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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. A FIRESIDE COMPANION. It is true if you see it in THE BEE. THE BEE. WASHINGTON The Bee GREAT ADVERTISING MEDIUM XIV. IT! VOL. XXV. NO. 36. [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit with a decorative pattern]. M. B. HON MARINE F.OLMSIED. H:n. Marlin G. Olmsted The Hon. Martin E. Olmsted, member of Congress, whose cut and biography appear in this week's issue, is one of the most popular members of the Pennsylvania delegation, and has made a great many friends both among republicans and democrats since he was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress, on the of his kind and business disposition. Mr. Olmsted is and always has been an uncompromising republican, and a true friend of the colored race. He is chairman of the committee on election No. 2, and has had some very important election cases come before him during his chairmanship of this committee. He has a member of several other important committees. Mr. Olmsted is a great admirer of President Roosevelt, and did a great deal in the recent campaign to bring about the tremendous priority given to the National ticket in Pennsylvania. Mr. Olmsted has just been elected to the Fifty-ninth Congress by an increased majority, and we feel safe in saying that we voice the sentiment of every red voter in the District, when we say that his re-election means a great deal to the colored race, when we see the democratic party doing all in its power to take from the negro all the rights guaranteed him by the constitution and need just such true and loyal publicans as Mr. Olmsted in the Fifty-ninth Congress, when there will be several important measures come before that body, involving the rights of the American negro. The Bee hopes for the time come when Mr. Olmsted will be called upon to fill a higher and more exalted position. Mr. Olmsted was chairman of the committee of the whole, on the Philippine staff bill and as chairman of the committee of election No. 2, his opinion is respected. DR. GORDON CANED In the south parlor at the residence of Dr. John Gordon on last Wednesday evening, was a scene that will be long remembered. There stood the massive form of Dr. Gordon; on his left was seated his son; on his right was Editor W. Calvin Chase of The Bee and Officers Green and Reed; in front of him were seated five African boys with Mr. Penick as spokesman. Mr. Penick had made every preparation to have his program carried out. Officers Green and Reed were there to see that proper order was observed, and it was, because around the residence of the president nothing could be seen but the shadow from the electric lights and the lights in the window of the president's residence. The beautiful veranda was plainly seen with covered winter way. Mrs. Gordon was a most happy lady. She was becomingly gowned in black silk entrain and the doctor wore his long, black coat, which gave him a dignified air. Mr. Penics wore conventional black with a striped vest of white and black, and his neck was beddecked with a ministerial color which gave him a Chesterfieldian air. He arose and with measured words he told Dr. Gordon what he had done for his African countrymen, and how much they loved him. He gave a graphic description of gifts from the foundation of the world to the present time. The gift that he brought as a token of esteem was from dark Africa. Small as it is, said he, it came 14,000 miles. They claim that we are heathens, but we have sense enough not to rebel or attempt to destroy that which is given light and Christian civilization. In presenting this token, said Mr. Penies, small as it is, believe me when I say that these African boys before you wanted to demonstrate to you that you had some friends and that they appreciate your services. May God bless you and your dear wife and children and may you both return to this country in good health is our everlasting wish. The cane was then passed from one to the other and then to Mr. Penick, who presented it to Dr. Gordon. He gave the history and pedigree of each African student, which was indeed interesting. In reply Dr. Gordon said that he was touched with a feeling of gratitude. That he would leave the city Saturday and within three weeks he would be on African soil. That he would visit many countries to which he had letters of introduction to the rulers. In Africa he will lean upon this cane and would tell the natives that it was a gift from their countrymen. Great applause. Throughout the delivery of Dr. Gordon's address he was frequently applauded by his guests. Editor Chase was introduced and made a few remarks which were well received. At the conclusion of the speech-making Mrs. Gordon invited the company to partake of refreshments. The cane was made from a design sent to friends in Africa by Pela Penick one of the students, and it took two months to get it here, the cane having traveled 14,000 miles. The head is made of the hoof of a Zaba, the fleetest animal in the world. Pela Penick says the animal is extremely difficult to kill, hunters finding it almost impossible to get close enough to it to shoot because of its cunning and swiftness. The stick is of African mahogany and the ferule is made from an African sea lion's tusk. A gold band around the stick is inscribed with Dr. Gordon's initials and a gold plate on the handle bears this inscription: "Presented to President Gordon by his African students." "Dr. Gordon has been like a father to us," said Penick and we desire to show that we are his friends. The other African students who are interested in the presentation of the cane are: John R. Sabo, Arthur T. Makanya, Joel D. Nyangi and Albert Sondizi. Dr. Gordon is preparing for a trip to Africa. After visiting all the points of interest in that country he will go to Jerusalem, Switzerland and points in Europe. His successor at the college has not been selected. Dr. Gordon's resignation followed a revolt of the negro students of Howard University, who about two months ago, at chapel services, became boisterous and demonstrated their dislike for the presi- A SOUTHERNER DEAD. Mr. James A. Davison, P. M. of Blacksville, S. C., died suddenly one day last week. He was respected by all classes of citizens of his town. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1906. A union meeting of all of the worthy masters and worthy mistresses and other officers and members of the Washington Division, U. O. T. R.; was held last Wednesday evening. This was one of the largest meetings ever held under the direction of Chief W. R. Griffin. The hall was crowded with a representative audience and the speeches were short and pointed. Chief Griffin, who is always an entertaining speaker stated what the object of the meeting was. He is a worker and the success of the organization in this city is largely due to him. Mrs. E. V. Gordon was the presiding officer, and she presided with dignity and decision. Among the speakers were Mrs. E. B. Jordan, Mrs. R. N. Simpkins, Dr. A. V. Gray, Miss Minnie Lucas, Mrs. M. E. Washington, Mr. F. W. Dixon, Mr. Joseph Williams, Mr. Jno W. Stockton, Rev. D. D. Johnson, Mr. John Lewis, Mr. E. R. Washington, W. R. Griffin, Chief, M. E. Fennell, Secretary. The address of Mr. Griffin was full of good, sound sense. He gave an outline of the institution. Mr. W. Calvin Chase was introduced and spoke encouragingly of the True Reformers. His address was enthusiastically applauded. Mr. Samuel Francis sang very effectively two songs entitled, "True Love Never Dies," and "Keep Love in the Home When You Wed." Vice Chiefs, Messengers, Special Deputies, Officers and Members—As God commanded Moses to speak to the children of Israel, I feel it my duty at this time to speak to you, that you may speak to the 2,500 men and women who are following you, and say to them, "Go forward." I realize the position you hold since there are 1,200 officers in this division whose example for good or evil will be indelibly stamped on the hearts of your followers. As we are surrounded by evidences of useful lives, in the very construction of this organization, by men and women, some of whom have long since sickened and died, others, such as Sister Shepherd, Sister Jordan, Sister Motris and others, are here as living examples of useful lives. I shall speak to you on the "Possibility of a Useful Life." We can conceive of no better spectacle calculated to lead our minds to serious reflections than to raze upon the form of an aged person who has misspent a long life, standing upon the verge of eternity only to see and recall opportunities unimproved. Would time but roll backward in its flight and they be allowed to weave for themselves again the tangled web of life, they would set a better example for you and for me. Life with its thousand voices, wailing and exulting, is calling upon you to come up to the full standard of true man and womanhood and live useful lives. Not alone by its ultimate destiny but by its immediate obligations, uses, enjoyment and advantages. Life is a mission on which we are sent, it is heaven's best gift committed to our keeping, with countless benefits, and priceless boons, it must be a crowning triumph or disastrous defeat. It is of the utmost importance to us to make this journey a successful one. To make this year's work successful we must begin with right ideas. It is true that life is not mean, but grand. It is also a real and earnest thing. It has homely details, painful passages, a DR. JOHN GORDON True Ref.mrs Continued on 5th page Paragraphic News Lieut. Gen. A. R. Ghaffee was placed on the retired life of the army on last Thursday at his own request, after forty-five years' distinguished service. Fredtrick VIII. was proclaimed King of Denmark at noon last Tuesday at Copenhagen, Denmark, in Amalienborg Square in front of the palace. Kansas will hold a semi-centennial exposition in 1911 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Statt's admission in the Union. The exposition will be in Topeka. Dr. William G. Porter, one of the best known surgeons of Philadelphia, died last Tuesday of pneumonia. He was sixty years of age. The plant of the Bellefontaine Bridge and Iron Company, at Bellefontaine, O. was destroyed by fire this week, causing a loss of $50,000, with an insurance of only $4,000. A bronze tablet commemorating the admission of Ohio as a State was placed last Tuesday on the sub-treasury building in Wall street, New York. Carl Pflieger; a grocer of this city; was accused last Tuesday in the Police Court of selling goods at short weight. He was fined $100 or in default to spend six months in jail. Several of the officers o he United State Historical Society met t Monday night in this city as a man of respect to the memory of William M. Kinley, late President of the United States, and to pay tribute to his worth and the legacy of patriotism he has left. A price of $225,000 was paid last Tuesday in Boston, Mass., for Roger Ascham's "Schoolmaster of Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children to Understand, Write and Speak the Latin Tongue," printed by John Daye in London in 1570. A new York dealer purchased the volume. The Echo de Paris prints an interview with Marquis de Viana, an intimate friend of King Alfonso, who says that the marriage of the king and Princess Ena will take place in the early part of next June. D. E. C. Niel, editor of the Selma Journal, at Selma, Ala., received a letter from United States Senator E. W. Pettus last Monday authorizing the announcement that Senator Pettus is a candidate for re-election. The Earl and Countess of Yarmouth sailed for New York last Wednesday on the steamer Baltic. The Countess was Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg. The six-story building, No 1517 Chestnut street. Philadelphia, occupied by Oliver H. Bair, undertaker, was damaged by fire last Monday. The loss is $50,000. A telegram was received at the penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday from Attorney General Moody at Washington, ordering the release of Elijah Lynch, serving one and one-half years from Toledo for counterfeiting. The order came from Washington on authority of President Roosevelt. The First Baptist Church on 29th street, Newport News, Va., was destroyed by fire last week. The building was only recently paid for and was constructed of brown granite at a cost of $55,000. There is $5,000 insurance. Harry M. Smith, lawyer of Richmond, Va., one of the foremost in the State, called Mayor McCarthy a liar very emphatically last week. The mayor had said that the lawyer would say anything to win a case. Capt. Wm. H. Van Schaick was found guilty last Saturday of criminal negligence in failing to have fire drills on the steamer Gen. Slocum, which he com- ```markdown ``` DR. JOHN GORDON. HON. BENJAMIN P. BIRDSALL. manded in June, 1904, when that steamer burned, with the loss of over 1,000 lives. He was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by Judge Thomas of the United States District Court, New York: The safe of the Bank of Owasso, in the Cherokee Nation, Tulosa, I. T., was wrecked last week by robbers, who used dynamite. They escaped with several thousand dollars. The Republican Club of Trenton, N. J., gave a reception last Tuesday night, in honor of Gov. Stokes and United States Senator Kean and Dryden. Rado Miletich of this city, who said that somebody had been slipping around his table and dropping electric bolts in his coffee, was sent to St. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum this week. The finance committee of the City Council of Winchester, Va., have burned $12,000 worth of 1 per cent, redemption bonds, issued January 1, 1905. CONTENTION OF THE GRAND FOUNTAIN UNITED ORDER OF TRUE REFORMERS SUSTAINED BY THE JUDGE OF THE DISTRICT SUPREME COURT. Following is the clipping from the Post of Judge Anderson's decision: Policy Holders are Bound. Court Decides Fraternal Societies May Amend Charters. Judge Anderson's Decision in Case of Milly Cook Against Order of True Reformers Favorable Helms. An opinion of interest to members of fraternal organizations was rendered yesterday by Justice Anderson, of the District Supreme Court, in which he held in effect that such organizations may amend their charters, and that policy holders are bound by the new regulations, even though their certificates antedate the passage of the amendment to the charter, unless such certificates were regularly assigned to a third party prior to the amendment. The question arose on a bill of interpleader filed by the Grand Fountain United Order True Reformers against the executor and the heirs of Milly Cook, who had held benefit certificates in the order, which she had assigned to Mr. Brown, the executor, subsequent to the passage of an amendment of the charter of the association, limiting the class of persons to whom benefits might be paid. The association asked the court to decide whether the money should be paid to the executor or to the heirs. Justice Anderson, in directing the money to be paid to the heirs, held that the executor was excluded from receiving the benefit because of the amendment, notwithstanding the contention of counsel for the executor that the certificates were issued prior to the amendment and should not be held to be affected by it. NOT REMOVED. The report that was published some time ago to the effect that Prof. Hugh M. Browne, is principle of the Cheyne, Pa. Industrial School had been removed by the board of trustees of that institution was absolutely false and the board has publicly repudiated the false report. The report of the trustees further shows that Professor Browne has given and is giving entire satisfaction and his work is highly commended. Prof. Browne is one of the best educated men in the United States. His equal is nowhere to be found so far as intellect is concerned. This denial is very gratifying to the friends of Prof. Browne in this city and elsewhere. It is an aphorism true and unedicted that some men are born but very few become great by the dividual efforts. This cannot be of the Hon. Benjamin P. Birdsa Iowa. Br. Birdsa is Chairman of judicial committee of the Hous Representatives, the most important mittee in Congress. It requires a yer of ability to be at the head of an important committee. He is Chairman of the Merchant Marine Fisheries Committees, which are important. The people of Iowa great confidence in Mr. Birdsa. popular among all classes in his and especially among the colored w in his District. There is some traning him as the next governor state. The republicans say that he man that can be trusted and if nominated there is no doubt of hirion. Mr. Birdsa is a popular re can because he is with the people associates with his people. A man is not too big and appreciates his p and looks out for their needs is to succeed. Such a man is Benjar Birdsa, of Clarion, who was Beywannaga, Wis., October 26, 1855 educated in the common schools of and at the Iowa State University, City. By profession he is a lawyer admitted to practice in March, served as District Judge of Ele Judicial District of Iowa from Ja 1893 until October, 1900; has been married, his first wife, Mrs. Bert Schultz, divorced in 1886; remarried 1888 to Miss Belle Johnson, of eighth District and re-elected t Fifty-ninth Congress, receiving votes to 14,200 for J. N. Mallon, crat, and 1,388 for E. D. Mam socialist. Mr. Birdsa's record as a won for him a host of admirers was fair, honest and clean whi people of Iowa appreciate. There man in Congress today any more lar than Mr. Birdsa. He is : who looks out for his constituen B. T. WASHINGTON IN GO COMPANY. Editor of The Bee:— We are glad to see, at last, the Washington is struggling hard himself of the dead beats, bank office seekers and broken-down civilians of the District of Columbia several years this gang, has haunted very footsteps every time he cried Washington and have thereby kept of the cleanest and best professor business men of the community forming his acquaintance. Many know that Mr. Washington wo-d admired, received and respected, a much greater good to himself and munity if this gang could be shook. How does it look for a man Washington's standing to be seen time he comes to the nation's with men who are bankrupt, those have beat the common people over $80,000 of their actual hard-cash? We believe that the men we going to entertain him on the 1 February are business men who a scientious in what they are doin the local business league from incident down, with probably a few tions. They are men of standing community and have the interest masses at heart. Respectfully, A Business League Member A IAR PEOPFE. "Peculiar People" is a new book for the millions. By Mrs. Anbella Virginia Chase. NEW SUBJECTS. Every division, which are twelve (12) is discussed in a new way. The book will tell who the peculiar people are: 1. THEIR ORIGIN. 2. HE BECOMES A PECULIAR. 3. A MISAPPLICATION. 4. USELESS LEGISLATION. 5. NO LONGER BEGGARS. 6. HIS ABODE. 7. BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS. 8. IMITATIVENESS AND RESULTS. 9. THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE. 10. GOOD CITIZENSHIP. 11. UNWHOLESOME PRAC TICES. 12. EXCERPTS AND COM- MENTS. SUMMARY. MRS. ARABELLA V. CHASE KNOW YOURSELF. To know yourself you will have to read this book. library of every citizen. It is a book that should be in th- Fifty cents per copy, postage pre- paid, sent to any part of the world. Send money order or registered let- ter. Mrs. Arabella Virginia Chase, 1212 Florida' avenue northwest, or THE WASHINGTON BEE, 1109 Eye street northwest, Washington, D. C. CURIOUS LEGAL POINT. Ehall 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 paid 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 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 vouchers, 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 back 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. 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Following Brands: Private Stock, Old Reserve, Hermit Oxford, Tremont 5 TENTH SKEET, IN. W. Telephone—Main—16. FRATERNAL I. O. N. I. C. of A., fraternal, meets at Lecompte, La., the second and third Tuesday nights in each month R. E. Pickens, W. P. P. J. E. Dailey W. C. S. I. O. I. N. I C. of A. F., No. 127 meets at its office, 608 Bolton street east, the first and third Monday nights in each month. Rev. S. T Shephard, worthy president. T. P Haywood, W. C. S. Ocre Weathers W. P. P. Golden Star Department of the I O. N. L. C. of A. F., No. 248, meets at St. James, La., the first and third Saturdays in each month. J. W Walker, W. P. P. Alex. Anoisan W. C. S. Eastern Star Department, No. 243 of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. F., meets at Darrow, La., the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Leon Baptise, W. P. P. M. Baptise, W. C. S. Dempsey Wilson, W. R. S. 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. Joe Newton, W. P. P. M. B. Stewart, W. C. S. Fraternas Sunrise Department, No. 17, meets at Fort Worth, Tex., the first and third Wednesdays in each month. R. R. Sloan, W. P. P.; Henry Henderson, W. P. P.; M. Mathew W. F. V. P.; I. B. Balenger, W. C. S. Sunrise Department, No. 31, meets at Dallas, Tex., second and fourth Thursday nights in each month. A. R. Brown, W. P. P. S. A. N. Hamilton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W. R.'S. Savannah Slaughter, W. C. S. Department No. 13 meets at Lake City, Fla., first and second Monday nights in each month. Joe Dorsey W. P. P. W. M. Pasco, W. F. V P. Giles Duncan, W. C. C. B Bartley, W. C. S. To all Departments of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. Fraternal, the semi-annual pass word is ready for all Departments. Send for it at once. See Ritual, page 13. I. L. Walton Evergreen Department, No. 249, meet at Red Fish, La., the 1st and 2nd Friday in each month. A. T. Finley, W. P. P.; Chua Degar, F. V. P.; A. T. Finley, W. C. S. Harmony Department, No. 71, meet H. S. HADLEY OF MISSOURI A UNIQUE FIGURE. Sketch of Attorney General Who Is Trying to Show That Standard Oil Company Is Nothing But a Trust New York.-Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general of the state of Missouri, who recently tried to worm out of Henry H. Rogers and other Standard Oil witnesses the true relation between the Standard Oil company and the so-called independent concerns doing business in Missouri, is almost as unique in his way as Gov. Folk himself. Mr. Hadley is only 34 years old, but already he has made a name for himself as a brilliant lawyer. He was elected corporation counsel of Kansas City, Mo., when only 27 years old, and at the age of 30 he was chosen public prosecutor, serving in that capacity for two years, while Mr. Folk was making his reputation in St. Louis, at the other end of the state. Defeated for reelection in 1902, he determined not to enter the political arena again, and accepted a retainer from the street railway interests of Kansas City. But in a Republican state convention in Missouri, a year ago last fall, he was forced into nomination against his will. Named to break a deadlock by a speaker who was already on the stage to put in nomination another man, his friends carried him bodily to the rear of the hall, in order to prevent his protesting against his own nomination, which was unanimous. He made an active canvass in what looked to be a forlorn hope, and was elected. Hadley, who for the time being, at least, is a national figure, declines to pose as a reformer. He says he has no message from the west to deliver to the east. As an individual he has nothing against Henry H. Rogers or John D. Rockefeller. It is not his purpose to inquire into secrets of "the System," except so far as they have a direct bearing on the case at issue. Though he is closely associated with Gov. Folk, he asserts he is not completely in sympathy with a movement which is proclaiming ne- [Illustration of a man in formal attire]. HERBERT S. HADLEY. (Missouri Official Who Is Probing Standard Oil Company.) HERBERT S. HADLEY. (Missouri Official Who Is Probing Standard Oil Company.) cessity of sweeping changes in the nation. Mr. Hadley does not profess any particular sympathy with the onslaughts being made against trusts generally. If anything, he is rather favorably disposed towards them; but his personal opinions he keeps in the background in the effort to bring out evidence in connection with the charge that the Standard Oil company controls all the companies doing business in Missouri, and has so manipulated things that there is no competition there in the business, the territory being divided up among several companies, all of whom are controlled by Mr. Rogers and his dummies. "If the case of the state of Missouri is successful, it will mean that the state will be opened to great private oil interests of Kansas, which are now unable to sell their product at any price. The Waters-Pierce company would lose its charter and the Standard and the Republic companies their licenses to do business within the state. Pipe lines would at once be run from Kansas oil fields and an outlet would be afforded which is now lacking for product of that state. "As to Mr. Rogers and his refusals to answer all pertinent questions, it is an exhibition of the latest methods adopted by the masters of Standard Oll. Next to a reputation for purity of personal living the surest way to reach the heart of the people is through its sense of humor. Mr. Rockefeller entertained the American Humorists' association in Cleveland, and now Mr. Rogers is taking advantage of his opportunity to pose as a humorist. It goes without my saying that it he is a very able and a very brilliant man, but his pose ought to be too transparent to deceive the public." A Mexican's Proof of Bravery. Jose Maria Huerta, with a number of friends was standing in a saloon at Guadaloupe, Mexico, recently, when he suddenly drew a pistol, and to show them how brave he was, declared he would kill the first person who passed, and, cocking his gun, he stood in the doorway waiting. Suddenly a shot was heard, and, looking out, Huerta's companions saw Rafael Martinez, who happened to pass by, lying in the middle of the street, in his death agonies. Huerta had kept his word. His friends, horrified at such a cold-blooded murder, seized him and delivered him to the police. Clay Modal Heads of Various Kinds the Latest Departure in Horticulture. Who remembers the time when there was not a popular craze? It seems impossible for people to exist without some pet fad or other, be it ever so trivial or foolish. Ladies especially have a weakness in this direction, though with them it usually takes the form of a new pet animal. The gardening profession has not escaped the general search for novelties, and a year or two ago Japanese fern-balls were all the rage also. quaint fern figures were formed to represent various birds and animals. These were readily bought by the novelty-seeking public. The latest quaint idea of the gardener is clay model heads, the faces of which are marked by all manner of queer expressions. Around the scalp where the hair should grow, on the eyebrows, and on the upper lip, the models are cut in lines, which reduces the clay to such a thickness that it is porous. These model heads are hollow, and have to be kept filled with water, and on the prepared places a special fine grass seed, which is supplied with the heads, is sown. In the course of a week a fine crop of lovely silky grass sprouts out, giving the heads a very quiet and bright appearance. As the water evaporates or leaks through, the heads must be refilled. Quite a surprising number of different expressions and types can be produced with the same head, by varying the growth from an abundant crop in one place to a ragged growth in another, or entirely omitting to sow the seeds in various places. A clean shaven, bald-headed, benevolent old gentleman can be portrayed faithfully on the same head that with a different growth will show a man with abundant hair and long beard. Eyebrows can be grown or omitted at will and since the heads are modeled with comical expressions to start with, when grown in quaint designs they are certainly the most mirth-producing garden decoration that has been invented. GOVERNOR OF MOSCOW. Admiral Doubassoff Has Been Instrumental in Crushing the Rebellion in Russian City St. Petersburg.—Admiral Doubassoff who is in command of the imperial troops at Moscow, and is governor general of the old capital of the zars, recently used stern measures in repressing the revolutionary outbreak recently. He is charged with having armed the Black Hundred, and to have aided in their desperate work. Doubassoff is a representative of the aristocratic reactionaries, and is not in touch with the reform movement, believing that autocracy is the only rule for Russia. Little is known of his naval exploits or of the achievements through which he has advanced, but his work in killing and imprisoning the revolutionists has been thorough and he has spared neither sex nor age. All who MADRID ADMIRAL DOUBASSOFF (Russian Commander Who crushed Rebellion in Moscow) have raised the red flag of rebellion have been mercilessly pursued and shot down and at times even capitalization did not stop the bloody work. The casualties among the rebels are reported to be enormous, and mainly, because the orders of Doubassoff were so implicitly followed by those under his command. He is not an old man, having reached only the age of 55, so what the future holds for him is not known. Should the fires of rebellion become as fierce in any other section of the city's domain as it was in Moscow, it is expected that the admiral will be transferred to the new scene of operation and be allowed to work his will. Rats Get the Coin Arthur Bocyle, depot master at Atchison, Kan., says that rats carry away money almost as fast as it falls through the cracks of the platform. They are attracted by the brightness of the coin and by the fact that it bears the odor of the human body. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Leave Station, New Jersey ave & Cat. ROYAL BLUE LINE. Trains "Every other hour on the odd hour." To Philadelphia and New York. a m. Diner, Pullman Parlor. a m. Buffet, Parlor 5 lr.Train a m. Diner and Pul man Parlor 10 p.m. Coaches to Philadelphia. 10 p.m. Diner and Pullman Parlor 10 p.m. Coaches to Philadelphia. 10 p.m. Sleepers. 15:34 a.m. Sleeper. At an ice Cuv. $7.00, $9.00 $11.00a.m $4.00. $3.00 p.m. Every Hour on the Hour. To Baltimore with Pullman Service. Week days 2 5. 5. 00, 6. 20, 7. 00, 7. 20, 8. 00, 8. 50, 14. 00, 14. 00 a. 10. 00, 12. 00 10. 00 10. 00 2. 00, 3. 00, 4. 00, 4. 45, 5. 00 5. 35, 5. 45, 6. 00 6. 00 6. 45, 7. 00 Grounds 2 5. 5. 00, 6. 20, 7. 00, 8. 00, 10. 00 11. 00, 12. 00 13. 00 14. 00 15. 00 16. 00 17. 00 18. 00 19. 00 TESTWARD. CHICAGO AND NORTHWEST. $11.00 GINNATI, ST. LOUIS AND LOUISVILLE 412-645-3144. 12:45 night. PITT BURG AND 11.00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. CLEVELAND 9.15P.M. GOLLWIS $*5.00 p.m. WKELLING $*10.05 a.m. $*3.00 p.m. WINCHESTER $*18.35am $*14.05 $*15.00 p.m. WAPOLIS, week days 72 o. a. m. 22 o. noon, 4.45, 6.00p.m. .. Sunday 8:30 a.m., and 5.30 p.m. DAY and ELKTON $*40.50 m. Th gbparlor FEEDERICE, $*18.25 $*9.15 $*10.00 $*11.00 a. m. $*11.00 $*12.15 p.m. HAGER TOWN, $*10.05 a. m. and $*11.00 a. m. BAY PARK, way points $*13.55 $*15.15 a. m. $*15.50 $*15.35 $*10.10 $*11.30 p.m. KAITHERSBURG and way points $*12.50 a. m. $*12.50 $*12.50 $*10.15 $*11.30 p.m. WASHINGTON JUNCTION and way points $*15.50 a. m. $*15.00 $*15.30 p.m. Begage called for and chanced from hote and rendered by Union Transfer Company, o orders left at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania ave. northeast, New York avenue and Fifteenth street and station. N H Weg Diet Pam' Ag' BALTIMORE AND OHIO TERMINAL AT TWENTY-THIRD STREET, NEW YORK CITY. All passenger trains of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to and from New York City now have direct ferry connection with 23rd Street Terminal, in addition to Liberty Street; the South Ferry Terminal having been discontinued. twenty-third Street is the most popular terminal of the great metropolis because of its convenience to the hotel, theatre and shopping district. In the recent remodeling of the terminal building a glass roofed canopy was constructed fifty feet wide, under which the cross-town cars of the 14th, 23rd, 28th and 29th Street lines pass, so that passengers are protected from the weather leaving the ferry house, and also avoid the annoyance of street traffic. All baggage destined to New York City will be delivered to 23rd Street unless distinctly marked "Liberty Street," or otherwise. A complete electric cab service has also been established for the transportation of passengers and baggage at very reasonable rates. The importance of 23rd Street is most graphically brought to attention in the August number of the Book of the Royal Blue published by the passenger department of the Baltimore & Ohio, under the title "Into the Heart of Gotham." The interest centers within a mile radius of 23rd street, Fifth avenue and Broadway. Full page photographs of unusual detail present a most vivid picture of this most interesting locality. Send 5 cents for copy to D. B. Martin, Manager Passenger Traffic, B & O R. B., Baltimore, Md. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. An organization a sketch and description may easily assert our opinion free whether an invention is truly patentable. Our communication is confidential. Our handbook on Patents provides an agency for securing patents. We take a token through Munn & Co. to receive patent fee, without charge, in the Scientific American. A hands-on illustrated weekly. Largest current scientific journal. Terms: 84 years, 8 months. $1. Sold by all newadsockers. MUNN & Co. 361 Breadader. New York Branch Office, 65 W. St., Washington, D.C. When looking for good shoes, don't leave out Richardson's fine shoe store at 1229 Penna ave., N. W. He is carrying one of the finest line of men's shoes that ever was put upon a counter in this city. Mr. Richards is a Washington 20, and if your shoes are not what he says, they are, take them back. You don't have to wait to hear from the firm out of the city. The firm, this city, at 1229 Pennsylvania avenue, N. W. McCall Pattern 10 15 BENZ MODEL McCall Pattern 50 YEAR Made in a FREE PATTERN These examples McCall Patterns sold in the United States may be made in a FREE PATTERN. This is no amount of money to be paid. McCall's Magazine (The Queen of Fashion) has many subscriptions than any other Lady's Magazine. One year's subscription (15 members) costs $80. Another number, & copies. Every subscriber gets a McCall's Fashion Magazine. Lady Agents Want it. Handmade promotions on Liberal cash commission. Fashion Catalogue of doe de-signal and Premium Catalogue fabrising one pressing and Sends THE McCALL CO. New York. THE BEE AND McCALL'S GREAT FASHION MAGAZINE for one year for $2.00. COUPON. Editor Bee:— Find enclosed two dollars. Send to my address below The Bee and McCall's Fashion Magazine for one year. Street ..... Town or City..... BUY THE NEW HOME LIGHT RUNNING SEWING MACHINE Before You Purchase Any Other Write THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY ORANGE, MASS. Mary Sewing Machines are made to sell warridess of wear, but the "New Home" > made to wear. Our guaranty never runs out. Walmart Sewing Machines to suit all conditions of the trada. The "New Home" stands at the head of all High-grade family sewing machines. Folded in half, designed for easy use. OPPENHE:MI RAND BRO. CHRISTMAS AT JAY GOULD. A little girl can make Christmas Tree Ornaments with Tinsel, Pictures, Favors, Toys and Wonders for Children's Christmas. J, JAY GOULD, 421 9th Street. A JEWELRY STORE IS THE BEST And Voight's, 725 7th street, is the best jewelry store at which to make your purchases. Our stock and prices are so varied that every pocketbook is sure to be suited. We have many inexpensive but dainty little novelties here which will make excellent gifts. We do all engraving free, and will lay aside-your purchase upon payment of a small deposit. Every price below has the ring of a true bargain. Gentlemen's 20-year gold-filled American stem winders, $11. Gentlemen's solid gold signet rings, $3.50 up. Ladies' solid gold rings, $2 up. Babies' solid gold rings, 75c. up. Ladies' diamond rings, $5 to $150. Ladies' diamond brooches, $5.50 to $1,- 000. Diamond earrings, $15 to $500. Solid gold sacred hearts, 75c. Rosaries in emerald, ruby, pearl, garnet, sapphire, opal, topaz, bloodstone, and jade, $2 up. High-grade prayer-books, $1 up. We are showing an artistic line of gilt clocks, cut glass, silverware, umbrellas, &c. Also a large line of china, imported from Austria, Prussia, Limoges, Wurt-temburg and Bohemia. We make a specialty of prize cups, $5 up. FUNERAL DIRECTOR. HIRING, LIVERY AND SALE STABLE Carriages hired for funerals, tare ties, balls, receptions, etc. Horses and carriages kepr in first class style. Satisfaction guarantee. Business at 1132 Third street, N. W. Main Office Branch at 222 J req street, Alexandria, Va. Telephone for Office Mait 1727 Telephone Call for Stable, Maine 1482-5. OUR STABLES IN FREEMAN'S ALLEY. Where I can accommodate 50 horse- Call and inspect our new and moderate caskets and investigate our methods of doing first-class work. 1132 Third street. N. W. J. H. DABNEY. Pup. RIDER AGENTS WANTED No Money Required until you receive and approve of your bicycle. We ship to anyone on Ten Days Free Trial Finest guaranteed $10 to $24 with Coaster - Brakes and Punctureless Tires. 1903 & 1904 Models $7 to $12 Best Makes..... Any make or model you want at one-third usual price. Choice of any standard tires and best equipment on all our bicycles. Strongest guarantee. We SHIP ON APPROVAL C. O. D. to any one without a cent deposit and allow 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL before purchase is binding. 500 Second Hand Wheels $3 to $8 taken in trade by our Chicago retail stores. all makes and models, good as new..... a bicycle until you have written for our FACTORY PROJECTS AND FREE TRIAL OFFER. Tires, equipment, sandies and sporting goods of all kinds, at half regular price, in our big free Sundry Catalogue. Contains a world of useful information. Write for it. PUNCTURE-PROOF TIRES $4.75 PER PAIR Regular price $8.50 per pair. To introduce $ we will Sell You a Sample Pair for Only 4.75 MAILS, TACKS ON GLASS LIST OUT THE AIR NO MORE TROUBLE from PUNCTURES Result of 15 years experience in tire making. No danger from THORNS, OAUTUS, PRMS, NAMS, TAOKS or GLASS. Serious punctures, like intentional knife cuts, can be vulcanized like any other tire. EASY RIDING, STRONG, DURABLE, SELF HEALING FULLY COVERED by PATENTS BEWARE OF IMITATIONS Seed for Catalogue "T." showing all kinds and makes of tires at $2.00 per pair and unalso Coaster-Brakes. Built-up Wheels and Bicycles-sundries at Half the usual price. Notice the thick rubber tread "A" and puncture strips "B" and "D." This tire will restart any other make-soft, elastic and easy Riding. We will ship C. O. D. on APPROVAL AND EXHIBITION from our department. We will allow donations of 15 (therapy making the price $4.50 per pair) if you send full cash with order. Tires to be returned at our expense if not satisfactory on examination. MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. "J.L." CHICAGO, ILL. ROAD HAS WOMAN HEAD. Santa Monica, Cal.—Work has been commenced on an electric railroad from Santa Monica to Hueneme. The name of the new road is the Hueneme, Mallbu & Port Los Angeles, of which corporation Mrs. May Rindge is president and H. W. Lomcke general manager. The company is capitalized at $1,000,000, and will have its offices in Santa Monica. The road follows the beach, and in Ventura county will connect with the Burson road for Ventura, and thence to Santa Barbara. Rails, rolling stock and equipment have been ordered to the east. Several hundred yards of track have already been laid and a force of 200 men will soon be at work. The line will be extended from Santa Monica to Los Angeles, and at the other end, after reaching Santa Barbara, it is expected it will be ultimately pushed on to San Francisco. The section of the road now building is the first part of what is proposed to be a beach trolley line from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Mrs. Ringe, whose name appears as the president of the company, is the widow of the late multi-millionaire Frederick H. Ringe, who initiated the enterprise. Ringe left an estate of $35,000,000, which fact guarantees the financial stability of the present undertaking. WILL MOVE THE TOWN. Steel Corporation Likely to Change Site of Sparta, Where Drills Have Been Working. Duluth, Minn.—it is probable that the village of Sparta, two and a half miles east of Eveleth Mesaba Range, will have to be removed to a new location near the present site. The town, which has a population of 1,000 people, has met with the experience of Eveleth in its earlier days. Iron ore has been found beneath the town site, and to mote it it will be necessary to remove the buildings. Diamond drilling has been in progress in the village, or close to it, for the last two years, and while there is no official information as to the extent of the ore discoveries, it is the general understanding that the existence of large bodies of mineral has been proved. The exploratory work has been done by a steel corporation, which controls the mineral rights in the town site. The village was established eight or nine years ago, when the Genoa mine was opened. This property is still in commission, as are the Malta, Sparta and Pettit, in the same field. The Hobart mine is a new property being opened up near Sparta. Indiana Girls Oppose Late "Spooning" and More Than Two Nights a Week. Logansport, Ind.—For the purpose of discouraging swains with a disposition to monopolize all their time and to encourage the habit of "breaking away" early, the Cupid Ten O'Clock club is waging a reform tor sanity in lovemaking. Miss Florence Moore, the founder, is the president. She declared that two evenings a week was abundant opportunity for the prosecution of the most ardent suit, and believes that "no two young people can have anything so important to say that it cannot fully be discussed in a three hour call." Announcing in newspapers her intention to combat evils arising from too great familiarity before marriage, she called for enrolments in the new club, and declares it will revolutionize lovemaking in Logansport. She hopes to extend the idea throughout the state. Miss Moore is only 18 years old and is of a prominent old family Baltimore & Ohio RAILROAD. A NEW TERMINAL AT FOOT OF 23rd Steeet New York City HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED Affording a most conevient entrance near the centre of the shopping and hotel district. The Down town terminal at foot of LIBERTY STREET Ferry Service to and from South Ferry-Whitehall Terminal has been discontinued B.N. AUSTIN. C.W. BASSETT, Gen'l Pass. Agt. Chicago,Il. Gen'l Pass. Agt. Baltimore, Md. D.B.MARTIN, Man. Pass. Traffic, Baltimore, Md. THE ARCTIC ICE CREAM CO AND OYSTER HOUSE. Fine Line of Oysters and Sea Foods Always in Stock. Cafe for Gentlemen and Ladies Prices always consistent with the excellence of the goods. Special rates offered to dealers, to churches and religious bodies. I. E. Williamson Proprietor and Manager. Telephone Connection. 8 THROUGH STREET CAR SERVICE BETWEEN THE NEW TERMINAL OF THE BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. AT 23D STREET, NEW YORK, AND GRAND CENTRAL STATION. On October 23rd the Metropolitan Street Railway Co. of New York inaugurated a new line of through street cars between West 23rd Street Station and Grand Central Station of the New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, on a four minute headway between 7:30 A. M. and 7:00 P.M. making the distance between the two Stations in about twenty minutes, without transfer, on a five-cent fare. In addition to this excellent arrangement is the splendid electric cab service at reasonable rates. All trains of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. have direct connection to and from the New Terminal at West 23rd Street, New York. WE DO BUSINESS AT ONE PRICE Misfit Cloth ing Parlor, Pine Garments (Slightly Worn) Made by Our Leading Tailors. IUSTH'S OLD STAND. Established 1865. 619 D St. N. W AGENTS WANTED Honey Required receive and approve of your bicycle. Ten Days Free Trial granteed $10 to $24 Models Brakes and Punctureless Tires. 04 Models $7 to $12 OUR ROADS IN LEAD. AMERICA IS FOREMOST IN THE WORLD'S RAILWAYS. This Country Owns 211,074 of World's Total Mileage of 543,000—Bureau of Statistics Reports Uncle Sam Ahead. Washington.—The United States leads the world, both in the present mileage and the recent growth of its railways. This is shown in a report on "The Transportation Routes and Systems of the World," issued by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. It points out that of the total railway mileage of the world, aggregating in 1904 543,000 miles, there were 211,074 miles in the United States, 35,323 miles in European Russia, 32,967 miles in Germany, 28,102 in France, 26,950 in India, 24,120 in Austria-Hungary, 22,631 in the united kingdom, 19,611 in Canada, 15,560 in Africa, 14,113 in Australia, 11,553 in Argentina, 10,356 in Mexico, 9,961 in Italy, 9,368 in Brazil, 7,697 in Sweden, 7,322 in Siberia, Manchuria and the other former Asiatic possessions of Russia, 4,495 in Japan and 1,176 in China. Growth of the railways in the United States has been very rapid. Beginning in 1835 with 1,000 miles, the number steadily grew and in the decade 1865 to 1875 it doubled and then rapidly came up to the present number, which represents an outlay of $11,630,000,000 out of an aggregate cost of $37,000,000,000 for the entire world. The total tonnage of vessels flying the American flag increased from 5,212,001 tons in 1855 to 6,456,543 tons in 1905. This increase is due to the increase in the tonnage of vessels engaged in the coastwise trade. The tonnage of vessels engaged in the foreign trade fell from 2,348,358 in 1855 to 2,437,750 tons in 1905. Freight rates on both land and sea have decreased. The rate per bushel of wheat from New York to Liverpool was about ten cents in 1873 and about one cent in 1905. The amount of passengers and freight transported has increased considerably. During the last year the railways transported 719,654,951 passengers and 1,300,000,000 tons of freight. In 1885 the number of passengers carried was 351,427,688 and freight 437,000,000 tons. CAT FOUND ITS WAY HOME. South Dakota Feline is Swept by Flood But Finally Beaches Warmth and Comfort. Sloux Falls, S. D.—Not even a flood, in which several lives were lost and property to the value of many thousands of dollars was carried away, can destroy the family cat and prevent it from coming back. This was illustrated by the adventure of a cat belonging to the family of John Barkley, a resident of Fort Pierre, situated at the junction of the Bad and Missouri rivers in central South Dakota. The greater part of the residence district of the town was swept away by a flood last July, the flood being caused by a cloudburst up the Bad river. Among the buildings carried away was the home of Barkley. In the house at the time was the family cat, a big, tiger-striped animal known as Tabby. Nothing was seen or heard of the cat until a day or two ago, when it calmly walked into the new home which Barkley had erected and took its place by one of the stoves. Barkley expresses the opinion that the cat at the time of the flood was carried by the swift current directly across to an island opposite the mouth of Bad river, where it lived on rabbits and other small game until it discovered that crossing the Missouri river on the ice was possible, when it ventured to the main land and found its way to the Barkley home. BUG STOPS DIVORCE SUIT. Queer Defense Put Up by Husband Changes Mind of Wife and the Couple Are-Living Happily. Beaumont, Tex.-In the suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Anna Orren, of Parish, against her husband on the ground of non-support of herself and child, the husband answered the complaint in defense and declared that "the alleged non or insufficient support, if any, is from an act of God, whereby the living pestilence of the boll weevil did attack and has destroyed in various seasons his cotton crop, thus for the time charged by the plaintiff reducing him to impoverishment and rendering him powerless against the Divine will to provide support." Upon being informed of her husband's defense, and he having in the meaptime abandoned cotton and gone into truck farming, Mrs. Orren withdrew her suit, and the two are living happily together again on the farm. Cassie's Hard Luck A dispatch from Columbus says Mrs. Chadwick will be compelled to work at the washtub during her stay in the Ohio penitentiary. Here is additional evidence of the fact that woman labors under disadvantages in this world. If the lady who wrecked banks and took the savings of other people for her own use were a man she would no doubt be provided with an easy job in the bookkeeping department. Ancients Shot Craps. An English scientist claims to have discovered evidence that the ancient Britons played dice, and loaded dice, too. Oh, the virtue and goodness of the "fathers!" BUYS TEXT; FINDS SELF THE ONLY HEIR. Malvern, Pa., Woman Secures Poor for a Few Cents, as Memento, and Valuable Paper Silips from Between the Pages. Philadelphia.—Under curious circumstances Miss Bertha Johnson, of Malvern, this state, has discovered that she is the sole heiress to an estate amounting to over $10,000, which had been left by her agel cousin, Mrs. Emily Robinson. Incidentally the story is one of disappointed relatives who had expected to obtain Mrs. Robinson's fortune, and a reward for Miss Johnston for a life spent in loving care of her cousin. When, a score of years ago, Mrs. Robinson's husband died, she was thought to be a widow with scarcely sufficient property to provide her support. She had several nephews and nieces, who, although they were better supplied with worldly goods than Mrs. Robinson, failed to offer her a home, or give her any financial aid. Miss Johnston, who was a more distant relative, had been left a home by the death of her father and she promptly offered to share it with Mrs. Robinson, which the latter accepted. It was not long after this that a valuable limestone quarry was found on some supposedly worthless land which belonged to Mrs. Robinson. This was sold and the widow and her kind-hearted cousin were enabled to more than keep the wolf from their door from the proceeds. About a year ago Mrs. Robinson died. A search was made of her effects without discovering a will, and one of the nephews who had failed to aid her in her time of need was appointed to administer the estate. Preparations were made to divide her property among the nephews and nieces to the exclusion of Miss Johnston. To finally close the estate; the widow's few articles of personal property were offered at public sale this week. Determined to have some keepsake of her cousin Miss Johnston attended the sale. At last, the old Bible with which Mrs. Robertson had spent many comforting moments in her de liring years was put up. The bidding was started but no one seemed anxious to acquire the volume, and Miss Johnston secured the well-worn book for a few cents. The auctioneer handed it down to her, and as he did so, a neatly folded paper fell from it. Opening it Miss Johnson found it to a will, duly signed and witnessed, by the terms of which Mrs. Robinson had left her entire estate to her benefactor. The nearer relatives consulted counsel in an endeavor to have the will broken, but without success. FAMOUS SHIP TO BE SOLD Missionary Craft Taken to Honolulu Where It Will Be Auctioned to Highest Bidder. Seattle, Wash.—After being used for 18 months among the Micronesian group of islands in the South seas the famous missionary ship Morning Star has been taken to Honolulu where she will be sold at auction. The Morning Star was bought by the pennies of Sunday school children throughout the country. Her cost was $40,000. The steamer was originally the Shoe City, running between Boston and Lynn. Eighteen months ago the Morning Star sailed from Boston with a party of missionaries bound for the South Sea islands. After landing the people the steamer was employed carrying supplies from the various islands and missionary stations and also in carrying native children to the Christian schools. There are few vessels about so well known to seamen as the "Preacher Ship," as she was named. The reason for selling the steamer is stated to be the cost of operating her. Coal in the South seas commands a higher price than in more frequented portions of the globe, and the traffic would scarcely justify the board retaining no large a steamer. WANTS CURB ON MARRIAGES John Gibson Hale of Chicago Asks Law for All Kinds of a Check on Cupid. Washington, D. C.—Mr. Jenkins, of Wisconsin, chairman of the committee on judiciary, is in receipt of the draft of a measure which he is asked by John Gibson Hale, an attorney of Chicago, to introduce and have passed, and which deals in a radical way with the marital relation. The proposed measure provides for a physical examination of all parties applying for a license to enter into marriage, requires that they shall be in a state of health. Imposes a tax on married couples without children, puts a bounty on children in the way of taxation exemptions and provides for a tax upon bachelors. Mr. Jenkins is both a husband and father, but he is not disposed to introduce the measure unless, he does so by request. Bare Bird Caught. H. Walter Hand, of Cape May, has captured a corn crake (Krex-krex) while hunting on the meadows. It is the only specimen ever captured in that section, and the second ever found in south Jersey, the first being found in 1856, in Salem county. The bird is an upland brother of the water rail and of European origin, but how it got into this country is unknown. iets thEU SP AIT RAT ZT cary 7 4 : 2 ‘ 1 AST Tati Dass paar ere * HCC, ee eer a rr re See, PusigM at, Ot 1909 Eye St, N. Wa Washington, D. C ca seth «Wi. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR: + Extered at the Post Office at Washing- (7 ‘ton, D.C, as secondéclass nail ae mate, 8! ; FSTAGLISHED 1850. _”. “HERMS AF SUBSCRIPTION, - On copy per year. ..serense02-+-F200 Six monthS......ssrsesereeeresene’ 1.00 Three Monthtseyeecsecsssseteeees bo ‘Subscribe unvathly..ssecscseseeees 29 - "PEE LIBERATOR. 7” _ Elsewher¢, in this paper will be ‘read with much interest, an editorial, on Howard University from the Lib- _ erator, a well edited paper published in Raleigh, S. C. The Bee’s esteein- ed contemporary doesn’t know the ‘ true situation at Howard University. The other fellows wanted the salary * and dono work. Dr. Gordon wanted the other fellows to work and eam their salaries and by teaching instead of preaching elsewhere for other peo- “ plé‘and attend to the charities at the University instead of attending them son the outside. If Dr. Gordon had “remained at the University things would have been different. Instead - of so much play among certain teach- ‘ers they would have been compelled “to work. é © -Now Prof. Fairfield, the friend of the negroes, so they say, has been ap; ‘pointed to succeed Dr. Gordon. This ~ is 2 temporary appointment. While “Piof. Fairfield, so it is said, is a great .-Erjend of the colored race, he imme- diately appointed his daughter clerk, When several colored persons wanted _ it, Miss Fairfield is. an excellent «young lady, but The Boe does think that some deserving colored ‘student _ who has to. work his way through SP ould aie ae “to the position. Néw in regatd to Mr. Roscoe Bruce being 2 satellite of Mr, Booker T. Washington, The “* Bee is aware of that. “Frontvall indi. ‘. cations quite a number of negroés in the United States -are the followers “of Mr. Washington and believe in his «doctrines of negro inferiority.” Why fs ‘not one of. his: satellites presi: **dent of Howard University? “What “Howard University wants. af! this ~ time ig money and a man who is able ~ to beg enough money to rug the in “:atititution, He must be a man-Awht “: his” been tutored, by’ a profestional “money getter and The. Bee believes “that Mr. Bruce is that nran’ again "Howard University need§'a reprgant évvation. If it is not “reorganized. very *" son there will be no univetdity, “Dr . Gordon was a good president.arid be + fore many mor¢ months ithe; negror “will sce what a blunder they hav ‘zemade. The Bee will give. its. read "3 ‘the benefit of the’ cdltorfal “from ENN tine SO TH EE 2294°57= "Cex PpruDE! AN «xeA Gratitude is the’ fairest. fowertthat Bloims iA the Humdn hedre;?ingrati- tude is stronger than traitor’s arms. :. ‘Fhe scene’ at the residence of Dy © "Gordon Yast Wednesday evening =e showed what gratitude was. There “\ qgere. five African -students; whose 2" environments have not been of w-civil- “*" Zed “character. Notiithstanding, ++ they have-taught the American n¢- i “Bro- a ‘lesson of ingratitude: ‘The “scene was amost pathetié one. ‘Five 2h ‘African boys, thirsting for knowledge **.tand* who have received some slight 2 assittaince from Dr, Gordon called * “upon him at his residence, and present: : eed him a snidll token of theirappre- ciation. When it was circulated that a cane was to be presented tg Dr. Gordon, certain riotous students in- tended to intercept young Penick and ” | prevent him from presenting the.cane. +He called upon the Editar of The. Bec _ ,and asked him to’ accompaity hith to : "Dr. Gordon which he did and. ac: companied by officers Green ‘and 1 Reed, two of the bet,urider “Major Sylvester's supervisicry- ast think, ot ~ it—young men asked to be protected from-a dirty mob of «tudents who are being encouraged by ~nt one. How: ard University: aught “to, be inves gated. Tee eee investigat every department of Howard Unive sich, pd itd “frfairefal: condition. Cor gress shquld knoi¢ how the thoney Seing expended and where it goe Also, what securities are given, whetl tr they are good or bad, whether th .ystem of bookkeeping: is .proper 0 rot. The-entiré institution should b: ‘nivestiffated at once, = CHRISTIAN POLITICIANS. | Inall the cities the curbstone polt siciar is in evidence. This city ha -dways been infested with the-curt tone politician. About ‘the beginnin xf every campaign there springs uy “n the city a lot of curbitqne polit: fans who,'do the ‘republican ‘party nore harm than good. This class o roliticians are also known as-grafters They go to republican candidates whe are ambitious ‘for recognition or nota ‘ricty and tell them that they hold thy negro republican vote in their hands: These politiciaris generally hold thei- 'neetings at the bar.counter.of restau -ants or upon a beer kég or in thc ‘yack rooms of a bar room. : If you were to ask them to name ‘the boundaries of the’ Distritt o. ‘Columbia they could not do so, It is well to organize the party in thi: city to get rid of these grafters in poli tics, becalise they are no good t6 them- sélves. or the party to which they claim identification, “These local statesmen have-an opportunity to dis play their oratorial ability, and they make endugh noise to last five years, ‘at which these ‘curbstone_ statesmen come out of their hiding. General H, Harris undertook to reform these individuals,- but, he failed, He was talking for an_honest lection two years ago and he did’all in his power stGhave aue, eTheorhecfellawscwho cried, thief stole the election from Gen. Harris, “The, Genesal is a wiser ‘politician-now. > He has had his ex- perience of the custodian politicians; het knows them; fe krioivs that, they fare, grafters and hot air statesmen. Gen. Harris would have been of more service to the tepublican ‘party . had he been placed on the National Com- mittee, Had he stayed’ away from the, curbstone’ politigians he would have .been’ the National .Committce- inan foday;’ It is these politicians that have. placed the, republican -party in Yhiis city in its present embarrassed situation, The republicaa, party needs such aman as*Mr-Chapin Brown or Goi. “Hartig ch the National Com mittee.. The xepublicin, party has nt man:to represent in- The administra tidn’ would xio"doubf confer Awith re publicans of influgnce. and character, Ir ts quite hard for 2District“repub: lican, so get's, job, He iP pefiona ny ‘grata at the District building and else where, "Get “tid: of ‘the curbstot i . COLOR’ AND. CULTURE. . She asserion' {5 Oitem sage iat ths col rpgle-of Washi are eRe eee a Gelion, Da ihe athe shew | song sep Jog hig att, but must be remembered that the state’ ingnit i % comparative ong; ‘and that it compares.colored, peaplé in Wash, iagton .with-colored people -in -athey parts of tHe’ countty. , Im-this view 0 the question let us examine, the fact :Culture is the manifestation. of de gested kridwledge, It, is* the’ powet which results from the acquisition of Knowledge. , It is the wisdom which comes of the Enowledge. dt facts ant things, The poet Tennyson, sf “Knowledge comes but wisdonr i | gers.” "That is'to say a person ma} have knowledge of many -things am yet have no wisdom. “So persons ma; Phave high and normal school ceri cates,-and college diplomas ‘and di deprets ahd yet be devoid of culture 1.” We have been led into this live 9 | houghe bx certain phenomena int thi teommunity, Fist, therevis the lec ture course of the Bethel Literar and Historical: Society. It is observ able that when the'‘subject of th lecture is, purely intellectual. or iter ary, the attendance is very small, shat there is almost an-sntire absenc of school teachers. Second, there j ithe course of free lectures which havi been ingigurated in conhection’ witt the public school systems. ‘Althoug’ the e tocrwres, for the most part, arg oi the &.:he-» standard of excellence tara undence og them ise -a'l ar sscouraging. Third, there is an € ire absence of clubs, circles and cla:s 3 for study and improvement. Now with the white people of thi ad other communities things aré dif zrent. They have various literay nd learned societies whose meeting we well attended, The lecture cour: 3 of the public schools are immenszl; opular, the attendance during th resent season showing a large in rease over last season. There also arious clubs, circles and classes fo ie study and intellectual improve ‘ent, to study languages, music anc ther subjects: around which collec ve interest may centre, ' Why do not the’colored people shov +t likesinterest in study and intellectua nbrovement?. It cannot be for the lack of num erss for the number in this city wh ave had fair educational advantage 3 quite large. -It cannot be for th AGE of means; for the majority o: he educated element has renumera ive employment. What then is the dticated element of the community’ Will some one tell us? DISTRICT: SUFFRAGE. Some sensible member of Congress as introduced a bill to increase the voard of District Commissioners and to give to the people a representative in Congress. This is what the peo- ple want. The people have gained some sense and they’ will send a nian to Congress who will fairly and just- 'y represent them. The best man wil! be elected whether he be a republican ot a democrat. The colored voters have learned sdme sense now. They will look for men and not for party. It is hoped that Congress will not permit the bill to sleep. If the peo- ple had a delegate in Congress they would not have to depend upon the District Committee for everything they need. They would have 2 man to represent them who was in touch with them, Let the bill pass. MR. WEST CONFIRMED. _ As The Bee said some time ago, Hon, Henry L. West would be con firmed by the Senate notwithstanding the foolish charges that have been filed against him, Mr. ‘West is one of the finest commissioners in the Executive office of the District gov- ernment and indeed, one of the most honest. ae No sane person would dare charge Mr. West with dishonesty. The peo- -sle-have-confidence in him. He has siyen the colored people. greater, recog- ‘ition than any commissioner that hag ever fic rges Rea rele Saeed were of the school boy character. TPR 10 the people HRT RU ees a all, Things that Congress, shquld investigate: index, she District gow rement seem 19 pass. unnoticed. The vonvict fabor should demand the con- sideration-of Congiess! *THietf again there are: “Jim - Crow” -cars—coming dosen't. Congress, Sn ee pre nt of, pregibiting the " Bare if ve ye Fe. Be. ka perotaign whiskey" 1d “over the bat thin the Fenatte WeN corrimittee will spend.e month inyesti- eating School: boy, ‘charges. preferred saat gut of hes roatraletnaichyd sere aioe tea fer ¢ ict agpyeznm: ik PARRA yng Sesciahoped: that- Congress Wilf ap | comedtag for We Easier, 28% 36 IM&., Nat Ganley 0G New York last weeks in-the, interests ‘Oa, Ir5 the a bay it. Mi. booker TSW: Siete to ‘gifs tigi Seousand dollars to the pes: Tig i ihe pea rwould aya hg aig te desitg “so Ea engi ton bed onion aipatipes wath hg ychiegy Mr, Werle ASIN yas lspRsREL: argh dignifiedly silent: 2 eae 2 te oes ce at NV EAE YO Bihréss dur. cornmen: 3Non of Sats Washingroh ‘tor Hs lisa 54 ibeices kaa WGTHST” ni i the ran Dix- (tO aT eT aig we oc are ueserving only of the Probably, better than any other an, Mr. Washington knows the fu- ality of trying to placate Southern rnaticism by a disclosure of social nbitions. He announced the policy uf unity in essentials and separate- ass in anatters social, ten years ago. very leading negro and white man .t the country has given assent to it, nd things have gone from bad to vorse. Are white men fools? How an there be intermarriage when thers 3 objection by either party? ASSESSOR DARNEIL. ‘There is one official in the District ‘overnment who has the courage o’ is convictions. There is one man tho is not influenced by sentiment. otwithstanding the attacks of Sena. ors or any other class of men. This yan is Assessor Darneil. He.is 2 ‘oung mian who has made his way ay hard work and hard knocks. He mdeavors to treat all citizens fairly and whenever a preson complies with the law he is the man to see that he zets justice and fair play, no matter what other people may think. There "s another commendable’ characteris: tic about him. He knows no man by the color of his skin. Mr. Darneil ‘sas the confidence and the respect of the people of the entire community. He is never influenced by sentiment or prejudice. . In a recent investigation of a whis- key case before the Excise Board, an attempt made to bulldoze the asces- sor failed. He is not one easily fright- ened because a man is a Senator or a representative. He is a man and the people are with him, Already the republicans are thinking about send- ing him as their representative to the next National Republican Conven- tion. OUT OF THE RING. The rejoinder of the Alexandria Home News to the Southern Chris- tian Advocate in the matter of the publication of Booker TF. Washing: ton’s “greetings to the race,” for the year 1905, is the finest combination of 4areasmi- argument and reasoning we-have seen in editorial composition for-many a day. The Southwestern is left without a leg to stand on. Its editor is.2 wiser but sadder man now. * The fact is that the Bookerite organ can not handle facts and arrange arguments. They can indulge in an eternity of talk, that is all. lente BOSTON © GUARDIAN. Last week the Guardian came to us in a new'dress, We notice especial- ly, change’ ih, paper,-ahd editorial page leading. It-is a remarkable co- incidence? that the Guardian should cpfme out in new clothes: at about the time when the New, York Age puts on its: dld threadbare clothes, The Guardian* has ifvaded “Uncle Tim's-territory and-is about to make it exceedingly interesting for him in Greater New York: After all, it isn’ 36 bad tO be eazy ae wind: og ep ee ee GD ert gery MESSYREMAG Oy a Bice. = Lin RO Phi ees the Second ‘B y (MR unday diusnoon, BNA PDied a AKT spat Hew ina a $" Wag ¢ hiimost ent ES) Nee ; at beest deli tga heG Pen youll of sound Pee mie sound nS NR feet > Hiuthe ® pe bes Is, 7p i fife téotild Pave Pibaayen ea este ae] would [ifsc irore manfogl SH lenendyafe in the her ergacunrras Wa be egg rate Ue TROT Seislaff co the jena OUT Ae } romper ated pepe fh ed Ut the oath Rest aA ‘ jorthx O\TMsS oud Ft Lifatby a Gear sinak mbsstents cle RE RT AS b ele stat AG (em seth eae + Yastead- of irée:Commissiontrs, as ii nee we fale, ee alpatied tae adhere shall "be" stven; ont gti? Qikipeer com: itsloney “aad aan northeast,.-acuthwest, etonlhéash cWest Waimntan nd we Parisian ia th ff Head each be-paid a-salary S53 i ot 3a0v9 GAS” sioner shall own $5,000 worth of real estate io the District. EOWARD UNIVERSITY, ITS PAS? _ AND ITS FUTURE DESTINY. ‘Tom the Libsw.or Whit has been a s:bject of m-mew- tcus importance of late to the Afro- Americans, is what will be the outcom: of this revolt by the students of How ard? We are free to admit that we hav not learned all the features connected with it However, we have been lott to take sides, but in candor we ash ‘ezn't there be found in all this grea country of ours, a colored man fit for the place? Viewing it from every poi.. of vantage why is it that to mangge + school for negroes shat is supporicd by the general government that’ a whit man must be at its head? It is unb. coming the negro as a race to «ay the least, that after al] these years of civili- zaticn and :nstruction, that not tne o. his race com be found honest exo-zi expable enough, manly, sober and ir- fluential, and moreover, broad enough t manage this institution. While we scel no issue with our contemporars.!h Bee, if Dr. Gordon had become persons non grata at the head of this inst.tuticn his usefulness was impaired there au another should be chosen. If his recog nition of the rights of the’students, wer of such that they tegarded mim as on!s serving the school for his salary, ther he should have resigned years agy, bt if the negro is to be taught the visiues that go to make up a race, he must be uained by a mind, that recognizes superior being save God Almighty, We observe with our limited knowledge that few negroes who have been educated in schools nct only with white men at the heads, but what to some extent feels themselves inferior; and among them is not to be found that true spirit of race leadership, contending for the things that go to make men. In a majority of the cases that have come within our knowledge the.men have to a degree times, and as to The Bee’s” candidate— Professor Bruce, his estimates of crime among intelligent negroes “good Lord deliver us.” ‘ The Bee has repudiated Dr, Washing- ton and his doctrine, now suggests a satellite to be fastened upon the only national institution where the whole people have an interest. We know for 4 fact that many. of our’ colleges where the heads are colored men, are annually turning out brilliant race lead- ers, negro to the manner born, worthy td be at the head of anl institution for the dissemination of knowledge to our people, and for the place why not advo- cate for this much sought prize Prof. Kelly Miller; a man pre-eminent for the place, by years of service, or Lawyer Hart, a man gifted in the world’s affairs by business and contact or Prof. Jno. R. Hawkins of Kittrell College, financial secretary of the A. M,Z. Church, a man possessing as much executive ability to manage successfully the place as any other colored man in the country, who never puts expediency above his rights. Such men would reflect credit tpon our selection. Is would show that we have not put philanthropic dollars for edu: cation above our God-given and man- hood rights. By all means when the change-is made, let it be given to a man who, stands for something and not a fos: sil whose only ambition is to still further use the negrocs as a stepping stone, Could “The Bee” be in the South, and have the benighting influence throw: in its face daily that you are a chile race, and the day is not yet when you people are capable of managing such af fairs as the white man, and have just : little of this Southern manhood, it woul say, if principle, right and justice mus give way to expediency then we ar doomed. If our children at this day cannot be taught anything but inferior ity, because it ‘is popular, better le them have only common school educa [tion, where some of the Pilgrims prid remains in their blood. NEGROFS ASK STATE TO INTER Suffroge: League objects to Appropria- tion for Exhibition Unless They Arc Given Gaod Treatment There—Hear- ing Set far Feb. 20. - Boston Journal, Jan. 30. Rev, W. H. Scott of Woburn, prest- dent of the Boston Suffrage League, and J. A, Crawford and W. M. Trotter of Boston. members of the executive committee, of the league, came to the State Hoyse yesterday to proest against the appropriation of any money by the State for an exhibition at the Jamestown exposition, as reedrrtended by Govern. ‘of Grild, unless the State obtains from the Commonwealth of Virzinis 2 prom: Sce/thar-all citizens: of Massachucetts whatever their. rage;or, color, shall re ceive fhe same freatment, both in James. town and in ‘the exposition grounds. ‘The welegation wis’ introduced by hRedrecentafive Riley of Woburn to Sen- ator Taft, senate chairman of*the com- mittee on fedex} eetations, be which the governor's secpmpmendation will be con- sidefed, They told ‘Senator Taft that the colored’ people of this’State did not wish fo be ‘submittetf “ir Jamestown’ to the indignities ‘heaped’ apon' them at St Louis, where they, declared it was. diff- cult {gr trem at,simes-evers to secure food, an. 4, ity the exposition fe ae TET I arin had been marked “for whites” and “for blacks.” | Senator Taft assured the delene hat a public hearing would be ‘pon the inaugural suggestion, pre : jn Feb, 20, at which time they woul *heard. THE BEE WOULD LIKE To Ky What became of those persons Quid ‘illed. Why he has not carried his th into execution. = How Judge Mullowney car plese "awyers who have bad cate Tf Judge Kimtall will recom Bailiff Hughes’ pay. Uf Richard Hughes will ever te 5. moted. When Thomas L, Jones intent have a house warming, If Attorney Peyton Knows that § lite has been threatened, THE BEE WOULD LIKE 70 sq A reorganization of Howard Une, ity. Another musical by the Sec-Tox Cin. Attorney L. Mf. King make his a nouncement. Royal Hughes write a book on key advice to colored organizations Maw. | CC UC “Othello's occupation is gone.” jy would have the world believe he 1 th injured innocence. The bread and butter brigade ¥1'l bay quet the Moses this month—plate., $2 Tf that $250 was donated to com worthy charitable institution, it woalj do some good; $250 would purchae fifty loaves of bread, My friend, Attorney WoL Po'tag has published several sets of umqe calendars. He has tendered his teira. tion as a ‘clerk in the city postotice ‘and is now doing business at the cane old stand, 609 F street, Northne-t Ex-Justice of the Peace E. M Hea- lett has entered actively into the practce of Inw. He occupies the same rooms in which he held his Justice court 1 ‘wish him much success. It is always well for a lawyer to me his clients good advice. It is better ia the long run. The Young Men's Imme. diate Relief will be more experienced the future, Dr. Pierre is master of tke situation at this time. Recorder John C. Dancy gave a din mer to Messrs. Charles Anderson and Emmert Scott when they were in the city a few days ago. The Hon, J. Milton Turner, of St Louis, Mo., declares that he 1s to b Recorder of Deeds to succeed the Hox John C. Dancy. Mr. Turner must cot sult Mr, Washington before he mats application. No negro man in any sta can be appointed to office without the consent of Mr. Washington. Colore Politicians will please take notice ani act accordingly. The correspondents who wrote to th Voice of the Negro and named th tepresentative man in the country shouk try again. He cannot know the repre sentative men in the United States an |more especially the leading lawyers A new president of Howard Univer sity will be appointed shortly. He wil be a man of influence, integrity anf ability. He will be a man who skzow Senators and Representatives in’ Cot aress. If you know of such a man ther you may guess who he is. ‘Mr. Robert H. Terrell will be bee queted February sth, at Gray's af ‘The event will be one-of the greate functions that ever took place ia thi city. . There are only two literary societi in active operation now—Bethel 2» Second Baptist. ‘The Afro-American Council will met in this city in a few days and disew the rights of the colored Amerie The council is doing guod work mo | + Fairplay. NATIONAL FEDERATION _ 0! CIVIC RIGHTS. A Petition. To the Senate and House of Rept sentatives of the United States it Con gress assembled: ‘The National Federation of Civ Rights organized as a corporation by the State of Indiana, not for pecuniary profit, but for the advancement and bet- terment of the condition of the colored race, appeals to you in behalf of the race to aid in the suppression of the crime of lynching. It calls your atte> tion to the fact that within the bit fifteen years, over 1,000 colored person? have been brutally murdered by ‘mob violence ‘upon the accusation of enmt merely without judgment by a Coot of competent jurisdiction sand in uttt of accensed persons. All these atte cious assassinations have been commit ted within the limits of this repabli and the murderers and their accomphcts have never been punished. : If some: persons of the Union, bot North and South, under a govermme7 framed by the fathers to establish jur tice, insure domestic tranquility. PY mote the gener] welfare, and insure abe General bieseings of liberty to evel! citizen, colored persons have been de prived of life without due process of Jaw, upon mob accusations merely, and yr Nerbod of their murder by the 60 Naried according to the degree of Fe" Ebement of cruelty or demoniacal ber Corti: vee or next page The Mr. Joseph H. Holmes has moved to 2906 F street, Northwest. Mr. Chas R. Douglass will leave for New York City this month. Madam C. Schrader gave a card party last week at her home, 2042 E street Northwest. Rev. Horace Talbert, of Wilberforce Ohio, is in the city with his mother-in-law. The Young Men's Protective League Mr. Aldridge T. Lewis, president, will give a smoker this month. Mrs. Jesse Foster is in Philadelphia Pa. She contemplates opening a place of business in the city of brotherly love before long. Monday evening, February 5th, the friends of Justice H. Terrell will tender him a complimentary dinner at Grays Covers will be laid for thirty. The committee in charge of the affair is Dr. C Summer Wormley, Mr. H. D. William and Mr. Robert T. Douglass. Mrs. Mannie Lewis, of 503 Twentieth street, Northwest, has called in her invitations for a china wedding, which was to have taken place January 28th The cause was on account of the death of Mrs Lewis' sister, who died in Boston. Mac last week. The Bee is in receipt of a most unique calendar, which Dr. Amanda V. Gray head of the enterprising drug firm of Gray & Gray, had especially prepare for her patrons.. The calendar contain the cut of a charming little colored baby about to take a dose of medicine from a large bottle inscribed "Gray's Drug Store." It is the first instance of which we know where a black baby has been idealized for such a purpose, and the Fountain Pharmacy is to be congratulated for having thus honored the race. CITY BRIEFS Mr. W. R. Griffin, of the True Reformers, is a worker. He is growing popular daily in the hearts of the people. The new Police Court is being constructed very fast. Judge Kimball has smiles. Mr. Rufus Preston of Alexandria, Va will represent The Bee in that city. Mr Preston is well known among people in Virginia. All news matter and subscriptions will be received by Mr. Preston. Miss Minnie Lucas, who was taken suddenly ill several weeks ago, has resumed her work in the recorder's office. Col. P. H. Carson denies the rumor that he is to be married to a Baltimore Maryland, school teacher. The Colone says that he is too old. The entertainment of Harris and Yearzin at True Reformers' Hall Friday, January 26, was well attended. Bot's gentlemen acquitted themselves well. The Afro-American Council will meet next week. The meeting will be an important one as questions of much interest will be discussed. Mr. N. T. Goldsberry of Lynchburg Va. is quite sick at his home. It is hoped that he will soon recover. Dr. A. Graham, of Detroit, Mich., is a letter to the Iowa State Bystander, does not speak very well of Rev. Lumpson, of the Record. The Woman's League will give a grand masquerade for charitable purposes on Friday evening, February 23, at Odo Fellows' Hall. Automobile veils instead of masks will be worn by the ladies. Prof. W. E. B. DuBois passed through the city Wednesday on his way to New York to deliver an address at Cooper Union. Mr. L. M. Hershaw will deliver the Douglass Day address at Gidding School. The Niagara Movement was incorporated this week under the laws of the District of Columbia. Plymouth Congregational Church is making a tremendous effort to raise $1.00 by Easter. VERY GENEROUS. It was a very generous act on the part of Mr. John E. Milholland of New York to pay all of the expenses of the Cooper Union meeting to be held in New York. This included the railroad fare of the speaker. Those from this city who left for the meeting were Ge H. White, Archibald Grimkie and Kell Miller. An enthusiastic discussion, provoked by one of the most eloquent addresses yet heard this season at the Lyceum of the Second Baptist Church, was the chief feature of last Sunday's session of that literary organization. The principal address was made by Lieut. R. E. S. Toomey, former president of the Lyceum, which, in the main, was a plea for true manhood and manliness. Hon. John 2. Green presided. "All material substances,' said the speaker, "have a standard of measurement; the English yardstick being that standard. With races and peoples it is different. The Egyptians and Romans were measured by their sterling manhood and what they did; the Swiss, hedged in by Alpine peaks, were measured by the modicum of liberty which they maintained. Some accomplishment, either in literature, art or civilization, has been the distinctive feature by which every race has been measured that has made its mark. If true of them, the same will be true of us—we will be judged by what we do, by what we stand for, by our ideals. Has it ever occurred to us how we shall be measured? The thought should animate us to measure up to the full standard of manhood, with the same possibilities and capabilities of any other race. Unfortunately we are not measured by the same standard as is the white race—we are measured as an interior race, from the White House to Vardaman, nowwithstanding the fact that we have vindicated our worth and our right, by education and civilization, and our manhood on a thrusand battlefields. We ourselves have been made partly responsible for this estimate upon us, because our leaders have subscribed to the doctrine of racial inferiority. This is the most serious aspect of the problem with which the negro has to con- We should stand for manliness and womanliness and for all the rights that belong to a free people. Take no background along the line of manhood rights. The discussion was participated in by Lawyer Hunt, Prof. Lawson, Messrs. Harris and T. H. A. Moore, and Editor V. Calvin Chase. Next Sunday Dr. S. L. Corrothers. Y. M. C. A. The Y. M. C. A. meeting will be addressed Sunday, Feb. 4, by Mr, Mel. B. Rideout, physical director of the Central Y. M. C. A. He is a leader in physical education and is an interesting speaker. He has spent many years in the work, and several of which were in Paris. The Y. M. C. A. Quartette will sing. The social half-hour song service is always inspiring. Meeting, 3.30 P. M. True Reformers' Hall. All men are cordially invited to attend. Come early. NOTICE! A Reminder.—Come and spend an evening with the Waiters' and Ex-Waiters' Mutual Relief Association on the occasion of their Second Annual Reception, Tuesday evening, February 6, 1906, at Odd Fellows' Hall, 1606 M street, N. W. Admission 35 cents. Monumental Orchestra, Prof. Chas. Hamilton, leader. Miss Marion T. Scott, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. D. Scott, is very ill with malarial fever at her home, 903 Ninth street, N. E. AMONG THE ODD FELLOWS. W. L. Houston, grand director and member of the sub-committee of management of the Order in America, put in a week of hard work while in Philadelphia attending the January, 1906, meeting of the board. P. N. F.'s T. E. Hill of Rose Hill Nodge No. 1726, and Joseph J. Washington of John F. Cook Lodge No. 1185, who have been under the heavy hand of sickness for some time, are slowly improving. It is sincerely hoped that they will be out again soon. P. N. F.'s Lowder Shields and Alfred Tappan, two of the charter members of Rising Sun Lodge No. 1365, are on the sick list. Grand Director and member of the 5. C. of M. B. J. Davis, editor of the Atlanta, Ga., Independent, has, according to that paper, already called the 13th 3. M. C. to order, elected Rev. E. P. fonts of Mississippi, grand master, transacted all the other minor affairs of the order and the delegates returned home. The man around the corner knows that Erer Davis is dreaming or suffering from some strange hallucinations. But then, even this distinguished frater has he constitutional right to dream, or even to elect (in his imagination) the ext Grand Master of the order nine months before the real thing happens. Something should be done by the citizens to prevent "Jim Crow" cars from coming into the city of Washington from Alexandria, Va. And also, law should be enacted to prevent bloom keepers from making discriminator in their prices for a drink of beer and whiskey. Whenever a colored man enters certain saloons kept by white he is told that a glass of beer costs 5 cents and whiskey 50 cents. UNION MEETING OF TRUE REFORMERS. Continued From 1st Page. crown of care for every brow. My effort shall be to inspire you to go through life with a brave spirit. I seek to point you to its nobler meanings and its higher results. When we realize what life is, we will be better prepared to take upon us its responsibilities. As great destinies lie shrouded in our swiftly passing hours; great responsibilities stand in the passages of every-day life, dangers lie hider in the by-paths of life's great highway: great uncertainty hangs over our future history. God has given us existence, with full power and opportunity to improve it and be happy, or equal power to despise it and be wretched, which will we do is the question to be decided by our actions. hands, and resolute will. It will be as much impossible for any division to pass us as it is to stop the rushing waves of the mighty river as they rocceanward. As we have decided upon a good cause let us take it up bravely bear it off joyfully, and lay it down triumphantly. Let us be industrious, frugal, honest, deal with kindness with all whom you come in contact. The wel of life is drawn into the loom for us but we weave it ourselves. We are the architects of our own homes, our own temples of fame. If we build one great, glorious and honorable, the greatness the glory, honor and merit are ours: if we build a polluted, unsightly, a vicious haunted web, to us the shame, misery and disgrace belong. NATIONAL FEDFRATION Continued From Fourth Page alism which controled the murderer of the accused prisoner. He is hung; he is mutilated and tortured; his body is riddled by bullets; he is burned at the stake; he is subjected before death relieves him of his sufferings to the most horrible indignities. The people of the colored race are done to death from time to time when accused of crime in this barbarous manier in a land whose inhabitants boast of their enlightenment, their civilization and their Christianity, and who go to war on humanitarian grounds to superior oppressed aliens and to bring the blessings of good government and civil liberty to a brown race in the far distant islands of the sea. The constitution of the United States declares that a person accused of a crime shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed (which District shall have been previously ascertained by law) and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation to be confronted with the witness against him; to have compulsory prosecution for obtaining witnesses in his favor and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. As Justice Story aptly said in his Commentaries on the Constitution "The right of trial by Jurry was from very early times insisted on by our ancestors in the parent country as the great bulwark of their civil and political liberties, and watched with an increasing jealousy and solicitude. The right constitutes one of the fundamental articles of the Magna Charta, in which it is declared that "no man shall be arrested, nor imprisoned, nor banished nor deprived of life, but by the indwomen of his peers or by the law of the land" But of what-avail is the mandate of the Constitution when a colored person is accused of a heinous crime? He is hunted by bloodhounds; he is seized a brutal and blood-thirsty mob, and whether guilty or innocent he is tortured and murdered. There is for him legal presentment or trial. There is learned and upright judge to declare the law as between the accused and the prosecution. There is no impartiality of the STATE or District to her case. The poor wretch, however innocent he may be, has no chance to prepare witnesses in his favor and the assistance of counsel is denied to him. The mere accusation of a foul crime is the trial. The accusing members of the mob constitute both Judge and Jury and under the guise of punishers of a criminal, they become the murderers of the unfortunate man, who by mob violence is debarred of friends, of witnesses, of counsel, of the right of trial by Jury and mercilessly subjected to mutilation, torture and death. And yet the men of the colored race are inhabitants and citizens of the United States. They have fought the battles of the republic as faithful and obedient soldiers. They are patriotic and devoted to the government as the white citizens are and as ready to shed their blood if necessary in its defense and against its foes. They have the same regard and reverence for law and procedure in Courts of Justice as white citizens have and they are entitled to all the protection which the Federal Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof promise and guarantee. The colored race does not ask you to do anything hard or unjust or unseemly. It comes to you through this Federation and asks you to deliver it by wise legislation from the constant persecution above outlined and from the unlawful deprivation of its constitutional privileges. And first, it asks you to refer this petition to your committee on the judiciary to consider whether the Congress of the United Staes has now the power under the Constitution to ascertain and define the districts referred to in article six (6) of the amendments to the Constitution and if in your opinion it has such power, it further asks you to formulate and enact such legislation at the present session of Congress as will properly and adequately punish the perpetrators of the crime of lynching. And secondly, if you should be of the opinion that Congress does now possess that power, it asks you to propose an amendment to the Constitution for redification by the legislatures of the several states which shall invest Congress with ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY Grand Musical Mme. E.V. OPRANO SOLOIST, of New York Co. assisted THE AMPHION of Washington, D. C. Prof. J. MME ANNA LE Washington's Fav rit - Female MISS MAYME Pupil of Mme. E Mme. Pelham AND OTHER LOC The Monument PROF CHAS PAM Grand Art :412 P msvv nia Thursday Eveni Musical and Reel the. E.V. Price OIST, of New York City, Pupil of Signor assisted by THE AMPHION GLEE CLUB Washington, D. C., Prof. J. Henry Lewis, Dir. MME ANNA LEE SLATE, Boston, Fav. rite. Female Floruiti-nist and S. MISS MAYME CHASE. Pupil of Mme. E puta-Daley. am AND OTHER LOCAL TALENT. Monumental Orch PROF CHAS HAMILTON, Leader. and Army :412 P m s v n i a Av-n ue, N. W Day Evening Feb. Mme.E.V. Prioleu SOPRANO SOLOIST, of New York Cty. Pupil of Signor M. C. DeMacchi assisted by THE AMPHION GLEE CLUB of Washington, D. C.. Prof. J. Henry Lewis, Director.. MME ANNA LEE STA E, Washington's Favit- Female Floruiti- nt and Singer. MISS MAYME CHASE. Pupil of Mme. E puta-Daley, The Monumental Orchestra PROF CHAS HAMILTON, Leader. TICKETS ON SALE AT DROOP'S. Concert at 8:15 P. M. No Person seated. As the number of admissions will be limited advisable to secure your tickets at once. P. M. No Person seated the number of admissions will be limited, visable to secure your tickets at once. Concert at 8:15 P. M. No Person seated during program As the number of admissions will be limited, it is advisable to secure your tickets at once. Admission James F The Leading Place in the City for EGGS. in the market. His Cheese is thepu Square Stands, Center Market, Rigos Market. Wholesale Dealer and Salesman 9 Northwest. Sales agents for thiC commended and equal. James F. Oyster Place in the City for BUTTER, CH EGGS. Oysters and Butt ticket. His Cheese is the purest and Eggs the ids, Center Market, 5th and K street Market. OFFI Dealer and Salesman 900 and 902 Pen Sales agents for the Celebrated Cow B d equal. James F. Oyster The Leading Place in the City for BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS. 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WE ARE OFFERING On all patterns that we shall not reuai pieces of Furniture, to make re They are all this season's patte ies, and the bargains are especially nance that all manufacturers have We are also offering many specières, Rugs, Carpets, Dinner Sets Even at the reduced prices we s in the matter of terms without extr WE ARE OFFERING REDUCED PRICES that we shall not reorder and on a grea Furniture, to make room for the spring; all this season's patterns and thorough bargains are especially noteworthy, owing manufacturers have recently made in also offering many special values in Lac Carpets, Dinner Sets and other useful the reduced prices we shall be glad to a of terms without extra cost. WHEN IN DOUBT, BUY OF HOUSE & HERRMANN, Seventh and I (Eye) Sts., N. W. JOAN D. PAN Established 1866. BURNSTINE LOAN OFFICI Gold and silver watches, diamond jewelry, guns, mechanical tool ladies' and gent's wearing apparel Old gold and silver bought. 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It was that power which enfranchised the men of the thirteen colonies and made the Declaration of Independence a beacon light to and Reception I. Prioleu tv. Papil of Signor M. C. DeMacchi by GLEE CLUB . Henry Lewis, Director.. EE SLAI E, Hocuti nist and Singer. E CHASE. puta-Daley. Accompanist TAL TALENT. Bital Orchestra HILTON, Leader. Army Hall Avenue, N. W ing Feb.15, '06 No Person seated during program once will be limited, it isockets at once. Oyster BUTTER, CHEESE AND Oysters and Butter are the sweet- rest and Eggs the freshest. 5th and K streets, Northwes.. OFFICE 900 and 902 Pennsylvania avenue, Celebrated Cow Brand Butter, re- REDUCED PRICES order and on a great many individ- oom for the spring goods. cerns and thoroughly reliable quali- noteworthy, owing to the sharp ad- recently made in their prices. social values in Lace Curtains, Por- and other useful furnishings. shall be glad to accommodate you ra cost. LOANS. 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It was that power which under God and at a great sacrifice of blood and treasure, struck the shackles from the shive and made America in reality the land of the free. It was that power which drove the oppressing and tyrannical Spanjards from the soil Continued on Last page 50 Cents COURTEOUS MONEY Agricultural Department Shows the Need of Action to Prevent Extinction of Animals. Washington.—The thorough restocking of game covers is urged in a report issued by the department of agriculture in a report on "game conditions in January." "Now that the hunting season is practically over," the report says, "the biological survey suggests that efforts be directed toward insuring more effective protection of game and an adequate supply for the future. Owing to the nonmigratory character of quail and the consequent depletion of various localities where hunting has been excessive or the birds have been killed off by the severity of the past two winters, restocking is frequently necessary, but the demand for live birds for this purpose far exceeds the available supply. "The difficulty is augmented by the fact that southern birds are scarcely hardy enough to stand northern winters, and hence it is difficult for northern states to secure birds suited to the climate. "Perceiving that absence of food and shelter is the principal cause of mortality, state officials, game associations and many private individuals have united in attempting to make good these deficiencies. Grain and other food have been distributed freely and systematically after heavy snowfalls, when the usual food is covered, and suitable shelter has been provided. "Much activity prevailed last year in Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and West Virginia. Such measures are needed to preserve the quail from possible ultimate extinction." GAME SEASON IN MAINE. More Deer Shot in the State Last Fall Than Ever Before in Its History. Bar Harbor, Me.-The report of the fish and game commissioners for the state of Malne, recently filed with the governor, shows that the game season of 1905 was a record breaking one. The commissioners say that there have been more hunters in the state than ever before and that more moose and deer have been shot. The record kept by the American Express company at Bangor shows that 4,836 deer, 210 moose and 38 bears have been shipped to various points. Thus far this breaks the record. Practically all the deer and moose shipped were killed by sportsmen from outside the state, most from New York. If every deer that was killed in 1905 could be recorded, the number would come as a shock to most people. It is estimated that perhaps one-third or less of the deer killed are shipped, which would mean that more than 14,000 deer were killed in Maine last fall. This season the hunting conditions were very favorable, the weather was good and the game plentiful. Then, of course, the general prosperity of the country has something to do with it. The greater part of those who come to Maine to hunt are men of moderately well to do positions, who prefer to spend their brief vacation in the woods. Facilities for getting into the woods at a nominal expense are better than ever before. AID FOR THE TENDERFOOT Cowboy Kindergarten in Oklahoma for Eastern Boys Who Would Bough It. Guthrie, Ok-J. C. Miller, manager of the 101 ranch, says that they are making great preparation to handle the continuous performance "kinder-garten" next summer for the benefit of the Eastern youths who want to know what life on a big ranch is really like. According to the present plans they expect to take care of about 400 of them in four months' time, 100 a month. "We will furnish them a good mount and a blanket," said Mr. Miller, "and put them out in camps along the river some place. Let them sleep out doors, eat out of the tail end of a wagon, and live the regular cowboy life, but of course, without much of the work of it. We'll send some of the cowboys that are pretty good fellows—good story tellers and all that, over to take care of them, and have a cattle round-up once in a while for their benefit." Flock of Gulls Gorged A Nanalmo, Wash., fisherman had a unique experience with a flock of gulls several evenings ago. He reached Nanalmo in an open boat containing two tons of herring. While uptown the sea gulls took possession of the boat. On his return all but 60 flew away. This number had so gorged themselves that they could not fly, but hopped about in a state of helplessness. The fisherman finally climbed into the boat and lifted them overboard. They were able to swim with an effort and most of them went ashore to recover from the effects of their feast. Flying Squirrel in Chimney. A flying squirrel recently came down the chimney, a la Santa Claus, at William C. Leavitt's home in Norway, R. I. He got into the soot on his passage down and get through the flue into the room. He looked black, and at first was called a black squirrel. He was a rare looking animal. He did not appear to be much frightened and was easily caught. Elastic Currency. A rubber trust, capitalized at $80, 600, 600, has been organized in New Jersey. Here's your elastic currency. Payment on Gopher Skins Is Reason for Which Many County Deficits Were Contracted. Topeka, Kan.—An interesting feature of the report of Seth G. Wells, auditor of state, showing the indebtedness of the Kansas counties, is the manner in which the debts of many of them were contracted. Some of these counties would now be almost free from debt were it not that large bounties were paid on gopher scalps during the hard times of 15 years ago. In Stevens county the total debt is only $100,000, and of this amount $40,000 is for scrip issued by the county commissioners to pay the bounties on gopher scalps. When the poor crop years and hard times struck western Kansas, in 1891 and 1892, there were more settlers in the small counties than have lived there since. There was no other apparent way for them to live, and the county commissioners conceived the idea of offering bounties on gopher scalps. These bounties were paid in scrip, which the settlers managed to sell for enough to live on until they could get out of the state or until better times returned. The bounty was simply a cloak for the charity of the county toward the destitute inhabitants. This fact was generally-understood, but the receptients worked as industriously in collecting scalps as though the welfare of the community depended upon their efforts. "There are many families now living in the western counties," said F. Dumont Smith, state senator from Edwards, "who were saved from actual want by these bounties. The men, women and children, by working all day, managed to catch enough gophers to buy the necessaries of life until they could raise crops. The bounty was a good thing for western Kansas, and the counties will make no objection, now that they are prosperous, to paying the debt." PERCHED ON HORSE'S NECK End of the Hen That Used Dobbin as a Roost—New Animal Seals Fate. Alton, Ill.—A hen with a bad habit, which had become the talk of poultry circles at Upper Alton, Ill., came to grief this week. The hen belonged to John Cartright. She was a good layer, a cheerful sitter and a successful brooder, but she would persist in perching upon the neck of a certain horse in Mr. Cartright's stable at night. The horse rather enjoyed the nov. sensation of having a hen on its neck at first. It was a distinction which gave Dobbin a chance to put on airs among her equine friends. But in time the experience grew monotonous. When night came in would walk Biddy and proceed to appropriate her customary seat on the horse's bony neck. Dobbin was moved to another stall, but Biddy followed him. One night, however, a strange horse, which had not been accustomed to having its neck used for a chicken roost, was placed in Dobbin's stall. The old hen came in, looked anxiously around for Dobbin, and as he was nowhere in sight, flew to the neck of the strange horse. The latter gave an up-to-date imitation of a bucking cayuse. The next day was Biddy's last. Hartford, Conn.—Andrew J. Curtiss, of Bristol, a commercial traveler, broke a bone in his right leg while engaged in the apparently simple operation of pulling on his boot. This unusual occurrence has brought about a lawsuit in which Mr. Curtiss is the plaintiff and an accident association the defendant. Mr. Curtliss declares that he broke his leg in Granby-on June 10, 1904, the left strap to his boot coming off suddenly, "by which his leg was suddenly and violently wrenched, causing a fracture of the public bone and has caused him great pain and soreness, which has continued to the present time." He says that for more than 52 weeks he has been totally disabled and unable to attend to his business or any other, and for much of the time has been confined to his bed. TO CARRY POWER 175 MILES $50,000,000 California Company Plans Vast Electrical Project— Beats Niagara Falls. Portland, Ore.—A vast project to take up the waters of Feather river in northern California, and carry it through aqueducts and tunnels until 100,000-horsepower has been develo, ed, or enough to supply all the towns of the Sacramento valley, Oakland, Ala- meda and Berkeley with electric power is the purpose of a $50,000,000 corpo- ration organized by I. Brown Wilson & Co., of New York and San Francisco. It will be possible to generate more than three times the power furnished by the famous plant at Nilagara Falls. This project is at the head of the Sacramento valley and will furnish power for this valley and to San Francisco by means of two pole transmission lines, 175 miles in length. Whistle for Health We are to whistle for health. So says the latest of the London health faddists. Every morning—and at intervals during the day—we are gravely to pursue our lips (solitude will be necessary for many of us or we shall laugh) and whistle the burden that we love. CURTAIN BRACKET THE RESULT OF A DREAM. Pennsylvania Woman Sees Household Device While Asleep, and Idea Has Been Successfully Carried Out. Wilkesbarre, Pa.—A midsummer night's dream, over four years ago, furnished Mrs. Kate M. Dymond, of Moosic with the inspiration which later enabled her to perfect a curtain bracket. Recently she received complete patents for the device, and it promises to become one of the most valuable curtain attachments now known to the public. Mrs. Dymond makes no pretense at being a mechanic, though her skill along such lines is everywhere recognized by her acquaintances. She is the wife of a former merchant of Moosic and a neat housekeeper. The necessity of something to properly secure a curtain led her to think about it just as she was going to sleep, and the dream later gave her the idea. The scene was in the front room downstairs. She was putting up shades and curtains. In hanging them she noticed that the small metal brackets that are tacked one on each side of the windows were different than the ordinary ones, in that they extended out about two inches further, with a hole in the ends. A three-eighth inch brass rod ran across and the curtains hung gracefully from it. The shade was held by the same bracket. That was the dream. When she awoke in the morning the dream was the first thought which came to her mind. She did not say anything to her husband, but when he had gone to look after some business she took a pencil and paper and drew on it the best she knew how a design of the bracket that she saw in the dream. Then from a pile of rubbish in the backyard she took a piece of old stovepellet. With an old pair of scissors she finally managed to cut a bracket like the pattern she made from the paper. By the time her husband came home she had the model complete. After thinking it over for a couple of weeks they decided to apply for a patient. The patent was finally granted. A thousand pairs of the brackets were manufactured for distribution, but they did not exactly suit, and nothing further was done with them until recently. Meanwhile Mrs. Dymond has had a number of offers from various corporations who wanted to buy the patent rights outright. One firm offered her $5,000. The erection of a plant in the borough of Moosic was then contemplated, but the capital required was a little more than the Dymonds could afford, and it was decided to have the brackets manufactured and placed on the market at a royalty. PAUPER DANCED WITH KING Beauty Who Was Edward VII.'s Partner a Match Vender—Dies in Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga.—Miss Romena Peyton, who danced with the prince of Wales, now King Edward VII., at the historic ball given in his honor in New York, when he visited America, is dead, after spending the last years of her life as a match woman on the streets of Atlanta. Miss Peyton was one of the Peytons of Virginia, descendant of John Randolph, of Roanoke. Her father went from Virginia to South Carolina when a boy, and was sent to the United States senate by his adopted state. At the time of the prince's visit Miss Peyton was in her day of beauty, and was famous throughout the United States as "The South Carolina Flower." A New York matron invited her to New York to attend the festivities in honor of the prince. At the ball the prince noticed the South Carolina girl, and asked who she was. On being told that she was Miss Peyton, he requested a dance, which was granted. For many a day thereafter the name of Miss Romena Peyton was on every lip, for the newspapers of the world were full of accounts of the prince inviting her to dance with him, and her wonderful beauty. But fortune was unkind to Miss Romena. All her family died, and she was left penniless. She came to Atlanta quietly, without ostentation, and met her fate with a serene smile. NO RACE SUICIDE THERE. The Town of Tompkins, N. Y., Reports 18 Deaths, 10 Marriages and 44 Births—No Divorces. Middletown, N. Y.—The town of Tompkins, Delaware county, respectfully calls the attention of President Roosevelt to its report of the vital statistics for the year 1905, which shows that while there were eighteen deaths and ten marriages the number of births rose to 44. The town is inhabited by well to do farmers and there is no race suicide there. Almost every family numbers from a half dozen to fifteen persons, and the stalwart sons and daughters are sticking to the farm, marrying and raising large families. The inhabitants of Tompkins also point with pride to the fact that there have been no divorce scandals in their town and all live in peace and amity toward one another. Triumph for Goolaash Those farm hands of Hungary who are talking of going on a strike next summer should go to Kansas instead. Goolash guaranteed three times a day. New York Pilot Hasp to Be Able to Get Family and Airship to Northern Goal. New York.—Capt. James A. Clinton, for 25 years a pilot in and around New York, is confident that he has solved the secret of a practical airship. To prove it he is willing to take the air route to the north pole, guiding his own craft, and taking his six little children as passengers. Other aspiring explorers would better sit up and take notice of what he says. A propeller driven by a turbine, and capable of either raising or lowering the airship, is one of the secrets of the Clinton craft. Another is the driving propeller, which forces air against the rudder in a manner which enables the ship to be always under control of the navigator, independent of contending air currents, which have proved the undoing of other airships. Capt. Clinton estimates that he can drive his ship about 15 miles an hour against a ten knot wind, or 30 miles an hour under normal conditions. In case of accident to the gasoline engine, it can be disconnected and a hand device used. Manual power will easily work the turbine wheels. "I have worked on my airship for 19 years," Capt. Clinton said. "I believe I now have it perfected. I have invented it on an entirely new principle of air navigation. The same barriers found in air navigation are those present in water navigation, except that in the air one must contend with forces assailing from every direction. As long as its aluminum, iron and silk hold out the ship will find its way all over the earth and against all winds, and never higher than at a safe distance "I am experienced in the United States geological survey and not the least doubtful of what I have invented and patented. I would like a chance to prove, as I believe I can do, that at least one American knows more about airshipr than any Frenchman who ever tried his hand at the work." Capt. Clinton is seeking capital to build his airship. THE FIRST HINDOO TEMPLE. To Be Established in America Is in San Francisco—Building Unpretentious. San Francisco, Cal.—"May the Absolute Bless All" is the inscription over the entrance to the Vedanta mission at No. 2115 Filbert street, the first temple in the western world for the propagation of the Hindoo philosophy and religion, for Vedanta is both. The mission is a new two-story frame building at the corner of Filbert and Webster streets. There is nothing to distinguish the building from other two-story fats save the entrance to the temple on Filbert street, where there is a vestibule of white marble under an arch after the Hindoo style of architecture, and above it mosaic work bearing the inscription quoted. The auditorium will seat probably 150 persons. At one end is a small rostrum containing a chair for the lecturer and back of it is a life-sized oil painting of Ramakrishna, he whom the Vedantists call master. Swami Trigunatita, the priest, is short and rotund, with the swarthy skin of his race. "I was educated in Calcutta," said he, "and when I took holy orders I was obliged to put away all secular things, and with it I put away my English, which I am now recovering. Up to a few years ago the Hindoos never preached their religion to other countries or peoples, and, owing to this fact, we were misrepresented by the clergy of other nations and races. It was Ramakrishna who suggested the idea of missions, and it was followed. I was one of the missionaries selected. Vedanta, is preached in centers, as we term them, but this is the first established mission in the western world. At present we have about 50 enlisted members, but I may say we have many, admirers. Our members raised the fund with which to erect this temple. We have many inquirers, both from the Catholics and Protestants, BALKS BIG JAIL DELIVERY. Sagacious Sheriff Scents Danger— Gets Confession from Ex- cited Convict. Johnstown, Pa.—A jail delivery was prevented at Somerset by the timely discovery of Sheriff Begley. When he took breakfast to the prisoners he thought he noticed an air of sup- pressed excitement among the men, and stopping in his, work, he took a prisoner to his office and forced him to make a confession. Taking a couple of deputies he searched the prison and found the bars of a cell door had been com- pletely cut off and the bars on one of the cell windows had been sawed through. The prisoners intended using the cell door as a battering ram to break down the outer gate in the wall while the sheriff and the guards were at breakfast. The saws used had been concealed in the jail since 1900, when Milton Sheeb sawed his way to liberty. There are about forty prisoners in the jail. Tuberculosis Killing the Negro It is the opinion of Dr. Hunter McGuire, of Virginia, that tuberculosis will exterminate the negro race in this country. 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With Wed Daughter of California Sugar King, According to Report —Former Now Charge D'Af- fairee at St. Petersburg. San Francisco.—Announcement has been made here that Spencer F. Ed- dor of Chicago secretary of the Amer- ica embassy at St. Petersburg, is en- pired to Miss Lurline Spreckels, daughter of Gus Spreckels, the sugar ing of Gus City. News of the en- A payment came from Paris, where his Spreckels is now sojourning. The announcement caused a surprise, the date for the wedding has not been open out. His Spreckels is it is said, some day during $200,000 or more from her father and her grandfather, the Caus Spreckels. She is a blonde, and hand-mee. Mr Eddy is regarded as one of the most promising of the younger members of the diplomatic corps. As large affair at St Petersburg and taking amateur during the recent coupled time in Russia he acquitted himself with great credit. Mr Eddy only 30 years old, but has won his spurs in other Euro- can capital. After being graduated from Harvard he chose diplomacy as a career although his family pre- pared that he enter business life, and was made third secretary of the American embassy at St. James when Mr Hay was ambassador. From Lon- don he went to France as second sec- cary and that position during his life of the Paris exposition. It was at Constantinople, Mr. Ed- dorger, that he first at- tended 'na' attention. As young man had en- E. continuing the legation during the name of Monster Griscom at the name of Ellen Stone and other women by Turkish bandits. Mr. Lilly who conducted the service onts with the porte continuing the release the appear in church woman. During the young Chicagoan promotion Russia. Under, Mr. continuing good work in han- dling both of the United States, the latter power being turned over to America the affairs in St. Peters- berg was in progress inomatic representation in new seat out off. Early education of Mr. and Mrs. Pratesa N. Nairy and a nephew of M. Marshall Field. Before entering ward he went to school at Heldel- t and there obtained thorough bridge of French and German. A Poor Compliment At a reception given in Paris not also by her Colebrook a French municipal courrier wished to compli- ment an English woman and her pretty daughter. The mother wore a fawn- faced powe the girl being in pink. Mary said the councilor, "your only daughter might well be called the rank of beaver." "Ah, monsleur," was a reply to are prone to fattery. I But he said the Frenchman, those known of English is some- what limited I speak that the truth. I need all not admit that mademol- le is the pink and you the drab of nity." the zoological gardens at Breslau, Germany, there is a spider monkey which was operated upon for cataract, and now wears glasses. For more than a year after it was received at the zoo it was very healthy and lively; then became very quiet, ceased to play, and crunched in a corner. It was trained and found to be suffering from cataract, so it was immediately sent to the eye hospital and operated. In less than a month it was fitted with a pair of spectacles which it bears with becoming gravity. WILL MANAGE CAMPAIGN. Charles G. Dawes to Direct Vice President Fairbanka' Race for Roosevelt's Seat. Chicago.—Charles G. Dawes' acceptance of the post of campaign manager to Vice President Fairbanks, who will enter the presidential race, is said to materially increase the latter's chances. Dawes has undertaken to direct the fight for delegates to the next national convention as far as the west is concerned. He is regarded in political circles as especially influential in presidential affairs. Because of his experience in the McKinley campaign. Indianians are said to believe that, if Dawes can line up his friends among the men who did most, to nominate McKinley, Indiana will furnish the next Republican candidate. Dawes resides in Evanston, IL, Chicago's prettiest suburb, but he has his office in the city. Dawes believes in the "open door" policy of doing business. As a matter of fact, the door of his office is seldom closed. He is a banker of exceptional ability—used to be comptroller of the currency, from 1897 to 1902—but he is extremely unconventional in his methods of doing business. He is apt to walk out of his private office into the banking room J. CHARLES G. DAWES. (Illinois Man Who Will Manage Fairbank's Presidential Campaign.) to meet a man with a million dollar proposition, sit down with him on a bench and discuss the affair, as to usher him into his own room. A Salvation Army lassie, looking for a purchaser of a War Cry, may walk as unconcernedly into his office as any prominent financier and be accorded as courteous treatment. Dawes makes friends easily and is affable, but he "reads" people keenly and woe betide the self-satisfied person who thinks he can "bluff" him or pull the wool over his eyes. Dawes is the son of Gen. R. R. Dawes, one of the commanders of the old Iron brigade of Wisconsin, and a linear descendant of William Dawes, who made a wild ride in the war of the Revolution, similar to that of Paul Revere, and was made famous by the poet Longfellow. Dawes is 40 years old. He was born in Marletta, O., for seven years was a resident of Lincoln, Neb., and came from there to Evanston to assume the presidency of the Northwestern Gaslight and Coke company. WATCH OF MARTYR SPY. Boston.—One of the cherished relics of the Hale family, of which Dr. Edward Everett Hale is an honored representative, is a watch once carried by Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of the revolution. The watch is of old Swiss or English make, large size 22 or 24, skeleton movement, solid steel balance, vermicell finish, key-wind, hand mause. The rubies alone are estimated to be worth five dollars apiece and the NATHAN HALE'S WATCH. whole watch cost in its day in the neighborhood of $200. One competent jeweler declares it shows evidence of having been made in the saveneenth century. It may have been, for Nathan Hale was executed September 22, 1776. Edward Everett Hale is a grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, whose dying words, "My only regret is that I have but one life to lose for my country," have rendered him immortal. The watch is now in the possession of Frank Hale, of Springfield, Mass. Strange Case of Robbery A curious case of museum robbery is engaging attention at Welmar, Germany. An agent offered some time ago to the Goethe-Schiller museum a series of Goethe manuscripts, which on examination proved to have been stolen from the museum itself. The agent explained that he had received them in good faith from a well-known antiquary in Berlin. A search of the antiquary's house brought to light many other documents belonging to the Welmar museum. LITTLE GOD WORKS HAVOC IN - SOLDIERS' HOME. Enough Courtships There to Keep Up Already Established Married Record Among Aged Defenders of the Nation. Indianapolis, Ind.—Cupid in his most alluring garb is at work among the veterans in the State soldiers' home at Lafayette. In the last year seven or eight marriages have taken place at the home, and it is said there are enough courtships in progress to promise many more matrimonial alliances next year. "It looks as if we'll have to find a way to head off the little god," declared R. M. Smock, commandant of the home, at G. A. R. headquarters. The total population of the home is 1,003. Of this number 495 were women—thewives or widows of soldiers. The commandant says the mortality rate at the home seems to be increasing. Included in the population are seven or eight Spanish-American war veterans, mostly young men. Said the commandant: "The per cent. of deaths is very much greater among the Spanish war soldiers than among the veterans of the civil war. The experience in tropical countries in which many of them had to serve seems to have lowered their vitality, and, besides, the boys who went out in the Spanish-American war were not nearly so well able to stand hardship as those who went out in 1862." Commandant Smock spoke of many old couples in the home who seem perfectly happy. They have little work to do and are furnished with plenty of clothing and food. The commandant is inclined to encourage matrimony at the home. He says that among all the marriages that have taken place there since he took control only one has resulted unhappily. After their marriage the mismated pair left the institution. The husband has returned, however, and has sued his wife for divorce. The husband was formerly a member of the Indianapolis police force. MONARCHS LOSE PRESENTS Gifts Shah Was to Have Sent Them Now Repose in Pawnshop—All Won't Take Them Back. Vienna.—President Rosevelt, the kaiser and a king or two have been robbed of the Christmas presents which the shah of Persia intended to give them. Each potentate was to have a diamond studded miniature portrait of himself, and All-Bagal, a Persian jeweler in this city, was commissioned to do the work in true oriental style. All had finished the portraits of Mr. Roosevelt, Emperor Francis Joseph and Kaiser Wilhelm, when he was obliged to go to Paris for more diamonds, and turned the finished portraits over to another Persian, Machmed Baga, for safe keeping. When All returned he found a uice little letter awaiting him, but no Baga. The missive contained a fine assortment of oriental greetings, wishes and kotows—and a pawn ticket. Machmed, it seems, pawned the shah's portraits the day he received them and immediately set out for Italy. He was subsequently arreasted in Florence, but had only a few hundred francs in his possession. The shah has refused to take the portraits out of pawn, and All declares it would ruin him to do so. BOBTAIL STEERS AND COWS Redding, Cal.-W. B. Elam, an extensive stock raiser of Tehama county, came to Red Bluff and complained to the sheriff that parties unknown to him were cutting the tails off the stock on his ranges. He thinks there must be as many as 100 bobtailled steers and cows on the range about Hunter's station. He says the mutilation is done by thieves, who want the hair to use in the manufacture of hair ropes. Mr. Elam claims that the men who rob the cattle of their tails slip up behind them while they are lying down, and with a sharp knife do the work quickly. Ross McRaye, of Payne's creek, also in Tehama county, went to Ked cliff and swore to a complaint charging that a neighbor had stolen 17 hogs from him. Later 16 of the hogs turned up at the home place, but all of them had been clipped clean of ears. These two complaints, coming so closely together, are a novelty in criminal proceedings in northern California. Writes 4.817 Words in Hour. Ray T. Vanettisch, Colorado service editor of the Pueblo Chieftain, broke the world's typewriting record for both the 30-minute and one-hour tests, taking 2,600 words during the first 30 minutes and finishing the hour with 4,917 words. The dictation was received over the long-distance telephone from Denver, a distance of 120 miles. The previous hour record, 3,830 words, direct dictation, was made by Paul Munter at Madison Square garden, New York, November 4, 1906. Sun Will Be Cold. Sir Oliver Lodge, the great scientist, declare that one of the recent sun spots observed in the solar eclipse was so large that the earth could be dropped into the cavity with a clear space of 1,000 miles all around it. The sun shrinks very slowly, adds Sir Oliver, and Lord Kevilin has calculated that in 20,000,000 years it would be incapable of warming the earth. Rays Tried for Breatlessness of Suffer- ering Infants and in Asylums in Cases of Mania. London. — Interesting experiments with blue light as an agent for producing analgesia, or insensibility to pain, the discovery of Prof. Redad, have been carried out by Dr. Harvey Hillard, anesthetist to the Royal Dental hospital of London. In an article in the Medical Times and Hospital, Dr. Hillard states that he found that a blue light had on himself a most distinctly calming influence, a desire to close the eyes and sleep is experienced, and, after some minutes, sensibility to pain is lessened. For instance, the difference between a light pressure made with the tip of the little finger and a needle could not easily be detected, and surgical needles could be pushed into the face, lips, gums or arms and blood drawn thereby without actual pain being felt unless a still deeper pressure were exerted. "I believe that the presence of a blue lamp suitably placed might give satisfactory results in the treatment of insomnia, owing to its calming influence. I have tried it with some benefit in one case, and similarly in restlessness of infants suffering from a mild illness, and in asylums in case of mania it is conceivable that blue light rays might be of value. This view is supported by the fact that red lights have been found to have a beneficial effect upon smallpox, as it is inimical to the vitality of the germs of that disease." Dr. Hilliard gives instances of the utility of the blue rays in the case of the extraction of teeth. One man said under its influence he felt no pain when the molar was extracted, and returned to have two others removed by the same agency. WORKS FARM LIKE A MAN. Wife of Man Who Becomes Insane Saves Property by Her Exertions -Complimented by Judge. Knightstown, Ind.-The final settlement in the Henry circuit court of the estate of George Shewmaker reveals the story of how a plucky little woman made a brave fight to save the farm, support two children and maintain the family respectability after she had been deprived of a husband's help when he was sent to the insane hospital. A few years ago, when Rufus Shewmaker was murdered by John Thrawley in the northern part of this county, George Shewmaker, a brother of the murdered man, went insane from brooding over his brother's untimely death. Shortly before he had purchased a farm and when he was committed everyone thought the farm would revert to the original owner. Not so, however, for the brave little wife set herologically to work, met all the notes as they fell due, paid the taxes regularly and the court has just authorized 'the administrator of the estate to turn the farm over to her. All the while Mrs. Shewmaker worked the farm herself, marketed the crops and did all the farm work without male assistance and at the same time she sent her children to school. When Judge Morris issued his order he publicly complimented the little woman for the brave fight she had made and declared that it was more than many men could have done. WHO OWNS THESE TEETH? That Is Mystery That Is Agitating Ypsilanti, Mich., Mall Carriers Who Get Queen Package. Ypsilanti, Mich.—There is a new version of the Clinderella story which is more up to date than the original which has done duty through several generations. According to the new one the modern prince is going about Ypsilanti inspecting the mouths of would-be princesses to see whom a wandering set of upper teeth may possibly fit. Recently the post office carriers made their collections from the city mail boxes one of them discovered a set of false teeth in one of the boxes. The teeth were not wrapped up or labeled as to their destination nor was postage prepaid. So that the authorities have no idea as to their ultimate destination. Just how they came there is also a mystery and whether some night wanderer tried to swallow the mail box and got too big a mouthful, or whether the teeth were destined as a gift for some member of the force, is not known. The teeth will be kept a week and then returned to the dead letter office as unmailed matter. LEFT FORTUNE BY A "VAG." Denver Sheriff Betfriended Stranger, Who Wills Him $32,000 at His Death. Denver, Col.-Felix O'Neill, formerly sheriff of Denver county, has just received $32,000 by the will of a man named Garrity, who was serving a sentence for vagrancy when O'Neill, then a detective, became interested and helped him upon his feet. Garrity told the officer that he had come west to make his fortune and was penniless, and O'Neill, with a kindly heart, took the man to his home after he had left jail, fed and clothed him and gave him a start. The old man soon left Denver, but often returned and O'Neill never had a truer friend. Uncle Sam's Loose Change All the money in the world now amounts to $12,500,000,000, of which $6,000,000,000 is in gold and more than $3,000,000,000 is in silver. Of the gold nearly one-fourth and of the silver more than one-fifth is held by the United States, the amount in both cases being more than that held by any other nation. HISTORIC OLD RUINS. MARK SPOT WHERE PIONKER MISSIONARIES LANDED. Remains of Church and Fort in South Carolina Show Location of First Enterprise Undertaken by New Englanders. Boston.—Overgrown with moss and rank weeds, and overhung with live oaks bearing the Spanish moss characteristic of the south Atlantic coast, the ruins of a church and a fort mark the spot where the first missionary enterprise undertaken by New England, outside her own borders, was located. The ruins are in the county of Dorchester, S. C., so named for the small company of churchmen who sailed from Boston December 3, 1695, and founded a colony in the wilderness, near Charleston. How the little body of zealous Massachusetts people went from the north, sailed up the Ashley river and howed their homes out of the unbroken forest, beset continually by fears of famine and the Indians, forms an exceedingly interesting chapter in the history of the country. William Pratt was the son of Thomas Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass. In 1680 he married Elizabeth Baker, of Dorchester, and about the middle of April, 1690, became a member of the church there. When, five years later, an expedition was organized to carry the Gospel to South Carolina, Mr. Pratt joined it and took a prominent part. The Charleston people treated thehewcomer from the Massachusetts, bay colony with the utmost consideration and helped them materially to found their little church and state. Not far from the first church founded by the men under the leadership of Elder Pratt, and built by the same sturdy class of men, was built the St. James' Goose Creek meeting house. This church, erected during the incumbency of Rev. Francis Le Jan, in 1711, is still in a fine state of preservation. This is built of brick and therub heads adorn the windows. The royal arms of the king of England are still over the chancel, and it was the presence of these insignia that saved the church from destruction at the time of the war of the colonies. Every year services are held THE MEMORIAL RUINED TOWER OF THE DORCHES- TER COLONY RUINED TOWER OF THE DORCHESTER COLONY at this church, and pilgrims travel from afar to be present. White men have long since ceased to live in that section of the county, which has been given over to forests, with a negro cabin here and there hewed out of the loneliness. The Massachusetts men selected a spot on the Ashley river, which runs into the ocean just south of Charleston. The place was a howling wilderness, 20 miles from the dwelling of any white people. They called the place Dorchester, and built a church after the model of the New England churches. A few dilapidated dwellings remain, and of the brick church only the tower is now standing. The woodwork is all decayed, its floors and window shown, but destroyed in their outline by the bricks having fallen away. The semi-tropical vegetation covers everything, and immense trees have grown up around the place where the proud congregation once bowed their heads. Along with the places of worship of the settlers, there was, of course, a fort. The old fort at Dorchester, which served as a protection against the Indians, is on the bank of the Ashley. The reason for building in such a location on a sluggish and not too healthful stream, was the facility of travel to and from Charleston, and the easier avoidance of attacks from the Indians. As far back as can be learned, the churchmen had not so much trouble with the Indians as their fellows in the north. Elder Pratt made friends with several, who gave him some very strange recipes for curing the sick. Some of these are quoted here: "For a great cough or cold that leads to consumption, take yolk of an egg and some powder of brimstone, and put to it and take it in the morning; or honey and brimstone, and after that the yolk of a newlaid egg and some good wine mixed together. "To stop bleeding, take some nip and hold it in the left hand, and put some to the hollow of the left foot, and lay some nip in the neck." It is interesting to observe that Elder Pratt owned two slaves when he died. In 1699 he gave a bond to Capt. Rit, of Charleston, to pay for a negro woman, "save and twenty pounds." The tombstone of the elder is now standing in a cemetery at Easton, Mass. Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton Has an Annual Income of Nearly $3,00,000. London.—On her wild and picturesque island kingdom of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde. Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton, the richest heiress in the United Kingdom, has just celebrated her coming of age. Arran, which is 60 miles in circumference and contains 5,000 inhabitants, all of whom are her tenants, yields her in rent $5,000 a year. She has another large estate in Suffolk, England, which brings her $40,000 a year. The two properties cover 107,000 acres, and their combined rent rolls amount to $125,000 annually. From investments held in trust for her she receives another $40,000 a year, which makes her annual income just $5,000 short of a round $200,000. Nor is this the full measure of her wealth. Her father, the twelfth duke of Hamilton, who died ten years ago, left her a big fortune in cash which during the nine years of her milonrity has swelled to $1,000,000. And the good fairies who presided at her birth added other precious gifts. She is good looking, blessed with vigorous health and endowed with the tempera- A. LADY MARY HAMILTON. (British Helicras Whose Annual Income Is $156,000.) ment which lends itself most to the enjoyment of life in the fullest measure. Had she been born a boy she would now be two dukes, two earls, three marquises and eight barons all merged into one exalted individual, premier peer of Scotland and hereditary keeper of the palace of Holyrood, and her 107,000 acres would have stretched to 150,000. Lady Mary so far has been little seen in general society. She is devoted to sport, and riding, hunting, shooting, fishing and other country pursuits constitute her chief amusements. She is a superb horsewoman and one of the few women master of the hounds in the kingdom. She is an excellent shot, too. FAMOUS WAVERLY OAKS. Reservation in Massachusetts Said to Contain Oldest Growths on the Western Hemisphere. Boston—Not far from Boston, in Beaver Brook Reservation, which lies partly in Waverly and partly in Waltham, may be found the famous Waverly oaks, which Agassiz says are the oldest trees on the western hemisphere. They were aged when the first European touched the soil that was later called America. "They might have been standing when Lief and Thorfinn visited Vineland, the Good," one writer has observed. "And if Charles river is the 'river which flowed thru a lake into the sea,' then Guddrid, the wife of Thorfinn, may have rested in the shade of their branches." All sorts of fancies have been woven about these great old trees, and, far fetched as some of them may be, the facts still remain that one of the smaller trees which fell some years OLDEST TREE ON RESERVATION. ago showed that it had withstood the tempests of 800 years. There are 26 of these old oak trees in Beaver Brook Reservation, a spot small in comparison, with other parks near Boston, but embracing within its 58 acres exquisite natural beauties that have inspired poets and painters. The largest of the group are eight that stand on the ridge and of these "The Monarch" grows on the north slope. It is 80 feet high and 18½ feet in circumference at a height of five feet from the base, widening to 28 feet in circumference in the swell over the roots. Lowell probably had this monarch of the forest in mind when he wrote: He is the gem; and all the landscape wide (So doh his grandeur isolate the sense) Seems but the setting, worthless all beside, An empty socket, were he fallen thence. Rowa Hls Sled. John O'Nell, a well-known Canadian oarman, has invented a very ingenious method of keeping in trim during the winter months. By mounting a sliding seat arrangement on runners, he, with the aid of a pair of knife-edged oars, moves over the ice at a very rapid rate. The novel racing shell has proved quite a success. NATIONAL FEDERATION Cuba and added one more star to the galaxy of republics. It also greatly relies upon the potent aid of the public press in its denunciation of the curse of lynching. People of every condition and even thrones and depotisms yield and bow to the tremendous influence of that great engine of thought and moral education, especially when exercised in behalf of a just and holy cause, and in commendation of illegality and brutality. If to the colored race are accorded the safeguards of the constitution and the full protection of law, the race will take care of itself, and education and religion will soon purify and enlighten it. Give the colored race a chance and America will not be ashamed of her black children who were enfranchised only forty-two years ago. The Israelites, especially led by the Almighty Father, came out of Egyptian slavery, a corrupt, licentious, stiff-necked and rebellious people. The blacks, emancipated by the necessities of war, came out of American slavery a simple-minded, honest, illiterate and loyal people. The ancient Britons were superstitious and ferocious. The Saxons were barbarous and ignorant and the Normans were not much better. Only a few centuries have quietly passed, and today this same England, the England of the Britons, the Saxons and the Normans, with her language, her laws, her literature and her civilization controls and leads the world. And why should not America, our America, practicing the Arts of Peace America, the home of the white and the black race as well, before a quarter of a century rolls by, stand among the nations of the earth, far ahead of where England is today. Educate and christianize the colored race and protect them in their rights as citizens and they will do their part In other countries where their constitutional rights have been respected, black men have and are great in literature and in arts and arms. Here in America they cannot be kept back unless they are destroyed by violence. A satisfactory solution of the race problem, would soon be reached if through your wise legislation, aided by that of the several states, all men were made to understand that every legal and constitutional right of the colored citizen must be respected, and that in this country as the great expounder of the constitution declared: "Everywhere the law reaches to the highest and reaches to the lowest to protect all in their rights and to restrain all eagle wings ever wide outspread." In the name of law, of humanity, of fellow citizenship and of the Constitution of our country, which is the Palladium of our liberties, we pray that our petition may be considered and its requests granted. By order of the Board of. Directors John H. Stoltsenburg, President. Attested and Sealed, William O. Vance. C. W. Homer, George B. Carcenill, John H. Strotenburg, William O. Vance, William H. Steward, B. F. Porter, T. C. Manuel, George W. Clinton, Richard W. Thompson. Directors Credit for all Washington. THE DEMAND FOR RELIABLE FURNITURE Is met in our stock. Every piece has been made at the factory of a thoroughly reliable manufacturer, and, after passing the close scrutiny of the makers, has had to undergo a still closer scrutiny by us before being admitted to our stock. The result is that anything that you buy here can be depended upon to give absolute satisfaction and the best possible service. We handle all good grades of Furniture, all the serviceable weaves of Carpets, Chinaware, Stoves, and all other necessary house-furnishings. Our prices are marked in plain figures and although they will be found as low as any you can obtain anywhere else, we are glad to accommodate you in the matter of CREDIT And will arrange terms to suit you. A little a week or a month, as you can best spare the money, will be quite satisfactory to us, and buying here on credit does not entail any extra expense. 1.25 full Qt $5 gal. ONLY AT Christian Xa.der's quality 909 7th st. Phone M. 274. Mme. Davis. BORN CLAIRVOYANT AND CARD READER: TELLS ABOUT BUSINESS. Removes Spells and Evil Influences Re-unites the Separat d and Gives Luck to All. 1228,25th St. N.W., Washington,D.C. No Litters a swered unless acco panie by stam. Prussian Syrup TAR. WILD CHERRY &c. The most certain and freely remedy known for Cought Colls, and Consumption. And all Pulmonary Complaints. For Sale by F. S. WILLIAMS & CO. Masonic Temple. Cor. F and 9th Streets. LI GAL NOTICES. W.C. MARTIN, ATTORNEY. SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Holding a Probate Court. No. 13,285 Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Robert H. Daggs, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 12th day of December, A. D. 1906; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 15th day of December. 1005. Wm. J. Howard, 100 Massachusetts avenue, N. W. Attest: W. C. Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. A beautiful front room, furnished or unfurnished. 2008 Third street, N. W. Linden Flats No. 9 FOR 1906. John Rudden, Furniture, Carpets, etc. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" SO The Ozenized Ox Marrow Co. (None genuine without my signature) Charlie Ford Pink 78 Wabash Ave., Chicago, MI. Agency wanted everywhere. 725 Seventh Street, N. W., between G and H Streets. Now that we are on the threshold of another Christmas, is it not about time to make up your mind to buy for your loved ones? Some people wait until the last minute to buy their Christmas things. A bad plan. Not but that we can satisfy you, or rather that you can satisfy yourself here at any time. But 'tis better to come before the rush. The selection is easier and then the prices are no greater now. Jewelry of tasteful design is here in abundance. My Christmas line this year embraces Diamond Rings, Diamond Brooches, Scarf Pins, Cuff Buttons, Ladies' Watch Chains, Necklaces, Pendants, Link Bracelets, Gold and Silver Watches, Fobs, Studs, Fountain Pens, Desk Sets, Collar Buttons, Desk Clocks, Shaving Sets, Mirrors. J. Military Brushes, Hair Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Hat Brushes, Mirrors, Comb, Brush and Mirror Sets, Ink Bottles, Powder Puffs and Cases, Jewel Cases, etc. CUT GLASS Is always appropriate at the Christmas season. There is something in its glitter and beauty and brightness which makes it appeal to those of refined tastes. There is a vast difference in Cut Glass qualities and patterns. I am showing only the kind you will be wise in buying. The right value is in each piece for the money you pay for it. CATHOLIC GOODS. The largest assortment in the city of High Grade Rosaries in Solid Gold, Solid Silver, Pearl, Amethyst, Crystal, Garnet, Emerald, Jade, Opal, Sapphire Turquoise, Jasper, etc. PRAYER BOOKS. The Handsomest Line in the City. Religious Medals in Gold and Silver Immaculate Conception; St. Benedict, Infant of Prague, St. Joseph, St. Anthony, St. Aloysius, etc. Solid Gold Sacred Heart Medals in great variety. Tea Sets, Coffee Sets, Water Sets, Chafing Dishes, Pudding Dishes, Soup Tureens, Butter Dishes, Tea Spoons, Table Spoons, Sugar Shells, Fish Sets, Carving Sets, Oyster Forks, Orange Spoons, Sardine Forks, Tomato Servers, Berry Sets, Gravy Lalles, Souvenir Spoons, Chocolate Spoons, Cut Bowls, Etc., Etc. "DEN" DECORATIONS. Imported Metlach and Munich Steins, Brownies, Clocks, Etc. Novelties in Umbiellas, Gold, Silver, and French Grey. Rich Designs. CLOCKS. Brass Clocks, Porcelain Clocks, Enameled Clocks, Gilt Clocks, Alarm Clocks. Each style will make an appropriate Christmas present. Don't be misled by the "fake" discounts offered you by the Instalment Jewelry Houses. The prices of these places are fully 50 per cent. higher than the legitimate jeweler. They advertise a discount of 25 per cent. and yet with the fake discount offered you their prices are 25 per cent. higher than you would buy the same, goods in a legitimate store. Goods laid by for the Holidays. Come now and avoid the rush. Respectfully yours, E. VOIGT. American Exports to Orient. There was a remarkable increase last year in American exports to China and Japan. In ten months the exports to China have been $50,900,000, compared with $20,000,000 in the previous year, and to Japan the total for the same time has jumped from $22,000,000 to $46,500,000. Our Pacific ferriage to those countries is direct and Europe cannot hope to compete with it in distance and cheapness. BASE BALL HOUSE. The Base Ball House, 1528 7th street, is one of the most popular places of business in the city. There are places that claim to surpass this house for pure whiskey, but the concensus of opinion is among those who have good tastes that the BASE BALL HOUSE under the management of W. J. Donovan A. is unequalled. This house is known to have the purest and best whiskies in the market. His excellent selections are made with care. The patron's health is more important than anything else, hence W. J. Donovan makes it a business to purchase the purest and the best wines and liquors the market affords. HIS COLUMBIA CLUB. Whiskey is a household article. The very name tells you that Donovan is the only man who handles COLUMBIA CLUB FINE OLD WHISKEY FINE OLD BRAND Wm. J. Doyen WASHINGTON, C. the goods. The Old Glory Cigars is something new. He has recently purchased several thousand of these cigars. He had them made especially for the trade. They are cigars that smoke appreciable and are equal to any cigar on the market. Smokers like a good cigar and this you can find at Donovan's. Night Caf The Baseball House. THE COLUMBIA CLUB is especially distilled for this house. It is Donovan's own brand. 1528 Seventh street, N. W. COLUMBIA ICE COMPANY. John E. McGaw, President and General Manager. Joseph T. Peake, Secretary-Treasurer. This ice is made from distilled water drawn from artesian wells. It is from the same water veins that furnish the famous Columbia Springs. Also retail dealers in wood and coal. Corner Fifth and L streets, N. W. Washington, D. C. Telephone Main 272. LA RODRICKER. French Dressmaking, Ladies' Taoring, Gentlemen's Repair Wor neatly done. Fine Laces Carefully Done. Oil garments cleaned so that they loo like new. MLLE. R. E. BELL. This is another step upward for the race, the opening of such an establishment; therefore we ask those who have race pride to join us in helping this lady to make her business a success. J.C.O'Connor Wines, Whiskeys and Cigars. The best liquors in the city. If you want pure liquors stop at J. D. O'Connor's, 7th and P streets, N. W. It is the place after all. Everybody invited. 7th and P streets. N. W. PROTECTIVE BENEFIT ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS We insure any person from 3 to 60 years of age if in good health without regard to sex. We pay sick and accident benefits varying from 75 cents to $10.00 per week, and a death benefit fund varying from $7.50 to $125.00 This Association has been and will continue to be under the CONSTANT INSPECTION OF THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, and we are required to keep a certian RESERVE FUND on hand for the PROTECTION OF THE INSURED, thus putting it out of our power to render the Association other than LEGITIMATE, SAFE, SOUND AND RELIABLE. You can deal with us with the firm assurance that we will do whatever promised if you do your part. OFFICE: 609 F STREET, N. W. (First room front). Call Monday or Wednesday between 10 and 12 o'clock. Saturday from 1 to 3 o'clock P. M. DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS FOR THE FIRST YEAR Dr. W. Bruce Evans, president, 1910 Vermont avenue, N. W. O. T. Taylor, 1st vice-president, 1245 Hamlin street, Brookland, D. C. Aaron J. Gaskins, 2nd vice-president, 320 8th street, N. W. L. Melendez King, secretary, 609 Fstreet, N. W. Dr. I. A. Boyd, treasurer, 1207 Youstreet, N. W. Dr. Harry J. Williams, musical director, 1015 4th street, N. W. B. H. Baker, manager, 1219 T street, N. W. L. Melendez King, attorney, 609 Fstreet, N. W. Dr. M. O. Dumas, medical director, 1800 L street, N. W. Columbia Benefit Association The Columbia Benefit Association is an Insurance Company for the masses. One which pays promptly; one whose terms are liberal; one whose officers are men of ability, honesty and integrity; one whose capital stock is paid up in full, and is incorporated and licensed under the new law of the District of Columbia; We want AGENTS of ability for all sections of the city; we pay liberal salaries and commission to agents. Wm. J. Howard, president; H. nry H. Waring, vice-president; Edmund Hill, Jr., secretary and manager; D. Blair, physician; Geo. F. Collins attorney. Main office, 494 Louisiana avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C. Jno. A. Lankford, treasurer; Dr. Jos. The attention of the public is cordially invited to the Browne-Foster Training School For Domestic Science J. A. Lankford, A Architect And Builder Expert builder, examiner and estimater. Plans gotten out at short notice from rough sketches, pencil drawings, or from written or verbal descriptions and mailed to any section of the country. In the past thirty-two (32) months we have designed, overhauled, repaired and built over Five Hundred Tons and Dollars ($500,000.00) worth of work in Washington. D. C., and vicinity the class of work being of every description and character. We make a specialty of church and hall designs, and arranging loans are also specialize the building up of vacant lots in the District of Columbia. Any one anticipating having plans gotten out, buildings overbauled or repaired, we would be glad to have you call or write us. No charges for given in any of the above named lines. P GERMUILLE MANUFACTURER OF HARNESS AND DEALER IN TRUNKS. Saddles, Whips, Satchels, Hor Clothing, etc. Trunks, $2.50 and up. Suit Cases, $1.15 and up. Harness Trunks Repaired. Phone East 462. IVE BENEFIT ASSOCIATED UNDER THE LA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Capital Stock Fully Paid In. and accident benefits varying from the death benefit fund varying from $700,000. This section has been and will continue to be inspected of the insurance district of Columbia, and reserves fund on hand for the need, thus putting it out of our power than LEGITIMATE, SAFE, SOURCE, and deal with us with the firm assured if you do your part. WANTED AT ONCE FOR twenty Good Agents to represent the Effective Benefit Association by STEADY EMPLOYMENT and secure territory. OFFICERS FOR THE FIRST MAN, president, 1910 Vermont avenue, N. W.; vice-president, 1215 Hamlin street, Brooklyn; 2nd vice-president, 320 8th street, N. W.; secretary, 609 Fstreet, N. W.; treasurer, 1207 Youstreet, N. W.; giams, musical director, 1015 4th street, manager, 1219 T street, N. W.; attorney, 609 Fstreet, N. W.; medical director, 1800 L street, N. W. A Benefit Association is an Insurance firm pays promptly; one whose term is ten of ability, honesty and integrity is full, and is incorporated and district of Columbia; ITS of ability for all sections of the commission to agents. OFFICERS. president; Henry H. Waring, vice-president and manager; D. Blair, physician; office, 494 Louisiana avenue, N. W., treasurer; Dr. Jos. Special Announcement of the House of the Foster Training School for Domestic Workers Stained and Reliable Servants Furnished Best Situations for the highest Wages J. H. Fo A. Lankford Architect And Builder An examiner and estimator. Plans gotten, pencil drawings, or from written or section of the country. In the past, overhauled, repaired and built over F00.00) worth of work in Washington, being of every description and character of church and hall designs, and the building up of vacant lots in the building having plans gotten out, building glad to have you call or write us. N. above named lines. Office 6th and La. ave Northwest Residence 12to V St. Northwest GERMUIL CTURER OF HARNESS AND TRUNKS. s, Satchels, Hor Clothing, etc. and up. Suit Cases, $1.15 and avenue, northwest, Washington Phone Connection