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Address: Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase, 1212 Florida avenue northwest, or THE WASHINGTON BEE, 1109 Eye street northwest, Washington, D. C. OUR JURY SYSTEM. Our jury system should be reformed. A juror should be a man of property and education. He should know the laws of his city above everything else. A DANGEROUS BILL. 58th Congress, 3d Session. H. R. 16982. In the House of Representatives, January 4, 1905, Mr. Babcock introduced the following bill, which was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia and ordered to be printed. To further the issue of licenses for restaurants or eating houses in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That hereafter upon the written protest of a majority of the persons owning real estate on the side of the square and the side of the confronting square in which there is at present, or in which it is proposed to locate a restaurant or eating house of any kind, in the District of Columbia, the Commissioners of said District are authorized to refuse such license. THE LONDON CABBY. There are in London 2711 cab proprietors, and of these 2224 own fewer than five vehicles. As you see, it is a poor man's industry. The average price for hiring a cab is twelve and threepence a day. The poor activity of the insurance business in Russia is shown by the fact that in the entire empire there are only 28,810 companies, while the amount of insurance taken out is only $39,321,421. --- JOBS AND LEADERSHIP. From the Detroit Informer From the Detroit Informer. The Indiana Republicans have handed out to the 20,000 colored voters of that commonwealth about a half dozen menial positions such as cloak room keepers, janitors, etc., and the Recorder comments upon such treatment as follows: The colored troops fought nobly on the eighth of November last, but the Indiana legislature must have had the idea that the negro was "shot to pieces" judging from the meager recognition given. Not a decent job in the bunch, behitting the dignity and political value of a great race. And as long as our "leading" statesmen pander to such jobs, just so long will we receive them. Such jobs should be credited to the individual and not to the race. The colored Republicans of Michigan fared much better than that, but we were not a little surprised to note in the Lansing dispatches that a man riding so high upon the crest of a wave of popular commendation as Boss R. J. Willis should seek one of these positions for his own son. Mr. Willis must be mortified to think that he sought such place only to be turned down and he should now make the resolve not to permit his son to accept, much less seek, any position until he has graduated from Yale University. It is especially humiliating to the great race of coming men of America that one, of its great political leaders should prostitute himself by asking for a cloak room reappointment for his own profit after he had (as we are informed) promised his influence for the same position to divers members of the laity. Such leadership, gentlemen, will never land the race very high up in the realm of political preferment. THE BEE WILL BE THANKFUL TO SEE The interest of workingmen protected. Suffrage in the District of Columbia. The smoke law abolished and the rights of citizens protected. More colored men appointed to office. A colored precinct detective appointed. Colored lawyers organize and support each other. A Juvenile Court established and Justice O'Neal appointed to that court. Judge Scott continue to improve in health. Judge Anderson made Attorney General in President Roosevelt Cabinet. Old politicians retire and allow new blood to come to the front. Public Printer Palmer reappointed. Rev. S. L. Corrothers made a bishop. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew succeed in his new church. The Freedmen's Hospital enlarged. The three inaugural balls successful. Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback sent abroad. Hon. George H. White appointed 4th auditor. The Virginia colored Republicans recognized. Roscoe Conkling Bruce build a reputation on his Harvard diploma and not on the misfortunes of the negroes he saw in the North. L. G. Gregory re-elected president of the Bethel Literary Society. Thomas H. Wright write a book on Odd Fellowship. A few colored clerks appointed in the office of Register of Wills. Charles R. Douglass sent abroad. Dr. J. E. Sheppard, of North Carolina, sent to San Domingo. THE BEE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW If Edward E. Cooper will explain why he will publish a Catholic journal. If this is his last field of pasture. If the editor of the Record would like to Bee a Colored American or go around a dead World. If the BEE doesn't Record all dead Colored Americans. How many colored office holders will hand in their resignations. The report is that Prof. W. H. H. Hart, of Howard University, will be married to a very accomplished teacher in the public schools. The exact date of the coming event has not as yet been announced. Attorney, James H. Hayes left for Richmond, Va. Wednesday morning. Rosco Conkling B.uce. Rosco Conkling B.uce. AN INDICTMENT AGAINST THE NEGRO. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 16.—Conkling Bruce, son of the late United States Senator Blanche K. Bruce, the most noted negro statesman this country ever produced, warns negroes never to leave the South. Bruce is the head of the academic department of Booker Washington's school at Tuskegee. Competition of white labor, said Mr. Bruce, is felt with increased severity by the negro race, "This competition," he declared, "exhibits its most conspicuous effects in cities. Even in cities of the lower South black artisans find it more and more difficult to obtain regular work at regular wages." Negro contractors of large experience find themselves gradually shunted to trifling jobs, and young men of unquestionable capacity for the higher grades of industry betake themselves to domestic and personal service and to casual labor. All this hints darkly of what may come in the near future—of what has actually come in the North." Mr. Bruce then made a comparison between the negro populations of St. Louis and Philadelphia. In Philadel- J. J. HON. REED SMOOT, Will be Vindicated phia it was, in 1890, 4 percent; in St. Louis, 6 percent. In both cities the characteristic of the negro population was poverty. In one ward in Philadelphia the negroes contributed 42 percent of the population, but owned only $4\frac{1}{2}$ percent of the property. The occupations in which negroes were engaged in these cities were significant. The mass were employed in menial work. "The men are hood carriers, day laborers on the streets and at the levee, draymen, teamsters, porters, janitors, elevator boys and domestic servants." The women were chiefly launderresses and house servants. Ninety-five percent of the parents of negroes in the city of St. Louis in 1890 were engaged in personal service and unskilled labor. In both cities the negroes live in the worst houses and the most undesirable sections. Excessive crime characterizes the negro in all urban centers of the North, said the speaker. In St. Louis, though forming only 6 percent of the population, the negroes contributed 27 percent to the arrests in 1898. In Philadelphia, though forming only 4 percent of the population, they contributed $22\frac{1}{2}$ percent of the arrests in 1895. He said that more intelligent and therefore fore dangerous crime seems to come from a trained negro criminal class. The death rate is also excessive. In St. Louis in 1899 the death rate among negroes was 31.22 per thousand and among whites 16. "The causes of the negro's excessive criminality are there," said Mr. Bruce. "First, intellectual ignorance; second, imperfect moral development; third, poverty." Register J. W. Lyons, who left for his home in Augusta, Ga., last week has returned to the city. Queer Court Decisions. TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THE BAR. (By Attorney John A. Moss.) Some of the queer happenings in the dispensation of justice in the Police Court, District of Columbia.—On one occasion an old Irish woman was arraigned on the complaint of a crank who lived next door, with allowing her hefty hen to cackle after laying an egg. The plea was not guilty, the judgment guilty; the poor old woman was fined five dollars and in default to serve fifteen days in the workhouse, to be suspended on the condition that she kill the hen. The old woman could not bear the idea of killing her valuable and faithful hen, so the only thing that she could do was to serve the fifteen days; fortunately for her some kind-hearted old gentleman who happened to be in Courta and heard the case stepped, forward and paid the fine, which saved her from going to the workhouse and the life of her dear hen. Another funny thing happened to an organ grinder who had his monkey on Pennsylvania avenue one cold, rainy morning without having on its shoes. Some crank came along and J. ordered the organ grinder to go at once and put shoes on the animal, which the grinder refused to go. The crank went immediately to the Police Court and obtained a warrant for the organ grinder's arrest. An information was filed by the District Attorney, charging the old Italian with cruelly torturing and tormenting an animal of the monkey kind. When the old organ grinder was arraigned by the Clerk of the Court, his plea was not guilty. The judgment was guilty, and he was fined five dollars, but afterwards his personal bond was taken not to repeat the offense. For a number of years many persons were arrested and tried in the Police Court for obstructing the side walk with their person, without first having obtained a license so to do; thousands of dollars having been paid to the District, until some attorney raised the point of law that the statute on the subject correctly construed meant, in rem and not in personal. Whoever heard of it being against the law to get drunk and obstruct the sidewalk with your person? An, information was filed some years ago under the cruelty to animal's act against an old fisherman, charging him with cruelly torturing and tormenting an animal of the fish kind, to wit: "Skinning a catfish alive." Whoever claimed that a fish was an animal in the meaning of the law? And still another was filed against a citizen, charging him with cruelty to a certain animal of the fowl kind; that the defendant carried a chicken through the streets by its feet with head down. Now we are being annoyed by another nonsense. Prosecuting the citizen because his fire emits smoke for a half minute after the fire is started. Sooner or later this outrage will be wiped out of existence by the wisdom of the age. But still they come, one after another. What next? Why it national library . would not surprise me to read in the newspapers of the fact that a delegation of fanatics called upon the President of the United States, urging him to send a message to Congress requesting them to pass an act to make crap shooting a penitentiary offense. I have been for some time trying to get through my head what relation the people of the District of Columbia bear to the government of the United States. They are nothing more nor less than serfs, plebeians, wards of the National Government. No vote, no self government, no protection of life or property, except through Congress. What shall we do to be saved from these outrages? We are to be scourged, and I suppose tried by fire, hot and cold water and by battle. FRATERNAL I. O. N. I. C. of A., fraternal, meets at Lecompte, La., the second and third Tuesday nights in each month. R. E. Pickens, W. P. P. J. E. Dailey, W. C. S. I. O. I. N. I. C of A. F., No. 127, meets at its office, 608 Bolton street, east, the first and third Monday nights in each month. Rev. S. T. Shephard, worthy president. T. P. Haywood, W. C. S. Ocie Weathers, W. P. P. Golden Star Department of the I. O. N. I. C of A. F., No. 248, meets at St. James, La., the first and third Saturdays in each month. J. W. Walker, W. P. P. Alex. Anoisan, W. C. S. Eastern Star Department, No. 243, of the I. O. N. I. C of A. F., meets at Darrow, La., the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Leon Baptise, W. P. P. M. Baptise, W. C. S. Dempsey Wilson, W. R. S. Walton's Palace Department, No. 137, of the I. O. N. I. C of A. F., meets at Baton Rouge, La., the second and fourth Wednesdays in each month. Jacob Brown, W. P. P. H. C. Brown, W. C. S. Lippman Department of the I. O. N. I. C of A. F., No. 152, meets at Kings Ferry, Fla., the fourth Friday in each month. Jack Lippman, W. P. P. Loula Underwood, W. C. S. Western Star Department, No. 231, meets at Ennis, Tex., first and third Saturdays in each month. Spencer Cary, W. P. C. C. Carlies, W. R. S. A. Cattle, W. C. S. Eagle's Wing Department, No. 27, meets at Ashville, Fla., the second and fourth Sundays in each month. G. B. Brown, W. P. L. D. Dixon, W. C. S. Elizabeth Department, I. O. N. of A. F., No. 53, meets at Chaucey, Ga., on the first Saturday in each month. Rev. E. Adams, W. P. P. Peter Stanley, W. C. S. Department No. 136 meets at Baton Rouge, La., first and third Wednesday nights in each month. Jos. Newton, W. P. P. M. B. Stewart, W. C. Fraternal Sunrise Department, No. 17, meets at Fort Worth, Tex. the first and third Wednesdays in each month. R. R. Sloan, W. P. P.; Henry Henderson, W. P. P.; M. Mathew W. F. V. P.; I. B. Balenger, W. C. S. Sunrise Department, No. 31, meets at Dallas, Tex., second and fourth Thursday nights in each month. A. R. Brown, W. P. P. S. A. N. Hamilton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W. R. S. Savannah Slaughter, W. C. S. Department No. 13 meets at Lake City, Fla., first and second Monday nights in each month. Joe Dorsey, W. P. P. W. M. Pasco, W. F. V. P. Giles Duncan, W. C. C. B. Bartley, W. C. S. NOTICE. To all Departments of the I. Q. N. I. C. of A. Fraternal, the semi-annual pass word is ready for all Departments. Send for it at once. See Ritual, page 13. I. L. Walton. Sardine curers in France are nearly all women, who sometimes work twenty hours out of the twenty-four. They are paid at the rate of thirty cents per 1,000 fish. The most expensive chair in the world belongs to the pope. It is of solid silver, and cost $90,000. It will require five years to construct the Rattcliff-Rotherhithe tunnel now being built under the Thames. Its length will be 6,883 feet, with an external diameter of thirty feet, which will allow a carriageway of sixteen feet and two footways of four feet eight and one-half inches wide. When it is finished there will be three tunnels under the Thames at London. Let the negro quit talking so much and work more, take a little more time in attending his own business. An Outrage. TEN MEN COMMIT RAPE ON 16-YEAR-OLD VIGTIM. Detroit Informer. Tillie Kuna, aged 16, was rescued from a saloon on Riopole street Sunday night by the police, after having been assaulted by ten men, two of whom were married. All of the parties to the beastly outrage were white people. How lightly the wanton-killing of the negro has become to be regarded in some southern communities is brought out by an incident of the week at Memphis, which hardly needs comment. An inoffensive negro was hawking chickens about the street, when Patrolman Boyles, who was not in uniform at the time, jumped at the conclusion that the chickens had been stolen and arrested the man. While he went to put on his uniform he left his prisoner in custody of a near-by grocer, rightly named Slaughter, to whom he handed his pistol with the off-hand injunction. "If the tries to get away from you, kill him." Slaughter's assertion that the negro made a break for liberty is disputed by the testimony of bystanders, but at all events he fired on the negro, wounding him so severely that he died next morning. "Well, you got him, didn't you?" said Boyles on his return. "If I didn't, I almost," answered Slaughter with a smile. The policeman's only statement in palliation of the unprovoked killing was that the deputy to whom he delegated his authority had "taken his instructions literally." The most shocking feature of the affair is that Slaughter has not been arrested, and the policeman is apparently to continue on his beat. The Commercial-Appeals may well exclaim in bitterness: "Life in this community is cheap!" The life of a negro is so valueless that it is freely taken without fear of future punishment in this world—N. Y. Evening Post. The New York Evening Post or January 20th states this: "Robert Graves, of No. 860 East One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street, to-day declares that he had a deed of 1742 which entitles him to all the vast tract of Virginia territory that was granted to Lord Fairfax by an English King, and he will begin proceedings to get possession of it. He is about to enter into communication with the descendants of the maker of the deed, and also with those who hold the property to which it refers. He inherited the deed." The New York Evening Journal says: Mrs. J. H. Petit dropped a bomb into the lap of the society maids and matrons of the Minerva Club at the Waldorf-Astoria by declaring that the girls of the "400" should know how to cook. "A girl ignorant of home-keeping has no more right to marry than a man ignorant of bread-earning," she said. "Let us teach those who are members of our families, whether maids or daughters, that work done in the kitchen is quite as honorable and much more necessary than the accomplishments of the drawing-room. "Why cannot housework be made a popular fad?" she asked. "If the '400' would take it up as a pastime others would speedily follow." William Neidlinger gave a lecture illustrated by songs on "Music and Common Life," and said that American women were the most beautiful and well dressed, but had the worst voices in the world. A pianist has to cultivate the eye to see about 1500 signs in one minute, the fingers to make about 2000 movements and the brain to receive and understand separately the 1500 signs while it issues 2000 orders. In playing Weber's "Moto Perpetuo" a pianist has to read 4541 notes in a little under, four minutes. One of the most remarkable forms of clock in the world is a clock fan manufactured by a Swiss jeweler. The clock consists of twelve leaves hinged like an ordinary fan. The number of the hour is marked from one to twelve at the end of each of these leaves. The fan timepiece starts at six o'clock and expands regularly for twelve hours, when it suddenly closes up and starts all over again. The half-hour is indicated by the leaf of the fan being only half extended. The laws of Italy are strict with regard to theaters and circuses. Every act or performance announced on the program must be given. Any great exaggeration by means of pictures is punishable. COLLECTION OF BARE SIGNATURES DISPOSED OF. Letters of George Washington and Thomas Lynch, Jr., Bring $200 Each-Prices Brought by Philadelphia. — Attorney General Hampton L. Carson's fine collection of autographs was recently sold at auction. The collection included autograph letters by signers of the declaration of independence, members of the continental congress, presidents and their cabinets, naval and army officers, and men of note in many other vocations. The bidding was somewhat desultory, but it was said that the articles brought fair prices. The most notable prices for single articles were paid for the original manuscript report of the commissioners to the Annapolis convention, under date of September 1, 1786, and an original letter written by George Washington to Attorney General Randolph, October 1, 1793, in reference to changing the meeting place of congress because of the prevalence of yellow fever in Philadelphia. These were bought for $200 each. The highest price obtained was $200, paid for the autograph of Thomas Lynch, Jr., signer of the declaration of independence from South Carolina, on the title page of a book printed in London in 1749. Only one letter written by Mr. Lynch is known to exist, and his autograph is exceedingly rare. The Washington autographs, as a whole, brought the best prices. Other autographs brought prices as follows: Andrew Jackson, February 14, 1818, $16; President Taylor, Mexico, 1847, $18; President Lincoln, Washington, April 12, 1861, $50; Grant, Fort Donnelly, February 10, 1865, $105; Grover Cleveland, August 23, 1867, $4; President Roosevelt, New York, 1897, $1.30; Benjamin Franklin, February 28, 1748, $45; John Bair, December 11, 1788, $7.250; Commodore Bainbridge, commander of the Constitution, $6.50; Benedict Arnold, Philadelphia, October, 19, 1778, $24; Jefferson Davis, $1; Admiral Dewey, 1900, $1.10; Cardinal Gibbons, 35 cents; Stephen Girard, Philadelphia, June 13, 1814, $1.50; autograph copy of poem, "Old Ironside," by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, June 10, 1842, $29; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1835, $4, and another, 1879, $2.50; Louis XVI. of France, $3.75; Thomas Paine, Philadelphia, 1781, $5.50; autograph poem by Bayard Taylor, Hongkong, 1853, $12; John Greenleaf Whittler, Amesbury, $1.50. MAY FREE OLDEST PRISONER John Warren, for 43 Years in a Connecticut Penitentiary, Sues for a Pardon. Wethersfield, Conn.—John Warren, who has been in prison longer than any man in this country, having been at the state's prison here for 43 years, may be released the coming summer by the board of pardons. At the meeting of the board he presented a petition to be allowed to spend his remaining days with his brothers, who promised to care for him the rest of his life. The petition was continued until the June session. Warren came to Wethersfield in December, 1859, and he is now 66 years old. According to the testimony at his trial, he was married to Julia E. Turner when he was but 17 and she but 15. They quarreled continually, and one day in the early spring he persuaded his wife to take a walk with him in the woods. They sat down on the bank of a dried-up stream, in which there were little pools of water, and while his wife's back was turned Warren grabbed her by the throat and held her nose and mouth under the water until she was drowned. Then he dragged the body into a clump of woods three miles away. It was said that another woman whom he wished to marry witnessed the crime. KANSAS' BIG OIL YIELD. State's Product for 1904 Is 5,600,000 Barrels—Beats the Pennsyl- Via Output Chanute, Kan. For 1904 the total production in the Kansas oil field was approximately 5,600,000 barrels. In 1903 the production was 1,118,000 barrels. The increase is a fraction more than 500 per cent. Since the discovery of oil in 1856 nothing like this record has been made. Kansas has made more progress in oil industry in 12 months than was accomplished in Pennsylvania in 17 years. During the year just closed there has been invested in the oil business, leases, drilling, pipe lines, pumping plants, and the like, about $50,000,000. The wells themselves have cost $5,000,000 more. Tankage has cost $15,000,000 more and pipe lines of all sizes, pumping plants, and other improvements bring the total to $50,000,000, an average monthly investment of $4,166,000. Taking the average price of oil for the year, there has been paid out more than $4,000,000 to the producer and more than that to labor. More than 3,000 miles of oil and gas pipe lines have been laid. William W. Rockwell, chosen to succeed Mr. Conger as minister to China, is noted as an orientalist. He has explored the greater portion of China and Thibet, and speaks and writes in Chinese. Thibetan and Sanskrit as readily as in English. Solution Simple. Dr. Spitzla says the brains of criminals are in no sense abnormal. If the whole truth were known, it would probably appear that a majority of the criminals are merely too lazy to work. TEN THOUSAND CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS WANTED At the Great Union Revival Services at Cadet Armory, 708 O street, N. W., Washington, D. C., under the auspices of the National Negro Baptist Preachers' Union of Washington and vicinity. Conducted by the famous pulpit orator and evangelist, Rev. S. P. Drew, D. D. Rev. Drew is considered one of the leading Baptist Evangelists of the United States. Rev. Drew's wonderful revival work in New York, 1898-1899, two hundred persons converted. North Carolina, 1901, three hundred converted. Massachusetts, 1902, one hundred converted. Washington, B. C., eight weeks' preaching, 670 persons gave their names to join the church. Notice.—Churches desiring to engage Rev. Drew's services to conduct revival meetings, can write or call at his address, 2014 Eighth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. Enclose stamp. Terms: The church pays expenses, such as board and lodging, and allow one Sunday for the people to give him a free will offering. No charge will be made for conducting the revival. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew was duly licensed as a minister July 10, 1894, by the St. Paul's Baptist church of New York City, and ordained by a Baptist Council at a call of the Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, of New York State, October 29, 1896. Of this Council, Rev. B. W. Walker, of Mt. Gildee Baptist Church, was the moderator; Luther W. Smith, of Hansome Place Baptist Church, was secretary of the Council; Rev. W. T. Dixon, D. D., of Concord Baptist Church, of New York, and Rev. R. D. Wynn, D. D., of Bethany Baptist Church, of Newark, N. J., were witnesses at the Council. STEAM RAILWAY STATISTICS Over 200,000 Miles of Tracks in the United States at Beginning of 1904—Increase During Year. The total steam railway mileage of the United States at the end of 1903 was 207,604 miles, an increase of 4,595 miles during the year, according to Poor's Manual, recently issued. In the southwestern states, 1,804 miles were built, 683 miles in the northwestern states, 602 miles in the gulf and Mississippi valley states, 562 miles in the Pacific coast states, 486 miles in the central northern states, 348 miles in the middle states, and only 12 miles in New England. The total assets of the railroads are given as $14,862,111,544, and the liabilities $14,289,529,959. The total earnings were $1,908,857,826 in 1903, and $1,720,814,900 in 1902. The operating expenses and taxes in 1903 were $1,316,349,314, and in 1902 were $1,160,788,623. Net earnings in 1903 were $592,508,512 and in 1902 were $560,026,277. The interest paid on bonds in 1903 was $239,426,707, and in 1902 was $222,614,909. In 1903 the stock dividends amounted to $164,549,147, and in 1902 to $151,019,537. The surplus of all roads in 1903 was $121,880,088, and in 1902 it was $109,166,434. The number of tons of freight transported in 1903 was 1,306,628,858, and in 1902 was 1,192,136,510. In 1903 the railroads carried 696,949,925 passengers, and in 1902 the number was 655,130,236. IMPOSES NOVEL SENTENCE. New Jersey Judge Orders Professional Woman Beggar to Pay Fine of Ten Cents Daily for Two Years. Judge Algeron T. Sweeney, in the criminal court at Newark, N. J., the other day, imposed upon Mrs. Beula McCarton, convicted before him of professional begging, a sentence that is said to have no parallel in the annals of Jersey justice. "The sentence of this court," announced Judge Sweeney, "is that you shall pay a fine of ten cents daily for a period of two years, and that you shall appear in this court each day to make the payment the court has directed. The total will be $73." Mrs. McCarton is 35 years old. The police say she is a member of the notorious McCarton Family, several of the members of which were arrested in New York recently, charged with being professional "beats." Their record extends over many cities in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On imposing the novel penalty, payable on the installment plan, Judge Sweeney paroled McCarton, with the instructions that if she should not be able to raise the ten cents on any day, she must come and report, leaving to him the option of changing the penalty from the fine to imprisonment. The "Chink" Also Comes In. The new head tax of $500 which the Dominion of Canada now imposes upon Celestials who intend to settle within its borders is said very effectually to have closed the doors through British Columbia, though, of course, remarks the Boston Transcript, every now and then an individual Chinaman slips in through a chink. THE WASHINGTON GEE. FRANKHUM Wholesale Grocer ent for the District of Columbia for LIPTON'S renowned O AS. 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WE HAVE Other MAKES Take... in trade which we can w PRICES ffffff UPRIGHT PIANOS AS LOW A 15, square Pianos . 5, Organs terms to st Stieff WARE ROOMS 581 11th St N W REVIVE OLD THEATER HAT. French Milliners Resurrect Head-Gear ;That Does Not Obstruct View— Called the Beguin. "The inclosed tickets are sold on the understanding that ladies will remove hat, bonnets, or any kind of headdress." Such is the text of a little printed notice which the box office officials of the Royal Court theater, of London, hand with the tickets to every lady patron of a matinee performance. Ladies are to be aided in respecting the new rule by the placing of the coakrooms at their free disposal. At the same time news comes from Paris, where the ladies' expensive headgear is even more luxurious both afternoon and evening theatergoers, that there is about to be a revival of the old-fashioned beguin and the small theater bonne Parisian milliners are ing these articles in large quantities. The bonnet is a kind of small toque, and the beginn is very like a Dutch bonnet, lying quite flat on the head, with a little spray of algrette at the side. The movement is being made in conjunction with the Paris theatrical authorities, and at one place of entertainment, at least, the Gymnase, a notice relative to the wearing of the new.headgear is to be posted over the ticket sellers' desks. Ten years ago beguins were worn in London, and an attempt was made last year to revive them, but without success. GREYHOUND WORTH $10,000 Princess Maud, Who Has Run Mile in Less Than Two Minutes, Is Fastest in the World. A $10,000 dog. Such is Princess Maud, the fleetest dog in the world, owned by Capt. Jay Thomas Vickery, who has a ranch in Oklahoma, where he keeps a string of dogs well able to run a mile inside of two minutes. Princess Maud bears the proud distinction of having run a mile in one minute and forty-nine seconds, which is the world's record. Capt. Vickery is a greyhound fancier and expert. He owns the finest greyhounds in this country. On a large ranch in Oklahoma he trains his runners in contests with the swiftest jack rabbit of the plains. Princess Maud is a modest canine, sticking close to the heels of her master as he walks through the streets. Except for the fact that she is trim and sleek looking she does not give the slightest idea of her value, which is placed by Capt. Vickery at $10,000. She is of a dark fawn color, with thin body and attenuated legs, and when standing assumes the slightly tilted forward position indicative of the runner. Capt. Vickery is now in 'Washington, and as he walks from place to place with Princess Maud in his wake the dog attracts a great deal of attention. She has captivated the hearts of all dog lovers, and many of her admirers have expressed a desire that they might see her run. ONLY THREE PROPOSED. Warrenburg, N. Y., Maidens Are Slow in Taking Advantage of the Leap Year. Statistics at the town clerk's office of Warrenburg, N. Y., go to show that the Warrenburg girls up to the present time have not been taking advantage of the leap year with that avidity which was expected of them. Since the year began there have been only three marriages in town following direct proposals made by the brides. In each case the young women popped the question and led their blushing bridegrooms to the altar within 30 days, so the Warrenburg News has been creditably informed by one of the grooms who seemed to be posted and made a clean breast of the whole affair. That there have not been, therefore, more weddings in Warrensburg directly due to leap year may be from the fact that the girls had been waiting for Halloween en to help them cinch things. Now that this has passed there are unconfirmed rumors that there will soon be "something doing." HAS FORTUNE IN HIS HAT. Mexican Dies Suddenly and Widow Finds Notes for $125,000 Concealed in the Crown. Mrs. Juana Garcia N. Yiude de Junco has been put into possession of the property and money left by her husband, Saturnine Junco. The money amounts to $125,000 in bank notes. Junco owned a tienda at the corner of Rebeldes and Callejon del Santísimo, opposite the Nuevo Mexico drug store, in Mexico City. He always and at all times by day and by night wore a black hat which he had worn for years. Everybody believed that he was superstitious about his hat, because he never put it aside. Even when he went to the barber shop he sat in the chair, having his hat in his hands. When he died it was found that the crown of another hat was carefully sewed in the interior of the hat, and between the two there was $125,000 in bank notes. Where the Rub Comes In. Over in Spain the man who becomes the father of a large family receives a title. But, asks the Chicago Record-Herald, do Spanish titles help to pay grocery bills? A Wealthy Widow. Mrs. Russell, widow of Henry Grinnell Russell, of Providence, R. I., is the richest woman in New England. She has $29,000,000 and no children. STUDENTS IN HOMES. THE SERVANT GIRL PROBLEM SOLVED IN NEBRASKA. Young Men Do Housework of All Kinds to Pay Their Way Through College—Boys Cook, Bake Lincoln, Neb.-A labor union decree and the necessities of some students at the University of Nebraska, have resulted in the partial solving of the servant girl question in Lincoln. Fully a dozen young men who have been taking a course in domestic science are now holding down positions as men of all work in as many families in this city. Of the 3,000 students at the university a number are compelled to work their way through college. These have found jobs in local stores, offices and newspapers, where their spare time is spent. Previous to the first part of the year some worked in restaurants as waiters. Then the waiters' union served notice upon the restaurant keeperes that hereafter none but union men should be employed. The result of this was that most of the students were compelled to give up their employment. In casting about for something to do the suggestion was made that the boys might be able to supply a part at least of the demand for household help. None of them was qualified, however, for such work. Nothing haunted, they applied to Miss Bouten, head of the domestic science department of the university, for entrance into her classes. As the rules of the institution made no distinction between sex in any course the young men were admitted. For a number of months they worked diligently learning how to cook and bake, how to sweep and care for rooms, and when the present semester opened a dozen of the young men applied to advertising housekeepers for places. When they succeeded in convincing the housekeepers that it was not a college prank, but that they were in earnest, they were tried. All of them are still in service, and they are giving satisfaction. The care of the furnace and the scrubbing of walks have always been tasks at which most domestics balked, but they have been cheerfully performed by the young men. School duties take up only a few hours of a day, and by hustling the boys are able to hold their positions and keep up with their classes. Early rising enables them to have the morning meal ready when the family gets up, and by nine o'clock their morning duties are ended and they are free to pass two hours in the classrooms. The afternoon gives them additional time for recitation, and the evenings, after the household work is finished, are spent in study. Most of these young men are sons of farmers and have been accustomed to doing chores, and they find it possible to make more money, while being provided with warm quarters and plenty of food, than at their old precarious jobs. The course of study in the domestic science department is well adapted to fitting them for household tasks. Some of the girls also eke out their slender resources by similar work. LOVERS OUTWIT MAMMA. Old Lady Stops First Ceremony, But Couples Get Away and the Knot Is Tied. Larned, Kah.—At the hotel in Larned the other evening Mr. Thompeon, of Harrington, and Lottie Parrot, of Larned, were about to be married. A number of the guests at the hotel assembled in the parlor to witness the ceremony. But as an official was about to pronounce them man and wife, the mother of the bride swooped down on the assembly, captured the girl, and carried her to a room in the hotel. There she put the girl to bed, and, it is said, retired with her, that no chance could be had for escape. However that may be, "two shadowy figures might have been seen making their way from the hotel before daylight, and they went to the home of Judge Stockman. waked him up, and in a very short time the knot was securely tied." Then the couple went to the depot and took the early train out of town What the mother said or did when she woke up and found the girl gone is not recorded MAKES HORSE COMPANION. Master Eats Nearly Same Fare as the Animal with Which He Lives. Alexandria, Ind.-Jules Samplou, a Belgian glass blower during the palmy days of the gas belt, but for years known as the "Hermit of Orestes," three miles west of the city, has been declared insane and has been transferred to the Richmond insane asylum. Samplou lost his mind because he was jilted by his girl in Belgium, since which time he has shunned men and lived alone with a sorrel horse in a ten-foot square hovel, wholly devoid of furniture. When his insanity was first noticeable he was found one morning in his room, which was carpeted with uncashed wage checks footing over $700. He has plenty of money, but eats nearly the same fare as his host. He used to come to this city every two weeks for oats, corn, etc., which he carried home or pushed in a hand cart, the horse, a beautiful sorrel, walking meekly along behind. He allowed the horse to do no work. And now it is said that Stoessel must tried by const-martial. That's what gets for being a hero. INSCRIPTION WRITTEN BY ORDER OF ASSYRIAN KING. Is Translated Into English by Prof Torrey, of Yale University Block of Clay Made 2,700 New Haven, Conn.—An interesting inscription, made upon a sun-baked brick some 2,700 years ago, by order of Shalmanese II., king of Assyria, has just been translated into English by Prof. Charles C. Torrey, of Yale university The brick has been in the possession of Yale for almost 50 years, but the cuneiform writing in the inscription is of a rude character, and a previous attempt at translation in 1870 was only partly successful. The inscription is a short eulogy of the king and his father. It ends in a manner calculated to remind one of the old nursery rhyme about "The House That Jack Built." The full inscription, as translated by Prof. Torrey, is: "Shalmaneser, the great king, the mighty king, ruler of the universe, king of the land of Assyria; son of Ashurnasirpal, the great king, the mighty king, ruler of the universe, king of the land of Assyria; son of Tukulti-Ninah, ruler of the universe, king of the land of Assyria, and he built the tower of the City of Calah." What the tower of Calah was, and why it was considered of sufficient importance to be mentioned as the chief fact worthy of remembrance in connection with this "ruler of the universe" with the hard name, nobody knows. An attempt was made some years ago to identify the tower mentioned as the Tower of Babel of Biblical fame, mention of it being made in another ancient Assyrian inscription as a noteworthy achievement. However, it is now generally conceded that the ground for supposing them to be the same is very slight. King Shalmaneser, the author of the inscription, is known in history as among the first Assyrian kings to make captives of the Hebrews. A description of his attacks upon them is given in 2 Kings 29 and 30. This is the time of year when you will appreciate the many benefits and privileges of our Peerless Credit System, because it allows you to buy whatever may be needed in Parlor, Bed Room and Dining Room Furniture, also Carpets, Draperies, Crockery, Bedwear, Stoves, Ranges, etc., without disturbing your Christmas money. Our stocks in all departments are now at their very best and whatever you buy here can be depended upon—ABSOLUTELY—for durability. Our Carpet stock contains the newest weaves and richest colorings in all the standard grades, and although prices are substantially reduced, we still continue to do the making, laying and lining entirely free of cost, which is a saving of from 20 to 25 cents on the cost of every yard as compared with cash store prices. Help yourself to whatever you need From other sources it is evident that the king was also a practical joker of a grim sort. He himself relates, in another brick, which was presented to Yale at the same time with one recently translated, that he conquered many tribes, and some of them he boiled in pitch and some he made slaves, putting rings in their noses to increase their tractability. He is also said to be the originator of the "turkey dance," now sometimes seen at country fairs the principle of which is the well-known fact that a turkey, or "anybody" else, dislikes to stand still when the floor beneath the feet is hot. Shalmaneser is said to have induced his captives to dance in a similar manner. THE OLDEST CONFEDERATE Patrick Clark of Lucky Hill, Va., Veteran of Three Wars, Passes the Century Mark. Richmond, Va—In Patrick Clark, of Lucky Hill, on the Southern railway, between Remington and Bealeton, Fauquier county can boast of probably the oldest confederate veteran living to-day Born in Ireland in 1794, he emigrated to this country when a small lad, with his parents. At 18 he enlisted in the American army, and served through the entire war of 1812 In 1847 he joined the Eighth United States regulars, sailed from New York city to Vera Cruz, was placed in Gen. Worth's famous division, and took a very active part in all the fighting that led up to the capture of the City of Mexico. At the close of the Mexican war he was discharged at the Jefferson barracks, in Missouri. He served four years in the confederate army, a member of the Sixth Louisiana, infantry. Early's division, army of northern Virginia, and was a participant in some of the fiercest engagements of that bloody period. His general health is excellent. He can walk around, appears to be very cheerful, and experiences a great delight in describing the numerous conflicts in which he has taken part. He is entirely blind, is very hard of hearing, and almost entirely dependent upon a pension of $12 a month which he receives from the national government for his services in the Mexican war. NOVEL SMOKING CONTEST. German Clubman Wins $125 by Making His Cigar Burn Over Two Hours Without Going Out. Berlin. At one of the clubs here a lively dispute has just been settled by a novel competition. A discussion having arisen in the smoking-room as to how long a cigar would last a smoker without going out, it was agreed that the six persons present should light at the same moment cigars of the same brand and thus settle the matter One of them was unable to make his smoke longer than half an hour; another 50 minutes.- The third smoked just an hour, the fourth an hour and a half, and the fifth one hour and fifty minutes. Finally the sixth alone was smoking, and he continued beyond the two hour mark, and won the prize of 500 marks, or $125. Salida, Col.. expects to have a factory for the extraction of gum from the "Colorado rubber plant" in operation soon. A building was recently donated by the business men to aid in establishing the new industry, and it is now being prepared for the reception of the necessary machinery, which has been ordered. INVENTION OF A NEW ENGLAND SEA-FARING MAN. It Will Hold Up One Hundred People and Is Claimed to Be Unsinkable in the Roughest Seas. Boston.—The new life float invented by Capt. L. W. Myers, who has been in charge of the United States lighthouse in Lubec Narrows, promises to be a wonderful aid for the saving of lives during shipwreck. During the past 35 years the inventor has followed the seas and has had considerable experience on sailing boats and steamers, and saw there was an opportunity of improving on the present style of life boats and life rafts such as are carried on the largest steamers which go to all parts of the world. It was' about 15 years ago that he first began work on the model of the boat which he has now built, but during these years he has made many improvements and changes on the original design. The boat is similar in shape to a sadiron, but is built substantial, light, comfortable and compact, so that two of hem will not take up more room on the deck of a steamer than one of the ordinary life rafts. LET US SUPPLY THE FURNITURE AND CARPETS. The craft is 16 feet long, seven feet wide, three and one-half feet deep and has 156 air-tight compartments and will float about 3,500 pounds of dead weight, says the Globe. She will accommodate 20 people inside and as many on the outside, but in case of necessity more can be taken inside, and with the hand lines on the side it would not be difficult for the craft to hold up 100 people. Inside are two water tanks, and provisions can be stored away for 20 people suitable for 20 days on half rations, while the anchor, oars, mast, sail and A The Following Discounts Form an Attractive Feature of Our Popular Credit System: 10 Per Cent Discount for Cash With Order or if Paid in Full Within Thirty Days. 7 1/2 Per Cent Discount if Paid in Full Within Sixty Days. 5 Per Cent Discount if Paid in Full Within Ninety Days. jib, as well as all necessary gear, can be taken on board. When loaded the boat will draw about 15 inches of water, and at the present time she will draw only five inches, so that she will be able to pass over a very shallow bar or rocks in safety, and as the boat is called "non-slinkable," those inside or out will have a far better chance to battle with the heavy seas than with the ordinary life raft of the present day, and the usual life boat is as an egg shell compared with Cajun Myers' boat. There are two heavy pieces of glass on both bottom and top of the craft so that those inside can read and write easily when the windows and doors are fastened down, and cushions are provided for those inside to sit on, while straps are provided to place over the arms when the weather is very rough. To get fresh air inside two pipes of two-inch are provided, each being fitted with stop corks, so that no matter which side of the boat is up the occupants can be supplied, but when the seas are not rough the two doors can be left open, and there is plenty of room outside on the deck where one can go with more safety than on a life raft or on a life boat. The price of every article in our house is marked in plain figures, and these marked prices are as low as goods of equal quality can be bought for in any cash store. So, even though you may not avail yourself of the discounts named above, you are still enabled to buy at spot cash prices, and have practically your own time in which to pay the bill. For many years we have made a specialty of furnishing homes for newly married couples. Everything necessary to complete housekeeping can be had here, and we are very careful to arrange the payments to suit their convenience. There is absolutely no formality attached to our method of giving credit. No matter how much or how little is required, it can be bought most advantageously and on the easiest weekly or monthly payments ever offered by any house in Washington. There are four doors fitted on the craft, two on the top and two on the bottom, although it does not matter which side is up, as they are exactly the same, and those inside would have any difficulty if the boat should turn over in the sea when the doors are fastened from the inside. 817-819-821-823 SEVENTH STREET N.W., BETWEEN H AND I STS. A sail and jib are also fitted to the boat, also a rudder on each end, and chances for four to six men at the oars on the top in light weather, but one man can operate the craft without difficulty. --- She is built of heavy oak planks covered with galvanized steel inside and out, and even if a number of the watertight compartments should be broken she would continue to float, as Capt. Myers says she will keep up at least 100 people in the water Around the middle of the boat are heavy guards having 18, guard lines which can be held by anyone overboard and with these ropes 18 men can pick up the boat and carry it along. It will not be necessary to carry this boat to launch her, as an ingeniously arranged cradle another of Capt. Myers' inventions, is provided with the boat, and with the even a small child can pull the string and launch the life boat in quick time: she can be pushed over the sides of a steamer when the last one is on board and inside, or after the occupants have taken up their places inside and fastened down the doors all it will be necessary to do is to wait until the seas wash her over the sides of the steamer, and she is bound to come up one side top or bottom, which will make no difference to those inside. The stems of the boat are 11 inches in thickness, and if anything should be struck it would not seriously affect The craft, in fact, would go through a wharf or building. The Bee. PUBLISHED AT 1709 "I" St., N. W. Washington, D.C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR. Entered at the Post at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1881. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy per year..... $2.00 six months..... 1.00 Vhree Months ..... 60 Subscribe, monthly..... 20 GENETRATE THE MASSES. Gen. O. O. Howard sent a letter to be read at a public gathering among which were a number of old colored veterans of the War of the Rebellion, at the Second Baptist Church last week, upon request that the General send a word of advice and encouragement as to the best way the freedmen and their descendants could achieve the best results of emancipation. After referring to the vast progress which the race has made since the war, General Howard urged that the means of uplifting the colored people were the same as that required in building up any other people; that mental, moral and industrial training were the great forces necessary in the work of the highest and best civilization; that the teachings and practice of morality and religion were all important, and that the work of the teacher could not be overestimated. The General in one brief sentence seemed to have encompassed the entire field, summing up in a nutshell, as it were, the one great thing needful in the uplift of this people and which seemed to emanate as an order from headquarters: "We must penetrate the masses." The people of Washington know Gen. O. O. Howard. The colored people especially esteem and honor him, for they have been favored in a special way by his priceless benefactions. Howard University alone is an enduring monument to his name. And what he meant by saying "We must penetrate the masses" needs no comment. He knew whereof he spoke. His experience in the Freedmen's Bureau and especially the educational branch of it, gave him reason to be heard. Thousands of our young men and women who have graduated from Howard University and other institutions of learning have gone out into the dark corners of our colored population, carrying the torch of education. They have done well. The ministers have endeavored to reach the masses, but they might get even closer to the more benighted ones of our race. Of course it is natural for many of our race that are favored with the good things of this world, well born and brave, refined and wealthy, who do not think it incumbent upon them to go into the dark places and scatter the light of their power and intelligence to lift up the more unfortunate members of their race. Some are too proud and would even ignore their own race entirely, were it not for the earmarks which the white people but too plainly see. One thing is sure—unless the better element of the colored race is willing to reach down and help the masses of poor, ignorant negroes, their upward movement cannot go on. By lending our means to advance the work or taking a personal hand in uplifting we will add to the honor of the entire race. "PENE-TRATE THE MASSES." THE RUSSIAN REVOLT. The situation at the Russian Capital is indeed heartrending. It only demonstrates the fact that there are times in the condition of governments that will often force people to liberate them-selves from tyrannical rule. Ancient forms of governments must sooner or later fail. Civilization is progressing, and when the strong arm of oppression terrorizes a nation by oppressive laws and conditions, the people are forced to rebel and demand a change in existing conditions to that of popular government. The poor people of Russia who appealed to the proper authorities to allow them to present a petition it was the duty of the government to grant such a simple request. A ruler who is too timid to meet his people and hear their grievances is unfit to rule. Because the government of Russia with a superior military force had the power to oppress, it is not believed that the more civilized in this world will attempt to justify the Russian Government for the cowardly killing of helpless men, women and children. The press dispatches show that the people who desired to petition the Czar went to the palace unarmed. This was shown when the dead bodies of those innocent victims were searched. There are times in the affairs and conditions of oppressed nations when they must rid themselves of tyrants and tyrannical rule. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new era. Perhaps there may spring up a popular government and the Russian people may yet be free or shake the chains that bind them. The Russian Empire is weak. With a vast territory and extensive population, that such a revolt should exist is self-evident of the misgovernment of the empire by those in authority. The spectacle last Sunday was no doubt the most bloody and the most cruel and the most cowardly that this civilized world has ever witnessed. The Czar played the part of a coward. His advisers were equally as cowardly. It is doubtful whether posterity will ever record another such massacre. THE NEW APOLOGIST. And now comes upon the scene a new apologist, in the person of Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, the only son of THE BEE's lamented friend, exSenator Blanch K. Bruce, of Mississippi. He gives out for publication a most remarkable statement. This young man has made the greatest blunder of his life. He compromises the Northern colored man to satisfy and appease the prejudiced thirst of the Southern oligarchy. What does he hope to gain? Is it his selfish and personal ambition that he means to elevate? Or does he hope for a reward by being placed at the head of Tuskegee Institute? He has overlooked the great white criminal classes in those States in which he claims that the negro criminals are so numerous. With a greedy thirst, the white press of the country takes almost with force his declarations to further degrade the struggling negro race. Is this what he was taught in the great New England colleges? Did the environments of Massachusetts so degrade and weaken his intellect to the extent that at this late date he sees nothing in the Northern negro race but the characteristics of criminals? Certainly the Northern colored men will immediately repudiate this young upstart and teach him that the Northern American negro is capable of higher aspirations than what Mr. Bruce gives him credit for. It seems to THE BEE that the more learned some negroes are in books the more dangerous they are to the race. It seems that the greatest enemies of the race are those within the race. The greatest impediment race is forced to overcome are those that emanate within its own household. It is not necessary to waste so much valuable space contradicting the recent libel of Mr. Bruce and his disconnected and malicious indictments. THE BEE will not demur because they are not demurrable. THE BEE will not plead to them, because they will die by limitation. But, why should THE BEE express surprise? No, Bruce inherited his recent utterances. He has instilled in him that blood that knows nothing but humiliation. He is the offspring of a generation that always regarded the white race as possessing superior intellect and manhood. It is quite evident that the negro race, before it can succeed, must get rid of the apologists and trimmers before it ever reaches that diadem that makes men and nations great. SANTO DOMINGO. Santo Domingo is to be towed out of her sea of troubles by our national --- This may turn out to be a fine piece of statecraft on the part of Uncle Sam, as he has kept his weather-eye on that island for many years. During Grant's administration there was an effort made looking toward annexation, but the project was defeated by Senator Sumner. Since then the United States has grown to be quite a world power by extending her dominions in foreign climes, and no one can tell just where this business will end. We would like to see a free and stable government maintained in Santo Domingo and the inhabitants thereof enjoy the full measure of national prosperity. Nature has lavished upon that beautiful isle her very choicest gifts—the natural resources—salubrious climate—fertile soil, and its situation as a strategic naval point make it a coveted prize for the great naval powers of the world, and in the crisis, financial and otherwise, which has caused the government to toitier it is well that the United States has gone to the rescue of the little republic so as to keep her from falling into the hands of some designing monarchical power. By aiding Santo Domingo to arrange her finances and maintain her integrity as an independent republic, this government is acting on the highest principles of modern statesmanship. AGAINST THE NEGRO. A bill was introduced in the Texas Legislature prohibiting the employment of negroes in any position by corporations doing business in Texas. Railroads are included in the prohibitive measure. Heavy penalties are provided for those who violate the proposed law. It is stated that the object of the bill is to drive the negroes out of the towns and into the country, where they may be employed as laborers on plantations. Is this the token of loving interest which these so-called "best friends" of the negro are giving us? Is this a sample of the broad and liberal measures which they would adopt if they had the power? Is this the medium through which complete harmony between the races in the South can be sustained? If so, "let angels and ministers of grace defend us from these "best friends." No one seriously believes this bill will ever get out of the pigeonhole of the committee to which it was referred on the 14th inst., but it is this constant prodding and harassing of the colored people in the South that makes one think that land is everything but the home of the free. HOUSE BILL NUMBER 16982. In another column of THE BEE will be read with much interest House of Representatives Bill No. 16982. This bill is another stab at the poor people who are endeavoring to make an honest living. The object of this bill is to deprive a certain class of people of the privilege of opening a lunchroom in any street without the permission of a majority of the owners and residents. Why should such a bill be introduced? This bill seems to be an aim at the poor negroes who have lunchrooms in certain sections of the city where white residents live to which some objections have been made, and this is a method adopted by some interested person to have Congress make all persons who may apply for eating-house licenses to first obtain a majority of signers who may be owners. Representative Babcock introduced this bill, but THE BEE does not believe that he is the author. Some eating-house proprietor who is anxious to get rid of someone or some people must have asked Representative Babcock to introduce this bill. THE BEE hopes that Congress will deteat it. "Governor Davis, of Arkansas, has recommended that the school fund be separated so the negro schools shall get only the taxes paid by negreos. Why not carry the law a step further and subdivide the whites according to the amount of taxes they pay? Make a $1,000 class, a $5,000 class, and so on." says the New Orleans Item. Well, why not go another step further and subdivide the colored people according to the amount of taxes they pay? By this arrangement the richest among the whites and the colored people would share the highest educational facilities, while the poorer classes of both races would receive but little or no school advantages. The result of such a system of public schools is apparent to any sane person, and advocate of such a system even as that which the Governor of Arkansas has recommended, should be rated as at least unfriendly to popular education. Was ever such a proposition advanced or even conceived anywhere in this free land of ours outside of the domain of the old slave system? Someone please rise and explain. A GOOD RECIPE. The following recipe is an unfailing remedy for all forms of obscurity, and is guaranteed to lift any colored man of moderate and even inferior talents into the light of publicity and notoriety: Minimize the importance of the ballot for colored men, or insist that they shall have attained the stature of a perfect man before it is given them, or, better yet, that nothing be said on the subject; be very vehement in maintaining that a less rigid discipling and curriculum are required in the education of the colored child than in the education of the white child; dig up all the faults of the race, and make them public in white newspapers and periodicals. In this connection make a specialty of criminal statistics. And when speaking of the race say "inferior race." "child race" and "backward race." By following these directions in whole or in part we guarantee that any colored man may become famous and be reckoned as a leader of his race. THE NATIONAL BAPTIST COMMENTARY. The editor of THE BEE has received a copy of The National Baptist Sunday School Lesson Commentary for 1905. It is published by the National Baptist Publishing Board, located at Nashville, Tenn. The book is very thoughtfully and carefully compiled and bound. It is begun with a calendar. The lessons for each Sunday in the year, fifty-three in all, are well arranged and explicit in every detail. Five chapters are devoted to the modern Sunday school methods and embrace every phase of Sunday school work. There are several pages arranged for the teacher's class record, memorandum and notes. The book is provided with a radial key map of Palestine as it was in the time of the Saviour, and one illustrating the Old Testament. The Bible Dictionary for the entire year's work is in the back part of the book. The book, even though the work of the Baptist Publishing Board, contains nothing denominational as to be objectional to any, and as the editor says it is "strictly orthodox and purely baptistic." The Board, with its able editor, R. H. Boyd, D.D., LL.D., deserve much praise for the Sunday School Lesson Commentary they have issued for the year 1905. MASTER BUILDERS. The bill to establish an examining board for master builders has been defeated. THE BEE was the first paper to make a move to condemn the measure as being unfair and unjust. The Commissioners were imposed upon. Some smart individual saw that a certain class of master builders as builders would have a monopoly. It was a measure that would benefit a few rich individuals. The colored and poor white builders would have been the greatest sufferers. A German has discovered, according to the London Express, that on Saturday, August 2, in the early morning, at one minute and one second past one o'clock, a most interesting moment arrived. It was the second second of the second minute of the second hour of the second day of the second week of the second month of the second half of the second year of the second decade of centuries. CUBSTONE CHIT AND CHAT. The News of the City Dished Up for The Bee Readers. PERSONAL POINTS POINTEDLY PUT. Home News and Events Transpired Since our Last Issue—Other Matters Worthy of Careful Consideration. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Schiller (May 9. 1905), the Swiss Government intends to give every pupil in the public schools a copy of that poet's play, "William Tell." The sum of $20,000 has been set aside for this purpose. A man brought up at St. Albans as an incorrigible rogue was proved to have married his aunt. His children are, therefore, his first cousins and he is his own uncle. His grandmother and her mother-in-law are the same person. Apparently the judge sympathized with him for he was discharged. "Have you ever had any experience in canvassing for subscription books?" asked the man at the desk. "No, sir," said the applicant for a job, "but I can put up a good talk." "Well, take a copy of this work and go and see if you can get an order. I'll give you half a day to make the trial." The applicant went away. In an hour or two be returned. "What luck?" inquired the man at the desk. "I've got an order for this book in full morocco from your wife, sir." "The deuce! You'll do, young man."—Chicago Tribune. Thomas Watson, the Populist candidate for President, is to accept an editorial position somewhere at a salary of $20,000 a year. Foreign Visitor—I am told that American marriages are generally happy. Mr. Gotham—Oh, perfectly. The husband is devoted to business, the wife to society, and they hardly ever meet.—N. Y. Weekly. Japan claims the oldest wooden building in the world. It is a log storehouse in Yara, which is now used to shelter some of the Mikado's art treasures. An age of 1,200 years is claimed for it. Some of the logs are nearly worn away by the weather. New York stone setters receive 65½ to 68¾ cents per hour. TO EXAMINE AMERICAN METHODS. A prominent Portuguese naval constructor is now on his way to the United States for the purpose of visiting the Brooklyn navy yard and examining the various departments. Portugal is going to build a number of ships and add to her navy. In order to obtain admittance to the navy yard the Portuguese visitor will have to apply to the secretary of state, and if the latter approves of the sapue the application will be turned over to the secretary of the navy, who will grant the necessary permits. It is said that it is only of late years that such a course of procedure has been necessary, while it has prevailed in Europe for many years back. Bed sheets are unknown in Japan, except in the hospitals. The introduction of white sheets and of white caps and dresses for nurses was vigorously objected to at first because white is in Japan the color of mourning. Washington.--Russians are coming to the United States in great numbers to escape military service. Immigration officials say that 10,000 more Russians have come to this country this year than in any previous year, and they believe that war with Japan is responsible. Reports to the Bureau of Immigration from its European agents say that many Russians serving in army garrisons along the German and Austrian frontiers are deserting. The pastor of a church in western New York found, during his sermon on a hot Sunday morning, that one of the official members of the church had fallen fast asleep. He suddenly paused, and called out: "Brother, will you please open the window a little? Physicians say it is very unwholesome to sleep in a close room." PROF. DUBOIS' FATAL SHOT. Prof. W. E. B. Dubois' statement of the account of the American negro with the year of grace, 1904, has attracted very general attention throughout the country. Interest has centered in item 5—"To $3000 of hush money used to subsidize the negro press in five leading cities." St. Luke's Herald shows the most lamentable ignorance of the events of 1904 in the following interrogatories and petitions relating to this "hush money" item. It says: "We do not understand item 5—"To $3000 of 'hush money' used to subsidize the negro press in five leading cities." Will you kindly explain to us what item 5—means? Which five cities? Whose "hush money?" Subsidized by whom and for what purpose? Subsidized when? "We have read and we have pondered long. We are mystified. Published under your own name and in such a reputable magazine as The Voice of the Negro, these are guarantees of truthfulness. Hence we want the whole truth. A million negroes want it. Tell us, please!" It would do no good to answer these questions for the reason that every one claiming acquaintance with race affairs knows the answer to each of them. We feel like saying to St. Luke's Herald in the language of Cleopas: "Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?" If our esteemed contemporary will but observe the quarters where there are bellowings and foaming at the mouth over this item 5. it may gain some light. The reading public of the colored people are satisfied with the definiteness with which the item is stated, and the guilty parties consisting of the corrupted and the corrupter have received a blow right between the eyes. Let the matter rest there. "COAL OIL JOHNNY." Former Spendthrift of Pennsylvania Oil Boom Now Working Hard on Farm. Franklin, Pa.—Among the derrick-capped hills of Sugar creek, Venenga county, Pa., is the home of "Adl" Morfft, brother-in-law of J. W. Steele, known to history as "Coal Oil Johnny," the greatest spendthrift in the United States. Although reported dead times without number and as an inmate of charitable institutions just as often "Coal Oil Johnny" is to-cay living in comfortable circumstances in the home of his A. JOHN W. STEELE PENNSYLVANIA - Spencott, Who Was Name of "Coal Oil Johnny." brother-in-law. The latter, when asked if it were true that Steele had acquired a second competence, replied: "I wish I had as much." And Moffitt is well supplied with this world's goods. Time has dealt gently with "Coal Oil Johnny." To-day he is pretty well pres- erved, his cheek and jaw bones are prominent and his cheeks sunken. He is a quiet, self-possessed man who realizes the value of a dollar. Thirty-One Years Ago This Horse First Began His Eventful Kansas City. Mo.—I herewith inclose you a picture of "Pack Billie," who is 31 years old, says a Blue (Arik) correspondent of the Kansas City Star. In 1881 the Shorthorn Cattle company, R. J. Bishop, manager, brought a herd of cattle from Texas to Secorro county, New Mexico and located near where Luna, N. M., now is. While on the trail Mr. Bishop hired a man named MeLoftis and bought his two horses, a large iron gray and a small boy. The latter is "Pack Billie," who was then. ```markdown ``` FAITHFUL FACK BILLIE FAITHFUL PACK BILLIE (Aged Horse of Western Plains, Which Has Seen 11 Years of Active Service ) in 1881, eight years old. He was always very gentle and a splendid pack horse, and when any trip was to be made by any of the cowboys working for Mr. Bishop that required a pack horse, "Billie" was always pressed into service. When the Snorthern Cattle company went out of existence, "Billie" came into possession of Lee Beavers, and until recently "Billie" still grazed on the old Snorthern company's range. A short time ago young Beavers moved to Duncan, Ariz., carrying "Billie" with him. There are hundreds of cowboys scattered all over the west who know "Pack Billie." "Billie" is still hale and hearty, although quite gray headed. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars Cor. 26th and M Streets.N.W. Washington.D.C. Soe hl PO Pe 3 nS ,.: ro . Be a Sg a ee eS yk ek . i ; : : : cs a , - fo. : : ome to a “soe | oe a & , ‘ ~ . . . E a ———— SS EEE 8S SSS ————————————————————— EEE 7 throughout’ were very impressive.‘ - yy ee a } a, —_- The floral tributes were handsome, as 4 a A 41 i * 5 follows: From the Elks, a beautifu eS 4 > ae\ » Elk head design; the Crown and ie 5 4 es a xf eh: * Cross from his wife,a beautiful wreath. . 708, Meee OS CR MGY ochre"! THE LARGEST INSTALLMENT HOUSE In the CITY IN wi z aM} i re Ope & = ay) the Sparta Club 2 pillow af roses.} > 4 a Che eae, ay . ¢ * the B. & O. Porters also gave “Gates P 7 s, . . . ‘ of) f Al ‘ fl ome Vig 2 N) og Ajar," and several others by friends x ow is the time to FURNISH YOUR HOUSE . f Hea 4 ah a y ~ + ,08 the deceased, The floral tributes : Carpet Your Floors ond LIVE Comfortably. > : ; CRS o . ~ and the large attendance were ac-] _ ati gn = wees — - 7 pe - = om © . ss YAY ae re : SS: ~ é\ Ray y Nie eae” “TO b OD) i a Gi ,; Salih XS WY. + Pra \) \ eS ; ‘ ee ———— Di. J. E. Sheppard, of Durham, N.C. will be im the city next week. Mr. Richard E. S. Toomy ty quite sick at His home in Le Droit Park, Mr. Wm, Anderson, onc of the best xwewn public school teachers in Bal- timore, Md. was in’ the city this week, Nea week THe Bee will contain fall particulars of the inaugural balls «to be given by the Monican Club and Native Washingtonians. Mr. W. Calvin Chase. Jr. man- aging editor of THe Bre, who has heen sick with la grippe. is able to che owt again. : “Mr. Fielding 1. Dodson. of the Peasion Office, ay heen sick since January 1Gth with muscular la grippe and he continues to remain in bed. Rev. A.C. Garner, pastor of the Viymouth Congregational Church, weat to Noriolk this week to deliver am address at the Y. M,C. .\. celebra- tien. James HL. Hayes and LM. Her- shaw addressed a Jarge crowd at the Shiloh Baptist Church in \Mexandria. Va., Monday evening on the sufffage question. Three delegates were elect- ed to the convention which meets in Richmowd, January 30 and 31. Miss Jeannetta Frimces Garrett, ewe of the mast accomplished sonny ladies in the city and the atlaighter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garrett, two of the best known and highly respect- ed citizens af Washington, will be married February 33th to Mr. Bis- marck Robert Pinchlack, son of Ex- Governor PL BLS. Pinchhach. of Lou- ssiana. “Peculiar Peaple” is the new book by Mrs, Arabella V. Chase. A book that will tell you" who the peculiar people are. Send ior it, Price one dollar. It is a hook that everybody ought to have. Your library should not be without. Woitten by Mrs. cA. V. Chase, primed by W. Calvin (Chace, Jr. and oampitey by Miss Hea- Asice Lucinda Chace. - ARMSTRONG MANUAL PRATN- ING SCHOOL NOTES. The graduates of 1904 are very sorey their principal would not per- nit them to hove “mausic™ during the Phtsical Culture hour | The Business Clays should have had awsic by all means, becaure the members were so fond ai"Dancing” (in the Study Hall). 3 Mr. Reahen West. of \2. is daing great work for the Dynanata, and <ince he has been editor the paper has succeeded quite well.» + Miss Mayme White has the syin- pathy of the ‘03 graduates in the death of her nrother. Mr. Clarence Moorman, of Balti- wore, was in the city last Sunday. A LYCEUM SUGGESTION, +A machine, with a nickle stot. Js oar sood friend Lawyer Scott: For when cokl Ingic <trikes the spot He sqpairms as if he were shot. Sto! . Seat! + Spottt! _. Shot!!! —R. ES. Toonty.. wrey END NOTES. NN beet fee Mrw Eliza J. Tinney! 2 much re- spected citizen ‘and a life time resi- dem of Georgetown, D.C. alied ,Sat- arday morning January 21. 1905, at ‘he residence of her daughter. Mrs. Mamic E. Wilkins, No. 104 Fenwick areet, Ivy City, and_was buried on Cuesday-afternoon. The funeral took Mace from Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, © street, N. W. Many floral offer- sags were presented, including a hand- same wreath from President Roose- seh. Rev. Jas. Waters officiated and aac assisted by Rev. 5. Flagg and Rev. D. P. Seaton, Interment in Mt, Zion Cenietery. : Mr. Arthur F. Boston, of L street XW. whe has been quite ill, is now convalescent. Mr. Boston is a very sory prominent member of the Voang Men's Immediate Relief ant the Protective League. who will be te glad to leary of his speedy recov ety. Mr. Thomas W. West. the esteent ed president of the Elder Men's As sociation, and the District Grant Master of the District Grand Lodg' No. 20 in this jurisdiction, of th Is quite sick at his residence, No. 2221 I. street, N. W. Mr. Willian Tinney an old citizen oi Georgetown but mow a resident of Xew York, is in the city, being on the.sad mission in attending the fun- Next Monday night Mr, Jesse Law- ney. Mr. ‘Tinney is a very prominent Odd Fellow and enjoyed the fraternal greetings of his many brethren while am the city. Mr. Gilbert L. Joy. Sr. read a very, interesting paper before the J. C. Price Literary Seciety last Monday ie The subject of his paper was “The Condition of the Negro Race.” Mr. J. ‘T. Gordon opened the diseus- sion with some very timely remarks. Others followed with some favorable comments by the president, Mr. J. (Hinton Overton | Next Monday night MrJesse Law- son will read a paper. Subject “Race Leadership.” s | Prof. J. D. Baltimore left the city, | Thursday for Philadelphia, Pa.. to at- tend a meeting of scientists. Prof. Raltimore is the only colored member conneeted with this organization, The following program was discussed on Thursday evening in which Prof. Baltimore took an active part. Thursday, January 26th, 8 PLM. { Mechanical ain Engineering Section. Biscission: Steam Turbines. Open- ed by Prof. H.W. Spangler. Pro- fessor of Mechanical Engineering, Franklin Institute, and Prof. Louis (. Lowenstein, Lehigh University. The De Laval Steam Turbine Com- pany, the Westinghouse | Machine Company (Mr. Francis Hodgkinson) and the General Electric Company (Mr. Richard HH. Rice) will be rep- resented, Rear-\dmiral G. W. Mel- ville and Mr. J. HL Macalpine are expected to participate, and at general invitation will be extended to resi- dent engineers to be preggnt and take part in the discussion, l GALRRAITH CHURCH NEWS. | Rev. S. 1. Corrothers, pastor of Galbraith A. M. EL Z. Church, has very well demonstrated that he an- tends to keep to his calling. and that as the saving of souls, Rev. Cor-, rothers has demonstrated his ability as a pulpit erator and Christian gen- tleman and the people of Washington, D.C. have shown their appreciation for him by attending his services [ier te “The people have gotten tired of hearing apologizing sermons {hence they love to hear Dr. Corro- tthers and? attend his church, where they will hear that which will do them good. ‘They flock to Galbraith Church iv masses to hear the truth. y Everybody is welcome and is treat- -ed with the best courtesy. “Phose that Anew Galbraith several years ago would not think it was the same Fehurch now, because if you don't get there by 11.15 at the morning service and $.00 o'clock at the evening ser- view. you can searcely Bet a seat. ' There was a time in the history of Galbraith Church when you could get seat any time you arrived. Galbraith: Church choir rendered l+Concone’s Mass in F" last Sunday [evenins, under the leadership of Prof, YH. W. Lewis. It was certainly ren- dered well and all who listened to the | sayin can truthfully say that Gal- ‘braith Choir has made rapid progress since Prof. Lewis has taken charge of [i Thy solos rendered by Miss Hat- tie Contee surprised the congregation. She mastered her solos equal to any finished vocalist. The rendition of them highly elafed the congregation. Miss M. Liggons, Miss S. Thomp- on and Miss CL Price need no introduction ‘av to’ their ability in rendering their respective parts. Miss S. J. Jambes, the organist: played through the mass, LORENZO, WILLIS DEAD. The ‘funeral services over the re- mainé of Lorenzo Willis, who died at the Garfield Hospital Tuesday eve. January 17th, were held at Ebenezer M. E. Church Friday, January 2oth, at 2.30 P. M. The funeral was un- der the direction of Morning Star Lodge, No, 40. of Elks. The church services were conducted by the pas- tor, Rev, Harris, assisted by Rév. VW, J. Howard and Aquila Sales, The services were opened by the reading of a passage from the Rible, singing ‘by the choir, prayer by Dr. Howatd followed by a special selection. the favorite hymn of the deceased, by Miss Mitchell, entitled “Looking Thi: Way.” The Rev. Harris preached an abk ‘sermon, The services were ther turned over to the Elks and they per: formed the Lodge ceremonies. In terment was at Harmony Cemetery The deceased’ was also a member o the Oriental Social Club, of whicl he was financial secretary. They als turned out in a body. The service: throughout’ were very impressive.’ The floral tributes were handsome, as follows: From the Elks, a beautiful Elk head design; the Crown and Cross from his wife,a beautiful wreath. The Orientals gave the “Gates Ajar,” the Sparta Club a pillow of roses, the B, & O. Porters also gave “Gates Ajar," and several others by friends of the deceased, The floral tributes ‘and the large attendance were ac- knowledganents of the high esteem in which he was held by his many friends. “He leaves a widow, one soit and one brother. The pallbearers were, from the Elks: J. Brooks, H. J. Clayton, J. W. Truman, E. E. Noble; from the Orientals: B.,Brooks and E. Dandridge. “ ROOMS FOR RENT. ‘TWo (2) large communicating room» furnished for gentlemen or adult fam- ily. 1822 Riggs street, northwest. Furnished rooms with heat, hot and cold water baths. in one of the best locations in- the city convenient to all lines of cars. .\pply at Tue Ree Office for terms. LEGAL NOTICE. PERKE We Bas «2 hHlarncy, Supreme Court of ‘the District of - Columbia, * Holding a Probate Court. No., 12607 Administration Ins is to Gie Notice: \Vhat the subserbcr, of the District ot Columbia, -has obtained from the Pro, hate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Dinah Wilson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons ha ~ ing claims against the deceased are here- hy warned to exthit the same, with the Kouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on“Or before the 29mh day of December, .\. D. 1905; atherwise they may by law be exeluded from all henetiteof said estate. Given under my hand this 10th day 9 January, 1903. 5 JESSE E. WARE, 32 Patterson St, N. EL Attest: : WM. C. TAYLOR, Deputy Register of Wills for the Ms trict of Columbia. Clerk of the Pre- bate Court, é THOMAS WALKER, ATTOR- YR. In the Supreme Court of the Dis- ‘trict of Columbia. Maria Revells et al vs. Lonisa Wilson et al. No, 24.- 859. Equity Docket No. '55. | The object of this suit is to have sale and partition of the following described real estate. situate in’ the County of Washington, District of Columbia, to wit: Al df Lot num- bered Twenty-two (22); in Section numbered Two (2)" of the “Barry Farm” subdivision, as said subdivi- sion appears of record in Liber Levy eee No. 2, folio 1. one of the Ree- ords of the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia, and division ot the proceeds of such sale among the parties in interest. On motion of the complainant. it is this....day of January, A.D. 105. ordered that the defendants, Mary Bumbray and Eva Dixon, cause their appearance to he entered of or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays. occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise, the cause will be proceeded with as in ease of default. This order to be published in the Washingtén Bee. By the Court, a Thomas 11. Anderson, Justice. True, copy. ‘Test: J. RL Young, Clerk. By J. WL Latimer, Asst ren: ‘Thomas Walker. Solicitor for Complainants. . -_ HOURS: 4 Tmpressed by the need for an insti- tution where money may be obtained at any hour, prominent New York financiers and commercial men have, it is announced by the Herald, organ- ized the First Night and Day Bank & Safe Deposit Company. ‘The names of men prominent in the business and social world appear on the organiza- tion committee, and the capital stock of $250,090 already has been sub- scribed. The concem also will have Pa working: surplus of $230,000. Most people overestimate — their pulse, as they often count its beats when talking about the matter, and it is a fact, well known to physicians, that the excitement of conversation will quicken the pulse from five to twenty beats. Grellman, a learned German, seems to be the first’ and the principal historian of the gipsies. He dwells much upon the language of the tribes. He is authority for the statement that the first Europsan settlement of the gipsies was in the provinces adjoin- ing the Danube, Moldau and Theiss, where: M. Cogalniceano, a contempo- rary, fixes the number of persons ir the tribes there represented at 200,- coo. The inaugural ball of the Monican Club will take place in the Wash: ington Light Infantry Armory Mon day evening, March 6th. Tue Be will contain full particulars nex! week. HOUSE & HERRMAN, . THE LARGEST INSTALLMENT HOUSE In the GITY usw : now is the time to FURNISH YOUR HOUSE . : : Carpet Your Floors ond LIVE Comfortably. _ a> / - Onty First-Class stores keep tirst class goods and sold by first class clerks in : o how large your Purchases are immediate delivery is mace 'v any part of the chy : a. Call at bnee. . “ : _ o = - _ Northeast Corner 7th and “I? - | Name THE BEE when you cal. 2 5 af AT Duffy’s Place . You CanBuy All Leading Brands Of Whiskies, Gins, - ' Rumas, &c. California & importa Wines 12528 St. N.E. Cor. 13th. FOSTER, .. BANQUETS,” . 7 FAMILIES SERVED. : °. WEDDINGS, DINNER VARTics. TELECHONE CONNECTIONS. “1120 20th Street n. w. Wm. Cannon _Fine sines, Liquors, and Ciga ». Purissima Whiskey . _t2ag and 27 ahystreet, Northwest TheNew- | 1904 L Street, N.W., - All drugs strictly first class. Every thjng found inan uptodate livg sicte cen ledee inilis sce, Tsescrip- tions a-speciality, . “1 W. MORSE-PROP, WwW. Mune A A Roman Catholic church is to be erected at Aldershot. England. in memory of the Roman Catholic sol- diers who fcll in the British service in the Boer war, + The enforced’ Sunday rest which has heen introduced into Spain is causing mutch dissatisfaction in all commereial and industrial centers. ft is considered likely that the Cortes will repeal the law. When our first foreign minigter ar- ranged to go ta London he was te- quested by the captain of the sailing vessel in New York Harbor to go aboard immediately, according to a writer in Success. Hastily buying 4 sack of flour, three ‘hams and a bag of potatoes, he hurried on board ship to arrange with some sailor to cook his meals, not knowing but that they | might sail at any hour. Five weeks passed’ before the hoat left the har- bor, .\fter six weeks at sea the trav: eler at length beheld the outlines oi the coast of old England. Dr. A. Jno. Thontas. Lexington’ negro veterinary surgeon and dentist js coming more and more into prom inence in his chosen profession, What this young negro expert doesn’t know about horse flesh wouldn't fill a small pamphlet. Dr, Thomas controls a large and Iucrative blue grasy prac- tice. The doctor. because of his ex- cellent judgment of horse quality, is greatly in demand as a commissioned buyer and is constantly entrusted w ith large sums of money, by men of wealth to attend the largest sales of the country and make purchases. HEFLIN HAS THE “SHAKES.” Heflin, the newly elected Congress- man from Alabama, is reported to be trembling in his number-11-hoots over the move to expel him from Congress. He is the chap who. in a public speech last fall, advised the assassination of the president. When they get through with Heflin, the Senate might try its boots on Till- man, If a few of these fire-eaters were given to understand that they will not be allowed to preach,murder -and make laws at the same time, thi | pestiferous class of politicians woul Seow less.—The Freeman. N t i We beg to call the attention of the public to the fact thatwe have openeda first-ciass Drug Store at the Cor. of First and F Sts.,S.W., where andvnch-fremtaconglete stock of Drags Chemicals, Toitet and Fancy Artictes, Candie« Cigars, Tobacco, etc., at the lowest prices. Prescriptions carefully compounited hy Reg Mered pharmacists. - Puredrags"and fresh sapplies 1s our motto We keep on hand a little’ of everything Postage stamps, all vou desires LIBERTY PHARMACY. ist and F Sts., S. W. TAME (. JONES. Karl Xander, {MPORTER, . Rectifier and Wholesale ana Retail Dealer in FINER WINES “ Liquors 153-32 Seven) St. NW, Agent for Southern Bouquet Whiskey James F.Oyster BUTTEn,\.mEESE & EGGS. Square Stands: Centet Market. sth & K St. Market. Riggs Markte. Office, Wholaiale Devot &Salerenms goo and 902 Pennsylvania Avenus. ® Sole Agent for the Celebrated Cow Brand Butter recogrzel witheut an equal, Yor everybody at rates tower (han the lowest. don't be deceived, come to us_and investigate Basiness strictly confidential. No one knows of sour transactton with us. Welend on farnie fare, pivnos, gv salary. Ifyou have aloan now snywhercand need more moncy, come to us Nothing deducted trom loan; ‘Vou “get fall a+ mount. Extenwon in case of sickness without extra charge. METROPOLITAN LOAN AND TRUST CO. seg ESt.N W- 7 .Borrew Money YES ‘We willtend youtrom $10.00to 100.0000 your forniture, piano. &c.,and arrange theloas im as casy monthly payments as you desire. Cometo us fer we deduct nothing and eharge theleast. It you bave.aloan elsewhere we will pay itof ant advance you more money. Strictly confidemtiab private offices. SURETY LOAN COMPANY, Reom 1, Warder Building, znd Floor, gth and F Sts., N.W Established, 5266 Ga BURISTINE Lone OFFIC, | Goidand silver watches, diameods -ewelry, guns, mechanzical_ ‘tools, ladies and gentlemen’s wearing | apperal. Old goid and silver bought Unredsemed pledges fer sale 361 Pennsylvania. Ave, N W, ria | MANDAMUS OLARK, ALL KINDS OF CEMENT WORK | | CELLARS, YARDS FROXT STEPS, ETC. "Verms reesonable and work guarse ' , . teed [ ati7 H St... N. We DOUGLAS WE MOVE ANYTHING Baggage and Furniturs ‘Express. 159g 24th Street Merthwest T dephoae Connection Robert T. Downs, Mgt Standing Stones of Stenness Are Subject of Never-Ending Talk and Speculation. London.—It has been asked if some day, the mysteries surrounding the Standing Stones of Stenness will be laid bare. There they stand, grim sentinels over a forgotten past, a forgotten civilization. Sir Walter Scott, in "The Pirate," writes:—"Fronting to the bridge stood, that remarkableemicircle of huge upright stones which has no rival in Britain, except the inimitable monument at Stone- A PART OF THE RING OF BROGAR. (One of the Prominent Features of the Standing Stones of Stenness.) henge." While the Standing Stones of Stenness is the popular name, the true one is the Ring of Bzogar, described in Tudor's "Orkney and Shetland" as a circular piece of ground of a diameter of 340 feet, surrounded by a broad fosse or ditch of an average depth of six feet. Originally the circle must have, according to Capt. Thomas, consisted of some 60 stones, each standing 13 feet 9 inches from the back edge of the fosse, and 17 feet 8 inches from its neighbors. The picture gives a partial idea of the ring. The number of stones still standing is 13, and that is about the number shown in an engraving in "The Pirate." There are several lying flat, and some remnants of others. It is said if the proprietor, Col. Balfour, were approached by the English Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments he would afford every assistance-in setting up those now recumbent, and affording some assistance to such as are in a tottering condition. "STONEWALL" A CADET. Grandson of Famous Confederate General Given Honor by President Roosevelt. Washington.—President Roosevelt performed a gracious act when he announced his intention of appointing "Stonewall" Jackson Christian to a cadetship at West Point. The news gladdened the heart of Mrs. Jackson, widow of the great confederate general, and it is almost pathetic to see A. "STONEWALL JACKSON CHRISTIAN, (A Grandson of the Great Confederate Cavalry Leader) the pride with which she shows the tele- gram announcing the honor that is to be bestowed on her only grandson. The message was received from Congress- man Livingston, of Georgia, which conti- nued the fact, briefly stated, that Presi- dent Roosevelt had told him in a con- versation at the white house that he de- sired to honor the name of Jackson. The athletic young fellow is now at school near Atlanta, and is pursuing his studies with the same zeal that character- ized his soldier grandfather." Salaries of English Pro-Consuls. The highest figure paid to any proconsul by England is $100,000, which is the sum received by the viceroy of India. This seems a large sum, but it never really covers the expenses. The South African post pays $55,000. The governor general of Australia receives $50,000, equal to the salary of the president of the United States. The same salary is paid to the governor general of Canada. But in none of these cases is the salary adequate to cover the expense attendant upon entertaining in a style in keeping with the dignity of the position. In South Africa, on the other hand, the governor general need entertain but little. The $55,000 paid Lord Milner in this capacity is a dual salary, $40,000 being paid him as governor of the Transvaal, and $15,000 as high commissioner. Big Battles and Rainfall. The English war and navy departments are close observers of events at the front, and among other points which attract their particular attention is that of the weather conditions accompanying the operations of the two forces. Official records show that almost every important action since gun, cannon and mortar have become factors in warfare was accompanied or followed by thunderstorms or heavy rainfalls. In fact, the heavy ordnance is said to be the direct cause of this natural phenomenon. A "LOBSTER PARK." Big Reserves Off Coast of Canada, Novia Scotia and Newfoundland Where Delicacies Are Raised. Toronto, Can.—There are parks of many kinds. Below we give an idea of what is known as a "lobster park." True, this is a comparatively small specimen; for, on the coast of Canada, a "lobster park" 60,000 feet square is in use. But the one illustrated serves to show the principle of the convivance, which, for rearing lobsters, is so successful that more of them are to be constructed in Canada, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. The "lobster park," formed in some sheltered ocean reach, is made of stout A wooden piles driven into the bed of the sea. At each end of the enclosure are open iron work grills by which the tide can flow in and out. When the "park" 's ready, it is stocked with hundreds of lobsters, intended to multiply and lead a life of lobster luxury until grown big and plump enough to be netted and served up for the table. In the picture we see two boats. Every third day is feast day in a "lobster park." The man in the boat on the left is tossing bucketfuls of chopped-up fish to the lobsters in the enclosure. He at the prow of the right-hand boat is supplying these pampered lobsters with bunches of "choice" seaweed, which is also good for them. Each corner of this particular "park" is, we notice, furnished with a lamp-post, which, when lighted at night, serves to warn any passing boats of the obstruction. Chicago.—American women do not know how to dress, according to the theorles of Mine, Lydia M. Mountford, a Russian traveler and lecturer, but those who are not wholly blind to the inappropriateness of their present mode ```markdown ``` MMI, LYDIA M MOUNTFORD. (The Russian Traveler Who Criticises Press of American Women.) of costuming themselves will be able to reform if they listen to her advice. The chief objection Mme Mountford makes to American styles is that they have no significance. The women of this country, she says, pick their dresses solely with a view to making them harmonize with their complexions, instead of having a certain form for each condition and station in life. The costumes of the women of the Holy Land are taken by Mme Mountford as her examples. Would Melt the Rock. The proposed bore-hole 12 miles deep has brought out the objection that the great pressure of 40 tons per square inch would cause a viscous flow of rock material, making the teat impossible. Hon. C. A. Parsons replies that this idea can be tested by subjecting a piece of quartz rock to a pressure of 100 tons per square inch in a close-fitting cylinder having a small hole through its center. This pressure is that expected at a depth of 38 miles. Remarkable Bell. The bell at the modern church of Llandevaud. in England, a church built 50 years, has a curious history. The present building was erected on the site of a pre-Reformation church, and while it was in hand a local farmer offered to give an old bell which was in one of his barns. The offer was gladly accepted, and the bell turned out to be the original one from old Llandevaud, which after some 300 years' silence once more calls the people to church. Pope Still Loves France. Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris, has given out a letter from Pope Plus X., in which the pontifix says: "Neither will the blitterness of the offense be able to turn us from love of your nation, nor will the progress of the offense ever make us despair of a return to better conditions." An Expensive Wall At the sale of the estate of the late Whitaker Wright, at Tokenhouse Yard, the other day, some one offered £90,000. "The wall around the estate cost £37,000." said the auctioneer. STOESSEL'S CHARACTERISTICS SHOWN AT PORT ARTHUR. St. Petersburg.—By his heroic defense of Port Arthur, Gen. Anatole Michaelovitch Stoeessel has acquired a name which will rank with that of the greatest fortress-holders of modern times; with Gordon of Khartoum, Williams of Kars, Uhrlich of Strassburg, Inglis of Lucknow, Osman of Plevna, White of Ladysmith, Baden-Powell of Mateking, and, above all, with Todleben of Sebastopol. Russian soldiers are supposed to be particularly grand in defense, which suits their stolid, stubborn, invincible nature; and when they are commanded by men who to these military qualities of the Slav add the brain-power, the science, and the steady courage of the Teuton, the combination may well have produced such shining siege-records as those of the Sebastopol of the Black sea, and its namesake of the Yellow sea. it takes a good many generations of intermarrying to make a "full-blooded Russian" out of a Teuton of Swiss or German extraction; and with regard to Stoessel, the process of ethnical transformation only began seriously with his father, an officer in the Lancers or the Imperial guard, who was the first of his race to embrace the Orthodox faith, while his grandfather had still adhered to the Lutheran creed which he had derived from his German ancestors—a fact which stamps the hero of Port Arthur as a man of Teutonic extraction no less clearly than his name. His grandfather, Ivan Stoessel, a Lutheran by religion and a German by race, returned from the wars with Napoleon as a lieutenant general, and was made governor of Tsarskoe Selo. Anatole Michaelovitch himself, who was born 50 years ago, served in the Russo-Turkish war of 1577, though not distin- TUCKER (The Heroic Defender of Besieged Port Arthur.) guishing himself in any marked degree, so that by 1900 he had only struggled up to the command of a regiment of Siberian rifles. It is earliest chance came to him during the Boxer troubles, when he was the first to enter Tientsin, and received the rank of major general for his share in the advance of Peking. "Stoessel," said Kuropatkin, "is a bad tactician. Put him against equal forces, against a Gourko or a Shobetler, and you'll find him tricked and out to pieces in four-and-twenty hours. But stick him behind one of his own earthworks, where there's no question of maneuvering, and all the forces of earth and hell will not prevail against him." Little wonder, therefore, that with such a character Stoessel treated as "a joke in bad taste" the united summons of Gen. Nogi and Admiral Togo to surrender the fortress before their guns had seriously begun to thunder against it. Stossel showed himself to be a man of singularly few words—when in action, at least—though his Te Deun addresses to his troops after the repulse of Japanese assaults, as well as his dispatches to the caar, were coughed in phrasiology which seemed to have been equally borrowed from the Psalms of David and the pages of Victor Hugo. Otherwise, he was ever brief and even abrupt of speech, this fortress-holder with the tall, bulky, but rather ungainly, not to say commonplace, figure, and face so little suggestive of the conventional hero. He could wire Hugoesque dispatches of victory to the caar, though to the company which sent word that they could no longer hold their post, his only reply was: "But you can die, then!" Anna cie they did. "What I order can be done," was his rule, and all breaches of discipline were punished with the most merciful severity. "Carry out the sentence." was his invariable reply to court-martial recommendations to mercy; "it will save lives in the end." A dealer who was found to be selling putrid tinnue meat to the soldiers he sentenced to be locked up for three days and fed exclusively on his own poisonous stuff. Never popular before. Stoessel soon came to be the lord of his officers and men, who recognized him to be the soul and beacon of their glorious defense. "People say," wrote a correspondent in Port Arthur "that Gen. Stoessel never sleeps; for when all the city is in darkness a light alone burns in his headquarters," and, it might have been added, in his heart. For even when wounded, and void of all propect of relief either from Kuropatkin on land or Rozshdestvensky by sea Stoessel continued to bear himself as if convinced that Port Arthur would prove his victory-garland and not his grave. Apart from his own stout heart, which never failed him, another constant source of his courage has been the inspiring presence of his wife. JAP SOLDIER OUTFIT SABE WHICH IS TAKEN TO MAKE HIM COMFORTABLE. Clothing Designed to Protect Against the Bigors of a Wintar's Campaign in Manchuria—The Food Supply. London.—Miss McCaul, who saw much of the British soldier on service in South Africa, and of the working of the medical department of the British army, was recently commissioned by the queen to go to Japan to inquire into the working of the Japanese Red Cross society. According to the British Medical Journal, she brought back with her to England the complete outfit of a soldier of the Japanese Imperial Guard, which was presented to her by Gen. Terauchi, the minister of war, together with samples of the food supplied to the soldier on active service. These various articles, which have been inspected by the king, who has expressed great interest in the many ingenious devices they present, will shortly be exhibited at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall. They are worthy of the most careful study by all military officers, and afford a striking example of the care and strong common sense with which the health and comfort of the soldier are considered by those responsible for his outfit and the minute attention to detail which is characteristic of the Japanese army. The complete outfit comprises both winter and summer uniforms and un- A SOLDIER'S WINTER DRESS (It consists of a Sheepskin Waltcoat and a Detachable "Cold-Proof" Hood.) derclothing, overcoats, puttees and boots, gloves and hoods, knapsack, haverjack, water bottle, mess tin and canteen, a grass woven case to contain the ration of rice, blanket, portable tent, mosquito net for the head, housewife, bandage wrapper, and identification label. There is even a tin box containing creosote pills, which each soldier must carry and is expected to take as a prophylactic against dysentery. One notable feature of all the clothing is that it is apparently made of the best material. The material for winter clothing appears to be all wool, and in color and warmth reminds one of the brownish jacket clothing. In the neat blue parade uniform, jacket or tunic, plain flat brass buttons are used, but in the working kit buttons are done away with as far as possible, fastenings being in nearly all instances carried out by means of flat hooks and eyes. The summer jacket and trousers are of khaki drill, the jacket is perfectly plain and there are no buttons on any of the garments. A strip of white linen is issued to wind round the neck as a collar inside the tunic. The winter tunic and trousers are made plain, like the khaki suit, but are of good woolen cloth. The "cold proof" winter overcoat merits some description, for it seems to be devised to insure warmth in the most severe climate. Made of thick woolen cloth, it has a large collar covered with tur, which is of course inside when the collar is raised. From the middle of the edge of this collar a cotton cap or hood can be pulled out so is to cover the head, and over this can be worn the ample detached woolen "cold proof" hood, which from its shape and long ends to wrap round the neck recalls the hoods of Chaucer's time. Hanging by cords from the neck are large gloves or mittens—one division for all the fingers and one for the thumb; they can thus be thrown off when the hand is required for firing or any other purpose, without being lost. A sheepskin waistcoat with the wool outside is also issued for severe weather. It fastens at one side. The underclothing is of similar good material to that of the outer garments, a cotton shirt and drawers for summer and a thick knitted woolen jersey, or sweater, and pants for winter. The ribbed woolen stockings are made without heels, and warm toe caps are issued in the coldest weather to wear over the stockings to prevent frostbite. These toe caps are made of a lamb's wool material like the very thick line, the soft surface being inside. A roll of fine striped flannel of very good quality and about a yard and a half long is issued to be wound round the abdomen, and takes the place of a cholera belt. It is interesting to note that the woolen cloth and blanket are made in the Japanese military woolen cloth factory, while hemp cloth, cotton cloth and leather are made or prepared in private factories in Japan and cut out and sewn in the military clothing depot. The ordinary army boots give the impression of comfort and durability. In general appearance they resemble the boot issued to the British soldier, but on close inspection they are seen to be far superior. A New Book "The Scourging of a Race," and twenty-one of my addresses delivered on special occasions, which will be ready for distribution September 1, 1904. 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This comparison is to trace to the deduction that society is gradually abandoning private resources in Manhattan more for country homes than for apartment houses and hotels. Of families named in the social register of 1888 about 82 per cent, lived practically under their own roof; now only 59 per cent to go, among prominent families in New York alone. Contrary to the general opinion, this population has not been largely absorbed by apartment and hotel life, but the bulk has taken up with country life and is to be found in suburban towns on Long Island, Westchester county, New Jersey, Tuxedo, and some of the winter resorts, such as Alken. One-quarter now lives permanently abroad, with but occasional visits to the United States. In 1888 the largest number of families residing under one roof was 11. Now there are as many as 27 in one hotel. Of the 9,000 families in the social register 4,556 families reside one to a dwelling, being eight per cent. of the total. Families residing two in a house mostly belong to the same family, and they are for the purpose of this comparison class with private residences, leaving a total of 1,654 residing in apartment houses or burees. They are 12 per cent of the total. Of the families who live in the suburbs there are 2,154, or 23 per cent. Living abroad are 5,67 families. THIBETANI ARE TRADERS. New British Possession a Nation of Shopkeepers, Decares Col. London. Co. Younghu-tand, who took and the British treaty with Thibet, and who recently arrived in England from Lasse, says that owing to the magnificent behavior of the British troops, the Thibetans were much better disposed toward them when they left than when they arrived. The colonel said that, as a result of the mission, obstacles to trade with India had been removed, and trade was in actual progress when he left. "The Thibetans." he said. "a nation of shopkeepers. While the mission was in the country, Thibetan traders were continually coming in to all our camps and posts to sell produce and goods. There seems to be every prospect of a thriving trade springing up between India and Thibet. It was a very difficult matter to set the convention through in the few weeks which military necessity placed at my disposal, and still more difficult to do this without causing bitterness of feeling among the Thibetans. "I am happy to say that we have not left behind us at Lassa any of that feeling of race animosity which might be very apt to occur under similar circumstances. The fact that we were allowed into the most sacred shrines in Lassa, and that, after the treaty was signed, Capt. Connor was received by the Tachi Lama at Shingatse with great ceremony, was sure proof that the walls of religious obstruction which had been raised by the lamas, and which had hitherto closed the country, had more or less been broken down. I do not think it likely that they will ever wish to raise 'hem again." SLEIGHING IN AUTOMOBILES Big Machines on Steel Runners Astonish Long Island Natives—Not Entirely Satisfactory. Hempstead, N. Y—Automobiles on runners astonished the townsfolk of Long Island, who thought they had seen everything in the shape of an up-to-date vehicle. It was to some extent an experiment on the part of those who wished to drive their cars over the snow and ice-covered roads in the neighborhood. And the result was not entirely satisfactory. A portable steel runner, somewhat resembling a half-tire, was attached to the front wheels of the machine, and the rear or motor wheels were encased in a steel rim with sharp teeth, which dug into the ice and propelled the car. The plan worked better in theory than in practice, however, for while there was no difficulty in propulsion of the automobile, the sharp points of ice under the snow continually punctured the tires, and the sport was finally abandoned. The machines were driven in ospreys and spirited horses and real weighs were taken out in their place, and the merry jingle of bells was heard along the Merrick road. Not Displacing the Original Sumatra wrapper tobacco can be grown in Connecticut, and a farmer near Charleston has demonstrated by 12 years of profitable experiment that tea can be grown in South Carolina, but there is still a marlet for tobacco grown in Sumatra and for tea grown in Japan. Boston Globe A. Dangerous State An Alabama man has been sent to all for 10 days because he kissed a girl, after she bed said: "Please don't!!" It must be difficult or a man to know when he is safe in Alabama. The Next Problem. Now that the thornless cactus has arrived, will some resourceful scientist of a biological turn of mind undertake the evolution of a quill-less porcupine? New York Times Building, Beccently Completed, Tallest Structure in the City. New York.—The New York Times is now published from its new building in Times square, a structure which has been referred to by experts as one of the notable architectural triumphs of the world. In recognition of this contribution to the architectural beauty of New York, the city government some time ago named the district from Forty-second street north for seven blocks along Broadway and Seventh avenue Times square, and the subway station in the basement of the building bears the same title. In a special edition published January 1 to celebrate the occupancy of the building there was an elaborate description of its construction and equipment. Among the features mentioned in this edition is that the building is the city's tallest structure, from base to top, being 31 stories, with an extremes height of 476 feet; that a new record in steel tonnage has been made in its construction, as it contains a larger percentage of steel to cubical contents than any other office building, having at the same time the strongest and stiffest steel frame structure of similar dimensions ever erected. The presses are located 55 feet below the level of the street, while the paper is written and set up from the fourteenth to twenty-fifth floors. The press plant has a capacity of 144,000 16-page papers every hour, and provision has been made to increase this capacity to 432,000 papers per hour. PLAN ECONOMY IN NAVY. Vessels to Be Placed in Reserve Until Need for Their Services Washington.—The naval general staff proposes to put naval vessels in reserve for the purpose of economy. It has been discovered that the cost of keeping a battleship in commission amounts to more than $1,060,000 a year, and it is realized that some provision must be made for maintaining two classes of ships in reserve. During the next session of congress an appropriation will probably be requested for maintaining ships in ordinary under a system of serviceability that will permit use of the vessels without much delay. One class will be kept at the navy yards under such conditions of readiness for duty at sea as will permit their departure from port within 24 hours. This can be accomplished by having the ships in the care of few officers and men, the engines turned over frequently and the equipment stored in accessible places alongside, when not actually on board. Another class will be in less readiness for service, probably far enough removed from the condition of duty to require a week or more to send the vessel away from the yard. ROMANCE AT WORLD'S FAIR Secretary of German Commission to Take Home French Bride He Met at Kaiser's Pavilion. St. Louis. Mo.—Karl Gallenbeck, secretary of the imperial German commission to the world's fair, takes home with him a Parisian bride, whose acquaintance be made at the world's fair. The marriage will take place soon The bride-to-be is Miss Alexandrine de Brandt, daughter of Franz de Brandt, of Colombes, near Paris. The De Brandt family is of the Austrian nobility. Miss de Brandt is a young cosmopolitan. She was born in Austria and educated in France. England and Vienna. She speaks English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. She came to America with friends of her father's family to see the world's fair. She wrote accounts of it for French journals and at times did interpreting for the German commission. In "Das Deutsche House," strong reminder of pleasant days she had spent at Charlottenburg, she met Karl Gallenbeck. She corrected his English and helped him with difficult translations. While her tongue worked her brown eyes were not idle. The closing days of the fair brought a betrothal. FIGHT BLAZE WITH MILK. Lacteal Fluid Used to Extinguish Flames Threatening a Philadelphia Dairyman's Home. Philadelphia.—The dwelling of Christian F. Devold, of Roxborough, was badly damaged by fire the other day which broke out in a closet on the second floor, and Samuel Moore, one of the inmates, was badly burned about the hands, face and body while attempting to extinguish the flames. The members of the family, which in addition to Devold, consisted of his wife, three children, and Samuel Moore, were sitting in the dining-room about nine o'clock in the evening when a policeman rushed into the house and informed them that there was a fire on the second floor. Devold is engaged in the milk business, and there being no water handy, he, Mrs. Devold and Moore procured from the milk house several cans filled with the lactate fluid, and with this they fought the flames and prevented them from, spreading until the firemen, in response to the alarm sent out by the policeman, reached the scene. School for Servants. A school is to be started in Hamburg, Germany, for the training of domestic servants. It will be very practical, and will not compete with the schools of domestic science, which are becoming popular among well-do families. JEWELED BIRD OF INDIA. Hindos Believe Its Possession Carries Royal Power—Now Owned by King Edward. London.—While British troops and the recollection of British prowess are potent factors in the subjection of India, it is a strange fact—and one not generally known—that Hindoo fatalism and a jewelled bird have much to do with holding the millions of Indus. The bird is one of the treasured treasures of Windsor castle, and there are many legends woven about it. The Hindoo call it "Uma," and they say that whoever owns the Uma must reign over India. It is supposed to have the gift of locomotion, and it alights, they say, upon the head of whomsoever it endows with royal power. The truth is that the bird was taken from the canopy above the throne of Tippoo Sahib and presented by the directors of the East India company to George III. It is about 12 inches long, and is shaped like a pigeon, with an exaggerated tail. Rubies, brillants, emeralds and pearls are sown about the quivering feathers of fillgree gold. In work; it holds a priceless ruby in its beak and an emerald of great size and luster hangs from its breast. The bird shares with the Koh-I-Noor the superstitious regard of the Hindoos. The fact that both the Uma and the great diamond are owned by King Edward makes it almost a matter of course for the native princes to acknowledge him as their lieve lord. It may be a oltter and bewildering thing, this rule of an alien from the west, but the powers above have willed it so, and plious souls must bow in submission to the flat of fate. While the Uma folds its wings in the castle by the Thames, and while the Koh-I-Noor blazes in the English crown, there is rothing else to do but to be as good subjects of Emperor Edward as may be. NEW INDUSTRY FOR DENVER Kilns for Making High-Grade Silica Brick to Be Set Up in Col- Denver, Col.—Denver will soon have the distinction of operating the first lime kiln in the United States constructed under foreign patents, which will make it the finest in operation. The kiln will be constructed at the industrial suburb of Silica, up Platte canyon, as a part of the process of combining lime and sand in the manufacture of silicated brick. It is known in Europe as the Copenhagen kiln, and is constructed more on the principle of a blast furnace, the feature of the kiln being its low consumption of coal in producing the lime. In completing its plant the Silicated Brick company has provided a general store and houses for the goodly number of employees who will be required, and application has been made to the post office department at Washington for a post office. The company is already receiving a number of inquiries for its product, but it will take a month yet before brick can be turned out. It is claimed for the silicated brick that they are low in absorption, high in resistance to fire, and adapted for all building purposes, the chemical combination of lime and silica practically making stone. Arrangements are being made for trackage connection with the plant, so that it will not be long until another industry will be added to the city. All the elements which enter into the manufacture are found close to the plant. While new to Colorado and to the remainder of the country as well, the use of silicated brick is rapidly being adopted for many purposes, the government alone using many millions in various projects. WOMEN AGREE NOT TO KISS Antiosulation League Formed in Mexico — Only Members of Female Sex Barred. City of Mexico — A little red button worn by some 300 women, old and young, married and indifferent, among the leading social sets of the City of Mexico, marks a new departure, or, rather, a new step, in progress. This little, round button signifies membership in what is known as the Anti-Kissling league. Members of the league take solemn pledges not to kiss each other, in public or private, but put it on the ground that kissing is contagious, or, rather, the means of conveying contagious diseases from one fair lip to another. There is nothing visible to the naked eye in the constitution of this league against kissing others than members of the female persuasion, and, in fact, the practice, aside from the supposed danger of infection, is decidedly, to the male sense, not only deplorable, but unnecessary. When one woman takes two or three minutes of time in a street car to kiss three or four other women before alighting from the car, she certainly violates the golden rule by making all those passengers wait. How far this new league will conduct its offensive and defensive campaign remains to be see. Still Unsettled The department of agriculture has set new standards for pure food, giving large attention to milk, cheese and wine. The experts, however, remarks the New York Telegram, have not yet advanced to the point where they can define the exact stage at which an egg passes, as it were, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Both Treacherous and False. The explosion of that Galesburg woman's false teeth marks the advent of a new terror. To their well-known falsity such teeth have begun to 'add treachery.' SPRING GUN WHICH LAID A CHICKEN THIEF LOW. Ingenious Contravariance of an Ingenious Camden (N. J.) Negro May Land Him in the Penitentiary. Camden, N. J.—Howard Brown, the Ingenious Camden negro, who rigged up a "thief catcher" in his chicken coop, at No. 1705 South Tenth street, which resulted in the death of Robert Dorsey, another negro, may be compelled to put a stiff fight to escape a conviction of manslaughter. County Physician Jones instructed Coroner Lippincott to make a thorough investigation of the facts leading up to the death of Dorsey. Prosecutor Lloyd declared that Brown was culpably responsible for his act and could be indicted by the grand jury for manslaughter and, if convicted, a penalty of ten years could be imposed. He said the law was plain on the subject. Any person has a right to protect his life and domicile and could arrange any contrivance by which a burglar might be malted or killed in an attempt to enter, but he has no right to arrange any instrument on any building not attached to his house that was calculated to do bodily harm to anyone. The mechanism of the "thief catches" THE DEADLY SPRING GUN (Contrivance Arranged to Protect Chicken House from Thieves.) surprised every one who visited the coop and many declared that it exhibited wonderful scientific skill on the part of the negro who conceived the idea, which worked with such wonderful accuracy. All he had with which to construct his infernal machine was an old army musket that was rusty from age, a good charge of powder and shot, several small strips of boards, pieces of wire and some hinges. He hung the door of the coop so that it would open outward, but the connection with the musket was made in an indirect way, so that the mechanism was not readily discernible. By a peculiar contrivance of the boards and wires Brown could make the whole affair "safe" by inserting a plug during the day at the top of the door, which disconnected the main wires leading along the boards and enabled him to enter his coop every morning while the gun and its deadly load of shot pointed toward the door. He also had a "safety" board over the top of the gun which prevented the chickens that might jump on the arrangement from causing the gun to explode. In order that the coroner's jury may fully understand the working of the contrivance, a photograph of the interior of the coop was taken and may be an exhibit before the grass jard at the trial should Brown be indicted for manslaughter. The Hickory Nut. One of the best known trees is the shagbark or scaly, bark hickory, so called because the bark has a disposition to peel off in long loose strips from the wood. This tree is found growing from New Hampshire to South Carolina. Its wood is very elastic and is said to be hard as iron. The nuts are whitish in color. The shagbark sometimes grows to the height of 50 or 90 feet, the leaves measuring about 20 inches. Varieties of hickory are the white heart or common hickory, butternut or swamp hickory, pig or hog hickory and the nutmeg hickory. Of the pignut hickory brooms are sometimes made. The wood of the common hickory is esteemed for mechanical purposes and for fuel, as it gives a bright, cheerful fire Mechanical Book Handlers. In the library of congress books are handled almost entirely by machinery. Orders are sent to the book-stacks, and books brought from them to the desk for distribution, by trays, suspended from endless chains, the chains being made to travel by means of an engine in the basement. The mechanism is noiseless, and invisible also, the carriers going beneath the floor of the great central reading-room to and from the librarian's desk and the book-stacks. Every arriving tray dumps itself automatically at the desk. Likewise, in taking volumes back, each tray spills its contents, of its own accord, at a certain titer. His Real Name. Joseph Conrad, who has made such a reputation as a writer of sea stories, is well known to be a Pole by birth, but few of his many readers are aware that his real name is Korzenilowski. Diplomatic Wif Ambassador Chote is generally acknowledged to be the wittiest and most brilliant conversationalist among all the diplomats in London. Many Warships The amassed navies of the world include 560 battleships, 417 cruisers, 1,255 boats and 1,600 torpedo craft. MARVELOUS MACHINE INSTRUMENT THAT TRANSMITS 40,000 WORDS AN HOUR. Telegrams Turned Out from Machine in Writing—Photography Aids Process of Recording Letters. London.—The average person can write about 30 to 35 words a minute. A good typist can turn out about dou- ble that amount. There was exhibited at a hotel here the other day a telegraph instrument that can 'transmit messages and write them out in the most legible of hand- writing at the rate of more than 40,000 words an hour. This is the latest, and, it would seem, the greatest marvel of electric telegraphy. The fastest telegraphic instrument at present in operation is the Wheatstone automatic, which transmits telegrams from city to city at the rate of 200 to 250 words a minute. But messages when sent by this system still have to be translated from the Morse telegraphic language into ordinary language, and this can be done only at ordinary writing speed. The new Pollak-Virag telegraph instrument transmits messages at nearly four times the speed, and delivers them direct from the instrument written in the plainest of ordinary copy book handwriting. How it is done is a technical marvel that takes an electrical expert to grasp completely, but roughly simplified the system is a commonplace. First, the message to be transmitted is converted into telegraphic dots and dashes on a perforator that looks like an ordinary typewriter. This perforator punches in a slip of paper a complicated series of holes that correspond in electrical impulses to the form of letters. By passing this slip over a series of cylinders, electric waves find their way through the prepared holes, quick as a lightning flash, and are transmitted instantaneously to the other end of the wire, however far it is, and come out in the same sequence in which they entered. The manner in which the letters are recorded is the marvel. Photography is called in. The electric waves are conveyed to a little mirror, and they make the mirror move in two directions—horizontal and vertical. Electric light is focused on the mirror, and then directed from it to a slip of sensitized paper. The mirror moves only about the hundredth part of a millimeter, and the exposure of the sensitized paper is only about the thousandth part of a second, but the lightning flash is quicker, and, though the eye cannot follow the writing, yet it appears plain as a plikestaff, and without the possibility of an error, at the rate of almost 15 words a second. The two motions—vertical and horizontal—with the motion of the paper being drawn before the finger of light, supply all the motions of handwriting. If produced slowly they would, of course, be angular, but the speed makes them practically curved. Developing and fixing the photographed message takes ten seconds, so that the written message is received ten seconds later than its transmission. The system is so fast that it is really ahead of the are. Very few towns, let alone individuals, want to telegraph 40,000 words an hour. Indeed, Austria-Hungary, the home of the inventors, while enthusiastically indorsing the invention, could not make use of it, because no two telegraph offices in the empire have enough work to keep it googling. They would have to save up telegraphs for a week to keep the instrument going ten minutes. It ought to prove of immense value in transmitting speeches from out-of-the-way places, where few wires exist. SONG CONVERTS A THIEF. Turns from Salvation Army Lassies and Makes Restitution to Victims of Robberies. Pottsville, Pa. — Salvation Army street singers are credited with having induced Lester R. Curry, a self-accented knowledgeled thief, to change his mode of life. Some weeks ago a stolen watch was sent to police headquarters, with a note urging its return to an address in the suburb. The note was signed "Thief." The other day Michael Gripple, who had been absent from home, returned. Chief Davies found him at the address and turned the watch over to him. He fully identified it as his property, and said the watch was stolen from his home by a peddler answering Curry's description. The police had found that the man who signed himself "Thief" was registered as Curry at a hotel here. He was been a short time before he sent the note to turn from the street singers, to whom he was listening, with tears dropping from his eyes. Deep Diamond Mines. Prof. Henry Miers in lecturing to a London audience recently said that there is no knowledge of the depths to which the South African diamond mines can be worked. The deeper they go the richer they become. Work can be carried on now to a depth of 2,500 feet and it is thought that it might be continued to a depth of 5,000 feet or even 10,000 feet if engineering difficulties could be overcome. Sea Lion Kills Octopus. The keeper of the lighthouse near Crescent City, Cal., reports a battle between a reef lion and an octopus. The octopus wound its tentacles around the lion's body, but the lion bit them off one after the other and ate them. Other lions then helped to dispose of the octopus' carcass. IF YOU WANT A PLACE To Board ADVERTISE THE WASHINGTON BREK HOLME'S Hotel 333 Va. Ave., S. W. For The Best Afro-American Accommodation in the District. -European And American. Sar stocked with fine Wines, Imported Brand and pure old Rye Whisky. Heat Line Tigars Geo Krom and 5 & 100 Lodging 50, 75 & $1.00 Comfortably heated by steam. Give us a Call— JAMES OTTOWAY H LMES Prop Washington, D, C. Hotel Glyde, 475 MISSOURI AVE., N.W. First Class accommodations -FOR- Ladies and Gentlemen Hot and Cold Baths MRS. ALICE E. HALL. Louis J. Kessel, Importer of and Wholesale Dealer in WINES AND whiskies Sole Owner of the..... ... Following Brands: Private Stock, Old Reserve, Hermit Oxford, Tremont 425 TENTH SREET, N. W. Telephone—Main—160. Established 1863. A. Herman, RELIABLE CLOTH... 728 Seventh Street, Corner H N. W. Washington, D. C. Bare Books Sold. New York.—Two of the rarest books in the collection of Americana made by the late Bishop John Hurst have just been sold at auction. One was a copy of the Mohawk prayer book, printed in this city by William Bradford in 1715. It brought $1,300. The other was a copy of the second edition of Eliot's Indian Bible, and it sold for $110. Young Girl in Penitentiary Huntington, W. Va.—Pearl Smith, aged ten, who has served a number of years in the state reform school, was the other afternoon sentenced by Judge Matthews to serve five years in the penitentiary for stealing a 25-cent pair of suspenders from the residence of Nimrod Elliott. Five years is the minimum sentence in such a case. Twins Divorced from Twins. Springfield, O.—Alvin and Alva Buckles, two brothers, were granted divorces from twin sisters in a local court here the other day. The Reason. A man in New Jersey says he has not slept a wink for ten years. Mosquitoes? SILVER FACE BLEACH REGISTERED IN PATENT OFFICE U.S. BEFORE AFTER both in a box for 10, or three boxes for 20. Guaranteed to do what we want and to be the "best in the world." One box is all that is required. **SILVER FACE BLEACH.** A PEACH-LIME COMPLEX conditioned oil if used as directed. Will form the skin of a bick or a brown person box if a five oz. bottle is used. It will form the skin of a brown person box if a shade of brown or two bottles will be adductible. It does not form the skin in spots, but bleaches out white, the skin remaining dark. It will form the skin in dark spots, plumbed by beams or blackheads, making the skin look and feel clean. When you get the color you wish, stop using the preparation. **AND THE MAKE TOMO.** That goes in one dollar box is enough to make anyone's hair perfectly plumbed and makes the hair soft and to smooth. Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office envelope and sending the hair soft and to smooth if through the mail will prepend or if you want it next C. It will come by expay, some cash estimate. We will send the money or send a book of choice. Packed so that no one will know the company comps source. **SILVER FACE BLEACH CO.,** 1022 8 19th Philadelphia, Pa. BUY A HOME AT ONCE LARGE AND CONVENIENT LOTS OF LAND FOR SALE FOR SALE. A rare chance for white or colored people of moderate means or small wages to build homes near the end of the new highway and railroad bridges now being rapidly constructed across the Petomac, between Washington and the Agricultural Farms at Arlington. This beautiful subdivision of land is called East Arlington," and is surveyed off and boundaries set with wide avenues, streets and alleys. Lots are 109 feet long by 25 feet wide. Teams only $5 down, balance $1 per week, without interest. Price of lots from $150 to $250 per lot. Ten per cent off for cash, and perfect title guaranteed. These lots are only 25 minutes' walk or 8 minutes ride from the Government Departments or business center of Washington The land is slightly melded towards Washington, is well drained and rich. When the first payment of $5 is made the purchaser can take possession of the ground, build a home or plant fruit or shade trees or cultivate it Money can be borrowed with which to build. One lot will produce from $25 to $50 worth of potatoes or other vegetables a year. Also a large three-story brick building, and half-acre, for sale or easy terms. Parties will be shown the subdivision at any time. Write or call for plat and further particulars of JAMES E. CLEMENS 1496 G St. N.W. Phone. Main 1080. NATIONAL COLORED PEOPLE'S CO-OPERATIVE BENEFICIAL UNION. (Chartered March 17, 1904.) A deliberative, representative, voluntary protective benevolent association, in which each and every member has one vote in making rules and electing officers, and each enjoys an equal share of all benefits. Prompt medical attention for sick members; death benefits larger than necessary burial expenses; assistance and counsel to members in distress, especially when oppressed in the usual way. To see that each has a fair show in courts, whatever the charge. To own and control sources of supply in order to enable all members to purchase the necessaries at reductions from trust prices, the only possible remedy against trusts. The stores, markets, shops, wood and coal and lumber yards, farms, dairies and lands to be owned and managed by the Union and its members. The Union aims to take control of any business, profession or agency that supplies negro needs, in order that negroes may control their own earnings, speudings and business, and in order to employ our own unemployed. The Union organizes all classes and the masses, pledged and shown to be the best interests of all in fact the negro's salvation—to patronize and work for mutual interests. Colored papers please copy. Membership dues, 5. 10. 15 and 20 cents weekly. The Union will buy land to be divided into suitable lots to be sold to members at cost. Dr. J. N. Johnson, attorney at law, president; Rev. William H. Johnson and John B. Dillard, vice presidents; Dr. P. W. Price, medical director and treasurer; John T. C. Newsom, financial secretary; Dr.Robert F.Plummer, director of pharmacy: Robert Robinson and Harry Davis, deputies. Main Office: 1128 G stree' northeast, Washington, D. C. The United States Commission: Rabbit of St. Louis, Mo. tried Wong Jet, a Chinaman who is supposed to have come to this country. There is a law prohibiting Chinese from coming to the United States, and they can never be naturalized. The Chinese and foreign born negroes are discriminated against. A few years ago, a federal judge who lives north of the Mason and Dixon line refined to grant naturalization to a negro who came from Europe. Rev. Madison C. Peters, of New York, suggests this as an improvement on Bishop Potter's subway sackoon: "A gallon of whisky costs $3, and contains sixty-five 15-cent drinks. Now, if men must drink, let them buy it by the gallon and make their wives, sisters or mothers the bar-keepers. Pay them for the drink, and when the gallon is gone they will have a net profit of $6.75 on every gallon. Let that money be put away and when the drinkers have become drunkards their wives, mothers and sisters will have money to keep them from want." The New York World, whose heart is in the right place, says in its issue of December 2: "John Brown was hanged forty-five years ago—and his soul has gone 'marching on' all over the world." And his soul will continue to march onward until the word "Liberty" becomes a mere empty formula.—N. Y. Age. The modern bullet will pierce the carcasses of three horses in succession at 550 yards, and of four at half the distance. LOUVRE GLOVE COMPANY. OPEN EVENINGS. Gloves Make The Best Gifts OTHING pleases the ladies as much as to receive a fine pair of Louvre gloves for Xmas. Here you select from the biggest and finest stock of gloves in the city. Every pair is fully guaranteed. Gloves and other articles neatly boxed free. Louvre Glove Co., 931 F St. LADIES GLOVLS 69c This is the regular $1 value. A very dressy and smart glove—well made and fit perfectly. Just a leader with us at this price. Ladies' and Men's Extra Fine Gloves, in all sizes and styles, including light shades for evening wear—a very stunning $1.00 glove; our special leader Ladies' Very Fine Evening and Walking Gloves, with the short and long fingers, very mannish effect—the most popular $1.50 glove we have ever sold at GIFT NECKWLAR Another useful gift thing. We call especial attention to our line of Laathes' Neckpieces at 25c. and 49c. All the newest effects in dainty laces and embroideries. Imported novelties from $1 up. HIDDEN ISLLS OF THE SEA. Many a noble ship, richly laden with the proudest spoils of human industry and enterprise, and freighted with that which is dearer still—human life—has passed away with the morning sunlight glittering on its snowy canvas, passed away, never to arrive at its destination; passed away forever from the ken and knowledge of men as completely as if it had never been in existence. What has become of those vanished argosies? Whither have they gone? When the seas give up their dead, and the old ocean lays bare its secrets, the ```markdown ``` human skeletons, the virgin gold, the priceless gems, the costly jewels, and the wrecks of those vanished ships will be found strewn amid the tremendous passes and deep defiles of those submerged mountain ranges which are the backbones of lost continents, upon those topmost peaks, projecting near the surface of the sea, these lost convoys have been dashed to destruction! The mariner's compass and the navigator's chart have not been able to protect commerce from the wreck and ruin of these submerged ridges, but the good COLUMBIA CLUB ship "Columbia," richly laden with its precious cargo of "Columbia Club," the purest and best whiskey in the world, launched and navigated by William J. Donovan from the famous Baseball House, located at 1528 Seventh street, N. W., with the Sta and Stripes glittering from its gaff and defiance to all competitors thundering from its steel-clad turrets, has weathered every gale and returned safely from every voyage, because Mr. Donovan knows the highways of successful business enterprise are strewn with the derelicts of pretension and misrepresentation, and that quality alone, and quality strictly and strenuously adhered to, is the only chart and surest recommendation of those who wish to indulge in the delicious, stimulating, health-giving virtue of a truly honest American whiskey—the "Columbia Club." ASINGITION BER Improved Service to Chicago TRAIN NO. 7. Credit reon s adie w. HAT PINS & BELTS. Still another useful suggestion for the ladies. We've a very fine line of Hat Pins, in all the latest novelties—imported ones, the kind that are not shown elsewhere—50c. and 75c. Ladies' Belts, in silk and leather effects—new designs, direct copies from imported ones—the very swelest thing seen hereabouts—regular $1.00 values—our special offering... 50c GIFT HOSIERY. A serviceable gift—a useful one. As a special Xmas offering we are selling our regular 75c. qualities in Ladies Black and Embroidered Effect Hose, our special leader, three pans neatly boxed, for ..... S1.50 We invite your inspection of our Ladies' Waist Department—the very newest creations—direct imported novelties. A beautiful waist at ..... S5.50 Glove Co., F St. The Louis Rothschild, Co. WHOLESALE Whiskies 407 7th Street Northwest. Distributors Las I Pepper Whiskey Phone. Main 1852. M.FISHMAN. FIRST CLASS TAILORING. Cleaning, Dyeing and Repairing neat- ly done. All work guaranteed. Reasonable prices. Vel et collars on overcoat 75c and up. Pants pressel 15c. Ladie skirts braided round bottom. call d for and delivered. 824 12th Street N. W. R: G. Swaine and Son; Agents for Paragon Process and Victor XXXX Family Flour. Telephone, 1699 Main; 932 Louisiana Avenue Northwest. Le Droit Park Market 4th and Fin-17 5 6th St and R. I. Avenue, N. W. Fancy Groceties. Wholesale and Retail. M. MAZO, Proprietor. THE CO-OPERATIVE HELP DEPARTMENT Is headquarters for all kinds of help of any capacity in and out of the city,—chambermaids, laundresses, cooks.' headwaiters, bellmen, hallmen, coachmen, and work by the day or hour, also janitors. Under management of the Dress makers' Training School. The object of this school is to train young women to be self supporting and independent by teaching them dressmaking, millinery, embroidery, corset-making. We will teach, free of charge plain sewing instructions will be given to encourage young women to seek the more technical points in sewing. Lessons day and evening. For further particulars call and see the principal, Mrs. L. R. Clark, 1200 U stree. N. W., phone North 1258 F. Dressmaking parlor, 1930 14th street. N. W. All kinds of mending. Baltimore Ohio NEW YORK & CHICAGO EXPRESS Lv New York 12.00 noon "Philadelphia 2.14 p.m. "Baltimore (Mt. Royal) 4.14!" "Baltimore (Camdem) 4.30 " "Washington 5.30 " Ar. Chicago (next day) 5.30 " Excellent connections with all lines for Michigan points and all evening trains leaving Chicago for the West and Northwest. Soli I vestibuled trains. NO CHANGE OF CARS PETER GROGAN Credit For all Washington. BETTER TAKE AD- VANTAGE OF THESE JANUARY FURNITURE RÉDUCTIONS Will be Given as Freely as Ever, al- though prices are Badly crippled. The greatest Bargains of the Year are now Being offered in Pattor, bed room And dining room Furniture. to per cent discount for cash or if paid within 30 days, 7½ per cent if paid within 60 days, and 5 per cent if paid within 90 days. PETER GROGAN. S17-S19-S21-S23 - Seventh - Street Between H and L Sts. SCOTT REMEDY CO AGENTS WANTED, both sexes, to sell our Scott's Magic Hair Strengthener and Grower, and Scott's Face Bleach and Beautifier Beats anything of their kind. Selis for 30 cents each. Every woman and man will buy when shown a package. Over 100 per cent profit for agents. You can easily make clear $500 a day. We also furnish and beautify your homes without any cost to you. Write today for particulars. Address SCOTT REMEDY CO. Box 570 Louisville, Ky. J. H Babney, Funeral Director Hiring. Livery and Sale Stale carriages hired for funerals parties, balls, receptacles, etc. Horses and carriages kept in first-class service satisfaction guaranteed. Business at 1332 3rd Street, N.W. Main Office Branch at 222 Alfred Street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office Main 1727 Telephone ca 1 for Stable Main 1482 3. Our Stables. In Where I can accommodate fifty horses Call and inspect our new and modern cast stirs and investigate our methods o doing first class work. 1132 3rd St. northwest J, H. DABNEY, Prop. THE HUDSON'S JARIETY STORE Phone Main 527. 416 7th Street N. W. ALL FOR 69 Cts. 6 Dinner Plates 60 cts. 6 Breakfast Plates 50 cts. 6 Tea Plates 40 cts. 6 Fruit Saucers 30 cts. 1 Vegetable Dish 20 cts. 6 Cups & Saucers 60 cts. 1 Basket 10 cts $2.70. Pope Pius is said to be devoting several hours each day to a systematic study of the history of European politics. can easily be found. Smell your drink before imbibing it. Better still smell the drained glass. The least disagreeable or soul odor betrays poison in the whiskey. Perfect distribution means the careful separation of the first and the end run from the still. the poisonous impure essential grain-oils (phlem faints, fusels) from the miedling product, good, potable spirit. Very likely the majority of cheap whiskies, either from economy or ignorance, carry a larger or smaller proportion of impurities. Such defective whiskies are never admitted into the stock. and hence cannot be obtained at the store of 909 7th street Northwest. John Rudden, Furniture, Carpets, etc. Skeados & New York Can 908-7th St. SPECIAL THUNDER 5 lbs. Candy... .... 6 lbs. Candy... .... 5 lbs. Candy... .... 3 lbs. Candy... .... The best place in the city for Christmas description and J. A. La Architect A Expert builder, examiner and estimator from rough sketches, pencil drawings, or and mailed to any section of the country we have designed, overhauled, repaired and Dollars ($500,000.00) worth of work the class of work being of every description. We make a specialty of church and we also specialize the building up of vaca. Any one anticipating having plans gotten paired, we would be glad to have you call given in any of the above named lines. os & Skead ark Candy Kite 3-7th St. N. W. SPECIAL THIS YEAR Candy..... $1.00. Candy..... $1.00. Candy..... $1.00. Candy..... $0.25 ty for Christmas Candies. ery description and charm. Lankfor itect And Build aminer and estimater. Plans gotten out pencil drawings, or from written or verb- ation of the country. In the past thirty- hauled, repaired and built over Five H ool worth of work in Washington, D. of every description and character. city of church and hall designs, and building up of vacant lots in the Distri aving plans gotten out, buildings over lad to have you call or write us. No cha ove named lines. Skeados & Skeados New York Candy Kitchen The best place in the city for Christmas Candies. Candies of every description and style. J. A. Lankford ```markdown ``` Architect And Builder Architect And Builder Expert builder, examiner and estimater. Plans gotten out at short notice, from rough sketches, pencil drawings, or from written or verbal descriptions, and mailed to any section of the country. In the past]thirty-two (32) montns we have designed, overhauled, repaired and built over Five Hundred Thousand Dollars (£500,000.00) worth of work in Washington, D. C., and vicinity the class of work being of every description and character. We make a specialty of church and hall designs, and arranging loans, we also specialize the building up of vacant lots in the District of Columbia. Any one anticipating having plans gotten out, buildings overhauled or repaired, we would be glad to have you call or write us. No charges for advice given in any of the above named lines. Main office, 609 F Street, Northwest. Residence, 1210 V Street Northwest, Washington D. C. Telephone Number, Main 2824. Residence, 1210 V S Telephone Nu Residence, 1210 V Street Northwest, W. Telephone Number, Main 2824. Established 1893. Telephones: Market Call 2197. Greenhouse Call 215-8 Received Highest Awards at Washington Flower show for Roses. F.H.KRAMER WHOLESALE ROSE GROWER Greenhouses Anacostia, D. C. 422-423 Center Market WHO IS YOUR PILL ROLLER? W. DAVIS AND BRO PILL. ROLLER? iS AND Bro BEEHIVI Will do it for you in a thoroughly accurate and pharmaceutical manner. Will roll them night or day. Just ring side bell if store is closed. We have rolled lots of them since Phone, N. 2405. Cor. Eleventh and You Streets, N.W. A New Saloon JERRY O'CONNOR Has opened a first class Buffet a 115 4½ St. N.W.; With a large stock of the best brand of Wines and Liquors. What Pure Whiskey is Fine Garments (Slightly Worn) Made by Our Leading Tailors. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Established 1865. 619 D St. N. W Wm Moreland (HOLTMAN'S OLD STAND) —DEALER IN— BOOTS AND SHOES $2.50 Shoes a specialty. 491. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. SIGN OF THE BIG BOOT. Skeados, Lindy Kitchen St. N. W. THIS YEAR $1.00. $1.00. $1.00. $0.25. Christmas Candies. Candies of ev- on and cherry. ankford And Builder mater. Plans gotten out at short notice, or from written or verbal descriptions, country. In the past thirty-two (32) montns ed and built over Five Hundred Thous- ork in Washington, D. C., and vicinity description and character. and hall designs, and arranging loans, acant lots in the District of Columbia out, buildings overhauled or re- call or write us. No charges for advice V Street Northwest, Washington D. C. Number, Main 2824. BEEHIVE Store Special after Christmas Reduction that are money savers. No such low prices as prevail now have ever been quoted. Special reduction in Cloaks, Suits, Furs, Skirts. Investigate our prices before buying elsewhere. BEEHIVESstore CONVENTION. Negro Industrial and Agricultural Society. The next annual meeting of the Negro Industrial and Agricultural Society will be held Monday and Tuesday. January 6th and 31st, 1905, in the St. Luke Hall at Richmond, Va. Circulars of Instruction will be mailed, giving full particulars. For further information address, JAMES H. HAYES, Solicitor and Organizer, Richmond, Va. Jordan Thompson, Pres. J. C. Carter, E. T. Jenkins, James H. Hayes.