pleasant, well-proportioned and with plenty of room space between and in front of them, so that the tall and the fat may sit in comfort and persons may pass in comfort for about 1,250 persons, with comfortable standing room for about 300 more. Henry L. Maas, of Baltimore, the builder, says he has built four theatres in the last eighteen months, and this is the prettiest and best of the bot. Mr Maas built one theatre in this city during the time mentioned, and it does not compare with the Howard for beauty and equipment, or in design and proportion. Mr W. S. Saunders, put in the scenery and stage settings, said this is as fine, as any theatre in the country. The stage is thoroughly equipped with every modern device for safety and utility. It is all brick, brick and cement, the other is glass. It is all fifty feet, all fifty feet, and all curtains and scenery are fire-proof. The curtains and scenery are painted by Mr. Walter Slimmer. The owners, Rosenthal and Benedict, are white men. The audience which gathered Monday night was characteristically Washingtonian. The varied elements of our social life flowed into one pleasing, harmonious gathering. Every seat was sold long in advance and when the orchestra struck up the overture, the house was full, and "Standing Room Only" was hung out. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lancaster, a white team opened the house with a banjo and black-face act. They were only ordinary. The next act, "I was a woman," was agreed to succeed of welcome, saying: "I am glad to see that there is at last a theatre where all men and all women may come without fear of humiliation or discrimination." The judge exited amidst applause, only to return, saying he had been chosen ringmaster, and introduced Hon. Harry Cummings, of Baltimore, who congratulated us, and said we should congratulate Baltime. (We do Harry, we congratulate her on your account.) Then Hon. Ralph Teller delighted with wit and wisdom. The management were lucky in "booking" Mr. Tyer. The regular show then proceeded, and Johnson three old-time inmates, with lot of very old-time jokes. The Sisters took place of Rice Brothers, and it gave us some very clever clog dancing. We needed Miss Etta Niner to really waken us, and she did it, assisted by Mr. Frank J. Clermont, who seemed to suffered from a cold and something else. Miss Abbie Mitchell was the big act. She has improved, broadened, developed; her fine voice is mellower and richer and she has gained surety and poise. She seemed a bit hoarse in her first song, but it all appeared, and "Cousin Caruso" and Manny's Lasse Candy Chule" were finally given. She also rehearsed her song "Red, Red Rose" bunched of roses some admirer had sent. The Pekin Trio were good, especially the "cello solo, by Mr. Sam Arnold. E. F. Warren Hatch & Co. were very clever in an old comedy renamed "Miss Cupid." The Five Largards are good acrobats. The orchestra was very inadequate, both as to number and arrangement of the instruments. JIM CROW DEMOCRATS Primary time is near. Are we going in and help nominate good, clean men, or shall we wait and the shouting and complaining. The watchword is "Progress," brother, and many of the old-time good thing politicians are doing the wise thing and retiring. The people, that is, the Republican people, are determined to rule and rule right. There are a number of colored voters who are leaning toward democracy. The majority of these are Democrats for revenue only. The others are good men, short sighted and misled. Now, Mr. Taft does things I do not like, particularly, his era of peace stuff regarding the South, his giving Democrats good offices that Republicans should have, but I can't see where Mr. Bryan looks like "belief." The Democratic party is dead, the Solid South is its unburied remains, and it is ratten. Washington, D. C., Aug. 23, 1910. Mr. John H. Wills. I see in an article published in last week's issue, reporting me as saving that all matters were settled and that every member of both lodges is satisfied with the results of the joint session, and I was surprised that Dr. Mills should prove so narrow, and do not think many Elks will be guided by him in this affair. I wish to enter a denial of such a statement to anyone, as you know the only statement I made was pertaining to the jewel and the masterly manner in which your paper gave the account of the convention. Very respectfully. CHAS, D. FREEMAN. FASHIONS IN TOOTHPICKS. We are pleased to report that it is no longer considered en regle, comme il fait, fashionable, or the proper thing to go forth into the wide, wide world with a toothpick out of your face. For many years there has been a goodly number of estimable male and female persons habitually pervading public places thus ornamented. After a long and hard fight by a little band of mighty men of war, public opinion has been brought to the point where it is now a common practice. Now the most up-to-date etiquette demands that the tooth pick be used unseen and then relegated to dim obscurity. "IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE." There are $75,000,000 spent yearly in the United States for advertisement, leaving out publicity and all forms of indirect advertising. The question is not, "Shall I advertise?" but "How can I advertise properly?" How much of that 75 millions do you spend, Mr. Business Man, and how do you spend it? I will be glad to talk advertising to any one interested. I am familiar with the best methods and know how results can be reached. JOHN H. WILLS NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. (By C. L. BARNES.) The convention of the National Medical Association was opened by the president, Marcus F. Wheatland, in the chapel of Howard University, Tuesday, August 23rd, at 10 a.m. After prayers, by Rev. D. E. Wisman, the president welcomed the delegates and friends to the twelfth annual convention of the association. The morning session was taken up with the reports of officers of the association. An appeal was made to the delegates and friends present to contribute funds to liquidate the indebtedness of the Journal, published by the association. A general expense was made to the extent of one hundred dollars. The affirmer session was taken up with the reading of the reports by the business manager of the Journal, Dr. C. V. Roman, and reports of the State and local presidents of the association. In the evening a public meeting held in the 19th Street Baptist Church. It was called to order at 8 o'clock by the Presiding Officer, W. S. Lofton, D. D. S., Chairman of the Local Committee. Invocation Rev. Walter H. Brooks Solo Selected Miss. Susan Walker Miss Charlotte Wallace. Address of Welcome by the Secretary of the Board of Commissioners on behalf of the District Government. William Tindell, LL.D, M. D. Violin Solo. (a) "a wild rose". . . Mac Dowell (b) Hungarian Dance. . . Grahms m. Clarence G. White. Address on behalf of Local Committee: M. O. D., Dumps, M. D. Address on behalf of Citizens of Washington, D. C. Judge R. H. Terrell, A. M., LL.D. Chairman of the Citizens Committee. Solo ..... Selected Miss Lola Johnson. Response on behalf of the National Medical Association: J. E. Hunter, M. D., Lexington, Ky. Dr. C. Summer Wormley. Solo ..... Selected Benediction ..... Rev. D. E. Wiseman Informal Smoker. The smoker given by the Mu-So-Lit Club to the N. M. A. was a desired success. It was planned on the unique order of the Gridiron program, and was a wide departure from the trite and well-worn customs employed to conduct like affairs. The affair was held in the Arue Reformers' Hall, Tuesday, August 23, and goes down as a splendid feature of the week's entertainments. The reception at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church was an affair to be long remembered. The speeches of Judge Torrell and Dr. Tindall were especially apt and appropriate response did himself honor. Dr. Hunter, of Lexington, also came in for a share of praise by way of responding to the address of welcome. The lawn fete given on Howard University Campus was well attended and was a pleasing affair because of its departure from the general routine of this class of entertainments. Thursday night was the occasion of the ball in the Convention Hall, and it was well attended. The splendid array of attire and the general air of culture designate the calibre of the meket of the occasion, and was well in keeping with the general impression made throughout the whole proceedings. Friday's trip down the river to Washington Park was the crowning feature of the time and was enjoyed by all. It is strictly a celebration and enjoyed because of the fact, each delegate and every member of the committee felt that his laborers were at an end and he was at liberty to feel ad libitum. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Hon. C. First Johnson, a successful lawyer of Mobile, Ala., and Mr. Elliott Peters, Private Secretary to Mr. Johnson, en route home from the Business Men's League, will spend Saturday, Sunday and Monday, August the 27th, 28th and 29th at the home of Attorney W. L. Houston, Grand Master of the United Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. W. A. Anderson, the leading merchant of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, was in the city last Sunday. Miss Fuller, of Cineinnatti, Ohio, is spending the week in the city visiting friends and sightseeing. The Census Club gave an "Acquaintance Banquet" at the "True Reformers' Hall Saturday evening, August 20th. The Wilberforcean Orchestra furnished excellent music for the occasion. Under the direction of Mr. J. Sherman Huntucci this orchestra is becoming rapidly popular. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1910. M. B. Hon. J. Frank Blagburn The subject of this sketch, Hom. J. Frank Blaghburn is a native of Iowa, his home town being Des Moines, Mr. Blaghburn was the second colored pharmacist in the State and was elected two terms as superintendent of the Market. He comes here as a copyist and by dint of close application and persistence together with efficiency, he has arisen to the position of cashier of the office of the recorder of deeds. He was superinten- Miss Mary Walton is spending two weeks at Buena, Virginia, visiting relatives and friends. Miss Mary Toney, of Zanesville, Ohio, and Miss Bertha Dickerson, of Baltimore, Md., were guests of Miss Lucille Nooks, 1314 V street, N. W. Miss Julia Howard, of Atlanta, Ga., spent Wednesday of this week in the city. Miss Howard is returning from an extended trip in the North. Hon. Wm. L. Houston, G. M., of the United Order of Odd Fellows, spent the week in the city. He returned to Chicago the latter part of the week, where he has his law office and enjoys a lucrative practice. Miss Frankie Sims a popular teacher in the city schools of St. Louis, Mo., is stopping with Miss Simmons, of this city. Mrs. Oliver, of St. Joseph, Mo., is spending some time in the city, the guest of her sister, Miss Lawrie, Mrs. Oliver is in the St. Joseph schools, and is considered one of the most efficient educators in the State of Missouri. Mr. Robert Campbell, formerly of Washington, now clerk in the Postoffice at New York, is spending his vacation at his former residence, 1142 15th street, N. W. Mr. Campbell is one of our popular young men who has gone forth and good goo. He is a relative of Miss Grissie Harpl, the well known church worker, of Plymouth Congregational Church. Mrs. W. A, Anderson, of Wilberforce, wife of Mr. W. A, Anderson, of that place, is in the city spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. C. F. Fillmore. Mrs. J. Frank Blagburn returned from Richmond where she was a delegate to the convention of the I. O. of St. Lukes, Mrs. Blagburn was one of the delegates. Miss Mattie Throckmorton, who has been visiting in Norfolk, Va., has returned to the city. Mrs. Gould, of Baltimore, Md., is the week-end guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Williamson, of 1929 Ninth street, N. W., whose establishment is becoming so famous for immaculate linen, and palatable viands. Dr. D. D, and Mrs. Ferguson, of Richmond, Va., are guests of Mrs. Florence Edmonds, of Y street, to the N. M. A. J. Thomas Tasceo is visiting in New York city and State. M. Jno, H. Brooks, of New York, is visiting his brother, Maj. Arthur Brooks. Mrs. L. Hogans and Mrs. Bowman, her mother and her children will visit New York and Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Louis Ferrey, of Augusta, Ga., is visiting Mrs. Edward Allen, of Fourteenth street. Members of the Morning Star, No. 40, have organized a Boston Club, for the purpose of having 100 uniformed men go to Boston to the annual I. B. P. O. E. Convention next August. UNTIMELY DEATH OF PROF COOK. The intelligence of the death, by drowning, of Prof. Charles Cook, of this place, at Sea Isle on last Sunday, came as a great shook to his many friends and relatives here. It appears that he ventured too far out and got caught in the eddy and was unable to get back. Every effort was made to resusitate him, but to no avail. Prof. Cook was identified with Howard University as the Professor of Languages, was prominent in the furtherance of all athletic and was a general favorite among the students. He leaves a wife and five children. It will be no easy task to fill the place of Prof. Cook as he had studied abroad and was a well equipped college man, being able to enter into the spirit of the University, for the reason that he had lived contiguous to it all of his life instinctively and knew, as few others did, its needs. He was modest and peturing in disposition, a Christian gentleman and a scholar or high degree. dent of the St. Paul A.I. M. E. Sunday school for two years, from which church he was elected delegate to the Electoral College in Baltimore, September 7th 1910. There is no doubt but that he will be the choice of the majority as a delegate to the General Conference at Kansai Church 112. Mr. Bluburn is Shriner, belongs to the Elks and is an active member of the Wilberforceans of this city. News Stories of the Week Condensed Into Paragraphs. Inadequate means of protecting the forests and unusually dangerous conditions are blamed by Associate Forester Potter for the fires in the northwest. Senator Warner of Missouri announced in Washington that on account of ill health he would not seek re-election. Five American citizens in tail on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, cabled to Washington they had been unjustly arrested and that they are being treated shamefully. The government has taken the necessary step against the American Sugar Refining company to protect itself against the statute of limitations in the matter of the alleged frauds regarding drawbacks. The state department reports that forty-nine Japanese sealers are prisoners at Unalaska, Alaska, having been seized by the United States authorities on the charge of unlawfully sealing. Forty-six relatives of ex-President Castro were expelled from Venezuela, according to advices received by the state department in Washington. The United States will not oppose the annexation of Korea by Japan, which now seems imminent, on account of a provision in the Portsmouth treaty between Russia and Japan, which seems to permit it. PERSONAL. Mrs. Jack Cudahy, whose husband slashed Banker Lillis, was granted a divorce in Kansas City. She alleged cruelty. President Taft, it was announced in Beverly, is in favor of a further revision of the tariff; he has written a letter to Congressman McKinley for publication in the Republican campaign textbook giving his views in detail. Senator La Follette is directing his fight for renomination from his farm, three miles from Madison, Wis. His campaign managers and stenographers go over to the farm daily and receive his directions. Mayor Gaynor walked across his bedroom in the hospital at Hoboken, N.J., and expressed himself pleased at the progress he was making. Many Americans, including the Ambassador and Mrs. Kidd attended the memorial service at St. Paul's, London, for Florence Wingdale, who was buried with simple ceremonies in Hampshire. Secretary Ballinger said he would not resign his office as long as President Taft was satisfied. The King and Queen of Italy may go in person to the provinces of Earh and Bavaria. The vice president is an epidemic of Asiatic cholera. GENERAL NEWS. Ex-President Roossevelt, in an address to the granges of Herkimer and Ouidaide counties in Utica, aligned himself with President Taft and Governor Hughes. Joseph C. Sibley, following his withdrawal from the race for congress in the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania district, was arrested at Franklin, Pa., on a warrant charging him with "conspiracy to desobey voters." It was reported at Spokane, Wash., that the number of deaths in the northwestern forest fires would reach 400. Returns from the Georgia primary election indicated that Hoke Smith had won the nomination for governor over Joseph Brown, the present incumbent. A multitude of books distracts the mind.—Seneca. WASHINGTON. Mayor John F.itzgardal of Boston announced that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor provided he is assured by the party leaders that he is the strongest available man. President Taft in a letter to Lloyd C. Griscom, president of the New York county Republican committee, called on the governor in "our guard" in electing Vice-President Sherman temporary chairman of the Saratoga convention. Frank B. Harriman, Charles T. Ewing and John M. Taylor, former officials of the Illinois Central railroad, were arrested in Chicago on charges in connection with the railroad graft scandal. Eleven persons were injured, one mortally, and many slightly in the collapse of a grand stand while watching a baboon ascension at Union Station. The balloonist himself was fatally hurt while making a parachute leap. Two navy deserters murdered the captain of the Alaska-Pacific Liner Buckman off the coast of Oregon and tried to capture the ship. The rubber trust, which controls the manufacture of automobile tires in this country, is seeking to monopolize the manufacture of the steel rims for automobile wheels. President Taft has directed Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, to render all assistance in his power to the stricken states of the west. He also has sent a telegram offering aid to Governors Brady of Idaho, Norris of Montana and Mary Washington. A good government league was launched in Louisiana, with a fund of $50,000; rescuers denounced Senator Sanders and bossism. The United nine workers, in special convention in Indianapolis, approved all existing strikes and levied an assessment on all working members for the relief of those who are out. The congressional committee investigating Indian land affairs issued a statement at Sulphur, Okla., that there was no warlord for the use of the names of Vice President Sherman and Senator Charles Curtis in connection with any improper relation with Indian contracts. Clifford B. Harmon, in a biplane, made the first aerial flight over Long Island sound, alighting in Greenwich, Conn. Congressman J. E. Ellerbe, of the sixth South Carolina district, and P. Hodelson, who is opposing him for re-ductions, engaged in a fierce first fight at Lake City. Speaking of his recent western trip, Senator Crane told his callers that he found general business surprisingly good, the only menace to reviving prosperity being found in popular unrest, which is manifesting itself in some of the political activities of the day. FOREIGN. Cardinal Aguirre, primate of Spain, has openly espoused the cause of the clerical juntas of the north. Great Britain is said to be planning a motor battleship which will outclass a Dreadnought. M. Venzelizos the founder of the Hellenic army league, won a signal victory in the Grecian assembly elections. General Estrada, on assuming the temporary presidency of Nicaragua, cabled to the American people assurance of warm regard and a promise of proper restitution for the killing of Cannon and Groce and other activities perpetrated by his predecessors. Fighting between liberal and clerical factions occurred in a suburb of Barcelona, Spain. Troops restored order. Serious trouble is feared on Sunday. The official estimate of the western Canada crop was announced as follows: Wheat, 101,250,000 bushels; oats, 108,250,000; barley, 17,000,000 bushels; fax, 4,000,000 bushels. A chambermaid and her husband were arrested at Saint Moritz, Switzerland, for the theft of the jewelry of Mrs. Daniel Bacon of New York; the former has confessed; the jewels were recovered. Owing to the enormous rise in the price of meat and despite the high protectionist system of the country, the Austrian government has decided to open the frontiers to dressed meat from Argentina, Roumania and Serbia. There was an explosion in the laboratory of the proving grounds of the Kupp works at Essen, the buildings being subsequently destroyed by fire. The powder sheds near by containing a great quantity of explosives, were barely saved by the quickness of the firemen. It was stated at the American legation, Panama, that the United States government would consider unconstitutional the election by the national assembly of Acting President Carlos Mendoza as president of the republic of Panama to fill out the unfinished two years of the term of the late President Obaldia. Owing to the strike of the cloak-makers in New York, German manufacturers are swamped with orders from New York and are working over time. J. B. Moissant made two more attempts to reach London in his flight from Paris, but was prevented by high winds, his machine being badly damaged on the second flight. Dispatches from Bari say that the cholera coidemic in Italy seems to be decreasing owing to the severe measures taken by the authorities to combat the disease. The Estradaren forces entered Managun. Jose Estrada proclaimed his brother, the insurgent general, president, and the city was surrendered without fighting. W. P. Pittman has been released. Eighteen men, mostly stokers, lost their lives in the hold of the British armored cruiser Bedford when she went on rocks south of Korea. Advices from Lisbon said that the Clericals were planning to overthrow the Portuguese government and establish a military dictatorship. The Paris Journal has offered a prize of $40,000 for the winner of an airship race from Paris to Berlin, Brussels and London. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. THE CHASE ART COMPANY Mak High Grade Portraits and Pillow All Goods M By Us Are C 39 F Street, Northwest, Best Work and Workm One third deposit re LIGHTNING PLAYS SOME ODD PRANKS PERFORMS MANY QUEER STUNTS IN A NEW JERSEY HOME. NEVER TOUCHED OCCUPANTS Furniture and Decorations Are Torn or Melted, But No One Is Hurt, Though the Bolt Had to Dodge Them. Lightning has been known to play queer freaks, but a streak of the Jersey brand which struck the home of John Ackermann in Rochelle Park, N. J., a few days ago, seems to have done more queer things in a moment than had been done since Ajax defied the fluid. From removing the four castors of a table to snipping off the steel stub of a pen with which a young woman was writing in an adjoining house, the zigzagging bolt managed to disrupt or injure most everything in its path. The bolt melted the telephone wire and hurled the molten metal against a window with such force as to make A man in a suit runs away from a horse in a barn. A man in a suit runs away from a horse in a barn. The Bolt Crashed Down on Them. mosaics of several panes, the spattering hot metal so deeply engraining itself in the glass that there has been no getting it out. One side of the hall was ripped out and from there the lightning flashed into the parlor, where a broken lamp and scattered and broken brie-a-brac told of its passage through that apartment. Then it journeyed to the dining room, where Mr. Ackerman was sitting. The walls, blackened, seared and bulged out on three sides, show that the bolt struck the room in three places, and Ackerman is still marveling how it was that the lightning flashed all around without ever touching him. In the kitchen was an old-fashioned clock, quite heavy and fully two feet in height. The lightning removed this from the kitchen and deposited the wreck in the dining-room. The west side of the kitchen wall was blown out. The kitchen floor was blown upward. The kitchen table was splintered into bits and the range was shattered into many pieces. A young woman next door was writing a letter and her pen-point disappeared as the bolt shook the place. Yet, strange to say, although there were four persons in the house at the time not one of the occupants suffered Where The Forum Where The Forum Can Be Bought M. A. Harris, 810 Florida Davis & Smith, 1020 U Gray & Gray, 12th & U Wilkerson & Montague, Board & McGuire, 19127 Snowden Keyes, 1819 14 Thos. A. Leatherwood, W. H. Lee, 920 20th St E. B. Bookmon, 1104 20 Harris and Howley, 634 John A. Hanson, 1018 4 Thos. H. Harper, 208 Dr. William E. Gales, A Ellis Cafe, 729 4th St $1.00 a Year any injury from the freakish bolt, other than the shocked surprise that would be expected on such an exciting occasion. William H. Jacobs and his son, Charles H. Jacobs, of Aberdeen, Md., had a most remarkable escape from death during a terrific thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning struck their barn in which both were occupied at the time in unharnessing a horse. The lightning came through an end of the building like a flash, and struck the animal, killing it immediately, but both men were only momentarily shocked. They recovered within a minute or so and returned to the house. There was a large quantity of hay in the barn, but, strange to say, nothing caught on fire. The only evidence of the visitation of the electrical bolt is the dead horse and a hole in one end of the barn. ILLINOIS FAMILY IN TANGLE Relationships of Its Members Badly Mixed Because of a Series of Divorce and Marriage. St. Louis, Mo.—In Jerseyville, Ill., there is a family figuring and puzzling today in an effort to find just what relation "ma" is to "pa", pa is to ma, and what son Dave is to the whole bunch. The situation is brought on by a long string of divorces and marriages. First, the new bride in Jerseyville is Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Matthews. Before her latest marriage to David Matthews she was the wife of James Matthews, David's father, and was Dave's step-mother. James Matthews was divorced from another Mrs. Matthews, David's mother, before his marriage to the new Mrs. David Matthews, and Mrs. Matthews has had some assistance at the marriage as well. she cared to wear all his hats she would sign Larah, again, again, Mrs. Mary, Elizabeth, Hates Hartley, Roller-Matthews, Matthws. Here's the way he worked out- James Matthews former wife is now his daughter-in-law; David's step- mother is his wife, and a brother, Bashful Dan, claims his former step- mother as a sister-in-law. Pa Mathews said: "Well, dog my cats alive, whod a thought it!" NEARLY WEDDED HIS SISTER Relationship Discovered and Marriage Averted in the Nick of Time. Pittsburg, Pa.—Fate played a strange trick upon brother and sister in McKees Rocks, Pa., when they were about to be made man and wife. Robert Henderson, the groom, had been adopted when left an orphan in childhood by a family named Henderson, in Richmond, Va. His sister remained in McKees Rocks in the care of an aunt. Robert took the name of his foster parents, and the girl retained her own, Elizabeth Marsh. Last fall the brother came to McKees Rocks to work in the plant of the Pressed Steel Car company, and there he met Elizabeth, not knowing it was his sister. A betrothal followed. In the marriage license the young man wanted his own name to appear, and he sent to Richmond for the necessary information. It was then that the couple discovered their true relations. The reunited brother and sister, however, will make their home together, if not in matrimonial state. Preached in Dark Church. Newcastle, Pa.—Rev. R. N. Merrill of the Methodist Episcopal church at Mahonington advertised that he would preach in the dark. The lights were extinguished because of the heat. The church was crowded when the minister entered the pulpit and more than three-quarters of the congregation were young folk. 5c Single Copy The National Forum Subscription Rates One Year.....$1.00 Six Months.....50 1022 You Street, N. W., Room 1. RALPH W. WHITE 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. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. The good colonel has taken up the endgel and the fight is on. Seems political have shifted and been shifted so frequently, within the period of the last past few weeks that practically everybody and everything is uncertain. That there is a great game being played nobody denies and everybody affirms. But, where is he, who knows the purport thereof? Everybody rides to the verg verge of definite declaration as to his position and then either dismounts, or permits himself to be purposely unhorsed. There seems to be no Arnold Winkereid, who cares or dares to open the breach and begin the battle. Col. Roosevelt came nearest it, when he declared in his opening address Tuesday, that if the people of his county wanted him to attend the State Convention he would heed their wishes. The Administration has submitted several probable solutions in the past few days days which seems to indicate a better feeling between the insurgents and the regulars. Meanwhile, on the account of political agitation and uncertainty, business markets are narrowing their margins of activity, capital is hedging, pending something definite and labor is ill at ease. It is to be hoped that the situation will soon clarify and harmony prevail as every ounce of available strength that can be commanded will be needed this fall. THE TARIFF. It is given out that there is a disposition to have the tariff readjusted, such readjustment to be based upon the finding of the Commission and to deal with certain schedules. This may be the right move, but no one at all conversant with tariff revisions will deny, that such a move will be fraught with danger and contention. It will be hard, and need to open one phase of the tariff readjustment without disturbing the whole. Then, there is the probability of the complete unsettling of the business world until the schedule is finished. The history of every tariff revision has been invariably the history of severe contention by conflicting interests the world over and in most every case it has spelled defeat for the party responsible for that revision. It is largely a question whether the country can shoulder the difficulties entailed in two revisions within the period of three years and emerge from the ordeal commercially healthy. Let us hope it can but to say that least it is an untried experiment that may prove disastrous. THE NATIONAL MEDICAL AS- SOCIATION. The National Medical Association has come and gone. Washington is better for its having been gone. Medical science and skill have been given an impetus and the whole world as well as the Negro race have been benefited by this intelligent conference of men. Anything looking toward the betterment of humanity and the prolongation of life, anything which helps men to live on higher planes and better lives, any element contributing to better sanitation and there by the general moral uplift of the people it is to be welcomed and encouraged and this is what this Association is, has been and shall continue to be doing while it exists on the broad intellectual basis, as it is at present. No cleaner, more intelligent and better purposed body of gentlemen have ever visited our city and it is to be hoped that we have been as mutually hospitable to them as they have been scientifically benefited to us. How well an ugly man looks in a photograph!—Achison Globe. Bobby--Honest, is there twins at your house? Tommy—Honest! An't they're just allike. Bobby—Built jest the same way, or are they rights and lefts? The Wisdom of Pa. Little Willie—What is a lawyer, pa? Pa—A lawyer, my son, is a man who induces two other men to strip for a fight and then runs off with their clothes. Practise What You Preach. Scribbler—I got a check for $10 this morning for that article of mine on to live on in 15 cents a day. Scrawler—Then you can lend me $2, can't you? Scribbler—Sorry, old man, but I blew it all in. "We always summer at Tallop." "I hear that place is noted for its magnificent bluffs." "Yes; there are generally quite a few of them stopping at the hotel." By RUTH DOROTHY MARSH unfortunate marriages that are man and woman, either one of wives and all the virtues pertaining to another party to the contract and of virtues. All our virtues, so-called Bible, so how can the infidel be imposed upon party to the said truth of the position he or she more often than women, are the only selects a choice, clean woman, his mean walk in life with his the woman. His sacrilege, his result of the infidel misfit of his wife. The sanctity of his life in the man himself. He is and feelings. She finds out his souls to be her soul's affinity, as the world. And wives who are truly good, virtue that is what matrimony means, and adopted in all manners, fallen men and women. "Be kind and I will give the crown of short, dear young readers, so forth heeding to bear us up unmuch of have to bear to compyey. "Take my cross and follow the wayside," and do wrong the cross," as so many do who use their future "crown of life" offered us for patient virtues. HE most unfortunate marriages that are made are those between a man and woman, either one of which reverences Christianity and all the virtues pertaining to the beautiful religion, and the other party to the contract an infidel, who knows nothing of virtues. All our virtues, so-called, emanate strictly from our Bible, so how can the infidel have any? Sooner or later the imposed upon party to the sacred compact realizes the glaring truth of the position he or she is in. Men, more often than women, are the transgressors. This type carefully selects a choice, clean woman of pure and lofty type carefully selects mind to go through his mean w disenchantment for the woman. all that is refined are the result upon the sensibilities of his wife for there is no sanctity in the n with sacred thoughts and feeling that moment he ceases to be he in the truest sense of the world. All husbands and wives who "souls' affinities." That is what term has been perverted and ade mind to go through his mean walk in life with him, and the result is, disenchantment for the woman. His sacrilege, his profanity, his lack of all that is refined are the result of his infidel mind and grate harshly upon the sensibilities of his wife. The sanctity of her marriage has fled, for there is no sanctity in the man himself. He is wholly disassociated with sacred thoughts and feelings. She finds out his principles and from that moment he ceases to be her soul's affinity, as a husband should be, in the truest sense of the world. All husbands and wives who are truly good, virtuous and patient are "souls' affinities." That is what matrimony means. Unfortunately the term has been perverted and adopted in all manner of illicit love affairs by fallen men and women. "Be faithful unto death and I will give the crown of life." Life is very short, dear young readers, so this promise is well worth heeding to bear us up under the heavy crosses each of have to bear to complete our life's journey. "Take my cross and follow me," do not "fall by the wayside," and do wrong, to evade "tear the cross," as so many do who prefer to shirk and lose their future "crown of life" thereby. A reward is offered us for patient virtues. Be strong therein. Unique Way of Earning Spending Money By Clarence George Malmrose bridge, but how can I with that o "Let him come over and play "An imposition," murmured tibly. "How I wish there was a ately well off." "Done," said the woman, wh be my first patron." Bobby arrived about ten o'clock under the trees, digging in a fl did not want to go back to the hand. It was a gay week at the accompanied by several small fry nurses. There was no elaborate pr amusement. The children play occasional suggestion and superv There were not even regular who had engagements to leave t they sailed or climbed or went to Soon one or two women wh to be taken to the dining-room safely enconced in their coaches the fostering care of a woman wh It was a great convenience t not a hardship to the child chape had as real a love of children a combination of the two needs woe with that child tagging at my ever and play in our yard," was a murmured the mother, her fa- there was a day nursery for clo- a woman, who needed money. "Bougat ten o'clock and had such children in a flower pot, or listenin' back to the hotel when his moth- week at the hotel and the next small friends, whose mother elaborate preparation, no cut children played by themselves in and supervision from the "lovely even regular hours. It became to leave their little ones for or went to a band concert. women whose children were mining-room, asked permission their coaches on the porch or a woman who needed money. convenience to mothers who did child chaperon, as she soon can children as her want of mo needs worked splendidly. bridge, but how can I with that child tagging at my heels?" "Let him come over and play in our yard," was the reply. "An imposition," murmured the mother, her face lightening perceptibly. "How I wish there was a day nursery for children of the moderately well off." "Done," said the woman, who needed money. "I'll start one if you'll be my first patron." Bobby arrived about ten o'clock and had such a good time playing under the trees, digging in a flower pot, or listening to stories that he did not want to go back to the hotel when his mother appeared, prize in hand. It was a gay week at the hotel and the next day Bobby returned, accompanied by several small friends, whose mothers were also without nurses. There was no elaborate preparation, no cut and dried system of amusement. The children played by themselves in safe quarters, with occasional suggestion and supervision from the "lovely lady" on the porch. There were not even regular hours. It became the habit for mothers who had engagements to leave their little ones for an hour or two while they sailed or climbed or went to a band concert. Soon one or two women whose children were mere babies, too small to be taken to the dining-room, asked permission to leave the infants safely enconced in their coaches on the porch or under the trees with the fostering care of a woman who needed money. It was a great convenience to mothers who did not keep a nurse and not a hardship to the child chaperon, as she soon came to be known. She had as real a love of children as her want of money was real and the combination of the two needs worked splendidly. their fingers over the spoon's suic in such stores adjust his hair wit in the manner described. It is up to the people to pro filthy stores. spoon's surface. I have freq his hair with his fingers and t people to protect themselves by their fingers over the spoon's surface. I have frequently seen the clerk in such stores adjust his hair with his fingers and then handle the spoon in the manner described. It is up to the people to protect themselves by refusing to patronize filthy stores. get home. I should much prefer if I but I should not be averse to my either. The trouble seems to be the and not the one who goes along himself in his work, who gets me prefer if I had to stay at home verse to my husband going out o s to be that it is the one who goes along quietly, attending to who gets married. home. I should much prefer if I had to stay at home that he stayed also, but I should not be averse to my husband going out once in a while alone, either. The trouble seems to be that it is the one who is out all the time and not the one who goes along quietly, attending to business, advancing himself in his work, who gets married. So what are we going to do? T Mary Disgusting and Disease Breeding Customs By WILLIAM HELD, M. D. From One Extreme to the Other By VIOLET MIDDLETON innate marriages that are made are those best woman, either one of which reverences Christ's virtues pertaining to the beautiful religion, partly to the contract an infidel, who knows us. All our virtues, so-called, emanate strictly so how can the infidel have any? Sooner or晚 upon party to the sacred compact realizes of the position he or she is in. If often than women, are the transgressors. This acts a choice, clean woman of pure and lofty can walk in life with him, and the result is. man. His sacrilege, his profanity, his lack of result of his infidel mind and grate harshly wife. The sanctity of her marriage has fled the man himself. He is wholly disassociated things. She finds out his principles and from her soul's affinity, as a husband should be old. who are truly good, virtuous and patient are what matrimony means. Unfortunately they adopted in all manner of illicit love affairs men and women. "Be faithful unto death give the crown of life." Life is very far young readers, so this promise is welleding to bear us up under the heavy crosses have to bear to complete our life's journey my cross and follow me," do not "fall aayside," and do wrong, to evade "carrying it" as so many do who prefer to shirk and future "crown of life" thereby. A reward us for patient virtues. Be strong therein. A woman whose only asset in the money making way was a pleasant cottage situated in a shady yard near a summer hotel, last year made a comfortable income for herself through the suggestion of a friend. The friend was at the hotel with her small child, who was rather too old for the extra expense of a nurse, yet who could not be permitted to run wild. "This vacation is no rest for me," moaned the mother. "I'm nothing but a nursemaid, cannot get away from Bobby an hour at a time. I am crazy to accept Mrs. Blayne's invitation for a morning at child tagging at my heels?" display in our yard," was the reply. aured the mother, her face lightening percep- as a day nursery for children of the moder- who needed money. "I'll start one if you'll a o'clock and had such a good time playing a flower pot, or listening to stories that he the hotel when his mother appeared, prize in the hotel and the next day Bobby returned, all friends, whose mothers were also without preparation, no cut and dried system of played by themselves in safe quarters, with servision from the "lovely lady" on the porch. sular hours. It became the habit for mothers to their little ones for an hour or two while at to a band concert. whose children were mere babies, too small room, asked permission to leave the infants aches on the porch or under the trees with who needed money. face to mothers who did not keep a nurse and naperon, as she soon came to be known. She en as her want of money was real and the worked splendidly. An attempt should be made to prevent restaurant keepers from putting before their patrons spoons and forks which bear the incrusted remnants of former meals. It is a frequent occurrence to find such dirty utensils. If there is anything in the germ theory, then the unclean and reissued eating utensil is a source of infection. Another disgusting and disease-breeding habit is a practise of some owners of ice-cream parlors, who place their spoons with the hollow end up in some receptacle and then when they are to be used wine surface. I have frequently seen the clerk with his fingers and then handle the spoon protect themselves by refusing to patronize In regard to what kind of husband is most in demand, the one who is out all the time or the one who "goes quietly along saving his money and going to bed early," I should very much prefer the latter, provided, however, he did not forget that occasional amusement or recreation is beneficial. I am a home-loving girl, and although I am employed, I spend most of my spare time reading, doing housework or sewing. Yet I like to go out sometimes. The man who "is out every night" is generally the one who leaves his wife at if I had to stay at home that he stayed also, my husband going out once in a while alone, that it is the one who is out all the time quietly, attending to business, advancing married. do? PULPITS AND PEWS METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH. Dr. L. 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 State weekdays 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. Sunday, the 14th inst., the following visitors were introduced at the morning service; Mr. W. C. Jones, trustee of Big Bethel, of Atlanta, Ga.; and Mrs. W. C. Jones, president of the Stewardess Board of the same church; Miss Louise Clarke, public school teacher, at Newport, Ky., and resident of Cincinnati, O.; Mr. J. Stanton, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Rev. Dr. H. R. Proctor, pastor of the institutional church, at Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. Dr. H. R. Dr. V. P. A. Scott, at Atlanta, Ga.; Rev. Dr. V. P. A. Scott, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; preached a powerful sermon at the evening service; Rev. H. C. Garner, of this city was present and made a few instructive remarks. We invite the Rev. to call again as our church is always glad to receive its friends. The "illustrated lecture," by the Rev. Dr. Watson and Miss M. Hall Ross was an agreeable success. Miss Ross would be fair running mate for the once gifted Miss Anna M. Dickerson, the campaigner, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Newsome, of Moberly, Ala., and Mrs. Savannah Carter and Miss Leona Golden, of Atlanta, Ga., visited the church and parsonage last week. Mr. I. N. Ross, Jr., spent a few days with his parents and then returned to Cincinnati. Mrs. I. N. Ross returned home last week from the biennial meeting of the National Association of Colored Women held at Louisville, Ky. On her way home she visited several important points in Kentucky, visited Cincinnati, her home, Pittsburgh and Washington, Pa. Her arrival home here was attended by a happy throng of our church members and friends who were led by the faithful stewardesses. Ice cream, cake and dainties were pleasantly devoured. Our able and gentle pastor and delegates were away attending the District Conference and Sunday-school Convention, at Camp Parole, Md., last week. Prof. E. Patten was church's delegate to the District Conference, and he was elected at that conference of the two lay delegates to our next annual conference. Mrs. A. E. Waddleton, Misses C. E. Martin and I. M. Taylor and Mr. E. G. Evans were the delegates to the Sunday-school Convention. Miss Emma Patterson substituted for Miss Martin, who had not returned from Canada on her vacation. Mrs. Waddleton had been superintendent of the Sunday-school of this District five years, and there have been much improvements in methods and results since she took hold of the work. The Sunday-school meeting was a great success along several lines. Bishop Coppins and four presiding adults visited the convention and put forth their efforts to instill new ideas and principles in the minds of the workers. The following were elected for the ensuing District Superintendent, Mr. J. F. Blizzurn; First Assistant Superintendent, Mr. J. B. Warren; Second Assistant Superintendent, Mrs. Julia Gross; Secretary, Miss Ida M. Taylor; Treasurer, Miss Coriene E. Martin; Chairman of the Executive Committee, Mr. E. G. Evans. The next meeting of the convention will convene at Garfield, D. C. The services Sunday morning were inspiring and wholesome—the "Ease of Zion" was the pastor's discourse, depicting the utter indifference on the part of many of the Christians to the surrounding daily wickedness. The Junior Choir, lead by Mr. Fortune is rendering excellent music; the members seem to have been selected for their musical ability and not for their appearance. Miss Parthenia Woodson is superintendent of this young choir during this summer. Miss Carrie L. Smith joined the church Sunday morning. The "mid-summer rally" came off last Sunday and it was led by the class leaders, who took advantage of the opportunity to show us their true faith. $211.10 were collected Sunday and they hope to bring the amount up to $800 by next Sunday, when all cards and books will be called in. Rev. Dr. Rose is called to Denton, Md., this week to help in an anniversary, he preaches Wednesday night and lectures Thursday night. "If That Be Treason." It was during the Parnell agitation in Iceland that an anti-Parnellite, criticizing the ways of tenants in treating absentee landlords, exclaimed to Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia: "Why, it looks very much like treason." Instantly came the answer in the archbishop's best rogue: "Suro treason is reason when there's an absent t." — *Everybody's Magazine*. A. Consensation "No," said the young man with the frivolous hat. "I'm not a bit afraid to go out on the water in this wind. You see, I know all about a sailboat." "Son," replied old Cap. Catsaw, "you're contradicting yourself. No body can know all about a sailboat without being afraid of it." Fossilized remains of a hippopotamus have been found at Barrington Cambridgeshire, England, where remains of the rhinoceros, bison, lion hyena and an older variety of elephant than the mammoth have recently been discovered. Customs Differ In some towns the little girl who practises on the piano the greatest number of hours per day is distinguished. In other places people expe-ect little girls to also help their mothers with the dishes.—Atchis, Globe. PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Seventeenth and P Streets, N. W.; Dr. Alexander C. Garner, Pastor, 943 T Street, N. W.; Miss Gussie Harrod, Church Editress, 1142 Fifteenth Street, N. W. CHURCH SERVICES Sunday-school, 9.30 to 10.50 A. M. H. A. Adams, Superintendent; J. S. Neill, Assistant Superintendent. Preaching, 11.60 A. M. Vesper service, 6.30 P. M. Last Sunday morning we listened to a well-delivered, inspiring sermon by our beloved pastor, Dr. A. G. Garner, and although our choir is taking a short vacation the congregation sang well and enthusiastically. Among our visitors on last Sunday were Miss Lula Smith and Miss Madeline Shirey, of Savannah, Ga.; Mrs. Mary L. Hunter, of Apalachiola, Fl.; Mrs. Miss Emma J. Terry, a teacher in the high school of Nashville, Teen.; Mr. John P. Rhines, attorney-at-law, of Nashville, and Mrs. L. A. Earle, of Anderson, S. Mrs. Earle, a daughter of greesman Miller, who represented South Carolina in the Fifty-fourth Congress. Dr. and Mrs. Earle are stopping with Mrs. Belle Nelson, 2200 14th street N. W. Miss Lucinda Shorter is spending her vacation at Berkeley Springs. Mrs. Alice Joice is visiting Atlantic City. Mrs. Edward Joice has returned from her trip to Richmond, Va., her former home. Miss Nellie Morton has returned from her visit to Hampton, Va., much improved by the change. The Vesper service at Plymouth has been greatly helped by the faithful services of Miss Ida B. Carpenter. Miss Carpenter is a cornetist of no little ability and gives valuable service both at home and in Atlantic City, where she has been very successful in training the youth of our race. She is given great training and is largely in promoting the largest class that has ever been sent from the grammar school to the city high school. We are very glad to have in our most Mrs. Susie Dyson Morse, who has made her home for several years in Rochester, N. Y. Mrs. Morse was one of Washington's most brilliant public school teachers and a valuable worker in our church and Sunday-school. We hope to have her remain with us permanently. The Ladies of the Trustees' Aid will give their first annual entertainment on Friday evening, September 9, at the residence of Mrs. A. Dyson, N. Y. A Dyson Street, N. W. Melon free. Proceeds for benefit of trustees of Plymouth Church, Admission, 10 cents. An interesting program will be rendered and two prizes given, one to the person blowing the largest bubble, and one to the most successful person at pinning on the donkey's tail. Our pastor, Rev. A. C. Garner, was elected to the office of Grand Prelate at the meeting of the I. O. of St. Luke's, Richmond, N. Y. A Richmond Street, N. Y. is the third highest office in the order. Dr. Garner is degree chief of Plymouth Council, No. 496, also Associate District Deputy. Worthy Chief Miss Ella Anderson, Recording Secretary Miss Rebecca Young together with Miss Jill Hite, were represen ting the meeting I. O. of St. Luke's at Richmond, Va. ST. LUKE'S INSTITUTE NEW COUNCIL AT DEAN-WOOD, D. C. A few weeks ago the District Deputy I. O. of St. Luke's, Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, Associate Dr. A. C. Garner, and Deputy M. E. Collins set aside a new Council in Deanwood, D. C., known as Queen Alice Council, No. 768. From the very excellent people who made up this Council it bids fair to be one of the most distinguished councils in the District. Those who received the highest honors of the Council were: Mrs. Alice Bagly, D. C.; Mrs. Bettie Me Goines, V. C.; Mrs. Hattie Atkins, W. R. S.; Mrs. Patience Waller, W. F. S.; Mrs. Mary L. King, W. T.; Rev. Chas H. Strothers, W. C. C.; Mrs. Georgia Johnson, M. N. M.; Mr. William A. Waller, W. C. A. ECHO MEETING OF ST. LUKE'S TO BE HELD IN PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1910. Monday evening last at Daley's Hall, the Degree Chief's Association of the District I, O. of St. Luke's, held its regular monthly meeting. The grand officers and delegates of the thirty-seven subordinate Councils having just returned from the Grand Session, which convened in Richmond last week, the meeting was a very anticlimactic one. Plans were made for an echo meeting, when all St. Luke's are invited to attend, to be conducted at the election of deputies meeting Septembrury, Junemth Congregational Church, 17th and street N. W., Rev Dr. Garner, pastor. This One Is On Me. A man in a mellow condition went into a barber shop and seated himself in one of the chairs "What's your pleasure shh?" asked the polite barber, "O. or give me a kidcourt—and have one yourself"—Everbody's. Machines of Purit. "Do you think airships could be used effectively in warfare?" "They might," replied the skeptical person, "if we could provide the airships and induce the enemy to go up in them." And They Play Every Night. "So Bronson doesn't play on your ball team any more?" " "No; he's married, settled down and the father of twins." "I see, he has a bawl team of his own." Canadian Banks. Canada has 29 banks, with about 2,000 branches. They are practically controlled by the Bankers' association, a legalized institution with certain definite functions 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, 11.00 A. M. Night Services, 7.45 P. M. Rev. R. K. Harris chose as his text Sunday morning, August 21, "And he said unto him, if they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead," found in the gospel according to St. Luke 16th chapter, 31st verse, and preached there with great force, simply because Jesus and Father, the unclearned by the chair was not noticeably sweet and the immaculate white donned by the young ladies of the choir previous to the forthcoming caps and gowns in the fall added to the purity and splendor of the services. The fact is that in large cities like our own the growing laxity concerning the keeping of the Sabbath holy is so noticeable that any and every effort upon the part of the different branches of the church to improve the service is received with joy by those who are still obedient to the laws of God in attending divine worship at least once a day. To such persons, when the toil and cares of the week are set aside and the weary and soiled laborer takes a pleasure in being clean, orderly and cheerfully respectful to his Christian brother and sister. Sunday is a blessing and an educational force that can hardly be over estimated, for a due observance of Sunday, especially on the part of the Afro-American, is indeed one of the saving graces of our race. At night we were highly entertained by an excellently gotten up program by the Leading Light Juvenile Missionary Society, of which Miss Ernestine Lancaster is a very active member. Indeed, Miss Lancaster deserves great credit for her zeal and energy in church work, and if the other young ladies of the Sunday-school do not bestir themselves Miss Lancaster will in truth be the "leading light" of Israel A. M. E. Church. The beautiful, spacious lawn surrounding the home of Mrs. Lelia Wallace, a beloved and devoted worker of the church, was the scene of an animated gathering of friends and members in attendance at the Japanese lawn fete given August 17, but postponed to Monday, August 22, on account of the rain. Miss Ruby Nichols, of 1950 3rd street N. W., now in Asbury Park, N. J., will spend a week or ten days in New York City before returning. Miss Evelyn Johnston of Natchez, Miss., after a very extensive trip through the West, is the guest of Mrs. L. C. Gant, 414 D street N. W. Miss Jone Maxwell, of 415 K street N. W., is spending her vacation at Havre de Grace, Md., from which place she expects to go to Atlantic City, N. J., for a short stay and from there home. Mr. J. F. N. Wilkinson, well known in the social circles of Washington, D. C., and a venerable officer and member of Israel A. M. E. Church, has his son-in-law, Dr. George Cannon, and family, from Jersey City with him on a visit of ten days or more. The immediate friends and acquaintances of Miss Viola Kelly, of Southeast Washington, were greatly surprised over an announcement of her marriage to Mr. Orpheus B. Williams. The happy couple are spending their honeymoon in Philadelphia, from which place they will go to Delaware, the home of the groom's mother. C. E. NOTES Shiloh Christian Endeavors are proud of the fact that their president, Brotheh John A. Miles, has been reappointed a member of the Citizenship Department of the District of Columbia C. E. Union. That committee rendered good service last year, doing all in its power to create public sentiment against the liquor traffic, and the cigarette evil. The committee told line and line do all in its power to create public sentiment against unclean, demoralizing moving picture shows, which the police court records prove are schools of crime. SUNDAY-SCHOOL NOTES The Sunday-school is doing as well as can be expected at this season of the year notwithstanding many of the teachers are away. The officers are planning to have a Sunday-school rally about the middle of September, when it is hoped all of the former pupils will be found in their classes and many new names enrolled. The Primary Department is doing splendidly under the wise supervision of Miss Edna Smith, its new superintendent, and her faithful teachers. Child's Queer Answer A little girl fell out of bed during the night. After her mother had picked her up and pacified her she asked her how she happened to fall out. The child replied: "I went to sleep too near the place where I went in." The World's Weddings. Somebody who has been gathering statistics finds that there are about three thousand weddings in the world every 24 hours. In most cases the brides probably hope to board at fashionable hotels during the first year or two at least. Beware of Impulse. Our impulses often get us into trouble. No one knows why the eternal plan fitted us out with impulses always "agin the law." However, wear a bridle and "mind you keep your rite an' yourself jus' so." Probably. "But," pouted Mrs. Stayathome, "if you never go out with me how are people to know that I am married?" "Well, if you take the baby with you," replied Stayathome, carelessly, "they may suspect it." SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Pastor, 1334 V Street, N. W.; W. H. Scott, Church Editor, 1503 Pierce Place, N. W. Brother James R. Moss, who is away on vacation, sends a very interesting letter to our pastor, concerning the spiritual affairs in Louisa county, and his experi- ences. Brother Moss is one of the most active young men in our church, and when he is away he is greatly missed. Bumpass, Va., Aug. 19, 1010. Dear Pastor: I am home again on my native soil, and having a good and very refreshing time. As the crops are now maturing, all farm work has been suspended, and the people are giving their time to entertaining friends and holding revivals. This can be called a good crop year, and everything is plentiful, especially fruits and vegetables. Our meeting last Sunday was largely attended, though it was warm and partly cloudy. The attendance was between 1400 and 1500. All were well fed and something was left over. The care was earnestly conducted, and therefore very spiritual. The preaching was good—excellent for the country—and everybody worked. Therefore God blessed us with twenty-three converts, mostly Sunday-school children. I was present, and assisted in all of the meetings, except the services at night. On Sunday the 21st we will begin our work for souls in another field. Pray for our success, and pray for me that God will use me mightily in pulling down the strengthholds of satan in this community. I hope our rally for the painting of the church was a success, and that our alley mission work has not suffered from the absence of some of the teachers who are engaged in this very important part of the work of our church. Owing to the indisposition of our pastor, Dr. Proud, of Democra, Dutten Guinea, South America, preached for us last Sunday evening. He is soon to leave the city to attend the National Baptist Convention, which convenes September 14 at New Orleans, La. Sister Jonnie Jones, who recently went to the country for her health, has not made the improvement hoped for. We bear that she is seen to return. The prayers of the church are asked for her early recovery. Sister Martha Porter, of 1443 P street N. W., was reported quite ill last week. The ladies of the church responded very nicely to the rally held by them last Sunday. When the returns are all in we fear the men will be beaten. But could she be badly injured otherwise when some of us have to divide our funds with them. And besides they are in the majority. The number of reports of the cottage prayer meetings being held weekly is increasing. Many have gone to work very earnestly and we believe great good will be accomplished. Our pastor, Dr. Waldron, leaves for his vacation on Monday after the first Sunday in September. He is greatly in need of a much earned rest, and we hope he will secure it, and return to us greatly refreshed for the fall and winter work. Deacon Lanier asks that every member and friend of the church who has not done so, will please return (filled of course) the envelopes handed out by him some time ago. Do not make it later than September 4. Unwritten Law. While there is no law on the subject, the women do not expect a widower to marry again until his children grow up. - Atchison Globe. Telling Lots of people have to tell what they are going to do, or they would have nothing to tell.-Life. GAS FROM BARK or CORK. Freshly cut bark of the cork tree, if heated, gives off a gas that can be used as an illuminant. 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. When the Petals Mingled By Philip Kean Copyright, 2010, by Associated Literary Press On each side of the fence there was a little garden. There were red roses in the garden on the right and white roses in the garden on the left. It seemed as if the owner of the white rose garden might exchange blossoms with the owner of the red rose garden. But there was no exchange. Bitterness and strife existed where there should have been harmony, and the man who owned the red rose garden never spoke to the woman in whose beds the white flowers bloomed. It was a feud of such long standing, however, that the enemies had grown gray while fighting it out, and their children had waxed strong and tall, and had reached the age of loving even while their elders hated. Because of that hatred the boy and girl were forced into secrecy. They hid their good friendship, and when they walked in the red rose or the white rose garden only their eyes strayed across the fence. These glances and the trysts they kept in the little grove a half mile away on the hill were the sole outlets for the emotions that were beginning to possess them deeply. In fact they were in love. "It's no use trying to hide it from anybody," David said when he had kissed Elvira for the first time. Elvira flushed. "But they will never let us marry, David," she said. The boy clinched his fists. "But we can run away," he told her defiantly. Elvira shook her head. "Mother loves me too much for that." "I know." The defiance left David's voice. "Father loves me, too, but he hates your mother." They talked over the feud after that, of the quarrel about the strip of land that had made the first trouble. A girl in a dress stands in a garden, holding a bouquet of roses. A boy in a hat stands behind a fence, looking at the girl. Their Eyes Strayed Across the Fence. Elvira's father and David's mother had died, still clinging to the old differences and the other two had lived to fight the battle to the bitter end. "They will never let us marry," Elvira said again, "so we might as well give it up right now, David." "I never give anything up," the boy said, doggedly. "I will find a way, Elvira." The next day they met in the same place, and David had a plan. Elvira listened with clouded eyes. "But when they find it out," she said, "they will be furious." "We shall be married then," David stated, triumphantly. That night when he went home the boy told his father of his love for Elvira. As he had expected, there was a storm of protest. In the first full David murmured: "But of course I never can marry Elvira. It would kill her mother." The old man pricked up his ears. "Would it hurt her mother?" he questioned. In the next house Elvira was telling her mother of her love for David. "But I never can marry him," she said. "It would kill his father." Elvira's mother gazed out of the window. "I suppose he would hate it," she agreed. The next day when David met Elvira in the grove his face was radiant. "What do you think father said to me this morning?" he asked. Elvira shook her head. She was not radiant. Her face was white and there were shadows under her eyes. "Well," David related, "he said at breakfast that he thought a man ought to be allowed to marry the woman he cared for. I believe he will give his consent if he thinks it will hurt your mother, Elvira." One or the most amusing diversions at some of the English watering places last summer was a sport which has not yet been tried in the United States, but which should furnish much amusement at the summer resorts. This is the game of floating or sailing in the water on motor cars. Men and girls attired in bathing suits, as well as boys and girls, enjoyed themselves hugely in this fashion and there was much competition to see how long the most expert could stay on the tires while they bobbed about in the water. The person who first introduces this novelty at an American summer resort will not only find himself extremely popular, but will also have the pleasure of knowing himself a philanthropist, for after all what greater philanthropy can there be than the introduction of a new, exciting and wholesome sport which is within the reach of a large number of pleasure seekers? Foreign Laundry Washers in India strange methods are adopted for identifying The tears welled up in Elvira's eyes. "Oh, David," she murmured. "It does not seem right for us to play such a game." But David took her in his arms and consolated her. "All's fair in love and war." he cued. It was interesting after that to see the part that the elders played in the little comedy. David's father chuckled over his son's progress in his love-making—not because his son was happy, but because the outcome would make his enemy unhappy. Elvira's mother smiled when she saw her daughter start for the trysting place. She knew how bitter the thought of the marriage of these two would be to the man across the way. And so the summer waned and the fall came, and in October the two were to marry—David with his father's consent, Elvira with her mother's, and yet neither parent knew of the willingness of the other. Revenge was the sword with which each hoped to pierce the heart of his opponent. On the morning of the wedding day Elvira's mother helped the girl to dress. There was no veil, no white satin; but Elvira in her filly mull, with her fair hair in a golden coronet around her head and with a bunch of white roses from the garden, was a thing of beauty. The mother was in a flutter of excitement over the supposed runaway. "You go on and meet David," she said, "and I will come after you to the church. It won't do to let David's father suspect." On the other side of the fence the old man was giving similar advice. "You go and meet your girl," he advised, "and I'll go down to the church after you. It won't do to let her mother know." Then he brought out a bunch of red roses. "She'd better have a bride's bouquet, if it is a runaway match." Into the ditch country church an hour later came the young couple. The bride was fresh and sweet in her snowy finery; and in her arms she carried great bunches of roses—red and white and fragrant. The bridegroom, with his head up, looked as if he defied the world to take her from him. The minister brought with him a couple of servants to act as witnesses and the footsteps of the five persons echoed through the stillness. Then, as the young pair stood before the man of God, the silence was broken by a careful tipping in the alse to the right and a careful tip-tipping in the alse to the left. The red flamed into David's face, but Elvira was white. The minister began the service, and back of that happy trio two old persons, caught in the net of their own evil passions, glared at each other across the empty pews. But as the service went on the flashing glances softened—none could hear the beautiful words that joined youth and beauty with youth and strength and remain hardened. Into the eyes of Elvira's mother came tears. She leaned her head on the back of the pew in front of her and went. David's father cleared his throat. "What God hath joined together," said the minister, "let not man put ausher." The service over, Elvira almost ran down the aisle. But it was the aisle to the left, and it was to David's father that she ran. "Forgive us; oh, please forgive us," she said. In the aisle to the right David held a little weeping woman to her arms, a little woman with the hatred all gone out of her heart. And presently the couple in the left aisle went to meet the couple in the right aisle, and the old woman was saying: "My son," while the old man muttered: "My daughter. Then they all went out of the church together, and as they went their way was marked by the falling potain of the roses—red and white, and white and red intermingling now in perfect harmony. Superstitious Divers The native pearl divers of the Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia coasts have a superstitious regard for the shark, the barracuda, the swordfish and devilfish, which abound in these waters, due to the great number of small fish. If a shark, for instance, is observed lingering around a spot near where the divers are working, they will at once declare that somewhere on the clear, sandy bottom over which this sentinel patrols there lies a pearl of great value, and if the fish cannot be frightened away some zealous diver will risk his life in an attempt to locate the oysters supposed to be found below. the contents of the wastub. In some parts of France linen is defaced with the whole name and address of the laundry stamped upon it, and an additional geometrical design to indicate the owner of the property. In Bavaria every patron of the wastub has a number stamped in large character on his linen. In Bulgaria every laundry has a large number of stamps engraved with designs, and in Russia the laundries mark linen with threads worked in arrow shapes. In some Russian towns the police periodically issue regulations for laundries. In Odessa books of marks are furnished annually to the laundry proprietors, and these marks, and no others, can be used. The Music Was Fatal. A New York politician once found it necessary to attend an entertainment at an orphans' home and he was having a bad time of it. The selection by the boys' band was particularly distressing. Turning to a friend, the politician said with a shudder, "No wonder they are orphans."—Success E IT is said that Americans are not especially in favor with the new king of England, but the emperor of Germany still counts many of them among his personal friends, and often entertains them on board the imperial yacht Hohenzollern. The illustration accompanying is from a photograph of one of these yachting parties the lady at the kaisel's immediate right being Mrs. Qolet of New York. CITY'S NEW TIPPLE COW NOW GIVES BLUE MILK. Buttermilk Adopted by Chicagoans as Best Hot Weather Drink. It Is Chasing Mint Julep From Bar and Has Relegated Sundae to Rear of Drug Stores—Dealers Busy, Chicago.—Buttermilk — the drink that is making Chicago famous. If you don't live strictly on a buttermilk diet during the hot weather you don't belong, and dairymen, doctors, drug-store keepers, club men, caterers and restaurant have as much as agreed upon it. According to people who devote much of their time to the laudable labor of selling thirst quenching beverages, buttermilk has for the last five years steadily increased in popularity as a hot-water drink until today it is the most sought after of all, having surpassed such rivals as the once-favored ice-cream soda, the mint smash or the entrancing julep. When the thermometer hovers between 88 and 95, buttermilk becomes the cup that cheers and never inebriates, no matter how pleniously imbibed. Drink experts say so. They say that this once more or less desiplied liquid is now called for more frequently tharr any other in country clubs, in drug stores, in hotels, in restaurants and in buffets. It is served in the country clubs in MAKES BRIDLE TO BUY BOOKS Montana Prisoner Serving Long Term Is Eager to Spend Idle Time Profitably. Douglass, Ariz.—C. C. Allen does not claim to be a master of the lyre, but the Douglass Chamber of Commerce and Mines has just received an appeal- ing letter from him which shows-that while he does not hope to get out of the state prison at Deer Lodge, Monta- nna, yet he has employed his one shining talent well in hope of using his time behind the bars so well that when he gains his freedom he will lead a better life. Here is the letter, which explains itself: "You may be surprised to receive this letter, as I am an inmate of Montana state prison. I am serving quite a long term here, and wish to put in part of my time studying. Having this in view, I have spent several months in tedious work upon a fancy horse hair bridle, in the hope that I should be able to raise enough money out of its disposal to purchase the books that I am in need of. "It is in regard to this bridle that I take the liberty of addressing you asking if you will take an interest in disposing of it for me. The bridle is made of thousands of strands of varied colored horse-hair, and it will be found useful and strong as well as a work of art. C. C. Allen, Box 7, Deer Lodge, Montana." Allen probably, sent his letter to Douglass in the hope that some cow-puncher or Mexican Vaquero, who delight in gay saddles and ornaments bridles and horse trappings, might offer a field for purchase. Troops Will Eight Fires Washington.—President Taft has authorized the use of troops to fight forest fires in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California. New York Farmer Getting Ten Cents Quart for Animal's Product— Lightning Hit Her. Tannersville, N. N. Y.—If Harvey Baker, a farmer, could only get another cow and another bolt of lightning he would have money in the bank. He said so himself in describing an untoward occurrence in which his only cow, Fannie, and a thunderstorm played the principal roles. For several years Fannie's generosity in the matter of giving milk has been Baker's chief asset. Selling the milk for 8 cents a quart and the fact that Fannie has always been an accommodating cow have made it possible for the farmer to keep his head above water. He has laid in no surplusage of wealth, but after what has happened he is sure that if he had one more cow and if the weather conditions were propitious he would soon be a launder proprietor. During the thunderstorm Baker dis PROTECT THE BIRDS. especially in favor with the new king among his personal friends, and often cation accompanying is from a photog right being Mrs. Goelet of New York. W TIPP stead of highballs and other possibly attractive but certainly heating mixtures, being put up in long, cool-appearing cylindrical bottles. It is advertised in drug stores "from our own churn," and is outselling the soda and sundae. It is made by private families from "lacto-bacilli" tablets, which are placed in unskimmed milk. At hotels and restaurants it is served ice-cold in bottles made especially for buttermilk. And why? Because for a long time physicians have been pointing out that it is the best hot-weather drink. They have said that it is the most easily digested, the most cooling, the most healthful. They have declared it even an excellent hot-weather food. And besides that, there are comparatively few people, it is said, who don't take to buttermilk naturally, like a duck to water. "Buttermilk?" queried Manager Marsh of the Borden Dairy company. "Why, we are selling more buttermilk right now than ever before. It is the Chicago summer drink, and we are in a position to know. It is being sold everywhere—because 'most everyone has a nicked to spare and 'most every one likes buttermilk. Almost every retail store where they sell soft drinks is calling for buttermilk in large quantities this summer. And then a whole lot of it goes to private homes, too. It's a great drink, is buttermilk—the ideal drink." "The sales of buttermilk increase evi very year," said Manager Bowman of the Bowman Dairy company. "and this year there is more of it sold, I believe, International Movement Submitted to Our Government. Fourteen of World Powers Be Arrayed Against Butchery of Feathered Tribe of Globe for Millinery Ornamentation. New York.—To array 14 of the world powers against the butchery of the birds of the globe for military ornamentation is the object of an international movement which has been formally called to the attention of the United States government from this city. Recommendations for the prohibition of this feather traffic by nonexport and nonimport laws in Great Britain, German, France, Italy, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Holand, Hungary, Austria, Austria and this country have just been filed with Secretary of State Knox at Washington by William Dutcher, president of the National Association of Andubon Societies, who represented the United States at the recent International Ornithological congress in Berlin, where they were framed and unanimously indorsed by delegates from every part of the world. For the first time in history the ornithological authorities in their international conclave are reported to have been able to unite upon some simple course of notion that would best check the economic loss of billions of dollars each year that has been shown to result from the killing of the pest-destroying and plague-preventing wild birds of land and water. Acting as an "international committee tee for the protection of birds," a score of ornithological experts select covered that a bolt of lightning had struck his only cow. Was he downhearted? No. Not after he found that as a result of the lightning episode Fannie yields milk of a light blue color, which, because of its novelty, now commands 10 cents a milk, instead of 8 cents, which is all that buyers in this section will pay for white milk. The bolt of lightning has made Fannie a versatile cow, in that in the morning she yields blue milk and at night white. A judicious admixture of the two colors produces a quality of milk which is so good that Frederick C. Boynton, proprietor of the St. Charles hotel, has ordered all he can get of it. When Baker, after exhaustive experiments, found that Fannie's color scheme blids fair to be a permanent fixture he set out to get another cow. He has made arrangements for the leasing of an animal of which he has heard many kind words. Now all that he needs is another thunderstorm. --- than ever before. Of course, there is more sweet milk sold than buttermilk, but sweet milk is used for cooking and buttermilk is purely a drink. Within the last six years there has been a steady increase in the consumption of sweet milk, but buttermilk has certainly kept pace with it. Out at the Lake Zurich dairies the foregoing statement were agreed with. "Why, it's remarkable the quantity of buttermilk that is being called for," said James Davidson, manager of the dairy. "We are shipping more of it to Chicago this year than ever before. If it isn't the favorite hot weather drink for Chicago, I'd like to know what on earth is." Others said that there was only one summer attraction in this city that could compare with the lake breeze and that was— Buttermilk. Young Horse Thief. Suffolk, Va.—Ralph Hezekiah Hilton, nine years old, possibly the youngest horse thief ever convicted, was found guilty in Justice Deberry's court on the second offense. Owing to his youth there was no prosecution for the first horse stolen, but when he disappeared with Thomas as Smith's horse he was pursued and captured after a four-mile chase by Hurricane Branch and a posse. "Dry" For All Time. Fresno, Cal.-Dry in perpetuity is the restriction placed by the Santa Fe railroad in all deeds to property in the new town of River Bank, which is to be a midvalley division point on that line. District Agent Hobart says it is the first town laid out by a railroad to exclude saloons for all time. ed from the nobility and scientists of 14 of the leading nations are placing before their governments the proposition of co-operation to break up the destruction of bird life by the worldwide traffic in feathers. Though the people of the country have come to extend reasonable protection to their birds in many states, the destruction of American bird life must go on as long as any foreign country continues to offer a market for the sale of the scalps of the birds of the United States, according to Mr. Dutcher. "Americans need the help of the great world powers—as every other people need our help—to check the destruction of the birds who work for our common prosperity and health," he says. "Owing to the high prices offered for the plumes of white herons, birds of paradise, humming birds, albatrosses and similar species in the European markets, these birds have been slaughtered almost to the point of extinction. On the other hand, thousands of the valuable insectivorous wild birds and game birds of Europe are shipped here as cage birds and to make choice tidbits in our restaurants. Only by putting a stop to the export and import of birds butchered for commercial purposes can the nations of the earth hope to retain their valuable bird resources. It remains for the American people to take the first step in this very vita Shopping by Wireless. New York—A New York department store has ordered a wireless telegraph outfit which will be installed on the roof of the store, so that passengers on incoming liners may do their shopping by wireless. NO EYE JABBERS IN MOSCOW Moscow.—The prefect of this city is suddenly popular with the men. But the women regard him as a meddlesome and ignorant person. For he has issued an order that no woman is to be allowed to use the street cars unless the points of her hatpins are protected. Several claims for damages were brought before the courts recently by sufferers from hatpins wounds and the frequency of the injuries caused the prefect to take action. One man who claimed damages for an injured eye engaged a smart lawyer, who contended that not only had the defendant wounded a harmless citizen but she had broken the law, Moscow being under martial law, and the carrying of a lethal weapon being illegal, except under a permit from the police. The woman was fined accordingly in addition to being ordered to recompense the sufferer. COURT There seems to be something irresistibly attractive to women in the fluff, nodding plumes of the ostrich, and if this great bird could not be bred on ostrich farms his race would become extinct. Like many another wearer of fine plumage, the goddess of fashion would pursue him to the death. Although good ostrich plumes are as costly as ever, they are in wider demand than in all the history of millinery. Everyone wants plumes, and other ostrich feathers, in all the varied beautiful mountings which the artists make them up. There is a wonderful variety to choose from. The introduction of "wallow" plumes, that is those having the flues lengthened by tying on extra pieces, has brought out all sorts of color combinations and plumes of long sweeping fibers. They are very beautiful but not as practical as the unpleiced plumes. In buying high priced ostrich feathers the French plumes with long, slightly curled flues are by far the best investment. They Quaint Ideas That Has Only Recently Made Its Appearance, and Is Welcomed. Jewelry, at any rate, in our loose acceptance of the term, for no stones are visible in this pretty fancy. I have spoken of the gold lace pins crocheted with lace. Now far-seeking manufacturers have brought out wooden ornaments in all manner of sorts and shapes—collar pins, hat pins, belt buckles, cuff links, slipper buckles—all to be covered with this crocheted lace. One may have a whole set of them for an afternoon's work, and they make the daintiest of gifts for brides and "next Christmasers." It crocheting is not in your line, fine lace can be darned around these wooden foundations, of dotted or figured material may be used instead. Whatever material is used, they are as quant and pretty as the lace-covered gold pins, which is saying a great deal—Exchange. The Tidy Girl. Never puts her clothes away unbrushed. Never neglects to put trees into her boots, if she owns them; if not, she uses tissue paper, stuffed into the toes, as a substitute. Never sits about the house in a walking dress. Never forgets to pull out and straighten gloves when she takes them off. Rolls up her veils leaving them on her hat. Keeps any jewelery she may elect to wear immaculately clean. Fastens her collar straight in the back instead of having it gaping in sections, or the pins set in at all angles to each other. Bracelets Over Gloves. Few women seem to realize that bracelets over gloves are almost or quite as bad as rings over gloves. If one wears a bracelet with long gloves at all, it should be worn under them; but, if possible, it should not be worn. Jewelled Laces Are Marvellous Beautiful, Though Only for Those With Long Purses. The very newest thing in jewelry is the reproduction of old and priceless laces in tiny pearls and diamonds mounted upon gunmetal, platinum or diamond net. The exact pattern of the lace is copied, and the whole is formed into a jabot or a lace fall for the collar. Sometimes there is a bow above, composed of some colored stones—emeralds or amethysts or rubies—set in solid. This new and wonderful work has revolutionized the art of the jeweler, since the workmanship has become quite as valuable as the stones themselves. These laces of jewels are, of course, ruinously expensive, but they are such marvels of beauty that a man might well dispense with all other ornament for the sake of possessing one of them. Low-Cut Neck Edging. A ready-made dress of dark blue can be cleaned and recircled at a comparatively small outlay and may be bought on a guarantee from the dealer that they will stand wear. Moisture doesn't do them any permanent harm. On the other hand the willow plume cannot be guaranteed to wear. Those in black are especially fragile, something in the dye causes them to come untied or to break off when the air is damp. The white and light colors wear better than black. When one does not need to think of economy there are beautiful effects to be wrought out by using plumes with pieced flues, which are well worth the price. Three fall hats are illustrated here showing the simplicity and richness of ostrich used for trimming. They are mounted in groups of three or more toward the back of the hat as a rule. Nothing else is needed on the shape and the addition of a band and bow about the crown is a matter of choice, for a shape bearing a full tuft of plumes is amply trimmed. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. CHIC TUSSOR FROCK 1 This illustration shows a simple but good looking frock for a young girl made from Tussock silk and trimmed with spotted satin fouland and Guipure collar. The belt of suede matches the ground of trimming. For Red Haired Persona It is all very well to talk about aunts and titans, but some of us do have carrot red hair and know it. In that case, we should avoid the greens and light blues usually recommended to us, and dress in black and white, in dark blues, moss greens, in an occasional yellow, and, above all, in brown—brown of every shade and description, morning, afternoon and almost evening. lawn seen recently had at the round Dutch neck a tiny piping formed from the edge of a fine hemstitched handkerchief. The effect was cool and dainty, "ard the handkerchief had paint on it, anyway," said the bright originator. The Swan-Like Threat. This is to be a great season for collarless frocks. But one pretty neck is often harder to acquire than the dozens of chemisettes we may have done away with. A good neck depends much upon the general health, but considerable ray, be done that is of direct benefit. Many an otherwise lovely neck is ruined by an awkward poise of the head. The best cure for this is to sit or walk each day with a book on the head. Do not stiffen the muscles to hold this weight. Manage it by balancing. Plenty of sleep and an abundance of milk, with raw eggs beaten up in it, should help considerably. The neck should be washed well every night with warm water, followed by a cold spray and massaged afterward with a cold cream. Good Things To Eat. ELLIS CAFE Welcome to the Elks OUR 600 IS O' THE BEST. Police and Prompt service our motto Prices Reasonable No. 729 4th St., N. W. The Bay State Hotel HARDY & OTTERY, Preps. 334 M. TENNESSEE AVE., Atlantic City, N. J. European Plan. Concert Garden Special Rates to Parties Taking Apartments. CANTFLAY "CATTY" POLICE ORDER MAKES BOYS OF DALTIMORE WAIL. Description of the Game That Is Barred From the Streets Because Now and Then Some Pedestrian Is Injured. The Composite Kid of Baltimore has a stick—a real, genuine, heart-throbbing kick, says the Baltimore Evening Sun. Marshal Farnan has issued orders that boys must cense playing catty on the streets. The marshal told all the assembled captains of districts that Chief Engineer Samuel Dukehart of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's association had been struck in the face by one of the flying catties. And the marshal said that this thing of playing catty on the streets must stop. Here is the way you play catty: Take a two or three inch piece of pine, round it off and whittle both seeds to a point; lay the catty on the ground, hit one end with a stick and as it flops up in the air smash it as you would bat a ball. Then y/ the other kid to get it in so many jumps, and if he can't do it he gets a whack across the pocket handkerchief with the bat. That's the game Marshal Farnan is stopping, because, now and then, an indiscreet batter lands the catty in a pedestrian's eye, or spreads consternation in a group of front step setters in an otherwise eminently quiet neighborhood. The Composite Kid was standing outside the courthouse this morning while Marshal Farnan was issuing his orders. He was freckled and snubnosed and had a string tied around his right great toe. In one hand he carried a dead sparrow and in the other a cigarette. "What do you think of that?" he exclaimed in disgust. "Say, mister, what chaney's a boy got nowadays, anyhow? Why, first thing you know they'll be passing laws to keep kids from growing. I was raised in Anne Arundel county, but my dad sold the farm and bought some ground rents up on Lexington street, so we moved to town to board. Soon's I came here I found out there wasn't a swimming hole mcenan's Gwynn falls or the public baths over in Patterson park, where you have to wear bathing suits, and darn bathing suits for kids, that's what I say. I saw a lot of kids crawling through a sewer pipe to swim in Jones falls up by the candy factory, but that's too dirty for me. And we had the darnest time trying to get a place to live. The agent wanted to know how many children there was, and asked if the boys were rough on wall paper." Teaching Right Living This is an age when the necessity of education is strongly emphasized. The whole foundation of preventive medicine, of the antituberculosis work, of the social service departments of the hospital, is the education of the public in regard to the laws of health. There can be little doubt that not money, nor even the lack of money, is the root of all evil, but the lack of knowledge of right living in the broadest sense of the words. Ignorance of physical right living is the cause of most of the illness and bodily misery in the world, while ignorance of moral right living is largely to blame for the wickedness of the world. Bad physical condition, however, and the ignorance that causes it, have more to do with poverty and crime than most people realize. Squalid surroundings, due largely to lack of knowledge of proper living conditions, and accompanied most likely by decreased vitality or outright ill health, are probably often the primary cause of the drunkenness that brings ruin so many families. The great problem of today is to teach the masses how to live a healthful life in the circumstances in which they find themselves.—Diette Gazette. Human Nature. Ever remark how many people there are who want you to neglect your own affairs, in order to give them "encouragement?" — Atchison, Kan, Globe. Generally. When people ask for advice it is generally for the purpose of deciding what not to do. Excavating Marble and Granite THE STAIRS IN THE minds of most people marble and granite, two stones of widely different characteristics, are inherently symbolical of beauty, strength and permanence. They preserve the tradition of something stable and enduring. Man's use of marble and granite has, of course, dated from the days of antiquity; indeed, of all components of the earth's crust, no two, perhaps, have been more universally pressed into the service of construction and decoration. The world's yield of the finer classes of marble proceeds from many countries, Italy, France, Belgium, Norway Sweden and America being especially prolific in deposits. Apart from the British Isles, where in particular, the gray Aberdeen and red Petrohater varieties are justly famed, granite occurs in Sweden, the Tyrol, Italy, Sardinia, North America and other districts. Qualities of Marble and Granite. In chemical composition marble is essentially calcium-carbonate, or carbonate of lime. As a consequence, the stone is very sensitive to the action of chemical agents present in the atmosphere. On the other hand, while marble is in this way more rapidly attacked than many other stones, its power to resist the mechanical agents of weathering, which are generally the most destructive, makes it a comparatively durable substance. The great variety of colors shown by marble is due mainly to the presence of companion minerals. Iron, when present in the ferrous state, produces color varying from light to dark green; manganese and cobalt involve plinkh lues. Accessory minerals, in short, give rise to an almost endless association and blending of colors, shades, veins and patterns. Granite is a crystalline-granular aggregate of quartz, felspar and mica, and comprises all varieties of texture. Generally it is the constituent felspar which gives the ruddy or the gray appearance differentiating the rock. Unlike marble, granite cannot be split up with saws, and hence the expense and labor of quarrying and preparing the latter material for building and other purposes is relatively much greeter. According to the state geologist of Georgia, probably no building stone in the United States has in recent years met with such universal favor and given greater satisfaction than Georgia marble. It is, however, curious to learn that, notwithstanding the enormous quantity of native marble capable of being quarried, and the large number of undeveloped deposits which 'ue United States as a whole possesses, considerable supplies of the material are imported (mostly from Italy) for statuary purposes and interior decoration. The growth of the use of Georgia marble for public buildings in America is, however, proceeding on satisfactory lines, and its merits are becoming generally known. The imposing Minnesota state capitol was built of white marble from the Amicalola quarries, Pickens county; the Rhode Island state capitol, the Carnegie public library, Atlanta, and the Corcoran art gallery, Washington, of stone from the quarries of a southern marble company. Greek Marbles. In recent years the extensive quarri- of Mount Pentelicus, a range situated eight miles northeast of Athena, have been re-explored, and are being worked by a British company. From this classical center came the material used in the erection of some of the world's most famous buildings, among them the Parthenon and the Proplyaea. Pentelicron marble is almost pure carbonate of lime. Owing, however, to the presence of minute grains of pyrites, the marble, which is a clear white on being worked, assumes a soft ivory tint after exposure, a feature which materially adds to its value to decorative purposes. Blocks of immense size, up to 1,000 tons, in fact, are frequently dislodged from the quarry bed, and, with suitable machinery, may be cut to any required dimensions. The private railway of the company extends over a distance of 15 miles, and meets at one end the inclined plane of Mount Pentelicron. The quarries in the island of Paros, which yielded the beautiful Parian marble—translated into the highest form of artistic presentment—are under the same control. Other varieties which the company excavate comprise the many-bed Cipollino, Skyros, Tinos and Ros Antico. In spite of our smoke-laden atmosphere, not a few distinguished architects have waxed enthusiastic over the claims of marble for the exterior of great city buildings. Mr. G. F. Bodley. R. A., declared that London should be rebuilt with white marble. "Time would," he said, "tone the material and touch it with mellowing tints; moreover, a marble building could be cleaned down in a few hours with a waterjet." But the caustic comment was made in connection that it was not a matter of prettiness and poetry, but of the solvent action of acids upon calcium-carbonate. Undoubtedly, however, high-class marbles, particularly the Greek varieties, are finding distinct and increasing use in the buildings of London's newer and imposing business edifices. Marble and Granite Quarrying. The principal methods of marble extraction that modern experience and practise have evolved are those of sawing and channeling. The former system is used largely in France, Italy and Belgium, and almost exclusively on the Marmor properties in Greece. The saw itself is an endless steel rope of three strands, loosely twisted together. This cutter is passed round a driving-wheel and carried on guiding pulleys from a power house at a high speed. The wire saw enables stone not only to be cut from the rock bed, but sawn on the spot into blocks of a handy size for export. What is known as the channeier, or channeling machine, is in operation at all important quarries in the United States. A locomotive machine, feeding on a railed track and driven either by steam or electric propulsion, it consists of a row of long vertical chisels set in a strong traveling frame. The gang of chisels vibrate up and down, rapidly cutting a channel in any direction in the face of the solid marble ledge or floor. In Aberdeenshire, granite areas reach their maximum. The Rubislaw and Kemmay quarries are the largest granite quarries in the United Kingdom, and have each a depth of 300 feet. The rock is removed by boring and blasting, and as the material is blasted out the blocks are lifted from the working face by cranes and cableways, masses beyond the power of the lifting appliances being further broken up as they lie. Rock drilling is carried out by power drills, either by steam or compressed air. At the Rubislaw quarry a complete new air-ompressing plant, driven by a 100-hour power electric motor, is installed for working rock drills, the pressure being 100 pounds per square inch. AGE OF PARENTS COUNTS Theory That It Has Much to Do With Qualities and Capabilities of Children. Do the qualities and capabilities of children vary according to the age of parents? Dr. Charles Reinhardt, the author of "One Hundred and Twenty Years of Life," who raised the interesting question in a lecture on the prolongation of life, stated that the theory was based upon researches of the late Professor Lombroso. Following up these researches statistics, he said, had been obtained in Boston and other cities of the United States, and had been the subject of examination for the last 11 years. The conclusions so far obtained are as follows: Great philosophers, philanthropists, poets and thinkers are generally found on investigation to be the product of fathers comparatively advanced in life, and not very youthful mothers. Successful generals are usually the offspring of fathers who are men of forty, generals being regarded in the light not necessarily so much of fighters as of great organizers and men of intellectual capacity. Brave and daring deeds are found to be done for the most part by sons whose fathers—not so much the mothers—are youthful. The children of very young parents are generally egistic and selfish, and not deep thinkers. The explanation of the last of these theories is alleged to be, said Doctor Reinhardt, the age of the father. Census of the Heathen The millions still unreached by the gospel are these: Asia, 42,000,000; Africa, 70,000,000; Arabia, 3,000,000; Syria, 550,000; the sinatic peninsula, 50,000; eastern Sumatra and adjacent islands, 3,250,000; Madura, Ball and Lombok islands, 2,000,000; Malay peninsula, 1,000,000. Total, 113,000,000. In all, 788 Protestant missionary societies are at work in foreign fields. The annual combined contributions are $25,350,000. There are 5,522 ordained missionaries, 982 physicians, 2,503 men lay missionaries, 5,406 married women, 4,988 unmarried women, or a total of 19,280 foreign missionaries. There are 5,045 ordained natives and 92,018 unordained teachers, preachers, Bible women, etc. The total living baptized Christians are 3,006,373; adherents, 5,281,871. The native gifts aggregate $2,800,000.—Christian Herald. Some That Are Not Nice. Topley—Do they have nice stews in your boarding house? Tilling—Yes, excepting those the boarders get in. Blue Mouse Theatre 26th and M Sts. N. W. WATER AN AID TO DIGESTION Medical Investigators Have Concluded That Plentiful Drinking at Meals Is Distinctly Beneficial. Medical investigators have reached the conclusion that instead of being harmful to drink quantities of water with meals it is distinctly beneficial. Recent experiments along this line are described in The New York Medical Journal. The writer says: "Not long ago it was almost the rule for physiologists to discourage the habit of drinking water except in minimum amounts with meals, on the ground that the gastric juice was thereby diluted and that digestion was impaired and delayed. This opinion is still held by many physiologists, and is the pet hobby of a great many diet cranks and cranks—professional and amateur. "On the other hand, there have been many who believed that an appetite as widely distributed as the desire to drink at the time of eating, an appetite seen in so many animals as well as in man, was a perfectly safe guide to trust, and that it was obviously a provision of Nature to supply water which was needed at this time. "Recent experimental evidence seems to confirm the latter view. The work of Foster and Lambert has shown that water is a distinct stimulant to the gastric mucosa, and that instead of the presence of water in the stomach resulting in a dilute gastric juice, it, on the other hand, occasions the secretion of a juice of higher concentration than under ordinary circumstances. "More recently Fowler and Hawk have made a study of the metabolic influences of copious water drinking with meals. A normal man, 22 years of age, was studied for a preliminary period and then for a period of five days, during which he drank three quarts of water a day with his meals. The result showed an increase in weight of two pounds. HAS NEAT TRAP FOR INSECTS Device Patented By An Oregonian For the Protection of His Apple Orchard. 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 poisonous 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 flutter against it and meet their death in the liquid below. The pumpkin festival at Nice is one of those old world customs rescued by popular sentiment from a gradual decay that was hastening towards oblivion. It is a celebration singularly unique, in that the wildest exuberance of spirit alternates with serious ceremonies, representations of art and prosalaic business dealings—a celebration so quantit and so little like the usual production: of modern mankind that it leaves one with the impression of having witnessed a scene idealized upon the stage rather than an actual festival of the present practical age. Yet the pumpkin custom undoubtedly reflects the character and individuality of its resuscitators, the inhabitants of Nice, whose deep religious instincts, innate refinement of feeling and intense love of the beautiful were the underlying forces which prompted them to revive a time-honored custom without the least trace of vulgar advertisement or sordid materialism to mar its perfect harmony.—Wide World Magazine. A recent report of the Scotch fishery board mentioned a curious habit which, according to fishermen, is associated with fish; the phases of the moon, it was asserted, have a very direct connection with the willingness of fish to be netted. To test this theory statistics were obtained of the catch of herrings from 1860 to 1900, with the result that the biggest catches were found to have coincided with new moon and the smallest with full moon. The report suggested that a full moon enabled the nets to be seen much more easily than at the times of new moon or the crescent phase or that the tides, which vary with the lunar phases, were possible factors in the matter—Westminster Gazette. Lambeth (Eng.) "OID" Church has numerous historic monuments, and in one of the windows is the full length figure of a pedier with his pack, staff and dog. This is supposed to represent the unknown person who presented "Pedder's 'Acre' to the parish upon condition that his portrait and that of his beloved canine companion should be preserved in the church and that his dog should be buried in consecrated ground. Nice's Pumpkin Festival. Fish Influenced by the Moon? "Pedlar's Acre." AMUSEMENTS Palace Pool Parlor CHAS. (Boody) ANDERSON, Proprietor. 1448 P Street, N. W. EXPERTS WORTH HIGH PRICES Enormous Charges Are Often Justified by Years Spent in Acquiring Great Skill. A great many people cannot understand why professional experts charge such enormous prices for their services; they an eminent surgeon, for example, should charge $5,000 or even $10,000 for a single operation, or a great law specialist like Elitha Root, $2,500 for a few hours' work in cross-examining a witness. They do not take into consideration that the surgeon has spent years in learning how to perform quickly and efficiently the difficult operation which saves a life that might have been lost in less skilled hands. Much of the training of the specialist is to enable him to meet the unusual, the unexpected demand. The surgeon trains for the rare operation, the possible emergency. He knows that there are times when it is knowing what the ordinary surgeon did not think it worth while to learn that may save a life. There are surgeons now living who never had a dozen emergency cases in all their experience which called into play the utmost power and skill of which they are capable, but it was these few extremely dangerous operations which gave them their great reputation and enabled them to get enormous fees. It is not the good surgeon, but the superb operator, the man who knows a little more about anatomy, who has a little steadier nerve, a more acute touch, a little better education, that is sought to perform the delicate operation in the emergency, when life hangs by a thread—Success. A professional panhandler approached a man crossing city hall park, says a New York exchange, and demanded a nickel, which the man good naturally handed out, saying: "I suppose that goes for a glass of beer." "Surest thing you know," replied the panhandler unblushingly. "And by the way, while we are on the subject I have now in my possession two nickels. Would you mind giving me a ten-cent piece for them?" "I will on one condition," said the man, whose curiosity was aroused. "What's the answer?" "Well, you see, it's this way," explained the panhandler. "If I have a dime I go into a saloon and ask for beer. I have a nickel comeback, which enables me to amble over to the free lunch counter and fill up. Maybe you don't realize that getting change over the bar gives a man a certain tone that doesn't belong to him if he just coughs up a nickel." Why He Married Elsewhere. Seymour-Why wasn't Merlach married in his own town? Ashley-Becauses every minister in his own town refused to perform the ceremony. They all knew Merlach's reputation. Seymour-His reputation? Ashley-Yes, he has the reputation of never paying his debts. Going One Better. "In dear old Boston," gushed the mald from the Hub, "we college girls are so exclusive we have individual salt cellars." "That's not so much," responded the woman from Arkansas. "Why down in our home state we are so exclusive we have individual cyclone cellars." Nothing to Talk About. "I don't see that Brown's vacation did him any good." "He hasn't had a word to say. Evidently he didn't do anything worth talking about." More Than Innuendo. "Now what shall we have to eat, old man?" "Nothing elaborate. I want to dine quietly tonight." "Want to dine quietly, eh? Walter, omit the soup." Poor Stay-at-Home. Gunner—And you don't think your wife's letters are as affectionate as usual? Well, you should make allowances when she is at the beach. Guyer (sadly)—That's all I do—make allowances. The Real Job. "I love you, dear, but I am green and rattled and I don't know how to propose." "That's all right, honey—you're through with me. All you've got to do now is to ask nana." Mrs. Stubb—John, this health magazine states that more bachelors take Turkish baths than married men. Mr Stubb (smilingly)—Well, that's nothing extraordinary, Maria. You know, there are lots of married men wives keep them in "hot water" all of the time. True Optimism. Old smoker. After all, the best pipe is a clay pipe. When you drop it you never have to pick it up. Figaro. Pride of Panhandler Why He Married Elsewhere Going One Better Poor Stay-at-Home The Real Job. Still Knocking. True Optimism. THOMAS BECKETT Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 494 Louisiana Avenue Room 15, Lewis Bldg., Washington, D. C. Joseph H. Stewart Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 609 F St. N. W. Room 203 Sylvester L. McLaurin Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 609 F ST., N. W. First Floor KNOX'S OLD CHURCH ST. GILES BETTER KEPT THAN IN DAY OF REFORMER. Famous Edinburg Meeting House Now Swept and Garnished, With Modern Stained Glass Windows and Monuments. "Come," said Dr. Samuel Johnson, when he and Boswell went to the great church of St. Giles, "let us see what was once a church." As great mediaeval churches go the collegiate church of St. Giles never was very famous architectually, says the Advance. The present structure dates from the fourteenth century. Its lantern tower and the artful arrangement of its interior pillars are the only features of interest remaining. Here as effectively as anywhere the reformation created havoc and let loose the dogs of war. The hammerlike eloquence of John Knox, who preached here his 20 sermons a week, each an hour or two long and terrife in vehemence, smashed the stained glass windows, shattered the carved images of saints, broke in pieces the priceless fabrics of mediaeval art, destroyed altars and shrines. In Dr. Johnson's day the scars were very visible. St. Giles was occupied by four distinct congregations of worshippers, the great church being partitioned off for their convenience. A prejudice existed even against cleanliness in churches. "The pew swept and lined!" cried Mess John's wife; "my husband would think it downright popery!" Even Boswell admitted that the church was shamefully dirty. Since Johnson's time the higher aesthetic taste of nations, the appreciation of medeaeval art first stimulated by the Waverley novels, have caused the attempted restoration of St. Giles'. The place is swept and garnished. There are modern stained glass windows and monuments abound. The memorial of Robert Louis Stevenson is placed among those of Montrose and Argyle. The war-worn banners of Scottish regiments give a touch of color for the eye and a thrill to memory. Here Knox shaped history. Here Jennie Geddes threw her stool. A mediaeval church, especially of the Gothic type, is not well adapted to the use of the protestant religion. There is an incongruity in the structure. The great choir, separated formerly by an impenetrable screen; the many chapels for masses, the arrangement of the building for a worship by the clergy, exclusively without reference to the comfort or convenience of the people, without the idea of an auditorium for the preaching of sermons, make an awkward adaptation for modern needs which will be especially observed in the cathedrals in England. The Scots, more logical and less conservative, rooted out the screens and turned the church into a meeting house. Martyr to Science. It has been reported that more than five thousand members have been enrolled in the "Kiss Not" club in Cincinnati, and that the club has received notice from many places where similar organizations have been founded in the interest of "good health." A teacher in an indiana town who wished to enlist the co-operation of her friends in the cause sent out a circular letter and received among others this reply: "Nearly two years ago I was so unfortunate as to be kissed by a man whose lip was not entirely free of germ fostering hair. I experienced no ill results up to the present time, and should like to make further research. I am perfectly willing to take the risk in the aid of science should the opportunity present itself." Extravagance The height or affluence is In asking your wife, your own wife, to take a spin in a hired automobile. Speaks Many Languages. Ellis island will soon have a linguistic wonder who will be able to understand pretty nearly all the would be citizens who land there. He is Henry Gellitt of St. Louis, and he is coming to the nation's gateway as a representative of the immigration commission of Missouri to direct desirable aliens thither. Mr. Gellitt speaks six languages, German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, besides many dialects of different sections of Europe. Enlightenment. "Won't you tell me something about this report that you preferred staying home and darning socks to acting?" said the interviewer. "Certainly," replied Miss Frillington. "What material do you advise for darning?" "Oh, that's an easy question. The latest style of press agent's yarn." Lover and Husband. A reserved lover, it is said, always makes a suspicuous husband—Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer," 1772. 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. Save? One Price. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D St. N. W. TENNYSON & ELLIS CO. FINE PAPERHANGERS and DECORATOR'S Pointing, Plastering, Kalsomining Window Shades To Order Prompt Attention All Work Guaranteed 1400 Pierce Place, Northwest Phone North 4045 Davis & Smith CIGARS and TOBACCO Stationery and Periodicals Confectionery and Toilet Articles 1020 You Street, N. W. Silias Johnson New Fool and Billiard Parlor 1721 1-2 Seventh Street, N. W. BARBERS OF ANCIENT TIMES Introduced Into Rome From Sicily. Their Shops Became the Ro-orts of the Fashionable. Professional barbers are said to have been introduced into Rome by Menas from Sicily, of which island he was pretor in the days of Cleoero. Under the empire their shops, in some instances, became fashionable resorts at which every luxury of the toilet was enjoyed, and the gosup and news of Rome and the empire were discussed. The means, luxury and weaknesses of personal adornment thereto carried to excess is simply immortalized in the pages of Teresa, Platanus Horace, Juvenal and Martial. Other barber shops were more retired, as we learn from the annals of the Emperor Commodus, who, having wearied at times of the wholesale tragedies of the Coliseum, wherein armies and fleets engaged in murder at his savage behest, and being desirous of a little humorous diversion used, like the Calph of Bagdad in, the Arabian Nights, to disguise himself and sally forth accompanied by two or more of his favorites, and having hired a barber's shop suitable for his purpose would place one of his men at the door to solicit custom. Having secured a customer, the emperor-barber would politely affix the towel and apply the lather, all the time keeping up a running fire of the latest tests and little pleasanties until the customer and himself were almost overcome with laughter. Then the keen-edged razor would slip and among regrets and proffers of assistance the noseless victim would be assisted to the rear of the shop, where between threats and bribes he was kept from making a riot until one or two more victims were added to the number and Commodus, tired of his demonic pleasantry, was ready to return to the palace or the arena.—Charles Winslow Hall in the National Magazine. BABY PLANETS NUMEROUS Asteroids, All Moving In Orbits Between Those of Mars and Jupiter, Number 659. It is related that when the one hundredth asteroid, or minor planet, was discovered, many years ago, certain astronomers organized a celebration of the event and that while the solemnities were in preparation two or three more asteroids were picked out in the sky by the diligent observers. These bodies, so far as recognized and officially mapped, now number 659. They all move in orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter and may be either the debris of a ruined planet or the results of an abortive attempt of nature to form a planet. The development of astronomical photography has added large numbers of these minor planets to our lists. In the Harvard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, sixty-four separate asteroids were photographed between 1838 and 1901, and forty-seven of these were new discoveries. As may be imagined, the number of these bodies is now so large that it is a difficult matter to tell whether one of them is new or is to be identified with a previous discovery. In several instances mistakes of this kind already have been made. The swarm of planetoids is a numerous one, and it has become a kind of astronomical sport to pursue them and pick them out. As instruments become more powerful and methods more delicate the smaller bodies of the group will be detected one by one and added to our charts. The exact value of such discoveries to the science of astronomy, however, is somewhat problematical.