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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE A FIRESIDE COMPANION. it is true if you see it in THE BEE. VOL. XXV. NO. 16. chief Sylvestr. Our Chief of Police Makes a Brilliant Address. Albany, N. Y., Sept. 12.—At the first day's session of the annual meeting of the Police Chief's Association of New York State, at Albany, N. Y., Tuesday the chief address was delivered by Maj. Sylvester, superintendent of police of Washington, D. C., and president of the International Association of Police Chiefs. Maj. Sylvester, who is looked upon as one of the best police authorities in the country, talked about the long and continual fight by the police throughout the country against criminals. He urged upon the chiefs the importance and value of co-operation in criminal identification and police work. He also lauded the employment of finger prints and palm impressions in criminal identification. His speech was in part as follows: "The more effective the organization for the accomplishment of certain the better prospects for success. This is especially true with regard to military and police endeavor. If the police forces of the country to-day adhered to the methods and practices of ten years ago they would not be prepared to contend with the criminal and disorderly classes. Co-operation is Necessary. "It matters not, in my opinion, how well perfected the organization of a force may be locally, it is weak as a police institution in this progressive age if it cannot command the earnest cooperation on the part of the police heads throughout the country. It should not be forgotten that in this period those agents of the people who are chosen to combat crime must more than ever before have a higher intelligence, more accurate training, greater courage, moral and physical, to say nothing of energy and loyalty, in order to cope with educated, clever, unsuspected professionals, who has supervised the gold-brick man of days gone by. In time the bank burglar, with his can of powder and drill, has given away to the yeggman, who uses nitroglycerin; the fakir, who delighted the citizens with cheap rings, has given, place to the "gentleman" who sells gold mine, and three-card monte has gone over the divide, and bucket-shops and, "sure things" prevail. The charms of rapid life have produced embezzlers, check-raisers, and forgers. In many cases the financial absorptions have been so monumental as to astonish the world, and in other cases so small and simple as to bring ridicule upon the victims. The workers along these line are not illiterate denizens who follow the show, but shrewd, intelligent men, who, to be overtaken, must have intelligence applied against them, and that means complete co-operation, It Does Not Now Exist. "That does not exist at this time, but it is more general than ever known in the history of the country. The organization of the International Police Association, which will celebrate the thirteenth year of its existence in another year, has been the prime factor to bring about improved personal and official relationships between the police heads of the various cities of the United States and Canada. Organized with a membership of 50, over 200 officials now lend it hearty support. The Annual exchange of views, production of papers on appropriate topics, and exhibits of appliances and facilities have resulted in abundant good to society. We have improved methods and devices in vogue; the humane treatment of prisoners, houses of detention, and junewile courts are all outworths. "This association established a national bureau of criminal identification, which it hopes to have the government encourage. It produced a wonderful exhibit at the World's Fair in St. Louis, bringing educational features from England, France, Japan and other foreign countries. The assembling of police commissioners and chiefs from our own and other lands was a great lesson to the world and each and participant. Those of this country who participated in the deliberations of the international association have been made broader, better brothers and officials, but the army engaged in fighting crime and criminals will not be fully organized until the chief of every city in the country enlists and thereby entends the line of battle. State Associations Praised. "An outgrowth of this movement is the organization in the several States of State associations, which keep alive the principles were contending for and which should exercise an influence for the enactment of proper and timely laws not only for the good of society, but in the interest of the American policeman. Those employed in the trades—mechanic, railroad man, and laborer—have been more adequately paid, given fewer hours of labor, while the prices of necessities have advanced, but the men who comprise the institution upon which all others must depend—the policemen—are overlooked. "It is important that you urge upon the departments everywhere the value of criminal identification. This country has established in various cities the Bertillon or metric system of measurements, which carries with it the front and side photographs of prisoners, descriptions, and marks, and its placing involves no little expense. Others operate the finger print or impressions in conjunction with the former. '1nis combination is preferable if it can be had, but where the expense interposes to prevent the cost of the finger print process is so insignificant that it should be possessed and practiced by all. With so admirable a plan of identification as New York has, supervised by so intelligent and competent a superintendent, no police official in this state should plead poverty or want of knowledge of the process as an excuse for not having it. Whatever you place as an adjunct, the national bureau at Washington would be pleased to have you forward to it from time to time any data you may collect regarding criminals and their records." PRICE PROGRESS I venture to give you this bit of information concerning my trip to the country. Just got home from a ten day's outing at Hewlett, Hanover county, Va. I am delighted with what I heard and saw. I had the pleasure of visiting for miles around and found our people doing very well. There seems to be a new start in the getting of property. Had the pleasure of seeing and walking some small farms, well attended and fairly prosperous. There are in course of construction, several good homes, together with those already standing, all doing credit to their owners in the way of furnishing and general keep. In one of these homes could be seen pieces of furniture made by one of our boys from the Mott school, while the neatly plastered walls showed the skill of one of our young girls from the High, and the new outside blinds treated to a coat of green by her brother Herbert. We took a run across the line to Caroline county, where there was one of the churches, where your humble servant was asked to preach by the minister in charge, Rev. Goodloe. The church building was crowded with a congregation that would have done credit to any city parish. There was also a well attended meeting in Harrison, many from Richmond, Washington and other places be present. The hospitality of the people is one of the marked traits of that section of the country. The homes of Mr. Wm. and his wife Rosa Stephens, and Miss Beltie Stephens were the chief stopping places for the party. Their kindness will never be forgotten. Our vacation being over, we returned to the city of our labors as follows: Messrs. Wilson, Thomas, Edward, Dudley and Herbert Stephens, Gus. Allen, James Robinson, Edgar Payton, William Engell, Tynor Jefferson, Henry Minor; the Misses Irene Stephens, Mattie Taylor and D. I. D. Hobbie, Mrr. SEORGIA NEGRO MILITIA ABOLISHED. The negro companies of the Georgia state militia were abolished by legislative enactment at Atlanta yesterday. Gov. Terrell announced that the measure meets with his approval and the negro troops under arms in Georgia will be mustered out of service before the end of the week. There are five negro companies in the city and one at Macon. They vary in strength from fifty to sixty men. The reasons for the bill involved both the efficiency of the service and the manner of precedence. Under the terms of the Dick bill some of the negro companies would take precedence over some of the white companies. This was deemed sufficiently objectionable for the senate to pass the measure by a vote of 38 to 0. BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Special Train will leave Washington at 8 A. M. An opportunity to spend all day Sunday on historical grounds. GREATLY REDUCED ONE-WAY INTERNATIONAL 4014 FAIRPLAY. principal, What I Saw And Heard As an evidence of the rascality in the south and animus against ex-Congressman, Geo. W. Murray, of North Carolina, while he is in the city on his vacation, the rebels of South Carolina, his home, set his house on fire and burned it to the ground. Just who the perpetrators were THE BEE has not been able to ascertain. Murray is an inoffensive man who harms no one. This act of treachery is an evidence that his previous provocation was an act of persecution. President Roosevelt, it is claimed, will make a few changes when he begins to appoint justices of the peace next year. I understand that Judge Scott will soon retire from the bench. In that event, I learn that the President will appoint Justice Lewis I O'Neal, who has given entire satisfaction to the people and the bar. Justice O'Neil is a man of the highest integrity and a conscientious man at that. No better man could be found. Prosecuting Attorney, James L. Pigh, has returned from his vacation looking fat and hearty. Mr. Pigh is always a MAJOR RICHARD SYLVESTER welcome visitor wherever he goes. He looks fat and hearty. He shows evidence of a well cared for man. Major Sylvester, no matter what may be said of him, has never failed to give colored applicants a chance in his department. There are more colored officers on the force today than at any time in the history of the department. It is rumored that Mr. W. L. Taylor, of Richmond, Va., will be placed in a responsible position in the United Order of True Reformers. The public schools will open next week with an increased number of pupils. The appointment of Mr. H. L. Bailey as supervising principal was a surprise to the people. Nothing should be surprising in this city. Almost any old thing is liable to happen in this city. I have a good opinion of the intelligent professional man in this city, but my experience has taught me that he is an uncertain quality. Dr. F. J. Shadd, of Harvard University is making the medical department of that institution a great success. Dr. Shadd is a thorough business man as well as a great physician. Dr. W. L. Smith, of 7th and Pomeroy streets is progressing nicely notwithstanding the opposition he has had. The new Freedman's Hospital will be a great institution when it is finished. Everything is quiet now in the Hospital. Just how long it will remain so is a conjecture. Dr. Godson has returned to the city. He has grown stouter. He was taking in the boulevard of Connecticut Avenue last Sunday and looked well in his Prince Albert and straw hat. Mr. S. G. Alexander, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is spending his vacation with old school friends in Philadelphia. From reports received, he is having a royal time. Paragraphic News The explosion of the powder plant at Fairchance, Pa., last Saturday caused a panic at Fayette county. It is said that buildings fell. Five persons were killed and seventy-five injured in a collision between a freight and passenger trolley car, the latter part of last week on the York and Dallastown Electric railway near Stabley's switch, about six miles from York, Pa. Jacob H. Thompson, who for the last forty years was editor of the "New York Times," was murdered on the night of Sept. 7th by being brutally clubbed, in a prominent hotel, located in one of the busiest resident and business sections of New York city. Over thirty people were killed by the explosion of a powder mill last Saturday at Connelsville, Pa. The report could be heard for a radius of fifteen miles. Mr. Oscar J. Ricketts was sworn in last Saturday as acting Public Printer. He was the recipient of many telegrams of congratulations and other tokens of CHIEF OF POLICE. approval. Two women and three men were arrested in Chicago, charged with being of a band of counterfeiters. An outfit and material for counterfeiting were found in the rooms. The school board of New Orleans has decided that it is not best to open the public schools in that city at present, owing to the yellow fever. The District delegates who attended the encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans returned elated with their success in having our city selected as the place of holding the convention in 1906. Two Caucasian districts, Zangerzurand and Jebrail have proclaimed a holy war, where the Tartars are massacrering the Armenians, regardless of sex. The federal cable boat has started with the actual work of laying the cable between Charlevoix, Mich., and St. James, Beaver Island, in the middle of Lake Michigan. The railroad officials lay the blame for the terrible train wreck, which happened in New York the first of the week, on the motorman, Paul Kelley, who disappeared immediately after the occurrence. G. E. Winkleman of this city who attended the Letter Carrier's convention at Portland, Ore., was elected a member of the executive board. The report of the assassination of the family of Baron Komura, the Japanese peace plempotentiary, was a sad one, and the reported loss of the ship Mikasa, had its bad effects on all concerned. Forty-four years ago last Monday, the police department of the District of Columbia 'was organized, and only four names of the first members appear on the pay rolls. Earnest Powers cut Prof. Albert Watchenberger to death, because the Prof. attempted to chastise him. Powers was a pupil in Prof. Watchenberger's school. The Eastern High School closed in spring with dissatisfactions toward the principal, and unless some decision is soon reached, the opening day will come before all will be in readiness. The President has been asked to investigate the engraving division of the geological survey. The charges are mal-administration in office. Quite a number of the tmployes in the Navy Department will be affected by the new policy of the department regarding promotions. The silver service used at a dinner, given by Mr. and Mrs. Perry Belmont in honor of Rear Admiral Francis W. Dickins, last Monday, was given to Commodore Perry by merchants of Boston and New York. More than one million bushels of grain were destroyed by fire in Chicago last week on the Santa Fe elevator. The loss is said to be over one million dollars. Benjamin S. Schooley, forty-seven years of age died last week. He worked three hours and then walked home with a fractured skull, caused by the falling of a wagon box on him. The naphae works at Baku, Caucasia have been totally destroyed by fire. It is stated that the military authorities are hastening measures to cope with the desperate situations at Baku. The Washington Base Ball Club has reached the first place, but one, beginning at the end. They are players. Many of our churches are better at winning games of base ball than they are at winning souls for the Master. The republican campaign in the state of Maryland will be formerly opened by the Secretary of the Navy, Charles J. Bonaparte. Chairman John B. Hanna makes the announcement. Mr. John H. Beach, clerk of the corporation court and the circuit court for the city of Alexandria, Va., died at his home the 11th inst. As the result of the ministers efforts, no alcoholic drink with a dinner were served in Naragansett Pier, L. I., last Sunday. A home is to be erected for the members of the Letter Carriers Association, who may become victims of tuberculosis, at Colorado Springs, Col. The people of that city have donated a site of one hundred and sixty acres of land. Mr. Richard Mansfield, the actor, had two serious operations performed, from which he is recovering. The 25th annual and the first biennial session of District Grand Lodge No. 20 of the D. of D. Grand U. O. of O. F., convened on the Odd Fellows' Hall last Monday night, Deputy Grand Master Thomas W. West, presiding. Miss Alice Roosevelt is to be the guest of dowager empress at the summer palace a few miles out of Peking after reaching Peking. The Odd Fellows' Journal gave an interesting account of the 25th marriage anniversary of Prof. and Mrs. McKissack, of Haley Springs, Miss. The treaty of peace is condemned by many in Tokio, and at a meeting held for the purpose of condemning it, many persons were injured trying to get into the building. THE MOONLIGHT. The excursion of the Y. M. P. L. last Friday on the Jane Mosley was one of the largest excursions that has been down the river this season. The success of the excursion was due to Mr. Arthur F. Boston, chairman of the Committee of Arrangements. Mr. Boston was assisted by a wide-awake committee. There were fully 750 people on board. The evening was delightful and all hands had a most enjoyable trip. Mr. Jesse Foster presented a printed up-to-date bill of fare on a souvenir card with the faces of the entire committee. Col. Jefferson was in evidence as usual to make everybody happy and comfortable. The boat returned about 12 o'clock. COLONIST RARES TO THE WEST Wr BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD Commencing September 14th and continuing daily to and including October 30th, 1905, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will place on sale daily, from all stations, ONE-WAY COLONIST TICKETS to principal points points in California, Arizona, British Columbia, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, etc., at GREATLY REDUCED RATES. For tickets and full information, call on or address Ticket Agents, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. R. to the FROM WASHINGTON Including Admission. The Legal Profession. (From Law Notes.) The newspapers are very much worried just now over the fact that a few lawyers are in jail and that a number of others are under indictment in and about New York city. "What is the legal profession coming to?" they say. "Is it deteriorating?" We do not believe they need alarm themselves. The very fact that their attitude in regard to crimes committed by lawyers is one of surprise, is in itself, strong evidence that the legal occupies a higher moral plane than any other profession, unless it may be that of the ministry. From this plane the fall is greater than from that occupied by lay editors, for instance. The fall of a lawyer more closely resembles that of a woman. When either one descends, there is a big splash and much resulting excitement. But when a doctor, or an engineer, or an artist, or a musician, or a journalist sins and gets locked up, little more than a ripple upon the waters of public life is created. This must be for one of two reasons. Either the sight is a common one, or nothing else can reasonably be expected. These reasons amount to pretty much the the same thing, and it may be that both operate to produce the result stated. But it is certainly true that neither one of them exists so far as erring lawyer is concerned. As the present newspaper comment shows, his sin is neither common nor to be expected. This being so, there is little reason to fear that the legal profession, as a body, is slowly but surely becoming willing to accept lower standards than those by which it has measured itself in the past. On the contrary, the very opposite is true. Lawyers are proud of their calling as a calling. Rascals there are in this, no less than in other professions. But the very fact that there are rascally lawyers and that their detests and doings are being revealed to their surprised brethren, is gradually causing the principles of legal ethics to be more fully understood and appreciated by the vast majority of lawyers. And we can confidently predict, as the reasonable and necessary outcome of the lesson than it has ever yet been satisfied with. It is, however, hardly worth while to take up the cudgels in behalf of the legal profession as a whole. Neither its past nor its present needs defense. But there is one thing from which the profession should be safe-guarded, and that is misrepresentation of facts. It has been widely circulated by the press that there are at present sixteen lawyers under indictment in the city of New York. This may be true. But it is a misrepresentation, nevertheless, as to the legal profession, when that much is said and nothing more. To be indicted is by no means to be guilty. Indictments are easily secured in New York, and but a week or more since, in that city, an indicted lawyer was discharged without hesitation upon a hearing by the court of the so-called evidence against him. It is but fair to assume that there are some among the sixteen who are equally innocent Another, and by far the more atrocious, misrepresentation, for which the press is responsible, is a statement that the latest report of the State Commission of Prisons shows 193 lawyers to be actually serving sentences in the state penal institutions. The last report of the commission was issued in January of this year and gives the number of prisoners in the state prisons, penitentiaries, etc., on October 1, 1904. On that date, according to the report, the lawyers confined in the several penal institutions were numbered as follows: In Auburn prison, 3; in Clinton prison, 1; in Sing Sing prison, 11; in the state reformatories, 0; in Erie county penitentiary, 1; in Monroe county penitentiary, 3; total, 19. Quite a difference between the statement and the fact! There are about 15,000 lawyers in New York state. Moreover, the report of the commission for the year 1903 shows 17 lawyers in jail at that time, from which it is evident that criminality in this profession has not increased of late to any alarming extent. We doubt whether a better showing could be made by any of the other occupations or professions, which we notice by this report are pretty well represented in jail. PATRICK HENRY'S GRAVE From the New York Tribune. Inquiry is made now and then as to where Patrick Henry is buried. The orator lies in a quiet grave on the estate in Charotte county, Va., where he formerly lived. Red Hill is the name of the estate, which is on the Staunton river, thirty-eight miles from Lynchburg. When Patrick Henry bought the place it comprised about 3,500 acres. One of the nearest neighbors was John Randolph of Roanoke, fifteen miles away. Red Hill is now owned by Henry's grandson. William Wirt Henry. PEOPFE. "Peculiar People" is a new book for the millions. By Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase. NEW SUBJECTS. Every division, which are (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. 9. THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE. 12. EXCERPTS AND COMMENTS. SUMMARY. MRS. ARABELLA V. CHASE 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. Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase, 1212 Florida avenue northwest, or THE WASHINGTON BEE, 1109 Eye street northwest, Washington, D. C. CURIOUS LEGAL POINT. Shall Cremated Corpse Pay Same Rate for Carriage as Body in Coffin? Paris.—A curious case now before a French tribunal invokes a point which has not yet come up for legal settlement. A certain New York doctor, whose name thus far is withheld, recently accompanied a wealthy western American to Italy, where his patient after a lingering illness died. In order to avoid the trouble and formalities of carrying the body to the United States in a coffin the doctor on his own authority had the corpse cremated. The ashes were placed in a small urn, which was then packed carefully and shipped as ordinary freight on which he paid the usual tariff according to weight. The doctor landed on the American side all right, but the steamship company discovered his secret and demanded the price of carrying a dead body in a coffin, which amounts to nearly $150 more than the doctor pald for the urn's transportation. This he refused and the case must be decided at Paris, since it was at a French port that the urn was shipped. The impression here is that the company will lose the case. TO DUPLICATE EVERY GUN. Precaution That Is Deemed Necessary by the Naval General Board. Washington.—Every gun in the navy will have its duplicate to guard against any emergency and accident, if the recommendation of the naval chief of ordnance is carried out. The naval general board, it is believed, thoroughly approves of it, and consequently the naval estimates to go before the next congress may contain a formidable item to cover the cost of producing the new guns. Such accidents as have happened in recent years, particularly to the big turret guns of the battleships, would compel the ship to go into action in disabled condition or be laid up for months in a navy yard. The idea is to keep spare guns in stock at convenient points to immediately replace the damaged ones. Growth of Things Out West. A correspondent of the Checotah (I. T.) Times, and for whose veracity that paper vouches, tells the following: The terrible news comes from the western part of the Cherokee Nation that a boy climbed a cornstalk to see how the corn was getting along, and now the corn is growing up faster than the boy can climb down. The boy is clear out of sight. Three men have undertaken to cut the stalk down with axes and save the boy from starvation, but it grows so fast that they can't hack twice in the same place. The boy is living on nothing but raw corn and already has thrown down over four bushels of cobs." Decorated Chef. King Edward's chef, M. Menager, was among those to receive birthday honor on the occasion of his majesty's recent birthday. He is believed to be among the most accomplished chefs in the world. He was decorated with the Victorian medal. Other recipients of that distinction are understood to feel that in conferring the medal on a cook King Edward has rather cheapened the honor. 425 TENTH SREET,IN. W. Telephone—Main—160 HIDDEN ISLES OF THE SEA. 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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. Ocre 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 Batiise, 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. 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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. P Bartley, W. C. S. NOTICE. 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. : L Walton Evergreen, Department, No. 240, meet at Red Fish, La., the 1st and 3rd Friday in each month. A. T. Finley, W. P. P.; Chas. Dupar, F. V. P.; A. 1. Finley, W. C. S. Harmony Department, No. 71, meet at Dafuskie Island, S. C., the first and third, Wednesday in each month. 1 Frazier, W. P. P.; W. J. Ficklin, W. P.; Amanda Lodge, W. C. TEETH OF DOGS PULLED. Philadelphia.—Following the poisoning of several valuable dogs in Ardmore recently came the discovery that some unknown culprit had been going about pulling the teeth of blooded canines. What object anyone could possibly have in pulling dogs' teeth or for what purpose they are wanted are questions that threaten to give residents brain fatigue. The most plausible reason suggested so far is that some father whose child has suffered from the fangs of a dog, or some man who has himself been bitten, is acting as canine tooth extractor out of revenge. The first dog to fall victim to the tooth puller was a white poodle, valued at $100, owned by a resident of South Ardmore. The dog, aside from its value and beauty, was master of many clever tricks, some of which were performed with the aid of its mouth and teeth. One day the dog, which had been away from home during the morning, appeared at the back door of the Moylan cottage whining piteously. A servant who opened the door noticed that there was something strange about the dog, and that it did not appear as lively as usual. Thinking that it was suffering from the heat, the servant let the canine go unnoticed until after lunch. Then a bone was thrown to the dog, and, instead of catching it in its teeth and scampering off, as it usually did, the animal walked up to where the bone lay, gave a few sniffs, and ran off whining. In the evening the owner was informed of the strange actions of the dog, and upon making an investigation he discovered that every tooth had disappeared from the animal's mouth. The belief that some strange disease had stricken the canine and caused the teeth to fall out kept the dog's owner from making his discovery known to his neighbors. He decided, however, to seek the advice of a veterinary physician, when he found that there were other dogs that were minus their teeth, having lost them as mysteriously as had his own. It was discovered through the visit of a friend that three other valuable and blooded dogs had fallen victims of the tooth puller. The dogs were owned by residents of South Ardmore. The dogs were collies, and every tooth had been pulled. Many residents believe that a dental student is responsible for the pulling of the dogs' teeth, but the owners of the canines, are not satisfied at this explanation, and believe that there lies a deep mystery around the strange case. NEW TEST OF WIRELESS. New York.—It was said at the Brooklyn navy yard that the next experiments by the North Atlantic fleet in wireless telegraphy will be in the nature of observations in the efficiency and accuracy of the wireless instruments when all the guns are being fired. Observations made at Pensacola last spring showed that there is little to fear from the effects of shock and jar of one gun, but what is sought now is information as to whether the same immunity will be enjoyed when all guns are fired, as in case of battle. There is some apprehension that the instruments will not survive this test of "battle efficiency." as the thunder and air vibration caused by the firing of numerous big guns is very great. Much of the present work in experimenting in wireless telegraphy has to do only with a comparison of circumstances by means of wireless communications with the shore stations which are in close touch with the naval observatory. The change from this "clocking" work, as it is called, to the broader field of battle serviceability is awaited with interest, not only by those who are directly engaged with the wireless experiments, but also by the officials of the navy department, who expect important conclusions will be derived from the tests. TORPEDQ LIKE BOOMERANG Discharged from American Gunboat It Returns and Hits the Vessel. Newport, R. I.—It seems impossible that a vessel should fire a torpedo and have it come back and hit the very vessel from, which it was fired, but this thing has happened. The Vesuvius is the vessel which made the record. She was out to fire torpedoes, and it is to be presumed every precaution was taken to start the torpedo right. One was fired and went straight to the target. The second was fired apparently under similar conditions. It made a turn and came back straight for the side of the Vesuvius. There was no excitement on board. Orders were given to close the water-tight compartments and-to-do all sorts of things, but there was no special occasion for alarm. The old dynamite cruiser was in no danger of sinking and reached the torpedo station all right, minus the torpedo that hit her. When torpedoes are fired in practice, as these were, a practice head is used. This practice head does not contain explosives, and that explains why the Vesuvius was not injured. The performance of this torpedo suggests that perhaps some of the Russian vessels torpedoed in the fighting in tho far east were struck by their own torpedoes and not by those of the Japanese. Good Roads for Indians. The Indians of the Choctaw tribe, in Indian territory, have formed a good roads association. B LOUORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. eaveWashington, from station corne New lersey avenue and Cat. ROYAL BLUELINE IRRING EVERY OTHER ICUR ON THE ODD HOUR" TO PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK *700 am. Diner, Pullman Parlor †9.00 am. Buffet, Parlor 5 Hr.Train. §9.00 a.m. Diner and Pullman Parlor Car. †11.00 a.m. Diner adPullman Parlor Car. *1.00 p. m. Diner an Pullman Parlor Car. *3.00 p.m. "Royal Limited," All Pull man. 14.00 p.m. Coaches to Philadelphia *5.00 p.m. Diner and Pullman Patrol. *8.00 p.m. Coaches to Philadelphia. *11.30 p.m. Sleepers. *2.57 a.m. Sleepers. 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About all that remains of the old fittings are her hull and engines, and these have been thoroughly overhauled and are entirely new in many parts. The work of rebuilding and refitting has been in progress about a year The ship, a "white elephant" of the navy, will at last be of some practical service, it is now said. She has been tied up at the Charlestown navy yard since her return from the campaign in Cuba. The navy department has been considering what could be done with the craft to make her of some service, and probably a hundred plans for converting her were considered before the torpedo instruction ship idea was decided upon. Stafford's Drug IWENTIETH AND K STREETS, N. W. LAVE YOU TRIED STAFFORD'S CORN S THE CORN WITHOUT FAIN; TRY A FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND T I can save you 50 per cent discount on all prescrib to take them where the Doctor tells you.— the prescription is yours. Have it filled Fresh goods compounded by license and where you are not rob THE BEE is for sale at this p JOS. BUS FRIED STAFFORD'S CORN SALVER: THE CORN WITHOUT FAIN; TRY IT—IN FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO 50 per cent discount on all prescriptions—You where the Doctor tells you.—You have prescription is yours. Have it filled where fresh goods compounded by licensed men or and where you are not robbed. THE BEE is for sale at this place. JOS. BUSE HAVE YOU TRIED STAFFORD'S CORN SALVER IT REMOVES THE CORN WITHOUT PAIN; TRY IT—IDE. A FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. I can save you 50 per cent discount on all prescriptions—You don't have to take them where the Doctor tells you.—You have paid him the prescription is yours. Have it filled where you get Fresh goods compounded by licensed men only and where you are not robbed. THE BEE is for sale at this place. 1731 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. WINES & LIQUORS, MONASTERY BEER BY THE FANCY CANNED GOODS. PRICES FOR A FEW STANDARD BRANDS. Dewar's Scotch - $1.15 Gordon Gin Plymouth Gin - .95 Black and White S Grey Friar rye, Full qt. - 1.00 Hunter rye, per bo Wilson whiskey - 1.00 Cascade Trimble - .00 Old Overboat Paul Jones - .95 Booth Tom Gin Cauadine Club - 1.25 French Vermont Thompson - 1.00 Maryland Rye Port & Sherry Wine - .25 Apple Brandy QUORS, MONASTERY BEER BY THE FANCY CANNED GOODS. PIICES FOR A FEW STANDARD BRANDS $1.15 Gordon Gin .95 Black and White S Full qt. 1.00 Hunter rye, per bo 1.00 Cascade .00 Old Overboat .95 Booth Tom Gin 1.25 French Vermont 1.00 Maryland Rye .25 Apple Brandy WINES & LIQUORS, MONASTERY BEER BY THE CASE AND FANCY CANNED GOODS. All beers on ice ready for use Richard's Shoe 1229 Pa Ave We beg to announce to the men of Washington a strictly high grade shoe store at the above address. All of our shoes are made by the Williams & pany, of Boston, Mass., Makers of the finest shoes. We desire to call your special attention to our newest shapes, including the popular Stag-last Patent Colt, Russet Calf, Tans, Blacks, &c. BETTER GRADES AT $4.00 & $5.00. YOUR I SHOES SHINED FROM STEAMER JANE Is now open for Charters for Summers, River Landings. All points on Chesapeake Richmond, Va. For full information apply Lewis, Jefferson Hard's Shoe Store 1229 Pa Avenue announce to the men of Washington that your grade shoe store at the above address. Shoes are made by the Williams & Kneelan, Mass., Makers of the finest shoes for men to call your special attention to our line, including the popular Stag-last Oxford's, Susset Calf, Tans, Blacks, &c. ADES AT $4.00 & $5.00. YOUR INSPECTORS CHOES SHINED FREE. AMER JANE MO open for Charters for Summerset Beach landings. All points on Chesapeake Bay, Ind. Va. For full information apply or write Jefferson 1904 Richard's Shoe Store We beg to announce to the men of Washington that we have opened a strictly high grade shoe store at the above address. All of our shoes are made by the Williams & Kneeland Shoe Company, of Boston, Mass., Makers of the finest shoes for men. We desire to call your special attention to our line at $3.50. All the newest shapes, including the popular Stag-last Oxfords in all leathers—Patent Colt, Russet Calf, Tans, Blacks, &c. STEAMER JANE MOSELY Is now open for Charters for Summerset Beach and other River Landings. All points on Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk and Richmond, Va. For full information apply or write to Telephone: Main 1779. RIDER AGENTS W No Money Re until you receive and approve We ship to anyone on Ten Days Finest guaranteed- 1905 Models $10 with Coaster-Brakes and 1903 & 1904 Models $7 Best Makes,..... Any make or model you want price. Choice of any standi equipment on all our bicycles. We SHIP ON APPROV one without a cent deposit and FREE TRIAL before p 500 Second Hand Wh taken in trade by our Chicago retail all makes and models, good as new. a bicycle until you have写 PRIOES AND FREE TRI quipment, sundries and sporting goods of all kinds, at b free Sundry Catalogue. Contains a world of useful in ATURE-PROOF TIR Price $8.50 per pair. duce $4.75 Sell apple Only NAILS, TACKS OR GLASS WON'T LET OUT THE AIR BUBLE from PUNCTURES ESTABLISHED 12 YEARS DO NOT equipment, sundry big free Sundry C until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone on Ten Days Free Trial Fineest guaranteed- $10 to $24 1905 Models with Coaster - Brakes and Punctureless Tires. 1803 & 1904 Models $7 to $12 Best Makes..... Any make or model you want at one-third usual price. Choice of any standard tires and best equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantee. PUNGTURE-PROOF Regular price $8.50 per pair. To Introduce $4.75 we will Sell You a Sample Pair for Only NO MORE TROUBLE from PUNCTURES Result of 15 years experience in tire making. No danger from THORNS, CACTUS, PINS, NAILS, TACKS or GLASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. Send for Catalogue "T." showing all kinds and makes also Ooster-Brakes, Built-up Wheels and Bicycles—Sund. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strut outlast any other make—Soft, Elastic and Easy Riding. AND EXAMINATION without a cent deposit. We will allow a cash discount of 5% (thereby make send full cash with order. Tires to be returned at examination. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. "J.I. begin "T." showing all kinds and makes of tires a piece. Built-up Wheels and Bicycles—Sandries at Hick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" at make—Soft, Elastic and Easy Riding. We will a without a cent deposit. a cash discount of 5% (thereby making the pr with order. Tires to be returned at our expen YCLE CO., Dept. "J.L." CH Send for Catalogue "T." showing all kinds and makes of tires at $2.00 per pair and up also Coaster-Brakes, Built-up Wheels and Bicycles—Sundries at Half the usual prices. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." This tire will outlast any other make—Soft, Elastic and Easy Riding. We will ship C. O. D, ON APPROVAL AND EXAMINATION without a cent deposit. We will allow a cash discount of 5% (thereby making the price $4.50 per pair) if you send full cash with order. Tires to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on examination. Store, H, rest. THE CASE AND WANDS: $0.95 White Scotch 1.25 Water bottle 1.00 1.00 .90 1.15 Mont .70 2.00 .35 Store ue that we have opened ess. Kneeland Shoe Co for men. Line at $3.50. All the words in all leathers— PECTION INVITED MOSELY Beach and other Bay, Norfolk and or write to 1900 First Street, Southwest ITS WANTED Required approve of your bicycle. Days Free Trial 10 to $24 and Punctureless Tires. $7 to $12 you want at one-third usual standard tires and best tires. Strongest guarantee. PROVAL C. O. D. to any at and allow 10 DAYS more purchase is binding. Wheels $3 to $8 retail stores. new..... we written for our FAOTORY E TRIAL OFFER. Tires. is at half regular price. In our ful information. Write for it. IRES $4.75 PER PAIR EASY RIDING, STRONG, DURABLE, SELF HEALING FULLY COVERED BY PATENTS BEWARE OF IMITATIONS tires at £2.00 per pair and up- a Half the usual prices. B" and "D." This tire will will ship C. O. D. ON APPROVAL the price $4.50 per pair) if you expense if not satisfactory on 'CHICAGO, ILL. Lawyer's Novel Point Followed by Acquittal and Marriage of Wisconsin Pair. Escanaba, Mich.—A sensational wedding followed the still more sensational $50,000 damage suit of A. W. Hollman, son of the Green Bay (Wis.) postmaster, against Henry Rahr, a millionaire brewer, whom he accused of alienating his wife's affections. Mrs. Hollman secured a divorce some months ago on the ground of cruelty. Shortly afterward Hollman sought to recover heavy damages from Rahr. The testimony in the case was most sensational. Cab drivers, ministers, saloon and restaurant owners told of many instances of alleged improper behavior of Rahr and Mrs. Hollman. Just when the plaintiff's counsel was about ready to rest with a mass of incriminating testimony one witness declared that at one time he saw Mrs. Hollman sitting on Mr. Rahr's lap. The lawyer for the defendant rose promptly to the opportunity. "Mr. Rahr," he said, "kindly let the jury see your lap." Mr. Rahr displayed his lap. Inasmuch as he weighed about 250 pounds and is far from being tall, the lap which the jury saw was infinitesimal. Even Mrs. Hollman, petite as she is, couldn't find accommodations on such a lap. The jury laughed and Rahr was acquitted. Rahr married Mrs. Hollman in this city to avoid the Wisconsin law which prevents a remarriage of a divorced person in less than a year. IN LOVE WITH A CHINAMAN Young Daughter of Army Surgeon Decides to Wed a Well-to-Do Mongolian. Boston, Mass.—Friends of 16-year-old Eve Moore, daughter of the late Dr. Frederick J. Moore, of Roxbury, formerly a United States army surgeon, are discussing the young girl's attempt to wed Lee San, a young Chigua man who runs a laundry in Roxbury, just around the corner from Miss Moore's home. Miss Moore says she "has been engaged" to Lee San, also that they tried to get a marriage license in Chelsea and were told they could not unless they lived there. Miss Moore's mother said at first: "It's all foolishness." In the next breath, however, she told the reporter: "Lee San is all right—a good fellow," also that he has just been left money by an uncle in San Francisco. The mother is also reported as saying she would rather see Eva married to a Chinaman than to a worthless white man. Lee San Lin't saying anything at all. Lee San is a prosperous looking celestial who wears American clothes. He is about 20 years old. He is shy of being interviewed. He is said to be proprietor of a flourishing tea store as well as of the laundry which bears his name. IN MALE ATTIRE; DRINKS. Nashville, Tenn.—Stella Newton, aged 17 and very pretty, was arrested at the Arlington hotel, where she had been stopping under the name of Kenneth Halcolm. Her identity was discovered by a bartender at a local saloon, where she went and called for a drink of whisky. Later she returned and called for half a pin to the liquor. The bartender suspected something and refused. When arrested Miss Newton said she came here from Memphis, and she had in health certificate from that city Previous to going to Memphis she sailed she had been to Greenville, Miss., but her home, she claimed, was in Louisville. The girl claims that she has no relatives or kinspeople, and that her reason for dressing in male attire was that she thought she could the more easily make her way in the world. After her arrest her cultase was examined and no female clothing found She said then that she had lived with her guardian and his wife in Louisville. that her guardian was cruel to her, and she finally decided to adopt men's clothing and left home. TURTLE HAS NINE LIVES. Destructive Creature Reappears Repeatedly, Despite Precautions of Farmer's Wife. Hereford, Pa.—There is a turtle, an innocent looking, thy land turtle, in Jefferson township, this county, that promises to outrival the cat that haun nine lives. It is a stray turtle that was found five years ago on the farm of Adam Schoener, and its shell at that time was embellished with the engraved signature of Schoener's son. Then the turtle disappeared until last year when it bobbed up in the truck patch of the Schoeners and proceeded to help itself to the best vegetables. Mrs. Schoener, in anger, threw the destructive little creature into Tulpehocken creek, a mile away, thinking to lose it. But the turtle came back. Crossing the 40-foot wide stream, it reappeared in the patch and resumed the devastation. Again it was tossed into the same stream, and recently r. Turtle, 48 hours after his bath, reappeared among the tomatoes. The Schoeners were exasperated, but as Berks county farmers are superstitious about killing turtles, they decided to keep it as a relic in an enclosure filled with vegetables. REVIVES LOST ART. POTTERY-MAKING, 2,000 YEARS AGO. BROUGHT TO LIGHT. Harry Firth, an Englishman, Duplicates the Celebrated Blackware of the Etruscans—Hits on Scheme by Boundabout Route. London.—Examples of an art lost more than 20 centuries and only rediscovered by accident, have been exhibited recently by Harry Firth, of Kirkby Lonsdale, England. The work duplicates the famous blackware of the Etruscans. Mr. Firth spent the first 40 years of his life tending flowers for the squire of Kirkby Lonsdale. He was a common gardener, earning in the neighborhood of six dollars a week. In 1890 he became interested in wood carving, through the instrumentality of the Arts and Crafts Guild, an institution originally started by Watts, Ruskin, Morris and a number of other then youthfully enthusiastic artists, but now supported almost wholly by the various county councils of England under the patronage of the queen and almost all the royal family. In 1890 the guild was introduced into Kirkby Lonsdale, and Mr.Firth, his little daughter, his wife and other members of his family joined the student ranks. He took up wood carving, the daughter worked in color, his wife embossed leather, and all three have made a wonderful success. Mr. Firth speedily found that his designs were difficult of execution, however, as he had no model with which to guide the movements of his chisel. Hence he was quick to avail himself of a suggestion that he model his work in clay, afterward copying the design in wood. For a year or more he laboriously trudged seven weary miles with loads of plastic models to a neighboring brick kiln, where they were baked hard. By degrees his interest in clay overshadowed his interest in wood, and instead of molding mere designs for his chisel to copy he tried his 'prentice hand at original work in pottery. The same success which had met his wood carving followed him in this, and the same energy which had carried his models seven miles after a hard day's work in the garden carried his pots and his vases over the same tedious road to the brick kiln. A few months, however, and he saw that he had either reached his limit as a creative potter or he must devise new means for firing his clay. This he did by building for himself a small oven in a little deserted shed whose owner allowed him its use free of charge. It was in this shed and in a little testing box at the apex of his home-made oven that Harry Firth, the gardener, finally wrested a secret of the ages and made once more the famous black Etruscan ware, sung by Juvenal, Perseus and Horace and sought unsuccessfully by the leading potters all through the Christian era. To the unsophisticated gardener, playing at pottery, the discovery meant nothing more than the loss of so much clay and so much labor. The rare specimens of newly found art he placed tearfully away in a corner where rubbish piled up and dust covered them. There they stood for weeks till an inquisitive clergyman with an eye for the artistic and an interest in the potter began routing about in the shed and unearthed them. He was enthusiastic, and quickly set Firth's heart beating wildly with his tales of dead arms and his praise of the discarded treasures. Then came the real labor, for though made once, it was not easy to reproduce an accident, and it took nine months of daily work before Firth again managed to duplicate the ancient work. Mr. Firth has ceased gardening and now makes his living entirely by his art, but it is not much of a living. for he has all the artist's objection to making money by his work. He charges barely enough to cover the cost of his labor, and lives lustrous days, where a less squeamish man might have luxury and the plaudits of thousands, WINS SWEETHEART BY RUSE St. Paul, Miln.—A story of how "love will fill a way" has developed in the probate court. William L. Wallace, of this city, was arraigned to be examined as to his sanity. The physicians said he was perfectly sane and then the story came out. The old man was arrested on complaint of his daughter. A young man called on the daughter, Miss Virginia Wallace, at her home. The father an swered the knock and promptly ejected the young man. The young swalf then went to the back door and while the father was walking up and down the sidewalk in front of the house the daughter is alleged to have let the young gallant into the house through a rear window. The father discovered this and trieed to get back into the house. He gave vent to some strong language and pounded on the door, when the daughter telephoned to the Margaret street police station, saying her home was besieged by a crazy man. When the police arrived they found the irate parent storming about and promptly took him away without knowing who he was. "Just This Way." Doubtless there re hundreds of old men sitting on the street corners of Tokio whittling pine sticks who think they could have done better than Komura in negotiating peace terms. Prof. Metchnikoff says one may live 180 years on a sour milk diet. But what's the use? Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. The Medical Department of Howard University is fast reaching that high standard of excellence which is the ideal of all such institutions of learning. It is not very many years back when the course as given in this department of the university consisted of three years of about six mouths each. But that length of time has been found insufficient for the scope of instruction now needed for the preparation of well equipped physicians, and, keeping pace with and helping to develop medical thought, the Medical Department of Howard University has lengthened its course to four years of eight months each. Following the requirements of the Association of American Medical Colleges, of which this college is a member, it now exacts of each student 1000 hours of actual work in class room and laboratories per year. It is the aim of the Faculty to give medical instruction second to none in the country, and how well these results are attained is shown by the record which the graduates of the school are making before the various state licensing boards. Nearly all who have gone before such boards for licenses have been successful, having passed in most cases with high averages. The latest achievement of which the Medical Department of Howard University has reason to be proud is the success of Dr. W. C. McNeil in the recent examination before the United States Civil Service Board for Assistant Surgeon in Freedmen's Hospital. This examination was open to physicians all over the country and to graduates of all schools, and is speaks well for the Medical Department of Howard University that one of its graduates should come out first on the list and be awarded the appointment, while another makes the third place on the list. In an examination held a few years ago for the same place it was a Howard graduate who made the first place and was appointed to the position. In an interview with Dr. F. J. Shadd, the Secretary of the Medical Faculty, we learned that the outlook for the coming year is especially good. When approached as to the success of the Howard graduates generally he said there are several reasons for it. Among them, the school is run on strictly business principles; the teaching corps is made up of splendid representatives of the profession and each is a specialist in his subject. The student has personal contact with his teachers and learns from them in his student days the finer qualities which are acquired in the practice of his profession. Also, he is eagerly taught the serious responsibility which one takes upon himself who would be the guardian of health and the preserver of life in the community in which he lives; and is made to feel that no amount of sacrifice and toil to properly equip himself for the practice of medicine is too much. He is taught to rely upon himself and to apply the principles which he has learned. MARYLAND POLITICS The Republicans of Maryland have a hard fight before them. The coming campaign will decide the political liberty of the negro American. The constitutional amendment which the Democrats are anxious to carry is a blot on American liberty. It is a crime of which the Democratic party is guilty. The negro American must use every effort to uphold his citizen- ship and blot out if possible a crime that will be a disgrace to the proud state of Maryland. If the negro American deserved to be treated as slaves after having fought so bravely to uphold American independence, there would be some excuse in adopting the unconstitutional amendment, over which the entire State is exercised. There are some good people in the State of Maryland among the white people. There are people who believe in equality of citizenship. There are some elements who would have the ignorant masses to believe that the negro American wants to dominate. This cry was made by Senator Arthur P. Gorman, who had the confidence and respect of the negro Americans. It was a great mistake on the part of Senator Gorman when he made such a vicious attack on the negro American. He was one who had the power to divide the colored vote. He would have been the Democratic nominee for the Presidency. The American people, irrespective of color, held him in the highest esteem. That speech put a quietus on his political aspirations. He is no longer the ideal of the State of Maryland. He has lost and the diadem which was the height of his ambition was lost in the hour of his enthusiasm. The negro Americans of the State of Maryland have a duty to perform. They must see to it that every voter is made to come out. The political salvation of the negro in the State depends on the defeat of the Poe Amendments. In other words, stand together. THE NEW PUBLIC PRINTER. The Bee in its last issue stated that ex-public printer Palmer had bad advisors. The Bee presumed that he would not have taken such drastic measures against Mr. Rickets had it not been for those who were opposed to the foreman of printing. There is not a more gentlemanly and fairer official than least; he is honest beyond a doubt Mr. Oscar J. Rickets. He loved his He is not a vindictive man in the his chief, honored and obeyed him, his appointment of Mr. Rickets, hand of the enemy was exposed, which vindicates the new public printer. It was a conspiricty against a rising young man whose only fault has been to serve his chief. The Keep Commission found out about the contract that had been made for typesetting machines, and that Mr. Ricketts knew nothing The key commission found out where the fault was; the hidden and it is believed that he is the neither was he a party to anything proper man to be public printer. Of course the country is gratified and pleased with the President in that was wrong. The colonel has lost a friend, and at the same time he has gained a friend. Both are men of the highest integrity. Mr. Ricketts is noble and grateful; Mr. Palmer was fair and liberal. Mr. Ricketts believes in the principles of the Republican party, while Mr. Palmer was a stalwart of the stalwarts. The former's ancestors belonged to the school of Lincoln. The latter knew no man by the color of his skin. Both always helped the poor and needy. Neither would take snap judgment without a thoroughly investigation. Mr. Palmer was imposed upon by the enemies of Mr. Ricketts, whose ambition was graft. Had Mr. Palmer been left alone, he would have been classed among noble Romans. He falls now like Lucifer, "never to hope again." Mr. Palmer's advisers persuaded him to defy the President. Mr. Ricketts was humble and obedient. There can be no act of insubordination shown on the part of the young man towards his chief. That Mr. Ricketts loved Mr. Palmer cannot be denied and no one regretted the untimely removal of Mr. Palmer any more than Mr. Ricketts, which was an evidence of his loyalty and honesty. The Bee again extends its regrets to Mr. Palmer and its appreciation and esteem of Mr. Ricketts. GOOD SIGNS. It is gratifying to witness the progress of the colored people in business in the city of Washington. The peo- --- ple have every reason to be grateful as well as thankful. While color prejudice is so prevalent and certain business establishments controlled by white firms are inimical to the colored race, upon many corners and in many squares you can see first-class business houses being established. Among some of the businesses that are being set up are: Drug stores, ice cream and confectionary parlors, saloons, dining parlors, sample rooms, real estate, insurance companies and many other business houses that other people of the opposite race conduct. Then we have a first-class millinery department, conducted by a bright business woman, which is an honor to the District of Columbia. While so much discrimination is so prevalent the colored people have no cause to be despondent. They have places of their own. What is needed now is a first-class dry goods store. But, in the absence of such an institution, THE BEE would advise the colored people to patronize Landsburg Brothers, and King's Palace, where the colored people are treated with respect and where colored people are always welcome. These two firms have always extended a hearty welcome to the colored people. When the colored people realize the importance of supporting their own institutions and those who are friendly to them, the better it will be for them. THE BEE also advises the colored people not to forget their old true and tried friend, Mr. Frank Hume. SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL BAILEY. The election of Dr. Henry L. Bailey to the vacant Supervising Principalship created by the death of Mr. Ellis W. Brown, has met with universal approval. Dr. Bailey is a graduate of Harvard University, and of the Howard Medical School He has been a teacher in the high school for fifteen years, and has during that time acquired a most enviable reputation for uprightness, efficiency and ripe scholarship. The election was strictly on merit, and as Dr. Bailey was selected out of so excellent a field, his friends are congratulating him on the compliment implied in his selection by the Board of Education. The selection of Dr. Bailey is a departure in some respects from former practice, but it is a departure in the right direction, and implies that while less emphasis is not to be placed on other qualifications, more emphasis is to be placed on sound scholarship. In securing the supervisorship for Dr. Bailey, Mr. Bundy has rendered the community a signal service. HOW WAS IT DONE? It was surprising to the people just why Dr. Bruce Evens was not appointed supervising principal. Dr. Bailey was the dark horse and no appointment caused greater surprise. Prof. N. E. Weatherless has a record of which any one should feel proud. He is deserving and it is hoped that something be done for him commensurate with is ability as an educator. How was it done is the question that is being asked. The letter of Mr. John P. Green is reproduced in this week's issue of THE BEE on account of several lines being misplaced last week. 一 The address of Major Richard Sylvester which is printed in part in THE BEE of this week was highly commended by the northern press. THE BEE is more widely quoted than any race paper in the country. Ten white daily newspapers in various sections of the country reproduced our editorial on "The Business League and the Simple Life." THE BEE next week will contain a fine half-tone cut of Hon. W. L. West, Commissioner of the District of Columbia and an article entitled "What He Has Done Since He Has Been Commissioner." Mr. West is one of the truest friends the negro American has. Washington D. C., Sept. 5, 1905. To Prof. Kelly Miller, Howard University, Washington, D. G. My dear Sir:— Permit me as a colored American, to thank you for the learned, logical, convincing and very helpful contributions which you have recently made to the literature of the race, through the media of the Voice of the Negro and the Washington Post. The one in the Post of the 3rd inst. is, in my opinion, an argument of such great learning and irrefutable logic that it ought to be printed in pamphlet form and sent broadcast to the molders of public opinion, wherever the slanderous abuse of the American negro has been disseminated by a cruel propaganda, having its habitat in the heart of the solid, negro-hating South. We are told that comparisons are invidious, but I want to tell you, Professor Miller, that the production of those two valuable articles stamp you as being one of the foremost, if not the foremost of the colored defenders of our progressive, but still needy use. At the close of the great American conflict, the negro, having sustained the great Southern army in the field and protected with something akin to filial care, the weak ones at home, on the plantations and in the populous centers, and having both as a laborer in the trenches and a soldier in the ranks and on the high seas, covered himself with a mantle of glory, the cynosure of all eyes—he was lauded and acclaimed by the friends of the Union, North, and hated and feared by the enemies of the Union and human rights, in the South. For his elevation and protection, the Constitution was three times amended, and salutary laws spread on the statute books of the land. He was elected to the Senate, the House of Representatives, and many other subordinate places of honor and emulment within the gift of a grateful people. He stood on a pedestal of glory, "the observed of all observers," wherever respect for civil law and patriotic love of country existed. From the first, there were those who were determined to take from his elective franchise, to reduce him to the status of a slave, notwithstanding his legal environment, in every respect but in name. To do this, however, it was necessary to deprive him of his northern allies, to weaken his influence in the house of his friends; to pull him down from the high pedestal upon which he stood. A propaganda of unholy lies and villainous abuse was brought into existence to cause it to be believed that the negro is in truth and in fact, a beast, in whose keeping the weaker sex is not safe; notwithstanding all the teaching of the past had been to the contrary; and the United States, of all the places on the face of the earth, is the only one inhabited by negroes in whole or in part, where such a charge is preferred against them, and the further fact that, of the many thousands of talented white ladies of the North, who went to the South and for a quarter of a century lived amongst and taught them, not one complaint of brutal treatment ever reached the public ear. So, without judge or jury, with all the ordinary and usual incidents of a fair and impartial trial, without, in most cases, adequate identification, he is held up to public opprobrium, scorn and infamy; he is stamped as a beast, a brute and, presto, he is ignominiously pulled, tumbled down from his high place, in the estimation of the superficial, the thoughtless and the prejudiced. The supporters of this vile, wicked and accursed propaganda, are to be found in the "four corners of the earth," seated in editorial chairs, compiling magazines, speaking from lecture platforms and preaching from pulpits. Of the latter is the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., and, of the former is the Hon. Thomas Watson, both of whom you have so scientifically, mercilessly and effectually excoriated. I trust they know better now. Again thanking you for your conspicuous and very valuable service to our race, I am, my dear sir, ITEMS ON THE WING. Sunday while traveling along First street, S. W., I noticed a lot of Italians congregated at their different places of business. The idea struck me how nice it would be if our people would stick together and stop knifing. In the District of Columbia, with the population we have, we ought to turn out at least twenty-five rich men each year. But we won't do it. Brother Henry C. Harris is still sick at his residence, 1139 17th street, N. W. Mrs. J. F. Johnson is sick at her residence, 125 D street, S. W. Mrs. Rachel Moore, widow of one of the craft residing at 1332 Fifth street, is sick. Brother Henry Coleman, P. G. M., is sick at his residence, 1112 New Jersey avenue, N. W. Brother W. H. Thomas has advanc- Joyce Brace JUDGE CHARLES F. SCOTT, WHO DIED LAST THURSDAY. In order to correct a typographical error in the case of Eugene, son of T. A. Jackson, it was Eugene P. Iverson who died at Rockcastle, Md., the mother seeing him twelve hours before death. He was a very fine young man. His mother, Mrs. Helen Jackson, and father, Ill. Thortan A. Jackson, 33-96. Rest in Peace. Last week Ill. and Sir Chas. D. Freeman, of Simar Commandery No. 1, entertained at his residence, 1609 Fourth street, N, W., Sir Robert Retway, of St. Louis, Mo. A number of prominent and Ill. Sirs were present. The Eighth Annual Field Day of the Regimental Union of the Patriarchie, G. U. O. O. F. O. F. convened at Norfolk, Va. The membership at present is about 500. This is an organization that was created by Col. W. P. Gray (deceased). Felix Lodge No. 3, F. A. A. M., at her last communication through Prof. and Bro. N. E. Weatherless, presented Ill. Bro. and Sir Knight W. H. Severson, P. D. G. M., with a fine combination Past Master and Past High Priest jewel. Bro. Severson responded. It is so strange that in our care (prescribed race) that we will turn our back on our friends in trouble and extend the helping hand when they are doing well. Prof. N. E. Weatherless left the city last week for Liberty, Va., where he will remian until next week. Attorney Campbell Carrington left the city last week for an extensive western trip. He will be gone several weeks. Rev. Wm. H. Stevenson, delivered a sermon to Excelsior Lodge No. 3, F. A. A. M. on the 10th, at Hartford. JUDGE CHARLES F. SCOTT, W. Conn. On the 13th he attended the session of the Grand Lodge of the state. On the 20th he will attend the Grand Conclave of K. T., for Mass, and Rhode Island at Boston, Mass. Ill. John H. Dorster, 33rd degree, Inspector General, D. C., on his annual leave. He will spend a few days fishing. The Most Worthy Grand Lodge of F. A. A. M. for the D. C., held its Quarterly Grand Communication at Masonic Temple, Virginia Avenue and 5th St., S. E., September 13th. Considerable business was transacted. There is absolutely nothing about 8 years old Caroline Thornton to indicate that she is as full of classic music as was demonstrated at Eon Baptist Church, C street between 6th and 7th, N. E., Wednesday, evening, the 6th inst. The house was packed and the splendid program, of which little Caroline was the star, was rendered under the direction of Prof. R. J. Daniels, with Miss Grace Daniels as accompanist. The exercises opened with a vocal solo by Miss Loreth Colliert, followed by an instrumental solo and select reading by Master Clarence E. Branham and Miss Leona B. Shanklin, respectively. The program proceeded as follows: "Lady Beatty," "Smith, Miss Elenora T. Colbert." "In Rank and File," "Sea Nymph," Miss Mabel L. A. Gaskins. "Mery Golfers," Reuter, Miss Esther L. Dorsey. "Teasing," "Hearts and Flowers," "Moonlight Gavotte," Miss Caroline Thornton. "Tulips," Lichner, Miss Media E. Fitzhugh. Recitation—"A Noble Life," Miss Loretto Colbert. "Schol Festival" (6 hands) Streabbog, Misses Loreno Seldon, Mabel L. A. Gaskins and ruth Ward. "Juanita," duette, May, Misses Elenora T. Colbert and Loretto Colbert. "Directorate," Sousa, 'Gondoliet, Powell, "Robin's Departure," Fisher, Miss Caroline Thornton. "Hunting Song," Gurlitt, "Minnehaha," Loring, Miss Ruth E. Ashton. "In the Village by the Sea," Crawford, Miss Leona B. Shanklin. "Flying Spray," Adamson, Miss Homezelle S. Walker. "Falling Waters," Fieldhouse, Miss Rosa A. Bell. Recitation, "The Bell of Justlce," Miss Media F. Fitzhugh. "Alpine Horn," Spindler, Miss Leona B. Shanklin. "In the shade of the Old Apple Tree," Van Alstyne, Miss Loretta Colbert. "Allegretto Vivo$^b$ (Opus 249 No. 10) Kohler, "Gipsey Rondo," Hydn, "Robin's Return," Fisher, Miss Caroline Thornton. The appearance of the wonderfully bright little "star" was the signal for deafening applause and the reception tendered her by the vast audience was gracefully acknowledged by her as her rendition of "Hearts and Flowers" was artful. Little Caroline is a musical wonder and Prof. Daniels was heartily congratulated for bringing to the attention of the public this remarkable musical prodigy. None of the artists who so ably supported the little "star" was over fifteen years of age, and each certainly earned and deserved the hearty applause which she received. While the little central "star" was by far the brightest, yet each of the lesser lights clustered about her bid fair to become renowned in the musical world. A feature not on the program was the presentation by little Caroline of one of her photographs to Miss Mattie R. Bowen. As soon as Miss Bowen's name was announced, she was called upon for a JOICE E. HICKLE HO DIED LAST THURSDAY. ech. It seemed that everybody yelled for her and simultaneously insisted that she take the platform. During the fifteen minute speech, she was repeatedly and most heartily cheered. When she referred to Justice Terrell's recent New York speech and that if she could not make a far better and more truthful speech than Terrell's she would be willing to get off the earth, the vast crowd fairly rose to their feet in mass and for fully five minutes the applause was simply deafening. At the conclusion of the exercises, little Caroline and Miss Bowen held an informal reception on the platform and were greeted by hundreds of the audience. It was unanimously admitted that little Caroline is a musical wonder and that when it comes to a down right sensible speech, Mattie R. Bowen is just the finest proposition on this continent. GIVES FORTUNE; WEDS AT 80 Octogenarian Provides .Homes for Children, Then Proposes to Widow Who Accepts. Allentown.—Squirre George Applegate, said to be the wealthiest man in Bethlehem, 80 years old, came to the 'Allentown courthouse and obtained a license to marry Mrs.' Augusta Wahl, 60 years old, of the same place. When he received the license he remarked that he had not Mrs. Wahl's full consent to the wedding, but he guessed when he showed her the license she would realize he had not proposed in fun, but meant business. Squire Applegate, when he pocketed his license, remarked further that he had already given each of his five children $30,000. In view of this he thought they ought not to object to his proposed marriage. He drew from his pocket a huge package of deeds. On his wedding day, he said, he would give each of his children a deed for another house, and added: "And I'll have plenty for myself and wife." The Miss Drusilla Byrd, left the city for Baltimore Sunday. Mrs. Wm. Isbell and baby have returned to the city. Dr. E. D. Scott, spent Saturday and Sunday in Norfolk, Va. Miss Maud Baxter will take a trip to Baltimore next week. Attorney A. E. Johnson, of Raleigh, N. C., left the city last week. Dr. J. E. Sheppard, of Dunham, N. C., was in the city Thursday. Miss Alberta Brown, of S. W., has returned to the city after a month's absence. Mrs. Rebecca Haxter, is home from a visit of several weeks in Prince George county, Md. Miss Ida Johnson will leave Saturday for Boston, Mass, where she will make her future home. Miss Alice Brawner, of Capitol Hill, is enjoying a three week's stay at Staunton, Va., with her uncle. Mrs. James H. Peterson and son, who have been to New York city for the last five weeks have returned. Mrs. T. L. Jones and children and Miss Hattie Hambaugh have returned to the city after a delightful vacation. / Mr. L. M. Hettaw has been invited to deliver an address before the Boston Literary and Historical Association Mrs. Selena J. Gray, wife of Rev. Wm. Gray of Chicago is in the city, stopping at 1634 10th street, N. W. Mrs. Laura Stevenson has returned from Adahtic City after a pleasant sojourn of two weeks, the picture of health. It is rumored that the marriage of Miss Drucilla Byrd to Mr. George Brown will take place some time in January, 1906. Misses Fannie and Eva Chase, who have been quite sick, are improving, greatly to the gratification of their many friends. Mrs. John P. Green, accompanied by her daughter and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wm. H. Green, who returns from Cleveland, Ohio next week. Misses Lottie Matthews, Eleanora Baxter and Maggie Gayther, left the city Wednesday, Sept. third, for several week's stay at Harpers Ferry. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Livingston are in the city, stopping at Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peters'. Mr. Livingston is United States Consul at Cape Haytian. Mrs. J. H. Smallwood and daughter, Mrs. Anna Stuart, have returned from Atlantic City, where they spent the summer. They are at their home, 1611 4th street, N. W. Attorney N. T. Goldesherry, of Lynchburg, Va., who arrived in the city Thursday, left Saturday evening for his home. He was a guest of the Misses Chase, 1109 Eye street, Northwest. Mre. Judson W. Lyons entertained Thursday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Livingstone, Cape Haytien, Hayti; Mrs.' J. C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn. and Miss Grace Hope, Augusta, Ga. Mrs. Fountain Peyton and children, after a delightful trip to Ashbey Park, N. J., have returned to the city greatly improved. Attorney Peyton has been closely guarded and watched by the happy family. Mr. W. A. Soders, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, left Wednesday for New York, where he will sail for London and Paris. Mr. Soders is a colored business man, formerly from Texas. He will be gone until October 1st. Mr. Fielding Dodson, of the Penna. office, has gone on his vacation for twenty days. Miss Dodson has returned to the city after having spent a pleasant vacation in the mountains nine miles beyond Pound Hill, Va. Mrs. C. W. Lewis and sister, who have been spending their vacation at Atlantic City, Oyster Bay and Brooklyn, New York, arrived home Friday in the best of health and greatly benefited after a long and pleasant trip Commander Haslum, of the Homeward Bound Mission, occupied the pulpit of the People's Congregational Church Sunday evening. His text was: Third chapter of Luke and 41st verse. A large congregation greeted him.* Mrs. W. H. Thompson and her very sweet daughter, Miss Amee, of Baltimore, Md., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lee and Miss Emma McGinnis, of 1205 T street, N. W. They will be in the city two weeks or more. Miss Eva Morris and Miss Hebler Bell, of the bureau of engraving and printing, have returned to the city. Mrs. Ethel Johnson has been confined to home on account of sickness. Mr Jerome A. Johnson is one of the prominent lights in the west end. Miss Edna Wilson has returned from the country home on Brown Hill, D. C. Mrs. A. M. Reeves entertained Wednesday from 2 to 4 in honor of Miss Snowden of Charlotte, N. C., and Mrs. Mullen of Fairmont Heights, Md. Souvenirs—clover leaves entwined with Longfellow's quotations. Tomorrow will be a gala day at Galbraith A. M. E. Z. Chureli, upon the completion of extensive improvements to the church. More than a thousand dollars worth of improvements have been made and the inside decorations are very handsome. Rev. S. L. Corothers has arranged for all day services. The musical program under the management of Prof. Jas. Wilson, will be very attractive and those attending Galbraith will be well paid for their visit. Miss Anna R. Isabell, of Norfolk, Va., who has been the guest of her aunt Mrs. Ethel Johnson, of 325 South Le Droit Park, left for her home Sunday evening, accompanied by her brother. Miss LABEL had a most delightful time while in the city. She was given a delightful tea Saturday evening by her aunt and cousin in Le Droit Park, to which a few of the most intimate friends of the family were invited. Among those present were: The Misses Annie R: Isbell, Mamie Sowe, Misses Sancasters, Neona Spencer, Maud McClemmon, Gertrude Harried, Mrs. E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. W. Barnes, Mrs. W. T. Isbell, Messrs. Allen L. Deans, John Johnson, T. Dowling, Randell, Peterson, Dunkins, Mason and Andrew Isbell. There were over three thousand men, women and children at the picnic given by the children of the District by Rev. Simon P. W. Drew last month. Over three hundred dollars was cleared. At the Sunday morning and evening services held in the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church last Sunday the largest crowds assembled that have ever been in that church. Large crowds were turned away. Tσ-morrow the following exercises will be held: 11 A. M., "The Best Labor." 8 P. M., "The Pale Horse." Sunday, September 24, 11 A. M., "The Dead Man Carried Out." 8 P. M., "The Dead Dog after a Flea." Mrs.David Warner and sister, Mrs. Ada Bryant, have returned to the city after an extended visit to Bridgeport, Conn., the guest of Rev. D. E. Morton, a prominent Baptist minister of that city, and wife, the sister of Mrs. Warner. The Cokes are from one of the oldest families of this District. Benjamin Coke, the paternal ancestor, was a leading citizen and business man of "ye olden time." His business, which was large and prosperous, was located at the corner of 6th street and Pennsylvania avenue, N. W., having succeeded the father of Dr. F. J. Shadd, who closed out and removed with his family to Canada years before the late civil war Mr. David Warner is the sion of one of the oldest families of this city, who resided in the west end, and who possessed considerable property before the war. Mr. Warner has for many years filled acceptably the position of Deputy Collector of taxes for the District of Columbia. He has served under several ex-collectors, among whom may be named Albert Y. Hall; Fred'k A. Boswell, Col. Slater, John F. Cook and the present collector, Mr. Davis. Mr. Warner was one of the founders of the Berean Baptist Church, and now fills the position of treasurer of that corporation. He is very prominent in the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. A PRETTY WEDDING. Miss Bessie E. Ware, of Washington, D. C. living at No. 50 Patterson St., N. E. was married to Mr. Robert H. Pettross, of Sheephead Bay, N. Y., at the residence of her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. George Taylor, at 7 o'clock p. m., by Rev. Jan. H. Lee, pastor of the Third Baptist Church. The Bride was a graduate, of the high school, of point-de-shine with a yoke of rare ace, the class of 1903. She was attired in and carried a small Testament. She wore a wreath of beautiful roses and a beautiful long veil. The spacious parlors were decorated with large palms and beautiful flowers. After the marriage the guests marched to the dining room, where the delicacies of the season had been prepared and were served. The table was artistically decorated by one of the well-known caterers of this city. The presents were beautiful as well as ornamental and useful; they were too numerous to mention, such as silverware, crockery, china, cut glass, linen, rugs, furniture of antique description and all kinds that would suggest themselves to a good housewife. There were a host of friends and acquaintances among whom were: Prof. and Mrs. Jones of Baltimore, sister and brother of the bride, Mr. and Mrs. Bostie and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Thos Tascoe, Mrs. Lizzie Jones and daughter and Prof. Hindon Jones, Lawyer and Mrs. Trisby, Mrs. James F. Bundy, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Thornton Lawyer and Mrs. Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Jas Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Budd, Mr. and Mrs. Jno, Lemos, Misses Charity Heathman, Alice Lewis, Addie Thornton, Rosie Thornton, Susie Robb and sister, Martha Siggons, Bessie Miller, Ida Plummer, Mary Russell and Marie Early, Messrs. Smith, Jno. Burton. The bride and groom left on 12.30 train for their home in Sheephead Bay. SOCIAL CHIT CHAT. Mr. John H. Saunders, a prominent member of the Y. M. I. R. A. and the Y. M. P. L., departed this life last monday afternoon. Everybody is talking about the cultured persons the Protective League carried down the river last Friday evening. Ask anybody. Mr. Edward Allen, of the Southern Hotel, was with the League last Friday night and rendered great service. There are six candidates in the field for standard bearer in the Y. M. P. L. and two in the Y. M. I. R. A. Mr. Oliver R. Rogers of the G. P. O: is taking a few days' leave. Mother—Now, John. I can have some rest, the moonlight excursion is over. Drs. H. W. Freeman, Fry and Lt. Jas. E. Walker, were conspicuous figures on the moonlight last Friday night. Mr. Geo. W. Martin, the prosperous and enterprising man of West Washington, is doing business at the same old stand and will be pleased to see you. It is whispered loudly that Mr. Charles D. Sidney will soon lead to the altar Miss Annette Brown. Will it be in October? Mrs. Geo. Holland, of 20th street, N. W., has returned to the city from the mountains of Virginia. She was looking well on the moonlight last Friday evening. Mr. Wm. A. Carter, the treasurer of the Y. M. P. L. Committee, is still holding the grip which contains the money. Nearly every member of the Y. M. P. L. Committee is a subscriber for THE BEE. Mr. Jas. L. Turner continues to receive promotions. Every one helps. ceive promotions. Every one helps. Mr. John Vincent Bell, of L street, arrived in town last Saturday. When he struck Washington the boys knew that he had been to Wanamaker's, in Philadelphia. Some men continue to talk confidentially. Well, let them go on; they will hang themselves shortly. William.—It is not every man who smiles at you and talks sweetly to you is your friend. John.—Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. (Don't laugh.) THE WHIST CIRCLE. The most delightful company of the opening season of the Allegro Whist Circle assembled last Tuesday evening. It was the largest crowd that has filled the parlors of the Circle. The ladies and gentlemen were equally divided. The ladies' toilets* were simple and beautiful. Whist and dancing were the principal attractions of the evening. Miss Eva Morris and her cousin, who have just returned from an extensive Eastern trip, were enthusiastically greeted by their many friends. Miss Morris' trip increased her flesh. Miss Pike is a graceful dancer. Miss Blanche Morgan is to leave for New York shortly. She will be missed at the Whist Circle. Her bewitching smiles and entertaining ways will be missed. Mr. Harry Harris is a good whist player as well as a graceful dancer. Miss Alice Snyder is all sunshine wherever she greets you. The Misses Jones are evenly divided. Miss Minta B. Simmons deserves credit for the excellent music Dr. S. M. Piere and Mr. A. F. Boston did not remain long. There will be special attractions next Tuesday. AT GALBRAITH TO-MORROW. The members of Galbraith A. M. E --- HOUSE HE LARGEST INSTALLM now is the time Carpet Your Fl Only First-Class stores keep first how large your Purchases are imr HOUSE & HERRMAN HE LARGEST INSTALLMENT HOUSE IN the CITY Now is the time to FURNISH YOUR HOUSE Carpet Your Floors on LIVE Comfortably. Only First-Class stores keep first class goods and sold by first class cler how large your Purchases are immediate delivery is made to any part of the city. Name THE BEE when you call. Zion church are very much pleased with the looks of the church and on Sunday the 17th, they will hold the services in the improved part. It has been several weeks since the congregation had the pleasure of listening to a sermon in the main auditorium. The improvements have been made to a great extent enside as well as out, those who pass up and down Sixth between L and M streets are living witnesses to the fine looking church. The Galbraith Church has colored windows nicely, painted. Dr. Corrothers, the pastor of the church, has put forth every effort to make the church pleasing to the members and friends who attend and listen to his enlightening sermons Sunday after Sunday with the best attention. To-morrow is the opening Sunday and it is expected, that a great deal of money will be raised for the payments of the debts of the contractors who have so elaborately improved the church. There has been supplementary rallies for the last three Sundays, but the real rally will be to-morrow. Dr. Corrothers has showed to the people how to raise money and have their church looking good as well as he showed the people of New York how to build a church and pay for it in seven years. There is not another minister that has ever came to Galbraith whom these people think as much of as they do Dr. S. L. Corrothers, and they prove that by standing by him in every way. OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN One of the most interesting problems that have been introduced in the schools is the play-ground. Last Friday afternoon several hundred colored children under the direction of Mr. Cuno Randolph, at the Coliseum Park, Gave an exhibition in athletic sport. There was not that interest on the part of the colored children that the whites manifested, that is in numbers. However, commissioner H. L. West, who is always willing and ready to encourage very meritorious enterprise, was pre-ent and gave some good advice. Mr. West is always sincere and honest in all he says. He never lacks in an expression that will encourage a worthy undertaking. To these children he spoke in part as follows: First of all, let me congratulate the winners of these prizes this afternoon for the splendid skill and hearty interest which they have exhibited. If you show as much energy and enthusiasm in your work when you grow up to be men and women as you have manifested in your play, there is no question but you will become good and useful citizens of the District. I want to congratulate you also, and I say this more for the older people, because in the equipment and maintenance of these play grounds no discrimination has been evident. I am glad that the unselfish, progressive, liberal-minded citizens who have interested themselves in this work realize that you are to be the future citizens of this District, and that it is as essential to care for your minds and bodies as it is for those of the children of white parents. I am glad, therefore, that you have been given an opportunity to enjoy your share of the play grounds and I am sure that you have appreciated your advantages to the utmost. Dr. Curtiss tells me that more colored children have won champion buttons than white children. This is certainly a splendid indication of your interest and enthusiasm. It is a practical demonstration of the appreciation which I know you feel. In conclusion I want to say that this large attendance this afternoon is very gratifying to all who are connected with the playground movement and will greatly encourage them in the work of providing greater advantages for you to enjoy in the future. This preparation will be found of great benefit to those possessing weak and thin hair. It strengthens and invorates the Roots, imparts lustre and promotes rapid growths. For the Ladies' Toilet it is indispensible. Directions: Rub well into scalp every morning. Prepared only at W. L. Smith's Rrug Store, 7th and Pomery Sts., N. 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Magistrate O'Reilly, in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Myrtle Avenue court, expressed his views freely regarding wife-beaters. Turning to George J. Haggerty, who was charged by his wife, Mary Haggerty, 30 years old, with assault in the third degree, he said: "Haggerty. It there was any way of taking the skin off you before you go. I'd do so, you brute of a wife-beater." Haggerty said he was not a drinking man, and did not remember striking his wife. He was held in $300 bail for the court of special sessions. Preventive for Thieves. An English burglar says thieves, who are always very superstitious, will never rob a house in which a cross-eyed servant is employed. Save your cross-eyed servants. American Ice Company Office, 1437 Penna.Avenue. Phone 489 BEST QUALITY ICE. UNEXCELLED SERVICE. Special attention to family trade. TWO MILES A MINUTE HIGH SPEED TRAINS PLANNED FOR GERMANY. Line Will Probably Be Built Between Berlin and Hamburg—Feasibility Demonstrated Two New York.-After years of patient study and experiments involving millions of dollars, it is thought that at last the "high speed," long distance electrical locomotive is about to be put to actual commercial use, i. e., with an ability, if needed, to run at a speed of upward of 100 miles an hour. The test lines will probably be built between the cities of Hamburg and Berlin, in Germany. The distance is, to be exact, 178 miles, and is now covered by high-grade steam locomotives with coaches in three hours and 24 minutes, or at the rate of 52 miles an hour. A proposition has been laid before the German emperor and the rechstag to lay the bed and track and equip rolling stock to establish a service that will travel the 178 miles between the two cities in a trifle over one hour and 45 minutes. An operating schedule based on this time—100 miles an hour—is guaranteed as a part of the proposition, and the Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft, of Berlin, one of the largest general electric companies in the world, offers to do the work for $32,500,000. The Allgemelne Elektricitats Gesellschaft does not look upon this undertaking as the limit of its development in the matter of high speed traction It goes further. It says plainly to the German government: "If you would go a trifle faster, say 125 miles an hour, you may do so for $37,500,000." Up to date the German government has not decided to accept this offer. Neither has it rejected it. That the proposition is under consideration is tssured, because it grew out of experiments in high-speed traction tests on a road the use of which was permitted by the government to the very people now suggesting the establishment of the new service. The great German corporation making the offer has demonstrated the FASTEST LONG-DISTANCE CAR. (Can Make 100 Miles an Hour Without Extending Itself.) FASTEST LONG-DISTANCE CAR. (Can Make 100 Miles an Hour Without Extending Itself.) feasibility of the new speed and the durability of their motors to the engineering world as far back as 1903, when trials at Zassen over the German military roads were successfully made. At these trials, now celebrated in the electrical world, an interesting and entirely new set of phenmena appeared. Dr. Shulz Prendent, of the imperial German railway department and chairman of the committee on study of the Zossen trials, thus describes what will soon constitute a part of the everyday trip between the two German cities: "Instruments are to be read every ten seconds to take measure of speed and power. The engineer will be surrounded by wires and apparatus that carries a current at 14,000 volts. "It will be possible to observe the scenery comfortably, but persons standing on stations passed by the train at top speed cannot be recognized. No injurious effects will be felt by air pressure due to passing of trains on the other track, because the distance between tracks will be made greater, to do away with this very fault. "It is likely that remains of small birds and insects will be found after every trip on the front of the motor. Birds delight in dodging trains, but they have been caught by the electric motor, which moves faster than any bird flies." Louis J. Magee, of New York, one of the foremost electrical engineers of this country and the director in America of the Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft, adds much of interest to the description of this new world beating passenger train. He says: "The passengers in coaches drawn by a great electric motor should be much more comfortable than in those drawn by a steam locomotive, for the simple reason that the electric power is a non-rotary principle, or uniform in drawing power, while the steam power is a reciprocating power, or subject to a jerkiness of movement not met with in electrically promelled cars. "The new trains will carry no fire to ignite in case of an accident. There will be no smoke and no clinders. There will be no boiler to burst, no steam to scald and blind, no gases to suffocate." The enormous amount of power required to propel electrically even a single car at speeds over 100 miles an hour is one of the principal objections to high speed on account of its great expense and the limited carrying capacity of the cars. When the German government shall have told the Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft to go ahead with its work of installing the fastest train service in the world, 12 months, or perhaps 13, will elapse before the first train starts. Experts here say that the 100 miles an hour electrical motor service is not due in America for many years yet. The conditions here are not yet ripe for it. MOSQUE FOR LONDON. Khedive, Shah and Amir Subscribe Funds for Erection of Structure for Moslems. London.—Revivale are in the atmosphere and shortly it may be expected that a crusade for Mohammedanism will be preached in the cities, towns and parks of Protestant England. A mosque has been designed for the metropolis by Mr. R. Williams, who is at present at the court of the khedive of Egypt, studying Arabesque designs of walls and floors for the further embellishment of this fane of Islam. Beautiful and fairylike will be this structure of marble, for the building MOSQUE THE MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUE. (Building for Moslems to Be Erected in London.) THE MOHAMMEDAN MOSQUE. (Building for Moslems to Be Erected in London.) of which three mighty princes of Islam—the shah of Persia, the khedive of Egypt and the amir of Afghanistan—have lavishly subscribed. It is to be erected near the Thames on the Lambeth side of the river, nearly opposite Westminster abbey. Here will be the monastery for the teaching of such Englishmen as will consent to go out as missionaries to preach the faith of the prophet in other countries than their own. Here proselytes to the faith can go into "retreat" to meditate and be instructed in the tenets of Islam, and here will be the college, where Moslems will be able to study at a very much less fee than in any other college in England. The amir of Afghanistan, the nizam of Hyderabad, the rajah of Rampur, and a number of opulent Indian princes and chieftans have expressed their intentions of helping in every way the furtherance of their faith in London. TO HEAD WAR .COLLEGE. Gen. Barry Said to Have Been Selected for the Honor—Is a Popular Officer. Washington.—Gen. Thomas H. Barry, it is stated, will be the next president of the war college at Washington. Gen. Barry is at present with the Russian army in Manchuria, and will not be formally assigned to his new task until he returns to the United States. Gen. Barry, a native of New York graduated from West Point in 1573 He served for a time with the Seventh cavalry, and was then transferred to the First infantry. As an officer of this regiment he was long stationed in San Francisco, and became well known here. During Gov. Markham's administration Barry served a term as inspector and instructor of the 6 national guard of California. He was with the troops in camp and visited every regimental and company armory in the state. He made to the secretary of war a breezy and concise report regarding the guard and its officers. The document called forth a protest from Gov. Markham, but Barry maintained his ground. Gen. Barry served several years in the Philippines. He is a strict disciplinarian and keeps everyone about him moving, but withal is popular. Queer Doings in Norway. In Norway on pay days saloons are closed and savings banks open until midnight. Servant girls hire for half a year at a time by contract at public registry offices. There is a telegraph box on every street car. One writes the message, puts on the right number of stamps, and drops it in the box. Farmers can borrow money from the government at three per cent. There are practically no illiterates. The average wage earnings are $88 a year. There are more reindeer than horses, more sheep than cows. In Springfield, Mass., is a private art collection the largest and most varled owned by any one individual in the country. It is the property of G. W. V. Smith, who has spent over 50 years in getting it together, and it is ranked with the New York Metropolitan museum and the Wallace museum of London. CHOATE OF WEST." TITLE IS GIVEN BY MANY TO WILLIAM J. CALHOUN. Confidential Envoy of the President Who Has Gone to Venezuela to Study the Situation in the Little Republic. Washington.—William J. Calhoun, for the second time in his eventful life, has been sent on a confidential mission to a foreign country by the president of the United States. He left on August 5 for Caracas to study the Venezuelan situation, at the request of President Roosevelt. The attitude of this government toward "cocky" little President Castro will depend, in a large degree, upon his findings. In the middle west, where Mr. Calhoun is best known, they say no man in America is better fitted for such an investigation. He is broad and liberal in his views, a deep student, a digger after facts, unswerving in purpose and tireless. Graceful in speech and gracious in manner, Mr. Calhoun handles the most delicate of subjects without causing the slightest friction, and is called by many the "Choate of the West." It was he who was sent by President McKinley to study conditions in Cuba. His report, coupled with that of Senator Proctor, formed the basis on which war with Spain was declared. Calhoun was born in western Pennsylvania and attended school at the Poland, O., Union seminary. Among his fellow students was McKinley. McKinley entered the school after his war career was over. At the time he was wearing the uniform of a major. Calhoun was then so young that he could not be enlisted. Calhoun, though younger than McKinley, was farther advanced in his studies, as he had not been spending his time at the front, so was no mean rival when the two T. WILLIAM J. CALHOUN. (Sent to Venezuela by President to Study Situation There.) lads led the opposite sides in debate, as they often did. McKinley, when he finished his course went to a law college, while Calhoun became a student in a law office in Tuscola, Ill. In due time he was made prosecuting attorney in his county and the next step was his election to the Illinois legislature. It was as a representative in that body that he delivered before the Thirty-sixth assembly of that-state the constitutional argument which, for all time, settled the legal right of a governor in office to be a candidate for senator. Gov. Cullom, now senator, aspired to wear the toga, and the matter was in dispute. Calhoun's masterly argument disposed of the question and Mr. Cullom was elected to the office which he still holds. Calhoun determined to become a corporation lawyer. He moved to Chicago and became general counsel for the East Illinois & West Indiana railroad. After, his return to the United States from Cuba he occupied a seat as a member of the United States railroad commission. This post he resigned to become a member of the law firm of Pam, Calhoun & Lennon, counsel for the Great American Steel & Wire company, headed by John W. Gates. In 1900 Calhoun was nominated as republican canidate for governor of Illinois to reunite the party, which had split over the socialistic tendencies of John B. Altgeld. Calhoun preferred to throw his influence for Richard Yates, who was elected. Later he accepted the office of legal representative for the Vanderbilt lines west of Buffalo. He now leads the bar in the northwest. Calhoun describes his political ego as *fa" stanch republican and protectionist with an academic leaning toward free trade." Castor Oil the Secret. And now, after elaborate experiments, it is declared that the embalming fluid in use by the ancient Egyptians is nothing more nor less than the castor oil of commerce. Instead of some intricate and in oiled process the "70 days in natron" was followed by the injection of cacao oil, and Mr. Derthelot, secretary of the Louvre museum, has established this fact beyond a doubt. Many investigators have vainly so got to from the mystery of the preparation of the preserving unguents, but they have gone about their work with the idea that complicated formulae were to be deducted and have defeated their own end through elaborateness of research. A Servian Custom In Servla an old institution called the Zadruga still exists. It is the living together of a whole tribe, numbering about 1'00 persons, under the absolute authority of one chief, who keeps all the money makes all purchases and decides every detail of family life. Kentucky Farm on Which Great Emancipator Was Born Is Sold for $3,600. Hodgenville, Ky.—Rock Spring farm, on which Abraham Lincoln was born, has been sold for $3,600. R. J. Collier, of New York, was the purchaser. There were three other bidders on the property, John E. Burton, of Philadelphia, W. D. Frost, of Chicago and E. J. McDermott, of Louisville, representing New York interests. Mr. Collier will get possession in December and he declares it will be restored and preserved. The farm contains 110 acres and the price was not much more than the WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN. (Historic Old House on the Rock Spring Farm.) property is worth for farming purposes. Since the birth of Lincoln, on Feb. 12, 1809, the farm had changed hands only twice. Thomas Lincoln, the father of the president, sold the land to Richard Creel about the time the Lincoln family moved to Indiana. The property continued in the hands of this family until something like 15 years ago, when A. W. Dennette, of New York, bought the place for $3,-500. During the last decade or so many attempts have been made to perfect plans looking to the converting of the property into a national park, and, while these efforts have aroused some comment, nothing substantial has resulted. The farm derives its name from a large spring about 100 yards from the log cabin in which Lincoln was born. In its present state the tract is cut by a broad picturesque thoroughfare. Two miles to the north is this village, typical of Kentucky, with a population of about 1,000. A branch of the Illinois Central connects the town with the outside world, and a combination freight and passenger train makes two trips daily to Cecilia, 17 miles away. The records of Hardin county show that the farm was bought by Thomas Lincoln in 1803 with funds which he had earned as a carpenter. Thomas Lincoln was not yet 25, showing that he was a man possessed of more than ordinary thrift. Instead of careless and shiftless, as some biographers have depicted him. Desk from House of Representatives Now the Property of Attorney General Moody. Washington.—United States Attorney General Moody loved Tom Reed. As a member of the house of repre- sentatives he sat in the seat once occu- pled by the man from Main. When the old fittings were removed from the house to be replaced by new ones, Mr. Moody was enabled to pur- X chase the desk to which he had become so deeply attached, and at the same time he bought the chair. The desk and chair were sent to his Haverhill home for preservation and they stand in the halfway near the entrance to the dining room. A stranger naturally wonders how the shabby artifacts of furniture came to occupy such a conspicuous position until the story is told. How Swimming Reduces Weight. "A man who swims and is vigorous in the water can get himself into condition more quickly by that form of exercise than any other," said a Lathouse man the other day. I've seen men take off as much as six pounds in a single afternoon in the water, and from two to four pounds from the weight of a man only moderately fat is not an uncommon afternoon's work. We have a scale here and many of our patrons weigh in their bathing clothes before and after the dip, and there is always a declared loss except where men are very thin or else in prime training. Water exercise doesn't leave so much soreness as gymnasium work either, and it brings every muscle of the body into play. We've a lot of college boys preparing for places on their football teams from this bathhouse. They have a trainer who watches their work as them down and looks out for their food." HUNTING CRIMINALS. HUNTING CRIMINALS. FINGER PRINTS HAVE GREATLY AIDED DETECTIVE WORK. Brooklyn.—"Pudd'n'head" Wilson's wonderful detective work based on thumb prints was only a creation of Mark Twain's pen, and many people who have read the book or watched Frank Mayo play the part on the stage have looked on the idea as being fsetched or impossible. Yet the police are doing the same thing every day in the present workaday world. Some of the greatest crimes have been ferretted out with the assistance of finger prints. So absolutely sure is this method of detection that it has become a part of the police routine in France and England. It will no doubt be a surprise to most readers that the finger print system has been in use in oriental countries for centuries. For hundreds of years the wily Chinaman has insisted that the lines of a person's hand shall be impressed upon his passport or other important document to make a transfer of the document an impossibility. For time immemorial the custom in Japan was to have all state papers bear the red-hued impress of the mikado's thumb. This made it impossible for ambitious politicians and treasonable statesmen to issue edicts and decrees in the name of their imperial master. Forgery is impossible in the lands where finger prints are used as signatures. The Hindoos found this out before America was discovered; and they put the finger print system into use, making a man put the impress of his thumb on every deed, document or paper of any importance. When the English conquered their country the Hindoos still insisted upon having the indisputable and unchanging attestation of their finger prints affixed to all papers of importance. It was not until 80 years ago that the English people saw the true value of finger prints. Forty years ago Sir Wil- M. BERTILLON. (French Anthropometrical Expert a Convert to Finger Print System.) lliam Herschel was struck with the utility of the ancient Hindoo custom and Sir William tried to have a law compelling all persons concerned in the sale or purchase of land affix their thumb prints to the deeds of transfers and other legal documents. Charles Darwin's cousin, Prof. Francis Galton, was the first to announce to the English world the value of finger print evidence in detective work. He was at one time president of the anthropological section of the British association, and had studied the question for years. "The chances of two persons' finger prints being alike are one in 64,000,000-000." declared Prof. Galton. After Prof. Galton produced his evidence the English home office revised its method of identifying criminals. Here is something simpler and more certain than the Bertillon anthropometric methods. A new department was opened at the registry of habitual criminals at Scotland Yard. The finger prints of all prisoners convicted for certain classes of crime-were to be taken before they quitted the respective goals and sent to Scotland Yard, where they would be examined, classified, indexed and filed. Last year 5,000 identifications were made by its instrumentality. The figures this year probably will be more than double. "In no single instance," said Inspector Collins, in giving evidence the other day, "was the result challenged. The finger print system has robbed the alias of its utility; the man of many names and many crimes can no longer successfully plead hunger, desperation and a first offense. His finger prints betray him." Many dangerous criminals have been traced and brought to justice by the volceless witness of their finger print- M. Alphonse Bertillon, the French anthropometrical expert, has become a convert to the finger-print system. Bertillon says he got the foundation of his finger-print knowledge from the English. An interviewer asked him recently if he thought the science of measurements would ever supplant the science of finger prints. "No." he answered. "I think the human measurement system will supplement and assist the finger-print system in the ultimate marking down and tabulating of practically every known or potential criminal in the civilized world. The sister sciences will go hand in hand. The science that is based upon the fact that each different individual has among his bones certain characteristic shapes and dimensions will march forward in unison with the science which arises from the circumstance that the finger prints of practically everybody are different from the finger prints of anybody else. Both these truths and the application of them in every-day criminal search and detection have been of enormous service to us in France, and have helped to rid respectable society of many of the human harpies who prey upon it." Denver.—Only one woman in the world is sole owner of a street par line, and that woman is Mrs. George H. Bogue, of Denver. She is owner of the Chererlyn line, a mile and a half in length, running south from the terminus of the South Broadway tramway line. Mrs. Bogue's line to Cherrely is also a street car novel, being the only R MRS. GEORGE H. BOGUE. (Sole Owner of a Street Car Line at Denver.) gravity system in the world. To a certain extent it is a relic of the old horse car days in Denver, before the tramway invaded every nook and corner of the city. And yet it is an extension of street car service which the tramway does not cover, and a step in advance of any other horse car line in the world. The line runs from Englewood to South Broadway heights. On the uphill trip the motive power is a horse, which slowly ambles up the hill in about 15 minutes, patiently drawing the antiquated old car and its passengers, but seeming never to complain, for the pace is not necessarily fast. Jimmy O'Brien, of Scotch-Irish-Canadian extraction, is the driver—to all intents and purposes, so far as fidelity to the best interests of the line is concerned—he might as well carry the title of superintendent or general manager, for if he owned the line he could be no more faithful than he has shown himself for three years while working for Mrs. Bogue. Summer and winter, he is always on duty, and never misses a trip, passengers or no passengers. There are three horses' which take turns in doing the work of pulling the car up hill, and then have the fun of riding down, standing on the back platform and surveying the scene or viewing the mountains as the car swiftly glides down hill with as much complacency and dignity as could a major general. WILL WED EXPLORER. Announcement of Engagement of Mr. Fiala and Miss Puryear Follows Former's Return. Nashville, Tenn.-Mr. Anthony Fiala, the noted Arctic explorer, and Miss Claire Puryear met in the New York building at the Nashville exposi- A MISS CLAIRE PRYEAR (Her Engagement to Explorer Flala Has Been Announced ) tion in the summer of 1887. It was a case of "love at first sight." The explorer visited Nashville several times, and an engagement followed. She would not consent to a wedding till he had returned from his expedition to discover the pole, but whether successful or not the marriage was to be celebrated. Flala and his expedition returned to Norway August 10, and the announcement of the engagement by her parents followed. The wedding will take place in the near future. Early Egyptians in France. There has just been laid before the French Academy of Sciences a well authenticated case of prehistoric Eyptian remains found among the prehistoric remains of ancient Gau The connection between Gaul and Egypt was established in this way: A card of cut flints of the Neolithic period was obtained from Egypt and a card of exactly similar flints found on island, nine miles from Marsellee, was shown with them. At the spot on the island where these flints were excavated there were found lying nearest the surface some Roman pottery; below that Greek pottery, with Laguian and Egyptian still lower, and below these again masses of marine shells pottery and flints different from any yet found. The remains found go back for at least 5,000 years. MOSBY INVESTIGATING INDIAN LAND FAUDR. ious Guerrilla Leader, Although Advanced in Years, as Spry as Man of 30—Consul at Hong-Kong Under Hayes. Kansas City.—Carrying an old fashioned hickory cane, with a curved handle, such a cane as could be purchased for 25 cents in any flint hill Missouri town, and walking as briskly and easily as if he were a man of 30. Col. John S. Mosby, whose renown as a commander of guerrillas in the confederate army is known to every schoolboy, has gone to Oklahoma to unearth graft in the Indian service. His particular mission as an assistant attorney in the department of justice is to investigate alleged frauds by guardians in the management of estates of Indian mirrors. Col. Mosby, from an ancestral standpoint is a genuine Virginian. True to his Virginia instincts, he tells of Virginia and things Virginian. He recalls vividly the stirring events which he helped mold into the permanent history of his land. He has strongly cut features, the jaw and nose of a fighter and small, dark eyes, deeply set that peer quizzingly and ask questions without the use of words. Col. Mosby may have been a dandy in his younger days, but he is no longer fastions in his dress. He does not use tobacco in any form. Probably the most remarkable act in Col Mosby's life was when he left the confederacy and joined the republican party. The scorn and contempt shown by his fellow Virginians when he broke southern traditions became practically a social and political tragedy for Col. Mosby. He was a flourishing lawyer in Warrenton, Va. when he changed. Lifelong friends A. (OL JOHN S. MOSBY (Old Guerrilla Leader Now Probing Indian Land Frauds.) turned their backs upon him and denounced him as a traitor to his people and his family. To speak of Mosby in Virginia was to execrate him. Col. Mosby talked about this unhappy experience several days ago. Tapping his cane on the floor, he said: "My old friends now are ashamed of what they did and said. They agree with me that it would have been better had all of us in the south begun early to heal the stars left by the strife that devastated our land." President Rayes appointed Col. Mosby American consul in Hongkong where he remained seven years. He was offered a place by President Grann, who declared that he owed the electoral vote of Virginia to Mosby. Mosby however, did not accept. Mosby afterwards was for 16 years an assistant attorney of the Southern Pacific Railroad company in San Francisco. President Mosinley remembered Mosby and gave him a place as specia agent in the general land office. President Roosevelt transferred him to the department of justice. When Col. Mosby reached Hong ong he found Dr. John Lochwood of Virginia. Lochwood had left the United States in 1861. He was in- sely bitter against the federal armament. Mosby was the first federate that Lochwood had seen. Lochwood did not know that the war was at an end until he saw and learned that he had come an official of the federal govern- Grant was then on his trip and the world and when he reached along, Col. Mosby, as the official representative of the United States, and the steamer to welcome President and his party. He was acceded by Lochwood. Mosby was a friend of the Grants and after joining formal courtesies he inked Dr. Lochwood, with the re-General Grant, I present to the last fugitive confederate, and that you give him his parole." Mrs. interceded smiling and said: Grant, I bespeak the most liberal for Dr. Lochwood." Lochwood somewhat abashed, but recovered insofar and said: "I would prefer to no other man In the but I am willing to surrender man to whom Gen. Lee sur- Stant Grant told Lochwood that rook gave him his parole and that he would return soon to land and help restore it prosperity and happiness. Dr. wood grew to be an ardent aider of President Grant. NEW VICEROY IS POPULAR. Earl of Minto, Lord Curzon's Successor in India, Expected to Keep Peace with Kitchener. London.—The earl of Minto, who has been appointed to succeed Lord Curzon as viceroy of India, is one of the most popular men of England who is always holding down a big job, mostly because he is a good fellow. His term as governor general of Canada expired late in 1904, after several extensions. The Canadians made vigorous efforts to keep him, but it was against the policy of the British government to keep him there longer. The earl is a generous spender, democratic, tactful and diplomatic. The gen- M. K. (Successor to Lord Curzon as Vleeroy of India) eral opinion is that he will manage his conduct so that there will be no chance of a quarrel between himself and the stern and silent Kitchener. Lady Minto has superintended the social side of their lives with the same skill that her husband has displayed in politics. The earl of Minto's full title is Sir Gilbert John Elliott Murray Kynynmound, P. C., G. C. M. G., Roxborough, Vlscount Melgund of Melmund, county of Forfar; Baron Minto, of Minto, Roxborough, and a baron of Nova Scotia. He is a B. A. of Cambridge university; was formerly attached to the Scots guards, attached to the Turkish army in the Russo-Turkish war, 1877, when he won a medal; served in Afghanistan, 1879, winning a medal; in Egypt, 1882 winning another medal; in the Canadian rebellion, 1885, when he won still another medal. He was secretary of Lord Lansdowne, governor general of Canada, 1893, captain reserve of officers and colonel and brigadier general commanding Scottish borderers volunteer infantry brigade. The earl was born July 9. 1745, succeeded his father as fourth earl of Minto In 1891; was married July 28. 1883, to Mary Carolline, daughter of Gen. Hon. Charles Grey, and has two sons and three daughters. He was educated at *ton and Cambridge* and entered the Scots Guards as an ensign. He was with the Turkish army in 1877, was in the Afghan war of 1879. saw service in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, and was chief of staff during the northwest Canadian rebellion in 1883. Six years later Lord Minto succeeded his father to the title and estates. He is a member of the privy council. CAPITOL OF ALABAMA. Building. Erected in 1850, Where Confederate States of America Were Organized. Montgomery, Ala.—The room of the senate of Alabama, or, more properly speaking, the senate chamber, now used by the state department of archives and history as a place of exhibition of paintings and historic Alabama men, was the place from which emanated the initiatory affairs of the Confederate States of America. From the dome above its C CAPIT LOF ALABAMA (In a Room in This Building the Confederacy Was Formed.) roof floated proudly the first flag of the young nation, born to a heritage of blood and which lived only in the sacrifices of the noble men who died for its maintenance and the suffering women who gave up their all that it might be preserved. In this room the Confederate States of America were organized, the provisional and permanent constitutions adopted, president and vice president were elected, and the vice president was sworn in, the first message was received from the president, the cabinet was confirmed, the first laws of the confederacy were adopted, and the stars and bars accepted and authorized. Out from its walls was carried the first flag of the confederacy, which was swung to the breeze from the dome of the building of which it was a part. Grows New Kind of Weeds. Soll brought up from a depth of 326 feet in one of the Belgian coal mines is sald to have grown weeds unknown to botanists. THE TOWER OF PELEE THE TOWER OF PELEE VAST CORE FORCED FROM MOUTH OF OLD VOLCANO. New York.—Nearly 1,000 feet high, half that size across one side of its base and 350 feet on the other side, a mass of solid rock larger than the great pyramid of Egypt, the tower at Mount Pelee, in Martinique, was the wonder of the world for a little more than a year. It was the core of an old volcano mouth, a mass of molten rock left to harden where it rose to fill the huge gap in some old and forgotten eruption. Tapering to a point at the top, it broadened down to the base, where it was pushed upward by the mighty forces of nature beneath, rising at the rate of 40 feet a day until it attained its full height, more than 5,000 feet above sea level. As it rose, the point crumbled. Huge pieces fell from its top and sides. It is estimated that its height would have been more than doubled and it not been for rifts running through it, whereby steam in explosives was conveyed to its very summit, there to waft off in the trade winds, a banner of white trailing along the sky. Think of the forces, unseen and seemingly undirected, that could push this mammoth obelisk from its firm place in the mountain upward into the heavens! As it rose it pushed the living rock aside, as a child might push his finger through a mass of putty. On each side great mounds arose as it trended upward, piling about its base, which covered 175,000 square feet as its period of greatest development. It was first seen soon after the eruption which brought for the second time ```markdown ``` TOWER OF PELEE. (Mass of Molten Rock as Seen from Ruin of Crater ) such death and desolation to the pretty island of Martinique and its thousands of gay and doubly doomed inhabitants. The titanic activities of the eruption at the time caused it also to disappear. On October 15, 1902. It stood out, a sharp spine or thorn against the sky at the very summit of the mountain, and was noted by the members of the French scientific commission. At the end of November it had reached a height of 809 feet. In spite of the constant crumbling and falling off of the rock at its top. On November 18 nearly 300 feet of it fell from the main structure. The loss was soon made good. With the rising of the tower the mountain about it increased in height, billowing up into a great irregular cone. Tower and cone together attained an absolute height of 1,800 feet above the old summit of. Pelee in August. 1904, all forced up from the bowels of the earth since April. 1902. This tower, resembling a chur steeple when at its utmost high, strod out against the tropic firmament when the ash clouds of the erupt o. permitted it to be seen, as a landmark visible for leagues about. But in the early days of July, 1903, the same forces that pushed it outward and upward began to tear it to pieces. Before the middle of the month half of it had been blown to bits, lying about its foot. During the second week in August another 100 feet o. its altitude disappeared. As the tower itself dwindled the mass below it began to rise in a vat domelike mound. From August 10 to August 17 it gained 13 feet in height. From August 21 to August 28 it rose 164 feet, and on the two days to loowing 98 feet more. On September 9 it lost 50 feet, just as it had gained 2 feet in a single day—August 30-31. Power like this leaves the mind be wildered. To realize it, note the picture from a photograph taken by Angelo Heliprin, of the Sneffield scientific school, of Yale university, on June 13, 1903, and published in his new book, "The Tower of Pelee." Note the manner in which the rock at the base of the tower, here showing 800 feet of its height, has been raised and pushed aside. And remember that within three months not a vestige of it remained to tell the story. The tower of Pelee exists to-day only in the memory of a few men and on the photographic plates they were able to make of it. Bible Read by Many Tongues. Last year the English Bible society al the Bible translated into 12 more languages, making the total number f languages in which it may now be earl $50. --- --- Washington—Directly in line with the great series of municipal improvements rapidly extending throughout the extreme northwestern part of this city is the proposed new bridge across the Piney branch on the line of Sixteenth street extended. Designs have already been prepared, and only the approval of Engineer Commissoner Biddle is needed to start active operations. Soon after that bids for constructing the bridge will be invited, and it is thought the contract will be awarded not later than September 15. Only the foundations will be laid before winter this year. This new bridge, which marks the far northward advance of the proposed PINEY BRANCH BRIDGE. (New Structure to Be Built in Washington Soon.) Sixteenth street boulevard, will, when completed, be one of the handsomest in the outlying sections of the city. It will be 272 feet long over all and at its highest point more than 60 feet above Piney branch. At the present time $20,000 is available for preliminary work on the structure, but congress has authorized the commissioners to enter into a contract not to exceed $50,000. With this sum it is thought a bridge 25 feet wide can be built, though it is planned to increase the width of the bridge to 70 feet as soon as traffic on Sixteenth street extended warrants the additional expense. For the present the bridge will be completed at the width of 25 feet, to appear as nearly as possible like a finished structure. The span of the bridge will be 125 feet long. The Piney branch bridge will be entirely of concrete, with all spandrils hollow. The flooring, also of concrete, will be 10 to 12 inches thick and will be supported by the outside spandril walls and by inside steel columns. The columns and abutments are planned of the cellular type, the earth fill of the approaches being entirely on the outside of the abutments. TO WED AN HEIRESS. Grand-Nephew of James G. Blaine Captures Heart of Boston Millionaire's Eldest Child. Boston.-Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lawson have announced the engagement of their eldest daughter, Miss Gladys Lawson, a belle of 22, to Eben Blaine Stanwood, a well-known society man. Mr. Stanwood is the son of Francis H. Stanwood, of Boston, and a grand-nephew of the late James G. Blaine. He is a Harvard graduate, and is prominent in many social organizations. Miss Lawson is an accomplished horsewoman and MISS GLADYS LAWSON. (Eldest Daughter of Millionaire Will Be an October Bride.) athlete, and is the owner of the famous Gypsy Queen, winner of more than a score of blue ribbons. Both she and her fliance are devoted to animals, enjoy swimming, rowing, riding and golfing. Since the announcement of the betrothal there has been continuous speculation as to whether the fortunate young man will continue his routine work, helping to manage the elevated and subway news stands operated by the Hotel and Railroad News company, of Boston, or go into some business of his own, backed by Mr. Lawson. The wedding will take place very early in October. Preparations for the ceremony and attendant functions are well under way, and Boston friends especially are much interested in their progress. The girl members of the fashionable Vincent club of girl bachelors, of which Miss Gladys is one, are meanwhile more interested in the details of the bride-to-be's trousseau. It is to be most elaborate, as the wedding is to be made a splendid affair. Emulating Carnegie. Morris K. Jessup, the New York millionaire, is emulating the example of Andrew Carnegie by giving $20,000 to the town of Westport, Conn., to erect a public library. Westport was once Mr. Jessup's home, and the building is intended as a memorial for the Jessup family. The town agreed to appropriate $1,000 annually for the library's maintenance. ALEXIS A YEAR OLD. BUSSIA CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY OF HEIR TO THRON'. Entire Royal Family, Including Nicholas, Fashion Toys for Infant Czarevitch—Baby Has Outgrown Early Delicacy. St. Petersburg.—The first anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Alexis, heir to the Russian throne, was celebrated in a festive manner throughout Russia the other day. In St. Petersburg the troops paraded to the music of a triumphal march written in honor of the birth of the czarevitch. Banners were flying in the streets and the capital was brilliantly illuminated at night. All the government offices, with the exception of the foreign office, were closed, and the ministers of state, the heads of departments, and all persons whose rank entitles them to admission to court, went to Peterhof to offer their felicitations to the emperor and empress and to participate in a special natal mass. Great preparations were made at Peterhof in anticipation of the joyous event. Hundreds of presents were bought, and almost every member of the imperial family fashioned some sort of toy with his or her own hands for the czar of Russia's baby boy. Alexis Nicholaevitch's sister, Grand Duchess Olga, made a wonderful clay model of Peterhof palace, and Grand Duchess Tatlana gave her baby brother a little clay nest in which a hen sits on four eggs, all daintily colored by herself. Grand Duke Michael, the czar's younger brother, supervised the construction of a wonderful tin railway train for the czarevitch which runs I ALEXIS NICHOLAJEVITCH (Infant Russian Czarevitch from a Picture Taken Recently.) ALEXIS NICHOLAIEVITCH (Infant Russian Czarvitch from a Picture Taken Recently.) by clockwork on a, sort of switchback line. Following the example set by all his family the czar himself spent several evenings in making a dreadful looking wooden serpent. Nicholas' snake was painted black, picked out with red and white spots, its body being jointed o as to enable it to wriggle in any direction. With characteristic thought- fulness the czar had the paint required for the toy specially prepared, so that his little son might suck the wooden serpent with impunity. The czarina, although much wried by the events of the last month, still finds time to spend mar hours in daily worship at the shrub of her little prince. The czarevite from a delicate infant, has grown inta, a fat and chubby boy, much taller, and weighing considerably more, than the average child of his age. Much to his mother's delight he is daily becoming more and more like the czar, but his hair is fairer and his eyes much darker than those of Nicholas II. In a little sachet of pale blue silk Alexandra Feodrovna keeps the first curl cut from the head of her baby boy, and it is gossiped in the palace at Peterhof that early last month the czarina displaced by one of her own messengers to the queen of Italy, the kalserin and Queen Alexandra of England dainty envelopes containing her baby's photograph and a lock of hair cut from his head. According to Dr. Hirsch, the czarevitch can already lisp several proper "grown up" Russian words. By the czar's special instructions all attempts at "baby language" have been immediately stiffed, for Nicholas believes in the Soloviff system for logically teaching babies systematically from the beginning simple and useful words. "I wish my child to become a clever man and to waste no time on useless 'baby language.'" is one of the many extraordinary utterances reputed to the czar since his mental breakdown after hearing of the fall of Port Arthur. Lightning Art Work. On the breast of one of the two brothers killed in New York by lightning while bathing recently was imprinted a likeness of a tree. It was about 18 inches long and was perfect even to the smallest details, including the coloring of the leaves. The likeness was burned deep in the flesh. Physicians are unable to explain this phenomenon, as there was no tree within several hundred feet of the spot where the lightning bolt struck. The waves of lightning have long been past finding out. St. Louis.-Germans from all over the United States will meet in this city next spring to honor the memory of Gen. Franz Sigel, the cavalry leader who organized four regiments of young Germans for the federal army in 1861 and "saved Missouri" for the union. The statue, for which $10,000 was subscribed by patriotic residents of the world's fair-city, will probably stand in Forest park. It is the work of Robert Cauer, a German-American sculptor who now has his studio in Berlin. Cauer went to St. MARSHAL STATUE OF GEN. SIGEL (Will Be Erected at St. Louis Next Spring.) Louis last year and modeled the facial likeness from original photographs of Gen. Sigel at the time of the war, which accounts for the remarkably life- like resemblance which all who knew him will find in this magnificent equestrian statue. Sigel is shown at the battle of Pea Ridge, scanning the approaching en- emy just before he made the famous rally of his German "boys" and turned seeming rout into a glorious victory for the boys in blue. It was around this engagement that the famous humorous ditty, "We Fought Mit Sigel," was written—an unfailing source of patriotic mirth at every gathering of Kriegerserels in America. Gen. Sigel was a military man of experience before he emigrated to the United States as a "forty-eighter." He took a prominent part in the Baden revolution of that year and was compelled to flee the country on account of it. He was a schoolmaster in the western states when the war broke out, but his old-time military spirit asserted itself and he went to St. Louis to organize into four regiments the young German-American patriots resident there. History commonly ascribes the failure of Missouri to side with the confederacy to this German support of the northern cause. Besides being the first equestrian statue in St. Louis, the Sigel monument will be the first raised to the memory of the services of German-Americans in the civil war. The statue will be of bronze and will rest on a pedestal of American granite. NEW SWEDISH PREMIER. Christian Lundberg Has Reputation of Being a Shrewd and Cautious Statesman. Stockholm.—Christian Lundberg, the new Swedish premier, whose official title is minister of state, and who will direct Sweden's course with regard to the secession of Norway, is the conservative leader, but recently has fa- CHRISTIAN LUNDBERG (Minister of State in the New Swedish Cabinet) vored moderate reforms. He is a wealthy manufacturer, and has been a member of the upper house of the riksadag since 1885. Mr. Lundberg was, until his accession to the cabinet, chairman of the committee on state affairs, the most influential parliamentary post in Sweden. He is a shrewd and cautious statesman, is possessed of great energy, and while not a brilliant orator is extremely effective in debate and as a public speaker. He was born July 14, 1842. France's Strong Man. Since M. Delcasse's retirement M. Maurice Rouvrier is looked upon as the strong man of France. Personally, he is a delightful companion of encyclopedic knowledge, as much at home in art as in questions of state. Unlike most of his countrymen, he speaks with calm and restrained dignity, eloquent and oratorical. Largest Safe in World. A safe now being made for the Premier Diamond Min company is intended to hold $10,000,000 worth of diamonds. It will be the strongest safe ever constructed. Seven feet high, six feet wide, and weighing 21 tons, it will cost $10,000. The steel door alone will weigh five tons. TO OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. Peer yonder in the distance, youth. O look, look long and ponder! Thro' the mist O can't you see What Time holds for you yonder? Can you not see half-hidden there Great responsibility and care? O youth, a race depends on thee! The pillars are now growing old And soon, and soon shall passing be; Thy hand it is must then take hold. O look, look thro' the mist and see What is waiting, waiting there for thee. Or sink them deeper in despair. O look, look thro' the mist and see What Time shall soon demand of thee. O maiden, in the distance dim Look long, look long and well! Time holdeth O so much for you That he alone can tell. O look, look thro' the mist and see A little that he holds for thee. Thou must be a mighty mother. None but thee to fill that place, I look, look thro' the mist and see What is waiting there alone for thee. Thou must cheer and thou encourage If the race shall stem the tide: O maiden! maiden, look and see What Time shall soon demand of thee. O youth! O maiden! now prepare— Fit yourselves at once, I pray, That you may strong and ready be For the cares that must come to you some day. —Clarence Emery Allen. NAVYGROWSRAPIDLY FIVE BIG WARSHIPS ADDED IN SINGLE YEAR. Publication of "List and Station" Reveals Many Important Facts Regarding American Protectors—Look for-More Ships. Washington, D. C.—The American navy has become so great numerically that the old American way of listing warships, that is, according to the size, has had to be abandoned. The officers of the navy have been compelled to ape the British in the style of listing, which disregards size, and write down the names in alphabetical order. The latest issue of "List and Station," the book just off the press, which shows the names and stations of officers and the names of ships, presents the ships' names arranged in that order. In the new style, the battleship Alabama heads the list. Under the old order the commissioning of a larger ship would have displaced her. Of course, battleships, being the most important vessels in the navy, will always have first place. In the "List and Station", of last year the battleship Maine had the honor of first place because she was the largest and newest in commission. This year, had the old rule been followed, the Ohio would have had the place of honor, for, although she is no larger than the Maine, she is of more recent completion. In the 12 months elapsed between the publication of the two books five ships of the largest size were added to the 13 then in the navy. They are the Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, the first named being a battleship of 12,000 tons displacement, and the others armored cruisers of 13,730 displacement. The larger displacement of the cruisers gives them a greater radius of action, but no greater power in the actual conflict. During the coming year five battleships are likely to be placed on the list of ships in active service, and the six armored cruisers under construction will all be ready for crews if the officers of the bureau of navigation can figure out where they can get the men. The annual report about the shortage of commissioned officers will be made to congress, but the real shortage will be in men willing to serve as laborers and mechanics under the hard conditions of service that are imposed upon those who can never hope to attain commissions. The outlook is that the fiscal year 1905-5 will see more ships of great fighting power held to the American list than any like period in the history of the world. No naval establishment is being as rapidly augmented as the American. Before there were so many yards it was the carefully inculcated impression that it took just about four years to build a battleship. That impression has been 'destroyed by the rapidity with which the New York navy yard and the Newport News Shipbuilding company are constructing the Louisiana and Connecticut. They will have those ships ready in 30 months. they also go when Mr. Roosevelt became president the navy list contained the names of 12 so-called first-rate ships. Six of the ships then rated as first class have fallen out of that list because they are too small and too lightly armored to remain in that class. So that in number of first-rate ships alone during the Incumbency of Roosevelt the navy has trebled. New York.-Russell Sage, who recently celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday, was reported in financial circles to have told a friend that he expects to reach the age of 100 and that he also expects to see Missouri Pacific stock go to 200 before he dies. The remark, circulated upon the floor of the stock exchange, caused much amused comment. It was remembered that when the same stock Missouri Pacific, was at the figures a few years ago Mr. Sage denounced the upward movement as rank manipulation that would only hurt the railroad by exciting the anger of the farmer legislators in the states through which the road runs. It was then suspected that Mr. Sage's market operations made him view with disfavor the upward trend of the stock. The stock was at 125 when the news of Mr. Sage's prediction came out. It went back to 12414. Mr. Sage has been noted for long-time predictions in the stock market that came true. Not long ago Manhattan reached a high figure, predicted a decade ago for it by him. When one broker on the exchange, who is something of a wag, beard of Mr. Sage's prediction about living to be 100, he remarked: "I don't see why Providence should wait for him to reach par when he can be got around 89. Is economically managed and can be expected to earn carrying charges." Bishop Potter's Subway Tavern Gives Way Before a Real Saloon—Not Well Patronized. New York.—The Subway tavern, which was opened 11 months ago with an address by Bishop Potter and the singing of the doxology, closed its doors at midnight recently for the last time as a "sanctified saloon." Its proprietor, it is stated, will sign over the place to a man who has conducted the restaurant on the premises. The new owner will take out the old sign and, after extensive alterations, will run the place as an ordinary saloon. While all those connected with the establishment who could be seen the other night were reticent concerning the change, several employees in the tavern explained that there had not been sufficient income from sales to pay running expenses. Instead of the well-known citizens who established the tavern drawing a five per cent dividend, as they expected, it was said that in the last six months they had been compelled so often to go down into their pockets to make good a deficit that they had become tired and wished to be rid of the tavern entirely. When the tavern was opened, about a year ago, it was announced that only pure liquors would be sold. One room was fitted up with a soda fountain, where women might be served with beer. The outer walls of the building were painted with texts of Scripture and highly colored signs, but, in the words of one of the bartenders, it was found that "rum and religion would not mix." HERMIT'S HOME AN OIL RIG Disconcerted When Found—Successful Hunter for Pearls—Family Seeks Him. Marlon, Ind.—Living the life of a hermit in an abandoned oil rig in the woods three miles from Sidson is John Swanson, an old man, who exhibited much concern when his abode was discovered. He refused to say where he came from, but said domestic trouble had caused him to seek a life of seclusion. He said he had been living in the oil derrick for about a year and had succeeded in evading every one until the oil operators chanced to call at an unexpected moment. He said he had never built a fire at night for fear of attracting attention. He is engaged in pearl hunting along the river, and exhibited a large collection o much value. He said he had been sending them to a New York dealer and had a shipment ready to forward. Members of his family, we said, we're searching for him, but he did not deire that they find him. TO RAZE HISTORIC HOME. Résidence of Bon aparte Will Be Torn Down-Stanle's Just North, Trenton, N. J.—The Lilor home- stead on Bow Hill, just north of this city, will soon be torn down to make room or the growth of Trenton. The house was built just after the revolu- tion by Barni de Lyn, a descendant of French nobility. Joseph Bonaparte, ben living in Bordentown, based the place from De Lyn and established the re Miss An- h. Savage, a beautiful Philadelphia bette with whom he had fallen in woman, with goods fro mother in love while bu, a little notion店 kept by he. was er. Annette Savage's first chil- d of a killed in the house by the falling flower pot. The second grew in a lovely girl, and on her account pooleon III. legalized the married the marriage. On one of the window panes of the ol house is the inscription, "God is love." evidently etched by a diamond. Walking Poor. An American circus is stranded at Grenoble, France, and the walking be- ween there and home is reported to be very bad. The Departmental Social Club WILL GIVE A GRAND BALL In the large auditorium of the True Reformer's Building, corner of 12th and You Streets, N. W., Wednesday Evening, October 18, 1905. From 9 p. m. to 2 a. m. Music will be furnished by a section of the U. S. Marine Band orchestra. Lieut. Santelman, director. The committee has arranged tomake this a most enjoyable event, everything will be first-class. ts, fifty cents. will be on sale at theFountain Pharmacy, Gray and stors, corner 12th and You streets, N. W. --- LEGAL NOTICES. THOMAS L. JONES ATTORNEY. In the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Walter Nervis vs. Sarah Nervis, Equity No. 23,032, Docket No. The object of this suit is to obtain a divorce from the defendant, Sarah Nervis, on the ground of adultery and desertion, provided a copy of this order be published once each week for three successive weeks in The Washington Law Reporter and The Washington Bee. On motion of the complainant, by his attorney, Thomas L. Jones, it is this 19th day of July, A. D. 1905, ordered that the defendant cause her appearance to be entered herein, on or before the fortieth day, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, occurring after the day of the first publication of this order; otherwise the cause will be proceeded with as in case of default. WRIGHT, A true copy: Associate Justice. Test: J. F. YOUNC, Clerk. By Harvy Givens, Asst Clerk. PERRI W. FRISBY, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. HOLDING A PROBATE COURT. No. 12,855, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Mary Reddick, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber on or before the 28th day of July, A. D. 1906; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 28th day of July, 1905. Philip Stewart,-117 D Street, S. E. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Perru W. Frisby, Attorney. 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All passenger trains of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to and from New York City now have direct ferry connection with 23rd Street Terminal, in addition to Liberty Street; the South Ferry Terminal having been discontinued. Twenty-third Street is the most popular terminal of the great metropolis because of its convenience to the hotel theatre and shopping district. In the recent remodeling of the terminal building a glass roofed canopy was constructed fifty feet wide, under which the cross-town care of the 14th, 23rd, 28th and 29th Street lines pass, so that passengers are protected from the weather leaving the ferry house, and also avoid the annoyance of street traffic. All baggage destined to New York City will be delivered to 23rd Street unless distinctly marked "Liberty Street," or otherwise. A complete electric cab service has also been established for the transportation of passengers and baggage at very reasonable rates. The importance of 23rd Street is most graphically brought to attention in the August number of the Book of the Royal Blue published by the passenger department of the Baltimore & Ohio, under the title "Into the Heart of Gotham." The interest centers within a mile radius of 23rd street, Fifth avenue and Broadway. Full page photographs of unusual detail present a most vivid picture of this most interesting locality. Send 5 cents for copy to D. B Martin, Manager Passenger Traffic, R & O. R. K. Baltimore, Md. Julius Cohen, GLOTHIER and]Gents OUTFITTER. $1. Full Dress Sults For Hire-$1. 1300 and 1104 Seventh St.. Northwest Washington, D. C. THE EDUCATIONAL. WARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT (Including the colleges.) INCORRUPTED WIDTH SESSION will begin OCTOBER. STUDENTS MATRICULATE ONLY. Graded Course in MEDICINE. Graded Course in DENTAL SURGERY. Graded Course in PHARMACY. Given by didactic lectures, clinics. Well-equipped laboratories in facilities. All students must re- formation or cata-logue apply to M.M., M.D., Secre-tary, 901 R S. Wash. A. Lankf Architect And Buil- er, examiner and estimator. Plans go- es, pencil drawings, or from writ- ten section of the country. In the past overhauled, repaired and built; over 000.00 worth of work in Wash- ing; being of every description and char- specialty of church and hall designs, the building up of vacant lots in the long having plans gotten out, build the glad to have you call or write us above named lines. HOWARD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT (Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges.) INCORPORATED 1867 THIRTY-EIGHTH SESSION will begin October 2nd, 1905, and continue eight months. STUDENTS MATRICULATED FOR DAY INSTRUCTION ONLY. Four-Years' Graded Course in MEDICINE. Three-Years' Graded Course in DENTAL SURGERY. Three-Years' Graded Course in PHARMACY. Instruction is given by didactic lectures, clinics and practical laboratory demonstrations. Well-equipped laboratories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. All students must register before October 14th, 1905. For further information or cata-logue apply to F. J. Shadd, A.M., M.D., Secre-tary, 901 R Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. J. A. Lankford, A Architect And Builder Expert builder, examiner and estimator. Plans gotten out at short notice, from rough sketches, pencil drawings, or from written or verbal descriptions, and mailed to any section of the country. In the past thirty-two (32) months 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 speciality 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 given in any of the above named lines. Main Office 317.6th St. Northwest. Residence 121. V. St. Northwest. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. FORD'S ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted) He BEE IS ON SALE singer, 407 14th street, N. W. Alvey, 14th street and Pierce points within a Philadelphia 50 cents for from points 50 adelphia the ra $1.00 for the Tickets on and 18, good 25, inclusive. From points from Philadelphia fare plus $1.0 Tickets on sale 17, good return inclusive, exce of $1.00 to Jo return limit m tober 5, 1905. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Print 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. Agents wanted everywhere. WHERE WE BEE IS ON SALE T. L. Leisinger, 407 14th street, N. W Alvey & Alvey, 14th street and Pierce Place, N. W. 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One which pays promptly; one whose terms are liberal; one whose officers are men of ability, honesty and integrity; one whose capital stock is paid up in full, and is incorporated and licensed under the new law of the District of Columbia; We want AGENTS of ability for all sections of the city; we pay liberal salaries and commission to agents. OFFICERS. Wm. J. Howard, president; Henry H. Waring, vice-president; Edmund Hill, Jr., secretary and manager; Jno. A. Lankford, treasurer; Dr. Jos. D. Blair, physician; Geo. F. Collins, attorney. Main office, 494 Louisiana avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. NIVERSITY (Including Medical, Dental and INCORPORATED 1867 will begin October 2nd, 1905, and MATRICULATED FOR DAY MEDICINE. DENTAL SURGERY. PHARMACY. lectures, clinics and practical labora-laboratories in all departments. Undents must register before October logue apply to tary, 901 R Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. nkford, And Builder water. Plans gotten out at short notice, or from written or verbal descriptions, or in the past thirty-two (32) months and built over Five Hundred Thousand in Washington, D. C., and vicinityception and character. I hall designs, and arranging loans; recent lots in the District of Columbia gotten out, buildings overbaued or re-call or write us. No charges for ad- THE McKINLEY HOUSE 489 & 491 Missouri Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C. Strictly First Class and Up-To-Date Elegant Rooms Furnished from 50c to $2.50 Per Day. Clean beds and neat rooms a specialty Meals at all hours. HOT AND COLD BATHS Half Block from Pennsylvania Depot ELLIS AND HUFF, Proprietors. PATRIARCHS MILITANT AND SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE, VERY LOW RATES BALTIMORE & OHIO R. Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 16-23. Excursion.tickets will be sold from points within a radius of 50 miles of Philadelphia at rate of one fare plus 50 cents for the round trip; and from points 50 to 100 miles from Philadelphia the rate will be one fare plus $1.00 for the round trip. Tickets on sale September 16, 17 and 18, good returning to September 25, inclusive. From points more than 100 miles from Philadelphia the rate will be one fare plus $1.00 for the round trip. Tickets on sale September 15, 16 and 17, good returning to September 25, inclusive, except that upon payment of $1.00 to Joint Agent, extension of return limit may be obtained to October 5, 1005. Get full details from Ticket Agents. RICHARDSON. Visit his Drug Store at 316 4½ STREET, S. W. Stop at the Soda Fountain and try his new drink, PINO FLIP. Pino Flip is kept by Dr. Richardson in South Washington. You should not fail to call in and test it. 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