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VOL.24 NO.37 A Peculiar People. A Peculiar People. "Peculiar People" is a new book for the millions. By Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase. NEW SUBJECTS. Every division, which are twelve (12) is discussed in a new way. The book will tell who the peculiar people are: 1. THEIR ORIGIN. 2. HE BECOMES A PECULIAR. 3. A MISAPPLICATION. 4. USELESS LEGISLATION. 5. NO LONGER BEGGARS. 6. HIS ABODE. 7. BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 8. IMITATIVENESS AND RESULTS. Taken Oct.1904 MRS ARABELLA V CHASE. 9. THE POLITICAL ATMOS- PHERE. 10. GOOD CITIZENSHIP. 11. UNWHOLESOME PRAC TICES. 12. EXCERPTS AND COM MENTS. SUMMARY. It is a book that should be in the library of every citizen. KNOW YOURSELF. To know yourself you will have to read this book. One dollar per copy, postage prepaid, sent to any part of the world. Send money order or registered letter. Address: Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase, 1212 Florida avenue northwest, or THE WASHINGTON BEE, 1109 Eye street northwest, Washington, D. C. WHAT I SAW AND HEARD. I was in Circuit Court No. 1 last week and heard the Capital Savings Bank cases. I was amused to see the great array of legal talent. There were several lawyers of African extraction present but it seemed to me that the gentlemen of Anglo-Saxon extraction were doing all the talking. Well, the plaintiffs won out, with but one exception. The jury decided that Dr. John R. Francis had nothing to do with the affairs of the bank after it formed a partnership. His honor Judge Barnard so ruled and the jury so agreed and returned a verdict accordingly. Hon. A. A. Birny, the astute counsel for the plaintiffs used every argument to convince the court and jury that Dr. Francis was equally responsible. Mr. Birny never gives up if he has a fighting chance. I am of the opinion that no more suits will be filed against Dr. Francis. Indeed, it is useless, because almost every judge has decided that Dr. Francis had nothing to do with the bank. The depositors can blame themselves for the condition of affairs. I am certain had they permitted the bank to reorganize, today every cent of the lost money would have been paid. I don't see why Mr. Henry E. Baker should be any more to blame than any one else who was connected with that defunct bank. His transactions were legitimate and honorable. I sympathize with Mr. Bradford. He lost over thirteen thousand dollars and yet he is being sued by the depositors. The all-absorbing topics today are the three inaugural balls. I am informed that it will require the three balls to entertain the visitors who will visit the Capital inaugural week. The most amusing thing of the whole inaugural business is the colored Public Comfort Committee. This colored committee will look after the colored The latest report is that my young townsman and ex-president of Bethel Literary, Mr. Geo. W. Jackson, is booked for a postoffice in Indiana. My advice to George is to have nothing to do with postoffices. They are dangerous institutions, especially when you must contend with dishonest clerks. George is too good a man to be butchered by a postoffice. I have read "Peculiar People," by Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase. I would not be without it. She discusses questions in a manner that will please the most philosophic mind. The book shows that Mrs. Chase is a sound thinker and a profound reasoner. I have just found out who I am. I thought I knew. If the great negro race will follow the teachings of the book, the solution of the great questions and principles pertaining to the race will be solved. It is the most wonderful expose of a Peculiar People that one would desire to read. Col. James Lewis, of New Orleans, La., a member of the old school of politicans, and Mr. Walter Cohen, of same state, have been reappointed. Both gentlemen are entitled to the congratulations of the race. Dr Wm. Gibbons has been vindicated. I never believed that there was much in those charges against him. Dr. Gibbons is a hustler. He is one man who has the confidence of his congregation. There is a movement on foot to make Dr Corrothers Bishop. I would like to see him elected. My opinion is that he would make a model Bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church. DR. DU BOIS AND THE RACE PRESS. In his unique "Debit and Credit" presentation of the race question for 1904 in the Voice of the Negro for January Dr Du Bois charges that $3,000 of hush money has been used to subsidize the race press in five large cities of the country. Several of our brethren of the quill have denounced the statement as a base slander of the entire negro newspaper fraternity and demand an explanation from the good Doctor. They fail to see that when Professor Du Bois declares that this subsidization is found in five large cities—all other places and papers are excluded. If your paper is not published in a large city you certainly have no room to kick. You are not meant at all. For our part, we have confidence in the personal integrity of the Atlanta teacher and recognizing his wont to be exact, we believe he would not have so seriously charged the corruption of some of the race papers without having foundation in fact. Mr Du Bois is no coward. There is not a braver and more fearless champion of his race before the American people today than he. Those papers that delight in abusing him just now should be just a little more quiet, else the taint of graft might be suspicioned of them. We suggest that the Voice of the Negro be asked to secure the explanation desired since the offending article appeared in its columns, contributed we presume by special request of the editorial management of the magazine. Meanwhile we shall possess our soul in the peace of conscious innocence and await developments.—From the Star of Zion. ONE DR CRUM ENOUGH. Washington, Jan. 28.—The administration has apparently changed its policy in the matter of appointing negro officeholders in the South. Some time ago the commissioner of pensions asked Republican National Committeeman Akins, of Missouri, to designate three men for appointment as pension examining surgeons at Boonville, Mo. Among those designated by Akins and later appointed by the pension commissioner was Dr. Leon Hills. Some protests began to come to the pension bureau against the appointment of Hills, who it turned out, was a colored man. This was not known to the pension commissioner when the appointment was made. Hills was asked to resign, but declined. Finally it was decided to abolish the board of pension examining surgeons at Boonville in order to get rid of the obnoxious colored man. Later a new board will be created and there will be no colored man on it. The policy of forcing colored officeholders on white communities in the South seems to have been definitely abandoned by the administration.—From the Baltimore Lancet. Great preparations are being made for the races in March. Mrs. W. T Walton, the popular secretary, states that these races will surpass all others. Mr. Walton has won a host of friends in this city who think the world of him. WASHINGTON HINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY FEBRU Monacan Monacan Among the social organizations of Washington that will lead part in this city during the period given over MR. W. E. COBB, VICE-PRESIDENT to the festivities attendant upon the inauguration of the President is the Monacan Club, an association known in all part of the country Four years 1 J. A. B. DR CHAS S. HARRISON, PRESIDENT ago the club, under the name of the Cosmos, gave, in addition to one of its famous assemblies a splendid ball at the Builders' Exchange on 13th street Those who attended that notable function carry with them even now a delightful recollection of this event s complete in every feature of excellence dignity and beauty The ball which will ago the club, under the name of the organization has met with such con-Cosmos, gave, in addition to one of its sistent and uniform success in all of famous assemblies a splendid ball at the its efforts. Here are gathered together Builders' Exchange on 13th street, some of the best and most intelligent Those who attended that notable func- and the most active young men of Wash- tion carry with them even now a de- ington. Its officers for the present year lightful recollection of this event so are Dr. Chas. S. Harrison, president; complete in every feature of excellence, William E. Cobb, vice-president; W L. dignity and beauty The ball which will D. Wilkinson, secretary; Robert T. MR HARRY H CARDOZA, be given this year bids fair to eclipse even that brilliant affair. The club and MR GEO D JOHNSON, Douglass, treasurer. On addition to these are the following members: Dr MR. A. GARRY BOOKER. --- its friends here have secured the Light Infantry Armory for March 6th, and nothing will be left undone to make the guests of the occasion comfortable and happy. The assembly given by this same club will be at Odd Fellows' Hall on M street, Wednesday night, March MR. ROBERT T DOUGLASS, TREASURER done this frequently at extra cost to its members. When one considers the composition of the membership of the Monacan Club it is not strange that this ```markdown ``` the organization has met with such consis sistent and uniform success in all of its efforts. Here are gathered together. some of the best and most intelligent and the most active young men of Washington. Its officers for the present year so are Dr. Chas. S. Harrison, president. e, William E. Cobb, vice-president; W L. will D. Wilkinson, secretary: Robert T. MR GEO D JOHNSON, Douglass, treasurer On addition these are the following members: MR. RALPH B. STEWART, --- THE MONACAN CLUB. 8th. It is a big undertaking for one organization to give two such parties in one week. Yet the Monacan Club can be trusted to make a most creditable success of both of them. Washington is justly proud of this club that has done so much for its social life during the six years of its existence. It has kept alive in a most emphatic way the ties of friendship and good fellowship that should exist among the people of a community, and it has Berkeley C. Waller, Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, Frank W. Cheek, Clinton-C. Burke, George D. Johnson, A. G. Booker, H H. Cardozo, Dr. R. B. Stewart, R. V Cook, James Walker and W. Stanton Wormley. The honorary members are Hon. John F Cook Hon. P. S. B. Pinchback, Justice Robert H. Terrell, Dr. John R. Francis, Dr F. J. Shadd, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Mr. Wyatt Archer, Mr. Whitefield McKinley, Mr. Charles R. Douglass, Mr R. J. Harlan, Mr. Henry E. Baker and Mr. Jerome A. Johnson. Several of the active and honorary members of this club are native Washingtonians They are connected with some of MR. CLINTON C BURK, the oldest families in this city are socially strong among all who know them. All great cities have strong social organizations. Such organizations are helpful to the community. The semi and annual receptions given by this club are attended by some of the best people in the community. Mr. Robert T. Douglass, one if not the leading spirit in this club, is a young man of excellent attainments. He has a host of friends who are ever ready to give him their support. The inaugural reception that to take place in the armory of the Washington Light Infantry, under the auspices of the Monacan Club will be a credit to the organization. The honorary members are men of high social standing and they have at all times given their hearty support to the success of the many receptions given by this club. THE BEE takes pleasure in presenting to its readers ten portraits of the officers and most prominent members of THE MONACAN CLUR MR F W CHEEK. DR. BERKLEY C. WALLER, NEGROES APPEAL TO ROOSEVELT. The New England Suffrage League Urges Him to Mention Status of the Southern Blacks in His Inaugural in March. An appeal to President Roosevelt, requesting him to include some mention of the statue of the southern negro in his inaugural address in March and to urge upon Congress the necessity of legislation to enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution was forwarded to Washington last night by the New England Suffrage League. The petition was formulated at a meeting of the league held on Wednesday night at the People's Institute, and at which other important business was done. A constitution was adopted by the league, a committee was appointed to draft and present to Congress at its next session a bill providing for aid to education in the southern states by the national government, and another committee was appointed to forward to Congress a protest against the Tillman amendment to the statehood bill requiring separate schools for colored children. The appeal transmitted to Washington last night reads as follows: "We respectfully beg leave to call your attention to certain conditions affecting the welfare of millions of colored Americans in this country In most of the southern states colored American male citizens are subject to wholesale disfranchisement, being practically deprived of all voice in the local, state and national governments, and this in several state under the guise of organic state laws. The public school facilities for colored children are inferior and inadequate, unequal to those for white children, the annual school terms in rural districts averaging less than three months. The colored population is subject to discriminations in public conveyances and other public utilities that are insulting, humiliating and injurious. Penal laws of the most degrading, demoralizing and cruel kind are on the statute books and are made to operate chiefly against the colored people. These latter receive but scant justice in the courts as against white persons and are victims of partiality in the enforcement of the law. They have no protection of property, are taxed without representation, are often driven from their homes and compelled to abandon their property by lawless bands of white men. Neither are they guaranteed trial by jury when accused of crime or legal punishment if found guilty, but are frequently murdered with shocking barbarity by blood-thirsty mobs. Over large areas colored persons are today held in peonage, a brutal form of human slavery. "These and other equally terrible conditions, which are a disgrace to our common country, a menace to its welfare and a crime against humanity, exist largely as a result of the violation of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the federal constitution, which were incorporated into the law of the land at the cost of billions of treasure and of the lives of nearly half a million of the flower of the country's manhood. We, therefore, appeal to you as the head of the nation to take cognizance of these grievous wrongs existing in violation of the fundamental law in your forthcoming inaugural address, thereby awakening public sentiment to the crying need of their redress. "We especially appeal to you, in the performance of your constitutional prerogative, to recommend in your next annual message to Congress such legislation as will insure the full and speedy enforcement of first, the 13th amendment of the constitution, that peonage may come to a final end; of second, the 14th amendment, that unfair advantage in congressional representation may not be longer had by one state over another, that citizens denied the ballot may not be compelled to increase the congressional power of their oppressors, and that loss of representation by disfranchising citizens may be an incentive to states to restore the suffrage; of third, the 15th amendment, that the denial of the right to vote on account of race or color shall be forever abolished and the colored men of our country may no longer be deprived of the only weapon of self-defense in a representative republic. "We further appeal to you to enforce the interstate commerce law, as it affects interstate passengers now discriminated against because of race and color; and to recommend legislative action for federal aid to public education to the end that all citizens of the United States may have adequate educational opportunity. "W. H. Scott, S. W. Smith, Rhode Island; I. D. Barnett, F. G. Stedman, Connecticut; L. W. Carter, E. T. Morris, committee." eS RAEN ae ER = a ss : : 7 i ey & a eee Te TN feed { * “s at) a im P ” “ : eee ee EMI LUT she, , eee ’ ee Ee Svea ———— SS ae ype —_—_—_—_—_—_===—====— ————— a ' A DINING CAR SHOCK. | TEN rete CaRiesTAN - . MOST DIMINUTIVE HUNTen. - S- De pr The Nice Old Lady Who Wanted a| At the Great Union Revival Services at FR ANK HUME, Youngest Nimrod to Boast a Deer as UP-TO-DATE BUBBLES ; “Scotch Highball” at the Be | Cadet Armory, 708 O street, N. W., the Trophy of His Small = j : . + ginning‘of Her Meal. Washington, D. ci undér the eines - Ny Rife, gi NO CLAY PIPE NEEDED IN THIS — of-the National Negro Baptist Preach- ‘ . — r - Kansas City, Mo—The walter had| ero Union of Washington and viciity. co & ‘ HeitipaMeonorpetddme %SETRIC AMUSE agra ee to a table, and before Thad conducted by the famous pulpit orator] i most diminutive, If not the youngest, —— ; Sod paced Resco wm are eke and evangelist, Rev. S. P. Drew, D. D. 2 - meant ome Who bas thors ia tna ‘With Paper Cylinder Giant Iridescent ar was swaying and bumping over a| Rev. Drew is considered one of the] Agent for the District of Columbia for 1{PTON’S renowned COFFEES and| or bear, p + Globes May Be Produced and 5 new plece of track and the old lady [leading Baptist Evangelists of the Unit- pas, UL STAG Whiskey, The sole agent forthe Artisam Cigars made| Walter R. Nealley Js not much big- Many Strange Tricks Per- : = seemed perturbed by the jarring andthe {ed States. Rev. Drew's wonderful re-} | * ea : s ~ | ger than the proverbial “pint o’ elder.” formed with Them. - noise, Her hair was nearly white, and | vival work in New York; 1898-1899, two} in Porto Rico. The best and cheapest cigar made.- _ He {s 12 years old, welghs all of 61 = . it was waved over the temple, A ttle [hundred persons converted, North Car- 18 Pounds and towers four feet five In his | | Chicago OF hintiee béiviess ca ‘ joonet was held in place by broad silk] olina, 1901, three hundred converted. 1 “C. a . Ddoots, ever use 7] : ieee reenter a eer (ul ta te eee TERMS'CASH: Interest charged ater se dari He taker, Joba. Nesey, tn a) Die ig eer wars Comune] sul: 7 me . aper 2 ery - regular bow under her right ear, Al. .1 woecticem i C ome at - registered guide and quite a famous | Eee ae eee e ie eg: cued FEZ, ‘ UNG 6 - | g @, ita f See 2a YR “ ee 2 ¥ a — ist Newen)\ - /h ei ZA Ve oe oS WS KL QS ———— ie —_——_——=—" “I WANT A SCOTCH HIGHBALL.” (The Unusual Request Which Came from a Nice Oid Lady Passenger.) turn-down collar of white and a long, thin chain holding a peir of glasses were the only relief from the black silk frock, ‘There she sat, the primmest old Iady I had ever seen away from a mobalr sofa. There was even a trace of a pucker'to her mouth, just to accedtuate. Most apparently on her way to the Missionary soclety’s district convention. I had contemplated having a emali bottie of ale with my roast beef, but I ordered milk Instead. While I ama be- Hever in personal liberty 1 do not per- mit my theories to Inflict themselres upon others. I ordered milk instead of deer, and the walter spilt much of it on me and the table as the train swung around asharp curve. The old lady no- Uced the mishap, but her face bore riot a trace of slightest Interest. With ber in hearing distatice I would not have risked laughing at anything. In the cold, business-like volce of the class leader she ordered—I could have told what It would be before she sald a word —she ordered two eggs bolled medium, ary toast and a pot of hot tea, “It must be hot,” she sald. “And, waiter.” she called, as he turned away. “before you brig the eggs I want a Scotch high- ball.” ; That ts what she sald. The car made a particularly wild lurch just then, ‘which helped me to hide my surprise, That was all that caved me- NOTABLE HIGH BRIDGE. Highway Arch Span Which Is Being Constructed Over the Con-* necticut River. S Boston.—The highway bridge now un- der construction over the Connecticut river, between North Walpole, N. H., and Rockingham, Vt. a short distance above Bellows Falls, will when com- pleted cross the etream with a single 340-foot span. This span is notable for being the largest highway arch span in the United States, with the exception of the one ‘ KA Si fe Sater ie eh A a eel ~ ‘THE HIGH ARCH BRIDGE. ~ (Connecticut River Span to be Next to Highest Bridge tn Country.) over the Niagara river, near the falls. and also because it is the only Jong arch span with suspended flcor in the coun: uy. The bridge contist» of a 540-foot through channel span and-a 104-toa1 elght-lach approach span on the Ver. mont elde. It {s over 31 feet wide over all, and carries a 20-foot clear,carrlage- way, and a six-fuvt clear structure. The total weight of the steel which wit Bo into the big structure will be $00,Uu1 pounds. Mistakes in Stamns_ By a simple error in the printing of < set of stamps the value fs enormous! increased to collectors. A short tim- ago x Dutch stamp Was printed yellun instead of blue. A week later thes stamps were suld at a great premium A New Zealand stamp some years agc ‘was printed upelde down. and it 12 nox worth a large sum. Among Enelist stamps the old red penny. with the plat No, 235, Is valued by collectors, and the small pink halfpenny, with plate No. ° is not worth less than $20, It isseld that the plate of the latter was broken soor after It came ints use and was never re- placed, hence the value of the fen stamps printed from it. It Is alwaysa question with amateurs whether to buy their stamps used or unnsed. But it {s safe on a great occasion. such as tha Inbilee or Exposition year, to buy them with the postmark. To Bulld Yarce Temnule SS PIE AES 5 SOR ANTE Oe nde The California Grand Lodge of Ma- tons. which includes the subordinate lodges of Hawaii. is planning to build in San Francisco a temple large enough to accommodate all grand bod- des of the craft within its jurisdiction, The present tecple 1s about 40 years old. TEN THOUSAND CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS WANTED At the Great Union Revival Services at Cadet Armory, 708 O street, N. W., Washington, D. C, undér the ausgicés of-the National Negro Baptist Preach- ers’ 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 Unit- ed States. Rev. Drew's wonderful re- vival work in New York; 1898-1899, two hundred persons converted. North Car- olina, 1901, three hundred converted Massachusetts, 1904, eme bundred con- verted. Washington, GC, 9984, cigh weeks’ preaching, 670 persons gave thei names to join the church. ¥ Notice—Churches desiring to engag Rey. Drew’s services to conduct revival meetings, can write or call at his ad. dress, 2014 Eighth Street, N. W., Wash: ington, D. C. Enclose stamp. Terms The church pays expenses, such a: Fs oe, Be oo ae: ros fas is alee ’ eae board and lodging, and allow one Sun- day 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 Coun- cil, Rev. B. W. Walker, of Mt. Gilead Baptist. Church was the moderator, Luther W. Smith, of Hanseme Place Baptist Church, was secretary of the Council; Rev. W. T. Dixon, D, D., of Concord Baptist Church, of New York, and Rey. R. D. Wynn, D. D., of Beth- any 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 190: was 207,004 miles, an increase of 4,595 miles during the year, according. te ‘Poor's Manual, recently {ssued. In the southwestern states 1,804 miles were built, 68% miles in the north. western states, GU2 miles in the gulf and Mississippi valley states, $62 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 Jla- Dilltes $14,289,529,959. ‘The total earn. ings were $1,908,957,826 in 1903, and $1,720,814,900 in 1902, ‘The operating expenses and taxes in 1902 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 psid on Uonds in 1903 was $229,426.77, and In 1902 Was $22,614,909, In 1902 the stock dividends am.unted to $164,549,147, and in 1902 to $151,019,337. The sur plus of all roads iu 1903 way $121,- 880,088, and in 1902 it was $1U9,166,434, The number of tons of freight trans- ported in 1903 was 1,206,698,838, and fn 1902 was 1,192,136,510. In 1903 the Tallroads carried 696,949,925 passen- Bers, anc in 1902 the number was 655,130,236. IMPOSES NOVEL SENTENCE, ‘Mew 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, fmposed upon Mrs. Beula McCarton, convicted before him of professional begging, a sentence that Is sald io have no parallel In the gn- nals of Jersey justice. “The sentence of this court.” an- nounced Judge Sweeney, “is that you shall pay a fine of tea vents daily for & period of two years, and that you shall appear in this court each day to mahe the payment the court bas dl- fected. The total will be ysc. Mrs. McCartoy Is 35 yeais old. ‘The police say she is ‘a member of tha notorious McCarton family, severa! of the members of which were arrested in New York revently, charged with being professional “beats.” Their rec. ord extends over many cities In New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On imposing the novel penalty, pay- able on the {ustaliment plan, Judgs Sweeney paroled Mrs. McCarton, with the Instructions that if she should not be able to raise the ten cents on any daf, she must come and report, leay- ing to him the option of changing the penalty from the tne to imprisonment. Have stood the test for ae sixty years When ‘buy : ing from us you are buy . . ing direct from the manu- ‘ facturer. 2 WE HAVE Other MAKES = Take in trade which we can, , iow PRicES vereeser f#me__ UPRIGHT PIANOS AS LOW A ie 15, equate Pianos b, Organs - 15 lerms tosuit—_ Stieff —Stiett itt “ SRA With St N Ww . ‘ 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 Britiah Columbia, though. of course, remarks the Boston Transcript, every now and then an individual Chinaman slips in Ghrough a chink. . MOST DIMINUTIVE HUNTec- ~\ - FRANKHAUME, ye 1 Wholesale Grocer. Agent for the District of Columbia for LIPTON’S renowned COFFEES and THAS, ULUSTAG Whiskey, The solv agent forthe Artisan Cigars made in Porto Rico. The best and cheapest cigar made.- . ‘TERMS‘CASH: Interest charged after so days. . % . : 454 Pennsylvania Ave, . Bot. 4-1-2&6Sts. N. W. FEF. P. BURKE, ’ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN : WINES AND LIQUORS, ‘ . : “ CIGARS AND TOBACCO. | "A Specialty Made of “GIBSUN” Whiskey. | | a 184D Street Northwest. | Youngest Nimrod to Boast a Deer as the Trophy of His Small . Rife * Northport, Me.—Northport claims the most diminutive, if not the youngest, real hunter In Malue, By real hunter is meant one who has shot a deer, moose or bear. Walter R. Nealley is not much big- ger than the proverbial] “pint o’ cider.” He {s 12 years old, welghs all of 61 pounds and towers four feet five in bis Ddoots, His father, John B. Nealley, is a registered guide and quite a famous hunter and trapper. Ever since Walter was big enough he has roamed the woods, first with a ys we 2 i \\ Vg = yer, a///> Z C i, ae Fy Yeon oy” EX Le" ANS ‘s Roe <N . AN BESS y) SS Dy LO" SS oN tf 7, WALTER R. NEALLEY. (The Young Maine Hunter Who Has Bagged His First Deer.) bow and arrow, then with an air-gua, then shotgun. Last fall his pa gave him a fine 32-40 rifle. Walter has used the rite. He has shot many rabbits and partridges, tak- Ing the bunnies on the run in true sportsman style and the partridges on the wing. . Recently the lad was out alone, a¢ he usually goes hunting, and came across & big buck. The youngster took de berate aim and brought down the deer on the first try. with a bullet through the heart. He bled the buck. Then he gathered all the other boys of theneigh- borhood and a horse sled, returning in great triumph, the happiest. and most eavied boy in Northport.- Walter te a very cautious hunter and has a great fear of shooting some one or himself by accident, and is more careful with his gun than most men, Tas +acksonville, Florida StockOne dollar per share instead of Five as heretefore—The North Jacksonville street railway-town-improvement compa-— nys" db th 1+, August 1903 with cars running ove just half its line-two miles approximately | THIS Company wishesit to be known that there is nothing but the best feeling existing between the company and our white friends for whom we holdthe deepest regard It is a clearcase that they areand always have been willing tohelpus if we wouldhelp our- selves, 900 ee utAs et R: R. ROBINSON, PRESINENT. UR ATS, WOMAN COURT CLERK. ‘Miss Carrie Davison, Only Woman in Country to Hold Position in the United States District Court, Detroit, Mich.—Miss Carrie Davison. daughter of the tate Darius J. Davison, who has just been appolnted clerk of the United States district court in this city. says the ne Free Press, Is the re only woman in the United States > 7 honored with suck an office. Her zppointment by ‘Judge Swan, how- = ever, cOmZs as A ‘Who Das just been appolnted clerk of the United States district court in this elty. says the Free Press, Is the only woman in the United States honored with suct an office. Her 2ppointment by Judge Swan, how- ever, comes as 8 ee ee Ree | 8SOr Otic tinuous meritorious service and nat- uraily follows her work as deputy clerk of the court. Miss Davison first entered. the office as a clerk for her father In 1899, and the following year she was appointed a deputy. She is well known, very capable and well Uked by all attorneys who have had business dealings tn the United States district court. No deputy clerk has yet heen chosewr ty Silss Davison and no appointment witl proably be made for some time. ee ars . aN EE <o Po ose ahtbes wal as epee cee ie Deki e fat t e —— a ae w =~ (a IS Ad SICK AND ACCIDENT INSUR- . ANCE UP TO $25.00 PER .WEEK WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE ON: VERY LIBERAL TERMS « PAYABLE ONE HOUR AFTER DEATH. . o AMERICAN HOME LIFE INSURANCE CO., FIETH and G Streets N. W. Washington, D, C. Gunboat Exceeds Contract Speed. ‘The gunboat Chattanooga exceeded her contract speed of 10.5 knots on her official trial at Newport, R. I. making an average of 16.605 knots in a con- tinuous run of four hours In open wa- ter. When the board returned to New- port early in the evening, after com- pleting the test, they were enthusiastic {n thelr praise of the boat. On the gun- boat were the board of engineers of- cers who have supervised the standarudl- zation of the vessel's propellers, and the regular trial board of the navy. The wind blew lightly from the west, and the sea was’ comparatively flat. the gen- eral weather conditions belng nearly perfect.. The. Chattanooga left her an- chorage at ten o'clock and, steaming out to Béaver Tall, started on her run about noon. Her engines worked even- ly and on the whole perfectly. through- out. The Chattanooga will now be put through an endurance test of 24 hours. ——______3 7 A Comet Discnvered |. The naval observatory at Washing- ton was notified the other night by ca- ble from Kiel, Germany. of the discov- ety of a comet by Borelly, of Mar- seilles, right ascension 1 hour 14 min- utes, south ceclinatton 10 hours po min- utes. 7 This comet was inimediately looked up and observe by Messrs, Hammond and Wright, of the naval observatory staff. Observatlocs will be continued on every clear right. To ‘Aid Short Memories, A Vienna society has been formed to ald people witih short memories. A card 1s issued upon whtch ‘the pur- ehaser writes the date of an engagement and posts to the soclety’s office. By ths first post of the day of bis engagement the card fs received by the purchaser, Many Doctors. In the larger citles of Germany there 1s doctor to every 800 Inhabitants. In Berlin nearly half the physicians have as tarable fucome of less than 3750 a UP-TO-DATE BUBBLES NO CLAY PIPE NEEDED IN THIS SCIENTIFIC AMUSEMENT. ‘With Paper Cylinder Giant Iridescent + Globes May Be Produced and Many Strange Tricks Per- formed with Them. Chicago—Of all the contrivances! ever used for blowing bubbles a clay| pipe is the very worst. Cornucoptas| pf paper are fofnitely better In every respect. They are-easily made and cox nothing. While bus” te tom clay pipes are, at bec, mbaseretively small affairs, those blown from cornu- copias often attaln magnificent pro- portions, measuring three, four, fve| or even more feet in circumfereme Away with the clay pipe forever, » far as using it for bluwing soap bub bles is concerned! Fill a quart bottle balf full of dis. tilled or soft water and sift Into i four-fifths of an ounce of Castile soap powder. Allow the powder to thor- oughly dissolve, and then add one-third of a pint of pure glycerin. Place tie bottle of solution in a room where the temperature is 7Q degrees or more. I performing the bubble tricks see that the room is warmed to between 63 anu 75 degrees. “Now that the solution is made you ‘will be able to play soap bubble magt- clan and show to your delighted friends a rose Inside of a bubble. You will be enabled to show a spinning top whiz- zing around icside of a bubble. [f a large humming top Is used, so much the better. for after the hummer has been sloging right merrily for a few PUNNEL COVERING OBJECT TO BE COVERED BY BUBBLES moments the top of the bubijle will start to whirl with it. , The horn should be made of wrap- ping paper, about seven Inches In length, two Inches across the wider opening and with a quarter of an inck opening at the smaller end. The pa- per may be fastened together with pins. A better way. however, is to thorough- ly paste the paper on both sides, roll Into the shape destred, Ue thread around it to prevent unroiling, and al- low ft to thoroughly dry. This wilt make you a firm, bard. permagent cor- nucopia. They can be made very mueb larger if required. Dip the wide opening of the cornu- copia Into the solution, then turn it slowly at right angles while withdraw- ing It. Look ane you will see that the opening is cov.red with a film. If it fs not. dip the cornucopia again. Now put your mouth to the smail end of the cornuccpla arc start fo blow very gently. Dip the mouth of the goblet into the solution and then carefully Jift it out at right angles, eo the opecing will be covered with'a film. As sood ag the swelling bubble touches the film you may continue to blow until you have made a sphére of giant proportions, Great care must be exercised Ia re- moving the cornucopia so as not to. throw che bubble off its balance. Pour some of the solution {nto a plate of tin dish nntit the bottom is covered to the depth of one-eighth of ft ; p- if \\ fi ra : ni : MOST COMPLETED an inch. Then wet with your fingera or piece of cloth the whole upper sur- face of the plate with the solutfon. Ba sure that not one dry spot {s left. Then Place a rosé, or other object, in the center of the plate. and over this lower a tin funnel, at the same time slowly lifting it As the film swells out keep! lifung the funnel acd blowing until you have a fair-sized film. Then, turr- ing the funnel at right angles, still holding your mouth to It, Mft it sud- denly higher. and the film will release Itself from the funnel, 7m For spinning a top inside a bubble] the solution is poured in the plate and the rim of the plate is well covered with It, as in the rose-trick. Then set an Inverted butter plate in the cen- ter of the large plate. -Spin your top, tahe it up In your hands, and slide it on to the inverted butter plate. Over the top and butter plate quickly lower, the funnel down into the solution. Be! careful, -however, to use a funnel large} enough £0 that the top will not strike it. Then cover the spinning top with a bubble by the method explained In the Tose trick. Use a large humming top if you have one, for the whirring sound of the big fellow makes the trick ap-| Pear much more wonderful. Be sure that your funnet Is well wetted inside! and out for the distance of-an inch up- ‘ward from the rim. EFFORT TO PRESERVE HISTORIC WESTERN STRUCTURE. Situated at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory—Once Used as a School Where Henry M. Stanley Guthrie, O. T.—An effort is being made to preserve the "old church on the hill" at Fort Gibson, the oldest building in Indian Territory. It was the old garrison church at Fort Gibson during the early days, and was afterward used as a schoolhouse, with Henry M. Stanley as the teacher. The Territorial Historical society will get possession of the building, if possible, and use it for a historical museum. This building has been occupied continuously since 1832. Gen. Hazen while residing there was married and brought to the fort his bride, Miss McLeah, of Cincinnati, now the wife of Admiral George Dewey. She occupied the stone building still standing on Garrison hill. She was a great horsewoman and used so hunt with her husband over the prairies and hills along the Arkansas and Grand rivers. Fort Gibson is rich in historic lore. Settled soon after the Louisiana purchase, a military post was established there in 1819. Many notable men have lived there—some now resting in the national cemetery, about a mile from the old fort, where 2,456 soldiers are buried, and where may be seen the names of soldiers, scouts and warriors who figured in border and Indian warfare. Among the number is the Semisole chief, Billy Bowlegs, who fought with Osceola at the battle of Wahoo swamp, where Gen. Dade was killed and the American troops were routed. After the treacherous capture of Osceola Bowlegs joined the American army and received the rank of captain. Among the United States officers who commanded at the fort were Zachary Taylor and Jefferson Davis. Mrs. M J Ross, wife of ex-Chief W. 1. Ross, of the Cherokee nation, was well acquainted with Miss Betty Taylor before she married Davis, who at that time was only a lieutenant. Another noited character who lived at the fort was Gen. Sam Houston History records that he resigned the governorship of Tennessee, left his newly married wife, went west and joined the Cherokees. He lived several years at Fort Gibson, assuming the Indian garb of that time. He resided for a time with Chief Johnnyrake, near the Arkansas river, below the old fort. He was both feared and honored by the Cherokees who admired him for his learning and bravery. No long after his arrival at Fort Gibson he married Tallihina Rogers, a beautiful Cherokee maiden, with whom he lived until his departure for the war in Texas in 1832. General Winfield Scott made several visits to Fort Gibson and Gens. Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan were also there on tours of inspection. Col Soppinger commanded at the fort, where he was visited by James G. Blaine his father-in-law, who was ill for about six weeks in the big stone house. Stanley at one time taught a subscription school at the fort, occupying the old building. In 1846 the poet Longfellow, on a tour of the west, visited Fort Gibson in way of the Arkansas and Grand rivers. Next year appeared the most loved of his poems, "Evangeline" whose scenery in the vicinity of Fort Gibson is graphically described. COLLEGE BOYS PATRONS. Four Young and Pretty Sisters Operate a Laundry and Make Profit from Students' Trade. atolphia. Combined chivalry distress on the part of the gal-iments of the University of Virginia promise to spell success Never Sisters' laundry. things are blooming at the laundry, mortown. Marguerite Moyer is the laundry, makes out the and delivers the finished product and the oldest of the Susie keeps the books and over- things. Doris helps Susie, Ruth Susie and Doris. are 'making money.' What question of incongruity may be by the notion of four pretty girls running a laundry prob- be dispelled by the reflection is profitable. The father of the girls has been in laundry business for a long time. guested that if his daughters inhabit the patronage of the uni- contain the partion of the narcissus students they might realize suffer pin money out of it to keep dissolve in perfumery and autoeat least. The notion became popular with the society. A circular was got out and lent to every student of the university. It was a puller." What gallant student not resist an appeal like that, only when it was couched so diapety and fetchingly as the Meyer sisters did it? Made in Germany. Far eastern news often contains references to the canned meats of the Russians which are so put up that they may be heated without a fire. The device is German. It is called the "valorit." Two chambers inclose the inner can, one holding lime, the outer water. Puncturing the partition causes slacking of the lime, which produces the necessary heat. Sure Sign of Insanity. The mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., says he is overpaid, and wants his salary reduced. It must be true that insanity is increasing alarmingly in the country. THE WASHINGTON LET US SUPPLY THE FURNITURE AND CARPETS. 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 assaving of from 20 to 25 cents on the cost of every yard as compared with cash store prices. Help yourself to whatever you need 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. 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. . 817-819-821-823 SEVENTH STREET N.W., BETWEEN H AND I STS. Lady Tankerville Seldom Lives on Her Picturesque Estates, Chillingham Castle. London.—Lady Tankerville has had an exceptionally interesting life. Of American parentage—she was, before her marriage to the then Lord Bennet, Miss Leonora van Marter—she was born in Switzerland and educated in Italy. Her wedding to the future Lord Tankerville was quite a romance. That most cultivated of peers was ranching in the wild west when he wooed and won his beautiful bride. Lord and Lady Tankerville rarely live at their historic home, Chillingham A. COUNTESS OF TANKERVILLE. (An American Girl Who Has Had an Exceeding) Interesting Career.) castle, noted for its wonderful herd of cattle; when in Northumberland they inhabit a pretty place near Cornhill-on-Tweed their ancestral home having now been let for some years. Lord and Lady Tankerville are both very fond of music and, as Lord Bennet, the former was a frequent exhibitor of fine miniatures at the Royal academy. He and his wife have four children—two sons and two daughters. Lord Ossulston, the future earl, will be eight years old next August, and his baby brother is one year old this month. WIELDS THOMAS' BATON. Frederick A. Stock, Assistant Conductor of Chicago Orchestra, Who Has Become Temporary Head. Chicago.—As lieutenant to the late Theodore Thomas. Frederick A. Stock, the assistant conductor of the Chicago orchestra, was afforded a fine opportunity to fit himself for orchestral leadership. The talented young man has marked abilities as a conductor., Mr. Stock first studied under Humperdinck, the composer, and for the last ten years he had been with Mr. Thomas. The time spent at the rehearsals and concerts during the last decade has been so fruitful of good results that Mr. Stock freely ad 10 mites his debt to the dead master for his knowledge of the orchestra. Mr. Stock will be the temporary leader of the orchestra until a permanent head is chosen. Many names are being suggested in this connection, great leaders of orchestras in Germany and France being mentioned. An American of great beauty has also been talked of in this connection. Walter Damrosch, of New York. Before any successor to Theodore Thomas is chosen however, by the orchestra trustees all the possible candidates for the leadership will be considered Microscopic Detective Ehrenberg, prince of microscopists, some years ago was employed by the Prussian government to investigate a case of smuggling. A cask had been opened, valuables extracted, and the case repacked and shipped onward to its destination. The only clew to the criminals was that the unpacking must have been done at some of the customs houses through which the goods had passed. To all appearances the microscope had a hopeless task. Ehrenberg took some of the sand which had been used in repacking, placed it under the microscope, looked through the tube, and behold! there on the sand lay a peculiar specimen of foraminifera. That animal was found only at one place in the world, and told just where the crime had been committed. The Heaviest Girl. The heaviest girl in the world is Meda Milmolite, of Kentucky, ten years old and weighing 270 pounds. She has gained 84 pounds in the last three years. She is exceedingly active physically and mentally as bright as any girl of her age. Her father and mother are of normal weight and her sister and brother of less than ordinary size. Silk Hats by the Million. The number of silk hats made annually in the United Kingdom is about 12,-000,000. Mistaken Criticism of a Book. "In his infamous book, 'The Clansman,' says the New York Age, a paper edited with much vigor and some ability by a negro, avowedly for the benefit of other negroes, "Thomas Dixon compels the daughter of an abolitionist to fall in love with a Ku-Klux Klan marauder. How true an allegory! The once resplendent goddess, Northern idealism, has long since submitted to the embraces of the sanguinary monster, southern race prejudice." This, because the editor of the Age has ability as well as vigor, troubles us—troubles us almost as much as does the fact that no small part of the Age's advertising space is sold to men who offer nostrums to take the kinks out of negro hair and the color of negro skins. For "The Clansman" is not an "infamous book," and the editor of the Age either knows or ought to know it as well as he knows that the nostrums he advertises will not do what their makers promise. "The Clansman" is a book that presents with fair accuracy certain facts with reference to the most disastrous experiment ever made by American politicians—facts that no well-informed negro can deny and no intelligent negro will see any reason for denying. Mr. Dixon's description of a South Carolina Legislature in the worst part of the reconstruction eraers by understatement rather than by overstatement. He tells much, but he easily could have told more, both about black lawmakers and white carpethaggers, and the more would indeed have made his book, if not infamous, at least unmailable and unsalable. But what of it? The editor of the Age is under no obligation to see in the character and the acts of that Legislature anything except proof that a race just freed from immemorial slavery is unfitted for the exercise of political power. Does he have any doubts on that subject? If not, why should he object at the rehearsal of a lesson at least as valuable for the black man as the white one? For our part, we heartily commend the New York Age's condemnation of Tom Dixon's book, 40,000 copies of which found their way into circulation ten days after they had come from the press. The book has a malicious mission, and is designed to keep alive and augment prejudice against an outraged and own-trodden people, and hence it is truly an "infamous book." Its influence will have a tendency to widen and deepen a gulf between the races already too wide and too deep. But is not the editor of the New York Age liable to the charge of inconsistency and insincerity, when he denounces white men for doing what he commends black men for doing? The columns of the Age teen with apologies for and defenses of a coterie of black traitors and compromisers who characterize the colored ran as "a child race," "an inferior race," "a backward race," and other terms of opprobrium and reproach. In what respect are these latter maligners less chilpable, less blameworthy and less infamous than the author of "The Leopard's Spots" and "The Clansman"? Brother Fortune, let us do the work of Gideon: sift our ranks of those not loyal to the core, and advance with confidence against the enemy of our highest aspirations. JIM CROWISM. Prof. Kelley Miller is to be congratulated for his excellent article on the negro question in the National Magazine. Professor Miller is beyond all doubt a smooth writer. He is also to be commended for his able argument before the House Committee on Interstate and For- RACE LEADERSHIP. This question has been and is one that has agitated the mind of the negro for a number of years. Leadership among the negroes of America is a farce. It is full of glittering generalities so far as the would-be leaders are concerned. The so-called negro representative or quasi leader is a peculiar individual. The moment he is appointed to office he imagines that office- WILL NOT ORGANIZE It is to be regretted that ten millions of negroes in the United States, with wealth, education, but with no manhood, will not, or they can not, organize. These ten millions of negroes are without force in the great American body politic. There is not an organization in this country that has any representative force There has never been an organization in the United States among negroes that has amounted to anything, with but one exception. Of the two negro organizations that Mendelsohn used to conduct the concers in his father's house when he was so little that he had to be mounted on a high stool to be visible to his orchestra. He played in pubile when he was 9, and at 11 composed a cantata and produced nearly sixty movements, songs, sonatas; trios for violin, violoncello and piano and organ pieces. Hal Pearson, a colored boy of Pasadena, Cal., took honors over his four white contestants in the silver medal oratorical contest held under the auspices of the Christian Prohibition Alliance.—S. Christian Advocate. Bishop John Bryant Small, one of the best known negro bishops in this country, is dead at his home after an illness of 19 days. Bishop Small was born in Barbados in 1835. He came to the United States in 1871, and afterwards joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1896 he was elected by the general conference at Mobile, Ala., to the episcopate. There is enough rare talent and ability in the negro race, buried in the Departments at Washington to turn this country over. "Tis a pity.—Mobile, Ala., Weekly Press. Woman's influence over man is strikingly exemplified in the case of that Cleveland woman who borrowed over a million dollars from experienced bankers with no collateral other than "hypnotic ones." Fifty thousand negroes in Missouri voted the straight Republican ticket, and out of 29 positions in the house and four state offices, what have they get to show for it? Not one honorable position.—St. Louis, Mo., Palladium. Speaker Cannon is now wielding a gavel made from a piece of dogwood which grew on the farm where he was born near Guilford, N. C. South Africa exports $26,000,000 worth of diamonds to London annually. A man more than 70 years was arrested in Calais, Vt., a few years ago on an indictment thirty-eight years old, charging him with stealing a horse. Probably no ruler of modern times has a throne of such barbaric splendor as the Shah of Persia. It is said to be shaped like a bed, nine feet in length by four in height, and is high enough to require three steps to enter. The body, steps and legs (which resemble elephant's trunks) are heavily lacquered in gold and incrusted with jewels, says The Upholsterer. On the gold embroidered rug rests a gold chair, behind which rises a sunburst of diamonds with a jeweled bird on either side. England's, only female gravedigger. Mrs. Elizabeth Geese, died recently at Lewes, at the age of 76. On the death of her husband, in 1879, she was appointed to fill his place as gravedigger in the Lewes cemetery, and since then performed the duties. Live right, fear God, love your neighbor as yourself, attend to your business and there will be sunshine in your homes and happiness in your families.—Columbus, Ohio, Standard. Philadelphia has recently had a distinguished visitor from Haiti in the person of Count Jacques Joseph Jeanitte Francois Lacas Pagnot de Pilate He is a descendant of the nobility that ruled in Haiti before it was created a republic, and the only Pilate of any note since the days of the trial of the blessed Saviour. New clerk (anxious to show his shrewdness)—Mr. Sellfast, I have an (Continued on Fifth Page) --- a2 a) ADE : cae ry I i x _—: FeQ res Oe ge i) i Pp Sih bs a y: vt e ot A ag at / nag ala A’ CANA eo ig ols. Hie ae | eae ht gENG iw wn , * ~S —— 4 an AY Mn Ie tat John Wesley Church last Mc 3 ee SCP tught, but Dr J. N. Johnson, the : ie Ort BOOKS race advocate filled the bill. His KA Cu Gp Sr ject, which was a long one, was a Saas ve ‘ b7 lows: “Co-operative Union Alon; New 3 7 Lines and Self-Help, the Colored s >») iy 64 ple's Certain and Only Means of E ay ne Uj Nyy from Poverty, Oppression and SI: aan Al ¢. and of Securing to Every Indus 3 ’ Man and Woman a Home, Peace, ‘ oe « Ity, Protection, Happiness and Pr ‘ ee \ Sty. 7 w Ae ueneal Dr TIohnson made 2 OR SS ON, Me Mr. Douglass Wetmore, of Florida, is in the city stopping at the Arlington Hotel. \ “Miss Effie Middleton is quite sick at her home, 338 C street, N. W., with a se- vere cokd, € .“Peculiar People” should be in every houschold. Send one dollar to Mrs. A. YV. Chase, 1212 Florida avenue, N. W. Anthony A. W. Gray fias been im- portuned by a number of his friends to organize an insurance company. = - Register J. W. Lyons and wife will have with them inaugural week several distinguished guests from his state, Have you purchased a copy of “Pe- coliar People,” by Mrs. A. V. Chase? Do 30 at once. '*Next week Tie Bee will contain 3 sketch of the Native Washingtonians, with the portraits of their officers and “prominent riembers. Prof. Kelley Miller will address the ‘Second Baptist Church Lyceum tomor- tow afternoon at 3 o'clock. subject: “Frederick Douglass.” Prof. Kelley Miller appeared before the Senate Interstate Commerce Com- mittee Tuesday and opposed the Jim Crow car law. He made an able speech. Rev. S. L. Corrothers, pastor of Gal- raith A.M. E. Zion Church, will preach tomorrow, Sunday night, subject: “The Negra and” Jim-Crowism.” ~ Hon, E. D: Cumpacker, of Indiana, will address the Epworth League of Ebenezer Church tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, at the church, corner of th and 4 streets, S. E There were only 19 or 20 persons of the colored Public Comfort Committee present at the residence of (Mr. Daniel Murray last Friday evening. Mr. Wel- Jer, the white chairman was not well pleased with the small number present. The banquet to Recorder J. C. Dancy and Rey. Lampton will take place at Odd Fettows’ Hall, Tuesday, February atst.- Covers will be laid for 200 in- vited guests. Mr. William Jenifer, the emerprising secretary of the banquet committee, has been very energetic in making the affair a success. Mr. James F. Necdham; of Philadel- phia, Pa, Grand Scerctary of the G. U. ©. of O. F. in America, will address the Odd Fellows Lyceum at Odd Fellows Hall, M street, between 16th and 17th streets, N. W., on Sunday, February roth, at 3 P. M, subject, “We Our- selves.” The Eastern Empire Base Ball -Club ave a grand Black Arrow Banquet on Monday night at Cadets’ Armory, O street, No W. The lovers of base ball sport, men as well as women, attended the banquet, and by 11 o'clock the hall was crowded with the friends of the club. The banquet was a success. Good order prevailing through the evening. Dencing was the order of the evening. Music was furnished by the Monumental Orchestra. . There was a beautiful surprise given last Friday evening in honor of Miss Etelka H. Valentine, at her hhame, 1225 New York avenue. Her friends made the evening vtry enjoyable by dances aad games. After the surprise Miss Valentine returned to Baltimore to re- same her duties in the schools as teach et. Miss Valentine has a large circle ‘of friends who are always happy to re- ceive her home. = THE RECORDER'S OFFICE. Mrs. E. E. Scott Jones has returned to work after a sickness of several weeks. Recorder J. C. Dancy had quite a mumber of representative callers all the week. : The greatest improvements have beer carried on in the recorder’s office, under Recorder Dancy, since its organization A new counter has been erected in the “front office, new fire-proof files have deen put in the place of the old wooden ones and -in fact the entire office has been thorughly repaired. Recorder Dan- cy has shown taste a5 well as enterprise tegenuity and fine executive ability Great credit is dye the recorder anc it. tS... téenk dee seamGe Det ee FMEE NE ROICY NHUERTE Eee SUNT night, but Dr J. N. Johnson, the great race advocate filled the bill. His sub- ject, which was a long one, was as fols lows: “Co-operative Union Along All Lines and Self-Help, the Colored Peo- ple's Certain and Only Means of Escape from Poverty, Oppression and Slavery, and of Securing to Every Industrious Man and Woman a Home, Peace, Plen- ty, Protection, Happiness and Prosper- ity. ‘As usual Dr. Johnson made a good impression. Many of his points were striking and effective. His paper was discussed by Rey, Logan Johnson, who never fails to make strong points. Dr. Kyles also spoke camnestly and eloquent~ ly. Mr. J. T. Gordon, Mr. L. G. White ena Mr, John D, Fassett The president, Mr. J.C. Overton,’ also spoke to the paper. Mr. Overton is an earnest work- er and deserves much credit for the success of the association. : Next Monday evening at eight o'clock, Mr. W. Calvin Chase will read a paper entitled “The Tattler.” ALL FOR WASHINGTON. An amusing story connected with the recent visit of Mr. Booker T. Wash- ington to this city to confer with the President about the handing around of some patronage “pic,” has gained some circulation, As the story goes, at the end of a day of strenuoug endeavor in quest of federal patronage, Mr. Wash- ington with a gnawing hunger and a raging thirst repaired to the dining- rooms connected with Gray & Costley’s saloon, accompanied by Chas, W. An- derson, Govemor Pinchback, Whitfield McKinley, R. H. Terrell, Recorder Dan- cy and Douglass Wetmore, who also were likewise hungry and thirsty. Each took “something” guaranteed to appease hunger and assuage thirst. In the midst of a lively’ connection, while each was vicing with the other to sce who could lay the richest trophy of compliment and adulation at the feet of the “Wizard,” Douglass Wetmore made this observa- tion: “With the exception of myself, there is not a gentleman about this table who a few years ago was not an intense critic of Mr. Washington.” Then spoke Governor Pinchback: ar have never been a public critic of Mr. Washington. When I criticised him, it was in a letter to him to which he re- sponded, and there the matter rests.” The other gentlemen about the table maintained a perfect silence, neither de- nying nor affirming the Jacksonville councilman’s soft impeachment, and Bat Terrell turned the conversation into a channel where aJ! could take part by one of those stories which fit so con- veniently into an awkward situgtion. MR. JOHNSON PROTESTS. | Mr. Jerome Johnson enters a protest against our mention of him standing on the corner of 15th strect and New York avenues on rainy days, giving as a rea- son for his protest that he is, too old to take such a stand, and that in case he should inadvertently stand there, his age should prevent its publication. We shall agree with him, and here- after he may stand wherever he wishes, and we will make no mention thereof. To the Editag of the Record: My personal attention has been in- vited (by marked copies of your paper and by sevetal friends) to the following item relative to the undersigned appear- ing in your issue of the 29th inst., to wit:— 5 “If Jerome Johnson still stands at 15th and New York avenue on rainy days.” Let me suggest that such an insinuation is not only gratuitous, but absolutely false. Let me further suggest that, as one having had some experience in news- paper work, i. ¢., as local editor of the Colored Citizen, and subsequently that of the People's Advocate, that all such insinuations, innuendoes, and malicious attacks directed against the oldest citi- zens and residents of a community, how- ever covert they may be, or the intent underlying them, must eventually react against those who resort to or connive at such petty work. Again, if my inclinations and tastes should have led me towards frequenting the corners of the streets of this city, and loitering there “on rainy days,” (which they do not); a moment's reflec- tion should have convinced you that prudence and the proprieties alike pre- clude the true gentleman from resorting to such follies. I feel assured that you have been imposed upon, and made the dupe of some despicable scribbler, or an unscrupulous negro libeller and falsi- fier. . Respectfully,’ s Jesour A. Jounson } Tanueary 7r. 100%. emee Prepare for reccess at the tar, tn } ieowiatuar scuoou ST Fomesedin tah0,, Sreomtl ie Epi anda eaters Wee rN h city taw Conre Sat Faso Low Gocree. Liberal Tarte. re Special Otter Now. Catsksges Free. DLO Ia Senses correspondence ‘School of Law, 21 Mafestte BE, Detront, Miah. CURESTONE CHIT, ETC. ~ Cortinued from Fourth Page. idea. Put a little more lead into Heal weights. Then your customers will get | overweight, and when they deal else? where they'll think other grocers -are cheats. You can make up by adulterat- ing the goods a little. Grocer—-The goods are adulterated to the utmost lim- it already. Now slip down cellar and bring up another lot of Maine herring for sardines, and a gross or two of cot- tonseed oil for olive.—-New York Week- ly. | Two colored mien, one from Kansas and the other from Pennsylvania, voted in the Electoral college for Roosevelt. “I don’t know whether you are my husband or a burglar,” she exclaimed, “but I am going to be on the safe side and shoot.” As he lay on his convales- cent bed he no longer claimed that women do not use judgment. Benton Harbor, Mich., Jan. 25.—-The session of the Grand Lodge of Colored Masons closed in this city tonight. Grand Master Robert C. Barnes, of De- troit, was again honored with the office this afternoon. The other officers chos: en are: Deputy grand master, Andrew Dungey, Battle Creek; senior warden ies H. Herrod, Niles; junior warden 1 Rev. Spafford T; Tyra, witess treasurer Amos P, Manuel, Battle Creek; secre | tary, Chas. T. White, Bay City; lec { turer, John W. Vaughan, Niles; tyler James W. Cole, Grand Rapids, . In Sweden confession is necessary be | fore capital punishment can be carrie: }out. If, however, the culprit persist in protesting his innocence in’ the fac ‘| of overpowering’ evidence, the priso! | discipline is made extremely strict an | severe until the desired confession i | obtained. |} According to the reports of 1903 ther | is said to be 229,741 Odd Fellows in th | United States, ‘x . | _ One of the charities of London is th } Southwark free meals fund, the aid o || which is that no child in the boroug! | of Southwark shall go hungry during {the winter months. Last year it gav: || AWay 135,000 breakfasts and dinners. | Thomas Quinn, of 321 Arch street | Philadelphia, has a cat which evidentl; is anxious to perpétuate her race. Sh recently gave birth to twenty-one kit } tens, each about the size of a field mouse ROOMS FOR RENT. * Two (2) large communicating rooms 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. Apply at Tne Bee Office for terms, LEGAL NOTICE. PERRIE W. FRISBY, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of NE Oe Se or ae Columbia, 2 Holding a Probate Court. No. 12607 Administration Tuts 1s ro Give Notice: ,, That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from.the Pro- bate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of Administration on the estate of Dinah Wilson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons hav. ing claims against the deceased are here- by wamed to exlubit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally ‘authenticated to the subscriber, on or before the 2gth day of December, A. D. 1905; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit. of said estate. Given under my hand this roth day 9! January, 1905. JESSE E. WARE, 32 Patterson St.,..N. E, Attest: ‘WM. -C. TAYLOR, Deputy Register of Wills for the Dis trict of Columbia. Clerk of the Pro bate Court. THOMAS WALKER, ATTOR- NEY_ In theSupreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia. Maria Revells et al vs. Louisa 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: All of Lot num- bered Twenty-two (22) in Section numbered Two (2) 6f the “Barry Farm” subdivision, as said subdivi- sion appears of record in Liber Levy ‘Court No. 2, folio 1, one of the Rec- ords of the Office of the Surveyor for the District of Columbia, dnd division of the proceeds of such sale among the parties in interest. On motion of the complainant, it is this....day of January, A.D. 1905, ordered that the defendants, Mary ‘Bumbray and Eva Dixon, cause their | appearance to be entered on or before thé fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal Kolidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will .be proceeded with as in case of default This order to be published in the Washington Bee. * By the Court, Thomas H. Anderson, Justice. True copy. Test:, J. R. Young Clerk. By J.; W. Latimer, Asst. Clerk. Thomas Walker, Solicitor fos Complainants. HOUSE & HERRMAN, ‘THE LARGEST INSTALLMENT HOUSE In the CITY now is the time to FURNISH YOUR HOUSE = 5 Carpet Your Floors ond LIVE Comfortably. o> : OntyFirst-Class stores keep tirst class goods and sold by first class - clerks in : . how ‘large your Purchases are immediate delivery is mace to any part of the’ city © ie Call at onee. _ ‘ a . Northeast Corner 7th and “I”? Name THE BEE wher you-cali. 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Looks first rate and wears that way 20 | every time. | 2 It’s worth your while to come in and look ~ MH the Signet over, even if you're not ready . ‘ to buy F Always welcome. ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE. The Georgetown, S. C., Chronicle says? . $ “When we read the utterances given out by Roscoe Conkling’ Bruce on the race question some days ago, we were compélled to sit down and meditate over the unlogical statements of this young man. After lengthy contemplation of his statement, we conclude to dismiss him from our thoughts with the words as found in the Bible, viz: ‘And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, thou art beside thy- self; much learning doth make thee mad,”’ Acts 26 chap., 24 verse. We say that much leaming seems to have made ‘this young man mad. We read with jinterest the editorial of Editor Chase ‘of the Washington Bze, in which he unmasked this would-be educated young man, and let the public see him just as he is.” The Indianapolis Freeman says: “The Washington Bex has temporarily dropped Booker Washington to train its guns on Roscoe Conklin Bruce, son of the ald Mississippi Senator and famous negro statesman. Young Bruce, it seems, who holds a professorship at Tuskegee, has been delivering a speech on char- acteristics, tendencies and conditions of the negro populations in northern cities. The results announced are declared by Tue Bee to be of the ‘apologetic’ kind that are gotten up by time-servers to flatter and ponder to the white people ‘of the South. Is it not just possible, however, that Mr. Bruce, even though wrong in his deductions, may be entirely sincere and speaking with good motives? Let us not be so hasty to condemn and find fault Tite Bex, like its namesake, seems unable to be busy without being stinging. A Captain of Industry. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat re- marks that those who contend that women have no business ability will find an exception in teh case of Mra. | Chadwick, who developed all the shrewdness of a Wall street magnate. Notice ‘We beg to call the attention ofthe public to the fact thatwe have opened # Srst-ciess Drug Store at theCor. of First and F Sts.,S.W., where analways be (ound a complete stock ot Drugs Chemicals, Toltet and Fancy Artictes, Candies Cigars, Tobacco, etcs, at the lowest prices. Prescriptions carefully compounded by Reg stered pharmacists. Puredrugs and fresh supplies is cur motto We kerp on hand a litte of everything Postagestamps, all vay detirsy LIBERTY PHARMACY. ast and F Sts., S. W. ° JAMES C.JONES. Karl Xander. IMPORTER, Rectifier and Wholessle and Retail Dealer in FINER WINES “ Liquors 1530-32 Seventh St. N.W. Agent for jBouthern Bouguat = cy James F.Oyster BUTTER, CHEESE & EGGS. Square Stands: Contes Market. sth & K St. Market. Riggs Markte. 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LOUK OFFIC, Geidand silver watches, diameeds ewolry, guns, mechazical tools, ladies and geatlemen’s wearlag apperal. : Old goid and silver bought Unredsemed pledges fer sale gst Pennsylvania. Ave. N. W, ° Louis J. Kessel, Importes.of and Wholesale Dealer in : ’ WINES AND = = whiskie= Sole Owner of the... *... Following Brands: Private Stock, = . Old Reserve, s Hermit Oxford, ‘Tremont 425 TENTH SREET.'N. W. Telephone—Main—36> ete nw 8) ULB el tee tis 7 ad “ a : : eevee = * s . © = r . oS , s * $ ad * ‘ i ’ . z : * Es » “ai : . - ge anaaaquqwoauqwoaouooeS,,, Se lea HANDY STREET TELEPHONES CALIS LOVE DISEASE., to RAISE RATTLESNAKES. RATS AS EAR_ PROTECTORS: A New Book 7 om RAILROADS, ‘How the Public in Some of the Eastern cael Mew Yorker Will Establish Ranch | Thousands of Rodents, Caught in Ta- Bo Ab TORE ane Cities Is Accommodated—Experr | AFFECTION AS SIGN OF MENTAL and Grow Reptiles for the as wea Sor ue ial —- i RAILROAD. » iment Proves a Success, DEFICIENCY. Bestaurany ‘Market. D> gue, Z . : LeeveWashingtos, frou ation ea i = = a we . . a *, * an Ne < Cleveland, O—The telephone bas| iene ca Buttalo, N.¥.—A farm of 20 acraanest | Toklo--When the time came to for-} | “The Scourging af & Raney znd Ww Jertey avease sad Cst 0 one of the necessities of life, ‘ade in Schools of New| Niagara gorge has been purchased by ‘ = twenty-one of my 21 . “ ROYAL BLUELINE, eae to he Sig] cette Are Mad ea ‘ in Manchuria and the commiasariat pro- : hich will be doth tn the business and social world.) york City — Girls Segregated | Perry R. Hunt, of New York elty, wno | #7 Canons ane ihe Coste ae a eer pon special See eS TRAINS “EVERY OTHER HOUR. and the conetant effort of the telephone from Lads in Backward declares his Intention to establish arat-| roe sore Sapanese and forelaners{ ready for distribution September 1, ODD HOUR" To companies is to make their instruments ‘Clasaes tlesnake ranch and ratte the reptiles for | Prec oDs oars wresethingscould | rgoq, This work has been prepared PHILADELPHEA Enpteescpsribiesothepribiic. 4 few yours ——' See a ean market uc: Unave come from. Noone hadeverheard | at a cost of nearly $1,000; and at the : HIA AND NEW ago one bad to search to fod a publle|. jew york—the affections are being | Huat sald that there was a growing de- , Have co belng made. Itseema that t®O] recuest of some cf the mist eminent | *7-00 a.m. Diner, Pullman Pa “phone. Then such places asdrug stores, | ace a test-of a child's sanity In the|mand In New York restaurants for the / °F Shtlr DINE mage, Heacese tal O60 req 4 ary. section’ {2-00 #-1. Buffet, Parlors Hr. saloons and public offices became sta-| unite schools by the board of educa-| flesh of the rattlesnake, the China coast." The Japanese quaran-| en of cur- race, from every. n\ So.00 a.m, Diner and Pullmaag tiona for them. When theslot telephone | Ton “It has beemserved in-a few-placen:for | (18 COMA COUN ta thet efforts muni {of the country. The price is $1.003] Car. a aaa ee one aay ite iect| 1 dainty Flossle, with her flaxeri| tome two years,” hesald,“and the In-| 107 Geto teen the dread disease out of | postage or express, 30 cents. The {34,00 aom. Diner and Pullman personal attendant necessary to collect) curig and laughing eyes, walks past] creasing demand justifies mein making | M000 10 number of copies is limited, St apieet Dikéeand Bop Ing them upon thapublic streets where| tHe, desks of Tom, Dick, and Harry Ianited and the srlees cre tiche ad for| They determined to start a crusade. |'=In order that you may subseribe in] Cars P™” Dinerand Pallman Ing th the public streets where * fi mited ani i te #3.00 Hite.“ i z he Tollepsecatehetramente would be| Without ® single mother’s son gazing | ve ee ae ee a ce te mui. some | 18 all the seaports and larger cities} 4 0 20s cong ce the money *4.00 P.m. “Rovallimfed 1+ Ji ee ee erg ee eee ae (This Innovation Is Being Introduced for the Convenience of the Cleveland Public.) right at the public's elbow and save it the trouble of seeking out some drug store or other place where a public ‘phone could be found. The eastern cities are enjoying this in- creased convenience. For some time Philadelphia was the city farthest west where such street 'phones.had been in- troduced. But gradually this innova- tion Is working its way westward, and Cleveland, O., is the latest city to boast of such accommodations. Two of these new outdoor "phones have already been Installed, one at the corner of East Maa- ‘son and Euclid. and the other at Bolton and Euclid. The telephone company, which Is putting these instruments In. claims that they have already demon- strated their utility, and more will be installed. They will be distributed in portions of the city where public Indoor telephones are scarce and hard to zet at.especially at night. ‘The method of operation of these omt- door 'phones Is as follows: The patron Hits a lever. opening the door of the in- closing box. and Is then enabled to use the ‘phone by dropping a nichel, just as in any other public phone. TO MOVE KING'S STATUE. Plans to Disturb Shaft Erected to Charles L Dismays English , “Legitimists.” ee London—That surviving remnant of the long lost Jacobite cause, the lesitim- fet society, views with dismay the pros- pect of the removal of the equestrian statue of King Charles I. from the con- -spicuous position it has occupied at Charing Cross. Still cherishing the hope that one of hts descendants may some day oust frem*the throne the representative of 4 R = é R uu h, 7 = Tot aor dig ite tebe : TTS tg iP 5 bie Ne + moved for Street Hats nsion ) the reigning dynasty, ther are wont publiel} to testify to their faith and de- votion by decorating the statue cf the “poartyref’ king.” as they, fonds call him. on the anniversary of hiss accu. thon, The contemptnons tolerance with which his majesty regards such proceed- ings {s shown by the fact that the annual ceremony takes place under (he super- vision of an agent of the crown, S:and- ig in close proximity to the famous Trafalgar square. the statue. a picture of which is here shown. has'lenz been a familiar one to American visitors to London. Its remova! will probably be readered neceseary to make‘room for the eritrance of the new Mall from Char- fur Cross, The question of finding a new site for it is under consideration, . -«- Siwe Valuable Old Volumes. London.—The Sotkebys, art auction- eers. have sold by private treaty five volumes for $100.000. They are an Evangellarium of the sixth century and other similar manuscripts of the sixth to the eleventh century, former- ly belonging to the Guglielmo Libris collection. Their value Nes chiefty in elaborate early metal bindings and or- namented enamels and bas reliefs of precious stones, The same yolumes were purchased in the early '60's for $3,150, and have remained In the then purchaser’s hands ever since, The name of the purchaser has not trans- pired. . To Prevent Seasickness. ‘There have been innumerable plans for preventing seasickness, but perhaps the most remarkable of any is a device by which a German navy engineer would obviate the malady by overcoming the motion which brings it about. He !s Mr,- O. Schlick. of Hamburg. His apparatus is designed to increase considerably the period of oscillation in the rolling ofa vessel and at thesame time diminish the amplitude of oscillation. YY CALIS LUVE DISEASE. AFFECTION AS SIGN OF MENTAL ___ DEFICIENCY. eng ee OT Festa Are Made in Schools of New York City — Girls Segregated from Lads in Backward Classes, - New York—The ‘affections are being made a test.of a child’s sanity In the public schools by the board of educa- tion. If dalnty Flossie, with “her flaxen curls and laughing eyes, walks past the desks of Tom, Dick, and Harry without 2 single mother's son gazing adoringly at her, then those Loys are O. K.'d, In their turn, if every girl bids her beating heart be still when ‘Dick stands on bis head behind the ‘teacher's bach or Reginald reaches the ‘top of the spelling class, then she need fear no more to be dropped intu the backward class. | But if, on the other hand, Tom is wn- able to subdue hi- Increasing fondness as day after day passes, and in a mo- ment of forge stiness puts his arm about Flossie’s walst and kisses her, his time has come, and to the “back- ward class” with him, ‘This has been the fate of scores of unforunate youths of the New York public schools For four years «the test has bpen tried, and classes are increasing rapidly. It is each teacher's business to make a note of every display of this king that she sees and to report it to Dr. Brann. of the board of education. Dr. Braun's sole business is testing chil: dren's sanity and classifying them. | Affection,” said Dr. Brann, ‘jin 3 superabundant proportion, is a sure .sign of feeble-mindedness, If a chik rushes wildly Into a room and throw: his arms about the teacher, declaring his most violent love for her. then tha child needs watching, It is an un, natural performance. . “For this reason we have had tosezre gate the boys and girls of the bachWat¢ classes Boys cometimes love the girl almost to distraction. In the middle o a recitation a boy will jump from his seat for some undefinable reasun ant embrace his pretty little neighbor girt This is really one of our strongest proof: of feeble mindedness.” Dr. Brann {< not alone in his belie that overaffection and insanity gp hant In hand. The same opinion was ea pressed only a few days ago by a Pari: scfentist, Dr, Maurice Fleury, who sur prised the medical world by his “dis covery” that love was a- disease ant should be treated as such, CAT COMPANION OF ‘TRAMP Friendless Deserter from Ship Asks Police to Let Him Share Cell with Feline. | Portland, Ore.—Drizzling rain was falling In the north end and poor little Fluff, a tiny hitten, had no place to go to heep warm, Hundreds of people; stylishly attired, passed her vy as she sat on the curbing at Third and Flan- uers streets, mewing piteously tor some one to rescte her from the wet and cold. : E Leonard Bishphem. friendless and a deserter {rom the ship Lownsdale, of all the hurrying throngs, heard the wail Of poor little Fluff. She was, like himeelt, cold, unhappy and homeless S86 he took her in his arms, walled the strrets, having no object in view, ave heeping bis charge dry and com- sortable, . . At last he went to the edge of the swewalh at Fourth and Davis. street. where he sat down, There. with his iatten friend—the only friend he had in all Portland—he lingered until Po- wemen Baty and Bourke came alone ard sent him to the Central station. So with him te jail wert Flu, for the captain had rat the heart, to sep: arate (wo sich guad frignds. ~ HUNT. BUGS FOR BOUNTY. Paupers in Ahnshouse Get Busy When They Are. Offered Three Cents for a Dozen “Scalps.”” Greensburg, Pa.—"For each and every dozen bugs captured and deliv- ered, dead or alive. by the inmates of this home io the superiniendent’s offic? a homty of three <ents will he paid. Nalvery must he made before nme a.m. an the day of capture.” This meseage was posted in the Westmoreland county almshouse, and ‘s signed by Superintend&nt Evans. “The hundred inmates spent a very busy and profitable night, though they lost sleep. It was a bad night for the fes- tive bedbuz, as several scores of *walps” were laid on the table the snext morning. z The county home has been overran with bugs that bite early, late, and often, and there were not a few com- plaints from the famates. Superintend- ent Evans, instead of spending thé vounty funds in bug powder, decided to omer a bounty on bug “scalps.” Success of his plan has exceeded ex: -pectation and the bounty will be con. nned. She Saw Stare Miss Henrietta S. Leavitt. the young Radcliffe graduate who has startled the world of science by discovering more than 400 variable stars, according to the Boston Transeript,, must be pos- sessed naturally of the “gift which en- ables some girls to find four-leafed clovers. : Has Still Something to Learn. The king of Spain took his ma out the other day to show-her how he could run bls automobile. Owing to the fact that the mad was soft where they struck, no member of the royal party was seriously hurt. TO RAISE RATTLESNAKES. Mew Yorker Will Establish Ranch and Grow Eeptiles for the Restaurant Market. ee re as > — ee Buffalo, N. Y.—A farm of 20 acrea near ‘Niagara gorge has been purchased by Perry R. Hunt, of New York city, who declares his !atention to establish a rat- tlesnake ranch and raise the reptiles for the New York restaurant market. Mr. Hunt said that there was a growing de- mand In New York restauraatsfor the flesh of the rattlesnake, “It has been-served.in-a few-places:for some two years,” he sald,“and the In- greasing demand justifies me in making this venture. Naturally, the supply Is limited and the prices are high, and for a time at least I hope to make some money. My plan is to entice as many of the snakes as posaible from thetr hiding places by decoys of live rabbits. These I shall confine in pens, and, reserving some of the finer specimens, will fatten the remainder and breed as fast as pos- ‘sible. 1 will feed them on rabbits most- ly, although the menu will be varied by occasional frogs and chickens.’ [thope to ‘harvest’ not less than 5,000 rattlers the first year, and I will begin opera- Mons as‘soon as the rattlesnakes make their appearance In the spring.” The locality of the farm" is ideal for Its purposes. From time {mmemorial the vicinity of the Niagara gorge and whirlpool has been the haunt of the North American rattlesnake, the largest of its Kind. The guides point out a rat- tlesnake cove, a rattlesnake dell, and the famous Devil's Hole and Foster's Flats have long been avoided by loca! visitors and tourists, as they are in- fested with great numbers of these creatures, . In the gorge, the loose. rocky forma. tons and the large areas inaccessible to any but the most adventurous and intrepid geological ‘and botanical ex- plorers, are peculiarly sultable t6 the habits of this sttahe. - The rattlesnakes are good navigators and cross and recross the river near its wildest rapids, 5 ‘Mr. ‘Hunt says the flesh of a rattle: snake fs not unlike that of a roast such- ling pix, white and exceedingly pala table. ‘e “REVIVE MYSTERY PLAYS. Benedictine Monks Reproduce Bible "Stories at Famous Monastery in Germany. Berlin.—An Interesting attempt has been made at the famous Benedictine monastery of the Maria-Laach to’ re- vise the medieval mystery plays. The magnificent church was crowded with sightSeers. The altar was screened by a thick curtain, which was drawn when the abbot and confraternity took their seats In the choir, ‘Thereupon a host of angels, all clad in white, appeareit, among them being the Arcwrastet Michael and Lucifer. Suddenly the altar was illuminated and the manger at Bethlehem was disclosed. Michaél and the good angels kneel in adoration, but Lucifer turns his back in contempt. As he does so his white robe falls to the ground and he is revealed in all his blachness. He 1s then driven away and Michael takes Lucifer's white robe and presents it before the altar The second scene represented the temptation of Adam by theserpent. Lu- sifer appears again, beating the serpent all deched with flowers, which fall from his sealy length. While this scene Is be- ing enacted before the, altar the choir sings words in Latin illustrating the pra- ceedings. A procession was then formed and the vast congregation sanizon it: knees as the abbot and his moghs ¢ar- ried an elaborately decorated image o! the virgin to the altar ‘The abbot's ben- ediction closed’ this singular revival of 3 medieval custom which is said to have had a protound)s emotional influence on those who witnessed ft. =X he = ‘NEW DELICACY FOR TABLE. Hybrid Buftalo the Latest Thing! in Englénd’—Compromise Between Bron and Beef. = Londen.—The latest delicacy to tempt the appetites of British epleures fs a compromise between buffalo meat and Leet. . A couple of two-year-old bullocks, the result of cross breeding between & North Amerivan bison and Migblanc cae. were sold at Neweastle cattle market the other cay, ‘They had been bred by Mr. Leyland, of Haegerston castle, Northumberland, who has been eugaged for several year in experl- menting in this direetion, ‘The animals were exactly Ithe thelr North American cousins In appear- ance, evcept that they were sironger and thicher in the hind-quarters, They had been reared and fed ag wild cat- tle. so great difliculty was experienced in conveying them to market. | Although they were accommodates in special boxes thelr fury was sc great that one broke {ts neck of the journey, and the other had to be shot in the market. . The beef, it is said, will"be found o! a richer quality than that obtained from a buffalo and if hept for a month or so, more paiatuble than that of at ordinary butiock, River Steamer a Store A German tradesman has converted ‘a Rhine steamer into a department store, and is visiting towns along the river with a diverse stock of goods. Now a freight company Is being forme to take a train of glant auto- mobiles through France; each machine being devoted to a special department, lke 3 store. Out of the Ordinary, A Chicago woman left her husband because he was not gay enough for her. That is better than the usual Chicago custom of getting too gay. RATS AS EAR PROTECTORS Thousands of Rodents, Caught in Ja- pan to Prevent £pread of the _ —- Plague, Prove Useful. | ' Toklo.—When the time came to for- ward the winter outSts for tbe armies in Manchuria and the commissariat pro- duced hundreds of thousands of fur ear protectors, Japanese and foreigners alike wondered where these things could have come from. No one hadever heard ‘of their being made, It seems that two ‘years ago the plague was raging along the China coast." The Japanese quaran- tine bureau decided that efforts must | be made to keep the dread disease out of the country. They determined to start a crusade. In all the seaports and larger cities bounties were offered for each rat brought in, The small boys found this a great source of revenue, aud the com- petition at once became very keen, For each rodent the huntsman was given a small sum and a lottery ticket. The money he might squander, but the ticket he saved, and at the end of the month pthere was a drawing. with prizes vary- ing from $5 to $50. Hat catching be- came a popular amusement, and the boards of health all over the country were kept busy examining the dally baz. + 2 Each animal was duly registered and the place In which it was caught noted. It was then examined, and if any sus- pictons germs were discovered the build- ing front which the raté came were im- medfately” raided. all tlie animals were hunted down, and the place was disin- fected. ‘ In this manner the plague was hept out of Japan. The small boys amused themselves ‘and made money, but no one ever stopped to think what had be- come of the skins of these millions of rats that had been worrying the boards of health. They had not been thrown away The military authorities had used them to mahe ear protectors, PROMOTER'S STRANGE LUCK Man Running for Mayor of Evans- ville, Ind., Once Millionaire Rail-” aond Builder of Illinois. Bloomington, W1—Central I ilimols ‘people are interested in the career of David J) Mackey, who formerly _re- sided in Uus vicinity, and is now run- ting for mayor of Evansville, Ind. He built the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville railway, now a branch of the Minols Central, and was president of the Ey- ausville & serre Haute. the Louisville fAir Sine, and also the Peoria & East- ern In addition, while at the height of his career. ie was at the head of two large steamboat hnes, a wholesale dry goods firm, a cotton mill, a whole- sale shoe house. a gas company, a street car line and uumerous other en- terprises. i ‘ z ‘Through the alleged treachery of a ‘supposed friend, he lost bis property and‘became penniless. ‘Through the influence of Senator Fairbanks'he ob- tained a position in a paper mill" at Anderson, Ind. Two' years ago he went to Evansville and became super- mtendent of a coal company there. Now he is being boomed for the re- publican nomination for mayor of Ev- ansville. the clection to be held in April. . Mr. Machey began life as a poor boy, ‘but by hard work aceuntulated a fortune. When he lost his millions deati claimed his wife, and when Inv only daughter, a prominent society girl, also died. his heart was broken The large hotel he owned was closed by the sherfff and he was-compelted to leave after being the only occupant for some lime. Infinéntial friends advised hin, to Icave the scene of his former =r cess, and he acquiesced. stating be « ever, that sunte day he would on back and make a fortune again * MEAT EATING DEPRAVES. Canon Lyttleton of England Declares }+ Modern Menus Are a Stimulus to Wickecness. London. — Canon Hond Lyt itt brother of tire Rritst colonial -- + tary. announces his agreeme it Tolstoi that it is welleuich amin... for evensthe best intentioned rant live physically pure if he cas twas os vencesy. . | “As soon.’ says “Canon Lyttleton “as the diet fs changed from meat to vegetables there is a dipinution in amma! lust. ‘The menl~ of the well o- do are on x topsv-turvy system. in stead ot being arranged to appease hun- ger, they stimulate appetite. If cheese and sweets ame first, far less meat would be eaten. Schooiboys eat as much as they want in the firat quarter of an hour, and then stuf thentsel.es for the rest of the meal. | “Exery meal taken according to the riodern menu is a direct stimulus to passion. One grand result of the Russo Japanese, war is that we are beginning to think serlonsly about diet, because the Japanese eat no meat and are proy- Ing their prowess plainly.” Canon Lyttleton dors not believe In innocence hased on {gnorance, and oes not think the one fact In life that human beings must not attempt to comprehend is the origin of life itself “The revelation,” he says, “should be made to youth of all its potentialities and purposes; made so simply and so fully that there shall be no cranny left wherein curiosity may pry. Girls and boys must also be taught the wisdom of bridling their appetites for eating and drinking. ‘In the matter of Intox- feants the world is agreed. ‘but the present danger lies in the continuance [or the dense, dath abyss of ignorance of fad” _ ‘Where Music Failed to Soothe. A Chicago woman beat off a foot- pad by belaboring him with her music rol. Bunt ft is not belleved to have | soothed the 2 ace breast. 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New York.—One result of the war in the far east is to increase greatly immigration from the Russian empire. For the most part, of course, the infux ultimately finds its way into the United States, though a good deal of it goes to England. The increased inflow from Russia in the last two years is strikingly shown in the following figures: 1902, 88,585; 1903, 104,616; 1904, 123,575. The figures are for Russia, exclusive of Finland. As the previous reports of the immigration commissioner group Finnish and Russian immigration it is impossible to say whether this year's arrivals establish a record. In all probability, however, when the returns for December are in, the aggregate from Russia alone for 1904 will surpass all previous totals for both the empire and Finland. The greatest element in this immigration, as always, is the Jews. In general, about 70 per cent of all immigrating Russians are Jews. The statement, therefore, that Jewish immigration for 1904 will be the greatest on record, seems amply warranted. Nor is it surprising. It is caused chiefly by two circumstances: The revival of persecution reaching its most intolerable manifestation in Kishenef, and the desire to escape service in the Japanese war. Russia, while denying her Jewish subjects all civil rights, does not object to sending them to Manchuria to stop Japanese bullets. For the Jews, however, even military glory is denied, as he is not permitted to rise in the ranks. It is not strange, therefore, that the war does not arouse any sentiments of patriotism; and that he should, instead, think it a particularly auspicious time to seek the land of freedom. ROMANCE IN THIS WEDDING Similarity of Names Brings Texas Minister and Philadelphia Girl Together—Marrriage Follows. Philadelphia. — An acquaintance formed as a result of a chance reference to the similarity of names culminated in the marriage of Rev. William H. Claggett, a Presbyterian clergyman of McKinney, Tex., and Miss Jennie Clagett, of this city. Mr. Claggett is the founder of the Texas Presbyterian university at McKinney, and is president of the board of trustees. To Miss Clagett he has been known all her life, through his writings and work. To him she was an entire stranger until about a year ago. The clergyman visited this city in November, 1902, on matters connected with the university. In the January following he was asked to conduct a series of evangelistic meetings arranged by the Coho-ksink and Temple Presbyterian churches. Miss Clagett is a member of the Temple church, and her uncle, Augustus Clagett, with whom she resides, is an elder of the same church. With the thought that a relationship might exist between the two men it was suggested of the clergyman that he visit Mr. Clagett. As a result of that visit he was invited to make his home, with the family while his work kept him here. When he returned to McKinney about six weeks ago it was with the promise that Miss Clagett would become his wife. Mr. Clagett-is a wjdower and Mias Clagett is many years his friend. CHECKS CHICKEN STEALINQ Recent Act of Kentucky Legislature Gives Henroost Raiders the Scare of Their Lives. Louisville, Ky.—"Chicken stealing as a regular avocation has practically been abandoned in Louisville," said Lieut. O'Brien of the Fourth police district, "thanks to a recent act of the legislature making the offense punishable with a penitentiary term, and as a result several hundred negroes and a few white men have been knocked out of an easy way of making a living." Strange as it may seem, until a year ago it was almost impossible to raise chickens in Louisville with any degree of success on account of the activity of thieves, who made an easy living by raiding the hen roosts of the city. Scarcely a day passed when as few as a dozen chickens were stolen, and several negroes were known to the police as having no other trade. The chickens brought good sums, and many of the coop-ralders went so far as to dress the fowls before taking them to market. Until the last session of the legislature, chicken stealing was only punishable with a fine or workhouse sentence, but the newly enacted law made the crime a felony and imposed a penitentiary term. This act broke up the band of chicken thieves, and as a result not a half dozen reports of chicken stealing have been made to the police during the past three months. As a result of the law, a large number of the thieves were sent to the penitentiary. Where the "Good Die Old." According to the records of the town clerk's office at Castleton, VT, there were during the year 1904 12 marriages recorded, 39 births, and 38 deaths. The town has a population of 2,089. Of the deaths the average age of nine was 85 years and 8 months. The town has been frequently referred to as a place where the "old die good, and the good die old." Patrick Dunn the oldest one who died, was over 90 years Merely a Prediction A French seeress gives us a frenzled prediction of the horrors for the year, to take the place of "Badela." New York Times Building, Recently 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 extreme 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 Arises 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 $1,000,000 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 he 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 Columbes, 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 Haus," 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 Servanta. 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-to-do families. INVENTION WHICH ENABLE DEAF AND DUMB TO TALK. Can Carry On a Conversation at a Great Distance from Each Other by Aid of New Electrical Contrivance. Sharon Hill, Pa.—Electricity has been put to still another new and invaluable use by the invention of the electrical language for the deaf and dumb. Owing to an ingeniously contrived talking machine, which Jacob Reese, of this city, has just perfected, all mutes the world over may some day dispense with the sign language, and those afflicted with blindness with their finger boards, establishing communication by electric impulses through a circuit in which a source of electricity and one person or more receiving the impulses form a part. The persons who wish to talk together put on their thumbs and forefingers thimbles, such as are ordinarily used by women in sewing. These thimbles are connected with positive and negative wires to a battery, and by using the Morse code in striking the fingers together they can talk together as rapidly, distinctly and accurately as they could telegraph a message. Both persons feel the same impulses, so no mistakes need occur any more than if the conversation were being carried on orally. As in raising or lowering the voice, the strength of the impulses may be made lighter or stronger, according to the emphasis one might wish to convey by the words being given expression to, the blind mutes sending their impulses of thought as readily as the operator would telegraph a message. Conversation may be carried on at a great distance from each other. And by carrying the machines in the pocket the mutes can be company for each other, no matter where they are—on the street or traveling by boat or train. By properly wiring the houses, mutes in different rooms or in different beds may be spoken to the same as in schoolhouses so arranged. The Morse code is now in use in every part of the world where telegraphy is known. The key is tapped according to the system Mr. Morse established when telegraphing, the message being received by the ear of the operator from the sender. By Mr. Reese's system the message is not only received by the sense of touch of the receiver, but is also received by the sense of touch of the sender, so that every person within the circuit, two or more, is touched alike. Two persons may thus talk together as rapidly as a message can be sent by telegraph anywhere. And as there is no sound, the conversation carried on is absolutely private. RAILWAY FOR MONT BLANC French Company Has Been Formed to Build a Line Up Alps' Highest Peak. Paris.—A company has been formed here for the construction of an electric railway which is to take passengers to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain of the Alps. The projected line will end at the Alguilles du Gouter, 14,430 feet over the level of the sea, and as the work has been officially declared of urgent public utility, the construction of the line will begin in a few months. The new railway will start at the Fayet, on the Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean line at the 1,500-foot level, and will have nine stations where the passengers will be allowed to stop and enjoy the scenery. M. Du Portal, the official engineer of the French government, has made plans for obtaining the necessary electrical energy from some of the numerous waterfalls in the locality. The cost of the whole line, which will have a length of 20 kilometers, will be about $2,000,000, all of which has been subscribed. It is calculated that about 90,000 tourists go every year to Chamounix to try the ascent, and that instead of paying $60 for the services of guides, they will be glad to make the ascent by rail at the cost of only ten dollars each. New York.—Sent to Passlac, N. J., 12 years ago because of his extreme age, 103 years, to be, as his Hebrew friends expected, the first to lie in a new cemetery, Levi Rouss, formerly of this city, has celebrated his one hundred and fifteenth birthday. He is hale and hearty and apparently has several years ahead of him. The Jews of the village, who laid out the new burial grounds on the outskirts of the town, in keeping with ancient tradition, wished to find an old man with one foot in the grave who would dedicate them. Rouss was discovered on the East side, and it was thought that he could live only a short time. His fellow Hebrews promised him money, a home and plenty of food. The one consideration was that he be buried in the new cemetery. It took Rouss one week to get back his health, and since then, except for about two weeks last summer, he has walked about unalued. Several members of the committee who took him to Passaic, expecting that he would soon be buried in the new cemetery, are now resting there themselves. Do Not Need Protection. A New Jersey paper protests against changing the game law so as to protect rabbits. As Australia is overrun with rabbits and can find no remedy, it seems, says the St Louis Globe-Democrat, that the molly cotton tails are sufficiently averse to race suicide to take care of themselves. Branch of the British Mint Will Be Established in Dominion—Will Cost a Big Sum. Montreal, Can.—Canada is at last to have a mint of its own for colling gold. There is no absolute necessity for such an institution, for the British mint has always managed to coin the Canadian currency, or when too busy has managed to hand it over to some reliable firm of private coins in Birmingham, but popular demand has compelled the government to take steps toward the establishment of a dominion mint. It will cost the government $75,000 a year, which the officials have guaranteed for the running expenses of the institution, and besides that they will lose the revenue which they gained in the past from their gold and silver being coined on the other side of the Atlantic. The new establishment, however, will result in the millions of gold that comes from the Canadian Klondike being kept and coined in the country. Till now Canada has not had any national gold currency, but made shift with British guineas and United States gold pieces. As soon as the mint is established Canadian $10, $5 and $2.50 gold pieces will be put into circulation. It has not been decided yet whether there will be a change in the manufacture of paper money, which in the past has been printed by a private firm under contract to the government. The new mint will not be kept busy continually making Canadian coins, but during its leisure time will be employed in coining British gulneas. It will be the same as the mints in Australia and British India, merely a branch of the British mint. NECRO IS HIGH IN_SCIENCE Baltimore, Md.—John W. Widgeon, scientist, is the most interesting negro in Baltimore. He holds a position at the Maryland Academy of Sciences directly under the eye of Dr. Philip R. Uhler, and has accomplished a wonderful amount of work of a scientific nature without any other training than that given him by Dr. Uhler, whose protege he has been for many years, and he is engaged at present upon the arrangement of a collection of coral which he gathered last summer in and near Jamaica, and said to be one of the best in the country. Widgeon was born of slave parents in Virginia in 1850. After the civil war he came to Baltimore and learned photography and spent 16 years with a chemical and drug concern, being employed in the laboratory ten years. Dr. Uhler gave him a position as a helper, and he showed such marked ability in field work that he was sent on expeditions by himself to gather geological specimens. He has been engaged upon this sort of work for 18 years, and in that time he has made valuable collections of fossils, rocks, minerals, Indian relics and birds and snakes. STREETS CLEAR OF COWS. New Ordinance of Roanoke, Va., Is Being Enforced — Question Has Long Figured in Politics. Roanoke, Va.—The Antrim cow ordinance, recently passed by the city council, is now in force, and for the first time in the history of Roanoke now the third city in size in Virginia, the streets are free from cattle that have heretofore roamed the avenues, sidewalks, lawns and flowerbeds unattended and at will. Until recently something like 1,000 cows had the liberty of going where they chose, committing depredations and making the pavements at times impassable, while people are finned $1 every time they expect on the sidewalk. The cow question figured prominently in Roanoke politics for 20 years and was hotly contested on many occasions at the polls, where the cow sympathizers always defeated the antis. Brother was arrayed against brother, and many quarrels and suits in court were a result of the cow question. When the Antrim ordinance was before the council it was necessary for policemen to go out and hale members to the council to force a vote. Heretofore, the cow has been very consipuous on Sundays, parading in full force through the streets and frightening venturesome church-goers. DEATH RECALLS BRAVERY. Jacob Oleson, Hero of Life-Saving Crew, Dies in Almshouse at Kenosha, Wis. Kenosha, Wis.—Notwithstanding the fact that he had been personally thanked by a president of the United States for bravery as a lifesaver, Jacob Oleson, 50 years a sailor on the great lakes and the first enlisted member of the Kenosha life-saving crew, died alone and in poverty at the poor farm of this city the other day. He was 80 years of age, and had been a charge on the city for the past ten years. He had no relatives in this vicinity, and he was buried by the city. Oleson was enlisted in the life-saving crew here in 1879, and the rescues for which he was, particularly commended by the president and congress were the rescue of six men from the water-logged schooner Royce, the rescue of ten men and a woman from the sinking steamer Rockaway in 1883, the rescue of the crew of the steamer Solon H. Johnson in 1887. Warning to Scientists A protest has already been made against wireless telephony. The Electrical Review says that to have the voices of the air shouting you out of a nap in some excluded spot will have its drawbacks, and advises scientists to think it over before taking further steps in this direction. ELEVATORS TO BE INSTALLED ON OCEAN VESSELS. Passengers Will No Longer Be Req uired to Climb Stairways—All the Comforts of a Modern Hotel on Ship. London.—It is a rather remarkable thing, said an official connected with one of the big Atlantic lines to a writer recently, that, considering the great progress which has been made toward the perfecting of ocean traveling, no lifts, or elevators, as they are called on the other side, have yet been introduced on the big liners plying between British and American shores. These huge ocean palaces are now built with so many decks that it is by no means a small journey from the lowest to the highest, and it seems absurd that with all the modern improvements passengers should still be obliged to wear out their legs climbing from deck to deck. Some years ago the idea of marine elevators was suggested, but the matter was never taken up seriously and was soon dropped and forgotten. It was said at the time that even the slightest rolling of a vessel would put the strongest elevator out of business, and that during the greater part of a voyage the cars would have to be fictitated "Not running." But, though this may have been so at that time, the improvements made since have been so great that I believe an elevator could be built which would not be affected by rolling in moderation. Therefore the recent announcement that a well-known line has decided to install in the latest vessels which are now being built for them—the America and the Kalserin Augusta Victoria—passenger lifts built on the most modern and improved pattern is extremely interesting to all travelers. These two vessels, which in future will be known as the first liners furnished with a marine elevator service, are being built more for comfort than for speed, and will probably take their place as the most luxurious of all floating palaces. There will be eight decks, five of which will be occupied by first cabin passengers. There will be two elevators on each vessel, and the shaft through which the cars run will in all probability be located near the grand stairway amidships, conveying passengers to the boat deck, promenade deck, upper deck, main deck and lower deck. On reaching the boat deck (or "sun" deck, as it is more often called) the door of the elevator will open on the restaurant, or rathskeller. On the deck below the promenade deck you will "detrain" at the music rooms. On the upper deck you will be landed at the main corridor, which will be very convenient for access to the many state rooms which are situated on this deck. On the main deck the elevator will stop just outside the dining saloon, while at the lower deck it will deposit you near the grill room. The elevator will not go farther down than this, so that those who are desirous of penetrating to the three lower decks will be obliged to use their legs. These elevators will be exclusively for the convenience of first cabin passengers, but if they prove a success it is not improbable that the service will also be installed for the benefit of the second-class passengers also. JOHN BULL IS TOO GREAT. London.—Premier Balfour, speaking at a banquet given in his honor at Glasgow recently, declared that the two great problems with which the army had to deal were the defense of Afghanistan and rearmament, which involved a cost as much as any continental nation was able to bear. Continuing, Mr. Balfour said the fault with the empire was not that it was too small, but that it was too great and powerful and at the same time underdeveloped. On this point Mr. Balfour instanced the United States as in its earlier days being on the verge of perishing by that disease, for then state rights seemed on the point of absorbing and destroying the sense of national unity. "Fortunately for themselves," he said, "our brethren across the Atlantic had the sense to see what was an absolute necessity for them, so that America is now in rank among the greatest, if not the greatest, nation of the world." WINS WITH ODD MACHINE. Player at Monte Carlo Introduces Mechanical Means to Beat the Bank and Succeeds. Monte Carlo.—A certain Mr. Wall created a sensation in Monte Carlo the other day with a new scheme to beat the bank, consisting of a little machine with a needle and 16 spaces, red and black, indicated by numbers. Seated at a table, he set his apparatus in motion, followed the tips given by the needle and won three times in succession. He continued up to 100 times and won a majority of the turns. Next day he won again. A German offered him $60,000 for the machine, but he refused. Finally he began to lose and quit playing, saying the needle was not working. According to current reports, the needle of Mr. Wall's machine indicated 64 different plays. For goodness, good groundwork. A man got a divorce the other day on the ground that his wife could not cook well enough. We have heard it said that the coffee pot often furnishes grounds for divorce. to Boardy ADVERTISE THE WASHINGTON BEE HOLME'S Hotel 333 Va. Ave., S. W. For The Best Afro-American Accommodation Bar Stocked wish fine Wines, Imported Brand and pure old Rye Whiskey Best Line Cigars Good Ream 5 & 10c and Lodging 50. 75 & $1.00 Comfortably heated bysteam. Give us a Call— JAMES OTTOWAY H. LMES Prop Washington, D. C. Ladies and Gentlemen Hot and Cold Baths MRS. ALICE E. HALL. 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 Gary, W. P. 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. S. 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. To all Departments of the I. O. 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. 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. Terms 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 inclined 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 on easy terms. Parties will be shown the subdivision at any time. Write or call for plat and further particulars of JAMES E. CLEMENTS, 1406 G St., N. W., 'Phone, Main 1080. NATIONAL COLORED PEOPLE'S CO-OPERATIVE BENEFICIAL UNION 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, spendings 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 street northeast. Washington, D. C. For Sale—250 acres of land in Caroline County, Va. Will sub-divide or will sell 250 acres to any one. The finest land in the county and State of Virginia. J. A. ANDREWS, JR. 1635 Eleventh street, N. W. HOME-MAKING CHANCE. Fine lots adjoining a tract of forty-eight (48) acres owned by a Seventh Day Adventist, upon which site have been erected three buildings, one for college and two for graded schools. Lots for sale, 305.x 100 feet, from $60 to $90. Ten dollars down and five per month. GEO. W. JACKSON & SONS, Tacoma Park, D. C. . Plot to be seen at Wm. Sewall's, 617 E street, N. W. A GREAT MEETING. One of the striking features of the meeting of the Engineering and Mechanical sections of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, held on the evening of January 26, 1905, was the dignity and modesty of the distinguished engineers and machinists present. There was no display of egotism, no criticising speakers for expressing their honest opinion on the subject under discussion. The topic of the evening was the steam turbine engine. Briefly, a turbine engine is a stationary cylinder having upon its inside surface mounted rings, containing blades projecting radially inward. The moving element consists of a driver, having on its peripheral surface similar rings with blades set at an angle to the fixed blades, the whole being arranged to revolve inside with just enough space to clear each other. Steam is admitted in one end of the turbine and passes through longitudinally in a zig-zag path, being deflected from the fixed rows of blades in the turbine casing against the rows of blades on the revolving drum, causing the latter, which is connected with the main shaft, to revolve and so drive the machinery with which it is connected. The blades of a turbine are very small pieces of nickle steel, probably $ \frac{1}{2} $ x 134 inches, giving an area of 875-1000 of a square inch, but it is the very large number of blades employed that gives the great piston area required. In some engines as many as a half a million separate blades are employed; they enable the full power of the steam to be used down to the last ounce in a direct and continuous way. The economy of space obtained by the use of the steam turbine; the very high speed possible with safety, from 10,000 to 32,000 revolutions per minute has been obtained in small engines, its simplicity of construction, and the case with which it can be repaired, places it in the lead as a steam driven motor of the near future. Prof. J. D. Baltimore, of this city, was the only negro present and he was treated with the greatest consideration. THE AMERICAN BEN. INSURANCE COMPANY OF RICHMOND, VA., LEADS THEM ALL STRONG FINANCIALLY, NUMERICALLY, OFFICIALLY AND IN BUSINESS INTEGRITY. Dr. W. F. Graham Doing a Great Work. Very recently the above named insurance company has been paying off some heavy claims from their Straight Life department. It is a pleasure to refer to a claim of $142.00 paid to Mrs. Hattie Giles, No. 631 N street, N. W. She is the widow of Mr. Sidney Giles, who died only a few days ago. The claim was paid on the 25th inst. Ask Policeman L.W. Giles, brother of the deceased. He will tell you about this Company. Ask the pastors of the colored churches, ask the doctors and the thousands of policy-holders in this city and they will tell you. Write to Mrs. Luke Cotton, No. 15 Jackson avenue, Norfolk, Va., and she will tell you that when her husband died just before Christmas, that Dr. Graham went down and paid her $500 in gold. The American was the first Company on the 3rd of January to deposit $10,000 (ten thousand dollars) with the State Treasurer of Virginia for the protection of its policy holders. This Company has paid up capital stock to the amount of $20,000. It is invested in Virginia stock bonds and real estate. If you doubt the statement write to the State Auditor at Richmond. Over 30,000 benefitted members are paying into the Company every week. They do business in all of the cities of Virginia and in the District of Columbia. You will find the Washington Office at No. 300 F street, S. W. Mr. P. J. Mitchell is the hustling manager. THE BEE recommends this Company to the confidence of the people. THE INAUGURATION PICTURE OF THE PRESIDENT. A new drawing, a real work of art worthy of the highest taste, is now available to all American homes. Roosevelt's Guiding Spirit, 22 x 28 inches, the most attractive Litho Chromo for framing yet published, in many places will be considered worth a dollar per copy, while we mail it postpaid to anyone sending us 25 cents, cash or stamps. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Order at once. W. B. Ellis & Co., 216 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. TO WASHINGTON. Account Inauguration of President Roosevelt. VERY LOW RATES. From Points 100 miles or Less from Washington, tickets will be sold at One and One-third are for the round trip, good going March 3rd and 4th, and returning, good leaving Washington until March 8th, 1005, inclusive. From Points More than 100 Miles from Washington, East of Ohio River, tickets will be sold at One Fare, plus 25 cents for the round trip, good going March 2nd, 3rd and 4th, and returning good leaving Washington until March 8th, 1905, inclusive. By depositing ticket with joint agent at Washington not later than March 8th, and on payment of fee of $1.00 at time of deposit, an extension of final return limit will be granted to leave Washington not later than March 18th, 1905, inclusive. For additional information call on Ticket Agents Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Cor. 26th and M Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C. If you have furniture to buy for the iuauguration, these prices will interest you. The difference between our cash and credit prices is just ten per cent. Sdllid oak extension tables, 6 feet long, $3.15 cash, $3.50 on credit, others at all prices up to $60 Pedestal extension tables, solid oak, 6 feet long, quartered oak-finished top. $11.25 cash, $12.50 on credit. A splendid line of other extension tables at $6, $8, $10, $12, $14 and $16. Iron Bedsteads, substantially made and not bought for sale $1.58 cash, $1.75 on credit. Others at all prices up to $35. Exceptionally good values from $5 to $20. Per cent discount for cash with order or within 30 days 1/4 per cent discount if paid within 60 days and 5 per cent if paid within 90 days. Brass bedsteads—not the cheap, light, department store kind, but the heavy, substantial, guaranteed qualities; all prices up to $75. One lot of oak. maple, mahogony bedsteads, worth from $10 to $20—choice for $6.50. PETER.GROGAN HIDDEN ISLES 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 A. B. 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 seas, 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 FINE CLOUD WHISKEY THE BRAND JIM 20 DENVER MAINTENANCE ship "Columbia," richly Jaden, 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 Stars 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." Baltimore & Ohio Improved Service to Chicago TRAIN NO. 7. 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. Solid vestibuled trains. NO CHANGE OF CARS. J. H'Babney, Funeral Director Hiring, Livery and Sale Sta le carriages hired for funerals parties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carages kept in first-class yea satisfaction guaran.ecd. Business at 1132 3rd Street, N.W. Main Office Branch at 222 Alfred Street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office Main 1727 Telephone call for Stable Main 1482 S. Our ableg. In FREEMAN'S ALLEY Where I can accommodate fifty horse Call and inspect our new and modern caal ets and investigate our methods o doing first class work. 1132 3rd St. northwest J, H. DABNEY, Prop. MANDAMUS CLARK. ALL KINDS OF CEMENT WORD CELLARS, YARDS FRONT STEPS, ETC. terms reasonable and work guard teed. 2117 H St., N. W. Trashy Books Removed. Brooklyn.-Public library officials in this city have determined that neither the morals nor the literary tastes of their people shall be contaminated if they can prevent. Orders have been sent to the branch libraries, nine in number, that all questionable or trashy books shall be withdrawn from circulation and submitted at once to the director. Those volumes considered positively bad and unfit for perusal in any home will be destroyed, excepting one volume in each instance, which will be preserved at the main library. Other books which the director may consider suitable only for persons of mature ages will be held up for written applications. The Yellow Fever Germ. American investigation has shown that yellow fever germs are disseminated by the mosquito, and now the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is about to send a second expedition to the Amazon to discover if possible the actual cause of the disease. At Para, on the Amazon, the disease is constantly presented in a greater or less degree. GROGAN: for all Washington. Credit for the inauguration, these prices will been our cash and credit prices is just What Pure Whiskey is can easily be found. Smell your drink before imbibing it. Better still smell the drained glass. The lear- disagreeable or foul 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 impurites. Such defective whiskies are never admitted into the stock, and hence cannot be obtained at the store of Chris. Xander, 909 7th street Northwest. Skeados & New York Ca 908-7th St SPECIAL TH 8 lbs. Candy..... 6 lbs. Candy..... 5 lbs. Candy..... 3 lbs. Candy..... The best place in the city for Christ ery descriptior 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 descrip We make a specialty of church and we also specialize the building up of vac. Any one anticipating having plans got paired, we would be glad to have you given in any of the above named lines. Skeados& Skeados New York Candy Kitchen The best place in the city for Christmas Candies. Candies of every description and quantity. J. A. Lankford Y 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 pastl' 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. Main once, 609 F Street, Northwest. Residence, 1210 V Street Northwest, Washington D. C. Telephone Number, Main 2824. A New Saloon Has opened a first class Buffet at With a large stock of the best brand of Wines and Liquots. 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 lanitors. Under management of the Dressmakers' 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. DOUGLAS WE MOVE ANYTHING Baggage and Furniture Express. 1533 14th Street Northwest 7 dephons Connection Robert T. Donovan, Mgr JERRY O'CONNOR Wm Moreland (HOLTMAN'S OLD STAND) —DEALER IN— BOOTS AND SHOES $o.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- n and quaint. Frankford, And Builder Mater. Plans gotten out at short notice or from written or verbal descriptions, ary. In the past thirty-two (32) montns and built over Five Hundred Thous- k in Washington, D. C., and vicinity caption and character. Hall designs, and arranging loans cant lots in the District of Columbia out, buildings overhauled or re- call or write us. No charges for advice Street Northwest, Washington D. C. Number, Main 2834. BEEHIVE Store 906 SEVENTH STREET, N. W. Special after Christmas Reductions 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 THE HUDSON'S VARIETY STORE Phone, Main 527. 4107th 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. A ILFOR 69 Cts 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. Sells 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 $5.00 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. ---