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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. Western Star Department, No. 231. meets at Ennis, Tex., first and third Saturdays in each month. Spencer Gary, W. P. P. C. C. Carlies, W. R. S. A. Cattle, W. C. S. Eagle's Wing Department, No. 27 meets at Ashville, Fla., the second and fourth Sundays in each month G. B. Brown, W. P. L. D. Dixon. W. C. S. Elizabeth Department, I. O. N. of A. F., No. 53, meets at Chauncey, Ga., on the first Saturday in each month. Rev. E. Adams, W. P. P.; Peter Stanley, W. C. S. Department No. 136 meets at Baton Rouge, La., first and third Wednesday nights in each month. Jos. Newton; W. P. P. M. B. Stewart, W. C. S. Fraternal Sunrise Department, No. 17, meets at Fort Worth, Tex., the first and third Wednesdays in each month. R. R. Sloan, W. P. P.; Henry Henderson, W. P. P.; M. Mathew W. F. V. P.; I. B. Balenger, W. C. S. Sunrise Department, No. 31, meets at Dallas, Tex., second and fourth Thursday nights in each month. A. R. Brown, W. P. P. S. A. N. Hamilton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W. R. S. Savannah Slaughter, W. C. S. Department No. 13 meets at Lake City, Fla., first and second Monday nights in each month. Joe Dorsey W. P. P. W. M Pasco, W. F. V P. Giles Duncan, W. C. C. 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. 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Boston.—The United States ship ‘Vesuvius, once the only dynamite gun- boat in any navy, which in the Spanish war frightened many Spanish soldiers and sailors at Santiago, will go into commission again in a few days at the Charlestown navy yard. She 1s a dynamite cruiser no longer, her new designation belng a. torpedo training ship. She will be stationed at the torpedo station at Newport. About $200,000 has been expended /at the local yard In refitting the ship for her new work. About all that re- mains cf the old fittings are her hull and engines, and these have been thor- oughly overhauled and are entirely new In many parts. The work of re- building and refitting bes 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 sald. She has been tied up at the Charlestown navy yard ‘since her return from the campaign in Cubs. 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 be fore the torpedo instruction ship ides was decided upon. WEDS MAN WHO HAS NO LAP Lawyer's Novel Point Followed by Ac- + quittal and Marriage of Wis- i consis Pair. Escanaba, Mich.—A sensational wed- ding followed the still more sensational 350,000 damage suit of A. W. Hollman, ‘on of the Green Bay (Wis.) postmaster, against Henry Rabr,a millionaire brew- sr, whom he accused of alienating his wife's affections. Mrs, Hollman secured 2 divorce some ‘Months ago on the ground of cruelty. | Shortly afterward Hollman sought to re- cover heavy damages from Rahr. The testimony in the case was most sensa- tional, Cab drivers, ministers, saloon and res- taurant owners told of many instances of alleged tmproper behavior of Rahr and Mrs, Hollman. Just when the plalntift’s counsel was about ready to rest with a mass of incriminating testt- mony one witness declared that at ono time he saw Mrs. Hollman sitting on Mr. Rahr’s lap. The lawyer for the de- fendant rose promptly to the opportun. ity. “Mr. Rabr,” he sald, “kindly let the Jury see your lap.” Mr. Rahr displayed his lap. Inas. much as he weighed about 250 pounds and is far from being tall, the lar which the jury saw was {infinitesimal Even Mrs. Hollman, petite as she {s couldn't find accommodations on such & lap. The jury laughed and Rahr was acquitted, Rabr married Mrs. Hollman in thi! elty to avold the Wisconsin law whict Prevents a remarriage of a divorcec 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 sur- geon, are discussing the young girl’s attempt to wed Lee San, a young Chigaman who runs a laundry in Rox- bury, just around the corner from Miss Moore's, home. Miss Moore says she “has been en- gaged” to Lee San, also that they tried to get a marriage license {n Chel- sea and were told they could not un- less they lived there. 7 * Miss Moore’s mother sald at first: “It's all foolishness.” In the next breath, however, she told the teporter: “Lee San {s all right—a good fellow,” ‘also that he bas fust been left money by an uncle in San Francisco. The mother is also reported as saying sh would rather see Eva married to ¢ Chinaman than ta a worthless whit man. Lee San {n't saying anythin at all. ‘Lee San {s a prosperous looking ce lestlal who wears American clothes ‘He is about 20 years old. He is sh; of being Interviewed. He is sald to b Proprietor of a flourishing tea store a well as of the laundry which bears bl! ‘name. ih = Le AL {bball ih» Sa] ae peer cect ae em / 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 1 190” First Street, Lewis, Jefferson Southwest ’ Telephone: Main 1779. IN MALE ATTIRE; DRINKS. i Disguised Girl Imbibes at Bar Likes Man—Ran Away from Home. toe * Nashville, Tenn.—Stella Newton aged 17 and very pretty, was arrestec ‘at the Arlington hotel, where she had Ibeen stopping under the name of Ken. neth Halcolm. Her identity was dis- ‘covered by’ a bartender at a local sa loon, where she went and called ‘for 2 drink of whisky. Later she returned ‘and called for half @ pin tof the lquor ‘The bartender suspected something and refused. When arrested Miss Newton sald she came here from Memphis, and she had ‘a health cer.ificate from that city Previous to going to Memphis she salc ‘she had been to Greenville, Miss., bu “her home, she clatmed, was {n Louls ville, The girl claims that she has nc ‘relatives or kinspeople. and that he: reason for dressing in male attire was that she thought she conld the more easily make her way In the world. After her arrest her cultcase was ex amined and no female clothing found | She sald then that she had lived witt | her guardian and his wife in Louls | yillé. that her guardian was cruel te | her. and she finally decided to adop | men’s clothing and left home. 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Destructive Creature Reappears Re peatedly, Despite Precautions of Farmer's Wife. Hereford, Pa—There 4 a turtle, an innocent looking, tiny land turtle, ic Jefferson township; this county, that promises to outrival the cat that hao nine lives. It is a stray turtle that was found five years ago on the farm of Adam Schoener, and its shell at that tim was embellished with the engrarec signature of Schoener’s son. Then the turtle alsappeared until last year when it bobbed up in the truck patct of the Schoeners and proceeded to hel Itself to the best vegetables. ‘Mrs. Schoener, in anger, threw tht destructive little creature into Tulpe hocken creek, a mile away, thinking t lose it. But the turtle came back. Crossin; the 40-foot wide stream, It reappeare fn the patch and resumed the devasta tlon. Again it was tossed into the sam stream, and recently r. Turtle, 48 hour after his bath, reappeared among tn tomatoes. The Schoeners were exasperatad, bu as Berks county farmers are enperstl tous abou: killing turtles, they de cided to keep It as a relic fc an in sjosure filled with vegetables. REVIVES LusT ART. POTTERY-MAKING, 2,000 YEARS AGO, BROUGHT TO LIGHT. ‘Marry Firth, an Englishman, Depli- cates the Celebrated Blackware of the Etruscans—Hits on Scheme by Boundabout Houte London.—Examples of an art lost more than 20 centuries and only redis- covered by accident, have been exhibited recently by Harry Firth, of Kirkby Lonsdale, England. The work dupll-| cates the famous blackware of the) Etruscans. ‘Mr. Firth spent the first 40 years of Ais 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 hé be- came 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 littledaughter, his wife and. other members of his family joined the student ranks. He took up wood carr ing, the daughter worked in color, his wife embossed leather, and all three have made a wonderful éuccess. Mr. Firth speedily found that bis de signs were difficult of execution, how- ever, as he had no model with which ta guide the movements of his chisel, Hence he was quick to avail himself of @ suggestion that he model his work in clay, afterward copying the design im wood. Forayearor more he laboriously trudged seven weary miles with loads of plastic models to a nelghboring brick kiln, where they were baked hard. By degrees his interest In clay overshad- owed his interest In wood. and instead of molding mere dedigns for his chisel to copy he tried his ‘prentice hand at original work In pottery. The same suc- cess which bad met his wood carving followed him in this, and the same en- ergy which had carried his models seven miles after a hard day’s work In the gar- den carried bis pots and his vases over the same tedious road to tiie brick kiln. A few months, however, and he saw that he had elther reached bis limit as a creative potter or he must devise new means for firing hisclay. This he did by bullding for himself a small oven In a | little deserted shed whose owner al: | lowed him its use free of charge. It was | in this shed and In a little testing bos | at the apex of his home-made oven tha! | Harry Firth, the gardener. finally wrest }} ed a secret of the ages and made once || more the famous black Etruscan ware sung by Juvenal, Perseus and Horact | and sought unsuccessfully by the lead ing potters all through the Christias ;) era. 1} To the tnsophisticated gardener .| playing at pottéry. the discovery mean ;] nothing more than the loss of so mucl clay and so much labor. The rare specl | mens of newly found art he placed tear j fully away in a corner where rubbist piled up and dust covered them. Ther | they stood for weeks till an inquisitiy clergyman with an eye for the artist! and an Interest {n the potter bega: routing about in the shed and unearthe .| them. He was enthusiastic. and quickl: :| set Firth’s heart beating wildly wit! i] his tales of dead arms and his pralse 0 .| the discarded treasures, .| Then came the real labor. for thoug! | made once. it was not easy to reproduc 3] an accident. and it took nine months o 4] daily work before Firth acain manage -| to duplicate the ancient work. g) Mr. Firth has ceased garder4gg an now makes bis living entirely by his art e| but it 1s not much of a living. for he ha 4 all the artist's ebjection to makin "| money by hisfrork. He charges barel ¢| enough to coter the cost of his labor t{ and lives lafjrious days. where a les .| squeamish min might have luxury an -| the plaudits of thousands, WINS SWEETHEART BY RUSE Parent Raves Behind Bars—Dayghtea Sees Min of Choice—Father “3s Liberated. St. Paul, iStinn.—A story of how “love will flid a way” has developed tr the probate’ court. William L. Wal- lace, of this city, was arraigned to -be examined as to his sanity. The pby- sicians said he was perfectly sane ane then the story came out. ‘The old man was arrested on com plaint of his daughter. A young mas called*on the daughter, Miss Virginia Wallace, at her home. The. father an’ swered the knock and promptly eject: ed the young man. The young swait then went to the back door and while the father was walking up and dowr’ the sidewalk in front of the house th. ‘daughter fs alleged to have let the young gallant into the house throug! B rear window. | ‘The father discovered this and triec to get back into the house. He gavi /Yent to some- strong language anc ' pounded on the door, when the daugh. ter telephoned to the Margaret street | poljce station, saying her home wa besleged by a crazy man. When the police arrived they found the frat parent storming about and promptly | took him away without knowing whe be was. " “Just This Wav’? Doubtless there rre hundreds of old men sitting on the street corners of Toklo whittling pine stieks who think they could have done better thar Komura in negotiating peace terms. Wiseenme « Prof. Metchntkof! says one may tive 180 years on a sour milk diet. Bul 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." . . - . . ‘ ; . - ¥ i a . a s af . - Jof the Third Baptist Church. The Bride oan ni ‘ p > oa fj a" was a graduate of the high school, of © - ‘A She |) r SC pointede-shine with a yoke'of rare ace, el] S f CY Week 1 &\ . the class of 1903, She was aired in ; 4 rm a A i aebe dle ATEN, and carried a small Testament, She 0 eo. one Pee re e ee, vores wreath of oul rec aod =| HE LARGEST INSTALLMENT HOUSE IN thegil¥ =" BP Way i Bote “e} < The spacious parlors were decorated i : ? . . . a A vb Re < Cs) a z ae now is the time to FURNISH Y-UR HOUSE 2 # re Re re ie i WM EN 7: Hine orcs Un soe cited 7 » Carpet-Your Floors ond LIVE Coxfortably. a : * So A AS ot » RRR x i sf Pee Na eA. fo } Ae rR NS i ‘ ws ; ~ . owe’ ¢ ~ ewe” | i Miss Drusilla Byrd, left the city for Baktawore Sunday. © Drs, Wm. Isbell aud baby have re- turned to the city, - Dr. FE. D. Scott, spent Saturday: and Sunday in Norfolk, Va. Miss Maud Raxter will take 2 trip to Baltimore mext week. | > Attormey A. E. Johndon, of Ralcigh, N.C, left the city last week. De. J. E. Sheppard, of Dunham, N. C, was in the city Thursday, Miss Alberta Brown, of S. W. jhas returned -to the city after a month's ab- scmce. Mrs. Rebecca Naxter, is home froma visit of several weeks in Prince George counts, Md- 4. ee Mise Ida’ Johnson wil} leave Saturday for Boston, Macs, where’ she will make hes fatarc home. + Miss Alice Brawner, of Capitol Hill, is enjoying a thrce week's stay at Stavn- ton, Va, with her uncle y+ Mrs, James H. Perétson and son, who have’ been to New York city for “the deat five wecks have returned, Mire. T. 1, Jones and children and Miss Wattie Hambaugh have retumed to the city after a delightiul vacation. ¢ Mr. LM. Metshaw has been invited to deliver at address before the Bos- ton Literney and Historical Association Mrs Selena J. Grays wie of Rev. Ww. Gray of Chicago is in the city, topping at 1634 10th street, N. W. Mrs, Laura Stevenson has returned from Adahtic City after a pleasant so- journ of two weeks, the picture of _ health. It is rumored that the sharriage of Miss Drucilla Byrd to Mr. Georg Brown will take place some time it January, 1905, Misces Fannie and Eva Chace, wi have been quite’ sick, are iniproving freatly to the xratification of thei many friends. Mrs. John P, Green, accampanied by; her daughter and daughter-in-law, Mr: Wim. H.’Green, wia return, from Cleve land, Ohio next week, Misces Lottie Matthews, Eleanor Baxter and Maggie Gayther, leit th city Wednesday, Sept. third, for seve ral week's stay at Harpers Ferry. Mr. and Mrs, L. W. Livingston ar in the city, stopping at Mr. and Mr: Charles Peters’. Mr. Livingston i United States Consul at Cape Hay tian. . Mrs. J. TH. Snrallgood and daugl ter, Mrs. Anaa Stuart, Have returne from Atlantic City, where they sper the summer. Ther are at their hom 1611 sth street, N. W. Attomes N. T. Goldesherry, of Lyncl burg, Va, who arrived in the ci Thursday, Jeit Saturday evening forh home, He was a guest of the Miss Chase, 1109 Eye street, Northwest. Mre. Judson W. Lyons entertain ‘Tharsday evening in honor of Mr. at Mrs. L. W. Livingstone, Cape Haytie Hayti; Mrs? J. C. Napier, Nashvill . Tena. and Miss Grace Hope, August C. . e Bes, Foutain Peyton and childre after 2 delightful trip to Ashbey Par N. Ja have returned to the city great improved. Attorney Peyton has be dosdly guarded and watched by _ haps family. ; z Mr, W. A. Soders, of the. Bure: of Engraving and Printing, left We nesday for New York, where he w sail for Tondon and Paris. Mr. So ers is a colored business man, forme Jy from Texas, He will be gone un October Ist. Me, Fielding Dodson, of the Peni ofice, has gone on his’ vacation | twenty days. Miss Dodson has. : termed to the city after having sp a pleasant vacation in the mountai nine wiles beyond Pound Hill, Va. Mrs. C. W. Lewis and sister, have been spending their vacation Atlantic City, Oyster Bay and Bro ic. ee SPL eenktee Some Est oh RaSBe Congregation greeted hinm,*. Mrs.. W, H. Thompson and ber Very sweet daughter, Miss Amee, of Baltimore, Md., are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lee and Miss Em- ma McGinnis, of 1205 T street, N. W. They will be in the city two weeks or more, ee i Miss Eva Morris and Miss Hebler Bul, of the bureau of engraving and Printing, have returned to the city. Mrs. Ethel Johnson has jeen confined to home on account of sickness. Mr. Jerome A. Johnson is one of the promi- nent lights in the west end. * Misy Edna Wilson has returned from the country home on Brown Hill, D. C. Mrs. A. M, Reeves entertained Wednes- day from 2 to 4 in honor of Miss Snow- den of Charlotte, N.C, and Mrs. Mul- len of Fairmont Heights, Md. Souve- nirs—clover leaves entwined with Long- fellow’s quotations. Tomorrow will be a gala day at Gal- braith A, M. E, Z. Chureli, npon the completion of extensive improvements to the church’ More than a thousand dollars worth of improvetients have een made and the inside decorations are very Handsome. Rev. S, L. Coroth- ers has arranged for all day services. ‘The musical program under the man- Sgement of Wrof, Jas. Wil-on, will be very attractive’ and those attending Galhraith will be well paid for their Visit. UU ermarey Det + Mist Anna R. Isabell, of Norfolk, ¥a., who has Leen the guest uf her aunt Mrs, Ethel Johnson, of 325 South Le Droit Park, left for her home Sunday evening, accompanied hy her brother. Miss Isabell had a most delightul time while in the-city, She was given a de- lightil tea Saturday evening by her aunt and cousin in Le Droit ‘Park, to which a few of the most imimate friends of the family were invited. . ] Among those present were: ‘Th Misses Anniy R: Isbell, Mamie Sone, | Misses Sancasters,-,Neoma Spencer, {Mand McClemhion, Gertrude Hartied, } Mrs. E. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs, W. Rarnes, Mrs, W. ‘f, Isbell, Mesors. Alley }L. Deansy John Johnson, ‘T, Dowling -| Randell, Peterson, Dunkins, Mason ang 1] Andrew Isbell. . There were over three thousan »f}nen. women and children at the pic: [nic given by the children of the Dis rjtrict by Rev. Simon PW. Drew las month. Over three hundred dollar ,| was cleared. | St the Sunday morning and even -|ing serticessheld in the Cosmopolita Baptist Church last Sunday the larg fest crowds assembled that have eve 5 been in that church, Large crowd _| Were turned away. To-morraw th | following exercises will be held: mm ALM, “The Best Labor.” e}P. M. “The Pale Horse." +1 Sunday, September 24, 11 A. M S!“The Dead Man Carricd Out.” 8 I “| M.. "The Dead Dog after a Flea.” Mrs.David Warner and sister, Mr: -] Ada Bryant, have returned to the cit d] after an extended visit to Bridgepor it} Conn., the guest of Rev. D. FE. Mor = {ton, a prominent Baptist minister that city, and wife. the sister of Mr -{ Warner. The Cokes are from one « {the oldest families of this District. is} Benjamin Coke, the paternal. at :s| cestor, was a leading citizen and bus ness man of “ye olden time.” H .j| business, which was large and pré .a| perous, was located at the corner « n,| 6th street and Pennsylvania avent ¢,| N- W.. having succeeded the father « a,| Dr. F. J. Shadd, who closed out at removed with’ his family to Canac years before the late civil war t]” Mr. David Warner is the scion “tone of the oldest families of this cit IY} who resided in the west end, a Nl ho possessed considerable proper Ne] jefore the war. Mr. Warner has f many years filled acceptably the po: at! tion of Deputy Collector of taxes f d-}the District of Columbia. He h ill] served under several ex-collecto: d-}among whom may be named Albe t-| \", Hall: Fred’k A. Boswell, Col. SI till ter, John F. Cook and the prese collector, Mr. Davis, na.| Mr, Warner was one of the foun for] ers of the Berean Baptist Church, a nal occu Eile the nncition of treasurer . 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 0’ 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 Targe palms and beautiful flowers, After the marriage the guests marched to the dining room, where the delicacies of the season had been prepdred and were served. The table was artistically. decorated by one of the well-known caterers of this city. The presents were beautiful as well a3 ornamental and use- ful; they were tod numerous to mention, such as silverware, crockery, china, cut glass, linen, rugs, furniture of antique description and atl kinds that would suggest themselves to a good house- wife, There were a host of friends and acquaintarices among whom were: Prof. and Mre, Jones of Baltimore,’ sister and brother of the bride, Mr. and Mrs, Bos- tic and daughter, Mr, and Mrs, Thos, Tascoe, Mrs, Lizzie Jones and daugh- ter and Prof. Hindon Jones, Lawyer and Mrs. Trisbys Mrs. James F. Bundy, Mr, and Mrs, Hamilton Thornton Law- yer and Mrs. Gray, Mr. and Mrs, Jas Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Budd, Mr. and Mrs Jno, Lemos, Misses Charity Heathman, Alice Lewis, Addie Thorn. ton, Rosie Thornton, “Susie Robb and sister, Martha Siggons, Bessie Miller, Ida Plummer, Mary Russell and Marie Early, Messrs, Smith, Juo. 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, MoT. R. A. and the Y. M. DP. E., departed this life. last monday afternoon. Everyhody is talking about the cul- tured persons the Protective League carried down the river last Friday ev- ening. Ask anybody. wes Mr, Edward Allen, of the Seuth- ern Hotel, was with the League last Friday night and rendered great ser- vice, . There are six candidates in the field for standard bearer in the-Y. M. P. b, and two in the Y, MoT RAL Mr. Oliver R. Rogers of the G. P. O: is taking a few days’ leave, Mother — Now, John, 1 can have rome rest, the moonlight excursion is over, * Drs. H.W. Freenian, Fry and Lt. Jas. E, Walker, were conspicuous fig- ures on the moonlight last Friday night. ' Mr, Geo. W. Martin, the prosperous and enterprising man of West Wash- ington, 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 te the altar Miss Annette Brown. Wil it be in Octoher? Mrs. Geo. Holland, of 20th street, XN. W., has returned to the city fron the mountains of Virginia, She was looking well on the moonlight las Friday evening. Mr. Wn. A. Carter, the treasure: of the Y, M. P. L. Committee, is stil holding the grip which contains th money. Nearly every member of the Y. M JP. 1. Committee is a subscriber fo! Tue Bee. | Mr. Jas. L, Turner continues to re | ceive promotions, Every one helps. Mr. John Viticent Bell, of 1. street jarrived in town last Saturday. Whe jhe struck Washington the boys knev that he had been to Wanamaker's, i "| Philadelphia, =. }| Some, men continue to talk conf dentiallf. Well, let them go on; the | will hang theniselves shortly, William—It is not every man wh _| smiles at you and talks sweetly to yo _|is your friend. ;| Jotn—Beware of wolves in sheep ‘| clothing. (Don’t laugh.) THE WHIST CIRCLE. The most delightful company of the opening season of the Allegro Whist Cirele assembled last Tuesday even- ing. It was the largest crowd that has filled the parlors of the Circle. The ladies and ‘gentlemen were equally divided, The ladies’ toilets*were sim- ple 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 trp, were en- thusiastically greeted hy their many friends, Miss Morris’ trip increased her flesh, Miss Pike is a graceful dancer. Miss Blanche Morgan is to leavesfor New York shortly, She will be missed at the Whist Circle. Her bewitching smiles and entertaining ways will be missed. Mr. Harry Har- ris is a good whist player as well a ‘a graceful dancer. Miss Alice ‘Snydet is all sunshine wherever she greet: yon, The Misses Jones are event} divided. Miss Minta B. Simmons de serves credit for the excellent. music Dr. S.M. Piere and Mr, A. F. Bostor did not remain long. There will b special attractions next Tuesday. AT GALBRAITH TO-MORROW. The members of Galbraith A. M. E = i i ce SS eT . HOUSE & HERR VIAN HE LARGEST INSTALLMENT HOUSE IN thefiTy _— now is the time to FURNISH Y¢-UR HOUSE zs * » Carpet-Your Floors ond LIVE Comfortably. _ af , OniyFirst-Class stores keep first class goods‘and sold by. first class cler . how large your Purchases are immediate delivery is mace ‘u any part of the city | . : ‘ Cathat ones, s m a | ve: . ‘Northeast Corner 7th and “1” “SO Name THE BEE when you coli. ‘ ; = 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 improyements have been made toa 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 cblored windows nicely, painted. Dr. Corrothers, the pastor of the church, has put forth every effort to make the church pleasing to the’ mem- bers and friends who attend and Tisten to his enlightning sermons Sunday after Sanday with she 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 df the contractors who have -o claborately improved the church. ‘There has heen supplementary rallies for the last three Sundays, but the real rally will be to-morrow. Dr. Corrothers has showed to the peo- ple how to raise money and lave their church looking good as well zs he showed the people of New York how te build a church and pay for it im sever years. Theré is not another minister that has ever came to Galbraith whom thee people think as much of as they do Dr, S. L. Corrothers, and they prow that by standing by him in every way OUR SCHOOL CHILDREN. One of the most interesting problents that have been introduced-in the schools is the play-ground. Last Friday after- noon several hundred colored children under the direction of Mi, Cumo Ran- dolph, at the Coliseum Park, Gave an exhibition in athletic sport, There was not that interest on the part of the colored children tit the whites mani- fested, that -is in numbers. However, commissioner H. L, West, who is -al- ways willing and ready to. encourage \ery meritorious enterprise, was prevent and gave some géod advice. Mr. West is always sincere and honest in all he says. He never Jacks for an expression that will encourage a worthy undertak- ing. To these children he spoke in part as follows: First of all, Iet me congratulate the witingrs- of these prizes this afternoon for the splendid skill, and -hearty in- terest which they have exhibited, If you show as ‘much energy and. enthusiasm in your work when you grow up to be mien and women as you have manifested in your play, there is no question but you will become good and useful citi zens of the District. [pant to congratulate you also, and T say this more for the older people | hecause in -the equipment and mainten Jance af these play grounds no ‘discrimi '|nation has been evident, I am glad tha’ {the unselfish, progressive, liberal-mingle citizens who have interested themselve {in this work realize that you-are to b '|the future citizens of this District, anc that it is as essential to care for you ){minds and bodies as it is for those o ithe children of white parents. I an glad, therefore, that you have bee s]given ah opportunity to enjoy you jshare of the: play grounds and I ar ytre that you have appreciated your ad vantages to the utmost. *| Dr, Curtiss tells me that more colore I children have won champion button "|than white children. This is certainl S!a splendid indication of your interes "land enthusiasm. It is a practical de y|monstration of the appreciation which -|know you feel. ‘ S} In conclusion I want to say that thi *}Iarge attendance this afternoon is ver | gratifying to all who are connected wit "the playground movement and wi “| greatly encourage them in the work c Y} providing greater advantages for yout d] enjoy in the future. QUININE HAIR TONIC. ‘A SUPERD TOILET ARTICLE 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., XN. W., Washington, D.C. S.H. HINES, | ~ sy wag ~ a - ‘ 2 £ ~ an we - i. Pe \ iF 1 }-9 ’ emia ame: My aN: eS (| SS NZ) cir OH ~ CAI PE ae LS ZN = aN Te ors UNDERTAKER AND EM BALMER. 1715 I4th St, N. W: Satisfactory prices and servicesguaranteed to all. Special rates given to subscribersof Tue Bee. Thirty years” experi- ence. Funeral parlor furnished, Telephone, North 1595. © - > R. L. Middleton, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND LIVERYMAN. Coffins cn be shipped to any partof the State upon reliable telegrapl. orders, Your patronage solicited. My orices aie the cheapest and my stock second to none Fine carriages and polite drivers for all occasions. CARRIAGES FOR HIRE FOR ALL OCCASIONS. — Office, Warerooms, 51€ Eighth St, Southesst. Rhone Connection, Satisfaction Guaranteed. “LOAN COMPANIES. i J. H. DABNEY, FUNERAL DIRECTOR. | Hirtxc, Livery AND Sate SvveLe. éfe Carriages hired for funerals, var- ties, balls, receptions, ete. * Established 1886, Horses and carriages kept in first- BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICE.| class style. Satisfaction guareateed. Gold and silver, watches, ciamonds,} Business at 1132 Third street, N. W. Jewelry, guns, mechanical tools.| \fain Office Branch at 22? Alfred ladies’ and gent’s wearing apparel. street, Alexandria, Va. ' Old gold and silver bought. — |" “Tetephone for Offices Main 1727. Vnvedecined. pledies foe sale. Telephone Call for Stable, Main 361 Pennsylvania Ave, N. IW. | sone? ee BORROW'MONEY YES We will Iend you from $10.00 to $200.c0 on your furniture, piano, ete., and arrange the loan in as casy monthly payments as -you desire. Come to us for we deduct nothing and charge the least. If ou have a loan elsewhere we will pay it off and ad- vance you more money. Strictly con- fidential, private offices. __ SURETY LOAN COMPANY, Room 1, Warder Building, 2nd floor, gth and F Sts, N. W. MONEY For everybody at rates lower than the lowest. Don’t be deceived; come to us and investigate, Business strict- ly confidential. No one knows of your transaction with us. We lend on furniture, pianos, or salary. "If you have a loan now anywhere and need more money, come to us. Noth- ing deducted from loan. You get full amount, Extension in case of sick- ness without extra charge. f METROPOLITAN LOAN AND TRUST CO.: 505 E St, N. W. $10 to $300 On FURNITURE, PIANOS, TEAMS, ETC, without removal, at a low rate of interest. WHEN YOU BUY MERCHANDISE you go to a reliable house. Why not do the same thing when you borrow money? We are an old-established company, and ireat everybody alike. Isn't it worth your while to see us be- fore dealing elsewhere? We pay off other companies and advance you more money: We also loan on plain note to sal- aried employees, and make a specialty of Hoans to TEACHERS. POTOMAC GUARANTEE LOMK £0 928 F Stever, Northwest. JATLANTIC BUILDING. ROOMS 25 and {24 Second floor—easy stairway or elevator+ j. H. DABNEY, FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Hirrxe, Livery axp Sate Svrene. Carriages hired for funerals, var- ties, balls, receptions, ete. * Horses and carriages kept in first- class style. Satisfaction guaranteed. Business at 1132 Third street, N. W. Main Office Branch at 222 Alfred street, Alexandria, Va, * Telephone for Office; Main 1727. Telephone Call for Stable, Main 1482-5, . OUR STABLES IN . FREEMAN'S ALLEY. Where I can accommodate 5C horses, Call and inspect our new and moder- ate caskets and investigate our meth- ods of doing first-class work. 1132 Third street, N. W. J. H. DABNEY, Prop. —— THE ARCTIC ICE CREAM CO . “AND * . OYSTER HOUSE. 1723 Seventh St. Northwest. French and American Ice Creams, Ices and Sherbets. Fine Line of Oysters and Sea Foods Always in Stock. Cafe for Gentlemen and Ladies Prices always consistent With the ex- cellence of the goods Special rata offered to dealers, to churches and. religious bodies. I. E. Williamson Proprietor and Manager. 7 Telephone Connection. . ——— ‘Would Skin Wife-Beaters. Magistrate O'Reilly. In the Brook- lyn (N. Y.) Myttle Avenue court, ex- pressed his views freely regarding ‘wife-beaters. Turning to George J. | Haggerty. who was charged by his wife, Mary Hageerty, 30 years old, with assault in thethird 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 sald he was not a drinking man, and did not remeniber striking his wife. He was held in $360 ball forthe court of special sessions. ‘Preventive for inieves. An English burglar says thieves,. who are always very superstitious, will’ hever rob a house In which a cross" eyed servant 1s employed. Save your: exoss-eyed servants. coweret eran American Ice 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. “ = _ ge ~ ONES coe ¢ ™ ~ 7 - a ¥ . * . . ero . . AGRAFT FERRET new viceroy 1s ropuan.|THE TOWER OF PELEE] Witt SPAN_ RIVERSE? JALEXIS A YEAR OLD; To HONOR GEN. SicEL, ——— ‘7 Kish ob ti SEE 7 _ Handsome Bidge to Be Erected Soon \ —— Statue fa st, Louts to Meciory of Man MOSBY INVESTIGATING IN-| of Minto, Lord Curzon’s Succes- ours by Olty of Washington Over’ ) BUSSIA CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY ‘Whe Saved Missouri for sor in India, Expected to Keep | VASTCOREFORCEDFROM ‘Piney Branch, he ule, DIAN LAND FRAUDS, Peace with Eltchener, OF OLD VOLCANO, . : , OF HEIR TO THRON-. 3 ey bo —< aaa ‘Washington Directly, a ie wits a St. Louls—Germans trom all over ndon.—The earl of Minto, who has = the great series of municip: prove- | Pntire Hoyal Family, Including Nich-| the United States will meet in this eae: Leader, pitengt been appointed to succeed Lord Curzon] Once Over 5,000 Feet Atove Level of} coats rapidly extending throughout |" oj, pe bre Tes ie Merae Ger baat siitie te aor OR Rem ae in Years, as Bpry as as viceroy of India, Is one of the most} the Sea, But Now Exists Only {tne extreme northwestern part of this Czarevitch—Baby Has Out- . | Ory of Gen. Franz Sigel, the cavalry Mea se sO Coneal a¢ Hong- popular men of England who !s always) in Memory and on Photo- city Is the proposed new bridge across anpeuics WR leader who organized four reciments inder Haves. ee ee ee ee SRW ATS. pong Pry thipeiny is the propos w bridge actos " Kansas City.—Carrying an old fash. foned hickory cane, with a curved thandle, such a cate as could be pur. chased for 25 cents in any flint hill Missouri town, and walking as brisk ly and easily as if he were a man o} 30, Col. John S. Mosby, whose renown 88 a commander of guerrillas in the confederate army {s known to every schoolboy. bas gone to Oxlahoma t unearth graft in the Indian service His particular mission as an assistant attorney in the deyartment of justic is to investigate alleged frauds by guardians in, the management o! esiates of Indian miors, . Col. Mosby. from an ancestral stand pcint is a genuine Virginian. True t his Virginia instincts, he tells o Virginia and things Virginian. He re jca,.3 vividly the stirring events whic! he Eeiped mold into the permanen history of his land. He has strong}; cut features, the Jaw and nose of 1 figh*cr and small, dark eyes, deepl} t that peer quizzingly and ask ques ions without the use of wards. Col Mosty may have been a dandy in hi: ourger days, but he fs no longei ‘as’.ivus In bis dress, He does no se 1 Lacco in any form. Pro ably the most remarkable act tr 1 Mestys life was when he lef e ~ynfederacy and joined the repub can party The scorn and contemp hown by his fellow Virginians wher e troke southern traditions becami ractualy a social and politica gely for Col. Mosby. He was 1 lourishing lawyer in Warrenton, Va hen ke changed. Lifelong friend: & EARS : A i | iWZA QI BLN: Mi Riss wok hes TN sae Se reates turned their backs upon him and de- nounced him as a traitor to his people and his family, To speak of Mosby in Virginia was to execrate him. Co! Mosby talked about this whappy ex perience several days ago. Tapping his cane on the floor, he saiu: “My old friends now are ashamed of whal they did and said. They agree with me tha? it would have been better had all of us im the south begun early to heal the svars left by the strife that dev: as‘a‘ed our land.” President tlayes appointed Col. Mos- ty Amercian consul in Hongkong where he remained seven years. He wa: offired a place by President Grant. who deciared that he owed the elec torai vole of Virginia to Mosby. Mos by however, did not accept. Mosby afterwards was for 16 years an as: sistant attomey of the Southern Pac. fit Hairoad company in San Fraacis:o President Mqjinley remembered Mos. by and gave him a place as specia acent in the general land office Presi dent Roosevelt transferred him to the cepartment of justice. When Col. Mosby reached Hozg rong he found Dr. John Lochwood ol Virginia. Lochwood had-left the ‘tied States In 1861. He was In. ‘tsely bitter against the federal srhment. Mosby was the first vtederate that Lochwood had seen ‘wood did not know that the wat ally was at an ad until be saw \-\ and learned that he had come an offiaal of the federal govern. ‘on Grant was then on bis trip & nd the world and when be reached 1 -song, Col. Mosby, as the official : «sentative of the United States ul the steamer to welcome Prest- + Grant and his party, He was ac « aed by Lochwood,- Mosby was a iriend of the Grants and after * ..ging formal courtesies he in. + ed Dr. Lochwood, with the re- : “General Grant, I present to + the last fugitive confederate, and tiat you give him his parole.” Mrs. merceded smilingly and sald: Grant, I bespeak the most Ilberal tor Dr. Lochwood.” Lochwood ‘~ -omewhat abashed, but recovered + smposure and sald: “I would ~ " «ter to mo other man In the * + but Iam willing to surrender * man to whom Gen. Lee sur- sae “int Grant told Lochwood that * re gave him his parole and {| ‘hat he would return soon to S san lamd and help restore it ‘© jresperity. amd happiness. Dr. L sod grew to be an ardent ad- Direr of Presideut Grant. : NEW VICEROY IS POPULAR. Earl of Minto, Lord Curzon’s Bueces- sor 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 fs a good fellow. His term as governor General of Canada expired late In 1904, after several extensions. The Canadi- ans made vigorous efforts to keep him, but St was against the policy of the Brit- ish government to keep him there ‘onger. , The earl is a generous spender, demo- eratic, tactful and diplomatic. The gen- ‘ SEF, is & eS ' mim ey BB: b Dn > eq fi ae Les MY A725 i OX Loo itl i ie? 7a | He Wd DX EARL OF MINTO... (Successor to Bors Corson as Viceroy of eral opinion is that he will manage his conduct 60 that there will be no chance of a quarrel between himself and the stern and silent Kitchener. Lady Minto has superintended the so- cial side of their lives with the same skill that her husLand has displayed fn politics. ‘The earl of Minto’s full title 1s Str Gil- bert John Elllot Murray Kynynmound, P.C.,G. C. M.G.. Roxborough; Viscount Melgund of Melvrnd, county of Forfar; Baron Minto, of Minto, Roxburgh, and a baron of Nova Scotla. He is a B. A. of Cambridge university; was formerly at- tached to the Scots guards, attached to the Turkish army In the Russo-Turk- ish war, 1877, when he woa a medal; served in Afghanistan, 1879. winning a medal; In Exypt. 1882 winning another medal; in the Caradian rebellion, 1883. ‘when he won still another medal. He | was secretary of Lord Lansdowne. gor- | ernor general of Canada, 1888; captain reserve of officers and colonel and brig- adler general commanding Scottish bor- derers volunteer infantry brigade, The earl was born July 9, 1745, suc- ceeded his father as fourth earl of Minto du 1891; was married July 28, 1883, to Mary Csrollne, dauzhter of Gen. Hon. Charles Grey. and has two sons and hree daughters. He was educated at | ‘ton and Camtridce and entered the yeots Guards as an ensiza. He was vith the Turkish army in 1877, was In the Afghan war of 1879. saw service in the Egyptian ‘campaign of 1882, and’wai chief of staf during the northwest Canadian rebellion in 185%. Six rear: later Lord Minto succeeded bis father to the title and estates, He is a member of the privy council. CAPITOL OF ALABAMA. Building, Erected in 1850, Where Confederete States of America ‘Were Organized, Montgomery, Ala.—The rcom 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 paint. ings and historic Alabama men, was the place from, which emanated the initia. tory affairs of the Confederate States of America. From the dome alove its 8 £ = ane _ se — = ea as pep Rg a ee A eS Mfg a Se CAPIT LOF ALABAMA SORE SPs ent ar co aaa ete nes eer sea eracy Was Formed.) roof floated proudly the first flag of the young nation. torn toa heritage of blood and which lved only in the sac- rifices of the noble men who died for its maintenance and the suffering women who gave up their all that {t might be preserved. Im this room the Confederate States of America were organized, the provis- {onal 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 con- firmed, thé 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 buliding of which ft wasa 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 VAST CORE FORCED FROM MOUTH OF OLD VOLCANO, Once Over 5,000 Feet Above Level of the Sea, But Now Exists Only in Memory and on Photo- grapuic Plates. New York.—Nearly 1,000 feet high, half that size across one side of Its base and 350 feet on the other side, @ mass of solid rock larger than the Breat pyramid of Egypt, the tower at Mount Pelee, in Martinique, was the wonder of the world foF a little more than a year. It was tne 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 erup- tion. Tapering to a polnt at the top, it broadened down to the base, where it was pushed upward by the mighty forces of nature veneath, rising at the rate of 40 feet a day until it at tained {ts 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 wad st not ben wyr riits cunning through it, whereby steam in explo: quantities 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 ant seemingly undirected, that could pusl this mammoth obelisk from {ts firm place in the mountain upward Into the heavens! As it rose {t pushed th living rock aside. as a child migh push his finger through a mass 0 putty,’ On each slide great mound: arose as it trended upward, piling about its base, which covered 175,00 square feet as {ts period of greatest de velopment, It was first seen soon after the erup ‘tion which brought for the second tim: op Of YF SS oN sey rere od 2 Neer Eee | Vue Ne eB Bee Ls Vee Peres C 2B ELLY Bt Ae eZ PO ys xd ra apy Ga aa | yee ipa % Ce c ee # «4, iS eA AP... ge DN nt AE, SLD TEA 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 titanie activities of the eruption | at the time caused it also to disappear. Oa October 15, 1902, It stood out, a sLarp spine or thorn against the sky at the very summit of the mountain, and was noted by the members of the French scientific commissio. At the end of November it had reached a helgbt of S09 feet, In spite of the coa- siant crumbllag and falling off of the Tock at its top, On November 18 nearly 300 feet of {t fell from the malin structure. The loss'was soon made good. With the | rising of the tower the mountain about { increased in height, billawing up | into a great Irregular cone. Tower and cone together attained an absolute helght of:1,800 feet above the old sum- mit 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 {ts utmost hig” cos out against the tropic frmamé. when the ash clouds of the erust o.. permitted St to be seen, as.a landma:h ite for leagues about. But in the early days of July, 193, the same forces that pushed It outward and.up- ward began to tear it to pieces Be- fore the middle of the ‘month half of {t hal been blown to bits, lying abort Mts foot. During te second weck in August another 109 feet o. its altitude disappeared. As the tower itself dwindled the | mass below it began to rise Ina vat aomelike mound. From August 10 to | August 17 it gained 18 fect in height, jhrow August 2) to August 28 kx nse 1G# feet, and on the two days fo low- Ing 98 feet more. On September 9 {- lost 50 feet, just as It had gained «5 feet in a single day—August 30-31. Power lke this leaves the mind be- wildered. To realize It, note the pic- ture from a photograph taken by An- gelo Hellprin, of the Snefleld sctentifi- school, of Yale university. on June 13, 1903, and published in his new Look. “The Tower of Pelee.” Note the man. ner in which the rock at the base of the tower, here showing 800 feet of its height, has been raised and pushe. aside. And remember that within three months not a vestige of it re- matned to tell the story. The tower of Pelee exists to-day only in the memory of a few men and cn the photographic plates they were able to make of it, : Bitle Read by Many Toncues Last year the English Bible society ‘ai the Bible trazslated into 12 more tneuages, making the total number { languages In which it may now be e11 sth WILL SPAN RIVERS? Handsome Bidge to Be Erected Soon by Olty of Washington Over?” Piney Branch. Washington—Directly in, line witu the great series of municipal Improve- -ments rapidly extending throughout the extreme northwestern part of this city Is the proposed new bridge across the Piney branch on the line of Six- teenth street extended. Designs have al- ready been prepared, and only the ap- proval of Engineer Commissioner Bid- dle {s needed to start active opera- tions. Soon after that bids for con- structing the bridge will be favited, and {t is thought the contract will be awarded not later than September 15. Only the foundations will be lafd be- fore winter this year. This new bridge, which marks the far northward advance of the proposed | ag an ug a Se ey li a ¥ 4 | le bd i — - ee: ia °K? - PINEY BRANCH BRIDGE. (New Structure to Be Built in Washing. ton Soon.) 4 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 {ts highest point more than 60 feet above Piney branch. At the present time $20,000 {s available for prelimi- nary work on the structure, but con- gress has authorized ‘the commisston- ers 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 {s planned to Increase the width of the bridge to 70 feet-as soon as trafic on Sixteenth street ex- tended warrants the additional ex- pense. _ For the present the bridge will be completed at the width of 25 feet, tc appear ag nearly as possible like a finished structure. The span of the bridge will be 125 feet long. The Piney branch bridge will be en- tirely of concrete, with all spandrils hollow. The flooring, also of concrete will be 10 to 12 Inches thick and wil be supported by the outside gpandril walis and by inside steel columns. The columns and abutments are planned of the cellular type, the earth fill of the approaches being entirely on th: outside of the abutments. TO WED AN HEIRESS. Grand-Nephew of James G. Blaine Captures Heart ‘of Boston Mil- Monaire’s Eldest Child, Boston—Mr. and Mrs, Thomas W. Lawson have annoinced the engage- ment of their eldest daughter, Miss Gladys Lawson, a belle of 22, to Eben Blaine Stanwood, a .well-known society man. Mr. Stanwood {s the son of Francis H, Stanwood, of Bos- ton, 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 ~~ tf “ers a To ae va) , (ea os ‘s A FS 2 ES a x My . N | wt it Sa BER Y aw Nt SRR, ASRS Di: SE igs EGR 5 SI SS ao Fa es | A rf MISS GLADYS LAWSON. (Eideat Daughter of Miiilonaire Will Be . an October Bride.) athlete, and is the owner of the fa- mous Gypsy Queen, winner of more than a score of blue ribbons. Both she and her fiance are devoted to ani- mals, enjoy swimming, rowing, riding and golfing. Since the announcement of the be- trothal there has been continuous speculation as to whether the fortunate young man will continue bis 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, hacked 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 bach- elors, of which Miss Gladys is one, are meanwhile more interezted In the detalls of the bride-to-be’s trousseau. It fs to be most elaborate, as the wed- ding Is to be made a splendid affair. Emulatine Carnecie. . Morris: K. Jessup, the New « York millionalre, 1s emulating the exampie of Andrew Carnegie by giving $20,000 to the town of Westport, Conn., to erect a public library. Westport was oace Mr, Jessup’s home, and the build- ing fs intended as a memorial for the Jsss"p family, ,The town sgreed to sopropriate $1,000 annually for the lt brary's maintenance. ALEXIS A YEAR OLD. RUSSIA CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY OF HEIR TO THRON-. Entire Royal Family, Including Nich- olas, Fashion Toys for Infant Czarevitch—Baby Has Out- - grown Early Delicacy. St Petersburg.—The first anniver- sary of the birth of Grand Duke Alexis, heir to the Russian throne, was celebrated in a festive manner throughout’ Russ.a 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 brilliantls illuminated at night. : All the governnent 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 admts- sion to court, xent to Peterhot to offer thelr felicitations to the emperor and empress anf to participate in a special natal macs. Great preparations were made at Peterkof {n anticipation of the foy- ous event. Hundreds of presents were bought, atid almost every member of the Smperlal family fashioned some sort of toy with his or her own hands for the czar of Russia's baby boy. Alexis Nicholaleviteh’s sister, Grand Duchess Olga, made a wonderful clay model of Peterhof palace, and Grand Duchess Tatiana gave her baby brother a ttle 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 con: struction of a wonderful tin rallway train for the czarevitcb, which runs NR * ene D> a | ZA Be ip Hy yy de ae _ me, Bx OZ ek eg Sie Po Nee ceckale, Vy pe, SOF Ee SNE, gD i so Se, eas Reid <i ae eee SS I, ES ena? ite 0. ALEXIS NICHOLAIEVITCH (Infant Russian Czarevitch from a Picture ‘Taken Recentiy.) by clockwork on a, sort of switchback Kine. . | Following the example set by al} his family the czar himself spent several evenings In makiug a drea:ful looking Wooden serpent. Nicholas’ snake was -nainted black, picked out with red snd white spots, its body being Jointed | 9 as to enable it to wriggle in any | clrection, With characteristic thought: fulness the czar had the paint re: quired for the {07 specially" prepared, 'so that his little son might suck thr | Wooden serpent with impunity. The czarina, although much wo ried by the events of the last fc months, still finds time to spend mar hours {n daily worship at the shri: of her little prince. The czarevite from a delicate Infant, has crown int. a fat and chubby boy, much taller, an welghing considerably more, than the average child of his age. Much to his /mother's delight he ts dally becoming more and more like the czar, but his hair ts fairer and bis eyes mucti 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 /ezarina dispatched by one of her own /meszengers to the queen of Italy, the kalserin and Queen Alexandra of Eng: land dainty envelopes containle her ‘baby's photograph and a lock of hair cut from his head. According to Dr, Hirsch, the czare- vitch can already Isp several proper “grown up” Russian words. By the czar’s special instructions all attempts at “baby language” have been Imme- diately stifled, for Nicholas belleves in the Solovitt system for losically tegching bables systematically from the beginning simple and useful words. “1 wish my child to become a clever man and to waste no time on useless “baby language,’” 1s one of the many extraordinary utterances reputed to the czar since his mental breakdown after hearing of the fall of Port Ar Sia Lightning Art Work. * On the breast of one of the two brothers killed in New York by light. ning while bathing recently was im- printed a likeness of a tree. It was abgut 18 Inches long and was perfect even to the smallest details, including the coloring of the leaves. The like- ness was burned déep In the flesh. Physielans are unable to explain this phenomenon, a. there was no tree within several hundred feet of the spot where the lightning bolt struck. The wavs of I'xitning have long been past finding out. TO HONOR GEN. SIGEL, Statue in Mt, Louis to Mexiory of Man ‘Whe Saved Missouri for : ‘the Union. St Louis—Germans from all over the United States will meet in thls city next spring to honor the mem- ory 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 patriot{e 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 bis studio In Berlin. Cauer went to St a> Gad ae STATITE OF GEN SIGEL (Wil Be Erected at St Louis Next Spring.) Louls last year and modeled the facial likeness from original photographs of Gen, Sigel at the time ot the war, which accounts for. the remarkably life- lke resemblance which all who knew him will find in this magnificent eques- trian 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 {nto a glorious victory for the boys in blue. It was around this engagement that the famous hu- morous ditty, “We Fought Mit Sigel,” ‘was written—an unfailing source of patriotic mirth at every gathering of Kriegersereins In America. _ Gen. Sigel was a military) man of experience before he emigrated to the ‘United States as a “forty-elghter.” He took a prominent part in the Baden revolution of that year and was com- pelled to flee the country ‘on account of it, He was a schoolmaster tn the western states when the war broke out, but his old-time military spirit asserted itself and he went to St Louls to organize into four regiments the young German-American patriots resident there. History commonly ascribes the failure of Missouri to elde with the confederacy to thls German support of the northern cause. Bealdes being the first equestrian statue in St. Loufs, the Sigel monument will be the first raised to the memory of the services of German-Aimericans 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 Cau- tious 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, fs the con- servative leader, but recently has fa- AN EN) a ; ‘s ae ee ; a kid . i Lead sS* 1 Pa 3 s Gy a XS e. : SS a co SBS Ny Bs a eee a ras z: Fe fae TV PRESS i SXt AS 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 rikedag since 1885. Mr. Lundberg was, until bis accession to the cabinet, chairman of the committee on state affairs, the most {Influential parla-| mentary post In Swejen. He {3 shrewd and cautlous statesman, {s pos- sessed 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 3. Maurice Rouvier is looked upon as the strong man of France. Personally, he 4s a delightful companion of encyclo- pedic knowledge, as much at home in art as In questions of state. Unlike most of his countrymen, he spesks with calm antl restrained dignity. elo- quent and oratorical. , eo Larvest Safe in World. A safe now being made for the Premier Diamond Mine company !s tn- tended to hold $10,000,990 worth, ar diamonds. It will be the strongest safe ever constructed. Seven feet high, six feet wide, and welghing 21 tons, It will co:t $1000, The steel door alone will welgh five tons. :