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PAPER POR THE PEOPLE. A FIRESIDE COMPANION. It is true if you see it in THE BEE. VOL. XXV.NO.41. HON. AARON P. PRIOLEAU. Washington, D. C. March 5, 1906 Hon. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. My Dear Sir: I have the honor to present for your information and due consideration a brief statement of facts as shown in the "record" and "brief" of the contested election case of Aaron P. Prioleau versus Hon. George S. Legare from the First Congressional District of the State of South Carolina, now pending before the Fifty-ninth Congress. The contestant, A. P. Prioleau addressed a petition to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and a copy of the same to the chairman of Elections Committee No. 1, asking for an investigation of a case now pending against him before the United States Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, to which investigation he belives he is entitled, and which would show the conspiracy enacted by the friends and supporters of the Contestee in order to embarrass the Contestant in successfully making this contest. The record and brief in this case show that 14,663 voters, including those twenty-one years of age and upwards who were allowed to vote, applied to the registration officials for registration certificates and were refused; on the 8th day of November, 1904, each of these electors offered to vote for the Contestant for Representative in the Fifty-ninth Congress but were rejected by the Democratic managers of elections, while others who held no certificates, but were Democrats, were allowed to vote. At the same time and place, and at the various polls, each of these rejected voters made the following affidavit: Precinct No. Ward This is to certify that we, the undersigned citizens and residents of the County and State aforesaid, and that we are over 21 years of age, appeared at the registration office in County and State aforesaid to be registered and were refused, and on this eighth day of November, A. D. 1904, offered to vote for the Hon. A. P. Prioleau for representative in the Fifty-ninth Congress and were rejected. Attest: Notary Public. The Contestee, Hon. George S. Legare, as this case shows, only received 6,068 votes, while the Contestant received 14,663 giving a majority of 8,595 for Contestant. The 14,663 voters were legal voters according to the provisions of the State Constitution of 1868, and by the Act of Congress of June 25th, 1868, the fundamental condition of which was that the suffrage provision as it then stood should never be changed. Upon his return from the National Convention in the City of Chicago, June, 1904, and acting acting under instructions received from the National Congressional Committee, the Contestant canvassed his District thoroughly, advising the Republican voters to turn out and vote for Presidential electors and Representative for the Fifty-ninth Congress, and in case they were rejected, to make affidavits to the same, which they did. I therefore appeal to the Republicans and members of the Fifty-ninth Congress to give me a fair and square deal for my seat, that the ten million negroes of America may be represented by one of their race in this body that makes the laws that govern them, for under a long line of rules, laws, and precedents established by your honorable body, this case merits the support of every Republican and every fair-minded citizen by the Constitution and laws of this country. Respectfully AARON P. PRIOLEAU. Contestant for the First Congressional District of South Carolina. CONGRESSMAN MANN TURNS "JUDAS" TO THE REPUBLI- CANS. Fights Negro In Congress to Please Southern Whims and Is Patient Enemy to Covered Bills. Used Power as Chairman of the Congressional Committee to Keep Negroe's Case from the House. Man Refused to Report to the 57th, 58th and Present Congress the Case of A. P. Prioleau, Negro Contestant for Seat in Congress from the Tenth District of South Carolina. Charged with Being Republican in Chicago and Democrat in Washington. From Western Opinion. Throughout the world the diplomacy of the present administration has made peace and justice among nations, clear sighted to perceive and prompt to maintain American interest. It has been magnacious and simple and direct in its methods, considerate of the rights and feelings of others. But there has been some who claim to be pillars of the administration who in the ultimate end have proven themselves to be, not only traitors of the Republican party, but have also defied the Constitution which they have sworn to support. Some of these men who are now clamoring for the support of that party, whose principals they do not only refuse to stand by in Congress, but they openly have given aid and comfort to the enemies of the party. Congressman Mann, of the Congressional District, who loudly claimed in the North to be a Republican but when in Washington he turned his back upon the Republican principals and exclaiming in the language of one Peter, who over nineteen hundred years ago in the garden Gethsemane denied Christ, that I know them not. Thus clasping hands with Southern Democracy from the dish of prejudice and race hatred. This man who is now clasping the hand of the negro of his congressional district has exerted every possible influence and so far has succeeded in preventing the congressional election committee, of which he is chairman, from making its report on the contest which has been pending since the fifty-seventh Congress, and is still pending in the present Congress. This bill concerns A. P. Prioleau, a negro Republican candidate for Congress from the First Congressional District of Charleston, S. L. This so-called Republican Congress man has joined forces with other contours of vice and crime and has use every knife known to the hell hound of racial hatred in order that he might prevent A. P. Prioleau from enjoyin is right of a seat in Congress, to which he is clearly entitled. Congressma Mann, in his suppression of the evidence induced and in his refusal to report the bill to the House, has not only sinne gainst the rights of the race, but harrowed his infamous act by denying the numerical strength which it would have otherwise enjoyed. We throw down the gauntlet to the honorable Congressman and will meet him at any time or place for the purpose of discussing the justice of his action. We know no man save only by the principle enunciates and if he dares to deny the charges we will review his Congressional record verbatim. Any man who would ask of another his vote under the pretence that he will support in return a measure which has in it the best results for the largest mass of people, but after getting that vote refuses to live up to the agreement by making possible the thing promised to the people, has not only violated his trust, but has lessened to the influence of his party in the eyes of the world. We are opposed to Congressman Mann's re-election and will exert every possible influence at our command to defeat him. We appeal to every man, whether he be white or black, to refuse to support a man who could so far forget political decency as to father race hatred and attempt to keep alive a spirit of sectional feeling that should have begun its journey to the wave with the last faint sound of the clinking chains of slavery. We call upon Congress Mann to take notice that the young North will insist upon a square deal for his brother in the South as well as for himself in the North, and will support only such men as believe in justice without color as a condition. A BEE REPRESENTATIVE IN DETROIT. Detroit, Mich., March 5, '06. I am now in Detroit, Mich. I arrived here to-day and it is snowing very hard. This is a great city with a colored population of 15,000. There are several business houses here doing well. Among the most prominent are Mr. C. T. Herndon, who conducts a barbershop in the Algaom Club. He is formerly from Georgia. Mr. J. H Burns is the president of the club and he is a wide awake and whole souled man, very popular with the masses. The colored people are doing well in all branches of business. I shall write you more fully next week. C. C. C. A WORTHY PROMOTION. Attorney L. G. Gregory of the Treasury Department, was promoted last week. Mr. Gregory is from South Carolina, and for a few years he has been in this city practicing law. This is a worthy promotion of a young and brilliant young man. Mrs. William Monroe Trotter, wife of Mr. William Monroe Trotter, editor of the Guardian, of Boston, Mass., is spending a short vacation in Washington as the guest of Mrs. Henry L. Bailey, 1713 T street, N. W. The Crispus Attucks Relief Association will have its annual sermon preached at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church Sunday evening, March 18. Rev. A. C. Garner will preach the sermon. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY MARCH 10, 1906. The Golden Jubilee of the Maryland Agricultural College was celebrated last Tuesday in the old college building at College Park. The Charity Organization Society, of New York City, has inaugurated plans for the improvement of certain conditions in the city of Washington. This society is doing work in three hundred other cities. The House Committee is considering a provision to prohibit paying over $1,000 per year to employees over sixty-five years of age, working in any executive department of the government. Postmaster General Cortelyou, in a letter, says he does not know of any abuse of the franking privileges by representatives. In his recent message to Congress, President Roosevelt points out the im- Gunhie ousten. Gunnar H. Gunninan HON WILLIAM B. ALISON portance of guarding the insular possessions of the United States. Thomas Dixon, Jr., knows how to appreciate a "set-back" from the theatreregime people of Washington by this time. Galbraith A. M. E. Z. Church has been celebrating its golden anniversary this week. The program was interesting and varied. The Retail Druggist Association of the District of Columbia is satisfied with the bill now before the Senate to "regulate the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons." Joseph C. Webster, of Asheville, N.C., and a member of the U. U. Marine Corps, committed suicide last Tuesday at the barracks by cutting his throat with a razor. The police of Atlanta, Ga., arrested nine men who were in a house near the Federal prison in that city last Tuesday night. It is alleged by the police that they were preparing to carry out a plot to dynamite the penintentiary in an effort to release certain criminals undergoing long sentences. Henry V. Bemis, one of the most prominent hotel men in the country and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1859, killed himself last Tuesday night at his residence in Indiana avenue, Chicago, Ill. The State Department of this city cabled $35,000 to Huntington, charge d'affaires at Tokyo, for distribution among the famine sufferers in the northern part of Japan. The dismissal of Private W. T. Halloran from the police force of this city which it is said was recommended by the chief of police was approved this week by Commissioner West. Robert Odier, a young physician at Geneva, Switzerland, declares that he has discovered a remedy for the cure of cancer in an animal and which will arrest the growth of cancer in persons. Dr. William Seaman was appointed principal of the Bureau of Chemistry in the Patent Office this week to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Dr. Jas. B. Littlewood. Mrs. William Thomas, a young matron of beauty of Punxsutawney, Pa., committed suicide this week in that city because she found a gray hair in her head. It is said that arrangements are in progress for the establishment of a new National Park in this city, with a capital of $500,000. The full amount of the capital stock has already been sub ```markdown ``` --- What I Saw 4nd Heard What I Saw 4nd Heard Getting on the band wagon is the latest song composed by the anti-Washington social tender feet in this city. The tender foot circle tendered Mr. Washington a dinner a few weeks ago and the original Washington men are all laughing up their sleeves. One of them went so far as to say that very soon after the dinner one of the participants asked Dr. Washington for a job. The doctor has an idea why the dinner was given. The Business League will or has decided to eliminate bankrupts. It has been decided not to allow a bankrupt to become a member. I met my old and genial friend, Arthur F. Boston, a few days ago. Arthur is one of the solid men in the city. He has a host of friends who say that he should be at the head of the Young Mens Immediate Relief Association. There is one thing certain, Arthur would not lose his head. He would not allow the members to dive into law suits without counting the cost. There are some men in this city who have an idea that they know it all. There are some members of the bar who are entitled to respect. The colored member of the bar is more divided than any other class of men. I don't see why Prof. J. T. Layton is not at the head of the musical department of the public schools. He is a man who thoroughly understands music. He can teach it with ease and give satisfaction to his pupils. I understand that there are only a few colored girls certified now to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Justice O'Neal has been sent to the Police Court. There is every reason that a man like him should be over the Juvenile Court. Judge O'Neal is a fatherly kind of man. He has children himself and hence he knows what children need. Fairplay. COL. CHARLES LYMAN. There is one man in the Treasury Department who has made a record for fairness and fair play. He has consideration for those under him and he never will permit the subordinate to be imposed upon. He is slow to decide on ex-parte statements; in fact his policy is to hear both sides and gives the benefit of all doubt to the accused. The Bee is of the opinion that this man, Col. J. Charles Lymon, who has won distinction by his ability, be made Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The employes of the Treasury Department believe in Col. Lyman. He always has a good word for all who call to see him. He never gets excited and at all times he takes his turn. He is sure and certain after he finishes his work. He is a faithful and hard worked public official. WANTED. Twenty-five young lady sporano and alto singers. Must be nice and respectable, not under sixteen nor over twenty-two years of age. Call any afternoon, or Monday and Tuesday evenings. Mrs. A. V. Chase. 1212 Fla. Aye. N. W. Paragraphic News BY MISS BEATRIZ L. CHASE. James F. Mack, third Deputy Police Commissioner at New Kork, handed in his resignation to Commissioner Bingham, which he accepted. Representative Taylor, of Ohio, a member of the House District Committee, introduced a bill last week to reduce the gas in Georgetown, D. C., to $1,00 per 1,000 feet to private individuals and 75 cents per 1,000 feet to the government. The body of Mrs. Wm. Homan, sixty years old has been found in the ruins of the local opera house which was destroyed by fire at Williamsburg, Pa., last week. The safe of the Lincoln Laundry at Mount Oliver, Pa., was dynamited last week. A small amount of money and securities valued at $4,000, but not negotiable, were secured. Prince Tsai Tse, leading the Chinese imperial commission sent to America to study the Chinese exclusion laws and the methods of the American Government, reached Chicago last Tuesday. It is said that Chicago lithographers are going to take up the pure food crusade in that city and unless certain manufacturers order labels for their food products which tell the truth the lithographers would not print them. The Spring Hill Hotel, a winter resort seven miles west, of Mobile, Ala., was destroyed by fire this week. Theoss is about $50,000. Maj. Geo. H. Hopkins, a Civil War veteran died at his home in Detroit, Mich., last Tuesday at the age of sixty-four years. A short-line railroad engine drawing en cars struck a large boulder near Smithfield, W. Va., one night this week and the entire train turned over. By the bursting of water pipes in the committee room of Senator Kerns, the committee rooms on three floors of the old Library space of the Capital were ooded. About a dozen fine rugs wereuined. The wife of M. Constans, the French Ambassador to Turkey, died at Paris ast Monday. Mr. Longworth's gift to Speaker Canton on his return to Washington was a large cigar about 18 inches long, a product of Havana, Cuba. Maj. Livingston Mims, former mayor of Atlanta, Ga., and one of the most well-known men in the South, died at his home in Atlanta last Monday at the age of seventy-six years. Sidney Russell McCoy, fourth classman from West Virginia, and William M. Geisinger, from Ohio, third class, both of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., have sent in voluntary resignations. It is said that Ambassador McCormick and Premier Rouvier are planning a notable Franco-American celebration on the occasion of the unveiling of the statue of Benjamin Franklin, April 20 at Paris. A number of armored automobiles, manufactured in France for the use of the Russian army, have arrived at St. Petersburg. Senor Romero Robledo, the former minister of justice, president of the chamber and leader of the Weyler party, died at Madrid, Spain, not long ago. RECORDER J. C. DANCY. Never in the history of the recorder's office has there been such improvements made as now. The office is an up-to-date institution and Mr. Dancy, the recorder, deserves great credit for the many reforms that he has made, which has resulted to the good of the office. The recorder has now entered upon his second term and if this term is as brilliant as his first term it is quite evident that he will have the best conducted office in the United States. His efforts have been to improve his office and to accommodate the many hundred lawyers and the citizens who have business in his office. The files have been nicely arranged, which affords the lawyers an opportunity to find deeds and other legal documents without trouble. Deputy Recorder Dutton is a wide awake man and he did much to have an up-to-date office. Mr. Dancy attends strictly to his business. He is affable to all with whom he comes in contact. He is willing at all times to give satisfaction to the patrons of his office. Mr. Blagburn, Mr. Pinchback, Mr. Brooks and others in the front office are competent clerks and they seem to have a thorough knowledge of the business of the office. The copyists are ladies of refinement and they all are up in their work with but a few exceptions. Miss Noyes, the comparer, is a highly educated lady and is popular among the employees of the office. Recorder Dancy deserves credit for the improvements that he has made and The Bee wishes him success. ```markdown ``` MISS N. H. BURROUGHS. From the Western Recorder. Miss N. H. Burroughs (negro), of this city, is the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary Convention, connected with the National Baptist Convention. She edits a department in the National Baptist Union, the organ of the convention. She was greatly lionized at the World's Baptist Congress in London. She created more enthusiasm than any other member from America. In the issue of the National Baptist Union for February 10th, Miss Burroughs has a remarkable deliverance, some of which will hardly bear quoting. Here is some of it: "That four million negroes needed intellectual and moral training was evident. This had been wholly neglected by their masters and, indeed, it is painful to say that these masters were responsible for much of the moral rottenness that was everywhere evident among the slaves. "Prejudice is on the increase and race hatred and sectional strife is everywhere felt. If I could believe that the Southern people, with all of their prejudices, with all of their animosities, are Christians, or even civilised, and that God is going to accept this type and give them a place in the kingdom, I would pray to Him to make me a savage and remove from me every possible means of knowing that Jesus died to save and take my chances in the last day among those who have never even heard the name of Jesus. If the Southern people, with all their prejudices, are Christians, then the people in this world who are free from this type of barbarism, are saints. "The negroes may be ignorant, some may be shiftless, some may be immoral, but it must be said to their credit that they have never produced and promoted to the highest office a barbarian like Vardaman. If the men in the highest positions in the Southland are of this type, how will you rate the masses? Governors. Senators, Representatives, preachers, business men, the upper class and the army of poor whites need missionaries and need them at once." The italics are hers. This is a remarkable and a noteworthy deliverance. It is not the ordinary sputtering of a disgruntled negro. It comes from a negro who is well educated, who is prominent, holding high official position, and it is a deliberate utterance, duly written out and published in the official organ of the Negro Baptist national body. It is published without any hint of objection. The author has the endorsement of that convention. Moreover, she has the endorsement of the Baptist World Congress in London. We wonder if her experience in London had anything to do with her making this deliverance. We wonder whether other negroes at the World Congress were affected in this way. We wonder whether this be the negro from the "world consciousness," produced by the Congress. At any rate it is a remarkable and a noteworthy utterance. We do not care to make any comment on it beyond expressing regret that such a deliverance could come from such a source and to say that if the leading negroes of the land cherish such spirit, then the time of the proper adjustment of the relations between the races is farther off than many of us have hoped. In order to correct typographical errors of last week's issue, in the case of Sir Knight Davenport, it should have read Dunlap, who is one of our old and highly respected citizens and prominent member of the craft. In the case of the negro grand lodges of the United States it should read 1813, which was the date that African Lodge 459, English register, was dropped for non-payment of dues by the English Grand Lodge of Freemasons. This was the first lodge of Masons of color in this country. (Hence we should go slow when we touch upon Bogus, Spirious, etc., etc.) Races at Aqueduct, Queens Co. Jockey Club, April 16 to April 26; Nov. 3 to Nov. 15. Last Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. James F. Johnson gave a supper to the Rev. Charles S. rector of St. Monican's P. E. Church, S. W., who has been called to the rectorship of St. Mark's P. E. Church of Charleston, S. C., one of the oldest Episcopal churches in the South. There was a few friends invited who were present and spent an enjoyable evening, etc., etc. The largest freight car in the world, capacity 200,000 pounds, is being constructed in the St. Paul shops of Milwaukee, Wis. Duplicate of Bronze Memorial in Philadelphia to Be Presented to France. New York.—When the steamship the Bordeaux sailed from New York for France recently an important part of her cargo was an imposing bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin, which will be formally presented to the French government in April by John Harles, of Paris. - Completed a short time ago at the Roman Bronze Works in Greek street, STATLE OF FRANKLIN (Presented to City of Paris by Banker Harles) STATUE OF FRANKLIN (Presented to City of Paris by Banker Harjes) Greenpoint, the statue is a duplicate of one in front of the Philadelphia post office. If the present programme is carried out the statue will be placed in the Rue Franklin, close to the site of the home occupied by Franklin when he was United States minister to France. John J. Boyle, a sculptor of New York, designed the statue and was at work for nearly three years before his model was ready to be molded. It required nine months for the bronze workers to complete the statue, which cost about $10,000. Mr. Harjes, the donor, is a banker in Paris. Following the erection of the Franklin statue in Philadelphia suggestions were made that a duplicate be placed in the Rue Franklin. Mr. Harjes became interested in the idea and after consulting Mr. Boyle, awarded to him the contract OLD VERMONT STATEHOUSE Ancient Structure Built Before Revolutionary War Still Standing—May Be Turned Into Museum. Rutland, Vt.—The first state house in Vermont is still standing in this city, dilapidated, but an interesting relic of the early days when Ethan Allen and his followers were regarded as the personification of all that embodied strength of manhood and integrity of purpose. This old structure was erected before the revolutionary war and stands near Federal square on the east side. Within were held the sessions of the general assembly, which met alternately in Rutland and at Windsor, the district court under the federal government, the supreme court of the state, the courts of common pleas and the courts of prosecute for the district of Rutland. A movement is under way to preserve this structure as a museum of nature history, and it has been proposed that OLD STATE HOUSE AT RUTLAND, VT the Daughters of the American Revolution stand sponsor for the plan to raise a sufficient sum of money to purchase the land and building from the citizens who now own it, repair the interior and start a collection of relies dating back to the time when Itland was first settled, including minerals of the state, cosfities of ancient origin from the battlefields of the vicinity in which Indians took a prominent part. Not the China of Old Of one thing we may be sure, which is that the world has not the same China to deal with that it had six years ago. China, wonderful to relate, has changed and is changing now with rapidity. It is much to be doubted that another military expedition to Peking similar to that of 1900 could now be safely undertaken. And, certainly, were the new army to be used against an international force such an undertaking as the Peking expedition of 1900 would be madness. An invading force enormously larger than the allied contingents of that year would now be necessary. This belief is based on trustworthy reports concerning the size and character of the reorganized Chinese army, whose maneuvers late in the autumn were critically watched by expert foreign observers. New Triple Alliance Three brothers married three sisters at Kansas, Ill., all within three years, and the ceremony in each case was performed by the grandfather of the grooms. Miss Hattle Kirkham first married James Hayes. Della Kirkham and John Hayes were married three months ago, and Chloe Kirkham and Arthur Hayes wed the other day. The ceremony at each wedding was performed by Gen. James M. True, of Kansas, Ill., the grandfather. INDIAN AS SENATOR. CHIEF OF CREEK NATION MAY ENTER CONGRESS. Gen. Porter Likely to Obtain Honor Should Oklahoma and Indian Territory Be Ammitted to Union as One State. Muskogee, I. T. -With the admission of Indian Territory and Oklahoma as one state may come the appearance in congress of the native American Indian as a lawmaker. By an act of congress tribal relations will end on the 4th of March, and Indians will become voters under the flag. They will be privileged for the first time to pay taxes, and for the first time in the history of the nation an Indian may stand in congress, elected to represent his people. There will be two ends to the new state and a senator from each end. There will be countless candidates, for a peculiar feature of a new country is the number of men who think themselves competent to hold any office. The one figure for United States senator from the Indian Territory end of the new state is Gen. Pleasant Porter, chief of the Creek Nation. Gen. Porter is a Democrat, and the new state will be Democrat. As there are 4,000 negro votes in Indian Territory, the control of this army of colored voters will decide the destiny of any political question. Most of these negro voters are nominally Republicans, but they are members of the Creek tribe, and have a sincere regard for their chief. Gen. Porter is probably the only Democrat who could command the negro vote of Indian Territory, as well A. H. GEN PILASANT PORTER. (Indian Chief Who May Sit in United States Senate.) as the Democratic white and Indian vote. Porter is not a stranger in Washington, but as a United States senator he would occupy a unique and spectacular position. He is 65 years old and wealthy. He was born 12 miles from Muskogee, his great-grandfather was Andrew J. Porter, of Norristown, Pa., and his grandfather, John Snodgrass Porter. The latter was a captain in the regular army and married a squaw, afterward being adopted into the tribe in Russell county. YA. Ala. Of this union, Benjamin Edward Porter was born. He married Phoebe, daughter of Tahlopee, an Indian chief, bringing his wife to live on the banks of the Arkansas river in Indian Territory. It was there that Gen. Pleasant Porter was born. At the opening of the civil war Gen. Porter enlisted in the confederate service as a member of the first Creek regiment, and through acts of bravery was promoted, to be first heutenant. He toughed through the war and returned home in 1865. He has since followed farming and cattle raising. He is a good soldier, and in 1872, at the head of the militia, put down the Sands insurrection. He also put down the Loche Harlo Insurrection of 1876 and the Sparteker Insurrection of 1854. All his efforts have been for law and order. He was elected chief of the Creek nation in 1889, and has held that position ever since. He is a Knight Templar in the Masonic lodge and has taken the thirty-second degree. An anecdote is related to show the character of the man. When about 18 years of age he was hunting deer on horseback. He shot and wounded a deer in the early morning. The deer ran and he rode after it, expecting to get a finishing shot. All day he pursued the deer, and just before sundown the animal, close pressed and suffering from its wound, leaped from a high bluff into the Arkansas river. It was 60 feet from the top of the bluff to the water. Young Porter urged his horse to make the jump, but the animal would not attempt the test. The deer was swimming the stream and would soon be lost. Young Porter dismounted seized his horse by the bridle, turned him around and backed him over the cliff. When the horse struck the water young Porter jumped after it, caught the animal in milstream, and captured the wounded deer. Old Tombs Uncovered. During excavations in the neighborhood of Breslau, German Silesia, there have been discovered in the last few weeks nearly 500 tombs, with altogether 6,000 skulls and 200 dwelling caves. The oldest tombs date back about 2,500 years. They contained well-preserved skeletons, jars, cups and war hatchets of stone. Other tombs, so-called urn tombs, are about 1,000 years younger, and contain urns, pots, dishes, cups and goblets, as many as 20 vessels being found in a single tomb. Great Change of Heart Experienced by Mary Ellen Lease, Kansas Female Orator. New York.—Mary Ellen Lease has become a mental scientist. The former populist whose ringing Kansas voice and inclusive accents denounced the rich and powerful and went for the downtrodden—in a flow of language which could not be dammed or turned from its course—snow announces that we must give out thoughts of love. "There is, no chance, there are no accidents, and, despite all that is said MARY ELLEN LEASE. (Former Populist Who Now Believes In Love.) MARY ELLEN LEASE. (Former Populist Who Now Believes In Love.) to the contrary, no luck," says Mrs. Lease. "Things are more evenly balanced than they seem. We reap what we sow. We get what we earn—just that and no more." Before the New York City Mothers' club recently she told how to become conscious of their soul power and what it would do for them. "The race to-day," she said, "is coming up from the basement apartments, from the cellar to the light. A tidal wave of awakened soul power is sweeping across the world. The soul recognizes its high prerogative and commands the body to do its will. With the power which is within us in harmony with the law of the universe we can control conditions, create circumstances. "The power of concentrated thought, in its utility or abuse, is greater than any phenomena of the physical world." The women were applauding wildly Mrs. Lease's Kansas voice floated out over the hubbub with added vigor "Thought is power. We are what our thoughts are. If you don't want to appear poor, don't think you're poor and you won't be. If you worry you currode the mind." WISCONSIN EDITOR` NAMED. Amos Parker Wilder to Succeed Consul General E. S. Bragg at Hongkong, China. Madison, Wis. — Dispatches from Washington show that Aung Poker Wilder, editor of the Madison State Journal, will succeed Gen. Edward S. Bragg when the latter resumes his position as consul general at Hoggling May 1. Failing health is the cause of Gen. Bragg's retirement. The salary of the position is $4,000 and fees bring the total income to about $10,000. Dr. Wil- [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. AMOS PARKER WILDER. (Wisconsin Editor Appointed Consul General to Hongkong.) der came to Madison in 1894 with the highest credentials. A graduate of Yalin 1884, he later earned the degree of Ph. D. at the same institution. He had served also as extension lecturer on municipal government for the University of Wisconsin. A cultured wife and a fine group of four children constitute his happy family. New Cure for Seasickness. New Cure for Seasickness. "Like cures like," is the theory of treating mal de mer. The invention consists in making the movebents of the ship when pitching, rolling, heaving, and settling less felt by the passengers by providing special chairs, couches, or a whole platform, forming part of the deck, and giving to these, either by machinery or by hand, short up and down movements. Consequently, as the long movement of the vessels are thus changed into a great number of short motions which are constantly interrupted by brief movements in an opposite direction, the causes producing seasickness are counteracted. The device consists of a chair with the seat movable with respect to the legs, arms and back. The short up and down movements are given by a small electric motor between the legs of the chair and connected by a belt with an eccentric actuating the seat. Monks Taking to Autos In the canton of Valais, Switzerland, the monks of St. Bernard have secured the Swiss government's permission to employ an automobile in provisioning their convent. On its trial trip, in order that the horses and other animals encountered on the way should not be frightened, the monks had a horse attached to the automobile. MORMON PATRIARCH LEAVES ABOUT 800 DESCENDANTS. Benjamin F. Johnson, Close Associate of Prophet Joseph Smith, Dies in Arizona at a Ripe Old Age. Phoenix, Ariz.—There has just died in Mesa City, this state, a man who, it is said, had the largest family of children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren. His posterity numbered in the neighborhood of 800 souls, the majority of whom live in what is appropriately known as the "Johnson neighborhood." This patriarch, Benjamin F. Johnson, familiarly known as "Uncle Benji," had rounded out the age of 87 years, and at his last birthday party was able to shake hands with 300 of his descendants. He was born in New York on July 29, 1818, and when 13 years old became a follower of Joseph Smith. At the age of 18 he became closely associated with the prophet, and from that time to his death acted as his business agent and private secretary. He was possibly better acquainted with the prophet than any man now living, and has left many written reminiscences of the early days. He was captain of the first company that left Nauvoo at the expulsion, and in 1849 he went to Salt Lake City with an emigrant train. He was soon made colonel in the military organization that was formed in Utah to protect the settlers against the Indians. When the provisional state of Deseret was organized he was chosen as one of the delegates to it, and such was his zeal that he was returned 14 times CRASH METEORISM BIRD SEPT 28 1883 AGED 11 YEARS 2 M Crash Died in 23 died on 23rd June 1883 died on 23rd June 1883 MONI MENT TO A MORMON. (Inscription Showing Number of Descendants Regarded as High Honor) to the legislature of the territory after it was organized. Later he settled in southern Utah, presiding over the settlement of that country. While away on a mission to the Sandwich islands the Walker war broke out, and his entire property was destroyed by the Indians. At the time of his death he had a claim for $10,000 pending before the government. In 1833 he set out with his large family for Arizona, first settling in Tempe and later moving to Mesa, where he had resided continuously ever since, living a consistent, faithful member of the Church of Latter Day Salants even to his death. His funeral was held in the tabernacle, which he himself had been instrumental in building, and his body was placed in the Mormon cemetery whiteth a procession of buggies a mile long filled with his descendants followed. As the highest testimonial that can be given to a Mormon is the number of descendants inscribed upon his tumbstone. Patrarch Johnson will now stand higher in the minds of the faithful than his old friend, Charles S. Petersen, who had heretofore held the palm in the village cemetery, with 172 to his credit. State Flag of Alabama State Flag or Arkansas. Over the historic capitol of Montgomery, Ala., waves not the national flag, but the Alabama flag, and not one Alabaman in a thousand would recognize it if he saw it elsewhere than on the capitol. The flag in question has no history woven into it, for it was not adopted until 1895. It presents a St. Andrew's cross in crimson on a white field. Such a cross is shaped like a letter X and the books suggest that the apostle Andrew died on a cross of that design. Few if any other states indulge in flags of their own. A flag is the symbol of sovereignty and state sovereignty is limited by the federal constitution. When we were a part of Georgia we granted to the federal government the executive power of punishing treason and if anyone becomes a traitor to the Alabama flag we might have to call in the federal government in order to punish him. Russian Children Uneducated Some political economists say that the Russian people wouldn't know what to do with a constitutional government if they had one. In support of this statement it is announced that there are 17,000,000 children in Russia between the ages of six and sixteen who are not getting any education. The old statement that the public school is the real foundation stone of sound constitutional government is naturally recalled. Adoptting American Rules. Japanese proprietors of three large, modern apartment houses for orientals in San Francisco have decreed that no children shall be allowed within their walls. Skeados& Skeados New York Candy Kitchen 908 7th St. N. W. R. L. Middleton, Coffins can be shipped to any part of the State upon reliable telegraph orders. Your patronage solicited. My prices are the cheapest and my stock second to none Fine carriages and polite drivers for all occasions. CARRIAGES FOR HIRE FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Office, Warerooms, 516 Eighth St., Southwest Phone Connection. Satisfaction Guaranteed. FRANKHUME, Wholesale Grocer. Agent for the District of Columbia for LIPTON'S renowned COFFFF TEAS. OLD STAG Whiskey. The sole agent for the Artisan Cigars made in Porto Rica. The best and cheapest cigar made. TERMS CASH: Interest charged after 30 days. 454 Pennsylvania Ave., Bet. 4-1-2&6Sts. N. W. 454 Pennsylvania Ave., Bet. 4-1-2&6Sts. N. W. DOUBLE IN 7 YEARS. RECORD OF IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED STATES. Value in 1805 Reached $1,179,000,000 Against $635,000,000 in 1898—Raw Silk Increased by 100 Per Cent. Washington.—The imports into the United States have practically doubled in value in the last seven years, according to a bulletin issued by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor. In the calendar year 1905 the imports aggregated in value $1,179,000,-000, as against $635,000,000 in the calendar year 1898. The figures of 1898 included merchandise from Porto Rico and Hawaii, now customs districts of the United States. If, the bulletin says, the value of the merchandise brought from these islands in 1905 be added to the bureau's statement of imports from foreign countries, the grand total for 1905 would be $1,221,000,000. The increase in importations is distributed through all classes and practically all articles of merchandise. Food stuffs increased $34,000,000, a gain of 45 per cent.; manufactures increased $81,000,000, or 77 per cent.; luxuries increased $76,000,000, or 90 per cent.; and manufacturers' materials increased $307,000,000, or 117 per cent. These figures do not include merchandise from Hawaii and Porto Rico during 1905. If these were included, the increase in food stuffs would be about $134,000,000, or 70 per cent. Raw silk importations increase about 100 per cent; th imports an increase of 200 per cent; hides and skins, 30 per cent; crude rubber, 90 per cent, copper from $4,000,000 to $28,000,000, sugar from $78,000,000 to $151,000,000 (including $50,000,000 brought from Porto Rico and Hawaii), cotton manufactures of all kinds from $29,000,000 to $54,000,000, silk manufactures $25,000,000 to $33,500,000, cigars and cigarettes from $1,750,000 to about $4,000,000. In addition to this $2,666,000 worth of cigars and cigarettes were received from Porto Rico last year. Wines, spirits and malt liquors increased from $10,000,000 to about $18,000,000, and diamonds from $8,333,000 to $20,500,000. $3,000,000,000 IS RECORD Government Announces That American Commerce Gained Over $100.- 000,000 in the Year 1905. Washington—The foreign commerce of the United States approaches surprisingly near to the $2,000,000,000 point in the calendar year 1905. a- vania Ave., &6Sts. N. W. cording to a report issued by the reau of statutes department of merce and labor "The total imports and export merchanlisse," L- report say $2,506,000,000. cost $2,307,000 1900, an aver. increase of $. 000,600 a year. "If the $2,900,000,000 of commerce in 1905 were added figures of trade with Hawaii Rico, formerly foreign ter included in our statement, elgn trade prior to 1901, would approximate $2,900 about $600,000,000 more than ago, and $1,200,000,000 more years ago. "Another notable character of the year's foreign trade is that the exports in December practically $2,900,000, the month's exportation in any to that time being that of 1901, when the total was $34 "The import record for in excess of that of any 1 year, being for the 12 months with December $1,179,254,401,035,909,190 in 1901. The imports, while not rapid, steady, and continues to being pace, approximately, growth of population. "The commerce with the tiguous territory of the Un also makes a new high in 1905. It will count to about 000,000 in value, against a than $100,000 last year." While Engine Is Speeding As Rapid Rate Bird Is Snatch Into Captivity. Denver, Col.-The fireman engineer who took the Rocky W limited out of here the other captured an immense America as it was flying in the air. perience is probably unique roading. The unfortunate king of be spend the remainder of his satiating the wondering gaze crowds at City park. The eaures seven feet and four inch tip to tip. When nearing Limon the crew noticed the bird flying straight ahead of the train. train was then traveling at 65 miles an hour, and if it change its course it was evicted. the eagle would be overtaken bird was on the left side and engine finished by the fireman re- out and grabbed the bird by a les pulled it into the cab. With the of the engineer the big fellow downed and tied, but it took a float. EAT GLASS BEADS. A GOTHAM SCIENTIST NEEDS THEM TO HIS PATIENTS. Digestive Text in This Manner of Experiments—Gleans Information Concerning Flushbone's Action in Stomach. New York—Prof. Max Elnhorn, of the Post-graduate Medical School and Hospital, has been feeding a number of New Yorkers on glass beads to find out how much they are behind the African ostrich in the matter of digestion. The professor's extraordinary series of experiments, now just concluded, show that beafsteak and potatoes, the standard diet in this city, are harder to digest than is generally supposed. Other prostheses of digestion were also brought to light. Of Elninhorn chose small porcelain glass beads for his experiments. At first he tried to coat the beads with the use of various articles of food, but then he gave that plan up. Several weeks ago he conceived the plan of "loading" the beads with solid foodstuffs by drawing them through the opening in the head and tying them on with a silk thread. To test the work of the digestive fluids in the stomach only Prof. Elninhorn fed the "loaded" beads to his subjects by enclosing them in gelatine capsules with a long silk thread attached. The subject then swallowed the encaused bead, which was pulled up again after an interval of from four to six hours. In this way the extent of the gastric digestion was easily estimated. Other loaded, beads were fed to the subjects without any thread at- Among the articles inserted in the breast were catgut, raw tendons, raw and boiled beef, raw chicken skin, raw and boiled potato, raw potato skins, apples, fishbones, wax, parafin, stearic acid and mutton fat. According to Prof. Elnhorn these experiments proved that in the average healthy New Yorker both catgut and fishbones were digested in the stomach whereas boiled or raw beef, raw chicken skin and raw as well as boiled potatoes did not disappear altogether in the stomach. The raw chicken skin and the raw muscle fibre disappeared further on, but the tendons was digested at all. It was the same was with potato skin. Mutton fat remained unchanged in the stomach, but disappeared through chemical action on The case with which New Yorkers eager fishbones is taken to indicate they are descended from fishlike ancestors, of which there are several large examples in the aquarium. HIS MECHANICAL FIGURES. the figures are made chiefly out of wood of wood which Mr. Coe his woods, and they are all in appropriate costumes and matter with precision. They wear spectacle and many come S A FAMILY OF PIONEERS. 10 Larry Brothers and Sisters, of Whom Is 74-Av- age 81 Years. 14 - The Creccolius fami- mily Grundy county, near me that its members col- lise up the oldest family States. age of the Creccolius years, and the total ages children aggregate 486 members of the family are Mrs. Mary Creccolius Conrad, aged 92; Adam Conrad, 76 years; George Conrad, 77 years; Mrs. Phillipson of Marshalltown, 85 W. Creccolius, of New Austria, 82 years; Harrison of Indiana, 74 years. the member of the family that its advanced age of 83 years. Mrs. Creccolius is a bachelor. Growth of Camera Habit a camera was a antibiotist who possessed mountain of trans afflict a tent during his impilation of the wet year the United States cameras, working sure of a bulb or but- photographic business expectable commercial Rise White Robin. Ordinary plumage was a bville. Tenn., being a robin, killed by J. Leeville. The only that was of the me- the robin was the sea, wings and tail a dove SHIPS BRIDES TO CANADA Salvation Army Starts Matrimonial Bureau—First Cargo of Girls Has Left England. London.—To its multifarious agencies the Salvation Army is adding that of a matrimonial bureau on a great scale. This far reaching decision was taken at a conference of officials in London recently: "We believe that the time has arrived when the army can be of useful service in this respect to the entire world," said Mr. Coombs, territorial commissioner, whose headquarters are in Toronto, Canada, in making the announcement. Work began forthwith. Fifty marriageable young women left London for Canada on the first emigrant steamer, Kensington, and others followed soon afterward. "There are 10,000 men, at least, in Canada waiting for brides," said Maj. Morris, deputy secretary for emigration. According to Col. Lamb, head of the emigration department in London, the Salvation Army acts as chaperon. "We intend," he said, "to see that a young girl is given a proper introduction and placed in the right society; in fact, to do the practical thing in a common-sense fashion. "When a girl has a proposal she can have proper advice. If she asks we shall inquire into the character and pedigree of her suitor." The officials will arrange such entertainments as garden parties and harvest festivals to allow the men from the western plains to meet the young women. In the meantime great quantities of letters from girls with matrimonial proclivities are being received by the Salvation Army. Whether or not this is due to the alleged decline of love making, or to the strong feminine love of romance which finds freer play across the wide ocean and wind-swept plains, the officials have not decided. FISHING IN SALT WATER. Commission to Regulate It on the New Jersey Coast Appointed by Governor. Trenton, N. J.-Gov. Stokes has appointed a committee to investigate the subject of salt water fishing and to report to the legislature a suitable plan for the regulation of this business and sport. The commission is created by a resolution recently introduced in the legislature by Senator Wood McKee, of Passaic county. The members of the committee will have a meeting at the statehouse soon, when opportunity will be given for all phases of the subject to be ventilated. The subject has been ventilated many times before, but on occasions the commission always has been composed largely of men interested in mendaden fishing. This time it is believed, that an equal show will be given the hook and line fishermen. Ocean county borders upon Barnegal bay, the great fishing resort of New Jersey, and Senator Shinn's constituents are made up largely of hotel and cottage owners, fishermen and boatmen, all of whom would benefit by the enactment of a law to permit the edible fish to come up into the bay instead of being scooped up by the menhaden fishers and ground into fertilizers, or by pound nets and held in cold storage for months at a time in order that prices may not be lowered in Philadelphia and New York. Jersey line fishermen, as well as thousands of sportsmen from other states, have for years been demanding a law that will give them protection from the menhaden and pound fishers, and they are hopeful that such a law will be the outcome of this year's commission and its work. HONOR FOR DEAD SAILORS Handsome Bronze Tablet to Be Erected in Memory of Mariners Who Were Killed on U.S.S. Benington. San Francisco.—A handsome tablet in memory of the dead of the United States ship Bennington in the disaster in San Diego harbor July 21 last is being made at the Mare Island navy yard. When completed it will be placed in St. Peter's chapel at the naval station. The chapel has a fine collection of memorial tablets, many of which have been given by the families of deceased naval officers, and many beautiful memorial windows have also been unveiled during the past year. Not the least beautiful of these tablets will be the one now in preparation in memory of the sailors who lost their lives as a result of the Bennington disaster. It is to be cast in bronze, three by five feet in dimensions. The Angel of Death is represented scaled on one side of the table, her arm stretched out over a scroll on which is inscribed the following: "In memory of the 65 who were killed on July 21, 1805, by an explosion aboard the United States gunboat Bennington in the harbor of San Diego. In the line of duty and under the flag they served so well they died as heroes die. "The mourning nation honors their names forever and Death's Angel enfolds them with her wings." Below the tablet when It is placed in the chapel of the navy yard will be a plate on which will be engraved the names of Ensign Newman K. Perry and the 64 enlisted men in whose memory the tablet is given. Natives Won't Work. A scientist who has just returned from the Philippines takes a gloomy view of the natives. He says they won't work because they don't have to. Queer follows those natives: WORKHOUSE INMATE BELISHES IT IN FINE-GUT FORM. Englishman Looks Like Human Os trich to Fellows—Declares Chips Are an Especial Delicacy—Receives Medical Attention. London.—Without wishing to start a tropical correspondence it is conceivable that Newton would have discovered the laws of gravity by other means if the legendary apple had not happened to fall at that particular moment. He could hardly have avoided doing so, for instance, if he had taken up skating. In the case of John Maginn, however, sometime inmate of Mile-end workhouse, and, like Newton, prophet of a new discovery, fate seems to have played a larger part. For had John Maginn not been put to work in the woodshed of the workhouse it is conceivable that his great discovery might have been delayed for some centuries—nay, perhaps never have been discovered, and Maginn been spared many severe internal palms which he must undoubtedly have suffered in the early experimental stages. But these he vain imaginings while the great discovery is still unannounced. It is that Mr. Maginn has found that it is possible for the human body to subsist on wood. Perhaps in the somewhat unusual circumstances his own words on the subject are best. In a letter to the Times he says: "Working in the newwood department I have discovered that common deal wood is a valuable food and medicine if cut small and eaten. Brown bread is not in it for its tonic and invigorating effect." At once a Leader representative, who is, by the doctor's orders, unfortunately limited to four square meals a day, posted off to Mile-end, but he was too late. The night before Mr. Maginn had risen upon a wind of prophecy and with a tin box of firewood tablets in his wallet had taken his uncharge and issued forth into the darkling night to spread his great idea abroad and to find disciples. But though he has, alas! gone, there are those remaining who witnessed the birth and progress of the great discovery and who can certainly tell some remarkable stories concerning it. One or two old acquaintances who were questioned assert that Maginn's remarkable powers first came to light through a strange shortage being noticed in the wood department. Bundles of firewood seemed to disappear in a mysterious way and at the same time Maginn was seen to be putting on weight at a remarkable race. It was not, however (at least so the tale goes), until he was actually seen slipping some pieces of wood into his ordinary fare that the real state of affairs was discovered. After that, so far as the other inmates were concerned, Maginn became the human ostrich, the man with the iron stomach and the whole of the other Barnum freaks rolled into one. So far as Maginn himself was concerned, bundles of firewood were what he really fancied. As a special delicacy nothing pleased him better than a piece of old, oak wainscoting or a railway sandwich, though the latter frequently gave him nightmare. And now Mr. Maginn is in the workhouse infirmary, where he will receive the careful attention of the medical staff. CHURCHES' DISPLAY ADS. A Remarkable Evangelistic Effort Being Made in Clinton, Ia.—"Clinton for Christ" Is Slogan. Clinton, Ia.—Clinton is the scene of a religious awakening under direction of prominent pastors. Cottage prayer meetings are being held and the culmination of the movement will come at the close of the Lenten season, when great revivals, led by noted revivalists, will be held in several of the churches. Printer's ink is being used unsparingly by the leaders in the movement and the pastors all report that the newspaper advertising has done much to bring the people out to the cottage meetings and to the Sunday church services. Display advertising is used extensively. Hardly a day passes that a large advertisement does not appear. "Clinton for Christ" is the slogan of the association and a circular letter has been issued calling upon the people to appear as "witnesses in the trial of Christ" and saying that a dozen signs point to a religious awakening in the city. A. P. Barker, judge of the district court; Rev. R. S. Rathbun and Dr. W. Burns Ryder, a prominent physician, are members of the evangelistic commission, which is in direct charge. The movement began early in January and is not expected to reach its climax until late in April or early in May. Famed Meteorite Sold. The famous Willamette, Ore., meteorite has been sold to a New York scientist who will present it to the American Museum of Natural History. The, price paid was $29,600, which is said to be the highest amount ever given for a meteorite. The huge mass of ore is one of the best meteorites ever discovered, weighing about 15 tons. It was found near the banks of the Tualitan river in Clackamas county, Oregon. After its discovery it was the object of litigation among those who claimed to have found it. Testator's Mind Declared Unsound Because of Lame Lines—Case to Be Appealed. Alton, Ill.—Because J. B. Could wrote poor poetry and signed his name to it a jury at Alton set aside his will and decided that he was incapable of devising his property. The case has attracted considerable attention in Illinois on account of the prominence of the people involved. When Mr. Gould died his will was read, and it was found that he had given all the real estate of which he was possessed to Mayor Ed. Beall and the latter's son, J. W. Beall. The heirs of the dead man protested and carried the matter into the courts. They alleged that the Bealls had exercised undue influence over the decedent and that his mind was not clear at the time he signed his name to the document. When the case came up in the courts at Alton the witnesses for the heirs testified that they were of the opinion Mr. Gould was of unsound mind, judging from the character of the poetry to which he had been signing his name and having published in the papers. The case was hard fought and the jury wrangled over a verdict for 24 hours before it reached a decision. It was decided that the will should be set aside, the jury agreeing with the heirs that the quality of the alleged poetry stamped the decedent as a man of unsound mind. When informed of the verdict Mayor Beall said he would appeal the case to the supreme court. He contended that the poetry was not so bad as some he had read and he indignantly denies that either he or his son exercised undue influence over Mr. Gould. RAILROAD CAPITALIZATION. Government Statistics Show That Investment Per Mile Has Grown to $64,265. Washington, D. C.—A special statistical report of the interstate commerce commission shows that railway capitalization has very rapidly increased during the last few years. The total capitalization for the year ending June 30, 1893, was $9,894,625,230, or $59,729 per mile. Three years later it increased to $10,566,865,771, or $59,160 per mile, while in 1804 it had grown to $13,213,124,679, or $54,265 per mile. An improvement likewise is noted in the dividend paying ability of railway stocks. In 1893 the per cent. of stock paying dividends was 38.76 on $1,609,600,846, or an average rate of 5.58 per cent. of stock paying dividend paying stock. In 1904 the per cent. of stock paying dividends was 57.47 on $3,643,427,319, or an average rate paid on dividend paying stock of 6.09 per cent. The amount paid in dividends in 1904 was $221,941,049. As regards freight rates, the statistics show that estimating the amount of freight revenue at the average rate of 95.2 cents per ton, the rate of 1899, the amount of freight revenue for the year ending June 30, 1904 was $1,247,-024,005. HAS SIX PUPILS; ONCE 55. Teacher's Enforcement of Vaccination Law Breaks Up School at Brogueville, Pa. York, Pa.—The attendance at the public school at Brogueville, in the southern part of York county, has been reduced from 55 to six pupils. This is due to the attempt of Dr. Dixon to enforce the vaccination laws in York county. The teacher, Miss Iceline Doran, was threatened with the revocation of her certificate if she permitted students to attend school without being vaccinated, and accordingly refused admittance to all but six. This has demoralized the school and the teacher is surrounded by empty benches. Many of the patrons of the school blame Miss Doran, while others are very bitter against the health officer. They declare that the school may suspend before they send their children back again. Indianapolis, Ind.-Many of the seedsmen will, this spring, mail potato eyes put up in plaster, so that they will reach planters in good shape. The eyes are taken out of the tubers with a knife made expressly for that purpose, which carries a pretty good sized piece of the potato. They are quita sure to grow, and make a fair crop, regardless of the small beginning. This is a cheap means of getting started in new varieties or of obtaining pure stock from some of the standard varieties. One hundred eyes, assorted to include a half dozen sorts, may be ordered packed in one box. These will cost about one dollar, with charges prepaid. The cost is hardly worth mentioning when compared to the advantage of having some pure stock of known varieties. They are not malled until danger of freezing is past. Will of Three Words Is Valid. The shortest will on record was declared valid by the probate division of the London court of chancery. The testator, who was stricken with paralysis, had asked for a piece of paper and written, "All to mother," meaning his wife, whom the courts have now declared entitled to his large estate. NEW JERSEY SILK WEAVER FALLS HEIR TO $1,000,000. Working at Eight Dollars Per Week as Foreman in Plant When Joyful News Arrives from Ireland—Plans Celebration. New York.-The happiest silk weaver that ever wove silk is Robert Hughes, of Garfield, N. J., who has received word that he has fallen heir to $1,000,000. Hughes is 48 years old and has never known anything but the hardest kind of toll. He came to America from Ireland when he was a boy, and as he grew up he learned the silk weaver's trade. Day after day he trolled, with but few pleasures and no prospect, so far as he could see, of ever bettering his condition. Like all men of his trade, he was peculiarly the sive of his business, for when work tell slack he dared not take employment at rough and ready jobs; for hard work never fails to make one's fingers stiff and rough, and it is absolute necessity for silk weavers to keep their fingers soft. By virtue of inclease ce and Industry Hughes was promised to be a foreman. His pay was $8 a week. He managed to keep his head above water and bought a little house. Day aft r day he went to the mill and there toiled all day long, spinning fineries for the adornment of the rich. Seemingly this was to be his fate until the end of the last chapter. But he received a formidable looking letter written in a clerkly hand on legal paper. The writers, a firm of solicitors of Belfast, Ireland, begged to inform"Robert Hughes, Esquire, of the town of Garfield, state of New Jersey," that he was one of the three heirs of John Hughes, Esquire, leaving a fortune of 1,600,000, equivalent to $3,000,000. Mr. Hughes directed in his will that his estate be divided equally among the children of his deceased brothers, two of whom are living in Ireland, the third being Robert Hughes, of Garfield. The silk weaver was dazed. His wife, a modest little woman, was dazed, too. They had both heard of bunkolet writers, and they feared there might be some trick. So Robert took the letter to City Attorney A. D. Sullivan, of Passaic, who said that the letter seemed genuine and he would take care of Robert's Interests. Robert finished his dally 'stint, of weaving, went home and ate a joysome supper with his wife, and then went out to make a festal evening for many worthy friends, that they might rejoice with him. "Don't think I'm excited, now," he said, "for I am not. I am only happy to hear the good-news. Do you blame me? "I tell you I never expected such a thing as this. I was only a boy when I left Ireland. We heard very little from the relatives at home, though father always said Uncle John was rich. I never saw Uncle John nor heard from him until the letter came telling me I'm a rich man. Phew! No more hard work, glory to God! I've worked hard all my life and I intend to take it easy now. "And will I go to Ireland to live? I will not. The United States was good enough to give me a living and its going to be god enough for me to spend my money in." BIQ INCREASE IN DEATHS. Springfield, Ill.—During 1905 there was a great increase in casualties to passengers carried by the railroads of Illinois, according to the annual report of the state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners. During 1905 66 passengers were killed on Illinois railroads, an increase of 41 over 1904, while 297 employees were killed. Seven hundred and seven passengers were injured, as compared with 245 in 1904, and 2,270 employees were injured. The total mileage of steam railroads in the state is 11,365 miles, not including 415 miles of industrial tracks. Increase in main lines during 1905 is 107 miles. A rule adopted by the commission some time ago to prevent. interurban tracks from crossing steam roads at grade is given in the report, and the board says that many applications for grade crossings have been refused. The board advocates a block system on all railroads. The number of persons employed on Illinois railroads in 1905 was 115,447, an increase of 9,617 over 1904. The commission appeals for closing frogs for the protection of trainnien. The total mileage of electric roads, both surface and elevated, is, 762 miles, an increase during the year of 176 miles, and these roads carried 162,549,535 passengers. Not Cut for Such a Deal. A car cleaner at Camden, N. Y., found a package of bills amounting to $5,000 on the hat rack of a car while he was at his work, and at once turned it in to the lost articles department of the railroad. It is plain that this man was not cut out for high finance. Russia Plans Insurance. The Russian government is planning a system of life insurance. Russia needs nothing so much as life insurance against the arbitrary and cruel reactionary satraps who have been killing people with or without provocation. Formation of Man's Egg Given Experimenters Clew to Solution of Baffling Problem. London—The result of investigations in the last few days shows that the trypsin treatment of cancer is most hopeful, especially as a preventive of recurrence after the first operation. The principal discoverer of the treatment is Dr. Shaw Mackenzie. He has had a number of cases under treatment during the last two years and arrived at his results clinically. Another investigator is Dr. Beard, of Edinburgh, who evolved the theory of embryological. The prevailing view is that the haa is supposed to produce the egg from tissue. Beard says this is not so. The fertilized egg is the product of the union of sperm and egg, which gives rise to trophoblast of larvae. In man the chorion is capable of indefinite cellular increase. Mackenzie's treatment in a number of inoperable cases has given striking results. It consists in the hypodermite infection of a two per cent solution of trypsin as near the cancerous growth as possible, pancreatic preparations being given freely internally with a sugar diet, and also purified orgall. The treatment necessarily is prolonged. The normal disappearance of the trophoblast sometimes is quick, but often exceedingly slow. The treatment received remarkable confirmation by the experimental cure of mice by Jensen while he was pursuing his inquiries. VICTORY BRINGS A BRIDE. Girl Marries Hero of Football, Game After Star Playing—Wed Same Day: Philadelphia.—Cupid's hand in the winning of a football game was discovered when the marriage of Miss Anna Taylor, of 2456 Amber street, and J. William Martin, of 1505 Wanamaker street, was made known. Martin is a former Princeton student and a football player of renown. He was playing fullback on the Overbrook team last fall, but was slightly injured, and when the final game with the Glen Hills Athletic association came on the last Saturday in November he was in the lineup, although he went to Glen Mills to see the contest, taking Miss Taylor along. At the end of the first half the score was 6-0 in favor of Glen Mills. "Oh, I want to see Overbook win," said Miss Taylor. "Well, I feel like playing," said Martin. "If I go in and win this game, will you marry me?" Miss Taylor had heard Martin ask this question before, and had postponed her answer, but now she assented, with the given condition. With this reward to spur him on Martin went in the lineup and played the game of his life, making two touchdowns in plunging plays. After the contest he and his sweetheart went to Wilmington and were married the same evening. GALA DAY 48 HOURS LONG. On Board Troopship Sherman, Hailing from Manila, New Year's Is Observed Twice. San Francisco.—New Year's day, according to calendars used in this part of the globe, occurs only once a year. According to the calendar and log of the army transport Sherman there must have been some double dealing by Father Time, for New Year's day happened twice on board the troopship. The Sherman, which has just returned from Manila, crossed the one hundred and eightieth meridian on the first of January, and in reckoning time Capt. Bruguiere was compelled to set his clocks back 24 hours. So New Year's greetings on board the troopship were prolonged for 48 hours. Old Sol had two peeps at the transport as it hung in the balance between the old year and the new. Passengers on the Sherman formed a double set of resolutions and doubt exists as to which set is. blinding. Capt. Bruguiere has been asked to allay all doubts, but he states that he is not a "sea lawyer" and refuses to act. FISH SENT TO ARGENTINA. Duluth Hatchery Makes Second Shipment of Lake Superior Trout Eggs to South America. Duluth, Minn.—Superintendent S. P. Wires, of the United States fish hatchery in Duluth, has shipped 100,000 Lake Superior trout eggs to the Argentine Republic, where they will be hatched and then planted in the waters of the lakes and streams in the foothills of the Andes. This is the second shipment, and the sending of Lake Superior trout fry to that country has been proved successful. The consignment sent to Argentina a year ago has flourished. The loss, as reported by E. A. Tulin, national fish culinist of Argentina, was only four per cent. Mr. Tulin, who was formerly in charge of the United States fish hatchery at Leadville, Col., asked for a second consignment from Mr. Wires. Mr. Tulin says that the waters in the foothills of the Andes are well adapted to the propagation of the Lake Superior trout. Own the Country. A New York minister says that the colored men own the United States. It must be admitted, then, that they make very reasonable and liberal landlords, considering the degree of freedom enjoyed by the whites. PUBLISHED AT 1109 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. -W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. SHAMS. While there is a great deal of shamming going on in this country and especially in this city, The Bee is of the opinion that the shams should be doing something that will tend to improve the condition of the people. Of all the shams in any community, the Temperance Sham is the most boisterous and less effective and more destructive. There are all kinds of offenses committed, brutality perpetrated upon a helpless people, but the only offenses that seem to demand the attention of the Temperance sham is whiskey drinking and the selling of the same. In the eyes of temperance advocates the drinking of whiskey is paramount. Some, if not all of them, believe or are made to believe that closing saloons will put a stop to drunkenness. Suppose drunkenness is stopped, what is to be done with other graver crimes committed upon a helpless people, for instance, the colored people? The next dangerous sham is the religious sham. Men who pretend to advocate morals under the guise of a minister of the gospel? Above all shams, The Bee is of the opinion that these are as dangerous to a household, a church or a community as the temperance sham. A number of these shams are famous in making spectacular demonstrations. They play to the galleries like sham politicians. Who are now endeavoring to deceive a community. The sham politician is a grafter. Such an exhibition was exhibited a few days ago. A class of sham politicians declared that they have organized the Republican party in the District. Respectable Republicans are warned against these grafters. They don't represent anything or any body. This city is a dumping ground for shams. These shams are disgraced, ostracised and expelled from their own states and communities and find their way to this city and the first thing they do is to set up show organizations on paper and declare themselves "we, the people." It is about time for the intelligent citizen to beware of this class of grafters and Shylocks. They are dangerous in any community. Many of them do not haven't sense enough to represent an intelligent body of people. This class of shams never work. They present an intelligent body of people. This class of shams never work. They live upon the charity of a good and easy class of people. The ambitious citizen who may have political aspirations is often fooled and deceived by this class of shams. There is also the business schemer, who has all kinds of inventions that will bring to the pockets of the "live easy" citizen millions. Every invention he declares, like Col. Mulberry Sellers, will bring millions. Haven't the Washington people been deceived long enough? Haven't they been robbed of their hard earned cash often enough? Take warning then and especially watch the political "faker" who springs up every four years. They will declare that they hold the city vote in the palm of their hand; in fact they could not lead an incarcerated criminal who had been given his freedom, from the work house. Some individuals have an idea that they are great and have the political power to do great things. In the several departments of the government you will find negro shams—men who were appointed to office by virtue of their being colored men. To-day many of these men, if not all, are pretending to be white men and women. The departments should discharge these shams until they are identified. The moment the colored race eliminates the shams the better off the race will be. Shams in any community or among any race of people are dangerous. Get rid of the SHAMS. They are in Church as well as in State. The social circle is infested with them. Societies and organizations are ruined by these individuals. Banks are wrecked and governments are overthrown. The city of Washington above any other city contains more shams than any other city in the United States. Many of the best citizens give way to them because they are easily fooled. They have more to say and are more prominent in the affairs of the city than the respectable citizens. You will find them in the Sunday school as well as in the pulpit. THE CLANSMAN tom dixon's play, the Clansman, has been demanding the attention of theatregoers this week at the Columbia. The press comments from two of the leading papers in the city, the Star and Post, will give the reader of The Bee what the opinion of the cultured people is of the play. The cultured and educated class of white people who attend the Columbia have a very high regard for respectability. If such a play as the Clansman had been presented at one of the second or third-class theatres in this city, where the common white people go, it would have met with approval. There is as much difference between a cultured and educated class of people as there is between diamonds and silver. The very best class of white people attend the Columbia Theatre. There are other theatres in the city that are patronized by the poor white trash, who declare themselves too good to associate with colored people and indeed the colored people, that is some of them, are just as particular with whom they associate as the best class of white people. A cultured white man or woman is not afraid of the colored man or woman thrusting himself or herself in company where he or she is not wanted. tom dixon's idea and motives of presenting the Clansman are to prejudice the white people against the colored people by pretending to show what the colored politician demanded or what he was asking for or seeking after the reconstruction period. Every sensible person knows that the slave could be trusted with his master's family. Every Southern white man knows that no educated colored man, no matter what his position was or what office he held, would have demanded the hand of a Southern white man's daughter. The educated and cultured white people in this country know that the conditions that tom dixon wishes to present in the Clansman never existed in the South. It is an infamous lie that only could have been the conception of a diseased brain. The Clansman is a libel upon the colored American and the faithful black allies whose loyalty and patriotism have been tested. The Southern white people have repudiated this foul defamer. The cultured people at the Capital of the Nation have hissed the author and the sentiment of his play. The American white man and woman of culture know that no man, no matter what his station in life is, would dare to invade the sacred precincts of their household without their permission unless he stealthily enters in the day time when the inmates are out, or in the night time when they are asleep. The Clansman. The Clansman like its author will soon be placed among the archives of forgetfulness. The index to which its whereabouts may be directed will be like tom dixon, blotted out of existence. When the Clansman leaves this city it will never return again and the rev. tom dixon will be counting his gains in one of the apartments that is so beautifully described by Dante. GET TIRED. Political conventions among colored men have never amounted to anything. Many of them are called to enable the small man, who is at the head, to obtain free advertisement. The great troble with the modern agitator and those who call conventions is, they get tired after their first meeting and you hear on more of them. Washington is the great political center for agitation among the so-called statesmen. There is nothing more ridiculous than to see these local statesmen attempting to teach the people sense which they don't possess. That is, the teachers. Many of them have assumed the responsibility of restoring to the people in the South, that is, the colored people, their political rights. Our information is that these disfranchised people are doing better and can show more property than those negroes in the North who are asking for a reduction of Southern representation. The Bee suggests to these local statesmen the importance of asking Congress to stop "Jim Crow" cars from entering the city. There are hundreds of people in the alleys who are in need of civilization, while and colored: First find out the cause of disease and then you will be able to cure it. Find out why "Jim Crow" cars enter this city and then go to Congress for legislation. Why have colored men South been disfranchised? That is the question. Who is responsible, Republicans or Democrats, or both? If both are responsible, get rid of them and support some other party. All theatres in this city have Jim Crow corners and yet the colored people will insist on patronizing them and the more stringent they are the more they appreciate it. They are insulted, kicked out; they call indignation meetings and then they get tired, sit down and rest and return again to their first love, the Jim Crow corner. Let us have more work and substantial results and less conventions with flowery speeches. TRUE WOMANHOOD. In another column of The Bee this week two articles are reproduced concerning Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, formerly of this city, but now of Louisville, Kentucky. One is an editorial from the Western Recorder and the other from the Louisville Herald. One is concerning the speech of Miss Burroughs at the World's Baptist Conference held in England and the other is a school of industry. It can be seen by the Western Recorder that the lady said some mighty true things concerning the oppressors of the colored people South which seemed to be commended by all well thinking people. If there were one hundred women and men in this country who had the nerve and the sense to speak as this young woman has spoken and does speak, conditions would be changed. Miss Burroughs is the most gifted speakers in the United States. Her equal cannot be found upon the rostrum. She is doing more to mould sentiment among the thinking people than any speaker in public life. Many of her hearers may not agree with her, but nevertheless she is telling some mighty truths. The Kentucky Herald states that she has established an enterprise for women that will rival Tuskegee. Miss Burroughs is at present one of the greatest female advocates of her race. There is nothing of a show to her. She is a noble woman. Full of vim, and enthusiasm, she strikes from the shoulder. She doesn't mince her words. She gives an honest expression to her thoughts, which will make her great and powerful. IMPROVING WASHING The very many phases of life in Washington could be changed and made better. Conditions of health and modes of living in innumerable instances need changing. It is very kind of the New York City Charity Organization to enter into three hundred other cities for the sole purpose of uplifting and improving the "housing and health" conditions of those cities. It is gratifying or at least should be to know that New York city has perfected itself in its campaign against crime and vice, and is in a position to send sub-committees into three hundred other cities to improve them. Washington is no exception when compared with other large cities, and yet to our minds New York city could do a still greater work by recalling all the sub-committees and putting them to work on the Manhattan Island. There is no city in the United States more in need of a "betterment of conditions in housing and health" than New York. At a meeting in Guy's hall last night, the colored men of Topeka voted down a resolution indorsing the appointment of Prof. W. T. Vernon as Register of the Treasury. The meeting was attended by about seventy-five representative colored men of the city. Nick Chiles introduced the resolution favoring Vernon and men who attended the meeting say it was greeted with cat calls; that Chiles was the only man who voted for its adoption. The information of The Bee is that no negro in the State of Kansas will indorse the other. It is quite natural for one successful colored man in the State to be opposed by the masses. There are knockers all over the country. Just why a man should be charged with an offense that is alleged was committed seven years ago, is strange. Somebody is behind the scene. Why ladies should want to expose themselves is something strange, in view of the fact that Mr. Vernon has been entertained by governors, senators and high state officials in his state. Why were not these charges made then? The colored man is a peculiar animal. Exceptions, to be sure. AARON P. PRIOLEN The case of Hon. Aaron P. Priolen was argued before the Election Committee of the House of Representatives. The first argument was made by Attorney Joseph H. Stewart of this city a member of the local bar. The other argument was made by Ex-Senator Thurston. If Mr. Priolen has a case and it is shown that he was honestly elected, the Republicans in the House should seat him. A man's color should be no bar to his being seated, and neither should his color seat him if he has not been fairly elected. The unjust prosecution of Mr. Priolen should be condemned by all fair-minded citizens in the United States. The methods used by Southern Democrats to get rid of representative colored men should be carefully scrutinized. The Bee congratulates both Mr. Stewart and Ex-Senator Thurston for their able defense in behalf of Mr. Priolen. THE ANNEX "The Annex" to the Jamestown Exposition received a severe jolt in the last issue of The Guardian. The grounds of objection to the "Development Company" and Giles Jackson are stated with force and precision, and we believe it is incumbent on Mr. Jackson to meet the issue raised squarely, if it is possible to do so, or else to retire from the field. The Bee has not examined the "Jim Crow Annex" to the Jamestown Exposition but if what Editors Murray and Trotter say of it is true, there is something "rotten in Denmark." Why should the Excise Board be reduced to satisfy the thirst of temperance advocates? If any school bill is to be adopted the Commissioners' bill is more acceptable. The Republicans of Maryland should get together and harmonize their differences. The Washington Post is being ably edited. There is not so much venom in it now against the colored man. The Ohio Republicans may endorse Secretary Taft against the wishes of the Senators from that state, and should he be lucky enough to be nominated for the Presidency the negro will not vote for him. This is one time the colored vote will divide. Secretary Taft is a negro hater and the negro voter has no use for him. What is the matter with Faulkner, Dick, Spooner, Olmsded and such men? The colored voter has learned some sense and he will use it at the next election. From the Kentucky Reporter. Elsewhere in this issue will be found an editorial taken from The Washington Bee, which is about complete in every respect, a fine, sensible line of argument and full of truth. In our judgment, Editor Chase has struct the keynote and used it to good advantage. The editorial will be read by North and South, by white as well as black people, and if digested through the proper channel, it will root up a lot of evil destroyers. Editor Chase appeals to the thinking man and reasons in a purely patriotic way, and asks the question, "Do the meetings held in the North denounce the Southern white men for disfranchising the negro do any good?" That question and sentence struck the issue square in the face. It only requires a moment's time to answer his question and answer it right. Again he speaks to the point when he says: "Let us stop complaining and go to work and teach the ignorant colored man, woman and child that they must first fit themselves for self-government before they will be permitted to handle the ballot." One of the first principles of self-government is the right to vote without being molested. The negro as far as possible should acquaint himself with the laws of the country which would enable him to cast his vote to the best advantage. The negro who sells his vote likewise sells his whole interest as a citizen and the man making the race for office who buys votes will legislate and do everything possible against the negro if elected. Any man who cannot win on his merits is unfit for office. Machine politics will demoralize and wreck the government. REV. A. J. HENRY. Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. Branches. When on Monday morning, the 26th inst., at 8 o'clock, the Rev. Alexander Johnson Henry was stricken with apoplexy at his home, 8 Downing street, little hope was given of his recovery, and when he did regain consciousness he informed his wife that his life's work was ended and that he had been called to his reward. On Tuesday evening the end came, bringing sorrow to the hearts of his members also his numerous friends and co-laborers in the gospel ministry. The Rev. Mr. Henry was born in Maryville, Tenn., in 1854. For awhile he attended the Maryville College, later on graduating from the college and theological departments of Howard University, Washington, D. C. In 188d he was married to Miss Mary Ella Stone, of Goldsboro, N. C. PRINCIPAL NOT SENTIMENT. From the Southwestern Christian Advocate. Much of the loudly acclaimed friendship for the negro has found its basis purely and simply in sentiment. Sentiment effervescent and therefore of the most temporary sort. The sentiment has been a sort of fondness for the negro; it is not so much of a conscious appreciation of the negroe's real worth, his inalienable rights and the fact that he is an integral part of a common humanity, but a sentiment born of sympathy and pity. MAKE THIS A DAY Make this a day. Though yesterday we failed to see The urging hand and earnest face That men call Opportunity. We failed to know the time or place; For some great dead, what need to fret? The dawn comes up a silvery gray, The golden moments must be met, Make this a day. This day is yours; your work is yours; The odds are not who pays your hire, The thing accomplished—that endures, If jt be what the day require. He who takes up his daily round, As' one new armored for the fray, Tomorrow steps on solid ground, Make this a day. BETTER STAY SOUTH. From the Liberator. The people of Germantown permit negroes to go to school with their children but refuse to permit a negro to be buried in their cemetery. The Germantown Guide calls on the people to provide a cemetery where the negroes may be buried, and it is stated "unless something is done the bodies of the colored poor will be denied the right of a decent burial, for their disposal, of necessity, will be by means of the dissecting rooms of anatomical boards." Wise negroes more and more understand that the South is the best place for them. Separate schools, separate churchea, separate cemeteries develop race pride, race responsibility and will produce race distinctions based upon honesty and virtue—News and Observer. Our contention has been that the difference in the North and South is but a fanciful one. The North eats with him, and denies him work, only as the most abject menial. The South persecutes his manhood rights, because he was once a slave. They continued al- ways a slave. But a brighter day is dawning. At the pace in which race deterioration is moving the negro will soon be seen as he is and given credit for what he has done. SUCCESS TO YOU From the Educator. With this issue we pass our north stone and begin volume X. We are profoundly grateful to our friends and subscribers, whose hearty support and friendly indulgence have inspired us on our way. We urge that all teachers leaders and race-loving people take their support this year, that we be enabled to do more for the up our race on all lines. OUR EARNEST APPEAL From the Gazetteer and Guide. The one growing evil that deter- progress of the race, is the so- necessary evil of prostitution, through that evil the maintaina- what might be termed, the leisure among the men dependant upon practiced by the feminine sex to tain them. The scarcity of house etc., is caused by this evil. This evil that the unfortunate colored has aped from the degenerate A. g. Saxon, and his higher civilization grounds of a necessary evil. The has not reached that civilization w by he can maintain such luxury. must be the servant class in large bers, but he or she will not follow path, if vice is open, and they are protected by the law. If you will have best servant, prohibit this vice, and le- late the leisure class of colored men work or get out of town, and the serv- problem will be solved. We underst- in Buffalo some attention is paid to the class by the present Mayor, J. N. Ada- This is our earnest appeal that this w be done. THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN Hampton, Va. The March number of the South Workman (published by the Hampton Institute Press) contains some strong editorials on Southern agriculture, educational progress in Virginia, negro farm labor from a Southerner's point of view and the need of a central board for the correlation of the rapidly increasing organizations for work among the negroes of Northern cities. The leading article in this number is an appreciation of the character of General S. C. Armstrong, by Rev Dr Merriman, of Boston, under the title "Armstrong the Christian Soldier." The portrait is strikingly true and vivid. An other strong and very suggestive paper is "What to Do with Our Boys." By Dr. Waring, the talented principal of the Colored High and Training School in Baltimore. The illustrated articles the month relate to the manners and customs of primitive people in Mexico Southern Europe and Hawaii. The study of negro conditions in the South begun in February continues in this issue with a paper on Hanover County, Va. MR. VERNON From Topeka Plaindealer. The people of Kansas, white and colored, except a few renegades, endorsed the confirmation of Mr. Vernon for Register of the Treasury. The opposition to him in this State amounts to but little, coming, as it does, from a class of colored, men who in their own business have never made a success for the simple reason that their time has been spent meddling with the affairs of people who are succeeding. NEGRO PROPERTY OWNERS IN HANOVER COUNTY, VA. From Southern Workman. Collectively the colored people make a good showing in Hanover along material lines. Colored men own considerable land and are often good farmers. The past year, for instance, a negro received the highest price for tobacco in the county. The following will give some idea of the size of the farms owned by colored people using Henry District as fairly typical of the county. Here there are 409 colored owners: 242 of them have less than 10 acres each, 109 have from 10 to 25 acres each; and 58 have over 25 acres; 23 of the last group range from 35 acres to 232 acres each. Out of a total of 289,332 acres in the county, exclusive of the town of Ashland, colored people, own 20,307 acres. Of the total real estate of the county assessed at $1,741,167.44 negroes own $139,299.95. But their individual holding are in most cases to small to enable them to earn a living upon them alone in the present state of agriculture in the county. They either rent more land or work for larger landowners in addition to tending to their own crops. So far most of the efforts of the colored people at acquiring property have gone into land getting. They seem to have paid little attention to their houses. The absence of good houses is especially noticeable when the comparatively large land holdings are considered. Many of the older men do not seem interested in having better houses. Their homes are often unnecessarily small and bad. These conditions no doubt beget much of the crime and immorality usually charged to the colored people of this county. One of the greatest needs of the negroes of Hanover County is better homes. The One Cent. Savings Bank, owned and controlled by dark-skinned citizens at Nashville, Tenn., has closed a successful year, their clearings being $5,10684. square deal. Messrs. W. J. Singleton and Walter J. Adams are still under the care of skilful physicians. Mr. John R. Brown of the Treasury Department, is the ideal secretary of several organizations. Go on, John. The Y. M. I. R. A. delivered the goods last Friday night. Mr. Wm. McBeth of the War Department we are glad to state is out again, to the delight of his many friends. The Banneker Relief will bow to its many friends April 20. Boys, be sure and be present. Where will the annual sermon of the Y. M. P. L. be preached? We don't know, but it is drifting towards the South. Mrs. Martha James is a graceful dancer. The reception of the Young Men's Immediate Relief last week was largely attended. Both halls were crowded to their utmost capacity. At the dinner tendered Prof. Booker T. Washington two years ago by the anti-Washington men, prior to the dinner one of the anties who had been most vigorous in his denunciations said to Mr. Washington that he had taken his (Washington's) advice and sent his daughter to the Armstrong Manual Training School under Dr. Bruce Evans. Mr. Washington gave the speaker a significant look because he could not do otherwise. Another individual told him that he never agreed with The Bee or Guardian and so far as he was concerned he had been misled. Another individual who had been vile in his attacks on the methods adopted by Mr. Washington told him that nothing gave him greater pleasure than to meet him and talk it over. The entire anti-Washington crowd ate crow, feathers and all. It was a most amusing gathering of anti-Washington men that he could not understand. There were new converts to the bread and butter brigade. How they all smiled is too amusing to the stand-patters. Circle was largely at evening. went to Columbus to at- of his uncle. home, former pastor of March, has gone to Cuba. man, who has been forest, has returned to Warmley was the guest while in Brooklyn, has, a government em- San Antonio, Texas. inter, who attended the directors of the Young returned to his hame Young, one of How- least, Medical graduates, is one leading Pharmacists. this city will serve the school in Charleston, S. C., dinner one of most vigorous said to Mr. taken his (W sent his da Manual Trai Bruce Evans the speaker r he could no individual t agreed with so far as he been misled. had been vi methods ado told him tha er pleasure t it over. The crowd ate c was a most ti-Washington understand. verts to the How they a to the stand Thomas Dixon, Jr., who travels with the company now producing "The Clansman" at the Columbia Theater, is by far the most interesting feature of the performance. He has the oratorical instinct, and his personality breathes the defiance of the natural born debater. At the moment when it is customary to call for the author of the play Mr. Dixon appeared before the curtain. The audience had not asked for him, but was glad to see him none the less. The applause had been frequent and vociferous, and some curiosity on Mr. Dixon's part to come out and have a square look at the crowd who was making the noise was quite justifiable. Mr. Dixon thanked the audience for its enthusiasm with all the modesty and grace of a young author, but in a few minutes his rhetoric found its natural militant swing and he called attention to the very deserved roastings which his play had hitherto received. He said it was a remarkable fact that his critics were all on the press and not in his audience. He proceeded to congratulate the assemblage before him upon its fairness and discrimination, when certain sibilant reminders reached him that he had been mistaken in assuming unanimity in his hearers' approval, and he brought his threatened lecture to a close. The subject of the play is most unpleasant and appeals to the morbid curiosity which always draws a crowd when it becomes noised abroad that something objectionable is on exhibition. By a peculiar paradox the utter crudity of the work, both in structure and performance, proves in a sense its salvation. People of intelligence are not likely to take it over-seriously, and those who find satisfaction in noisy demonstration are given abundant opportunity to express their personal views by the very elementary method of vigorous hand-clapping to signifying indorsement and hissing to indicate disapproval. The play is a dramatized stump speech of a school long since departed. The method of portraying its character and incidents defeats its own intentions so far as the enlistment of "THE CLANSMAN" BOISTER- OUSLY RECEIVED AT THE "The Clansman" evoked boisterous enthusiasm, mingled with hisses and groans at the Columbia Theatre and the greater part of the evening patrons of that eminently respectable playhouse had every incentive to imagine themselves in one of the minor theatres, surrounded by an emotional public, which is accustomed to share keenly the mental attitude of the characters on the stage. Pent-up feelings were unleashed, and people accustomed to visions of lovely maidens gowned as Dresden shepherdesses, or rigged out in pink tights and resplendent bodices, thrilled and throbbed to the moving events The I Carter went to Brook- v week V H. of Baltimore, is in friends. register] W. Lyons was made pre- cident a baby boy Wednesday niorn- Mother and child are doing well. L H Harris of 600 3d street S. left for Vicksburg, Miss., this week send the funeral of his friend Dr. od. W J Verby of Memphis, Tenn. the city the guest of Mr. Cohen. Le Bee meant to savlast week that Dr Harris of 600 3d street S. W. in accomplished pharmacist. and Mrs. A Harris have returned her home in Virginia, taking with her Laughter. Mrs. Davis who Beijing Men's Protective League a meeting Wednesday evening made preparations for a recep- tion Richard Wood, a graduate of the National Medical Departments of hard university some years ago, died daily in cisburg Mr Stewart M Lewis and Mr. W. Scarsce have been elected dele- lect to Young People's Congress, and his brothers will be on of officers The Pan Cake Supper at the Clyde al Tuesday evening, February 27 a guest Mrs. Alice Hall en- tured the guests in her usual jov- D. H. Dyer, U. S. District Attor- tion, county, Mo., is here to carry the Supreme Court in the first certain dark-skinned people, are questioned in a suit. prof Joseph Wilson, who for ten was leader of Shiloh choir, is the director of Asbury choir. after he has been very successful in the path of Prof. Bell. Mr. Delancey C. Henry of Ana- laska will very shortly begin building of a handsome cottage Kenneth ad, where he has pur- sued a fine building lot. J. W. Howard, pastor of Zion stated returned Monday last Harmell Mass, where he went from institution to install Rev. D. Ledy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Haverhill Dr. Howard was installation exercises by pastor of Liberty Bap- lah in the city. and with the choir of the Metro- na M F Church, of which Rev. A. Walacio pastor, under the di- son of Prof Joseph T. Newman, grand Dudley Buck's famuos in the Visitor." Prof. Newman one of the most polished musical di- verses in the city. SOCIAL CHIT CHAT. be young Ladies' Protective use is coming to the front April Don't laugh. The tickets are the market ers Edward Holland and J. Ar- james are wearing silk hats and behind a fast stepper. S. H. W. Ball, the president of Y M I R. A., and A. Lincoln sender. Vice-president, are work- together and giving the boys a HOW THEY SMILED. NOT RECEIVED. From The Post. of a genuine old fashioned melodrama embodying all the color and salient features that once shone luminously in "Dred," "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and "The Octoroon." Only things were reversed and the premise transposed, and there was something in the nature of a novelty that made the whole piece seem like a dramatization of a contemporaneous essay on the negro question. There was no call for Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., after the second act, and the rapturous applause was really intended for Nelse, a sample of the genuine post-bellum darky who remains loyal to his master. Nelse asks the carpetbag governor of South Carolina whether he really means that the negro is the equal of the white man, and in prompt response to the governor's affirmative, lays him low with a blow on the jaw without further apology for his presumption. The wild outburst that greeted this incident brought Mr. Dixon to the front of the curtain with a speech. The speech was a defence of the play, which has been assailed by the critics. These critics, said the author, were confined to the newspapers, and not apparent in the audience. In summing up, he said that his play represented conditions in the South as he know them. Mr. Dixon asks us not to judge "The Clansman" as an ethical problem, but as a dramatic composition. If we are not permitted to distinguish the ethical from the dramatic aspects of his play, it would be interesting to know how that responsibility can be successfully evaded. It presents a forcible instance where an indifferent play, characterized by shallow definition of character, want of dramatic perspective and excess of conventional devices, is hailed with the most boisterous demonstrations of delight. The applause and feverish enthusiasm are not, however, tributes to the play as a work of art—and every good play is a work of art—but to its ethics. The piece intrinsically, is no better, to say the best of it, than some of the lurid melodramas from the pen of Theodore Kremer; but when the author uses such incidents as the murder of little Flora at the hands of a negro brute, and the wooing of a white girl by a colored Adonis, he demolishes the dramatic perspective—the "optique du theatre," as the French say—and deals with brutally realistic facts which are bound to provoke hysteria in an audience. The fire and passion which such incidents engender are not bestowed upon legitimate dramatic effects, but upon the realistic devices of cheap melodrama, which tend to destroy the sense of illusion, which is the real charm of the theatre. The cruelty of the prize ring produces just such hysteria, and it is popular. If the critics shed the gall of their sympathy is concerned, for the logic of the story is entirely on the side of the characters against whom its author's obvious purpose is to incense the spectators. And the denouement which relieves the fearful situation to which its logic has led up, is strained, conventional and devoid of argumentative significance. It may be that the fires of passion and hatred which this representation describes, still smoulder. Had this play possessed sufficient quality to command thoughtful consideration its effect would have been none other than to fan them into dangerous activity. Mr. Dixon's books afforded material of value to students of this country's history, but the people before whom the play is presented are not students, or if such, they inost assuredly resent the cheap trickery and shameless effrontery by which an appeal to the passions instead of to the reason is attempted. There is absolutely no topic which scientific discussion must not touch, and yet many such topics are forbidden in ordinary discourse. As a writer of books Mr. Dixon claims something of the consideration of a man who is earnestly and honestly trying to convey information. The play, however, descends abruptly to the level of an appeal to mere pruriency. People who enjoy being shocked will view it with satisfaction. The scenery is elaborate and the company on a par with those usually employed in melo-dramatic production of the ultra-sensational sort, pens in arraignment of the artistic qualities of "The Clansman" they are well within their jurisdiction, for it has no high artistic ideals, while ethically it is an anachronism. But it is safe to predict that in spite of its shallowness and lack of real sentiment and sympathy, it will be patronized. It is as full of catch phrases as an egg is full of meat; it is well mounted, and, in the main, well played, even with the author omitting his curtain speech. Georgia Welles was admirable as the heroine, and Sydney Ayres, barring a slight staginess in the earlier scenes, played the hero, Ben Cameron, with fire, passion and considerable discretion. Austin Stoneman, the fanatical abolitionist, who is called upon to put his faith in intermar- riage to such severe test when the mulatto lieutenant governor asks for his daughter's hand in marriage, was consistently played, as was the role of Dr. Cameron, by Joseph Wheelock, Sr. The part of Lynch, the lieutenant governor, made a strong part of performance in the hands of Austin Webb, and two excellent studies in black were given by DeWitt C. Jennings as Nelse and by Mrs. Charles G. Craig, as Eve, Nelse's wife. Other roles were well played by Murry Woods, as the governor; John B. Hymer, as the colored sheriff; Joseph Woodburn, as Gus, a negro; little Flora, by Frances Shannon, and Aileen Goodwin, as Nellie Graham, a daughter of the South. The cast is a large one and efficient. F. F. S. YOUNG MEN'S IMMEDIATE RELIEF. In September last Mr. Wesley Dent, a member of the Young Men's Immediate Relief, died and left a will and in it he directed how his property should be disposed of. The will was directed to Mr. David A. Clark, who was the president of the association. In the meantime a letter was sent to the association by Attorney Chase, who represented Dr. S. M. Pierre, thought the association to file the will. This letter was disregarded till a rule was served on the association to file the will, which was done. Dr. Pierre was appointed administrator C. T. A., after which he made a demand on the association to turn the money over to him as the administrator of Wesley Went. This was refused and in the meantime, Attorney Royal Hughes offered his services to defend the association without cost, but President H. W. Ball ignored this offer and employed Attorney Dickey, of the firm of Jefford & Dickey. Attorney Chase had an order passed in the Supreme Court giving the administrator C. T. A. authority to sue and collect the funds of the estate. At the trial before Justice Mills Dr. Pierre, the administrator, was represented by Messrs. Chase & Martin and the association by Mr. Dickey. The case was hotly contested by both sides and the demurrer which had been filed by the Attorney for the association was again argued by Attorney W. C. Martin, was overruled, and the case set for trial, which resulted in a judgment for Dr. S. M. Pierre. The Young Men's Immediate Relief Association is one of the largest benevolent associations in the city and it has a membership of over four hundred members. GALBRAITH CHURCH Sunday, March 4th, Dr. S. L. Corrothers commenced his anniversary services. The church is 50 years old. There were three services Sunday and each of them was well attended. The church was very nicely decorated with gold ribbon and other decorations and made everything lively for the occasion. The organizations of the church had rallies. One of the most remarkable events that has ever happened in Galbraith Church was that the smallest club raised the most money. The Ladies' Relief Club of Galbraith Church, Miss Grace Addison, president, being the one. Monday evening there was an entertainment, the speakers for the occasion being Rev. Chestnut, Rev. Wiseman, Hon. J. C. Dancy and Rev. Corrothers. It was a very strange entertainment for Galbraith Church because of the overflow of female talent and there has never been an entertainment before without some female playing the greater part in it. Rev. Corrothers organized a club known as the Preachers' Club. At Sunday morning service this club made its first showing but the strength of the club will not be known until the final reckoning and it is said that it will lead. There is some kind of an entertainment at the church each evening and it is worth the while for you to spend your unoccupied time by paying a visit if no more than to see the fine decorations. SECOND BAPTIST. Mrs. A. M. Curtis, wife of Dr. Curtis, will address the Second Baptist Church Lyceum to-morrow, Sunday, at 3:30 P. M. FALSE CHARGE BY A WOMAN. Mrs. Dupree, Whose Throat Was Cut In Atlanta, Charged the Deed to a Negro, but Now Confesses that She Attempted Suicide. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24—Mrs. Nina May Dupree, the young woman whose throat was cut at the home of a well known citizen just outside of Atlanta some weeks ago, has confessed that she inflicted the injury upon herself. She was found unconscious in the home where she had worked on the return of the family from the city. She declared later that she had been attacked by a negro who had cut her throat. Posses were organized and search of the vicinity was made, but no trace was found of the alleged assailant. Mrs. Dupree went to the home of her mother in Alabama and letter from her mother to the lady for whom Mrs. Dupree worked here brought the information of the the confession. PETER GROGAN. 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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 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. 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Give us a Call JAMES OTTOWAY HOLMES Prop Washington, D; C Louis J. Kessel, Importer of and Wholesale Dealer in WINES AND whiskies Sole Owner of the..... ... Following Brands: Private Stock, Old Reserve, Hermit Oxford, Iremont 5 TENTH SREET, N. W. Telephone—Main—560 FRATERNAL I. O. N. I. C. of A., fraternal, meet 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 Mouda nights in each month. Rev. S. T Shephard, worthy president. T. I Haywood, W. C. S. Ocie Weather-W. P. P. Golden Star Department of the O. N. I. C. of A. F., No. 248 meet at St. James, La., the first and third Saturdays in each month. J. W Walker, W. P. P. Alex. Anoisai W. C. S. Eastern Star Department, No. 24: of the I. O. N. I. C. of A. F., meet at Darrow, La., the second and fourth Saturdays in each month. Leon B. tise, 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. Jos. Newton, W. P. P. M. B. Stewart, W. C. S. Fraternal Sunrise Department, No. 17, meets at Fort Worth, Tex. the first and third Wednesdays in each month. R. R. Sloan, W. P. P.; Henry Henderson, W. P. P.; M. Mathew W. F. V. P.; I. B. Balenger, W. C. S. Sunrise Department, No. 31, meets at Dallas, Tex., second and fourth Thursday nights in each month. A. R. Brown, W. P. P. S. A. N. Hamilton, W. P. Rebecca Carpenter, W. R. S. Savannah Slaughter, W. C. S. Department No. 13 meets at Lake City, Fla., first and second Monday nights in each month. Joe Dorsey W. P. P. W. M. Pasco, W. F. V. P. Giles Duncan, W. C. C. P. Bartley, W. C. S. To all Departments of the I. O. N I. C. of A. Fraternal, the semi-annual pass word is ready for all Depart- ments. Send for it at once. See Ritual, page 13. I. L. Walton Evergreen Department, No. 149, most at Red Fish, La, the 1st and 2nd Frida- day in each month. A. T. Finley, W. P. P.; Chas. Degar, F. V. P.; A. I. Fin- ley, W. C. S. Harmony Department, No. 71, most BIG GIRL IS LONDON BELLE Young Vermont Giants, Six Feet Two, Weight 240 Pounds, Popular in England. Windsor, Vt.—Miss Alice Kennedy, the American girl who had caused such a sensation in London society because of her height, six feet two inches, is a resident of this city, and a great favorite with the people of the place. She is a handsome girl, built in proportion to her height, weighing 240 pounds, and, though fond of sports, had never neglected her pet charities. Miss Kennedy is wealthy and accomplished. Her father was one of the founders of the cracker trust. When at home she entertains extensively and associates frequently with the exclusive colony of New Yorkers who have homes not far from Windsor. It is said that she has a specially constructed set of furniture for her rooms at home, the table, chairs and other articles being four inches higher than ordinary. She is very athletic. She drives well, and would like to ride horseback, but is unable to get a lady's horse which can carry her weight comfortably. She plays tennis well, likes skeeing, skating and tobogganing, and is a splendid type of finely developed young womanhood. The average English society girl is inclined to be tall, but this stately American girl towers above them majestically. Her extreme height, of course, makes her conspicuous at first, but people soon cease to notice it on account of her delightful manner. She is as charming as she is tall, and her society is much sought. HIS DESCENDANT A YANKEE. Henry Clay McDuffee or His Father Has Voted for Every President of the United States. Bradford, Vt.—Lineal descendant of Duncan Macduff, referred to in "Macbeth," Henry Clay McDuffee, the grand old man of this village, boasts the unique distinction that he and his father have voted in every presidential election held in the United States. During 29 national elections the McDuffee family, represented by father and then by son, has an unbroken record of voting. John McDuffee, the father, was born in Londonderry, N. H., June 16, 1766, and one thing that he continually regretted to the time of his death in 1851, was that he was not allowed to accompany his father to the battle of Bunker Hill on account of his youth. Time and again he told the story about him and his mother working all night running bullets before the father started for the war. The son began voting in 1852 for Winfield Scott, and at the last election voted for Roosevelt. Though 75 years old, he expects to vote for many more republicans. His records show that he is a direct descendant of King Kenneth Macduff of Scotland and Duncan Macduff in 1000 A. D. The name McDuffee was taken by the family after one branch of the family went from Argyleshire, Scotland, to Londonderry, Ireland, in 1612. Duncan Macduff was the celebrated Thane of Fife. The coat-of-arms which Malcolm III. of Scotland awarded to the Thane of Fife when he was made an officer of the crown has always been preserved by the family. PARASITES SAVE ORANGES. Scientist Finds in China Deadly Enemy to Scale and Quest Ix San Francisco.—The most curious quest ever made in the interest of science has been completed by George Compere, who has arrived in this city. Compere has been scouring the earth in search of parasites to destroy the scale that kill orange trees. Every portion of the earth was visited by the hunter. He went from San Francisco to New York, to Brazil, to London, to Australia, to China, from China back to Australia and thence to San Francisco. In China he found the parasite, and trees infested with the scale were taken hundreds of miles inland, where they were exposed to the influence of the exterminating parasites. The trees were carried into the interior and there left until the parasite finally made its home in the infested trees. Mr. Compere brought into California some time ago the parasite which lives upon the worm of the codlin moth. Its development was so successful that fruit growers from all over the country have found relief from the pest. Smallest of Babies Born. Mrs. Charles Bybee, of Lander, Wyo., gave birth to the smallest baby of record in the western states. It is a girl and weighs only one and one-fourth pounds, is less than nine inches tall and its head is less than two inches in diameter. It is perfectly formed, has regular and pretty features and appears to be in excellent health. The physi-ans say there is no reason why it should not live. The parents are above the average in height and weight. Useful Like the Best Statues representing the various nations of the earth are being hoisted to the top of the New York customhouse As laborious attempts are being made to explain them, it will be seen that they are as useful a representative capacity as most figures of the sort. it's a Record. Indiana took out 719 patents last year all there, mind, you, in addition to copyrights on literary products. MILLINERS NOW PLAN TO PRE TECT WARBLERS. Former Foes of Sengtars Have rayed Themselves on Side of Ab- dubon Societies—Resolution Passed at Meeting Washington.—Members of the Ab- bon societies, which were formed by the protection of the bird of America have met with a surprise as start- as it is grateful—the westsale liners of the country, he wou- as the foes of the birds have arra- themselves on the side of the stera'friends and have agreed the hereafter they will neither buy nor song birds, gulls, terns, grebes, her- or any part thereof. For the her- is secured the beautiful gretsie all women love to wear and from the sale of which the milliner make the sands of dollars profit a The algrette of commerce is a part of the plumage of the white hare which neats in the low lands across the coasts of Florida, the islands of the sea and South America. Friendly the "rookeries" where the birds contained thousands upon thousands of the beautiful creatures but the plume hunters carried on their so ruthlessly that the herons of Florida were nearly exterminated, and the same Inte seemed to awaken the herons of the islands of the southern coast. The action of the wholesale million agreeing not to traffic danger in the plumage of the heron or in the image of other protected birds makes practically certain that the feather kind which has made presque to sea and the land will once more multiply unmolested and retain a place in nature's klagdom for all time. The Millinery Jobbers association has a membership including a great number of the largest millery in the United States. Recently a association met at Louisville Ky. in there they passed a treaty, in bringing themselves not to buy any of the prohibited birds after January nor to sell any of them after July 1906. Ruthven Deane, of Chicago president of the Illinois Audubon society has labored for months to bring about the result just secured: William Dutcher, president of the National Association of Audubon Societies, recently received from Frederick Bod the president of the Millinery Johner association, a letter containing the title of the resolution passed by a organization, and in which it was agreed that the wholesale milliner should join hands with the Audubon society in the effort to protect the birds of the United States. In part the resolution contained in the letter from the association president to the president of the Audubon societies was as follows: "Whereas, we realize the Audit societies of the United States are engaged in the work of preserving from destruction and extinction birds and certain other species high moral grounds, and that simply through their influence and of the states have passed restitution laws on the subject, and where there is a decided variation among the states in the subject matter of the laws, and in their interpretation and administration, therefore we are solved by the Millinery Jobbers' claation, in convention assembled for that we approve of the sale of song birds, guineas grebes, herons, or any part of the cluding algrettes, second that we pledge ourselves collection, and that vidually not to buy the aforementioned after January 1, sell or offer for any of these articles after July 1906." In concluding his letter to Dutcher, Mr. Bode, of the association, says that he the action of the body the milliners morally support dubon society in their war protection. He says further thinks it is the duty of the society to ask that the large which in the main are ment stores, should refrain sale of the prohibited bird cut off the temptation whi bers might meet to sell tallers the birds which to protect. Snakes for mow. A novel scheme to rid Worcester, Mass., of the brood was unfolded in a letter to Mayor John T. Duggan, a resident, has offered the use of 1,500 bull snakes, and will rid the city of the most demonstrate his plan Mr. Ingests that he be permitte 100 snakes in the council of snakes, he says, will demoths in a few hours, and members of the city invited to witness the demor Facts in Last Cen According to the last census there are 2,065,949 country educationally quail and 2,326,295 illiterate whi who have reached the vot there are 19,985,145 white country. Increases Musicians' F A bill has been introduced tary Taft increasing the pay sicians in the army. In the those who get the music w to paying the piper. Needs No Chaplain The Mississippi legislat cided to dispense with the ser- chaplain.